you don't have a fucking clue, because not every country declares it's reserves. at some point oil WILL run out, but anyone claiming to know when is a damned liar and not to be trusted.
nope. tape is STILL the only way to backup your data if your serious. i've been hearing about the death of the spinning platters for a decade now and it's still just around the corner, much like fusion and peak oil.
i've seen the nat geo show on this, they spent decades trying to get these things to work. one guy built a blowup version, sent 10's of thousands on it only to have it fail. it's great is you just ignore small details like oh say, what happens when one breaks loose. it is after all in the jet stream under pretty extreme conditions.
ok - what happens with 6 miles of high tensile wire comes crashing down? it's the same issue. they even admit they haven't solved how to keep the kites up there yet so it's a valid question.
and people do work on stupid idea's for years, it's where lots of grant moneys goes.
yep that's the one. try clicking on add to basket and it just takes you to a registration form. hardly useful to someone in australia looking to buy some hardwood. maybe if i had of searched "hardwood importers" or something of that nature it would be relevant, and that's the kind of thing google seems to be performing worse at than bing.
sure they will find ways to game bing, but having to game 2 search engines rather than one has to be better for us since it makes them work 2x harder.
um no you fail. the 5th non sponsored result for me is from www.globalsources.com, which is a china based resource aggregator which i can't actually buy anything from.
you don't know that for sure though, do you. what if MS has come up with a better search engine? this is why google would/should be investigating and improving their own performance. ultimately we are the winners, so i hope MS has actually lifted the bar on google.
so you would be willing to admit linux isn't anymore secure than windows then, because it's market share is so low the scum hasn't latched onto it yet? anti microsoft sentiment on this site constantly attacks that logic, it's interesting that so many people are now playing this card in defense of google.
Maybe bloggers and link aggregators will find how to game bing in the future, but for the moment i find it's the better search engine, which really leads to your next statement which is pretty unbelievable - do you really think quality doesn't matter?! i don't ever want to hear you bagging microsoft products that have high market share or that are poor quality then, because according to you it doesn't matter.
for the rest of us, the quality of the results DO matter, and google would be stupid to ignore such a product.
bing is better than google in many instances i've tried it. search for hardwood suppliers, bing gives me a page of websites of actual hardwood supply companies. google gives me the same for about the top 5 then it gives me a bunch of crap like link agregators and "top 5" sites
bing isn't infested with useless link agregators which have made google all but useless. with bing i don't have to crawl through the results looking for actual sources of information. i could definately see why google has jumped into action, only a fool would dismiss anything MS does.
please link to some proof of this, as i understood it h.264 is free to decode with. i suspect you are confusing patented with non free, in the usual RMS style reasoning.
so he is paid by wikipedia, and he makes entries on wikipedia, but someone else being paid to make changes isn't allowed because Jimbo doesn't like it? I get that astroturfing is bad, but isn't the idea of wikipedia that this kind of thing won't last long ont he page, or is that all bullshit? they should make up their minds...
your convenently side stepping the fact there is no motivation for virus writers to target desktop linux users, after all why waste time on ~1% of users. do you really think i can't trick a novice user into installing a trojan on linux? unless you have set them up with a highly restrictive environment where they can't install software on their own computer you will catch just as many as you do with windows, if not more because no one in the linux world seems to believe in antivirus
my arguement isn't that linux is hard to use, it's that it's users themselfs that are the security risk. novice users can't tell a fishing site from the real thing or know that "free game" they just installed contains a trojan.
i understand there are lots of pc's out there with linux on them, but that is just a drop in the ocean compared to what's sold with windows on it, and most of the linux systems out there are maintained by professionals and don't get uncle joe on them installing that bit of software to get his free porn.
sure linux has mindshare, but that hasn't translated into market share. The year of the linux desktop will also be the year of the linux virus.
hasn't there been multiple worms for openssl and apache?
i'm suprised i have to make this point yet again, but there are more machines infected than the whole linux marketshare. until linux is really in the hands of the common newb you won't have an apples and apples comparison.
so google made a deal with the authors guild, how is it google that needs investigating if the authors guild is misrepresenting itself as the owner of copyrighted material?
nothing in your post indicates google is at fault.
oh and my whole point was about the misconception of google being a monopoly so double fail to you.
it's only a monopoly if google somehow prevented you searching else where, or stopped anyone else starting a search engine business.
as you said, yahoo and MS have significant slices of the search pie. google is just better at it, and it sickens me that a company which is actually good at it's business is being targeted by the government purely for being.. the best.
now i'd love one of these products, i think ARM is sexy. but mass market appeal? very unlikely. if it can't run that cd i just bought from walmart, your sunk.
the ineptitude of their management can be seen in the 108 hour week. anything over a 12 hour day is wasted, and you NEED 1 day off a week minimum to recharge the batteries, otherwise you just find ways to waste time on the job.
i've been there, i'm working 50 - 60 hour weeks and i achieve more now than i did in 90 hour weeks.
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you don't have a fucking clue, because not every country declares it's reserves. at some point oil WILL run out, but anyone claiming to know when is a damned liar and not to be trusted.
nope. tape is STILL the only way to backup your data if your serious. i've been hearing about the death of the spinning platters for a decade now and it's still just around the corner, much like fusion and peak oil.
i've seen the nat geo show on this, they spent decades trying to get these things to work. one guy built a blowup version, sent 10's of thousands on it only to have it fail. it's great is you just ignore small details like oh say, what happens when one breaks loose. it is after all in the jet stream under pretty extreme conditions.
fail.
and people do work on stupid idea's for years, it's where lots of grant moneys goes.
sure they will find ways to game bing, but having to game 2 search engines rather than one has to be better for us since it makes them work 2x harder.
um no you fail. the 5th non sponsored result for me is from www.globalsources.com, which is a china based resource aggregator which i can't actually buy anything from.
you don't know that for sure though, do you. what if MS has come up with a better search engine? this is why google would/should be investigating and improving their own performance. ultimately we are the winners, so i hope MS has actually lifted the bar on google.
so you would be willing to admit linux isn't anymore secure than windows then, because it's market share is so low the scum hasn't latched onto it yet? anti microsoft sentiment on this site constantly attacks that logic, it's interesting that so many people are now playing this card in defense of google.
Maybe bloggers and link aggregators will find how to game bing in the future, but for the moment i find it's the better search engine, which really leads to your next statement which is pretty unbelievable - do you really think quality doesn't matter?! i don't ever want to hear you bagging microsoft products that have high market share or that are poor quality then, because according to you it doesn't matter.
for the rest of us, the quality of the results DO matter, and google would be stupid to ignore such a product.
bing isn't infested with useless link agregators which have made google all but useless. with bing i don't have to crawl through the results looking for actual sources of information. i could definately see why google has jumped into action, only a fool would dismiss anything MS does.
please link to some proof of this, as i understood it h.264 is free to decode with. i suspect you are confusing patented with non free, in the usual RMS style reasoning.
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what if they paid an actual expert? i'd take them posting over some high school kid any day of the week. wikipedia might actually be 1/2 useful then.
so he is paid by wikipedia, and he makes entries on wikipedia, but someone else being paid to make changes isn't allowed because Jimbo doesn't like it? I get that astroturfing is bad, but isn't the idea of wikipedia that this kind of thing won't last long ont he page, or is that all bullshit? they should make up their minds...
i'd be suprised if Jimbo doesn't make his living off wikipedia in some form, it's hyporitical of him to condem anyone else trying something similar.
it's hard to believe anyone doesn't think code reviews are worthwhile. without them all it takes is one retard to destroy a company.
my arguement isn't that linux is hard to use, it's that it's users themselfs that are the security risk. novice users can't tell a fishing site from the real thing or know that "free game" they just installed contains a trojan.
sure linux has mindshare, but that hasn't translated into market share. The year of the linux desktop will also be the year of the linux virus.
hasn't there been multiple worms for openssl and apache?
i'm suprised i have to make this point yet again, but there are more machines infected than the whole linux marketshare. until linux is really in the hands of the common newb you won't have an apples and apples comparison.
nothing in your post indicates google is at fault.
oh and my whole point was about the misconception of google being a monopoly so double fail to you.
as you said, yahoo and MS have significant slices of the search pie. google is just better at it, and it sickens me that a company which is actually good at it's business is being targeted by the government purely for being.. the best.
i'll bet they are just regular cells with fuck all weather proofing on them and they degrade in 6 months.
now i'd love one of these products, i think ARM is sexy. but mass market appeal? very unlikely. if it can't run that cd i just bought from walmart, your sunk.
i've been there, i'm working 50 - 60 hour weeks and i achieve more now than i did in 90 hour weeks.