I have a short intro to search engines on my website.
That's an introduction to search engine optimization, not an introduction to search engine technology. The submitter seems to be interested in the technology and algorithms behind finding pages that match a particular term, not finding out how to maximize the position of their website in indexes.
Remote controls that let you automatically record a set of TV shows. Sure, there's Tivo...but even Tivo doesn't want you to be able to watch this stuff whenever you want!
MythTV certainly lets you do whatever you want with your recordings. Or do only commercial solutions count?
And we do have vast amount of access - but no authoritative, complete libraries at our fingertips.
We're probably there in terms of what many people in 1989 were thinking of. If you need to find out about something you can do that online whereas back then you'd have had to go to a library. As for authoritative, well that's a debatable point about regular libraries too - just because you read something in a book doesn't make it automatically true.
What we don't have is online access to most specific works. I can't look something up in "The Art of Computer Programming" online, for example. But even that situation is slowly improving.
As a developer, I really need to make sure my programming runs on both, since this was a web based project....
So, for the moment, I'm not running it at all, and I'm back to using Internet Explorer.
So, I take you're no longer testing your project on FireFox?
This scheme was mentioned in at least one of Niven's books. It didn't work - surviving family members took the estate to court to get at their rightful inheritance. I think that's a pretty likely outcome. Another likely outcome is that the estate management will embezzle it (it's not like you can watch them closely when you're dead). It's also possible the government might decide to seize it, if it's a tempting enough target.
This has been the case since day 1. The only problem is if Google has been allowing people to register addresses that differ only because of the position of periods. Certainly they generally don't - I've tried to register several variations of my gmail address without success. It looks like the case discussed in this article is a isolated incident.
If we take a 1967 Volkswagen to be a measuremeant of length then it is 1606.01 times larger than a single letter so it would take 9823500.48 Volkswagi to tailgate around the earth. Multiply that by 250 and you get ~ 2.455875x10^9 Volkswagens.
No, no! The Volkswagen Beetle can only be used as a unit of mass or volume, never has a unit of length. Length should be measured in "football fields" (which can also be used for area)!
Such claims should be taken with a grain of salt until they reveal what fonts and point sizes they use.
It's just meaningless reporter-speak. A stupid attempt to provide context for readers who can't visualise that much data. Of course, I doubt many such readers have a good concept of the circumference of the world or the height of Mt Everest either.
I actually have my masters thesis on a single sheet of A4. I had to use a 1.5 point font to make it fit. You could still read it though.
This is not a big deal for DVDs because most soundcards have Dolby digital pass through -- so they pass the 5.1 signal to your A/V receiver and it decodes the signal. However, for MP3's, downloaded movies, or anything else you are play on your HTPC, there is no real 5.1 solution --- unless you go with a Turtle Beach unit (or M-Audio, which I haven't tried). Yes, you can "simulate" but at the core, it's only a stereo feed with most sound cards.
Is there really much content out there that has 5.1 but isn't AC3 or DTS? I haven't seen much myself. The only use I've seen for AC3 encoding is with games.
How are the polar bears handling the polar ice cap melting on Mars?
I hope you're not implying that global warming here has the same cause as the CO2 ice caps melting on Mars. Because that article you linked to clearly states that current melting on Mars is a regular seasonal event.
While I know that we have core samples from certain times in the past, it has already been show that the temperature and CO2 levels have been much higher in the past.
That's incorrect. A recent ice core has shown that atmosphere CO2 levels are now 27% higher and methane levels are 130% higher they have been at any other time in the last 650,000 years. Do a search on Google news and you'll find plenty of stories about this data. Here's one for you: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-na-ice25nov 25,0,5657925.story
Linus does hardly any kernel development these days, he mainly integrates the work of others.
And he is still the bottleneck in the whole process. Any time he does not spend on kernel work delays the next release. However many hours Linus
At some level we have Tridge to thank for this burst of activity in open source version control development
At some level we do, I agree. But forcing someone to replace a tool is still an impolite thing to do (at best), not matter how much better the replacements are. No matter how rosy the outcome the changeover would still have been better had the replacement tools been developed before Tridge forced the issue. Ulimately Tridge let political considerations override practical ones and Linus has every right to be unhappy with that decision.
The extent of your cluelessness is breathtaking. Please do everybody a favor and at least try to know something about what you are talking about before you blather more ok?
The folks behind BK threw a fit and pulled the plug. It was ultimately their decision to do what they did, and the consquences are their responsibility.
Bollocks. If I tell you that your actions are forcing me into a position where I will have to react in a certain way you are not blameless if you persist. Think about the obvious case: if you are waving a firearm about and the police tell you to desist or be shot, whose fault is it if you do not desist and end up dead?
Trigdell didn't do anything wrong. Or, if he did do something wrong, then it started way before BK with Samba. And while the US government may want us to believe that reverse engineering is "Wrong(tm)", it is not.
Tridgell didn't do anything wrong in reverse engineering the BK protocol. But he did insist on continuing the work when informed of the consequences, i.e. discontinuation of the free version of BK and therefore a boatload of work for the kernel developers to replace that tool. Not to mention the loss of that tool for many non-kernel developers. Talks were held between Tridge, Linus, and BitMover and a compromise could not be reached. I wasn't party to those talks but I am sure that Tridgell was in a position to reach a more amicable outcome than actually eventuated.
What Tridgell did "wrong" was to force a situation where free BK would become unavailable without a suitable replacement being available. He could have saved a lot of people a lot of aggravation and work by ensuring that a suitable replacement was available before he went public with his work.
Larry McVoy is gone and his disruptive influence with it.
Strawman.
We have several great new open source version control systems as a direct result of this change, set to surpass BitKeeper in every way in the near future.
So it's 6+ months down the track and you admit that we still don't have a complete replacement. Wouldn't it have been smarter to write the replacement first and then ditch BitKeeper? Why didn't Tridge do that?
Tridge's work has been nothing but good for the community. You sound petty by gainsaying it.
Bullshit, and you sound ignorant to claim otherwise. Kernel development was set back while kernel developers spent time writing version control systems. And there are plenty of non-kernel developers who have effectively been denied a useful tool that you admit hasn't yet been fully replaced with a open source alternative.
I realise the consequences of Tridgell's actions are a great victory for the Free Software Fanatics, but the fact is that there were better, more constructive ways to go about replacing BK.
Oh, and Tridge's code remains a good tool for liberating captive history from old BitKeeper archives.
Yeah, so great that SourcePuller has been downloaded 222 times from SourceForge and hasn't had any development since May. Besides, that tool only pulls data from BK servers and you can't run one of those without paying for a license so what use is it again?
However, this is the same guy that got upset at the Samba guy for reversing bitkeeper.
And with good reason. Look at the situation now: Trigdell forced Linus and others to do a lot of work to replace the functionality BitKeeper provded, and for what? What use is Trigdell's reverse engineering work now?
By making the price of admitting there MIGHT be a problem with the drug so high, it's inevitable they would try to delay a recall for as long as possible. I'm not defending it - I'm saying it's inevitable and logical. The tort system takes it's toll in lives as well as dollars.
I don't agree with your logic. When the cost of liability is so high it should encourage companies to play it safe and pull drugs as soon as they suspect there might be an issue, because in that case they can legitimately claim to have done everything they could to limit damage. That would make settlements very difficult. That's what it looked like in the Vioxx case. But now Merck seem to have concealled evidence. By covering up the evidence a company is opening itself to tabacco-style settlements - it becomes a willful endangerment type of situation. A far riskier proposition, and one that could open executives up to criminal charges in some cases.
What's misleading about saying it is tall? It was only you that assumed that tall and large are the same. Everyone else knows that tall refers to height, not volume.
The headline of this story originally read "World's Largest Building Causing Earthquakes". It's now been changed.
Bit of a misleading headline. Taipei 101 may be the world's tallest building (by some definitions), but it's not the largest. The Pentagon is larger by floor area and several buildings are much larger by volume. Wikipedia has more.
Actually a partial collapse of the bench did happen in August 2005, taking ~11 acres (second to last paragraph).
I'd expect a mention in that paragraph if 14 people had lost their lives in that incident. In fact I'd expect pretty widespread media coverage as well - it's not like people get killed by volcanos very often.
As for the deaths, I'm repeating what the park ranger told me. Maybe he was telling the truth, or maybe he wanted to scare tourists and exaggerated it, but it looks like others have heard the same.
I'd guess he was trying to scare you into not doing anything foolish. As for the other link - they say "a year ago", you said the ranger told you it happened a several months ago. It's starting to sound like an urban legend.
Are you just getting your info from Google, or do you have some first-hand knowledge of the situation?
I'm just getting my info from Google, but I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss it on that basis. None of the news reports I've seen on the current collapse have mentioned any such incidence (yet it would be just the sort of thing a journalist would add as background). None of the pages I've found on Hawaiian volcanos or volcano related deaths has mentioned anything either, e.g.:
Those pages both mention the 1993 fatality. Of course it's possible that neither have been updated in the last few years, but I'd still expect to be able to find some evidence somewhere on the net.
No, I didn't comment on it all - I didn't even read it. I commented on the first line, on my incorrect belief that the OP was saying they needed one of these things to drive teenagers away from their skateboard store.
It's not that I lack time to read and/or comment on "...profit" jokes. I just find they're so rarely funny anymore that they're not worth the effort of reading. It was hilarious on South Park, but 7 years later it's a bit stale.
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What we don't have is online access to most specific works. I can't look something up in "The Art of Computer Programming" online, for example. But even that situation is slowly improving.
This scheme was mentioned in at least one of Niven's books. It didn't work - surviving family members took the estate to court to get at their rightful inheritance. I think that's a pretty likely outcome. Another likely outcome is that the estate management will embezzle it (it's not like you can watch them closely when you're dead). It's also possible the government might decide to seize it, if it's a tempting enough target.
This has been the case since day 1. The only problem is if Google has been allowing people to register addresses that differ only because of the position of periods. Certainly they generally don't - I've tried to register several variations of my gmail address without success. It looks like the case discussed in this article is a isolated incident.
Yeah, it can be. Lots of flexibility though.
I actually have my masters thesis on a single sheet of A4. I had to use a 1.5 point font to make it fit. You could still read it though.
What Tridgell did "wrong" was to force a situation where free BK would become unavailable without a suitable replacement being available. He could have saved a lot of people a lot of aggravation and work by ensuring that a suitable replacement was available before he went public with his work.
I realise the consequences of Tridgell's actions are a great victory for the Free Software Fanatics, but the fact is that there were better, more constructive ways to go about replacing BK.
Yeah, so great that SourcePuller has been downloaded 222 times from SourceForge and hasn't had any development since May. Besides, that tool only pulls data from BK servers and you can't run one of those without paying for a license so what use is it again?Nobodies patented any "virii". Viruses, OTOH...
Bit of a misleading headline. Taipei 101 may be the world's tallest building (by some definitions), but it's not the largest. The Pentagon is larger by floor area and several buildings are much larger by volume. Wikipedia has more.
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Those pages both mention the 1993 fatality. Of course it's possible that neither have been updated in the last few years, but I'd still expect to be able to find some evidence somewhere on the net.It's not that I lack time to read and/or comment on "...profit" jokes. I just find they're so rarely funny anymore that they're not worth the effort of reading. It was hilarious on South Park, but 7 years later it's a bit stale.
Oh, yes. I just tune out those stupid "...profit" jokes these days.