That said, the site to torture the creaures mentioned in the interview will amuse some folks
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whether a company is thinking long-term or short-term.
Since many companies are under the obligation to maximize profits, often in fear of legal suites, etc. Then you can bet that the short term outlook will be selected first.
This is in fact one of the major reasons for USian corporate greed, that you will be sued by trigger happy lawyers if you do anything else BUT work for maximum profits regardless of the motivation.
I am ever so reminded of the "Robber Barons" of the late 1800s. They were not brought under control until the Anti-trust legislation introduced during the 1910 - 1920 period.
At this rate, we'll need another dozen years or so before appropriate legislation is forthcoming. Bill Gates as the Rockerfeller of the Desktop is not a pleasant a picture as some would like. And yet there are many who are sentimental and nostalgic for those times, which were not bad if you were upperclass.
Normally I recommend to most people that they purchase one or two levels below the top level. I feel that paying maybe 50% to 100% more for maybe 5 or 10% performance increase is not really worth it, especially when waiting a few months will bring bring the processor within reasonable cost.
Otherwise I am spending thousands of extra dollars for the "blessing" of being on the bleeding edge.
I can see the need to shorten compile times, etc. especially for big projects. But otherwise I look at 'good enough"
"Most U.S. engineers with experience in the CRT industry are retired, and finding good people in this field was very hard," Kalar said. Extreme Devices received what Kalar called "a godsend" when LG Electronics decided to close the former Zenith CRT manufacturing facility in Melrose Park, Ill., in October 1998, the same time that Extreme Devices was staffing up.
Part of this was the close down of many manufacturing sectors in the USA. Most TV makers are now non-US, or are US in name only, for example
I know of several folks who will rant at the drop of a hat on this subject alone.
Probably would dispense with a gui for most applications. get rid of all that overhead. Especially since the peripheral device (tv, vcr, etc) would supply its own interface. But we have this:
According to the sources, local area networks will be used to connect PCs installed with the operating system to TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators and other home appliances, giving great flexibility in controlling home appliances. But we also have this
Strangely this ties in well with the comments I made (1, 2) on the X Box sequel story The possibility of abuse of any technology has to be watched. This story on the Whitdot website reveals one aspect
of business leaders trying to use technology to their advantadge.
There are many advantadges to this technology, but there is the flip side of this.
For example, the X-Box sequel fits nicely into this kind of setup. And obviously MS wants to be in this market. Do you trust Microsoft?
Actually, it is more a matter of the advatadges of the technology vs your trust or lack of trust for the big corporations. Which gets us into the whole Anti Globalist thing. I am not so sure of that as well. It spins out of control into a flame war of the evils of technology vs the evils of no technology really fast.
In which it is noted, "The next generation of products capable of utilizing an array of content from the network for information and communication will include: TVs, phones, PDAs and traditional appliances, such as air conditioners.
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You are also invited to look at the Universal Plug and Play Site: http://www.upnp.org
UPnP technology applies to proximity networks in homes, small businesses, or commercial buildings. For example, the network in Figure 1 could be in a hospital lab, connecting a cell counter, chromatograph, and blood analyzer; in an office, connecting a print server, fax machine, DSL router, and HVAC controller; in a factory, connecting a PLC, machine-tool controller, and conveyor-belt controller; or in a process plant, connecting setpoint controllers, smart sensors, and a PLC
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UPnP-enabled devices or control points have six layers of functions (Figure 3 ). Layers 0, 1, and 2 are fundamental; they exist in all devices and control points. Layers 3, 4, and 5 are optional. Control points can initiate an action on a device (layer 3). Many devices offer only event messaging (layer 4); the device creates an event, and a control point listens for the event. Devices can send data or the results of an action they have taken without initiating a control point. Some devices might provide a control point with only a presentation user interface (layer 5). The control point's browser displays the device's Web user interface. This user interface may either display events or status or control the device.
I also point you to This article on WhiteDot.org in which an anti-television activist infiltrated a meeting of Industry leaders trying to get organize "Interactive TV"
That being said, and given MS's reputation for sterling and unblemished integrity, well, anything is possible.
Have a good evening. The original comment was somewhat tongue in cheek, but this does not mean it was devoid of facts. Unless you really do trust MS.
Note that alot of these stories came out over the weekend of Sept 8 - 10 , 2001. (not all are listed here). So it is understandable that folks might not remember that news in light of subsequent events.
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a webcam so MS can spy on you, and make sure you are not pirating their software.
Integrate into your home network via the Universal Plug and Play, again to make sure you surrender all possible excess cash into the MS Coffers.
Set the groundwork for MS World Domination 2.0, by setting up the groundwork for the Microsoft House. How would you like your refridgerator to rat on you to MS?
Like I have said before. I used to like MS stuff, but now everything they do has me looking at them with increased distrust and scepticism. The technology they propose may be interesting, but they continue to earn my disdain and distrust. I must ask the question, where did they steal it from?
we plan on selling our LINUX based operating systems over the Internet to very sophisticated and discriminating customers who would not be confused that our product was created or sponsored by Microsoft.
[snort] A subtle slam if there ever was one.
In other words, "you may be content to selling to the less sophisticated and less discriminating mass market."
The Patent was awarded November 1997, but was filed in Dec 1994.
Scanning through the patent, the patent seems to be filed on a mathematical system. of course I may have this wrong, but the language of the patent is filled with it.
It is like trying to patent arithmetic, but making it so complex that it is not obvious to most people looking at it.
even if it was in unicode, you should be able to see a repeating pattern of something.
personally, I think that the best gimmick would be to encode a small picture of a message into another larger picture. That would mess up the search for plain text;-)
This is sort of like wanting everyone to obey USian laws without the US obeying theirs.
It becomes a matter of disrespect for national self rule. Also it is a matter of foreign policy being dictated by greed of business interests, morte than anything else.
I somehow like the old system where there always was a place on the planet that was outside the reach of the grasping hand of your local government. This is starting to go away now. Not yet, but soon.
IBM had at least one paper looking into OOP and it's relationship to Quantum Mechanics. The best paper is entitled "Is Schrager's Cat Object-Oriented?", which you can download as a pdf, etc. (yes, that is the name of the paper on the site)
This may be useful in the broader perspective of applying OOP to real life. Their are plenty of papers up on the IBM site that are worthwhile, even if searching for them could be inconvenient.
IBM had at least one paper looking into OOP and it's relationship to Quantum Mechanics. The best paper is entitled "Is Schrager's Cat Object-Oriented?", which you can download as a pdf, etc. (yes, that is the name of the paper on the site)
This may be useful in the broader perspective of applying OOP to real life. There are plenty of papers up on the IBM site that are worthwhile, even if searching for them could be inconvenient.
You measure the conductivity of distilled water to determine the purity of the water. when you get to megohms per centimeter, you are not doing bad.
The problem of course is the quantity of dust in the average computer. Any leaks are going to automatically create impure water as soon as it hits a dusty chip. This may not be good.
Here is the quick list of winners. Quite items of note are winners Linus Torvald, and Shawn Fanning (founder of Napster)
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BIOTECHNOLOGY - Winner: Dr Craig Venter, President & CEO, Celera Genomics Inc., USA. Dr Venter was selected for his work on sequencing the human genome.
COMMERCE - Winner: Mr Linus Torvalds, Programmer, Transmeta Corp., USA. Linus Torvalds was selected for his work on Linux and the Open Source Software Paradigm.
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY - Winner: Mr Robert Metcalfe, Vice-President Technology, International Data Group Inc., USA. Robert Metcalfe was selected for his work as the inventor of the Ethernet and the founder of 3Com.
EDUCATION - Winner Dr Venkataraman Balaji, Head/Principal Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India.
ENERGY - Winner: Dr Paul MacCready, Chairman, AeroVironment Inc., USA. Paul MacCready was selected for his considerable work in the area of flight technology and solar-powered transport.
ENTERTAINMENT - Winner: Mr Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster Inc., USA.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Winner: Mr Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster Inc., USA.
ENVIRONMENT - Winner: Dr Geoffrey Ballard, Founder, Ballard Power Systems Inc., USA. Geoffrey Ballard was selected for his work as the founder of the leading fuel-cell manufacturer, Ballard Power Systems.
ETHICS - Winner: Dr Sharon Beder, Faculty Member, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia.
FINANCE - Winner: Mr Thomas Weisel, Founder and Chairman, Thomas Weisel Partners, USA.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - HARDWARE - Winner: Mr Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corp., USA. Gordon Moore was selected for his work at IntelCorp., which he co-founded in 1968.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - SOFTWARE - Winner: Prof. Olivier Faugeras, Research Director, ROBOTVIS Group Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit, INRIA, France. REALVIZ creates commercial products for the film and advertising industries, amongst others, using geometric information to reconstruct 3D scenes and co-ordinate artificial elements
LAW - Winner: Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University, USA.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS - Winner: Mr Mark Viken, Senior Vice President, Information Technology Products Division, Sony Electronics Inc., USA.
MATERIALS - Winner: Prof. George Whitesides, Professor of Bioorganic/Physical Organic Chemistry & Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA. George Whitesides has pioneered the development of 'soft lithography'. This microfabrication technology is having a tremendous impact in many areas of micro- and nanofabrication.
MEDIA & JOURNALISM - Winner: Mr John Markoff, Technology Correspondent, New York Times, USA.
POLICY - Winner: Prof. Christopher Freeman, Professor Emeritus, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Winner: Mr Agus Gunarto, Managing Program/NGO Worker, Yayasan Rona Alam (Rona Alam Foundation), Indonesia.
SPACE - Winner: Prof. Martin Sweeting, Director, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Surrey Space Centre, UK. Since 1979, Professor Sweeting's team at the University of Surrey has pioneered engineering techniques for small satellites and has developed a series of highly capable, yet inexpensive micro-satellites, built for around US$3 million each.
THE ARTS - Winner: Mrs. Steina Vasulka, Artist, Art and Science Laboratory, USA & Mr Woody Vasulka, Artist, Art and Science Laboratory, USA.
TRANSPORTATION - Winner: Governor Jaime Lerner, Governor of Paraná, Brazil.
You're right on the Johnny Mnemonic thing, but hey, if I could plug a module in my head that stored an entire encyclopedia and be able to access it like it were an adjunct to my own memory think what a benefit that would be in so many environments
Unfortunately, learning to use such an interface would likely require several years of education.
Also, merely having access to the raw data does not bestow understanding, since understanding requires understanding the relationships of the data to each other and to the real world. That is part of what you get in a college education - you work out how things go together.
Sadly, there may not be an easy shortcut to this aspect of the process. Otherwise you wind up with an educated idiot. And the world has enough of those already.
I suppose you could call this a momentary lucid act in an ongoing period of questionable policy. There are many folks that feel that the Three Gorges Dam Project is quite insane.
Although they had to do something as far as their river control problem, this might not have been the best solution
Just in case you missed this story on another site.
England's Student Magazine has a article each week telling students about different jobs, so that readers can get an idea about what different jobs are like. The most recently featured job has to be in the running for the Worst Job Ever award. Zoo worker Mohd. Binatang bin Goncang of Singagore certainly wins the "Worst Job in Singapore", for his job as a Zoo Sperm Bank worker. The Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which runs the Singapore Zoo, has set up a bank of sperm and animal tissue in order to help preserve endangered species. And someone has to collect the samples. Daily.
Yes this is tasteless.
Yes, it is educational.
Because there are some jobs in some fields that you really do not want to have.
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That said, the site to torture the creaures mentioned in the interview will amuse some folks
Since many companies are under the obligation to maximize profits, often in fear of legal suites, etc. Then you can bet that the short term outlook will be selected first.
This is in fact one of the major reasons for USian corporate greed, that you will be sued by trigger happy lawyers if you do anything else BUT work for maximum profits regardless of the motivation.
At this rate, we'll need another dozen years or so before appropriate legislation is forthcoming. Bill Gates as the Rockerfeller of the Desktop is not a pleasant a picture as some would like. And yet there are many who are sentimental and nostalgic for those times, which were not bad if you were upperclass.
Ice balls would tend to melt and blow up into a many little pieces just nicely
Rocky asteroids also tend to shatter into lots of pieces, but are a bit tougher.
Metallic asteroids tend to stay solid, and are a bit of a pain.
for a real revolution in computing, you have to change the minds of people.
The Americans had wanted to stay British, but essentially got insulted and pushed out of the British empire.
In a similar vein, I used to like MS, but have gotten more bitter over time.
Of course it is comedy the Dave Barry continues to hope that Windows will turn out alright one of these days.
;-)
Otherwise I am spending thousands of extra dollars for the "blessing" of being on the bleeding edge.
I can see the need to shorten compile times, etc. especially for big projects. But otherwise I look at 'good enough"
Part of this was the close down of many manufacturing sectors in the USA. Most TV makers are now non-US, or are US in name only, for example
I know of several folks who will rant at the drop of a hat on this subject alone.
Strangely this ties in well with the comments I made (1, 2) on the X Box sequel story The possibility of abuse of any technology has to be watched. This story on the Whitdot website reveals one aspect of business leaders trying to use technology to their advantadge.
There are many advantadges to this technology, but there is the flip side of this.
For example, the X-Box sequel fits nicely into this kind of setup. And obviously MS wants to be in this market. Do you trust Microsoft?
Actually, it is more a matter of the advatadges of the technology vs your trust or lack of trust for the big corporations. Which gets us into the whole Anti Globalist thing. I am not so sure of that as well. It spins out of control into a flame war of the evils of technology vs the evils of no technology really fast.
Fortunately, MS has a reputation for crashing. and it was somewaht tongue in cheek. maybe I should have added a smiley
On the other hand, it is not totally out of the question. For example, there is this old press release:
http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/stories/stor y2/0,1072,10079,00.html
In which it is noted, "The next generation of products capable of utilizing an array of content from the network for information and communication will include: TVs, phones, PDAs and traditional appliances, such as air conditioners. "
You are also invited to look at the Universal Plug and Play Site: http://www.upnp.org
There is also this article where it is noted:
I also point you to This article on WhiteDot.org in which an anti-television activist infiltrated a meeting of Industry leaders trying to get organize "Interactive TV"That being said, and given MS's reputation for sterling and unblemished integrity, well, anything is possible.
Have a good evening. The original comment was somewhat tongue in cheek, but this does not mean it was devoid of facts. Unless you really do trust MS.
http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/06/232 2259.shtm l - Sept 06 2001
Therefore, we have a mental block that wiped from memory what would have been important news at the time, if it wasn't due to other events.
Since MS always wants to keep all of their plans secret, I guess you can call this a case of the "damndest luck".
Note that alot of these stories came out over the weekend of Sept 8 - 10 , 2001. (not all are listed here). So it is understandable that folks might not remember that news in light of subsequent events.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/21536.h
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Integrate into your home network via the Universal Plug and Play, again to make sure you surrender all possible excess cash into the MS Coffers.
Set the groundwork for MS World Domination 2.0, by setting up the groundwork for the Microsoft House. How would you like your refridgerator to rat on you to MS?
Like I have said before. I used to like MS stuff, but now everything they do has me looking at them with increased distrust and scepticism. The technology they propose may be interesting, but they continue to earn my disdain and distrust. I must ask the question, where did they steal it from?
[snort] A subtle slam if there ever was one.
In other words, "you may be content to selling to the less sophisticated and less discriminating mass market."
The torture of it all.
The Patent was awarded November 1997, but was filed in Dec 1994.
Scanning through the patent, the patent seems to be filed on a mathematical system. of course I may have this wrong, but the language of the patent is filled with it.
It is like trying to patent arithmetic, but making it so complex that it is not obvious to most people looking at it.
personally, I think that the best gimmick would be to encode a small picture of a message into another larger picture. That would mess up the search for plain text ;-)
It becomes a matter of disrespect for national self rule. Also it is a matter of foreign policy being dictated by greed of business interests, morte than anything else.
I somehow like the old system where there always was a place on the planet that was outside the reach of the grasping hand of your local government. This is starting to go away now. Not yet, but soon.
This may be useful in the broader perspective of applying OOP to real life. Their are plenty of papers up on the IBM site that are worthwhile, even if searching for them could be inconvenient.
This may be useful in the broader perspective of applying OOP to real life. There are plenty of papers up on the IBM site that are worthwhile, even if searching for them could be inconvenient.
The problem of course is the quantity of dust in the average computer. Any leaks are going to automatically create impure water as soon as it hits a dusty chip. This may not be good.
My Guess is that it is the wind, and that his head makeas a lousy whistle because it is too soft.
;-)
Here is the quick list of winners. Quite items of note are winners Linus Torvald, and Shawn Fanning (founder of Napster)
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BIOTECHNOLOGY - Winner: Dr Craig Venter, President & CEO, Celera Genomics Inc., USA. Dr Venter was selected for his work on sequencing the human genome.
COMMERCE - Winner: Mr Linus Torvalds, Programmer, Transmeta Corp., USA. Linus Torvalds was selected for his work on Linux and the Open Source Software Paradigm.
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY - Winner: Mr Robert Metcalfe, Vice-President Technology, International Data Group Inc., USA. Robert Metcalfe was selected for his work as the inventor of the Ethernet and the founder of 3Com.
DESIGN - Winner: Mr Stefano Marzano, CEO, Philips Design, Italy.
EDUCATION - Winner Dr Venkataraman Balaji, Head/Principal Scientist, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), India.
ENERGY - Winner: Dr Paul MacCready, Chairman, AeroVironment Inc., USA. Paul MacCready was selected for his considerable work in the area of flight technology and solar-powered transport.
ENTERTAINMENT - Winner: Mr Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster Inc., USA.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Winner: Mr Shawn Fanning, Founder, Napster Inc., USA.
ENVIRONMENT - Winner: Dr Geoffrey Ballard, Founder, Ballard Power Systems Inc., USA. Geoffrey Ballard was selected for his work as the founder of the leading fuel-cell manufacturer, Ballard Power Systems.
ETHICS - Winner: Dr Sharon Beder, Faculty Member, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia.
FINANCE - Winner: Mr Thomas Weisel, Founder and Chairman, Thomas Weisel Partners, USA.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - HARDWARE - Winner: Mr Gordon Moore, Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corp., USA. Gordon Moore was selected for his work at IntelCorp., which he co-founded in 1968.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - SOFTWARE - Winner: Prof. Olivier Faugeras, Research Director, ROBOTVIS Group Sophia-Antipolis Research Unit, INRIA, France. REALVIZ creates commercial products for the film and advertising industries, amongst others, using geometric information to reconstruct 3D scenes and co-ordinate artificial elements
LAW - Winner: Prof. Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford University, USA.
MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS - Winner: Mr Mark Viken, Senior Vice President, Information Technology Products Division, Sony Electronics Inc., USA.
MATERIALS - Winner: Prof. George Whitesides, Professor of Bioorganic/Physical Organic Chemistry & Materials Science, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, USA. George Whitesides has pioneered the development of 'soft lithography'. This microfabrication technology is having a tremendous impact in many areas of micro- and nanofabrication.
MEDIA & JOURNALISM - Winner: Mr John Markoff, Technology Correspondent, New York Times, USA.
POLICY - Winner: Prof. Christopher Freeman, Professor Emeritus, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK.
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP - Winner: Mr Agus Gunarto, Managing Program/NGO Worker, Yayasan Rona Alam (Rona Alam Foundation), Indonesia.
SPACE - Winner: Prof. Martin Sweeting, Director, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Surrey Space Centre, UK. Since 1979, Professor Sweeting's team at the University of Surrey has pioneered engineering techniques for small satellites and has developed a series of highly capable, yet inexpensive micro-satellites, built for around US$3 million each.
THE ARTS - Winner: Mrs. Steina Vasulka, Artist, Art and Science Laboratory, USA & Mr Woody Vasulka, Artist, Art and Science Laboratory, USA.
TRANSPORTATION - Winner: Governor Jaime Lerner, Governor of Paraná, Brazil.
Unfortunately, learning to use such an interface would likely require several years of education.
Also, merely having access to the raw data does not bestow understanding, since understanding requires understanding the relationships of the data to each other and to the real world. That is part of what you get in a college education - you work out how things go together.
Sadly, there may not be an easy shortcut to this aspect of the process. Otherwise you wind up with an educated idiot. And the world has enough of those already.
Although they had to do something as far as their river control problem, this might not have been the best solution
Yes, it is educational.
Because there are some jobs in some fields that you really do not want to have.