I'd never heard of ChaCha. I just did a search for the first time and noticed that 1) sponsored results are inline and poorly marked (there's some suble green "sponsored by" text within an otherwise ordinary looking search result). That might have been forgiven, but 2) the sponsored results for this particular query weren't actually very relevant. Then, when I tried to click through a real result I found that 3) they use javascript for their result links, and it's implemented in such a way that I can't command-click on a result and open it in a new tab (it does open in a new tab, but the original tab loads the result page, too).
<grammar_nazi> "AM" is morning. "2AM" works. So does "2 in the morning." "2AM in the morning" is redundant. </grammar_nazi>
My grammar is far from great, so I don't generally make a point of correcting others. For some reason that particular redundancy has always annoyed me. Sorry.
In fact, the rent will make up a good chunk of the budget for the Presidio. From an article in today's chronicle:
The Lucas campus is crucial to the operation because the [Presidio] trust is relying on $5.6 million in annual rent to help shoulder the park's costs. Income from Lucas will account for about 17 percent of the Presidio's budget.
Director James L. Brooks said the nine original members of the animated show's creative team, including himself and creator Matt Groening, will reunite for the film version.
"The idea of the movie is that all of us who ran the show at one point and who have been there from the beginning come together as the writing team for this movie,"
I never said "paid" ad stories, and didn't mean to imply it. Sorry.
This is a pretty good example of what I was talking about. I don't think anyone can argue that there's any real news in that story. It's just some guy driving traffic to his new site.
I'm glad to see someone over there is reading comments like mine, anyhow.
It was just this afternoon that some co-workers and I were discussing how awful Slashdot has gotten about posting ad "stories" and dupes, and now here's another duplicate story.
I understand that some dupes slip through because certain topics can be hard to search for, but with the first Google movies story showing up as the topmost search result for "Google movies," how is it even possible not to find that this story was already posted?
I had read Slashdot almost daily for years, and subscribed for months. These days, thanks to the drastic downtown in quality, I'm down to visiting just a few times a week, and haven't added to my subscription in a year.
Ok, I like Jon Stewart. I think the Daily Show is funny. But, why is this on slashdot?
I mean, ok, there's been a television category here for a while, but the most recent stories were about holographic TV, TV downloading, PVRs and IPTV. There's plenty of "news for nerds" angles to those stories. Did I miss it here?
"In the Zend survey, 93% of respondents listed PHP as a primary language and 69% listed HTML."
People who think HTML is a programming language really have no business setting the direction of PHP.
The article says 93% listed it as a "primary language." Not, as a "primary programming language." You do know what the L in HTML stands for, don't you?
The Happy Birthday song isn't owned by Disney, it's owned by Warner Music Group. Snopes has an article on it. (Note that at the time the article was written there was still an AOLTW. WMG is no longer part of even TimeWarner.)
If you've ever been in the middle of one of those embarrassing restaurant wait-staff birthday serenedes, and wondered why they were singing a birthday song you'd never heard before, this is way.
How is talking on a phone any more or less annoying than talking to a person sitting next to you?
There's a paper called "Why Mobile Phones are Annoying," published in Behaviour and Information Technology, that discusses that very topic.
One finding was that it's apprently easier to tune out the continuous drone of a complete conversation than it is to ignore a single person alternating between speaking and siting silent.
Your statement that "XM is as big a part of the monopoly as any other radio station" has never been true. Yes, there was a time that Clear Channel did hold 18% of XM, but their stake has fallen to <3%.
quoted from this page (originally written on 8/20):
"Clear Channel holds only 8.3 million shares of XM common stock, or an approximately 3% stake...
"Perhaps more importantly, Clear Channel does not hold any seats on XM's board and its stake in XM entitles it to no extraordinary voting rights. Clear Channel executive Randall Mays did sit on XM's board for a time, but once Clear Channel's stake in XM fell below 5%, the company was no longer entitled to a seat.
"Clear Channel, according to XM's own SEC filings, does provide "certain programming services" to XM. Likewise, XM has a sponsorship agreement to advertise at Clear Channel-owned venues. XM also leases a few terrestrial repeaters from Clear Channel and utilized Premiere Radio Networks, a Clear Channel subsidiary for some of its advertising sales. However, XM appears to be doing less business with Clear Channel as payments to Premiere fell from approximately $2.96 million in the first quarter of 2003 to about $1.59 million in the first quarter of 2004.
"To put it simply, Clear Channel is just a large institutional holder of XM stock... The business relationship between the companies has shrunk to the point of insignificance and Clear Channel increasingly views XM as a competitive threat."
In addition to the above letter, here's wired news reporting (on june 1 of last year) that "Clear Channel Communications owns 3 percent."
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I'd never heard of ChaCha. I just did a search for the first time and noticed that 1) sponsored results are inline and poorly marked (there's some suble green "sponsored by" text within an otherwise ordinary looking search result). That might have been forgiven, but 2) the sponsored results for this particular query weren't actually very relevant. Then, when I tried to click through a real result I found that 3) they use javascript for their result links, and it's implemented in such a way that I can't command-click on a result and open it in a new tab (it does open in a new tab, but the original tab loads the result page, too).
I won't be back.
"AM" is morning. "2AM" works. So does "2 in the morning." "2AM in the morning" is redundant.
</grammar_nazi>
My grammar is far from great, so I don't generally make a point of correcting others. For some reason that particular redundancy has always annoyed me. Sorry.
"your mom" is ranked at #6673.
In fact, the rent will make up a good chunk of the budget for the Presidio. From an article in today's chronicle:
Last night #bt was back to -m, but as of right now it's invite only. Anyone know what's up?
I never said "paid" ad stories, and didn't mean to imply it. Sorry.
This is a pretty good example of what I was talking about. I don't think anyone can argue that there's any real news in that story. It's just some guy driving traffic to his new site.
I'm glad to see someone over there is reading comments like mine, anyhow.
It was just this afternoon that some co-workers and I were discussing how awful Slashdot has gotten about posting ad "stories" and dupes, and now here's another duplicate story.
I understand that some dupes slip through because certain topics can be hard to search for, but with the first Google movies story showing up as the topmost search result for "Google movies," how is it even possible not to find that this story was already posted?
I had read Slashdot almost daily for years, and subscribed for months. These days, thanks to the drastic downtown in quality, I'm down to visiting just a few times a week, and haven't added to my subscription in a year.
I've been using this to track packages for a year. The internet archive says it's been available since February of '04.
But anything on the Google blog is news, I guess.
The Yahoo story is full of incorrect information. Engadget did a good job of pointing it all out.
Ok, I like Jon Stewart. I think the Daily Show is funny. But, why is this on slashdot?
I mean, ok, there's been a television category here for a while, but the most recent stories were about holographic TV, TV downloading, PVRs and IPTV. There's plenty of "news for nerds" angles to those stories. Did I miss it here?
"In the Zend survey, 93% of respondents listed PHP as a primary language and 69% listed HTML."
People who think HTML is a programming language really have no business setting the direction of PHP.
The article says 93% listed it as a "primary language." Not, as a "primary programming language." You do know what the L in HTML stands for, don't you?
The Happy Birthday song isn't owned by Disney, it's owned by Warner Music Group. Snopes has an article on it. (Note that at the time the article was written there was still an AOLTW. WMG is no longer part of even TimeWarner.)
If you've ever been in the middle of one of those embarrassing restaurant wait-staff birthday serenedes, and wondered why they were singing a birthday song you'd never heard before, this is way.
iTunes Says Moo
I think maybe you meant "mu"?
D'oh. I copied the wrong URL.
The last Slashdot article about Google browser speculation is here.
The last article about Google browser speculation is here.
I believe that 'i' comes before 'e' except after 'c'.
One finding was that it's apprently easier to tune out the continuous drone of a complete conversation than it is to ignore a single person alternating between speaking and siting silent.
I don't think the paper is online, but Jakob Nielson has a good summary.
Here's the info (with a picture) on the $1337 wager. Pretty funny, but he should have wagered $1132 instead; he would have ended up with $31337.
quoted from this page (originally written on 8/20): In addition to the above letter, here's wired news reporting (on june 1 of last year) that "Clear Channel Communications owns 3 percent."