Sorry, your circumstantial ad hominem argument against Driessen should have never received any mod points. But, if Mother Jones (who undoubtedly is seen by the world as an authoritative source) said so, then it must be true. Well, I don't want to be dismissive of them either, but see for yourself as to their bias (or lack thereof) and journalistic credentials...as that is in fact substantial grounds for dismissing their rhetoric.
Conspiracy theories abound. Hey, I gave up my mod points to answer you. I read through most of the posts by carsonc that were modded down, and they were generally stupid/troll posts. His review on AJAX Write and one other comment were still modded +5.
The fact that I need to watch a MOVIE to agree with your scenario means it's already pretty far-fetched. Maybe you aren't aware of the thousands of MS users who love their products, especially the new Vista and this post was quite in-your-face for them.
There is a lot more randomness and herd mentality in play on/. all the time. Somehow, a pro-religious discussion gets modded down, or you happen to use/like Windows stuff, that gets modded down ALL THE TIME. Why else do you think any slightly pro-MS comment on/. is always started with "I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but..."?
Calm down, take a deep breath, get some exercise. You may be spending too much time on/.
you treat people right by giving them MORE options, including the ability to run the main rival OS, you gain significantly in kudos from people like me (and others who consider products based on their merits). It may sound silly, but the ONLY hurdle (missing audio/graphics drivers in MBP) to buying a MacBook Pro laptop has just been removed for me. Who knows, I may in fact be much more inclined to use OS X a ton and write apps for it than ever before.
When you treat potential customers right, you have no idea how great that is for you in the long run...
Because the **AA isn't a big fan of the barter system, and probably is not so happy that you can find a lot of stuff (music, videos, etc.) in your local library either. And then there is the fear of the unknown...
Yeah, I'm really scared...
According to 666 people the zeitgeist for today, Saturday, April 01st 2006, is: SMILEY
On April Fools, I'm not sure whether that 666 number is fake or real...
Blogging (and networking sites) both appear to fads, and I have still found very few blogs I read regular. There's one great blog of a friend but she rarely posts and when she does, it's useful and interesting. Then, there's the Google blog, but basically it's a place to announce new products, so it's a bit misnamed. So, sorry Scoble, I like your C9 with videos (esp. interviews with geniuses like Alan Cooper of About Face 2.0 fame), but your blog sucks like the rest of them. Do I care about your RSS feed collection, or your lunch events, or winetasting with a new MS employee? No, and I know more about you from your video interviews (and actually learn something at the same time) than from your prolific blogging. Now, I already feel like I just wasted 2 minutes reading that stuff.
Amazon, Google, and Apple, please DON'T start blogging. You can be secretive for a reason (because you have technically smart and creative people) and they have jobs to do, not loads of time to blog. Maybe spend your free time teaching the next generation of CS students (like my friend, "Google Gayle" link). Would you use 10% of your "20% time" (so to speak) blogging - what a waste of your genius minds...
OK, back to writing software and bugfixing - I'll leave the prolific/. activity to others who have more time to share it.:)
I trust Google a bit less than before, despite having a friend who works there and liking the technology that comes from them. Why? I can only speak of personal experience and hope I don't get modded flamebait...
1) Once upon a time, I used Google for searching. They were relevant, their ads were useful, and they were fast. They were simple and good at what they did.
2) Then, I watched them branch out. They bought or made Google Maps (which was initially quite cool), and Picasa (awesome!), and Google Earth (made waves). Nothing revolutionary, but the correlation made sense. Google News was kinda interesting too, especially getting Al Jazeera next to the Charleston Daily News. (OK, maybe besides that...)
3) Now, I see a ton of new stuff. So, there's Google Base, and Google's IM, and Gmail (with IM inside now), and now Writely (and many others, I'm sure). But this latest wave just shows how far they are willing to go to assimilate and collect our data. And I'm sure we all feel safer because computers alone sift through our collective data, someone analyzes the results, and then money rolls in. Have you ever thought of the adwords combined together from everyone's Gmail can be pretty powerful and personalized? So, by going into the consumer space with all the new stuff, they have made a choice - they won't focus as much on business needs (and getting services at a good price for businesses to use), but gun it for the consumer space. But their privacy and secrecy leaves many unanswered questions as to what they do with our data and what they plan to do. At least Microsoft acknowledges what they do and what they're all about. Feel free to hate it or not, but at least you know what they're doing.
4) Sometimes one little thing gets me (and other picky consumers) ticked. When they start feeling big, and give a hassle to the little guys who collect their Google news data into a handy RSS feed, while they do the same thing for many newspapers out there. Or when they start logging personal searches - with no opt-in, but rather an opt-out for those who don't want it. Am I the only one who's had this happen not once but twice? I never chose personalized searches, and then I checked once and saw they were collecting them. Then I said, delete search data and turn it OFF! Again, recently, it was the same Google account and they started collecting my search data again! I had never turned it back on, and I'm ticked! And are they really evil geniuses? Not necessarily - they seem like altruistic people at the top of Google, anyway. But I know human nature, and that's a scary thing...
5) In their defense: the media feeding frenzy on this stuff gets annoying - a small startup like Writely will totally kill MS Office? OK, maybe not. But it sure marginalizes Office 12 because it gets some stuff "right" that Office never did - but you do it at the expense of the snug feeling of privacy (it'll sit "safely" on Google's servers somewhere). After my experience with Writely, I've suggested in feedback to an original Writely.com marketing person that I'd love to use this at work for online meetings, collaboration on daily project plans and ideas, but there is no way we can have Google host our very secret content for an undetermined amount of time. And, to make it worse, their services for business have constantly lagged their offerings for consumers, and they can't keep this sustainable! Not when they're so secretive - the first sign of trouble and users will flock to someone who is more open about what they will do and what they will definitely NEVER do. Oh, sure, it's in some privacy policy which they can change without warning and which we all read...right. Yeah, I do trust them a bit less and it's really too bad, because they started out so well.
> He keeps these people dependant on him by never giving them the tools to break free and learn en masse.
> Only through education can anyone permanently break the bonds of poverty.
And with the power of that same education, he or she in Africa can totally do a better job than our most frequent Slashdot posters who hardly put any time or effort work... and on that note, I'll get back to work.
Perhaps you need to read the following:
"Instructions will be peer reviewed once they are received and once the solution is guaranteed working, the prize money will be transferred via paypal"
Yes, it would be nice to fly out and show Colin, but there is still the peer review process to deal with. Furthermore, he specifically has mentioned in the forum (which appears to be down right now) that it must work on MacBook Pro and the iMac as well. He was accepting testers in one specific thread...
So save the money on the flight and email him the solution and he'll have it out to the various testers that signed up.
A burning question... does this call into question the carbon dating methods that "proved" this creature was 11 million years old? Or does this finally prove that these creatures have resurrected from their fossilized remains?
Ctrl + Click opens any result in a new tab - so I'm cool with that. Middleclick on the link doesn't work as was mentioned.
That said, I have to agree that the new UI paradigm is quite interesting. Obviously with AJAX in search results are going to be reached via a different paradigm than Fast Find in Firefox. However, the pageup/page down and scroll (which was quite intuitive) is great when it works and a bit superior to scrolling 3 pages of Google search results to find a certain link. Of course, it would be easier narrowing search criteria in both cases...
Image Search is far cooler than Googles'. I like Google's smart-find stuff, like stock symbols and a lot of other little stuff (UPS/Fedex tracking, weather stuff, etc.) and thus it's hard to top for a quick, fast search. But that doesn't mean I click on either Google or MSN ad links except in rare cases, so I'd say they have to work harder to impress me and get my business.
Don't worry, it'll be the same company. Microsoft will buy a dance pad manufacturer, and make it a subsidiary. Spammers like to sign up for Hotmail/MSN accounts to send their spam. And who better than Microsoft to be responsible for bloat (of code, that is)?
I think they should apply this tax to those who buy Britney Spears and similar "music content". After all, they could really be marketed as frisbees...
Cringely's prediction, unlike Dvorak's, is an awesome idea. It is viral marketing at its finest, although Apple would not be happy if it could be easily cracked and sold (or put up on bittorrent) en masse to run on any Dell craptop. However, it could present a really cool (or crappy, depending on hardware compatability) experience and a potentially huge draw for Mac hardware/software.
Personally, I'm very seriously looking into a MacBook Pro laptop despite being for years a Windows guy. Lately, I have adopted an Aqua skin for XP because the default classic view was boring and the regular theme was for 5-year-old kids. The hardware is built to last, with style (as was my little iPod Shuffle), and I've developed Dell Delusionment (TM). I know how to secure an XP machine, but with all the younger people who love to use my PC, I can't or don't want to keep track of the latest spyware installations.
Very interesting, and I concur. I have 10 extensions in Firefox 1.5, all pretty mainline and hardly the cause of substantial leaks. However, I checked my setting and noticed the number was set to 20! Note: I did use a specially compiled stipe build that was supposed to be optimized for performance, so they set that a bit high I guess. However, that said, I keep 10+ tabs open at all times on my computer and I have noticed this exact thing - hibernate/standby exacerbates the memory leak problem in Firefox to the point that I sometimes have to kill the Firefox browser once it hits 94-100% of the CPU. Once it hits that high amount of CPU time, it never lets up and I have to kill the process. However, to make matters worse, any application with a browser embedded also starts sucking up close to 100% of CPU cycles, including Outlook 2003, Quicken 2004, etc. and they are ALL only a problem once Firefox acts up and starts spinning my 2.4GHZ CPU at 100% or so. I have to at some point restart or logoff the entire system, it gets that bad.
It is definitely a Firefox problem and there is no reason the memory requirements are so massive and also that Java takes so incredibly long to load (as a side note).
Only one month after celebrating Martin Luther King Day, perhaps this is worth mentioning. Did you know that this Darwin happened to write "Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". Wow, betcha didn't read the full title before... doesn't the title perhaps sound just a tad racist? This is the same Darwin, who wrote that the civilized races would inevitably wipe out such lesser-evolved "savage" ones. Maybe one distinct species, but these separate sub-species/races apparently were in a clear hierarchy for him.
How about an exposition of his evolutionary theory that Ernst Haeckel, whose book The History of Creation was a major textbook in universities at the end of the 19th-20th centuries? Here's a little excerpt:
"In order to be convinced of this important result, it is above all things necessary to study and compare the mental life of wild savages and of children. At the lowest stage of human mental development are the Australians, some tribes of the Polynesians, and the Bushmen, Hottentots, and some of the Negro tribes."
"In many of these languages there are numerals only for one, two, and three: no Australian language counts beyond four. Very many wild tribes can count no further than ten or twenty, whereas some very clever dogs have been made to count up to forty and even beyond sixty."
Ernst Haeckel, "The History of Creation", pp. 362, 363
"Now, if instituting comparisons in both directions, we place the lowest and most ape-like men (the Austral Negroes, Bushmen, and Andamans, etc.), on the one hand, together with the most highly developed animals, for instance, with apes, dogs, and the elephants, and on the other hand, with the most highly developed men--Aristotle, Newton, Spinoza, Kant, Lamarck, or Goethe--we can then no longer consider the assertion, that the mental life of the higher mammals has gradually developed up to that of man, as in any way exaggerated."
Ernst Haeckel, "The History of Creation", pp. 364, 365
Perhaps Haeckel, whose evolutionary textbook was the standard for years (and coincidentally used for reference during the Scopes Trial) and faked embryo drawings which are used in a shocking number of public school and college textbooks, would have paid tribute to those who caged up the Congolese man Ota Benga next to apes in the Bronx Zoo as an attempt to prove he was the "Missing Link" between an ape and a human.
I would definitely not call them heroes or celebrate their birthdays.
Well, so getting married and staying married brings increased wealth (hey, I know that as a single guy, I no doubt spend a greater percentage of my income than if I were married). If you also have kids, you WILL get added immune protection as a mother even though there CAN be additional depression (the depression is stastically greater, although not absolutely greater). I know that my mom, after having 8 kids (I'm the oldest), has an incredible immune system and rarely if ever gets the flu/cold/etc. when we kids do. She can worry at times, but as long as the stress is limited, it's not a bad thing per se. And I'm sure she has no regrets from raising a large family and she's very socially adjusted and we as kids are also quite outgoing, friendly, and have a greater appreciation for diversity (and are much less fussy) than smaller families with whom we interact. Plus, there is a much greater cost benefit having 8 children rather than 4, not to mention the help the older give to the younger, babysitting opportunities, larger pool of shared knowledge, and a lot more. People never can tell I'm from a big family, because I really don't act any differently, and it's interesting trivia...
If I want to read news, I'll go to Google News myself (or Drudge Report if I want to hear it sooner). If I want chat, I'll use GAIM/Trillian and log in when I want to and log chats locally. I'm sorry, but if you really want to make Gmail nicer, work on adding folders, better filtering, and better desktop-like UI. Good thing for the POP3, because I could care less about the additional "features".
Is Google stagnating already? I was waiting for RaiseTheDead(TM) anytime now from Google, but apparently investors are looking past the hype...one month, and a net loss of 23% on the stock price (currently around 365).
>When people search for the term "miserable failure" they expect to see george >bush. For what other reason would anyone be searching up "misreable failure"?. >Google is providing the exact right response for what it's customers are >looking for when they search that combonation of terms.
Perhaps, they might be using Google to check their spelling of "misreable failure". Or quite possibly using Google to find out that it is generally poor grammar to follow a question mark with a period at the end of a sentence. Or the poor wording of using "exact right response" rather than the somewhat better "exactly right response" or simply "exact response" or "right response". Or perhaps studying up on the grammatical differences between its and it's. Or, possibly, checking the spelling of combonation.
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Sorry, your circumstantial ad hominem argument against Driessen should have never received any mod points. But, if Mother Jones (who undoubtedly is seen by the world as an authoritative source) said so, then it must be true. Well, I don't want to be dismissive of them either, but see for yourself as to their bias (or lack thereof) and journalistic credentials...as that is in fact substantial grounds for dismissing their rhetoric.
Conspiracy theories abound. Hey, I gave up my mod points to answer you. I read through most of the posts by carsonc that were modded down, and they were generally stupid/troll posts. His review on AJAX Write and one other comment were still modded +5.
/. all the time. Somehow, a pro-religious discussion gets modded down, or you happen to use/like Windows stuff, that gets modded down ALL THE TIME. Why else do you think any slightly pro-MS comment on /. is always started with "I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but..."?
/.
The fact that I need to watch a MOVIE to agree with your scenario means it's already pretty far-fetched. Maybe you aren't aware of the thousands of MS users who love their products, especially the new Vista and this post was quite in-your-face for them.
There is a lot more randomness and herd mentality in play on
Calm down, take a deep breath, get some exercise. You may be spending too much time on
you treat people right by giving them MORE options, including the ability to run the main rival OS, you gain significantly in kudos from people like me (and others who consider products based on their merits). It may sound silly, but the ONLY hurdle (missing audio/graphics drivers in MBP) to buying a MacBook Pro laptop has just been removed for me. Who knows, I may in fact be much more inclined to use OS X a ton and write apps for it than ever before.
When you treat potential customers right, you have no idea how great that is for you in the long run...
Because the **AA isn't a big fan of the barter system, and probably is not so happy that you can find a lot of stuff (music, videos, etc.) in your local library either. And then there is the fear of the unknown...
Yeah, I'm really scared...
According to 666 people the zeitgeist for today, Saturday, April 01st 2006, is: SMILEY
On April Fools, I'm not sure whether that 666 number is fake or real...
Blogging (and networking sites) both appear to fads, and I have still found very few blogs I read regular. There's one great blog of a friend but she rarely posts and when she does, it's useful and interesting. Then, there's the Google blog, but basically it's a place to announce new products, so it's a bit misnamed. So, sorry Scoble, I like your C9 with videos (esp. interviews with geniuses like Alan Cooper of About Face 2.0 fame), but your blog sucks like the rest of them. Do I care about your RSS feed collection, or your lunch events, or winetasting with a new MS employee? No, and I know more about you from your video interviews (and actually learn something at the same time) than from your prolific blogging. Now, I already feel like I just wasted 2 minutes reading that stuff.
/. activity to others who have more time to share it. :)
Amazon, Google, and Apple, please DON'T start blogging. You can be secretive for a reason (because you have technically smart and creative people) and they have jobs to do, not loads of time to blog. Maybe spend your free time teaching the next generation of CS students (like my friend, "Google Gayle" link). Would you use 10% of your "20% time" (so to speak) blogging - what a waste of your genius minds...
OK, back to writing software and bugfixing - I'll leave the prolific
Stop trying to play games with us...
I trust Google a bit less than before, despite having a friend who works there and liking the technology that comes from them. Why? I can only speak of personal experience and hope I don't get modded flamebait...
1) Once upon a time, I used Google for searching. They were relevant, their ads were useful, and they were fast. They were simple and good at what they did.
2) Then, I watched them branch out. They bought or made Google Maps (which was initially quite cool), and Picasa (awesome!), and Google Earth (made waves). Nothing revolutionary, but the correlation made sense. Google News was kinda interesting too, especially getting Al Jazeera next to the Charleston Daily News. (OK, maybe besides that...)
3) Now, I see a ton of new stuff. So, there's Google Base, and Google's IM, and Gmail (with IM inside now), and now Writely (and many others, I'm sure). But this latest wave just shows how far they are willing to go to assimilate and collect our data. And I'm sure we all feel safer because computers alone sift through our collective data, someone analyzes the results, and then money rolls in. Have you ever thought of the adwords combined together from everyone's Gmail can be pretty powerful and personalized? So, by going into the consumer space with all the new stuff, they have made a choice - they won't focus as much on business needs (and getting services at a good price for businesses to use), but gun it for the consumer space. But their privacy and secrecy leaves many unanswered questions as to what they do with our data and what they plan to do. At least Microsoft acknowledges what they do and what they're all about. Feel free to hate it or not, but at least you know what they're doing.
4) Sometimes one little thing gets me (and other picky consumers) ticked. When they start feeling big, and give a hassle to the little guys who collect their Google news data into a handy RSS feed, while they do the same thing for many newspapers out there. Or when they start logging personal searches - with no opt-in, but rather an opt-out for those who don't want it. Am I the only one who's had this happen not once but twice? I never chose personalized searches, and then I checked once and saw they were collecting them. Then I said, delete search data and turn it OFF! Again, recently, it was the same Google account and they started collecting my search data again! I had never turned it back on, and I'm ticked! And are they really evil geniuses? Not necessarily - they seem like altruistic people at the top of Google, anyway. But I know human nature, and that's a scary thing...
5) In their defense: the media feeding frenzy on this stuff gets annoying - a small startup like Writely will totally kill MS Office? OK, maybe not. But it sure marginalizes Office 12 because it gets some stuff "right" that Office never did - but you do it at the expense of the snug feeling of privacy (it'll sit "safely" on Google's servers somewhere). After my experience with Writely, I've suggested in feedback to an original Writely.com marketing person that I'd love to use this at work for online meetings, collaboration on daily project plans and ideas, but there is no way we can have Google host our very secret content for an undetermined amount of time. And, to make it worse, their services for business have constantly lagged their offerings for consumers, and they can't keep this sustainable! Not when they're so secretive - the first sign of trouble and users will flock to someone who is more open about what they will do and what they will definitely NEVER do. Oh, sure, it's in some privacy policy which they can change without warning and which we all read...right. Yeah, I do trust them a bit less and it's really too bad, because they started out so well.
> He keeps these people dependant on him by never giving them the tools to break free and learn en masse.
> Only through education can anyone permanently break the bonds of poverty.
And with the power of that same education, he or she in Africa can totally do a better job than our most frequent Slashdot posters who hardly put any time or effort work... and on that note, I'll get back to work.
Does anyone have the ISO file or other download needed to make this work on the Macbook Pro? This would be cool to see. Dan
Perhaps you need to read the following:
"Instructions will be peer reviewed once they are received and once the solution is guaranteed working, the prize money will be transferred via paypal"
Yes, it would be nice to fly out and show Colin, but there is still the peer review process to deal with. Furthermore, he specifically has mentioned in the forum (which appears to be down right now) that it must work on MacBook Pro and the iMac as well. He was accepting testers in one specific thread...
So save the money on the flight and email him the solution and he'll have it out to the various testers that signed up.
A burning question... does this call into question the carbon dating methods that "proved" this creature was 11 million years old? Or does this finally prove that these creatures have resurrected from their fossilized remains?
Ctrl + Click opens any result in a new tab - so I'm cool with that. Middleclick on the link doesn't work as was mentioned.
That said, I have to agree that the new UI paradigm is quite interesting. Obviously with AJAX in search results are going to be reached via a different paradigm than Fast Find in Firefox. However, the pageup/page down and scroll (which was quite intuitive) is great when it works and a bit superior to scrolling 3 pages of Google search results to find a certain link. Of course, it would be easier narrowing search criteria in both cases...
Image Search is far cooler than Googles'. I like Google's smart-find stuff, like stock symbols and a lot of other little stuff (UPS/Fedex tracking, weather stuff, etc.) and thus it's hard to top for a quick, fast search. But that doesn't mean I click on either Google or MSN ad links except in rare cases, so I'd say they have to work harder to impress me and get my business.
for the future of Java? For now, I'm drinking green tea and coding in C#.
Don't worry, it'll be the same company. Microsoft will buy a dance pad manufacturer, and make it a subsidiary. Spammers like to sign up for Hotmail/MSN accounts to send their spam. And who better than Microsoft to be responsible for bloat (of code, that is)?
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Your neighbor who just broke into your house...
According to Symantec, Apple is planning to have a similar exploit next week. News at 11...
I think they should apply this tax to those who buy Britney Spears and similar "music content". After all, they could really be marketed as frisbees...
Apparently, they've had slow sales on the Mac platform recently. Perhaps a real worm/virus in the wild would be some newsworth info...
Cringely's prediction, unlike Dvorak's, is an awesome idea. It is viral marketing at its finest, although Apple would not be happy if it could be easily cracked and sold (or put up on bittorrent) en masse to run on any Dell craptop. However, it could present a really cool (or crappy, depending on hardware compatability) experience and a potentially huge draw for Mac hardware/software.
Personally, I'm very seriously looking into a MacBook Pro laptop despite being for years a Windows guy. Lately, I have adopted an Aqua skin for XP because the default classic view was boring and the regular theme was for 5-year-old kids. The hardware is built to last, with style (as was my little iPod Shuffle), and I've developed Dell Delusionment (TM). I know how to secure an XP machine, but with all the younger people who love to use my PC, I can't or don't want to keep track of the latest spyware installations.
Very interesting, and I concur. I have 10 extensions in Firefox 1.5, all pretty mainline and hardly the cause of substantial leaks. However, I checked my setting and noticed the number was set to 20! Note: I did use a specially compiled stipe build that was supposed to be optimized for performance, so they set that a bit high I guess. However, that said, I keep 10+ tabs open at all times on my computer and I have noticed this exact thing - hibernate/standby exacerbates the memory leak problem in Firefox to the point that I sometimes have to kill the Firefox browser once it hits 94-100% of the CPU. Once it hits that high amount of CPU time, it never lets up and I have to kill the process. However, to make matters worse, any application with a browser embedded also starts sucking up close to 100% of CPU cycles, including Outlook 2003, Quicken 2004, etc. and they are ALL only a problem once Firefox acts up and starts spinning my 2.4GHZ CPU at 100% or so. I have to at some point restart or logoff the entire system, it gets that bad.
It is definitely a Firefox problem and there is no reason the memory requirements are so massive and also that Java takes so incredibly long to load (as a side note).
Only one month after celebrating Martin Luther King Day, perhaps this is worth mentioning. Did you know that this Darwin happened to write "Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". Wow, betcha didn't read the full title before... doesn't the title perhaps sound just a tad racist? This is the same Darwin, who wrote that the civilized races would inevitably wipe out such lesser-evolved "savage" ones. Maybe one distinct species, but these separate sub-species/races apparently were in a clear hierarchy for him.
How about an exposition of his evolutionary theory that Ernst Haeckel, whose book The History of Creation was a major textbook in universities at the end of the 19th-20th centuries? Here's a little excerpt:
"In order to be convinced of this important result, it is above all things necessary to study and compare the mental life of wild savages and of children. At the lowest stage of human mental development are the Australians, some tribes of the Polynesians, and the Bushmen, Hottentots, and some of the Negro tribes."
"In many of these languages there are numerals only for one, two, and three: no Australian language counts beyond four. Very many wild tribes can count no further than ten or twenty, whereas some very clever dogs have been made to count up to forty and even beyond sixty."
Ernst Haeckel, "The History of Creation", pp. 362, 363
"Now, if instituting comparisons in both directions, we place the lowest and most ape-like men (the Austral Negroes, Bushmen, and Andamans, etc.), on the one hand, together with the most highly developed animals, for instance, with apes, dogs, and the elephants, and on the other hand, with the most highly developed men--Aristotle, Newton, Spinoza, Kant, Lamarck, or Goethe--we can then no longer consider the assertion, that the mental life of the higher mammals has gradually developed up to that of man, as in any way exaggerated."
Ernst Haeckel, "The History of Creation", pp. 364, 365
Perhaps Haeckel, whose evolutionary textbook was the standard for years (and coincidentally used for reference during the Scopes Trial) and faked embryo drawings which are used in a shocking number of public school and college textbooks, would have paid tribute to those who caged up the Congolese man Ota Benga next to apes in the Bronx Zoo as an attempt to prove he was the "Missing Link" between an ape and a human.
I would definitely not call them heroes or celebrate their birthdays.
Well, so getting married and staying married brings increased wealth (hey, I know that as a single guy, I no doubt spend a greater percentage of my income than if I were married). If you also have kids, you WILL get added immune protection as a mother even though there CAN be additional depression (the depression is stastically greater, although not absolutely greater). I know that my mom, after having 8 kids (I'm the oldest), has an incredible immune system and rarely if ever gets the flu/cold/etc. when we kids do. She can worry at times, but as long as the stress is limited, it's not a bad thing per se. And I'm sure she has no regrets from raising a large family and she's very socially adjusted and we as kids are also quite outgoing, friendly, and have a greater appreciation for diversity (and are much less fussy) than smaller families with whom we interact. Plus, there is a much greater cost benefit having 8 children rather than 4, not to mention the help the older give to the younger, babysitting opportunities, larger pool of shared knowledge, and a lot more. People never can tell I'm from a big family, because I really don't act any differently, and it's interesting trivia ...
If I want to read news, I'll go to Google News myself (or Drudge Report if I want to hear it sooner). If I want chat, I'll use GAIM/Trillian and log in when I want to and log chats locally. I'm sorry, but if you really want to make Gmail nicer, work on adding folders, better filtering, and better desktop-like UI. Good thing for the POP3, because I could care less about the additional "features".
Is Google stagnating already? I was waiting for RaiseTheDead(TM) anytime now from Google, but apparently investors are looking past the hype...one month, and a net loss of 23% on the stock price (currently around 365).
>When people search for the term "miserable failure" they expect to see george
>bush. For what other reason would anyone be searching up "misreable failure"?.
>Google is providing the exact right response for what it's customers are
>looking for when they search that combonation of terms.
Perhaps, they might be using Google to check their spelling of "misreable failure". Or quite possibly using Google to find out that it is generally poor grammar to follow a question mark with a period at the end of a sentence. Or the poor wording of using "exact right response" rather than the somewhat better "exactly right response" or simply "exact response" or "right response". Or perhaps studying up on the grammatical differences between its and it's. Or, possibly, checking the spelling of combonation.