PBS is supposed to have a special on this sometime later this month.
I don't recall if it is supposed ot be NOVA or Frontline, and will have to wait a few days for the promo to show up on the websites. The are still in the march schedul
So it seems we need to be pointing out the following to the Wallstreet finance geeks.
Bill Gates [...] his famous 1995 e-mail saying the Internet was the future.
They have a strategic problem, which is that somehow they have to make the transition to a Passport and.Net business model before Wall Street figures out that their current business model is screwed. If the investors figure that out before they've changed horses, then they're going to discount the future value of the stock, and the whole financial pyramid that Microsoft is built on will just collapse.
I wouldn't be sleeping too well if I was a Microsoft strategist right now, because that's a really hard job, especially considering that they don't even have the technology in place for the new business model yet. Even if they had the technology in place, they would have a very hard job persuading corporate managers to buy into this, simply because of the control issue. If I have all my business processes farmed out to an ASP, I don't control them any more. It's not just a matter of being dependent on somebody else's downtime as well as my own. How do I know that my core business secrets are still protected?
In news releases and interviews, the publicly traded California company says it has developed and manufactured an "innovative, technologically advanced" phone so cheap that customers can toss it away when they are done. Hop-On says the phone will retail for $30, including 60 minutes of calls.
But after cracking open several samples with Hop-On's name and kangaroo logo, The Chronicle found the "revolutionary" device appeared to be little more than a jury-rigged Nokia in a new plastic shell.
Underneath the red plastic casing, one sample was clearly labeled inside as a "Nokia 8260."
You'd have to make sure it crashes every few hours.
I was thinking of using a yugo.
Now the interesthing thing on this is a thing called a "design patent"
As seen on the Patent Office Site:
A design consists of the visual ornamental characteristics embodied in, or applied to, an article of manufacture. Since a design is manifested in appearance, the subject matter of a design patent application may relate to the configuration or shape of an article, to the surface ornamentation applied to an article, or to the combination of configuration and surface ornamentation. A design for surface ornamentation is inseparable from the article to which it is applied and cannot exist alone. It must be a definite pattern of surface ornamentation, applied to an article of manufacture
This is a patent on things like the distinctive shape of a bottle, the grill of a car, etc. There is a whole art and legal science to this. It is used to keep designs unique between competitors.
Apple could probably get a design patent on the look and feel of their OS, separate from the functionality. They are apparently relatively easy to get.
The real worry is if someone like Ford were to see something like this (if I used a Ford car) and got out the legal eagles for "degrading the reputation of their product" by depicting their car on the net with MS colors.
Find a compact car someplace, and paint it all in mismatched panel colors using the Microsoft Color scheme. Stick a Microsoft Logo or Name plate back of the car.
Make sure the car is an older car. Drive it around Town. Everytime people see the car they think of MS. Everytime they think of MS, they see the car. I bet it would even make the Newspapers.
Guerilla marketing against MS at it's best.
Of Course, there would have to be a webpage dedicated to the MS Car Project.
The proper response is an open, effective and cheaper solution (guess).
Of course we would prefer to promote Linux. But why not help nail MS at the same time?
I'm thinking of something similar to those car ads where owner one keeps asking owner two if the model he has, has same features.
They could have a purple Mercedes or some other obviously nice quality vehicle. standing next to a Yugo with all the body panels and doors in mismatched Microsoft colors. Even just a picture of the two vehicles in profile, side by side, with the line "which one would you want?"
for the extra twist of the knife the drivers in the Yugo can squeel that "you don't have to know what you're doing when you own one of these".
Heck I right now freely give Sun the permission to use this idea. No Cost. No such permission is granted to anyone promoting Microsoft.
part of the problem in LA is that older construction, such as from the the thirties and forties, has an earlier generation of infrastructure. This is fine for telephone line, but is a real pain for more modern services.
The end result is that you will often have areas that seem like nice places to live, but where broadband has been "anyday now" for the past couple of years. And no one wants to spend the coin on the upgrade, because they will also be setting up their competition as well.
So people sit around fuming, waiting for broadband, getting pissed in the meantime.
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This reminded me of the night in O'Rourke's when McHugh asked this guy why he carried a gun and the guy said he lived in a dangerous neighborhood and McHugh said it would be safer if he moved.
Do you still receive hate mail today?
No, not in a long time. Maybe that will change if my whereabouts are known. I've been keeping a rather low profile in recent years.
Canter hasn't practiced law since 1995. Six years ago, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he's been developing software to help traders analyze stock options.
I am sure that some newspaper in the SF/SJ area would be more than happy to feature his face in an article.
This is a great example of a content-free post masquerading as information. You should no more believe that than you should believe
well, as an american, I heard it from a brit. So I am supposed to use his language only in decribing it? Besides, there is this 1998 UK gov document addressing the problem of "neighborhood renewal". Note especially item number ten in the list. And yes, They actually use the term neighborhood.
heck I can go to the Roxbury Projects nerar Boston to see the same thing. any other number of big cities where high rises were built that destroyed a community.
I am sure that there are not any lack of witnesses in any city around the counry, US, or UK, all available to provide the anectdotal evidence that pains you so much. this of course dates back to the 1960's before they came up with interesting theories of Social Impact via Architecture, which actually validates the points I made in an off the cuff fashion.
The design of 1930's flats were achieved via Natural selection over many many years, and had the lowest levels of crime. Other designs did not have the benefit of this, and failed miserably, even though based on the most modernb of social theories, had the best architects, etc.
This debate on the pros and cons of manufacturing in the economy is so utterly naive and devoid of hard facts that it really should be shot and left outside.
There is also the US Census Data on Business, if you really want to get into the bloody details.
'Don't even talk to me about spending money replacing something that works. The only question that is relevant is -- what does it cost to fix it if it doesn't work?'"
I remember a story somebody told me once. There use to be this neighborhood with a thousand little shops in a city in England. You could get almost anything you wanted there. Enter the bureaucrats. TheY see squalor and poverty. Enter the bulldozers, the high rise complexes, etc, Now the place really is poor, whereas before most were gainfully employed somehow, etc.
The old situation was aworking living community. The new situation was a death trap.
So the maxim applies to coding, to social policy, and a number of other places.
Sometime the new solutions are far worse than the old problems, despite what marketing says.
Which avoids the national security issues of having our manufacturing base in someone elses back yard.
It is the old internationalist'globalist argument vs the progressives. Globalism has its place is a peaceful world. Even then, the damage to your own local economy can be cruel. Look at any city where there to to be small time manufacturing. New York, for example. No manufacturing = less jobs. Or maybe the job is less than equal to what was there before. A generation or two can go to waste.
This is the whole thing of switching from manufacturing to service industry. Would you trade your job for flipping burgers at Burger King?
On the tech side, I recently had an argument with someone who insisted that because of the HB-1 program, tech jobs for americans were going to foreign nationals, making tech jobs for americans impossible to find, regardless of the recession. He cited one company where most of the local management was non-US, bypassing qualified local people.
"Once companies begin to outsource, they never go back," Mr. Lam, 53, said in an interview at his office here, in a suburb of Taipei. "When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical."
The implications for the US are interesting. The removal of manufascturing jobs from the US means there are less decent paying jobs in the US, tightening the Job Market.
There are also national security issues, especially in Tiawan, known not only for earthquakes, but for the proximity to a neighbor to the west who is looking forwood to the day when they can regain control of the island. To have a major center of US technology manufacture right next to a major potential enemy is not a smart strategy.
This is part of a much bigger picture, which includes the HB-1 visas, etc. All of which does not bode well for American technology workers in the long term.
the working stiffs
You arrogant asshole! What makes you think these people are 'stiffs' just because they are not consumed by some stupid, quasi-autistic tech fixation? I conclude these 'stiffs' include your boss and the CEO right?
Which is the attitude I was critcizing, the Us vs Them attitude between technology haves and have nots.
This is very easily seen in comedy pages about tech support horror stories, Like
Computer Stupidities. This is evidence of what happens when geek culture separates from the culture of those around it.
The major problems space travel consist of two elements, the thechnology, and the people.
Spending six months to a year or more in isloation, especially in a very small room no bigger than, and maybe smaller that a college dorm room, with only the food and entertainment you brought with you, can be very stressful.
Heck, for the nearest current equivalent look at antarctica, where they get snowed in for the winter, and thay have much larger facilities. While now they have email, etc, they are still pretty isolated, and start to get a little wacky after just the few months of social isolation. The culture starts to evolve and drift based on the unique events on the base.
It is sort of like a bunch of geeks working at a big company. The geeks form their own culture, and are somwhat isolatedfrom the main body of people, even when bumbing into a ton of people in the hall way. Who are the aliens there? the geeks or the working stiffs?
heck, you even see this in religion, those isolated communities off in the desert, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't recall if it is supposed ot be NOVA or Frontline, and will have to wait a few days for the promo to show up on the websites. The are still in the march schedul
But after cracking open several samples with Hop-On's name and kangaroo logo, The Chronicle found the "revolutionary" device appeared to be little more than a jury-rigged Nokia in a new plastic shell.
Underneath the red plastic casing, one sample was clearly labeled inside as a "Nokia 8260."
yep looks like it fits the pattern, I would say.
I was thinking of using a yugo.
Now the interesthing thing on this is a thing called a "design patent"
As seen on the Patent Office Site:
This is a patent on things like the distinctive shape of a bottle, the grill of a car, etc. There is a whole art and legal science to this. It is used to keep designs unique between competitors.Apple could probably get a design patent on the look and feel of their OS, separate from the functionality. They are apparently relatively easy to get.
The real worry is if someone like Ford were to see something like this (if I used a Ford car) and got out the legal eagles for "degrading the reputation of their product" by depicting their car on the net with MS colors.
Find a compact car someplace, and paint it all in mismatched panel colors using the Microsoft Color scheme. Stick a Microsoft Logo or Name plate back of the car.
Make sure the car is an older car. Drive it around Town. Everytime people see the car they think of MS. Everytime they think of MS, they see the car. I bet it would even make the Newspapers.
Guerilla marketing against MS at it's best.
Of Course, there would have to be a webpage dedicated to the MS Car Project.
The proper response is an open, effective and cheaper solution (guess).
Of course we would prefer to promote Linux. But why not help nail MS at the same time?
I'm thinking of something similar to those car ads where owner one keeps asking owner two if the model he has, has same features.
They could have a purple Mercedes or some other obviously nice quality vehicle. standing next to a Yugo with all the body panels and doors in mismatched Microsoft colors. Even just a picture of the two vehicles in profile, side by side, with the line "which one would you want?"
for the extra twist of the knife the drivers in the Yugo can squeel that "you don't have to know what you're doing when you own one of these".
Heck I right now freely give Sun the permission to use this idea. No Cost. No such permission is granted to anyone promoting Microsoft.
The end result is that you will often have areas that seem like nice places to live, but where broadband has been "anyday now" for the past couple of years. And no one wants to spend the coin on the upgrade, because they will also be setting up their competition as well.
So people sit around fuming, waiting for broadband, getting pissed in the meantime.
Good stuff.
Home Page here:
www.idquantique.com/index.html
Nothing for Linux or Mac OSX?
Some of which seems a bit odd.
This reminded me of the night in O'Rourke's when McHugh asked this guy why he carried a gun and the guy said he lived in a dangerous neighborhood and McHugh said it would be safer if he moved.
Although there is no accounting for taste.
Not so fast.
There are some cockroaches, you step on the, and all they do is get mad. You have to splat them with a hammer. Of course, you could always get some as pets. Nevermind the ones in Florida that fly imported from Asia.
the little cockroach and fly robots with tiny cameras that peek in on people.
The time to really worry is when these show up as radio shack kits in about 10 to 20 years.
No one get all paranoid now.
No, not in a long time. Maybe that will change if my whereabouts are known. I've been keeping a rather low profile in recent years.
Canter hasn't practiced law since 1995. Six years ago, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he's been developing software to help traders analyze stock options.
I am sure that some newspaper in the SF/SJ area would be more than happy to feature his face in an article.
He should have publicity. Lots of it. He should be well known as the man who invented spam,complete with photos, etc.
There should be dartboards with his face on it.
People would probably boycott him on this basis. I know I would.
well, as an american, I heard it from a brit. So I am supposed to use his language only in decribing it? Besides, there is this 1998 UK gov document addressing the problem of "neighborhood renewal". Note especially item number ten in the list. And yes, They actually use the term neighborhood.
heck I can go to the Roxbury Projects nerar Boston to see the same thing. any other number of big cities where high rises were built that destroyed a community.
I am sure that there are not any lack of witnesses in any city around the counry, US, or UK, all available to provide the anectdotal evidence that pains you so much. this of course dates back to the 1960's before they came up with interesting theories of Social Impact via Architecture, which actually validates the points I made in an off the cuff fashion.
The design of 1930's flats were achieved via Natural selection over many many years, and had the lowest levels of crime. Other designs did not have the benefit of this, and failed miserably, even though based on the most modernb of social theories, had the best architects, etc.
There is also the US Census Data on Business, if you really want to get into the bloody details.
facts are good.
I remember a story somebody told me once. There use to be this neighborhood with a thousand little shops in a city in England. You could get almost anything you wanted there. Enter the bureaucrats. TheY see squalor and poverty. Enter the bulldozers, the high rise complexes, etc, Now the place really is poor, whereas before most were gainfully employed somehow, etc.
The old situation was aworking living community. The new situation was a death trap.
So the maxim applies to coding, to social policy, and a number of other places.
Sometime the new solutions are far worse than the old problems, despite what marketing says.
Reminds me of a Ferengi proverb somehow.
It is the old internationalist'globalist argument vs the progressives. Globalism has its place is a peaceful world. Even then, the damage to your own local economy can be cruel. Look at any city where there to to be small time manufacturing. New York, for example. No manufacturing = less jobs. Or maybe the job is less than equal to what was there before. A generation or two can go to waste.
This is the whole thing of switching from manufacturing to service industry. Would you trade your job for flipping burgers at Burger King?
On the tech side, I recently had an argument with someone who insisted that because of the HB-1 program, tech jobs for americans were going to foreign nationals, making tech jobs for americans impossible to find, regardless of the recession. He cited one company where most of the local management was non-US, bypassing qualified local people.
Bottom line: things are not right around here.
The implications for the US are interesting. The removal of manufascturing jobs from the US means there are less decent paying jobs in the US, tightening the Job Market.
There are also national security issues, especially in Tiawan, known not only for earthquakes, but for the proximity to a neighbor to the west who is looking forwood to the day when they can regain control of the island. To have a major center of US technology manufacture right next to a major potential enemy is not a smart strategy.
This is part of a much bigger picture, which includes the HB-1 visas, etc. All of which does not bode well for American technology workers in the long term.
"News for Nerds, Stuff that matters."
(I'll take my beating in private)
Which is the attitude I was critcizing, the Us vs Them attitude between technology haves and have nots.
This is very easily seen in comedy pages about tech support horror stories, Like Computer Stupidities. This is evidence of what happens when geek culture separates from the culture of those around it.
Note: in the USA "Working Stiffs" is a generic slang for people who work for a living, vs those born to money, and is a common enough term, and is not usually confused with the dead, except for moments of humor or irony.
People who recognize the term realize it is a term of respect.
Spending six months to a year or more in isloation, especially in a very small room no bigger than, and maybe smaller that a college dorm room, with only the food and entertainment you brought with you, can be very stressful.
Heck, for the nearest current equivalent look at antarctica, where they get snowed in for the winter, and thay have much larger facilities. While now they have email, etc, they are still pretty isolated, and start to get a little wacky after just the few months of social isolation. The culture starts to evolve and drift based on the unique events on the base.
It is sort of like a bunch of geeks working at a big company. The geeks form their own culture, and are somwhat isolatedfrom the main body of people, even when bumbing into a ton of people in the hall way. Who are the aliens there? the geeks or the working stiffs?
heck, you even see this in religion, those isolated communities off in the desert, etc.