Throw in a way to keep competitors out, and you have the beginnings (but not everything) of a good startup
Yeah - hurray for artificial barriers such as DRM, propietary formats and bogus patent bullshit. Call me naive, but openness and actually being better than the competition is the only inclusive tactic I'll reward.
And to complicate things even further: the more we clean up our emissions -- without a commensurate reduction in greenhouse gases -- from our cars, "clean coal", etc, the less particulate matter there is to reflect back some of the Sun's rays that make it into the oven.
Global dimming used to dampen the warming. Silver lining: less asthma and acid rain while on summer vacation in Siberia.:)
...is that with fewer/. comments (+4) to obsessively read through, I find I suddenly have more time to get other stuff done. I, for one, hope that this less-cream-filters-to-the-top 'feature' stays.:)
If Google wants to "focus its charitable endeavors on global poverty, energy, and the environment" it should help accelerate the development of GNR (Genetics, Nanotechnology, and Robotics) technologies that will have the greatest impact.
Genetics - efficient crops, genetic therapies, eventual cures for all diseases (including the #1 killer: aging), etc. Biology isn't destiny, but in the short-term it's important that we help as many people as possible live long enough to live forever.
Nanotechnology - most especially desktop/village molecular manufacturing such that the means of production can be truly democratized. Dump some "dirt" feedstock into your "nanofab" and bootstrap the production of cheap solar arrays to make more infrastruct & fabs that make more stuff, like water purification machines, CO2 scrubbers...
Robotics - the end of skilled & unskilled menial labor (so we'll need those nanofabs to "put food on the table").
Scratch that - Google should just ship $1 billion in fish-aid to the 3rd world.
Actually, 20 years isn't that far into the future when you factor in how far along the exponential progress curve we are. hint: your problem is an intuitively linear view of the future.
Face it: you're just an old fart with romantic ideas about the meatspace-way lives were lived in the past.
The future will increasingly be about the merger of old and new media; of human and machine intelligence. You can (and will) certainly protest that, and your kids will rightly rebel.
Why so defensive, Mr. Java||PHP guy? Afraid of a little Quick & Clean productivity?
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I know GNOME's UI philosophy is Keep It Simple (Stupid), but IMO it's *too* simple, which is why I stick with the crystal Kitchen-sink DE (aka: KDE).
It's been said before, but Gnome would do well to at least make available easy access to more advanced tweakability via an "expert" mode toggle (which is always-on in KDE).
e.g. To make best use of screen realestate in KDE, I set my kicker panel to "allow other windows to cover it", and to "raise when the pointer hits the bottom of the screen" -- something which isn't even possible in Gnome, afaik.
Mandatory tracking chips are double-plus ungood as long as we've still got our evolutionary baggage working against us. It'll be a few decades before we can necessarily remove the evil primate bits out of our old bio-brains, and have enough intelligence to understand the (un)intended consequences to what we think of this improved "humanity".
So, Google delisted bmw.de for doing something that "Search Engine Optimizers" call SE cloaking or SE stealth. This is where you show the search engine crawler one keyword-loaded thing, but then show the normal user another thing; usually this is done by looking at the HTTP_User_Agent server-side, but in this case bmw.de was doing it with client-side javascript redirects.
IMO, they and many others deserve to be delisted for attempting to game the system. The only SE tactic more disgusting is spamming blogs for free pagerank boosts.
The best legit means to increase your rank is simply to have quality content that people WANT to link to, and which is intelligently marked up (e.g. use header tags for important stuff; not sliced up images that semantically mean nothing).
...I don't comment code for job security. Besides, comments are for the weak; good code should be self-documenting (but my code isn't good either, because I have to obfuscate it... again for the mythical job security).
If you must support the occasional IE/windows-only app, it's cheaper to go with rdesktop/vnc on the clients + a VMware server running the windoze VMs. Or pay more for the citrix stuff.
The same thing happened to me with Firefox 1.5RC3 under FedoraCore 4. The first time xorg kicked me back out to KDM; the 2nd time -- after I'd logged back in thinking it was fluke -- it froze up and no ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-backspace could save me.
That kind of thing almost never happens to me. SVG is slug-slow to begin with, but now I'm twice shy. Also, Firefox 1.5 final is supposed to be released sometime today, and the SVG support won't have improved much if at all from RC3.
No, you wouldn't really want a single expensive 1TB drive eggbasket -- what you'd want is a couple smaller drives to RAID together for redundancy plus performance higher than a single, big, slow drive could provide.
The great thing about the monster capacity drives being released, though, is that the $/gigabyte sweetspot shifts up a notch. 500GB SATA drives are still > ~$0.70/GB, but the 250GB and 300GB drive sweetspots can be had for about ~$0.35/GB (or less if you do the rebate hassle).
Flash Movies "just work" for a lot of people, and especially for screencap videos they encode smaller than the fullmotion mpeg variants. e.g. most of CBT Nugget's stuff is flash video.
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Yeah - hurray for artificial barriers such as DRM, propietary formats and bogus patent bullshit. Call me naive, but openness and actually being better than the competition is the only inclusive tactic I'll reward.
Global dimming used to dampen the warming. Silver lining: less asthma and acid rain while on summer vacation in Siberia. :)
Amenties include:
*Refurbished Y2K model# 1D10T"
...is that with fewer /. comments (+4) to obsessively read through, I find I suddenly have more time to get other stuff done. I, for one, hope that this less-cream-filters-to-the-top 'feature' stays. :)
The "blogosphere" is what self-important twats call the circle-jerk network of diary-writers.
Screw the "good domainname" squatters - we'll create our own brand.
TheBigPictureAI(TM) suggests, "data -> information -> knowledge -> wisdom -> profit?"
Scratch that - Google should just ship $1 billion in fish-aid to the 3rd world.
Me scored 91%; guess that means I R not a retard after-all.
Thanks for making me waste 3 minutes of my life figuring out why Chuck Norris jokes are suddenly funny. I call lame-meme.
I was thinking of the other kind of actual Product Design that we're also evolving towards. :)
Actually, 20 years isn't that far into the future when you factor in how far along the exponential progress curve we are. hint: your problem is an intuitively linear view of the future.
The future will increasingly be about the merger of old and new media; of human and machine intelligence. You can (and will) certainly protest that, and your kids will rightly rebel.
Why so defensive, Mr. Java||PHP guy? Afraid of a little Quick & Clean productivity?
It's been said before, but Gnome would do well to at least make available easy access to more advanced tweakability via an "expert" mode toggle (which is always-on in KDE).
e.g. To make best use of screen realestate in KDE, I set my kicker panel to "allow other windows to cover it", and to "raise when the pointer hits the bottom of the screen" -- something which isn't even possible in Gnome, afaik.
Mandatory tracking chips are double-plus ungood as long as we've still got our evolutionary baggage working against us. It'll be a few decades before we can necessarily remove the evil primate bits out of our old bio-brains, and have enough intelligence to understand the (un)intended consequences to what we think of this improved "humanity".
So, Google delisted bmw.de for doing something that "Search Engine Optimizers" call SE cloaking or SE stealth. This is where you show the search engine crawler one keyword-loaded thing, but then show the normal user another thing; usually this is done by looking at the HTTP_User_Agent server-side, but in this case bmw.de was doing it with client-side javascript redirects.
IMO, they and many others deserve to be delisted for attempting to game the system. The only SE tactic more disgusting is spamming blogs for free pagerank boosts.
The best legit means to increase your rank is simply to have quality content that people WANT to link to, and which is intelligently marked up (e.g. use header tags for important stuff; not sliced up images that semantically mean nothing).
Urban Dead gets no love? That webgame is truly infectious -- what with its "243,575 dead and rising" :)
You mean two-buck-chuck doesn't make me a wine snob? Even if I drink it with my pinky extended? :(
Just 3 words: polled subscription downloads.
...I don't comment code for job security. Besides, comments are for the weak; good code should be self-documenting (but my code isn't good either, because I have to obfuscate it... again for the mythical job security).
If you must support the occasional IE/windows-only app, it's cheaper to go with rdesktop/vnc on the clients + a VMware server running the windoze VMs. Or pay more for the citrix stuff.
That kind of thing almost never happens to me. SVG is slug-slow to begin with, but now I'm twice shy. Also, Firefox 1.5 final is supposed to be released sometime today, and the SVG support won't have improved much if at all from RC3.
The great thing about the monster capacity drives being released, though, is that the $/gigabyte sweetspot shifts up a notch. 500GB SATA drives are still > ~$0.70/GB, but the 250GB and 300GB drive sweetspots can be had for about ~$0.35/GB (or less if you do the rebate hassle).
Flash Movies "just work" for a lot of people, and especially for screencap videos they encode smaller than the fullmotion mpeg variants. e.g. most of CBT Nugget's stuff is flash video.