This isn't a reflection on their site, the entire NASDAQ is once again woefully out of line with reality. YHOO GOOG EBAY ASKJ etc are all looking at 50% sales in the next twenty four months.
The ad market for adsesne will eventually dry up, either through click fraud or through a recession that kills ad spending. As Yahoo figured out in 2000, ad spending is the first thing to go when times get tight...which invariably leads to calls for revenue diversification. Google will end up going the Yahoo route of charging fees for some services once they hit this patch. When you have to report revenue every quarter, telling investors to hold on until ad spending comes back just doesn't cut it.
By and large I have found the quality of articles to be quite good. Its incredible the range of topics covered in a short time. Truly a gem of the web.
It is simply illegal to pirate material, you cannot claim the user has "no right" since there are no international treaties that are binding which describes his "rights", and international trademarks don't count, they neither encompass nor approach the "right" to information.
In California, many of the highways are already "wired" - they can in fact tell you in real time how traffic is flowing in certain areas, and this info is available to the public.
If you assume it is stupid to pick harder classes, then you are assuming everyone's goal is laziness. If a person has a goal of learning interesting things, then it is not necessarily stupid to take a hard class.
When you apply to grad school, they don't know your profs from Adam or your courses from PSYC101. They are going to look at your GPA and your GMAT scores. Period. Yeah college is a place to learn but it would be hopelessly myopic and naive to think marks don't matter.
As it stands, I have marked undergrads when I was a TA in grad school and I can tell you that 99% of the students are more interested in a high mark than learning. Looking at the way the world works, who can blame them?
There is a time for learning for learnings sake - retirement. Thats why you periodically see those 65 year olds sitting in classes and soaking things up and not caring what their marks are.
When even in my own limited experience I get three profs to admit to screwing female students, you have to wonder how much of this is going on. More bizarro college dynamics...the girls don't feel too shamed because they see some fetish in screwing the older acedemic type...deemed mildly acceptable as a college experience.
From time to time you do get a normal human being lecturing you, but often you get an inhuman prick whose real mastery is in manipulating human emotions. I've watched a calculus prof reduce many female students to tears...and I'm thinking, what is it dude, a sexual thing? I mean, come on, show some dignity and respect for the students.
The problem is that many of the profs have no professional experience outside the academic realm. None. Amazing as it sounds, they go from graduate work to post-doc to the faculty lounge, all the while succesfully avoiding any opportunity to deal with people as equals...its always grovelling to someone or getting someone to grovel to you. Its no coincidence many sleep with their students, its often the only way they can get laid.
The dynamics of academic environments are truly absurd, I'm amazed more of them are not murdered.
Who signs up for hard classes in fourth year? Duh! You've practically got your degree. sit back, uncap a cold one and choose from the many many many easy courses every school offers to fourth year students.
Its well known that every college grinds out the poor students in the first two years...if you've made it to fourth year, its time to ladle up some gravy and bolster your GPA in time for grad school applications, resume bolstering, etc.
So the real moral is that the most intelligent students are the ones avoiding the course altogether. If you want to get an education in unix security holes, go read the OpenBSD mail archives.
At least they are recognizing someone else out there has more expertise than they do in this area. Its a win-win...Yahoo gets a competent codebase, and a small software firm gets a huge infusion of cash.
Although he tacitly endorsed Bush's Mars "plan", you could tell he treated the entire thing as an impossible lark, all talk, no action.
Lets see what happened on his watch - Hubbel was left to fend for itself, more money was poured into the money pit of ISS, and the X Prize totally stole the show.
NASA - get a mission people care about that can be realistically funded, or sign over the next twenty years to Burt Rhutan and company.
Most people *never* upgrade their operating system.
Completely wrong. Every Windows user who uses Windows Update has updated their core libraries on more than one occasion at least. So now we can say 95% of the world's desktop users have upgraded their OS.
Whoops, OSX also supports live updates.
Linux users get kernel upgrades through YUM. FreeBSD users "make world".
More to the point, is there even a 2% audience that does not trigger core OS lib updates in their OS of choice?
Your thinking is too myopic, you are simply projecting present industries on to new tech. Its unlikely that anyone will put NYTime editorials above any well-known blogger in the future. No one is going to be held captive by a editorial team that doesn't jive with their worldview. Get ready for ten thousand editorial blogs, more radical than mainstream in content (why moderate your writing when your audience can pick and drop you on a whim?)
Google News is probably the best vision we have today - dynamic, unbiased, algorithmic. When you can build your own "newspaper", why bother accepting anyone else's format?
This is more "stupid contrarianism" as is often evidenced on/.
In two decades this entire industry will be gone. Not one paper, the entire industry. And yes, by that time you will be able to view digital content at paper resolutions.
Why do people love papers so much anyway? Most just get stock AP and Reuters content and repackage it...there is a huge amount if repeated content.
Mostly they have become transport mechanisms for huge multipage ads.
My approach is to separate passwords into three zones: low, medium, high security. I always use an eight char passphrase with numbers and letters mixed. My zones work as follows:
Low: content sites like slashdot. I don't care if you get this passphrase, I will never change it.
Medium: logins for machine accounts, email and online shopping sites. I care somewhat if this is known, and I will change it yearly.
High: financial sites - bank and brokerage. I care deeply that this phrase is secure, and it is changed once a month no matter what.
Red Hat doesn't seem to be having any problems attracting and keeping customers. Its price point is well within the range of customers who need serious support.
I think its understood that RHEL is a premium distro with service behind the name...Red Hat will change its pricing when the market fails to respond to it product and services. Maybe Novell can bring the necessary competition to bear...or maybe they will try to support the same high price points and margins.
The US consumer lives at the whims of Asian Central Bankers who buy dollars to keep their own preferred export market alive. This is why you see people freaking out about the dollar dropping - they are afraid the US's "bankers" will cash out.
A PayPal ID has a means behind it to actually verify your ID - the credit ID system. I see no way in which INames ensures that the person holding an ID is...anyone. Since there is no verifiability behind the ID (and no penalty for misuse), this is already DOA. With a PayPal-style account, you can leverage the entire industry of identity theft tracking and misuse-penalizing via the credit industry (i.e., hit em in the wallet)
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No a recession is clearly defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. That has not happened since 2000.
This isn't a reflection on their site, the entire NASDAQ is once again woefully out of line with reality. YHOO GOOG EBAY ASKJ etc are all looking at 50% sales in the next twenty four months.
I like Google too but come on, they are rolling out services other sites have had for years.
The ad market for adsesne will eventually dry up, either through click fraud or through a recession that kills ad spending. As Yahoo figured out in 2000, ad spending is the first thing to go when times get tight...which invariably leads to calls for revenue diversification. Google will end up going the Yahoo route of charging fees for some services once they hit this patch. When you have to report revenue every quarter, telling investors to hold on until ad spending comes back just doesn't cut it.
Welcome to 1997!!!
By and large I have found the quality of articles to be quite good. Its incredible the range of topics covered in a short time. Truly a gem of the web.
Slate, Salon, etc have all been displaced by blogs which are a much better venue for partisan punditry.
It is simply illegal to pirate material, you cannot claim the user has "no right" since there are no international treaties that are binding which describes his "rights", and international trademarks don't count, they neither encompass nor approach the "right" to information.
Yet the same people completely missed portable MP3 players, VOIP, etc etc
In California, many of the highways are already "wired" - they can in fact tell you in real time how traffic is flowing in certain areas, and this info is available to the public.
When you apply to grad school, they don't know your profs from Adam or your courses from PSYC101. They are going to look at your GPA and your GMAT scores. Period. Yeah college is a place to learn but it would be hopelessly myopic and naive to think marks don't matter.
As it stands, I have marked undergrads when I was a TA in grad school and I can tell you that 99% of the students are more interested in a high mark than learning. Looking at the way the world works, who can blame them?
There is a time for learning for learnings sake - retirement. Thats why you periodically see those 65 year olds sitting in classes and soaking things up and not caring what their marks are.
When even in my own limited experience I get three profs to admit to screwing female students, you have to wonder how much of this is going on. More bizarro college dynamics...the girls don't feel too shamed because they see some fetish in screwing the older acedemic type...deemed mildly acceptable as a college experience.
The problem is that many of the profs have no professional experience outside the academic realm. None. Amazing as it sounds, they go from graduate work to post-doc to the faculty lounge, all the while succesfully avoiding any opportunity to deal with people as equals...its always grovelling to someone or getting someone to grovel to you. Its no coincidence many sleep with their students, its often the only way they can get laid.
The dynamics of academic environments are truly absurd, I'm amazed more of them are not murdered.
Its well known that every college grinds out the poor students in the first two years...if you've made it to fourth year, its time to ladle up some gravy and bolster your GPA in time for grad school applications, resume bolstering, etc.
So the real moral is that the most intelligent students are the ones avoiding the course altogether. If you want to get an education in unix security holes, go read the OpenBSD mail archives.
At least they are recognizing someone else out there has more expertise than they do in this area. Its a win-win...Yahoo gets a competent codebase, and a small software firm gets a huge infusion of cash.
Lets see what happened on his watch - Hubbel was left to fend for itself, more money was poured into the money pit of ISS, and the X Prize totally stole the show.
NASA - get a mission people care about that can be realistically funded, or sign over the next twenty years to Burt Rhutan and company.
Completely wrong. Every Windows user who uses Windows Update has updated their core libraries on more than one occasion at least. So now we can say 95% of the world's desktop users have upgraded their OS.
Whoops, OSX also supports live updates.
Linux users get kernel upgrades through YUM. FreeBSD users "make world".
More to the point, is there even a 2% audience that does not trigger core OS lib updates in their OS of choice?
Google News is probably the best vision we have today - dynamic, unbiased, algorithmic. When you can build your own "newspaper", why bother accepting anyone else's format?
In two decades this entire industry will be gone. Not one paper, the entire industry. And yes, by that time you will be able to view digital content at paper resolutions.
Why do people love papers so much anyway? Most just get stock AP and Reuters content and repackage it...there is a huge amount if repeated content.
Mostly they have become transport mechanisms for huge multipage ads.
Low: content sites like slashdot. I don't care if you get this passphrase, I will never change it.
Medium: logins for machine accounts, email and online shopping sites. I care somewhat if this is known, and I will change it yearly.
High: financial sites - bank and brokerage. I care deeply that this phrase is secure, and it is changed once a month no matter what.
Hit the treadmill for a 35 minute 10k and you will skip the iPod. Every Time.
I think its understood that RHEL is a premium distro with service behind the name...Red Hat will change its pricing when the market fails to respond to it product and services. Maybe Novell can bring the necessary competition to bear...or maybe they will try to support the same high price points and margins.
The US consumer lives at the whims of Asian Central Bankers who buy dollars to keep their own preferred export market alive. This is why you see people freaking out about the dollar dropping - they are afraid the US's "bankers" will cash out.
A PayPal ID has a means behind it to actually verify your ID - the credit ID system. I see no way in which INames ensures that the person holding an ID is...anyone. Since there is no verifiability behind the ID (and no penalty for misuse), this is already DOA. With a PayPal-style account, you can leverage the entire industry of identity theft tracking and misuse-penalizing via the credit industry (i.e., hit em in the wallet)
How come I cannot export filters from one installation of Thunderbird to another? Thats a gimme.