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"I just love how he thinks this is worth $100 million!"
I think he thinks if he says it enough times it will come true.
Like SCO/Darl McBride?
"I just love how he thinks this is worth $100 million!" I think he thinks if he says it enough times it will come true. Ok Mike Mann, tap your heels together three times and say "Sex.com is worth $100 million... Sex.com is worth $100 million... Sex.com is worth $100 million..."
I'm sure that if he wasn't so anal about the price the growth prospects would be better.
Yeah, this whole fetish about the value of "sex.com" fairly reeks of web 1.0. It's so dot-com. It's a proven fact that guys will type in sexy-mona-doing-it-with-her-lesbian-friend-with-a-strap-on.com if Mona's got the goods, even though they don't have to thanks to Google.
How did these guys manage to mess up? It doesn't seem to take a genius to sell sex online.
You mean people actually pay for porn on the internet? C'mon, it's been available for free for as long as the internet has been around.
And they'll also pay for "escorts" services and the like.
In fact, a GOOD escort services web page (say, for New York City or another big city) can improve the business quite a lot.
With the rise of Youtube-style content theft sites, the general inadequacy of the DMCA for small to medium business in the face of the volume of stolen content, and the global economic downturn showing us that Adult was not recession proof as was always assumed, the number of people paying has plummeted.
3 years ago it was a multibillion $$ industry. These days there are 4 or 5 major players actually selling content on credit-card members only sites, and all the 'free porn' sites [pornhub, redtube, tube8 etc
When the porn industry starts making movies like "The opening of misty beethoven" again i will start buying new porn.
Then you have also witnessed the sheer amount of amateur porn being produced and distributed by such websites as well, the professional industry may be suffering but the "fun" amateurs are rising due to easy distribution. Whilst most is probably free, I've seen some sites where amateurs are paid for their content they produce.
With access to decent cameras, easy distribution, even unpaid the porn industry is becoming far more user-created, why would anyone want to buy porn? People are giving it away for free
With access to decent cameras, easy distribution, even unpaid the porn industry is becoming far more user-created, why would anyone want to buy porn? People are giving it away for free and loving it.
And, weird as this may sound, some of us find porn where all the participants are visibly enjoying themselves instead of just pretending and staring into the camera longingly more fun to watch.
Not sure what amateur porn you've seen where they don't visibly look like they're enjoying themselves:P Plenty of amateur orgies even where everyone seems to enjoy it?
You're gay, right?
Seriously, how much porn do we really need? Ever? If it has little or no artistic value, then one gang bang video is as good as the next, the pirated video market will reach saturation and and paying customers will demand less and less production. Only better/more interesting product will drive fresh consumption. Nothing else is worth paying for.
Oh, and this applies to Hollywood too. As long as you produce true art and not crap that isn't even worth watching Hulu ads for, you will survive as an indust
What sex? A name like "sex.com" just isn't specific enough anymore. It's just like a department store trying to compete with small, specialty stores.
Would a serious skater buy a board at Wal-Mart?
If you want to sell sex on the Internet, target a specific market segment, with a domain like:
TeenLesbiansWithTripleHeadedDildoes.com, or
GranniesScatRompWithLordOfTheRingCharacters.com, or
CatholicSchoolTeachersAbusingSchoolKids.com . . .
. . . although, for the last one, you can get the real thing for free by attending church . . .
Dude, you suck. NONE of those links work!
Well, here's your chance to make a million fucks. I mean bucks.
Title holders or category names in tld's are bad - accountant.com and consultant got used by email spammers and other crooks in my experience as a spammer hunter.
Never been to 'sex' either primarily because of the strange history of who 'owns' it, and that there are better sex sites out there.
business.com was another one - isnt that the one once owned by football team owner who now hates the internet ?
He's probably picked up some bad habits...
I always thought going down had been a big part of their strategy?
That's the sound of the joke going over your head.
That's the sound of the joke hitting me in the lower abdomen
Let the games begin!
Let the jokes begin - starting with the article's double entendre headline! This should be more fun than the naming of Nintendo's Weewee!
I can't see much more growth potential.
Check your e-mail, I'm sure you haven't tried all pills yet.
With all [persiankitty.com] this [redtube.com] free [youporn.com] porn [bulldoglist.com] available on the net
You left out alt.binaries
I'm sorry, but like most people that don't work in the industry, you don't have a clue how it operates, the margins it runs, the advertising structures, etc etc.
The largest tube sites are either owned by the latest porn sites (brazzers, etc) - or make huge amounts from selling ad spots (Redtube: minimum 150k for a well placed 30 day spot). Guess what - they're 'making money out of porn' - just not in the older constructs of a paysite.
I personally dropped $125,000 on highly-niched domain a few months back, and we're already at 85% ROI. Interesting factoid: Both youporn and persiankitty, and hundreds more 'free porn sites' promote it, and make quite nice sums off it too.
In brief: Your understanding of how the market works even on a fundamental level is completely flawed.
Who cares what it costs the end user? The porn industry has figured out what the market is demanding and has switched supply to match that, making profit in the progress. More money is coming in than is going out, where it's coming from doesn't matter.
Oh, the irony of the porn industry being the only part of the moviemaking establishment that happily embraces the new tech. MPAA guys, are you paying attention? Piling on even more DRM and legislation won't solve your problems because we'll just watch more por
Nothing seems to be worth its value anymore.
I'd think you could make very good money by just selling advertising space on sex.com. Or running just about any kind of business whose target market has a smutty sense of humor. For example, start selling discounted college textbooks from a site called sex.com, throw in some gender-selectable eye candy, and students across North America will beat (off) a path to your door.
The problem with sex.com: About 10 years ago, the domain name got transfered owner under "suspicious circumstances", which resulted in a lawsuit, which resulted in an injunction from the name from being used. The legal battle has raged on since (which is why if you go to sex.com you see it pretty much parked).
It's not that the name is worthless - it's that there's pretty much no content at the site, the legal battle is not over, and the owner has run out of money, which is why creditors want to take it over
last I heard on this, the domain owner had written signed request on file at his registrar to not transfer the domain unless he was there in person with valid IDs because so many people had tried to fraud the domain from him.
Then some yutz at the registrar let someone fax in a request for a transfer, and he had quite a fight to get it back, but got it back in surprisingly short order.
From there I didn't hear any further on it. You'd think that if that many people were that desperate to get their hands on i
Website outlook gives a value of around 62k USD http://www.websiteoutlook.com/www.sex.com [websiteoutlook.com]
What about google.com? microsoft.com?
I'd point out that those sites have made substantially more money for their owners than sex.com. Just reading the stories about this domain, the theft, the international intrigue it makes me think it's the most nefarious domain on the network, but hardly the best one. It reminds me of the story of "the monkey's paw" and unfortunately that was fiction, this is reality.
google.com and microsoft.com are valuable only because of the businesses behind them. Sex.com by itself has far more intrinsic value. The only domain I'd value more than sex.com would be business.com.
If you read the filing, the whole bankruptcy is around money invested for "building a website." If there is intrinsic value then just having people coming to a pic of a naked chic should be a great business model. Wait, that won't work, as evidenced by the bankruptcy.
Content is king, not the domain name.
Restaurants go bankrupt all the time, does that mean there's no money to be made from running a restaurant?
Just because sex.com was poorly managed, does not mean the domain has any less value.
I'm not sure any domain of the form $someword.com is intrinsically valuable when you can just type $someword into your favorite search engine.
The only domain I'd value more than sex.com would be business.com.
Why? I don't think many people start their day by typing "business.com" into a browser. Maybe you could sell a few business socks [youtube.com] there, but not much more.
I guess they're screwed then.
The most interesting part of the article is where Mike Mann, the guy who runs sex.com, said that he wanted to give all the proceeds to charity!
That's Charity.
In the porn industry it's all about sizes.
But aren't domain names pretty irrelevant now in the Brave Google World?
The subset of people naive, dumb or drunk enough to just type "sex" in the url bar probably doesn't intersect in any meaningful way with people who own a credit card and are capable of typing in the number.
That's my situation. I'm having trouble killing my credit card, but I've just paid my last $300+ college bill and my last $150+ maintenance bill on my apartment for a prior issue. I'm also switching off my evil car insurance company because everyone quotes me $1000-$1500 lower per 6 months, for the same coverage! Good hands... with sticky fingers.
Mind you, I also have my 401(k) contributions set obscenely high, so I intentionally have a very harsh financial situation. My intent is to pay off my $180
Woops! Wrong window, I thought was my blog that noone read. My bad.
The intersection of those two sets is huge. I staff a corporate help desk and I talk to dozens of people a week who don't know the difference between the URL field and the search field.
Just FYI, I see or hear* the opposite far more often: people typing simple URLs into the search field, whether it's the one in the corner next to the URL field, or even the one found on their home page (Google, MSN, Yahoo). I don't have the data at hand, but a nontrivial amount of searches on those sites are for fully qualified domain names.
*Typical example:
Me on the phone: "Please type example dot com in the address field, hit Enter, and look for the ____ icon in the upper right corner."
User: "I don't see
And even typing "sex" in the url bar won't bring you to sex.com. By default, IE will do a Bing search, Chrome will do a Google search, and Firefox will simply try to connect to the "sex" domain, which will fail (unless you have a web server named sex on your internal network).
Surely we've moved on from this?
Is not getting a high ranking in search engine responses more important these days?
For example, I just typed 'sex' into my browser address line, (Firefox and with Google default search), and it took me straight to 'pornhub.com' (NSFW!)
'pornhub.com' (NSFW!)
Thanks for the warning!
You go right ahead and handle your finances from http://www.geocities.com/westealyourmoney/2q38948234.php [geocities.com]. As for myself, I'd prefer using paypal.com.
Paypal is another of the companies using non-generic domains. If it was "money.com" or something, you'd have a point, but it's a catchy moniker instead.
Yeah, cause PayPal doesn't have a history of stealing people's money.
For that matter are there *any* generic keyword domains that have any use whatsoever?
Sure. h, t, t, p, colon, slash, slash, slashdot, dot, org.
Take a Marketing class, and find out.
Since this appears to be real, it's a darn good thing the article was posted today. Had it come out 1 day later, nobody would believe the story was anything but an excuse for the headline.
It is April fools day in some parts of the world now.
It is April fools day in some parts of the world now.
Fortunately it isn't in the US yet, and I'm on vacation tomorrow and so will get to miss the boring tired old
This domain has been bungled every single time someone has owned it.
a) corporate types get hold of if, and having no clue about the adult industry, make it a banner farm, or
b) Shady types get it and use it to suck Capital Investors dry.
Meanwhile on the rest of the internet, the pornographers are making more money of standard domains than one could ever hope to off sex.com
How do you make bank off 100M in a 5 year plan?
search.com > google.com
video.com > hulu.com and youtube.com
shopping.com > amazon.com
Honestly, having a common dictionary word as your domain name was assumed to be the key to internet success in the mid 90's, but haven't we moved on since then?
Are they insane?
Sex.com is worth billions A bid for $100 million would be sort of a joke, an insult.
When you consider the number of visitors who will go there just due to the name, now, and the exponentially growing number of people who will visit the domain at times in the future (due to the increasing internet population)...
Not to mention the branding opportunities.
Although, I suppose at the end of the day, it can only be sold for as much as someone is actually willing to pay for it, regardless of
No, people USED to go there just for the name. 10 years ago. Before everyone who went there found out that it wasn't what they wanted.
There are lots of one word domain names that would have been awesome had they not been ruined, but now they have.
Let me go over the short list on the top of my head of ruined names that no one gives a shit about anymore, including the owners of them:
Most of those are still someone useable, but their actual value is trivial because the
And is there 3. $$$$ profit?
He wouldn't be having financial troubles.
The day of overpriced domain names is over. The good names are known, the ones that could have been good but were fucked up by douchebags squatting on them are long gone as they've already been ruined, people know to go elsewhere.
When you can go to Google, search for 'free porn' and get back www.pornhub.com as the first link, sex.com doesn't have a chance nor does it have any value, people looking for things it might have know its worthless to them and go elsewhere.
Always leave room to add an explanation if it doesn't work out.


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The first Alan Wake has crossed the 2 million sales mark, which Remedy says makes it a "cult classic." The developer hasn't announced a follow-up since the downloadable American Nightmare, but says the series is "close to our hearts" and still has a future.
"We've moved over two million copies--that's including PC," head of franchise development Oskari Hakkinen told CVG. "So after a slow start it's turning into something really positive. It's definitely had legs. I think narrative experiences just have a tendency for that. Alan Wake's like a cult classic if you like. People who have played and enjoyed the story feel the urge to tell their friends and other gamers out there that they need to try this experience, they need to play it."
Asked if the franchise still has more games left in it, Hakkinen said, "I think so. Alan Wake is definitely very close to our hearts. It's our IP--we own it. It's not something that we're going to forget very easily."
We know that Remedy is currently working on a next-gen game, not necessarily connected to the Alan Wake series. But it would make sense to go back to the well eventually. After self-publishing the first game on PC, it recouped its costs after only 48 hours.

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PHILADELPHIA — In a business in which winning breeds happiness, it would be safe to assume that Jrue Holiday isn't happy. His post-practice attire would lead you to believe otherwise.
Rocking a pair of knee-length gym shorts to match the color pattern of UCLA, his college, and a set of corresponding bright-blue high socks, Holiday looked the part of a guy who's satisfied.
With his look. With his play. Even with his team, which has dropped 13 of 15.
The next step for Holiday and the 76ers isn't nearly as flashy as his wardrobe. It won't be pretty, either.
"It's preparing for the next game," Holiday said, ho-humly.
After the downtrodden Sixers had wrapped up a 90-minute session at PCOM, they headed their separate ways. It's the same thing they'll do 18 games from now, when their regular season comes to a close.
Hoping to compete in the games ahead – like tonight's against visiting Indiana – isn't a viable plan for Holiday and the Sixers. Preparing for the future is. When the Sixers woke up Friday, they were in the same position as the day before: Last place in their division, a miracle removed from an Eastern Conference playoff berth, clinging to slim odds that keep them from mathematical exclusion in the postseason race.
Winning almost becomes secondary for this group, which had its postseason fate etched in stone late last month. The Sixers have to figure out which moving parts on their roster will be moving on by season's end.
Quitting on the rest of their doomed campaign hasn't crossed their minds. That doesn't mean experimenting with it shouldn't.
Outside of Holiday and Thaddeus Young – just about the only consistent pieces on a team that's come to epitomize topsy-turvy – there are no players guaranteed to remain from this season's cobbled-together group. Beyond them, who knows? Unlike games gone by that had slipped from their grasp, the next five weeks comprise a moment the Sixers must seize in order to determine who they are … and whether the personnel they have can help them get from where they are to where they want to be.
Spencer Hawes and Evan Turner are under contract through next season, though that doesn't assure them a roster spot. Lavoy Allen and Kwame Brown also contractually belong to the Sixers, but don't expect the latter back.
So where do the Sixers go from here? Up to this point, they had pinned their hopes of a late-season turnaround upon Andrew Bynum. The $16.9 million man hasn't panned out the way the Sixers had hoped.
That's why a guy like Arnett Moultrie has to get time, certainly more than the five he played against Miami. The Sixers need to see what they can count on from the rookie forward in Year 2. Sure, he can rebound and he's active around the rim. But can he be more than that?
Guaranteeing him more minutes down the stretch is the only way to find out.
Friday, Sixers coach Doug Collins lauded Moultrie's progression, from a kid who came into camp out of shape because of an ankle setback to one who is capable of garnering considerable minutes in the low post.
Then there are Dorell Wright and Nick Young, who have the scoring potential to stop the bleeding – now and in the future. Both have expiring deals and both have the potential to return a year from now, assuming they can be had for a contract at or below their current salaries. They're both young enough and jell enough with their teammates to merit an offer.
The Sixers, after falling to reigning champion Miami Wednesday, had a day off. Holiday said he was able to kick back, put his feet up and enjoy himself.
"It was one of those days where you lay in bed and watch movies," he said. "You have the chips, the Doritos, right next to you on the nightstand. I think it was really good."
Off days breed fun. So do wins. And the Sixers have five weeks to determine who can help bridge the gap between the two.
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A scan has shown the injury is worse than first thought, though, and he now faces a period on the sidelines.
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The Concord Alarm and the Casablanca Rule
As promised, this posting continues my extended response to Garden Keeper's thoughtful comment on the posting "Without Paul Revere." That comment argued for Paul Revere's importance on 19 Apr 1775 this way:
As for your point about the value of the Revere's ride, who could have rousted Hancock and Adams - Dawes or Revere. As you noted, Hancock was loathe to abandon Lexington. Would Dawes have the stature to make the argument? Your earlier note about Monroe recalling a "Mr. Lincoln" suggests otherwise. If Hancock and Adams had not abandoned the Clarke home, would Parker and the others turned away from the British troops? Or would they have felt a greater need to sacrifice themselves to allow for an escape? They sustained heavy losses - and, at the moment, weren't even engaged with the troops. It could have been far worse.To start slowly (since I did get up early this morning), I don't think Revere knew who Dr. Samuel Prescott was when they met on the road from Lexington to Concord. In 1775 Revere wrote of him as "Mr. Prescot" rather than as a doctor. In 1798, Revere recalled: "We were overtaken by a young Docter Prescot, whom we found to be a high Son of Liberty." I think the phrase "whom we found" indicates that Revere and Dawes hadn't known about the doctor's politics until they got to talking.
And, let's not ignore the considerable heroism of the Prescott family that day. Did Dawes know who Samuel Prescott was? Revere did. His later recollection was that Dr. Prescott was recognized as a son of liberty. After all, Revere HAD been to Concord twice in the prior two weeks before the troops left Boston. If Dr. Prescott had not been recruited as a rider that evening, would Acton had been notified in time to be at the bridge that day? Would Abel Prescott had been sent off to Sudbury and Framingham? Perhaps young Abel would have survived the day unscathed...
It's a terrific point to consider but I would submit that Revere's ride was a considerable part of the success of the day.
That said, I think your remarks get to the larger question about Revere's personal influence on events. He had intangible qualities we can only infer from the preserved records, including his level of confidence, dedication, and contacts with top Whigs in and out of Boston. Revere himself recognized how Dr. Prescott's personal contacts were useful on the road from Lexington to Concord:
we had better allarm all the Inhabitents till we got to Concord; the young Doctor much approved of it, and said, he would stop with either of us, for the people between that and Concord knew him, and would give the more credit to what we said.William Dawes, Jr., wasn't as well known as Revere. He was adjutant (or clerk) of the Boston militia company and a member of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company, a private group for militia officers that reached outside Boston. Through his wife, he had contacts in Roxbury. But he hadn't sat in on meetings of the top Whigs in Boston, as Revere had. He hadn't been out to Concord and Charlestown earlier in the month, making arrangements for an alarm, as Revere had. The major thesis of David H. Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride is that the silversmith was uniquely positioned to spread the word of the British march.
But the bigger question remains, how much did Revere's personal connections matter at the end of the day? And in that inquiry I'm taking the long view and following what I'll call the Casablanca rule: "the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." In other words, rather than looking at how Revere affected individual people's fates, such as the number of men shot in Lexington or the activity of the Prescott brothers, we should consider the broader picture.
On the "crazy world" scale, what were the important developments of 19 Apr 1775?
- There was a sustained clash between the British army and the British colonists of Massachusetts, with significant numbers of lives lost on both sides, signaling to everyone that the long political conflict had turned into a military one.
- Both sides felt that the other had started the violence and/or carried it out brutally and unfairly.
- The army failed to find the Provincial Congress's most important supplies in Concord.
- The militias didn't capture the army column (though it's not clear that provincial commanders wanted to do that).
- At the end of the day, provincial troops had Boston under siege.
To start with, Col. James Barrett and his family were already moving the Congress's arms off his farm in the days before 19 April. Gen. Thomas Gage's mission was doomed to failure before it began.
More important, the Massachusetts countryside had been on high alert for a long time. The Powder Alarm of the previous September showed how the rumor of an army attack could put thousands of militiamen on the march. Concord was farther inland than Gage had ever sent troops before, bringing more opportunities for conflict. It took only a little stimulus—a shot no one can trace in Lexington, smoke from burning artillery carriage wheels in Concord—to lead to fatal violence. With or without Revere, that march was very likely to have triggered the war.
The first shooting might even have happened at the same places without Revere. The record from Lexington indicates that several messengers alerted Capt. John Parker about troop movements, starting with local teenager Solomon Brown and including Dawes. The town's militia had been assembled (and dismissed, and reassembled) for more than four hours when the British column finally arrived. Parker was sending riders both west to Concord and east to see how close the troops were. He and his men didn't necessarily need to hear from Revere that night to be on the alert, on edge, and on the green.
What about Concord? If Revere hadn't made it to Lexington, then Dawes may well have decided not to ride on to Concord, and Prescott wouldn't have met anyone on the road, and Prescott may have been stopped (along with Brown and others) by the British scouts. In that case, Concord wouldn't have received Prescott's alert at 2:00 A.M. But, as I noted above, Col. Barrett, commander of the Concord militia, was already wary of a possible army raid. And in the several hours between two o'clock and the first shots at the North Bridge, other riders came into the town with news of the troops.
Finally, in the broad view, did the early alerts amount to more than "a hill of beans"? Our public history emphasizes the minutemen, ready at a minute's notice to defend the countryside. And indeed thousands of men heard the various summonses in their towns and quickly gathered in their militia units. And then what happened? A lot of them stood around for a while, discussing what to do. That's partly what military service is like: "Hurry up and wait." And it's partly what the New England culture was like, with a lot of consensus decision-making; there's nothing wrong with discussing things before you go into a war. But that lessens the crucial importance of the initial alert.
Thus, even after the shooting on Lexington green, even after the shooting at the North Bridge, the Massachusetts militia didn't make a serious attack on the British column until it had started to withdraw from Concord, sometime after noon on 19 April. Eleven hours had passed since Revere's capture, about seven since the first fatalities of the day, and about two since some of those same militiamen had exchanged shots with regulars. The war's start involved minutemen, but it wasn't determined in minutes.
Granted, some town militia companies might have mustered later without Revere's message, and thus might not have arrived along the battle road in time to attack the British column. But would that have mattered, given that the column got through to Charlestown anyway? The big military development was the start of the siege, and the siege would probably have started much the same way even if Revere hadn't been able to do all he did.
Some might say, as Jay Fitzgerald's Hub Blog did, "couldn't the same be said of the actions of 99.9 percent of those who participated in the events of April 18-19, 1775?" And the same could indeed be said. But often people describe Paul Revere as crucial for determining the major results of the day; nobody else gets that treatment. Revere's story has built-in appeal; it's a dramatic narrative about admirable actions. (So is Casablanca.) But by presenting Revere alone as crucial to the start of the war, we can lose sight of the Revolution as a mass movement involving thousands of people already prepared for armed conflict.


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farrell2k, on 17 December 2012 - 01:11 AM, said:
Craig328, on 17 December 2012 - 04:49 AM, said:
If you did this in Georgia, what you did was likely highly illegal. It's a very serious crime. You may not brandish your weapon in any manner unless you can prove that your life is in danger, or you are stopping a felony in progress. I believe brandishing a weapon is a felony in GA.
Thank you for your on the spot legal analysis. That said, once again, you're wrong. For one, the incident happened down in Tampa, FL and it happened around 10-12 years ago. It was a road rage thing where some guy driving a commercial delivery truck literally flipped his shit in the middle of rush hour on Dale Mabry Highway (6 lane road at that point). Traffic stopped, he got out of his truck behind my car, came around to my father's side (front passenger) of my car (I have no idea why) and is screaming and demanding to "get out of the car" and that he's "going to kill you". Neither of us says a word in reply but the guy gets madder and starts to threaten to punch the window in. He's still there (because traffic is still stopped) and he's getting more irate by the moment to the point where he balls up a fist and starts to (I don't know that I can describe this correctly) starts to sway back and forth like he's getting ready to slug the window.
At the time I owned a 9mm Browning and kept it in a zip case in the middle console of my car. I open the console, withdraw the pistol from the case and simply set it in my lap with my hand on it, the whole time staring at the guy. Out of sight from literally any other person other than us and the assclown outside. He goes on for perhaps another 5 seconds and all of a sudden, apparently sees the gun because his trap shut with what I'd like to recall was an audible "clop" and goes back to his truck. End of incident. According to the law at the time (may have changed since, I don't know) I was entirely in my right to do what I did and had he slugged the window and broken the glass that, coupled with his death threats, would have been ample enough reason. Thankfully, the presence of the gun meant he knew he wasn't going to be a big tough guy and slug an old man through a car window without consequences.
As for "highly" illegal, you, unsurprisingly, have no clue what you're talking about. The only thing remotely similar that IS illegal is if I point it at someone "without legal justification" and even if I do that, it's not "highly illegal" it's a frickin' misdemeanor...you know...like that other "highly illegal" jaywalking crime. Just so we're clear: the permit I possess is a carry permit. Not a concealed carry permit. If I like (and don't mind the hassle it will generate from law enforcement) I can carry the damn thing down the street in my hand and it's 100% legal (although not advisable).
Seriously man, just because the thought of a gun causes you to wet your pants doesn't mean every Hollywood scenario you've seen on CSI or whatnot is true.


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My sweet little Volvo is so lucky. It has an odometer that measures how far it has gone since it was made, like all cars. And then it has two "trip" odometers. If I press the odometer button twice, I can get two other readings: for example, how many miles we have driven since God knows when, and how many miles it is to Riverhead.
But the great thing is, if I hold the button down on the trip odometers, the car will reset them to zero.
Too many times I find myself on an unwanted trip in my brain. I know I'm in trouble when I start to have conversations with people not present, telling them off, loudly, in my car.
Did you ever have a ferocious argument in the car with a person who wasn't there, and then when you realized that the driver in the next car was staring at you, pretended you were singing along with a radio that wasn't on? I have.
I've always thought it would be just dandy to be able to tap a finger in my ear, push the trip odometer button, and reset to zero, to have that person or situation just register as a blip, a tenth of a mile, on the vast odometer of my life.
For some reason, even though I was brought up with a lot of love and support, it didn't resonate with me the way an unkind word could cut me down. Compliments were quickly forgotten, but one criticism could stay with me for 30 years.
As I've grown older, I've been able to let a lot of stuff go, simply because it isn't healthy for me. It's like drinking the poison and waiting for someone else to die. And everyone has something good in them, the potential for enlightenment, the capacity to change at any moment. It's better for me, much better, if I try to practice compassion rather than criticism.
I need a lot of practice. But I'm getting better.
When Michelangelo was in his 80s, he scribbled "ancora imparo" in the margins of one of his journals. It loosely translates to "I am still learning."
I think I'm starting to understand what he meant, because the older I get, the less I know. I knew everything when I was in my 20s. Now, not so much.
I have to empty myself out every day and start over again. I have to let go of my expectations of what Other People Will Do and try to approach life with curiosity and a twinkle in my eye.
And when I choose to fill up my core with joy, acceptance, humor, and compassion, and let go of all that comfortable negativity, the "slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" have no hold on me.
I feel like Wonder Woman, but with much bigger thighs.
As long as I remember that I can reset my trip button any time I want.
Bridget LeRoy is a reporter at The Star.


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A woodcut in a bath - preparation of a 468-year-old hunting scene
As part of the preparation of artworks for the museum's current woodcuts exhibition, many different prints emerged from storage and passed through the conservators' workshop.
German deer hunting from the 16th century
Among the many works were Michael Ostendorfer's (German painter, illustrator and woodcut maker, 1490-1559) illustration of deer hunting in the Löss Forest from 1543. The woodcut is composed of three blocks mounted in a false margin (secondary paper frame glued to the edges around the work) with a separate, inserted text panel on top. In total the work consists of 6 composite paper parts, which together measure 122 x 36 cm.
The woodcut came from storage unframed and folded with two continuous vertical folds, one of which was so torn that only a small portion held the pieces of the work together. The tear has made the paper more vulnerable to dirt and mechanical decomposition, and the area around the damage is clearly seen as a continuous brown line down through the work on the right side. In addition, the woodcut also became very discoloured in the form of a general yellowing of the paper, while a very conspicuous water stain could be identified in the work's upper half (especially visible on the back).
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French laundry and ironing
It was sad to see the detailed deer hunting scene disappear amongst the discolouration, blotches and wrinkles, and the woodcut was calling to the conservator for some care and attention, and subsequent mounting. The work's many paper parts were put together nicely, and the print appeared relatively flat. It was therefore decided to retain the existing composition of the three blocks and the false margin and to clean the work as one coherent piece. This did, however, create an additional preservation challenge, since the different papers react differently to rising humidity and can form undesirable deformations in different directions depending on paper type, fibre orientation, condition, etc..
The surface of the work was first cleaned with a dry soot sponge that gently removes dirt deposits from the paper's surface. It then underwent a thorough wet-cleaning with deionised water in stages on a low pressure table where much of the discolouration was reduced. The cleaning was carried out under a vacuum that pulls the moisture more quickly through the paper and thus makes treatment more concentrated and controllable. The blotched areas were worked on more intensively and we succeeded in removing the very disturbing stains along the edges.
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The drying process
During the drying of the work, after the wet-cleaning, the many composite paper parts complicated the process. It was therefore necessary to re-hydrate the whole woodcut, so that all of the parts were saturated with deionised water, and then dry it uniformly between thick blotting paper. Monitoring, adjusting the pressure and frequent replacement of the blotting paper were necessary to get the many paper pieces to dry flat without detaching at the joins. The result was very satisfactory: both the discoloration and the stains are now cleaned, and folds from storage are realigned.
Subsequently, the long vertical tear was stabilised with Japanese tissue and adhesive (tylose in demineralised water), and the work was security stamped with its own KKS stamp on the back.
For better protection of the woodcut in the future, the work was next hinged on a supporting backboard consisting of dyed paper pasted on 1200 g of acid-free cardboard (product from Per M. Laursen). The hinging was performed in a so-called float mount from all quarters, where strips of Japanese tissue were attached the back of the work and passed through the backboard where the other end of the strip was fastened. This provides flexibility, giving the paper the freedom to move, according to natural climatic conditions and other influences. The woodcut was then framed permanently in a new wooden frame with space behind the glass.
The work can be seen in the current exhibition Woodcuts - from Dürer to Tal R from 16 April - 4 September 2011


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Forum:Which GTA IV finale did you prefer?
Which GTA IV finale do you think was a more satisfying ending to the story?
Revenge User:Lozzy94
- Definitely Revenge. You still keep Roman as a friend, and still get the $500,000 reward. You also get to kill BOTH Jimmy Pegorino and Dmitri Rascalov. Katie doesn't give you anything anyway. Choosing Deal will give you $500,000 2 missions earlier. Roman dies, you can only kill Dmitri, and Kate breaks up with you.
Revenge, hands down. Shootout on a boat? Sanchez jump to helicopter? Final showdown with Pegorino on Happiness Island? Yes please. --Stankers 12:29, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
well, I always thought that Revenge was like the happier ending, and it was not as bitter sweat as Deal.
I think it alsomatters whether Niko decides to kill Darko. If he lets Darko live;Revenge. If he kills him;Deal. You can figure out why
Revenge, can't screw Kate and Roman gives free rides with funny cab driver... helps with pigeons. --CloverLynx 07:58, July 7, 2010 (UTC)
Revenge is definitely the better option gameplay wise, but the real question is, would Niko Bellic really choose that? AtomicLlama 10:03, September 13, 2010 (UTC)
well, lets analyze that:
- Niko is disappointed by killing Darko as it is not really satisfying. therefor, He would think about not killing Dimitri, as he might feel the same as when he killed Darko
- Niko is happier if he lets Darko live. Therefor, it is not revenge he was looking for all along. He might let Dimitri live as he figured out that revenge is overrated, or something along those lines.
There you go. Deal is definitally the canon ending. it fits in with what happens with Darko, and everything in fact. Delo19xcrowbarx 08:00, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
I definitely prefered the 'Revenge' scenario. And besides, it would be stupid for Niko to deal with Dimitri. IKryptonite 10:30, September 14, 2010 (UTC)
well, Niko has a change of heart after finding Darko. He suddenly realizes that revenge is not what he wanted all along. He thinks that revenge on Dimitri may not be the best choice as the deal he is offering will benefit his family. Obviously, he is wrong, but that character development and change makes more sense than the revenge ending.Delo19xcrowbarx 06:37, September 15, 2010 (UTC)


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A fellow asked for a sheet of air mails and I handed him one without looking at it. And anyway, how was I to know the thing was upside down? I never saw a plane before. — Postal Clerk who sold the sheet.
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania (PRWEB) January 13, 2013
An "Inverted Jenny" was sold at an auction in June 2005 for $525,000. A block of four "Inverted Jennys" was also sold for $2.7 million in October 2005.
For such a tiny piece a paper, the "Jenny" has a huge history dating back to 1918. On May 6, Congress authorized the United States Post Office to print air mail stamps with a rate of 24-cents and have them ready for sale several days prior to the official inaugural flight on May 15. No easy task.
Three groups would play vital roles in this venture — the U.S. Army Air Corps would provide the plane and the pilot, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing would produce the stamps, and of course, the United States Post Office would supply the mail. With less than two weeks to deliver the stamps, work started immediately designing and printing the first air mail stamps. The design featured a bi-plane, the Curtiss JN-4, thus the name Jenny.
In addition to the time factor, Congress wanted the stamp to be printed in not one but two colors — red and blue. To accomplish this, the Bureau had to revert to an older "Spider" press that would print 100 stamps to a sheet. Two passes through the press were necessary to complete the red and blue design. The first air mail stamps went on sale May 13, 1918. No one knew that out of the two million stamps printed, there were 100 gems.
No one is exactly sure how the Invert happened. It could have happened when the printing plate was removed between impressions and it was rotated when put back. It also could have occurred when the assistant pressman was stacking the sheets after the red print run he inverted rotated one 180 degrees.
William T. Robey now becomes part of history. On his lunch hour, this stockbroker's clerk and avid stamp collector, went to the post office on New York Avenue near 13th Street in Washington, DC to buy some of the newly issued air mail stamps. Being an avid stamp collector, he recognized the printing error immediately. Stamps without perforations or upside-down designs have a way of catching a collector's eye. When the clerk put the sheet down on the counter, Robey's heart skipped a beat. Instead of buying a couple of stamps, he bought the whole sheet.
Upon returning to work, Robey told some friends about his find. Several co-workers immediately went to the post office to buy their own upside-down airplane stamps. A few hours later, postal inspectors were asking Robey to sell the back to them. When he declined, they threatened to confiscate them. Robey went home and hid his treasure under his mattress. Knowing official pressure would increase; he contacted some dealers and sold the sheet. Robey sold his sheet to Eugene Klein for $15,000. Klein immediately sold it Colonel Edward Green for $20,000. The saga of the "Jenny Inverts" began.
"Jenny Inverts" have been bought, sold, donated, stolen, swept up by a vacuum cleaner, featured in movie plots, and encased in a locket. A Jenny even has been wounded. During the Battle of Britain in September 1940, German bombers raided central London. The Inverted Jenny owned by John Crichton-Stuart, was stored at the Chancery Lane Safe Depository. After the bombing the albums in the storage room were under three feet of water. A month later, the Inverted Jenny was found. It has lost its gum, but otherwise wise was in good shape.
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Former Google Exec: Traditional Search Market Shrinking 184
Social search? No thanks.
One person I know only buys what Which Magazine recommends. Everything he owns is "top" of Which's ratings. And they all have some pretty killer problems or cost the earth, and he gets nothing more done than someone who buys the cheapest things out of Tesco.
And just how many of my friends know what an indexable skiplist is, or the correct invocation of a particularl Windows API function, or a system for library cataloguing that integrates with AD, or the name of that guy in the film with that other guy? Precisely zero. If you've stopped tapping things into Google and are instead tapping them into Twitter or Facebook then, let's be honest, they probably weren't really worth asking in the first place. And anyone that answers will use Google to find the thing they read about that topic last week, etc.
Not only do I not believe it, I think that it could only be a good thing to stop Google having to deal with "Who saw Eastenders the other night? Did Jack find his long-last father?" when it could be dealing with my queries which need a mite more data and research.
And just how many of my friends know what an indexable skiplist is, or the correct invocation of a particularl Windows API function, or a system for library cataloguing that integrates with AD, or the name of that guy in the film with that other guy? Precisely zero. If you've stopped tapping things into Google and are instead tapping them into Twitter or Facebook then, let's be honest, they probably weren't really worth asking in the first place. And anyone that answers will use Google to find the thing they read about that topic last week, etc.
Ahh you've ALMOST isolated the perfect market for "social search". Many replies on
Example made up "ask
I think this is a major factor - people know where to find information now without having to ask Google. They know about Amazon, they know about Wikipedia, they know about their favorite news sites.
Google has its use, but people aren't having to use Google to find everything the way they used to.
My ideal search engine would be a meta-search to access a specific set of domains.
For instance, I would love to be able to search only the shopping sites I choose, only the journal databases I choose, only the encyclopedias I choose, and only the social networks I choose, only the news websites I choose, etc, all from one search box. That gives you the freedom of using individual websites, with the convienence of a search engine.
DuckDuckGo is on the right track, but I would love even more customization.
Yeah, I think a mix is appropriate.
The "information" posted to Facebook and Twitter is of such low quality, I can't imagine wanting this to comprise most search results. I can just imagine searching for a topic and seeing a million inane posts where people take pictures of their dinner plates or write things that start with "OMG!"
My ideal search engine would be a meta-search to access a specific set of domains.
For instance, I would love to be able to search only the shopping sites I choose, only the journal databases I choose, only the encyclopedias I choose, and only the social networks I choose, only the news websites I choose, etc, all from one search box. That gives you the freedom of using individual websites, with the convienence of a search engine.
DuckDuckGo is on the right track, but I would love even more customization.
FYI, Rollyo [rollyo.com] (short for 'ROLL Your Own' search engine) does just that. It's still a bit rigid, in that you have to set up a different virtual search engine for each group you want to search together, but it does work and the virtual engines are editable if you want to add or remove a site at a later date. I agree, it would be nice to have your own set of boxes you can tick or untick to get results from only those sites that you're interested in today...but it's still better than searching each site individ
I think this is a major factor - people know where to find information now without having to ask Google. They know about Amazon, they know about Wikipedia, they know about their favorite news sites. Google has its use, but people aren't having to use Google to find everything the way they used to.
Well, I do. Rather than wrestle with learning where and how each site's search works, I just Google for what I want, plus, say "wiki" if I want the Wikipedia page, "amazon" for the Amazon page, (Rotten) "tomatoes" for move reviews, etc, etc. The hit on the desired site is always at or near the top.
That's not wholly the case. With something like Google and Bing, you can find a LOT more than just what new smartphone to buy.
Amazon doesn't have information on things like Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) systems, including the deployed systems. Wikipedia might have a good encyclopedic entry on the subject, but you won't find the scientific/engineering journals on the subject or the fact that the first system stored 300MW of power for 6 hours and that the second one stored 110 MW of energy for 26.
The main reason there is an impression that it's "fading"- it's because it's difficult to find information because people have forgotten (or never knew...) how to ask the right questions for answers- and you have to frame queries with a bit of care to drive the two top search engines to their fullest.
True, however it seems that Google has gotten more lax lately in their quest to bring more relevant search results by double guessing what you 'meant' to search for.
It used to be that any word or phrase without a + sign in front was optional, so search results would bring up pages that may have only two of the three search terms in them (preferably all three, but if no indexed site had all three terms on it, you'd get sites with some of the terms on them at least). If I wanted to force Google to return onl
Now, however, even putting a + sign in front of a search term doesn't seem to guarantee that that search term will be in all of the returned results. In fact, adding the + sign often doesn't change the base results at all...perhaps the forced term is hidden in the page metadata somewhere, but I don't care about metadata, I only want it if it's on a visible section of an actual webpage or document, and explicitly matches the exact term as I typed it (i.e., '+bubble' should not return pages about some person talking about Bubbles their golden retriever, or bubbly champagne parties...)
Google updated their search terms slightly recently; you need to put a word in quotes to explicitly match. So "bubble" should do what +bubble used to do.
Or some people just learned how to use their bookmarks bar. I've known people who had Google as their homepage and they would search for Facebook.com and then click on the link Google gave them.
I think is has more to do with SEO's search engine optimisation arse holes making searching much harder for the general public. Thanks to SEO's degradation of the quality (no you shit heads it is pointless spewing up results people are not interested in, just to run up hit's). They are giving up and going to people who can effectively dodge the SEO wankers to get real results.
Who is a fault, reality it is the search engines themselves in not making filtering results much more readily available. Basically
No, that's exactly right. As a matter of fact, most of the big buying decisions are now accompanied by queries on FB. I don't use Twitter, so I can't tell there, but I know that FB status updates are including more and more things like "Anyone know a good realtor", "thinking of buying a laptop - suggestions", etc.
Google saw that coming, and knows that to continue to stay relevant, they have to get into the social search space, which requires having a social network. Facebook is never going to give anyone fr
Facebook? Really? Faceplant's nothing more than a batch of people doing a "dig-me" thing on the Internet- and I'm one of it's users.
I wouldn't have even thought about looking for plumbers via Faceplant. Most of my associates (and I can heartily assure you that most of them aren't as computer savvy as I am...) on Facebook wouldn't have thought of looking for a plumber by asking a question of their friends like that. They'd have let their fingers do the walking in the yellow pages, meatspace or online. Sorry, not buying it.
Google saw that coming, and knows that to continue to stay relevant, they have to get into the social search space, which requires having a social network. Facebook is never going to give anyone free access to their data.
Google is already working on this. They are slowly merging the ability to have g+ searched with the user in mind when you are searching from google's home page.
I have, but that was only one component to my searching. I also queried Google and Amazon to check on pricing/features/reviews. Sometimes I'll also go to a brick-and-mortar store to see it in action. Social search has become part of my tool-set, but it hasn't tossed out all of the other tools.
Slashdot readers are being asked. Slashdot readers are not the ones who ask.
The average knowledge about laptops/smartphones here is several magnitudes better than that in the laymen layer.
When I search I want information, not opinion.
I'm fairly sure the guy has a startup he's trying to peddle. Just wait for the IPO.
Having said that Google's search has noticeably deteriorated over the last couple of years. I often have to hit the Nth page now to find stuff I'm looking for.
I guess that this is a YMMV thing. I've not had to dig more than 2-3 pages in and often it's still on the first page or the first link when I place a query. I guess it's more in how you frame your searches.
Some notes:
We all know how the intelligence curve works, right? Really smart ranges get *more rare*, while Google's PageRank values *more common* results. So the link farm companies had their day building 100 sites that all link to each other with little else on it but a list of hit words.
What we need is an engine that gives smart answers, now How is Babby Formed type stuff. Problem is there might be only 5 copies of a good answer out there, and lots of junk ones.
But you know what you are looking for, confident that you know what you want and are willing to invest time to weigh all the pro's and con's.
A friend of mine asked about getting a new iPhone or a SGII yesterday on Facebook. After a host of replies he went out and got a SGII. He trusts the opinions of his friends more than the various reviews and technical specs he would find at Google and Amazon.
I do doubt this type of 'search' will impact Google's bottom line though, previously he would simply ask for opin
this is a weak attempt at something...
social media is being ignored by many and actively rejected by most of us here. we are a minority but very few of us are all that enamoured by the spy networks (er, I mean social networks).
are you guys running out of ideas? seems so. so, lets try the concept of search AND this social media stuff. maybe we can make some new money and get people to do even more corporate-serving things?
the more 'new' things I see companies try, the less I'm a fan of the internet, over
its being perverted into new, strange things and I'm not liking the directions its being pulled.
Ray Bradbury saw it coming. Fahrenheit 451.
Basically, it started as a forum. It's growing into a colosseum.
I have done this all the time for years. Ask Slashdot is an example of it, if you consider a continuum of question types that range between the extremes of "Where is a piece of information?" and "What's the best decision to make here?"
I can't quite figure out how my brain decides if a question is more appropriate for a search or querying friends on a forum or social network or in person. I do know that I get feedback if a search-type question is made into a friend query. And I give it, too! The hacker s
You remember that on facebook you are not the user, you're the product? Now think of everytime your parents have asked you something tech related over facebook.
Seriously. If you're on slashdot, chances are you are the search engine.
I accidentally participated in an accidental "social search" of sorts a few years ago. It basically demonstrated that it helps find shallow information quickly, but that you become even more blind to results you may want instead.
Part of an assignment I had was to find a certain number of websites describing the Smith Chart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Chart). (I'm still not sure why we were doing this, as it was described pretty thoroughly in the text.) I did one Google search, sifted through about 2
How many here have ever posted a question on social networks asking their friends which laptop/smartphone etc. to buy? I don't.
Um... You just Asked Slashdot.
No wonder he is a "former" exec...
You're joking, but in all seriousness we always hear this kind of talk from "former execs."
"Former exec from Company A, which is known to have a near-indomitable lead in Market B, says that Market B is irrelevant and that anyone who isn't in Market C is missing the boat."
Scratch that former exec and you'll either find someone who just landed himself a new job at Company D, whose business plan absolutely depends on Market C -- or else who really, really desperately wants to get hired there.
You're exactly right. Take a look at comscore for dec 2011:
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2012/1/comScore_Releases_December_2011_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings [comscore.com]
More than 18.2 billion explicit core searches were conducted in December (up 2 percent).
Nov 2011:
More than 17.8 billion explicit core searches were conducted in November.
Oct 2011:
More than 18.0 billion explicit core searches were conducted in October, marking a 6-percent increase versus September.
Go all the way back to April 2010:
Americans conducted 15.5 billion searches in April, up slightly from March.
Where's the decline? Whoever fired him is really good at their job.
here are the other links:
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/12/comScore_Releases_November_2011_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings [comscore.com]
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2011/11/comScore_Releases_October_2011_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings [comscore.com]
http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/5/comScore_Releases_April_2010_U.S._Search_Engine_Rankings [comscore.com]
Thanks for saying that. Google has been annoying me greatly lately. They did a tewak a few weeks ago that was supposed to give more relevant results, but the results I've been getting lately have been pretty crappy. Putting a phrase in quotes seems to not work any more; say tou're looking for space aliens and put "little green men" site:wikipedia.org you get results for Little Feat, Green Day, and Men In Black (I didn't actually do that search, it's a hypothetical illustration).
What's mosr frustrating is, a
Putting a phrase in quotes seems to not work any more; say tou're looking for space aliens and put "little green men" site:wikipedia.org you get results for Little Feat, Green Day, and Men In Black (I didn't actually do that search, it's a hypothetical illustration).
And interestingly that hypothetical answer gets at least 5 of the top 6 results as perfectly valid interpretations. People frequently complain about how "search sucks now" yet they never seem to be able to come up with *real* examples where they searched using unambiguous terms. People will say things like "I was looking for mag wheels for my car, and searched for [mags]. The results were crap, google is so broken!". They never seem to ask themselves "what terms do I need to put so that this would mean
Beat me to it. Former is a keyword here. Google is going to lose on some restaurant searches and other social questions but really...their volume isn't going to go down in a realistic way.
Utter nonsense. When I need an obscure part for a broken appliance, I will not be asking my facebook friends. I will always use Google (or other search engine). It is just too instantaneous to ignore.
One day in the near future there will be a web site where you can find a plan for that broken part and then hit the "make this" button. Of course, there's a real chance that the abuses of "Intellectual Property" (gasp!) will prevent this from ever happening.
You shouldn't trash your former employer? Especially in public?
You shouldn't trash your former employer? Especially in public?
Trash them? He just described - rather conveniently, I think - exactly what his former employer announced they were going to start doing, just a couple weeks ago.
I think this is probably a really badly thought out attempt at a whisper campaign.
Maybe it's shrinking for Google, but maybe because more and more people are using alternatives. Like me.
And I want to go on record saying that the entire "Social Search" model is one of the stupidest ideas google has ever come up with. All of my friends and family have different career backgrounds and their own personal likes, when your using a search engine for reference, like for coding, my friend's FaceBook page is not going to help me out.
But... your Facebook page could help you with your feelings about coding...
Maybe it's shrinking for Google, but maybe because more and more people are using alternatives.
A former Google exec says he believes that traditional search volume is shrinking (but offers no reason for other people to share this belief) and then spends a lot of time offering explanations for what factors might be causing the effect which he hasn't provided any reason to believe is happening in the first place.
It's fairly rational be skeptical that the effect is happening at all. Its less rational to assume
Traditional search is shrinking (but, mind you, is far from dying) because of huge topical sites that finally managed to develop good search engines. It's far easier to search Wikipedia, IMDB or Youtube for whatever content you are looking for than shuffling through the results of Google that will take you to those sites anyway.
I don't think these sites are building good search engines. Even when I know the information is on Wikipedia or IMDB, I'd rather use Google to search them.
To give an example - I just tried "site:imdb.com Gyllenhaal secretary" on Google. Unsurprisingly it led me to the IMDB page for the movie Secretary [imdb.com] in which she (very sexily) stars. On the other hand, putting in the search terms "Gyllenhaal" and "secretary" in the IMDB search box, gives me a lots of info on
If you know the "Gy" bit, then you are right. Try "gillenhall secretary" though - no problem for Google, no results for IMDB.
> Nothing against the man, but I'd be surprised if he was in *any* spanking
> movie, yet alone a really good one.
Nice try, but I am not googling "Kofi Annan spanking movie".
> Nothing against the man, but I'd be surprised if he was in *any* spanking
> movie, yet alone a really good one.
Nice try, but I am not googling "Kofi Annan spanking movie".
At least not from work...
I always search them through Google anyway. I use Chrome, and I have added a custom search engine 'javascript:void(location.href='https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=%s+site:'+location.hostname)'. So when I want to search a site, I just go to the address bar, type 'site', and press Tab, and voila! I've got a 'custom' search engine for every site.
Actually I use that for smaller websites, for Wikipedia I just add 'wiki' to the search query. If I want to find a movie in imdb I type it's name and the imdb li
Yeah in Opera you can do something similar directly in the address bar [opera.com], it lets you set keyboard shortcuts for search engines, so I can type 'g something' for searching Google and 'w something' for searching wikipedia etc.
The internet is populated by two kinds of users. People who get it, and stupid clueless losers. Always has been. Only now, the stupid clueless losers have their own walled garden: Facebook. So now the stupid clueless users are not forced to get a clue and use real tools, however poorly. They are free to become even more clueless day by day while using the abortion Facebook.
Personally, I don't give a crap about what my idiot friends "liked". I want search to find things that are relevant- not necessarily just popular.
I hope his view isn't shared by google.
Google fills a definite niche. If they leave it, I have no doubt that someone else will swoop in to fill it.
Maybe as a part of the pie - but I think the pie is growing faster, and doubt the absolute volume is shrinking. Too bad TFAs don't have, you know, actual numbers.
One might ask one's friends about what phone to buy, or what's good in music, or what Joe Schmoe's phone number is; one might query a professional network for the answer to an complex algorithm or how many pineapples were exported from Hawaii last year, but at the end of the day, each of these questions is likely to be followed up by a Google typ
with investments elsewhere disses google. ok. twitter as a search agent? for what? where to eat? even if I asked a friend if they like their new car that doesn't mean I'm buying it (and certainly not without more than 'oh yeah its great' which can often really mean 'Its not as good as I thought so leave me alone I dont want to be embarassed stop asking me questions!;)
The area I think google (and the other search agents) can improve is relevancy and classification of results. Search is not dying but its growth rate may hae peaked in the developed world (who is not online? what would make you search more than you do now (on average)?)
I guess it depends on what you're looking for.
Opinions, of course, are a good thing to look for on Facebook/social networks. Factual information isn't; even if the information you get is good they're probably just going to end up sending you to a result they got through Google anyway. It's also a decent place to look--assuming your friends have similar interests--if you don't know how to formulate the query you want. For example, sometimes when I'm searching Google I spend the first couple of searches
Opinions, of course, are a good thing to look for on Facebook/social networks. Factual information isn't;
How do I *search* for opinions of others on Facebook?
That's not even possible.
Not that I really disagree with what you're saying, but you (and maybe TFV, which I didnd't watch) are basically comparing querying a database with asking friends? I'd agree that that's "kind of a database", too, but so is asking Slashdot, or Stackoverflow, or any forum really. That always existed, it even predated the web (thi
I've interviewed with 10 different people at Google. I asked every one what they thought google would do when facebook took over the search space because people wanted to go to the sites their friends recommended rather than search for pages. No one had an answer. Their other current services are so much smaller, the company is going to have to go through radical downsizing if they can't come up with an answer to this.
I've interviewed with 10 different people at Google.
[ Disclaimer: I work for Google. ]
I've been here for several years and I've never ever seen an interview schedule with 10 people. Are you including the recruiters, all the people you spoke to over the phone, all your interviewers, and the person who took you to lunch as "interviewers"? Did you interview here multiple times? Because nothing I've seen -- and I've done over 100 interviews here -- matches your description.
I interviewed on 3 occasions. 4/4/2. Different groups were interested in meeting me because I have a varied background.
Google has been optimizing their system to provide better answers to dumb questions. This reflects the most popular searches asked of Google. [google.com] Google has strengthened their emphasis on currency, locality, and popularity, at the expense of depth. The general observation is that Google has been "dumbed down".
That emphasis puts Google in direct competition with social networks, which are, of course, focused on currency, locality, and popularity. That's a problem for Google. Especially since the social networ
What this guy really means as that advertising is changing. Searching is fine. Google quickly had to find a way to monetize search results and they grew into a advertising firm or sorts.
So yes from google's perspective as an advertiser it must be troubling to not have such a firm hold in the "social media" space.
I don't know if there are enough of us doing serious technical/scientific searches to constitute more than a rounding error in Google's search numbers. But if the market for 'social' searches really is tanking, then I wonder what would happen if Google made itself better for 'real' searches? You know, as good as they were 5 or 6 years ago? Would their search numbers be significantly better?
I mostly use Google for researching electronics information - component data, repair manuals, and the like, as well as circuit topologies and theory for design projects I'm working on. In my experience, Google is much less useful for this purpose than it used to be. First off, they automagically change my search terms to what they think I'm looking for, instead of what I really am looking for, so I have to click again to get what I wanted in the first place - this is a several-times-a-day occurrence. Second, their 'allintext' operator, (which I never even had to use several years ago, when Google worked better), does its intended job less and less these days - cached results often don't contain at least one of my search terms. Third, their seeming inability to screen out content farms, (which I can usually identify simply by viewing the summary), slows down searches. Fourth, the automated preview crap they now put on the right side of the screen, slows things down too much, and is awkward and distracting. Fifth, having to use NoScript to disable said nonsense slows me down on those occasions when I DO need to allow Google to run JS for some reason.
While Google's stated intention has been to provide more relevant search results, every 'improvement' they've made seems designed solely to increase the number of matches, and relevance be damned - to the point where they actively undermine the tools that they themselves have provided to refine searches.
I suppose some of these deficiencies might be fixable to some extent if I had a Google account - but with Google's stated and demonstrated intention to rape everybody's privacy, I'd rather not let them get their hooks into me any farther than I already have.
There are social network 'haves' and 'have nots'. Some people have 500,000 twitter followers, and can ask just about any question and get a slew of responses, some of them excellent. Some people have 15 with nary a high school graduate in the list; getting insightful and timely answers from that list is not nearly as likely. People with hundreds or thousands of followers think that social media is going to change the world; they literally do not realize that not everyone has the same type of network that th
I think these guys missed the mark by a long shot.
People aren't just "searching" any more. People have "apps", "portals", they have go-to places to get things. Google isn't where you go any more. People know what websites they want to use or they use the iPad or iPhone apps to find things. I believe it's the "app" revolution that changed the dynamics. People go to wikipedia to research stuff, open one of their apps to find a recipe for dinner or ask siri what to get for lunch.
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Leo Duncan, of Rolla, passed away Sunday, December 16, 2012 at the age of 76.
He was born on January 28, 1936 in Vichy, MO to the late Ermil Newton Duncan and Ethel (Jurgensmeyer) Duncan. On June 22, 1957, he married Jo Ann Powderly in St. Louis, MO.
Leo loved to hunt and fish. He was a farmer and enjoyed fixing fence. Before retirement, he was employed by Foremost Dairy for 26 years and Hiland Dairy for 8 years. Leo very much loved his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his son, Danny Duncan in 1994.
Leo will be greatly missed by his surviving family which includes: his wife, Jo Ann Duncan of Rolla; one son, Jim Duncan and wife Dana of Osage Beach, MO; one daughter, Teresa Dent of Rolla; three sisters, Wanda Hunter of St. James, MO, Leoda Lister and husband Robert of Rolla, and Leona Sieg and husband Donald of Vienna, MO; four grandchildren, Christie Duncan, Jason Duncan, Candice Dent and Travis Dent; and nine great grandchildren, Tyler, Kayden, Marri Ann, Hailee, Corrina, Chance, Harley, Bailey and Archer.
A funeral service for Leo Duncan will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Friday, December 21, 2012 at the Null and Son Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Ozark Hills Memorial Gardens Cemetery. A visitation for family and friends will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, December 20 at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Alzheimer's Association and American Heart Association.
Online condolences may be offered at www.nullandsonfuneralhome.com.
All arrangements are under the direction of the Null and Son Funeral Home of Rolla.


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While sampling for aquatic life in a section of the Des Plaines River in southern Lake County last summer, ecologists knew they had snared something special in a fine mesh net.
But because the creatures were small -- about an inch long -- and translucent, they didn't recognize what they had found or that it would be a first in Lake County and a rarity in northeastern Illinois.
Two of the see-through crustaceans taken as samples at the time were officially identified and documented last week as palaimonetes kadikensis, or Mississippi grass shrimp, one of two species of freshwater shrimp found in Illinois. The other, commonly known as the Ohio shrimp, has been found in the Mississippi River in southern Illinois.
Jim Anderson, natural resource manager for the Lake County Forest Preserve District, said he didn't need high-powered magnification to recognize a possible indicator of an improving aquatic environment.
"I knew what they were right away when I saw them, but we had to key it down to the species," he said of the close-up inspection.
Also known as glass shrimp because of their clarity, these creatures have been documented in only two other locations in Illinois -- Otter Creek near St. Charles and at various points along the Kankakee River, which joins with the Des Plaines to form the Illinois River.
Forest preserve ecologists netted about two dozen glass shrimp last summer, but the exact location isn't being divulged so collectors won't converge, Anderson said.
Unofficially, summer camp staff member Simon Helgeson retrieved what appears to be glass shrimp from the same stretch of the river in 2008. But he didn't realize what he had found, according to the district, and it was not officially documented.
How glass shrimp got to Lake County, how long they've been there or how many more there might be are unknown.
It could be that past surveys just weren't in the right spot.
"It is native and it does extend further north than this," according to Bob Rung, a stream biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. Rung said the species is fairly common but it "disappears pretty much" in the Chicago area.
"I've collected them in Alabama, Georgia, southern Illinois and locally. The Kankakee River has as large of a population I've seen anywhere," he said.
The junction of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers provides a possible route for the glass shrimp to head north, he said.
"There's probably of source of them that have been coming in slowly," Rung said. But he estimated the overall population in Lake County was very small.
Glass shrimp feed on algae, vegetation and other organic manner. Their presence indicates a good habitat of aquatic vegetation and possibly water quality.
"Essentially, shrimp are an indication things are in good shape in the stream," Anderson said. "The quality is getting better. I would say we have a lot more work to do, but this is a good sign."
Anderson and Rung presume glass shrimp are edible. But don't break out the cocktail sauce or plan a shrimp boil.
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My favorite Xbox 360 exclusive game series would have to be the Gears of War franchise. What's yours?
Left 4 Dead isn't a 360 exclusive...
Oh my god.... I just had a damn brain fart. I don't understand why I thought Left 4 Dead was an exclusive when I own it on my laptop too.
My credibility that I had on this site (if I had any) is now completely gone.
Anything by The Behemoth
For me it would be a tie between Halo and Gears of war
Normally I would say Halo, but just because of the amount of people who will also say that, I am gonna say Fable is right there at the top.
Fable is a great xbox exclusive series (even though it can be played on Windows and Mac). I would definitely recommend it!
Fable is also not xbox exclusive...
Halo, without a doubt, I would of said Gears, but the latest game Gears of War Judgement didn't really impress me. Although Halo is made by a different company I still am impressed at the way they moved the series even though it doesn't match the book plotline
Halo is my favorite Xbox 360 exclusive, the main reason being is that there aren't that many exclusives I can think off.
if its not on a Nintendo or Sony platform then i consider it a exclusive.


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Building block kids: A bridge toward a construction career
Approximately 25 children gathered Saturday morning into the Wapakoneta Elementary School cafeteria to construct with Legos any type of structure they wanted.
Appropriately, the overall winning entry was a bridge designed by Jacob Schreiner as the competition is designed to introduce and build a bridge between children and the construction industry. The competition was organized by members of the Lima Ohio Area Chapter 374 of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC).
"Basically, the main purpose of today's event is to expose the kids to the construction industry and careers in construction," Lima NAWIC member Kim Neeley told the Wapakoneta Daily News. "Basically we provided them with Legos, a rock, string, foil and poster board and they could basically build anything they could come up with."
Each child, from the first through fifth grade, was provided with 100 Lego blocks, and given 40 minutes to build their structure or creation.
"They are judged on creativity, how much thought they put into it and planning," Neeley said. "They (judges) ask them five or six questions and a lot of the points are based on how well they answer the questions because the questions are geared to learn about their thought process — whether they throw something together or did they put a lot of thought into it."
She noted one fifth-grader worked on building a nuclear reactor while another participant built an ancient ruin.
"We really hope they gain some insight into the construction industry because we are all from the construction field," Neeley said. "We hope maybe we spark an interest for them in the construction field."
Jacob, a Wapakoneta Elementary School first-grade student, constructed a bridge with a rock in the water and the aluminum foil serving as rushing water under the bridge.
"I built a bridge because I wanted to and I thought I would win," Jacob said. "I did not think I would win but I thought I would do pretty good, but I did win.
"I am really, really, really happy."
Talking fast and shifting his weight quickly from foot to foot, he said he built a bridge because he "really, really, really likes bridges."
Jacob and his brother, Maddux, competed in Saturday's event.
For Jacob, the interview portion was easy since he loves to play with Legos at home and he loves to build with the small blocks.
"I want to be a builder when I grow up," the son of Heather and Bill Schreiner told the Wapakoneta Daily News.
His creativity and love for Legos does not surprise his mother.
"He really amazes me," Heather Schreiner said. "He puts these big sets together without any of our help at home."
Travis Nanchoff, a second-grader at Perry Schools, sat intently on a schematic drawing provided by Garmann-Miller & Associates for each participant to sit on.
"I liked coming today because my grandmother and my mom could be here," said Travis, the son of Jeanette and Donnie Nanchoff. "I also really like to play with Legos. I like Legos because they have these little dots on them to make them stick together and that makes it easy to build towers and houses."
On Saturday, Travis, who has been building with Legos since he was 5, built a house with a rock inside with healing powers.
Caleb Schellenberg sat quietly as two judges, Jacob and Josh Skinner, asked him questions. He built a tower for the competition.
"I like that I could do this competition," the son of Christy and Chris Schellenberg said. "I built a tower. I came today to try and win and now I really like playing with them (legos)."
Caleb is a second-grader at Wapakoneta Elementary School.
Winners of each school year bracket received Toys R' Us gift cards from the sponsors, while the overall winner, Jacob Schreiner, received a $100 U.S. savings bond from CHARLES Construction Services and a K'nex building set provided by the Basement Doctor.
For Ashlye Ruppert, the daughter of Mary and Brad Ruppert, she took her inspiration from an object in the room.
"You can pretty much build anything you want," Ashlye, a third-grader at Wapakoneta, said. "I saw the flag on the stage and I knew we just celebrated Veterans Day so I decided to build a flag."
Ethan Rodabaugh, a fifth-grader from Bluffton, built a small cottage.
"One of the reasons I built a cottage is I know how to build a house easily and I really like building houses," the son of Linda and Steve Rodabaugh said.
For him and the others, attending Saturday came down to one reason.
"I came today (Saturday) because I really thought it would be a fun time," Ethan said, "and it was."


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Pictured: The second varsity eight pulled away from Cornell and chased top-ranked Princeton.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Radcliffe heavyweight second varsity eight defeated Cornell to highlight the Class of 1975 Cup regatta for the Black and White Saturday morning on the Charles River.
No. 1 Princeton (6-0) kept the varsity trophy with a first-place showing, while No. 13 Cornell (3-1) edged No. 18 Radcliffe (1-3) by two seconds for second place in the fastest women's regatta of the day on the Charles. The Tigers won three of the four races that included all three teams.
Radcliffe finished second to Princeton in the second varsity event, defeating Cornell by 5.3 seconds in 7:04.5. The Black and White held just a slim edge on the Big Red after 500 meters, but the lead reached four seats by the time the boats reached the MIT quad and grew rapidly from there. The Tigers won in 6:55.4.
"I was really happy with the second varsity's performance" head coach Liz O'Leary said. "I thought they carried out their race plan well and accomplished what I hoped they would."
The Tigers pulled away in the first half of the varsity race and went on a 9.3-second win in 6:36.8. The Black and White and Big Red were involved in a tight race throughout, but Cornell moved a few seats ahead in the second 500 meters and held off Radcliffe at the end. The Black and White completed the 2,000-meter course in 6:48.1.
"There's no question we raced hard. We raced our race plan but came up a little short," said O'Leary, whose varsity faces Dartmouth, Minnesota, Syracuse, Louisville and Ohio State next weekend. "It was a fast race against good teams that we'll see again later. Now we have to look ahead and be ready for our only chance against some out-of-region competition next week."
The Black and White placed third in its first two races of the morning. The varsity four posted a time of 8:10.3, while the third varsity eight finished in 7:35.8.
Varsity Eight
Princeton 6:36.8
Cornell 6:46.1
Radcliffe 6:48.1
Second Varsity Eight
Princeton 6:55.4
Radcliffe 7:04.5
Cornell 7:09.8
Varsity Four
Cornell 7:50.3
Princeton 7:51.4
Radcliffe 8:10.3
Third Varsity Eight
Princeton 7:24.9
Cornell 7:29.4
Radcliffe 7:35.8
Varsity Four B
Cornell 8:06.7
Princeton 8:37.4


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Special Guest at Pacers Reading Timeout
Special Guest at Pacers Reading Timeout
January 30, 2013
Over 60 times a year, Pacers Community Relations Director Kelli Towles packs up the Pacers FAN VAN and heads out to a school somewhere in Central Indiana. Usually with her are colleagues Richie Smith and Pacers ABA Legend Darnell "Dr. Dunk" Hillman. Oh yeah, and Pacers mascot Boomer!
Kelli and her troops visit schools to promote reading among children ages kindergarten to third grade. They do this through a wonderful promotion called PACERS READING TIMEOUT.
Each timeout features celebrity readers who take the time to show children how important it is to read. And how much fun it can be to read. After the reading session Boomer takes over and prizes are given away. "The kids just love Boomer," said Towles who has run the program for 12 years. "We learned through experience that we need to put Boomer at the end of the show because the kids just lose it after they see him."
On Tuesday, Jan., 29 the Pacers Reading Timeout made a stop at IPS School #55 on East 54th Street. Among the celebrity readers was new Congresswoman Susan Brooks. It was one of the first civic duties in Indiana for the new representative who assumed office just 26 days before!
"This is so great to be here," said the former US Attorney for the US District Court for Southern Indiana. "To work with the Pacers to help in this educational initiative is awesome." Brooks added that she was on the initial board of the Indiana Fever and is proud of the WNBA championship claimed this past summer by the team. "Kelly Krauskopf (Fever GM) has been working so hard to get that championship and I am so proud of her. In Washington, D.C., I love to represent the state's 5th congressional district and along with that I love to represent the Pacers and the Fever."
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Meetup - Use the internet to get off the internet! The Meetup app makes it easy to find real-world Meetups happening near you and allows you to RSVP right from your phone. Keep track of your upcoming Meetups, get directions, see who's coming, add comments, upload photos, and share great Meetups you find with your friends.
What's New in This Release:
· Start one-on-one or private group conversations with other Meetup members
· See all of your private messages in one place with the new Messages tab
· Get push notifications when you receive new messages
What's New in 2.0.0:
· Meetup has a fresh new look for 2014. It's now easier than ever to find what you need and discover great Meetups.
· The new Activity tab puts your next Meetup at your fingertips. See when it's happening, who's talking about it and how to get there.
· Not RSVPed to a Meetup? The new Meetups and Groups tabs make it easy to find the right one for you.
What's New in 1.9.2:
· Remember that awesome Meetup you couldn't get into because it was full? That was a bummer. Don't despair! Download this update and use the new 'Notify me' feature to be the first to know when a spot in a jam-packed Meetup opens up. Grab it and revel in your Meetuppy glory. You earned it!
· Bonus: bug fixes aplenty
What's New in 1.9.1:
· Bug fixes.
What's New in 1.9.0:
· Organizers can schedule and edit Meetups on the go
· The app has been translated into Meetup's official languages: Spanish, Italian, German, Portuguese and French
What's New in 1.8.6:
· In this baby update you'll find improvements to the Facebook login experience.
What's New in 1.8.5:
· Snazzier notifications for photos and comments for folks using Jelly Bean
· View and edit site-wide bios and your hometown
· Organizers can delete photos from Meetups
What's New in 1.8.2:
· Quickly add a Meetup to your calendar after RSVPing (if you're running Android 4.0 or newer)
· Better suggested Meetup Groups for you
· Minor bugs squashed
What's New in 1.8.0:
· Browse groups and search for Meetups by date
· New map view allows you to pan search area and adjust radius
· General bug and crash fixes
What's New in 1.7.3:
· Need to change your name or home location? Not a problem! You can now update your profile right from the app.
What's New in 1.7.3:
· Click on a member's profile photo to view a larger version of the image.
· Event photos and comments will appear instantly.
· More accurate click through map results for your Meetups.
· General bug fixes (and cleaned up some typos).
What's New in 1.7.1:
· Ever wonder what people in your Meetups are also into? You'll now see a "Members also in..." pop-up at the bottom of any Meetup Group page in the app. Use it to check out other Meetup Groups that members belong to. It's a fun way to find more Meetups you might like.
What's New in 1.7.0:
· New here? Create a Meetup account right from the app.
· Forgot your password? No problem. You can reset a password via the app, too.
· Logging in is handsomer than ever.
· We also squished a pesky bug as well. Links posted in comments will now be, well, actual links.
What's New in 1.6.6:
· Some crash fixes and performance improvements with this update give you an extra sleek experience.
What's New in 1.6.5:
· Get easier access to the Meetups and members you want to see the most.
· For the first time ever via the app, discover Meetups suggested for you.
· Spot familiar faces. People you're connected to appear at the top of member lists.
· Expand your horizons... Sort by date and time, and how near or far you'd like to meetup.
· Control whether your notifications make noise, vibrate, or if mum's the word.
· Good ol' bug fixes are included too.
What's New in 1.6.5:
· Update your intro and answers on the go.
· Choose your latest profile photo from your phone's photo gallery or snap a brand new picture right from the app.
What's New in 1.6.5:
· Now you can enjoy threaded conversations in your Meetups, making it easier than ever to get the conversation started and keep the conversation going.
· Reply to or like particular comments. Post questions and get answers, share tips, make suggestions and get to know fellow members. You can also respond to RSVP questions from your Organizer.
· Some bug fixes give this release the usual pest control.
What's New in 1.6.1:
· By popular request: Now possible to leave Meetup Groups within app
· Rotate your screen while viewing events-without the crash and burn