... when Animoto, with its new Facebook app, had to scale by a factor of 10 in 3 days.
Of course, I'm completely guessing here, but they probably required you to invite 20 brazillion of your imaginary Facebook friends before you could install it.
How bad does an application have to be to be brought down by 20 Brazilians?
"Our innovator may get only one shot at widespread publicity. If and when that happens, tens of thousands of people will visit her site. But a flash crowd is notoriously fickle; "
The "researchers" offer a strange view of how the market works. If the idea is good then surely the site will enjoy numerous opportunities for growth and referral every time a happy user recommends it to a friend. A good, innovative idea will not be sunk by one underprovisioned flash crowd.
I don't see anything in that first quote about the idea being good, only popular for a short period of time.
'The FreeRunner is based on a GNU/Linux, and it will initially ship with basic software to make calls, send and receive SMS, and manage contacts.'
Paying that much for a phone with a feature set not unlike a cheap phone from 10 years ago...
Those are just the software features that are part of the core package. The hardware specs are much more impressive (includes a touchscreen, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a GPS receiver). The software will come soon, as developers write applications to use the hardware.
Ok let's think about this. What was the Constitution and the Bill of Rights supposed to defend? Your rights, right?
Amendments 1-10, okay, but the purpose of the Constitution isn't to defend anyone's rights, it's to establish the roles and responsibilities of the federal government. One of those roles is to grant copyrights and patents to those who's creations (e.g. art and inventions) benefit society. Of course, whether or not the current "limited" times are in line with the purpose of benefiting society is a separate issue.
Wait, since when is copyright violations punishable by prison?
If the summary is accurate (I know, I know), the person convicted was responsible for large-scale distribution. There is a threshold where copyright violations become a criminal offense.
Where is the accountability for this kind of thing? Is it a matter of the information not being readily available, or is it just that people don't bother to do the research and find out just who is lining their leaders' pockets?
Most Americans are more concerned about the government letting gays get married or average citizens owning guns.
Anal-retentive use of whitespace counts as 'fun'? That's a definition of the word 'fun' I wasn't previously aware of.
I agree that Python's whitespace significance is unusual and takes a bit of getting used to, but honestly, the required indentation is exactly what any sane programmer should be using anyway.
JavaScript is a scripting language, whereas Java is a full-fledged programming language. There's no real difference between "scripting language" and "programming language". There might be categories of applications that are better suited for "scripting" languages or "programming" languages, but that's a very vague definition. JavaScript and Java are both Turing complete languages; any program that can be written in one can be written in the other.
Both parties are in favor of increasing government control. On one side, you have a party that's voting to increase power because it's what they want to do, regardless of what their constituents have to say. On the other, you have a party that secretly wants to increase power, but has more vocal constituents. Deciding which party is which is the tricky part.
The question is, who is likely to make an improvement. I prefer to phrase the question this way: I'm gonna get fucked either way, so which one is more likely to use lube?
But their cert won't match the domain name that their intended victims are trying to access Of course it will. If your site is www.exampIe.com, and your certificate is for www.exampIe.com, the browser won't complain. Why should it? The certificate matches the domain you're accessing.
Not wanting to do something at home when you do it for 40 hours a week at work doesn't necessarily mean you don't enjoy it anymore. I haven't worked on any personal software projects in quite a while, but I still enjoy what I do at work. Even with things you enjoy, there's a limit to how much time you want to spend on them in one day. When I leave work at the end of the day, I'm either doing something with other people (friends and/or significant other) or I just want to relax at home (usually consisting of about an hour for making/eating dinner, an hour or two of TV, an hour or two of games, an hour or so of reading, and scattered minutes checking email, message boards, etc.).
According to the another response: "Bell labs in its heyday was a couple thousand people. Ma Bell as a whole was nearly a million." So nearly a million, or most likely more than just about any other employer. I guess the GP was wrong and the phone company was a super-popular place to work. That seems to answer the question. "Wanted to work for" != "Needed a paying job"
You speak truth, but the hard reality here is the 500 million plus that Murdoch paid for MySpace was an absolute steal.
If Facebook is valued at $15 billion, it's very safe to assume that MySpace is worth at least half that. Odds are it's closer to twice that but, even with this hyper-unrealistically conservative measure, it's clear that Murdoch made a good investment.
Or it's clear that both are way overvalued. The value of a company is the amount of revenue it can bring in. MySpace and Facebook have exactly one revenue source: advertising. Maybe Murdoch thought that MySpace could sell $500 million worth of ads.
Any proof of the form, "If it were going to happen, it already would have happened" are intrinsically fallacious (Appeal to Probability) This is science. Science doesn't deal with proofs.
My car's hood is not locked requiring a special key that only the dealer has. Because your car requires maintenance every few months that involves opening the hood. If a Wii needed a refill on magic smoke every three months, you'd have an opening in the box so that you could get to the magic smoke tank.
Maybe the developers should had concentrated more on fixing bugs and less on "awesome"bar Maybe you should concentrate more on reporting bugs and less on complaining about the address bar?
I don't know what middle-click menu you're talking about, and the find functionality works fine for me, so it may be a bug specific to your system. How are the developers supposed know there's a problem if you don't tell them about it?
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Seems that the time is right for a 3rd party to step up to the plate, but it would require a really charismatic candidate to pull it off.
I think Ross Perot demonstrated that money is more important than charisma.
Of course, I'm completely guessing here, but they probably required you to invite 20 brazillion of your imaginary Facebook friends before you could install it.
How bad does an application have to be to be brought down by 20 Brazilians?
"Our innovator may get only one shot at widespread publicity. If and when that happens, tens of thousands of people will visit her site. But a flash crowd is notoriously fickle; "
The "researchers" offer a strange view of how the market works. If the idea is good then surely the site will enjoy numerous opportunities for growth and referral every time a happy user recommends it to a friend. A good, innovative idea will not be sunk by one underprovisioned flash crowd.
I don't see anything in that first quote about the idea being good, only popular for a short period of time.
'The FreeRunner is based on a GNU/Linux, and it will initially ship with basic software to make calls, send and receive SMS, and manage contacts.'
Paying that much for a phone with a feature set not unlike a cheap phone from 10 years ago...
Those are just the software features that are part of the core package. The hardware specs are much more impressive (includes a touchscreen, Bluetooth, WiFi, and a GPS receiver). The software will come soon, as developers write applications to use the hardware.
You have the gall to accuse file-sharers of a sense of entitlement, when your entire business model is based on government-granted monopolies?
I know, how dare anyone expect to be able to earn enough money to feed their family in exchange for their work.
Ok let's think about this. What was the Constitution and the Bill of Rights supposed to defend? Your rights, right?
Amendments 1-10, okay, but the purpose of the Constitution isn't to defend anyone's rights, it's to establish the roles and responsibilities of the federal government. One of those roles is to grant copyrights and patents to those who's creations (e.g. art and inventions) benefit society. Of course, whether or not the current "limited" times are in line with the purpose of benefiting society is a separate issue.
Wait, since when is copyright violations punishable by prison?
If the summary is accurate (I know, I know), the person convicted was responsible for large-scale distribution. There is a threshold where copyright violations become a criminal offense.
They executive branch was using legislation like the original FISA, passed by congress, to justify their spying.
That doesn't mean the legislation allowed what the executive was doing.
Where is the accountability for this kind of thing? Is it a matter of the information not being readily available, or is it just that people don't bother to do the research and find out just who is lining their leaders' pockets?
Most Americans are more concerned about the government letting gays get married or average citizens owning guns.
Programmer hierarchy (yes, it is safe for work)
Anal-retentive use of whitespace counts as 'fun'? That's a definition of the word 'fun' I wasn't previously aware of.
I agree that Python's whitespace significance is unusual and takes a bit of getting used to, but honestly, the required indentation is exactly what any sane programmer should be using anyway.Which then destroys any code that relies on others not screwing around with core classes. In your example, for (var i in array) is broken.
living in the "great plains" i can see you've never done more than just fly on by have you......
you're missing a lot of really cool stuff.
Like corn! And cows!There's also more wind away from the coast. It would be cheaper to build it on land, but it also wouldn't produce as much power.
Not wanting to do something at home when you do it for 40 hours a week at work doesn't necessarily mean you don't enjoy it anymore. I haven't worked on any personal software projects in quite a while, but I still enjoy what I do at work. Even with things you enjoy, there's a limit to how much time you want to spend on them in one day. When I leave work at the end of the day, I'm either doing something with other people (friends and/or significant other) or I just want to relax at home (usually consisting of about an hour for making/eating dinner, an hour or two of TV, an hour or two of games, an hour or so of reading, and scattered minutes checking email, message boards, etc.).
You speak truth, but the hard reality here is the 500 million plus that Murdoch paid for MySpace was an absolute steal.
If Facebook is valued at $15 billion, it's very safe to assume that MySpace is worth at least half that. Odds are it's closer to twice that but, even with this hyper-unrealistically conservative measure, it's clear that Murdoch made a good investment.
Or it's clear that both are way overvalued. The value of a company is the amount of revenue it can bring in. MySpace and Facebook have exactly one revenue source: advertising. Maybe Murdoch thought that MySpace could sell $500 million worth of ads.I followed your link, and I laughed. Then I saw that it got modded Interesting, and I cried.
I don't know what middle-click menu you're talking about, and the find functionality works fine for me, so it may be a bug specific to your system. How are the developers supposed know there's a problem if you don't tell them about it?