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It's simple. People link to the PuTTY page because it's so damn useful. People don't link to the Silly Putty home page (the next result) because, well, it isn't.
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Look. It's this simple. They changed the freaking algorithm. This is something they're entitled to do more than your page is entitled to its rank.
I assume the reason they changed the algorithm is that "Search Engine Optimizers" (the layer of scum just above spammers) were getting the hang of manipulating Google. So they came up with something to dump sites which seemed to be doing that. And it seems they got some false positives, too.
And now everyone who thought they were l33t just because their page was on the top 10 for a certain search in Google is whining when they've lost their precious wittle rank.
It's a bizarre conspiracy theory. What possible reason would Google have to consciously decide to drop somethingawful.com, instead of their algorithm simply dropping it? Why would they have their employees spend time deliberately finding sites to screw over? Your hypothesis fails Occam's Razor.
I was irked by that too - and to make it worse, they put so much focus on Borda, the one system that is nearly as flawed as plurality. In Borda, if you vote what you really feel instead of voting strategically (consider the two major candidates, put the lesser of two evils first and the greater last), then you're making your votes count for less.
It troubles me that the +" " and -" " syntax doesn't work on all my favourite search engines.
It bothers me that the + syntax had to be invented in the first place. It arose from AltaVista, which would imply "OR" between words instead of "AND" by default, which practically nobody wanted. So users got in the habit of putting + before absolutely everything. Google did a smart thing by getting rid of +, even though it conflicted with what people had grown to expect.
And then there's: (2) "Visual" Search technologies. (4) Memetic Histography
Google has always excelled on not wasting space and bandwidth with useless crap. This is an extension of that. I have never encountered a "visual" search engine which was actually pleasant to use. It's like a 3D desktop - it sounds like it should be better, but it just gets in the way of what you want to see.
I read about this elsewhere. somethingawful is an interesting case, but mainly the people who were complaining that their pages had suddenly dropped on Google were those who used "search engine optimization" techniques to try to get higher in the rankings. Google most likely adjusted its algorithm to not favor such techniques.
Perhaps some sites that got lower in the rankings are entirely blameless, but if they change their algorithm, then sites have to go down for others to go up.
Mostly, though, the people who tried to manipulate Google have gotten a wake-up call. I consider that to be Google going uphill.
Since this is easily possible by just turning off (or on) certain options in the kernel configuration file, perhaps a better idea is to make some sort of "sock configurations."
So then if the kernel doesn't compile, at least it can keep your feet warm.
So you believe that if we discovered a first-player winning strategy for chess, then a human would be able to memorize the whole tree and use it to beat a perfect computer? The only way I can see that happening is if the human pits one perfect computer against another, observes the game, then plays exactly the same moves as the winning computer player, knowing that the computer will respond the same way... at which point it's not really the human playing anymore.
He's slightly right. In the current GNOME, sawfish-ui (the control center for Sawfish) has for some unfathomable reason seceded from the GNOME Control Center.
There are three reasons a relatively sane person (and I'm giving you some credit here) would read a blog:
(1) It's written by a personal friend, so the reader actually cares what's going on in that person's life. (This is the case most of the time.) (2) It's exceptionally well written, so that it attracts random people who don't know the writer. (3) The reader doesn't understand the purpose of blogs, and is loading up random insignificant blogs by people he doesn't know, finding them uninteresting, and as a result plans to tell the world that all blogs suck.
So, considering you fall squarely into case number 3, you are perfectly right to decide not to waste your time with blogs.
But since you're ranting and complaining on Slashdot, the time is already wasted.
I've only taken Japanese for five weeks, but that's enough to know that your analysis of "Datsun" is BS. You may not have made it up, but someone obviously did.
"Datsun" is three characters in hiragana: da tsu n. "Dat" is not a well-formed Japanese word. "sun" is not pronounced like English "sun", and does not mean "son". Amazingly enough, you seem to be correct that "son" means something like "to lose money" (WWWJDIC has it as "loss; disadvantage"), but if the name were "Datson" it would break up as "da tso n", and there's no such syllable as "tso".
*I* believe in peace, however unfortunately there are others who don't have my view point.
What do you mean by "I believe in peace"? Most people would use it for something stronger than existence, as in "I believe in Santa Claus" or "I believe in the heliocentric solar system". It doesn't take much thought to believe that peace is possible.
The rest of your post clearly indicates that you don't believe that peace is the best action, which is what most people mean when they say "I believe in peace".
I won't argue against being a warhawk, just don't freaking lie about it.
50,000 of those users had a minute and a half of lag.
30,000 were in the middle of the connect process, waiting for identd to time out, because identd never works and their client wasn't l33t enough to give the necessary fake responses.
The other 20,000 had a netsplit immediately after they counted.
Very likely, yes. Ext2 recovery techniqes are well known, documented, and tools exist (if rudimentary) for recovering files from it. I believe that this translates well to ext3.
Translates exactly to ext3, in fact. If you ignore the journal, ext3 is ext2.
I bet they could get around it by picking a few random words from a dictionary and adding it to the end of the spam. If one of them were an obscure word that you've received in one or two legitimate e-mails, the filter would decide "Hey, I've never gotten a spam with the word 'yarborough' in it before, so it must be real".
I hate to burst your bubble, but reading Slashdot and all the comments waiting for the opportunity to tout your movement doesn't especially sound like "quitting Slashdot" to me.
But then, you're not the first person to post "Hey look at me! I've stopped reading Slashdot! Ain't I special?!" without noticing the inherent contradiction.
There doesn't seem to be anything inherently wrong with the statement, except that it expresses an opinion you disagree with. Why don't you refute the statement instead of attacking the person?
Mice whose fur glows green may be the first step to using gene therapy to treat hair loss, baldness and perhaps even to permanently change hair color, researchers say.
As long as the hair color you want is glowing green, of course.
With open source software the users are the ones making money with it not just the people that sell it.
Your sig strikes a tragic note: it's obvious that you have been hit hard by the sudden Sig Comma Shortage.
That is, I can see that you have quite enough commas for ordinary posting, but none of the kind that are durable enough to last in the harsh enviroment of a sig.
Out of pure generosity, I'll let you borrow my two sig commas. The TMBG lyrics will be temporarily ungrammatical, but I can take out the capital letters too and pretend it's Radiohead. That's a small price to pay so that a full statement can have the punctuation it deserves.
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It's simple. People link to the PuTTY page because it's so damn useful. People don't link to the Silly Putty home page (the next result) because, well, it isn't.
Look. It's this simple. They changed the freaking algorithm. This is something they're entitled to do more than your page is entitled to its rank.
I assume the reason they changed the algorithm is that "Search Engine Optimizers" (the layer of scum just above spammers) were getting the hang of manipulating Google. So they came up with something to dump sites which seemed to be doing that. And it seems they got some false positives, too.
And now everyone who thought they were l33t just because their page was on the top 10 for a certain search in Google is whining when they've lost their precious wittle rank.
It's a bizarre conspiracy theory. What possible reason would Google have to consciously decide to drop somethingawful.com, instead of their algorithm simply dropping it? Why would they have their employees spend time deliberately finding sites to screw over? Your hypothesis fails Occam's Razor.
$100 (or 0x64 dollars for that stupid hex guy)
Don't encourage him.
I was irked by that too - and to make it worse, they put so much focus on Borda, the one system that is nearly as flawed as plurality. In Borda, if you vote what you really feel instead of voting strategically (consider the two major candidates, put the lesser of two evils first and the greater last), then you're making your votes count for less.
It troubles me that the +" " and -" " syntax doesn't work on all my favourite search engines.
It bothers me that the + syntax had to be invented in the first place. It arose from AltaVista, which would imply "OR" between words instead of "AND" by default, which practically nobody wanted. So users got in the habit of putting + before absolutely everything.
Google did a smart thing by getting rid of +, even though it conflicted with what people had grown to expect.
And then there's:
(2) "Visual" Search technologies.
(4) Memetic Histography
Google has always excelled on not wasting space and bandwidth with useless crap. This is an extension of that. I have never encountered a "visual" search engine which was actually pleasant to use. It's like a 3D desktop - it sounds like it should be better, but it just gets in the way of what you want to see.
I read about this elsewhere. somethingawful is an interesting case, but mainly the people who were complaining that their pages had suddenly dropped on Google were those who used "search engine optimization" techniques to try to get higher in the rankings. Google most likely adjusted its algorithm to not favor such techniques.
Perhaps some sites that got lower in the rankings are entirely blameless, but if they change their algorithm, then sites have to go down for others to go up.
Mostly, though, the people who tried to manipulate Google have gotten a wake-up call. I consider that to be Google going uphill.
It's just that the discussion started out with ways to get places without driving a car (as opposed to without a driver's license).
Rent a car. Duhh.
What, do rental cars drive themselves now?
Since this is easily possible by just turning off (or on) certain options in the kernel configuration file, perhaps a better idea is to make some sort of "sock configurations."
So then if the kernel doesn't compile, at least it can keep your feet warm.
So you believe that if we discovered a first-player winning strategy for chess, then a human would be able to memorize the whole tree and use it to beat a perfect computer? The only way I can see that happening is if the human pits one perfect computer against another, observes the game, then plays exactly the same moves as the winning computer player, knowing that the computer will respond the same way... at which point it's not really the human playing anymore.
Um, did he ever say the perfect game was a tie?
He just said that there exists a perfect game, not that we know what it is or its outcome.
Of course, it doesn't help much that I'm saying this now when the idiotic flame war has already happened.
I was more impressed with the chatter file then I was with it's ability to play chess, the taunts were quite appropriate in their timing.
Yes, I was rather impressed with the satire in that article too.
Um, you realize that's what it was, right?
He's slightly right. In the current GNOME, sawfish-ui (the control center for Sawfish) has for some unfathomable reason seceded from the GNOME Control Center.
You and the parent poster are missing the point.
There are three reasons a relatively sane person (and I'm giving you some credit here) would read a blog:
(1) It's written by a personal friend, so the reader actually cares what's going on in that person's life. (This is the case most of the time.)
(2) It's exceptionally well written, so that it attracts random people who don't know the writer.
(3) The reader doesn't understand the purpose of blogs, and is loading up random insignificant blogs by people he doesn't know, finding them uninteresting, and as a result plans to tell the world that all blogs suck.
So, considering you fall squarely into case number 3, you are perfectly right to decide not to waste your time with blogs.
But since you're ranting and complaining on Slashdot, the time is already wasted.
I've only taken Japanese for five weeks, but that's enough to know that your analysis of "Datsun" is BS. You may not have made it up, but someone obviously did.
"Datsun" is three characters in hiragana: da tsu n. "Dat" is not a well-formed Japanese word. "sun" is not pronounced like English "sun", and does not mean "son". Amazingly enough, you seem to be correct that "son" means something like "to lose money" (WWWJDIC has it as "loss; disadvantage"), but if the name were "Datson" it would break up as "da tso n", and there's no such syllable as "tso".
You're using 9/11 to justify war with Iraq.
Iraq didn't have a damn thing to do with 9/11.
Unfortunately, most of America thinks like you.
*I* believe in peace, however unfortunately there are others who don't have my view point.
What do you mean by "I believe in peace"? Most people would use it for something stronger than existence, as in "I believe in Santa Claus" or "I believe in the heliocentric solar system". It doesn't take much thought to believe that peace is possible.
The rest of your post clearly indicates that you don't believe that peace is the best action, which is what most people mean when they say "I believe in peace".
I won't argue against being a warhawk, just don't freaking lie about it.
If you don't recognize that as a perfectly valid sentence structure, then you've got more problems with English than he does.
So what was the point of that comment?
50,000 of those users had a minute and a half of lag.
30,000 were in the middle of the connect process, waiting for identd to time out, because identd never works and their client wasn't l33t enough to give the necessary fake responses.
The other 20,000 had a netsplit immediately after they counted.
Yay for way-too-big IRC networks.
Quick reference: (something like this should be posted at the top of any article which mentions one of the three)
IANAL.
Very likely, yes. Ext2 recovery techniqes are well known, documented, and tools exist (if rudimentary) for recovering files from it. I believe that this translates well to ext3.
Translates exactly to ext3, in fact. If you ignore the journal, ext3 is ext2.
I bet they could get around it by picking a few random words from a dictionary and adding it to the end of the spam. If one of them were an obscure word that you've received in one or two legitimate e-mails, the filter would decide "Hey, I've never gotten a spam with the word 'yarborough' in it before, so it must be real".
I hate to burst your bubble, but reading Slashdot and all the comments waiting for the opportunity to tout your movement doesn't especially sound like "quitting Slashdot" to me.
But then, you're not the first person to post "Hey look at me! I've stopped reading Slashdot! Ain't I special?!" without noticing the inherent contradiction.
There doesn't seem to be anything inherently wrong with the statement, except that it expresses an opinion you disagree with. Why don't you refute the statement instead of attacking the person?
Mice whose fur glows green may be the first step to using gene therapy to treat hair loss, baldness and perhaps even to permanently change hair color, researchers say.
As long as the hair color you want is glowing green, of course.
With open source software the users are the ones making money with it not just the people that sell it.
Your sig strikes a tragic note: it's obvious that you have been hit hard by the sudden Sig Comma Shortage.
That is, I can see that you have quite enough commas for ordinary posting, but none of the kind that are durable enough to last in the harsh enviroment of a sig.
Out of pure generosity, I'll let you borrow my two sig commas. The TMBG lyrics will be temporarily ungrammatical, but I can take out the capital letters too and pretend it's Radiohead. That's a small price to pay so that a full statement can have the punctuation it deserves.
Use them wisely, my friend.