You're wrong because: 1) People won't work so hard if they won't be able to pass on the proceeds of their labor to their families when they die. 2) If products become free to exploit when the author dies, then many authors will be killed by mafia types, of course.
Hmmm. I wonder if there's a criminal aspect to this. Do repeat convicts in the US have less d2 receptors on average? People who have been arrested more than once and continue to commit petty crimes?
AMD rose to this position primarily because they didn't make Intel's mistakes - trying to force a new CPU architecture on the market (Itanium) instead of incrementally developing the X86 line, and focusing on clock-speed (P4) at the expense of performance per watt. Now that Intel is focused on performance per watt, AMD needs to find a new differentiator for their chips.
Perhaps they should start thinking about how to integrate a high quality Vista-capable GPU into their processors? (afterall they acquired ATI). How about sound cards, USB ports, et cetera. If they can fit 90% of a typical motherboard into the processor and usher in a new era of affordable and efficient computers while intel is busy playing with 64-core chips, why not?
Google's search engine is what gives them lots of traffic. Not just traffic, but traffic whose desires are known. I think search is central to their business, although of course web advertising IS their business.
The problem Ebay has with respect to Google is that Google can capture Ebay's potential customers before they have the chance to visit ebay.com. Google can capture them while they are doing their research, which is when they usually clicked those Ebay ads anyway.
This is so obvious - I've personally wondered why 1CCD sensors they don't have a fourth pixel group to carry brightness information only. There must be good reasons why this has not been done before now; I hope we get to find out why.
Knowing how much traffic Google drives through search and Adwords, this move by Ebay is nothing but suicide. It's a good thing - for Ebay - that Google has decided to back down.
Ebay is in a bad position, really, because they don't drive their own traffic. If Google decides to launch an auction website, it'd be a real bloodbath, because Ebay is nothing without it's famously massive traffic, much of with it has to buy.
I suspect that they have an agreement with Google that prevents Google from implementing a simple competitor in the auction space.
What happens if Ebay boycotts Google? We'll get less "buy used baby's from Ebay" spam. That's it.
I have no problem with the "series of tubes" definition. It's pretty accurate. Tubes are fixed in capacity, as are most Internet links. However, there is only one Internet.;-)
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Yahoo IM Translator
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Well, that's exactly what happened.
No Privacy Implications Since It Resides Locally
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Cool idea but, wow, that means they'll have a copy of every careless comment you make while chatting. That's one more entity that one has to trust on the Internet.
UPDATED: I noticed that one can download a local version so this is not an issue. Very nice find and thanks for sharing.
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So how many copies of TIME magazine did Bill Gates have to buy to qualify as this year's "Person of the Year"? And how many CDs did he have to buy in order to get the free association with Bono?
What makes the Telecom markets (apart from the Internet) different from most markets is the fixed spectrum and high capital costs which limit the number of companies that can provide national telecom services at any given point in time to just a handful. So the presure to keep prices low to prevent new entrants from coming in to take your market share away is just not there.
On systems like the Internet that allow for very free competition, customers pay less for more without any need for government regulation whatsoever.
Anyone who can access the code for your web application can read the decryption key for an encrypted database. So I am not sure that data encryption a very useful feature in relational databases.
Is there really anyone who would prefer to watch TV using heavy goggles just to get the 3D effect? I am not so sure.
So many ideas that are 'cool' but don't solve actual problems get funded, while research in say efficient worldwide distribution of food or eradication of malaria get stiffled, despite being much more useful.
I think, looking at the history of the way Microsoft operates, what will happen is that after they notice that many corporate Windows 2000 users are beginning to think of switching to Firefox, they will annouunce that IE7 will be available on Windows 2000 also!
I think what they're doing is trying to see if they can get companies to upgrade to WIndows XP by tying IE7, the 'great improvement browser', to XP. But if the decision is actually hurting them, Microsoft has shown their willingness to change their minds!
The Kenshin cartoon series features a Japanese Battousai who has decided to live in peace and be a protector of the weak. Very humourous at times and lots of moves to incorporate in a game.
May be linked to the Release of Star Wars 3, any action against movie download sites at this time could be. Very great the financial impact of piracy on this particular film could be, therefore criticize the Feds for doing this now, we cannot.
Open source principles on Open source movies should be applied. A commercial movie Star Wars is, and benefit from the Piracy is cannot, because knows about it everyone does already.
Typing "Kicking and Screaming" indeed brings out the movie review link, but typing another movie (e.g. 'Closer') does not, unless you include the "movie:" operator (that is, search for "movie:Closer").
I wonder why this is so but, oh well, Google is all-wise!
What strikes me is that the idea of "pooling information" isn't really new. When one yahoo-mail/HotMail/Gmail user marks a particular mailing as spam, it affects the likelihood that the same email would be marked as spam for other yahoo users. So, the idea of "pooling information about spam" (from article) is already in use!
However, it would be nice to create explicit protocols to allow such data (what mailings I have marked as spam) to be made public so that people using other email providers or their own mail servers can share in this pool of knowledge.
Of course, the big three email providers (yahoo mail, hotmail, and gmail) will be foolish to make this information public: the spam filtering is one thing that makes a yahoo/gmail account more attractive to potential users!
Good idea in theory, but bad business prospects. To add insult to injury, there is no way for the researchers to profit from the arrangement.
This is a sign of what supporters of Open Source have been saying - that real companies are getting real value by using open source.
It is cheaper for them to pay for a feature to be added to some open source software than to have proprietary software developed to their specifications.
Licenses like GPL make it compulsory for those companies to contribute those changes back to the community, but unless you're in the software business this is really not a disadvantage at all.
Open source lets you pay less to get the features you need and *still* reap the Public Relations benefits of having "contributed to the community". Sounds like a CEO's dream!
By offering the use their servers as a proxy they are able to get collect more accurate information about what sites you visit, outside the google network. If a search result results in visiting a site and you viewmore pages on that site it is probably more useful! By "speeding up" your experience they are giving us yet another reason to ignore privacy issues and trust them
Overall, an interesting move by Google. They seem to be taking all the right steps now that they are public! (GMail, etc)
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Interesting changes with Apache 2.0.54:
- Add a build script to create a Solaris package.
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You're wrong because:
1) People won't work so hard if they won't be able to pass on the proceeds of their labor to their families when they die.
2) If products become free to exploit when the author dies, then many authors will be killed by mafia types, of course.
Hmmm. I wonder if there's a criminal aspect to this. Do repeat convicts in the US have less d2 receptors on average? People who have been arrested more than once and continue to commit petty crimes?
AMD rose to this position primarily because they didn't make Intel's mistakes - trying to force a new CPU architecture on the market (Itanium) instead of incrementally developing the X86 line, and focusing on clock-speed (P4) at the expense of performance per watt. Now that Intel is focused on performance per watt, AMD needs to find a new differentiator for their chips.
Perhaps they should start thinking about how to integrate a high quality Vista-capable GPU into their processors? (afterall they acquired ATI). How about sound cards, USB ports, et cetera. If they can fit 90% of a typical motherboard into the processor and usher in a new era of affordable and efficient computers while intel is busy playing with 64-core chips, why not?
The future Microsoft wants to bury the current Microsoft. Hmm, that's just about right. The universe is pleased.
Google's search engine is what gives them lots of traffic. Not just traffic, but traffic whose desires are known. I think search is central to their business, although of course web advertising IS their business. The problem Ebay has with respect to Google is that Google can capture Ebay's potential customers before they have the chance to visit ebay.com. Google can capture them while they are doing their research, which is when they usually clicked those Ebay ads anyway.
This is so obvious - I've personally wondered why 1CCD sensors they don't have a fourth pixel group to carry brightness information only. There must be good reasons why this has not been done before now; I hope we get to find out why.
Knowing how much traffic Google drives through search and Adwords, this move by Ebay is nothing but suicide. It's a good thing - for Ebay - that Google has decided to back down.
Ebay is in a bad position, really, because they don't drive their own traffic. If Google decides to launch an auction website, it'd be a real bloodbath, because Ebay is nothing without it's famously massive traffic, much of with it has to buy.
I suspect that they have an agreement with Google that prevents Google from implementing a simple competitor in the auction space.
What happens if Ebay boycotts Google? We'll get less "buy used baby's from Ebay" spam. That's it.
I have no problem with the "series of tubes" definition. It's pretty accurate. Tubes are fixed in capacity, as are most Internet links. However, there is only one Internet. ;-)
Oh my God, Google really has become Microsoft. What's next? Google Mice?
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Well, that's exactly what happened.
Cool idea but, wow, that means they'll have a copy of every careless comment you make while chatting. That's one more entity that one has to trust on the Internet.
UPDATED: I noticed that one can download a local version so this is not an issue. Very nice find and thanks for sharing.
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My News Satire
That comment by me was actually quite unfair to Bill.
So how many copies of TIME magazine did Bill Gates have to buy to qualify as this year's "Person of the Year"? And how many CDs did he have to buy in order to get the free association with Bono?
What makes the Telecom markets (apart from the Internet) different from most markets is the fixed spectrum and high capital costs which limit the number of companies that can provide national telecom services at any given point in time to just a handful. So the presure to keep prices low to prevent new entrants from coming in to take your market share away is just not there.
On systems like the Internet that allow for very free competition, customers pay less for more without any need for government regulation whatsoever.
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My New Blog
Anyone who can access the code for your web application can read the decryption key for an encrypted database. So I am not sure that data encryption a very useful feature in relational databases.
PVRs are the way to go for TV entertainment. If Apple can become the king in this area, they'll make an awful lot of money. ooking forward to it.
Is there really anyone who would prefer to watch TV using heavy goggles just to get the 3D effect? I am not so sure. So many ideas that are 'cool' but don't solve actual problems get funded, while research in say efficient worldwide distribution of food or eradication of malaria get stiffled, despite being much more useful.
I think, looking at the history of the way Microsoft operates, what will happen is that after they notice that many corporate Windows 2000 users are beginning to think of switching to Firefox, they will annouunce that IE7 will be available on Windows 2000 also!
I think what they're doing is trying to see if they can get companies to upgrade to WIndows XP by tying IE7, the 'great improvement browser', to XP. But if the decision is actually hurting them, Microsoft has shown their willingness to change their minds!
The Kenshin cartoon series features a Japanese Battousai who has decided to live in peace and be a protector of the weak. Very humourous at times and lots of moves to incorporate in a game.
May be linked to the Release of Star Wars 3, any action against movie download sites at this time could be. Very great the financial impact of piracy on this particular film could be, therefore criticize the Feds for doing this now, we cannot. Open source principles on Open source movies should be applied. A commercial movie Star Wars is, and benefit from the Piracy is cannot, because knows about it everyone does already.
Typing "Kicking and Screaming" indeed brings out the movie review link, but typing another movie (e.g. 'Closer') does not, unless you include the "movie:" operator (that is, search for "movie:Closer").
I wonder why this is so but, oh well, Google is all-wise!
What strikes me is that the idea of "pooling information" isn't really new. When one yahoo-mail/HotMail/Gmail user marks a particular mailing as spam, it affects the likelihood that the same email would be marked as spam for other yahoo users. So, the idea of "pooling information about spam" (from article) is already in use! However, it would be nice to create explicit protocols to allow such data (what mailings I have marked as spam) to be made public so that people using other email providers or their own mail servers can share in this pool of knowledge. Of course, the big three email providers (yahoo mail, hotmail, and gmail) will be foolish to make this information public: the spam filtering is one thing that makes a yahoo/gmail account more attractive to potential users! Good idea in theory, but bad business prospects. To add insult to injury, there is no way for the researchers to profit from the arrangement.
This is a sign of what supporters of Open Source have been saying - that real companies are getting real value by using open source. It is cheaper for them to pay for a feature to be added to some open source software than to have proprietary software developed to their specifications. Licenses like GPL make it compulsory for those companies to contribute those changes back to the community, but unless you're in the software business this is really not a disadvantage at all. Open source lets you pay less to get the features you need and *still* reap the Public Relations benefits of having "contributed to the community". Sounds like a CEO's dream!
By offering the use their servers as a proxy they are able to get collect more accurate information about what sites you visit, outside the google network. If a search result results in visiting a site and you viewmore pages on that site it is probably more useful! By "speeding up" your experience they are giving us yet another reason to ignore privacy issues and trust them Overall, an interesting move by Google. They seem to be taking all the right steps now that they are public! (GMail, etc)
Interesting changes with Apache 2.0.54:
- Add a build script to create a Solaris package.
- (null)
- (null!)
(Changelog)
Well, at least Apache now supports Open Solaris!