Do 90% of users really need more information ? Most of my googlems (google problems) occur because I can't formulate the question properly - E.g., the other day I wanted to know what all the numbers on a plain old fashioned check are for; it took me 30 minutes, and I still never got an explanation of how the transit number ( the 3 part number upper right with a bar, not the aba number) works. So, rather then more info, we need the ever elusive electronic expert (or perhaps, starting in middle school, a class on searching - the most useful class i ever took in high school was typing).
Another big problem is redundant pages, which would only be made worse by more info - already, google does a lousy job of filtering similar content; e.g., if you look for a laboratory protocol for, say, how to make PBS buffer (don't ask) you will get hundreds of redundant pages,of widely varying quality, many of which are straight copies (unattributed of course)
My prediction: people were willing to pay experts (librarians, consultants) in the old analog digital days; they will pay for them again, once the model becomes clearer. I wd not be surprised if this is already happening on an ad hoc basis at the more savvy consulting, law and engineering firms - a full time search person is cost effective. Also, much of the technical web is proprietaty, for profit stuff - like the serious academic serial Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, several articles from this journal cost me (well my company) quite a lot. Of course, you can always postulate a major revolution in how this stuff gets publishec, but right now it is for profit.
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people with web sites with black background and light text, a design consistently cited in top ten lists of bad web design principles, are, in some sense, morons
There are more people trying to hack windows. This whole linux/windows security debate is theoretical and academic untill the linux hacker base = windows hacker base, and that won't happen untill the linux users = windows users. You can cite all the stanford studies on bugs/line of code you want, but untill linux is out in the real world, on hundreds of millions of pcs run by "ordinary" people, doing what ordinary people do - surf the web and download wierd stuff - no one can state iwth confidence that linux is more secure. Or, no one buys a computer for an OS - you buy a computer to do things, and the OS is irrelevant. (all u bsd flamers) The old guy boasts to the young man, I dont drink smoke or fool around, and I'm celebratin gmy 80th birthday tomorrow... Young man: how The point is, hacks only occur when you do fun stuff like surf the net and download screen savers..
Mr Gilmours's ability to speak without saying anything augurs well for the mainstream media he leaves behind; I read the interview and thought more mush from the wimp pretty appropriate..the guy blathered on without saying anything specific or substantistive
I'm so pleased some one else mentioned bikes. Years go (70s i think) CR ran a bike review, and then bicycling mag (still a real mag, before rodale toasted it) ran a critique... well, couple years later CR does another bike review, and waddya know, all the changes suggested by bicycling were in there..not that cr had the honesty to mention it. Does make you wonder how they can be experts in so many areas tho, does it not ? On the other hand, they are the only people who are ot whores (taking free products or products from advertisers) and they deserve a lot of respect and admiration.
maybe most people dont get them because the explanations in books are so bad. I have read the pivot talbe chapter in several well reviewed excel books, and the eplanations are dog poop.
"they've destroyed...trudst...list of crimes a mile long"
I will bet you dollars to donuts that 90% plus of users have no opinion of MS
I will bet you dollars to peanuts that a few 100 million of PR can make any crimminal into a loved figure..Look at the original, J D Rockefeller, more recently Archer Daniels Midland, etc
I mean, the american people almost elected G Bush in 2000 - u honestly think MS can't erase their memeories ?
Maybe MS has already recognized that the OS is a commodity product, and they don't care if linux succeeds. MAybe MS has already put the OS on a low priority, recognizing better ROI from office or integration of entertainment.
In the long run, all technology becomes a commodity, and only monopolies (att ) or truly exceptional companies (ibm) who can reinvent themselves. can command high prices for more then a few years. So, in that sense,the demise of MS is inevitable.
My dad always used to talk about the linotypers union: in the 40s and 50s, they were gods: nothing got printed without thier ok.
today ?
So there are these two hotshot scientist, malcom gefter at mit and irv weismmann at stanford, and they form this hotshot biotech company, immulogic, with oodles of venture capital money, to revolutionize clincial medicine, or at least the parts of medicine related to allergies and stuff like that. So they have this technology, and they look around, and they decide a "vaccine" (actually a tolerizing antigen stimulation for you cognocesnti) against cat allergies is the thing. They find, as the story goes, a lady living in an apt with a zillion or so cats. They go in their with vacumn cleaners from Sears, vacumn up everyting, take it back to their state of the art biotech facility...and a few months later, they show that it is a glycoprotein in cat saliva that is the actual allergen. They spend a little more (here little is in the 7 figure range) and get to a phase I clinical trial. Sadly, the vaccine does nothing, and ImmuLogic winds up on the dustbin of biotech history; the only thing ImmuLogic revolutionized was the scientist bank accounts.
for 20 yrs, geeks have been whining about MS bloat. I can see it has really hurt them.
Bloat whine is stupid. It is not a problem. If you have a highspeed connection, u can download a 20 meg file in - literally - a few minutes.
And as to all those geeks who are gonna whine about ram or HD storage - GET OVER IT !!!! nothing is cheaper them mem. I just got my kid a new emachines computer with 160 gig hardrive and 512 ram, under 600 bucks with dvd burner - an d i know a lot of/.s cd do better.
Geeks - listen up !! do u know why MS is succesfull ? becasue of bloat !!! Yes !!! people want features, the more the better, I mean a duh, isnt features why u buuy a computer ??
As 2 FF displacing IE - there is a small problem: ff does not work as well as IE, at least based on my statistical sample of 3 machines. All it takes is ONE failed bank transaction, and FF will be toast - that is the thing about MS: they are the only people with a monopoly posistion, and thus the only people who can survive a failure.
I am a very liberal new yorker who gets the times every day at home. And if you read the technology section, in the thursday paper, you will quickly come to the conclusion that this most august of american journalistic institutions does not know its head from its elbow when it comes to comsumer electornics. ONe can only hope the editorial board is better informed.
there are so many problems with yr argument.. but basically, they assume a zero sum game, which implies a closed system; but the system is not closed, as we have something called progress..
How many drs in your commmunity have had their license revoked in the last year ? how many doctors fail annual req prof testing ?
Although the pay and priveliges have declined recently, drs are one of, if not the, mosthighly compensated and priveliged group of employees in this country. They have to earn that pay and privelige and status, and not policing each other does not help.
Is 40K a lot ? since malpractice lawsuits are, in this benighted country, the only way a seriously malformed baby can have any security, your malpractice premium, in essence, reflects the cost or what shd be a national social security cost. YOur premium works out to around ~ 0.5 - 1 kilobuck per baby. Assuming it takes 500,000 dollars to take care of a seriously malformed baby, and due to the overhead of private insurance companies (funny, never hear the ama runing ads about that) that seems pretty reasonable.
I meaqn 500 dollars for insurance on something that can affect the rest of a persons life ? why is that high ? Unless you can show that that money is being mis-spent, you can't complain.
oh, and alot of late nights..what on earth did u expect in ob/gyn ? u wanted 9/5, shd have gone into derm or radiol...YOu do not say how many hours you personally have in a birth..based on my (very biased )experinece, 2X, at a major boston teaching hospital (ok, not a rural practice) the Dr. does not spend that much time with a patient. Maybe your biz practices are outmoded and need to be rationalized.
Although it may sound strange, I don't think the jackpot mentality is unconnected with sky high excuetive pay and the stock market..people see what seem to be completely undersrving shits getting rich, its not hard 2 understand where the jackpot mentatlity comes from.
I have a phd in biotech, i've done genomics at mit, and work for a high teck biotech company. aside from being a total ahole, i know something, working in what is supposed to be a high tech field, genommics, about education, high tech jobs and outsoucing.
And let me tell you: at least in biotech, there is little we can do now that india and china can't and there will be nothing in 5 years.
In any event, this we can educate ourselves to better jobs to compete with 1$ an hour labor - I mean, get real, does that even pass the smell test ? Listen up folks: the chinese and indians are just as smart, just as educable, and probably a lot more hard working then we are. the idea that education will do anything to stop "outsorucing" is idiotic.
there is only one answer: raise their standard of living
has been concoted by doctors unwilling to police themselves, afew bad lawyers and cases, who out of hte millions, get overreported, and most of all, the GOP/right wing conspiracy to shift this country into a darwinian dog eat dog capitilist mode.
of an old story from a bygone era, when ibm tried to sell a home, multikilobuck version of the super hot at pc, and as an inducement, included cooking software with - hold on to your hats - 24 recipies.
Wow !
several hundred bucks for a dumb terminal with some storage ? sounds very $$ and complicated.
50 bucks, w/' 802.11g and hook it to yr tv for display, now yr talking.
I downloaded both python and ruby when I started thinking about learning how to program. I cd download and install correctly both languages on my Win2K OS laptop, but ruby had two things python did not: a really neat intro tutorial out of berkeley, and some sample progams (like abouncing red ball in a box) to play with. For kids learning to progam, this sort of basic hold your hand stuff is invaluable Based on this, ruby is better thought out. ON the other hand, I started to puke at all the ruby way stuff.
Sunday NewYorkTimes has the always wonderful Frank Rich , talking about how the Bushies have mounted a vast right wing govt attack on the media (e.g., chairman of Viacom, normally liberal sumner redstone, announcing he is for bush after fcc pressure..) Impression that Bush/GOP congress turned govt over to lobbyists on writing laws and regs... Possible state of emergency after vote fiascos again... There really is a vast right wing conspiracy, and this is part of it
What does it cost google to run this contest - peanuts for a large company. I imagine they own the code - and they get a lot of good pr. typical, harvard mbas running emotional circles around techies, the techies so stupid they don t even know they are being explotied
What an Honor !!
Can I quote you on that ?
I notice you don't disagree with my assessment - it is possible to be stuck up, arrogant and right (to bad our president does not fit in this catagory)
how could anyone get past the first few paragraphs ? his writing is so prolix and boring and redundandt..no one who is such a bad wiriter could possibly have anything interesting to say
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Do 90% of users really need more information ? Most of my googlems (google problems) occur because I can't formulate the question properly - E.g., the other day I wanted to know what all the numbers on a plain old fashioned check are for; it took me 30 minutes, and I still never got an explanation of how the transit number ( the 3 part number upper right with a bar, not the aba number) works.
So, rather then more info, we need the ever elusive electronic expert (or perhaps, starting in middle school, a class on searching - the most useful class i ever took in high school was typing).
Another big problem is redundant pages, which would only be made worse by more info - already, google does a lousy job of filtering similar content; e.g., if you look for a laboratory protocol for, say, how to make PBS buffer (don't ask) you will get hundreds of redundant pages,of widely varying quality, many of which are straight copies (unattributed of course)
My prediction: people were willing to pay experts (librarians, consultants) in the old analog digital days; they will pay for them again, once the model becomes clearer. I wd not be surprised if this is already happening on an ad hoc basis at the more savvy consulting, law and engineering firms - a full time search person is cost effective.
Also, much of the technical web is proprietaty, for profit stuff - like the serious academic serial Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, several articles from this journal cost me (well my company) quite a lot. Of course, you can always postulate a major revolution in how this stuff gets publishec, but right now it is for profit.
people with web sites with black background and light text, a design consistently cited in top ten lists of bad web design principles, are, in some sense, morons
There are more people trying to hack windows. This whole linux/windows security debate is theoretical and academic untill the linux hacker base = windows hacker base, and that won't happen untill the linux users = windows users.
You can cite all the stanford studies on bugs/line of code you want, but untill linux is out in the real world, on hundreds of millions of pcs run by "ordinary" people, doing what ordinary people do - surf the web and download wierd stuff - no one can state iwth confidence that linux is more secure. Or, no one buys a computer for an OS - you buy a computer to do things, and the OS is irrelevant.
(all u bsd flamers)
The old guy boasts to the young man, I dont drink smoke or fool around, and I'm celebratin gmy 80th birthday tomorrow...
Young man: how
The point is, hacks only occur when you do fun stuff like surf the net and download screen savers..
Mr Gilmours's ability to speak without saying anything augurs well for the mainstream media he leaves behind; I read the interview and thought more mush from the wimp pretty appropriate..the guy blathered on without saying anything specific or substantistive
I'm so pleased some one else mentioned bikes. Years go (70s i think) CR ran a bike review, and then bicycling mag (still a real mag, before rodale toasted it) ran a critique... well, couple years later CR does another bike review, and waddya know, all the changes suggested by bicycling were in there..not that cr had the honesty to mention it.
Does make you wonder how they can be experts in so many areas tho, does it not ?
On the other hand, they are the only people who are ot whores (taking free products or products from advertisers) and they deserve a lot of respect and admiration.
maybe most people dont get them because the explanations in books are so bad. I have read the pivot talbe chapter in several well reviewed excel books, and the eplanations are dog poop.
"they've destroyed...trudst...list of crimes a mile long" I will bet you dollars to donuts that 90% plus of users have no opinion of MS I will bet you dollars to peanuts that a few 100 million of PR can make any crimminal into a loved figure..Look at the original, J D Rockefeller, more recently Archer Daniels Midland, etc I mean, the american people almost elected G Bush in 2000 - u honestly think MS can't erase their memeories ?
Maybe MS has already recognized that the OS is a commodity product, and they don't care if linux succeeds. MAybe MS has already put the OS on a low priority, recognizing better ROI from office or integration of entertainment. In the long run, all technology becomes a commodity, and only monopolies (att ) or truly exceptional companies (ibm) who can reinvent themselves. can command high prices for more then a few years. So, in that sense,the demise of MS is inevitable. My dad always used to talk about the linotypers union: in the 40s and 50s, they were gods: nothing got printed without thier ok. today ?
So there are these two hotshot scientist, malcom gefter at mit and irv weismmann at stanford, and they form this hotshot biotech company, immulogic, with oodles of venture capital money, to revolutionize clincial medicine, or at least the parts of medicine related to allergies and stuff like that.
So they have this technology, and they look around, and they decide a "vaccine" (actually a tolerizing antigen stimulation for you cognocesnti) against cat allergies is the thing. They find, as the story goes, a lady living in an apt with a zillion or so cats. They go in their with vacumn cleaners from Sears, vacumn up everyting, take it back to their state of the art biotech facility...and a few months later, they show that it is a glycoprotein in cat saliva that is the actual allergen.
They spend a little more (here little is in the 7 figure range) and get to a phase I clinical trial. Sadly, the vaccine does nothing, and ImmuLogic winds up on the dustbin of biotech history; the only thing ImmuLogic revolutionized was the scientist bank accounts.
and u wonder why geeks work for mbas....
for 20 yrs, geeks have been whining about MS bloat. I can see it has really hurt them. Bloat whine is stupid. It is not a problem. If you have a highspeed connection, u can download a 20 meg file in - literally - a few minutes. And as to all those geeks who are gonna whine about ram or HD storage - GET OVER IT !!!! nothing is cheaper them mem. I just got my kid a new emachines computer with 160 gig hardrive and 512 ram, under 600 bucks with dvd burner - an d i know a lot of /.s cd do better.
Geeks - listen up !! do u know why MS is succesfull ? becasue of bloat !!! Yes !!! people want features, the more the better, I mean a duh, isnt features why u buuy a computer ??
As 2 FF displacing IE - there is a small problem: ff does not work as well as IE, at least based on my statistical sample of 3 machines. All it takes is ONE failed bank transaction, and FF will be toast - that is the thing about MS: they are the only people with a monopoly posistion, and thus the only people who can survive a failure.
I am a very liberal new yorker who gets the times every day at home. And if you read the technology section, in the thursday paper, you will quickly come to the conclusion that this most august of american journalistic institutions does not know its head from its elbow when it comes to comsumer electornics. ONe can only hope the editorial board is better informed.
there are so many problems with yr argument.. but basically, they assume a zero sum game, which implies a closed system; but the system is not closed, as we have something called progress..
How many drs in your commmunity have had their license revoked in the last year ? how many doctors fail annual req prof testing ? Although the pay and priveliges have declined recently, drs are one of, if not the, mosthighly compensated and priveliged group of employees in this country. They have to earn that pay and privelige and status, and not policing each other does not help.
Is 40K a lot ? since malpractice lawsuits are, in this benighted country, the only way a seriously malformed baby can have any security, your malpractice premium, in essence, reflects the cost or what shd be a national social security cost. YOur premium works out to around ~ 0.5 - 1 kilobuck per baby. Assuming it takes 500,000 dollars to take care of a seriously malformed baby, and due to the overhead of private insurance companies (funny, never hear the ama runing ads about that) that seems pretty reasonable. I meaqn 500 dollars for insurance on something that can affect the rest of a persons life ? why is that high ? Unless you can show that that money is being mis-spent, you can't complain. oh, and alot of late nights..what on earth did u expect in ob/gyn ? u wanted 9/5, shd have gone into derm or radiol...YOu do not say how many hours you personally have in a birth..based on my (very biased )experinece, 2X, at a major boston teaching hospital (ok, not a rural practice) the Dr. does not spend that much time with a patient. Maybe your biz practices are outmoded and need to be rationalized. Although it may sound strange, I don't think the jackpot mentality is unconnected with sky high excuetive pay and the stock market..people see what seem to be completely undersrving shits getting rich, its not hard 2 understand where the jackpot mentatlity comes from.
I have a phd in biotech, i've done genomics at mit, and work for a high teck biotech company. aside from being a total ahole, i know something, working in what is supposed to be a high tech field, genommics, about education, high tech jobs and outsoucing. And let me tell you: at least in biotech, there is little we can do now that india and china can't and there will be nothing in 5 years. In any event, this we can educate ourselves to better jobs to compete with 1$ an hour labor - I mean, get real, does that even pass the smell test ? Listen up folks: the chinese and indians are just as smart, just as educable, and probably a lot more hard working then we are. the idea that education will do anything to stop "outsorucing" is idiotic. there is only one answer: raise their standard of living
has been concoted by doctors unwilling to police themselves, afew bad lawyers and cases, who out of hte millions, get overreported, and most of all, the GOP/right wing conspiracy to shift this country into a darwinian dog eat dog capitilist mode.
of an old story from a bygone era, when ibm tried to sell a home, multikilobuck version of the super hot at pc, and as an inducement, included cooking software with - hold on to your hats - 24 recipies. Wow ! several hundred bucks for a dumb terminal with some storage ? sounds very $$ and complicated. 50 bucks, w/' 802.11g and hook it to yr tv for display, now yr talking.
I downloaded both python and ruby when I started thinking about learning how to program. I cd download and install correctly both languages on my Win2K OS laptop, but ruby had two things python did not: a really neat intro tutorial out of berkeley, and some sample progams (like abouncing red ball in a box) to play with. For kids learning to progam, this sort of basic hold your hand stuff is invaluable
Based on this, ruby is better thought out. ON the other hand, I started to puke at all the ruby way stuff.
Sunday NewYorkTimes has the always wonderful Frank Rich , talking about how the Bushies have mounted a vast right wing govt attack on the media (e.g., chairman of Viacom, normally liberal sumner redstone, announcing he is for bush after fcc pressure..)
Impression that Bush/GOP congress turned govt over to lobbyists on writing laws and regs...
Possible state of emergency after vote fiascos again...
There really is a vast right wing conspiracy, and this is part of it
What does it cost google to run this contest - peanuts for a large company. I imagine they own the code - and they get a lot of good pr. typical, harvard mbas running emotional circles around techies, the techies so stupid they don t even know they are being explotied
What an Honor !! Can I quote you on that ? I notice you don't disagree with my assessment - it is possible to be stuck up, arrogant and right (to bad our president does not fit in this catagory)
how could anyone get past the first few paragraphs ? his writing is so prolix and boring and redundandt..no one who is such a bad wiriter could possibly have anything interesting to say
not a tautology. an incorrect use of a word.
"fairly unique " ?