I can't believe I missed that, I think I read the wrong article!:) Sorry, wish I could mod myself redundant now. And yes, whoever modded me insightful must have been reading the wrong one too:) Apologies.
Try searching for something in Google and compare the results to A9. They're identical... down to the same order. Anyone else think A9 is just diverting requests to Google and reformatting the results?
Nice, so Google does all the work, needs all the storage space, algorithms, and effort, then A9 fudges the results and displays them as its own, while sticking in Amazon plugs all over the place. This isn't A9 vs Google, this is Google vs Google+AmazonAds. Wonder who's gonna win...
28 million bottles of beer on the wall,
28 million bottles of beer,
You take 9.6 million down,
Pass them around,
6.9 million bottles of beer on the wall.
Has it occured to you that the times you mentioned... are the most boring times to sit there by yourself and twiddle your thumbs?
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize the inane and mindless act of driving bored you so much. In that case, by all means, drivel away on your phone while hurtling your car erratically at over 100km/h. We don't mind. And hey, if you injure or kill us cause you're not paying attention and focused, we don't mind that either... after all, it's not like we have any friends who'd miss us, right?
Maybe they know that the Nazis are dead, the Commies are allies, and that terrorism has existed since the beginning of time? Oh, and they're not invading other countries.
Only reason they need itty-bitty knives at all is to cut holes out of itty-bitty cheese.:)
Exactly. And I love how I get modded as flamebait for saying the same thing.
The greatest bit is that not only are the facts he's basing his opinion on false, his conclusions don't even follow from said "facts". And yet it's front page/. news.
Makes you wish you can mod stories themselves.
Is this "news for nerds" or "gossip from idiots"? There's no word-identification for logins. And Gmail notifier is made by Google, it's not even third-party! Can you stop posting crap before you RTFA?
Oh wait, there wasn't even an article this time. Sigh.
The machine, called Springtail, can hit speeds up to 90 miles an hour, and its 10-gallon tank of diesel fuel is good for 2.25 hours of flight.
With a naive calculation, 90mph * 2.25h / 10g = 20.25mpg. That's about what an SUV gets, maybe less. On the other hand, it's diesel and diesel cars can easily push 40 to 50mpg. Someone remind me why people in the States drive massive petrol SUVs instead of little diesel or Smart cars?
Whether you're discussing airport security, piracy, gun control, patents, drunk driving, or whatever, it's all the same problem. The laws in the States are written based on special interest lobbying and money, and common sense plays no part of it. As a result, people's rights are being eroded and any freedom this country once stood for is nowhere to be seen.
If common sense were at play in law making, would a handicapped elderly person be subject to such disrespect for supposedly threatening the lives of others? Would a recording company make millions while its artist makes pennies, and still cry foul? Would people be entitled to carry objects whose sole purpose is to kill people? Would a developer be sued for implementing prior art for a patent that should never have been issued? Would the speed limit be artificially and dangerously low? Would there even need to be a safety belt law? Would it be illegal to commit suicide?
What exactly are we free to do? To vote? Given the electoral college, a Republican's vote in CA or a Democrat's vote in VA isn't worth anything. To speak freely? You can't even say "boob" on the radio. To work and pay taxes, so our tax money can go to starting ill motivated wars instead of increasing literacy?
There are plenty of better run democracies abroad. But the media keeps reminding us that the States is the pinnacle of freedom. And so we put up with stupid laws thinking that there aren't better alternatives. Keep that in mind in November.
It's fun to press the button and watch people STFU and drive.
Don't you mean say "hello" a few times, look at their phone to see if they have signal, redial the number, wonder why they don't connect, look at the phone some more, go through a few menus to pull up a different number for the same person, try to call again, look at the phone one more time, and then maybe give up? Yeah, that makes an already bad situation much safer. It's one thing to jam the annoying bitch standing next to you in line... but fuck with the morons on the road and you're asking to get yourself or someone else rear ended.
Re:*yawn* Oooooold "news"
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The Bugatti Veyron
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· Score: 2, Interesting
... I have my doubts that VWAG will ever actually produce and sell one of these vehicles.
They have definitely produced one. It's sitting in the Bugatti showroom on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. Quite amusing actually. Normally happy families are torn apart as the wives and daughters run off to gaze in the haute couture windows, while the guys stand there with their faces plastered to the glass.
Umm, Linux has nothing to do with this, nor does competence, and what ideologocial reasons are you talking about? The reason for people to switch an IM client isn't about ideology: it's about usefulness, practicality, robustness, security. If something is visibly better and doesn't have a learning curve, people will switch. How many people still use ICQ?
Gaim meets those requirements (better than having two or three clients open, no bothersome ads or popups [tried MSN lately?], less clutter, etc). Firefox and Thunderbird also meet those requirements (tabbed browsing, integrated search, no security updates, clean interfaces). Most of all, all three are extremely simple to install and do not have a learning curve.
As an example, take AIM file transfers, plagued by firewalls and NATs because of bad design. If a Gaim client is talking to an AOL AIM client, and a file transfer can't happen because the AIM protocol's fucked up, that's fine, nothing can really be done about it. But when two people are using Gaim, they can't exchange files because the AIM protocol doesn't work right? How retarded! Why shouldn't there be another protocol supported by Gaim that allows the tranfer to go through? This is why we need open standardized protocols that work... not because of ideology, but because of such effects that come hand in hand with using proprietary ones.
The voice and video chat branch is a good thing, it will help Gaim stay competitive with MSN. But I think Gaim needs an open alternative as a fallback.
I love Gaim, converted many friends to it who like the tabbed windows, lack of ads, clean buddy list, account manager, etc. Gaim's moving forward... but our mentality is stagnant and rotting. It's the same logic I posted here.
Yes, Gaim will benefit from video and chat support. But does that give us any more options? No. The second these proprietary protocols change, we're shit out of luck as usual. In fact, I recently talked to a policy decision making level employee at AOL. She told me that during those AIM protocol blockouts which were breaking Trillian, Gaim, and Jabber, AOL made a list of 27 possible changes to their protocol which would retain their client compatibility but break competing clients. And they enjoyed applying them.
The point is Gaim is in a strategic position as an open source/free client that's gaining popularity. A user can retain compatibility with his friends on proprietary protocols, while use an open source protocol amongst Gaim clients. If these protocols can provide equivalent functionality to their proprietary equivalents, Gaim has the ability to seamlessly migrate people.
That's why I think this isn't the right way to go about things. Instead of trying to bring proprietary video and chat protocols to Gaim, they should try to bring/write equivalent open source protocols.
Progress isn't inevitable... let's not make it impossible.
That's all very amusing, but my current job has me developing sensor network code. The current wonderful generation of sensor nodes has 4KB of data space and 128KB of program memory. The first generation (in which we included crypto, multihop routing, sensing, data forwarding, revocation, target detection and the bloody operating system) fit in 1KB of data memory and 16KB of code memory.
Your little ploy was rather clever! We are very gullible here at Slashdot, and we all clicked on those links to see your lovely Hamster Case and EZ Bake oven. So, we humbly admit that you got the better of us toda...
...wait...
... we all clicked it?? The millions upon millions of us?!? Ummmm, you did host these pages and pictures on a different webserver than the one you use for commercial purposes, didn't you? You know, the one you use to sell stuff? Otherwise, your just obliterated your own...
Then add Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer to find the odd 15 holes that leaves, install all those updates, disable remote registry editing in Services, install Adaware, add on board sound drivers and DirectX, install SSH and FTP clients, and if you're lucky, you won't have to reinstall for at least a month.
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You forgot the 10 people trying to get a free iPod.
Oh wait ...
I can't believe I missed that, I think I read the wrong article! :) Sorry, wish I could mod myself redundant now. And yes, whoever modded me insightful must have been reading the wrong one too :) Apologies.
Try searching for something in Google and compare the results to A9. They're identical ... down to the same order. Anyone else think A9 is just diverting requests to Google and reformatting the results?
Nice, so Google does all the work, needs all the storage space, algorithms, and effort, then A9 fudges the results and displays them as its own, while sticking in Amazon plugs all over the place. This isn't A9 vs Google, this is Google vs Google+AmazonAds. Wonder who's gonna win ...
28 million bottles of beer,
You take 9.6 million down,
Pass them around,
6.9 million bottles of beer on the wall.
... pause ...
... starts Calculator.
1. Spread space dust over the Utah desert. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't realize the inane and mindless act of driving bored you so much. In that case, by all means, drivel away on your phone while hurtling your car erratically at over 100km/h. We don't mind. And hey, if you injure or kill us cause you're not paying attention and focused, we don't mind that either ... after all, it's not like we have any friends who'd miss us, right?
Maybe they know that the Nazis are dead, the Commies are allies, and that terrorism has existed since the beginning of time? Oh, and they're not invading other countries.
Only reason they need itty-bitty knives at all is to cut holes out of itty-bitty cheese. :)
Exactly. And I love how I get modded as flamebait for saying the same thing. The greatest bit is that not only are the facts he's basing his opinion on false, his conclusions don't even follow from said "facts". And yet it's front page /. news.
Makes you wish you can mod stories themselves.
Is this "news for nerds" or "gossip from idiots"? There's no word-identification for logins. And Gmail notifier is made by Google, it's not even third-party! Can you stop posting crap before you RTFA? Oh wait, there wasn't even an article this time. Sigh.
With a naive calculation, 90mph * 2.25h / 10g = 20.25mpg. That's about what an SUV gets, maybe less. On the other hand, it's diesel and diesel cars can easily push 40 to 50mpg. Someone remind me why people in the States drive massive petrol SUVs instead of little diesel or Smart cars?
Whether you're discussing airport security, piracy, gun control, patents, drunk driving, or whatever, it's all the same problem. The laws in the States are written based on special interest lobbying and money, and common sense plays no part of it. As a result, people's rights are being eroded and any freedom this country once stood for is nowhere to be seen.
If common sense were at play in law making, would a handicapped elderly person be subject to such disrespect for supposedly threatening the lives of others? Would a recording company make millions while its artist makes pennies, and still cry foul? Would people be entitled to carry objects whose sole purpose is to kill people? Would a developer be sued for implementing prior art for a patent that should never have been issued? Would the speed limit be artificially and dangerously low? Would there even need to be a safety belt law? Would it be illegal to commit suicide?
What exactly are we free to do? To vote? Given the electoral college, a Republican's vote in CA or a Democrat's vote in VA isn't worth anything. To speak freely? You can't even say "boob" on the radio. To work and pay taxes, so our tax money can go to starting ill motivated wars instead of increasing literacy?
There are plenty of better run democracies abroad. But the media keeps reminding us that the States is the pinnacle of freedom. And so we put up with stupid laws thinking that there aren't better alternatives. Keep that in mind in November.
And of course, they're running Linux.
In Soviet London, the gap minds you, apparently.
Up to 7 years in jail. $16 million dollars poorer. Now if only one of his *ahem* satisfied customers is his cell mate ... :)
They have definitely produced one. It's sitting in the Bugatti showroom on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. Quite amusing actually. Normally happy families are torn apart as the wives and daughters run off to gaze in the haute couture windows, while the guys stand there with their faces plastered to the glass.
That's alright, I forgot to water it anyway.
Umm, Linux has nothing to do with this, nor does competence, and what ideologocial reasons are you talking about? The reason for people to switch an IM client isn't about ideology: it's about usefulness, practicality, robustness, security. If something is visibly better and doesn't have a learning curve, people will switch. How many people still use ICQ?
Gaim meets those requirements (better than having two or three clients open, no bothersome ads or popups [tried MSN lately?], less clutter, etc). Firefox and Thunderbird also meet those requirements (tabbed browsing, integrated search, no security updates, clean interfaces). Most of all, all three are extremely simple to install and do not have a learning curve.
As an example, take AIM file transfers, plagued by firewalls and NATs because of bad design. If a Gaim client is talking to an AOL AIM client, and a file transfer can't happen because the AIM protocol's fucked up, that's fine, nothing can really be done about it. But when two people are using Gaim, they can't exchange files because the AIM protocol doesn't work right? How retarded! Why shouldn't there be another protocol supported by Gaim that allows the tranfer to go through? This is why we need open standardized protocols that work ... not because of ideology, but because of such effects that come hand in hand with using proprietary ones.
The voice and video chat branch is a good thing, it will help Gaim stay competitive with MSN. But I think Gaim needs an open alternative as a fallback.
I love Gaim, converted many friends to it who like the tabbed windows, lack of ads, clean buddy list, account manager, etc. Gaim's moving forward ... but our mentality is stagnant and rotting. It's the same logic I posted here.
Yes, Gaim will benefit from video and chat support. But does that give us any more options? No. The second these proprietary protocols change, we're shit out of luck as usual. In fact, I recently talked to a policy decision making level employee at AOL. She told me that during those AIM protocol blockouts which were breaking Trillian, Gaim, and Jabber, AOL made a list of 27 possible changes to their protocol which would retain their client compatibility but break competing clients. And they enjoyed applying them.
The point is Gaim is in a strategic position as an open source/free client that's gaining popularity. A user can retain compatibility with his friends on proprietary protocols, while use an open source protocol amongst Gaim clients. If these protocols can provide equivalent functionality to their proprietary equivalents, Gaim has the ability to seamlessly migrate people.
That's why I think this isn't the right way to go about things. Instead of trying to bring proprietary video and chat protocols to Gaim, they should try to bring/write equivalent open source protocols.
Progress isn't inevitable ... let's not make it impossible.
Whoever thought AOL would give us so many hours of amusement?
Two words. War parking.
That's all very amusing, but my current job has me developing sensor network code. The current wonderful generation of sensor nodes has 4KB of data space and 128KB of program memory. The first generation (in which we included crypto, multihop routing, sensing, data forwarding, revocation, target detection and the bloody operating system) fit in 1KB of data memory and 16KB of code memory.
Lovely!
Dear ThinkGeek,
Your little ploy was rather clever! We are very gullible here at Slashdot, and we all clicked on those links to see your lovely Hamster Case and EZ Bake oven. So, we humbly admit that you got the better of us toda...
...wait...
... we all clicked it?? The millions upon millions of us?!? Ummmm, you did host these pages and pictures on a different webserver than the one you use for commercial purposes, didn't you? You know, the one you use to sell stuff? Otherwise, your just obliterated your own ...
You idiots
Love, Slashdot
Then add Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer to find the odd 15 holes that leaves, install all those updates, disable remote registry editing in Services, install Adaware, add on board sound drivers and DirectX, install SSH and FTP clients, and if you're lucky, you won't have to reinstall for at least a month.