It will change because in 2 years Excel and Word will be web-based, with the same user experience for 95% of users as desktop applications- except that it will be easier to share documents.
China does not have a lot of regard for intellectual property, and this is to their competitive advantage. While Eolas and NTPs will continue destroying few remaining north american companies that actually MAKE products, China and India will develop new software and hardware without patents.
Nah, the formula is right E=mc^2, except the mass m is the RELATIVISTIC mass, defined as m_0/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2). m_0 here is the mass of the body at rest.
But indeed, the rest mass m_0 is a better quantity to use.
See for example
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/S R/mass.html
We run 10 server with 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, with loads in 1.7 - 4.3 range during most of the days. The servers run non-standard communications servers.
They are perfectly stable. They were even stable under loads of 10.0 - although perfomance sucked.
Until best and cheapest CPUs are made by China, instead of AMD/Intel. Just like Hondas/Toyotas replaced Buicks.
With the current wisdom of MBA blueshirts, the United States will have to feed itself with Disney cartoons and T-bond paper, since the very basic manufacturing skills are being lost.
Linux niche is operating system for servers and workstations. Just as Microsoft and apple will never own server-side of the web, Linux will never be the major desktop/client OS.
I wrote "like wikipedia", so do not take it too literally. There are many websites that are very useful, but do not generate tons of money.
Look at Xanga.com for example. According to Alexa ranking, it's the 26th largest site on the internet, and it is by far the largest bloging site.
They send email notifications when their users message each other through the site. Their userbase is 16 years old on average, which means two things:
a) They make money, but not a LOT of money
b) These kids will never submit any MD5 hash stamps, unless ALL email clients comply and make it very easy for them , which will never happen.
I think you overestimate the intelligence of an average internet user, which I know from experience. Stamps, MD5 hashes will not do.
you have a shitty business model, outdated computers, and/or are probably a spamhaus.
I challenge you to come up with an idea for a site that will get 40000 subscriptions in 4 months. This is not taught in course 6...
Also, a website like Wikipedia does not have the greatest business model, but still needs to send emails. And it is a useful site.
The reality is, if you are indeed servicing a large userbase who is sending a legitimate volume of E-mail, it will be computationally trivial. As computationally trivial as doing a complicated DNS lookup or a simple MD5 rehash
Do you realize, that if it is trivial for me, it will be also trivial for spammers?
So if I am a small internet company that sends 10000 LEGIDIMATE notification emails per day to its happy users, I will have to buy many server just to "do a little work"? I am sure mail.yahoo.com can afford this, but I, as a guy running a site with 40000 users, cannot.
These smart measures from MIT will lock out small guys from making useful websites with several thousands users, and will leave internet to yahoo and msn.
yeah, I want an anonymous avatar that looks nothing like me. I kinda like the anonymous chat that this new thing some bloggers are using Chatango seems to have.
Nope, really successful people are not Yuppies. Those individuals are too distinct from each other to be hated as a class, anyway.
Yuppies however only pretend to be successful- they live in debt: mortgages, financing for their SUVs. And they are remarkably uniform in their imitation attempts- blue shirts, khaki pants, debt... Boring.
This law, as well as probably the seat belt law has been likely lobbied by the insurance companies to cut their incident payments.
Not that Yuppies do not work in those insurance companies- I hate them as much as you do:
I bought two nearly ideantical Sony Vaios (PCG-Z505LS and PCG-R505TS), hoping that,if one breaks, the other one will be working. No, wrong!
In two years, in the Z505LS internal power board had to be replaced, modem jack fell off, and Win 2000 "had bad interplay with VAIO hardware" (this is a quotation from MSFT Customer support).
In R505LS, hard drive broke, and firewire jack broke.
First computer has been sent to Sony Repair Center 3 times, second- two times. In all 5 cases, the turnover time was very long, and once the notebook arrived unrepaired, so it had to be re-sent.
Never again!
One can download music from T-Mobile hotspots at Starbucks. What will RIAA do? Shut down those hotspots? This would actually be good for free WiFi hotspots providers.
RIAA's main argument is that filesharing decreases the revenue of the musicians, thus leaving them without an incentive to create music.
Well, music is a form of Art (at least it used to be), and Art creation should not be driven by monetary reasons anyway. Art is created for aesthetic reasons, which are certainly beyond comprehension of most lawyers and business execs.
I wonder if J.S. Bach was calculating his cuts and potential revenues when composing his symphonies?
At the time when IEEE1394 was issued, the max cable length was 4.5m . Now there are many 10m cables. What is the actual maximum cable length for say 400Mbps? How does it compare with Gigabit Ethernet?
Well, when I was at MIT (93-on), the percentage of international graduate students (on visas) was between 35 and 40%, according to
http://web.mit.edu/alum/path-to-future/part1.ppt
Given the fact that many more were the children of the recent immigrants (with green cards, or recently naturalized US citizens), I would say that about 50% of all grad students there were born outside the US. So my perception is not that skewed.
Xenophobia is the sign of skewed perception however.
Have it occurred to you that it is the immigrants who made this country great?
Andy Grove, founders of eBay, PayPal, one of the Google founders- are all immigrants- and these companies gave jobs to thousands of Americans.
When I was at MIT, most of my friends were on F-1 visas- and this will be the pople who will create jobs here.
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It will change because in 2 years Excel and Word will be web-based, with the same user experience for 95% of users as desktop applications- except that it will be easier to share documents.
China does not have a lot of regard for intellectual property, and this is to their competitive advantage. While Eolas and NTPs will continue destroying few remaining north american companies that actually MAKE products, China and India will develop new software and hardware without patents.
Nah, the formula is right E=mc^2, except the mass m is the RELATIVISTIC mass, defined as m_0/sqrt(1-(v/c)^2). m_0 here is the mass of the body at rest. But indeed, the rest mass m_0 is a better quantity to use. See for example http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/S R/mass.html
We run 10 server with 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels, with loads in 1.7 - 4.3 range during most of the days. The servers run non-standard communications servers. They are perfectly stable. They were even stable under loads of 10.0 - although perfomance sucked.
A lot of cell carriers already have unlimited anytime US minutes plans (e.g. MetroPCS). Why would you want to couple cell phone with Skype???
I guess this is first step towards phone/SMS based payment system, directly tagreted at PayPal.
There's one - chatango.com, although it's flash i belive
Until best and cheapest CPUs are made by China, instead of AMD/Intel. Just like Hondas/Toyotas replaced Buicks.
With the current wisdom of MBA blueshirts, the United States will have to feed itself with Disney cartoons and T-bond paper, since the very basic manufacturing skills are being lost.
Linux niche is operating system for servers and workstations. Just as Microsoft and apple will never own server-side of the web, Linux will never be the major desktop/client OS.
since Firewire cord is too thick and stiff. USB cords are thinner, more common and more flexible. That's all that matters to many consumers.
I did overestimate the intelligence of one particular Internet user, however.
Your own?
I wrote "like wikipedia", so do not take it too literally. There are many websites that are very useful, but do not generate tons of money. Look at Xanga.com for example. According to Alexa ranking, it's the 26th largest site on the internet, and it is by far the largest bloging site. They send email notifications when their users message each other through the site. Their userbase is 16 years old on average, which means two things:
a) They make money, but not a LOT of money
b) These kids will never submit any MD5 hash stamps, unless ALL email clients comply and make it very easy for them , which will never happen.
I think you overestimate the intelligence of an average internet user, which I know from experience. Stamps, MD5 hashes will not do.
you have a shitty business model, outdated computers, and/or are probably a spamhaus.
I challenge you to come up with an idea for a site that will get 40000 subscriptions in 4 months. This is not taught in course 6... Also, a website like Wikipedia does not have the greatest business model, but still needs to send emails. And it is a useful site.
The reality is, if you are indeed servicing a large userbase who is sending a legitimate volume of E-mail, it will be computationally trivial. As computationally trivial as doing a complicated DNS lookup or a simple MD5 rehash
Do you realize, that if it is trivial for me, it will be also trivial for spammers?
So if I am a small internet company that sends 10000 LEGIDIMATE notification emails per day to its happy users, I will have to buy many server just to "do a little work"?
I am sure mail.yahoo.com can afford this, but I, as a guy running a site with 40000 users, cannot.
These smart measures from MIT will lock out small guys from making useful websites with several thousands users, and will leave internet to yahoo and msn.
yeah, I want an anonymous avatar that looks nothing like me. I kinda like the anonymous chat that this new thing some bloggers are using Chatango seems to have.
Nope, really successful people are not Yuppies. Those individuals are too distinct from each other to be hated as a class, anyway. Yuppies however only pretend to be successful- they live in debt: mortgages, financing for their SUVs. And they are remarkably uniform in their imitation attempts- blue shirts, khaki pants, debt... Boring.
This law, as well as probably the seat belt law has been likely lobbied by the insurance companies to cut their incident payments. Not that Yuppies do not work in those insurance companies- I hate them as much as you do:
That's right, plus they are losing the transaction costs.
The original comment does not make sence.
I bought two nearly ideantical Sony Vaios (PCG-Z505LS and PCG-R505TS), hoping that ,if one breaks, the other one will be working. No, wrong!
In two years, in the Z505LS internal power board had to be replaced, modem jack fell off, and Win 2000 "had bad interplay with VAIO hardware" (this is a quotation from MSFT Customer support).
In R505LS, hard drive broke, and firewire jack broke.
First computer has been sent to Sony Repair Center 3 times, second- two times. In all 5 cases, the turnover time was very long, and once the notebook arrived unrepaired, so it had to be re-sent.
Never again!
One can download music from T-Mobile hotspots at Starbucks. What will RIAA do? Shut down those hotspots? This would actually be good for free WiFi hotspots providers.
RIAA's main argument is that filesharing decreases the revenue of the musicians, thus leaving them without an incentive to create music. Well, music is a form of Art (at least it used to be), and Art creation should not be driven by monetary reasons anyway. Art is created for aesthetic reasons, which are certainly beyond comprehension of most lawyers and business execs. I wonder if J.S. Bach was calculating his cuts and potential revenues when composing his symphonies?
At the time when IEEE1394 was issued, the max cable length was 4.5m . Now there are many 10m cables. What is the actual maximum cable length for say 400Mbps? How does it compare with Gigabit Ethernet?
Well, when I was at MIT (93-on), the percentage of international graduate students (on visas) was between 35 and 40%, according to http://web.mit.edu/alum/path-to-future/part1.ppt Given the fact that many more were the children of the recent immigrants (with green cards, or recently naturalized US citizens), I would say that about 50% of all grad students there were born outside the US. So my perception is not that skewed. Xenophobia is the sign of skewed perception however.
English language is a temporary phenomenon- just as Latin- they speak Italian in Rome now. Have it occured to you?
Have it occurred to you that it is the immigrants who made this country great? Andy Grove, founders of eBay, PayPal, one of the Google founders- are all immigrants- and these companies gave jobs to thousands of Americans. When I was at MIT, most of my friends were on F-1 visas- and this will be the pople who will create jobs here.