So if a company starts using RFID tags in their clothing http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4873013/ then it's POSSIBLE that the tivo remote control reads those RFID tags to then provide feedback to the TiVo box which then uplinks to the main network that you are wearing Levi Jeans and a corresponding ad appears on your TV...
So if I'm an author and I write a book/novel/whatever and instead of people buying the book, they download it and read it for free. This is different from the whole iTunes issue as atleast money is exchanged for goods. This model is more like the old napster or bittorrent....
If i'm going to spend a couple of years writing a book in the hopes that it makes money, I'd hope people that read it pay for it.
So the movie industry says that digital cinema will save them money and of course they'll say it will have increased clarity, sound etc... and they'll probably even say it will be cheaper to make movies...
In the end they'll raise ticket prices to "recover the cost of the digital cinema investment" and ticket prices will go up...
It's like how there are 'conveinence fees' for paying bills online, it saves the company $$$ by having me pay for something online (1 less person opening mail), but they twist it around to make me pay >${cost_of_stamp}.
Look at Fandango... i have to pay service charges so I don't have to stand in line... they love the fact that I don't have to stand in line... but i'm not paying an extra $3 to not stand in line...
If you negotiate for the higher base salary up front then you won't see the raises later on. You'll be stuck at that pay level for the next few years...
"Senior management says, 'If you don't like the work, we'll get somebody in India to do it.' The computer people are seen more as part of the technology rather than part of the human resource,"
A barber has a sign that says he shaves all men, but only those men who do not shave themselves.
Who Shaves the barber?
Does he shave himself? He can't b/c he doesn't shave men who shave themselves. So somebody else must shave him, but that would mean that he doesn't shave himself so therefore he must shave himself.....
In late 2003, Mr. Allchin called on the help of two men. The first was one of Microsoft's best-known "shippers," people known for their ability to turn around troubled software projects. Windows veteran Brian Valentine had a reputation for booming motivational speeches, beer bashes and stunts like showing up to work functions as Elvis, the Easter Bunny or even once a hula girl with a coconut bra.
I'm sorry, but exec's should show a "bit" more professionalism than this crap. I wonder if the exec's at IBM's Poughkeepsie facility (where z/OS or OS/390 for mainframes) pull these stunts...
Who says that Vonage doesn't have other plans to sell VOIP services to the major telcos so that your cell phone when it reaches landline gets converted to VOIP, or that the core voice network for some telco is VOIP and they leverage vonage's expertise in this area.
On the other hand, the large telcos would probably just buy the technology directly from Cisco/Avaya etc...
Although IBM http://www.research.ibm.com/ may be out of the disk drive business, they are still working on it. Take a look at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose http://www.almaden.ibm.com/ still going strong after all these years.
Ok, so the case has fan on the front and the back, so you have a tunnel or horizontal chimney effect for the airflow. One full pulls air (say from the front) of the case, and the other blows it out the back.
For outlet fan (the rear one) to be effective, the case should be airtight with the exception of the inlet fan. This way the air moves in one direction only.
Having holes on the bottom poses a problem for the outlet fan, it can actually pull air from the holes in the bottom of the case and blow it out the back. The air may not even go over the intended equipment. Since the air can be pulled from the bottom, the hotter air from the inlet fan (front) may circulate in the case, be pushed out the bottom or go out the back.
The whole system would not be as effective if you plugged up the bottom holes and had a high volume of air going in the front and out the back.
This type of program was started with win95 so that you knew that a piece or hardware/software was tested/supported by MSFT. Personally, i think it would have increased the quality of the devices out there... and its an easy buck for MSFT to make
The offering raised $243 million for StorageNetworks, which sold 9 million shares at an initial price of $27 million. And it gave the company, which had 88.2 million shares outstanding, a market valuation of $7.96 billion.
3yrs later STOR was dead... run into the ground by greedy management that wanted to take a services company, and turn it into a software company. A classic pump and dump by CEO Peter Bell, backed by Goldman Sachs (who btw 'donated' a number of low level managers who became STOR executives...
We were all told... "we're not giving out alot of preIPO shares (ie: 2000+) because we want to keep the total outstanding number down." Funny, though, if you were an "insider", you could make millions..
Plus there were 5 sexual harrassment lawsuits against STOR... all settled out of court.
So here's my question... if this presentation provided details of how to hack cisco routers...
Other than getting cisco to fix their routers, what good could have come from it?
If I came up with a surefire method to steal the gold in Ft. Knox and decided to disclose it in a public forum. Should I expect the gov't to step in and keep me from telling the world?
Of course I would.
If Cisco told the professor, "You're full of BS, there's no way to hack a router..." Then their hubris and ignorance deserves a bit of this...
Why doesn't the government provide access to methods to create BIO,CHEM, Nuclear weapons?
So I'm in Sanjose... listening/watching a SanJose based radio/tv channel/station... and I get advertisements for LOCAL auto dealers, stores, contractors...
I don't get ads for anything in Boston/NewYork or even LA... even SanFrancisco does not show up on my TV/radio station....
Ok, so one of the points of conservatism is that they are for 'Big Business', and against 'big government' and that 'big business' should govern itself. This includes the companies creating their own anti-piracy software.
So where is the justification that government needs to step in and help MSFT (who just posted record profits) fight against piracy? What is the government going to do? Put in sanctions against China? That would cause further damage to other industries (e.g. Steel).
Maybe the Fed's should call up Balmer and say "Steve, with $36B in revenues... surely you can solve your own problems without involving our tax dollars.
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So if a company starts using RFID tags in their clothing http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4873013/ then it's POSSIBLE that the tivo remote control reads those RFID tags to then provide feedback to the TiVo box which then uplinks to the main network that you are wearing Levi Jeans and a corresponding ad appears on your TV...
Your remote control is now big brother...
All your IP packets belong to us.
It actually makes a bit of sense... now your set top box can tie in with your home router/WAP.
So if I'm an author and I write a book/novel/whatever and instead of people buying the book, they download it and read it for free. This is different from the whole iTunes issue as atleast money is exchanged for goods. This model is more like the old napster or bittorrent....
If i'm going to spend a couple of years writing a book in the hopes that it makes money, I'd hope people that read it pay for it.
-HockeyPuck
So the movie industry says that digital cinema will save them money and of course they'll say it will have increased clarity, sound etc... and they'll probably even say it will be cheaper to make movies...
In the end they'll raise ticket prices to "recover the cost of the digital cinema investment" and ticket prices will go up...
It's like how there are 'conveinence fees' for paying bills online, it saves the company $$$ by having me pay for something online (1 less person opening mail), but they twist it around to make me pay >${cost_of_stamp}.
Look at Fandango... i have to pay service charges so I don't have to stand in line... they love the fact that I don't have to stand in line... but i'm not paying an extra $3 to not stand in line...
If you negotiate for the higher base salary up front then you won't see the raises later on. You'll be stuck at that pay level for the next few years...
"Senior management says, 'If you don't like the work, we'll get somebody in India to do it.' The computer people are seen more as part of the technology rather than part of the human resource,"
Translation:
Beggers can't be choosers.
A barber has a sign that says he shaves all men, but only those men who do not shave themselves.
Who Shaves the barber?
Does he shave himself? He can't b/c he doesn't shave men who shave themselves. So somebody else must shave him, but that would mean that he doesn't shave himself so therefore he must shave himself.....
Will it keep them from eating ENDANGERED animals?
Well.. it's nice to know that MSFT has decided to implement what Cisco has been delivering for years... http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns340/ns394/ns15 8/ns88/networking_solutions_package.html
I wish MSFT would just realize they are an OS/application company and not a networking company....
Would this damage submarines sonar or other listening devices?
So you want to make a statement about saving the environment...
How about buying a USED car...
Look at all the raw materials used to make a new car... all the metals, plastics, dyes, paints, (leather?) rubber, and other petroleum based products.
Buy a used car and all the crap doesn't have to be used for the first time, it can be REUSED...
and don't give me this cr@p about how your car is made from 100% recycled materials...
In late 2003, Mr. Allchin called on the help of two men. The first was one of Microsoft's best-known "shippers," people known for their ability to turn around troubled software projects. Windows veteran Brian Valentine had a reputation for booming motivational speeches, beer bashes and stunts like showing up to work functions as Elvis, the Easter Bunny or even once a hula girl with a coconut bra.
I'm sorry, but exec's should show a "bit" more professionalism than this crap. I wonder if the exec's at IBM's Poughkeepsie facility (where z/OS or OS/390 for mainframes) pull these stunts...
So how is bundling VOIP into windows competitive?
Who says that Vonage doesn't have other plans to sell VOIP services to the major telcos so that your cell phone when it reaches landline gets converted to VOIP, or that the core voice network for some telco is VOIP and they leverage vonage's expertise in this area.
On the other hand, the large telcos would probably just buy the technology directly from Cisco/Avaya etc...
So whenever any other organization forces ads down our throat (cnn, espn, yahoo.. EVEN /.) we throw a hissy fit. We use adblock and supress popups.
However, the sheer fact that Google might force us to have ads in a 'google IM client' seems like a good thing(tm)?
What a bunch of hypocrits... If I'm chatting about the boston redsox, I do not want ads informing me of the latest deals at the Boston Hilton.
Although IBM http://www.research.ibm.com/ may be out of the disk drive business, they are still working on it. Take a look at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose http://www.almaden.ibm.com/ still going strong after all these years.
Ok, so the case has fan on the front and the back, so you have a tunnel or horizontal chimney effect for the airflow. One full pulls air (say from the front) of the case, and the other blows it out the back.
For outlet fan (the rear one) to be effective, the case should be airtight with the exception of the inlet fan. This way the air moves in one direction only.
Having holes on the bottom poses a problem for the outlet fan, it can actually pull air from the holes in the bottom of the case and blow it out the back. The air may not even go over the intended equipment. Since the air can be pulled from the bottom, the hotter air from the inlet fan (front) may circulate in the case, be pushed out the bottom or go out the back.
The whole system would not be as effective if you plugged up the bottom holes and had a high volume of air going in the front and out the back.
-Puck=> .
How is this any different than MSFTs "Designed for Windows" http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/default.mspx program?
This type of program was started with win95 so that you knew that a piece or hardware/software was tested/supported by MSFT. Personally, i think it would have increased the quality of the devices out there... and its an easy buck for MSFT to make
The offering raised $243 million for StorageNetworks, which sold 9 million shares at an initial price of $27 million. And it gave the company, which had 88.2 million shares outstanding, a market valuation of $7.96 billion.
3yrs later STOR was dead... run into the ground by greedy management that wanted to take a services company, and turn it into a software company. A classic pump and dump by CEO Peter Bell, backed by Goldman Sachs (who btw 'donated' a number of low level managers who became STOR executives...
We were all told... "we're not giving out alot of preIPO shares (ie: 2000+) because we want to keep the total outstanding number down." Funny, though, if you were an "insider", you could make millions..
Plus there were 5 sexual harrassment lawsuits against STOR... all settled out of court.
So here's my question... if this presentation provided details of how to hack cisco routers...
Other than getting cisco to fix their routers, what good could have come from it?
If I came up with a surefire method to steal the gold in Ft. Knox and decided to disclose it in a public forum. Should I expect the gov't to step in and keep me from telling the world?
Of course I would.
If Cisco told the professor, "You're full of BS, there's no way to hack a router..." Then their hubris and ignorance deserves a bit of this...
Why doesn't the government provide access to methods to create BIO,CHEM, Nuclear weapons?
So I'm in Sanjose... listening/watching a SanJose based radio/tv channel/station... and I get advertisements for LOCAL auto dealers, stores, contractors...
I don't get ads for anything in Boston/NewYork or even LA... even SanFrancisco does not show up on my TV/radio station....
Ok, so one of the points of conservatism is that they are for 'Big Business', and against 'big government' and that 'big business' should govern itself. This includes the companies creating their own anti-piracy software.
So where is the justification that government needs to step in and help MSFT (who just posted record profits) fight against piracy? What is the government going to do? Put in sanctions against China? That would cause further damage to other industries (e.g. Steel).
Maybe the Fed's should call up Balmer and say "Steve, with $36B in revenues... surely you can solve your own problems without involving our tax dollars.
For those that Don't play WoW...
What is a Farmer, and what is the relevance of them being Chinese?
In other news...
Hillary Clinton (who makes ~$162k http://people.howstuffworks.com/question449.htm) has decided that it's in her best interest to waste her time (and our tax dollars). I'm sure that the FTC has better things to do than to investigate RockStar Entertainment... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4682533.stm
With the recent article about Googling for CIA agents... http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/15/20 15229&tid=158&tid=95&tid=1
Is it wise to place the name and city of the winner in a major announcement like this?