Wait I'm not done yet. How about Microsoft should hire Linux Torvalds to improve Windows, and then he and Bill Gates can spend some quality time inventing all-new jokes about Linux.
Wow imo gonna be a reach blog owning bastard. Mommy you'll proud o'me!!
"This isn't stupid. When you do business in some foreign country, then you have to respect that countries laws."
But if you're Linux or Apple you don't have to? Remember they both come with their own media players, browsers, even office packages (linux) preinstalled, but noone touches them.
I wonder if all successful operational systems are doomed to be attacked and dumbed down until they're killed off.
"The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?"
It's made for educational purpose, once it starts it captures the mouse and keyboard so that you can't exit to Windows, and you're forced to use Linux until you nail it.
A caveat was quickly discovered however: if you stop so the Linux screensaver turns on, you're back to Windows. Go figure.
Fro a consumer standpoint I care about only one thing: how will I distinguish now Seagate technology HDD and Maxtor technology HDD.
The reason there are multiple brands out there is that everyone prefers different parameters for his drive, so just merging the brands doesn't help.
Maxtor drives are noiser, relatively reliable, and can hold with high temperatures.
Seagate are quiet (their "liquid" bearing or something), also relatively reliable, but also quite easily f*ck up with temperatures of 48-50 and above (so I gotta constantly monitor my drive in hotter days, not to go overboard).
A little reminder: everybody, included Google, started from nobody. This is probably the most cliched and inappropriate remark you can make for somebody's opinion you don't like.
A preponderance of Ph.D. (which btw has yet to be prven to be related to smart vs dumb decisions in some provable way) didn't stop them from releasing software that was randomly sending around cached session IDs and clicking "delete mail" and "delete post" links to speed up browsing. They may be smart (indeed for building one of the best search engine systems in the world), but it's certainly not because their Ph.D. tags have any magical influence on their IQ.
Also, keep in mind that this is a business decision, not engineering decision. you'll have to further check if they actually asked their Unix/C++ experts whether buying stake in AOL is the best they could do.
They did what was the most obvious action: make sure they keep their revenue sources close. However how will this affect the public opinion to Google is another question.
Google has done a lot of things, that if came from another company will be instantly condemned as spyware/evil and so on. Just because it's Google though, it's ok. This is part of why AdSense was so successful.
All those opportunities are endangered when immediate business interests become higher priority that your long term vision.
In this war less innocent people died than in previous wars. Yea well, more than from all suicide bombers in Iraq summed, but what the hell, stats can always be twisted to look good for either side.
That headline... sounds suspiciously as AOL convincing Google to try harder drugs. I just imagine AOL patting Google on the back "Try dude, what's the worst that could happen".
If I have to draw further parallels, we're soon gonna be showered in flashing CASINO ads from the google's front page.
Good thing parallels are usually inaccurate... (cue in spooky music) or are they?
Before MS announced its interest in AOL, Google was nowhere near interested in an AOL deal (or so it seemed). Now, just because MS wanted it, Google got it first.
Sometimes businesses are silly as they can possibly get. Remember the rush of everyone providing 1GB or better storage in their mail boxes in responce to Gmail? As if we all just die for a GB of storage we won't use cuz Google 'invented' it.
Now Google has fallen pray to the same game. I hope they play their cards well. But really I think instead of turning AOL into the Google ISP, they'll turn Google into the AOL Search Engine.
well, there are automatic pencils (have one here) where you just push a button and it reveals more of the graphite. This avoid the weight/trash problem.
And there are oilier but still hard sticks of graphite (wow that'd look odd out of context), say something between pastel and a pencil, to avoid the dust problem.
So uhmm.. and anyway not to get a lot off topic on this whole thing, but.. Fisher spent a million (officially) on those and then sold few hundred of 'em for a couple of bucks? Talk about poor ROI.
Thanks for the clarification. I suspected it's not exactly like this, but it still is one great (pseudo)example of what is happening with the military equipment.
Honestly - suits are heavy and hot? Solution? Not fix suits/make them lighter or anything (I mean has/can anybody built stats of whether wearing so much "protection" disabling swift action and maneuvres can do more harm than help a soldier?).
Instead plaster more technology on them. Which will create problems on its own so what's next? Special robotic enhancements to the soldier's legs and arms so he can move better? Then if he runs out of batteries have accumulator attached on him?
I know I'm being ridiculous but I'm proving a point. You can't just plaster layers and layers of tech trying to solve what the previous layer did. At the end only one wins: those damn firms coming up with absurd inventions to pitch to the military.
Excuse me? Pencil "shaver" that wets the pencil and has slight influx of air and filter on the other end and done. I can build one with what I have laying around.
But even without the influx I can just spit on it and shave it and I guarantee no tiny particles will be in the air:)
Come on, it doesn't take millions of dollars dude.
Also as you're reading this, you're breathing in pieces of death skin, microbes and small particles of garbage (also known as dust) and ah yea, also small living insects... How about throwing few million dollars on that? Or not, because actually we're just ok with it.
"I read something about one of the google founders aspiring to have a technology to search people's brains directly."
Okaaaay.... I stand corrected.. THAT is spooky.
Good thing people's brains don't share protocols. It's like a self-molding format with patterns so interwined and interdependent on one another that you can extract only pretty basic information out of it (you scared? you happy? you like hearing something, watching something? light, dark, light, dark.. ook..)
..your taxes. I mean ultra modern suits that don't work, ultra modern PC-s and equipment that just makes everything harder to operate with rather than easier.. it's just suspicious tech firms milking the military department.
Because this is what war is used for, you know when the war starts, it better last long, cuz that's the time lots of people make LOOTS of money selling overhyped and overpriced gadgets to those poor soldiers.
Oh, and reminds me of a popular old story about NASA spending millions to invent a pen that works in zero gravity environment. They finally nailed it, but at quite the cost.. The alternative solution by the Russians? Use pencil.
I mean browser usage (what browser you used to visit google) not what browser name you searched for.
They used to publish those and they were extremely useful since the google users are a great representative pattern for the entire web population.
I guess some exec put reason into them that this is something they could sell so.. they excused themselves quickly few years ago with something along the line "we do it for the benefit of X, Y, Z" and stopped showing the stats.
Sorry but I was just looking at the stats just now and... well doesn't anyone else find this spooky (or is it just cuz I'm listening to spooky movie music right now).
It's as if Google scanned our collective brains and published the results in a tidy stats graph. We are what we search after all, especially with out increasing dependency of on-line.
As technology progresses and we become more and more dependent on it, I expect it to become even spookier (especially with spooky music in the bg), like someone printing graphs of our feelings and personal lives.
Of course the morst important bit...
on
Google Zeitgeist '05
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· Score: 2, Insightful
.. for us webdevs is missing again (for a second or third year) - the browser stats:((
also I see less and less in each issue of the Zeitgeist (I suppose as they figure out that more and more of the info is pretty valuable to be released for free)
It's possible to run Linux on certain calculators as well but come on... I mean come on really:)
We're not talking theoretical capabilities here, sorry if I made you think so.
OT, you can see people trying to emulate the Doom enigne with canvas in Firefox.. It's certainly possible but the results are well.. not worth the hassle.
Slashdot Mirror
Oopsie
Linux Torvalds = Linus Torvalds
reach = rich
Sorry for typos, but for the purpose of coming up with ideas for absurd articles, I thought I'd switch to Dvorak layout keyboard.
Wait I'm not done yet. How about Microsoft should hire Linux Torvalds to improve Windows,
and then he and Bill Gates can spend some quality time inventing all-new jokes about Linux.
Wow imo gonna be a reach blog owning bastard. Mommy you'll proud o'me!!
"This isn't stupid. When you do business in some foreign country, then you have to respect that countries laws."
But if you're Linux or Apple you don't have to? Remember they both come with their own media players, browsers, even office packages (linux) preinstalled, but noone touches them.
I wonder if all successful operational systems are doomed to be attacked and dumbed down until they're killed off.
Opera should buy Microsoft
**waits for Slashdot to pick the bait and bring some traffic**
If voted, this article will win for most deceptive headline ever published on Slashdot :)
There's a huge difference between being "self-aware" as in recogizning mirror self from copies, and "self-aware" as a state of mind.
And yes my cat is in self-aware state of mind, but still attacks the mirror.
"OS/2 is finally being withdrawn on December 23, 2005."
They wouldn't admit it until the OS/2 users didn't reach 6 figure negative number.
"The article doesn't make it clear why it should run as a screensaver... is the ISO interactive? How does one escape the screensaver? Why not just run it stand-alone?"
It's made for educational purpose, once it starts it captures the mouse and keyboard so that you can't exit to Windows, and you're forced to use Linux until you nail it.
A caveat was quickly discovered however: if you stop so the Linux screensaver turns on, you're back to Windows. Go figure.
they use it to scare people away from tinkering with your PC while away.
Fro a consumer standpoint I care about only one thing: how will I distinguish now Seagate technology HDD and Maxtor technology HDD.
The reason there are multiple brands out there is that everyone prefers different parameters for his drive, so just merging the brands doesn't help.
Maxtor drives are noiser, relatively reliable, and can hold with high temperatures.
Seagate are quiet (their "liquid" bearing or something), also relatively reliable, but also quite easily f*ck up with temperatures of 48-50 and above (so I gotta constantly monitor my drive in hotter days, not to go overboard).
I prefer to have a choice.
A little reminder: everybody, included Google, started from nobody. This is probably the most cliched and inappropriate remark you can make for somebody's opinion you don't like.
A preponderance of Ph.D. (which btw has yet to be prven to be related to smart vs dumb decisions in some provable way) didn't stop them from releasing software that was randomly sending around cached session IDs and clicking "delete mail" and "delete post" links to speed up browsing. They may be smart (indeed for building one of the best search engine systems in the world), but it's certainly not because their Ph.D. tags have any magical influence on their IQ.
Also, keep in mind that this is a business decision, not engineering decision. you'll have to further check if they actually asked their Unix/C++ experts whether buying stake in AOL is the best they could do.
They did what was the most obvious action: make sure they keep their revenue sources close. However how will this affect the public opinion to Google is another question.
Google has done a lot of things, that if came from another company will be instantly condemned as spyware/evil and so on. Just because it's Google though, it's ok. This is part of why AdSense was so successful.
All those opportunities are endangered when immediate business interests become higher priority that your long term vision.
In this war less innocent people died than in previous wars. Yea well, more than from all suicide bombers in Iraq summed, but what the hell, stats can always be twisted to look good for either side.
That headline... sounds suspiciously as AOL convincing Google to try harder drugs.
I just imagine AOL patting Google on the back "Try dude, what's the worst that could happen".
If I have to draw further parallels, we're soon gonna be showered in flashing CASINO ads from the google's front page.
Good thing parallels are usually inaccurate... (cue in spooky music) or are they?
Before MS announced its interest in AOL, Google was nowhere near interested in an AOL deal (or so it seemed).
Now, just because MS wanted it, Google got it first.
Sometimes businesses are silly as they can possibly get. Remember the rush of everyone providing 1GB or better storage in their mail boxes in responce to Gmail? As if we all just die for a GB of storage we won't use cuz Google 'invented' it.
Now Google has fallen pray to the same game. I hope they play their cards well. But really I think instead of turning AOL into the Google ISP, they'll turn Google into the AOL Search Engine.
... with the "don't be evil" slogan.
You can't have an omelette and keep the eggs.
You can't have the wolf fed and the sheep alive.
You.. well you get me.
I wonder if Google is 5% evil now, will AOL become 5% not evil.
well, there are automatic pencils (have one here) where you just push a button and it reveals more of the graphite. This avoid the weight/trash problem.
And there are oilier but still hard sticks of graphite (wow that'd look odd out of context), say something between pastel and a pencil, to avoid the dust problem.
So uhmm.. and anyway not to get a lot off topic on this whole thing, but.. Fisher spent a million (officially) on those and then sold few hundred of 'em for a couple of bucks? Talk about poor ROI.
A. invested about 1million USD to develop the ball point
B. 400 pens were sold to NASA at 6USD each
Ouch..
Thanks for the clarification. I suspected it's not exactly like this, but it still is one great (pseudo)example of what is happening with the military equipment.
Honestly - suits are heavy and hot? Solution? Not fix suits/make them lighter or anything (I mean has/can anybody built stats of whether wearing so much "protection" disabling swift action and maneuvres can do more harm than help a soldier?).
Instead plaster more technology on them. Which will create problems on its own so what's next? Special robotic enhancements to the soldier's legs and arms so he can move better? Then if he runs out of batteries have accumulator attached on him?
I know I'm being ridiculous but I'm proving a point. You can't just plaster layers and layers of tech trying to solve what the previous layer did. At the end only one wins: those damn firms coming up with absurd inventions to pitch to the military.
Excuse me? Pencil "shaver" that wets the pencil and has slight influx of air and filter on the other end and done. I can build one with what I have laying around.
:)
But even without the influx I can just spit on it and shave it and I guarantee no tiny particles will be in the air
Come on, it doesn't take millions of dollars dude.
Also as you're reading this, you're breathing in pieces of death skin, microbes and small particles of garbage (also known as dust) and ah yea, also small living insects... How about throwing few million dollars on that? Or not, because actually we're just ok with it.
"I read something about one of the google founders aspiring to have a technology to search people's brains directly."
Okaaaay.... I stand corrected.. THAT is spooky.
Good thing people's brains don't share protocols. It's like a self-molding format with patterns so interwined and interdependent on one another that you can extract only pretty basic information out of it (you scared? you happy? you like hearing something, watching something? light, dark, light, dark.. ook..)
..your taxes. I mean ultra modern suits that don't work, ultra modern PC-s and equipment that just makes everything harder to operate with rather than easier.. it's just suspicious tech firms milking the military department.
Because this is what war is used for, you know when the war starts, it better last long, cuz that's the time lots of people make LOOTS of money selling overhyped and overpriced gadgets to those poor soldiers.
Oh, and reminds me of a popular old story about NASA spending millions to invent a pen that works in zero gravity environment. They finally nailed it, but at quite the cost.. The alternative solution by the Russians? Use pencil.
I mean browser usage (what browser you used to visit google) not what browser name you searched for.
They used to publish those and they were extremely useful since the google users are a great representative pattern for the entire web population.
I guess some exec put reason into them that this is something they could sell so.. they excused themselves quickly few years ago with something along the line "we do it for the benefit of X, Y, Z" and stopped showing the stats.
A raw "top 10" list doesn't really give any sense of the scale of the numbers that determine the list.
That's why it's published free, you know...
Sorry but I was just looking at the stats just now and... well doesn't anyone else find this spooky (or is it just cuz I'm listening to spooky movie music right now).
It's as if Google scanned our collective brains and published the results in a tidy stats graph.
We are what we search after all, especially with out increasing dependency of on-line.
As technology progresses and we become more and more dependent on it, I expect it to become even spookier (especially with spooky music in the bg), like someone printing graphs of our feelings and personal lives.
.. for us webdevs is missing again (for a second or third year) - the browser stats :((
also I see less and less in each issue of the Zeitgeist (I suppose as they figure out that more and more of the info is pretty valuable to be released for free)
It's possible to run Linux on certain calculators as well but come on... I mean come on really :)
We're not talking theoretical capabilities here, sorry if I made you think so.
OT, you can see people trying to emulate the Doom enigne with canvas in Firefox.. It's certainly possible but the results are well.. not worth the hassle.