Somehow when it comes to selling complete solutions MS is missing something..... Moreover, if IBM and Oracle agree on pushing Java, then.NET will be dead soon.
My father, a nigerian spammer passed away. He left an AI system on a server located in a datacenter. Sadly during the last phase of his life unpaid data transfer bills accumulated to a sum of $300000. I am already negotiating with the secret services of the word who want to buy this program for $10000000. I can't pay the data transfer bills, so i turn to you, a trustworthy AI reasearcher. For $300000 you get a share of $500000000 and the copyright to the source code.
Yes. if you put a page containing the same text, one in arial and one in helvetica besides each other in 1m distance you will see the difference without looking at single letters. Overly hefty usage of arial for headlines was one of the reasons MS office documents looked so incredibly crappy when printed on a decent printer.
Insightful? The OS/2 interface was extremely consistent and extremely configurable. e.g. make a template for a file which containe certain context menu options. etc...
How often haveyou seen average people typing mor complicated urls than www.google.com? most of them are too stupid to find the navigation bar and eat the shit of whatever search bar or start page is provided on their computer for whatever reason.
You also can use xslt to other things. e.g. in my case: tranform labvieew xml data structures to matlab code, which creates a equivalent structure. This was not terribly efficient but it did the job.
How do you estimate strategic assets? How to estimate the value of "offering everything"? How much is it worth to put the thumb screws on every media company? Everybody goes to google video/youtube for seaching videos - if you are not mentioned, forget your business. I usually stay on youtube becaus i hate to add more and more noscript exceptions and because i know that it works. Would google introduce pay per view for movies, i would immediatly pay 20Euro/Month - if they keep it as trouble free as it is now. If one percent of the customers thinks like me, they cover their costs. Youtube may make money from hosting videos for companies.
So what is it worth to have this position in the market?
How strong do sony/ms try to push their media systems on theirs game consoles?
a) does HTML, is a graphics designer, can write decent text and hase some education in UI design
b) does HTML, programs any server-side-language (according to the current fashion) and knows Javascript very well, and knows UI (and can talk to class a))
c) does HTML, does databases and knows how to efficiently xslt the xml response of the database by heart and can talk to class b)
Seriously, the original job description given would have been appropriate in 1997.
I am a physicist but i think about switching the job to softrware development. COBOL is one of the languages i consider to learn for a living (i wrote productive applications in pascal,basic,c,assembler,perl,python.lisp,tcl,java,javascript,tcl,matlab,shell languages). Any comments how to start from this starting point?
Yes looking back into the times when American Presidents fantasized about "winning a nuclear war", and with attack plans which would have wiped out European cities more or less completely, a single madman really does not scare me, even if i am living in Japan. Having lived in a time when we learned to evacuate the elementary school in case of an attack using WMD, living in the center of a conflict, 150km away from the iron fence, in a town which contained a not so small American base, which would have most likely made the town a primary target in case of a war, where both sides together for sure had demonstrated that they possess (at least) a million times the nuclear firepower North Korea has demonstrated (their demonstration was a failure) today, somehow puts this into the right relation about *what* i worry.
the background most likely is that in the moment when they do an malware classification of a webpage by their own sevices, which chrome takes as active in the default setting (or hardwired), then they are doing exactly that: blocking services. Still some idiots would complain that they could not watch website xyz (porn, key generators). Imagine people suing google for missing the 10Mio$ business opportunity somebody offered them.
Coding skills are still a necessity. However they never have been sufficient (as the Example of the Reiser vs. Kernel developers shows). If you look in many completely failed projects of the past, and you read the story carefully, a lack of communcation is a very likely reason for *big* trouble (Read the Commodore story....).
is NOT a technological beta. The question for google is: if we provide some service in a high quality for a certein circle of users for a certain price, will we make earnings on that or will we pay for that? In the end, the sum of all effects must be right. This means, that if killing some downtime for a service as complex as gmail would cost you, in relation to the revenue brought by it, more than it's worth then this business model will be 'just beta'. Translated to clearer words this means: gmail seems to make not very big losses and the positive effects (for google) seem to be close to zero, or at least google seems not to see this as their future business. After all it is better to terminate a beta-service than to disappoint paying customers by not being able to keep up with the support needed.
I guess one of the issues with e-mail is that hard failures should be more seldom than in a web-search and your support *must* be more local. If e-mail fails, a major communications path to support is cut. If you are a local provider, people will call and you can answer. If you have 100Million users calling in from around the world, you either are very prepared or you have a HUGE problem. Forget public forums, in such a case they explode to the point of being useless to the novice. I also dont think that most gmailers are able to operate google search i a constructive way or finding the way to other newpages. So google would have to announce such a massive failure on its homepage that is has massive troubles. The shame would be that the frontpage containing the search is page reched by www.google.com. So the question: what will happen if g-mail has a massive, distributed failure (e.g. DDOS by spam-mail trough a security leak) is relevant to the image of the core part of the company doing web searches.
I am pretty sure they consider this before they promise ultimate support by taking gmail out of beta.
Nevertheless i never understood the hype about gmail.At the time when they offered 1G space, 100M was enough for me. At the time when i needed 300M, my normal provider (payed) offered 1G for each of the 10 Mailboxes i can theoretically have on my domain. I have all the access i want (protocols) there and i have not seen a bigger outage.
applying the same approach when somebody tries to brute force ssh access to 100000s of machines (and will manage with some, because some users are just too stupid). Oh i forgot. That is a "lesser crime". The economic damage is more distribute, no need for the FBI to act.
is if you get your work done. This is influenced by a lot of factors. But in the end you Boss should not need to analyse your Web usage to determine if you do a good job. If he needs, he is not the right man for the job.
I disagree. You dont hold the right, you were give a license. This is a mile off.
The most interesting thing about having the rights onto a GPL project code is the following:
Most people stick with the mainline, unless they really need the additionl features. The owner of the code can offer "the next" version as closed source first to his customers and earn money on selling the additional features. Sindce the project is GPL anybody can get accustomed to it and every customer knows that if he just wants to mothball a system for archival purposes (never underestimate the need for that in industrial settings), he does not hav to pay license fees to update it, but most likely th normal soon to be GPLed version will be enough. And by this method, the customer drive innovation because they only pay for innovaton; this means your team has clear incentives
Did i mention the great effect of a GPLed product as an advertisement?
So yes, posessing code also licensed by GPL can be a very profitable business model.
While i am *not sure* of the details, i am pretty sure that SUNs lawyers did not forget to make very definite regulations for maintainers leaving, forking of etc. As far as i undrstood, sun bought the code *and* the rights. As many people dont understand GPLed code still has an owner. Independent of that mysql may still be a trademark.
So the standard (GPL) way is to rename the project and add the staement that you modified it which *somehow* makes it different from the "official" branch (to define that, that is the branch which does not carry the notice that it was modified and which is published under the prior, maybe (tm)ed, name).
Let say our culture eliminates itself, and after 50000 years nearly no traces of us will be left. Still somebody looking at the Genes of the animals *will* find ID. He will find that certain genes were selected far beyond natural selection (actively bred), sometimes different from what you would expect in nature, and that new genes which do not belong to the pool of a species will appear (insulin in bacteria).
What i want to say: there are scientific criteria for ID, but usually proposers of ID just want to justify their superstition and therefore hesitate to define these. Would i be in their place i would also hesitate, because this has the big risk of failing spectacularly.
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This is interesting.
When it comes to Databases
MS: Software stack, .NET
IBM: Software Stack+Hardware (own system, linux, windows), lots of java
Oracle: Software Stack+Hardware (own system, linux, windows), lots of Java
Somehow when it comes to selling complete solutions MS is missing something..... Moreover, if IBM and Oracle agree on pushing Java, then .NET will be dead soon.
really.
My father, a nigerian spammer passed away. He left an AI system on a server located in a datacenter. Sadly during the last phase of his life unpaid data transfer bills accumulated to a sum of $300000. I am already negotiating with the secret services of the word who want to buy this program for $10000000. I can't pay the data transfer bills, so i turn to you, a trustworthy AI reasearcher. For $300000 you get a share of $500000000 and the copyright to the source code.
sincerely yours,
Yes. if you put a page containing the same text, one in arial and one in helvetica besides each other in 1m distance you will see the difference without looking at single letters. Overly hefty usage of arial for headlines was one of the reasons MS office documents looked so incredibly crappy when printed on a decent printer.
Arial??
You mean this cheapo sana font with no proper kerning/ligatures.
nobody wants that....
Insightful? The OS/2 interface was extremely consistent and extremely configurable. e.g. make a template for a file which containe certain context menu options. etc...
How often haveyou seen average people typing mor complicated urls than www.google.com? most of them are too stupid to find the navigation bar and eat the shit of whatever search bar or start page is provided on their computer for whatever reason.
You also can use xslt to other things. e.g. in my case: tranform labvieew xml data structures to matlab code, which creates a equivalent structure. This was not terribly efficient but it did the job.
How do you estimate strategic assets? How to estimate the value of "offering everything"? How much is it worth to put the thumb screws on every media company? Everybody goes to google video/youtube for seaching videos - if you are not mentioned, forget your business. I usually stay on youtube becaus i hate to add more and more noscript exceptions and because i know that it works. Would google introduce pay per view for movies, i would immediatly pay 20Euro/Month - if they keep it as trouble free as it is now. If one percent of the customers thinks like me, they cover their costs. Youtube may make money from hosting videos for companies. So what is it worth to have this position in the market? How strong do sony/ms try to push their media systems on theirs game consoles?
Qualified would be
a) does HTML, is a graphics designer, can write decent text and hase some education in UI design
b) does HTML, programs any server-side-language (according to the current fashion) and knows Javascript very well, and knows UI (and can talk to class a))
c) does HTML, does databases and knows how to efficiently xslt the xml response of the database by heart and can talk to class b)
Seriously, the original job description given would have been appropriate in 1997.
Where i live i cant buy weapons.
I am a physicist but i think about switching the job to softrware development. COBOL is one of the languages i consider to learn for a living (i wrote productive applications in pascal,basic,c,assembler,perl,python.lisp,tcl,java,javascript,tcl,matlab,shell languages). Any comments how to start from this starting point?
My coffee costs are on the order of 90Euro per month.
The things i have seen failing are HDs, Power supplys (heat because of jammed fans), and cheap capacitors (on not-so-cheap mainboards), and monitors.
1) Keep the power low, so ventilation and heat problem are no issues
2) Use SSDs (keep the power low, no reason they fail)
3) Use an RAID of SSDs (they are not out long enough to know how often they fail practically)
4) Buy a few more HDs/SSDs of hte same type, just in case
5) If you don't manage to build a system without fans, dust will be the biggest problem. Keeping the place clean can help.
6) Even risking being modded down: If DOS did the job the last 15 Years, think about Freedos. Or DOSEMU running on to of a linux kernel.
7) Buy a high quality power supply and and mainboard (not a very new one).
8) Make a Virtual Workstation.
Yes looking back into the times when American Presidents fantasized about "winning a nuclear war", and with attack plans which would have wiped out European cities more or less completely, a single madman really does not scare me, even if i am living in Japan. Having lived in a time when we learned to evacuate the elementary school in case of an attack using WMD, living in the center of a conflict, 150km away from the iron fence, in a town which contained a not so small American base, which would have most likely made the town a primary target in case of a war, where both sides together for sure had demonstrated that they possess (at least) a million times the nuclear firepower North Korea has demonstrated (their demonstration was a failure) today, somehow puts this into the right relation about *what* i worry.
the background most likely is that in the moment when they do an malware classification of a webpage by their own sevices, which chrome takes as active in the default setting (or hardwired), then they are doing exactly that: blocking services. Still some idiots would complain that they could not watch website xyz (porn, key generators). Imagine people suing google for missing the 10Mio$ business opportunity somebody offered them.
Coding skills are still a necessity. However they never have been sufficient (as the Example of the Reiser vs. Kernel developers shows). If you look in many completely failed projects of the past, and you read the story carefully, a lack of communcation is a very likely reason for *big* trouble (Read the Commodore story....).
is NOT a technological beta. The question for google is: if we provide some service in a high quality for a certein circle of users for a certain price, will we make earnings on that or will we pay for that? In the end, the sum of all effects must be right. This means, that if killing some downtime for a service as complex as gmail would cost you, in relation to the revenue brought by it, more than it's worth then this business model will be 'just beta'. Translated to clearer words this means: gmail seems to make not very big losses and the positive effects (for google) seem to be close to zero, or at least google seems not to see this as their future business. After all it is better to terminate a beta-service than to disappoint paying customers by not being able to keep up with the support needed. I guess one of the issues with e-mail is that hard failures should be more seldom than in a web-search and your support *must* be more local. If e-mail fails, a major communications path to support is cut. If you are a local provider, people will call and you can answer. If you have 100Million users calling in from around the world, you either are very prepared or you have a HUGE problem. Forget public forums, in such a case they explode to the point of being useless to the novice. I also dont think that most gmailers are able to operate google search i a constructive way or finding the way to other newpages. So google would have to announce such a massive failure on its homepage that is has massive troubles. The shame would be that the frontpage containing the search is page reched by www.google.com. So the question: what will happen if g-mail has a massive, distributed failure (e.g. DDOS by spam-mail trough a security leak) is relevant to the image of the core part of the company doing web searches. I am pretty sure they consider this before they promise ultimate support by taking gmail out of beta. Nevertheless i never understood the hype about gmail.At the time when they offered 1G space, 100M was enough for me. At the time when i needed 300M, my normal provider (payed) offered 1G for each of the 10 Mailboxes i can theoretically have on my domain. I have all the access i want (protocols) there and i have not seen a bigger outage.
applying the same approach when somebody tries to brute force ssh access to 100000s of machines (and will manage with some, because some users are just too stupid). Oh i forgot. That is a "lesser crime". The economic damage is more distribute, no need for the FBI to act.
is if you get your work done. This is influenced by a lot of factors. But in the end you Boss should not need to analyse your Web usage to determine if you do a good job. If he needs, he is not the right man for the job.
I disagree. You dont hold the right, you were give a license. This is a mile off.
The most interesting thing about having the rights onto a GPL project code is the following:
Most people stick with the mainline, unless they really need the additionl features. The owner of the code can offer "the next" version as closed source first to his customers and earn money on selling the additional features. Sindce the project is GPL anybody can get accustomed to it and every customer knows that if he just wants to mothball a system for archival purposes (never underestimate the need for that in industrial settings), he does not hav to pay license fees to update it, but most likely th normal soon to be GPLed version will be enough. And by this method, the customer drive innovation because they only pay for innovaton; this means your team has clear incentives
Did i mention the great effect of a GPLed product as an advertisement?
So yes, posessing code also licensed by GPL can be a very profitable business model.
if an anti-monopoly ruling of some court would help the biggest search engine to bundle their browser preinstalled to consumer PCs.
While i am *not sure* of the details, i am pretty sure that SUNs lawyers did not forget to make very definite regulations for maintainers leaving, forking of etc. As far as i undrstood, sun bought the code *and* the rights. As many people dont understand GPLed code still has an owner. Independent of that mysql may still be a trademark.
So the standard (GPL) way is to rename the project and add the staement that you modified it which *somehow* makes it different from the "official" branch (to define that, that is the branch which does not carry the notice that it was modified and which is published under the prior, maybe (tm)ed, name).
Yes, that is why i mentioned the insulin in the bacteria. Transgenic organisms can by no way be bred. .
Let say our culture eliminates itself, and after 50000 years nearly no traces of us will be left. Still somebody looking at the Genes of the animals *will* find ID. He will find that certain genes were selected far beyond natural selection (actively bred), sometimes different from what you would expect in nature, and that new genes which do not belong to the pool of a species will appear (insulin in bacteria). What i want to say: there are scientific criteria for ID, but usually proposers of ID just want to justify their superstition and therefore hesitate to define these. Would i be in their place i would also hesitate, because this has the big risk of failing spectacularly.