>> Microsoft is also encouraging more significant apps by setting the minimum price in its app store to $1.50
Are they stupid? Do they know that the dominant competing platform (starts with "i") sells millions of apps for 99 cents? Do they know how much easier it is to sell a 99 cent anything than a $1.50 anything better?
I've been on both sides - both purchasing ads and providing content on which ads were sold.
In the business, we track ad impressions with a metric called "CPM" or "cost per mille" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_mille. So I read your question as "what can I expect for 4CPM/yr." Let's say I'm looking at a very targeted audience that frequently (2%) clicks on my ad for a $1K product, of which I know 25% of my clickers will start an eval and 20 of those will buy, and my ad budget is 10% of revenue. In that situation I might pay as much as.02 x ($1000/10) x 0.25 x 0.2 = $.10 per impression, or $100 CPM. So lets say your top-end "worth" is 4x$100 = $400. However, click rates usually aren't that good (I've had a smart phone for years - still waiting to see the first ad I willingly click on), prices aren't that high, targeting is often poor and conversion rates may not be that good either. So...I'd figure that your time is probably worth more like a tenth or twentieth of that, say $20-40/yr?
>> give users the ability to search...data via natural-language queries
Kind of like Google and any other search engine that's caught on since. Cool story, bro. Can anyone explain to me why Facebook thought that its search function v 2.0 deserved its own name - and not a very sexy one at that? ("Graph search?" OK...that's Facebook for math nerds, right?)
Kudos, SlashDot, for getting the story here on the same day as the rest of the media. Now how about some links that AREN'T ConsumerNews or USAToday or other crap. Does anyone know what the TECHNICAL reason for the failure is?
>> will Microsoft's updates be dynamic enough to stop the current Windows exodus?
Er...what exodus? Within the Windows community, people are just opting to stay with Windows 7 rather than go to Windows 8. Same thing happened with XP/Vista...
I've been building my own computers and playing games now for almost 30 years. Not once did I ever worry about DirectX. The only time I ever think about it now is when Civ5 asks which version I want to use, which just strikes me as annoying.
Isn't it awesome that we have entire news stories telling us we're on the precipice of war - without one single person quoted? CNN doesn't even bother to include a tag like "quoted on condition of anonymity" anymore - they just take their directions from the White House press office and fill in "official" wherever it would have made sense to have a real person substantiating a dubious claim.
When you're using keys to authenticate from automated systems, there often isn't a well-defined user, especially if the system has been designed to dump data from multiple pre-configured endpoints. (In this case every endpoint shares a client key for the length of the deployment.)
People authenticating to multiple systems start to use the same key on multiple systems. (This isn't bad by itself - it's similar to how client certs work.) If you get enough of these you sometimes see people authenticating to the same machine with different users but the same key. (Or, you might have an admin testing different user accounts on a machine, but doesn't want to create a new client key for each, so he duplicates entries server-side.)
>> Amend hopes to drop probes deep underground in some of the world's most inhospitable locations over the next few years
Where? Beijing? Mexico City? Or the real kind of inhospitable like the Gobi desert or Antarctica? I'd think once you get far enough underground pretty much anyplace would be inhospitable...to humans.
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>> Microsoft is also encouraging more significant apps by setting the minimum price in its app store to $1.50
Are they stupid? Do they know that the dominant competing platform (starts with "i") sells millions of apps for 99 cents? Do they know how much easier it is to sell a 99 cent anything than a $1.50 anything better?
I've been on both sides - both purchasing ads and providing content on which ads were sold.
In the business, we track ad impressions with a metric called "CPM" or "cost per mille" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_per_mille. So I read your question as "what can I expect for 4CPM/yr." Let's say I'm looking at a very targeted audience that frequently (2%) clicks on my ad for a $1K product, of which I know 25% of my clickers will start an eval and 20 of those will buy, and my ad budget is 10% of revenue. In that situation I might pay as much as .02 x ($1000/10) x 0.25 x 0.2 = $.10 per impression, or $100 CPM. So lets say your top-end "worth" is 4x$100 = $400. However, click rates usually aren't that good (I've had a smart phone for years - still waiting to see the first ad I willingly click on), prices aren't that high, targeting is often poor and conversion rates may not be that good either. So...I'd figure that your time is probably worth more like a tenth or twentieth of that, say $20-40/yr?
>> Pinball...Resurgence...From an Unlikely Place
Um...what's the "unlikely place"?
>> give users the ability to search...data via natural-language queries
Kind of like Google and any other search engine that's caught on since. Cool story, bro. Can anyone explain to me why Facebook thought that its search function v 2.0 deserved its own name - and not a very sexy one at that? ("Graph search?" OK...that's Facebook for math nerds, right?)
>> there was an aggressive go-live date, a demand for immediate payment, and a (Salesforce.com) system that was ultimately 'not functional'.
Wait, is Salesforce is stealing SAP's business plan?
This sounds like the late night commercial that always used to run with the caveman. "Inventors! Call this number NOW..."
e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifPf1A6pBLE
>> I imagine it makes a lot of sense to keep the size of a byte as a power of two (for addressing reasons, maybe?)
I hope you're kidding, but in case you're not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
Dafuq is "Feldman"? C'mon editors...earn your $22K/year.
Steps to reproduce:
1) Go to http://slashdot.org/
2) Look on the f***ing page for "Amazon Debuts Mixed Bag of Original Comedy Pilots"
Yes, it only has 42 comments, but please don't double-post on your own forum - duh!
>> crowdsourcing
Why not - they wouldn't have found all those witches in 1692 without crowdsourcing.
>> Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted
Not against the Newfoundland Bullet, was it?
>> workers move between jobs as they get older — nurses are generally younger than cleaners, which are younger than foragers.
So...the workers generally try to further and further away from the queen as they get older? I'll bet there's a Red-Green bit we could reference here.
>> ex-girlfriend's Linked in profile has exactly ONE contact, ME.
Yeah...I'd be worried about my wife talking to her too. Either this relationship ain't over, or it's time to unfriend this stalker.
>> piles of ancient code still in there
ancient code ain't always slow code - remember what we had to write it for, you whippersnapper
Kudos, SlashDot, for getting the story here on the same day as the rest of the media. Now how about some links that AREN'T ConsumerNews or USAToday or other crap. Does anyone know what the TECHNICAL reason for the failure is?
>> will Microsoft's updates be dynamic enough to stop the current Windows exodus?
Er...what exodus? Within the Windows community, people are just opting to stay with Windows 7 rather than go to Windows 8. Same thing happened with XP/Vista...
I've been building my own computers and playing games now for almost 30 years. Not once did I ever worry about DirectX. The only time I ever think about it now is when Civ5 asks which version I want to use, which just strikes me as annoying.
Isn't it awesome that we have entire news stories telling us we're on the precipice of war - without one single person quoted? CNN doesn't even bother to include a tag like "quoted on condition of anonymity" anymore - they just take their directions from the White House press office and fill in "official" wherever it would have made sense to have a real person substantiating a dubious claim.
>> StrongAuth helps protect data with strong encryption
So...why's it called "strong authentication"?
You even got SlashDot to post a video from a 1990's-style trade show, for God's sake.
>> Yes, their software is all based on Linux. CentOS, to be exact.
Er...just one distribution?
>> Which keys aren't user-specific?
Here's two general use cases I've seen:
When you're using keys to authenticate from automated systems, there often isn't a well-defined user, especially if the system has been designed to dump data from multiple pre-configured endpoints. (In this case every endpoint shares a client key for the length of the deployment.)
People authenticating to multiple systems start to use the same key on multiple systems. (This isn't bad by itself - it's similar to how client certs work.) If you get enough of these you sometimes see people authenticating to the same machine with different users but the same key. (Or, you might have an admin testing different user accounts on a machine, but doesn't want to create a new client key for each, so he duplicates entries server-side.)
In section 2.1 there's a rare shout-out to a specific commercial product in the body of the RFC. I guess it pays to author the RFC!
>> A fleet of these and all the missiles North Korea wants to waggle at the US will mean nothing.
Unless the missles work. Or the lasers don't.
>> Amend hopes to drop probes deep underground in some of the world's most inhospitable locations over the next few years
Where? Beijing? Mexico City? Or the real kind of inhospitable like the Gobi desert or Antarctica? I'd think once you get far enough underground pretty much anyplace would be inhospitable...to humans.
The reason the games from 15 years ago were so great was that there was no attempt to shoe-horn prequel material into the story.