Regarding the "publicly accessible" wireless networks that are supposedly springing up, why not setup a nice transparent stateful firewall to only allow outgoing (and their resulting replies) connections? That way if your neighbor, or "the public" want to use your broadband connection, they can do so wirelessly, but only to make outbound connections. Granted, they could setup a VPN or some such to get a public IP for unrestricted inbound/outbound traffic. Just monitor the system and keep extensive connection logs (no, that's not packet sniffing logons and passwords;)).
Of course, why are you letting other people surf through your connection for free? Another issue, for another Slashdot article.
Simplicity is the correct answer, Intel clearly didn't understand the question.
That's assuming they were listening in the first place.
If Intel had big plans for the long run, they'd create a "simple" processor, let's take the original Pentium as a bad example:
Add MMX. Customers upgrade.
Change processor form factor. Upgrades galore.
Add SSE. More upgrades.
Change proessor form factor again. Upgrade.
Change form factor, add SSE2 and slap on a few marketing terms. Further upgrades.
The advantage is each time you can say the processor is "new and improved" so people will buy new ones. Does it really matter that a Pentium III 600 is more than enough power for 90% of computer owners? Of course not.
What makes me laugh, though, is how Intel switched to the Slot 1 form factor so it would be easier for customers to install processors (how often does that really happen?) and then switched back. I'll bet they were planning it all along.
for me, it means single instruction xor for the 64 bit hash codes used in chess transposition tables
Watch where you say that, or you'll be using that nifty Itanium to repel the hordes of women instinctively flocking to you like the salmon of Capistrano.
Why is there a reserve price? It would be foolish for the seller to think they could make money selling a giant butter sculpture (let alone one that looks like a PDA). They should be trying as hard as they possibly can to get rid of it...
Then there's the continual monetary drain due to needing to keep the sculpture refrigerated (who has a refrigerator that big?). They must pay someone to keep it refrigerated for them.
If I were the seller, I'd have no reserve and a low "Buy Now" price. Come to think of it, if I were the seller, I never would have ended up with a fifty pound butter PDA in the first place.
Why don't chips compete on power consumption and battery life?
I think we can all agree that the latest and greatest chips are grossly overpowered for the average consumer, even the average gamer.
So in this age of power crises in California, why not sell laptops or desktops that are smaller and consume less power? I personally want a laptop that will run eight to ten hours on a battery.
Right now, I have a ThinkPad 570 that has every feature I want. It has a Pentium II Mobile at 366 Mhz. I can watch DVDs (granted, I have a hardware decoder PCMCIA card), browse the web, check email, even play games (Fallout Tactics) and I have no complaints at all. Battery life is two to three hours, depending on what I'm doing.
Meanwhile, Intel and AMD are releasing gigahertz processors for laptops. Why? Laptops are not gaming machines. Laptops are for a portable office. Most usage is email, word processing and internet access. By designing what is now a Pentium III 1.13 Ghz to instead be 500 Mhz, you could save money and power (while still making use of the SpeedStep features to further reduce clock cycles while on battery).
Truly "on the go" laptops could be smaller and lighter with longer run times. High end "desktop replacement" laptops could still use the full speed processors and the powerhouse video cards which spank my Voodoo 3.
Desktops could likewise be smaller, using the same features. Most desktops are available with build-in everything, so expansion bays/slots could be kept to a minimum.
Another advantage of this is that one could create silent computers, similar to the Apple G4 Cube. Less heat generation means less fans and that means silence.
Those who want to overclock are going to buy the high end processors anyways. But those building an MP3 server/player to integrate with their TV/stereo are not going to need a 2 Ghz processor. A 500 Mhz Pentium III (0.13 micron process) would simply need a heatsink and some airflow.
I welcome the day when megahertz is something you need to look to the "technical specs" page (and I mean technical).
Apparently, the PCI card itself detects (physical?) intrusion attempts. What exactly it does when an attempt is made would be nice to know..
Does it shut down?
Send a pack of dogs with bees in their mouths for you?
High amperage electrical shock?
Immediately, and permanently bond itself to the intruding device/intruder?
Explode a packet of purple paint?
So while that sounds good and all, it still is a PCI card. Is this a "Linux as an OS" product or a "Linux Embedded" product?
The major problem is the chipsets and the 20-year-old designs they're based around. Drop in full 32-or-more-bit DMA controllers or require all peripherals be bus-master capable, segregate the ISA bus to its own out-of-the-way 16MB window somewhere (see: Apollo DNx000 family), hardwire a handful of interrupts and a hardcoded address range to each slot (see: EISA), drop the legacy keyboard/mouse interface, and redo IDE entirely (see: SCSI). While we're at it, let's scrap BIOS and replace it with OpenBoot. Now there's a machine free of legacy crap that might be worth writing home about.
Geewiz, that sounds like my Mac (G3).
But you're right, there is a need for a chipset redesign, not a processor redesign (at least for now). Thankfully, Intel has the Itanium. It's a start, at the least.
My question is, what do IBM's Power-based systems use to boot?
No kidding. I am in awe of your astounding intellect. Please, bestow onto me your infinite wisdom, oh wise one.
How many of those Qwest customers had PWS (IIS) installed because they have no fucking clue what the hell they're doing? Probably just as many people who are demanding money back from Qwest.
...by the Code Red virus. A few entries in Apache's access_log but I didn't go down (nor did my PacBell DSL line). But I think I'll sue all of Qwest's customers (or maybe just the ones suing Qwest) for attempting to attack my system. That's cyber-terrorism, no? They should've been patched and my guess is a bunch of those morons were propogating the worm further. Who knows, maybe Qwest targetted some of their customers specifically who they thought (legitimately or not) were further propogating the worm.
That's not to say that I wouldn't love the excitement and pace of a new venture - I would. All the run-off from failed dot-coms are swamping every other sector, and that makes it pretty hard for your signal to rise above the noise and reach the ear of a potential employer.
Your initial post could have been any dot-commer crying about how their future is ruined. To be honest, what scares me is that "noise" is applying for jobs well above their head (and ass, they're in the same place, right?).
My job is fine for now, my boss wouldn't fire me for the world, but at the same time, I can't believe all the HTML web-monkeys who think they should be sysadmins/programmers just because their VCR doesn't flash 12:00. If I had to compete against these morons, could I?
Your frustration appeared (to me) to be dot-com-whiner syndrome.
You do raise a valid point that I think is important to reiterate.
The run-off is polluting the geek pool. But if you're swimming in the shallow end with the rest of the lobos, just stand up. You'll be heads and shoulders above the rest.
Perhaps you might want to try another headhunter. If they're not selling your skills (despite people wanting MCSEs -- maybe you should get that cert if it will get you a job) then it's time to switch. Maybe you've done that and still no luck. If that's the case, I'd go out on my own and sell my services. Get creative. If you're not going to get the job anyway it can't hurt to go a bit overboard trying to convince a potential employer that you're the right one to hire.
I'm not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying I can do it. But I realize it can be frustrating and it seems to me that you are one of the few the signals above the noise (run-off).
And now, as a result of idiocy of that scale across virtually the entire stock market, I find myself unemployed and unable to find a decent job. This really sucks.
Welcome to the real world.
May I repeat what you said? Thanks...
unable to find a decent job
See that? I'm crying. Oh, woe is you. That's called capitalism. That's the "old economy" for you.
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Who the hell came up with this "new economy" slogan anyways? Exactly what is so "new" about it? Nothing, other than the fact that a bunch of young, naive idiots managed to convince some old money that their ideas were "foolproof" as in "you fools can't tell we've got no idea what the hell we're doing."
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Are you a "new economy entrepreneur"? I don't think so. You're posting on Slashdot so I assume you have some common sense. But here you are whining about your misfortune. Are you mad you were suckered in too? Are you bitter because you feel it was "owed" to you? Do you think you have it hard? You're probably an intelligent person and you can probably actually perform your job duties. That alone puts you ahead of most of the other lobos (think lobotomy) "looking" for a job (more accurately, looking for a new job that's exactly like their old job).
Those of you who find yourself unemployed had better start flipping burgers and stop wallowing in your own misery. Maybe try and industry that isn't part of the "new economy."
Find yourself a "decent" job (you know, those kind that pay real money, not future riches). Try civil service. Perhaps the police, fire department, military, IRS, FBI, etc. They're not going away any time soon.
If you can't find a job locally, it's time to move. "Oh, I can't move, I love it here." You'll love it too, when you can't pay your rent and you're out on the street.
Take charge of your life.
You took a chance at (fame and) fortune and you lost. If you don't want to lose, don't play the game.
High school students and retirees are good for usability testing, but anyone who thinks they'll be good for security testing is crazy.
These two age groups are the actual voters themselves... they will be the ones physically voting at the polls. I guess the idea is if teenagers can figure it out, and the seniors can figure it out, then 30 - 50 year olds can figure it out. This is an excellent test to perform in tandem with your security test.
The hacker group is a separate group who may or may not be actually voting in the mock elections.
So, when these things finally hit the market, why would you buy it?
1. You have beer on tap (at your house of course) and need a way to cool it.
2. You have petroleum gas on tap, and need a way to use it.
3. You have neither on tap, but need a reason to get both (on tap).
This new jet-engine-cooler begs the question... is this truly the man's barbeque? It cools, it charbroils, it's a jet engine!
One small difficulty is you'd have to lash your fixins down lest they be blown into the next county.
You could use the rotary motion of the turbine to perform some useful function as well. Perhaps providing a mobile platform for the jetberque?
"The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant. "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive. But this is a business, not a government-sponsored network."
I hope that bastard is hit by a stray Webvan truck on his way home. How do these people get jobs? On a side note, I am also an "expert" and would like to be paid accordingly (I mean why not, I know various "hip internet terms" so I must be smart).
I think this individual read the back cover of a "1000 businesses you can run from your car for under $100" and decided he was an economic expert.
Actually, the Internet does follow economic "laws" (actually there are no economic "laws" just theory and statistical data). It's called price elasticity of demand. Demand is high because the price is low. If you raise the price, people will still buy, but probably not quite so much. The more you raise the price, the less people will use it. And there go the network effects (economic term, no pun intended, although I guess it really isn't a pun anyways) you'd be getting by having millions of users on the 'net.
So now you've got a giant fiber network around the world and no one's using it. Good job, you've proved another economic "law." You can't sell something people don't want. Welcome to the world of dot-bombs.
Companies like <Backbone provider> might make some money on QoS traffic but don't expect some company on the east coast making money off of me (on the west coast) simply because I want to use the Internet. Only internation corporations will be able to make money, and my guess is that they already are! Backbone providers aren't expanding their networks because it will please a bunch of "hippie anarchists" they do it because there is a profit to be made.
I think this "telecommunications consultant" needs to finish his BA (or is it BS:)) and start thinking about the whole system. It's a pyramid, folks, and the money starts at the top.
I like the picture on the front page of the article... Rick Hanson drops the TRS-80 from about three feet (approx a meter for those of you who've advanced far beyond us Americans by using the Metric system)... click the thumbnail at the top of the article.
I'd do this with my ThinkPad once, and then would have to think about it a while before doing so. I would survive, but there'd definitely be some superficial damage.
Now, how many times do you think Mr. Hanson has done that particular demonstration (actually, how many times do you think he did it for Carolyn Said (the reporter))?
"They very seldom need repair." -- Cathleen Cox
I'd hope so, I wonder how hard it is to get spare parts.
And, for those of you who don't read the article...
The laptop's lore is good for some nifty trivia questions. For example: Who wrote the Model 100's software? Answer: Bill Gates.
Was it that a giant (1 km I think) asteroid passed between the earth and the moon and astronomers noticed it after it had passed? Scary.
And then there's the CIA thinking a foreign country had detonated some nukes a few years ago, but it ends up they were just meteors/comets which had entered the atmosphere and did what they do best... vaporize and create one hell of a shockwave.
Of course, there's the obligatory "you'll never be hit by a meteorite" statement too... remember, that friction is quite powerful. And incoming objects start heating up way past the "atmosphere" as most (uneducated) people know it. By the time incoming objects hit the dense atmosphere (still well above the surface) they get frickin' hot and vaporize.
So for a meteor to actually hit you, it would have to be so large that it didn't vaporize completely. Let me tell you, if this meteor were to hit you, you should do two things. Buy a lottery ticket. Win a million billion dollars if you survive. Impacts of objects that size will leave very large craters and very dark, dark skies. Humans tend not to survive, but strange things have happened (like that flight attendant to fell 40,000 feet in the tail end of a plane and survived).
Seriously, though, something the size of a car is going to make a nice show of lights and such, but you'd better hope it vaporizes very, very high in the atmosphere.
1. Your wife (not implying that you paid for her, that's simply a large investment in time and money)
2. Your house (excellent investment)
3. Your car
4. Your computers
5. ?
...that "you're a criminal, you're stupid" touch. I'd like to see an extension of the original idea:
Take a nice Dell/Compaq/whoever box from a new PC. (For you computer guys/gals, I mean cardboard box, not the "computer" or "CPU" if I may use your lingo)
Get an old PC, do the concrete trick. Or, go one more and use lead or depleted uranium in lieu of concrete. Place computer in cardboard box and seal box (assuming you can lift the computer... a crane of some sort might be necessary).
Leave box on front porch with note from UPS. Video tape morons as they try to steal it. (You could even contact the police and participate in a massive sting operation). Post videos to website, and proceed to be slashdotted.
My neighborhood won't work for this, so I humbly beg an upstanding member of the community to push forth with these plans and then entertain us all with keen wit (and video evidence).
And that's why you set their shell to Word, Outlook, or whatever application they need to run. That way, there is only one application, and you don't even have to train them to "click on an icon." It loads automatically. But they probably padded their resume anyways when they said they know how to use Excel.
That also has the advantage of stopping them from browsing the web or otherwise wasting the company's money while they're at work doing personal things.
This would be necessary, of course, to include with a very restrictive system policy to lock down non-approved applications.
And before you "free-everything" loud mouths pipe up and say that infringes on people's rights or is not proper, try running a company. See how productive your employees are if you end up paying them to surf the web 2 hours a day, talk at the coffee machine another hour, and end up working 5 hours (and probably not working very hard either).
These are the kind of people you fire immediately. They have no "right to the web" at work. They can do this at home on their own time.
You know these users. The ones where you say, "Right click on Outlook" and they first move the mouse around while searching for the Outlook icon on the desktop (hopefully it hasn't moved yet or be prepared to wait 5 more minutes, unless you have the audacity to point it out for them), and then glance at the mouse to make sure they click the "right" button.
What's really sad, is that these people are often the sysadmins as well.
It's like slashing paintings in a gallery to stop someone stealing them.
So if someone were to, say, slash the tires on various RIAA figureheads, you could then argue that you were doing them a favor (beyond the obvious speed-hole benefit) in making it so no one will steal their tires. They won't notice the difference anyways (at least our test group didn't notice).
So, anyways, we want to be able to have a backup copy of our media because we all love Kenny G/John Tesh so much that their joint CD gets played 24/7 and gets too scratched to be useful (or is that just the copyright protection kicking in after too many uses?).
Why don't we just copy some US currency and then we can buy as many copies of KG/JT as we want. That's fair use, right? I'm just backing up my money in my wallet. Really!
For some reason, I was able to read the NYT article without registering (and I've never been to the site before). I just clicked the link this time because there wasn't the obligatory mention (in parentheses) that registration was required for the NYT site. Maybe it's "freebee" day.
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Regarding the "publicly accessible" wireless networks that are supposedly springing up, why not setup a nice transparent stateful firewall to only allow outgoing (and their resulting replies) connections? That way if your neighbor, or "the public" want to use your broadband connection, they can do so wirelessly, but only to make outbound connections. Granted, they could setup a VPN or some such to get a public IP for unrestricted inbound/outbound traffic. Just monitor the system and keep extensive connection logs (no, that's not packet sniffing logons and passwords ;)).
Of course, why are you letting other people surf through your connection for free? Another issue, for another Slashdot article.
Simplicity is the correct answer, Intel clearly didn't understand the question.
That's assuming they were listening in the first place.
If Intel had big plans for the long run, they'd create a "simple" processor, let's take the original Pentium as a bad example:
Add MMX. Customers upgrade.
Change processor form factor. Upgrades galore.
Add SSE. More upgrades.
Change proessor form factor again. Upgrade.
Change form factor, add SSE2 and slap on a few marketing terms. Further upgrades.
The advantage is each time you can say the processor is "new and improved" so people will buy new ones. Does it really matter that a Pentium III 600 is more than enough power for 90% of computer owners? Of course not.
What makes me laugh, though, is how Intel switched to the Slot 1 form factor so it would be easier for customers to install processors (how often does that really happen?) and then switched back. I'll bet they were planning it all along.
for me, it means single instruction xor for the 64 bit hash codes used in chess transposition tables
Watch where you say that, or you'll be using that nifty Itanium to repel the hordes of women instinctively flocking to you like the salmon of Capistrano.
Why is there a reserve price? It would be foolish for the seller to think they could make money selling a giant butter sculpture (let alone one that looks like a PDA). They should be trying as hard as they possibly can to get rid of it...
Then there's the continual monetary drain due to needing to keep the sculpture refrigerated (who has a refrigerator that big?). They must pay someone to keep it refrigerated for them.
If I were the seller, I'd have no reserve and a low "Buy Now" price. Come to think of it, if I were the seller, I never would have ended up with a fifty pound butter PDA in the first place.
Why don't chips compete on power consumption and battery life?
I think we can all agree that the latest and greatest chips are grossly overpowered for the average consumer, even the average gamer.
So in this age of power crises in California, why not sell laptops or desktops that are smaller and consume less power? I personally want a laptop that will run eight to ten hours on a battery.
Right now, I have a ThinkPad 570 that has every feature I want. It has a Pentium II Mobile at 366 Mhz. I can watch DVDs (granted, I have a hardware decoder PCMCIA card), browse the web, check email, even play games (Fallout Tactics) and I have no complaints at all. Battery life is two to three hours, depending on what I'm doing.
Meanwhile, Intel and AMD are releasing gigahertz processors for laptops. Why? Laptops are not gaming machines. Laptops are for a portable office. Most usage is email, word processing and internet access. By designing what is now a Pentium III 1.13 Ghz to instead be 500 Mhz, you could save money and power (while still making use of the SpeedStep features to further reduce clock cycles while on battery).
Truly "on the go" laptops could be smaller and lighter with longer run times. High end "desktop replacement" laptops could still use the full speed processors and the powerhouse video cards which spank my Voodoo 3.
Desktops could likewise be smaller, using the same features. Most desktops are available with build-in everything, so expansion bays/slots could be kept to a minimum.
Another advantage of this is that one could create silent computers, similar to the Apple G4 Cube. Less heat generation means less fans and that means silence.
Those who want to overclock are going to buy the high end processors anyways. But those building an MP3 server/player to integrate with their TV/stereo are not going to need a 2 Ghz processor. A 500 Mhz Pentium III (0.13 micron process) would simply need a heatsink and some airflow.
I welcome the day when megahertz is something you need to look to the "technical specs" page (and I mean technical).
Apparently, the PCI card itself detects (physical?) intrusion attempts. What exactly it does when an attempt is made would be nice to know..
Does it shut down?
Send a pack of dogs with bees in their mouths for you?
High amperage electrical shock?
Immediately, and permanently bond itself to the intruding device/intruder?
Explode a packet of purple paint?
So while that sounds good and all, it still is a PCI card. Is this a "Linux as an OS" product or a "Linux Embedded" product?
The major problem is the chipsets and the 20-year-old designs they're based around. Drop in full 32-or-more-bit DMA controllers or require all peripherals be bus-master capable, segregate the ISA bus to its own out-of-the-way 16MB window somewhere (see: Apollo DNx000 family), hardwire a handful of interrupts and a hardcoded address range to each slot (see: EISA), drop the legacy keyboard/mouse interface, and redo IDE entirely (see: SCSI). While we're at it, let's scrap BIOS and replace it with OpenBoot. Now there's a machine free of legacy crap that might be worth writing home about.
Geewiz, that sounds like my Mac (G3).
But you're right, there is a need for a chipset redesign, not a processor redesign (at least for now). Thankfully, Intel has the Itanium. It's a start, at the least.
My question is, what do IBM's Power-based systems use to boot?
No kidding. I am in awe of your astounding intellect. Please, bestow onto me your infinite wisdom, oh wise one.
How many of those Qwest customers had PWS (IIS) installed because they have no fucking clue what the hell they're doing? Probably just as many people who are demanding money back from Qwest.
Do your homework.
I did, are you the who's going to correct it?
Don't jump to conclusions, it's a lonely place.
...by the Code Red virus. A few entries in Apache's access_log but I didn't go down (nor did my PacBell DSL line). But I think I'll sue all of Qwest's customers (or maybe just the ones suing Qwest) for attempting to attack my system. That's cyber-terrorism, no? They should've been patched and my guess is a bunch of those morons were propogating the worm further. Who knows, maybe Qwest targetted some of their customers specifically who they thought (legitimately or not) were further propogating the worm.
Well spoken.
That's not to say that I wouldn't love the excitement and pace of a new venture - I would. All the run-off from failed dot-coms are swamping every other sector, and that makes it pretty hard for your signal to rise above the noise and reach the ear of a potential employer.
Your initial post could have been any dot-commer crying about how their future is ruined. To be honest, what scares me is that "noise" is applying for jobs well above their head (and ass, they're in the same place, right?).
My job is fine for now, my boss wouldn't fire me for the world, but at the same time, I can't believe all the HTML web-monkeys who think they should be sysadmins/programmers just because their VCR doesn't flash 12:00. If I had to compete against these morons, could I?
Your frustration appeared (to me) to be dot-com-whiner syndrome.
You do raise a valid point that I think is important to reiterate.
The run-off is polluting the geek pool. But if you're swimming in the shallow end with the rest of the lobos, just stand up. You'll be heads and shoulders above the rest.
Perhaps you might want to try another headhunter. If they're not selling your skills (despite people wanting MCSEs -- maybe you should get that cert if it will get you a job) then it's time to switch. Maybe you've done that and still no luck. If that's the case, I'd go out on my own and sell my services. Get creative. If you're not going to get the job anyway it can't hurt to go a bit overboard trying to convince a potential employer that you're the right one to hire.
I'm not saying it's easy, and I'm not saying I can do it. But I realize it can be frustrating and it seems to me that you are one of the few the signals above the noise (run-off).
...a new generation of SPAM generation.
So is this the first instance of giving a child an IP address?
And now, as a result of idiocy of that scale across virtually the entire stock market, I find myself unemployed and unable to find a decent job. This really sucks.
Welcome to the real world.
May I repeat what you said? Thanks...
unable to find a decent job
See that? I'm crying. Oh, woe is you. That's called capitalism. That's the "old economy" for you.
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Who the hell came up with this "new economy" slogan anyways? Exactly what is so "new" about it? Nothing, other than the fact that a bunch of young, naive idiots managed to convince some old money that their ideas were "foolproof" as in "you fools can't tell we've got no idea what the hell we're doing."
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Are you a "new economy entrepreneur"? I don't think so. You're posting on Slashdot so I assume you have some common sense. But here you are whining about your misfortune. Are you mad you were suckered in too? Are you bitter because you feel it was "owed" to you? Do you think you have it hard? You're probably an intelligent person and you can probably actually perform your job duties. That alone puts you ahead of most of the other lobos (think lobotomy) "looking" for a job (more accurately, looking for a new job that's exactly like their old job).
Those of you who find yourself unemployed had better start flipping burgers and stop wallowing in your own misery. Maybe try and industry that isn't part of the "new economy."
Find yourself a "decent" job (you know, those kind that pay real money, not future riches). Try civil service. Perhaps the police, fire department, military, IRS, FBI, etc. They're not going away any time soon.
If you can't find a job locally, it's time to move. "Oh, I can't move, I love it here." You'll love it too, when you can't pay your rent and you're out on the street.
Take charge of your life.
You took a chance at (fame and) fortune and you lost. If you don't want to lose, don't play the game.
You'll never get rich when you're unemployed.
...burn him!
High school students and retirees are good for usability testing, but anyone who thinks they'll be good for security testing is crazy.
These two age groups are the actual voters themselves... they will be the ones physically voting at the polls. I guess the idea is if teenagers can figure it out, and the seniors can figure it out, then 30 - 50 year olds can figure it out. This is an excellent test to perform in tandem with your security test.
The hacker group is a separate group who may or may not be actually voting in the mock elections.
So, when these things finally hit the market, why would you buy it?
1. You have beer on tap (at your house of course) and need a way to cool it.
2. You have petroleum gas on tap, and need a way to use it.
3. You have neither on tap, but need a reason to get both (on tap).
This new jet-engine-cooler begs the question... is this truly the man's barbeque? It cools, it charbroils, it's a jet engine!
One small difficulty is you'd have to lash your fixins down lest they be blown into the next county.
You could use the rotary motion of the turbine to perform some useful function as well. Perhaps providing a mobile platform for the jetberque?
"The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn't excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws," said Thomas Nolle, a New Jersey telecommunications consultant. "The problem is that it was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive. But this is a business, not a government-sponsored network."
:)) and start thinking about the whole system. It's a pyramid, folks, and the money starts at the top.
I hope that bastard is hit by a stray Webvan truck on his way home. How do these people get jobs? On a side note, I am also an "expert" and would like to be paid accordingly (I mean why not, I know various "hip internet terms" so I must be smart).
I think this individual read the back cover of a "1000 businesses you can run from your car for under $100" and decided he was an economic expert.
Actually, the Internet does follow economic "laws" (actually there are no economic "laws" just theory and statistical data). It's called price elasticity of demand. Demand is high because the price is low. If you raise the price, people will still buy, but probably not quite so much. The more you raise the price, the less people will use it. And there go the network effects (economic term, no pun intended, although I guess it really isn't a pun anyways) you'd be getting by having millions of users on the 'net.
So now you've got a giant fiber network around the world and no one's using it. Good job, you've proved another economic "law." You can't sell something people don't want. Welcome to the world of dot-bombs.
Companies like <Backbone provider> might make some money on QoS traffic but don't expect some company on the east coast making money off of me (on the west coast) simply because I want to use the Internet. Only internation corporations will be able to make money, and my guess is that they already are! Backbone providers aren't expanding their networks because it will please a bunch of "hippie anarchists" they do it because there is a profit to be made.
I think this "telecommunications consultant" needs to finish his BA (or is it BS
Didn't the mathematician guy (who got killed) use his solution of "factoring large primes" to break encryption?
Please explain how that is possible.
I like the picture on the front page of the article... Rick Hanson drops the TRS-80 from about three feet (approx a meter for those of you who've advanced far beyond us Americans by using the Metric system)... click the thumbnail at the top of the article.
I'd do this with my ThinkPad once, and then would have to think about it a while before doing so. I would survive, but there'd definitely be some superficial damage.
Now, how many times do you think Mr. Hanson has done that particular demonstration (actually, how many times do you think he did it for Carolyn Said (the reporter))?
"They very seldom need repair." -- Cathleen Cox
I'd hope so, I wonder how hard it is to get spare parts.
And, for those of you who don't read the article...
The laptop's lore is good for some nifty trivia questions. For example: Who wrote the Model 100's software? Answer: Bill Gates.
Was it that a giant (1 km I think) asteroid passed between the earth and the moon and astronomers noticed it after it had passed? Scary.
And then there's the CIA thinking a foreign country had detonated some nukes a few years ago, but it ends up they were just meteors/comets which had entered the atmosphere and did what they do best... vaporize and create one hell of a shockwave.
Of course, there's the obligatory "you'll never be hit by a meteorite" statement too... remember, that friction is quite powerful. And incoming objects start heating up way past the "atmosphere" as most (uneducated) people know it. By the time incoming objects hit the dense atmosphere (still well above the surface) they get frickin' hot and vaporize.
So for a meteor to actually hit you, it would have to be so large that it didn't vaporize completely. Let me tell you, if this meteor were to hit you, you should do two things. Buy a lottery ticket. Win a million billion dollars if you survive. Impacts of objects that size will leave very large craters and very dark, dark skies. Humans tend not to survive, but strange things have happened (like that flight attendant to fell 40,000 feet in the tail end of a plane and survived).
Seriously, though, something the size of a car is going to make a nice show of lights and such, but you'd better hope it vaporizes very, very high in the atmosphere.
If I may ask, what were the top five investments?
1. Your wife (not implying that you paid for her, that's simply a large investment in time and money)
2. Your house (excellent investment)
3. Your car
4. Your computers
5. ?
I hope number five wasn't Webvan stock.
...that "you're a criminal, you're stupid" touch. I'd like to see an extension of the original idea:
Take a nice Dell/Compaq/whoever box from a new PC. (For you computer guys/gals, I mean cardboard box, not the "computer" or "CPU" if I may use your lingo)
Get an old PC, do the concrete trick. Or, go one more and use lead or depleted uranium in lieu of concrete. Place computer in cardboard box and seal box (assuming you can lift the computer... a crane of some sort might be necessary).
Leave box on front porch with note from UPS. Video tape morons as they try to steal it. (You could even contact the police and participate in a massive sting operation). Post videos to website, and proceed to be slashdotted.
My neighborhood won't work for this, so I humbly beg an upstanding member of the community to push forth with these plans and then entertain us all with keen wit (and video evidence).
And that's why you set their shell to Word, Outlook, or whatever application they need to run. That way, there is only one application, and you don't even have to train them to "click on an icon." It loads automatically. But they probably padded their resume anyways when they said they know how to use Excel.
That also has the advantage of stopping them from browsing the web or otherwise wasting the company's money while they're at work doing personal things.
This would be necessary, of course, to include with a very restrictive system policy to lock down non-approved applications.
And before you "free-everything" loud mouths pipe up and say that infringes on people's rights or is not proper, try running a company. See how productive your employees are if you end up paying them to surf the web 2 hours a day, talk at the coffee machine another hour, and end up working 5 hours (and probably not working very hard either).
These are the kind of people you fire immediately. They have no "right to the web" at work. They can do this at home on their own time.
You know these users. The ones where you say, "Right click on Outlook" and they first move the mouse around while searching for the Outlook icon on the desktop (hopefully it hasn't moved yet or be prepared to wait 5 more minutes, unless you have the audacity to point it out for them), and then glance at the mouse to make sure they click the "right" button.
What's really sad, is that these people are often the sysadmins as well.
It's like slashing paintings in a gallery to stop someone stealing them.
So if someone were to, say, slash the tires on various RIAA figureheads, you could then argue that you were doing them a favor (beyond the obvious speed-hole benefit) in making it so no one will steal their tires. They won't notice the difference anyways (at least our test group didn't notice).
So, anyways, we want to be able to have a backup copy of our media because we all love Kenny G/John Tesh so much that their joint CD gets played 24/7 and gets too scratched to be useful (or is that just the copyright protection kicking in after too many uses?).
Why don't we just copy some US currency and then we can buy as many copies of KG/JT as we want. That's fair use, right? I'm just backing up my money in my wallet. Really!
A waterfall down the center of the building would be really cool
Perhaps it could be used as a giant air conditioning unit. Of course, it'd probably draw a lot more power than a straight A/C box...
For some reason, I was able to read the NYT article without registering (and I've never been to the site before). I just clicked the link this time because there wasn't the obligatory mention (in parentheses) that registration was required for the NYT site. Maybe it's "freebee" day.