Well it may be fine for all the Win95 users if Fox makes a pledge but leaves the actual site unavailable to Linux users, but for those of us on Linux a pledge is just a pledge until they actually do something. If you can't handle the bloat you shouldn't be surfing a TV network's site in the first place. TV is a very high bandwidth business.
Write more window managers? Write more device drivers? Red Hat broke $200 in November but how much have we seen result from that? I'm still using Netscape 4 to read this and the same software I was using before the IPOs for all the networking. Red Hat still employes only 7 engineers. I still wouldn't dream of finding a job coding in Linux and the number of people wishing they could code Linux software for a living hasn't changed.
The way you make money is not by writing apps but by getting as far down in the food chain as possible. I assure you Creative is not going to fund Linux applications.
The stuff that Creative Labs does and the stuff that people are making money off of are completely seperate entities. I would rank multimedia as about the worst thing you could specialize in right now, especially if your not engineering but tweeking, as Creative Labs emphasized. You don't see anyone selling multimedia workstations anymore. They're consistantly selling the e-commerce capability. There's a big difference between tweeking, fixing bugs and optimizing from developing the technology itself. As as we know from 1993, when the technology changes the tweekers usually end up unemployed. If you're qualified enough to beat out the 1 million Creative Labs candidates, you should probably be working on web servers, databases, and networking and not low level multimedia drivers.
The thing these contracting models promote is single purpose utilities to perform a specific function for one company. You won't see any more of the Microsoft Office, SoftImage, monoliths of C++ coding and bottomless pits of features. There are really two groups of users: ones who like bottomless pits of features and ones who want single purpose utilities but the question remains of who there are more of.
This goes along with the previous article on Fox television banning Linux from its website. The TV networks don't like the internet. They want to use it as a brochure but want e-commerce to die. No matter what you use it for, RedHat, VA Linux, SGI, IBM and all the others define Linux as an e-commerce server and we saw the effect of that when Fox banned Linux users. Any other company is certainly going to battle the internet as hard as they can.
Most of the people who work on the human genome project are married women commuting 50 miles and earning minimum wage working with radioactive isotopes all day. It's usually because they grew up thinking they were going to stay home and then their husband tells them they need to win the bread and what can you do. It's not like they spent their entire lives dreaming about changing the world.
As far as computers and genetics are concerned, 5% of biology is storage, alignment, and tree making on the computer and 95% manual labor in the lab so let's not get too excited about using a biology degree to get into IT.
On the Cyrix 150 the assembly language version of mpg123 was about 5% faster than the pure gcc 2.8.1 version. Now on the celeron 550 with egcs 2.95.2 forget it. It makes me wonder what else the guy could have written if he didn't spend all that time debugging assembly language.
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If Java was the language of 1997, Visual Basic the language of 1998, then assembly language was the language of 1999. Everyone's writing in assembly these days probably because we've seen the age of large monolithic applications come and go. Today's marketing craze is small size.
I haven't felt ripped off by mp3.com. The only other alternative is not to use the internet at all. Internet hosting for an individual has skyrocketed in price over the last 3 years and it's become more necessary to provide high bandwidth content through a corporation. Not that the technology hasn't gotten better but the demand for bandwidth and the illegal mp3 witch hunts have made it impossible for most individuals to host mp3s unless they do it through a corporation.
Well guess this shows you can only strip your budget so much before what you want to achieve can no longer be done. I predict either an electrical malfunction disabled the communications systems or a mechanical malfunction prevented the antenna from deploying. Electrical malfunction is the most likely. Maybe if they had more people on the team or spent more money on hardening these things they would have succeeded. You really need actual humans on the scene to fix these things when they break.
In 24 months when governments start taxing e-commerce there won't be any mom and pop operations to begin with. E-commerce will be more expensive and complex than starting your own brick and morter business in California, so expensive that only the richest will be able to do it. Suddenly the name patenting will dissolve and the issue will be more of who gets to participate in e-commerce in the first place.
I thought women in the 90's were just a little too obsessed with men providing everything for them. Suing your male managers for compensation on a masturbation job is too much. Why don't they just get the damn technical degree, get a real job and heaven forbid, win the bread.
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I don't care if it's 30mm across or 5 1/4 inches across. If they don't offer a WORM device capable of matching their read-only device they don't offer it and it may be because the WORM process just doesn't work on larger disks, in which case you're stuck with DVD.
Like I always said, you can decrypt other people's formats as much as you want but unless the hacker community grows beyond the college lecture hall, the engineers who actually create these formats will forever build stronger encryption. If they don't replace DVD with DVD-2 they'll delay DVD audio. If you decrypt DVD audio they'll just replace it with another format. The only way to win is to become the engineers who create the formats.
Doesn't it seem like the days of the high powered transmitter broadcasting 80,000 watts of music power are over? I predict there will no longer be high powered TV and radio transmitters but instead we'll have small transcevers on every block covering just that block, channeling TV and radio on demand over the same protocols as internet traffic. They're already going to deallocate the FM, AM, and TV bands. Why not just make that the end of high powered transmissions and make us all use cell recievers.
2 years ago the Open Group declared X would be licensed only for a fee and the XFree86 team would no longer be able to use the Open Group's code. Now not only did they reverse that decision but they're really trying to pick their balls off the floor with this XFree86 pledge.
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Why not just forget the electron beam and build your own chip fabrication plant. Make your own silicon wafers and burn them with an ion implantation gun. Then implant not billions but trillions of bytes of data on a single silicon wafer.
Well read down and as you increase the number of applications for the device, the capacity goes down. Read only manufactured in a plant: 140 gigs. Write once: 4 gigs. Current DVD recorders for $500 can store 5 gigs on a DVD, for $5 a gig. CD-R recorders for $100 can store 800 megs per CD at $1.50 a gig. How much would FMD cost per gig? Probably more than either of our two existing formats. Really there isn't even a single working FMD device in existance today. We're talking about a theoretical device which has been simulated on a computer.
You're going a long way from an internet petition to putting humans on Mars. The world has 5 billion people. 1 million people probably isn't enough of a groundswell to get it to happen. Now get an internet petition consisting of 1 billion people each investing a few thou in the project and we might get there.
The IT industry of the early 80's was definitely the home of baby boomers. Remember those pictures of Bruce Carver, this 40 year old guy with a moustache who wrote Raid over Moscow? What about those middle aged hill billies who wrote Mule? Just 4 years ago I remember the vast majority of Linux email was from users just about to graduate from college. Now the only email I get is from high school sophomores. Is the fact that everyone around you is getting younger while you keep getting older a sign of something wrong? Am I supposed to switch to Windows NT by a certain age or something?
But isn't the universe that is reborn after the big crunch going to be exactly the same as ours and aren't we merely tied to the molecules of our brains, forever repeating our lives in the same point in time at the same place every time the universe restarts?
I noticed after the Climate Orbiter was launched to much hoopla, the polar lander was launched with neary a web page about it. It was buried on their website all year but never linked to the main page like all the other missions. Meanwhile they were advertizing the hell out of the climate orbiter, which eventually crashed. Are they already hedging the bet on these inexpensive missions by not advertizing them?
Well it's not as much SGI as the industry they're in. There simply isn't the market for visualization technology there was 5 years ago. Avid laid off 300 engineers in November to redirect its efforts towards e-commerce. Microsoft sold off its Softimage unit last year. SGI laid off 1500 engineers in August and announced a shift from visualization workstations to internet servers. It may be the best visualization software in the world, you can make very good arguments for it, but the one or two people still doing that kind of thing aren't enough to sustain a company. The future of every company right now is not in visualization but strictly in e-commerce and I would certainly be sending out resumes if I was in SGI's visualization unit.
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Well it may be fine for all the Win95 users if Fox makes a pledge but leaves the actual site unavailable to Linux users, but for those of us on Linux a pledge is just a pledge until they actually do something. If you can't handle the bloat you shouldn't be surfing a TV network's site in the first place. TV is a very high bandwidth business.
Write more window managers? Write more device drivers? Red Hat broke $200 in November but how much have we seen result from that? I'm still using Netscape 4 to read this and the same software I was using before the IPOs for all the networking. Red Hat still employes only 7 engineers. I still wouldn't dream of finding a job coding in Linux and the number of people wishing they could code Linux software for a living hasn't changed.
The way you make money is not by writing apps but by getting as far down in the food chain as possible. I assure you Creative is not going to fund Linux applications.
The stuff that Creative Labs does and the stuff that people are making money off of are completely seperate entities. I would rank multimedia as about the worst thing you could specialize in right now, especially if your not engineering but tweeking, as Creative Labs emphasized. You don't see anyone selling multimedia workstations anymore. They're consistantly selling the e-commerce capability. There's a big difference between tweeking, fixing bugs and optimizing from developing the technology itself. As as we know from 1993, when the technology changes the tweekers usually end up unemployed. If you're qualified enough to beat out the 1 million Creative Labs candidates, you should probably be working on web servers, databases, and networking and not low level multimedia drivers.
The thing these contracting models promote is single purpose utilities to perform a specific function for one company. You won't see any more of the Microsoft Office, SoftImage, monoliths of C++ coding and bottomless pits of features. There are really two groups of users: ones who like bottomless pits of features and ones who want single purpose utilities but the question remains of who there are more of.
This goes along with the previous article on Fox television banning Linux from its website. The TV networks don't like the internet. They want to use it as a brochure but want e-commerce to die. No matter what you use it for, RedHat, VA Linux, SGI, IBM and all the others define Linux as an e-commerce server and we saw the effect of that when Fox banned Linux users. Any other company is certainly going to battle the internet as hard as they can.
Most of the people who work on the human genome project are married women commuting 50 miles and earning minimum wage working with radioactive isotopes all day. It's usually because they grew up thinking they were going to stay home and then their husband tells them they need to win the bread and what can you do. It's not like they spent their entire lives dreaming about changing the world.
As far as computers and genetics are concerned, 5% of biology is storage, alignment, and tree making on the computer and 95% manual labor in the lab so let's not get too excited about using a biology degree to get into IT.
On the Cyrix 150 the assembly language version of mpg123 was about 5% faster than the pure gcc 2.8.1 version. Now on the celeron 550 with egcs 2.95.2 forget it. It makes me wonder what else the guy could have written if he didn't spend all that time debugging assembly language.
If Java was the language of 1997, Visual Basic the language of 1998, then assembly language was the language of 1999. Everyone's writing in assembly these days probably because we've seen the age of large monolithic applications come and go. Today's marketing craze is small size.
I haven't felt ripped off by mp3.com. The only other alternative is not to use the internet at all. Internet hosting for an individual has skyrocketed in price over the last 3 years and it's become more necessary to provide high bandwidth content through a corporation. Not that the technology hasn't gotten better but the demand for bandwidth and the illegal mp3 witch hunts have made it impossible for most individuals to host mp3s unless they do it through a corporation.
Well guess this shows you can only strip your budget so much before what you want to achieve can no longer be done. I predict either an electrical malfunction disabled the communications systems or a mechanical malfunction prevented the antenna from deploying. Electrical malfunction is the most likely. Maybe if they had more people on the team or spent more money on hardening these things they would have succeeded. You really need actual humans on the scene to fix these things when they break.
3:00pm ET. So much for that web server.
In 24 months when governments start taxing e-commerce there won't be any mom and pop operations to begin with. E-commerce will be more expensive and complex than starting your own brick and morter business in California, so expensive that only the richest will be able to do it. Suddenly the name patenting will dissolve and the issue will be more of who gets to participate in e-commerce in the first place.
I thought women in the 90's were just a little too obsessed with men providing everything for them. Suing your male managers for compensation on a masturbation job is too much. Why don't they just get the damn technical degree, get a real job and heaven forbid, win the bread.
I don't care if it's 30mm across or 5 1/4 inches across. If they don't offer a WORM device capable of matching their read-only device they don't offer it and it may be because the WORM process just doesn't work on larger disks, in which case you're stuck with DVD.
Like I always said, you can decrypt other people's formats as much as you want but unless the hacker community grows beyond the college lecture hall, the engineers who actually create these formats will forever build stronger encryption. If they don't replace DVD with DVD-2 they'll delay DVD audio. If you decrypt DVD audio they'll just replace it with another format. The only way to win is to become the engineers who create the formats.
Doesn't it seem like the days of the high powered transmitter broadcasting 80,000 watts of music power are over? I predict there will no longer be high powered TV and radio transmitters but instead we'll have small transcevers on every block covering just that block, channeling TV and radio on demand over the same protocols as internet traffic. They're already going to deallocate the FM, AM, and TV bands. Why not just make that the end of high powered transmissions and make us all use cell recievers.
2 years ago the Open Group declared X would be licensed only for a fee and the XFree86 team would no longer be able to use the Open Group's code. Now not only did they reverse that decision but they're really trying to pick their balls off the floor with this XFree86 pledge.
Why not just forget the electron beam and build your own chip fabrication plant. Make your own silicon wafers and burn them with an ion implantation gun. Then implant not billions but trillions of bytes of data on a single silicon wafer.
Well read down and as you increase the number of applications for the device, the capacity goes down. Read only manufactured in a plant: 140 gigs. Write once: 4 gigs. Current DVD recorders for $500 can store 5 gigs on a DVD, for $5 a gig. CD-R recorders for $100 can store 800 megs per CD at $1.50 a gig. How much would FMD cost per gig? Probably more than either of our two existing formats. Really there isn't even a single working FMD device in existance today. We're talking about a theoretical device which has been simulated on a computer.
You're going a long way from an internet petition to putting humans on Mars. The world has 5 billion people. 1 million people probably isn't enough of a groundswell to get it to happen. Now get an internet petition consisting of 1 billion people each investing a few thou in the project and we might get there.
The IT industry of the early 80's was definitely the home of baby boomers. Remember those pictures of Bruce Carver, this 40 year old guy with a moustache who wrote Raid over Moscow? What about those middle aged hill billies who wrote Mule? Just 4 years ago I remember the vast majority of Linux email was from users just about to graduate from college. Now the only email I get is from high school sophomores. Is the fact that everyone around you is getting younger while you keep getting older a sign of something wrong? Am I supposed to switch to Windows NT by a certain age or something?
But isn't the universe that is reborn after the big crunch going to be exactly the same as ours and aren't we merely tied to the molecules of our brains, forever repeating our lives in the same point in time at the same place every time the universe restarts?
I noticed after the Climate Orbiter was launched to much hoopla, the polar lander was launched with neary a web page about it. It was buried on their website all year but never linked to the main page like all the other missions. Meanwhile they were advertizing the hell out of the climate orbiter, which eventually crashed. Are they already hedging the bet on these inexpensive missions by not advertizing them?
Well it's not as much SGI as the industry they're in. There simply isn't the market for visualization technology there was 5 years ago. Avid laid off 300 engineers in November to redirect its efforts towards e-commerce. Microsoft sold off its Softimage unit last year. SGI laid off 1500 engineers in August and announced a shift from visualization workstations to internet servers. It may be the best visualization software in the world, you can make very good arguments for it, but the one or two people still doing that kind of thing aren't enough to sustain a company. The future of every company right now is not in visualization but strictly in e-commerce and I would certainly be sending out resumes if I was in SGI's visualization unit.