i dont think your question is offtopic at all. i was looking for the answer to this but the interview answer seemed evasive
i would guess they use a suffix tree. roughly, a suffix tree stores a suffix of a string (in this case webpage) in each branch from the root; branches split further when there are different endings to a suffix. i used this for a search algorithm for a plagarism detector for my school. i believe this algorithm is most popularly used for searching dna sequences
the director states that they presearch words and store them. it almost sounded like they search this tree for words and store the results in tables that they then join upon request. more informed speculation?
how many cell towers do you think a country has? and if theyre run off solar power, how do you think youre going to take out enough to damage the network? think internet nodes
no one gives a rats ass about the tutsis, which is why that happened
thankfully, people do watch and care about the palestinians. bombing an entire nation the way you describe would not only start a war with all arab nations, it would destroy ties with benefactor usa and result in un action. not to mention millions of palestinians rushing into israel to escape the bombing
oh, and if we rated a post by its spelling, slashdot would be left with nothing but rants like yours
I'd say that any country which targets civilians for no good reason deserves to have its own civilians attacked.
the problem with your logic is that when we attack their civilians, they now have the right to attack ours. crying "terrorism" when they attack our civilians is a little disingenious when the only difference between us and them is that we can afford to bomb by plane and they have to use truck bombs or suitcases
so it works both ways, but we dont like to be on the receiving end of it
However, it was a good company in its effects. It brought taxation and simple democracy to India. It breathed the first light of the west's wisdom on those dark and primitive lands.
before colonisation, india was a trading hub of asia. the colonisers destroyed local industries, breaking the hands of those who dared work there, to stop them from competing with british companies. thats why gandhi asked indians to stop buying british clothes, salt, etc, and start making their own again
taxation was nothing new either. indian kings used to do it too. do you even know how old taxation is?
though I would argue that if Apple integrated X-Win into Aqua, the combination of default security, Java2, OpenGL, Quicktime, BSD core services, et al would bring it close to being the strongest for all round uses, but hey, thats MY bias
many good x implementations exist for os x. the fact that they dont come from apple shouldnt be a problem for *nix users with their "roll your own" mentality. aqua is better for the consumer crowd
youre being sarcastic, right? yes it is forcing, when the alternative (manual filing) is so poor
what you are saying is equivalent to banning a certain brand of car from the roads, then saying that i could still walk
if standards therefore choices are not supported, the government is taking sides. esp when only one brand is supported. the government is not supposed to take sides
doubt theyre two markets. its just one market with two bandwagons. and sgi just jumps from one (wintel) to the other (lintel)
and all the while, its sgi thats the problem. i think they and the market would be better served if they believed in their own bandwagon and refined their operations to deliver. kinda like apple is doing
90% of the population is not better when that means the government is forcing a choice on you
sheeple, please wake up. the government is not here to make choices for you. the government is supposed to be about equal access (democratic ones anyway). i can make my own choices
i think youre right that computermakers are trying to differentiate themselves in this commodity market. but only the successful differentiations will win. apple succeeds because the ibook is so much more than a cute shape
otoh, the compaq devices appear to combine the worst of a desktop and laptop. as has been pointed out, they lack the main reason for a desktop, expandability. i use a mac not because it looks cool or comes in colors, but because of the extreme usability, something compaq does not yet understand
youre absolutely right on this. i was very impressed by a recent story of a pda running linux and x! but i dont think linux stands any chance on the current desktop, and the cynic in me says m$ will be able to walk into any future late and crush competitors with monopoly power (see also "the game console wars")
the point was that companies are pulling resources away from desktop linux. the article states that die hard fans will continue development. but the article contends that without professional resources, linux will be unable to compete with mac and windows
look at sourceforge. it is possible to have active projects that move so slowly as to be dead. it doesnt matter if linux moves forward; if it cant keep pace with other desktop oses, its dead on the desktop
you are so blinded by your ideology that you will twist everything to suit your cause:
Right now OS X has approximately zero users... Heck, there are probably more Linux installs on former Mac hardware than there are OS X installs
um, did you know that os x sold 100,000 copies in its first/week/?/sold/, not given away
Perhaps in the future this won't be the case, but to say that Mac OS X is top dog in the Free *nix world (especially considering that it isn't a Free *nix but is only based on one) is premature.
i never said it was top dog in the/free/ *nix world, you added that, i said it is arguably *nix top dog. but yes, you are right, in the future their marketshare will continue to grow: apple sells millions of machines a year and next month they will all be os x
Cygnus made money at Free Software for years (as has the FSF, but they made so little money that it hardly counts). RedHat recently broke even, while growing their business at an astounding rate.
youre kidding, right? break even?! lol! redhat posts nothing but losses all its life and then one quarter it breaks even, and this is a profitable company? take off your blinders, buddy!
Just remember, more closed source companies have gone spectacularly bankrupt than there will ever be Free Software companies. And Free Software was doing just fine long before there were any corporations involved.
you compare open source companies to the worst companies to feel better? what good will that do when they are all bankrupt? free/software/ was doing fine (whatever that means), free software/companies/ are not
Mac OS X is a fine example of this. They have been promising a new OS for years, and it wasn't until Apple "borrowed" the work of Open Source volunteers that they were actually able to produce one.
and apple using bsd is different from redhat using linux how? apple contributes to bsd, apache, etc. they are a member of the open source community. read the bsdl
While Apple was busy sprinting from one spectacular failure to the next, the folks creating BSD were cranking out an OS that worked spectacularly, and they were doing it largely in their spare time.
every company has projects that are failures. the important thing is that overall they are very successful. and they continue to innovate. unfortunately, the same can not be said for redhat et al
i like to think i am open minded. when mac os 7.5 crashed several times a day, i looked for a better os. a prof gave me a redhat disc and we tried for weeks to get it to work on a 486. never could get x or ppp up, and it didnt run any consumer apps. youd think the only reason for the existence of redhat was to do for linux what apple has now done for bsd! i sadly resigned myself to windows and began saving. then i saw os x demos. since the beta, it has been my fulltime os. and in a poetic twist that brings the story full circle, i gave my prof my beta disc, he installed it on a trial ibook, and now he has an ibook of his own running v1 that hes using to convince the department to switch from redhat to os x
The fact of the matter is that the GPL has almost certainly been an asset to Linux. If this weren't the case then one of the BSDs would be top dog in the Free *nix world. The fact of the matter is that software consumers love the GPL.
actually, it can be argued that one of the bsds is *nix top dog, its name is darwin. with apple installing os x as the default os on all its machines this summer, bsd will sell in quantities linux can not hope to match. the fact of the matter is that consumers love good software, and the bsd license lets apple improve and innovate and still pay its programmers
unfortunately companies publishing under the gpl have been unable to make a profit. that doesnt say good things about them continuing to advance the software. why shouldnt developers make money for their effort?
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i know! i picked up an se from a garbage can outside a bio profs office (had been replaced by a g4)
:)
plugged it in and viola! it had exams and student grades on it, and a couple of nih grant applications on it (which i assume paid for the g4)
im leaving it just the way it is. can spaceward ho run on system 6?
i dont think your question is offtopic at all. i was looking for the answer to this but the interview answer seemed evasive
i would guess they use a suffix tree. roughly, a suffix tree stores a suffix of a string (in this case webpage) in each branch from the root; branches split further when there are different endings to a suffix. i used this for a search algorithm for a plagarism detector for my school. i believe this algorithm is most popularly used for searching dna sequences
the director states that they presearch words and store them. it almost sounded like they search this tree for words and store the results in tables that they then join upon request. more informed speculation?
do you know of any plans for an os x port that uses quartz/aqua?
they do already do this. its called the powerpc. the same g4 in macs is in the gamecube
you also get to learn from other people how to do and enjoy nearly everything. Then you get to show them things afterwards.
now thats my idea of fun!
how many cell towers do you think a country has? and if theyre run off solar power, how do you think youre going to take out enough to damage the network? think internet nodes
no one gives a rats ass about the tutsis, which is why that happened
thankfully, people do watch and care about the palestinians. bombing an entire nation the way you describe would not only start a war with all arab nations, it would destroy ties with benefactor usa and result in un action. not to mention millions of palestinians rushing into israel to escape the bombing
oh, and if we rated a post by its spelling, slashdot would be left with nothing but rants like yours
I'd say that any country which targets civilians for no good reason deserves to have its own civilians attacked.
the problem with your logic is that when we attack their civilians, they now have the right to attack ours. crying "terrorism" when they attack our civilians is a little disingenious when the only difference between us and them is that we can afford to bomb by plane and they have to use truck bombs or suitcases
so it works both ways, but we dont like to be on the receiving end of it
However, it was a good company in its effects. It brought taxation and simple democracy to India. It breathed the first light of the west's wisdom on those dark and primitive lands.
before colonisation, india was a trading hub of asia. the colonisers destroyed local industries, breaking the hands of those who dared work there, to stop them from competing with british companies. thats why gandhi asked indians to stop buying british clothes, salt, etc, and start making their own again
taxation was nothing new either. indian kings used to do it too. do you even know how old taxation is?
CPU power has ramped up considerably since the Athlon debued and gave Intel a scare.
mhz has ramped up considerably; the jury is still out on cpu power
here
though I would argue that if Apple integrated X-Win into Aqua, the combination of default security, Java2, OpenGL, Quicktime, BSD core services, et al would bring it close to being the strongest for all round uses, but hey, thats MY bias
many good x implementations exist for os x. the fact that they dont come from apple shouldnt be a problem for *nix users with their "roll your own" mentality. aqua is better for the consumer crowd
youre being sarcastic, right? yes it is forcing, when the alternative (manual filing) is so poor
what you are saying is equivalent to banning a certain brand of car from the roads, then saying that i could still walk
if standards therefore choices are not supported, the government is taking sides. esp when only one brand is supported. the government is not supposed to take sides
oss /should/ respond! it gets non-m$ names and viewpoints in the papers. balmer is not too bright for giving his competition this opportunity
or you could start coming in at 10:30 like the rest of us
(and you call yourself a programmer *sniff*)
someone once lamented the demise of the intelligent troll. thankfully, they were wrong. this post is proof that that old art form lives on on slashdot
doubt theyre two markets. its just one market with two bandwagons. and sgi just jumps from one (wintel) to the other (lintel)
and all the while, its sgi thats the problem. i think they and the market would be better served if they believed in their own bandwagon and refined their operations to deliver. kinda like apple is doing
90% of the population is not better when that means the government is forcing a choice on you
sheeple, please wake up. the government is not here to make choices for you. the government is supposed to be about equal access (democratic ones anyway). i can make my own choices
i think youre right that computermakers are trying to differentiate themselves in this commodity market. but only the successful differentiations will win. apple succeeds because the ibook is so much more than a cute shape
otoh, the compaq devices appear to combine the worst of a desktop and laptop. as has been pointed out, they lack the main reason for a desktop, expandability. i use a mac not because it looks cool or comes in colors, but because of the extreme usability, something compaq does not yet understand
youre absolutely right on this. i was very impressed by a recent story of a pda running linux and x! but i dont think linux stands any chance on the current desktop, and the cynic in me says m$ will be able to walk into any future late and crush competitors with monopoly power (see also "the game console wars")
the point was that companies are pulling resources away from desktop linux. the article states that die hard fans will continue development. but the article contends that without professional resources, linux will be unable to compete with mac and windows
look at sourceforge. it is possible to have active projects that move so slowly as to be dead. it doesnt matter if linux moves forward; if it cant keep pace with other desktop oses, its dead on the desktop
you are so blinded by your ideology that you will twist everything to suit your cause:
/week/? /sold/, not given away
/free/ *nix world, you added that, i said it is arguably *nix top dog. but yes, you are right, in the future their marketshare will continue to grow: apple sells millions of machines a year and next month they will all be os x
/software/ was doing fine (whatever that means), free software /companies/ are not
Right now OS X has approximately zero users... Heck, there are probably more Linux installs on former Mac hardware than there are OS X installs
um, did you know that os x sold 100,000 copies in its first
Perhaps in the future this won't be the case, but to say that Mac OS X is top dog in the Free *nix world (especially considering that it isn't a Free *nix but is only based on one) is premature.
i never said it was top dog in the
Cygnus made money at Free Software for years (as has the FSF, but they made so little money that it hardly counts). RedHat recently broke even, while growing their business at an astounding rate.
youre kidding, right? break even?! lol! redhat posts nothing but losses all its life and then one quarter it breaks even, and this is a profitable company? take off your blinders, buddy!
Just remember, more closed source companies have gone spectacularly bankrupt than there will ever be Free Software companies. And Free Software was doing just fine long before there were any corporations involved.
you compare open source companies to the worst companies to feel better? what good will that do when they are all bankrupt? free
Mac OS X is a fine example of this. They have been promising a new OS for years, and it wasn't until Apple "borrowed" the work of Open Source volunteers that they were actually able to produce one.
and apple using bsd is different from redhat using linux how? apple contributes to bsd, apache, etc. they are a member of the open source community. read the bsdl
While Apple was busy sprinting from one spectacular failure to the next, the folks creating BSD were cranking out an OS that worked spectacularly, and they were doing it largely in their spare time.
every company has projects that are failures. the important thing is that overall they are very successful. and they continue to innovate. unfortunately, the same can not be said for redhat et al
i like to think i am open minded. when mac os 7.5 crashed several times a day, i looked for a better os. a prof gave me a redhat disc and we tried for weeks to get it to work on a 486. never could get x or ppp up, and it didnt run any consumer apps. youd think the only reason for the existence of redhat was to do for linux what apple has now done for bsd! i sadly resigned myself to windows and began saving. then i saw os x demos. since the beta, it has been my fulltime os. and in a poetic twist that brings the story full circle, i gave my prof my beta disc, he installed it on a trial ibook, and now he has an ibook of his own running v1 that hes using to convince the department to switch from redhat to os x
The fact of the matter is that the GPL has almost certainly been an asset to Linux. If this weren't the case then one of the BSDs would be top dog in the Free *nix world. The fact of the matter is that software consumers love the GPL.
actually, it can be argued that one of the bsds is *nix top dog, its name is darwin. with apple installing os x as the default os on all its machines this summer, bsd will sell in quantities linux can not hope to match. the fact of the matter is that consumers love good software, and the bsd license lets apple improve and innovate and still pay its programmers
unfortunately companies publishing under the gpl have been unable to make a profit. that doesnt say good things about them continuing to advance the software. why shouldnt developers make money for their effort?
i think you underestimate the human desire for mini-mes.
its a known fact that all half height clones want to please their parents. go watch austin powers