Amazon does have the technology to recommend items without customers having bought them in the past. They use product viewing history to do this.
In a new store such as Amazon's Apparal section, they don't have the transaction history OR the product viewing history, so they can't accurately recommend products to viewers.
I agreee that maybe they shouldn't be recommending products at all if they have no basis for their recommendations, but their patent doesn't conflict with their policy on Amazon Apparals. Basically, their patent is to allow them to recommend products to customers who haven't BOUGHT anything, but have just browsed through the store enough.
Wow, it actually looks like this game will have a user-friendly editor. I'd love to see some screenshots of the toolkit interfaces...have any been released?
Most of this article is US specific. (based on the 1900mhz GSM band)
The rest of the world (900/1800mhz GSM) has a whole slew of additional options, and this is one area where the US really falls short in comparison.
This really won't take off. Cemeteries will most likely put a ban on the gravestone advertising, as it would really detract from the visiting experience -- even if it wasn't on the gravestone you're visiting.
You'd think the Olympic board would be eager to establish an "Exclusive Internet Broadcasting" license to bring some more money their way...or at least up the price that the bidding networks paid.
I've tried both, and they each have their own advantages. Simply, if you're using Windows, go with PHPEd. If you're using another OS, you'll have to use Zend's IDE.
Zend coded their's in Java, so its cross platform, but a lot less "responsive" and integrated than a program designed for a specific OS. This feature is also its biggest shortcoming.
Feature wise, PHPEd _was_ the winner, but I'm not sure how that still stands. I think Zend is in the release process of version 2.0 of their IDE, and judging from the press release a few months back, it'll nearly match PHPEd. Features such as code completion, snytax bubbles, FTP integration, an integrated debugger, and CVS support were all missing from Zend's first IDE, while all are present in PHPEd. A good portion of those are supposedly in 2.0, but I haven't tried it myself.
Actually, I think both Zend and NuSphere have "free trial" versions of their respective IDE's, so give it a shot for yourself!;-)
Its using GSM 900/1800 (GPRS for internet) which is Euro-specific. US GSM networks are 1900, so it'll probably be at least a year before we see a US version.
There IS money to be made with this. Google's text based ad technology is VERY powerful, and has some of the best targetting potential in the industry.
While I'm not sure of the legalities, Google will probably add the same text based ads located on its web search to its newsgroup search. This will mean when you search for "tivo upgrade", you could see a text based ad pointing offering hard drive upgrade kits next to the news posts. Unobtrusive, yet effective.
Not really bait and switch, but they're getting everyone hooked on the system now, and'll work on ads later. (just like they did for the web search)
Again, I don't blame them. Everyone has to make a buck, and Google's doing it in the best possible way.
You should try reading the article...the phone lines ARE the data cables.
"By offering Ethernet-like speeds over regular phone wire, at reaches up to 5,000 feet, and co-existing with phone traffic, LRE brings rich, advanced services such as next generation video-on-demand to places it has not gone before"
This means it'd be possible to get 10Mbit DSL, and get it 3000 feet farther than previous limitations allowed.
AtheOS has had little to no coverage in the past, so it'll be interesting to see how much development increases over the coming weeks. Its nice to see its came so far with so little, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot more of this OS in the future.
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Amazon does have the technology to recommend items without customers having bought them in the past. They use product viewing history to do this.
In a new store such as Amazon's Apparal section, they don't have the transaction history OR the product viewing history, so they can't accurately recommend products to viewers.
I agreee that maybe they shouldn't be recommending products at all if they have no basis for their recommendations, but their patent doesn't conflict with their policy on Amazon Apparals. Basically, their patent is to allow them to recommend products to customers who haven't BOUGHT anything, but have just browsed through the store enough.
Slashdot's five years old today, and so much has changed in those five years, except for one thing: double posts.
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/ 0,aid,104016,00.asp
Do they already have Ogg? Was it added? Or will they be adding it? --clambert
I wonder how long it'll be before we see distributed "Search For Comets" apps start popping up...
MySQL AB?
However, I'd bet the rest of the country probably has a problem with it.
Wow, it actually looks like this game will have a user-friendly editor. I'd love to see some screenshots of the toolkit interfaces...have any been released?
Gotta love those full page flash ads that don't leave the screen. Ever.
when case studies are being done on Pokémon for video game history and culture.
Most of this article is US specific. (based on the 1900mhz GSM band) The rest of the world (900/1800mhz GSM) has a whole slew of additional options, and this is one area where the US really falls short in comparison.
This really won't take off. Cemeteries will most likely put a ban on the gravestone advertising, as it would really detract from the visiting experience -- even if it wasn't on the gravestone you're visiting.
...simply got the imagemap coordinates reveresed. ;-)
Ha! Not if you post on Slashdot...
CNET's had a nice, objective article online since early this afternoon.
You'd think the Olympic board would be eager to establish an "Exclusive Internet Broadcasting" license to bring some more money their way...or at least up the price that the bidding networks paid.
I've tried both, and they each have their own advantages. Simply, if you're using Windows, go with PHPEd. If you're using another OS, you'll have to use Zend's IDE.
;-)
Zend coded their's in Java, so its cross platform, but a lot less "responsive" and integrated than a program designed for a specific OS. This feature is also its biggest shortcoming.
Feature wise, PHPEd _was_ the winner, but I'm not sure how that still stands. I think Zend is in the release process of version 2.0 of their IDE, and judging from the press release a few months back, it'll nearly match PHPEd. Features such as code completion, snytax bubbles, FTP integration, an integrated debugger, and CVS support were all missing from Zend's first IDE, while all are present in PHPEd. A good portion of those are supposedly in 2.0, but I haven't tried it myself.
Actually, I think both Zend and NuSphere have "free trial" versions of their respective IDE's, so give it a shot for yourself!
Its using GSM 900/1800 (GPRS for internet) which is Euro-specific. US GSM networks are 1900, so it'll probably be at least a year before we see a US version.
There IS money to be made with this. Google's text based ad technology is VERY powerful, and has some of the best targetting potential in the industry.
While I'm not sure of the legalities, Google will probably add the same text based ads located on its web search to its newsgroup search. This will mean when you search for "tivo upgrade", you could see a text based ad pointing offering hard drive upgrade kits next to the news posts. Unobtrusive, yet effective.
Not really bait and switch, but they're getting everyone hooked on the system now, and'll work on ads later. (just like they did for the web search)
Again, I don't blame them. Everyone has to make a buck, and Google's doing it in the best possible way.
Based on Google's latest jump into the catalog market, it won't be long before we start hitting tv.google.com to catch up on our favorite shows.
Let's just hope the US government doesn't resort to Slashdot as an intelligence source... ;-)
You didn't lose it...it seems like it was stolen from you. ;-)
The weird part is his port is a hell of a lot faster than Konqueror on Linux, which should say a lot about the rest of his code in the OS.
AtheOS has had little to no coverage in the past, so it'll be interesting to see how much development increases over the coming weeks. Its nice to see its came so far with so little, but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot more of this OS in the future.