There are many companies that could IPO today but are waiting for google to test the waters. After google goes public, which will definetly happen if they want to compete with M$, then we will see many other companies file for an IPO. Google's IPO could impact the entire industry. Confidence will increase, others will go public and hopefully the number of available jobs increases as well.
I'm posting late but here's some useful info. Claiming exclusive rights to trademark terms is nothing new. It's a policy followed by google, overture, did-it, and most other pay per click engines & arbitrage companies. Today in google adwords, an Advertiser (ex Honda) can have google remove someone's ad if they see the word Honda being used by an unauthorized person. It's common for say Kawasaki to buy the word Honda - the end result being a user searches for Honda, finds a Honda ad, clicks on that ad and goes to Kawasaki.com. Obviously this is a bad. Also - Honda may want to bid on its own name and in doing so Honda should not need to compete to buy its own word. If I am Honda then I want the lowest CPC possible - paying a high CPC because thousands of other people are bidding on my trademark term is not reasonable. Here are two examples supporting the courts decision to uphold trademarks via search. Supporting trademakers is definetly in your best interests if you are the owner.
We originally used bugzilla to track software bugs. It's now used for a dozen different processes. Everything from IT requests where someone's desktop breaks, emergency hardware failures, business analyst questions, etc. We're an ASP that needs to be up 24x7 - when an emergency issue is created then the right people get pages. I would definetly recommend bugzill for a company that's 50-250 people.
Write free software for individual industries
I have not heard anyone lose a job because their company could not afford the necessary software to run their business.
Make devices more responsive and easy to customize
More technology is not always better. Not everyone needs a PDA just like not everyone needs an organizer from franklin covey. People should be concerned with improving organization and it may or may not come in the form of a PDA. If you were to take a poll of unemployeed people for those that use PDA's vs those that do not use PDA's then you would probably find that those with PDA's are more likely to keep their job - the result would mean successful people like to use PDAs, not that PDA's drive success.
Create a truly public key infrastructure
Again - I have not heard anyone lose a job because they could not afford to pay their phone bill or buy a plane ticket.
Finally - technology can help but there are more important issue. My guess is/. found this article, searched for "open source" and decided to post it without reading the content. Technology is to a large extent why we are here today. Tech caused people to get lazy and overlook basic fundamentals. The AOL/Time Warner merger is a classic example. So far as a solution to unemployment, who knows but free software and PDAs should be the least of your conerns. Innovation, motivation and education should come first.
>If you really want to continue the fire metaphor, at least he threw the gas on the fire, thus causeing it to be extinguished, before someone else threw a gernade in.
Very true. He could have prevented an even bigger problem. But that's an argument that's not going to protect you in court.
Look at the big picture. He finds a security hole at his company. The company lays him off. He emails their customers with info on the security hole and how to exploit the hole. The result is what was once a potential problem with potential victims turned into a real problem with real victims. I feel for this guy because the company knew about the problem and did nothing to fix the issue however that doesn't give him permission to throw gasoline on the fire.
This is not a case about exposing a security hole and going to jail but the headline makes it seem that way. Read the article and you will see that this guy deliberately told people about the security hole with the intention of causing harm. His reason for exposing the security hole seems more to do with getting revenge on his previous employer than helping the company fix the problem. Prison time is what he gets for acting so childish.
There are no cliff notes to getting in shape. It takes effort. First thing you need to do is set a realistic goal. If your goal is to get rock hard abs while working in the office than you're over estimating yourself. Second thing you need to do is set aside time to reach your goal (outside of the office of course). I used to work 10 hours a day and put in an hour a day in the gym. It's doable - it's not for everyone, especially if you have a family but where there is a will there is a way. Last thing you need to do is think healthy. Cut back on caffine and fats. Eat more greens and health bars. Don't bother cutting back on beer. Going without beer is out of the question as far as I am concerned and don't let anyone tell you differently!
Basically you get out of it what you put in. If you're only willing to exercise within the office then get used that gut because it's not going to dissapear. On the other hand if you can grow some balls and hit the gym on a regular basis then the sky is the limit.
It will be interesting to see what happens to Overture's distribution channels. Overture currently distributes paid results to yahoo, excite, hotbot, go.com, altavista, msn, and lycos. Will Overture limit its distribution partners to just Yahoo? If so then that means more business for google because companies like hotbot are going to want paid results. If not then yahoo is entering new territory by competing with google paid results on portals other than Yahoo.
This aquisition is interesting because Yahoo is now one monster of a company that has a very wide range of services. They offer paid results (overture), organic results (fast), Y!Stores, Y!News, Y!Personals, Y!Real Estate, Y!Travel, Y!Auctions, Geocities, Y!Mail and on and on. Google gets kudos for being a leader in search marketing but they are now where close to offering a similar range of services as Yahoo. Yahoo will have plenty to fall back on if they lose the search war to Google.
For proof that technology has had an impact on sports please see any recent article regarding Mark McGuire's performance enhancing supplements or Samy Sosa's performance enhancing bats.
Sorry for the sarcasm. My favorite piece of technology over the past few years is the yellow virtual 10 down marker on NFL games. The NHL trying to do that with the puck was certainly amusing but in no way does it compare to the value created by that imaginary yellow line during football games.
Hijacked planes are a problem but compare the odds with getting into a car crash or being struck by lightning. Putting up SoftWalls is a ridiculous idea. The cost would be tremendous. However I am not surprised. Over the past few years Americans have been inundated with new reasons to fear (thank you Bush & Rumsfeld) and the threat of dieing from a hijacked plane is no exception.
Based on my one class on law in college it was said that crimes that are difficult to detect are deterred through increased punishment. Take littering as an example. You can get a fine for $1000 dollars for littering. That is a steep fine for a modest crime. That said there are limits and a fine for $0.18 billion dollars is well beyond reason.
What is this getting paid for overtime rumor?
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...I think there is an unwritten rule in engineering, at least in the private sector, stating ye shall work your arse off and not receive overtime pay.
I'm sure the powers that be weight the cost of investigating an incicent versus the value it would provide. In your case I would say the value is NULL and understandably your response has gone unnoticed. Hopefully in the future you will incure some damages, at which point you should be more pleased with the results of law enforcement. Good luck in your pursuit!
For those who think google has a chance, you take the company with the clever engineers, I'll take the company with scrupulous business practices and $40 billion in cash and see you in 10 years when you're working for me. The best thing google can do for itself is get out of the way and that seems be what they are doing - ex googlesyndication.com. For googles sake hopefully they win but the odds are against them.
A simple search and you will see many different machines that use high pressure water to do their deed. Many years ago I remember watching Beyond2000 discuss a tool used to cut wood - each cut was smooth and precise.
If WebGraph can inflate their google PR to 10 then I'm a believer. Until then this looks like one of the many tools available to analyse your PR.
The WebGraph tool may be interesting for college students but the webmasters that are interested in seo techniques are going to find little use out of this tool.
...can I comment on the script as it is being filmed? This could be considered error control and had something like this existed during filming of the prequals the public may have ended up with a believable script.
I know a CEO who says do not confuse consistency with loyalty. This is to say that Lucas screwed up the script in two prequals and should not be given another chance.
Popping off the pieces of a rubix cube is the fastest way to 'solve' the puzzle. Several weeks ago my company took everyone to an NHL game. On the bus there was a contest to see who could solve a rubix cube in the shorted amount of time. I got one cube and immediately started pulling pieces off. Meanwhile the other one was being passed around from person to person trying to solve it manually and getting nowhere. Sure enough I handed one in first and a bunch of us started laughing. There was no prize so no harm, no foul however I felt guilty when the ceo congraduated me.
...the site listed by/. is slashdotted so here are some useful links. In a nut shell I am not sold by this thing because it lacks a real purpose(for myself anyways). Maybe one day I will move into a 10,000 sq foot house and have plenty of hallways, laptops and time to play around with the ER-1.
Slashdot Mirror
There are many companies that could IPO today but are waiting for google to test the waters. After google goes public, which will definetly happen if they want to compete with M$, then we will see many other companies file for an IPO. Google's IPO could impact the entire industry. Confidence will increase, others will go public and hopefully the number of available jobs increases as well.
I'm posting late but here's some useful info. Claiming exclusive rights to trademark terms is nothing new. It's a policy followed by google, overture, did-it, and most other pay per click engines & arbitrage companies. Today in google adwords, an Advertiser (ex Honda) can have google remove someone's ad if they see the word Honda being used by an unauthorized person. It's common for say Kawasaki to buy the word Honda - the end result being a user searches for Honda, finds a Honda ad, clicks on that ad and goes to Kawasaki.com. Obviously this is a bad. Also - Honda may want to bid on its own name and in doing so Honda should not need to compete to buy its own word. If I am Honda then I want the lowest CPC possible - paying a high CPC because thousands of other people are bidding on my trademark term is not reasonable. Here are two examples supporting the courts decision to uphold trademarks via search. Supporting trademakers is definetly in your best interests if you are the owner.
We originally used bugzilla to track software bugs. It's now used for a dozen different processes. Everything from IT requests where someone's desktop breaks, emergency hardware failures, business analyst questions, etc. We're an ASP that needs to be up 24x7 - when an emergency issue is created then the right people get pages. I would definetly recommend bugzill for a company that's 50-250 people.
Ok, time to poke some holes in this article.
/. found this article, searched for "open source" and decided to post it without reading the content. Technology is to a large extent why we are here today. Tech caused people to get lazy and overlook basic fundamentals. The AOL/Time Warner merger is a classic example. So far as a solution to unemployment, who knows but free software and PDAs should be the least of your conerns. Innovation, motivation and education should come first.
Write free software for individual industries
I have not heard anyone lose a job because their company could not afford the necessary software to run their business.
Make devices more responsive and easy to customize
More technology is not always better. Not everyone needs a PDA just like not everyone needs an organizer from franklin covey. People should be concerned with improving organization and it may or may not come in the form of a PDA. If you were to take a poll of unemployeed people for those that use PDA's vs those that do not use PDA's then you would probably find that those with PDA's are more likely to keep their job - the result would mean successful people like to use PDAs, not that PDA's drive success.
Create a truly public key infrastructure
Again - I have not heard anyone lose a job because they could not afford to pay their phone bill or buy a plane ticket.
Finally - technology can help but there are more important issue. My guess is
>If you really want to continue the fire metaphor, at least he threw the gas on the fire, thus causeing it to be extinguished, before someone else threw a gernade in. Very true. He could have prevented an even bigger problem. But that's an argument that's not going to protect you in court.
Look at the big picture. He finds a security hole at his company. The company lays him off. He emails their customers with info on the security hole and how to exploit the hole. The result is what was once a potential problem with potential victims turned into a real problem with real victims. I feel for this guy because the company knew about the problem and did nothing to fix the issue however that doesn't give him permission to throw gasoline on the fire.
This is not a case about exposing a security hole and going to jail but the headline makes it seem that way. Read the article and you will see that this guy deliberately told people about the security hole with the intention of causing harm. His reason for exposing the security hole seems more to do with getting revenge on his previous employer than helping the company fix the problem. Prison time is what he gets for acting so childish.
There are no cliff notes to getting in shape. It takes effort. First thing you need to do is set a realistic goal. If your goal is to get rock hard abs while working in the office than you're over estimating yourself. Second thing you need to do is set aside time to reach your goal (outside of the office of course). I used to work 10 hours a day and put in an hour a day in the gym. It's doable - it's not for everyone, especially if you have a family but where there is a will there is a way. Last thing you need to do is think healthy. Cut back on caffine and fats. Eat more greens and health bars. Don't bother cutting back on beer. Going without beer is out of the question as far as I am concerned and don't let anyone tell you differently!
Basically you get out of it what you put in. If you're only willing to exercise within the office then get used that gut because it's not going to dissapear. On the other hand if you can grow some balls and hit the gym on a regular basis then the sky is the limit.
Note to self:
Create a new site that sells home stereo equipment and optimize it for the search string "Pioneer Receiver manual"
It will be interesting to see what happens to Overture's distribution channels. Overture currently distributes paid results to yahoo, excite, hotbot, go.com, altavista, msn, and lycos. Will Overture limit its distribution partners to just Yahoo? If so then that means more business for google because companies like hotbot are going to want paid results. If not then yahoo is entering new territory by competing with google paid results on portals other than Yahoo.
This aquisition is interesting because Yahoo is now one monster of a company that has a very wide range of services. They offer paid results (overture), organic results (fast), Y!Stores, Y!News, Y!Personals, Y!Real Estate, Y!Travel, Y!Auctions, Geocities, Y!Mail and on and on. Google gets kudos for being a leader in search marketing but they are now where close to offering a similar range of services as Yahoo. Yahoo will have plenty to fall back on if they lose the search war to Google.
For proof that technology has had an impact on sports please see any recent article regarding Mark McGuire's performance enhancing supplements or Samy Sosa's performance enhancing bats.
Sorry for the sarcasm. My favorite piece of technology over the past few years is the yellow virtual 10 down marker on NFL games. The NHL trying to do that with the puck was certainly amusing but in no way does it compare to the value created by that imaginary yellow line during football games.
Hijacked planes are a problem but compare the odds with getting into a car crash or being struck by lightning. Putting up SoftWalls is a ridiculous idea. The cost would be tremendous. However I am not surprised. Over the past few years Americans have been inundated with new reasons to fear (thank you Bush & Rumsfeld) and the threat of dieing from a hijacked plane is no exception.
of course!
Based on my one class on law in college it was said that crimes that are difficult to detect are deterred through increased punishment. Take littering as an example. You can get a fine for $1000 dollars for littering. That is a steep fine for a modest crime. That said there are limits and a fine for $0.18 billion dollars is well beyond reason.
...I think there is an unwritten rule in engineering, at least in the private sector, stating ye shall work your arse off and not receive overtime pay.
I'm sure the powers that be weight the cost of investigating an incicent versus the value it would provide. In your case I would say the value is NULL and understandably your response has gone unnoticed. Hopefully in the future you will incure some damages, at which point you should be more pleased with the results of law enforcement. Good luck in your pursuit!
For those who think google has a chance, you take the company with the clever engineers, I'll take the company with scrupulous business practices and $40 billion in cash and see you in 10 years when you're working for me. The best thing google can do for itself is get out of the way and that seems be what they are doing - ex googlesyndication.com. For googles sake hopefully they win but the odds are against them.
http://www.arie.org/doh/
This site goes out to all those rednecks who are having trouble understanding this SCO/Linux issue.
Google Search on high pressure water cutting
A simple search and you will see many different machines that use high pressure water to do their deed. Many years ago I remember watching Beyond2000 discuss a tool used to cut wood - each cut was smooth and precise.
If WebGraph can inflate their google PR to 10 then I'm a believer. Until then this looks like one of the many tools available to analyse your PR.
The WebGraph tool may be interesting for college students but the webmasters that are interested in seo techniques are going to find little use out of this tool.
To truely appreciate Wallmart you must see the stats on this article:, 1640,37760 ,FF.html
http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0
Here's a good stat:
All-time one-day sales record (Nov. 23, 2001): $1.25 billion
With money like that backing up your competition, netflix should worry.
...so little time. Here is one. You reap what you sew.
...can I comment on the script as it is being filmed? This could be considered error control and had something like this existed during filming of the prequals the public may have ended up with a believable script.
I know a CEO who says do not confuse consistency with loyalty. This is to say that Lucas screwed up the script in two prequals and should not be given another chance.
Popping off the pieces of a rubix cube is the fastest way to 'solve' the puzzle. Several weeks ago my company took everyone to an NHL game. On the bus there was a contest to see who could solve a rubix cube in the shorted amount of time. I got one cube and immediately started pulling pieces off. Meanwhile the other one was being passed around from person to person trying to solve it manually and getting nowhere. Sure enough I handed one in first and a bunch of us started laughing. There was no prize so no harm, no foul however I felt guilty when the ceo congraduated me.
...the site listed by /. is slashdotted so here are some useful links. In a nut shell I am not sold by this thing because it lacks a real purpose(for myself anyways). Maybe one day I will move into a 10,000 sq foot house and have plenty of hallways, laptops and time to play around with the ER-1.
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http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/46
http://www.evolution.com/product/consumer