I have another idea that might work in conjunction with voting: Have the toolbar time how long a user spends on each page and how the user interacts with the page (does he scroll, click on any links, select/copy text, etc.?).
I wouldn't be suprised if both the Yahoo! and Google toolbars don't already do this. Why wouldn't they? Their EULA's basically say they will be beaming info back to the mother ship, don't they?
So long as people keep having people, there will be a demand for housing, which will keep the housing market (potential crash) in check. I don't disagree with you, but I can't see it being as catastrophic as you imply, especially in the "normal" housing markets of the US (ie. those outside of the LA, San Fran, Seattle, DC, etc.)
I'm in a fairly depressed local area. I don't expect huge returns on my housing investement, but my mortage payment (including insurance, property tax, etc.) is less than I would pay in rent. Even if the value of my house drops a dozen or two percent, I'm still doing pretty good.
I may not be able to sell anytime soon, but I can always rent it out if needed. I live near a college, which creates a healthy rental market.
Anyway, good analysis none-the-less. I think you have good points.
I learned of this "political compass" way back when in a poli-sci class. It has been my political guide ever sense. I wish more people knew about, since just like you said, people try to over-simplify the political landscape.
I still have the textbook from the class, but it's nice to have a link to explain this concept to friends. Thanks.
Basically, Microsoft hasn't created anything new. They haven't innovated. They've created a dependency, however, by doing some of the best marketing ever seen.
Yes, good stuff. Not necessarily new thoughts here, but none-the-less pretty insightful.
This exactly sums up Microsoft. I'm sure even the greatest MS supporter would be hard pressed to find 10 things they have truly innovated. They've done some along the lines of extensions and such to existing concepts or bought products, but seriously, is there even a handful of ideas that are truly unique and innovative that comes from M$? They've maybe got some stuff in their core libraries and kernel (I wouldn't know), maybe some of IE is somewhat innovative, but that's about it really.
I guess that's the whole gimmick though; most products are not really _new_ or even innovative, just rehashes of some other person's/company's products or ideas. It's sad that it's more about marketing than about innovation. I guess that's how the free market works.
I just want to know, what the hell is wrong with companies offering part time employment at a low dollar per hour?
Yes, I agree, if you were to try and support your whole family on nothing but your income from Walmart, you'd likely be in the poor house as you describe.
What about the people who actually just want to work part time jobs? *gasp* What? People who choose to work for this wage? Maybe college students, people with second jobs, soccer moms, people needing a quick in-betwene position to make ends meet, etc.? What's so wrong with this?
You're also very incosiderate to the people who do choose to work at Walmart. I wouldn't be suprised that when you visit a Walmart, you think how pitiful the people are for working there. Do you think these must be the scum of the earth for working there? Is it even conceivable for a second that the people working for Walmart want to be there and take pride in their work?
Just exactly how many jobs have you created in the economy?
It's the communist/socialist perspective, like yours, that believes every job needs to be of equitable wage, able to support a single parent with several children.
Is Walmart the only employer in the world? There are hundreds of thousands of jobs out there available that that provide all the wage and benefits you describe. It's not like Walmart is forcing people to work for them.
If Walmart couldn't employ its workforce the way it does, then they'd have to compete for their talent and would obviously increase wages and benefits to attract people. These are simple free market principles.
Maybe I'm being cynacle today, but I've heard the "microsoft is betting the company on..." before and think the theory is a little overdone.
Every major Microsoft revision has been heralded the same way; that MS is betting the farm on some new technology. Let's look at all the things they've bet on recently.
Face it, Microsoft is a huge behemoth with tons of revenue and gobs of cash on hand. For one, they can do a lot of betting and it won't really effect the bottom line too much. Secondly, even if Longhorn and the other new technologies are a flop, MS will still continue to dominate in marketing spin.
Just look at their history, almost every MS product comes out like crap. But, over time and brute force marketing, they win over the masses. I don't foresee it being any different this time.
I know this is a bit off topic, but why is it that MySQL gets attention that PostgreSQL doesn't? MySQL, as a database, sucks ass compared to postgres.
I'm sure there are lots of other examples like this. Does it have to do with the fact that there's a more commercially oriented company behind the MySQL development? If this is the case, what does this bode for the future of FOSS projects that don't have some commercial backing?
True, but only if you're trying to crack the password list in real time against the systems' standard authentication libraries.
If a cracker can load alternative libraries or can somehow get a hold of the list and run the crack against it on a seperate box, then obviously your solution doesn't work against that.
Instead, if the encryption itself took more cpu cycles to calculate, then it would become much more difficult to run said algorithm, regardless of whose computer it existed on. Obviously, this is particularly good for brute force methods.
In Firefox or Mozilla, you can type 'about:config' into the main url address location bar. This is a special feature of the browser to allow simple modification of browser preferences.
You can also create user.js file manually (it's a plain text file). You create it in the same directory as the 'prefs.js' file is in. Usually C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.[random string]\
Just create a user.js file with notepad and add the poster's changes there. Then, restart your browser.
For such a large security hole, why isn't php.net placing more emphasis on upgrading? The way e-matters.de makes it out, it would be simple to craft an attack. But, all I find on the 4.3.8 is:
* Fixed strip_tags() to correctly handle '\0' characters. (Stefan)
* Improved stability during startup when memory_limit is used. (Stefan)
* Replace alloca() with emalloc() for better stack protection. (Ilia)
* Added missing safe_mode checks inside ftok and itpc. (Ilia)
* Fixed bug #28963 Fixed address allocation routine in IMAP extension. (Ilia)
* Fixed bug #28632 Prevent open_basedir bypass via MySQL's LOAD DATA LOCAL. (Ilia)
If this is a big deal, I'd like to know from the source itself. Otherwise, it makes me question of e-matters isn't making it out to be worse than it is.
With your reasoning, there's reasons to be concerned about every open source software except those created in the basements of college dorms.
Frankly, I don't disagree with you. You should be mindful of every piece of software you use, open or otherwise. But, your argument seems more about Karma Whoring than it does a real concern.
I mean, seriously, what about the Apache Foundation? Where do you think they get their money from? Corporations using their products, right? Don't think they're influenced by said corporations?
I frankly an very supportive of the Zend model of creating a business around open source. It's very pioneering, they've done a good job. I've used php since the PHP/FI (v2) iterations, and I'm still happy to continue using it.
Adding thousands of mini FM stations to me sounds like the same thing that's happened with the web. Ya, there are a few decent sites out there, but on the whole, the internet if full of crap.
The parallels are pretty interesting, though. If a market were to be saturated with thousands of mini-stations, one would naturally assume that a station or two might decide to take on the roll of 'directory' or 'portal', helping you find a frequency you're interested in tuning into.
I'm definetly for this kind of initiative, and I want to say that the FCC has done a good job at allowing creativity and innovation, particularly in support of hobbiests. However, it seems that big money has more influence and forces the FCC's hand most of the time. That's the real shame of it all.
At first I thought you were making this up. But, then I searched for it.
However, this is quite the rediculous and even laughable strategy.
It made me giggle thinking that a MS product would be suceptible to the specification and API "chasing" that the open source community, who creates products for MS integration, does now (Samba, Mono, et al.).
I'm guessing there are plenty of kernel / distro / package hackers that would just have a field day with such a MS tool. I can hear them now, "it looks like they've figured out how to manage [foo] functionality. I guess it's time to make a change in CVS."
Anyway, given this, I doubt such a tool will ever come about.
I'd also be quite surprised if Microsoft isn't well on it's way to having Office and mabye some Backoffice products ready to run on Linux. They can still make plenty of money with their other products if/when Windows continues to lose ground to linux.
You actually had an intelligent post until this statement.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Microsoft only makes money because of its monopoly on the OS. They could (probably should) be giving away their office suite, which would likely make them even more money because of how entrenched they'd become.
In fact, I would wager to say that there will be a day in the not-too-distant future that Microsoft gives away its office suite. This is, afterall, their key loyalty market.
In order to successfully compete with "Free", MS must become more and more transparent about how they make money. For instance, the famous "Microsoft Tax" on new computers. Microsoft will have to make money without the general audience perceiving that they really are paying for MS when they purchase a computer, run some new fangled toy, etc.
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Sounds like Deep Space Nine to me.
In short, lame.
and (b) the additional funds went *only* to mitigate the costs associated with gasoline usage.
Ya, right... You keep dreaming.
Or network traffic sniffer. hmm...
I have another idea that might work in conjunction with voting: Have the toolbar time how long a user spends on each page and how the user interacts with the page (does he scroll, click on any links, select/copy text, etc.?).
I wouldn't be suprised if both the Yahoo! and Google toolbars don't already do this. Why wouldn't they? Their EULA's basically say they will be beaming info back to the mother ship, don't they?
So long as people keep having people, there will be a demand for housing, which will keep the housing market (potential crash) in check. I don't disagree with you, but I can't see it being as catastrophic as you imply, especially in the "normal" housing markets of the US (ie. those outside of the LA, San Fran, Seattle, DC, etc.)
I'm in a fairly depressed local area. I don't expect huge returns on my housing investement, but my mortage payment (including insurance, property tax, etc.) is less than I would pay in rent. Even if the value of my house drops a dozen or two percent, I'm still doing pretty good.
I may not be able to sell anytime soon, but I can always rent it out if needed. I live near a college, which creates a healthy rental market.
Anyway, good analysis none-the-less. I think you have good points.
I learned of this "political compass" way back when in a poli-sci class. It has been my political guide ever sense. I wish more people knew about, since just like you said, people try to over-simplify the political landscape.
I still have the textbook from the class, but it's nice to have a link to explain this concept to friends. Thanks.
Interesting, thanks!
Basically, Microsoft hasn't created anything new. They haven't innovated. They've created a dependency, however, by doing some of the best marketing ever seen.
Yes, good stuff. Not necessarily new thoughts here, but none-the-less pretty insightful.
This exactly sums up Microsoft. I'm sure even the greatest MS supporter would be hard pressed to find 10 things they have truly innovated. They've done some along the lines of extensions and such to existing concepts or bought products, but seriously, is there even a handful of ideas that are truly unique and innovative that comes from M$? They've maybe got some stuff in their core libraries and kernel (I wouldn't know), maybe some of IE is somewhat innovative, but that's about it really.
I guess that's the whole gimmick though; most products are not really _new_ or even innovative, just rehashes of some other person's/company's products or ideas. It's sad that it's more about marketing than about innovation. I guess that's how the free market works.
bah hah hah. thanks...
And when it doesn't, that'll indicate no conspiracy, right? I'm puttin my money on the later.
I just want to know, what the hell is wrong with companies offering part time employment at a low dollar per hour?
Yes, I agree, if you were to try and support your whole family on nothing but your income from Walmart, you'd likely be in the poor house as you describe.
What about the people who actually just want to work part time jobs? *gasp* What? People who choose to work for this wage? Maybe college students, people with second jobs, soccer moms, people needing a quick in-betwene position to make ends meet, etc.? What's so wrong with this?
You're also very incosiderate to the people who do choose to work at Walmart. I wouldn't be suprised that when you visit a Walmart, you think how pitiful the people are for working there. Do you think these must be the scum of the earth for working there? Is it even conceivable for a second that the people working for Walmart want to be there and take pride in their work?
Just exactly how many jobs have you created in the economy?
It's the communist/socialist perspective, like yours, that believes every job needs to be of equitable wage, able to support a single parent with several children.
Is Walmart the only employer in the world? There are hundreds of thousands of jobs out there available that that provide all the wage and benefits you describe. It's not like Walmart is forcing people to work for them.
If Walmart couldn't employ its workforce the way it does, then they'd have to compete for their talent and would obviously increase wages and benefits to attract people. These are simple free market principles.
Exactly.
Maybe I'm being cynacle today, but I've heard the "microsoft is betting the company on..." before and think the theory is a little overdone.
Every major Microsoft revision has been heralded the same way; that MS is betting the farm on some new technology. Let's look at all the things they've bet on recently.
Face it, Microsoft is a huge behemoth with tons of revenue and gobs of cash on hand. For one, they can do a lot of betting and it won't really effect the bottom line too much. Secondly, even if Longhorn and the other new technologies are a flop, MS will still continue to dominate in marketing spin.
Just look at their history, almost every MS product comes out like crap. But, over time and brute force marketing, they win over the masses. I don't foresee it being any different this time.
I know this is a bit off topic, but why is it that MySQL gets attention that PostgreSQL doesn't? MySQL, as a database, sucks ass compared to postgres.
I'm sure there are lots of other examples like this. Does it have to do with the fact that there's a more commercially oriented company behind the MySQL development? If this is the case, what does this bode for the future of FOSS projects that don't have some commercial backing?
True, but only if you're trying to crack the password list in real time against the systems' standard authentication libraries.
If a cracker can load alternative libraries or can somehow get a hold of the list and run the crack against it on a seperate box, then obviously your solution doesn't work against that.
Instead, if the encryption itself took more cpu cycles to calculate, then it would become much more difficult to run said algorithm, regardless of whose computer it existed on. Obviously, this is particularly good for brute force methods.
It should be in your home directory under the
Here's a link: http://texturizer.net/firefox/edit.html
I'm probably feeding an ac troll, but...
In Firefox or Mozilla, you can type 'about:config' into the main url address location bar. This is a special feature of the browser to allow simple modification of browser preferences.
You can also create user.js file manually (it's a plain text file). You create it in the same directory as the 'prefs.js' file is in. Usually C:\Documents and Settings\[your user name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.[random string]\
Just create a user.js file with notepad and add the poster's changes there. Then, restart your browser.
Please read the following before commenting on whethere the GPL and the FSF allow, literal or in spirit, the distribution of software for a price...
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
With your reasoning, there's reasons to be concerned about every open source software except those created in the basements of college dorms.
Frankly, I don't disagree with you. You should be mindful of every piece of software you use, open or otherwise. But, your argument seems more about Karma Whoring than it does a real concern.
I mean, seriously, what about the Apache Foundation? Where do you think they get their money from? Corporations using their products, right? Don't think they're influenced by said corporations?
I frankly an very supportive of the Zend model of creating a business around open source. It's very pioneering, they've done a good job. I've used php since the PHP/FI (v2) iterations, and I'm still happy to continue using it.
Are you kidding? Anyone who uses "'Doze" as an abbr. to Windows deserves to get -1 Troll.
Adding thousands of mini FM stations to me sounds like the same thing that's happened with the web. Ya, there are a few decent sites out there, but on the whole, the internet if full of crap.
The parallels are pretty interesting, though. If a market were to be saturated with thousands of mini-stations, one would naturally assume that a station or two might decide to take on the roll of 'directory' or 'portal', helping you find a frequency you're interested in tuning into.
I'm definetly for this kind of initiative, and I want to say that the FCC has done a good job at allowing creativity and innovation, particularly in support of hobbiests. However, it seems that big money has more influence and forces the FCC's hand most of the time. That's the real shame of it all.
At first I thought you were making this up. But, then I searched for it.
However, this is quite the rediculous and even laughable strategy.
It made me giggle thinking that a MS product would be suceptible to the specification and API "chasing" that the open source community, who creates products for MS integration, does now (Samba, Mono, et al.).
I'm guessing there are plenty of kernel / distro / package hackers that would just have a field day with such a MS tool. I can hear them now, "it looks like they've figured out how to manage [foo] functionality. I guess it's time to make a change in CVS."
Anyway, given this, I doubt such a tool will ever come about.
I'd also be quite surprised if Microsoft isn't well on it's way to having Office and mabye some Backoffice products ready to run on Linux. They can still make plenty of money with their other products if/when Windows continues to lose ground to linux.
You actually had an intelligent post until this statement.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Microsoft only makes money because of its monopoly on the OS. They could (probably should) be giving away their office suite, which would likely make them even more money because of how entrenched they'd become.
In fact, I would wager to say that there will be a day in the not-too-distant future that Microsoft gives away its office suite. This is, afterall, their key loyalty market.
In order to successfully compete with "Free", MS must become more and more transparent about how they make money. For instance, the famous "Microsoft Tax" on new computers. Microsoft will have to make money without the general audience perceiving that they really are paying for MS when they purchase a computer, run some new fangled toy, etc.
Now you can finally figure out the name of that song on the radio that you've been dying to know!
Ha ha, ho ho, tee hee. Something on the radio worth dying for? Good one, I needed a laugh.