What's happening is exactly the same process which made factories economically viable during the industrial revolution... That, is the bandwidth of the transport system. We're at the point where it's far far cheaper to have the computing in a BFO data centre and decent bandwidth to the home.
How many weavers, potters, carpenters do you know? Well, today's equivalents are programmers, system administrators etc.
I wanted to moderate "Interesting", but my scroll wheel rolled it over to Flamebait, by mistake. I know I am going to lose my mod points for this, but at least it will undo my mistaken mod.
You are wrong on so many levels. Technologies are important - not from a user perspective, but from an implementation cost perspective. As someone else pointed out, can MS let all the Y! infrastructure running on their BSD servers? To rip it out and reimplement everything in MS tech is not an easy task. If you remember, a few of the first quarters' blues of HPQ have been blamed on problems with integration of the ERP systems used by HP and Compaq. They have recovered from that since, but it is much tougher to do in online market.
New entrants have no chance, so the only competition is going to come from the existing players getting their act together.
If there is any market where the new entrants have the best shot, it has to be this. The entry to barrier is not too high and there is nothing like customer loyalty. If I get better search results on xyz.com, I simply point my browser there, and done. Migration of email accounts is probably not so easy, but guess what, you can always open another email account and get the older one to forward all your mail there and slowly the older account will rot away, as your contacts keep updating their address books with your new mail address.
I think the girl needs protection more from the greedy parents and the ambulance chaser more than strangers. At 14, they are already making a Monica Lewinsky out of her - teaching her how to exploit sexual incidents for money
I have been advising my family and relatives (who are not computer savvy) to use only the webmail accounts (in their browser and not a POP client or any such thing) and do not use a local client because I used to believe the webmail companies will do a better job of keeping up-to-date with virii scans etc rather than these non-computer-savvy users. AFAIK, this is the FIRST exploit that exploits a webmail running in the browser, where as lot of trojans have been in circulation and one is more vulnerable if they use a native client.
I guess the mods dont RTFA either. If you bother to RTFA, it's nothing about stock market or stock analysts. The article was complaining about lack of communication to their customers.
I know it sucks for the small guy, but the way AdSense works is logical and good for the consumer.
Did you RTFA? The point Cringley was making was that the price is based on the total clicks of all your words altogether. Not based on per-word or per-phrase. if I have 1000 words where I have good reputation and click-through rates, I can bulldoze my way through 10 other words even though my ads are totally irrelevant there. The guy with only 10 words doesn't stand a chance against me. For the consumer, though, the smaller guy's ads are relevant, because he is really made them for that!
How is it good for the consumer, if an irrelevant amazon ad shows up (because it costs less for amazon even though the click-rate for that particular word is very poor), and not the actual equation editor?
This is a good one to slashdot. No, I don't mean kill the server with our traffic, but increase the number of pledges. I think I can see the beginnings of/. effect already. The fag end of the graph looks nearly vertical.
Reminds me of a Dilbert carton, where the manager sends Dilbert an email to check out a fax that he sent and finally comes over and tells him the message anyway. So I guess that is what we should all do!
I'm not sure I agree with this point of view. It seems to me that it's not a right to control material and copyright confers, but the right to legal protection from infringement on that material. If I decide I want to go a step further with something I produce, and lock it up in a way that will keep people from doing what they want with it after I can no longer count on legal protection, then isn't that my prerogative?
That said, I don't really agree with that approach, I'm just not a fan of telling a creator what they can do with their creation.
It is your prerogative as long as you do not sell any rights to anyone. If you have sold copies of yours then you're willing to forgo some of your rights for money, and you have to accept the limits. What people are objecting to, is use of DRM when you sell copies of your creation - and wanting to perpetuate your rights.
I don't believe adding just a line at the bottom saying "Some results are suppressed" makes them all clean. The fact that the chinese government did not object to putting it up itself says that the government doesn't think it will matter. I'm sure we will see other search engines do the same thing soon.
IMHO, one obeying the "letter" of the law doesn't cut it. This is China we are talking about, if the authorities _think_ that you're not doing what they asked for, you go to the jail if you're an individual, or thrown out if you're a company. Authorities do not have to prove to anyone that you broke the law.
I am in India, and I can't seem to be able to go to your second link. Google automatically coerces my www.google.cn link to www.google.com. Even when I type it manually.
I think you misunderstood. They did not prove what the program does. They claim they have proven that the it cannot be determined by other what the program does.
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"Our company has decided to open the sources for the code you have written" - message from his manager.
Seriously, to call the ideologists (whether you agree with them or not) "narrow minded" is really trolling!
What's happening is exactly the same process which made factories economically viable during the industrial revolution... That, is the bandwidth of the transport system. We're at the point where it's far far cheaper to have the computing in a BFO data centre and decent bandwidth to the home.
How many weavers, potters, carpenters do you know? Well, today's equivalents are programmers, system administrators etc.
Senator Stevens, Glad to see you!
Here is the main reason why USA went to war with Iraq.
I wanted to moderate "Interesting", but my scroll wheel rolled it over to Flamebait, by mistake. I know I am going to lose my mod points for this, but at least it will undo my mistaken mod.
Check's in the mail.
It's not for money. He got what he wanted already, the mod points!
You are wrong on so many levels. Technologies are important - not from a user perspective, but from an implementation cost perspective. As someone else pointed out, can MS let all the Y! infrastructure running on their BSD servers? To rip it out and reimplement everything in MS tech is not an easy task. If you remember, a few of the first quarters' blues of HPQ have been blamed on problems with integration of the ERP systems used by HP and Compaq. They have recovered from that since, but it is much tougher to do in online market.
New entrants have no chance, so the only competition is going to come from the existing players getting their act together.
If there is any market where the new entrants have the best shot, it has to be this. The entry to barrier is not too high and there is nothing like customer loyalty. If I get better search results on xyz.com, I simply point my browser there, and done. Migration of email accounts is probably not so easy, but guess what, you can always open another email account and get the older one to forward all your mail there and slowly the older account will rot away, as your contacts keep updating their address books with your new mail address.
I think the girl needs protection more from the greedy parents and the ambulance chaser more than strangers. At 14, they are already making a Monica Lewinsky out of her - teaching her how to exploit sexual incidents for money
That is interesting point of view.
I have been advising my family and relatives (who are not computer savvy) to use only the webmail accounts (in their browser and not a POP client or any such thing) and do not use a local client because I used to believe the webmail companies will do a better job of keeping up-to-date with virii scans etc rather than these non-computer-savvy users. AFAIK, this is the FIRST exploit that exploits a webmail running in the browser, where as lot of trojans have been in circulation and one is more vulnerable if they use a native client.
no more tampax fliers in my mailbox,
Ha! So all those viagra and pen1s enhancement ads are relevant to you!
I guess the mods dont RTFA either. If you bother to RTFA, it's nothing about stock market or stock analysts. The article was complaining about lack of communication to their customers.
I know it sucks for the small guy, but the way AdSense works is logical and good for the consumer.
Did you RTFA? The point Cringley was making was that the price is based on the total clicks of all your words altogether. Not based on per-word or per-phrase. if I have 1000 words where I have good reputation and click-through rates, I can bulldoze my way through 10 other words even though my ads are totally irrelevant there. The guy with only 10 words doesn't stand a chance against me. For the consumer, though, the smaller guy's ads are relevant, because he is really made them for that!
How is it good for the consumer, if an irrelevant amazon ad shows up (because it costs less for amazon even though the click-rate for that particular word is very poor), and not the actual equation editor?
Keep your patches up to date, or don't connect to the internet...
Rrright! There has never been a case when the worm came before MS issued a patch, has it?
This is a good one to slashdot. No, I don't mean kill the server with our traffic, but increase the number of pledges. I think I can see the beginnings of /. effect already. The fag end of the graph looks nearly vertical.
Reminds me of a Dilbert carton, where the manager sends Dilbert an email to check out a fax that he sent and finally comes over and tells him the message anyway. So I guess that is what we should all do!
You mean swinging sideways is not patented? I'm going to file it now...
I admit I haven't tried switching timezones. What I meant about multiple timezones was scheduling a meeting when people are in various timezones.
Lotus Notes does it and it can manage multiple-time zones including daylight savings.
C'mon now, Larry! We know who you are
I'm not sure I agree with this point of view. It seems to me that it's not a right to control material and copyright confers, but the right to legal protection from infringement on that material. If I decide I want to go a step further with something I produce, and lock it up in a way that will keep people from doing what they want with it after I can no longer count on legal protection, then isn't that my prerogative?
That said, I don't really agree with that approach, I'm just not a fan of telling a creator what they can do with their creation.
It is your prerogative as long as you do not sell any rights to anyone. If you have sold copies of yours then you're willing to forgo some of your rights for money, and you have to accept the limits. What people are objecting to, is use of DRM when you sell copies of your creation - and wanting to perpetuate your rights.
They are always sticking it to the working man, dude.
you meant "comrade", didn't you?
I don't believe adding just a line at the bottom saying "Some results are suppressed" makes them all clean. The fact that the chinese government did not object to putting it up itself says that the government doesn't think it will matter. I'm sure we will see other search engines do the same thing soon.
IMHO, one obeying the "letter" of the law doesn't cut it. This is China we are talking about, if the authorities _think_ that you're not doing what they asked for, you go to the jail if you're an individual, or thrown out if you're a company. Authorities do not have to prove to anyone that you broke the law.
I am in India, and I can't seem to be able to go to your second link. Google automatically coerces my www.google.cn link to www.google.com. Even when I type it manually.
I think you misunderstood. They did not prove what the program does. They claim they have proven that the it cannot be determined by other what the program does.