Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It.
I was worried that my poor highschool and early college grades, plus lack of practical experience in government would
go against me. It's comforting there are people like that out there are people of the land, the common clay of the mankind, you know... morons.
Meanwhile, the warming of the earth in 50 years time, at the rate we're going is going to displace hundreds of millions, cause unimaginable famine and natural disaster, bring countless birds and animals which can't suddenly adapt to extinction and bring to an end life as we have known it. This might just be the solution to the Greenhouse problem...
if this thing starts a blackhole which ends up killing us all, I'm going to be really angry!
I think Vista is where Microsoft will fork strongly. There are several smaller forks out there, people who refused to leave NT or 2000 or 98 SE, their PC's do what they want and they see no reason to buy new hardware everytime Intel or Microsoft say "Yow! New! Must have!"
We don't do a lot of development in our shop, we run apps purchased from vendors. As a platform, Win 98 SE is
tolerable. Not often a BSoD and relatively simple to sort out issues with. XP on the other hand has lead to no shortage of problems and constantly downloading critical updates, which often clobber apps, which need to be reinstalled, or an un-patch-patch has to be downloaded from Microsoft to fix the damage caused to Sun Java or our Oracle ODBC drivers. It's fun fun fun. The few workstations still on Win 98 just sit there and run, no hitches.
This is one of the arguments in favour of Linux, IIRC, is not having to do "upgrades" just because Microsoft has rolled out a new OS and will stop supporting an older one in a few years. With Linux you build your OS and run until you absolutely have to change something. Vista will, again, mean buying thousands of new computers because all the ones which can just barely run XP will be inadequate. That's quite a bonus to PC vendors, no wonder so many keep trying to get their foot in the door.
Look, I'm no Microsoft fan, but that just seems crazy. Better for what?
We've found for most of our networking and applications Windows 98 SE as a platform is actually very stable and dependable. Unfortunately, the practice has been to standardise on Windows XP on all new computers and thus keeping a large tech staff jumping on all the problems. There's such a thing as Keeping It Simple, Stupid. XP has more crap in it than anyone at our entire site needs and that complexity has led to some very long periods to sort out problems.
I'm not buying another version of Windows. I don't care how good they say it is. I was told Windows 95 would be awesome, it was suffering incarnate. I was told Windows 98 would be great, they started putting in irritating behaviour and it was still a pain to do things with. I was told Windows XP would be great, it's widely credited with being worse than Windows 98.
Next for me is either Mac or just throw everything I don't have in Linux into Linux. At least that way I stop paying a tax every few years to enrich people who have been very careless with security while at the same time trying to control everyone's market by bundling everything under the sun into it.
I think Vista could be the best thing Microsoft ever did for Apple or Linux.
Yeah, ebay is a perfect example of how youtube could fail. Ebay is basically done with innovating and are just shaving more and more metal off each coin it seems.
I'm not certain how you mean that. My take on eBay is their golden days are past them and now they're struggling because a lot of their need to keep growing and their 'innovations' are often very poorly thought out, incompatible with their other features or a barrier to getting things done.
Um, sure they do. You see, unlike yourself some people have somthing to sell. Bands such as "ok GO" (just to name one) will pay to place their video on the front page because it sells CDs and tickets. Same with video game makers, etc.
Sure, and Coke could do the same thing. BUT, if this stuff is all chaff, people will eventually ignore it and just cruise over to where they want to go. Most of the references I've seen so far are direct links to videos. I don't even know what their home page looks like, as I've never visited it, though I have seen a lot of videos.
If eBay made you click through ads before seeing an item's detail they'd lose a lot of visitors.
I don't know where you've been, but I'm running into these things constantly on eBay and paypal -- I'm taken to a full page ad I have to find the button to get past to go where I was intending to go, not this fscking billboard.
Alas, I'm still there because I want to buy, sell or pay for stuff, so I have to put up with it. If YouTube's offerings are good enough they can probably pull it off as long as they aren't making you sit through 30 seconds. 5 Seconds is a lot of time and if used well could accomplish what the sponsor wants.
Ad sponsors need to look beyond the current model of television/radio advertising. It's astounding where it has come from, back in the 40's and 50's the company often had a very direct hand in it's own advertising and it showed, by interferring with programming and rather stupid advertisements. Today most leave that to an agency which is very good at using sex or perception of inadequacy to sell everything from make-up to cars.
Besides, with the pay to be on the front page feature, I can see Coke, Dell, Revlon, whomever, creating their own guerilla videos, which are really ads in disguise, and peppering YouTube with them.
Is this phenomenal growth only rapidly killing our favorite video warehouse?"
Which one would that be? I don't rent videos. More likely it's a sign that people are more interested in
content than quality. Many of the videos I've seen are very poor grade, while the few who really care about
HD-DVD and Blu Ray squabble off in the corner.
YouTube could easily alienate its users by overwhelming them with ads.
This has in my experience been proven unfounded with Yahoo, Google, eBay and slashdot as examples. Bring on the ads.
[legal threat] hanging over their head
I expect this is due to the fact many videos are edits from television, easily spotted by the Sky or whatever logo in the corner.
pay to place a video on YouTube's popular front page."
Oh the vanity! People really do that??? If I want you to see my video I'll put it on my own site and mention it somewhere, maybe even slashdot and it it's
interesting word will get around, if it's not, my ego won't be crushed. I will be pissed if those weasels at thinkgeek steal it for another merchandising product.
It is rather amusing to look back several years, if you remember a particular broadcast of some dot-commer telling
someone at CBS(?) they would be burying the network, with whatever the heck it was this particular dot-commer had to offer
over the budding internet. His company, IIRC went bust with a lot of others. Now look at the rabble scrabbling on
YouTube, Google Video, their predecessors and whatever else will come along.
Meanwhile, the Disney and Circuit City folks are trying to figure out how to leverage forward-frame synergies and shift new paradigms into cross-functional matrix adaptive committee clusters so they can provide new proactive technology-centric solutions to use this in a new "pay to see" limited shelflife consumer product.
You mean like DIVX? I could actually expect someone nuts enough to try it.
Congratulations on your purchase of Mickey and Goofy's Opium Den Adventure! Now that the seal on this booklet has been broken you have 16 hours to read and enjoy this publication before it will reset and you will need to return.
I've got receipts which fade if left exposed to air, off those stupid thermal printers. And, as a bonus feature, they turn utterly
black if you set something very hot on them. Possibly useful for taking pictures of the sun with a magnifying glass, if done with care.
We have a practice in our shop of taking non-sensitive documents and flipping the paper over and running it from a tray
for re-use on the blank backside. Fine if people haven't scribbled on it or added a staple.
That was an admission that Intel has been badly managed in the past. Otherwise, how could they have 1,000 managers they don't need?
This is a typical Restructure. They slash middle-management first, then headcount.
Otellini will likely be ousted if the strategy backfires. They only way he will go is if he leaves voluntarily or the board sack him. The board will certainly be watching this drastic move.
I think Intel has more class than some other companies.
Despite your optimism, I was spot on with my prediction.
Many other companies in the past, including one I worked for, begin by slashing managers. Then they consolidate operations under a new management structure and then the big cut happens as the attempt to eliminate "redundant" operations and employees. This is a tricky thing to do because sometimes they cut out keystone employees which are their real foundation and founder a bit. Expect another round in about a year, after Intel senior management have reviewed how things are going.
The disruption will mean Intel will struggle with overcoming internal reshuffling, which is to AMD's advantage.
On a more cynical note, It's worth remembering that a shrinking company is more profitable, in the short term. Ever notice how stock initially goes up when these moves are made?
One of my HDDs went out with a buff couple years ago. One HDD motherbord component died. Nothing major.
Was it IBM or Maxtor, I do not recall anymore.
These incidents are nothing compared to a headcrash on a DEC RP04. Sucker ran all night, burying the remnants of the head assembly into the platters of a disk pack which weighed in at 15-20 lbs. In the morning the oxide layer had dusted the entire ventillation system of the drive and even some had escaped onto the floor.
A replacement drive was overnighted from Maynard. MA by Flying Tigers, only to appear in the computer room with it's bottom crushed.
Another was overnighted from Maynard and met the same fate. The FS tech wanted to know what happened, the shipping and receiving people claimed that was the way they receive the replacement drives. Eventually FT found the S&R people were putting the forks under the drive, not inside the pallats. Ooops.
While I don't think Seagate will like this (they acquired Maxtor last December and are still merging them into their operation, similar to the
fate of Connor), I think it is a bit overblown to compare to erupting batteries which could scorch reproductive organs if they went off in laps like
so much Gamma-Ray emitting McDonald's Coffee. I've seen chips fail before and it's nothing new to see their little epoxy encased brains leaving Olympus Mons-like
formations or going off like Krakatoa. More excitement can likely be found with exploding motherboard capacitors (due in large part to
counterfeit electronics components.)
Now, if this is something which is widely happening then it's news.
you know that pumpkin we built a pc in? it doesn't need a candle.
I have 8 people that work in my Unit. When I send out an email to the group needing an immediate response, I know that only 2 will respond right away (assuming they are at their desk).
I've had a request to "send" "data" to someone, with a deadline of thursday for a few weeks now. It began, "OK, fine, no worries just tell me what data you need and in what format." No response. The owner of this project starts sending me colour-coded emails. "Urgent send data" I reply to him, "Give me an idea which items you need and in what form to send it." I get back "put it in an excel spread sheed, I don't know, here talk to this person xxxxxx@xxxxx.org" I email their contact and a week goes by. I get another urgent email. I reply I still don't have any spec or specifics and get another email. I send out a query to that one. Days pass and nothing. Finally I'm getting orange (which I presume is more urgent than red) and another plea to "send data soon, deadline approaching." I reply, to the entire list of those cc'd with the plea. "these people need to contact me, I need specifics, I don't just send "data" any old way." Finally someone kicks the people at xxxxx.org in the pants and they phone. Bam! It's taken care of in mere minutes. Got exactly what they needed.
After the 2004 election, I have great faith in the voters' ability to ignore incompetence and corruption.
You make a valid point.
I watched all three debates and Bush came off as bumbling as Bullwinkle. He scored a couple points, but largely looked ill-equipped for the job. He was re-elected anyway.
It is said: Power corrupts, while absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My theorem: The longer any party or group remains in power the closer they come to corrupt.
While some may draw a bead on Mr. Stevens and his 37 years in office. Remember pork is often
a reward for having been loyal at some point. It's not simply Sen. Ted Stevens rolling up his sleeves for a reach into
the Pork Barrel, but his reward for long, loyal service to his contemporaries. There's doubtless a bit of influence due
to his seniority, but he's been a good soldier when his party has needed some. We can expect a lot of red faces when same bi-partisan
muck-rakers get their hands on the online database and equally glib Senators and Representatives have to answer for decades
of funny business which has passed beneath the radar in a long game of "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine."
Slashdot Mirror
Some fear that the device, in creating mini black holes, could jeopardize Life As We Know It.
I was worried that my poor highschool and early college grades, plus lack of practical experience in government would go against me. It's comforting there are people like that out there are people of the land, the common clay of the mankind, you know... morons.
Meanwhile, the warming of the earth in 50 years time, at the rate we're going is going to displace hundreds of millions, cause unimaginable famine and natural disaster, bring countless birds and animals which can't suddenly adapt to extinction and bring to an end life as we have known it. This might just be the solution to the Greenhouse problem...
if this thing starts a blackhole which ends up killing us all, I'm going to be really angry!
Intel always thought they'd be #1, eh?
I think Vista is where Microsoft will fork strongly. There are several smaller forks out there, people who refused to leave NT or 2000 or 98 SE, their PC's do what they want and they see no reason to buy new hardware everytime Intel or Microsoft say "Yow! New! Must have!"
Windows XP is a great OS (for being windows).
We don't do a lot of development in our shop, we run apps purchased from vendors. As a platform, Win 98 SE is tolerable. Not often a BSoD and relatively simple to sort out issues with. XP on the other hand has lead to no shortage of problems and constantly downloading critical updates, which often clobber apps, which need to be reinstalled, or an un-patch-patch has to be downloaded from Microsoft to fix the damage caused to Sun Java or our Oracle ODBC drivers. It's fun fun fun. The few workstations still on Win 98 just sit there and run, no hitches.
This is one of the arguments in favour of Linux, IIRC, is not having to do "upgrades" just because Microsoft has rolled out a new OS and will stop supporting an older one in a few years. With Linux you build your OS and run until you absolutely have to change something. Vista will, again, mean buying thousands of new computers because all the ones which can just barely run XP will be inadequate. That's quite a bonus to PC vendors, no wonder so many keep trying to get their foot in the door.
Look, I'm no Microsoft fan, but that just seems crazy. Better for what?
We've found for most of our networking and applications Windows 98 SE as a platform is actually very stable and dependable. Unfortunately, the practice has been to standardise on Windows XP on all new computers and thus keeping a large tech staff jumping on all the problems. There's such a thing as Keeping It Simple, Stupid. XP has more crap in it than anyone at our entire site needs and that complexity has led to some very long periods to sort out problems.
I'm not buying another version of Windows. I don't care how good they say it is. I was told Windows 95 would be awesome, it was suffering incarnate. I was told Windows 98 would be great, they started putting in irritating behaviour and it was still a pain to do things with. I was told Windows XP would be great, it's widely credited with being worse than Windows 98.
Next for me is either Mac or just throw everything I don't have in Linux into Linux. At least that way I stop paying a tax every few years to enrich people who have been very careless with security while at the same time trying to control everyone's market by bundling everything under the sun into it.
I think Vista could be the best thing Microsoft ever did for Apple or Linux.
Yeah, ebay is a perfect example of how youtube could fail. Ebay is basically done with innovating and are just shaving more and more metal off each coin it seems.
I'm not certain how you mean that. My take on eBay is their golden days are past them and now they're struggling because a lot of their need to keep growing and their 'innovations' are often very poorly thought out, incompatible with their other features or a barrier to getting things done.
Think guerilla marketing...
Right, but if it's crap the videos on the front page will all lose cred and people will stop trusting whatever is on the front page is good.
Um, sure they do. You see, unlike yourself some people have somthing to sell. Bands such as "ok GO" (just to name one) will pay to place their video on the front page because it sells CDs and tickets. Same with video game makers, etc.
Sure, and Coke could do the same thing. BUT, if this stuff is all chaff, people will eventually ignore it and just cruise over to where they want to go. Most of the references I've seen so far are direct links to videos. I don't even know what their home page looks like, as I've never visited it, though I have seen a lot of videos.
If eBay made you click through ads before seeing an item's detail they'd lose a lot of visitors.
I don't know where you've been, but I'm running into these things constantly on eBay and paypal -- I'm taken to a full page ad I have to find the button to get past to go where I was intending to go, not this fscking billboard.
Alas, I'm still there because I want to buy, sell or pay for stuff, so I have to put up with it. If YouTube's offerings are good enough they can probably pull it off as long as they aren't making you sit through 30 seconds. 5 Seconds is a lot of time and if used well could accomplish what the sponsor wants.
Ad sponsors need to look beyond the current model of television/radio advertising. It's astounding where it has come from, back in the 40's and 50's the company often had a very direct hand in it's own advertising and it showed, by interferring with programming and rather stupid advertisements. Today most leave that to an agency which is very good at using sex or perception of inadequacy to sell everything from make-up to cars.
Besides, with the pay to be on the front page feature, I can see Coke, Dell, Revlon, whomever, creating their own guerilla videos, which are really ads in disguise, and peppering YouTube with them.
Is this phenomenal growth only rapidly killing our favorite video warehouse?"
Which one would that be? I don't rent videos. More likely it's a sign that people are more interested in content than quality. Many of the videos I've seen are very poor grade, while the few who really care about HD-DVD and Blu Ray squabble off in the corner.
YouTube could easily alienate its users by overwhelming them with ads.
This has in my experience been proven unfounded with Yahoo, Google, eBay and slashdot as examples. Bring on the ads.
[legal threat] hanging over their head
I expect this is due to the fact many videos are edits from television, easily spotted by the Sky or whatever logo in the corner.
pay to place a video on YouTube's popular front page."
Oh the vanity! People really do that??? If I want you to see my video I'll put it on my own site and mention it somewhere, maybe even slashdot and it it's interesting word will get around, if it's not, my ego won't be crushed. I will be pissed if those weasels at thinkgeek steal it for another merchandising product.
It is rather amusing to look back several years, if you remember a particular broadcast of some dot-commer telling someone at CBS(?) they would be burying the network, with whatever the heck it was this particular dot-commer had to offer over the budding internet. His company, IIRC went bust with a lot of others. Now look at the rabble scrabbling on YouTube, Google Video, their predecessors and whatever else will come along.
You don't think HP already has a patent on this to protect their ink sales?
Meanwhile, the Disney and Circuit City folks are trying to figure out how to leverage forward-frame synergies and shift new paradigms into cross-functional matrix adaptive committee clusters so they can provide new proactive technology-centric solutions to use this in a new "pay to see" limited shelflife consumer product.
You mean like DIVX? I could actually expect someone nuts enough to try it.
Congratulations on your purchase of Mickey and Goofy's Opium Den Adventure! Now that the seal on this booklet has been broken you have 16 hours to read and enjoy this publication before it will reset and you will need to return.
What about the Paperless Bathroom?
Yeah! How about that?
This memo is set to self-destruct in 16 hours.
"What did you think of the Grundgefeld, Bobworth & Snerdowski report I left on your desk?"
"Didn't see it, I was out yesterday and all I saw on my desk was a ream of blank paper."
Who speaks for the trees?
I do. They're pleased these printers aren't made of wood.
I've got receipts which fade if left exposed to air, off those stupid thermal printers. And, as a bonus feature, they turn utterly black if you set something very hot on them. Possibly useful for taking pictures of the sun with a magnifying glass, if done with care.
We have a practice in our shop of taking non-sensitive documents and flipping the paper over and running it from a tray for re-use on the blank backside. Fine if people haven't scribbled on it or added a staple.
That was an admission that Intel has been badly managed in the past. Otherwise, how could they have 1,000 managers they don't need?
This is a typical Restructure. They slash middle-management first, then headcount.
Otellini will likely be ousted if the strategy backfires. They only way he will go is if he leaves voluntarily or the board sack him. The board will certainly be watching this drastic move.
I think Intel has more class than some other companies.
Despite your optimism, I was spot on with my prediction.
Many other companies in the past, including one I worked for, begin by slashing managers. Then they consolidate operations under a new management structure and then the big cut happens as the attempt to eliminate "redundant" operations and employees. This is a tricky thing to do because sometimes they cut out keystone employees which are their real foundation and founder a bit. Expect another round in about a year, after Intel senior management have reviewed how things are going.
The disruption will mean Intel will struggle with overcoming internal reshuffling, which is to AMD's advantage.
On a more cynical note, It's worth remembering that a shrinking company is more profitable, in the short term. Ever notice how stock initially goes up when these moves are made?
One of my HDDs went out with a buff couple years ago. One HDD motherbord component died. Nothing major. Was it IBM or Maxtor, I do not recall anymore.
These incidents are nothing compared to a headcrash on a DEC RP04. Sucker ran all night, burying the remnants of the head assembly into the platters of a disk pack which weighed in at 15-20 lbs. In the morning the oxide layer had dusted the entire ventillation system of the drive and even some had escaped onto the floor.
A replacement drive was overnighted from Maynard. MA by Flying Tigers, only to appear in the computer room with it's bottom crushed.
Another was overnighted from Maynard and met the same fate. The FS tech wanted to know what happened, the shipping and receiving people claimed that was the way they receive the replacement drives. Eventually FT found the S&R people were putting the forks under the drive, not inside the pallats. Ooops.
While I don't think Seagate will like this (they acquired Maxtor last December and are still merging them into their operation, similar to the fate of Connor), I think it is a bit overblown to compare to erupting batteries which could scorch reproductive organs if they went off in laps like so much Gamma-Ray emitting McDonald's Coffee. I've seen chips fail before and it's nothing new to see their little epoxy encased brains leaving Olympus Mons-like formations or going off like Krakatoa. More excitement can likely be found with exploding motherboard capacitors (due in large part to counterfeit electronics components.)
Now, if this is something which is widely happening then it's news.
you know that pumpkin we built a pc in? it doesn't need a candle.
It turns out it wasn't a moon after all, but a deathstar in camo and hibernating... we just woke it up.
I have 8 people that work in my Unit. When I send out an email to the group needing an immediate response, I know that only 2 will respond right away (assuming they are at their desk).
I've had a request to "send" "data" to someone, with a deadline of thursday for a few weeks now. It began, "OK, fine, no worries just tell me what data you need and in what format." No response. The owner of this project starts sending me colour-coded emails. "Urgent send data" I reply to him, "Give me an idea which items you need and in what form to send it." I get back "put it in an excel spread sheed, I don't know, here talk to this person xxxxxx@xxxxx.org" I email their contact and a week goes by. I get another urgent email. I reply I still don't have any spec or specifics and get another email. I send out a query to that one. Days pass and nothing. Finally I'm getting orange (which I presume is more urgent than red) and another plea to "send data soon, deadline approaching." I reply, to the entire list of those cc'd with the plea. "these people need to contact me, I need specifics, I don't just send "data" any old way." Finally someone kicks the people at xxxxx.org in the pants and they phone. Bam! It's taken care of in mere minutes. Got exactly what they needed.
So why did it take so long?
After the 2004 election, I have great faith in the voters' ability to ignore incompetence and corruption.
You make a valid point.
I watched all three debates and Bush came off as bumbling as Bullwinkle. He scored a couple points, but largely looked ill-equipped for the job. He was re-elected anyway.
Look, this is great, go bloggers, hurray for our side. But I've gotta say, "Smoke-Filled Room 0" is a tad optimistic. I mean, if only, right?
Smoke-Filled Rooms have a habit of reacting in nasty ways which are "good for America."
Watcheth thyne back.
It is said: Power corrupts, while absolute power corrupts absolutely.
My theorem: The longer any party or group remains in power the closer they come to corrupt.
While some may draw a bead on Mr. Stevens and his 37 years in office. Remember pork is often a reward for having been loyal at some point. It's not simply Sen. Ted Stevens rolling up his sleeves for a reach into the Pork Barrel, but his reward for long, loyal service to his contemporaries. There's doubtless a bit of influence due to his seniority, but he's been a good soldier when his party has needed some. We can expect a lot of red faces when same bi-partisan muck-rakers get their hands on the online database and equally glib Senators and Representatives have to answer for decades of funny business which has passed beneath the radar in a long game of "I'll scratch your back, if you scratch mine."