It's gotten to the point where we could probably replace "Internet Explorer" with "Google" and people would call the internet "the google".
I have heard that already. Some people get the impression that anything you reach through Google is on Google. And I've heard people complain when they find Google "hosting" a site with offensive material.
I liked the commercial. It tells people that Google is still doing very cool and useful things with simple text instead of pretty pictures and vast advertising campaigns (Bing). And it reminds people that Google still does search. With all the Google-branded phones and software, I'm worried that Google is going to get a black eye from one of them and spoil the entire brand.
Microsoft may have something going though, lately I've grown bored with the bland google page. I kinda like that there's nice scenery on bing.
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So the ad is telling us that some horny dude knocked up some chick in Paris and was looking for a church to confess his sins, and they told him that he can't leave the country or Jesus will zap him, and that he better buy a crib, but he's so poor that he has to build it instead, and next he'll probably search for "best suicide method"... so thank God for Google, the benign giant who knows every minute detail of his pathetic life.
"You're right, it would be better if he killed the baby" --Planned Parenthood
If you watch all the Super Bowl ads through Hulu (AdZone), they show the aggregate ratings people gave to each ad (like/dislike). The Google ad has the highest like rating so far.
and how many people that use hulu don't know both Google's slogan and their IPO date and the names of the 2 founders and....
Slightly biased sample there. But yet is was good.
What confuses me is....why..... I guess it creates good feelings, but who doesn't already use google? It's gotten to the point where we could probably replace "Internet Explorer" with "Google" and people would call the internet "the google".
Guy: "Hi, you're very pretty to me, here are some PERL earings. Will you go out with me?" Girl: "...." Guy: "I even got you this RUBY hairpin, will you go out with me now?" Girl: walks away Guy: "..."
There's really no need to automate this, seeing as there are no unpredictable branches in the pipeline. You're going to get the same result every time. You might as well write "GOTO 5" and be done with it.
Pre-Industrial Society: I don't even bother rebelling anymore Industrial Society: I don't even bother voting anymore Post-Industrial Society: I don't even bother clicking anymore
Isn't that a good thing though? We have a very low tolerance for noise. Why? Because we have hundreds of people duking it out on wikipedia for how to best word simple phrases like "Tom went to the store" vs "Tom went to A store". You see there is a big difference. If you contribute to wikipedia, that is...
Anyways, we've grown so accustomed to having useful information thrown at us, when it's not immediately informative and important, we just filter it out.
On the whole, I say this means we are getting very efficient at what we spend our time on and how we learn. Why bother learning in a classroom when I can teach myself given the teacher's notes?
Hm, you'll note I went to the trouble of painting out my username in mspaint. Even though it is clearly visible with every post I make at slashdot. I need another beer.
If you want something to panic about, be more concerned about the huge unshielded fusion reactor that's bathing you in ionizing radiation with a power of hundreds of watts per square.
Hundreds of watts per square...? Square what?
Or do you actually mean, per square, as in, per slashdotter?
The Nobel Peace Prize has become a political game more than anything. I don't even bother clicking anymore when I hear about whatever the next peace price is going to be... Overinflated too.
economic co-dependency is the best national security there is. We'll never go to war with China; we're both far too dependent on each other. Wars are fought for power. Money is power, and is preferable to war. History has shown we won't fight when there's money involved. China only holds ~10% of our national debt; ~70% perhaps more is domestically owned; so the whole "THEY'VE GOT OUR DOLLAR BY THE BALLS" nonsense doesn't count-- they would be shooting themselves in the head by removing our purchasing power-- don't forget they have to keep their workers happy, and to keep them happy they have to keep them employed.
Considering that Schiavo had no cerebral cortex, it's pretty much a given that she had no awareness. The article doesn't say all patients in a vegetative state are aware, just that some are, or more to the point, have been misdiagnosed.
If that's the case then at least kill her in the chance that we were wrong and she was conscious. No point in making someone starve. But nobody had the balls to do this...
All these years I thought "turn the other cheek" meant you just put up with bullying. Then I read a sentence in this book by some Christian author I can't remember. Anyways, he said "You can't turn the other cheek if it's been turned for you".
There is a key distinction between meekness and weakness I was not understanding. Now that I have discovered that, it is my choice whether I choose to fight back or not. I don't feel "morally obliged" to be passive. I evaluate whether it is important for me to defend myself at that moment, and I act on that. The real problem all along for me was a control issue. Now that I have that control, I realize the power struggle for what a silly thing it is, and it just doesn't bother me. I also am much older now and these things just don't happen anymore.
I plan to do what another/. poster wrote about a year ago. His daughter [2nd, 3rd grade or something] was being abused by the school bully. He contacted the teachers, several times about it, to no avail; after the girl was physically hurting his daughter. He contacted the school principle, who didn't do anything, shrugged it off, not a big deal, etc. So he told his daughter, the next time this happens, grab her hair next to her scalp tightly, and push her head down as hard as you can while you pick your knee up right into her face.
The girl did it, gave the bully a bloody nose, teachers and principle were ALL OVER her and/. poster; threatened him with a lawsuit over his daughter's conduct. So he explained everything to his lawyer and had him write them a nastygram. They and the bully's parents shut up.
I liked this story because 1). he tried to deal with it through the most acceptable means [of course they weren't going to do anything about it, but he tried at least and so had legal grounds to stand on] 2). The bully never bothered his daughter again. Neither did anyone else in school.
This new car is not the perfect vehicle for us, it was just the best in the class for the price. There are some deficiencies in the car, such as the trip computer not showing you fuel efficiency ratings, the quality of the construction in the plastic covering under the engine, cheap plywood backing covering the spare tire in the trunk, and louder than normal wind noise coming from the front roof support posts and root during 80 mpg highway driving speeds, a cup holder divider that comes out anytime you take a cup out of it, and probably a bunch of other issues that we'll find out after more than 4-weeks of owning it.
Sounds really negative. But seriously, these things are not issues when I'm interested in a car that drives to 300k, not one that struggles to reach 175k. I have unilaterally found the Camrys to be more comfortable to ride in when compared with a similar-budget American car or truck. I get into friends' cars and think "wow, how do you put up with this?"
This is really a case of technology moving too fast for its own good.
The fundamental concept behind Japan's quality is kaizen. This is the constant improvement on existing techniques and technology. By starting with what works, it is simpler to build in very small steps without losing any quality along the way.
However, due to perceived pressures from non-Japanese automakers, companies like Toyota have begun bold initiatives to modernize their cars. The typical automotive embedded system is fairly simple (relatively speaking, of course). There are only a few inputs and only a few outputs and the systems are usually isolated from each other. However, as more features become desired, more interaction between isolated systems becomes a reality. The gas pedal used to only manage the amount of fuel fed to the injection valves. Nowadays it works in tandem with the brake system and suspension to manage tire slippage and traction control.
In this case, Toyota implemented a very complex system without a series of solid intermediate steps. The result is catastrophic failure when unforeseen interactions suddenly arise. If they were slowly adding features, they could immediately pinpoint the problematic interaction. However because they did it all at once they don't have any idea where the problem lies.
It makes me want to buy an American car.
They wouldn't be pressured if we would just let the bad companies fail.
Google does not need the settlement if copyright were restored to the original 14 year timeframe! All books older than 14 years should be indexed by google by virtue of being in the public domain. Authors and publishers should play the search engine game like everyone else during that 14 years.
Random sidenote, can you imagine how much more culture we could consume if everything were limited to 14 years? I wonder how many authors would continue writing?
Favor quickly understandable over accurate. This is understandable.
I see what you did there.
Personally I find the family situations the most...interesting. Gorgeous cut child, never misbehaves, always does what you tell him.
We attribute positive character traits to attractive people more than we do non-attractive people. Personally I just find looking at fat/ugly people (especially women) to be unsettling. I get this uncanny, clammy feeling all over. Bleck. So I don't mind it.
Well I rather see some fancy things in movies. Movies generally never show exact true life anyway in any area. Why should they in computer.
Life isn't a soap opera. Life isn't a love story. Life isn't about looking like Brad Pitt. Life isn't an action movie. You aren't Vin Diesel.
But movies are entertainment. I rather see some fancy looking computer interface in a movie than watch gentoo compiling nano for 50 mins and then crashing to an unresolvable state that requires complete reinstall of the system.
I've seen some pretty cool UIs in movies/shows/24 and wish someone would implement it. But we know the OSS guys can't ever agree on some fancy UI (superfluous) so we never get anything cool [compositing, Ribbon in Office->OpenOffice (yes I know some people find it annoying but a lot of people find it a lot faster at accomplishing most tasks)] till Microsoft does it first:/
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This will take quite some time to take off.
*snicker*
I have heard that already. Some people get the impression that anything you reach through Google is on Google. And I've heard people complain when they find Google "hosting" a site with offensive material.
I liked the commercial. It tells people that Google is still doing very cool and useful things with simple text instead of pretty pictures and vast advertising campaigns (Bing). And it reminds people that Google still does search. With all the Google-branded phones and software, I'm worried that Google is going to get a black eye from one of them and spoil the entire brand.
Microsoft may have something going though, lately I've grown bored with the bland google page. I kinda like that there's nice scenery on bing.
So the ad is telling us that some horny dude knocked up some chick in Paris and was looking for a church to confess his sins, and they told him that he can't leave the country or Jesus will zap him, and that he better buy a crib, but he's so poor that he has to build it instead, and next he'll probably search for "best suicide method" ... so thank God for Google, the benign giant who knows every minute detail of his pathetic life.
"You're right, it would be better if he killed the baby" --Planned Parenthood
If you watch all the Super Bowl ads through Hulu (AdZone), they show the aggregate ratings people gave to each ad (like/dislike). The Google ad has the highest like rating so far.
and how many people that use hulu don't know both Google's slogan and their IPO date and the names of the 2 founders and....
Slightly biased sample there.
But yet is was good.
What confuses me is....why.....
I guess it creates good feelings, but who doesn't already use google?
It's gotten to the point where we could probably replace "Internet Explorer" with "Google" and people would call the internet "the google".
it goes like this:
Guy: "Hi, you're very pretty to me, here are some PERL earings. Will you go out with me?"
Girl: "...."
Guy: "I even got you this RUBY hairpin, will you go out with me now?"
Girl: walks away
Guy: "..."
There's really no need to automate this, seeing as there are no unpredictable branches in the pipeline. You're going to get the same result every time. You might as well write "GOTO 5" and be done with it.
I love mspaint, Linux has nothing on it.
Pre-Industrial Society: I don't even bother rebelling anymore
Industrial Society: I don't even bother voting anymore
Post-Industrial Society: I don't even bother clicking anymore
Isn't that a good thing though? We have a very low tolerance for noise.
Why?
Because we have hundreds of people duking it out on wikipedia for how to best word simple phrases like "Tom went to the store" vs "Tom went to A store". You see there is a big difference. If you contribute to wikipedia, that is...
Anyways, we've grown so accustomed to having useful information thrown at us, when it's not immediately informative and important, we just filter it out.
On the whole, I say this means we are getting very efficient at what we spend our time on and how we learn. Why bother learning in a classroom when I can teach myself given the teacher's notes?
Hm, you'll note I went to the trouble of painting out my username in mspaint.
Even though it is clearly visible with every post I make at slashdot.
I need another beer.
I'm wondering who this advertiser thinks they're going to make money off of here at slashdot. /. homepage.
Just saw it to the right of the
If you want something to panic about, be more concerned about the huge unshielded fusion reactor that's bathing you in ionizing radiation with a power of hundreds of watts per square.
Hundreds of watts per square...? Square what?
Or do you actually mean, per square, as in, per slashdotter?
it's per square library of congress, duh
The Nobel Peace Prize has become a political game more than anything. I don't even bother clicking anymore when I hear about whatever the next peace price is going to be...
Overinflated too.
Love how everybody's been throwing this term around lately.
This is not historic.
economic co-dependency is the best national security there is. We'll never go to war with China; we're both far too dependent on each other. Wars are fought for power. Money is power, and is preferable to war. History has shown we won't fight when there's money involved.
China only holds ~10% of our national debt; ~70% perhaps more is domestically owned; so the whole "THEY'VE GOT OUR DOLLAR BY THE BALLS" nonsense doesn't count-- they would be shooting themselves in the head by removing our purchasing power-- don't forget they have to keep their workers happy, and to keep them happy they have to keep them employed.
if the channel can pinch *almost* open/shut at 100Ghz, then the transistor can switch a lot faster than silicon, too.
can you tell me when 6 digit /. UIDs will become popular?
Considering that Schiavo had no cerebral cortex, it's pretty much a given that she had no awareness. The article doesn't say all patients in a vegetative state are aware, just that some are, or more to the point, have been misdiagnosed.
If that's the case then at least kill her in the chance that we were wrong and she was conscious. No point in making someone starve.
But nobody had the balls to do this...
All these years I thought "turn the other cheek" meant you just put up with bullying.
Then I read a sentence in this book by some Christian author I can't remember. Anyways, he said
"You can't turn the other cheek if it's been turned for you".
There is a key distinction between meekness and weakness I was not understanding. Now that I have discovered that, it is my choice whether I choose to fight back or not. I don't feel "morally obliged" to be passive. I evaluate whether it is important for me to defend myself at that moment, and I act on that. The real problem all along for me was a control issue. Now that I have that control, I realize the power struggle for what a silly thing it is, and it just doesn't bother me. I also am much older now and these things just don't happen anymore.
I plan to do what another /. poster wrote about a year ago. His daughter [2nd, 3rd grade or something] was being abused by the school bully. He contacted the teachers, several times about it, to no avail; after the girl was physically hurting his daughter. He contacted the school principle, who didn't do anything, shrugged it off, not a big deal, etc. So he told his daughter, the next time this happens, grab her hair next to her scalp tightly, and push her head down as hard as you can while you pick your knee up right into her face.
The girl did it, gave the bully a bloody nose, teachers and principle were ALL OVER her and /. poster; threatened him with a lawsuit over his daughter's conduct. So he explained everything to his lawyer and had him write them a nastygram. They and the bully's parents shut up.
I liked this story because
1). he tried to deal with it through the most acceptable means [of course they weren't going to do anything about it, but he tried at least and so had legal grounds to stand on]
2). The bully never bothered his daughter again. Neither did anyone else in school.
FTFS:
The DDX driver supports mode-setting on the Evergreen/R800 series GPUs with VGA and DVI connectors
This new car is not the perfect vehicle for us, it was just the best in the class for the price. There are some deficiencies in the car, such as the trip computer not showing you fuel efficiency ratings, the quality of the construction in the plastic covering under the engine, cheap plywood backing covering the spare tire in the trunk, and louder than normal wind noise coming from the front roof support posts and root during 80 mpg highway driving speeds, a cup holder divider that comes out anytime you take a cup out of it, and probably a bunch of other issues that we'll find out after more than 4-weeks of owning it.
Sounds really negative.
But seriously, these things are not issues when I'm interested in a car that drives to 300k, not one that struggles to reach 175k.
I have unilaterally found the Camrys to be more comfortable to ride in when compared with a similar-budget American car or truck. I get into friends' cars and think "wow, how do you put up with this?"
This is really a case of technology moving too fast for its own good.
The fundamental concept behind Japan's quality is kaizen. This is the constant improvement on existing techniques and technology. By starting with what works, it is simpler to build in very small steps without losing any quality along the way.
However, due to perceived pressures from non-Japanese automakers, companies like Toyota have begun bold initiatives to modernize their cars. The typical automotive embedded system is fairly simple (relatively speaking, of course). There are only a few inputs and only a few outputs and the systems are usually isolated from each other. However, as more features become desired, more interaction between isolated systems becomes a reality. The gas pedal used to only manage the amount of fuel fed to the injection valves. Nowadays it works in tandem with the brake system and suspension to manage tire slippage and traction control.
In this case, Toyota implemented a very complex system without a series of solid intermediate steps. The result is catastrophic failure when unforeseen interactions suddenly arise. If they were slowly adding features, they could immediately pinpoint the problematic interaction. However because they did it all at once they don't have any idea where the problem lies.
It makes me want to buy an American car.
They wouldn't be pressured if we would just let the bad companies fail.
The Linux 2.6 model sucks. 2.6, 2.8. 2.10, etc became 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3... on short support cycles.
You, sir, do not seem to know the nightmare that maintaining separate kernels, and porting features and bugfixes back and forth, created.
Google does not need the settlement if copyright were restored to the original 14 year timeframe! All books older than 14 years should be indexed by google by virtue of being in the public domain. Authors and publishers should play the search engine game like everyone else during that 14 years.
Random sidenote, can you imagine how much more culture we could consume if everything were limited to 14 years?
I wonder how many authors would continue writing?
This is very frustrating to me.
I didn't see it before seeing flip3d and videos of Vista's desktop compositing/transparent window borders/etc showed up.
Favor quickly understandable over accurate. This is understandable.
I see what you did there.
Personally I find the family situations the most...interesting.
Gorgeous cut child, never misbehaves, always does what you tell him.
We attribute positive character traits to attractive people more than we do non-attractive people.
Personally I just find looking at fat/ugly people (especially women) to be unsettling. I get this uncanny, clammy feeling all over. Bleck.
So I don't mind it.
Well I rather see some fancy things in movies. Movies generally never show exact true life anyway in any area. Why should they in computer.
Life isn't a soap opera. Life isn't a love story. Life isn't about looking like Brad Pitt. Life isn't an action movie. You aren't Vin Diesel.
But movies are entertainment. I rather see some fancy looking computer interface in a movie than watch gentoo compiling nano for 50 mins and then crashing to an unresolvable state that requires complete reinstall of the system.
I've seen some pretty cool UIs in movies/shows/24 and wish someone would implement it. :/
But we know the OSS guys can't ever agree on some fancy UI (superfluous) so we never get anything cool [compositing, Ribbon in Office->OpenOffice (yes I know some people find it annoying but a lot of people find it a lot faster at accomplishing most tasks)] till Microsoft does it first