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...and write a Perl Script or VB program that takes my messages, Bablefish's them, and pastes them back in for me.

I wonder is English>German translation sounds as convoluted as German>English.

Hey! FUD in German is FUZ: Furcht, Ungewißheit und Zweifel (babblefishing)

neet.

This VSI page in English lists Rudolf Gallist as "chairperson" and this page in English shows that Rudolf Gallist was a "business leader of Microsoft Germany" from 1991-2000. So he hasn't worked officially for Microsoft in 3 years, but still, there is a connection...

所 有 你 的 计 算 机 是 属 于 我 们

Result: "All your computer is belongs us"

religion changes...
And if now we use the "GooglePower" to find some information remember when we used altavista or metacrawler.
There is also more and more fake hits on google.
Sometimes you have to browse 2-3 pages of results before finding a real result.
Because everybody is using the power of google to raise up is site.
Because a site that's not in google will never be seen...
But the google bot are really powerfull, thay can even read in any file format. They will propably find once: "What is the Matrix..."

I've actually been looking for a translation of this for a while now, but thus far no luck. I do wish the publishers the best and I hope someone will produce a translation even if, for no other reason, than simply to throw mud in the eye of the great AOL.

BTW there have been three radio broadcasts from this series. You perhaps can't yet read Tanya in the US, but you can at least enjoy the radio shows...

I've actually been looking for a translation of this for a while now, but thus far no luck. I do wish the publishers the best and I hope someone will produce a translation even if, for no other reason, than simply to throw mud in the eye of the great AOL.

BTW there have been three radio broadcasts from this series. You perhaps can't yet read Tanya in the US, but you can at least enjoy the radio shows...

• Wildcards or at least word stemming.
  
• Better boolean expression support (including parentheses).
  
• More than 10 words in a query.
  
• Selective case sesitivity.
  
• Better support for file formats (such as, searching specific extensions).
  

• Good enough (read: convenient).
  
• The only search engine that indexes Usenet.
  
• Caches the pages.
  
• Offers the clean, customizable and very usable GoogleBar.
  

• Wildcards or at least word stemming.
  
• Better boolean expression support (including parentheses).
  
• More than 10 words in a query.
  
• Selective case sesitivity.
  
• Better support for file formats (such as, searching specific extensions).
  

• Good enough (read: convenient).
  
• The only search engine that indexes Usenet.
  
• Caches the pages.
  
• Offers the clean, customizable and very usable GoogleBar.
  

currency converter - findsounds.com

how stuff works - infoplease

about.com - librarian's index

rebecca's reference - tom mayo's links
-words:

acronym/abbr -lookup -finder -bm

trans -babelfish -worldlingo -google bm

bartleby

phrontistery

pseudodictionary

jargon file
--music

epitonic - pitchfork

sonomu - electraum

gnod - audioquarium --books:

amazon - abebooks - bookfinder

gutenberg & onlinebooks

loc.gov - lambiek comiclopedia - rebecca's books

Don't get your hopes up. Munich is run by a coalition of Social Democrats and Greens; it was they that decided to choose Linux in spite of Ballmer's pressure.

But the glorious Free State of Bavaria, where Munich is located, is run by the Christian Socialists (which, in spite of the name, is a rather far-right party -- think of them as the Redneck Party of Bavaria minus the gun racks). No way are they going to allow that long-hair hippy OS take hold...so the Bavarian government is trying to force a "review" of the Linux decision and has put it on hold.

Source: Spiegel.de. (Sorry, you'll have to use the Fish.)

Apparently Microsoft made the right donations in the right places. *sigh*

'Course, I'm surprised no one has bothered mentioning to the neo-nationalist CSU idiots in Bavaria that Linux is about as German an operating system as it gets (SuSE, KDE, etc.). At least much more "native" than Microsoft.

Cheers,

Ethelred

When lightning hits your antenna, you could lose your SW radio. Your computer, however, is (or should be) more expensive. Of course modem lines pose a similar threat, but without the big lightning rod on your roof being connected to your PC. With a little bad luck, you could take out your entire network.

Babelfish

Hope the link works for you. Read English, right?

This one is obviously 'staged,' but Slashdot's 404 error, translated to Korean and back: 404 files which it does not discover The URL which is demanded (404 fruits) it did not discover. If you it feel, URL in the place where the ya comes to from the pater@slashdot.org, right song. -- From here

-- welcome on my homepage --

On this side would like I mean built CCU to present, I call her " MyCPU ".

If you should see on the left of no menu, then click here .

Technical data of the CCU:

-- welcome on my homepage --

On this side would like I mean built CCU to present, I call her " MyCPU ".

If you should see on the left of no menu, then click here .

Technical data of the CCU:

In The Hereafter Hilton, (short story) Omni Sep '80

(Poor bastardized Babelfish English->Russian->English follows, which oddly, is still readable)

all wrapped with a minimal window manager (enlightenment iirc)

I was going to point out that that was probably the first time anybody had ever used 'minimal window manager' and 'enlightenment' in the same sentence. I was wrong, AltaVista (since Google doesn't support the 'near' keyword) says it's the second. Of course, the first time was the sentence "blackbox is a minimal window manager where enlightenment is a full featured window manager"...

Babelfish Translation:
Right Here!
Flash doesn't translate so well, but it's better than nothing!

Uh, it wasn't a cheat, I got it. Sorry.

Anyway, Recently Japanese PC News Site "PC Watch" reported that the trident XP4m32LP video chip marks almost 5,000 in 3DMark, but, after renaming benchmark exe, it downs to 2,700. Also they reported the image quality is extremely low while not renamed benchmark is running, compared to renamed benchmark produced. This chip is used in Dynabook SS S7 (Japanese cousin of Toshiba Portege R100), and when it introduced in Japanese market, they touted its superiority in 3D graphics rendering as good as "GeForce Ti4200" and "good for playing FFXI on the road". A lot of Game-OTAKU believed that and bought the machine. Still Toshiba refused to admit they did cheat.

If you want to see what the reporter wrote in "PC Watch", please follow this link to the Babelfish translated article.

if you're as bored as I am, take this thread to babelfish.altavista.com

To clarify for all you, I wrote this text:

Your Social Security Number was stolen by a hacker. He also stole your identity. Have a nice day.

I'd say the Fish did a suprisingly good job with this, given it's history being useless as a tool for me to cheat with in Spanish class.

This was BackFished...

Why do I feel so sure that that's not so close to what you wrote????;o)))))

Interestingly, there is no language in this law governing what the notification has to say, and whether or not it has to be easily understood by the customer.

Dear Valued Taxpayer,

Ihre Sozialversicherungzahl wurde von einem Hacker gestohlen. Er hat Ihre Identität gestohlen. Haben Sie einen schönen Tag.

Sincerely,

California Internal Revenue Service

-This was Fished. I apologize for the bad German.

Thank you Alta Vista Bablefish.

Sorry to break this party up but I tried to actually read that article before commenting on it (gasp!) and I have no idea where those 90% are coming from. A related article says 15% but that's the closest we get.

In short: the vote is over, Linux won. :-) story, Babelfish

Cheers, Ulli

English versions of the japanese sites

• Watch Impress
• ZDNet Japan

English versions of the japanese sites

• Watch Impress
• ZDNet Japan

Munich will be the first city with over 1 Million inhabitants that is run by Linux

Heise has the story (Babelfish may help you)

Short facts are: The actual vote will occur on wednesday, but the SPD and Green party hold 43 out of 80 seats and have both committed to vote in favour of Linux to be used in the government of Munich, a city of about 2 million inhabitants.

The main reason for the migration was "strategic-quality reasons" and to support competition in software, not cost, which was said to be about the same for Linux and Windows.

About 14000 client computers are involved.

The used distribution will be SuSE, but IBM is also involved. OpenOffice will be used as office suite.

The earlier happenings are also quite exciting:

• Study suggests that Linux is cheaper than Windows for Munich: - story, Babelfish
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer interrupts his skiing trip to talk to Munich politians: story, Babelfish
• Suddently a new study says that because Microsoft gave huge discounts, Windows is now better than Linux for Munich: story, Yoda
• IBM also modifies their offer (see main story above)

Munich will be the first city with over 1 Million inhabitants that is run by Linux

Heise has the story (Babelfish may help you)

Short facts are: The actual vote will occur on wednesday, but the SPD and Green party hold 43 out of 80 seats and have both committed to vote in favour of Linux to be used in the government of Munich, a city of about 2 million inhabitants.

The main reason for the migration was "strategic-quality reasons" and to support competition in software, not cost, which was said to be about the same for Linux and Windows.

About 14000 client computers are involved.

The used distribution will be SuSE, but IBM is also involved. OpenOffice will be used as office suite.

The earlier happenings are also quite exciting:

• Study suggests that Linux is cheaper than Windows for Munich: - story, Babelfish
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer interrupts his skiing trip to talk to Munich politians: story, Babelfish
• Suddently a new study says that because Microsoft gave huge discounts, Windows is now better than Linux for Munich: story, Yoda
• IBM also modifies their offer (see main story above)

Munich will be the first city with over 1 Million inhabitants that is run by Linux

Heise has the story (Babelfish may help you)

Short facts are: The actual vote will occur on wednesday, but the SPD and Green party hold 43 out of 80 seats and have both committed to vote in favour of Linux to be used in the government of Munich, a city of about 2 million inhabitants.

The main reason for the migration was "strategic-quality reasons" and to support competition in software, not cost, which was said to be about the same for Linux and Windows.

About 14000 client computers are involved.

The used distribution will be SuSE, but IBM is also involved. OpenOffice will be used as office suite.

The earlier happenings are also quite exciting:

• Study suggests that Linux is cheaper than Windows for Munich: - story, Babelfish
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer interrupts his skiing trip to talk to Munich politians: story, Babelfish
• Suddently a new study says that because Microsoft gave huge discounts, Windows is now better than Linux for Munich: story, Yoda
• IBM also modifies their offer (see main story above)

Munich will be the first city with over 1 Million inhabitants that is run by Linux

Heise has the story (Babelfish may help you)

Short facts are: The actual vote will occur on wednesday, but the SPD and Green party hold 43 out of 80 seats and have both committed to vote in favour of Linux to be used in the government of Munich, a city of about 2 million inhabitants.

The main reason for the migration was "strategic-quality reasons" and to support competition in software, not cost, which was said to be about the same for Linux and Windows.

About 14000 client computers are involved.

The used distribution will be SuSE, but IBM is also involved. OpenOffice will be used as office suite.

The earlier happenings are also quite exciting:

• Study suggests that Linux is cheaper than Windows for Munich: - story, Babelfish
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer interrupts his skiing trip to talk to Munich politians: story, Babelfish
• Suddently a new study says that because Microsoft gave huge discounts, Windows is now better than Linux for Munich: story, Yoda
• IBM also modifies their offer (see main story above)

You don't need babelfish to understand "Hey SCO; shit or get off the pot!"

Or for the full specs in English, go here.

you mean this one?

... is quality.

I'm surprised how Google is choosing not to implement search features that would greatly enhance advanced queries.
How often I'd wish they allowed wildcards in their queries (where engl* would pull hits with england, english, etc).
Field searches still require you to add keywords, so I cannot just query "site:somesite.com" to get all the currently indexed pages from somesite.com
In this respect Altavista still produces better results, with an excelent range of fields to choose from.
If there is anything that Google is lacking, it's defenitely that.
Having said that, still my number one SE.

OMG! the translation is hilarious:

As for efficiency improvement of the personal computer although processing speed and capacity increase et cetera it is very extreme bewilderingly combination without going well, you must exchange periodically as a part and the consumables which cannot use, also the part comes coming out.

The case (the frame) size to be largest even in various parts, because the majority of the single item cases for the manufacturer make personal computer and the original user does with the metal and the resin make, it deals with and the ê when becoming, is not pay and/or you throw away feeling to throw away, the ê it is not and/or with is not the notion that where you say to be many, probably will be?

When of environmental problem is thought, abandoning, the êÜñ, difficult this kind of ones is unreasonable as a actuality, being joint with the BOXMASTER, it developed this cardboard PC box from the thought of processing and it is not to increase the à leprosy rubbish, you liking to use the material whose burden is little as naturally as possible in the personal computer, whether one ones several dozen years using long ideal.

It does not paint the wrapping and it does the warmth which the material has that way. For example if the child pasted the seal and/or scribbled mono it becomes original with very that and whether also attachment furthermore becomes deep, the êÜñ. Becoming the canvas of the good work, finishing role, as a PC case without throwing away,, if there is a kind of thing taking if it is delightful truly, is.

There are any number of spiders out there that are smart enough to index whole sites, including dynamically-generated pages, without taking a site down or even hitting it harder than a couple of simeltaneous users. This behavior is not only negligent, but malicious. Any site brought down by Cyveillance would probably have good grounds for legal action (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, talk to a lawyer if you want legal advice, etc.).

My gullable friend was duped into ordering a subscrition from "mp3 grand central", which you'll find by searching google/overture for mp3 and looking under the
"sponsored links." So, to get revenge, CLICK HERE to download a large file (kazaa light) from their server. In addition, using no bandwidth, you can click on their ad here to make them pay $1.40 to Overture. It's the 2nd "sponsored match" at the left saying "Napster's Replacement Only $0.99 a Month."

My gullable friend was duped into ordering a subscrition from "mp3 grand central", which you'll find by searching google/overture for mp3 and looking under the
"sponsored links." So, to get revenge, CLICK HERE [mp3grandcentral.com] to download a large file (kazaa light) from their server. In addition, using no bandwidth, you can click on their ad here to make them pay $1.40 to Overture. It's the 2nd "sponsored match" at the left saying "Napster's Replacement Only $0.99 a Month." If you feel like making a phone call, the # is (732) 542-1764.

That would be:
"Eterben, Sie Kapitalistschwein!"
"Mein Leben!"
und
"Klingen Sie die Warnung!"

Well...at least acccording to Babelfish

Very much interested in this. In fact, I've written letters to Google and Yahoo requesting this but never got much beyond a polite thanks for the suggestion.

Actually, I'd be pretty satisfied if Google supported the advanced boolean search that Altavista has. When Altavista had one of, if not the, best databases I regularly used it. Take a look at:

Altavista Special Search Terms

I find that a combination of wildcards, AND, OR, NEAR, NOT, grouping via parentheses and being able to search specifically for anchors, images, etc meets 99% of my needs. Full regex would be nice, but not that much more useful. Plus, I would imagine regex would be a lot harder on the search server than the simplified advanced syntax.

I -really- wish Google supported matching via parentheses ... they already support automatic ANDing and will understand OR as well, but grouping makes a big difference. That and I wish Google would allow more than 10 terms ... when you start using OR to describe something (like for my motorcycle it would be :

V65 OR V-65 OR "Honda Magna" OR VF1100C

and I've already eaten up 3 terms ...

The problem with starting a new search engine is it won't get used, even if it has amazing features, until it has a HUGE number of pages indexed. You might want to target specific subjects at first. Or, depending on the legality, create a meta search engine ... I considered trying to create a meta-search script using Regex for Google (private use, so hopefully not illegal, but would probably still get banned if they caught on) but found it took too much time for my little machine on a narrowband connection to download each page and re-index it based on that additional regex processing.

The key to success is to index a BUNCH of sites before wide announcement (possibly by using the method mentioned a few days ago of harnessing a distributed processing project to add indexing servers, I'd contribute to something like this) of the project and make sure that you don't limit the effectiveness by limiting the number of terms.

I managed to get my hands on an older Libretto ff 1100. Absolutely awesome. It's a little old, so it runs a P266 w/ 128 ram, and boots win98 by default. The thing also has a USB port, SmartCard slot, and PCMCIA slot. It has a decent usable keyboard. Screen res is 800x480, which is, for me, fine to read on. I actually had to decrease the font size though to fit configuration windows on the screen (sometimes its just too short, and nobody designs programs for 640x480 screens anymore). Unfortunately, it was never sold in the US (except by Dynamism.com). Bablefished page is here (original). Scroll down for pics. The little orange thing on the right side of the screen is the mouse. The two buttons are on the back of the screen. Very usable, and original. Too bad you can't get these anywhere anymore. I run Linux on mine, with no problems.

Let the images do the talking. ;)

And there is always Babelfish that can help too.

Here is a link that works for translation..

Babelfish Korean->English Translation of article

Rejoice Rejoice! One time where you have to CTFP (Check the F Preview). WooHoo!

Washington Bill promotes Open Source for state and municipal government uses. Seethis article

you might see this on your cell phone

Here's an earlier (1994) proposal to do away with leap seconds and suggests among other things, leap hours every few centuries.
Leap hour proposal

is to see where "RIAA" ends up on an list of recent alta vista search queries.