Google should edit their Zeitgeist lists, though
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Google Zeitgeist 2008
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Really, what needs to happen nowadays is that Google should separate those "keywords" that exactly match the top-returned URL... then we'd have a better idea of what people are actually *searching* for, versus what they're just trying to access.
Efficient use of built-in features isn't stupid
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Google Zeitgeist 2008
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· Score: 4, Insightful
I'd say nerds haven't grasped it, not average users. Now that you can leave www. and.com off your URLs, why wouldn't you? It saves time, provided it gets you to the right site - which most of these pseudoqueries will.
You must not be talking to me.
My senior biology teacher - the head of the science department at my math, science and technology-centred high school, one of the best schools in Toronto's public school board - was a creationist.
The head of my CS department and my teacher for what was supposed to be a Java course told us at the start that he didn't know Java and we'd just do a second year of Visual Basic, covering the exact same material as the first year.
Where'd all the funding go to, since our school took in gifted and math/science geniuses from all over the region? A lot of it went into lining every classroom and lab with unplugged computers to impress visiting parents. The rest went into digital devices that never once left the CS department office.
Worry not, the investigative team at the Onion News Network is all over this issue of the blatant lack of flying cars, and are demanding answers from the big auto manufacturers.
I've only personally known one autistic person, but the things he can do with his mind consistently astound me. I definitely consider myself to be of genius level intelligence, and there are things that this guy can do that simply go beyond intelligence... he's capable of figuring out things that I don't think any amount of thinking would allow me to know, but which are quite obviously correct when he states them. I'm extremely aware of my internal thought processes, but this guy has a degree of awareness and control that I can barely imagine. On top of that, he told me that he's able to disconnect his conscious and subconscious mind and then have his subconscious feed information to him - ideas will just pop into his conscious mind, fully formed and seemingly out of nowhere, but when he logically analyzes them they're 100% correct.
At the same time, it definitely does impede his social abilities to a certain extent. Autism, at least his sort, seems in many ways like an evolutionary step beyond the typical person, but at the same time is a step back...
Ideally, I'd like to see a thorough genetic understanding of autism allow us to integrate it's benefits into our minds without the detrimental effects.
Those of us in Toronto, CANADA - such as the programmers in question - would be quite happy if some Chinese would help us deal with the so-called "war on drugs" pushed on us by the USA.
To all you people rushing to say "Obscure comic company X did this in 1983 maaaan!"... just because some comic you read dealt with the issue of corrupt government before is not the same thing. This particular government is QUITE a particular government, and George Bush is named as the president in this Marvel series (according to TFA), which makes this a pretty specific attack on this very specific post-9/11 presidency and I think that makes this quite noteworthy. This isn't just about the fiction of it.
In such a case, which in our modern society is a very and perhaps the most common situation, they are making a choice based on misassociations formed in their brains between the consumer product in question and whatever underlying desire it's been tied to via advertising.
Just like you make a decision for a square meal over a bag of chips because you know you haven't eaten in a while and are feeling weak as a result (and the inverse, you know you'll feel better later on, even beyond the matter of the taste of the food, and desire this.)
It's just that the product has been tied to your sex drive, your ego, your independence, your comfort, whatever, and your brain has been fooled, ala Pavlov, into thinking that there must be an association between some brand of shampoo and getting laid.
The groundwork for such associatve marketting was laid by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays, who felt that by using association to tie products to subconscious desires, people could be coaxed (or should I say brainwashed) into making the decision to buy those products.
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So if everything is bound to have environmental consequences when used on a mass scale, maybe we ought to TURN THE BLOODY LIGHTS OFF once in a while.
This lifestyle is retarded.
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http://www.wix.com/ is my serious answer
"Wave to the cats" is my -serious answer
John Hodgman's blog provided this 1970s USA PSA: Too Fast For The Swine Flu
Really, what needs to happen nowadays is that Google should separate those "keywords" that exactly match the top-returned URL... then we'd have a better idea of what people are actually *searching* for, versus what they're just trying to access.
I'd say nerds haven't grasped it, not average users. Now that you can leave www. and .com off your URLs, why wouldn't you? It saves time, provided it gets you to the right site - which most of these pseudoqueries will.
You must not be talking to me. My senior biology teacher - the head of the science department at my math, science and technology-centred high school, one of the best schools in Toronto's public school board - was a creationist. The head of my CS department and my teacher for what was supposed to be a Java course told us at the start that he didn't know Java and we'd just do a second year of Visual Basic, covering the exact same material as the first year. Where'd all the funding go to, since our school took in gifted and math/science geniuses from all over the region? A lot of it went into lining every classroom and lab with unplugged computers to impress visiting parents. The rest went into digital devices that never once left the CS department office.
Worry not, the investigative team at the Onion News Network is all over this issue of the blatant lack of flying cars, and are demanding answers from the big auto manufacturers.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/mean_automakers_dash_nations_hope
I've only personally known one autistic person, but the things he can do with his mind consistently astound me. I definitely consider myself to be of genius level intelligence, and there are things that this guy can do that simply go beyond intelligence... he's capable of figuring out things that I don't think any amount of thinking would allow me to know, but which are quite obviously correct when he states them. I'm extremely aware of my internal thought processes, but this guy has a degree of awareness and control that I can barely imagine. On top of that, he told me that he's able to disconnect his conscious and subconscious mind and then have his subconscious feed information to him - ideas will just pop into his conscious mind, fully formed and seemingly out of nowhere, but when he logically analyzes them they're 100% correct. At the same time, it definitely does impede his social abilities to a certain extent. Autism, at least his sort, seems in many ways like an evolutionary step beyond the typical person, but at the same time is a step back... Ideally, I'd like to see a thorough genetic understanding of autism allow us to integrate it's benefits into our minds without the detrimental effects.
All you people who were asking why the rest of us didn't want America to have control of the internet - DO YOU GET IT NOW??!
Most do not easily dance through your blood-brain barrier, though. Nanoparticles don't even notice it.
Those of us in Toronto, CANADA - such as the programmers in question - would be quite happy if some Chinese would help us deal with the so-called "war on drugs" pushed on us by the USA.
Say Blue, if you ever have free time again, a Mac version would be grand.
To all you people rushing to say "Obscure comic company X did this in 1983 maaaan!"... just because some comic you read dealt with the issue of corrupt government before is not the same thing. This particular government is QUITE a particular government, and George Bush is named as the president in this Marvel series (according to TFA), which makes this a pretty specific attack on this very specific post-9/11 presidency and I think that makes this quite noteworthy. This isn't just about the fiction of it.
I believe that would be an "abbreviation."
In such a case, which in our modern society is a very and perhaps the most common situation, they are making a choice based on misassociations formed in their brains between the consumer product in question and whatever underlying desire it's been tied to via advertising. Just like you make a decision for a square meal over a bag of chips because you know you haven't eaten in a while and are feeling weak as a result (and the inverse, you know you'll feel better later on, even beyond the matter of the taste of the food, and desire this.) It's just that the product has been tied to your sex drive, your ego, your independence, your comfort, whatever, and your brain has been fooled, ala Pavlov, into thinking that there must be an association between some brand of shampoo and getting laid. The groundwork for such associatve marketting was laid by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays, who felt that by using association to tie products to subconscious desires, people could be coaxed (or should I say brainwashed) into making the decision to buy those products.
Apparently, that quote ought to be attributed to Giovanni Gentile.
wow, this one sure got a lot of crappy jokes.
anyhow, i think all that's really worth saying about this is this
most anarchist groups use consensus... wikipedia is nearly the complete opposite of consensus.
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hey it's not my fault you're addicted to inherently unsustainable technology.
"What is so difficult with counting nominal data these days?" it's called fascism.
So if everything is bound to have environmental consequences when used on a mass scale, maybe we ought to TURN THE BLOODY LIGHTS OFF once in a while. This lifestyle is retarded.