Comment Re:Halo (Score 1) 378
And effect is a verb, too :D
Comment Re:Not as Sharp (Score 2, Informative) 378
This is clearly not a troll.
Submission + - Google Instant Search (blogspot.com)
Lomegor writes: Google presents Instant Search after much speculation. From the official blog: 'Search as you type. It’s a simple and straightforward idea—people can get results as they type their queries. Imagining the future of search, the idea of being able to search for partial queries or provide some interactive feedback while searching has come up more than a few times. Along the way, we’ve even built quite a few demos (notably, Amit Patel in 1999 and Nikhil Bhatla in 2003). Our search-as-you-type demos were thought-provoking—fun, fast and interactive—but fundamentally flawed. Why? Because you don’t really want search-as-you-type (no one wants search results for [bike h] in the process of searching for [bike helmets]). You really want search-before-you-type—that is, you want results for the most likely search given what you have already typed.'
Comment Re:Wine? (Score 1) 274
Basically,
a. The bug is ancient
b. The bug affects loads of things, some of which are important
c. The bug has been fixed for some time by the guy named max, who has implimented a full DIB engine which hugely increases performance in certain situations and can be turned on and off, but it won't be committed by the wine approval people for cryptic reasons (this was the case about a year ago when I looked into it, might have changed now, but a scan of the comments suggests not)
a. The bug is ancient
b. The bug affects loads of things, some of which are important
c. The bug has been fixed for some time by the guy named max, who has implimented a full DIB engine which hugely increases performance in certain situations and can be turned on and off, but it won't be committed by the wine approval people for cryptic reasons (this was the case about a year ago when I looked into it, might have changed now, but a scan of the comments suggests not)
Comment Re:Wine? (Score 2, Insightful) 274
You call that a ridiculous wine bug? No, this:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421
is a ridiculous wine bug.
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421
is a ridiculous wine bug.
Comment Re:one step closer to drive thru degrees (Score 1) 371
Women working?! *shakes fist*
Comment Re:Is that a non-standard connector? (Score 1) 189
Comment Re:But what created the law of gravity? (Score 2, Funny) 1328
I have limited bandwidth and thus have to queue my torrents, you insensitive clod!
Comment Re:Is that a non-standard connector? (Score 1) 189
That is a standard. It's designed to replace Apple's iPod connector, which is arguably more flexible than USB.
Comment Re:But what created the law of gravity? (Score 2, Funny) 1328
Queue torrent of bullshit about wars and history. Atheists are just theists with a post-modern stick up their arse.
Comment Re:But what created the law of gravity? (Score 1) 1328
All the theists think you're a heretic and all the atheists think you're Christian : /
Comment Re:But what created the law of gravity? (Score 1) 1328
Pfft, you have no supernatural and he has some, and it's his lack of imagination?
Comment Re:Ummmm....wikileaks is foreign (Score 1) 602
And the same to North Korea!
Comment Re:Really? (Score 1) 387
Toy Story, 1995 Toy Story?
Comment Re:Too many geniuses? (Score 1) 179
They created the portable music market after 5+ years of failed MP3 cd-readers and hard-drive mp3 players. Your guess is as good as mine why they succeeded where other failed. Probably a combination of small device size, long battery life, good UI, and effective marketing. Of course people like you only ever confess to that last one, and pretend the other 3 don't exist or don't matter.
They created the "real web browser" smart phone market. And gave a huge boost to smart phones in general, arguably creating the Android by showing what was possible for smart phones.
They created the first commercially successful HTPC device with Apple TV. As with mp3 players there were ones before, but once again, Apple actually took the time to analyze the market, then create and market a good product.
You've got a point, but these three claims are laughable revisionism.
