I tend to agree that traffic lights can make a huge difference. I am sure everyone has been in the situation where you are in a large queue of traffice for a light and when you finally get through the light you notice that there is no (or very little) traffic waiting from the other directions. The light is simply badly timed for the traffic pattern at that time of day. If only there was some good way to get this information about the light from the drivers back to the road engineers so they could adjust the timing it could significantly improve the traffic flow at the junction. I would have thought the city traffic department could construct a google maps based site where drivers could indicate junctions that they believe need improvement, taking information like the time of day, the road that was backed up, etc. Then if they get a statistically significant number of comments about the same junction indicating the same problem it would be a good indication that this should be investigated further.
Also in England pretty much all traffic lights have sensors in the road approaching the light to detect if there are cars present and this modifies their cycle which definitely helps make them more responsive to traffic patterns.
It also appears they will use an IFRAME on some browsers rather than the XMLHTTPRequest object. If you look in their JavaScript code at the 'ac' function it does the following
var M=document.createElement("IFRAME");M.completeDiv=b;M.name="completionFrame";M.id="completionFrame";M.src=sa;s.appendChild(M);document.body.appendChild (s);
Notice that it creates an IFRAME and then sets the 'src', and later on adds it to the main document. This will cause the IFRAME to request the page pointed to by 'src'.
Rather than adding support for Mozilla Firefox, etc. Google would be much better off adding a way that third party applications can tell Google desktop search about files they understand. Then we can write the Firefox plugin that makes Google desktop seach index pages browsed with Firefox. In fact I am a little surprised that Google released this product without this extensibility already present, maybe they were under pressure to get something out there as fast as possible.
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Anyone considering the Linksys box should also take a look at the Buffalo technologies LinkStation
as it also runs Linux and it includes a 120G hard drive, acts as a print server, and includes 2 USB ports as well. Considering the cost of a USB2 enclosure and a hard drive to add to the Linksys box this LinkStation comes in at a slightly lower price once you get the mail in rebate.
There appears to be a fair sized amount of information on how to modify these boxes on various Japanese sites which I can not read a word of. So I have yet to take my LinkStation appart but will hopefully get around to it soon. So far it has worked well and I am pretty happy with my purchase.
802.11g has a true maximum throughput of around 20 Million bits/sec or around 2.5 Million bytes/sec. Although they call it 54Mbit wireless this is the raw data rate and not an achievable throughput rate. So your 200MHz chip would be capable of encrypting this if there were no other overhead.
I have just got back from our annual company conference where we normally get 400-500 people from around the world. This year the number of people coming from abroad was significantly down on last year. Many of the people who were going to attend decided not to after hearing about the new procedure required to enter the US, and I know of several people from Russia who had been to the conference before and were unable to obtain a visa this year. These measures definitely do have an effect on people visiting the US from abroad and that effect is to make them feel unwelcome.
When anyone brings up the concept of inventing a new language I am reminded of a story I heard concerning the early slaves. Apparently it was quite common that slaves imported from Africa were from different regions and so spoke different languages. They were all housed together on a plantation and had to work together so they invented a pidgin language that used some words of each of thier native tongues. The interesting part however is that their children did not grow up speaking this pidgin language, even though this is the only language they heard. The children used some words from the pidgin language but the language they spoke was much more complex, it had its own grammar, and was far more expressive than the pidgin language could ever be. The children had created a whole new, fully formed, language rather than a hacked together combination of two different languages their parents spoke.
It appears that this pidgin language was not 'learnable' by the children in that it was too limited in it ability to express ideas and so the only solution was for the children to create a brand new language.
Hence I suspect that any attempt to deliberately create a language such as Esparanto is doomed from the start unless it is taught to young children who speak it as a first language and they will modify it until it becomes a useful language; which may not resemble the original language in more than some common nouns and verbs.
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Also in England pretty much all traffic lights have sensors in the road approaching the light to detect if there are cars present and this modifies their cycle which definitely helps make them more responsive to traffic patterns.
This is not news, Google has had this feature since Dec 2003! Just look at Nov-Dec entry for 2003 in Google timeline
var M=document.createElement("IFRAME");M.completeDiv=b ;M.name="completionFrame";M.id="completionFrame";M .src=sa;s.appendChild(M);document.body.appendChild (s);
Notice that it creates an IFRAME and then sets the 'src', and later on adds it to the main document. This will cause the IFRAME to request the page pointed to by 'src'.
Rather than adding support for Mozilla Firefox, etc. Google would be much better off adding a way that third party applications can tell Google desktop search about files they understand. Then we can write the Firefox plugin that makes Google desktop seach index pages browsed with Firefox. In fact I am a little surprised that Google released this product without this extensibility already present, maybe they were under pressure to get something out there as fast as possible.
There appears to be a fair sized amount of information on how to modify these boxes on various Japanese sites which I can not read a word of. So I have yet to take my LinkStation appart but will hopefully get around to it soon. So far it has worked well and I am pretty happy with my purchase.
802.11g has a true maximum throughput of around 20 Million bits/sec or around 2.5 Million bytes/sec. Although they call it 54Mbit wireless this is the raw data rate and not an achievable throughput rate. So your 200MHz chip would be capable of encrypting this if there were no other overhead.
I have just got back from our annual company conference where we normally get 400-500 people from around the world. This year the number of people coming from abroad was significantly down on last year. Many of the people who were going to attend decided not to after hearing about the new procedure required to enter the US, and I know of several people from Russia who had been to the conference before and were unable to obtain a visa this year. These measures definitely do have an effect on people visiting the US from abroad and that effect is to make them feel unwelcome.
> Does google do tranlation stuff yet?
Yes and yes:
To post a link babelfished link you can use:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?lp=<t
Where <translate type> is one of:
- en_zh - English to Chinese
- en_fr - English to French
- en_de - English to German
- en_it - English to Italian
- en_ja - English to Japanese
- en_ko - English to Korean
- en_pt - English to Portuguese
- en_es - English to Spanish
- zh_en - Chinese to English
- fr_en - French to English
- fr_de - French to German
- de_en - German to English
- de_fr - German to French
- it_en - Italian to English
- ja_en - Japanese to English
- ko_en - Korean to English
- pt_en - Portuguese to English
- ru_en - Russian to English
- es_en - Spanish to English
Also make sure the url to translate is correctly URL encoded.For information about google translation see: http://www.google.com/language_tools
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It appears that this pidgin language was not 'learnable' by the children in that it was too limited in it ability to express ideas and so the only solution was for the children to create a brand new language.
Hence I suspect that any attempt to deliberately create a language such as Esparanto is doomed from the start unless it is taught to young children who speak it as a first language and they will modify it until it becomes a useful language; which may not resemble the original language in more than some common nouns and verbs.
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Mark Hanson