Exactly. from the About Google Trends page (the first question, no less):
1. How does Google Trends work?
Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the results -- our search-volume graph -- plotted on a linear scale.
All this means is that people are using a wider range of search terms. (either from new terms entering general culture or perhaps people are just searching for more than they used to.)
Actually 'he' was a she, and she was from the Democratic party. From TFA:
Alaska Democratic Party spokeswoman Kay Brown said the slowdown caused by the touchscreen machines is indicative of larger problems with the machines.
"I can say there are many systematic problems with Diebold machines that have been identified in many contexts," Brown said. "That there were technical glitches with the machines is not surprising, and it's one indication of the kinds of things that can go wrong with the machines and it's something to be concerned about."
The day before the election, the Democratic party urged voters to choose paper ballots instead of the touchscreen machine. They say Diebold's touch screen machines may be insecure and vulnerable to attack.
Well there is alot of stuff in there. It's not like slashdot could link to everything he does in one of it's post. Besides it's not a 'blog' as in 'weblog' or 'online diary' or even a homepage. it's a clearly focused website with a specific theme that aggrigates internet resources (like slashdot), it just happens to use a blog engine. Infact it seems to avoid the 'lets just talk about whatever the fuck is on our mind' danger even more than slashdot by only linking to videos.
I guess i'm not the average joe, but i have gotten a good amount of enjoyment out of my sidekick.
I've always thought things like calendars and even cameras were unessicary features, but i do like the idea of a 'portable modem' or 'network hole' as i like to call it. To me it makes perfect sense to have email and internet access on something thats already connecting to 'the network'. In my ideal portable world i'd have 2 devices, a network device (cellphone) and a storage device (ipod). An organizational device (pda) and capture device (camera/microphone) would be 2 other possible devices, but those unfortunately are pretty easy to integrate into the first 2, and while it might be nice (if insecure) to have these 4 devices in a PAN, now that i think about it carying 4 little boxes around does seem a bit strange when they could all be in one.
Sure a Shadowrun MMORPG that directly implemented the rules would be awsome, but if i had a nickle for every computer game based on a paper game that could have been awsome, i'd have... well probably around 310 dollars.
The truth is computer games and board games are very diffrent beast. I never thought I'd say that seeing as how I'm constantly saying they are the same, and they are in many respects. But the most substatial diffrence isn't that video games need to be real time or effectively use visual information or anything like that. It's that the designer doesn't have to worry about the rules being to complex for streamlined play. Not to mention the inherent difficulty in translating pnp RPG rules into cRPG rules. (Does negotiation or intimidation apply here? Can I climb that thing that wasn't ment to be climbed? What kind of modifier applies to trying to shoot through a shower curtain? Why do all the NPCs seem cold and emotionless?)
Anyway, point is, I'd easily settle for a single-player Shadowrun RPG with little to no regard for the original rules (ok, that's an exageration), as long as it was an RPG!
... CL2 doesn't stand for CaLendar2 but CL2. What if this is the begining of Client releases for google? Each version number introducing a new network oriented utility. What if this is just wishful thinking?
I have often thought about this, too, although for slightly diffrent reasons.
Before Electronic games anything called a game was a multiplayer thing. Sports, Cards (except solitare), RPGs, and Boardgames. Anything else was generaly a 'puzzle' or 'toy' (or probably other terms). So in my incredibly impractical game theory/termonology, a game is any direct competition (something with an offense and a defense, as opposed to running or figure skating which are just competitions and sports but not games), where as a puzzle is anything that pits a player against a system (crossword, jigsaw, solitare would be more acurately called this), and a sport requires physical activity (sorry all you professional gaming 'atheletes' but your more professional puzzler solvers or gamers. same goes for the poker players).
So should we call them puzzles? i think that is a little inaccurate too. Real-Time Interactive Simulations (what DigiPenn calls there game design majors) is just to much of a mouthful (although does highlight the key diffrence between video games and traditional games, puzzles, and sports).
Movies are another thing to consider. Movie is a pretty archaic term IMO (just as bad as talkie). The movie industry realized this and now use the term film when they want to sound classy (although that too is equally inaccurate. Do we call jigsaw puzzles cardboard?). So maybe 'Disc'? Doesn't quite sound right but in 50 years who knows. Or maybe the stigma from the term game will be gone by then (although my original points stand)?
Just out of curriosity, why is this Interesting? Maybe 'Funny' (that's actually Pete Ashdown... He's the geeky-looking white guy), but I don't think it brings up anything Interesting.
Slashdot Mirror
But the real question is what is the write speed?
Well there is alot of stuff in there. It's not like slashdot could link to everything he does in one of it's post. Besides it's not a 'blog' as in 'weblog' or 'online diary' or even a homepage. it's a clearly focused website with a specific theme that aggrigates internet resources (like slashdot), it just happens to use a blog engine. Infact it seems to avoid the 'lets just talk about whatever the fuck is on our mind' danger even more than slashdot by only linking to videos.
I guess i'm not the average joe, but i have gotten a good amount of enjoyment out of my sidekick. I've always thought things like calendars and even cameras were unessicary features, but i do like the idea of a 'portable modem' or 'network hole' as i like to call it. To me it makes perfect sense to have email and internet access on something thats already connecting to 'the network'. In my ideal portable world i'd have 2 devices, a network device (cellphone) and a storage device (ipod). An organizational device (pda) and capture device (camera/microphone) would be 2 other possible devices, but those unfortunately are pretty easy to integrate into the first 2, and while it might be nice (if insecure) to have these 4 devices in a PAN, now that i think about it carying 4 little boxes around does seem a bit strange when they could all be in one.
T-mobile has a handy "Undelete" feature for people like you.
Ok, seriously, whats the deal here? I didn't see anything suspicious on that site, am i going to die?
well, the gov't does tell oil companies where they can and can't drill, which influences the price of oil, so....
Sure a Shadowrun MMORPG that directly implemented the rules would be awsome, but if i had a nickle for every computer game based on a paper game that could have been awsome, i'd have... well probably around 310 dollars.
The truth is computer games and board games are very diffrent beast. I never thought I'd say that seeing as how I'm constantly saying they are the same, and they are in many respects. But the most substatial diffrence isn't that video games need to be real time or effectively use visual information or anything like that. It's that the designer doesn't have to worry about the rules being to complex for streamlined play. Not to mention the inherent difficulty in translating pnp RPG rules into cRPG rules. (Does negotiation or intimidation apply here? Can I climb that thing that wasn't ment to be climbed? What kind of modifier applies to trying to shoot through a shower curtain? Why do all the NPCs seem cold and emotionless?)
Anyway, point is, I'd easily settle for a single-player Shadowrun RPG with little to no regard for the original rules (ok, that's an exageration), as long as it was an RPG!
... CL2 doesn't stand for CaLendar2 but CL2. What if this is the begining of Client releases for google? Each version number introducing a new network oriented utility. What if this is just wishful thinking?
I have often thought about this, too, although for slightly diffrent reasons. Before Electronic games anything called a game was a multiplayer thing. Sports, Cards (except solitare), RPGs, and Boardgames. Anything else was generaly a 'puzzle' or 'toy' (or probably other terms). So in my incredibly impractical game theory/termonology, a game is any direct competition (something with an offense and a defense, as opposed to running or figure skating which are just competitions and sports but not games), where as a puzzle is anything that pits a player against a system (crossword, jigsaw, solitare would be more acurately called this), and a sport requires physical activity (sorry all you professional gaming 'atheletes' but your more professional puzzler solvers or gamers. same goes for the poker players). So should we call them puzzles? i think that is a little inaccurate too. Real-Time Interactive Simulations (what DigiPenn calls there game design majors) is just to much of a mouthful (although does highlight the key diffrence between video games and traditional games, puzzles, and sports). Movies are another thing to consider. Movie is a pretty archaic term IMO (just as bad as talkie). The movie industry realized this and now use the term film when they want to sound classy (although that too is equally inaccurate. Do we call jigsaw puzzles cardboard?). So maybe 'Disc'? Doesn't quite sound right but in 50 years who knows. Or maybe the stigma from the term game will be gone by then (although my original points stand)?
... Seriously though, is South Korea just milking scifi for ideas? Because if so I can sell them an FTL drive.
Just out of curriosity, why is this Interesting? Maybe 'Funny' (that's actually Pete Ashdown... He's the geeky-looking white guy), but I don't think it brings up anything Interesting.