I disagree with you. I have written a little scenerio to illustrate me point
Let's say that you live in a tropical village with ten men in it. These ten men spend all of their day at the edge of the water catching fish with their spears.
On day, a smart fellow invents the net. Now, one man can catch as many fish as ten men used to catch. Are those nine out of work men going to sit around and do nothing?
No.
Now those nine men are free to go out and build huts, invent ovens, invent fences, etc. The "net" will have a positve impact on the ecomony because it will improve productivity.
This is true for the modern economy too. The "net" will free us from walking or driving door to door and it will allow us to take on other productive tasks.
It's hard for me to understand why the US Post Office is so worried about their business while UPS and FedEx are so excited about theirs.
Each of those companies are crowing about the increase in package deliveries and they are seeing increased profits in the face of higher fuel costs.
The US Post office is doing the right thing by building a web site that allows you to see the status of your shipment. However, they are years behind FedEx and UPS and shouldn't brag about that too much.
In short, it good to see that they have recognized that the Internet will change their business but I won't be handing out any awards until they stop playing catch up.
By October 2001, these companies must be able to tell public-safety officials the approximate location of mobile-phone users who dial 911
For the non-US crowd out there, 911 is a phone number you can dial to get emergency help. It's normally used for medical, fire, and crime related problems.
I can see the use for this technology (it's pretty obvious). I thought it was great when 911 got the ability to know where the caller was without relying on a panic stricken victim or victim's friend to give directions.
However, it's just kind of creepy to know that I can be tracked so easily. Okay, right now it doesn't invade privacy but how long will that last?
I wonder if Dell will using the Transmeta chip? While I don't pretend to understand the details of chip design, it seems like OEMs would be missing out on a speedy, cheap, low wattage chip if they ignored Crusoe. Also, we know Dell has been chomping at the bit to find other products to help them maintain their growth and profit margins.
On the other hand, Dell has always enjoyed "Best Customer" status from Intel when their supplies are running low while disloyal companies like Gateway get the shaft.
If you were Michael Dell what would you do? Would you enter a high growth area and risk your PC business or stay with Intel all the way?
I think that he has been unfairly ripped on slashdot because he was hoping for some money. As far as I'm concerned, I wish he did get some money out of this.
Now he has gone the other route and will be donating money to charity. Good for him. I think it says great things about the Linux community.
These things are really great, I've seen them on TV. It blows my mind to see people put a tremendous investment in time and money on the line in a battle that could destroy their bot.
You can check out the offical site for Battle Bots here.
PS I am not associated with Battle Bots in any way.
"Right now he's writing the script for 'Episode II,' then we go right into principal photography this summer in Australia. And after that, he'll be working on 'Episode III,' so it could be some time before he's able to devote the time needed to work on the DVD," Hale said.
What's the big deal? Why does it take so much effort just to put out a DVD release?
Is he afraid it will be pirated (which would be a silly reason not to release) or is he just trying to get people to buy two copies?
C'mon, this isn't an obscure security hole that can easily be forgiven. This is pure imcompetance. I see no other excuse for crap.
Microsoft has done a very poor job of switching their mindset for the "security is less important" world of stand alone machines to the "security is vital" world of computer networks. A product like WebTV shouldn't be written by guys who clearly aren't ready for the networked world.
What we're seeing with the open source movement is not just an anti-Microsoft trend, it's a desire for quality products. Network ready applications haven't come out of Microsoft for years.
Have you found that working for a big company is better or worse that working for yourself. Do you miss being the sole points of contact or do you like having other people share responsibility for system administration, network admin, etc.
Does working for Andover give you more free time? If so, what will you do with it?
I'm glad we spent effort testing our systems
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Where I work, Cisco, we found a few Y2K related bugs in the early stages of the Y2K project. As the months went by we found other non-Y2K bugs that we fixed while we were at it.
IMHO, that's the major benefit of all this hysteria. IT guys (like me) were given time to look at our systems and fix anything that they found.
Okay, I didn't like spending the night here at work but it wasn't all bad. We had food and games to keep us busy while we were waiting for the clock. Now, the systems are better off because of the effort we put into testing and fixing code.
Bill Gates: Okay, you can flame me if you want but he made being a geek cool (at least after high school) by showing up at keynote speeches with dandruff and wrinkled shirts. For that, I am grateful.
The Wright Brothers: Talk about a major impact? Think about today's planet with planes?
Steven Hawking: He studies the universe and subscribes to Playboy? He belongs here.
Euclid: Advanced the study of mathematics.
Edison: Lightbulb, enuff said.
Alexander Gramm Bell: Telephone, ditto
Da Vinci: Helicopter, Anatomy, etc.
Einstein: Master mind who worked with atoms, and had trouble communicating with others? Uber-geek!
Milton Friedman: Nobel Prize winning economist who infulenced the planets governments into a structure that made the boom of the eighties and ninties possible. (according to me)
Linus Torvalds: Did the legwork behind the project that will change the way computer software is developed for the next few decades (perhaps longer).
Okay, I'll admit it's mostly geeks from this century. There are two reasons for that:
We turned off an application or two for 24 hours on our website. I guess they/we didn't want any change orders created while it was 2000 in some parts of the world and 1999 in others.
This is really wrong. Okay, MS isn't on the cutting edge anymore but they have almost $30 Billion is cash and about $500 Trillion in stock. They can buy their way into relevance.
You may be thinking that the anti-trust hearing will stop that. It won't. AT&T was allowed to enter more markets after their anti-trust trial. If the DOJ does anything to MS they will probably give them a reward to go with their punishment.
They big question (according to me) is how far they will fall before they rise again. We've seen it with IBM, we'll see it with MS. $30 Billion in cash doesn't just vanish.
Okay, I'll admit that my personal experiance probably isn't broad enough to support the "we're rich" theory but it's all I have to go on.
Linux users are often well paid IT professionals or students with a lot of earning potential. Blocking out the guys with strong technical skills will block out the guys with above average incomes. Blocking out the guys with high incomes is bad for business.
Letting them know about this is good for us and good for them.
I'll stick with Intel. Their greater market share leads to greater testing (according to me). That's worth a few extra dollars to me. To be honest, if I ran into problems with my CPU I wouldn't be able to pinpoint it down to the CPU anyway. I'll just go with something that's "mostly" bug free. Also, I'm not convinced that an AMD dominated world would be better than an Intel dominated world anyway.
What kind of hardware/OS did they use?
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Does anybody know what kind of hardware or which OS they used to render this movie? Did they use one of the open source OS's? Massive SGI machines? Alpha hardware? MACs? Just curious. Vanguard
My passwords have a theme. Currently, I'm using radio station call letters and their fequency with a ~ built in. 944~wkjr may be line noise to a cracker but you probably hear it on the radio every day. The ~ forces crackers to use a pretty broad character set during a brute force attack.
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I disagree with you. I have written a little scenerio to illustrate me point
Let's say that you live in a tropical village with ten men in it. These ten men spend all of their day at the edge of the water catching fish with their spears.
On day, a smart fellow invents the net. Now, one man can catch as many fish as ten men used to catch. Are those nine out of work men going to sit around and do nothing?
No.
Now those nine men are free to go out and build huts, invent ovens, invent fences, etc. The "net" will have a positve impact on the ecomony because it will improve productivity.
This is true for the modern economy too. The "net" will free us from walking or driving door to door and it will allow us to take on other productive tasks.
It's hard for me to understand why the US Post Office is so worried about their business while UPS and FedEx are so excited about theirs.
Each of those companies are crowing about the increase in package deliveries and they are seeing increased profits in the face of higher fuel costs.
The US Post office is doing the right thing by building a web site that allows you to see the status of your shipment. However, they are years behind FedEx and UPS and shouldn't brag about that too much.
In short, it good to see that they have recognized that the Internet will change their business but I won't be handing out any awards until they stop playing catch up.
By October 2001, these companies must be able to tell public-safety officials the approximate location of mobile-phone users who dial 911
For the non-US crowd out there, 911 is a phone number you can dial to get emergency help. It's normally used for medical, fire, and crime related problems.
I can see the use for this technology (it's pretty obvious). I thought it was great when 911 got the ability to know where the caller was without relying on a panic stricken victim or victim's friend to give directions.
However, it's just kind of creepy to know that I can be tracked so easily. Okay, right now it doesn't invade privacy but how long will that last?
I wonder if Dell will using the Transmeta chip? While I don't pretend to understand the details of chip design, it seems like OEMs would be missing out on a speedy, cheap, low wattage chip if they ignored Crusoe. Also, we know Dell has been chomping at the bit to find other products to help them maintain their growth and profit margins.
On the other hand, Dell has always enjoyed "Best Customer" status from Intel when their supplies are running low while disloyal companies like Gateway get the shaft.
If you were Michael Dell what would you do? Would you enter a high growth area and risk your PC business or stay with Intel all the way?
Cisco has a deal with the Chinese government to provide one of the highest capacity firewalls ever built.
Internally, we call it the great firewall of China.
I thought you guys might get a kick out of that.
I think that he has been unfairly ripped on slashdot because he was hoping for some money. As far as I'm concerned, I wish he did get some money out of this.
Now he has gone the other route and will be donating money to charity. Good for him. I think it says great things about the Linux community.
These things are really great, I've seen them on TV. It blows my mind to see people put a tremendous investment in time and money on the line in a battle that could destroy their bot.
You can check out the offical site for Battle Bots here.
PS I am not associated with Battle Bots in any way.
"Right now he's writing the script for 'Episode II,' then we go right into principal photography this summer in Australia. And after that, he'll be working on 'Episode III,' so it could be some time before he's able to devote the time needed to work on the DVD," Hale said.
What's the big deal? Why does it take so much effort just to put out a DVD release?
Is he afraid it will be pirated (which would be a silly reason not to release) or is he just trying to get people to buy two copies?
C'mon, this isn't an obscure security hole that can easily be forgiven. This is pure imcompetance. I see no other excuse for crap.
Microsoft has done a very poor job of switching their mindset for the "security is less important" world of stand alone machines to the "security is vital" world of computer networks. A product like WebTV shouldn't be written by guys who clearly aren't ready for the networked world.
What we're seeing with the open source movement is not just an anti-Microsoft trend, it's a desire for quality products. Network ready applications haven't come out of Microsoft for years.
Have you found that working for a big company is better or worse that working for yourself. Do you miss being the sole points of contact or do you like having other people share responsibility for system administration, network admin, etc.
Does working for Andover give you more free time? If so, what will you do with it?
Where I work, Cisco, we found a few Y2K related bugs in the early stages of the Y2K project. As the months went by we found other non-Y2K bugs that we fixed while we were at it.
IMHO, that's the major benefit of all this hysteria. IT guys (like me) were given time to look at our systems and fix anything that they found.
Okay, I didn't like spending the night here at work but it wasn't all bad. We had food and games to keep us busy while we were waiting for the clock. Now, the systems are better off because of the effort we put into testing and fixing code.
Okay, I'll admit it's mostly geeks from this century. There are two reasons for that:
We turned off an application or two for 24 hours on our website. I guess they/we didn't want any change orders created while it was 2000 in some parts of the world and 1999 in others.
This is really wrong. Okay, MS isn't on the cutting edge anymore but they have almost $30 Billion is cash and about $500 Trillion in stock. They can buy their way into relevance.
You may be thinking that the anti-trust hearing will stop that. It won't. AT&T was allowed to enter more markets after their anti-trust trial. If the DOJ does anything to MS they will probably give them a reward to go with their punishment.
They big question (according to me) is how far they will fall before they rise again. We've seen it with IBM, we'll see it with MS. $30 Billion in cash doesn't just vanish.
My New Year's Resolution is to break all of my New Year's Resolutions.
I'm not quite sure how to go about it though.
:-)
I've been curious about the "full external contours" of my co-worker's bodies. I wonder if these will be for sale in a couple of years?
:-)
I bet they'll be real popular in high school. Girl watching will be replaced by girl scanning. Ahhh, progress.
Okay, I'll admit that my personal experiance probably isn't broad enough to support the "we're rich" theory but it's all I have to go on.
Linux users are often well paid IT professionals or students with a lot of earning potential. Blocking out the guys with strong technical skills will block out the guys with above average incomes. Blocking out the guys with high incomes is bad for business.
Letting them know about this is good for us and good for them.
Any thoughts?
I'll stick with Intel. Their greater market share leads to greater testing (according to me). That's worth a few extra dollars to me. To be honest, if I ran into problems with my CPU I wouldn't be able to pinpoint it down to the CPU anyway. I'll just go with something that's "mostly" bug free. Also, I'm not convinced that an AMD dominated world would be better than an Intel dominated world anyway.
Does anybody know what kind of hardware or which OS they used to render this movie? Did they use one of the open source OS's? Massive SGI machines? Alpha hardware? MACs? Just curious. Vanguard
My passwords have a theme. Currently, I'm using radio station call letters and their fequency with a ~ built in. 944~wkjr may be line noise to a cracker but you probably hear it on the radio every day. The ~ forces crackers to use a pretty broad character set during a brute force attack.