I think it stands for Company Town, which is a section of the site/paper devoted to covering "the industry."
Actually, I'm almost certain that's it.
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Actually, I'm almost certain that's it.
But it seems to me you would need to know the exact contents of the file in question to get that to happen, making the point moot. Perhaps I'm wrong on that.
So in that sense, asking them to link -- a presentation function! -- is very new in and of itself.
But also, a lot of the content management systems make linking prohibitive. The version our reporters and editors see makes you paste it into the story as a plain, unadorned URL, bumping against the words you want to link. But hope there's no comma after it -- it's comin' with it. And if you need to edit those words, you might screw the URL with it.
via http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/glossary.php
"The depth where the earthquake begins to rupture. This depth may be relative to mean sea-level or the average elevation of the seismic stations which provided arrival-time data for the earthquake location. The choice of reference depth is dependent on the method used to locate the earthquake. Sometimes when depth is poorly constrained by available seismic data, the location program will set the depth at a fixed value. For example, 33 km is often used as a default depth for earthquakes determined to be shallow, but whose depth is not satisfactorily determined by the data, whereas default depths of 5 or 10 km are often used in mid-continental areas and on mid-ocean ridges since earthquakes in these areas are usually shallower than 33 km."
The nice thing about this guy's map is that the circles are huge, and they fade out.
If you look at the documents, it seems as if Facebook scooped the mark up around 2008: http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isS...
Can anyone more versed in trademark law parse out what exactly happened?
I'm guessing this will be something where you select a person you know, and up pops a list of all of the interactions you've had with them in one stream.
Seems like it might work, if it's seamless enough. Saying it's "email" or an "email killer" is being short-sighted -- it's giving you a stream for an individual.
You might say, "But you had to hit 'c' instead of just typing!"
Maybe, but I could run any number of commands over that word instead of just changing it. Also, if I were in insert mode, double-clicking and typing would overwrite the word as if I were in a normal editor.
People who are lazy, and wouldn't bother memorizing a route anyway, will be helped by something like SatNav or Google Maps -- and yes, probably use them as a crutch. But it's better than them not being able to get anywhere. Me? Having instant access to a birds-eye view of every road in my city (Los Angeles) has given me the tools I need to memorize many routes, and is one of the reasons I can drive around this city so effectively.
Technology is a tool. Use it how you will.
I'm seriously considering account deletion because Facebook is making me uncomfortable. In the past, I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt -- like when they responded to user feedback and killed beacon. I thought "Gee, maybe they aren't Evil, just a little misguided."
Now, I think they're Evil. The only thing they learned from the Beacon disaster was that they can't roll out all of the privacy erosion at once; you have to do it slowly, so nobody realizes it, or a least their anger never really reaches critical mass. Taking a hint from the government perhaps.
So I'm "hip," as you kids say. But here I am, weighing the benefits of simple and wide-reaching communication against a provider that keeps proving it's willing to sell my information without much warning.
a) aware that an app they might use often has been actively rejected from the store and b) feel that the functionality provided by said app is important enough to switch phones to have
seems pretty low. The fact that you read a site like HN and know the dramas surrounding rejected apps colors your thoughts on the subject heavily.
And tethering isn't there -- AFAIK -- because of AT&T, not because of Apple.
"In fact, the Ford Explorer--that quintessential sport-utility of the 1990s--occupied no fewer than six of the top 10 trade-in slots. Explorers from model years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999 were in the top 10, with EPA mileage ratings of 14 to 18 miles per gallon depending on drivetrain.
Two more Top 10 trade-in slots were sport utilities as well--the Jeep Cherokee and Jeep Grand Cherokee--with two minivans, the 1997 Ford Windstar and the 1999 Dodge Caravan bringing up the rear. All 10 of the top trade-ins were domestic vehicles."
If I just put in "tides", it'll give me a dropdown where I can select a station -- I'm assuming the station that reports tides -- but after clicking a station near me, I still get nothing.
Wolfram and I have never really gotten along well.
"What the...? Flash? Why the hell would a search engine need to be use flash for an input?"
"Ohhh...OK, interesting. Wait, what? Why do I start near the bottom of the page? Ahhh, I can't scroll to the top! It keeps adding crap!"
"OK, fine, I'll explore...errr...wow, a lot of this stuff is nowhere near what I wanted." [close tab]
I searched for git, and got a lot of random stuff, like this Very Special tweet: "This Jamaican bitch next to me has no idea what her accent is doin to me rite now......She can git it doggy and froggy style."
I was really disoriented browsing through it. The scroll bars kept changing size the whole time, and starting at the bottom-right is weird for me. Eventually the content was all filled though.
Also, I couldn't copy text from the page. I tried to copy that tweet directly from the search page, but it would just display a box saying it came from twitter and giving me a button that just said "twitter.com."
It then took me to that guy's main page (not even the specific page for that tweet), where I then had to hunt for the specific tweet to copy. I should note that double-clicking doesn't appear to bring you to the link either -- you have to hit the button that displays only the domain name.
If I'm looking mainly for tweets and images, this might be an interesting tool to use, but honestly it's just doesn't fit the way I like to search.