most of their revenue is ad generated not subscriber generated.
Of course those are paper ads, not online ads. IIRC their paper ads accounted for something like a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue 4 years ago.
Only if you need that blazing new video speed. Most people don't. We keep Macs actively in use for years and are pretty happy. Check out the amount of use that the Engsts get out of theirs in the last issue of Tidbits. Not even every Slashdotter needs the latest and greatest all of the time.
Agreed. I was actually being facetious. In order for it to have any context it would have to be Adelaide, SA, Australia. Heck, i wouldn't have known that Adelaide was in SA if I hadn't just visited Australia and been enjoying Bill Bryson's Down Under. I would have assumed that they were talking about Australia though.
Well while that is a problem the BIGGEST problem is battery life. With battery life being so precious nobody will want their battery run down by other people on the train using their laptops to access the net.
Yes, but the number of people with two-way pagers is a mere fraction of those with cell phones. Probably to few to be of any use.
In this case fractions and percentages are not relavent. If one person has a two-way pager and can be found because it is still working that is a 100% success rate on saving that one person.
I wonder if this was supposed to be in lieu of tracking you down when the police send a speeding ticket to the company. This way they would actually save themselves the hassle of tracking you down. They'd just collect this money and keep it aside to pay for the police-issued speeding tickets when they come.
Also how do they know what GPS coordinates correspond to what speed limits? I assume there is no publicly available database which matches longitude and latitude to speed limits. So are they just assuming that if you ever go over 70 MPH that you are speeding? In this case going 60 in a 25 zone would be fine??
Ahh..the good ole days! Back when to see a pr0n pic you had to save 13 messages, cat them together after removing the headers and then uudecode it.
If there is one thing that I still hold against AOL it is letting its users gain access to Usenet news. Whoever the dude is that threw the switch on that should feel really bad. Of course he probably has plenty of AOL stock to be cashed in.;)
The way that Israel dealt with this type of problem when introducing cable television was to divide the country into regions in a way where being awarded the local monopoly for a large city (Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Suburbs) also means that you were awarded an area with lots of land mass but smaller population (Negev Desert, Gallilee). They then worded the law such that if you didn't give everyone that wanted cable access by a certain date you'd lose your license. Of course they also included wording that if you didn't have a certain percentage of Israeli-created, Hebrew-language programming, you'd lose your license. Neither of those commitments have been taken seriously and there are still plenty of remote towns without cable and very little Hebrew-language programming. Of course I'm happy enough to watch ER or reruns of The Partridge Family and drool over Lori.;)
One of the things that this points is the fact that with the rise of IDEs and so many people having learned programming with IDEs instead of with vi we have an army of people that can't program from their head. It is like having people walk around with language translation dictionaries instead of having them rack their brain trying to come up with the word. The best programmers I know are those that use IDEs as if they are using a plain text editor. It CAN give them all sorts of ways to finish that line of code but they still just write it out.
The same goes for people that learned HTML only using Dreamweaver et al. They couldn't dig down into the code to figure out why something was misbehaving for their life.
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There are two companies that look like they are approaching this space with interesting solutions that have a high probability of working. V-Secure and Mazu Networks. Interesting players to keep an eye on.
I think you guys are missing the point. In Israel a university student with a Macintosh or Linux box simply cannot share resources with other students. Companies want to see your CV in Word in Hebrew and you can't provide it. I recently sent my resume around as a PDF file in English. This was a major problem for many companies as the HR folks had no idea what to do with a PDF and requested Word documents. The problem is that MS has done some funky stuff with Hebrew encoding and it is nearly impossible to emulate it on other platforms. (I know a guy that spent a month onsite with them trying to reverse engineer it in order to be able to provide MS Hebrew on *NIX platforms)
14 hour flights not business? Folks are flying around the world to the Far East or Middle East for business all the time. Especially when a country like Israel has so many hi tech companies. 'net access on the plane is a great idea but just give me a power source and I'd be just as happy.
I tried thereoncewasafucknamedjohn.com in Israel at http://www.domain.co.il and although I also didn't whip out my credit card it said the domain was available.
FWIR The idea behind it being "PDF based" is the same as NeXt having been PostScript based. The engine running what is being shown on the screen is a PDF engine getting PDF commands.
Isn't the next step, say a year from now, to be offering the customers access to peered routing for a premium? Say a pricing agreement whereby you pay $x/month to have premium access Financial Services online services, etc?
For those of us living outside the US this is not a new problem. When it comes down to it the easiest is probably to use the first option and use real HTML with the multilingual text being includes. This way when you are actually trying to fix a page a few months from now anyone that understands HTML will be able to do it and in fact you will even be able to us Dreamweaver and the like. The other option leads to only the original developers being able to really understand what pieces are in which files and where to change the HTML to get that dang table to align correctly.
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Of course those are paper ads, not online ads. IIRC their paper ads accounted for something like a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue 4 years ago.
Only if you need that blazing new video speed. Most people don't. We keep Macs actively in use for years and are pretty happy. Check out the amount of use that the Engsts get out of theirs in the last issue of Tidbits. Not even every Slashdotter needs the latest and greatest all of the time.
Or to pass those tiny M$ Word files to someone else on the network.
Agreed. I was actually being facetious. In order for it to have any context it would have to be Adelaide, SA, Australia. Heck, i wouldn't have known that Adelaide was in SA if I hadn't just visited Australia and been enjoying Bill Bryson's Down Under. I would have assumed that they were talking about Australia though.
How about Adelaide, SA? Does that help?
Adam Curry is the original owner of the domain MTV.com. He registered it while he was a VJ at MTV in the early 90s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry
Melbourne, Florida looks pretty much on the Atlantic.
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http://www.city-data.com/city/Melbourne-Florida.h
Well while that is a problem the BIGGEST problem is battery life. With battery life being so precious nobody will want their battery run down by other people on the train using their laptops to access the net.
Yes, but the number of people with two-way pagers is a mere fraction of those with cell phones. Probably to few to be of any use. In this case fractions and percentages are not relavent. If one person has a two-way pager and can be found because it is still working that is a 100% success rate on saving that one person.
I wonder if this was supposed to be in lieu of tracking you down when the police send a speeding ticket to the company. This way they would actually save themselves the hassle of tracking you down. They'd just collect this money and keep it aside to pay for the police-issued speeding tickets when they come.
Also how do they know what GPS coordinates correspond to what speed limits? I assume there is no publicly available database which matches longitude and latitude to speed limits. So are they just assuming that if you ever go over 70 MPH that you are speeding? In this case going 60 in a 25 zone would be fine??
Ahh..the good ole days! Back when to see a pr0n pic you had to save 13 messages, cat them together after removing the headers and then uudecode it.
;)
If there is one thing that I still hold against AOL it is letting its users gain access to Usenet news. Whoever the dude is that threw the switch on that should feel really bad. Of course he probably has plenty of AOL stock to be cashed in.
The way that Israel dealt with this type of problem when introducing cable television was to divide the country into regions in a way where being awarded the local monopoly for a large city (Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Suburbs) also means that you were awarded an area with lots of land mass but smaller population (Negev Desert, Gallilee). They then worded the law such that if you didn't give everyone that wanted cable access by a certain date you'd lose your license. Of course they also included wording that if you didn't have a certain percentage of Israeli-created, Hebrew-language programming, you'd lose your license. Neither of those commitments have been taken seriously and there are still plenty of remote towns without cable and very little Hebrew-language programming. Of course I'm happy enough to watch ER or reruns of The Partridge Family and drool over Lori. ;)
Of course Macs really are kewl.
One of the things that this points is the fact that with the rise of IDEs and so many people having learned programming with IDEs instead of with vi we have an army of people that can't program from their head. It is like having people walk around with language translation dictionaries instead of having them rack their brain trying to come up with the word. The best programmers I know are those that use IDEs as if they are using a plain text editor. It CAN give them all sorts of ways to finish that line of code but they still just write it out.
The same goes for people that learned HTML only using Dreamweaver et al. They couldn't dig down into the code to figure out why something was misbehaving for their life.
BTW US Citizen with skills/experience and looking for work. Hire Me!
I was about to point this out. In fact a woman recently ran for Prime Minister/President (I don't recall). I think it was Rafsanjani's daughter.
Ummm...until they get ripped off of the pole you can have a reader in the pole.
There are two companies that look like they are approaching this space with interesting solutions that have a high probability of working. V-Secure and Mazu Networks. Interesting players to keep an eye on.
I think you guys are missing the point. In Israel a university student with a Macintosh or Linux box simply cannot share resources with other students. Companies want to see your CV in Word in Hebrew and you can't provide it. I recently sent my resume around as a PDF file in English. This was a major problem for many companies as the HR folks had no idea what to do with a PDF and requested Word documents. The problem is that MS has done some funky stuff with Hebrew encoding and it is nearly impossible to emulate it on other platforms. (I know a guy that spent a month onsite with them trying to reverse engineer it in order to be able to provide MS Hebrew on *NIX platforms)
14 hour flights not business? Folks are flying around the world to the Far East or Middle East for business all the time. Especially when a country like Israel has so many hi tech companies. 'net access on the plane is a great idea but just give me a power source and I'd be just as happy.
I tried thereoncewasafucknamedjohn.com in Israel at http://www.domain.co.il and although I also didn't whip out my credit card it said the domain was available.
Also check out http://www.infosplit.com/
FWIR The idea behind it being "PDF based" is the same as NeXt having been PostScript based. The engine running what is being shown on the screen is a PDF engine getting PDF commands.
Jakob Nielson has written about this back in '98.
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980125.html
Isn't the next step, say a year from now, to be offering the customers access to peered routing for a premium? Say a pricing agreement whereby you pay $x/month to have premium access Financial Services online services, etc?
For those of us living outside the US this is not a new problem. When it comes down to it the easiest is probably to use the first option and use real HTML with the multilingual text being includes. This way when you are actually trying to fix a page a few months from now anyone that understands HTML will be able to do it and in fact you will even be able to us Dreamweaver and the like. The other option leads to only the original developers being able to really understand what pieces are in which files and where to change the HTML to get that dang table to align correctly.