To paraphrase the tennis coach Vic Braden, "There's two kinds of experience. Some people have programmed for eight years... while others have programmed one year eight times."
Actually, that's backwards. The server version is the one with all of the GUI interfaces to manage web and mail servers and the like. Pretty much everything's there in the desktop version, but you have to access and enable them via command line and.conf changes. Logging in as root helps a lot there.
Especially since many in the OSS community seem to be allergic to paying for anything.
Personally, if I were an investor I'd remove the words Open Source from the business plan. Then see if you'd invest in yet another consulting business (or whatever it is) anyway.
So we should provide a financial incentive for the court system to process more cases through it? That sounds like a GREAT idea. Perhaps we should pay the cops a bounty on each arrest too. Or a percentage of each speeding ticket.
As you don't know my stance regarding security and open source, you can't call me a hypocrite. That said, I believe that there are times to be open, and times to be obscure. Neither one is automatically the correct solution for each and every situation.
Google provides relevance RANKING, something else entirely.
As such, I meant what I said. Create relevant, popular content, and Google with reward you with a higher page rank. Create relevant advertising pointing to said site, and Google will reward you with higher ad placements and with a reduced cost per click.
Try gaming the system, creating content that doesn't match the keywords, ads that don't match the content, or any of a number of other things, and Google will most definitely NOT reward you.
That's all it does now, and who says that information in and as of itself can't be sold and abused. Called the cancer hotline? I'm sure your insurance company would love to know. Been associating with known (your old friend, unknown to you) criminals? Time to put you under close surveilance and institute a tax audit.
Visiting warez or keygen sites? The SPA would love to pay you a visit. Downloading too many songs and movies? The RIAA and MPAA likewise.
Visiting too many "trouble" sites like/.? Who knows when the next Un-American Activities Committee will be formed to investigate and blacklist potential troublemakers.
And speaking of ethics, it's been shown that there are plenty of people out there with none. Should the exact details of the algorithm be public, I have no doubt that hordes of Search Engine Marketers and Optimizers would use that knowledge to game the system.
Try a third answer. Many factors make up the price a click and and ad placement, including the AGE OF THE SITE. Newer sites, and ads, have been simply found to be less relevant that more established sites and ads. The only way to compensate (to a certain degree) is to pay more.
So start a new site with zero page rank and it will have to pay more to get the same placement, if it can do so at all. Older sites will pay less because they've been around longer, and their ads will have shown themselves to actually have been relevant.
It boils down to a simple axiom: Google rewards relevance.
No, they don't. That would be a major tax loophole that everyone would take advantage of. "Well, I lost N sales due to the hurricane," and "I lost sales due to the gas shortage." You can not impute losses from "projected" income.
"Music labels can easily get around this by dropping the need for DRM."
Cool. So how do we prevent everyone on the internet from downloading a new song for free the second it's released? Being as how we're dropping the need for DRM...
True. Here, there's so many variables like kids back-to-school, studying, Christmas gift buying, gas and oil prices, etc., that it's hard to say what the cause might be. Especially in a "decline" of less than half of one percent.
"Are you still using 1.0 browser clients? Maybe you get the updates shipped to you directly on CD?"
Oh no, thanks. I just got a brand new computer with a new web thingy and everything.
But if you have to download a software upgrade before you can view a page's web content, it sort of belies the whole "bypasses web browser compatibility issues entirely" comment, doesn't it?
And the American auto industry thought the same regarding their own cars... until Japan's zero defect policy on their own vehicles caught them flat-footed. Apparently thorough testing was possible and could be done efficiently.
Are you kidding? Why do you think companies buy those bikes? For the cost of a custom you get one, maybe two hours (not counting reruns) devoted to the Gillette/Miller/NY Jets/Snap-on theme bike. When one of those suckers is commisioned the entire SHOW is a product (company) placement.
Not to mention that placements bias networks toward shows on which placements are possible. Be kind of hard, for example, to to place a Pepsi or Apple product on a show like Firefly. (Though it might be worthwhile starting a Blue Sun corporation. Hmmm.....)
In his own words, he "spent 3 days learning how to set up a linux webserver and lock it down," when they were on IIS and his former boss didn't want a Linux box. If I were you I'd learn to read for comprehension, because to me he spoke volumes regarding the situation and his qualifications.
"Now that that IT Professional has left to do ASP development elsewhere, I spent 3 days learning how to set up a linux webserver and lock it down..."
Oh fine. You wanted to play with a new toy, so you spend all of 3 days LEARNING how to how to set up a linux webserver and lock it down. Yeah, you're a l33t IT professional all right. I'm sure those three whole days fully qualified you to implement a mission-critical solution on a totally new platform for that business.
Is/was the rest of the shop Windows-based? Did you stop to think that just MAYBE the former boss had a reason to not want to add yet another platform to the mix? And now that you've implemented the new platform, who supports it when you leave? Because you sound exactly like the type that would have fully documented everything.
And people wonder why corporate-management-types resist professional Linux solutions...
" If the real windows were full of holes and cracks..."
Actually, from my perspective the MS XP "window" in and as of itself does the job just fine. It's just that these days we have the misfortune to live in a bad neighborhood where bulletproof glass, iron bars, and security guards are in order.
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To paraphrase the tennis coach Vic Braden, "There's two kinds of experience. Some people have programmed for eight years... while others have programmed one year eight times."
Actually, that's backwards. The server version is the one with all of the GUI interfaces to manage web and mail servers and the like. Pretty much everything's there in the desktop version, but you have to access and enable them via command line and .conf changes. Logging in as root helps a lot there.
Personally, if I were an investor I'd remove the words Open Source from the business plan. Then see if you'd invest in yet another consulting business (or whatever it is) anyway.
So we should provide a financial incentive for the court system to process more cases through it? That sounds like a GREAT idea. Perhaps we should pay the cops a bounty on each arrest too. Or a percentage of each speeding ticket.
Actually, should MS ever open up its source I have no doubt that hordes of hackers and virus writers would immediately do just that.
As you don't know my stance regarding security and open source, you can't call me a hypocrite. That said, I believe that there are times to be open, and times to be obscure. Neither one is automatically the correct solution for each and every situation.
As such, I meant what I said. Create relevant, popular content, and Google with reward you with a higher page rank. Create relevant advertising pointing to said site, and Google will reward you with higher ad placements and with a reduced cost per click.
Try gaming the system, creating content that doesn't match the keywords, ads that don't match the content, or any of a number of other things, and Google will most definitely NOT reward you.
Visiting warez or keygen sites? The SPA would love to pay you a visit. Downloading too many songs and movies? The RIAA and MPAA likewise.
Visiting too many "trouble" sites like /.? Who knows when the next Un-American Activities Committee will be formed to investigate and blacklist potential troublemakers.
Since you're about a hundred times more likely to find one?
Even simpler plan. Just blow yourself up then and there, taking out everyone else waiting to get on the train, and saving yourself another commute...
There are times when secrecy has its benefits...
So start a new site with zero page rank and it will have to pay more to get the same placement, if it can do so at all. Older sites will pay less because they've been around longer, and their ads will have shown themselves to actually have been relevant.
It boils down to a simple axiom: Google rewards relevance.
Desk Accessories (Calculator, Puzzle, Note Pad, Key Caps, etc.) existed on the very first Macintosh (the 128K 1984 version).
No, they don't. That would be a major tax loophole that everyone would take advantage of. "Well, I lost N sales due to the hurricane," and "I lost sales due to the gas shortage." You can not impute losses from "projected" income.
Cool. So how do we prevent everyone on the internet from downloading a new song for free the second it's released? Being as how we're dropping the need for DRM...
Uh... Jesus had nothing to do with the Ten Commandments, that theoretically occurring a few centuries or so before his time.
Besides, God would use the "done before I can even think of it" interface. Command lines? How quaint.
True. Here, there's so many variables like kids back-to-school, studying, Christmas gift buying, gas and oil prices, etc., that it's hard to say what the cause might be. Especially in a "decline" of less than half of one percent.
Oh no, thanks. I just got a brand new computer with a new web thingy and everything.
But if you have to download a software upgrade before you can view a page's web content, it sort of belies the whole "bypasses web browser compatibility issues entirely" comment, doesn't it?
And the American auto industry thought the same regarding their own cars... until Japan's zero defect policy on their own vehicles caught them flat-footed. Apparently thorough testing was possible and could be done efficiently.
Are you kidding? Why do you think companies buy those bikes? For the cost of a custom you get one, maybe two hours (not counting reruns) devoted to the Gillette/Miller/NY Jets/Snap-on theme bike. When one of those suckers is commisioned the entire SHOW is a product (company) placement.
Not to mention that placements bias networks toward shows on which placements are possible. Be kind of hard, for example, to to place a Pepsi or Apple product on a show like Firefly. (Though it might be worthwhile starting a Blue Sun corporation. Hmmm.....)
In his own words, he "spent 3 days learning how to set up a linux webserver and lock it down," when they were on IIS and his former boss didn't want a Linux box. If I were you I'd learn to read for comprehension, because to me he spoke volumes regarding the situation and his qualifications.
Oh fine. You wanted to play with a new toy, so you spend all of 3 days LEARNING how to how to set up a linux webserver and lock it down. Yeah, you're a l33t IT professional all right. I'm sure those three whole days fully qualified you to implement a mission-critical solution on a totally new platform for that business.
Is/was the rest of the shop Windows-based? Did you stop to think that just MAYBE the former boss had a reason to not want to add yet another platform to the mix? And now that you've implemented the new platform, who supports it when you leave? Because you sound exactly like the type that would have fully documented everything.
And people wonder why corporate-management-types resist professional Linux solutions...
Variable aperture, f/2.8-f/4.8, so... no.
Actually, from my perspective the MS XP "window" in and as of itself does the job just fine. It's just that these days we have the misfortune to live in a bad neighborhood where bulletproof glass, iron bars, and security guards are in order.