It is a sense that the site simply isn't what it used to be, a friendly, open confluence of people all over the country. It just feels like a big, cold commercial operation to me. And I can get that feeling at Wal-Mart.
I think that feeling comes from the fact that you can't search anything without getting a ton of results from stores setup specifically to sell on eBay. There used to just be a handful of these results and then the rest were individuals, but nowadays you just get tons of powersellers and not a lot of the individuals.
That and I think it has become an increasing problem of people getting defrauded and scammed that has caused people to lose faith in the system. You can find hundreds of eBay and Paypal horror stories on people receiving empty boxes, boxes with other things inside, unable to cancel fradulent transactions without jumping through hoops, etc.
The Web is the closest anyone has ever got to a universal platform so far, and here they come and try to revert to the desktop again. This isn't reverting back to the desktop. This has everything to do with making the web a universal platform. No matter what, there's still times where you are without internet for whatever reason (likely during travel). In these cases, you can have content form the web stored locally, or you can make changes to content that will then get uploaded when you have internet again.
The best example is what they've already done for Google Reader. You can store 2,000 items to read when you're offline, and you can tag and do other things while offline. Then when you get internet again, you just sync your changes.
This is not a move to the desktop. It's merging the web with the desktop.
Even then, though, why shouldn't they be free to manually change the ranking if they wanted to? It's their wholly-owned database, so is there any reason they should be kept from altering their own data?
Yeah, while many companies do it, that's the risk you take when your business model relies on the referrals from a constantly-changing search engine.
"Decided to add to the Apple product line with the iPod Hi-Fi mini. Here's the web page detailing its features, and there's also a link to a Flickr set showing how to build your own."
The document was edited (by the second definition you listed) to put a black bar over some text. What's wrong with that? Replace the word redacted with edited and it makes sense:
"...U.S. government apparently releasing a redacted version of their court filing in the Balco grand jury leak case which merely stuck a black line over the text"
A computer offers endless opportunities for organizing and storing data, I see this as a step back.
This is one of the "endless opportunities" for organizing and storing data. It's another way to visualize it...may work well for some and not well for others. I don't see myself using it, but I'm sure the concept would be useful to some.
Plus, once you already own the PS3, look at how sweet Game XYZ or accessory ABC is! They could pick up on a lot of sales once they get PS3s into homes that wouldn't otherwise have had one.
I don't know about "stealing marketshare," but they do perform better - often significantly better - on certain kinds of searches. I think it's a good supplement to Google, not a replacement.
If it's a recent Sony music CD, you're going to have a hard time convincing them to put it in their computers as they'll likely be thinking, "Why do I want to listen to this garbage?"
From this review, it looks like it's version 5.0 for both, which probably explains the title. But it is unclear if that's the case from just the title.
If the users are "more affluent," wouldn't they be bigger targets? You'd get a bigger payoff with fewer attacks if you're stealing personal information, credit card info, etc.
Of course in the case of zombie machines and spam, you'd go with the easier target.
My experience is that a lot of users use cookie killing software that removes cookies every time the browser is closed or just reject cookies altogether.
My bet would be in the grand internetscape, this number of users is actually quite small and that most do not reject or remove cookies (at least not often).
However, the point was a better gauge, not a perfect one. Requiring login would resolve most issues of users from different locations or even multiple users on the same computer, but few people are going to like a website they can't browse anonymously.
I think it's just interesting data for site owners and nothing more. I wouldn't overanalyze some site touting 3000 unique visitors a day or something.
The 10 was a hypothetical...the only point was that you can't trust the number of recurring visitors that a site reports because they users come back with a different IP (obvious) and get counted twice. Couldn't one use cookies and IPs in combination to get a better gauge? The IP may change but the cookie would not. Sure some may delete it, but it'll still improve accuracy at least a little bit.
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It is a sense that the site simply isn't what it used to be, a friendly, open confluence of people all over the country. It just feels like a big, cold commercial operation to me. And I can get that feeling at Wal-Mart.
I think that feeling comes from the fact that you can't search anything without getting a ton of results from stores setup specifically to sell on eBay. There used to just be a handful of these results and then the rest were individuals, but nowadays you just get tons of powersellers and not a lot of the individuals.
That and I think it has become an increasing problem of people getting defrauded and scammed that has caused people to lose faith in the system. You can find hundreds of eBay and Paypal horror stories on people receiving empty boxes, boxes with other things inside, unable to cancel fradulent transactions without jumping through hoops, etc.
The best example is what they've already done for Google Reader. You can store 2,000 items to read when you're offline, and you can tag and do other things while offline. Then when you get internet again, you just sync your changes.
This is not a move to the desktop. It's merging the web with the desktop.
...Red Steel uses canned moved...
Actually, it used to use canned moves. It's not like the game was complete yet.
This post needs a grammar check.
Yeah, you probably read 2.5in and made a quick logical jump.
...I couldn't help myself - you left the door wide open on that one.
The document was edited (by the second definition you listed) to put a black bar over some text. What's wrong with that? Replace the word redacted with edited and it makes sense: "...U.S. government apparently releasing a redacted version of their court filing in the Balco grand jury leak case which merely stuck a black line over the text"
A computer offers endless opportunities for organizing and storing data, I see this as a step back.
This is one of the "endless opportunities" for organizing and storing data. It's another way to visualize it...may work well for some and not well for others. I don't see myself using it, but I'm sure the concept would be useful to some.
About a month back I did a comparison of some searches, based on ask's claims of understanding concepts. They were able to outperform Google in this functionality: http://www.nirajsanghvi.com/stories.php?sid=318&ti d=55
Plus, once you already own the PS3, look at how sweet Game XYZ or accessory ABC is! They could pick up on a lot of sales once they get PS3s into homes that wouldn't otherwise have had one.
I don't know about "stealing marketshare," but they do perform better - often significantly better - on certain kinds of searches. I think it's a good supplement to Google, not a replacement.
Ask does a pretty good job of finding and setting apart the answer for both of those queries.
From the site: "We have teamed up with Cherry to equipe the Das Keyboard with the best and longest lasting key switches in the industry."
Look out for that unlabled "pe" key! It must be right next to the "p" key.
If it's a recent Sony music CD, you're going to have a hard time convincing them to put it in their computers as they'll likely be thinking, "Why do I want to listen to this garbage?"
I dont know of a google music yet...
But Google's robots.txt does!
Does anyone know how this compares to "PHP and MySQL Web Development"? It seems like both cover PHP5 and MySQL 5.
From this review, it looks like it's version 5.0 for both, which probably explains the title. But it is unclear if that's the case from just the title.
Wired News has posted the AT&T whistleblower's evidence, which AT&T is trying to get returned to them and out of court documents: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70908-0.htm l?tw=wn_index_3
Even for those utilizing a lot of their space, text compresses a lot.
If the users are "more affluent," wouldn't they be bigger targets? You'd get a bigger payoff with fewer attacks if you're stealing personal information, credit card info, etc.
Of course in the case of zombie machines and spam, you'd go with the easier target.
Once you do that, shred the shredder. You can't be too careful.
The could make it out of zero-relection glass.
My experience is that a lot of users use cookie killing software that removes cookies every time the browser is closed or just reject cookies altogether.
My bet would be in the grand internetscape, this number of users is actually quite small and that most do not reject or remove cookies (at least not often).
However, the point was a better gauge, not a perfect one. Requiring login would resolve most issues of users from different locations or even multiple users on the same computer, but few people are going to like a website they can't browse anonymously.
I think it's just interesting data for site owners and nothing more. I wouldn't overanalyze some site touting 3000 unique visitors a day or something.
The 10 was a hypothetical...the only point was that you can't trust the number of recurring visitors that a site reports because they users come back with a different IP (obvious) and get counted twice. Couldn't one use cookies and IPs in combination to get a better gauge? The IP may change but the cookie would not. Sure some may delete it, but it'll still improve accuracy at least a little bit.