i meant the sleep - when looking for bots, you tend to look for regular intervals, or have a threshold between requests - to avoid being treated as a bot, use one or two of those methods.
Google only reports "about 4,820,000" entries for Britney Spears, while Yahoo reports "about 67,100,000" entries! This makes Yahoo more than 12 times better than google! Yeah, my methodology is completely fucked up... but then, so is the NCSA's!
But that's because both Yahoo and Google cap results at 1000, so if you have more than that, it won't count for either engine.
The first time your average users hit a site that doesn't work with Browser X (be it Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Amaya or whatever), they will try the first other browser available, which is likely to be IE. And then they'll never look back until they encounter pages that won't work in IE.
It's unfortunate, and arguably isn't the best thing the users can do, but as long as there's enough sites out there that require IE, users will switch to IE, even from "better" browsers.
Exactly. My son wants to watch streaming music and video on yahoo.com - it's summer - the music.yahoo.com and radio.yahoo.com sites don't work in Firefox - but they work in IE.
So in the summer he uses that.
Fix the bug and maybe you'll get the users. Whine about Noone Loves Me and people will ignore your excuses and switch anyway.
It's summer time and even though I usually use Firefox and Opera (for email), the only way to use (fully) the music.yahoo.com and radio.yahoo.com sites is to use IE, since Firefox won't properly render them (at least since version 1.00 according to bugtraq).
So, in the summer I turn on the radio and let my son watch videos cause he's not in school - which means a lot more IE usage than usual.
I have both IE and Firefox on my machine. Why? Because I can't access certain sites that are very MS specific with Firefox.
That being said, 95% of the time I use Firefox.
Same here. Although I have Firefox, Opera, and IE at home, using Opera for email and most IE sites, and occassionally if even Opera balks, or for MSFT downloads, I use IE.
Don't get too excited! According to Broadband Reports [broadbandreports.com] and ComputerWorld [computerworld.com]: "The streak of Mozilla's Firefox browser gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer has come to a grinding halt in July. For the first time since Firefox Version 1.0 made its debut, Internet Explorer was able to regain some lost ground. Firefox's market share shrunk to 8.07% in July from 8.71% in June, while Internet Explorer grew its share to 87.2% in July from 86.56% the previous month."
Two problems with this:
1. Half of the downloads of IE were patches that were auto-downloaded as a bugfix by MSFT even if you didn't ASK for them.
2. Marketshare? I've never paid for Firefox, but when I bought a new laptop it came with WinXP and IE, so officially, even though I downloaded Firefox three times, and IE once (automatically), for me the market share of IE is 100 percent.
which we find on the beach, dry out, and hand carve.
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The newspaper I write for wanted to do this huge writeup on this overhyped marketingspeak word. When I explained that "Podcasting" is nothing more than a digital audio file to a server....but downloading it AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!11111!!1, they scrapped it.
So, basically, you talked yourself out of going to listen to free music and talking with band members, just to prove a point?
There most likely is a reason why these people aren't syndicated nationally.
Like not bribing the DJs?
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Surely the death knell of any technology is when it finds itself in print!
Yeah, remember when they started publishing the Gutenburg bible - that killed off printing for like, thousands of years - oh, wait, no, that never happened.
Here at the UW we podcast with flash cards
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So, I'm like riding on the bus to work/school at the Dub, and this Husky couple, like guy-guy, well they get on the bus and they're all touchy-feely, which doesn't mean anything cause I'm like from Fremont, and we're so zen we're buddha so you can never tell.
Anyway, the next stop this girl gets on and this classic moment of iPod zen, she hands her MP3 flash stick - like we're so tech we're past watches cause you just look at your cell if you want a timecheck - anyways, so she hands the stick and the earbuds to one of the guys and goes - this is true, i was like staring cause she's hot in a geek way so i saw it - anyways, she hands it to one of the guys and she'd voice recorded the guy singing karaoke rap and everyone busts out laughing, cause it'll probably be the next band cause she added an electronica dance beat to it, almost uber-house, and everyone loved it.
so, now it's Podcasting on the web, and i feel kind of bad, cause it wasn't even an apple iPod, it was just a flash MP3 stick like we all buy.
Anyway, I have a boy (9) and a girl (5). The boy is the main video game player and game selector, and he knows that games have to be rated E (everyone) in order for him to play it. There are exceptions to this, but they are on a case-by-case basis and they are extremely rare. He might have been allowed to play a T (teen) game once or twice.
One of the things I find objectionable in a lot of game systems, like say Fable on the xBox is you can't play as a female character. Tons of apprentices at the guild of both genders, but they have you play as a guy no matter what. What's up with that?
First, I have a 14 yo son. And, to be frank, I do the parenting in regards to games permitted.
I have no probs with The Sims, in fact I play Sims: The Urbz with Ian and his half-sister when she is at our place (she's 11).
I found Fable on the xBox a bit much at times, pushing the envelope of what I would get.
I loved Lego Star Wars and it doesn't really matter what age rating you give it.
Some of the other games he plays at friends houses are a bit much - Blood Rayne, any of the GTA - although if they ever release GTA: Seattle I'll buy it, a lot of things supposedly for teens are way too violent.
I'm not so worried about a lot of the "sex" - Americans are way too uptight, if you ask me, and need to stop mixing that with violence.
So, it doesn't matter what they rate it - some stuff is games that nutso parents say is BAD - that I think is GOOD - other stuff that they say is GOOD (Nascar racing?) will never darken my door.
What if you never had a job, and you are in school? How do you go about getting an intership with a blank resume?
Well, first of all, list your education details first. Be specific about courses you have taken - if any are honors or AP - if any are relevant to the internship you want.
Second, list your hobbies - at least the ones you can be positive about - and give details for those which are relevant to what internship you want (e.g. if you raise horses, this might be useful in managing gamers - as you can handle ornery beasts)
Third, get personal and educational references - ask all of your teachers if they can be a reference for you seeking that internship and all your family friends and anyone (preferably adult) who can be a reference.
Fourth, be honest. Seriously. It's important.
Fifth, SPEL CZECH THE RESUME.
Sixth, let a few other people read it, especially any managers or people who work in the industry you want the internship in. And the people in that industry - why aren't they references?
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i meant the sleep - when looking for bots, you tend to look for regular intervals, or have a threshold between requests - to avoid being treated as a bot, use one or two of those methods.
I'm wondering how they prevented the machines running robots from getting banned after querying that much.
If you follow the story link, you'll find the NSCA posted the source perl code - and answer it yourself.
Google only reports "about 4,820,000" entries for Britney Spears, while Yahoo reports "about 67,100,000" entries! This makes Yahoo more than 12 times better than google! Yeah, my methodology is completely fucked up... but then, so is the NCSA's!
But that's because both Yahoo and Google cap results at 1000, so if you have more than that, it won't count for either engine.
We have a blog post to PR a "spam-catcher" - how is this different from spam, which is an unpaid commercial advertisement?
I'm just saying it's not news per se, nor is it really tech per se.
sigh.
The first time your average users hit a site that doesn't work with Browser X (be it Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Amaya or whatever), they will try the first other browser available, which is likely to be IE. And then they'll never look back until they encounter pages that won't work in IE.
It's unfortunate, and arguably isn't the best thing the users can do, but as long as there's enough sites out there that require IE, users will switch to IE, even from "better" browsers.
Exactly. My son wants to watch streaming music and video on yahoo.com - it's summer - the music.yahoo.com and radio.yahoo.com sites don't work in Firefox - but they work in IE.
So in the summer he uses that.
Fix the bug and maybe you'll get the users. Whine about Noone Loves Me and people will ignore your excuses and switch anyway.
It's summer time and even though I usually use Firefox and Opera (for email), the only way to use (fully) the music.yahoo.com and radio.yahoo.com sites is to use IE, since Firefox won't properly render them (at least since version 1.00 according to bugtraq).
So, in the summer I turn on the radio and let my son watch videos cause he's not in school - which means a lot more IE usage than usual.
Fix the bug and numbers will skyrocket.
I have both IE and Firefox on my machine. Why? Because I can't access certain sites that are very MS specific with Firefox.
That being said, 95% of the time I use Firefox.
Same here. Although I have Firefox, Opera, and IE at home, using Opera for email and most IE sites, and occassionally if even Opera balks, or for MSFT downloads, I use IE.
otherwise we'll be seeing one of these Firefox downloads at xx,xxx posts every day or so.
Don't get too excited! According to Broadband Reports [broadbandreports.com] and ComputerWorld [computerworld.com]: "The streak of Mozilla's Firefox browser gaining market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer has come to a grinding halt in July. For the first time since Firefox Version 1.0 made its debut, Internet Explorer was able to regain some lost ground. Firefox's market share shrunk to 8.07% in July from 8.71% in June, while Internet Explorer grew its share to 87.2% in July from 86.56% the previous month."
Two problems with this:
1. Half of the downloads of IE were patches that were auto-downloaded as a bugfix by MSFT even if you didn't ASK for them.
2. Marketshare? I've never paid for Firefox, but when I bought a new laptop it came with WinXP and IE, so officially, even though I downloaded Firefox three times, and IE once (automatically), for me the market share of IE is 100 percent.
Statistics are interesting things.
well, about 80 cents at the pump is due to currency devaluation by the fed in relation to the rest of the world.
"Hot in a geek way", eh? So in other words she's too fat to be a prep but too skinny to be a goth.
No, it means she's the serious type, fairly slender, tall, and good looking.
Why, don't you have those around your way?
which we find on the beach, dry out, and hand carve.
The newspaper I write for wanted to do this huge writeup on this overhyped marketingspeak word. When I explained that "Podcasting" is nothing more than a digital audio file to a server....but downloading it AUTOMATICALLY!!!!!11111!!1, they scrapped it.
So, basically, you talked yourself out of going to listen to free music and talking with band members, just to prove a point?
Um, ok, whatever.
Indeed, I am certainly looking forward to the podcast of "How to listen to a podcast"
When do you think they'll make that into a Books On Tape?
There most likely is a reason why these people aren't syndicated nationally.
Like not bribing the DJs?
Surely the death knell of any technology is when it finds itself in print!
Yeah, remember when they started publishing the Gutenburg bible - that killed off printing for like, thousands of years - oh, wait, no, that never happened.
So, I'm like riding on the bus to work/school at the Dub, and this Husky couple, like guy-guy, well they get on the bus and they're all touchy-feely, which doesn't mean anything cause I'm like from Fremont, and we're so zen we're buddha so you can never tell.
Anyway, the next stop this girl gets on and this classic moment of iPod zen, she hands her MP3 flash stick - like we're so tech we're past watches cause you just look at your cell if you want a timecheck - anyways, so she hands the stick and the earbuds to one of the guys and goes - this is true, i was like staring cause she's hot in a geek way so i saw it - anyways, she hands it to one of the guys and she'd voice recorded the guy singing karaoke rap and everyone busts out laughing, cause it'll probably be the next band cause she added an electronica dance beat to it, almost uber-house, and everyone loved it.
so, now it's Podcasting on the web, and i feel kind of bad, cause it wasn't even an apple iPod, it was just a flash MP3 stick like we all buy.
Maybe parents are not lazy... maybe a normal person doesn't find low-poly people having PG sex, and cartoon style violence, to not really be that bad
I thought that was a setting on the game. The cartoon violence and weapons that is.
Anyway, I have a boy (9) and a girl (5). The boy is the main video game player and game selector, and he knows that games have to be rated E (everyone) in order for him to play it. There are exceptions to this, but they are on a case-by-case basis and they are extremely rare. He might have been allowed to play a T (teen) game once or twice.
One of the things I find objectionable in a lot of game systems, like say Fable on the xBox is you can't play as a female character. Tons of apprentices at the guild of both genders, but they have you play as a guy no matter what. What's up with that?
after all, they have the stronger claim to the iPod patents, according to the messed up morons at the USPTO ...
First, I have a 14 yo son. And, to be frank, I do the parenting in regards to games permitted.
I have no probs with The Sims, in fact I play Sims: The Urbz with Ian and his half-sister when she is at our place (she's 11).
I found Fable on the xBox a bit much at times, pushing the envelope of what I would get.
I loved Lego Star Wars and it doesn't really matter what age rating you give it.
Some of the other games he plays at friends houses are a bit much - Blood Rayne, any of the GTA - although if they ever release GTA: Seattle I'll buy it, a lot of things supposedly for teens are way too violent.
I'm not so worried about a lot of the "sex" - Americans are way too uptight, if you ask me, and need to stop mixing that with violence.
So, it doesn't matter what they rate it - some stuff is games that nutso parents say is BAD - that I think is GOOD - other stuff that they say is GOOD (Nascar racing?) will never darken my door.
Why dinnae they switch to ScotsOffice? Microsoft, Open, whatever Office you use, if it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!
So, roll yer own distro of OpenOffice and i'll do the Haggis extensions fer trackin down Nessie.
If a poor nob nae kin wri bou a pizant wi sgain, how kin the nob gi his scuttin port i da hopper?
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Tha plus ih don ha up-kilt cam add-ons fer da lassies
guess they've never heard of Prior Art or Chutzpa.
What if you never had a job, and you are in school? How do you go about getting an intership with a blank resume?
Well, first of all, list your education details first. Be specific about courses you have taken - if any are honors or AP - if any are relevant to the internship you want.
Second, list your hobbies - at least the ones you can be positive about - and give details for those which are relevant to what internship you want (e.g. if you raise horses, this might be useful in managing gamers - as you can handle ornery beasts)
Third, get personal and educational references - ask all of your teachers if they can be a reference for you seeking that internship and all your family friends and anyone (preferably adult) who can be a reference.
Fourth, be honest. Seriously. It's important.
Fifth, SPEL CZECH THE RESUME.
Sixth, let a few other people read it, especially any managers or people who work in the industry you want the internship in. And the people in that industry - why aren't they references?
OK?