Exactly. Only we elite slashdotters know about these things called "search engines", everyone else just types random names in their address bars. Therefore the sole purpose of TLDs is to make searching for websites easier.
The guy's making some good software (along with others) and he's giving it away freely (speech and beer). He just wanted to make some money. It's sad that now a lot of bad reputation is coming to him along with that money. I for one won't think of him badly. Quote:
The articles are given to him by Hot Nacho, a startup that pays freelance writers to generate 300-800 word articles about specific topics. All advertising revenues go directly to Hot Nacho, and he's paid a flat fee for hosting the articles and ad banners.
Matt said he was skeptical at first, but the money is helping to cover his costs and hire their first employee. "The/articles thing isn't something I want to do long term," he said, "but if it can help bootstrap something nice for the community, I'm willing to let it run for a little while."
Actually, more often that you might think, people are looking for the non-obvious result. Do you think everytime someone searches for microsoft they want microsoft.com? Do you think the people who don't are such a small minority that they can be ignored? And of course, a lot of times Google can be very wrong (like the other poster pointed out about searching for the vin diesel movie 'XXX'). A lot of times.
I'd expect that Google has better figures on where people go to from Google's search pages than anyone else.
No. It doesn't have any way to know which result a user clicked. It doesn't link results to its own website which redirects to the actual website, like Yahoo does (or used to, haven't used yahoo in a while). Other than that, Google can't do a better job than anyone else.
As others have pointed out, Ubuntu does use the debian-installer. The large number of packages available for Debian are maintained by a large group of people. Many of them are the developers of the programs themselves. Some (non-distro maintanence) programs are actually written only for Debian. Do you think all these efforts are magically duplicated for Ubuntu to produce newer versions of packages? They take it from debian. Most of them. Except, as I said earlier, the ones on the CD. They are newer.
Ubuntu simply contains the new debian-installer that will be in the next Debian release.
Debian testing (sarge) contain very new packages and is quite stable. That's what I use. And it's more stable than distros whose version numbers can't be stored in a 64-bit float. It contains the new debian-installer. You might claim that testing can not be used on production servers/corporate environment. But servers won't use Ubuntu, and older more tested packages are better for servers. And corporate environments will probably use something like RH.
AFAIK, many Ubuntu packages are old. In fact only the ones on the CD are newer. All the other available through download are as old or almost as old as Debian. So Debian testing actually contains newer packages.
There's nothing that makes Ubuntu easier to use that's not in Debian (at least in testing)
No one cares enough about any distro to vote for the leader. Only newbies who think they are expert Linux users don't care about distros like Debian. But I must say, these newbies seem to form the huge majority.
Yes, Debian is the Hurd of distros. Only people who aren't complete idiots and aren't full of bull-shit use it.
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A person will use an extension if he needs it. Instead of going to the extensions website and finding the extension you need, you had to read a spoon-feeding-guide to know about it.
You couldn't find something you needed although it was so easy to find.
You "didn't have the time" to "poke about every feature" of the browser, but you did have the time to read a whole guide about it, which takes longer than "poking about" the features of the browser.
I still think that you're an idiot.
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Then you're an idiot. You can easily find out about those and other extensions by clicking on "Get More Extensions" in the extensions dialog.
I've never seen anyone do any of that when their computer crashed. Or heard of it. Other than in movies. But then, I don't live in any of the countries (Read: USA) where the 'research' was conducted.
Wow, that's a lot of effort you've put to prove that Google's better. When I searched now, I got better results on Yahoo and irrelevant results on Google. Maybe results changed since you searched. At least it shows that Google isn't superior to other search engines. Really, I usually get pretty much the same results (as in, the 'results' of my effort) on most search engines. Google isn't better - it just has a simpler interface and some features that other search engines don't. Oh and a lot of popularity and drooling fans.
That's right, you get modded down for being correct. Don't worry, years from now people would've used 'MAC' so many times that when you correct someone they'll tell you that because of popular usage MAC has now become correct.
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OMG! Oh god, I can't control my laughter. I think I'm going to crap in my pants out of sheer glee.
Exactly. Only we elite slashdotters know about these things called "search engines", everyone else just types random names in their address bars. Therefore the sole purpose of TLDs is to make searching for websites easier.
The guy's making some good software (along with others) and he's giving it away freely (speech and beer). He just wanted to make some money. It's sad that now a lot of bad reputation is coming to him along with that money. I for one won't think of him badly. Quote:
/articles thing isn't something I want to do long term," he said, "but if it can help bootstrap something nice for the community, I'm willing to let it run for a little while."
The articles are given to him by Hot Nacho, a startup that pays freelance writers to generate 300-800 word articles about specific topics. All advertising revenues go directly to Hot Nacho, and he's paid a flat fee for hosting the articles and ad banners.
Matt said he was skeptical at first, but the money is helping to cover his costs and hire their first employee. "The
passport sized photos in just 64kb?
Nothing is enough for them.
Actually, more often that you might think, people are looking for the non-obvious result. Do you think everytime someone searches for microsoft they want microsoft.com? Do you think the people who don't are such a small minority that they can be ignored? And of course, a lot of times Google can be very wrong (like the other poster pointed out about searching for the vin diesel movie 'XXX'). A lot of times.
C'mon, he just wants to Karma Whore. His post made no sense.
I'd expect that Google has better figures on where people go to from Google's search pages than anyone else.
No. It doesn't have any way to know which result a user clicked. It doesn't link results to its own website which redirects to the actual website, like Yahoo does (or used to, haven't used yahoo in a while). Other than that, Google can't do a better job than anyone else.
..., it really does. This is one of those annoying 'features'.
As others have pointed out, Ubuntu does use the debian-installer. The large number of packages available for Debian are maintained by a large group of people. Many of them are the developers of the programs themselves. Some (non-distro maintanence) programs are actually written only for Debian. Do you think all these efforts are magically duplicated for Ubuntu to produce newer versions of packages? They take it from debian. Most of them. Except, as I said earlier, the ones on the CD. They are newer.
Did you even read what I said?
In fact only the ones on the CD are newer.The packages you mentioned are on the CD.
And I get modded down as troll for pointing it out. Nice moderating. Again.
One post gets modded up as insightful while another (parent) gets modded down as troll and they both say the same thing. Nice moderating.
No one cares enough about any distro to vote for the leader. Only newbies who think they are expert Linux users don't care about distros like Debian. But I must say, these newbies seem to form the huge majority.
Yes, Debian is the Hurd of distros. Only people who aren't complete idiots and aren't full of bull-shit use it.
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You couldn't find something you needed although it was so easy to find.
- You "didn't have the time" to "poke about every feature" of the browser, but you did have the time to read a whole guide about it, which takes longer than "poking about" the features of the browser.
I still think that you're an idiot.Then you're an idiot. You can easily find out about those and other extensions by clicking on "Get More Extensions" in the extensions dialog.
You think your ISP doesn't log who got a Dynamic IP when?
I've never seen anyone do any of that when their computer crashed. Or heard of it. Other than in movies. But then, I don't live in any of the countries (Read: USA) where the 'research' was conducted.
Looking at this thread and how much confusion there is about what it mean, it's a bad joke.
Wow, that's a lot of effort you've put to prove that Google's better. When I searched now, I got better results on Yahoo and irrelevant results on Google. Maybe results changed since you searched. At least it shows that Google isn't superior to other search engines. Really, I usually get pretty much the same results (as in, the 'results' of my effort) on most search engines. Google isn't better - it just has a simpler interface and some features that other search engines don't. Oh and a lot of popularity and drooling fans.
Er, he did a product search. It means he searched Froogle for why flamingos are pink. So he wasn't lying - he was just trolling.
That's right, you get modded down for being correct. Don't worry, years from now people would've used 'MAC' so many times that when you correct someone they'll tell you that because of popular usage MAC has now become correct.
You say that as if your opinion matters. We don't give a shit about what you think.