It was obvious they had to start something like that. Today's micropayment industry isn't developped enough as to match their needs.
Google has many services that could benefit from a working and integrated micro-payment. Google Ads, Google Answers, etc...
And they are not going to give that market to Paypal.
Look at it: - it decreases their payment costs - it increases their margin on each transaction - it improves their usefulness
Everybody is talking about Google vs Microsoft. I don't see a fight. Google is selling services. Microsoft is selling software, most of which I hope will be commoditized soon (OS, Office). Why do I come back to Microsoft? Because they had started adressing part of the micro-payment problem, using smart cards (i.e. the end user physical object). But their smart card project was quickly and quietly abandonned.
Isn't market capitalisation a representation of what the company if expected to earn in the forthcoming years?
Given that today people spend more time in front of Internet than in front of TV (in the USA), but that Internet advertising is way lower than TV advertising, it seems normal that companies who base their revenues on Internet advertising be appreciated.
Google being a leader in the domain, with many many smart guys and ideas coming in, is a little bit hyped but has a strong potential.
On the other side, GM isn't probably expected to make its income increase several folds in the next 20 years.
It works like that for mobile phones and nobody complains. (or course mobile phones can easily prevent you from using a different network operator).
You can buy a mobile phone with a subscription. Your phone is stuck to a certain operator for a year or 2, and you get it cheaper than if you buy it on your own.
Similarly printer resellers could chose to sell 2 types of printers. The ones with the 'ink renting' for a limited time, and the full price one.
Not sure if would work though.
Ad vita eternam vendor locking is not a good option.
Talking about oposite sex, what about gay people or those thinking about changing sex?
If they are goign to be scanned, should they go on the other queue? And if they are workers should they be allowed to look at people who fall in their potential list of partners?
In the city where I currently live (Oslo, Norway) teachers and students of training clubs take their showers together. Naked of course.
What's funny is that (for example) most dance teachers are gays. So I guess they maybe enjoy their showers more than their heterosexual teachers counterparts!:)
I don't have any issue with it, but if we start making black and white decisions, we should remember that the world has a lot of grey...
The whole point of Linux developers using MacVoy's product is that the tool was solving some problems free tools couldn't solve.
Because Linux developers have so special requirements (especially in distributed development and patch/branches maintenance) no free tool was capable of supporting it at that time. Even bitkeeper was pushed to its limits. Isn't that innovation? Not in software itself but in software development process.
And nobody ever said that all software is going to be Open. Stop that crap.
IDEA always feeled much more polished than eclipse to me. It's very intuitive user interface makes me a more productive programmer than eclipse.
The only advantage I see using eclipse now is because of the many plugins it has. But a year ago, IDEA was still a clear winner. In the last conference I went to, a quick polling (from a Borland guy) revealed that 60% of the users used eclipse, while 30% used IDEA. So people don't have so much problems stumping up for licenses. Maybe it's because I am in an European country. I guess that in other parts of the world, financing has a different impact on such decisions.
With regard to IDEA and plugins, there are many plugins for IDEA too, so it's clearly extensible.
this tool can help you to make sure you change just enough the stolen implementation so that the tool won't detect the similarities, giving you an approval stamp without too much work:)
I have a similar problem. I have an open wireless router at home. The reason? I believe Internet access should be open to anyone. It takes 4 weeks to get your line established when you open move into an apartment, and the only way I found to get something usable in the meantime was to use my uncautious neighbour lines. As a result I decided to let my line open for those in need. Of course it can be misused.
My friends are telling me I am playing too much with fire. I just want to be helpful. But if someone starts doing P2P on my line in an unoticeable way, I might get into trouble. Hard to prove it.
or maybe 9 years if we take into account that we need to rest (even though part of resting this time is important with regard to the learning activity)
Allow me to link you to this 'fake' commercial reference:
Day in, day out, you pull off star moves: gnarly algorithms, wicked refactorings, stunning optimizations. Why should you stop and explain? Yes, you've got plodders on your team, but hey -- YouAreAStar and YourTimeIsExpensive. Time spent explaining, documenting, commenting -- dude! -- that's time you could be using to crank out yet more mind-altering code.
The sea has been conquered a long time ago, and thus is subject of such laws.
But there are still places where law hasn't been defined. I am not sure of deep sea, but space is currently (apart from the Oval Office) one place where these restrictions to our freedom have not yet been implemented.
Why do you think the X-Prize competition was for? To allow the filthy rich to get an outer space experience while looking at the view (or maybe to joing the 10000 miles club). Don't look further than that.
On a home system, there's Billy Bob, Mis Billy Bob, Billy Bob Junior, and the occasional 10 persons a year that come and borrow your machine for 1 min to read their webmail, the ones that play music when you do parties, etc.. etc...
Never assume that because you're the only one to use your machine today, that you're not going to let someone else use your machine tomorrow.
"with overpopulation and limited resources, moving out into space solves all our problems for FREE!"
You're missing one part in your plan.
1- Send one percent of the people in space 2- detonate some kind of chemical that kills the remaining 99% (not not any kind of life). Maybe render them sterile or something. 3- wait some decennies 4- come back: problem solved.
repeat every couple of thousand years.
of course the 1% people should be selected from the 'poor poople set'. Because rich ones wouldn't be able to survive without having a bunch of poor people to work for them. And for them to not get used to comfort, maybe they need to be cryogenized before their little trip.
The publication should maybe not be automated for the last step of the submission. One should be there to confirm that the story is not a dupe.
But I guess that if they don't fix it, that means they don't care.
As to be a subscriber, I would not pay to help them do their job. I'd rather pay for a small, clean and nice summary even if it's a day or two later. Like a step further after alterslash.
Check for dupes: this can also be done programatically.
When I post an issue in Bugzilla.mozilla.org, the system gives me a list of potential duplicates.
How can't that be done for slashdot?
What about using google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Irish+cinema+digi ta l+site%3Aslashdot.org
It's that simple! (OK maybe that would not work for too recently published articles)
Actually when you think of it, the hard part of an editor is to correctly select an article. Once you've selected one, spending 30 seconds more to review a potential list of duplicate won't decrease quality.
If I was responsible for the site I would monitor more my editor's work. If they can't do their job correctly.
Or let people mark articles as DUPEs. And let me browse slashdot with dupes off by default.
- this was I think in 1993 and Gassiee has been more famous since by being the man behind BeOS.
- this was on TV. we NEED to find that episode... It apparently is not in these archives: http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-browse.php?collection=computerchronicles&cat=computer%20 bowl&PHPSESSID=afa9787e38cc81e4f22ed0542058072a
Slashdot Mirror
It was obvious they had to start something like that. Today's micropayment industry isn't developped enough as to match their needs.
Google has many services that could benefit from a working and integrated micro-payment. Google Ads, Google Answers, etc...
And they are not going to give that market to Paypal.
Look at it:
- it decreases their payment costs
- it increases their margin on each transaction
- it improves their usefulness
Everybody is talking about Google vs Microsoft. I don't see a fight. Google is selling services. Microsoft is selling software, most of which I hope will be commoditized soon (OS, Office). Why do I come back to Microsoft? Because they had started adressing part of the micro-payment problem, using smart cards (i.e. the end user physical object). But their smart card project was quickly and quietly abandonned.
Are you kidding? I have seen videos of moon space stations in Japeneses films since the early 80s.
Tokusatsus what?
Isn't market capitalisation a representation of what the company if expected to earn in the forthcoming years?
Given that today people spend more time in front of Internet than in front of TV (in the USA), but that Internet advertising is way lower than TV advertising, it seems normal that companies who base their revenues on Internet advertising be appreciated.
Google being a leader in the domain, with many many smart guys and ideas coming in, is a little bit hyped but has a strong potential.
On the other side, GM isn't probably expected to make its income increase several folds in the next 20 years.
In Norway, i'd bet that over 30% of youg women have a tatoo and or a piercing. Not all are highly visible though...
It works like that for mobile phones and nobody complains. (or course mobile phones can easily prevent you from using a different network operator).
You can buy a mobile phone with a subscription. Your phone is stuck to a certain operator for a year or 2, and you get it cheaper than if you buy it on your own.
Similarly printer resellers could chose to sell 2 types of printers. The ones with the 'ink renting' for a limited time, and the full price one.
Not sure if would work though.
Ad vita eternam vendor locking is not a good option.
"Iraq has the 4th largest army in the world". That's what they kept telling us before the first Iraq war.
Now North Korea has an almost as big army of hackers as US...
Pattern or coincidence?
Talking about oposite sex, what about gay people or those thinking about changing sex?
:)
If they are goign to be scanned, should they go on the other queue? And if they are workers should they be allowed to look at people who fall in their potential list of partners?
In the city where I currently live (Oslo, Norway) teachers and students of training clubs take their showers together. Naked of course.
What's funny is that (for example) most dance teachers are gays. So I guess they maybe enjoy their showers more than their heterosexual teachers counterparts!
I don't have any issue with it, but if we start making black and white decisions, we should remember that the world has a lot of grey...
The whole point of Linux developers using MacVoy's product is that the tool was solving some problems free tools couldn't solve.
Because Linux developers have so special requirements (especially in distributed development and patch/branches maintenance) no free tool was capable of supporting it at that time. Even bitkeeper was pushed to its limits. Isn't that innovation? Not in software itself but in software development process.
And nobody ever said that all software is going to be Open. Stop that crap.
Reread my comment.
"You can learn about lemonparty here, but BROWSE WITHOUT IMAGES..."
You can learn about lemonparty here, but browse without images...
m onparty
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Le
IDEA always feeled much more polished than eclipse to me. It's very intuitive user interface makes me a more productive programmer than eclipse.
The only advantage I see using eclipse now is because of the many plugins it has. But a year ago, IDEA was still a clear winner. In the last conference I went to, a quick polling (from a Borland guy) revealed that 60% of the users used eclipse, while 30% used IDEA. So people don't have so much problems stumping up for licenses. Maybe it's because I am in an European country. I guess that in other parts of the world, financing has a different impact on such decisions.
With regard to IDEA and plugins, there are many plugins for IDEA too, so it's clearly extensible.
this tool can help you to make sure you change just enough the stolen implementation so that the tool won't detect the similarities, giving you an approval stamp without too much work :)
It's XMI not XML.i .htm
http://www.omg.org/technology/documents/formal/xm
I have a similar problem. I have an open wireless router at home. The reason? I believe Internet access should be open to anyone. It takes 4 weeks to get your line established when you open move into an apartment, and the only way I found to get something usable in the meantime was to use my uncautious neighbour lines. As a result I decided to let my line open for those in need. Of course it can be misused.
My friends are telling me I am playing too much with fire. I just want to be helpful. But if someone starts doing P2P on my line in an unoticeable way, I might get into trouble. Hard to prove it.
or maybe 9 years if we take into account that we need to rest (even though part of resting this time is important with regard to the learning activity)
http://www.cenqua.com/commentator/
The sea has been conquered a long time ago, and thus is subject of such laws.
.
But there are still places where law hasn't been defined. I am not sure of deep sea, but space is currently (apart from the Oval Office) one place where these restrictions to our freedom have not yet been implemented
Why do you think the X-Prize competition was for? To allow the filthy rich to get an outer space experience while looking at the view (or maybe to joing the 10000 miles club). Don't look further than that.
"Bill in the sky with diamonds."
On a home system, there's Billy Bob, Mis Billy Bob, Billy Bob Junior, and the occasional 10 persons a year that come and borrow your machine for 1 min to read their webmail, the ones that play music when you do parties, etc.. etc...
Never assume that because you're the only one to use your machine today, that you're not going to let someone else use your machine tomorrow.
- price has sometimes more to do with positioning than production costs + margin
- I've bought DVDs, I've bought DVD reader (which comes with software for Windows). I don't accept the fact that I should pay 50$ more to watch them.
"with overpopulation and limited resources, moving out into space solves all our problems for FREE!"
You're missing one part in your plan.
1- Send one percent of the people in space
2- detonate some kind of chemical that kills the remaining 99% (not not any kind of life). Maybe render them sterile or something.
3- wait some decennies
4- come back: problem solved.
repeat every couple of thousand years.
of course the 1% people should be selected from the 'poor poople set'. Because rich ones wouldn't be able to survive without having a bunch of poor people to work for them. And for them to not get used to comfort, maybe they need to be cryogenized before their little trip.
Just make a firefox plugin :)
I am sure it is very easy to do.
and sorry for the typo. It's Jean-Louis Gassée, not Gassiee...
The publication should maybe not be automated for the last step of the submission. One should be there to confirm that the story is not a dupe.
But I guess that if they don't fix it, that means they don't care.
As to be a subscriber, I would not pay to help them do their job. I'd rather pay for a small, clean and nice summary even if it's a day or two later. Like a step further after alterslash.
Check for dupes: this can also be done programatically.
i ta l+site%3Aslashdot.org
When I post an issue in Bugzilla.mozilla.org, the system gives me a list of potential duplicates.
How can't that be done for slashdot?
What about using google?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Irish+cinema+dig
It's that simple! (OK maybe that would not work for too recently published articles)
Actually when you think of it, the hard part of an editor is to correctly select an article. Once you've selected one, spending 30 seconds more to review a potential list of duplicate won't decrease quality.
If I was responsible for the site I would monitor more my editor's work. If they can't do their job correctly.
Or let people mark articles as DUPEs. And let me browse slashdot with dupes off by default.
2 things:
e .php?collection=computerchronicles&cat=computer%20 bowl&PHPSESSID=afa9787e38cc81e4f22ed0542058072a
:)
- this was I think in 1993 and Gassiee has been more famous since by being the man behind BeOS.
- this was on TV. we NEED to find that episode...
It apparently is not in these archives: http://www.archive.org/movies/movieslisting-brows
Anyone with it? Maybe Mr Gassiee has it