It was Wired Magazine that had the interview. I recall because it was one of the very rare occasions when I actually bought a copy.
Even if it wasn't after football, going up against 60 minutes is a lousy spot. They ought to put it after the Simpsons and put Malcolm in the middle someplace very far away...
They have been doing indexing of public intranet sites (like try here) but this is different since it is in the intranet and has to host the hardware.
Does anyone but me think that this may not work so great? The way that google works for the web (filtering down way too many hits and ranking them) is quite different than an intranet where fuzzy searching / regular expressions is alot more necessary. The Apple Developer Site (link above) uses google and it stinks!
That isn't to say garbage collection is necessarily a bad thing -- it's good for security and portability (the two things Java really aims for) since it eliminates the need for all those nasty pointers. But it's the main reason C++ code can runs circles around similar Java code. And doing native compilation won't help the situation any.
Garbage collection is not by definition slow and is generally the same as new/malloc -- although lots of people seem to think it is alot slower. For non-gui code and if your doing pure Java code (i.e. no JNI) the performence is rougly comparable to C++ (assuming you have a good JVM).
but those numbers speak to a real difficulty to get a sustainable business online due to low customer loyalty inherent when there is no geographic locality and hence no physical reality to such retailers
Now, I'm just spit-balling here but maybe the problem was that they were one of MANY places trying to sell vitamins / drugs / health items online and the fact that the marginal value of each customer was $10 was a symptom of this rather than the other way around?
It all goes to prove my theory: Shitty businesses eventually fail. Course, that's just me, maybe it really was a wonderful business and not just another me too cash grab.
In the wake of the dot-com washout, a lot people nearly wrote off cyberspace as a retailing wasteland.
Yes, people are stupid that way just as before they argued, on slim evidence, that online retailing would change everything.
The final Christmas shopping figures for 2001 are not in, but some industry analysts believe the new savvy and sensitivity of online retailers might have rescued the U.S. Christmas shopping season in the wake of September 11, when a lot of people either stayed home or tightened their belts.
Ahhhh, I see, so the same idiots who wanted to predict the future and have been wrong in the past, are now pontificating on how they were wrong (again) and that they have a new prediction.
Tell ya what. How about we wait for a few quaters of profitability (nay, a few years) before we start spouting off on how in the future, all work will be done by shiny metal robots before. Until then, I'm not devoting anymore cycles to analysts, futarists, pundits, Jon Katz or any of the other self-important wankers whose parasitic existence distract those of us who actually, ya know, DO THINGS WITH OUR LIVES!
A big part of sarcasm is making it funny so pardon me if I did not "get" it. Yes, it is all stealing. So is what the RIAA does to bands. "Legal" and "stealing" are subjective things these days.
Actually, I think you have it backwards. For most large bands, all their merchandising and touring is handled through the same people who do the CD distribution, and thus they still get only a small cut.
Well I was thinking of larger acts (since thats most of what people steal anyway). They rarely get squat from the recording contract (see here). Concert promotion is handled by another set of sleazy middle men (like Ticketmaster for example) but, as a rule, Bands get a much higher percentage of the profits for live performences -- which is why most of them tour themselves to death (see pretty much any episode of "VH1: Behind the Music"). The t-shirts, lunchboxes and actions figures with the kung-fu grip are what Krusty the Klown refers to as "the sweetest plum". So buying CD's pretty much just fattens the bottom line of the record company. As the saying goes "The world is so full of crap, why bother wiping your ass".
Independent acts are a whole different story and your points are well taken.
So Napster just wanted to give back to the music community right? That's why they went to court to fight it right? The truth is, Napster was hoping to make a buck off of artists without compensating them in pretty much the same way that those parasites the RIAA do. If they'd gone the gnutella model, I would have no issue with it.
If you want to "support the artists" (which everyone claims they do) go to a concert and/or buy a t-shirt. Everything else (CD's, MTV videos, etc) just goes to pay the parasitic middle men.
Here's a thought -- maybe if he hadn't tried to make a buck out it and he released it to the world, everyone would have been a little better off. But I guess he wouldn't have been on the cover of Business 2.0 (or whatever) then...
Be prepared however, to be vilified, persecuted draged through the courts or worst of all ignored, but whatever you do, dont complain.
"It's easy to complain"
"Fun too!"
-- Homer J Simpson
The BMW analogy is true to an extent (i.e. they have about the same market share and they sell "premium"
"well designed" products -- I don't actually like Macs or BMW's but for differnt reasons). But the key issue is interoperability with the rest of the world. If I could only get BMW gas at 5% of the gas stations in the world, would you still want one?
I hate the "Learn X in 24 hours" or a day or a week. What's the point? They don't know how fast or slow I read. Are there really people who have to know UML within 24 hours?
Is it me or does the Amazon link have a "refer" parameter in it. Saaaaay.... you wouldn't be posting this to boost your Amazon Associate sales would you?
"Al Gore... This guys a real visionary. His favorite movie is tron for Christsake!" -- Dennis Miller
Yeah, but nobody is buying audio only CD-R's (I know they definately used to cost $20, I can belive they are cheaper now -- the recorders still seem to be ludicrously expensive). Philips wouldn't look on Cd copy protection as muddying their CD format, it's "innovation" which will sell more of their audio CD-R's and (most likely) lead to new patents. If you think that phillips is going to sue someone like the deep-pocketed RIAA over a technical dispute, you better think again.
Honestly, Philips only has there self interest at stake here. I'm sure it's just posturing to get there own CD copy protection scheme in place. Hopefully they will do as bad a job as the DVD people did. The one thing we can all be sure of is that they don't care about you, me or the CD consumer -- these are the same people who try to sell "audio" CD-R's for $20!
I recall someone who worked at Philips telling me -- "How was copper wire invented? Philips management squeezing a penny".
The whole thing always seemed like a total house of cards anyway, teetering as it did on the extremely crapulent cookie spec. One good RFC would have put an end to the thing.
As for the argument that the overhead was minimal, it meant that every ad they served had to do a expensive select on their relational database thus contributing to the fact that any pages with DoubleClick ads were "slow as shit".
I think Salon has done the right thing. They were doomed otherwise - their stock was getting throttled (why they ever went public is beyond me) and advertising was flopping.
Actually, they're still doomed. The subscriptions don't even come close to covering there costs
While I am a proponent of building it yourself, alot of times naive people look at something like an ecommerce billing system (for example) and decide it should be easy because they are inexperienced. This is the same mentality people use when they decide to re-write big sections of code to make it cleaner! Hello! All those "unclean" parts are bugfixes that someone had to figure out and apply.
On the one hand, the VP of engineering (and apparently the only programmer at the place) had done something like this before. On the other hand, considering the problems they still need to deal with (handling foreign zip codes for AVN) kind of implies they have a long way to go... Obviously hiring someone else to do it does guarantee it will work well but a decent company will have solved all the problems you don't even know your going to have if you DIY.
I once told a district manager that they should consider changing the phone number from 1-800-PICK-UPS to 1-800-FUCK-UPS after they had screwed up yet again. Now a class operation like FedEx must be a totally different story...
Why were the costumes for the Tick and Arthur so different from the cartoon / comic (which I loved, BTW)? In particular, the Tick's eyes are not covered and Arthur's outfit doesn't look the same at all. Having a mask is a big part of being a super hero!
Will we see:
The evil midnight bomber?
Pineapple Pocopo?
The civic minded 5?
Hang 10 for justice!
I read the same article -- I think it was in the Economist at the end of June (if that helps anyone) in the Technology supplement.
He was working on Baysian classifiers to auto categorize your mail (amongst other things). The paperclip was just a very limited part of it and the change that were made when it was "productized" was to bias it show up frequently. Squeaky wheel gets the grease!
While I would agree that Java on the server-side is much more prominent and useful, Applets have their place. It's very useful to be able to shed some of you servers computational load onto the client side usually with better results. Even the crapiest SMTP client applet works ten times better than the shitty server side mail clients I have seen.
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Throw a rock and you could hit an open-source project. Do me a favour though -- throw it hard.
Settling bullshit lawsuits is kind of like paying terrorists. Once they know you'll pay, the bloods in the water and all the sharks will be after you.
It was Wired Magazine that had the interview. I recall because it was one of the very rare occasions when I actually bought a copy.
Even if it wasn't after football, going up against 60 minutes is a lousy spot. They ought to put it after the Simpsons and put Malcolm in the middle someplace very far away...
They have been doing indexing of public intranet sites (like try here) but this is different since it is in the intranet and has to host the hardware.
Does anyone but me think that this may not work so great? The way that google works for the web (filtering down way too many hits and ranking them) is quite different than an intranet where fuzzy searching / regular expressions is alot more necessary. The Apple Developer Site (link above) uses google and it stinks!
That isn't to say garbage collection is necessarily a bad thing -- it's good for security and portability (the two things Java really aims for) since it eliminates the need for all those nasty pointers. But it's the main reason C++ code can runs circles around similar Java code. And doing native compilation won't help the situation any.
Garbage collection is not by definition slow and is generally the same as new/malloc -- although lots of people seem to think it is alot slower. For non-gui code and if your doing pure Java code (i.e. no JNI) the performence is rougly comparable to C++ (assuming you have a good JVM).
but those numbers speak to a real difficulty to get a sustainable business online due to low customer loyalty inherent when there is no geographic locality and hence no physical reality to such retailers
Now, I'm just spit-balling here but maybe the problem was that they were one of MANY places trying to sell vitamins / drugs / health items online and the fact that the marginal value of each customer was $10 was a symptom of this rather than the other way around?
It all goes to prove my theory: Shitty businesses eventually fail. Course, that's just me, maybe it really was a wonderful business and not just another me too cash grab.
In the wake of the dot-com washout, a lot people nearly wrote off cyberspace as a retailing wasteland.
Yes, people are stupid that way just as before they argued, on slim evidence, that online retailing would change everything.
The final Christmas shopping figures for 2001 are not in, but some industry analysts believe the new savvy and sensitivity of online retailers might have rescued the U.S. Christmas shopping season in the wake of September 11, when a lot of people either stayed home or tightened their belts.
Ahhhh, I see, so the same idiots who wanted to predict the future and have been wrong in the past, are now pontificating on how they were wrong (again) and that they have a new prediction. Tell ya what. How about we wait for a few quaters of profitability (nay, a few years) before we start spouting off on how in the future, all work will be done by shiny metal robots before. Until then, I'm not devoting anymore cycles to analysts, futarists, pundits, Jon Katz or any of the other self-important wankers whose parasitic existence distract those of us who actually, ya know, DO THINGS WITH OUR LIVES!
The more CGI films come out, the more I appreciate claymation and Wallace and Gromit is the state of the Art in claymation.
Maybe this will prod Vinton Studios into putting Mr. Resistor on the web again.
A big part of sarcasm is making it funny so pardon me if I did not "get" it. Yes, it is all stealing. So is what the RIAA does to bands. "Legal" and "stealing" are subjective things these days.
Actually, I think you have it backwards. For most large bands, all their merchandising and touring is handled through the same people who do the CD distribution, and thus they still get only a small cut.
Well I was thinking of larger acts (since thats most of what people steal anyway). They rarely get squat from the recording contract (see here). Concert promotion is handled by another set of sleazy middle men (like Ticketmaster for example) but, as a rule, Bands get a much higher percentage of the profits for live performences -- which is why most of them tour themselves to death (see pretty much any episode of "VH1: Behind the Music"). The t-shirts, lunchboxes and actions figures with the kung-fu grip are what Krusty the Klown refers to as "the sweetest plum". So buying CD's pretty much just fattens the bottom line of the record company. As the saying goes "The world is so full of crap, why bother wiping your ass".
Independent acts are a whole different story and your points are well taken.
So Napster just wanted to give back to the music community right? That's why they went to court to fight it right? The truth is, Napster was hoping to make a buck off of artists without compensating them in pretty much the same way that those parasites the RIAA do. If they'd gone the gnutella model, I would have no issue with it.
If you want to "support the artists" (which everyone claims they do) go to a concert and/or buy a t-shirt. Everything else (CD's, MTV videos, etc) just goes to pay the parasitic middle men.
Here's a thought -- maybe if he hadn't tried to make a buck out it and he released it to the world, everyone would have been a little better off. But I guess he wouldn't have been on the cover of Business 2.0 (or whatever) then...
Be prepared however, to be vilified, persecuted draged through the courts or worst of all ignored, but whatever you do, dont complain.
"It's easy to complain"
"Fun too!"
-- Homer J Simpson
The BMW analogy is true to an extent (i.e. they have about the same market share and they sell "premium"
"well designed" products -- I don't actually like Macs or BMW's but for differnt reasons). But the key issue is interoperability with the rest of the world. If I could only get BMW gas at 5% of the gas stations in the world, would you still want one?
I hate the "Learn X in 24 hours" or a day or a week. What's the point? They don't know how fast or slow I read. Are there really people who have to know UML within 24 hours?
Is it me or does the Amazon link have a "refer" parameter in it. Saaaaay.... you wouldn't be posting this to boost your Amazon Associate sales would you?
"Al Gore... This guys a real visionary. His favorite movie is tron for Christsake!" -- Dennis Miller
Yeah, but nobody is buying audio only CD-R's (I know they definately used to cost $20, I can belive they are cheaper now -- the recorders still seem to be ludicrously expensive). Philips wouldn't look on Cd copy protection as muddying their CD format, it's "innovation" which will sell more of their audio CD-R's and (most likely) lead to new patents. If you think that phillips is going to sue someone like the deep-pocketed RIAA over a technical dispute, you better think again.
Honestly, Philips only has there self interest at stake here. I'm sure it's just posturing to get there own CD copy protection scheme in place. Hopefully they will do as bad a job as the DVD people did. The one thing we can all be sure of is that they don't care about you, me or the CD consumer -- these are the same people who try to sell "audio" CD-R's for $20!
I recall someone who worked at Philips telling me -- "How was copper wire invented? Philips management squeezing a penny".
The whole thing always seemed like a total house of cards anyway, teetering as it did on the extremely crapulent cookie spec. One good RFC would have put an end to the thing.
As for the argument that the overhead was minimal, it meant that every ad they served had to do a expensive select on their relational database thus contributing to the fact that any pages with DoubleClick ads were "slow as shit".
I like to think the Tick got them though. Spoon!
Uh, they're not getting out of the annoying ad business, just the annoying targeted ad.
Easy ... so when the go down the crapper in 2 months, your only out $12.
I think Salon has done the right thing. They were doomed otherwise - their stock was getting throttled (why they ever went public is beyond me) and advertising was flopping.
Actually, they're still doomed. The subscriptions don't even come close to covering there costs
While I am a proponent of building it yourself, alot of times naive people look at something like an ecommerce billing system (for example) and decide it should be easy because they are inexperienced. This is the same mentality people use when they decide to re-write big sections of code to make it cleaner! Hello! All those "unclean" parts are bugfixes that someone had to figure out and apply.
On the one hand, the VP of engineering (and apparently the only programmer at the place) had done something like this before. On the other hand, considering the problems they still need to deal with (handling foreign zip codes for AVN) kind of implies they have a long way to go... Obviously hiring someone else to do it does guarantee it will work well but a decent company will have solved all the problems you don't even know your going to have if you DIY.
UPS ground?!?!?! What were you thinking?
I once told a district manager that they should consider changing the phone number from 1-800-PICK-UPS to 1-800-FUCK-UPS after they had screwed up yet again. Now a class operation like FedEx must be a totally different story...
Why were the costumes for the Tick and Arthur so different from the cartoon / comic (which I loved, BTW)? In particular, the Tick's eyes are not covered and Arthur's outfit doesn't look the same at all. Having a mask is a big part of being a super hero!
Will we see:
The evil midnight bomber?
Pineapple Pocopo?
The civic minded 5?
Hang 10 for justice!
I read the same article -- I think it was in the Economist at the end of June (if that helps anyone) in the Technology supplement.
He was working on Baysian classifiers to auto categorize your mail (amongst other things). The paperclip was just a very limited part of it and the change that were made when it was "productized" was to bias it show up frequently. Squeaky wheel gets the grease!
While I would agree that Java on the server-side is much more prominent and useful, Applets have their place. It's very useful to be able to shed some of you servers computational load onto the client side usually with better results. Even the crapiest SMTP client applet works ten times better than the shitty server side mail clients I have seen.