Take a look at Doctors without borders. They have got a new york field office. More info here
I offered to volunteer for web-design work and I got a mail stating that they will get in touch with me if they require one in the future.
I developed a search engine in c++ in grad school and I remember applying the concepts of vector space model, okapi model in it.
Looking at the relatively snail pace speed I got from the c++ stl datastructures (with limited hardware resources), I still can't help but wonder how google pulls off the "magic" of split second results.
MapReduce is a powerful concept and a good starting point is hadoop. Google uses its own proprietary system called GFS.
We once had a session with Mr.Raghavan who was the yahoo search chief.He advised that students in general should learn to work in projects that involve a large corpus of data and that phds are especially valued in the field.
I partly agree with your post. But still when I look at vlc's version (present version - 0.9) number it gives me an impression that the player is somehow imperfect though I found it to be a very mature media player.Of course vlc is an open source product that is not susceptible to the tugs and pressures that plague commercial software.
Personally I feel impressions do matter and that giving a "bump" to the version number of a product is a valid and not a dishonest marketing tactic.
A lot of people have already suggested linux and though it may not be the right answer in this case I completely second using linux. I switched to kubuntu after I "tried" it for a while. I never had to worry about accursed anti-virus software. With xbindkeys command line is the frontline.
Now even starting a movie goes like this
ctrl-alt-t gets me cmd window then i navigate to folder and type in xine movie-name
The vista bloat is still there in my laptop as I need to use photoshop once in a while...... someday I will try gimp.
(In fact a much stronger motivation than to get Chrome running on OS X - I wouldn't be surprised to see the Android/Linux version out earlier.)
If they have such a motivation they don't seem to be acting on it. The linux version of chrome is just a bunch of unit test cases probably worser than the one for OSX.
If you're trying to keep market share you'll sabotage any real compatibility and interoperability.
Very true. This article explains Adobe's attitude to linux.
The article goes on to mention that Adobe's CEO John Warnock was suspicious with linux due to emergence of open-source GhostScript.
Adobe very much has the same mindset as Microsoft.
I personally know someone who was a victim of video voyeurism and that might have colored my response. But my argument stands, Google is helping people who would otherwise be discouraged from taking pictures.
Wrong. In New York it is illegal to take pictures of people in places where they can expect a reasonable degree of privacy (one's home surely falls under that definition).
http://www.criminaljustice.state.ny.us/legalservices/ch69_2003_stephanie_vidvoy.htm
So by your argument it must be perfectly okay to "zoom" in on other peoples private lives. Google's argument could and will aid parasites that "zoom" in on little children. Can you comprehend the gravity of the situation? Video voyeurism is one of the most insidious crimes. It is indecent and is an affront to the sanctity of an individual.
Society has to set standards on decency. Google has no right taking pictures of people in their homes.Err on the side of caution. Period.
Well, good for you. It doesn't seem to work for me. Some of those ads are downright annoying. I don't refer to the passive ones in google but the ones that "jump" to catch your attention.
If websites learn to moderate their ads I will turn my adblock off. Until then the red icon in the top right corner of my browser stays.
My operating systems course involved hacking the freebsd kernel. This would have come very handy then though there are differences between freebsd and linux.
Is there a similar map for freebsd?
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Take a look at Doctors without borders. They have got a new york field office. More info here
I offered to volunteer for web-design work and I got a mail stating that they will get in touch with me if they require one in the future.
If you are into eclipse RCP I would recommend Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-Ins
And then there is this superb newsgroup.
For algorithms I found "Algorithms in C" by Robert Sedgewick very useful.
In many Islamic countries proselytising is banned so for many muslims in these countries being muslim is not a choice.
For those looking for a go-between between lynx and other heavy-duty gui browsers like firefox: give dillo a try.
I developed a search engine in c++ in grad school and I remember applying the concepts of vector space model, okapi model in it. Looking at the relatively snail pace speed I got from the c++ stl datastructures (with limited hardware resources), I still can't help but wonder how google pulls off the "magic" of split second results.
MapReduce is a powerful concept and a good starting point is hadoop. Google uses its own proprietary system called GFS.
We once had a session with Mr.Raghavan who was the yahoo search chief.He advised that students in general should learn to work in projects that involve a large corpus of data and that phds are especially valued in the field.
Absolutely. I wish I had mod points.
du -sh * | sort -n
This makes more sense I guess.
I partly agree with your post. But still when I look at vlc's version (present version - 0.9) number it gives me an impression that the player is somehow imperfect though I found it to be a very mature media player.Of course vlc is an open source product that is not susceptible to the tugs and pressures that plague commercial software.
Personally I feel impressions do matter and that giving a "bump" to the version number of a product is a valid and not a dishonest marketing tactic.
A lot of people have already suggested linux and though it may not be the right answer in this case I completely second using linux. I switched to kubuntu after I "tried" it for a while. I never had to worry about accursed anti-virus software. With xbindkeys command line is the frontline.
Now even starting a movie goes like this
ctrl-alt-t gets me cmd window then i navigate to folder and type in xine movie-name
The vista bloat is still there in my laptop as I need to use photoshop once in a while...... someday I will try gimp.
And add to that the time spent in learning Objective C....I don't think its used anywhere outside apple.
I participated in a seminar about ID in my college. The PBS site has a set of movies which offer an interesting insight into the debate.
PBS Nova
(In fact a much stronger motivation than to get Chrome running on OS X - I wouldn't be surprised to see the Android/Linux version out earlier.)
If they have such a motivation they don't seem to be acting on it. The linux version of chrome is just a bunch of unit test cases probably worser than the one for OSX.
If you're trying to keep market share you'll sabotage any real compatibility and interoperability.
Very true. This article explains Adobe's attitude to linux. The article goes on to mention that Adobe's CEO John Warnock was suspicious with linux due to emergence of open-source GhostScript.
Adobe very much has the same mindset as Microsoft.
I personally know someone who was a victim of video voyeurism and that might have colored my response. But my argument stands, Google is helping people who would otherwise be discouraged from taking pictures.
Wrong. In New York it is illegal to take pictures of people in places where they can expect a reasonable degree of privacy (one's home surely falls under that definition). http://www.criminaljustice.state.ny.us/legalservices/ch69_2003_stephanie_vidvoy.htm So by your argument it must be perfectly okay to "zoom" in on other peoples private lives. Google's argument could and will aid parasites that "zoom" in on little children. Can you comprehend the gravity of the situation? Video voyeurism is one of the most insidious crimes. It is indecent and is an affront to the sanctity of an individual. Society has to set standards on decency. Google has no right taking pictures of people in their homes.Err on the side of caution. Period.
Well, good for you. It doesn't seem to work for me. Some of those ads are downright annoying. I don't refer to the passive ones in google but the ones that "jump" to catch your attention. If websites learn to moderate their ads I will turn my adblock off. Until then the red icon in the top right corner of my browser stays.
My operating systems course involved hacking the freebsd kernel. This would have come very handy then though there are differences between freebsd and linux. Is there a similar map for freebsd?
I just updated to kubuntu and I couldn't agree with you more.