To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.
someone realized that the DB servers are actually accessible from the internet and then bam, instand 2x increase in the amount of data on the internet.
I know he says to take it with a grain of salt but I don't buy his evidence at all.
He says that only pages google returns are getting hit. This only means that google is the only one to actually return those pages. It is perfectly reasonable the MSN has pages that it doesn't return but might use in future crawls. Maybe it realizes the pages don't exist and therefor doesn't return them but tries a couple times to see if the page comes back.
As for pages showing up after someone searches them, maybe they spider specific sites that are searched for that it doesn't have. It's called lazy loading and has been around forever.
Maybe MS is benchmarking itself against google, though I'm sure if they did it with any serious amount of queueries google would complain about the bandwidth hit.
I've heard tell that when Reno lost whatever race she was running in that after the deadline to request a recount a large number of ballots were found, such that she would have actually won, and was within the margin to request a recount. Instead of making something of it, she decided to just let the original decision stand.
alright, I get your point. and I'd somewhat agree with it. My preference would be to have enough self control to not get caught up in it such that I couldn't work:)
There's some truth in what you say about MS. They offer a lot of nice benefits like free soda, pool tables etc. that make working late not so horrible. but I wouldn't say they specifically encourange socializing to keep you there longer, in fact most of my co-workers only really worked late because they came in late, and they would usually work really late from home not the office. That was my last group. The previous ones were more structured in their time schedules, more 10-6.
Have you been to Microsoft before? They have a wonderful corporate campus and a unique corporate culture. Everyone is very friendly and sociable, as well the campus is setup to allow socializing as well there are many recreational activities through the halls, including a number of classic arcade machines.
This is in contrast to when I worked for Lincoln Laboratory, where it was built in the 50's and is only recently being renovated. The culture is also reminescent of the 50's with most of my co-workers being old enough to be my parents.
I think one of the desires of anyone should be to strive for a work environment they enjoy going to everyday and remains to be 'so very cool' as long as they are there. You may not like the words but the sentiment is still valid.
I think one of the productivity killers is just how sweet some companies/campuses are. I've interned at microsoft three times now and I always found it hard to concentrate because the whole experience of being there was so very cool. I'm not diagnosed ADHD though as a tech geek I'm probably it to some extent, and being in that environment made it hard for me to buckle down and concentrate.
I'm not saying that this should be removed from the companies, cause it's the major appeal of some places, but it's definetly something to keep in mind for any particular employee I think.
You are correct in that they don't write their own, but it's misleading when Bush is really behind what that Prime Minister is saying. It would have been better had the Prime Minister said nothing. As it is now we don't know if these are actually the Prime ministers words or Bush's.
It would have been better if he'd used anyone elses writting staff, but using Bush's confuses the line.
In this case it is. I've had friends point out how certain songs are worse at lower rates and I just don't hear it. Aside from that I'm pretty sure it wastes no extra time to encode to a lower quality.
Same here, I've been wanting to do this for many years, though I knew I didn't know enough about any of it to actually do it myself, so I've been giving the idea out to anyone who seemed likely to be able to do it.
My twist was this though, use it as a means for long distance couples or even just people you care about to keep in touch in a different way. Part of the setup in my system would also include a camera system at one of your windows. Maybe a camera in each corner looking out. Then someone with another virtual window could 'dial' up your view. Imagine if you were seperated from your family for a while, but you could still have a view into the back yard of your house. And your spouse could have a view into the world you see outside your normal window.
here here! the added bit about the iPod was just stupid to add in. MS isn't targetting the iPod so don't make it sound like they are. gees,/. complain when MS says something misconstrued about linux, but don't give a second thought about doing the same to MS.
It's not so much whether than can prevent you from using wireless as it is prevent you from using wireless to access their network, which they have every right to do.
I ran one all last year in GLC, one of the graduate dorms, and never had anyone complain. It's a very unenforced policy it would seem. Even after someone pointed that part of the contract out I didn't really think it enough to stop being able to use my laptop in the living room. The signal only barely reached the sidewalk outside from my 5th floor room.
Looks like they decided to repeat this imagine on APOD, it was last up Nov 2000. They decided to lighten the image a little, I guess the last one was too dark.
I was able to buy a poster size version from my campus poster sale last year, I'm a big fan.
I'm here at MS for the summer too, third time to boot. I think another point is that we shouldn't expect other countries to adopt our ( MSs ) sfotware if we aren't going to put something into their country, ie jobs, and some leverage for them by having local representatives.
All the stories are/.'d but from what I gather this has absolutely nothing to do with AI Neural Networks as I'm assuming the title is referring to and isn't just referring to the brain as a NN, cause they aren't the same things. I wish the headlines would stop sensationalizing things.
My ugrad Clemson did this back when I was there 97-00 to keep all the kiddies from sucking up bandwidth using p2p programs etc, as well as using dialpad, for which we made/. I believe.
You seriously think Windows and Office are being replaced by free software enough to hurt them that much? If anything it's people not upgrading that is hurting there sales. And they still make a good several billion apiece so I dunno if I would call that bad.
No. The point is that if people see a $1B difference from a previous year, they won't look at why, they will just pull out. Sometimes profit drops are bad, sometimes they aren't, but in situations when they aren't, educating stock holders rarely works, so MS's attempting to make that $1B smaller by reducing the number of expenditures they make. I would bet that this is all temporary until things stabilize and then they will give the benefits back in some form or fashion.
MS needs to make up for a $1B loss they will take over the next year. I forget the exact reason for it, but it's nothing special, they made some acquisitions and some such that gave them higher profits previously and those are now going away, it's natural and to be expected.
The problem is stock holders will see $1B less and think the company is going under and freak and sell, despite any amount of education MS tries. Companies that have had similar things happen and tried the education route found it didn't work out.
So MS is choosing to reduce the $1B as it showson paper, part of this is to not spend as much money, hence some of the cut backs.
And while there might be cut backs the benefits offered by Microsoft are pretty damn amazing. It's like saying a rich kid is going into poverty because there dad took back on of there 4 mansions from the kid. The employees are still pretty nice off.
Seems like a cool guy, but I'm still waiting for the second coming of Tesla. The man had a CAD program in his head, truly a genius, and yet the last I looked for a biography I could find only one. Very sad.
If you don't zip then people can stream it off your server, if they end up watching it multiple time then that's additional bandwidth off your server, if you zip it they have to DL it and are more likely to just remember they have it localy and rewatch it from there.
zipping seemed stupid to me till I found this out.
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To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.
someone realized that the DB servers are actually accessible from the internet and then bam, instand 2x increase in the amount of data on the internet.
I know he says to take it with a grain of salt but I don't buy his evidence at all.
He says that only pages google returns are getting hit. This only means that google is the only one to actually return those pages. It is perfectly reasonable the MSN has pages that it doesn't return but might use in future crawls. Maybe it realizes the pages don't exist and therefor doesn't return them but tries a couple times to see if the page comes back.
As for pages showing up after someone searches them, maybe they spider specific sites that are searched for that it doesn't have. It's called lazy loading and has been around forever.
Maybe MS is benchmarking itself against google, though I'm sure if they did it with any serious amount of queueries google would complain about the bandwidth hit.
I've heard tell that when Reno lost whatever race she was running in that after the deadline to request a recount a large number of ballots were found, such that she would have actually won, and was within the margin to request a recount. Instead of making something of it, she decided to just let the original decision stand.
Now if only they'd make one that didn't decide to run around my room at 3am.
alright, I get your point. and I'd somewhat agree with it. My preference would be to have enough self control to not get caught up in it such that I couldn't work :)
There's some truth in what you say about MS. They offer a lot of nice benefits like free soda, pool tables etc. that make working late not so horrible. but I wouldn't say they specifically encourange socializing to keep you there longer, in fact most of my co-workers only really worked late because they came in late, and they would usually work really late from home not the office. That was my last group. The previous ones were more structured in their time schedules, more 10-6.
Have you been to Microsoft before? They have a wonderful corporate campus and a unique corporate culture. Everyone is very friendly and sociable, as well the campus is setup to allow socializing as well there are many recreational activities through the halls, including a number of classic arcade machines.
This is in contrast to when I worked for Lincoln Laboratory, where it was built in the 50's and is only recently being renovated. The culture is also reminescent of the 50's with most of my co-workers being old enough to be my parents.
I think one of the desires of anyone should be to strive for a work environment they enjoy going to everyday and remains to be 'so very cool' as long as they are there. You may not like the words but the sentiment is still valid.
I think one of the productivity killers is just how sweet some companies/campuses are. I've interned at microsoft three times now and I always found it hard to concentrate because the whole experience of being there was so very cool. I'm not diagnosed ADHD though as a tech geek I'm probably it to some extent, and being in that environment made it hard for me to buckle down and concentrate.
I'm not saying that this should be removed from the companies, cause it's the major appeal of some places, but it's definetly something to keep in mind for any particular employee I think.
"Can't wait for the study proving sugar is sweet."
So your statement is saying that you think this study is useless. Then why post it to the front page if you think it's useless?
You are correct in that they don't write their own, but it's misleading when Bush is really behind what that Prime Minister is saying. It would have been better had the Prime Minister said nothing. As it is now we don't know if these are actually the Prime ministers words or Bush's.
It would have been better if he'd used anyone elses writting staff, but using Bush's confuses the line.
In this case it is. I've had friends point out how certain songs are worse at lower rates and I just don't hear it. Aside from that I'm pretty sure it wastes no extra time to encode to a lower quality.
256 just seems a bit much. Do you really hear the difference, or do you just think you do?
Sometimes I'm glad I have not perfect hearing, I don't have to worry about these issues.
Same here, I've been wanting to do this for many years, though I knew I didn't know enough about any of it to actually do it myself, so I've been giving the idea out to anyone who seemed likely to be able to do it.
My twist was this though, use it as a means for long distance couples or even just people you care about to keep in touch in a different way. Part of the setup in my system would also include a camera system at one of your windows. Maybe a camera in each corner looking out. Then someone with another virtual window could 'dial' up your view. Imagine if you were seperated from your family for a while, but you could still have a view into the back yard of your house. And your spouse could have a view into the world you see outside your normal window.
You do realize that the sub-thread of discussion is concerning the university that I and the person I responded to attend right?
here here! the added bit about the iPod was just stupid to add in. MS isn't targetting the iPod so don't make it sound like they are. gees, /. complain when MS says something misconstrued about linux, but don't give a second thought about doing the same to MS.
someday...
It's not so much whether than can prevent you from using wireless as it is prevent you from using wireless to access their network, which they have every right to do.
I ran one all last year in GLC, one of the graduate dorms, and never had anyone complain. It's a very unenforced policy it would seem. Even after someone pointed that part of the contract out I didn't really think it enough to stop being able to use my laptop in the living room. The signal only barely reached the sidewalk outside from my 5th floor room.
Looks like they decided to repeat this imagine on APOD, it was last up Nov 2000. They decided to lighten the image a little, I guess the last one was too dark.
I was able to buy a poster size version from my campus poster sale last year, I'm a big fan.
I'm here at MS for the summer too, third time to boot. I think another point is that we shouldn't expect other countries to adopt our ( MSs ) sfotware if we aren't going to put something into their country, ie jobs, and some leverage for them by having local representatives.
All the stories are /.'d but from what I gather this has absolutely nothing to do with AI Neural Networks as I'm assuming the title is referring to and isn't just referring to the brain as a NN, cause they aren't the same things. I wish the headlines would stop sensationalizing things.
My ugrad Clemson did this back when I was there 97-00 to keep all the kiddies from sucking up bandwidth using p2p programs etc, as well as using dialpad, for which we made /. I believe.
You seriously think Windows and Office are being replaced by free software enough to hurt them that much? If anything it's people not upgrading that is hurting there sales. And they still make a good several billion apiece so I dunno if I would call that bad.
No. The point is that if people see a $1B difference from a previous year, they won't look at why, they will just pull out. Sometimes profit drops are bad, sometimes they aren't, but in situations when they aren't, educating stock holders rarely works, so MS's attempting to make that $1B smaller by reducing the number of expenditures they make. I would bet that this is all temporary until things stabilize and then they will give the benefits back in some form or fashion.
MS needs to make up for a $1B loss they will take over the next year. I forget the exact reason for it, but it's nothing special, they made some acquisitions and some such that gave them higher profits previously and those are now going away, it's natural and to be expected.
The problem is stock holders will see $1B less and think the company is going under and freak and sell, despite any amount of education MS tries. Companies that have had similar things happen and tried the education route found it didn't work out.
So MS is choosing to reduce the $1B as it showson paper, part of this is to not spend as much money, hence some of the cut backs.
And while there might be cut backs the benefits offered by Microsoft are pretty damn amazing. It's like saying a rich kid is going into poverty because there dad took back on of there 4 mansions from the kid. The employees are still pretty nice off.
Seems like a cool guy, but I'm still waiting for the second coming of Tesla. The man had a CAD program in his head, truly a genius, and yet the last I looked for a biography I could find only one. Very sad.
Someone already said this, but I'll expound
If you don't zip then people can stream it off your server, if they end up watching it multiple time then that's additional bandwidth off your server, if you zip it they have to DL it and are more likely to just remember they have it localy and rewatch it from there.
zipping seemed stupid to me till I found this out.