When it comes down to it, only you know the corporate culture in which you work. Ultimately, your boss is either your friend or a businessman. There are bosses that actually care about their employees and their well-being; there are some bosses that do a "spring cleaning" every year to get rid of people that are too expensive or otherwise not earning their pay. When it comes down to it, only you know the culture you work in and whether it would be wise to stay or go.
Has anyone found a copy of the program yet? I've tried a couple of major filesharing networks as well as FTP and web searches and even so much as typing in different paths off of his web site...
Well, this is kind of cute, I guess, but I'm not sure what real value it has. Perhaps users can put 'treasure chests' on their land with shared files on it:) It looks like this system is not much more than an interesting diversion. Perhaps if there were more to it, there could be some interesting things going on...I always thought it would be kind of neat to have something like a massively-multiplayer-simcity type thing, although this is very far from that!
I suppose this would be a big hit with all those 12-year-olds that presumably run around AOL chat rooms these days...
There is a very limited extent to which you can do this. I believe gnutella is perfectly happy to run on port 80...
In fact, gnutella is _quite_ able to do this! We tried this at first, but we found that we weren't able to connect to any of the host servers (that keep a list of other clients) because they ran on known ports. The network guys did better than that, because the filters they were using were able to look at packet headers and determine whether they were p2p packets. Pretty much what would happen is someone would discover a new p2p program, and a few days later it would be down....even AIM file transfers are now disabled.
If cable starts to become less viable, perhaps more people will switch to DSL? DSL seems to be much more widely available than cable is, and the prices have tended to go down, not up. Granted, it's not quite as fast as cable is, but it's still quite fast, and if cable rates go up, then it would even be competitively priced.
In my area, you can get a T1 down/quarter-T1 up DSL line for about $80 a month, and for about $40-$50 a month one half as fast. DSL tends to be available in a lot of the scummy neighborhoods that poor college students tend to live in, wheras cablemodem may not be.
I don't know what the stats are on universities, but my alma mater shut down access to all of the file-sharing networks at the port level to conserve bandwidth. I was under the impression that alot of school had begun to do this.
Of course if this does work then they are going to have some surprises when they enable those underground superconductive power cables in, IIRC, downtown Chicago. (Detroit? Somebody help me out here, please?)
Actually, it's already been done. This article from two years ago explains how a power company in Georgia unvieled working prototypes to transfer electricity between three of their plants. If there would be any "suprises" present, no doubt they would have been noticed already.
This new format is for DIGITAL video stored on a MAGNETIC TAPE. This is different from DVD, which is digital data on an optical disk. In terms of performance/quality, there is no clear difference; they are both digital video formats.
However, anyone with a $50 DVD drive in their computer can view/copy DVD discs at will. With D-VHS, there is no easy tape-to-computer interface, only a proprietary player controlled by the movie industry.
This is nothing more than the movie industry's latest attempt to take away accessibility with no real gain in the underlying technology.
This is very close to DIVX (not the video codec), which was a "throwawy DVD" format which was implemented by the movie industry and even sold at Circuit City for awhile. DIVX was a product that had no new technicaly features, and had restricted accessibility. Consumers saw that DIVX was an inferior product, and it quickly went under. D-VHS will no doubt subscribe to the same fate.
This is a tricky and dangerous detail. Right now, if Microsoft rips of a GPL program, they may get penalized based on the money they have made from it. Under these proposed rules, Microsoft could rip off GPL programs with impunity because their penalty would be nil (since the GPL retail price would be zero). This is clearly not acceptable.
By your logic, however, if M$ rips off GPL code and uses it in a $500 product, they should be liable for $500... sounds pretty good to me:)
... since it's blatantly unconstitutional, and this will finally get it to the Supreme Court, where Congress can get bitch slapped yet again with the 1st Amendment.
I would say that it's probably no more unconstitional than laws that prohibit the access of minors to things like cigarettes, porno, or spray paint.
I don't find this to be any more of a big deal than laws against minors having access to alcohol/cigarettes/violent movies/porno/lottery tickets. If you're OK with your kid playing violent games, you can go into the store and buy it for them.
Of course, it's doubtful that any law would make it much less likely for kids underage to get their hands on these games - after all, look how easy it is for kids to get their hands on alcohol/cigarettes/violent movies/porno/lottery tickets.
Look, all I'm saying here is that laws restricting the rights of minors are just fine, and makes the stuff more legitimate in the hands of adults. If minors can't buy violent video games, there won't be this huge lobby of people trying to get rid of them.
The Caveo card's execution is superb, but its concept isn't foolproof. For example, a thief (perhaps knowing how the card works) could simply eject the whining card and toss it into the Hudson.
Wow...sounds really hard to get around! Once criminals know how the card works, it'd be quite easy to get around.
This article gives no indication that signals over power lines could acheive any reasonable amount of bandwidth. Power lines simply aren't designed to carry information, and I'd bet there would have to be a lot of upgrading of the electric company's equipment to enable this sort of thing.
I would compare this technology to that of x10.com's wireless devices, which send very small amounts of data over house power lines. There's a lot of limitations to it... flourescent lights don't work with them, and the lack of shielding on power wiring sometimes causes devices to spontaneously turn on or off. (this happened to me with my bedroom light....it would turn itself on at 3am, very annoying).
When you hit the button to turn on a light, there is about a two-second delay. Considering that the remote is transmitting approximately 12 bits of data (4b house code, 4b device code, control bits), the data rate seems to be on the order of a few bits per second.
I'm assuming the power company is using a similar form of technology for data transfer. By the time (e.g. years down the road) a system could be set up to transfer a reasonable amount of data over a power line, access to cable/dsl/wireless internet should be advanced and widespread enough such that trying to transmit over power lines shouldn't even be worth the effort.
Of course....the concept of sending data where data shouldn't go is still pretty damn cool... 8-)
I made the mistake of graduating mid-year, after the fall semester, a half-year early. There's far fewer companies hiring new grads, and many that used to do on-campus interviews have withdrawn.
Companies are much more selective about who they take on board, and don't expect any starting bonuses or exorbitantly high salaries. Job offers are take-it-or-leave-it, because there's another fresh grad that would love to have your job. Greater Boston used to have a slew of high-tech companies, all recruiting heavily, along with a handful of tech colleges to support them, but now the bottom has fallen out of the market. My advice is to get your foot in the door SOMEWHERE and look to move when the economy booms again with a few more years experience under your belt.
but the case is the least of my concerns. Sure it it the ugliest part of a PC, but what about the monitor, and some sort of input like a keyboard? Cord management? I can always hid the case relatively easily. Let's see some monitor mods that aren't done with a shotgun.
To complete the picture, include all wireless periphials, keyboard, mouse, etc... that would eliminate some cordage.
The Space Station will probably die with the Goldin admin. This will be bad and sad, but it's a long term good thing, since the beast is poorly conceived, massively expensive, and doesn't do enough to forward long-term goals.
I work at NASA Goddard in Maryland, and the ISS is alive and kicking. There are tons and tons of resources working on the project, and it would be a huge reversal for the ISS to die. It's a massive undertaking, and it's projects like the ISS that will begin to enable further things, like ISS-originating spaceflight which would eliminate the need for costly and difficult ground launches to get space vehicles in the air. The focus here at NASA IS to get things like Moon bases and Mars landings...but we need decent tools to do it first.
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In case you were wondering, that's around US $1700 by today's exchange rates.
Let's see...
A group imposes an arbitrary fee on a transaction that they don't have anything to do with...
I seem to remember something like that from high school history class...what was it...
A-ha! It's called a TAX!
Ok, so in other words, if I _OWN_ something (a CD), I have to PAY someone else for the right to sell it?
IANAL, but it sounds like pretty shaky legal grounds to me.
When it comes down to it, only you know the corporate culture in which you work. Ultimately, your boss is either your friend or a businessman. There are bosses that actually care about their employees and their well-being; there are some bosses that do a "spring cleaning" every year to get rid of people that are too expensive or otherwise not earning their pay. When it comes down to it, only you know the culture you work in and whether it would be wise to stay or go.
Has anyone found a copy of the program yet? I've tried a couple of major filesharing networks as well as FTP and web searches and even so much as typing in different paths off of his web site...
Well, this is kind of cute, I guess, but I'm not sure what real value it has. Perhaps users can put 'treasure chests' on their land with shared files on it :) It looks like this system is not much more than an interesting diversion. Perhaps if there were more to it, there could be some interesting things going on...I always thought it would be kind of neat to have something like a massively-multiplayer-simcity type thing, although this is very far from that!
I suppose this would be a big hit with all those 12-year-olds that presumably run around AOL chat rooms these days...
There is a very limited extent to which you can do this. I believe gnutella is perfectly happy to run on port 80...
In fact, gnutella is _quite_ able to do this! We tried this at first, but we found that we weren't able to connect to any of the host servers (that keep a list of other clients) because they ran on known ports. The network guys did better than that, because the filters they were using were able to look at packet headers and determine whether they were p2p packets. Pretty much what would happen is someone would discover a new p2p program, and a few days later it would be down....even AIM file transfers are now disabled.
If cable starts to become less viable, perhaps more people will switch to DSL? DSL seems to be much more widely available than cable is, and the prices have tended to go down, not up. Granted, it's not quite as fast as cable is, but it's still quite fast, and if cable rates go up, then it would even be competitively priced.
In my area, you can get a T1 down/quarter-T1 up DSL line for about $80 a month, and for about $40-$50 a month one half as fast. DSL tends to be available in a lot of the scummy neighborhoods that poor college students tend to live in, wheras cablemodem may not be.
I don't know what the stats are on universities, but my alma mater shut down access to all of the file-sharing networks at the port level to conserve bandwidth. I was under the impression that alot of school had begun to do this.
Must be some of that fuzzy math...
Actually, it's already been done. This article from two years ago explains how a power company in Georgia unvieled working prototypes to transfer electricity between three of their plants. If there would be any "suprises" present, no doubt they would have been noticed already.
The link in the story isn't very informative. Here's a better link, with pictures and more information.
From what I understand:
This new format is for DIGITAL video stored on a MAGNETIC TAPE. This is different from DVD, which is digital data on an optical disk. In terms of performance/quality, there is no clear difference; they are both digital video formats.
However, anyone with a $50 DVD drive in their computer can view/copy DVD discs at will. With D-VHS, there is no easy tape-to-computer interface, only a proprietary player controlled by the movie industry.
This is nothing more than the movie industry's latest attempt to take away accessibility with no real gain in the underlying technology.
This is very close to DIVX (not the video codec), which was a "throwawy DVD" format which was implemented by the movie industry and even sold at Circuit City for awhile. DIVX was a product that had no new technicaly features, and had restricted accessibility. Consumers saw that DIVX was an inferior product, and it quickly went under. D-VHS will no doubt subscribe to the same fate.
By your logic, however, if M$ rips off GPL code and uses it in a $500 product, they should be liable for $500... sounds pretty good to me
I would say that it's probably no more unconstitional than laws that prohibit the access of minors to things like cigarettes, porno, or spray paint.
I don't find this to be any more of a big deal than laws against minors having access to alcohol/cigarettes/violent movies/porno/lottery tickets. If you're OK with your kid playing violent games, you can go into the store and buy it for them.
Of course, it's doubtful that any law would make it much less likely for kids underage to get their hands on these games - after all, look how easy it is for kids to get their hands on alcohol/cigarettes/violent movies/porno/lottery tickets.
Look, all I'm saying here is that laws restricting the rights of minors are just fine, and makes the stuff more legitimate in the hands of adults. If minors can't buy violent video games, there won't be this huge lobby of people trying to get rid of them.
Probably the best time to code is when slashdot goes down :) THAT's my biggest distraction...
Wow...sounds really hard to get around! Once criminals know how the card works, it'd be quite easy to get around.
This article gives no indication that signals over power lines could acheive any reasonable amount of bandwidth. Power lines simply aren't designed to carry information, and I'd bet there would have to be a lot of upgrading of the electric company's equipment to enable this sort of thing.
I would compare this technology to that of x10.com's wireless devices, which send very small amounts of data over house power lines. There's a lot of limitations to it... flourescent lights don't work with them, and the lack of shielding on power wiring sometimes causes devices to spontaneously turn on or off. (this happened to me with my bedroom light....it would turn itself on at 3am, very annoying).
When you hit the button to turn on a light, there is about a two-second delay. Considering that the remote is transmitting approximately 12 bits of data (4b house code, 4b device code, control bits), the data rate seems to be on the order of a few bits per second.
I'm assuming the power company is using a similar form of technology for data transfer. By the time (e.g. years down the road) a system could be set up to transfer a reasonable amount of data over a power line, access to cable/dsl/wireless internet should be advanced and widespread enough such that trying to transmit over power lines shouldn't even be worth the effort.
Of course....the concept of sending data where data shouldn't go is still pretty damn cool... 8-)
I made the mistake of graduating mid-year, after the fall semester, a half-year early. There's far fewer companies hiring new grads, and many that used to do on-campus interviews have withdrawn.
Companies are much more selective about who they take on board, and don't expect any starting bonuses or exorbitantly high salaries. Job offers are take-it-or-leave-it, because there's another fresh grad that would love to have your job. Greater Boston used to have a slew of high-tech companies, all recruiting heavily, along with a handful of tech colleges to support them, but now the bottom has fallen out of the market. My advice is to get your foot in the door SOMEWHERE and look to move when the economy booms again with a few more years experience under your belt.
To complete the picture, include all wireless periphials, keyboard, mouse, etc... that would eliminate some cordage.
Funny enough, they have a national name-removal service for SPAM, Snail-SPAM, and Tele-SPAM.
Try this URL: http://www.e-mps.org/en/ind_static.html.
Yeeeeah, right. What about the atmospheric conditions ?
Why, at STP (Standard Temperature and Pressure), of course... That's 1 atm and 25C for you non-scientists...
Actually, you can get them...they're marketed as collector's items, tho :)
The Space Station will probably die with the Goldin admin. This will be bad and sad, but it's a long term good thing, since the beast is poorly conceived, massively expensive, and doesn't do enough to forward long-term goals.
I work at NASA Goddard in Maryland, and the ISS is alive and kicking. There are tons and tons of resources working on the project, and it would be a huge reversal for the ISS to die. It's a massive undertaking, and it's projects like the ISS that will begin to enable further things, like ISS-originating spaceflight which would eliminate the need for costly and difficult ground launches to get space vehicles in the air. The focus here at NASA IS to get things like Moon bases and Mars landings...but we need decent tools to do it first.