Wavelets sound neat but I don't think browsers can read wavlet encoded images. I think jpeg uses something else.
Even if you store every resolution you need, you are only increasing the storage requirements by a factor of 5 or so. The files get much smaller as you takes the resolution down. It does depend on how many resolutions you want, but something like google maps has plenty for my taste.
I think taco was referring to first mapping site to also offer satelite photos. I haven't seen satelite photos on sites such as mapquest or yahoo maps.
Satelite photos have been available on the internet for some time, but this certainly makes them much more convenient.
Googles map software is pretty nifty. It seems like something that wouldn't be to hard to whip up for any large image file.
I can imagine taking some very high resolution artwork and displaying it using this technology. I can zoom in to the max resolution or your can scroll around forever.
Anybody have any software that would take a large image file and apply a google-map-like interface to it? The software should be something as simple as:
Resize the image to various resolutions
Break the images into 200x200 pixel chunks at each resolution and save those chunks as individual image files
Put a javascript interface on
If you are smart about your image naming conventions you shouldn't even need a powerful webserver. The whole thing could be served up via static files from a webserver with enough disk space and a big enough pipe.
I'd like to see this for things like:
Local maps such as for state parks
Scanned artwork such as paintings - Like the Gigapixel Tapestries covered the other day.
Circular panorama photos that could be scrolled only in one direction
I'm not sure that Vonage is the right person to sue here. 911 does need to be able to work from VOIP phones, but my understanding is that the 911 system is not easy to hook up.
The real number to which your 911 call is forwarded is some sort of state secret. The 911 call centers don't want to be called except for when 911 is dialed to avoid pranks, mistakes, and confusion. If you dial 911 from Vonage they forward your call to the publicly listed police number for your area. If they could figure out what the call center for your area would be, they would foward the call there. But my understanding is the list is not available to them.
The 911 problems with VOIP are that like cell phones, you can take a VOIP phone with you. It is not tied to a location. Unlike cell phones, you can't pinpoint the location as being near a tower. You are just "on the internet" which is not nearly as helpful. VOIP does not have embedded GPS either.
Here is a list of things that I think need to happen. Lets sue until the do (I don't care who):
Make 911 call center numbers available to VOIP providers
Embed GPS chips in black box VOIP boxes and configure them to send location information when 911 is dialed
Require VOIP providers to ask customers the expected physical location of their VOIP phone so that 911 will work when there is no GPS data
Require that VOIP providers inform customers that 911 will go to this location if they move their phone
Require VOIP providers to allow users to change this location easily either through their phone, or a web interface
Require VOIP providers to ask the "where is your phone" question again if other customer information like billing address changes
I'm not sure how well the GPS thing would work indoors. You might have to have the box say "I can't get a GPS signal, I won't work until I have one. Go plug me in near a window until I can see a satelite, then you can put me in the basement."
Regular expressions are great, but once you know them and you think you can conquer the world, I find they occasionally let you down. The text editor I was using had a rudementary regular expression search that did not support non-greedy matching. I found that writing a regular expression that finds C style/* comments */ to be quite tricky with only greeding matching. I wrote it up as an article where I build the expression piece by piece showing common things you might try that won't work.
If you want more of a challenge, try writing a regular expression that find any <script></script> tags along with anything in between using only greedy matching. You will find that the length of your regular expression goes up exponentially with the length of your ending condition.
You say that people want to ask questions rather than put in search terms. There are a few things wrong with that:
People hate typing. I would expect more people to enter "prescpt drugs CA" than "Where can I buy prescription drugs in Canada"
Entering "Where can I buy prescription drugs in Canada" into google returns very relevent results. As a user, you don't need to know that google ignores the words "where", "can", "I", and "in".
So maybe there is a place in the market for a search engine front end that specifically says "type in a question". But I really doubt that many people want to type that much. I certainly doubt that it should be based an shoddy results that Ask Jeeves seems to give.
The problem that I have with adsense is that ads tend to be for pages that are very much like the one users are currently on. I would like to be able to be able to suggest keywords to google that I think are related enough to be useful but different enough to provide some incentive for users to actually click.
Just for example, say I have a page that is a mortgage rate calculator. Google will probably show ads for other mortgage rate calculators rather than for the more lucrative ads for mortgages themselves.
It is in google's interest to have relevent ads on pages, so it might take some fancy relevency logic or human intervention so that everybody can't put up ads for the absolutely most profitable thing. But isn't relevency what google is good at?
Yahoo or MSN could get a big leg up on Google with such a feature.
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I believe that the problem is that all the men in IT are so attractive.
Woman trains for information technology because she hears the men are so good looking.
Woman gets job choosing purely based on the hunk to junk ratio.
Woman falls in love IT hunk
The IT hunk and the IT babe get married
They have kids - she stays home
If only the men of IT were a little pastier, a little geekier, or maybe a little more rotund, this unfortunate series of events would never occur.
If that is true we'll still be able to catch it the same way this one was caught: it would appear in the google cache with the modified title just like googlebot fetched it.
That is unless the two departments inside google actually team up for a conspiracy.
I just tried this again today, and it appears that google adsense has fixed. They are returning the same content to googlebot as their are returning to all other user agents.
As I posted in the last story about this, it was very easy to confirm that the pages were serving up different content to googlebot than they were serving up to everybody else. I opened up a command prompt and used telnet to download the page as if I were googlebot and without a user agent string:
<ti tle> traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool? </title> ...
Their page is serving up different content if the user agent is googlebot. When you view the cache, you are seeing what googlebot saw. The parent poster is spreading mis-information. This is not the a feature of the google cache that is adding the keywords to the title of the page. It is google adsense that is spamming the google search index.
<ti tle> traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool? </title> ...
<title> traffic estimator, traffic estimates, traffic tool, estimate traffic Google AdWords Support: Why do traffic estimates for my Ad Group differ from those given by the standalone tool? </title>
When stopped making laser printers they handed their business over to GCC Printers. If you are a Mac user, their printers work with Apple products better than any of the other printers on the market.
Plus they were a nice place to work for a few years out of college.;-)
Sigs are omitted unless you are logged in, so google never sees them.
That means that my link to my open source currency converter in my sig doesn't help my page rank and I am reduced to mentioning it in comments like this.
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Even if you store every resolution you need, you are only increasing the storage requirements by a factor of 5 or so. The files get much smaller as you takes the resolution down. It does depend on how many resolutions you want, but something like google maps has plenty for my taste.
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You have a link to that? That sounds nifty. They have a " Link to this page" feature that will let you give us a url for it.
Satelite photo of the whitehouse - on Google maps
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Satelite photos have been available on the internet for some time, but this certainly makes them much more convenient.
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I can imagine taking some very high resolution artwork and displaying it using this technology. I can zoom in to the max resolution or your can scroll around forever.
Anybody have any software that would take a large image file and apply a google-map-like interface to it? The software should be something as simple as:
If you are smart about your image naming conventions you shouldn't even need a powerful webserver. The whole thing could be served up via static files from a webserver with enough disk space and a big enough pipe.
I'd like to see this for things like:
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The real number to which your 911 call is forwarded is some sort of state secret. The 911 call centers don't want to be called except for when 911 is dialed to avoid pranks, mistakes, and confusion. If you dial 911 from Vonage they forward your call to the publicly listed police number for your area. If they could figure out what the call center for your area would be, they would foward the call there. But my understanding is the list is not available to them.
The 911 problems with VOIP are that like cell phones, you can take a VOIP phone with you. It is not tied to a location. Unlike cell phones, you can't pinpoint the location as being near a tower. You are just "on the internet" which is not nearly as helpful. VOIP does not have embedded GPS either.
Here is a list of things that I think need to happen. Lets sue until the do (I don't care who):
I'm not sure how well the GPS thing would work indoors. You might have to have the box say "I can't get a GPS signal, I won't work until I have one. Go plug me in near a window until I can see a satelite, then you can put me in the basement."
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You are quite welcome. Are you using it for anything interesting that I can take a look at?
Script tags cannot be nested which makes that portion of html able to be matched by a regular expression.
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Currency conversion calculator
Your expression fails for this case:
<script><scri</script>
It will match <scri< with your |</scri[^p] rule and then go on to match beyond the end of your regular expression.But I acknowledge that it may be quadratic rather than exponenetial even with a correct regular expression.
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Sounds like good eating.
Regular expressions are great, but once you know them and you think you can conquer the world, I find they occasionally let you down. The text editor I was using had a rudementary regular expression search that did not support non-greedy matching. I found that writing a regular expression that finds C style /* comments */ to be quite tricky with only greeding matching. I wrote it up as an article where I build the expression piece by piece showing common things you might try that won't work.
If you want more of a challenge, try writing a regular expression that find any <script></script> tags along with anything in between using only greedy matching. You will find that the length of your regular expression goes up exponentially with the length of your ending condition.
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What does IE complain about? hover background colors on table cells, or the fact that #eee isn't a really well thought out color?
So maybe there is a place in the market for a search engine front end that specifically says "type in a question". But I really doubt that many people want to type that much. I certainly doubt that it should be based an shoddy results that Ask Jeeves seems to give.
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That way it costs nothing, takes a lot of your time, and gives you the incentive to corrupt the peer review process. What could be wrong with that?
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Just for example, say I have a page that is a mortgage rate calculator. Google will probably show ads for other mortgage rate calculators rather than for the more lucrative ads for mortgages themselves.
It is in google's interest to have relevent ads on pages, so it might take some fancy relevency logic or human intervention so that everybody can't put up ads for the absolutely most profitable thing. But isn't relevency what google is good at?
Yahoo or MSN could get a big leg up on Google with such a feature.
I believe that the problem is that all the men in IT are so attractive.
- Woman trains for information technology because she hears the men are so good looking.
- Woman gets job choosing purely based on the hunk to junk ratio.
- Woman falls in love IT hunk
- The IT hunk and the IT babe get married
- They have kids - she stays home
If only the men of IT were a little pastier, a little geekier, or maybe a little more rotund, this unfortunate series of events would never occur.Currency conversion calculator
That is unless the two departments inside google actually team up for a conspiracy.
I just tried this again today, and it appears that google adsense has fixed. They are returning the same content to googlebot as their are returning to all other user agents.
Their page is serving up different content if the user agent is googlebot. When you view the cache, you are seeing what googlebot saw. The parent poster is spreading mis-information. This is not the a feature of the google cache that is adding the keywords to the title of the page. It is google adsense that is spamming the google search index.And without googlebot:
They are serving different content if the user agent is googlebot:
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Seems to be a fairly common occurance unfortunately.
Sigs are omitted unless you are logged in, so google never sees them.
That means that my link to my open source currency converter in my sig doesn't help my page rank and I am reduced to mentioning it in comments like this.
this article is horribly written! impossible to understand.
Why did you try to read it?
Nobody else here ever does.
You should be able to set it such that you text and images are bigger.