It ain't that hard to do and will is WAY more subliminally coercive than any interstitial could ever hope to be. Look at the NFL field-painting... or the ads that are computer-painted into the slots behind MLB batters... the best advertising will simply melt into the programming itself. NASCAR has known this for decades and is, to date, master of the art.
"frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface of Mars, suggest observations from Europe's Mars Express spacecraft."
Indications are not the DISCOVERY of a thing itself. This is the most annoying thing about the religious atheist scientists these days. They are all over the place screaming absurdities such as EVOLUTION IS A FACT and there IS WATER ON MARS... both of which may eventually be proven true, but have not, to date! We still don't have the missing link that Darwin himself said you better find before you even start thinking about calling this theory fact.
Science loses credibility every time it jumps the shark like this. It's so annoying and so unnecessary. I have many, many religious friend who are incredible scientists. The two practices are not mutually exclusive by any stretch of the imagination. Pick up Simon Singh's new book, Big Bang (not to be confused with the other bang book), for a great modern historical example.
Don't even get me started on how much we owe to super methodical clergy over the ages, in terms of observing and recording. Finding that Design implies a Designer in no way diminishes the measurable and verifiable data collected by Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist and other clergy scientists. So chill out on the dogmatic, narrow-minded psuedo-scientific voodoo and atheistic hubris, man!
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." - Neil Peart
For those fortunate enough to live near Silicon Valley, the original SGI building over on Shoreline has been converted to the Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/
I saw part of this collection when it was housed at the nearby Moffit Field (NASA Ames). When you look at this stuff and see how fast things have developed, you KNOW it had to be due to extraterrestrial intervention because humans are far too bone-headed to have accomplished such feats.:)
Of course, most of the aliens now frequent/. in order to keep an eye on how their cute little trained monkeys are doing.
Oh, I forgot to include the Vonage "Soft Phones" for $9.99/mo. Our family and many friends live in San Diego (858 area code), so to keep communication cost down we used the Vonage web page to set up a local San Diego line so they can call as much as they like (well, 500 minutes, which they'll never even come close to using) for a flat $10/mo. That still puts us at $25/mo versus SBC's $40/mo and we have TWO phone numbers in different area codes along with the ability to configure our own call waiting/forwarding/etc at no additional cost. Lest the glowing reviews appear insincere, I do not work for Vonage, do not know anyone who works there, and have no financial stake in the company.
If my wife let me cut loose SBC in favor of Vonage -- believe me, Vonage is more than ready for prime time. She has ZERO tolerance for technological tinkering of any kind (hence, she tortures herself with 17 years of marriage to someone who loves nothing more) and yet she is completely happy with Vonage-over-Comcast (VoC) cable modem.
Here in the People's Republic of Palo Alto we have 3Mbps/256Kbps Comcast cable (yes, private enterprise cable, despite the communityists!) over which Vonage works extremely well. In almost a year, we have had only one "serious" outage due to Comcast wherein we lost phone service for about 4 hours. Since we have cell phones, it didn't matter much anyway. Other than that, callers sometimes ask us, "are you on a cell phone?" due to a little delay/echo/crackling on the line caused by what? LACK OF UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH, STUPID! But I digress.
All in all, from the perspective of a guy who once *despised* cable modems and a girl who *despises* techno-gadgetry, Vonage is a satisfactory replacement for SBC; especially considering that we were paying $40.00/mo. to SBC for what we now pay $14.99 with no surprises. Which begs the question, why does SBC even exist any more? What do they add of value?
SBC (then known as Pacific Bell) totally had its chance to leap frog cable and pretty muchlet the project die on the vine. But of course, we're just a little biased on that one.
SBC: "Surely Blame Cable" for the ultimate demise of the telcos.
the more 'diverse' the computer software on the 'net becomes, the more interoperability problems will rear their ugly heads
not if all adhere to OPEN STANDARDS, as the original post suggests. that said, it's not too realistic to expect a market to adhere to said open standards.
This quickly wanders OFF-TOPIC and then drives the highway metaphor into a ditch, but that is because the topic at hand (moronic metaphors) does influence said OFF topic; which is in fact, in a ditch anyway. So mod this thing sKiz0phr3niK (if it ever gets read at all) because I don't know where such a tautological polemic belongs, but the fact that that is precisely what this entry is, helps me to believe that it belongs with the rest of its ilk(see brief excerpt)somewhere on/.. So if your socio-technological imagination rides around in a vintage four-wheel drive vehicle , it's time to get out and lock the wheel hubs for this rocky off-road rant, or if you're used to existential off-roading PKD-style, then take off the seat belt and enjoy banging your head against the roof with every ill-advised turn, ahead.
I'm glad that this issue of broken highway metaphors is finally helping some people realize the flaccidy... er, fallacy of the driving metaphor to desribe the Internet; although my skeptical side wagers that many of the people now saying the highway metaphor is retarded for access are the same people who defended the metaphor with regards to transit (bandwidth). My point is, let's link this line of thinking back to the Ethernet First Mile bandwidth issue, because the two are not unrelated.
Capacity, capability, culpability, and community are all interdependent with respect to building the rest of the Internet. Contrary to popular mass delusion, as of the end of 2003, the Internet is less than 50% built. It will not be complete until there is free and unfettered Ethernet Everywhere.
As the current stupid "driver license" idea clearly reveals with respect to access, so transit (bandwidth) is not like a highway, either. The Internet doesn't take you somewhere, that was a FICTION work, but many still seem mindfscked into believing that, at least on a subconscious level. (Also mindfsked was the hype about the movie, apparently.)
The Internet is communication, not transportation. The Information Superhighway is perhaps one of the most malevolent memes unleashed on the world since "the most bewitching and insidious work of literature ever written," namely, Brave New World (and I even voted for the True President, Al Gore!). The highway metaphor is the underlying lie that is giving government the idea that it should own our communication infrastructure! Ummm... didn't we just topple the evil Soviet Empire for doing things like running all state-controlled communications channels? For all his own misplaced highwayisms, our True President Gore did NOT envision a government owned and controlled Internet; but don't tell that to local government control freaks. If a municipality suggested that it own all of the phone, radio, and TV transmission facilities, can you imagine the uproar? But somehow it's a daydream for government to build and own the communications medium that transcends the Old Comms Trinity.
I propose that we get our analogies consistent and make a concerted effort to destroy this Highway to Hell internet metaphor. I'm amazed on a daily basis at the lengths supposedly smart people will go to defe
it's their network, and other people are piggy-backing on their servers for free and making bank on it. Why should they allow that? You have plenty of other options if you want to chat outside of Microsoft's servers...
Isn't this potentially a death knell for the Internet? Think about it. There would be No Internet if every network and server connected to it said, "It's our network and our servers, you can't use these resources without paying." Consider web sites. If you visit ANY company's web site, you are using their network and their servers. Suppose you are GOOGLE and link or index said sites. You are then "making bank" on them and why should GOOGLE be allowed to run a search engine that links to third party networks for FREE?
Or what about my ISP? If I use my ISP network to connect to the MSN network and MSN wants to use my ISP's network to reach me in order to make bank on MSN, they better have to pay an IM-specific licensing fee back to my ISP as well. That's a lot of verbage, but think about it. On the other hand, we may have a model here for creating great new revenue streams based on this or that protocol. Pay-As-You-Protocol. Hey, MS, you want to let people use https on your site? You want port 443 to work across OUR NETWORK? You gotta pay an SSL transit license fee if you use the Comcast/SBC/Verizon/Whatever network.
I'm thinking that this is not just another funny-haha move by MS, this has potentially far worse ramifications than any old-school browser wars.
Your Direct Question Do we really need to make so much noise before they make things happen?
The Direct Answer: YES.
Your Deductive Assertion Apparently, you only have rights if you belong to a group big enough to actually influence politics.
The Deductive Answer: TRUE.
These are immutable characteristics of the world we live in. We can hate it and berate it, but it is where we live. We either learn to adapt or we become irrelevant. I can despise or deny it from cradle to grave, but the monolithic truth couldn't care less.
Don't forget, that ad (for Internet Washer) also has a blinking DOS prompt, thanks to Flash. That might be the reason the ad got through your friend's firewall / junkbuster, too. Anyone got some good ideas on how to combat the growing Flash Spam out there? For the best example of Flash Spam that I can think of off the top of my head, try www.foxnews.com.
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Updates on War in Iraq
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Using a web translater to read AlJazeera, found this:
"US military sources reported that limited raids on Iraq would last for two days before an intensive wide-range attack."
go to http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/ then put in http://aljazeera.net/
Wonder if CNN *knows* this but doesn't tell so people stay glued to TV's for 2 days?
Don't get me wrong. This is not impossible. It's just impractical for 99.99999% of the population. No matter how badly you and I WANT the future of bandwidth to be 100% free and 100% fiberless, that's just not going to happen.
According to the article, "The companies have confirmed in an experiment that data can be transmitted at 10 megabits per second, comparable to the speed of a broadband Internet connection."
Broadband is 10Mbps? On what planet? Maybe Vint Cerf's Mars-Net. Here on Earth, everything from 128K to yottabits per second are referred to as broadband. No wonder the public is so confused about what broadband is and is not.
Nutscrape has fallen from grace since picked up by AOhelL.
Opera does a much better job dealing with the collective mess out there commonly referred to current Internet standards.
OpenOffice simply kicks @$$. I've even used it to FIX WORD DOCUMENTS that were created in Word, but format-hosed for one reason or another.
1. Open the native Word doc in OpenOffice. 2. Re-save document AS WORD DOC in OpenOffice. 3. Return document to befuddled Word user. 4. Happy Word user wonders how I fixed the screw-up so fast.
Hyperbolic Anecdotal Con[f|cl]usion: Oddly enough, OpenOffice apparently does Word docs better than Word does them.:)
Best of all, I also install OpenOffice and Opera for WINDOWS OS for as many friends and co-workers as possible, thereby helping them to get familiar with these tools as a migratory step toward moving them all of Windows altogether. As they build confidence that the tools will not interfere with their work in any way, they will be more likely to make the switch. The biggest hurdle to overcome is "but if I use XYZ word processor, nobody else can open my docs and I can't open theirs. Or, if we can, XYZ screws up the formatting of the other docs." OpenOffice is coming very, very close to completely overcoming that objection, even for the weakest computer users.
Expense is a major misperception as the previous reply to this post points out. It's a hangover from the hippie era and mostly perpetuated by hippies-turned-engineers. Maybe not in 1967, but today, it costs more to put in marble countertops than to install fiber optic Ethernet To The Home (ETTH). Trenching costs are trivial. Local control freaks are not. They are completely obessed with their Right To Drive Cars Three Blocks to the store, and anything that might temporarily re-route that drive is dubbed Evil Corporate Destruction of their vital neighborhood streets. It's asphalt, for crying out loud! Well, they're my streets, too, and I vote: DIG THE HELL OUT OF THEM. The digging won't last forever, but the benefits will. That's the one best thing you can do to help speed Fiber To Your Door. Get in front of your local political bubble-heads and INSIST that they let companies bring the fiber to you.
If we have anything to do with it -- and we do -- companies like OnFiber will soon figure out that by working with Fortune 500 Residential Developers, they can branch out to new revenue generating opportunities and begin the migration to a rightly architected Residential Information Infrastructure (RII), starting in new housing developments. As deployments increase in number, costs drop even further and it's a vituous circle that will save the world and bring peace to Jerusalem. Well, at least it will make companies like Always-On very happy, whose addressable market it limited only by sufficient, reliable bandwidth.
While it might seem like Gigabit ETTH is overkill, by the time you do the math for sending Everything over Ethernet for a family of four, the scenario changes quickly. You have to think in terms of sending different HDTV streams for each of three TV's in the home, while one of the kids is playing a fully immersive version of Diablo 6 with a peer-to-peer interface that looks like this. One Gbps may not be enough when you factor in all of the bandwidth load balancing and congestion considerations. What we have to get the -- how shall I put it delicately -- theiving f-ing MBA idiots on Sand Hill and Wall Street to understand is that overprovisioning bandwidth does NOT necessarily create an economic surplus. They certainly didn't seem to think SONET was economic surplus.
There is no bandwidth surplus anymore than there were honest auditors at Worldcom. In fact, it's very likely the peers of those auditors who manufactured the Too Much Bandwidth propaganda in the first place. What there is, is SUFFICIENT bandwidth to begin growing at the edges... AS PLANNED, Mr. Wall St. But then, we're only low-life engineers, what would we know about actually building such things?
There you have it, the mystical Economic Recovery for Dummies. It's called the Ethernet First Mile. Remember, you read it first on/. .
it really doesn't matter what the moderators deem insightful, the whole thing is just noise, anyway. let's take a look at mr. valenti's success record (courtesy of David Isenberg's SMART newsletter www.isen.com):
QUOTE OF NOTE: Jack Valenti
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film
producer and the American public as the Boston strangler
is to the woman home alone."
Testimony of Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture Association of America, before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the Administration of Justice, Monday, April 12, 1982, see http://www.cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm for complete transcript.
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Er, "will be WAY more ..." yes, yes, I know Preview, Preview, Preview or look the fool like this. Ugh.
Pro Duct Place Ment
... or the ads that are computer-painted into the slots behind MLB batters ... the best advertising will simply melt into the programming itself. NASCAR has known this for decades and is, to date, master of the art.
It ain't that hard to do and will is WAY more subliminally coercive than any interstitial could ever hope to be. Look at the NFL field-painting
"frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface of Mars, suggest observations from Europe's Mars Express spacecraft."
... both of which may eventually be proven true, but have not, to date! We still don't have the missing link that Darwin himself said you better find before you even start thinking about calling this theory fact.
Indications are not the DISCOVERY of a thing itself. This is the most annoying thing about the religious atheist scientists these days. They are all over the place screaming absurdities such as EVOLUTION IS A FACT and there IS WATER ON MARS
Science loses credibility every time it jumps the shark like this. It's so annoying and so unnecessary. I have many, many religious friend who are incredible scientists. The two practices are not mutually exclusive by any stretch of the imagination. Pick up Simon Singh's new book, Big Bang (not to be confused with the other bang book), for a great modern historical example.
Don't even get me started on how much we owe to super methodical clergy over the ages, in terms of observing and recording. Finding that Design implies a Designer in no way diminishes the measurable and verifiable data collected by Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist and other clergy scientists. So chill out on the dogmatic, narrow-minded psuedo-scientific voodoo and atheistic hubris, man!
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." - Neil Peart
Interesting. This could actually be true.
What an amazing feat. Congratulations.
:)
/. in order to keep an eye on how their cute little trained monkeys are doing.
For those fortunate enough to live near Silicon Valley, the original SGI building over on Shoreline has been converted to the Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/
I saw part of this collection when it was housed at the nearby Moffit Field (NASA Ames). When you look at this stuff and see how fast things have developed, you KNOW it had to be due to extraterrestrial intervention because humans are far too bone-headed to have accomplished such feats.
Of course, most of the aliens now frequent
Faxing works fine here. Have even faxed items to Germany (joker.com) for domain name registry stuff.
Oh, I forgot to include the Vonage "Soft Phones" for $9.99/mo. Our family and many friends live in San Diego (858 area code), so to keep communication cost down we used the Vonage web page to set up a local San Diego line so they can call as much as they like (well, 500 minutes, which they'll never even come close to using) for a flat $10/mo. That still puts us at $25/mo versus SBC's $40/mo and we have TWO phone numbers in different area codes along with the ability to configure our own call waiting/forwarding/etc at no additional cost. Lest the glowing reviews appear insincere, I do not work for Vonage, do not know anyone who works there, and have no financial stake in the company.
If my wife let me cut loose SBC in favor of Vonage -- believe me, Vonage is more than ready for prime time. She has ZERO tolerance for technological tinkering of any kind (hence, she tortures herself with 17 years of marriage to someone who loves nothing more) and yet she is completely happy with Vonage-over-Comcast (VoC) cable modem.
Here in the People's Republic of Palo Alto we have 3Mbps/256Kbps Comcast cable (yes, private enterprise cable, despite the communityists!) over which Vonage works extremely well. In almost a year, we have had only one "serious" outage due to Comcast wherein we lost phone service for about 4 hours. Since we have cell phones, it didn't matter much anyway. Other than that, callers sometimes ask us, "are you on a cell phone?" due to a little delay/echo/crackling on the line caused by what? LACK OF UPSTREAM BANDWIDTH, STUPID! But I digress.
All in all, from the perspective of a guy who once *despised* cable modems and a girl who *despises* techno-gadgetry, Vonage is a satisfactory replacement for SBC; especially considering that we were paying $40.00/mo. to SBC for what we now pay $14.99 with no surprises. Which begs the question, why does SBC even exist any more? What do they add of value?
SBC (then known as Pacific Bell) totally had its chance to leap frog cable and pretty muchlet the project die on the vine. But of course, we're just a little biased on that one.
SBC: "Surely Blame Cable" for the ultimate demise of the telcos.
DOWN WITH DNS!
quick, somebody fire up alt.dns.die.die.die
This quickly wanders OFF-TOPIC and then drives the highway metaphor into a ditch, but that is because the topic at hand (moronic metaphors) does influence said OFF topic; which is in fact, in a ditch anyway. So mod this thing sKiz0phr3niK (if it ever gets read at all) because I don't know where such a tautological polemic belongs, but the fact that that is precisely what this entry is, helps me to believe that it belongs with the rest of its ilk(see brief excerpt) somewhere on /.. So if your socio-technological imagination rides around in a vintage four-wheel drive vehicle , it's time to get out and lock the wheel hubs for this rocky off-road rant, or if you're used to existential off-roading PKD-style, then take off the seat belt and enjoy banging your head against the roof with every ill-advised turn, ahead.
... er, fallacy of the driving metaphor to desribe the Internet; although my skeptical side wagers that many of the people now saying the highway metaphor is retarded for access are the same people who defended the metaphor with regards to transit (bandwidth). My point is, let's link this line of thinking back to the Ethernet First Mile bandwidth issue, because the two are not unrelated.
... didn't we just topple the evil Soviet Empire for doing things like running all state-controlled communications channels? For all his own misplaced highwayisms, our True President Gore did NOT envision a government owned and controlled Internet; but don't tell that to local government control freaks. If a municipality suggested that it own all of the phone, radio, and TV transmission facilities, can you imagine the uproar? But somehow it's a daydream for government to build and own the communications medium that transcends the Old Comms Trinity.
I'm glad that this issue of broken highway metaphors is finally helping some people realize the flaccidy
Capacity, capability, culpability, and community are all interdependent with respect to building the rest of the Internet. Contrary to popular mass delusion, as of the end of 2003, the Internet is less than 50% built. It will not be complete until there is free and unfettered Ethernet Everywhere.
As the current stupid "driver license" idea clearly reveals with respect to access, so transit (bandwidth) is not like a highway, either. The Internet doesn't take you somewhere, that was a FICTION work, but many still seem mindfscked into believing that, at least on a subconscious level. (Also mindfsked was the hype about the movie, apparently.)
The Internet is communication, not transportation. The Information Superhighway is perhaps one of the most malevolent memes unleashed on the world since "the most bewitching and insidious work of literature ever written," namely, Brave New World (and I even voted for the True President, Al Gore!). The highway metaphor is the underlying lie that is giving government the idea that it should own our communication infrastructure! Ummm
I propose that we get our analogies consistent and make a concerted effort to destroy this Highway to Hell internet metaphor. I'm amazed on a daily basis at the lengths supposedly smart people will go to defe
Or what about my ISP? If I use my ISP network to connect to the MSN network and MSN wants to use my ISP's network to reach me in order to make bank on MSN, they better have to pay an IM-specific licensing fee back to my ISP as well. That's a lot of verbage, but think about it. On the other hand, we may have a model here for creating great new revenue streams based on this or that protocol. Pay-As-You-Protocol. Hey, MS, you want to let people use https on your site? You want port 443 to work across OUR NETWORK? You gotta pay an SSL transit license fee if you use the Comcast/SBC/Verizon/Whatever network.
I'm thinking that this is not just another funny-haha move by MS, this has potentially far worse ramifications than any old-school browser wars.
Your Direct Question
Do we really need to make so much noise before they make things happen?
The Direct Answer: YES.
Your Deductive Assertion
Apparently, you only have rights if you belong to a group big enough to actually influence politics.
The Deductive Answer: TRUE.
These are immutable characteristics of the world we live in. We can hate it and berate it, but it is where we live. We either learn to adapt or we become irrelevant. I can despise or deny it from cradle to grave, but the monolithic truth couldn't care less.
Don't forget, that ad (for Internet Washer) also has a blinking DOS prompt, thanks to Flash. That might be the reason the ad got through your friend's firewall / junkbuster, too. Anyone got some good ideas on how to combat the growing Flash Spam out there? For the best example of Flash Spam that I can think of off the top of my head, try www.foxnews.com.
Using a web translater to read AlJazeera, found this:
"US military sources reported that limited raids on Iraq would last for two days before
an intensive wide-range attack."
go to http://tarjim.ajeeb.com/
then put in http://aljazeera.net/
Wonder if CNN *knows* this but doesn't tell so people stay glued to TV's for 2 days?
MSNBC is a retard. Along with AOL, the MPAA, etc., they're doing all they can to kill the Internet as anything other than a click-NOW-to-buy network.
... still the most salient and accurate prophecy ever written about the commercialization of the Internet.
Re-read Death From Above
Nominated for the "Sad but Very Likely True of the Week" award.
Worse yet, it's like saying wooden buggy wheels don't last very long on paved roads, so don't pave the roads.
Don't get me wrong. This is not impossible. It's just impractical for 99.99999% of the population. No matter how badly you and I WANT the future of bandwidth to be 100% free and 100% fiberless, that's just not going to happen.
And don't forget ran_999@yahoo.com for WARkaa.com What are the odds of that? URUKlink is apparently hosted by WARkaa.
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Updated Date: 04-feb-2002
Organization:
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AE Phone: 971 4 2224482
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Registrar Name: Register.com
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AE Phone: 971 4 2224482
Fax..: 971 4 2224482
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DUBIA dubia, 00 11126
AE Phone: 971 4 2224482
Fax: 971 4 2224482
Email: ran_999@yahoo.com
Domain servers in listed order:
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You may be able to buy this domain name through http://www.afternic.com/offer
According to the article, "The companies have confirmed in an experiment that data can be transmitted at 10 megabits per second, comparable to the speed of a broadband Internet connection."
Broadband is 10Mbps? On what planet? Maybe Vint Cerf's Mars-Net. Here on Earth, everything from 128K to yottabits per second are referred to as broadband. No wonder the public is so confused about what broadband is and is not.
Oh yeah, I forgot Trillian. This should be the Lindows 2.1 bundle, IMHO:
Lindows 2.0
Opera 6.05
OpenOffice 1.0.1
Trillian Pro 1.0
Nutscrape has fallen from grace since picked up by AOhelL.
:)
Opera does a much better job dealing with the collective mess out there commonly referred to current Internet standards.
OpenOffice simply kicks @$$. I've even used it to FIX WORD DOCUMENTS that were created in Word, but format-hosed for one reason or another.
1. Open the native Word doc in OpenOffice.
2. Re-save document AS WORD DOC in OpenOffice.
3. Return document to befuddled Word user.
4. Happy Word user wonders how I fixed the screw-up so fast.
Hyperbolic Anecdotal Con[f|cl]usion: Oddly enough, OpenOffice apparently does Word docs better than Word does them.
Best of all, I also install OpenOffice and Opera for WINDOWS OS for as many friends and co-workers as possible, thereby helping them to get familiar with these tools as a migratory step toward moving them all of Windows altogether. As they build confidence that the tools will not interfere with their work in any way, they will be more likely to make the switch. The biggest hurdle to overcome is "but if I use XYZ word processor, nobody else can open my docs and I can't open theirs. Or, if we can, XYZ screws up the formatting of the other docs." OpenOffice is coming very, very close to completely overcoming that objection, even for the weakest computer users.
Expense is a major misperception as the previous reply to this post points out. It's a hangover from the hippie era and mostly perpetuated by hippies-turned-engineers. Maybe not in 1967, but today, it costs more to put in marble countertops than to install fiber optic Ethernet To The Home (ETTH). Trenching costs are trivial. Local control freaks are not. They are completely obessed with their Right To Drive Cars Three Blocks to the store, and anything that might temporarily re-route that drive is dubbed Evil Corporate Destruction of their vital neighborhood streets. It's asphalt, for crying out loud! Well, they're my streets, too, and I vote: DIG THE HELL OUT OF THEM. The digging won't last forever, but the benefits will. That's the one best thing you can do to help speed Fiber To Your Door. Get in front of your local political bubble-heads and INSIST that they let companies bring the fiber to you.
... AS PLANNED, Mr. Wall St. But then, we're only low-life engineers, what would we know about actually building such things?
/. .
If we have anything to do with it -- and we do -- companies like OnFiber will soon figure out that by working with Fortune 500 Residential Developers, they can branch out to new revenue generating opportunities and begin the migration to a rightly architected Residential Information Infrastructure (RII), starting in new housing developments. As deployments increase in number, costs drop even further and it's a vituous circle that will save the world and bring peace to Jerusalem. Well, at least it will make companies like Always-On very happy, whose addressable market it limited only by sufficient, reliable bandwidth.
While it might seem like Gigabit ETTH is overkill, by the time you do the math for sending Everything over Ethernet for a family of four, the scenario changes quickly. You have to think in terms of sending different HDTV streams for each of three TV's in the home, while one of the kids is playing a fully immersive version of Diablo 6 with a peer-to-peer interface that looks like this. One Gbps may not be enough when you factor in all of the bandwidth load balancing and congestion considerations. What we have to get the -- how shall I put it delicately -- theiving f-ing MBA idiots on Sand Hill and Wall Street to understand is that overprovisioning bandwidth does NOT necessarily create an economic surplus. They certainly didn't seem to think SONET was economic surplus.
There is no bandwidth surplus anymore than there were honest auditors at Worldcom. In fact, it's very likely the peers of those auditors who manufactured the Too Much Bandwidth propaganda in the first place. What there is, is SUFFICIENT bandwidth to begin growing at the edges
There you have it, the mystical Economic Recovery for Dummies. It's called the Ethernet First Mile. Remember, you read it first on
it really doesn't matter what the moderators deem insightful, the whole thing is just noise, anyway. let's take a look at mr. valenti's success record (courtesy of David Isenberg's SMART newsletter www.isen.com):
QUOTE OF NOTE: Jack Valenti
"I say to you that the VCR is to the American film
producer and the American public as the Boston strangler
is to the woman home alone."
Testimony of Jack Valenti, President of the Motion Picture
Association of America, before the U.S. House of
Representatives Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and
the Administration of Justice, Monday, April 12, 1982, see
http://www.cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm for complete
transcript.