A search for "viagra" should ideally bring up things like the webmd information for the drug and pfizer's site long before any "BUY CHEAP PERSCRIPTION V1AGR@ FROM Cherub J. Happenstance" pages.
Google brings up both Pfizer first and the FDA and Wikipedia pages on the first page. The ideal search engine would automatically bring in some results from a search for "Sildenafil citrate" as well and some generic manufacturers site. Clusty does better than Google on searches like this (i.e. alternative keywords that might be worth trying, or if you are likely to ahve to narrow the search).
Since I installed Spellbound (Firefox spell checker extension) I no longer need to proof-read my posts, as the spell checker will find all my typos.....
I get similar results for a range of business and finance related searches. I tried MSN and Yahoo recently and went back to Google.
I find the most effective approach for me is to sue Google by default and, if it fails try Clusty - this makes a certain amount of sense as Clusty is more different (meta search + clustering) from Google than the others, therefore more likely to find something where Google fails.
I also notice that Google:
has indexed more pages on my main site
sends more visitors to it
is the least likely to send me visitors who have not sued relevant search terms
What I mean by the last of these is that if you find my site through Google it is more likely to be what you wanted than if you found it through Yahoo or MSN
Aren't the North Koreans the evil communists? Isn't South Korea home to the free market
Exactly, so:
The North Koreans would be happier with something centrally planned and tightly controlled.
The South Koreans would see the benefits of consumer choice and appreciate the economic efficiency that results from pricing set by a competitive (i.e. non-monopoly) market
Incidentally given that the North Koreans have heavily into personality cults, claiming credit for everything, and heavy propaganda they would be a good fit for MS.
Why on earth you would ever want to put a video clip into a word processor document?
To get video clips thorugh corporata mail servers that strip out video files but let word through. People send images and audio embedded in Word files for the same reason.
manager programming gives the manager a false sense of competence
I last worked with developers in an advisory rather than managerial position, but the issues are similar and my experience is that I worked better with developers because I knew how to progam a little. This is not an illusion of my own, it is what the developers told me.
Hell, if the most of the same guys wouldn't cheer for every execution, I could live with them. But they only value life when it suits them.
Most mainstream Christains do oppose capital punishment, for example, the official line of the Catholic Church (to which 80%+ of Christians belong) is against capital punishment.
+ Christians who are against science
+ Muslims who are against the West and progress
Science eveloved from ancient Greek philospophy to what it is now largely thanks to Muslims and Christians (partly because both belive in a God who created a lawful universe).
You could make negative lists of atheists the same way, it proves nothing.
If your god is omnipresent and omnicient why do you have to go through physicals gyrations in order to be heard by god?
It is not does to make God hear you, it is done to change your own frame of mind - prayer is mostly done for its affect on you (to make you more open to God), not its affect on God.
Christianity encourages prejudice because all of you know us heathens will burn in hell
This is not a Christian belief and never has been. Ask any theologian of any mainstream church.
As for prejudice there are rather a lot of people prejudiced against Christians and it is more acceptable, you seem to be one given your comments.
AS one example, read Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos (Sci Fi) series for example, if she had made the same comments about any other religion she would have got a lot of trouble. Theya re great books but the comments annoyed me.
Ancient thinkser could be more sophisticated than you may think, Ptolemy's Almagest makes it clear that the distances between stars was large enought that the earth was negligably small.
Early christians were more tolerant and sophisticated than modern fundamentalists, take a look at St Augustine.
We bicyclists have the same problem, but if one obeys the rules of the road
My experience is that at least in London cyclists ("bicyclists") ignore the rules and simply expect everyone else (pedestrians in particular) to get out of their way.
It is not possible to walk for more than a few minutes in central London without seeing cyclists on the pavement, on the worng side of the road, going the wrong way on one way streets, parked illegally etc.
I did not say fundametlaist religions, I said "the same religion", i.e. Christianity. I doubt fundamentlalist Isalm or Judaism has a statistically signifcant impact on what Americans beleive.
The Church of England's biblical literalists are almost all "evangelicals", i.e. clearly belonging to a movement htat started in the US.
Sir Peter Vardy attends a church that seems to be a US style evangelical church.
Sir Peter Vardy should not be confused with the theologian who is listed first if you google for "Peter Vardy"!
the reason that much of the US has issues with the theory of evolution is religious
But followers of the same religion in the rest of the world, by and and large do not ahve those same issues. When you do meet biblical literalists in the rest of the world they are almost always memebers of a US based or heavilly US influenced group.
You do not have to for normal desktop use. If you are setting up a server or an unusual network you should be able to cope with editing text files.
Knoppix is headed in the right direction. I used it about a year ago
An year ago? Most distro's are by now well ahead of where Knoppix was back then. If you use KDE any distro will more of less behave like Windows but allow you to gradually change things (to behave very differently) as you get to know it.
The only area (of those mentioned) where I still feel Linux is behind (form the experience of switching a small office and several individuals to Linux) is consistency of keyboard shortcuts, but not that many people use them heavilly.
A lot of mid sized businesses have second rate IT staff, becuase the best people are hired by the likes of your employer.
The end result is that their IT is run by people who can just about point and click install Windows + Office, even then get things badly wrong.
They also lack to confidence to take the slightest risk, they view anything "non-standard" as a risk and so avoid it. They are not unjistified as no one ever got fired for buying MS. Further more if the non-IT management do not understand IT there is little pressure to do things better, whatever IT does is accepted as a given.
Ok, I didn't know that about GNOME and KDE. That is a very good thing. However, GNOME and KDE also needs to interoperate between Motif and other X apps as well
Most non-geek users will almsot ccertainly stick to reasonably modern apps. Most users overall probably do (everything I use regualrly is Gtk or KDE based)
So if you use old or unusual apps you may run into interoperability problems: same on any platform and not a major issue becuase most users will never notice it.
The only time I have come across a copy and past problem in the last three years is with pasting into Gnumeric and that is a Gnumeric problem becuase it occured compying from another Gtk app.
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Google brings up both Pfizer first and the FDA and Wikipedia pages on the first page. The ideal search engine would automatically bring in some results from a search for "Sildenafil citrate" as well and some generic manufacturers site. Clusty does better than Google on searches like this (i.e. alternative keywords that might be worth trying, or if you are likely to ahve to narrow the search).
Since I installed Spellbound (Firefox spell checker extension) I no longer need to proof-read my posts, as the spell checker will find all my typos.....
I find the most effective approach for me is to sue Google by default and, if it fails try Clusty - this makes a certain amount of sense as Clusty is more different (meta search + clustering) from Google than the others, therefore more likely to find something where Google fails.
I also notice that Google:
- has indexed more pages on my main site
- sends more visitors to it
- is the least likely to send me visitors who have not sued relevant search terms
What I mean by the last of these is that if you find my site through Google it is more likely to be what you wanted than if you found it through Yahoo or MSNExactly, so:
Incidentally given that the North Koreans have heavily into personality cults, claiming credit for everything, and heavy propaganda they would be a good fit for MS.
To get video clips thorugh corporata mail servers that strip out video files but let word through. People send images and audio embedded in Word files for the same reason.
So can all KDE apps and Lyx.
Have you tried a google search for "r statistics"? Guesss what comes top?
I last worked with developers in an advisory rather than managerial position, but the issues are similar and my experience is that I worked better with developers because I knew how to progam a little. This is not an illusion of my own, it is what the developers told me.
Most mainstream Christains do oppose capital punishment, for example, the official line of the Catholic Church (to which 80%+ of Christians belong) is against capital punishment.
Yeah, just like what happened to Apache becuase it has a bigger market share than IIS, right?
which I consider to be a superior product
And I consider a 1975 Skoda is a superior product to a Rolls Royce.
You must really like Active X as that is the only "advantage" IE offers that I can think of.
Science eveloved from ancient Greek philospophy to what it is now largely thanks to Muslims and Christians (partly because both belive in a God who created a lawful universe).
You could make negative lists of atheists the same way, it proves nothing.
Including the Buddhists who burned down a chirch near where I live (twice in two years), along with several hundred others in this coutnry?
It is not does to make God hear you, it is done to change your own frame of mind - prayer is mostly done for its affect on you (to make you more open to God), not its affect on God.
OK, so the people in Castro are capable of being intolerant as well, all you ahve proved is free expression loses in both cases.
This is not a Christian belief and never has been. Ask any theologian of any mainstream church.
As for prejudice there are rather a lot of people prejudiced against Christians and it is more acceptable, you seem to be one given your comments.
AS one example, read Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos (Sci Fi) series for example, if she had made the same comments about any other religion she would have got a lot of trouble. Theya re great books but the comments annoyed me.
Early christians were more tolerant and sophisticated than modern fundamentalists, take a look at St Augustine.
My experience is that at least in London cyclists ("bicyclists") ignore the rules and simply expect everyone else (pedestrians in particular) to get out of their way.
It is not possible to walk for more than a few minutes in central London without seeing cyclists on the pavement, on the worng side of the road, going the wrong way on one way streets, parked illegally etc.
I did not say fundametlaist religions, I said "the same religion", i.e. Christianity. I doubt fundamentlalist Isalm or Judaism has a statistically signifcant impact on what Americans beleive.
The Church of England's biblical literalists are almost all "evangelicals", i.e. clearly belonging to a movement htat started in the US.
Sir Peter Vardy attends a church that seems to be a US style evangelical church.
Sir Peter Vardy should not be confused with the theologian who is listed first if you google for "Peter Vardy"!
But followers of the same religion in the rest of the world, by and and large do not ahve those same issues. When you do meet biblical literalists in the rest of the world they are almost always memebers of a US based or heavilly US influenced group.
Why is that I wonder?
You do not have to for normal desktop use. If you are setting up a server or an unusual network you should be able to cope with editing text files.
Knoppix is headed in the right direction. I used it about a year ago
An year ago? Most distro's are by now well ahead of where Knoppix was back then. If you use KDE any distro will more of less behave like Windows but allow you to gradually change things (to behave very differently) as you get to know it.
The only area (of those mentioned) where I still feel Linux is behind (form the experience of switching a small office and several individuals to Linux) is consistency of keyboard shortcuts, but not that many people use them heavilly.
A lot of mid sized businesses have second rate IT staff, becuase the best people are hired by the likes of your employer.
The end result is that their IT is run by people who can just about point and click install Windows + Office, even then get things badly wrong.
They also lack to confidence to take the slightest risk, they view anything "non-standard" as a risk and so avoid it. They are not unjistified as no one ever got fired for buying MS. Further more if the non-IT management do not understand IT there is little pressure to do things better, whatever IT does is accepted as a given.
Isaac Newton was also a nasty piece of work and his rivalries with Hooke and Leibniz were vindictive (on his part) to say the least.
Sorry, I have found lots of prior art for that.
Most non-geek users will almsot ccertainly stick to reasonably modern apps. Most users overall probably do (everything I use regualrly is Gtk or KDE based)
So if you use old or unusual apps you may run into interoperability problems: same on any platform and not a major issue becuase most users will never notice it.
The only time I have come across a copy and past problem in the last three years is with pasting into Gnumeric and that is a Gnumeric problem becuase it occured compying from another Gtk app.