Interesting read. Let's say the neuroeconomists find some new microeconomic stuff that deviates from the standard assumption of rationality. Wouldn't people respond to that by using this information about systematic non-rationality to transfer wealth from "non-rational" to rationals? I.e. the object observed (human interaction) will be affected by the results of the observer (the research), which will render the conclusions of the result questionable. Just some random thoughts -- guess it applies to all social sciences, and economics in particular:-)
The documents crawled have to be web-accessible (http or https) according to the product description. This suprises me as the vast amount of company documents are probably on Windows file servers.
Why not hook up with the Samba team to enable crawling on Windows shares? I think Samba-integration would be a killer feature for a product like this.
Since Opera is a strong competitor to Firefox
in the "power user"-niche, this new release
will probably spur competition in the
features-arena again. Now both browsers have
good RSS-support, and so on.
This will in turn further broaden the feature-
gap between Firefox and Internet Explorer. The
MSIE will have a hard time catching up.
I believe 2005 will be an pretty interesting browser year:-)
Andrew Tridgell is the man behind two of the most interesting and usable free software products available; samba and rsync. Samba is truly great, but I find rsync so incredibly useful and smart. Does the Windows world have any kind of rsync-equivalent? (Besides the Windows rsync-ports, which require a lot of extra stuff like Cygwin.) Backing up data with rsync makes me sleep well at night:-)
Thanks Tridgell!:-)
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Interesting read. Let's say the neuroeconomists find some new microeconomic stuff that deviates from the standard assumption of rationality. Wouldn't people respond to that by using this information about systematic non-rationality to transfer wealth from "non-rational" to rationals? I.e. the object observed (human interaction) will be affected by the results of the observer (the research), which will render the conclusions of the result questionable. Just some random thoughts -- guess it applies to all social sciences, and economics in particular :-)
Why not hook up with the Samba team to enable crawling on Windows shares? I think Samba-integration would be a killer feature for a product like this.
Since Opera is a strong competitor to Firefox in the "power user"-niche, this new release will probably spur competition in the features-arena again. Now both browsers have good RSS-support, and so on. This will in turn further broaden the feature- gap between Firefox and Internet Explorer. The MSIE will have a hard time catching up. I believe 2005 will be an pretty interesting browser year :-)
For more information on lkcl; Here is a quite interesting presentation by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (lkcl) from a SSLUG (a Danish LUG) meeting: http://sslug.mmmanager.org/Members/BabyTux/luke_le ighton
Andrew Tridgell is the man behind two of the most interesting and usable free software products available; samba and rsync. Samba is truly great, but I find rsync so incredibly useful and smart. Does the Windows world have any kind of rsync-equivalent? (Besides the Windows rsync-ports, which require a lot of extra stuff like Cygwin.) Backing up data with rsync makes me sleep well at night :-)
Thanks Tridgell! :-)