The real question is whether or not Ciber were following their procedures, but why they were not. There should be a full-scale investigation into things like, oh, maybe how much money has passed between Diebold and Ciber, and how much stock ownership Diebold has in Ciber and vice-versa. If you want to know why things happen the way the do, one merely needs to follow the money.
I dunno. Maybe because it's the Obfuscated C contest, and not the Obfuscated C# or Obfuscated C++ contest?
I mean really, C# and C++ are really completely different languages from C.
These services don't carry ads in most of the minority regional languages, instead defaulting to the dominant majority language for the area (Catalan gives way to Spanish, Gaelic gives way to English, Breton gives way to French etc). Blanket application of a system such as AdWords across the site would break the integrity of the Catalan, Gaelic, Breton etc versions of the content.
It seems like the only problem would be that the AdWords wouldn't trigger the correct ads, which would really only hurt Google. Which might make it in Google's best interests to begin offering AdWords in minority languages. That's good or bad depending...
But I don't think it would be a huge issue for the speakers of those languages at all.
Besides, with Firefox+Adblock Plus, I hardly see adverts at all anymore.
That's highly suspect. Norse sagas aren't exactly known for the complete truthfulness. It's possible that it happened that way, but knowing what I know about Norse culture, it's probably just a really cool story about a Norse hero.
1. It's running IIS 6.0. 2. googlenasa.com registered to a Chris Kemp at 1942 Westlake Ave., Seattle, WA 98101 3. The aforementioned address is a high-rise apartment building. 4. The Web design, as you say, is horrible.
Is there a middle ground? Some third way that lets lets you reject as much as possible at the start of the SMTP transaction?
A big one a lot of people don't like and I've never been sure why: 95%+ of all messages where the domain in the 'To:' doesn't match the DNS domain of the IP address in the 'X-Originating-IP:' line are SPAM. So just reject them ALL. SPAM problem solved. Whiners will be executed on site.
If the question is, "Will nerdcore ever be popular beyond my really small group of friends and I who never get laid?" then the answer is, "No."
I don't know about that. The article mentions Weird Al Yankovich, who was nerdcore before there was name for it. He's made himself quite a living doing what he does and has gotten a whole lot of airplay. Will all nerdcore go as mainstream as Weird Al? No, but neither did all gangsta rap or all goth rock. But some of it snuck through, and I expect nerdcore will continue to grow in popularity. Do you know how many people I've heard with a fhqwgaads ringtone?
Advertising is commercial speech. Commercial speech is regulated by, among other agencies, the FTC. For example, it's illegal to make false claims about a product or service. Nissan can't make claims that a car they sell can do 0 to 60 under 3 seconds unless the car can actually do 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds. McDonald's can't go around claiming that the Big Mac as it is today is low in fat, unless they come out with a 'Tofu Big Mac' or whatever.
There are all kinds of other laws regulating commercial speech: cigarette advertising must include disclaimers stating that smoking is hazardous, 'bait and switch' advertising tactics are illegal, etc.
One reason why the FTC is investigating 'viral marketing' practices is that they are trying to see if advertisers are using viral marketing practices to try to to do a 'run around' on the various FTC-imposed marketing rules. Another reason is that they are trying to see if the marketing practice is unfair to the consumer, because one of the charters of the FTC is to make sure that marketing practices are fair to the consumer.
My point is that no one should really be surprised by any of this... regulation of commercial speech is one of the things that the FTC does.
But how many books are there that can help a good programmer become a good developer?
There are plenty of good books on software development. But we don't need one for each new language. The software development process is the same whether we're talking about C++, Java, Python, Perl or befunge. Programming is language specific. Software development is language agnostic.
Okay, so I own a tree service company and call it Aardvark Tree Service, Inc. w00t! I get put first in the phone book!
You come along and start "AAA Tree Service Co.", since you also figured out, as did I, that companies are listed in the phone book in alphabetical order. Does this mean I now get to sue you because you are now first in the phone book?
This whole thing is just an utterly ridiculous penis measuring contest.
Exactly how does the online business owner figure that the blog owner, Dean Hunt, bears any responsibility for how Google ranks his blog with respect to the online store? Only Google is responsible for how it ranks pages. I suppose the business owner can sue Google, but somehow I doubt he'd get very far, considering that Google doesn't owe the shop owner anything in terms of pageranking unless he entered into some sort of contract with Google, but that's all between him and Google, right?
This doesn't happen to *all* technologies. For example, general aviation (EG: light, 1-12 person aircraft) is still pretty firmly entrenched in the ranks of the wealthy, for a variety of reasons. All too few people talk about the "family plane". But even in this case, commercial aviation is very reachable by the average Joe, a la SouthWest airlines.
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You can get into ultralights for under $3,000. Granted this is really not "general aviation", but it's definitely affordable to just about anyone with a decent-paying steady job.
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The real question is whether or not Ciber were following their procedures, but why they were not. There should be a full-scale investigation into things like, oh, maybe how much money has passed between Diebold and Ciber, and how much stock ownership Diebold has in Ciber and vice-versa. If you want to know why things happen the way the do, one merely needs to follow the money.
If I were you, I'd quit making sense. You don't want to know what happens to people who make sense and actually get people to listen to them.
C or C++ code is often only unreadable to people who have had their brains scrambled by languages like Common Lisp and Scheme.
So? The fact that some management types think scheme proves exactly what?
I dunno. Maybe because it's the Obfuscated C contest, and not the Obfuscated C# or Obfuscated C++ contest? I mean really, C# and C++ are really completely different languages from C.
It seems like the only problem would be that the AdWords wouldn't trigger the correct ads, which would really only hurt Google. Which might make it in Google's best interests to begin offering AdWords in minority languages. That's good or bad depending...
But I don't think it would be a huge issue for the speakers of those languages at all.
Besides, with Firefox+Adblock Plus, I hardly see adverts at all anymore.
I already have one that works universally well for virtually all disks, both solid-state and magnetic. I call it a 'hammer'.
Maybe yours is. I work for Donald Trump.
The one that was adopted:
Indiana Jones and the Annoying Alien from Naboo
JJ: "Meesa no liiiike Nazzzzziiis!!"
IJ: *crack* "Oh, my back!" *crack*
JJ: "Aaaaaggghh!!! Meesa no like bull whip!!!!"
That's highly suspect. Norse sagas aren't exactly known for the complete truthfulness. It's possible that it happened that way, but knowing what I know about Norse culture, it's probably just a really cool story about a Norse hero.
Here you go, flying cars. Happy now?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
They don't!
That's why I'm *still* not convinced.
Oh, yeah, and the site was registered in September 29, 2005
Let's see:
1. It's running IIS 6.0.
2. googlenasa.com registered to a Chris Kemp at 1942 Westlake Ave., Seattle, WA 98101
3. The aforementioned address is a high-rise apartment building.
4. The Web design, as you say, is horrible.
A big one a lot of people don't like and I've never been sure why: 95%+ of all messages where the domain in the 'To:' doesn't match the DNS domain of the IP address in the 'X-Originating-IP:' line are SPAM. So just reject them ALL. SPAM problem solved. Whiners will be executed on site.
Actually, Al and his wife Suzanne have a daughter named Nina.
I don't know about that. The article mentions Weird Al Yankovich, who was nerdcore before there was name for it. He's made himself quite a living doing what he does and has gotten a whole lot of airplay. Will all nerdcore go as mainstream as Weird Al? No, but neither did all gangsta rap or all goth rock. But some of it snuck through, and I expect nerdcore will continue to grow in popularity. Do you know how many people I've heard with a fhqwgaads ringtone?
If that's the case, I think I'll stick with my GeForce 5500...
Advertising is commercial speech. Commercial speech is regulated by, among other agencies, the FTC. For example, it's illegal to make false claims about a product or service. Nissan can't make claims that a car they sell can do 0 to 60 under 3 seconds unless the car can actually do 0 to 60 in under 3 seconds. McDonald's can't go around claiming that the Big Mac as it is today is low in fat, unless they come out with a 'Tofu Big Mac' or whatever.
There are all kinds of other laws regulating commercial speech: cigarette advertising must include disclaimers stating that smoking is hazardous, 'bait and switch' advertising tactics are illegal, etc.
One reason why the FTC is investigating 'viral marketing' practices is that they are trying to see if advertisers are using viral marketing practices to try to to do a 'run around' on the various FTC-imposed marketing rules. Another reason is that they are trying to see if the marketing practice is unfair to the consumer, because one of the charters of the FTC is to make sure that marketing practices are fair to the consumer.
My point is that no one should really be surprised by any of this... regulation of commercial speech is one of the things that the FTC does.
There are plenty of good books on software development. But we don't need one for each new language. The software development process is the same whether we're talking about C++, Java, Python, Perl or befunge. Programming is language specific. Software development is language agnostic.
Okay, so I own a tree service company and call it Aardvark Tree Service, Inc. w00t! I get put first in the phone book!
You come along and start "AAA Tree Service Co.", since you also figured out, as did I, that companies are listed in the phone book in alphabetical order. Does this mean I now get to sue you because you are now first in the phone book?
This whole thing is just an utterly ridiculous penis measuring contest.
The part I find bizarre is this:
Exactly how does the online business owner figure that the blog owner, Dean Hunt, bears any responsibility for how Google ranks his blog with respect to the online store? Only Google is responsible for how it ranks pages. I suppose the business owner can sue Google, but somehow I doubt he'd get very far, considering that Google doesn't owe the shop owner anything in terms of pageranking unless he entered into some sort of contract with Google, but that's all between him and Google, right?
You can get into ultralights for under $3,000. Granted this is really not "general aviation", but it's definitely affordable to just about anyone with a decent-paying steady job.