Agreed, pagerank will not on its own lead you to the *best* content, but I offer that the absolutely worthless blogs will never have any pagerank of worth. So its one tool.
Metamoderation is also important, and by that I really mean who else reads the blog and possibly comments.
Thats the power of blogging and the weakness of blogging.
If you can use relevance algorithms you can find the good content, and that content has been the power behind a great deal of breaking news and commentary this year.
PageRank can serve as a de facto reputation system, combined with tools like Slash's own metamoderation.
In any case the death of large, centralized corporate media has been long overdue, our so-called bastions of truth have become nothing more than apologists for the status quo, be it in govt or business.
IMs and blogs are even crappier knowledge stores than primitive email client folder formats.
You're telling me the most savvy users are transacting information with the lossiest clients? That they huddle over cramped phone screens instead of email clients? BS.
The Barrett era at Intel has been an unbroken string of failures. I fault the Intel board for not having the guts to purge him. The problem is, at any tech company, it is impossible to make painful (but necessary) cuts when the stock is going up. Everyone's attitude is "hey, we're making money, why rock the boat?"
Even marketshare and technology takes a back seat to obsession over the closing price of the stock...this is what you get for obsessing over the very short term.
Microsoft has essentially turned into a replacement parts business for Windows and Office - adoption of new PCs at home and at work has normalized, new business is flat. Many of their new ventures are flat, ROI negative, or true money losers.
Having a drop-in replacement for Office is critical to attacking their core replacement parts business.
Kudos by the way to AbiWord and Gnumeric, two excellent programs that are native GNOME apps today.
Move over Britain, your former penal colony is attempting to usurp your position a little yip dog fawning over the big lumbering hound. I haven't seen Australia manifest one national opinion independent of the US status quo in over two years. What has happened there?
I agree that one must keep some social distance. You may be forced to crack down on team members at some point or disappoint them in some manner, and its going to be much harder to do if you are drinking buddies.
It pains me to say it, but polite but distant seems to be the safest mask to wear in the office.
Because he is right. You can't wrap a broken tool to make a fixed tool. Its better to start with one single tool that works and make it pervasive in the system. That is why a/ports is installable on every FreeBSD box.
The problem with any of these wrappers is that they are trying to solve an intractable problem - making all package systems play together. Its been tried.
Tried and failed?
Tried and died.
The wrapper app simply doesn't know what the imported packages are going to do to each other. At least in a single-source scheme, the manager of the repository can confirm that all packages on their servers play nice with each other. The same can't be said across all package managers and repositories. People will get segfaulting binaries, missing files, versionitis, etc etc etc until utlimately they will reinstall the OS and vow never to touch a metapackage tool again.
Its you who are mistaken, not us. What we see is a wrapper on a wrapper. What we see is a setup that is bound to create instability and broken package trees. What we see is a metapackaging scheme when what we really need is a unipackaging scheme.
These lists are cobbled up to unload excess inventory on easily duped consumers. Come on folks, this is Retailing 101.
You do not understand server farms at all
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You should not be commenting on scenarios you do not understand. My company uses over 20k (yes thousand) PC servers (gee, two guesses) and there is a lot more to it than uptime and horsepower. Disks fail. Networks get flooded with crap packets and DOS attacks. NICs get flooded with outbound traffic.
There are REASONS people use massively redundant arrays of rack PCs. Do you think we have these setups just because the first PC is cheap?
I can say Sun's stock fell 95% after 2000. You can say its up 60%. But the percentages are window dressing - in real dollar terms SUNW has been a money furnace. And don't tell me about their cash reserves - a company like Sun can only get by for about four years on $10 billion.
In any case if you think 60% is good, wait until it is a penny stock, then you will be able to watch it flail around for +/-80% daily swings like United AirLines and other DeadFish(tm).
You would force people to live in a certain place, i.e. a densely populated urban area?
Yeah, because people are being forced at gunpoint to live in places like Manhattan, when in fact they would all love to live in Orange County or Atlanta if they could just escape!
Agree 100% and so do many policy formulators. It is now understood that expanded highways only create sprawl, reduce urban density and create a larger future need for even bigger highways. The car and sprawl go hand in hand, look at any large California metropolitan area from a plane window. Unfortunately this same sprawl makes it almost impossible to implement useful public transit.
No, that's not the problem at all. The problem is no one wants to pay for new highway construction
At least in the Bay Area of California (a famous traffic nightmare zone), this is totally false. Highway projects are fully funded by ballot measures and in fact run a small surplus. In fact a specific decision has been made in the Bay Area to stop expanding highways because this is just increasing sprawl, which leads to more traffic...which leads to more sprawl...yada yada.
There are just too many people coming into these areas too quickly.
Sorry, even the Federal govt has concluded in its own studies that immigration is outpacing construction of roads and bridges in major metropolitan areas. The birth rate in this nation is not what is behind the explosive US population growth, and this is fact, not opinion.
Look, I am not "ripping" on immigrants to the US - I AM ONE. I am just saying that the we are adding people to major metropolitan areas faster than we can erect the infrastructure they need.
Drive around any large city these days, its total chaos. Jams used to be the exclusive domain of California, now they are in any city of a half million or more.
Having automated transport systems removing the human (idiot) factor will be essential to prevent utter gridlock in the future. The only other alternative is to stop immigrating people faster than we can expand the infrastructure they use. Yes this ultimately is the problem - highway construction cannot keep pace with US population growth.
I think its a given that everyone hopes that in a century, we will be able to effectively and safely deal with this material...BUT, what if the US is no longer a nation? What if there is some other cataclysm that sets back humanity a few thousand years? What if this new tech doesn't arrive or simply isn't implemented by future generations? Thats why you have to build this site to last, its just to dangerous to underengineer it.
There is opposition to Yucca. There are alternatives to Yucca. There are better techniques than those used at Yucca.
It doesn't matter, Yucca is a done deal. There hasn't been any indication the govt is backing off of the Yucca plan, any talk now is just pissing in the wind.
Enron? WorldCom? Halliburton? Pacific Gas and Electric Company?
Firstly, PGE is quasi-governmental, so you are only proving my point.
WorldCom, Enron?...
Not even a shadow of the government graft. Not even 10% long term. It took us three years to uncover WorldCom's graft....in a century the govt still operates like a robber baron without restraint.
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Metamoderation is also important, and by that I really mean who else reads the blog and possibly comments.
Thats the power of blogging and the weakness of blogging.
If you can use relevance algorithms you can find the good content, and that content has been the power behind a great deal of breaking news and commentary this year.
PageRank can serve as a de facto reputation system, combined with tools like Slash's own metamoderation.
In any case the death of large, centralized corporate media has been long overdue, our so-called bastions of truth have become nothing more than apologists for the status quo, be it in govt or business.
You're telling me the most savvy users are transacting information with the lossiest clients? That they huddle over cramped phone screens instead of email clients? BS.
Even marketshare and technology takes a back seat to obsession over the closing price of the stock...this is what you get for obsessing over the very short term.
Yes.
Having a drop-in replacement for Office is critical to attacking their core replacement parts business.
Kudos by the way to AbiWord and Gnumeric, two excellent programs that are native GNOME apps today.
Move over Britain, your former penal colony is attempting to usurp your position a little yip dog fawning over the big lumbering hound. I haven't seen Australia manifest one national opinion independent of the US status quo in over two years. What has happened there?
It pains me to say it, but polite but distant seems to be the safest mask to wear in the office.
Because he is right. You can't wrap a broken tool to make a fixed tool. Its better to start with one single tool that works and make it pervasive in the system. That is why a /ports is installable on every FreeBSD box.
Tried and failed?
Tried and died.
The wrapper app simply doesn't know what the imported packages are going to do to each other. At least in a single-source scheme, the manager of the repository can confirm that all packages on their servers play nice with each other. The same can't be said across all package managers and repositories. People will get segfaulting binaries, missing files, versionitis, etc etc etc until utlimately they will reinstall the OS and vow never to touch a metapackage tool again.
Its you who are mistaken, not us. What we see is a wrapper on a wrapper. What we see is a setup that is bound to create instability and broken package trees. What we see is a metapackaging scheme when what we really need is a unipackaging scheme.
These lists are cobbled up to unload excess inventory on easily duped consumers. Come on folks, this is Retailing 101.
There are REASONS people use massively redundant arrays of rack PCs. Do you think we have these setups just because the first PC is cheap?
In any case if you think 60% is good, wait until it is a penny stock, then you will be able to watch it flail around for +/-80% daily swings like United AirLines and other DeadFish(tm).
Yeah, because people are being forced at gunpoint to live in places like Manhattan, when in fact they would all love to live in Orange County or Atlanta if they could just escape!
Agree 100% and so do many policy formulators. It is now understood that expanded highways only create sprawl, reduce urban density and create a larger future need for even bigger highways. The car and sprawl go hand in hand, look at any large California metropolitan area from a plane window. Unfortunately this same sprawl makes it almost impossible to implement useful public transit.
At least in the Bay Area of California (a famous traffic nightmare zone), this is totally false. Highway projects are fully funded by ballot measures and in fact run a small surplus. In fact a specific decision has been made in the Bay Area to stop expanding highways because this is just increasing sprawl, which leads to more traffic...which leads to more sprawl...yada yada.
There are just too many people coming into these areas too quickly.
Look, I am not "ripping" on immigrants to the US - I AM ONE. I am just saying that the we are adding people to major metropolitan areas faster than we can erect the infrastructure they need.
Having automated transport systems removing the human (idiot) factor will be essential to prevent utter gridlock in the future. The only other alternative is to stop immigrating people faster than we can expand the infrastructure they use. Yes this ultimately is the problem - highway construction cannot keep pace with US population growth.
I think its a given that everyone hopes that in a century, we will be able to effectively and safely deal with this material...BUT, what if the US is no longer a nation? What if there is some other cataclysm that sets back humanity a few thousand years? What if this new tech doesn't arrive or simply isn't implemented by future generations? Thats why you have to build this site to last, its just to dangerous to underengineer it.
It doesn't matter, Yucca is a done deal. There hasn't been any indication the govt is backing off of the Yucca plan, any talk now is just pissing in the wind.
How do fighter escorts protect against ground-launched anti-plane missiles?
Honestly, can you think of an easier target?
Firstly, PGE is quasi-governmental, so you are only proving my point.
WorldCom, Enron?... Not even a shadow of the government graft. Not even 10% long term. It took us three years to uncover WorldCom's graft....in a century the govt still operates like a robber baron without restraint.
This will turn into another pork project that pays out nicely in round one than is forgotten, underfunded, and administered by DMV rejects.