Using an astronaught is not a large sample and would make a highly speculative study.
Secondly, at the speed of light the aging process does not slow down. The rate at which I age is constant but you may view me as not having aged.
Lastly, would cosmic rays have a greater or lesser impact on your relative aging? If travelling at 90% instead of 50% of the speed of light increase my chances of being viewed as aging faster?
Maybe my questions are answered in the article but I tried to read it and my head exploded...
Accoridng to the top 20 article, these inventions came from Islamic inventors:
coffee, flying, anaesthetics, windmills, chess, pens, algebra, shampoo, carpets, distillation, check system for banking, combination lock, crank-shaft, Earth was a sphere (this I believe), rockets, "garden as a place of beauty and meditation"
Many of the the 20 top inventions include a description along the lines before the west discovered it, Islamic person found X. I can't help but think whoever put this list of 1001 invention is bitter over not being properly credited with historical discoveries. Is this a list about inventions or someone with a bruised ego trying to rewrite history?
My company passed on osCommerce. When compared against other commercial products, the cost to customize osCommerce outweighed the purchase of a better, commercial solution. For us, that was http://www.elasticpath.com/. Everyone's mileage may differ but it seems like the most prevelant complaint about osCommerce is the unexpected cost to customize it. You're going to encounter this anywhere. Fortunately for us, spending money up front did decrease our overall costs.
"We will save thousands of dollars a month" - Joe Chiavetta, CFO, Musco Food Corp
SCO loses millions ever quarter then creates a press release about a product able to save a company a few thousand dollars a month? And the product is a complete departure from everything else going on at SCO. wtf!
The author could have been more clear in his explaination. 50,000 emails are actually 50,000 email campaigns and a lot of people are going to interpret that incorrectly.
Besides 50,000 emails is hardly enough to get you in serious trouble for spam.
There are two different stories going on here. One is search engines. MSN & A9(amazon) offer rewards for users of their search engine. Rewards are fully sponsored by search engine companies marketing budgets. This is new. Another story going on here are affiliate sites. Blingo is an affiliate site as is GoodSearch.com. These sites generate revenue by selling their traffic (or so it seems). Blingo will earn a few cents when users click on a sponsored links. Blingo adds another player into this multi level marketing scheme going on. It's not like Blingo is doing the world a favor by passing on free rewards - rather they're passing on a part of their commissions to their users.
This may seem like a distinction without a difference but look at it from an advertisers experience. Would you rather buy clicks on MSN where users are there to search products or would you rather buy clicks from Blingo where users are there only to rack up clicks and receive free iPods? Obviously Blingo & GoodSerach.com are going to generate poor quality traffic. Many companies already do this: ebates, upromise, everyfreegift.
I don't see a connection between spyware & the olympics. Why ban him from the Olympics at all? Or why stop at banning him from the Olympics? Why not take away his driving privledges or his passport?
Joi Ito is an exception, or the start of a trend?
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Joi Ito is a rare breed of Warcraft player. He's a very successful entrepreneur and it's doubtful he has many peers online. Just because he plays Warcraft, does that necessarily mean Warcraft is accepted as a good place to talk shop? I would like to be in the presence of this guy and would play the game (again) for a chance to shoot ideas off him, but more likely than not any chatter on Warcraft is going to be about someone's day doing tech support.
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I agree with that comment. A company loses 20 million a month then they file for an IPO? What am I missing here...This investment looks like one of the many losers from 1999. Does Vonage have any proof of being able to slow down expenses?
...at least for my girlfriend. Just last week she turned down a job paying 35% more - a huge pay raise - because the new company has a stale atmosphere and little potential for growth. It's not uncommon to turn down a raise or job offers for boring work - boring jobs pay more for a reason...because they're boring!
Also important. How is it that 20,000 requests can be made through FISA and only 5 were rejected? It would seem that any request made through FISA would be approved - if that's the case then why have FISA and how does this differ from warrant-less wiretaps?
Instead I think this is a message to investors not to grade them by their search marketshare becuase they don't consider that important anymore.
I couldn't agree more. Yahoo has much more than just search results and the focus should be elsewhere. Google on the other hand is search engine first that generates its revenue by being the largest adsense website. Google's focus is obviously search.
For details on 180 solutions tricks go to http://www.benedelman.org. It has screenshots of 180 solutions in action...pretty detailed and interesting to read. I'm especially amused by this recent bit of jousting going on between 180 solutions and Ben Edelman. Here Ben accuses 180 solutions of targetting kids as well as being deceptive. 180 solutions responded and here are Ben's latest additions to the arguments. This is a great (and sad) example of how people choose to define the law when it's not explicitly defined.
iTunes started April, 2003. The first iPod was released Oct, 2001. Being the first to the market helps but that's usually not enough to secure it. Apple dominates that space today and who knows what will happen in the future. Hopefully M$ stays clear of screwing up what seems to be a perfectly cool thing for Apple and I wouldn't be so quick to test M$.
This policy of spying started long before Bush and it will continue after the Bush administration. Citing this battle as one between Bush & Google seems short sided. I hate Bush as much as the next guy(or 49% of you) and it makes sense that the battle to protect privacy goes way beyond just this administration.
Yahoo and likely MSN already gave in to the government so the government probably has what it needs. Google has nothing to gain but a moral victory. In addition I do not think this is a Bush administration thing as much as it is the government. Echelon for example is part of a system that has been spying on people for decades. Republican or Democrat, that type of activity is will continue. Given the Bush seems to abuse power more than most administrations, the notion that the government can lawfully spy on anyone started long before Bush.
This sounds similar to DMOZ in that experts are in control of their field. DMOZ was built by the people for the people and the system provides a lot of value, particularly for SEO. Unfortunately DMOZ is ripe with corruption. Editors realize their power to approve or deny submissions have value so they sell their once free service to approve links under the table. I wonder how Digital Universe will avoid the same problem.
I'm with you in agreeing that something is not right. As much as I like Google, I like a balance of power even more. Google is dominating search. Yahoo is beginning to compete on a decent level. MSN is coming around by putting effort into developing their own search engine. MSN should have won this deal to keep an even playing field. Google may not be evil but they are certainly on their way to having the power to be evil.
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Using an astronaught is not a large sample and would make a highly speculative study.
Secondly, at the speed of light the aging process does not slow down. The rate at which I age is constant but you may view me as not having aged.
Lastly, would cosmic rays have a greater or lesser impact on your relative aging? If travelling at 90% instead of 50% of the speed of light increase my chances of being viewed as aging faster?
Maybe my questions are answered in the article but I tried to read it and my head exploded...
This is how you manage photos:
Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen
Althought likely vaporware, it would be cool to have a multi touch screen...
at zombo.com.
but seriously...intersting list of young, solid businesses. The jury is still out on many of these businesses.
Accoridng to the top 20 article, these inventions came from Islamic inventors:
coffee, flying, anaesthetics, windmills, chess, pens, algebra, shampoo, carpets, distillation, check system for banking, combination lock, crank-shaft, Earth was a sphere (this I believe), rockets, "garden as a place of beauty and meditation"
Many of the the 20 top inventions include a description along the lines before the west discovered it, Islamic person found X. I can't help but think whoever put this list of 1001 invention is bitter over not being properly credited with historical discoveries. Is this a list about inventions or someone with a bruised ego trying to rewrite history?
My company passed on osCommerce. When compared against other commercial products, the cost to customize osCommerce outweighed the purchase of a better, commercial solution. For us, that was http://www.elasticpath.com/. Everyone's mileage may differ but it seems like the most prevelant complaint about osCommerce is the unexpected cost to customize it. You're going to encounter this anywhere. Fortunately for us, spending money up front did decrease our overall costs.
"We will save thousands of dollars a month" - Joe Chiavetta, CFO, Musco Food Corp
SCO loses millions ever quarter then creates a press release about a product able to save a company a few thousand dollars a month? And the product is a complete departure from everything else going on at SCO. wtf!
5 new products?
1: iPod Hi-Fi - http://www.apple.com/ipodhifi/
2: Pod Leather Case - http://www.apple.com/ipod/accessories.html
3: Mac mini - http://www.apple.com/macmini/
4 & 5: Front Row with Bonjour - ?
The author could have been more clear in his explaination. 50,000 emails are actually 50,000 email campaigns and a lot of people are going to interpret that incorrectly.
Besides 50,000 emails is hardly enough to get you in serious trouble for spam.
So instead of driving up clicks they are driving up impressions and decreasing conversion ratio's for ads. Awesome. A lesser evil.
There are two different stories going on here. One is search engines. MSN & A9(amazon) offer rewards for users of their search engine. Rewards are fully sponsored by search engine companies marketing budgets. This is new. Another story going on here are affiliate sites. Blingo is an affiliate site as is GoodSearch.com. These sites generate revenue by selling their traffic (or so it seems). Blingo will earn a few cents when users click on a sponsored links. Blingo adds another player into this multi level marketing scheme going on. It's not like Blingo is doing the world a favor by passing on free rewards - rather they're passing on a part of their commissions to their users.
This may seem like a distinction without a difference but look at it from an advertisers experience. Would you rather buy clicks on MSN where users are there to search products or would you rather buy clicks from Blingo where users are there only to rack up clicks and receive free iPods? Obviously Blingo & GoodSerach.com are going to generate poor quality traffic. Many companies already do this: ebates, upromise, everyfreegift.
I don't see a connection between spyware & the olympics. Why ban him from the Olympics at all? Or why stop at banning him from the Olympics? Why not take away his driving privledges or his passport?
Joi Ito is a rare breed of Warcraft player. He's a very successful entrepreneur and it's doubtful he has many peers online. Just because he plays Warcraft, does that necessarily mean Warcraft is accepted as a good place to talk shop? I would like to be in the presence of this guy and would play the game (again) for a chance to shoot ideas off him, but more likely than not any chatter on Warcraft is going to be about someone's day doing tech support.
I agree with that comment. A company loses 20 million a month then they file for an IPO? What am I missing here...This investment looks like one of the many losers from 1999. Does Vonage have any proof of being able to slow down expenses?
...at least for my girlfriend. Just last week she turned down a job paying 35% more - a huge pay raise - because the new company has a stale atmosphere and little potential for growth. It's not uncommon to turn down a raise or job offers for boring work - boring jobs pay more for a reason...because they're boring!
Also important. How is it that 20,000 requests can be made through FISA and only 5 were rejected? It would seem that any request made through FISA would be approved - if that's the case then why have FISA and how does this differ from warrant-less wiretaps?
The US Press Secretary and the Iraq Ministry of Defense would be prime candidates for this type of monitoring.
Instead I think this is a message to investors not to grade them by their search marketshare becuase they don't consider that important anymore.
I couldn't agree more. Yahoo has much more than just search results and the focus should be elsewhere. Google on the other hand is search engine first that generates its revenue by being the largest adsense website. Google's focus is obviously search.
For details on 180 solutions tricks go to http://www.benedelman.org. It has screenshots of 180 solutions in action...pretty detailed and interesting to read. I'm especially amused by this recent bit of jousting going on between 180 solutions and Ben Edelman. Here Ben accuses 180 solutions of targetting kids as well as being deceptive. 180 solutions responded and here are Ben's latest additions to the arguments. This is a great (and sad) example of how people choose to define the law when it's not explicitly defined.
iTunes started April, 2003. The first iPod was released Oct, 2001. Being the first to the market helps but that's usually not enough to secure it. Apple dominates that space today and who knows what will happen in the future. Hopefully M$ stays clear of screwing up what seems to be a perfectly cool thing for Apple and I wouldn't be so quick to test M$.
This policy of spying started long before Bush and it will continue after the Bush administration. Citing this battle as one between Bush & Google seems short sided. I hate Bush as much as the next guy(or 49% of you) and it makes sense that the battle to protect privacy goes way beyond just this administration.
Yahoo and likely MSN already gave in to the government so the government probably has what it needs. Google has nothing to gain but a moral victory. In addition I do not think this is a Bush administration thing as much as it is the government. Echelon for example is part of a system that has been spying on people for decades. Republican or Democrat, that type of activity is will continue. Given the Bush seems to abuse power more than most administrations, the notion that the government can lawfully spy on anyone started long before Bush.
The I'm Feeling Lucky button on Google simply returns the first result.
This sounds similar to DMOZ in that experts are in control of their field. DMOZ was built by the people for the people and the system provides a lot of value, particularly for SEO. Unfortunately DMOZ is ripe with corruption. Editors realize their power to approve or deny submissions have value so they sell their once free service to approve links under the table. I wonder how Digital Universe will avoid the same problem.
I'm with you in agreeing that something is not right. As much as I like Google, I like a balance of power even more. Google is dominating search. Yahoo is beginning to compete on a decent level. MSN is coming around by putting effort into developing their own search engine. MSN should have won this deal to keep an even playing field. Google may not be evil but they are certainly on their way to having the power to be evil.
He who own the gold makes the rules...As a wikipedia co-founder he has a right to allow exceptions.
(where are the Bomis Babes?)