This is just nonsense. Every year my medical insurance knows when I reach my max out of pocket expense and begins paying at 100%, all without my participation. This is an outrage and another indication that Obamacare is nothing more than a well-disguised political ploy that will ultimately fill the pockets of insurance companies while leaving the ordinary Joe no better off than he was before.
Unlike our own busted ass country, China does not assume that Chinese parents are smart enough to realize that 20 hours per week of gaming turns their children into mental midgets. Maybe that is one contributing reason why our first rate universities are now overflowing with first-rate Chinese students. Our young'ns decided that Grand Theft Auto was more compelling than studying for their SAT...
The older I get the funnier it becomes as well-explored technologies are "rediscovered" as "new". Ever hear of a company called General Magic? Magic Cap? This technology was deployed by Sony and AT&T just before the time that the public internet emerged. It had fundamental problems then and it still has those problems. Imagine allowing ACTIVE entities deployed by other individuals to "visit" your information sphere. Sun tried it at a very limited level with applets. Same problems.
On the other hand, while everyone was yelling commie, we were also developing CDMA technology that is now the foundation of every latest-generation cellular system in the world, including all of those systems that were using GSM. If you actually knew anything about the history of such systems and something about capital-intensive businesses, you would realize that when a new technology, like GSM was at some point, comes about, that cellular companies cannot simply uplug their subscribers and spend billins to replace their eisting systems. For crying out loud, the US cellular companies are just now ramping down their support for the old ANALOG systems (such extended support mandated by the FCC).
This is just another case of how we collectively forget great truths. When I was writing compilers for PDP-11s and VAXen, they generated CODE and DATA type Program SECTtions. Those got loaded into PAGEs with appropriate protection characteristics (executable, read-only, etc). What happened that we abandoned all this while the processors remained capable of support for these characteristics is a real mystery (did we get tired or just get lazy?). Of more modern concern, what impact does I/D (instruction/data) space have on JVM implementations?
More than 50% of my company's engineering team is now H1b. The city of San Francisco proudly announced, yesterday, that it had received a $1.25M grant from some federal agency. Its purpose: SPECIFICALLY to provide retraining for current H1b workers whose skills are no longer needed by their employers.
Insightful observation. This is exactly why the Cellular phone guys charge roaming, so some upstart can't drive down the cost of use. The criteria used to set the roaming surcharges is: set roaming charges so high that a year's subscription in the "visited" network is worth a month's roaming charge to outsiders.
Have you been up for 36 hours or something? Your numbered vomit sounds like the sort of stuff I expect of those who started programming in the world of multi-MHz processors. What the hell do you know of computing or programming philosophy when you started out driving a Cadillac? Well here's the real scoop and it's not very complicated:
1. Anything can be done better through optimal specialization but the more specialized it becomes, the more likely it is to become obsolete. Standardization is the attempt at preventing obsolescence and encouraging optimization. Duh.
2. The latest versions of almost all applications have enhanced value when compared to their predecessors. That additional functionality didn't come for free. It required more code.
3. somwhere back in the late 70's, many of us that had started out programming Z80s figured out that machine language was not the way to go. It produced the fastest, smallest code, but it took a long time to write, debug and enhance. We began to build "high-level" languages and libraries of common functions. And that's where it all went to hell. We began to trade off application code size and speed against development speed (read that as cost). Darn that TANSTAAFL principal applies in software engineering too!
4. As the technology advanced, the functionality of the applications did too. And the new versions keep coming faster and faster (guess why).
5. C++ has absolutely NOTHING to do with the performance of today's software (You've just got to lay off the PCP).
My wife works for P&G who uses SAP and it stinks too. I have been using Oracle trash for ten years (mostly the database) and it is a primitive, loathsome accretion of old C with a none-too usable Java UI slapped on top for show( bet Larry likes that). The core of the product is so old and bug-riddled that Oracle can't even provide meaningful customer service because there are only a handful of people there that knows how much of it works and none of them work in the customer support division.
Why do you think that reducing the number of competitors in this field is likely to produce a better product (because the Oracle product ain't)? I think it will simply create more software development positions in India and fewer in Pleasanton. What we really need is a real contender of an open-source DBMS that will pull the plug on Larry's big cash machine, tax incentives to companies that employ in the US and huge disincentives to those who don't and more intelligent (vs just plain scared) investors who will invest in real business opportunites (unlike the fools who have pissed away the wealth of an entire generation on e-commerce).
Depressing sales reported today, lower stock price. Guess more and more people are getting tired of those outrageous licensing demands. Guess Larry will have to use that same jet for another year...sigh.
Between this comment and Andrew's (the author) description of how the cooling occurs ("...the liquid immediately vaporizes LOSING heat....". Someone send TechReport an old high school physics text.
It makes alot of sense assuming the real bandwidth is consistently high enough to make it really usable.
The issue for the airlines is this:
Every 18-36 months on average, the interior of a plane is overhauled. This operation costs alot of money. When the airline performs this operation, it selects which options are to be installed. Guess what? Each one costs money. How much does Boeing want for an inplane broadband system? I guess it's bundle. The good thing (from the carrier's perspective) is that all of the planes don't undergo interior overhaul at once. Tha means the airline can begin to roll the service out and get a feel for the ROI before committing to a full rollout. For the passenger, that means a long time till ubiquity.
"There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and those that consider price alone are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin
The 5Ghz band is mot presently used by older technologies. Because of it's higher frequency, it is more subject to signal attenuation and multipath interference in typical venues, making it a shorter range technology. To overcome these limitations, a different signal modulation technique is used (OFDM). This is the same modulation used by the new 802.11g equipment that operates in the 2.4 GHz band. This technique is more fundamentally robust and use of a single species of device (sans the $79 microwave ovens and frequency hopping phones) is likely to reduce "unexpected" interference. Eventually, though, "cell" oriented technology will be rquired to control interference and maintain optimal bandwidth.
Don't you wish you had as little to do with your life as this jerk? This little outburst, if it is not merely the result of drug/alcohol-induced psychosis, makes me wonder how you get to work each day without being involved in a freeway shooting. I find your sludge much more annoying than even the worst examples of dyslexic fingers. And, speaking of fingers, here's one for you, moron. And, oh yeah, "competitent" is actually spelled "competent". But then you wouldn't know that, would you?
I am actually implementing this trial. The trial is roaming between the 802.11b network that WiFi Metro uses (my network) and Verizon's 2.5G CDMA data service, although it can be extended to most any network. The trial can carry voice (VoIP) although probably with some bumps between networks. While data roaming is the goal of GPRS and the other 2.5G and 3 G networks, realistically they cannot provide the burst data rates possible with WiFi, at least not now. Browsing (at least newly visited sites ) at 64-100Kbs is a real snore. As you can discover at Greepackets' web site, their solution is based on standard MobileIP technology (you know, mobile node, foreign agent, home agent stuff) combined with very smart client software. No one is representing this trial as a "solves all problems" solution, but, for those of us with the goal of ubiquitous, high-speed wireless internet access, it's a very interesting start.
1995? I still had hair in 1995. What the hell does evidence from 1995 or 1999, for that matter, have to do with the experience today? Isn't that what our industry is all about, rapid adaptation to evolving requirements? I sure feel good that in 1995/1999 open source software was great but I would feel much better if multiprocessor LINUX systems ran native threads reliably so I didn't have to use Solaris.
The switch over was darn painless here, I was down for almost 3 days but came home one night to find everything working again.
The 1.5Mb cap is in effect here. I had been getting up to 4Mb downstream. The upstream behavior is terrible, I rarely get even 128Kb. Sending anything large by mail stinks.
But I recall the etiology of the upstream cap with @Home. All the jerks in the world, ignoring the subscription agreements, started running servers, bringing some areas to a crawl. So we should say thanks to you jerks for screwing it up for the rest of us.
I agree. There appears to be the fundamental failure of seeing P2P as a great insightful generalization when it is, instead, a family of specialized optimizations.
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This is just nonsense. Every year my medical insurance knows when I reach my max out of pocket expense and begins paying at 100%, all without my participation. This is an outrage and another indication that Obamacare is nothing more than a well-disguised political ploy that will ultimately fill the pockets of insurance companies while leaving the ordinary Joe no better off than he was before.
Amen brother!
Unlike our own busted ass country, China does not assume that Chinese parents are smart enough to realize that 20 hours per week of gaming turns their children into mental midgets. Maybe that is one contributing reason why our first rate universities are now overflowing with first-rate Chinese students. Our young'ns decided that Grand Theft Auto was more compelling than studying for their SAT...
What sort of idiots have seized control in White Plains?
The older I get the funnier it becomes as well-explored technologies are "rediscovered" as "new".
Ever hear of a company called General Magic? Magic Cap? This technology was deployed by Sony and AT&T just before the time that the public internet emerged. It had fundamental problems then and it still has those problems. Imagine allowing ACTIVE entities deployed by other individuals to "visit" your information sphere. Sun tried it at a very limited level with applets. Same problems.
No. Duh.
On the other hand, while everyone was yelling commie, we were also developing CDMA technology that is now the foundation of every latest-generation cellular system in the world, including all of those systems that were using GSM. If you actually knew anything about the history of such systems and something about capital-intensive businesses, you would realize that when a new technology, like GSM was at some point, comes about, that cellular companies cannot simply uplug their subscribers and spend billins to replace their eisting systems. For crying out loud, the US cellular companies are just now ramping down their support for the old ANALOG systems (such extended support mandated by the FCC).
This is just another case of how we collectively forget great truths. When I was writing compilers for PDP-11s and VAXen, they generated CODE and DATA type Program SECTtions. Those got loaded into PAGEs with appropriate protection characteristics (executable, read-only, etc). What happened that we abandoned all this while the processors remained capable of support for these characteristics is a real mystery (did we get tired or just get lazy?). Of more modern concern, what impact does I/D (instruction/data) space have on JVM implementations?
More than 50% of my company's engineering team is now H1b. The city of San Francisco proudly announced, yesterday, that it had received a $1.25M grant from some federal agency. Its purpose: SPECIFICALLY to provide retraining for current H1b workers whose skills are no longer needed by their employers.
Insightful observation. This is exactly why the Cellular phone guys charge roaming, so some upstart can't drive down the cost of use. The criteria used to set the roaming surcharges is: set roaming charges so high that a year's subscription in the "visited" network is worth a month's roaming charge to outsiders.
Have you been up for 36 hours or something? Your numbered vomit sounds like the sort of stuff I expect of those who started programming in the world of multi-MHz processors. What the hell do you know of computing or programming philosophy when you started out driving a Cadillac? Well here's the real scoop and it's not very complicated:
1. Anything can be done better through optimal specialization but the more specialized it becomes, the more likely it is to become obsolete. Standardization is the attempt at preventing obsolescence and encouraging optimization. Duh.
2. The latest versions of almost all applications have enhanced value when compared to their predecessors. That additional functionality didn't come for free. It required more code.
3. somwhere back in the late 70's, many of us that had started out programming Z80s figured out that machine language was not the way to go. It produced the fastest, smallest code, but it took a long time to write, debug and enhance. We began to build "high-level" languages and libraries of common functions. And that's where it all went to hell. We began to trade off application code size and speed against development speed (read that as cost). Darn that TANSTAAFL principal applies in software engineering too!
4. As the technology advanced, the functionality of the applications did too. And the new versions keep coming faster and faster (guess why).
5. C++ has absolutely NOTHING to do with the performance of today's software (You've just got to lay off the PCP).
My wife works for P&G who uses SAP and it stinks too. I have been using Oracle trash for ten years (mostly the database) and it is a primitive, loathsome accretion of old C with a none-too usable Java UI slapped on top for show( bet Larry likes that). The core of the product is so old and bug-riddled that Oracle can't even provide meaningful customer service because there are only a handful of people there that knows how much of it works and none of them work in the customer support division.
Why do you think that reducing the number of competitors in this field is likely to produce a better product (because the Oracle product ain't)? I think it will simply create more software development positions in India and fewer in Pleasanton. What we really need is a real contender of an open-source DBMS that will pull the plug on Larry's big cash machine, tax incentives to companies that employ in the US and huge disincentives to those who don't and more intelligent (vs just plain scared) investors who will invest in real business opportunites (unlike the fools who have pissed away the wealth of an entire generation on e-commerce).
Depressing sales reported today, lower stock price. Guess more and more people are getting tired of those outrageous licensing demands. Guess Larry will have to use that same jet for another year...sigh.
Between this comment and Andrew's (the author) description of how the cooling occurs ("...the liquid immediately vaporizes LOSING heat....". Someone send TechReport an old high school physics text.
It makes alot of sense assuming the real bandwidth is consistently high enough to make it really usable.
The issue for the airlines is this:
Every 18-36 months on average, the interior of a plane is overhauled. This operation costs alot of money. When the airline performs this operation, it selects which options are to be installed. Guess what? Each one costs money. How much does Boeing want for an inplane broadband system? I guess it's bundle. The good thing (from the carrier's perspective) is that all of the planes don't undergo interior overhaul at once. Tha means the airline can begin to roll the service out and get a feel for the ROI before committing to a full rollout. For the passenger, that means a long time till ubiquity.
Is this one of those things they used to pack in Mr Clean?
"There is hardly anything that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and those that consider price alone are this man's lawful prey." - John Ruskin
Seems like I read something like this attributed to John Rusking on the wall at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream store when I was 8.
The 5Ghz band is mot presently used by older technologies. Because of it's higher frequency, it is more subject to signal attenuation and multipath interference in typical venues, making it a shorter range technology. To overcome these limitations, a different signal modulation technique is used (OFDM). This is the same modulation used by the new 802.11g equipment that operates in the 2.4 GHz band. This technique is more fundamentally robust and use of a single species of device (sans the $79 microwave ovens and frequency hopping phones) is likely to reduce "unexpected" interference. Eventually, though, "cell" oriented technology will be rquired to control interference and maintain optimal bandwidth.
Don't you wish you had as little to do with your life as this jerk? This little outburst, if it is not merely the result of drug/alcohol-induced psychosis, makes me wonder how you get to work each day without being involved in a freeway shooting. I find your sludge much more annoying than even the worst examples of dyslexic fingers. And, speaking of fingers, here's one for you, moron. And, oh yeah, "competitent" is actually spelled "competent". But then you wouldn't know that, would you?
I am actually implementing this trial. The trial is roaming between the 802.11b network that WiFi Metro uses (my network) and Verizon's 2.5G CDMA data service, although it can be extended to most any network. The trial can carry voice (VoIP) although probably with some bumps between networks. While data roaming is the goal of GPRS and the other 2.5G and 3 G networks, realistically they cannot provide the burst data rates possible with WiFi, at least not now. Browsing (at least newly visited sites ) at 64-100Kbs is a real snore. As you can discover at Greepackets' web site, their solution is based on standard MobileIP technology (you know, mobile node, foreign agent, home agent stuff) combined with very smart client software. No one is representing this trial as a "solves all problems" solution, but, for those of us with the goal of ubiquitous, high-speed wireless internet access, it's a very interesting start.
1995? I still had hair in 1995. What the hell does evidence from 1995 or 1999, for that matter, have to do with the experience today? Isn't that what our industry is all about, rapid adaptation to evolving requirements? I sure feel good that in 1995/1999 open source software was great but I would feel much better if multiprocessor LINUX systems ran native threads reliably so I didn't have to use Solaris.
The switch over was darn painless here, I was down for almost 3 days but came home one night to find everything working again.
The 1.5Mb cap is in effect here. I had been getting up to 4Mb downstream. The upstream behavior is terrible, I rarely get even 128Kb. Sending anything large by mail stinks.
But I recall the etiology of the upstream cap with @Home. All the jerks in the world, ignoring the subscription agreements, started running servers, bringing some areas to a crawl. So we should say thanks to you jerks for screwing it up for the rest of us.
I agree. There appears to be the fundamental failure of seeing P2P as a great insightful generalization when it is, instead, a family of specialized optimizations.