The same company that brought you the aweful and awefully-named Shoshkele (those were the Flash ads that obscured the content of the page that they were on) has rolled out another aweful and awefully-named advertising technology. And weather.com has spearheaded the deployment of both godaweful technologies...
Google is quite up front in asking whether or not it is okay to collect information about your browsing preferences via the Google Toolbar, so I don't know what the problem is...
This was published in Nature over a year ago (25 January 2001 to be precise). This article (PDF format) is a nonspecialist introduction to this work, and this article (PDF format) is the peer-reviewed research article from Nature.
From what I understand, Veritas essentially rewrote NTFS version 5 (shipped with win2000 and winXP) and integrated built-in volume management (dynamic disks) with some abstract layer to maintain the clunky drive letter schemes.
This would be interesting if you had evidence to support this. At first glance, I couldn't find anything to support this claim on Veritas' website, and I imagine that they would be eager to take credit for it if your claim is true...
This works well until we get to media files. How would you store a GIF/MPEG/AVI/MOV/RM/* file as ASCII without making it an utter pain to read?
Use uuencode/MIME...:-p
Seriously, though: how are you going to search the content of one of those files, anyway? AFAIK, searching images for content is very rudimentary (try Google's Image Search feature, which is the best thing out there but still pretty bad), and searching audio or video....forget about it. The only moderately successful approach I've seen is the metadata that Fasttrack clients (KaZaA, Grokster, and formerly Morpheus) track, but I'm pretty sure all that has to be entered in by hand, and it's usually wildly inaccurate.
If you want text to be easily searchable, you're best off sticking with plain text. For binaries, the best scheme for now is probably some sort of embedded metadata scheme like ID3 tags for MP3's, but ultimately, that metadata has to be added manually (although you could store such metadata in a database like CDDB to automate metadata creation when ripping CDs, for example).
I first heard about it when I spent a summer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab two years ago. An abstract of the Nature paper that group at Livermore published is available here
I realize that it was a joke, and I was half-joking, too.;-)
Regarding the spell checker, it would be more consistent with the Unix philosophy for it to be an ispell hook, but it would be more consistent with the emacs/kitchen sink philosophy for it to be coded entirely in elisp...;-)
Yes, the exact same article was posted as a/. story here about three weeks ago (under almost the exact same title!) and I could swear it was mentioned in a comment in this story (posted by timothy!), although I can't seem to find that comment right now...
The only non opensource application I use is Mathematica, but Wolfram [wolfram.com] provides student discouts and packages such as Combinatorica [combinatorica.com] are opensource.
IMHO, Wolfram has one of the more draconian licensing policies out there, insofar as Windows and Linux licenses are separate, and if you want the Linux version, you have to give up your Windows license. Contrast this to Matlab, where the Windows and Linux version come on the same CD.
Last I checked, ispell, make, and gcc weren't implemented in elisp. Yes, emacs could do anything and everything via elisp extensions, but that doesn't mean that anything and everything should be bolted into emacs via elisp extensions...
If you look at the screenshot on the last page, it shows ping running on what seems to be a Linux box, and I'm sure teddy bears have appear somewhere in an anime...
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The same company that brought you the aweful and awefully-named Shoshkele (those were the Flash ads that obscured the content of the page that they were on) has rolled out another aweful and awefully-named advertising technology. And weather.com has spearheaded the deployment of both godaweful technologies...
Google is quite up front in asking whether or not it is okay to collect information about your browsing preferences via the Google Toolbar, so I don't know what the problem is...
This was published in Nature over a year ago (25 January 2001 to be precise). This article (PDF format) is a nonspecialist introduction to this work, and this article (PDF format) is the peer-reviewed research article from Nature.
If you read Knuth vol. 1, you'll discover that "algorism" is a deprecated word for "algorithm", so the pun still works... ;-)
Seriously, though: how are you going to search the content of one of those files, anyway? AFAIK, searching images for content is very rudimentary (try Google's Image Search feature, which is the best thing out there but still pretty bad), and searching audio or video....forget about it. The only moderately successful approach I've seen is the metadata that Fasttrack clients (KaZaA, Grokster, and formerly Morpheus) track, but I'm pretty sure all that has to be entered in by hand, and it's usually wildly inaccurate.
If you want text to be easily searchable, you're best off sticking with plain text. For binaries, the best scheme for now is probably some sort of embedded metadata scheme like ID3 tags for MP3's, but ultimately, that metadata has to be added manually (although you could store such metadata in a database like CDDB to automate metadata creation when ripping CDs, for example).
I'ev been waiting and looking for this...thanks for the link! :-)
Honestly, I don't think your graduation had a measurable effect on the total volume of warez traded over the Internet... :-p
I first heard about it when I spent a summer at Lawrence Livermore National Lab two years ago. An abstract of the Nature paper that group at Livermore published is available here
Okay, but wouldn't the "proper" way to go about it be to log in as a normal user and su commands that have to be run as root?
I realize that it was a joke, and I was half-joking, too. ;-)
;-)
Regarding the spell checker, it would be more consistent with the Unix philosophy for it to be an ispell hook, but it would be more consistent with the emacs/kitchen sink philosophy for it to be coded entirely in elisp...
Bah...beat me by two minutes...if I hadn't gone searching for that one comment I couldn't find, I would have been first... :-p
Yes, the exact same article was posted as a /. story here about three weeks ago (under almost the exact same title!) and I could swear it was mentioned in a comment in this story (posted by timothy!), although I can't seem to find that comment right now...
Since there are no unique medical uses for uranium, that shouldn't be a problem.
Agreed...the writing in the Register is too lurid for my tastes. I prefer having my Register stories filtered by other /. readers.
I guess what you do depends on where you fall on the ideology/greed spectrum... ;-)
Awww...I thought MIT kids knew better than to use M$...
If not, then all you have to do is find a taxidermist...
Last I checked, ispell, make, and gcc weren't implemented in elisp. Yes, emacs could do anything and everything via elisp extensions, but that doesn't mean that anything and everything should be bolted into emacs via elisp extensions...
Solution: $35000 / 700 people = $50/person
;-)
Buy a boxed Linux/FreeBSD distribution for every person who attends.
If you look at the screenshot on the last page, it shows ping running on what seems to be a Linux box, and I'm sure teddy bears have appear somewhere in an anime...
Sorry...I couldn't resist... ;-)