Java is getting stronger and stronger on the embedded market. EmbeddedJava and PersonalJava are the appropriate environments for that. Of course they don't need 3 megs. Jbed and the like start with a memory footprint of about 8 KB.
If you like the Java language for development (as I do), but don't care for the multiplatform use of bytecode, the latest version of the GNU compiler can now compile Java code into native code.
Unfortunately, gcj still doesn't support AWT so that "only" command line programs can be created.
It's nice that Google includes PDF files, but why don't they read PostScript, Word DOC and all the other document file formats? It seems to be easy to add a couple of import filters...
They could also easily support compressed documents, e. g. pdf.gz or pdf.bz2.
If the import filter really "understands" the file format (if it knows where things are emphasized or in bold, or larger font, not just the result of pdftotext given to the indexer) the quality of the query results could be improved as well. Words in headings or larger font could be regarded as more relevant for a page (in a similar way that words in h1 or h2 are considered more relevant with HTML).
Yes, my pages change very often, and Google cache has versions that are between 7 and 8 weeks old. So the refresh rate of 28 days (as mentioned in that interview someone linked to) doesn't really work out.
I also noticed that one of my pages didn't make it into Google and I'd really like to know why. It's linked from the top page and there is nothing different from the other pages. I linked to a PDF file on that page (also on my site) which also didn't get included. Unfortunately I don't have access_logs, so I cannot tell for sure whether the page got spidered at all. I'd really like to know what I'm doing wrong.
AOL users want MS software (Office etc.) and Windows games. AOL would have to invest a lot of money into supporting all the hardware out there so that a typical installation works like Win98 / ME. I don't think they really want to shift their core business that much.
I'm considering buying on of these. However, can anyone tell me if they succeded in making the Palm more secure? If it gets stolen, I don't want anyone to be able to read my stuff. Is there a single way to encrypt everything, transparently?
I'd like to log in by specifying my password, work, log out. If the device gets stolen now, nobody can decrypt the data.
Is that possible? Pardon my ignorance, but the reviews I read concentrate on other issues...
Another of the show's executive producers, John Shiban, told TV Guide that he and fellow producers Chris Carter and Spotnitz "talked about [taking Lawless' character in that direction]... but we [ultimately decided] that it's the kind of baggage that we didn't want to deal with with this kind of character right now. We had other ideas that we were more excited about."
Have you even looked at BearShare in your life? What is there to circumvent, it's a check-box on the client side?
Yes, obviously I haven't installed 2.2.6 (I have 2.2.5), but it doesn't change my statement "filters don't work". All major filters I've seen can easily be circumvented, and I don't see the point of a filter that calls itself family filter and can be easily turned off. This is just useful for adult users who want less false hits if they're searching for something other than pornography. But then the filter is badly-named.
The latest version of BearShare has a family filter to hide "inappropriate content" (whatever that means; hopefully, it will block access to real Britney Spears videos as well;-)). But it's probably easy to circumvent like all other filters...
Interesting fact from the PDF (page ii): The number of children using file sharing programs is unknown but believed to be high. Great! For a study on children's access to file sharing, couldn't they at least have tried to collect some data on this?
If I remember correctly, Ötzi - who is very popular in the media here since he was discovered - was some kind of salesman who was crossing the alps to sell (or trade, whatever) flintstones.
Maybe there was a flintstone mafia back in those days that didn't like what he did, so they sent a hitman...
the number of the results is only 1/5 ~ 1/10 of the results Google or Altavista give for the same searchterm, so I suppose Theoma has indexed only a 10th of the pages other searchengines have
That's what the article on searchenginewatch says:
Teoma is a crawler-based service and has a collection of about 100 million
URLs. Of course, to be a serious contender in the search engine space, Teoma will
need to grow, and it is planning to do so.
Fireball voyeur queries - see what other people ask for in German search engine fireball.de; go ahead if you don't understand German, some queries don't need translation;-)
It's nice, but the problem is that those search engine with bought rankings also "poison" meta search engines. For one request, I got download.cnet.com as #1 site because it was ranked very high on various sites used by vivisimo. It had *nothing* to do with the request:-(
I would also appreciate it if all high rankings of a site are displayed. It helps you to find out where you must still submit your own site.
There are a quite a few normal persons using Java applications to access databases at their workplace. These applications are nowhere near being used by "everyone" (the way IE, Word or Outlook Express are) as they are custom-made, but they exist. Of course you can also create those kinds of applications with VB or Delphi (most are, I guess), but Java gets used for this. That's a problem with Java desktop apps in general, I think - there are hardly any that you can buy off the shelf, but companies, esp. big ones, have quite a few Java apps running on their systems.
Nah, Big Brother is interesting if it is either new or if the mix of people is well done. I liked the first season in Germany, the following two were quite boring (didn't really watch the third).
What about angst? It simply means 'fear' in German, nevertheless I often see it used to describe a movie or a novel, like in 'angst-laden'.
In German commercials English is often used to appear more cool / funky / sexy / whatever. You will find short phrases or even single words used in English where there are perfect German counterparts. Very often these are phrases that do not make a whole lot of sense or add to a description. English is simply used to appear modern. Maybe people who don't understand English well enough are supposed to be impressed by that, I often find it ridiculous.
This one at Yahoo (nice photo!) says she hasn't ruled out to return, this one at Mrshowbiz reports that she will not be back. Let's just wait and see...
Personally, I would have preferred more episodes with no conspiracy plot in them. One monster / phenomenon per episode, that's it. Now that Scully is a mother, I find it hard to believe that she would do anything dangerous...
Actually, it's in 4686 German Mark (DM), which is (at least approximately) 2500 Euro.
The lawyers also refused to make a deal - the author offered to change the name if they would not demand the money. They added that lawyers wouldn't work for free.
See the article in the Heise.de newsticker. According to that article it is still unclear whether the lawyers work directly for Adobe. Adobe itself also didn't make a statement.
There are agencies that check the legal status of names in all kinds of countries (and the meaning of that name in various languages).
That way, you can make sure that you're not working against anyone's trademarks and you make sure that people will not associate anything negative with your product.
Of course, the expenses to use that service are probably way higher than what your average free software author is able (or willing) to spend.
It would be very helpful to be able to sort by image size (number of pixels, width times height). If I search for something that returns many hits, I usually have to crawl through tons of images that are hardly larger than a thumbnail and only rarely there is a large picture to be found. That's natural, because most images on the web are small, but sorting would help and the information is already there in their database.
Another suggestion that is easy to implement - make it possible to search for files in a certain format only. JPEG is typically used for photos, so you will get much less graphics if you restrict your search to JPEG (or vice versa).
An additional service that comes to mind is OCR - for several topics I found a surprisingly large number of newspaper scans. Google could use the text detected in the image to even further increase the search quality.
Also, I hope they're using meta data. It's not there very often, but all major file formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) have the ability to store text or even more finegrained information (date, location, etc., think of JPEG/EXIF).
A more complex extension would be query by example. You send up an image, they list images that look the same. This is much more powerful than mere text, but it works in a very different way.
Apple needs Java to work on Macs more than anything.
I'm a Java developer and glad about every 1.2 / 1.3 JDK that is available, but why do you think that Apple needs Java? It seems to me that Apple's systems are very much end-user-driven, so that Java isn't really much of an issue. Java never really made it to the desktop (Swing speed issues etc.)
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Java is getting stronger and stronger on the embedded market. EmbeddedJava and PersonalJava are the appropriate environments for that. Of course they don't need 3 megs. Jbed and the like start with a memory footprint of about 8 KB.
If you like the Java language for development (as I do), but don't care for the multiplatform use of bytecode, the latest version of the GNU compiler can now compile Java code into native code.
Unfortunately, gcj still doesn't support AWT so that "only" command line programs can be created.
It's nice that Google includes PDF files, but why don't they read PostScript, Word DOC and all the other document file formats? It seems to be easy to add a couple of import filters...
They could also easily support compressed documents, e. g. pdf.gz or pdf.bz2.
If the import filter really "understands" the file format (if it knows where things are emphasized or in bold, or larger font, not just the result of pdftotext given to the indexer) the quality of the query results could be improved as well. Words in headings or larger font could be regarded as more relevant for a page (in a similar way that words in h1 or h2 are considered more relevant with HTML).
Yes, my pages change very often, and Google cache has versions that are between 7 and 8 weeks old. So the refresh rate of 28 days (as mentioned in that interview someone linked to) doesn't really work out.
I also noticed that one of my pages didn't make it into Google and I'd really like to know why. It's linked from the top page and there is nothing different from the other pages. I linked to a PDF file on that page (also on my site) which also didn't get included. Unfortunately I don't have access_logs, so I cannot tell for sure whether the page got spidered at all. I'd really like to know what I'm doing wrong.
According to my logs, CodeRed can still make it through the firewall. How about censoring that? ;-)
AOL users want MS software (Office etc.) and Windows games. AOL would have to invest a lot of money into supporting all the hardware out there so that a typical installation works like Win98 / ME. I don't think they really want to shift their core business that much.
I'm considering buying on of these. However, can anyone tell me if they succeded in making the Palm more secure? If it gets stolen, I don't want anyone to be able to read my stuff. Is there a single way to encrypt everything, transparently?
I'd like to log in by specifying my password, work, log out. If the device gets stolen now, nobody can decrypt the data.
Is that possible? Pardon my ignorance, but the reviews I read concentrate on other issues...
Have you even looked at BearShare in your life? What is there to circumvent, it's a check-box on the client side?
Yes, obviously I haven't installed 2.2.6 (I have 2.2.5), but it doesn't change my statement "filters don't work". All major filters I've seen can easily be circumvented, and I don't see the point of a filter that calls itself family filter and can be easily turned off. This is just useful for adult users who want less false hits if they're searching for something other than pornography. But then the filter is badly-named.
The latest version of BearShare has a family filter to hide "inappropriate content" (whatever that means; hopefully, it will block access to real Britney Spears videos as well ;-)). But it's probably easy to circumvent like all other filters...
Interesting fact from the PDF (page ii): The number of children using file sharing programs is unknown but believed to be high. Great! For a study on children's access to file sharing, couldn't they at least have tried to collect some data on this?
If I remember correctly, Ötzi - who is very popular in the media here since he was discovered - was some kind of salesman who was crossing the alps to sell (or trade, whatever) flintstones.
Maybe there was a flintstone mafia back in those days that didn't like what he did, so they sent a hitman...
the number of the results is only 1/5 ~ 1/10 of the results Google or Altavista give for the same searchterm, so I suppose Theoma has indexed only a 10th of the pages other searchengines have
That's what the article on searchenginewatch says:
Teoma is a crawler-based service and has a collection of about 100 million
URLs. Of course, to be a serious contender in the search engine space, Teoma will
need to grow, and it is planning to do so.
It's nice, but the problem is that those search engine with bought rankings also "poison" meta search engines. For one request, I got download.cnet.com as #1 site because it was ranked very high on various sites used by vivisimo. It had *nothing* to do with the request :-(
I would also appreciate it if all high rankings of a site are displayed. It helps you to find out where you must still submit your own site.
There are a quite a few normal persons using Java applications to access databases at their workplace. These applications are nowhere near being used by "everyone" (the way IE, Word or Outlook Express are) as they are custom-made, but they exist. Of course you can also create those kinds of applications with VB or Delphi (most are, I guess), but Java gets used for this. That's a problem with Java desktop apps in general, I think - there are hardly any that you can buy off the shelf, but companies, esp. big ones, have quite a few Java apps running on their systems.
There is a difference between "used by the general computing public" and "no one" (as suggested by the original poster).
...Latin? Old Greek?
;-)
Nah, Big Brother is interesting if it is either new or if the mix of people is well done. I liked the first season in Germany, the following two were quite boring (didn't really watch the third).
What about angst? It simply means 'fear' in German, nevertheless I often see it used to describe a movie or a novel, like in 'angst-laden'.
In German commercials English is often used to appear more cool / funky / sexy / whatever. You will find short phrases or even single words used in English where there are perfect German counterparts. Very often these are phrases that do not make a whole lot of sense or add to a description. English is simply used to appear modern. Maybe people who don't understand English well enough are supposed to be impressed by that, I often find it ridiculous.
This one at Yahoo (nice photo!) says she hasn't ruled out to return, this one at Mrshowbiz reports that she will not be back. Let's just wait and see...
Personally, I would have preferred more episodes with no conspiracy plot in them. One monster / phenomenon per episode, that's it. Now that Scully is a mother, I find it hard to believe that she would do anything dangerous...
Actually, it's in 4686 German Mark (DM), which is (at least approximately) 2500 Euro.
The lawyers also refused to make a deal - the author offered to change the name if they would not demand the money. They added that lawyers wouldn't work for free.
See the article in the Heise.de newsticker. According to that article it is still unclear whether the lawyers work directly for Adobe. Adobe itself also didn't make a statement.
There are agencies that check the legal status of names in all kinds of countries (and the meaning of that name in various languages).
That way, you can make sure that you're not working against anyone's trademarks and you make sure that people will not associate anything negative with your product.
Of course, the expenses to use that service are probably way higher than what your average free software author is able (or willing) to spend.
Reminds me of some discussion on /. about /. that there might be NNTP support at one point.
Whatever happened to that?
It would be great for taking a complete thread with you on a PDA.
It would be very helpful to be able to sort by image size (number of pixels, width times height). If I search for something that returns many hits, I usually have to crawl through tons of images that are hardly larger than a thumbnail and only rarely there is a large picture to be found. That's natural, because most images on the web are small, but sorting would help and the information is already there in their database.
Another suggestion that is easy to implement - make it possible to search for files in a certain format only. JPEG is typically used for photos, so you will get much less graphics if you restrict your search to JPEG (or vice versa).
An additional service that comes to mind is OCR - for several topics I found a surprisingly large number of newspaper scans. Google could use the text detected in the image to even further increase the search quality.
Also, I hope they're using meta data. It's not there very often, but all major file formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF) have the ability to store text or even more finegrained information (date, location, etc., think of JPEG/EXIF).
A more complex extension would be query by example. You send up an image, they list images that look the same. This is much more powerful than mere text, but it works in a very different way.
Apple needs Java to work on Macs more than anything.
I'm a Java developer and glad about every 1.2 / 1.3 JDK that is available, but why do you think that Apple needs Java? It seems to me that Apple's systems are very much end-user-driven, so that Java isn't really much of an issue. Java never really made it to the desktop (Swing speed issues etc.)