While my own preference would be to use python as the spider just as google does I have no doubt that Java is up to the task itself, especially with actually skilled developers.
However I question the decision to use Tomcat. My limited experience with Tomcat showed it to be a resource hog that doesn't scale well at all. I couldn't imagine the Tomcat I played with surviving traffic anywhere near the amount that google gets regularly.
Has anyone used Tomcat in a high-load situation? How much RAM did you need? I wasn't convinced that the 512MB I had would be enough and ended up dropping Tomcat entirely. That was a year ago. Did I have a bad version? Is this normal for Java (doesn't seem to be to me)?
If I'm gonna live until I'm 600 then marriage is just that much more scary. It's also a lot more risky - the chances of losing your mate get much higher. Sounds lose-lose to me.
When you think about what living a long time would actually be like it seems like our current lifespans have reached a pretty decent balance between the advantages and disadvantages of living longer.
Just like Firebird. What really gets me is not the fact that these names have already been taken but that at least two seperate people on earth think these are good names for their projects. Firebird is a bad name and it's only made worse by the Thunderbird project, confusing as hell. One should be called Fire and one Thunder, now that's pretty cool. Except for the fact that Fire is an IM on the Mac.
XForms is a bad name. Sure, it kinda sounds like XHTML. Here's a reality check: XHTML is a bad name. X2 was a bad name for a movie, XP is a bad version number and so is MX. X is a stupid letter. Don't go tacking it onto everything you name just to make it sound cool. A name doesn't make something cool, but it sure can make it sound stupid.
Don't even try to explain that extensible starts with an X instead of an E unless you're speaking in ebonics, and in that case, mad props.
I use mozilla to access my yahoo mail, does that count?
With the ability to access all my mail from anywhere, including my address book, notes and calendar I'm not sure how anyone on the go gets any real emailing done without web-based email. Sure, the spell checker isn't type-as-you-go (yet) and a few other niceties are missing. But it's email, how complicated do you want it?
Personally I'd trade VBScript emails for ultra portability any day.
I'm disappointed to see my favorite band, Radiohead, supporting this. But, what can I do? They can't be perfect can they? Can they?
True, most of Radiohead's albums are concept-style albums where the greater whole is more important than one song - say Fitter Happier from OK Computer - that doesn't mean that there isn't significant artistic worth in some individual songs. Treefingers will never be sold alone but Paranoid Android is impressive by itself.
The key difference that selling songs individually allows is something both artistic and commercial interests will appreaciate: audience. By allowing the more independent songs to stand on their own the artists can reach a wider audience. Most of my top 40 listening friends won't touch Radiohead albums at all but they'd add Fake Plastic Trees to their playlists if it were available alone. And doesn't that make it worth it?
My own personal music maybe have the artistic importance of a grain of sand but I'd still much rather touch many people with a few songs than a few people with many songs.
She only sounds like a "bimbo" to you. I wasn't even aware that she was a woman until you pointed it out. Perhaps you've got a little problem with women and technology? It's the 21st century, get with it.
If you can't tell the difference barely then you can tell it with ease? I agree. On a 1.6 amd cpu I can mixdown my track in roughly half the time as the 800mhz machine.
we will have to rely on either hydro or wind power within the next decade if we want to be able to go outside...
...TONS of rivers and lots of space where you could easily and very cheaply recreate another hoover dam. WHY DOESN'T THIS HAPPEN??? (rhetorical question, we all know the answer there)
I'll still give the answer here, in case anyone thought it was politics stopping more hoover dams from being built: if we damned everything we could there'd be no reason to go outside.
Acting crazy, or angry, or any single emotion very strongly is easy. Watch any high school production: the less experienced actors stand out by the intensity with which they feel each emotion. Talent in acting is revealed in the conflict of two emotions felt at once.
You may say that Gollum's conversation with himself is just that, but it isn't. He gets to switch between two single emotions like a madman which any semi-experienced actor can tell you is pretty damn easy, even fun. Keep in mind that Gollum's conversation with himself was also shot in pieces, once from each angle. In that respect the actor didn't even have to switch emotions as quickly as it appears he did on screen.
Gollum didn't win an Oscar because he didn't deserve it.
Can anyone familiar with the details say if this will end the need to do research on embryos? This seems to be a controversial aspect of stem cell research and eliminating this need may help win public acceptance.
Stop/Reload use the same button, depending on whether or not the page is loaded. Why didn't anyone else think of this?
Because it's a very bad UI. What makes you think it's so good? Every so often I want to either reload a page that hasn't finished loading yet or want to stop a page that is doing something stupid very quickly, the latter being the most annoying.
In any other browser I can mash the stop button until the page finally stops refreshing itself every second, for example, or loading the 500MB file with the wrong mime type, for another. In Safari you only get one click on stop, time it wrong and you're screwed.
It's so stupid I can't believe Apple actually did it.
Sometimes you people really piss me off. Ok, it's pretty damn often.
Why would you want to convert AAC to mp3? Did you all ask for the ability to make records out of the CDs you purchased? So you've got an mp3 jukebox or one of those crappy Nike mp3 players. No one cares. Soon you'll be able to replace them with AAC-protected compatible devices.
The Music industry has always been based around the regular replacement of media! This isn't just the RIAA but everyone that makes the stereo equipment that plays the meda as well. It's time for the next upgrade! If your mp3 hardware can't be upgraded with software then it can be with your wallet.
An IQ of 138 is easily high enough to get into Mensa, but that's not very interesting. My limitted experience with Mensa suggests that it is not full of intelligent people but stupid people that do well on IQ tests, which is really unfortunate because the next best alternative for finding other smart people might be slashdot which is very, very sad. Either that or I'm just generalizing and being melodramatic. Hard to tell, I'm pretty hung over.
So ya, Mensa members tend to be more navel gazing people of average intelligence than smart people with lofty goals. But hey, at least they aren't quite as evil as the scientologists.
I know how you feel. Judging from the responses you've already got it's deeply felt by others as well. But how deeply it affects you is a sign of how important it is to you. This is our fight.
It's not just ads. It's also our rights. We're the poineers that risked our lives to move to the new continent and now they're trying to tax us for it. They're trying to take it away from us.
Don't give up hope, otherwise losing is the only possible option. The Internet and the Web are valuable resources too new to be properly understood and protected. If we try to help, perhaps the mature net of the future will make a lot more sense. If we don't try I assure you the net we end up with will be worse than you can even imagine.
He's wrong, and it's obvious why. "Box blindness" would be like "text blindness". It's too basic to easily tell it's an ad. Further inspection is required. Too many sites use shaded or bordered boxes as design elements for users to learn to ignore all of them.
Neilson should know this. For a user to learn to ignore something the majority of times they come across similar items they must be something that the user wants to ignore. With really wide animated graphics at the top of the page this is the case: most of them are something the user would prefer to ignore.
But there are too many "good" boxes on the internet for the user to learn this. Look at slashdot: there are boxes down each side. If one happened to be an ad that otherwise looked the same as the others users would have very little chance of ignoring it.
And Slashdot is what? The web's best use of white space?
Call it a hunch but Apple probably spend a few million dollars on testing and revising the hell out of this design. You wouldn't be seeing it on apple.com if they weren't sure it would increase sales and confuse users less than the old one. This is Apple we're talking about.
First is was [El] Camino, now Firebird and Thunderbird? Damn. Mozilla people need to get out more. I can see my mother right now "I can't read my email in Firebird" and I'll say "Thunderbird" to which she'll respond "Whatever"
Duplicates are obviously quite common here on slashdot. And the update on this story makes it obvious that only a minute or so of effort could stop them - but that seems to be a minute the editors don't have.
Perhaps we could put the ability to stop duplicates in the hands of the people making submissions? If they could cancel a story after it has been submitted and before it has been posted could the number of duplicates be reduced?
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Poor Malaria, I knew you well.
Heh, uh, I mean, I didn't know you at all... *cough*. Nervous laughter.
Well, then, good riddance.
While my own preference would be to use python as the spider just as google does I have no doubt that Java is up to the task itself, especially with actually skilled developers.
However I question the decision to use Tomcat. My limited experience with Tomcat showed it to be a resource hog that doesn't scale well at all. I couldn't imagine the Tomcat I played with surviving traffic anywhere near the amount that google gets regularly.
Has anyone used Tomcat in a high-load situation? How much RAM did you need? I wasn't convinced that the 512MB I had would be enough and ended up dropping Tomcat entirely. That was a year ago. Did I have a bad version? Is this normal for Java (doesn't seem to be to me)?
If I'm gonna live until I'm 600 then marriage is just that much more scary. It's also a lot more risky - the chances of losing your mate get much higher. Sounds lose-lose to me.
When you think about what living a long time would actually be like it seems like our current lifespans have reached a pretty decent balance between the advantages and disadvantages of living longer.
Just like Firebird. What really gets me is not the fact that these names have already been taken but that at least two seperate people on earth think these are good names for their projects. Firebird is a bad name and it's only made worse by the Thunderbird project, confusing as hell. One should be called Fire and one Thunder, now that's pretty cool. Except for the fact that Fire is an IM on the Mac.
XForms is a bad name. Sure, it kinda sounds like XHTML. Here's a reality check: XHTML is a bad name. X2 was a bad name for a movie, XP is a bad version number and so is MX. X is a stupid letter. Don't go tacking it onto everything you name just to make it sound cool. A name doesn't make something cool, but it sure can make it sound stupid.
Don't even try to explain that extensible starts with an X instead of an E unless you're speaking in ebonics, and in that case, mad props.
I use mozilla to access my yahoo mail, does that count?
With the ability to access all my mail from anywhere, including my address book, notes and calendar I'm not sure how anyone on the go gets any real emailing done without web-based email. Sure, the spell checker isn't type-as-you-go (yet) and a few other niceties are missing. But it's email, how complicated do you want it?
Personally I'd trade VBScript emails for ultra portability any day.
I'm disappointed to see my favorite band, Radiohead, supporting this. But, what can I do? They can't be perfect can they? Can they?
True, most of Radiohead's albums are concept-style albums where the greater whole is more important than one song - say Fitter Happier from OK Computer - that doesn't mean that there isn't significant artistic worth in some individual songs. Treefingers will never be sold alone but Paranoid Android is impressive by itself.
The key difference that selling songs individually allows is something both artistic and commercial interests will appreaciate: audience. By allowing the more independent songs to stand on their own the artists can reach a wider audience. Most of my top 40 listening friends won't touch Radiohead albums at all but they'd add Fake Plastic Trees to their playlists if it were available alone. And doesn't that make it worth it?
My own personal music maybe have the artistic importance of a grain of sand but I'd still much rather touch many people with a few songs than a few people with many songs.
I have a hotmail account that I didn't give anyone for two weeks. No one, MS and that's it. Didn't send any email. But I recieved spam.
Basically Microsoft should be suing themselves. They are selling addresses to spammers. There is no doubt.
She only sounds like a "bimbo" to you. I wasn't even aware that she was a woman until you pointed it out. Perhaps you've got a little problem with women and technology? It's the 21st century, get with it.
If you can't tell the difference barely then you can tell it with ease? I agree. On a 1.6 amd cpu I can mixdown my track in roughly half the time as the 800mhz machine.
Sounds like you are in Canada. So am I.
Where do you work and how can I get a job there?
The resolution is totally unimpressive. Apple's 20" display is 1680 x 1050. Each pixel on this Samsung must be massive.
This isn't a monitor, it's a TV. If you buy one of these as a monitor you're an idiot.
we will have to rely on either hydro or wind power within the next decade if we want to be able to go outside...
...TONS of rivers and lots of space where you could easily and very cheaply recreate another hoover dam. WHY DOESN'T THIS HAPPEN??? (rhetorical question, we all know the answer there)
I'll still give the answer here, in case anyone thought it was politics stopping more hoover dams from being built: if we damned everything we could there'd be no reason to go outside.
Acting crazy, or angry, or any single emotion very strongly is easy. Watch any high school production: the less experienced actors stand out by the intensity with which they feel each emotion. Talent in acting is revealed in the conflict of two emotions felt at once.
You may say that Gollum's conversation with himself is just that, but it isn't. He gets to switch between two single emotions like a madman which any semi-experienced actor can tell you is pretty damn easy, even fun. Keep in mind that Gollum's conversation with himself was also shot in pieces, once from each angle. In that respect the actor didn't even have to switch emotions as quickly as it appears he did on screen.
Gollum didn't win an Oscar because he didn't deserve it.
The highway was not destroyed. It's set to become a recuring set on WB productions, including television shows.
Can anyone familiar with the details say if this will end the need to do research on embryos? This seems to be a controversial aspect of stem cell research and eliminating this need may help win public acceptance.
Stop/Reload use the same button, depending on whether or not the page is loaded. Why didn't anyone else think of this?
Because it's a very bad UI. What makes you think it's so good? Every so often I want to either reload a page that hasn't finished loading yet or want to stop a page that is doing something stupid very quickly, the latter being the most annoying.
In any other browser I can mash the stop button until the page finally stops refreshing itself every second, for example, or loading the 500MB file with the wrong mime type, for another. In Safari you only get one click on stop, time it wrong and you're screwed.
It's so stupid I can't believe Apple actually did it.
How much is Microsoft paying SCO to do this?
Sometimes you people really piss me off. Ok, it's pretty damn often.
Why would you want to convert AAC to mp3? Did you all ask for the ability to make records out of the CDs you purchased? So you've got an mp3 jukebox or one of those crappy Nike mp3 players. No one cares. Soon you'll be able to replace them with AAC-protected compatible devices.
The Music industry has always been based around the regular replacement of media! This isn't just the RIAA but everyone that makes the stereo equipment that plays the meda as well. It's time for the next upgrade! If your mp3 hardware can't be upgraded with software then it can be with your wallet.
An IQ of 138 is easily high enough to get into Mensa, but that's not very interesting. My limitted experience with Mensa suggests that it is not full of intelligent people but stupid people that do well on IQ tests, which is really unfortunate because the next best alternative for finding other smart people might be slashdot which is very, very sad. Either that or I'm just generalizing and being melodramatic. Hard to tell, I'm pretty hung over.
So ya, Mensa members tend to be more navel gazing people of average intelligence than smart people with lofty goals. But hey, at least they aren't quite as evil as the scientologists.
I question if it's even worth fighting for.
I know how you feel. Judging from the responses you've already got it's deeply felt by others as well. But how deeply it affects you is a sign of how important it is to you. This is our fight.
It's not just ads. It's also our rights. We're the poineers that risked our lives to move to the new continent and now they're trying to tax us for it. They're trying to take it away from us.
Don't give up hope, otherwise losing is the only possible option. The Internet and the Web are valuable resources too new to be properly understood and protected. If we try to help, perhaps the mature net of the future will make a lot more sense. If we don't try I assure you the net we end up with will be worse than you can even imagine.
He's wrong, and it's obvious why. "Box blindness" would be like "text blindness". It's too basic to easily tell it's an ad. Further inspection is required. Too many sites use shaded or bordered boxes as design elements for users to learn to ignore all of them.
Neilson should know this. For a user to learn to ignore something the majority of times they come across similar items they must be something that the user wants to ignore. With really wide animated graphics at the top of the page this is the case: most of them are something the user would prefer to ignore.
But there are too many "good" boxes on the internet for the user to learn this. Look at slashdot: there are boxes down each side. If one happened to be an ad that otherwise looked the same as the others users would have very little chance of ignoring it.
Looks kinda cluttered to me.
And Slashdot is what? The web's best use of white space?
Call it a hunch but Apple probably spend a few million dollars on testing and revising the hell out of this design. You wouldn't be seeing it on apple.com if they weren't sure it would increase sales and confuse users less than the old one. This is Apple we're talking about.
First is was [El] Camino, now Firebird and Thunderbird? Damn. Mozilla people need to get out more. I can see my mother right now "I can't read my email in Firebird" and I'll say "Thunderbird" to which she'll respond "Whatever"
Joy.
Duplicates are obviously quite common here on slashdot. And the update on this story makes it obvious that only a minute or so of effort could stop them - but that seems to be a minute the editors don't have.
Perhaps we could put the ability to stop duplicates in the hands of the people making submissions? If they could cancel a story after it has been submitted and before it has been posted could the number of duplicates be reduced?
Slashdot really doesn't know when to stop the April fools jokes. Next we'll be hearing about Sun ditching Java for .NET in August!