Since UNIX supported 32 bits in 1979 (VAX) and
it took MicroSoft until Windows 95,
I hope they are faster this time around!
boom and bust industry?
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The first 15 years was boom and bust- new technology and titles followed by saturatation and boredom. US companies like Atari were victims. Japanese conglomerates have more staying power through the slow times. Are we beyond the cycles yet?
When I see so many facts mangled in many of the questions posted here, I am saddened by the state of our system. High tech people seem no less ignorant than the general population on the issues. Should try reading an [online] newspaper now and then.
Stock options are credited against the corporate
tax. When the grantee exercises their option, they pay a tax at the personal income tax rate. that is gnerally higher than the corporate tax rate- 28-36% versus 25%. So the governments gets a LARGER revenue than otherwise.
Bush has trouble with the kinds of questions you'd see on SAT tests. He'd probably fail the 4th grade TASC test he requires all Texas students to pass. However, other presidents may have done worse, such as Reagan. But there are other kinds of intelligence such a people skills. Reagan was good at speeches. Clinton and Johnston were good at politicking legislation. Brainy SAT-types like PhD Wilson or engineer Carter did not do as great overall. You have to judge the whole package.
Some people date the Net from its earliest roots in 1969 when two DARPA computers first talked cross-country. I prefer a late 1980s when a number of things happened:
(1) Name service. In the original net every computer had to download a central name-ip number database. This started breaking down at about a thousand nodes. (Note they are still prefecting this with the expanding ip numbers and registry privatization.)
(2) Privatization of the backbone. It was difficult for commercial interests to join the network when it was a DARPA/NSF toy.
The high tech industry claims we need far more computer science people than graduate from US schools. The number of computer science majors has been stagnating. Hence we are admitting (or planning to admit) nearly two million high tech special immigrants. This, in turn, scares US kids from considering the field and compounds the problem. Should we, and how can we get more US students into the pipeline?
The ultimate computer-telecom revolution will be interactive video access to communications, entertainment and computing everywhere. Whether this is manifested as a computer screen in every room, office, & vehicle, portable video-com devices (ala Earth Final Conflict), or some combination of the two is unknown. There is still a considerable of computing, broadband, and software necessary to be developed.
Humans are basically visual and audio creatures. The current text-still graphics computer interfaces and audio communications devices are substandard.
In the late 1980s he promoted the commercialization of the InterNet which then was mostly a military and academic set of networks. He borrowed the metaphor of his father's Interstate highway system legislation. Poor Al took some flak with silly name back then. And now he takes flak for this claiming to invent the InterNet.
You can pretty easily tell whom among the responses have children and those who still are children. A protection instinct occurs with the former. That instinct may be misdirected when you don't understand a new cultural phenomena, but put yourself in the parents shoes and see where they are coming from.
Not far out.
Some companies, I recall Sun Microsystems, were experimenting with computer embedded finger rings (Java powered) to replace swipe cards. I suppose you could put a mike in there too.
>Why can't there be tax breaks for holding onto workers and creating employment?
The European Union tries this, particularly France. Because many companies try to get around this, there is a "work police" that fines companies that make people work too long. Even if it is voluntary.
Someone has coined the term "teledildos" for
remove feedback "devices" that could be used
on a computer. Either a live person on the
other end, or a computer program/recording.
First, the US tax structure is such that is cheaper for corporations to push someone at 150% than to hire another worker (if they can be found). Overhead for benefits and facilities is about 100% and is about the same whether the employer works 30 hours a week or 80 hours a week.
Second, people constantly want to buy more stuff, whether it is due to greed or consumer brainwashing. Our basic house and car is 50% larger than a generation ago. There are a zillion more techno-gizmo "necessities".
The work ethic hasn't changed that much in the four centuries since the Europeans expelled the Puritans. Still feel like you have to spend most of your waking hours in work to fit in. This combined with short vacations, prudish cultural mores, and strong religious political parties, means things are pretty much the same- Just modernized into hi-tech slavery.
This was a parody of Heston's anti-gun control, pro-Bush TV commercial running in some states. Charlton holds a rifle in the air while delivering these lines. Charlton's demeanor as a mean and scary old man enhances the effect. It is truely one of the Halloween season political commercials no matter what side of gun control you are on. If you are pro-NRA, Clinton-Gore-Reno is the monster. If you are anti-NRA, Heston is rather threatening.
I could imagine Gates holding a Windows CDROM in the air while squealing out these lines in his high-pitched voice.
A now defunct company called Masspar of Santa Clara California developed a massively parallel computer based on putting dozens of CPUs on a single chip. They were trying to beat Thinking Machines, a defense department funded massively parallel company, that was looking good at the time. Masspar had a nice mchine and several dozen customers. However, as with most of the 1980s and early 90s "mini-super" business, the people who made custom CPUs and ASICs could not keep up with the commodity CPU super-clusters (ironically pioneered by Thinking Machines). At best a custom company could engineer a new generation every three years, while Intel (Sun, IBM and MIPs) come out with a new chip on an annual basis or faster. These mini-supers were often obsolete by the time they shipped.
physics prize for integrated circuit?
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They've gotten rather applied this year,
but took forty years to recognize this achievement. I don't know I'd consider it physics.
This is almost like Stanford University finally
recognizing it is in Silicon Valley and promoting
a tech-geek to president after decades of lawyers and humanities types.
Like the mixed-success Jupiter Galileo probe,
Casini's attenna appear to be on the blink.
Thta means NASA will have to narrow scope.
NASA folk are pretty creative. They achieved most of Galileo's objectives using the 100 times
slower backup attenna. They did it with data compression algorithms that had advanced considerable the decade Galileo was in journey.
So you end up wth a hole a few inches, or feet
at worst, in sail square kilometers large.
No one would notice it.
No significant ind force to enlarge the hole.
He was babbling about this in the second half of the 1980s, essentially federal support for expansion of academic computer networks. It used the metaphor of the InterState Highway system that his father legislated. Lots of people thought his head was in the clouds at that time.
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Since UNIX supported 32 bits in 1979 (VAX) and
it took MicroSoft until Windows 95,
I hope they are faster this time around!
The first 15 years was boom and bust- new technology and titles followed by saturatation and boredom. US companies like Atari were victims. Japanese conglomerates have more staying power through the slow times. Are we beyond the cycles yet?
When I see so many facts mangled in many of the questions posted here, I am saddened by the state of our system. High tech people seem no less ignorant than the general population on the issues. Should try reading an [online] newspaper now and then.
However, Bush encourages more tax incentitives for supply and Gore tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy.
Since he became a Congressmen. Has real estate, treasuries and cash instead.
Bush owns stocks.
Stock options are credited against the corporate
tax. When the grantee exercises their option, they pay a tax at the personal income tax rate. that is gnerally higher than the corporate tax rate- 28-36% versus 25%. So the governments gets a LARGER revenue than otherwise.
Bush has trouble with the kinds of questions you'd see on SAT tests. He'd probably fail the 4th grade TASC test he requires all Texas students to pass. However, other presidents may have done worse, such as Reagan. But there are other kinds of intelligence such a people skills. Reagan was good at speeches. Clinton and Johnston were good at politicking legislation. Brainy SAT-types like PhD Wilson or engineer Carter did not do as great overall. You have to judge the whole package.
Some people date the Net from its earliest roots in 1969 when two DARPA computers first talked cross-country. I prefer a late 1980s when a number of things happened:
(1) Name service. In the original net every computer had to download a central name-ip number database. This started breaking down at about a thousand nodes. (Note they are still prefecting this with the expanding ip numbers and registry privatization.)
(2) Privatization of the backbone. It was difficult for commercial interests to join the network when it was a DARPA/NSF toy.
The high tech industry claims we need far more computer science people than graduate from US schools. The number of computer science majors has been stagnating. Hence we are admitting (or planning to admit) nearly two million high tech special immigrants. This, in turn, scares US kids from considering the field and compounds the problem. Should we, and how can we get more US students into the pipeline?
Make TV programs on your computer.
...
What? Steve Wozniak did this in 1977?
Next idea
The device is called The Fantazein Clock at www.fantazein.com and in PBS-affliated Store of Knowledge. The STK web site says $89. I think it is nifty.
The ultimate computer-telecom revolution will be interactive video access to communications, entertainment and computing everywhere. Whether this is manifested as a computer screen in every room, office, & vehicle, portable video-com devices (ala Earth Final Conflict), or some combination of the two is unknown. There is still a considerable of computing, broadband, and software necessary to be developed.
Humans are basically visual and audio creatures. The current text-still graphics computer interfaces and audio communications devices are substandard.
In the late 1980s he promoted the commercialization of the InterNet which then was mostly a military and academic set of networks. He borrowed the metaphor of his father's Interstate highway system legislation. Poor Al took some flak with silly name back then. And now he takes flak for this claiming to invent the InterNet.
You can pretty easily tell whom among the responses have children and those who still are children. A protection instinct occurs with the former. That instinct may be misdirected when you don't understand a new cultural phenomena, but put yourself in the parents shoes and see where they are coming from.
Not far out.
Some companies, I recall Sun Microsystems, were experimenting with computer embedded finger rings (Java powered) to replace swipe cards. I suppose you could put a mike in there too.
>Why can't there be tax breaks for holding onto workers and creating employment?
The European Union tries this, particularly France. Because many companies try to get around this, there is a "work police" that fines companies that make people work too long. Even if it is voluntary.
Oooh! That fills good!
Someone has coined the term "teledildos" for
remove feedback "devices" that could be used
on a computer. Either a live person on the
other end, or a computer program/recording.
First, the US tax structure is such that is cheaper for corporations to push someone at 150% than to hire another worker (if they can be found). Overhead for benefits and facilities is about 100% and is about the same whether the employer works 30 hours a week or 80 hours a week.
Second, people constantly want to buy more stuff, whether it is due to greed or consumer brainwashing. Our basic house and car is 50% larger than a generation ago. There are a zillion more techno-gizmo "necessities".
The work ethic hasn't changed that much in the four centuries since the Europeans expelled the Puritans. Still feel like you have to spend most of your waking hours in work to fit in. This combined with short vacations, prudish cultural mores, and strong religious political parties, means things are pretty much the same- Just modernized into hi-tech slavery.
This was a parody of Heston's anti-gun control, pro-Bush TV commercial running in some states. Charlton holds a rifle in the air while delivering these lines. Charlton's demeanor as a mean and scary old man enhances the effect. It is truely one of the Halloween season political commercials no matter what side of gun control you are on. If you are pro-NRA, Clinton-Gore-Reno is the monster. If you are anti-NRA, Heston is rather threatening.
I could imagine Gates holding a Windows CDROM in the air while squealing out these lines in his high-pitched voice.
A now defunct company called Masspar of Santa Clara California developed a massively parallel computer based on putting dozens of CPUs on a single chip. They were trying to beat Thinking Machines, a defense department funded massively parallel company, that was looking good at the time. Masspar had a nice mchine and several dozen customers. However, as with most of the 1980s and early 90s "mini-super" business, the people who made custom CPUs and ASICs could not keep up with the commodity CPU super-clusters (ironically pioneered by Thinking Machines). At best a custom company could engineer a new generation every three years, while Intel (Sun, IBM and MIPs) come out with a new chip on an annual basis or faster. These mini-supers were often obsolete by the time they shipped.
They've gotten rather applied this year,
but took forty years to recognize this achievement. I don't know I'd consider it physics.
This is almost like Stanford University finally
recognizing it is in Silicon Valley and promoting
a tech-geek to president after decades of lawyers and humanities types.
Like the mixed-success Jupiter Galileo probe,
Casini's attenna appear to be on the blink.
Thta means NASA will have to narrow scope.
NASA folk are pretty creative. They achieved most of Galileo's objectives using the 100 times
slower backup attenna. They did it with data compression algorithms that had advanced considerable the decade Galileo was in journey.
So you end up wth a hole a few inches, or feet
at worst, in sail square kilometers large.
No one would notice it.
No significant ind force to enlarge the hole.
He was babbling about this in the second half of the 1980s, essentially federal support for expansion of academic computer networks. It used the metaphor of the InterState Highway system that his father legislated. Lots of people thought his head was in the clouds at that time.