On The 211th Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
So i was reading the bestselling albums list, and i was thinking, at 10$ an album, you could buy 50 million albums for 500 million dollars. It's a shame that the #1 album is what it is, something more unique and creative should be at the top. Perhaps one of the worlds billionaires should make a decision and take the top spot with exactly what they want, i'd suggest just pumping dark side to the top.
On The 170th Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
So hell yeah: !!
I find it truly awesome that the old world has truly caught up to America. our blank slate natural resource advantage has basically ended. The world has caught up, and it shows in their taste of films. How did America forget how terrible the last Hulk movie was?
I find it truly awesome that the old world has truly caught up to America. our blank slate natural resource advantage has basically ended. The world has caught up, and it shows in their taste of films. How did America forget how terrible the last Hulk movie was?
On The 154th Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
Well i've been actually (and finally) getting some comment spam, which has forced me to look for a commenting service. The newest & hottest one seems to be disqus, so i'm going to attempt to integrate it in this site.
On The 119th Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
so i was asking what they did and now i know:
On The 63rd Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
See, you have to understand the situation. Me an the old Man are arguing about the best basketball player on the planet:
Me: T-MAC BABY!
Dad: he stinks
Me: Scoring Champ!
Dad: Kobe
Me: Houston's on, put it on
Dad: NBA sucks
Me: just watch
Dad: [puts it on] Oh look they're down 10, he sucks, this game is over.
Me: Just watch him though, he's so smooth.
Dad: this game is over
T-Mac: 3
Me: That was sweet
Dad: so
T-Mac: 3 & fould
Me: See, he's awesome
Dad: That was crazy
T-Mac: free throw
Dad: Wow
T-Mac: 3
Me: This is ridiculous
Dad: [silence]
Me: This is better than reggie in NY, this is almost isaih in that one game.
T-Mac: steel
Dad: OMG
Me: OMG
T-Mac: 3
Me: Kobe who?
Dad: Wow, that was amazing
Me: That is the very definition of amazing, that is T-Mac.
Oh and the next christmas he bought me a T-Mac jersey
Me: T-MAC BABY!
Dad: he stinks
Me: Scoring Champ!
Dad: Kobe
Me: Houston's on, put it on
Dad: NBA sucks
Me: just watch
Dad: [puts it on] Oh look they're down 10, he sucks, this game is over.
Me: Just watch him though, he's so smooth.
Dad: this game is over
T-Mac: 3
Me: That was sweet
Dad: so
T-Mac: 3 & fould
Me: See, he's awesome
Dad: That was crazy
T-Mac: free throw
Dad: Wow
T-Mac: 3
Me: This is ridiculous
Dad: [silence]
Me: This is better than reggie in NY, this is almost isaih in that one game.
T-Mac: steel
Dad: OMG
Me: OMG
T-Mac: 3
Me: Kobe who?
Dad: Wow, that was amazing
Me: That is the very definition of amazing, that is T-Mac.
Oh and the next christmas he bought me a T-Mac jersey
On The 31st Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
This doesn't seem to make any sense as far as technologies go. Yahoo is a web app company. They have a bunch of different web application: search, email, finance, groups, photos (flickr), and auctions.
Microsoft is trying to do these same things, and if they gave their engineers enough time and integrate it enough with windows, they'll get there no problem. With 70K employees, it doesn't make sense to me why they would go and jsut buy out a currently better version of their stuff, especially since it will totally fuck with the "eat yoru own dogfood" mantra that all software companies should live by.
Flickr is written in PHP, i think a lot of yahoo uses PHP as well, and the YUI for the client side. This DOES NOT mesh with ASP.NET. I guess they could make PHP an official language of ASP.NET, maybe that is their intent?
So from a software standpoint this seems retarded to me.
From a business standpoint, we can already see the true genius of it. Look at GOOGLE today, down ANOTHER 8%. They are fast aproaching 500. ABout 2 months ago they hit 700. That was insane. It made them the 3rd largest market cap in the world, or something like that. For a company with a few wharehouses storing some computers that doesn't make any sense. They should not be worth that, cause they aren't. Look they've only been here for a few years, and their technologies of search & advertising are so fucking disruptable that it just doesn't make sense that they are worht that much.
I mean who's to say that a better search engine tehcnology doesn't come out tomorrow? I mean look it took 10 years of webpages being built before google realized that they should atually use the structure of HTML documents to help rank results.
So i'm very glad that MS did this business based move to stick it to google. I think it's a great strategy. Google just anounced shitty results for the 4th quarter, and they've dropped 150 pts in a month. Now they're going to drop again because people are dumb and think MSFT-YHOO merger will hurt them. I'm sorry, but no it's not making a big difference to them in the end.
What i don't like is how MSFT missed other oppurtunities, specifically Amazon. That S3 servce with the EC2 app running on it is just an awesome idea, and it doesn't compete with anybody. It's basically a monopoly. I'd suggest buying monopolies, and not upgrades. Plus the model of the storefront has really proved to work. And if MS is so interested in damn upgrades, why don't they upgrade their zune service to amazon's tunes service. Oh and the ebook reader. Also, did i mention Amazon is 10 BILLION cheaper than yahoo. They also have some good search technology themselves. When i look for something on amazon, i find it. can't that be applied to the web. Also, at one point Amazon had auctions, i'm not sure they still do, but i think it would work. You have plenty of resellers on there trying to move product. I can shop victoriously just as well on amazon as i can on ebay.
The auction thing is interesting as i've read that in japan, yahoo is KILLING ebay in online auctions. That could be a huge win for MSFT in this whole thing. If they could build on that and be the main online auctioneer to billions of asians, that's just untold profit potential.
So it's an OK move, but i'd never spend 40+ Billion to upgrade some of my apps to a codebase i don't support on servers i don't support (last i hear yahoo was pure linux servers) and miss the entire oppurtunity to force reinvestment in my core languages and technologies to make my apps better. I mean, are they going to spend time on the YUI that could be spent on the next version of silverlight?
Updated: Mini's title alone is pure genius: Microsoft + Yahoo! = Microsoft - $44,600,000,000 ?
Microsoft is trying to do these same things, and if they gave their engineers enough time and integrate it enough with windows, they'll get there no problem. With 70K employees, it doesn't make sense to me why they would go and jsut buy out a currently better version of their stuff, especially since it will totally fuck with the "eat yoru own dogfood" mantra that all software companies should live by.
Flickr is written in PHP, i think a lot of yahoo uses PHP as well, and the YUI for the client side. This DOES NOT mesh with ASP.NET. I guess they could make PHP an official language of ASP.NET, maybe that is their intent?
So from a software standpoint this seems retarded to me.
From a business standpoint, we can already see the true genius of it. Look at GOOGLE today, down ANOTHER 8%. They are fast aproaching 500. ABout 2 months ago they hit 700. That was insane. It made them the 3rd largest market cap in the world, or something like that. For a company with a few wharehouses storing some computers that doesn't make any sense. They should not be worth that, cause they aren't. Look they've only been here for a few years, and their technologies of search & advertising are so fucking disruptable that it just doesn't make sense that they are worht that much.
I mean who's to say that a better search engine tehcnology doesn't come out tomorrow? I mean look it took 10 years of webpages being built before google realized that they should atually use the structure of HTML documents to help rank results.
So i'm very glad that MS did this business based move to stick it to google. I think it's a great strategy. Google just anounced shitty results for the 4th quarter, and they've dropped 150 pts in a month. Now they're going to drop again because people are dumb and think MSFT-YHOO merger will hurt them. I'm sorry, but no it's not making a big difference to them in the end.
What i don't like is how MSFT missed other oppurtunities, specifically Amazon. That S3 servce with the EC2 app running on it is just an awesome idea, and it doesn't compete with anybody. It's basically a monopoly. I'd suggest buying monopolies, and not upgrades. Plus the model of the storefront has really proved to work. And if MS is so interested in damn upgrades, why don't they upgrade their zune service to amazon's tunes service. Oh and the ebook reader. Also, did i mention Amazon is 10 BILLION cheaper than yahoo. They also have some good search technology themselves. When i look for something on amazon, i find it. can't that be applied to the web. Also, at one point Amazon had auctions, i'm not sure they still do, but i think it would work. You have plenty of resellers on there trying to move product. I can shop victoriously just as well on amazon as i can on ebay.
The auction thing is interesting as i've read that in japan, yahoo is KILLING ebay in online auctions. That could be a huge win for MSFT in this whole thing. If they could build on that and be the main online auctioneer to billions of asians, that's just untold profit potential.
So it's an OK move, but i'd never spend 40+ Billion to upgrade some of my apps to a codebase i don't support on servers i don't support (last i hear yahoo was pure linux servers) and miss the entire oppurtunity to force reinvestment in my core languages and technologies to make my apps better. I mean, are they going to spend time on the YUI that could be spent on the next version of silverlight?
Updated: Mini's title alone is pure genius: Microsoft + Yahoo! = Microsoft - $44,600,000,000 ?
On The 4th Day of the 2008th Year DrDaMour Wrote
A one-trick pony in a one-horse town
Youre feeling lonely and the cables down
You feel like the only freak in this town
Whats wrong with you?
Whats wrong with me?
Weve got a life of scratching tickets
At the local gas and stop
So suck on another whippit
And hear the brain cells pop
I know Im nothing special
I know Im nothing great
I know Im nothing different
But I just dont feel the same
Whats wrong with me?
Can you feel the radiation
Dragging your sister down?
You wont feel the alienation
Youll never leave this town
I know Im nothing special
I know Im nothing great
I know Im nothing different
But I just dont feel the same
Whats wrong with me?
And I could be happy with less I guess
If they tell me that less is more
They set a place for me at the table
I wont be hungry anymore
I know Im nothing special
I know Im nothing great
I know Im nothing different
But I just dont feel the same
Whats wrong with me?
Youre feeling lonely and the cables down
You feel like the only freak in this town
Whats wrong with you?
Whats wrong with me?
Weve got a life of scratching tickets
At the local gas and stop
So suck on another whippit
And hear the brain cells pop
I know Im nothing special
I know Im nothing great
I know Im nothing different
But I just dont feel the same
Whats wrong with me?
Can you feel the radiation
Dragging your sister down?
You wont feel the alienation
Youll never leave this town
I know Im nothing special
I know Im nothing great
I know Im nothing different
But I just dont feel the same
Whats wrong with me?
And I could be happy with less I guess
If they tell me that less is more
They set a place for me at the table
I wont be hungry anymore
I know Im nothing special
I know Im nothing great
I know Im nothing different
But I just dont feel the same
Whats wrong with me?
On The 329th Day of the 2007th Year DrDaMour Wrote
Back in college a great friend of mine used to always say What did they do before the internet? This usually came about after we settled a bet about which track a song exactly was on an album, or who commercialized ice picks.
Today i had another great what did they do before the internet moment, and i just had to share.
I got this new receiver a few months back, the STR-DE898. It's pretty nice, but i got it only because it was a steal on ebay for less than $200. It had a few problems though, first no HDMI, second only 2 component ins (so my WII and Cable box beat out by DVD), and finally, my universal remonster couldn't control it, no matter what codes i tried.
Well, i found this post about a guy having the same problem which linked to this post about how to change the sony command modes which got everything working exactly as it should.
i NEVER would have figured this out without the internet. What did people do before the internet?
Today i had another great what did they do before the internet moment, and i just had to share.
I got this new receiver a few months back, the STR-DE898. It's pretty nice, but i got it only because it was a steal on ebay for less than $200. It had a few problems though, first no HDMI, second only 2 component ins (so my WII and Cable box beat out by DVD), and finally, my universal remonster couldn't control it, no matter what codes i tried.
Well, i found this post about a guy having the same problem which linked to this post about how to change the sony command modes which got everything working exactly as it should.
i NEVER would have figured this out without the internet. What did people do before the internet?
On The 304th Day of the 2007th Year DrDaMour Wrote
I found an old hard drive burried in a box, and plugged it in. There wasn't much good on it, some old documents. But, there was the original versions of my website. I've mirrored it here. I'm also goign to backfill my posts with the ones from the page. I don't think you can call it a blog in the 98-99 era, but around 00 it really started to be more blog-like. Does that make me cool? Also, check out a middle ground version between that sight and this site. You can tell that a lot of inspiration for this site came from that one. And i still think that a PI menu could be the coolest thing since sliced bread.
On The 273rd Day of the 2007th Year DrDaMour Wrote
This Radiohead news of In Rainbows is just completely ridiculously awesome.
First, they surpise the world with a new album
Second, they release it for whatever price you think is appropriate
Third, they cut out the middle man
Fourth, they add an awesome box set for the die hard fans that really want all the cool stuff.
This goes along with what i've been saying for a while, first that the cd is dead. Second that artist should be delivering content and media outside of just music for money. I only buy special addition cd's and things that have picture books, etc. Third, that there is totally an oppurtunity for artists to make money without the record labels.
This really is awesome.
I guess it takes a progressive rock band to be progressive in how to sell rock.
First, they surpise the world with a new album
Second, they release it for whatever price you think is appropriate
Third, they cut out the middle man
Fourth, they add an awesome box set for the die hard fans that really want all the cool stuff.
This goes along with what i've been saying for a while, first that the cd is dead. Second that artist should be delivering content and media outside of just music for money. I only buy special addition cd's and things that have picture books, etc. Third, that there is totally an oppurtunity for artists to make money without the record labels.
This really is awesome.
I guess it takes a progressive rock band to be progressive in how to sell rock.