What is it? It's a lab of humans from all over the world (from China to The Netherlands, from Korea to Brasil) They are paid to check search results of Google every day. Most of the employers, called international agents by Google, were recruited through universities all over the world. The aim is to avoid spam, to get the right sites at the top of the listing and to test new features, not shown to the public yet.
SEO employee: Our client listings got kicked from the first page of Google. I don't know how. SEO boss: I know. They changed their methods. SEO employee: Are they using agents? SEO boss: Yes. SEO employee: God damn it. SEO boss: You have to focus. Not everyone is using Google. There are people who still search through MSN and AOL. You can do it. SEO employee: All right. SEO boss: Go.
Hard to say about the bounce nature of the AH. The AH is memoryless. You can't see the historical selling price of an item. You can see the ones that are in the AH, but they are only there for 24 hours before they are returned. Yes, most people look up the price of similar items when they sell theirs, but there is no item history with the AH. Unlike FFXI, where you could see how much the last 10 people paid for the item (regardless of how long ago those past 10 sales were).
I did a search on Google for "Turn down a glass" and didn't find what I was looking for, although I did find a link to the slashdot article when the Challenger space shuttle exploded.
I don't think the byline "Turn down a glass" refers to drinking and driving. If you're at a restaurant where all of the glasses you may use for the evening are there (water, coffee, wine, etc), you turn down a glass (flip it over) to show that you won't be drinking any of it tonight. For example, I would turn my coffee cup over to indicate to the waiter that I'm not interested in having any coffee with my meal.
If someone had a place reserved at the table for them, and they aren't able to make it for some reason, you turn their glasses over to show that they won't be drinking that evening (or rather, they won't be there at all). In this case, the byline indicates that there is a loss of someone close. You were expecting them to show up at the dinner table and they can't make it, so you turn down their glass.
So long as the carrier is good, I don't really care who they are. If you remember, the airline company in 2001 that offered flights to space was PanAm. And they're bankrupt. I think there's some article somewhere about the 'curse' of having their product placed in the movie 2001. All of the companies folded except one. Which I think was IBM.
I agree that the unit commander will want a print out, but the displays are useful. From what I saw in the demo, the display only needs power when it changes what is on the screen. So if it's without power, it'll still have the same map showing.
On a side note, this is the first step to a Global (the cellphone device used in Earth: Final Conflict).
"Why is my net connection down?" "The router crashed." "Can't you reboot it or something." "No, I mean it literally crashed. Some bird flew into it and the sucker fell from the sky. We'll be getting a replacement up in an hour or so."
Sure, they've got plenty of money to stay in business. But the market will punish them for the reduction (and possible slide) in the ammount of revenue from sales. The market is a harsh mistress, and missing the projection for a quarter or having declining revenue will really kill the stock.
You could still allow anonymous postings. If the message (from an anonymous poster) contains the usual '.com', '.net', '.tv', '.whatever', the program sends the "message accepted" response for a regular post, but sends the entire message to the bit bucket. A human will notice it didn't work if they check, but the bot will simply go on to the next site. The major fault with this is that if the bot checks the page, it could get into an endless loop trying to post the url and suck up a lot of bandwidth. Perhaps use a few second delay to prevent the bot from spamming the site?
In reponse to the poster's question of: What would be your choice for middle school classrooms with minimal sys admin?
I'd probably choose Win(insert version here) with the ability to quickly Ghost the hard drive. It's easy to get ahold of a teacher/friend of a teacher/whoever that has some Windows trouble-shooting experience. What can't be fixed gets Ghosted (do those backups to a central machine or a CD-R). Linux may be more secure in a number of ways, but quickly finding someone to fix the problem locally is more difficult.
I just went to the site in IE. A pop-up window states that Windows Media Player Version 9 is required to download music on BuyMusic.com.
They're specifically targetting Windows customers. And all Windows customers have IE. No reason to spend the extra time and money to make sure the site works with Mozilla or Opera (or Lynx or...).
The problem is that he is looking at either PDAs _or_ laptops. What he is really looking for is a subnotebook. Dynamism (moderately pricey import place) has some nice ones.
The model I think you'll be able to interest him in is the Sony U101. http://www.dynamism.com/u101/index.shtml W eighs in at just under 2 pounds and is 7(w) x 5.5(l) x1.3(h) inches. It'll fit into a large pocket. You should be able to find a modem card for the Type II PCMCIA slot.
The bad thing is that it is not touchscreen and not instant-on like a PDA. But that's the closest I've seen to what he wants in a single package (with no add-ons to carry around).
It's quite possible there's an anti-compete clause. It could just be that all information relating to the processor design (papers and personnel) are not allowed to work on other projects for home entertainment devices. Given the size of IBM, they could have numerous people working on the Nintendo and Sony processor designs at the same time. As I understand it, a fabrication plant can make any kind of chip it wants (up to the nm limit of its equipment). So both Nintendo chips and Sony chips could come out of the same building.
So sayeth the editor Attention universities: lawsuits are your reward for being a "fully-cooperating site".
The university isn't being sued, it's the student. The president dislikes the bad publicity that the lawsuit is generating, and I can't blame him for that. It drives away potential students when they find that one of the places they're looking at allows the RIAA in so easily. Sure, you can find out about how MTU was 'fully-cooperating' with the RIAA with a little bit of research, but now anyone who has a slight interest in the RIAA knows about it.
The statement the NYPost made about investors not being too interested in a pure R&D company is right. Investors want to see their money make money, right now. They don't want to wait 5 or 10 years for possible results (congrats to the 10-second sound bite generation). And even though it's making money now, if it misses the market forecast, the stock tanks.
Here's a really telling part: "The sector really needs Google to go public," a veteran investment banker said.
It's not those people who want Google to get more funding. It's everyone who lost money in when the Internet stocks collapsed. They're hoping that something like Google will go public, draw money into other Internet-related stocks (halo effect), and then take out their money for less of a loss.
My US$0.02. Google seems to be doing fine without needing to get money from Joe Sixpack.
Can I boot from a USB drive? And what about all of those install disks I still get? Hard Drive manufacturers still have their disk setup programs based on a floppy disk install. Also, I can't use USB drives at the machines at work (due to security risks of removing sensitive data). Sure, you can remove data on a floppy, but try doing that with a 50+ MB compressed file.
Interesting idea, but according to Goodwin's Law, the first party in a discussion to mention "Hitler" or "Nazi" has lost the discussion. I wonder if the law should be updated to include "terrorist"?
Maybe these exist somewhere and I've been typing in all of the wrong keywords, but I've been looking for a poster (say 3 feet by 2 feet) that lists all of the most commonly used commands in vi and bash. A single-line descriptor for each command and the syntax (if neccesary).
I've really been trying to find a vi version of this so I can have a handy reference sheet that I don't have to open up to use. It'd be great for those people just entering CS or picking up *nix.
I also like the idea of case-study books, that present the problem, show the code, and the reasoning behind the code.
You may want to try this site. As it's not a US site, it's probably receiving a lot less traffic than CNN or MSNBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/ ne wsid_1537000/1537469.stm
You said it. I used some of the legos I had as a kid to prove that a mechanical design I had come up with would work.
The design was never used for that project, but I've still got the model.
Looks nice, but the site hasn't been updated in a while. I think it's dead.
And given that the PLW is supposed to go to production by Aug 20, I'd put my money on the Mine.
It's like most wars, except this just happens to be an economic one. It's all about money. Who has it, and who wants it bad enough to take it. Any one who says war isn't based on profit (in land, material ownership, or cold hard cash) is deluding themselves.
For the rest of the world, Microsoft is probably not only seen as a monopoly, but a US-based monopoly. Every time they buy a MS product, that money goes to the US. Sure, there's always some local technical support, and the programmers who spend their time getting items regionalized, but the majority of that investment goes into the US. All it takes is a good, long look at how much currency is leaving the country in the form of software licenses and the top men start seeing savings.
Why should company X, Y, or Z send all that cash to the US when they can take another product and modify it to their needs. This doesn't come cheap, since they'll have to hire the programmers, managers, and whatnot required to bring the software product to market (internal or otherwise). Since Linux exists and is stable, the difficult part of creating a stable OS with the basic internet protocols is done, all they have to pay for is the program itself and whatever modifications are required to the kernel.
Observed what's happening in Argentina. Now that the government has realized just how much it would cost to keep their machines running Windows, they've decided to switch to Linux and spend all that money to hire native programmers. I'm guessing that as we see illegal software stamped out in more 3rd world countries, these countries will move to Linux-based systems. The more prosperous countries can afford to pay the software licenses without too many problems. Still, as more and more cash goes out of their country and into the US, they'll probably think of some way (tariffs, et al) to encourage the use of alternative OSs (Linux, *BSD).
Microsoft will probably have the US government as a big customer for a while. The 'It`s a US company' argument doesn't work, and Washington state congressmen will probably push Microsoft-friendly laws through Congress.
I'd rely on the GPL to keep my code free.
We know that the QT toolkit works in Windows 9X, so KDE apps could (I guess) be ported over without having to recode for a new interface.
Let's say the GTK+ is released with this clause, and all work on the Windows version of GTK+ was halted.
Somebody makes a killer KDE app that Windows doesn't have. It gets released on Windows as well (with a little work), so all the Windows users see it. Gnome comes out with it's own version, but due to the restrictions in the license, the Windows users never see it. More KDE apps get ported over and used. People get used to the KDE apps (and maybe even X windows).
When they decide to run Linux, what window manager will they run? Probably KDE. They've seen it, they've used it, and it makes sense to them (after they've used it for a while). They don't bother with Gnome. After all, KDE works fine, so why mess with what works?
The end result would be lots of Windows users using KDE and not Gnome. Gnome would have lost mindshare in this scenario.
Is this scenario likely to happen? I hope not.
Windows is trademarked by Microsoft, yada yada yada.
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SEO employee: Our client listings got kicked from the first page of Google. I don't know how.
SEO boss: I know. They changed their methods.
SEO employee: Are they using agents?
SEO boss: Yes.
SEO employee: God damn it.
SEO boss: You have to focus. Not everyone is using Google. There are people who still search through MSN and AOL. You can do it.
SEO employee: All right.
SEO boss: Go.
Hard to say about the bounce nature of the AH. The AH is memoryless. You can't see the historical selling price of an item. You can see the ones that are in the AH, but they are only there for 24 hours before they are returned.
Yes, most people look up the price of similar items when they sell theirs, but there is no item history with the AH. Unlike FFXI, where you could see how much the last 10 people paid for the item (regardless of how long ago those past 10 sales were).
I only expect the Ganking squads of 60s that you describe to work on PvP servers. On PvE servers, we don't have that sort of problem.
If it does become a problem, make sure that when you head out, you head out to less populated areas with a large group.
I did a search on Google for "Turn down a glass" and didn't find what I was looking for, although I did find a link to the slashdot article when the Challenger space shuttle exploded.
I don't think the byline "Turn down a glass" refers to drinking and driving. If you're at a restaurant where all of the glasses you may use for the evening are there (water, coffee, wine, etc), you turn down a glass (flip it over) to show that you won't be drinking any of it tonight. For example, I would turn my coffee cup over to indicate to the waiter that I'm not interested in having any coffee with my meal.
If someone had a place reserved at the table for them, and they aren't able to make it for some reason, you turn their glasses over to show that they won't be drinking that evening (or rather, they won't be there at all). In this case, the byline indicates that there is a loss of someone close. You were expecting them to show up at the dinner table and they can't make it, so you turn down their glass.
Do KDE developers listen to Kompressor?
"K.. is for Kompressor!"
So long as the carrier is good, I don't really care who they are.
If you remember, the airline company in 2001 that offered flights to space was PanAm. And they're bankrupt.
I think there's some article somewhere about the 'curse' of having their product placed in the movie 2001. All of the companies folded except one. Which I think was IBM.
I agree that the unit commander will want a print out, but the displays are useful.
From what I saw in the demo, the display only needs power when it changes what is on the screen. So if it's without power, it'll still have the same map showing.
On a side note, this is the first step to a Global (the cellphone device used in Earth: Final Conflict).
"Why is my net connection down?"
"The router crashed."
"Can't you reboot it or something."
"No, I mean it literally crashed. Some bird flew into it and the sucker fell from the sky. We'll be getting a replacement up in an hour or so."
Sure, they've got plenty of money to stay in business. But the market will punish them for the reduction (and possible slide) in the ammount of revenue from sales.
The market is a harsh mistress, and missing the projection for a quarter or having declining revenue will really kill the stock.
You could still allow anonymous postings.
If the message (from an anonymous poster) contains the usual '.com', '.net', '.tv', '.whatever', the program sends the "message accepted" response for a regular post, but sends the entire message to the bit bucket. A human will notice it didn't work if they check, but the bot will simply go on to the next site.
The major fault with this is that if the bot checks the page, it could get into an endless loop trying to post the url and suck up a lot of bandwidth. Perhaps use a few second delay to prevent the bot from spamming the site?
That's my $0.02US on the subject.
In reponse to the poster's question of: What would be your choice for middle school classrooms with minimal sys admin?
I'd probably choose Win(insert version here) with the ability to quickly Ghost the hard drive. It's easy to get ahold of a teacher/friend of a teacher/whoever that has some Windows trouble-shooting experience. What can't be fixed gets Ghosted (do those backups to a central machine or a CD-R). Linux may be more secure in a number of ways, but quickly finding someone to fix the problem locally is more difficult.
I just went to the site in IE. A pop-up window states that
...).
Windows Media Player Version 9 is required to download music on BuyMusic.com.
They're specifically targetting Windows customers. And all Windows customers have IE. No reason to spend the extra time and money to make sure the site works with Mozilla or Opera (or Lynx or
The problem is that he is looking at either PDAs _or_ laptops. What he is really looking for is a subnotebook. Dynamism (moderately pricey import place) has some nice ones.
W eighs in at just under 2 pounds and is 7(w) x 5.5(l) x1.3(h) inches. It'll fit into a large pocket. You should be able to find a modem card for the Type II PCMCIA slot.
The model I think you'll be able to interest him in is the Sony U101.
http://www.dynamism.com/u101/index.shtml
The bad thing is that it is not touchscreen and not instant-on like a PDA. But that's the closest I've seen to what he wants in a single package (with no add-ons to carry around).
It's quite possible there's an anti-compete clause. It could just be that all information relating to the processor design (papers and personnel) are not allowed to work on other projects for home entertainment devices.
Given the size of IBM, they could have numerous people working on the Nintendo and Sony processor designs at the same time. As I understand it, a fabrication plant can make any kind of chip it wants (up to the nm limit of its equipment). So both Nintendo chips and Sony chips could come out of the same building.
So sayeth the editor
Attention universities: lawsuits are your reward for being a "fully-cooperating site".
The university isn't being sued, it's the student. The president dislikes the bad publicity that the lawsuit is generating, and I can't blame him for that. It drives away potential students when they find that one of the places they're looking at allows the RIAA in so easily. Sure, you can find out about how MTU was 'fully-cooperating' with the RIAA with a little bit of research, but now anyone who has a slight interest in the RIAA knows about it.
The statement the NYPost made about investors not being too interested in a pure R&D company is right. Investors want to see their money make money, right now. They don't want to wait 5 or 10 years for possible results (congrats to the 10-second sound bite generation). And even though it's making money now, if it misses the market forecast, the stock tanks.
Here's a really telling part:
"The sector really needs Google to go public," a veteran investment banker said.
It's not those people who want Google to get more funding. It's everyone who lost money in when the Internet stocks collapsed. They're hoping that something like Google will go public, draw money into other Internet-related stocks (halo effect), and then take out their money for less of a loss.
My US$0.02. Google seems to be doing fine without needing to get money from Joe Sixpack.
Can I boot from a USB drive? And what about all of those install disks I still get? Hard Drive manufacturers still have their disk setup programs based on a floppy disk install.
Also, I can't use USB drives at the machines at work (due to security risks of removing sensitive data). Sure, you can remove data on a floppy, but try doing that with a 50+ MB compressed file.
Q: I'm a webmaster, but I won't admit to it. Could you tell me how Google weights websites so I can get my site ranked higher?
A: No.
Interesting idea, but according to Goodwin's Law, the first party in a discussion to mention "Hitler" or "Nazi" has lost the discussion.
I wonder if the law should be updated to include "terrorist"?
Maybe these exist somewhere and I've been typing in all of the wrong keywords, but I've been looking for a poster (say 3 feet by 2 feet) that lists all of the most commonly used commands in vi and bash. A single-line descriptor for each command and the syntax (if neccesary).
I've really been trying to find a vi version of this so I can have a handy reference sheet that I don't have to open up to use. It'd be great for those people just entering CS or picking up *nix.
I also like the idea of case-study books, that present the problem, show the code, and the reasoning behind the code.
You may want to try this site. As it's not a US site, it's probably receiving a lot less traffic than CNN or MSNBC./ ne wsid_1537000/1537469.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas
You said it. I used some of the legos I had as a kid to prove that a mechanical design I had come up with would work.
The design was never used for that project, but I've still got the model.
Looks nice, but the site hasn't been updated in a while. I think it's dead.
And given that the PLW is supposed to go to production by Aug 20, I'd put my money on the Mine.
It's like most wars, except this just happens to be an economic one. It's all about money. Who has it, and who wants it bad enough to take it. Any one who says war isn't based on profit (in land, material ownership, or cold hard cash) is deluding themselves.
For the rest of the world, Microsoft is probably not only seen as a monopoly, but a US-based monopoly. Every time they buy a MS product, that money goes to the US. Sure, there's always some local technical support, and the programmers who spend their time getting items regionalized, but the majority of that investment goes into the US. All it takes is a good, long look at how much currency is leaving the country in the form of software licenses and the top men start seeing savings.
Why should company X, Y, or Z send all that cash to the US when they can take another product and modify it to their needs. This doesn't come cheap, since they'll have to hire the programmers, managers, and whatnot required to bring the software product to market (internal or otherwise). Since Linux exists and is stable, the difficult part of creating a stable OS with the basic internet protocols is done, all they have to pay for is the program itself and whatever modifications are required to the kernel.
Observed what's happening in Argentina. Now that the government has realized just how much it would cost to keep their machines running Windows, they've decided to switch to Linux and spend all that money to hire native programmers. I'm guessing that as we see illegal software stamped out in more 3rd world countries, these countries will move to Linux-based systems. The more prosperous countries can afford to pay the software licenses without too many problems. Still, as more and more cash goes out of their country and into the US, they'll probably think of some way (tariffs, et al) to encourage the use of alternative OSs (Linux, *BSD).
Microsoft will probably have the US government as a big customer for a while. The 'It`s a US company' argument doesn't work, and Washington state congressmen will probably push Microsoft-friendly laws through Congress.
There's my $0.02 for what it's worth.
I'd rely on the GPL to keep my code free.
We know that the QT toolkit works in Windows 9X, so KDE apps could (I guess) be ported over without having to recode for a new interface.
Let's say the GTK+ is released with this clause, and all work on the Windows version of GTK+ was halted.
Somebody makes a killer KDE app that Windows doesn't have. It gets released on Windows as well (with a little work), so all the Windows users see it. Gnome comes out with it's own version, but due to the restrictions in the license, the Windows users never see it. More KDE apps get ported over and used. People get used to the KDE apps (and maybe even X windows).
When they decide to run Linux, what window manager will they run? Probably KDE. They've seen it, they've used it, and it makes sense to them (after they've used it for a while). They don't bother with Gnome. After all, KDE works fine, so why mess with what works?
The end result would be lots of Windows users using KDE and not Gnome. Gnome would have lost mindshare in this scenario.
Is this scenario likely to happen? I hope not.
Windows is trademarked by Microsoft, yada yada yada.