Don't worry, advertisers don't have to be that obvious. After finding an item you'll just take a look around and damn if there isn't a Starbucks within sight every time.
Then again in midtown NYC it would be hard to find a spot from which you couldn't see a Starbucks.
The obvious answer is that, no, if one wants a meaningful search, some sites are more statistically relevant and should be weighted as such.
Hold on a second. The obvious anwer may be 'NO' but it is not the correct answer. One of the greatest things about Google (and the web) is that you can find opinions that don't usually get mainstream visibility.
If you want to know what the NYT or some other mainstream news provider thinks then restrict your search to their site.
If you are searching for X and get a bunch of links to 'Anti X' then spend some time and learn how to refine your search. (Not your complaint but mentioned above.)
I could see Google allowing you to build a profile of sites that you view as important/trustworthy (or building one for you as you surf) but to suggest that this profile is somehow appropriate for everyone is a more than a little self-centered. Maybe you could pick a canned profile and work from there.
The idea behind page rank is that the links determine the significance of the site. If the current implementation of page rank is being abused then I'm sure Google will make attempts to change the implementation to prevent the abuse. Whether or not they succeed is anyone's guess.
You can say that microsoft, as the owner of the software, can charge what it chooses. I suppose so. But doesn't this say something about the value of the software? If microsoft can change the price arbitrarily, what is the true production cost of windows? Alot less than they would care to admit, and probably not much more than the cost of a linux distro. In other words, very cheap
The biggest hint that windows is priced much higher than production cost would be MS's cash reserves and the number trailing zeros in Gates' net worth.
That being said, what you pay for a product only has something to do with production cost when there is real competition.
What would happen if she walked in a bought her goods back? Could she then file a complaint that would land the clerk and manager in the penn for a few years?
The goods are indeed stolen and the store at this point knows that they are and would have thus sold stolen goods.
I wonder if the applicable statutes exclude selling goods to the legit owner or if EB would somehow still be violating the law? Does it say that you can't sell stolen goods except if you sell them back to the original owner? Somehow I doubt it.
You can use Windows XP Home or Windows XP Pro... your choice!
Incorrect. Microsoft is not able to force you to run a Microsoft operating system.
MS can't exactly force you to install their OS but in the past they were known to coerce vendors into only offering MS operating systems on every machine they shipped if they wanted to buy Windows at a steep discount. If not the vendor was free to 'choose' to offer another OS and pay for Windows licenses at a price that would make them uncompetitive in the low-margin commodity market that PC sales is/was.
This tactic made is a little bit tough to 'choose' BeOS or OS2 before that.
Why do you insist on repeatedly comparing the minimum for tipped workers to the minimum wage in non-US countries, where tipping is looked at much differently? In the US you are expected to tip (at least)10-15% for service in a resturant, in most of Europe the situation is quite different and I would imagine that this would imapact legislation relating to wages. You begin with this totally off-base comparison as a foundation of your long-winded US=slave labor rant.
By the way, your straw-man restaurant needs some more hay. When there are a lot of customers more waitstaff would be scheduled. When hard times hit fewer waitstaff would be scheduled. Yes, this does suck mightily for the people who lose the hours and can't pay rent. As a result, the restaurant is not foced to double it's salary outlay when there is no business. It works the same way for all types of hourly workers. No work for the firm = less hours for the hourly staff.
I'm not saying that working in a US factory is a bed of roses. Nor is it by any means the ideal state of working conditions for hourly employees but to compare the situation of workers to those in China, and other far-east nations with manufacturing/export-heavy economies is a farse.
There is a case to be made against job-flight to less-developed nations or to countries with poorer labor protections; many European nations would top the US in such a comparison. You just aren't making that case very well at all.
What this article doesn't mention it the abuse of non-resident workers in far-east factories. Here is how that situation plays out. 'Alien' worker pays a recruiting firm a huge sum for a job in a factory. Alien worker makes trip to start employment. Factory takes passport/credentials away from worker (if there is even a job available since many of these recruiters are scammers). Factory chages for room and board. Factory requires massive overtime. As you can imagine, hilarity ensues. This does happen to illegals in the US but the level at which this is taking place is miniscule and ironically it is often a national of the illegals' country of origin that is screwing them over.
Apple needed more of a profit margin than other hardware only vendors in order to support the OS it produced (even if it did get quite stale) and to feed R&D. For a while the extra cash even got you quality of components and build (IMO) - with some exceptions e.g. PowerBook 5300. I know that price and margin are 2 different things but they tend to get trotted out together.
There are numerous other vendors who tried to compete in the nascent PC market and quite a few aren't around today. Apple deserves credit for making it to this point (though sometimes it was close).
Is it possible that a commodity strategy would have paid off? Maybe. Even if it did I'm not sure you would recognize the Apple that would have evolved from that strategy.
These days most of Sony's consumer grade merchandise is not made in Japan because the cost of labor there is too high. Most of Sony's consumer-grade products are as a result, overpriced for the junk that they really are.
I am of the quaint and old fashioned (and very unpopular on Slashdot) opinion that the law should apply equally to all. Even for people you don't like. What is legal for Apple and Sun should be legal for Microsoft.
You probably believe in a true free market economy, frictionless pulleys, massless washers and St. Nick as well.
Why is everyone discussing the politics and not the tech?
The article mentions that software (and it implies expensive - oooh $4000/seat!) is being used to draw up the districts.
So what if the software drew up the districts according to the specs without human intervention - instead of enabling the corrupt pols to data mine and draw up the districts according to their biases.
Of course the data-gathering process would need to be looked at.
Hell you could even GPL it or BSD it - suit yourself.
Certain legislators would like to see cigs, etc. made illegal but they can't quite do that so instead they pass tax levies that are so high that they are a blatant attempt at getting people not to purchase the products in question.
Sometimes it is due to 'morality' and sometimes it is an attempt to be everyone's parent. In either case it is an attack on personal freedom.
This is not the way a tax system is supposed to function. It is an abuse of power.
We live in a world where market economies are at work. If someone will sell you an identical product for a third the price then what are you supposed to do? Be a sucker and pay 'taxes' that amount to many multiples of the production cost of the goods; all because someone is attempting to legislate morality and behaviour without having the honesty to do it directly?
These taxes are in some sense very similar to banning the substances in question. It is no wonder that society responds similarly.
Unless the keypad locks (and most people I know don't even use that feature on the mobiles they own), 911 operators can look forward to many calls originating from pockets, backpacks and purses.
MP3- MPEG Layer 3 - Motion Picture Experts Group. When this was coined it was not meant to a a product name for mass consumption, it was a spec and you can derive the purpose from the name. As with any acronym, you need to know what it stands for to have a chance. FLAC is clearer if you know the acronym but if not it is equally obscure.
MP3 came into use partly because the format became the 'Kleenex' or 'Xerox' or 'Coke' of this space. I wouldn't be surprised if people keep calling their electronic music MP3's even after newer formats have taken a more substantial chunk of the pie. A once geeky acronym is now a household word. Not a good name? Maybe not a few years ago but today is a different story. If something has MP3 in its name is there a doubt about what it does? And as for marketing how about MP3 eXtreme! Is that better?
Kanything, how about Ksomething - for the target audience this works. It integrates with/uses KDE widgets/services and does "something". I agreee that sometimes the "something" isn't very descriptive.
Evolution - This is a good name? Why? What does this thing do? Gene splicing maybe.... This one is definitely out of the pages of some marketing cookbook - vaugue and sonorous.
I meant this as a bit of a joke with a little truth behind it.
I work on (non-kernel) stuff on UNIX and Solaris daily and have grown a bit frustrated with Linux (actually with gcc/gdb). Compared to Solaris as a dev env (SunPro/dbx) Linux w/gcc gdb falls short.
As for stability, the Linux machines in our shop tend to tip over and fall down dead quite a bit more that the Solaris boxes - escpecially when heavily loaded.
Linux is great but it is still definitely behind Solaris in some respects. It is maturing at a rapid pace (the hardware side is is a factor here as well) and lots of today's problems will be gone soon.
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And they want to port it to Solaris. I think they should get the locking and stability down first.
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My bitstream will be encrypted and the key won't be in escrow.
Furthermore the authorities will not be able to compel testimony from the devices that I own; nor from the devices that represent me.
Awww who am I kidding there's no money in that.
Then again in midtown NYC it would be hard to find a spot from which you couldn't see a Starbucks.
So, when you say unfinished product, do you mean Outlook or Outlook Express?
Hold on a second. The obvious anwer may be 'NO' but it is not the correct answer. One of the greatest things about Google (and the web) is that you can find opinions that don't usually get mainstream visibility.
If you want to know what the NYT or some other mainstream news provider thinks then restrict your search to their site.
If you are searching for X and get a bunch of links to 'Anti X' then spend some time and learn how to refine your search. (Not your complaint but mentioned above.)
I could see Google allowing you to build a profile of sites that you view as important/trustworthy (or building one for you as you surf) but to suggest that this profile is somehow appropriate for everyone is a more than a little self-centered. Maybe you could pick a canned profile and work from there.
The idea behind page rank is that the links determine the significance of the site. If the current implementation of page rank is being abused then I'm sure Google will make attempts to change the implementation to prevent the abuse. Whether or not they succeed is anyone's guess.
The biggest hint that windows is priced much higher than production cost would be MS's cash reserves and the number trailing zeros in Gates' net worth.
That being said, what you pay for a product only has something to do with production cost when there is real competition.
What would happen if she walked in a bought her goods back? Could she then file a complaint that would land the clerk and manager in the penn for a few years? The goods are indeed stolen and the store at this point knows that they are and would have thus sold stolen goods. I wonder if the applicable statutes exclude selling goods to the legit owner or if EB would somehow still be violating the law? Does it say that you can't sell stolen goods except if you sell them back to the original owner? Somehow I doubt it.
HardOCP thinks that there legal hand sux.
HardOCP calls and says let's see the cards...
Any you can trust closed source software because it comes from a corporation? Are employees of a corporation incapable of malicious acts?
Unless you use static linking and some system/3rd party libs are at a different revs, etc.
Somebody with a sense of humor?
This tactic made is a little bit tough to 'choose' BeOS or OS2 before that.
Is MS happy to give you a choice of WMA players since the licensing cheque looks the same to them whichever vendor ends up writing it?
For subsequent units only the data is sent.
By the way, your straw-man restaurant needs some more hay. When there are a lot of customers more waitstaff would be scheduled. When hard times hit fewer waitstaff would be scheduled. Yes, this does suck mightily for the people who lose the hours and can't pay rent. As a result, the restaurant is not foced to double it's salary outlay when there is no business. It works the same way for all types of hourly workers. No work for the firm = less hours for the hourly staff.
I'm not saying that working in a US factory is a bed of roses. Nor is it by any means the ideal state of working conditions for hourly employees but to compare the situation of workers to those in China, and other far-east nations with manufacturing/export-heavy economies is a farse.
There is a case to be made against job-flight to less-developed nations or to countries with poorer labor protections; many European nations would top the US in such a comparison. You just aren't making that case very well at all.
What this article doesn't mention it the abuse of non-resident workers in far-east factories. Here is how that situation plays out. 'Alien' worker pays a recruiting firm a huge sum for a job in a factory. Alien worker makes trip to start employment. Factory takes passport/credentials away from worker (if there is even a job available since many of these recruiters are scammers). Factory chages for room and board. Factory requires massive overtime. As you can imagine, hilarity ensues. This does happen to illegals in the US but the level at which this is taking place is miniscule and ironically it is often a national of the illegals' country of origin that is screwing them over.
If the worm modified the user's .profile or .login then it would start every time the user logged back in.
Once the worm is local it can try some local priv. esc. attacks.
There are numerous other vendors who tried to compete in the nascent PC market and quite a few aren't around today. Apple deserves credit for making it to this point (though sometimes it was close).
Is it possible that a commodity strategy would have paid off? Maybe. Even if it did I'm not sure you would recognize the Apple that would have evolved from that strategy.
These days most of Sony's consumer grade merchandise is not made in Japan because the cost of labor there is too high. Most of Sony's consumer-grade products are as a result, overpriced for the junk that they really are.
Seems to me that for a true beliver the stakes of finding out that his religion doesn't cut the mustard would trump any career concerns.
Guess it's all about perspective. When something significant in one's worldview is under assault one tends to consider it a major problem.
You probably believe in a true free market economy, frictionless pulleys, massless washers and St. Nick as well.
The article mentions that software (and it implies expensive - oooh $4000/seat!) is being used to draw up the districts.
So what if the software drew up the districts according to the specs without human intervention - instead of enabling the corrupt pols to data mine and draw up the districts according to their biases.
Of course the data-gathering process would need to be looked at.
Hell you could even GPL it or BSD it - suit yourself.
Certain legislators would like to see cigs, etc. made illegal but they can't quite do that so instead they pass tax levies that are so high that they are a blatant attempt at getting people not to purchase the products in question.
Sometimes it is due to 'morality' and sometimes it is an attempt to be everyone's parent. In either case it is an attack on personal freedom.
This is not the way a tax system is supposed to function. It is an abuse of power.
We live in a world where market economies are at work. If someone will sell you an identical product for a third the price then what are you supposed to do? Be a sucker and pay 'taxes' that amount to many multiples of the production cost of the goods; all because someone is attempting to legislate morality and behaviour without having the honesty to do it directly?
These taxes are in some sense very similar to banning the substances in question. It is no wonder that society responds similarly.
Unless the keypad locks (and most people I know don't even use that feature on the mobiles they own), 911 operators can look forward to many calls originating from pockets, backpacks and purses.
MP3 came into use partly because the format became the 'Kleenex' or 'Xerox' or 'Coke' of this space. I wouldn't be surprised if people keep calling their electronic music MP3's even after newer formats have taken a more substantial chunk of the pie. A once geeky acronym is now a household word. Not a good name? Maybe not a few years ago but today is a different story. If something has MP3 in its name is there a doubt about what it does? And as for marketing how about MP3 eXtreme! Is that better?
Kanything, how about Ksomething - for the target audience this works. It integrates with/uses KDE widgets/services and does "something". I agreee that sometimes the "something" isn't very descriptive.
Evolution - This is a good name? Why? What does this thing do? Gene splicing maybe.... This one is definitely out of the pages of some marketing cookbook - vaugue and sonorous.
I work on (non-kernel) stuff on UNIX and Solaris daily and have grown a bit frustrated with Linux (actually with gcc/gdb). Compared to Solaris as a dev env (SunPro/dbx) Linux w/gcc gdb falls short.
As for stability, the Linux machines in our shop tend to tip over and fall down dead quite a bit more that the Solaris boxes - escpecially when heavily loaded.
Linux is great but it is still definitely behind Solaris in some respects. It is maturing at a rapid pace (the hardware side is is a factor here as well) and lots of today's problems will be gone soon.
Maybe that is why they are poring it to Solaris.