1. A method for locating a web-page using a distributed computing system comprising the steps of: receiving a search request from an associated user; searching a database containing selected data representative of information associated with web pages, wherein such data is in the form of data entries, wherein each entry is associated with at least one web page; identifying selected entries contained in the database in accordance with the search request; generating a search results list comprised of the selected entries, wherein each entry includes at least one of a hyperlink for the associated web page and visual content associated with such web page; and displaying the search results, wherein the user is able to view the visual content associated with each entry without activating the hyperlink for the web page; wherein the visual content includes at least one of a hyperlink, image, video, animation, mini-image of a web page, streaming video, logo of an organization associated with the web page, and trademark of an organization associated with the web page; and wherein the visual content comprises a plurality of mini-images in the form of a conveyor belt slide show.
Ok so I'm no patent lawyer.... but look at the end of the claim. Wouldn't this only apply to a search engine, that showed images/videos/multimedia from the result page, in a slide show format?
You don't have 60 seconds total. If you answer in less than 5 seconds, you get 1 point. If you answer in more than 45 seconds, you get 0.5 points. If you answer somewhere in between, you get somewhere in between 0.5 and 1 point.
If your score is equal to the median, your IQ is 100. For each standard deviation away from the median, your IQ changes by 15 pts.
I like the intersections with the pedestrian timer, because you can use it to figure out how long until the light turns yellow. I hate driving along, and coming up to a green light, only to have it change with just enough time for you to stop... I look at the counter and determine if I should just coast to the light, which will be red when I get to it, or keep up speed if there is alot of time left.
Why bother with the RFID tag at all then? You already have a secure path to issue the unlock command, the RFID tag doesn't add anything. Plus without the tag you could unlock the door why you are inside, to let a visitor in.
My wife and I are talking about buying a house, so I've been dreaming up all the ways I could automate various parts of it. This guy is giving me some ideas.
I've been letting my Tivo tape it, because I think I've finally seen every mythbusters episode ever. Smash Labs seems decent, but they do like to skip over some parts (where in Mythbusters they give you the Science content warning) to get to the big booms.
What bothered me about the pilot episode, (where they were trying to stop an out of control car from crossing a divided highway) was how they totally overlooked R&D that NASCAR has already done. In the episode 1 of the teams was trying to take a standard concrete barrier and add on 3 ft of lightweight concrete that would crumble and absorb an impact from the car. NASCAR already has this using a high density foam in front of the concrete wall around the tracks. The nascar setup handles cars moving at 200 mph, so why couldn't it be used on a public road. Oh well, I did like the Earthquake proof house episode from last week. One team was able to design a house that withstood a simulated earthquake that they claimed would have been a 10.0 mag. quake.
Now no one can say RTFA. Its a win/win for everyone who knows your not supposed to read the article anyways. Pesky "facts" from the article won't get in the way of our discussions.
When looking for a new site, the first place I go now is Google. I wanted to visit the website for Dick's Sporting Goods. I always refer to this store as Dick's. When I typed in dicks.com I did not get to the correct site.
A month or so later we were Slashdotted. Promptly thereafter, ThinkGeek was acquired by the good folks at Andover.Net who through an acquisition and a couple of name changes, is now known as SourceForge, Inc. So we're part of a cool gaggle of sites including slashdot.org, sourceforge.net, linux.com, and freshmeat.net. Pretty nice company to be amongst, eh? We're pretty proud of it!
Just make a couple of.bat files to change your ip address. (I am assuming windows because you said gaming machine).
netsh interface ip set address name="Local Area Connection" static 192.168.101.2 255.255.255.0 192.168.101.1 1
That will set your ip to 192.168.101.2 with a gateway of 192.168.101.1 - Fill in your own home network values.
Here is a 3 line.bat file to set dhcp, renew your address, and pause to show you the results.
netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection" dhcp ipconfig/renew "Local Area Connection" pause
I have about 6 different batch files in a folder in my Quick Launch toolbar on my WinXP work laptop. It takes 2 clicks for me to change my ip address. If I go to a new site where I need to create a new static ip, I just copy of one the batch files, rename it and put in the new information.
I learned this one in high school. Take a small pitri dish or something similar and fill with milk. Place drops of several colors of food coloring in different areas. Place a drop or 2 of dishsoap in the middle. Watch the colors swirl all around as the soap reduces the surface tension.
Check out the GParted Live CD. http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/ Its a nice Partition magic clone. I've been using it recently instead of windows own disk management
After dd is done, remove A, replace with B, then boot off the gparted cd. Fix the partition size and make sure it is bootable.
If using dd doesn't work check out PING (Partimage is not Ghost) http://ping.windowsdream.com/ I don't think it can image from 1 disk directly to another, but you could make an image of drive A and save it on a third drive. Then restore from the image to drive B. A bit more work, so try the dd method first
I don't understand why people leave a web browser open for days at a time, especially firefox, with its built in session saver.
Close firefox when you are done for the day. When you start it back up it can show you all your tabs from last time. That does help with the memory usage issue. If you don't trust the session saver, then bookmark all tabs into a folder with the date. Then tomorrow you know which folder has all your bookmarks from yesterday.
What are the reasons for leaving it running while you are asleep?
Did you read his idea? If the caller presses 1 the phone will ring. If the caller presses 2 they can leave a voice mail. If the caller does NOT press a button you still record what they say and save it as a voicemail.
So the only way to hear the phone ring, would be if someone called you and pressed 1. If its a computer system, you will get the voicemail.
Except how much fussing will it take to make them all talk to each other?
Just wait until your bored neighbor builds a pringles can antenna gun to beam goatse onto your tv/monitor.
That video is quite amusing, because those guys look like they have no clue what they were doing. With that many people they could have tried pushing the car forward. Instead they tried towing it right over a snowbank, instead of sideways off the snowbank. It looks like they hooked up to the bumper mounts instead of the rear axle.
I have a mid 80s Buick. It has nice real bumpers attached to a nice steel frame. The only problem I have is my car is so low compared to some of these new suvs. Someone rear ended me and their bumper was above mine. They ended up destroying the tail lights and the trunk.
If you want to track a car there are better ways than an rfid tag in the tires. The whole point of putting rfid tags into tires is to improve accountability/tracking thru the manufacturing process. With rfid (or barcode) tracking someone could scan a tire and figure out exactly where/when it was built, cured, and get the final test results. Barcodes are currently used in many goodyear plants, however rfid would be better because the exact placement of the rfid tag would be less sensitive than the barcode label.
It can do that. It will let the javascript run, but still show the NoScript logo on a flash, or other plugin. You must click it and click ok to run it.
I trust their updates on my windows box, only a couple weeks after they come out.
A while back they fixed a bug in IE, breaking SSL for sites. I think it took a patch for a patch for a patch to get it working properly. In the meantime you could not browse secure sites in IE, it would crash the browser/system.
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The invention claimed is:
1. A method for locating a web-page using a distributed computing system comprising the steps of: receiving a search request from an associated user; searching a database containing selected data representative of information associated with web pages, wherein such data is in the form of data entries, wherein each entry is associated with at least one web page; identifying selected entries contained in the database in accordance with the search request; generating a search results list comprised of the selected entries, wherein each entry includes at least one of a hyperlink for the associated web page and visual content associated with such web page; and displaying the search results, wherein the user is able to view the visual content associated with each entry without activating the hyperlink for the web page; wherein the visual content includes at least one of a hyperlink, image, video, animation, mini-image of a web page, streaming video, logo of an organization associated with the web page, and trademark of an organization associated with the web page; and wherein the visual content comprises a plurality of mini-images in the form of a conveyor belt slide show.
Ok so I'm no patent lawyer.... but look at the end of the claim.
Wouldn't this only apply to a search engine, that showed images/videos/multimedia from the result page, in a slide show format?
You don't have 60 seconds total.
If you answer in less than 5 seconds, you get 1 point.
If you answer in more than 45 seconds, you get 0.5 points.
If you answer somewhere in between, you get somewhere in between 0.5 and 1 point.
If your score is equal to the median, your IQ is 100.
For each standard deviation away from the median, your IQ changes by 15 pts.
From http://www.iqleague.com/iq-scores
No one RTFA anyways so what does it matter?
Try slashdotting my server http://127.0.0.1/
Thats one hell of a Freudian slip, ehh?
I like the intersections with the pedestrian timer, because you can use it to figure out how long until the light turns yellow.
I hate driving along, and coming up to a green light, only to have it change with just enough time for you to stop... I look at the counter and determine if I should just coast to the light, which will be red when I get to it, or keep up speed if there is alot of time left.
Why bother with the RFID tag at all then?
You already have a secure path to issue the unlock command, the RFID tag doesn't add anything. Plus without the tag you could unlock the door why you are inside, to let a visitor in.
My wife and I are talking about buying a house, so I've been dreaming up all the ways I could automate various parts of it. This guy is giving me some ideas.
I've been letting my Tivo tape it, because I think I've finally seen every mythbusters episode ever. Smash Labs seems decent, but they do like to skip over some parts (where in Mythbusters they give you the Science content warning) to get to the big booms.
What bothered me about the pilot episode, (where they were trying to stop an out of control car from crossing a divided highway) was how they totally overlooked R&D that NASCAR has already done.
In the episode 1 of the teams was trying to take a standard concrete barrier and add on 3 ft of lightweight concrete that would crumble and absorb an impact from the car. NASCAR already has this using a high density foam in front of the concrete wall around the tracks. The nascar setup handles cars moving at 200 mph, so why couldn't it be used on a public road.
Oh well, I did like the Earthquake proof house episode from last week. One team was able to design a house that withstood a simulated earthquake that they claimed would have been a 10.0 mag. quake.
Anyone know if Journeyman will be back?
Now no one can say RTFA.
Its a win/win for everyone who knows your not supposed to read the article anyways. Pesky "facts" from the article won't get in the way of our discussions.
When looking for a new site, the first place I go now is Google. I wanted to visit the website for Dick's Sporting Goods. I always refer to this store as Dick's. When I typed in dicks.com I did not get to the correct site.
Can I trade you my Buffalo wireless router for your EEE PC that is being used as a router??
That seems like such a waste of a machine.
Taken from thinkgeek's http://www.thinkgeek.com/about-us/
A month or so later we were Slashdotted. Promptly thereafter, ThinkGeek was acquired by the good folks at Andover.Net who through an acquisition and a couple of name changes, is now known as SourceForge, Inc. So we're part of a cool gaggle of sites including slashdot.org, sourceforge.net, linux.com, and freshmeat.net. Pretty nice company to be amongst, eh? We're pretty proud of it!
So yeah, go to thinkgeek and support slashdot
I second virtuawin. It works great for me, Only one of my programs required for work doesn't get along, and sometimes it shows up on every desktop.
I also like the middle click menu it adds to every window, 2 key options on it are "Push to Bottom" and "Keep on Top"
That will set your ip to 192.168.101.2 with a gateway of 192.168.101.1 - Fill in your own home network values.
Here is a 3 line
I have about 6 different batch files in a folder in my Quick Launch toolbar on my WinXP work laptop. It takes 2 clicks for me to change my ip address. If I go to a new site where I need to create a new static ip, I just copy of one the batch files, rename it and put in the new information.
Remember Alf? Hes back, in pog form.
Totally rad.
I want a Wii for christmas
I learned this one in high school.
Take a small pitri dish or something similar and fill with milk.
Place drops of several colors of food coloring in different areas.
Place a drop or 2 of dishsoap in the middle.
Watch the colors swirl all around as the soap reduces the surface tension.
Check out the GParted Live CD. http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/
Its a nice Partition magic clone. I've been using it recently instead of windows own disk management
After dd is done, remove A, replace with B, then boot off the gparted cd. Fix the partition size and make sure it is bootable.
If using dd doesn't work check out PING (Partimage is not Ghost) http://ping.windowsdream.com/
I don't think it can image from 1 disk directly to another, but you could make an image of drive A and save it on a third drive. Then restore from the image to drive B. A bit more work, so try the dd method first
It would still be a case of the worth its
I don't understand why people leave a web browser open for days at a time, especially firefox, with its built in session saver.
Close firefox when you are done for the day. When you start it back up it can show you all your tabs from last time. That does help with the memory usage issue.
If you don't trust the session saver, then bookmark all tabs into a folder with the date. Then tomorrow you know which folder has all your bookmarks from yesterday.
What are the reasons for leaving it running while you are asleep?
Did you read his idea?
If the caller presses 1 the phone will ring.
If the caller presses 2 they can leave a voice mail.
If the caller does NOT press a button you still record what they say and save it as a voicemail.
So the only way to hear the phone ring, would be if someone called you and pressed 1. If its a computer system, you will get the voicemail.
Sounds good to me.
There is also the Tweak UI power toy (from MS themselves)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
I use that to disable autorun for all drives, and disable all autoplay handlers.
Except how much fussing will it take to make them all talk to each other? Just wait until your bored neighbor builds a pringles can antenna gun to beam goatse onto your tv/monitor.
That video is quite amusing, because those guys look like they have no clue what they were doing.
With that many people they could have tried pushing the car forward. Instead they tried towing it right over a snowbank, instead of sideways off the snowbank.
It looks like they hooked up to the bumper mounts instead of the rear axle.
I have a mid 80s Buick. It has nice real bumpers attached to a nice steel frame. The only problem I have is my car is so low compared to some of these new suvs. Someone rear ended me and their bumper was above mine. They ended up destroying the tail lights and the trunk.
Paranoid?
If you want to track a car there are better ways than an rfid tag in the tires.
The whole point of putting rfid tags into tires is to improve accountability/tracking thru the manufacturing process. With rfid (or barcode) tracking someone could scan a tire and figure out exactly where/when it was built, cured, and get the final test results. Barcodes are currently used in many goodyear plants, however rfid would be better because the exact placement of the rfid tag would be less sensitive than the barcode label.
It can do that.
It will let the javascript run, but still show the NoScript logo on a flash, or other plugin. You must click it and click ok to run it.
I trust their updates on my windows box, only a couple weeks after they come out. A while back they fixed a bug in IE, breaking SSL for sites. I think it took a patch for a patch for a patch to get it working properly. In the meantime you could not browse secure sites in IE, it would crash the browser/system.