"In the spirit of frankness and directness of the 21st Century, I never saw the movie," he said. "To most people at Microsoft, HAL stands for hardware application layer."
Of course, in MS speak, HAL actually stands for "Hardware Abstraction Layer."
I've always held that there are significant language barriers to this sort of endeavor.
The distributed nature of Linux development doesn't lend itself as well to easy-to-use documentation, I think. A German hax0r working with an app written in Norway documented in English by a British dude... hmmm...
Add to that the colloquial syntax, slang and other such expressions involved in our culture (RTFM and other bretheren), and you've got an even more daunting task.
Documentation is a laudable, important undertaking, but it's a time-intensive, generally unfun task that involves making lots of culturally-centrist decisions.
Not saying this to disuade, but only to hypothesize on why it doesn't already exist.
Thunderstone Texis... web spider, regex scraper and SQL-compliant RDBMS. Oh, and a _tad_ more maturity and market experience. Of course, the price tag is a bit steep...
WebQL seems kinda like a friendlier name for an already-established market.
Offtopic, I guess, because it's not a question, but I'll risk it...
For me, Nedit was an important transistional program between the Windows world and the Linux camp. It did some things I expected a text-editor to do, and was not as daunting as vi. I was able to accomplish work with Nedit, and knowing that one tool made me a little bolder in exploring other tools that are second nature to the *nix gurus but cryptic to the newbies.
Your project sounds like a project for Thunderstone's Texis system. I've worked with quite a few other search engines, and for my projects, Texis always beat the other players in performance/flexibility.
1. Keyword/Phrase searching (and,or,must include,must not include,must include N or more, etc.)
2. Prefix and suffix processing
3. Search by regular expressions
4. Concept searching with precompiled thesaurus as well as a user-defined thesaurus (you can customize it for your industry's jargon, for example).
5. Integrated P-Code compiled scripting language
6. Available for a bunch of platforms
7. Goes like a bat out of hell on huge indexes
8. Free [beer] version available for smaller projects
Their client list is pretty impressive; Ebay, NASA, ZDNet, etc., and lots of city/state sites. The downside is that it's not cheap: $5000 to $10000 or more just to start.
My only connection to Thunderstone is my prior use of their product.
We bitch about Lucas and all the CGI. We bitch about Lucas and his greed. We bitch about Lucas because he has a monopoly on desktop operation systems (er... got carried away there).
But how many of us are willing to back up our bitching? My nickel says the overwhelming majority of the readers here will rant and rave and complain and moderate and make jokes about Jar Jar, and then will jump down off the soapbox and fork over the $7.50 to see Episode II anyway. Or we'll call ourselves nonconformists, skip the movies, and later rent it (just to see how bad it is, wink wink).
Is this flamebait? I guess. But I think it's important that as we all get our panties in a bunch in our forum about this thing or that thing, we admit that rhetoric without action is of limited impact to Lucas, Microsoft, Congress, Metallica, etc.
Perhaps I chose a bad example, or I should have focused more on the "Han, Luke and Chewie" part rather than the "crowd of Rebels" part.
It's not the special effects, per se, that bother me I guess, but rather the increasing importance they play as primary literary (and I use that term loosely, Mr. Lucas) devices.
While Lando blasts his way through a zillion CGI/effects spaceships in a battle with a F/X Death Star, I can invest something in the scene because I can identify with the character. But when Watto gets what's coming to him or Jar-Jar redeems himself, I can't identify on either side of the fence, and thus, the importance of the scene is lost on me.
And I am not even sure why that is, exactly. I'm not even sure that more "realistic" CGI characters would change my mind. But no matter how good the effect, CGIs as key players just lose something.
They're not "analog" enough. Even the flaws seem too calculated...
One of the reasons I disliked EPI so much was the disconnect between the physical and the CGI elements, particularly in terms of the actors. I get fired up when Han, Luke and Chewie come marching down through a crowd of Rebels to get the medals. I could not care less when fake-looking, cartoonish CGIs win a battle over other fake-looking, cartoonish CGIs.
And that's the problem: you're showing fabulous special effects, but there is less and less "reality" to ground the movie.
Say what you will about M$/IE, but if a bug like this gets reported for Internet Exploder, you can bet your ass they'll post at least a notification (if not a workaround or patch) on their site faster than you can say "class action lawsuit."
Netscape? Netscape.com is too busy telling me about the new cute chick flick "Coyote Ugly" and checking my stocks. I'm one click away from the "Security" section of Microsoft.com. On Netscape.com, I am one click away from sports scores.
I used to be a really big fan of Netscape, but they just keep screwing up. I swear, I want to like them...
People are still using IE 3.0! Users generally too lazy to upgrade software, even if there's a known security issue
Unfortunately, MS has the tendency to make service packs/patches into "feature upgrades," meaning it fixes the bug and throws in some new (potentially plagued) stuff to boot. Just look at how few people have installed SP6... if it was only fixes for known issues, what's holding people back?
that the two most noteworthy names going after Napster really had their heyday quite some time ago? Metallica: it's been a pretty steady slide since the black album. Dr. Dre: Much love for The Chronic circa 1992, but lately, he's been pretty bland.
Your NT box crashed 5 times? What in dee hell are you doing to this box to make it actually _crash_ five times? My hypothesis:
1. Testing new device drivers coded by Billy Intern, on winter break from Joe's Compooter College and University of Cosmotology (home of the 2 and 19 "Raging Red Chipmunks"... go 'munks!).
2. Actually inserting Spagetti O's into the floppy drive.
I've used both MStuff and various *ixs, and <confess> the *ixs' are more stable </confess>, but 5 TIMES? Come on, man...
Slashdot Mirror
the patent font
TrueType enters the legal fray... damn.
PDHoss
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Of course, in MS speak, HAL actually stands for "Hardware Abstraction Layer."
Doh.
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That's a great idea. You should patent it.
doh...
PDHoss
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Ha ha! Microsoft's DNS is down! That never ever happens to anyone else. Those big jerks... they must suck because their DNS is down.
Come on guys... has this never happened to us?
PDHoss
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Moderators: anybody going to take care of this? Hello?
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I've always held that there are significant language barriers to this sort of endeavor.
The distributed nature of Linux development doesn't lend itself as well to easy-to-use documentation, I think. A German hax0r working with an app written in Norway documented in English by a British dude... hmmm...
Add to that the colloquial syntax, slang and other such expressions involved in our culture (RTFM and other bretheren), and you've got an even more daunting task.
Documentation is a laudable, important undertaking, but it's a time-intensive, generally unfun task that involves making lots of culturally-centrist decisions.
Not saying this to disuade, but only to hypothesize on why it doesn't already exist.
PDHoss
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PDHoss
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Thunderstone Texis... web spider, regex scraper and SQL-compliant RDBMS. Oh, and a _tad_ more maturity and market experience. Of course, the price tag is a bit steep...
WebQL seems kinda like a friendlier name for an already-established market.
PDHoss
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Offtopic, I guess, because it's not a question, but I'll risk it...
For me, Nedit was an important transistional program between the Windows world and the Linux camp. It did some things I expected a text-editor to do, and was not as daunting as vi. I was able to accomplish work with Nedit, and knowing that one tool made me a little bolder in exploring other tools that are second nature to the *nix gurus but cryptic to the newbies.
So, no question, but just a thank you.
PDHoss======================================
Your project sounds like a project for Thunderstone's Texis system. I've worked with quite a few other search engines, and for my projects, Texis always beat the other players in performance/flexibility.
1. Keyword/Phrase searching (and,or,must include,must not include,must include N or more, etc.)
2. Prefix and suffix processing
3. Search by regular expressions
4. Concept searching with precompiled thesaurus as well as a user-defined thesaurus (you can customize it for your industry's jargon, for example).
5. Integrated P-Code compiled scripting language
6. Available for a bunch of platforms
7. Goes like a bat out of hell on huge indexes
8. Free [beer] version available for smaller projects
Their client list is pretty impressive; Ebay, NASA, ZDNet, etc., and lots of city/state sites. The downside is that it's not cheap: $5000 to $10000 or more just to start.
My only connection to Thunderstone is my prior use of their product.
PDHoss======================================
We bitch about Lucas and all the CGI. We bitch about Lucas and his greed. We bitch about Lucas because he has a monopoly on desktop operation systems (er... got carried away there).
But how many of us are willing to back up our bitching? My nickel says the overwhelming majority of the readers here will rant and rave and complain and moderate and make jokes about Jar Jar, and then will jump down off the soapbox and fork over the $7.50 to see Episode II anyway. Or we'll call ourselves nonconformists, skip the movies, and later rent it (just to see how bad it is, wink wink).
Is this flamebait? I guess. But I think it's important that as we all get our panties in a bunch in our forum about this thing or that thing, we admit that rhetoric without action is of limited impact to Lucas, Microsoft, Congress, Metallica, etc.
PDHoss
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Perhaps I chose a bad example, or I should have focused more on the "Han, Luke and Chewie" part rather than the "crowd of Rebels" part.
It's not the special effects, per se, that bother me I guess, but rather the increasing importance they play as primary literary (and I use that term loosely, Mr. Lucas) devices.
While Lando blasts his way through a zillion CGI/effects spaceships in a battle with a F/X Death Star, I can invest something in the scene because I can identify with the character. But when Watto gets what's coming to him or Jar-Jar redeems himself, I can't identify on either side of the fence, and thus, the importance of the scene is lost on me.
And I am not even sure why that is, exactly. I'm not even sure that more "realistic" CGI characters would change my mind. But no matter how good the effect, CGIs as key players just lose something.
They're not "analog" enough. Even the flaws seem too calculated...
PDH======================================
One of the reasons I disliked EPI so much was the disconnect between the physical and the CGI elements, particularly in terms of the actors. I get fired up when Han, Luke and Chewie come marching down through a crowd of Rebels to get the medals. I could not care less when fake-looking, cartoonish CGIs win a battle over other fake-looking, cartoonish CGIs.
And that's the problem: you're showing fabulous special effects, but there is less and less "reality" to ground the movie.
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It's definately a Linux box, running Netscape Navigator ...
Cool. Now that I have a Java webserver, I'll start working on my IPO ;)
It's as mean as kicking a puppy, but I couldn't help myself.
PDHoss
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Say what you will about M$/IE, but if a bug like this gets reported for Internet Exploder, you can bet your ass they'll post at least a notification (if not a workaround or patch) on their site faster than you can say "class action lawsuit."
Netscape? Netscape.com is too busy telling me about the new cute chick flick "Coyote Ugly" and checking my stocks. I'm one click away from the "Security" section of Microsoft.com. On Netscape.com, I am one click away from sports scores.
I used to be a really big fan of Netscape, but they just keep screwing up. I swear, I want to like them...
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I am smoking a cigarette imagining the pr0n-serving capabilities of this baby...
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People are still using IE 3.0! Users generally too lazy to upgrade software, even if there's a known security issue
Unfortunately, MS has the tendency to make service packs/patches into "feature upgrades," meaning it fixes the bug and throws in some new (potentially plagued) stuff to boot. Just look at how few people have installed SP6... if it was only fixes for known issues, what's holding people back?
PDHoss
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Do I get any lifelines?=
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that the two most noteworthy names going after Napster really had their heyday quite some time ago? Metallica: it's been a pretty steady slide since the black album. Dr. Dre: Much love for The Chronic circa 1992, but lately, he's been pretty bland.
Just a thought... probably redundant.
PDHoss
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Okay, now THAT would definitely make me crash 5 times! Yikes!
<lubricant type="astroglide"> be gentle </lubricant>
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Your NT box crashed 5 times? What in dee hell are you doing to this box to make it actually _crash_ five times? My hypothesis:
1. Testing new device drivers coded by Billy Intern, on winter break from Joe's Compooter College and University of Cosmotology (home of the 2 and 19 "Raging Red Chipmunks"... go 'munks!).
2. Actually inserting Spagetti O's into the floppy drive.
I've used both MStuff and various *ixs, and <confess> the *ixs' are more stable </confess>, but 5 TIMES? Come on, man...
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http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~nkpatel/mr.t/
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