But LightSurf camera snaps into your cellphone, quite a bit more convenient than this Ricoh.
Wired had a great article entitled "The Big Picture" on LightSurf a few months ago. I recommend reading it. (of course I recommend reading most of what runs in Wired)
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I'm not talking legality - I didn't say SEC, law, or must. I'm talking journalistic integrity. I said "should." If you write about a company in any way, negative or positive, and you are a shareholder in it or one of it's competitors mentioned in your writing, you should state this plainly.
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It sounds to me like you're an investor.
Are you an investor in HP? An investor in another company mentioned in your post? If so you should disclose this in your post.
Now, do you keep up on their financials? If not, here's some information for you, taken from HP's latest quarterly:
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Net revenue, in millions, 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2000.
Imaging and Printing Systems: $20,476
Computing Systems: $21,095
IT Services: $7,129
Other: $1,299
Total Revenue: $48,782
Earnings, in millions, 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2000
Imaging and Printing Systems: $2,746
Computing Systems: $960
IT Services: $634
Other: ($103)
Total Earnings: $3,889
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So, while it is true that they earn the most money from "Printing and Imaging Systems," they're hardly a "dud of a company." And if you really get down into HP's financials, you'll find some interesting things - their largest growth sector was Asia at 61% over 1999, and their fastest growth in "Printing and Imaging" happens to be in imaging:
Imaging revenues grew 31% over the year-ago quarter, fueled by strong growth in all-in-one (AiO's) products (up 31%), scanners (up 13%) and digital cameras (up 137%).
I hope this has been at least a little enlightening. HP is not doomed now, and certainly wouldn't be if HPUX dropped off the face of the planet this evening and HP never sold another server again. And their interest / investment in Linux shows they know where their money comes from. It won't be long before their
AiO's and digital cameras will be running embeded linux along with their print servers.
Cheers,
Jon
Disclaimer: I don't own any publicly traded stock.
In the fall of 1999 Era GSM, a private GSM company in Poland, began to allow customers to make international calls via VoIP. It was transparent to end users, as all VoIP should be.
This lasted two months? Maybe three? By law all calls leaving Poland have(had?) to go through Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA), the national telco. The courts found out about the service and of course ordered it stopped.
(One wouldn't want a Pole paying less than 15% of their monthly income for a one-hour call to the states now, would they?)
People commenting "how do you detect..." need to realize that governments don't need to detect anything. (Though it would be easy in Poland where the vast majority of Internet traffic goes through one TPSA link to the US via teleglobe.net... even traffic destined for Germany!) Just hearing about a business circumventing laws is enough to start the machine moving, and let me tell you that machine is frightening.
And since VoIP is recognized as just another way to make a telephone call, it is regulated as such. Why should it receive any special consideration?
You neglect to consider some technology developed over the past 150 years that allows for the recording of the human voice.
As long as the rest of the world is listening to English-language music and television, they'll be tied to the standards set by the US and UK.
American TV is seen worldwide. BBC World Service is the only reliable radio news in much of the world. Listeners do and will continue to understand English as we know it. I can't see rebroadcasts of media in "malaysianglish" to accomodate locals who speak a pidgin.
Another point to make is that the Human mind works a lot better than current speech-recognition technology. I can say from experience (as a former volunteer teacher abroad) that no matter how bad the grammar or pronounciation, English is English, and can be understood if both parties care enough to listen.
Finally, your quip about the South Dakotan in Chicago is just rubbish (I'm sure you get the picture, even though rubbish is a British slander, and not an American one.) I imagine you're trying to say that you don't understand Black people. Go take a few social anthropology and linguistics classes. While the Black American Vernacular (or whatever it's being called by the academics this year) is hard to understand for people who aren't accustomed to hearing it, adjustment takes place the minute you actually listen to what's being said.
Looking for IT work in the states is a passive experience. Post the resume on monster.com, wait a day or two, and evaluate what the bottom feeders who will inevitably call have to say.
Looking for IT work in Europe must be an active process. This summer I changed my resume on monster.com to say I would only consider positions in Europe, and in four months I've been offered two jobs in Europe, period. (both in Germany) I've talked to countless recruiters up and down the east coast, (who tend to ignore the part of my resume that says I'm looking for work in Europe only and call anyway) and I've asked them, "how about jobs in Europe?" Sometimes I get stories about vacations, or about how nice Belgium is supposed to be, or whatever, but almost no one who ever calls actually has jobs in Europe.
In four months I've had around twenty hits for US jobs, and only two for European jobs. This is passive mode. If you want better results, I'd suggest getting active and beating the proverbial (and metaphorical in this case) pavement, because I don't think European IT jobs just fall from the sky like ones in the US do.
How an uninformed comment like this is classified as "interesting" is beyond me. It's a troll, plain and simple.
I wonder what dealings with IBM the poster has had. I wonder if the poster has ever written any "open source" software?
Maybe the poster (and whoever moderated my last post in this thread down as a troll) should check IBM's developer site or their Open Source Projects site.
Then maybe they should check their heads, or maybe the IBM products they obviously don't own. My ThinkPad 770 has no problems with linux. My Power Computing Power 100 (with a shiny IBM 601 under the hood) was running mklinux in 1995.
I don't care if IBM doesn't support FreeBSD or NetBSD or whateverBSD they don't seem to support. This has nothing to do with A. their commitment to Open Source software, or B. the ability of their products to run Open Source software.
Besides, if you hose up your drive by destroying their special partition with a default NetBSD install, they will ship you another drive. Thinkpad hardware support happens to be the best in the industry, bar none.
Look at the response from his post. Now take into consideration the banner ads at the top of each page. Why should he not editorialize when every page view is another penny in the bank?
I don't mind obtaining a certificate for my apps, not a bit. From the article:
A "trusted application" is signed by the software publisher, allowing end users to determine its source and verify that it has not been altered or tampered with. Developers may purchase the cryptographic certificates used to create such a signature from Verisign Inc. --
Microsoft has no say in determining who may receive such certificates or what software may be signed.
I currently have Verisign digital certificates for the Intranet apps I am writing so I can do https. It wasn't difficult to get them. In fact the first certificate I got was from RSA in 1995. There are also other authorities you can obtain certificates from, and getting cert for an app is no more difficult than getting an encryption key for https.
Anyone who is complaining loudly about this hasn't worked in IT for long, if at all.
I think Mozilla users will realize they're missing the ability to exchange files with their neighbors, the people on the PTA, and most importantly their computers at work.
Until any program can read and write.doc and.xls files without some sort of conversion utility M$ stays on top.
Back to the topic, I think this will really work for M$. It will be quite a bit easier to add a $5.00/month charge for office to the $30/month people are paying for their new computer and fast Internet connection.
What Open Source group is going to give you a new computer, an Office package, and Internet access for $35/month?
I know the current DVD-RAM disks won't read in normal DVD players. But DVD-RAM is a different beast from DVDR. DVD-RAM is what you can get in a Macintosh for $600. It's disks won't play in a consumer DVD player. DVDR is the real thing, and has been prohibitively expensive to do, with burners running around $10-16k. It's disks do in fact play in consumer machines.
I'm not catching your meaning here. If I write some files a,b,c,d,e,f, and g like this:
aaaaabbbbbbbbcccccddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggg
then I delete file c:
aaaaabbbbbbbb_____ddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggg
then I write file h (and h happens to be bigger than c was) it looks like this:
aaaaabbbbbbbbhhhhhddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggghhh
That means the file is in two pieces, on two different parts of the drive, and the disk needs to pick up it's heads and move them to read the tail end of the file like this:
_____________hhhhh______________________hhh
Now if I run disk defragmenter, it will pick up all these files and put them down so they're written to contiguous blocks like this:
aaaaabbbbbbbbhhhhhhhhddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggg
And this is a good thing.
Back to the topic - I really think that there are two sets of people in Germany, and these sets probably do not have much overlap - 1. the people afraid of Scientology in their computers, and 2. the users of Windows 2000. And anyone with reason to use a real OS (ie. not a Win9x based OS) who IS afraid of CoS is probably using SuSE anyway.:-)
I've noticed that when JSP is implemented in large-scale projects (for example, in banks), JRun is often the product used.
The authors may have stayed away from JRun to keep from pushing Allaire too much - as the same company that brings us ColdFusion also brings us JSP - but I wish they hadn't. It would be nice to see how the performance stacks up.
I have to "Strongly Disagree" with your reading of the situation.
I've dealt with AT&T - they do occasionally have problems with their Worldnet dialup Service - and in almost every case the 1st level call center people have tried to stonewall me. They all react the same way, because they're all reading off the same cue-cards.
If a company policy harms users by instructing techs to aggressively insist all service problems are on the client side, subscribers to the service have the right to know this.
And if it takes the leak of an internal document to let the comsumers know, so be it. Why do you think the documents were leaked in the first place? Because someone there KNOWS SOMETHING IS WRONG, HAS A CONSCIENCE, and WANTS THE PRACTICE TO STOP. Someone inside.
The fact that @home has squelched the docs instead of fixing their broken policies says that they value making money more than they value providing a perfect service. And that is something any customer has the right to know.
Reading the Man-v-Machine site sets off my MLM alarm bells. The language used in the site gives me that slimy-all-over feeling: Vision, Market Opportunity, Existing Relationships... and then there's the use of "will" - like something "will happen" in the indefinite future. (do a frequency count on "will" in this site, I dare you.)
The founder resumes look great - but the rest of the site - well, read:
"Man-v-Machine" will develop publicity and promotional campaigns throughout the 3-year course of the project, its foremost goal being to help create exposure for all partners.
So they're founding a pr/marketing company.
RDD is a research, design and development company which will develop and own all AI-Andi-related technology. The team will comprise the very best researchers in the world. Principal partners from Automotive, Aerospace, Electronics, Computing, Robotics and Academia will contribute technology, people, resources and skills. They will have access to all technical progress and own shares in the company.
And they're setting up a separate R+D group - composed entirely of Other People's Money. (Not to mention other people's technology and manpower.)
So it all seems a little off to me. But then again, they wouldn't be the first to run a car on vapor.
1.) Do you think the "founding fathers" had today's society and government in mind when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
2.) If a clear, unambiguous document were written, taking into account documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and defining the United States as not an isolated nation but a member of a world community, would you consider supporting it?
This article seems to say what you said - but just about the upper atmosphere, not the whole thing.
Gravity must take care of the rest. Of course with Mars being 1/9th the mass of Earth, there isn't quite as much gravity as there is here. (Assuming here is Earth. I dunno, all I've seen recently is a computer screen. here could be anywhere.)
One of the better services AT&T provides is SSL-only mail connections from outside of their network.
Their Internet-accessible webmail site, http://netmail.att.net/ is redirected to https.
They also don't allow normal POP/SMTP from the Internet. (well duh on the SMTP bit, but it's unusal that an ISP doesn't allow normal POP from the Internet)
Users not dialed into the AT&T network must set up their mail clients to POP using ssl on port 995, and SMTP using ssl to port 465.
Why Hotmail and Yahoo don't require SSL is beyond me. I guess you get what you pay for.:-)
A printing appliance with such specs should cost HP around $300.00 to manufacture. Give them a 15% margin, then let the retailers mark it up 50% and you're still under $700.00.
The price point here was set at what managers expect to pay for a name brand device.
Of course it is quite a deal compared to the price of WinNT/2k Server for printing + client licensing at $35 per...
An article ran in the Hartford Courant several months on this exact topic... covered in greater depth than today's link. Here's a quote:
To train the brain, psychologists at the clinic attach a sensor slathered with conducting gel to a patient's head. The sensor records the brain waves in the frontal lobe, the part of the brain that controls attention and the area where slow-moving waves are believed to cause ADHD.
Patients' brains are then wired to a video game. Instead of a joystick, a mouse or a keyboard, they use brain waves to control the game.
Yes, using a Network Appliance Filer is using Oralce with NFS - but this is a solution developed by NetApp in conjunction with Oracle, and is AFAIK the only NFS solution Oracle recommends.
(No I don't work for NetApp.)
We're considering Filers to replace local disk on some of our Sun 450s (running Oracle 8.1.6) at the place I work.
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But LightSurf camera snaps into your cellphone, quite a bit more convenient than this Ricoh.
Wired had a great article entitled "The Big Picture" on LightSurf a few months ago. I recommend reading it. (of course I recommend reading most of what runs in Wired)
I'm not talking legality - I didn't say SEC, law, or must. I'm talking journalistic integrity. I said "should." If you write about a company in any way, negative or positive, and you are a shareholder in it or one of it's competitors mentioned in your writing, you should state this plainly.
It sounds to me like you're an investor.
Are you an investor in HP? An investor in another company mentioned in your post? If so you should disclose this in your post.
Now, do you keep up on their financials? If not, here's some information for you, taken from HP's latest quarterly:
--------
Net revenue, in millions, 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2000.
Imaging and Printing Systems: $20,476
Computing Systems: $21,095
IT Services: $7,129
Other: $1,299
Total Revenue: $48,782
Earnings, in millions, 12 months ending Oct. 31, 2000
Imaging and Printing Systems: $2,746
Computing Systems: $960
IT Services: $634
Other: ($103)
Total Earnings: $3,889
--------
So, while it is true that they earn the most money from "Printing and Imaging Systems," they're hardly a "dud of a company." And if you really get down into HP's financials, you'll find some interesting things - their largest growth sector was Asia at 61% over 1999, and their fastest growth in "Printing and Imaging" happens to be in imaging:
I hope this has been at least a little enlightening. HP is not doomed now, and certainly wouldn't be if HPUX dropped off the face of the planet this evening and HP never sold another server again. And their interest / investment in Linux shows they know where their money comes from. It won't be long before their AiO's and digital cameras will be running embeded linux along with their print servers.
Cheers,
Jon
Disclaimer: I don't own any publicly traded stock.
In the fall of 1999 Era GSM, a private GSM company in Poland, began to allow customers to make international calls via VoIP. It was transparent to end users, as all VoIP should be.
This lasted two months? Maybe three? By law all calls leaving Poland have(had?) to go through Telekomunikacja Polska (TPSA), the national telco. The courts found out about the service and of course ordered it stopped.
(One wouldn't want a Pole paying less than 15% of their monthly income for a one-hour call to the states now, would they?)
People commenting "how do you detect..." need to realize that governments don't need to detect anything. (Though it would be easy in Poland where the vast majority of Internet traffic goes through one TPSA link to the US via teleglobe.net... even traffic destined for Germany!) Just hearing about a business circumventing laws is enough to start the machine moving, and let me tell you that machine is frightening.
And since VoIP is recognized as just another way to make a telephone call, it is regulated as such. Why should it receive any special consideration?
You neglect to consider some technology developed over the past 150 years that allows for the recording of the human voice.
As long as the rest of the world is listening to English-language music and television, they'll be tied to the standards set by the US and UK.
American TV is seen worldwide. BBC World Service is the only reliable radio news in much of the world. Listeners do and will continue to understand English as we know it. I can't see rebroadcasts of media in "malaysianglish" to accomodate locals who speak a pidgin.
Another point to make is that the Human mind works a lot better than current speech-recognition technology. I can say from experience (as a former volunteer teacher abroad) that no matter how bad the grammar or pronounciation, English is English, and can be understood if both parties care enough to listen.
Finally, your quip about the South Dakotan in Chicago is just rubbish (I'm sure you get the picture, even though rubbish is a British slander, and not an American one.) I imagine you're trying to say that you don't understand Black people. Go take a few social anthropology and linguistics classes. While the Black American Vernacular (or whatever it's being called by the academics this year) is hard to understand for people who aren't accustomed to hearing it, adjustment takes place the minute you actually listen to what's being said.
-JB
Looking for IT work in the states is a passive experience. Post the resume on monster.com, wait a day or two, and evaluate what the bottom feeders who will inevitably call have to say.
Looking for IT work in Europe must be an active process. This summer I changed my resume on monster.com to say I would only consider positions in Europe, and in four months I've been offered two jobs in Europe, period. (both in Germany) I've talked to countless recruiters up and down the east coast, (who tend to ignore the part of my resume that says I'm looking for work in Europe only and call anyway) and I've asked them, "how about jobs in Europe?" Sometimes I get stories about vacations, or about how nice Belgium is supposed to be, or whatever, but almost no one who ever calls actually has jobs in Europe.
In four months I've had around twenty hits for US jobs, and only two for European jobs. This is passive mode. If you want better results, I'd suggest getting active and beating the proverbial (and metaphorical in this case) pavement, because I don't think European IT jobs just fall from the sky like ones in the US do.
How an uninformed comment like this is classified as "interesting" is beyond me. It's a troll, plain and simple.
I wonder what dealings with IBM the poster has had. I wonder if the poster has ever written any "open source" software?
Maybe the poster (and whoever moderated my last post in this thread down as a troll) should check IBM's developer site or their Open Source Projects site.
Then maybe they should check their heads, or maybe the IBM products they obviously don't own. My ThinkPad 770 has no problems with linux. My Power Computing Power 100 (with a shiny IBM 601 under the hood) was running mklinux in 1995.
I don't care if IBM doesn't support FreeBSD or NetBSD or whateverBSD they don't seem to support. This has nothing to do with A. their commitment to Open Source software, or B. the ability of their products to run Open Source software.
Besides, if you hose up your drive by destroying their special partition with a default NetBSD install, they will ship you another drive. Thinkpad hardware support happens to be the best in the industry, bar none.
Look at the response from his post. Now take into consideration the banner ads at the top of each page. Why should he not editorialize when every page view is another penny in the bank?
Would you like a potatoe with your order?
Anyone who is complaining loudly about this hasn't worked in IT for long, if at all.
I think Mozilla users will realize they're missing the ability to exchange files with their neighbors, the people on the PTA, and most importantly their computers at work.
.doc and .xls files without some sort of conversion utility M$ stays on top.
Until any program can read and write
Back to the topic, I think this will really work for M$. It will be quite a bit easier to add a $5.00/month charge for office to the $30/month people are paying for their new computer and fast Internet connection.
What Open Source group is going to give you a new computer, an Office package, and Internet access for $35/month?
I know the current DVD-RAM disks won't read in normal DVD players. But DVD-RAM is a different beast from DVDR. DVD-RAM is what you can get in a Macintosh for $600. It's disks won't play in a consumer DVD player. DVDR is the real thing, and has been prohibitively expensive to do, with burners running around $10-16k. It's disks do in fact play in consumer machines.
I'm not catching your meaning here. If I write some files a,b,c,d,e,f, and g like this:
:-)
aaaaabbbbbbbbcccccddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggg
then I delete file c:
aaaaabbbbbbbb_____ddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggg
then I write file h (and h happens to be bigger than c was) it looks like this:
aaaaabbbbbbbbhhhhhddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggghhh
That means the file is in two pieces, on two different parts of the drive, and the disk needs to pick up it's heads and move them to read the tail end of the file like this:
_____________hhhhh______________________hhh
Now if I run disk defragmenter, it will pick up all these files and put them down so they're written to contiguous blocks like this:
aaaaabbbbbbbbhhhhhhhhddeeeeeeeeeffffffggggg
And this is a good thing.
Back to the topic - I really think that there are two sets of people in Germany, and these sets probably do not have much overlap - 1. the people afraid of Scientology in their computers, and 2. the users of Windows 2000. And anyone with reason to use a real OS (ie. not a Win9x based OS) who IS afraid of CoS is probably using SuSE anyway.
Didn't anyone read Arthur C. Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama," (1973) or Greg Bear's "Eon?" (1985)
:-)
Clarke predicted much of the technology we have today about thirty years ago; I take his ideas seriously.
(Although in Rama the object was 31/439, and was discovered inside the solar system, whereas SG344 is a fair distance further.)
Anyway, just food for thought.
I wonder what L. Ron Hubbard has to say about it?
-JB
I've noticed that when JSP is implemented in large-scale projects (for example, in banks), JRun is often the product used.
The authors may have stayed away from JRun to keep from pushing Allaire too much - as the same company that brings us ColdFusion also brings us JSP - but I wish they hadn't. It would be nice to see how the performance stacks up.
I have to "Strongly Disagree" with your reading of the situation.
I've dealt with AT&T - they do occasionally have problems with their Worldnet dialup Service - and in almost every case the 1st level call center people have tried to stonewall me. They all react the same way, because they're all reading off the same cue-cards.
If a company policy harms users by instructing techs to aggressively insist all service problems are on the client side, subscribers to the service have the right to know this.
And if it takes the leak of an internal document to let the comsumers know, so be it. Why do you think the documents were leaked in the first place? Because someone there KNOWS SOMETHING IS WRONG, HAS A CONSCIENCE, and WANTS THE PRACTICE TO STOP. Someone inside.
The fact that @home has squelched the docs instead of fixing their broken policies says that they value making money more than they value providing a perfect service. And that is something any customer has the right to know.
-JB
The founder resumes look great - but the rest of the site - well, read:
So they're founding a pr/marketing company. And they're setting up a separate R+D group - composed entirely of Other People's Money. (Not to mention other people's technology and manpower.)So it all seems a little off to me. But then again, they wouldn't be the first to run a car on vapor.
1.) Do you think the "founding fathers" had today's society and government in mind when they wrote the Constitution and Bill of Rights?
2.) If a clear, unambiguous document were written, taking into account documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and defining the United States as not an isolated nation but a member of a world community, would you consider supporting it?
Gravity must take care of the rest. Of course with Mars being 1/9th the mass of Earth, there isn't quite as much gravity as there is here. (Assuming here is Earth. I dunno, all I've seen recently is a computer screen. here could be anywhere.)
One of the better services AT&T provides is SSL-only mail connections from outside of their network.
:-)
Their Internet-accessible webmail site, http://netmail.att.net/ is redirected to https.
They also don't allow normal POP/SMTP from the Internet. (well duh on the SMTP bit, but it's unusal that an ISP doesn't allow normal POP from the Internet)
Users not dialed into the AT&T network must set up their mail clients to POP using ssl on port 995, and SMTP using ssl to port 465.
Why Hotmail and Yahoo don't require SSL is beyond me. I guess you get what you pay for.
A printing appliance with such specs should cost HP around $300.00 to manufacture. Give them a 15% margin, then let the retailers mark it up 50% and you're still under $700.00.
The price point here was set at what managers expect to pay for a name brand device.
Of course it is quite a deal compared to the price of WinNT/2k Server for printing + client licensing at $35 per...
Yes, using a Network Appliance Filer is using Oralce with NFS - but this is a solution developed by NetApp in conjunction with Oracle, and is AFAIK the only NFS solution Oracle recommends.
(No I don't work for NetApp.)
We're considering Filers to replace local disk on some of our Sun 450s (running Oracle 8.1.6) at the place I work.
The new monitor cable is fine - but please note that it has standard vga too.
I believe quite a few Sun desktops came standard with optical mice.
And those nasty metal mouse-pads.