Abraham Lincoln said: "If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe". The same applies for building an app. One approach: Draw a schematic of data flow. Start thinking about data structures for your app. Write test cases for imaginary modules that talk to these data structures. Code the modules utilizing the above test cases. Write app code that utilized the modules.
You don't even need read cookies to exploit this feature. This technique is probably used in stock fraud pump-and-dump schemes. Google Finance has a trend display that shows the most "popular" stock base on the the Gooogle Trend technology. Fraudsters probably popularize stocks they've purchased by seeding web sites with images that search Google for the company name of the stock. As more folks search the company, the stock becomes more popular. As it get popular it gets more eyeball looking at it and investing in it who ever invested in a stock they didn't hear off?). The stock goes up. The fraudsters dump the stock.
I agree about the closed mindness of the Ivory Tower mind. One of the best surgeons of our time was barely recognized. From wikipedia: Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 - November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher to many of the country's most prominent surgeons. Thomas was born close to Lake Providence, Louisiana. The son of a carpenter, he attended Pearl High School (now known as Martin Luther King Magnet High School for Health Science and Engineering) in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Even though it was part of a racially segregated system, the school provided him with a high-quality education. Later, when Thomas' savings were wiped out, he abandoned entirely his plans for college and medical school, relieved to have even a low-salary job as the Great Depression deepened.
Thomas showed an extraordinary aptitude for surgery and precise experimentation, which led Blalock to grant him more freedom in the execution of the procedures. Tutored in anatomy and physiology by Blalock and his young research fellow (Dr. Joseph Beard), Thomas rapidly mastered complex surgical techniques and research methodology. He and Blalock developed great respect for one another, forging such a close working relationship that they came to operate almost as a single mind. Outside the lab environment, however, they maintained the social distance dictated by the norms of the times. In an era when institutional racism was the norm, Thomas was classified, and paid, as a janitor, despite the fact that by the mid 1930s he was doing the work of a postdoctoral researcher in Blalock's lab.
Joe Biden (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix Hillary Clinton (Democrat) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Paul Holcomb Christopher Dodd (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks John Edwards (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Plus Three Mike Gravel (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc. Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by New Age Consulting Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks Bill Richardson (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix Wesley Clark (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc. Al Gore (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace Sam Brownback (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by RackForce Hosting, Inc. Jim Gilmore (Republican) - Linux, Apache by 1&1 Internet, Inc. Rudy Giuliani (Republican) - Linux, Apache by RackSpace Mike Huckabee (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc. Duncun Hunter (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual John McCain (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation Ron Paul (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace Mitt Romney (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace Tom Tancredo (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Interland Fred Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc. Tommy Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Time Warner Telecom, Inc. Chuck Hagel (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual Newt Gingrich (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
One of the "best business books" of the year 2006 that the Economist recommended was: Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win By William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre. William Morrow
In the book the cover some open source business models. One of their favorite example was an Canadian Gold mine that opened up their data and asked for new mining designs (or where to dig for gold in their fields). Sounds like the Economist is following this business model.
The only reason I can think think that slashdot refers to this blog is because they wanted to slashdot it. Time to mod down the people who submitted this "article"/blog.
Google has huge potential for services based on their server farm/architecture. For example: Google could sell company denial-of-service protection. Traffic could be routed through google's farm. Google could filter the wheat from the chaff. Also google know lots about valid clients via GoogleCaching, cookies, GMail accounts, GoogleDesktop, etc... Google could automatically vet valid clients versus zombie attackers. With googles huge server farm it could withstand a zombie attack of a hundred thousand boxes.
Motorola was using CMT technology on their timer channel processor inside 68332 micro controller (this was designed back 1986). Each timer channel basically had its own instruction register (as well as other registers). A round-robin process time-sliced throught the timer channel processors. This worked great because instructions were pre-fetched in time for the next execution window. It worked great for parallel timing processes because every channel had the same priority and same time resolution. How it would work for database applications that might interact with eachother (eg need to block eachother) would need to be carefully evaluated.
I've seen demos of the HP Halo videoconferencing rooms. There is no equipment for the PHBs to fiddle with. Everything (microphones, cameras, and displays) is built into the walls and furniture. With multiple screens per room and great sound, it easy to see why executives want to buy these things. Why fly (even via a corporate jet) when you just walk into a Halo conference room and be seated across the table from who you want to see/hear. See a Halo room write up at: http://www.presentations.com/presentations/technol ogy/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000729994
Remember the recent artilcle about gambling web site fighting off a denial of service attack? A web site could hire Google as verification engine. Let Google do the filtering of what are valid web page requests and what are zombie attacks. Perhaps Google will go into the ISP business. With Googles massive pipes, server farms and brains it could probably handle any denial of service attack.
This reminds me about the theory of why carjacking became so popular. The engineers figured out better alarm systems,locking mechanisms and other anti-theft deterrents ("The Club"? ), but thieves just side stepped the issue by stealing your car as you unlocked it. This led to more bodily harm, not less. Not very good engineering in some respects...
I don't have code contributions to return to the community, so I give money to the The Perl Foundation". I then get the company to pay for it via our reimbursement system.
I agree steps 1 and 2 are easy to do. The goverment should not send out the hash it wants to check for reasons you state. They might send:
- The first 64 bits (if the hash is 128 bits )
- Or hash the hash into something smaller, say 20 bits.
The idea is to that you would return a set of hash keys that matched the shortened requested hash. You would not know exactly what the goverment was looking for, you'd only know if certain keys (but not all the keys) the fell into their broad request. Later when the requesting goverment agency got back the matched hashes from you, they check that set against the exact hash they were looking for.
When checking www.junglescan.com, it was interesting to see "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and UNIX Systems " at the top of the "Today's top winners" with a +41331% change at Amazon. This book was reviewed yesterday in Slashdot.
Paul Graham brought up piracy in his article: http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html In it he mentions an advantage and disadvantage to server-base application is piracy (and lack of). Piracy does drive usage, but then again a limited version of you server base application will also drive usage.
I use an HP 100 printer. It prints 4x6 photos with great color result. It takes about 3 minutes per print, but the result is fine. The printer does not even require a PC. Just slide in your favorite memory (CompactFlahh, SmartMedia or Memory Stick) and print away. HP photo paper runs about 30 cents per sheet when bought 60 at a time.
Before this we tried Ofoto online, but their color balancing sucked.
Everytime a disaster of this magnitude occurs, I feel the need for a better information structure. For example why couldn't we figure out which AA crashed? If we had a flexible db where we could populate it with data of planes we know landed safely then would could determine the possible jet that crashed. The db needs to be populated by anyone, yet we need easy unique identifiers for the populators. The db would need to be very flexible, structured quickly (eg establishing a list of workers in a building, their status, when they checked in, where then can be reached, etc...). If I was in the area of the disaster it would be nice for me to enter my status, thus any one concerned w/ my health could check the db. Also the could see any message I put up. Access via phone would be great to. Any open source projects doing this?
I remember reading that you wrote your own text editor in BASIC in way back when. What are your programming these days? What programming language(s) do you use? What's your favorite stimulent? What's your favorite liquid depressent?
"Hello, you've got male-pattern-baldness!" I pretty much say this every morning when looking in the mirror. I'm suprised the peddlers of hair restorers haven't used the above slogan.
This movie has so many parallels to the original "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movie, that I'm surpise no one has commented on them yet. Lawrence Fishburne's Morpheus is an just an updated George Carlin's Rufus. Morpheus/Rufus come from the future worshiping the young Neo/Ted. Both Morpheus and Rufus wear shades and long coats. Both must guide the young future savior of society on his vision quest. If Morpheus had strummed an air-guitar chord in greeting Ted, er I mean Neo, it would have been perfect. Ted used a telephone booth to travel while Neo uses the lines in the telephone booth. Ted ate pudding while Neo ate it's cousin for breakfast. Ted gained his training by collecting historical figures from the past. Neo gained his knowledge by uploading experiences from disks. That blond in Neo's training excercise represented Ted's stepmom Missy, both were forbidden fruit. Bill was replaced by the babe Trinity, but Bill and Ted had much better chemistry than Neo and Trinity. The head agent paralleled Ted's militaristic father. In a sense the agent is Neo's father because the AI continuum did spawn Neo. The finale where Neo dies is reminiscent of the "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" where Ted also dies and also fights for his life.
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Abraham Lincoln said: "If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe".
The same applies for building an app.
One approach:
Draw a schematic of data flow.
Start thinking about data structures for your app.
Write test cases for imaginary modules that talk to these data structures.
Code the modules utilizing the above test cases.
Write app code that utilized the modules.
You don't even need read cookies to exploit
this feature.
This technique is probably used in stock fraud
pump-and-dump schemes. Google Finance has a
trend display that shows the most "popular"
stock base on the the Gooogle Trend technology.
Fraudsters probably popularize stocks they've
purchased by seeding web sites with images that
search Google for the company name of the stock.
As more folks search the company, the stock
becomes more popular. As it get popular it gets
more eyeball looking at it and investing in it
who ever invested in a stock they didn't
hear off?). The stock goes up. The fraudsters
dump the stock.
I agree about the closed mindness of the Ivory Tower mind.
One of the best surgeons of our time was barely recognized.
From wikipedia:
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 - November 26, 1985) was an African-American surgical technician who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s. He was an assistant to Alfred Blalock at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and later at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Without any education past high school, Thomas rose above poverty and racism to become a cardiac surgery pioneer and a teacher to many of the country's most prominent surgeons. Thomas was born close to Lake Providence, Louisiana. The son of a carpenter, he attended Pearl High School (now known as Martin Luther King Magnet High School for Health Science and Engineering) in Nashville, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Even though it was part of a racially segregated system, the school provided him with a high-quality education. Later, when Thomas' savings were wiped out, he abandoned entirely his plans for college and medical school, relieved to have even a low-salary job as the Great Depression deepened.
Thomas showed an extraordinary aptitude for surgery and precise experimentation, which led Blalock to grant him more freedom in the execution of the procedures. Tutored in anatomy and physiology by Blalock and his young research fellow (Dr. Joseph Beard), Thomas rapidly mastered complex surgical techniques and research methodology. He and Blalock developed great respect for one another, forging such a close working relationship that they came to operate almost as a single mind. Outside the lab environment, however, they maintained the social distance dictated by the norms of the times. In an era when institutional racism was the norm, Thomas was classified, and paid, as a janitor, despite the fact that by the mid 1930s he was doing the work of a postdoctoral researcher in Blalock's lab.
Joe Biden (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix
Hillary Clinton (Democrat) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Paul Holcomb
Christopher Dodd (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
John Edwards (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Plus Three
Mike Gravel (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by New Age Consulting
Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
Bill Richardson (Democrat) - Linux, Zope by Interlix
Wesley Clark (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
Al Gore (Democrat) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
Sam Brownback (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by RackForce Hosting, Inc.
Jim Gilmore (Republican) - Linux, Apache by 1&1 Internet, Inc.
Rudy Giuliani (Republican) - Linux, Apache by RackSpace
Mike Huckabee (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
Duncun Hunter (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
John McCain (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
Ron Paul (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
Mitt Romney (Republican) - Linux, Apache by Rackspace
Tom Tancredo (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Interland
Fred Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
Tommy Thompson (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
Chuck Hagel (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
Newt Gingrich (Republican) - Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
One of the "best business books" of the year 2006 that
the Economist recommended was:
Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
By William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre. William Morrow
In the book the cover some open source business models.
One of their favorite example was an Canadian Gold mine
that opened up their data and asked for new mining designs
(or where to dig for gold in their fields).
Sounds like the Economist is following this business model.
The only reason I can think think that slashdot refers to this blog is because they wanted to slashdot it. Time to mod down the people who submitted this "article"/blog.
Google has huge potential for services based on their server farm/architecture. For example:
Google could sell company denial-of-service protection. Traffic could be routed through google's farm. Google could filter the wheat from the chaff. Also google know lots about valid clients via GoogleCaching, cookies, GMail accounts, GoogleDesktop, etc...
Google could automatically vet valid clients versus zombie attackers. With googles huge server farm it could withstand a zombie attack of a hundred thousand boxes.
Google could easily get around selling trademarked ad words by selling regular expressions. For example someone might buy
/gei.o/i
It would match on GEIKO but then again it would also match GEIJO
Motorola was using CMT technology on their timer channel processor inside 68332 micro controller (this was designed back 1986). Each timer channel basically had its own instruction register (as well as other registers). A round-robin process time-sliced throught the timer channel processors. This worked great because instructions were pre-fetched in time for the next execution window. It worked great for parallel timing processes because every channel had the same priority and same time resolution. How it would work for database applications that might interact with eachother (eg need to block eachother) would need to be carefully evaluated.
Doesn't Microsoft just lease you the software? You don't really buy as in own the software.
I've seen demos of the HP Halo videoconferencing rooms. There is no equipment for the PHBs to fiddle with. Everything (microphones, cameras, and displays) is built into the walls and furniture. With multiple screens per room and great sound, it easy to see why executives want to buy these things. Why fly (even via a corporate jet) when you just walk into a Halo conference room and be seated across the table from who you want to see/hear. See a Halo room write up at:l ogy/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000729994
http://www.presentations.com/presentations/techno
Remember the recent artilcle about gambling web site fighting off a denial of service attack? A web site could hire Google as verification engine. Let Google do the filtering of what are valid web page requests and what are zombie attacks. Perhaps Google will go into the ISP business. With Googles massive pipes, server farms and brains it could probably handle any denial of service attack.
This reminds me about the theory of why carjacking became so popular. The engineers figured out better alarm systems,locking mechanisms and other anti-theft deterrents ("The Club"? ), but thieves just side stepped the issue by stealing your car as you unlocked it. This led to more bodily harm, not less. Not very good engineering in some respects...
I don't have code contributions to return to the community, so I give money to the The Perl Foundation". I then get the company to pay for it via our reimbursement system.
I agree steps 1 and 2 are easy to do. The goverment should not send out the hash it wants to check for reasons you state. They might send:
- The first 64 bits (if the hash is 128 bits )
- Or hash the hash into something smaller, say 20 bits.
The idea is to that you would return a set of hash keys that matched the shortened requested hash. You would not know exactly what the goverment was looking for, you'd only know if certain keys (but not all the keys) the fell into their broad request. Later when the requesting goverment agency got back the matched hashes from you, they check that set against the exact hash they were looking for.
I agree steps 1 and 2 are easy to do. The goverment should not send out the hash it wants to check for reasons you state. They might send:
When checking www.junglescan.com, it was interesting to see "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, Mac OS X, and UNIX Systems " at the top of the "Today's top winners" with a +41331% change at Amazon. This book was reviewed yesterday in Slashdot.
Paul Graham brought up piracy in his article:
http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html
In it he mentions an advantage and disadvantage to server-base application is piracy (and lack of). Piracy does drive usage, but then again a limited version of you server base application will also drive usage.
I use an HP 100 printer. It prints 4x6 photos with great color result. It takes about 3 minutes per print, but the result is fine. The printer does not even require a PC. Just slide in your favorite memory (CompactFlahh, SmartMedia or Memory Stick) and print away. HP photo paper runs about 30 cents per sheet when bought 60 at a time.
Before this we tried Ofoto online, but their color balancing sucked.
Everytime a disaster of this magnitude occurs, I feel the need for a better information structure. For example why couldn't we figure out which AA crashed? If we had a flexible db where we could populate it with data of planes we know landed safely then would could determine the possible jet that crashed. The db needs to be populated by anyone, yet we need easy unique identifiers for the populators. The db would need to be very flexible, structured quickly (eg establishing a list of workers in a building, their status, when they checked in, where then can be reached, etc...). If I was in the area of the disaster it would be nice for me to enter my status, thus any one concerned w/ my health could check the db. Also the could see any message I put up. Access via phone would be great to. Any open source projects doing this?
I remember reading that you wrote your own
text editor in BASIC in way back when.
What are your programming these days?
What programming language(s) do you use?
What's your favorite stimulent?
What's your favorite liquid depressent?
"Hello, you've got male-pattern-baldness!"
I pretty much say this every morning
when looking in the mirror. I'm suprised the
peddlers of hair restorers haven't used
the above slogan.
This movie has so many parallels to the original
"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" movie, that
I'm surpise no one has commented on them yet.
Lawrence Fishburne's Morpheus is an just an updated George Carlin's Rufus. Morpheus/Rufus come from the future worshiping the young Neo/Ted. Both Morpheus and Rufus wear shades and long coats.
Both must guide the young future savior of society
on his vision quest.
If Morpheus had strummed an air-guitar chord in greeting Ted, er I mean Neo, it would have been perfect.
Ted used a telephone booth to travel while Neo uses the lines in the telephone booth.
Ted ate pudding while Neo ate it's cousin for breakfast.
Ted gained his training by collecting historical figures from the past. Neo gained his knowledge by uploading experiences from disks.
That blond in Neo's training excercise represented
Ted's stepmom Missy, both were forbidden fruit.
Bill was replaced by the babe Trinity, but Bill and Ted had much better chemistry than Neo and Trinity.
The head agent paralleled Ted's militaristic father. In a sense the agent is Neo's father
because the AI continuum did spawn Neo.
The finale where Neo dies is reminiscent of the "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey" where Ted also dies and also fights for his life.