God, you would think that someone commenting on something as serious as this would know that climate change not global warming is the outcome of CO2 levels rising (I.E. this bbc article on Europe cooling rather than warming.)
Yet Another Non-Scientist dismissing man made climate change. Yawn.At least Michael Chrichton's didn't try "cosmic rays".
Leading wildcards (e.g. *ook) are not supported by the QueryParser by default. They can be enabled by calling QueryParser.setAllowLeadingWildcard( true ). Note that this can be an expensive operation: it requires scanning the entire list of tokens in the index to look for tokens that match the pattern. Currently this code is in the Lucene development trunk but is not yet in any release.
queries cannot comprise of a NOT clause by itself,
Are you sure? BooleanQuerySyntax in Lucene is indeed a little odd, but I'm not sure you're right.
results are stored in an immutable data structure that does not support merging,
Incorrect Lucene supports merging & has done for years. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Also from tfa As powerful as Spotlight is, it actually offers a somewhat limited set of search options. (then detailing the new, 1996 search engine style AND/OR/NOT operators).
Beagle supports a search syntax similar to the major search engines you are probably familiar with. If you see too many results for a query, consider refining your search.
Required words: By default, Beagle will return results containing all of the words you specify, with the exception of common "stop words" such as "a", "the", and "is".
Phrases: To search for specific phrases (one word next to another), place the words in quotation marks. For example:
"White Album"
Partial words: Beagle supports partial word searches using asterisks as wildcards. For example, to find words like "black", "blackbird", and "blacksmith":
black*
Excluding words: To exclude a word or phrase from your search, prefix it with minus sign ("-"). For example, to find items with "Beatles" but not the word "George":
Beatles -George
Optional words: To indicate that the word A or word B be in results, use OR, i.e. to find items which contain either "George" or "Ringo" (or both). The OR is case-sensitive.
George OR Ringo
Property queries: By default, Beagle looks for your search terms in the text of the documents and their metadata. If you want to search for a specific property, use the format property:keyword. You can find a list of supported properties by running beagle-query --keywords. Property queries follow all the rules mentioned above; so you can search for properties by phrase, using wildcards, exclude terms, or provide optional terms. For example, the following query will return all of your Beatles MP3s or Ogg/Vorbis files that aren't on the Abbey Road album:
artist:Beatles ext:mp3 OR ext:ogg -album:"Abbey Road"
Searching file extensions: You can use either *.mp3 or ext:mp3 to search for documents by file extension. (In this example, MP3s.)
I guess sometime's Spotlight's ahead on features & at other times Beagle's ahead.
No, they don't but they do require a valid product key
Are you sure? According to the article I linked to:
Unlike the retail versions of Office 2007, copies installed using volume license keys -- the typical way large organizations purchase Microsoft's software -- will simply skip product activation, the process where keys must be entered and judged legitimate.
Perhaps you're thinking of the beta or vista or the download version? Or is that article out of date?
In the more distant future huge arrays of hydrogen fueled millimeter turbine engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power plants."
WTF? Where's the hydrogen coming from? May as well say In the more distant future huge arrays of kitten engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power plants."
it is a pain for me trying to install the new Office on all my customers' computers,
I find it very hard to believe that you've installed a retail version of Office 2007 on multiple "customers" (mom?). If you had you'd know the retail version does not require a windows live account.
Offtopic. I bet you've never seen or had your nickname.
Google Inc. (GOOG ) is finally about to take a big leap onto Microsoft's turf. Since last August, the search leader has offered a test version of an online office productivity software suite, called Google Apps for Your Domain,...
I think to be honest you should have included the rest of the sentence you quoted. Namely: that lets companies offload e-mail systems to Google while keeping their own e-mail addresses.
The article makes it perfectly clear what Google Apps is.
Sad thing about that website is that she looked pretty good in the 'before' photo. People should realise the risks of any surgery before they make minor cosmetic changes to their appeaarance.
Also, TFA is reg-required (Do I really want to spend x minutes signing up & agreeing to God know what on a paper I'll never read again?). So, for your reading pleasure the story from metnews.
Lastly, shouldn't that headline read: Woman's Right to Criticize Surgeon on Website upheld
This does not limit your use of the software in a virtual environment. It is intended to limit your use of the same license for multiple installations. For instance, if you buy a new desktop with a copy of windows installed, you can't take that same license of Windows and install it in a virtual machine. This would be similar to not allowing you to install the same license on another machine. Ultimate edition opens up licensing and allows you to use the same license inside a virtual machine, even though the license is already installed on the physical machine.
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anyone remember a man a long time ago called Galileo Galilei.
Indeed! The fact that men like Galileo exist is proof that every lone nutter with a theory is utterly correct!
Yet Another Non-Scientist dismissing man made climate change. Yawn.At least Michael Chrichton's didn't try "cosmic rays".
As for Beagle, it only came to be after Microsoft's and Apple's announced search plans years ago,
Incorrect. Beagle actually predated Apple's announcement for Spotlight by over a year.
so I think it's silly to act like Beagle is being cloned by anybody.
I guess you don't think that's silly anymore then hmmmmmmmmmn?
These claims that Linux features are creeping into OS X is bogus;
Sensible people realise that all the major Operating Systems copy both from each other and (more commonly) research Operating Systems.
People who see feature X is linux, then see it in OS X & Windows may incorrectly come to the conclusion that OS X & Windows are copying linux.
It's far more likely however that all three operating systems copied feature X from $weird_academic_researh_OS.
Maybe he just doesn't want to throw his vote away?
A vote for the rebuprocrats is throwing your vote away. (If you believe in another party's ideals more strongly).
Incorrect:
queries cannot comprise of a NOT clause by itself,
Are you sure? BooleanQuerySyntax in Lucene is indeed a little odd, but I'm not sure you're right.
results are stored in an immutable data structure that does not support merging,
Incorrect Lucene supports merging & has done for years. Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
Meh, I don't think you've used lucene for years!
Beagle is fucking difficult to set up.
Incorrect. Beagle was difficult to setup in it's early development phase.
I hope that in the future my kubuntu release will just have beagle installed by default and working nicely.
In future? How about the past? The last kubuntu release had beagle installed by default and it does work nicely.
Just how old is your kubuntu install anyway?
Frankly, I don't get the point of your post.
A comparison of the proprietary software being discussed with it's open counterpart.
Does Beagle even run in OS X?
Who cares?
Beagle has done this for a while.
Also from tfa As powerful as Spotlight is, it actually offers a somewhat limited set of search options. (then detailing the new, 1996 search engine style AND/OR/NOT operators).
Beagle's also ahead here:I guess sometime's Spotlight's ahead on features & at other times Beagle's ahead.
I'll be voting for Giuliani because he's ... more like a libertarian.
Rather then voting for someone "like a libertarian", why not just vote for a libertarian?
*sighs* the illogic of those voting for repubrocrats never ceases to amaze me.
AC sez: "waaaaaaaaaah!"
If Obama and Biden have a joint ticket, do you think they will call it obama/biden?
If they do, will they be "cashing in" on the popular the "dyslexic terrorist" vote?
(If there's going to be a political flamewar, it may as well be my political flamewar).
Excuse me? How about: Putting that in the title is egging for a flame war. It makes you look like an idiot.
Coming from the "Germans love David Hasselhod" sig guy, that's rich.
From clean nuclear plants that require no mining
WTF? Where are you going to get your uranium from without mining? Kittens?
Are you sure? According to the article I linked to:Perhaps you're thinking of the beta or vista or the download version? Or is that article out of date?
In the more distant future huge arrays of hydrogen fueled millimeter turbine engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power plants."
WTF? Where's the hydrogen coming from? May as well say In the more distant future huge arrays of kitten engines could even be the basis for clean, quiet and cost effective power plants."
Well, it could be!
It's probably for a VLK version. There was some issue with those associated with Eopen in the beginning.
Nope, VLK versions require no activation at all.
I suspect they were referring to a free trial download version.
Surely you can find this documented on the web somewhere?
And your Original Post said:I find it very hard to believe that you've installed a retail version of Office 2007 on multiple "customers" (mom?). If you had you'd know the retail version does not require a windows live account.
Offtopic. I bet you've never seen or had your nickname.
requiring a Windows Live ID for Office 2007 sucks
Are you saying that offline Office 2007 requries a live ID?
See! Macs are not discriminated against. There is no "Mac Tax". You're perfectly free to run vista craptacular edition on your mac if you like.
Hmmmmmmmmn,
...
Google Inc. (GOOG ) is finally about to take a big leap onto Microsoft's turf. Since last August, the search leader has offered a test version of an online office productivity software suite, called Google Apps for Your Domain,
I think to be honest you should have included the rest of the sentence you quoted. Namely: that lets companies offload e-mail systems to Google while keeping their own e-mail addresses.
The article makes it perfectly clear what Google Apps is.
Sad thing about that website is that she looked pretty good in the 'before' photo. People should realise the risks of any surgery before they make minor cosmetic changes to their appeaarance.
Also, TFA is reg-required (Do I really want to spend x minutes signing up & agreeing to God know what on a paper I'll never read again?). So, for your reading pleasure the story from metnews.
Lastly, shouldn't that headline read: Woman's Right to Criticize Surgeon on Website upheld
*snort* is that you steve?
1) The EULA terms apply to all VMs, not just Macs.
2) This anonymous comment found here says: Be nice to see some confirmation from MS tho'.