So what will you do. Wait another 20 years so NK can build an arsenal of 200 nukes? If we invade now, they may nuke South Korea, but what's worse, waiting 20 years, invading, and they nuke South Korea, Japan, USA, Australias. I'm upset that we are so bogged down in Iraq. 50 years ago we tried to do the right thing in N Korea, and look at us now. Those soldiers have died for nothing. They fought for hills in N Korea, then retreated and nothing was accomplished. We need to realize that NK, not Iraq, is a real threat to the USA.
That missile test they did was succesful by the way, they just blew it up so it couldn't be retrieved in intl waters.
I'm upset that we have our hands tied when we can do nothing when the real threat is right in front of us. How naive we were to go into Iraq, we should have been in N Korea. Let's hope that we can bring peace to our grandfathers/uncles who still have haunting memories of war in N Korea. Let's withdraw from Iraq and invade N Korea, this time we get the Chinese on our side.
Not to criticize your organization specifically, what you says is the case at most companies, even ones I have worked at. They outsource for cost and personell reasons(can't find enough talent).
But in starting my own company, I have yet to run across this personell problems. The reason is, over the years, I have kept in contact with the well paid but very productive people I have worked with. At this point I have a short list of extremely amazing employees who would drop what they're doing to work for my company when the time comes. I know that paying these guys a lot and giving them ownership translates into high productivity. Many companies I've been at were reluctant to hire these people after seeing their 6 figure price tag. Now the top brass at those companies, who were so concerned about costs, are now retired and jetsetting around the world.
And their companies are now going downhill. But they don't care, they have their millions. Outsourcing is 9 times out of 10 a way to redistribute wealth to the very top, and that can last only so long in my opinion. A competitor will spring up who treats their employees better, pays them a higher salary and has more talent. So I believe the free market will eventually make people realistic when it comes to outsourcing / skimping on their "human resources".
I don't believe in cuttting corners, I don't think that's a long term strategy. For example, I don't hire people I don't trust. I hear people talking about outsourcing and they mention giving them a part of the non-critical portion of the code. Why bring these people on board who you don't trust? Short term profit? What about long term profit when these people you don't trust steal the rest of your code and compete against you?
Or, since you're just looking at them on a cost basis, paying them as little as possible, they aren't motivated. So their productivity is lower. I believe you should hire people and give them ownership and high pay. That's a long term strategy. All these companies outsourcing right now are going to get a rude awakening down the line.
It's cheaper and nicer to program in linux, plus having it compile on many platforms allows you to find bugs. Keep in mind that it also uses native Mac widgets. As for the windows UI, on win 98 it automatically uses win 98 widgets, win2k, 2k widgets, etc. It's very backwards compatible, no need to 'simulate' the native environment.
Let's take a look at a company called Valueclick. Valueclick wants to buy Fastclick but for a very low price. How do they do it? They get their VCs to get a controling interest in Fastclick, paying a fraction for voting rights. Then Valueclick gets a bunch of execs to transfer over to Fastclick. They informat everyone at Fastclick how terrible Valueclick is.
Then, suddenly, they sell Fastclick to Valueclick at below market prices.
How was this accomplished. Possibly with handshakes and back room deals. No one will ever know except the rich old white dudes laughing it up on some island right now.
It really depends on what you want to do. I have used wxwidgets just fine, of course I didn't need all the bells and whistles Qt has to offer. I've used Qt, its programming interface is much better, but I don't mind the complexity of wxWidgets given that it's free.
Plus it uses the native platform UI which is nice in terms of everything working as you expect, buttons, copy/paste keys, etc.. integrates well into your platform if you change something with your window manager/windows preferences. 9 times out of 10 people can just use wxwidgets without the bells and whistles and they'll be fine. I guess it really depends on the organization in the end, as long as you know the advantages/disadvantages of both solutions.
Thanks for saying that better than I could. I didn't even start to mention all the medical breakthroughs solved thanks to the government, not even talking about the latest Nobel prize in medecine which the NIH(govt) helped fund.
And I hope you don't like the Internet too much. Without the evil government funding DARPA, you'd be using the wonderful privately-owned network called X.25. That's assuming BT Tymnet would even allow you on their network.
They work fine for you, and I'm sure the exit polls match the results(go lula), but in the first world of the USA, electronic voting just makes it easier to cheat. The CEO of the electronic voting company(Diebold) actually guaranteed a republican win, it's that bad. They have manipulated the people via the press so we now think that exit polling is inaccurate. This ensures there is no oversight over electronic voting - exit polls are the only oversight we have. We use exit polls to determine fraudulant elections in places like Ukraine, but in the United States, we're worse off than Ukraine.
In many ways it's shameful, but politics in the U.S. is fierce and divided moreso than most other countries. The arrogant international attitude you see also applies to domestic politics. It's anything goes here and it's very machiavellian - whatever it takes to win will be done.
Not even talking about gerrymandering. Even if the democrats make significant gains, they will need 57% of popular vote to take the lower house. This should be 50% but due to gerrymandering, democrats have almost insurmountable odds. The U.S. is a banana republic.
Meanwhile the likes of Google et al produce record numbers.
The problem isn't the economy, it's Yahoo. I hate it when someone says, "Oh but they're a mature company, their sales are flat." There's no such thing as a mature company, there is only a company that has forgotton how to innovate. Yahoo's advertising system is a disaster. Especially their "ad sense" killer which bombed horribly.
From global warming and EPA report cutting.. To fmr Treasury Paul O'Neil, who after showing that income taxes would need to double in order to support the aging baby boomers, was rewarded by the report being axed before he was fire err before he resigned.
This has got to be the most hand over the eyes administration in history. History books will not be kind. Especially when taxes must be raised in the future to cover the huge US debt or when there is only one entity controling all media. At some people it will be obvious what a terrible administration this is, right now it's not so clear.
If that were true then you would see a steady pattern over 800,000 years showing uniform CO2 decrease/increase. This would be trivial to determine by any scientist looking at this. You would have to be pretty stupid to see a linear decrease/increase in CO2 levels which correlates exactly with the year of the sample.
"They are being shipped with reduced capacity toner cartridges so you'll need another one sooner."
Similiar story here.
I have a trusty Lastejet 6p that was made sturdy and has lasted for about a decade. So I went looking for a new laser printer to compliment my old 6p. What a piece of junk, and it's a "top of the line" HP laserprinter. The thing is cheap plastic, comes with a tiny toner cartridge, the price of which will be jacked up by HP. This thing will never last as long as my 6p.
I guess HP et al figured out that reliability and long lasting don't translate into profits. For me, it does, but it's a long term thing. Sure it may last longer, but in a decade when it breaks down, I'll be looking to HP assuming they're still trustworthy, to buy again. So I got that far, I stupidly trusted HP with my new laser printer purchase, but I didn't realize they're no longer trustworthy. I think there's a market out there for reliable printers that last a long time. If anyone produces such a beast, I and many others will buy those printers.
In any case, juse because everyone's doing it doesn't make it right.
I was at the local Staples and asked a kid working there why there was no price on a certain HP printer. Apparently an HP rep had walked by there earlier that day and ripped off the price tag since he reduced the pricing given that they had a newer model so they were trying to get rid of the older model. He also increased the ink for that same model.
Talk about revenue maximization - short term at least.
So they are in essence selling ignorant consumers on "cheap" ink then jack up prices later on. They really need to be exposed. I believe in a market where consumers have all information, currently they do not have all information. I would wager that if people became aware of this, we'd keep HP honest. This should only hurt them in the long run, just be honest and it can only help you in the long run. It's only a matter before someone does an undercover expose of HP's tactics, then HP PR will work overtime while people switch to more trustworthy vendors.
Currently valueclick, casale (I believe) and others allow for publishers to specify a minimum CPM. When that is not met they "default" to another ad network. That is how this has been done forever. Now they want to offer the service to mine the web for the highest CPM.
In a perfect world, this would work well, reality is that all the players out there have legacy code that cannot integrate with this. Many don't know the CPM until at the end of the month. Google adsense will never provide this information, period. Also, it's hard to say what the CPM will be in real time. If I see your IP is in the UK and I give you a UK-specific ad, it may be a $2 CPM ad, or a $1 CPM ad, depending on frequency caps and about 10 million different factors. Time of day. Budget.
I think the best solution is to just choose someone who gives you good effective CPM, then, if you can, set a minimum CPM before you default to another player. I like new ideas, this is a good one. It's very idealistic, perhaps too much so at this point. Hopefully everything can be worked out so publishers can benefit.
You just described the business model Commission Junction has used since 2000. It works but you must work with the advertiser to make sure the pixel is correct. Google's payment system will make this easier. It can also stop fraud on the advertiser side where they say they were paid X when in fact they were paid Y.
"Political TV ads always have to say who paid for them. I don't see how a video posted to youtube would be any different."
"The best PR goes unnoticed" is apt in this case. PR firms wouldnt survive if you knew who paid them.
Read this for more information about how PR companies shape America.
In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on October 10 came from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of Nayirah. According to the Caucus, Nayirah's full name was being kept confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in occupied Kuwait. Sobbing, she described what she had seen with her own eyes in a hospital in Kuwait City. Her written testimony was passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait. "I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die."83
Three months passed between Nayirah's testimony and the start of the war. During those months, the story of babies torn from their incubators was repeated over and over again. President Bush told the story. It was recited as fact in Congressional testimony, on TV and radio talk shows, and at the UN Security Council. "Of all the accusations made against the dictator," MacArthur observed, "none had more impact on American public opinion than the one about Iraqi soldiers removing 312 babies from their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold hospital floors of Kuwait City."84
At the Human Rights Caucus, however, Hill & Knowlton and Congressman Lantos had failed to reveal that Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony. The Caucus also failed to reveal that H&K vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado had coached Nayirah in what even the Kuwaitis' own investigators later confirmed was false testimony.
That isn't the problem. This article over generalizes but the problem with the GPL is this.
Ever tried getting WPA to work with linux?
Here's how it works in windows. Click, enter password. Linux? compile, compile, pray to god, configure, pray some more.
The reason? Until recently most of the wireless drivers were closed source. So no one could support them.. You could download the say rt2500 driver(now open sourced) but guess what. Redhat et al didnt support it. Legally they couldn't ship the closed source drivers.
But people want those closed source drivers, so like drugs going underground, it became an unhealthy situation. Look at nvidia drivers, they replace a bunch of shared libraries, overiding the distribution. Why? The distributions don't want to play with closed source drivers despite its users demanding closed source drivers.
There needs to be some middle ground here. It's 2006 and decent video is a pain in the ass. Multi-head monitor? Hack xorg.conf. Oh and if you have nvidia, do it this way, using open source nvidia driver? that way. ATI card? this way.
Then you wonder why people don't adopt linux. Wake up and smell the coffee, it's the GPL stupid.
Keep in mind, I add have added patches to the linux kernel and I'm a linux fanatic. But the GPL is making my life difficult when I say, "Yeah use linux, but wireless... good luck. WPA? I dunno. Games? Open GL? I'll have to fix that for you."
I just recommend windows. In fact my new laptop will run windows, I have no time to play games with wireless drivers, WPA, video drivers. It's not the problem of lazy kernel developers, it's the GPL.
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So what will you do. Wait another 20 years so NK can build an arsenal of 200 nukes? If we invade now, they may nuke South Korea, but what's worse, waiting 20 years, invading, and they nuke South Korea, Japan, USA, Australias. I'm upset that we are so bogged down in Iraq. 50 years ago we tried to do the right thing in N Korea, and look at us now. Those soldiers have died for nothing. They fought for hills in N Korea, then retreated and nothing was accomplished. We need to realize that NK, not Iraq, is a real threat to the USA.
That missile test they did was succesful by the way, they just blew it up so it couldn't be retrieved in intl waters.
I'm upset that we have our hands tied when we can do nothing when the real threat is right in front of us. How naive we were to go into Iraq, we should have been in N Korea. Let's hope that we can bring peace to our grandfathers/uncles who still have haunting memories of war in N Korea. Let's withdraw from Iraq and invade N Korea, this time we get the Chinese on our side.
Not to criticize your organization specifically, what you says is the case at most companies, even ones I have worked at. They outsource for cost and personell reasons(can't find enough talent).
But in starting my own company, I have yet to run across this personell problems. The reason is, over the years, I have kept in contact with the well paid but very productive people I have worked with. At this point I have a short list of extremely amazing employees who would drop what they're doing to work for my company when the time comes. I know that paying these guys a lot and giving them ownership translates into high productivity. Many companies I've been at were reluctant to hire these people after seeing their 6 figure price tag. Now the top brass at those companies, who were so concerned about costs, are now retired and jetsetting around the world.
And their companies are now going downhill. But they don't care, they have their millions. Outsourcing is 9 times out of 10 a way to redistribute wealth to the very top, and that can last only so long in my opinion. A competitor will spring up who treats their employees better, pays them a higher salary and has more talent. So I believe the free market will eventually make people realistic when it comes to outsourcing / skimping on their "human resources".
I don't believe in cuttting corners, I don't think that's a long term strategy. For example, I don't hire people I don't trust. I hear people talking about outsourcing and they mention giving them a part of the non-critical portion of the code. Why bring these people on board who you don't trust? Short term profit? What about long term profit when these people you don't trust steal the rest of your code and compete against you?
Or, since you're just looking at them on a cost basis, paying them as little as possible, they aren't motivated. So their productivity is lower. I believe you should hire people and give them ownership and high pay. That's a long term strategy. All these companies outsourcing right now are going to get a rude awakening down the line.
It's cheaper and nicer to program in linux, plus having it compile on many platforms allows you to find bugs. Keep in mind that it also uses native Mac widgets. As for the windows UI, on win 98 it automatically uses win 98 widgets, win2k, 2k widgets, etc. It's very backwards compatible, no need to 'simulate' the native environment.
Let's take a look at a company called Valueclick. Valueclick wants to buy Fastclick but for a very low price. How do they do it? They get their VCs to get a controling interest in Fastclick, paying a fraction for voting rights. Then Valueclick gets a bunch of execs to transfer over to Fastclick. They informat everyone at Fastclick how terrible Valueclick is.
Then, suddenly, they sell Fastclick to Valueclick at below market prices.
How was this accomplished. Possibly with handshakes and back room deals. No one will ever know except the rich old white dudes laughing it up on some island right now.
That's how corporate America works folks.
Does it matter? You can develop on linux but 90% of your users will be on windows.
It really depends on what you want to do. I have used wxwidgets just fine, of course I didn't need all the bells and whistles Qt has to offer. I've used Qt, its programming interface is much better, but I don't mind the complexity of wxWidgets given that it's free.
Plus it uses the native platform UI which is nice in terms of everything working as you expect, buttons, copy/paste keys, etc.. integrates well into your platform if you change something with your window manager/windows preferences. 9 times out of 10 people can just use wxwidgets without the bells and whistles and they'll be fine. I guess it really depends on the organization in the end, as long as you know the advantages/disadvantages of both solutions.
Those two can do what redhat ES and QT do.
Then replace the commercial load balancers with LVS.
Not sure of the others.
As long as they don't actually do this in Goleta, the Santa Barbara airport is loud enough.
Thanks for saying that better than I could. I didn't even start to mention all the medical breakthroughs solved thanks to the government, not even talking about the latest Nobel prize in medecine which the NIH(govt) helped fund.
And I hope you don't like the Internet too much. Without the evil government funding DARPA, you'd be using the wonderful privately-owned network called X.25. That's assuming BT Tymnet would even allow you on their network.
They work fine for you, and I'm sure the exit polls match the results(go lula), but in the first world of the USA, electronic voting just makes it easier to cheat. The CEO of the electronic voting company(Diebold) actually guaranteed a republican win, it's that bad. They have manipulated the people via the press so we now think that exit polling is inaccurate. This ensures there is no oversight over electronic voting - exit polls are the only oversight we have. We use exit polls to determine fraudulant elections in places like Ukraine, but in the United States, we're worse off than Ukraine.
In many ways it's shameful, but politics in the U.S. is fierce and divided moreso than most other countries. The arrogant international attitude you see also applies to domestic politics. It's anything goes here and it's very machiavellian - whatever it takes to win will be done.
Not even talking about gerrymandering. Even if the democrats make significant gains, they will need 57% of popular vote to take the lower house. This should be 50% but due to gerrymandering, democrats have almost insurmountable odds. The U.S. is a banana republic.
I've seen enough evidence to never vote electronically again.
Meanwhile the likes of Google et al produce record numbers.
The problem isn't the economy, it's Yahoo. I hate it when someone says, "Oh but they're a mature company, their sales are flat." There's no such thing as a mature company, there is only a company that has forgotton how to innovate. Yahoo's advertising system is a disaster. Especially their "ad sense" killer which bombed horribly.
Yahoo's problem is itself, period.
From global warming and EPA report cutting.. To fmr Treasury Paul O'Neil, who after showing that income taxes would need to double in order to support the aging baby boomers, was rewarded by the report being axed before he was fire err before he resigned.
This has got to be the most hand over the eyes administration in history. History books will not be kind. Especially when taxes must be raised in the future to cover the huge US debt or when there is only one entity controling all media. At some people it will be obvious what a terrible administration this is, right now it's not so clear.
Microsoft has learned their lesson with XP and will make sure Vista is unstable and filled with bugs, making upgrades more compelling.
If that were true then you would see a steady pattern over 800,000 years showing uniform CO2 decrease/increase. This would be trivial to determine by any scientist looking at this. You would have to be pretty stupid to see a linear decrease/increase in CO2 levels which correlates exactly with the year of the sample.
"They are being shipped with reduced capacity toner cartridges so you'll need another one sooner."
Similiar story here.
I have a trusty Lastejet 6p that was made sturdy and has lasted for about a decade. So I went looking for a new laser printer to compliment my old 6p. What a piece of junk, and it's a "top of the line" HP laserprinter. The thing is cheap plastic, comes with a tiny toner cartridge, the price of which will be jacked up by HP. This thing will never last as long as my 6p.
I guess HP et al figured out that reliability and long lasting don't translate into profits. For me, it does, but it's a long term thing. Sure it may last longer, but in a decade when it breaks down, I'll be looking to HP assuming they're still trustworthy, to buy again. So I got that far, I stupidly trusted HP with my new laser printer purchase, but I didn't realize they're no longer trustworthy. I think there's a market out there for reliable printers that last a long time. If anyone produces such a beast, I and many others will buy those printers.
In any case, juse because everyone's doing it doesn't make it right.
I was at the local Staples and asked a kid working there why there was no price on a certain HP printer. Apparently an HP rep had walked by there earlier that day and ripped off the price tag since he reduced the pricing given that they had a newer model so they were trying to get rid of the older model. He also increased the ink for that same model.
Talk about revenue maximization - short term at least.
So they are in essence selling ignorant consumers on "cheap" ink then jack up prices later on. They really need to be exposed. I believe in a market where consumers have all information, currently they do not have all information. I would wager that if people became aware of this, we'd keep HP honest. This should only hurt them in the long run, just be honest and it can only help you in the long run. It's only a matter before someone does an undercover expose of HP's tactics, then HP PR will work overtime while people switch to more trustworthy vendors.
C'mon 60 minutes, get to work on this one.
Currently valueclick, casale (I believe) and others allow for publishers to specify a minimum CPM. When that is not met they "default" to another ad network. That is how this has been done forever. Now they want to offer the service to mine the web for the highest CPM.
In a perfect world, this would work well, reality is that all the players out there have legacy code that cannot integrate with this. Many don't know the CPM until at the end of the month. Google adsense will never provide this information, period. Also, it's hard to say what the CPM will be in real time. If I see your IP is in the UK and I give you a UK-specific ad, it may be a $2 CPM ad, or a $1 CPM ad, depending on frequency caps and about 10 million different factors. Time of day. Budget.
I think the best solution is to just choose someone who gives you good effective CPM, then, if you can, set a minimum CPM before you default to another player. I like new ideas, this is a good one. It's very idealistic, perhaps too much so at this point. Hopefully everything can be worked out so publishers can benefit.
It does what you expect. .1 = .1 with BD. (as opposed to .1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541 015625)
you have all 3 branches of government.
It means you pay a lot of lip service to state's rights.
You just described the business model Commission Junction has used since 2000. It works but you must work with the advertiser to make sure the pixel is correct. Google's payment system will make this easier. It can also stop fraud on the advertiser side where they say they were paid X when in fact they were paid Y.
"Political TV ads always have to say who paid for them. I don't see how a video posted to youtube would be any different."
"The best PR goes unnoticed" is apt in this case. PR firms wouldnt survive if you knew who paid them.
Read this for more information about how PR companies shape America.
In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on October 10 came from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of Nayirah. According to the Caucus, Nayirah's full name was being kept confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in occupied Kuwait. Sobbing, she described what she had seen with her own eyes in a hospital in Kuwait City. Her written testimony was passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait. "I volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "While I was there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die."83
Three months passed between Nayirah's testimony and the start of the war. During those months, the story of babies torn from their incubators was repeated over and over again. President Bush told the story. It was recited as fact in Congressional testimony, on TV and radio talk shows, and at the UN Security Council. "Of all the accusations made against the dictator," MacArthur observed, "none had more impact on American public opinion than the one about Iraqi soldiers removing 312 babies from their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold hospital floors of Kuwait City."84
At the Human Rights Caucus, however, Hill & Knowlton and Congressman Lantos had failed to reveal that Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti Royal Family. Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony. The Caucus also failed to reveal that H&K vice-president Lauri Fitz-Pegado had coached Nayirah in what even the Kuwaitis' own investigators later confirmed was false testimony.
That isn't the problem. This article over generalizes but the problem with the GPL is this.
Ever tried getting WPA to work with linux?
Here's how it works in windows. Click, enter password. Linux? compile, compile, pray to god, configure, pray some more.
The reason? Until recently most of the wireless drivers were closed source. So no one could support them.. You could download the say rt2500 driver(now open sourced) but guess what. Redhat et al didnt support it. Legally they couldn't ship the closed source drivers.
But people want those closed source drivers, so like drugs going underground, it became an unhealthy situation. Look at nvidia drivers, they replace a bunch of shared libraries, overiding the distribution. Why? The distributions don't want to play with closed source drivers despite its users demanding closed source drivers.
There needs to be some middle ground here. It's 2006 and decent video is a pain in the ass. Multi-head monitor? Hack xorg.conf. Oh and if you have nvidia, do it this way, using open source nvidia driver? that way. ATI card? this way.
Then you wonder why people don't adopt linux. Wake up and smell the coffee, it's the GPL stupid.
Keep in mind, I add have added patches to the linux kernel and I'm a linux fanatic. But the GPL is making my life difficult when I say, "Yeah use linux, but wireless... good luck. WPA? I dunno. Games? Open GL? I'll have to fix that for you."
I just recommend windows. In fact my new laptop will run windows, I have no time to play games with wireless drivers, WPA, video drivers. It's not the problem of lazy kernel developers, it's the GPL.