Some level of SEO is actually just optimization and not spam. If you need to rearrange the structure of the underlying HTML of your site to get properly indexed, then that is good and decent SEO (assuming that you are merely more accurately representing your site to the search engines).
Of course, the trouble is that the companies that label themselves SEO are taking it too far and going beyond simple optimization.
Offtopic: And I REALLY hate the domain squatters that have basically spam directories. Trying to find an unregistered domain nowadays is hell. After trying about 20 variations on a theme, I would say half of those domains taken were just the same cookie-cutter affiliate-link-stuffed crap. A few were just squatters, and the rest weren't pointing to anything yet. Bah
Judging solely by the chips coming out of Intels other facilities (slow, expensive, hot, very inefficent [both power and cycle wise]) it would seem to make sense that the Pentium M was designed by anyone besides the brain trust at Intel.
This is offtopic, but I want to address the above comment that you made. I am no Intel fanboy, but I do work for a large, well-known company that also gets a lot of well-deserved gripes. But, as an engineer, it really irks me to hear people blame the engineers for poor products. From my experience, the vast majority of shitty products don't come from pure engineering decisions, but rather from confused business concerns. Bad products come from business people who don't understand technology, but they are the ones who hold the purse strings. These are the guys who seem to linger around in companies after the original players, the ones who create the great products, leave. The hype brings in the power-hungry know-nothings.
This helps to explain why Google tends to put out decent stuff from a tech perspective. Right now the engineers have the ability to drive the projects that they want. Time will tell how long it will take until they need more business people, and those business people start making short term shitty decisions, too, at the expense of solid technology. It doesn't mean that the engineers who have been there from day 1 will become idiots, but rather it is the fact that their hands will be tied.
Since it had C=64 built-in, there weren't really any C=128 games put out on the market--even though the 128 had more memory and a better OS.
But the same backward compatibility existed for the PS2, yet there are a lot of PS2 games. I think it is important to look for the differences in these two scenarios to figure out why one was met with failure while the other succeeded.
I'm not going to pretend to know the answer, so I'll just throw out some ideas that people can refute or endorse.
Maybe the difference is in marketing and player expectations pushing the developers. PS2 was designed with additional features, and those features were pushed and marketed heavily, creating demand in the users. The boost in performance is something that the buyers of PS2s were looking for, and that is the reason that they got the new system. If a game came out with sub-par graphics, it would have to have some special gameplay to overcome that deficiency. Game makers know this and worked hard to beef up their games to make full use of the new platform. Competition amongst the game developers made sure that the tools and the platform were used to their abilities. I can't say what it was like for the C=128 because I was learning how to tie my shoes at that time.:b
Keeping this post short, how does this parallel Apple's situation? Is Apple more in the C=128 position, or the PS2 position? Assuming that booting into Windows will be trivial for the vast majority of gamers (which is a huge stretch, IMO), I would match Apple more with C=128. Under that circumstance, Apple needs to make sure that there are enough people with high expectations for any "Mac-compatible" games or programs. As a Windows/Solaris user at work and a Mac user at home, I would be pissed if I got a "Mac" software title and it wasn't designed to operate natively in OS X. A quickly growing user base would help to keep the developers honest.
I've been using that setup for years now, & not a single infection because of it - that, & being saavy about opening attachments in emails from folks you know & trust ONLY, & the same with programs you may download also.
I, also, have not had a single infection in years and years, but it isn't because of any anti-virus/spyware software. Rather, it is because of your point I bolded. Just be careful and nobody gets hurt. And have a firewall.
That isn't to say that I've never used anti-virus software, but it generally is a bigger pain in the ass than it's worth. I've run anti-virus checks to make sure that my arrogance against viruses is justified, and everything comes back clean. Understanding what is ok and what is not ok to open/run is the most important.
Are you really suggesting that people should have live video feeds attached to an ebay auction for a car or a house or whatever?
Yes. That would make sense. 24/7 video feed? Probably a waste. A live video feed during the last hour of a car/house sale? Probably worth it to buy a $50 camera and install the free video Skype when selling something worth thousands of $$$.
They'll be able to tinker with a commandline without requiring it. I work on Solaris via Windows all day, and coming home to OS X is great. I get my GUI and my commandline.
Speaking as someone in the Silicon Valley, I want to second the statements of the Aussie and add that I don't think the US is necessarily anywhere "ahead" of Australia wrt tech. The vocal Slashdot crowd is just filled with people who are out of touch with reality.
"At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast."
I just thought that was pretty funny. I mean, at pretty small scales a sloth is a speeding bullet. But his point obviously is that it has a large speed to size ratio.
And did anyone else notice that during the video linked in the article as he says, "These robots are maybe 10x the size of human blood cells", while the video shows red blood cells on the machine. It's clear from the image that what he is saying is clearly not true. Maybe just bad editing.
Currently I'm working with Crossbow motes. Some are the size of about 4 AA batteries stacked 2x2. Others are the footprint of a quarter and half an inch tall. Crossbow seems to have the best prices on development kits and individual motes. Ember, Smart Dust, etc. are much more expensive.
I've been working with motes for a short time now, and the way I look at them has changed since I first started. At first I was really focused on the futuristic properties of the devices and at how small they could get, what they could monitor, etc. Then having become fairly well aquainted with them and how they operate I now look at them a lot more like routers. Routers aren't as sexy, but wireless routers that can also read sensor data is still pretty cool.
Essentially, the motes are simply what is necessary to make full-time sensor reading wireless. They are enablers. You need something extremely low power, able to read sensors, and able to *efficiently* route that sensor data out of the network.
With motes, nearly any data that you can currently read using a sensor (large or small) can now be constantly gathered. Things that used to be WAY too expensive to monitor are now within reach (think HVAC: vent openings with actuators communicating over a mote network with thermometers == energy savings due to greater efficiency). Over half of the cost of any large-scale monitoring system comes from the cost to purchase, install, and maintain the wires/cables. Motes greatly minimize that cost.
The tech is actually pretty good, although it really depends on your application. If you want to run something single-threaded, then the Niagara chip is not going to impress you at all. The speed of the chip is not where its power is. Understand that the name is rather appropriate (i.e. like a river/waterfall): it is not very fast comparatively, but it can handle large volumes very well. Think massively multithreaded uses.
It may very well be the case that lightning bolts are being cast by an omnipotent being. Our understanding of the natural causes of lightning suggest nothing either way.
My only point was to refute this claim. I'm not sure it was really what you meant to do, maybe you were being hypothetical, but I thought I would point out a resource, just in case.
Science answers the how while religion answers the why. They can coexist without interfering with one another. The problem is when someone mistakes a religous explanation for why something happens with an explanation as to how it happens. Knowledge of the physical world was much more limited at the time of the bible and the birth of almost all of today's religions. If the bible is taken literally and the how is taken at face value while ignoring current scientific data, that is fairly ignorant. But that doesn't mean that the bible's explanation of the underlying why should necessarily be taken to be false. It can be up to reinterpretation, perhaps, but I think it is valuable to understand that the two can be taken separately.
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It may very well be the case that lightning bolts are being cast by an omnipotent being. Our understanding of the natural causes of lightning suggest nothing either way.
If dropping their debt is not getting them anything except PR, and many here have already said that debt is a good thing to manipulate earnings, then for me it stands that Apple is ready to show that they are clearly making a proft.
Apple can't as easily hide the truth behind profits/losses when they have no debt, so it seems to me that they will be showing some clear gains soon. Just a guess...
I have two SFF computers now, one is a Shuttle and the other is something else, but similar. Both have space for a floppy drive, but I haven't had one for several years now. Why do they continue to include space for them?
Does anyone have a drive that fits into 3.5" slots? Or is this completely worthless like I think it is?
I think a very good application of this type of glass would be as a layer in front of a mirror. That way, when the TV is off the screen becomes a usable mirror.
I had a very large mirror on the wall in my living room, just wishing it were a flat-panel screen instead. But then it dawned on me that it would be even better to combine the two.
Check the past year's performance of SCOX. The last five days (as posted and linked above) has indeed seen a big drop, but nothing like the rise of the last 12 months. Fairly telling.
My original idea was to create a nice-looking front-end to XMMS and others using the Mozilla framework. I'm looking for the same answer. Is it possible to make a walled-garden multimedia program that could sit in a dedicated Linux box next to the TV?
But then I found Freevo on SF.net and i think that that could be a better choice at the moment.
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Some level of SEO is actually just optimization and not spam. If you need to rearrange the structure of the underlying HTML of your site to get properly indexed, then that is good and decent SEO (assuming that you are merely more accurately representing your site to the search engines).
Of course, the trouble is that the companies that label themselves SEO are taking it too far and going beyond simple optimization.
Offtopic: And I REALLY hate the domain squatters that have basically spam directories. Trying to find an unregistered domain nowadays is hell. After trying about 20 variations on a theme, I would say half of those domains taken were just the same cookie-cutter affiliate-link-stuffed crap. A few were just squatters, and the rest weren't pointing to anything yet. Bah
Judging solely by the chips coming out of Intels other facilities (slow, expensive, hot, very inefficent [both power and cycle wise]) it would seem to make sense that the Pentium M was designed by anyone besides the brain trust at Intel.
This is offtopic, but I want to address the above comment that you made. I am no Intel fanboy, but I do work for a large, well-known company that also gets a lot of well-deserved gripes. But, as an engineer, it really irks me to hear people blame the engineers for poor products. From my experience, the vast majority of shitty products don't come from pure engineering decisions, but rather from confused business concerns. Bad products come from business people who don't understand technology, but they are the ones who hold the purse strings. These are the guys who seem to linger around in companies after the original players, the ones who create the great products, leave. The hype brings in the power-hungry know-nothings.
This helps to explain why Google tends to put out decent stuff from a tech perspective. Right now the engineers have the ability to drive the projects that they want. Time will tell how long it will take until they need more business people, and those business people start making short term shitty decisions, too, at the expense of solid technology. It doesn't mean that the engineers who have been there from day 1 will become idiots, but rather it is the fact that their hands will be tied.
Since it had C=64 built-in, there weren't really any C=128 games put out on the market--even though the 128 had more memory and a better OS.
:b
But the same backward compatibility existed for the PS2, yet there are a lot of PS2 games. I think it is important to look for the differences in these two scenarios to figure out why one was met with failure while the other succeeded.
I'm not going to pretend to know the answer, so I'll just throw out some ideas that people can refute or endorse.
Maybe the difference is in marketing and player expectations pushing the developers. PS2 was designed with additional features, and those features were pushed and marketed heavily, creating demand in the users. The boost in performance is something that the buyers of PS2s were looking for, and that is the reason that they got the new system. If a game came out with sub-par graphics, it would have to have some special gameplay to overcome that deficiency. Game makers know this and worked hard to beef up their games to make full use of the new platform. Competition amongst the game developers made sure that the tools and the platform were used to their abilities. I can't say what it was like for the C=128 because I was learning how to tie my shoes at that time.
Keeping this post short, how does this parallel Apple's situation? Is Apple more in the C=128 position, or the PS2 position? Assuming that booting into Windows will be trivial for the vast majority of gamers (which is a huge stretch, IMO), I would match Apple more with C=128. Under that circumstance, Apple needs to make sure that there are enough people with high expectations for any "Mac-compatible" games or programs. As a Windows/Solaris user at work and a Mac user at home, I would be pissed if I got a "Mac" software title and it wasn't designed to operate natively in OS X. A quickly growing user base would help to keep the developers honest.
If you don't mind the ship being in beta.
I've been using that setup for years now, & not a single infection because of it - that, & being saavy about opening attachments in emails from folks you know & trust ONLY, & the same with programs you may download also.
I, also, have not had a single infection in years and years, but it isn't because of any anti-virus/spyware software. Rather, it is because of your point I bolded. Just be careful and nobody gets hurt. And have a firewall.
That isn't to say that I've never used anti-virus software, but it generally is a bigger pain in the ass than it's worth. I've run anti-virus checks to make sure that my arrogance against viruses is justified, and everything comes back clean. Understanding what is ok and what is not ok to open/run is the most important.
Are you really suggesting that people should have live video feeds attached to an ebay auction for a car or a house or whatever?
Yes. That would make sense. 24/7 video feed? Probably a waste. A live video feed during the last hour of a car/house sale? Probably worth it to buy a $50 camera and install the free video Skype when selling something worth thousands of $$$.
Hey, buddy, it's called sarcasm.
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OS X.
They'll be able to tinker with a commandline without requiring it. I work on Solaris via Windows all day, and coming home to OS X is great. I get my GUI and my commandline.
Speaking as someone in the Silicon Valley, I want to second the statements of the Aussie and add that I don't think the US is necessarily anywhere "ahead" of Australia wrt tech. The vocal Slashdot crowd is just filled with people who are out of touch with reality.
"At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast."
I just thought that was pretty funny. I mean, at pretty small scales a sloth is a speeding bullet. But his point obviously is that it has a large speed to size ratio.
And did anyone else notice that during the video linked in the article as he says, "These robots are maybe 10x the size of human blood cells", while the video shows red blood cells on the machine. It's clear from the image that what he is saying is clearly not true. Maybe just bad editing.
...and watch as it sells even better than before. This publicity will only help sales.
Currently I'm working with Crossbow motes. Some are the size of about 4 AA batteries stacked 2x2. Others are the footprint of a quarter and half an inch tall. Crossbow seems to have the best prices on development kits and individual motes. Ember, Smart Dust, etc. are much more expensive.
Essentially, the motes are simply what is necessary to make full-time sensor reading wireless. They are enablers. You need something extremely low power, able to read sensors, and able to *efficiently* route that sensor data out of the network.
With motes, nearly any data that you can currently read using a sensor (large or small) can now be constantly gathered. Things that used to be WAY too expensive to monitor are now within reach (think HVAC: vent openings with actuators communicating over a mote network with thermometers == energy savings due to greater efficiency). Over half of the cost of any large-scale monitoring system comes from the cost to purchase, install, and maintain the wires/cables. Motes greatly minimize that cost.
The tech is actually pretty good, although it really depends on your application. If you want to run something single-threaded, then the Niagara chip is not going to impress you at all. The speed of the chip is not where its power is. Understand that the name is rather appropriate (i.e. like a river/waterfall): it is not very fast comparatively, but it can handle large volumes very well. Think massively multithreaded uses.
Shouldn't that be UNETHICAL instead of IMMORAL?
I'm a Californian just wondering what the impression other parts of the country have of us. Not trying to be a bitch, just curious...
My only point was to refute this claim. I'm not sure it was really what you meant to do, maybe you were being hypothetical, but I thought I would point out a resource, just in case.
Science answers the how while religion answers the why. They can coexist without interfering with one another. The problem is when someone mistakes a religous explanation for why something happens with an explanation as to how it happens. Knowledge of the physical world was much more limited at the time of the bible and the birth of almost all of today's religions. If the bible is taken literally and the how is taken at face value while ignoring current scientific data, that is fairly ignorant. But that doesn't mean that the bible's explanation of the underlying why should necessarily be taken to be false. It can be up to reinterpretation, perhaps, but I think it is valuable to understand that the two can be taken separately.
Please look here for an explanation of how lightning forms.
So would you only use your phone at work? How would you communicate to people after you leave work? Are you a hermit?
Apple can't as easily hide the truth behind profits/losses when they have no debt, so it seems to me that they will be showing some clear gains soon. Just a guess...
Does anyone have a drive that fits into 3.5" slots? Or is this completely worthless like I think it is?
I had a very large mirror on the wall in my living room, just wishing it were a flat-panel screen instead. But then it dawned on me that it would be even better to combine the two.
Check the past year's performance of SCOX. The last five days (as posted and linked above) has indeed seen a big drop, but nothing like the rise of the last 12 months. Fairly telling.
Why is this article hitting the front page? The article is from back in 2001. Did anyone else notice the date?
My original idea was to create a nice-looking front-end to XMMS and others using the Mozilla framework. I'm looking for the same answer. Is it possible to make a walled-garden multimedia program that could sit in a dedicated Linux box next to the TV? But then I found Freevo on SF.net and i think that that could be a better choice at the moment.