And as a follow-up, before people start making jokes.
1) Yes, Canada does have the internet. We have had it for almost as long as the States, and on average, we actually have better internet connections up here than you guys do.
2) No, not all Canadians say "eh". You guys are thinking of Eastern Canadians. I live in Western Canada. Although I do know a guy from Eastern Canada who says eh a lot, it's kind of funny.
3) No, our heads don't flap around when we talk (thanks a lot South Park):-P
4) No, we don't live in igloos. Some natives in the very north, largely uninhabited part of the country, do, but most of us have never even seen an igloo outside of film.
5) No, we're not all "goofy".
6) No, we don't sit around and drink and smoke pot 24/7.
Lol, I was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and have lived in Alberta all of my life. You are aware that only about 5% of the world's population lives in the States, right? And are you also aware that Slashdot is in-fact accessible from the rest of the world? And yes, people do actually live in Canada, it's not just a myth. Look over my comment history, I've been pretty consistent as to where I live. Would you like me to take a picture the next time I'm working, post it to Imageshack, and send you the link?:-P (Sorry, have to give you a hard time. It's weird, people have such a hard time believing that I do in-fact live in Canada. I don't find it all that shocking myself).
I'm using it to pay to put myself through school. Unlike a lot of my friends, I don't have rich parents that can pay for it for me. Thanks for the nice insult though, greatly appreciated.
Not quite that easy. I'll use an unrealistic example. If you have 20 skids of 2%, 10 skids of 1% in the warehouse, and I get an order in from the local grocery store that they want half a skid of each, then the skids need to be re-arranged, no? Or do you honestly think grocery stores order a single pallet of each kind of milk? Trust me, they don't have the storage for that. Nevermind the fact that no store orders the same amount of milk and the same kinds each day, so the skids have to be prepared as the orders come in.
But if you want to go even further, I also worked at Wal-Mart as a kid, in the grocery section. My primary job was ordering the milk and keeping the dairy section running. There I also moved at least 1500 gallons of milk a day, because Wal-Mart is an innefficient piece of shit company (won't bother going into that right now though).
Ah, well if you can explain to me how to somehow get full 4L Jugs of milk, ready for sale, to go through a pumping system, and without even denting them a bit, I'm all ears:) I work in a warehouse, milk comes in from the suppliers, we prepare the orders for them to be shipped to the different grocery stores.
No, I posted the first time because someone was saying tech's wouldn't have to carry around a laptop anymore (wouldn't want them to strain their back or anything), and I merely pointed out and said I move thousands of gallons of liquid a day by hand, I'm sure the tech can handle a laptop. Then someone made a comment about it being alcohol that I drink, which I found kind of insulting, cause I got the impression he was mocking my job (I could be off base though) so I explained to him in more detail what exactly it is I do. Understand? Oh, and btw, if I was stuck behind a computer all day at work, I would probably hang myself, no offence.
You ever tried moving 3000+ gallons of dairy products, every single day? And that's just part of my job. Not all Slashdotters work behind a computer all day, just to let you know.
Evidence please? Oh, right, I'm on Slashdot. Everyone here is an expert on everything! How stupid of me. And for the record, I'm Canadian.
This constant paranoia bullshit on this site makes me read the comments less and less everyday. You people are pathetic.
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WinXP on a Mac, Hoax?
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Name one reason why Apple would not want WinXP booting on a Mac?
So? Firefox is open source, Opera is not. I personally could care less (I run Windows) but obviously IBM et al are going to throw their money at the open source product over the proprietary one.
Whoever modded me flamebait is as dense as a bloody brick. Google's own fucking website refers to Adsense partners as publishers, and Adwords partners as advertisers. People who are mods should have to pass stupidity tests around here. http://www.google.ca/ads/
Never said there was any difference. If you would pay attention, you would notice I said that if Google paid their advertisers they would go bankrupt. Advertisers pay Google. Google pays Publishers. You are a publisher. Is that really so difficult to understand? So, to reiterate, I never said you and Mozilla were different. All I said is that neither you nor Mozilla are advertisers. It is the same thing as CBS. CBS is a network (aka a publisher, since they publish content). If Apple places an ad on CBS, then Apple is an advertiser. See the difference?
Mozilla's Chinese division does have a deal with Yahoo!, although they may change this to Google now that Google has a Chinese version of Google hosted in China. I'm willing to bet Yahoo! pays Mozilla for this partnership, much like Google does.
Advertisers are the companies paying Google to display their ads. Publishers are entities that display Google's ads on their own website, and get paid to do so. Adsense for Search is when a publisher displays a little Search box on their site (often with a customized search results page). You're probably thinking of Adwords.
Yes, but Slashdot is a publisher, not an advertiser. An advertiser is a company who is paying Google to display ads about their products. Slashdot publishes content, and displays Google's ads.
I could be wrong, but I read somewhere that Google makes on average $0.11 revenue for every search on their site (some will have multiple ad clicks, some none, this is an average). $0.02 wouldn't seem high if you think about it this way.
Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but if Google paid advertisers to put their ads on Google's servers, Google would probably go bankrupt. I think you have that ass-backwards. Last I heard, advertisers generally pay others to place their ads on others services.;-)
You could be thinking of Adsense though, which is entirely different from what you described though.
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God forbid they actually decided to patent super-heroes. I think you're thinking of trademark, buddy. Two different things.
And as a follow-up, before people start making jokes.
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1) Yes, Canada does have the internet. We have had it for almost as long as the States, and on average, we actually have better internet connections up here than you guys do.
2) No, not all Canadians say "eh". You guys are thinking of Eastern Canadians. I live in Western Canada. Although I do know a guy from Eastern Canada who says eh a lot, it's kind of funny.
3) No, our heads don't flap around when we talk (thanks a lot South Park)
4) No, we don't live in igloos. Some natives in the very north, largely uninhabited part of the country, do, but most of us have never even seen an igloo outside of film.
5) No, we're not all "goofy".
6) No, we don't sit around and drink and smoke pot 24/7.
If I've missed anything, let me know
Lol, I was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and have lived in Alberta all of my life. You are aware that only about 5% of the world's population lives in the States, right? And are you also aware that Slashdot is in-fact accessible from the rest of the world? And yes, people do actually live in Canada, it's not just a myth. Look over my comment history, I've been pretty consistent as to where I live. Would you like me to take a picture the next time I'm working, post it to Imageshack, and send you the link? :-P (Sorry, have to give you a hard time. It's weird, people have such a hard time believing that I do in-fact live in Canada. I don't find it all that shocking myself).
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I'm using it to pay to put myself through school. Unlike a lot of my friends, I don't have rich parents that can pay for it for me. Thanks for the nice insult though, greatly appreciated.
Not quite that easy. I'll use an unrealistic example. If you have 20 skids of 2%, 10 skids of 1% in the warehouse, and I get an order in from the local grocery store that they want half a skid of each, then the skids need to be re-arranged, no? Or do you honestly think grocery stores order a single pallet of each kind of milk? Trust me, they don't have the storage for that. Nevermind the fact that no store orders the same amount of milk and the same kinds each day, so the skids have to be prepared as the orders come in.
But if you want to go even further, I also worked at Wal-Mart as a kid, in the grocery section. My primary job was ordering the milk and keeping the dairy section running. There I also moved at least 1500 gallons of milk a day, because Wal-Mart is an innefficient piece of shit company (won't bother going into that right now though).
Ah, well if you can explain to me how to somehow get full 4L Jugs of milk, ready for sale, to go through a pumping system, and without even denting them a bit, I'm all ears :) I work in a warehouse, milk comes in from the suppliers, we prepare the orders for them to be shipped to the different grocery stores.
No, I posted the first time because someone was saying tech's wouldn't have to carry around a laptop anymore (wouldn't want them to strain their back or anything), and I merely pointed out and said I move thousands of gallons of liquid a day by hand, I'm sure the tech can handle a laptop. Then someone made a comment about it being alcohol that I drink, which I found kind of insulting, cause I got the impression he was mocking my job (I could be off base though) so I explained to him in more detail what exactly it is I do. Understand? Oh, and btw, if I was stuck behind a computer all day at work, I would probably hang myself, no offence.
*grocery stores I meant to say.
I work in a warehouse, Dairy comes in, we move it around preparing for it to be shipping to the grocery orders. It's up in Canada.
You ever tried moving 3000+ gallons of dairy products, every single day? And that's just part of my job. Not all Slashdotters work behind a computer all day, just to let you know.
I move, on average, by hand, over 3000 gallons of liquid each day. I'm sure the tech will be just fine carrying around his laptop :-P
Evidence please? Oh, right, I'm on Slashdot. Everyone here is an expert on everything! How stupid of me. And for the record, I'm Canadian. This constant paranoia bullshit on this site makes me read the comments less and less everyday. You people are pathetic.
Name one reason why Apple would not want WinXP booting on a Mac?
So? Firefox is open source, Opera is not. I personally could care less (I run Windows) but obviously IBM et al are going to throw their money at the open source product over the proprietary one.
Whooops, meant to reply to my own comment, not yours. I know it wasn't you who modded me.
Whoever modded me flamebait is as dense as a bloody brick. Google's own fucking website refers to Adsense partners as publishers, and Adwords partners as advertisers. People who are mods should have to pass stupidity tests around here. http://www.google.ca/ads/
Never said there was any difference. If you would pay attention, you would notice I said that if Google paid their advertisers they would go bankrupt. Advertisers pay Google. Google pays Publishers. You are a publisher. Is that really so difficult to understand? So, to reiterate, I never said you and Mozilla were different. All I said is that neither you nor Mozilla are advertisers. It is the same thing as CBS. CBS is a network (aka a publisher, since they publish content). If Apple places an ad on CBS, then Apple is an advertiser. See the difference?
So? Your point is? A lot of things could happen, yet I don't sit and fret over the possibility.
Mozilla's Chinese division does have a deal with Yahoo!, although they may change this to Google now that Google has a Chinese version of Google hosted in China. I'm willing to bet Yahoo! pays Mozilla for this partnership, much like Google does.
Advertisers are the companies paying Google to display their ads. Publishers are entities that display Google's ads on their own website, and get paid to do so. Adsense for Search is when a publisher displays a little Search box on their site (often with a customized search results page). You're probably thinking of Adwords.
Yes, but Slashdot is a publisher, not an advertiser. An advertiser is a company who is paying Google to display ads about their products. Slashdot publishes content, and displays Google's ads.
I could be wrong, but I read somewhere that Google makes on average $0.11 revenue for every search on their site (some will have multiple ad clicks, some none, this is an average). $0.02 wouldn't seem high if you think about it this way.
Ummm, correct me if I'm wrong, but if Google paid advertisers to put their ads on Google's servers, Google would probably go bankrupt. I think you have that ass-backwards. Last I heard, advertisers generally pay others to place their ads on others services. ;-)
You could be thinking of Adsense though, which is entirely different from what you described though.
Google has a similar relationship with Opera, just to let you know.
Who invented the light bulb?
Duh! Everyone knows Steve Jobs invented the light bulb