As a previous poster commented, I see this little web snazzery mre akin to autocomplete than suggestion. So yuo've got a form on your site and there is a field or two (or three, four, five..) that usually gets populated by the same set of values. Perfect place for an autocomplete function. There are numerous uses for this stuff. Insurance companies could probably lower the annoyance factor on their websites quite a bit.
Computer science, though it is good to have a background in code, is not about code per se. Its about algorithms mostly. I'm a recent CS graduate and I don't classify tricky web development, domain administration or anything like that as science. FOr me, science is about the algorithms.. algorithms to search faster, compute faster, comperss faster, et al.
If you don't know what spam is, how can you tell teh Chinese what to stop? Secondly, why do you think the Chinese are gonna do a damn thing about it? Notoriously, the CHinese don't give a damn about it. In addition, the US government isn't going to appl;y any pressure on the Chinese over it. So quit your damn bitching.
No.. Krakatoa wasn't a super volcano. The volcano that lies under Yellowstone would make Krakatoa seem like a hiccup. Yellowstone really could cause death and black out the sun over a period of years. krakatoa, though a big volcanic eruption, pales in comparison.
Uummm.. Can you say practicaly unenforcable? The only way anyone is gonna get fined is by a kid buying the game, a parent getting pissed and then wrongfully placing the blame on the retailer instead of the kid. Just take the game away! Not everything is someone else's fault!
X-Wing was the first PC game I ever played. I LOVED it! I would play for hours and hours. I don't think I've played a game since that has captured my attention nearly as well.
WTF, dude? Do you seriously think that GWB has anything to do with the thing failing? All GWB said was that he wants a missile defense system and pushed to have the money appropriated. he has absolutely nothig to do with the thing failing. Get your head out of your ass.
And Slashdot moderators give him +4: Insightful. Seriously.. WTF?
And to the parent of this whole thread.. Money gets spent to advance our society along. Money is spent in research and development. That is what happens. Nothing comes out of the blocks working 100%. Yeah, missiles are expensive when compared to the salaries of men. Compare that to the money appropriated to national defense and its but a drop.. not even a drop. More like a bit of mist. Why don't you complain that NASA spent billions of dollars only to have a few rockets explode on the launch pad? How about the money "wasted" in developing the nuclear weapon? How about the money "wasted" on SCRAM jet technology? Remember one fo them blowing up?
Sure sure.. but what happens as commercial jetliners begin flying at those heights? I mean, recent developments are pushing towards that height. In fact, the idea is to get higher where drag is lower thus allowing for faster travel to far-flung destinations. Aer we gonna be forced to navigate around these things and begin crowding the skys?
AOL's new browser, based on the IE rendering engine, has exposed the world's stupidest users to the security flaws in IE. Thus, everyone now hates Microsoft and Bill Gates has filed for bankruptcy protection.
We would certainly react and we certainly would expect a reaction from China were we to block their access to GPS. It's the nature of war, for God's sake!
Less than three weeks before, the earth had shaken and the city had burned.
Nowadays we'd have aerial photography as the earthquake was occuring! Apparently it took three weeks or so to travel from New York to San Fran way back in 1906. That's nutty. Just goes to show you how far we've come in 100 years and how spoiled we've all become.
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I'm a computer scientist! I don't concern myself with the real world!
No generators on the wheels for the same reason no one else has done so.. you need to burn gasoline to turn 'em. Still a net loss. Wind, on the other hand, doesn't require the burning of fossil fuel. I like the idea of the wind turbines on the highway dividers.
Why waste the money placing the solar arrays on empty land? The metropolitan areas in the southwest have plenty of real estate for you to use. It's all sitting on top of homes and other buildings covered in terracota tiles! Seriously.. Why haven't the power companies (with the help of state gov't?) in the area implement a program to get solar panels on rooftops? Cities such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Diego and such are missing out on opportunity here. They'd be doubly praised by the environuts: 1) for using solar energy and 2) not destroying any habitat (except maybe pigeons, but who cares about them?). I've had this idea in my head for years, but I never see anything happen in this area.
Nuclear power.. Oh how it is a political hot button. People don't seem to relaize that there are nuclear plants in this country that have been running for decades without even a hiccup. Yes, Three Mile Island happened (it wasn't even that bad), but people need to realize that its clean and can produce IMMENSE amounts of power. We need to use it. Simple as that. Once we can devise a mthod to get the waste off of the planet without incident, we'd be set. Launch that stuff into the emptiness of the universe and forget about it!
It is my opinion that more research needs to be done on solar and that communities receiving a lot of sunlight on a yearly basis (like mine) should implement a policy to get solar panels on the roofs of as many homes and businesses as possible. let them be managed and maintanied by the local power authorities. We could really see a lot of energy created here in the Las Vegas valley. hell, the entire American Southwest for that matter.. This would certainly reduce the load on fossil fuels fo our little neck of the woods. It would also free us from the interstate negotiations that occur every so often for the rights to power from Hoover Dam. I say fill my roof up with solar arrays. Hell.. look at all of the roof space provided by every casino in the city.. every highrise.. every other small business.. There is a lot of power being wasted simply to heat my damn terracota roof tiles!
But are politicians and power companies ambitious enough to tackle something like that? Certainly not.
No. The systems are not secure. A japanese researcher has shown that fingerprint scanners can be tricked by making fake fingerprints. How do you get the fingerprints of a valid user? Easy! Take them off of the scanner itself!
And then you have iris scanners. The iris is supposed to be more unique than fingerprints. But researchers in Germany have been able to tric kthe iris scanner with a 2048x1536 image of an iris with a hole punched out in the middle for the pupil. Biometrics are not foolproof.
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Don't worry, dude.. I don't see Google Suggest taking over standard Google. You can still use your unpredictable queries there.
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What's sad is that Google is probably basing the temporary results off of rank or the number of times that string has been queried. So is it possible that "Paris Hilton" is the most often searched term that starts with a 'P'? I think so. It's a rather sad commentary on the state of human affairs, if yuo ask me.
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Yes, it would be intensive for their server should everyone decide to use it in place of standrd Google search. However, the algorithm behind their "Did you mean" runs in O(n^2) worst case and O(n) best case. Not too shabby.. The algorithm is what makes it possible.
Numerous times I am forced to look something up without know precisely how to spell it. This should make it easier to find what I'm looking for. Granted, I don't think their dictionary will contain the names of off-the-wall places like Mike's Crabshack, but they do seem to have a rather large dictionary.
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As a previous poster commented, I see this little web snazzery mre akin to autocomplete than suggestion. So yuo've got a form on your site and there is a field or two (or three, four, five..) that usually gets populated by the same set of values. Perfect place for an autocomplete function. There are numerous uses for this stuff. Insurance companies could probably lower the annoyance factor on their websites quite a bit.
Computer science, though it is good to have a background in code, is not about code per se. Its about algorithms mostly. I'm a recent CS graduate and I don't classify tricky web development, domain administration or anything like that as science. FOr me, science is about the algorithms.. algorithms to search faster, compute faster, comperss faster, et al.
Precisely.. The ONLY successful (legally and substantively) way to stop spam is at its terminus, the inbox. That's it. Delete it when it arrives.
If you don't know what spam is, how can you tell teh Chinese what to stop? Secondly, why do you think the Chinese are gonna do a damn thing about it? Notoriously, the CHinese don't give a damn about it. In addition, the US government isn't going to appl;y any pressure on the Chinese over it. So quit your damn bitching.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!"
Your bayesian filter should be able to handle the changes without much more than a hiccup.
No.. Krakatoa wasn't a super volcano. The volcano that lies under Yellowstone would make Krakatoa seem like a hiccup. Yellowstone really could cause death and black out the sun over a period of years. krakatoa, though a big volcanic eruption, pales in comparison.
Uummm.. Can you say practicaly unenforcable? The only way anyone is gonna get fined is by a kid buying the game, a parent getting pissed and then wrongfully placing the blame on the retailer instead of the kid. Just take the game away! Not everything is someone else's fault!
X-Wing was the first PC game I ever played. I LOVED it! I would play for hours and hours. I don't think I've played a game since that has captured my attention nearly as well.
WTF, dude? Do you seriously think that GWB has anything to do with the thing failing? All GWB said was that he wants a missile defense system and pushed to have the money appropriated. he has absolutely nothig to do with the thing failing. Get your head out of your ass.
And Slashdot moderators give him +4: Insightful. Seriously.. WTF?
And to the parent of this whole thread.. Money gets spent to advance our society along. Money is spent in research and development. That is what happens. Nothing comes out of the blocks working 100%. Yeah, missiles are expensive when compared to the salaries of men. Compare that to the money appropriated to national defense and its but a drop.. not even a drop. More like a bit of mist. Why don't you complain that NASA spent billions of dollars only to have a few rockets explode on the launch pad? How about the money "wasted" in developing the nuclear weapon? How about the money "wasted" on SCRAM jet technology? Remember one fo them blowing up?
Sure sure.. but what happens as commercial jetliners begin flying at those heights? I mean, recent developments are pushing towards that height. In fact, the idea is to get higher where drag is lower thus allowing for faster travel to far-flung destinations. Aer we gonna be forced to navigate around these things and begin crowding the skys?
AOL's new browser, based on the IE rendering engine, has exposed the world's stupidest users to the security flaws in IE. Thus, everyone now hates Microsoft and Bill Gates has filed for bankruptcy protection.
Perhaps AOL can drive Microsoft into the ground.
We would certainly react and we certainly would expect a reaction from China were we to block their access to GPS. It's the nature of war, for God's sake!
Less than three weeks before, the earth had shaken and the city had burned.
Nowadays we'd have aerial photography as the earthquake was occuring! Apparently it took three weeks or so to travel from New York to San Fran way back in 1906. That's nutty. Just goes to show you how far we've come in 100 years and how spoiled we've all become.
I'm a computer scientist! I don't concern myself with the real world!
No generators on the wheels for the same reason no one else has done so.. you need to burn gasoline to turn 'em. Still a net loss. Wind, on the other hand, doesn't require the burning of fossil fuel. I like the idea of the wind turbines on the highway dividers.
Why waste the money placing the solar arrays on empty land? The metropolitan areas in the southwest have plenty of real estate for you to use. It's all sitting on top of homes and other buildings covered in terracota tiles! Seriously.. Why haven't the power companies (with the help of state gov't?) in the area implement a program to get solar panels on rooftops? Cities such as Phoenix, Las Vegas and San Diego and such are missing out on opportunity here. They'd be doubly praised by the environuts: 1) for using solar energy and 2) not destroying any habitat (except maybe pigeons, but who cares about them?). I've had this idea in my head for years, but I never see anything happen in this area.
Oh stop it with your nonsense. Clinton nor Kerry would do anything beyond what has already been done. What a douche..
Nuclear power.. Oh how it is a political hot button. People don't seem to relaize that there are nuclear plants in this country that have been running for decades without even a hiccup. Yes, Three Mile Island happened (it wasn't even that bad), but people need to realize that its clean and can produce IMMENSE amounts of power. We need to use it. Simple as that. Once we can devise a mthod to get the waste off of the planet without incident, we'd be set. Launch that stuff into the emptiness of the universe and forget about it!
It is my opinion that more research needs to be done on solar and that communities receiving a lot of sunlight on a yearly basis (like mine) should implement a policy to get solar panels on the roofs of as many homes and businesses as possible. let them be managed and maintanied by the local power authorities. We could really see a lot of energy created here in the Las Vegas valley. hell, the entire American Southwest for that matter.. This would certainly reduce the load on fossil fuels fo our little neck of the woods. It would also free us from the interstate negotiations that occur every so often for the rights to power from Hoover Dam. I say fill my roof up with solar arrays. Hell.. look at all of the roof space provided by every casino in the city.. every highrise.. every other small business.. There is a lot of power being wasted simply to heat my damn terracota roof tiles!
But are politicians and power companies ambitious enough to tackle something like that? Certainly not.
No. The systems are not secure. A japanese researcher has shown that fingerprint scanners can be tricked by making fake fingerprints. How do you get the fingerprints of a valid user? Easy! Take them off of the scanner itself!
And then you have iris scanners. The iris is supposed to be more unique than fingerprints. But researchers in Germany have been able to tric kthe iris scanner with a 2048x1536 image of an iris with a hole punched out in the middle for the pupil. Biometrics are not foolproof.
Don't worry, dude.. I don't see Google Suggest taking over standard Google. You can still use your unpredictable queries there.
In Korea, only old people use Google Suggest.
What's sad is that Google is probably basing the temporary results off of rank or the number of times that string has been queried. So is it possible that "Paris Hilton" is the most often searched term that starts with a 'P'? I think so. It's a rather sad commentary on the state of human affairs, if yuo ask me.
Yes, it would be intensive for their server should everyone decide to use it in place of standrd Google search. However, the algorithm behind their "Did you mean" runs in O(n^2) worst case and O(n) best case. Not too shabby.. The algorithm is what makes it possible.
Numerous times I am forced to look something up without know precisely how to spell it. This should make it easier to find what I'm looking for. Granted, I don't think their dictionary will contain the names of off-the-wall places like Mike's Crabshack, but they do seem to have a rather large dictionary.