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I suggest you use a newspaper's archive if wikipedia doesn't suit you.
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There was not even close to enough content here to justify the shameless plug for the book. I agree it pays to be awesome to people, but come on... give us more than 3 paragraphs if you're going to try to get us to buy something. Sheesh.
In my university, they still use IE6 everywhere. If a website asked me to upgrade I can not because we can not install anything on the machines. However, the machines do have firefox, so I tend to use that, but it does not come spontaneously to many people to look for firefox, while ie is right there on the desktop.

As for the article, I did find it insightful in as far as I did not know before why people continue using ie6. I thought the idea to ask them upgrade was quite a logical one. However, although it might work in forcing my university to upgrade, I am not too sure as I suppose the IT department has a lot on its plate and perhaps upgrading their browser is not as important as say upgrading the online learning environment.
No. The title is misleading - this is just a 14 day trial. And then the pain of uninstalling the thing.
I was in the same situation for three months after a bar fight I lost almost 10 years ago.

Forget about haute-cuisine, all you need is plenty of soup and smoothies. You'll be amazed at how many different soups and creams you can come up with.

Broccoli, cauliflower, potato, carrot, pumpkin, chicken, etc, three times a day or more.

The blender is your best friend.
I am a US citizen as well and I agree that the thought of ditching my identity for tax purposes is very painful, but the American political system seems to become ever more broken. I've been living in Hong Kong for the past few months after nearly 10 years in New York City and my experience has been a real eye opener. I can't see any real difference in the quality of life here (this is an expat's experience, so take that with a grain of salt), but it is achieved at a significantly lower tax burden, like less than half. I have health insurance that doesn't break the bank, the mass transit system is clean and efficient, they have well-maintained public parks, etc. As someone who works hard and earns well, my freedom to criticize the government hasn't stopped me from being viewed as a piggy bank by elected officials who haven't learned the real lesson of the financial crisis, which is to live within your means. They're taking on yet another helping of the "borrow and spend" habit that the homeowners had to give up, and it seems to me that it's all going to end in tears at some point. Frankly I don't really want to be among the ones who has to pay for it down the road. The final freedom is the freedom to vote with your feet, which is what made the iron curtain such a horrible crime against human rights, and while I still have that freedom, they want me to leave my wallet at the door, unlike almost every other developed country.
Your best bet is to download the Brown corpus. It is a bit dated but well documented. However, neither the Brown corpus nor the Wikipedia are a representative sample of the web. If you let us know a bit more as to what you are trying to do, we may be able to add better solutions.
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Needless to say that hurricans, of course, ultimately get their energy from sunlight. As you can see, solar power is tremendous and got quite some potential, we should really concentrate on developing better means to more efficiently harvest the radiation of our stellar neighbour.
I can tell how much attention went into the look & feel of OS X when the spacing on the status bar icons in those screenshots really irks me.
Numerical Recipes' two chapters on FT (one on implementation, one on applications) is a longer introduction. It does especially well at addressing Confusion's point by making FTs' meaning intuitive, across many domains.

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At risk of stating the obvious: sell the "vitamin" to the health-conscious market. Sell the pain-killer to the fun-loving, dare-devil, etc markets.

Yes, the second of those probably is the larger market, but there are thousands of companies doing quite well in the niche (literal) "health-conscious" markets".

You just have to know which market you are reaching (or need to reach): matching product to market.
I had a college roommate that went through this. After a week of Ensure and blended stuff, he gave up and mostly lived on milkshakes and beer.
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Funny how there are no articles about making OSX look like Ubuntu...
The nth "Make _______ (fill in the blank with any OS) look like OS X" web post. Its like putting a Mercedes Benz car body on a BMW chassis.
There is a tool in the repos that reproduces the macos global menu on the top of the screen. I never tested it, it seems to work only with gtk-apps i think.

http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/
> we would've bent over backwards to make sure everyone was happy

Or maybe you wouldn't. I guess it all depends. If you happened to decide the BBC's goals were becoming contradictory to your own then who knows which way you'd bend? The point is YOU would be in a position to say yes or no to their needs, and no offense but to tell a very large company like the BBC, "trust me, I'll make sure you're happy, now build all your web pages on top of my library" is not particularly reassuring.

And I don't think anyone has to be a mindreader to know what you'd say if they submitted a patch that meant you'd have to lose some of the selectors you now support and run more slowly in order to add support for a browser with 1.5% market share.

They looked into it and determined it wasn't cost effective to maintain a parallel fork. Okay, whatever. Their needs are unique and they came up with a unique solution, so what? This isn't a zero sum game.

> C'est la vie.

Indeed. For organizations that don't have to give full support to the same minority browsers that the BBC does, then of course it makes sense to use an off-the-shelf library like JQuery. No one ever suggested otherwise.
Cool, I could never love an OS that didn't have a standard menu bar.
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A polished turd doesn't look like OSX.
Jesus! The comments are terrible! They made Tesla as if he was crazy, stupid, mad...

Most of them heard about him from the movies. I guess that is what you get when you are not looking into making the world's biggest companies, but into contributing the society. No one will hear about you.

In Tesla's museum in Belgrade, his notes are absolutely stunning. He invented the radio (later development leading to TV), remote control (tele-commanding a boat model), generator and polyphase AC... It is interesting to note the work that is leading towards the revolution Einstein is known for.. Tesla was a mean hundreds of years before his own time, and while moving towards the final "theory of relativity", his work suddenly stops, and is being scratched off. He never was an inventor of weapons, and it is claimed that he knew where such invention could lead. After all, what good did Einstein do? Millions killed, and devastating nuclear waste from energy extractions.

The only war-kind of invention was the EM shield that could protect a whole country from attacks, and he was proposing it to the Serbian king in Belgrade.

Basically he is behind everything we geeks care about today. Yet, he is considered "American"??? Until his last day he was loyal to the king, the kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians later to be Yugoslavia. He was not born in Austro-Hungaria, as the region was invaded by them at the time after the lengthy wars, later to evolve in the WWI. He was a Serbo-Croatian.

Americans used him, stole all of his patents and made an image of him in public as a crazy man. Not a monument or anything until much later at Niagara through the efforts of the Yugoslavian immigrants in the US.

I want to high school in the US (senior year). Not one single person knew who he was, and everyone thinks Edison invented "electricity." Not much to complain actually, they also don't know who Alessandro Volta is, speaking of US education.

Thank God we've all heard of P Diddy.
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In my experience, real things from regular Indian folks do too. Much of Indian culture is simply unbelievable :)
This is a poorly written article, IMO.

The author chides Googles for having two OS's with overlapping marketshare, yet seems to forget about WinCE, XP, XP Embedded, Vista. There is certainly more than a bit of overlap there.

And of course, like every other upcoming version of Windows for the last 15+ years, this next version (Windows 7) is going to be the end-all OS, with all the bugs and issues and whatnot worked out. We heard that about Windows 95, and 98 and 2000 and XP and Vista, yet it never really seems to hold true.

I personally think Google has a really solid shot at this. Microsoft just doesn't get it, their overhead is too large to allow them to charge a fair price for the product and still turn a profit. Apple is their own island and (IMO) doesn't really want or need to be a threat to the computing world at large, they target a successful and profitable niche. Linux is just too disjointed to ever become mainstream, that ship has sailed. But Google, they have the R&D power, the marketing savvy and the ability to create a universal OS that could directly challenge the Windows franchise, and I think the world is ready for it.

Google has developed so much of their own technology already, that an OS is probably not a major departure for them.
This does not look promising. Powersat suggests that they will be transmitting energy back to the earth at an areal density of less than 230 W/m^2. The sun, when it's shining, is around 1300 W/m^2. With night, clouds, atmosphere, and the like, the average available energy is in the range of 100-200 W/m^2-- similar, but free.

Given that we already have the sun providing us with radiation, why spend the money to build a second one?
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Chrome != Chromium. Anyone who has tried Chromium in Linux will instantly notice they are using a much less polished product.

Chromium may be open source, but Chrome is not.
I am trying to extract a set of keywords (and their weights) for any given webpage. Another option is to use Google's n gram but which has 13 million unigrams, but there is no option to download it (you have to order it for some 700 USD, I guess)

Brown Corpus, doesn't give term frequencies, does it?
I love that you can configure Ubuntu this much, but frankly, I would never want it to look like OS X.
Repeat after me: A theme is not a OS.

If you want OS X, get OS X86 or just get a Mac. And I say that as a Windows-user.
That's a moot point, because it's not possible to theme Mac OS X.
With Apache you can set the server to provide specific resources that the browser supports.

For instance serving regular GIFs or whatever to MSIE, and SVGs or transparent PNGs to Firefox. You can also use it to serve proper XHTML to all browsers except MSIE.

These are real world use cases where I know people use.
Absolutely true. Cute little writeups like this one are just the gateway drug. It's like trying to get people to learn to play Go. "I can teach you the rules in ten minutes!" You try not to mention the part where the implications of the rules will take up the rest of your life.

You're even underselling the complexity of sound. If one doesn't understand dispersion and coherence one doesn't even understand sound, let alone things like lasers or the band structure of solids. And I don't think students can absorb all of that in one day. It took me something more on the order of a decade.
Clearly misleading. By this definition, Windows "scales" an order of magnitude better than OS X — a statement that, when considered in the classical sense, is, at very least, up for debate.
that is incorrect:
http://magnifiqueapp.com/ is an app that allows Mac OS X to be themed
To take it a step further digg should try to generate publicity around this and get other web apps on board.

I'd love to see a "ditch IE6 day" where thereafter I can just pretend all web browsers know how to render transparent pngs.
Yeah, you could learn everything that presentation was about just by caring enough to click there button on the ads.
And how would one code for all these different versions of Android working on devices with varying capabilities?
It's the "foreign earned income exclusion", and it's only the first $91k exempted from US tax (plus a housing allowance, with some restrictions). To get it, you need a "bona fide foreign residence" or 330 days/yr out of the US. I'm actually going to spend the last few months of 2009 on vacation, using the savings in taxes to pay for it, since I'll be out 9-10 months in 2009 just for work.

The first 91k is basically 18k in taxes at current rates. They unfortunately changed it from LAST 91k (i.e. the income at your highest marginal rate, easily 33% or 35%) in 2006, at the same time as making it inflation adjusted).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_earned_income_exclusion
Compare to the disaster of IE which sometimes looks at the file extension to decide how to display the document - that caused me huge problems way back.

Agreeing with most of your post, I think you are wrong on this one.

IE will do lots of stuff to detemine what kind of data it is actually getting from the server, somewhat overriding the http spec. Even if something is served as a appliction/octet-stream, IE might resort to looking at the extension of the URL (or the content-disposition header, if one is present).

If these checks fails, it will resort to MIME sniffing, by analyzing the first 256 bytes of the file to see if it can figure out what kind of content it contains. This method is surprisingly accurate, and you can test it yourself. [1]

In my opinion IE does a lot of things to make life easier for it's users to overcome problems caused by people configuring their servers incorrectly, something which is getting increasingly common.

I don't think IE deserves to be ridiculed over this extra effort.

[1] For some demo-code you can try out, check the following link: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/58510?sort=oldest#sort-to...
You know, I'm very happy for you that your work lets you show real results to customers every week of development and get meaningful feedback. That's awesome.

But before lecturing the rest of us, you might want to consider that not everyone's work works that way. In my own work, it is not at all unusual to go weeks without having anything that could be usefully shown to a customer; and by the same token, the customer's desires are usually simple and unchanging.

Let me give you a concrete example: importing the geometry and topology from a Parasolid XT file. Now, the good news is that the file format is publicly available. The bad news is that it more or less amounts to a direct serialization of their internal data structures, in a format where there is absolutely no room for error: a single misread byte will make the rest of the file unreadable garbage. And of course, every version of Parasolids (there are 75 or so now) used a slightly different format, and a number of crucial details were left vague or thoughtfully undocumented.

As you might suspect from that, it took well over a month to get the basic file parser done. What was I going to show the customers in that? Me: "Well, here's the dump of this file as I parse it now. As you can see, it gets completely screwed up about three-quarters of the way through." Customer: "That's great progress! But we've been talking it over, and we think your debugging dump should be colored chartreuse."

That would be the norm for my work. On shorter things (adding a simple new feature or fixing a simple bug), it usually takes less than a week, and we get as much feedback from the customer as possible. On longer things, usually the customer's only feedback is "We want to read these files" and there is little meaningful I can show them in the middle of the project.
Odd to not mention Amazon S3 in this story. There are plenty of tools out there. Of course, perhaps those don't have marketing budgets. This might be a good place for Amazon to add some of their brand power to those services, and make the signup a little less Byzantine for average users.
Marketers use the word "scale" the way Star Trek writers used the word "phase".

Cue Inigo Montoya: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

And even if you ignore the poor choice of words and the inane anti-iPhone spin (what, the iPhone OS won't run on products besides iPhones? I'm typing on the iMac that disproves that point!) what I see here is Google trying to put a positive spin on one of their platform's big problems: Android not only can run on a thousand kinds of hardware, but that appears to be the official plan. Some of that hardware will have physical keyboards. Some of it will not. Some of that hardware will have screens the size of a dinner plate. Some will not. The result is a loss of coherency: What kind of hardware is an Android app for? What is Android for?

If you build an Android app, you have to decide if you'll optimize it for a physical keyboard on the long edge, or a physical keyboard on the short edge, or a software keyboard. You'll have to decide how much of the screen you can take up with your control panel. You can't optimize for everything at once.

The likely outcome is that you'll have to support your Android software on a divergent set of hardware, and you'll inevitably disappoint a subset of your customers. If the customer base breaks into thirds and you can only please one-third at a time, you will routinely disappoint a majority of the customer base no matter what you do.

The fact that the iPhone has one consistent hardware platform is a big advantage for Apple. The newest iPhone OS runs great on my two-year-old original-edition iPhone. The phone is getting better by the month: The interface works better, the crashes are fewer. This is presumably because Apple's engineering team can focus on refining the current platform rather than on porting their OS to a dozen different platforms.
I commented over on nytimes. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/online-backups-coul... (might still be awaiting moderation)

The gist of my comment is that the issue is not backup services, it's the bandwidth.
Well of course it's possible to hack any piece of software to do anything that another piece of software can do, but what the poster meant was that the particular function of theming the graphical engine of OS X is completely unsupported.
I see the hype around scaling has now reached so massive heights that even Google is willing to misattribute it to mean things that it doesn't if they think it makes them look good.

That Android over time may get a higher market adaptation has nothing to do with scaling. If I were to take on Google's interpretation here, Symbian would seem to scale better than any other mobile OS, and I'm not even sure what that would mean.
I have a client that just made the decision to upgrade all desktops to IE7. They put together a project plan that lasts 6 months. That's what we're up against.

If you want people at work to use your site you still have to consider IE6.
However, you are an expat and thus subject to the whims of your host country without the recourse of a citizen to expect response to complaints (of course, that expectation varies widely from country to country and within a country). For example, Thailand occasionally tinkers with their visa rules and fees - as an expat you're at their mercy.
Some of that hardware will have physical keyboards. Some of it will not. .... If you build an Android app, you have to decide if you'll optimize it for a physical keyboard on the long edge, or a physical keyboard on the short edge, or a software keyboard.

Add touch-screen capabilities to this list, and you have the mess that was software for Windows mobile. Add multi-touch if you want to make it really messy.

In the end, 90% of your software's code is going to be dealing with different types of user-input, user-input capabilities and how to interface with the actual code that does stuff.

I'm definitely going to agree with you on this being a problem that needs solving before Android being on thousands on devices can be considered a good thing.
The problem, as always, is energy storage. It's the real bottleneck. Batteries don't have a high energy density, they wear out quickly, they're heavy, and they cost a lot of energy and material to build.

If we could package up the energy coming out of some hurricane-powered turbines, store it up for a year, and ship it around the country cheaply... yeah, our energy worries would be a lot fewer. Especially if the same technology could be applied to solar grids in Arizona.

The problem with a hurricane, of course, is that you get a lot of energy but you get it all at once. You can store a lot of energy in a tree, but you can't turn a tree's worth of energy into a tree in five minutes. You'd rather that the energy trickle in over time, so that you have time to capture it.
Hm. I've been an OS X user since 2003, and I didn't really notice that (in the conversion) until you mentioned it.
http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/

but it's terribly slow.
Better means would be nice, but aren't necessary: solar power satellites are well within current tech, and enough of them to power the entire US would have cost less than the Iraq War, assuming prize-funding rather than NASA.
Maybe he means ++ in a pejorative way, like C++.
> educate people that certain things are not and will never be in our control

It's hard for me to express how much I disagree with this statement.
It's more the other way around: No one knew me so they assumed I'm new. Don't you ever look at the author of a submission or comment to recognize the nick?
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It's like the old argument of games console vs PC. Why is it that the original X-box with its puny 733Mhz processor and 64M of main memory was delivering a credible gaming experience against PCs 4x faster with 16x the memory? Because from the developer's perspective it was a stationary target.

Even BlackBerry, with only half a dozen current handsets (and maybe a couple of dozen in actual use in the wild) forces a lot of compromises. Android could be on hundreds of different devices, and Google can't possibly put its reputation on the line for all of them.
But Google, they have the R&D power, the marketing savvy and the ability to create a universal OS that could directly challenge the Windows franchise, and I think the world is ready for it.

I don't know about you, but I want my OS to do more than just launch a browser and that's it.

People ridicules Windows 7 starter edition for only being limited to launch four programs only, but when google makes that number one, everyone is applauding?

I don't get it.