We were supposed to have FTTH (fiber to the home) 20 years ago.
We've been paying surcharges to get FTTH for 20 years.
To date the Telcos and cablecos have delivered 0 inches of FTTH. Not an inch of fiber has been laid.
And now America is quantitatively and qualitatively behind, in an area where we were the leaders, only to get surpassed by anybody who's actually laid in some FTTH.
The difference of having bandwidth as opposed to starving for it is, well just imagine yourself back before the internet. Imagine yourself having to use carbon paper. Life was a lot slower then.
Now with uTube and MoviesOnDemand, VideosOnDemand and the thirst for all kinds of streaming media, the demand for band is going to collapse the copper infrastructure. It wont melt the wire down as much as it will vaporize it in a coronal flare.
If you work in management for a telco or a cableco, look for Federal indictments to come to your office before the decade is out.
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a toggle switch front panel with a STURDY [deposit] switch was enough for me. (God I feel O-L-D!)
PDP-8s PDP-11s, Interdata 7-32s, Cromemcoes, Keronics (Data General knock offs) all those machines I used to toggle in the IPL boot codes for every morning.
I have had the same job for four years and I have gone through three sets of bosses. I'm about to start in on a fourth set. Its great. If I really don't like one, I know he or she will be gone soon.
(I'm reminded of the Dilbert "Bungie Boss" series of cartoon.:-)
Sorry but SQL Server has a way's to go to catch up to DB/2 in terms of sheer horsepower that can be applied to a problem. (And they ALL suffer from the fact that ALL relationships are N:M [1:1, 1:N and N:1 are merely existential cases,] and NONE of the DB engines are capable of working with N:M relationships.)
IDE's are STILL trying to catch up with Smalltalk's IDE. (And its been 26 years!)
MSDN is great but the implementation sucks. (Like everything else from M$)
We've been raped up the ass by all the telcos over then not delivering one inch of fiber to the home and now we're going to compound that by fighting with AT&T when AT&T finally gives us what we've been paying surcharges for all these friggin' years.
People are stupid shits.
Let em deliver the fiber and if we don't like the way its going, then we can regulate their balls off.
When you're stuck making all your money from other people's creativity, because you're so devoid of any yourself, you will fight tooth and nail to protect your smaller pile, because you know there is no way you can survive when everything's open.
Without DRM, the RIAA would sue your computer manufacturer for putting in any audio component, apart from a radio.
They don't care how much the world saves in the efficiencies of integration, it threatens their business models, damn it, and they are lawyers (not musicians!)
So the iTunes store was certainly effective in making sure I stayed with podsafe tunes.
There are times when I'm glad I RIPed my entire collection of MP3s (over 1,200 CDs and disks) but when I'm putting together a show, I'm glad that my iTunes music library's on a different drive.:-)
The RIAA can't claim anything regarding copyright infringement.
They bought any cheap box that was compatible with the box at the office.
The real decision makers are the corporate buyers who buy units by the tens of thousands (and just updated off of Windows NT 4.x to Win2K because they HAD to.)
The multimedia capabilities in Windows cut absolutely no ice when you're buying TOOLS (not toys.)
That's why Windows is a big fucking yawn and always will be.
I'd agree but... how many iPods can Kim Jong Il wear at once?:-)
On the other hand, banning the sale of any and every luxury good, ALL OF THEM, would mean that he'd have to scramble in the same squalor as his people and it would cost us very little in terms of votes.
Ban everything but the sale of foods and medicines and ugly utilitarian vehicles.:-)
I get by on four hours of sleep and I have for over 35 years.
Since I'm not too active (just sitting on a chair or lying on a bed,) I tend to let my body relax completely while still remaining conscious enough to read a book or surf the web. (I read very boring books.:-)
Then as long as i get quality sleep for four hours a night and let my mind do its "re-org", I retain almost everything I read as well as most of what I did the day before. (I also insist on putting everything down in writing. Makes me a real pain in the ass as a manager! [None of the "I said, you said" crap.]:-)
You'd also think that Balmer would have more sense than announce his strategy to get ONE linux provider on board with false promises and immediately go on the attack with all of the other linux providers.
You'd be wrong.
The , uh, agreement. (bargain with Satan?) might have been for one thing but Balmer didn't even read it. It didn't matter to him anyway.
He figures he'll find co-mingled code if he's got to get his M$ minions to do it for him. And then he'll sue all of the providers and keep them tied up in court and away from the keyboard for years.
Why Novell/SuSE Linux? (Volkerdink wouldn't be much of a victory, now would it?) They're closely affiliated with IBM and if he can keep Novell/SuSE and IBM tied up (why else the original support for SCO?) long enough, they'll lose (lose in court or lose interest, it doesn't matter. As long as they lose...)
The broadcast model of communication is clearly dying as too few channels producing too little content and being too used to outrageous profit margins on costs based on too small a market. (notice the word consumer is absent from this little tirade.)
The blockbuster is dead. Long live pod (Portable On Demand) casting.
I cant see them retaining any invading army the day after they let them out to disperse amongst the world populace.
You think that you can hang on troops who have been fed lies all their lives about the supposed importance of North Korea, only to discover that nobody really gives a shit.
We live a lot better than they do. We want to keep it that way. All of our time and energy is devoted to that...
Fsck North Korea. We're BUSY here and we've got much bigger/smaller worries.
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We were supposed to have FTTH (fiber to the home) 20 years ago.
We've been paying surcharges to get FTTH for 20 years.
To date the Telcos and cablecos have delivered 0 inches of FTTH. Not an inch of fiber has been laid.
And now America is quantitatively and qualitatively behind, in an area where we were the leaders, only to get surpassed by anybody who's actually laid in some FTTH.
The difference of having bandwidth as opposed to starving for it is, well just imagine yourself back before the internet. Imagine yourself having to use carbon paper. Life was a lot slower then.
Now with uTube and MoviesOnDemand, VideosOnDemand and the thirst for all kinds of streaming media, the demand for band is going to collapse the copper infrastructure. It wont melt the wire down as much as it will vaporize it in a coronal flare.
If you work in management for a telco or a cableco, look for Federal indictments to come to your office before the decade is out.
a toggle switch front panel with a STURDY [deposit] switch was enough for me. (God I feel O-L-D!)
PDP-8s PDP-11s, Interdata 7-32s, Cromemcoes, Keronics (Data General knock offs) all those machines I used to toggle in the IPL boot codes for every morning.
I have had the same job for four years and I have gone through three sets of bosses. I'm about to start in on a fourth set. Its great. If I really don't like one, I know he or she will be gone soon.
:-)
(I'm reminded of the Dilbert "Bungie Boss" series of cartoon.
and don't be ashamed of anything you do.
Just get used to the fact that the whole world is ending up like a small village where everybody knows everything you do.
Privacy is a luxury that we can no longer afford outside the walls of places we own (and even there its by the grace of keeping stuff legal.)
Sorry but SQL Server has a way's to go to catch up to DB/2 in terms of sheer horsepower that can be applied to a problem. (And they ALL suffer from the fact that ALL relationships are N:M [1:1, 1:N and N:1 are merely existential cases,] and NONE of the DB engines are capable of working with N:M relationships.)
IDE's are STILL trying to catch up with Smalltalk's IDE. (And its been 26 years!)
MSDN is great but the implementation sucks. (Like everything else from M$)
Ever heard the song "The Girls All Look Better At Closing Time"?
as to the direction an elephant is heading in from a vantage point slightly in front of and below its tail.
I loathe articles like this; lazy-ass pieces of toilet paper shat out by someone who's too ignorant and/or stupid to write a decent sci-fi plot.
Blaming the victim for crimes that the perpretrator knows were committed, letting slip out a little about the commission, because s/he committed them.
We've been raped up the ass by all the telcos over then not delivering one inch of fiber to the home and now we're going to compound that by fighting with AT&T when AT&T finally gives us what we've been paying surcharges for all these friggin' years.
People are stupid shits.
Let em deliver the fiber and if we don't like the way its going, then we can regulate their balls off.
BUT LET 'EM DELIVER THE FUCKIN' FIBER!!!
When you're stuck making all your money from other people's creativity, because you're so devoid of any yourself, you will fight tooth and nail to protect your smaller pile, because you know there is no way you can survive when everything's open.
Without DRM, the RIAA would sue your computer manufacturer for putting in any audio component, apart from a radio.
They don't care how much the world saves in the efficiencies of integration, it threatens their business models, damn it, and they are lawyers (not musicians!)
So the iTunes store was certainly effective in making sure I stayed with podsafe tunes.
:-)
There are times when I'm glad I RIPed my entire collection of MP3s (over 1,200 CDs and disks) but when I'm putting together a show, I'm glad that my iTunes music library's on a different drive.
The RIAA can't claim anything regarding copyright infringement.
The first artist who scores big on the net will probably have a tune featuring bells. (The death knell of the RIAA.)
The MPAA probably has a little more time but the end result will be the same.
I'm just waiting for the next step; when they start attacking their own members.
and getting a scratch will be able to corrupt so many other people's medical records than the paltry number you can now fit on a 'fading' tape.
I can hardly wait...
Companies do.
People have never bought Windows.
They bought Dell.
They bought Sony.
They bought any cheap box that was compatible with the box at the office.
The real decision makers are the corporate buyers who buy units by the tens of thousands (and just updated off of Windows NT 4.x to Win2K because they HAD to.)
The multimedia capabilities in Windows cut absolutely no ice when you're buying TOOLS (not toys.)
That's why Windows is a big fucking yawn and always will be.
The fancier features detract from their true use.
That's as stupid a characterization as I've ever encountered.
Today's iPod listener are tomorrow's Mac owners.
fuck being young (and broke and ignorant.)
I feel that everything in my life has prepared me to enjoy life and to live well (the best revenge.)
And if some snot-nosed little git can't stand the pace, tough.
The characterization of 'granny' applies to everybody who kid has had a kid. I knew woman who was a granny at 32 (one oops after another.)
She wasn't old but the WAS stupid and so was her daughter, (and they were both very fertile.)
Eat my dust...
what color they are... Your ass is grass.
I'd agree but... how many iPods can Kim Jong Il wear at once? :-)
:-)
On the other hand, banning the sale of any and every luxury good, ALL OF THEM, would mean that he'd have to scramble in the same squalor as his people and it would cost us very little in terms of votes.
Ban everything but the sale of foods and medicines and ugly utilitarian vehicles.
That's gonna make a change...
do a "re-org" on my memories.
:-)
:-)
I get by on four hours of sleep and I have for over 35 years.
Since I'm not too active (just sitting on a chair or lying on a bed,) I tend to let my body relax completely while still remaining conscious enough to read a book or surf the web. (I read very boring books.
Then as long as i get quality sleep for four hours a night and let my mind do its "re-org", I retain almost everything I read as well as most of what I did the day before. (I also insist on putting everything down in writing. Makes me a real pain in the ass as a manager! [None of the "I said, you said" crap.]
No! You think?
You'd also think that Balmer would have more sense than announce his strategy to get ONE linux provider on board with false promises and immediately go on the attack with all of the other linux providers.
You'd be wrong.
The , uh, agreement. (bargain with Satan?) might have been for one thing but Balmer didn't even read it. It didn't matter to him anyway.
He figures he'll find co-mingled code if he's got to get his M$ minions to do it for him. And then he'll sue all of the providers and keep them tied up in court and away from the keyboard for years.
Why Novell/SuSE Linux? (Volkerdink wouldn't be much of a victory, now would it?) They're closely affiliated with IBM and if he can keep Novell/SuSE and IBM tied up (why else the original support for SCO?) long enough, they'll lose (lose in court or lose interest, it doesn't matter. As long as they lose...)
The broadcast model of communication is clearly dying as too few channels producing too little content and being too used to outrageous profit margins on costs based on too small a market. (notice the word consumer is absent from this little tirade.) The blockbuster is dead. Long live pod (Portable On Demand) casting.
It will save the planet.
Think of your own reaction to driving past some dismal greasy spoon on the highway.
That's what you DO. You drive past.
The aliens will figure there's nothing good to eat and motor on through.
North Korea invading anyone anywhere else.
I cant see them retaining any invading army the day after they let them out to disperse amongst the world populace.
You think that you can hang on troops who have been fed lies all their lives about the supposed importance of North Korea, only to discover that nobody really gives a shit.
We live a lot better than they do. We want to keep it that way. All of our time and energy is devoted to that...
Fsck North Korea. We're BUSY here and we've got much bigger/smaller worries.
Or am I thinking of the 'black goo' on an old Star Trek episode.
They steered well away from the planet after discovering that.
This could only happen under the fsckin' Democrats. (Oh wait, they weren't around when this crap was hatched.)
No law firm is ever going to work cheaply enough to make this worth their while.
If they have to prove their costs, they're dead.
If they have to prove the RIAAs costs, they're dead.
Goddamn it. If people play fair, we can't get anything done in this country.