Those region codes are SO convenient for consumers. I just LOVE travelling abroad and not being able to watch my dvds. I shouldn't be suprised that SONY would think to do this with UMD too. bah.
I predict that this is the first of many to come. As resolution increases and this technology becomes more mainstream, we're going to see real-time or near real time images and most likely an archive.org style site where you can shift backward in forward in time whilest looking at a site.
The rights of way are owned and managed by municipalities, not the telco's. Yes, the incumbents will do what they can to keep others out, but I've been involved in many many of these meetings and I have ALWAYS watched city/county councils actively want to put the screws to the telco's.
If you see your $100/month DSL line go to $800/month, buy comcast stock, AND A LOT OF IT, because DSL IS DEAD and comcast is about to release some damn good numbers!
also, I would cancel said $800/month line and look for something cheaper, like, say a $99.99/month cable connection.
Everyone seems to be viewing these things from the point of view if the consumer. If you look at it from the telco's POV, they are have spent billions of dollars over many years to build and an infrastructure, then the government comes along and says "good job, you must lease that infrastructure to your competitors for $X".
Capitalism isn't just about consumers, it's also about businesses. Telco's do have competition from cable and soon to be/hopefully wimax.
Remeber, the who point of capitalism is that if the telco's start to get greedy and turn up the prices too much, some other company will come along and find a way to provide the same or better service for a lower price. There's a natural equilibrium.
But seriously, this is like tipping over someone in a wheelchair. It's a BETA of WINDOWS. Hopefully MS will learn from this before the release, though. I'm not up for a whole new vector of threats against my windows boxen.
This really sounds like it has a lot of market potential, but the articles really don't have any detail as to what the fees will be or really how it is going to work.
It is encouraging to see some recognition of the "little guys" though.
I think they've got it all wrong... No one is going to stop and watch an ad whilest someone is shooting at them or chasing them with a chainsaw or something like that...
No, I think the characters need to be dressed in outfits like those worn by nascar drivers, full of ads. You can pick your character as the marlboro man, Mrs. exxon mobile, and the Amazon queen.
Next, to do the movie ads correctly, they need to be displayed on the torso of your opponent, especially if it's a game where you have to work on a big opponent for a while. Then, everyone is stuck watching them.
On one hand, this bounty will motivate "hackers" to disclose vuln's to 3com, who then will work with the vendor to fix the problem - and make themselves look good in the process - which means there is a legitimate way for some of these people to make real money off of their discoveries instead of turning them into worms or viruses. And on the other hand, there is a lot of potential for abuse. We could see vulnerability stuffing in open source to get a kick-back (I know it's hard to believe it could happen, but remember - there is money involved), we could see 3com dissing people on the bounty checks which could motivate the hacker to turn the vuln into a worm more quickly to get back at 3com and then there is just the fundamental philosophy that 3com is rewarding someone for doing something bad.
We're going to have to wait to see how this plays out over time. It doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but then 3com has to be able to compete with the big boys now that they own Tipping Point.
They have long touted HP-UX as their non-stop platform, but this seems to me somewhat as a concession that it, well, sucks and they need something more adoptable by the mainstream.
I really think HP has the some of the best hardware in the market, particularly the superdome and friends, so hopefully this will help them.
The US government is going to make an example out of him, assuming he actually gets convicted.
I have to say, though, that even if the government computers were wide open, finding documents about UFO's seems like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack.
At one point, the IBM/Hitachi ATA drives had command tag queuing that allowed for performance that was more in-line with SCSI. The link is/.ed - does this line of drives bring the command queuing back? I've been looking for some new drives for servers, and these sound mighty nice, even if they are "deathstar's".
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I've admin'd most every flavor of Unix at some point in my life and I really really like how FreeBSD is managed, from development to the ports tree.
Now that there is a push to support binary updates, my last major complaint has been addressed.
Anyone who has ever been stuck in the perl dependancy hell will absolutely love the ports tree - I really don't understand why there hasn't been more adoption of that concept in Linux.
Also, I am suprised that Linux is the platform of choice for all of these appliances that companies are pumping out, like wireless routers, security devices, etc, when the BSD license is so much more attractive to business.
The major stumbling block that FreeBSD has left is their development team. It seems like the way things are organized really creates a lot of opportunity for personality clashes.
The interface is a little cluttered, but it seems to work pretty well at finding where I am and zeroing me in on my current location, even though they were just using my IP address. Any idea how the "wireless" location service works?
... before google really starts going after profits more agressively by starting to monkey with services like their search engine. They're doing great right now because there is a transition from traditional advertising to Internet advertising with Google owning that space, but at some point the growth WILL slow down and there will be a bigger emphasis on profits since the top line growth is slowing down. That will make things like paid placement and other currently "taboo" things very attractive to them.
Hopefully they can keep the innovation engine going to keep their growth rate up.
Let's be clear - what we are seeing with Google is NOT the same as what happened during the bubble. In the bubble, companies were losing money hand-over-fist and were getting rewarded for it for various reasons - their burn rate was indicitive of "major" innovation that would pay off in the future, or they would tout trivial things like "monthly visitors" or transaction volume or such other useless data.
Google has REAL earnings. They are not touting visitors or click-throughs or that kind of thing, they are reporting PROFITS, and those profits are expected to grow big time.
For those that are saying that Google's market cap at ~$3B earnings does not jive with TW's ~$40B earings at roughly the same market cap. Stock price is only partually impacted by the ratio of market cap to revenues - it is also gamble on the ratio of stock price to earnings - for the coming periods, and future earnings growth affords a higher P/E ratio.
Two things have a real potential to knock them back to earth - if they don't start getting their costs under control and if they see even the slightest slowdown in earnings growth. The slight uncertainty the Google team gave in the report is what sent them way down the other day.
I really really think that investors are still very wary of fast growing tech companies. and for Google to grow that fast, there really is something behind it other than a bubble.
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I'm guessing that IBM has a 50% higher market cap, 30X Google's revenues and $110B in assets doesn't come into play here?
Jerry
Because if the US decides not to, the rest of the world will surely follow suit.
I share the opinion that they're a bad thing, but I think it's inevitable.
Nuke the moon!
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
In summary: If Sony was an icecream flavor, they'd be pralines and dick.
That are some harsh words!
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Those region codes are SO convenient for consumers. I just LOVE travelling abroad and not being able to watch my dvds. I shouldn't be suprised that SONY would think to do this with UMD too. bah.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I predict that this is the first of many to come. As resolution increases and this technology becomes more mainstream, we're going to see real-time or near real time images and most likely an archive.org style site where you can shift backward in forward in time whilest looking at a site.
Governments are going to just love that...
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
The rights of way are owned and managed by municipalities, not the telco's. Yes, the incumbents will do what they can to keep others out, but I've been involved in many many of these meetings and I have ALWAYS watched city/county councils actively want to put the screws to the telco's.
Jerry
Might I make a suggestion...
If you see your $100/month DSL line go to $800/month, buy comcast stock, AND A LOT OF IT, because DSL IS DEAD and comcast is about to release some damn good numbers!
also, I would cancel said $800/month line and look for something cheaper, like, say a $99.99/month cable connection.
Everyone seems to be viewing these things from the point of view if the consumer. If you look at it from the telco's POV, they are have spent billions of dollars over many years to build and an infrastructure, then the government comes along and says "good job, you must lease that infrastructure to your competitors for $X".
Capitalism isn't just about consumers, it's also about businesses. Telco's do have competition from cable and soon to be/hopefully wimax.
Remeber, the who point of capitalism is that if the telco's start to get greedy and turn up the prices too much, some other company will come along and find a way to provide the same or better service for a lower price. There's a natural equilibrium.
Jerry
For MS.
But seriously, this is like tipping over someone in a wheelchair. It's a BETA of WINDOWS. Hopefully MS will learn from this before the release, though. I'm not up for a whole new vector of threats against my windows boxen.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
This really sounds like it has a lot of market potential, but the articles really don't have any detail as to what the fees will be or really how it is going to work.
It is encouraging to see some recognition of the "little guys" though.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
It looks remarkably like the sharepoint portal page. Guess they have to find SOME use for that technology...
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Wonder what he would have to say about the exhaust manifold?
jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I think they've got it all wrong... No one is going to stop and watch an ad whilest someone is shooting at them or chasing them with a chainsaw or something like that...
No, I think the characters need to be dressed in outfits like those worn by nascar drivers, full of ads. You can pick your character as the marlboro man, Mrs. exxon mobile, and the Amazon queen.
Next, to do the movie ads correctly, they need to be displayed on the torso of your opponent, especially if it's a game where you have to work on a big opponent for a while. Then, everyone is stuck watching them.
See, that wasn't hard.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
On one hand, this bounty will motivate "hackers" to disclose vuln's to 3com, who then will work with the vendor to fix the problem - and make themselves look good in the process - which means there is a legitimate way for some of these people to make real money off of their discoveries instead of turning them into worms or viruses.
And on the other hand, there is a lot of potential for abuse. We could see vulnerability stuffing in open source to get a kick-back (I know it's hard to believe it could happen, but remember - there is money involved), we could see 3com dissing people on the bounty checks which could motivate the hacker to turn the vuln into a worm more quickly to get back at 3com and then there is just the fundamental philosophy that 3com is rewarding someone for doing something bad.
We're going to have to wait to see how this plays out over time. It doesn't seem like a good idea to me, but then 3com has to be able to compete with the big boys now that they own Tipping Point.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
They have long touted HP-UX as their non-stop platform, but this seems to me somewhat as a concession that it, well, sucks and they need something more adoptable by the mainstream.
I really think HP has the some of the best hardware in the market, particularly the superdome and friends, so hopefully this will help them.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
The US government is going to make an example out of him, assuming he actually gets convicted.
I have to say, though, that even if the government computers were wide open, finding documents about UFO's seems like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
At one point, the IBM/Hitachi ATA drives had command tag queuing that allowed for performance that was more in-line with SCSI. The link is /.ed - does this line of drives bring the command queuing back? I've been looking for some new drives for servers, and these sound mighty nice, even if they are "deathstar's".
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Someone is cruising through IBM's developer site and stuffing slashdot with "new and interesting" stories.
It is a pretty good article though, and I did miss it the first time 'round, so it's all good.
Jerry
http:www.cyvin.org
That is certainly true, I guess I meant Linux distros like Redhat, Debian, etc.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
I've admin'd most every flavor of Unix at some point in my life and I really really like how FreeBSD is managed, from development to the ports tree.
Now that there is a push to support binary updates, my last major complaint has been addressed.
Anyone who has ever been stuck in the perl dependancy hell will absolutely love the ports tree - I really don't understand why there hasn't been more adoption of that concept in Linux.
Also, I am suprised that Linux is the platform of choice for all of these appliances that companies are pumping out, like wireless routers, security devices, etc, when the BSD license is so much more attractive to business.
The major stumbling block that FreeBSD has left is their development team. It seems like the way things are organized really creates a lot of opportunity for personality clashes.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
The interface is a little cluttered, but it seems to work pretty well at finding where I am and zeroing me in on my current location, even though they were just using my IP address. Any idea how the "wireless" location service works?
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
... before google really starts going after profits more agressively by starting to monkey with services like their search engine. They're doing great right now because there is a transition from traditional advertising to Internet advertising with Google owning that space, but at some point the growth WILL slow down and there will be a bigger emphasis on profits since the top line growth is slowing down. That will make things like paid placement and other currently "taboo" things very attractive to them.
Hopefully they can keep the innovation engine going to keep their growth rate up.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Let's be clear - what we are seeing with Google is NOT the same as what happened during the bubble. In the bubble, companies were losing money hand-over-fist and were getting rewarded for it for various reasons - their burn rate was indicitive of "major" innovation that would pay off in the future, or they would tout trivial things like "monthly visitors" or transaction volume or such other useless data.
Google has REAL earnings. They are not touting visitors or click-throughs or that kind of thing, they are reporting PROFITS, and those profits are expected to grow big time.
For those that are saying that Google's market cap at ~$3B earnings does not jive with TW's ~$40B earings at roughly the same market cap. Stock price is only partually impacted by the ratio of market cap to revenues - it is also gamble on the ratio of stock price to earnings - for the coming periods, and future earnings growth affords a higher P/E ratio.
Two things have a real potential to knock them back to earth - if they don't start getting their costs under control and if they see even the slightest slowdown in earnings growth. The slight uncertainty the Google team gave in the report is what sent them way down the other day.
I really really think that investors are still very wary of fast growing tech companies. and for Google to grow that fast, there really is something behind it other than a bubble.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Everyone so far is focusing on the Wondows/Linux/MAC comment, which is somewhat interesting, but not really his area of expertise.
What is much more interesting is the comments about the IETF, which I agree, has been/is being turned into a facilitator for corporate agendas.
Jerry
http://www.cyvin.org/
Storagetek has had some pretty good products, but I can't see how this acquisition is going to help either company in the long term.
I used to be a big Sun supporter but they seem to be stuck in neutral lately.
A merger with EMC or Quantum would have made a lot more sense than this.
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/