I agree with much of what you say, but diversified is not something I would label Google, they sell ads, and it accounts for +90% of their revenue, then they have a small cloud operation going, but if anyone would eat into their ad business they would be toast.
I do not move them of my computer, I use a backup service called backblaze (www.backblaze.com) that gives you unlimited storage and continuously backup for 5$ / month, hassle free and cheap.
Since we seems to be talking about Windows development, its probably cheaper to pay for Visual Studio then to supply your developers with an open source tool chain, man hours = expensive...
China ramping up its space presences , US is winding down its program. What message does that send to the rest of the world do you think ? NASA have been one of the most effective PR machines selling the US brand to the rest of the world for more then 40 years now.
What next? Microsoft suing a suddenly popular PC manufacturer because they've completely abandoned Windows and only ship with Ubuntu Linux, or an "advanced" option out of a list of free OSes including Fedora, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD?
Don't give them any ideas....
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Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
I doubt that Apples strategy works well in an "open" environment, everything is built on tight integration and vendor lock-in, just like in the 80's. I think if they change that formula, they will be "just another company" pretty soon.
Unlike some markets where immense cost is a barrier to entry, there is no such limitation for a new search engine to begin crawling the internet with their own algorithms and produce search results. Sure, you need servers and disk space, but ANY business endeavor will require some resources. Google's results were not so much superior amounts of hardware, but better algorithms. They simply did it better.
The entry fee 1998 for beating up the competition and securing a top spot was microscopic compared to today. Google had a good idea to begin with, but I doubt it would have been enough without the timing.
You can use Intel Threading Building Blocks for example, but you _should_ muck around with threads, locks and their type of bugs (dead locks, race conditions etc) so you know whats happening under the hood.
Its not easy and it costs _allot_ of money, in Sweden there is a research organization with the sole purpose to find a secure way to store the wast created by Swedens reactors.
Easy, stop wasting energy. Governments are too relaxed about "standby modes" on devices and general consumption. I bet you can "find" 10 Nuclear plants within the general consumptions if you wanted.
I think its a good plan, I just a bit worried if private sector can handle the risks [with manned space flight], or if everything will grind to a halt when the first fatal accident comes. Seeing how "the market" works in other sectors when something bad happens.
The Russian company Convers (controlled by billionaire Vladimir Antonov) was bought out before the purchase was made by an Dutch investor (via. the Spyker CEO Muller), because it was one of the deal breakers for GM. Cant find a English article to back it up, but it was all over Swedish TV last night.
pre-filled tax forms that you only have to sign and return have worked well here in Sweden for years, no conflict of interest at all. A couple of years ago, they even started with an SMS option, where you just can "ok" your pre filled tax form with an SMS code.
If you want to add information, you can just fill in your own form and send it in, but I think its pretty common to just use the pre-filled tax form.
Just as an example, it seems education in Scandinavian countries is provided like that.
Yea, its fantastic, instead of a solid public school system that teaches essential knowledge such as math, languages etc, we got private schools that sees everything as a popularity contest, coming up with more and more useless "educations", sucking the money away from the public school system.
"The amateur radio operators are absolutely essential in a place where most of the communications structure has failed"
I dont know, maybe in the 70's they where. Ericsson pretty quickly sent a team (Ericsson Response) to restore the GSM network and distributed 5000 GSM phones among help works.
They need smart people more then ever, but maybe not CS majors....
If I where to run that big company, with 99% of their income from one product (adwords et al), I would hire all the smart people in the world to figure out how to diversify myself successfully (No, google apps & Sketchup Pro wont save them).
You might say the same thing about other companies, like Microsoft, but its far far easier for customers to flee an advertising model en masse , than over night switch their IT infrastructure.
Considering that adwords becomes more expensive and more crowded by the day, Google needs to do something...
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I agree with much of what you say, but diversified is not something I would label Google, they sell ads, and it accounts for +90% of their revenue, then they have a small cloud operation going, but if anyone would eat into their ad business they would be toast.
I do not move them of my computer, I use a backup service called backblaze (www.backblaze.com) that gives you unlimited storage and continuously backup for 5$ / month, hassle free and cheap.
x-43 is a hypersonic plane , x-34 is a test bed. Both programs are terminated. Do you refer to x-37 ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_X-43
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-34
"What have we gotten from the moon?"
Million of kids in a whole generation interested in Sciences ? ROI comes in many flavors.....
I'd have $200 more if I'd used open-source.
Since we seems to be talking about Windows development, its probably cheaper to pay for Visual Studio then to supply your developers with an open source tool chain, man hours = expensive...
Some people (especially startups with no money) would not consider $200 "almost free".
If you do not have $200 after two years your company have probably failed.
No, we would be in IT support hell, maintaining our dads and moms P2P servers......
China ramping up its space presences , US is winding down its program. What message does that send to the rest of the world do you think ? NASA have been one of the most effective PR machines selling the US brand to the rest of the world for more then 40 years now.
Burans first and only flight was autonomous in the sens that it was unmanned and landed on auto pilot.
What next? Microsoft suing a suddenly popular PC manufacturer because they've completely abandoned Windows and only ship with Ubuntu Linux, or an "advanced" option out of a list of free OSes including Fedora, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD?
Don't give them any ideas ....
Once he is gone, hopefully Apple will become more customer choice friendly.
I doubt that Apples strategy works well in an "open" environment, everything is built on tight integration and vendor lock-in, just like in the 80's. I think if they change that formula, they will be "just another company" pretty soon.
Both I believe
This is a must read for anyone interested in Commodore and its products, a great historical account how among other things the C64 came to be.
http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/dp/0973864907
Unlike some markets where immense cost is a barrier to entry, there is no such limitation for a new search engine to begin crawling the internet with their own algorithms and produce search results. Sure, you need servers and disk space, but ANY business endeavor will require some resources. Google's results were not so much superior amounts of hardware, but better algorithms. They simply did it better.
The entry fee 1998 for beating up the competition and securing a top spot was microscopic compared to today. Google had a good idea to begin with, but I doubt it would have been enough without the timing.
How do you make a concurrent process in
You can use Intel Threading Building Blocks for example, but you _should_ muck around with threads, locks and their type of bugs (dead locks, race conditions etc) so you know whats happening under the hood.
http://www.threadingbuildingblocks.org/
Its not easy and it costs _allot_ of money, in Sweden there is a research organization with the sole purpose to find a secure way to store the wast created by Swedens reactors.
http://www.skb.se/Templates/Standard____24109.aspx
we need power _today_.
Easy, stop wasting energy. Governments are too relaxed about "standby modes" on devices and general consumption. I bet you can "find" 10 Nuclear plants within the general consumptions if you wanted.
I think its a good plan, I just a bit worried if private sector can handle the risks [with manned space flight], or if everything will grind to a halt when the first fatal accident comes. Seeing how "the market" works in other sectors when something bad happens.
I 'm guessing "Depends who's paying for the books"
The Russian company Convers (controlled by billionaire Vladimir Antonov) was bought out before the purchase was made by an Dutch investor (via. the Spyker CEO Muller), because it was one of the deal breakers for GM. Cant find a English article to back it up, but it was all over Swedish TV last night.
pre-filled tax forms that you only have to sign and return have worked well here in Sweden for years, no conflict of interest at all. A couple of years ago, they even started with an SMS option, where you just can "ok" your pre filled tax form with an SMS code.
If you want to add information, you can just fill in your own form and send it in, but I think its pretty common to just use the pre-filled tax form.
Just as an example, it seems education in Scandinavian countries is provided like that.
Yea, its fantastic, instead of a solid public school system that teaches essential knowledge such as math, languages etc, we got private schools that sees everything as a popularity contest, coming up with more and more useless "educations", sucking the money away from the public school system.
All in all its a grand failure.
"The amateur radio operators are absolutely essential in a place where most of the communications structure has failed"
I dont know, maybe in the 70's they where. Ericsson pretty quickly sent a team (Ericsson Response) to restore the GSM network and distributed 5000 GSM phones among help works.
http://www.ericsson.com/article/100121_haiti_20100121111142
http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBUGZ/
Its great, its simple, it also cost a bit of money, but its worth every cent.
They need smart people more then ever, but maybe not CS majors....
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If I where to run that big company, with 99% of their income from one product (adwords et al), I would hire all the smart people in the world to figure out how to diversify myself successfully (No, google apps & Sketchup Pro wont save them).
You might say the same thing about other companies, like Microsoft, but its far far easier for customers to flee an advertising model en masse , than over night switch their IT infrastructure.
Considering that adwords becomes more expensive and more crowded by the day, Google needs to do something