The other bizarre thing is I thought I read somewhere that all their employee's workstations ran Linux, so they almost have to go out of their way to develop the app for windows only. Their own employees can't even upload videos.
Also once the Aztecs were conquered in Mexico, they occasionally joined forces with the Spanish and helped fight other native tribes in the present day southwest US. I think it's funny how revisionists have ALREADY rewritten history to make it appear that all Native American tribes were simply sitting around smoking peace pipes before the evil europeans came in and slaughtered them. A large amount of Native tribes fought each other in wars for centuries, and when the first Explorers set foot in present day Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mexico, they were greeted with hostilities. It just so happened that the Europeans had better weapons and superior numbers in most cases.
True in the short term new ideas cause buzz, which causes the price to rise, but all it takes is one quarter of earnings to be below expectations because they had unexpected costs from buying 30 different random companies to send the price plunging
Agreed, they are all over the place...trying to do everything. I still don't think their search is as good as it could be (See Clusty for a useful new type of search). They seem to be more like a bunch of intellectual kids who won the lottery and want to spend all their time coming up with neat ideas instead of actually worrying about giving returns to the shareholders who bankrolled them. I'm sure that's what alot of you all like about them so much, but if it fails it will ruin future companies that want to be ran like this.
The worst part about high denomination coins in America is that people hoard them. I havn't seen a half dollar in years. And everytime they come up with a new "dollar coin" people save them and they are never seen. I only ever get dollar coins as change from subway machines.
A Lifetime Account to play Puzzle Pirates to infinity and beyond, A Gold Ship, custom named cutter of your choice!, A bonus pack of cards, Signed by the Ringers!, A very rare Ye Win! T-Shirt of beta tourney days!, An Island named for YOU!
You can't call something "Bootytacular" and not include porn.
Well I guess they really are out to do no evil, as this idea is completely counter-productive to the current way they make money, which is by essentially getting people to click paid for search results. If the answer i'm looking for is told to me right at the top, random people will be less likely to click "Find more Jane Fonda at Ebay.com"
This is a random idea i had that probably has a lot of flaws, but since most of the information on Wikipedia is available by doing web searches (say, a search for the middle ages), it would be neat if someone like google or yahoo just started having "peer approved" searches, where people certify certain sites as having accurate factual data, such as dictionary.com or whatever for example. Since Google and Yahoo are already pretty good at getting sites with "real information" to the top (a search for "president of the united states" brings up whitehouse.gov first, not 'such and such loves or hates president bush.com') it seems like it would be a better use of the already existing content out there
But 98% of google's profits are from advertising, which only makes up a much smaller part of Yahoo's profits. So if the online advertising world were to shift even slightly Google would be broke.
I think the reason people like "us" point out things like the scale bar missing is that it seems like they are working on other less important things like the satelite pictures and ride finder before fixing basic things like a scale bar.
haha are you on google's payroll or something? All i'm saying is that people continually link to and masturbate about Google's products all the time, seemingly only because they are from Google, and use some neat implementation of JavaScript, despite the fact that if they took a step back they would see the product is either inferior to existing solutions (Such as Google Groups, and even Google News) or sometimes plain does not work (Google Maps). A scale is the most basic element you can have on a map (Thanks Cartography 101!). The original poster made a comment about Dayton being a "large place" and linked to Google Maps to "prove" this. Google Maps, while neat for some things, is absolutely useless to show scale or size, which is all I was saying.
Unfortunately because Google maps still has no scale bar, your link means absolutely nothing to me. Is Dayton 5,000 square feet or 5,000 square miles? MapQuest should still be linked to when showing scale...
Well if a random person on the internet is forecasting the doom of something extremely popular it MUST be true. While we are at it, iPods will go out of style, the Apprentice will get cancelled eventually, and gas prices will rises!!! Boogity boogity, fear my psychic powers!
Did the person that wrote the article (personaldemocracy.com) RTFO? The city ordinance does not specifically mention blogging as they seem to imply. It simply says that anyone participating in electioneering for a specific candidate, and spending more then $1000 needs to register. This covers print, internet (where they derive the blogging inference) etc. Your average blogger doesn't spend $10, let alone $1,000, and most political blogs are not for one specific SF candidate.
wow thats a great search engine, and nifty too. Why isn't Google improving their search anymore?/Begin Office Space Impression/ I can get free email anywhere. I come to Google for the Search results and the flair.
Google maps is better in appearance and speed, but thats about it...it is still well beta...it cant find things that are even shown on its map, its so frustrating. For example look for Solomons Island, MD...it thinks i'm looking for a doctor, instead of assuming the state of maryland first...and even when i type out maryland it cant find it, despite it being shown on the map. Or Dane County Airport in wisconsin...or Anderson St which is shown on their airport...very frustrating. Though neat looking. Plus once Google maps got me way lost in the ghetto cuz it showed a street that wasn't there. I know its beta, but you and I both know that beta for google means "wink wink, buy some stock, we have a map program".
Google news is much less organized and frustrating then Yahoo news, and Googles search is no better then Yahoo or MSN's lately. I don't quite understand all the people that are still so Google about Google. And this latest purchase isnt an example of Do No Evil...its not a counter they are going to give for free to people to host on free googlecities websites, its for people to track their ad revenue better.
Thank you slashdot for posting every single paul graham essay as he posts it each week. I thought you might miss one and I was worried. I cannot get by without my "true hackers do this" or "a hacker should do that" from the oracle that is Paul Graham, creator of the Yahoo Store, truely the most ingenious invention of the past century.
The problem with both Sears and Target is that they get such small profits from the video game section that they almost never staff those departments (I worked at the sears video game dept when i was a teenager, and they insisted i never stay near the video games and instead sell the other merchandise that was in the dept). And as a customer i've been to target many times where they had to page someone to come down to the dept, and it once took 30 minutes to finally get someone there just to unlock a case for me. Even though they are often sold out and sometimes charge more, i prefer going to GameStop any day of the week just cuz the employees know about games and I can be in and out with a purchase.
they are trying to get as many little ad clicks as possible. I stopped reading at page 4 or 5 because it seemed like it was extremely basic stuff and they just made something vaguely technical with lots of keywords so they could get mad ad cash from a slashdotting.
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The other bizarre thing is I thought I read somewhere that all their employee's workstations ran Linux, so they almost have to go out of their way to develop the app for windows only. Their own employees can't even upload videos.
Also once the Aztecs were conquered in Mexico, they occasionally joined forces with the Spanish and helped fight other native tribes in the present day southwest US. I think it's funny how revisionists have ALREADY rewritten history to make it appear that all Native American tribes were simply sitting around smoking peace pipes before the evil europeans came in and slaughtered them. A large amount of Native tribes fought each other in wars for centuries, and when the first Explorers set foot in present day Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mexico, they were greeted with hostilities. It just so happened that the Europeans had better weapons and superior numbers in most cases.
True in the short term new ideas cause buzz, which causes the price to rise, but all it takes is one quarter of earnings to be below expectations because they had unexpected costs from buying 30 different random companies to send the price plunging
Well that....or the 15 slashdottings it gets each day .
Agreed, they are all over the place...trying to do everything. I still don't think their search is as good as it could be (See Clusty for a useful new type of search). They seem to be more like a bunch of intellectual kids who won the lottery and want to spend all their time coming up with neat ideas instead of actually worrying about giving returns to the shareholders who bankrolled them. I'm sure that's what alot of you all like about them so much, but if it fails it will ruin future companies that want to be ran like this.
I guess Ray Kurzeil's predictions that computers will have the same power as the human brain by 2020 will not be met...
Ah the Super Mario Super Show...my favorite show as a kid. If anyone has an mp3 of both of the opening title raps i'd love it.
Mmmm Blatent Plug/Free Advertising for someones product....
The worst part about high denomination coins in America is that people hoard them. I havn't seen a half dollar in years. And everytime they come up with a new "dollar coin" people save them and they are never seen. I only ever get dollar coins as change from subway machines.
A Lifetime Account to play Puzzle Pirates to infinity and beyond, A Gold Ship, custom named cutter of your choice!, A bonus pack of cards, Signed by the Ringers!, A very rare Ye Win! T-Shirt of beta tourney days!, An Island named for YOU!
You can't call something "Bootytacular" and not include porn.
Well I guess they really are out to do no evil, as this idea is completely counter-productive to the current way they make money, which is by essentially getting people to click paid for search results. If the answer i'm looking for is told to me right at the top, random people will be less likely to click "Find more Jane Fonda at Ebay.com"
This is a random idea i had that probably has a lot of flaws, but since most of the information on Wikipedia is available by doing web searches (say, a search for the middle ages), it would be neat if someone like google or yahoo just started having "peer approved" searches, where people certify certain sites as having accurate factual data, such as dictionary.com or whatever for example. Since Google and Yahoo are already pretty good at getting sites with "real information" to the top (a search for "president of the united states" brings up whitehouse.gov first, not 'such and such loves or hates president bush.com') it seems like it would be a better use of the already existing content out there
But 98% of google's profits are from advertising, which only makes up a much smaller part of Yahoo's profits. So if the online advertising world were to shift even slightly Google would be broke.
Um Ride Finder wasn't an April Fools Joke. A) It came out March 30th. B) Its right here: http://labs.google.com/ridefinder
6) Tinfoil. And LOTS of it.
I think the reason people like "us" point out things like the scale bar missing is that it seems like they are working on other less important things like the satelite pictures and ride finder before fixing basic things like a scale bar.
haha are you on google's payroll or something? All i'm saying is that people continually link to and masturbate about Google's products all the time, seemingly only because they are from Google, and use some neat implementation of JavaScript, despite the fact that if they took a step back they would see the product is either inferior to existing solutions (Such as Google Groups, and even Google News) or sometimes plain does not work (Google Maps). A scale is the most basic element you can have on a map (Thanks Cartography 101!). The original poster made a comment about Dayton being a "large place" and linked to Google Maps to "prove" this. Google Maps, while neat for some things, is absolutely useless to show scale or size, which is all I was saying.
Unfortunately because Google maps still has no scale bar, your link means absolutely nothing to me. Is Dayton 5,000 square feet or 5,000 square miles? MapQuest should still be linked to when showing scale...
Well if a random person on the internet is forecasting the doom of something extremely popular it MUST be true. While we are at it, iPods will go out of style, the Apprentice will get cancelled eventually, and gas prices will rises!!! Boogity boogity, fear my psychic powers!
Did the person that wrote the article (personaldemocracy.com) RTFO? The city ordinance does not specifically mention blogging as they seem to imply. It simply says that anyone participating in electioneering for a specific candidate, and spending more then $1000 needs to register. This covers print, internet (where they derive the blogging inference) etc. Your average blogger doesn't spend $10, let alone $1,000, and most political blogs are not for one specific SF candidate.
wow thats a great search engine, and nifty too. Why isn't Google improving their search anymore? /Begin Office Space Impression/ I can get free email anywhere. I come to Google for the Search results and the flair.
Google news is much less organized and frustrating then Yahoo news, and Googles search is no better then Yahoo or MSN's lately. I don't quite understand all the people that are still so Google about Google. And this latest purchase isnt an example of Do No Evil...its not a counter they are going to give for free to people to host on free googlecities websites, its for people to track their ad revenue better.
Thank you slashdot for posting every single paul graham essay as he posts it each week. I thought you might miss one and I was worried. I cannot get by without my "true hackers do this" or "a hacker should do that" from the oracle that is Paul Graham, creator of the Yahoo Store, truely the most ingenious invention of the past century.
The problem with both Sears and Target is that they get such small profits from the video game section that they almost never staff those departments (I worked at the sears video game dept when i was a teenager, and they insisted i never stay near the video games and instead sell the other merchandise that was in the dept). And as a customer i've been to target many times where they had to page someone to come down to the dept, and it once took 30 minutes to finally get someone there just to unlock a case for me. Even though they are often sold out and sometimes charge more, i prefer going to GameStop any day of the week just cuz the employees know about games and I can be in and out with a purchase.
they are trying to get as many little ad clicks as possible. I stopped reading at page 4 or 5 because it seemed like it was extremely basic stuff and they just made something vaguely technical with lots of keywords so they could get mad ad cash from a slashdotting.