After running about 2 dozen search queries through it I have decided that "cuil" isn't just "not on par", it was absolute CRAP!!
Oh, and I frackin' LOOOVED the 6 whole results per page! Whoopie! Now I have to do even MORE clicking to NOT find what I'm looking for... gleee! - Fail.
Oh and the images next to the search results were kinda cool, but unrelated and pointlessly out of context with my searches. - Double Fail
Oh, and could we add a few more recursive links to other search engines? - Multi-Fail
Oh, and thanks for the option for more than 3 Colums, I love seeing half the page empty with my 1920x1200 widescreen! - Ultra Fail!!
Finally, yay for non-localization so I can't understand the other useless half of my results. - M-M-M-M-MONSTER FAIL!!!
Honestly, it never ceases to amaze me what some people think the word "rural" means.
Here's a hint, the odds are somewhere between EXCELLENT and OUTSTANDING that there are no communication lines AT ALL (including phone) with in 10-50 MILES, possibly more, of this guy's location.
There is precisely ZERO reason to install ANYTHING on the client side to do such a task and even suggesting it makes me want to bludgeon you with a lederhosen full of brisks.
This Windows/IE mentality that you need to install custom, buggy, poorly coded, inefficient, crapware for every tiny insignificant task you THINK needs a dedicated client is a MAJOR problem on the net today.
I will not and do not install anything for such single use tasks. Either I find a way around them or I move on.
There are countless ways to implement something like what you suggested.
Which, I might add, is a GOOD IDEA.
Just don't make anyone install some piece of crap software to do it! Use what you have in the browser already, if you NEED to, use something that is also already fairly "standard such as flash or java, but ALSO have an alternative option available for people who don't have and don't want that stuff on there system or, in the case of embedded devices, can't use those add-ins (iPhone, Windows Mobile, Palm, etc...).
Boxes that don't run at all are still poor substitutes for rocks because rock are heavier and besides, computers are FAR from solid with all that empty airspace in them...
It'd probably be more solid if you filled it with cement... Oh wait... you have Vista installed! Nevermind then, redundant suggestion.
Again, as I mentioned in the beginning of my post, most drive manufactures set the threshold fail values to an extreme that, if reached, the drive has already failed for all intents and purposes. Your software cannot warn you if the drive does not report a failure in progress due to a threshold being set at an extreme value or '0'.
This is why I advocated learning what the "appropriate" SMART value ranges for your drive and manually checking the values. Because of this, I have only lost one drive EVER due to a sudden circuit board failure.
Actually S.M.A.R.T. is an amazing tool and is utterly invaluable in monitoring drive health... IF and ONLY IF you have the appropriate software (windows: google it, *nix: smartmontools) AND know how to read the resulting output.
The reason many people think SMART sucks and I say to check SMART manually is because 95% of drive manufactures set the threshold or "fail" values WAAAAY too high or low!
I use SMART constantly (about once every other week) to "check in" on how healthy my drives are and knowing how to read the values the software returns has saved my data many times. In fact, due to certain SMART values, I KNOW my Thinkpad hd is on currently on it's way to failing even though it is still working fine, for the moment. The SMART information has let me know it's on it's way out the door and therefore I have taken precautions to safegaurd the data on that machine and have the drive replaced.
Granted, SMART can't inform you ahead of time about sudden and complete mechanical or electronic failure, it can warn you if your drive is slowly the kicking the bit bucket. (With a small amount of know how until drive manufactures wake up and set more appropriate values)
Don't knock something you know nothing about! Kthnxbye!
5 pounds of fat == 17500 calories, equivalent to running ~150 miles. Good luck with 150 mi in 3 days. And the fact humans are warm blooded and burn thousands of calories a day just maintaining body temperature means nothing doesn't it?
There are many other "leaks" for energy in the human body than just what you calculate in spent calories through exercise you know.
Though I'm pleased to know that you don't have to waste any energy what-so-ever maintaining your brain (non?)function.
Fine, I'll ding you as a troll then, I know some incredibly intelligent obese people and while I do worry about their health, to imply that just because someone is over weight they are not intelligent is extremely trollish.
Besides, "fat" is an objective term that you totally fail to define.
I'm 15 pounds "overweight", making me technically "fat". BZZZT! wrong! I'm 6'1" and have a lot of muscle build. My body mass index is actually indicated I only have about 5 pounds of excess fat, which, if it showed at all, I could drop in about 3 days.
Now, my mom is very overweight (much more than 50 pounds) and yet at the same time she is one of the most intelligent people I know. I'm far from dim here, my friends are also highly intelligent and yet they will all freely admit she is an extremely smart person and is quite often able to outpace us as a group in discussion.
"I know a ton of fat idiots..."
I'll tell you this, I know of a WHOLE LOT MORE skinny idiots than fat ones. In fact there is a raging and concerning surplus of narrow minded stupid idiots everywhere I look. So many in fact I even end up replying to some of them on/.
I disagree, we're getting stupidly... stupidest.... stupidmost... more dumber on our own.
'The Google' helps edumacate us dumberating peoples by allowing rapid look up of information that wasn't known.
As for 'reducing our recall capacity' I think that is a load of bull puckey. Not everyone wants their memory bogged down with trivial and possibly highly insignificant factoids.
I use Google search as an extremely high speed way to look for new information, confirm shaky knowledge and learn new things about a particular subject.
For example, I knew nothing about ATMega 8 Programmable Integrated Circuit microcontrollers a few days ago. I went straight to Google and now, 5 days later, I have ordered a handful of the PIC's in question, the parts to build my own in circuit programmer and have learned enough to begin to write my own programs in C and even a bit of assembler.
So instead of Google making us less intelligent, I would like to argue that by allowing a centralized source of not only common "minor" information that we refer to many times a day, but also being a nearly endless source of new information and knowledge, Google is actually helping us to become more intelligent and more efficient.
You forgot about another source of human pollution, stupidity. They NEVER got the hang of not emitting that!
Might as well use the kinetic energy of the thousands of foot-steps we take everyday for something like generating electricity rather then wasting it all on the impact with the floor (which is cushioned by those delightful gel shoe inserts!).
190 pounds (or in the case of Americans 290lbs) striking the ground is quite a large bit of energy, I'd love to have some form of generator built into my shows to capture that power and feed it into either a battery pack or my cellphone/laptop/etc...
You'd think so, but that's actually one of those comically large pencils, putting it at about the size of your entire desk. Good thing I have a comically small desk! It's the size of a post-it note... So I guess either Dell or myself managed to break the laws of physics!
Very well, he can "blag" away in prison and I can add the URL to my blacklist and then everyone will be happy once more playing our violent video games as Mr. Thompson (hopefully) gets repeatedly and forcefully raped by a hairy cellmate called "Bone Crusher".
But for the love of Cheesy Puffs and flaming poo throw that loudmouthed ninny in prison!
Really? I thought it was because the Feds were too lazy to search for porn themselves and decided to let the citizens fill out the database for them... then arresting them for being perverts.
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Cuil Sucks. Seriously, it sucks real hard.
I liked their privacy policy and thought their approach to searh results was unique and fresh, it just needed a bit of getting used to.
So, I have tried using it in place of Google since it was announced.
I gave up today in shear frustration.
Take me home Google! I missed you so!
"Not on par"?
After running about 2 dozen search queries through it I have decided that "cuil" isn't just "not on par", it was absolute CRAP!!
Oh, and I frackin' LOOOVED the 6 whole results per page! Whoopie! Now I have to do even MORE clicking to NOT find what I'm looking for... gleee! - Fail.
Oh and the images next to the search results were kinda cool, but unrelated and pointlessly out of context with my searches. - Double Fail
Oh, and could we add a few more recursive links to other search engines? - Multi-Fail
Oh, and thanks for the option for more than 3 Colums, I love seeing half the page empty with my 1920x1200 widescreen! - Ultra Fail!!
Finally, yay for non-localization so I can't understand the other useless half of my results. - M-M-M-M-MONSTER FAIL!!!
Two words of advice "Cuil".... Try again.
I think you meant "He has Space Dementia!"
They probably use NaK which is also used as coolant in some nuclear reactors and has melting point of -12.6ÂC
Only for the Pentium 4 Extreme.
What's a textbook?
Honestly, it never ceases to amaze me what some people think the word "rural" means.
Here's a hint, the odds are somewhere between EXCELLENT and OUTSTANDING that there are no communication lines AT ALL (including phone) with in 10-50 MILES, possibly more, of this guy's location.
Signed,
The Disgruntled Former Rural Dweller
958 people, eh?!?! That's no where NEAR large, eh!
It's HUGE, eh!
Omfg, eh! Maybe they have that new fangled "high speed" internet stuff there, eh!
You'd have to install some add-on into browsers to accept and try to solve client puzzles...
No. No. No. No. No. No. NO. NO. NO.NO. NO! NO!! NO!!!
This alone is absolutely NOT acceptable!
There is precisely ZERO reason to install ANYTHING on the client side to do such a task and even suggesting it makes me want to bludgeon you with a lederhosen full of brisks.
This Windows/IE mentality that you need to install custom, buggy, poorly coded, inefficient, crapware for every tiny insignificant task you THINK needs a dedicated client is a MAJOR problem on the net today.
I will not and do not install anything for such single use tasks. Either I find a way around them or I move on.
There are countless ways to implement something like what you suggested.
Which, I might add, is a GOOD IDEA.
Just don't make anyone install some piece of crap software to do it! Use what you have in the browser already, if you NEED to, use something that is also already fairly "standard such as flash or java, but ALSO have an alternative option available for people who don't have and don't want that stuff on there system or, in the case of embedded devices, can't use those add-ins (iPhone, Windows Mobile, Palm, etc...).
Lose.
One "o".
It means to fail.
As in 'You lose at spelling'.
It's lose.
Mod parent +1 Insightful for the Star Trek: TNG reference!
Soooo... two pieces of crap for the price of one?
Boxes that don't run at all are still poor substitutes for rocks because rock are heavier and besides, computers are FAR from solid with all that empty airspace in them... It'd probably be more solid if you filled it with cement... Oh wait... you have Vista installed! Nevermind then, redundant suggestion.
Jeez, you'd think people would learn. I mean what did you all do to get the overlords so upse@!#F@(^ER&@#FG*P [CONNECTION LOST]
Again, as I mentioned in the beginning of my post, most drive manufactures set the threshold fail values to an extreme that, if reached, the drive has already failed for all intents and purposes. Your software cannot warn you if the drive does not report a failure in progress due to a threshold being set at an extreme value or '0'.
This is why I advocated learning what the "appropriate" SMART value ranges for your drive and manually checking the values. Because of this, I have only lost one drive EVER due to a sudden circuit board failure.
Actually S.M.A.R.T. is an amazing tool and is utterly invaluable in monitoring drive health... IF and ONLY IF you have the appropriate software (windows: google it, *nix: smartmontools) AND know how to read the resulting output.
The reason many people think SMART sucks and I say to check SMART manually is because 95% of drive manufactures set the threshold or "fail" values WAAAAY too high or low!
I use SMART constantly (about once every other week) to "check in" on how healthy my drives are and knowing how to read the values the software returns has saved my data many times. In fact, due to certain SMART values, I KNOW my Thinkpad hd is on currently on it's way to failing even though it is still working fine, for the moment. The SMART information has let me know it's on it's way out the door and therefore I have taken precautions to safegaurd the data on that machine and have the drive replaced.
Granted, SMART can't inform you ahead of time about sudden and complete mechanical or electronic failure, it can warn you if your drive is slowly the kicking the bit bucket. (With a small amount of know how until drive manufactures wake up and set more appropriate values)
Don't knock something you know nothing about! Kthnxbye!
Ok, I have to admit, while that statement is obvious, it's hilarious too!
Fine, I'll ding you as a troll then, I know some incredibly intelligent obese people and while I do worry about their health, to imply that just because someone is over weight they are not intelligent is extremely trollish.
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Besides, "fat" is an objective term that you totally fail to define.
I'm 15 pounds "overweight", making me technically "fat". BZZZT! wrong! I'm 6'1" and have a lot of muscle build. My body mass index is actually indicated I only have about 5 pounds of excess fat, which, if it showed at all, I could drop in about 3 days.
Now, my mom is very overweight (much more than 50 pounds) and yet at the same time she is one of the most intelligent people I know. I'm far from dim here, my friends are also highly intelligent and yet they will all freely admit she is an extremely smart person and is quite often able to outpace us as a group in discussion.
"I know a ton of fat idiots..."
I'll tell you this, I know of a WHOLE LOT MORE skinny idiots than fat ones. In fact there is a raging and concerning surplus of narrow minded stupid idiots everywhere I look. So many in fact I even end up replying to some of them on
Sad isn't it?
I disagree, we're getting stupidly... stupidest.... stupidmost... more dumber on our own.
'The Google' helps edumacate us dumberating peoples by allowing rapid look up of information that wasn't known.
As for 'reducing our recall capacity' I think that is a load of bull puckey. Not everyone wants their memory bogged down with trivial and possibly highly insignificant factoids.
I use Google search as an extremely high speed way to look for new information, confirm shaky knowledge and learn new things about a particular subject.
For example, I knew nothing about ATMega 8 Programmable Integrated Circuit microcontrollers a few days ago. I went straight to Google and now, 5 days later, I have ordered a handful of the PIC's in question, the parts to build my own in circuit programmer and have learned enough to begin to write my own programs in C and even a bit of assembler.
So instead of Google making us less intelligent, I would like to argue that by allowing a centralized source of not only common "minor" information that we refer to many times a day, but also being a nearly endless source of new information and knowledge, Google is actually helping us to become more intelligent and more efficient.
You forgot about another source of human pollution, stupidity. They NEVER got the hang of not emitting that!
Might as well use the kinetic energy of the thousands of foot-steps we take everyday for something like generating electricity rather then wasting it all on the impact with the floor (which is cushioned by those delightful gel shoe inserts!).
190 pounds (or in the case of Americans 290lbs) striking the ground is quite a large bit of energy, I'd love to have some form of generator built into my shows to capture that power and feed it into either a battery pack or my cellphone/laptop/etc...
"The Google! It knows everything!
Very well, he can "blag" away in prison and I can add the URL to my blacklist and then everyone will be happy once more playing our violent video games as Mr. Thompson (hopefully) gets repeatedly and forcefully raped by a hairy cellmate called "Bone Crusher". But for the love of Cheesy Puffs and flaming poo throw that loudmouthed ninny in prison!
Are you sure? Just HOW many atrocities have been committed by all the "good guys" that are excused because of "We Are Right." (W.A.R.)
Really? I thought it was because the Feds were too lazy to search for porn themselves and decided to let the citizens fill out the database for them... then arresting them for being perverts.