Of they are not small towns by population. But they are two cultural centers of this region. Building them up is only going to help the areas around them, which are mainly small towns with a low population density. The midwest is mostly made up of small towns and rural areas with a few big cities in it. The east coast probably has a higher population density all over simply because it was developed before the advent of better transportation. The west coast tends to be mostly empty in between the huge cities. So when you talk about small towns, I think you are mainly talking about the midwest.
A lot of people make fun of Indiana but don't realize what a great place it is for tech companies. Especially Indianapolis and Bloomington. There are many many internet backbones that cross our paths and have access points in Indy and Chicago. Then it is also generally safe from earthquakes (unless you count New Madrid fault), tsunamis, hurricanes, and then the problems with bigger cities like terrorist attacks, etc. The cost of living is much lower here and you can use those savings to build up a more competitive business on the net against companies in higher cost areas. There is a decent talent pool here that is just waiting for high tech businesses to start up. Bloomington itself is a very liberal place not unlike New York or the west coast. There are already several online businesses based out of Indiana, I'm hoping more will pop up soon. Especially tier 1 datacenters, etc.
One of my goals with suso.org and other businesses I'm building up is to turn this area into the tech center it deserves to be. I'm currently working hard to release a unique and highly desired product that will help bring more attention to this area as a viable location for strong tech businesses.
When a story shows up on slashdot almost 4 days later than the day it was posted shows some disrespect. Especially when the first word in the article is "today".
Besides the same old PR scripted answers that corporations like to give in order to obscure or downplay what is really going on. What assurance can you give us that Microsoft is more focused on security and that Vista is going to be any different from the previous incarnations of Windows? What proof can you give us? Information like "We have a new team doing X" or "our process for reviewing changes has gone to X" are helpful pieces of information to answer this question. What else have you seen in the way MS is developing Vista that is different from how you've developed previous products?
From what I've heard, even though most of Vista is being rewritten from the ground up with more scrutiny on what code goes into it, it will still have major flaws generated by the way Microsoft works internally as a company.
What I'm saying is that just because you thought of something neat, you shouldn't just implement it (and I know that this isn't how it happens of course). Cookies and javascript weren't just implemented. A lot of thought went into how they could be used, abused, what the gotchas are and how to solve them. Test models were done and analyzed. This seems like the kind of feature that is comparable to that level of change in the way browsers work. I wonder if the WhatWG people really tested the concept and implementation that much.
I think the first thing any browser developer should consider when adding a new tag or tag attribute to the DOM is "How can this be abused?" and explore that question to its fullest. Because all of you know that it will be abused and that users will implement it wrong or find new uses for it that the developers didn't intend. Some of them may be good, some bad.
Printing it out on pages of A4 would produce a stack of paper two-and-a-half times as high as Mount Everest.
You can't do that with ordinary A4 paper. You need to reinforce it on the sides at least so it won't tumble over. Plus, I doubt the paper would sit still with the high winds once it gets above a few thousand feet. Sheesh.
This reminds me of the initial press release on the Crusoe, one of the clueless reporters in the audience thought that the Crusoe would somehow avoid Windows crashing. One of the Transmeta people pointed out to him that if Windows crashes, the Crusoe will faithfully crash in the same way.
Duh! I wasn't putting him in the same class as Einstein. I just said that he might come close in terms of how many people know about him. Quick ask someone to name as many scientists as they can. I bet in 5 out of 10 respondants that Carl Sagan and Richard Feyman will be in the list. And I was talking about Scientists in general. Not just physicists.
But of course leave it to someone on Slashdot to nit pick my comments.
I think that all this tells us is that society has moved on (ahead) and if you want to achive the same level of fame that you have to work harder at it. For his time, Einstein still had to do a lot. Its not like it was easy. Likewise, its not easy 100 years later to achive the same level of fame. Perhaps Richard Feyman or Carl Sagan came close, but of course neither of them don't have an opera with their name in it (AFAIK).
the bigger companies aren't such cheap skates. Having worked at a small ISP and now working at a large medical company, its like night and day. The attitude is much different too, at the ISP we would skimp on the quality of things and sometimes try to save money here and there. At the larger company, we only buy high quality stuff.
Actually, I didn't misread it, I just thought with all the corporate takeovers that what was meant was stuff like Google, Time Warner and Microsoft where showing up in the subjects.
Slashdot Mirror
When I grow up I want to be a janitor and clean shit up.
Yes, I agree. I thought about popping it in to watch it again but then I thought about it and decided it would be a waste of 45 minutes.
Interesting idea, but then, its a first season episode.
he could wake up in 100 years the richest man in the world
Or he could wake up in 300 years in sick bay with no money at all.
Of they are not small towns by population. But they are two cultural centers of this region. Building them up is only going to help the areas around them, which are mainly small towns with a low population density. The midwest is mostly made up of small towns and rural areas with a few big cities in it. The east coast probably has a higher population density all over simply because it was developed before the advent of better transportation. The west coast tends to be mostly empty in between the huge cities. So when you talk about small towns, I think you are mainly talking about the midwest.
A lot of people make fun of Indiana but don't realize what a great place it is for tech companies. Especially Indianapolis and Bloomington. There are many many internet backbones that cross our paths and have access points in Indy and Chicago. Then it is also generally safe from earthquakes (unless you count New Madrid fault), tsunamis, hurricanes, and then the problems with bigger cities like terrorist attacks, etc. The cost of living is much lower here and you can use those savings to build up a more competitive business on the net against companies in higher cost areas. There is a decent talent pool here that is just waiting for high tech businesses to start up. Bloomington itself is a very liberal place not unlike New York or the west coast. There are already several online businesses based out of Indiana, I'm hoping more will pop up soon. Especially tier 1 datacenters, etc.
One of my goals with suso.org and other businesses I'm building up is to turn this area into the tech center it deserves to be. I'm currently working hard to release a unique and highly desired product that will help bring more attention to this area as a viable location for strong tech businesses.
I welcome you.
When a story shows up on slashdot almost 4 days later than the day it was posted shows some disrespect. Especially when the first word in the article is "today".
Besides the same old PR scripted answers that corporations like to give in order to obscure or downplay what is really going on. What assurance can you give us that Microsoft is more focused on security and that Vista is going to be any different from the previous incarnations of Windows? What proof can you give us? Information like "We have a new team doing X" or "our process for reviewing changes has gone to X" are helpful pieces of information to answer this question. What else have you seen in the way MS is developing Vista that is different from how you've developed previous products?
From what I've heard, even though most of Vista is being rewritten from the ground up with more scrutiny on what code goes into it, it will still have major flaws generated by the way Microsoft works internally as a company.
What I'm saying is that just because you thought of something neat, you shouldn't just implement it (and I know that this isn't how it happens of course). Cookies and javascript weren't just implemented. A lot of thought went into how they could be used, abused, what the gotchas are and how to solve them. Test models were done and analyzed. This seems like the kind of feature that is comparable to that level of change in the way browsers work. I wonder if the WhatWG people really tested the concept and implementation that much.
I think the first thing any browser developer should consider when adding a new tag or tag attribute to the DOM is "How can this be abused?" and explore that question to its fullest. Because all of you know that it will be abused and that users will implement it wrong or find new uses for it that the developers didn't intend. Some of them may be good, some bad.
In Australia, anything that's not dial-up is called "broadband". Even 128kbps.
And how is that different from in the US?
Maglev elevators are all fun and games until someone winds up 2 and a half times higher up than Mt. Everest.
Printing it out on pages of A4 would produce a stack of paper two-and-a-half times as high as Mount Everest.
You can't do that with ordinary A4 paper. You need to reinforce it on the sides at least so it won't tumble over. Plus, I doubt the paper would sit still with the high winds once it gets above a few thousand feet. Sheesh.
Wait, I've seen this episode of Star Trek. We have to get two dimensional!
causing our galaxy to warp 'like a vinyl record left out in the hot Sun.'
Now that's what I call an extended LP.
And so can printers. (2000)
Yes, yes, I'm in the process of doing a remake this year along with some other simular songs.
What the Web won't be like in 10 years? (1997)
So much for corporations being less in control at the hands of the communities.
This reminds me of the initial press release on the Crusoe, one of the clueless reporters in the audience thought that the Crusoe would somehow avoid Windows crashing. One of the Transmeta people pointed out to him that if Windows crashes, the Crusoe will faithfully crash in the same way.
And don't forget the cover sheet on your TPS report.
That's ok. MR JAMES MCCALLA read an email a week ago about how to get out of debt by declaring bankruptcy.
Duh! I wasn't putting him in the same class as Einstein. I just said that he might come close in terms of how many people know about him. Quick ask someone to name as many scientists as they can. I bet in 5 out of 10 respondants that Carl Sagan and Richard Feyman will be in the list. And I was talking about Scientists in general. Not just physicists.
But of course leave it to someone on Slashdot to nit pick my comments.
I think that all this tells us is that society has moved on (ahead) and if you want to achive the same level of fame that you have to work harder at it. For his time, Einstein still had to do a lot. Its not like it was easy. Likewise, its not easy 100 years later to achive the same level of fame. Perhaps Richard Feyman or Carl Sagan came close, but of course neither of them don't have an opera with their name in it (AFAIK).
the bigger companies aren't such cheap skates. Having worked at a small ISP and now working at a large medical company, its like night and day. The attitude is much different too, at the ISP we would skimp on the quality of things and sometimes try to save money here and there. At the larger company, we only buy high quality stuff.
Actually, I didn't misread it, I just thought with all the corporate takeovers that what was meant was stuff like Google, Time Warner and Microsoft where showing up in the subjects.
They all want a piece of the "AOL Names".
At first I thought you meant AOL tops the list of spam subjects.
Me too!
Don't worry, the majority of women online are actually men in disquise.
How true this cartoon is