It clearly has biases, and (worse) these seem to change slowly with time, but for the web sites I host, there is a nice correlation between their Alexa reach and their hit count.
It is certainly good for a crude ranking of sites - Slashdot's rank right now is 558, and that clearly means a lot more traffic than some site than a rank of 5 million.
So, like many other measures on the Internet, it is flawed, but it has value.
In other news from the past, I hear that Sir Walter Rayleigh expects great things from his proposed Colony of Virginia, if he can only figure out
how to solve his labor problems.
Punched cards (which is how I first programmed) came in 80 and 132 character widths. Since IBM machines read the punched cards, it was natural for IBM systems to be built on the same widths.
I remember vividly email in the 1980's where if you sent emails with long lines to people on IBM mainframe machines, the results were basically undefined. Every time that would happen, I would think "punched cards strike again!"
Where is Vaclav Havel when you need him ? (Fortunately, I understand he has largely recovered from his health problems.)
If Klaus was really concerned about Climate Science, the Czech Republic has a strong scientific establishment, he is the President of the Republic, he could do something about it. No, he is just another right wing concern troll.
Climate research is mostly not big bucks (except for some NASA or ESA projects to launch stuff); there are plenty of people in climate research who are basically independent of grants, and there has been a robust scientific debate. Science is not in trouble; it is politics that has been poisoned by specious arguments masquerading as thought.
The biggest threat to America is, without a doubt, our execrable education system. At University it is world class, but the
levels below are basically third world.
Scary ? Doesn't scare me a bit. If it scares the candidates, good. If we're lucky some of the bozos will crash and burn.
(I remember well that Reagan couldn't field questions from a bunch
of high school academic acheivers; pity they didn't run the 1980 debates.)
"Superluminal" expansion from Quasars have been known since the 1960's. (They appear to be superluminal, i.e.,
faster than light speed, as they are so close to the speed of light that time dilation becomes important.)
The only rational response to this 300 page regulation - not imposed, note, by any act of Congress - will be to delete immediately all emails upon reading (unless you are
in an industry that already has requirements to store them). Good look for the historians of the future trying to decipher the history of the early 21st Century USA - the Courts required us to delete it.
Deep Space 1 and the various other previous ion tests by NASA were engineering missions, not science missions. This distinction is mostly important to the program officers.
Where they really fell down is not incluidng the Japanese asteroid mission, Hayabusa, which was certainly a science mission, just not from NASA.
Is that $ 300 Mb for transit or for a point to point circuit ?
The obvious question is whether you could get a point to point to Seattle, Portland or Eugene, use the cheap bandwidth available out of there, and save money over all.
Generally, IPTV has a separate bandwidth allocation with guaranteed bandwidth, typically using RSVP and DiffServe to protect the IPTV streams, and these streams are multicast to conserve bandwidth. The customer's Internet use gets what's left over. As the number of channels and amount of content people want to view increases, this will have to break down, at least in part. I think that we will move to a future where there are many sources of content; most or all being viewable through your set top box (or Apple TV or... ), and only a few having protection from the ISP.
Aide to (Republican) Senator Bob Dole Foreign policy advisor to (Republican) President-elect Ronald Reagan. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the (Republican) Reagan administration. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in the (Republican) Reagan administration. Roving ambassador in the (Republican) first Bush administration. Foreign policy advisor to (Republican) George W. Bush in the 2000 campaign. Deputy Secretary of State in the (Republican) second Bush administration.
He clearly has deep roots in the Democratic Party.
My understanding is that MIR got a bad smell over time, undoubtedly due to the microbial & fungal contamination, and that one module got so bad that the crews didn't like to go in it.
Also, contaminated water "balls" could undoubedtly create the conditions for Legionnaires disease, which is pretty fatal.
The Earth (and Mars) shed rocks over time, due to meteor strikes, and some of those will escape the solar system, so it's not like this hasn't been happening over geologic time. Some of the rocks from Mars were ejected gently enough that bacteria would have survived inside. While inefficient, I bet that literally megatons of biologically active rocks have been ejected in this fashion.
By the way, they missed one. Pioneer 10 and 11 were identical spacecraft, both had upper stages that have left the solar system.
After the sale of YouTube, video oriented sites are popping up everywhere, and many of them seem to be oriented
around a similar exit strategy, so this doesn't surprise me. (Disclosure - I am with AmericaFree.TV
and I look at a lot of video sites, but the 6 mentioned were all new to me.)
It is my feeling that this is a weakness of the entire statistically based advertising and ranking model, which looks at the actions of computers and tries to infer the intent of their owners. Using spyware to bring people to your site will piss them off, and they likely won't stick around, but if all you want to do is to artifically inflate your traffic statistics so that you can do a quick sale, what do you care ? This is beginning to remind me of the dot-com days...
I find that the obsession with Firewalls is a Windows phenomenon. If you have a pure Linux or Unix shop, you can get buy with some ACLs on your routers. People with Windows shops seem to be migrating to a Port 80/443 only world, which is sad, really.
Slashdot Mirror
It clearly has biases, and (worse) these seem to change slowly with time, but for the web sites I host, there is a nice correlation between their Alexa reach and their
hit count.
It is certainly good for a crude ranking of sites - Slashdot's rank right now is 558, and that clearly means a lot more traffic than some site than a rank of 5 million.
So, like many other measures on the Internet, it is flawed, but it has value.
I certainly did - the plug board is harder to forge. (And, the sellers don't seem to realize its significance, as they don't clearly show it.)
You are aware that the Germans referred to the resistance movements in Europe as terrorists ?
It has the plug board, which means it was the military, not the weaker commercial, Enigma. And, there were no 4 gear models until the 40's.
In other news from the past, I hear that Sir Walter Rayleigh expects great things from his proposed Colony of Virginia, if he can only figure out how to solve his labor problems.
Is in in depth article by an 8th grader better than a short posting by a Nobel prize winner in his or her area of expertise ?
Maybe, but that's not the way to bet.
This way predated the VT 100.
Punched cards (which is how I first programmed) came in 80 and 132 character widths. Since
IBM machines read the punched cards, it was natural for IBM systems to be built on the same widths.
I remember vividly email in the 1980's where if you sent emails with long lines to people on IBM mainframe
machines, the results were basically undefined. Every time that would happen, I would think "punched
cards strike again!"
Where is Vaclav Havel when you need him ? (Fortunately, I understand he has largely recovered from his health problems.)
If Klaus was really concerned about Climate Science, the Czech Republic has a strong scientific establishment, he is the President of the Republic, he could do something about it. No, he is just another right wing concern troll.
Climate research is mostly not big bucks (except for some NASA or ESA projects to launch stuff); there are plenty of people in climate research who are basically independent of grants, and there has been a robust scientific debate. Science is not in trouble; it is politics that has been poisoned by specious arguments masquerading as thought.
The biggest threat to America is, without a doubt, our execrable education system. At University it is world class, but the levels below are basically third world.
Scary ? Doesn't scare me a bit. If it scares the candidates, good. If we're lucky some of the bozos will crash and burn. (I remember well that Reagan couldn't field questions from a bunch of high school academic acheivers; pity they didn't run the 1980 debates.)
"Superluminal" expansion from Quasars have been known since the 1960's. (They appear to be superluminal, i.e., faster than light speed, as they are so close to the speed of light that time dilation becomes important.)
The only rational response to this 300 page regulation - not imposed, note, by any act of Congress - will be to delete immediately all emails upon reading (unless you are in an industry that already has requirements to store them). Good look for the historians of the future trying to decipher the history of the early 21st Century USA - the Courts required us to delete it.
Science versus engineering.
Deep Space 1 and the various other previous ion tests by NASA were engineering missions, not science missions. This distinction is mostly important to the program officers.
Where they really fell down is not incluidng the Japanese asteroid mission, Hayabusa, which was certainly a science mission, just not from NASA.
Is that $ 300 Mb for transit or for a point to point circuit ?
The obvious question is whether you could get a point to point to Seattle, Portland or Eugene, use the cheap bandwidth available out of there,
and save money over all.
Generally, IPTV has a separate bandwidth allocation with guaranteed bandwidth, typically using RSVP and DiffServe to protect the IPTV streams, and these streams are multicast to conserve bandwidth. The customer's Internet use gets what's left over. As the number of channels and amount of content people want to view increases, this will have to break down, at least in part. I think that we will move to a future where there are many sources of content; most or all being viewable through your set top box (or Apple TV or ... ), and only a few having protection from the ISP.
Copyright law at present in the US is corrupt, pure and simple. Restore it to 14 years, and we can talk about a middle ground.
Hmm, Richard Armitage
Aide to (Republican) Senator Bob Dole
Foreign policy advisor to (Republican) President-elect Ronald Reagan.
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia and Pacific Affairs in the (Republican) Reagan administration.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in the (Republican) Reagan administration.
Roving ambassador in the (Republican) first Bush administration.
Foreign policy advisor to (Republican) George W. Bush in the 2000 campaign.
Deputy Secretary of State in the (Republican) second Bush administration.
He clearly has deep roots in the Democratic Party.
It may or may not work here, but in most of the world radio pays a performance right, so it is very well accepted internationally.
14 Years. If it is good enough for patents, it is good enough for copyright.
I think that Mr. Halprin is a strong contender to win the Douglas Feith award for 2007.
No, I wouldn't.
And, I would bet serious money that the CEO of the firm doesn't and wouldn't either.
My understanding is that MIR got a bad smell over time, undoubtedly due to the microbial & fungal contamination, and that one
module got so bad that the crews didn't like to go in it.
Also, contaminated water "balls" could undoubedtly create the conditions for Legionnaires disease, which is pretty fatal.
The Earth (and Mars) shed rocks over time, due to meteor strikes, and some of those will escape the solar system, so it's not like this hasn't been happening over geologic time. Some of the rocks from Mars were ejected gently enough that bacteria would have survived inside. While inefficient, I bet that literally megatons of biologically active rocks have been ejected in this fashion.
By the way, they missed one. Pioneer 10 and 11 were identical spacecraft, both had upper stages that have left the solar system.
After the sale of YouTube, video oriented sites are popping up everywhere, and many of them seem to be oriented around a similar exit strategy, so this doesn't surprise me. (Disclosure - I am with AmericaFree.TV and I look at a lot of video sites, but the 6 mentioned were all new to me.)
It is my feeling that this is a weakness of the entire statistically based advertising and ranking model, which looks at the actions of computers and tries to infer the intent of their owners. Using spyware to bring people to your site will piss them off, and they likely won't stick around, but if all you want to do is to artifically inflate your traffic statistics so that you can do a quick sale, what do you care ? This is beginning to remind me of the dot-com days...
I am afraid that this was just a consequence of trying to be too pithy too fast, and having
too many balls in the air too early in the morning.
My bad.
I find that the obsession with Firewalls is a Windows phenomenon. If you have a pure Linux or Unix shop, you can get buy with some ACLs on your routers. People with Windows shops seem to be migrating to a Port 80/443 only world, which is sad, really.