The interesting fact is that competing engines such as Vivisimo, Teoma, AllTheWeb and of course Yahoo are basically as good as Google.
Vivisimo in particular often works better than Google (for me, it may not for you). Many times I failed to find what I wanted because Google returned results (several pages) which are somewhat relevant, but not what a search for these multiple keywords should return. Vivisimo, on the other hand, usually had 100% relevant results near the top.
Intelligent people don't truly understand how retarded the majority is. Even though in everyday life they appear human, by the standards of intelligence and knowledge they are closer to chimps and gorillas. They can be programmers, teachers, politicians, but they are utterly ignorant and do not even realise it. 99% of all people are stupid, 90% are almost totally retarded. 50% are so retarded, you'd have a heart attack if you could look inside their brain.
Never mind that the law has its own counterpart in Pakistan; you can't avoid breaking the law on this one. There is simple solution - make the colour of Kashmir change according to the Location settings in Windows. When the computer is in India, make Kashmir belong to it, ditto for Pakistan.
Interestingly, I believe the problem was with the Time Zones map, which didn't display the national boundaries per se. So even though it may be questionable whether Kashmir belongs to India or to Pakistan, I think the issue of what time doe they use there is not so controversial. You can just come to Kashmir and look at the clock - it's either Indian time or Pakistanian. Or do they actually use both time zones there?:)
I believe there must be quite a few games with Latin or Latin-like enchantements. Basically whenever you are fighting forces of evil it makes sense to insert some Latin.
I just hate those fuckers people in some retarded countries going ballistic over obviously innocent errors. I don't fucking care whether there is a queen in Uruguay or whatever some retarded (that's redundant, I know) Muslims believe.
I am Russian and I don't explode every time I see Russia portrayed in movies or on TV as lotsa Siberia snow, old babushka going somewhere, some alcoholics with vodka. Not to mention fur hats on everyone and bears. So what? Those who make such mistakes just show their ignorance. Big fucking deal.
I say that those retards who didn't learn the most important lesson of all (nobody gives a fuck about your country or you, especially when making fighting games) should not be let into the global society.
Hasn't anyone noticed that consoles *always* require you to put the CD in the drive to play the game? When you play on a console, you need to lift your sorry ass from your computer chair, go to the living room, turn on the TV, dig the controllers from under the table, etc. Inserting a disc into the console does not complicate things much more. With PC games all I need to do is move the mouse 2 cm and click. If I need to get up, open the drawer, find the box, open the box, find the CD, remove the music, backup or some other CD from the drive, find a box for it, insert the game CD, (I skip the troubles of unloading/uninstalling virtual CD software here and other crap) wait for the protection to load (as much as a minute), and only then I can play. You see now?
Games need copy protection so developers can get paid to write them. That's bullshit. Even if copy-protection is outlawed tomorrow, the industry is not going away. Many people will pay for the games they like even if they can easily pirate them. I am more than happy to pay for great products, even though a pirated copy is easy to obtain. Copy protection may help SOME of the games sell more copies, but it is far from being necessary.
As for a copy protection scheme I would be happy to use...I propose they lock the game to your PGP key Whatever. Personally I am not happy to use any copy protection. Especially not the DRM crap you are so happy to push on everyone.
He makes excellent points. What's interesting is that we already have examples of piracy being used as an excuse for less-than-stellar performance by RIAA and MPAA. Of course, that doesn't prove that game publishers are lying, but makes claims that PC games are dying because of piracy very suspicious, nevertheless.
The name is "guerilla", "partisan" or "rational person". It makes sense to hide in a mosque when you face the aggressor who is obviously more powerful. In this situation pretty much everything goes. War is hell. Iraqi defenders can not be called terrorists simply because the attack the American [invaders].
Gee, you're smart. Here is news - most people who use PowerPoint are not so smart. Give them a market and place them next to the whiteboard and they will either have a heart attack from their inability to communicate or bore the audience to death with it.
PowerPoint can be a crutch to mediocre people, without it they would in many cases be unable to explain that sales are up 15%. PowerPoint helps them do it and even if some of them overdo animations, the benefits still outweight that.
Personally I find PowerPoint indespensible in several cases. First, it was great to design presentations you give to your clients/partners/investors, regardless of whether you use a projector or a printed copy. A printed copy is also extremely useful as a tangible reminder to the audience about the content (together with their written notes). Second, PowerPoint is a great lecturing tool - much better than a white (or green) board, because you don't waste 50% of the time writing something and because many students fail to pay attention if you only attack their hearing.:) Yes, PP can be abused, but it can be used effectively too.
As for the accelerated graphics, this is great, no doubt about it. There is no reason why I wouldn't want to make slides as good as those shown by Bill Gates and no reason why a modern PC should not be able to render them. Of course, this particular product probably is not that good overall - they appear to want to make you paying through the nose for the design of new templates and it requires latest Microsoft DRM (with the.Net framework managed code). But the idea itself is great.
Yes, Mr. Troll, I am familiar with that term - you are an excellent illustration if ever was one. There is nothing about a response based on facts. USSR was a totalitarian country. There were no political freedoms. Education and upbringing was a very important priority. People had access to art, culture, science and education. These are all facts.
Oh, come on. I lived in Soviet Union and back then noone could deny everything that was done to provide access to education, physical education, art and culture in general. You may have seen it as a "worst police state imaginable", but it wasn't. There was political control exercised through a very extensive network of KGB agents, but it doesn't contradict what I said earlier. It was perceived that the Soviet Union needed people who would be creative, selfless, brave, industrious, etc., and many steps were done to accomplish it, such as pioneer organisation (an improved version of scouts) and the houses/palaces of culture everywhere. Of course, the conflicting demands placed on the system greatly hindered it, but you shouldn't blindly deny the amazing things that were accomplished.
Nope. Socialism is about saying that if you take 100$ from Bill Gates and give it to some poor shmuck, the net effect (for obvious reasons - the utility of the 100$ for Gates is much less than for the poor guy) is a benefit to society. Socialism doesn't require taking everything from the rich and giving it to the poor, but instead taking as much as will result in the overall improvement.
So by definition the distribution system of socialism is more fair than capitalistic one. The only potential problem is whether the economy will be as efficient. Here are two of the possible answers: 1) Bill Gates is unlikely to work worse if you cut his compensation 10 times. 2) Many people (most notable Europeans) would rather have a bit less economic wealth, but a fair society that cares about each individual well-being than a slightly richer society with a lot of poverty.
from visiting Russia, tha the soviet architects missed this fundamental point too. Not really. It's just that people turned out to be too narrow-minded and materialistic (in the bad sense of the word). The Code of the Communism Builder was a wonderful vision for creating a new kind of man, who had everything good you describe ( curiousity about the world, individual free thought, value for beauty, etc.). The systems of education and culture built in the Soviet Union were nothing short of amazing (in the 1960s). Unfortunately, while European countries progressed (the US too, but it sucked at wide availability), the Soviet Union fell backward, didn't manage to combat the pernicious influence of the West (mainly consumerism) and then collapsed.
It's nice that people are beginning to realise the inevitable social change. As for what that social order will be, I am pretty sure it will be communism. When all work becomes either interesting enough to be done by volunteers or simple enough to be done by machines, it will make sense to move to communism (and the society will do it itself before we get to it). Then, later, as we get AI and nanotechnologies, capitalism will stop making any sense (since capital will be abundant) and the transition to communism will be inevitable. Of course, communism will not last long, as the Singularity may get rid of society completely.
The Internet is a network we all love, but the internet is the network, plus the culture, plus the companies, plus the traditions, plus the lifestyle, etc., etc.
So when talking about the network, we should capitalize: "DNS system is the cornerstone of the Internet". When talking about everything else, we shouldn't: "Kids on the internet have lousy spelling."
It looks like the BBCs intention is absolutely not to compete with the likes of Real. All they are saying is that the license fees for the existing codecs do not scale, and that it will be cheaper from them to write their own. There is nothing in the BBC's remit that requires them to spend the license-payer's money on overpriced software they can more cheaply write themselves.
You never know. The problem is that if BBC said they want to make an excellent open-source codec that would drive Real out of business, there will be an uproar in the UK and people would argue that BBC should not be in the business of writing codecs - it's not in their charter. So even if that's their plan, they will deny it.
If movie companies are scared of MS, they should go with open standards. Write some good DRM standards, make them free (don't try to charge anyone for using) agree on them with digital equipment manufacturers, TV networks and record labels. Support implementation of DRM in Linux, MacOS, etc. Then they would be able to use their collective muscle to force MS to support it in Longhorn. The Windows Media Player will be irrelevant, since in this situation any standard-compliant player will work.
Of course, the great thing is that nobody will do that and we can hope that DRM will mostly fail.:)
The lusers don't care about security, they only care when their computers are slow... or actually they don't even care when their computers are slow, they only care about the computers not working at all!
So if you want to write spyware or viruses, make it efficient, and don't use too much computer resources. Nobody really minds running about a dozen rogue programmes on the PC if they don't prevent their browser and other Internet software from running. In reality, the thing that users don't like is adware, which replaces DNS or some other Internet services and prevents them from reaching their favourite Internet sites (even everywhere, that simply shows popups or replaces text on web pages with advertising is ok).
The problem is there are five categories of computer files. One is the operating system. The second is the installed programs. The third one are the settings. The fourth is the downloaded files, and the fifth are the user-created files.
It's very hard to keep them separate, especially in Windows because the registry contains all the settings. So when you reinstall Windows you lose all the settings, which sucks.
Anyone knows how this figure looks for normal harddrives? Most people don't fill up their harddrives. That's a fact. I doubt people delete lots of files either (unless they are heavy downloaders or just moving stuff around). The only files that are often written, rewritten and deleten are temp files, but a properly designed operating system will use random access memory for temp files.
Actually some people already used a speech interface is vigorous indication is much faster than typing or clicking on keys were on the screen with moss. Of course, the recognition accuracy is not 100%. Yet by 38 good enough for most purposes. This forced to for example, the technology in action.
All mistakes are the responsibility of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version seven. For the record, I am not a native English speaker, and the speech recognition software was trained for a very door marked time.
you'd need to use a wear levelling filesystem, which is somewhat less efficient than a convention filesystem, and that goes some way towards reducing the speed benefits you get from flash devices Well, you can read flash as much as you want. And with writing you won't really care about about the speed.
And I don't think in a desktop system without a swap file ten thousand rewrites is not enough. Heck, most people don't fill up their hard disk drive completely at all, why should they worry about the rewrite limit?
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The interesting fact is that competing engines such as Vivisimo, Teoma, AllTheWeb and of course Yahoo are basically as good as Google.
Vivisimo in particular often works better than Google (for me, it may not for you). Many times I failed to find what I wanted because Google returned results (several pages) which are somewhat relevant, but not what a search for these multiple keywords should return. Vivisimo, on the other hand, usually had 100% relevant results near the top.
Intelligent people don't truly understand how retarded the majority is. Even though in everyday life they appear human, by the standards of intelligence and knowledge they are closer to chimps and gorillas. They can be programmers, teachers, politicians, but they are utterly ignorant and do not even realise it. 99% of all people are stupid, 90% are almost totally retarded. 50% are so retarded, you'd have a heart attack if you could look inside their brain.
Never mind that the law has its own counterpart in Pakistan; you can't avoid breaking the law on this one.
:)
There is simple solution - make the colour of Kashmir change according to the Location settings in Windows. When the computer is in India, make Kashmir belong to it, ditto for Pakistan.
Interestingly, I believe the problem was with the Time Zones map, which didn't display the national boundaries per se. So even though it may be questionable whether Kashmir belongs to India or to Pakistan, I think the issue of what time doe they use there is not so controversial. You can just come to Kashmir and look at the clock - it's either Indian time or Pakistanian. Or do they actually use both time zones there?
And do you realise when do the events in AoE2 take place?
They should have replaced the lyrics for the chants with "Saudi diplomats are retarded" in Arabic.
I believe there must be quite a few games with Latin or Latin-like enchantements. Basically whenever you are fighting forces of evil it makes sense to insert some Latin.
I just hate those fuckers people in some retarded countries going ballistic over obviously innocent errors. I don't fucking care whether there is a queen in Uruguay or whatever some retarded (that's redundant, I know) Muslims believe.
I am Russian and I don't explode every time I see Russia portrayed in movies or on TV as lotsa Siberia snow, old babushka going somewhere, some alcoholics with vodka. Not to mention fur hats on everyone and bears. So what? Those who make such mistakes just show their ignorance. Big fucking deal.
I say that those retards who didn't learn the most important lesson of all (nobody gives a fuck about your country or you, especially when making fighting games) should not be let into the global society.
Hasn't anyone noticed that consoles *always* require you to put the CD in the drive to play the game?
When you play on a console, you need to lift your sorry ass from your computer chair, go to the living room, turn on the TV, dig the controllers from under the table, etc. Inserting a disc into the console does not complicate things much more. With PC games all I need to do is move the mouse 2 cm and click. If I need to get up, open the drawer, find the box, open the box, find the CD, remove the music, backup or some other CD from the drive, find a box for it, insert the game CD, (I skip the troubles of unloading/uninstalling virtual CD software here and other crap) wait for the protection to load (as much as a minute), and only then I can play. You see now?
Games need copy protection so developers can get paid to write them.
That's bullshit. Even if copy-protection is outlawed tomorrow, the industry is not going away. Many people will pay for the games they like even if they can easily pirate them. I am more than happy to pay for great products, even though a pirated copy is easy to obtain. Copy protection may help SOME of the games sell more copies, but it is far from being necessary.
As for a copy protection scheme I would be happy to use...I propose they lock the game to your PGP key
Whatever. Personally I am not happy to use any copy protection. Especially not the DRM crap you are so happy to push on everyone.
He makes excellent points. What's interesting is that we already have examples of piracy being used as an excuse for less-than-stellar performance by RIAA and MPAA. Of course, that doesn't prove that game publishers are lying, but makes claims that PC games are dying because of piracy very suspicious, nevertheless.
The name is "guerilla", "partisan" or "rational person". It makes sense to hide in a mosque when you face the aggressor who is obviously more powerful. In this situation pretty much everything goes. War is hell. Iraqi defenders can not be called terrorists simply because the attack the American [invaders].
Gee, you're smart. Here is news - most people who use PowerPoint are not so smart. Give them a market and place them next to the whiteboard and they will either have a heart attack from their inability to communicate or bore the audience to death with it.
:) Yes, PP can be abused, but it can be used effectively too.
.Net framework managed code). But the idea itself is great.
PowerPoint can be a crutch to mediocre people, without it they would in many cases be unable to explain that sales are up 15%. PowerPoint helps them do it and even if some of them overdo animations, the benefits still outweight that.
Personally I find PowerPoint indespensible in several cases. First, it was great to design presentations you give to your clients/partners/investors, regardless of whether you use a projector or a printed copy. A printed copy is also extremely useful as a tangible reminder to the audience about the content (together with their written notes). Second, PowerPoint is a great lecturing tool - much better than a white (or green) board, because you don't waste 50% of the time writing something and because many students fail to pay attention if you only attack their hearing.
As for the accelerated graphics, this is great, no doubt about it. There is no reason why I wouldn't want to make slides as good as those shown by Bill Gates and no reason why a modern PC should not be able to render them. Of course, this particular product probably is not that good overall - they appear to want to make you paying through the nose for the design of new templates and it requires latest Microsoft DRM (with the
Yes, Mr. Troll, I am familiar with that term - you are an excellent illustration if ever was one. There is nothing about a response based on facts. USSR was a totalitarian country. There were no political freedoms. Education and upbringing was a very important priority. People had access to art, culture, science and education. These are all facts.
Oh, come on. I lived in Soviet Union and back then noone could deny everything that was done to provide access to education, physical education, art and culture in general. You may have seen it as a "worst police state imaginable", but it wasn't. There was political control exercised through a very extensive network of KGB agents, but it doesn't contradict what I said earlier. It was perceived that the Soviet Union needed people who would be creative, selfless, brave, industrious, etc., and many steps were done to accomplish it, such as pioneer organisation (an improved version of scouts) and the houses/palaces of culture everywhere. Of course, the conflicting demands placed on the system greatly hindered it, but you shouldn't blindly deny the amazing things that were accomplished.
But some people dream about work that involves something like designing toilets that clean themselves. :)
Nope. Socialism is about saying that if you take 100$ from Bill Gates and give it to some poor shmuck, the net effect (for obvious reasons - the utility of the 100$ for Gates is much less than for the poor guy) is a benefit to society. Socialism doesn't require taking everything from the rich and giving it to the poor, but instead taking as much as will result in the overall improvement.
So by definition the distribution system of socialism is more fair than capitalistic one. The only potential problem is whether the economy will be as efficient. Here are two of the possible answers:
1) Bill Gates is unlikely to work worse if you cut his compensation 10 times.
2) Many people (most notable Europeans) would rather have a bit less economic wealth, but a fair society that cares about each individual well-being than a slightly richer society with a lot of poverty.
from visiting Russia, tha the soviet architects missed this fundamental point too.
Not really. It's just that people turned out to be too narrow-minded and materialistic (in the bad sense of the word). The Code of the Communism Builder was a wonderful vision for creating a new kind of man, who had everything good you describe ( curiousity about the world, individual free thought, value for beauty, etc.). The systems of education and culture built in the Soviet Union were nothing short of amazing (in the 1960s). Unfortunately, while European countries progressed (the US too, but it sucked at wide availability), the Soviet Union fell backward, didn't manage to combat the pernicious influence of the West (mainly consumerism) and then collapsed.
It's nice that people are beginning to realise the inevitable social change. As for what that social order will be, I am pretty sure it will be communism. When all work becomes either interesting enough to be done by volunteers or simple enough to be done by machines, it will make sense to move to communism (and the society will do it itself before we get to it). Then, later, as we get AI and nanotechnologies, capitalism will stop making any sense (since capital will be abundant) and the transition to communism will be inevitable. Of course, communism will not last long, as the Singularity may get rid of society completely.
The Internet is a network we all love, but the internet is the network, plus the culture, plus the companies, plus the traditions, plus the lifestyle, etc., etc.
So when talking about the network, we should capitalize: "DNS system is the cornerstone of the Internet". When talking about everything else, we shouldn't: "Kids on the internet have lousy spelling."
It looks like the BBCs intention is absolutely not to compete with the likes of Real. All they are saying is that the license fees for the existing codecs do not scale, and that it will be cheaper from them to write their own. There is nothing in the BBC's remit that requires them to spend the license-payer's money on overpriced software they can more cheaply write themselves.
You never know. The problem is that if BBC said they want to make an excellent open-source codec that would drive Real out of business, there will be an uproar in the UK and people would argue that BBC should not be in the business of writing codecs - it's not in their charter. So even if that's their plan, they will deny it.
If movie companies are scared of MS, they should go with open standards. Write some good DRM standards, make them free (don't try to charge anyone for using) agree on them with digital equipment manufacturers, TV networks and record labels. Support implementation of DRM in Linux, MacOS, etc. Then they would be able to use their collective muscle to force MS to support it in Longhorn. The Windows Media Player will be irrelevant, since in this situation any standard-compliant player will work.
:)
Of course, the great thing is that nobody will do that and we can hope that DRM will mostly fail.
The lusers don't care about security, they only care when their computers are slow... or actually they don't even care when their computers are slow, they only care about the computers not working at all!
So if you want to write spyware or viruses, make it efficient, and don't use too much computer resources. Nobody really minds running about a dozen rogue programmes on the PC if they don't prevent their browser and other Internet software from running. In reality, the thing that users don't like is adware, which replaces DNS or some other Internet services and prevents them from reaching their favourite Internet sites (even everywhere, that simply shows popups or replaces text on web pages with advertising is ok).
The problem is there are five categories of computer files. One is the operating system. The second is the installed programs. The third one are the settings. The fourth is the downloaded files, and the fifth are the user-created files.
It's very hard to keep them separate, especially in Windows because the registry contains all the settings. So when you reinstall Windows you lose all the settings, which sucks.
Anyone knows how this figure looks for normal harddrives?
Most people don't fill up their harddrives. That's a fact. I doubt people delete lots of files either (unless they are heavy downloaders or just moving stuff around). The only files that are often written, rewritten and deleten are temp files, but a properly designed operating system will use random access memory for temp files.
Actually some people already used a speech interface is vigorous indication is much faster than typing or clicking on keys were on the screen with moss. Of course, the recognition accuracy is not 100%. Yet by 38 good enough for most purposes. This forced to for example, the technology in action.
All mistakes are the responsibility of Dragon NaturallySpeaking version seven. For the record, I am not a native English speaker, and the speech recognition software was trained for a very door marked time.
you'd need to use a wear levelling filesystem, which is somewhat less efficient than a convention filesystem, and that goes some way towards reducing the speed benefits you get from flash devices
Well, you can read flash as much as you want. And with writing you won't really care about about the speed.
And I don't think in a desktop system without a swap file ten thousand rewrites is not enough. Heck, most people don't fill up their hard disk drive completely at all, why should they worry about the rewrite limit?