That said, I'm suprised Yahoo! is so popular. And that Google isn't.
They measured time, not the number of visits. I use Google everyday, but it's
rarely last longer then two minutes everytime. Now, Yahoo is a completely different
story...
Of course it's hard! There is not any! If the goal is to "optimize
profits" then it's against customers. However air tickets are already
all sold with "dymnamic pricing" thanks to centralized electronic
ticketing database. So I guess this is the future.
Caldera always has been in to this IP thing. Here is a quote from an old Fool.comarticle (August
14, 2000 )
The reason Red Hat has been so much more successful than, say, Caldera
Systems, is that Red Hat sees what it does as a service, and Caldera sees
its intellectual property as a product it can control
The answer to the question is data structured or not depends on who is reading. It does not make any sense to say, "Word processing files are unstructured". It is structured enough to display its content, so for microsoft's programmer it is well structured data. It is however can contain a lot of crappy text within, so from the reader's point of view it'll be unstructured.
You should think what they gonna do with this data before you structure it.
Yahoo & Bigfot were the only two big services who provided forwarding. I consider this to be the one most important feature of free web-e-mail. Too bad it's gonna be gone...
P2P is nothing by itself but it's very important sign of how internet is changing
social environment.
Never before data could be found as easy as it is now if the data is indexed.
Never before one can share his knowledge as easy as it is now if the knowledge
is useful and fits in some index. Ultimately never before so many people could
communicate with each other so that everybody can be heard and no one is deafen.
Communication is a keyword. New communication
media has emerged. Internet is actually getting closer to what was initial
intention of its developers: "critical
mass" of intellectual resources.
The idea is a bit old. Handwriting recognition algorithms actually used it
already years ago. Here is how it works:
In order to recognize handwriting human brain simulate the process of writing
that is it's trying to imagine "what I would do to create this". That is recognition
happening in terms of text creation. That is some neurons "... fire both when
you perform an action and when you observe someone else performing that action."
(or even just see the result of their performing) Handwriting recognition programs
just mimic this process that is they are trying to distinguish letters by recognizing
primitive creation movements.
I've learned all this in university about 9 years ago. Here are some additional
examples of the same brain phenomena (also 9 years old):
Pianist moves his fingers when he listens to music;
People can be more effectively taught to read handwriting if they move
stylus along the thread of the text they are reading
I'm not so sure about silencing -- if you need to put 1000 of them they might
became to be quite noisy. Here is what I came up recently looking for a silent
computer solution:
http://www.point.com - great place to look for plan and/or phone
Personal experience:
Verizon: terrible customer service ("if you have a problem, we can subscribe you for a new year contract, give you a new phone and your problems might get resolved...")
VoiceStream: small coverage, and roaming, roaming, roaming charges
Nextel: seems to be good for business, no personal experience though
AT&T: so far so good...
phones: yeah Nokia. check out 82xx (if you go with AT&T or VoiceStream)-- that is something. it not just fits in my pocket. it lays in the bottom of my pocket...
that the more people work, the less benefit to the company
Dilbert's 'Salary Theorem' states that 'Engineers and scientists can never
earn as much as business executives and sales people.'
This theorem can now be supported by mathematical proof based on the following
two postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge = Power
Postulate 2: Time = Money
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
Since Knowledge = Power, then Knowledge = Work/Time.
Since Time = Money, then Knowledge = Work/Money.
Solving for Money, we get Money = Work / Knowledge.
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless
of the amount of work done.
Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make.
I understand everybody can run search machine. But if whole index is not stored
on the one server than where clients should send requests to? And if the whole
index is stored in each search machine then how fast this index updated?
What rankles me the most, are H1Bs complaining about the justifications
used to keep them out -- American citizens don't need to justify this to foreigners
anymore than Russians need justify electing a drunk and then a megalomaniac
their president -- it's their country, they can make their own decisions about
it.
Yeah, right "US for American citizens", "Germany for Germans", oh wait a minute...
We're (ie, rich countries, primarily Americans) supposed to care about
the poverty of poor countries
I do not see how it's related to the topic. Import of professionals from India
does not improve poverty there...
but concern for our own economic status makes us selfish? That's bullshit,
and it's directly contradictory to YOUR primary motivation for coming to the
United States -- YOUR personal financial status.
That's right, this is my motivation for coming to the US. But it is not motivation
for US to allow me to come here. That is the point. Not how H1-B will affect
somebody's personal financial status, but how it'll affect economy - this is
what should be considered to answer the question: Good or Bad?
It's like M$ argument that after breakup the prices for the software will likely
rise... So what? Yes, somebody will probably even loose the job, but the market
health will be improved. That's what the law about - improve overall balance,
not just somebody's wealth...
Make no mistake about it - this is not about a shortage of programmers
- it is 100%, absolutely about cheap labor...
I'm sick of this argument. Yes there is no shortage of programmers. Yes, it's
about cheap labor. Just because you allow more people to work, you sure will
create bigger pool of potential employees, and thus lower average salaries.
So what?
What this obviously saying is that inviting very well educated people in the
country is bad because this will lover salaries of locals. Why this should be
considered at all?
This improves economy. This straightens lack of good education in America.
This builds more educated workforce. Now that's the arguments. Of course US
afraid of opening this door too much, just because local business would not
be interested in local education at all. Or because of some other potential
misbalance. But to say that US should not allow people enter to US because they
work for lower salary - that is strange. That's what all newcomers doing everywhere
- they work for lower salary. So what?
These people (US House/Senate, lords of industry, etc...) are taking
the bread out of my children's mouth...
That's right. These people are taking the bread out of your children's mouth.
You want your country to force business to pay salary to your children, when
businesses want to pay lower salary for the same job to somebody else. You think
it's not fair. I don't think so. And I do not understand why this is considered
being an argument at all.
America is a country of immigrants. Who do you think should have the best opportunity
to come here if not professionals?
Instead of making search a part of service, why not to keep it separate? Search
engines are separate from web sites. Why not to create a few central search
engines for content in FreeNet. Why not to make them completely separate from
file storing engine? This will keep content private, and search still is fast
and not responsible for any content. Astalavista.box.sk and google - none of
them is responsible for what you can find there.
Here is background for idea: Cooperative networking. I would not call it file
sharing because I believe P2P hip is bigger than this. There are two main issues:
privacy & search. Search is what requires central fast server.
Napster implements fast search but lacks privacy.
Gnutella implements some decentralization but it ruined search feature.
Freenet implements good privacy and perfect decentralization, but it still
lacks good search.
MojoNation again implements some privacy and make some steps toward decentralization,
but it still requires central server for search.
So if we know how to decentralize service, but fast search is hard to implement
decentralized. Might be the right way to go is to implement content independent
search engine separately from sharing system? BTW this kind of system might
be not just file sharing, but CPU (like SETI@ or distributed.net) sharing, or
information or, whatever you want it to be.
He traces the history of the human urge to communicate -- which he calls
one of the most basic of human impulses -- from the drum to the smoke signal
to the radio to the Net
It is actually interesting to trace this "urge to communicate"
in not so old times. Phone system (P2P), radio (broadcasting), web sites (pull
ready-to-broadcast content), search engines,... Note what changes: direction,
formalization, what else?
This is right, and this is healthy. There are already many traditional advertising channels which we take for granted now, although you can bet they weren't too popular at first.
I might be the only one thinking this way around here, but I do not consider mass advertising being healthy. Quite contrary -- I think it is very bad practice, and I believe it'll be forbidden if the future. Illegal as mass coercion.
This practice was needed. In before-internet times it was the only way to connect business with big number of customers. It was bad from health point of view. But it was necessary. Now might be the right time to fight back this pest.
Slashdot Mirror
They measured time, not the number of visits. I use Google everyday, but it's rarely last longer then two minutes everytime. Now, Yahoo is a completely different story...
Here is a link list for computer noise busters that I found most useful
... who was wrong, but at the moment CNN spells it right:
The industry has been gradually moving toward a 64-bit architecture, which multiplies the amount of data the processor can access by four billion
Now is it CNN was nearly 100% wrong or somebody just need to actually read an article? We will never know.
I love this quote:
Of course it's hard! There is not any! If the goal is to "optimize profits" then it's against customers. However air tickets are already all sold with "dymnamic pricing" thanks to centralized electronic ticketing database. So I guess this is the future.
Caldera always has been in to this IP thing. Here is a quote from an old Fool.com article (August 14, 2000 )
The answer to the question is data structured or not depends on who is reading. It does not make any sense to say, "Word processing files are unstructured". It is structured enough to display its content, so for microsoft's programmer it is well structured data. It is however can contain a lot of crappy text within, so from the reader's point of view it'll be unstructured. You should think what they gonna do with this data before you structure it.
Yahoo & Bigfot were the only two big services who provided forwarding. I consider this to be the one most important feature of free web-e-mail. Too bad it's gonna be gone...
P2P is nothing by itself but it's very important sign of how internet is changing social environment.
Never before data could be found as easy as it is now if the data is indexed. Never before one can share his knowledge as easy as it is now if the knowledge is useful and fits in some index. Ultimately never before so many people could communicate with each other so that everybody can be heard and no one is deafen. Communication is a keyword. New communication media has emerged. Internet is actually getting closer to what was initial intention of its developers: "critical mass" of intellectual resources.
deskshop
The idea is a bit old. Handwriting recognition algorithms actually used it already years ago. Here is how it works:
In order to recognize handwriting human brain simulate the process of writing that is it's trying to imagine "what I would do to create this". That is recognition happening in terms of text creation. That is some neurons "... fire both when you perform an action and when you observe someone else performing that action." (or even just see the result of their performing) Handwriting recognition programs just mimic this process that is they are trying to distinguish letters by recognizing primitive creation movements.
I've learned all this in university about 9 years ago. Here are some additional examples of the same brain phenomena (also 9 years old):
I'm not so sure about silencing -- if you need to put 1000 of them they might became to be quite noisy. Here is what I came up recently looking for a silent computer solution:
Molex Thermal Acoustic Products
Directron: silent components
The Silent PC
Quiet PC (UK)
Shut that damn thing up!
My company make some high speed imaging equipment and we figured out the right use for them. Sorry, cann't find bigger picture now.
Friend of mine uses similar technique even with mailto: It does everything a normal mailto does, except it does not contain e-mail in source code...
http://www.point.com - great place to look for plan and/or phone
Personal experience:
Verizon: terrible customer service ("if you have a problem, we can subscribe you for a new year contract, give you a new phone and your problems might get resolved...")
VoiceStream: small coverage, and roaming, roaming, roaming charges
Nextel: seems to be good for business, no personal experience though
AT&T: so far so good...
phones: yeah Nokia. check out 82xx (if you go with AT&T or VoiceStream)-- that is something. it not just fits in my pocket. it lays in the bottom of my pocket...
I wonder how they would measure lifetime of this creature? I mean, they need compare it to something this old. What it would be?
Dilbert's 'Salary Theorem' states that 'Engineers and scientists can never earn as much as business executives and sales people.'
This theorem can now be supported by mathematical proof based on the following two postulates:
Postulate 1: Knowledge = Power
Postulate 2: Time = Money
As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time.
Since Knowledge = Power, then Knowledge = Work/Time.
Since Time = Money, then Knowledge = Work/Money.
Solving for Money, we get Money = Work / Knowledge.
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of work done.
Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make.
I understand everybody can run search machine. But if whole index is not stored on the one server than where clients should send requests to? And if the whole index is stored in each search machine then how fast this index updated?
Yeah, right "US for American citizens", "Germany for Germans", oh wait a minute...
I do not see how it's related to the topic. Import of professionals from India does not improve poverty there...
That's right, this is my motivation for coming to the US. But it is not motivation for US to allow me to come here. That is the point. Not how H1-B will affect somebody's personal financial status, but how it'll affect economy - this is what should be considered to answer the question: Good or Bad?
It's like M$ argument that after breakup the prices for the software will likely rise... So what? Yes, somebody will probably even loose the job, but the market health will be improved. That's what the law about - improve overall balance, not just somebody's wealth...
I'm sick of this argument. Yes there is no shortage of programmers. Yes, it's about cheap labor. Just because you allow more people to work, you sure will create bigger pool of potential employees, and thus lower average salaries. So what?
What this obviously saying is that inviting very well educated people in the country is bad because this will lover salaries of locals. Why this should be considered at all?
This improves economy. This straightens lack of good education in America. This builds more educated workforce. Now that's the arguments. Of course US afraid of opening this door too much, just because local business would not be interested in local education at all. Or because of some other potential misbalance. But to say that US should not allow people enter to US because they work for lower salary - that is strange. That's what all newcomers doing everywhere - they work for lower salary. So what?
That's right. These people are taking the bread out of your children's mouth. You want your country to force business to pay salary to your children, when businesses want to pay lower salary for the same job to somebody else. You think it's not fair. I don't think so. And I do not understand why this is considered being an argument at all.
America is a country of immigrants. Who do you think should have the best opportunity to come here if not professionals?
And yes, I one of them, and I am proud of it.
Instead of making search a part of service, why not to keep it separate? Search engines are separate from web sites. Why not to create a few central search engines for content in FreeNet. Why not to make them completely separate from file storing engine? This will keep content private, and search still is fast and not responsible for any content. Astalavista.box.sk and google - none of them is responsible for what you can find there.
Here is background for idea: Cooperative networking. I would not call it file sharing because I believe P2P hip is bigger than this. There are two main issues: privacy & search. Search is what requires central fast server.
So if we know how to decentralize service, but fast search is hard to implement decentralized. Might be the right way to go is to implement content independent search engine separately from sharing system? BTW this kind of system might be not just file sharing, but CPU (like SETI@ or distributed.net) sharing, or information or, whatever you want it to be.
There is very interesting (as usual) piece from Esther Dyson on Microsoft breakup
I like this one:
It is actually interesting to trace this "urge to communicate" in not so old times. Phone system (P2P), radio (broadcasting), web sites (pull ready-to-broadcast content), search engines, ... Note what changes: direction,
formalization, what else?
This is right, and this is healthy. There are already many traditional advertising channels which we take for granted now, although you can bet they weren't too popular at first.
I might be the only one thinking this way around here, but I do not consider mass advertising being healthy. Quite contrary -- I think it is very bad practice, and I believe it'll be forbidden if the future. Illegal as mass coercion.
This practice was needed. In before-internet times it was the only way to connect business with big number of customers. It was bad from health point of view. But it was necessary.
Now might be the right time to fight back this pest.