a blog, a term that means one thing - a site for public news and discourse
When it comes right down to it, a blog is just a set of web pages that are updated frequently in a diary-like fashion. Why should they treat them any differently than other pages on their web site?
If you have control over the computer and can get OO installed on it, yes. I mean, that's what she does -- puts the presentation on a USB key. But they only have PP on the machines.
Most likely. I asked my wife to try it out as an alternative to PowerPoint, but it didn't work well for her because she had to keep saving things in PP format (because OO isn't on the computers she uses for presentations) and was especially freaked the first few times when OO complained that if she converted things to PP format then she might lose stuff.
If you can work in an OO-only environment, it's probably OK, but the OO-PP interoperability was not good. Some of the slides it made (and she started editing presentations made with PP originally) weren't showing up in PP. Ah well...
Yep, generally it's the lawsuit-related keywords that have high pay-per-click values. That's because Google uses a bidding system for the placement of text ads -- the more you bid, the more chances that your ad will be displayed more often. (There's a feedback system in there to weed out the non-paying ads, even if they have high bids.) So of course there are many lawyers willing to bid highly for certain keywords in an attempt to find clients looking to sue someone. It's a numbers game, they only need to find a few clients and win their cases to make it worthwhile. This happened with Vioxx, for example, although that's died down now.
Other high-paying keywords/phrases: domain name, consolidate loans, credit repair, web hosting, free online poker... etc. etc.
Lotus Notes is also used in many law firms for email and document tracking. A lot of custom work, I suspect, and probably a tough job to port it all to open source.
My experience with their customer service has been positive, not negative. I've sent questions to them and I always get a reply back in short order. They've come to me politely with problems they wanted fixed on my sites and they've always given me reasonable time to fix things.
I got a check from AdSense and I haven't made $100 the whole time I've been using it
That's because up until a few months ago Google paid out AdSense balances whenever the balance reached $100 or at the end of the calendar year. They've dropped the year-end payout option, so now you have to wait.
I think the idiot explanation works best. Look at the source for one of the definition pages, you'll see the JavaScript code for an AdSense ad block near the bottom:
Now, there could be one explanation. For pages where AdSense can't find matching ads, Google lets publishers display alternate ads. However, the way AdSense does the ad matching takes the context of the entire website into account (see the AdSense patent application) and so it seems unlikely to me that there will be no definitions without ads shown. I did some testing with obscure terms and I always got at least one ad on every page.
This is actually the interesting part of the article:
answers.com does not use Google AdSense
It would seem a natural for them to do it, given all the traffic they get from Google... seems like a no-brainer, really.
What Slashdot hasn't covered about Google is Yahoo!'s answer to AdSense. Technically, it's Yahoo! news, but it could materially affect Google's profits...
The theme of the book is that you need people separate from the programmers -- he calls them interaction designers -- to figure out how the user will interact with an application/product because the programmers are too much into the programming to do it properly. But you should read the book and decide yourself. I don't agree with everything he says, but some of it definitely rings true.
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For good reading on the design/requirements problem, I recommend Alan Cooper's The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. Talks a lot about how products can meet all their requirements and yet still fail because the requirements weren't right to begin with.
Now we know the real reason they're going to put the interstellar bypass through our solar system...
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In particular note the WAP Binary XML format (WBXML) that is used to transfer XML to and from mobile devices.
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Try the other "Effective" books, too
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If you like this book, don't forget to check out Scott Meyers' Effective C++ or Joshua Bloch's Effective Java. Both are great. I devoured Meyers' book when it first came out, and I was happy to see Bloch's book was similarly useful. There is also an Effective Perl book out, but I don't know how good it is -- it follows the same general format, but hasn't been updated since 1997. (Neither has the C++ book, but C++ hasn't changed that much since then.)
Is the gist of this news item that IBM is abandoning Java for PHP?
No, it sounds like they just want to support a scripting language for use in the application server and the Groovy standardization process (of which they're a part) is probably going too slowly for their liking.
The closest open source analog would be JBoss. Tomcat isn't really an application server, either, at least not the way the term is used conventionally in the industry. (It is kind of fuzzy, though.) Tomcat is a servlet container. A servlet container is a necessary (but not sufficient) part of a J2EE application server, but Tomcat by itself is not a J2EE application server. See my other posting for better things to compare WebSphere to.
Wrong market. WebSphere is an application server, not a web server. Yes, it has a web server included with it, but that's not its raison d'etre. You'd be better off comparing it to BEA's WebLogic Server or to the open source JBoss Application Server or the free Sun Java System Application Server.
In terms of market share, the last nubmers I saw had WebSphere first, with WebLogic close behind.
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a blog, a term that means one thing - a site for public news and discourse
When it comes right down to it, a blog is just a set of web pages that are updated frequently in a diary-like fashion. Why should they treat them any differently than other pages on their web site?
Eric
... it just gets complicated for a non-techie, really. Showing how to use the USB key itself was challenge enough...
Eric
If you have control over the computer and can get OO installed on it, yes. I mean, that's what she does -- puts the presentation on a USB key. But they only have PP on the machines.
Eric
Most likely. I asked my wife to try it out as an alternative to PowerPoint, but it didn't work well for her because she had to keep saving things in PP format (because OO isn't on the computers she uses for presentations) and was especially freaked the first few times when OO complained that if she converted things to PP format then she might lose stuff.
If you can work in an OO-only environment, it's probably OK, but the OO-PP interoperability was not good. Some of the slides it made (and she started editing presentations made with PP originally) weren't showing up in PP. Ah well...
EricMake Easy Money with Google -- out on June 17!
Yep, generally it's the lawsuit-related keywords that have high pay-per-click values. That's because Google uses a bidding system for the placement of text ads -- the more you bid, the more chances that your ad will be displayed more often. (There's a feedback system in there to weed out the non-paying ads, even if they have high bids.) So of course there are many lawyers willing to bid highly for certain keywords in an attempt to find clients looking to sue someone. It's a numbers game, they only need to find a few clients and win their cases to make it worthwhile. This happened with Vioxx, for example, although that's died down now.
Other high-paying keywords/phrases: domain name, consolidate loans, credit repair, web hosting, free online poker... etc. etc.
EricRead my AdSense tips or my upcoming book Make Easy Money with Google
Lotus Notes is also used in many law firms for email and document tracking. A lot of custom work, I suspect, and probably a tough job to port it all to open source.
Maybe his All-Bran sponsorship is at an end and he needs to make some more money.
And the other alternative is to display pay-per-click text ads to offset some of your costs.
If you're based in the US, the Amazon Honor System is an option if your users are PayPal-wary.
EricSee your HTTP headers here
Yes, but Google automated the process enough to open it up to small-time web publishers and bloggers. That's been the important difference so far.
EricHow to detect Internet Explorer
Well, they seem to be doing it. See my analysis of the Yahoo! ad program for more details.
EricMy experience with their customer service has been positive, not negative. I've sent questions to them and I always get a reply back in short order. They've come to me politely with problems they wanted fixed on my sites and they've always given me reasonable time to fix things.
EricSee me mentioned in USA Today
I got a check from AdSense and I haven't made $100 the whole time I've been using it
That's because up until a few months ago Google paid out AdSense balances whenever the balance reached $100 or at the end of the calendar year. They've dropped the year-end payout option, so now you have to wait.
EricTips for using AdSense
I think the idiot explanation works best. Look at the source for one of the definition pages, you'll see the JavaScript code for an AdSense ad block near the bottom:
Now, there could be one explanation. For pages where AdSense can't find matching ads, Google lets publishers display alternate ads. However, the way AdSense does the ad matching takes the context of the entire website into account (see the AdSense patent application) and so it seems unlikely to me that there will be no definitions without ads shown. I did some testing with obscure terms and I always got at least one ad on every page.
EricSee your HTTP headers here
This is actually the interesting part of the article:
answers.com does not use Google AdSense
It would seem a natural for them to do it, given all the traffic they get from Google... seems like a no-brainer, really.
What Slashdot hasn't covered about Google is Yahoo!'s answer to AdSense. Technically, it's Yahoo! news, but it could materially affect Google's profits...
EricNah, he's just taken it off-road...
EricA peek at Yahoo!'s new ad program
The theme of the book is that you need people separate from the programmers -- he calls them interaction designers -- to figure out how the user will interact with an application/product because the programmers are too much into the programming to do it properly. But you should read the book and decide yourself. I don't agree with everything he says, but some of it definitely rings true.
For good reading on the design/requirements problem, I recommend Alan Cooper's The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. Talks a lot about how products can meet all their requirements and yet still fail because the requirements weren't right to begin with.
Now we know the real reason they're going to put the interstellar bypass through our solar system...
In particular note the WAP Binary XML format (WBXML) that is used to transfer XML to and from mobile devices.
EricIf you like this book, don't forget to check out Scott Meyers' Effective C++ or Joshua Bloch's Effective Java. Both are great. I devoured Meyers' book when it first came out, and I was happy to see Bloch's book was similarly useful. There is also an Effective Perl book out, but I don't know how good it is -- it follows the same general format, but hasn't been updated since 1997. (Neither has the C++ book, but C++ hasn't changed that much since then.)
EricSee your HTTP headers here
Is the gist of this news item that IBM is abandoning Java for PHP?
No, it sounds like they just want to support a scripting language for use in the application server and the Groovy standardization process (of which they're a part) is probably going too slowly for their liking.
Ericthe closest analog in OSS would be Tomcat
The closest open source analog would be JBoss. Tomcat isn't really an application server, either, at least not the way the term is used conventionally in the industry. (It is kind of fuzzy, though.) Tomcat is a servlet container. A servlet container is a necessary (but not sufficient) part of a J2EE application server, but Tomcat by itself is not a J2EE application server. See my other posting for better things to compare WebSphere to.
EricWrong market. WebSphere is an application server, not a web server. Yes, it has a web server included with it, but that's not its raison d'etre. You'd be better off comparing it to BEA's WebLogic Server or to the open source JBoss Application Server or the free Sun Java System Application Server.
In terms of market share, the last nubmers I saw had WebSphere first, with WebLogic close behind.
EricJ2ME programming overviews and stuff
But at least my posting is informative, unlike most of this discussion...