The headline is kind of misleading. Only tells half the story, anyway.
If you look at the original report, though Baidu has a greater overall market share (maybe because of the pirated mp3 search someone mentioned earlier), Google is well ahead of Baidu amongst high income and highly educated folks.
They're the kind of people that advertisers will pay big bucks to reach, especially in China, where the majority of people don't have much spending money.
So, atm, Baidu might have more users, but Google should be able to make more money.
The proven existence of OSx86 is the biggest hole in this writer's argument.
Because this proposed new Intel CPU emulates an x86 CPU in its VLIW code, it could also emulate a PPC CPU (the processor used in Macs).
But if that's the case, why has Apple gone to the trouble of producing an x86 version of Mac OS? This is a confirmed fact. OSx86 has been leaked and shown to run.
Is Apple going to hop to x86 code temporarily and then hop back to PPC code again when the new Intel CPU appears? That would be a big waste of money and resources. It's not going to happen.
So the existence of OSx86 proves this speculation is incorrect.
Interesting idea all the same. A bit of speculation is good...
The original Wired article doesn't say that. It looks like the submitter or Slashdot editor cut out a paragraph and turned their summary into the opposite of its original meaning.
This is how the original article says it-
As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video.
Whether it's Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast exposure or The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's explosive appearance on a political talk show, video clips of high-profile moments have sent millions of net users scrambling to search engines for footage.
But until recently, internet users who don't patronize peer-to-peer sites had few options for tracking down video content outside of entering a query in a standard search box.
Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that. In recent weeks, Yahoo, Google and MSN.......
Sincere congratulations on your eight post, by the way.
Over their long lifetime, even existing LED lights are much cheaper than incandescents (factoring in electricty and replacement costs). So they should be attractive to places like hotels, shops and so on.
One of the most serious problems is that the high intial cost makes the LED a very attractive target for thieves. Nobody's going to bother stealing incadescent light bulbs from, say, a hotel room - they're bulky, delicate and almost worthless. LEDs on the other hand, are compact, easily hidden, and quite valuable.
In third would countries people usually buy cheap computers with NO operating system. The shop/dealer (or hole in the wall) then installs pirated copies of whatever software the buyer wants, free of charge.
Of course, the buyer has often heard how great Windows is (and maybe they know it costs $150, so they install it instead of Linux, which they think must be lousy because it costs $0)
Linux-based systems like the Simputer have a problem competing against Windows/x86 machines in third world markets.
The problem is that Windows-compatible software is effectively free, due to piracy. And, even if it isn't strongly marketed locally, that software is made more attractive by all the money spent promoting it elsewhere.
(And, this is a dupe, too. The Linux Devices story even links to the same AP article as the original Slashdot posting.)
Linux-based systems like the Simputer have a problem competing against Windows/x86 machines in third world markets.
The problem is that Windows-compatible software is effectively free, due to piracy. And, even if it isn't strongly marketed locally, that software is made more attractive by all the money spent promoting it elsewhere.
The fines for SMS spam should be higher than the fines for email spam.
Why? SMS spam causes more hassle. Think about it. Many people will want to see the message immediately, drag the phone out, poke at those tiny little buttons, squint at the menus etc. At least email spam can be seen and deleted almost immediately (if it even gets thru the spam filters)
In this case, AFAIK, the same charge was levied regardless.
Good to see this is open source and works with FireFox, but it's a shame they have to resort to marketing babble and buzzword bingo (see below) to get any media attention for their work. Basically this is YAML (Yet Another Markup Language). They're definitely not the first to do video indexing... search 'VAML', for example.
Project leader Dr Silvia Pfeiffer, says that the applications of Annodex(TM) are many and varied.
"Users are discouraged by the complexity of search for clips within vast online multimedia collections. They are demanding a technology that lets them actively search for content," says Dr Pfeiffer.
"Annodex(TM) and the standards behind it allow them to do just that - it will revolutionise the way we search for time-continuous data. Annodex(TM) also allows video content to be explored using any digitally networked device - including mobile phones, handheld PDAs and digital TV."
Besides entertainment, Annodex(TM) has many other practical applications such as searching medical information, environmental measurements and network load statistics - on demand."
The groundbreaking technology behind Annodex(TM) is known as Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML). CMML does for time-continuous media what HTML does for text. It allows the user to search, access, navigate and query.
Here's the job ad the reporter is apparently talking about
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/eng/global.html
(scroll down to 'Strategic Negotiator, Global Infrastructure' near the bottom of the page)
There's nothing here about VOIP, and the location is clearly marked 'Mountain View, CA', not the UK.
I guess the backbone could be for a lot of things... Google-ISP, Google-Hosting, Google-Caching (e.g. like Akamai). Or maybe Google just wants to route all traffic to/from its search engine over its own high speed infrastructure, instead of using the public backbones.
In any case, If the Times' reporter has stumbled across the truth here, it's luck, not insight...
If movie reviews were written like game reviews
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Imagine if movie reviews were written like the average game review...
Ninety percent of the review would be a discussion of the special effects and technical details, with ten percent left for things like plot and characterisation.
Perhaps when every game has photo-realistic graphics and perfect 3D sound then reviewers will finally have to start looking at the things that actually make the game fun...
XGA panels can be had in the 0.7" to 1.3" range...
The problem here is that with a projector, each color has its own monochrome panel and is marged using a prism.
One of the reasons LCD projector panels can be small and hi-res is BECAUSE they are monochrome. Ordinary color LCD panels simply put a layer of RGB filters on top of a monochrome panel, dividing the resolution by 3.
But this raises an interesting question. If you can get a 0.7-inch XGA panel, couldn't that technology, with added RGB filters, be made into an XGA panel SMALLER (3 x 0.7 = 2.1 inches) than the Casio VGA panel described in the story?
They probably use open source spam filtering apps to presort the e-mails into definite spam, definite non-spam, and uncertain. Then only check the borderline cases by hand.
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Those people are called 'investors', not 'philanthropists'. And there are lots of them around.
Otherwise, I agree with you completely. I just wanted to correct that one point.
Google's stake in Baidu is very small, like 3%
The competition between them is real, this is not a 'moot point'.
Microsoft owns about 5% of Apple for example, but they're still competitors in the OS market.
I hope we can rely on this data...
The headline is kind of misleading. Only tells half the story, anyway.
If you look at the original report, though Baidu has a greater overall market share (maybe because of the pirated mp3 search someone mentioned earlier), Google is well ahead of Baidu amongst high income and highly educated folks.
They're the kind of people that advertisers will pay big bucks to reach, especially in China, where the majority of people don't have much spending money.
So, atm, Baidu might have more users, but Google should be able to make more money.
The proven existence of OSx86 is the biggest hole in this writer's argument.
Because this proposed new Intel CPU emulates an x86 CPU in its VLIW code, it could also emulate a PPC CPU (the processor used in Macs).
But if that's the case, why has Apple gone to the trouble of producing an x86 version of Mac OS? This is a confirmed fact. OSx86 has been leaked and shown to run.
Is Apple going to hop to x86 code temporarily and then hop back to PPC code again when the new Intel CPU appears? That would be a big waste of money and resources. It's not going to happen.
So the existence of OSx86 proves this speculation is incorrect.
Interesting idea all the same. A bit of speculation is good...
You probably didn't read that recent exploding iPod story
The original Wired article doesn't say that. It looks like the submitter or Slashdot editor cut out a paragraph and turned their summary into the opposite of its original meaning.
This is how the original article says it-
As millions of broadband subscribers who missed a wardrobe-malfunction moment on TV can attest, the internet can be a convenient resource for finding much-talked-about events on video.
Whether it's Janet Jackson's Super Bowl breast exposure or The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's explosive appearance on a political talk show, video clips of high-profile moments have sent millions of net users scrambling to search engines for footage.
But until recently, internet users who don't patronize peer-to-peer sites had few options for tracking down video content outside of entering a query in a standard search box.
Large net portals and a handful of smaller sites are looking to change that. In recent weeks, Yahoo, Google and MSN.......
Sincere congratulations on your eight post, by the way.
The problem is theft.
Over their long lifetime, even existing LED lights are much cheaper than incandescents (factoring in electricty and replacement costs). So they should be attractive to places like hotels, shops and so on.
One of the most serious problems is that the high intial cost makes the LED a very attractive target for thieves. Nobody's going to bother stealing incadescent light bulbs from, say, a hotel room - they're bulky, delicate and almost worthless. LEDs on the other hand, are compact, easily hidden, and quite valuable.
In third would countries people usually buy cheap computers with NO operating system. The shop/dealer (or hole in the wall) then installs pirated copies of whatever software the buyer wants, free of charge.
Of course, the buyer has often heard how great Windows is (and maybe they know it costs $150, so they install it instead of Linux, which they think must be lousy because it costs $0)
Linux-based systems like the Simputer have a problem competing against Windows/x86 machines in third world markets. The problem is that Windows-compatible software is effectively free, due to piracy. And, even if it isn't strongly marketed locally, that software is made more attractive by all the money spent promoting it elsewhere. (And, this is a dupe, too. The Linux Devices story even links to the same AP article as the original Slashdot posting.)
Linux-based systems like the Simputer have a problem competing against Windows/x86 machines in third world markets.
The problem is that Windows-compatible software is effectively free, due to piracy. And, even if it isn't strongly marketed locally, that software is made more attractive by all the money spent promoting it elsewhere.
The fines for SMS spam should be higher than the fines for email spam.
Why? SMS spam causes more hassle. Think about it. Many people will want to see the message immediately, drag the phone out, poke at those tiny little buttons, squint at the menus etc. At least email spam can be seen and deleted almost immediately (if it even gets thru the spam filters)
In this case, AFAIK, the same charge was levied regardless.
What an overwhelming assault. Shock and awe indeed. You crushed him like a bug... 10/10
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/eng/global.html
(scroll down to 'Strategic Negotiator, Global Infrastructure' near the bottom of the page)
There's nothing here about VOIP, and the location is clearly marked 'Mountain View, CA', not the UK.
I guess the backbone could be for a lot of things... Google-ISP, Google-Hosting, Google-Caching (e.g. like Akamai). Or maybe Google just wants to route all traffic to/from its search engine over its own high speed infrastructure, instead of using the public backbones.
In any case, If the Times' reporter has stumbled across the truth here, it's luck, not insight...
Imagine if movie reviews were written like the average game review...
Ninety percent of the review would be a discussion of the special effects and technical details, with ten percent left for things like plot and characterisation.
Perhaps when every game has photo-realistic graphics and perfect 3D sound then reviewers will finally have to start looking at the things that actually make the game fun...
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20214
Really crazy
There's nothing like a good source of timely, accurate information...
Unfortunately the technical drawings were printed upside down, and it's orbiting the sun instead.
One of the reasons LCD projector panels can be small and hi-res is BECAUSE they are monochrome. Ordinary color LCD panels simply put a layer of RGB filters on top of a monochrome panel, dividing the resolution by 3.
But this raises an interesting question. If you can get a 0.7-inch XGA panel, couldn't that technology, with added RGB filters, be made into an XGA panel SMALLER (3 x 0.7 = 2.1 inches) than the Casio VGA panel described in the story?
I must be missing something here...
They probably use open source spam filtering apps to presort the e-mails into definite spam, definite non-spam, and uncertain. Then only check the borderline cases by hand.
Just use conventional explosives to blow it up in situ. Result: one dirty bomb attack on Savannah.