From the article:
The software is manufactured by a combination of Panda Software, Filestream, Ability and Software Dialog.
I've used the panda software, but haven't heard of the others.
According to the article:
"The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer."
What a stupid case. Since when is a game of solitaire "providing a combination of communication and information"? I can see if the guy was researching something online but he was goofing off.
Fight the FUD with benefits to the company for switching to linux. Here is a nice list of 25 reasons to use linux in your organization from the linux information project. They also have a list of success stories with links for companies that successfully switched to linux.
Pretty easy change to make. That is, if you want people to submit stories correctly. Right now, all stories accepted seem to come from the same (suspect) crew of google spammers and karma whores. If you really do value quality submissions then you would want to educate submitters on proper submissions. From a submitters perspective it just looks like the spammers run the place when you submit, get rejected and a week later, the same story is picked up when submitted by the usual suspects.
It is pretty clear that there is a preference system going on when these same spammers get so many submissions accepted. Their submissions are not very good, so it is not a quality thing, and in the case of RP, he is clearly ripping off the originator of the content that he submits, which should be a banning offense.
As it now stands, slashdot is endorsing and favoring spammers and karma whores. There were plenty of suggestions to solve this problem suggested in this thread.
So, as part of the rejection process, a one click (selection box) reason for rejection: spam, repeat, misspellings, bad urls, not interesting, bad grammar. No extra work on the slashdot editors part and very helpful to educate your volunteer workforce, so they can improve their submissions for our mutual benefit.
I can think of several reasons
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Google to Buy Opera?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Reasons to buy Opera: 1. Opera is a fast browser with clean code. Fits with google quality requirements/desires. 2. Opera is closed source. Google can add secret sauce for tracking or search or ad related reasons. 3. Opera can be made into a product to compete with MS without giving away the source to competitors.
The actual study shows that what the now inflated US numbers count are associate degrees along with bachelor degrees.
US
BS in IT 84k
BS other 137k
AS all 84k
Total 222k
Hey the Indian and Chinese numbers are fake and ours are not! Wait, if we include all our associate degrees and all our non-IT degrees then our fake numbers are higher than their fake numbers! Yay for America!
how did you get un blacklisted? Some of these places have no contacts and no way to get out of blacklist or to even find out how you were placed in.
Can anyone share how they got off a list? The steps involved and the timeframe.
Everyone likes to joke about AOL but it is serious stuff to be wrongly accused because someone near your ip MIGHT have sent a single spam.
yes, it is about finding stuff on your drive. Anything not on your drive is on the web and the article is not about web search.
So you are saying it is instantly. Okay, so everything is indexed first. That still takes the same amount of time, it is just done before you search instead of during. This is already done if you have indexing on (just poorly). And it will always take a long time to search your harddrive. The issue is just whether it can be hidden from the user by indexing well enough before the first search is requested.
Everywhere is still only on your harddrive. So, there are other places to look, like gifs? or hidden ms files or cache files. Still just plain old search.
From any application. So there is a published API.
Not breakthrough technology. Same old stuff that has been around since forever, just prettied up and marketed as rocket science. Will it be fast enough to be so useful that it seems better than same old stuff? Or will it be like most of these repackaged "new" ideas where it is just an annoyance that interferes with your workflow and doesnt actually add any value? Sure fixing and upgrading search is needed because it is completely broken on win right now, but it is still just search with a new icon.
Breakthrough technology: a file search tool that finds things on your pc. Who could have thought up something so innovative and so 2005? Except wasnt file find in the first release of msdos and unix?
Or is the breakthrough the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner?
nothing wrong with company executives that avoid paying their fair share of taxes by using their position to hide their salary as stock or bonuses.
Bill Gates does the same thing. You dont hear everyone saying bill gates is evil. So does larry elison. You dont hear everyone saying Larry Elison is unethical.
yes, they have been doing that to big borrowers for a long time now to boost revenue and to slow down the borrowing. Their bread and butter is from the casual user, they could care less about the heavy user. They would prefer to lose you to their competition. As borrowers borrow more their costs go up with shipping, handling and processing.
I recommend the blockbuster monthly pass which allows you to have 2 out at any time but you get to swap them as often as you like. Just drive to the store and swap. Much better than being held hostage to shipping delays and supposed lost shipments.
what do.com owners with registered trademark names do with all these new tlds? Do you all rush out and register the new tld? Or do you let your competition or some squatter grab it up and dilute your name?
I dont see anyone with a job board giving up their.com to move to a.job. What would be the motivation? Does anyone think monster.com will just let the.com expire so they can transfer everthing to this new tld?
lets see:
infringe on gooogles.com trademark
infringe on froogles.com trademark
infringe on gmail trademark
infringe on overture patent
track all searches via cookies and IP address
make stored information available to govt agencies
A better analogy:
Finding out your neighbor never locks his door when he's away and then going on tv and saying "hey everybody! my neighbor's house (at 105 East Main St) is always unlocked!"
You didnt do any damage... except maybe cause his house to be broken into.
Stability problems may be a thing of the past, but security issues are getting worse on windows.
And the performance issues are getting worse. From win2k (which I like) to winXP there has been a major step backwards in filesystem performance, bootup/shutdown speed and program load times. My 3 year old win2k laptop runs faster and more predictably than my new xp on better hardware and more memory. I blame the xp gurus for this.
Parents need to take some responsiblitity in raising their children
Good point.
Parent's kids suck because they were taught to be sucky by their parents giving them everything they wanted except attention. It is not the state's fault or lack of religion or some other country's fault. It is the parent's fault. They were too lazy to give their kid the attention he/she needed and too wimpy to lay down the rules they needed.
If you have a sucky kid it is because you were a sucky parent. End of story.
The article title says improves blogging tools. How? I missed it in the links.
When I click on the link in my competitor's ads at the top of my free blog that says "remove this ad" (which used to go to upgrade to blogger pro), I get 404 file not found.
It looks like I will be stuck advertising my competitors until/unless I shutdown my blog. Nice improvement.
It is funny how so many people on here love google without any critical judgement. Why? Their searches are not very good anymore. I get mostly linkfarms and very stale 1-page edu test pages for most of my google top results. Teoma is still better.
Google doesnt have to know it was swiped code to be wrong here. The product is a Google product with google's name and ownership, so it is their responsibility. At a minimum, they will have to stop using it (the code). Of course if they knowingly used stolen code and that could be proven (unlikely) the stakes would be pretty high. Orkut, on the other hand can easily be proven to have knowingly stolen and broken the contract (if the stated contract does exists).
And no it isnt plausible that the developer made the same bugs in nine different places without copying. One or two maybe, but nine?
It doesn't exactly make their claims look valid when they do that.
They claim there are 9 identical bugs in the code. That is pretty much a smoking gun. No one that develops similar code is going to develop the same bugs in nine places.
So do you now admit that you misrepresented my post as "revisionism"? Trying to change the subject now instead?
You already admitted to having a preconceived notion about moore's film, so why bother arguing that you dont now?
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Reverse Graffiti
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· Score: 4, Insightful
you mods are kidding, right? A 5 for insightful?
Should be -5 for painfully obtuse.
A blatant advertisement on public property and you have trouble with the concept of removing it because it was made by a removal process rather than a painting process?
Who cares how the advertisement was put there or how they had to remove it. It is not graffiti when it is an advertisement. And it is not anonymous when it is an advertisement, so the party responsible has to remove it.
Revisionism... Too bad your reading comprehension and cut-n-paste skills are slanted to your point of view. If you had read AND pasted both lines from my original post, you would see that I was indeed referencing the PARENT post and not the article.
Go ahead and make a decision on a movie you havent seen and make a decision on what Eisner said based on something you dont know - if that makes sense to you. But dont expect others to think it makes sense.
Here is what I wrote and what you misrepresented and misunderstood now twice:
Is it not enough for you to read a direct quote from the CEO of disney as to why he didnt distribute the film?
As the parent said, Eisner *said* he didnt want to jeopardize special tax treatment by going against [jeb] bush.
See the word PARENT in that sentence?
I wouldnt say it is far from the truth to say you are jumping to the conservatives' desired conclusion based on nothing. Try facts and truth to base your conclusions. You may find it makes more sense. Try watching the movie for yourself instead of taking the conservatives' word for what is and is not in it. You have no problem putting money in halliburton and the bush family pocket in the billions, but no way will you part with five dollars to see for yourself whether it is facts or fiction.
I did see the movie, and the majority of the film is clips of George Bush speaking to his constituency and speaking to the media. So if you choose to believe that Moore somehow fabricated that, then you are more of a stooge than you realize.
The only one you fool with your ignorance is yourself.
Read my post again. I didnt say the article quoted Eisner. The poster you responded to quoted Eisner. And no, Eisner's quote is not made up. Just because you didnt hear Eisner say what he said and which was reported in the news, doesnt mean he didnt say it.
You obviously are bashing a movie you didnt see and obviously will believe nothing that supports the movie or the motivations of disney. Back to fox and rush for you.
But still, not a single person has even suggested a specific instance of favoritism actually exercised on Disney's behalf.
Is it not enough for you to read a direct quote from the CEO of disney as to why he didnt distribute the film?
As the parent said, Eisner *said* he didnt want to jeopardize special tax treatment by going against [jeb] bush.
Do you not trust Eisner to know whether his tax status is in jeopardy, or do you think he created the scandal for the benefit of disney? Is it not conceivable to you that the president of the US and the governor of florida have some sway in how and where tax incentives are distributed and withdrawn?
You not understanding how corruption works is not proof that it does not exist.
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From the article: The software is manufactured by a combination of Panda Software, Filestream, Ability and Software Dialog. I've used the panda software, but haven't heard of the others.
According to the article: "The ruling came after Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a worker in the city's legislative office in Albany earlier this year after he saw the man playing a game of solitaire on his computer." What a stupid case. Since when is a game of solitaire "providing a combination of communication and information"? I can see if the guy was researching something online but he was goofing off.
Fight the FUD with benefits to the company for switching to linux. Here is a nice list of 25 reasons to use linux in your organization from the linux information project. They also have a list of success stories with links for companies that successfully switched to linux.
Pretty easy change to make. That is, if you want people to submit stories correctly. Right now, all stories accepted seem to come from the same (suspect) crew of google spammers and karma whores. If you really do value quality submissions then you would want to educate submitters on proper submissions. From a submitters perspective it just looks like the spammers run the place when you submit, get rejected and a week later, the same story is picked up when submitted by the usual suspects.
It is pretty clear that there is a preference system going on when these same spammers get so many submissions accepted. Their submissions are not very good, so it is not a quality thing, and in the case of RP, he is clearly ripping off the originator of the content that he submits, which should be a banning offense.
As it now stands, slashdot is endorsing and favoring spammers and karma whores. There were plenty of suggestions to solve this problem suggested in this thread.
So, as part of the rejection process, a one click (selection box) reason for rejection: spam, repeat, misspellings, bad urls, not interesting, bad grammar. No extra work on the slashdot editors part and very helpful to educate your volunteer workforce, so they can improve their submissions for our mutual benefit.
Reasons to buy Opera:
1. Opera is a fast browser with clean code. Fits with google quality requirements/desires.
2. Opera is closed source. Google can add secret sauce for tracking or search or ad related reasons.
3. Opera can be made into a product to compete with MS without giving away the source to competitors.
The actual study shows that what the now inflated US numbers count are associate degrees along with bachelor degrees.
US
BS in IT 84k
BS other 137k
AS all 84k
Total 222k
Hey the Indian and Chinese numbers are fake and ours are not! Wait, if we include all our associate degrees and all our non-IT degrees then our fake numbers are higher than their fake numbers! Yay for America!
how did you get un blacklisted? Some of these places have no contacts and no way to get out of blacklist or to even find out how you were placed in. Can anyone share how they got off a list? The steps involved and the timeframe. Everyone likes to joke about AOL but it is serious stuff to be wrongly accused because someone near your ip MIGHT have sent a single spam.
yes, it is about finding stuff on your drive. Anything not on your drive is on the web and the article is not about web search.
So you are saying it is instantly. Okay, so everything is indexed first. That still takes the same amount of time, it is just done before you search instead of during. This is already done if you have indexing on (just poorly). And it will always take a long time to search your harddrive. The issue is just whether it can be hidden from the user by indexing well enough before the first search is requested.
Everywhere is still only on your harddrive. So, there are other places to look, like gifs? or hidden ms files or cache files. Still just plain old search.
From any application. So there is a published API.
Not breakthrough technology. Same old stuff that has been around since forever, just prettied up and marketed as rocket science. Will it be fast enough to be so useful that it seems better than same old stuff? Or will it be like most of these repackaged "new" ideas where it is just an annoyance that interferes with your workflow and doesnt actually add any value? Sure fixing and upgrading search is needed because it is completely broken on win right now, but it is still just search with a new icon.
Breakthrough technology: a file search tool that finds things on your pc. Who could have thought up something so innovative and so 2005? Except wasnt file find in the first release of msdos and unix? Or is the breakthrough the magnifying glass icon in the top right corner?
nothing wrong with company executives that avoid paying their fair share of taxes by using their position to hide their salary as stock or bonuses. Bill Gates does the same thing. You dont hear everyone saying bill gates is evil. So does larry elison. You dont hear everyone saying Larry Elison is unethical.
yes, they have been doing that to big borrowers for a long time now to boost revenue and to slow down the borrowing. Their bread and butter is from the casual user, they could care less about the heavy user. They would prefer to lose you to their competition. As borrowers borrow more their costs go up with shipping, handling and processing.
I recommend the blockbuster monthly pass which allows you to have 2 out at any time but you get to swap them as often as you like. Just drive to the store and swap. Much better than being held hostage to shipping delays and supposed lost shipments.
what do .com owners with registered trademark names do with all these new tlds? Do you all rush out and register the new tld? Or do you let your competition or some squatter grab it up and dilute your name?
.com to move to a .job. What would be the motivation? Does anyone think monster.com will just let the .com expire so they can transfer everthing to this new tld?
I dont see anyone with a job board giving up their
lets see:
infringe on gooogles.com trademark
infringe on froogles.com trademark
infringe on gmail trademark
infringe on overture patent
track all searches via cookies and IP address
make stored information available to govt agencies
A better analogy:
Finding out your neighbor never locks his door when he's away and then going on tv and saying "hey everybody! my neighbor's house (at 105 East Main St) is always unlocked!"
You didnt do any damage... except maybe cause his house to be broken into.
Stability problems may be a thing of the past, but security issues are getting worse on windows.
And the performance issues are getting worse. From win2k (which I like) to winXP there has been a major step backwards in filesystem performance, bootup/shutdown speed and program load times. My 3 year old win2k laptop runs faster and more predictably than my new xp on better hardware and more memory. I blame the xp gurus for this.
they have never compared any of their political foes to Adlof Hitler.
Wrong.
Bush did exactly that just 2 weeks ago on their campaign site. Here's the article on msn: msn
Parents need to take some responsiblitity in raising their children
Good point.
Parent's kids suck because they were taught to be sucky by their parents giving them everything they wanted except attention. It is not the state's fault or lack of religion or some other country's fault. It is the parent's fault. They were too lazy to give their kid the attention he/she needed and too wimpy to lay down the rules they needed.
If you have a sucky kid it is because you were a sucky parent. End of story.
The article title says improves blogging tools. How? I missed it in the links.
When I click on the link in my competitor's ads at the top of my free blog that says "remove this ad" (which used to go to upgrade to blogger pro), I get 404 file not found.
It looks like I will be stuck advertising my competitors until/unless I shutdown my blog. Nice improvement.
It is funny how so many people on here love google without any critical judgement. Why? Their searches are not very good anymore. I get mostly linkfarms and very stale 1-page edu test pages for most of my google top results. Teoma is still better.
Google doesnt have to know it was swiped code to be wrong here. The product is a Google product with google's name and ownership, so it is their responsibility. At a minimum, they will have to stop using it (the code). Of course if they knowingly used stolen code and that could be proven (unlikely) the stakes would be pretty high. Orkut, on the other hand can easily be proven to have knowingly stolen and broken the contract (if the stated contract does exists).
And no it isnt plausible that the developer made the same bugs in nine different places without copying. One or two maybe, but nine?
It doesn't exactly make their claims look valid when they do that.
They claim there are 9 identical bugs in the code. That is pretty much a smoking gun. No one that develops similar code is going to develop the same bugs in nine places.
So do you now admit that you misrepresented my post as "revisionism"? Trying to change the subject now instead?
You already admitted to having a preconceived notion about moore's film, so why bother arguing that you dont now?
you mods are kidding, right? A 5 for insightful?
Should be -5 for painfully obtuse.
A blatant advertisement on public property and you have trouble with the concept of removing it because it was made by a removal process rather than a painting process?
Who cares how the advertisement was put there or how they had to remove it. It is not graffiti when it is an advertisement. And it is not anonymous when it is an advertisement, so the party responsible has to remove it.
end of story. Please mod parent down.
Revisionism... Too bad your reading comprehension and cut-n-paste skills are slanted to your point of view. If you had read AND pasted both lines from my original post, you would see that I was indeed referencing the PARENT post and not the article.
Go ahead and make a decision on a movie you havent seen and make a decision on what Eisner said based on something you dont know - if that makes sense to you. But dont expect others to think it makes sense.
Here is what I wrote and what you misrepresented and misunderstood now twice:
Is it not enough for you to read a direct quote from the CEO of disney as to why he didnt distribute the film? As the parent said, Eisner *said* he didnt want to jeopardize special tax treatment by going against [jeb] bush.
See the word PARENT in that sentence?
I wouldnt say it is far from the truth to say you are jumping to the conservatives' desired conclusion based on nothing. Try facts and truth to base your conclusions. You may find it makes more sense. Try watching the movie for yourself instead of taking the conservatives' word for what is and is not in it. You have no problem putting money in halliburton and the bush family pocket in the billions, but no way will you part with five dollars to see for yourself whether it is facts or fiction.
I did see the movie, and the majority of the film is clips of George Bush speaking to his constituency and speaking to the media. So if you choose to believe that Moore somehow fabricated that, then you are more of a stooge than you realize.
The only one you fool with your ignorance is yourself.
Read my post again. I didnt say the article quoted Eisner. The poster you responded to quoted Eisner. And no, Eisner's quote is not made up. Just because you didnt hear Eisner say what he said and which was reported in the news, doesnt mean he didnt say it.
You obviously are bashing a movie you didnt see and obviously will believe nothing that supports the movie or the motivations of disney. Back to fox and rush for you.
But still, not a single person has even suggested a specific instance of favoritism actually exercised on Disney's behalf.
Is it not enough for you to read a direct quote from the CEO of disney as to why he didnt distribute the film?
As the parent said, Eisner *said* he didnt want to jeopardize special tax treatment by going against [jeb] bush.
Do you not trust Eisner to know whether his tax status is in jeopardy, or do you think he created the scandal for the benefit of disney? Is it not conceivable to you that the president of the US and the governor of florida have some sway in how and where tax incentives are distributed and withdrawn?
You not understanding how corruption works is not proof that it does not exist.