Because women are every bit as smart and as intelligent as men. If the Insert-Your-Country-Here is going to stay competative with the rest of the world, it must use the talents of its whole population, not half.
Any country that figures out how to get women into tech in numbers equalling men will have a great advantage. Their talent pool will be double relative to other countries.
"Do no evil" is not "Be holier than though." Do no evil does not mean they can force their values upon other countries.
Their choices are to operate in China under China's rules, or to get out. They can't choose to operate in China under US rules. So which is better for their users? I think it's better, less evil, for google to run their Chinese access under Chinese rules, than to provide no access at all.
Actually, there is a point to prohibiting illegal activities in a license-- without doing so the license is still valid even if the law is broken.
For example, when you apply for a work visa or green card you are told that you cannot sell drugs (or commit genocide, or...) while you have your visa. This clause easily allows the goverment to revoke your visa and kick you out of the country should you get caught selling drugs.
Likewise, prohibiting software that illegaly invades a user's privacy makes it much easier to yank license should the developer do so.
Some thoughts on luck and success. Being in the right place at the right time is very important to succeeding, but, that only sounds like like luck. You still need your brain to figure out things like:
Could this situation ever lead to the right place at the right time?
If not, how can I find a place that will one day be the right time?
If so, do I have the skills to follow through when the opportunity shows up?
You make your own luck. That may sound trite, but it's very true.
It's an unfortunate fact of capitalism that prices are not based on cost plus fair markup. Prices are set by supply and demand. As the demand for domain's goes up, so goes the price. The only practical way to lower the price is to increase the supply-- more registrars. Already you see that, if you shop around you can register your domain for much less than what Verisgn charges.
Perhaps Wikipedia articles should start off clearly marked as "opinion, unreviewed or unedited" and only after several rounds of review would they be promoted to the encyclopdia proper.
Most of Wikipedia's problems stem from the fact that it calls it's self a free encyclopedia and when people think of encyclopedias they think of "A work containing factual articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged alphabetically"
Many of the non-science articles in Wikipedia are as much opinion as fact. The article on my home town was once "When it comes to culture XXXX seems in many ways able only to grasp the most dominant [[trends]] and, once this has occurred, unable to abandon them. Thus explaining the overwhelming popularity of oakley [[sunglasses]] (adopted in the mid-90s) combined with [[mullets]] (circa 1986), [[2Pac]] music, and [[jean jackets]]."
Clearly, marking new and unreviwed articles as opinion would go a long way to help Wiki's image.
I wish we all knew guys like your vender. It would make life much easier. I've been burned by very small vendors. It's not that they all make crap. It's just that they tend to vanish one day or unknowingly give you a monther board that dies after a year. With a big name brand vendor I can get an extended service contract that I know will be useful two years from now.
I own a medium sized retail store. My hours are frequently 12 hours a day six days a week, and 6 hours on Sunday. I need my computers to work and I don't have free time to fuss with them. My business is to sell, not to configure. If I have to trade between saving a few hundred bucks but spending a day building and tweaking a computera, vs spending a few hundred bucks, but paying more attention to my customers, then I have to choose the later. The later will pay dividends over the years. The former is a one time savings.
This is kind of like the auto industry. A safe well trained driver doesn't need seat belts, air bags and crumple zones. But for the rest of us they are great ideas.
In the past many cars were very unsafe. Read "Unsafe at Any Speed" for more on that. By making the auto industry responsible for its product, things improved greatly.
If it happens once, then it was a fluke. If it happens many times, then you have a problem with the product, in this case banking
It would be interesting to know how many people don't blog for fame-- blogging for personal or practicle reasons. Quite honestly, a blog is often better than a notebook. You can update your blog from any computer. Blogs are hard to lose. They don't fall apart after months of use. And you can read a blog anywhere on the internet.
I have four personal blogs just for that reason-- a wine blog because I have problems remember that great wine I had last year, a photo blog because it's easier to blog photos than it is to email them to friends, a house maintenance blog because damned if I can remember the last time I replaced the furnance filters, and a generic personal blog.
I don't consider this "blog spam" I don't hype or advertise them. Yes they are public, but it's easier to have a public blog, than a private blog for a dozen or so people. And, they are just so damn convienent.
First you say "Responsible disclosure has no real benefit to the end user" Then you say "It may stop some percentage of big outbreaks of worms"
Isn't that a real benefit to the end user? Isn't that a real benefit to administrators? Yes, crackers may be able to use the hack for a bit longer. But the script kiddes won't and that is a very big benefit.
>> That's the thing that fervent, DRM supports just don't seem to understand. If you can hear it, you can record it.
There is one thing that the fervent DRM deniers just don't seem to understand-- all locks can be picked yet locks are still useful. The goal isn't to be perfect. The goal is to be good enough that most people will won't make the effort to crack the DRM. The rest can be delt with through the courts.
The laptop market has split into two. On one hand you have machines like the Inspirion 700m or the Apple Powerbook. Both weighing in at around 4.6 lbs, really are for people on the go.
The second market is for people who need a computer, but don't want cables and boxes and monitors and powerbars cluttering up their office. That's who machines like the Inspirion XPS Gen2 http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category. aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhsare are for. If you have a 17'', 10 lbs laptop, you don't want portability. You want a real computer, that looks nice and doesn't take too much space.
It's this second group that Raid-on-a-laptop would be perfect for.
When did the Mac go color? I can't find a good reference, but I remember that Win 3.0 had color years before Mac. This was a big selling point for Win 3.0. Sure the Mac's UI was better, but you had to spend time with both OS's to notice. Color on the other hand-- you could instantly see the difference. Your gut told you that Win 3.0 was modern and the Mac was old.
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IPV6 suffers from the another-technology-is-good-enough-and-cheaper problem.
Beta was superior, VHS was good enough and cheaper.
Audiofile stereo equipment is superior. An IPod is good enough and cheaper.
IPV6 is superior. IPV4+NAT is good enough and cheaper. Which is very unfortunate because IPV6 solves real problems.
Because women are every bit as smart and as intelligent as men. If the Insert-Your-Country-Here is going to stay competative with the rest of the world, it must use the talents of its whole population, not half.
Any country that figures out how to get women into tech in numbers equalling men will have a great advantage. Their talent pool will be double relative to other countries.
"Do no evil" is not "Be holier than though." Do no evil does not mean they can force their values upon other countries.
Their choices are to operate in China under China's rules, or to get out. They can't choose to operate in China under US rules. So which is better for their users? I think it's better, less evil, for google to run their Chinese access under Chinese rules, than to provide no access at all.
Actually, there is a point to prohibiting illegal activities in a license-- without doing so the license is still valid even if the law is broken.
For example, when you apply for a work visa or green card you are told that you cannot sell drugs (or commit genocide, or...) while you have your visa. This clause easily allows the goverment to revoke your visa and kick you out of the country should you get caught selling drugs.
Likewise, prohibiting software that illegaly invades a user's privacy makes it much easier to yank license should the developer do so.
Could this situation ever lead to the right place at the right time?
If not, how can I find a place that will one day be the right time?
If so, do I have the skills to follow through when the opportunity shows up?
You make your own luck. That may sound trite, but it's very true.
It's an unfortunate fact of capitalism that prices are not based on cost plus fair markup. Prices are set by supply and demand. As the demand for domain's goes up, so goes the price. The only practical way to lower the price is to increase the supply-- more registrars. Already you see that, if you shop around you can register your domain for much less than what Verisgn charges.
Google: Number of employees.. 4183 http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/facts.html
Net earnings: $1.297 billion.
Revenus $5.25 billion
IBM: Number of employees...369277 http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/ibm.htm l
Net earnings: $7.797 billion.
Revenues: $94 billion
MSFT: Number of employees... 57000 http://www.networkworld.com/news/financial/microso ft.html
Net earnings: 12.867 billion.
Revenues $40.340 billion
Most of Wikipedia's problems stem from the fact that it calls it's self a free encyclopedia and when people think of encyclopedias they think of "A work containing factual articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged alphabetically"
Many of the non-science articles in Wikipedia are as much opinion as fact. The article on my home town was once "When it comes to culture XXXX seems in many ways able only to grasp the most dominant [[trends]] and, once this has occurred, unable to abandon them. Thus explaining the overwhelming popularity of oakley [[sunglasses]] (adopted in the mid-90s) combined with [[mullets]] (circa 1986), [[2Pac]] music, and [[jean jackets]]."
Clearly, marking new and unreviwed articles as opinion would go a long way to help Wiki's image.
Brand name for me.
I wish we all knew guys like your vender. It would make life much easier. I've been burned by very small vendors. It's not that they all make crap. It's just that they tend to vanish one day or unknowingly give you a monther board that dies after a year. With a big name brand vendor I can get an extended service contract that I know will be useful two years from now.
I own a medium sized retail store. My hours are frequently 12 hours a day six days a week, and 6 hours on Sunday. I need my computers to work and I don't have free time to fuss with them. My business is to sell, not to configure. If I have to trade between saving a few hundred bucks but spending a day building and tweaking a computera, vs spending a few hundred bucks, but paying more attention to my customers, then I have to choose the later. The later will pay dividends over the years. The former is a one time savings.
This is kind of like the auto industry. A safe well trained driver doesn't need seat belts, air bags and crumple zones. But for the rest of us they are great ideas.
In the past many cars were very unsafe. Read "Unsafe at Any Speed" for more on that. By making the auto industry responsible for its product, things improved greatly.
If it happens once, then it was a fluke. If it happens many times, then you have a problem with the product, in this case banking
A fun read....
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeremyk/archive/2004/07/19/1 87696.aspx/
It's about an MSFT engineer tracking down a problem caused by a bug in a root kit.
It would be interesting to know how many people don't blog for fame-- blogging for personal or practicle reasons. Quite honestly, a blog is often better than a notebook. You can update your blog from any computer. Blogs are hard to lose. They don't fall apart after months of use. And you can read a blog anywhere on the internet.
I have four personal blogs just for that reason-- a wine blog because I have problems remember that great wine I had last year, a photo blog because it's easier to blog photos than it is to email them to friends, a house maintenance blog because damned if I can remember the last time I replaced the furnance filters, and a generic personal blog.
I don't consider this "blog spam" I don't hype or advertise them. Yes they are public, but it's easier to have a public blog, than a private blog for a dozen or so people. And, they are just so damn convienent.
Isn't that a real benefit to the end user? Isn't that a real benefit to administrators? Yes, crackers may be able to use the hack for a bit longer. But the script kiddes won't and that is a very big benefit.
>> That's the thing that fervent, DRM supports just don't seem to understand. If you can hear it, you can record it. There is one thing that the fervent DRM deniers just don't seem to understand-- all locks can be picked yet locks are still useful. The goal isn't to be perfect. The goal is to be good enough that most people will won't make the effort to crack the DRM. The rest can be delt with through the courts.
The second market is for people who need a computer, but don't want cables and boxes and monitors and powerbars cluttering up their office. That's who machines like the Inspirion XPS Gen2 http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category. aspx/notebooks?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhsare are for. If you have a 17'', 10 lbs laptop, you don't want portability. You want a real computer, that looks nice and doesn't take too much space.
It's this second group that Raid-on-a-laptop would be perfect for.
When did the Mac go color? I can't find a good reference, but I remember that Win 3.0 had color years before Mac. This was a big selling point for Win 3.0. Sure the Mac's UI was better, but you had to spend time with both OS's to notice. Color on the other hand-- you could instantly see the difference. Your gut told you that Win 3.0 was modern and the Mac was old.