Google is the best browser on the net. And screw the politics. If you want to be able to find stuff fast and rather completely Google is the software to use. Their preeminence in the browser market is no accident.
Bob Kolker
The Robert J. Kolker entity posted thusly:
Google has a browser out? More info, please.
According to R.H. :
As usual -- posting from rec.crafts.metalworking. Getting a late start tonight. (It may be tomorrow by the time I finish typing. :-)
575) -- one of the various optional electrodes from the antique home diathermy kits. The usual primary one was a bent tube with a funnel on the end, and a gently domed cap.In operation, a high voltage was generated and applied to the electrode on the small end of the tube. It would generate a purplish glow inside the tube (low pressure + high voltage), and it would loosen overtense muscles. (It would also blast out reception of any radio station for blocks around, making them rather unpopular with the FCC. :-)
576) What it the material? Iron? It looks like a decorative anchor for a carrying strap on some old Chinese basketwork. 577) Quite obviously, an old (pre pop-up) toaster. I remember that my grandparents used one like that when I was a kid.The round things half-way up the sides were asbestos disks so you could grip it to open the doors, let the toast slide down, and re-close it to toast the other side.
Ours had a knob on one end which opened both sides at once, and closed them at once.
578) From the side, it looks like an old and elaborate radiator cap, but I believe that in reality, it is a hardness tester, for one of the Rockwell hardness scales -- with 'C' being the most common. 579) If it were not for the smaller threads on the other end, and the poor choice of material, I would think that it was a "transfer screw", for marking a centerpunch mark in steel to match a threaded hole. (It may still be something of the sort for woodwork, where the brass would not be a problem, but I don't know why the smaller threads at the other end. 580) I don't know. Perhaps for bending thin sheet metal -- perhaps copper for roofing flashing?Now to see what others have said.
Enjoy, DoN.
It's such a good search engine that people are using Google as their home page - and it's a small step for newbies to start equating their home page with their browser.
Google is a search engine, not a browser.
Do you call Google a "Browser" ? I call the thing running in my computer (Netscape) a browser. Google and Altavista are "search engines" aren't they? // ...lew...
On 2/2/2006 4:35 AM R.H. mumbled something about the following:
577 Copeman Electric Stove toaster
They're great fun. I used one (or one very similar, with much better visibility) at university. People originally thought a toaster that did both sides and automatically popped up would be incomparably superior to one you had to drive manually. Until they were given the chance to drive it manually. The look on their faces when they first pulled the sides down, and the slice rotated, presenting its opposite side to the element, proved that deep down they were jealous...
Get your hands on one if you can!
Phil
Wrong, google Groups -is- a browser. I am using it right now to post this message. But I much prefer Agent as it has spell check and kill files capability.
73 GaryGary wrote: ) Wrong, google Groups -is- a browser. I am using it right now to post ) this message. But I much prefer Agent as it has spell check and kill ) files capability.
And because it doesn't encourage people to reply to articles without quoting relevant context, thus making it difficult to follow.
SaSW, Willem
I'm having "AOL is the Internet" flashbacks ;-)
Let's see if we can't clear this up...
First, let's back up a little. It's important to think of the Internet as not one, but several things, the most common of which are...
There are others, but those have been the big ones in the last decade or so. (The "World Wide Web" [or WWW or just web] is only one component of the internet.)
USENET has been around LONG before Google. People used various software (commonly known as newsreaders) to access USENET newsgroups. (I'd say most people still do. I use Xnews myself. Forte Agent and MS Outlook are also common.)
As the WWW grew in popularity, some folks decided it would be a groovy idea to be able to access USENET with an ordinary web browser (such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, etc.) Think of it as accessing a radio station with an ordinary telephone. This is what Google has done. They are not the first and they are not the only. Their web interface to USENET is part of what we know as "Google Groups".
Somewhere along the line, someone else thought it would also be a groovy idea to gather up all those past USENET discussions, along with all the new ones that are being generated every day, and put them in a big fat searchable database. And then make that database accessible with a web browser. Several years ago there was a website called DejaNews that did just that. I don't know how they did it or if they were the first, but they did it and it was cool.
As with many things on the web, after a few years it fizzled. They probably ran out of money and they went offline.
Fast forward to a couple years ago, and Google announces that they've bought the USENET archive that belonged to DejaNews and soon they will be using their wonderous search technology on all those old discussions and make them accessible from groups.google.com.
Google Groups is now TWO things... a web interface to USENET and an agreggator/search tool of USENET discussions.
If you think about it, Google has positioned itself into an interesting position. Millions of people think Google Groups and USENET are one in the same... right out of the AOL or MS playbook.
Oh, and one more thing... Google is not a browser. A browser, or more precisely a "web browser" is the software that you use to access various web sites (including Google Groups) on the WWW. The most common web browser these days is Internet Explorer, with Firefox running a distant second.
And that's all I have to say about that.
Joe Barta
Google is what is called a _Web Portal_. One accesses Google with a web browser and it has links to a search engine for the World Wide Web and another for the Usenet Archives. It also provides a web-based interface for searching, reading, and posting to UseNet newsgroups and some other non-Usenet nesgroups as well. Google also offers email and a few other services.
Google is also the name of the company that makes all that happen.
And now...
I'm guessing you posted the link for a reason. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the article.
Joe Barta
Maybe millions of people will soon think that Google and the Internet are one and the same...
Some here already think they're a browser...
For one thing, dark fiber is leased and bought by many companies that have divisions or sections - in other parts of town or state or nation.
IEEE had a nice story of a very thoughtful and much lower cost of bandwidth.
When MCI-Worldcom and others were going crazy - buying and installing (and not paying) for stuff all over the country - a lot of fiber was laid that was never used - e.g. no laser lit - therefore dark.
Simple as that. Sometimes it is spare bundles or spare fibers.
Martin
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Dave Balderst> >
Or when carriers went bankrupt lit bundles of transatlantic cable that cost 800 million ton install would sell for 10-20 million during restructuring
it would still cost 800 milli> For one thing, dark fiber is leased and bought by many companies that
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:25:37 GMT, with neither quill nor qualm, Joe Barta quickly quoth:
Remember the AOL "Me, too!"ers?
P.S: Gary, Google Groups is an -archive- which you can browse using MSIE, Netscape, Firefox, or other Web browser software.
Actually DejaNews didn't attempt to gather Usenet postings from before they existed; they just retained everything posted during their existence. At first they made the whole lot available, then they cut back the free service to just the most recent 6-12 months.
I still miss their "one line per article" search result format.
And then after *that*, they incorporated old articles from several
*other* archives -- ones that had never been publicly available -- thus providing content (although with some gaps in coverage) from as far back as 1981, just 2 years after the start of Usenet.PolyTech Forum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.