This raises an interesting question about the value of ideas. Naively, one might guess that anyone with sufficiently good ideas for the Economist's future are a) already working there, b) already working for some other organization that will use them, or c) independent entrepreneurs, implementing their ideas themselves. However, there is a real possibility that forward-thinking people do exist outside those categories, and who are perfectly willing and able to articulate their ideas to others in an actionable way.
From the Economist's standpoint, however, creating an "innovation group" seems misguided. You can't *cause* innovation and creativity; you can only *allow* it to happen on its own. This occurs through maximal exposure to atypical influences, such as books, activities, people, and entertainment that one might not ordinarily choose. This, in fact, is how the brain grows -- by forming new synaptic pathways among its neurons.
The Economist, or any organization, can best innovate by encouraging *all* its employees to, in the course of their ordinary work, occasionally take a moment to submit to management their views of how the organization's processes or other aspects can be improved, as it occurs to them. Good management must know how to create this culture. Everyone can be an innovator.
If you step back a few feet, SMTP and the various IM protocols are basically the same thing. Just because one is preceived to be handled closer to real-time than the other does not make them legally different. If I sent a message from one Gmail account to another, would that not still be "e-mail", even though no SMTP was likely involved?
I would be not at all surprised if this legislation were promoted by a server-manufacturing company to give itself an artificial marketing advantage in this hyper-competitive market.
Also, it doesn't seem possible to make one brand of server more energy efficient than another of equivalent spec. The components used all have the same power consumption, within a small deviation. Desktop PC's and monitors can use lower power only by strategically shutting down unused components, but a server must be always available. The only thing I can think of is *maybe* throttling CPU speed, as done in laptops, but how much savings would there be compared to the extra cost of complexity?
Assuming we're talking about America, what you're talking about is becoming a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier). The idea is you rent the ILEC's copper pairs and provide your own DSL/phone service. Companies do this all the time... what's the question?
Perl is like my ex-girlfriend... I used to be all over her^H^H^Hit but am now fawning over the knockout redhead Ruby. Unfortunately, I had several children with my ex that still need to be cared for -- feature improvements, bugfixes, restarts. Hopefully one day they'll grow up and leave the house so Ruby can have me all to herself.
Capital One, and everyone else, should either links to the company's known homepage, or to an https:/// address. This way, the end-user can easily verify the link's legitimacy. There is no reason for Capital One to send their e-mails' links through the bfi0.com domain.
This doesn't talk about using the browser's native back/forward buttons, as I inferred from the summary. It just creates fake back/forward buttons within the application, and maintains a history stack. Move along, nothing to see here...
I think this is likely due to the recent popularity of using.NET for development. I can't see ISP's "dropping" Linux, as the summary states. Likely they're just adding Windows servers.
The vast majority of virtual hosting is done using Apache, and most domains don't have SSL support. The SSL stat may get us closer to counting the number of IP's using the two packages, rather than just the number of domains.
because they often use kernel hooks to avoid detection
Um, how about making it possible to DISABLE ADDING KERNEL HOOKS? There should at least be a reliable way to get a list of all currently-running kernel hooks, if there's not already.
Why is it even necessary to have a larger-format disk? I would think that if movies were simply encoded using something more advanced than MPEG-2, such as MPEG-4 or H.323, and new players came out to support this, that you could fit an HD movie on the current 8+ GB dual-layer discs. Perhaps not?
I think the idea of the service provider determining whose e-mails get displayed how is fundamentally wrong. The user should decide for himself whose images and links he wants to have available, via a "Turn Images On" button, just like all other current e-mail clients. Even if a sender is "legitimate", who's to say I wouldn't want their images off by default?
The linked site claims the Set-Cookie header is "considered insecure":
The Set-Cookie header (which is one of the ten most-used headers) is present on about two orders of magnitude more pages than the Set-Cookie2 header (despite the former being considered insecure).
After glancing over the RFC for Set-Cookie2, I can't see where it says Set-Cookie is "insecure". Google turns up nothing useful. Does anybody know more about this?
A 500-person company I know uses a Sidewinder firewall for enterprise use, and Checkpoint FW-1 appliances from Nortel for a serverfarm. Both are very stable, capable, and fast. To my understanding, the Sidewinder is used by a lot of DoD installations.
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This raises an interesting question about the value of ideas. Naively, one might guess that anyone with sufficiently good ideas for the Economist's future are a) already working there, b) already working for some other organization that will use them, or c) independent entrepreneurs, implementing their ideas themselves. However, there is a real possibility that forward-thinking people do exist outside those categories, and who are perfectly willing and able to articulate their ideas to others in an actionable way.
From the Economist's standpoint, however, creating an "innovation group" seems misguided. You can't *cause* innovation and creativity; you can only *allow* it to happen on its own. This occurs through maximal exposure to atypical influences, such as books, activities, people, and entertainment that one might not ordinarily choose. This, in fact, is how the brain grows -- by forming new synaptic pathways among its neurons.
The Economist, or any organization, can best innovate by encouraging *all* its employees to, in the course of their ordinary work, occasionally take a moment to submit to management their views of how the organization's processes or other aspects can be improved, as it occurs to them. Good management must know how to create this culture. Everyone can be an innovator.
Well, not quite -- AJAX is a client-server technology. Looks like now we've got the best of both worlds.
> PHP 5 In Practice
Way shorter book summary:
Don't.
> Now if we could only reply the same way.
You can, with USPS's (US Postal Service) NetPost service
If you step back a few feet, SMTP and the various IM protocols are basically the same thing. Just because one is preceived to be handled closer to real-time than the other does not make them legally different. If I sent a message from one Gmail account to another, would that not still be "e-mail", even though no SMTP was likely involved?
Those who can, do.
Those who can't, teach.
Those who can't teach, write books.
What are these "ads" of which you speak? I know not this abberation...
> many are fed up with U.S. clients trying to continually lower prices
Well, yeah -- maybe they should've predicted that when they chose to *compete on price alone*...
Um it's called EFNet...
I would be not at all surprised if this legislation were promoted by a server-manufacturing company to give itself an artificial marketing advantage in this hyper-competitive market.
Also, it doesn't seem possible to make one brand of server more energy efficient than another of equivalent spec. The components used all have the same power consumption, within a small deviation. Desktop PC's and monitors can use lower power only by strategically shutting down unused components, but a server must be always available. The only thing I can think of is *maybe* throttling CPU speed, as done in laptops, but how much savings would there be compared to the extra cost of complexity?
Assuming we're talking about America, what you're talking about is becoming a CLEC (Competitive Local Exchange Carrier). The idea is you rent the ILEC's copper pairs and provide your own DSL/phone service. Companies do this all the time... what's the question?
Perl is like my ex-girlfriend... I used to be all over her^H^H^Hit but am now fawning over the knockout redhead Ruby. Unfortunately, I had several children with my ex that still need to be cared for -- feature improvements, bugfixes, restarts. Hopefully one day they'll grow up and leave the house so Ruby can have me all to herself.
Capital One, and everyone else, should either links to the company's known homepage, or to an https:/// address. This way, the end-user can easily verify the link's legitimacy. There is no reason for Capital One to send their e-mails' links through the bfi0.com domain.
This doesn't talk about using the browser's native back/forward buttons, as I inferred from the summary. It just creates fake back/forward buttons within the application, and maintains a history stack. Move along, nothing to see here...
I think this is likely due to the recent popularity of using .NET for development. I can't see ISP's "dropping" Linux, as the summary states. Likely they're just adding Windows servers.
> Ballmer Beaten by Spyware In Soviet Russia, you beat spyware!
Umm... H.264 is a video codec :)
The vast majority of virtual hosting is done using Apache, and most domains don't have SSL support. The SSL stat may get us closer to counting the number of IP's using the two packages, rather than just the number of domains.
Wouldn't it be simpler and more reliable to just lookup the keyword in a thesaurus?
because they often use kernel hooks to avoid detection
Um, how about making it possible to DISABLE ADDING KERNEL HOOKS? There should at least be a reliable way to get a list of all currently-running kernel hooks, if there's not already.
Why is it even necessary to have a larger-format disk? I would think that if movies were simply encoded using something more advanced than MPEG-2, such as MPEG-4 or H.323, and new players came out to support this, that you could fit an HD movie on the current 8+ GB dual-layer discs. Perhaps not?
I think the idea of the service provider determining whose e-mails get displayed how is fundamentally wrong. The user should decide for himself whose images and links he wants to have available, via a "Turn Images On" button, just like all other current e-mail clients. Even if a sender is "legitimate", who's to say I wouldn't want their images off by default?
A 500-person company I know uses a Sidewinder firewall for enterprise use, and Checkpoint FW-1 appliances from Nortel for a serverfarm. Both are very stable, capable, and fast. To my understanding, the Sidewinder is used by a lot of DoD installations.
Even easier than going to the history is the "Permanent Link" feature, found on the left side of articles.