About the only use for high-end processors on Intel boxes (other than games) are high-end databases (like Oracle). And, consqeuently, most people would never run something like Oracle on an Intel box. It's usually on an HP box (HP-UX) or Sun. Ever web servers (even heavily hit ones) are NOT CPU intensive at all. I've got 20,000 pageviews a day going just fine a PII 233. It's the databases that are fat, and nobody in their right mind would run an enterprise-class database on a PC that you can buy at Wal-Mart.
But nobody says "mpeg1 layer 3". They say "MP3". What's short for Ogg Vorbis? Ogg? That's terrible. And like it or not, marketing plays a huge role (if nto the largest role) in determining what standards get adopted and which don't.
I gotta say that it truly does suck for full-timers. But, I can assure you, those of us who are contractors (even in the RTP area) are having no such trouble. In fact, I just got a pay raise in the past few months.
They already have reality game shows in Japan in which the contestants get hurt. It's futher along there and it's hugely successful. My question is, is that so wrong? If the contestants know that they could get hurt or killed, but do it anyways, is there anything wrong with that? There was one game show in which a guy was literally locked in an apartment, and given postcards and magazines, and a pen, and that was it. He was supposed to see if he could live by entering sweepstakes. He lived, but just barely. He nearly started to death.
They won't for one good reason. The advertising is finally realizing that you can't peg web ads to clickthrough performance, when the rest of the advertising industry has nothing comparable. Already, sites such CBS Marketwatch and other large sites are refusing to sell advertising space based on clickthroughs. When this stupid trend of only being paid for clickthroughs is over, websites won't be nearly as desperate for you to click. We'll see more ads that are just geared towards general brand recognition, and not an instant action.
Porn. Plenty of porn companies can afford this. If they're doing something extreme, and they're located in a dictatorial country like Australia or the US, this may be a good choice.
That's nice, but what if the problem is that the network connection is down, or the computer doesn't boot up, or the display is unuseable, or something crashes?
I graduated from a top notch college with a degree in business, and I was going to worka few years, then go get my MBA from Harvard, but when I found what pay and work conditions were like for developers, I scuttled my plans to get my MBA. The non-IT degree is very useful though, because I think I have a much more well-rounded background than most strict techie geeks. An MBA, though, is probably overkill, unless you want to be a top-level exec. But if you don't mind cranking out code, or doing project management, or being freelance, an MBA is not really helpful.
But don't think that the entertainment industry doesn't get anything in return for allowing you to cut out ads. They, in turn, get to know EXACTLY who watches what, when. They get to store it all in a giant database, and with some decent data mining, they could probably even create a pretty decent psychological profile of each person. This stuff already makes Doubleclick's privacy intrusions look like a joke. Use stuff like TIVO and cable, and you might as well just walk around in the streets handing out your detailed viewing and spending habits to complete strangers, because in essence, that's what you're doing. Me? I'll keep my antenna and I'll sit through the ads (or switch to a PS game while they're on), and maintain my anonimity, thank you.
You are not giving anyone your address by watching a television show. The cable companies ALREADY know your address from your billing info. Your cable company will know who you are whether they do customized ads or not. If they tried to sell your profile combined with your address to tree-spam companies, THAT would be evil.
Exactly. Your cable company (which is probably a huge multi-national corporation, made up of many, many companies) already has all of your personal information, and they know everything that you watch every second that your TV is on. More than likely, that information, which is not only linked back to you, but to the TV that you're using, is shared amongst this huge multi-national corporation. And who's to say that they don't sell stats about you and your TV watching habits? More than likely, they already do and you just don't know it. With cable TV, there is no way, whatsoever, other than pirating it, to block your information from the cable company. If you're worried about it online, just use Safeweb or something similar. Hell, not only is your cable TV company watching everything you do, you're PAYING them for it. Now THAT'S invasive.
So then China's laws would end up ruling the world. Fantastic. Brilliant. You'd better hurry up and say what you want about politicians, the government, the police, and the military now. Once this brilliant vision happens, you'll be arrested and disappear for any of these 'crimes against the People'.
Is this the same Slashdot that rails against any online company trying to collect viewer data? Doubleclick is the great evil. But Cable can't do any wrong? Huh? Could somebody explain to me why online tracking is bad, and TV tracking is good?
Personally, I use rabbit ears (antenna) on my TV, so I really don't care. But it's yet another reason for me NOT to get cable TV.
I think it's just because the ASP industry is like the banking industry before a lot of standards were developed
No, the reason that you don't have to worry about money in the bank is because it's insured by the FDIC for you. Regulations help to a degree, but banks still do go out of business. The only difference is that the FDIC gives you back whatever you had in that bank. Any reasonably run business should have insurance to cover their own asses, so if, say, your ASP goes under and takes all of your data with them, you still have insurance to at least help you close up your business and pay off your debts, or try to recover in some way from that compensation. Or, you can look for an ASP that's independently insured and you and hope that'll cover you in case anything happens.
Then you've got legitimate firepower and can contact others for a class-action lawsuit.
True, but the point is that if the business dies, there's nobody to sue. A corporation is legally an entity, and when it files for bankruptcy, it's up to the court to distribute the rest of it's assets. It's like a will when somebody dies. Whether or not you get anything (like compensation for your lost data) is up to the courts. Once the business is gone, there's nobody you can sue. That entity is 'dead'. Every try to sue a cadaver in court?
Online storage belongs to them. That's what you give up for the convenience of storing your data on THEIR servers. Want your own app and your own data? Use your own servers.
Dude. Sites like mine who are alive because of their links will definately be adversely impacted by this. This plan can be a major loss of advertising revenue for all websites, and a major gain for Microsoft's alone.
But, also, is this guy going to ONLY work 40 hours a week? Nah. A more realistic number is 60 hours/week. At that rate, he'd be pulling in a whopping $4.17/hour.
Didn't I read $2500 for 2 months? That's about $7.81/hour. That's not going to encourage anybody to do anything, really. If I were earning $7.81/hour, I'd spend about 15 minutes a day working on the project, and 7-8 hours working on my own stuff.
Sure. If things keep going at this rate, Open Office could write a Word importer and exporter and finish it about the time MS is releasing the NEXT version of Office. Playing catch-up doesn't help set standards or even acquire market share.
So keeping them interested without using MS' stuff? So, what, then? Sit them down in front of a command line? I know there's other easy to use stuff other than MS, but by saying 'no MS', you're severly limiting the software that they can play with.
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About the only use for high-end processors on Intel boxes (other than games) are high-end databases (like Oracle). And, consqeuently, most people would never run something like Oracle on an Intel box. It's usually on an HP box (HP-UX) or Sun. Ever web servers (even heavily hit ones) are NOT CPU intensive at all. I've got 20,000 pageviews a day going just fine a PII 233. It's the databases that are fat, and nobody in their right mind would run an enterprise-class database on a PC that you can buy at Wal-Mart.
But nobody says "mpeg1 layer 3". They say "MP3". What's short for Ogg Vorbis? Ogg? That's terrible. And like it or not, marketing plays a huge role (if nto the largest role) in determining what standards get adopted and which don't.
This nutball gets 'insightful'? This guy has obviously skipped his medication today, and he gets 'insightful'?
It's a private company. They can sell whatever they want. Try buying a car without any tires.
I gotta say that it truly does suck for full-timers. But, I can assure you, those of us who are contractors (even in the RTP area) are having no such trouble. In fact, I just got a pay raise in the past few months.
They already have reality game shows in Japan in which the contestants get hurt. It's futher along there and it's hugely successful. My question is, is that so wrong? If the contestants know that they could get hurt or killed, but do it anyways, is there anything wrong with that? There was one game show in which a guy was literally locked in an apartment, and given postcards and magazines, and a pen, and that was it. He was supposed to see if he could live by entering sweepstakes. He lived, but just barely. He nearly started to death.
They won't for one good reason. The advertising is finally realizing that you can't peg web ads to clickthrough performance, when the rest of the advertising industry has nothing comparable. Already, sites such CBS Marketwatch and other large sites are refusing to sell advertising space based on clickthroughs. When this stupid trend of only being paid for clickthroughs is over, websites won't be nearly as desperate for you to click. We'll see more ads that are just geared towards general brand recognition, and not an instant action.
What a Kweer name. I don't think that a naming Konvention like that is going to help them make in roads into the marketplace.
Porn. Plenty of porn companies can afford this. If they're doing something extreme, and they're located in a dictatorial country like Australia or the US, this may be a good choice.
That's nice, but what if the problem is that the network connection is down, or the computer doesn't boot up, or the display is unuseable, or something crashes?
I graduated from a top notch college with a degree in business, and I was going to worka few years, then go get my MBA from Harvard, but when I found what pay and work conditions were like for developers, I scuttled my plans to get my MBA. The non-IT degree is very useful though, because I think I have a much more well-rounded background than most strict techie geeks. An MBA, though, is probably overkill, unless you want to be a top-level exec. But if you don't mind cranking out code, or doing project management, or being freelance, an MBA is not really helpful.
But don't think that the entertainment industry doesn't get anything in return for allowing you to cut out ads. They, in turn, get to know EXACTLY who watches what, when. They get to store it all in a giant database, and with some decent data mining, they could probably even create a pretty decent psychological profile of each person. This stuff already makes Doubleclick's privacy intrusions look like a joke. Use stuff like TIVO and cable, and you might as well just walk around in the streets handing out your detailed viewing and spending habits to complete strangers, because in essence, that's what you're doing. Me? I'll keep my antenna and I'll sit through the ads (or switch to a PS game while they're on), and maintain my anonimity, thank you.
You are not giving anyone your address by watching a television show. The cable companies ALREADY know your address from your billing info. Your cable company will know who you are whether they do customized ads or not. If they tried to sell your profile combined with your address to tree-spam companies, THAT would be evil.
Exactly. Your cable company (which is probably a huge multi-national corporation, made up of many, many companies) already has all of your personal information, and they know everything that you watch every second that your TV is on. More than likely, that information, which is not only linked back to you, but to the TV that you're using, is shared amongst this huge multi-national corporation. And who's to say that they don't sell stats about you and your TV watching habits? More than likely, they already do and you just don't know it. With cable TV, there is no way, whatsoever, other than pirating it, to block your information from the cable company. If you're worried about it online, just use Safeweb or something similar. Hell, not only is your cable TV company watching everything you do, you're PAYING them for it. Now THAT'S invasive.
So then China's laws would end up ruling the world. Fantastic. Brilliant. You'd better hurry up and say what you want about politicians, the government, the police, and the military now. Once this brilliant vision happens, you'll be arrested and disappear for any of these 'crimes against the People'.
Is this the same Slashdot that rails against any online company trying to collect viewer data? Doubleclick is the great evil. But Cable can't do any wrong? Huh? Could somebody explain to me why online tracking is bad, and TV tracking is good?
Personally, I use rabbit ears (antenna) on my TV, so I really don't care. But it's yet another reason for me NOT to get cable TV.
I think it's just because the ASP industry is like the banking industry before a lot of standards were developed
No, the reason that you don't have to worry about money in the bank is because it's insured by the FDIC for you. Regulations help to a degree, but banks still do go out of business. The only difference is that the FDIC gives you back whatever you had in that bank.
Any reasonably run business should have insurance to cover their own asses, so if, say, your ASP goes under and takes all of your data with them, you still have insurance to at least help you close up your business and pay off your debts, or try to recover in some way from that compensation. Or, you can look for an ASP that's independently insured and you and hope that'll cover you in case anything happens.
Then you've got legitimate firepower and can contact others for a class-action lawsuit.
True, but the point is that if the business dies, there's nobody to sue. A corporation is legally an entity, and when it files for bankruptcy, it's up to the court to distribute the rest of it's assets. It's like a will when somebody dies. Whether or not you get anything (like compensation for your lost data) is up to the courts. Once the business is gone, there's nobody you can sue. That entity is 'dead'. Every try to sue a cadaver in court?
Online storage belongs to them. That's what you give up for the convenience of storing your data on THEIR servers. Want your own app and your own data? Use your own servers.
Looks like it's time to stock up on the Cheetos, Little Debbies, and doughnuts again.
Dude. Sites like mine who are alive because of their links will definately be adversely impacted by this. This plan can be a major loss of advertising revenue for all websites, and a major gain for Microsoft's alone.
But, also, is this guy going to ONLY work 40 hours a week? Nah. A more realistic number is 60 hours/week. At that rate, he'd be pulling in a whopping $4.17/hour.
you are paid whatever you need to survive
YOU could survive on $2500 for 2 months? I know I couldn't.
I think the wages are just right, actually
Didn't I read $2500 for 2 months? That's about $7.81/hour. That's not going to encourage anybody to do anything, really. If I were earning $7.81/hour, I'd spend about 15 minutes a day working on the project, and 7-8 hours working on my own stuff.
Sure. If things keep going at this rate, Open Office could write a Word importer and exporter and finish it about the time MS is releasing the NEXT version of Office. Playing catch-up doesn't help set standards or even acquire market share.
So keeping them interested without using MS' stuff? So, what, then? Sit them down in front of a command line? I know there's other easy to use stuff other than MS, but by saying 'no MS', you're severly limiting the software that they can play with.