I have not worked with Dave so can't judge the veracity of the great guy assertion, but I did want to point out that he knows 2 years in advance where the Super Bowl will be held. The Stanley Cup and World Series happen in 2 cities with less than one week's notice where they will be held. Also there is often a necessity to travel back and forth across an international border.

I recognize that the Super Bowl is the granddaddy of all sporting events but a direct comparison with the other 2 events is apples to oranges.

Not sure that I should bother answering you as you will just mod my post down because you disagree, not because it is really flamebait. Ultimately there is no concrete proof that Karl was involved, though it is hard to believe he was not. There is tons of anecdotal evidence of these tactics.

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid= 17347
http://interactive.pfaw.org/pdf/BarriersToVoting.p df

I encourage you to look at the well footnoted Barriers To Voting report. Additionally, I should point out that by no means am I saying that only Republicans were involved in voter fraud and intimidation, but most of the evidence suggests that Democrats' fraudulent activities focused on getting more votes tallied even if a given voter was ineligible or non-existent while most evidence of Republican activities focused on denying or making it difficult for people who were eligible to vote to actually do so. Both activities are in my eyes equally repugnant.

I guess from my point of view as a coder, determining the visible text strings of an entire PDF vectored image might be more complicated that looking up the meta-data for an image, MP3, or whatever, which presumably is nicely organized in either a static header or as a series of tag/data elements.

I'm a coder too, although I don't do any OS X development to speak of (although I am an OS X user). I do know, though, that the version of Preview in Panther already does an excellent job of text recognition, and so I assumed that Spotlight would use the same library to do so.

Grabbing EXIF metadata from image files is easy... what's hard is having more meaningful metadata than what camera took the picture and at what time. Searching for images having to do with "Niagra Falls Vacation" is a much harder problem than searching for images "Taken with Canon EOS 20D between April 1 and April 15, 2005". For that matter it's also harder than searching PDFs and Word documents for "Niagra Falls".

The real question I have about Spotlight is how meaningful metadata is set, not how it's searched. How is the "Niagra Falls Vacation" keyphrase getting set and saved in the image?