The habit of ignoring common words is because words like 'to' give almost no information about a web page or other document--it's not a very good discriminator. Since Google also uses the heuristic that words in your search that are closer together are better adding the 'to' makes only a little difference--you're really searching for something phrase like that has "death" and "infidels" in it, not just "death" and "infidels". This ensures that you get a lot of the results that most people would find relevant, and if you really are searching for the exact phrase, you get a warning about it.
When I did the Signetics "write only memory", there were only about 3 results (not including the "very similar" ones) that did not have "write only memory" (possibly with hyphens and the like between words).
It seems to me that Google is perfectly aware that you were searching for a phrase.
Also check out Google's Advanced Search for boolean type queries (noting that it doesn't seem to specify all allowed things). For instance, adding -"actual checking" removed the first hit.
Not only is speed a concern, but now you're using up all kinds of resources just to check if the site is up--for every single search. That alone would use up enormous amounts of traffic, even if the individual packets are small just because there are so many searches being done.
Taken to an extreme, aren't all OSs niche OSs? After all, couldn't you say that Windows X is a niche product since they have to make so many different versions for different markets? Similarly, doesn't IBM use different OSs for different markets?
In one of the courses I had, we were always allowed to collaborate, except on one assignment where we were told explicitly not to do so. I think this mode of working is fine every once in a while, because in the real world, you are occasionally asked to get something done, and everybody else will be too busy to help you.
But this only measures how much code has been written by people. What about things like design and ideas? Brainstorming ideas is at least as important as implementing the ideas.
When I went to University, collaboration was always okay, as long as it was acknowledged. Since 'birds of a feather flock together', this wasn't really a problem (ie: students performing at the same level academically--minus any collaboration--generally collaborated).
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Don't you need an infinite number of monkeys doing this for it to work?
But perhaps the poster's question was more for the 'slashdot jockeys'--more along the lines of--what have your experiences been with the VM? Or maybe, I don't have time to wade through the mailing list stuff, so could somebody post a summary?
If a friend visits me with his/her laptop, we can connect it without any extra hardware to the net via the USB connection (albeit, the laptop must run Windoze 2000... last time I tried, none of the Linux USB network drivers worked)
I regularly use a USB connection for Linux using a Linksys 100 USB adapter (not sure about the exact name, anymore). I believe it uses the pegasus driver.
Why couldn't George Tirebiter be the name of the poster's dog, or something like that, though? Whether or not the name is contrived, surely the content of the messages are more important, yes?
Maybe not under other circumstances, but certainly in this case. What kind of editor issues an apology that is not checked for errors, or at least flow? Hell, even intent?
"It is too important you can trust what you read here."
I guess in English you can omit the 'that' between 'important' and 'you', but that sentence doesn't roll off the tongue very easily. It might also be more convincing if it were to say,
It is important *to me* that you can trust what you read here.
As it stands, I'm not convinced that it is important to him--just that it was important in a vague sort of way.
It's not simply a matter of doing things legally, but keeping the paper trail that says you've done it legally. It's astoundingly easy to lose a CD, or a piece of paper, especially when people move, computers move, when there's no real administration of the licences. If the school doesn't have a dedicated admin for this kind of thing it would be pretty easy to have done things correctly, but not have any record.
Actually, I don't think it was a problem of being too faithful, at least in terms of the actor playing Paul (and Irulan for that matter), but that those characters were not at all faithful. Paul wasn't whiney (a la the actor in the miniseries)--he was sometimes playful, and often cold, and usually noble/imperious. Nothing like the character in the miniseries.
Eh? Try the query "+to +be +or not +to +be", including the quotes. There's a reason that google spouts that stuff about 'to' and 'be' being fairly uninformative words.
And if you take a look at some stat's (eg: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/mediametr ix.html)
you'll see that Google is steadily increasing in use (doubling in 5 months) whereas Altavista lost something like a third of its use in the same time.
But your last comment applies to anything--at least if you follow KISS-keep it simple, stupid. Don't use any tool unless you need it (whether immediately or for the future--extensibility).
But you're assuming that you're teaching so that somebody can get a job--perhaps some of these questions are more oriented towards teaching certain concepts about how to solve problems, which just happen to use programming languages as the means to solve them.
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Why do you need benchmarks? If your own experiences weren't enough to justify the switch, then you wouldn't have switched.
The habit of ignoring common words is because words like 'to' give almost no information about a web page or other document--it's not a very good discriminator. Since Google also uses the heuristic that words in your search that are closer together are better adding the 'to' makes only a little difference--you're really searching for something phrase like that has "death" and "infidels" in it, not just "death" and "infidels". This ensures that you get a lot of the results that most people would find relevant, and if you really are searching for the exact phrase, you get a warning about it.
Signetics "write only memory" "dark emitting diode" OR "light emitting resistor"
Using the above seems to work nicely
When I did the Signetics "write only memory", there were only about 3 results (not including the "very similar" ones) that did not have "write only memory" (possibly with hyphens and the like between words).
It seems to me that Google is perfectly aware that you were searching for a phrase.
Also check out Google's Advanced Search for boolean type queries (noting that it doesn't seem to specify all allowed things). For instance, adding -"actual checking" removed the first hit.
Not only is speed a concern, but now you're using up all kinds of resources just to check if the site is up--for every single search. That alone would use up enormous amounts of traffic, even if the individual packets are small just because there are so many searches being done.
Taken to an extreme, aren't all OSs niche OSs? After all, couldn't you say that Windows X is a niche product since they have to make so many different versions for different markets? Similarly, doesn't IBM use different OSs for different markets?
In one of the courses I had, we were always allowed to collaborate, except on one assignment where we were told explicitly not to do so. I think this mode of working is fine every once in a while, because in the real world, you are occasionally asked to get something done, and everybody else will be too busy to help you.
But this only measures how much code has been written by people. What about things like design and ideas? Brainstorming ideas is at least as important as implementing the ideas.
When I went to University, collaboration was always okay, as long as it was acknowledged. Since 'birds of a feather flock together', this wasn't really a problem (ie: students performing at the same level academically--minus any collaboration--generally collaborated).
Don't you need an infinite number of monkeys doing this for it to work?
My Matrox G400 under Linux works great for both 2D and 3D (not as good as a GeForce, obviously, but well enough). Just run the lastest X.
But perhaps the poster's question was more for the 'slashdot jockeys'--more along the lines of--what have your experiences been with the VM? Or maybe, I don't have time to wade through the mailing list stuff, so could somebody post a summary?
Not sure if you're still reading this, but I finally got back to the discussion. I run that on a RH7.1 on the latest kernel that RH has for 7.1.
I regularly use a USB connection for Linux using a Linksys 100 USB adapter (not sure about the exact name, anymore). I believe it uses the pegasus driver.
Like http://www.sfgate.com/
or whatever your local newspaper happens to be.
Why couldn't George Tirebiter be the name of the poster's dog, or something like that, though? Whether or not the name is contrived, surely the content of the messages are more important, yes?
But that's exactly what this kind of thing causes--a loop of mistrust. Suddenly, you don't know what to trust anymore.
A little mistrust sows a lot of suspicion.
Maybe not under other circumstances, but certainly in this case. What kind of editor issues an apology that is not checked for errors, or at least flow? Hell, even intent?
"It is too important you can trust what you read here."
I guess in English you can omit the 'that' between 'important' and 'you', but that sentence doesn't roll off the tongue very easily. It might also be more convincing if it were to say,
It is important *to me* that you can trust what you read here.
As it stands, I'm not convinced that it is important to him--just that it was important in a vague sort of way.
It's not simply a matter of doing things legally, but keeping the paper trail that says you've done it legally. It's astoundingly easy to lose a CD, or a piece of paper, especially when people move, computers move, when there's no real administration of the licences. If the school doesn't have a dedicated admin for this kind of thing it would be pretty easy to have done things correctly, but not have any record.
Actually, I don't think it was a problem of being too faithful, at least in terms of the actor playing Paul (and Irulan for that matter), but that those characters were not at all faithful. Paul wasn't whiney (a la the actor in the miniseries)--he was sometimes playful, and often cold, and usually noble/imperious. Nothing like the character in the miniseries.
Andrew.
Eh? Try the query "+to +be +or not +to +be", including the quotes. There's a reason that google spouts that stuff about 'to' and 'be' being fairly uninformative words.
r ix.html)
And if you take a look at some stat's (eg: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/mediamet
you'll see that Google is steadily increasing in use (doubling in 5 months) whereas Altavista lost something like a third of its use in the same time.
At least according to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle.
From 30 to 60 days. Well, maybe some exponential law will apply to this...
Andrew.
I imagine that Intel will have to maintain the current contracts, but when it comes up for renewal, AMD might have a problem.
But your last comment applies to anything--at least if you follow KISS-keep it simple, stupid. Don't use any tool unless you need it (whether immediately or for the future--extensibility).
Andrew.
But you're assuming that you're teaching so that somebody can get a job--perhaps some of these questions are more oriented towards teaching certain concepts about how to solve problems, which just happen to use programming languages as the means to solve them.