I like this idea! I'm tired of getting all shopping websites in my search results when I'm actually after research, software, or product documentation or complaints or fixes (anything except e-commerce)...
Maybe most folks on the web are searching for the purpose of buying online, but in spirit of the old-school Internet (remember when commercial entities weren't even allowed on? Then later, you could sell your goods, but you HAD to contribute back and it was a faux pas to just sell your products with no value add to the Internet community?!)...
I want a selectable bias so searches for "Amazon" turn up websites about the river, and a search for "apple" links to sites about the fruit (baking, growing, folklore...)
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I am sick and tired of the concept of "intellectual property." Calling an idea property and having the term gain general acceptance has to be one of the biggest coups of all time!
Property is physical. It can be destroyed. It can be damaged. If stolen, the rightful owner no longer possesses that property. These rules do not apply to ideas. If someone has an idea, and someone else gets the same idea, the latter has not deprived the former of their thought.
We are (were?) on the precipice of a new era -- the end, or moderation, of scarcity -- information, education, knowlege, and culture all widely shareable, across great distances, cheaper than any other time in history.
What have we done with with our newfound resources? We've created artificial scarecity! We've invented whole new concepts, laws, and systems to contain the ethereal, replacing it with tired Machiavellian rules.
Disclaimer: I am an avid Linux enthusiast. I've loved it since I started running it in '93. I was thrilled when it started making inroads into the corporate environment.
Still, I fear Redhat's motives. Their code and RPMs are frequently found to be full of security vulnerabilities and remote root exploits. Now they are only going to release patches for "consumer grade" versions for one year?! Sounds almost as bad as the offerings from Redmond. Redhat should offer patches for security flaws and bugs for much longer than one year.
The other thing not to loose sight of is that Redhat is charging an arm and a leg for the Advanced Server options and for support. Advanced Server seems to be somewhat proprietary (and likely to become more so.) Redhat's offering looses something that was once a positive aspect of Linux -- relative freedom from vendor lock-in. Watch out for rising prices once they have a captive audience!
Finally, and this may be the weakest point, but the fact that Linux runs on commodity hardware and has such a large community for grass-roots support contributes to its cost effectiveness. If the intent is to run high end hardware, and pay through the nose for support contracts... what's the benefit over HP-UX, Solaris, AIX? All of those are proven operating systems from companies with years of experience providing support. HP's support is the best I've ever seen.
There's a lot of freedom in sticking with the most widely deployed versions of Linux, the ones with the biggest communities behind them. Give Debian and SUSE a good long look.
Thank goodness for the steady march of more powerful processors! Faster processors are a boon to many different types of computing. As are bus speed enhancements, RAM density and speed improvements, and storage gains.
As a person who uses Photoshop to enhance and work with 138 MB images, I can attest that there is no shortage of demand for faster processors, or faster anything for that matter, when it comes to hardware to run powerful programs.
I know many scientists whose research demands fast, inexpensive computers. As computing power becomes more affordable, science projects that were out of reach become feasible.
Faster computing resources are very valuable indeed. For many people, they are directly valuable to their work or hobbies. Many more people benefit from the science, ideas, and technology others develop with new computing power at their hands.
I LOVE Google! I thought it was the best search engine out there from the day I first saw it in beta. It is fast, clean, and the results returned are usually right on the mark. They used comodity computing hardware and Linux (I think, or BSD) to get the most computing power for their dollar.
What worries me, because I have recently come face to face with the status quo, is that Goodle, and FAST/AllTheWeb/Inktomi (possibly including LookSmart) virtually OWN the entire web seach business. There are two or three corporations now that run the backend seach engines for the top 20 web search sites.
That alone would not necessarily be a problem. But have you tried to get your site listed in a seach engine lately? Google and AllTheWeb now tell you to expect 4-8 weeks to be listed. On most you can pay money for an "expedited listing."
Back in my day, the search engines WANTED URL submissions and they would crawl your site quickly because there was a lot of competition to build the biggest indexes on the web. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
Google, and other search engines are incredibly important to the web. When search engines started out, they didn't accept pay for placement or expedited listing for a fee. Serving such a central role on the web, this trend is not the direction I'd like to see search engines taking.
IANAB, I think I'm correct on this point. (Someone else in the know please elaborate.) A major point most people overlook when they talk about cloning is mitochondrial DNA.
Mammalian cloning so far has only used the DNA extracted from the nucleus of the doner (original ?) animal. There is also a whole bunch of mitochondrial DNA that is floating around in the cells of that doner that they don't get and use. Further more, the egg that the DNA is inserted into contains its original mitrochondrial DNA.
So, while the nuclear DNA may be a match, the mitochondrial DNA is not... Its not a perfect copy.
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I like this idea! I'm tired of getting all shopping websites in my search results when I'm actually after research, software, or product documentation or complaints or fixes (anything except e-commerce)...
Maybe most folks on the web are searching for the purpose of buying online, but in spirit of the old-school Internet (remember when commercial entities weren't even allowed on? Then later, you could sell your goods, but you HAD to contribute back and it was a faux pas to just sell your products with no value add to the Internet community?!) ...
I want a selectable bias so searches for "Amazon" turn up websites about the river, and a search for "apple" links to sites about the fruit (baking, growing, folklore...)
Any good ideas for how to fix this?
Property is physical. It can be destroyed. It can be damaged. If stolen, the rightful owner no longer possesses that property. These rules do not apply to ideas. If someone has an idea, and someone else gets the same idea, the latter has not deprived the former of their thought.
We are (were?) on the precipice of a new era -- the end, or moderation, of scarcity -- information, education, knowlege, and culture all widely shareable, across great distances, cheaper than any other time in history.
What have we done with with our newfound resources? We've created artificial scarecity! We've invented whole new concepts, laws, and systems to contain the ethereal, replacing it with tired Machiavellian rules.
Still, I fear Redhat's motives. Their code and RPMs are frequently found to be full of security vulnerabilities and remote root exploits. Now they are only going to release patches for "consumer grade" versions for one year?! Sounds almost as bad as the offerings from Redmond. Redhat should offer patches for security flaws and bugs for much longer than one year.
The other thing not to loose sight of is that Redhat is charging an arm and a leg for the Advanced Server options and for support. Advanced Server seems to be somewhat proprietary (and likely to become more so.) Redhat's offering looses something that was once a positive aspect of Linux -- relative freedom from vendor lock-in. Watch out for rising prices once they have a captive audience!
Finally, and this may be the weakest point, but the fact that Linux runs on commodity hardware and has such a large community for grass-roots support contributes to its cost effectiveness. If the intent is to run high end hardware, and pay through the nose for support contracts... what's the benefit over HP-UX, Solaris, AIX? All of those are proven operating systems from companies with years of experience providing support. HP's support is the best I've ever seen.
There's a lot of freedom in sticking with the most widely deployed versions of Linux, the ones with the biggest communities behind them. Give Debian and SUSE a good long look.
As a person who uses Photoshop to enhance and work with 138 MB images, I can attest that there is no shortage of demand for faster processors, or faster anything for that matter, when it comes to hardware to run powerful programs.
I know many scientists whose research demands fast, inexpensive computers. As computing power becomes more affordable, science projects that were out of reach become feasible.
Faster computing resources are very valuable indeed. For many people, they are directly valuable to their work or hobbies. Many more people benefit from the science, ideas, and technology others develop with new computing power at their hands.
I LOVE Google! I thought it was the best search engine out there from the day I first saw it in beta. It is fast, clean, and the results returned are usually right on the mark. They used comodity computing hardware and Linux (I think, or BSD) to get the most computing power for their dollar. What worries me, because I have recently come face to face with the status quo, is that Goodle, and FAST/AllTheWeb/Inktomi (possibly including LookSmart) virtually OWN the entire web seach business. There are two or three corporations now that run the backend seach engines for the top 20 web search sites. That alone would not necessarily be a problem. But have you tried to get your site listed in a seach engine lately? Google and AllTheWeb now tell you to expect 4-8 weeks to be listed. On most you can pay money for an "expedited listing." Back in my day, the search engines WANTED URL submissions and they would crawl your site quickly because there was a lot of competition to build the biggest indexes on the web. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Google, and other search engines are incredibly important to the web. When search engines started out, they didn't accept pay for placement or expedited listing for a fee. Serving such a central role on the web, this trend is not the direction I'd like to see search engines taking.
IANAB, I think I'm correct on this point. (Someone else in the know please elaborate.) A major point most people overlook when they talk about cloning is mitochondrial DNA. Mammalian cloning so far has only used the DNA extracted from the nucleus of the doner (original ?) animal. There is also a whole bunch of mitochondrial DNA that is floating around in the cells of that doner that they don't get and use. Further more, the egg that the DNA is inserted into contains its original mitrochondrial DNA. So, while the nuclear DNA may be a match, the mitochondrial DNA is not... Its not a perfect copy.