TFA says: 11 of 12 files are header files, which aren't copyrightable. Header files don't do anything.
A header file can have complicated data structure definitions; it can define arrays that are used by other algorithms. Saying that a header cannot have copyrightable or even patentable information is wrong.
Hate to point out the obvious, but you're paying and seeing ads in cable TV or sporting events, not paying to.... Without the ads you would have to pay even more; premium CAble channels for example.
Totally agreed with your focus on quality. I see two ways that a website can provide quality content. One are the/. Digg LiveJournal types where I want to read about interesting stuff that the community recommends or writes. The other is where you want to consume the content because it was generated by people that you know care about. On Multuply every person in the community has an exact relationship to you, like Dana, your brother Tim's friend Anna's roommate.
Even on extremely popular sites you don't make more then a couple hundred advertising for them, while traditional banner ads brought my site in thousands.
I'm in the same boat as you. Who did you use for banners ?
The reason VC-s don't sign NDA-s is not because the ideas are worthless. They probably read business plans of a dozen companies with overlapping ideas and don't want to get burned.
They want an exit strategy. After having their money tied down in Google gor years they want to realize their nice gains and invest in new companies. Staying private would've supplied VC-s with a nice flow of cash, but that's just not their business model.
EPS will tell you whether revenues are being utterly devoured by marketing expenses, which is the original assertion I was responding to
Sorry but that's not what EPS is... EPS is earnings (or profit) divided by the number of outstandings shares. Comparing EPS numbers is meaningless without knowing the stock price. P/E ratios can be compared, but they still give no information on what you suggest.
Well, go and look at the numbers for yourself: Pfizer's earnings per share are $1.19; Eli Lilly's are $1.66; Merck's are $2.90. By way of comparison, American Electric Power is $1.51, Wal-Mart is $2.41, Staples is $1.40, Home Depot is $2.26, Anheuser-Busch is $2.77.
Earnings per share is a totally useless number, much more telling is profit margin.
Mod parent up. He understands what is the kind of blogging that really makes sense from a business perspective: everyday people uploading pictures of their trips, writing reviews of restaurants they discovered or discussing last week's Apprentice. Multiply is one company that's kinda like it where blogging is married with social networking. Just look at my homepage. If you're not registered, you only see stuff I posted for the whole world. People in my network see more; then there are photos that only my friends can see but not my family... You get the idea. This kind of approach makes business sense because it reaches so many people. You're a potential user as long as you have friends or family you care about.
Does anybody know how they can achive the $2 per gigabyte rate ? Looked at SCSI prices; that's out of the question. Are they using IDE drives ? If so I assume that they're under RAID; looking at the cheapest per byte drives they could have 4 200G ones in one chassis. That's 600G usable for about $500 just for the drives. Throw in at least another 500 for the rest of the box. Then I was thinking it through a little more: let's say the avarage user takes up 100Megs; so 6000 users to a box. Even at 60 million users that is 10k boxes. And what happens if a box gets a few power users; how do you move gigs of mailboxes between servers ?
Are they using some other technology ? Maybe big central storages ?
Send the Register link to all your friends. This guy's only chance is turning this whole situation into a PR nightmare for m$. "Big bad corporation suing bright eyed teenager". I'd love a little report on the Daily Show on Comedy Central about this for starters.
Perl 5 regular expressions are quite similar to regular UNIX regular expression, which should make your learning curve smoother. IAW, simple stuff is like UNIX, you'll just have to learn the advanced stuff if you want to use it. This is pretty much in line with perl's philosophy of making easy things easy and difficult things possible.
Yes and no. The computer is good in the openings only because of 100+ years of experience and reseasrch are programmed into its opening database. There was an experiment done to slightly change the opening position by swapping the knights and bishops and even the best computres looked terrible and lost very quickly to 2400+ level players.
If intellectual labor is considered a commodity just like steel or agricultural products; the government can just simply levy a tarif on it and problem solved. It'd be pretty easy to look at the balance sheet of a company and see whether they imported "code" from India or T-shirts.
This is of course not to suggest that I agree with the policy. In the long run protective tarifs bite you in the ass (except maybe strategic industries). IMO if you're lucky to be born in the US and grow up with computers from an early age, you ought to be a better choice in the labor market than a poor Indian 5000 miles away. You have no excuse !
Now that I've argued on both sides let me just point out that this whole thread demonstrates again that being a programmer is slowly becoming a shit job, like working in a textile factory.
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I've been using Hotmail infrequently for years and never lost an attachment.
TFA says: 11 of 12 files are header files, which aren't copyrightable. Header files don't do anything.
A header file can have complicated data structure definitions; it can define arrays that are used by other algorithms. Saying that a header cannot have copyrightable or even patentable information is wrong.
Hate to point out the obvious, but you're paying and seeing ads in cable TV or sporting events, not paying to.... Without the ads you would have to pay even more; premium CAble channels for example.
Anyone care to explain why ?
Totally agreed with your focus on quality. I see two ways that a website can provide quality content. One are the /. Digg LiveJournal types where I want to read about interesting stuff that the community recommends or writes. The other is where you want to consume the content because it was generated by people that you know care about. On Multuply every person in the community has an exact relationship to you, like Dana, your brother Tim's friend Anna's roommate.
"Joga" is how yoga is spelled in many languages.
Does anyone know what their pre- or post-money evaluation would be ? It's kinda important, but the article does not say.
Even on extremely popular sites you don't make more then a couple hundred advertising for them, while traditional banner ads brought my site in thousands.
I'm in the same boat as you. Who did you use for banners ?
The reason VC-s don't sign NDA-s is not because the ideas are worthless. They probably read business plans of a dozen companies with overlapping ideas and don't want to get burned.
Plaese fxi !
They want an exit strategy. After having their money tied down in Google gor years they want to realize their nice gains and invest in new companies. Staying private would've supplied VC-s with a nice flow of cash, but that's just not their business model.
EPS will tell you whether revenues are being utterly devoured by marketing expenses, which is the original assertion I was responding to
Sorry but that's not what EPS is... EPS is earnings (or profit) divided by the number of outstandings shares. Comparing EPS numbers is meaningless without knowing the stock price. P/E ratios can be compared, but they still give no information on what you suggest.
Well, go and look at the numbers for yourself: Pfizer's earnings per share are $1.19; Eli Lilly's are $1.66; Merck's are $2.90. By way of comparison, American Electric Power is $1.51, Wal-Mart is $2.41, Staples is $1.40, Home Depot is $2.26, Anheuser-Busch is $2.77.
Earnings per share is a totally useless number, much more telling is profit margin.
Mod parent up. He understands what is the kind of blogging that really makes sense from a business perspective: everyday people uploading pictures of their trips, writing reviews of restaurants they discovered or discussing last week's Apprentice. Multiply is one company that's kinda like it where blogging is married with social networking. Just look at my homepage. If you're not registered, you only see stuff I posted for the whole world. People in my network see more; then there are photos that only my friends can see but not my family... You get the idea. This kind of approach makes business sense because it reaches so many people. You're a potential user as long as you have friends or family you care about.
What does it have to do with Nerds ? It's not even Blockbuster Online that we're talking about.
The right story is Chevy Nova. "No va" meaning "does not go".
Does anybody know how they can achive the $2 per gigabyte rate ? Looked at SCSI prices; that's out of the question. Are they using IDE drives ? If so I assume that they're under RAID; looking at the cheapest per byte drives they could have 4 200G ones in one chassis. That's 600G usable for about $500 just for the drives. Throw in at least another 500 for the rest of the box. Then I was thinking it through a little more: let's say the avarage user takes up 100Megs; so 6000 users to a box. Even at 60 million users that is 10k boxes. And what happens if a box gets a few power users; how do you move gigs of mailboxes between servers ?
Are they using some other technology ? Maybe big central storages ?
1. Automate creating email accounts on yahoo and hotmail.
2. ???
3. Profit
Does anybody know what #2 might be ? I'm missing the motivation behind all these clever tricks.
Send the Register link to all your friends. This guy's only chance is turning this whole situation into a PR nightmare for m$. "Big bad corporation suing bright eyed teenager". I'd love a little report on the Daily Show on Comedy Central about this for starters.
Perl 5 regular expressions are quite similar to regular UNIX regular expression, which should make your learning curve smoother. IAW, simple stuff is like UNIX, you'll just have to learn the advanced stuff if you want to use it. This is pretty much in line with perl's philosophy of making easy things easy and difficult things possible.
Doood, Perl 6 is still in its design phase. No interpreter yet; of course this cookbook has nothing on it...
I want to swap my free CPU cycles for money and then use it to buy *whatever* I want, be it music or pizza.
I'll believe in this business model when I see it succeed...
Yes and no. The computer is good in the openings only because of 100+ years of experience and reseasrch are programmed into its opening database.
There was an experiment done to slightly change the opening position by swapping the knights and bishops and even the best computres looked terrible and lost very quickly to 2400+ level players.
If intellectual labor is considered a commodity just like steel or agricultural products; the government can just simply levy a tarif on it and problem solved. It'd be pretty easy to look at the balance sheet of a company and see whether they imported "code" from India or T-shirts.
This is of course not to suggest that I agree with the policy. In the long run protective tarifs bite you in the ass (except maybe strategic industries). IMO if you're lucky to be born in the US and grow up with computers from an early age, you ought to be a better choice in the labor market than a poor Indian 5000 miles away. You have no excuse !
Now that I've argued on both sides let me just point out that this whole thread demonstrates again that being a programmer is slowly becoming a shit job, like working in a textile factory.