But what you forgot to mention was that the entire porn industry stopped production for a month, so that every single actor and actress could be tested and re-tested to make sure that the "outbreak" was contained.
Admittedly, though, creating search engines to serve millions of users is an easier task than offering other remote services, such as e-mail and file sharing.
As has been pointed out by various/. stories, search is hard. With file sharing and e-mail, it seems to me that those would be easier to scale.
Shareaza takes account of this to some degree. It calculates all the various hashes and shares these with other clients on the Gnutella2 network.
Not bad, but this is far from an ideal situation. It wastes resources (CPU time for hash creation, hash value storage). What's worse - I guess nobody looking for a particular file will have all the different hashes, only one set. Only Shareaza users with all plugins switched on can respond correctly to all queries they could theoretically satisfy, which reduces potential uploaders. The nice thing would be to have one standard hash type and block size. There could still be competition among P2P client makers, but interoperability would be good for every user, no matter what their preferred client is.
The first problem you run into when trying to make different networks interoperate for swarming downloads is the fact that they (almost?) all use different hash types and different block sizes (last time I checked).
It would be nice to send several query commands with block hashes to different networks, something like
Bozell is a media whore. If I recall, is he not the person behind the Parents Television Coalition?
Yes, he is. But I find the site very refreshing. They count the amount of times certain words are said, they have this "better-than-thou" attitude but come across only as homophobic, and if you want a collection of spicy lines for a given show, just look up its summary at the PTC site, they may have it with big red warnings like "extremely offensive content". If this is for real, these guys live in a different world.
I agree that Muslim terrorists only understand force. Radical Muslims in general don't like the concept of tolerance and much that the Western civilization stands for. But where do you get
No, America has done much to reduce and minimize terrorism.
And the first one thing most people turn off in existing Windows installs is the indexing service.
And for a reason. Last time I used it, years ago, it really killed performance. That service seemed to be running all the time. Maybe it's better nowadays.
However, I usually know where I put stuff, so I don't need indexing. On rare occasions, I just use the normal search and can live with a couple of minutes time.
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Isn't that illegal? You can't agree to something you haven't seen. So they could retroactively charge 10 USD per article viewed? That's ridiculous.
and if a group I'm interested in is on that server.
Once you've retrieved the group list from the server your newsreader lets you inspect it. Or use Newzbot to search for the availability of a specific group.
How big is the Deja/Google archive, anyway? Does anyone know? How much does it grow yearly?
GG main page says 845 million messages right now. When they introduced Google Groups in 2001 they were at over 650 million.
As for size in bytes, I think the average message is about 3 KB (unless you're talking binary groups, but GG does not carry those). So about 2.5 TB without the redundancy Google uses.
I say they just run the entire thing over an ssh tunnel and key the whole system so no one can "get in" and spy.
Problem is - you only need one person already on the inside to cooperate with authorities (because of some other P2P incident, or whatever), and you're screwed anyway. Closed communities just aren't that safe.
If I click a link that is broken or vastly changed (e.g. the link to ancient Chinese pottery is now a porn site), that I could backup to the search results page and click a link to have them immediately re-crawl that page.
The index is usually updated only once every couple of weeks. Recomputing PageRank (or whatever everybody else uses) takes its time. That's why more or less immediate updates are reserved only to the best-known sites.
You can report 'false' results with the Dissatisfied? link at the bottom of the Google result page.
But regardless, it's never voluntary - none of us has a choice to reject the drain on the economy that the advertising industry (and all that it finances) represents.
If you feel that way, don't buy products that are advertised while Friends is running. Or advertised elsewhere.
I'm not from the US, but here we have discounters that do not advertise and are very popular because they have good prices.
If some company does a lot of advertising and can finance it from their overpriced goods and services - fine. I can choose not to participate.
On Friends it was a million an episode, and I don't think the Friends crew ever wrote for the episode.
There is a lot of changing of the script on the set of Friends and other sitcoms while they're taping it in front of the live audience (taping takes a couple of hours for a 22 min. episode because of all the breaks). Some gags just don't work. Then a bunch of writers are there to make suggestions to improve the particular scene. It seems that quite a few good ideas come from the cast itself, too. So, they do contribute to the script. But usually it's nothing major. David Schwimmer (and maybe others?) have also directed the occasional episode.
Obviously a million bucks is a lot of money. But somebody pays it voluntarily, so I don't see a problem.
"third party studies show that competitive office suites retain only 75% accuracy (data and formatting) when receiving documents from Office users..."
Well, who's fault is it for using proprietary file formats in attempt to lock everyone else out of the market?
Unfortunately, that doesn't change the outcome. OO does have some weaknesses there, that's a fact. It's one of the few valid points in that Microsoft paper.
Thanks for the Google cache link of that paper. Does anyone know where the PDF has been moved? Or does anyone have a copy? I'd like to print it out for reading.
There are some large recipe collections online, but the quality of their recipes varies a lot. No surprise, after all they have been assembled from thousands of authors.
I have tried quite a few recipes from different places on the Net, and some of them have really wrong amounts of ingredients, and other flaws.
However, if you're serious about cooking, you'll learn about certain things that are always the same, you'll make less errors and get a feeling for what you may like when it comes to recipes.
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But what you forgot to mention was that the entire porn industry stopped production for a month, so that every single actor and actress could be tested and re-tested to make sure that the "outbreak" was contained.
Not according to this article (in German).
Es ist der siebte Tag der Quarantäne. Morgen, am achten, ist Luissa Rosso für eine Analszene gebucht. Die erste seit dem Aids-Ausbruch.
Translation: It's the seventh day of the quarantine. Tomorrow, on the eighth, L.R. is booked for an anal scene. The first since the AIDS outbreak.
And:
Sie haben eine 60-tägige Drehpause empfohlen, aber dort unten im Tal wird weitergedreht, als wäre nichts passiert.
Translation: They had recommended a 60 day production stop, but down there in the valley they continue shooting as if nothing had happened.
This sentence struck me as weird:
/. stories, search is hard. With file sharing and e-mail, it seems to me that those would be easier to scale.
Admittedly, though, creating search engines to serve millions of users is an easier task than offering other remote services, such as e-mail and file sharing.
As has been pointed out by various
Shareaza takes account of this to some degree. It calculates all the various hashes and shares these with other clients on the Gnutella2 network.
Not bad, but this is far from an ideal situation. It wastes resources (CPU time for hash creation, hash value storage). What's worse - I guess nobody looking for a particular file will have all the different hashes, only one set. Only Shareaza users with all plugins switched on can respond correctly to all queries they could theoretically satisfy, which reduces potential uploaders. The nice thing would be to have one standard hash type and block size. There could still be competition among P2P client makers, but interoperability would be good for every user, no matter what their preferred client is.
The first problem you run into when trying to make different networks interoperate for swarming downloads is the fact that they (almost?) all use different hash types and different block sizes (last time I checked).
It would be nice to send several query commands with block hashes to different networks, something like
and receive those blocks from wherever they're available.
What are the women supposed to use to impress the guys then?
Parallel park properly?
Sounds like "source code in database" a.k.a. SCID. I have a feeling smart IDEs like Eclipse are doing part of that already.
Bozell is a media whore. If I recall, is he not the person behind the Parents Television Coalition?
Yes, he is. But I find the site very refreshing. They count the amount of times certain words are said, they have this "better-than-thou" attitude but come across only as homophobic, and if you want a collection of spicy lines for a given show, just look up its summary at the PTC site, they may have it with big red warnings like "extremely offensive content". If this is for real, these guys live in a different world.
I agree that Muslim terrorists only understand force. Radical Muslims in general don't like the concept of tolerance and much that the Western civilization stands for. But where do you get
No, America has done much to reduce and minimize terrorism.
from? What did America do to reduce terrorism?
And the first one thing most people turn off in existing Windows installs is the indexing service.
And for a reason. Last time I used it, years ago, it really killed performance. That service seemed to be running all the time. Maybe it's better nowadays.
However, I usually know where I put stuff, so I don't need indexing. On rare occasions, I just use the normal search and can live with a couple of minutes time.
Google may, in its sole discretion, modify or revise these terms and conditions at any time by updating this web page, and you agree to be bound by these modifications or revisions.
Isn't that illegal? You can't agree to something you haven't seen. So they could retroactively charge 10 USD per article viewed? That's ridiculous.
On the other hand I haven't found a way to read newsgroups with mozilla. Maybe that;s because I don't know what to fill the server field with...
There's a list of public servers.
and if a group I'm interested in is on that server.
Once you've retrieved the group list from the server your newsreader lets you inspect it. Or use Newzbot to search for the availability of a specific group.
How big is the Deja/Google archive, anyway? Does anyone know? How much does it grow yearly?
GG main page says 845 million messages right now. When they introduced Google Groups in 2001 they were at over 650 million.
As for size in bytes, I think the average message is about 3 KB (unless you're talking binary groups, but GG does not carry those). So about 2.5 TB without the redundancy Google uses.
Yeah and maybe we could clone a few of them (a couple scary and sporty spices) for our own conveniences.....hehe.for singing of course
/. a comment like this gets moderated as Interesting instead of the non-creepy Funny. ;-)
Only on
I say they just run the entire thing over an ssh tunnel and key the whole system so no one can "get in" and spy.
Problem is - you only need one person already on the inside to cooperate with authorities (because of some other P2P incident, or whatever), and you're screwed anyway. Closed communities just aren't that safe.
I booted Knoppix recently, and everything worked fine without tweaking, except for sound. Just a single counter-example, but it does happen.
If I click a link that is broken or vastly changed (e.g. the link to ancient Chinese pottery is now a porn site), that I could backup to the search results page and click a link to have them immediately re-crawl that page.
The index is usually updated only once every couple of weeks. Recomputing PageRank (or whatever everybody else uses) takes its time. That's why more or less immediate updates are reserved only to the best-known sites.
You can report 'false' results with the Dissatisfied? link at the bottom of the Google result page.
But regardless, it's never voluntary - none of us has a choice to reject the drain on the economy that the advertising industry (and all that it finances) represents.
If you feel that way, don't buy products that are advertised while Friends is running. Or advertised elsewhere.
I'm not from the US, but here we have discounters that do not advertise and are very popular because they have good prices.
If some company does a lot of advertising and can finance it from their overpriced goods and services - fine. I can choose not to participate.
On Friends it was a million an episode, and I don't think the Friends crew ever wrote for the episode.
There is a lot of changing of the script on the set of Friends and other sitcoms while they're taping it in front of the live audience (taping takes a couple of hours for a 22 min. episode because of all the breaks). Some gags just don't work. Then a bunch of writers are there to make suggestions to improve the particular scene. It seems that quite a few good ideas come from the cast itself, too. So, they do contribute to the script. But usually it's nothing major. David Schwimmer (and maybe others?) have also directed the occasional episode.
Obviously a million bucks is a lot of money. But somebody pays it voluntarily, so I don't see a problem.
It'll say a lot about the gullibility of the news media if this is indeed a joke...
Heise (of c't fame) have twice verified with Google people that they're serious about this. If this is still a joke, it's a bad one.
"third party studies show that competitive office suites retain only 75% accuracy (data and formatting) when receiving documents from Office users..."
Well, who's fault is it for using proprietary file formats in attempt to lock everyone else out of the market?
Unfortunately, that doesn't change the outcome. OO does have some weaknesses there, that's a fact. It's one of the few valid points in that Microsoft paper.
It is real. And - as you can imagine - it was a very big news story in the Netherlands.
Thanks for the Google cache link of that paper. Does anyone know where the PDF has been moved? Or does anyone have a copy? I'd like to print it out for reading.
...Google bombing.
If the C folks get it together and standardize more than just things like printf(...) and linked lists,
Are there lists of some sort in a standard C library? I could use those in the near future.
There are some large recipe collections online, but the quality of their recipes varies a lot. No surprise, after all they have been assembled from thousands of authors.
I have tried quite a few recipes from different places on the Net, and some of them have really wrong amounts of ingredients, and other flaws.
However, if you're serious about cooking, you'll learn about certain things that are always the same, you'll make less errors and get a feeling for what you may like when it comes to recipes.
As with so many things - just do it.