A few years ago, I wrote a little crawler to run through the top 200k sites on Alexa, search for script references, and log them to a database, to get a sense for what the real usage of Google's jQuery CDN was in the wild[0]. IIRC, that took less than a day to run on the consumer broadband I was using at the time.
For only one million web pages, the job would likely be quite cheap. The Common Crawl corpus is hundreds of millions of pages and, given the right setup, only takes $10 to $100 to process, especially for relatively light entity extraction. More expensive operations, such as parsing using NLP tools, will obviously be more expensive.
My particular issue with the new maps is when I search for a new unknown city and zoom out to see bigger area - pointer is gone!
Try searching for city Kazan in Russia and try to quickly get an idea where the city is. Pointer or any mark of fhe city is gone when you zoom out enough!
It is a killer combination and I'm doing it for a while with Nexus S and CSipSimple App while roaming abroad.
I'm from Europe. And best part is that my mobile operator has SIP gateway, so wherever abroad I am, I always get myself local 3G data SIM card (it's 10 EUR for 1GB on average) so I can use data as much as I want, and I can call and being called (with my own number) with prices just like I would be back home - cheap.
Even better is that I can also send SMS with same app (again from my own number). Classic way, when abroad it can be anywhere from 0.15 EUR to 0.40 EUR per SMS when roaming.
Sending SMS works on EDGE, but for calling it needs to be 3G. Sound can delay from time to time, but it's a small price for keeping home-network-prices wherever in the world I am.
While it's crazy to think that you'd want to drive people away, it's probably rather controlled.
The ads (1) open in a new window, (2) Ryanair knows that no one is going to beat them on price, and (3) Ryanair can block any company that they think is a threat from showing ads.
Some governments would be served well by cutting costs to the absolute bare minimum and increasing non-tax revenue streams.
I don't have any association with Nokia (not even a relative working there, and I don't own stock).
My point is one of simple curiosity: everybody thinks that J2ME featurephones are dead, but actually they're silently advancing and seem to have reached an interesting level of functionality that's not necessarily even provided by smartphones. (Examples include proxied web browsers à la Amazon Silk, and integrated in-app purchasing that works through the operator's billing gateway.)
"Don’t be scared of change, be scared of the debt growing in your code base and in in your infrastructure. It won’t go away and there is no government bailout on the way to fix it."
While there is no way to run Flash on iOS devices, accelerometer works only with iOS.
I belive that's what Steve was talking about in his Thought on Flash where he concludes:
"Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful business for Adobe, and we can understand why they want to push it beyond PCs. But the mobile era is about low power devices, touch interfaces and open web standards – all areas where Flash falls short."
Kudos to html5 and guys creating this experiment. It's awesome!
That's silly, had Steve Jobs wanted Flash to work on iOS it would work fine on iOS. Of course it doesn't work.
Power consumption in HTML5 is still higher than equivalent Flash, touch is a non-issue but standards is where HTML5 shines. I believe many times technologists focus too much on the platform rather than delivering a product. There's still a place for Flash and HTML5 is getting better (but is hindered by fragmented browser support).
Does Flash work fine on other mobile devices? Every report I've heard indicates that it performs badly (to the point that watching video doesn't really work) and uses a great deal of power, although my sources certainly could be biased.
I have a TouchPad, Droid X, and CR48 and Flash seems to work great on all of them - Flash outperforms HTML5 at least for this example. One major issue is the sheer content of Flash advertisements which will drain your battery if you don't set the "touch to enable" option. Obviously this isn't an issue with the technology though and would (will) happen to HTML5.
The good thing is HTML5 performance will continue to improve across browsers. The bad news is that devs will still need to tediously test across every browser and mobile device.
Thanks for the info, seems that my info is probably out of date.
Your comment about Flash ads makes me wonder what's going to happen when sites start delivering rich (and battery-hungry) ads with HTML5. Flash at least has a convenient bottleneck where you can disable it on a case by case basis and not lose functionality.
>I believe many times technologists focus too much on the platform than delivering a product.
Well, that's for one of two reasons. First, platforms are more technically interesting than products. A product just does one thing. A platform can do many things, and it's the adaptability and extensibility of a platform that makes it more interesting than a product.
Secondly, often technologists aren't so concerned about the individual product as they are the about the market for products. A platform with standardized interfaces and specifications will have a more robust market of products running on it than a platform with proprietary interfaces and specifications.
Really? I thought Adobe had some say into how well Flash works. I was under the impression if Adobe could have gotten together some code that actually worked well it could have had possibly had a chance. It appears I should have been blaming Steve Jobs for not fixing another company's crippled technology.
Flash's crashing 3 times for me this morning, across two computers, shows Adobe's commitment to excellence.
Well I do agree, Adobe totally dropped the ball. However, it seems to be stable for me across several windows machines, linux, touchpad, and even Android. Now that it's "more" stable, iOS users don't have a choice to install it. Why?
H5 visa is good option too. You have all rights as normal USA citizen and no restrictions.
It lasts for 3y and can be extended for another 3y (I'm not sure what happens after 6y total..).
If you are unemployed for 45days visa will terminate (and you need to leave USA), but renews automatically when you get a new employment (in 3y period).
