Our machines are dumb clients - all software updates are done centrally and then synched with our profiles when we log on.
I'm supposed to deliver you to the Master now. There's this whole deal where I get to be immortal. Are you cool with that?
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Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 4:58:15 am PST #11573 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 4:59:37 am PST #11574 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Windows installs the updates as part of the restart process.
Gudanov - Nov 03, 2009 5:00:54 am PST #11575 of 25501
Coding and Sleeping
I leave my work computer on all the time in case I need to remote access from home.
My home computer I try to always turn off when I won't be using it since pressing the power switch to using applications is all of 50 seconds now.
Jon B. - Nov 03, 2009 5:19:44 am PST #11576 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
That makes sense, Jess. Thanks.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 6:55:01 am PST #11577 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just had someone describe google search to me as a conceptual search. I know we're not privy to search algorithms, but my impression was that it's, at core, a full text search with synonyms, and also checks for your search term in documents linking to a given document (which I've never found useful, for the record). Would any of you go so far as to describe it as conceptual? I think "really good full-text with some metadata (URL, etc) capability" about covers it.
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 6:56:48 am PST #11578 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I think "really good full-text with some metadata (URL, etc) capability" about covers it.
This is my impression, but I'm also not 100% clear on what "conceptual search" is supposed to mean.
§ ita § - Nov 03, 2009 7:00:15 am PST #11579 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
He's being hand-wavey about it, so it's hard to pin him down. His point is that you can get a google result that doesn't have any of the search terms you put in. In my experience it's because a document with those terms linked to the result, or because the document had the plural or the singular or a close spelling of what you put in--the search engine isn't doing any sort of fancy interpretation of what I type in.
Jessica - Nov 03, 2009 7:50:55 am PST #11580 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
flea - Nov 03, 2009 9:04:21 am PST #11581 of 25501
information libertarian
I'm with you, ita. My impression is that the fancy algorithm is mostly about the *ranking* of the search results, and less about the actual searching.
And also, if he can provide one, I would be very interested in an example of a search that returns results without any of the search terms you put in. Not that I don't believe it, but I'm pretty sure I've never seen one.
tommyrot - Nov 03, 2009 9:55:12 am PST #11582 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.