...anyone doing 'serious research' can easily access complete full-text archives of NYT + other major newspapers by visiting either their local library (if they have a library system that is decently funded) or by visiting their local higher education institutions. Proquest and other services are subscribed to by tens of thousands of businesses, libraries, colleges, and universities, and give you access to full text complete archive of the NYT specifically.
They're protecting an investment in content, and it costs them to maintain and manage the archive and requests. $3 is high -- but it's not a major revenue stream for them. It's $3 more than anyone should have to pay, if they were wise enough to visit a library/university.
A lot of people have the problem where, even after they've updated to firefox 0.9.1 (or now 0.9.2) the automatic update still says that there is a new update available (annoying).
Here's the fix:
Enter about:config in the location bar.
Enter update.app in the filter field. (Click on Enter)
Reset any prefs that appear in bold.
Restart Firefox.
taken from FireFox support newsgroup. [http://www.mozilla.org/support/]
Bartley's English Usage Guide, the technical meaning of "to beg the
question" in logic use it in one of two looser senses. The first of
these, "to evade the question, to duck the issue", is attested since
1860 (WDEU). The second, "to invite the obvious question, (with an
inanimate subject) to raise the question", is now the most commonly
heard use of the phrase, although we have found no mention of it
prior to The Oxford Guide to English Usage, 1st edition (1983), and
it is not yet in most dictionaries. The meaning of the adjective
"question-begging" does not seem to have suffered a similar
broadening.
I was going for the latter, which yes does also include 'raise the question.' The mention of his file names calls attention to the fact that he spends too much time on this project (since he doesnt need any kind of naming scheme), and therefore my comment on it is already leading you to my presupposed conclusion, that he spends too much time on this project. Circular anyone?
His website seems to be holding up rather well, but his pictures are no longer displaying.. seems like he hosts them at http://home.flash.net/~ral1/starbucks/bigimages/
with file names looking like DSCNxxxx.jpg -- which begs the question, he knows which location is what when he gets around to updating the webpage (unless that's 20 seconds after he gets in the car).
And on cost, if he must by caffinated coffee in each, let's just say that's $2.50 per cup * 4200 stores / 7 years: $1500 year. Isn't too outrageous.
To solve the need-to-windows-update-and-install-antivirus-befor e-being-wormed problem, follow the aforementioned steps for the windows install (offline),
then have your 'autopatcher' cd ready: autopatcher
This neat utlity lets you download an iso that has pretty up-to-date windows updates/patches -- and it has its own version of 'windows update' for XP/2000 as well. It works nicely to get your machine pretty up to date, before you go live on the internet.
There was a story a few years ago about a service where you could write 'e-mails from the grave' so to speak. You kept a stored list of letters and e-mail addressed to send them to, and for a fee, this service would send the e-mail upon your death. I forget whether it was something that your family authorized (you let them know you had these letters) or what, but it was a neat idea.
I've heard of ideas where, at boot the pc runs a script that copies the C drive onto a ramdisk, routinely (as you wish) will backup the ramdisk file changes to physical disk, and on shutdown saves any changes.
The issue with windows is to a) keep an OS parition that is small enough for your ramdisk allocation (not too hard really) b) have a bootup script to manage the ramdisk.
2GB should be plenty, for XP + some key programs. Dual channel DDR would be quite a bit of bandwidth for your OS.
Hard Drive is the bottleneck........
Has anyone tried using a RAMdisk as their OS drive? I've read a lot and heard of people trying, but never come across a comprehensive how-to + review. With the amount of ram we can have nowadays (new pc's coming with 6 banks for dual-channel DDR), I'd pay $250 for an extra 2GB of ram in order to have my OS + key apps run off of that.
Other solutions? (CF too slow?)...
This is *exactly* in response to their users, that is, users of their advertising services.
Furthermore, it's only an option -- and a service offered by all of the other major advertising vendors that they will have to compete more heavily against now that they will be in more public competition with them.
Flaming google for matching service offerings of their competitors, and improving upon them, is an idiotic thing to do. The dozens of replies that are focused on lambasting google and their snide 'well ill just block their image adds with my 3r33t meth0ds' are not new, interesting, or worthwhile discussion.
With google's financials in the open air, they are going to experience a profit crunch as their current customers discover how well they're doing, and as other competitors both adapt and better compete. They'll need to offer the same, if not greater, services in the near future to establish themselves.
The interesting commentary was about how google will run the risk of alienating the average cusumer by infesting the web/newsgroups/news/searchresults/email/etc. with annoying advertising. I think google is aware of this, but we will have to watch and see how they cope with it.
But I also dont think that to the average or majority of internet users, an imagead will now be associated with google -- they're everywhere, and not all nor will they will be all placed by google.
They need to include the search Keywords they used for each of the Google Searches, or how they refined their results as they used it.
Sure you can claim to "test" google's power, but if you dont know how to properly use even the most basic search abilities ("quotes", +, -, etc..) then the productivity numbers you measure google by will be wildly inaccurate.
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...anyone doing 'serious research' can easily access complete full-text archives of NYT + other major newspapers by visiting either their local library (if they have a library system that is decently funded) or by visiting their local higher education institutions. Proquest and other services are subscribed to by tens of thousands of businesses, libraries, colleges, and universities, and give you access to full text complete archive of the NYT specifically. They're protecting an investment in content, and it costs them to maintain and manage the archive and requests. $3 is high -- but it's not a major revenue stream for them. It's $3 more than anyone should have to pay, if they were wise enough to visit a library/university.
worked for me and a dozen or so others -- who all had upgraded from 0.9 -> 0.9.1 -> 0.9.2
A lot of people have the problem where, even after they've updated to firefox 0.9.1 (or now 0.9.2) the automatic update still says that there is a new update available (annoying).
Here's the fix:
Enter about:config in the location bar.
Enter update.app in the filter field. (Click on Enter)
Reset any prefs that appear in bold.
Restart Firefox.
taken from FireFox support newsgroup. [http://www.mozilla.org/support/]
Bartley's English Usage Guide, the technical meaning of "to beg the question" in logic use it in one of two looser senses. The first of these, "to evade the question, to duck the issue", is attested since 1860 (WDEU). The second, "to invite the obvious question, (with an inanimate subject) to raise the question", is now the most commonly heard use of the phrase, although we have found no mention of it prior to The Oxford Guide to English Usage, 1st edition (1983), and it is not yet in most dictionaries. The meaning of the adjective "question-begging" does not seem to have suffered a similar broadening.
I was going for the latter, which yes does also include 'raise the question.' The mention of his file names calls attention to the fact that he spends too much time on this project (since he doesnt need any kind of naming scheme), and therefore my comment on it is already leading you to my presupposed conclusion, that he spends too much time on this project. Circular anyone?
His website seems to be holding up rather well, but his pictures are no longer displaying.. seems like he hosts them at http://home.flash.net/~ral1/starbucks/bigimages/ with file names looking like DSCNxxxx.jpg -- which begs the question, he knows which location is what when he gets around to updating the webpage (unless that's 20 seconds after he gets in the car). And on cost, if he must by caffinated coffee in each, let's just say that's $2.50 per cup * 4200 stores / 7 years: $1500 year. Isn't too outrageous.
To solve the need-to-windows-update-and-install-antivirus-befor e-being-wormed problem, follow the aforementioned steps for the windows install (offline),
then have your 'autopatcher' cd ready: autopatcher
This neat utlity lets you download an iso that has pretty up-to-date windows updates/patches -- and it has its own version of 'windows update' for XP/2000 as well. It works nicely to get your machine pretty up to date, before you go live on the internet.
There was a story a few years ago about a service where you could write 'e-mails from the grave' so to speak. You kept a stored list of letters and e-mail addressed to send them to, and for a fee, this service would send the e-mail upon your death. I forget whether it was something that your family authorized (you let them know you had these letters) or what, but it was a neat idea.
hence, as i mentioned, having a script that can do regular 'physical backup' of changes to files in the ramdisk to minimize chance of loss.
I've heard of ideas where, at boot the pc runs a script that copies the C drive onto a ramdisk, routinely (as you wish) will backup the ramdisk file changes to physical disk, and on shutdown saves any changes.
The issue with windows is to a) keep an OS parition that is small enough for your ramdisk allocation (not too hard really) b) have a bootup script to manage the ramdisk.
2GB should be plenty, for XP + some key programs. Dual channel DDR would be quite a bit of bandwidth for your OS.
Hard Drive is the bottleneck........ Has anyone tried using a RAMdisk as their OS drive? I've read a lot and heard of people trying, but never come across a comprehensive how-to + review. With the amount of ram we can have nowadays (new pc's coming with 6 banks for dual-channel DDR), I'd pay $250 for an extra 2GB of ram in order to have my OS + key apps run off of that. Other solutions? (CF too slow?)...
This is *exactly* in response to their users, that is, users of their advertising services.
Furthermore, it's only an option -- and a service offered by all of the other major advertising vendors that they will have to compete more heavily against now that they will be in more public competition with them.
Flaming google for matching service offerings of their competitors, and improving upon them, is an idiotic thing to do. The dozens of replies that are focused on lambasting google and their snide 'well ill just block their image adds with my 3r33t meth0ds' are not new, interesting, or worthwhile discussion.
With google's financials in the open air, they are going to experience a profit crunch as their current customers discover how well they're doing, and as other competitors both adapt and better compete. They'll need to offer the same, if not greater, services in the near future to establish themselves.
The interesting commentary was about how google will run the risk of alienating the average cusumer by infesting the web/newsgroups/news/searchresults/email/etc. with annoying advertising. I think google is aware of this, but we will have to watch and see how they cope with it.
But I also dont think that to the average or majority of internet users, an imagead will now be associated with google -- they're everywhere, and not all nor will they will be all placed by google.
$0.02
They need to include the search Keywords they used for each of the Google Searches, or how they refined their results as they used it. Sure you can claim to "test" google's power, but if you dont know how to properly use even the most basic search abilities ("quotes", +, -, etc..) then the productivity numbers you measure google by will be wildly inaccurate.
$5/month -- with windows XP machines costing a large organization what, $75? Doesn't seem so hot.