Ivan Illich proposed very similar ideas back in the 1960s, and wrote a book titled "Deschooling Society" - which proposed a volunteer teaching organization of very similar fashion. An inverse funnel of education where knowledge seekers would employ natural human organization to learn, rather than formal curriculum and institutional learning.
Yes I have met some amazing Indian developers out there. There are also many H1B visa programmers who may be lacking in experience and are desperate to succeed in a foreign country which, lets be honest, considers them outsiders. They make half the pay in many situations and can be fired and sent home in the span of a week for any petty job disagreement.
True innovation requires the ability to make mistakes, learn from them, and try something new - which is contrary and alien to the H1B "cog developer" system. I doubt many Americans could be as disciplined and work under such pressures and situations.
Back home, India is building a truly amazing scientific pool of talent. Expect to see major challenges to American engineering & science - the population numbers game almost guarantees 3x the genius-level talent waiting to be discovered and educated.
Someone will come up with an inline ethernet 6to4 proxy for $30. Router manufacturers will finally build it in... it will be as simple as serving ip4 to older DNS requests, and ip6 to newer machines. As long as the DNS requests are managed correctly it won't be a problem.
The real hard work will be at the ISP and enterprise level... The service software guys (RH, IBM, CA, Oracle etc) will be banking.
Again, the point being that specialized, dedicated circuits can far outperform software on a predetermined algorithm. HDCP is a subset of the AES cypher, and is pretty heavy on the CPU. I've implemented AES on nVidia's CUDA and it would be difficult to get better then 50MB/sec. A 1080p30 stream should use a little less than 60 MB/sec - so it's going to be work, but considering HDCP is less complicated, it should be doable.
Well in my experience some of the store managers would hold back a few and drop late fees on me. I call the manager and they tell me tough luck, buddy. Gotta make that monthly revenue target, after all...
I quite Blockbuster 10 years ago, and I've only graced their store a couple of times to buy cheap used titles since...
Well, it all depends on the product, the lifetime and the timeline. "The Model" is not as simple as it seems in my experience.
If you look at the developmental progression of most "products" - you'll find an interesting trend where first release functionality is king. Organizations that plan on releasing a perfect and complete product almost always iterate too slowly and die. Yes, there are certainly examples outside the bell curve here, but the point is that product announcements can only hold demand for so long before it sours or is fulfilled by a less-desirable but available option.
As a product matures, it demands better quality, security and reliability. The first release needs to work most of the time, but the expectation is always much lower. A great example is the cell phone - the first version only worked within a few miles of the city. It needed a 4lb lead battery carried on a shoulder bag. But it let doctors, lawyers, and executives take phone calls on the golf course.
Facebook is probably a few hundred releases into their product. They have the market share and can reasonably afford to do the massive testing necessary to release a new version. So your example definitely holds water there - but again they have a huge responsibility to hold onto their position. If Facebook took a 48 hour dirtnap then you'd probably start to see some serious change in market share. If Facebook stagnated and went 12 months without a release, then you'd see changes.
The social network market is mature, and Diaspora has got to have some novel product differentiators before it will see any growth. The developers are driven by factors other than basic functionality now.
The model, in other words, is really different depending on the timeline, expectations, availability and demand. A good textbook on microeconomics and marketing would really explain this a lot better.
TEMPEST at a few hundred feet is pretty remarkable... you think it can be done in a satellite 50 miles high? Plus there's considerations such as the van allen belt and the ionosphere acting upon wavelength propagation, never mind the noise and attenuation distortions wielded upon an 2GHz+ clock rate of a typical system bus, or voltage balanced and shielded video cables at such great distances.
Now if you're thinking about satellite sweeping for wifi or cellular then it would be almost a given and certainly has a precedent - but otherwise I'm unconvinced that something could filter though a trashheap of digital noise from that distance.
Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum....
I think you picked a terrible list... I mean, other than the Motor Car all those items *were* invented in America. Sure, you could say that Swan (British) invented a good light bulb (it lasted 13 hours) - but did he invent *the* light bulb - most people would agree that a 13 hour light bulb won't fly. Or how about the Reis telephone - it was useless for talking on!! Or the computer... sure, a German computer did exist, but in terms of an electric, digital computer it's certainly the Atanasoff–Berry. And the internet... 100% American.
Apparently I'm wrong (yeah, bad bad article!) It's just a new color filter + polarizer. There is no way in the design to modify the color, as it's only a structural grating.
I guess in the future a design could be created if they had a way modify these structures - this isn't it. But it's promising.
Actually, Archos did sell mp3 players into wal-mart which allowed for firmware updating, and had a downloadable SDK. So, occasionally it does happen... once a decade or so.
I've had this idea for a few years - but instead of using compressed air, it would be to compress it into a liquid nitrogen, and pipe it wherever you wanted.
For hot places, (California, Texas, Nevada, etc..), using the compressed air would not only provide electricity, but you can use the gas expansion for very cheap air conditioning - which is after all a major load on summer electrical grids.
I usually like to ask questions like: How do you start/stop web server? Where are the standard debug logs for web server, php/perl? What's the difference between threads and processes? If the average http connection lasts 1s, what is the maximum number of connections you can serve over 1 hour with a pool of 50 sockets? Then I have them write a short piece of code in whatever common language they like for sorting. Then I give them a basic mathematical equation and have them write the code to implement it. Next I ask some common skill questions, such as what to check when there are no incoming users, debug common trace dumps/stack dumps, how to optimize SQL queries, and how would they mitigate/protect against hackers and other similar security questions. Lastly I ask about how they feel about build it vs COTS, OSS software, bug fix management, tools they like to use, their favorite/worst projects and then have some open questions.
In other words, ask questions about the job they will do, get to know how they interact a bit, how deep are their skills, and what their hobbies are. If you've got the time, try doing a code review with them... mostly I'm looking at a basic skill comprehension, the ability to interact well with overs, the ability to defend a position or compromise, and how well the existing team feels.
I won't say that China is a shining beacon of happy goodness, but *every* industrialized nation goes through this sort of crap. You may say we've all advanced and gosh what's so different over there... in which case you would prove that you have not an iota of a clue about China.
Those farmers are sending their kids to school using every penny they can scrape up, their kids are making money and largely improving life for themselves and their families.
They are raising their standard of living exponentially, people can own cell phones and bikes. You may think it's pathetic, but they've gone from farmers to industrial giant in 30 years... something which took most western nations 4 times longer.
I won't white-wash the problems though, it's still a thuggery driven government, it's still polluting and wasting a beautiful environment, and life can be really harsh for the majority either way. But the alternative is more of the same without any opportunity for change.
I've got no problem with people that call China an evil regime of corporatocracy and refuse to buy their products. But I think it's also fair to claim that it's making a better life for a lot of people, also.
There's some great documentaries and news reports out there about life in China. Read up and take a real informed position. Meet a few Chinese and get to know them.
Don't just repeat sensational headlines...That is all.
And I'm not American, so my American history is patchy, but this is the first I've heard of the founding fathers wanting to outlaw capitalism? They were communists? First I've heard of that - can any other American back that up?
Yes, it's absolutely true... the Colonies were basically being savaged by government mandated corporate taxes and import/export tax inequities which favored British companies.
For the first 150 years, the only corporations allowed in the USA were for the public good (e.g. Harvard College). All other business activities were handled utilizing trusts, partnerships, and basic self-employment.
I've had an iPhone 4 for a few weeks now, and largely it works 99% as promised. IMHO there are bigger bugs than the "don't touch here" antenna problem!
1. Overheating shutdown... (I think). If the phone is in my pocket, sometimes I take it out and it's off... I'm guessing it is overheating (hot down here in Texas...) 2. GSM unit crashes... I sometimes venture out into the boonies and sometimes the gsm system just stops working with spotty coverage in hilly areas. When I return to a city with a strong signal, the unit never comes back up and signal strength stays at 0-1 bars. 3. Occasional app crashes... sometimes an app just crashes, usually one of the older apps like facebook, rope n'fly and a couple of other games. It's actually really rare, and I don't seem to loose anything, so it's minor at this point. These apps were rock solid on my 3gs phone, so that's why I mention it.
Overall I'm pretty happy the experience though... it's a lot faster. The voice quality is much better. The screen is fantastic. If #1 and #2 can be fixed then it would be fantastic, otherwise I'll return it and wait for iPhone 4.1...
Don't care if it's off-topic, great reply man! Far too often we, as Americans, take our issues with policy and political leadership and smear it across whole swaths of culture and people. I take extreme issue with those that would cause others undue harm, especially terrorist and despot regimes, but for God's sake I don't hold their people/citizens entirely responsible unless they personally participate and prove that they deserve it.
Back in 1993 I invented an iPhone type device (larger, no multitouch, slower), and needed a cellular data part to test with. I contacted the dev group at Nokia and asked if I could sample a module.
They gave me that part and then 2 days later asked for a return. They mistakenly thought I was an employee... oops. I guess they do read those sign-out sheets though.
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True indeed... in fact if you remember your history lessons, this is one of the big reasons the Articles of Confederation failed...
Forget the hat, it's time to start wearing tinfoil underwear!
Ivan Illich proposed very similar ideas back in the 1960s, and wrote a book titled "Deschooling Society" - which proposed a volunteer teaching organization of very similar fashion. An inverse funnel of education where knowledge seekers would employ natural human organization to learn, rather than formal curriculum and institutional learning.
Yes I have met some amazing Indian developers out there. There are also many H1B visa programmers who may be lacking in experience and are desperate to succeed in a foreign country which, lets be honest, considers them outsiders. They make half the pay in many situations and can be fired and sent home in the span of a week for any petty job disagreement.
True innovation requires the ability to make mistakes, learn from them, and try something new - which is contrary and alien to the H1B "cog developer" system. I doubt many Americans could be as disciplined and work under such pressures and situations.
Back home, India is building a truly amazing scientific pool of talent. Expect to see major challenges to American engineering & science - the population numbers game almost guarantees 3x the genius-level talent waiting to be discovered and educated.
Nah, it's an opportunity to sell new gadgets!
Someone will come up with an inline ethernet 6to4 proxy for $30. Router manufacturers will finally build it in... it will be as simple as serving ip4 to older DNS requests, and ip6 to newer machines. As long as the DNS requests are managed correctly it won't be a problem.
The real hard work will be at the ISP and enterprise level... The service software guys (RH, IBM, CA, Oracle etc) will be banking.
Again, the point being that specialized, dedicated circuits can far outperform software on a predetermined algorithm. HDCP is a subset of the AES cypher, and is pretty heavy on the CPU. I've implemented AES on nVidia's CUDA and it would be difficult to get better then 50MB/sec. A 1080p30 stream should use a little less than 60 MB/sec - so it's going to be work, but considering HDCP is less complicated, it should be doable.
This correlation is only a matter of your personal perspective! We can just as easily predict the this behavior based on a macroeconomic theory.
Well in my experience some of the store managers would hold back a few and drop late fees on me. I call the manager and they tell me tough luck, buddy. Gotta make that monthly revenue target, after all...
I quite Blockbuster 10 years ago, and I've only graced their store a couple of times to buy cheap used titles since...
Well, it all depends on the product, the lifetime and the timeline. "The Model" is not as simple as it seems in my experience.
If you look at the developmental progression of most "products" - you'll find an interesting trend where first release functionality is king. Organizations that plan on releasing a perfect and complete product almost always iterate too slowly and die. Yes, there are certainly examples outside the bell curve here, but the point is that product announcements can only hold demand for so long before it sours or is fulfilled by a less-desirable but available option.
As a product matures, it demands better quality, security and reliability. The first release needs to work most of the time, but the expectation is always much lower. A great example is the cell phone - the first version only worked within a few miles of the city. It needed a 4lb lead battery carried on a shoulder bag. But it let doctors, lawyers, and executives take phone calls on the golf course.
Facebook is probably a few hundred releases into their product. They have the market share and can reasonably afford to do the massive testing necessary to release a new version. So your example definitely holds water there - but again they have a huge responsibility to hold onto their position. If Facebook took a 48 hour dirtnap then you'd probably start to see some serious change in market share. If Facebook stagnated and went 12 months without a release, then you'd see changes.
The social network market is mature, and Diaspora has got to have some novel product differentiators before it will see any growth. The developers are driven by factors other than basic functionality now.
The model, in other words, is really different depending on the timeline, expectations, availability and demand. A good textbook on microeconomics and marketing would really explain this a lot better.
TEMPEST at a few hundred feet is pretty remarkable... you think it can be done in a satellite 50 miles high? Plus there's considerations such as the van allen belt and the ionosphere acting upon wavelength propagation, never mind the noise and attenuation distortions wielded upon an 2GHz+ clock rate of a typical system bus, or voltage balanced and shielded video cables at such great distances.
Now if you're thinking about satellite sweeping for wifi or cellular then it would be almost a given and certainly has a precedent - but otherwise I'm unconvinced that something could filter though a trashheap of digital noise from that distance.
Children so stupid they think America invented the Internet, computer, motor car, light bulb, telephone etc ad infinitum....
I think you picked a terrible list... I mean, other than the Motor Car all those items *were* invented in America. Sure, you could say that Swan (British) invented a good light bulb (it lasted 13 hours) - but did he invent *the* light bulb - most people would agree that a 13 hour light bulb won't fly. Or how about the Reis telephone - it was useless for talking on!! Or the computer... sure, a German computer did exist, but in terms of an electric, digital computer it's certainly the Atanasoff–Berry. And the internet... 100% American.
FAIL...
Oh, let's not forget France's Minitel online service.
Apparently I'm wrong (yeah, bad bad article!) It's just a new color filter + polarizer. There is no way in the design to modify the color, as it's only a structural grating.
I guess in the future a design could be created if they had a way modify these structures - this isn't it. But it's promising.
It's a 2D array of MEMS which open and close a slit in a variable size, creating a light grate which has the effect of changing the light color.
Actually, Archos did sell mp3 players into wal-mart which allowed for firmware updating, and had a downloadable SDK. So, occasionally it does happen... once a decade or so.
Dude, your handle is "parasite"... what do you expect?
I've had this idea for a few years - but instead of using compressed air, it would be to compress it into a liquid nitrogen, and pipe it wherever you wanted.
For hot places, (California, Texas, Nevada, etc..), using the compressed air would not only provide electricity, but you can use the gas expansion for very cheap air conditioning - which is after all a major load on summer electrical grids.
They may need those buzzwords or certificates to get past HR... don't be too harsh unless they really believe in those buzzwords!
I usually like to ask questions like:
How do you start/stop web server?
Where are the standard debug logs for web server, php/perl?
What's the difference between threads and processes?
If the average http connection lasts 1s, what is the maximum number of connections you can serve over 1 hour with a pool of 50 sockets?
Then I have them write a short piece of code in whatever common language they like for sorting.
Then I give them a basic mathematical equation and have them write the code to implement it.
Next I ask some common skill questions, such as what to check when there are no incoming users, debug common trace dumps/stack dumps, how to optimize SQL queries, and how would they mitigate/protect against hackers and other similar security questions.
Lastly I ask about how they feel about build it vs COTS, OSS software, bug fix management, tools they like to use, their favorite/worst projects and then have some open questions.
In other words, ask questions about the job they will do, get to know how they interact a bit, how deep are their skills, and what their hobbies are. If you've got the time, try doing a code review with them... mostly I'm looking at a basic skill comprehension, the ability to interact well with overs, the ability to defend a position or compromise, and how well the existing team feels.
I won't say that China is a shining beacon of happy goodness, but *every* industrialized nation goes through this sort of crap. You may say we've all advanced and gosh what's so different over there... in which case you would prove that you have not an iota of a clue about China.
Those farmers are sending their kids to school using every penny they can scrape up, their kids are making money and largely improving life for themselves and their families.
They are raising their standard of living exponentially, people can own cell phones and bikes. You may think it's pathetic, but they've gone from farmers to industrial giant in 30 years... something which took most western nations 4 times longer.
I won't white-wash the problems though, it's still a thuggery driven government, it's still polluting and wasting a beautiful environment, and life can be really harsh for the majority either way. But the alternative is more of the same without any opportunity for change.
I've got no problem with people that call China an evil regime of corporatocracy and refuse to buy their products. But I think it's also fair to claim that it's making a better life for a lot of people, also.
There's some great documentaries and news reports out there about life in China. Read up and take a real informed position. Meet a few Chinese and get to know them.
Don't just repeat sensational headlines...That is all.
And I'm not American, so my American history is patchy, but this is the first I've heard of the founding fathers wanting to outlaw capitalism? They were communists? First I've heard of that - can any other American back that up?
Yes, it's absolutely true... the Colonies were basically being savaged by government mandated corporate taxes and import/export tax inequities which favored British companies.
For the first 150 years, the only corporations allowed in the USA were for the public good (e.g. Harvard College). All other business activities were handled utilizing trusts, partnerships, and basic self-employment.
Here's a decent history: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Corporations/Hx_Corporations_US.html
I've had an iPhone 4 for a few weeks now, and largely it works 99% as promised. IMHO there are bigger bugs than the "don't touch here" antenna problem!
1. Overheating shutdown... (I think). If the phone is in my pocket, sometimes I take it out and it's off... I'm guessing it is overheating (hot down here in Texas...)
2. GSM unit crashes... I sometimes venture out into the boonies and sometimes the gsm system just stops working with spotty coverage in hilly areas. When I return to a city with a strong signal, the unit never comes back up and signal strength stays at 0-1 bars.
3. Occasional app crashes... sometimes an app just crashes, usually one of the older apps like facebook, rope n'fly and a couple of other games. It's actually really rare, and I don't seem to loose anything, so it's minor at this point. These apps were rock solid on my 3gs phone, so that's why I mention it.
Overall I'm pretty happy the experience though... it's a lot faster. The voice quality is much better. The screen is fantastic. If #1 and #2 can be fixed then it would be fantastic, otherwise I'll return it and wait for iPhone 4.1...
Shake that spear, Grammar nazi!!!
Don't care if it's off-topic, great reply man! Far too often we, as Americans, take our issues with policy and political leadership and smear it across whole swaths of culture and people. I take extreme issue with those that would cause others undue harm, especially terrorist and despot regimes, but for God's sake I don't hold their people/citizens entirely responsible unless they personally participate and prove that they deserve it.
Back in 1993 I invented an iPhone type device (larger, no multitouch, slower), and needed a cellular data part to test with. I contacted the dev group at Nokia and asked if I could sample a module.
They gave me that part and then 2 days later asked for a return. They mistakenly thought I was an employee... oops. I guess they do read those sign-out sheets though.