I have an Essentials of Marketing book that defines "branding" as "the use of a name, term, symbol, or design -- or a combination of these -- to identify a product." The record labels do use brands to identify their products, which include Britney Spears, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band and the Beetles. The labels actually sell their artists' CDs, but the labels market the CDs as a part of the artist; you get to own a piece of their work.
The promotional design of an artist's website, CD cover, and stage lighting on the Tonight Show also go towards creating an image, both visual and aural, that accentuates the artist's brand. Dave Matthews Band's site portrays earthy tones, a simpleness, with a hint of urban trendy design. These visual cues are key to speaking to customers and establishing a brand that people associate with earthy, simple, yet slightly trendy and modern music.
Branding is not just a icon on a CD or a name. It's an encapsulating image around a product and its promotion that speaks to customers to which it's targeted. The brand both speaks to people who have a need for the product and vears others away. For example, if you were looking for pop dance music, Dave Matthews Band's site would instantly not appeal to you. However, the purple disco rays, changing images, and diva-esque imagery of Britney's site probably would.
The parent poster's point is that their site grabber program can get IIS sites but crashes on some Apache sites. Port80 Software may use the same code to run their surveys since both the grabber and survey programs need the core feature of analyzing a site's HTTP headers.
So if their survey script also returns invalid data for Apache sites, then the IIS numbers would be much higher than they actually are. I would at least like to see some actual numbers rather than pure percents before I believed their data. They surveyed 1000 sites -- how many sites are included in the survey's data?
Another thing that seems odd to me is Netscape iPlanet usage is higher than Apache. Where's the primary data to support that?
The hack allows you can get an unprotected AAC from a protected AAC losslessly. Using the audio CD method would require re-encoding and the use of a CDR. I agree that it's not as neat as DeCSS, but it does provide a better quality unprotection mechanism than was available before.
I generally agree with point #2, but you have your facts wrong on #1 and #3. Google is planning on offering 10% of their shares to the public for the reasons you mentioned (control while providing a deep market). The Sydney Morning Herald takes a leap and assumes a market cap of $20 billion, and therefore they say Google is offering $2 billion. Google's may be worth that much, but the market will decide that during the IPO.
Microsoft would definitely not use Google for solely creating ad revenues. Microsoft has some very smart ideas about integrating Google's core search functionality into the OS, not just with web integration. Longhorn's WinFS is striving to provide a local file system search as fast as Google can surf the web. Google's technology and technical know-how would really help them do that. Your point #2 backs this point up: Microsoft can't create a good search technology on its own, which is why it needs Google to help it in all of its products.
El Camino is CA route 82, and isn't a highway but rather a strip-mall access way that you're lucky to average 25 miles an hour on. When I moved to Silicon Valley, MapQuest would always tell me to take it... which caused me to drive 45 minutes from Mountain View to San Jose more than once. Instead, if you take I-280 or CA-101 it takes around 15 minutes.
CA-87 from Santa Clara to southern San Jose is a real highway, though, but it's called Guadelupe Parkway. And at the southern part of CA-82 through Silicon Valley, El Camino turns into The Alemeda which is actually a decent traveling road.
Yeah, neural networks are an ideal way to implement the identification part (or Bayesian would work well too). However, you still need to get the data to run through the neural net. That's the hard part.
If people can be identified to some degree by weight alone, I'm sure that having a pressure-sensitive map of someone's weight distribution (butt print) could only be more accurate. Also, you can learn something identifiable by how specific people slouch or lie down, how much they lean back, and other behavioral traits like antsiness. Though detecting these traits would be far more complicated than putting a scale under each pillow.
Maybe the pillows wouldn't detect weight itself, but the shape of the imprentation using lots of small censors that detect motion. That motion could be integrated (calculus) to calculate their current position. The individual data points could be used together to figure out someone's current position, how their weight is distributed, and how much they move around over time. However, are there affordable censors that can do that? Alternatively, are there censors that can somehow know their absolute location rather than using calculus?
A bit off-topic, but has anyone noticed that stores always call couches "sofas" and never "couches?" Examples: Ikea, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, Crate & Barrel and even Walmart! When recently looking to buy a new couch, I couldn't find a major site that sold "couches."
I think company's sell "sofas" because "couches" are perceived as things slothy people buy. Lazy people "lounge on the couch" on the weekends. The American culture always uses the word "couch" to describe unmotivated people's television watching habits.
But in the eyes of marketers, consumers must see sofas as possessions of elegant, worldly people who are out and about. Motivated, outgoing people buy "sofas" to decorate their posh interiors! "No couches for me, sir, I want a sofa!"
Also, people's weight changes throughout the day. People eat, go to the bathroom, and also generally weigh more during the evening than average. Is the couch going to have a programmed clock for that?
If I were a scientist, I'd try to identify people based on their butt prints!
I hate paired programming too but my roommate is a proponent of it. He says that average coders have a hard time staying on focus and are often lured by quick hacks rather than doing needed redesigns. When you pair two of these programmers together, with a stated goal of following extreme programming practices, they're ultimately more productive because they have to explain their decisions and not slack off.
But my roommate agrees, that for competent and motivated coders, who actaully know what they're doing and take pride in their work, extreme programming's paired programming fails. However, the software industry is not filled with competent and motivated coders. Most software developers graduated in CS for the money, without writing a lick of code before CS 101, and they could use a good deal of oversight.
Hells I can vouch for Telstar being down. Of course he's down. It ain't no shame. Me and Telly have been pimp rolling the 718 since his mamma flocked from Compton.
Now I don't think you should be all up in the Kool Aid about him and Loral. Hustlers don't call showdowns, but I'm pitching straight game that Loral and her orbital slot are slamming. But if alls you're saying is that he's down, that's cool...
MSN is claiming they're using face recognition technology for their image search. I can't believe that it would be accurate enough for widespread use, but it's a neat technology. Google's image search just searches for images using the image's filename and the text on the web page it's linked from. Google doesn't attempt to understand what the image actually shows, let alone who is in the image.
I doubt it. I know a couple people that work at MS, and they personally use Google to search MSDN. I hear it's very commonplace there and no one really frowns on it because MSDN's search sucks. If they prevented Google from spidering MSDN, Microsoft's own developers would lose massive productivity. One of my MS friends said "he wished he could Google inside Microsoft," because their intranet search sucks too.
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Last time I checked, people get taxed on income, not wealth. And if you look at the percentage of people who contribute 40% of the GDP, you'll see that approximately the top 8% of the population pays 25% of the taxes. Which doesn't seem too unfair, does it? (And, yes, they're taxed at a higher rate than people who make $50k a year.)
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I have an Essentials of Marketing book that defines "branding" as "the use of a name, term, symbol, or design -- or a combination of these -- to identify a product." The record labels do use brands to identify their products, which include Britney Spears, Madonna, Dave Matthews Band and the Beetles. The labels actually sell their artists' CDs, but the labels market the CDs as a part of the artist; you get to own a piece of their work.
The promotional design of an artist's website, CD cover, and stage lighting on the Tonight Show also go towards creating an image, both visual and aural, that accentuates the artist's brand. Dave Matthews Band's site portrays earthy tones, a simpleness, with a hint of urban trendy design. These visual cues are key to speaking to customers and establishing a brand that people associate with earthy, simple, yet slightly trendy and modern music.
Branding is not just a icon on a CD or a name. It's an encapsulating image around a product and its promotion that speaks to customers to which it's targeted. The brand both speaks to people who have a need for the product and vears others away. For example, if you were looking for pop dance music, Dave Matthews Band's site would instantly not appeal to you. However, the purple disco rays, changing images, and diva-esque imagery of Britney's site probably would.
The parent poster's point is that their site grabber program can get IIS sites but crashes on some Apache sites. Port80 Software may use the same code to run their surveys since both the grabber and survey programs need the core feature of analyzing a site's HTTP headers.
So if their survey script also returns invalid data for Apache sites, then the IIS numbers would be much higher than they actually are. I would at least like to see some actual numbers rather than pure percents before I believed their data. They surveyed 1000 sites -- how many sites are included in the survey's data?
Another thing that seems odd to me is Netscape iPlanet usage is higher than Apache. Where's the primary data to support that?
The hack allows you can get an unprotected AAC from a protected AAC losslessly. Using the audio CD method would require re-encoding and the use of a CDR. I agree that it's not as neat as DeCSS, but it does provide a better quality unprotection mechanism than was available before.
Quote sure seems like a noun to me...
quote n. 1. A quotation (Informal). 2. A quotation mark. 3. Used by a speaker to indicate the beginning of a quotation. 4. A dictum; a saying.
you're clearly an authority on the history of English, ... looser.
Geez, show some respect. Just because he disagrees with you doesn't make him a loser.
Did I mention you cant delete these "msmsgs" entries?
No, actually, you didn't until later in your post.
If you find yourself asking that question in the future, try out Slashdot's "brand new" Preview button!
You have to wonder about a company that uses the term "piss off" so much they have to abbreviate it.
I generally agree with point #2, but you have your facts wrong on #1 and #3. Google is planning on offering 10% of their shares to the public for the reasons you mentioned (control while providing a deep market). The Sydney Morning Herald takes a leap and assumes a market cap of $20 billion, and therefore they say Google is offering $2 billion. Google's may be worth that much, but the market will decide that during the IPO.
Microsoft would definitely not use Google for solely creating ad revenues. Microsoft has some very smart ideas about integrating Google's core search functionality into the OS, not just with web integration. Longhorn's WinFS is striving to provide a local file system search as fast as Google can surf the web. Google's technology and technical know-how would really help them do that. Your point #2 backs this point up: Microsoft can't create a good search technology on its own, which is why it needs Google to help it in all of its products.
Can't open source hackers have ONE THING that goes down on them???
Geez, it's not like they're getting girls to do it.
who should, legitimately, be the sole source of intelligence when reading mail.
I didn't know soles could read!! So which fish is smarter, bass or sole?
El Camino is CA route 82, and isn't a highway but rather a strip-mall access way that you're lucky to average 25 miles an hour on. When I moved to Silicon Valley, MapQuest would always tell me to take it... which caused me to drive 45 minutes from Mountain View to San Jose more than once. Instead, if you take I-280 or CA-101 it takes around 15 minutes.
CA-87 from Santa Clara to southern San Jose is a real highway, though, but it's called Guadelupe Parkway. And at the southern part of CA-82 through Silicon Valley, El Camino turns into The Alemeda which is actually a decent traveling road.
Monitor sizes? I love my 19" (18" viewable) monitor!
Perhaps I can interest you in a 21" (18" viewable) monitor upgrade pack?
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I thought Congress and the President did pass a do not call list bill??
http://consumeraffairs.com/news03/dnc_law.html
I was tempted to mention that butt-print detecting would be fooled by people shitting their pants, but decided it was too risque.
In that case, maybe identifying by weight would be more accurate: no weight change! Maybe that's why they're targeting hospitals for the technology?
Yeah, neural networks are an ideal way to implement the identification part (or Bayesian would work well too). However, you still need to get the data to run through the neural net. That's the hard part.
If people can be identified to some degree by weight alone, I'm sure that having a pressure-sensitive map of someone's weight distribution (butt print) could only be more accurate. Also, you can learn something identifiable by how specific people slouch or lie down, how much they lean back, and other behavioral traits like antsiness. Though detecting these traits would be far more complicated than putting a scale under each pillow.
Maybe the pillows wouldn't detect weight itself, but the shape of the imprentation using lots of small censors that detect motion. That motion could be integrated (calculus) to calculate their current position. The individual data points could be used together to figure out someone's current position, how their weight is distributed, and how much they move around over time. However, are there affordable censors that can do that? Alternatively, are there censors that can somehow know their absolute location rather than using calculus?
A bit off-topic, but has anyone noticed that stores always call couches "sofas" and never "couches?" Examples: Ikea, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware, Crate & Barrel and even Walmart! When recently looking to buy a new couch, I couldn't find a major site that sold "couches."
I think company's sell "sofas" because "couches" are perceived as things slothy people buy. Lazy people "lounge on the couch" on the weekends. The American culture always uses the word "couch" to describe unmotivated people's television watching habits.
But in the eyes of marketers, consumers must see sofas as possessions of elegant, worldly people who are out and about. Motivated, outgoing people buy "sofas" to decorate their posh interiors! "No couches for me, sir, I want a sofa!"
Also, people's weight changes throughout the day. People eat, go to the bathroom, and also generally weigh more during the evening than average. Is the couch going to have a programmed clock for that?
If I were a scientist, I'd try to identify people based on their butt prints!
I hate paired programming too but my roommate is a proponent of it. He says that average coders have a hard time staying on focus and are often lured by quick hacks rather than doing needed redesigns. When you pair two of these programmers together, with a stated goal of following extreme programming practices, they're ultimately more productive because they have to explain their decisions and not slack off.
But my roommate agrees, that for competent and motivated coders, who actaully know what they're doing and take pride in their work, extreme programming's paired programming fails. However, the software industry is not filled with competent and motivated coders. Most software developers graduated in CS for the money, without writing a lick of code before CS 101, and they could use a good deal of oversight.
Hells I can vouch for Telstar being down. Of course he's down. It ain't no shame. Me and Telly have been pimp rolling the 718 since his mamma flocked from Compton.
Now I don't think you should be all up in the Kool Aid about him and Loral. Hustlers don't call showdowns, but I'm pitching straight game that Loral and her orbital slot are slamming. But if alls you're saying is that he's down, that's cool...
MSN is claiming they're using face recognition technology for their image search. I can't believe that it would be accurate enough for widespread use, but it's a neat technology. Google's image search just searches for images using the image's filename and the text on the web page it's linked from. Google doesn't attempt to understand what the image actually shows, let alone who is in the image.
I doubt it. I know a couple people that work at MS, and they personally use Google to search MSDN. I hear it's very commonplace there and no one really frowns on it because MSDN's search sucks. If they prevented Google from spidering MSDN, Microsoft's own developers would lose massive productivity. One of my MS friends said "he wished he could Google inside Microsoft," because their intranet search sucks too.
Last time I checked, people get taxed on income, not wealth. And if you look at the percentage of people who contribute 40% of the GDP, you'll see that approximately the top 8% of the population pays 25% of the taxes. Which doesn't seem too unfair, does it? (And, yes, they're taxed at a higher rate than people who make $50k a year.)
I did. Pay up, dorkwad.