First to get there, click "jobs, press & help" and second item down in the middle of the page is "Google Web Search Features."
Second, most of those features show up automatically, which you will come across when you use Google frequently. Granted, the address search feature isn't very obvious, but I've still had google ask if I wanted directions when searching for cities. The spelling corrections show up if you misspell something, the news items when there is current and relevant news, similar pages and cached items show up beneath every searched item, etc. They don't advertise those features, but I disagree in that I believe the features are designed well in that you don't need to do anything to use them, apart from know they exist.
Uh, the book is titled "Google Hacks" which to some might imply that those abilities were not necessarily by design. (I haven't read the book, so I can't comment first hand on whether this is the case.)
Opera and IE+XP Powertools let you create a prefix URL, so in the address textbox, I just type "g search terms here" and it executes the search. I also have y (yahoo) and gl (google/i feel lucky) search prefixes. You can do this with any site, you just perform a search and put "%s" where you want the search terms to show up. Handiest thing I've ever used in a browser.
If you can produce an OS and applications with Eiffel, and prove to me that it will never crash, I'll eat my pants, shoes, boxers, and start on my home's carpeting. Seriously.
Yeah, I couldn't remember Djikstra's name or "travelling salesman" but those are what I was thinking of. And yes, they are calculatable, but you'd have to calculate everything. So I used bad examples, because at least with the TS problem, you have finite roads. With a PC, there is essentially infinite things that could go wrong, and configurations are ever changing and rarely the same. From programs installed to driver versions installed. Anyway, it's been awhile since I took Automata, so I can't remember specifics, but you couldn't write a program that could actually check if a program will crash or not.
You could never write software that was perfect, because you can never account for every situation.
The solution most non-CSci people ask next is "Can't you write a program that checks for errors?" Intriguing to think about if you've never actually pondered it, but the answer unfortunately is no. You can't write a finite-state machine that can detect or correct an infinite number of states.
To do so would be similar to calculating the "best" route from NY, NY to LA, CA. You could choose any number of roads and paths from coast to coast, with or without loops (finding them would be quite a bitch) possibly traversing every road in the US. If you don't understand why you can't calculate this, ask your neighborhood CSci major.
The best we can instead do is safeguard the software we write as well as possible, which requires time (and therefore money) and computing power to do things like bound-checking on arrays; handling interrupts properly; and managing memory throughly, to name a few major problems in any software. Languages like Java come a long way in some respects, but are very slow. But this isn't a good enough solution, and frankly, most programmers aren't good enough to produce fully error free code.
As revolting as it may sound to the hacker-coders out there, great programmers, software engineering, business processes, documentation, and management of the whole product are necessary to produce truly good software.
I dunno about anyone else, but with the way I play*ed* EQ, I'd have to stop eating and sleeping altogether to get another game in, ESPECIALLY if it's even close to as large as EQ is. When you can play [at a sane rate] for 6 mos. and not have maxed out your levels, or even reached the half-way point, can many people really afford to do this with multiple games, while still enjoying themselves?
Aside from this, part of EQs success is the game's content, namely very similar to a classic fantasy RPG, one which most "RPG-ers" have played (e.g. DND) so the interest was already there. You don't hear too often of people playing a Sims-esque RPG apart from playing "house" or cops and robbers when you're ten years old. Or even Star Wars, for that matter...
Right, I should've been clearer in specifying the US' education system compared to third-world countries. I know nothing about Europe's, (or Asia's) and it wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn they're better than the US. But AFAIK tests like the ACT/SAT aren't used in those countries. Correct me if I'm wrong.
And for the record, I agree that IQ tests don't necessarily mean anything. The same way a standardized test means nothing for some people, such as bad test takers. My old roomate would break out in cold sweats, start crying, panic attacks, etc. for any sort of test, no matter how much she studied. The only way should could be tested fairly is to be put in a separate room, alone. So I guess that's not testing "fairly," but that's the only way her test would reflect what she actually knew. Her first semester at college she spent three days throwing up before finals even started.
Yes, well, keep in mind the US alone has ~290 million people out of ~6.33 billion. Remember too, that the US is among the richest nations in the world, and our education system is one of the best. (note: it is still not "good," there are gaping holes and huge problems in our schools. But it's better than what many nations have currently.)
Considering that, it may make sense that the US has a high amount of population with high IQs. Of course, most IQ assessment examinations have no relevance if the testee has never been through school or learned to read or write.
A coworker is setting this [Asterisk] up to use IP telephony at home with all sorts of extra toy features, and he's dropping qworst services down to a bare-bones, long-distance-less line (he can't lose it completely...yet)
This works best if you ask a few questions first and sound really interested in the product dujour. They'll be much more apprehensive to hang up on a possible sale.
heh, my coworker just met The Who last night at a bar in Minnetonka, MN. Apparently they're going on tour in the fall for 18 mos. She didn't get into how they recorded their music though...I'll have to ask her to bring that up if she ever runs into them again:)
Uh, we've got bigger problems then because all of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul would be underwater, as well as the majority of the [*FLAT*] twin cities metro area...=) that'd be over 120' the river would need to raise (If I remember right...)
This was an exceptional case, I wasn't very clear on that part...the fact that we were dropped to our knees was the vendor's sw error. But we're one of the first orgs to use their hardware in this setup, and apparently they didn't test as well as they should have.
This works well (we do it at work) but it can be expensive. We're spared because we're a university and already have fiber to our server room and to the server room in the building across the river, so it didn't take much more than setting up a dedicated line through the switches so we have the full pipe. The way we're set up, is exactly what another poster said. If our server room falls off the side of the building, we're still up and running. Perhaps extremem for storing a db and files for facilities management, but still cool.
This concept raises some issues though. My employer owns two +1TB SANS and has them in separate locations, constantly mirroring from the production to the backup. But if you delete a file off of one, it is also deleted off of the other. So then how do you decide when to actually delete something from the backup, if you want it to serve as a tape backup?
Other anomolies can occur as well. A drive died in our backup SAN which brought both SANS (and in turn, all of our servers, which run off of the SAN using fiber cards) to their knees immediately, because they were trying to write bits to that drive (big coincidence, but took us down for over two hours, and it could've been much longer than that...)
Still, an interesting concept. But we still take tape backups daily, incrementally through the week and a full backup over weekends. Never put all your eggs in one basket, remember.
wtf should I pay to keep one specific number when I'm already paying for a number in the first place? It makes no difference to them and has no cost to them to simply keep that number.
this I know (well, now i do...but I knew drobbins didn't do the GWN.) Anyway, I don't think Kurt has the power to implement that change without drobbins (and 90% of gentoo users) dying immediately...thankfully.
I just had a f***ing heart attack, until I thought about that for a minute or two. First time (in ALL honesty) I've EVER been taken in by an April Fool's joke. Shame on you, DRobbins! SHAME ON YOU!!!
Radar detectors aren't illegal though (in most states, at least), but there are restrictions placed on usage. In Minnesota, any vehicle over a specific gross vehicle weight can be fined heavily if caught using a radar detector.
The laser diffusing license plate covers available here are also legal in some states, I think. Not in Minnesota though (sorry, that's all I know firsthand...)
Does anyone have information on other Linuxes on their way to COE certification? SuSE Enterprise? (Can't think of any other commercial "enterprise/advanced server" type distros...)
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First to get there, click "jobs, press & help" and second item down in the middle of the page is "Google Web Search Features."
Second, most of those features show up automatically, which you will come across when you use Google frequently. Granted, the address search feature isn't very obvious, but I've still had google ask if I wanted directions when searching for cities. The spelling corrections show up if you misspell something, the news items when there is current and relevant news, similar pages and cached items show up beneath every searched item, etc. They don't advertise those features, but I disagree in that I believe the features are designed well in that you don't need to do anything to use them, apart from know they exist.
Uh, the book is titled "Google Hacks" which to some might imply that those abilities were not necessarily by design. (I haven't read the book, so I can't comment first hand on whether this is the case.)
Opera and IE+XP Powertools let you create a prefix URL, so in the address textbox, I just type "g search terms here" and it executes the search. I also have y (yahoo) and gl (google/i feel lucky) search prefixes. You can do this with any site, you just perform a search and put "%s" where you want the search terms to show up. Handiest thing I've ever used in a browser.
If you can produce an OS and applications with Eiffel, and prove to me that it will never crash, I'll eat my pants, shoes, boxers, and start on my home's carpeting. Seriously.
Yeah, I couldn't remember Djikstra's name or "travelling salesman" but those are what I was thinking of. And yes, they are calculatable, but you'd have to calculate everything. So I used bad examples, because at least with the TS problem, you have finite roads. With a PC, there is essentially infinite things that could go wrong, and configurations are ever changing and rarely the same. From programs installed to driver versions installed. Anyway, it's been awhile since I took Automata, so I can't remember specifics, but you couldn't write a program that could actually check if a program will crash or not.
You could never write software that was perfect, because you can never account for every situation.
The solution most non-CSci people ask next is "Can't you write a program that checks for errors?" Intriguing to think about if you've never actually pondered it, but the answer unfortunately is no. You can't write a finite-state machine that can detect or correct an infinite number of states.
To do so would be similar to calculating the "best" route from NY, NY to LA, CA. You could choose any number of roads and paths from coast to coast, with or without loops (finding them would be quite a bitch) possibly traversing every road in the US. If you don't understand why you can't calculate this, ask your neighborhood CSci major.
The best we can instead do is safeguard the software we write as well as possible, which requires time (and therefore money) and computing power to do things like bound-checking on arrays; handling interrupts properly; and managing memory throughly, to name a few major problems in any software. Languages like Java come a long way in some respects, but are very slow. But this isn't a good enough solution, and frankly, most programmers aren't good enough to produce fully error free code.
As revolting as it may sound to the hacker-coders out there, great programmers, software engineering, business processes, documentation, and management of the whole product are necessary to produce truly good software.
I dunno about anyone else, but with the way I play*ed* EQ, I'd have to stop eating and sleeping altogether to get another game in, ESPECIALLY if it's even close to as large as EQ is. When you can play [at a sane rate] for 6 mos. and not have maxed out your levels, or even reached the half-way point, can many people really afford to do this with multiple games, while still enjoying themselves? Aside from this, part of EQs success is the game's content, namely very similar to a classic fantasy RPG, one which most "RPG-ers" have played (e.g. DND) so the interest was already there. You don't hear too often of people playing a Sims-esque RPG apart from playing "house" or cops and robbers when you're ten years old. Or even Star Wars, for that matter...
Right, I should've been clearer in specifying the US' education system compared to third-world countries. I know nothing about Europe's, (or Asia's) and it wouldn't surprise me a bit to learn they're better than the US. But AFAIK tests like the ACT/SAT aren't used in those countries. Correct me if I'm wrong. And for the record, I agree that IQ tests don't necessarily mean anything. The same way a standardized test means nothing for some people, such as bad test takers. My old roomate would break out in cold sweats, start crying, panic attacks, etc. for any sort of test, no matter how much she studied. The only way should could be tested fairly is to be put in a separate room, alone. So I guess that's not testing "fairly," but that's the only way her test would reflect what she actually knew. Her first semester at college she spent three days throwing up before finals even started.
Yes, well, keep in mind the US alone has ~290 million people out of ~6.33 billion. Remember too, that the US is among the richest nations in the world, and our education system is one of the best. (note: it is still not "good," there are gaping holes and huge problems in our schools. But it's better than what many nations have currently.) Considering that, it may make sense that the US has a high amount of population with high IQs. Of course, most IQ assessment examinations have no relevance if the testee has never been through school or learned to read or write.
A coworker is setting this [Asterisk] up to use IP telephony at home with all sorts of extra toy features, and he's dropping qworst services down to a bare-bones, long-distance-less line (he can't lose it completely...yet)
This works best if you ask a few questions first and sound really interested in the product dujour. They'll be much more apprehensive to hang up on a possible sale.
I was actually wrong, it was The Doors. And I know Jim Morrison is dead. The guy she met was Morrison's replacement. My bad.
heh, my coworker just met The Who last night at a bar in Minnetonka, MN. Apparently they're going on tour in the fall for 18 mos. She didn't get into how they recorded their music though...I'll have to ask her to bring that up if she ever runs into them again :)
How exactly does a business of any kind "lay" you? I've heard of getting screwed...but never getting laid.
Uh, we've got bigger problems then because all of downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul would be underwater, as well as the majority of the [*FLAT*] twin cities metro area...=) that'd be over 120' the river would need to raise (If I remember right...)
This was an exceptional case, I wasn't very clear on that part...the fact that we were dropped to our knees was the vendor's sw error. But we're one of the first orgs to use their hardware in this setup, and apparently they didn't test as well as they should have.
This works well (we do it at work) but it can be expensive. We're spared because we're a university and already have fiber to our server room and to the server room in the building across the river, so it didn't take much more than setting up a dedicated line through the switches so we have the full pipe. The way we're set up, is exactly what another poster said. If our server room falls off the side of the building, we're still up and running. Perhaps extremem for storing a db and files for facilities management, but still cool.
The DLT tapes we use are under $45 a piece, but perhaps they're of a smaller capacity...
This concept raises some issues though. My employer owns two +1TB SANS and has them in separate locations, constantly mirroring from the production to the backup. But if you delete a file off of one, it is also deleted off of the other. So then how do you decide when to actually delete something from the backup, if you want it to serve as a tape backup? Other anomolies can occur as well. A drive died in our backup SAN which brought both SANS (and in turn, all of our servers, which run off of the SAN using fiber cards) to their knees immediately, because they were trying to write bits to that drive (big coincidence, but took us down for over two hours, and it could've been much longer than that...) Still, an interesting concept. But we still take tape backups daily, incrementally through the week and a full backup over weekends. Never put all your eggs in one basket, remember.
wtf should I pay to keep one specific number when I'm already paying for a number in the first place? It makes no difference to them and has no cost to them to simply keep that number.
this I know (well, now i do...but I knew drobbins didn't do the GWN.) Anyway, I don't think Kurt has the power to implement that change without drobbins (and 90% of gentoo users) dying immediately...thankfully.
to my credit, I loaded /. while there were no comments posted on this story and saw that immediately, so no other 4/1 jokes entered my brain prior.
I just had a f***ing heart attack, until I thought about that for a minute or two. First time (in ALL honesty) I've EVER been taken in by an April Fool's joke. Shame on you, DRobbins! SHAME ON YOU!!!
Radar detectors aren't illegal though (in most states, at least), but there are restrictions placed on usage. In Minnesota, any vehicle over a specific gross vehicle weight can be fined heavily if caught using a radar detector. The laser diffusing license plate covers available here are also legal in some states, I think. Not in Minnesota though (sorry, that's all I know firsthand...)
Does anyone have information on other Linuxes on their way to COE certification? SuSE Enterprise? (Can't think of any other commercial "enterprise/advanced server" type distros...)