When I say I only want results matching the exact phrase "building your own electric car" then only give me those results which contain the *exact* phrase. Vendors meeting those specifications are welcome, but just matching on one word is very bad.
Google giving me a match for just CAR out of that phrase is nearly the equivalant of them giving me an advertisement for a Cheese vendor. After all, some people who "build their own electric car" might also "eat cheese".
Now, I like the idea for the Sparrow which is a car-like vehicle for one or two people powered by a motorcycle engine. That I think is a nice interim solution until we get to the AUTOnomy or something like it.
Lately using Google I've been more annoyed to find advertisements at the top of the results list when I have been searching for a quoted string.
Try searching for the following quoted string: "building your own electric car" and the first link returned today is for autoweb.com. Now, if Autoweb had a resources for building an electric car I would have no problem with their paid ad showing up. Hell, make it first on the list and make animated arrows to it if you like.
BUT you see, autoweb has nothing on the page about ELECTRIC cars, much less about BUILDING a car of any type. No, all they have is a paid advert that hits on the word CAR.
Come to think of it (yep) I just tried "Baby you can drive my car" and there they were. Top-o-the list.
Here's more; you can't even defeat the advert buy specifically trying to exclude the ad by "-buy" or even "-autoweb".
Please GOOGLE gods, return to the good old days where a quoted string only returns sites that have the entire quoted string.
It helps keep deer from running in front of your car (http://www.xp3hornet.com/faq.shtml) maybe it'd keep trash away from the front of your space craft?
Hey, there shouldn't be any trash/dirt floating out there anyway, I mean...
What they're forgetting is that by 2050 there are going to be so many episodes of "Friends" that people will never have to leave their homes. They can stay glued to the tube 24/7 and by doing so will greatly lower their metabolism. This will help extend the food supply for an indefinite period.
We should all thank the makers of "Friends" now for saving the people of Earth.
Where are the Automatic cars you ask? Well, we could make them now except for the fact the none of us Americans would buy them because the Autopilot won't drive like we do.
Write Autopilot software that is as arrogant as we are and you might have something that people would buy.
Might be kinda fun this way too. The car companies could all merge together and have one power plant and one body style, but a variety of Autopilot software.
Hey Bob what'cha driving?
"Get out of my way v2.1"
oh yeah, well that'll never keep up with my
"I own the G-damn road v5.0"!!!
Hey Steve, I've got that too, but I also bought the "I'm the most important person in the world so SCREW YOU!!!" package.
I want a PDA that is not just one more thing to lug around. Combine it with places to stick my Cash, Credit Cards, Drivers license and pictures of the neices and nephews.
Make it durable, I mean I am going to be sitting on it.
"The car broke down once, as the team approached the Nevada border on the first day. Water got into a connector that had to be replaced, which cost the team about a day of traveling time. The team also replaced two belts, four fuel filters and a plastic bottle that contains cooling water. "
It needed THAT many repairs on a 4,000 mile trip? Unacceptable. They've got a ways to go. Yeah, you might have some of those repairs normally on a 4,000 mile trip, if your car already has 60,000 miles on it.
Would it be significantly more expensive for HP to make their printer cartridges out of a clear plastic?
Maybe the court should force them to do so.
It'd be a lot harder for the consumer to get ripped off if they actually had a way to gauge how much product they were going to recieve before they bought it.
Ad critic was a wonderful resource and all the companies that do advertising are missing a wonderful resource that helped extend their message to a larger audience.
I am badly missing Adcritic.com.
It was also a very nice place to find out who did the music for ads so I could go buy the artists CD's.
Calling it Nimda seems to say it's the ADMIN(nimda reversed) that are backwards. For many of them it's not their fault they are getting hit with this. It's Microsoft that's backwards on security.
I used to be a fan of MS. I am now planning ways to leave them behind at home and for the organization.
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The promise of "trustworthy computing" from the Anti-Trust him/itself!
Ah the things that we do with language since "IS" was redefined for us. Bush seems to have caught on too!
Perfectly relevant? Not hardly.
When I say I only want results matching the exact phrase "building your own electric car" then only give me those results which contain the *exact* phrase. Vendors meeting those specifications are welcome, but just matching on one word is very bad.
Google giving me a match for just CAR out of that phrase is nearly the equivalant of them giving me an advertisement for a Cheese vendor. After all, some people who "build their own electric car" might also "eat cheese".
The speaker system could also be directional so you only generate noise in the danger area.
This would be much kinder than the audible warning generated by my 1986 Chevy Blazer with headers and glasspack mufflers.
Yeah, those are great here in Michigan winters.
Now, I like the idea for the Sparrow which is a car-like vehicle for one or two people powered by a motorcycle engine. That I think is a nice interim solution until we get to the AUTOnomy or something like it.
Think Playstation 2 steering wheel. We can keep the "Wheel" but it'll really just be a joystick.
Much simpler than the current mechanical steering wheels.
From the website:
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"... Some 50,000 years later it will return to earth, intact,
I have only one word
"DUCK!"
Lately using Google I've been more annoyed to find advertisements at the top of the results list when I have been searching for a quoted string.
Try searching for the following quoted string: "building your own electric car"
and the first link returned today is for autoweb.com. Now, if Autoweb had a resources for building an electric car I would have no problem with their paid ad showing up. Hell, make it first on the list and make animated arrows to it if you like.
BUT you see, autoweb has nothing on the page about ELECTRIC cars, much less about BUILDING a car of any type. No, all they have is a paid advert that hits on the word CAR.
Come to think of it (yep) I just tried "Baby you can drive my car" and there they were. Top-o-the list.
Here's more; you can't even defeat the advert buy specifically trying to exclude the ad by "-buy" or even "-autoweb".
Please GOOGLE gods, return to the good old days where a quoted string only returns sites that have the entire quoted string.
It helps keep deer from running in front of your car (http://www.xp3hornet.com/faq.shtml) maybe it'd keep trash away from the front of your space craft?
Hey, there shouldn't be any trash/dirt floating out there anyway, I mean...
SPACE IS A VACUUM!!! Right?!?!
What they're forgetting is that by 2050 there are going to be so many episodes of "Friends" that people will never have to leave their homes. They can stay glued to the tube 24/7 and by doing so will greatly lower their metabolism. This will help extend the food supply for an indefinite period.
We should all thank the makers of "Friends" now for saving the people of Earth.
The onion had a great article that nails it. Something like:
98% of Americans feel that *everyone else* should use public transportation.
Where are the Automatic cars you ask? Well, we could make them now except for the fact the none of us Americans would buy them because the Autopilot won't drive like we do.
Write Autopilot software that is as arrogant as we are and you might have something that people would buy.
Might be kinda fun this way too. The car companies could all merge together and have one power plant and one body style, but a variety of Autopilot software.
Hey Bob what'cha driving?
"Get out of my way v2.1"
oh yeah, well that'll never keep up with my
"I own the G-damn road v5.0"!!!
Hey Steve, I've got that too, but I also bought the "I'm the most important person in the world so SCREW YOU!!!" package.
Considering the underwhelming impact computing has had on productivity perhaps celebrating that ONLY 1 billion have been sold yet is in order.
Consider the billions of 'delicious' (not) and 'healthy' (not) burgers sold by the famous clown restaurant...
Unless your library had all of those books donated and everyone working there is doing so on a volunteer basis it really isn't "Free".
Someone's paying for the books and the staff. Maybe your Tax dollars. It's not free.
I want a PDA that is not just one more thing to lug around. Combine it with places to stick my Cash, Credit Cards, Drivers license and pictures of the neices and nephews.
Make it durable, I mean I am going to be sitting on it.
"The car broke down once, as the team approached the Nevada border on the first day. Water got into a connector that had to be replaced, which cost the team about a day of traveling time. The team also replaced two belts, four fuel filters and a plastic bottle that contains cooling water. "
It needed THAT many repairs on a 4,000 mile trip? Unacceptable. They've got a ways to go. Yeah, you might have some of those repairs normally on a 4,000 mile trip, if your car already has 60,000 miles on it.
We do pay that here. If the price of Gas goes any higher the gas stations are going to start giving away cars with a fill-up.
Would it be significantly more expensive for HP to make their printer cartridges out of a clear plastic?
Maybe the court should force them to do so.
It'd be a lot harder for the consumer to get ripped off if they actually had a way to gauge how much product they were going to recieve before they bought it.
If it's gonna be a big fat power station it oughta have a nice shiny Chrome job!
I'm thinking of the moon like a giant magnifying glass beaming energy back to earth... Was that an ant that just smoked?
If you want a good power source figure out how to extract energy from Government lobbyists!
Hey, since I live in the area between Canada and Kansas I have to ask... Are there any dangers in extracting the big pocket of hydrogen from below me?
Specifically, Earthquakes and/or Explosions???
Any risk?
http://somethingawful.com/
Ad critic was a wonderful resource and all the companies that do advertising are missing a wonderful resource that helped extend their message to a larger audience.
I am badly missing Adcritic.com.
It was also a very nice place to find out who did the music for ads so I could go buy the artists CD's.
Oh my God. I have to get some underlings. I'd love to go golfing.
Calling it Nimda seems to say it's the ADMIN(nimda reversed) that are backwards. For many of them it's not their fault they are getting hit with this. It's Microsoft that's backwards on security.
I used to be a fan of MS. I am now planning ways to leave them behind at home and for the organization.
Which Flight sim is the favorite terrorist training tool?
Obviously the terrorist have had some flight training.
How to keep a plane flying.
How to identify where they are flying to.
How to fly into a target.
etc..
It is
9/11
or 911 which is the phone # for emergency (at least here in the states).