While I could accept that the US was/is behind South Korea, and even, with qualitative judgement, behind some Western European countries, it is not behind China.
China has a little more than 100 million Internet users. Many of them use broadband, yes. But China also has a population of 1.3bn+. China lags the US's Internet connectivity, not to mention the quality/speed of service (contention rations of ADSL of 100:1 common, DSL poisoning common, plain not being able to access content common). Heck, those in China that don't have Internet access probably don't have running water or reliable electricity. Where the Internet is connected here it is important, but connection quality and, more importantly, basic poverty in all but the bigger cities, mean that it's not that important.
The US does not lag China in terms of Internet connectivity, and any study that says so clearly hasn't experienced the Internet in China.
Not receiving correct DNS error pages is a problem for those that wish to resolve domains.
But to me it's more simple than that. It means misleading the consumer of the cable service. 'The website does not exist' is being changed to 'we're not being up-front that there was a type, misdirected link, etc, we're going to show you adverts instead'.
The Site Finder-like service further reduces the web from a meritocrious system of links and content, to a mess of adverts.
Will cable subscribers' fees be reduced because of this? Probably not.
There's a slippery slope from a (albeit idealistic) system of content and links, to an advertising mess, to outright DNS poisoning (which, living in China, I'm already experiencing - it was a big problem for Google in 2005).
My god, you have been totally brainwashed haven't you? Anything in the name of the almight buck. If in order to do something you must do something that is wrong, then don't do it. Google DOES NOT have to do business in china. It could just say no.
That is actually incorrect. Google is bound under law to do the best thing in the interests of its shareholders. It would take a big movement to say that not doing business in China is in the best interests of its shareholders.
Not to say one is wrong or the other is right. Just to say that Google does not answer to a self-imposed moral stance any more. Just, it has to listen, and pander, to its shareholders.
I know, I've done that for a product presentation. After one year, new version, throw away the presentation, start over again...
I agree that multimedia is good, but it's not the only thing to have. I've been giving and receiving presentations for a few years, and a good video is really useful. More useful, however, is a paper copy containing all of the key points. Paper can be picked up and browsed at one's leisure, it can be pinned next to the desk (quite useful for new users learning how to log-in), it can contain all of the useful information and pointers (for example, advising users to check a wiki for details relating to specialist applications).
A paper (laminated) hint-sheet is easy to produce, can address the majority of simple issues, and can can ensure that users always have an easy-to-access reminder of what they learnt from individual sessions and video presentations.
One more thing, it doesn't matter how fabulous the video presentation was, be charasmatic. It makes people feel good about you, feel more interested and able to learn, and puts you on their side instead of them feeling no qualms to call/bother 'the faceless tech guy'.
It makes more sense to call them "labels" because the word "tag" generally refers to html/xml tags. Since you can use these tags (although you don't have to) to create the label type of tags, it's especially confusing.
It makes most sense to call it 'taxonomy', because tags, categories or whatever are, in effect, a taxonomy. So when there is a word for it, why not use it instead of bickerng about using other words which have other associated meanings?
unlike in Mexico where the breakfast my mom used to give us where two scrambled eggs with ham and some mashed refried beans as side order
Your Mexican breakfast sounds similar to my (Northern) Chinese breakfast, calorie packed to get the day going: eggs (at least 2, usually chicken but often duck), pork (rib, steak, whatever, but always pork). boiled maize soup/gruel, fried bread, noodles, a soup, plus the leftovers from last night (dumplings, meat, potatos, shrimps/oysters/fish/whatever).
Took some time to get used to (without vomiting from over-consumption). Needless to say, food in the North of China is somewhat different from the rest of the country.
Would be hard to go back to fruit and a slice of bread while running for the train!
I don't know how effective this is, but it's how I discard an old HDD, and it's fun!
1. Dismantle (sometimes hard to do)
2. Scrape platters with wire-gauze
3. Put drive plates in a fire for a few minutes, enough to warp a little
4. Randomly punish - skate on concrete, etc
5. Place in water, for a few months (toilet tank)
6. Discard
While i have little doubt that Homo Sapiens and their closest cousin in the gene pool Homo Neaderthalensis interbred, the resultant hybrid would be more of a mule, getting some of the best trails of both but also sterile. Chances are niether group would have wanted such a byproduct and the practice would have become taboo and the eventual result being war(if this was not the case already) between the two groups ending in the genocide of one.
But imagine a Beowulf Cluster of them!
The way I see it:
Domain names are cheap.
Companies seeking to protect their online identity will do so commercially. There is only a certain amount of financial gain, bankofamerica-online.com, for example, could reap a phisher, this is the top limit of buying these sites.
If, when buying a domain name, it was by-default necessary to register/restrict all permutations on these names, the cost for individual domain names would increase (for example, www.idahoexpat.com requires effective purchase of www.idahoxpat.com), not to mention the false-positives.
No. If you want a website, it's very cheap to get a domain name. If you have some desire to protect your online identity, be a little creative.
Reminds me of the fake Marlboro factory in Vietnam a few years ago. Shutting the factory down would have been a nightmare, in terms of a supply network allowing creation of a new factory, legal/government regulations/contacts, etc. So Marlboro bought the factory, problem solved. Perhaps this makes me a Bad Analogy Guy for today.
You are comparing the walkman to the ipod, which is a pretty useless comparison. The point is that the walkman dominated early portable cassette player sales. The ipod dominates current (which is early in the day) portable 'mp3' player sales (although unlike Sony, Apple didn't create the market in the first place). There is nothing in the ipod that another mp3 player cannot do, just like there was nothing in the walkman that another cassette player couldn't do.
It is actually a part of chinese culture, chinese consumers rely on pirated discs for their entertainment because the legitimate discs are basically so CRAP, in that the range of programs that you can find on legitimate discs are about 1-2% of the range of programs you can find on pirated discs.
Exactly. I too live in China. IF I had a legitimate place to buy DVDs I may consider it, but the fact is there is no legitimate distributor of DVD in my area (a city with a population of 5m+). Even back in the UK, it would take 1+ month to see US releases - a time lag is bad enough, but not being able to buy anything is worse.
If anything, the present action does nothing other than to boost taobao.com's business (the eBay of China), as a distributor, in place of easy to find shops.
I'm an amateur on the production processes of LCD screens, but I'd wager that an 8" screen has a much smaller area for there to be errors on than a 14.15" screen common in today's laptops (almost 1/4 of the area), and when manufacturing a large LCD sheet, there are a lot of cut-offs that are not of a useful size for mainstream manufacture, but can be used for smaller (8") screens, hence a reduced price for this 'waste'. These screens would probably have a few dead pixels, but this is a low cost and robust machine, not a highly polished pretty machine.
Yeah! Back in 1995 I remember buying what was marketed as a 64-bit CPU. It was called Pentium, does the article mean that this version of Windows won't work on my CPU which they themselves (in co-operation with Intel) marketed as 64-bit?
At it's most basic level, the total of all shares would represent the total value of all companies. This underlying value can only grow when the population grows, allowing for introduction of currency without inflation.
The total value of all shares does indeed represent the total value of all companies. The value of all companies is a rough proxy for the value of the economy in the US, where the majority of US companies, by value, are listed, but the same is not true of a country like Germany where only a small part of the economy is listed. Also, many countries, notably the US and UK, have stockmarkets filled with companies that do international business, not necessarily that of the domestic economy. These can be more or less minor caveats.
Importantly, I disagree that the economy will grow only with population. Take production: it is a combination of labour, capital (the economic definition meaning machinery etc, not money - money is useless for production until it is invested) and technology. If technology increases, so should total production, likewise if capital or population increase, so should they. That is why the impact of IT is such a big topic in the Federal Reserve and newspapers that report on the economy, because it could have increased the economy's long term growth rate (regardless of how the spoils of greater wealth are distributed).
Production=Labour^a * Population^b * Technology^(1-a-b), where 0=a,b=1. It is called the Solow Growth Model (Google it), and while the world of Economics has moved on to more complicated theories, it is a good basis to start with.
Surely profit is revenue after transportation costs, and all other costs. In addition, moving more products mean inventories can carry the latest products/fashions, rather than having to sell the old stuff off before the new stuff obseletes it.
An English man tells a doctor "I'd really love to be Irish, is there anything you could do for me?"
The doctor replies "Well, it _is_ a risky operation, we just need to remove 1/4 of your brain."
The English man says "Wow, but if that means I can be truely Irish, I'd like to have it done."
--Operation--
After the operation the man is coming-round in his hospital bed.
The doctor says "Steady yourself, I'm afraid that there was a terrible mistake: we removed 3/4 of your brain!"
The man says "No worries mate, where's the barbequeue?" [He had become Australian.]
They are disadvantaged in having smaller brains, but seem to be just as intelligent. WHAT IF WE ALL HAD SMALL HEADS? Could the human head get progressively smaller to the size, say, of a golf ball and the person still as intelligent?
If I did my math right, isn't that like 9-something-billion per year in fines?
More like USD900mn. And your revenue figure roughly OK, but Net Income was $12bn.
I'd say their investors would notice a revenue drop of roughly 7.5%.
Of course, their net income generated from the EU is much less than the $12bn mentioned above, therefore the impact from a discrete product market is even more severe.
My answer would be that you don't know the domains spam originates from.
Spam comes from an email server. A server can fake domain/origination names/addresses in emails, an email server is not a domain server, just a machine which may or may not be from that 'domain'. Simple. Domains that are linked in the spam could be traced, but are often taken down quickly and I could easily see some increase in deliberate noise/signal in spams using legitimate domains in amongst illigetimate ones in order to 'sell' products/services (i.e. using legitimate domains in URLs pertaining to spams, which are useless to sell the spammer's products, but may increase pressure in crackdowns against domains linked to by spammers).
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Here's the link to Ben Going' videos, mentioned in the article but not linked.
While I could accept that the US was/is behind South Korea, and even, with qualitative judgement, behind some Western European countries, it is not behind China. China has a little more than 100 million Internet users. Many of them use broadband, yes. But China also has a population of 1.3bn+. China lags the US's Internet connectivity, not to mention the quality/speed of service (contention rations of ADSL of 100:1 common, DSL poisoning common, plain not being able to access content common). Heck, those in China that don't have Internet access probably don't have running water or reliable electricity. Where the Internet is connected here it is important, but connection quality and, more importantly, basic poverty in all but the bigger cities, mean that it's not that important. The US does not lag China in terms of Internet connectivity, and any study that says so clearly hasn't experienced the Internet in China.
Not receiving correct DNS error pages is a problem for those that wish to resolve domains.
But to me it's more simple than that. It means misleading the consumer of the cable service. 'The website does not exist' is being changed to 'we're not being up-front that there was a type, misdirected link, etc, we're going to show you adverts instead'.
The Site Finder-like service further reduces the web from a meritocrious system of links and content, to a mess of adverts.
Will cable subscribers' fees be reduced because of this? Probably not.
There's a slippery slope from a (albeit idealistic) system of content and links, to an advertising mess, to outright DNS poisoning (which, living in China, I'm already experiencing - it was a big problem for Google in 2005).
My god, you have been totally brainwashed haven't you? Anything in the name of the almight buck. If in order to do something you must do something that is wrong, then don't do it. Google DOES NOT have to do business in china. It could just say no.
That is actually incorrect. Google is bound under law to do the best thing in the interests of its shareholders. It would take a big movement to say that not doing business in China is in the best interests of its shareholders.
Not to say one is wrong or the other is right. Just to say that Google does not answer to a self-imposed moral stance any more. Just, it has to listen, and pander, to its shareholders.
I know, I've done that for a product presentation. After one year, new version, throw away the presentation, start over again...
I agree that multimedia is good, but it's not the only thing to have. I've been giving and receiving presentations for a few years, and a good video is really useful. More useful, however, is a paper copy containing all of the key points. Paper can be picked up and browsed at one's leisure, it can be pinned next to the desk (quite useful for new users learning how to log-in), it can contain all of the useful information and pointers (for example, advising users to check a wiki for details relating to specialist applications).
A paper (laminated) hint-sheet is easy to produce, can address the majority of simple issues, and can can ensure that users always have an easy-to-access reminder of what they learnt from individual sessions and video presentations.
One more thing, it doesn't matter how fabulous the video presentation was, be charasmatic. It makes people feel good about you, feel more interested and able to learn, and puts you on their side instead of them feeling no qualms to call/bother 'the faceless tech guy'.
It makes more sense to call them "labels" because the word "tag" generally refers to html/xml tags. Since you can use these tags (although you don't have to) to create the label type of tags, it's especially confusing.
It makes most sense to call it 'taxonomy', because tags, categories or whatever are, in effect, a taxonomy. So when there is a word for it, why not use it instead of bickerng about using other words which have other associated meanings?
unlike in Mexico where the breakfast my mom used to give us where two scrambled eggs with ham and some mashed refried beans as side order
Your Mexican breakfast sounds similar to my (Northern) Chinese breakfast, calorie packed to get the day going: eggs (at least 2, usually chicken but often duck), pork (rib, steak, whatever, but always pork). boiled maize soup/gruel, fried bread, noodles, a soup, plus the leftovers from last night (dumplings, meat, potatos, shrimps/oysters/fish/whatever).
Took some time to get used to (without vomiting from over-consumption). Needless to say, food in the North of China is somewhat different from the rest of the country.
Would be hard to go back to fruit and a slice of bread while running for the train!
I don't know how effective this is, but it's how I discard an old HDD, and it's fun! 1. Dismantle (sometimes hard to do) 2. Scrape platters with wire-gauze 3. Put drive plates in a fire for a few minutes, enough to warp a little 4. Randomly punish - skate on concrete, etc 5. Place in water, for a few months (toilet tank) 6. Discard
While i have little doubt that Homo Sapiens and their closest cousin in the gene pool Homo Neaderthalensis interbred, the resultant hybrid would be more of a mule, getting some of the best trails of both but also sterile. Chances are niether group would have wanted such a byproduct and the practice would have become taboo and the eventual result being war(if this was not the case already) between the two groups ending in the genocide of one.
But imagine a Beowulf Cluster of them!
The way I see it: Domain names are cheap. Companies seeking to protect their online identity will do so commercially. There is only a certain amount of financial gain, bankofamerica-online.com, for example, could reap a phisher, this is the top limit of buying these sites. If, when buying a domain name, it was by-default necessary to register/restrict all permutations on these names, the cost for individual domain names would increase (for example, www.idahoexpat.com requires effective purchase of www.idahoxpat.com), not to mention the false-positives. No. If you want a website, it's very cheap to get a domain name. If you have some desire to protect your online identity, be a little creative. Reminds me of the fake Marlboro factory in Vietnam a few years ago. Shutting the factory down would have been a nightmare, in terms of a supply network allowing creation of a new factory, legal/government regulations/contacts, etc. So Marlboro bought the factory, problem solved. Perhaps this makes me a Bad Analogy Guy for today.
You are comparing the walkman to the ipod, which is a pretty useless comparison. The point is that the walkman dominated early portable cassette player sales. The ipod dominates current (which is early in the day) portable 'mp3' player sales (although unlike Sony, Apple didn't create the market in the first place). There is nothing in the ipod that another mp3 player cannot do, just like there was nothing in the walkman that another cassette player couldn't do.
I do believe tat was te Ps point.
It is actually a part of chinese culture, chinese consumers rely on pirated discs for their entertainment because the legitimate discs are basically so CRAP, in that the range of programs that you can find on legitimate discs are about 1-2% of the range of programs you can find on pirated discs.
Exactly. I too live in China. IF I had a legitimate place to buy DVDs I may consider it, but the fact is there is no legitimate distributor of DVD in my area (a city with a population of 5m+). Even back in the UK, it would take 1+ month to see US releases - a time lag is bad enough, but not being able to buy anything is worse.
If anything, the present action does nothing other than to boost taobao.com's business (the eBay of China), as a distributor, in place of easy to find shops.
Compare Goldeneye to CS:S. Aside from internet play, CSS's omproved graphics and the lack of AWP-campers in Goldeneye, I see little difference.
I'm an amateur on the production processes of LCD screens, but I'd wager that an 8" screen has a much smaller area for there to be errors on than a 14.15" screen common in today's laptops (almost 1/4 of the area), and when manufacturing a large LCD sheet, there are a lot of cut-offs that are not of a useful size for mainstream manufacture, but can be used for smaller (8") screens, hence a reduced price for this 'waste'. These screens would probably have a few dead pixels, but this is a low cost and robust machine, not a highly polished pretty machine.
One of the hallmarks of Web 2.0 is that the consumer is also a producer.... Apply that to porn? Gasp!
You mean O'Reilly will patent porn?!
Yeah! Back in 1995 I remember buying what was marketed as a 64-bit CPU. It was called Pentium, does the article mean that this version of Windows won't work on my CPU which they themselves (in co-operation with Intel) marketed as 64-bit?
At it's most basic level, the total of all shares would represent the total value of all companies. This underlying value can only grow when the population grows, allowing for introduction of currency without inflation.
The total value of all shares does indeed represent the total value of all companies. The value of all companies is a rough proxy for the value of the economy in the US, where the majority of US companies, by value, are listed, but the same is not true of a country like Germany where only a small part of the economy is listed. Also, many countries, notably the US and UK, have stockmarkets filled with companies that do international business, not necessarily that of the domestic economy. These can be more or less minor caveats.
Importantly, I disagree that the economy will grow only with population. Take production: it is a combination of labour, capital (the economic definition meaning machinery etc, not money - money is useless for production until it is invested) and technology. If technology increases, so should total production, likewise if capital or population increase, so should they. That is why the impact of IT is such a big topic in the Federal Reserve and newspapers that report on the economy, because it could have increased the economy's long term growth rate (regardless of how the spoils of greater wealth are distributed).
Production=Labour^a * Population^b * Technology^(1-a-b), where 0=a,b=1. It is called the Solow Growth Model (Google it), and while the world of Economics has moved on to more complicated theories, it is a good basis to start with.
Why did the superchicken cross the road?
To avoid KFC.
Surely profit is revenue after transportation costs, and all other costs. In addition, moving more products mean inventories can carry the latest products/fashions, rather than having to sell the old stuff off before the new stuff obseletes it.
Reminds me of a joke:
An English man tells a doctor "I'd really love to be Irish, is there anything you could do for me?"
The doctor replies "Well, it _is_ a risky operation, we just need to remove 1/4 of your brain."
The English man says "Wow, but if that means I can be truely Irish, I'd like to have it done."
--Operation--
After the operation the man is coming-round in his hospital bed.
The doctor says "Steady yourself, I'm afraid that there was a terrible mistake: we removed 3/4 of your brain!" The man says "No worries mate, where's the barbequeue?" [He had become Australian.]
But what about PEOPLE WITH SMALL HEADS?!
They are disadvantaged in having smaller brains, but seem to be just as intelligent. WHAT IF WE ALL HAD SMALL HEADS? Could the human head get progressively smaller to the size, say, of a golf ball and the person still as intelligent?
It doesn't make much sense.
Paper over hot battery? Fire risk?
If I did my math right, isn't that like 9-something-billion per year in fines?
More like USD900mn. And your revenue figure roughly OK, but Net Income was $12bn.
I'd say their investors would notice a revenue drop of roughly 7.5%.
Of course, their net income generated from the EU is much less than the $12bn mentioned above, therefore the impact from a discrete product market is even more severe.
My answer would be that you don't know the domains spam originates from.
Spam comes from an email server. A server can fake domain/origination names/addresses in emails, an email server is not a domain server, just a machine which may or may not be from that 'domain'. Simple. Domains that are linked in the spam could be traced, but are often taken down quickly and I could easily see some increase in deliberate noise/signal in spams using legitimate domains in amongst illigetimate ones in order to 'sell' products/services (i.e. using legitimate domains in URLs pertaining to spams, which are useless to sell the spammer's products, but may increase pressure in crackdowns against domains linked to by spammers).