How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Why do we say 'Google' instead of 'search'?

because it has become synonymous to search, just like 'Hoover' for vacuuming and 'Xerox' for photocopying, many years ago. These days, some kids thought the house becomes clean overnight because of some fairies, while copying refers to 'copy and paste' or using 'Bluetooth' from one gadget to another!

Anyway, if I want to search for something I have read in The Star for instance, I would rather type in 'thestaronline' and the relevant word or phrase, and 'Google' it, instead of searching within thestaronline website! My friend KC emailed me this:

"This bit of news is dated back in 2009, but still astonishing.

I never knew that a Google search can require that much processing power. I always thought that it's just an efficient search programming algorithm that Google has somehow discovered. Maybe it is, but just that amazing that it requires so many PCs to do it. No wonder a Google search is super fast compared to Bing and others."

Google Uses 1000 Computers for a Single Search Query
February 21, 2009

"On WSDM 2009, Jeff Dean, a Google employee, shared some information about Google’s growth since 1999. According to him, latency has gone down from 1 second to 200ms, while now there are 1000 times more search queries. Back in 1999 they were using 12 machines to handle a query and now they use even up to 1000. This is mostly because of the latency improvement and the huge index it has, compared to the one in 1999.

Do you even imagine how much energy those 1000 machines consume ? If you want tosave the world from global warming, please stop searching for “Paris Hilton’s finger nail porn” anymore and make it more useful."


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