Your parent poster was talking about AdSense, not AdWords. AdWords's clickthrough rate will remain steady because people trust the ads that appear on www.google.com and because the ads are not very "novel" to Google users any more. As soon as another large advertiser copies AdSense's format without supplying ads as relevant as AdSense ads, AdSense ads will lose both novelty and trust.
You can stop doubleclick.net from resolving to its normal address using a "hosts" file on both Linux and Windows. I think Linux also gives you a way to block ip addresses, but I'm not familiar with it.
It is not necessarily true that the highest bidder is in the first position.
But it is the ad that makes Google the most money (clickthrough rate * cents per click). Even though Google's ordering of ads tends to produce relevant results, you can't use it as evidence that Google isn't greedy.
Under current law, distributing 10 unauthorized copies of a work with a retail value of more than $2,500 is a felony -- provided that prosecutors can show that the distribution was done deliberately and with an intent to violate copyrights.
The Conyers-Berman bill would equate offering one or more works for others to copy the equivalent of distributing 10 copies worth more than $2,500.
"When someone makes available to 300 million people a new movie I think it's a pretty fair assumption that at least 10 copies are going to be downloaded," said Fritz Attaway of the Motion Picture Assn. of America. "And when somebody does that, that's grand theft."
Is that really the MPAA's argument? Has Fritz Attaway heard of pyramid schemes, and does he understand why they do not work in the long run?
The one that doesn't allow you to get actual rendered layout values?
Mozilla supports getComputedStyle (W3C) and offsetWidth/offsetHeight/offsetParent (not W3C, I think). What other "actual rendered layout values" do you want?
The Google Toolbar fails with many bookmarklets. It blocks windows created by bookmarklets if the bookmarklet takes a long time to compute what it's going to put in the new window (e.g. "linked images") or if it has a prompt (e.g. "search links", "clone slowly") before it creates the window.
This further discourages players from engaging in PVP combat, but it does help real life's rapidly growing player population from getting too out of hand (though eventually there will be a need for additional servers).
Some players insist that additional servers already exist, and that it is the players' responsibility to explore and "settle" them in order to guard against catastrophe and ensure that there are sufficient resources for new players. Skeptics point to extreme lag between the existing server and the suggested new host: ping times are measured in minutes, and player transfer could take months.
Almost all browsers list "Mozilla" in their UA strings. That's because Netscape 1 did. (Mozilla was the codename for the original Netscape, or something like that.)
Similarly, when Star Trek's "holodeck" appeared, it bore no resemblance to anything tangible. These days it is known as the precursor of augmented/virtual reality applications such as virtual surgery or holographic simulation training programs. Although the way we embrace technology once science catches up is often at odds with the way it was depicted on screen, there's a lot to be said for the genre's foresight.
Or maybe we don't have holodecks like in star trek because technology hasn't caught up yet.
"Just Working" would mean interpreting HTML but not allowing it to run JavaScript, Java, or cause anything to load from a server. Displaying raw HTML code is not the right thing to do.
Opera usually (always?) appends "Opera" to user-agent strings it sends other than its own. So good server side detection can determine how many users are using Opera, but not which version of Opera they are using.
Pocket.txt is a small dictionary that is missing plurals and some common words. I chose it for a wordtris-like game I wrote because OSPD contained too many words I hadn't heard of, and that made the game suck. OSPD would be more appropriate for the kind of puzzle described in this thread.
I don't know whether mozgest is one of the extensions that causes Mozilla to crash when the extension is used with the wrong version of Mozilla (because it uses unfrozen XPCOM interfaces, or something like that). Based on your comment, I'll guess that it is.
Had you installed any extensions in 1.3.1 or earlier, such as spell checker? I think that's the only case where upgrading crashes. (It's bad that it crashes in that case, but it's not as bad as crashing on any upgrade from 1.3.1 to 1.4.)
5. Non-fantasy or non-science fiction oriented names from popular fiction or non-fiction media either fictional or non-fictional (e.g. Bill Clinton, Austin Powers, Britneyspears, Harrypotter)
10. Fantasy-oriented names that are easily recognized from popular existing media (e.g. Gandalf, Pikachu, Drizzt, Godzilla, Aslan).
Are they saying the Harry Potter books are "popular fiction" but not "fantasy"? Isn't it possible to be both?
I think they mean "don't distribute old data". I doubt they care how long you keep data in your browser cache or PDA. You don't have permission to distribute scraped data, so I don't see how scraping gives you an advantage.
I think you mean up+enter, not down+enter. If you use down+enter, you'll have to hit down several times if the URLs of any sites you've visited match your search text.
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Your parent poster was talking about AdSense, not AdWords. AdWords's clickthrough rate will remain steady because people trust the ads that appear on www.google.com and because the ads are not very "novel" to Google users any more. As soon as another large advertiser copies AdSense's format without supplying ads as relevant as AdSense ads, AdSense ads will lose both novelty and trust.
You can stop doubleclick.net from resolving to its normal address using a "hosts" file on both Linux and Windows. I think Linux also gives you a way to block ip addresses, but I'm not familiar with it.
2. But search for "apples" and you'll find plenty of pages about the fruit.
It is not necessarily true that the highest bidder is in the first position.
But it is the ad that makes Google the most money (clickthrough rate * cents per click). Even though Google's ordering of ads tends to produce relevant results, you can't use it as evidence that Google isn't greedy.
From an LA Times article (reg req):
Under current law, distributing 10 unauthorized copies of a work with a retail value of more than $2,500 is a felony -- provided that prosecutors can show that the distribution was done deliberately and with an intent to violate copyrights.
The Conyers-Berman bill would equate offering one or more works for others to copy the equivalent of distributing 10 copies worth more than $2,500.
"When someone makes available to 300 million people a new movie I think it's a pretty fair assumption that at least 10 copies are going to be downloaded," said Fritz Attaway of the Motion Picture Assn. of America. "And when somebody does that, that's grand theft."
Is that really the MPAA's argument? Has Fritz Attaway heard of pyramid schemes, and does he understand why they do not work in the long run?
I have seen the future and it is unstoppable flash popups!
If Macromedia doesn't fix that, more and more people will disable/uninstall flash.
The one that doesn't allow you to get actual rendered layout values?
Mozilla supports getComputedStyle (W3C) and offsetWidth/offsetHeight/offsetParent (not W3C, I think). What other "actual rendered layout values" do you want?
The Google Toolbar fails with many bookmarklets. It blocks windows created by bookmarklets if the bookmarklet takes a long time to compute what it's going to put in the new window (e.g. "linked images") or if it has a prompt (e.g. "search links", "clone slowly") before it creates the window.
This further discourages players from engaging in PVP combat, but it does help real life's rapidly growing player population from getting too out of hand (though eventually there will be a need for additional servers).
Some players insist that additional servers already exist, and that it is the players' responsibility to explore and "settle" them in order to guard against catastrophe and ensure that there are sufficient resources for new players. Skeptics point to extreme lag between the existing server and the suggested new host: ping times are measured in minutes, and player transfer could take months.
Do they link to their foreign distributors or do they just say "We only ship within the USA"?
Almost all browsers list "Mozilla" in their UA strings. That's because Netscape 1 did. (Mozilla was the codename for the original Netscape, or something like that.)
Similarly, when Star Trek's "holodeck" appeared, it bore no resemblance to anything tangible. These days it is known as the precursor of augmented/virtual reality applications such as virtual surgery or holographic simulation training programs. Although the way we embrace technology once science catches up is often at odds with the way it was depicted on screen, there's a lot to be said for the genre's foresight.
Or maybe we don't have holodecks like in star trek because technology hasn't caught up yet.
Doh, you're right. It adds "Opera 7.11 [en]" to the end, not just "Opera".
If the best product for your needs calls itself an "alpha release", why not use it?
"Just Working" would mean interpreting HTML but not allowing it to run JavaScript, Java, or cause anything to load from a server. Displaying raw HTML code is not the right thing to do.
Opera usually (always?) appends "Opera" to user-agent strings it sends other than its own. So good server side detection can determine how many users are using Opera, but not which version of Opera they are using.
Pocket.txt is a small dictionary that is missing plurals and some common words. I chose it for a wordtris-like game I wrote because OSPD contained too many words I hadn't heard of, and that made the game suck. OSPD would be more appropriate for the kind of puzzle described in this thread.
grep "^K...$" pocket.txt > k4.txt
The ones I recognized were keel, keen, keep, kelp, kick, kill, kiln, kilo, kilt, kind, king, kink, kiss, kite, knee, knew, knit, knob, knot, know.
I don't know whether mozgest is one of the extensions that causes Mozilla to crash when the extension is used with the wrong version of Mozilla (because it uses unfrozen XPCOM interfaces, or something like that). Based on your comment, I'll guess that it is.
Can bittorrent URLs contain checksums? I think it's a bad idea to give out P2P urls that don't contain checksums.
Had you installed any extensions in 1.3.1 or earlier, such as spell checker? I think that's the only case where upgrading crashes. (It's bad that it crashes in that case, but it's not as bad as crashing on any upgrade from 1.3.1 to 1.4.)
5. Non-fantasy or non-science fiction oriented names from popular fiction or non-fiction media either fictional or non-fictional (e.g. Bill Clinton, Austin Powers, Britneyspears, Harrypotter)
10. Fantasy-oriented names that are easily recognized from popular existing media (e.g. Gandalf, Pikachu, Drizzt, Godzilla, Aslan).
Are they saying the Harry Potter books are "popular fiction" but not "fantasy"? Isn't it possible to be both?
I think they mean "don't distribute old data". I doubt they care how long you keep data in your browser cache or PDA. You don't have permission to distribute scraped data, so I don't see how scraping gives you an advantage.
If you want updates on nightlies:
a %2Fbrowser+mozilla%2Ftoolkit&date=week
Mozilla builds forum
Firebird builds forum
Firebird checkins: http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsquery.cgi?dir=mozill
I think you mean up+enter, not down+enter. If you use down+enter, you'll have to hit down several times if the URLs of any sites you've visited match your search text.