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Yep, nobody expected Yahoo could be overthrown. Google's results are pretty heavily tainted these days, just as Yahoo's were/are.
There's room for somebody to make something better, and overnight, millions of default homepages will change.
I will say that Google is diversifying into new technologies, so I don't think they'll disappear for a long time, but they may become a has-been... like Yahoo.
Canada has a minority conservative government. Also Canada's conservatives are far removed from the social conservativism in the U.S. In fact, a good chunk of the "Conservative" party is comprised of former "Progressive Conservatives", people who advocated socially progressive policies and saved conservativism for fiscal matters.
To make matters even less newsworthy, in a minority government, the government writes the rules, but they have to appeal to all sides so as to pass the house.
To spin things in a positive light, the traditional swing votes are held by a separatist party (which nobody wants to be seen allying with) and the NDP, who are nothing but misguided progressive social policies.
I guess I'm just saying that the Canadian conservative government is on a very very short leash. It's still safe in Canada. We still don't have a two party, winner takes all system.
They mentioned the EPS not the raw value of the individual stocks.
Splitting 10:1 wouldn't affect the EPS.
Stocks are valued based upon supply and demand. Demand for shares are based on perception of the demand for shares. Yes, it's circular. People perceive that share values will increase because of potential growth, or because the company is cool, or because the graph has been going up for a while... other dumb stuff. It's not a Pyramid scheme because you can buy in at any point and sell at any point, but other than that, in the event of collapse, the end result is pretty much the same. The guys at the top make a killing, the guys at the bottom lose what they put in.
If this is not the case, then tell me, what actually links the performance of a company to the value of the stock?
I've given up trying to explain this stuff to non-techies. They're on their own. If they're the sort who has to ask questions, they won't stop asking questions.
My father asks "I think the computer you gave me is out of date, it tells me that I don't have the required component to view this website" (to paraphrase)
Rather than explaining software installation and politics of the browser wars, I could only tell him that the machine has been configured to balance safety against ease of use and that the company who designed the website he visited doesn't respect that concept. That is, yes, the site is broken, the computer is fine.
I did delve into a bit of the politics, only to say that corporations will probably start taking security and privacy seriously on the Internet in the next five years or so, until then, these problems will crop up from time to time.
He then called the company by telephone and completed the transaction anyway. Very practical. He still got done what he needed to get done.
If I told him to use IE, I couldn't possibly begin to describe how he could protect himself from trashing the machine, and I couldn't tell him how to know when to launch IE and when not to.
I can't even recommend an email account for him because SPAM has become such an immense problem that email is useless to him. SPAM, viruses, malware and IE have made the Internet very, very dangerous and complex to those learning computer literacy.
Motion is great. The package compiles dead easily too, it *might* be too complex for this guy, but he should try it... it's not hard!
I've had a similar question to what this fellow has... I have a video capture card, and it works fine with Motion, but I'm looking for a camera with reasonable night exposure and zoom... from what I can tell, the only stuff out there would be camcorder type equipment. I would strongly prefer a digital camera with USB output rather than relying on my capture card.
I might be a total noob on this, but can you get streaming video out of a digital camera under Linux? Fuji apparently could do it for certain models on Windows. These small digital cameras with optical zoom, greater clarity and higher resolutions than typical camcorders would be exactly what I'm looking for... provided I can leave it on, streaming video to the computer for 24 hours at a time too.
Audio out of those little cameras would be a nice bonus. Most have microphones and movie modes, but their docs are scant on streaming and webcam-like capabilities, especially under Linux.
If it is responding in the headers IIS, it's probably being proxied by some kind of load balancer. In a modern setup, the proxy is a hardware device with a custom OS... probably originating in BSD, but the IP stack heavily modified. The system for delivery and transport of mail will also be differnt than that of the web interface.
I don't think an OS really matters anymore when you're getting to that scale. The architecture matters, and that's probably proprietary and protected by IP agreements with employees because it would have value to competitors.
It's impractical to halt the import of a vehicle, it makes far more sense to demand royalties, and it makes more sense still to charge royalties which Toyota can afford to pay while continuing to generate royalties by bringing cars into the country.
Theoretically, yeah, I think they can stop them cold. That'd be dumb though.
This is, IMHO part of the reason the RIM/NTP patent dispute hasn't sunk the RIM stock. Capitalists aren't inclined to take the threat of halting operations seriously.
I heard a spot on CBC radio, the Canadian station which isn't subject to payola schemes and I heard somthing about a band who refered themselves from MySpace. It lends it some curious credibility... but that might be the marketing model... Try to build a community around creating a buzz about particular forms of digital media. I can only think they must be marketing too the bands.
I've found the service buggy and generally unreliable. I'm surprised anyone would use it at all.
Any idea what lead your friend to create such a site on MySpace? I mean, bands could always create websites, nothing would stop them.
I was lurking around on there for a little while. It's fascinating what's up there and what they're trying to do, but in all sincerity, it appears to be an enormous astroturfing project. They seem to be mimicking the layout of Craigslist in many places too.
I'm doubtful that most of the profiles are real. First off, there are more women on the system than men. Secondly, I would expect to see more bad photography and the odd person who writes in complete sentences. Finally, the profiles appear a little toooo consistently inconsistent. I.e. the same kinds of atrocious web layout with the same kind of "come hither" photos.
These guys are also advertising by linking posts from other sites (like from Craigslist) "lol, u r cool. hay, chck my MySpace(tm)..." kind of bs.
I can't say I blame them for trying, but I strongly suspect that many of the people raving about MySpace aren't real.
Yep.... or... I have to agree. At the time that WINE was starting, emulation was a big deal, there were a few apps out there like Soft PC or Executor and they were as slow as mud. It was important to distinguish it from those lost causes.
Now I don't think it would mislead anyone to call it an emulator, even though it isn't emulating the CPU instruction set, but is instead emulating the API.
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If you're using multiple proxies, delays are killer.
HTTP proxies are an HTTP service, it would not be complex to use inexpensive web hosts to create multiple proxies.
I also don't think people check for "similar" IP addresses, but they needn't necessarily be similar.
I suppose what I'm saying is that if I don't understand the motives of the proxies, I can't trust them at all. It's a silly thing to set up because you know that people are going to use it for illegal activities. The only "legitimate" reason I could think of a person creating such a proxy would be to estblish plausible deniability for their own illegal activities. Do you really want your IP address sprayed all over machines covered in kiddie porn?
Illegal proxies... hacked boxes... worry me too. What if your first-level proxies are illegal? You're spraying your IP address all over those boxes.
Unless you trust your first hop to be secure and trustworthy, it's a dangerous practice.
Who really runs these anyonymous proxies? I mean if I were in law enforcement (and I might be), I would strongly consider creating a website of an anonymizing proxy (which I might have done), put in some text about how illegal actions will not be tolerated (which I think they all do). I would "report" all illegal activity (as advertised), then get paid to investigate it professionally (which I might do).
When I observe people using multiple anonymizing proxies in series, I'd probably create a few more, because especially when being randomized, it's just a matter of time before somebody uses all of my proxies in series for criminal activities.
Back to the future? You mean the widescreen where they cut the top and bottom off the film? That wasn't a mastering glitch, that was just...... unbelievably dumb.
"I'll make copies of your work for free, and you'll have to fend for yourself by doing concerts and live readings -- well, good luck with that!"
I thought you were talking about the publishers and recording industry there, then I realized that you didn't include anything about interfering with creative control.
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Yep, nobody expected Yahoo could be overthrown. Google's results are pretty heavily tainted these days, just as Yahoo's were/are.
There's room for somebody to make something better, and overnight, millions of default homepages will change.
I will say that Google is diversifying into new technologies, so I don't think they'll disappear for a long time, but they may become a has-been... like Yahoo.
BTW, Wired sucks.
Canada has a minority conservative government. Also Canada's conservatives are far removed from the social conservativism in the U.S. In fact, a good chunk of the "Conservative" party is comprised of former "Progressive Conservatives", people who advocated socially progressive policies and saved conservativism for fiscal matters.
To make matters even less newsworthy, in a minority government, the government writes the rules, but they have to appeal to all sides so as to pass the house.
To spin things in a positive light, the traditional swing votes are held by a separatist party (which nobody wants to be seen allying with) and the NDP, who are nothing but misguided progressive social policies.
I guess I'm just saying that the Canadian conservative government is on a very very short leash. It's still safe in Canada. We still don't have a two party, winner takes all system.
Investment analysts don't make their money on the markets. They work in cubicles.
Drat... need sleep.
They mentioned the EPS not the raw value of the individual stocks.
Splitting 10:1 wouldn't affect the EPS.
Stocks are valued based upon supply and demand. Demand for shares are based on perception of the demand for shares. Yes, it's circular. People perceive that share values will increase because of potential growth, or because the company is cool, or because the graph has been going up for a while... other dumb stuff. It's not a Pyramid scheme because you can buy in at any point and sell at any point, but other than that, in the event of collapse, the end result is pretty much the same. The guys at the top make a killing, the guys at the bottom lose what they put in.
If this is not the case, then tell me, what actually links the performance of a company to the value of the stock?
He didn't miss a comma, he just faked it.
I've given up trying to explain this stuff to non-techies. They're on their own. If they're the sort who has to ask questions, they won't stop asking questions.
My father asks "I think the computer you gave me is out of date, it tells me that I don't have the required component to view this website" (to paraphrase)
Rather than explaining software installation and politics of the browser wars, I could only tell him that the machine has been configured to balance safety against ease of use and that the company who designed the website he visited doesn't respect that concept. That is, yes, the site is broken, the computer is fine.
I did delve into a bit of the politics, only to say that corporations will probably start taking security and privacy seriously on the Internet in the next five years or so, until then, these problems will crop up from time to time.
He then called the company by telephone and completed the transaction anyway. Very practical. He still got done what he needed to get done.
If I told him to use IE, I couldn't possibly begin to describe how he could protect himself from trashing the machine, and I couldn't tell him how to know when to launch IE and when not to.
I can't even recommend an email account for him because SPAM has become such an immense problem that email is useless to him. SPAM, viruses, malware and IE have made the Internet very, very dangerous and complex to those learning computer literacy.
I think "general public" includes women themselves....
You must be new here.
The answer is clear. The U.S. must invade Japan to overthrow the government responsible for this cyber terrorism.
Motion is great. The package compiles dead easily too, it *might* be too complex for this guy, but he should try it... it's not hard!
I've had a similar question to what this fellow has... I have a video capture card, and it works fine with Motion, but I'm looking for a camera with reasonable night exposure and zoom... from what I can tell, the only stuff out there would be camcorder type equipment. I would strongly prefer a digital camera with USB output rather than relying on my capture card.
I might be a total noob on this, but can you get streaming video out of a digital camera under Linux? Fuji apparently could do it for certain models on Windows. These small digital cameras with optical zoom, greater clarity and higher resolutions than typical camcorders would be exactly what I'm looking for... provided I can leave it on, streaming video to the computer for 24 hours at a time too.
Audio out of those little cameras would be a nice bonus. Most have microphones and movie modes, but their docs are scant on streaming and webcam-like capabilities, especially under Linux.
If it is responding in the headers IIS, it's probably being proxied by some kind of load balancer. In a modern setup, the proxy is a hardware device with a custom OS... probably originating in BSD, but the IP stack heavily modified. The system for delivery and transport of mail will also be differnt than that of the web interface.
I don't think an OS really matters anymore when you're getting to that scale. The architecture matters, and that's probably proprietary and protected by IP agreements with employees because it would have value to competitors.
It's impractical to halt the import of a vehicle, it makes far more sense to demand royalties, and it makes more sense still to charge royalties which Toyota can afford to pay while continuing to generate royalties by bringing cars into the country.
Theoretically, yeah, I think they can stop them cold. That'd be dumb though.
This is, IMHO part of the reason the RIM/NTP patent dispute hasn't sunk the RIM stock. Capitalists aren't inclined to take the threat of halting operations seriously.
I heard a spot on CBC radio, the Canadian station which isn't subject to payola schemes and I heard somthing about a band who refered themselves from MySpace. It lends it some curious credibility... but that might be the marketing model... Try to build a community around creating a buzz about particular forms of digital media. I can only think they must be marketing too the bands.
I've found the service buggy and generally unreliable. I'm surprised anyone would use it at all.
Any idea what lead your friend to create such a site on MySpace? I mean, bands could always create websites, nothing would stop them.
I was lurking around on there for a little while. It's fascinating what's up there and what they're trying to do, but in all sincerity, it appears to be an enormous astroturfing project. They seem to be mimicking the layout of Craigslist in many places too.
I'm doubtful that most of the profiles are real. First off, there are more women on the system than men. Secondly, I would expect to see more bad photography and the odd person who writes in complete sentences. Finally, the profiles appear a little toooo consistently inconsistent. I.e. the same kinds of atrocious web layout with the same kind of "come hither" photos.
These guys are also advertising by linking posts from other sites (like from Craigslist) "lol, u r cool. hay, chck my MySpace(tm)..." kind of bs.
I can't say I blame them for trying, but I strongly suspect that many of the people raving about MySpace aren't real.
Yep.... or... I have to agree. At the time that WINE was starting, emulation was a big deal, there were a few apps out there like Soft PC or Executor and they were as slow as mud. It was important to distinguish it from those lost causes.
Now I don't think it would mislead anyone to call it an emulator, even though it isn't emulating the CPU instruction set, but is instead emulating the API.
You're right:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
If only we were more educated. Then disasters like this wouldn't happen.
Inline skates took off when the patent expired. I think the most recent designs were from 1980. Now the patents are on the various brakes.
Of the proxies out there, very few perform well.
If you're using multiple proxies, delays are killer.
HTTP proxies are an HTTP service, it would not be complex to use inexpensive web hosts to create multiple proxies.
I also don't think people check for "similar" IP addresses, but they needn't necessarily be similar.
I suppose what I'm saying is that if I don't understand the motives of the proxies, I can't trust them at all. It's a silly thing to set up because you know that people are going to use it for illegal activities. The only "legitimate" reason I could think of a person creating such a proxy would be to estblish plausible deniability for their own illegal activities. Do you really want your IP address sprayed all over machines covered in kiddie porn?
Illegal proxies... hacked boxes... worry me too. What if your first-level proxies are illegal? You're spraying your IP address all over those boxes.
Unless you trust your first hop to be secure and trustworthy, it's a dangerous practice.
Who really runs these anyonymous proxies? I mean if I were in law enforcement (and I might be), I would strongly consider creating a website of an anonymizing proxy (which I might have done), put in some text about how illegal actions will not be tolerated (which I think they all do). I would "report" all illegal activity (as advertised), then get paid to investigate it professionally (which I might do).
When I observe people using multiple anonymizing proxies in series, I'd probably create a few more, because especially when being randomized, it's just a matter of time before somebody uses all of my proxies in series for criminal activities.
Back to the future? You mean the widescreen where they cut the top and bottom off the film? That wasn't a mastering glitch, that was just... ... unbelievably dumb.
I think it's Hank.
"I'll make copies of your work for free, and you'll have to fend for yourself by doing concerts and live readings -- well, good luck with that!"
I thought you were talking about the publishers and recording industry there, then I realized that you didn't include anything about interfering with creative control.
You're right, they should be called "flogs", to post one is "flogcasting" and the general practice is "flogging"