Plans for telecommuting programs:
4% Increase
5% No change
21% Phase out
62% Derease
8% no response
So basicly employers have figured out the scam and the gig is up. Productivity when you live where you work sucks, and is downright depressing in most cases. Not to mention the royal pain of the VPN and other networking issues, and all the security issues it raises. The relationships with your coworkers don't work very smoothly, and forget promotions.
Of course in some business models (those 9% above) it does work. Find a job at one of those companies.
They will get just what they deserve, IETF will NOT pay them becasue they are smart, so if they dont give it up for free, they will get nothing. Nice try tho.
Real nice setup for a future darwin award tho, thats a whole lot of people to piss off.
One use for STRONG trademarks...
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IEEE shouldnt even allow anyone to use the name bluetooth unless it complies 100% with the spec, not 99% and not 101%.
No mention of the term in marketing or product materials, nothing.
And anyone who does do so without being compliant should be sued into the ground and hunted down like rabid dogs. And have their IEEE memberships stripped of course.
Oh forget it... the very idea of ethics in people who design devices for people that are supposed to work... ha!
If you're looking for new things in the last 30 years in the field of computer science (other then easier GUIs) you're going to have a hard time, becasue there just arent any, it's all incremental change. The web is only a GUI on top of FTP and RPC if you think about it, not a breaktrough in tech but in a social use of tech.
All the innovation and revolution has been in other fields for quite a while. If you want new go into biotech or nanotech, those are the frontiers.
You forgot a forth and more critical criteria which all the P2P companies keep saying "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
Fourth, the company must not care about the data, algorithms, and results becoming public immediately. Available to any competitor or evil cracker who wants to mess with you.
Forget the other 3, you will have a nearly impossible time finding anyone willing (stupid enough) to give you money and live with #4.
Of course, some of us have known this for a very long time, commercial distributed computing was put to sleep in the 70's. But then, in the 70's VCs were smarter.
I do wonder with these pay schemes if the payment will actually be enough to cover the cost of electricity. Hurm
Nope
I've been at this for a while *chuckles*...
and I'm working on a longer whitepaper, but I'll give slashdot a quick preview.
The real (hidden) costs:
Electricity - min 5-10$/month
Server Bandwidth - SETI uses about $22,000/month of taxpayer funded bandwidth last I asked, more by now.
User Bandwidth - not everyone has Cable/DSL ya know. Bandwidth isn't that cheap outside the.us.
Server and User Hardware - also not free, wear and tear, etc.
Why no company would ever touch it:
Privacy/secret loss - you cannot do distributed computing and not give out your raw data and trade-sercet code. Period.
Security - you cannot do anything to prevent bogus results and things from inteligent crackers. Period. If there is money involved, peoelpe will try hard to cheat.
So you have huge hidden costs, total loss of any capitalist advantage, and huge headaches for the admins. Keep dreaming folks.
Hate to break it to you guys, but when you're doing "real work" like rendering (or anything else), the OS is 100% totally and completely IRRELIVANT.
You find the hardware with the best floating point, and best memory bandwidth. Then you try and get the rest of things as cheap as possible, which means Linux or BSD.
Maybe this was about saving money and had nothing at all to do with the OS, that doesn't mattter anyway?
The Cosm project is open and fully suports researchers. You won't find that in a commercial project. Our API's are public, and the code is available, just read the license.
If you want to start your own project right now, today, go get the Mithral CS-SDK. It was pre-released a few days ago, and came out of the Cosm project.
It will let you put together a d.net/SETI style project in a few days (I would know). Finding something worth doing is up to you:)
...the LAST thing in the universe I can think of wanting to do is spend 8 hours a day around geek guys.
Geeks are the wrong end of the gene pool to be hanging around if you're female after all. Not to mention the little things like the caffeene/alchohol addictions, bad fashion sense, complete lack of social skills...
Geeks usually grow out of these problems, but well after girls would decide and stereotype all geeks as icky and decide they want nothing to do with them. Heck _I_ can barely stand younger geeks for the same reasons.
It concerns me greatly that what was once a benevolent dictatorship under the brilliant and wise Dr. Jon Postel, is now a beurocratic quasi-democracy of 16 year olds without any understanding of deeply technical issues. Or worse, companies with everything but the interests of the whole in mind. Is there even the remotest possibility this is a good thing?
Ignoring the profoundly trivial issues like if we should add.sex or.web to the Network Solutions monopoly first, forcing everyone to pay up or get squatted. Do we want "Internet users" making important decisions based on who kisses the most babies or has a cuter butt, rather then solid scientific research and debate? Will we soon have an ICANN president sneaking around with interns and running IP-block deals with crooked loans?
I better shut up before my domains start turning up "lost" yet again and get auctioned off.
Game consoles are sold at a LOSS, and a big one at that. Sony is opening up the hardware for the clones, big deal, noone cares.
Sony and everyone else sells the hardware at a loss because all the money is in the games.
It you wanted to buy the parts and build it yourself (i.e. clone it), it will cost you a few times more then if you just but it at the local story. You might be able to build a system for 3-4x the cost of the Sony subsidized system.
You wont see the game license fees dropping, or the emulators being allowed ever because that's where the money is.
First of all, the only thing d.net and Cosm have in common is that I started both. The two projects are NOT related in any way, and aren't even in the same field.
And it's obvious you've never even looked at the Cosm website, or you would know it wasn't "COSM".
You'd also know there is already 467KB of code released, not even counting the headers. Which isn't bad since noone is getting paid.
But... Right now it's just a heathy snack. It needs 1,700-2,200 more calories. I burn 300 calories in about 3 hours. I'm not gonna eat 8 of those things a day. And isn't the whole point convienience? At best the Dilberito contains 15% of what the body needs.
Someone is going to make a trillion dollars selling low-cost, nutritious once-a-day meals.
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A recent industry survey had these results:
Plans for telecommuting programs:
4% Increase
5% No change
21% Phase out
62% Derease
8% no response
So basicly employers have figured out the scam and the gig is up. Productivity when you live where you work sucks, and is downright depressing in most cases. Not to mention the royal pain of the VPN and other networking issues, and all the security issues it raises. The relationships with your coworkers don't work very smoothly, and forget promotions.
Of course in some business models (those 9% above) it does work. Find a job at one of those companies.
*ahem*
No, UD.com did not get the core d.net guys. Far from it.
They will get just what they deserve, IETF will NOT pay them becasue they are smart, so if they dont give it up for free, they will get nothing. Nice try tho.
Real nice setup for a future darwin award tho, thats a whole lot of people to piss off.
IEEE shouldnt even allow anyone to use the name bluetooth unless it complies 100% with the spec, not 99% and not 101%. No mention of the term in marketing or product materials, nothing.
And anyone who does do so without being compliant should be sued into the ground and hunted down like rabid dogs. And have their IEEE memberships stripped of course.
Oh forget it... the very idea of ethics in people who design devices for people that are supposed to work... ha!
If you're looking for new things in the last 30 years in the field of computer science (other then easier GUIs) you're going to have a hard time, becasue there just arent any, it's all incremental change. The web is only a GUI on top of FTP and RPC if you think about it, not a breaktrough in tech but in a social use of tech.
All the innovation and revolution has been in other fields for quite a while. If you want new go into biotech or nanotech, those are the frontiers.
You forgot a forth and more critical criteria which all the P2P companies keep saying "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain"
Fourth, the company must not care about the data, algorithms, and results becoming public immediately. Available to any competitor or evil cracker who wants to mess with you.
Forget the other 3, you will have a nearly impossible time finding anyone willing (stupid enough) to give you money and live with #4.
Of course, some of us have known this for a very long time, commercial distributed computing was put to sleep in the 70's. But then, in the 70's VCs were smarter.
you just described EVERY university
Source will be available soon, the only reason it's not already is because one of the FORTRAN libs needs to come from another site.
Quite the opposite, most companies invest a huge amount in computers that are idle a large amount of the time.
Never said everyone doesn't want to get paid, but there are huge reasons not to be the one doing the paying
I do wonder with these pay schemes if the payment will actually be enough to cover the cost of electricity. Hurm
Nope
I've been at this for a while *chuckles*... and I'm working on a longer whitepaper, but I'll give slashdot a quick preview.
The real (hidden) costs:
Why no company would ever touch it:
So you have huge hidden costs, total loss of any capitalist advantage, and huge headaches for the admins. Keep dreaming folks.
Hate to break it to you guys, but when you're doing "real work" like rendering (or anything else), the OS is 100% totally and completely IRRELIVANT.
You find the hardware with the best floating point, and best memory bandwidth. Then you try and get the rest of things as cheap as possible, which means Linux or BSD.
Maybe this was about saving money and had nothing at all to do with the OS, that doesn't mattter anyway?
*hears the sound of bubbles bursting*
The Cosm project is open and fully suports researchers. You won't find that in a commercial project. Our API's are public, and the code is available, just read the license.
If you want to start your own project right now, today, go get the Mithral CS-SDK. It was pre-released a few days ago, and came out of the Cosm project.
It will let you put together a d.net/SETI style project in a few days (I would know). Finding something worth doing is up to you :)
Over 5$/month. You can collect this payment by turning your computer OFF when you're not using it and the "payment" will show up on your electic bill.
I can see it now, thousands of pissed off slashdot reading script-kiddies. That scene from Hackers comes to mind.
...the LAST thing in the universe I can think of wanting to do is spend 8 hours a day around geek guys.
Geeks are the wrong end of the gene pool to be hanging around if you're female after all. Not to mention the little things like the caffeene/alchohol addictions, bad fashion sense, complete lack of social skills...
Geeks usually grow out of these problems, but well after girls would decide and stereotype all geeks as icky and decide they want nothing to do with them. Heck _I_ can barely stand younger geeks for the same reasons.
It concerns me greatly that what was once a benevolent dictatorship under the brilliant and wise Dr. Jon Postel, is now a beurocratic quasi-democracy of 16 year olds without any understanding of deeply technical issues. Or worse, companies with everything but the interests of the whole in mind. Is there even the remotest possibility this is a good thing?
Ignoring the profoundly trivial issues like if we should add .sex or .web to the Network Solutions monopoly first, forcing everyone to pay up or get squatted. Do we want "Internet users" making important decisions based on who kisses the most babies or has a cuter butt, rather then solid scientific research and debate? Will we soon have an ICANN president sneaking around with interns and running IP-block deals with crooked loans?
I better shut up before my domains start turning up "lost" yet again and get auctioned off.
Eugenics is an American program, the Nazi's just borrowed it and added guns.
Frankenstein is the Doctor, not the monster, arg!
Game consoles are sold at a LOSS, and a big one at that. Sony is opening up the hardware for the clones, big deal, noone cares.
Sony and everyone else sells the hardware at a loss because all the money is in the games.
It you wanted to buy the parts and build it yourself (i.e. clone it), it will cost you a few times more then if you just but it at the local story. You might be able to build a system for 3-4x the cost of the Sony subsidized system.
You wont see the game license fees dropping, or the emulators being allowed ever because that's where the money is.
Once again the Slash-blurb is grossly misleading.
OK, so how many HTML hits are you serving, and how many image ones?
Spill it!
Wrong. Even slashdot covered this before http://slashdot.org/features/ older/980412118226.shtml
Have you all forgotten you're fighting for a PATENTED algorithm.
You're all hot and bothered about burning patented .gif files. Why are you using .mp3's?
Wake up, and use something else. MP3's sound like crap anyway.
Bruce writes like humans are running things in 2035... comedy Sterling style :)
And it's obvious you've never even looked at the Cosm website, or you would know it wasn't "COSM".
You'd also know there is already 467KB of code released, not even counting the headers. Which isn't bad since noone is getting paid.
But... Right now it's just a heathy snack. It needs 1,700-2,200 more calories. I burn 300 calories in about 3 hours. I'm not gonna eat 8 of those things a day. And isn't the whole point convienience? At best the Dilberito contains 15% of what the body needs.
Someone is going to make a trillion dollars selling low-cost, nutritious once-a-day meals.