Each driveway in US has a car in it, every kitchen has a refrigerator, with a chicken inside. There is a TV in every guest room, a good road to every village, with a school and a clinic in each one.
There is no absolute poverty in US -- none. Sure, some people are dirt poor compared to others, but they are still rich by the standards of the truly poor of this world. And they have far more opportunities too.
And -- unlike the spoiled Americans -- foreigners know this and millions try to get in here legally and otherwise. Even those, who seem to dislike us: "Yankee, Go Home! (But take me with you...)"
Capitalism may, indeed, foster inequality, but it does not create poverty -- no known system makes everyone equaly rich, but some are sure to make everyone equaly poor.
Compared to not having an endoscope at all, this is terrific. But to pass as a "medical-grade" device in a developed country, there has to be a lot more to this apparatus and the cost will likely skyrocket.
May still be quite low, but nothing quite as spectacular as this.
Count the "coulds" and the "mights" in your post and agree with me, that NCSA's method can not be used to conclusively compare the sizes of Yahoo!'s and Google's indexes...
The whole method seems flawed. Trying to compare the sizes of two sets by the sizes of various subsets makes sense only if the method of selecting the subsets is the same.
This is not the case. The methods depend on each search engine's algorithms and are very likely to differ greatly.
In any case, whether a particular query returns 40 results or 40000 does not matter -- only the first 20 are ever of any use...
why doesn't he go roll out some fiber from the telco to his house himself?
In New York I can choose between an independent provider like Speakeasy, TimeWarner's Roadrunner, OptimumOnline, and Verizon's DSL -- at least. Verizon's is the cheapest and the crappiest at $30. That's a tightly-regulated big city.
In a rural environment, the choices aren't as abundant, but there is less regulation too. Where there is a need, there'd be a business addressing it... Practically, one can order a T1, install an antenna on the roof and sell access to all neighbors. If you order your connectivity through Speakeasy, for example, they will even help you billing your customers/neighbors for whatever ammount you want (in a big city or in a small village).
Private entrepreneurship, not government is how such things ought to be addressed.
Basically it will take an act of congress to make it happen.
An act of Congress? Like the one, which handed AT&T a monopoly on telephones -- creating the mess, we are still suffering from today?
The simple way to arrange this saving is to store the generated file on the disk.
Instead of regenerating pages upon each request (pull), they should be regenerated upon each change (push). This will save not only bandwidth, but also memory and CPU (and lots of it) on the server and is, actually, easier to implement and debug -- no changes to web-server, which will be dealing with the regular file, for example.
The NCSA's test neither confirms nor disproves Yahoo's earlier claims. Their lesser average results may just indicate higher quality threshold -- Google's results beyond the second page are never useful either.
I'd say, it is kind'a early to claim "pants down, egg on face"...
Based on this random sample, we found that on average Yahoo! only returns 37.4% of the results that Google does and, in many cases, returns significantly less.
Informative. But do they also explain, why this (Google's results) is a good thing? From my experience, Google's results beyond the second page are never useful, so they may as well not be there at all.
I don't see, how NCSA's findings can prove or disprove's Yahoo's earlier claims.
I'd imagine, a rather substantial percentage of Earthling would cry bloody murder and condemn attempts to mine Mars for anything, even if anything worth mining (and transporting back) was discovered there.
Like it not, but without the chance to profit, no great adventures can be sustained...
In a word: stinks... The new Deer Park release (currently in alpha) may be better, but the old 1.0.x, although building barely works on amd64.
The trunk of the cvs tree has plenty of 64-bit specific fixes over the last year, but -- being unrelated to security -- they don't make their way into the 1.0.x branch, which is the only one released.
Having to maintain compatibility with the backwards OS/compiler combinations (like Win98/MSVC6) impedes development -- especially porting to the "obscure" new platforms like FreeBSD/amd64.
And if you happen to be lucky enough to have a working 64-bit firefox, try installing the Forecastfox
extension and restarting... (Careful -- backup your ~/.mozilla first.)
As well Hotmail has pretty much switched over to Windows.
Of course -- because Microsoft bought them (they are now part of MSN). They had to move to a Microsoft's OS at any cost, or else it would've been too embarassing for the new owners...
This is why I said "former" Hotmail in my original post.
He said the performance improvements and 64-bit support in the Linux 2.6 kernel fueled the decision to considering porting some of the applications. "From a performance and scalability standpoint, earlier versions of the kernel couldn't meet our requirements without heavy customization," he said.
Quite clearly, it talks about "problems scaling" in Linux (pre 2.6), not FreeBSD...
Why move from FreeBSD at all? I guess, because the hardware vendors are pushing it... Opteron-servers are available from Sun, HP, and, perhaps, from IBM, but only with the vendors' own OSes or Linux:-(
Yes, the CEO is a public figure - but his family is not.
Don't we all know about Ms. Kerry's ketchup fortunes, Bush's daughters' troubles with the law, and Chelsea Clinton's being inconvenienced by body-guards?
I think what they [Google] did was pretty mild.
Yes, it was. And so is the ZDNet UK's reaction we are discussing here.
The point of the argument is that the facts are freely available. If they used Yahoo!'s search engine, the core of their argument would not have changed (there'd just be less amusement in it).
As for defending the CEO's right to privacy, well, sorry. Being a CEO of a famous publicly traded company, he -- like politicians -- is a public figure (if not legally, then ethically anyway). You can not harm him physically (not even with something her company makes), but you can say anything about him, short only of lies (ethically, anyway).
U.S. government (Calmly): We just need some log files from you.
Rackspace: Oh wow!!! We will damage our reputation by giving you far more than you asked!!! Our customer's trust means nothing to us!
Actually, yes, I had just that happen to me once in the "happy 90-ies". When a certain kook of the month called his police department (in Colorado) and that of my ISP (Massachusetts) to complain about my Usenet postings, my ISP (then owned by thisscumbag) cut my dial-up access after leaving me a frantic voice-mail: "For $10 per month, we don't want calls from police".
This was not even the dreaded "Feds", he peed his pants over -- just a local police department, which never even contacted me. Evidently, customer loyalty is overrated...
http://www.freshports.org/
If they work on FreeBSD for free, most of them can be persuaded with money to port to Linux as well -- it is not that much worse:-)
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Each driveway in US has a car in it, every kitchen has a refrigerator, with a chicken inside. There is a TV in every guest room, a good road to every village, with a school and a clinic in each one.
There is no absolute poverty in US -- none. Sure, some people are dirt poor compared to others, but they are still rich by the standards of the truly poor of this world. And they have far more opportunities too.
And -- unlike the spoiled Americans -- foreigners know this and millions try to get in here legally and otherwise. Even those, who seem to dislike us: "Yankee, Go Home! (But take me with you...)"
Capitalism may, indeed, foster inequality, but it does not create poverty -- no known system makes everyone equaly rich, but some are sure to make everyone equaly poor.
Compared to not having an endoscope at all, this is terrific. But to pass as a "medical-grade" device in a developed country, there has to be a lot more to this apparatus and the cost will likely skyrocket.
May still be quite low, but nothing quite as spectacular as this.
Count the "coulds" and the "mights" in your post and agree with me, that NCSA's method can not be used to conclusively compare the sizes of Yahoo!'s and Google's indexes...
This is not the case. The methods depend on each search engine's algorithms and are very likely to differ greatly.
In any case, whether a particular query returns 40 results or 40000 does not matter -- only the first 20 are ever of any use...
In a rural environment, the choices aren't as abundant, but there is less regulation too. Where there is a need, there'd be a business addressing it... Practically, one can order a T1, install an antenna on the roof and sell access to all neighbors. If you order your connectivity through Speakeasy, for example, they will even help you billing your customers/neighbors for whatever ammount you want (in a big city or in a small village).
Private entrepreneurship, not government is how such things ought to be addressed.
An act of Congress? Like the one, which handed AT&T a monopoly on telephones -- creating the mess, we are still suffering from today?Must they supply you with food and toilet paper too?
What is the problem?
The term smacks of something unwholesome...
Instead of regenerating pages upon each request (pull), they should be regenerated upon each change (push). This will save not only bandwidth, but also memory and CPU (and lots of it) on the server and is, actually, easier to implement and debug -- no changes to web-server, which will be dealing with the regular file, for example.
The NCSA's test neither confirms nor disproves Yahoo's earlier claims. Their lesser average results may just indicate higher quality threshold -- Google's results beyond the second page are never useful either.
I'd say, it is kind'a early to claim "pants down, egg on face"...
I don't see, how NCSA's findings can prove or disprove's Yahoo's earlier claims.
Like it not, but without the chance to profit, no great adventures can be sustained...
The trunk of the cvs tree has plenty of 64-bit specific fixes over the last year, but -- being unrelated to security -- they don't make their way into the 1.0.x branch, which is the only one released.
Having to maintain compatibility with the backwards OS/compiler combinations (like Win98/MSVC6) impedes development -- especially porting to the "obscure" new platforms like FreeBSD/amd64.
And if you happen to be lucky enough to have a working 64-bit firefox, try installing the Forecastfox extension and restarting... (Careful -- backup your ~/.mozilla first.)
Gebyy zl oruvaq...
This is why I said "former" Hotmail in my original post.
Why move from FreeBSD at all? I guess, because the hardware vendors are pushing it... Opteron-servers are available from Sun, HP, and, perhaps, from IBM, but only with the vendors' own OSes or Linux :-(
As for defending the CEO's right to privacy, well, sorry. Being a CEO of a famous publicly traded company, he -- like politicians -- is a public figure (if not legally, then ethically anyway). You can not harm him physically (not even with something her company makes), but you can say anything about him, short only of lies (ethically, anyway).
I realize, that it may be more complex to validate/parse, but that is an engineering problem, not user's.
And it is solved already -- numerous browsers parse it just fine.
- The <span... for every paragraph
- giant and identical "style=...." qualifiers for each <td> and <tr>
- each cell with an explicit paragraph inside it
- each cell ending with an explicit </td>.
Manual cleansing ended up reducing the file size by about 60%, without changing, how it looks.This was not even the dreaded "Feds", he peed his pants over -- just a local police department, which never even contacted me. Evidently, customer loyalty is overrated...
http://www.freshports.org/ If they work on FreeBSD for free, most of them can be persuaded with money to port to Linux as well -- it is not that much worse :-)