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I'm more interested in when Google starts returning relevant results to my queries.

I can't believe that I'm the only one that finds Google's quality of service somewhat below par. I guess they're better than randomly stabbing in the dark, and there certainly isn't any alternative that's obviously better, but Google sure isn't everything they think they are.

I know--stop trying to compete with Wikipedia and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.

And is instead similar to the Agile software development process. If the average Web 2.0 monkey had some real software engineering background, maybe their work will be maintainable a few years down the road, and not just rewritten for the Next Big Buzzword.

We need to deliver world-class e-tailers, aggregate bleeding-edge channels while growing our virtual bandwidth and benchmarking one-to-one deliverables. That is not to say that we redefine dot-com experiences and maximize B2C web services all the while revolutionizing end-to-end mindshare and monetize front-end deliverables.

i dont like fpses. but then again, that kind of graphics, makes some fpses worth playing.

And that right there sums up the problem with the gaming industry. Game producers don't even need to worry about whether their game is any good simply because some people will play it just because it's shiny (unity100, I'm looking right at you).

In other words, except for YOUR guys eh? Sure, completely benevolent and not self serving advice there...

the lack of ability for the user to revert the behavior to the tried, true, expected behavior of FF1.0, FF1.5, FF1.8, and FF2.0 is ridiculous and will hamper the adoption of 3.0

absolutely stupid, just like IE7's totally unnecessary changes to its GUI

let's call a spade a spade and dish criticism to Mozilla just like we dish it to Microsoft

unnecessary and unrevertible changes to GUIs are MONUMENTALLY STUPID AND ANNOYING

I think you're confused. The people you're seeing coming out of the building are coming from the yoga studio and the beauty salon. The Facebook employees come and go through the back door under the cover of darkness, like all geeks.

you are a fucking moron

DigDuality writes with an explanation of the silence of the Show Us the Code initiative. The push he began — to gather influential sponsors demanding that Steve Ballmer reveal what Linux code he believed to be infringing Microsoft patents — was discussed here last February. "Show Us the Code has been silent since March 23. May came and went — the deadline allotted for calling Ballmer's bluff — but the site gave no update. I now explain the silence. After a scheduled interview with Forbes columnist Dan Lyons didn't happen, and my place of employment falsely accused me of representing that they endorsed my own political goals, I decided it was best to shut my mouth so I would be able to keep paying my bills. I'm glad to see Linus now publicly echoing the sentiments that this site espoused. Maybe someone already accustomed to the limelight will have better luck in challenging Microsoft's FUD machine."

An anonymous reader writes "Aaron Rowe over at Wired has an article about a couple of young scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center working to open source the space program through software development and other ways to allow the public to participate in real NASA programs. According to Robert Schingler, the NASA CoLab project manager, "CoLab is building an infrastructure to encourage and facilitate direct participation from the talented and interested public..." Apparently, the group holds weekly meetings on their island in the popular online virtual world Second Life. This should be of real interest to Slashdotters. The article also notes that there will be a massive science and technology party at NASA Ames this Friday night open to the public. I don't know about you, but as my first opportunity to visit the inside of a NASA center, I'm sure going!"

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/04/09/1833235

SocialWorm writes "Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will "advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies." OCRopus will be available under the Apache 2.0 License. Obviously, there may be search and image search implications from OCRopus."

A shareholder revolt claims another executive job at the beleaguered video game maker.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/technology/10game.html?ex=1333857600&en=5d5d101f9901c831&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

SanDisk and Yahoo will start selling a digital music player, the Sansa Connect, that lets users download songs wirelessly.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/technology/10yahoo.html?ex=1333857600&en=08773a4c562d372a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The company’s new $20 million campaign emphasizes the high-tech features of Sony’s camcorders and digital cameras.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/business/media/10adco.html?ex=1333857600&en=72ca1256c4475e55&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss