I don't think "most" Austrians is true. Austrians in general are quite proud of Arnold and what he's accomplished. Never mind the bodybuilding or the occasional alienating statement.
Oh, great. Now we're going to end up with a hundred thousand troops in Austria. Thanks!
But the troops will have Strudel and Schnitzel instead of Falafel. That is quite an improvement.
If you make Ahnuld commander, Austrians will welcome the invasion whole-heartedly. They sure like their Arnold. And if I remember 1938 correctly, they'll welcome anyone anyway.
Yes, it's a bit flamebait-y, but you can learn something if you follow the Wikipedia link.
With the additional keywords data and structure the search will automatically result in pages about computer science search trees only because the two words data and structure most likely will not appear on pages about forests. I don't see why any clustering technology is necessary. Maybe there is a better example? I have an intuitive feeling that making the computer "understand" groups of related topics can be of importance, but I don't quite see how to integrate that feature into a search engine (once you've solved the classification problem).
But, as I've read about it...it is difficult to find a book store freely selling copies of Mein Kampf....wouldn't it be better to be able to buy and read the whole thing on your own and make your own judgement based on that, rather than possibly carefully selected passages?
The story behind the publication of Mein Kampf is relatively simple. You are allowed to buy or sell the book in Germany. However, the copyright nowadays lies with the state of Bavaria which does not feel like printing new copies. Therefore, it's hard to get by copies (well, they're readily available as text files on the Net, but I mean actual books). IIRC the book becomes public domain 70 years after the death of its author. With Hitler, that'll be 2015.
The situation is kind of reversed. While there is no problem with nudity (even full frontal nudity in prime-time television), violence is frowned upon and you won't see as much of it as you can on US TV. Movies with scenes of violence get more restrictive ratings. Check out akas.imdb.com and compare the "Certification" part of movies with violence or horror.
They don't force anyone to modify the game. You can even sell the original game - but you cannot advertise that version. Clients have to specifically ask for the "ab 18" (age 18 or older) original version. That has an impact on sales.
A lot of game producers find it more attractive to modify the game and be able to sell it to more age groups.
Do the Germans have a long tradition of whining about how Americans are forcing them to change their language, their eating habits and, now, preventing them from launching their own web sites?
To a certain degree, yes. Although it's not so much about the Americans themselves but about using English words phrases where there are perfect German counterparts. German advertisements are full of English. There recently was a study that most people don't get the meaning of ad statements like "Come in and find out". Weird. Now there is a discussion about having a certain quota of German-language music in the radio (the French being the role model for that). The movies are also dominated by US products, but nobody's forcing anyone to watch them. As for TV there has been a development back to German productions with the ascent of private TV stations over the last 20 years.
American fast food is also something people whine about, although there is just as much influence from the Turkish and Italian "cuisine" (Döner and Pizza).
We're pretty good about launching websites, though..de has more domains than any other ccTLD, IIRC.
I believe at least some people will complain about US imperialism wherever you go and no matter what the facts are.
Rar is superior to tar+bzip2 in about any regard. Its solid mode can mimic what tar is about, it can store more metadata, its compression beats bzip2 most of the time, and so on. However, if I don't know my audience exactly I don't send rar files. I don't know if people on the other end have a rar application or are willing and able to install one. Zip is the smallest common denominator, and tar.bz2 is fine for all Unix people.
Does anyone else find it appauling that they can dedicate 4 hours to all the pretty stars, and that they can't include tech oscars in with the other oscars.
There are a couple of tech Oscars already included with the "real" Oscars. Those parts are usually boring because the tech people - mostly in hordes of three to four - are neither funny nor emotional.
It's a sad day for society when people only care about looking at pretty faces, and couldn't care less about the technology that makes the movie possible in the first place.
Google Groups claims to have 1 billion articles. At about 3 KB per article, that's 3 TB. Compress at 30:1 (although I think that's a bit too high) and you're at 100 GB. So, less than 25 DVD-Rs.
It's pretty fast, esp. the search which updates while you type the keyword. Be sure to turn off "special effects" and "check for updates" in the options, both annoyingly being turned on by default.
I can't seem to be able to understand the scroll pane for the thumbnails, though. If I want to scroll to the end, it jumps back to where it was once I release the mouse button after dragging it down. Very annoying.
Why are there two administrator accounts, admin and root? I'm trying to find something in the docs (I was at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/default-privileg es.html already). Can someone point out the right place in the docs, or explain it in his own words?
But first you have to know that something is there and is worth a look.
Exactly. Right now there are tons of off-topic articles in various groups from gardening to sports by concerned AOLers who don't know that they do have an alternative.
Google already identifies similar or exactly identical results. Sometimes it returns a message saying that it has suppressed similar results like the one it is displaying.
So you might say that they have to improve their similarity detection algorithm, but I'm quite certain that they are working on that already.
A related problem is to find parts of a page that are "just" menu structure, like links on the left or on the right that are less important than the actual content. That information could then be used to influence ranking. Just like the importance of text between h1 tags is higher than normal text.
You could just as well say that 99% of Usenet usage is illegal, because that is probably the part that alt.binaries.* takes up. That still doesn't really reflect the discussions going on there.
The whitepaper suggests they're tearing out the run-length encoding that's the final step in jpeg and replacing it with something more space-efficient.
So what they end up with is not a valid JPEG file, I guess?
Sorry that I didn't RTFA (will do later). If it's not compatible then this is not a "breakthrough". Everyone who knows about JPEG's internals can tell you that there are some things that could be optimized in terms of compression ratio by replacing parts of the encoding process.
What JPEG--the committee--did back in 1990 (or so) was to pick technologies that seemed appropriate at the time. There were other technologies back then, and new ones have been developed since. However, format compatibility is extremely important. Better-than-JPEG in itself is not that hard, just read some papers on lossy photo compression that appeared in the last 15 years.
I've been using Usenet since about 1978, I know how it works.
Since it was invented at that time, you must have been one of the first to use it. If you're not making this up. Care to elaborate on how and where you heard about it, and some experiences from that time? Just interested.
Yet this feature has existed in other P2P applications for years.
Not only that, it exists in Kazaa which was mentioned as the "slower technology" in the same article. Yet, in reality, Bittorrent really seems to be faster from what I hear. What is the actual explanation?
The command line was rediscovered. I find learning all the commands cumbersome but I like the command line due to the fact I can script jobs and tasks.
Are you sure you checked out what NT/2000 can do? You can do tasks, too, (AT command) and have the usual Unix tools compiled for Windows. I use all that a lot, and while I still want to switch some day because of MS's tactics, the virii problem and OS costs, I'm not in a hurry.
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"Steals" is such a nasty word. They buy one, figure out how it works and then build it in mass production.
Its Webcam, not wecam! :)
Actually, it's Uscam.
Architecture gives a bird's eye view on a project. You linked to source code, which is "in the trenches".
I don't think "most" Austrians is true. Austrians in general are quite proud of Arnold and what he's accomplished. Never mind the bodybuilding or the occasional alienating statement.
Oh, great. Now we're going to end up with a hundred thousand troops in Austria. Thanks!
But the troops will have Strudel and Schnitzel instead of Falafel. That is quite an improvement.
If you make Ahnuld commander, Austrians will welcome the invasion whole-heartedly. They sure like their Arnold. And if I remember 1938 correctly, they'll welcome anyone anyway.
Yes, it's a bit flamebait-y, but you can learn something if you follow the Wikipedia link.
With the additional keywords data and structure the search will automatically result in pages about computer science search trees only because the two words data and structure most likely will not appear on pages about forests. I don't see why any clustering technology is necessary. Maybe there is a better example? I have an intuitive feeling that making the computer "understand" groups of related topics can be of importance, but I don't quite see how to integrate that feature into a search engine (once you've solved the classification problem).
But, as I've read about it...it is difficult to find a book store freely selling copies of Mein Kampf....wouldn't it be better to be able to buy and read the whole thing on your own and make your own judgement based on that, rather than possibly carefully selected passages?
The story behind the publication of Mein Kampf is relatively simple. You are allowed to buy or sell the book in Germany. However, the copyright nowadays lies with the state of Bavaria which does not feel like printing new copies. Therefore, it's hard to get by copies (well, they're readily available as text files on the Net, but I mean actual books). IIRC the book becomes public domain 70 years after the death of its author. With Hitler, that'll be 2015.
The situation is kind of reversed. While there is no problem with nudity (even full frontal nudity in prime-time television), violence is frowned upon and you won't see as much of it as you can on US TV. Movies with scenes of violence get more restrictive ratings. Check out akas.imdb.com and compare the "Certification" part of movies with violence or horror.
They don't force anyone to modify the game. You can even sell the original game - but you cannot advertise that version. Clients have to specifically ask for the "ab 18" (age 18 or older) original version. That has an impact on sales.
A lot of game producers find it more attractive to modify the game and be able to sell it to more age groups.
Do the Germans have a long tradition of whining about how Americans are forcing them to change their language, their eating habits and, now, preventing them from launching their own web sites?
.de has more domains than any other ccTLD, IIRC.
To a certain degree, yes. Although it's not so much about the Americans themselves but about using English words phrases where there are perfect German counterparts. German advertisements are full of English. There recently was a study that most people don't get the meaning of ad statements like "Come in and find out". Weird. Now there is a discussion about having a certain quota of German-language music in the radio (the French being the role model for that). The movies are also dominated by US products, but nobody's forcing anyone to watch them. As for TV there has been a development back to German productions with the ascent of private TV stations over the last 20 years.
American fast food is also something people whine about, although there is just as much influence from the Turkish and Italian "cuisine" (Döner and Pizza).
We're pretty good about launching websites, though.
I believe at least some people will complain about US imperialism wherever you go and no matter what the facts are.
Rar is superior to tar+bzip2 in about any regard. Its solid mode can mimic what tar is about, it can store more metadata, its compression beats bzip2 most of the time, and so on. However, if I don't know my audience exactly I don't send rar files. I don't know if people on the other end have a rar application or are willing and able to install one. Zip is the smallest common denominator, and tar.bz2 is fine for all Unix people.
Kidding about math on /.? You should know better...
2^69 attempts instead of 2^80 seems like only 11 times faster, then again, thats just me.
2^80 = 2^11 * 2^69 = 2048 * 2^69
Does anyone else find it appauling that they can dedicate 4 hours to all the pretty stars, and that they can't include tech oscars in with the other oscars.
There are a couple of tech Oscars already included with the "real" Oscars. Those parts are usually boring because the tech people - mostly in hordes of three to four - are neither funny nor emotional.
It's a sad day for society when people only care about looking at pretty faces, and couldn't care less about the technology that makes the movie possible in the first place.
Are you new on this planet?
Google Groups claims to have 1 billion articles. At about 3 KB per article, that's 3 TB. Compress at 30:1 (although I think that's a bit too high) and you're at 100 GB. So, less than 25 DVD-Rs.
The problem is getting the old data.
The Internet Archive has some Usenet data, but they never accept proposals when I visit that page.
It's pretty fast, esp. the search which updates while you type the keyword. Be sure to turn off "special effects" and "check for updates" in the options, both annoyingly being turned on by default.
I can't seem to be able to understand the scroll pane for the thumbnails, though. If I want to scroll to the end, it jumps back to where it was once I release the mouse button after dragging it down. Very annoying.
I found them in a Windows installation of ours. But I guess someone must have created an additional account "admin".
Why are there two administrator accounts, admin and root? I'm trying to find something in the docs (I was at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/default-privileg es.html already). Can someone point out the right place in the docs, or explain it in his own words?
But first you have to know that something is there and is worth a look.
Exactly. Right now there are tons of off-topic articles in various groups from gardening to sports by concerned AOLers who don't know that they do have an alternative.
Google already identifies similar or exactly identical results. Sometimes it returns a message saying that it has suppressed similar results like the one it is displaying.
So you might say that they have to improve their similarity detection algorithm, but I'm quite certain that they are working on that already.
A related problem is to find parts of a page that are "just" menu structure, like links on the left or on the right that are less important than the actual content. That information could then be used to influence ranking. Just like the importance of text between h1 tags is higher than normal text.
You could just as well say that 99% of Usenet usage is illegal, because that is probably the part that alt.binaries.* takes up. That still doesn't really reflect the discussions going on there.
The whitepaper suggests they're tearing out the run-length encoding that's the final step in jpeg and replacing it with something more space-efficient.
So what they end up with is not a valid JPEG file, I guess?
Sorry that I didn't RTFA (will do later). If it's not compatible then this is not a "breakthrough". Everyone who knows about JPEG's internals can tell you that there are some things that could be optimized in terms of compression ratio by replacing parts of the encoding process.
What JPEG--the committee--did back in 1990 (or so) was to pick technologies that seemed appropriate at the time. There were other technologies back then, and new ones have been developed since. However, format compatibility is extremely important. Better-than-JPEG in itself is not that hard, just read some papers on lossy photo compression that appeared in the last 15 years.
I've been using Usenet since about 1978, I know how it works.
Since it was invented at that time, you must have been one of the first to use it. If you're not making this up. Care to elaborate on how and where you heard about it, and some experiences from that time? Just interested.
Yet this feature has existed in other P2P applications for years.
Not only that, it exists in Kazaa which was mentioned as the "slower technology" in the same article. Yet, in reality, Bittorrent really seems to be faster from what I hear. What is the actual explanation?
The command line was rediscovered. I find learning all the commands cumbersome but I like the command line due to the fact I can script jobs and tasks.
Are you sure you checked out what NT/2000 can do? You can do tasks, too, (AT command) and have the usual Unix tools compiled for Windows. I use all that a lot, and while I still want to switch some day because of MS's tactics, the virii problem and OS costs, I'm not in a hurry.