There are times when Google doesn't hold top results. A Google search for "email"/"e-mail" has a top result linking to Yahoo. A search for "directions" links to Mapquest and Yahoo Maps before Google Maps. For "driving directions" it links to those two plus two more sites first. Google Maps is currently the top result for maps, but I recall it not being a few months ago. "News" links to CNN and FoxNews first. "Search Engine" links to MSN Search before itself.
About your specific evidence:
However, if you search for "spreadsheet" on google, there isn't even a link to Microsoft in the first 10 UNPAID links. 4 of the first 10 results link to sites about google spreadsheet, and 3 of the first 10 to sites about Excel
And if you search for "spreadsheet" on MSN Live, there isn't even a link to Microsoft in the first 10 UNPAID links. 3 of the first 10 results link to sites about google spreadsheet, and 1 of the first 10 to sites about Excel.
If you search for "web search" on MSN, 4 of the first 10 links are for google, with 1 link to MSN live.
If you search for "web search" on Google, there seems to be an avoidance of repeats. After Yahoo and AltaVista, Google does link to itself, with MSN Search on the page.
There might be some biasing (I can't bring myself to think this is altogether a heinous thing, myself) but it doesn't seem to be all that hard-and-fast.
1. You have just proved yourself a liar. You go from "Not once was the word cast used" to telling me who used it.
2. If the new story is true, you've proved my point: it's possible to use the term "cast" to refer to deposited-in-place concrete.
I'm not trying to say cast is the best word or an extremely common word. But it is sometimes used to mean it by people in the industry (no matter how big of assholes they may be).
I'm not trying to argue that the word cast is just constantly used to talk about placing concrete or anything. It doesn't, however, require the alternitive meaning ascribed it by the poster I originally replied to. If you were building/setting up forms structural concrete, it's very, very likely you were conforming to ACI-318, which seems willing to call part of the process casting.
Forming, rather than casting? In my experience with structural concrete (which is not all that much: I am an undergraduate structural engineerning student) I have encountered the term cast used with concrete. I have heard "cast-in-place" contrasted with precast concrete.
The ACI Committee 318 Building Code defines "Precast concrete" as "Structural concrete element cast elsewhere than its final position in the structure," which would suggest to me that structural concrete members that are not precast are indeed cast in their final positions.
These sort of attacks on the Second Life grid are a pretty regular occurance, most frequently towards the end of the weekend when the malefactors figure plenty of people are on and the folks from Linden Labs are mostly not on duty.
I would not say I am completely aware of what a year of probability would accomplish, but I have read a couple pure probability texts (I cannot name them offhand, but it wasn't Feller's texts). Didn't absorb all the well, but did get a feel for what probability theory looks like. I cannot imagine how this should be prerequisite to a first computational statistics course.
I'm not saying probability theory is not important to computer science. I'm just still wondering how two semesters of it need to be done before basic computational statistics may be taught.
A year of Probability Theory? I simply cannot imagine needing a two semester of probability theory before a statistical analysis course. A pure probability course at a low level lacks a sense of motivation without crossing over into statistics, and a pure probability course at a higher level is unnecessary for basic statistics.
I cannot speak to what a CS degree should encompass, precisely (My field is civil and structural engineering; I have had some, though little, experience in the programming industry," but I suspect you are quite wrong about what is needed. Certainly for other sciences, I believe you are. All that is intended is a primer on these topics. Students will eventually end up doing something specific and will at that point develop more advanced understandings of what their actual tasks are.
Ideally all topics would be covered in-depth, but they cannot be.
That sounds right; thanks for the correction. Point is, there are intended to be ways for people other than children in developing countries to get these through approved means.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/plans/default.aspx?pl ancategory=7
Does that not list data-only plans?
I can get there right now. They seem to be performing maintainance this morning, and that might have resulted in the website being down earlier.
If people do have LaTeX, you just give them the .tex source file?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gay
The definition (3) under the first few.
1000 times? Nano is just trying to be pico but doesn't go the whole way!
Their developments, insofar as they aren't obvious, would be patentable. Others would be free to patent very different warp drives.
About your specific evidence:
And if you search for "spreadsheet" on MSN Live, there isn't even a link to Microsoft in the first 10 UNPAID links.
3 of the first 10 results link to sites about google spreadsheet, and 1 of the first 10 to sites about Excel.
If you search for "web search" on Google, there seems to be an avoidance of repeats. After Yahoo and AltaVista, Google does link to itself, with MSN Search on the page.
There might be some biasing (I can't bring myself to think this is altogether a heinous thing, myself) but it doesn't seem to be all that hard-and-fast.
1. You have just proved yourself a liar. You go from "Not once was the word cast used" to telling me who used it.
2. If the new story is true, you've proved my point: it's possible to use the term "cast" to refer to deposited-in-place concrete.
I'm not trying to say cast is the best word or an extremely common word. But it is sometimes used to mean it by people in the industry (no matter how big of assholes they may be).
I'm not trying to argue that the word cast is just constantly used to talk about placing concrete or anything. It doesn't, however, require the alternitive meaning ascribed it by the poster I originally replied to. If you were building/setting up forms structural concrete, it's very, very likely you were conforming to ACI-318, which seems willing to call part of the process casting.
Forming, rather than casting? In my experience with structural concrete (which is not all that much: I am an undergraduate structural engineerning student) I have encountered the term cast used with concrete. I have heard "cast-in-place" contrasted with precast concrete.
The ACI Committee 318 Building Code defines "Precast concrete" as "Structural concrete element cast elsewhere than its final position in the structure," which would suggest to me that structural concrete members that are not precast are indeed cast in their final positions.
It's a famous Henry Ford quote (or at least it is attributed to him) regarding the Model T.
From the summary, it seems the argument made is not about Valve getting their money, but rather Valve getting their information.
I feel like the only person in the world who has looked at Second Life and had absolutely zero interest in it.
If you had RTFA, you would have seen acknowledgement that it's not for many people, Anshe stating that 90% of people don't get it and drop out.
Though they can now paint their black cars by laser.
Any color you want, so long as it's black.
I own plenty of things I didn't invent. They are my belongings, still.
These sort of attacks on the Second Life grid are a pretty regular occurance, most frequently towards the end of the weekend when the malefactors figure plenty of people are on and the folks from Linden Labs are mostly not on duty.
The analogy isn't completely balanced. nano and pico are virtually identical, where mutt doesn't attempt to be exactly like pine.
This may be possible in Europe, but I don't believe it's possible in the U.S. anymore.
Naw, I downloaded a copy of the Anarchist's cookbook and Cap'n crunch assures me that I can still do this with a #4BA024 box.
I would not say I am completely aware of what a year of probability would accomplish, but I have read a couple pure probability texts (I cannot name them offhand, but it wasn't Feller's texts). Didn't absorb all the well, but did get a feel for what probability theory looks like. I cannot imagine how this should be prerequisite to a first computational statistics course.
I'm not saying probability theory is not important to computer science. I'm just still wondering how two semesters of it need to be done before basic computational statistics may be taught.
A year of Probability Theory? I simply cannot imagine needing a two semester of probability theory before a statistical analysis course. A pure probability course at a low level lacks a sense of motivation without crossing over into statistics, and a pure probability course at a higher level is unnecessary for basic statistics.
I cannot speak to what a CS degree should encompass, precisely (My field is civil and structural engineering; I have had some, though little, experience in the programming industry," but I suspect you are quite wrong about what is needed. Certainly for other sciences, I believe you are. All that is intended is a primer on these topics. Students will eventually end up doing something specific and will at that point develop more advanced understandings of what their actual tasks are.
Ideally all topics would be covered in-depth, but they cannot be.
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Until someone's traveling companion wants to watch, too.
That sounds right; thanks for the correction. Point is, there are intended to be ways for people other than children in developing countries to get these through approved means.
Last I heard, rich, 1st-world type folks are supposed to be able to buy them for $200.