Their customers are advertisers. Their product is you and me.
Yeah, but without US, they're nothing. If I prefer to search on Yahoo instead of Google, it makes Google less valuable as a website for advertisers. The best thing for Google to do is to keep ME happy, as that keeps the ADVERTISERS happy. And happy advertisers keep the moolah rolling in...
afaik, that's only SC decisions, right? I don't think UNSC has any power over General Assembly (Wikipedia seems to be backing me up here). I'd have thought that decisions of the Assembly are more like international agreements - everybody doesn't have to sign, but those who sign are bound by international law to stick by their agreements.
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Totally agree. That's the exact reason why, every time I want interesting news on India, I'll check out Google News rather than India's best English newspaper.
I'm still waiting for it, though: after listening for a year or so to people bitching about how much Microsoft sucks - and having the sort of mind which can't help but be impressed by an evil move of Machiavellian proportions - I want to see what happens when Microsoft re-sets its sights, grunts in anger, and hurls its 40b$ mass at the competition. It's bound to happen someday.
I've actually been waiting for about three years now, I think. In which I figured that shifting to Linux was easier for my three year old laptop to bear than the wonky performance caused by antispyware and antiviral tools. In which I drooled over Tiger, impressed not so much by the actual tools themselves (me, I still loves my WindowMaker) but just by the fact that here was something which was trying, in a real direct and impressive way, to try something new in the world of operating systems, something I hadn't really seen from an OS maker since Windows 95 (while Longhorn betas looked like skinned versions of Windows XP). In which I watched in awe as a website became first a simple but powerful e-mail client, then a draggable, moveable map-of-the-world. Again, not tools I actually use very often, but there's something - different. Innovative. Being experimented with more to answer the question of "what-if" than to try and compete with somebody else.
Just now I had a screw up with unmounting a USB drive. In Windows, I'd go looking around to see which programs were using the drive (like it or not, it'd be the sidepanel in Explorer which is telling me drive size while I'm trying to eject it). Here? 'lsof | grep mnt' and I had a list of processes to kill. 'kill 92013'. Done. Just like that.
I'm sure Microsoft had miracles up its sleeve yet. But a lack of miracles - never Microsoft's strong point, they were always the start-from-crap-and-improve-slowly types - makes me less interested every day...
Slashdot Mirror
Casablanca? I thought that was more northern Africa than the mideast ...
You just need to move out of your mom's basement.
Their customers are advertisers. Their product is you and me.
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Yeah, but without US, they're nothing. If I prefer to search on Yahoo instead of Google, it makes Google less valuable as a website for advertisers. The best thing for Google to do is to keep ME happy, as that keeps the ADVERTISERS happy. And happy advertisers keep the moolah rolling in
Except in Nebraska.
Yeah I know ... was just hoping somebody could complete the joke and link to a mirror anyways ... :)
Anybody could be doing that - everybody on the net knows your IP, right?
Can somebody post a mirror?
According to IANA, anyway. Their servers crash because they "open their doors" to 1,000-odd people? Pathetic.
The Sydney Opera House (it's the little white blob north of all that green next to the much more visible Harbour Bridge)
Yeah, but "factette" sounds silly ... (source)
samy is my hero! (it's a great story, check out the technical explanation as well ...)
afaik, that's only SC decisions, right? I don't think UNSC has any power over General Assembly (Wikipedia seems to be backing me up here). I'd have thought that decisions of the Assembly are more like international agreements - everybody doesn't have to sign, but those who sign are bound by international law to stick by their agreements.
Totally agree. That's the exact reason why, every time I want interesting news on India, I'll check out Google News rather than India's best English newspaper.
Perhaps you mean C++0x?
Good words, and well pronounced.
Well, he is trying to get people to try an Apple ...
thank Ghod
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How do you know Ghod? What does he have to do with this? Confused
I'm still waiting for it, though: after listening for a year or so to people bitching about how much Microsoft sucks - and having the sort of mind which can't help but be impressed by an evil move of Machiavellian proportions - I want to see what happens when Microsoft re-sets its sights, grunts in anger, and hurls its 40b$ mass at the competition. It's bound to happen someday.
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I've actually been waiting for about three years now, I think. In which I figured that shifting to Linux was easier for my three year old laptop to bear than the wonky performance caused by antispyware and antiviral tools. In which I drooled over Tiger, impressed not so much by the actual tools themselves (me, I still loves my WindowMaker) but just by the fact that here was something which was trying, in a real direct and impressive way, to try something new in the world of operating systems, something I hadn't really seen from an OS maker since Windows 95 (while Longhorn betas looked like skinned versions of Windows XP). In which I watched in awe as a website became first a simple but powerful e-mail client, then a draggable, moveable map-of-the-world. Again, not tools I actually use very often, but there's something - different. Innovative. Being experimented with more to answer the question of "what-if" than to try and compete with somebody else.
Just now I had a screw up with unmounting a USB drive. In Windows, I'd go looking around to see which programs were using the drive (like it or not, it'd be the sidepanel in Explorer which is telling me drive size while I'm trying to eject it). Here? 'lsof | grep mnt' and I had a list of processes to kill. 'kill 92013'. Done. Just like that.
I'm sure Microsoft had miracles up its sleeve yet. But a lack of miracles - never Microsoft's strong point, they were always the start-from-crap-and-improve-slowly types - makes me less interested every day
Paraball is seen as a cross of several sports...and has a lot of unique aspects too.
Calvinball!!!
If you don't know what Parent means, you can invoke the Wikipedias.
Does that mean it'll contain NEWater?
Fixed link: http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
That's why I'm a cat person.
:P
And thus, the second-oldest flamewar in the history of mankind is brought to Slashdot! Flame on!
Am I the only one who looked at the title and thought: "debug microsoft.com? Who still uses .com files any more?"
Yup, thought so. I suck.
The video is teh funny!