On the positive side:
1. Fast
2. Nifty tabs next to each search result.
3. Image search reads a lot better on a larger monitor then the limits set by Google's image search.
On the negative side:
1. Heavy reliance on domain names for keywords.
2. Heavy reliance on backlinks causing relevancy issues.
3. I've seen websites that had two sets of title metas and descriptions on the main index page. That code should not be tolerated. In my opinion, Bing is not checking for well-formed code.
4. Bing recommends absolute URLs which can make updating a website difficult as well as potentially causing a drop in ranking for other websites.
5. Little to no reliance on domain age.
6. Less reliance on human edited directories such as DMOZ (which in some ways, may be a positive thing.
Bing really has to work on the relevancy issues. In my opinion, it's just serving up stuff like a loose canon at the moment.
From the Wikipedia article on Jupiter (assuming it is correct):
"Jupiter is 2.5 times more massive than all the other planets in our Solar System combined â" this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun actually lies above the Sun's surface (1.068 solar radii from the Sun's center). Although this planet dwarfs the Earth (with a diameter 11 times as great) it is considerably less dense. Jupiter's volume is equal to 1,317 Earths, yet is only 318 times as massive."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter
Surface Area: 6.21796Ã--1010 km2 = 121.9 Earths
So this would only make sense that it had a much greater surface area (122x) than earth to be hit or had a 122% better chance of getting smacked compared to our own.
...they specialize in international copyright law. While a US Citizen may be able to "copy" or "rewrite" code US taxpayers paid for, don't assume other, non-contributing (non tax-paying to the US) foreigners can openly copy and redistribute code that is technically the property of US citizens. Personally, I don't care as your topic is of little interest to me, but unless someone is attorney/lawyer in these copyrights, I wouldn't listen to anyone here.
As much as I don't agree with everything Greenpeace does, it's healthy to actually bring attention to e-waste in this country and throughout the world. It gives us all something to consider.
I really don't understand how something crops up like this. Yeah, I've seen the message going around but anyone that has been a subscriber knows that this has been the case for almost a year now. That is of course unless they've been living in a cave or under a rock...
Who the hell is Steven Prentice and why is Slashdot quoting him?
p.s. - I just tried using the built-in accelerometer in my Dell 24" WFP. It hurt my wrists after a few minutes of twisting and turning. I suppose I should wait 5 years before purchasing a paper-thin OLED Sony Bravia as well...
The one thing I will miss about my Treo was 3rd party apps to tether my phone to the laptop (to be used as a modem.) People can criticize these efforts, but efforts such as this may enable customers to tether their iPhone to a computer/laptop as a modem as well.
Otherwise you're stuck getting a separate plan and adaptor from ATT to do so when you already have a device that's perfectly capable.
Joomla in a short summary is like a nail on a chalkboard and peeing into the wind all at the same time.
It's an awful schizophrenic jumble of programmers all trying to reach into the cookie jar at once.
It's a nest without a Queen Bee.
Anyone that tells you it's great:
1) Likes to see you suffer.
2) Wants to make themselves feel superior to you.
3) Probably hasn't used another CMS.
You need to extend its functionality? Sure thing someone has it - it will cost you money.
You want to find a template? Sure we've got tons. They all look the same if you don't mind. Plus, by the way we will charge you for it.
The short and simple is that most people don't need this overblown system. Most of the time you can find what you need in an older, time tested blogging system (I'm not going to get into that whole CMS/Blogging system difference argument here.)
All the sane people that I know that have used this (including myself) have found that Joomla! is unnecessarily complicated for the average to advanced user. There's far more intuitive options out there.
As a side note, this is why I like Wikipedia. Unlike the Joomla site and this review, it mentions "PHP" in the Joomla article header. Oh, we can change this very quickly...
"It says that its technology reads and comprehends each word on a page."
First let's get this straight - It doesn't comprehend anything. That's wishful thinking and marketing. It looks at verbs or certain keywords, flags them as important, references through synonyms, then proceeds to lump them under one category.
It's a smart way to do things, but it's not comprehension. Comprehension would imply artificial intelligence whereas this system follows a set pattern of rules and doesn't 'think' on its own.
In no ways am I trying to put this effort down - it's a step in the right direction. But you have to be careful how you weigh these words.
From reading what was posted, it 'appears' that it will be the last season. But I wouldn't sensationalize the post here by stating it is 'confirmed.'
Secondly, if you want to rejuvenate the show and its following, there are a few things they should do:
1) Be liberal in killing off characters (as stated before.)
2) Less on the sappy romance and more action (and therefore probably more expensive - hence my overall belief on the downturn of this series.)
3) Keep the Cylons more myserious (as much as the audience can't get enough of Tricia Helfer.)
4) Bigger plot twists.
5) More special effects!
"Joswiak said it was traced to a particular Windows machine in the manufacturing lines of a contract manufacturer that builds the iPods for Apple."
Go figure.
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I say we make everyone who's against stem-cell research sign a pact that they will never use nor benefit in any form or fashion from the results of this research.
Your Xerox ad is obnoxious. I can't read what you've written and there's no way to block it. It sucks and your site will if you continue to block readers. Check it out in IE.
It'll cost the same in the long run. Low prices in the beginning - possibly a year or two then back up to what cable companies will charge.
Just remember - the beauty of cable TV when it first rolled out was no commercials since you were paying for it. MTV used to advertise music without commercials. Now look at them.
Not denying which you say is true - I've worked with some mean back-stabbing bosses in the past that will take credit for your hard work and leave you hanging out to dry. But unless it is a huge company with good job security, you'll find people will step all over you.
My suggestion to you if you feel you're more competent - try to run your own company and watch other people pull the same stuff on each other. It's the only way out of being someone's b****
Why not form a stirling engine to the engine and exhaust system to the alternator to get more electrical juice out of this sucker???
http://www.lunarstudio.com/
I had a similar illustration I created for this device I came up with over 5 years ago.
Here's my version I came up with (and it's using a stirling engine fyi...):
http://www.lunarstudio.com/images/dynamic/lumagen. html
See the striking similarities??? They stole my idea...damn I wish I had money to have patented it back then... I'd be retired by now.
Slashdot Mirror
That was my initial thought too. Verizon employee or investor lol...
yep - it's slinging a lot or irrelevant junk at the moment.
Bing has both positives and negatives.
On the positive side:
1. Fast
2. Nifty tabs next to each search result.
3. Image search reads a lot better on a larger monitor then the limits set by Google's image search.
On the negative side:
1. Heavy reliance on domain names for keywords.
2. Heavy reliance on backlinks causing relevancy issues.
3. I've seen websites that had two sets of title metas and descriptions on the main index page. That code should not be tolerated. In my opinion, Bing is not checking for well-formed code.
4. Bing recommends absolute URLs which can make updating a website difficult as well as potentially causing a drop in ranking for other websites.
5. Little to no reliance on domain age.
6. Less reliance on human edited directories such as DMOZ (which in some ways, may be a positive thing.
Bing really has to work on the relevancy issues. In my opinion, it's just serving up stuff like a loose canon at the moment.
From the Wikipedia article on Jupiter (assuming it is correct): "Jupiter is 2.5 times more massive than all the other planets in our Solar System combined â" this is so massive that its barycenter with the Sun actually lies above the Sun's surface (1.068 solar radii from the Sun's center). Although this planet dwarfs the Earth (with a diameter 11 times as great) it is considerably less dense. Jupiter's volume is equal to 1,317 Earths, yet is only 318 times as massive." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter Surface Area: 6.21796Ã--1010 km2 = 121.9 Earths So this would only make sense that it had a much greater surface area (122x) than earth to be hit or had a 122% better chance of getting smacked compared to our own.
...they specialize in international copyright law. While a US Citizen may be able to "copy" or "rewrite" code US taxpayers paid for, don't assume other, non-contributing (non tax-paying to the US) foreigners can openly copy and redistribute code that is technically the property of US citizens. Personally, I don't care as your topic is of little interest to me, but unless someone is attorney/lawyer in these copyrights, I wouldn't listen to anyone here.
Then maybe they could convince people to host their birthdays there.
As much as I don't agree with everything Greenpeace does, it's healthy to actually bring attention to e-waste in this country and throughout the world. It gives us all something to consider.
I really don't understand how something crops up like this. Yeah, I've seen the message going around but anyone that has been a subscriber knows that this has been the case for almost a year now. That is of course unless they've been living in a cave or under a rock...
p.s. - I just tried using the built-in accelerometer in my Dell 24" WFP. It hurt my wrists after a few minutes of twisting and turning. I suppose I should wait 5 years before purchasing a paper-thin OLED Sony Bravia as well...
The one thing I will miss about my Treo was 3rd party apps to tether my phone to the laptop (to be used as a modem.) People can criticize these efforts, but efforts such as this may enable customers to tether their iPhone to a computer/laptop as a modem as well.
Otherwise you're stuck getting a separate plan and adaptor from ATT to do so when you already have a device that's perfectly capable.
Ungabunga: "They are lost and we need to find them!"
Chief Jongajonga: "How many people?!?"
Ungabunga: "Only one"
Chief Jongajonga: "WTF"
I thought that title meant you could wield a sword and cut off peoples heads in the name of the kingdom...
It's an awful schizophrenic jumble of programmers all trying to reach into the cookie jar at once.
It's a nest without a Queen Bee.
Anyone that tells you it's great:
1) Likes to see you suffer.
2) Wants to make themselves feel superior to you.
3) Probably hasn't used another CMS.
You need to extend its functionality? Sure thing someone has it - it will cost you money.
You want to find a template? Sure we've got tons. They all look the same if you don't mind. Plus, by the way we will charge you for it.
The short and simple is that most people don't need this overblown system. Most of the time you can find what you need in an older, time tested blogging system (I'm not going to get into that whole CMS/Blogging system difference argument here.)
All the sane people that I know that have used this (including myself) have found that Joomla! is unnecessarily complicated for the average to advanced user. There's far more intuitive options out there.
First let's get this straight - It doesn't comprehend anything. That's wishful thinking and marketing. It looks at verbs or certain keywords, flags them as important, references through synonyms, then proceeds to lump them under one category.
It's a smart way to do things, but it's not comprehension. Comprehension would imply artificial intelligence whereas this system follows a set pattern of rules and doesn't 'think' on its own.
In no ways am I trying to put this effort down - it's a step in the right direction. But you have to be careful how you weigh these words.
The second problem I see here is that they choose Wikipedia as an example. I suppose Wikipedia itself is a good site as an example, but it's far from perfect as I've discussed here: http://www.mightyfunk.com/2008/05/wikipedia-equals-fail-death-to-the-open-encyclopedia/
From reading what was posted, it 'appears' that it will be the last season. But I wouldn't sensationalize the post here by stating it is 'confirmed.'
Secondly, if you want to rejuvenate the show and its following, there are a few things they should do:
1) Be liberal in killing off characters (as stated before.)
2) Less on the sappy romance and more action (and therefore probably more expensive - hence my overall belief on the downturn of this series.)
3) Keep the Cylons more myserious (as much as the audience can't get enough of Tricia Helfer.)
4) Bigger plot twists.
5) More special effects!
"Joswiak said it was traced to a particular Windows machine in the manufacturing lines of a contract manufacturer that builds the iPods for Apple." Go figure.
Not to steal anyone's thunder, but here's a link from an old post of mine (Nov. 2004): http://www.lunarlog.com/archives/000114.php A little follow-up: http://www.lunarlog.com/archives/000117.php And yes - the website is in serious need of a redesign/update.
I say we make everyone who's against stem-cell research sign a pact that they will never use nor benefit in any form or fashion from the results of this research.
Your Xerox ad is obnoxious. I can't read what you've written and there's no way to block it. It sucks and your site will if you continue to block readers. Check it out in IE.
It'll cost the same in the long run. Low prices in the beginning - possibly a year or two then back up to what cable companies will charge.
Just remember - the beauty of cable TV when it first rolled out was no commercials since you were paying for it. MTV used to advertise music without commercials. Now look at them.
Not denying which you say is true - I've worked with some mean back-stabbing bosses in the past that will take credit for your hard work and leave you hanging out to dry. But unless it is a huge company with good job security, you'll find people will step all over you. My suggestion to you if you feel you're more competent - try to run your own company and watch other people pull the same stuff on each other. It's the only way out of being someone's b****
Why not form a stirling engine to the engine and exhaust system to the alternator to get more electrical juice out of this sucker??? http://www.lunarstudio.com/
I had a similar illustration I created for this device I came up with over 5 years ago. Here's my version I came up with (and it's using a stirling engine fyi...): http://www.lunarstudio.com/images/dynamic/lumagen. html
See the striking similarities??? They stole my idea ...damn I wish I had money to have patented it back then... I'd be retired by now.