According to this advertisers can target their campaign by age and gender. My understanding is that, when some information about the user is available (i.e. they signed in as passport users) their personal data is used to better target the ads. Moreover, MSN search could track which kind of ads you clicked in the past or which kind of pages you usually visit and use this information to deliver even better targeted ads. On the other hand, MSN already collects demographic information about the visitors of their sites, not only age and gender, but also other random things like education, occupation, marital status, income, online shopping etc... so they could use also this information in the future.
They should give it away for free and charge for heavy multimedia applications, that should run on it much better than on any other OS.
People is not used to pay for an OS (Linux / FreeBSD are free, and usually you get Windows or OS X along with the computer so you don't "notice" you are actually paying for it).
I think that many people would give it a try, if it was for free, but much less is willing to shell out one hundred bucks just to check if it's really as cool as they say.
The open source software is not immune to the law s of your country, but allows easily to break them. If Adobe adds banknote detection code into Photoshop, you can't easily remove it. OSS, instead, allows you to compile the software from the source. So it would be easy to remove from gimp the banknote detection code. Of course doing that would be a crime, but who cares ? I mean, if somebody is going to forge fake money he's already breaking the laws.
Well, it's just an idea a friend of mines had some time ago and that could possibly work. The idea is that instead of filter and trash mails from spammers (with any antispam sw), these mail messages should be fed to a software that extracts all web sites mentioned into them. Some kind of P2P network could then exchange these lists of websites and attack them with DOS. If the system spreads enough, when a new message is sent by a spammer his website will be flooded by millions of bogus requests (slashdotted), this antispam agent should just open a connection and keep it open without doing much traffic.
That's the solution my company is going to adopt (hopefully within the end of the year).
We run Postgres on a pair of RH Advanced Servers mounting disks from a SAN (Only one of the two nodes runs the postgres service at a given time, and only it mounts the partition with the data). A custom application accessing the database runs on the other node, mounting another disk partition (or both run on the same when one node is down).
This is only an HA cluster (the DB runs only on one node) but the service switches to the other node if the first goes down.
The application we run is not too critical (I mean, we can tolerate a downtime of a couple of minutes when the service switches from one node to the other).
Anyhow, it is not for an e-commerce web site, so we don't have thousands of transactions per minute, but still it is for commercial purposes (real money is involved).
Surprisingly, from what I read so far, it seems that commercial solutions based on OSS are not so common yet.
Well, it depends. Many IT companies tend to recruit less experienced people (with less titles than a PhD) in order to pay less and aiming to train their employees "on the field". I've seen people with degrees in philosophy or history working for IT companies as programmers, after a one week training in VB or Java. Of course the quality of products is very bad, but usually management don't understand why: After all, every body can be easily turned into code-monkeys, so why pay lots of money for a PhD ?
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According to this advertisers can target their campaign by age and gender.
My understanding is that, when some information about the user is available (i.e. they signed in as passport users) their personal data is used to better target the ads.
Moreover, MSN search could track which kind of ads you clicked in the past or which kind of pages you usually visit and use this information to deliver even better targeted ads.
On the other hand, MSN already collects demographic information about the visitors of their sites, not only age and gender, but also other random things like education, occupation, marital status, income, online shopping etc...
so they could use also this information in the future.
Fabio
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Yeah, this is a totally wrong business model.
They should give it away for free and charge for heavy multimedia applications, that should run on it much better than on any other OS.
People is not used to pay for an OS (Linux / FreeBSD are free, and usually you get Windows or OS X along with the computer so you don't "notice" you are actually paying for it).
I think that many people would give it a try, if it was for free, but much less is willing to shell out one hundred bucks just to check if it's really as cool as they say.
Fabio
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And if you search for "Operating System" ,Debian,Unix, FreeBSD,Solaris
you get www.gnu.org
etc. but not Windows.
So it works pretty well...
The open source software is not immune to the law s of your country, but allows easily to break them.
If Adobe adds banknote detection code into Photoshop, you can't easily remove it.
OSS, instead, allows you to compile the software from the source.
So it would be easy to remove from gimp the banknote detection code.
Of course doing that would be a crime, but who cares ? I mean, if somebody is going to forge fake money he's already breaking the laws.
just my two cents,
Fabio
Well, it's just an idea a friend of mines had some time ago and that could possibly work.
The idea is that instead of filter and trash mails from spammers (with any antispam sw), these mail messages should be fed to a software that extracts all web sites mentioned into them. Some kind of P2P network could then exchange these lists of websites and attack them with DOS. If the system spreads enough, when a new message is sent by a spammer his website will be flooded by millions of bogus requests (slashdotted), this antispam agent should just open a connection and keep it open without doing much traffic.
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That's the solution my company is going to adopt (hopefully within the end of the year).
We run Postgres on a pair of RH Advanced Servers mounting disks from a SAN (Only one of the two nodes runs the postgres service at a given time, and only it mounts the partition with the data). A custom application accessing the database runs on the other node, mounting another disk partition (or both run on the same when one node is down).
This is only an HA cluster (the DB runs only on one node) but the service switches to the other node if the first goes down.
The application we run is not too critical (I mean, we can tolerate a downtime of a couple of minutes when the service switches from one node to the other).
Anyhow, it is not for an e-commerce web site, so we don't have thousands of transactions per minute, but still it is for commercial purposes (real money is involved).
Surprisingly, from what I read so far, it seems that commercial solutions based on OSS are not so common yet.
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Well, it depends.
Many IT companies tend to recruit less experienced people (with less titles than a PhD) in order to pay less and
aiming to train their employees "on the field".
I've seen people with degrees in philosophy or history working for IT companies as programmers, after a
one week training in VB or Java.
Of course the quality of products is very bad, but usually management don't understand why: After all, every body can be easily turned into code-monkeys, so why pay lots of money for a PhD ?