Alexa is fine. It's flawed, everyone knows it. If it's your job to report Alexa rankings then you should provide that information with a disclaimer. Or find an alternative solution. What's not ok is to avoid using Alexa due to its shortcomings or not educate someone on its shortcomings when given the chance. As they say, there are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Doubleclick was bought at 15x premium of revenue! Not profit. That's just amazing. Aquantive is going for 13x revenue. I wonder if these deals are going to work out or have the same stink of AOL-Time Warner.
Three things you need. 1) People 2) Ideas 3) Capital
Every startup needs these ingredients. Good people, good ideas & capital are in short supply. I left out technology because it's is a commodity. Throw enough money at a technical problem and it gets solved. YC doesn't seem ideal for everyone but can still be valuable and help hone your people & ideas. $20k is a paltry amount but legal fee's are included. Advice among your peers and veterans in the industry would be invaluable.
People who think the solution to all our problems would be to remove Microsoft from computing also think replacing a Republican with a Democrat would solve our worldly issues. With or without Microsoft there will be viruses, incompatibility issues, bugs, & crashes. With or without Republicans, we're still going to have problems to face.
Do you really think youtube would be as popular if it were capable of filtering out all copyrighted material? I like Google but Youtube is just a way to make a dime off the backs of the people who create copyrighted material.
Here's Amazon's situation. They can grant these sales at $0.00 and walk away with a huge loss. Or they can charge the customers credit card and deal with a 3rd party collection agency. I would rather change the credit cards and deal with a chargeback dispute from Merchant Services.
Customers will claim the charges as an 'unauthorized transaction' to their credit card issuing company. The CC company will work with Merchant Services who will send a letter to Amazon asking for proof of charges. The whole process can take 2-6 months. I'm not sure if this is winnable for Amazon but they can make it very difficult for customers to get their money back. Having had this exact situation happen to me in the past, customers were always happy to pay the additional fee's or return the item. Failure to do so meant dealing with chargeback disputes.
I like the bash M$ when it's due but in this case they're no worse than products from these other guys: McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise, G DATA's AntiVirusKit 2007, and Norman's VirusControl. Yet the headline makes it seem like M$ was the only brand to not pass the litmus test...riight
I second this article as bullshit. Anyone with the least amount of common sense knows to take an issue like this to an attorney. The only purpose/. has is to smear his old employer. I pity the new company that's going to put up with someone like this.
Create your own question, answer it yourself and you have a free back link from answer.google.com...think they have nofollow tags these days for outgoing links but G answers used to be a good source for free links.
IANAL(or movie exec), but as a drama I can see this moving working. As a comedy this movie may likely be another one of the many bombs produced by has been actors wanting to cash in on their name...ex The Shaggy Dog or Dr Doolittle.
I proposed this idea earlier this year as well. What it came down to was recreating the wheel. The internet technology to handle this idea is simple. Mail sorting is the problem. Mail is already sorted before it gets to you so why do it again, scan it, then send it off. Surely USPS could more easily create a solution to bring snail mail to your desktop. Should USPS decided it wanted to compete, you would be screwed. It's surprising if not downright ambitious for RemoteControlMail to recreate a sorting facility...super interesting business though because you got complex, fun problems and a market that will always exist.
Any webmaster worth their weight in salt knows Alexa data is flawed. This isn't news for nerds.
I do use alexa to measure the relative worth of my sites vs competitors. The data never conicides with my own analytics against referral logs and that's ok. Alexa sucks like that.
Low savings rate, high deficit (as % of GDP the US deficit may be ok but it's a lot none the less), declining dollar, slowing real estate market. Of course these are indicators of an economy slowing down, not a 'dot com bubble'.
Slashdot Mirror
Alexa is fine. It's flawed, everyone knows it. If it's your job to report Alexa rankings then you should provide that information with a disclaimer. Or find an alternative solution. What's not ok is to avoid using Alexa due to its shortcomings or not educate someone on its shortcomings when given the chance. As they say, there are lies, damned lies and statistics.
I wonder, had the review been positive, would slashdot put it on their main page? I'm guessing no.
Doubleclick was bought at 15x premium of revenue! Not profit. That's just amazing. Aquantive is going for 13x revenue. I wonder if these deals are going to work out or have the same stink of AOL-Time Warner.
Three things you need.
1) People
2) Ideas
3) Capital
Every startup needs these ingredients. Good people, good ideas & capital are in short supply. I left out technology because it's is a commodity. Throw enough money at a technical problem and it gets solved. YC doesn't seem ideal for everyone but can still be valuable and help hone your people & ideas. $20k is a paltry amount but legal fee's are included. Advice among your peers and veterans in the industry would be invaluable.
People who think the solution to all our problems would be to remove Microsoft from computing also think replacing a Republican with a Democrat would solve our worldly issues. With or without Microsoft there will be viruses, incompatibility issues, bugs, & crashes. With or without Republicans, we're still going to have problems to face.
Microsoft Vista voted best operating system ever, by subscribers of Microsoft Fan Club Magazine...
Do you really think youtube would be as popular if it were capable of filtering out all copyrighted material? I like Google but Youtube is just a way to make a dime off the backs of the people who create copyrighted material.
viacom - gootube = pattern of abuse
/bye karma
viacom - ifilm = isolated incident
slashdot = grasping at straws for news
RTFA...it clearly says tiny drops of ink are used allowing it to dry instantly.
Most likely here: http://www.saforum.org/home
Or maybe somethingawful...not sure
Here's Amazon's situation. They can grant these sales at $0.00 and walk away with a huge loss. Or they can charge the customers credit card and deal with a 3rd party collection agency. I would rather change the credit cards and deal with a chargeback dispute from Merchant Services.
Customers will claim the charges as an 'unauthorized transaction' to their credit card issuing company. The CC company will work with Merchant Services who will send a letter to Amazon asking for proof of charges. The whole process can take 2-6 months. I'm not sure if this is winnable for Amazon but they can make it very difficult for customers to get their money back. Having had this exact situation happen to me in the past, customers were always happy to pay the additional fee's or return the item. Failure to do so meant dealing with chargeback disputes.
I like the bash M$ when it's due but in this case they're no worse than products from these other guys: McAfee's VirusScan Enterprise, G DATA's AntiVirusKit 2007, and Norman's VirusControl. Yet the headline makes it seem like M$ was the only brand to not pass the litmus test...riight
I second this article as bullshit. Anyone with the least amount of common sense knows to take an issue like this to an attorney. The only purpose /. has is to smear his old employer. I pity the new company that's going to put up with someone like this.
it undermines some of the criticism Apple has been receiving for their business strategy surrounding the iPhone
Can you elaborate on this...
...this is not. A cursory read is all that's necessary to notice the author does not have enough postgresql experience to compare it to mysql.
Microsoft is far from being the largest company in America, let alone the world...
Create your own question, answer it yourself and you have a free back link from answer.google.com...think they have nofollow tags these days for outgoing links but G answers used to be a good source for free links.
IANAL(or movie exec), but as a drama I can see this moving working. As a comedy this movie may likely be another one of the many bombs produced by has been actors wanting to cash in on their name...ex The Shaggy Dog or Dr Doolittle.
I proposed this idea earlier this year as well. What it came down to was recreating the wheel. The internet technology to handle this idea is simple. Mail sorting is the problem. Mail is already sorted before it gets to you so why do it again, scan it, then send it off. Surely USPS could more easily create a solution to bring snail mail to your desktop. Should USPS decided it wanted to compete, you would be screwed. It's surprising if not downright ambitious for RemoteControlMail to recreate a sorting facility...super interesting business though because you got complex, fun problems and a market that will always exist.
Speculation on Google / YouTube "Hardball" Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 31, @04:39PM
Welcome to (the day before) yesterday
...will not fix the fact that serentity sucked in the box office. Why would Universal push a movie that's not going to make money? /captain obvious
What's stopping Apple from doing the same thing to DVD Jon as they did to Real Networks?
(excuse me if it's a basic question for those following this issue...but what's the answer)
flying spaghetti monster
Any webmaster worth their weight in salt knows Alexa data is flawed. This isn't news for nerds.
I do use alexa to measure the relative worth of my sites vs competitors. The data never conicides with my own analytics against referral logs and that's ok. Alexa sucks like that.
Low savings rate, high deficit (as % of GDP the US deficit may be ok but it's a lot none the less), declining dollar, slowing real estate market. Of course these are indicators of an economy slowing down, not a 'dot com bubble'.