Your statement comes from what I consider to be a fallacious assumption: that the Internet is an end, not a means.
In and of itself, it is not an amazing thing, except to geeks. The value comes, rather, from what it promotes: facile communication between people.
You might as well ask,"Would the world be better if we kept advancing ways of making fire instead of creating language?"
We're just experiencing the pain of socio-economic upheaval, the price we're paying for a fundamental improvement in how humans interoperate. The world changed when apes figured out they could whack each other with bones and sticks, and the world changed when people could get to a town twenty miles away in less than a day.
The world is changing again, and it will continue to change.
It's a little more complicated than that. 1-click batches up all the 1-click orders within a certain timespan, 45 minutes if I remember correctly, and consolidates them into a single order.
I haven't bothered to read the patent (just like everyone else talking out of their ass here), so I'm not going to comment on the validity of it.
From http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2116 540,00.html:
Rockefeller's dominance may show why his fortune in fact was larger than Gates', though not in pure numbers.
"Rockefeller's net worth was equal to 2.5 percent of the gross national product of the United States, versus one-half of 1 percent of the gross national product for Bill Gates," said Chernow.
"So while Gates was richer than Rockefeller if you translate 1913 dollars into 1998 dollars, if we ask which man loomed largest in the economy of his day, John D. Rockefeller was infinitely richer," Chernow said.
Nobody should be able to tell you you're overqualified for a job since it is you looking for A job, regardless of your experience.
The issue with "overqualification" is that hiring the applicant is a high risk. Typically, someone will take a job to pay the bills (fancy that!), and quit as soon as they find a job more in line with their qualifications. Given the cost of training someone, if they quit in the first month or two, they lose money. It's bad enough that they have to hire a lot of students, people with am "I'm only here until I find something better, and I _will_ find something better" sign around their necks are positively frightening.
Wow. All anyone needs to do to attack the professionalism of the Open Source Software movement is quote a bit of the crap that RHAD people make public. Between Miguel and Raster, they would make any suit afraid to put their company in the hands of such prima-donna crybabies.
These little diatribes also have a great way of ending one's career. Advice for Raster: Keep your mouth shut on the way out. It's enough that you've escaped. Don't burn any bridges.
Perhaps it saves reboot time because it's on a more stable box? I assume the hardware and drivers do not need much rebooting, but rather the applications that cause problems. If you have very thin application boxes (RAM, disk, Windows NT), they would reboot faster than if they were loaded up with lots of drivers that would need initialisation.
People spend a lot of time comparing Stephenson to Pynchon, but I think a lot of those people haven't made it past the first fifty pages of Gravity's Rainbow.
Sure, there are topical similarities, the hallucinogenic asides and level of detail are common to both authors. However, all of Stephenson's books are the type of book that Pynchon would pound out if he had a fixed deadline and needed money (Vineland is a perfect example for comparison:-)). Pynchon's other works are _so_ excruciatingly perfect, without the myriad continuity, historical, mathematical, and cryptographical errors that Stephenson makes.
Every few pages in his books, I stumble across something that makes me wonder if he really reviews what he writes. This book (and to a lesser extent, the others) looked a lot like a first draft. They are fun to read, and I look forward to the next books, but he is by no stretch of the imagination comparable to Thomas Pynchon, except perhaps as the "Dummies Guide" version.
Well, if you look at their population figure for SFO, it's quite low. I don't know how they came up with it, but it doesn't match the census figures for CMSA or even PMSA.
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Your statement comes from what I consider to be a fallacious assumption: that the Internet is an end, not a means.
In and of itself, it is not an amazing thing, except to geeks. The value comes, rather, from what it promotes: facile communication between people.
You might as well ask,"Would the world be better if we kept advancing ways of making fire instead of creating language?"
We're just experiencing the pain of socio-economic upheaval, the price we're paying for a fundamental improvement in how humans interoperate. The world changed when apes figured out they could whack each other with bones and sticks, and the world changed when people could get to a town twenty miles away in less than a day.
The world is changing again, and it will continue to change.
It's a little more complicated than that. 1-click batches up all the 1-click orders within a certain timespan, 45 minutes if I remember correctly, and consolidates them into a single order.
I haven't bothered to read the patent (just like everyone else talking out of their ass here), so I'm not going to comment on the validity of it.
I don't see the masses beating down doors for the Microsoft development tools.
Yeah, no one uses that VB thing, or that VC++ thing.
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From http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2116 540,00.html:
Rockefeller's dominance may show why his fortune in fact was larger than Gates', though not in pure numbers.
"Rockefeller's net worth was equal to 2.5 percent of the gross national product of the United States, versus one-half of 1 percent of the gross national product for Bill Gates," said Chernow.
"So while Gates was richer than Rockefeller if you translate 1913 dollars into 1998 dollars, if we ask which man loomed largest in the economy of his day, John D. Rockefeller was infinitely richer," Chernow said.
Nobody should be able to tell you you're overqualified for a job since it is you looking for A job, regardless of your experience.
The issue with "overqualification" is that hiring the applicant is a high risk. Typically, someone will take a job to pay the bills (fancy that!), and quit as soon as they find a job more in line with their qualifications. Given the cost of training someone, if they quit in the first month or two, they lose money. It's bad enough that they have to hire a lot of students, people with am "I'm only here until I find something better, and I _will_ find something better" sign around their necks are positively frightening.
Given that the earliest book of the New Testament was written fifty years after his death, I think a misquote is pretty darned likely. :-)
Wow. All anyone needs to do to attack the professionalism of the Open Source Software movement is quote a bit of the crap that RHAD people make public. Between Miguel and Raster, they would make any suit afraid to put their company in the hands of such prima-donna crybabies.
These little diatribes also have a great way of ending one's career. Advice for Raster: Keep your mouth shut on the way out. It's enough that you've escaped. Don't burn any bridges.
Perhaps it saves reboot time because it's on a more stable box? I assume the hardware and drivers do not need much rebooting, but rather the applications that cause problems. If you have very thin application boxes (RAM, disk, Windows NT), they would reboot faster than if they were loaded up with lots of drivers that would need initialisation.
People spend a lot of time comparing Stephenson to Pynchon, but I think a lot of those people haven't made it past the first fifty pages of Gravity's Rainbow.
:-)). Pynchon's other works are _so_ excruciatingly perfect, without the myriad continuity, historical, mathematical, and cryptographical errors that Stephenson makes.
Sure, there are topical similarities, the hallucinogenic asides and level of detail are common to both authors. However, all of Stephenson's books are the type of book that Pynchon would pound out if he had a fixed deadline and needed money (Vineland is a perfect example for comparison
Every few pages in his books, I stumble across something that makes me wonder if he really reviews what he writes. This book (and to a lesser extent, the others) looked a lot like a first draft. They are fun to read, and I look forward to the next books, but he is by no stretch of the imagination comparable to Thomas Pynchon, except perhaps as the "Dummies Guide" version.
Well, if you look at their population figure for SFO, it's quite low. I don't know how they came up with it, but it doesn't match the census figures for CMSA or even PMSA.