Uh, call me nuts, but I thought that "ease of use" is what several commercial Linux companies have been working on for years. So far, none of 'em are even close. what makes you think that if a company working on it (Caldera, Lindows, etc.) can't do it, a handful of geek volunteers can do it?
I'm not suggesting conspiracy. I'm just saying that if anybody knew the exact formula, no matter what it was, it *could* be manipulated. And with the amount of traffic going through google, you could make a fortune selling ice cubes to eskimos. Even that paper doesn't spell out exactly how page rank works. If I knew how page rank worked, I'd be able to pull in tens of thousands of $$ a day. I actually knew one guy that knew how it worked (he paid a math grad student to study it for a year), and for a while, he was making more than $50K/day.
These researchers are all full of shit. Why? Nobody outside of Google knows how Pagerank works, exactly. And let me tell you, if anybody did, they could make themselves millionaires overnight. There are groups of people who do nothing but try to tackle Google, and very few people successfully crack the magic formulas. And those who do make a quick buck, but then Google changes it again once people catch on. They didn't improve PageRank because they don't know how it works... they're just guessing how it works.
The difference is that in one case it will be done to stifle competition and the other case to preserve or increase competition.
Do you know the meaning of the word "competition"? If there are other office suites out there, that IS competition. It may not be successful, but it's there. There's no law guaranteeing the success of any business. At least not in the US. There'd be no competition if MS thugs broke the legs of anybody writing office software.
Oh yeah, and if you don't think that giving away product for free is a result of competition, well... you're just stupid.
You're right. Language *is* irrelevant. But for the wrong reason... language is irrelevant because there are no fucking programming jbos left! You can program until you're blue in the face, but if nobody will pay you to do it, what's the fucking point? That's like arguing which style of horse drawn buggy is the best. The answer is neither! The question is irrelevant.
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It's a *very* precarious situation. Virtually any business person with experience will tell you that competing on price alone is a losing battle. Amazon needs to innovate, not just cut costs. There's *always* somebody cheaper. And most people who shop the web are the lowest form of cretin who will buy whatever they want, where-ever they can find it a penny cheaper, without any thought to who the selAler is. If Osama Bin Laden were to sell a DVD for $0.01 less than Amazon, I'm sure he'd sell out in a heartbeat.
I'm in business for myself, and personally, I'd *never* put myself in that position.
It's called censoring, it says FUCKING in the book, but the reviewer didn't want to offend anyone so he changed it to F---ing.
Well, in that case, he needs to say that his comments are not from the book. If the book says "fucking", then he should also write "fucking". Since this site isn't a Disney owned site (or is it by now?), the word "fucking" isn't going to offend anyone.
Why would he call William Shatner "William F---ing Shatner"? What is that... "William F dash dash dash ing Shatner"? That doesn't make a whole fuckload of sense. Is this fuckup from the book or the reviewer?
Who says it's "full time"? Find a sponsor, type an email, by an email list, plug it into your software, and let the checks roll in. It's not like he's spending all day every day typing out email. All of this shit is 100% automated. That's $1000/week from largely sitting on his ass. I'll take that.
That's the easy part. I can come up with 10 people that will pay for sales via spam in 10 minutes. The tough part is getting the servers in Asia, or E. Europe that'll let you spam. Bandwidth is cheap now. That's a negligible cost. But to find a provider that'll give you a bulletproof fat pipe... that's gonna cost you upwards of $10K/week.
This should be embarassig for them, but they're so clueless, they really don't even realize it. MySQL has been a long running joke for a long time between real database people (DBA's and developers working with terabyte sized databases that MUST HAVE 100% uptime). This suggestion is just so utterly preposterous that it shows that the MYSQL team needs to talk to some people to learn how databases are really used.
. A few years back I saw Oracle servers running NT with 4GB of RAM, so I guess they're using even more now.
I few years back, I saw a Sun box running Oracle with 64 Gig of RAM... They're already using quite a bit more. I can't even begin to fathom how much RAM a DB stored in RAM would take. It would be absolutely astronomical for any reasonable sized database. Sysadmins would spend all day swapping out RAM sticks as they died.
1. If you think that Blockbuster "has a great asortment of movies", then you know -zilch- about movies. What do you care if Independence Day is in widescreen or not?
2. If you can't find a local movie place with better selection... stick with Blockbuster.
3. Wal-Mart is shit. The stuff they sell is shit. They cater to the lowest common denominator.
4. Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, and McDonald's are all giant mega-conglomerates of the worst kind. They all make Microsoft look like a kid's lemonade stand by comparison. But hey, if you like to suck at the corporate teat...
5. But you're right... not all of us can be pretentious. Only some of us.
Who do you think maintains most of the forest in North America? It's the paper/wood pulp industries. It sure as hell isn't the computer hardware industry.
Again, no. Recycling paper involves destroying and reassembling the paper, losing elements in the process. Worse, because of paper's lack of resiliency, you have to use a lot more of it, thus creating the need for a much larger supply of it. In the case of e-paper, recycling it is just a matter of sending a new image to it. No replacement paper needed just to fix a typo.
And the stuff needed to make "E-paper"? Plastics (oil) that don't degrade, heavy metals that not only are around for thousands of years, but are toxic, etc. I'd imagine that the environmental damage done by 100 reams of paper doesn't even rival that of one sheet of "E-paper".
And don't forget to include the cost of porting your app to Oracle when some developer finds he has to use a subselect or a trigger or a distributed transaction:-) Well, you know it's not gonna be the guy who suggests MySQL, because he/she doesn't know shit about databases. ('What's a trigger?').
Good post. Wish/. hadn't cut me off from modding long ago.
But the fact of the matter is (and the DOJ ruled on this) that Microsoft was using anti-competitive behavior to drive competition away from Netscape.
Well, gee whiz! If the DOJ says so, it must be true! I guess I SHOULD quit smoking pot and switch to good, healthy american tobacco and booze! And while I'm at it, I'd better cover up any naked statues I have!
Windows 2000 is a pretty damn good product. I know of a lot of companies that have settled on that until something better comes out. I think that for once, MS doesn't *have* to rush to push out a product, because the one they have right now is pretty damn good.
Auto companies avoid this problem by doing a recall to fix the problem. Software companies avoid this by releasing patches (which MS did do in this case, a LONG time before the worm hit).
If your Pinto explodes because you ignored the recall, that's your fault, not Ford's.
...when I hear about this kind of shit. Why force these cultures into the modern world before they're ready? What's the point? So they can have cheap access to porn, X-10 popup ads, giant companies, and general ignorance? Is this an attempt at large multinational corporations to market to *every* human on the planet? Yeah, let's homogenize the planet. Let's make every person the exact same Wal-Mart shopping, Gap-wearing drone. Leave no corner of the planet untouched. I mean, they don't have NET access!! What's wrong with these people??
Leave them alone, for christs's sake. They'll seek out the Net when and if they're ever ready. I envy any culture that's not exposed to this rathole of commercialism and crap called "The Media". My goal in life is to make enough money so I can afford to drop out completely. These people have been spared, so leave it to some stupid "welldoer" to fuck it all up.
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Uh, call me nuts, but I thought that "ease of use" is what several commercial Linux companies have been working on for years. So far, none of 'em are even close. what makes you think that if a company working on it (Caldera, Lindows, etc.) can't do it, a handful of geek volunteers can do it?
I'm not suggesting conspiracy. I'm just saying that if anybody knew the exact formula, no matter what it was, it *could* be manipulated. And with the amount of traffic going through google, you could make a fortune selling ice cubes to eskimos. Even that paper doesn't spell out exactly how page rank works. If I knew how page rank worked, I'd be able to pull in tens of thousands of $$ a day. I actually knew one guy that knew how it worked (he paid a math grad student to study it for a year), and for a while, he was making more than $50K/day.
These researchers are all full of shit. Why? Nobody outside of Google knows how Pagerank works, exactly. And let me tell you, if anybody did, they could make themselves millionaires overnight. There are groups of people who do nothing but try to tackle Google, and very few people successfully crack the magic formulas. And those who do make a quick buck, but then Google changes it again once people catch on. They didn't improve PageRank because they don't know how it works... they're just guessing how it works.
The difference is that in one case it will be done to stifle competition and the other case to preserve or increase competition.
Do you know the meaning of the word "competition"? If there are other office suites out there, that IS competition. It may not be successful, but it's there. There's no law guaranteeing the success of any business. At least not in the US. There'd be no competition if MS thugs broke the legs of anybody writing office software.
Oh yeah, and if you don't think that giving away product for free is a result of competition, well... you're just stupid.
You're right. Language *is* irrelevant. But for the wrong reason... language is irrelevant because there are no fucking programming jbos left! You can program until you're blue in the face, but if nobody will pay you to do it, what's the fucking point? That's like arguing which style of horse drawn buggy is the best. The answer is neither! The question is irrelevant.
It's a *very* precarious situation. Virtually any business person with experience will tell you that competing on price alone is a losing battle. Amazon needs to innovate, not just cut costs. There's *always* somebody cheaper. And most people who shop the web are the lowest form of cretin who will buy whatever they want, where-ever they can find it a penny cheaper, without any thought to who the selAler is. If Osama Bin Laden were to sell a DVD for $0.01 less than Amazon, I'm sure he'd sell out in a heartbeat.
I'm in business for myself, and personally, I'd *never* put myself in that position.
That was a Humor Joke, which the moderators seem to have missed as well.
Ah, a "joke". Yes, I've heard of such things. That makes sense now.
Ha!
It's good to see the small guy win one.
Small guy? Are we talking about the same article? I'm reading one about Amazon.
It's called censoring, it says FUCKING in the book, but the reviewer didn't want to offend anyone so he changed it to F---ing.
Well, in that case, he needs to say that his comments are not from the book. If the book says "fucking", then he should also write "fucking". Since this site isn't a Disney owned site (or is it by now?), the word "fucking" isn't going to offend anyone.
Why would he call William Shatner "William F---ing Shatner"? What is that... "William F dash dash dash ing Shatner"? That doesn't make a whole fuckload of sense. Is this fuckup from the book or the reviewer?
Pretty lame for a full-time job.
Who says it's "full time"? Find a sponsor, type an email, by an email list, plug it into your software, and let the checks roll in. It's not like he's spending all day every day typing out email. All of this shit is 100% automated. That's $1000/week from largely sitting on his ass. I'll take that.
That's the easy part. I can come up with 10 people that will pay for sales via spam in 10 minutes. The tough part is getting the servers in Asia, or E. Europe that'll let you spam. Bandwidth is cheap now. That's a negligible cost. But to find a provider that'll give you a bulletproof fat pipe... that's gonna cost you upwards of $10K/week.
This should be embarassig for them, but they're so clueless, they really don't even realize it. MySQL has been a long running joke for a long time between real database people (DBA's and developers working with terabyte sized databases that MUST HAVE 100% uptime). This suggestion is just so utterly preposterous that it shows that the MYSQL team needs to talk to some people to learn how databases are really used.
. A few years back I saw Oracle servers running NT with 4GB of RAM, so I guess they're using even more now.
I few years back, I saw a Sun box running Oracle with 64 Gig of RAM... They're already using quite a bit more. I can't even begin to fathom how much RAM a DB stored in RAM would take. It would be absolutely astronomical for any reasonable sized database. Sysadmins would spend all day swapping out RAM sticks as they died.
1. If you think that Blockbuster "has a great asortment of movies", then you know -zilch- about movies. What do you care if Independence Day is in widescreen or not?
2. If you can't find a local movie place with better selection... stick with Blockbuster.
3. Wal-Mart is shit. The stuff they sell is shit. They cater to the lowest common denominator.
4. Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, and McDonald's are all giant mega-conglomerates of the worst kind. They all make Microsoft look like a kid's lemonade stand by comparison. But hey, if you like to suck at the corporate teat...
5. But you're right... not all of us can be pretentious. Only some of us.
Here's a tip for ya: Don't go to Blockbuster. Renting movies at Blockbuster is like clothes shopping at Wal-Mart or eating at McDonald's.
We still need trees to breath.
Who do you think maintains most of the forest in North America? It's the paper/wood pulp industries. It sure as hell isn't the computer hardware industry.
Again, no. Recycling paper involves destroying and reassembling the paper, losing elements in the process. Worse, because of paper's lack of resiliency, you have to use a lot more of it, thus creating the need for a much larger supply of it. In the case of e-paper, recycling it is just a matter of sending a new image to it. No replacement paper needed just to fix a typo.
And the stuff needed to make "E-paper"? Plastics (oil) that don't degrade, heavy metals that not only are around for thousands of years, but are toxic, etc. I'd imagine that the environmental damage done by 100 reams of paper doesn't even rival that of one sheet of "E-paper".
And don't forget to include the cost of porting your app to Oracle when some developer finds he has to use a subselect or a trigger or a distributed transaction :-)
/. hadn't cut me off from modding long ago.
Well, you know it's not gonna be the guy who suggests MySQL, because he/she doesn't know shit about databases. ('What's a trigger?').
Good post. Wish
Back to PL/SQL...
It's just a code name. It's not the final name of the product, unlike probably the worst software name ever: Mozilla.
But the fact of the matter is (and the DOJ ruled on this) that Microsoft was using anti-competitive behavior to drive competition away from Netscape.
Well, gee whiz! If the DOJ says so, it must be true! I guess I SHOULD quit smoking pot and switch to good, healthy american tobacco and booze! And while I'm at it, I'd better cover up any naked statues I have!
Windows 2000 is a pretty damn good product. I know of a lot of companies that have settled on that until something better comes out. I think that for once, MS doesn't *have* to rush to push out a product, because the one they have right now is pretty damn good.
Auto companies avoid this problem by doing a recall to fix the problem. Software companies avoid this by releasing patches (which MS did do in this case, a LONG time before the worm hit).
If your Pinto explodes because you ignored the recall, that's your fault, not Ford's.
I need money to buy a house free and clear, and then that's it. I'm gone.
...when I hear about this kind of shit. Why force these cultures into the modern world before they're ready? What's the point? So they can have cheap access to porn, X-10 popup ads, giant companies, and general ignorance? Is this an attempt at large multinational corporations to market to *every* human on the planet? Yeah, let's homogenize the planet. Let's make every person the exact same Wal-Mart shopping, Gap-wearing drone. Leave no corner of the planet untouched. I mean, they don't have NET access!! What's wrong with these people??
Leave them alone, for christs's sake. They'll seek out the Net when and if they're ever ready. I envy any culture that's not exposed to this rathole of commercialism and crap called "The Media". My goal in life is to make enough money so I can afford to drop out completely. These people have been spared, so leave it to some stupid "welldoer" to fuck it all up.