For that matter, at least let me tell it to index more than just the C:\ drive.
Not that I've tried it, but try adding other drives to the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\HistoricalCapture\Crawler\CRAWL_DIRS
The top-posting is a bit irritating, but it tries to prepend text with > most of the time to make quoting easy.
As far as I can tell, it always does this when you reply to plain text email. It does what you say (just pasting the copy below "--original message follows--") for HTML email with a multipart/alternative mime type.
Wired had an article a few years ago about the Persinger Helmet.
This device induces experiences that are similar to religious "miracles," where someone believes he or she has seen god. It does this by transmitting signals around your head.
Nicholas Carr, writing in a recent Harvard Business Review article, probably wouldn't agree with Moskowitz and Kern.
Testbed for weather radar in Norman, OK
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Sorry for the blatant plug, but my company's working right now with the University of Oklahoma on new radar technology that should double the warning time for severe storms.
You can see some pictures and read about the new radar here.
The current radar technology used for all weather forcasting (NEXRAD) is really pretty old. By using a phased array, the scan times are much quicker than the old spinning dish style.
We hope to get this thing operational really soon. Off the above site, there's a webcam where you can see the progress of its construction.
I can imagine just the signal alone being a security issue. The reason subs don't use active sonar all the time is because it gives away their position. It sure will make it easy for enemy forces to find our battleships, when all they have to do is listen for 802.11b, 2.4GHz transmissions.
Except that satellite images of enormous ships already work fine.
Oh, and the ships aren't invisible to radar either.
The 333 year old Vasa is a warship that was raised from oxygen-depleted water off the coast of Sweden.
Inside, they found all sorts of preserved treasures, and it's now a museum that you can visit in Stockholm. (I was there last year and was very impressed with the thing. It's huge and has very ornate carvings all over the outside.)
Radar wouldn't really be able to help you much here. Weather radar's resolution is on the order of tens of meters, and the stuff you're looking at would need to be somewhat reflective to radar.
The wind that's holding up the block wouldn't be very visible either if it really was in a clear sky. Rain reflects back to the radar, but plain wind isn't very easy to see.
That doesn't really prove anything, though. While com.com is owned by C|Net, the interesting thing is that if you replace news.com.com in the URL with just news.com or www.news.com, it doesn't work anymore.
Check out the URL. It's news.com.com, meaning this isn't coming from C|Net news (news.com), but the com.com domain.
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I agree that jdee over emacs is a great solution for Java development. The original poster also asked about JSPs.
Support for JSPs in emacs isn't there automatically with JDEE, but the mmm-mode module works great. It deals with the problem of having both HTML formatted code and Java code in the same buffer.
We use IBM 4758s at work. They're a huge pain to deal with - we've had a bunch spontaneously die. Apparently the earlier boards were more sensitive to pressure and things like that, and they just gave up on life as a result.
The difficult thing about programming these boards is all the states they go through in the lifecycle of getting code securely loaded. There are a million different utility scripts to change the state of code trust.
I'm curious to see how linux handles all this secure code loading stuff. Let's hope it's easier.
(Not that I'm disparaging these boards. What they do is really amazing, as far as they can assure you that your secrets inside will never get out and the code that you have running there is your code.)
Re:I know I'll be modded down, but bear with me he
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>>Yes, it's different. If you steal my IP, I
>>still have my IP. We both have it now.
>Do we both have the blood, sweat, tears and long
>lonely hours that went into creating it?
No, but that doesn't mean that everyone should have to suffer so. Suffering does not entitle compensation. Creation of something that is easier to obtain through payment than through effort entitles compensation.
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> Something you need to remember about the United
> States is that it was founded by a bunch of
> guys who didn't want to pay taxes. Which by the
> law of that time they were bound to pay.
Sure. I agree that we have the right to revolt, secede, or move somewhere else. The United States does enough things right that I'll protest the little things I don't like in a legal way - through demonstrations and communications with representatives.
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Yes, it's different. If you steal my IP, I still have my IP. We both have it now.
IP is a concept fabricated by the government. If you have an idea that you want to hide, that's fine. But making laws so you can sell those ideas and enforce their containment creates artificial value and outlandish expectations for law enforcement.
Not injuring people is an obvious societal law. (Fear of injury precludes order.)
Not taking people's stuff is almost as obvious. (To remain a stable society, people must be confident they won't forcefully lose the goods they already have.)
IP is not obvious, and, I believe, not justifiable. Do IP laws encourage innovation? That's not certain. That would imply that corporations would always out-innovate academia.
Do people deserve money for work done on ideas? This one's tougher. What determines what's worth money? Something is worth money only if someone's willing to pay for it. Government or no government, someone will pay for a chair. Government or no government, someone will pay for a service. IP is only long-term valuable if the government says it is. Otherwise, the purchaser of IP is able to sell it for less to someone else, and he is able to sell it for less to someone else, and so on until it is free.
Legal wrangling over intellectual property is only going to get worse as bandwidth increases. I think that's a sign that it was a flawed idea to begin with.
Right now, I respect IP laws. I don't trade in warez, I ripped all my mp3's from my own CDs. But that's not because I think the reasoning behind IP is valid. It's because I've agreed to live in the United States, and part of that agreement is abiding by laws whether I agree with them or not.
Yeah, I was pretty turned off by that, too. I've got almost all the TMBG albums (including LTW which I bought off of emusic.com), but $10 a month is a lot of money for fan club membership. Max, I'd probably go for $20 a year. (And I could do without the fleece pullover.)
Some of the things that make gopher seem antiquated are just the things we might need for an intelligently navigable space on PDAs.
Right now, the average web page looks terrible on a palm - the graphics don't fit the resolution, the links are often broken, and (particularly with cached content like a synched AvantGo) you never know which pages are stored and which are missing.
It seems gopher would solve some of these problems, providing a hierarchical space that's more well thought out for a PDA user's experience. I believe there's also less protocol necessary for the browser to understand.
I looked at it with some of my co-workers. It's the same device that you see making a 3D image of a penny in places like the Nature Store. (The guy working the booth even admitted it was similar technology.)
It's just a really perfectly curved mirror inside a device that looks like a UFO. You put the object down in the device, and each of your eyes sees a different reflection of it.
For real objects, then, it's not that impressive. For animation on the other hand, I couldn't quite see how it worked. It might not have been true 3D (i.e., both of your eyes saw the same image).
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, look who Dr. Mosier-Boss authored a paper with!
Nolan Bushnell is on the board of Wave Systems, who makes these chips. (Or at least he used to be.)
(I used to work at Wave myself.)
You might want to let them know about that.
Aeralib
For that matter, at least let me tell it to index more than just the C:\ drive.
:)
Not that I've tried it, but try adding other drives to the registry entry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\HistoricalCapture\Crawler\CRAWL_DIRS
As far as I can tell, it always does this when you reply to plain text email. It does what you say (just pasting the copy below "--original message follows--") for HTML email with a multipart/alternative mime type.
I used to work at Lockheed, and I had a SunPCI card. It worked fairly well, although it was a bit slow.
This device induces experiences that are similar to religious "miracles," where someone believes he or she has seen god. It does this by transmitting signals around your head.
I'm not sure if anyone ever commercialized it.
Get a pressure cooker. It'll cut your bean cooking time in half.
Nicholas Carr, writing in a recent Harvard Business Review article, probably wouldn't agree with Moskowitz and Kern.
You can see some pictures and read about the new radar here.
The current radar technology used for all weather forcasting (NEXRAD) is really pretty old. By using a phased array, the scan times are much quicker than the old spinning dish style.
We hope to get this thing operational really soon. Off the above site, there's a webcam where you can see the progress of its construction.
Except that satellite images of enormous ships already work fine. Oh, and the ships aren't invisible to radar either.
The 333 year old Vasa is a warship that was raised from oxygen-depleted water off the coast of Sweden. Inside, they found all sorts of preserved treasures, and it's now a museum that you can visit in Stockholm. (I was there last year and was very impressed with the thing. It's huge and has very ornate carvings all over the outside.)
Radar wouldn't really be able to help you much here. Weather radar's resolution is on the order of tens of meters, and the stuff you're looking at would need to be somewhat reflective to radar.
The wind that's holding up the block wouldn't be very visible either if it really was in a clear sky. Rain reflects back to the radar, but plain wind isn't very easy to see.
That doesn't really prove anything, though. While com.com is owned by C|Net, the interesting thing is that if you replace news.com.com in the URL with just news.com or www.news.com, it doesn't work anymore.
Check out the URL. It's news.com.com, meaning this isn't coming from C|Net news (news.com), but the com.com domain.
Support for JSPs in emacs isn't there automatically with JDEE, but the mmm-mode module works great. It deals with the problem of having both HTML formatted code and Java code in the same buffer.
I think they're around $10,000 each.
We use IBM 4758s at work. They're a huge pain to deal with - we've had a bunch spontaneously die. Apparently the earlier boards were more sensitive to pressure and things like that, and they just gave up on life as a result.
The difficult thing about programming these boards is all the states they go through in the lifecycle of getting code securely loaded. There are a million different utility scripts to change the state of code trust.
I'm curious to see how linux handles all this secure code loading stuff. Let's hope it's easier.
(Not that I'm disparaging these boards. What they do is really amazing, as far as they can assure you that your secrets inside will never get out and the code that you have running there is your code.)
>>Yes, it's different. If you steal my IP, I
>>still have my IP. We both have it now.
>Do we both have the blood, sweat, tears and long
>lonely hours that went into creating it?
No, but that doesn't mean that everyone should have to suffer so. Suffering does not entitle compensation. Creation of something that is easier to obtain through payment than through effort entitles compensation.
> Something you need to remember about the United
> States is that it was founded by a bunch of
> guys who didn't want to pay taxes. Which by the
> law of that time they were bound to pay.
Sure. I agree that we have the right to revolt, secede, or move somewhere else. The United States does enough things right that I'll protest the little things I don't like in a legal way - through demonstrations and communications with representatives.
Yes, it's different. If you steal my IP, I still have my IP. We both have it now.
IP is a concept fabricated by the government. If you have an idea that you want to hide, that's fine. But making laws so you can sell those ideas and enforce their containment creates artificial value and outlandish expectations for law enforcement.
Not injuring people is an obvious societal law. (Fear of injury precludes order.)
Not taking people's stuff is almost as obvious. (To remain a stable society, people must be confident they won't forcefully lose the goods they already have.)
IP is not obvious, and, I believe, not justifiable. Do IP laws encourage innovation? That's not certain. That would imply that corporations would always out-innovate academia.
Do people deserve money for work done on ideas? This one's tougher. What determines what's worth money? Something is worth money only if someone's willing to pay for it. Government or no government, someone will pay for a chair. Government or no government, someone will pay for a service. IP is only long-term valuable if the government says it is. Otherwise, the purchaser of IP is able to sell it for less to someone else, and he is able to sell it for less to someone else, and so on until it is free.
Legal wrangling over intellectual property is only going to get worse as bandwidth increases. I think that's a sign that it was a flawed idea to begin with.
Right now, I respect IP laws. I don't trade in warez, I ripped all my mp3's from my own CDs. But that's not because I think the reasoning behind IP is valid. It's because I've agreed to live in the United States, and part of that agreement is abiding by laws whether I agree with them or not.
Yeah, I was pretty turned off by that, too. I've got almost all the TMBG albums (including LTW which I bought off of emusic.com), but $10 a month is a lot of money for fan club membership. Max, I'd probably go for $20 a year. (And I could do without the fleece pullover.)
Some of the things that make gopher seem antiquated are just the things we might need for an intelligently navigable space on PDAs.
Right now, the average web page looks terrible on a palm - the graphics don't fit the resolution, the links are often broken, and (particularly with cached content like a synched AvantGo) you never know which pages are stored and which are missing.
It seems gopher would solve some of these problems, providing a hierarchical space that's more well thought out for a PDA user's experience. I believe there's also less protocol necessary for the browser to understand.
I looked at it with some of my co-workers. It's the same device that you see making a 3D image of a penny in places like the Nature Store. (The guy working the booth even admitted it was similar technology.)
It's just a really perfectly curved mirror inside a device that looks like a UFO. You put the object down in the device, and each of your eyes sees a different reflection of it.
For real objects, then, it's not that impressive. For animation on the other hand, I couldn't quite see how it worked. It might not have been true 3D (i.e., both of your eyes saw the same image).
IIRC, Dartmouth's been requiring students to purchase computers for at least 7 years now.