Currently, I hardly use Spotlight on my iBook G4 800 MHz. The application launcher capability is what I need most, and I find Launchbar to be far faster than Spotlight for this. Launchbar even does a decent job for many of the searches I need, at the same speed as application launching, but Spotlight search for the same can take very long.
Can't Apple employ the technology used in Launchbar or Quicksilver along with their existing technology to make the searches faster? I know Spotlight is lower because it has to index far more data as it searches inside files. However, most searches perhaps don't need the data that is inside files, but merely the same metadata that is indexed by Launchbar/QS. So, why not have a two-step search: first search the data that is not inside the file and give results as quick as Launchbar/QS, then search inside the files to give other search results?
I understand this may be a non-issue for the latest Intel Macs, and so, Apple may not bother.
Everybody goes on to criticize the big companies and the government issuing H1-Bs. We all know the problems - nobody is being enlightened by repeating them again, can somebody suggest possible solutions?
TFA claims paying H1-Bs less than Americans (which AFAIK is illegal) is one of the problems - how are they able to get away with it? There indeed is a "labor shortage" in academia, take a look at how many American graduate students there are in engineering - how does the author propose to address that.
An international graduate student has much less flexibility in their career than a US citizen. They have to get an American degree to be competitive, and for many, that means a graduate degree. So, naturally, it is more attactive for an international student to continue in academia. At least in the short term, what other choice do the academics have than H1-Bs?
Further, the academic requirements for a MS or PhD are quite forbidding in many top universities when compared to the taking a job after Bachelors. Why not create more graduate degree programs with lesser course requirements, and more emphasis on research and projects, especially those that a part-time student working at some company can do using his resources at that company?
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Currently, I hardly use Spotlight on my iBook G4 800 MHz. The application launcher capability is what I need most, and I find Launchbar to be far faster than Spotlight for this. Launchbar even does a decent job for many of the searches I need, at the same speed as application launching, but Spotlight search for the same can take very long.
Can't Apple employ the technology used in Launchbar or Quicksilver along with their existing technology to make the searches faster? I know Spotlight is lower because it has to index far more data as it searches inside files. However, most searches perhaps don't need the data that is inside files, but merely the same metadata that is indexed by Launchbar/QS. So, why not have a two-step search: first search the data that is not inside the file and give results as quick as Launchbar/QS, then search inside the files to give other search results?
I understand this may be a non-issue for the latest Intel Macs, and so, Apple may not bother.
Everybody goes on to criticize the big companies and the government issuing H1-Bs. We all know the problems - nobody is being enlightened by repeating them again, can somebody suggest possible solutions? TFA claims paying H1-Bs less than Americans (which AFAIK is illegal) is one of the problems - how are they able to get away with it? There indeed is a "labor shortage" in academia, take a look at how many American graduate students there are in engineering - how does the author propose to address that. An international graduate student has much less flexibility in their career than a US citizen. They have to get an American degree to be competitive, and for many, that means a graduate degree. So, naturally, it is more attactive for an international student to continue in academia. At least in the short term, what other choice do the academics have than H1-Bs? Further, the academic requirements for a MS or PhD are quite forbidding in many top universities when compared to the taking a job after Bachelors. Why not create more graduate degree programs with lesser course requirements, and more emphasis on research and projects, especially those that a part-time student working at some company can do using his resources at that company?