Yeah, there are some problems with webapps, but fat clients aren't a nirvana, either.
For one, here's a common scenario: The fat client is based on a client-server setup where you have the fat clients communicating with a database server. And the password for the database is embedded within the client. Which means every user also full access to the database if he wants.
Secondly, if you've hardcoded the DB password, it's also permanent, which is obviously bad.
You might say, that's not a good way to program a fat client, and I'd agree with you, but that's what happens in practice.
And if Aliyun fails to run an Android application, customers will see Aliyun as bad, and the platform will not prosper. Problem solved. Why does Google have to play nanny?
I mean, what practical effect exactly do the fine tolerances have? That you can get from one stoplight to the next faster?
Well, you can't get there faster than the speed limit, so, again, so what?
Or, if it has no practical benefit, but rather it's more a matter of "I can afford it", that's fine, too, please state that. In that case, it would fall into the same category as fine china vs. normal dishware, silver vs. steel utensils, expensive wooden doors, "rich Corinthian leather" vs. fabric seats.
A useful question might be: When did Facebook, Google, and other startups incorporate?
Marc Zuckerburg, at one point, was just hacking PHP in his dorm. So, at what point did he incorporate? While still in the dorm? If so, how did he separate the personal and the corporate?
Same for Page & Brin starting out in the Stanford dorms.
And how did that affect the questions we're talking about?
An interesting area of tax law is how you handle assets that you take into the corporation.
Let's say you've have a great startup idea, and you've already bought a few laptops for yourself and your crew, a fileserver or two, RAID disks, network gear, dual WAN router, desk, chairs, and other capital expenses.
OK, now when you incorporate, you want to bring that stuff into the corporation, right? So, how is that handled? When the corporation gets stuff, it has to give something in return, right?
Otherwise, it would be a gift, and the taxman doesn't like those, either.
How much depreciation you get? How much depreciation does the corp get?
There used to be a time when people were constantly looking toward bigger monitor sizes so they could design their web pages to take advantage of the additional space.
For some reason, this march has stopped at 1024px, or 960px plus margins. (Actually, I know the reason: it's because people don't know that you can resize your browser to whatever you like: wide, narrow, medium. So the web designer sizes the page for you. Same reason they have font big/small icons on webpages: people don't know about Ctrl+=)
I'd have said that's bad, but there's another reason why it sort of works: You need additional space on the margins because when you increase the text size a few times to get readable text, the page width increases.
Well, on the one hand you have hard-core, sciency patents
and on the other you have
-some software-based GUI stuff which many high-schoolers and probably almost all comsci grads could do -some design cues taken from others -patenting the real inventor of the touchpad's invention (the Knight-Ridder professor)
Back in the day (say, 2008 as in the article), if you wanted to buy a server, you'd buy one from the big three.
These days, especially with FB and Google leading the way on commodity hardware, it's a different story.
So what should you get for your first server. I.e., you're a small company. You've got a couple of laptops. You're outgrowing mutual Samba.
You maybe want a fileserver. Maybe it'll have a few NICs and a virtual machine on it (Xen?) will do double duty as a external webserver.
So, Core i3, i5, Xeon? Number of processor cores? Forget fast drives, and just buy a lot of memory? Rack? Or tower?
Lockable front (so people can't just come by and reset it)? Hotplug harddrives? (You don't go this if you go the Google build-your-own route.) Redundant hard drives and ECC memory? Or a couple different commodity-style servers + sharding/rsync?
Is a big 3 server worth it? Or search for your own server case + server power supply, etc.?
I'm not sure about 30,000, but the rich are certainly buying many thousands of times as much stuff as the average person. Have you seen a picture of Bill Gates' house? Larry Ellison's yacht?
Malthus thought population would continue to increase geometrically forever. Turns out that's not true. For whatever reason, people, usually when they reach a certain economic level -- or increasingly even if they don't, drop their total fertility rate to 2, or even less.
So, far from overpopulation, we may be worrying about extinction due to people not caring enough to reproduce themselves in the future.
The average total fertility rate in the European Union (EU-27) has been calculated at 1.59 children per woman in 2009.[9]
In the non-EU European post-Soviet states group, Russia has a TFR of 1.61 children per woman[10], Belarus 1.47.[11]
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Of course Google wouldn't support a phone that has gApps removed.
The question is: Is it legitimate for G to force Acer to not develop Aliyun phones? ("You can't be friends with me if you're friends with her.")
Yeah, there are some problems with webapps, but fat clients aren't a nirvana, either.
For one, here's a common scenario: The fat client is based on a client-server setup where you have the fat clients communicating with a database server. And the password for the database is embedded within the client. Which means every user also full access to the database if he wants.
Secondly, if you've hardcoded the DB password, it's also permanent, which is obviously bad.
You might say, that's not a good way to program a fat client, and I'd agree with you, but that's what happens in practice.
Why would you run XP on a recent Thinkpad? That doesn't even make sense. Your Thinkpad already came with Win7, why install XP over it?
People are talking about XP on old machines, where it's just fine (in some circumstances).
Anyway, if MS doesn't want to release a new browser for XP, Moz and Goog are ready and willing to oblige.
Please don't be evil.
It's great that you invented Android. You also must have gotten a great payoff when Google bought Android. That's enough, isn't it?
You cleverly screwed Sun out of a few millions of dollars licensing fees, which contributed to its downfall.
Now your megalomania is leading you to beat up on an Android vendor that merely wants to experiment with an Android variant?
And if Aliyun fails to run an Android application, customers will see Aliyun as bad, and the platform will not prosper. Problem solved. Why does Google have to play nanny?
Did you watch the video? It doesn't look sluggish.
Party-line IP addresses
Yeah, sure, sometimes you might be trying to access /., and end up at teletubbies.com, but, hey, recycling.
What's puzzling to me is why Samsung chose a jury trial. Why would they do that, since juries are famously dumb.
Would a PKI-based system not work? The way it works now, I imagine, is that all the dealers in the world share a single password for the backdoor.
Instead, why not store dealers' public keys in the cars, and also 50,000 more for new dealer expansion?
The answer to the financial liability question is to have the self-driving cars mow down all the lawyers!
OK. And now the next question is: So what?
I mean, what practical effect exactly do the fine tolerances have? That you can get from one stoplight to the next faster?
Well, you can't get there faster than the speed limit, so, again, so what?
Or, if it has no practical benefit, but rather it's more a matter of "I can afford it", that's fine, too, please state that. In that case, it would fall into the same category as fine china vs. normal dishware, silver vs. steel utensils, expensive wooden doors, "rich Corinthian leather" vs. fabric seats.
you know who.
Pretty please?
WD-40.
A useful question might be: When did Facebook, Google, and other startups incorporate?
Marc Zuckerburg, at one point, was just hacking PHP in his dorm. So, at what point did he incorporate? While still in the dorm? If so, how did he separate the personal and the corporate?
Same for Page & Brin starting out in the Stanford dorms.
And how did that affect the questions we're talking about?
An interesting area of tax law is how you handle assets that you take into the corporation.
Let's say you've have a great startup idea, and you've already bought a few laptops for yourself and your crew, a fileserver or two, RAID disks, network gear, dual WAN router, desk, chairs, and other capital expenses.
OK, now when you incorporate, you want to bring that stuff into the corporation, right? So, how is that handled? When the corporation gets stuff, it has to give something in return, right?
Otherwise, it would be a gift, and the taxman doesn't like those, either.
How much depreciation you get? How much depreciation does the corp get?
There's where things get ornery.
What's funny is the first time I saw the iPhone 5, it looks kind of like the Galaxy S3. No wonder Apple was trying to ban it.
There used to be a time when people were constantly looking toward bigger monitor sizes so they could design their web pages to take advantage of the additional space.
For some reason, this march has stopped at 1024px, or 960px plus margins. (Actually, I know the reason: it's because people don't know that you can resize your browser to whatever you like: wide, narrow, medium. So the web designer sizes the page for you. Same reason they have font big/small icons on webpages: people don't know about Ctrl+=)
I'd have said that's bad, but there's another reason why it sort of works: You need additional space on the margins because when you increase the text size a few times to get readable text, the page width increases.
Well, on the one hand you have hard-core, sciency patents
and on the other you have
-some software-based GUI stuff which many high-schoolers and probably almost all comsci grads could do
-some design cues taken from others
-patenting the real inventor of the touchpad's invention (the Knight-Ridder professor)
Back in the day (say, 2008 as in the article), if you wanted to buy a server, you'd buy one from the big three.
These days, especially with FB and Google leading the way on commodity hardware, it's a different story.
So what should you get for your first server. I.e., you're a small company. You've got a couple of laptops. You're outgrowing mutual Samba.
You maybe want a fileserver. Maybe it'll have a few NICs and a virtual machine on it (Xen?) will do double duty as a external webserver.
So, Core i3, i5, Xeon? Number of processor cores? Forget fast drives, and just buy a lot of memory? Rack? Or tower?
Lockable front (so people can't just come by and reset it)? Hotplug harddrives? (You don't go this if you go the Google build-your-own route.) Redundant hard drives and ECC memory? Or a couple different commodity-style servers + sharding/rsync?
Is a big 3 server worth it? Or search for your own server case + server power supply, etc.?
It seems pointless for a company to pay for training.
Consider: You pay a guy's training for a 2 week course + travel + lodging + food. Not to mention, in that time, you're paying his wages.
After that, he's just increased his yearly rate, and can jump ship to someplace else saying "I'm trained on $X".
So why should any company ever pay for an employee's training?
That is, unless there's a pension or other bonus program, and the employee forfeits that money if he jumps.
Where was the lovely lady based? China? Did she speak with an understandable accent, or was it on the level of bad Indian call centers?
I'm not sure about 30,000, but the rich are certainly buying many thousands of times as much stuff as the average person. Have you seen a picture of Bill Gates' house? Larry Ellison's yacht?
Without commenting on the comedy routine, Ethiopia (toward which much food aid was directed back then) isn't a desert.
It has varied ecologies, and actually has very fertile land, which their government is now leasing to multinational corporations.
Malthus thought population would continue to increase geometrically forever. Turns out that's not true. For whatever reason, people, usually when they reach a certain economic level -- or increasingly even if they don't, drop their total fertility rate to 2, or even less.
So, far from overpopulation, we may be worrying about extinction due to people not caring enough to reproduce themselves in the future.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
>Is the shape important?
Yeah, if the corners are round.