It's still BeOS's game. The guy who's making Spotlight work for Apple is the same guy who built BeOS's filesystem to work with its metadata. I'm quite thrilled about that because BeOS's filesystem was great, but it was a shame to see the company disappear. Now we get the software again through a different corporate entity. Hurray!
The funny thing is that this isn't new. The "smart" folder stuff can be seen in much earlier applications. If you recall, Evolution (the groupware/email client) had it. That was based on VM (XEmac's mail application).
The idea of a logical grouping of thing collected from many different physical locations isn't new. It's just that modern techniques for collecting these diseparate data elements are faster.
This is part of the future to come, not with Tiger but other things in general. Technology has moved in 3 separate stages: infrastructure, collection, and searching. We're now at stage 3, searching, because during phase 2 we completely inundated ourselves with data and now need to sort out the entire mess.
Please, wake up and consume some caffeine products. Please.
grep sucks. grep is woefully inadequate when you have a lot of data. When you don't know where things are or have a lot of data, grep fails in usability. Grep works fine if you assume small datasets and your time is meaningless.
That's why glimpse exist. glimpse, unlike grep, indexes data first, then searches the index. The result is significantly faster results on the same amount data.
Non-OS desktop searches will definitely suck donkey nuts. Since they work on indexes, they'll always be stale. The right approach to desktop searches is to stash it into the OS. Apple's going to deliver theirs in 2005. They're not the first though. BeOS was the first. It's useful enough that if you have a search for the word "slashdot" and after the search runs and you create a new document with the word "slashdot" in it, OSX's desktop search will put it in the result window.
The GDS without OS integrations won't be able to match that. grep is a pattern matcher. It's not a search tool.
Atheists (and I can only speak for the ones I know) want nothing more than to be left alone by religious people.
Atheists are religious. They believe in the religion of no God. While the "religious" have faith in God, the atheists have faith in no God. Neither can prove their belief.
Are you saying that companies should merge based on technical details instead of actual business goals? That's some form of lunacy. No two companies are sufficiently compatible enough that integration after a merger is easy. That's why they call it "work."
I don't know what the deal is with the Blackberry but I regularly do this with SonyEricsson T610. It dials and becomes a modem for my PalmOS device. So using your T-Mobile phones as GPRS modem is supported. You probably want to check out any other technical issues you might have such as whatever OS you have detecting the USB connected phone as a modem, etc.
They can't plan. The problem is that most of the shopping happens at the last two weeks because consumers are holding out for the best bargains with the impression that they can/will get the best bargains during that period. So the retailers put out their bargains, then as it gets closer, discount some more.
For example, I shopped around for a suit with Banana Republic. Total cost: $325 for jacket, $125 for pants. I told my sister I could get a better deal. Come 12/24/2004 I picked it up for $199 for jacket, $89 for pants.
Other retailers are a bit more creative. Walmart.com builds itself around gift giving. They've done a fairly nice job creating sales bumps around Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Back to School, etc. A good retailer outfit like Wal-Mart will have daily sales goals planned out at the beginning of the year and barring any unforseen events (disasters, terrorism attacks, collapse of western civilization, etc.) individual stores can practically nail those targets dead on.
Though that's an over-simplification. The useful revenue metrics is margins. It doesn't matter how much you push through the door; if it's negative margins, you're still losing money.
Black Friday was the busiest shopping day of the year. The recent trend has consumers shifting their shopping closer and closer to Christmas. This causes the retails a lot of worry as you can imagine. They can't really plan and respond in such a narrow time frame when 40%+ of their sales happen in such a short time period. Forecasting sales and predicting if you'll meet your Q4 sales (and annual targets) becomes a right utter bitch.
Or you do what I do... throw all your clothes to the cleaners and let them deal with it.
Those people don't take chances with anything. My bright colored stuff gets dry cleaned so there's never any fading. Bright stuff stay bright year after year. Yes, it's more expensive and all but your clothes last forever and once you're fond of a particular item, your likelihood of having to replace it is slim.
The problem with US airports is that the security layer is not far enough outside. You can still make it to an airport with your weapon of choice and no one can stop you. Metal detectors and explosives detectors need to be put at the front doors.
Because if you run a base, you'll have systems on said base. When said base is assaulted, you may lose people. When you lose your Sun guy to an IED who's going to run your mission critical servers at the forward deploy bases?
We have movies that don't cater to kids, plays that don't cater to kids, why do the same thing with video games? The generation that grew up on video games are now adults and if we want adult content then give us adult contents.
ESRB did what it was meant to do. It gave parents a way to figure out what types of content are to be found in a given game title.
What next? Is Congress going to hold hearings on hentai next?
You need to factor in density and such. Cities in the US are fairly livable. Cities in China are horrible environmentally. China balances out due to population spread and geography. Most of China lives in rural areas with no industrialization working on agricultural output. The parts of China that are working at industrialized capacities are responsible for the majority of its pollution.
Concentrated business areas mean there are easy access to other businesses nearby. For my organization the fact that one of our possible software vendors being only 3 blocks away mean that we can walk a meeting and resolve issues. Don't underestimate the value of face to face meetings. Closer is better.
The commute doesn't suck if you also live in the area. The general philosophy of zoning in the US is atrociously bad. By zoning large commercial areas away from large residential areas you create traffic. By putting businesses around residential areas you solve this. Doesn't anyone play SimCity?
I happen to live 1 block away from work. Where I live in Chicago, I'm 2 blocks from 2 movie theaters, 3 blocks from major shopping, 1 block from groceries, pharmacy, dental services is downstairs in my building, dry cleanings in the same building. I live in the city. I work in the city. My dependency on public transportation or even my own car is minimal. What I need in a day to day living is entirely accessible via my two feet within 10 minutes. The longest walk in my month is to get my comic books which is less than 2 miles.
That's the value of city living.
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It's still BeOS's game. The guy who's making Spotlight work for Apple is the same guy who built BeOS's filesystem to work with its metadata. I'm quite thrilled about that because BeOS's filesystem was great, but it was a shame to see the company disappear. Now we get the software again through a different corporate entity. Hurray!
The funny thing is that this isn't new. The "smart" folder stuff can be seen in much earlier applications. If you recall, Evolution (the groupware/email client) had it. That was based on VM (XEmac's mail application).
The idea of a logical grouping of thing collected from many different physical locations isn't new. It's just that modern techniques for collecting these diseparate data elements are faster.
This is part of the future to come, not with Tiger but other things in general. Technology has moved in 3 separate stages: infrastructure, collection, and searching. We're now at stage 3, searching, because during phase 2 we completely inundated ourselves with data and now need to sort out the entire mess.
It's also a cheaper. Most comic books are written in screenplay format and the comic books themselves are great storyboards which they can use.
Some revision of the screenplay original and they have themselves a working script.
Please, wake up and consume some caffeine products. Please.
grep sucks. grep is woefully inadequate when you have a lot of data. When you don't know where things are or have a lot of data, grep fails in usability. Grep works fine if you assume small datasets and your time is meaningless.
That's why glimpse exist. glimpse, unlike grep, indexes data first, then searches the index. The result is significantly faster results on the same amount data.
Non-OS desktop searches will definitely suck donkey nuts. Since they work on indexes, they'll always be stale. The right approach to desktop searches is to stash it into the OS. Apple's going to deliver theirs in 2005. They're not the first though. BeOS was the first. It's useful enough that if you have a search for the word "slashdot" and after the search runs and you create a new document with the word "slashdot" in it, OSX's desktop search will put it in the result window.
The GDS without OS integrations won't be able to match that. grep is a pattern matcher. It's not a search tool.
1. You could try writing your own.
2. You could try making your own.
3. You could try writing your own.
You're just agnostic.
Atheists (and I can only speak for the ones I know) want nothing more than to be left alone by religious people.
Atheists are religious. They believe in the religion of no God. While the "religious" have faith in God, the atheists have faith in no God. Neither can prove their belief.
Are you saying that companies should merge based on technical details instead of actual business goals? That's some form of lunacy. No two companies are sufficiently compatible enough that integration after a merger is easy. That's why they call it "work."
I don't know what the deal is with the Blackberry but I regularly do this with SonyEricsson T610. It dials and becomes a modem for my PalmOS device. So using your T-Mobile phones as GPRS modem is supported. You probably want to check out any other technical issues you might have such as whatever OS you have detecting the USB connected phone as a modem, etc.
There are sufficient CPU power in the xbox to handle your average speadsheet needs. Do you remember how quickly a 486 ripped through spreadsheets?
They can't plan. The problem is that most of the shopping happens at the last two weeks because consumers are holding out for the best bargains with the impression that they can/will get the best bargains during that period. So the retailers put out their bargains, then as it gets closer, discount some more.
For example, I shopped around for a suit with Banana Republic. Total cost: $325 for jacket, $125 for pants. I told my sister I could get a better deal. Come 12/24/2004 I picked it up for $199 for jacket, $89 for pants.
Other retailers are a bit more creative. Walmart.com builds itself around gift giving. They've done a fairly nice job creating sales bumps around Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Back to School, etc. A good retailer outfit like Wal-Mart will have daily sales goals planned out at the beginning of the year and barring any unforseen events (disasters, terrorism attacks, collapse of western civilization, etc.) individual stores can practically nail those targets dead on.
Though that's an over-simplification. The useful revenue metrics is margins. It doesn't matter how much you push through the door; if it's negative margins, you're still losing money.
Black Friday was the busiest shopping day of the year. The recent trend has consumers shifting their shopping closer and closer to Christmas. This causes the retails a lot of worry as you can imagine. They can't really plan and respond in such a narrow time frame when 40%+ of their sales happen in such a short time period. Forecasting sales and predicting if you'll meet your Q4 sales (and annual targets) becomes a right utter bitch.
Or you do what I do ... throw all your clothes to the cleaners and let them deal with it.
Those people don't take chances with anything. My bright colored stuff gets dry cleaned so there's never any fading. Bright stuff stay bright year after year. Yes, it's more expensive and all but your clothes last forever and once you're fond of a particular item, your likelihood of having to replace it is slim.
The problem with US airports is that the security layer is not far enough outside. You can still make it to an airport with your weapon of choice and no one can stop you. Metal detectors and explosives detectors need to be put at the front doors.
Clearly in the airforce, there's 24 people trained to run mission critical servers but no one to actually fly things.
Because if you run a base, you'll have systems on said base. When said base is assaulted, you may lose people. When you lose your Sun guy to an IED who's going to run your mission critical servers at the forward deploy bases?
Or as my uncle is fond of saying
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, I break your fucking legs.
We have movies that don't cater to kids, plays that don't cater to kids, why do the same thing with video games? The generation that grew up on video games are now adults and if we want adult content then give us adult contents.
ESRB did what it was meant to do. It gave parents a way to figure out what types of content are to be found in a given game title.
What next? Is Congress going to hold hearings on hentai next?
Bush didn't push for renewal of the assault weapons ban. We got more of the 2nd amendment back with Bush.
You need to factor in density and such. Cities in the US are fairly livable. Cities in China are horrible environmentally. China balances out due to population spread and geography. Most of China lives in rural areas with no industrialization working on agricultural output. The parts of China that are working at industrialized capacities are responsible for the majority of its pollution.
Swing by Hong Kong of Beijing sometimes.
Companies changes rates now and then. Would you be willing to skip banner ads in exchange for a higher monthly charge?
For Tivo, revenue is revenue. Either they get it from the banner ads people or they get it from you.
Concentrated business areas mean there are easy access to other businesses nearby. For my organization the fact that one of our possible software vendors being only 3 blocks away mean that we can walk a meeting and resolve issues. Don't underestimate the value of face to face meetings. Closer is better.
The commute doesn't suck if you also live in the area. The general philosophy of zoning in the US is atrociously bad. By zoning large commercial areas away from large residential areas you create traffic. By putting businesses around residential areas you solve this. Doesn't anyone play SimCity?
I happen to live 1 block away from work. Where I live in Chicago, I'm 2 blocks from 2 movie theaters, 3 blocks from major shopping, 1 block from groceries, pharmacy, dental services is downstairs in my building, dry cleanings in the same building. I live in the city. I work in the city. My dependency on public transportation or even my own car is minimal. What I need in a day to day living is entirely accessible via my two feet within 10 minutes. The longest walk in my month is to get my comic books which is less than 2 miles.
That's the value of city living.
What do you do when you run out of desk?
But politically he won't do anything about it. Kerry won't support a constitutional amendment against gay marriage. Bush will. That's the difference.