I know they have a patent on PageRank, but that's a different matter.
IANAL, but I suspect that google has more than one patent. The fact that you know that they have one patent has no relation on another patent they might have.
Do you have a link that talks about a patent for the Google home page?
I'm fairly sure that the lady who sits at the desk behind me at work uses an FTP client to upload orders to one of our suppliers. God knows why it happens that way.
Agree. My Macbook pro has gone sluggish as hell (FF 3.6) scrolling through this thread.
Based on what others are saying, the mobile version must work better, so maybe I'll just move/. viewing to other devices. Once I get a new pair of glasses.
I should add (for full disclosure) that I just edited the entry for minor aspects of appearance (added a list where there previously was a paragraph of list items) and for clarity. If you disagree with any of the changes I made, obviously feel free to revert them; I don't think that they are in any way controversial, however.
See the discussion page of that wikipedia entry. The article has been changed several times by people saying what each of us are saying here: (1) that the order doesn't matter due to the mutual exclusivity of the ongoing state and the disruptive action; or/and (b) the time line that was reversed at some point in the history of the phrase, thus making the phrase (apparently) nonsensical.
None of the links on that page show if the phrase was ever directly translated into another language at any point in its history, which may have been interesting. However, it seems to me that it makes complete sense in its current form.
If the students didn't have to spend so much on textbooks, the universities could squeeze more tuition out of them.
Universities are often managed as businesses. Let them act like ones and help their customers.
Exactly-- I can easily imagine a member of the textbook writing university consortium charging a flat fee ($400/semester?) to all students for the extra work that some professors would be supported to do.
The state of having the cake is ongoing; the action of eating the cake interrupts that state. Thus, the action (that is coincidentally placed second in the sentence. Tricky!) disrupts the state of being.
For instance: You can't fly a plane and have it blown up by a surface to air missile too.
If you're not an idiot American who doesn't know to look for scales in the veg. department, the whole process does move a lot faster at the checkout when labels are printed in advance-- whether it's the self-service checkout or the staffed one.
Usually stores do have the facility for the check-out person to enter the code and weigh the fruit themselves at the checkout, but as they only do this when tourists come to town (or the OAPs who forget) they don't remember the codes off the top of their heads and have to spend a while looking them up.
I really like the places in France (usually) that have a guy (person) in the fruit and veg section doing the weighing for you-- he's fast, he's accurate, and thus everything moves more quickly.
I use Opera for porn, Firefox for 'clean' stuff, and Safari for work. Nobody need get embarrassed, unless I accidentally open the wrong one for the wrong task.
Because that's how cold his freezer got, and the reviewer was too lazy to go to a testing lab (or he didn't want his ice cream to get freezer burn)?
I don't know as I DNRTFA.
It's not free when calling land lines or cell phones. You need to pay when connecting from SIP to POTS. It depends on providers-- with free.fr it is free to call landlines in around 70 countries, including the US, China and Australia. This is for less than 30 Euros/month.
Hmm. I boarded a flight on Dec. 24, sitting in seat 27C. As I got on the plane and handed the ticked to the member of cabin crew (having already had this boarding pass scanned at least twice) for her to direct me to my seat, she pointed it to me, and then did a double take.
"Sorry," she said, "I thought your ticked was for December 27, not row 27."
Now, either she was tired, or that's something that happens sometimes. Anybody know?
It's really sad to see that the only thing Britannica, an encyclopaedia with a tradition of more than 200 years, has left as a selling point is "Wikipedia sucks".
This is an article about Wikipedia. I'm sure that the Britannica spokesperson said other things (positive about themselves) but this article isn't about Britannica. If you (gasp) read the article, you'll see that, in fact, the Britannica people didn't only talk smack about Wikipedia, and in fact said "But Britannica and Wikipedia should not be seen as direct competitors. Wikipedia, he said, had made the use of encyclopaedias "trendy and popular" with young people, which could only benefit Britannica's subscription-led service."
My experience is with large UK universities and small American liberal arts colleges. My liberal arts college blocked torrents if you weren't paying attention, but there were enough workarounds that effectively you could do anything you wanted to.
Both of the large British University networks that I've used have almost completely blocked everything except for http. Where I am now, they allow Skype, but that's the exception-- almost nothing else is allowed.
The GP was commenting on the fact that once you find the record you want, Google asks if you want to be connected to that number. How do payphones deal with this?
I have to wonder if there isn't a market for a new kind of Airline with a motto something like this: "We charge you a bit more because we don't screw you". We serve hot meals on flights over one hour...
Almost all airlines charge a little more for better comfort/service. First/business/premier class does exactly that. Unfortunately, most of us can't afford it...
Brilliant vid. Thanks.
It was kind of poignant to see Richard Hammond while the other presenter (the one I don't like) was saying "All of our big projects end in failure" or something to that effect.
Actually... That tells us that individuals owned their own boats (indicates government policies, distribution of weatlth), that their use was restricted by the government (it had enforcement resources), that boats were used for seasonal commerce/pleasure, etc. Boring shit matters.
Oh, America!
We should stop using cell phone plans because it appears that the Bush administration is looking through our phone records. Oh well, at least the solution is simple.
People who download movies online don't do it because they're allergic to physical DVD media - they do it because the damn things are massively overpriced.
I don't know about that-- I download movies for a mixture of the two reasons-- firstly, buying movies would be extremely expensive (so I would cut back on consumption), but that's a different matter. I just don't have any need at all for physical media. I have a TV, but it's smaller than my computer monitor and it has no inputs other than the cable (ie, no VHS or DVD player). The DVD player on my computer is not in great shape (it has crapped out on me in the middle of a few movies-- I never have finished the Godfather for that reason) and I see no reason to involve an additional mechanical component to the movie-watching process if there doesn't need to be one. Additionally of course, when I leave my desktop behind and travel with my laptop, why should I have to choose which movies to bring with me if I can carry them all on the laptop?
To sum up, I have bandwidth and hard-drive space, but I don't have physical space to keep media or the means to effectively watch it. As I see it, the cost of bandwidth and hard-drive space is only going down, and so more and more people will be in my situation.
For me, illegally downloading provides a far superior product than legally purchasing movies-- even when cost is no consideration. Until the movie studios realize that (and it sounds like they may soon) why should I buy a movie?
Many universities (mine did for a while, I don't think they still do) seem to throttle torrent downloads. It's just another way of slowing the download down, but the point isn't to end downloading completely, it's to make it so slow as to be more trouble than it's worth (sure, I'm willing to leave my computer on for a week to dowload all 20-something James Bond movies, but the same amount of time to download the High School Musical soundtrack-- now that's too much!).
(sadly, both things I've downloaded recently.)
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I know they have a patent on PageRank, but that's a different matter.
IANAL, but I suspect that google has more than one patent. The fact that you know that they have one patent has no relation on another patent they might have.
Do you have a link that talks about a patent for the Google home page?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+patent+homepage
n/t
I'm fairly sure that the lady who sits at the desk behind me at work uses an FTP client to upload orders to one of our suppliers. God knows why it happens that way.
Agree. My Macbook pro has gone sluggish as hell (FF 3.6) scrolling through this thread. Based on what others are saying, the mobile version must work better, so maybe I'll just move /. viewing to other devices. Once I get a new pair of glasses.
I should add (for full disclosure) that I just edited the entry for minor aspects of appearance (added a list where there previously was a paragraph of list items) and for clarity. If you disagree with any of the changes I made, obviously feel free to revert them; I don't think that they are in any way controversial, however.
See the discussion page of that wikipedia entry. The article has been changed several times by people saying what each of us are saying here: (1) that the order doesn't matter due to the mutual exclusivity of the ongoing state and the disruptive action; or/and (b) the time line that was reversed at some point in the history of the phrase, thus making the phrase (apparently) nonsensical.
None of the links on that page show if the phrase was ever directly translated into another language at any point in its history, which may have been interesting. However, it seems to me that it makes complete sense in its current form.
Shrug.
If the students didn't have to spend so much on textbooks, the universities could squeeze more tuition out of them.
Universities are often managed as businesses. Let them act like ones and help their customers.
Exactly-- I can easily imagine a member of the textbook writing university consortium charging a flat fee ($400/semester?) to all students for the extra work that some professors would be supported to do.
The state of having the cake is ongoing; the action of eating the cake interrupts that state. Thus, the action (that is coincidentally placed second in the sentence. Tricky!) disrupts the state of being.
For instance: You can't fly a plane and have it blown up by a surface to air missile too.
Golf clap. It would have taken me around 13 years to come up with that, too.
Usually stores do have the facility for the check-out person to enter the code and weigh the fruit themselves at the checkout, but as they only do this when tourists come to town (or the OAPs who forget) they don't remember the codes off the top of their heads and have to spend a while looking them up.
I really like the places in France (usually) that have a guy (person) in the fruit and veg section doing the weighing for you-- he's fast, he's accurate, and thus everything moves more quickly.
I've always wondered where the name comes from. Now I know. Thanks Wikipedia!
Neil Armstrong? The ISS? Spirit and Oportunity? Phoenix Lander?
That's zero compared to this? Christ, you could be a figure skating judge.
I use Opera for porn, Firefox for 'clean' stuff, and Safari for work. Nobody need get embarrassed, unless I accidentally open the wrong one for the wrong task.
Because that's how cold his freezer got, and the reviewer was too lazy to go to a testing lab (or he didn't want his ice cream to get freezer burn)? I don't know as I DNRTFA.
Hmm. I boarded a flight on Dec. 24, sitting in seat 27C. As I got on the plane and handed the ticked to the member of cabin crew (having already had this boarding pass scanned at least twice) for her to direct me to my seat, she pointed it to me, and then did a double take.
"Sorry," she said, "I thought your ticked was for December 27, not row 27."
Now, either she was tired, or that's something that happens sometimes. Anybody know?
This is an article about Wikipedia. I'm sure that the Britannica spokesperson said other things (positive about themselves) but this article isn't about Britannica. If you (gasp) read the article, you'll see that, in fact, the Britannica people didn't only talk smack about Wikipedia, and in fact said "But Britannica and Wikipedia should not be seen as direct competitors. Wikipedia, he said, had made the use of encyclopaedias "trendy and popular" with young people, which could only benefit Britannica's subscription-led service."
My experience is with large UK universities and small American liberal arts colleges. My liberal arts college blocked torrents if you weren't paying attention, but there were enough workarounds that effectively you could do anything you wanted to. Both of the large British University networks that I've used have almost completely blocked everything except for http. Where I am now, they allow Skype, but that's the exception-- almost nothing else is allowed.
The GP was commenting on the fact that once you find the record you want, Google asks if you want to be connected to that number. How do payphones deal with this?
Almost all airlines charge a little more for better comfort/service. First/business/premier class does exactly that. Unfortunately, most of us can't afford it...
Brilliant vid. Thanks. It was kind of poignant to see Richard Hammond while the other presenter (the one I don't like) was saying "All of our big projects end in failure" or something to that effect.
Actually... That tells us that individuals owned their own boats (indicates government policies, distribution of weatlth), that their use was restricted by the government (it had enforcement resources), that boats were used for seasonal commerce/pleasure, etc. Boring shit matters.
Oh, America! We should stop using cell phone plans because it appears that the Bush administration is looking through our phone records. Oh well, at least the solution is simple.
I don't know about that-- I download movies for a mixture of the two reasons-- firstly, buying movies would be extremely expensive (so I would cut back on consumption), but that's a different matter. I just don't have any need at all for physical media. I have a TV, but it's smaller than my computer monitor and it has no inputs other than the cable (ie, no VHS or DVD player). The DVD player on my computer is not in great shape (it has crapped out on me in the middle of a few movies-- I never have finished the Godfather for that reason) and I see no reason to involve an additional mechanical component to the movie-watching process if there doesn't need to be one. Additionally of course, when I leave my desktop behind and travel with my laptop, why should I have to choose which movies to bring with me if I can carry them all on the laptop?
To sum up, I have bandwidth and hard-drive space, but I don't have physical space to keep media or the means to effectively watch it. As I see it, the cost of bandwidth and hard-drive space is only going down, and so more and more people will be in my situation.
For me, illegally downloading provides a far superior product than legally purchasing movies-- even when cost is no consideration. Until the movie studios realize that (and it sounds like they may soon) why should I buy a movie?
Many universities (mine did for a while, I don't think they still do) seem to throttle torrent downloads. It's just another way of slowing the download down, but the point isn't to end downloading completely, it's to make it so slow as to be more trouble than it's worth (sure, I'm willing to leave my computer on for a week to dowload all 20-something James Bond movies, but the same amount of time to download the High School Musical soundtrack-- now that's too much!). (sadly, both things I've downloaded recently.)