Firstly scraping is the same as what google does, which is fine but only a fool would trust the scraper not to censor their output.
Secondly, scraping doesn't always work and you will surely have low-grade porno and get rick quick schemes/scams littering your sematic data.
But let us suppose that the main benefits of a semantic web are (A) access to reference data [which may be falsified, oops], and (B) access to product availability data [which may be falsified, oops, like mail order companies that pretend they have something in stock but don't and yet still charge your credit card].
It's just won't work.
It will always be a rough approximation of reality.
It's just a way of bad way of caching the results of scraping.
Hewlett Packard is a company that has become a frankenstain outsourcing monster. It no longer has the characteristic integrity of its founders but is now just another malevolent corporation.
If it adopts Linux, so be it, it's free software; but it's like giving free beer to a child molestor. One can only hope they don't abuse the situation but one has to suspect they will (like the Lindows debacle).
I must say all these closed graphics architectures are getting quite tedious. But my question is more generic, as I have never owned an Nvidia board or computer with Nvidia integrated graphics chipset and therefore I've never familized myself with their policy regarding Linux. But having dealt with Intel, which requires an NDA before a person can get any information about their integrated graphics chipset, I suppose I have become a wee bit frustrated, and this posting is a manifestation of that. I need a graphics company that will "put out" so to speak.
If they're in such a mad rush that they screw up stock ticker prices, maybe we should slow things down a bit. There is just too much going wrong with technology these days, like hackers stealing personal information from Choicepoint, or Indians stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Bank of America account holders. The difference between programming and engineering is that engineering is intended to get things right, whereas programming is done by high-school dropouts who don't care. Let's focus on engineering from now on, shall we?
If a $300 Xbox360 has a triple-core 3.2 GHz PowerPC in it, I would say this is really just MORE proof that Apple has been ripping people off for years by putting out underpowered computers to save a few bucks and then jacking up the price.
You don't seem to realize that the purpose of a cache is precisely what you are claiming is so novel about flash: it exists to permit your computer to avoid spinning up the hard drive. The drive cache is not only for caching data that was read.
The idea has some merit, but...
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1. an old computer is going to be a big hulking mess compared to a DVR
The problem of keeping the hard drive spun down is solved by having dynamic RAM in the drive. Having flash in the drive only saves a few seconds flushing the RAM before system power down. But flash is much slower in writing than is RAM.
It seems to me this is just an excuse to boost up the prices of hard drives.
Is it just me, or shouldn't there be a little cause for suspicion?
Microsoft is corrupt to the core and has been for decades now.
They get $1.5 billion per year in tax breaks. They destroy or buy out any smaller competitors. They are aggressive supporters of software patents. They prefer to hire cheaper foreignors and send US workers to the unemployment office.
... just shows how corporations really are trying to have an impact on the direction of kernel development, how they don't have a clue that it is free, not theirs to control.
They always think the same about everything, that they can control it: just like they want to control politics through bribery, education through sponsorship, ads, and Channel 1; the media by using interlocking directorships; and on everything else.
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Secondly, scraping doesn't always work and you will surely have low-grade porno and get rick quick schemes/scams littering your sematic data.
But let us suppose that the main benefits of a semantic web are (A) access to reference data [which may be falsified, oops], and (B) access to product availability data [which may be falsified, oops, like mail order companies that pretend they have something in stock but don't and yet still charge your credit card].
It's just won't work.
It will always be a rough approximation of reality.
It's just a way of bad way of caching the results of scraping.
If it adopts Linux, so be it, it's free software; but it's like giving free beer to a child molestor. One can only hope they don't abuse the situation but one has to suspect they will (like the Lindows debacle).
this ia test to see if the Slashdot coward moderator really censored me
I must say all these closed graphics architectures are getting quite tedious. But my question is more generic, as I have never owned an Nvidia board or computer with Nvidia integrated graphics chipset and therefore I've never familized myself with their policy regarding Linux. But having dealt with Intel, which requires an NDA before a person can get any information about their integrated graphics chipset, I suppose I have become a wee bit frustrated, and this posting is a manifestation of that. I need a graphics company that will "put out" so to speak.
u r no einstein
With all the jobs being sent overseas to dirt poor filthy countries like India, who has cash anymore?
Furthermore with real estate prices in the USA skyrocketing as they have in most places worth living, who has extra money to throw away?
Mice are simple and cheap. Let them remain that way.
If they're in such a mad rush that they screw up stock ticker prices, maybe we should slow things down a bit. There is just too much going wrong with technology these days, like hackers stealing personal information from Choicepoint, or Indians stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from Bank of America account holders. The difference between programming and engineering is that engineering is intended to get things right, whereas programming is done by high-school dropouts who don't care. Let's focus on engineering from now on, shall we?
If a $300 Xbox360 has a triple-core 3.2 GHz PowerPC in it, I would say this is really just MORE proof that Apple has been ripping people off for years by putting out underpowered computers to save a few bucks and then jacking up the price.
You don't seem to realize that the purpose of a cache is precisely what you are claiming is so novel about flash: it exists to permit your computer to avoid spinning up the hard drive. The drive cache is not only for caching data that was read.
1. an old computer is going to be a big hulking mess compared to a DVR
2. the DVR will use much less wattage
3. the DVR doesn't cost much more anyway
Just because something is legal doesn't make it ethical. The Nazis LEGALLY killed 6 million Jews after all.
It seems to me this is just an excuse to boost up the prices of hard drives.
Times change. Fortresses fall. The fortress of FORTRAN must fall too. Let us weep for it.
Is it just me, or shouldn't there be a little cause for suspicion?
Microsoft is corrupt to the core and has been for decades now.
They get $1.5 billion per year in tax breaks.
They destroy or buy out any smaller competitors.
They are aggressive supporters of software patents.
They prefer to hire cheaper foreignors and send US workers to the unemployment office.
What the heck! Do they think we're stupid?
Corporations are the new Soviet Union.