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Comment: Google Owns Search (Score 2, Insightful) 389

by jork on Thursday July 02, 2009 @07:42PM (#28566207) Attached to: Microsoft Changing Users' Default Search Engine

When the general public think about searching the Internet they think of Google, even the phrase 'Google it' is fairly common. I wonder what the success rate is for this strategy?

Comment: Re:They just don't get it, do they? (Score 3, Interesting) 107

by jork on Saturday June 27, 2009 @05:29PM (#28497933) Attached to: The Video Bay, Now In Beta

yes, but a large percentage of people who view videos in Youtube have no interest in the social media elements.

Comment: My understanding (Score 1) 586

by jork on Tuesday April 14, 2009 @11:54AM (#27571617) Attached to: What Do You Call People Who "Do HTML"?

Web Producer - edits and creates content with a small amount of image resizing & re-touching. Basic understanding HTML & CSS
Front End Developer - Has a decent understanding of UI design and usability concepts. Great understanding of HTML & CSS + JavaScript.

Comment: Re:re-write TFA (Score 1) 469

by jork on Monday April 13, 2009 @07:57AM (#27554857) Attached to: UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google

The reporting in the Register has really went down hill lately. The Register == The Sun Newspaper for geeks.

Battle For Wesnoth Version 1.6 Released 90

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 23, 2009 @03:58AM
from the new-and-shiny dept.

bomanbot writes "The team for the great turn-based, open-source strategy game Battle for Wesnoth has just released the new stable version 1.6 of their popular title. Some of the new version's highlights include a new campaign, new multiplayer scenarios, improved graphics and user interface, and new background music. The full release notes have been posted, and the source code and binary downloads for many different platforms including Linux, Windows and Mac OS X are available as well."

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by mineblog on Saturday March 14, 2009 @10:54PM

Link to Original Source

Comment: The first time in years (Score 1) 407

by jork on Saturday January 31, 2009 @11:04AM (#26676851) Attached to: Google Search Flagging Everything As Potentially Harmful

This is the first time in roughly 5 years that I have used a search engine other than Google. In 5 years I have used many different Operating Systems and types of software but Google has always been the search engine of choice.

Comment: Authority (Score 1) 458

by jork on Saturday January 03, 2009 @02:43PM (#26312985) Attached to: More Climate Scientists Now Support Geoengineering

Who will decide what parts of the world will be cooled and how often? Sounds like the Kyoto protocol all over again