Do web sites that purchase links from external websites count as a violation? I think the big problem is not necessarily cloaking, sneaky redirects, etc, but rather that a website can buy incoming links to move them up in the ranking. Personally I think this is what needs to be fixed.
However, I also understand that it is hard to prove that a website has purchased incoming links so perhaps there is nothing that can be done.
The line I was refeering to was this one: "Barring that, 5,000 links from cheesy guest books, online diaries, blogs, zany products, porn sites and anyone who honors link exchanges might do the trick."
Maybe it was just me but this seemed to give the reader that link exchanges with 5,000 of these questionable sites would help you. I don't think this is necessarily true.
I read this article and I thought it was somewhat misleading. Although there were places where it mentioned that Link Exchanges could be bad. It gave me the impression that the more the better.
There is a really good site http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/ that tries to explain exactly how bad these link exchanges can be (at least from the Google perspective).
"Embedding a database in an application can be very useful, such as in a desktop GUI where you cannot rely on network communication or maybe don't want to bother with a client/server environment."
I completely disagree. I think most people think that SQL Anywhere is just used for client/server communication when in fact you can also easily use it for standalone use in embedded applications. In fact, I would argue that SQL Anywhere is far easier to embed than Cloudscape since you only need to deal with 2 database files (db and log) which can be copied from any of the supported OS's (Linux, Win32, WinCE, etc). You can simply embed the dll's and exe's that you require for you application directly into your install. Add the fact that SQL Anywhere takes a lot less space than Cloudscape and you have a much better embedded solution.
My sister in law was hijacked and called Bell to ask what was going on. The customer service rep told her about the scam and also added that typically this hijacking comes from surfing porn sites. Woops! Looks like her roommate had been using her computer. I wonder how many husbands have been busted over this.:-)
I doubt the blackberry has the capability to store that much information. My bet would be that it is intgegrated into the email system such that they can request information on a person and it would be downloaded. I also assume there is some sort of authentication done prior to receiving the data.
Our company did this for some golf tournaments we were running. We found that we definitely needed some access points that could hop from access point to another so that we could really extend the range.
One problem with "hopping" is that occasionally if one of the access points in the middle of the link goes down, you may need to reset each of the other AP's down the line to get them back up and running.
We also ran into some interesting problems such as the time that around 8am in the morning our coverage started dropping when all the houses around the course started turning on their microwaves. You can never guarantee that the coverage you have at one time will be consistent throughout the day.
Along with a power supply and an access point, we also bought these special antennas that could be attached to camera tripods to give us a mini cell tower like setup. Oh yeah, and lesson learned, don't take those down during a thunderstorm.
Although that may work for some applications, for the vast majority of applications, this is unrealistic.
Consider most solutions which include some sort of cellular (GSM, CDMA, etc) type modem. Every time a user needed to get data such as a product list. It would have to connect through the network, download that data and display it. What if there were 1000 products? Would you want to continuously download those rows every time you loaded the page or would you prefer to store them locally?
Consider also the price associated with downloading all of those rows everytime you loaded the page.
OK, I know you mentioned 802.11b which means it would be faster than cellular and cheaper to re-download data, but do you want a sales rep who can only download data when they are in a "hot spot"? My guess is there probably is not a "hot spot" at the customer site.
Finally what happens if there is no connectivity available and you need to see your data. Would you not want a local database for that?
Although I do not like SQL Server CE, I will give a plug to SQL Anywhere
I agree, here is an article (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/082620 03m.php) that talks about how it is legal in Canada to share music due to the "private copying" amendment.
I also have a t68i which I love, but I hope that the RF reception is better in this new device. I know GSM (in N.A) is still new, but other GSM phones do not see, to have the same RF reception problems as this one.
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Glad I didn't go through the effort of locking mine down. Who has the last laugh now, Mr. "You gotta lock that thing down"?
I bet you anything, Apple is going to charge through the teeth for their "Apple Certified" duct tape.
Do web sites that purchase links from external websites count as a violation? I think the big problem is not necessarily cloaking, sneaky redirects, etc, but rather that a website can buy incoming links to move them up in the ranking. Personally I think this is what needs to be fixed.
However, I also understand that it is hard to prove that a website has purchased incoming links so perhaps there is nothing that can be done.
The line I was refeering to was this one: "Barring that, 5,000 links from cheesy guest books, online diaries, blogs, zany products, porn sites and anyone who honors link exchanges might do the trick."
Maybe it was just me but this seemed to give the reader that link exchanges with 5,000 of these questionable sites would help you. I don't think this is necessarily true.
I read this article and I thought it was somewhat misleading. Although there were places where it mentioned that Link Exchanges could be bad. It gave me the impression that the more the better.
There is a really good site http://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/
that tries to explain exactly how bad these link exchanges can be (at least from the Google perspective).
I completely disagree. I think most people think that SQL Anywhere is just used for client/server communication when in fact you can also easily use it for standalone use in embedded applications. In fact, I would argue that SQL Anywhere is far easier to embed than Cloudscape since you only need to deal with 2 database files (db and log) which can be copied from any of the supported OS's (Linux, Win32, WinCE, etc). You can simply embed the dll's and exe's that you require for you application directly into your install. Add the fact that SQL Anywhere takes a lot less space than Cloudscape and you have a much better embedded solution.
I have about 27,000 sales reps that would disagree with you on that.
What nobody had a Trash 80?
My sister in law was hijacked and called Bell to ask what was going on. The customer service rep told her about the scam and also added that typically this hijacking comes from surfing porn sites. Woops! Looks like her roommate had been using her computer. I wonder how many husbands have been busted over this. :-)
I doubt the blackberry has the capability to store that much information. My bet would be that it is intgegrated into the email system such that they can request information on a person and it would be downloaded. I also assume there is some sort of authentication done prior to receiving the data.
Our company did this for some golf tournaments we were running. We found that we definitely needed some access points that could hop from access point to another so that we could really extend the range.
One problem with "hopping" is that occasionally if one of the access points in the middle of the link goes down, you may need to reset each of the other AP's down the line to get them back up and running.
We also ran into some interesting problems such as the time that around 8am in the morning our coverage started dropping when all the houses around the course started turning on their microwaves. You can never guarantee that the coverage you have at one time will be consistent throughout the day.
Along with a power supply and an access point, we also bought these special antennas that could be attached to camera tripods to give us a mini cell tower like setup. Oh yeah, and lesson learned, don't take those down during a thunderstorm.
We're gonna get Ontario on the map one way or another. If it's not the biggest pot bust ever, then this SPAM thing should do it.
Although that may work for some applications, for the vast majority of applications, this is unrealistic. Consider most solutions which include some sort of cellular (GSM, CDMA, etc) type modem. Every time a user needed to get data such as a product list. It would have to connect through the network, download that data and display it. What if there were 1000 products? Would you want to continuously download those rows every time you loaded the page or would you prefer to store them locally? Consider also the price associated with downloading all of those rows everytime you loaded the page. OK, I know you mentioned 802.11b which means it would be faster than cellular and cheaper to re-download data, but do you want a sales rep who can only download data when they are in a "hot spot"? My guess is there probably is not a "hot spot" at the customer site. Finally what happens if there is no connectivity available and you need to see your data. Would you not want a local database for that? Although I do not like SQL Server CE, I will give a plug to SQL Anywhere
I agree, the last time I checked they didn't even have basic things like views, stored procedures, or triggers.
Our company uses Adaptive Server Anywhere on the Compact Framework. Not only does it perform better but we can replicate directly to Microsoft.
I agree, here is an article (http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/082620 03m.php) that talks about how it is legal in Canada to share music due to the "private copying" amendment.
I agree, here is an article that talks about how in Canada due to the "private copying" amendment, it is legal to share music.
I got an intern on a bike powering my laptop right now.
I think they are just still mad over the war of 1812 when we pushed the Americans so far back... past their 'White House', and burned it...
I also have a t68i which I love, but I hope that the RF reception is better in this new device. I know GSM (in N.A) is still new, but other GSM phones do not see, to have the same RF reception problems as this one.
Did you not read it includes working with Oracle? I am surprised they could get it in under 1000 pages.