All of which avoids the point that there is no peak oil theory. Supply and demand, new technology, new exploration (mostly outside the US really) all play a part in bringing commodities downward.
Oh, and those graphs are a 15 year timescale for whale oil--we're talking a longer time period.
StarControl really had a great storyline--this honestly could be rebooted in a variety of ways:
Classic Reboot: Making it another space-adventure game RPG/MMORPG Reboot: Playing as a character race for any of the main offshoots Single player Reboot: You fighting as the humans to free other races in a single person (or dual-player) mystery/adventure
I personally have used TubeMogul and found it to be a great resource to submit one video to many different sites all in a simple interface with great tracking as well for analysis later on.
Mod it then as not useful and let the/. posters learn what is and is not useful. If they are actually paying attention to their analytics, they'll know what works in the future.
Google Bombing is when you try to get a site (or sites) to rank for keyword terms that are not in that specific page. At this time Google has prevented all new literal Google Bombings from occurring, however, it can still be done partially.
The article talks about bring up articles to rank for "John McCain" and last I checked... those were not obscure terms for him (unless he recently went to change his name to something else entirely).
So what is he doing then? As I've mentioned, it's not Google Bombing, but instead it's really the opposite of brand reputation management--he's just trying to produce more negative results for his name.
You have to think in terms of the Chinese, not in terms of an American. It would make an American politician proud because he's making a non-denial denial to the international audience by playing to the standard concepts that people have of China being a developing nation. Yes, it would not be a phrase an American one would use, but it is the style and cleverness that would make them proud.
Of course, we here at/. can see easily through the bs and think it's stupid nonetheless, but in terms of the 'average' media/folk... it'll pass for gold.
1) Multiple loading times and "please wait" - PC games do NOT do this
2) Saves money - why spend $300+ on a separate system that I can just play on my gaming computer anyway? Save the money for a new computer.
3) Better graphics - PC gaming had better graphics (PS3 is an exception probably) so why by a console system for poorer performance?
That's the fault of the algorithm, not the fault of what is lacking. There are many websites that could/should rank higher, but do not do to the poor algorithm of Google (which, sadly still, is far better than anything else).
If the money is worth it enough, you can definitely see Knol being the new "domain buying" where people snatch up ALL the variations of the possible directory names so that any competitor will have to think of a longer directory name or one not quite as specifically on topic in order for it to rank (think Squidoo).
I submit that this is a bad thing
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Not in the concept of having another competitor (good), but that Google's search results will increasing become Google products and NOT actually what's around the web.
This is already slowly happening and I find the increasing number of spots taken up by Google in the search results to be particularly bad for their brand, search results, and image.
I would definitely not like to see a search result on "jumping beans" filled with 1x Google Image Search, 2x Youtube/Google Videos, 2x Google Knol, 1x Google Products, 2x Google News, 2x Google Base.
Sometimes Congressmembers will vote for a bill in order to have it fail miserably later. Now, that may not be the case for this particular bill, but keep that in mind before various amendments fail, and keep the eye on the actual final vote for this awful bill.
Senators voted 67 to 31 to shelve the amendment offered by Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.). They did not vote for the bill yet (that's to come soon though).
You can follow three paths as a search engine (in simplistic terms):
1) Show everything--this implies crap sites (*coughs* boingboing), great sites (*coughs*/.), malware sites (3221.com), search results sites, etc. thereupon your results are fully awful, but absolutely representative of what a search engine is "supposed" to show by previous comments, and thus get banned in China thereby showing nothing.
2) Do as you are told--obviously not as fun and cries of shenanigans and submissions are there, but then you get to show more results to people around the world who otherwise would just be filled with pure propaganda.
3) Do your own thing--"hitting the corner of the ping-pong table", barely get by with regulations without getting punished.
Guess what? None of those are illegal to do under any international law at this point in time (although I recall some events within the US on trying to sue sites that just link to other pages, but nothing for the international arena) and certainly nothing illegal to show or not show within the US for political sites.
Remember, this is a corporation, not a government, so there is no "right" that you have for them to "display" your site in "their" index.
As far as I'm concerned, if they put it on the radio, then the song is worth exactly $0 and is constitutionally not for the RIAA to sue anyone in court (less than $20).
Sure you can, you just have to allow for electoral districts to move beyond the states or allow for an ever-increasing (or decreasing) size for the House to keep the proportions the same.
I never made the claim that one person one vote is better than the electoral college, I happen to actually agree to it. It's just that even changing the proportionality should be fixed within the electoral college to make the proportions fair across the board (which therein lies the problem of being only able to do that by increasing the number of seats in Congress or allowing electoral districts to shift out of state).
Slashdot Mirror
...if it had talked about this story before to know that it did already:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/11/16/0239232/facebook-holding-back-personal-data
And yes, it links TFAs that mention this story already.
All of which avoids the point that there is no peak oil theory. Supply and demand, new technology, new exploration (mostly outside the US really) all play a part in bringing commodities downward.
Oh, and those graphs are a 15 year timescale for whale oil--we're talking a longer time period.
Wanna make a $10,000 bet on the price?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wager_between_Julian_Simon_and_Paul_Ehrlich
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/opinion/23tierney.html?_r=1&n=Top%2FOpinion%2FEditorials%20and%20Op-Ed%2FOp-Ed%2FColumnists%2FJohn%20Tierney&oref=login
In case you want an excuse to back out.
StarControl really had a great storyline--this honestly could be rebooted in a variety of ways:
Classic Reboot: Making it another space-adventure game
RPG/MMORPG Reboot: Playing as a character race for any of the main offshoots
Single player Reboot: You fighting as the humans to free other races in a single person (or dual-player) mystery/adventure
I personally have used TubeMogul and found it to be a great resource to submit one video to many different sites all in a simple interface with great tracking as well for analysis later on.
Let's be real here, he just knows the advanced commands that both Google and Baidu provide. It is not hacking.
Mod it then as not useful and let the /. posters learn what is and is not useful. If they are actually paying attention to their analytics, they'll know what works in the future.
I hear you completely!
Google Bombing is when you try to get a site (or sites) to rank for keyword terms that are not in that specific page. At this time Google has prevented all new literal Google Bombings from occurring, however, it can still be done partially.
The article talks about bring up articles to rank for "John McCain" and last I checked... those were not obscure terms for him (unless he recently went to change his name to something else entirely).
So what is he doing then? As I've mentioned, it's not Google Bombing, but instead it's really the opposite of brand reputation management--he's just trying to produce more negative results for his name.
Tariq was the ultimate spokesperson...that guy would be worth it for any country's administration as a spokesperson.
You have to think in terms of the Chinese, not in terms of an American. It would make an American politician proud because he's making a non-denial denial to the international audience by playing to the standard concepts that people have of China being a developing nation. Yes, it would not be a phrase an American one would use, but it is the style and cleverness that would make them proud. Of course, we here at /. can see easily through the bs and think it's stupid nonetheless, but in terms of the 'average' media/folk... it'll pass for gold.
...that this is probably the most unique non-denial denial that would make our own politicians proud.
Where I live, everyone has their own computer anyway that can play games.
1) Multiple loading times and "please wait" - PC games do NOT do this
2) Saves money - why spend $300+ on a separate system that I can just play on my gaming computer anyway? Save the money for a new computer.
3) Better graphics - PC gaming had better graphics (PS3 is an exception probably) so why by a console system for poorer performance?
... Slashdot got Slashdotted.
That's the fault of the algorithm, not the fault of what is lacking. There are many websites that could/should rank higher, but do not do to the poor algorithm of Google (which, sadly still, is far better than anything else).
If the money is worth it enough, you can definitely see Knol being the new "domain buying" where people snatch up ALL the variations of the possible directory names so that any competitor will have to think of a longer directory name or one not quite as specifically on topic in order for it to rank (think Squidoo).
Not in the concept of having another competitor (good), but that Google's search results will increasing become Google products and NOT actually what's around the web.
This is already slowly happening and I find the increasing number of spots taken up by Google in the search results to be particularly bad for their brand, search results, and image.
I would definitely not like to see a search result on "jumping beans" filled with 1x Google Image Search, 2x Youtube/Google Videos, 2x Google Knol, 1x Google Products, 2x Google News, 2x Google Base.
Something I forgot to mention:
Sometimes Congressmembers will vote for a bill in order to have it fail miserably later. Now, that may not be the case for this particular bill, but keep that in mind before various amendments fail, and keep the eye on the actual final vote for this awful bill.
Once again, another /. mistake:
Senators voted 67 to 31 to shelve the amendment offered by Sens. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) and Russell Feingold (D-Wis.). They did not vote for the bill yet (that's to come soon though).
You can follow three paths as a search engine (in simplistic terms):
/.), malware sites (3221.com), search results sites, etc. thereupon your results are fully awful, but absolutely representative of what a search engine is "supposed" to show by previous comments, and thus get banned in China thereby showing nothing.
1) Show everything--this implies crap sites (*coughs* boingboing), great sites (*coughs*
2) Do as you are told--obviously not as fun and cries of shenanigans and submissions are there, but then you get to show more results to people around the world who otherwise would just be filled with pure propaganda.
3) Do your own thing--"hitting the corner of the ping-pong table", barely get by with regulations without getting punished.
Guess what? None of those are illegal to do under any international law at this point in time (although I recall some events within the US on trying to sue sites that just link to other pages, but nothing for the international arena) and certainly nothing illegal to show or not show within the US for political sites.
Remember, this is a corporation, not a government, so there is no "right" that you have for them to "display" your site in "their" index.
At least all algorithmically anyway.
As far as I'm concerned, if they put it on the radio, then the song is worth exactly $0 and is constitutionally not for the RIAA to sue anyone in court (less than $20).
Fascinating, thank you for that information. Definitely something for me to read up on further.
Sure you can, you just have to allow for electoral districts to move beyond the states or allow for an ever-increasing (or decreasing) size for the House to keep the proportions the same.
I never made the claim that one person one vote is better than the electoral college, I happen to actually agree to it. It's just that even changing the proportionality should be fixed within the electoral college to make the proportions fair across the board (which therein lies the problem of being only able to do that by increasing the number of seats in Congress or allowing electoral districts to shift out of state).