Google and Yahoo are much different companies today and part of working at either business means understanding really what each company is trying to do. Google is a technology company; Yahoo is now a media company. The biggest difference, however, is this:
Google makes money by keeping people on their website for as short a time as possible. Yahoo makes money by keeping people on their website for as long as possible. The Internet traffic statistics are quite telling.
The problem with speculating about propulsion and/or fuel line problems is that they are basically inoperable during re-entry. When a shuttle re-enters the atmosphere, it is basically a glider. During the main part of re-entry, it will minimize it's profile against the atmosphere and let atmospheric drag slow it down from 3 miles/sec to around 200 miles/hr when it lands. The only time it uses its main engines is during liftoff. In orbit, it uses its Orbital Maneuvering Thrusters to guide it around and prepare it for re-entry. I really doubt there was a major problem with these systems in relation to the crash.
What did happen then? I speculate that something simply broke off, exposing a part of the shuttle's skin to the atmosphere. If a hole eventually opened up to the interior, the pressure would have caused an explosion. It's terrible but these have always been the dangers of spaceflight.
That is, build the biggest "something" then launch it during the early part of the year. It was called the Titanic. Here's hoping there are no icebergs on the way up.
The slashdot article from 1997 reacting to "The Phantom Menace"
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/09/27/127231.shtml
Too bad/. wasn't around in 1979 or 1982, we would have flipped over Ep V and Ep VI too.
Did you read that Pepsi's restaurants (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC) will not be promoting Ep II. I have a feeling there will be a lot less marketing than the first.
Whenever coding is outsourced, you are basically relegating the look and feel of the underlying code to the standards and development style of the person or person(s) you are outsourcing too. If your company has coding standards, those probably will have to be sacrificed. Secondly, there's no guarantee that any code will be documented and if it is, documented well. Thirdly, you just never know whether the same quality will be there. I consider quite important to review those three things about the standards the outsourced programmers have regarding their code. While it might save money on the front end, down the line the cost in service to debug, QA, and support another's work may not be worth it.
I went into college as pre-med. I finished that curriculum but majored in Sociology, deciding medical school wasn't the thing. What do I do now? I'm a web developer. But I'll be damned if that diploma hasn't opened up a number of doors. The degree, especially something showing a broader academic base than simply programming, shows to prospective employers that one can be trusted with a wider array of tasks. If money is what it's about, fine; however, if one wants power and decision-making influence, then the skill set, personal connections, and certification that comes with a college degree is invaluable.
Basically, a good artist will design with the back-end application in mind and a good developer will write applications with the front-end in mind. Half of our (application developer's) quality assurance time is spent trying to get things to display in different browsers. Unfortunately, the various back-end languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Cold Fusion, etc.) don't really figure into that in terms of compatability because they all provide the web server (usually Apache or IIS) with a full HTML page to send to the browser.
You're right. The fact that we can have this discussion over/. is evidence enough. I guess my point is that we never want to confuse the amplification or perfection of something with its invention. As a form of communication, interaction, information distribution and so on, the Internet is the pinnacle. When some medium comes around and engages all five senses across distances, like real-life does now, then I'll cede it the title of "new dimension."
Which artist deserves most praise? Pablo Picasso, whose art unquestionably is among the most revolutionary ever; or some long-forgotten cave-dweller who, with red rock on a cave wall, drew a stick-animal and created art and with it all visual communication?
I answer the latter, which may be why we disagree.
Despite the fact that my current career basically hinges on the advent and future of the Internet, I cannot say that it is this huge paradigm shift Mr. Katz wants to make of it. Certainly, its volume and openness make information widely available but it's not changing the way I get information, fundamentally. I'm still reading, viewing, and listening to content, be it news or advertising or whatever. In that sense, the printing press, radio, or television created a much bigger shift. The internet takes those "information roads" and adds instant access to it. It's just not really "new".
What will it be then? Necessarily, whatever new dimension we can add to human interaction. My guess will be virtual reality; the internet, however, ought to provide the backbone for VR interactions across distances, which makes the 'Net an important first step.
I run the Popular Power client on both my home and office computers. PP basically goes after both the greedy and altruistic tendencies in all of us by allowing the user to set whether they want to maximize profit or benefit non-profits more. Nice feature but since there isn't any paying gigs as of yet, currently useless. PP was the featured company in the Wired Magazine article which you can find here. The client keeps statistics of your usage so there's definitely a competitive incentive.
Basically, I figure "Why not?". I'm not using my home computer while I'm at work, nor my work computer while I'm at home. Given the necessary security measures, it's nice to be of help. I think this will be a technology widely used in the future.
if microsoft would port office to linux. I would no longer need NT
Probably not ground-breaking news in Redmond. It's almost as if Microsoft used their leverage from business applications to initiate an ever-increasing spiral of operating-system dependence...
I wouldn't say it's so much Slashdot's fault as it is the original reporter who didn't check his/her facts. A fact would be that Lucas has only a dozen or less full copies of the script which only the principal actors (yes,/.ers, including Natalie Portman), George Lucas, and Rick McCallum will ever see. And they're locked up at night. So, even though Kenny Baker did not go to Fox Studios in Australia, I don't imagine either he or the reporter could speak intelligently about Lucas's plans for R2 in the next movie. And the rumors about CmdrTaco having a red phone next to his bed with a direct line to George Lucas are all untrue. Face it, when it comes to Episodes II and III, we have as much knowledge about what Lucas will do with things like midi-chlorians and Jar Jar Binks as we could have guessed Darth Vader was Luke's father in 1978.
Obviously, the outrage here is the length to which this can be taken. Back in the day, would I have been libel for linking to 2600 because they then linked to DeCSS? For that matter, you could hold search engines that return responses to DeCSS links for not filtering out those pages. Hyperlinking is as much a form of constitutionally-protected speech as a journalist taking pictures of someone shooting heroin or a newspaper providing a map of an area known to have crackhouses. Simply because they point to some illegal act (perhaps easing someone's ability to break the law), cannot mean that the acts themselves are illegal. Hyperlinking is personal expression and ought to have the same constitutional protections as other speech.
When I first read this at TheForce.Net, I questioned both Baker's and the newspaper columnist's understanding of what Lucas was doing with Artoo in Episode II. From other articles, including the one of Artoo bungee-jumping, it was clear that Lucas had multiple Artoos down at Fox Studios in Australia. While it may be true that Baker won't be under the dome, I'd guess that the he was not replaced by a CGI Artoo, but an electronic one. In Ep I, when Artoo saved the Princess's ship, all the R2 Units were computer-generated, so the detail is obviously there.
Can what is formed say to that who formed it, "Why have you made me thus?"
Atlanta is perhaps the first major American metropolitan area to have growth unlimited by natural barriers. For the Olympics, the traffic infrastructure was nearly doubled and from 1996 to 1997, Atlanta was a fairly pleasant city to drive in. But the infrastructure facilitated an enormous suburban expansion and, once again, Atlanta has severe congestion.
In my experience as a web developer, this locking in usually results from poor site design and bad network administration. An older site of mine used a javascript redirect from the file that the DNS was pointing to into a subfolder where all the applications were. It got annoying because, like the article states, every time a visitor tried to hit back, it hit the main page again and got redirected again. I eventually just pulled all my files into a single directory to stop that annoyance. It was not a purposeful marketing tool, just an errant combo of site design and DNS.
I never actually played EverQuest but I did look into it pretty seriously this past summer. I had pretty much decided that it would become a huge time and money suck, and I never got hooked.
However, Verant and Sony are targeting the Star Wars Online game for 2001. I have a bad feeling about this. Right now, EQ has a subscriber base nearing 400,000 (someone can correct me on this) and while it takes all its ideas from the fantasy/role-play genre, it has its own "name"--no huge license, if you take my meaning.
Star Wars Online, on the other hand, could have an initial subscriber base approaching 400,000 and a much broader demographic than EQ, simply because of its name. Just think, in 2001, many will be going to see Meet Joe Black 2 simply to see the trailer for Ep II. The hype will probably be enormous (for the movie and the game). So, this move on Sony's part against the EQ real-life cash market can be seen as a pre-emptive strike against anything like this happening with SW Online, which would be a much blacker mark on Sony/Verant than anything dealing with Everquest. Be certain that this figured into the equation.
As for myself, if I am unmarried when SW Online comes out, I'm buying it. If I'm married, I'm sure I'll find some other pursuit. But who am I kidding, I'm posting to Slashdot...
In MacBeth, Shakespeare conjected, in the form of the witches prophecy, that Banquo (a Scotsman) would begin the lineage that would eventually lead to King James of England. Most people think that the Bard just made that up to appease the king, but DNA might serve to prove exactly how much King James I had of the Scottish royal lineage in him.
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Google and Yahoo are much different companies today and part of working at either business means understanding really what each company is trying to do. Google is a technology company; Yahoo is now a media company. The biggest difference, however, is this:
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Google makes money by keeping people on their website for as short a time as possible. Yahoo makes money by keeping people on their website for as long as possible. The Internet traffic statistics are quite telling.
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=la
The problem with speculating about propulsion and/or fuel line problems is that they are basically inoperable during re-entry. When a shuttle re-enters the atmosphere, it is basically a glider. During the main part of re-entry, it will minimize it's profile against the atmosphere and let atmospheric drag slow it down from 3 miles/sec to around 200 miles/hr when it lands. The only time it uses its main engines is during liftoff. In orbit, it uses its Orbital Maneuvering Thrusters to guide it around and prepare it for re-entry. I really doubt there was a major problem with these systems in relation to the crash.
What did happen then? I speculate that something simply broke off, exposing a part of the shuttle's skin to the atmosphere. If a hole eventually opened up to the interior, the pressure would have caused an explosion. It's terrible but these have always been the dangers of spaceflight.
That is, build the biggest "something" then launch it during the early part of the year. It was called the Titanic. Here's hoping there are no icebergs on the way up.
...it was in the article.
The slashdot article from 1997 reacting to "The Phantom Menace" http://slashdot.org/articles/98/09/27/127231.shtml
Too bad /. wasn't around in 1979 or 1982, we would have flipped over Ep V and Ep VI too.
Did you read that Pepsi's restaurants (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC) will not be promoting Ep II. I have a feeling there will be a lot less marketing than the first.
I have a feeling this is some kind of cross-promotion with Fox's reality television.
Whenever coding is outsourced, you are basically relegating the look and feel of the underlying code to the standards and development style of the person or person(s) you are outsourcing too. If your company has coding standards, those probably will have to be sacrificed. Secondly, there's no guarantee that any code will be documented and if it is, documented well. Thirdly, you just never know whether the same quality will be there. I consider quite important to review those three things about the standards the outsourced programmers have regarding their code. While it might save money on the front end, down the line the cost in service to debug, QA, and support another's work may not be worth it.
I went into college as pre-med. I finished that curriculum but majored in Sociology, deciding medical school wasn't the thing. What do I do now? I'm a web developer. But I'll be damned if that diploma hasn't opened up a number of doors. The degree, especially something showing a broader academic base than simply programming, shows to prospective employers that one can be trusted with a wider array of tasks. If money is what it's about, fine; however, if one wants power and decision-making influence, then the skill set, personal connections, and certification that comes with a college degree is invaluable.
Basically, a good artist will design with the back-end application in mind and a good developer will write applications with the front-end in mind. Half of our (application developer's) quality assurance time is spent trying to get things to display in different browsers. Unfortunately, the various back-end languages (PHP, ASP, Perl, Cold Fusion, etc.) don't really figure into that in terms of compatability because they all provide the web server (usually Apache or IIS) with a full HTML page to send to the browser.
You're right. The fact that we can have this discussion over /. is evidence enough. I guess my point is that we never want to confuse the amplification or perfection of something with its invention. As a form of communication, interaction, information distribution and so on, the Internet is the pinnacle. When some medium comes around and engages all five senses across distances, like real-life does now, then I'll cede it the title of "new dimension."
Which artist deserves most praise? Pablo Picasso, whose art unquestionably is among the most revolutionary ever; or some long-forgotten cave-dweller who, with red rock on a cave wall, drew a stick-animal and created art and with it all visual communication?
I answer the latter, which may be why we disagree.
Despite the fact that my current career basically hinges on the advent and future of the Internet, I cannot say that it is this huge paradigm shift Mr. Katz wants to make of it. Certainly, its volume and openness make information widely available but it's not changing the way I get information, fundamentally. I'm still reading, viewing, and listening to content, be it news or advertising or whatever. In that sense, the printing press, radio, or television created a much bigger shift. The internet takes those "information roads" and adds instant access to it. It's just not really "new".
What will it be then? Necessarily, whatever new dimension we can add to human interaction. My guess will be virtual reality; the internet, however, ought to provide the backbone for VR interactions across distances, which makes the 'Net an important first step.
I run the Popular Power client on both my home and office computers. PP basically goes after both the greedy and altruistic tendencies in all of us by allowing the user to set whether they want to maximize profit or benefit non-profits more. Nice feature but since there isn't any paying gigs as of yet, currently useless. PP was the featured company in the Wired Magazine article which you can find here. The client keeps statistics of your usage so there's definitely a competitive incentive.
Basically, I figure "Why not?". I'm not using my home computer while I'm at work, nor my work computer while I'm at home. Given the necessary security measures, it's nice to be of help. I think this will be a technology widely used in the future.
if microsoft would port office to linux. I would no longer need NT Probably not ground-breaking news in Redmond. It's almost as if Microsoft used their leverage from business applications to initiate an ever-increasing spiral of operating-system dependence...
I wouldn't say it's so much Slashdot's fault as it is the original reporter who didn't check his/her facts. A fact would be that Lucas has only a dozen or less full copies of the script which only the principal actors (yes, /.ers, including Natalie Portman), George Lucas, and Rick McCallum will ever see. And they're locked up at night. So, even though Kenny Baker did not go to Fox Studios in Australia, I don't imagine either he or the reporter could speak intelligently about Lucas's plans for R2 in the next movie. And the rumors about CmdrTaco having a red phone next to his bed with a direct line to George Lucas are all untrue. Face it, when it comes to Episodes II and III, we have as much knowledge about what Lucas will do with things like midi-chlorians and Jar Jar Binks as we could have guessed Darth Vader was Luke's father in 1978.
Obviously, the outrage here is the length to which this can be taken. Back in the day, would I have been libel for linking to 2600 because they then linked to DeCSS? For that matter, you could hold search engines that return responses to DeCSS links for not filtering out those pages. Hyperlinking is as much a form of constitutionally-protected speech as a journalist taking pictures of someone shooting heroin or a newspaper providing a map of an area known to have crackhouses. Simply because they point to some illegal act (perhaps easing someone's ability to break the law), cannot mean that the acts themselves are illegal. Hyperlinking is personal expression and ought to have the same constitutional protections as other speech.
Given Mr. Baker's stature, I'd say he's on everyone's short list.
When I first read this at TheForce.Net, I questioned both Baker's and the newspaper columnist's understanding of what Lucas was doing with Artoo in Episode II. From other articles, including the one of Artoo bungee-jumping, it was clear that Lucas had multiple Artoos down at Fox Studios in Australia. While it may be true that Baker won't be under the dome, I'd guess that the he was not replaced by a CGI Artoo, but an electronic one. In Ep I, when Artoo saved the Princess's ship, all the R2 Units were computer-generated, so the detail is obviously there.
Can what is formed say to that who formed it, "Why have you made me thus?"
Atlanta is perhaps the first major American metropolitan area to have growth unlimited by natural barriers. For the Olympics, the traffic infrastructure was nearly doubled and from 1996 to 1997, Atlanta was a fairly pleasant city to drive in. But the infrastructure facilitated an enormous suburban expansion and, once again, Atlanta has severe congestion.
In my experience as a web developer, this locking in usually results from poor site design and bad network administration. An older site of mine used a javascript redirect from the file that the DNS was pointing to into a subfolder where all the applications were. It got annoying because, like the article states, every time a visitor tried to hit back, it hit the main page again and got redirected again. I eventually just pulled all my files into a single directory to stop that annoyance. It was not a purposeful marketing tool, just an errant combo of site design and DNS.
I never actually played EverQuest but I did look into it pretty seriously this past summer. I had pretty much decided that it would become a huge time and money suck, and I never got hooked.
However, Verant and Sony are targeting the Star Wars Online game for 2001. I have a bad feeling about this. Right now, EQ has a subscriber base nearing 400,000 (someone can correct me on this) and while it takes all its ideas from the fantasy/role-play genre, it has its own "name"--no huge license, if you take my meaning.
Star Wars Online, on the other hand, could have an initial subscriber base approaching 400,000 and a much broader demographic than EQ, simply because of its name. Just think, in 2001, many will be going to see Meet Joe Black 2 simply to see the trailer for Ep II. The hype will probably be enormous (for the movie and the game). So, this move on Sony's part against the EQ real-life cash market can be seen as a pre-emptive strike against anything like this happening with SW Online, which would be a much blacker mark on Sony/Verant than anything dealing with Everquest. Be certain that this figured into the equation.
As for myself, if I am unmarried when SW Online comes out, I'm buying it. If I'm married, I'm sure I'll find some other pursuit. But who am I kidding, I'm posting to Slashdot...
In MacBeth, Shakespeare conjected, in the form of the witches prophecy, that Banquo (a Scotsman) would begin the lineage that would eventually lead to King James of England. Most people think that the Bard just made that up to appease the king, but DNA might serve to prove exactly how much King James I had of the Scottish royal lineage in him.