Office may be on the way out, but i've only ever worked one place that standardized on any other office suite. And even then they made an exception for employee's who needed MS office to get their job done.
At the point the iPhone launches I am confident that it will still be the market leader.
an abandoned lot, a single household, multiple houses, or a highrise apartment complex
In each of these cases, if one person in the ZIP+4 qualifies for broadband then there is a very very high chance that all people in the ZIP+4 will qualify for broadband.
The current system takes each ZIP that has broadband and multiplies with the number of people in the zip to get an estimate of people with broadband. If you do that with ZIP+4 and people in the ZIP+4 then you'll get a much more accurate result without having to query every single house and apartment.
But it's certainly useful to be able to read word and pdf documents when you are on the go. I've maybe done it once or twice, but it's been a huge timesaver.
A couple of years ago people were wondering why you'd ever want your email on a phone, now there's a large segment of the business market who couldn't live without it.
I think he's right, Windows CE is a good platform for business stuff and if the iPhone is modelled on the mac then it'll be a great platform for consumers.
The bad news for apple is that the business market for high end smartphones is probably larger than the consumer market.
In my parents postal code (in scotland) there are 11 homes, the exchange is less than a thousand feet from any of them so they all qualify for roughly the same speed of DSL.
My zip code in colorado probably has several thousand homes. I have three broadband options (DSL, Cable, Wireless) but I wouldn't be surprised to know there were people in my zip who couldn't get any.
If the FCC switched to using ZIP+4 then it would probably be a much more accurate and comparable method.
But someone I did some consulting for years ago had a PC security product that they claimed was unhackable. It was some disk arrangement where the OS could write to the disk, and those sectors would be saved in a scratch table so that when you rebooted the machine it reverted to its original state.
They took it to one of the big conventions and had a briefcase with $10k in it for the first person that could make a permanant change to the disk without opening the case. Guys showed up with their own latex gloves so they wouldn't leave prints and one managed to come up with the proprietory vendor unique command set for the particular drive model that was in the system.
I don't think that was really the sort of adversary that they expected would show.
I love finding weird fruits. I've eaten quite a few ugly's in my time.
It seems the US is remarkably homogenous in their fruit tastes. I found target had lychees once and the checkout clerk didn't know what to do with them.
The US badly needs more passionfruit. It seems odd that in colorado they are usually about 4 times the price that they are in the UK when you can grow them in florida.
1) Register to trial a domain 2) Wait a few days and count the hits 3) If it didn't get the required number of hits then drop it, otherwise pony up to keep the domain.
If there is some way that I can get a feed of each of the 35 million new names each month, then i can have a script simply wget a couple of pages off each site from each of a few IP addresses.
That way they'll think they've hit paydirt, pay to keep the domain and suddenly realise that it doesn't get any hits.
I would imagine that automated counter-measures could really screw with their cost benifit analysis.
Can I trust a scientific paper from the tobacco lobby about how smoking is safe? Can i trust a report on slashdot about how windows is completely unsuitable for any business use?
Of course I can't trust these sources, but that doesn't mean they aren't valuable sources of information.
One of the most useful things I learned in school is that no source is unbiased and that few things are every completely accurate and complete. Once you know that, you can start to evaluate information based on the source and use it appropriately. I would never cite wikipedia in a paper, but i would absolutely use it to find citable sources.
I know I've removed myself from a few mailing lists by simply having gmail count them as spam.
These aren't really spam, they are companies that I did business with once and can't be bothered to find my username and password to change my email subscription settings. But gmail seems to happily block everything else from that sender without my interaction.
Surely other users do want these particular emails so there must be some kind of per user dynamic as well.
I manage to work on almost every business flight I take. Mostly by collecting and printing stuff that i need to read and learn, or by sitting with a notebook brainstorming technical problems. Occassionally (if i have a decent amount of leg room) then i'll pull out the laptop and do some actual coding.
It takes a little planning to find something to do but it's really not hard to make semi-productive use of that time.
Generally speaking cellphones are much much higher latency. The first-hop latency on my phone is close to half a second, and while it has over 100kbit of raw bandwidth you never get to actually use that because the latency sucks ass.
RDP is significantly faster than VNC and X when it's used on a remote connection, and bear in mind that these servers are going to be installed in a DATACENTER. You aren't going to hook this container up to a 56k modem.
Arguably all P2P services incentivize you to use your bandwidth in return for something else. Is it somehow worse to get free real movie downloads from a movie studio because you play a large part in sharing them with other people?
Part of my business requires that I upload large files to clients, i've never really considered that I was reselling my internet access to them.
I'd be quite happy if ISPs went with the utility model. Charge a small monthly connection fee and then a few cents per gigabyte.
The problem with defining the limit is that people will realize that they are far from it and make more use of their bandwidth.
There's been talk of for-pay P2P services where you could actually earn money (or free movies) by providing the bandwidth to distribute stuff for the big movie companies. If i knew I could use 200 Gigs of comcast bandwidth each month, but i was only using 3, then i'd be able to sell 197 for something i could use.
The problem with a cap is that I'm sure i can consume 50 gigs in a busy month just by working from home - I routinely download huge files overnight. But I'm not sure they could support every user on the network moving 50GB a month and don't want to imply that it's reasonable for everyone to use that amount. In reality their network can maybe carry 5GB for every user, but they can't set the limit there because too many techies would leave and badmouth the service to their friends and neighbors (and i've set dozens of people up with internet access and/or recommendations).
They had a bunch of old buildings spread out over the city and their phone system was deployed as huge bundles of copper pairs in a 6" UPVC pipe. Some time in the nineties they replaced their network with a single fibre connecting each outlying building to their main datacenter. Of course the pipes were still buried under the roads and still ended in their main wire closet where the new optical equipment had been housed.
Cue some major refurbishment, and the plumbing crew enter the building and find a conveient 6" waste pipe in the basement to connect the shiny new toilets too.
The SA at the time began the descriptive email with "I'd like to start by apologizing for the sh*tty network performance..."
I pretty much skipped CDs. I used casettes until the early 90s when I found minidisc was a better fit for my portable needs. By the late 90s I had a 32Mb diamond rio and once I went to college I never looked back.
Now that i'm a productive member of society i'm happy to pay for my music, and I analyzed the situation and decided that subscription services were the perfect way to go. I can't really imagine think of any non-audiophile techie friends who have bought any cds in the last 10 years; so there must be a fair number of us with CD collections that number in the single digits.
It's not a case of buying 100 new cds each year to break even. Paying $5/month forever costs the same as paying $1200 once.
I think the current subscription pricing is amazingly compelling...
Lets say most music fans own 100 cds, and perhaps they paid an average of $12 a disc for them. That's a one time investment of $1200 and they get to keep the music forever.
Now if you take that $1200 and put it in a savings account at 5%, then you should get back $60 year. I pay $60/year for my Yahoo Unlimited subscription.
Hence unlimited music forever costs the same as having 100 cds forever. Now it's possible that market forces will change the pricing of subscription services and it's possible that your CDs will no longer be playable, but I find subscription music to be very compelling.
Our original cable ISP only supported Windows 98 and only on a single machine.
Whenever they needed to send an engineer out to fix something, there would be a pristine 486 running windows 98 directly connected to the cable modem. Never mind the fact that right behind it were a pair of switches, a mostly full 24 port patch panel and linux machines whirring away everywhere.
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Office may be on the way out, but i've only ever worked one place that standardized on any other office suite. And even then they made an exception for employee's who needed MS office to get their job done.
At the point the iPhone launches I am confident that it will still be the market leader.
an abandoned lot, a single household, multiple houses, or a highrise apartment complex
In each of these cases, if one person in the ZIP+4 qualifies for broadband then there is a very very high chance that all people in the ZIP+4 will qualify for broadband.
The current system takes each ZIP that has broadband and multiplies with the number of people in the zip to get an estimate of people with broadband. If you do that with ZIP+4 and people in the ZIP+4 then you'll get a much more accurate result without having to query every single house and apartment.
Oddly enough my original example zip code does fall partly in weld county and partly in boulder county.
I didn't realize we were even close to the biggest county.
But it's certainly useful to be able to read word and pdf documents when you are on the go. I've maybe done it once or twice, but it's been a huge timesaver.
A couple of years ago people were wondering why you'd ever want your email on a phone, now there's a large segment of the business market who couldn't live without it.
I think he's right, Windows CE is a good platform for business stuff and if the iPhone is modelled on the mac then it'll be a great platform for consumers.
The bad news for apple is that the business market for high end smartphones is probably larger than the consumer market.
In my parents postal code (in scotland) there are 11 homes, the exchange is less than a thousand feet from any of them so they all qualify for roughly the same speed of DSL.
My zip code in colorado probably has several thousand homes. I have three broadband options (DSL, Cable, Wireless) but I wouldn't be surprised to know there were people in my zip who couldn't get any.
If the FCC switched to using ZIP+4 then it would probably be a much more accurate and comparable method.
I've worked in a place where Xerox did all the printing and I'm pretty sure everything was billed to the department with a page count.
They did all the printers, all the copiers and had an on-site copy shop that could handle all your more complex printing and binding needs.
But someone I did some consulting for years ago had a PC security product that they claimed was unhackable. It was some disk arrangement where the OS could write to the disk, and those sectors would be saved in a scratch table so that when you rebooted the machine it reverted to its original state.
They took it to one of the big conventions and had a briefcase with $10k in it for the first person that could make a permanant change to the disk without opening the case. Guys showed up with their own latex gloves so they wouldn't leave prints and one managed to come up with the proprietory vendor unique command set for the particular drive model that was in the system.
I don't think that was really the sort of adversary that they expected would show.
I love finding weird fruits. I've eaten quite a few ugly's in my time.
It seems the US is remarkably homogenous in their fruit tastes. I found target had lychees once and the checkout clerk didn't know what to do with them.
The US badly needs more passionfruit. It seems odd that in colorado they are usually about 4 times the price that they are in the UK when you can grow them in florida.
It takes a number of Jar files and links them together into a sort of uberjar.
Grab yourself an IBM T221 - it manages over 200 dpi on an LCD display.
My dell laptop with a 15.4 WUXGA screen does 1920x1200 so it's about 150 dpi if my calculations are correct.
Presumably the process works like this:
1) Register to trial a domain
2) Wait a few days and count the hits
3) If it didn't get the required number of hits then drop it, otherwise pony up to keep the domain.
If there is some way that I can get a feed of each of the 35 million new names each month, then i can have a script simply wget a couple of pages off each site from each of a few IP addresses.
That way they'll think they've hit paydirt, pay to keep the domain and suddenly realise that it doesn't get any hits.
I would imagine that automated counter-measures could really screw with their cost benifit analysis.
Can I trust a scientific paper from the tobacco lobby about how smoking is safe? Can i trust a report on slashdot about how windows is completely unsuitable for any business use?
Of course I can't trust these sources, but that doesn't mean they aren't valuable sources of information.
One of the most useful things I learned in school is that no source is unbiased and that few things are every completely accurate and complete. Once you know that, you can start to evaluate information based on the source and use it appropriately. I would never cite wikipedia in a paper, but i would absolutely use it to find citable sources.
I know I've removed myself from a few mailing lists by simply having gmail count them as spam.
These aren't really spam, they are companies that I did business with once and can't be bothered to find my username and password to change my email subscription settings. But gmail seems to happily block everything else from that sender without my interaction.
Surely other users do want these particular emails so there must be some kind of per user dynamic as well.
I wonder if i could generate enough energy from my hands shaking to power my espresso machine. that would be useful :)
I manage to work on almost every business flight I take. Mostly by collecting and printing stuff that i need to read and learn, or by sitting with a notebook brainstorming technical problems. Occassionally (if i have a decent amount of leg room) then i'll pull out the laptop and do some actual coding.
It takes a little planning to find something to do but it's really not hard to make semi-productive use of that time.
Generally speaking cellphones are much much higher latency. The first-hop latency on my phone is close to half a second, and while it has over 100kbit of raw bandwidth you never get to actually use that because the latency sucks ass.
RDP is significantly faster than VNC and X when it's used on a remote connection, and bear in mind that these servers are going to be installed in a DATACENTER. You aren't going to hook this container up to a 56k modem.
or so my attorney said
Arguably all P2P services incentivize you to use your bandwidth in return for something else. Is it somehow worse to get free real movie downloads from a movie studio because you play a large part in sharing them with other people?
Part of my business requires that I upload large files to clients, i've never really considered that I was reselling my internet access to them.
I'd be quite happy if ISPs went with the utility model. Charge a small monthly connection fee and then a few cents per gigabyte.
The problem with defining the limit is that people will realize that they are far from it and make more use of their bandwidth.
There's been talk of for-pay P2P services where you could actually earn money (or free movies) by providing the bandwidth to distribute stuff for the big movie companies. If i knew I could use 200 Gigs of comcast bandwidth each month, but i was only using 3, then i'd be able to sell 197 for something i could use.
The problem with a cap is that I'm sure i can consume 50 gigs in a busy month just by working from home - I routinely download huge files overnight. But I'm not sure they could support every user on the network moving 50GB a month and don't want to imply that it's reasonable for everyone to use that amount. In reality their network can maybe carry 5GB for every user, but they can't set the limit there because too many techies would leave and badmouth the service to their friends and neighbors (and i've set dozens of people up with internet access and/or recommendations).
Just so you know, I can see and acknowledge the mistake in the text above. I was just a second too slow on the submit.
They had a bunch of old buildings spread out over the city and their phone system was deployed as huge bundles of copper pairs in a 6" UPVC pipe. Some time in the nineties they replaced their network with a single fibre connecting each outlying building to their main datacenter. Of course the pipes were still buried under the roads and still ended in their main wire closet where the new optical equipment had been housed.
Cue some major refurbishment, and the plumbing crew enter the building and find a conveient 6" waste pipe in the basement to connect the shiny new toilets too.
The SA at the time began the descriptive email with "I'd like to start by apologizing for the sh*tty network performance..."
I supposed i've never looked at it that way.
I pretty much skipped CDs. I used casettes until the early 90s when I found minidisc was a better fit for my portable needs. By the late 90s I had a 32Mb diamond rio and once I went to college I never looked back.
Now that i'm a productive member of society i'm happy to pay for my music, and I analyzed the situation and decided that subscription services were the perfect way to go. I can't really imagine think of any non-audiophile techie friends who have bought any cds in the last 10 years; so there must be a fair number of us with CD collections that number in the single digits.
It's not a case of buying 100 new cds each year to break even. Paying $5/month forever costs the same as paying $1200 once.
I think the current subscription pricing is amazingly compelling...
Lets say most music fans own 100 cds, and perhaps they paid an average of $12 a disc for them. That's a one time investment of $1200 and they get to keep the music forever.
Now if you take that $1200 and put it in a savings account at 5%, then you should get back $60 year. I pay $60/year for my Yahoo Unlimited subscription.
Hence unlimited music forever costs the same as having 100 cds forever. Now it's possible that market forces will change the pricing of subscription services and it's possible that your CDs will no longer be playable, but I find subscription music to be very compelling.
"Yes i'm opening the dos command prompt now"
ssh me@server
"Ok so that's winipcfg..?"
ifconfig -a
Our original cable ISP only supported Windows 98 and only on a single machine.
Whenever they needed to send an engineer out to fix something, there would be a pristine 486 running windows 98 directly connected to the cable modem. Never mind the fact that right behind it were a pair of switches, a mostly full 24 port patch panel and linux machines whirring away everywhere.
Their data network is a little sluggish when running skype, but it works fine when you are in a Wifi area.