However, that is technically way too computer resource intensive. Most Google searches are already heavily cached, even if you combine quotes and the likes. Running a custom regex on their whole database would be just too much.
Everyone knows most users don't switch from defaults. Everyone, including Google who paid Mozilla to set them as the default search engine for years now. And I don't believe there's anything wrong with that either.
And don't forget they're paying Opera and other browsers too. That is how Opera managed to start giving out free browser, and it's also how whole development of Firefox is financed. But lately even Firefox has wanted to switch to Bing.
Google's results have been crappy for a long time. Now they're trying to bring more up-to-date results with social interaction counted in too, from places like Twitter, Facebook and Google+. The bad news for Google is that it doesn't really have access to all Facebook data - That's why Google+ is so important to them. And that's why Google+ likes already have a huge impact on search engine positions.
Text files. They don't take 10TB, they take 1TB but it's growing. So Slashdot Linux users suggestion to this is to get new 10x 1TB drives instead of just compressing the data and keep using the same 10TB?
This is the reason why most sane people avoid OSS. No one listens to feature requests, but only tells you "you don't want to that anyway, do this instead" while I perfectly good know compressing them is exactly what I want to do.
I'm talking about data on a server. And no, access speed isn't such an issue because the files aren't accessed that often. And compressing back and forth with external program all the time is just stupid.
If you are talking enterprise data then access speed is an issue so you are not looking at compressing anyways.
This is another case of ignorant Linux users answering with an "you don't want to do that anyway", when I perfectly know I do.
It's not a matter of that, I have TB's of space. But if my files compress up to 90% and they take 1TB, isn't it much better if they only take 100GB? Otherwise it's just stupid waste.
It can be really important if you're storing thousands of files (text, or anything that compresses well) and still need fast direct access to them. I just had a need for it this weekend (and still do), but the only solution was a stupid workaround and create and mount compressed partition to what files and folders I wanted compressed and then move them there. In Windows this would had just been a case of ticking the compression option in folder options dialog.
I've used it on Windows sometimes too, it's a simple yet important feature. There are times where it can save you thousands of MB's.
The one thing that baffles my mind is that Linux filesystems still don't offer compression of specific folders or files. Seriously, Windows has had this for over a decade. There's a few experiemental filesystems that can compress the whole partition, but still not individual files. Why doesn't Linux have such a simple but important filesystem feature? And no, I don't want to make an archive file, because I want to access those files and folders while they are compressed.
Yeah, except that they just released an awesome N9 phone (based on Linux too), and WP7 phones are starting to roll out. Later they're thinking of using Linux on their low-end phones. It takes time to change your line-up as much as Nokia did, but they're going to be a serious competitor now. Microsoft actually saved them. They would have gone down the toilet if they had continued with the Symbian stuff and not getting anything new done.
A week later it emerged that Microsoft and Google had been competing for Nokia's affections — a bidding war that concluded with Microsoft agreeing to pay Nokia billions of dollars to help market and develop Windows phones.
This actually gives an interesting new perspective to the whole Google-Motorola thing. So Google wanted Nokia, but was forced to settle for a crappier competitor because Microsoft offered more for Nokia. This means Motorola will always be the "damn I really wanted her instead.. why I had to settle for this bitch?" for Google, while Microsoft got the dream girl.
Sadly you're more like spot on. Eclipse is really bloated and slow. While Microsoft has made Visual Studio to feel much more lighter and load faster (really, just try the newest version), it seems like Eclipse is going the opposite direction. And yet it doesn't even have as many features as VS.
This is how it works. Tiny few become really rich, most barely make a living. Some better, some worse. It's not a casino, and it's not limited to app store.
So if you went out with someone who likes to ride horses and you know nothing about it, does it make you ignorant if you say you don't know anything about it? Or if asks you to melt some glass items? There's nothing wrong with admitting you don't know about something, as anyone cant know everything. It does not make you ignorant. While geeks like to think everyone should know about computers, it isn't so in the real world. It just further shows the complete lack of social skills.
And yes, social skills are skills too. Nerds and geeks didn't get their bad status because they were interested in computers. They got it because they completely lacked social skills.. Now that computers are more common place there's also normal, social people interested in them. It doesn't make them hip or anything like that. They just have the social skills to come out as positive. Having interests about something is positive thing. Would you date a woman that doesn't have any of her own interests? No. Do you really care what those interests are? No. You might like it if they are along your interests, but it doesn't really matter. If it's something you don't know about, it's just adorable and you can learn a lot from her. The main factor there is the social skill to make it seem positive. Nerds, at least before, have usually lacked that skill.
where most countries have adopted a system where any two idiots can outvote an expert, whether those people are rank and file (straight democracy), or holding elected office (republics and so on.) And all this in environments where experts are actually rare.
That's democracy for you. Most popular opinion wins.
No, US wants people to think China is some powerful enemy and that cyberwar is constant threat. This enables them to pass new more powerful laws, keeps citizens in constant fear and allows US to use things like Stuxnet against Iran.
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Yahoo uses Bing, so they and other partners count too.
Much slower, as Bing hasn't rolled out yet. When we use Bing here in Europe it's the old Live search. In the US it's much better.
On the other hand, both Google and Microsoft are struggling in China and Russia, where Baidu and Yandex have majority of market share.
I want to use regex for search patterns....
However, that is technically way too computer resource intensive. Most Google searches are already heavily cached, even if you combine quotes and the likes. Running a custom regex on their whole database would be just too much.
Everyone knows most users don't switch from defaults. Everyone, including Google who paid Mozilla to set them as the default search engine for years now. And I don't believe there's anything wrong with that either.
And don't forget they're paying Opera and other browsers too. That is how Opera managed to start giving out free browser, and it's also how whole development of Firefox is financed. But lately even Firefox has wanted to switch to Bing.
Google's results have been crappy for a long time. Now they're trying to bring more up-to-date results with social interaction counted in too, from places like Twitter, Facebook and Google+. The bad news for Google is that it doesn't really have access to all Facebook data - That's why Google+ is so important to them. And that's why Google+ likes already have a huge impact on search engine positions.
Text files. They don't take 10TB, they take 1TB but it's growing. So Slashdot Linux users suggestion to this is to get new 10x 1TB drives instead of just compressing the data and keep using the same 10TB?
This is the reason why most sane people avoid OSS. No one listens to feature requests, but only tells you "you don't want to that anyway, do this instead" while I perfectly good know compressing them is exactly what I want to do.
If you are talking enterprise data then access speed is an issue so you are not looking at compressing anyways.
This is another case of ignorant Linux users answering with an "you don't want to do that anyway", when I perfectly know I do.
No, he is completely wrong about NTFS decompressing the files. It does not, like others have noted too.
It's not a matter of that, I have TB's of space. But if my files compress up to 90% and they take 1TB, isn't it much better if they only take 100GB? Otherwise it's just stupid waste.
It can be really important if you're storing thousands of files (text, or anything that compresses well) and still need fast direct access to them. I just had a need for it this weekend (and still do), but the only solution was a stupid workaround and create and mount compressed partition to what files and folders I wanted compressed and then move them there. In Windows this would had just been a case of ticking the compression option in folder options dialog.
I've used it on Windows sometimes too, it's a simple yet important feature. There are times where it can save you thousands of MB's.
The one thing that baffles my mind is that Linux filesystems still don't offer compression of specific folders or files. Seriously, Windows has had this for over a decade. There's a few experiemental filesystems that can compress the whole partition, but still not individual files. Why doesn't Linux have such a simple but important filesystem feature? And no, I don't want to make an archive file, because I want to access those files and folders while they are compressed.
Well, Nokia is still developing low-end Linux phones. And they say Linux is great for low-end phones.
Yeah, except that they just released an awesome N9 phone (based on Linux too), and WP7 phones are starting to roll out. Later they're thinking of using Linux on their low-end phones. It takes time to change your line-up as much as Nokia did, but they're going to be a serious competitor now. Microsoft actually saved them. They would have gone down the toilet if they had continued with the Symbian stuff and not getting anything new done.
But Google does show images in normal search page too, when it's relevant. And videos too.
A week later it emerged that Microsoft and Google had been competing for Nokia's affections — a bidding war that concluded with Microsoft agreeing to pay Nokia billions of dollars to help market and develop Windows phones.
This actually gives an interesting new perspective to the whole Google-Motorola thing. So Google wanted Nokia, but was forced to settle for a crappier competitor because Microsoft offered more for Nokia. This means Motorola will always be the "damn I really wanted her instead.. why I had to settle for this bitch?" for Google, while Microsoft got the dream girl.
Sadly you're more like spot on. Eclipse is really bloated and slow. While Microsoft has made Visual Studio to feel much more lighter and load faster (really, just try the newest version), it seems like Eclipse is going the opposite direction. And yet it doesn't even have as many features as VS.
Which again has nothing to do with the $99. Development costs are much larger than the fee you have to pay to Apple.
This is how it works. Tiny few become really rich, most barely make a living. Some better, some worse. It's not a casino, and it's not limited to app store.
So if you went out with someone who likes to ride horses and you know nothing about it, does it make you ignorant if you say you don't know anything about it? Or if asks you to melt some glass items? There's nothing wrong with admitting you don't know about something, as anyone cant know everything. It does not make you ignorant. While geeks like to think everyone should know about computers, it isn't so in the real world. It just further shows the complete lack of social skills.
And yes, social skills are skills too. Nerds and geeks didn't get their bad status because they were interested in computers. They got it because they completely lacked social skills.. Now that computers are more common place there's also normal, social people interested in them. It doesn't make them hip or anything like that. They just have the social skills to come out as positive. Having interests about something is positive thing. Would you date a woman that doesn't have any of her own interests? No. Do you really care what those interests are? No. You might like it if they are along your interests, but it doesn't really matter. If it's something you don't know about, it's just adorable and you can learn a lot from her. The main factor there is the social skill to make it seem positive. Nerds, at least before, have usually lacked that skill.
where most countries have adopted a system where any two idiots can outvote an expert, whether those people are rank and file (straight democracy), or holding elected office (republics and so on.) And all this in environments where experts are actually rare.
That's democracy for you. Most popular opinion wins.
Yeah.. a hacker who wants to hide his tracks would NEVER choose China! It's much better to proxy via country that actually will investigate you!
Yes, because Chinese army is obviously attacking from their own IP addresses.
Online sex.. hm, no please.
Electronic sex.. hm, it could be kinky, but no thanks.
Internet sex.. well that's just boring.
Now cybersex. That's something, and it's kinky too!
No, US wants people to think China is some powerful enemy and that cyberwar is constant threat. This enables them to pass new more powerful laws, keeps citizens in constant fear and allows US to use things like Stuxnet against Iran.
US can do lots of shit, but the moment it rolls tanks into UN headquarters is the day it says goodbye to all relations to rest of the world.