Intel told the world "the market is softening" and was a prime trigger for our current recession. With that one statement, Intel destroyed investor confidence in the tech sector. Most of us know that what was really happening was AMD was single handedly destroying Intel's mononopoly. AMD went from less than 10% market share to a firm 30% market share in less than a year. Current speculation puts AMD as high as 50% of the market.
Let's see if Linux can do the same to Microsoft. One of the engineers who worked on the alpha EV6 bus is now working fror AMD and gave the Athalon the same bus. 5 year old Alphas are still faster than Intel's Itanium. What I am really trying to say is AMD has broken Intel's monopoly with a superior product at a superior price. We must do the same! Linux could take out MS even if the DOJ can't. Vote with your time. Find a bug in the kernal and fix it!
11 Mbs for 2.4 Ghz wireless lan. About 150ft range at under 1 watt of power. The system I set up for my school (Airport) allows soft hand offs just like cellular service and covers 4 city blocks with just seven units. The system allows a theoretical limit of 105 connected users but we have had many more than that because not all connected users are always using their max bandwidth. I belive with a little more power the cells could be enlarged but not the max user limit. Latency is terrible. 11 Mbs is I belive even higher than the MAX for adsl let alone the speed you acctually get to connect at.
Could Microsoft use GPL'ed code on.Net Servers? Since you can use GPL'ed code without accepting the licensing agreement, Microsoft could use.Net to provide a user's front end to GPL'ad apps and charge the end user because they are not distributing the application, just allowing access to the app as it runs on their servers. Seems like Microsoft could use.Net to profit from GPL'ed code without breaking the licensing agreement by strictly complying with the language of the GPL: Use seems not to be restricted, just modifying or distributing binaries without source. Microsoft can use as much GPL'ed code as they want on.Net servers without making their modified source available because they are only using it in-house. Technically they are not selling or distributing derivative works... only using them. Is.Net Microsoft's solution to IP covered by the GPL? Does.Net effectively embrace and extend all GPL'ed code?
Latency... waiting... still waiting... watching all the other 'puters taking turns... more latency... gameing? not just no, never but don't ever even think about quake!
History is full of instances of powerful organizations suppressing valid work. However, what has been done cannot be undone. What we must do now is insure that no organization ever seeks, or is able to suppress good ideas simply because the individuals in the organization do not understand them. In times past it has been the catholic church. Who is it now? The U.S. Government? Microsoft? The US Patent Office? The American Cancer Society? The Nobel Foundation?
Unless AMD gets to 10Ghz in 2004 in which case Intel will release a 10Ghz chip the next day, availability limited to 10 chips, half of which Intel will keep for developmental purposes.
You have a marketable skill. Someone is profiting from your skill. You are going to have similar situations in the future. Learn as much about business as possible and start your own as an independent contractor. YOU should be profiting from your skill. I used to work for a place installing networks for businesses. Our company would install the cable (hard work), telephone systems and the server clusters. On a bad day I was only generating a thousand dollars in pure profit for my company. I said "hey! I should be making that money!" I learned about business and now I DO make that money. Do not fear being independent.
Microsoft IS an ISP. MSN? Future Microsoft.NET? So, They CAN be mapped to a physical address and used to track you explicitly if you use MSN. And soon if you use any ISP but also use whistler/Microsoft.NET
For those of you who are going to try this, here are the symptoms of high frequency radiation exposure:
Headache
Stomach ache
Nausea
Unconsiousness
Death
Somewhere between Stomach ache and death comes sterility. Don't ask me why but I have a friend with silicone testicles and testosterone shots for life courtesy of radiation exposure and the US government.
Soon, soon my friend. in light of tom's acomplishment this dual T-Bird (760MP chipset) sisoft sandra benchmark may not be too far from reality. I for one am saving my pennies.
There is no slowdown. Intel, a tech bellwether said that PC sales are declining "the market is softening." The fact is Intel basically stagnated while AMD went from less than 15% market share to over 40% in less than a year. But the market believed them. So investors are seeking other investments that they may see as more stable. Again a good business with a good model will still do alright because the money is still there for solid investments. Gone however are the days of investors throwing good money after bad on unproven bs business models like most dot coms had. Welcome to competition. Welcome to the real market churn associated with the demise of a monopoly. Scary for investors, great for consumers and great for the economy. I am glad the dot coms are dyeing. Their primary goal was to make money without providing a tangible product or service. Their employees deserve the huge tax burden that their devalued stock options have given them. Their primary assets were great PR and marketing... commonly known as corporate liars. Make a product I cannot live without and I will buy it AND invest in your company. Intel should be hammered for causing what they have instead of simply saying "competition this year was fierce and we folded time and time again (i820 chipset,rambus,1.13ghz,beaten to 1gig,unable to provide top end chips in volume, etc...) we are having trouble competing because we are no longer a monopoly and are business plan requires us to have huge profit margins in order to maintain our monopoly and market share" instead they said "the market has softened" and set this whole thing off... shame on them and the death of a thousand paper cuts to anyone who wants my money without providing VALUE. may all their stock drop below a dollar for more than a month and be forced off the NAZDAQ
I did it because I'm not a college boy... no funding. All the plus five posts in the world are not going to get me a scholarship. But that does not mean I am not interested in CS. It is hard to say on a resume' that you understand sequential logic and flip flops if you have never built one. Before you laugh let me remind you that the first teraflop computer was purpose built by an astrophysicist, with no computer building experience, to plot the gravity interactions of individual stars during the collision of two galaxies. Most computer guys seem to be so involved in a particular method that they get blindsided by any approach from left field. Most recently we were all stunned to discover that a bunch of alien hunters had built a network computer that not only the fastest computer on the planet but scales to insure it will always be the fastest computer. Yes, distributed computing was not first implemented by CS majors but amateur alien hunters.
Who the hell fabbed BlackArm for them? Too bad even if they release their "Arm instruction set chewer" we could not use that ourselves as individuals as a basis for any real work... UNLESS: Wouldn't it be nice to have an ink jet printer capable of depositing various compounds on a sheet of plastic to create solid state devices? Not for processors initially but for almost any other application... Need a power supply? Print out a bridge rectifier and some capacitors. Complexity could be achieved in layers similar to current printed circuit boards. We could have a "Rawpotatoes" for open source hardware designs to go with "Freshmeat". The ultimate goal would be a simple processor capable of running Linux where you print the hardware and compile the kernel yourself. Need more speed? Try a cluster with pages like a book... a library. Why do I find myself still prototyping circuits with a soldering iron the same way it was done by Nicola Tesla a 125 years ago? Never mind a decent sized logic circuit. Ever soldered together a flip flop? I quit after 100... A hundred bits of memory is quite enough if you are going blind soldering transistors.
got to get that thing an IR vidio camera projecting on the head up display. Great it can stay in the lane during a white out but can it see the hot little bodies of children playing in the snow? Every two or three years a child in alaska (who has usually tunneled into a existing snow berm to make a snow fort) is covered over when the plow comes through. somtimes they are found immediately, somtimes they are assumed to have been abducted but are found 20 yards from their house when spring thaw ("breakup") comes... Seems silly until you ask anyone who has grown up in the snow how many times they have had hazardous experiences with plows. Personally I have had a plow traveling at 45-50 mph throw a great gout of slush at me that burried me up to the waist. Un-fun soaked to the bone and trapped when it's 25 dedrees, dark and windy. And if they don't care about children in the road, a 2000 pound bull moose will rip the blade right off a plow. Just ask the Alaska Rail Road that in one 360 mile trip has hit as many as 17 moose.
search google "helemano army" I have no pictures.. the 1/4 mile to smoke a cigarette is at kunia tunnels. Looks like $330,000 was spent through 1996 cleaning up helemano.
On the Island of Oahu in Hawaii There is the most amazing network of tunnels and buildings. They were built during WWII. Some are still in use as Army Military Itelligence and Navy Submarine Comms sites. The only thing I know about them are the guys can't smoke in the tunnels and have to walk a quarter of a mile to have a cigarette. Building two helamano I rediscovered and explored myself. I was out with some friends shooting of model rockets at what was then training area 4 on helemano. We discovered a manhole in the middle of a grassy field. Curious, we opened it to discover the most stale fetid air I have ever experienced. Even standing on the over the hole I was almost overcome by what I belive was methane. Now, We had all heard rumors of tunnels all over the island and made the assumption that this must be one of them. Not to be thwarted by bad air from what would probly be our only chance to explore we went to get our scuba gear. Here is what we found:
A huge communications complex. complete with Kitchen, Basketball court, Tons of Ancient ceramic and bakelite 66 blocks (telephone punch down blocks), A huge generator room and 8 Transformers the size of 55 gallon drums.
Rotted Open
Sitting in a lake of PCB's
Needless to say we did not explore the tunnel that had been bricked over that was 15 feet wide and 20 foot tall. Later we discovered plans to Bldg 2. That tunnel went all the way to Schofield Barracks.
Big enough to drive a Semi through.
We called the EPA. They took plastic barrels that bolt together down the hole and presumably put alll the pcb's in them. The barrels never came out. Once assembled and filled they were left in place for the next impromptu archeologist. The man hole was welded shut.
There is now an entire community built over the site. Training area 4 is now entirely military housing. No Superfund. No Press.
Just a manhole welded shut in the middle of a schoolyard
and we will never break the sound barrier or go to the moon or have small computers or etc... never finnish the chunnel. We have been proving people with their head in the sand wrong for a hundred years. llama.
Superconducting maglev.. the customers are in Europe, Japan, China, The US and Canada. Alaska is just a pitstop... if that. what is 200 miles of tundra compared to 200 miles of bering sea, the most dangerous water in the world? Refrigerate your pilings and move on. This technicle hurdle was solve by the very pipline you are talking about exactly that way. 400 degree oil and all they used were heatsinks at the tops of the towers. And before you start talking like an ass, I grew up at pump station 3. As for enviromentalists killing this I have on answer for you: Dubya Bush. He is an ass like you but would endorse the chainsawing of Armstrong Woods for a buck.
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Let's see if Linux can do the same to Microsoft. One of the engineers who worked on the alpha EV6 bus is now working fror AMD and gave the Athalon the same bus. 5 year old Alphas are still faster than Intel's Itanium. What I am really trying to say is AMD has broken Intel's monopoly with a superior product at a superior price. We must do the same! Linux could take out MS even if the DOJ can't. Vote with your time. Find a bug in the kernal and fix it!
This is fake grassroots hype... Or more like reporting false exit polls on the east coast before people on the west coast vote like sheep.
11 Mbs for 2.4 Ghz wireless lan. About 150ft range at under 1 watt of power. The system I set up for my school (Airport) allows soft hand offs just like cellular service and covers 4 city blocks with just seven units. The system allows a theoretical limit of 105 connected users but we have had many more than that because not all connected users are always using their max bandwidth. I belive with a little more power the cells could be enlarged but not the max user limit. Latency is terrible. 11 Mbs is I belive even higher than the MAX for adsl let alone the speed you acctually get to connect at.
These guys really DO need some Geeks In Space(tm)!
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Could Microsoft use GPL'ed code on .Net Servers? Since you can use GPL'ed code without accepting the licensing agreement, Microsoft could use .Net to provide a user's front end to GPL'ad apps and charge the end user because they are not distributing the application, just allowing access to the app as it runs on their servers. Seems like Microsoft could use .Net to profit from GPL'ed code without breaking the licensing agreement by strictly complying with the language of the GPL: Use seems not to be restricted, just modifying or distributing binaries without source. Microsoft can use as much GPL'ed code as they want on .Net servers without making their modified source available because they are only using it in-house. Technically they are not selling or distributing derivative works... only using them. Is .Net Microsoft's solution to IP covered by the GPL? Does .Net effectively embrace and extend all GPL'ed code?
Latency... waiting... still waiting... watching all the other 'puters taking turns... more latency... gameing? not just no, never but don't ever even think about quake!
1.33 Ghz 266fsb AMD T-bird, $360
ASUS A7V133 $130
512mb memory $140
GF2Ultra $350
case/powersupply/keyboard/mouse $100
IEEE 1394 card/Network Card/Modem $100
DVD $100
CD Burn Proof $150
IBM deskstar 30Gb $140
22" Mitsubishi DP2040U perfect flat monitor $1000
Linux: Free:)
Win98SE: $80
Find a comparable system by Apple or any PC oem for less than $5000.
Oh, I didn't realize there were so many geeks scared to build their own systems.
History is full of instances of powerful organizations suppressing valid work. However, what has been done cannot be undone. What we must do now is insure that no organization ever seeks, or is able to suppress good ideas simply because the individuals in the organization do not understand them. In times past it has been the catholic church. Who is it now? The U.S. Government? Microsoft? The US Patent Office? The American Cancer Society? The Nobel Foundation?
Unless AMD gets to 10Ghz in 2004 in which case Intel will release a 10Ghz chip the next day, availability limited to 10 chips, half of which Intel will keep for developmental purposes.
You have a marketable skill. Someone is profiting from your skill. You are going to have similar situations in the future. Learn as much about business as possible and start your own as an independent contractor. YOU should be profiting from your skill. I used to work for a place installing networks for businesses. Our company would install the cable (hard work), telephone systems and the server clusters. On a bad day I was only generating a thousand dollars in pure profit for my company. I said "hey! I should be making that money!" I learned about business and now I DO make that money. Do not fear being independent.
Microsoft IS an ISP. MSN? Future Microsoft.NET? So, They CAN be mapped to a physical address and used to track you explicitly if you use MSN. And soon if you use any ISP but also use whistler/Microsoft.NET
For those of you who are going to try this, here are the symptoms of high frequency radiation exposure:
Headache
Stomach ache
Nausea
Unconsiousness
Death
Somewhere between Stomach ache and death comes sterility. Don't ask me why but I have a friend with silicone testicles and testosterone shots for life courtesy of radiation exposure and the US government.
Soon, soon my friend. in light of tom's acomplishment this dual T-Bird (760MP chipset) sisoft sandra benchmark may not be too far from reality. I for one am saving my pennies.
There is no slowdown. Intel, a tech bellwether said that PC sales are declining "the market is softening." The fact is Intel basically stagnated while AMD went from less than 15% market share to over 40% in less than a year. But the market believed them. So investors are seeking other investments that they may see as more stable. Again a good business with a good model will still do alright because the money is still there for solid investments. Gone however are the days of investors throwing good money after bad on unproven bs business models like most dot coms had. Welcome to competition. Welcome to the real market churn associated with the demise of a monopoly. Scary for investors, great for consumers and great for the economy. I am glad the dot coms are dyeing. Their primary goal was to make money without providing a tangible product or service. Their employees deserve the huge tax burden that their devalued stock options have given them. Their primary assets were great PR and marketing... commonly known as corporate liars. Make a product I cannot live without and I will buy it AND invest in your company. Intel should be hammered for causing what they have instead of simply saying "competition this year was fierce and we folded time and time again (i820 chipset,rambus,1.13ghz,beaten to 1gig,unable to provide top end chips in volume, etc...) we are having trouble competing because we are no longer a monopoly and are business plan requires us to have huge profit margins in order to maintain our monopoly and market share" instead they said "the market has softened" and set this whole thing off... shame on them and the death of a thousand paper cuts to anyone who wants my money without providing VALUE. may all their stock drop below a dollar for more than a month and be forced off the NAZDAQ
I did it because I'm not a college boy... no funding. All the plus five posts in the world are not going to get me a scholarship. But that does not mean I am not interested in CS. It is hard to say on a resume' that you understand sequential logic and flip flops if you have never built one. Before you laugh let me remind you that the first teraflop computer was purpose built by an astrophysicist, with no computer building experience, to plot the gravity interactions of individual stars during the collision of two galaxies. Most computer guys seem to be so involved in a particular method that they get blindsided by any approach from left field. Most recently we were all stunned to discover that a bunch of alien hunters had built a network computer that not only the fastest computer on the planet but scales to insure it will always be the fastest computer. Yes, distributed computing was not first implemented by CS majors but amateur alien hunters.
Who the hell fabbed BlackArm for them? Too bad even if they release their "Arm instruction set chewer" we could not use that ourselves as individuals as a basis for any real work... UNLESS: Wouldn't it be nice to have an ink jet printer capable of depositing various compounds on a sheet of plastic to create solid state devices? Not for processors initially but for almost any other application... Need a power supply? Print out a bridge rectifier and some capacitors. Complexity could be achieved in layers similar to current printed circuit boards. We could have a "Rawpotatoes" for open source hardware designs to go with "Freshmeat". The ultimate goal would be a simple processor capable of running Linux where you print the hardware and compile the kernel yourself. Need more speed? Try a cluster with pages like a book... a library. Why do I find myself still prototyping circuits with a soldering iron the same way it was done by Nicola Tesla a 125 years ago? Never mind a decent sized logic circuit. Ever soldered together a flip flop? I quit after 100... A hundred bits of memory is quite enough if you are going blind soldering transistors.
got to get that thing an IR vidio camera projecting on the head up display. Great it can stay in the lane during a white out but can it see the hot little bodies of children playing in the snow? Every two or three years a child in alaska (who has usually tunneled into a existing snow berm to make a snow fort) is covered over when the plow comes through. somtimes they are found immediately, somtimes they are assumed to have been abducted but are found 20 yards from their house when spring thaw ("breakup") comes... Seems silly until you ask anyone who has grown up in the snow how many times they have had hazardous experiences with plows. Personally I have had a plow traveling at 45-50 mph throw a great gout of slush at me that burried me up to the waist. Un-fun soaked to the bone and trapped when it's 25 dedrees, dark and windy. And if they don't care about children in the road, a 2000 pound bull moose will rip the blade right off a plow. Just ask the Alaska Rail Road that in one 360 mile trip has hit as many as 17 moose.
search google "helemano army" I have no pictures.. the 1/4 mile to smoke a cigarette is at kunia tunnels. Looks like $330,000 was spent through 1996 cleaning up helemano.
Hehe, yeah, that is what I meant. thousands of asus A7V's just waiting for overclocked beowulf cluster goodness
A huge communications complex. complete with Kitchen, Basketball court, Tons of Ancient ceramic and bakelite 66 blocks (telephone punch down blocks), A huge generator room and 8 Transformers the size of 55 gallon drums.
Rotted Open
Sitting in a lake of PCB's
Needless to say we did not explore the tunnel that had been bricked over that was 15 feet wide and 20 foot tall. Later we discovered plans to Bldg 2. That tunnel went all the way to Schofield Barracks.
Big enough to drive a Semi through.
We called the EPA. They took plastic barrels that bolt together down the hole and presumably put alll the pcb's in them. The barrels never came out. Once assembled and filled they were left in place for the next impromptu archeologist. The man hole was welded shut.
There is now an entire community built over the site. Training area 4 is now entirely military housing. No Superfund. No Press.
Just a manhole welded shut in the middle of a schoolyard
and we will never break the sound barrier or go to the moon or have small computers or etc... never finnish the chunnel. We have been proving people with their head in the sand wrong for a hundred years. llama.
and there is no damn permafrost in anchorage!
Superconducting maglev.. the customers are in Europe, Japan, China, The US and Canada. Alaska is just a pitstop... if that. what is 200 miles of tundra compared to 200 miles of bering sea, the most dangerous water in the world? Refrigerate your pilings and move on. This technicle hurdle was solve by the very pipline you are talking about exactly that way. 400 degree oil and all they used were heatsinks at the tops of the towers. And before you start talking like an ass, I grew up at pump station 3. As for enviromentalists killing this I have on answer for you: Dubya Bush. He is an ass like you but would endorse the chainsawing of Armstrong Woods for a buck.
Think bigger. Europe connected to the US by 300 mph bullet trains scheduled hourly. Overnight to europe for $200 anyone?