So the corollary is that all the middle class people who bought those homes in 1995 are now insanely wealthy because the homes are overpriced?
Not to mention that rents have not risen along with home prices. So that same middle class family can get by just fine either way.
If every single ad-supported site vanished from the webernets overnight, things would be better.
You do realize that this includes Google, right? Along with many other useful sites. Yes, the internet existed before advertising, and I am no fan of being blitzed by ads at every opportunity, but along with the drivel it has brought a much greater depth of information content, plus some tools (e.g. Google) to help us navigate it.
There are good reasons to have a draft, but having more troops for the sake of having more troops isn't one of them. Modern wars aren't decided by the size of the armies involved. Mutually assured destruction means the odds of direct conflict between China and the USA are very low, but the odds of a proxy or asymmetric war are somewhat higher.
Seriously, it's hard for me to assume stupidity on that level as the default explanation. Makes more sense to me that they're trying to raise their profile... by any means necessary.
You're probably right. Then again, I think a lot of smaller and growing organizations underestimate the volume of their data and the value of organizing it well. Get it right now, and maybe they grow enough to need a real ECM solution.
Um, they aren't "Google servers" in the sense that Google owns and operates them... you buy it and run it in your own enterprise, the same way someone might run, say an "Oracle server".
I don't either, and that's because the submitter didn't give enough information. I'm working on a fairly large enterprise content management system for the feds (think 2.5 TB/month of new data), and I don't see any of the solution components we use mentioned in any thread yet. If I were being a responsible consultant, I'd want to know the answers to the following questions at minimum before making any recommendations:
What is the budget?
How many documents are we talking about? The answer for 10,000 is different than for 10,000,000.
Are you looking for off-the-shelf, or is software development + integration going to be involved
Who is going to maintain the integrity of this data?
Although I am as much a fan of open source as anybody, I don't think the offerings in this area are anywhere near the maturity of commercial offerings. But some of those offerings cost a pretty penny, so it might be worthwhile to hire a developer or two for a few weeks or months to get what you want.
If you can prove murder (or as a more relevant example, fraud) in a court of law, the limited liability protection afforded by incorporation won't protect the defendant.
I don't see tobacco companies as murderers, because it takes a willful act to smoke a cigarette. That's like charging the CEO at Ford for vehicular homicide because someone ran over the victim with an Explorer. You might call them exploiters, and find plenty of ethical issues therein, but murder (to me) isn't one of them.
Hence why large companies have defensive patent portfolios and "wink-wink, nod-nod" gentlemen's agreements not to sue each other. If you notice, most patent disputes are significantly asymmetric in terms of the size and scale of the parties involved.
There is no need to "arrest corporations". If a corporation engages in criminal enterprise, then the corporate veil is pierced, and the individual persons committing the alleged crimes can be arrested.
Which brings up an interesting philosophical question: Should data about you necessarily belong to you? What if the data is about more than one party? The useful example here is a transaction between a consumer and a company. Would you require consent of both parties before this data could be transferred or sold? What about third party observations of events? There are some clear lines, and some very fuzzy ones here.
Credit reports and credit scores are two distinct things. Credit reports are indeed itemized lists of various items. "Credit score" usually refers to the Fair-Isaac Company (FICO) score, which is used as a proxy for the content of your credit report in a variety of transactions, the most important of which is borrowing money.
What this all has to do with peace rallies, I don't have the foggiest.
Well of course they are. Any site that allows random users to post HTML content that then gets embedded in the site's pages (especially as extensively as sites like Myspace, etc allow it) is going to be subject to security flaws. Moral of the story: browse such sites using a secure browser, at least as secure a browser as you can find.
It should be called the "Network Engineer Full Employment Plan". Anybody remotely competent in network engineering will be able to get a job in the next few years if this thing takes off.
Not to pick nits at you, but that Inc article is wrong: SixDegrees.com preceded both Friendster and Myspace as the original social networking site. The fact is that they managed to screw it up, too.
Moore's Law says nothing about speed. It does say something about the density of transistors on an integrated circuit. How your engineers choose to take advantage of that is up to your business drivers.
Here's a thought - maybe those $100 laptops become cheaper, or more capable over time.
Of course, it probably takes an order of magnitude more milliseconds to recognize (i.e. reason) something as a bad idea as it does to have an instinctive (fearful) reaction to it. In some circumstances, that might be the difference between life and death.
Back in the late 90s, one of the creative deep-thinker egghead types from Maxis came and gave a talk at UC Berkeley (can't find a relevant link) about the vision for the entire Sims series. They always wanted Sim City and the Sims to be able to interact in a meaningful way, and so far as I can tell, they were never able to pull it off. Maybe they will this time.
As for me, my dream game scenario would be to use Sim City to create a city, and then use that city as a landscape in GTA. That would be fun.
But as for more realistic ideas for how to continue increasing the complexity in the Sim City series without introducing more micro-management, I would say that the city department managers need to be more autonomous. As a mayor, you should be able to set city policy, and let the dept managers do things in an automated and intelligent way. e.g.: keep imported water usage below 20%, and build new wells or other specified water facilities when usage demands it. Of course you should be able to override and micromanage things if you want, but that would allow you to play the game at a higher level of bureaucracy. Some additional zoning tricks would help.
Talk in terms they understand. No one cares about technology but techies. This means you must explain things in terms of:
Money - What is the cost of the choice, and what potential revenue or savings does it provide?
Time - Will this choice make some business process faster or slower, relative to another choice?
Glory/Shame - Is this choice going to get laurels heaped upon the manager later, or will it result in buckets of embarassment? What is the magnitude of risk involved?
The same could have been said of Microsoft a couple of decades back. Make enough cash doing your one trick, and you can buy anybody else doing innovative things.
Slashdot Mirror
... because many nerds watch tv.
So the corollary is that all the middle class people who bought those homes in 1995 are now insanely wealthy because the homes are overpriced? Not to mention that rents have not risen along with home prices. So that same middle class family can get by just fine either way.
You do realize that this includes Google, right? Along with many other useful sites. Yes, the internet existed before advertising, and I am no fan of being blitzed by ads at every opportunity, but along with the drivel it has brought a much greater depth of information content, plus some tools (e.g. Google) to help us navigate it.
There are good reasons to have a draft, but having more troops for the sake of having more troops isn't one of them. Modern wars aren't decided by the size of the armies involved. Mutually assured destruction means the odds of direct conflict between China and the USA are very low, but the odds of a proxy or asymmetric war are somewhat higher.
But a whole lot of my non-techie female friends are hooked on Diner Dash. My admittedly non-scientific sample suggests it might be the next Tetris!
a publicity stunt.
Seriously, it's hard for me to assume stupidity on that level as the default explanation. Makes more sense to me that they're trying to raise their profile... by any means necessary.
You're probably right. Then again, I think a lot of smaller and growing organizations underestimate the volume of their data and the value of organizing it well. Get it right now, and maybe they grow enough to need a real ECM solution.
Um, they aren't "Google servers" in the sense that Google owns and operates them... you buy it and run it in your own enterprise, the same way someone might run, say an "Oracle server".
I don't either, and that's because the submitter didn't give enough information. I'm working on a fairly large enterprise content management system for the feds (think 2.5 TB/month of new data), and I don't see any of the solution components we use mentioned in any thread yet. If I were being a responsible consultant, I'd want to know the answers to the following questions at minimum before making any recommendations:
Although I am as much a fan of open source as anybody, I don't think the offerings in this area are anywhere near the maturity of commercial offerings. But some of those offerings cost a pretty penny, so it might be worthwhile to hire a developer or two for a few weeks or months to get what you want.
If you can prove murder (or as a more relevant example, fraud) in a court of law, the limited liability protection afforded by incorporation won't protect the defendant.
I don't see tobacco companies as murderers, because it takes a willful act to smoke a cigarette. That's like charging the CEO at Ford for vehicular homicide because someone ran over the victim with an Explorer. You might call them exploiters, and find plenty of ethical issues therein, but murder (to me) isn't one of them.
Hence why large companies have defensive patent portfolios and "wink-wink, nod-nod" gentlemen's agreements not to sue each other. If you notice, most patent disputes are significantly asymmetric in terms of the size and scale of the parties involved.
There is no need to "arrest corporations". If a corporation engages in criminal enterprise, then the corporate veil is pierced, and the individual persons committing the alleged crimes can be arrested.
Which brings up an interesting philosophical question: Should data about you necessarily belong to you? What if the data is about more than one party? The useful example here is a transaction between a consumer and a company. Would you require consent of both parties before this data could be transferred or sold? What about third party observations of events? There are some clear lines, and some very fuzzy ones here.
Credit reports and credit scores are two distinct things. Credit reports are indeed itemized lists of various items. "Credit score" usually refers to the Fair-Isaac Company (FICO) score, which is used as a proxy for the content of your credit report in a variety of transactions, the most important of which is borrowing money.
What this all has to do with peace rallies, I don't have the foggiest.
To play devil's advocate, how could they reasonably have differentiated you from a malicious user intent on subverting someone else's account?
Well of course they are. Any site that allows random users to post HTML content that then gets embedded in the site's pages (especially as extensively as sites like Myspace, etc allow it) is going to be subject to security flaws. Moral of the story: browse such sites using a secure browser, at least as secure a browser as you can find.
Nuke Anything Enhanced
One of my favorite Firefox extensions.
It should be called the "Network Engineer Full Employment Plan". Anybody remotely competent in network engineering will be able to get a job in the next few years if this thing takes off.
Not to pick nits at you, but that Inc article is wrong: SixDegrees.com preceded both Friendster and Myspace as the original social networking site. The fact is that they managed to screw it up, too.
Moore's Law says nothing about speed. It does say something about the density of transistors on an integrated circuit. How your engineers choose to take advantage of that is up to your business drivers.
Here's a thought - maybe those $100 laptops become cheaper, or more capable over time.
Of course, it probably takes an order of magnitude more milliseconds to recognize (i.e. reason) something as a bad idea as it does to have an instinctive (fearful) reaction to it. In some circumstances, that might be the difference between life and death.
I suspect the Pentagon would be far more interested in creating fearless "super soldiers".
Back in the late 90s, one of the creative deep-thinker egghead types from Maxis came and gave a talk at UC Berkeley (can't find a relevant link) about the vision for the entire Sims series. They always wanted Sim City and the Sims to be able to interact in a meaningful way, and so far as I can tell, they were never able to pull it off. Maybe they will this time.
As for me, my dream game scenario would be to use Sim City to create a city, and then use that city as a landscape in GTA. That would be fun.
But as for more realistic ideas for how to continue increasing the complexity in the Sim City series without introducing more micro-management, I would say that the city department managers need to be more autonomous. As a mayor, you should be able to set city policy, and let the dept managers do things in an automated and intelligent way. e.g.: keep imported water usage below 20%, and build new wells or other specified water facilities when usage demands it. Of course you should be able to override and micromanage things if you want, but that would allow you to play the game at a higher level of bureaucracy. Some additional zoning tricks would help.
Talk in terms they understand. No one cares about technology but techies. This means you must explain things in terms of:
The same could have been said of Microsoft a couple of decades back. Make enough cash doing your one trick, and you can buy anybody else doing innovative things.