They also place a link that says "Graduating? Come work with us." on their front page when they detect a university IP address (or that's how I assume they differentiate when to show the link).Quite an audience reach there, I would imagine.
What school was this at, and can you, please, elaborate on this 80/20 format? What was the online content and support (like discussion forums, etc.), and what was done in the classroom, and how often?
Nono; no "ee" there, just plain an simple Sklya-rov - two syllables, only one vowel sound for the "lyar" part, and in Russian only one letter for "ya" (the last letter of Russian alphabet).
Just for the record. FSB stands for "Federal Security Service" (Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) - FSB is just a transliteration of the abbreviation, the same way KGB is. B stands for "Bezopasnost'" which means security, not bureau; and S for "Sluzhba" which is service, not security.
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So why haven't the forces of capitalism and free market kicked in? I mean these companies are literally dying with this approach, how come they still haven't tried the micropayments? I don't think it's that they want macropayments so bad - it's that they don't have the option of micropayments - nobody is offering such a service (amazon has something similar, but the scale is still wrong). And nobody is offering such service because very few have what it takes, namely the ability to provide a good user-interface for it - otherwise it wouldn't fly. The only company that can do it would be MS, and the only reasoning for why they don't do it (see the parent post) is sad in its lack of future and options...
Does anybody have any ideas for how micropayments could be done without MS, and other reasons for why nobody is trying them?
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The problem is that you can't just put 0.01 on your credit card bill. The guy charging you is paying a fee..
I'm not suggesting to use credit cards for micropayments. Have some separate authority, have $10 on deposit with them (or pay it as a monthly bill) - kinda like PayPal. For them your payment is just the matter of moving a number from one record to another one - very cheap (both counting bandwidth and computational power). If nothing else works, go for digital cash, if I'm not mistaken that should be even cheaper...
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i don't want to have to guess if content is worth.05
That's just the matter of sites adapting to the new form of payment. Sites will provide descriptions of the content - the sites that don't provide truthful description or don't provide one at all, will go down faster then you can say "micropayment". Sites that provide good content (and good description for it) will make money and will rise. It's just that simple.
i'd rather pay $100/mo and get blanket access to a ton of pay-per-content sites, similar to the way that i watch tv
I personally hate paying $40/mo I'm paying for TV, 100 sounds ridiculous; so I really don't think many people would go for this. So it really just seems like the matter of controling your clicking habbits - I don't think micropayments for an average person would exceed $20/mo - I mean how many nickel pages do you have time to read in a day?
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Other then porn, content isn't something people will pay for on the web, especially what are basically magazine articles.
I disagree. I think people are not willing to pay the subscription on a regular basis in seamingly large amounts (even $5 a month per site is too much). But if it was a few cents here and there for an article or for a page of posts, people would be much more willing to pay. We need micropayments, and we need them bad. What I don't understand is why they still haven't appeared and spread, the market for them should be huge. The only explanation for it that I've seen makes me sad...
Nice links - thanks for them, though, I'm aware of these methods. What I was trying to say is that for you to factor a prime number, you basically have to show that it's prime, which still is a hard problem (5020 digits is still a limit), not as hard as factoring, but still not-so-easy. Though, all this is just picky details - your post was a joke after all.;-)
But can you prove (not show with arbitrary probability) in your head that a given number is prime? For that matter, can you prove using a computer that a given large number (if you go for any) is prime? For some reason, I don't think so...
Actually, you are not correct. Medved is Russian name for bear (there you are correct), but cute little bear (bear-cub) would be "medvezhonok". Medvedka is actually a certain kind of insect (I think from the same family as a cricket, but don't quote me on that) that destroys vegetables (apparently it's a big pain for agriculture).
Yakhont is an old Russian name for certain gems (ruby and saphire in particular). It's actually a very pretty name if Russian is your native language...
Just out of curiosity, why do you have to run the latest version of Windows to communicate with your employer? Even better, why do you need to run Windows at all? What kind of software does your employer require you to run to communicate with him?
Out of curiosity, what books/sources (sites?) you would recommend to learn these languages? I'm particularaly interested in those that are good for SmallTalk, LISP and Prolog.
Jakob Nielsen has a collumn (actually, it was published in 98) on why 2D is better than 3D. He is a professional in usability - he is a good source for the answer to this question.
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They also place a link that says "Graduating? Come work with us." on their front page when they detect a university IP address (or that's how I assume they differentiate when to show the link).Quite an audience reach there, I would imagine.
What school was this at, and can you, please, elaborate on this 80/20 format? What was the online content and support (like discussion forums, etc.), and what was done in the classroom, and how often?
Thanks.
I geuss you could add GJay to the list...
Just out of curiosity, what would you rather hear about?
Nono; no "ee" there, just plain an simple Sklya-rov - two syllables, only one vowel sound for the "lyar" part, and in Russian only one letter for "ya" (the last letter of Russian alphabet).
I think, step 1 as well. ;-)
Are there any links, publications related to this research, or any place to get and look at your code?
the Russian FSB [Federal Security Bureau]
Just for the record. FSB stands for "Federal Security Service" (Federal'naya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti) - FSB is just a transliteration of the abbreviation, the same way KGB is. B stands for "Bezopasnost'" which means security, not bureau; and S for "Sluzhba" which is service, not security.
So why haven't the forces of capitalism and free market kicked in? I mean these companies are literally dying with this approach, how come they still haven't tried the micropayments? I don't think it's that they want macropayments so bad - it's that they don't have the option of micropayments - nobody is offering such a service (amazon has something similar, but the scale is still wrong). And nobody is offering such service because very few have what it takes, namely the ability to provide a good user-interface for it - otherwise it wouldn't fly. The only company that can do it would be MS, and the only reasoning for why they don't do it (see the parent post) is sad in its lack of future and options...
Does anybody have any ideas for how micropayments could be done without MS, and other reasons for why nobody is trying them?
The problem is that you can't just put 0.01 on your credit card bill. The guy charging you is paying a fee..
I'm not suggesting to use credit cards for micropayments. Have some separate authority, have $10 on deposit with them (or pay it as a monthly bill) - kinda like PayPal. For them your payment is just the matter of moving a number from one record to another one - very cheap (both counting bandwidth and computational power). If nothing else works, go for digital cash, if I'm not mistaken that should be even cheaper...
i don't want to have to guess if content is worth .05
That's just the matter of sites adapting to the new form of payment. Sites will provide descriptions of the content - the sites that don't provide truthful description or don't provide one at all, will go down faster then you can say "micropayment". Sites that provide good content (and good description for it) will make money and will rise. It's just that simple.
i'd rather pay $100/mo and get blanket access to a ton of pay-per-content sites, similar to the way that i watch tv
I personally hate paying $40/mo I'm paying for TV, 100 sounds ridiculous; so I really don't think many people would go for this. So it really just seems like the matter of controling your clicking habbits - I don't think micropayments for an average person would exceed $20/mo - I mean how many nickel pages do you have time to read in a day?
Other then porn, content isn't something people will pay for on the web, especially what are basically magazine articles.
I disagree. I think people are not willing to pay the subscription on a regular basis in seamingly large amounts (even $5 a month per site is too much). But if it was a few cents here and there for an article or for a page of posts, people would be much more willing to pay. We need micropayments, and we need them bad. What I don't understand is why they still haven't appeared and spread, the market for them should be huge. The only explanation for it that I've seen makes me sad...
I gues sthat their computer know-how has also degraded to a point where script kiddies are making fun of them...
Is that why St. Petersburg State won 2000 and 2001 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest?
Thanks a lot. I'll definitely take a look at it.
Did it work for you on that site (film88)? I just tried it with the changes you give, and it didn't work...
Nice links - thanks for them, though, I'm aware of these methods. What I was trying to say is that for you to factor a prime number, you basically have to show that it's prime, which still is a hard problem (5020 digits is still a limit), not as hard as factoring, but still not-so-easy. Though, all this is just picky details - your post was a joke after all. ;-)
But can you prove (not show with arbitrary probability) in your head that a given number is prime? For that matter, can you prove using a computer that a given large number (if you go for any) is prime? For some reason, I don't think so...
Otherwise - funny.
Since when women and Microsoft bugs are minorities? ;-))
(both are plentiful
We also make good use of the ability to run code before main()
How does one do this in C++? Can you give a very simple example?
Actually, you are not correct. Medved is Russian name for bear (there you are correct), but cute little bear (bear-cub) would be "medvezhonok". Medvedka is actually a certain kind of insect (I think from the same family as a cricket, but don't quote me on that) that destroys vegetables (apparently it's a big pain for agriculture).
P.S. I'm a native Russian speaker.
Yakhont is an old Russian name for certain gems (ruby and saphire in particular). It's actually a very pretty name if Russian is your native language...
Just out of curiosity, why do you have to run the latest version of Windows to communicate with your employer? Even better, why do you need to run Windows at all? What kind of software does your employer require you to run to communicate with him?
Found it. Squeak has a documentation page which has a bunch of resources (tutorials, papers, etc.) on it.
Thanks for the tip.
Out of curiosity, what books/sources (sites?) you would recommend to learn these languages? I'm particularaly interested in those that are good for SmallTalk, LISP and Prolog.
Thanks.
Jakob Nielsen has a collumn (actually, it was published in 98) on why 2D is better than 3D. He is a professional in usability - he is a good source for the answer to this question.