>>In any case, services range from sending polite requests on customers behalf (automated and manual depending on context), search engine optimization techniques, arranging for legal intervention in certain cases, and more.
Okay, from your FAQ, legal stuff is rarely done, and costs more. So that leave letters and SEO. Letters are hardly some great proprietary technology. And SEO does not remove anything.
I suppose there could be some use for the service, but I'm not impressed. This article seems like a slashvertisement anyway.
Let's suppose scox does not like what is posted on groklaw. So scox signs up for "ReputationDefender." What can ReputationDefender really do? Ask somebody to remove the content?
Accord to the website: "Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web."
Yeah, okay. And that would be what? Send an email to the website maintainer? For $15.95 a month, I doubt that ReputationDefender will be filing any lawsuits.
In the 1970's the price at the pump shot up through the roof, the prices more than doubled in a very short time. How much did the consuption of fuel change? Did it go down at all?
If that didn't change fuel consumption, then does anybody realistically think that people will voluntarely decrease consumption by significant amount? Half the people in the USA don't even believe in global warming.
Can there be any doubt about skyrocketing fuel consumption in developing nations?
But, hypothetically, let's be insanely optimistic: let's say fuel consumption goes down by 5%. Would it matter? As I understand it, the situation will continue to get worse for several years, even if we stopped burning petro fuel entirely.
Of course outsourcing and offshoring saves money. And that is a real bitch to people, like me, who have invested in a lot in our IT careers. But, I must admit, it's understandable. If msft, or orcl, were to say: "look, there's just no way our company can remain competitive if we pay developers 5X more than the competition pays. And besides, how do you expect the CEO to get by on less $10 billion?"
So okay, it's time to get out of IT, I can live with that. What I hate is the Bullsh!t: "offshoring will actually create more IT jobs in the USA" - "there just are not enough USA developers to fill the growing need" - "college students are staying away from comp sci so we need more H1Bs. - "developers! developers! developers! developers!" Please, give me a friggin' break.
Bad enough that I spent all that time and money getting a degree that's not worth sh!t. Not to mention the time and effort I spent working crap jobs just to pay the bills and get some experience. Do they have to rub it in, and insult me with their bullsh!t?
They may have killed themselves, we really don't know. But, in a country where people are killed over parking spaces, I would be careful about seperating delusional paranoria from legitimate concern for one's safty.
From what I have seen: PHBs love to chase the latest managerial fad.
I know of techies that are seriously under-employed: BSEEs working one of those jobs where you handle tickets, etc. But, instead of hiring US citizens, the PHBs just *know* that H1Bs are the bargin of the century.
But, I really wonder, if you were to add it up: all the overhead involved, all the demorallizing, all the bad-will. I have to wonder if the PHBs are getting the bargins that they think they are getting.
Those articles from five years ago were correct. Unless you are a gamer (maybe), it really is not worth upgrading from win2k to XP.
I dual boot Debian and Win2K. Win2k is fast and stable, works with all my hardware, and runs all of my windows apps. The default interface is less cartoonish, and IMO more logical and functional. Win2K does not have that annoying authentication crappola. With Win2K, I don't have to learn a new interface.
I have no idea why people want to bother with XP, much less Vista. I assume everybody has just learned to jump when msft snaps their fingers. I have been using the same PC for over 5 years, I just have no reason to upgrade.
It seems to me that it would much easier to cause a train wreck, than to blow up an airplane. With a train moving that fast, the slightest damage to the track would cause a wreck. Somebody could put a simple bomb on the tracks, and be miles away when the bomb went off. To blowup an airplane, a terrorist would have to on it, or have some sophisticated weapons.
I don't think google's search engine is nearly as good as it used to be. These days, I seem to be flooding with ads which have nothing to do with I type.
As I understand it, the cost of using google's adsense is sky-rocketing.
Is google now going the way of doubleclick?
I guess I can't blame googe. They exist to make a profit. But, I might start looking elsewhere.
I am an American citizen. But, I am perfectly willing to accept that the USA has lost the technology crown. No problem, if another country has earned the crown, I say "good for them."
But, is the "World Economic Forum" just another one of those USA hating jack-off organizations? I read TFA, as far as I can tell, they are just making this stuff up as they go.
India is in 4th place? Ever been to India? A huge percentage of the population have never used anything as technologically advanced as a toilet. I mean not even an outhouse - they go right outside.
I don't see why tech-pop-media so-called "journalists" should be given any credibility.
Compare Pamala Jones at Groklaw.net to an obvious shill "journalist" like Rob Enderle.
Is Cringely any different than a blogger? If so, how?
To say that the tech-pop-media is influeneced by corporate money would be putting it very mildly. Remember all the tech-pop-media professional journalists gushing over scox's ludacris claims early on? Lyons, Didio, Enderle, etc - all of them swearing that scox had a slam-dunk case. Pamala Jones - a mere blogger - was the one reporting verifiable facts
Aside from monetary influence, a lot of big name professional journalists seem mildly retarded. Or, at least, they don't seem to understand technology anymore - if they ever did.
Of course the USA courts had a choice. The court could have said "sorry, we have no jurisdiction" and that would be the end of it. IMO: too many judges have a "god" complex.
What about competition from all the Chinese, Vietnamese or Russian, immigrants here in the USA? There is no way you are going to be as fluent as the native speakers.
Slashdot Mirror
Face it, as long as browsers work with HTML4, nobody is going to care whatever "standards" are dreamed up by whoever.
Please understand, I am not saying these standards *should* be ignored, I am saying they will be ignored.
>>In any case, services range from sending polite requests on customers behalf (automated and manual depending on context), search engine optimization techniques, arranging for legal intervention in certain cases, and more.
Okay, from your FAQ, legal stuff is rarely done, and costs more. So that leave letters and SEO. Letters are hardly some great proprietary technology. And SEO does not remove anything.
I suppose there could be some use for the service, but I'm not impressed. This article seems like a slashvertisement anyway.
Let's suppose scox does not like what is posted on groklaw. So scox signs up for "ReputationDefender." What can ReputationDefender really do? Ask somebody to remove the content?
Accord to the website: "Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web."
Yeah, okay. And that would be what? Send an email to the website maintainer? For $15.95 a month, I doubt that ReputationDefender will be filing any lawsuits.
In the 1970's the price at the pump shot up through the roof, the prices more than doubled in a very short time. How much did the consuption of fuel change? Did it go down at all?
If that didn't change fuel consumption, then does anybody realistically think that people will voluntarely decrease consumption by significant amount? Half the people in the USA don't even believe in global warming.
Can there be any doubt about skyrocketing fuel consumption in developing nations?
But, hypothetically, let's be insanely optimistic: let's say fuel consumption goes down by 5%. Would it matter? As I understand it, the situation will continue to get worse for several years, even if we stopped burning petro fuel entirely.
I guess those fools at Apple might as well close up shop. Forget it, the party's over.
And by a whopping 0.3%!!? No way in hell a margin like could be insignificant.
Of course outsourcing and offshoring saves money. And that is a real bitch to people, like me, who have invested in a lot in our IT careers. But, I must admit, it's understandable. If msft, or orcl, were to say: "look, there's just no way our company can remain competitive if we pay developers 5X more than the competition pays. And besides, how do you expect the CEO to get by on less $10 billion?"
So okay, it's time to get out of IT, I can live with that. What I hate is the Bullsh!t: "offshoring will actually create more IT jobs in the USA" - "there just are not enough USA developers to fill the growing need" - "college students are staying away from comp sci so we need more H1Bs. - "developers! developers! developers! developers!" Please, give me a friggin' break.
Bad enough that I spent all that time and money getting a degree that's not worth sh!t. Not to mention the time and effort I spent working crap jobs just to pay the bills and get some experience. Do they have to rub it in, and insult me with their bullsh!t?
They may have killed themselves, we really don't know. But, in a country where people are killed over parking spaces, I would be careful about seperating delusional paranoria from legitimate concern for one's safty.
From what I have seen: PHBs love to chase the latest managerial fad.
I know of techies that are seriously under-employed: BSEEs working one of those jobs where you handle tickets, etc. But, instead of hiring US citizens, the PHBs just *know* that H1Bs are the bargin of the century.
But, I really wonder, if you were to add it up: all the overhead involved, all the demorallizing, all the bad-will. I have to wonder if the PHBs are getting the bargins that they think they are getting.
Those articles from five years ago were correct. Unless you are a gamer (maybe), it really is not worth upgrading from win2k to XP.
I dual boot Debian and Win2K. Win2k is fast and stable, works with all my hardware, and runs all of my windows apps. The default interface is less cartoonish, and IMO more logical and functional. Win2K does not have that annoying authentication crappola. With Win2K, I don't have to learn a new interface.
I have no idea why people want to bother with XP, much less Vista. I assume everybody has just learned to jump when msft snaps their fingers. I have been using the same PC for over 5 years, I just have no reason to upgrade.
It seems to me that it would much easier to cause a train wreck, than to blow up an airplane. With a train moving that fast, the slightest damage to the track would cause a wreck. Somebody could put a simple bomb on the tracks, and be miles away when the bomb went off. To blowup an airplane, a terrorist would have to on it, or have some sophisticated weapons.
I don't think google's search engine is nearly as good as it used to be. These days, I seem to be flooding with ads which have nothing to do with I type.
As I understand it, the cost of using google's adsense is sky-rocketing.
Is google now going the way of doubleclick?
I guess I can't blame googe. They exist to make a profit. But, I might start looking elsewhere.
Five things msft invented:
1) Lying to the US-DoJ with video-taped testomony - and getting away with it.
2) Astroturf campaign which included letters from dead people - and getting away with it.
3) Hiring dying micro-cap companies to file bogus lawsuits, and make outragous claims against the competition - and getting away with it.
4) Creating fake think-tanks that insist the msft is always right, and any action against msft would be anti-capitialist - and getting away with it.
5) Secretly funded, rigged, benchmark and TCO "studies" - and getting away with it.
I am an American citizen. But, I am perfectly willing to accept that the USA has lost the technology crown. No problem, if another country has earned the crown, I say "good for them."
But, is the "World Economic Forum" just another one of those USA hating jack-off organizations? I read TFA, as far as I can tell, they are just making this stuff up as they go.
India is in 4th place? Ever been to India? A huge percentage of the population have never used anything as technologically advanced as a toilet. I mean not even an outhouse - they go right outside.
Couldn't msft set it up so that the page won't load if filtering is enabled, or something?
Yahoo message boards - once pretty good - are now beyond FUBAR. Yahoo photos, and maps, also suck now.
I don't see why tech-pop-media so-called "journalists" should be given any credibility.
Compare Pamala Jones at Groklaw.net to an obvious shill "journalist" like Rob Enderle.
Is Cringely any different than a blogger? If so, how?
To say that the tech-pop-media is influeneced by corporate money would be putting it very mildly. Remember all the tech-pop-media professional journalists gushing over scox's ludacris claims early on? Lyons, Didio, Enderle, etc - all of them swearing that scox had a slam-dunk case. Pamala Jones - a mere blogger - was the one reporting verifiable facts
Aside from monetary influence, a lot of big name professional journalists seem mildly retarded. Or, at least, they don't seem to understand technology anymore - if they ever did.
Is this a misprint? Are they kidding?
s ions/Delphi/DelphiforPHP/tabid/250/Default.aspx
http://www.codegear.com/Downloads/TrialandFreeVer
I have read that msft is forcing vendors to buy lots of licenses in advance.
It seems to me that if desktops PCs were replaced with thin clients, in the workplace, that would have a dramatic effect on energy saving.
That is what I understood.
Oregon has no sales tax, and it's -what?- about 90 miles away?
Imagine if Amazon threatened to move, and take all those jobs with them. I'll bet a lot of people in WA wouldn't be too happy.
I know spamhaus technically lost, but did they pay? If Spamhaus decided not to pay, what could e360 do?
Of course the USA courts had a choice. The court could have said "sorry, we have no jurisdiction" and that would be the end of it. IMO: too many judges have a "god" complex.
I started in IT in 1979, got a degree in business in 1983. I even did graduate work, and got two certifications in project management.
Never helped me in the least, employers were never the least bit interested. And when I look on dice.com, I don't see any demand.
> Learn Chinese, Vietnamese or Russian.
What about competition from all the Chinese, Vietnamese or Russian, immigrants here in the USA? There is no way you are going to be as fluent as the native speakers.