Better still, their target market gets their money from parents, who, at feeling guilty for working long hours, give their kids more money in hopes that that will make up for not spending time with them.
Then, in the parents of the materialistic culture's hearts, money is equated with love, so the harder they work, the more they love their family, the more money they can give to their kids to buy Brittney Spears CDs. Oh, I'll be giving money to my kids for CDs alright. Just not music CDs.
Anyway - there was an internet boom BECAUSE of the stock market. The new technology that became available to a new market played a big part, but it all happened because of the stock market. Investors saw an opportunity to get in on the ground floor (ie. buy low) of a company in a new marketplace that had a potential of becoming "the next Microsoft" - in other words, a monopoly. Everyone thought Netscape was going to be the next Microsoft. Then Yahoo. Then Ebay. Then Amazon. Then Macromedia. Then Real. The money flowed into these companies, and they bought equipment, and people, and that sparked investment in the more sensible computer and software companies. The business model was: get dominant marketshare by dumping the product for free, then when the competition was murdered, charge em up the nose for the service because you're the only game in town. In the interim, revenue was stopgapped by ads. But in the long run, when it appeared that the only "next Microsoft" that would appear was. . . Microsoft, I think it became pretty obvious to a lot of people that internet stocks were overinflated. As the internet content became more saturated with ads, and more vertical to corporate interests, and more eyeballs got funnelled to less and less sources - it all became less and less compelling for the vast majority of net newcomers. You and I, the DSL subscribers, the tech workers, the geeks, didn't really notice much of a change, other than - our nongeek brother in law who used to email us every day, now has discontinued his AOL account because he can't download free music on Napster anymore, or all the cool little independent sites had shut down because they couldn't afford to stay up anymore. This was all secondary to the cessation of flow of investment dollars as all the loans based on them started coming due. THAT is why the dotcom boom went bust. The content issue was merely a side effect.
that's right. if they can "create" a child who has no parents, then there's nobody to care about that child or his or her rights. Insert a few patented genes here, pay off a judge there, and the end result isn't legally human, it's intellectual property. I know it sounds pretty farfetched, but the end result would be extremely profitable for whomever executes and gets away with such a plan. And as we all know, there's no justice that can't be escaped on this earth given enough money.
Last Tuesday? That's unimaginably old. I can't even remember what I had for dinner yesterday. . .
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Also of interesting note: Some of the oldest cave paintings known are porn.
Even 300,000 years ago, when Ooog could just club some barely legal asian lolita barnyard cum guzzler over the head and get whatever he wanted from her. And he STILL needed to look at dirty pictures.
I'm all for self-defense, and even taking off the gloves in the process.
What I'm against - and TOTALLY against, is creating an atmosphere where even criticising the current regime and it's methods is considered an act of treason (or terrorism). Which is exactly what is wrong with the fascist ideology espoused by Bush. It's no better than the radical militant ideology the terrorists are using.
I hope they DON'T publish my name. I don't want to be rounded up by Bill Gate's jack-booted SE's after this suit is thrown out, and it's made clear who the "rabble-rousers" were.
In fact, I really hope that they don't find out who I work for, because my company has a relationship with Microsoft (as any software company in today's world really must, if they're to have any chance of long-term surival). They might think that my opinion reflects poorly on my employer.
For the record:
I wrote a 4 page letter expressing my view on the Microsoft case, (I did use the phrase "Microsoft sucks" followed by "the life out of the computer industry"). I did not use a template, or fire off a quick one liner.
I wrote my senators about the case.
I wrote my senators about the DeCSS case.
I wrote them about the passage of the DMCA.
SHAME on anyone here who has ever had to reinstall Windows just because "the registry got messed up" - and did not voice their opinion on this case. Shame on you.
additionally, the step of running a shower to clear the room of dust is also a pretty bad idea. Increase the humidity of the air INSIDE the drive, and you'll likely see some oxidation on those platters pretty quickly.
Maybe taking some measures like spraying in some argon gas (available at your local freindly neighborhood welding supply store), or using some silica gel might help.
The only reliable good way to get rid of dust is to keep your work area very clean, and use air filters.
And as our IBM engineer said - even that's not really enough. You need a clean room.
The only alternative to war would be to turn the whole world into a one-government surveillance police state. And we all know that would not work, nor would we want it
The Russians launch payloads cheaper because their scientists work for pennies on the dollar compared to US scientists. One reason for that is because it's much cheaper to live in Russia/Kazakhistan. Another reason is, there aren't any other opportunities for brilliant scientists to earn more money, without going to work for organized crime.
what, having a monopoly on space transportation isn't enough of an incentive for someone to develop a reusable orbital launch vehicle (3 launches in 30 days with 3 people and two tons of cargo)?
They have to get a "reward" bounty of $5 billion of my hard earned tax dollars on top of it? Screw that. Lockheed already got billions of my dollars to develop an X-33, which they failed to do. So they picked up their marbles, and MY money, and went home.
Why should business get a financial incentive from the government to develop a technology that's going to give them a monopoly, and the ability to set monopoly pricing? That should be enough of an incentive. But nobody's taking the risk of trying to develop one, because they know damn well, once they prove that it's possible, everyone's going to try to do it - and then they'll have to *compete* for their bread and butter.
And as many companies have proven in the past 20 years, nothing is worth investing money in unless they have a guaranteed monopoly. (which is why we're not seeing any more challengers to Intel, or Cable-based broadband, or Microsoft, and why we had an internet boom - because investors thought that every pissant "internet" company they threw money at had a chance at becoming "the next microsoft")
If people could get off of the Earth and into space, then they would be beyond control of Earthly law. Beyond control of the military. Beyond control of the wealthy elite that currently runs things on this world. They see no easy money in space, and no reason to open space any further. How could they possibly keep humanity enslaved here on Earth if humanity had any means of escape? Face it - we've "languished in low-Earth-orbit for the past 30 years" for a reason. Those currently in power wish to remain in power. They wish to preserve the status quo.
My Palm III is due for replacement. The screen is getting pretty scratched up (what can I say? I abuse it), and it's starting to do stuff like crash-on-synch. (even after a full reinstall - the problem seems to be Launcher III, but I'm not sure yet).
However if I replace it, I need three things:
Sub-$200 price.
More than 2mb of RAM (which is pretty easy these days).
Smallest possible form-factor (Palm V or smaller).
I've already kind of bought-into the Memory-stick thing, with my Sony Camcorder, so if I go with the Sony, they've got that, which solves my memory requirements and then some, and their form-factor is smaller than the V, I hear (but I'll believe it when I see it) - but their prices are just out of line. In fact, there is nothing sub $350 that's the size of a Palm V, except a used Palm V. If the market has dictated this trend, then apparently the market of people who need a smaller form factor, has a TON of money to spend. I have a ton of money to spend, but I refuse to do so on products with inappropriately bundled features. I don't really need color as much as I need a smaller form factor. Alas and alack!
From the very similar belly of a completely different beast:
In a large company, products compete with EACHOTHER to survive. You never know when the head office is going to terminate a product line and send it's team members packing; or worse - close an office altogether.
Products which are favored by the sales team due to a monopoly position, high marketshare, high mindshare, lack of credible competition, don't NEED to have hardworking teams to survive. They get SOLD a lot, because the sales people focus on their low-hanging fruit, particularly the high-commission stuff.
When an established company has many products, and starts a new one, it's often an uphill battle to get your own freaking sales people to pay attention and put any effort into selling it. One tiny bug or customer issue, and they're calling everyone from the VP of Tech Support to the VP of development, to the CEO to get it fixed, because, dammit, they spent all this time trying to sell this crappy new product to the customer.
I'm sure that for something like Office, the sales people don't even have to work to sell it, so even though there may be major bugs or functionality/usability gaps, the sales guy never hears about it, so he never complains to development.
well, then that's great that you're also paying Apple's inflated prices for:
67 56k modems (not optional)
67 Superdrives (DVD-RAM, not optional)
67 GEForce4 video cards (not optional)
67 sets of hyper-inflated Apple RAM which you could otherwise get from any other vendor at half the price. (512 Meg, not optional on that model).
If Apple would work a deal where I could get the same boxes without these add-ons for say, $1500 a piece, THEN we could make a deal on a cluster.
Not to mention, you'd probably want to hack the OS in some way so that you could kill CPU-hog Aqua.
I'm just trying to point out that Apple's destop machine is not necessarily optimal for this kind of application.
another thing to consider. Instead of buying Macintoshes, if your application is at all custom made, you might even be better off with home-brew CHiRP systems running Darwin.
(or LinuxPPC) - you get the G4 advantage without paying the "Apple Tax".
(IOW - in buying and setting up a cluster of Macintoshes - why in God's name are you paying for a cluster of machines with a GEForce4, 56k modem, airport, etc. ..?)
I'm still not quite sure I understand how this works given that description, but in the exhaust flow from a well-tuned engine, much engineering goes into the exhaust system, the timing of exhaust pulses as they leave the valves, travel through the manifold to the point where the separate cylinder's exhaust pipes merge. Where the exhaust pulses overlap, more backpressure is created, causing the engine to (generally) work harder to expel exhaust gasses, whereas, if the lengths and diameters of these pipes are precisely arranged, the pulses can be spaced in-between eachother, and even to the point where the departure of one pulse from the joining point, actually helps to "pull" the next pulse through (as is the case in "tuned exhaust headers"). Many different factors can affect the total outcome, and drastically increase or decrease the efficiency and power of the engine. (In Aircooled VWs, I've heard of cases where engine output can vary as much as 80% based on the geometry of the exhaust system - between optimal systems, and systems that have been designed by people who don't have any idea what they're doing, and even systems by people who think they know what they're doing).
That said, if this process works via changing "the net efect . . . of extracting extra useful work from internal degrees of freedom of the working fluid" - we're talking about what here, the cooling of the exhaust gas - thereby reducing the pressure of the individual pulse? I can say this, if there's any mechanical intervention involved (valves or pistons were mentioned in the article) then that's going to have it's own negative impact on efficiency, and may even destroy the delicate timing balance that some exhaust systems are engineered to. This is definately not something you can just bolt onto an existing engine - I suspect it's something that's going to have to be built into the design of a new engine from the ground up, with this in mind. The end result may bear little resemblence to what we currently see sitting under the hood of most cars.
On the other hand, I wonder if this could be applied to a gas-turbine?
Don't forget that the degree of axial tilt AND periodicity of axial tilt oscillation are thought to play a huge role in climate change cycles, and therefore the formation and evolution of life.
How many planets of the right size, right consitution, right size and distance and periodicity of large satellites, right distance from sun, right periodicity of solar orbit, right periodicity of rotation, right frequency of asteroid collisions, right strength of magnetic field, right type of sun, right stage of solar lifecycle, right stellar neighborhood (no local supernovae). . .
yes! because THEN I'll finally be able to organize all of my pr0n!!!
I'll keep a certain set of pictures in my "girl on girl" folder, then there's my "threesomes two chicks" folder, then there's my "blondes" folder, my "asians" folder, my "pregnant" folder, and then I'll be able to do a simple search and find all the pics that have threesomes where one of them is a blonde guy, one's an asian girl, and one's a pregnant hispanic with a tattoo and peirced nipple with a fetish for being spanked and wearing high heels. Now THAT will be power! THAT will change the world. YES!!!
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Better still, their target market gets their money from parents, who, at feeling guilty for working long hours, give their kids more money in hopes that that will make up for not spending time with them.
Then, in the parents of the materialistic culture's hearts, money is equated with love, so the harder they work, the more they love their family, the more money they can give to their kids to buy Brittney Spears CDs. Oh, I'll be giving money to my kids for CDs alright. Just not music CDs.
The only thing worse than Jon Katz is Piro.
Anyway - there was an internet boom BECAUSE of the stock market. The new technology that became available to a new market played a big part, but it all happened because of the stock market. Investors saw an opportunity to get in on the ground floor (ie. buy low) of a company in a new marketplace that had a potential of becoming "the next Microsoft" - in other words, a monopoly. Everyone thought Netscape was going to be the next Microsoft. Then Yahoo. Then Ebay. Then Amazon. Then Macromedia. Then Real. The money flowed into these companies, and they bought equipment, and people, and that sparked investment in the more sensible computer and software companies. The business model was: get dominant marketshare by dumping the product for free, then when the competition was murdered, charge em up the nose for the service because you're the only game in town. In the interim, revenue was stopgapped by ads. But in the long run, when it appeared that the only "next Microsoft" that would appear was. . . Microsoft, I think it became pretty obvious to a lot of people that internet stocks were overinflated.
As the internet content became more saturated with ads, and more vertical to corporate interests, and more eyeballs got funnelled to less and less sources - it all became less and less compelling for the vast majority of net newcomers. You and I, the DSL subscribers, the tech workers, the geeks, didn't really notice much of a change, other than - our nongeek brother in law who used to email us every day, now has discontinued his AOL account because he can't download free music on Napster anymore, or all the cool little independent sites had shut down because they couldn't afford to stay up anymore. This was all secondary to the cessation of flow of investment dollars as all the loans based on them started coming due. THAT is why the dotcom boom went bust. The content issue was merely a side effect.
Saddam Hussein is a Muslim like George W Bush is a Christian.
that's right. if they can "create" a child who has no parents, then there's nobody to care about that child or his or her rights. Insert a few patented genes here, pay off a judge there, and the end result isn't legally human, it's intellectual property. I know it sounds pretty farfetched, but the end result would be extremely profitable for whomever executes and gets away with such a plan. And as we all know, there's no justice that can't be escaped on this earth given enough money.
Last Tuesday? That's unimaginably old. I can't even remember what I had for dinner yesterday. . .
Also of interesting note: Some of the oldest cave paintings known are porn.
Even 300,000 years ago, when Ooog could just club some barely legal asian lolita barnyard cum guzzler over the head and get whatever he wanted from her. And he STILL needed to look at dirty pictures.
I'm all for self-defense, and even taking off the gloves in the process.
What I'm against - and TOTALLY against, is creating an atmosphere where even criticising the current regime and it's methods is considered an act of treason (or terrorism). Which is exactly what is wrong with the fascist ideology espoused by Bush. It's no better than the radical militant ideology the terrorists are using.
I love my country, but I fear my government.
I hope they DON'T publish my name. I don't want to be rounded up by Bill Gate's jack-booted SE's after this suit is thrown out, and it's made clear who the "rabble-rousers" were.
In fact, I really hope that they don't find out who I work for, because my company has a relationship with Microsoft (as any software company in today's world really must, if they're to have any chance of long-term surival). They might think that my opinion reflects poorly on my employer.
For the record:
I wrote a 4 page letter expressing my view on the Microsoft case, (I did use the phrase "Microsoft sucks" followed by "the life out of the computer industry"). I did not use a template, or fire off a quick one liner.
I wrote my senators about the case.
I wrote my senators about the DeCSS case.
I wrote them about the passage of the DMCA.
SHAME on anyone here who has ever had to reinstall Windows just because "the registry got messed up" - and did not voice their opinion on this case. Shame on you.
additionally, the step of running a shower to clear the room of dust is also a pretty bad idea. Increase the humidity of the air INSIDE the drive, and you'll likely see some oxidation on those platters pretty quickly.
Maybe taking some measures like spraying in some argon gas (available at your local freindly neighborhood welding supply store), or using some silica gel might help.
The only reliable good way to get rid of dust is to keep your work area very clean, and use air filters.
And as our IBM engineer said - even that's not really enough. You need a clean room.
The only alternative to war would be to turn the whole world into a one-government surveillance police state. And we all know that would not work, nor would we want it
And you're either with us, or against us.
The Russians launch payloads cheaper because their scientists work for pennies on the dollar compared to US scientists. One reason for that is because it's much cheaper to live in Russia/Kazakhistan. Another reason is, there aren't any other opportunities for brilliant scientists to earn more money, without going to work for organized crime.
what, having a monopoly on space transportation isn't enough of an incentive for someone to develop a reusable orbital launch vehicle (3 launches in 30 days with 3 people and two tons of cargo)?
They have to get a "reward" bounty of $5 billion of my hard earned tax dollars on top of it? Screw that. Lockheed already got billions of my dollars to develop an X-33, which they failed to do. So they picked up their marbles, and MY money, and went home.
Why should business get a financial incentive from the government to develop a technology that's going to give them a monopoly, and the ability to set monopoly pricing? That should be enough of an incentive. But nobody's taking the risk of trying to develop one, because they know damn well, once they prove that it's possible, everyone's going to try to do it - and then they'll have to *compete* for their bread and butter.
And as many companies have proven in the past 20 years, nothing is worth investing money in unless they have a guaranteed monopoly. (which is why we're not seeing any more challengers to Intel, or Cable-based broadband, or Microsoft, and why we had an internet boom - because investors thought that every pissant "internet" company they threw money at had a chance at becoming "the next microsoft")
If people could get off of the Earth and into space, then they would be beyond control of Earthly law. Beyond control of the military. Beyond control of the wealthy elite that currently runs things on this world. They see no easy money in space, and no reason to open space any further. How could they possibly keep humanity enslaved here on Earth if humanity had any means of escape? Face it - we've "languished in low-Earth-orbit for the past 30 years" for a reason. Those currently in power wish to remain in power. They wish to preserve the status quo.
Not ActiveDirectory, but ActiveX. You forgot about ActiveX.
My Palm III is due for replacement. The screen is getting pretty scratched up (what can I say? I abuse it), and it's starting to do stuff like crash-on-synch. (even after a full reinstall - the problem seems to be Launcher III, but I'm not sure yet).
However if I replace it, I need three things:
Sub-$200 price.
More than 2mb of RAM (which is pretty easy these days).
Smallest possible form-factor (Palm V or smaller).
I've already kind of bought-into the Memory-stick thing, with my Sony Camcorder, so if I go with the Sony, they've got that, which solves my memory requirements and then some, and their form-factor is smaller than the V, I hear (but I'll believe it when I see it) - but their prices are just out of line. In fact, there is nothing sub $350 that's the size of a Palm V, except a used Palm V. If the market has dictated this trend, then apparently the market of people who need a smaller form factor, has a TON of money to spend. I have a ton of money to spend, but I refuse to do so on products with inappropriately bundled features. I don't really need color as much as I need a smaller form factor. Alas and alack!
1st week - go through the defect database - key on "postponed" status. Sort by date - oldest first. Start crackin.
From the very similar belly of a completely different beast:
In a large company, products compete with EACHOTHER to survive. You never know when the head office is going to terminate a product line and send it's team members packing; or worse - close an office altogether.
Products which are favored by the sales team due to a monopoly position, high marketshare, high mindshare, lack of credible competition, don't NEED to have hardworking teams to survive. They get SOLD a lot, because the sales people focus on their low-hanging fruit, particularly the high-commission stuff.
When an established company has many products, and starts a new one, it's often an uphill battle to get your own freaking sales people to pay attention and put any effort into selling it. One tiny bug or customer issue, and they're calling everyone from the VP of Tech Support to the VP of development, to the CEO to get it fixed, because, dammit, they spent all this time trying to sell this crappy new product to the customer.
I'm sure that for something like Office, the sales people don't even have to work to sell it, so even though there may be major bugs or functionality/usability gaps, the sales guy never hears about it, so he never complains to development.
There IS a registry hack somewhere for NT/2k that supposedly "keeps the OS in RAM for faster performance"
9 9/
It actually works.
http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/3
wasn't the last article on Loki "The last word on Loki"?
well, then that's great that you're also paying Apple's inflated prices for:
67 56k modems (not optional)
67 Superdrives (DVD-RAM, not optional)
67 GEForce4 video cards (not optional)
67 sets of hyper-inflated Apple RAM which you could otherwise get from any other vendor at half the price. (512 Meg, not optional on that model).
If Apple would work a deal where I could get the same boxes without these add-ons for say, $1500 a piece, THEN we could make a deal on a cluster.
Not to mention, you'd probably want to hack the OS in some way so that you could kill CPU-hog Aqua.
I'm just trying to point out that Apple's destop machine is not necessarily optimal for this kind of application.
another thing to consider. Instead of buying Macintoshes, if your application is at all custom made, you might even be better off with home-brew CHiRP systems running Darwin. .?)
(or LinuxPPC) - you get the G4 advantage without paying the "Apple Tax".
(IOW - in buying and setting up a cluster of Macintoshes - why in God's name are you paying for a cluster of machines with a GEForce4, 56k modem, airport, etc. .
I'm still not quite sure I understand how this works given that description, but in the exhaust flow from a well-tuned engine, much engineering goes into the exhaust system, the timing of exhaust pulses as they leave the valves, travel through the manifold to the point where the separate cylinder's exhaust pipes merge. Where the exhaust pulses overlap, more backpressure is created, causing the engine to (generally) work harder to expel exhaust gasses, whereas, if the lengths and diameters of these pipes are precisely arranged, the pulses can be spaced in-between eachother, and even to the point where the departure of one pulse from the joining point, actually helps to "pull" the next pulse through (as is the case in "tuned exhaust headers"). Many different factors can affect the total outcome, and drastically increase or decrease the efficiency and power of the engine. (In Aircooled VWs, I've heard of cases where engine output can vary as much as 80% based on the geometry of the exhaust system - between optimal systems, and systems that have been designed by people who don't have any idea what they're doing, and even systems by people who think they know what they're doing).
That said, if this process works via changing "the net efect . . . of extracting extra useful work from internal degrees of freedom of the working fluid" - we're talking about what here, the cooling of the exhaust gas - thereby reducing the pressure of the individual pulse? I can say this, if there's any mechanical intervention involved (valves or pistons were mentioned in the article) then that's going to have it's own negative impact on efficiency, and may even destroy the delicate timing balance that some exhaust systems are engineered to. This is definately not something you can just bolt onto an existing engine - I suspect it's something that's going to have to be built into the design of a new engine from the ground up, with this in mind. The end result may bear little resemblence to what we currently see sitting under the hood of most cars.
On the other hand, I wonder if this could be applied to a gas-turbine?
Don't forget that the degree of axial tilt AND periodicity of axial tilt oscillation are thought to play a huge role in climate change cycles, and therefore the formation and evolution of life.
How many planets of the right size, right consitution, right size and distance and periodicity of large satellites, right distance from sun, right periodicity of solar orbit, right periodicity of rotation, right frequency of asteroid collisions, right strength of magnetic field, right type of sun, right stage of solar lifecycle, right stellar neighborhood (no local supernovae). . .
Seems pretty farfetched to me.
yes! because THEN I'll finally be able to organize all of my pr0n!!!
I'll keep a certain set of pictures in my "girl on girl" folder, then there's my "threesomes two chicks" folder, then there's my "blondes" folder, my "asians" folder, my "pregnant" folder, and then I'll be able to do a simple search and find all the pics that have threesomes where one of them is a blonde guy, one's an asian girl, and one's a pregnant hispanic with a tattoo and peirced nipple with a fetish for being spanked and wearing high heels. Now THAT will be power! THAT will change the world. YES!!!