I've been giving this a lot of thought, and I'd like to take a moment to share them with you.
First of all, let me say thank you to all of the people that make Slashdot possible. Rob and the boys for having the vision, and everyone world wide for contributing to what is perhaps the most content rich and timely sources for info-tech around. Everyone's continued effort shows, and we all benefit from that effort.
Under the existing system, anyone can contribute. This a good thing, because it draws on the resources of hundreds of thousands of users world wide scouring news sources all over the globe in order to contribute to slashdot. This insures that even the most casual reader will have access to the latest information about the state of IT and it's impact on the world. Once a story of posted on the site, people from all different walks of life get a chance to analyze the story and give there interpretation of the consequences of this latest development.
The effect of this system is motivating more and more people to want to contribute. More and more people go out of there way to sift through countless technical articles to find the one that is impactful and interesting.
Once this one little nugget is submitted to slashot.org as a potential story, Rob and the boys have the (sometimes thankless) job of sifting through the sea of submissions to pick the few that will fit into the finite space available.
They have done a spectacular job so far and every day is proof-of-concept that this open source approach to news gathering is not only adequate, but extremely readable and informative. How ever there is a lot of effort that winds up on the 'cutting room floor'.
Couldn't some of that effort be shared? Couldn't some of that effort, diligent research done for a story submission, be readable by other people? The hi- tech field is very very diverse and will touch more and more industries every day. If an engineer in Zibobway runs across a little snippet that has an impact on my field of interest, I would love to read more about it.
So how do we solve the problem? Here is just one idea.
When a story is submited and rejected, It goes in one of 2 places either..slashdot/stories/rejected/Slashstash directory on the system. the other go into..slashdot/stories/rejected/.
This 'Siskel and Ebert' way of moderating is quick, effective, and works in realtime (using the existing story editors on slashdot) and requires no changes to the code. Once a story is placed in../slashstash a Script and parse, time.date stamp it, and move it to the store on another domain. there the post will sit for 24 hours. After 24 hours, it would appear on the slashstash.org (pick your fav domain name here) site with a banner add. This would insure that the attractiveness of slashdot (it's timeliness) is not compromised. No more work on the back end. No more additions to the already successful/.
"Dotstash.org News for everyone else. Stuff that don't matter"
At any given moment in time, Rob and the boys have 200+ stories pending there review for posting on the 'one and only'/. Once the stories are reviewed they could be posted on another domain that would still be a source of add revenue for slashdot. (a few come to mind..dotstash.org everythingelse.org blockhackers.org quickies.org).
The stories could be posted there AFTER a 24 hour delay (thus keeping the speed cache' of/. in tact).
No comments, no moderation, no more work on the back end except, perhaps, a script for parsing and moving it over the to the store on the other domain. Just a st(r)eaming heap of rejected stories.
I have the same thing as shown in your screen shot. Now, I can't log back in either. All I did was change my threshhold to "0". Hmmmm Slashdot is haunted?!?!
When a user hits "Reply To" please quote the parent message back to the user for referance. For example, Sometimes, while reponding to someone post, I'll want to quote them, but I sometimes forget there exact wording, so I paraphrase. This leads to an in acurate flow of information.
Also, sometimes I'll have 3 or 4 "reply to" windows open, along with the suporting documents. Replying is sometimes a non-linear process, and having the parent message quoted below the COMMENT and IMPOTANT STUFF would be very helpfull.
Calculate the amount of money that the artist gets when a copy of their music is sold, add on a small distribution fee for the internet site and wala you can charge $2 for a CD worth of music and still make a profit.
There are many valiant pursuits in the world. These admirable profeshions should be rewarded handsomely in order to attract more of the best to the field. Being a "Rock Star" isn't one of them, and it's time they artists stop being payed obseen amounts of money. Don't get me wrong, do artists deserve to be rewarded? compensated? you bet! They should be able to make a living from the fruits of there passion. But they shouldn't be overly compensated.
I'm talking about puke like Vince Neal from Montley Crue. So rich he could aford a fast car. So rich, he could aford the best drugs. And when he got riped and killed to other motorists in a horific accident, we put him on "Behind the music" to hear wonderfull quotes like: "Whaaaooo, like, wow, those people are dead, Whaaaooo."
The world is full of these talentless and over compensated musicians. I think the internet is a fantastic tool for flatening out the finacial model currently driving the music industry.
Imagine if you will, hundreds of thousands of independant sites, rating and selling the music they love, independently! A little money (10-20%) would go back to the artists directly, and not a dime to the record/distro companies. The rest of the fees belong to the hundreds of thousands of independant sites promoting that musician.
We know you've been looking for Infoseek but if you really want to search the Web for the coolest, newest, best quality Web sites we hope you'll try us, Lycos: Your Personal Internet Guide. We're the world's best Internet search and directory. And we guarantee that you'll like us. You'll find the highest quality sites fast, and without a fuss. Just type what you're looking for into the search box found at the top of almost every page on Lycos and click on the Go Get It! button. It's that easy. If you're not sure of what you're looking for, we offer a comprehensive Open Directory and critically-acclaimed Web Guides.
Unbelievable! . .
Recockulous!(sp)
Overgrown link farms with blipverty interfaces like this. ..they should just change the prompt in front of the SEARH textbox to: PLEASE SELECT YOUR BLIPVERT
With an ego so far out of control, why would anyone want to know? FROM YOUR HOME PAGE:
Tom ("the infamous tms") Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, not Smith, Swiss!) earns his daily bread as a software geek. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. (If you'd like to pay him gobs of money to develop software for you, his resume is available.) He also studies karate, writes poetry which he reads at various places in and around Baltimore, and plays guitar. He has read poetry at one time or another at open readings at Planet X, Java Heads, Funk's Democratic Coffee Spot, Minas, the Bohemian Cafe, and One World Cafe, and done featured spots at the Adler Gallery (From Our Lips series) and the Raven bookshop (Stark Raven Mad series). He has brought his eclectic acoustic music to the stages of Leadbetter's, Wyatt's, and the One World Cafe. He lives in Catonsville, a suburb on the southwest side of Baltimore. He thinks that the existence of The Simpsons, The Tick, and Babylon 5 justifies the existence of television. Tom came into the world naked, screaming, and covered in bodily fluids on the evening of January 12th, 1970, proving to his parents that the "rhythm method" is not an effective means of birth control. His full name is Thomas Mark Swiss, interesting anagrams of which include "Swish! A storm mask," and "A storm's kiss - wham!" He stands 170 cm (5 ft., 7 in.) tall and weighs about 73 kg (160 lbs.) with brown eyes and long brown hair ("And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honeydew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise." -- "Kubla Khan", Samuel Taylor Coleridge). He's been accused of resembling Jesus, Satan, and/or Tom Cruise, and of sounding like Jim Morrison and/or Jello Biafra. His Keirsey personality type is somewhere between INTP and ENTP. His blood type is A positive. Tom firmly believes that dogs are far wiser than cats, that Bugs Bunny has the Buddha nature, and that as there are no gods it is necessary that we become them. He is a genuine and authorized pope (authorized by The House of Apostles of Eris), and a self-appointed ersatz Zen Master, pseudo High Priest, substitute Taoist Sage, apprentice Jedi Knight, and Techno-mage in training. He is either a cynical romantic or a romantic cynic, but not sure which. On the net, Tom is a member of the CyberDojo traditional karate mailing list. He maintains the Leather Alternatives Frequently Asked Questions list used by vegans all over the world. He sincerely wishes that everyone on the net would learn the difference between "your" and "you're", but doubts it will ever happen. Tom is often asked about the quotes in his.signature. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? was indeed written by Nick Lowe, although it was made famous by Elvis Costello. Why is it in his.sig? Here's the story, excerpted from a USENET discussion with Barbara O'Brien (mahababs@ios.com): >: "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?" - Nick Lowe > >Most of the time people use phrases in their.sigs that have a special >meaning to them. You just repeat words cause they look nice, I guess. Hmm, so your commitment to peace, love and understanding is to advocate locking people in cages (which certainly devalues and dehumanizes them more than selling sex ever could, if the latter does at all) for consensual acts? On the off chance that anyone really cares about the significance of the quote in my.sig: A few years ago, my friend Mike and I went to a Midnight Oil concert. The last song they did (or maybe second to last) was Nick Lowe's ""What's so funny ('bout peace, love and understanding?)" (often miscredited to Elvis Costello, who recorded the best known version). It was a great show, ending with one of my favorite songs. I was pleased, and we headed back to the parking lot. On the way to the car, we came across two guys, who had obviously just come from the show, shouting and shoving at each other - a fight about to break out. Maybe they just hadn't been paying attention to that last song. I know they heard it; might even have been dancing and signing along to it. But ten minutes later, the meaning was forgotten. I couldn't help it. I yelled, "HEY! WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING?!" The crowd cheered. The pugilists payed no attention. I went over and tried to separate them. My friend Mike joined me. Somehow we broke up the fight and prevented anyone (including ourselves; the pugilists were bigger than us!) from getting hurt. That's my contribution to peace, love and understanding, Barbara. When I see someone about to be a victim of violence, I try to stop it. I try to make peace when I can. If I can't, I try to defend the innocent. I've been fortunate so far in that none of these situation have turned very violent. And if that ain't good enough for you, frankly I don't give a damn. "Born to die" comes from a series of animated shorts (about thirty seconds or a minute in length) shown on MTV around 1987 that began with the voice-over: `Stevie Washington - the angry youth. Born to die. New York's New York. The turn of the century. All crime.' His previous net.incarnations have been fantom(at)wam.umd.edu, tms(at)cs.umd.edu, tms(at)tis.com, and tswiss(at)normandev.com. His current net.avatars are tms(at)bcpl.net and tms(at)infamous.net. This page almost undoubtedly makes him sound more interesting than he really is. To assist you in identifying the suspect, some photos follow:
From: http://www.gdbinc.com/shooting.htm The tragedy at Littleton was certainly alarming - but it is not unique. Prior to all such events, there are pre-incident indicators (called PINs)
From the article: The Ohio chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the pilot program as a "technological Band-Aid" driven by profiteering in parental fears. "We are understandably hesitant about any program designed to classify students or anyone else in society as potentially dangerous based on supposedly credible data fed into a black box," said Raymond Vasvari, legislative director of the Ohio ACLU.
It just goes to show you that oportunists will stop at nothing to crawl out from under there rock and make a profit off of fear.
Details about the software to be used can be found here:
here is the link to the homepage Gavin de Becker Inc. and here is a not-so-detailed paper on the product: Mocaic 2000
Hotbot is the worst offender! Here's a quick example: Search 'Slashdot'. and see what happens. you get some links, but the first links on a search page point to the "Search Partners"???? ie:
Is there something special about google that makes it such a hot topic on slashdot? Or is it just that it runs on Linux? I think that's a pretty lame qualification for a search engine, if that's the case.
That is not the case.
Here's a quote from http://www.google.com/doing_business.html Google offers an advanced patent-pending technology called PageRankTM to deliver the most relevant results. PageRank ensures that the most important, relevant pages always come up first and that your users will always find what they are looking for. The PageRank algorithm was developed at Stanford University by leading computer scientists for more than three years before the company was formed.
My understanding of the algorithm is that it uses the pointing text in the hyperlink as key words for rating relavance. For example, If you have a site expelling your thoughts (about the spooky resemblance between Britney Spears and Pica-chu and why they're never seen together), if 50 people point to your web site with a "britney" link, and 100 people point with a "pica-chu" link, you're site gets rated as highly relevant pica-chu. As a result of this rating system, the engine is 'self moderating' and very scalable.
The other thing that rocks about google is there isn't any junk to distract the user. And yea.....and ummm...it hapens to run on the worlds most powerfull operating system;).
I vividly remember when Yahoo.com was a great little index. Simple, quick loading, up-to-date, a joy to use. However, the trend seems to be that once a search engine gets noticed, they start doing things to track and keep users on the site. They add links that point back to there own "content" (which isn't really content at all, but just another step into the hierarchy) after 2 or 3 clicks down. the user is finally shown what he/she came for, but in the process, the user is shown a steaming heap of on-domain links. This exasperates even the most uneducated user.
For example, this is the link-o-bar across the top of the page from yahoo.
Each one of these demographically focused links is pointing back at the main page to prevent "leakage" (the term used when a user actually gets what they came for, and leaves the site). What's more is even *external links* are 'pass-through' links for (tracking reasons) so the user doesn't really know when they are leaving the site.
Alta-vista started out as a text only robot running on Alpha. It was fast and effective. slowly, little by little, they grew it into a link farm that is distracting and annoying to everyone. Another little trend I recently noticed , while clicking through my.CNN, is using pop-up windows that turn off the navigation and location tool bar. While it's very interesting, it forces the user to stay on-domain (because there's no nav bar) and the user doesn't know where the content is coming from (because the location bar is gone). But anyway, I digress. Back to the issue at hand.
Google is starting out the same way. A superior indexing robot generating links that are fast and effective. This week, Goggle added 2 links on the main page. Mark my words . . over the next 6 months, you'll slowly see more and more (mostly on-domain) links added to Google until it to will become a towering heap of babble.
What we users want is a link farm that actually points to content! That's why/. is my portal. That's why It's under my HOME button. That's why/. is an indispensable information source.
A link farm that 'gets to the point, and points to the get'
Now.. if only someone could build a general user link farm on the/. model?
from the article: But it is in the Mindstorms and Droid sets that the old Lego principles fully come into their own: the use of the blocks and the creation of the programs are interwoven activities
Interwoven. an interesting term. We stand at the bring of the 21st century while mechanical form and electorinic function merge. Imagine a generation of kids that know nothing of a mechanical construction without the use of computer control. A generation of kids that are as at home in vi as they are at home in the sandbox.
Slashdot Mirror
First of all, let me say thank you to all of the people that make Slashdot possible. Rob and the boys for having the vision, and everyone world wide for contributing to what is perhaps the most content rich and timely sources for info-tech around. Everyone's continued effort shows, and we all benefit from that effort.
Under the existing system, anyone can contribute. This a good thing, because it draws on the resources of hundreds of thousands of users world wide scouring news sources all over the globe in order to contribute to slashdot. This insures that even the most casual reader will have access to the latest information about the state of IT and it's impact on the world. Once a story of posted on the site, people from all different walks of life get a chance to analyze the story and give there interpretation of the consequences of this latest development.
The effect of this system is motivating more and more people to want to contribute. More and more people go out of there way to sift through countless technical articles to find the one that is impactful and interesting.
Once this one little nugget is submitted to slashot.org as a potential story, Rob and the boys have the (sometimes thankless) job of sifting through the sea of submissions to pick the few that will fit into the finite space available.
They have done a spectacular job so far and every day is proof-of-concept that this open source approach to news gathering is not only adequate, but extremely readable and informative. How ever there is a lot of effort that winds up on the 'cutting room floor'.
Couldn't some of that effort be shared? Couldn't some of that effort, diligent research done for a story submission, be readable by other people? The hi- tech field is very very diverse and will touch more and more industries every day. If an engineer in Zibobway runs across a little snippet that has an impact on my field of interest, I would love to read more about it.
So how do we solve the problem? Here is just one idea.
When a story is submited and rejected, It goes in one of 2 places either ..slashdot/stories/rejected/Slashstash directory on the system. the other go into ..slashdot/stories/rejected/.
This 'Siskel and Ebert' way of moderating is quick, effective, and works in realtime (using the existing story editors on slashdot) and requires no changes to the code. Once a story is placed in ../slashstash a Script and parse, time.date stamp it, and move it to the store on another domain. there the post will sit for 24 hours. After 24 hours, it would appear on the slashstash.org (pick your fav domain name here) site with a banner add. This would insure that the attractiveness of slashdot (it's timeliness) is not compromised. No more work on the back end. No more additions to the already successful /.
Is this plausable?
At any given moment in time, Rob and the boys have 200+ stories pending there review for posting on the 'one and only' /. Once the stories are reviewed they could be posted on another domain that would still be a source of add revenue for slashdot. (a few come to mind ..dotstash.org everythingelse.org blockhackers.org quickies.org).
The stories could be posted there AFTER a 24 hour delay (thus keeping the speed cache' of /. in tact).
No comments, no moderation, no more work on the back end except, perhaps, a script for parsing and moving it over the to the store on the other domain. Just a st(r)eaming heap of rejected stories.
Also, sometimes I'll have 3 or 4 "reply to" windows open, along with the suporting documents. Replying is sometimes a non-linear process, and having the parent message quoted below the COMMENT and IMPOTANT STUFF would be very helpfull.
BTW. . Rob is a taco :)
Serves no purpose. The article should be moderated down. Roblimo, and Zerbey should loose buko-Karma for this ilk.
There are many valiant pursuits in the world. These admirable profeshions should be rewarded handsomely in order to attract more of the best to the field. Being a "Rock Star" isn't one of them, and it's time they artists stop being payed obseen amounts of money. Don't get me wrong, do artists deserve to be rewarded? compensated? you bet! They should be able to make a living from the fruits of there passion. But they shouldn't be overly compensated.
I'm talking about puke like Vince Neal from Montley Crue. So rich he could aford a fast car. So rich, he could aford the best drugs. And when he got riped and killed to other motorists in a horific accident, we put him on "Behind the music" to hear wonderfull quotes like: "Whaaaooo, like, wow, those people are dead, Whaaaooo."
The world is full of these talentless and over compensated musicians. I think the internet is a fantastic tool for flatening out the finacial model currently driving the music industry.
Imagine if you will, hundreds of thousands of independant sites, rating and selling the music they love, independently! A little money (10-20%) would go back to the artists directly, and not a dime to the record/distro companies. The rest of the fees belong to the hundreds of thousands of independant sites promoting that musician.
Any keyword they can sell. Most allow companies to buy 'favorable placment' in your search.
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Unbelievable! . .
Recockulous!(sp)
Overgrown link farms with blipverty interfaces like this. . .they should just change the prompt in front of the SEARH textbox to: PLEASE SELECT YOUR BLIPVERT
At the risk of over simplifying an answer . . .
Yes
CPU 64-bit RISC processor
Main Memory 16MB
Program Memory 8MB Memory Stick(TM) (accessory)
Moving Parts Mouth: 1 degree-of-freedom Head: 3 degrees-of-freedom Legs: 3 degrees-of-freedom(x 4) Tail: 2 degrees-of-freedom Total: 18
Video Input 180,000 pixel color CCD camera (x 1) Head
Audio Input Stereo microphone(one on each side) Head
Internal Audio Output Speaker (x 1)Head
Sensors Heat Detector Heat sensor (x 2) Torso Range Finder Infra-red range finding sensor (x 1)Head
Acceleration Detector Spatial acceleration sensor (x 1) Torso
Rotation Detector Angular velocity sensor (x 1) Torso
Contact Detectors Touch sensor (x 1), switch (x4)Head, Legs
Power Source DC7.2V (Lithium ion battery)
Power Consumption 12.6W (autonomous mode)
Operating Time Approx. 1.5 hours (using fully charged battery)
Dimensions l x w x h Approx. 274 x 156 x 266mm (not including tail)
Weight About 1.4kg (body only) About 1.6kg (Including Memory Stick media and battery)
(ERF-511) "AIBO Performer Kit" Main Features
Motion Editing Functions 1) Exchange of motions (3 Types) 2) Editing of motions 3) Creation of original motions
Simulation Functions 1) Ensure compliance with angular limitations of limbs 2) Confirm non-collision of moving parts 3) Check speed of moving parts
Others Timeline editing function, Memory Stick data check, etc.
-------------------------------------- (ERF-511) "AIBO Performer Kit" System Requirements
Computing Platform IBM PC/AT compatible or NEC PC98-NX Series
CPU Pentium®200Mhz equivalent or above
OS Windows®95 or Windows®98
Memory 32MB or greater
PC Card Slot Type II PC card
Display Mode 800x600 resolution or greater
Display Color Capability 16-bit High color or greater
Other CD-ROM drive (for Installation)
Available in Japanese, English, French, and German
Tom ("the infamous tms") Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, not Smith, Swiss!) earns his daily bread as a software geek. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. (If you'd like to pay him gobs of money to develop software for you, his resume is available.) He also studies karate, writes poetry which he reads at various places in and around Baltimore, and plays guitar. He has read poetry at one time or another at open readings at Planet X, Java Heads, Funk's Democratic Coffee Spot, Minas, the Bohemian Cafe, and One World Cafe, and done featured spots at the Adler Gallery (From Our Lips series) and the Raven bookshop (Stark Raven Mad series). He has brought his eclectic acoustic music to the stages of Leadbetter's, Wyatt's, and the One World Cafe. He lives in Catonsville, a suburb on the southwest side of Baltimore. He thinks that the existence of The Simpsons, The Tick, and Babylon 5 justifies the existence of television. Tom came into the world naked, screaming, and covered in bodily fluids on the evening of January 12th, 1970, proving to his parents that the "rhythm method" is not an effective means of birth control. His full name is Thomas Mark Swiss, interesting anagrams of which include "Swish! A storm mask," and "A storm's kiss - wham!" He stands 170 cm (5 ft., 7 in.) tall and weighs about 73 kg (160 lbs.) with brown eyes and long brown hair ("And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honeydew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise." -- "Kubla Khan", Samuel Taylor Coleridge). He's been accused of resembling Jesus, Satan, and/or Tom Cruise, and of sounding like Jim Morrison and/or Jello Biafra. His Keirsey personality type is somewhere between INTP and ENTP. His blood type is A positive. Tom firmly believes that dogs are far wiser than cats, that Bugs Bunny has the Buddha nature, and that as there are no gods it is necessary that we become them. He is a genuine and authorized pope (authorized by The House of Apostles of Eris), and a self-appointed ersatz Zen Master, pseudo High Priest, substitute Taoist Sage, apprentice Jedi Knight, and Techno-mage in training. He is either a cynical romantic or a romantic cynic, but not sure which. On the net, Tom is a member of the CyberDojo traditional karate mailing list. He maintains the Leather Alternatives Frequently Asked Questions list used by vegans all over the world. He sincerely wishes that everyone on the net would learn the difference between "your" and "you're", but doubts it will ever happen. Tom is often asked about the quotes in his .signature. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? was indeed written by Nick Lowe, although it was made famous by Elvis Costello. Why is it in his .sig? Here's the story, excerpted from a USENET discussion with Barbara O'Brien (mahababs@ios.com): >: "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?" - Nick Lowe > >Most of the time people use phrases in their .sigs that have a special >meaning to them. You just repeat words cause they look nice, I guess. Hmm, so your commitment to peace, love and understanding is to advocate locking people in cages (which certainly devalues and dehumanizes them more than selling sex ever could, if the latter does at all) for consensual acts? On the off chance that anyone really cares about the significance of the quote in my .sig: A few years ago, my friend Mike and I went to a Midnight Oil concert. The last song they did (or maybe second to last) was Nick Lowe's ""What's so funny ('bout peace, love and understanding?)" (often miscredited to Elvis Costello, who recorded the best known version). It was a great show, ending with one of my favorite songs. I was pleased, and we headed back to the parking lot. On the way to the car, we came across two guys, who had obviously just come from the show, shouting and shoving at each other - a fight about to break out. Maybe they just hadn't been paying attention to that last song. I know they heard it; might even have been dancing and signing along to it. But ten minutes later, the meaning was forgotten. I couldn't help it. I yelled, "HEY! WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING?!" The crowd cheered. The pugilists payed no attention. I went over and tried to separate them. My friend Mike joined me. Somehow we broke up the fight and prevented anyone (including ourselves; the pugilists were bigger than us!) from getting hurt. That's my contribution to peace, love and understanding, Barbara. When I see someone about to be a victim of violence, I try to stop it. I try to make peace when I can. If I can't, I try to defend the innocent. I've been fortunate so far in that none of these situation have turned very violent. And if that ain't good enough for you, frankly I don't give a damn. "Born to die" comes from a series of animated shorts (about thirty seconds or a minute in length) shown on MTV around 1987 that began with the voice-over: `Stevie Washington - the angry youth. Born to die. New York's New York. The turn of the century. All crime.' His previous net.incarnations have been fantom(at)wam.umd.edu, tms(at)cs.umd.edu, tms(at)tis.com, and tswiss(at)normandev.com. His current net.avatars are tms(at)bcpl.net and tms(at)infamous.net. This page almost undoubtedly makes him sound more interesting than he really is. To assist you in identifying the suspect, some photos follow:
2)What if Ringo never joined the Beatles
3)What if Sonny never met Cher
4)What if Jobs never met Woz
5)What if Monica never blew Bill
Some things just naturaly go together.
Such is Linux and open source.
I did read your post, and I tryed the link you sugested.
Hotbot still blows.
From: http://www.gdbinc.com/shooting.htm The tragedy at Littleton was certainly alarming - but it is not unique. Prior to all such events, there are pre-incident indicators (called PINs)
http://www.gdbinc.com/mosaic2000.htm
It just goes to show you that oportunists will stop at nothing to crawl out from under there rock and make a profit off of fear.
Details about the software to be used can be found here:
here is the link to the homepage Gavin de Becker Inc. and here is a not-so-detailed paper on the product: Mocaic 2000
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[sigh]
That is not the case.
Here's a quote from http://www.google.com/doing_business.html Google offers an advanced patent-pending technology called PageRankTM to deliver the most relevant results. PageRank ensures that the most important, relevant pages always come up first and that your users will always find what they are looking for. The PageRank algorithm was developed at Stanford University by leading computer scientists for more than three years before the company was formed.
My understanding of the algorithm is that it uses the pointing text in the hyperlink as key words for rating relavance. For example, If you have a site expelling your thoughts (about the spooky resemblance between Britney Spears and Pica-chu and why they're never seen together), if 50 people point to your web site with a "britney" link, and 100 people point with a "pica-chu" link, you're site gets rated as highly relevant pica-chu. As a result of this rating system, the engine is 'self moderating' and very scalable.
The other thing that rocks about google is there isn't any junk to distract the user. And yea... ..and ummm...it hapens to run on the worlds most powerfull operating system ;).
For example, this is the link-o-bar across the top of the page from yahoo.
Yahoo! Auctions - bid now! Coca-Cola, Dragon Ball, Halloween, Britney Spears, Pokemon... Shopping - Auctions - Yellow Pages - People Search - Maps - Travel - Classifieds - Personals - Games - Chat - Clubs Mail - Calendar - Messenger - Companion - My Yahoo! - News - Sports - Weather - TV - Stock Quotes - more...
[head spinning] Britney Spears, Pokemon ..I'm gonna hurl. . .
Each one of these demographically focused links is pointing back at the main page to prevent "leakage" (the term used when a user actually gets what they came for, and leaves the site). What's more is even *external links* are 'pass-through' links for (tracking reasons) so the user doesn't really know when they are leaving the site.
Alta-vista started out as a text only robot running on Alpha. It was fast and effective. slowly, little by little, they grew it into a link farm that is distracting and annoying to everyone. Another little trend I recently noticed , while clicking through my.CNN, is using pop-up windows that turn off the navigation and location tool bar. While it's very interesting, it forces the user to stay on-domain (because there's no nav bar) and the user doesn't know where the content is coming from (because the location bar is gone). But anyway, I digress. Back to the issue at hand.
Google is starting out the same way. A superior indexing robot generating links that are fast and effective. This week, Goggle added 2 links on the main page. Mark my words . . over the next 6 months, you'll slowly see more and more (mostly on-domain) links added to Google until it to will become a towering heap of babble.
What we users want is a link farm that actually points to content! That's why /. is my portal. That's why It's under my HOME button. That's why /. is an indispensable information source.
A link farm that 'gets to the point, and points to the get'
Now.. if only someone could build a general user link farm on the /. model?
lugnet.com
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Interwoven. an interesting term. We stand at the bring of the 21st century while mechanical form and electorinic function merge. Imagine a generation of kids that know nothing of a mechanical construction without the use of computer control. A generation of kids that are as at home in vi as they are at home in the sandbox.
Interwoven. an interesting term.