I take an even more serious issue when a title as 'Save software development' has the following in the second paragraph 'The requirements suck, so the design sucks, so the interaction between modules suck'
What deep thinking
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If you reload the page 3-5 times in a few seconds, you get the 500 error page. Now those are serious scaling issues!
Here is another bio on Oprah read between the lines : http://gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/winfrey_o.htm
Her unmarried parents, Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee, separated soon after she was born, leaving her to be <b>raised by her maternal grandmother</b>. "She certainly wasn't an educated woman, but she taught me the shape of letters, and she taught me my Bible stories," Winfrey recalled in Life magazine. By the time she was six, Winfrey had moved to Milwaukee to live with her mother.
Winfrey said her father saved her life. <b>He was very strict and provided her with guidance, structure, rules, and books. He required his daughter to complete weekly book reports, and she went without dinner until she learned five new vocabulary words each day.</b> She joined her school's drama club and became a prize-winning orator, winning a $1,000 college scholarship after delivering a short speech entitled "The Negro, the Constitution, and the United States" to 10,000 Elks Club members in Philadelphia.
You can be anything you want and excel at it anywhere in the world, but its the BIG LEAGUE perception in each respective profession of being in that city/region, take it as a complement not an insult ;)
The point is that after you search for a domain at netsol.com, you get a Network Solutions landing page: "This Domain is available - Get it Now!", they effectively squat every domain that's searched -- for presumably a 5-day refundable period -- and in the process lock-out every other registrar from selling it.
Here is another domain which is mentioned in the comment thread: http://networksolutionssucksballs.com/ , someone searched for the name and it already has a Network Solutions landing page, and though you can buy it, its 'taken' if you try to buy it from another(cheaper) registrar.
You can try it out yourself, it takes around 15 minutes after you searched a domain for them to register it and appear with a NetSol landing page, instead of timing out.
And BTW, the person that bought the youguysseriouslyregistereverythingisearch.com domain to squeeze some Adsense clicks while its making headlines is registered to:
Campbell, Susan susankcampbell@live.com 2085 Ryder Avenue Everett, WA 98201 US 425.3177143
"Boys stuck on a deserted island who unsuccessfully try to govern themselves and consequently have disastrous results"
For Google, each user that installs the F.F/Google Toolbar, and hence will be exposed to ads each time they search the web is worth $1 Dollar, or at least that's how much they are willing to pay for each user having Google as their default search engine.
So I would say $1 Dollar per signed-up user, +/- fudge factor if you really have or haven't additional leverage on your users.
I saw an article on wave power a few weeks ago which breaks down the structure as follows: Coal (3 cents) kilowatt hour Natural gas (4 to 5 cents) kilowatt hour. Wave (5 to 8 cents) [long-term goal] for kilowatt hour. Offshore wind turbines (15 cents) kilowatt hour. * Solar (18 or more cents, depending on the circumstances.) kilowatt hour.
Producing at lesser than 3 cents seems astonishing, considering this last article pegs solar at 18 cents/kwhr, not to mention the leasing and operational costs of having manufacturing in the U.S
Here is the original article on Wave power, which is set to go live in California by 2012 http://www.news.com/Wave-power-to-go-commercial-in-Californi...
The N.Y times article cites "the first solar panel manufacturer to be able to profitably sell solar panels for less than $1 a watt. With a $1-per-watt panel," he said, "it is possible to build $2-per-watt systems."
According to the Energy Department cites: 'building a new coal plant costs about $2.1 a watt, plus the cost of fuel and emissions, he said.
Its interesting how they play with numbers, the N.Y times numbers on solar are for building plants, the other source on news.com is for kw/hour indicating operational costs for putting it on the grid.
This is the second post I've seen where they value each user at $77 Dlls, which is exorbitant based on click through monetization, simply look at a how much Google is really willing to pay for an actual user having Google as their home page and monetizing their searches, which is likely more profitable to them than content.
I'll give you the Firefox/Google Toolbar signup with numbers, via AdSense they pay out from $1 dollar to .10 cents for each user you sign-up for Firefox with the Google Toolbar -- the range depends on the country the user is in, with $1 dollar going to north america and .10 cents to the lower bracket countries, those which I assume have less advertisers.
With this model Google ensures that each time a user opens Firefox and makes a search they will exposed to their ads, even considering a huge premium on the signup, its a long-way from actually paying $1 dollar for every user to $77 dollars.
If Google's 'user value' is any indicator, then at this rate Digg would be worth something around $3,896,103, assuming the user count is accurate, all users are located in North America and they don't apply some type of discount rate for not being able to make Digg a user's default home page.
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Its yet another sour grapes tale of an employee trying to be a smart-ass with his ex-employer and getting creamed in the process...are you kidding me: 'Well the matter has now been reported to Scotland YardaEURXs Internet Crime Unit : Case Number: LC986409807 and the IC3.'
But agreed: Soap Opera value +1 News.YC -1 ( But I can't vote it down... )
This is one cynical developer!
I would also consider it a bad omen having it featured on CNN and Fortune.
If this guy is capable of running a return on investement on his own son/daugther on becoming a professional golfer, and reaping the benefits, this guy is going to make it as a businessman, it can't get more callous than that.
Its called a PR firm, and they take care of bombing every worthy media outlet with a tailored-made hyper-inflated story on how they will change the world (a.k.a 'Press release').
They are generally expensive, but are often worth every penny since they have contacts in all the major media departments, which in turn create this type buzz. Wait till their PR budget runs out, then we will see if the software stands on its own.
All the major sports leagues are notorious for protecting their brands and trademarks -- NFL, MLB, NHL,etc -- , simply look at the licensing deals some sites like Yahoo have needed to go through. And to top it off, they are mixing in virtual dollars (gambling) into the mix, which has been under fire recently in the U.S.
Its an untapped market for sure, but a snake-pit in litigation issues. May be the next YouTube you never know, but I doubt it, the sports leagues are more aware of the online world the movie studios.