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by rho on Saturday July 26, @12:03PM (#24345917)
Attached to: Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion

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.

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by chatgris on Monday July 21, @05:03PM (#24277359)
Attached to: Web 2.0 Lessons For Corporate Dev Teams

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.

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by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21, @03:03PM (#24277499)
Attached to: Web 2.0 Lessons For Corporate Dev Teams

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.

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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 15, @11:57AM (#24197437)
Attached to: World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here
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).
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by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 01, @08:03AM (#24011289)
Attached to: FBI Illegally Tapped Phone Phreaks In 1969

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

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by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 21, @07:03AM (#23882333)
Attached to: Comparing Firefox 3 With Opera 9.5 On Linux

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

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by eln on Friday June 20, @02:03PM (#23873879)
Attached to: Mark Zuckerberg, Inventor

Facebook seems to hire based on Facebook. The women coming out of the building are good looking and the guys are hunks.
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.
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by ottawanker on Sunday June 01, @06:03PM (#23619289)
Attached to: Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers

so you're agreeing with me. The servers getting blown up was a huge mistake, one that certainly could have been avoided with a little proper planning.
you are a fucking moron

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Posted by kdawson on Monday July 02 2007, @10:31PM
from the getting-out-of-the-kitchen dept.
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."
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  Radical Transparency at NASA?! 2007-04-10 02:11 Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2007, @02:11AM
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!"
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Bookmark by towsonu2003 on Tuesday April 10 2007, @01:47AM
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  Google Pushes Open Source OCR 2007-04-10 01:35 SocialWorm

Submitted by SocialWorm on Tuesday April 10 2007, @01:35AM
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."
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From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday April 10 2007, @12:32AM
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
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  SanDisk in Music Deal[->] 2007-04-10 00:32

From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday April 10 2007, @12:32AM
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
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From feed by nytfeed on Tuesday April 10 2007, @12:32AM
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
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