While it's an interesting question, it really depends on how you want to store the contents of each book.
Would you store each page of each book as an image? As flat ASCII text (except of pictures and diagrams, of course!)? What kind of indexing would you do? Basic indexing of book names? Full-text indexing of the contents? All that storage adds up!
In summary, the library of congress (depending on the method used) could probably fit into something ranging from a couple of gigabytes to a couple of petabytes.
I actually wrote my own perl alarm clock. Before I went to bed, I'd calculate the rough number of seconds to wait before the alarm. When the time was up, it would continue to print the alarm character until the program was ended.
A snooze would require starting the program again, and telling how many seconds I wanted to snooze for.
Apparently, anything put out to the public for google must run through an obfuscator/compressor.
The reasons would obviously be: a) Bandwidth: All those extra characters (newlines, variable names, etc) can really add up. b) Security: Competitors can't steal what they can't read.. or can they?
From the sunpipe homepage:...using SunPipe's revolutionary super-reflective tube that intensifies all natural light. With adjustable elbows SunPipe can twist and turn to bring daylight to exactly where you need it.
and
No limit to length of SunPipe or number of bends used
Didn't you RTFA? The author only suggests that this is something you can do that might help yourself in case the search engine doesn't fix itself.
From his description (and my own understanding of HTTP and the web in general), I can see why it would really be in the domain of the search engines to fix, and why there really isn't anything you can do to guarantee that it won't happen to you.
Before yelling about the problematic solution, why don't you suggest one yourself?
"...despite the fact that humanity has had the resources and technical knowhow to end all poverty since about the 17th century."
What you describe would be utopia. I agree with your statement that we have the resources and technical ability to end poverty. However, what we do not have is a solution to the social problems.
Achieving utopia is not so much a technological problem, as a social one. Each individual must agree to only take what is absolutely necessary, and give the rest to the group.
Unfortunately, our instincts drive us to always try and be better than our neighbor. Survival of the fittest dictates that to our subconcious on an hourly basis. The most fit (healthy, wealthy, wise, etc) will be allowed more chances to pass their genes on.
Utopia would be a very nice place; A people all working towards a common goal. But until society abolishes all greed, we will individuals who rise to the top. It brings to mind the Jack Handy quote:
"I can imagine a world without war, without hate. And I can imagine us attacking that world, because they'd never expect is."
You trust the Aljazeera version more than the CNN version?
I'm not saying you should trust CNN more or less than Aljazeera, but they both have agendas. Put on your tinfoil anti-bias hat before reading either translation.
However, a good program that could translate could be a great help when in situations like this.
"At this point in the game, It would have to be an absoletly amazing site to take Google out, and I don't think MSN Search is the site thats going to do it."
MSN may not be able to do it... yet.
Microsoft has a long history of entering into a field as a heavy underdog, and coming to dominance with their marketing (and sometimes technological) wizardry.
However, if DNS is hijacked in any form, the site would not see anything weird in their referral logs. The browser would send "Give me image X, and I was referred by site X". It would match, because the DNS was wrong.
This is very scary, as it would be almost impossible to detect! Fortunately, certain sites are releasing "security plugins" which tell you if the site you're connected to is legit. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before spyware and phishermen start to hijack these security plugins as well.
My company abides by all the rules of good conduct. However, there are a couple of scenarios that break your assertions:
Scenario 1)
A site requires an email address to sign up to limit the number of accounts-per-person to 1. The site doesn't send don't send any email after the initial confirmation email.
However, if people enter in enough garbage addresses, the "good" company gets blacklisted by the various spam organizations.
Scenario 2)
A company doesn't send any email to it's customers at all. However, they can still be blacklisted if a small amount of people generate fake emails (and complaints) and sent them to blacklist organization.
Both of these scenarios are possible under the "guilty until proven innocent" model under which blacklists are currently run.
Many posters here are so quick to point out how people should be considered innocent until they've been proven guilty of things like pirating or cracking, but those same people are mighty quick to condem any attempt at the same justice when it might cause them a little inconvenience!
"Innocent until proven guilty" when sending email = Evil, and should not exist.
"Innocent until proven guilty" when pirating = Necessary to protect our freedoms!
Even normal companies can have practically all their external email communications shutdown if they're blacklisted by a site like spamhaus.
The problem with the blacklist system is that it's guilty until proven innocent.
Unfortunately, I'm not smart enough to know what the best solution is. However, there are a lot of smart people here, and perhaps together we can come up with something legal, yet effective!
Slashdot Mirror
Announcer One: The three astronauts are a colorful bunch, in fact, they've been dubbed the "Three Musketeers".
Announcer Two: There's a mathematician, a statistician, and a different kind of mathematician.
Bart: Oh no! Not another boring space launch! Quick turn it off!
Given the speed of the slashdotting, I'd say he needs to add more ram to his box, and stop relying on the paging file for speed...
While it's an interesting question, it really depends on how you want to store the contents of each book.
Would you store each page of each book as an image? As flat ASCII text (except of pictures and diagrams, of course!)? What kind of indexing would you do? Basic indexing of book names? Full-text indexing of the contents? All that storage adds up!
In summary, the library of congress (depending on the method used) could probably fit into something ranging from a couple of gigabytes to a couple of petabytes.
I actually wrote my own perl alarm clock. Before I went to bed, I'd calculate the rough number of seconds to wait before the alarm. When the time was up, it would continue to print the alarm character until the program was ended.
A snooze would require starting the program again, and telling how many seconds I wanted to snooze for.
Yes, I admit that I'm a nerd...
Apparently, anything put out to the public for google must run through an obfuscator/compressor.
The reasons would obviously be:
a) Bandwidth: All those extra characters (newlines, variable names, etc) can really add up.
b) Security: Competitors can't steal what they can't read.. or can they?
Definately cool, though!
From the sunpipe homepage: ...using SunPipe's revolutionary super-reflective tube that intensifies all natural light. With adjustable elbows SunPipe can twist and turn to bring daylight to exactly where you need it.
and
No limit to length of SunPipe or number of bends used
Wow!
Didn't you RTFA? The author only suggests that this is something you can do that might help yourself in case the search engine doesn't fix itself.
From his description (and my own understanding of HTTP and the web in general), I can see why it would really be in the domain of the search engines to fix, and why there really isn't anything you can do to guarantee that it won't happen to you.
Before yelling about the problematic solution, why don't you suggest one yourself?
But does the fill utility in paint work across time as well?
Can somebody explain to me how this differs from intel's hyperthreading technology?
Is this just a fancy name for sticking multiple cores on the same die?
What's the real story here?
Thats all well and good for a potential car computer, but can it keep me from getting pulled over?
"...Contiki clusters have come true"
A cluster of contiki boats? Wouldn't that be called a navy?
"Oh great, a crappy nerd trailer during an even more crappy teen soap operah! George Lucas, here's a spoiler for you, YOU WILL DIE ALONE"
.. but very, very rich.
Can anybody explain to me what this program actually does?
"...despite the fact that humanity has had the resources and technical knowhow to end all poverty since about the 17th century."
What you describe would be utopia. I agree with your statement that we have the resources and technical ability to end poverty. However, what we do not have is a solution to the social problems.
Achieving utopia is not so much a technological problem, as a social one. Each individual must agree to only take what is absolutely necessary, and give the rest to the group.
Unfortunately, our instincts drive us to always try and be better than our neighbor. Survival of the fittest dictates that to our subconcious on an hourly basis. The most fit (healthy, wealthy, wise, etc) will be allowed more chances to pass their genes on.
Utopia would be a very nice place; A people all working towards a common goal. But until society abolishes all greed, we will individuals who rise to the top. It brings to mind the Jack Handy quote:
"I can imagine a world without war, without hate. And I can imagine us attacking that world, because they'd never expect is."
This is not an increase in market share! This is an increase in revanue. Microsoft was reporting similar gains for their server division as well.
When you're not talking about market share, everybody can be a winner!
If I was Microsoft, I'd target whining users as well, preferably with a couple of large missles.. oh wait..
Maybe in retrospect, hosting those images on an 8-bit nintendo wasn't the best idea...
A business decision that involves making it harder to use any given technology, or to stop "pushing" the technology on the market is backing away.
This happens all the time! Remember Betamax? Minidisks? I'm know there are many examples, they just don't come to mind.
How many more people will purchase their software now that they've heard about this, just so they can be the first to claim the next $1000?
/. friendly spin on it.
I be this was really just some sort of publicity stunt to boost sales, and they're putting a
You trust the Aljazeera version more than the CNN version?
I'm not saying you should trust CNN more or less than Aljazeera, but they both have agendas. Put on your tinfoil anti-bias hat before reading either translation.
However, a good program that could translate could be a great help when in situations like this.
"At this point in the game, It would have to be an absoletly amazing site to take Google out, and I don't think MSN Search is the site thats going to do it."
MSN may not be able to do it... yet.
Microsoft has a long history of entering into a field as a heavy underdog, and coming to dominance with their marketing (and sometimes technological) wizardry.
It's not over until the fat lady sings!
However, if DNS is hijacked in any form, the site would not see anything weird in their referral logs. The browser would send "Give me image X, and I was referred by site X". It would match, because the DNS was wrong.
This is very scary, as it would be almost impossible to detect! Fortunately, certain sites are releasing "security plugins" which tell you if the site you're connected to is legit. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before spyware and phishermen start to hijack these security plugins as well.
What a hopeless world we live in!
This IS a legitimate problem!
My company abides by all the rules of good conduct. However, there are a couple of scenarios that break your assertions:
Scenario 1)
A site requires an email address to sign up to limit the number of accounts-per-person to 1. The site doesn't send don't send any email after the initial confirmation email.
However, if people enter in enough garbage addresses, the "good" company gets blacklisted by the various spam organizations.
Scenario 2)
A company doesn't send any email to it's customers at all. However, they can still be blacklisted if a small amount of people generate fake emails (and complaints) and sent them to blacklist organization.
Both of these scenarios are possible under the "guilty until proven innocent" model under which blacklists are currently run.
Many posters here are so quick to point out how people should be considered innocent until they've been proven guilty of things like pirating or cracking, but those same people are mighty quick to condem any attempt at the same justice when it might cause them a little inconvenience!
"Innocent until proven guilty" when sending email = Evil, and should not exist.
"Innocent until proven guilty" when pirating = Necessary to protect our freedoms!
This is a legitimate problem!
Even normal companies can have practically all their external email communications shutdown if they're blacklisted by a site like spamhaus.
The problem with the blacklist system is that it's guilty until proven innocent.
Unfortunately, I'm not smart enough to know what the best solution is. However, there are a lot of smart people here, and perhaps together we can come up with something legal, yet effective!