I just need to convince the boss higher ups that Outlook sucks ass (not hard...) and one of those would be much nicer whenever Google finally gets them out of beta...
I'm not sure it'll be as easy as you expect... I find that MSN consistently outperforms Google on search and newsbot. Imho, odds are greater that your boss will wait until MS releases a new Outlook, with a built-in search tool and a conversation finder that will be more relevant than those in Gmail.
"Its easy to get angry with MAPS, but they're just publishing a list"
Agreed. And likewise, we should go easy on weapon vendors and on murderers. After all, the first just sell guns, and the second just pull triggers. It's the bullets who do the killing.
"There are no workable solutions, whilst e-mail is an unprotected, plain-text, unvalidated, unauthenticated service."
If a bot spams from your PC using your ISP's mail server, I see no reason a protected, rich-text (?), validated, authenticated service will change this.
I noticed a slight increase in the number of advertisements I see lately. It's up to a few per week, from zero.
I see two culprits, and this new popup blocking feature stops neither:
- Advertisers are steering clear of 'ad' and 'click' in their naming conventions, and some are even using their customers' image file or directory to display ads, in order to dodge host file-based and regexp-based ad blocking
- Floating DHTML divs are becoming widespread and are not blocked -- and probably cannot be blocked -- by current popup blocking techniques
Increasingly, setting the css display to none would be necessary for paths and sequences such as/html/body/div#body/div#sponsor, and this would assume the #sponsor id is not variable.
We've a positively irrelevant methodology that leads to the presentation of a proof (as in the Cmabrigde uinervtisy rscheearch), and the meaningless proof is then served to customers as a sales argument. Isn't this a little bit of a fraud?
More precise:
Stopping to read upon seeing the top results doesn't mean you found what you're looking for; more likely, you quickly scan the first results, conclude on the relevance of your query, sometimes click on the first just in case, and search again.
But the Enquiro research merely emphasizes that users click on the first result -- a reasonably obvious result don't you think? -- and do not explore why users do so.
Moreover, the Enquiro research does not mention the conversion rate. Whereas, this is very much the only thing that counts if you're a webmaster.
Now, it is worth noting here that given 10 powerpoint slides, you tend to remember the first few and the last few. It is a perfectly normal pattern: It comes from 10 being greater than 7, plus or minus 2 -- the maximum number of items a typical individual can manipulate.
Likewise, if you feed 10 search results to a visitor, expect him to remember the first few (stored for comparing with the next result), the last few (the last seen), and one or two in the middle (the ones that left him least indifferent).
Likewise, when it comes to choosing which product to buy, expect a few visitors to go for one of the first results. But as the visitor compares more products, he is also more likely to act consistently and buy. Thus, expect many more to go for the last result, or for the last result left him least indifferent.
Funny... The very reason I'm no longer buying computer games is because there's no game left -- only sounds I turn off and graphics that slow down my PC. I cannot name a computer game that was worth more than an hour of my time lately.
That to say, if a new RPG came out with animated heads and printed out text, I'd certainly look at it, and I'd probably buy it, because I haven't found anything worth my time or my money since Ultima7 -- er, actually I did find Angband, but it is special.
It would be like starting up a new websoftware company called eMicrosoft. OO i wonder who would sue me then!
Your being scared of MS would come from living in the US and hosting your site in the US.
If you were a Chinese hosting a site in China, things would be different. China barely recognizes patents, copyrights and trademarks; and you could imagine changing hosts, owner and country -- say... Russia or some random African state -- every so many years to make things even more complicated.
In such a setup, Hasbro would have gotten so much mockery and difficulty to come to their ends that they may have reconsidered their decision to sue in the first place. Just a thought.
actually, it's more recent. he created the company, and he is still funding it at a loss.
note that amusingly enough, his company might actually survive him. his above average bullying skills and his excellence at blackmailing make him rather good at closing sales. thus, he might actually manage to sign enough customers to raise funds.
Why does someone always say it's the teacher's fault?
Here's my suggestion: It's the kid's fault. If you choose to not pay attention in class, that's YOUR fault. No one else's. Enough of the bullshit about teachers needing new methods and ways to make learning fun. Sure, those help, but frankly, if the student has no work ethic, he/she isn't going to learn.
I met a CEO one day whose leadership skills were so horrendous that his employees left about as fast as they came. In spite of this, he told whoever would listen that his employees were just lazy and had no ethic.
Moreover, it worsened with time. His high school girl friend, who sincerily loved him at a time, eventually swapped her comfortable situation for a fast food job. Needless to say, he prefered to believe she left for new horizons.
That to say: When a bad teacher turns a topic into the most boring and unintersting course ever, it is also -- and probably mostly -- the bad teacher's fault when a student's mind wanders away. And most teachers, well... they simply suck.
This is just so weird. As far as I remember, Emile Durkheim theorized how and why it is potentially valid to do this kind of population sampling, stat crunching, and infering a century ago. And in doing so, he was mostly finishing the work that Karl Marx started roughly 50 years before him.
Why on earth should amazon be awarded a patent for reinventing sociology?
I must have missed something. I remember reading somewhere in the GPL license that you need to distribute the source code along with the program... I do not recall, however, that the program and its source should be free (as in costless). Nor do I recall that the source code should be readily released to the community.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe are all the following are valid:
- Under the GPL, I can take your code, modify it for my usage, and never release the end result to you or anybody else. Your code is released under the GPL, which sets limits to the way I distribute work based on yours. Not to the way I use it.
- Under the GPL, I can take your code and sell it to my customers, as long as I release your code to my customers. Moreover, I can sell them the upgrades and bug corrections that you release. Sure, some customers will become aware of this and will download your code for free, since it is there to grab. But most won't, because they won't be aware it exists or where to download it in the first place.
- Under the GPL, I can take your code, modify it, and sell it to my customers, as long as I release the resulting code to my customers. Arguably, they must release their source code if they build on top of it and decide to distribute the finished product, since mine and yours are released under the GPL. But they also have the right to never release the work I did to you or to anybody else. And most will, especially if the resulting code is specific to their business processes.
GCC will not ship Boost. Or glibc. Or libAPR. Or OpenSSL. Or any of the other million very useful open source libraries out there, because that's not our job.
Delivering VB with an IDE and a bunch of libraries is what turned the... thing?... into a huge success. GCC, the developpers behind it, and the developpers who use it deserve more than silly statements such as this one.
Well... There are cheap coders. e.g. rentacoder.com
Frankly, I'm quite amazed that open-source projects don't use services such as these more often. Bugzilla could probably use more integration with these kinds services (say... as a web service). In addition to the "vote for this bug" feature, you could put an "add to the bounty" feature. That should solve most Gnome issues at blazing speed, with the proper integration. Moreover, Microsoft would likely have serious trouble competing with the model, and I might even give Linux another try and consider not calling it a sucky OS.
As point out by B. Franklin if I recall correctly, my freedom of speech is meaningless if I cannot use it to say things you do not want to hear. And the first amendment is there to protect the freedom of speech and the freedom of press against laws made by congress.
Moreover, several occasions in your history -- Watergate? -- should remind you that investigations are not all bad.
Err... I do not recall journalism was about dutifully repeating whatever crap public relation specialists hand over. And news has nothing to do with the public good.
As far as I know, the news business is about revealing new, factual pieces of information to an audience that is interested by these facts.
Sadly, this includes otherwise secret and private matters such as trade secrets and white house oral sex scandals where such an audience exists.
As for whether there is a right to reveal news in the first place, that is an entirely different question. If anything, I'd guess this question will sprout during the legal debate.
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I'm not sure it'll be as easy as you expect... I find that MSN consistently outperforms Google on search and newsbot. Imho, odds are greater that your boss will wait until MS releases a new Outlook, with a built-in search tool and a conversation finder that will be more relevant than those in Gmail.
Only a poorly marketed one...
"Its easy to get angry with MAPS, but they're just publishing a list"
Agreed. And likewise, we should go easy on weapon vendors and on murderers. After all, the first just sell guns, and the second just pull triggers. It's the bullets who do the killing.
Mmm... Did that sound wrong?
"There are no workable solutions, whilst e-mail is an unprotected, plain-text, unvalidated, unauthenticated service."
If a bot spams from your PC using your ISP's mail server, I see no reason a protected, rich-text (?), validated, authenticated service will change this.
http://www.taubmansucks.com/Act108.html
Office and Zangband will now run faster on my computer. Yay!
Maybe because pagead*.googlesyndication.com blocks a major sponsor's revenue stream.
I noticed a slight increase in the number of advertisements I see lately. It's up to a few per week, from zero.
/html/body/div#body/div#sponsor, and this would assume the #sponsor id is not variable.
I see two culprits, and this new popup blocking feature stops neither:
- Advertisers are steering clear of 'ad' and 'click' in their naming conventions, and some are even using their customers' image file or directory to display ads, in order to dodge host file-based and regexp-based ad blocking
- Floating DHTML divs are becoming widespread and are not blocked -- and probably cannot be blocked -- by current popup blocking techniques
Increasingly, setting the css display to none would be necessary for paths and sequences such as
As I reply on my blog:
We've a positively irrelevant methodology that leads to the presentation of a proof (as in the Cmabrigde uinervtisy rscheearch), and the meaningless proof is then served to customers as a sales argument. Isn't this a little bit of a fraud?
More precise:
Stopping to read upon seeing the top results doesn't mean you found what you're looking for; more likely, you quickly scan the first results, conclude on the relevance of your query, sometimes click on the first just in case, and search again.
But the Enquiro research merely emphasizes that users click on the first result -- a reasonably obvious result don't you think? -- and do not explore why users do so.
Moreover, the Enquiro research does not mention the conversion rate. Whereas, this is very much the only thing that counts if you're a webmaster.
Now, it is worth noting here that given 10 powerpoint slides, you tend to remember the first few and the last few. It is a perfectly normal pattern: It comes from 10 being greater than 7, plus or minus 2 -- the maximum number of items a typical individual can manipulate.
Likewise, if you feed 10 search results to a visitor, expect him to remember the first few (stored for comparing with the next result), the last few (the last seen), and one or two in the middle (the ones that left him least indifferent).
Likewise, when it comes to choosing which product to buy, expect a few visitors to go for one of the first results. But as the visitor compares more products, he is also more likely to act consistently and buy. Thus, expect many more to go for the last result, or for the last result left him least indifferent.
extensive studies from third parties on what people look at and do when they search on google
Do you mean this hoax?
The most efficient way to make money is to make people work for you.
Ever got a chance to meditate the above statement? Give it a try.
When you're done, consider how wrong it is to compare a creative genius who is seeking an employer and a sweatshop worker who has one.
Funny... The very reason I'm no longer buying computer games is because there's no game left -- only sounds I turn off and graphics that slow down my PC. I cannot name a computer game that was worth more than an hour of my time lately.
That to say, if a new RPG came out with animated heads and printed out text, I'd certainly look at it, and I'd probably buy it, because I haven't found anything worth my time or my money since Ultima7 -- er, actually I did find Angband, but it is special.
It would be like starting up a new websoftware company called eMicrosoft. OO i wonder who would sue me then!
Your being scared of MS would come from living in the US and hosting your site in the US.
If you were a Chinese hosting a site in China, things would be different. China barely recognizes patents, copyrights and trademarks; and you could imagine changing hosts, owner and country -- say... Russia or some random African state -- every so many years to make things even more complicated.
In such a setup, Hasbro would have gotten so much mockery and difficulty to come to their ends that they may have reconsidered their decision to sue in the first place. Just a thought.
actually, it's more recent. he created the company, and he is still funding it at a loss.
note that amusingly enough, his company might actually survive him. his above average bullying skills and his excellence at blackmailing make him rather good at closing sales. thus, he might actually manage to sign enough customers to raise funds.
Why does someone always say it's the teacher's fault?
Here's my suggestion: It's the kid's fault. If you choose to not pay attention in class, that's YOUR fault. No one else's. Enough of the bullshit about teachers needing new methods and ways to make learning fun. Sure, those help, but frankly, if the student has no work ethic, he/she isn't going to learn.
I met a CEO one day whose leadership skills were so horrendous that his employees left about as fast as they came. In spite of this, he told whoever would listen that his employees were just lazy and had no ethic.
Moreover, it worsened with time. His high school girl friend, who sincerily loved him at a time, eventually swapped her comfortable situation for a fast food job. Needless to say, he prefered to believe she left for new horizons.
That to say: When a bad teacher turns a topic into the most boring and unintersting course ever, it is also -- and probably mostly -- the bad teacher's fault when a student's mind wanders away. And most teachers, well... they simply suck.
This is just so weird. As far as I remember, Emile Durkheim theorized how and why it is potentially valid to do this kind of population sampling, stat crunching, and infering a century ago. And in doing so, he was mostly finishing the work that Karl Marx started roughly 50 years before him.
Why on earth should amazon be awarded a patent for reinventing sociology?
I must have missed something. I remember reading somewhere in the GPL license that you need to distribute the source code along with the program... I do not recall, however, that the program and its source should be free (as in costless). Nor do I recall that the source code should be readily released to the community.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe are all the following are valid:
- Under the GPL, I can take your code, modify it for my usage, and never release the end result to you or anybody else. Your code is released under the GPL, which sets limits to the way I distribute work based on yours. Not to the way I use it.
- Under the GPL, I can take your code and sell it to my customers, as long as I release your code to my customers. Moreover, I can sell them the upgrades and bug corrections that you release. Sure, some customers will become aware of this and will download your code for free, since it is there to grab. But most won't, because they won't be aware it exists or where to download it in the first place.
- Under the GPL, I can take your code, modify it, and sell it to my customers, as long as I release the resulting code to my customers. Arguably, they must release their source code if they build on top of it and decide to distribute the finished product, since mine and yours are released under the GPL. But they also have the right to never release the work I did to you or to anybody else. And most will, especially if the resulting code is specific to their business processes.
Delivering VB with an IDE and a bunch of libraries is what turned the... thing?... into a huge success. GCC, the developpers behind it, and the developpers who use it deserve more than silly statements such as this one.
Well... There are cheap coders. e.g. rentacoder.com
Frankly, I'm quite amazed that open-source projects don't use services such as these more often. Bugzilla could probably use more integration with these kinds services (say... as a web service). In addition to the "vote for this bug" feature, you could put an "add to the bounty" feature. That should solve most Gnome issues at blazing speed, with the proper integration. Moreover, Microsoft would likely have serious trouble competing with the model, and I might even give Linux another try and consider not calling it a sucky OS.
Actually...
;)
Within core networks, VoIP is no issue: there's no bottleneck. Most if not all carriers route your phone calls using VoIP at one point or another.
Within corporate environments, VoIP isn't much of an issue either -- given sufficient bandwidth.
As for consumers, err... well, they'll have to wait.
I'd rather say the biggest issue is making money out of suicide. As in:
- Promoting suicide methods and selling the relevant products on the same web site
- Offering chat rooms where suicide candidates can meet
- Offering a space where the later can watch each other kill themselves
Some of the above are not exactly assisting the suicide candidate. However, they all contribute to more suicides.
I'd be quite sure they will too.
Likewise, the court decided bloggers are not journalists.
But that doesn't mean I agree with the court. Nor does it mean that its opinion is relevant.
A real journalist is there to deliver the information his audience wants, no matter how sensitive. This is what a scoop is all about.
Please read some history.
I do...
As point out by B. Franklin if I recall correctly, my freedom of speech is meaningless if I cannot use it to say things you do not want to hear. And the first amendment is there to protect the freedom of speech and the freedom of press against laws made by congress.
Moreover, several occasions in your history -- Watergate? -- should remind you that investigations are not all bad.
Err... I do not recall journalism was about dutifully repeating whatever crap public relation specialists hand over. And news has nothing to do with the public good.
As far as I know, the news business is about revealing new, factual pieces of information to an audience that is interested by these facts.
Sadly, this includes otherwise secret and private matters such as trade secrets and white house oral sex scandals where such an audience exists.
As for whether there is a right to reveal news in the first place, that is an entirely different question. If anything, I'd guess this question will sprout during the legal debate.