But valid pages are more often than not also semantic and structured, so it's just one side of the same issue. If you read my whole comment, you would have seen that the invalidity of U Tube's HTML is not the only cause for their (as good as) complete absence from Google's index.
I have read your whole comment and I still don't understand how you consider "invalidity of HTML is one of the reasons for utube's absence from Google's index" a valid statement. It has nothing to do with the fact that it doesn't validate, the fact that it doesn't is only a hint that there *might* be some other flaws that prevent Google from indexing it or ranking it better (no proof shown yet). I do not like such attempts to give W3C HTML validation more importance than it deserves.
Also, the Google index has 2380 pages from utube.com, they are apparently only considered identical (or not worth showing in detail) because they all have the same title/description.
If the valuation of companies like Google is so high, then a lot of people must have had surplus money to invest in them. Therefore, the bubble was in their pockets...
Is lying in an ally, shooting up heroin as worthwhile as building a ball field for your son's school? Like it or not, your life affects other people.
Nice cliché example, but doing heroin isn't inherently bad either, if it doesn't make you feel bad or kill you early. There are a lot of drug addicts about that can keep a regular, successful life, although admittedly most fail because they can't afford it or lose control of their addiction (and those would not claim that they're doing what they want). Building a ball field may give you personally nothing except a little boost of self-righteousness that wears away quickly.
In real life, reading, exercising, and volunteering are undeniably "better" pastimes than compulsive gambling or vandalism.
Better for you as an observer perhaps, but that doesn't give you the right to judge it on behalf of those who do it. In reality, those people who "volunteer" as you call it, usually do it for purely egoistic reasons (I'm sure you will bring up another cliché now, perhaps Mother Teresa?).
As for affecting other people - who cares? Mostly stupid people who never question their indoctrination with Christian morality. If you do not enjoy helping other people or being nice to them, doing it isn't good for you and thus not a good pastime. It certainly isn't "inherently good" for you (only for society). It can be downright unhealthy if you neglect your own needs in order to cater for other people, doing what you have been told to be "good".
So, be happy. Do what you really want, not what your friendly apostle of morality tells you to do;-).
MMORPGs are unhealthy, dangerous for your job, family, social lives. That's certainly true, but as a pastime they aren't "throwing your life away". No pastime is worth less than another simply because it isn't considered acceptable by other people, all that counts is how happy you are with it.
In the end, your life will simply expire anyway. Make sure you've had some fun and don't listen to other people who want to decide what you do with your time.
However, the simple fact is that if you raise your kids with trust and openness, they will grow up into a healthy adult. And if you don't overprotect them (although that is a very subjective term) then they won't be shocked when they actually do enter the real world. "What? The internet isn't just for trading recipes? OMFG!"
I agree with you there. However, the (western) world isn't what it used to be, it is evolving into surveillance states, so a cynic like me would claim that having a control freak as parent, who logs everything and is secretive about it, prepares a kid much better for the world of tomorrow...
...but a small group massaging that text to insure standards compliance with the overall work.
Nope, this small group is tweaking the text the way they see fit, basing their changes on their personal opinions and feelings and not on some god-given inspiration that leads to better quality or with standards compliance in mind. So the conclusion above is almost valid - it is like a real encyclopedia, but with an anarchic structure in the team of editors and no educated QA team. It's more like an encyclopedia reworked by a non-cooperating team of censors.
I made an account at nsamail.net and they have really good filtering equipment and personnel. Since then I haven't got a single e-mail with spam, containing immoral content or with an inacceptable ideological stance.
3 - Slashdot. Copes with the traffic that destroys anything it links to. Perl again. Rarely down.
And lastly Wikipedia. Runs with PHP and MySQL! Their servers blow weekly, copious lengths of downtime, search function regularly disabled. Pages are nearly always slow to respond. QED
To be fair: Slashdot used to be down quite often (though mostly due to tinkering I guess) and it does use MySQL...
With their political ambitions growing and the backing of a significant part of the population becoming obvious, the government (the ruling party) and its lackeys within the police have a very good reason to bust them, whether in accordance with the law or not. Let's hope for a good backlash in the next elections.
He who argues that something is religiously this and that is a preposterous infidel and shall be crushed...:-/
Neil McAllister is so obviously lacking real arguments that he had to call the FSF dogmatic, evangelical etc. Just look at his ridiculous bullshit like "If I were to stoop to that level, I might describe the FSF as the "Fundamentalist Software Foundation." But why go there?". Yeah, you've stooped much lower already Allister, to the point of stupid flaming. I don't know why Infoworld would publish such crap, perhaps they were so desperate for slashdot traffic.
I hate the idea of regulating games, but smart adults should know what these games do to your health.
They also know it about smoking, eating unhealthy (but tasty) food, drinking alcohol, watching TV - and they still do that as well. It's called life, or filling up the gaps between sleep intervals with something more enjoyable than the dullness of plain existence;-).
at least they don't keep their government employees busy with rewriting Wikipedia entries about politicians, so they might actually get some real work done instead.
Do not kid yourselves - greed is as prevalent among workers as it is among managers and shareholders. There is nothing that makes a worker more "human" and less susceptible to foul behavior. For example, most workers will leave a company where they are treated well for another which pays significantly higher wages, or they will happily buy products manufactured in 3rd world countries with horrible working conditions (where their job is going to be outsourced soon...) instead of expensive stuff from their own country. So, this one-sided way of bashing the management is not very smart.
Better take 2.6 as it is and put it in a code museum as a good example of a dead end project, then commence with some late 2.5 release. It started out all wrong, with far too much new crap going into this supposedly stable branch.
Still, our servers seem to work fine with it, so far.
Google's use of Miró's style was a tribute to his art and most likely got millions of users interested in his works and his life. Even if pathetic organizations like ARS are only really interested in raking in the money made from dead artists' works (and not in the honor of the artists, apparently), they should understand that this helps even them make more money.
But kudos to ARS for reminding us that Miró is dead and all the money made from his works goes to some greedy people who have contributed nothing.
Miró himself donated many of his works in the hope that he would not be forgotten, but apparently ARS sees no value in keeping that spirit alive. They'd rather have people forget about him than allow anyone to use his "copyrighted" (by them) style for free.
And now are making money selling the electricity from their many nuclear power plants to others (read "Germany" where the Green Peace hippies managed to stop the building of nuclear power plants years ago).
Germany has been exporting electricity since 2003 (i.e. more exports than imports) according to this official report. In fact, in 2003, France had to import power from Germany because of the hot summer. Europe already has a larger production capacity than its projected needs and France will have to look for new markets soon.
Nuclear power is neither cheap nor "clean". It was only widely adopted because the lobbyists managed to hide a large part of the cost for building power plants in research budgets and because noone's ever pointing out the problems with finding safe storage for nuclear waste.
Germany and Sweden have already decided to stop using nuclear power and more countries will follow, so the lobbyists are struggling to find new support and spread FUD everywhere. Don't believe them, there are plenty of perfectly clean, safe and renewable alternatives which won't burden following generations with the dangers of ageing technology and nuclear waste.
Then again, since Toshiba is building laptopos with totally impractical keyboards these days, I don't think ThinkPad users will buy from them... Look at this view on a widescreen laptop from Toshiba (with german keyboard layout) - ridiculously small space bar, tiny Control-keys, tiny Tab key, so much space wasted. What the f... were they thinking when they designed this? It must be a model for people who only ever use the mouse on the PC...
... now someone just needs to learn the art of creating a convincing, but misleading profile. I can see the book coming: "build a myspace.com profile and get laid in 5 easy steps!"
- get him addicted to some real drugs (i.e. the hard stuff)
- pay a hooker to keep him busy every day
- install an EULA-violating bot on his account, then report him to get him banned
- bribe some techie at his ISP to make his connection unstable
or, perhaps, accept that it's one of the cheapest, least unhealthy addictions he can possibly have - and it won't last, he'll get off it without any permanent negative effects on his health (but he'll regret the wasted time). For most people, WoW gets boring after a couple of months of intensive play, there's just not enough new content and farming instances all the time for your set items gets too tedious.
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I have read your whole comment and I still don't understand how you consider "invalidity of HTML is one of the reasons for utube's absence from Google's index" a valid statement. It has nothing to do with the fact that it doesn't validate, the fact that it doesn't is only a hint that there *might* be some other flaws that prevent Google from indexing it or ranking it better (no proof shown yet). I do not like such attempts to give W3C HTML validation more importance than it deserves.
Also, the Google index has 2380 pages from utube.com, they are apparently only considered identical (or not worth showing in detail) because they all have the same title/description.
Can you give me an authoritative source with information about Google's using W3C's HTML validation in the PageRank calculation?
If anything, the graph shows that most people who got VA shares back then tried to sell them for cash as soon as possible. ;-)
If the valuation of companies like Google is so high, then a lot of people must have had surplus money to invest in them. Therefore, the bubble was in their pockets ...
Who cares about salaries when apparently everyone in the area has made money from the stock market? Or how else would you explain this phenomenon?
Nice cliché example, but doing heroin isn't inherently bad either, if it doesn't make you feel bad or kill you early. There are a lot of drug addicts about that can keep a regular, successful life, although admittedly most fail because they can't afford it or lose control of their addiction (and those would not claim that they're doing what they want). Building a ball field may give you personally nothing except a little boost of self-righteousness that wears away quickly.
In real life, reading, exercising, and volunteering are undeniably "better" pastimes than compulsive gambling or vandalism.
Better for you as an observer perhaps, but that doesn't give you the right to judge it on behalf of those who do it. In reality, those people who "volunteer" as you call it, usually do it for purely egoistic reasons (I'm sure you will bring up another cliché now, perhaps Mother Teresa?).
As for affecting other people - who cares? Mostly stupid people who never question their indoctrination with Christian morality. If you do not enjoy helping other people or being nice to them, doing it isn't good for you and thus not a good pastime. It certainly isn't "inherently good" for you (only for society). It can be downright unhealthy if you neglect your own needs in order to cater for other people, doing what you have been told to be "good".
So, be happy. Do what you really want, not what your friendly apostle of morality tells you to do ;-).
In the end, your life will simply expire anyway. Make sure you've had some fun and don't listen to other people who want to decide what you do with your time.
I agree with you there. However, the (western) world isn't what it used to be, it is evolving into surveillance states, so a cynic like me would claim that having a control freak as parent, who logs everything and is secretive about it, prepares a kid much better for the world of tomorrow...
Nope, this small group is tweaking the text the way they see fit, basing their changes on their personal opinions and feelings and not on some god-given inspiration that leads to better quality or with standards compliance in mind. So the conclusion above is almost valid - it is like a real encyclopedia, but with an anarchic structure in the team of editors and no educated QA team. It's more like an encyclopedia reworked by a non-cooperating team of censors.
I made an account at nsamail.net and they have really good filtering equipment and personnel. Since then I haven't got a single e-mail with spam, containing immoral content or with an inacceptable ideological stance.
And lastly Wikipedia. Runs with PHP and MySQL! Their servers blow weekly, copious lengths of downtime, search function regularly disabled. Pages are nearly always slow to respond. QED
To be fair: Slashdot used to be down quite often (though mostly due to tinkering I guess) and it does use MySQL...
read: slyck.com
Neil McAllister is so obviously lacking real arguments that he had to call the FSF dogmatic, evangelical etc. Just look at his ridiculous bullshit like "If I were to stoop to that level, I might describe the FSF as the "Fundamentalist Software Foundation." But why go there?". Yeah, you've stooped much lower already Allister, to the point of stupid flaming. I don't know why Infoworld would publish such crap, perhaps they were so desperate for slashdot traffic.
They also know it about smoking, eating unhealthy (but tasty) food, drinking alcohol, watching TV - and they still do that as well. It's called life, or filling up the gaps between sleep intervals with something more enjoyable than the dullness of plain existence ;-).
Still, our servers seem to work fine with it, so far.
But kudos to ARS for reminding us that Miró is dead and all the money made from his works goes to some greedy people who have contributed nothing. Miró himself donated many of his works in the hope that he would not be forgotten, but apparently ARS sees no value in keeping that spirit alive. They'd rather have people forget about him than allow anyone to use his "copyrighted" (by them) style for free.
Germany has been exporting electricity since 2003 (i.e. more exports than imports) according to this official report. In fact, in 2003, France had to import power from Germany because of the hot summer. Europe already has a larger production capacity than its projected needs and France will have to look for new markets soon.
Germany and Sweden have already decided to stop using nuclear power and more countries will follow, so the lobbyists are struggling to find new support and spread FUD everywhere. Don't believe them, there are plenty of perfectly clean, safe and renewable alternatives which won't burden following generations with the dangers of ageing technology and nuclear waste.
- The Trackpoint is gone
- There are bloody useless "Windows" keys on the new models now, taking up precious space (WTF?), IBM had always refused to add them
- Even the larger models have stupidly small "Return" keys now
- The overall look&feel is that of a cheap Acer laptop, not that of a good old solid and practical ThinkPad...
(I'm referring to this)Then again, since Toshiba is building laptopos with totally impractical keyboards these days, I don't think ThinkPad users will buy from them ... Look at this view on a widescreen laptop from Toshiba (with german keyboard layout) - ridiculously small space bar, tiny Control-keys, tiny Tab key, so much space wasted. What the f... were they thinking when they designed this? It must be a model for people who only ever use the mouse on the PC ...
- pay a hooker to keep him busy every day
- install an EULA-violating bot on his account, then report him to get him banned
- bribe some techie at his ISP to make his connection unstable
or, perhaps, accept that it's one of the cheapest, least unhealthy addictions he can possibly have - and it won't last, he'll get off it without any permanent negative effects on his health (but he'll regret the wasted time). For most people, WoW gets boring after a couple of months of intensive play, there's just not enough new content and farming instances all the time for your set items gets too tedious.