But surely this is only true if it was recorded and mastered in analog too, which is essentially never done these days. Putting digitally recorded music onto a vinyl is pointless (unless you prefer the noise inevitably picked up).
I like your thinking. Thanks! I know what I'll be doing when they introduce this over in Oceania!
I don't want to live in a world where people are treated like criminals for doing nothing. I would prefer prison and watch while the rest of the world implodes.
Not all problems can be generalised to providing a reasonable solution without regards for the time constraints.
The last ACM competition I went to (2004), there was a question where you had to implement a solution while keeping in mind the time requirements. Nobody in the country successfully implemented it; in the end, a naive implementation would have taken centuries to run, and a good implementation (after a lot of thought) would have come very close to the time limit imposed on the result submissions.
Additionally... can't ajax/dhtml count as "automatically playing content"? It would be pretty trivial to create a scrolling stock ticker in ajax/dhtml which automatically starts when the page loads.
Is there something wrong with trying to encourage the masses to install SVG support in the browser? Is there anything wrong with the standard that implies that it should not come standard with browsers?
If someone installs this, can they please confirm that this is actually new? Go into "About..." and find the version number. Mine (which I installed months ago, and still has Beta status) is version Google Desktop 20050818-en.
I was hoping that this would be a set of guidelines similar to Microsoft Windows' style guides (e.g. standard sizes for font sizes, using 'F' as a shortcut key for the File menu, all that jazz).
At the moment it seems Tango is only for icons, so I hope that in the future they consider the above aspect as well. To me, Linux applications always seem quite wildly different (different styles of menus, different locations of buttons, etc). This could be a useful way to integrate applications together.
The other day I found http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=6 - it's a fantastic read, showcasing the power of CSS2/3. Well recommended (I learnt heaps - e.g. extracting data from to put into the document, using only CSS!)
I guess I'm referring to an old version of MSNBot. This occured in September last year.
May 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 10745 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 31712. June 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 8765 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 67172. July 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 3848 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 49445. August 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 6477 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 85056. September 2004: Googlebot/2.1 indexed 3945, msnbot/0.11 and/0.3 indexed 73110.
At that point I decided "alright, that's just silly" and banned it outright. My site is dynamic (PHP), and yes there may very well be 100,000 possibly unique pages, but it seems that Google is much more sensible when indexing sites like this than MSNBot.
Almost 100k hits from a bot every month is kinda suspicious, considering that not even, say, 3,000 of the pages on my site would change every month. I would have included bandwidth usage above, but it's of a similar relative magnitude to the number of hits.
Maybe the bot has improved since then? What are other dynamic site owners' experiences with the bot?
Ditto. MSNBot consistantly uses more than 10-50x more traffic than Googlebot. So much so that I had to actually BAN it from parts of my site. (It was using up 20% of my monthly bandwidth! It was rediculous!)
I installed it yesterday, and decided today to get rid of it quickly. I have a reasonable developer's machine and whilst indexing, I ran out of disk space. 20% through the process (after 16,000 files) MSN Desktop Search was using over 1GB of files. I don't really want a 5GB index (for 140 GB of disk space)!
Google Desktop Search used MUCH less space than this.
(Oh, and don't forget to mention that the search process was using 160+320MB of memory;))
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But surely this is only true if it was recorded and mastered in analog too, which is essentially never done these days. Putting digitally recorded music onto a vinyl is pointless (unless you prefer the noise inevitably picked up).
Embarassing, but entirely expected
Fixed that for you.
So a route which was cancelled because of low ridership... is getting the most expensive trainset in the country?
I suppose you could always start your own airline service or buy your own plane.
I like your thinking. Thanks! I know what I'll be doing when they introduce this over in Oceania!
I don't want to live in a world where people are treated like criminals for doing nothing. I would prefer prison and watch while the rest of the world implodes.
Better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRUXOvKxbCI :D
Well, it kinda serves them right... making money off the freely-accessible Usenet.
But at the same time, it's kinda pointless. Suing the freely-accessible Usenet??
Well said. If only it wasn't true..!! (And the student debt counted.)
I wish I had some mod points to mod you up. Very very well said!
Absolutely. Don't forget the sections about gang banging virgin daughters, threesomes and incest, to name a few interesting passages... ;)
Actually. I believe some better words to censor out would be 'terrorism', 'threat level', 'war on terror' and possibly 'patriotism'.
But that would require the States to move forwards in morality, and not backwards as it has been for the last six years.
Not all problems can be generalised to providing a reasonable solution without regards for the time constraints.
The last ACM competition I went to (2004), there was a question where you had to implement a solution while keeping in mind the time requirements. Nobody in the country successfully implemented it; in the end, a naive implementation would have taken centuries to run, and a good implementation (after a lot of thought) would have come very close to the time limit imposed on the result submissions.
Additionally... can't ajax/dhtml count as "automatically playing content"? It would be pretty trivial to create a scrolling stock ticker in ajax/dhtml which automatically starts when the page loads.
:p
How do you stop this? Disable Javascript?
25 ms, 20 years old. Eep! Very interesting test though, very cool.
Is there something wrong with trying to encourage the masses to install SVG support in the browser? Is there anything wrong with the standard that implies that it should not come standard with browsers?
Have a look at MPEG-4/MPEG-7.
MPEG-4 has support for seperate streams of data, e.g. still images (high quality), text (monochrome), moving images (low quality), and so on.
MPEG-7 has support for metadata of streams, e.g. the keywords and lecture notes.
Some of these can be stored in XML too - so it is then a trivial process to convert them into a webpage (XSL etc).
If someone installs this, can they please confirm that this is actually new? Go into "About..." and find the version number. Mine (which I installed months ago, and still has Beta status) is version Google Desktop 20050818-en.
I was hoping that this would be a set of guidelines similar to Microsoft Windows' style guides (e.g. standard sizes for font sizes, using 'F' as a shortcut key for the File menu, all that jazz).
At the moment it seems Tango is only for icons, so I hope that in the future they consider the above aspect as well. To me, Linux applications always seem quite wildly different (different styles of menus, different locations of buttons, etc). This could be a useful way to integrate applications together.
Those are some awesome real-world physical tips, thanks :)
Currently here it's NZ$1.529 per litre = 4.08509604 U.S. dollars per US gallon here in New Zealand :(!
The other day I found http://nemesis1.f2o.org/aarchive?id=6 - it's a fantastic read, showcasing the power of CSS2/3. Well recommended (I learnt heaps - e.g. extracting data from to put into the document, using only CSS!)
Let's all have fun posting our numbers :o)
/0.3 indexed 73110.
I guess I'm referring to an old version of MSNBot. This occured in September last year.
May 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 10745 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 31712.
June 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 8765 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 67172.
July 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 3848 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 49445.
August 2004: Googlebot/2.1 had 6477 hits, msnbot/0.11 had 85056.
September 2004: Googlebot/2.1 indexed 3945, msnbot/0.11 and
At that point I decided "alright, that's just silly" and banned it outright. My site is dynamic (PHP), and yes there may very well be 100,000 possibly unique pages, but it seems that Google is much more sensible when indexing sites like this than MSNBot.
Almost 100k hits from a bot every month is kinda suspicious, considering that not even, say, 3,000 of the pages on my site would change every month. I would have included bandwidth usage above, but it's of a similar relative magnitude to the number of hits.
Maybe the bot has improved since then? What are other dynamic site owners' experiences with the bot?
Ditto. MSNBot consistantly uses more than 10-50x more traffic than Googlebot. So much so that I had to actually BAN it from parts of my site. (It was using up 20% of my monthly bandwidth! It was rediculous!)
I installed it yesterday, and decided today to get rid of it quickly. I have a reasonable developer's machine and whilst indexing, I ran out of disk space. 20% through the process (after 16,000 files) MSN Desktop Search was using over 1GB of files. I don't really want a 5GB index (for 140 GB of disk space)!
;))
Google Desktop Search used MUCH less space than this.
(Oh, and don't forget to mention that the search process was using 160+320MB of memory