Yeah- FF 2.0 on XP doesn't produce any results at all. It's strange to me too, but I didn't mean to make anything of it. Just thought you might be interested. It could be the call from the text box - it looks like Google isn't getting what I type in.
Here's the returned html when I type in "test":
<html> <body> <!-- Google Search Result Snippet Begins --> <div id="results_006484545198767812489:x4pqfbwj4he"></d iv> <script type="text/javascript"> var googleSearchIframeName = "results_006484545198767812489:x4pqfbwj4he"; var googleSearchFormName = "searchbox_006484545198767812489:x4pqfbwj4he"; va r googleSearchFrameWidth = 500; var googleSearchFrameborder = 0; var googleSearchDomain = "www.google.com"; var googleSearchPath = "/cse"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/afsonline/show_afs_sear ch.js"></script> <!-- Google Search Result Snippet Ends --> </body> </html>
I could have used some extra cycles for a render farm. As it was, I was using three or four of the lab's machines at night with the 3d MAX distributed computing client. Worked like a charm, but only if you wanted to be around at 4am.
I don't know if this school has an architecture or fine arts department, but they could get some use out of it. How about a film school for video editing & converting?
Good point. I guess it depends if the author is tending toward a viral marketing effort, where search engine hits are very important, or if it needs to be somehow more formal, with sales figures. I don't think I would pay more a than a few bucks for a downloadable video from Google - given the limitations of the GSV (flash) format. From the original submitter's tone, I think they may want a genuine distributor - where quality is higher of a priority.
GVideo is also known to have removed content through automatic (some believe manual) filtering. It comes up as rejected with no recourse. Documentaries - especially ones about war-stricken areas - have been known to be controversial.
and you would have no guarantee that it would stay hosted there.
Do you know something about Google that I don't? Of all current internet companies, no, of all companies, I would most expect them to be around for the useful lifespan of a documentary. Sure, the wayback machine has a stated goal to archive digital information, but doesn't have the clout of IB....I mean Google.
1. Political or ads with an agenda - if you are paying to get a slogan or link into my email sidebar that is matching keywords in one of my messages, the clickthrough probably isn't what's important. Example - I had a link to paypalsucks come up after I got a phishing message in Gmail. That's handy - what if I was someone encountering something like that for the first time?
2. Ads that aggregate info = like Gmail's package tracking and address mapping. Now I'm on the correct page at UPS in a fraction of the time and I may even stay there for something else. I would love to see more of this.
But don't forget about the environmental footprint, as mentioned in the summary above. It's not about open space, but instead about the necessary area each of us requires for running water and agriculture. We will be out of resources long before the US is "full".
I think you meant that the liability of retaining the data was costing them. Strictly speaking, storage is dirt cheap. It's the layers of security, access, and legal protection that get you.
Its all about defaults and disclosure, not about hardware itself
My point was that geotagging in flickr is an intentional process, whereas this new product apparently will tag ALL of your images if you're not careful. You very well know that so-and-so image was tagged if you click it yourself on a map. Flickr's tool is a far cry from looking online someday and seeing that someone made a mash-up of your photostream of each and every time you hit the shutter in a day. Imagine you were a nature photographer who didn't want to divulge the best places to shoot. What if you could extract coordinates out of myspace pages? It would be a disaster. It's a quick step to get useful (and potentially damaging) aggregate information out of many images online.
Education of the feature could prevent much of this, but even the best of us slip up occasionally.
Yes, it does sound like a press release, and it completely ignores the first red flag that occurred to me - privacy. Flickr already makes it easy to check out what kind of camera one uses, unless one turns such functionality off at some point in the process. An on-by-default hardware geotagger has the potential to give one's location away without the user's knowledge. Makes you think twice about taking pictures near the White House, or near a museum, or in an airport, plane, subway, bus, busy location. Hell, every picture taken has a potential risk with this tech attached.
The upside, though - easier to catch clumsy phonies like Adnan Hajj.
...the term is Ivy League, not IV league. Perhaps you should pay more attention in school.
Um, did you even read the link you provided? The parent was referring to the popular legend, which I was able to read all about just now:
Some attribute the name to the Roman numerals for four (IV), asserting that there was such a sports league originally with four members. The Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins helped to perpetuate this belief. The supposed "IV League" was formed over a century ago and consisted of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and a 4th school that varies depending on who is telling the story.
Soon, I hope, we'll see the emusic.com of movies. No DRM, no hype, tier B & independent films, occasional blockbusters. I'm here waiting for my download service. Anyone?
The leader of our country sets an example for the leaders of our corporations
It's amazing to me that people seek to blame everything on George W Bush.
I'm not expressing an opinion in this reply, but a quick poll of the parent's moderation is probably representative of the mood in this country right now toward any criticism of the president.
Moderation +3
50% Insightful
10% Flamebait
10% Troll
Extra 'Insightful' Modifier 0
Total Score: 4
10% will always defend the status quo, and another 10% will object to any dissent. 30% may be simply nodding their head one way or another and aren't recorded here (or it was edited after 3 lines of options, I can't tell.) Thus goes my psuedoscience.
Not to mention SketchUp, recently re-released by Google, AutoCAD & every other major package for architects (one called ArchiCAD uses openGL to accelerate the display of 2d linework), and any 3d modelling program (MAX, MAYA, Blender). Hell, there is even an openGL renderer for Flash somewhere.
Maybe the parent was thinking about StarFox for SNES?
With Google maps, sometimes the sidebar is there and sometimes it isn't, and when it appears I've never been able to figure out an easy way of making it disappear.
Perhaps you are confusing different implementations of the API with the 'official' maps page? The sidebar is an option for any mashup a web designer does, and making it disappear on click shouldn't be too difficult, also optional are the controls, markers, default zoom, etc. In addition, a full bleed Google map is pretty easy to make yourself.
Although it's not a map, this is at the top of my list for mashups.
It displays slightly delayed actual flight data on a google earth sphere, with altitude. I do believe the Earth code is similar to the Maps API, with all the references to the third dimension for a GPoint that I noticed, but I'm not a programmer, so I don't know exactly.
This reminds me of many of my coworkers, who otherwise know quite a bit about document layout, large format printing, and the like (we're an architecture firm). It is a common belief around here that the only way to make a PDF is to copy-paste an image into Word and use the menu command. I frequently try to explain how to use our PDF writer/print utility that we pay for a server licence, support, etc. If you can't paste it, apparently it can't be a PDF.
I like your spindle idea, but I was curious about your other point. I'm a little off topic, but what good methods for 'shredding' CDs exist? I usually try to flake off enough of the foil in a radial motion before I throw a disc out with personal data on it. But this is messy. I also have slashdot muscles, so breaking large quantities in half isn't really the answer. Any ideas?
You were modded funny for this? In that ironic, what-is-this-world-coming-to way, I guess that's right.
Actually, I'd be interested to see what happens to virtual computing "malware", since it's a gateway between the OS and the hardware. Will video simply refuse to play?
I agree with you, but if it was really that cut and dry, then why was Sony pursuing the process in the first place? They must have been hoping to game the system, like another poster said, to essentially block others from using this technique of P2P by extracting the theory from the software. Well, the obviousness comes from calling a duck a duck. A patent "about a method that could be applied to software" is still forbidden, no matter how you slice it.
I think this is good news, depending on the lasting effects.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, I get a blank page. What am I doing wrong?
I could have used some extra cycles for a render farm. As it was, I was using three or four of the lab's machines at night with the 3d MAX distributed computing client. Worked like a charm, but only if you wanted to be around at 4am.
I don't know if this school has an architecture or fine arts department, but they could get some use out of it. How about a film school for video editing & converting?
Good point. I guess it depends if the author is tending toward a viral marketing effort, where search engine hits are very important, or if it needs to be somehow more formal, with sales figures. I don't think I would pay more a than a few bucks for a downloadable video from Google - given the limitations of the GSV (flash) format. From the original submitter's tone, I think they may want a genuine distributor - where quality is higher of a priority.
GVideo is also known to have removed content through automatic (some believe manual) filtering. It comes up as rejected with no recourse. Documentaries - especially ones about war-stricken areas - have been known to be controversial.
and you would have no guarantee that it would stay hosted there.
Do you know something about Google that I don't? Of all current internet companies, no, of all companies, I would most expect them to be around for the useful lifespan of a documentary. Sure, the wayback machine has a stated goal to archive digital information, but doesn't have the clout of IB....I mean Google.
Two more:
1. Political or ads with an agenda - if you are paying to get a slogan or link into my email sidebar that is matching keywords in one of my messages, the clickthrough probably isn't what's important. Example - I had a link to paypalsucks come up after I got a phishing message in Gmail. That's handy - what if I was someone encountering something like that for the first time?
2. Ads that aggregate info = like Gmail's package tracking and address mapping. Now I'm on the correct page at UPS in a fraction of the time and I may even stay there for something else. I would love to see more of this.
But don't forget about the environmental footprint, as mentioned in the summary above. It's not about open space, but instead about the necessary area each of us requires for running water and agriculture. We will be out of resources long before the US is "full".
I think you meant that the liability of retaining the data was costing them. Strictly speaking, storage is dirt cheap. It's the layers of security, access, and legal protection that get you.
Its all about defaults and disclosure, not about hardware itself
My point was that geotagging in flickr is an intentional process, whereas this new product apparently will tag ALL of your images if you're not careful. You very well know that so-and-so image was tagged if you click it yourself on a map. Flickr's tool is a far cry from looking online someday and seeing that someone made a mash-up of your photostream of each and every time you hit the shutter in a day. Imagine you were a nature photographer who didn't want to divulge the best places to shoot. What if you could extract coordinates out of myspace pages? It would be a disaster. It's a quick step to get useful (and potentially damaging) aggregate information out of many images online.
Education of the feature could prevent much of this, but even the best of us slip up occasionally.
Yes, it does sound like a press release, and it completely ignores the first red flag that occurred to me - privacy. Flickr already makes it easy to check out what kind of camera one uses, unless one turns such functionality off at some point in the process. An on-by-default hardware geotagger has the potential to give one's location away without the user's knowledge. Makes you think twice about taking pictures near the White House, or near a museum, or in an airport, plane, subway, bus, busy location. Hell, every picture taken has a potential risk with this tech attached.
The upside, though - easier to catch clumsy phonies like Adnan Hajj.
Does anyone else notice the geeky irony in the phrase "tropical North Pole"?
good morning to the rest of the /. community.
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you must not have gotten the memo about cordial greetings on
Um, did you even read the link you provided? The parent was referring to the popular legend, which I was able to read all about just now:
Dignity > watching the latest movie.
Amen.
Soon, I hope, we'll see the emusic.com of movies. No DRM, no hype, tier B & independent films, occasional blockbusters. I'm here waiting for my download service. Anyone?
Hell, my computer can't even run the diagnostic utility that supposedly tells me how deficient I am. Guess my answer is "no".
It's amazing to me that people seek to blame everything on George W Bush.
I'm not expressing an opinion in this reply, but a quick poll of the parent's moderation is probably representative of the mood in this country right now toward any criticism of the president.
10% will always defend the status quo, and another 10% will object to any dissent. 30% may be simply nodding their head one way or another and aren't recorded here (or it was edited after 3 lines of options, I can't tell.) Thus goes my psuedoscience.
It is if you are in the US. Ever hear of the DMCA?
Not to mention SketchUp, recently re-released by Google, AutoCAD & every other major package for architects (one called ArchiCAD uses openGL to accelerate the display of 2d linework), and any 3d modelling program (MAX, MAYA, Blender). Hell, there is even an openGL renderer for Flash somewhere.
Maybe the parent was thinking about StarFox for SNES?
With Google maps, sometimes the sidebar is there and sometimes it isn't, and when it appears I've never been able to figure out an easy way of making it disappear.
Perhaps you are confusing different implementations of the API with the 'official' maps page? The sidebar is an option for any mashup a web designer does, and making it disappear on click shouldn't be too difficult, also optional are the controls, markers, default zoom, etc. In addition, a full bleed Google map is pretty easy to make yourself.
Although it's not a map, this is at the top of my list for mashups.
It displays slightly delayed actual flight data on a google earth sphere, with altitude. I do believe the Earth code is similar to the Maps API, with all the references to the third dimension for a GPoint that I noticed, but I'm not a programmer, so I don't know exactly.
This reminds me of many of my coworkers, who otherwise know quite a bit about document layout, large format printing, and the like (we're an architecture firm). It is a common belief around here that the only way to make a PDF is to copy-paste an image into Word and use the menu command. I frequently try to explain how to use our PDF writer/print utility that we pay for a server licence, support, etc. If you can't paste it, apparently it can't be a PDF.
I like your spindle idea, but I was curious about your other point. I'm a little off topic, but what good methods for 'shredding' CDs exist? I usually try to flake off enough of the foil in a radial motion before I throw a disc out with personal data on it. But this is messy. I also have slashdot muscles, so breaking large quantities in half isn't really the answer. Any ideas?
You were modded funny for this? In that ironic, what-is-this-world-coming-to way, I guess that's right.
Actually, I'd be interested to see what happens to virtual computing "malware", since it's a gateway between the OS and the hardware. Will video simply refuse to play?
I agree with you, but if it was really that cut and dry, then why was Sony pursuing the process in the first place? They must have been hoping to game the system, like another poster said, to essentially block others from using this technique of P2P by extracting the theory from the software. Well, the obviousness comes from calling a duck a duck. A patent "about a method that could be applied to software" is still forbidden, no matter how you slice it. I think this is good news, depending on the lasting effects.
Seems as though the UK has a more workable definition of an "obvious" idea than we do in the US. This is a good start.