Yes, I'm becoming more and more convinced that we have made zero *meaningful* progress in anything since 1969. I used to dream of living in the future - I thought I was born too soon, but alas the future was in the sixties, and it ended only a few months after I was born.
That's right! How soon we forget what GM, Shell Oil, and the Saucer People did to the guy with the 100MPG carburetor. He and his invention are buried deep beneath the fake moonlanding site.
Yep. And if you caught the last "good" episode of Enterprise, where the "evil" alternate-reality crew mans the original (built for COLOR TV) Enterprise -- THAT's what the whole friggin' show should have been like.
Result quality aside, it seems that given Microsoft's "strong" financial position, they could easily run a clean, ad-free search -- for however long enough to kill Google off -- and then crank up the ad machine and ca$h in.
Yes, Google's uncluttered UI and good results (reminiscent of early Altavista) got me hooked, but now there is 3 pages of clone retailer and link farm crap prefacing every result. I am yearning for someone who can eliminate this garbage, and if Microsoft can just do that (even if their relevant results aren't as good) I will kiss Google GOOD BYE in flash.
>>VB didn't take the lion's share of professional software development because people loved the ascetics of the language.
Yeah, I was once a VB ascetic. I spent a year wandering the desert, contemplating whether to use 1 or 0-based indexing. And when I returned with the Answer, there indeed was no love for me.
All M$ has to do is filter out all the ebay-link-farm-type-crap and I'll switch tomorrow. Google definitely gives me that "waning Altivista" feel when I submit a search and the first 10 pages of results are nothing but pure junk.
If M$ can find a way to leave out the junk, paid placement, advertising, etc, and just operate at a loss for a few years (no question they can afford it), they WILL kill Google.
Google is entering the "cash-in" phase of operation, and it makes them very vulnerable to a patient competitor with unlimited cash reserves.
...But it sounds like we're getting the new and sexy version opening with a very tired old sci-fi plot. Do you people just not remember the 12 other series' and or movies which have done the "relive it over and over" schlock? Didn't Shakespeare or Homer steal this from somebody?
Some of us grew up in undesirable business locations, and after years of dealing with "enlightened" urban people we would now be happy to take a pay cut and move back. Rednecks and urbanites used to only differ in what they were ignorant about, but modern media has managed to convince even the rural folk themselves that they are just plain stupid. I think I'd rather go back and live with a humbler variety of moron.
Um, well, perhaps I should RTFA, but why do either of you have reason to believe this increase in brightness is so linear? No change for 4.5 billion years minus one century, 30 percent increase this century due to excess solar caffeine consumption. (Starbucks just opened a new store there)
Maybe you missed his point about lawsuits feeding into the lottery mentality which seems to pervade much of lower income america. Opportunistic lawsuits are just another way in which poor people are only making themselves poorer in the end, and has the side effect of eventually devoting too much of our resources to navigating through legal minefields.
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Yes, I'm becoming more and more convinced that we have made zero *meaningful* progress in anything since 1969. I used to dream of living in the future - I thought I was born too soon, but alas the future was in the sixties, and it ended only a few months after I was born.
So Fonzie was often mistaken for a Bonnet then? I would have guessed the British equivalent for Hood was "Football fan".
That's right! How soon we forget what GM, Shell Oil, and the Saucer People did to the guy with the 100MPG carburetor. He and his invention are buried deep beneath the fake moonlanding site.
Damn, can't sneak anything past these Trekkers.
The typical "We need to fix our problems at home" response. Are you familiar with "wound licking"?
Yep. And if you caught the last "good" episode of Enterprise, where the "evil" alternate-reality crew mans the original (built for COLOR TV) Enterprise -- THAT's what the whole friggin' show should have been like.
Yes, that's the ticket. I sure wish they would reproduce these babies - with a little better screen though.
Ah, finally the real explanation for what happened to Microsoft Word (R)!
Result quality aside, it seems that given Microsoft's "strong" financial position, they could easily run a clean, ad-free search -- for however long enough to kill Google off -- and then crank up the ad machine and ca$h in.
Yes, Google's uncluttered UI and good results (reminiscent of early Altavista) got me hooked, but now there is 3 pages of clone retailer and link farm crap prefacing every result. I am yearning for someone who can eliminate this garbage, and if Microsoft can just do that (even if their relevant results aren't as good) I will kiss Google GOOD BYE in flash.
But I live in the 'burbs. All I can see from my backyard is orange haze.
Wow yeah, if Malkovich is Sci-Fi, then maybe I can just quit reading and start doing LSD.
IANAL, but I recommend that you become one.
There really still aren't any.
>>VB didn't take the lion's share of professional software development because people loved the ascetics of the language.
Yeah, I was once a VB ascetic. I spent a year wandering the desert, contemplating whether to use 1 or 0-based indexing. And when I returned with the Answer, there indeed was no love for me.
I just heard a radio commercial this morning touting the performance of the new hybrid Honda Accord as "better than a V6". So there you go...
Data point #1: I see the DLP rainbow, but I'm fine with 60Hz monitors. Though I can see flicker sometimes when I'm chewing my food...
Er, please point me to an example hardware/software configuration which can do this, priced within an an order of magnitude of $500...
All M$ has to do is filter out all the ebay-link-farm-type-crap and I'll switch tomorrow. Google definitely gives me that "waning Altivista" feel when I submit a search and the first 10 pages of results are nothing but pure junk.
If M$ can find a way to leave out the junk, paid placement, advertising, etc, and just operate at a loss for a few years (no question they can afford it), they WILL kill Google.
Google is entering the "cash-in" phase of operation, and it makes them very vulnerable to a patient competitor with unlimited cash reserves.
...But it sounds like we're getting the new and sexy version opening with a very tired old sci-fi plot. Do you people just not remember the 12 other series' and or movies which have done the "relive it over and over" schlock? Didn't Shakespeare or Homer steal this from somebody?
Yes! And I, for one, welcome our new overused Slashdot fill-in-the-blank phrase!
Some of us grew up in undesirable business locations, and after years of dealing with "enlightened" urban people we would now be happy to take a pay cut and move back. Rednecks and urbanites used to only differ in what they were ignorant about, but modern media has managed to convince even the rural folk themselves that they are just plain stupid. I think I'd rather go back and live with a humbler variety of moron.
Um, well, perhaps I should RTFA, but why do either of you have reason to believe this increase in brightness is so linear?
No change for 4.5 billion years minus one century, 30 percent increase this century due to excess solar caffeine consumption. (Starbucks just opened a new store there)
Maybe you missed his point about lawsuits feeding into the lottery mentality which seems to pervade much of lower income america. Opportunistic lawsuits are just another way in which poor people are only making themselves poorer in the end, and has the side effect of eventually devoting too much of our resources to navigating through legal minefields.
If it comes to suburbanites vs Ham Radio, the FCC will outlaw Ham Radio just as fast as suburban commissioners can close down a 50-year-old pig farm.