It doesn't do this from igoogle. So if you just browsed to "google.com" or you are signed in, enter a search- which then sends you to the normal/old google page with your selected search text. It displays fixed results. Then click in the search text box and change the text.
I'm in firefox 3.6.10 with adblock and noscript (but allow google script) and that's how it is working for me.
I get a "Big Lots" ad for "big" and then it changes to "US Polo Association Shirts Big" for big horse and finally "Horse Mating" for "big horse breeding".
I didn't do that at iGoogle. it does that at Google.
I've been thinking robots would be a real problem starting in about 2020 based on current vision and manual dexterity systems progress. Discussing this elsewhere (and told I was too pessimistic), I came across the following information.
Online retailer Diapers.com employs more than 350 of the robots in three warehouses, and is adding "hundreds per month," says Executive Vice-President Scott Hilton. Retailer Crate & Barrel has purchased Kiva robots to be installed in its Tracy (Calif.) distribution center in July. One reason Crate & Barrel and Diapers.com decided to use Kiva robots is that the robots can work in the dark, reducing carbon emissions and saving money on air-conditioning and lighting....
at El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley, 19 robots fulfill a range of tasks, from delivering medication and food to taking out trash....
Hiring as many humans... would have cost the hospital more than $1 million a year, says Ken King, vice-pr.... Leasing the robots from Aethon costs $350,000 a year, which helps the hospital contain costs and offer patients affordable health care, he says.
The Tug robots pull their weight, say hospital officials. Tugette, for example, rolls through El Camino Hospital's corridors making deliveries around the clock, opening doors, summoning elevators, and speaking politely with workers and patients.
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So let's see.
* Two THIRDs cheaper than humans
* Works 24 hours a day
* Works in the dark
* Doesn't require air conditioning
* Some companies are employing "hundreds of them" with more on the way.
* Replaces humans who go into the warehouse and get things and who stock shelves.
* If you have any kind of SLA, it also basically never gets sick.
And that's NOW. Right now. Already happening- not 10 years from now.
It's going to be very difficult to adjust to this change in less than a generation- if it is even possible to adjust to it at all.
I just want to watch my legally purchased movie on my laptop, my iphone, my second computer, and take a backup copy on a trip with me which can get shattered (as happened to two last trip). without having to pay for the same content over and over and over.
The downside to piracy isn't worth the cost of $4.99 to $13.99.
Music is unreasonably priced but most TV and movies are reasonable. The days of $89 movies are over.
Now the issue has become having to pay for the same content over and over and over and over and over.
Okay, so RIAA plays EIAA 7.5 million dollars to enforce copyright law. The ISP's are forced to pay 2.5 million dollars.
And EIAA, a wholy owned subsidiary under the same parent organization as RIAA passes the money uphill where it is distributed back down to RIAA.
And this can be raised to any amount up to the point where the ISP's are collapsing. And it's been done for close to 95 years now (at least the earliest I've heard of it was in the 20's but I guess it may have been done by plays and vaudeville beforethat).
Instead of releasing windows office 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, you just get a windows subscription. They get a steady revenue stream- you get bug fixes and new features. Sounds good unless your needs are met by the 2000 version- the bugs it has doesn't bother you and the new features are just bloat to you that slow it down and raise your hardware requirements.
It's not all bad- except that you would bay $120 or $240 a year (whatever the actual amount is) for the rest of your life. Because you wouldn't own the software- just use of it for each month that you paid for it.
Last I heard, you could not rent a car with a debit card- so ultimately you need a real credit card (I am not sure you can rent one with a secured card).
If you can't charge $40 a month and pay it off in full each month, you shouldn't be using credit. But many people have plenty of money- they just lack a credit rating. Pay off your house and car, don't use credit cards for a couple years and your rating goes all to hell.
Cars are expensive. If you want a credit rating, then a secured card won't cost you more than the annual fee and those monthly fees (that's new).
Credit Ratings are based on spending on credit and then paying it off. It's not based on having money in CD accounts- unless it's changed since I last read up on it.
Not unless the license allows you to install it on multiple devices. Typically they do not or only allow a limited number of copies. If you lose your licensed copy- instead of replacing it, you are usually screwed.
This could be a value add for the companies but instead they use it as a hammer. It could be, "once you license this song, you can download it to any new computers or other devices for life. And the storage fee will only run you $20 a month for an unlimited number of movies and songs." Put a reasonable download limit of once per quarter on it to avoid obvious abuse.
But what they really want is to RENT it to you. You pay for the content every time you use it/play it. Microsoft has said openly they want you to "subscribe" to office.
because a lot of money wants it. and people won't vote on copyright as long as they keep our vote split on abortion and gay marriage.
At this point, I'm cool with either outlawing abortion or approving it and outlawing or approving gay marriage so we can take them off the table and start to vote on things like copyright, labor laws (labor's power to fight corporations has been devastated over the last 20 years), deficits, pork projects, our tax rates, national energy policy (do we REALLY need to keep using oil? Could we not have spent some of that 3 trillion bucks we spent fighting wars over oil to build an oil free energy infrastructure?), etc.
Then in 20 years we can go back to focusing on these issues. For now, the wealthy propaganda machines keep these important but really minor social issues going to keep the population split so there is no united opposition. In the past the religious sector fought on many other issues besides abortion and gay marriage but now it is mostly locked on those issues and neutralized.
Aliens is in my top 100 movies. Probably in my top 50.
Some others make sense... 5th Element, Silverado, some are obscure... Circle of Iron, King of Hearts, and some I don't understand myself, Moulin Rouge.
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It doesn't do this from igoogle. So if you just browsed to "google.com" or you are signed in, enter a search- which then sends you to the normal/old google page with your selected search text. It displays fixed results.
Then click in the search text box and change the text.
I'm in firefox 3.6.10 with adblock and noscript (but allow google script) and that's how it is working for me.
I get a "Big Lots" ad for "big" and then it changes to "US Polo Association Shirts Big" for big horse and finally "Horse Mating" for "big horse breeding".
I didn't do that at iGoogle. it does that at Google.
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS393&=&q=big&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=C3nkDaZ6XTI6CNZz0ygTJ84WADgAAAKoEBU_Q9swx#hl=en&expIds=25345,25657,25856,26515&sugexp=ldymls&xhr=t&q=big+horse+breeding&cp=18&pf=p&sclient=psy&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS393&aq=f&aqi=g2g-o1&aql=&oq=big+horse+breeding&gs_rfai=&pbx=1&fp=6f32b8af52b7e0b8
Doesn't work that way.
You type
big
and you get a list of "big" sites and "big" ads
you continue to type
horse
and the results and ads change to "big horse" sites
you finish typing
breeding
and you get results and ads for "big horse breeding" which is the same as you had before.
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Looks like google is hoping some users notice and click on the "big" and "big horse" ads.
Actually, it's not quite dead yet.
In fact, I think it's feeling better.
The "T" models will take a while.
This is just the "H" model.
I suppose the "M" models will have M appeal tho.
I've been thinking robots would be a real problem starting in about 2020 based on current vision and manual dexterity systems progress.
Discussing this elsewhere (and told I was too pessimistic), I came across the following information.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc2010061_798891.htm
Soon, That Nearby Worker Might Be a Robot
Online retailer Diapers.com employs more than 350 of the robots in three warehouses, and is adding "hundreds per month," says Executive Vice-President Scott Hilton. Retailer Crate & Barrel has purchased Kiva robots to be installed in its Tracy (Calif.) distribution center in July. One reason Crate & Barrel and Diapers.com decided to use Kiva robots is that the robots can work in the dark, reducing carbon emissions and saving money on air-conditioning and lighting. ...
at El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley, 19 robots fulfill a range of tasks, from delivering medication and food to taking out trash. ...
Hiring as many humans ... would have cost the hospital more than $1 million a year, says Ken King, vice-pr.... Leasing the robots from Aethon costs $350,000 a year, which helps the hospital contain costs and offer patients affordable health care, he says.
The Tug robots pull their weight, say hospital officials. Tugette, for example, rolls through El Camino Hospital's corridors making deliveries around the clock, opening doors, summoning elevators, and speaking politely with workers and patients.
--
So let's see.
* Two THIRDs cheaper than humans
* Works 24 hours a day
* Works in the dark
* Doesn't require air conditioning
* Some companies are employing "hundreds of them" with more on the way.
* Replaces humans who go into the warehouse and get things and who stock shelves.
* If you have any kind of SLA, it also basically never gets sick.
And that's NOW. Right now. Already happening- not 10 years from now.
It's going to be very difficult to adjust to this change in less than a generation- if it is even possible to adjust to it at all.
I just want to watch my legally purchased movie on my laptop, my iphone, my second computer, and take a backup copy on a trip with me which can get shattered (as happened to two last trip). without having to pay for the same content over and over and over.
The downside to piracy isn't worth the cost of $4.99 to $13.99.
Music is unreasonably priced but most TV and movies are reasonable. The days of $89 movies are over.
Now the issue has become having to pay for the same content over and over and over and over and over.
Dang, you are correct. You win, I loose.
Okay, so RIAA plays EIAA 7.5 million dollars to enforce copyright law.
The ISP's are forced to pay 2.5 million dollars.
And EIAA, a wholy owned subsidiary under the same parent organization as RIAA passes the money uphill where it is distributed back down to RIAA.
And this can be raised to any amount up to the point where the ISP's are collapsing. And it's been done for close to 95 years now (at least the earliest I've heard of it was in the 20's but I guess it may have been done by plays and vaudeville beforethat).
Words with Friends has the same layout.
So this has improved my relative intelligence.
I had chemo (and had issues before).
The logic circuits still work but I only remember pointers to information. So search engines let me turn that pointer into the full fact on demand.
That's a lot of cool information.
Thanks!
That's pretty much what they want to do.
Instead of releasing windows office 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010, you just get a windows subscription.
They get a steady revenue stream- you get bug fixes and new features.
Sounds good unless your needs are met by the 2000 version- the bugs it has doesn't bother you and the new features are just bloat to you that slow it down and raise your hardware requirements.
It's not all bad- except that you would bay $120 or $240 a year (whatever the actual amount is) for the rest of your life. Because you wouldn't own the software- just use of it for each month that you paid for it.
Probably some kind of theft of services or license violation subject to fines.
Right now downloading is not the issue- giving it to others is.
Last I heard, you could not rent a car with a debit card- so ultimately you need a real credit card (I am not sure you can rent one with a secured card).
If you can't charge $40 a month and pay it off in full each month, you shouldn't be using credit. But many people have plenty of money- they just lack a credit rating. Pay off your house and car, don't use credit cards for a couple years and your rating goes all to hell.
Cars are expensive. If you want a credit rating, then a secured card won't cost you more than the annual fee and those monthly fees (that's new).
Credit Ratings are based on spending on credit and then paying it off. It's not based on having money in CD accounts- unless it's changed since I last read up on it.
Not unless the license allows you to install it on multiple devices. Typically they do not or only allow a limited number of copies.
If you lose your licensed copy- instead of replacing it, you are usually screwed.
This could be a value add for the companies but instead they use it as a hammer. It could be, "once you license this song, you can download it to any new computers or other devices for life. And the storage fee will only run you $20 a month for an unlimited number of movies and songs." Put a reasonable download limit of once per quarter on it to avoid obvious abuse.
But what they really want is to RENT it to you. You pay for the content every time you use it/play it. Microsoft has said openly they want you to "subscribe" to office.
And this kind of thing will continue...
because a lot of money wants it.
and people won't vote on copyright as long as they keep our vote split on abortion and gay marriage.
At this point, I'm cool with either outlawing abortion or approving it and outlawing or approving gay marriage so we can take them off the table and start to vote on things like copyright, labor laws (labor's power to fight corporations has been devastated over the last 20 years), deficits, pork projects, our tax rates, national energy policy (do we REALLY need to keep using oil? Could we not have spent some of that 3 trillion bucks we spent fighting wars over oil to build an oil free energy infrastructure?), etc.
Then in 20 years we can go back to focusing on these issues. For now, the wealthy propaganda machines keep these important but really minor social issues going to keep the population split so there is no united opposition. In the past the religious sector fought on many other issues besides abortion and gay marriage but now it is mostly locked on those issues and neutralized.
Aliens is in my top 100 movies. Probably in my top 50.
Some others make sense... 5th Element, Silverado, some are obscure... Circle of Iron, King of Hearts, and some I don't understand myself, Moulin Rouge.
No. We need them to add it ASAP and push the issue hard.
This is one of those "on the internet" type things where the judges are missing reality because they are not seeing it in a familiar context.
Push the license for books, CD's, cars, clothing, everything you can.
You should be able to get a fully secured credit card (you give them $300, they give you a $300 limit credit card).
You use it for 12 months and voila, you have a credit history. Charge $50 to $100 a month and pay the bill in full each month.
I'm usually very cautious.
I actually haven't been infected since the mid 90's. Before that it was "Something wonderful is happening" on the Amiga.
But in a work environment, behind a firewall, virus scanning software, etc. I think people are lulled into accepting a PDF.
More than pictures or other kinds of links which were used in the past.
I was suspicious of any PDF today.
Might not have clicked on it but I might have. You normally think of PDF's as safe.
heheheh.
yes but the researcher is Arkin and it was the black robots which were lying.
So it was a mashup of the quote and the fine article.
getting spammed by people who clicked on PDF's...
Well the Arkin-BLK-1's were a little twitchy but those problems have been worked out in the newer models.