And on the other end of the volume scale, Costco skims off the profitable customers who can and want to buy bulk. Costco also skims off any profitable sector it can simplify and remove from the traditional shop accoutrements around it, like tires. The Costco tire shop only does two things: sell tires and maintain tires. No other repair of any type.
Prices are not actually that great at Costco, but quality is assured. The quality at the dollar store is typically suspect. I remember some outrageous price for a cell phone charger at a Radio Shack. The clerk told me to go next door to the dollar store. It was a hope-for-the-best situation there. The Radio Shack is out of business though.
Both dollar stores and Costco are highly capitalized and can big-foot into new markets. They have that in common against locally owned retail. It's the scale of it that makes people nervous, not anti-capitalist ideology. No one doubts these entities give people what they want at the price/quality they more or less want, given the choices (which the companies help create).
1. The.com domains were $100 for two years. Previously they had been free. You registered by filling in a template and emailing it to NetSol, so it was certainly not newbie material though.
2. Time sharing servers went back to the 1960s of course, and university systems were right there at the transition from gopher to www in the early 1990's. We had a lab with NeXT desktop computers that could do it, easily. Commercially did you really have to rent a dedi? I would think you could purchase time sharing service, the same was university systems allocated to departmental labs.
Certainly by 1995 we had no problem finding an ISP with web hosting already configured for our new.com domain. They did try to rip us off on FTP charges, saying we'd stayed connected for days at a time. I sent them dial-up logs I somehow got from Compuserve saying we were offline! I won the credit card chargeback. I should have known there would be trouble with a company named after the villainous corporation in Blade Runner. They also ripped off our local school system's library with time charges.
3. Installing apache was not difficult, but yeah, it was not for the AOL / Compuserve / Geocities crowd.
4. True, web editors have never been good and still aren't. Netscape was just usable as an editor when it finally came along, and Dreamweaver wasn't much better, if you wanted clean code. Close those table tags!
5. Geocities began in 1995, so I guess my experience using a shared web hosting company that year is relevant. They were widespread by then, and we even made the mistake of preferring a local company. I suppose they had grown out of the old BBS companies from before the web? Who knows.
The session-handling has been a strong point from the beginning, or so I've read. It's certainly easy to use. I'd rather write in Perl or another language, but for web stuff PHP has the win. Despite all the crazy functions, it's solid. Upgrading is easy, modules all fit. Still some fatal errors that should be warnings.
FB was the probably the first site with a large audience that micro-target ads easy to buy even for very small buyers. It is relentless in pursuing advertising dollars rather than waiting for 1. Idea 2. ??? 3. Profit!
FB even pays outside firms for info on its users in order to strengthen its ability to sell targeted advertising, according to the author of "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech," a book by a well-known journalists published by Penguin, not some claptrap. It's not just selling intelligence on people, it's buying it, in order to make its position in the ad market even more unassailable.
Everybody who reads the paper knows about that. But Christie's term ends January 16, 2018, and it takes a 2/3 vote in the Senate to expel Menendez. https://www.politico.com/story...
Besides his father, or perhaps after his father got sick of it, seems it came down to one well-connected VC, "ex-Goldman Sachs", those who followed his advice, and his "54-metre mega-yacht." (Quoting TFA.)
Enduring mystery why there is almost no desktop alternative to Outlook or Apple Mail. I guess it's hard to monetize? Sure Gmail shows ads, but would peeps freak out if Thunderbird did that? Eudora did it .
When Mozilla made TB a volunteer project without paid developers in 2012*, in order to concentrate on the OS product, it was a sad day. TB and Seamonkey are still releasing, but I don't think they are addressing longstanding architectural choices such as the data files blobbing in the attachments like Outlook does. Just keeping up with the Mozilla core engine is tough enough. The Seamonkey "team" (more like a a couple of people) did get Windows builds and releases working again last autumn. Thanks to them! The messenger/calendar codebase benefits form having more than one end product: TB and SM.
* Then at the end of 2015 Mozilla said TB would have to find a new home at some point and decouple from the Firefox codebase. This could be quite dire, but TB has millions of users, and some smart people guiding it, and another do-gooder foundation on the horizon. http://forums.mozillazine.org/...
WP itself is not affected, they say. Plugins and themes of course are the wild card, if they email without using the WP wrappers. https://core.trac.wordpress.or...
Sounds like it was built like a tank to resist U-boats, and fitted with diesels sized for aircraft carriers. The Wikipedia page is worth a read. To fireproof it and save weight the Navy specified building the ballroom piano out of aluminum. Eventually they found a naturally fire resistant wood for the instrument.
The propellers are on display in museums already, and the interior was gutted and fixtures sold off long ago. Why the hull mods? Maybe the heavy compartmentalization required by the Navy still obstructs putting in big rooms???
If someone who had just read Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions came up to you and started talking about it, what would you say to deflate his or her excitement, as a crabby older person? I was thinking, that dominating grant funding games play some role deepening the science but also gumming up the revolutions? Especially in anything related to medicine, which also gets the whammy of body neuroses and extreme profit taking. I guess the critique is that Kuhn sees science too hermetically? How does ActUp's role in advancing HIV research play into it? Example or counter-example?
Stupid hype words in article abstracts seem like the least of our problems. Sort of like how pundits discuss politics. Really angry anti-pundits like in the Washington Monthly used to compare Washington to a tea party or the court at Versailles where the important thing is adhere to conventional wisdom in a form of etiquette and use the right phrases while ignoring the larger issues. But now tea party means something else and breaking the china does not seem so worthy.
Agree it's hard to read. Comments above here seemed to be missing the point that maybe something is needed to safeguard other trickier arithmetic operations.
Hannes seems to have a valid point that boundary checking should be standardized in some way. Rasmus backs him up and mentions the result of the rant is they'll end up discarding his more comprehensive work on the issue: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/l...
Linus seems to be saying all boundary checks should be ad-hoc because the new syntax is to hard to GET OFF OF HIS LAWN. Because it is dog poop.
Mozilla was blocking all Flash until the second update came out. The page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... clearly showed that. You could change it to from "disabled" to "ask to activate" if you chose to.
Chrome also updated today, but the bundled Flash player in Chrome is click-to-play by default. IE should do that with its bundled player. And Microsoft should use Windows Update to block the plugin player for old version of IE. And old Java in any browser, with an override available.
Win8.1 + ClassicShell is better than Win7. Obviously the Win8.1 UI is a joke, but ClassicShell fixes that, and for free. I never see the tile screen and "gestures" never happen.
The link to the actual report in TFA is broken, as it was on the Belgian commission's own site until a few moments ago. So here it is: http://www.privacycommission.b...
The recommendations for site owners is to enhance the cookie opt-in banner that you already see on European sites. A cookie for cookies! It's buried deep in the heavily enumerated document, so I'll quote it in full:
To Website Owners Relating to website owners or webmasters who wish to use the social plug-ins offered by Facebook, the Privacy Commission refers to its own-initiative recommendation on the use of cookies, in which it stipulates that owners must properly inform visitors of their website and obtain the latter's specific consent for cookies and other meta files of which they may not control re-use. In this context, the Privacy Commission refers to social networks, among others, and recommends that social network buttons are not activated until users have given their specific consent. The current integration possibilities of social plug-ins offered by Facebook, however, do not meet these criteria yet. For the time being, the Privacy Commission therefore recommends to use tools such as "Social Share Privacy" ( http://panzi.github.io/SocialS... ) as a way to obtain user consent. By using a tool such as "Social Share Privacy", third-party plug-ins do not connect to third-party servers (and consequently data are not sent to third parties) until users have clicked on the social plug-in.
Right, I think the fact that he waited until the last minute to claim it, using a lawyer, shows he didn't trust anyone. By waiting he probably was trying to prevent the lawyer from coming up with a plan to take the ticket.
Yep, from TFA: "The winning ticket went unclaimed for almost a year. Hours before it was scheduled to expire, a company incorporated in Belize tried to claim the prize through a New York attorney."
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I wonder if in earlier meanings of the phrase you might find some crossover with "lapidary."
And on the other end of the volume scale, Costco skims off the profitable customers who can and want to buy bulk. Costco also skims off any profitable sector it can simplify and remove from the traditional shop accoutrements around it, like tires. The Costco tire shop only does two things: sell tires and maintain tires. No other repair of any type.
Prices are not actually that great at Costco, but quality is assured. The quality at the dollar store is typically suspect. I remember some outrageous price for a cell phone charger at a Radio Shack. The clerk told me to go next door to the dollar store. It was a hope-for-the-best situation there. The Radio Shack is out of business though.
Both dollar stores and Costco are highly capitalized and can big-foot into new markets. They have that in common against locally owned retail. It's the scale of it that makes people nervous, not anti-capitalist ideology. No one doubts these entities give people what they want at the price/quality they more or less want, given the choices (which the companies help create).
Slight corrections.
1. The .com domains were $100 for two years. Previously they had been free. You registered by filling in a template and emailing it to NetSol, so it was certainly not newbie material though.
2. Time sharing servers went back to the 1960s of course, and university systems were right there at the transition from gopher to www in the early 1990's. We had a lab with NeXT desktop computers that could do it, easily. Commercially did you really have to rent a dedi? I would think you could purchase time sharing service, the same was university systems allocated to departmental labs.
Certainly by 1995 we had no problem finding an ISP with web hosting already configured for our new .com domain. They did try to rip us off on FTP charges, saying we'd stayed connected for days at a time. I sent them dial-up logs I somehow got from Compuserve saying we were offline! I won the credit card chargeback. I should have known there would be trouble with a company named after the villainous corporation in Blade Runner. They also ripped off our local school system's library with time charges.
3. Installing apache was not difficult, but yeah, it was not for the AOL / Compuserve / Geocities crowd.
4. True, web editors have never been good and still aren't. Netscape was just usable as an editor when it finally came along, and Dreamweaver wasn't much better, if you wanted clean code. Close those table tags!
5. Geocities began in 1995, so I guess my experience using a shared web hosting company that year is relevant. They were widespread by then, and we even made the mistake of preferring a local company. I suppose they had grown out of the old BBS companies from before the web? Who knows.
The session-handling has been a strong point from the beginning, or so I've read. It's certainly easy to use. I'd rather write in Perl or another language, but for web stuff PHP has the win. Despite all the crazy functions, it's solid. Upgrading is easy, modules all fit. Still some fatal errors that should be warnings.
(edit) ...made...
FB was the probably the first site with a large audience that micro-target ads easy to buy even for very small buyers. It is relentless in pursuing advertising dollars rather than waiting for 1. Idea 2. ??? 3. Profit!
FB even pays outside firms for info on its users in order to strengthen its ability to sell targeted advertising, according to the author of "World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech," a book by a well-known journalists published by Penguin, not some claptrap. It's not just selling intelligence on people, it's buying it, in order to make its position in the ad market even more unassailable.
Everybody who reads the paper knows about that. But Christie's term ends January 16, 2018, and it takes a 2/3 vote in the Senate to expel Menendez. https://www.politico.com/story...
As for the marketing people, who did quit en-mass when the place got unpleasant, the story reads just like season three of Silicon Valley
Besides his father, or perhaps after his father got sick of it, seems it came down to one well-connected VC, "ex-Goldman Sachs", those who followed his advice, and his "54-metre mega-yacht." (Quoting TFA.)
Enduring mystery why there is almost no desktop alternative to Outlook or Apple Mail. I guess it's hard to monetize? Sure Gmail shows ads, but would peeps freak out if Thunderbird did that? Eudora did it .
When Mozilla made TB a volunteer project without paid developers in 2012*, in order to concentrate on the OS product, it was a sad day. TB and Seamonkey are still releasing, but I don't think they are addressing longstanding architectural choices such as the data files blobbing in the attachments like Outlook does. Just keeping up with the Mozilla core engine is tough enough. The Seamonkey "team" (more like a a couple of people) did get Windows builds and releases working again last autumn. Thanks to them! The messenger/calendar codebase benefits form having more than one end product: TB and SM.
* Then at the end of 2015 Mozilla said TB would have to find a new home at some point and decouple from the Firefox codebase. This could be quite dire, but TB has millions of users, and some smart people guiding it, and another do-gooder foundation on the horizon. http://forums.mozillazine.org/...
WP itself is not affected, they say. Plugins and themes of course are the wild card, if they email without using the WP wrappers. https://core.trac.wordpress.or...
Sounds like it was built like a tank to resist U-boats, and fitted with diesels sized for aircraft carriers. The Wikipedia page is worth a read. To fireproof it and save weight the Navy specified building the ballroom piano out of aluminum. Eventually they found a naturally fire resistant wood for the instrument.
The propellers are on display in museums already, and the interior was gutted and fixtures sold off long ago. Why the hull mods? Maybe the heavy compartmentalization required by the Navy still obstructs putting in big rooms???
Then why can't they fit in Japanese, Korean and Chinese without trying to use the same characters?
If someone who had just read Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions came up to you and started talking about it, what would you say to deflate his or her excitement, as a crabby older person? I was thinking, that dominating grant funding games play some role deepening the science but also gumming up the revolutions? Especially in anything related to medicine, which also gets the whammy of body neuroses and extreme profit taking. I guess the critique is that Kuhn sees science too hermetically? How does ActUp's role in advancing HIV research play into it? Example or counter-example?
Stupid hype words in article abstracts seem like the least of our problems. Sort of like how pundits discuss politics. Really angry anti-pundits like in the Washington Monthly used to compare Washington to a tea party or the court at Versailles where the important thing is adhere to conventional wisdom in a form of etiquette and use the right phrases while ignoring the larger issues. But now tea party means something else and breaking the china does not seem so worthy.
Agree it's hard to read. Comments above here seemed to be missing the point that maybe something is needed to safeguard other trickier arithmetic operations.
Hannes seems to have a valid point that boundary checking should be standardized in some way. Rasmus backs him up and mentions the result of the rant is they'll end up discarding his more comprehensive work on the issue: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/l...
Linus seems to be saying all boundary checks should be ad-hoc because the new syntax is to hard to GET OFF OF HIS LAWN. Because it is dog poop.
Same for Limit Login Attempts, by my testing.
Mozilla was blocking all Flash until the second update came out. The page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/... clearly showed that. You could change it to from "disabled" to "ask to activate" if you chose to.
Chrome also updated today, but the bundled Flash player in Chrome is click-to-play by default. IE should do that with its bundled player. And Microsoft should use Windows Update to block the plugin player for old version of IE. And old Java in any browser, with an override available.
Win8.1 + ClassicShell is better than Win7. Obviously the Win8.1 UI is a joke, but ClassicShell fixes that, and for free. I never see the tile screen and "gestures" never happen.
The link to the actual report in TFA is broken, as it was on the Belgian commission's own site until a few moments ago. So here it is:
http://www.privacycommission.b...
The recommendations for site owners is to enhance the cookie opt-in banner that you already see on European sites. A cookie for cookies! It's buried deep in the heavily enumerated document, so I'll quote it in full:
Split the password in two.
Urchin would be suspicious and buy one for himself too. Then he'd get to split the jackpot.
I doubt it has a catch-up feature to make a quota. Just random odds, same luck every time. If that's not working, they know something is really wrong.
Right, I think the fact that he waited until the last minute to claim it, using a lawyer, shows he didn't trust anyone. By waiting he probably was trying to prevent the lawyer from coming up with a plan to take the ticket.
Yep, from TFA: "The winning ticket went unclaimed for almost a year. Hours before it was scheduled to expire, a company incorporated in Belize tried to claim the prize through a New York attorney."