I am interested in how they determine that it was received?
If I have a facebook account but have not logged for 3 months then how can anyone claim receipt of the documents?
Do the users of comcast have a limited amount of bandwidth usage per account and do these 'hidden' messages count towards this bandwidth usuage? I think these are important questions as it would result in the customer being charged for a service they did not receive.
I think it is important to note that Google and Microsoft have no real interest in your name and any data that indicates exactly who you are. They are interested information that will allow them to better serve marketing material and improve their products, not so they can steal your identity or hack your bank account. I am happy for Microsoft and Google to do this as in the long run it will vastly improve their services.
I will be able to search on google and know that the results I get are more and more revelant the more I use it. I will click the occasional ad that interests me as I know that the system will learn and start to show more ads that are of interest to me.
This article sums up why I quit WOW and havnt played another online game since. Its not necessarily the developers responsibility but it is a real issue.
As a guild leader I could write an essay on the dramas that went on and unfortuneately it was not all from kids.
I saw people belittle others it the most horricfic ways, people be in the guild for months acting as a different person to get revenge on another member. Even a con artist that had ripped off many players in real life (pretended to have a child, the child got sick and he needed to get money for the operation). Luckily we found out about that one before he finished his con but others werent as lucky.
My point is that it is this lack of morality in online games that will the biggest barrier to its growth. Until there is some form of accountability in these games i will not be playing another hour.
Google and most advertisers wont touch illegal sites. However that just opens the market up for other advertisers. Advertisers will continue to use illegal sites until they are forced not to. But as you said this is a very grey areas judicially (if that is a word:P)
Just a quick question.
Is there a law to prevent US businesses advertising on illegal sites. If you remove the fiscal ability to run these sites would they not be forced to close.
It amazes me how many people responded to this post that really dont have a clue.
1. Businesses are forced to rely on Google.
A company starts getting traffic from Google. They need resource to fill these orders. Thus as soon as they hire that resource they are dependant on that Google traffic to keep staff hired. These staff were only hired to meet demand that Google provided. It is not a choice, unless they say no to sales from Google.
2. Dont Blame the consultants.
It is very possible the consultants did nothing wrong. It is likely they did nothing but a) optimise the site and b) found reputable and relevant links into the site. Google is very strict now. If you get too many links (of any quality) into your site at once you get a penalty. If you make too many changes to your site at once, you get a penalty. It is more than likely that the consultant got too many links in at once.
3. Dont Blame the company.
To say the company is to blame for trying to game Google is not true. Do you think amazon or ebay or any of the big players dont spend a huge budget making sure that Google continues to give them love. This company was simply trying to make the next logical step.
Obviously we dont have all the facts here. Speculation is pointless.
This is my fundamental issue behind open source. I much prefer custom applications for this reason. Lets face it, most of the open source web applications get about 10% of the functionality used. Under commercial use I would rather write customer apps to achieve this 10% than using open source with vulnerabilities. I know people will say patch. But lets face it, how many installations of un patched web apps are online at this minute.
There is really no satisfying you open source people. MS is embracing a standard that will allow openoffice to integrate with it. The reason open office sucks commercially is because it is crap at integrating with MS office. MS and Novell try and fix this issue, which will do nothing but benefit the distribution of OO and you bitch and moan. Goodness.
Many people believe they will walk out of a CS degree with a high paying and satifying job. Unfortuneately it is the institutions that sell them this prospect. It is important to remember you will more than likely still start at the bottom and have to crawl your way up.
A degree is just another tick in the interviewers box. Yes it may mean the difference between getting a job or not, but it wont get you the job alone.
Real world experience is the most valuable asset. Time and time again I see graduates come out of degrees with no real knowledge that can be applied in the workforce. In other fields degrees are more important because it is harder to fake a degree than experience within the job application process. The thing is that you cant fake your experience in IT. If someone doesnt know what they are talking about then the interviewer will notice it. Thus whether you learnt your knowledge from work or books is not as important.
If I am looking for a job applicant I will take a degree into consideration as it shows the applicant has the ability to set a goal and achieve it, but when looking at candiates with more than 10 years experience it doesnt mean alot more than that.
CS degrees are great for tech know how but that is not enough in this competitive age and someone working in the right job for the same period of time will give them more knowledge with real world applications. The trick obviously is getting the right job.
Microsoft wants to make money??? no way... bs.. what is the world coming too..
And how are they going to do this? By making IE7 work on more websites than its competitors. Face the cold hard facts, websites are built by developers for IE first and foremost. Most internet users use IE so for developers, all other browsers should be a lesser goal.
Thus we have the internet which is mainly written for IE.. Non tech customers use IE for this reason, because more sites work on IE.
Microsoft does not give a dam about standards and compliance made by other people and why should they. They care about making a browser that works for there customers.. the end user.
Is it just me or is this just a play on words.
"about one-third of adult gamers spend ten hours or more playing video games per week. Compared to only eleven percent of teens"
Ok. one-third of adult gamers is one third of 25% of adults. Teens however is 11% of 77% of teenages that are classified as "gamers" as they have played a console or pc in the last 6 months.
Thus when calculating the percentage of users above 10hrs a week we have
Adults = 8.3%
Teens = 8.47%
Thus as percentage goes more teens spend over 10 hrs. But only by a small margin.
Its just too easy to lie with stats.
I think the main issue that needs to be addressed is the ease of sending mail out as a false addresses. Default deny is great, except that the spammer will then pretend to be your aunty flow.
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I am interested in how they determine that it was received? If I have a facebook account but have not logged for 3 months then how can anyone claim receipt of the documents?
US data is taken from speedmatters at 2.3Mbps
International data taken from theInformation Technology and
Innovation Foundation at http://www.itif.org/files/2008BBRankings.pdf
This report shows US at 4.9Mbps
A significant difference in findings between the two. Ill let you draw the conclusions
Do the users of comcast have a limited amount of bandwidth usage per account and do these 'hidden' messages count towards this bandwidth usuage? I think these are important questions as it would result in the customer being charged for a service they did not receive.
I agree that this is 'a' reason. But one out of many. Others include:
Protection of competitive advantages within the software.
Protection of competitive advantages of processes illustrated through the software.
Security (this is the biggest one in my opinion).
Costs - Support and compatibility costs
I think it is important to note that Google and Microsoft have no real interest in your name and any data that indicates exactly who you are. They are interested information that will allow them to better serve marketing material and improve their products, not so they can steal your identity or hack your bank account. I am happy for Microsoft and Google to do this as in the long run it will vastly improve their services.
I will be able to search on google and know that the results I get are more and more revelant the more I use it. I will click the occasional ad that interests me as I know that the system will learn and start to show more ads that are of interest to me.
This article sums up why I quit WOW and havnt played another online game since. Its not necessarily the developers responsibility but it is a real issue.
As a guild leader I could write an essay on the dramas that went on and unfortuneately it was not all from kids.
I saw people belittle others it the most horricfic ways, people be in the guild for months acting as a different person to get revenge on another member. Even a con artist that had ripped off many players in real life (pretended to have a child, the child got sick and he needed to get money for the operation). Luckily we found out about that one before he finished his con but others werent as lucky.
My point is that it is this lack of morality in online games that will the biggest barrier to its growth. Until there is some form of accountability in these games i will not be playing another hour.
Google and most advertisers wont touch illegal sites. However that just opens the market up for other advertisers. Advertisers will continue to use illegal sites until they are forced not to. But as you said this is a very grey areas judicially (if that is a word :P)
Just a quick question. Is there a law to prevent US businesses advertising on illegal sites. If you remove the fiscal ability to run these sites would they not be forced to close.
It amazes me how many people responded to this post that really dont have a clue.
1. Businesses are forced to rely on Google.
A company starts getting traffic from Google. They need resource to fill these orders. Thus as soon as they hire that resource they are dependant on that Google traffic to keep staff hired. These staff were only hired to meet demand that Google provided. It is not a choice, unless they say no to sales from Google.
2. Dont Blame the consultants.
It is very possible the consultants did nothing wrong. It is likely they did nothing but a) optimise the site and b) found reputable and relevant links into the site. Google is very strict now. If you get too many links (of any quality) into your site at once you get a penalty. If you make too many changes to your site at once, you get a penalty. It is more than likely that the consultant got too many links in at once.
3. Dont Blame the company.
To say the company is to blame for trying to game Google is not true. Do you think amazon or ebay or any of the big players dont spend a huge budget making sure that Google continues to give them love. This company was simply trying to make the next logical step.
Obviously we dont have all the facts here. Speculation is pointless.
I dont want to start a flame war.. but here goes.
This is my fundamental issue behind open source. I much prefer custom applications for this reason. Lets face it, most of the open source web applications get about 10% of the functionality used. Under commercial use I would rather write customer apps to achieve this 10% than using open source with vulnerabilities. I know people will say patch. But lets face it, how many installations of un patched web apps are online at this minute.
There is really no satisfying you open source people. MS is embracing a standard that will allow openoffice to integrate with it. The reason open office sucks commercially is because it is crap at integrating with MS office. MS and Novell try and fix this issue, which will do nothing but benefit the distribution of OO and you bitch and moan. Goodness.
Many people believe they will walk out of a CS degree with a high paying and satifying job. Unfortuneately it is the institutions that sell them this prospect. It is important to remember you will more than likely still start at the bottom and have to crawl your way up. A degree is just another tick in the interviewers box. Yes it may mean the difference between getting a job or not, but it wont get you the job alone.
Real world experience is the most valuable asset. Time and time again I see graduates come out of degrees with no real knowledge that can be applied in the workforce. In other fields degrees are more important because it is harder to fake a degree than experience within the job application process. The thing is that you cant fake your experience in IT. If someone doesnt know what they are talking about then the interviewer will notice it. Thus whether you learnt your knowledge from work or books is not as important.
If I am looking for a job applicant I will take a degree into consideration as it shows the applicant has the ability to set a goal and achieve it, but when looking at candiates with more than 10 years experience it doesnt mean alot more than that.
CS degrees are great for tech know how but that is not enough in this competitive age and someone working in the right job for the same period of time will give them more knowledge with real world applications. The trick obviously is getting the right job.
To all you people complaining about your wage.. here is a thought. Quit reading slash dot and go work.
Microsoft wants to make money??? no way... bs.. what is the world coming too.. And how are they going to do this? By making IE7 work on more websites than its competitors. Face the cold hard facts, websites are built by developers for IE first and foremost. Most internet users use IE so for developers, all other browsers should be a lesser goal. Thus we have the internet which is mainly written for IE.. Non tech customers use IE for this reason, because more sites work on IE. Microsoft does not give a dam about standards and compliance made by other people and why should they. They care about making a browser that works for there customers.. the end user.
Is it just me or is this just a play on words. "about one-third of adult gamers spend ten hours or more playing video games per week. Compared to only eleven percent of teens" Ok. one-third of adult gamers is one third of 25% of adults. Teens however is 11% of 77% of teenages that are classified as "gamers" as they have played a console or pc in the last 6 months. Thus when calculating the percentage of users above 10hrs a week we have Adults = 8.3% Teens = 8.47% Thus as percentage goes more teens spend over 10 hrs. But only by a small margin. Its just too easy to lie with stats.
I think the main issue that needs to be addressed is the ease of sending mail out as a false addresses. Default deny is great, except that the spammer will then pretend to be your aunty flow.