It's a very un-sexy job, but if you end up at the right company or in academia you can get involved with some pertty interesting work.
The pay can be quite good, and the demand is downright bonkers - I have on average 3-4 recruiters a week cold calling me (I include phone, E-mail, LinkedIn, etc) for positions they can't fill.
Point well taken. Thanks for noticing though that I was merely flailing for a binary format which wouldn't come up with a bog standard filesystem text search:)
Other potentially better examples - mail in a SQL database that doesn't back-end to flat text? Description / keywords fields in various binary image formats, your IM 'buddies' list, etc.
The point is that your operating system's search feature doesn't do what Spotlight (or for fans of Quicksilver which has been around for a good while did before it) does.
If it were just a filesystem searcher, it wouldn't be getting hyped nearly so much, but the idea here is that for every program that collects data (It doesn't even have to use the filesystem for storage, either) a Spotlight search will pick it up.
For example current search functions likely wouldn't search MS Office docs, because they're binary, while Spotlight would.
How nice of you to lurk in the shadows and jeer at my obvious incompetence. Clearly I should be hung from the tallest available tree for such a stupendous error.
The world needs more helpful people like you, really. Ok well maybe not.
So upon reading this article all I could think was "I wonder if I could get my friend with the rediculous stereo system including phonograph to dub this to CD for me so I could make it into an audio sample and somehow stream it into my Atari 800 emulator through the emulated casette device.. Hrrm. I wonder if they even bothered to code that bit..."
I'm pretty sure that everyone will agree that more interest from Red Hat, Inc. is a good thing.
One has to wonder though why it took them two years to come to this conclusion and why they ever had to so publicly and loudly de-emphasize the hobbyist market at all?
Kicking the very people who evangelized them for years to the curb made zero sense years ago and still makes zero sense today. I'm glad they clued in.
No more need to sleaze the official Orifice disks for home use, now I can do everything I need and still keep it all Orifice compatible so I can use it at work.
I was hoping in this article to see a little more detail about where MySQL is headed in the future.
I understand that there is no intention to add "Stored Procedures" as they exist in other SQL implementations, but as a frequent MySQL user I run up against issues like transaction atomicity all the time and some sort of additional infrastructure would be a welcome addition.
I went to a seminar at the otherwise _lame_ SNAC conference where they discussed what's coming in NT 5.
They said back then that the Borg had co-opted kerb and were doing horrible things to it, and would then use it in their marketing jibberish and tout their 'support of open protocols!'.
I bought an Abit BP-6 mobo (And an InWin A-500 case, and got scrod mightily because the case shorts the mobo thus effectively making the two incompatible without serious black magic grounding technology far beyond my grasp.
I figured I might have to wait a little for Linux to catch up, but thus far I'm kinda dissappointed in what's out there. My choices are a kernel patch for the old kernel series, or a completely incompatible kernel which requires a raft of new software I can't seemingly install without breaking all my *current* infrastructure.
Bah. A custom tailored installation will do nicely.
The problem with this as a trend is that it makes the dread question "Which Linux are you running?" even more murky and difficult. Are you running Asus' Linux distro, Dell's Funky Chicken special LInux Distro, or good old vanilla RedHat?
I have to say, I don't understand why Abit didn't say, team up with RedHat and do a deal, everyone would have benefited.
As to the SBLive distro, even on my Linux hostile BP-6 the module from opensource.creative.com works great!
Next thing you know he'll be asking us to boycott Linux because Linus writes software for a living.
I respect the man, his work, and the enduring gift he and his brainchild the FSF have given us all, but sometimes I really wonder if he mightn't be picking his targets based more on PR splash than actual motivations of principle.
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You almost make it sound like the PC release is the only platform it shipped for.
Please bear in mind that we console owners are legion, and enjoyed the hell out of the game with no DRM concerns at all.
It's a very un-sexy job, but if you end up at the right company or in academia you can get involved with some pertty interesting work.
The pay can be quite good, and the demand is downright bonkers - I have on average 3-4 recruiters a week cold calling me (I include phone, E-mail, LinkedIn, etc) for positions they can't fill.
Point well taken. Thanks for noticing though that I was merely flailing for a binary format which wouldn't come up with a bog standard filesystem text search :)
Other potentially better examples - mail in a SQL database that doesn't back-end to flat text? Description / keywords fields in various binary image formats, your IM 'buddies' list, etc.
The point is that your operating system's search feature doesn't do what Spotlight (or for fans of Quicksilver which has been around for a good while did before it) does.
If it were just a filesystem searcher, it wouldn't be getting hyped nearly so much, but the idea here is that for every program that collects data (It doesn't even have to use the filesystem for storage, either) a Spotlight search will pick it up.
For example current search functions likely wouldn't search MS Office docs, because they're binary, while Spotlight would.
How nice of you to lurk in the shadows and jeer at my obvious incompetence. Clearly I should be hung from the tallest available tree for such a stupendous error.
The world needs more helpful people like you, really. Ok well maybe not.
So upon reading this article all I could think was "I wonder if I could get my friend with the rediculous stereo system including phonograph to dub this to CD for me so I could make it into an audio sample and somehow stream it into my Atari 800 emulator through the emulated casette device.. Hrrm. I wonder if they even bothered to code that bit..."
One has to wonder though why it took them two years to come to this conclusion and why they ever had to so publicly and loudly de-emphasize the hobbyist market at all?
Kicking the very people who evangelized them for years to the curb made zero sense years ago and still makes zero sense today. I'm glad they clued in.
To me a portable video game that requires a TV
is like a car with no wheels.
If I have access to a TV I can just play my console.
I love the N64 + SNES idea though. I'd buy one in a minute if it had a display like the GBA or GP32.
Definite kudos to the OpenOffice folks.
No more need to sleaze the official Orifice disks
for home use, now I can do everything I need and
still keep it all Orifice compatible so I can use it at work.
Solid software. Two enthusiastic thumbs up.
In short - Yes.
:) ran.
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I bought an Nvidia TNT2 card at great expense
(compared to other video cards out there)
and have been suffering with their 'interim' X
server release.
I've had friends come by and be amazed at how god
awful slow things like xscreensaver (lament
And now this. Oh I am _SO_ regretting not having
taken the vendor's advice - they were suggesting
a 3dfx Voodoo2 card.
Nvidia - if you are out there and listening, please pick ONE side of the fence, or the OTHER.
This holding-my-breath-hoping-Nvidia-will-do-the
-right-thing business is getting REALLY old.
I understand that there is no intention to add "Stored Procedures" as they exist in other SQL implementations, but as a frequent MySQL user I run up against issues like transaction atomicity all the time and some sort of additional infrastructure would be a welcome addition.
I went to a seminar at the otherwise _lame_ SNAC conference where they discussed what's coming in NT 5.
They said back then that the Borg had co-opted kerb and were doing horrible things to it, and would then use it in their marketing jibberish and tout their 'support of open protocols!'.
Film at 11.
*yawn*
This is a double edged sword.
I bought an Abit BP-6 mobo (And an InWin A-500 case, and got scrod mightily because the case shorts the mobo thus effectively making the two incompatible without serious black magic grounding technology far beyond my grasp.
I figured I might have to wait a little for Linux to catch up, but thus far I'm kinda dissappointed in what's out there. My choices are a kernel patch for the old kernel series, or a completely incompatible kernel which requires a raft of new software I can't seemingly install without breaking all my *current* infrastructure.
Bah. A custom tailored installation will do nicely.
The problem with this as a trend is that it makes the dread question "Which Linux are you running?" even more murky and difficult. Are you running Asus' Linux distro, Dell's Funky Chicken special LInux Distro, or good old vanilla RedHat?
I have to say, I don't understand why Abit didn't say, team up with RedHat and do a deal, everyone would have benefited.
As to the SBLive distro, even on my Linux hostile BP-6 the module from opensource.creative.com works great!
To be dictating terms and strutting around like an over-stuffed over-hyped under-powered Messiah - god's gift to media-kind.
Get his surround technology and associated extremely expensive theatre equipment - theatres may do this and that and may not blah blah blah.
Frankly I think it's getting kinda old - I almost feel like his 15 minutes are maybe coming to a close.
Next thing you know he'll be asking us to boycott Linux because Linus writes software for a living.
:)
I respect the man, his work, and the enduring gift he and his brainchild the FSF have given us all, but sometimes I really wonder if he mightn't be picking his targets based more on PR splash than actual motivations of principle.
All Hail Emacs