As popular as Google is, and as much as most other search engines suck far worse, I have to say that Google sucks. It's just the best option we have right now.
First, I can't believe they don't try and derive more context out of the combination of words I search for. That would help a lot.
Second, you can't search with more than 10 words! So given that Google isn't too smart, it should at least let you craft a decent sized search string to cut out the cruft of unwanted urls (ranking only works well if it knows what you want).
Third, it doesn't even have a NEAR operator like Infoseek used to. That was so useful. You could say "Tom NEAR Dick NEAR Harry" so that those words had to at least be close to each other but not necessarily next to each other.
I wish something better than Google existed. If someone knows of one, please let me know.
Exactly my point. No matter how much creative remapping you do, somewhere you have to have a basic lookup table in a static place.
Why can't you have 50 static places to rotate through? Give each place an incrementing number which will be the highest among the 50 when the specific place is current, then superceded when the next becomes current, and so on.
"The paper claims that this system enables legal file trades, something that isn't guaranteed"
Their system doesn't "guarantee" it either -- for example even "copyright aware" tech can't know if Linux is covered by SCO copyrights without help.
Their language is misleading. How do you "enable" legal file trades? Simply enabling *any* file trades automatically enables legal trades to happen. They happen all the time. [Un]fortunately, so do illegal file trades which also are enabled by enabling file trading.
Full kudos to the Mozilla contributers for giving them some competiton though.
[sarcasm] Yeah, isn't it amazing what a bunch of grubby basement weirdos can cobble together? [/sarcasm]
Microsoft is getting their ass kicked big time. Linux on the desktop may not be as friendly to configure as Windows, but the architecture is totally sound. If it wasn't for Microsoft buying laws, for the screwed up USA patent system, and other things along these lines, there would be little ammo to use to defend against open source developers except TRUE innovation and commitment to the customer.
Yup, and once Bush is through "assimilating" the rest of the world to comply with USA laws, there will be nowhere to run. You think you're a sheep with a wallet now? Just wait... And no, I'm not kidding.
I don't like this. It seems "nice" of IBM, but at the same time it avoids a challenge that Linux infringes on any of their patents at all. Perhaps that is a fight they'd rather not get into for image sake, plus perhaps they might think there is a chance they would lose. I thought Linux was not patent encumbered? It was written from the ground freaking up by volunteers! If that infringes on patents, I say fuck the patents. Base Linux out of somewhere that there aren't patent laws.
Then you end up with managers who don't know what they're doing, realize that, and make their underlings lives a living hell because the hard work gets pushed onto them.
The bug I submitted was marked as "Major" due to the security implications. I submitted it in early Nov. of last year. After 24 days of finger pointing and name calling towards Redmond, someone finally admitted it's a bug. The problem still isn't fixed. It gets the occasional comment and that's about it.
Finger pointing? Name calling towards Redmond? You are _severely_ misrepresenting this bug. (to those curious: please read the bug info for yourself!)
I'm sorry, but if it takes 24 days to get past the name calling when confronted with a security flaw deemed major, OSS doesn't stand a chance.
I'd maybe lend more credibility to your statement if you weren't the bug submitter (and thus very biased). It might be major to you, but few people will be affected by this problem because a) not many people use compressed drives and b) not everyone runs windows. Don't expect people to run over and pat you on the back for finding a bug. If you think getting bugs fixed in a proprietary software company is always straightforward, then I wonder if you have experience working for a proprietary software company. OTOH if it is very important to you or your company that this bug is fixed, why not pay someone to fix it?
The pain of cancer treatment recalibrated his sense of pain, suffering and misery.
That was one of my first thoughts when I read the story. Mental toughness is one of the most important aspects of cycling. ESPECIALLY in a race like Tour de France.
What I'm not happy about is big dumb companies that get bogus patents so that others, including free software writers, CAN NOT compete.
Perhaps that is one of the big problems with the Open Source movement: it is generating far too much prior art which can hinder new patent enforceability in the future.
If you hear someone from Atlanta, Georgia talking about Georgia, you will immediately know what they are talking about because of their very distinct accent.
volunteer work is causing unemployment for people who wish to do the same work for pay
This one statement strikes Microsoft's fight dead in its tracks.
You may find these quotes thought provoking:
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."
-- Harry Truman
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
-- Winston Churchill
"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-- GK Chesterton
1) While reading a page, the page updates in real time with more information retrieved via background tasks.
Original text: "To be or not to be, that is the question" Updated text: "To be or not to be, that is the question (William Shakespeare, Hamlet)"
Original text: "Steven Spielberg has made many movies." Updated text: "Steven Spielberg ([movies][biography]) has made many movies ([other famous directors])"
The possibilities are endless for background research. I think it would be extremely cool. What types of links appear could also be tailored to your interests.
2) How many times have you been to a site which returns you 150 results and you have no way to narrow the search due to a lack of search flexibility, or whatever reason. Auto page scan would find the "next/previous" links (or you could right-click on a link and say 'page scan') and flip through pages one by one looking for your more specific criteria. Or it could page through them all and present the results in a single page.
Buddy doesn't _have_ any "demonstrable" data to say WinXP is better than Win2k. I'm with you - Win2k was better than XP. The only bitch is that some hardware doesn't have 2k drivers.
Microsoft isn't forcing you to use their dangerous browser, but they make it sufficiently hard that it's taken several years before more than a tiny fraction of the users are thinking about using something else...
I'm not even sure that it's 'hard' that is stopping people from upgrading. A big question is "why upgrade?". Really - the machine works fine, IE loads fine, why change anything? It's like if your car runs fine and you are not a mechanic. Do you go screwing around changing things or do you just leave everything be?
Totally, dude! If Knoppix was ubiquitous, moving effortlessly from machine to machine would already be a reality.
My concern for sharing other computers, though, is people trying to rip you off and get sensitive data. Who's to say they don't run a 'corrupt' Knoppix? Hell, bank ATM's with all their safeguards and surveillance are already hijacked, why not a simple personal computer?
While there might be 500 available channels, most people will not watch more than 10 or 20 channels I'd bet (of course there are people who have to have every single channel at their fingertips). Personally, all I want is 5 channels with stuff I really like. Oh, and that's all I want to pay for, too.
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So what's the point of bail? To give the rich guys a chance to skip out?
As popular as Google is, and as much as most other search engines suck far worse, I have to say that Google sucks. It's just the best option we have right now.
First, I can't believe they don't try and derive more context out of the combination of words I search for. That would help a lot.
Second, you can't search with more than 10 words! So given that Google isn't too smart, it should at least let you craft a decent sized search string to cut out the cruft of unwanted urls (ranking only works well if it knows what you want).
Third, it doesn't even have a NEAR operator like Infoseek used to. That was so useful. You could say "Tom NEAR Dick NEAR Harry" so that those words had to at least be close to each other but not necessarily next to each other.
I wish something better than Google existed. If someone knows of one, please let me know.
The first time, yes. Ideally, you'd find a way to cache this in RAM. Not sure if it's possible to do this and preserve data integrity - just an idea.
Exactly my point. No matter how much creative remapping you do, somewhere you have to have a basic lookup table in a static place.
Why can't you have 50 static places to rotate through? Give each place an incrementing number which will be the highest among the 50 when the specific place is current, then superceded when the next becomes current, and so on.
liquid hydrogen tanker ships are safe...
Compared to what? If one of those suckers ignited, sounds like that would spell trouble for at least a city block.
"The paper claims that this system enables legal file trades, something that isn't guaranteed"
Their system doesn't "guarantee" it either -- for example even "copyright aware" tech can't know if Linux is covered by SCO copyrights without help.
Their language is misleading. How do you "enable" legal file trades? Simply enabling *any* file trades automatically enables legal trades to happen. They happen all the time. [Un]fortunately, so do illegal file trades which also are enabled by enabling file trading.
Full kudos to the Mozilla contributers for giving them some competiton though.
[sarcasm]
Yeah, isn't it amazing what a bunch of grubby basement weirdos can cobble together?
[/sarcasm]
Microsoft is getting their ass kicked big time. Linux on the desktop may not be as friendly to configure as Windows, but the architecture is totally sound.
If it wasn't for Microsoft buying laws, for the screwed up USA patent system, and other things along these lines, there would be little ammo to use to defend against open source developers except TRUE innovation and commitment to the customer.
Yup, and once Bush is through "assimilating" the rest of the world to comply with USA laws, there will be nowhere to run.
You think you're a sheep with a wallet now? Just wait... And no, I'm not kidding.
I don't like this. It seems "nice" of IBM, but at the same time it avoids a challenge that Linux infringes on any of their patents at all. Perhaps that is a fight they'd rather not get into for image sake, plus perhaps they might think there is a chance they would lose.
I thought Linux was not patent encumbered? It was written from the ground freaking up by volunteers! If that infringes on patents, I say fuck the patents. Base Linux out of somewhere that there aren't patent laws.
Add regular expression support to Google and all the web's problems will be solved. :)
Then you end up with managers who don't know what they're doing, realize that, and make their underlings lives a living hell because the hard work gets pushed onto them.
Probably irrelevant to today's discussion, but IIRC "The Jam" disk compression software for MSDOS had this feature. So I guess it's nothing new. :)
The bug I submitted was marked as "Major" due to the security implications. I submitted it in early Nov. of last year. After 24 days of finger pointing and name calling towards Redmond, someone finally admitted it's a bug. The problem still isn't fixed. It gets the occasional comment and that's about it.
Finger pointing? Name calling towards Redmond? You are _severely_ misrepresenting this bug.
(to those curious: please read the bug info for yourself!)
I'm sorry, but if it takes 24 days to get past the name calling when confronted with a security flaw deemed major, OSS doesn't stand a chance.
I'd maybe lend more credibility to your statement if you weren't the bug submitter (and thus very biased). It might be major to you, but few people will be affected by this problem because a) not many people use compressed drives and b) not everyone runs windows. Don't expect people to run over and pat you on the back for finding a bug. If you think getting bugs fixed in a proprietary software company is always straightforward, then I wonder if you have experience working for a proprietary software company.
OTOH if it is very important to you or your company that this bug is fixed, why not pay someone to fix it?
The pain of cancer treatment recalibrated his sense of pain, suffering and misery.
That was one of my first thoughts when I read the story. Mental toughness is one of the most important aspects of cycling. ESPECIALLY in a race like Tour de France.
this guy is compiling a list of instances where the DMCA is not used for preventing copyright violations. Make sure you're sitting down.
What I'm not happy about is big dumb companies that get bogus patents so that others, including free software writers, CAN NOT compete.
Perhaps that is one of the big problems with the Open Source movement: it is generating far too much prior art which can hinder new patent enforceability in the future.
If you hear someone from Atlanta, Georgia talking about Georgia, you will immediately know what they are talking about because of their very distinct accent.
volunteer work is causing unemployment for people who wish to do the same work for pay
This one statement strikes Microsoft's fight dead in its tracks.
You may find these quotes thought provoking:
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."
-- Harry Truman
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
-- Winston Churchill
"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-- Napoleon Bonaparte
"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."
-- GK Chesterton
1) While reading a page, the page updates in real time with more information retrieved via background tasks.
Original text:
"To be or not to be, that is the question"
Updated text:
"To be or not to be, that is the question (William Shakespeare, Hamlet)"
Original text:
"Steven Spielberg has made many movies."
Updated text:
"Steven Spielberg ([movies][biography]) has made many movies ([other famous directors])"
The possibilities are endless for background research. I think it would be extremely cool. What types of links appear could also be tailored to your interests.
2) How many times have you been to a site which returns you 150 results and you have no way to narrow the search due to a lack of search flexibility, or whatever reason. Auto page scan would find the "next/previous" links (or you could right-click on a link and say 'page scan') and flip through pages one by one looking for your more specific criteria. Or it could page through them all and present the results in a single page.
Holy smokes. What would it cost to keep that kind of thing running 24x7?
Buddy doesn't _have_ any "demonstrable" data to say WinXP is better than Win2k.
I'm with you - Win2k was better than XP. The only bitch is that some hardware doesn't have 2k drivers.
Microsoft isn't forcing you to use their dangerous browser, but they make it sufficiently hard that it's taken several years before more than a tiny fraction of the users are thinking about using something else...
I'm not even sure that it's 'hard' that is stopping people from upgrading.
A big question is "why upgrade?". Really - the machine works fine, IE loads fine, why change anything? It's like if your car runs fine and you are not a mechanic. Do you go screwing around changing things or do you just leave everything be?
Totally, dude! If Knoppix was ubiquitous, moving effortlessly from machine to machine would already be a reality.
My concern for sharing other computers, though, is people trying to rip you off and get sensitive data. Who's to say they don't run a 'corrupt' Knoppix? Hell, bank ATM's with all their safeguards and surveillance are already hijacked, why not a simple personal computer?
While there might be 500 available channels, most people will not watch more than 10 or 20 channels I'd bet (of course there are people who have to have every single channel at their fingertips). Personally, all I want is 5 channels with stuff I really like. Oh, and that's all I want to pay for, too.
Yeah, I'd probably find it funny, too, if I didn't lose my best friend to drugs.