Bargain Network spidered real estate prices on homestore.com/realtor.com and posted them on the bargain.com website. Homestore sued and the case was settled out of court. I wish it was not settled out of court because that would set up a precident.
In my opinion you are asking for the problems. Taking a case like this to court and winning would be difficult. At the very least it would be a serious legal expense.
The last time I checked the rules for Froogle you had to be the actual merchant that ships the product in order to show up in their index. If you are spidering a merchant then you are an affiliate, the products do not originate from you so you would be exluced from Froogle. Froogle does not allow you to sort products by price - so obviously what you plan on doing is different. Froogle also gives merchants the option to be excluded from their index.
My advice is this - get a lawyer because one will surely be contacting you. Familiarize yourself with these phrases: false advertising, breach of contract, and unfair competition.
These guys that own google & salesforce are doing great. A few years ago they would pay $50k for someone with a BS in CS. These days they can get away with paying $50k for someone with an MS in CS. Technology is still improving, it has always been and will continue to do so. Hopefully the economy picks up enough to where the unemployment rate for engineers is no longer an embarassing statistic...fortunately I have been part of a company that's been doing well over the past few years but ugh...today would be a dismal time to enter the job market.
It needs to be said here is that BI is a new field and it is evolving. Are 100 million people going to use data visualization tools on a daily basis? Probably not however one can say that the adoption rate of such tools will increase in 5 years. I used to think that BI was just marketing spin until I started doing it a few years. Basically 10 years ago BI was not possible - companies could afford to create their own terabyte databases then mine that information. Today that is possible and tools such as Oracle Discoverer allow non-technical employees to execute complicated queries. That itself is crazy and it gets better. BI will make the decision making process faster and more accurate. Getting there will take time but it will happen. Dashboards are already a common name. For a glimpse into the future check out the following sites:
My favorite is the sector map offered by SmartMoney. It's an awesome tool however it is pricey and put this in front of your average sales person and they will freeze due to information overload.
Google does not sacrafice the quality of their product for the sake of generating more revenue. Google is where they are today because they provide a search engine that is fair and unbaised. MS on the other hand has shown that they are willing to sacrafice the quality of their product if it means more coin in their pocket. BTW - what happened to RealNames?
The best and most complicated 'cheat' I have ever seen:
http://seq.sourceforge.net
I'm sure this has been on slashdot in the past. seq = showeq. It's a tool for everquest users. It runs on a separate machine under linux and gives the user a birds eye view of the map. Over the years it has become fairly complex. At the moment it requires a program on the computer running the everquest client to read the key from memory, it then sends the key to the machine running seq and that machine uses the key to decrypt the everquest packets.
I coded cobol during the Y2K 'crisis'. That was a painful job that caused irreverasable damage on my psyche. To this day I break out in a cold sweat whenever I see a green screen and will probably be in therapy for the rest of my life.
How to improve your companies morale:
Step 1: Be part of a successful company.
Step 2: Do not lay people off.
Step 3: See Step 1.
Although you already answered your question, people feel like they always have to look over their shoulder to avoid getting fired. Bottom line - your company is the problem. No amount of booze, yoga, flex hours, massages or magic pixie dust are going to increase morale. Odds are the stigmatism from laying off 300 people is still in the air. My suggestion is do one of two things - find a new job or be content with your situation.
A friend came back from japan with a phone that reminds me of the ericsson phone. The phone from japan has a rotory style keypad, it's color and has a camera on the back. It's good that ericsson is getting with the times but if you're living in japan then this phone is not new news.
People are already taking advantage of google's spider - this press about google's patent will no doubtedly lead more people to catch onto googles ranking system.
This is pretty interesting. The value chain for a search engines looks like so...
Consumer - you, me, the one who lays down their credit card for a product. ->Advertiser - ex. stores.yahoo.com. They produce a product to sell. -->Affiliate Network - ex. BeFree, CJ, LinkShare. These guys manage the relationship between Advertisers and Publishers. --->Publisher - These guys find things to sell on stores.yahoo.com and buy eye balls from search engines like overture and google. ---->Search Engine / Ad Network- ex. google.com, overture. These guys sell search placement to Publishers and provide the search engines for those ads.
Before Overture bought Altavista, Overture was just an Ad Network. They took money from Publishers and gave it to search engines like aolsearch, msn, etc. Now that Overture and AV are one company they are their own search engine, just like google is their own search engine and ad network. Anywho, as the money trickles down from the consumer to the search engine, the one who makes out with the lions share is the search engine. It's the only piece of this puzzle that lacks competition. If Overture is able to better compete with google then cost for search placement should decrease and everyone else will benefit.
I wish this author could have used britannica's definition of a nerd rather than hollywoods definition. A nerd is not someone that is smarter than the average person. I know plenty of nerds that are never going to make it into mehnsa nor spell it correctly. What makes a nerd a nerd is their social behavior. The dictionary defines a nerd as an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person. Being smart has something to do with being a nerd but being a social reject is the primary reason. Ok, next rant. Is this author really a nerd? He writes like he is one, wants to be one, and knows them more than they know themselves. And what's up with the 1981 high school chess club picture? Is that really necessary to put on the front page of your personal site...20 years later? Does he look at that every night then pat himself on the back before going to bed? This guy is a tool but not a nerd.
Thank you Daniel Brandt for your site google-watch.com. The site is not going to win any journalism awards but it does influence thought on google's motivations. For the most part google is a nice company. Unfortuantely it does have a lot of potential to do bad things with its monopoly like power. It is also motivated by investors looking for a return on their money. Put those two things together and we could be in a bad situation. I am not saying that google is evil right now but it very well could be in the future.
It's perfectly logical to ask for paid overtime but then again it's also logical to work only 40 hours a week. Personally I would rather put in my due dilligence and work overtime for free. As a reward I expect a higher bonus, a higher raise and more respect around the office. Then there is the fact that this economy has a high unemployement rate. Asking for benefits, even if they are deserved, will make that guy with an application that much more appealing to your supervisor.
Anyone else think it is strange that the author has an email address at hire.com and dedicated the paper to hire.com? He also cited the book Extreme Programming in the references. Those two points make me skeptical about the integrity of the paper however the paper is pretty good.
They discovered the link when a 32-year-old man who sat at his computer terminal for up to 18 hours a day nearly died after he developed a blood clot in his leg which travelled to his lungs. Is this really news? Doing anything in a chair for 18 hours a day is going to cause a problem. Long flights can be a problem. I am willing to be that underwater basket weaving in a chair for 18 hours a day would be a problem. I guess what I am tryign to say is I see the authors point but if you get a blood clot due to sitting in a chair for 18 hours a day then you have no one to blame but yourself.
Critics say the Segway is a safety hazard on sidewalks because it weighs 69 pounds and travels at up to 12.5 mph
In my mind Segway's are not a safety hazard however we are talking about a state where tort laws are out of control. The city probably wants to avoid potential lawsuits from handicapped people, people that get run over, or others than crash on a sidewalk crack. Then there is the idea if Segway's are legal then is it the city's responsibility to maintain the quality of sidewalks? Anywho - I do not agree with the law that bans Segway's but I can see why it exists.
This is ridiculous. Some people rank Mandrake up there with saving the Spotted Owl. It is ok for a company with a bad business model to meet its maker. I run Mandrake on my primary linux box and hate to see the company go down the tubes but this economny is bad enough as it is - the last thing we need is to support more failing companies. If we do anything then we should stop sending charity to Mandrake and give it to the employees that are going to be out of a job. With any luck they will learn from this experience and put their time into something that produces more fruit.
The portals have started to get fed up. Over the last three years, Google has stolen 40% of the search market directly at the expense of AOL, MSN, and Yahoo - says Jason Kellerman, CEO of search-technology company LookSmart.
Amen. Google is becomming too powerful.
Here is an interesting relationship chart that was created by Bruce Clay. It shows how google is the authority on searching the web. Big deal - we already know that google is an important search engine but think about google and their value to other companies. Google now sells products through froogle, sells advertising with ad words, and acts as a news portal. My guess is they will eventually be throwing their weight around in areas where they are not welcome and when that day comes they will be too big to stop. I like google but then again MSDos v3.11 was a nice OS for its time and look where microsoft is today.
From what I understand being an engineer in the gaming industry is a difficult job. It is very competitive, there is little job security, and engineers are over worked. Anyone with experience feel free to comment?
I think there is a serious flaw in education in America because it puts too much emphasis on college and not enough on ambition and creativity. College certainly should not be overlooked however America engrains the idea in peoples minds that college is the turning point to success. Kids are brought up to believe that if they do not go to college then they will not succeed. Ironically I know some young multi-mullionaires that either skipped college all together or received a joke of a degree. What made the difference in their life was their determination. For those that do get into the school of their choice, good luck. And to those that are rejected, do not give up because college is not your last chance to succeed in life.
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Here is a related incident:
http://news.com.com/2110-1017-944258.html
Bargain Network spidered real estate prices on homestore.com/realtor.com and posted them on the bargain.com website. Homestore sued and the case was settled out of court. I wish it was not settled out of court because that would set up a precident.
In my opinion you are asking for the problems. Taking a case like this to court and winning would be difficult. At the very least it would be a serious legal expense.
The last time I checked the rules for Froogle you had to be the actual merchant that ships the product in order to show up in their index. If you are spidering a merchant then you are an affiliate, the products do not originate from you so you would be exluced from Froogle. Froogle does not allow you to sort products by price - so obviously what you plan on doing is different. Froogle also gives merchants the option to be excluded from their index.
My advice is this - get a lawyer because one will surely be contacting you. Familiarize yourself with these phrases: false advertising, breach of contract, and unfair competition.
These guys that own google & salesforce are doing great. A few years ago they would pay $50k for someone with a BS in CS. These days they can get away with paying $50k for someone with an MS in CS. Technology is still improving, it has always been and will continue to do so. Hopefully the economy picks up enough to where the unemployment rate for engineers is no longer an embarassing statistic...fortunately I have been part of a company that's been doing well over the past few years but ugh...today would be a dismal time to enter the job market.
There is such thing as too much information however what if all watches were in minutes and someone came out with one that included seconds?
It needs to be said here is that BI is a new field and it is evolving. Are 100 million people going to use data visualization tools on a daily basis? Probably not however one can say that the adoption rate of such tools will increase in 5 years. I used to think that BI was just marketing spin until I started doing it a few years. Basically 10 years ago BI was not possible - companies could afford to create their own terabyte databases then mine that information. Today that is possible and tools such as Oracle Discoverer allow non-technical employees to execute complicated queries. That itself is crazy and it gets better. BI will make the decision making process faster and more accurate. Getting there will take time but it will happen. Dashboards are already a common name. For a glimpse into the future check out the following sites:
http://www.thebrain.com
http://www.visualthesaurus.com
http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap
http://www.earthviewer.com
My favorite is the sector map offered by SmartMoney. It's an awesome tool however it is pricey and put this in front of your average sales person and they will freeze due to information overload.
Google does not sacrafice the quality of their product for the sake of generating more revenue. Google is where they are today because they provide a search engine that is fair and unbaised. MS on the other hand has shown that they are willing to sacrafice the quality of their product if it means more coin in their pocket. BTW - what happened to RealNames?
The best and most complicated 'cheat' I have ever seen: http://seq.sourceforge.net I'm sure this has been on slashdot in the past. seq = showeq. It's a tool for everquest users. It runs on a separate machine under linux and gives the user a birds eye view of the map. Over the years it has become fairly complex. At the moment it requires a program on the computer running the everquest client to read the key from memory, it then sends the key to the machine running seq and that machine uses the key to decrypt the everquest packets.
I coded cobol during the Y2K 'crisis'. That was a painful job that caused irreverasable damage on my psyche. To this day I break out in a cold sweat whenever I see a green screen and will probably be in therapy for the rest of my life.
How to improve your companies morale:
Step 1: Be part of a successful company.
Step 2: Do not lay people off.
Step 3: See Step 1.
Although you already answered your question, people feel like they always have to look over their shoulder to avoid getting fired. Bottom line - your company is the problem. No amount of booze, yoga, flex hours, massages or magic pixie dust are going to increase morale. Odds are the stigmatism from laying off 300 people is still in the air. My suggestion is do one of two things - find a new job or be content with your situation.
A friend came back from japan with a phone that reminds me of the ericsson phone. The phone from japan has a rotory style keypad, it's color and has a camera on the back. It's good that ericsson is getting with the times but if you're living in japan then this phone is not new news.
People are already taking advantage of google's spider - this press about google's patent will no doubtedly lead more people to catch onto googles ranking system.
This is pretty interesting. The value chain for a search engines looks like so...
Consumer - you, me, the one who lays down their credit card for a product.
->Advertiser - ex. stores.yahoo.com. They produce a product to sell.
-->Affiliate Network - ex. BeFree, CJ, LinkShare. These guys manage the relationship between Advertisers and Publishers.
--->Publisher - These guys find things to sell on stores.yahoo.com and buy eye balls from search engines like overture and google.
---->Search Engine / Ad Network- ex. google.com, overture. These guys sell search placement to Publishers and provide the search engines for those ads.
Before Overture bought Altavista, Overture was just an Ad Network. They took money from Publishers and gave it to search engines like aolsearch, msn, etc. Now that Overture and AV are one company they are their own search engine, just like google is their own search engine and ad network. Anywho, as the money trickles down from the consumer to the search engine, the one who makes out with the lions share is the search engine. It's the only piece of this puzzle that lacks competition. If Overture is able to better compete with google then cost for search placement should decrease and everyone else will benefit.
I wish this author could have used britannica's definition of a nerd rather than hollywoods definition. A nerd is not someone that is smarter than the average person. I know plenty of nerds that are never going to make it into mehnsa nor spell it correctly. What makes a nerd a nerd is their social behavior. The dictionary defines a nerd as an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person. Being smart has something to do with being a nerd but being a social reject is the primary reason. Ok, next rant. Is this author really a nerd? He writes like he is one, wants to be one, and knows them more than they know themselves. And what's up with the 1981 high school chess club picture? Is that really necessary to put on the front page of your personal site...20 years later? Does he look at that every night then pat himself on the back before going to bed? This guy is a tool but not a nerd.
Thank you Daniel Brandt for your site google-watch.com. The site is not going to win any journalism awards but it does influence thought on google's motivations. For the most part google is a nice company. Unfortuantely it does have a lot of potential to do bad things with its monopoly like power. It is also motivated by investors looking for a return on their money. Put those two things together and we could be in a bad situation. I am not saying that google is evil right now but it very well could be in the future.
It's perfectly logical to ask for paid overtime but then again it's also logical to work only 40 hours a week. Personally I would rather put in my due dilligence and work overtime for free. As a reward I expect a higher bonus, a higher raise and more respect around the office. Then there is the fact that this economy has a high unemployement rate. Asking for benefits, even if they are deserved, will make that guy with an application that much more appealing to your supervisor.
Wow. I still have 5.25" disks at my parents place that contain all kinds of leet old school h4x0r files. I guess this makes me officially old.
Anyone else think it is strange that the author has an email address at hire.com and dedicated the paper to hire.com? He also cited the book Extreme Programming in the references. Those two points make me skeptical about the integrity of the paper however the paper is pretty good.
They discovered the link when a 32-year-old man who sat at his computer terminal for up to 18 hours a day nearly died after he developed a blood clot in his leg which travelled to his lungs. Is this really news? Doing anything in a chair for 18 hours a day is going to cause a problem. Long flights can be a problem. I am willing to be that underwater basket weaving in a chair for 18 hours a day would be a problem. I guess what I am tryign to say is I see the authors point but if you get a blood clot due to sitting in a chair for 18 hours a day then you have no one to blame but yourself.
Check out HAARP. It is based on the same idea of using microwaves as a weapon only on a much larger scale.
http://www.viewzone.com/haarp00.html
Critics say the Segway is a safety hazard on sidewalks because it weighs 69 pounds and travels at up to 12.5 mph
In my mind Segway's are not a safety hazard however we are talking about a state where tort laws are out of control. The city probably wants to avoid potential lawsuits from handicapped people, people that get run over, or others than crash on a sidewalk crack. Then there is the idea if Segway's are legal then is it the city's responsibility to maintain the quality of sidewalks? Anywho - I do not agree with the law that bans Segway's but I can see why it exists.
This is ridiculous. Some people rank Mandrake up there with saving the Spotted Owl. It is ok for a company with a bad business model to meet its maker. I run Mandrake on my primary linux box and hate to see the company go down the tubes but this economny is bad enough as it is - the last thing we need is to support more failing companies. If we do anything then we should stop sending charity to Mandrake and give it to the employees that are going to be out of a job. With any luck they will learn from this experience and put their time into something that produces more fruit.
The portals have started to get fed up. Over the last three years, Google has stolen 40% of the search market directly at the expense of AOL, MSN, and Yahoo - says Jason Kellerman, CEO of search-technology company LookSmart.
Amen. Google is becomming too powerful.
Here is an interesting relationship chart that was created by Bruce Clay. It shows how google is the authority on searching the web. Big deal - we already know that google is an important search engine but think about google and their value to other companies. Google now sells products through froogle, sells advertising with ad words, and acts as a news portal. My guess is they will eventually be throwing their weight around in areas where they are not welcome and when that day comes they will be too big to stop. I like google but then again MSDos v3.11 was a nice OS for its time and look where microsoft is today.
The courts should send them home, put them on probation, take away their broadband access and force them to use a 300 bps modem.
Hmm. My stomach just sank because there was a time when I actually used a 300bps modem. That sucks.
So. This is where they come up with the viruses to infect our computers and inflate the sales of their anit-virus software?
From what I understand being an engineer in the gaming industry is a difficult job. It is very competitive, there is little job security, and engineers are over worked. Anyone with experience feel free to comment?
I think there is a serious flaw in education in America because it puts too much emphasis on college and not enough on ambition and creativity. College certainly should not be overlooked however America engrains the idea in peoples minds that college is the turning point to success. Kids are brought up to believe that if they do not go to college then they will not succeed. Ironically I know some young multi-mullionaires that either skipped college all together or received a joke of a degree. What made the difference in their life was their determination. For those that do get into the school of their choice, good luck. And to those that are rejected, do not give up because college is not your last chance to succeed in life.