Adsense and embedding sponsored search results is great because they're not shaped like a banner.
Creating buzz about potential acquisitions, offering the potential of unlimited wealth to any media provider that gets acquired is a brilliant tool for Google. In return, no-one says anything negative about Google.
The most amazing thing about this soap opera is how all that government spying was accepted to be really happening ever since the 50's by every conspiracy theorist or anyone with common sense.
What did you think those thousands of CIA agents, NSA agents, FBI agents did all day? Eat donuts?
Now that they actually tried to ratify their activities on paper, every conspiracy theorist now says it never happened before and acts like defeating the patriot act is going to make a difference.
The politically incorrect explanation which no-one is allowed to say is that it's much easier to get by in today's economy than it was 20 years ago. In better economic times, heroines have always dropped out of the workforce or stayed in the workforce but chosen to do things for pleasure rather then necessity. Male breadwinning expectation has always been constant.
If it was in India, there would be a lot more interest and the latitude is lower. There isn't enough interest at least from u.s. to justify building a new spaceport h.e.r.e.. Having said that, the whole story seems more like a publicity move rather than an attempt to build anything.
The special effects process seems to have become so automated since 1997, there hasn't been much enlightenment to be gleamed from these behind the scenes stories. The process for every movie is now virtually the same: motion capture the actors and the green screen sets, make models in Maya, match move the models, and composite. The only differences are now in the number of modellers they hire, the number of polygons they can model, and the number of computers but the work is the same.
There's now more fascination to be found in the lives the 3D modellers have during the production than the actual production.
The most likely future for NASA involves buying flights on whatever Russia builds to replace Soyuz and probably paying Russia to build the Clipper instead of trying to build its own spaceship.
The Soyuz was incredibly complex, involving 3 modules connected by an intricate system of hatches, which had to be jettisoned to reenter the atmosphere. In keeping with Russia's tradition of making incredible complex systems to do simple tasks, the Clipper is supposed to require a space tug to transport it to the space station.
A second launcher is going to boost the space tug to the space station only to burn more fuel to descend to a lower orbit to pick up the Clipper, and burn more fuel to ascend back to the space station. It's an incredibly complicated solution and only one that a Russian would design.
You should have known that those links on google searches were 99% frauds. The situation is so bad, you need to look up every google search result on resellerreviews.com. My experience with these frauds is you not only get lousy service, you never get the product you ordered.
For cameras, my best experience is with B&H. For electronics it's newegg. Everything else is pretty much a fraud.
While Intel users were getting 300MB hard drives for $80, the Powerbook needed $250 SCSI hard drives. Powerbook RAM was super expensive, some $100 for 4 MB. The trackball never worked. It always slipped and had to be constantly cleaned. The sound could play stereo 8 bit but only record mono 8 bit.
On the other side, the Powerbook's monochrome screen had much better contrast than other notebooks. They got a lot of mileage out of that monochrome screen, eventually doing sophisticated dithering and background tiling to make it display photo realistic images.
That was my last notebook which could run 3 hours on battery power, without the hard drive.
The transfer rate during normal use is 20 MB/sec and has been for 10 years. No-one has ever made a hard drive go faster during normal use. Sequential reads from outer tracks have gotten up to 60MB/sec and bus speeds have allowed sequential RAID accesses from outer tracks to get up to 250 MB/sec but why pay for something advertized to perform at a level you'll only see 1% of the time?
Is Ajax the next big thing or is Google?
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The hype is supposed to be around a small programming technique but it feels like the only reason anyone cares about Ajax is because Google's outstanding advertising uses it in some capacity. But isn't it really advertizing that's big?
A few years ago multithreading was the next big thing, but no-one starts a company today to specialise in multithreading. Now multithreading is called Asynchronous JavaScript+XML and we're supposed to think it's more substantial than multithreading because no-one can be told what it is without experiencing it for themselves, taking a red pill, and learning everything there is to know about CSS, JavaScript, XML.
Based on the appliications, it's multithreading and it's just as hard to see entire companies revolving around it today as it was in 1997.
There's so much fear of a repeat of decss, the average blu-ray implementation is being delegated in very very small segments to programmers who are given no idea what they're working on. No-one below management will probably see this footage on a blu ray player.
If you consider most of the $6000 of the nimh battery goes towards the coal, petroleum, and natural gas consumed in the fabrication of the battery, you would be better off signing a contract for $6000 of gas when you buy the car instead of paying $6000 to make a battery out of it.
It only helps the environment if you ignore the mining and purification of the nickel or import it from far far away, like Inco Ltd. in Canadia.
Since the Arianne ECA hasn't lifted off yet and the word "commercial" in France is a relative term, it's hard to believe it's the only commercial vehicle that can launch two telecommunications satellites.
The delta IV could lift slightly more than the Arianne ECA. Before it failed its test flight, it too was the only commercial vehicle that could launch two telecommunications satellites.
Despite the fact that u.s. is clearly inferior in this game, one has to wonder if the centralized funding of this rocket is really the most effective system considering their 10% unemployment and their riots.
Since all their time was spent just keeping the station afloat, it wouldn't be suprising if all the science was formally abandonned. This article is based on the cancellation of one experiment due to lack of supplies. That one experiment was probably all they had time to do between paddling.
> we have permanently entered a new economy > The geeks control the limits of your business > rich salaries and hefty stock options that they now command. > give them promotions without turning them into managers
2005:
Geeks are the lowest paid again. Managers are the highest paid again. There are things managers can do today, experiences they can have, which geeks will never have. The dual track approach doesn't motivate anymore and Indian startups like Google Bangalore actually let their geeks become managers.
Only in extremely rare upturns have geeks ever commanded the lifestyle that managers have. For most of history, if you want to live in a house, if you want to go to concerts, if you want to get married, you have to be a manager.
In 1968 there was one country which controlled 90% of the world's resources and 100 other countries recovering from WWII. Today all the world's countries are competing for the world's resources, each making sacrifices to share with the others. It would take an equally unanimous sacrifice of hundreds of countries and a desire of each country to survive a war of technology to repeat the 60's.
Last year it was India and China as the 2 largest competitors in the space race. Now India seems to have dropped out. Both countries have over a billion people. Both have the highest educated population in the world.
All you computer science students need to be aware the engineering for this startup is not in San Mateo. It's in Bangalore. The San Mateo office is for marketing.
As a side note, if "collabware" is the next big thing, why are "collabware" startups always managed by a single CEO instead of a collaboration?
Too bad almost all google's advertizing links are either frauds or get 0 on resellerratings.com. expresscameras.com, digitalsaver.com come to mind first. Search for laptops and you get hypersonic.com and other grey market importers which'll take your money 5 weeks before they give you a product.
The real story is they'll probably make enough money from these frauds to finally buy vasoftware/valinux/varesearch.com, hopefully before they change their name again. That'll be the ultimate takeover by formerly layed off employees.
So at least before the batteries died, the student satellite did better than the Russian satellite which didn't even separate from the rocket. From oil companies going bankrupt to rockets that don't work, Russians are having a harder time than they normally do.
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They said it would be visible from Calif as a streak of fire but not where to look for it in the sky.
Adsense and embedding sponsored search results is great because they're not shaped like a banner.
Creating buzz about potential acquisitions, offering the potential of unlimited wealth to any media provider that gets acquired is a brilliant tool for Google. In return, no-one says anything negative about Google.
The most amazing thing about this soap opera is how all that government spying was accepted to be really happening ever since the 50's by every conspiracy theorist or anyone with common sense.
What did you think those thousands of CIA agents, NSA agents, FBI agents did all day? Eat donuts?
Now that they actually tried to ratify their activities on paper, every conspiracy theorist now says it never happened before and acts like defeating the patriot act is going to make a difference.
The politically incorrect explanation which no-one is allowed to say is that it's much easier to get by in today's economy than it was 20 years ago. In better economic times, heroines have always dropped out of the workforce or stayed in the workforce but chosen to do things for pleasure rather then necessity. Male breadwinning expectation has always been constant.
If it was in India, there would be a lot more interest and the latitude is lower. There isn't enough interest at least from u.s. to justify building a new spaceport h.e.r.e.. Having said that, the whole story seems more like a publicity move rather than an attempt to build anything.
It only seems like a disaster because they keep trying to keep it going. Any American scientists would have given up long ago.
The special effects process seems to have become so automated since 1997, there hasn't been much enlightenment to be gleamed from these behind the scenes stories. The process for every movie is now virtually the same: motion capture the actors and the green screen sets, make models in Maya, match move the models, and composite. The only differences are now in the number of modellers they hire, the number of polygons they can model, and the number of computers but the work is the same.
There's now more fascination to be found in the lives the 3D modellers have during the production than the actual production.
The most likely future for NASA involves buying flights on whatever Russia builds to replace Soyuz and probably paying Russia to build the Clipper instead of trying to build its own spaceship.
The Soyuz was incredibly complex, involving 3 modules connected by an intricate system of hatches, which had to be jettisoned to reenter the atmosphere. In keeping with Russia's tradition of making incredible complex systems to do simple tasks, the Clipper is supposed to require a space tug to transport it to the space station.
A second launcher is going to boost the space tug to the space station only to burn more fuel to descend to a lower orbit to pick up the Clipper, and
burn more fuel to ascend back to the space station. It's an incredibly complicated solution and only one that a Russian would design.
Running dual dual cores is better. Running a single core and a dual core sounds stupid. They need to get out of America.
You should have known that those links on google searches were 99% frauds. The situation is so bad, you need to look up every google search result on resellerreviews.com. My experience with these frauds is you not only get lousy service, you never get the product you ordered.
For cameras, my best experience is with B&H. For electronics it's newegg. Everything else is pretty much a fraud.
While Intel users were getting 300MB hard drives for $80, the Powerbook needed $250 SCSI hard drives. Powerbook RAM was super expensive, some $100 for 4 MB. The trackball never worked. It always slipped and had to be constantly cleaned. The sound could play stereo 8 bit but only record mono 8 bit.
On the other side, the Powerbook's monochrome screen had much better contrast than other notebooks. They got a lot of mileage out of that monochrome screen, eventually doing sophisticated dithering and background tiling to make it display photo realistic images.
That was my last notebook which could run 3 hours on battery power, without the hard drive.
The transfer rate during normal use is 20 MB/sec and has been for 10 years. No-one has ever made a hard drive go faster during normal use. Sequential reads from outer tracks have gotten up to 60MB/sec and bus speeds have allowed sequential RAID accesses from outer tracks to get up to 250 MB/sec but why pay for something advertized to perform at a level you'll only see 1% of the time?
The hype is supposed to be around a small programming technique but it feels like the only reason anyone cares about Ajax is because Google's outstanding advertising uses it in some capacity. But isn't it really advertizing that's big?
A few years ago multithreading was the next big thing, but no-one starts a company today to specialise in multithreading. Now multithreading is called Asynchronous JavaScript+XML and we're supposed to think it's more substantial than multithreading because no-one can be told what it is without experiencing it for themselves, taking a red pill, and learning everything there is to know about CSS, JavaScript, XML.
Based on the appliications, it's multithreading and it's just as hard to see entire companies revolving around it today as it was in 1997.
If collabware is the next big thing, why are the collabware startups all run by lone CEOs instead of a collaboration?
There's so much fear of a repeat of decss, the average blu-ray implementation is being delegated in very very small segments to programmers who are given no idea what they're working on. No-one below management will probably see this footage on a blu ray player.
If you consider most of the $6000 of the nimh battery goes towards the coal, petroleum, and natural gas consumed in the fabrication of the battery, you would be better off signing a contract for $6000 of gas when you buy the car instead of paying $6000 to make a battery out of it.
It only helps the environment if you ignore the mining and purification of the nickel or import it from far far away, like Inco Ltd. in Canadia.
Since the Arianne ECA hasn't lifted off yet and the word "commercial" in France is a relative term, it's hard to believe it's the only commercial vehicle that can launch two telecommunications satellites.
The delta IV could lift slightly more than the Arianne ECA. Before it failed its test flight, it too was the only commercial vehicle that could launch two telecommunications satellites.
Despite the fact that u.s. is clearly inferior in this game, one has to wonder if the centralized funding of this rocket is really the most effective system considering their 10% unemployment and their riots.
Since all their time was spent just keeping the station afloat, it wouldn't be suprising if all the science was formally abandonned. This article is based on the cancellation of one experiment due to lack of supplies. That one experiment was probably all they had time to do between paddling.
1999:
> we have permanently entered a new economy
> The geeks control the limits of your business
> rich salaries and hefty stock options that they now command.
> give them promotions without turning them into managers
2005:
Geeks are the lowest paid again. Managers are the highest paid again. There are things managers can do today, experiences they can have, which geeks will never have. The dual track approach doesn't motivate anymore and Indian startups like Google Bangalore actually let their geeks become managers.
Only in extremely rare upturns have geeks ever commanded the lifestyle that managers have. For most of history, if you want to live in a house, if you want to go to concerts, if you want to get married, you have to be a manager.
In 1968 there was one country which controlled 90% of the world's
resources and 100 other countries recovering from WWII. Today all the
world's countries are competing for the world's resources, each making
sacrifices to share with the others. It would take an equally
unanimous sacrifice of hundreds of countries and a desire of each country to survive a
war of technology to repeat the 60's.
Last year it was India and China as the 2 largest competitors in the space race. Now India seems to have dropped out. Both countries have over a billion people. Both have the highest educated population in the world.
All you computer science students need to be aware the engineering for this startup is not in San Mateo. It's in Bangalore. The San Mateo office is for marketing.
As a side note, if "collabware" is the next big thing, why are "collabware" startups always managed by a single CEO instead of a collaboration?
When was the last time it was clear enough to use a telescope in Canadia?
Too bad almost all google's advertizing links are either frauds or get 0 on resellerratings.com. expresscameras.com, digitalsaver.com come to mind first. Search for laptops and you get hypersonic.com and other grey market importers which'll take your money 5 weeks before they give you a product.
The real story is they'll probably make enough money from these frauds to finally buy vasoftware/valinux/varesearch.com, hopefully before they change their name again. That'll be the ultimate takeover by formerly layed off employees.
So at least before the batteries died, the student satellite did better than the Russian satellite which didn't even separate from the rocket. From oil companies going bankrupt to rockets that don't work, Russians are having a harder time than they normally do.