Sure, take precautions, but it's really important that we trust other people and meet other people.
You are far more likely to be killed by someone you know than a stranger. Your children are far more likely to be abused by your friends or a relative than a stranger.
We have to make friends and trust people. A lot of commercial transactions depend on trust. eBay relies on trust. Open source is built on trust of others.
I'm on couchsurfing and have had good experiences. It works. We should trust others rather than lock ourselves in gated communities and empty the streets.
Sure, take precautions, but it's really important to get out there and make new connections. It's the way we build social capital.
If you can get per project sponsoring for your development then it may make it worthwhile.
There is a company in Sweden that does Open Source haptics, sensegraphics they occupy a niche but open source their API. This has allowed them to become a base for others to develop software on around the world. They make their money from creating products on top of the API for others.
It can be done, but if you guys make more from selling your product it may not be worthwhile.
Open Source is great, but it isn't the answer to every problem.
The real reason for TV stats is for advertisers and TV stations to work out how much they can sell advertising for.
What is the reason for web stats? If you're paying per view or per click then the information is directly available.
This leads to an interesting possibility. The ad providers could provide a ranking of sites based on the number of adds that they show there and the number of clicks that are created. This is, of course, open to manipulation via click fraud and other techniques but it would probably be more accurate than Alexa's rankings.
Then, if you wanted to improve this even more you could combine this with the number of searches that go to a page. A large net firm that provided these services could do such a ranking. Google or Yahoo could do this. Perhaps they do, for their internal consumption.
If you want to understand Iranian's reasons for wanting nuclear power you may want to read this interview with Iran's nuclear chief, Ali Larijani.
One quote that might interest people from the interview is this:
Mohammad Saeidi is a practical man. Sidestepping the political, ideological and historical aspects of the nuclear dispute with the West, the vice-president of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation is focused on a set of problems that must be solved logically if the country and its people are to develop to their full potential. "The country's oil and gas reserves will last a maximum of another 25 or 30 years," he says. "Therefore we have to provide other resources."
If you are an American, please don't support your current administrations drive to cause yet another war by believing their propaganda about Iran. Really, you should trust your politicians as soon as they find the WMD that they told you existed in Iraq.
Please don't let Bush plunge the world into the Realm of $200 a barrel oil prices by attacking Iran.
So you don't have the courage of your convictions. Fair enough. I'm completely serious. We can set the money up in escrow. I can't imagine and easier way of making 2K for me.
Listen, what you are saying is incredibly dubious. Do you relieve believe that Apple, with it's market share of about 1-3% of global desktops is going to displace Windows?
There are Windows 95 installs still out there in many offices.
Do you really believe that people are going to ditch that amount of legacy stuff for what is really harsher vendor lock in that MS?
Apple zealots are going around with the belief of Linux users in 1998. It's annoying. Whenever anyone dares to question the assumption that Apple will be anything other than a pretty minor player on the desktop they go into orbit.
Why can't Apple zealots grow up? Mac OS X is a nice system, it's really good, it's pretty and very solid. Just like BeOS. But who really cares? Seriously, enjoy your machines but stop making deluded predictions.
I was wondering if someone would bring this up.
It does feel odd, but the thing is, Sun is right and the rest of the world is wrong. Putting a big CTRL key in place of the caps lock key is a great idea, emacs becomes so much nice like that.
Of course, because it is isn't the standard it's annoying, but well, they are 'right' in some way.
There are national characteristics - the fact that the World Cup is repeatedly won by a small group of nations that manage to maintain a style over years also shows this.
But the US style has it's problems. US companies wind up as slaves to the markets and often damage their engineering skills. The problems in the US car industry show this. While the German car industry has come up with fuel injection, ABS braking and constant four wheel drive over the past 20 years the US industry has invented the cupholder and the SUV.
Likewise, somehow the Japanese are great craftsmen. This skill is reflected in the quality of Toyota's manufacturing and the remarkable qualities in Japanese portable electronics. Apple may have invented the ipod, but the walkman and the transistor radio all came out Japan.
It's good that the world is like this. Countries specialise. But presuming that one companies system is superior for everything to all the others is silly. The best is what is created when the systems work together - as in the computer industry where the parts are made in Asia and the software comes from all over the world, and in particular from the US.
Re:No monster.com activity for AJAX - Dead right
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This is dead right. I've been keeping tabs on the local (Melbourne, AU) market. AJAX is not even on the list of buzzwords people put in job adds. If you check one of the two major sites you get, rounding and averaging for the past few months:
To tell some Programmer that they need to learn AJAX is internet meme following BS. If you want a job now, or in the next year or so, solid Java and SQL skills are the main thing you want followed by C++.
In 5 years it may be AJAX - but AJAX may happily go the way of SOAP and Web Services and become a buzzword that didn't take off and is now just a small segment of the market.
Please, won't someone think of the children?
They were - Rand is for children. Philosophy based on self-promotion and a cult wrapped up with a crude mix of half understood Nietzsche, Darwin and simplistic capitalism generally that appeals to 14 year olds who think they are smarter than everyone else. If she could have actually written well and had a good editor it could have been something, but perhaps writing that a 14 year old could improve on also appeals to 14 year olds.
The Randroids usual appeal that Rand has sold more than most philosophers is funny. You can always suggest that they get their philosophy from Harry Potter which is at least well written.
That said, Randroids provide the net with great trolling opportunities.
Absolutely. And it's interesting that you highlight the Star Destroyer Mission - that was really cool. Perhaps better than the actual trench run.
The level of challenge on that game was perfect for a lot of people but presumably there were people who ripped through it and I knew people who never got the shooting of ships down.
There was also a really good novelty factor. It was the first game where you could really feel like you were piloting an X-Wing.
TIE Fighter had too many wonder fighters. By the end the craft you had could take out a Star Destroyer too easily.
A few years back I was on a late night flight across the US. I went to the bathroom and on the way back noticed the blue shimmer of PDAs almost everywhere. And there was something else - without exception that I could find, there were all playing solitaire or some game.
These were adults who had, or whose employer had, shelled out hundreds of dollars in part so they could play 'Drug Wars' or whatever on a plane.
Similarly, on a plane to Australia from Thailand there were again, heaps of older men (and it was offputting) coming back from Thai holidays. This time, many, many of them had Gameboys.
Who hasn't seen their, or someone else's parents or grandparents playing a raft of card games on their computer.?
Nintendo is dead right. Many adults want something to play while waiting for things and riding on public transport. And with the DS you could do some interesting things - hey, on Oprah you could run a competition to do something while the show was running and then call some woman and give her credit for whatever. It'd be like voting for reality TV on steroids.
If Nintendo can take away the game playing is for younger folk stigma on their devices, particularly on their handhelds they could well exploit or create a large, successful new segment of the market.
They may well take long holidays and do other stuff. But honestly, you don't think running Google would be fascinating? Here you have this company that is basically an advertiser, that has no lock in, but is one of the most important companies in the world for information distribution and you don't know what things will be like in 5 years? Added to that the technology and the brains they have would be amazing. Who wouldn't want to work with all the talent they have?
It would not be surprising that they would quit in a few years, but right now working at Google would have to be one of the most interesting jobs in the world. And this is for an outsider, can you imagine if you'd created the company yourself?
Whenever you hear enterprise you can be assured someone in marketing is trying to BS you. It's really a keyword to denote that there is no good reason why something is better or bigger, merely that someone is trying to con you. It's almost as bad as synergy.
This appears to be no different. They are obviously trying to come up with a reason why you shouldn't compare the two products as theirs will fair so badly.
This is a pretty poor news story. This has been going on for years. The manikin shown looks like it is a Laerdal one. These types of manikins are very effective for teaching certain things. At Fort Hood in Texas the US Army has hundreds of them to train their medics.
In addition to manikin 'robots' there are also VR simulators that are used for training. On the whole these are not as effective but are good for some procedures. The major manufacturer of these is Immersion.
Surely it's an indication of the fact that Sun has lost it's engineering focus and is now being driven by marketing people.
Certainly, firms can survive and even thrive like that, but for Sun it is surely bad news.
exactly! Ever see life good, terrorism overrated?
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It isn't just science journalism.
Newspapers hype everything and do their best take things out of context.
A few headlines that would show that this is not the case:
Bush average president, but life good anyway
Terrorism overestimated to keep Pentagon funding, chance of dying from terrorist hugely less than that from auto accident.
US not major player in dispute, but analysts claim everything result of US.
Technology keeps on gradually improving but nothing really huge happening this year
Unemployemnt within a few percent of what it always is
Admittedly there are some things that are big stories, but because every paper every day has to have a headline they look to be less than they actually are.
Check out scalix. It is basically a lower cost exchange replacement that runs on Linux. It scales, it works. There is a community edition that you can test.
The CEO, Julia Hanna Farris has 20 years of experience working on messenging systems for Bell then for Lotus Notes and then in a few other start ups, and she is a babe as well. There is an interview with her over at It Conversations that you might want to listen to.
With the paid for edition you get all the features of exchange without the cost and without the security risks of running Windows servers.
In particular, there is a mod done of Tiddly Wiki called GTD Tiddly Wiki which is a fine little reminder thing based on the getting things done method.
Umm, google for Gannt charts and OS X and you will find lots of things.
You also might want to check out Gantt Project which is a java Gannt drawing tool. It does tend to be, in the way of java GUIs, slow. But if you have a well specced machine or do not need huge charts it should do you just fine.
US TV, films etc are pretty good, but other than NPR American free to air Radio is beyond hope. Having one channel own almost all the stations is effective death.
Payola, while unpleasant, is nothing to people who are carefully creating radio to only be sports, 80s hits and right wing shock jocks.
But, fortunately, there is satelite with some variety but above all else the internet.
Australian radio, in contrast to US radio, is vibrant, brilliant and is a good industrial subsidy for the Australian music industry (ever wonder where INXS, Midnight Oil and many others got their start?).
If you want to check it out over the net check out JJJ, RRR, 3PBS and enjoy some streaming quality alternative interesting radio for a change.
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You are far more likely to be killed by someone you know than a stranger. Your children are far more likely to be abused by your friends or a relative than a stranger.
We have to make friends and trust people. A lot of commercial transactions depend on trust. eBay relies on trust. Open source is built on trust of others.
I'm on couchsurfing and have had good experiences. It works. We should trust others rather than lock ourselves in gated communities and empty the streets.
Sure, take precautions, but it's really important to get out there and make new connections. It's the way we build social capital.
There is a company in Sweden that does Open Source haptics, sensegraphics they occupy a niche but open source their API. This has allowed them to become a base for others to develop software on around the world. They make their money from creating products on top of the API for others.
It can be done, but if you guys make more from selling your product it may not be worthwhile.
Open Source is great, but it isn't the answer to every problem.
What is the reason for web stats? If you're paying per view or per click then the information is directly available.
This leads to an interesting possibility. The ad providers could provide a ranking of sites based on the number of adds that they show there and the number of clicks that are created. This is, of course, open to manipulation via click fraud and other techniques but it would probably be more accurate than Alexa's rankings.
Then, if you wanted to improve this even more you could combine this with the number of searches that go to a page. A large net firm that provided these services could do such a ranking. Google or Yahoo could do this. Perhaps they do, for their internal consumption.
One quote that might interest people from the interview is this:
Mohammad Saeidi is a practical man. Sidestepping the political, ideological and historical aspects of the nuclear dispute with the West, the vice-president of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation is focused on a set of problems that must be solved logically if the country and its people are to develop to their full potential. "The country's oil and gas reserves will last a maximum of another 25 or 30 years," he says. "Therefore we have to provide other resources."
If you are an American, please don't support your current administrations drive to cause yet another war by believing their propaganda about Iran. Really, you should trust your politicians as soon as they find the WMD that they told you existed in Iraq.
Please don't let Bush plunge the world into the Realm of $200 a barrel oil prices by attacking Iran.
Listen, what you are saying is incredibly dubious. Do you relieve believe that Apple, with it's market share of about 1-3% of global desktops is going to displace Windows?
There are Windows 95 installs still out there in many offices.
Do you really believe that people are going to ditch that amount of legacy stuff for what is really harsher vendor lock in that MS?
Apple zealots are going around with the belief of Linux users in 1998. It's annoying. Whenever anyone dares to question the assumption that Apple will be anything other than a pretty minor player on the desktop they go into orbit.
Why can't Apple zealots grow up? Mac OS X is a nice system, it's really good, it's pretty and very solid. Just like BeOS. But who really cares? Seriously, enjoy your machines but stop making deluded predictions.
I'm serious. Non token amounts. 2K sound like a reasonable wager? Market share by 2009?
I was wondering if someone would bring this up.
It does feel odd, but the thing is, Sun is right and the rest of the world is wrong. Putting a big CTRL key in place of the caps lock key is a great idea, emacs becomes so much nice like that.
Of course, because it is isn't the standard it's annoying, but well, they are 'right' in some way.
But the US style has it's problems. US companies wind up as slaves to the markets and often damage their engineering skills. The problems in the US car industry show this. While the German car industry has come up with fuel injection, ABS braking and constant four wheel drive over the past 20 years the US industry has invented the cupholder and the SUV.
Likewise, somehow the Japanese are great craftsmen. This skill is reflected in the quality of Toyota's manufacturing and the remarkable qualities in Japanese portable electronics. Apple may have invented the ipod, but the walkman and the transistor radio all came out Japan.
It's good that the world is like this. Countries specialise. But presuming that one companies system is superior for everything to all the others is silly. The best is what is created when the systems work together - as in the computer industry where the parts are made in Asia and the software comes from all over the world, and in particular from the US.
180 SQL
100 Java
50 C++
40 C#
5 AJAX
20 PHP
2 Python
To tell some Programmer that they need to learn AJAX is internet meme following BS. If you want a job now, or in the next year or so, solid Java and SQL skills are the main thing you want followed by C++.
In 5 years it may be AJAX - but AJAX may happily go the way of SOAP and Web Services and become a buzzword that didn't take off and is now just a small segment of the market.
Thanks for this comment. That's useful info.
The Randroids usual appeal that Rand has sold more than most philosophers is funny. You can always suggest that they get their philosophy from Harry Potter which is at least well written.
That said, Randroids provide the net with great trolling opportunities.
Please keep your clothes addiction.
Think of the children.
The level of challenge on that game was perfect for a lot of people but presumably there were people who ripped through it and I knew people who never got the shooting of ships down.
There was also a really good novelty factor. It was the first game where you could really feel like you were piloting an X-Wing.
TIE Fighter had too many wonder fighters. By the end the craft you had could take out a Star Destroyer too easily.
It would indeed be a great target for a remake.
Soon Going Insolvent....
These were adults who had, or whose employer had, shelled out hundreds of dollars in part so they could play 'Drug Wars' or whatever on a plane.
Similarly, on a plane to Australia from Thailand there were again, heaps of older men (and it was offputting) coming back from Thai holidays. This time, many, many of them had Gameboys.
Who hasn't seen their, or someone else's parents or grandparents playing a raft of card games on their computer.?
Nintendo is dead right. Many adults want something to play while waiting for things and riding on public transport. And with the DS you could do some interesting things - hey, on Oprah you could run a competition to do something while the show was running and then call some woman and give her credit for whatever. It'd be like voting for reality TV on steroids.
If Nintendo can take away the game playing is for younger folk stigma on their devices, particularly on their handhelds they could well exploit or create a large, successful new segment of the market.
It would not be surprising that they would quit in a few years, but right now working at Google would have to be one of the most interesting jobs in the world. And this is for an outsider, can you imagine if you'd created the company yourself?
The emacs developers are also hard at work on a complimentary cross plugin too I hear.
This appears to be no different. They are obviously trying to come up with a reason why you shouldn't compare the two products as theirs will fair so badly.
In addition to manikin 'robots' there are also VR simulators that are used for training. On the whole these are not as effective but are good for some procedures. The major manufacturer of these is Immersion.
Certainly, firms can survive and even thrive like that, but for Sun it is surely bad news.
Newspapers hype everything and do their best take things out of context.
A few headlines that would show that this is not the case:
Admittedly there are some things that are big stories, but because every paper every day has to have a headline they look to be less than they actually are.
The CEO, Julia Hanna Farris has 20 years of experience working on messenging systems for Bell then for Lotus Notes and then in a few other start ups, and she is a babe as well. There is an interview with her over at It Conversations that you might want to listen to.
With the paid for edition you get all the features of exchange without the cost and without the security risks of running Windows servers.
In particular, there is a mod done of Tiddly Wiki called GTD Tiddly Wiki which is a fine little reminder thing based on the getting things done method.
You also might want to check out Gantt Project which is a java Gannt drawing tool. It does tend to be, in the way of java GUIs, slow. But if you have a well specced machine or do not need huge charts it should do you just fine.
Payola, while unpleasant, is nothing to people who are carefully creating radio to only be sports, 80s hits and right wing shock jocks.
But, fortunately, there is satelite with some variety but above all else the internet.
Australian radio, in contrast to US radio, is vibrant, brilliant and is a good industrial subsidy for the Australian music industry (ever wonder where INXS, Midnight Oil and many others got their start?).
If you want to check it out over the net check out JJJ, RRR, 3PBS and enjoy some streaming quality alternative interesting radio for a change.