I read Slashdot a lot, and I was under the impression that data wants to be free. Did I misunderstand, and we actually just mean "other people's data"?
No, they'll be reporting straight from Facebook and Twitter, the two biggest sources of recycled links to opinion blog posts. Their main source of information will *be* the bias of other peoples' reporting. There may well be primary sources on Twitter but with 140 characters you don't get much more than a headline at a time.
Remember the aim of the exercise is to see how much accuracy these reporters can get just from these social media sites.
- A search engine gives information on extrasolar planets. - Wolfram Alpha gives information on extrasolar planets. - Therefore Wolfram Alpha is a search engine
- A motorbike transports me along a road - A car transports me along a road - Therefore a car is a motorbike
No. As their example video shows, you don't even need to open a new tab.
For example:
Select the text "Mozilla is just trying to reproduce Google"; Shift-Space (open Ubiquity); type "twit can you believe how dumb this slashdotter is: this"
Ubiquity tweets the message and puts your selected text as "this"
The difference between then and now is that the commands being mapped are a lot closer to natural language, meaning a lower barrier to entry for users and a lot more widespread adoption.
But what if you type "Find cheapest BA flight from London to Las Vegas first 2 weeks in June and add to my calendar"?
Wouldn't it be neat if it actually did what you typed? Check out their site for examples of things you can *do* with Ubiquity rather than just things you can *find* with I'm Feeling Lucky
However Ubiquity also gives you a natural language interface for command line pipes, "do this and then do that" for example things along the line of
"Find cheapest flight from London to Las Vegas first 2 weeks in June and add to my calendar"
The setting in question can be changed to 0, 5 or 10 seconds, but defaults to 5 if you turn the feature on. See your Labs area in GMail for more details
I think I've got an AOL CD around here somewhere. I hear they come with the whole internet on, so you don't need to worry about whether other people continue to provide the service they're providing (although I only ever used mine as a drinks coaster)
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There may be plenty of reasons not to get an Apple device, but the reasons you mention aren't them.
Not only can and does Skype run on iP* devices (and of course it isn't a telephony application), but it can now run in the background too!
You'd best go ask for that refund form then
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10405495.stm
Hang on, am I supposed to put publication names in normal italics, or bold italics? Can't we at least agree on the simple things?!
Vista has per-app volume controls, apparently, it's one of the few things I miss since I gave up Windows
Yes, no countries anywhere successfully use a proportional representation system
I think you a word out
Right, but *this* book review is about a book about Ruby. So it's probably pretty suitable to talk about Ruby here.
If the book was about LISP then you'd probably see a lot more LISP discussion going on.
To be fair, this is totally random but not by any means evenly distributed.
I read Slashdot a lot, and I was under the impression that data wants to be free. Did I misunderstand, and we actually just mean "other people's data"?
No, they'll be reporting straight from Facebook and Twitter, the two biggest sources of recycled links to opinion blog posts. Their main source of information will *be* the bias of other peoples' reporting. There may well be primary sources on Twitter but with 140 characters you don't get much more than a headline at a time.
Remember the aim of the exercise is to see how much accuracy these reporters can get just from these social media sites.
It is in my remake!
Apologies, Wikipedia must have been sourcing the large-print version, because that appears on page 40 of the Gutenberg version: http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=22786&pageno=40
Interesting that Wikipedia isn't accurate, at least according to the book it sources: from http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?pageno=72&fk_files=22786 *no occurrences of the word 'black', nor in 10 pages either side*
Not to mention your use of the word "Whoooooshhhh!"
As a website developer, what do I now say to my clients when they ask why they can't brand their video player?
Obviously you should be using Apple juice...
- A search engine gives information on extrasolar planets.
- Wolfram Alpha gives information on extrasolar planets.
- Therefore Wolfram Alpha is a search engine
- A motorbike transports me along a road
- A car transports me along a road
- Therefore a car is a motorbike
Correct. And when was the last time that something that cost 10 cents to produce was sold to the public at 10 cents?
No. As their example video shows, you don't even need to open a new tab.
For example:
Select the text "Mozilla is just trying to reproduce Google";
Shift-Space (open Ubiquity);
type "twit can you believe how dumb this slashdotter is: this"
Ubiquity tweets the message and puts your selected text as "this"
Yuck. How about some variant of
"PDF all tabs to ~/mozilla/"
That's more like Ubiquity is trying to achieve.
The difference between then and now is that the commands being mapped are a lot closer to natural language, meaning a lower barrier to entry for users and a lot more widespread adoption.
Sure, it does do that.
But what if you type "Find cheapest BA flight from London to Las Vegas first 2 weeks in June and add to my calendar"?
Wouldn't it be neat if it actually did what you typed? Check out their site for examples of things you can *do* with Ubiquity rather than just things you can *find* with I'm Feeling Lucky
However Ubiquity also gives you a natural language interface for command line pipes, "do this and then do that" for example things along the line of "Find cheapest flight from London to Las Vegas first 2 weeks in June and add to my calendar"
The setting in question can be changed to 0, 5 or 10 seconds, but defaults to 5 if you turn the feature on. See your Labs area in GMail for more details
I think I've got an AOL CD around here somewhere. I hear they come with the whole internet on, so you don't need to worry about whether other people continue to provide the service they're providing (although I only ever used mine as a drinks coaster)