Oh wait - seems TFA is saying a lot of sites just use an SQL DB and use like '%FOO%' as a "search engine....
Ok, this is reasonable, however, I don't see why anyone would choose sqllite as a benchmark. If you are trying to compare search engines, and consider an RDBMS to be a 'search engine' category, then you at least need to include 4 or 5 of the most popular open source RDBMSs in the benchmark (SQL lite, POstgreSQL, MySQL, Derby, Firebird), not just one.
a) Follow them back to find the colony. Boil 4-8 gallons of water i a big stock pot, kick the top off of the ant hill, and dump it down. The boiling water will rapidly travel along all of the tunnels and it should reach the queen, taking out the whole colony at once.
b) Bait the places where they enter your house with a liquid borax/sugar mixture. These ant mixtures are available at any store. The ants take the food and bing it back to the colony, where they all eat it - and the borax eventually kills all of them.
It is common knowledge that has been confirmed by various higher-ups at Google over the past few years, that as far as Google is concerned, "What is good for The Web, is good for Google". Google spends hundreds of millions per year on various free giveaways that it will not now or probably ever recoup costs on - things like Chrome, supporting Firefox, YouTube, etc.
Why does it do this? Because the more people utilize the web, the more it becomes the center of their daily lives, they more they will rely on Google as the librarian of all of that knowledge - which means they will get more money from their ads.
Google does not have to make money any project it launches, as long as whatever it is doing is going to cause you to use the web more in one way or another, because they know if you are using the web, then you are probably going to be searching it with Google.com.
You realize that with an RFID scanner you could scan an entire truckload of cattle without even removing them from the tuck right? All simultaniously? That is how RFID works. And such a scanner would be a couple hundred bucks, tops.
NILFS2 and Btrfs are both TRIM file systems optimized for SSD media. Comparing them to other file systems on a SATA drive is borderline stupidity, because you would never use them on a SATA drive. Any more than comparing NILFS2 or Btrfs to eXT3 on a SSD would be.
It's like comparing the performance of motor oil and sewing machine oil to lubricate an engine or a sewing machine. They're not the same thing just because they are both "oil".
It would be transparant, because it would be run by Elections Canada. I have full faith in them to be able to develop a fully transparant online voting system.
Heck the system could have public live feeds of the votes coming in. So you vote, you get a private unique confirmation number that is not stored affiliated with you, so it can not be reversed. You transmit it via a mechanism like www.passwordwindow.com, so it can't be intercepted, and the person has to write it down on paper. You can then look at the public feed by your confirmation number to confirm that your vote is accurate. Then you discard the confirmation number.
So you are disabling javascript, but allowing flash? That makes no sense whatsoever.
For one, I don't know of many sites whose flash applets will work properly without Javascript to initialize them. For two, flash has MUCH larger potential for security holes and exploits than Javascript, which does not even have write access to the filesystem in any way. One wrong buffer overflow in flash and the thing can actually WRITE to your hard drive.
I can file my taxes online. This is nearly as important on an individual basis as voting as far as privacy and security of the information is concerned. Nearly all Canadians file their taxes online, have for years. I don't know anyone who would be opposed to online voting.
If you think PGP and other steg. tools are not available everywhere in the world you have rocks in your head. The US does not have a monopoly on smart mathematicians or encryption methods.
The only effect of the US bans on cryptography export is to handcuff the US software industry, and make some congress-critters feel nice.
Security is a tricky thing. You say security people sell you things "you don't need". But if you wait until you NEED security, it is already too late because you have a breach.
Security is not an ER visit, it is a regular preventative exam with your physician. It is something you have to take a pro-active approach with. Yes, this oten means investing time and money in something that has no immediate ROI. But that is the nature of the problem you are dealing with.
It's good for Google, HTC, Nokia, Blackberry, Microsoft.... and all the other cellphone manufacturers that don't impose such draconian rules on their customers.
Idiot not keeps using it with the SIM it came with, but also doesn't turn it off, because he is an idiot
People can track down the phone, because, again, the theif is an idiot.
Anyone with a clue knows you can trace a stolen SIM. Most people would just toss the SIM the instant they find any phone they did not plan on returning.
Google, and more importantly, Google Scholar Yahoo Bing! DMoz
For reference - my wife is just about to finish her undergraduate degree in Sociology, and I think she visited the library for maybe ten of the 50-100 papers and assignments she has done over the past four years.
The need to visit a library even for scholarly works is quickly becoming obsolete. Everything is online, even well referenced source material. The Google book project is only going to speed up the transformation. And frankly, it can't happen fast enough. All a free public "library" shroud end up being is a big bank of PCs with free online access.
The HTML5 spec lets you do all kinds of things you could never dream of doing with Silverlight or Flash, at least not unless the whole site is a giant flash app.
For example, you can actually bind Javascript hooks to the rendering of a movie, so you can interact with it on a frame-by-frame level s image elements. You know all those cool YouTube annotations that show when watching a movie? Now, imagine the same capability, but have not *NOT* be tied to being inside the movie frame.
Imagine being able to enter comments on an excerpt of the film alone in the comment system.
Imagine being able to edit YouTube clips *on the site* via CSS - yes you can do this using HTML5.
Those are just some ideas out of my ass. The things you could do with the power of HTML5 are amazing if you sit and think about it. Go look at the spec, you will be surprised.
Google is a Canvas/HTML5 backer, both via their various web properties and via Chrome.
And YouTube is already experimenting with HTML5 instead of flash (http://www.youtube.com/html5)
All it will take is a web property like YouTube to put a nice big link up there saying "hey, look at how much cooler YouTube could be without IE), and people will start dropping it like mad.
I am sorry to say, but you are rapidly becoming the minority. I don't know of a single acquaintance of mine who ever has more than $20-$40 in their wallet. Everyone pays for everything with debit or credit card.
The only time I have used cash in the past 6 months, is to pay a cabbie, and at the bar (where there is still not a quick enough payment option - but soon paypass et. al. will take that market over too I think). Even the cabbie was unusual because I almost always use debit in the cab.
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Oh wait - seems TFA is saying a lot of sites just use an SQL DB and use like '%FOO%' as a "search engine....
Ok, this is reasonable, however, I don't see why anyone would choose sqllite as a benchmark. If you are trying to compare search engines, and consider an RDBMS to be a 'search engine' category, then you at least need to include 4 or 5 of the most popular open source RDBMSs in the benchmark (SQL lite, POstgreSQL, MySQL, Derby, Firebird), not just one.
This is false because the next version of Chrome is going to ship with extensions, and one of the first extensions to be ported is AdBlock.
You can kill all the ants in a few ways
a) Follow them back to find the colony. Boil 4-8 gallons of water i a big stock pot, kick the top off of the ant hill, and dump it down. The boiling water will rapidly travel along all of the tunnels and it should reach the queen, taking out the whole colony at once.
b) Bait the places where they enter your house with a liquid borax/sugar mixture. These ant mixtures are available at any store. The ants take the food and bing it back to the colony, where they all eat it - and the borax eventually kills all of them.
It is common knowledge that has been confirmed by various higher-ups at Google over the past few years, that as far as Google is concerned, "What is good for The Web, is good for Google". Google spends hundreds of millions per year on various free giveaways that it will not now or probably ever recoup costs on - things like Chrome, supporting Firefox, YouTube, etc.
Why does it do this? Because the more people utilize the web, the more it becomes the center of their daily lives, they more they will rely on Google as the librarian of all of that knowledge - which means they will get more money from their ads.
Google does not have to make money any project it launches, as long as whatever it is doing is going to cause you to use the web more in one way or another, because they know if you are using the web, then you are probably going to be searching it with Google.com.
You realize that with an RFID scanner you could scan an entire truckload of cattle without even removing them from the tuck right? All simultaniously? That is how RFID works. And such a scanner would be a couple hundred bucks, tops.
NILFS2 and Btrfs are both TRIM file systems optimized for SSD media. Comparing them to other file systems on a SATA drive is borderline stupidity, because you would never use them on a SATA drive. Any more than comparing NILFS2 or Btrfs to eXT3 on a SSD would be.
It's like comparing the performance of motor oil and sewing machine oil to lubricate an engine or a sewing machine. They're not the same thing just because they are both "oil".
It would be transparant, because it would be run by Elections Canada. I have full faith in them to be able to develop a fully transparant online voting system.
Heck the system could have public live feeds of the votes coming in. So you vote, you get a private unique confirmation number that is not stored affiliated with you, so it can not be reversed. You transmit it via a mechanism like www.passwordwindow.com, so it can't be intercepted, and the person has to write it down on paper. You can then look at the public feed by your confirmation number to confirm that your vote is accurate. Then you discard the confirmation number.
So you are disabling javascript, but allowing flash? That makes no sense whatsoever.
For one, I don't know of many sites whose flash applets will work properly without Javascript to initialize them. For two, flash has MUCH larger potential for security holes and exploits than Javascript, which does not even have write access to the filesystem in any way. One wrong buffer overflow in flash and the thing can actually WRITE to your hard drive.
If /. didn't have this inane length limit on the size of a comment tile that dates back to the silent era, I would not have to do that.
I can file my taxes online. This is nearly as important on an individual basis as voting as far as privacy and security of the information is concerned. Nearly all Canadians file their taxes online, have for years. I don't know anyone who would be opposed to online voting.
If you think PGP and other steg. tools are not available everywhere in the world you have rocks in your head. The US does not have a monopoly on smart mathematicians or encryption methods.
The only effect of the US bans on cryptography export is to handcuff the US software industry, and make some congress-critters feel nice.
.. hit yet.
Security is a tricky thing. You say security people sell you things "you don't need". But if you wait until you NEED security, it is already too late because you have a breach.
Security is not an ER visit, it is a regular preventative exam with your physician. It is something you have to take a pro-active approach with. Yes, this oten means investing time and money in something that has no immediate ROI. But that is the nature of the problem you are dealing with.
Unless one of Noah's sons was black, one was white, and one was east-asian, this is pretty much not possible.
It's good for Google, HTC, Nokia, Blackberry, Microsoft.... and all the other cellphone manufacturers that don't impose such draconian rules on their customers.
Post to front page.
In other news, Apple has decided to start offering decaf in the office espresso machine.
Idiot steals phone
Idiot not keeps using it with the SIM it came with, but also doesn't turn it off, because he is an idiot
People can track down the phone, because, again, the theif is an idiot.
Anyone with a clue knows you can trace a stolen SIM. Most people would just toss the SIM the instant they find any phone they did not plan on returning.
Then how come everything has turned upside-down and Microsoft and Apple are now copying the Linux desktop instead of vice-versa?
Take a closer look at Windows 7 and Snow Leapord - almost every new UI design concept has been taken directly from KDE4.
The internet has many librarieans.
Google, and more importantly, Google Scholar
Yahoo
Bing!
DMoz
For reference - my wife is just about to finish her undergraduate degree in Sociology, and I think she visited the library for maybe ten of the 50-100 papers and assignments she has done over the past four years.
The need to visit a library even for scholarly works is quickly becoming obsolete. Everything is online, even well referenced source material. The Google book project is only going to speed up the transformation. And frankly, it can't happen fast enough. All a free public "library" shroud end up being is a big bank of PCs with free online access.
They patented the Konami Code ?
The HTML5 spec lets you do all kinds of things you could never dream of doing with Silverlight or Flash, at least not unless the whole site is a giant flash app.
For example, you can actually bind Javascript hooks to the rendering of a movie, so you can interact with it on a frame-by-frame level s image elements. You know all those cool YouTube annotations that show when watching a movie? Now, imagine the same capability, but have not *NOT* be tied to being inside the movie frame.
Imagine being able to enter comments on an excerpt of the film alone in the comment system.
Imagine being able to edit YouTube clips *on the site* via CSS - yes you can do this using HTML5.
Those are just some ideas out of my ass. The things you could do with the power of HTML5 are amazing if you sit and think about it. Go look at the spec, you will be surprised.
I didn't say to drop IE support, I said to put a link up saying how much better the experience would be without it.
Google is a Canvas/HTML5 backer, both via their various web properties and via Chrome.
And YouTube is already experimenting with HTML5 instead of flash (http://www.youtube.com/html5)
All it will take is a web property like YouTube to put a nice big link up there saying "hey, look at how much cooler YouTube could be without IE), and people will start dropping it like mad.
Where do you live that still has analog parking meters?
I'm in middle of nowhere NB and nearly all our parking meters are digital now and take debit/CC.
I am sorry to say, but you are rapidly becoming the minority. I don't know of a single acquaintance of mine who ever has more than $20-$40 in their wallet. Everyone pays for everything with debit or credit card. The only time I have used cash in the past 6 months, is to pay a cabbie, and at the bar (where there is still not a quick enough payment option - but soon paypass et. al. will take that market over too I think). Even the cabbie was unusual because I almost always use debit in the cab.
Your buddy who you owe $20 for the beer and pizza run does not take Interac or credit cards. That is the target market for this.