When can I have that in the url bar like mozilla used to be? I hate the separate search widget in firefox. Now I have to hava google bookmark with a shortcut key and I type "g keyword" to search google.
We need a bookmark with a shortcut key and google suggest.
I hate to feed trolls, but as a JavaScript developer, I have to take issue with somebody that wants to beat me sensless.
Some little JavaScript projects I have done:
Tic-Tac-Toe - Responsive, looks good, has AI, works in a web browser. The alternatives would be CGI or Flash. I've played CGI tic-tac-toe and it is too slow. Flash seems like overkill
Scientific Calculator - The bread and butter of Javascript, perform calculations in a web page. I tend to like this calculator better than the Windows calculator because of the free form text entry
Currency Exchange Rate Conversion Calculator - Again the alternative is CGI but again it is slow. Plus, do you want to send your financial data (amounts you are converting) to some random website? This keeps all your data on the client side.
At work we are working on page that shows new data as it is available. Sure you can refresh the page and see the latest, but a bit of javscript to pull new data off the server is both easier for most users and saves bandwidth because it can get just the stuff that is changed and put it into the page in the appropriate place.
I grant that javascript is often misused and I fully support your desire for a whitelist. Thankfully, there is a noscript tag so I can tell people like you exactly what you are missing and you will consider adding my page to your whitelist. But please don't beat me!
I read that as(s): For some reason I thought that said 'scrotum protection'. I always did say anti-piracy measures were a load of buttocks.
I hope MSN improves and people switch over
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I'm increasingly of the option, that while Google is great, they hold too much market share in the search space. Sure they say they aren't evil, but they need something to keep them that way. Something like the fear that all their users are going to jump to a competitor at the first sign of evility.
It would certainly be worse if Microsoft held the 90% marketshare currently held by Google. I certainly don't want that. Here is what I'm hoping:
MSN improves and captures about 20% of search
Yahoo improves and captures about 20% of search
Overture improves and captures about 20% of search
Other competitors capture a combined 20% of search
Google retains the remaining 20% of search
With everything on that list plus or minus ten percent.
Having one company dominate search is bad for several reasons:
They have censorship power
They have unprecedented power to track users and gather data on them
It is a single point of failure for a needed service on the internet
Potention to become a monopoly that is able to squeeze the profit margins from small businesses that rely on traffic from search engines
In general it is good for consumers of all sorts to have choice. Especially when all the choices are good.
There a bunch of signs that Google's deathgrip on search is slipping:
MSN and Yahoo have been crawling the internet just as much as Google in the past 9 months. Their indexes are likely to be just as comprehensive
MSN dropped "pay for placement" programs indicating they are willing to become consumer friendly for a larger share of the market
Google's IPO seems to have been done well, but at the same time started the alarm bells for folks about Google's impartiality
John Walker is growing to be one of my heros and all together favorite nerds. From the "Hacker's Diet" to the one off script, his web site is an ecclectic geek paradise.
I only hope that someday my website will contain even half as much junk.
By setting expectations of the stock price so high they limited the number of bids they otherwise would have gotten. I'm sure that they lost out on thousands of people who would have bid in the $80-$110 range but thought "I'll never get it at that price."
You know their Dutch auction was a total flop: The price was only about 2/3 what they wanted. That price was after cutting the number shares available way back. That means the 23 millionth bid was way way to low, or possibly they didn't have enough bids at all. If they had released all of the planned shares the price probably would have been $50 a share or even less.
Doesn't matter too much. Even at $85 a share the market cap is far to high to be a good buy in my portfolio.
The fact that there is such a long list of things under a single fix is the biggest reason to bash them. The whole concept of a service pack is insane. With any other operating system you likely would be able to download the fixes for at least each "category" separatly.
With several smaller upgrades you get a lot more choice and control. Companies would have an easier time blessing the upgrade that works for them.
There is something decidedly non-communist about open source though: the more you give, the more you can expect back.
With goods and services distributed under communism, you had to give it away and you got only as much in return as was your share.
With open source software, the more you write, the more people use it, and the more people then decide to use it as the basis for other software and that software has to be free.
The expectation from developers such as myself of a return of investment is about as capitalist as it gets.
Anybody have any information on where the port that these things plugs into is located? It sounds pretty kewl to be able plug into your car and get lots of info. The article says that all cars since 1996 have this ability.
The only picure I could find for the port is here. It also has infromation about the cable and computer software. Unfortunately their photo of the port itself is a bit small and fuzzy.
Advertisers don't care about clicks. They care about conversions. Advertisers want people to come to their site and then open the wallet. A conversion is somebody that came to the site and then bought something. Advertisers measure the success of the campain by the net profit. That means they track how many people converted and then figure out how much a click is worth to them statistically. If a campaign was sucessful, they want to continue the campaign. In the best case for Google, they want to expand the campaign or would be willing to pay more for the campaign.
While it might be in Google's short term interest to have fraudulent clicks, it is not in their long term interest. They will lose advertisers who have to pay for fake clicks because the advertisers are tracking it.
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Its not quite that close to the computer, at least with the provider I have. 1TouchTone.com sent me a black box that connects my phone to the WAN, but it doesn't have any configuration on it directly.
Voicemail is all handled upstream by the provider. This is good because you will get voicemail even when not connected to the internet. If I wanted to delete voicemail without seeing them it would simply be an email filter. However, my phone has the flashing light that I have new voicemail and the only way to turn that off is to listen to the voicemail over the phone by calling 123 and entering my password.
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My VCR is ferocious.;-)
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According to the forums, if I had wired ethernet I would be fine. Just wireless that is a problem. Do you use wireless?
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That is partially true. A TiVo 2 with a recent firmware will work without a phone line if you have a wired ethernet connection. If you buy a TiVo 2 that has been sitting on the shelf for 8 months and has old firmware, or you are hoping to get it to work over wireless you in the outhouse without noseplugs.
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I recently moved to a new town. I made an appointment with Comcast to install the works: broadband, cable, phone.
The guy came, and my internet and cable were fine. But I forgot to check for a dialtone before he left. It (of course) didn't work. Turns out they don't offer phone service in my area but hadn't informed me of the fact, or the fact they had cancelled my order for it. Anyway, no phone line and I'm sitting here with my TiVo 2.
Ok, no problem, I'll go get a wireless card and hook it up to my network. Done. No problem. Its downloading guides but it still thinks I live in the next town and the guide is the wrong one.
Ok, no problem, I call my friend who work for TiVo. He says I need to do a system reset. A system reset to change my service? A system reset.
Ok, no problem, I do a system reset. It starts asking me for my dialing options. Crap, it was just on the internet. Why is it asking for this now? I can't get it to work. I call up my friend at TiVo and he says they do the initial TiVo setup over the internet all the time with the latest firmware version (and I should have that version). However, they use wired ethernet. It might make a difference. He then told me that he was tired of answering my stupid questions and if I had any more I should read the bloody TiVo forums.
Problem - the forums say I'm screwed. My options are to buy ay wired usb etheret for my TiVo, or go door to with my TiVo under my arm and find a neighbor who will take pity on me. I don't know the neighbors. Crap.
So an hour later I'm in the living room of the 80 year old woman next door. I hook my TiVo into her VCR and spend about half an hour trying to figure out how to get the picture through. Turns out it needs a tape in the VCR. Ok. Picture. Great. Just plug it into the phone and we're good to go. But wait. No jack. Crap. Her phone is 50 years old and hard wired into the house.
An hour later I'm at some other neighbors with my TiVo, and my own VCR trying to fend off their cat, while my TiVo goes through its hour of setup. Whew. Finally.
I get it home and it works with my wireless network. Great.
Still have to get a phone though. Maybe VoIP is right for me? I find 1TouchTone.com and order it. $15 a month. Not bad. It comes, I plug the box into my router, and the phone into the box. It works! I go rip the phone companies wires off the outside of my house, and plug the phone box into a nearby phone jack. All the phones in my house get dial tone. Sweet.
I've really gotten addicted to the voicemail features. I get emails saying that I have a new voicemail. I get SMS saying I have new voicemail. The light on my phone blinks saying I have new voicemail. The email has an attachment with the wav file of my voicemail.
The site finder stuff was significantly different than squatter sites:
The spell checker seemed to do the right thing and made reasonable suggestion for what you might have meant. The squatter services are usually just the advertisements without the useful "did you mean" feature
You have the option of buying any domain on site finder as opposed to the squatters who have already bought the domains and won't sell them to you for a reasonable price.
As a webmaster, I actually liked site finder because it allowed me to actually know what my users were mistyping to find me. I was able to purchase a few domains that I otherwise would not have known about.
Sitefinder did break my link checker and there is no guarantee that the spell check feature would be maintained on sitefinder. So in the end I think it is better gone. However, it is certainly not as bad as squatters that put ads on a domain.
Anybody with a large buy order at $5 would make the stock exhibit this behaviour. If there is somebody out there that wants it at that price, nobody is going to sell it any lower.
According to this graph there are some periods at which it fell to $5 but no further, but then eventually it fell to $4.95 or so. Presumably after a large buy order at $5 had been filled.
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Linear interpolation on the first pass (for speed), and bicubic on the second pass because it looks great.
Resized images look horrible in firefox today. All sorts of jaggies because firefox always uses linear interpolation.
We need a bookmark with a shortcut key and google suggest.
Some little JavaScript projects I have done:
- Tic-Tac-Toe - Responsive, looks good, has AI, works in a web browser. The alternatives would be CGI or Flash. I've played CGI tic-tac-toe and it is too slow. Flash seems like overkill
- Scientific Calculator - The bread and butter of Javascript, perform calculations in a web page. I tend to like this calculator better than the Windows calculator because of the free form text entry
- Currency Exchange Rate Conversion Calculator - Again the alternative is CGI but again it is slow. Plus, do you want to send your financial data (amounts you are converting) to some random website? This keeps all your data on the client side.
- At work we are working on page that shows new data as it is available. Sure you can refresh the page and see the latest, but a bit of javscript to pull new data off the server is both easier for most users and saves bandwidth because it can get just the stuff that is changed and put it into the page in the appropriate place.
I grant that javascript is often misused and I fully support your desire for a whitelist. Thankfully, there is a noscript tag so I can tell people like you exactly what you are missing and you will consider adding my page to your whitelist. But please don't beat me!I read that as(s):
For some reason I thought that said 'scrotum protection'. I always did say anti-piracy measures were a load of buttocks.
It would certainly be worse if Microsoft held the 90% marketshare currently held by Google. I certainly don't want that. Here is what I'm hoping:
- MSN improves and captures about 20% of search
- Yahoo improves and captures about 20% of search
- Overture improves and captures about 20% of search
- Other competitors capture a combined 20% of search
- Google retains the remaining 20% of search
With everything on that list plus or minus ten percent.Having one company dominate search is bad for several reasons:
- They have censorship power
- They have unprecedented power to track users and gather data on them
- It is a single point of failure for a needed service on the internet
- Potention to become a monopoly that is able to squeeze the profit margins from small businesses that rely on traffic from search engines
In general it is good for consumers of all sorts to have choice. Especially when all the choices are good.There a bunch of signs that Google's deathgrip on search is slipping:
Get your early warnings here:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification
Another news story about it:
Part of the title was covered. It was:
Cooking for Foreigners
I only hope that someday my website will contain even half as much junk.
I have an infestation of those pesky worms.
A dragon could also be a worm.
You know their Dutch auction was a total flop: The price was only about 2/3 what they wanted. That price was after cutting the number shares available way back. That means the 23 millionth bid was way way to low, or possibly they didn't have enough bids at all. If they had released all of the planned shares the price probably would have been $50 a share or even less.
Doesn't matter too much. Even at $85 a share the market cap is far to high to be a good buy in my portfolio.
With several smaller upgrades you get a lot more choice and control. Companies would have an easier time blessing the upgrade that works for them.
With goods and services distributed under communism, you had to give it away and you got only as much in return as was your share.
With open source software, the more you write, the more people use it, and the more people then decide to use it as the basis for other software and that software has to be free.
The expectation from developers such as myself of a return of investment is about as capitalist as it gets.
The only picure I could find for the port is here. It also has infromation about the cable and computer software. Unfortunately their photo of the port itself is a bit small and fuzzy.
Froogle Search: Google Stock
Darn search engines that don't work well.
3 more Moore cycles is $CURRENTSPEC*2^3 == $CURRENTSPEC*8
Google would profit from but doesn't want fraud.
Advertisers don't care about clicks. They care about conversions. Advertisers want people to come to their site and then open the wallet. A conversion is somebody that came to the site and then bought something. Advertisers measure the success of the campain by the net profit. That means they track how many people converted and then figure out how much a click is worth to them statistically. If a campaign was sucessful, they want to continue the campaign. In the best case for Google, they want to expand the campaign or would be willing to pay more for the campaign.
While it might be in Google's short term interest to have fraudulent clicks, it is not in their long term interest. They will lose advertisers who have to pay for fake clicks because the advertisers are tracking it.
Voicemail is all handled upstream by the provider. This is good because you will get voicemail even when not connected to the internet. If I wanted to delete voicemail without seeing them it would simply be an email filter. However, my phone has the flashing light that I have new voicemail and the only way to turn that off is to listen to the voicemail over the phone by calling 123 and entering my password.
My VCR is ferocious. ;-)
According to the forums, if I had wired ethernet I would be fine. Just wireless that is a problem. Do you use wireless?
That is partially true. A TiVo 2 with a recent firmware will work without a phone line if you have a wired ethernet connection. If you buy a TiVo 2 that has been sitting on the shelf for 8 months and has old firmware, or you are hoping to get it to work over wireless you in the outhouse without noseplugs.
The guy came, and my internet and cable were fine. But I forgot to check for a dialtone before he left. It (of course) didn't work. Turns out they don't offer phone service in my area but hadn't informed me of the fact, or the fact they had cancelled my order for it. Anyway, no phone line and I'm sitting here with my TiVo 2.
Ok, no problem, I'll go get a wireless card and hook it up to my network. Done. No problem. Its downloading guides but it still thinks I live in the next town and the guide is the wrong one.
Ok, no problem, I call my friend who work for TiVo. He says I need to do a system reset. A system reset to change my service? A system reset.
Ok, no problem, I do a system reset. It starts asking me for my dialing options. Crap, it was just on the internet. Why is it asking for this now? I can't get it to work. I call up my friend at TiVo and he says they do the initial TiVo setup over the internet all the time with the latest firmware version (and I should have that version). However, they use wired ethernet. It might make a difference. He then told me that he was tired of answering my stupid questions and if I had any more I should read the bloody TiVo forums.
Problem - the forums say I'm screwed. My options are to buy ay wired usb etheret for my TiVo, or go door to with my TiVo under my arm and find a neighbor who will take pity on me. I don't know the neighbors. Crap.
So an hour later I'm in the living room of the 80 year old woman next door. I hook my TiVo into her VCR and spend about half an hour trying to figure out how to get the picture through. Turns out it needs a tape in the VCR. Ok. Picture. Great. Just plug it into the phone and we're good to go. But wait. No jack. Crap. Her phone is 50 years old and hard wired into the house.
An hour later I'm at some other neighbors with my TiVo, and my own VCR trying to fend off their cat, while my TiVo goes through its hour of setup. Whew. Finally.
I get it home and it works with my wireless network. Great.
Still have to get a phone though. Maybe VoIP is right for me? I find 1TouchTone.com and order it. $15 a month. Not bad. It comes, I plug the box into my router, and the phone into the box. It works! I go rip the phone companies wires off the outside of my house, and plug the phone box into a nearby phone jack. All the phones in my house get dial tone. Sweet.
I've really gotten addicted to the voicemail features. I get emails saying that I have a new voicemail. I get SMS saying I have new voicemail. The light on my phone blinks saying I have new voicemail. The email has an attachment with the wav file of my voicemail.
Comcast hasn't complained - yet.
The site finder stuff was significantly different than squatter sites:
As a webmaster, I actually liked site finder because it allowed me to actually know what my users were mistyping to find me. I was able to purchase a few domains that I otherwise would not have known about.
Sitefinder did break my link checker and there is no guarantee that the spell check feature would be maintained on sitefinder. So in the end I think it is better gone. However, it is certainly not as bad as squatters that put ads on a domain.
According to this graph there are some periods at which it fell to $5 but no further, but then eventually it fell to $4.95 or so. Presumably after a large buy order at $5 had been filled.