Drivers are only a part of the problem. The biggest is the fragmentation, of well, everything. The UI is different for every distro, every version, and every update. The configuration files are different for every distro, version and update. Besides a few very well known apps, compatibility of binaries and apps are a real crap-shoot.
Linux will become mainstream the second that the number of CSE graduates outnumbers any other major in society.
Think about it another way -- there are probably more copies of "Windows 7 for dummies" sold then there are installs of Linux being used as a desktop. With configurability, comes the loss of the mainstream. And plus, most UI/UX/usability in most Linux based apps don't follow the KISS method...
VB6 has staying power for one major reason -- you can do about half of the programming by dragging-and-dropping. You have a visual IDE, where you can plop stuff onto a form, 'wire them up' with a few lines of code, and you are the rock-star of the day. For those of you who are visually oriented, it is a huge plus to write in the language. And if it didn't do that one thing you needed out of the box, you would go and buy some 3rd party's OCX, which would show up on the toolbar, and you plopped that onto the screen. Additionally, working with Databases was pretty much as easy as Access -- again, drag-drop stuff, enter the database name, and away you went. Do date, there really isn't any IDE/Language that has targeted this audience of people who wanted to do RAD in this visual manner. So many of the web-targeted languages you need to visualize everything for the computer (which some people really have a hard time with). Many of the other modern application development languages require a lot more programming to do the same thing.
If it is for somebody not paying, I've sold the amount due to a collection agency before. The best deals I've found essentially buy the debt for 50%, and then they are free to do whatever they want to collect it. Then I'm free to work on my next client project, instead of spending all my time dealing with dead-beat clients who won't even pay even if I took them to small-claims court.
That's the problem with unsecured debt -- you are last on the totem pole to get paid.
I believe that is the definition of a kill-switch;P
You could always host your content on some sort of staging server, and setup the agreement hat you give the content over to the client upon final payment. EC2 is a great solution for spinning up servers for client projects on a as-need basis. That way, the customer never really has access to the final code until they pay.
Additionally, in earlier episodes, there are often short clips of mail that were shown on screen. Mr. Burn's address in 03F06 (I believe -- it was on a few days ago) was shown to be in "Springfield, IL." Other episodes showed mail to go to "Springfield, NT", but that was not until much later in the series (the first use of it I believe was in the 10th season).
Adobe will continue to make new versions of the Flash Player that use the new PEPPAPI (Pepper API). They will no longer make any new versions of the plugin that support the older NSAPI model. PEPPAPI was created by Mozilla and Google, but since PEPPAPI was introduced, Mozilla decided to not support it ("it is too hard").
I was about to say to stop the bad summaries, but this is/. , and this is what we have come to expect.
The funny thing is, when CompUSA bought ComputerCity, it was almost the same deal. Stock holders meeting was going on, all of a sudden a bunch of security guards showed up at our store. It was then announced that we had been bought, and there was a possibility that we were all out of a job. The way CompUSA handled it all was really below the line.. I had my personal MP3 player in my desk drawer at back -- they wouldn't let me take it home without proof of purchase. They also claimed all the usb cables that went with it, my personal CDs, etc. that I had in my desk were their property unless I could prove otherwise... I ended up having to buy most of my stuff back on the clearance rack (and taking them to small claims court about it).. But no worries, Carlos bought into the markets where he wanted to have some more stores... It wasn't two weeks later that during the night most of our stock disappeared (it ended up at the CompUSA down the street, and everything in the store went liquidation. I think our store was only open three weeks after the announcement.. Some of us were offered jr. sales positions at the CompUSA (I was making $35/hr commission, they were planning on offering me $9/hr), but most were just laid off on the spot. No, I take that back, they "moved" many of the jobs to Tennessee so they didn't have to pay unemployment...
Oh, Carlos Slim... I raise my chamber pot in your direction...
You can thank your local and state governments for giving into the Telcos for that one. Why invest in an area when you can just politic the PUC or the local governments to allow you to not honor your word, or ignore entire areas of your exclusive footprint...
you really thing Brighton is rural? Try going north of Gaylord and you will quickly find entire counties that don't have basic telephone service, let alone cellular or broadband services...
The TISM department at MSU has had a long-standing program to build out rural networks in Michigan. They've spawned a few companies (AllBand, to name one that I did some work with) that are CLECs or ILECs in the upper-lower peninsula. The biggest problem MSU/TISM runs into is that a lot of areas are already locked up by AT&T / Verizon / Centrytel / etc. who make sure that non-profits and psudo-government agencies can't provide internet access without a long, drawn-out legal fight.
Too bad the government is canceling most of the funding that is going towards moving this type of research forward. The FRIB (Federal Rare Isotopes Beam) project, currently under construction in Michigan had most of its funding cut for the budget this coming year. Congress is claiming that the research is better done in France with the current accelerator (which will be half-way through its useful life when the FRIB is expected to go online).
But hey, why spend money on furthering science and building your ability to be a "thinking" country (we've already given up the ability to be a "making" country), when you can give it to people who just gamble it on the markets and push money around?
Welcome to shareholder-led businesses. They expect profits in quarters, not years or decades. The furthest they can see is 1 year -- any investment longer than that they cash out or punish CEOs.
It was just announced yesterday that the proposed federal budget cut 50% (22 Million) from the Federal Rare Isotopes Beam, which is said the be the next generation of the CERN project in France. The FRIB is currently under construction in Michigan.
We don't need science anyway -- the Chinese will do all of our thinking for us soon.
But part of the problem that the article brought up -- the raw materials you need to build your product are not here. Corning, the American company that supplies the glass for most smartphones used to make all of their glass in the USA. They have since opened up production in Asia -- not because of workforce, but because they needed to shorten their demand-chain. They were competing with all the other companies who could deliver goods in 24 hours, where for them it would take 30 days to get glass to them. They say the labor costs were similar between the USA and China -- but when Apple demands a change to their product next week, they just simply didn't have a way to get it there in time for production.
There are TONS of community colleges through out the United States. Most of them offer some sort of education enrichment courses that pretty much mirror what you are asking for. When I was a kid, my local community college (Rock Valley Community College), offered a program called Whiz Kids (this program is still run, but I believe under a different marketing name). I took classes on computer programming, robotics, electronics, and rocketry. These were classes that were designed for junior-college students, but without the exams or book work (all hands-on and labs). Both local community colleges in the area where I live now offer similar programs under the "community education" monkier.
Many larger universities offer program geared towards high-school students during the summer as well. An earlier post mentions the University of Michigan. I know that Michigan State's CS and Telecommunications programs both offer really cool classes during the summers as well.
Most of these places will start to advertise them in the early spring. You can probably do some calling of places you wish to target first to see if they have any info they would be willing to share before the marketing material comes out.
At Michigan State University, we have a Techsmith Relay server. The instructor just puts in the USB thumb drive, the auto-run runs, and they just have to type in their lecture's name and hit "Start". It is recorded to the USB or automatically uploaded to our capturing server if they are on the network. It can automatically be pushed out to our LMS (Angel / Moodle), or posted on a webpage for people to access. Works on both Win and Mac, and doesn't need anything installed, which is super-nice.
I've recorded a LOT of sessions with Camtasia as well. Great product, with tons of bells and whistles, but it does require the user to do the work of editing and encoding. That's great for me (I can edit it before I post), but not great for people who just want it to get out of their way.
Of course, the smart IT people are often not allowed into management -- they are too useful at their current level (keeping the systems running, turning the screws, etc), and would be a pain to be replaced. So they promote people who are easy to replace into management. For a smart IT person, usually the only way to get ahead is to move sideways, not up. Go somewhere else, or do something else... If you are good at what you do, there is little incentive for people to move you up.
But, the thing is -- they didn't hold on to the money to make themselves more liquid. The took the money and immediately invested it all into T-Bills at a 3% rate. I could have agreed with you if they held on to the money and done anything other than purchase long-term investments with it. They saw free money and put it in the highest-rate, lowest noise return package they could.
Right after 9/11, all sorts of grants and public monies came out so that police and other first responsers could upgrade their aging systems -- also with the stipulation that the communities work together to be able to allow intercommunications.
Everybody wrote a grant and everybody got a brand new radio system.
Very few people worked together to make sure they were compatible with eachother. In fact, since most departments moved to digital systems on dedicated frequencies, they lopped off a whole integration system between different radios that allowed officers to talk from one municipality to another.
In our case, our State Police post can only communicate to the 5 surrounding municipalities via cell phone (or land-line, I guess). We have a central dispatch that does our 911 center, and they have to have 3 different radio systems in order to communicate with the three areas they dispatch for. It is a complete mess, and it call came from each silo wanting to do their own thing and not talking to anybody else.
Ummm.... This is what SIP was designed for, right? I mean, not really hiding, but passing messages along with a phone conversation?
But SIP aside, the other major VoIP protcol, H.323 allows for MISC messages of varing length with the packet as well. Oh, and if you are talking only about only encoding the message within the codec, G.722k allows for 4k per packet to be as "RESERVED, SPECIAL USE", which isn't apart of the voice stream.
And if they are talking about encoding messages in video, the MPEG standards which I believe are using allow for TEXT data withing the streams (or completely hidden streams all together).
The IPAWS system not only works for a national emergency, but it is also setup to allow local authorities (state/county/city) to initiate events as well. This was a test to see if every system down the pipe was working -- which they were not.
I was at the PEP in our area. The CAP message that FEMA sent out was coded wrong. They sent out the CAP message using the format they dictated last year, not the newer format dictated this summer. Most of the equipment I know threw out any message it did get, and it simply didn't forward it to any downstreams.
Those who supported the backup method of the older EAN system, which they were supposed to foward regardless of the CAP messaging did so.
10136: EAN NATIONAL EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION 'LP 1(L1)'(MI-TXPEP) ORG=PEP
'Wed Nov 9 14:03:00 2011 EST' to 'Wed Nov 9 14:18:00 2011 EST'
Forwarded : 'Wed Nov 9 14:00:34 2011 EST'
United States(000000) District of Columbia, DC(011001)
All in all, in our area, we had 1 TV station, 2 radio stations, and 1 cable system (out of 5) that did any type of notification -- wether it came from IPAWS or EAN. That's a failure in my mind, as we were supposed to have our older EAN system as a backup.
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Drivers are only a part of the problem. The biggest is the fragmentation, of well, everything. The UI is different for every distro, every version, and every update. The configuration files are different for every distro, version and update. Besides a few very well known apps, compatibility of binaries and apps are a real crap-shoot.
Linux will become mainstream the second that the number of CSE graduates outnumbers any other major in society.
Think about it another way -- there are probably more copies of "Windows 7 for dummies" sold then there are installs of Linux being used as a desktop. With configurability, comes the loss of the mainstream. And plus, most UI/UX/usability in most Linux based apps don't follow the KISS method...
VB6 has staying power for one major reason -- you can do about half of the programming by dragging-and-dropping. You have a visual IDE, where you can plop stuff onto a form, 'wire them up' with a few lines of code, and you are the rock-star of the day. For those of you who are visually oriented, it is a huge plus to write in the language. And if it didn't do that one thing you needed out of the box, you would go and buy some 3rd party's OCX, which would show up on the toolbar, and you plopped that onto the screen. Additionally, working with Databases was pretty much as easy as Access -- again, drag-drop stuff, enter the database name, and away you went. Do date, there really isn't any IDE/Language that has targeted this audience of people who wanted to do RAD in this visual manner. So many of the web-targeted languages you need to visualize everything for the computer (which some people really have a hard time with). Many of the other modern application development languages require a lot more programming to do the same thing.
If it is for somebody not paying, I've sold the amount due to a collection agency before. The best deals I've found essentially buy the debt for 50%, and then they are free to do whatever they want to collect it. Then I'm free to work on my next client project, instead of spending all my time dealing with dead-beat clients who won't even pay even if I took them to small-claims court.
That's the problem with unsecured debt -- you are last on the totem pole to get paid.
I believe that is the definition of a kill-switch ;P
You could always host your content on some sort of staging server, and setup the agreement hat you give the content over to the client upon final payment. EC2 is a great solution for spinning up servers for client projects on a as-need basis. That way, the customer never really has access to the final code until they pay.
Additionally, in earlier episodes, there are often short clips of mail that were shown on screen. Mr. Burn's address in 03F06 (I believe -- it was on a few days ago) was shown to be in "Springfield, IL." Other episodes showed mail to go to "Springfield, NT", but that was not until much later in the series (the first use of it I believe was in the 10th season).
Yes, they can. And believe it or not, Mozilla was at the table creating the standard that became Pepper API. They just didn't want to implement it...
Adobe will continue to make new versions of the Flash Player that use the new PEPPAPI (Pepper API). They will no longer make any new versions of the plugin that support the older NSAPI model. PEPPAPI was created by Mozilla and Google, but since PEPPAPI was introduced, Mozilla decided to not support it ("it is too hard").
I was about to say to stop the bad summaries, but this is /. , and this is what we have come to expect.
The funny thing is, when CompUSA bought ComputerCity, it was almost the same deal. Stock holders meeting was going on, all of a sudden a bunch of security guards showed up at our store. It was then announced that we had been bought, and there was a possibility that we were all out of a job. The way CompUSA handled it all was really below the line.. I had my personal MP3 player in my desk drawer at back -- they wouldn't let me take it home without proof of purchase. They also claimed all the usb cables that went with it, my personal CDs, etc. that I had in my desk were their property unless I could prove otherwise... I ended up having to buy most of my stuff back on the clearance rack (and taking them to small claims court about it).. But no worries, Carlos bought into the markets where he wanted to have some more stores...
It wasn't two weeks later that during the night most of our stock disappeared (it ended up at the CompUSA down the street, and everything in the store went liquidation. I think our store was only open three weeks after the announcement.. Some of us were offered jr. sales positions at the CompUSA (I was making $35/hr commission, they were planning on offering me $9/hr), but most were just laid off on the spot. No, I take that back, they "moved" many of the jobs to Tennessee so they didn't have to pay unemployment...
Oh, Carlos Slim... I raise my chamber pot in your direction...
You can thank your local and state governments for giving into the Telcos for that one. Why invest in an area when you can just politic the PUC or the local governments to allow you to not honor your word, or ignore entire areas of your exclusive footprint...
you really thing Brighton is rural? Try going north of Gaylord and you will quickly find entire counties that don't have basic telephone service, let alone cellular or broadband services...
The TISM department at MSU has had a long-standing program to build out rural networks in Michigan. They've spawned a few companies (AllBand, to name one that I did some work with) that are CLECs or ILECs in the upper-lower peninsula. The biggest problem MSU/TISM runs into is that a lot of areas are already locked up by AT&T / Verizon / Centrytel / etc. who make sure that non-profits and psudo-government agencies can't provide internet access without a long, drawn-out legal fight.
Too bad the government is canceling most of the funding that is going towards moving this type of research forward. The FRIB (Federal Rare Isotopes Beam) project, currently under construction in Michigan had most of its funding cut for the budget this coming year. Congress is claiming that the research is better done in France with the current accelerator (which will be half-way through its useful life when the FRIB is expected to go online).
But hey, why spend money on furthering science and building your ability to be a "thinking" country (we've already given up the ability to be a "making" country), when you can give it to people who just gamble it on the markets and push money around?
Welcome to shareholder-led businesses. They expect profits in quarters, not years or decades. The furthest they can see is 1 year -- any investment longer than that they cash out or punish CEOs.
It was just announced yesterday that the proposed federal budget cut 50% (22 Million) from the Federal Rare Isotopes Beam, which is said the be the next generation of the CERN project in France. The FRIB is currently under construction in Michigan.
We don't need science anyway -- the Chinese will do all of our thinking for us soon.
But part of the problem that the article brought up -- the raw materials you need to build your product are not here. Corning, the American company that supplies the glass for most smartphones used to make all of their glass in the USA. They have since opened up production in Asia -- not because of workforce, but because they needed to shorten their demand-chain. They were competing with all the other companies who could deliver goods in 24 hours, where for them it would take 30 days to get glass to them. They say the labor costs were similar between the USA and China -- but when Apple demands a change to their product next week, they just simply didn't have a way to get it there in time for production.
There are TONS of community colleges through out the United States. Most of them offer some sort of education enrichment courses that pretty much mirror what you are asking for. When I was a kid, my local community college (Rock Valley Community College), offered a program called Whiz Kids (this program is still run, but I believe under a different marketing name). I took classes on computer programming, robotics, electronics, and rocketry. These were classes that were designed for junior-college students, but without the exams or book work (all hands-on and labs). Both local community colleges in the area where I live now offer similar programs under the "community education" monkier.
Many larger universities offer program geared towards high-school students during the summer as well. An earlier post mentions the University of Michigan. I know that Michigan State's CS and Telecommunications programs both offer really cool classes during the summers as well.
Most of these places will start to advertise them in the early spring. You can probably do some calling of places you wish to target first to see if they have any info they would be willing to share before the marketing material comes out.
At Michigan State University, we have a Techsmith Relay server. The instructor just puts in the USB thumb drive, the auto-run runs, and they just have to type in their lecture's name and hit "Start". It is recorded to the USB or automatically uploaded to our capturing server if they are on the network. It can automatically be pushed out to our LMS (Angel / Moodle), or posted on a webpage for people to access. Works on both Win and Mac, and doesn't need anything installed, which is super-nice.
I've recorded a LOT of sessions with Camtasia as well. Great product, with tons of bells and whistles, but it does require the user to do the work of editing and encoding. That's great for me (I can edit it before I post), but not great for people who just want it to get out of their way.
http://www.techsmith.com/
A maximum of $3 off the $20 processing fee! Awesome!
Of course, the smart IT people are often not allowed into management -- they are too useful at their current level (keeping the systems running, turning the screws, etc), and would be a pain to be replaced. So they promote people who are easy to replace into management. For a smart IT person, usually the only way to get ahead is to move sideways, not up. Go somewhere else, or do something else... If you are good at what you do, there is little incentive for people to move you up.
But, the thing is -- they didn't hold on to the money to make themselves more liquid. The took the money and immediately invested it all into T-Bills at a 3% rate. I could have agreed with you if they held on to the money and done anything other than purchase long-term investments with it. They saw free money and put it in the highest-rate, lowest noise return package they could.
Right after 9/11, all sorts of grants and public monies came out so that police and other first responsers could upgrade their aging systems -- also with the stipulation that the communities work together to be able to allow intercommunications.
Everybody wrote a grant and everybody got a brand new radio system.
Very few people worked together to make sure they were compatible with eachother. In fact, since most departments moved to digital systems on dedicated frequencies, they lopped off a whole integration system between different radios that allowed officers to talk from one municipality to another.
In our case, our State Police post can only communicate to the 5 surrounding municipalities via cell phone (or land-line, I guess). We have a central dispatch that does our 911 center, and they have to have 3 different radio systems in order to communicate with the three areas they dispatch for. It is a complete mess, and it call came from each silo wanting to do their own thing and not talking to anybody else.
And I know we are not the only ones...
Ummm.... This is what SIP was designed for, right? I mean, not really hiding, but passing messages along with a phone conversation?
But SIP aside, the other major VoIP protcol, H.323 allows for MISC messages of varing length with the packet as well. Oh, and if you are talking only about only encoding the message within the codec, G.722k allows for 4k per packet to be as "RESERVED, SPECIAL USE", which isn't apart of the voice stream.
And if they are talking about encoding messages in video, the MPEG standards which I believe are using allow for TEXT data withing the streams (or completely hidden streams all together).
The IPAWS system not only works for a national emergency, but it is also setup to allow local authorities (state/county/city) to initiate events as well. This was a test to see if every system down the pipe was working -- which they were not.
UFO attack. Nuclear attack targeting multiple cities. Canadian invasion...
I was at the PEP in our area. The CAP message that FEMA sent out was coded wrong. They sent out the CAP message using the format they dictated last year, not the newer format dictated this summer. Most of the equipment I know threw out any message it did get, and it simply didn't forward it to any downstreams.
Those who supported the backup method of the older EAN system, which they were supposed to foward regardless of the CAP messaging did so.
10136: EAN NATIONAL EMERGENCY ACTION NOTIFICATION 'LP 1(L1)'(MI-TXPEP) ORG=PEP
'Wed Nov 9 14:03:00 2011 EST' to 'Wed Nov 9 14:18:00 2011 EST'
Forwarded : 'Wed Nov 9 14:00:34 2011 EST'
United States(000000) District of Columbia, DC(011001)
All in all, in our area, we had 1 TV station, 2 radio stations, and 1 cable system (out of 5) that did any type of notification -- wether it came from IPAWS or EAN. That's a failure in my mind, as we were supposed to have our older EAN system as a backup.