I don't understand the concern. This is almost exactly what happened in Delaware this past election. A crazy won, and the democrat, who might've otherwise lost, ended up winning by a landslide. The main difference is that it's the democrats initiating the process rather than letting it happen organically.
I'm not a Linux graybeard by any means. I installed Ubuntu back on July 4, and I can honestly say that I haven't booted into Windows in almost two weeks. I haven't needed or wanted to. (I spend most of my time playing with the LAMP stack.)
YouTube works fine, as does every other Flash site I visit. I had an issue the first time, did a GIS for a solution, did whatever it said, and I've been fine ever since. No browser crashes or anything, and this is 64 bit Linux. Was it as easy as it is in Windows? No. But it wasn't terribly hard, either.
I mentioned the Hatch-Waxman Act (PDF), which was passed in 1984. The Act was supposed to speed up the adoption of generic drugs when the patents behind name-brand drugs ran out. This happened at first, but as pharmacy has expanded, the Act has created a bottleneck at the FDA. It is speculated that the bottleneck is Big Pharma itself: creative lobbying seems to have resulted in a reduction in the budget for the Office of Generic Drugs -- which in turn has limited its capacity to approve generic drugs to some 400 per year.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find which drugs' patents will expire without a generic equivalent to take its place -- I suspect that none of them are massively profitable by themselves -- but all told, the market value of these 800 drugs is a whopping $78 billion per year for their manufacturers. For comparison, the entire generic drug industry is only worth just over $22 billion -- even though it accounts for over half the prescriptions dispensed each year in the United States. Broken down, that's almost $100 million per drug...
I know it's been running fine, I happen to use AWS.
But for business purposes, that fact isn't going to matter much to a PHB. What a PHB is going to remember is "Gee, didn't they have a serious outage a little while ago... better use something else!" Even if the best solution is, in fact, AWS + EC2.
Perception is more important than reality in business, unfortunately.
A bit strange, the people wondering why this is news. Amazon provides the backend for a number of web services with their EC2 and AWS platforms. This is going to make third parties seriously consider whether or not they want to trust Amazon with their business.
That is yet another reason why this is Real News(tm).
Digg sends far more traffic to a site than Slashdot does (obviously it wasn't always this way). And digg's traffic isn't particularly noteworthy to a site of any reasonable size. (Say, Ars Technica, nevermind amazon.)
Yahoo Buzz, on the other hand, sends *huge* amounts of traffic, noticeable to sites like, again, Ars but again no disruptions of service*. But I doubt that amazon would even hiccup. If you think slashdot would even be a blip on amazon's radar, you have some serious delusions about 1) slashdot's size 2) amazon's size or 3) both.
The sheer volume of traffic in GB for wikileaks doesn't seem terribly surprising. Rather, I suspect it is the dynamic nature of the website that brought it down. Simple filehosting doesn't take much in terms of resources provided your pipe is fat enough. Dynamic content, OTOH, does. I suspect they'll need to tweak/implement a caching system to mitigate this problem going forward.
Why am I being asked to log in before I read a fucking blog?
I've tried both Firefox and Safari now, and both ask me to log in. Even going to the root blog URL redirects me to a login page.
There are a lot of factors in play here that aren't addressed in the WaPo article, such as how education has become a zero-sum game where there are indeed winners and losers which creates this sort of competition. I would imagine that the programming world is similar, in a more overt way.
I'm afraid I don't understand what problem this is solving. It's like a solution that's still looking for an problem to solve.
As an end user, why should I care?
I'm not trolling; I just don't get it.
While it's funny to laugh about that McDonald's lawsuit, the fact of the matter is that the woman ended up with 3rd degree burns. It's pretty damn hard to get a 3rd degree burn -- nevermind getting one from coffee. She was perfectly justified in suing McDonalds: that coffee was WAY hotter than it should have been. (I say this as someone who hates ridiculous lawsuits (like the one in this story) as much as anyone else.)
The funny thing is that the ruling is largely symbolic anyway, and still has to pass the French Senate. From this article:
But despite reports, this does not mean that P2P is legal in France. The vote would still need to pass in the French Senate, and even before then, it will probably need a second reading in the lower house, because the first one was a sham. To put it bluntly, this is a publicity stunt. The bill, which passed last night by a vote of 30 to 28, saw the remaining 519 deputies absent from the vote. They weren't there.
They certainly build them, and shoddy build quality can certainly be a detriment to an otherwise superbly-designed product. I say that as someone who used to cut corners as one cog in a production line. It came back to bite me in the ass later.
i seriously doubt the allegation that unions are bad for the economy. do you know any studies/research about this? the theory that unions are bad for the economy sounds like a fat corporate trying to justify why unions should be abolished. face the facts - unions are the people. economy depends on how comfortable and well fed people are. atleast that's what i think.
Have you ever worked for a union? I have. And by and large, they promote mediocrity. On a not-so-personal level, take a look at American automakers. The unions are strangling them, and one of the reasons they turn out junk is because of the unions. American cars are decidedly average, and that's what unions promote: being average. In fact, where I worked, if you were better than average, you were looked down upon and made to feel unwelcome.
As it's shaping up right now, Google, monopoly or not, is beginning to look like the only thing that might possess the throw-weight to successfully counter the otherwise alarming trend that has recently manifested itself among almost all large capitalist enterprises, and that is the trend of restricting and choking access to information/data/operating code to the point where no one is able to access/use/employ that information/data/operating code without the considered permissions of whomever "owns" it.
Mindshare, while powerful, is no substitute for pure economic power. In that respect, Google is actually quite small when compared to MSFT, for example, WalMart as well. (And its stock price is floating much higher than it should, compared to the two I mentioned.)
I'm not sure why this is modded insightful. As a member of Wal-Mart's board, it is his job to do what's in the best interest of Wal-Mart and its shareholders, not the general public. Railing against a businessman for doing what makes sense for his business is more than a little silly.
I'm no fan of Wal-Mart by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm a capitalist at heart, and seeing comments like these make me scratch my head in confusion.
Don't feel bad. This article was submitted this morning and it was denied. Slashdot editors don't exactly communicate with one another. Nor are they consistent. Nor are they especially bright.
Alexander Fleming was a hack who accidentally discovered penicillin, and then made the bone-headed statement that it would never be significant or medically useful. He was hardly a "great" scientist.
What the fuck are you on about? H. pylori is treated with a combination of two drugs at a time. Usually amoxicillin and clarithromycin (Biaxin) or Amox + metronidazole (Flagyl). These aren't new or drugs specifically designed to target H. pylori. They're broad-spectrum antibiotics used for many things.
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I don't understand the concern. This is almost exactly what happened in Delaware this past election. A crazy won, and the democrat, who might've otherwise lost, ended up winning by a landslide. The main difference is that it's the democrats initiating the process rather than letting it happen organically.
I'm not a Linux graybeard by any means. I installed Ubuntu back on July 4, and I can honestly say that I haven't booted into Windows in almost two weeks. I haven't needed or wanted to. (I spend most of my time playing with the LAMP stack.)
YouTube works fine, as does every other Flash site I visit. I had an issue the first time, did a GIS for a solution, did whatever it said, and I've been fine ever since. No browser crashes or anything, and this is 64 bit Linux. Was it as easy as it is in Windows? No. But it wasn't terribly hard, either.
The Big Picture photoblog is quite good. I've been subscribed to its RSS feed for nearly a month now, and it never disappoints.
From here:
Staggering numbers.
I know it's been running fine, I happen to use AWS.
But for business purposes, that fact isn't going to matter much to a PHB. What a PHB is going to remember is "Gee, didn't they have a serious outage a little while ago... better use something else!" Even if the best solution is, in fact, AWS + EC2.
Perception is more important than reality in business, unfortunately.
A bit strange, the people wondering why this is news. Amazon provides the backend for a number of web services with their EC2 and AWS platforms. This is going to make third parties seriously consider whether or not they want to trust Amazon with their business.
That is yet another reason why this is Real News(tm).
Digg sends far more traffic to a site than Slashdot does (obviously it wasn't always this way). And digg's traffic isn't particularly noteworthy to a site of any reasonable size. (Say, Ars Technica, nevermind amazon.)
Yahoo Buzz, on the other hand, sends *huge* amounts of traffic, noticeable to sites like, again, Ars but again no disruptions of service*. But I doubt that amazon would even hiccup. If you think slashdot would even be a blip on amazon's radar, you have some serious delusions about 1) slashdot's size 2) amazon's size or 3) both.
* According to one of the devs.
FTFA, since you obviously didn't read it, or you would have seen the URLs. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0407081google2.html It's VERY CLEARLY on private property, and very clearly right the fuck in front of the garage. Feet from the house.
Got slashdotted a few years ago when I was hosting Beethoven's symphonies that the BBC had made available for download.
~167GB in 5 hours. More here. The MRTG graphs are fun:
The sheer volume of traffic in GB for wikileaks doesn't seem terribly surprising. Rather, I suspect it is the dynamic nature of the website that brought it down. Simple filehosting doesn't take much in terms of resources provided your pipe is fat enough. Dynamic content, OTOH, does. I suspect they'll need to tweak/implement a caching system to mitigate this problem going forward.
Why am I being asked to log in before I read a fucking blog? I've tried both Firefox and Safari now, and both ask me to log in. Even going to the root blog URL redirects me to a login page.
There are a lot of factors in play here that aren't addressed in the WaPo article, such as how education has become a zero-sum game where there are indeed winners and losers which creates this sort of competition. I would imagine that the programming world is similar, in a more overt way.
This actually isn't true. Feedburner, for one, offers RSS advertising. I don't know if it's a pay-by-impression or pay-for-click model, though.
I'm afraid I don't understand what problem this is solving. It's like a solution that's still looking for an problem to solve. As an end user, why should I care? I'm not trolling; I just don't get it.
While it's funny to laugh about that McDonald's lawsuit, the fact of the matter is that the woman ended up with 3rd degree burns. It's pretty damn hard to get a 3rd degree burn -- nevermind getting one from coffee. She was perfectly justified in suing McDonalds: that coffee was WAY hotter than it should have been. (I say this as someone who hates ridiculous lawsuits (like the one in this story) as much as anyone else.)
Xoogler's says CmdrTaco has no idea WTF he's talking about.
What's a surprise.
Google could do one of two things: not be in China or comply with the Chinese government's requirements. Sounds like a no-brainer to me!
Google made the right decision. But go ahead and cue those retarded "Google jumped the shark!" comments anyway. They're always fun.
They certainly build them, and shoddy build quality can certainly be a detriment to an otherwise superbly-designed product. I say that as someone who used to cut corners as one cog in a production line. It came back to bite me in the ass later.
Have you ever worked for a union? I have. And by and large, they promote mediocrity. On a not-so-personal level, take a look at American automakers. The unions are strangling them, and one of the reasons they turn out junk is because of the unions. American cars are decidedly average, and that's what unions promote: being average. In fact, where I worked, if you were better than average, you were looked down upon and made to feel unwelcome.
Mindshare, while powerful, is no substitute for pure economic power. In that respect, Google is actually quite small when compared to MSFT, for example, WalMart as well. (And its stock price is floating much higher than it should, compared to the two I mentioned.)
Actually, Google's employees aren't paid especially well. They just get lots of side perks.
I'm not sure why this is modded insightful. As a member of Wal-Mart's board, it is his job to do what's in the best interest of Wal-Mart and its shareholders, not the general public. Railing against a businessman for doing what makes sense for his business is more than a little silly.
I'm no fan of Wal-Mart by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm a capitalist at heart, and seeing comments like these make me scratch my head in confusion.
Don't feel bad. This article was submitted this morning and it was denied. Slashdot editors don't exactly communicate with one another. Nor are they consistent. Nor are they especially bright.
Alexander Fleming was a hack who accidentally discovered penicillin, and then made the bone-headed statement that it would never be significant or medically useful. He was hardly a "great" scientist.
What the fuck are you on about? H. pylori is treated with a combination of two drugs at a time. Usually amoxicillin and clarithromycin (Biaxin) or Amox + metronidazole (Flagyl). These aren't new or drugs specifically designed to target H. pylori. They're broad-spectrum antibiotics used for many things.
WinFS is available as an add-on to Windows XP.