I've done much of my work in an airplane seat. Even First Class was less than 10sq.ft. Of course, today in coach it is closer to 4sq.ft. SV companies have been offering 'virtual' offices since the 90s. 'Virtual' as in virtually nothing.
The ultimate minimalism is no office with no employee, hence no overhead. Amazon did that to the retail store front. Perhaps we can do that to Congress. Just have a web server with a list of bills, written by lobbyists, to have the representatives' constituents vote online. Face it, we couldn't screw it up any worse than they have done.
As I have said, the only way to be absolutely sure is to perform a premortem autopsy on every passenger. The downside is that somewhere along the way, it becomes a postmortem autopsy. The good news is that airlines could then stack passengers into cargo planes at twenty time the density as current passenger planes. The bad news, no more round trip tickets.
It is so fast, the bits just fly by before anyone realizes it. Calls are not dropped, they merely end before the subscriber does. The problem is 2G subscribers on a 3G network. Subscribers need to upgrade themselves to 3G. Truth is, no one is nearly fast enough for AT&T. Send them all your money, and they will forgive you.
No, I am not a shill; I just play one on the Internet.
Another 9/11? Assange, just one letter from 'arrange', is fast becoming the "bin Laden" of the Internet. This is great news for those who want to control it. Soon, you may find your browser to be as friendly as your TSA agent. True, diplomatic cables are not as terrifying as skyscrapers collapsing, but 9/11 wasn't the first shot at the WTC, either. Every good tyrant knows -- the best way to institutionalize tyranny is to first establish terrorism.
Would we let this happen? Correction, would we let this happen again?
The Tyrant and the Terrorist, never have two people needed each other so dearly. Without the terrorist, the tyrant loses control, as his subjects grow weary of oppression. The terrorist creates the greater fear, the immediate danger, the peril that cowers the public into the grip of the tyrant. The tyrant enslaves all and motivates the few defiant ones to incite chaos, which generates fame, a terrorist's drug of choice.
The two are never far apart, usually "friends of friends" or even relatives. Terrorists are rarely captured, and tyrant rarely assassinated. Professional courtesy.
What breaks this viscous cycle? Once, it was old age. Now, who knows? The irony? Both believe they are doing good by preventing anarchy. Often, it is true, as the masses have no backbone to stand up for themselves. Easier to play the victim.
Strangely enough, this means that the electric car business is guaranteed to succeed. Great change happens when one part of society can seize a huge advantage from the other parts. In this case, the wealthy will be able to buy vehicles that will be subsidized by the poor. These new vehicles are more expensive even after federal subsidies, relegating them to the affluent. These people tend to congregate and have the most influence with industry. Their neighborhoods will get upgraded first to handle the new power requirements. The cost of the upgrades will be spread across the utility's base, mostly poor. As demand increases, utilities will raise rates across the board, collecting most of the increase from the poorer customers.
It is not a pure "rich steal from poor" play (e.g., Wall Street), but a good one - "rich get subsidizes by poor." These almost always work. My point - buy Tesla.
I have said this for two years, since they dumped the old Windows Mobile. Someone inside Microsoft was given one last shot at a technological solution. This was not given much hope, kind of like John McCain's campaign, but the culture dictated it. The financial managers are just waiting for the first two quarters of dismal results to report before launching their plan to regroup, focusing solely on the enterprise, and buying RIM while their mobile market share is low enough to get the acquisition past the SEC. This should be a surprise to no one.
This is a numbers game. I would say that English speaking countries have an advantage, especially including India. However, most of them are 'democratic', which in this case means they agree to disagree. China is motivated, focused, and very structured. They have been effective in controlling the web within China and have started exporting that expertise globally. Most corporations want to have a stricter version of their Great Wall.
At some point, there will be two 'Internets". One will be tightly controlled and be primarily B-to-B, B-to-N, or N-to-N, basically a catanet of secure networks. The other will be the "Open Internet," full of VPNs to secure access points of the controlled Internet, and lots of P-to-P with poor performance and bad security. It will be free, as large companies will subsidize it as a transport for their subscription VPNs, but most users will not see much value to the 'free' part.
Of course, no one will have absolute control. There is really no point to that goal. The point is to control enough to profit from it. However you define profit, it is still relatively narrow control. Don't worry, most users will get screwed by it occasionally, as usual.
Chiseling everything into stone, preferably granite, keeps this work to a minimum. I prefer to use steel, as bronze wears too quickly. Have change requests submitted in triplicate, and you will get very few.
Melting Pots are Hot Pots. This has been the way it is since Europeans made slaves of native Americans. The immigrants come in and change things. There have been complaints about the Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, French, English, Germans, Polish, Irish, Russian . . . . Hell, we drug Africans here screaming and kicking, and then we complained about them, too. The alternative is to be like Japan, xenophobic. If Japan is not closed enough, then how about North Korea?
Linux had its run as the "latest and greatest." It is time again for a completely new technology. I suggest Unix; except call it Snow Leopard or Tiger. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Next, a new user interface -- the command line user experience, CLUE. "Get a CLUE!"
My experience in Silicon Valley -- when a company announces that it is going to build a new corporate headquarters, then short the stock. This has an amazingly positive correlation. When executives are fusing about the house, they are not ruthlessly plotting to eviscerate their competition, enslave their workers, screw their stockholders, and take over the world. They are nesting.
Now they are going to face the City Council, who are going to want 3,618 EPA, economic, and tax reports -- that is just for starters. Then, they are going to face 20,000 local residents who are going to hate any idea Google has just because Google is successful and lives on the side of the freeway that produces tons of tax revenue that cannot be shared with the rest of the city.
This is called a morass. It is not what nimble companies like to kill time managing. Eric Schmidt would have more success fucking a tar baby.
I wonder if this affects Windows Mobile 7? As I recall, it uses IE7.
BTW, did you know that windows kill about a billion birds each year? No shit. They run into them, banging their heads again and again. Before anyone mods this off-topic, please consider the metaphor.
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I've done much of my work in an airplane seat. Even First Class was less than 10sq.ft. Of course, today in coach it is closer to 4sq.ft. SV companies have been offering 'virtual' offices since the 90s. 'Virtual' as in virtually nothing.
The ultimate minimalism is no office with no employee, hence no overhead. Amazon did that to the retail store front. Perhaps we can do that to Congress. Just have a web server with a list of bills, written by lobbyists, to have the representatives' constituents vote online. Face it, we couldn't screw it up any worse than they have done.
As I have said, the only way to be absolutely sure is to perform a premortem autopsy on every passenger. The downside is that somewhere along the way, it becomes a postmortem autopsy. The good news is that airlines could then stack passengers into cargo planes at twenty time the density as current passenger planes. The bad news, no more round trip tickets.
Just read Exodus, and the only reason Heaven is not on the "10 worst" list is that God keeps 'moderating' the reviews.
If they do it right, they may never pay a dollar of income tax for the rest of their lives.
He has a Microsoft Windows PC! A MacBook Air would be so much more fitting. Steve Jobs needs to get up there and straighten him out.
It is so fast, the bits just fly by before anyone realizes it. Calls are not dropped, they merely end before the subscriber does. The problem is 2G subscribers on a 3G network. Subscribers need to upgrade themselves to 3G. Truth is, no one is nearly fast enough for AT&T. Send them all your money, and they will forgive you.
No, I am not a shill; I just play one on the Internet.
This is all about using fear to control the masses. It has worked for thousands of years. Why stop now?
Another 9/11? Assange, just one letter from 'arrange', is fast becoming the "bin Laden" of the Internet. This is great news for those who want to control it. Soon, you may find your browser to be as friendly as your TSA agent. True, diplomatic cables are not as terrifying as skyscrapers collapsing, but 9/11 wasn't the first shot at the WTC, either. Every good tyrant knows -- the best way to institutionalize tyranny is to first establish terrorism.
Would we let this happen? Correction, would we let this happen again?
"Just because you have foresight, initiative, and relevance, it doesn't mean you can't be shamelessly ignored," Harry Markopolos.
Is there a difference?
The Tyrant and the Terrorist, never have two people needed each other so dearly. Without the terrorist, the tyrant loses control, as his subjects grow weary of oppression. The terrorist creates the greater fear, the immediate danger, the peril that cowers the public into the grip of the tyrant. The tyrant enslaves all and motivates the few defiant ones to incite chaos, which generates fame, a terrorist's drug of choice.
The two are never far apart, usually "friends of friends" or even relatives. Terrorists are rarely captured, and tyrant rarely assassinated. Professional courtesy.
What breaks this viscous cycle? Once, it was old age. Now, who knows? The irony? Both believe they are doing good by preventing anarchy. Often, it is true, as the masses have no backbone to stand up for themselves. Easier to play the victim.
Strangely enough, this means that the electric car business is guaranteed to succeed. Great change happens when one part of society can seize a huge advantage from the other parts. In this case, the wealthy will be able to buy vehicles that will be subsidized by the poor. These new vehicles are more expensive even after federal subsidies, relegating them to the affluent. These people tend to congregate and have the most influence with industry. Their neighborhoods will get upgraded first to handle the new power requirements. The cost of the upgrades will be spread across the utility's base, mostly poor. As demand increases, utilities will raise rates across the board, collecting most of the increase from the poorer customers.
It is not a pure "rich steal from poor" play (e.g., Wall Street), but a good one - "rich get subsidizes by poor." These almost always work. My point - buy Tesla.
I have said this for two years, since they dumped the old Windows Mobile. Someone inside Microsoft was given one last shot at a technological solution. This was not given much hope, kind of like John McCain's campaign, but the culture dictated it. The financial managers are just waiting for the first two quarters of dismal results to report before launching their plan to regroup, focusing solely on the enterprise, and buying RIM while their mobile market share is low enough to get the acquisition past the SEC. This should be a surprise to no one.
This is a numbers game. I would say that English speaking countries have an advantage, especially including India. However, most of them are 'democratic', which in this case means they agree to disagree. China is motivated, focused, and very structured. They have been effective in controlling the web within China and have started exporting that expertise globally. Most corporations want to have a stricter version of their Great Wall.
At some point, there will be two 'Internets". One will be tightly controlled and be primarily B-to-B, B-to-N, or N-to-N, basically a catanet of secure networks. The other will be the "Open Internet," full of VPNs to secure access points of the controlled Internet, and lots of P-to-P with poor performance and bad security. It will be free, as large companies will subsidize it as a transport for their subscription VPNs, but most users will not see much value to the 'free' part.
Of course, no one will have absolute control. There is really no point to that goal. The point is to control enough to profit from it. However you define profit, it is still relatively narrow control. Don't worry, most users will get screwed by it occasionally, as usual.
Chiseling everything into stone, preferably granite, keeps this work to a minimum. I prefer to use steel, as bronze wears too quickly. Have change requests submitted in triplicate, and you will get very few.
Melting Pots are Hot Pots. This has been the way it is since Europeans made slaves of native Americans. The immigrants come in and change things. There have been complaints about the Spanish, Portuguese, Italians, French, English, Germans, Polish, Irish, Russian . . . . Hell, we drug Africans here screaming and kicking, and then we complained about them, too. The alternative is to be like Japan, xenophobic. If Japan is not closed enough, then how about North Korea?
I didn't know Apple ever used a i86 in anything until they switched to Core2 about four years ago.
Of course, the law will not apply to them, just like the labor laws, civil rights laws . . .
Linux had its run as the "latest and greatest." It is time again for a completely new technology. I suggest Unix; except call it Snow Leopard or Tiger. Yeah, that's the ticket!
Next, a new user interface -- the command line user experience, CLUE. "Get a CLUE!"
If the head of the SEC were teaching this course, he would have had all the cheaters write the new test and grade it. Then they would all get bonuses.
User your nose.
My experience in Silicon Valley -- when a company announces that it is going to build a new corporate headquarters, then short the stock. This has an amazingly positive correlation. When executives are fusing about the house, they are not ruthlessly plotting to eviscerate their competition, enslave their workers, screw their stockholders, and take over the world. They are nesting. Now they are going to face the City Council, who are going to want 3,618 EPA, economic, and tax reports -- that is just for starters. Then, they are going to face 20,000 local residents who are going to hate any idea Google has just because Google is successful and lives on the side of the freeway that produces tons of tax revenue that cannot be shared with the rest of the city. This is called a morass. It is not what nimble companies like to kill time managing. Eric Schmidt would have more success fucking a tar baby.
And nobody gave it to Mr. Ellison. He did what he felt he had to do and still does. I doubt if any other way would have yielded better results.
I wonder if this affects Windows Mobile 7? As I recall, it uses IE7. BTW, did you know that windows kill about a billion birds each year? No shit. They run into them, banging their heads again and again. Before anyone mods this off-topic, please consider the metaphor.