it's soap opera [...] with story lines that mangle theoretical physics almost beyond recognition (to make their wannabe nerd fans feel clever) and mix it with trite moral lessons (to make wannabe philosophers feel superior). In truth [...] [it] is a bland mushy paste designed to be fed to shut-ins unable to cope with the complexities of the real world and real relationships, and who don't have the brains to really understand the scientific concepts so dreadfully abused by the writers.
Why not have the current search program be able to read more file formats than just simple text files. There is no reason to force a database on the system.
It's not as simple as you think. As others have already pointed out, developers today have to create whole file systems in a file (Outlook's Personal Folders File - PST - and Outlook Express' dbx files) to be able to implement everything they want/need. Other examples are the Windows Registry and various versions of ID3 tags within MP3 files.
With a database file system, all this meta information is stored in a common storage area. The data access interface could be described through XML, and with all this implemented, you could very easily search all meta information - the actual file contents, author, notes, status, etc - in all files. The possibilities are endless. And imagine being able to access an entire file system through SQL queries!
Today, to be able to search meta information, programmers have to implement a separate parser for every file type, which slows things down tremendously and increases development time.
If someone thinks that their search needs to take 10 seconds less, what is wrong with the current Indexing Service that is in win2k/xp?
Imagine searching through dozens, or in a few years, hundreds of gigabytes of (meta) information. It would take a VERY long time on today's filesystems. A database file system allows searches orders of magnitude faster!
I don't think so. I mean, AOL bought them, and what can we expect from them? Personally, I am not surprised. Since Microsoft killed off Netscape, they've been in big problems, and AOL might see spyware as a last resort to collect some money by selling the info to third party companies and/or using it for some in-house analysis.
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Kinda reminds me of Star Wars
It's not as simple as you think. As others have already pointed out, developers today have to create whole file systems in a file (Outlook's Personal Folders File - PST - and Outlook Express' dbx files) to be able to implement everything they want/need. Other examples are the Windows Registry and various versions of ID3 tags within MP3 files.
With a database file system, all this meta information is stored in a common storage area. The data access interface could be described through XML, and with all this implemented, you could very easily search all meta information - the actual file contents, author, notes, status, etc - in all files. The possibilities are endless. And imagine being able to access an entire file system through SQL queries!
Today, to be able to search meta information, programmers have to implement a separate parser for every file type, which slows things down tremendously and increases development time.
If someone thinks that their search needs to take 10 seconds less, what is wrong with the current Indexing Service that is in win2k/xp?
Imagine searching through dozens, or in a few years, hundreds of gigabytes of (meta) information. It would take a VERY long time on today's filesystems. A database file system allows searches orders of magnitude faster!
I guess 28 days haven't been enough for MS to fix their trash :)
I don't think so. I mean, AOL bought them, and what can we expect from them? Personally, I am not surprised. Since Microsoft killed off Netscape, they've been in big problems, and AOL might see spyware as a last resort to collect some money by selling the info to third party companies and/or using it for some in-house analysis.
:)
AOL IS evil after all, right?