Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated that he believes the Microsoft-Novell relationship has been a success for both parties but is just part one of a grand strategy to further cement Microsoft's dominance. Building on that success, Microsoft will now take that strategy to a whole new level: instead of just paying software vendors to not develop for Linux, Microsoft will now pay consumers to use Windows Vista. "It's a win-win for all of us." said CEO Ballmer.
Gardener analyst Robert Thompson agrees, "You want people to downgrade? You must pay."
"Third, "relevance" means picking results that match the users' needs. This conflicts with search engine operators that are being paid by advertisers to do the opposite.
A truly relevant shared agent would filter out all ads and click-through trap sites, and totally mess up the dynamic of the ad-supported Internet. No technology company is getting venture money to build a search agent application that does that. "
A very wise man once told me, you can make money either by generating value or transferring value. When are business people going to wise up to the fact that this world is not a zero sum game. You don't have to steal value from me to make money. This is why I use Google for my search and Amazon for my shopping. Amazon is incredibly good at recommending books for me. Their good track record brings me back to them. Likewise for Google. They're accurate and don't trick me into clicking something that I don't want so I come back to Google. There's real value to be generated by connecting people with what they actually need instead of tricking them and ripping them off.
"This involves dispatching mobile agents from one computer and delivering them to a remote computer for execution. A collaboration ISA might create ad hoc online meetings based on specified criteria, pick an optimum meeting host, and then set the meeting up for all invited users."
Most people are quite familiar with these "agents"; they're called viruses and spam-bots. Seriously, why do I need an agent to do that for me? This "idea" sounds like a solution looking for a problem. It's overly complicated. When I was a student in college, I actually studied and researched mobile devices and agents. In fact, my senior thesis project involved creating agents for mobile devices. What I realized was: 1. It's hard to build a really intelligent agent. 2. You can get the same benefit or even more benefit by making simple GUIs that allow the application's user own intelligence.
Seriously, for the problem he suggested, how hard would it be to look up you location with a GPS equiped phone and querying Google local for locations? The marginal value of using an agent for that is tiny, probably not worth the cost of developing one that's smart enough to do it as well as you can. Since the meeting is ad hoc anyways, you wouldn't be worried about scheduling conflicts or planning. Does the idea of planning an ad hoc meeting strike other people as contradictory?
"I can also envision teens having mobile collaborative agents like this to arrange "clump parties" where a location is picked for some social value but at random, and each attendee is given directions to get there."
"I mean, who wouldn't want to act on such valuable information if they were privy to a "sure thing" in the commodities markets?"
The sort of generous anonymous benefactors you would meet on the Internet? I mean it is Christmas after all. Maybe Scrooge has discovered a heart or the Nigerian scammers are out in full force to help pay for presents to their families.
I can't believe all the cynical responses from Slashdot readers. Why would you doubt the sincerity and generosity of the company found by the man who will donate $100 to an orphanage each time I forward his email to someone?
I've actually encountered Ham radio operators during my MS150 charity bike rides. The 150 stands for the distance (usually more) we ride over two days to raise money for research on multiple sclerosis. Along the way I remember seeing Ham radio operators at the various stops operating radios and coordinating the support for the riders. Most of the routes MS150 rides go through is just the country side far away from urban areas and when a rider needs help or is injured, you need a reliable form of communication. Imagine going down 80 miles from the nearest city with no cellphone reception. I am thankful to have them volunteer for the events.
"But we treat them far better than any other military would treat them."
Sure if they were actually all guilty but the problem is that most of them have never been on trial and their guilt have never been established. We already know of cases where some of them were found to be innocent and released after losing a few years of their lives in prison for nothing. Throwing someone in a county prison for years without trial isn't exactly being merciful.
Sure he can sue OLPC in an American court but we should require a large sum of good faith money first sent via Western Union. And if he wins, OLPC should pay him some insane amount above the judgment using a check and ask for the difference back in cash or via Western Union.
You joke but I've phone interviewed someone and asked him, "What are some ways of reusing code or implementation?" Inheritance or composition would have been okay. In fact, a lot of answers are acceptable.
Yale Law is one of the smallest in this country and very selective. Their philosophy is also different from Harvard. They place a great deal of value on public service with strengths in constitutional law and focus on human rights. This is why the school produces quite a few politicians and judges: the Clintons, Gerald Ford, justices Alito and Thomas, and Michael Mukasey.
I don't presume to know the Russian people but I do know that there were Americans involved in the democratization of Russia under Yeltsin who took advantage of the situation to enrich themselves. So I know the story from the American side at least. I can only presume that it made some Russians very unhappy and feeling exploited. If you want to enlighten me on the Russian perspective of the events, please do so. Love to learn more.
I think people like us who grew up in democracies and know of nothing but that don't really understand the mentality of those who didn't. The older generation of my family, who grew up in China, would prefer a strong Chinese leadership that can provide security over democracy any day. If they were going to be ruled by a dictator, they would rather it be a Chinese dictator. They don't want their country to be weak and exploited by foreigners. If they're going to be exploited, it's far better for one of their own to do it. The same thing can be applied to Iraq and other former totalitarian countries like Russia. In order for democracy to take hold, you have to show the people that the alternatives aren't between who gets to exploit you but between being exploited or not. The way some westerners screwed over Russia after the fall of the USSR wasn't the best of that. It left a bitter taste in their mouths.
"Cattle can graze on unirrigated badlands where crop lands are impractical."
The problem with your argument is that in reality the vast, vast majority of cows are raised on flat land and are fed corn instead of grass. As a rule of thumb, for each step you go up in the food pyramid, only 10% of energy is retained. Putting cows between a person and the vegetable (corn in this case) simply adds inefficiency in the energy transfer. So instead of feeding 10 vegetarians, you're now feeding 1 meat eater. Your argument would hold more water IF cows were free to range on land that's not suitable for farming instead of being force feed corn.
On one hand, I find your literary analysis of the role of ewoks to be valid and very impressive. On the other hand, I can't help but think that you just took Star Wars to a whole new extreme.
so I consider myself to be at the extreme edge of the group who can claim Star Wars as part of their childhood.
After reading your essay, there is no doubt in my mind that is true.
The funny thing with "national security" is that they can read all your emails but you can't see any of theirs, even though our Constitution states otherwise. Well it's only a "goddamn piece of paper".
Rainbow tables won't help you get the old message back since pretty much by definition or pigeonhole theorem there is more than one plaintext that can generate the same hash. Breaking a hash algorithm usually involves finding a plaintext that generates the specific hash, thus fooling the victim into thinking that plaintext was the original one.
Or imagine this: you have a simple hash function that takes all the letters in a message, turns them into number based on their place in the alphabet, and adds them up to generate the sum. If that sum goes over 10,000 then it would do a mod 10,000 to wrap it around. There's an infinite number of plaintexts that can generate the exact same hash based on this hash algorithm. However, what you can never do is figure out which specific one generated it.
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Well the obvious answer for the UK then is to produce less goods until they are in fact 17th in GDP.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated that he believes the Microsoft-Novell relationship has been a success for both parties but is just part one of a grand strategy to further cement Microsoft's dominance. Building on that success, Microsoft will now take that strategy to a whole new level: instead of just paying software vendors to not develop for Linux, Microsoft will now pay consumers to use Windows Vista. "It's a win-win for all of us." said CEO Ballmer.
Gardener analyst Robert Thompson agrees, "You want people to downgrade? You must pay."
"Third, "relevance" means picking results that match the users' needs. This conflicts with search engine operators that are being paid by advertisers to do the opposite.
A truly relevant shared agent would filter out all ads and click-through trap sites, and totally mess up the dynamic of the ad-supported Internet. No technology company is getting venture money to build a search agent application that does that. "
A very wise man once told me, you can make money either by generating value or transferring value. When are business people going to wise up to the fact that this world is not a zero sum game. You don't have to steal value from me to make money. This is why I use Google for my search and Amazon for my shopping. Amazon is incredibly good at recommending books for me. Their good track record brings me back to them. Likewise for Google. They're accurate and don't trick me into clicking something that I don't want so I come back to Google. There's real value to be generated by connecting people with what they actually need instead of tricking them and ripping them off.
"This involves dispatching mobile agents from one computer and delivering them to a remote computer for execution. A collaboration ISA might create ad hoc online meetings based on specified criteria, pick an optimum meeting host, and then set the meeting up for all invited users."
Most people are quite familiar with these "agents"; they're called viruses and spam-bots. Seriously, why do I need an agent to do that for me? This "idea" sounds like a solution looking for a problem. It's overly complicated. When I was a student in college, I actually studied and researched mobile devices and agents. In fact, my senior thesis project involved creating agents for mobile devices. What I realized was:
1. It's hard to build a really intelligent agent.
2. You can get the same benefit or even more benefit by making simple GUIs that allow the application's user own intelligence.
Seriously, for the problem he suggested, how hard would it be to look up you location with a GPS equiped phone and querying Google local for locations? The marginal value of using an agent for that is tiny, probably not worth the cost of developing one that's smart enough to do it as well as you can. Since the meeting is ad hoc anyways, you wouldn't be worried about scheduling conflicts or planning. Does the idea of planning an ad hoc meeting strike other people as contradictory?
"I can also envision teens having mobile collaborative agents like this to arrange "clump parties" where a location is picked for some social value but at random, and each attendee is given directions to get there."
Uh... you mean flash mob?
The sort of generous anonymous benefactors you would meet on the Internet? I mean it is Christmas after all. Maybe Scrooge has discovered a heart or the Nigerian scammers are out in full force to help pay for presents to their families.
While we value lives, we also value the power and freedom to live our lives as we choose. Paternalism is condescending and degrading.
Porn's finally going main stream?
No, I didn't RTFM nor the summary.
And this is how we find out lawyers aren't born evil; they become evil by making really bad deals.
I can't believe all the cynical responses from Slashdot readers. Why would you doubt the sincerity and generosity of the company found by the man who will donate $100 to an orphanage each time I forward his email to someone?
I've actually encountered Ham radio operators during my MS150 charity bike rides. The 150 stands for the distance (usually more) we ride over two days to raise money for research on multiple sclerosis. Along the way I remember seeing Ham radio operators at the various stops operating radios and coordinating the support for the riders. Most of the routes MS150 rides go through is just the country side far away from urban areas and when a rider needs help or is injured, you need a reliable form of communication. Imagine going down 80 miles from the nearest city with no cellphone reception. I am thankful to have them volunteer for the events.
Sure if they were actually all guilty but the problem is that most of them have never been on trial and their guilt have never been established. We already know of cases where some of them were found to be innocent and released after losing a few years of their lives in prison for nothing. Throwing someone in a county prison for years without trial isn't exactly being merciful.
Sure he can sue OLPC in an American court but we should require a large sum of good faith money first sent via Western Union. And if he wins, OLPC should pay him some insane amount above the judgment using a check and ask for the difference back in cash or via Western Union.
Instead, he answered "uh... cut and paste?"
I just did the math. For the price of the Iraq war so far, we could have built this across the US.... twice.
Yale Law is one of the smallest in this country and very selective. Their philosophy is also different from Harvard. They place a great deal of value on public service with strengths in constitutional law and focus on human rights. This is why the school produces quite a few politicians and judges: the Clintons, Gerald Ford, justices Alito and Thomas, and Michael Mukasey.
I don't presume to know the Russian people but I do know that there were Americans involved in the democratization of Russia under Yeltsin who took advantage of the situation to enrich themselves. So I know the story from the American side at least. I can only presume that it made some Russians very unhappy and feeling exploited. If you want to enlighten me on the Russian perspective of the events, please do so. Love to learn more.
I think people like us who grew up in democracies and know of nothing but that don't really understand the mentality of those who didn't. The older generation of my family, who grew up in China, would prefer a strong Chinese leadership that can provide security over democracy any day. If they were going to be ruled by a dictator, they would rather it be a Chinese dictator. They don't want their country to be weak and exploited by foreigners. If they're going to be exploited, it's far better for one of their own to do it. The same thing can be applied to Iraq and other former totalitarian countries like Russia. In order for democracy to take hold, you have to show the people that the alternatives aren't between who gets to exploit you but between being exploited or not. The way some westerners screwed over Russia after the fall of the USSR wasn't the best of that. It left a bitter taste in their mouths.
The problem with your argument is that in reality the vast, vast majority of cows are raised on flat land and are fed corn instead of grass. As a rule of thumb, for each step you go up in the food pyramid, only 10% of energy is retained. Putting cows between a person and the vegetable (corn in this case) simply adds inefficiency in the energy transfer. So instead of feeding 10 vegetarians, you're now feeding 1 meat eater. Your argument would hold more water IF cows were free to range on land that's not suitable for farming instead of being force feed corn.
so I consider myself to be at the extreme edge of the group who can claim Star Wars as part of their childhood.
After reading your essay, there is no doubt in my mind that is true.
So you're saying what was chronicled in Starcraft is true? Mar Sara = Earth?
MSFT should rename Windows XP and Vista to Windows Classic and New Formula because they're pretty much getting the same reception.
I'm not sure if I should mod you flamebait, insightful, or funny. Well I guess it doesn't really matter now...
Whew, at least we're safe from the Cylons!
The funny thing with "national security" is that they can read all your emails but you can't see any of theirs, even though our Constitution states otherwise. Well it's only a "goddamn piece of paper".
I knew it! I knew Linux is going to sell out some day! I told you Linux is just as evil M$FT! Sold out to Walmart of all people.
*RTFA*
Oh. Good job, carry on.
Rainbow tables won't help you get the old message back since pretty much by definition or pigeonhole theorem there is more than one plaintext that can generate the same hash. Breaking a hash algorithm usually involves finding a plaintext that generates the specific hash, thus fooling the victim into thinking that plaintext was the original one.
Or imagine this: you have a simple hash function that takes all the letters in a message, turns them into number based on their place in the alphabet, and adds them up to generate the sum. If that sum goes over 10,000 then it would do a mod 10,000 to wrap it around. There's an infinite number of plaintexts that can generate the exact same hash based on this hash algorithm. However, what you can never do is figure out which specific one generated it.