Option 1: Bing users are more susceptible to advertising and Microsoft gets 55% more click throughs than Google with 1/13th as many impressions (from the article)
Option 2: Click fraud on Bing is very high compared to Google.
The alternative is that capitalism works, but can take some time.
Microsoft has a lot of cash which is why it is still so strong. It's current products are coming under increasing pressure from open source, the web etc. So this may not last forever - unless of course they get a bailout.
And, uh, I have the pleasure of working now with a huge data warehouse that hasn't normalized status codes, so instead of quickly searching for an integer, the queries run slow as hell scanning char fields. It's not good.
That's a problem that can easily be fixed. Replace the char fields with the int's you so crave, maybe adding any missing indexes (indices?)
Do it once and enjoy the results (and speed) forever.
Dude, get over yourself. You should be modded as a troll as you are.
I use an ipod for one reason - its usability. It is the easiest mp3 player I have found to use and control. The scroll wheel is excellent for navigation, it is nice and slim and even connects nicely to my other AV devices.
They ship with poor quality ear phones that are definitely causing hearing damage
Just because something ships with poor headphones, doesn't mean you have to use them. Yes, they use a standard headphone jack, so you have flexibility with which headphones you use. I personally use a nice pair of Sony headphones that work well while jogging or traversing public transport.
And the typical iPod user just does not care about anything other than being cool.
Just because idiots use something, doesn't mean it's crap - or that all users of the same devices are idiots.
The fact of the matter is that the sooner iPods die a horrible death the sooner we have a chance at decent mainstream music
I'm not sure there's any correlation between the types of music players on the market and the music generated by artists. However, feel free to prove me wrong.
and just about everything except (and maybe not except) philosophy.
I believe philosophers came up with a lot of the early logic work, which is very mathematical based. Without the work philosophers did on logic we wouldn't have been able to build computers.
1-4 Address valid points, but each project is different and sometimes the overbearing factor is performance.
When developing web applications one of the largest bottlenecks can be rendering of templates. I always use clearsilver for templating, it's written in C and orders of magnitude faster than any other template engine I've come across.
The issue then becomes, which framework uses clearsilver? I didn't find a satisfactory solution using similar criteria as 1-4, so I hacked clearsilver support into cherrypy. I'm sure there's many other solutions out there.
The basic point is that every project is different, so different criteria should apply to selecting the appropriate framework.
As always, less is more (except for terminals). Have no desktop icons or fancy buttons, save the space for the applications that are open. A right-hand click on your desktop should give you access to your favourite apps across various categories (internet,programming,multimedia etc).
I typically have 5 desktops that I mouse scroll between each with one major application always open. The first three are firefox for web surfing, firefox for gmail, thunderbird for other email and then that leaves two for the task at hand (typically an editor and some terminals for programming)
Having a widescreen laptop is most useful for having normal applications open (like firefox/openoffice) on the left 2/3rds of the screen and terminals/irc/etc. open in smaller windows down the right hand side. This allows me to focus on the task at hand, but quickly perform other tasks as required.
Another "Rich Internet App" in the same vein is QWAD Chat: http://www.qwadchat.com It uses XMLHttpRequest to poll a server for chat messages, without requiring page refreshing. In addition it has various DOM manipulation behind it to have tabs to switch between different chat rooms.
There is a similar interface to serialize objects between PHP and Javascript called JPSpan (http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/).
In addition a toolkit I've been working with to assist developers building such Javascript/PHP applications can be found at http://www.qwad.com.au/framework/
Although the technology to do this has been around for a while, it's good to see people starting to realise some of the possibilities.
Yes, I have developed a framework for developing Rich Internet Applications that include the capability to do 'Live Searching' - as google suggest does. To check it out browse to: http://qwadframework.sourceforge.net
One of the things these studies never take into account is productivity. I was a windows user for about 8 years and my productivity had completely platue'd out. For the last 6 months I have been using slackware and suddenly my productivity is increasing at a rapid rate - much more than I'd ever be able to do on a windows box.
If you really want to see the power of DHTML have a look at a demo framework I have created http://tahpot.homeip.net/wp_blog/index.php?p=6
In reality there is nothing stopping the development of web applications that replicate the usability of traditional desktop applications, but have the power of large connected databases.
If you want to look at some good resources checkout: www.bindows.com www.netwindows.org
The power of web applications was hinted at in the first dot com era, but it is actually a viable reality now. Using Javascript to load data directly from the server (XmlHttpRequest()) there is no need for page refreshes to provide the functionality of a web application. Data can be loaded from the server and sent to the client, maintaining state.
For those interested in the capabilities of these new DHTML application please contact me, I am in the process of instigating some projects to assist the development of these applications.
To release IE7 is going to be bad for web developers. We are going to end up with another dud browser that we have to support that won't fully support web standards. I'm guessing IE7 will be like IE5 and be useless unless your running the.5 version... which will likely come out with longhorn.
So event if the version that comes with longhorn is half decent, everyone will still need to support the IE7 version that was released before longhorn.
27 July 2002 issue New Scientist... Subscribers: http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/art icle.jsp?rp=1&id=mg17523535.900
Basically: At some point, civilisation will develop enormously powerful computers capable of mimicking what we call consciousness. And if that premise is true, the rest follows logically.
Humans will one day simulate consciousness, and then go on to create simulated Universes for it to live in. If that's true then the chances are they've already done so, and you're living in one.
OK, it's just possible that you're part of the pre-simulation real world - the "original history". But given how many simulations there'll be, the probability of that is very slim. All things considered the probability that you're living in a simulation is "close to unity:.
Parallelism overrated? Excuse me, but do you know what parrallelism is?
For starters, having multiple processors is not parellism in its true form. It involves quantum mechanics which we still don't fully understand, but results in processing power of incredible speeds... ie: 10^150 more than we can ever get with moore's law!
I'm a uni student and i've spoken to people studying for their phd. They pirate software like there's no tomorrow BUT they say that a) they can't afford $10,000 for the Maths software etc and b) The give it to students as well because these students will end up coming out of uni knowing how to use this particular software. They go work for a company who says... what do you need? and the student says, well i know how to use 'xxxxxx' and can train people in it. So the company goes and buys 50 licences.
In Australia here, there's a couple of places I know of where I can hire video games... They also sell cd burners, and appear to do a fantastic CD-R trade.
This is incredibly funny. I spent 5 hours yesterday looking for your original post because I wanted to spread your ideas around the internet. Due to my vague recollection of the post and poor slashdot searching facilities:P I couldn't find it. Good job in posting it again! Thanks.
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Option 1:
Bing users are more susceptible to advertising and Microsoft gets 55% more click throughs than Google with 1/13th as many impressions (from the article)
Option 2:
Click fraud on Bing is very high compared to Google.
The alternative is that capitalism works, but can take some time.
Microsoft has a lot of cash which is why it is still so strong. It's current products are coming under increasing pressure from open source, the web etc. So this may not last forever - unless of course they get a bailout.
And, uh, I have the pleasure of working now with a huge data warehouse that hasn't normalized status codes, so instead of quickly searching for an integer, the queries run slow as hell scanning char fields. It's not good.
That's a problem that can easily be fixed. Replace the char fields with the int's you so crave, maybe adding any missing indexes (indices?)
Do it once and enjoy the results (and speed) forever.
Dude, get over yourself. You should be modded as a troll as you are.
I use an ipod for one reason - its usability. It is the easiest mp3 player I have found to use and control. The scroll wheel is excellent for navigation, it is nice and slim and even connects nicely to my other AV devices.
They ship with poor quality ear phones that are definitely causing hearing damage
Just because something ships with poor headphones, doesn't mean you have to use them. Yes, they use a standard headphone jack, so you have flexibility with which headphones you use. I personally use a nice pair of Sony headphones that work well while jogging or traversing public transport.
And the typical iPod user just does not care about anything other than being cool.
Just because idiots use something, doesn't mean it's crap - or that all users of the same devices are idiots.
The fact of the matter is that the sooner iPods die a horrible death the sooner we have a chance at decent mainstream music
I'm not sure there's any correlation between the types of music players on the market and the music generated by artists. However, feel free to prove me wrong.
and just about everything except (and maybe not except) philosophy.
I believe philosophers came up with a lot of the early logic work, which is very mathematical based. Without the work philosophers did on logic we wouldn't have been able to build computers.
There's a website setup listing all the things you can do.
http://nocleanfeed.com/
Maybe I missed the sarcasm of this post, but TFA mentions that SSD *is* all of those things, just not at the same price as traditional HDD's.
1-4 Address valid points, but each project is different and sometimes the overbearing factor is performance.
When developing web applications one of the largest bottlenecks can be rendering of templates. I always use clearsilver for templating, it's written in C and orders of magnitude faster than any other template engine I've come across.
The issue then becomes, which framework uses clearsilver? I didn't find a satisfactory solution using similar criteria as 1-4, so I hacked clearsilver support into cherrypy. I'm sure there's many other solutions out there.
The basic point is that every project is different, so different criteria should apply to selecting the appropriate framework.
As always, less is more (except for terminals). Have no desktop icons or fancy buttons, save the space for the applications that are open. A right-hand click on your desktop should give you access to your favourite apps across various categories (internet,programming,multimedia etc).
I typically have 5 desktops that I mouse scroll between each with one major application always open. The first three are firefox for web surfing, firefox for gmail, thunderbird for other email and then that leaves two for the task at hand (typically an editor and some terminals for programming)
Having a widescreen laptop is most useful for having normal applications open (like firefox/openoffice) on the left 2/3rds of the screen and terminals/irc/etc. open in smaller windows down the right hand side. This allows me to focus on the task at hand, but quickly perform other tasks as required.
It was indeed, grab the original here: http://www.supermasterpiece.com/music/oops.html
this is a typical example of "keep your friends close and you enemies closer"
Another "Rich Internet App" in the same vein is QWAD Chat: http://www.qwadchat.com
It uses XMLHttpRequest to poll a server for chat messages, without requiring page refreshing.
In addition it has various DOM manipulation behind it to have tabs to switch between different chat rooms.
There is a similar interface to serialize objects between PHP and Javascript called JPSpan (http://jpspan.sourceforge.net/).
In addition a toolkit I've been working with to assist developers building such Javascript/PHP applications can be found at http://www.qwad.com.au/framework/
Although the technology to do this has been around for a while, it's good to see people starting to realise some of the possibilities.
Yes, I have developed a framework for developing Rich Internet Applications that include the capability to do 'Live Searching' - as google suggest does.
To check it out browse to: http://qwadframework.sourceforge.net
One of the things these studies never take into account is productivity. I was a windows user for about 8 years and my productivity had completely platue'd out. For the last 6 months I have been using slackware and suddenly my productivity is increasing at a rapid rate - much more than I'd ever be able to do on a windows box.
If you really want to see the power of DHTML have a look at a demo framework I have created http://tahpot.homeip.net/wp_blog/index.php?p=6
In reality there is nothing stopping the development of web applications that replicate the usability of traditional desktop applications, but have the power of large connected databases.
If you want to look at some good resources checkout:
www.bindows.com
www.netwindows.org
The power of web applications was hinted at in the first dot com era, but it is actually a viable reality now. Using Javascript to load data directly from the server (XmlHttpRequest()) there is no need for page refreshes to provide the functionality of a web application. Data can be loaded from the server and sent to the client, maintaining state.
For those interested in the capabilities of these new DHTML application please contact me, I am in the process of instigating some projects to assist the development of these applications.
To release IE7 is going to be bad for web developers. We are going to end up with another dud browser that we have to support that won't fully support web standards. .5 version... which will likely come out with longhorn.
I'm guessing IE7 will be like IE5 and be useless unless your running the
So event if the version that comes with longhorn is half decent, everyone will still need to support the IE7 version that was released before longhorn.
a beowulf cluster of these...
27 July 2002 issue New Scientist...t icle.jsp?rp=1&id=mg17523535.900
Subscribers: http://archive.newscientist.com/secure/article/ar
Basically:
At some point, civilisation will develop enormously powerful computers capable of mimicking what we call consciousness. And if that premise is true, the rest follows logically.
Humans will one day simulate consciousness, and then go on to create simulated Universes for it to live in. If that's true then the chances are they've already done so, and you're living in one.
OK, it's just possible that you're part of the pre-simulation real world - the "original history". But given how many simulations there'll be, the probability of that is very slim. All things considered the probability that you're living in a simulation is "close to unity:.
Parallelism overrated? Excuse me, but do you know what parrallelism is?
For starters, having multiple processors is not parellism in its true form. It involves quantum mechanics which we still don't fully understand, but results in processing power of incredible speeds... ie: 10^150 more than we can ever get with moore's law!
i suppose i could enter and have a 50/50 chance of winning
modernise it and turn my 1billion into a hundred or so
I'm a uni student and i've spoken to people studying for their phd. They pirate software like there's no tomorrow BUT they say that a) they can't afford $10,000 for the Maths software etc and b) The give it to students as well because these students will end up coming out of uni knowing how to use this particular software. They go work for a company who says... what do you need? and the student says, well i know how to use 'xxxxxx' and can train people in it. So the company goes and buys 50 licences.
Now is that bad for the company? I think not.
In Australia here, there's a couple of places I know of where I can hire video games... They also sell cd burners, and appear to do a fantastic CD-R trade.
This is incredibly funny. I spent 5 hours yesterday looking for your original post because I wanted to spread your ideas around the internet. Due to my vague recollection of the post and poor slashdot searching facilities :P I couldn't find it.
Good job in posting it again! Thanks.
I'm pissed off at wasting 5hrs though.