Does anyone know of any companies worried as to the use of spyware for corporate espionage? I am sure the legislation doesn't provide protection for such behavior, but it may help provide some cover. I personally haven't heard much about this, but it is an interesting possibility. I know that at least 1 company's IT department had a very serious spyware discussion after the Sony rootkit debacle.
Yes, there are projects dedicated to this kind of thing going on. CEDICT: Chinese-English dictionary http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html is available. Also, several IMEs are percolating on Sourceforge if anyone is interested, and I think the majority of them build their data off of CEDICT.
Mind you, the database that Google was playing with was probably larger and more current. It may have also had some fields to allow the program to better determine which character combinations belong to which "word" using some kind of frequency calculation. I believe this being the art to making a good IME. However, public Chinese pinyin resources are definitely available so I think it was just Google being lazy and sloppy.
I work at a small software shop with about 10 programmers on various products. I have noticed a few trends with job performance as related to how everyone here has chosen their profession. I can basically put each programmer into three groups. The first group is people that just like to program and choose this occupation because it is what they enjoying doing this group seems to make the best programmers. The second group tends to be musicians or teachers or whatever, and they suddenly decide they want to make more money doing something else this second group tends to make pretty good programmers though not as good as the first group. The third group is people that just decide in college that this was the way to make money this group almost uniformly sucks at programming. Has anyone else noticed this trend?
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They are going to compete with MacStore using a guy from Wal-Mart? LOL
Does anyone know of any companies worried as to the use of spyware for corporate espionage? I am sure the legislation doesn't provide protection for such behavior, but it may help provide some cover. I personally haven't heard much about this, but it is an interesting possibility. I know that at least 1 company's IT department had a very serious spyware discussion after the Sony rootkit debacle.
Yes, there are projects dedicated to this kind of thing going on. CEDICT: Chinese-English dictionary http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html is available. Also, several IMEs are percolating on Sourceforge if anyone is interested, and I think the majority of them build their data off of CEDICT.
Mind you, the database that Google was playing with was probably larger and more current. It may have also had some fields to allow the program to better determine which character combinations belong to which "word" using some kind of frequency calculation. I believe this being the art to making a good IME. However, public Chinese pinyin resources are definitely available so I think it was just Google being lazy and sloppy.
I work at a small software shop with about 10 programmers on various products. I have noticed a few trends with job performance as related to how everyone here has chosen their profession. I can basically put each programmer into three groups. The first group is people that just like to program and choose this occupation because it is what they enjoying doing this group seems to make the best programmers. The second group tends to be musicians or teachers or whatever, and they suddenly decide they want to make more money doing something else this second group tends to make pretty good programmers though not as good as the first group. The third group is people that just decide in college that this was the way to make money this group almost uniformly sucks at programming. Has anyone else noticed this trend?