Maybe I'm just advertising my ignorance, but it seems to me that stress at a fault line should cause an increase in ground density, what with the squishing and whatnot. Could this be used to predict earthquakes?
To date, only a tiny fraction of their users actually bother to license their software. Most just buy it. But this could change that.
What? By buying their software, you're not purchasing the code, or even the binary; the EULA says that you're purchasing permission to run the program on your computer...End User License Agreement...You say yes before you get to use it...
The point of this whole change to the license was to make Microsoft software more attractive to people who are looking at what to buy, not to make more people who are running illegal copies of their software pay for it.
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Last I heard, he was forgetting the name of the governor he was trying to get kicked out of office and replace...That would be governor of California, not President of The United States of America
When I do a search for a PDA, it's because I want to go to a site that sells them. If I don't, I'll be more specific with my search terms.
As for skewing synonyms, if the guy had done a search for, say, "apple trees", the first unsponsored link points to Growing Apple Trees In The Home Garden.
Books: If I want to do a search for data in books, I'll use an academic search engine through my university that is specifically designed to look through publications and books. Google is about web sites and web sites are not books.
The article concludes by calling Google "filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion". What the heck? It isn't an encyclopedia, it's a search engine. If you give it properly formed searches, it will give you great results.
This article was just bunk designed to make people start looking for alternatives to a perfectly good, ingeniously designed, fast and clean engine.
uber-compatible, too. PostScript, PCL, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 2000/XP, MacOS 8/9/X, version 10.1, Novell NetWare 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x, UNIX (
Linux 5.2+, Sun OS 4.x Sun Solaris 2.4+, DEC, HP/UX 11.x, IBM AIX 4.2+, SGI, SCO).
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now to look at kernel.org...
2.6.0-test1-ac2 seems to be the latest snapshot...
Conclusion:
Your printer is a time machine!
You call Bush a terrorist and link to a site that says that his campaign was funded by Nazi Germany and that now he's part of an elaborate plot to expand Israel? What kind of moron puts this stuff up? I'm not a huge fan of our president, but seriously, use your brain for a second.
Oh come on, that's just rediculous. Accusing "Linksys, et al" of violating the GPL is totally unfounded speculation and the kind of thing that makes people stop reading slashdot. In any event, you can release a linux driver without GPLing it, just look at nvidia...
No corporation trying to get into the low end router market will have to steal the technology to make it, and the router you just described is not a WAP, so it's just offtopic and boneheaded. Anyone capable of doing that will (I did, but with an old box and BSD) and anyone incapable of doing it will buy a linksys/netgear/whathaveyou.
With regard to your unfounded doubts, I take great offense. The web designer in question happens to have taught several classes at a local community college in graphic design (specifically web graphics) and web design. She has quite a few clients and validates all of her code. As far as tech savvy goes, she used to use octal to program PDP-8s and part of her class involves running a web server on the student's home computer. She's been doing this since netscape 4 was new and is perfectly capable of designing attractive and user-friendly sites. It's people who immediately make assumptions based on zero knowledge who have no respect for the profession.
I think the author is trying to tell web developers how to talk to non-technical people. He's telling them to suppress the urge to give people the real reasons why they should switch in favor of giving them superficial stuff that they'll notice without a side by side comparison. His obsession with CSS is in the talking to the storytellers bit, while his insistence that standards not be discussed is to prevent confusion in the relay. This story was designed to be retold, and that makes your complaints lose meaning.
My mom is a web designer by current profession. I installed Mozilla and made it her default browser, and she uses it. But every time I come home and show off some web site using tabs galore (how did I ever survive without them?) she stops me and asks what I'm doing. I've explained the tabs concept to her at least 3 times, always to the "wow, that's really neat" response. What gives is that totally new interfaces/features/innovations tend to confuse and go unused.
did I say sendmail?
I meant...no, actually...once it's up and running it's pretty good (we've been having some problems with MDaemon's LDAP support at work...and exchange is a bloody waste of twice the poor little NPO's annual grant money).
This is exactly what the article is talking about...and what some previous posters have mentioned. Geeks care about the fact that and Intel Pentium III clocked at to 800MHz is not as fast at doing things as an AMD Athlon T-bird at the same frequency. Meanwhile Joe Average Consumer couldn't care less. He wants his AOL and his Microsoft to do things reasonably soon after the little button on his mouse goes down. The fact that no self respecting geek can tell someone that they're getting an "800 MHz Computer" is why there's so much discussion here. All your standard consumer wants to know is whether A is faster than B for the same price. If someone asks me that question, being a geek, I'll probably go into how they run at the same speed but A takes 4 clock cycles to do what B can do in 2 and get a blank stare. That's why we need marketing people who can say "It's faster!" and not confuse.
Unfortunately, marketing is a bad word in many circles, but I won't go into that.
It still proves nothing, as the "defects" in question were things like null pointer issues and other compiler level problems. This software they're selling doesn't do squat to check for logic errors or any hard-to-find problems.
Seems to me like they just made a knockoff of GCC with -Wall.
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You can't give the exact location...but it's in Linux, eh? Don't you know that Linux is the kernel?
Maybe I'm just advertising my ignorance, but it seems to me that stress at a fault line should cause an increase in ground density, what with the squishing and whatnot. Could this be used to predict earthquakes?
What? By buying their software, you're not purchasing the code, or even the binary; the EULA says that you're purchasing permission to run the program on your computer...End User License Agreement...You say yes before you get to use it...
The point of this whole change to the license was to make Microsoft software more attractive to people who are looking at what to buy, not to make more people who are running illegal copies of their software pay for it.
Last I heard, he was forgetting the name of the governor he was trying to get kicked out of office and replace...That would be governor of California, not President of The United States of America
Already read about how It's The End Of The Internet As We Know It.
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1 word: OpenBSD
I think that should say Lameness
The article concludes by calling Google "filled with bias, polemics, and a skewed sense of proportion". What the heck? It isn't an encyclopedia, it's a search engine. If you give it properly formed searches, it will give you great results.
This article was just bunk designed to make people start looking for alternatives to a perfectly good, ingeniously designed, fast and clean engine.
(end rant)Expect to see this article on MSNBC?
MSN Search: We're not trying to sell you something
ah...well in that case, it is funny :oP
but that web site creeped me out
Just because this is true in your experience does not mean it applies to _everyone_
You call Bush a terrorist and link to a site that says that his campaign was funded by Nazi Germany and that now he's part of an elaborate plot to expand Israel? What kind of moron puts this stuff up? I'm not a huge fan of our president, but seriously, use your brain for a second.
Oh come on, that's just rediculous. Accusing "Linksys, et al" of violating the GPL is totally unfounded speculation and the kind of thing that makes people stop reading slashdot. In any event, you can release a linux driver without GPLing it, just look at nvidia... No corporation trying to get into the low end router market will have to steal the technology to make it, and the router you just described is not a WAP, so it's just offtopic and boneheaded. Anyone capable of doing that will (I did, but with an old box and BSD) and anyone incapable of doing it will buy a linksys/netgear/whathaveyou.
Let me help you there...You're dumb and a crappy guy!
and how it stacks up I don't think stacks have changed much in the past 10 years...LIFO?
With regard to your unfounded doubts, I take great offense. The web designer in question happens to have taught several classes at a local community college in graphic design (specifically web graphics) and web design. She has quite a few clients and validates all of her code. As far as tech savvy goes, she used to use octal to program PDP-8s and part of her class involves running a web server on the student's home computer. She's been doing this since netscape 4 was new and is perfectly capable of designing attractive and user-friendly sites. It's people who immediately make assumptions based on zero knowledge who have no respect for the profession.
I think the author is trying to tell web developers how to talk to non-technical people. He's telling them to suppress the urge to give people the real reasons why they should switch in favor of giving them superficial stuff that they'll notice without a side by side comparison. His obsession with CSS is in the talking to the storytellers bit, while his insistence that standards not be discussed is to prevent confusion in the relay. This story was designed to be retold, and that makes your complaints lose meaning.
My mom is a web designer by current profession. I installed Mozilla and made it her default browser, and she uses it. But every time I come home and show off some web site using tabs galore (how did I ever survive without them?) she stops me and asks what I'm doing. I've explained the tabs concept to her at least 3 times, always to the "wow, that's really neat" response. What gives is that totally new interfaces/features/innovations tend to confuse and go unused.
did I say sendmail? I meant...no, actually...once it's up and running it's pretty good (we've been having some problems with MDaemon's LDAP support at work...and exchange is a bloody waste of twice the poor little NPO's annual grant money).
.NET has a shorter name! Concise is totally where it's at.
My mother used to write in octal to program PDP-8s and you're right...she'd be totally lost.
This is exactly what the article is talking about...and what some previous posters have mentioned. Geeks care about the fact that and Intel Pentium III clocked at to 800MHz is not as fast at doing things as an AMD Athlon T-bird at the same frequency. Meanwhile Joe Average Consumer couldn't care less. He wants his AOL and his Microsoft to do things reasonably soon after the little button on his mouse goes down. The fact that no self respecting geek can tell someone that they're getting an "800 MHz Computer" is why there's so much discussion here. All your standard consumer wants to know is whether A is faster than B for the same price. If someone asks me that question, being a geek, I'll probably go into how they run at the same speed but A takes 4 clock cycles to do what B can do in 2 and get a blank stare. That's why we need marketing people who can say "It's faster!" and not confuse. Unfortunately, marketing is a bad word in many circles, but I won't go into that.
It still proves nothing, as the "defects" in question were things like null pointer issues and other compiler level problems. This software they're selling doesn't do squat to check for logic errors or any hard-to-find problems. Seems to me like they just made a knockoff of GCC with -Wall.