It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure how many people would bother to set this up
Agreed. I installed "StumbleUpon" a few weeks ago. I still haven't used the tool. And, since will probably never find the time to use it, I should just un-install it.
The quality of the metadata in a network like this is directly correlated to how many people actually take the time to collect and submit data. Don't forget that there are always a few "bad apples" that will purposefully recommend bad links. Take spyware companies for example. What if all of the spyware companies submitted high recommendations on their links?
This "man-made is evil" crap is just honest-to-God ludditism
OK, I'll give you some points on that. But, the poster I was responding to was comparing Water and Oxygen to Nano-tech. I was just pointing out that the comparison it invalid.
Crazy Luddites.
I am not necessarily a Luddite. After all, I am sitting on a computer, typing this note. How much of a luddite can that make me? I am just being a bit paranoid. For every good thing that will come from Nano-tech, there is the possibility that some psycho will develop a bad thing. That is the way things have worked throughout human history. When the submitter referred to nano-sized objects carrying helpful items through cell membranes, I immediately realized that same nano-tech could be used to carry dangrous items through cell membranes.
That depends on the type of football. For American Football, 100 million. For Australian Football, it's 500 million. And, for Football (soccer), it's a couple of dozen.
Are you really serious when you make a statement like this? Do you even know that all of IBMs lapotops are/were manufactured in China/Taiwan since early 90s? Same with Apple, HP, Dell, Gateway....
Obviously, you don't understand the term "in house". I didn't say WHERE the laptops were made. I said, IBM "owned" most of the manufacturing process. IBM does have actual paid employees living in China, believe it or not. The difference between the IBM process and the HP process is that HP pays another company to perform the manufacturing whereas the IBM laptop is made mostly by people that had their checks signed by IBM.
Lets put it this way, if IBM had upped their prices to the level they needed to in order to make the same money as HP and Dell, would you pay that extra money to get the quality? And would enough people pay that extra to help IBM succeed in a volume business, or would their prices have to rise still further to ensure profits in a niche.
Pre-Lenovo, the IBM laptop tended to be significanly more expensive than any of it's major competitors (not counting Apple). Therefore, IBM had already included the higher quality of their laptop in the price. The ThinkPad is a very popular purchase amongst corporations. Companies were willing to pay the extra price for the perceived quality and service that IBM provided.
IBM products were good, but too cheap for IBM to make money on it.
Last year, IBM made a profit on the PC and laptop business. But, they only made 1 or 2 percentage points profit on that hardware. I just checked HP's web site and they reported a profit margin of 2.1% on their PC's and Laptops for the first quarter of 2005. So, the margins IBM was making were comparable to at least one of it's main competitors.
And their opinion was clearly that technical superiority meant nothing in a market that appears to be dominated by price.
I think you are right on this point, but I would have phrased it differently. IBM's opinion was that laptops and PC's have become a commodity and the profit margins were too thin to justify remaining in that line of business. IBM does still has a "toe-hold" in the PC/laptop business, since it owns a minority share of Lenovo.
Outsourcing to low-cost, high-quality Taiwanese manufacturers has helped make Dell and H-P the world's top two PC companies in terms of sales. International Business Machines Corp., which outsourced less than half of its laptop production, according to Merrill Lynch, and operated its own factory in China, consistently lost money on its PCs. It sold the business this year to China's Lenovo Group Ltd., which has used Taiwanese companies to make most of its notebooks in China.
So, IBM used to keep most of it's own laptop production in-house. Which may partially explain why the ThinkPad's are, by far, the best laptops around. Let's see what happens to the ThinkPad now that Lenovo runs the show.
It's one of "Murphy's Laws". Specifically, it is "Weinberg's Second Law". I found it on this page. You might have to search the page. I cannot find a direct link via html.
IBM dropped the ball because they were too busy concentrating on the Xbox with Microsoft.
I can't blame Big Blue. Game consoles have a much larger market than Apple. Why invest heavily in a chip for only 2.5% of the market? Instead, get all three major game console makers to commit to your chip and make much more money.
Scotty: Computer. Computer?
[Bones hands him a mouse and he speaks into it]
Scotty: Hello, computer.
Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard.
Scotty: Keyboard. How quaint.
He dissects, from a scientific standpoint, some of the common plot elements and familiar staples (such as warp travel, transporters, phasers, etc.) to determine whether they'd be physically possible.
What I want to know is: What kind of offspring do Kirk and the Green Woman have?
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As long as it doesn't look like this, I'll be happy.
True. I would never expect a spyware company to lie their way into a trusted network. :)
Agreed. I installed "StumbleUpon" a few weeks ago. I still haven't used the tool. And, since will probably never find the time to use it, I should just un-install it.
The quality of the metadata in a network like this is directly correlated to how many people actually take the time to collect and submit data. Don't forget that there are always a few "bad apples" that will purposefully recommend bad links. Take spyware companies for example. What if all of the spyware companies submitted high recommendations on their links?
My thoughts are posted here.
OK, I'll give you some points on that. But, the poster I was responding to was comparing Water and Oxygen to Nano-tech. I was just pointing out that the comparison it invalid.
Crazy Luddites.I am not necessarily a Luddite. After all, I am sitting on a computer, typing this note. How much of a luddite can that make me? I am just being a bit paranoid. For every good thing that will come from Nano-tech, there is the possibility that some psycho will develop a bad thing. That is the way things have worked throughout human history. When the submitter referred to nano-sized objects carrying helpful items through cell membranes, I immediately realized that same nano-tech could be used to carry dangrous items through cell membranes.
Last time I checked, Water, Food and Oxygen were all provided by nature. Nanotechnology is man-made.
And, yes, I am being a bit paranoid. At some point, I'll probably get over it, but until that time, I'll keep my tin-foil had close by.
That depends on the type of football. For American Football, 100 million. For Australian Football, it's 500 million. And, for Football (soccer), it's a couple of dozen.
I know that this technology is supposed to be helpful, but something about the process makes me feel uncomfortable.
Obviously, you don't understand the term "in house". I didn't say WHERE the laptops were made. I said, IBM "owned" most of the manufacturing process. IBM does have actual paid employees living in China, believe it or not. The difference between the IBM process and the HP process is that HP pays another company to perform the manufacturing whereas the IBM laptop is made mostly by people that had their checks signed by IBM.
Pre-Lenovo, the IBM laptop tended to be significanly more expensive than any of it's major competitors (not counting Apple). Therefore, IBM had already included the higher quality of their laptop in the price. The ThinkPad is a very popular purchase amongst corporations. Companies were willing to pay the extra price for the perceived quality and service that IBM provided.
IBM products were good, but too cheap for IBM to make money on it.Last year, IBM made a profit on the PC and laptop business. But, they only made 1 or 2 percentage points profit on that hardware. I just checked HP's web site and they reported a profit margin of 2.1% on their PC's and Laptops for the first quarter of 2005. So, the margins IBM was making were comparable to at least one of it's main competitors.
And their opinion was clearly that technical superiority meant nothing in a market that appears to be dominated by price.I think you are right on this point, but I would have phrased it differently. IBM's opinion was that laptops and PC's have become a commodity and the profit margins were too thin to justify remaining in that line of business. IBM does still has a "toe-hold" in the PC/laptop business, since it owns a minority share of Lenovo.
From TFA:
So, IBM used to keep most of it's own laptop production in-house. Which may partially explain why the ThinkPad's are, by far, the best laptops around. Let's see what happens to the ThinkPad now that Lenovo runs the show.
In that case, maybe you shouldn't be reading articles that are posted on the internet. Go back to the print media, where they have editors.
It's one of "Murphy's Laws". Specifically, it is "Weinberg's Second Law". I found it on this page. You might have to search the page. I cannot find a direct link via html.
Will there be a "bug fix" for this problem I am having with the toilet?
I can't blame Big Blue. Game consoles have a much larger market than Apple. Why invest heavily in a chip for only 2.5% of the market? Instead, get all three major game console makers to commit to your chip and make much more money.
Come on, that scene is funny every time...
Well, since nothing has happened over at Google in the past 20 minutes or so....why, Yes, this is news!
Damn...someone beat me to it...
Scotty: Computer. Computer?
[Bones hands him a mouse and he speaks into it]
Scotty: Hello, computer.
Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard.
Scotty: Keyboard. How quaint.
Or, you could just click on that "STOP" icon at the top of the screen...
That's not fair. One of the guys was behind me and another one used a knife on my hand....
What I want to know is: What kind of offspring do Kirk and the Green Woman have?
Just like Han Solo. Although he wasn't a Jedi, he was still DEFENDING himself! Oh, wait, nevermind....
The only place that needs Badgers is Wisconsin.
Open one of those things up while seated? I'm still trying to visualize fitting that monster in the overhead.