Akamai doesn't seem to be anything more than a network of caches, some load-based routing, and a private network connecting them, plus a few geegaws like special transport of certain stream formats. Not to malign what they're doing, but I wouldn't say caching *vs* Akamai.
Brian, I think I do get the point..
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You show a lack of usability understanding when you suggest that filtering software is a bad idea.
Do you ever read Usenet? I spend my time reading some quality posts (and a few posts of less quality), *after* reams of trash has been filtered out. You seem to suggest that it would be a good idea if I didn't have the option to do so - in other words, that I should spend a few more hours a day wasting my time reading flames and posts about topics that I'm not interested in, just so I can get a broader view.
No thanks. I find a new conversation when somebody won't stop ranting about the Tri-Lateral Commission at a party, and I do the same with the radio and the net. It's an old idea, and giving it a name in StudlyCaps isn't going to make it more dangerous.
"Most search engines place ads based on the search term you used. This really isn't that much different - its only seen as legit as the ad is put at the top as a banner, where most people expect it."
This *is* different. Ads are currently recognizable as ads, not as search results. Notice that ads in newspapers that are crafted to look like articles have "ADVERTISEMENT" written on them. It would be unethical otherwise.
"No one seems to object at the yellow pages, which offer up ads for every search query!"
Ugh, good point. Aren't yellow pages nothing *but* ads? Every listing is paid for.
Do you have a box *anywhere* that you can trust to stay up?
I run a NFS-Root workstation that boots from floppy and then gets its disk over NFS. It *can't* cleanly shut down, since it doesn't know what to do after the filesystems are unmounted. I've been just turning it off for a year, haven't had any problems (but hopefully someone will tell me if I'm being lucky). The server deals with keeping the disks happy.
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Akamai doesn't seem to be anything more than a network of caches, some load-based routing, and a private network connecting them, plus a few geegaws like special transport of certain stream formats. Not to malign what they're doing, but I wouldn't say caching *vs* Akamai.
You show a lack of usability understanding when you suggest that filtering software is a bad idea.
Do you ever read Usenet? I spend my time reading some quality posts (and a few posts of less quality), *after* reams of trash has been filtered out. You seem to suggest that it would be a good idea if I didn't have the option to do so - in other words, that I should spend a few more hours a day wasting my time reading flames and posts about topics that I'm not interested in, just so I can get a broader view.
No thanks. I find a new conversation when somebody won't stop ranting about the Tri-Lateral Commission at a party, and I do the same with the radio and the net. It's an old idea, and giving it a name in StudlyCaps isn't going to make it more dangerous.
"Most search engines place ads based on the search term you used. This really isn't that much different - its only seen as legit as the ad is put at the top as a banner, where most people expect it."
This *is* different. Ads are currently recognizable as ads, not as search results. Notice that ads in newspapers that are crafted to look like articles have "ADVERTISEMENT" written on them. It would be unethical otherwise.
"No one seems to object at the yellow pages, which offer up ads for every search query!"
Ugh, good point. Aren't yellow pages nothing *but* ads? Every listing is paid for.
Do you have a box *anywhere* that you can trust to stay up?
I run a NFS-Root workstation that boots from floppy and then gets its disk over NFS. It *can't* cleanly shut down, since it doesn't know what to do after the filesystems are unmounted. I've been just turning it off for a year, haven't had any problems (but hopefully someone will tell me if I'm being lucky). The server deals with keeping the disks happy.