The name slips my mind. Does anyone remember?
This kid just hung around Cupertino in the late 1970s and worked up to a pretty high position in Apple. I believe he was on the Mac development team.
The other component of WOZ asks the question "what nifty things could you do with automated location if that capability was nearly free?"
What if all appliances, vehicles, computers, and people always knew where they were and everything else of importance was?
The trend toward general purpose GPS devices falling to $100 plus putting one in every vehicle and cellphone means someone will come up with a barebones tranceiver for a few dollars, if not already.
I would be more concerned if there is enough info on the stripe to impersonate someone and drain their finances.
As for tracking ones movements, I feel that that will become inevitable through a multitude of security devices.
That becomes like surfing the net- white noise save all for the most determined voyeurs.
Any large bookstore will have tons of books
on various methodologies. Software developers fight religious
wars over them. I think it is best to hire an experienced person who has worked with a methodology, rather try from a book.
Some more popular ones:
First is the one coming out of MicroSoft called SOLID. MicroSoft software development was pretty disorganized in the 1980s, but improved considerably in the 1990s. Love them or hate them, they manage to get a fair number of winners out now. You should know their methodology.
A very popular "counter culture" slashdot-type methodology is Xtreme Programming. Emphasizes small groups, pair-programming, incremental project goals, e.g. shippable software every 2-4
weeks.
And then there are the tools, for handling pieces of the projects. UML for capturing the objectness of a system. Source control for software versions. Nightly builds and automatic tests. Project Timeline Planners. VERY, VERY USEFUL is the bug/enhancement multi-user database. It ties together managers, developers, testers, and customers. It gives a measurment as to whether more bugs or fixes are being generated at given pahse of a project.
As I take off on another spring break trip this week, I remember the cold fusion begin on the start of a spring break exactly 13 years ago. Must be something in the air that turns men's minds to fantasy.
can you run a beuwolf cluster over wireless?
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You could make a pretty cluster then! Cabling would be no problem.
The current method is only suitable for huge (multiple Jupiter size) and fast planets. Thats because it uses doppler shifts to look for slight gravity frequency shifts from stars. The shift must be fast and big.
Space-based methods promise more sensitivity and proposals are in the works.
An alternative method is the light curve method that looks for planetary eclipses of edge-on systems. This has only generated a couple candidates. The already-approved space mission Kuiper will watch the same patch of sky of five years continuously for rare planetary eclipses.
It has a 350 megapixel imaging array (42 x 8 megapixals). This could detect earth-size planets.
Alex Toeffler wrote a book a decade ago on the different waves of technology- agriculture, industry, and tech/knowledge. The eariler waves don't disappear, but are enhanced by the later waves. Agriculture is enhanced by both industry and high tech.
The non-Silicon circuits have always been a factor of ten faster than CMOS, but also one to three orders of magnitude less dense. Many of the 1980s/1990s supers put critical circuits in GaAs. The early Risc CPUs were just a few tens of thousands of transistor with very simple instructions and making the compiler do the work. For example, hardware "multiple" was off-loaded to software. Perhaps IBM might offer a simple CPU in exchange for speed.
Some insurance companies are looking at setting insurance prices by when, where, and how much you drive via GPS recordings. There is a pilot program in Texas. I guess rush hour, late night driving, and speeding are the targets. You'll probably get a 50% insurance discount or more if submit to big brother.
I believe the Federal Trade Commission banned GPS last week for a car rental agency for speeding fines. It was not because they didn't agree with the principle, but because they didn't tell the consumer they were doing this (except in the rental contract fine print).
They seem to like to build high tech gizmos.
I recall they built the first fake wave generator
for indoor surface and have many artificial ski slopes.
They are bit shy about investing in the current economic climate.
Physics-based animation has been a hot topic in computer graphics for a decade. SIGGRAPH made a major award to Prof. Andy Witkin of Carnige Mellon in 2001 for major progress in this field.
This involves anmal motions, objects colliding, objects shattering (e.g. Phantom Menace) and so on.
They've been demonstrating it state fairs and the
like for several years. When it is done right it blows socks off anythig already out there. Too bad it seems to be such a mess.
TV advertisers will have to get more creative
like web advertisers and embed commercial messages
in the content itself- like those annoying network logos. (I oppose this.)
I was using 64-bit IRIX eight years ago.
Painful the first couple of years.
Since it takes MicroSoft 10-15 years to catch
up to a new processor size, I don't expect to
their pain soon.
Processes that computed quietly in the background used to be called deamons. The concept of deamons is more general than leeches, but encompasses them.
One professional society I belong to had a break-away journal promising "all the efficiencies of modern technology"- cheap, quick, etc. However, they never got a critical mass of scientists to submit articles. There's a catch-22 problem: if you dont have a quality body of people submitting articles you dont have a quality journal; if you dont have a quality journal you dont have people submitting articles. The journal failed after a couple years due to lack of quaity submissions.
Its not like people haven't thought of cheap web publishing before.
Many thought they could start their own maverick journals for "almost nothing" on the web.
But the human intertia of buy-in can be tremendous.
Both MicroSoft and Enron plus many large companies have employee politcal action groups. As an employee you are encouraged to contribute a modest amount much like the United Way. The PAC funds are then disbursed to political candidates according to what the employees suggest. The concept of the employees PAC is that pooling money together will have a bigger voice. Many employees will follow their company leaders in what they think is best for the company, but you'll see dissenting contributions other candidates.
PBS-Frontline special "dot.con"
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Shown last week was insightful.
It mainly focused on the investment banker IPO scam.
Historically IPOs waited five years until there was a profit, e.g. AMZN should just being going to market this year.
But the dot.craze offered companies with no profit and dubious revenue streams in just a year or two.
Investment house analysts hawked these. Supposedly there is a "Chinese wall" separating the investment and broker side of a firm.
However these analysts knew heir bonus checks depended on IPO profits.
People who place limits on their themselves become limited people. Rather than absolutely ruling out a given tool such as a computer,
just moderate it and use it wisely. Dont worship it, as many educators have, nor demonize it.
Slashdot Mirror
The name slips my mind. Does anyone remember? This kid just hung around Cupertino in the late 1970s and worked up to a pretty high position in Apple. I believe he was on the Mac development team.
The other component of WOZ asks the question "what nifty things could you do with automated location if that capability was nearly free?" What if all appliances, vehicles, computers, and people always knew where they were and everything else of importance was?
The trend toward general purpose GPS devices falling to $100 plus putting one in every vehicle and cellphone means someone will come up with a barebones tranceiver for a few dollars, if not already.
I would be more concerned if there is enough info on the stripe to impersonate someone and drain their finances. As for tracking ones movements, I feel that that will become inevitable through a multitude of security devices. That becomes like surfing the net- white noise save all for the most determined voyeurs.
Any large bookstore will have tons of books on various methodologies. Software developers fight religious wars over them. I think it is best to hire an experienced person who has worked with a methodology, rather try from a book.
Some more popular ones:
First is the one coming out of MicroSoft called SOLID. MicroSoft software development was pretty disorganized in the 1980s, but improved considerably in the 1990s. Love them or hate them, they manage to get a fair number of winners out now. You should know their methodology.
A very popular "counter culture" slashdot-type methodology is Xtreme Programming. Emphasizes small groups, pair-programming, incremental project goals, e.g. shippable software every 2-4 weeks.
And then there are the tools, for handling pieces of the projects. UML for capturing the objectness of a system. Source control for software versions. Nightly builds and automatic tests. Project Timeline Planners. VERY, VERY USEFUL is the bug/enhancement multi-user database. It ties together managers, developers, testers, and customers. It gives a measurment as to whether more bugs or fixes are being generated at given pahse of a project.
As I take off on another spring break trip this week,
I remember the cold fusion begin on the start of a
spring break exactly 13 years ago.
Must be something in the air that turns men's minds
to fantasy.
You could make a pretty cluster then!
Cabling would be no problem.
17% match with CP/M
23% match with BSD
32% match with Apple OS
34% match with DEC VMS
16% match with Borland
Summary:
112% matches with other source bases (indicates
mutual plagarism)
0% original code
The current method is only suitable for huge (multiple Jupiter size) and fast planets. Thats because it uses doppler shifts to look for slight gravity frequency shifts from stars. The shift must be fast and big.
Space-based methods promise more sensitivity and proposals are in the works.
An alternative method is the light curve method that looks for planetary eclipses of edge-on systems. This has only generated a couple candidates. The already-approved space mission Kuiper will watch the same patch of sky of five years continuously for rare planetary eclipses. It has a 350 megapixel imaging array (42 x 8 megapixals). This could detect earth-size planets.
Alex Toeffler wrote a book a decade ago on the different waves of technology- agriculture, industry, and tech/knowledge. The eariler waves don't disappear, but are enhanced by the later waves. Agriculture is enhanced by both industry and high tech.
One of the best on web design,
Sure both have flaws. But they are so entrenched, they'll never be displodged.
The non-Silicon circuits have always been a factor of ten faster than CMOS, but also one to three orders of magnitude less dense. Many of the 1980s/1990s supers put critical circuits in GaAs. The early Risc CPUs were just a few tens of thousands of transistor with very simple instructions and making the compiler do the work. For example, hardware "multiple" was off-loaded to software. Perhaps IBM might offer a simple CPU in exchange for speed.
Some insurance companies are looking at setting insurance prices by when, where, and how much you drive via GPS recordings. There is a pilot program in Texas. I guess rush hour, late night driving, and speeding are the targets. You'll probably get a 50% insurance discount or more if submit to big brother.
I believe the Federal Trade Commission banned GPS last week for a car rental agency for speeding fines. It was not because they didn't agree with the principle, but because they didn't tell the consumer they were doing this (except in the rental contract fine print).
Vast amounts of used clothing and old US cars go to Mexico. Some of the clothes are re-used while others are recycled into industrial rags.
They seem to like to build high tech gizmos. I recall they built the first fake wave generator for indoor surface and have many artificial ski slopes. They are bit shy about investing in the current economic climate.
Physics-based animation has been a hot topic in computer graphics for a decade. SIGGRAPH made a major award to Prof. Andy Witkin of Carnige Mellon in 2001 for major progress in this field. This involves anmal motions, objects colliding, objects shattering (e.g. Phantom Menace) and so on.
They've been demonstrating it state fairs and the like for several years. When it is done right it blows socks off anythig already out there. Too bad it seems to be such a mess.
TV advertisers will have to get more creative like web advertisers and embed commercial messages in the content itself- like those annoying network logos. (I oppose this.)
I was using 64-bit IRIX eight years ago. Painful the first couple of years. Since it takes MicroSoft 10-15 years to catch up to a new processor size, I don't expect to their pain soon.
Processes that computed quietly in the background used to be called deamons. The concept of deamons is more general than leeches, but encompasses them.
One professional society I belong to had a break-away journal promising "all the efficiencies of modern technology"- cheap, quick, etc. However, they never got a critical mass of scientists to submit articles. There's a catch-22 problem: if you dont have a quality body of people submitting articles you dont have a quality journal; if you dont have a quality journal you dont have people submitting articles. The journal failed after a couple years due to lack of quaity submissions.
Its not like people haven't thought of cheap web publishing before. Many thought they could start their own maverick journals for "almost nothing" on the web. But the human intertia of buy-in can be tremendous.
Both MicroSoft and Enron plus many large companies have employee politcal action groups. As an employee you are encouraged to contribute a modest amount much like the United Way. The PAC funds are then disbursed to political candidates according to what the employees suggest. The concept of the employees PAC is that pooling money together will have a bigger voice. Many employees will follow their company leaders in what they think is best for the company, but you'll see dissenting contributions other candidates.
Shown last week was insightful. It mainly focused on the investment banker IPO scam. Historically IPOs waited five years until there was a profit, e.g. AMZN should just being going to market this year. But the dot.craze offered companies with no profit and dubious revenue streams in just a year or two. Investment house analysts hawked these. Supposedly there is a "Chinese wall" separating the investment and broker side of a firm. However these analysts knew heir bonus checks depended on IPO profits.
Has to compete against Star Wars II and Rings II.
People who place limits on their themselves become limited people. Rather than absolutely ruling out a given tool such as a computer, just moderate it and use it wisely. Dont worship it, as many educators have, nor demonize it.