Their search algorithm works almost the same as the rules their adwords enforce. To use the adwords effectively is basically just doing the same thing that you would do to position your site better using normal search terms.
Really, the old "who needs a recording industry" rule still applies in the age of DRM. Potentially we could all sell our music through the web site. Perhaps we could pay each other $1 to read poetry to each other. Now that's an economy!
SCO claimed that "secret codes" found in the Bible, Torah and Koran proved that the famed religious texts were in fact a violation of SCO intellectual property. SCO says that all christians, jews and muslims will be able to continue to practice their respective faiths legally for a modest licensing fee of $699 a year.
The different states are going to impose their own sales taxes on internet purchases and some cities are going to impose their own taxes.
What does this mean?
a) some states will try to tax internet purchasing out of existence in order to protect brick and mortars
b) some states will selectively tax to protect some local industry.
c) some states will overtax in order to advance social agendas.
d) companies that facilitate online purchasing will probably offer state sales tax collection services. For software, I think SWREG already does this.
e) a small handful of people will complain about getting sales taxes on the internet. an even smaller number of people will move from state to state to avoid the tax.
f) republicans will tout the internet sales tax as implemented in some states as a replacement for the income tax.
Off the wheel, we have several sunken nuclear submarines, perhaps a dozen or so thermonuclear warheads and maybe even a hundred regular nukes.
As if the exact wording was in english?
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Really, do you think the original hebrew / aramaic was exactly like that?
Besides, I thought all of the end of the world types thought the social security number was the mark of the beast. After all, a godless liberal named Frank Roosevelt invented the system.
Seriously, before we start talking magic bullet and other conspiracies, how many free software loving people are going to fork over some dough to run their arch enemy's programs on their favorite operating system?
Is the demand really there?
If MS was making 100M a year off of this thing, they probably would continue to sell it and bounce a windows license charge into the price. Then you would still be supporting the evil empire...
It seems like after a decade or so of being stalled in the mainstream, new features are being added to commercial developmental languages and at a furious pace.
3. I might have the name wrong, but the next go around of IIS will have a device driver that effectively moves HTTP into the kernal. They do this because they don't have 1 or 2... and, in Windows, a socket is NOT a system file handle...
I like to develop on Windows but for anyone to claim that Windows networking is easier is obviously smoking crack.
Sockets are much easier to develop in Unix because Unix does the right thing with them. You can easily pass file handles between processes in Unix and it works quite well. All programming languages in Unix have convenient mechanisms that make it straightforward to pack and unpack data from streams, fairly easily. The whole concept of "rolling a protocol" that seems so mysterious on Windows is mysterious because the tools suck for that task on that platform!
Imagine, on Unix, you've been able to printf across a network [via a socket] for at least 10 years. What's up with Windows where even binding a socket to a c style file handle has to even take place?
Needless to say, Windows and Windows development tools have traditionally lacked in the networking department. Prior to the above, the official MS networking solution was DCOM, the languages were weak, the O/S APIs unfathomable, and the string handling facilities sucked and file handling was abyssmal..NET either corrects or masks some of those deficiencies, except, most notably, in socket and file handle and process support. However, even in the case of.NET, "hard" problems of sockets are traded for make work for admins dragging and dropping and touching configuration files, with no clue.
Sockets and files themselves have not gotten fundamentally better in Windows since Windows NT 3.5. The only way this socket sharing across apps [ a prerequisite for stable web services ] is the kludgey HTTP.SYS driver that is in the next go around of Windows 2003 Server. Processes are still fundamentally peered, not owned, and killing an application still strands DLLs, and, the tools, while much better, generally either wrap an expansive library around an anemic O/S that by all rights should do it, or, write mountains of "wizard" generated code.
For thousands of dollars, you can go ahead and buy yourself a crappy version of what Linux has done since 1992 for free, and then spend thousands of dollars more on the tools required to program it.
Just keep in mind that if networking was so easy on Windows, then, Web Browsers, Web Servers, Email, Chat and virtually every other application that uses internet protocols in general and networking in particular was invented on UNIX, AND NOT WINDOWS.
I have 38GB on a new hard drive on my machine, and it's going to be partitioned for Linux.
Then obviously you've never worked in a pre-computer or early computer accounting office. I have. There are so many things you can do with paper records that you can't do electronically, it's just beyond belief. All sorts of good stuff can happen to paper.
Q) How do you CRC or digitally sign a drawer stuffed with paper?
A) You can't.
Q) If I get a stack of absentee ballots against my guys in the mail, what do I do with them?
A) Stuff them in my shirt and walk out.
Keep pushing for paper, and I'll be scraping chads for my guys, come fall. That's for sure.
Because, um, until such time as Iraq has their own government, they are in fact a US government possession, and therefor, the infrastructure is OUR responsibility.
Look, we took the country over. The Iraqi people did not ask us to invade.
Finally, Iraqi is not that rich, even with the oil. The market price of all of Iraqi's oil, if exploited, is only about 2 trillion dollars. We Americans blow through that much dough every three months.
This is actually a book that has been around for the while and the author is a bit of a celebrity. Anyone that is going to do anything serious with.NET probably already has or should have this book.
The best stuff is in the back, how you can plug in your own protocols. IIRC he does a distributed object call using a SMTP as a protocol. Interesting stuff.
The performance advantages of.NET remoting versus Web servers are not theoretical. You can get anywhere 5-10 times the performance. Because you can invent your own protocol,.NET remoting does -not- lock you into anything proprietary at all, except.NET.
I'd say to the people used to doing sockets in C, well, you missing the boat.
Great, the machine produces a paper trail and so immediately in an election I have my printer produce its own paper trail that matches the results that I want. I just have enough of a record to demand a recount, cast the election in doubt...
The right way to do this sort of thing is to get rid of anonymous voting.
Suddenly the 747 mounted laser for shooting down inbound missiles becomes viable. These guys are blowing through an inch of steel in 2 seconds, that means they ought to be able to blast through a missile skin much more quickly than that.
We had no real debugger for our DEC Pro 350 assembly language, only halts and register dumps. We had no debugger for our USCD P-System, just Writeln. And, the editor was a joke. Oh, and the Apple II that I teethed on in some ways was the best because you could CTRL-C an AppleSoft BASIC program and print out the variables. But good look in 6502 assembly because you were dead!
Borland's Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ were amazing at that time, and I went right for them.
I still think IBM IPMD for OS/2 was the best debugger I'd ever used for its time, and GNU's GDB was possibly the worst.
The comparison of Oracle + Linux vs SQL Server + Windows is a valid one.
If I am going to switch database servers, I may as well compare the best operating system for that database server to run on.
For me, Oracle is a Unix database first and a Windows port second.I've not actually had good experiences with Oracle on Windows. The question for Oracle is "which Unix?" You could make a strong argument for Sun, but I threw in Linux as it seems that's where the world is headed.
Opposed to that is SQL Server, which only runs on Windows.
Most corporate IT environments need to embrace real document management systems, not, try and build uber applications instead.
I work at a firm whose essential strategy is try to and replace the work product of financial types in excel with collections of applications dedicated to different parts of the process. As a result of this, the business has become stagnated and locked into a process that exists largely because of the weight of money that went to create it, not because it has ever really been questioned.
Sometimes flexibility is worth more than one would think.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think Texas has a law that makes it illegal to use certain kinds of computer lawyers for some tasks.
The economics of computer lawyers are well known though. If you could hire a team of the 100 best lawyers in the country to feed a team of 1000 programmers, to write computer lawyer 101, then, you've got computer lawyer 101 that would trump the other 900,000 laywers in the country. And... if you build a computer lawyer, it doesn't get old, it won't forget the law or tactics that it used. It will just keep getting better, and better, and better.
The writing is on the wall for human lawyering, and this may not be a bad thing. If expert legal representation is a mass market product, then, the usual corporate tactic of using legal expenses to crush small competitors becomes a thing of the past. If we can all have a mass marketed $100 lawyer a/i, then, the world of justice would be on a single computer playing field.
We should be in favor of A/I in the legal sector, actually, in all sectors, as much as possible. Are you worried that they may take your job? What difference does it make - they are going to India anyway.
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Their search algorithm works almost the same as the rules their adwords enforce. To use the adwords effectively is basically just doing the same thing that you would do to position your site better using normal search terms.
Do you know of any sites that do the same for short stories?
Really, the old "who needs a recording industry" rule still applies in the age of DRM. Potentially we could all sell our music through the web site. Perhaps we could pay each other $1 to read poetry to each other. Now that's an economy!
SCO claimed that "secret codes" found in the Bible, Torah and Koran proved that the famed religious texts were in fact a violation of SCO intellectual property. SCO says that all christians, jews and muslims will be able to continue to practice their respective faiths legally for a modest licensing fee of $699 a year.
The different states are going to impose their own sales taxes on internet purchases and some cities are going to impose their own taxes.
What does this mean?
a) some states will try to tax internet purchasing out of existence in order to protect brick and mortars
b) some states will selectively tax to protect some local industry.
c) some states will overtax in order to advance social agendas.
d) companies that facilitate online purchasing will probably offer state sales tax collection services. For software, I think SWREG already does this.
e) a small handful of people will complain about getting sales taxes on the internet. an even smaller number of people will move from state to state to avoid the tax.
f) republicans will tout the internet sales tax as implemented in some states as a replacement for the income tax.
g) all of the above.
Off the wheel, we have several sunken nuclear submarines, perhaps a dozen or so thermonuclear warheads and maybe even a hundred regular nukes.
Really, do you think the original hebrew / aramaic was exactly like that?
Besides, I thought all of the end of the world types thought the social security number was the mark of the beast. After all, a godless liberal named Frank Roosevelt invented the system.
Seriously, before we start talking magic bullet and other conspiracies, how many free software loving people are going to fork over some dough to run their arch enemy's programs on their favorite operating system?
Is the demand really there?
If MS was making 100M a year off of this thing, they probably would continue to sell it and bounce a windows license charge into the price. Then you would still be supporting the evil empire...
It seems like after a decade or so of being stalled in the mainstream, new features are being added to commercial developmental languages and at a furious pace.
Hey, mgmt and coworkers are already stressing you out, so, you may as well up the ante and talk longingly about your gun collection.
1 & 2. Where's fork in Windows?
3. I might have the name wrong, but the next go around of IIS will have a device driver that effectively moves HTTP into the kernal. They do this because they don't have 1 or 2... and, in Windows, a socket is NOT a system file handle...
I like to develop on Windows but for anyone to claim that Windows networking is easier is obviously smoking crack.
.NET either corrects or masks some of those deficiencies, except, most notably, in socket and file handle and process support. However, even in the case of .NET, "hard" problems of sockets are traded for make work for admins dragging and dropping and touching configuration files, with no clue.
Sockets are much easier to develop in Unix because Unix does the right thing with them. You can easily pass file handles between processes in Unix and it works quite well. All programming languages in Unix have convenient mechanisms that make it straightforward to pack and unpack data from streams, fairly easily. The whole concept of "rolling a protocol" that seems so mysterious on Windows is mysterious because the tools suck for that task on that platform!
Imagine, on Unix, you've been able to printf across a network [via a socket] for at least 10 years. What's up with Windows where even binding a socket to a c style file handle has to even take place?
Needless to say, Windows and Windows development tools have traditionally lacked in the networking department. Prior to the above, the official MS networking solution was DCOM, the languages were weak, the O/S APIs unfathomable, and the string handling facilities sucked and file handling was abyssmal.
Sockets and files themselves have not gotten fundamentally better in Windows since Windows NT 3.5. The only way this socket sharing across apps [ a prerequisite for stable web services ] is the kludgey HTTP.SYS driver that is in the next go around of Windows 2003 Server. Processes are still fundamentally peered, not owned, and killing an application still strands DLLs, and, the tools, while much better, generally either wrap an expansive library around an anemic O/S that by all rights should do it, or, write mountains of "wizard" generated code.
For thousands of dollars, you can go ahead and buy yourself a crappy version of what Linux has done since 1992 for free, and then spend thousands of dollars more on the tools required to program it.
Just keep in mind that if networking was so easy on Windows, then, Web Browsers, Web Servers, Email, Chat and virtually every other application that uses internet protocols in general and networking in particular was invented on UNIX, AND NOT WINDOWS.
I have 38GB on a new hard drive on my machine, and it's going to be partitioned for Linux.
1) Explains why Windows processes worse than Linux processes. Check.
2) "I can understand both Perl 4 and Perl 5". Check.
3) Runs own SMTP server at home. Check.
4) Chooses banks whose online service works only with Mozilla over IE. Check.
5) Scavenges business discards for old computers because they would make good Linux Servers. Check.
6) Does weird things to Furrbies wired into serial port. Check.
Intrusive-Ass-Bullshit Ware?
Anyone?
Then obviously you've never worked in a pre-computer or early computer accounting office. I have. There are so many things you can do with paper records that you can't do electronically, it's just beyond belief. All sorts of good stuff can happen to paper.
Q) How do you CRC or digitally sign a drawer stuffed with paper?
A) You can't.
Q) If I get a stack of absentee ballots against my guys in the mail, what do I do with them?
A) Stuff them in my shirt and walk out.
Keep pushing for paper, and I'll be scraping chads for my guys, come fall. That's for sure.
Because, um, until such time as Iraq has their own government, they are in fact a US government possession, and therefor, the infrastructure is OUR responsibility.
Look, we took the country over. The Iraqi people did not ask us to invade.
Finally, Iraqi is not that rich, even with the oil. The market price of all of Iraqi's oil, if exploited, is only about 2 trillion dollars. We Americans blow through that much dough every three months.
This is actually a book that has been around for the while and the author is a bit of a celebrity. Anyone that is going to do anything serious with
The best stuff is in the back, how you can plug in your own protocols. IIRC he does a distributed object call using a SMTP as a protocol. Interesting stuff.
The performance advantages of
I'd say to the people used to doing sockets in C, well, you missing the boat.
There are plenty of dinky little bugs that can get unearthed in the few days before release. These aren't necessarily more expensive to find or fix.
Really bad late bugs don't happen if you get your requirements straight, and test early and often.
No but what loans say is that Iraq should pay us for invading them. We blew something up, and now, we want Iraq to pay us for it?
Seems screwed up to me.
Great, the machine produces a paper trail and so immediately in an election I have my printer produce its own paper trail that matches the results that I want. I just have enough of a record to demand a recount, cast the election in doubt...
The right way to do this sort of thing is to get rid of anonymous voting.
Suddenly the 747 mounted laser for shooting down inbound missiles becomes viable. These guys are blowing through an inch of steel in 2 seconds, that means they ought to be able to blast through a missile skin much more quickly than that.
We had no real debugger for our DEC Pro 350 assembly language, only halts and register dumps. We had no debugger for our USCD P-System, just Writeln. And, the editor was a joke. Oh, and the Apple II that I teethed on in some ways was the best because you could CTRL-C an AppleSoft BASIC program and print out the variables. But good look in 6502 assembly because you were dead!
Borland's Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ were amazing at that time, and I went right for them.
I still think IBM IPMD for OS/2 was the best debugger I'd ever used for its time, and GNU's GDB was possibly the worst.
The comparison of Oracle + Linux vs SQL Server + Windows is a valid one.
If I am going to switch database servers, I may as well compare the best operating system for that database server to run on.
For me, Oracle is a Unix database first and a Windows port second.I've not actually had good experiences with Oracle on Windows. The question for Oracle is "which Unix?" You could make a strong argument for Sun, but I threw in Linux as it seems that's where the world is headed.
Opposed to that is SQL Server, which only runs on Windows.
Most corporate IT environments need to embrace real document management systems, not, try and build uber applications instead.
I work at a firm whose essential strategy is try to and replace the work product of financial types in excel with collections of applications dedicated to different parts of the process. As a result of this, the business has become stagnated and locked into a process that exists largely because of the weight of money that went to create it, not because it has ever really been questioned.
Sometimes flexibility is worth more than one would think.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think Texas has a law that makes it illegal to use certain kinds of computer lawyers for some tasks.
The economics of computer lawyers are well known though. If you could hire a team of the 100 best lawyers in the country to feed a team of 1000 programmers, to write computer lawyer 101, then, you've got computer lawyer 101 that would trump the other 900,000 laywers in the country. And... if you build a computer lawyer, it doesn't get old, it won't forget the law or tactics that it used. It will just keep getting better, and better, and better.
The writing is on the wall for human lawyering, and this may not be a bad thing. If expert legal representation is a mass market product, then, the usual corporate tactic of using legal expenses to crush small competitors becomes a thing of the past. If we can all have a mass marketed $100 lawyer a/i, then, the world of justice would be on a single computer playing field.
We should be in favor of A/I in the legal sector, actually, in all sectors, as much as possible. Are you worried that they may take your job? What difference does it make - they are going to India anyway.