My fiance' owns Sun stock. After reading this article, she's decided to sell off all of her remaining shares. Why? Simple. She doesn't want to have anything to do with a company who openly desires to shaft people like her soon-to-be husband. You guys might want to think about doing the same. Ask yourself, do you hold stock in a company that wants to shaft you in the same fashion? If so, why are you helping them ream you?
Companies suffering from H1-B Syndrome will begin with an IT department
staffed with skilled, educated American workers who know what they're doing,
and take pride in their work. They are payed well, happy, and loyal to the
company.
Once they get everything working to perfection, a shithead beancounter
upstairs who can't tell the difference between a server and a refrigerator
decides it would be "cost effective" to replace the American IT workers with
a sixpack of Hindus who will work for $0.38 cents an hour.
A shithead Department Manager, sensing his opportunity to make it big, will
get wind of this from the beancounter, pinkslip his workers, and hand over
the keys to the sixpack of Hindus half a world away who could give two fucks
less than half a rats ass about doing the job right.
Meanwhile, the executives upstairs will shout "This will save the company
millions!!" and pat eachother on the back for thinking of it . They'll go
home early, buy another minivan, and take the kids to Disneyworld.
Over the next 6 months, the Hindus on the other side of the planet slowly
fuck everything up to the point where the company's systems are on the virge
of collapse. They aren't held accountable for their actions, so they drop
their service contracts and move on to the next dumb-ass American company
who thinks outsourcing their IT staff is a good idea.
The executives get home from Disneyworld and discover this, so they fire the
guy who suggested the Hindus, and fire the Department Manager that OK'ed it.
Meanwhile, they work on calling the original American workers back in to fix
the problem.
The American workers then scramble to fix the mess that the $0.38/hr Hindus
left behind, trying desparately to meet the company's deadline in the hope
that if they do so, they can stay employed at the company. Six months later,
the new Project Manager will complain to the new Department Manager that the
project is behind schedule and over budget. So the new Department Manager
picks up the phone, pushes a few buttons, and calls up the beancounter (who
STILL doesn't know shit about IT ) asking for a way to be more "cost-effective".
Well, new ideas have to come from somewhere.:) Often times you have to create new words for things, else suffer the humilation of having to use 33-character long irregular German pronouns to explain simple concepts.:)
"content/data refinery" does it for me.:) And hey, it mixes well with "data mining".:)
Yeah. You raise a good point. If the act of binding the hell out of everything, and leaving breadcrumbs to and from everything is prohibited, the whole idea is moot.
The web just seems so fluffy and murky by comparrison, even with it's comparably weak collection of bindings.
The highlighting process would be open, i'd imagine. Any attempt at skewing the definition of "useful" would eventually decay as people elect to discard it. If 20 judges give a score of 9.9, its meaningless if 20,000 give a score of 0.
Theres really no need for AI, although it smells suspiciously like it might. The act of selection itself should leave breadcrumbs behind. A little sticker on a piece of data that said "Of 10,342 visitors who picked up this chunk of data, 9,203 actually found it useful."...A well-worn path for future searches.
Think about how people do it. When people prospect for gold, they first go to places where there are A) rumors of gold being found, and B) places reasonably predicted to contain gold. Work begins, digging into the side of a mountain until a vein is discovered. From there, as years go by, a well worn path between the refinery and the mountain is formed, from endless carts and people who have visited it over time.
Same thing, really. Mountain = gigantic pile of data, Gold = useful data. Refinery = our little browser replacement, ala a "content refinery".
1) Unionize. 2) Write your congressmen. Tell them to back legislation which caps the percentage of foreign workers that companies are allowed to have to a level which doesn't weaken our own fucking economy.
I, for one, went from making $24 an hour, to $19 an hour, to not being able to find work for close to a year now. This, with 10 years Unix experience, 7 years Linux experience, hardcore SAN experience, a number of different languages, half a dozen certifications and numerous publishing credits under my belt.
At this point, I could make more money panhandling. A typical homeless beggar makes $110-$115 a day here in Tucson. $110-115 a day, while people like me cant find a fucking job.
India is not the 51st State. So why are we giving THEM handouts?
"Metabrowser" is probably a bad choice of words. Partly because the term "metabrowser" already exists, it's a bit different than what I just described above.:)
To coin a phrase, lets go with "content refinery".:)
By 2013, I *hope* we will do away with browsers. Literally.
My thought is, the conventional web browser will eventually be replaced by something I like to refer to as a "metabrowser"... In other words, we don't really actively *surf* anymore, but rather, we swim through a series of content-rich pages generated by the browser itself, based on information transparently gathered from actual sources behind the scenes, and appearing in a format that I like to see things in. I don't want to see something prepared in a format someone else likes. I want to see it how I like it.
How is this going to be accomplished? Well, take Google as a crude engine model. For any particular subject you search for on Google, the top 5 or so pages that Google suggests to you carry (on average) about 40% of the total information payload you're looking for. The sort of searches you embark on have usually been done by hundreds of people before you. If there was a way to earmark at-a-glance how useful a particular piece of information is, then you could begin ranking specific *reigons* of content, not simply the pages themselves. Think of a browser with a highlighter pen. Wherever you go, you can use the highlighter pen to say "this is useful, the rest is crap", and that annotation (as well as the aggregate of other peoples annotations) are stored along with the document. When viewed from this perspective, irrelevant information falls into obscurity while important information rises to the top.
A metabrowser's task is to compile only that *useful* information, based on those annotations made by others in the past, combined with your own preferences. Think of it as a P2P utility for search parameters. What worked for you is shared amongst thousands of other people. Its not so much the page itself anymore, but what hotspots of that page are useful. Web browsers in 2003 are just machines for extracting the ore out of a mine. I want a device that extracts ore, refines it, and poops out a gold brick within 10 seconds.
I also see the possibility of "temporal browsing", i.e. you can see what Slashdot looks like today, yesterday, or back on February 19th '06 if you want. Why not? So much data just spills into oblivion for no reason, why not find a way to keep it around? Why not store webpage content the same way frames of a movie are stored, simply as a delta of the last keyframe?
I want to be able to "drill down" in a webpage to find the origin of a particular piece of information. I don't want to take 31337 h4x0r b0y's word for it.
Massive amounts of content are meaningless without a proper way of indexing it all. We need to build bindings. Everywhere.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112 Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
Everything you need to know, step by step, can be found here.... I've been building AA/TrueType support into Mozilla for a while now, and I have no idea why it's not enabled by default, or why others don't config their builds to do the same. Mozilla looks like absolute shit without smooth fonts.
Additionally, you can find a webcam movie of me eating a donut by clicking the link below.
Funny, I'm not the one posting anonymous.. Just you.
In which case, I have no proof that you're not my obsessed fan/stalker, so...
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112 Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
Releasing his personal information is the only thing that shuts him up and makes him crawl back into his hovel. The guy has been following me for years.
Hahaha.. Now I *know* you're insane. My name isn't Robert. Incase you hadn't noticed, my name is Bowie.
Anyway, why don't you just stop stalking me? I only post your personal information in response to your stalking. You stop stalking, and I have no reason to post your information. You're basically causing your own misery, dumbass. Speaking of which..theres a new version of said message. And since you trolled...
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
This person is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development 2139 Old Highway 5 South, and.. 637 Riverside Dr. Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States Tel: (706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
They'd be making the right decision in pulling out of UL. From my own personal experience working _at_ IBM, I can tell you first hand the commitment they have towards the Linux community is very real. Conversely, I don't think the Linux community has anything to fear by putting their support behind Big Blue.
Its pretty obvious that SCO's recent "Hail Mary" play is falling flat on its face..Rather than adapt their business model, they're executing one last, desparate attempt to stay in business without a viable customer pool.
Sad, when you get down to it. The suits at SCO are going to run that company into the ground.
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Hi. Please shut the hell up.
The "Hindu Race" doesn't need you as its spokesman, you jackass.
My fiance' owns Sun stock. After reading this article, she's decided to sell off all of her remaining shares. Why? Simple. She doesn't want to have anything to do with a company who openly desires to shaft people like her soon-to-be husband. You guys might want to think about doing the same. Ask yourself, do you hold stock in a company that wants to shaft you in the same fashion? If so, why are you helping them ream you?
Well, everybody knows the "indian race" would be deeply hurt those comments. :)
The H1-B Syndrome
==================
Companies suffering from H1-B Syndrome will begin with an IT department
staffed with skilled, educated American workers who know what they're doing,
and take pride in their work. They are payed well, happy, and loyal to the
company.
Once they get everything working to perfection, a shithead beancounter
upstairs who can't tell the difference between a server and a refrigerator
decides it would be "cost effective" to replace the American IT workers with
a sixpack of Hindus who will work for $0.38 cents an hour.
A shithead Department Manager, sensing his opportunity to make it big, will
get wind of this from the beancounter, pinkslip his workers, and hand over
the keys to the sixpack of Hindus half a world away who could give two fucks
less than half a rats ass about doing the job right.
Meanwhile, the executives upstairs will shout "This will save the company
millions!!" and pat eachother on the back for thinking of it . They'll go
home early, buy another minivan, and take the kids to Disneyworld.
Over the next 6 months, the Hindus on the other side of the planet slowly
fuck everything up to the point where the company's systems are on the virge
of collapse. They aren't held accountable for their actions, so they drop
their service contracts and move on to the next dumb-ass American company
who thinks outsourcing their IT staff is a good idea.
The executives get home from Disneyworld and discover this, so they fire the
guy who suggested the Hindus, and fire the Department Manager that OK'ed it.
Meanwhile, they work on calling the original American workers back in to fix
the problem.
The American workers then scramble to fix the mess that the $0.38/hr Hindus
left behind, trying desparately to meet the company's deadline in the hope
that if they do so, they can stay employed at the company. Six months later,
the new Project Manager will complain to the new Department Manager that the
project is behind schedule and over budget. So the new Department Manager
picks up the phone, pushes a few buttons, and calls up the beancounter (who
STILL doesn't know shit about IT ) asking for a way to be more "cost-effective".
Lather, rinse, repeat.
My Inspiron 3700 is a couple years old, and has a heat pipe & braid.. So what gives?
Now wait just a darn minute here..
Using color to reflect the state of an object?
Color-reactiveness?
Oh wait, thats only for insane people!
A hotspot of data is no more a "link" than a pointer is an array, good sir. :)
By hotspot, i'm referring to a specific reigon of text, not another entire page that could or could not be useful at all.
:)
:) Often times you have to create new words for things, else suffer the humilation of having to use 33-character long irregular German pronouns to explain simple concepts. :)
:) And hey, it mixes well with "data mining". :)
Well, new ideas have to come from somewhere.
"content/data refinery" does it for me.
Yeah. You raise a good point. If the act of binding the hell out of everything, and leaving breadcrumbs to and from everything is prohibited, the whole idea is moot.
The web just seems so fluffy and murky by comparrison, even with it's comparably weak collection of bindings.
The highlighting process would be open, i'd imagine. Any attempt at skewing the definition of "useful" would eventually decay as people elect to discard it. If 20 judges give a score of 9.9, its meaningless if 20,000 give a score of 0.
A good question, sir.
Theres really no need for AI, although it smells suspiciously like it might. The act of selection itself should leave breadcrumbs behind. A little sticker on a piece of data that said "Of 10,342 visitors who picked up this chunk of data, 9,203 actually found it useful."
Think about how people do it. When people prospect for gold, they first go to places where there are A) rumors of gold being found, and B) places reasonably predicted to contain gold. Work begins, digging into the side of a mountain until a vein is discovered. From there, as years go by, a well worn path between the refinery and the mountain is formed, from endless carts and people who have visited it over time.
Same thing, really. Mountain = gigantic pile of data, Gold = useful data. Refinery = our little browser replacement, ala a "content refinery".
1) Unionize.
2) Write your congressmen. Tell them to back legislation which caps the percentage of foreign workers that companies are allowed to have to a level which doesn't weaken our own fucking economy.
I, for one, went from making $24 an hour, to $19 an hour, to not being able to find work for close to a year now. This, with 10 years Unix experience, 7 years Linux experience, hardcore SAN experience, a number of different languages, half a dozen certifications and numerous publishing credits under my belt.
At this point, I could make more money panhandling. A typical homeless beggar makes $110-$115 a day here in Tucson. $110-115 a day, while people like me cant find a fucking job.
India is not the 51st State. So why are we giving THEM handouts?
A few corrections:
:)
:)
"Metabrowser" is probably a bad choice of words. Partly because the term "metabrowser" already exists, it's a bit different than what I just described above.
To coin a phrase, lets go with "content refinery".
By 2013, I *hope* we will do away with browsers. Literally.
My thought is, the conventional web browser will eventually be replaced by something I like to refer to as a "metabrowser"... In other words, we don't really actively *surf* anymore, but rather, we swim through a series of content-rich pages generated by the browser itself, based on information transparently gathered from actual sources behind the scenes, and appearing in a format that I like to see things in. I don't want to see something prepared in a format someone else likes. I want to see it how I like it.
How is this going to be accomplished? Well, take Google as a crude engine model. For any particular subject you search for on Google, the top 5 or so pages that Google suggests to you carry (on average) about 40% of the total information payload you're looking for. The sort of searches you embark on have usually been done by hundreds of people before you. If there was a way to earmark at-a-glance how useful a particular piece of information is, then you could begin ranking specific *reigons* of content, not simply the pages themselves. Think of a browser with a highlighter pen. Wherever you go, you can use the highlighter pen to say "this is useful, the rest is crap", and that annotation (as well as the aggregate of other peoples annotations) are stored along with the document. When viewed from this perspective, irrelevant information falls into obscurity while important information rises to the top.
A metabrowser's task is to compile only that *useful* information, based on those annotations made by others in the past, combined with your own preferences. Think of it as a P2P utility for search parameters. What worked for you is shared amongst thousands of other people. Its not so much the page itself anymore, but what hotspots of that page are useful. Web browsers in 2003 are just machines for extracting the ore out of a mine. I want a device that extracts ore, refines it, and poops out a gold brick within 10 seconds.
I also see the possibility of "temporal browsing", i.e. you can see what Slashdot looks like today, yesterday, or back on February 19th '06 if you want. Why not? So much data just spills into oblivion for no reason, why not find a way to keep it around? Why not store webpage content the same way frames of a movie are stored, simply as a delta of the last keyframe?
I want to be able to "drill down" in a webpage to find the origin of a particular piece of information. I don't want to take 31337 h4x0r b0y's word for it.
Massive amounts of content are meaningless without a proper way of indexing it all. We need to build bindings. Everywhere.
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
Everything you need to know, step by step, can be found here.... I've been building AA/TrueType support into Mozilla for a while now, and I have no idea why it's not enabled by default, or why others don't config their builds to do the same. Mozilla looks like absolute shit without smooth fonts.
Additionally, you can find a webcam movie of me eating a donut by clicking the link below.
Funny, I'm not the one posting anonymous.. Just you.
In which case, I have no proof that you're not my obsessed fan/stalker, so...
The previous comment/troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Scott McDaniel is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
You don't know the half of it.
Releasing his personal information is the only thing that shuts him up and makes him crawl back into his hovel. The guy has been following me for years.
Hahaha.. Now I *know* you're insane. My name isn't Robert. Incase you hadn't noticed, my name is Bowie.
Anyway, why don't you just stop stalking me? I only post your personal information in response to your stalking. You stop stalking, and I have no reason to post your information. You're basically causing your own misery, dumbass. Speaking of which..theres a new version of said message. And since you trolled...
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
This person is my stalker. He has attempted to harass me for several years now. He lives with his mother, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to harass me, another copy of his personal information will be posted immediately afterward. Releaisng his personal information has been an effective deterrant to his behavior.
That last troll was posted by:
McDaniel, Scott mcdev@mcdev.com, pipebomb@pipebomb.net
McDaniel Development
2139 Old Highway 5 South, and..
637 Riverside Dr.
Ellijay, Georgia 30540, United States
Tel: (706) 698-5112
Feel free to call this troll. He's lives with his mom, and that's her voice in the answering machine message. Every time Mr. McDaniel decides to troll, another copy of his personal info will be posted immediately afterward.
They'd be making the right decision in pulling out of UL. From my own personal experience working _at_ IBM, I can tell you first hand the commitment they have towards the Linux community is very real. Conversely, I don't think the Linux community has anything to fear by putting their support behind Big Blue.
Its pretty obvious that SCO's recent "Hail Mary" play is falling flat on its face..Rather than adapt their business model, they're executing one last, desparate attempt to stay in business without a viable customer pool.
Sad, when you get down to it. The suits at SCO are going to run that company into the ground.
You must see me eat a donut. It's remarkable.
Click the link below.
I've never seen a person get so defensive over a vibrator. Wow.
Nope, sorry.
Where I come from, "free" means $0.
I pay $0 for local phone service.
Keep trying tho. I'm still holding out a little hope that it'll click with you one of these days... You know, that you're an idiot?
Actually, no, i'm not. I live in Tucson. Local phone service is free.
I guess that makes you an idiot.