The broadband is just a means to your end of getting your data. Whatever that data is - it's not just bits per second, but data that you use some way.
If not, if your killer app is just watching the bandwidth meter jump, then you're not part of the group I specified: the "normals". Rather, you're a freak like me.
The normals don't want "broadband". Just like they don't want "cable". They want sports shows, movies, cooking shows, 24 hour news rotations. Cable is just a means to an end. They didn't want "the Internet", either, or even "the Web" - just email, porn, or whatever their personal favorite websites happen to be. When broadband is a necessary means to some end, some killer app, they'll want broadband.
Markets are driven by consumer demand, not by producer supply.
One reason to run another OS on Mac HW is to better understand OSX. Another is to better understand one's own OS. Another is to use the quality Mac HW with an OS that runs one's preferred apps. And another is to have an OS that can compete with OSX for Mac HW clone makers - not just consumers of that HW, Mac or otherwise.
And those are just a few reasons to do so in the lab. There are others, before the value of selling one's OS on that HW is even relevant.
The first few reasons I mentioned are exactly the kinds of things that drive Linux hackers, even if the last is much more interesting to Microsoft. But it's always valuable to explore one's competitors, especially on their home turf.
It's sad that it's entirely possible that there's a Windows instance running on Intel Mac HW, somewhere behind closed Microsoft lab doors. OSS isn't just "open" when the source code is available for public download. The open project, the details of which are transparent and public, is another strong advantage. Particularly in the public relations arena, where the public claim is the prize, regardless of the real facts.
We want the public to be able to read RFID tags, so we have at least the same access to "personal" data as others scanning us. These tags will be left in our stuff at least 10x the rate that checkout droids fail to zap current security tags, which set off store alarms all day long. RFIDs won't set off the alarms, but they'll be big "scan me" signs on our backs wherever we go.
RFIDs should contain a cryptohash to prevent their data being altered without notice. But the hash and the data must be zeroable, so we can wipe them once we own them. Or the tag must be physically removeable.
What if all I want is a bidirectional SDL proxy for Icecast? The proxy receives a URL requesting an SDL file, converts that to a URL requesting an M3U file from the Icecast server, passes it to the Icecast server, which sends down the M3U. The proxy converts that to SDL, then either sends the SDL to me, so I request the objects specified in the SDL from the proxy, which converts that to MP3/OGG URL requests to Icecast, which streams the objects to the proxy, which converts them to the format (probably MP4) specified in the SDL, then streams them (sending chunks as they're received) to me. Or maybe the proxy receives the M3U from Icecast, and itself immediately requests the MP3/OGG objects from Icecast, streaming them to me.
It looks like I could use SDL_Perl to write that proxy. But hasn't someone written one already?
I can throw faster/more HW at a performance decrease resulting from adding abstraction. But adding that abstraction is the only way to integrate my other apps with that directory data. And, though LDAP performance might be fast with the BerkeleyDB, doing other (non-LDAP) lookups on the data is slow, compared to the join performance of queries on Oracle with SQL.
I'm going to keep looking for specific examples of replacing OpenLDAP with OID. The examples I've found on the Web so far look like they've got missing details for installation, and sketchy performance comparisons (to plan just how much more/faster HW). But someone must have the results I need to make informed plans.
BerkeleyDB is the default storage engine used by OpenLDAP. Oracle can replace OpenLDAP, as OID. But what's it like to replace only the BerkeleyDB with Oracle, under an OpenLDAP server? And what's it like to then drop the OpenLDAP part, leaving only OID? Anyone actually done any of this? Expect to be doing it more, now that BerkeleyDB is part of Oracle?
Hey, I just saw some deskmonkey on CNBC's business news cooing over the DuPont CEO, who praised Bush's "prioritization of science and math education in his State of the Union speech". The DuNapalmPont CEO's favorite example of "public private partnership for improving education"? His recent meeting in Shanghai with Communist Party Vice Mayor for R&D, running their own government labs. Meanwhile, Bush just cut education funding, while funding any number of religious and political operations.
Fascism is the merger of business and government power, by putting a government face on the corporate body. Communism is the same merger, by ownership of property and operation of business by government. Both are run on propaganda and censorship, usually promoted as education.
The carriers should charge a minimal amount (like $0.10 per KB), and split it with the recipient. Who can whitelist senders for "instant refunds" of the entire amount, blacklist senders for higher charges and/or deletion, and greylist others for variable charges. Alternate servers for senders and recipients should compete for the base subscription rates, with any value adds they can offer. But the black/white/grey "postage" should be a required framework. It will stop spam and subsidize the system, under the control of the recipient.
He handed a medal to Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel prize winner for "general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory", and to Robert N. Clayton for his chemical analyses describing solar system evolution. Economic equilibrium, welfare and evolution - none of which Bush seems interested in the rest of the year.
Maybe he thinks he's at the Olympics, and these medalists need his help to get corporate sponsors for some advertising dollars to, you know, kind of catapult the propaganda.
Now *that* is some quality flamebait. Of course, I suspect your sister of working for months as a "suicide beacon" for the Qaeda planebombers, after faking her death in Queens.
As for the planes, New York was quite proficient at obstructing those planes from attacking any further into the country, with Pennsylvania a decent second place. Blame Boston, DC and LA for failing to keep their planes safe and on course.
Only on Intel-compatibles. It used to work on a competing processor, the DEC Alpha (WinNT, anyway), but Compaq (then the #1 Windows reseller) killed the Alpha when it bought DEC - just as MS killed its Alpha version of Windows.
Of course the "lockin" isn't that simple. Intel doesn't lock out other OS'es, like Linux, from Intel CPUs, nor does it lock Windows or any other OS into using only Intel. Even the Skype/Intel preference isn't simple - other CPUs will still work, but not as well, by contract. But HW/SW lockin is far from new, as the creaky old term "Wintel" itself indicates.
Of course, that's not the point of the Intel PR that CNet is reprinting without critical reflection ("reporting").
Where the scientists came from or spent their time is an independent axis from the nature of their work, or even how right they were. The project HQ, on the other hand, is clearly related to the quality of the project.
In fact, since we're talking about a UCLA basic science experiment validated by NY scientists, the Manhattan Project is a perfect model.
Thanks for the opportunity to tell the TrollMods "if you can't take the heat, stay out of Hell's Kitchen". And to congratulate the others on their NYC sensibility.
Why bother using Exchange and crappy MS phones when you can use Open-Xchange and push messages with its SyncML Oxtension to a real phone, including a Blackberry or Treo?
These pyroelectric crystals produce a strong electric field when their temperature rises. Does that mean their temperature rises more slowly when in an opposing electric field? Can pyroelectrics remain cool when stabilized by an electric field, maybe resisting burning, or protecting spacecraft on reentry?
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The broadband is just a means to your end of getting your data. Whatever that data is - it's not just bits per second, but data that you use some way.
If not, if your killer app is just watching the bandwidth meter jump, then you're not part of the group I specified: the "normals". Rather, you're a freak like me.
The normals don't want "broadband". Just like they don't want "cable". They want sports shows, movies, cooking shows, 24 hour news rotations. Cable is just a means to an end. They didn't want "the Internet", either, or even "the Web" - just email, porn, or whatever their personal favorite websites happen to be. When broadband is a necessary means to some end, some killer app, they'll want broadband.
Markets are driven by consumer demand, not by producer supply.
One reason to run another OS on Mac HW is to better understand OSX. Another is to better understand one's own OS. Another is to use the quality Mac HW with an OS that runs one's preferred apps. And another is to have an OS that can compete with OSX for Mac HW clone makers - not just consumers of that HW, Mac or otherwise.
And those are just a few reasons to do so in the lab. There are others, before the value of selling one's OS on that HW is even relevant.
The first few reasons I mentioned are exactly the kinds of things that drive Linux hackers, even if the last is much more interesting to Microsoft. But it's always valuable to explore one's competitors, especially on their home turf.
OK, so who's got the hack to activate the necessary stereo music Bluetooth profile on my otherwise nifty SE K750?
It's sad that it's entirely possible that there's a Windows instance running on Intel Mac HW, somewhere behind closed Microsoft lab doors. OSS isn't just "open" when the source code is available for public download. The open project, the details of which are transparent and public, is another strong advantage. Particularly in the public relations arena, where the public claim is the prize, regardless of the real facts.
Maryland also has a hearing today on SB 292, which would require "instant runoff" voting in Maryland ballots.
Clearly the new generation of electrodes don't need to be implanted to control human behavior - like implantation as part of their reproductive cycle.
We want the public to be able to read RFID tags, so we have at least the same access to "personal" data as others scanning us. These tags will be left in our stuff at least 10x the rate that checkout droids fail to zap current security tags, which set off store alarms all day long. RFIDs won't set off the alarms, but they'll be big "scan me" signs on our backs wherever we go.
RFIDs should contain a cryptohash to prevent their data being altered without notice. But the hash and the data must be zeroable, so we can wipe them once we own them. Or the tag must be physically removeable.
What if all I want is a bidirectional SDL proxy for Icecast? The proxy receives a URL requesting an SDL file, converts that to a URL requesting an M3U file from the Icecast server, passes it to the Icecast server, which sends down the M3U. The proxy converts that to SDL, then either sends the SDL to me, so I request the objects specified in the SDL from the proxy, which converts that to MP3/OGG URL requests to Icecast, which streams the objects to the proxy, which converts them to the format (probably MP4) specified in the SDL, then streams them (sending chunks as they're received) to me. Or maybe the proxy receives the M3U from Icecast, and itself immediately requests the MP3/OGG objects from Icecast, streaming them to me.
It looks like I could use SDL_Perl to write that proxy. But hasn't someone written one already?
I can throw faster/more HW at a performance decrease resulting from adding abstraction. But adding that abstraction is the only way to integrate my other apps with that directory data. And, though LDAP performance might be fast with the BerkeleyDB, doing other (non-LDAP) lookups on the data is slow, compared to the join performance of queries on Oracle with SQL.
I'm going to keep looking for specific examples of replacing OpenLDAP with OID. The examples I've found on the Web so far look like they've got missing details for installation, and sketchy performance comparisons (to plan just how much more/faster HW). But someone must have the results I need to make informed plans.
BerkeleyDB is the default storage engine used by OpenLDAP. Oracle can replace OpenLDAP, as OID. But what's it like to replace only the BerkeleyDB with Oracle, under an OpenLDAP server? And what's it like to then drop the OpenLDAP part, leaving only OID? Anyone actually done any of this? Expect to be doing it more, now that BerkeleyDB is part of Oracle?
Hey, I just saw some deskmonkey on CNBC's business news cooing over the DuPont CEO, who praised Bush's "prioritization of science and math education in his State of the Union speech". The DuNapalmPont CEO's favorite example of "public private partnership for improving education"? His recent meeting in Shanghai with Communist Party Vice Mayor for R&D, running their own government labs. Meanwhile, Bush just cut education funding, while funding any number of religious and political operations.
Fascism is the merger of business and government power, by putting a government face on the corporate body. Communism is the same merger, by ownership of property and operation of business by government. Both are run on propaganda and censorship, usually promoted as education.
The carriers should charge a minimal amount (like $0.10 per KB), and split it with the recipient. Who can whitelist senders for "instant refunds" of the entire amount, blacklist senders for higher charges and/or deletion, and greylist others for variable charges. Alternate servers for senders and recipients should compete for the base subscription rates, with any value adds they can offer. But the black/white/grey "postage" should be a required framework. It will stop spam and subsidize the system, under the control of the recipient.
Bush doesn't pick anything, or think about anything. He's a spokesmodel who does what President Rove tells him to do.
Aren't you ashamed to worship such an evil, stupid god as Bush?
Cue the "backseat mother-in-law driver" jokes...
He handed a medal to Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel prize winner for "general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory", and to Robert N. Clayton for his chemical analyses describing solar system evolution. Economic equilibrium, welfare and evolution - none of which Bush seems interested in the rest of the year.
Maybe he thinks he's at the Olympics, and these medalists need his help to get corporate sponsors for some advertising dollars to, you know, kind of catapult the propaganda.
Now *that* is some quality flamebait. Of course, I suspect your sister of working for months as a "suicide beacon" for the Qaeda planebombers, after faking her death in Queens.
As for the planes, New York was quite proficient at obstructing those planes from attacking any further into the country, with Pennsylvania a decent second place. Blame Boston, DC and LA for failing to keep their planes safe and on course.
Only on Intel-compatibles. It used to work on a competing processor, the DEC Alpha (WinNT, anyway), but Compaq (then the #1 Windows reseller) killed the Alpha when it bought DEC - just as MS killed its Alpha version of Windows.
Of course the "lockin" isn't that simple. Intel doesn't lock out other OS'es, like Linux, from Intel CPUs, nor does it lock Windows or any other OS into using only Intel. Even the Skype/Intel preference isn't simple - other CPUs will still work, but not as well, by contract. But HW/SW lockin is far from new, as the creaky old term "Wintel" itself indicates.
Of course, that's not the point of the Intel PR that CNet is reprinting without critical reflection ("reporting").
CNet says Intel locking software to hardware is a new *cough*Wintel*cough* take on marketing.
Where the scientists came from or spent their time is an independent axis from the nature of their work, or even how right they were. The project HQ, on the other hand, is clearly related to the quality of the project.
In fact, since we're talking about a UCLA basic science experiment validated by NY scientists, the Manhattan Project is a perfect model.
You're not from New York, are you.
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Thanks for the opportunity to tell the TrollMods "if you can't take the heat, stay out of Hell's Kitchen". And to congratulate the others on their NYC sensibility.
Manhattan Project flames are serious business.
Why bother using Exchange and crappy MS phones when you can use Open-Xchange and push messages with its SyncML Oxtension to a real phone, including a Blackberry or Treo?
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These pyroelectric crystals produce a strong electric field when their temperature rises. Does that mean their temperature rises more slowly when in an opposing electric field? Can pyroelectrics remain cool when stabilized by an electric field, maybe resisting burning, or protecting spacecraft on reentry?
Why do you think they called it "the Manhattan Project"?
New York City's national pastime is being right, second only to telling people they're wrong.