This system fails because most commercial sites, and many others, will lose the ability to track web usage for site tuning and marketing response. Sites will be built -- if need be -- with specific settings or configurations to confound the coralling of their pages.
Its a noble goal, but ultimately will go the way of the video phone -- which apart from conferences planned in advance, remains a novelty dispite perfectly adaquate technology -- nobody wants a suprise video call because nobody wants to be a 50's housewife who's self esteem is tied to the cleanliness of their floors and their ability to have perfect hair and a matching necklace and top all the time "in case someone calls".
If people don't want it, it will fail regardless of how well done.
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We'd have to have the mission already in progress I think. I don't think what we have out there now would be able to detect it unless the place was absolutely jam packed and they were throwing a party.
Why bother with software when you can alter the wetware. All that is needed is a cooperative shrink.
Take say, 30 milligrams 3 times a day -- I'll bet this won't be a problem. If you really were ADD, then problem solved. If not, your heart will probably explode. Also, no problem.;-)
ah, but read what I said -- the marketing and business classes from schools are decidedly different from the skills you need in business; the language and an undesrstanding of that background though, must be learned.
FWIW, I am both a small business owner and a developer.
I've known way too many CS guys that can't write and have to be kept hidden from meetings.
If data structures don't make sense to you, no amount of study is every going to make you good enough to be competitive. A minor will give you the background without focusing on technologies that will be obsolete by the time you finish.
Major in marketing, business, or communication. Minor in CS if you insist.
Geek skills can be learned, business speak and marketing wonkedness (yep, just made that up) cannot be learned because they are unrelated to the actual "Business" and "Marketing" techniques that work. They must, therefore, be taught in believed in along the lines of other religious zealotry.;-)
I leave it to you to figure out which parts of this message are pure sarcasm and which are serious...... as quickly as you can, grasshopper....
A more interesting approach would be to look at a year over year pricing for three categories of retail computer gear. The idea is that the state of the art changes, but the pricepoint consumers pay for "current" gear has remained pretty constant until very recently. I go back to about 1985 with these numbers and there will be dissagreement about the specifics, but I think we'll all agree that the TREND is right.
Low end -- which used to be around $800 and recently is closer to $400
Average desktop -- Which used to be around $1500 and lately is between $600 and $800
And high-end desktop -- which used to be around $2500 and now runs around $1800
I did some work going through my own anti-spam tool and found that the vast major of spam has, as its target click-to, a fairly limited number of target domains.
Spamcop works because people report spam.
So, what if people reported spam, and automatically a central server passed via web-service request a "current target" to tens of thousands of pc's running a background client at their workstation. Each PC with the client requests a target, then proceeds to hit that target with http requests at a slow but steady pace for say, 2-3 hours then checks back for its next target.
The target isn't the spammer, they're hard to track and set up to handle it anyway. No, the target is the site paying the spammer. The place you'd go if you click on the ad that got sent to you. My tests of 300,000+ spam messages counted less than 5000 unique domains in there as the target sites once you decoded and stripped the subdomains, machines, and zones out.
The central server could be passing the same site out to say, 10 thousand people at a time then go on to the next one.
A sort of automatic/. effect on sites that insist on paying spammers.
Forget SETI, think of the background processing power you could utilize.
What I do see happening with extreme speed is on demand paperback publishing.
The big publishing companies are presently not in the business of book creation. They are in the business of manufacture and distribution of wood products. Instead of varnish, they cover theirs in ink.
It makes MUCH more sense store the books electronic at a site, and use a credit card (or cell phone) operated printer that can produce a good quality bound paperback in a matter of ten minutes or so.
"Bookstore" will be the place you go to get the book. They'll be able to have one or two on the shelves of popular books for browsing and tens of thousands of browseable book jackets as well. You'll also be able to go online and decide what book you want and have it "sent" to that printer or possibly even bring your own home-made or open source book on flash or thumb drive or something and have it printed.
Wired: Kinkos Tired: Borders Expired: Using Wired Magazine to sound hip.
Not with ads, but with parks, libraries, schools, etc. Companies make donations to cities all the time. Often they get their name on cornerstone or dedication. Small towns are more visible.
I understand your point, but we already get donations from corporations. Its very very common. We also get donations from individuals. We have fundraisers. Remember, its a volunteer small town thing.
The only difference here is the logo. Could we increase donations by allowing the logo?
I don't agree that it would change our indebtedness at all -- in fact if anything it would publicise it.
I know a town with a single large employer -- its no secret that the bulk of that department's equipment is in some way linked to either the influence of the employer on the council or direct donation from the employer.
I'll skip the arguement of ophanage vs. warehouse for a minute and assume that's hyperbole because obviously its always lives before property. In fact, the procedural guides are pretty well known to state something like:
We risk a lot to save lives. We risk a little to save property. We risk nothing for a lost cause.
For those playing the home game, The Anonymous Coward is referring to comments from the pro-MS crowd about how open source software is a danger to the security of the nation -- contrary to accepted security doctrine.
FYI: Most firefighters are volunteer, "On Call" -- all but the biggest cities.
In most cases, we spend more time each year training as the cities keep cutting funds.
My other job, my non-geek job, is that of firefighter. Its a volunteer "on call" community. I see the fights they have go through to replace a $50 coupling let alone a few thousand dollars of hose line.
As far as I'm concerned, if NIKE wanted to put their logo on a few hundred feed of high quality inch and three quarter line, I know a whole lot of departments that would be very very happy about it.
What to a small town fire department is a huge expense, is less than sending a sales guy to a meeting for corporate America. Think of the impact that could make.
Man, he must be getting old. Any really good chess player in teh situation would have castled! Suddenly, he "Rooks" the Philipinos and is himself in Thailand!..One town, is very like another when your head's down over your pieces, bother.."
The rope isn't about terrorism, its about their SOCIAL agenda.
They're afraid you'll engage in an autoerotic strangulation act. The idea of someone getting off in any way other than that responsible for procreation is abhorent to them.
1. The 911 flights were brought down with box knives that did not go through security at all.
2. A box knife is no longer an effective way to hijack a plane. This is simply because a hijacked plane is no longer about a 3 day trip to Cuba. Now its about becomming a lawn dart. If you tried to hijack a plane prior to 911 with a knife, maybe we'd sit back and enjoy some cigars when we landed. Today, this firefighter and dozens of other people on the plane are going to shove the box cutter up your ass sideways. I'm not a kung-fu master by any means, but I am a 200 pound man in pretty good shape. Its a narrow plane. If I come running down the isle at you, you are going to fall down. I may get cut with a box cutter. So be it.
Now, making me wait 3 hours in line so you can take my nail clippers away isn't going to change anything at all. There are LOTS of ways we could still take stuff on planes (and if I can think of them, so can anyone else -- but I'd rather not broadcast them).
Tom Ridge and his ilk like to keep people scared because they get more power and funding that way. One way to keep people scared is to make them stand like cattle in long lines to give up deadly nail clippers.
Here's an idea, lets not vote for this administration this time either!
It has to do with putting them in specific places where they'll tend to be fairly stable (not quite LaGrange points, but similar in idea) and then using really good gyroscopes. As I understand it, extremely tiny bursts of hyrdogen do the fine tuning -- but I may be mistaken. That's just from my memory of reading about it.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/gr av ity_waves_000727.html
(no, I'm not affilliated with the book in any way other than owning it)
LIGO is built near the site of a SUPERFUND site -- one of the worst as I recall. The waste site predates LIGO which is basically just a couple of long hallways and a control center -- just very very carefully built hallways which are then superheated and purged of air. Toss in some fancy mirrors and suspected mirrors and you've got a site. Not toxic at all.
Now, the fact that we've spent enough on gravitational waves to have fed and medicated every starving, aids infected person on the planet is another matter -- and not one I'm likely to understand.
If we took a couple of years of research money, used it to feed, educate, and medicate the 3rd world (like most of Mississippi) we might just find our world economy in good enough shape to more than make up for the difference with increased science funding for a long time to come.
Ah well. Lasers are cool, Half dead poor people are not cool -- especially if they look different from us and have no oil. I get it.
Slashdot Mirror
Of course, slashdot wants to fight me making this comment. Oh well, I can't take a hint. Someone can mod me into oblivion if they want.
This system fails because most commercial sites, and many others, will lose the ability to track web usage for site tuning and marketing response. Sites will be built -- if need be -- with specific settings or configurations to confound the coralling of their pages.
Its a noble goal, but ultimately will go the way of the video phone -- which apart from conferences planned in advance, remains a novelty dispite perfectly adaquate technology -- nobody wants a suprise video call because nobody wants to be a 50's housewife who's self esteem is tied to the cleanliness of their floors and their ability to have perfect hair and a matching necklace and top all the time "in case someone calls".
If people don't want it, it will fail regardless of how well done.
--
We'd have to have the mission already in progress I think. I don't think what we have out there now would be able to detect it unless the place was absolutely jam packed and they were throwing a party.
I mean, hello?
;-)
Why bother with software when you can alter the wetware. All that is needed is a cooperative shrink.
Take say, 30 milligrams 3 times a day -- I'll bet this won't be a problem. If you really were ADD, then problem solved. If not, your heart will probably explode. Also, no problem.
ah, but read what I said -- the marketing and business classes from schools are decidedly different from the skills you need in business; the language and an undesrstanding of that background though, must be learned.
FWIW, I am both a small business owner and a developer.
I've known way too many CS guys that can't write and have to be kept hidden from meetings.
If data structures don't make sense to you, no amount of study is every going to make you good enough to be competitive. A minor will give you the background without focusing on technologies that will be obsolete by the time you finish.
Major in marketing, business, or communication. Minor in CS if you insist.
;-)
..... as quickly as you can, grasshopper....
Geek skills can be learned, business speak and marketing wonkedness (yep, just made that up) cannot be learned because they are unrelated to the actual "Business" and "Marketing" techniques that work. They must, therefore, be taught in believed in along the lines of other religious zealotry.
I leave it to you to figure out which parts of this message are pure sarcasm and which are serious.
I'm thinking we can round up a whole bunch right in Washington DC.
Anyway, all that "human powered" pedaling sounds like work to me.
A more interesting approach would be to look at a year over year pricing for three categories of retail computer gear. The idea is that the state of the art changes, but the pricepoint consumers pay for "current" gear has remained pretty constant until very recently. I go back to about 1985 with these numbers and there will be dissagreement about the specifics, but I think we'll all agree that the TREND is right.
Low end -- which used to be around $800 and recently is closer to $400
Average desktop -- Which used to be around $1500 and lately is between $600 and $800
And high-end desktop -- which used to be around $2500 and now runs around $1800
I did some work going through my own anti-spam tool and found that the vast major of spam has, as its target click-to, a fairly limited number of target domains.
Spamcop works because people report spam.
So, what if people reported spam, and automatically a central server passed via web-service request a "current target" to tens of thousands of pc's running a background client at their workstation. Each PC with the client requests a target, then proceeds to hit that target with http requests at a slow but steady pace for say, 2-3 hours then checks back for its next target.
The target isn't the spammer, they're hard to track and set up to handle it anyway. No, the target is the site paying the spammer. The place you'd go if you click on the ad that got sent to you. My tests of 300,000+ spam messages counted less than 5000 unique domains in there as the target sites once you decoded and stripped the subdomains, machines, and zones out.
The central server could be passing the same site out to say, 10 thousand people at a time then go on to the next one.
A sort of automatic
Forget SETI, think of the background processing power you could utilize.
The media is wrong for books.
What I do see happening with extreme speed is on demand paperback publishing.
The big publishing companies are presently not in the business of book creation. They are in the business of manufacture and distribution of wood products. Instead of varnish, they cover theirs in ink.
It makes MUCH more sense store the books electronic at a site, and use a credit card (or cell phone) operated printer that can produce a good quality bound paperback in a matter of ten minutes or so.
"Bookstore" will be the place you go to get the book. They'll be able to have one or two on the shelves of popular books for browsing and tens of thousands of browseable book jackets as well. You'll also be able to go online and decide what book you want and have it "sent" to that printer or possibly even bring your own home-made or open source book on flash or thumb drive or something and have it printed.
Wired: Kinkos
Tired: Borders
Expired: Using Wired Magazine to sound hip.
--AP
In one message, we have:
Hilton and a deep interior probe.
And they're getting funding for this?
Not with ads, but with parks, libraries, schools, etc. Companies make donations to cities all the time. Often they get their name on cornerstone or dedication. Small towns are more visible.
I guess I'm just dumb as a box of hammers here. I don't get the implied promise beyond the logo. That effectively becomes the quid pro quo.
Sure, Nike gets advertising, goodwill, and possibly makes more money as a result of the logo on the hoseline -- that's the payoff.
I don't see the conflict.
Same goes for the AZ website. You buy and ad, you get the ad. That's as far as I can see it going.
EXCEPT -- that if government ends up being driven by decisions that generate ad revenue -- THAT becomes an issue.
I understand your point, but we already get donations from corporations. Its very very common. We also get donations from individuals. We have fundraisers. Remember, its a volunteer small town thing.
The only difference here is the logo. Could we increase donations by allowing the logo?
I don't agree that it would change our indebtedness at all -- in fact if anything it would publicise it.
I know a town with a single large employer -- its no secret that the bulk of that department's equipment is in some way linked to either the influence of the employer on the council or direct donation from the employer.
I'll skip the arguement of ophanage vs. warehouse for a minute and assume that's hyperbole because obviously its always lives before property. In fact, the procedural guides are pretty well known to state something like:
We risk a lot to save lives.
We risk a little to save property.
We risk nothing for a lost cause.
Let me face the danger!
I almost fell into that trap.
For those playing the home game, The Anonymous Coward is referring to comments from the pro-MS crowd about how open source software is a danger to the security of the nation -- contrary to accepted security doctrine.
FYI: Most firefighters are volunteer, "On Call" -- all but the biggest cities.
In most cases, we spend more time each year training as the cities keep cutting funds.
My other job, my non-geek job, is that of firefighter. Its a volunteer "on call" community. I see the fights they have go through to replace a $50 coupling let alone a few thousand dollars of hose line.
As far as I'm concerned, if NIKE wanted to put their logo on a few hundred feed of high quality inch and three quarter line, I know a whole lot of departments that would be very very happy about it.
What to a small town fire department is a huge expense, is less than sending a sales guy to a meeting for corporate America. Think of the impact that could make.
-- ME.
Man, he must be getting old. Any really good chess player in teh situation would have castled! Suddenly, he "Rooks" the Philipinos and is himself in Thailand! ..One town, is very like another when your head's down over your pieces, bother.."
Guilty as charged.
Seriously though, name one media technology that wasn't almost instantly used for Porn.
The rope isn't about terrorism, its about their SOCIAL agenda.
They're afraid you'll engage in an autoerotic strangulation act. The idea of someone getting off in any way other than that responsible for procreation is abhorent to them.
particularly the current flight security lines.
Lets face facts:
1. The 911 flights were brought down with box knives that did not go through security at all.
2. A box knife is no longer an effective way to hijack a plane. This is simply because a hijacked plane is no longer about a 3 day trip to Cuba. Now its about becomming a lawn dart. If you tried to hijack a plane prior to 911 with a knife, maybe we'd sit back and enjoy some cigars when we landed. Today, this firefighter and dozens of other people on the plane are going to shove the box cutter up your ass sideways. I'm not a kung-fu master by any means, but I am a 200 pound man in pretty good shape. Its a narrow plane. If I come running down the isle at you, you are going to fall down. I may get cut with a box cutter. So be it.
Now, making me wait 3 hours in line so you can take my nail clippers away isn't going to change anything at all. There are LOTS of ways we could still take stuff on planes (and if I can think of them, so can anyone else -- but I'd rather not broadcast them).
Tom Ridge and his ilk like to keep people scared because they get more power and funding that way. One way to keep people scared is to make them stand like cattle in long lines to give up deadly nail clippers.
Here's an idea, lets not vote for this administration this time either!
It has to do with putting them in specific places where they'll tend to be fairly stable (not quite LaGrange points, but similar in idea) and then using really good gyroscopes. As I understand it, extremely tiny bursts of hyrdogen do the fine tuning -- but I may be mistaken. That's just from my memory of reading about it.
As you'd know if you read the book:
r av ity_waves_000727.html
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/g
(no, I'm not affilliated with the book in any way other than owning it)
LIGO is built near the site of a SUPERFUND site -- one of the worst as I recall. The waste site predates LIGO which is basically just a couple of long hallways and a control center -- just very very carefully built hallways which are then superheated and purged of air. Toss in some fancy mirrors and suspected mirrors and you've got a site. Not toxic at all.
Now, the fact that we've spent enough on gravitational waves to have fed and medicated every starving, aids infected person on the planet is another matter -- and not one I'm likely to understand.
If we took a couple of years of research money, used it to feed, educate, and medicate the 3rd world (like most of Mississippi) we might just find our world economy in good enough shape to more than make up for the difference with increased science funding for a long time to come.
Ah well. Lasers are cool, Half dead poor people are not cool -- especially if they look different from us and have no oil. I get it.
The signal to noise ratio is suprisingly not bad here in /. on this so people must have some interest in it.
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There's a great book called "Einstein's Unifinished Symphony" that covers all this in great detail.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
The most likely thing to actually catch one is the proposed space based interferometer:
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/g