When Verizon reneged on the merger deal, Northpoints days were truly numbered.
I remember reading about it in a newsletter from the Net Economy and just being amazed. First Verizon (an incumbent) sabotages a CLEC, and then big Mama Bell scavenges the remains. Competition may not be dead, but the major players are sure doing a good job to incapacitate it.
Learn the fundamentals, then practice.
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A grounding in the fundamentals of mathematics, most essentially rigourous logic, has been the keystone for my career in computing. I currently work as a web designer. My HTML was easy to pick through practice and because I had become used to learning logical systems quickly.
I was trained as an economist in college. One course with a brilliant man, Dr. David Kendrick, introduced me to the power of computing in connection with economics.
Mathematics is the best language to talk computerese. If you're not into it, maybe you should consider a different profession.
Thanks for the advice everyone. BTW I am *shudder* developing for a NT server. My image is done on a Mac (got the good tools for that . "Save for web" on recent Adobe products is a godsend). Most of my coding gets done on a slow PC running '95.
The Net Economy had an article on the new breed of switch fabrics back in October. The article talks about MEMS and has a link to The Sandia MEMS labs, which is very cool.
I hate pop-ups and ads when I'm surfing at home. That's why I use webwasher . It stops the banners but not most of the pop-ups (sigh).
But to pay for my computer and other things, like food and rent, I work for a website that makes money through advertising. These advertisers pay my bills. I want them to be happy. I have no wish to be so altruistic as to starve myself. I read that NYT article with an eye to increase advertiser satisfaction, while not annoying visitors to our site.
Now that funny-money stock options and IPOs are proving to be ineffective, websites have to find ways to generate revenues. The good ones use advertiser revenues to provide good content that brings in visitors that bring in page views that encourage more advertising. It is a virtuous circle. Sies that get greedy and make it hard to get to the content throught the advertising, like crazy pop-ups, lose visitors and thus revenue and go out of business, another virtuous circle.
I detest self-righteous asses, hiding in their basements and expecting the rest of us to give up our prosperity so that we can all be doctrinaire losers with no money.
Advertising is a pain in the ass. I try to avoid it when possible. But I can live with it. I'm all for any techniques that make advertising more effective in generating revenue while keeping them unobtrusive.
And yeah, Doubleclick scares the hell out of me.
So what's the new printing press?
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If the printing press was so important because of its ability to spread knowledge quickly and cheaply, then the Internet fits that bill. The technology that will allow the internet to grow to fill that role is optical networking. Joe McGarvey argued this point at the Net Economy in this article. There was also a decent New Yorker article on the subject but I don't know if that's available online.
Hardware makers are more important than software coders in this current renaissance. Gutenberg didn't write any books himself but his invention allowed others' work to be more widely spread.
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When Verizon reneged on the merger deal, Northpoints days were truly numbered.
I remember reading about it in a newsletter from the Net Economy and just being amazed. First Verizon (an incumbent) sabotages a CLEC, and then big Mama Bell scavenges the remains. Competition may not be dead, but the major players are sure doing a good job to incapacitate it.
A grounding in the fundamentals of mathematics, most essentially rigourous logic, has been the keystone for my career in computing. I currently work as a web designer. My HTML was easy to pick through practice and because I had become used to learning logical systems quickly. I was trained as an economist in college. One course with a brilliant man, Dr. David Kendrick, introduced me to the power of computing in connection with economics.
Mathematics is the best language to talk computerese. If you're not into it, maybe you should consider a different profession.
Thanks for the advice everyone. BTW I am *shudder* developing for a NT server. My image is done on a Mac (got the good tools for that . "Save for web" on recent Adobe products is a godsend). Most of my coding gets done on a slow PC running '95.
The Net Economy had an article on the new breed of switch fabrics back in October. The article talks about MEMS and has a link to The Sandia MEMS labs, which is very cool.
I hate pop-ups and ads when I'm surfing at home. That's why I use webwasher . It stops the banners but not most of the pop-ups (sigh).
But to pay for my computer and other things, like food and rent, I work for a website that makes money through advertising. These advertisers pay my bills. I want them to be happy. I have no wish to be so altruistic as to starve myself. I read that NYT article with an eye to increase advertiser satisfaction, while not annoying visitors to our site.
Now that funny-money stock options and IPOs are proving to be ineffective, websites have to find ways to generate revenues. The good ones use advertiser revenues to provide good content that brings in visitors that bring in page views that encourage more advertising. It is a virtuous circle. Sies that get greedy and make it hard to get to the content throught the advertising, like crazy pop-ups, lose visitors and thus revenue and go out of business, another virtuous circle.
I detest self-righteous asses, hiding in their basements and expecting the rest of us to give up our prosperity so that we can all be doctrinaire losers with no money.
Advertising is a pain in the ass. I try to avoid it when possible. But I can live with it. I'm all for any techniques that make advertising more effective in generating revenue while keeping them unobtrusive.
And yeah, Doubleclick scares the hell out of me.
If the printing press was so important because of its ability to spread knowledge quickly and cheaply, then the Internet fits that bill. The technology that will allow the internet to grow to fill that role is optical networking. Joe McGarvey argued this point at the Net Economy in this article. There was also a decent New Yorker article on the subject but I don't know if that's available online. Hardware makers are more important than software coders in this current renaissance. Gutenberg didn't write any books himself but his invention allowed others' work to be more widely spread.