XML is cool, but try figuring it out when you have a prof who doesn't really know what it is. It's so nebulous that they might as well say "Today we'll be learing about stuff."
Who pays google? The users don't. The users get everything for free. Advertisers pay google to put their ads in front of users. So while they care what happens to their users now, they also have a loyalty to their investors to maximize profits. Soon, very soon, their loyalty to their investors will overtake loyalty to their users, just like with all companies.
Unfortunately, aside from writing an open-source crawler that runs natively on ever users machine, there's no way you'll be able to have a search engine that's loyal to its users and not its bottom line.
Then lets find a new model, but there are definitely parts of the old model that are useful.
My brother-in-law is a union carpenter. He described how he did nothing but cut wood for three years until he had the experience to move on to another job. With a tech union we could determine qualifications, not let Microsoft or Novell or Red Hat use tests designed to maximize their profits to determine who has what experience.
We are looking at reclassifying some jobs to overtime eligible in the new Fiscal Year. We have resisted this in the past, not because we don't want to pay overtime, but because we believe that the wage and hour laws have not kept pace with the kind of work done at technology companies
Translation: "You sit on your ass all day and hardly break a sweat. Why the hell do you need overtime? So what if you never see the light of day or your family?"
Repeat after me, people: "This wouldn't happen if we had a union."
But a corporation acquires wealth and capital regardless of their hunger. If a hungry man steals for bread, he won't steal more bread once he's got enough. And if you feed him, he won't steal at all.
Corporations, however, never tire of consumption, and are never satiated. You can feed them all you like but they'll still steal bread.
So a corporation isn't like a person who is hungry. A corporation is an addict.
My wife was watching Charmed Sunday night. In part of the dialogue, I heard a character say that demons (the bad guys) are constantly trying to feed their hunger.
And the Flood from Halo: They try to consume everything in their path.
And werewolves and zombies and vampires; all mindless eating machines.
Corporations are constantly trying to feed their hunger for profits. Ever increasing profits, especially.
The idea of "global warming" is false. The world won't get warmer or colder, it will become more extreme and more unpredictable as more energy is put into the system.
Locally, you may see snow in San Jose while I, a Pennsylvanian, get 70 degree weather in January. Or I could get a huge snowstorm followed by a fast melt leading to a flood.
On average, the temperature is going up. This will change weather patterns. So a better term is "global climate change."
Such a place surely does not exist! I am channeling the UID of a dead man!
Tempting, but living in a red state where I (as an atheist) could be burned at the stake doesn't appeal to me. Even if I'm in some sort of geek enclave.
From what I see, AdAware just scans for certain spyware stuff in the registry and filestructure. Services must be stored somewhere on the hard drive, or maybe the Services manager could be run in Wine.
At any rate, I bet sourceforge could come up with a way to run spyware checks in Knoppix. That would be sweet.
It's not always that easy. A lot of sites out there for programs like McAfee Antivius don't allow you to update your profiles without ActiveX enabled so they can check that you're not using pirated software.
Best bet is to configure security settings so only sites you trust are allowed to use ActiveX. Then use FireFox for everything but those few sites.
My family *loves* my gallery. Heck, even my parents' and parents-in-law's coworkers love it. I posted almost all of the pictures of my recent wedding and honeymoon (I said almost all of them, you pervert), and they like that they can comment on them, order prints, or just show them off to their friends.
I'm thinking of making a small business of setting up galleries for people. So many people have digicams, but then just print the pictures out or email a couple at a time to their friends and family.
Sweet! I'll be sure to do that when I have a spare minute. I'll add a version history and make a couple more changes. I just did this last night to my parent's PC, so I'll add a couple more things I encountered.
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XML is cool, but try figuring it out when you have a prof who doesn't really know what it is. It's so nebulous that they might as well say "Today we'll be learing about stuff."
Yup. Buy any laptop and any iPod and you get $200 off. Unfortunately, it ended 9/25/04. It was a back-to-school promo.
I can see it now... "Neil, don't lick the camera. Come on Neil, it's not funny. Don't. Just don't. NEIL! I TOLD YOU NOT TO LICK THE CAMERA!"
Unfortunately, aside from writing an open-source crawler that runs natively on ever users machine, there's no way you'll be able to have a search engine that's loyal to its users and not its bottom line.
New frontiers are dangerous. Anyone who expects space travel to be like air travel is deluded.
My brother-in-law is a union carpenter. He described how he did nothing but cut wood for three years until he had the experience to move on to another job. With a tech union we could determine qualifications, not let Microsoft or Novell or Red Hat use tests designed to maximize their profits to determine who has what experience.
Translation: "You sit on your ass all day and hardly break a sweat. Why the hell do you need overtime? So what if you never see the light of day or your family?"
Repeat after me, people: "This wouldn't happen if we had a union."
Google, like TV stations, doesn't exist to provide you with a handy search tool. It exists to provide advertisers with you, their audience.
Corporations, however, never tire of consumption, and are never satiated. You can feed them all you like but they'll still steal bread.
So a corporation isn't like a person who is hungry. A corporation is an addict.
And the Flood from Halo: They try to consume everything in their path.
And werewolves and zombies and vampires; all mindless eating machines.
Corporations are constantly trying to feed their hunger for profits. Ever increasing profits, especially.
So does this make corporations evil?
Locally, you may see snow in San Jose while I, a Pennsylvanian, get 70 degree weather in January. Or I could get a huge snowstorm followed by a fast melt leading to a flood.
On average, the temperature is going up. This will change weather patterns. So a better term is "global climate change."
Tempting, but living in a red state where I (as an atheist) could be burned at the stake doesn't appeal to me. Even if I'm in some sort of geek enclave.
Someone stop this frame-of-reference madness!!
There's one free, open, legal WiFi hotspot within ten miles of my house. One. Move somewhere with even fewer? No.
Disposable income isn't worth living in a red state. ;-)
Excellent.
Since you beta tested it: Any chance it'll run on a Mac? Or be ported or OSS?
I'm a young professional with a young professional wife, but I don't have any disposable income. How do you do it?
At any rate, I bet sourceforge could come up with a way to run spyware checks in Knoppix. That would be sweet.
It's pretty cool that this is coming to pass, even if they're not sandwiched between force fields.
The kids started screaming about fifteen minutes in, and they left just after the guy's soul got ripped from his body.
That's great and all, but we're talking about spyware, not viruses. Is there a Linux utility that searches for Windows spyware?
Best bet is to configure security settings so only sites you trust are allowed to use ActiveX. Then use FireFox for everything but those few sites.
I'm thinking of making a small business of setting up galleries for people. So many people have digicams, but then just print the pictures out or email a couple at a time to their friends and family.
Sweet! I'll be sure to do that when I have a spare minute. I'll add a version history and make a couple more changes. I just did this last night to my parent's PC, so I'll add a couple more things I encountered.
Which is precisely why I support a strong push for colonization of Mars or the Moon. They'll have a really hard time policing me there.