Target the news organizations as customers and not news consumers. Tell news organizations that their web sites will get top linking if they pay some subscription fee. Not only will they get top billing on the news page, there could be a link where searches also have a NewsWords feature in addition to AdWords. For example, a search on volcanoes may have 2-3 links to news stories about Mt St Helens.
Small/niche/local sites can subscribe and get more traffic thrown their way. Big news sites may eventually follow.
If users are willing to accept ad-pushing, companies like Google could develop a new IM protocol with clients for most platforms, as well as plugins for popular third party clients like trillian, gaim, kopete, etc. The plugins themselves would have access to screen space to display pushed ads. The clients and plugins will most likely be closed source, and transmissions encrypted.
Issues: - With mutliple protocols screen space for ads becomes an issue. - Not sure what the impact of a closed source plugin code is on GAIM or Kopete(QT). The kernel today loads (but no support provided) tainted modules (non GPL), so perhaps something similar is doable for GAIM. Not sure about Kopete-QT though. If Google gets one cross platform QT developer license, that should solve that problem.
Not a computer game, but the show History Bites is a fun way to learn about history. It presupposes the existence of television in the old day. Based on that, they send out reporters to cover major historical events - very funny, but educational none the less. I recall the tv reporters covering Julius Caeser's assasination. A well done show.
From their web site: History Bites is a skit comedy show that explores the premise, "What if television had been around for the past 5,000 years?"
I have to disagree with you. Born and educated in India, but I also completed a portion of my studies here.
The Indian system by far values memorization (or "mugging"). Get some extra tutoring, and do enough practice exams and you can do fairly well without understanding the problem. Knowing why things are the way they are is not an advantage; knowing how to plug in the right numbers in the correct places, is a better fit for success in India.
The US system tries to emphasize understanding. It does not always succeed, but it takes the right approach, and leaves people with an open mind, a mind willing to take "alternative paths".
When we start producing more thinkers, we can actually talk about having a better education system. Right now we produce software coders at cheap prices; we dont produce many software thinkers that innovate. How many mainstream languages have Indians pioneered (Japan:Ruby guy, Dutch:Python Guido, US:LWall,Steele,K&R,Gosling). How many non-co authored Nobel prizes have we won recently (compare to US/Europe).
India has more intellectual workers than thinkers; its not a bad thing as there is a role for that too (and its better than having dunces). But our education system is not yet primed for producing thinkers.
Circumstances today dictate maximizing, or giving the appearance of maximing shareholder value as the ultimate goal. To that extent it is hard to fault their actions (as short sighted as some of us may think that it is; but short term seems all the rage these days).
What most people dont consider, and is a moot issue these days, is that corporations were given "corporate status", and almost all the rights given to individuals, on the basis that they were beneficial to community.
Clearly, in this case, their actions dont benefit the majority community (or country) where they are established.
Corporate rights, for all practical purposes, seem to have exceeded individual rights. What a group of individuals cannot get a congress person to do, is usually accompli$hed by a corporation or group of corporations.
Have you thought about looking at Canada as a source for employees. Canadian salaries are much lower than their US counterparts, and the exchange rate is favorable to the US corporation. You have fewer time zone issues, and language is not an issue. It really is a win-win situation. The Ottawa and Toronto areas are teeming with workers who will work for US$45K - and they would consider that pay as "fair". The infrastructure and related work environments are similar, if not better than the US.
Started off with K&R, and 5 years later picked up Expert C Programming, and Koenigs C book. I found all of them to be valuable, even though similar information was found in the last two books. A different perspective, and additional examples of folly are always welcome.
I agree that in the Canadian cities, they have a good number of high speed internet providers, and at amazingly cheap rates too (compared to what I was paying in Atlanta before I headed north for the winter).
Out here in rural Canada (North Gower/Kemptville, south of Ottawa), there are few options. There was a company called Look Communications, but they are no longer installing new sites - just making the most of their existing customer base. It kinda sucks.
The software carpentry project/competition had a lot of useful information and implementations of build tools. You may want to read about them to weigh the pros and cons of current build systems. You may even want to use some of their implementations.
software capentry.
SC Config is the one that is of interest to autoconf alternative, and contains links to 4 alternatives (BuildConf, ConfBase, SapCat, Tan).
The question we should be asking is, do we want to hold back web standards by two decades to satisfy our irrational aversion to patents
The question we should be asking is, do we want to push forward web standards by two decades to satisfy our rational aversion to patents.
Why, yes I do.
Imagine if we had to pay someone everytime the http request was invoked, or everytime an html page was viewed - yep - that would have certainly moved things forward.
Feel free to make your money with patents - but dont stick it in a standard.
linuxtoday. have submitted this to slashdot - hopefully it wont get rejected. last day for comments is today (sep 30 2001). and thats final. this sucks. apologies for posting this, but i dont know how long my submission will sit in a queue.
Send your level headed comments to :
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The current scope of KDE is to build a friendly desktop for Unix. They are continuing to refine their work in this field. This is where their current skill sets and focus are.
If Ximian creates a specification (before the implementation), and it is open, and not tied to gnome components, KDE could implement that when and if the need arises. Matching.net is not going to be easy - MS has some very intelligent people working for them. I hope Ximian throws out a specification, and gets it peer reviewed before doing an implementation.
Right now KDE are focused on what they do best, and that seems the right strategy.
Instead of getting the broadcaster or cable head end to replace an ad-image, that should be a capability of the the set top device or personal recorder. That way the you get personally targetted advertsing. And it doesnt just have to apply to an actor/actress holding a drink; you could apply it to names of shops (instead of LA shop names, you could replace it with your local neighborhood shop name [yet another form of advertising]). The ultimate would be to replace the actors/actresses on the show with ones you like - may be a little hard to get voices/accents to work properly. Personalization gone amuck... I tell you what.
Like all methodologies, xp has some good points and some impractical ones. I prefer not to choose any one methodology, but cut and paste from many to suit the environment I am in (kind of the flavor of the project). If I had to think of some core habits, it would be:
coding:
- decouple your classes (if using an oo approach)
- unit test (easier when decoupled)
- document the class behaviour in a paragraph or two
- biggest pet peeve is deceptively named functions. i hate functions that are called getSomeName() or isSomeCondition() that do more than return a value or state - they go ahead and change the state of the object. yuck.
- persistence layer should be abstract to your business logic
management:
- participate in scehdule creation.
- email a task as completed only after unit testing, and code checked into source control (email should got to schedule keeper, and fellow teammates)
my anti xp-isms:
- on some projects it does make sense to keep an eye on whats around the corner.
- i like to code while listening to music. the 2 person coding style doesnt really fit me.
-
Am looking for jobs in Canada (Toronto/Vancouver)
Categories include (but not limited to):
ImpossibleFairUses -- Fair uses which are prevented through the use of CSS
DigitalControlConspiracy -- The conspiracy to take digital control.
FalseAdvertising -- Disney tell you can ``Own it today on DVD''. Do you?
Would you hold up the rewriting of python to use a stackless implementation because Jython or other implementations will not be able to implement it? Where is the line between pushing python forward, and holding it back so that it works nicely with everything else ?
I cant speak for the quality aspect of the searches - in my experience, I have not seen any degradation in the quality of Google.
Attempts to be more commmercially oriented, by partnering with Yahoo and the likes, are not necessarily a bad thing. It implies that revenues are coming from other avenues, and they dont have to resort to charging 'Joe Average' for the service. Does that mean that they will never charge 'Joe Average' for the service ? I dont know the answer to that, but atleast they have made attempts at procuring funds from other sources, before charging the average person.
Private companies have already started to adopt towns/villages that were hit by the quake, and are currently working to help bring up the primary infrastructure capacities (simple things like cleaning up the roads so people can be more mobile and get to places, makeshift hospitals). Work for food programs are also being instituted.
The government has already passed a plan to increase the income tax and also some sort of tax on corporations to help in the rebuilding effort.
Some things I agree with, some things I dont.
Slashdot Mirror
Funny that their insurance on the satellite went out last month (read that off one of the links).
Hmmm... I see a huge tax write off in the making. Just speculatin'
Target the news organizations as customers and not news consumers. Tell news organizations that their web sites will get top linking if they pay some subscription fee. Not only will they get top billing on the news page, there could be a link where searches also have a NewsWords feature in addition to AdWords. For example, a search on volcanoes may have 2-3 links to news stories about Mt St Helens.
Small/niche/local sites can subscribe and get more traffic thrown their way. Big news sites may eventually follow.
If users are willing to accept ad-pushing, companies like Google could develop a new IM protocol with clients for most platforms, as well as plugins for popular third party clients like trillian, gaim, kopete, etc. The plugins themselves would have access to screen space to display pushed ads. The clients and plugins will most likely be closed source, and transmissions encrypted.
Issues:
- With mutliple protocols screen space for ads becomes an issue.
- Not sure what the impact of a closed source plugin code is on GAIM or Kopete(QT). The kernel today loads (but no support provided) tainted modules (non GPL), so perhaps something similar is doable for GAIM. Not sure about Kopete-QT though. If Google gets one cross platform QT developer license, that should solve that problem.
Not a computer game, but the show History Bites is a fun way to learn about history. It presupposes the existence of television in the old day. Based on that, they send out reporters to cover major historical events - very funny, but educational none the less. I recall the tv reporters covering Julius Caeser's assasination. A well done show.
From their web site:
History Bites is a skit comedy show that explores the premise, "What if television had been around for the past 5,000 years?"
History Bites
I have to disagree with you. Born and educated in India, but I also completed a portion of my studies here.
The Indian system by far values memorization (or "mugging"). Get some extra tutoring, and do enough practice exams and you can do fairly well without understanding the problem. Knowing why things are the way they are is not an advantage; knowing how to plug in the right numbers in the correct places, is a better fit for success in India.
The US system tries to emphasize understanding. It does not always succeed, but it takes the right approach, and leaves people with an open mind, a mind willing to take "alternative paths".
When we start producing more thinkers, we can actually talk about having a better education system. Right now we produce software coders at cheap prices; we dont produce many software thinkers that innovate. How many mainstream languages have Indians pioneered (Japan:Ruby guy, Dutch:Python Guido, US:LWall,Steele,K&R,Gosling). How many non-co authored Nobel prizes have we won recently (compare to US/Europe).
India has more intellectual workers than thinkers; its not a bad thing as there is a role for that too (and its better than having dunces). But our education system is not yet primed for producing thinkers.
Circumstances today dictate maximizing, or giving the appearance of maximing shareholder value as the ultimate goal. To that extent it is hard to fault their actions (as short sighted as some of us may think that it is; but short term seems all the rage these days).
What most people dont consider, and is a moot issue these days, is that corporations were given "corporate status", and almost all the rights given to individuals, on the basis that they were beneficial to community.
Clearly, in this case, their actions dont benefit the majority community (or country) where they are established.
Corporate rights, for all practical purposes, seem to have exceeded individual rights. What a group of individuals cannot get a congress person to do, is usually accompli$hed by a corporation or group of corporations.
Have you thought about looking at Canada as a source for employees. Canadian salaries are much lower than their US counterparts, and the exchange rate is favorable to the US corporation. You have fewer time zone issues, and language is not an issue. It really is a win-win situation. The Ottawa and Toronto areas are teeming with workers who will work for US$45K - and they would consider that pay as "fair". The infrastructure and related work environments are similar, if not better than the US.
Started off with K&R, and 5 years later picked up Expert C Programming, and Koenigs C book. I found all of them to be valuable, even though similar information was found in the last two books. A different perspective, and additional examples of folly are always welcome.
Really? Who is providing the service ?
- the above guy
I agree that in the Canadian cities, they have a good number of high speed internet providers, and at amazingly cheap rates too (compared to what I was paying in Atlanta before I headed north for the winter).
Out here in rural Canada (North Gower/Kemptville, south of Ottawa), there are few options. There was a company called Look Communications, but they are no longer installing new sites - just making the most of their existing customer base. It kinda sucks.
But the scenery is great, and the air is clean!!
Anyone know what channels carry it ? Ottawa area (rural Ottawa).
The software carpentry project/competition had a lot of useful information and implementations of build tools. You may want to read about them to weigh the pros and cons of current build systems. You may even want to use some of their implementations.
software capentry.
SC Config is the one that is of interest to autoconf alternative, and contains links to 4 alternatives (BuildConf, ConfBase, SapCat, Tan).
The question we should be asking is, do we want to hold back web standards by two decades to satisfy our irrational aversion to patents
The question we should be asking is, do we want to push forward web standards by two decades to satisfy our rational aversion to patents.
Why, yes I do.
Imagine if we had to pay someone everytime the http request was invoked, or everytime an html page was viewed - yep - that would have certainly moved things forward.
Feel free to make your money with patents - but dont stick it in a standard.
Well, I had already sent my comments before this appeared on slashdot.
Please, dont just comment on this board; go ahead and send that email with your level- headed-non-profane thoughts.
This certainly looks like a sneak-it-in approach with such a short public comment periond - especially for something this large.
Hopefully some prudent arguments can be made to convince the W3C folks.
linuxtoday. have submitted this to slashdot - hopefully it wont get rejected. last day for comments is today (sep 30 2001). and thats final. this sucks. apologies for posting this, but i dont know how long my submission will sit in a queue.
Send your level headed comments to :
www-patentpolicy-comment@w3.org
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>You should be asking whether there is some greater public function being served by granting a longer term of copyright than a few years.
Exactly.
>... intellectual property is not a fundamental right like free speech or trial by jury
Exactly
Doesnt the constituition allow this type of sharing as long as its not for monetary gain ?
The current scope of KDE is to build a friendly desktop for Unix. They are continuing to refine their work in this field. This is where their current skill sets and focus are. .net is not going to be easy - MS has some very intelligent people working for them. I hope Ximian throws out a specification, and gets it peer reviewed before doing an implementation.
If Ximian creates a specification (before the implementation), and it is open, and not tied to gnome components, KDE could implement that when and if the need arises. Matching
Right now KDE are focused on what they do best, and that seems the right strategy.
Instead of getting the broadcaster or cable head end to replace an ad-image, that should be a capability of the the set top device or personal recorder. That way the you get personally targetted advertsing. And it doesnt just have to apply to an actor/actress holding a drink; you could apply it to names of shops (instead of LA shop names, you could replace it with your local neighborhood shop name [yet another form of advertising]). The ultimate would be to replace the actors/actresses on the show with ones you like - may be a little hard to get voices/accents to work properly. Personalization gone amuck... I tell you what.
Liverpool - treble, and Champions League Spot !! Whooaaaaa... The 90's were miserable for me (esp with that other team shrouded in glory).
Like all methodologies, xp has some good points and some impractical ones. I prefer not to choose any one methodology, but cut and paste from many to suit the environment I am in (kind of the flavor of the project). If I had to think of some core habits, it would be:
coding:
- decouple your classes (if using an oo approach)
- unit test (easier when decoupled)
- document the class behaviour in a paragraph or two
- biggest pet peeve is deceptively named functions. i hate functions that are called getSomeName() or isSomeCondition() that do more than return a value or state - they go ahead and change the state of the object. yuck.
- persistence layer should be abstract to your business logic
management:
- participate in scehdule creation.
- email a task as completed only after unit testing, and code checked into source control (email should got to schedule keeper, and fellow teammates)
my anti xp-isms:
- on some projects it does make sense to keep an eye on whats around the corner.
- i like to code while listening to music. the 2 person coding style doesnt really fit me.
-
Am looking for jobs in Canada (Toronto/Vancouver)
your thoughts.
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http://eon.law.harvard.edu/twiki/bin/view/Openl
Categories include (but not limited to):
ImpossibleFairUses -- Fair uses which are prevented through the use of CSS
DigitalControlConspiracy -- The conspiracy to take digital control.
FalseAdvertising -- Disney tell you can ``Own it today on DVD''. Do you?
Would you hold up the rewriting of python to use a stackless implementation because Jython or other implementations will not be able to implement it? Where is the line between pushing python forward, and holding it back so that it works nicely with everything else ?
Thanks for a great language.
I cant speak for the quality aspect of the searches - in my experience, I have not seen any degradation in the quality of Google.
Attempts to be more commmercially oriented, by partnering with Yahoo and the likes, are not necessarily a bad thing. It implies that revenues are coming from other avenues, and they dont have to resort to charging 'Joe Average' for the service. Does that mean that they will never charge 'Joe Average' for the service ? I dont know the answer to that, but atleast they have made attempts at procuring funds from other sources, before charging the average person.
Private companies have already started to adopt towns/villages that were hit by the quake, and are currently working to help bring up the primary infrastructure capacities (simple things like cleaning up the roads so people can be more mobile and get to places, makeshift hospitals). Work for food programs are also being instituted. The government has already passed a plan to increase the income tax and also some sort of tax on corporations to help in the rebuilding effort. Some things I agree with, some things I dont.