> Considering this, what is remarkable is that > businesses are as successful as they are
Why is that remarkable? It only shows that consumers in general are more stupid than marketing people. This is what the entire "old economy" is based on.
The difference wrt "the NEW economy" was that the *Venture Capitalists* had to be more stupid than the marketing people.:-)
News Corp has said that NDS chiefs operate independent of the media giant.
Interesting way of putting it. They could have said something more along the lines of "We didn't know what they were up to". Now they merely say that they didn't interfere. So, does this mean that News Corp knew what NDS was doing?:-)
.. is the creative process behind projects of this magnitude. Where do people get these ideas? Is the scenario below how it happened?
- Hey, I just got this great idea! - Uhu, what's that? - Let's make a 3D map of the entire universe! - Sounds cool, let's get some funding!
Or is it more like: - Hmmm, this problem would be easily solved if we had a 3D map of the universe.. - Sounds cool, let's get some funding for that project!
Or the third alternative: - Hmmm, we need some funding! - Sounds cool, let's make a 3D map of the entire universe! - Great, that will keep us running for a couple of years!
Heh, the first time I smiled when I read about spam:
More than a thousand messages were completely off topic. Some of those were advertisements - known as ``spam,'' - and at least one e-mail contained pornography.
``The United States proposes not to publish such submissions or to provide them as part of its filing to the court,'' Justice lawyers wrote.
Would be fun if their proposal to not publish it is denied. DOJ has to publish porn, *grin*
"Seriously though, this should be good news for people who download RedHat's.iso images but want to financially support RedHat in a way that makes sense."
I don't know about you guys, but isn't the best way to make money to offer a service or product that people are willing to pay for because it's good; rather than hoping on donations because people like the company?
That said, I have no clue wether this service is worth the money or not, I am merely reacting to the wording of some of the posts. To me it sounds like some of you are looking for an excuse to donate money to RH. They should be able to survive without you being kind to them. That will never work out in the long run. So, I hope that those of you who will pay for this will be paying for the right reason; because it's worth it, not because you want to be nice to RH.
I agree with you. For example oracle implements a hieararchical search with the start with.. connect by prior.. statement. It works like a charm. I don't think this is possible to do in mysql and friends, but it is probably just a matter of time.
The reason that buses that uses photons as the data carriers are coming up is quite interesting. The good thing with light (photons) are that photons are 'bosons', which amongst other things means that they do not interact with other photons. Good for transporting data, since noise is not a problem.
Electrons, on the other hand are 'fermions', which means that they interact strongly with other electrons. That is good for logic (since the whole point is to interact..), but is a problem for transports. (Cross talk etc)
From a power consumption point of view, using currents/voltage in a wire to send a logic one ore zero has some really severe problems. The wire itself introduces a resistance, capacitance and inductance which are non neglectible, at least not for long wires (buses) or high frequencies. IIRC, R ~ sqrt(f) for high frequencies, which leads to signal distortion, power loss, and ultimately an upper limit to the data rate. This is probably one of the reasons that research and development is going on in this area.
I just saw on the news here that cd sales are down 10% in sweden compared to last year, and it is going down in the rest of europe as well. They (the record industry) blame it on cd-w, mp3:s etc.
The Swedish CEO of one company (Warner, I think), said that they had no way to compete with the price. I guess that is true, although they probably could lower the price a bit. I started to think of their options. Trying to prevent copying is probably the first thing that the average record-company-member-of-the-board would think of, but that has never worked in practice.
So, what are their options? I have absolutely no idea.
I strongly believe that the second option will outpace the first in the long run (with regard to profit, happy employees etc). Obviously, this is oversimplified, I hope you get my point anyway.
Well, actually, "Also JSP != servlet." is not correct. If you use for example Weblogic, your JSP is compiled into a servlet,
which in turn is compiled to byte code. With taglibs there is really no need to
write servlets. You write your JSP using the tags that you've defined in your taglibs
and the taglibs points to your regular JavaBeans, where the logic is handled.
Since jsps turns into servlets, there is no need from an efficiency point of view to
write servlets, instead your html-guru takes care of the pages; programmer takes care of JavaBeans.
Non-free: Versant. (probably www.versant.com). Since 40% of the time spent on web development in Java is
writing/debugging OR-mapping code (own experience) the object-db:s are really something to look out for in the future.
Problem is that versant costs approx 2xOracle...:)
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>You can use your pilot as a telnet terminal.
Wooo! Some geek factor! *smile* My hat's off for you! =)
(I admit that I cannot do that with a piece of paper!;)
>Why can't we settle on one format?
Because:
Standards -> commodity products
commodity products -> low margins && more competition
If the suppliers can keep the competition away, they can make more money.
A good way of keeping competition away is to stay away from standards. Sure, higher costs to develop and higher risk, but faster time to market and better marigins outweighs that.
Students receive information from myriad sources, many coming from within the university, many more from beyond the boundaries of campus. Materials in this model are inconsistent in terms of quality, unpredictable in structure and organization, and are completely isolated from one another
Oh, and I always thought that the ability to compile large amounts of low-quality information into something understandable, was one of the things to learn at a University. Guess I was wrong, eh?
Hmm, maybe an insurance covering the risks of losing information because of viruses will be available in the future? In the last cryptogram from counterpane they announced an insurance, covering:
"1. Internet Asset and Income Protection Coverage provides insurance for Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring customers who incur a loss of or damage to information assets resulting from a breach of security or technology failure. Also covers business interruption due to loss of use due to a breach."
(See http://www.counterpane.com/pr-lloydssl.html)
Not sure if virus attacks counts as "technology failure" or "breach of security" though..
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> Considering this, what is remarkable is that
:-)
> businesses are as successful as they are
Why is that remarkable? It only shows that consumers in general are more stupid than marketing people. This is what the entire "old economy" is based on.
The difference wrt "the NEW economy" was that the *Venture Capitalists* had to be more stupid than the marketing people.
From the story:
News Corp has said that NDS chiefs operate independent of the media giant.
Interesting way of putting it. They could have said something more along the lines of "We didn't know what they were up to". Now they merely say that they didn't interfere. So, does this mean that News Corp knew what NDS was doing? :-)
.. is the creative process behind projects of this magnitude. Where do people get these ideas? Is the scenario below how it happened?
- Hey, I just got this great idea!
- Uhu, what's that?
- Let's make a 3D map of the entire universe!
- Sounds cool, let's get some funding!
Or is it more like:
- Hmmm, this problem would be easily solved if we had a 3D map of the universe..
- Sounds cool, let's get some funding for that project!
Or the third alternative:
- Hmmm, we need some funding!
- Sounds cool, let's make a 3D map of the entire universe!
- Great, that will keep us running for a couple of years!
:)
Heh, the first time I smiled when I read about spam:
More than a thousand messages were completely off topic. Some of those were advertisements - known as ``spam,'' - and at least one e-mail contained pornography.
``The United States proposes not to publish such submissions or to provide them as part of its filing to the court,'' Justice lawyers wrote.
Would be fun if their proposal to not publish it is denied. DOJ has to publish porn, *grin*
"Seriously though, this should be good news for people who download RedHat's .iso images but want to financially support RedHat in a way that makes sense."
I don't know about you guys, but isn't the best way to make money to offer a service or product that people are willing to pay for because it's good; rather than hoping on donations because people like the company?
That said, I have no clue wether this service is worth the money or not, I am merely reacting to the wording of some of the posts. To me it sounds like some of you are looking for an excuse to donate money to RH. They should be able to survive without you being kind to them. That will never work out in the long run. So, I hope that those of you who will pay for this will be paying for the right reason; because it's worth it, not because you want to be nice to RH.
Oh. I guess this is troll -1.
I agree with you. For example oracle implements a hieararchical search with the start with .. connect by prior .. statement. It works like a charm. I don't think this is possible to do in mysql and friends, but it is probably just a matter of time.
Photons are convenient for communications because they are uncharged, not because they are bosons
Good point, thanks for the correction. I was simplifying a bit too much.
The reason that buses that uses photons as the data carriers are coming up is quite interesting. The good thing with light (photons) are that photons are 'bosons', which amongst other things means that they do not interact with other photons. Good for transporting data, since noise is not a problem.
Electrons, on the other hand are 'fermions', which means that they interact strongly with other electrons. That is good for logic (since the whole point is to interact..), but is a problem for transports. (Cross talk etc)
From a power consumption point of view, using currents/voltage in a wire to send a logic one ore zero has some really severe problems. The wire itself introduces a resistance, capacitance and inductance which are non neglectible, at least not for long wires (buses) or high frequencies. IIRC, R ~ sqrt(f) for high frequencies, which leads to signal distortion, power loss, and ultimately an upper limit to the data rate. This is probably one of the reasons that research and development is going on in this area.
Well spoken! You geeks should all try out this magnificent game called "get a life" (featuring 'actual reality', as opposed to that virtual crap!) ;-)
I just saw on the news here that cd sales are down 10% in sweden compared to last year, and it is going down in the rest of europe as well. They (the record industry) blame it on cd-w, mp3:s etc.
The Swedish CEO of one company (Warner, I think), said that they had no way to compete with the price. I guess that is true, although they probably could lower the price a bit. I started to think of their options. Trying to prevent copying is probably the first thing that the average record-company-member-of-the-board would think of, but that has never worked in practice.
So, what are their options? I have absolutely no idea.
Hmm. Consider the following two strategies, implemented in two equal companies over, say, 5 years time:
Strategy 1:
Primary Goal: Profit
Secondary Goal: Increased knowledge
Strategy 2:
Primary Goal: Increased knowledge
Secondary Goal: Profit.
I strongly believe that the second option will outpace the first in the long run (with regard to profit, happy employees etc). Obviously, this is oversimplified, I hope you get my point anyway.
Well, actually, "Also JSP != servlet." is not correct.
If you use for example Weblogic, your JSP is compiled into a servlet,
which in turn is compiled to byte code. With taglibs there is really no need to
write servlets. You write your JSP using the tags that you've defined in your taglibs
and the taglibs points to your regular JavaBeans, where the logic is handled.
Since jsps turns into servlets, there is no need from an efficiency point of view to
write servlets, instead your html-guru takes care of the pages; programmer takes care of JavaBeans.
Works tremendously well!
Non-free: Versant. (probably www.versant.com). Since 40% of the time spent on web development in Java is :)
writing/debugging OR-mapping code (own experience) the object-db:s are really something to look out for in the future.
Problem is that versant costs approx 2xOracle...
>You can use your pilot as a telnet terminal.
Wooo! Some geek factor! *smile* My hat's off for you! =)
(I admit that I cannot do that with a piece of paper!;)
>Why can't we settle on one format?
Because: Standards -> commodity products
commodity products -> low margins && more competition
If the suppliers can keep the competition away, they can make more money.
A good way of keeping competition away is to stay away from standards.
Sure, higher costs to develop and higher risk, but faster time to market and better
marigins outweighs that.
trollmode : on
:)
:-))
Give me one example when a paper-equivalent to PDAs is not better than any given PDA.
Oh, if you find an example, tell me how much you are willing to pay for that feature.
trollmode : off
Admit it, you are only after the games!
Instead of "Not my fault, hard drive crashed", we will now hear "Our hologram shrunk, but they are working on it.." from our sysadmins.. :-)
Oh, and I always thought that the ability to compile large amounts of low-quality information into something understandable, was one of the things to learn at a University. Guess I was wrong, eh?
Hmm, maybe an insurance covering the risks of losing information because of viruses will be available in the future? In the last cryptogram from counterpane they announced an insurance, covering:
"1. Internet Asset and Income Protection Coverage provides insurance for Counterpane's Managed Security Monitoring customers who incur a loss of or damage to information assets resulting from a breach of security or technology failure. Also covers business interruption due to loss of use due to a breach."
(See http://www.counterpane.com/pr-lloydssl.html)
Not sure if virus attacks counts as "technology failure" or "breach of security" though..