Unless they are implementing a very good product search to compete with Google Shopping, I don't see the appeal and I don't think that product searches drive the general search market.
On top of that, everyone thinks of themselves as "the type of person who doesn't click on ads (well except for that one time)"
This feature is marketed at a group of people who are going to plan at looking at the ads when searching to find out if they can get a deal. I don't think that group of people really exists.
It's not "god", it's the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The Flying Spaghetti Monster started this cycle a very long time ago by aimply killing a few pirates. Immediately the earth started warming, following the well documented relationship between pirates and the earth's surface temperature. This has over the years spiraled out of control because every time a pirate dies, the temperature goes up, causing more hurricanes, which kill more pirates, which causes the earth's temperature to go up, and so on.
The "scientists" need to stop wasting their time trying to stop carbon emissions, and they need to spend it helping undo our pirate shortage. This is a problem that I've worked on for quite some time (almost 5 minutes now), and I think the answer is quite simple. We need to take all of the members of the current administration (and their friends) and set them adrift on pirate ships in the middle of the ocean (preferably without sails or oars). They would make great pirates, they are already adept at raping (metaphorically) and pillaging (literally). This would help us correct the delicate balance of nature and would save an innumerable number of lives.
Please, help spread the word, before it's too late.
I personally gave up on windows quite some time ago, however I still help my parents keep it running on their machines. When I installed XP sp2 on my mom's computer, it somehow erased the partition table. Now, you're probably thinking that this doesn't make sense, nothing SP2 does, should "delpart" the disk, but that's exactly what it did. I reinstalled windows, then installed SP2 again, same thing happened. In fact, I did this twice more still with the same result. Luckily, all important data was backed up, so I didn't have to restore the partition table or anything else complex, but I never did get SP2 to install until I bought her a new motherboard. Before you chalk this up to a hardware problem, you should know that windows 98 and PCLinuxOS had been working on the computer for several months before the upgrade to XP, and the motherboard is in a machine that now runs Ubuntu just fine. Oh, and since I installed XP so many times, I also had to call the "helpful" activation phone number which I had to send and recieve multiple long strings of numbers and letters in order to get that incredibly overpriced POS operating system running on the computer. I also had to assure the operator that, no, I had not stolen windows, it had just decided to wipe my hard drive a few times and maybe they should fix that rather than accuse me of theft.
Bull, how dare you compare evolution to global warming. Evolution is a theory created by satan worhippers to deny the fact that all of human kind were created by the Giant Spaghetti Monsterism on a hill with a tree. Global warming, on the other hand, was caused by the invisible space cows which blast vast amounts of methane into the sky at such high altitudes that we simply don't detect it.
What exactly do Xorg frame rates have to do with gaming? I mean, I guess minesweeper and other simple windowed games might care, but I don't remember the last time I played a worthwhile commercial game that didn't render itself. Of course no commercial venders are going to use Xorg to render thier games because then they wouldn't run on windows. I really don't understand your statement, is it some sort of FUD?
More specifically, this is American city dweller. I don't personally live in an area that gets that hot, I know a lot of people that do. While I'll admit that most of them have air-conditioners, they are mostly cheap window units that almost never get turned on, when they do, it's to keep the temperature to about 45C.
I believe this situation illustrates the main flaw I see in your study. Everyone seems to be in agreement that the glibc update is what caused a lot of the skewed results. While I don't believe this was planned for in the study it still happened. You said that the application and distribution versions were chosen based on what was available at time the study started, which is essentially a random variable. In order to make a valid study, it seems you would have to do multiple tries starting at different times. Had you started a study directly after a new windows release, would you have used the new windows version? If not, would you have required the newest IIS version that would no doubt only run on the newest windows? If you required a newer IIS version than windows version, the update would not only skew the results, it would likely end the test, as such a thing is not possible. Yet this is the situation you ended up putting the linux systems in with the conditions you set. I'll say again, it seems any valid study would run any test like this more than once before saying it had any kind of conclusive results, I'd like to know why your study should given any value by an administrator taking this into account. I ask because it seems to me, that new systems will not be started using the newest software from July 2004.
A more personal problem I have is that I find it hard to believe 3 competant linux server administrators would choose Suse for this purpose. It's a great desktop system, but I'd never use it as a server, nor do I know anyone else who uses it as a real server.
Really, it is easier, cheaper, unless you want AMD - then you are on your own
Yes it's cheaper and easier, but don't ever plan on upgrading it. They go out of their way to make it difficult by providing as much as possible onboard and as few pci slots as possible. This changes a little bit if you look at their really high-end systems, but then you lose pretty much all of the cost savings. Not to mention, that even on the high-end systems they go as cheap as they can on a lot of little details like power supplies, cooling devices, and internal connectors in general.
If you do decide to go the prebuilt route, you can probably do a lot better than dell anyway
Wow, I just realized that I have never been on the internet. I guess I never realized that the whole of the internet consisted of the World of Warcraft. How could I have missed this? I mean, what other explanation is there for why no girls on World of Warcraft could equal no girls on the internet. It's all so clear to me now.
The Virtual Boy was too ambitious--ahead of its time for the technology available then--but I'd say the Rev is right on time, folks.
I agree with most of your post, I just have to comment on this line. The virtual boy was not too ambitious, the virtual boy was too broken. Red is not the most pleasant color to look at, and that's before you look at it through oversized plastic binoculars that have to be held to your face so that you can play.
First off, you don't "port" a website to linux of mac. If it doesn't work there it is only because you made it wrong in the first place. Second, I actually don't have a copy of windows around, I gave my only copy away over 6 months ago.
-> Fritz
It's amazing the lengths people will go to in order to explain such an obvious illusion. Anyone who has ever read anything on optical illusions should understand this immediately.
There is a great article on this specific illusion at [a href='http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/24ju n_moonillusion.htm'>Nasa.gov, but what do they know anyway? I'm sure all of the wonderful scientific minds here in the comment boxes know exactly what they're talking about.
Seriously though, I'm sure it's the water particles being shaped into a magnifying glass like object by the magnetic field, because that makes WAY more sense. Plus I blame the elves.
Only if you're still foolish enough to be using Internet Explorer.
"Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window. Click here for options..."
I wish the theatre I went to last night had shown it in DLP. That way the film wouldn't have broken halfway through the movie and I would have seen the whole thing.
So here's my question, I've already paid for the movie, is it immoral to download it now? The answer won't matter of course because I don't care much to see the second half.
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Unless they are implementing a very good product search to compete with Google Shopping, I don't see the appeal and I don't think that product searches drive the general search market.
On top of that, everyone thinks of themselves as "the type of person who doesn't click on ads (well except for that one time)"
This feature is marketed at a group of people who are going to plan at looking at the ads when searching to find out if they can get a deal. I don't think that group of people really exists.
It's not "god", it's the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The Flying Spaghetti Monster started this cycle a very long time ago by aimply killing a few pirates. Immediately the earth started warming, following the well documented relationship between pirates and the earth's surface temperature. This has over the years spiraled out of control because every time a pirate dies, the temperature goes up, causing more hurricanes, which kill more pirates, which causes the earth's temperature to go up, and so on.
The "scientists" need to stop wasting their time trying to stop carbon emissions, and they need to spend it helping undo our pirate shortage. This is a problem that I've worked on for quite some time (almost 5 minutes now), and I think the answer is quite simple. We need to take all of the members of the current administration (and their friends) and set them adrift on pirate ships in the middle of the ocean (preferably without sails or oars). They would make great pirates, they are already adept at raping (metaphorically) and pillaging (literally). This would help us correct the delicate balance of nature and would save an innumerable number of lives.
Please, help spread the word, before it's too late.
-> Fritz
I personally gave up on windows quite some time ago, however I still help my parents keep it running on their machines. When I installed XP sp2 on my mom's computer, it somehow erased the partition table. Now, you're probably thinking that this doesn't make sense, nothing SP2 does, should "delpart" the disk, but that's exactly what it did. I reinstalled windows, then installed SP2 again, same thing happened. In fact, I did this twice more still with the same result. Luckily, all important data was backed up, so I didn't have to restore the partition table or anything else complex, but I never did get SP2 to install until I bought her a new motherboard. Before you chalk this up to a hardware problem, you should know that windows 98 and PCLinuxOS had been working on the computer for several months before the upgrade to XP, and the motherboard is in a machine that now runs Ubuntu just fine. Oh, and since I installed XP so many times, I also had to call the "helpful" activation phone number which I had to send and recieve multiple long strings of numbers and letters in order to get that incredibly overpriced POS operating system running on the computer. I also had to assure the operator that, no, I had not stolen windows, it had just decided to wipe my hard drive a few times and maybe they should fix that rather than accuse me of theft.
I'm still a bit bitter about the whole process.
-> Fritz
Bull, how dare you compare evolution to global warming. Evolution is a theory created by satan worhippers to deny the fact that all of human kind were created by the Giant Spaghetti Monsterism on a hill with a tree. Global warming, on the other hand, was caused by the invisible space cows which blast vast amounts of methane into the sky at such high altitudes that we simply don't detect it.
I challenge you to prove me wrong.
-> Fritz
Thank you for your sig, that site made my day.
-> Fritz
What exactly do Xorg frame rates have to do with gaming? I mean, I guess minesweeper and other simple windowed games might care, but I don't remember the last time I played a worthwhile commercial game that didn't render itself. Of course no commercial venders are going to use Xorg to render thier games because then they wouldn't run on windows. I really don't understand your statement, is it some sort of FUD?
-> Fritz
More specifically, this is American city dweller. I don't personally live in an area that gets that hot, I know a lot of people that do. While I'll admit that most of them have air-conditioners, they are mostly cheap window units that almost never get turned on, when they do, it's to keep the temperature to about 45C.
-> Fritz
YES!
Worst, Headline, Ever.
-> Fritz
I believe this situation illustrates the main flaw I see in your study. Everyone seems to be in agreement that the glibc update is what caused a lot of the skewed results. While I don't believe this was planned for in the study it still happened. You said that the application and distribution versions were chosen based on what was available at time the study started, which is essentially a random variable. In order to make a valid study, it seems you would have to do multiple tries starting at different times. Had you started a study directly after a new windows release, would you have used the new windows version? If not, would you have required the newest IIS version that would no doubt only run on the newest windows? If you required a newer IIS version than windows version, the update would not only skew the results, it would likely end the test, as such a thing is not possible. Yet this is the situation you ended up putting the linux systems in with the conditions you set. I'll say again, it seems any valid study would run any test like this more than once before saying it had any kind of conclusive results, I'd like to know why your study should given any value by an administrator taking this into account. I ask because it seems to me, that new systems will not be started using the newest software from July 2004.
A more personal problem I have is that I find it hard to believe 3 competant linux server administrators would choose Suse for this purpose. It's a great desktop system, but I'd never use it as a server, nor do I know anyone else who uses it as a real server.
-> Fritz
Really, it is easier, cheaper, unless you want AMD - then you are on your own
Yes it's cheaper and easier, but don't ever plan on upgrading it. They go out of their way to make it difficult by providing as much as possible onboard and as few pci slots as possible. This changes a little bit if you look at their really high-end systems, but then you lose pretty much all of the cost savings. Not to mention, that even on the high-end systems they go as cheap as they can on a lot of little details like power supplies, cooling devices, and internal connectors in general.
If you do decide to go the prebuilt route, you can probably do a lot better than dell anyway
-> Fritz
Wow, I just realized that I have never been on the internet. I guess I never realized that the whole of the internet consisted of the World of Warcraft. How could I have missed this? I mean, what other explanation is there for why no girls on World of Warcraft could equal no girls on the internet. It's all so clear to me now.
-> Fritz
The Virtual Boy was too ambitious--ahead of its time for the technology available then--but I'd say the Rev is right on time, folks.
I agree with most of your post, I just have to comment on this line. The virtual boy was not too ambitious, the virtual boy was too broken. Red is not the most pleasant color to look at, and that's before you look at it through oversized plastic binoculars that have to be held to your face so that you can play.
-> Fritz
First off, you don't "port" a website to linux of mac. If it doesn't work there it is only because you made it wrong in the first place. Second, I actually don't have a copy of windows around, I gave my only copy away over 6 months ago. -> Fritz
Link
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Doh, I really should use the preview button.
Nasa article
-> Fritz
It's amazing the lengths people will go to in order to explain such an obvious illusion. Anyone who has ever read anything on optical illusions should understand this immediately.
u n_moonillusion.htm'>Nasa.gov, but what do they know anyway? I'm sure all of the wonderful scientific minds here in the comment boxes know exactly what they're talking about.
There is a great article on this specific illusion at [a href='http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/24j
Seriously though, I'm sure it's the water particles being shaped into a magnifying glass like object by the magnetic field, because that makes WAY more sense. Plus I blame the elves.
-> Fritz
". . .the only items blocking the Shuttles are issues 'related to tank debris, orbiter hardening and tile repair."
Oh, so all that remain are the exact same issues that grounded the program in the first place.
So what have the actually done in the past couple years again?
-> Fritz
Only if you're still foolish enough to be using Internet Explorer.
"Firefox prevented this site from opening a popup window. Click here for options..."
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Oh yeah, I forgot the link.
-> Fritz
The BOFH covered this topic yesterday. I think the method he decided on was very secure. -> Fritz
I wish the theatre I went to last night had shown it in DLP. That way the film wouldn't have broken halfway through the movie and I would have seen the whole thing.
So here's my question, I've already paid for the movie, is it immoral to download it now? The answer won't matter of course because I don't care much to see the second half.
-> Fritz
I know I'm off topic, but do you have a link for that? That's one I haven't read about.
-> Fritz
Wait, the runtimes aren't shipped with the applications anymore? I have to download the libraries seperately to get them to run?
Aaaargh!!! Dependancy Hell!
-> Fritz
earliest usenet messages on qdos:
http://tinyurl.com/49uua
-> Fritz
In all honesty, I have no idea. An interesting question though. . .
-> Fritz