Aren't they afraid of P2P networks? If various versions of their OS, originally licensed to world governments, keep leaking, don't they think these sources will leak, too? Brave or dumb or... sneaky?
P.S. If you (want to) full-text search your bookmarks && use Mozilla or Firefox, check out this search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Ah, you need an account there? Just use this demo account for now.
Bah, forget using A9 for searching your bookmarks. If you want a good full-text search for your bookmarks, just use a service that specializes in that, like Simpy. You can try a live demo using a demo account here.
I think we should watch out for Gates invest in facilities (and other things) for increasingly younger generations. If you think about it, this could give him access to the minds of the future at an early age, where his influence can be the greatest. One he has this access he can turn a large percentage of the new generation into Microsoft drones (not employees - users). Gates know first hand what it means to have access to the masses (Windows desktop). Think about it and monitor where this is going.
These stats are correct, but really only for sites that early adopters and technical users flock to. For instance, Simpy (see URL in sig) is obviously something that power Web users will find useful, and its stats reflect that:
38% -- Mozilla family 35% -- IE 4% -- Safari 3% -- Opera
On the OS front:
62% -- Windows 12% -- Linux 6% -- Macintosh
These stats also tells us that a lot of Mozilla/Firefox users are Windows users.
Has anyone studied has this affects the life expectancy of affected plants? I guess it may depend on the music you play. If you play Kenny G, they won't last a week. Celine Dion, maybe 2.
That is interesting. I know a number of people on H1-Bs on very high salaries. Too high, even. (read: salaries that make the U.S. work force so expensive, that people are turning to India, China and other countries with cheaper labour). I also know U.S. citizens asking for salaries that are much lower than those of H1-Bs.
How are H1-Bs lowering U.S. salaries then? I am talking about a high-tech sector.
Illegal aliens are illegal. We could stop the discussion right there. But I won't. Your ancestors came to country that was not yours, and created the USA. So live with the fact that migrations are something that will never stop, and try to understand who look for a better life, the same way your ancestors did.
Let me quote something for you:
FROM THE AUGUST 14, 2001 ISSUE OF VILLAGE VOICE ONLINE: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0132/letters.ph p
ENTRY LEVEL Michael Kamber's article "On the Corner" should serve as a wake-up call to all New Yorkers on the need to reduce immigration to levels that America can absorb. But it tells only half the storythe people standing on street corners are replacing American teenagers who need entry-level jobs to learn how to support themselves.
The city comptroller's office has estimated that New York City's teenage employment rate is 20 percent, which is 25 points less than the national average. The reason for the disparity is that New York is overpopulated due to immigration.
The comptroller's office is advocating public service jobs and tax breaks to increase employment, and those are good things. However, the number of immigrants in New York is severely impacting the lives of American children, with overcrowded classrooms and few jobs. That would make an excellent follow-up article for Kamber.
Ed Price, President Tri-State Immigration Moratorium Manhattan
Michael Kamber replies: There is anecdotal evidence that immigrants do indeed compete with entry-level American citizen workers. On the other hand, the wave of immigrants in the 1980s is widely credited with stimulating New York's economy during tough times. There have always been movements to close America's doors to immigrants; fortunately, these were not successful before my grandparents arrived here - or yours.
As for things shifting from the US to Chinas and Indias of the world, I see that as a nature keeping things in balance. Why are jobs moving there? Because the labour in the US is too expensive? Why is labour in the US so expensive? Because people are living like there is no tomorrow: big houses, several houses, several cars, big cars, SUVs, monster malls, tons of air-conditioners, a LOT of consumption, a lot of waste creation, a lot of pollutants, etc. If things were to continue this way, there would be a huge disbalance, a big disturbance in the force;), and we all know that can't last. In order for things to continue, they need to remain in the equilibrium. What you see with job shifts is just one small part of that - keeping the global equlibrium.
Ah, there are some good sides to working hard. I know I am working hard. I don't always enjoy it, but I am often happy with myself. In any case, what does this have to do with slavery?
I went to China recently. Guandzhou, more precisely. A monster of a city. HUGE! More skyscrapers than in NYC (but mostly residential... which is actually scary). Anyhow, as I walked through Guangzhou downtown, which is full of tall, glass-and-steel office-space skyscrapers, I thought to myself: why don't U.S. companies (and not just the MSFTs, GOOGs, and ORCLs) come here and open offices? It would make their money last SO much longer. If I had a start-up, one of the things that I think I would do, is open an engineering office in China. Maybe even deeper in China, as people there are supposed to be even more hard-working than people in Canton. If my company was running on VC money, this would be a great move, IMHO.
Why aren't more _young_ U.S. companies doing this?
Is he also, by any chance, suggesting a solution: buy more, newever, faster Intel chips!?
Re:An alternative idea for complete indexing....
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This, or something akeen to this has already been tried years ago with Harvest and its SOIF records (I think that was the name). The idea was to index locally, while being a part of a larger index network. Obviously, it never worked.
There is a mailing list for people involved with writing and running web crawlers (aka spider or robots), and several years ago there was a lot of talk about making crawling and indexing more efficient by enchancing the 'robot exclusion protocol' (i.e. robots.txt) by creating a system in which sites would advertize what pages have changed, so that web crawlers could do less crawling and poking around (read wasting time, bandwidth, CPU power, electricity, etc.) and just pick up the pages that needed to be (re)indexed. That was never realized either.
Over time corporations that run search engines have become more and more closed and protective of their propriatory technology and practices, which gives them the edge in our highly competitive world. Who can blame them. As the result, it is more and more difficult to enhance things like 'robots exclusion protocol', as it requires open talk, agreements, etc.
Ah.... this makes me said, I'll stop reminiscing.
Timing Google (Re:Last time I checked,)
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Which reminds me of an interesting long-term monitoring idea: track Google responses for the same query over a long time, and monitor the response time (e.g. 0.19 seconds in the above example). Is anyone doing this?
A year+ ago there was some talk of a robot that picked fruits or vegetables on plantations, while using the rotten fruits that fell on the ground for fuel. I can't find the link now:(
On a related note, here is an interesting bit about a solar powered robot. Note the date and note the mentions of NASA projects. Sounds familiar?
Making money from technical books - not happening
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As a co-author of an upcoming technical book (Lucene in Action - not a plug, just providing context), let me just address this:
Reading them, one gets the feeling that its primary purpose is to allow the author to make some payments on a car or mortgage.
Unless we are talking about a book that really interests a LARGE portion of the geeks out there, the above statement is really missing the point. I don't know any technical book authors who do it for the money. I am certainly not writing for the money. Royalties are nice, but they are really small in the end, especially when you consider the time and effort that you put in writing technical books. In addition, think about the 'life expectancy' of a book that covers a technical topic - not much longer than firefly's.
Long story short, one doesn't write this type of stuff to make money, and Mark certainly didn't write Dive into Python for $$$ - I've had it bookmark in my Simpy account (URL in sig) for 6+ months now. I just wanted to get this straight, so there is no confusion. This may also be interesting to those considering writing a book on a technical topic.
I cannot speak about the IBM support, but I can speak about using a less main-stream Linux distro, such as Debian in a serious, commercial software development shop. What I found was that a lot of time was wasted on getting some of the more complex applications to work on it (e.g. Oracle 9i), while getting the same sw to run on something more 'standard', such as RedHat, was a bit easier. In fast-paced environments where every developer's day counts, this does matter. This experience is a bit over 1 year old, so maybe (hopefully!) things have changed since then.
This is a bit sad, as none of the things mentioned, Napster, iPods, Rhapsody, and Cdigix really helps educate young people. Like with so many things in life this is simply the consequence of ever-increasing demand for something new. That is why we now have larger cars, boats, houses, etc. Of course, these little college perks are paid by mommies and daddies in a form of $30,000+ USD tuitions. I'd rather go to a college that offered more unusual courses, like semester at the sea, instead of getting an iPod. Great value system...
GNOME has Beagle (Re:"Implementing in GNOME")
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Read about Beagle here. I posted about this on Slashdot a few days ago.
Slashdot Mirror
See this 1 month old blog entry: The Google Browser
Aren't they afraid of P2P networks? If various versions of their OS, originally licensed to world governments, keep leaking, don't they think these sources will leak, too? Brave or dumb or... sneaky?
I'll subscribe, not only if it doesn't include those annoying X10 pop-under ads. Oh, this is print?
Does anyone have that stat? THAT would be useful!
P.S.
If you (want to) full-text search your bookmarks && use Mozilla or Firefox, check out this search plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. Ah, you need an account there? Just use this demo account for now.
Bah, forget using A9 for searching your bookmarks. If you want a good full-text search for your bookmarks, just use a service that specializes in that, like Simpy. You can try a live demo using a demo account here.
Rats don't make babiesin a structured way, but there are still lots of them.... especially in New York City.
I think we should watch out for Gates invest in facilities (and other things) for increasingly younger generations. If you think about it, this could give him access to the minds of the future at an early age, where his influence can be the greatest. One he has this access he can turn a large percentage of the new generation into Microsoft drones (not employees - users). Gates know first hand what it means to have access to the masses (Windows desktop). Think about it and monitor where this is going.
These stats are correct, but really only for sites that early adopters and technical users flock to. For instance, Simpy (see URL in sig) is obviously something that power Web users will find useful, and its stats reflect that:
38% -- Mozilla family
35% -- IE
4% -- Safari
3% -- Opera
On the OS front:
62% -- Windows
12% -- Linux
6% -- Macintosh
These stats also tells us that a lot of Mozilla/Firefox users are Windows users.
Has anyone studied has this affects the life expectancy of affected plants? I guess it may depend on the music you play. If you play Kenny G, they won't last a week. Celine Dion, maybe 2.
That is interesting. I know a number of people on H1-Bs on very high salaries. Too high, even. (read: salaries that make the U.S. work force so expensive, that people are turning to India, China and other countries with cheaper labour). I also know U.S. citizens asking for salaries that are much lower than those of H1-Bs.
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;), and we all know that can't last. In order for things to continue, they need to remain in the equilibrium. What you see with job shifts is just one small part of that - keeping the global equlibrium.
How are H1-Bs lowering U.S. salaries then? I am talking about a high-tech sector.
Illegal aliens are illegal. We could stop the discussion right there. But I won't. Your ancestors came to country that was not yours, and created the USA. So live with the fact that migrations are something that will never stop, and try to understand who look for a better life, the same way your ancestors did.
Let me quote something for you:
FROM THE AUGUST 14, 2001 ISSUE OF VILLAGE VOICE
ONLINE: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0132/letters.p
ENTRY LEVEL
Michael Kamber's article "On the Corner" should serve as a wake-up call to
all New Yorkers on the need to reduce immigration to levels that America
can absorb. But it tells only half the storythe people standing on street
corners are replacing American teenagers who need entry-level jobs to
learn how to support themselves.
The city comptroller's office has estimated that New York City's teenage
employment rate is 20 percent, which is 25 points less than the national
average. The reason for the disparity is that New York is overpopulated
due to immigration.
The comptroller's office is advocating public service jobs and tax breaks
to increase employment, and those are good things. However, the number of
immigrants in New York is severely impacting the lives of American
children, with overcrowded classrooms and few jobs. That would make an
excellent follow-up article for Kamber.
Ed Price, President
Tri-State Immigration Moratorium
Manhattan
Michael Kamber replies: There is anecdotal evidence that immigrants do
indeed compete with entry-level American citizen workers. On the other
hand, the wave of immigrants in the 1980s is widely credited with
stimulating New York's economy during tough times. There have always been
movements to close America's doors to immigrants; fortunately, these were
not successful before my grandparents arrived here - or yours.
As for things shifting from the US to Chinas and Indias of the world, I see that as a nature keeping things in balance. Why are jobs moving there? Because the labour in the US is too expensive? Why is labour in the US so expensive? Because people are living like there is no tomorrow: big houses, several houses, several cars, big cars, SUVs, monster malls, tons of air-conditioners, a LOT of consumption, a lot of waste creation, a lot of pollutants, etc. If things were to continue this way, there would be a huge disbalance, a big disturbance in the force
Ah, there are some good sides to working hard. I know I am working hard. I don't always enjoy it, but I am often happy with myself. In any case, what does this have to do with slavery?
I went to China recently. Guandzhou, more precisely. A monster of a city. HUGE! More skyscrapers than in NYC (but mostly residential... which is actually scary).
Anyhow, as I walked through Guangzhou downtown, which is full of tall, glass-and-steel office-space skyscrapers, I thought to myself: why don't U.S. companies (and not just the MSFTs, GOOGs, and ORCLs) come here and open offices? It would make their money last SO much longer.
If I had a start-up, one of the things that I think I would do, is open an engineering office in China. Maybe even deeper in China, as people there are supposed to be even more hard-working than people in Canton. If my company was running on VC money, this would be a great move, IMHO.
Why aren't more _young_ U.S. companies doing this?
Then it's no wonder Intel Predicts Death of WWW, as seen earlier today on Slashdot.
Is he also, by any chance, suggesting a solution: buy more, newever, faster Intel chips!?
This, or something akeen to this has already been tried years ago with Harvest and its SOIF records (I think that was the name). The idea was to index locally, while being a part of a larger index network. Obviously, it never worked.
There is a mailing list for people involved with writing and running web crawlers (aka spider or robots), and several years ago there was a lot of talk about making crawling and indexing more efficient by enchancing the 'robot exclusion protocol' (i.e. robots.txt) by creating a system in which sites would advertize what pages have changed, so that web crawlers could do less crawling and poking around (read wasting time, bandwidth, CPU power, electricity, etc.) and just pick up the pages that needed to be (re)indexed. That was never realized either.
Over time corporations that run search engines have become more and more closed and protective of their propriatory technology and practices, which gives them the edge in our highly competitive world. Who can blame them. As the result, it is more and more difficult to enhance things like 'robots exclusion protocol', as it requires open talk, agreements, etc.
Ah.... this makes me said, I'll stop reminiscing.
Which reminds me of an interesting long-term monitoring idea: track Google responses for the same query over a long time, and monitor the response time (e.g. 0.19 seconds in the above example). Is anyone doing this?
How come there is no Googol? No GOOG for you!
For those too young to remember, this would be BARN: Bourne Again RealNames
Something to reminisce:
RealNames Wayback.
You can see their fall here:
Realnames.com.
A year+ ago there was some talk of a robot that picked fruits or vegetables on plantations, while using the rotten fruits that fell on the ground for fuel. I can't find the link now :(
On a related note, here is an interesting bit about a solar powered robot. Note the date and note the mentions of NASA projects. Sounds familiar?
Reading them, one gets the feeling that its primary purpose is to allow the author to make some payments on a car or mortgage.
Unless we are talking about a book that really interests a LARGE portion of the geeks out there, the above statement is really missing the point. I don't know any technical book authors who do it for the money. I am certainly not writing for the money. Royalties are nice, but they are really small in the end, especially when you consider the time and effort that you put in writing technical books. In addition, think about the 'life expectancy' of a book that covers a technical topic - not much longer than firefly's.
Long story short, one doesn't write this type of stuff to make money, and Mark certainly didn't write Dive into Python for $$$ - I've had it bookmark in my Simpy account (URL in sig) for 6+ months now. I just wanted to get this straight, so there is no confusion. This may also be interesting to those considering writing a book on a technical topic.
I cannot speak about the IBM support, but I can speak about using a less main-stream Linux distro, such as Debian in a serious, commercial software development shop. What I found was that a lot of time was wasted on getting some of the more complex applications to work on it (e.g. Oracle 9i), while getting the same sw to run on something more 'standard', such as RedHat, was a bit easier. In fast-paced environments where every developer's day counts, this does matter. This experience is a bit over 1 year old, so maybe (hopefully!) things have changed since then.
Nice, I can now build nice biceps while talking on the phone.
Do they also track their herds with GPS devices in Walla Walla?
This is a bit sad, as none of the things mentioned, Napster, iPods, Rhapsody, and Cdigix really helps educate young people. Like with so many things in life this is simply the consequence of ever-increasing demand for something new. That is why we now have larger cars, boats, houses, etc. Of course, these little college perks are paid by mommies and daddies in a form of $30,000+ USD tuitions. I'd rather go to a college that offered more unusual courses, like semester at the sea, instead of getting an iPod. Great value system...
Read about Beagle here. I posted about this on Slashdot a few days ago.