The internet was overall extremely slow after XMas, mainly due to Taiwan going offline for an earthquake. All the traffic to Asia had to go through the Atlantic cables instead of the Pacific cables.
Downloading a movie from Israel is going at 19kB/sec. Amazing how an earthquake in Silicon Valley affects Silicon Valley but an earthquake in Taiwan affects everyone.
With the number of suckers paying insane amounts of money just to save $1 on gas, we'd probably be better off with a total cost of ownership measurement.
This is so obsolete, it's fascinating, just like the stories of people who rent phones from 1970 and people who still send telegrams. If someone just now introduced something this obsolete, it makes you wonder how many people are still selling Commodore VIC-20's as new technology.
Economics is leading towards a Santa Clause
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All the toys in the world are currently made in China and sent out on a certain number of ocean freighters. That's a lot closer to the Santa Clause legend than it was 100 years ago, when there was no single place where all the world's manufacturing was done.
As we move forward, the world's toys have to be manufactured in fewer and fewer places by fewer and fewer people because it's more efficient to manufacture all the world's products in one place. The world's toys are being transported by fewer vehicles making longer trips because transportation is expensive.
When Chinese labor becomes too expensive, we'll probably have to do all manufacturing in more inhospitable places like the North Pole.
Before mail order/online shopping, everyone transported their own presents in their own cars. Now a smaller number of UPS trucks and FedEx trucks deliver most of the presents. We're going to have fewer and fewer couriers until eventually one single vehicle takes all the toys from the North Pole and transports them to everyone in the world.
Maybe when Chinese discover how to warp spacetime, this annual shipment will take only 24 hours.
2006 was the year of the set-top box. This is where Linux is big and what kids want. Blu-ray & HD DVD were the first true mandates for the set-top box era. For now on, words like DLNA, UPNP, HDMI, HDCP, AACS, "plays for sure" and "certification" are going to take the place of words like OpenGL, Vista, Window, and "start menu".
Funny isn't it, how no matter how many times humans start over with a utopian system, they end up concentrating their wealth into a small number of strong leaders and leaving a large number of impoverished citizens. We really are programmed to institutionalize.
Redhat disappeared so fast from the map, hardly any of this year's user base has even heard of it, let alone Fedora. Every 4 years the entire user base turns over. Old distributions disappear, everyone learns on a new distribution, and software over 4 years old doesn't work anymore. The hot distribution chronology seems to be:
Not sure how an internet startup is going to improve materials with revolutionary finite element analysis. Sounds like the only thing Google can do for NASA is either organize their data or improve their image by being affiliated with a corporate hero.
If you can't get your research out, with all the internet blogs, money being spent on global warming campaigns, proposed tax hikes, mailing lists, protests, PBS specials, you've got bigger problems than a republican congress.
The sad part is, kids are gladly going to shell out $400 for this and spend their college years emulating it bit for bit in Linux just because it's a Microsoft product, even though you can do the same thing for under $20 with a PIC. The most loyal Microsoft fans are the Linux hackers who clone everything they produce.
Outsource it to Pluto, Uranus, or Neptune. Anything's better than Americans. Dollars are so worthless nowadays and the premium so high for Indians, it become a new outlet for old fashioned racism. Maybe humans are programmed to discriminate based on skin color, but it's not racism. It's "outsourcing".
There have been billions of people capable of writing for many years, yet professional writing seems bigger than ever, with political leaders making vast sums of money just by penning a book. The problem isn't whether everyone can do it, it's who can do it well. No matter how good the equipment is, only a small percentage of users generate the best quality, and the institutionalizing species we are, we'll only want to see the product of the top percentage no matter how good everyone else is.
A long time ago, environmentalism meant not doing things which damaged environments. Lead contamination was reduced by not using lead. Acid rain was reduced by not producing acid. Deforestation was reduced by not deforesting.
Now the "new environmentalism" says you can assign a dollar value to every kind of environmental damage and instead of preventing the damage you can recover the lost value by feeding money into another cause.
Use all the lead you want but compensate by paying into disposal funds. Make all the acid rain as you want but compensate by paying into water funds. Make all the CO2 you want but compensate by paying into hurricane relief funds.
So far new environmentalism has won over every living breathing voter without a hitch. It certainly is easier than the old way.
It sounds like everyone thinks they're going to abandon their desktop operating systems and just use set top boxes from now on. If you're worried about network security, it doesn't look like DLNA, Playsforsure, and UPnP are even working for the things they're supposed to let alone resisting attacks. Then again, someone with enough foresight would say these standards are going to become more reliable and replace the modern desktop in a few years.
Thought UK was paying for most it while u.s. was designing it and paying a much smaller part of the bill. The problem is you can't buy these things in dollars because dollars have no asset value. Only the silver backed Pound has enough value to pay for huge projects like this.
3 of the 5 bullet points on the Pioneer manual say "Home Media Gallery", "DLNA", "Plays for sure". They realized you weren't going to have $900 a month to buy a new BD every day so instead of sitting idle 6 days every week, this box is playing all your H.264, MPEG-4, Windows Media downloads.
Networking should be the frosting that keeps BD from being completely destroyed by the Toshiba machine, unless Toshiba can beat the Pioneer slave at implementing networking. And it is one guy whose implenting it.
Sony should have distanced itself more from BD technology because it isn't a Sony product. It's a consortium of 10 companies.
After getting in on Windows Flash 9 and between European server crashes, it appears this service is just a very hyped weather satellite viewer. It's even lower resolution than the weather satellite images you can download every 30 minutes. Score another point for extremely hyped ESA innovations that do absolutely nothing.
While everyone scrambles to make portable mp3 players and game stations and search engines, this huge demand for near-realtime satellite imagery is going unfilled. In countries with crazy inflation and concentrated job growth, it's common to buy land far far away from the jobs instead of saving cash.
Satellite imagery could allow those people to see the current condition of their assets and the surrounding area at any time. It would allow them to buy more assets without having to travel there. People who are now watching their cash investments disappear in the flood of inflation would have a chance to survive.
The UK server doesn't have enough bandwidth to do it but maybe if someone looked away from their Macworld program for a second they could offer a live version of Google maps.
A few years ago when your candidate lost, you complained about other countries having E-voting and u.s. lagging behind. When your candidate still lost in 2004, you complained about E-voting not working and rushing into it too fast.
Now you're complaining about other countries taxing energy use to reduce global warming and u.s. lagging behind in such taxes. Wonder where this is going.
Not sure what these guys's point is. You can always ask a recording executive what their opinion is and get a vote for more copyright laws. The fact that we study European copyright laws brings up an interesting point.
There's a drastic difference in the number of copyright laws and the attitude of the country towards licenses.
Europeans take copyright laws much more seriously than u.s., they analyse the licenses exhaustively before they touch any IP even if there's no consequence to them, so they don't have as many laws enforcing the licenses. Because they care about the license, open source software has become much more popular in Europe.
U.s.ahans don't take copyright laws seriously at all, so they've created more laws. U.s.ahans go by whether it's downloadable and what the password is. When the emphasis is on downloadability over licensability, you get less attention to open source in u.s..
Personal experience with 4 burnouts
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Understanding Burnout
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We've had 4 burnouts. 2 of them were managers. 2 were programmers. The cause is definitely lack of satisfaction and not excessive hours. There is a 100% correlation between rapid company growth and declining individual influence that causes burnouts. They tend to be very ambitious. 2 of 4 quit when another person was promoted above them or hired to fill the role above them. Another aspect not mentioned by the media is that burnouts tend to lock themselves in their cubes and never be seen.
People forced to work excessive hours usually go somewhere else but don't burn out. They actually don't quit or take long vacations to make up for it, which shows they probably bring the long hours on themselves.
Is it really more cost effective to divert 70,225 square miles to energy generation when a square mile of land costs $6,402,048,660? The total cost of land to achieve this "in the southwest" would be $449 trillion, many times the entire planet's wealth. Of course you'll just make up for it by paying your landlord more and saying you're better off because Steve Jobless or whoever built a solar panel for you. Then you'll complain about 2% owning 500% of the planet's assets.
What do you expect, with headlines like "CEO resigns!" and "Steve Jobs is my hero!" and "Google is #1 advertizer!". Humans are programmed to depend on leaders and pay their leaders 250x their own income. It's been this way for all time. Your solution is to pay your leaders yet more money in the hope that they'll be benevolant, but all you do is make them richer.
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The internet was overall extremely slow after XMas, mainly due to Taiwan going
offline for an earthquake. All the traffic to Asia had to go through the Atlantic cables instead of the Pacific cables.
Downloading a movie from Israel is going at 19kB/sec. Amazing how an earthquake in Silicon Valley affects Silicon Valley but an earthquake in Taiwan affects everyone.
With the number of suckers paying insane amounts of money just to save $1 on gas, we'd probably be better off with a total cost of ownership measurement.
This is so obsolete, it's fascinating, just like the stories of people who rent phones from 1970 and people who still send telegrams. If someone just now introduced something this obsolete, it makes you wonder how many people are still selling Commodore VIC-20's as new technology.
All the toys in the world are currently made in China and sent out on a certain number of ocean freighters. That's a lot closer to the Santa Clause legend than it was 100 years ago, when there was no single place where all the world's manufacturing was done.
As we move forward, the world's toys have to be manufactured in fewer and fewer places by fewer and fewer people because it's more efficient to manufacture all the world's products in one place. The world's toys are being transported by fewer vehicles making longer trips because transportation is expensive.
When Chinese labor becomes too expensive, we'll probably have to do all manufacturing in more inhospitable places like the North Pole.
Before mail order/online shopping, everyone transported their own presents in their own cars. Now a smaller number of UPS trucks and FedEx trucks deliver most of the presents. We're going to have fewer and fewer couriers until eventually one single vehicle takes all the toys from the North Pole and transports them to everyone in the world.
Maybe when Chinese discover how to warp spacetime, this annual shipment will take only 24 hours.
2006 was the year of the set-top box. This is where Linux is big and what kids want. Blu-ray & HD DVD were the first true mandates for the set-top box era. For now on, words like DLNA, UPNP, HDMI, HDCP, AACS, "plays for sure" and "certification" are going to take the place of words like OpenGL, Vista, Window, and "start menu".
Funny isn't it, how no matter how many times humans start over with a utopian system, they end up concentrating their wealth into a small number of strong leaders and leaving a large number of impoverished citizens. We really are programmed to institutionalize.
Redhat disappeared so fast from the map, hardly any of this year's user base has even heard of it, let alone Fedora. Every 4 years the entire user base turns over. Old distributions disappear, everyone learns on a new distribution, and software over 4 years old doesn't work anymore. The hot distribution chronology seems to be:
1996-1997: Slackware
1997-1999: Debian
1999-2001: Redhat
2001-2002: Fedora
2003-2004: Suse
2004-2006: Ubuntu
Not sure how an internet startup is going to improve materials with revolutionary finite element analysis. Sounds like the only thing Google can do for NASA is either organize their data or improve their image by being affiliated with a corporate hero.
up an Oregon logging road.
If you can't get your research out, with all the internet blogs, money being spent on global warming campaigns, proposed tax hikes, mailing lists, protests, PBS specials, you've got bigger problems than a republican congress.
The sad part is, kids are gladly going to shell out $400 for this and spend their college years emulating it bit for bit in Linux just because it's a Microsoft product, even though you can do the same thing for under $20 with a PIC. The most loyal Microsoft fans are the Linux hackers who clone everything they produce.
Outsource it to Pluto, Uranus, or Neptune. Anything's better than Americans. Dollars are so worthless nowadays and the premium so high for Indians, it become a new outlet for old fashioned racism. Maybe humans are programmed to discriminate based on skin color, but it's not racism. It's "outsourcing".
There have been billions of people capable of writing for many years, yet professional writing seems bigger than ever, with political leaders making vast sums of money just by penning a book. The problem isn't whether everyone can do it, it's who can do it well. No matter how good the equipment is, only a small percentage of users generate the best quality, and the institutionalizing species we are, we'll only want to see the product of the top percentage no matter how good everyone else is.
A long time ago, environmentalism meant not doing things which damaged environments. Lead contamination was reduced by not using lead. Acid rain was reduced by not producing acid. Deforestation was reduced by not deforesting.
Now the "new environmentalism" says you can assign a dollar value to every kind of environmental damage and instead of preventing the damage you can recover the lost value by feeding money into another cause.
Use all the lead you want but compensate by paying into disposal funds. Make all the acid rain as you want but compensate by paying into water funds. Make all the CO2 you want but compensate by paying into hurricane relief funds.
So far new environmentalism has won over every living breathing voter without a hitch. It certainly is easier than the old way.
It sounds like everyone thinks they're going to abandon their desktop operating systems and just use set top boxes from now on. If you're worried about network security, it doesn't look like DLNA, Playsforsure, and UPnP are even working for the things they're supposed to let alone resisting attacks. Then again, someone with enough foresight would say these standards are going to become more reliable and replace the modern desktop in a few years.
Because they'd rather have you think it was delayed by something fixable like a parts shortage instead of the real reason which was software bugs.
Thought UK was paying for most it while u.s. was designing it and paying a much smaller part of the bill. The problem is you can't buy these things in dollars because dollars have no asset value. Only the silver backed Pound has enough value to pay for huge projects like this.
3 of the 5 bullet points on the Pioneer manual say "Home Media Gallery", "DLNA", "Plays for sure". They realized you weren't going to have $900 a month to buy a new BD every day so instead of sitting idle 6 days every week, this box is playing all your H.264, MPEG-4, Windows Media downloads.
Networking should be the frosting that keeps BD from being completely destroyed by the Toshiba machine, unless Toshiba can beat the Pioneer slave at implementing networking. And it is one guy whose implenting it.
Sony should have distanced itself more from BD technology because it isn't a Sony product. It's a consortium of 10 companies.
After getting in on Windows Flash 9 and between European server crashes, it appears this service is just a very hyped weather satellite viewer. It's even lower resolution than the weather satellite images you can download every 30 minutes. Score another point for extremely hyped ESA innovations that do absolutely nothing.
While everyone scrambles to make portable mp3 players and game stations and search engines, this huge demand for near-realtime satellite imagery is going unfilled. In countries with crazy inflation and concentrated job growth, it's common to buy land far far away from the jobs instead of saving cash.
Satellite imagery could allow those people to see the current condition of their assets and the surrounding area at any time. It would allow them to buy more assets without having to travel there. People who are now watching their cash investments disappear in the flood of inflation would have a chance to survive.
The UK server doesn't have enough bandwidth to do it but maybe if someone looked away from their Macworld program for a second they could offer a live version of Google maps.
A few years ago when your candidate lost, you complained about other countries having E-voting and u.s. lagging behind. When your candidate still lost in 2004, you complained about E-voting not working and rushing into it too fast.
Now you're complaining about other countries taxing energy use to reduce global warming and u.s. lagging behind in such taxes. Wonder where this is going.
Not sure what these guys's point is. You can always ask a recording executive what their opinion is and get a vote for more copyright laws. The fact that we study European copyright laws brings up an interesting point.
There's a drastic difference in the number of copyright laws and the attitude of the country towards licenses.
Europeans take copyright laws much more seriously than u.s., they analyse the licenses exhaustively before they touch any IP even if there's no consequence to them, so they don't have as many laws enforcing the licenses. Because they care about the license, open source software has become much more popular in Europe.
U.s.ahans don't take copyright laws seriously at all, so they've created more laws. U.s.ahans go by whether it's downloadable and what the password is. When the emphasis is on downloadability over licensability, you get less attention to open source in u.s..
We've had 4 burnouts. 2 of them were managers. 2 were programmers. The cause is definitely lack of satisfaction and not excessive hours. There is a 100% correlation between rapid company growth and declining individual influence that causes burnouts. They tend to be very ambitious. 2 of 4 quit when another person was promoted above them or hired to fill the role above them. Another aspect not mentioned by the media is that burnouts tend to lock themselves in their cubes and never be seen.
People forced to work excessive hours usually go somewhere else but don't burn out. They actually don't quit or take long vacations to make up for it, which shows they probably bring the long hours on themselves.
Is it really more cost effective to divert 70,225 square miles to energy generation when a square mile of land costs $6,402,048,660? The total cost of land to achieve this "in the southwest" would be $449 trillion, many times the entire planet's wealth. Of course you'll just make up for it by paying your landlord more and saying you're better off because Steve Jobless or whoever built a solar panel for you. Then you'll complain about 2% owning 500% of the planet's assets.
What do you expect, with headlines like "CEO resigns!" and "Steve Jobs is my hero!" and "Google is #1 advertizer!". Humans are programmed to depend on leaders and pay their leaders 250x their own income. It's been this way for all time. Your solution is to pay your leaders yet more money in the hope that they'll be benevolant, but all you do is make them richer.