http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/
Good stuff from an very intelligent guy. A National Guardsman who has served in Iraq discussing both the war and media bias.
How I wish that I were unscrupulous enough to come up with such an idea.
This system would be equivalent to: if Slashdot moderation were geared towards highly rating those posts that advertised for their sponsors...
Yeah, but we all know that "knowledge" aiding in deciding which beer to buy is more important than any scientific gains.:)
Another point I missed: so it doesn't work at all during the day? And at night people are generally inside, watching TV? Given the relative expense between a space ad and tv ad...
Yeah, this seems unlikely to be a real concern, luckily.
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"People would be able to see writing in the skies from the Earth no worse than they see the stars," he said.
I know I can barely see the stars at all in the city. Is this only going to work to advertise to rural areas?
Absolutely correct. Just because Google uses the PageRank algorithm doesn't mean they through away the rest of what is typically used to determine relevance in a search engine.
TF*IDF is the basic concept. TF=term frequency, i.e. the number of times the term shows up in the document (you most likely will want to normalize this w.r.t. the size of the document. IDF=inverse document frequency, i.e. the inverse of how many documents in the collection contain that term.
Web and design would have low IDFs, and Calgary a high IDF, meaning that the 0 for TF for web and design don't necessarilly matter.
This is why boolean searches (though difficult to implement efficiently) are often supported. If you didn't want the Calgary Flames webpage, you should search for Calgary AND web AND design.
I think you're rant was a bit misguided. The Mozilla Foundation is moving towards the less bloated Firebird. Also notice that mouse gestures in Mozilla/Firebird are an extension. They are not part of Mozilla; they are a third-party add on.
For good reason, too. I used Mouse Gestures in Opera for a while, and thought they were cool at first. But eventually I realized that they took longer than other available shortcuts. Plus were unreliable (i.e. sometimes you did some other gesture you didn't intend, or you had to try multiple times to get the gesture to take).
I blame that crappy game Black and White for the fascination with Mouse Gestures. At least the one's in browser's aren't quite THAT complex yet...
What if they prefer to have it untrademarked, as they don't believe such a term should be able to be trademarked.
Just as we (all the slashdotters opposed to software patents) don't advocate applying for your own patent as the method to show prior art.
The university isn't making a trademark claim. Redhat is, which is going to prevent them from using a name that they've been using for quite some time. The Fedora Info project appears to be ok with Redhat using the name "Fedora", but they're not ok with Redhat trademarking it, as that would interfere with their continued use of the name Fedora.
All clear?
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http://iraqnow.blogspot.com/ Good stuff from an very intelligent guy. A National Guardsman who has served in Iraq discussing both the war and media bias.
Well, then hopefully the new default Swing Look and Feel of 1.5 betas will still be around for 1.5 final, and the bad memories will go away.
How I wish that I were unscrupulous enough to come up with such an idea. This system would be equivalent to: if Slashdot moderation were geared towards highly rating those posts that advertised for their sponsors...
Another point I missed: so it doesn't work at all during the day? And at night people are generally inside, watching TV? Given the relative expense between a space ad and tv ad...
Yeah, this seems unlikely to be a real concern, luckily.
I know I can barely see the stars at all in the city. Is this only going to work to advertise to rural areas?
That doesn't at all explain the drastic increase from Java 1.3 to 1.4.
Absolutely correct. Just because Google uses the PageRank algorithm doesn't mean they through away the rest of what is typically used to determine relevance in a search engine. TF*IDF is the basic concept. TF=term frequency, i.e. the number of times the term shows up in the document (you most likely will want to normalize this w.r.t. the size of the document. IDF=inverse document frequency, i.e. the inverse of how many documents in the collection contain that term. Web and design would have low IDFs, and Calgary a high IDF, meaning that the 0 for TF for web and design don't necessarilly matter. This is why boolean searches (though difficult to implement efficiently) are often supported. If you didn't want the Calgary Flames webpage, you should search for Calgary AND web AND design.
I think you're rant was a bit misguided. The Mozilla Foundation is moving towards the less bloated Firebird. Also notice that mouse gestures in Mozilla/Firebird are an extension. They are not part of Mozilla; they are a third-party add on. For good reason, too. I used Mouse Gestures in Opera for a while, and thought they were cool at first. But eventually I realized that they took longer than other available shortcuts. Plus were unreliable (i.e. sometimes you did some other gesture you didn't intend, or you had to try multiple times to get the gesture to take). I blame that crappy game Black and White for the fascination with Mouse Gestures. At least the one's in browser's aren't quite THAT complex yet...
What if they prefer to have it untrademarked, as they don't believe such a term should be able to be trademarked. Just as we (all the slashdotters opposed to software patents) don't advocate applying for your own patent as the method to show prior art.
The university isn't making a trademark claim. Redhat is, which is going to prevent them from using a name that they've been using for quite some time. The Fedora Info project appears to be ok with Redhat using the name "Fedora", but they're not ok with Redhat trademarking it, as that would interfere with their continued use of the name Fedora. All clear?
Yes. Let's model the war on spam after the war on drugs. After all, that's just been superbly successful.