we consume fish but we piss in the bathtub, so to speak. resources have been able to sustain a growing population do to a combination of ingenuity and a willing infrastructure. how long we can continue to eliminate infrastructure through rape and a lack of management is anyones guess. our "material condition" is great, historical co2 levels are low compared to the distant past... but, we are living through a dust bowl, and massive droughts in this country at the moment, and i wish we weren't putting our childrens lives on the line.
since we began living in a complete market economy, where protectionism (steel industry), government subsidies (farming, airlines, but please not trains), and preferential treatment (ms) have vanished from these great lands, the true beauty of capitalism has been allowed to flourish unchecked (enron). life is beautiful!
with the recent purchases, and likely forthcoming purchases, as well as new hardware and a g5 on the 12 month horizon, apple will most certainly not be in the position of a couple years ago. i swtiched to windows2000 just to get familiar with the eventual os. productivity dropped quite a bit, i have to say. but, when these applications are bundled and linked correctly--adobe with photoshop and illustrator--apple will be in an unbelievably great position with respect to media software. the prices will likely be lowered also, which is always nice. but, unlike ms other software will not disappear or prevented from working well. i doubt that qbase is going anywhere. i would imagine that similar percentages in terms of os breakdown exist. steinberg has a loyal following.
then, why are we treating them as if they (the box, board...) will be around forever? certainly, pc's will be increasingly built to consider power, user, and disposal costs, but the discussion seems to be lacking. Is anybody aware of any research into these areas?
of course the auto industry was wiped out by the depression also. there were many makes of cars with a $10,000 sticker in the 20's, and a rolls wasn't even the top of the line. of course many didn't survive. but, it took another 30-40 years for consolidation. hudson, studebaker... my grandfather worked for tucker, though they didn't even make it off the ground.
while i am concerned about privacy and the possibility that people might actually know what they are talking about, i wonder what you might glean from the sites i visit or the purchases i make, other than i make a fair amount of money and might be insane or manic... if i should decide to become an organized terrorist, i promise to become much more regular, and analyze my profile very closely! privacy of the sort mentioned is good for stopping some spam, but perhaps you haven't noticed the curtailing of legitimate rights as of late.
there's this new technology called outlining! there are classes on using it, support groups, products (franklin planner...), and motivation for its use. but, so many people don't know how to use it effectively in learning situations.
it seems that a technology that requires training will not be successful because that is the first cost to be cut. ooh, perty computer!
my business partner built a house with a contractor, and wound up arguing about details very often. contractors often forget that a person who wishes to pay to have something the way they want, may very well be a pain in the *ss, but they are paying. my grandfather built custom homes for people who were willing to pay for them, and this book is likely helpful in a project planning way. like many things in life, if you make more than a couple hundred k a year, building your own house costs more than working with a competent person. but, competence, as we all know, is rare.
and here is a nice little quote: "Consider a tale of two companies. Wal-Mart is among the most efficient corporations in the world today. In fact, a late-2001 McKinsey Global Institute study of the boom found that "Wal-Mart directly and indirectly caused the bulk of the productivity acceleration" in its category. How? Information technology, for the most part. Wal-Mart uses IT to help it store and transport goods more efficiently. (You'll never find a half-full pallet in a Wal-Mart.) It relies on forecasting tools to ensure that there are never too few or too many employees on the floor at any one time. It encourages suppliers to stock the stores themselves, using an elaborate data interchange system to make sure suppliers know when inventories are running low. And it takes advantage of economies of scale by building stores in a hub-and-spoke pattern around giant distribution centers. As a result, Wal-Mart has become one of the largest companies in the world while earning returns on capital that are the envy of its peers. By contrast, its competitor Kmart has been plagued with stock-outs and is hooked on sales and markdowns."
perhaps, as with open source, the days of making large profits (value through scarcity) on a mass produced object are coming to a close. Is the service economy spreading to areas which were unanticipated in the past? and, does this mean that society at large will be wealthier for the fact? i imagine that the accounting for where (and by who) value is actually created will become more precise in the future, as a result of the network, and that the compensation will be redirected as a result. is value actually created by the music industry, or has it simply facilitated the manufacturing of rock-stars as opposed to music?
i believe that this is in reference to the compression quality of mpeg-4. the licensing issues have made apple quite frustrated, since qt6 will be the first mpeg-4 capable media player available. i am not sure of the number of "dvd quality" streams that qt6 can handle, but the rumors are that it will be a great media server. we'll all believe 500 streams when we see it though.
this would likely soak up every extra bit of processing power available. does anybody know what the advantages to code-morphing might be in pattern recognition software? i am curious as to whether transmeta actually has an advantage here.
transmeta has created a good nitch. but, as a company you have to shift a lot of processors to make a decent profit. tmta has about $400M in debt, and a market cap of slightly less. those are some difficult straights for a company with less than a $100M in income. I imagine that they will be bought out and the tech will go on to influence others... the best result is likely to be the creation of a heterogeneous computing environment.
i imagine that you haven't seen real executives very much, other than the beautiful people that the popular press likes to present. imagine warren buffet in shorts and a t-shirt. sexy huh? it's a damn shame that accomplishment is linked with slick speaking skills and a good body. one time i saw this extremely wealthy executive in bad shorts and a faded t-shirt on an old sear's ten-speed.
this was the point of developing a supercomputer using transmeta processors. utilizing a customized os and software to fully take advantage of the processor's capabilities. this is the future, and i cannot wait for the 6000 system on a chip.
that the notion of having to occupy a specified portion of the spectrum is no longer a necessity? and, that multiplexing over channels does no harm to the signal? the summary would then be that as opposed to x slots in the spectrum, there are now infinite slots. having read similar arguments to the spectrum issue, there is not discussion of moving up or down the spectrum. but, certain companies have been pushing for just that.
...sony will rely on game publishers to supply online features, and will work with any Internet service. here's the article: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-919372.html
...and essentially negate all of microsoft's effort. perhaps you have heard of sony records, or sony's movie studios. is microsoft really interested in purchasing content? and, from sony? a ps2 with ethernet and the software you mention, would allow sony to simply feed the beast it created.
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we consume fish but we piss in the bathtub, so to speak. resources have been able to sustain a growing population do to a combination of ingenuity and a willing infrastructure. how long we can continue to eliminate infrastructure through rape and a lack of management is anyones guess. our "material condition" is great, historical co2 levels are low compared to the distant past... but, we are living through a dust bowl, and massive droughts in this country at the moment, and i wish we weren't putting our childrens lives on the line.
per the windows license agreement, microsoft is to receive a payment regardless of the os installed. pay up buddy.
sincerely,
bill
you must be a uunet customer. i have spent months trying to get these credits and mischarges corrected.
since we began living in a complete market economy, where protectionism (steel industry), government subsidies (farming, airlines, but please not trains), and preferential treatment (ms) have vanished from these great lands, the true beauty of capitalism has been allowed to flourish unchecked (enron). life is beautiful!
with the recent purchases, and likely forthcoming purchases, as well as new hardware and a g5 on the 12 month horizon, apple will most certainly not be in the position of a couple years ago. i swtiched to windows2000 just to get familiar with the eventual os. productivity dropped quite a bit, i have to say. but, when these applications are bundled and linked correctly--adobe with photoshop and illustrator--apple will be in an unbelievably great position with respect to media software. the prices will likely be lowered also, which is always nice. but, unlike ms other software will not disappear or prevented from working well. i doubt that qbase is going anywhere. i would imagine that similar percentages in terms of os breakdown exist. steinberg has a loyal following.
then, why are we treating them as if they (the box, board...) will be around forever? certainly, pc's will be increasingly built to consider power, user, and disposal costs, but the discussion seems to be lacking. Is anybody aware of any research into these areas?
of course the auto industry was wiped out by the depression also. there were many makes of cars with a $10,000 sticker in the 20's, and a rolls wasn't even the top of the line. of course many didn't survive. but, it took another 30-40 years for consolidation. hudson, studebaker... my grandfather worked for tucker, though they didn't even make it off the ground.
and what might be the actual valuation of the current market? particularly when p/e ratios are still high. even scarier!
while i am concerned about privacy and the possibility that people might actually know what they are talking about, i wonder what you might glean from the sites i visit or the purchases i make, other than i make a fair amount of money and might be insane or manic... if i should decide to become an organized terrorist, i promise to become much more regular, and analyze my profile very closely! privacy of the sort mentioned is good for stopping some spam, but perhaps you haven't noticed the curtailing of legitimate rights as of late.
i'm with the terrorists who founded our country.
there's this new technology called outlining! there are classes on using it, support groups, products (franklin planner...), and motivation for its use. but, so many people don't know how to use it effectively in learning situations.
it seems that a technology that requires training will not be successful because that is the first cost to be cut. ooh, perty computer!
my business partner built a house with a contractor, and wound up arguing about details very often. contractors often forget that a person who wishes to pay to have something the way they want, may very well be a pain in the *ss, but they are paying. my grandfather built custom homes for people who were willing to pay for them, and this book is likely helpful in a project planning way. like many things in life, if you make more than a couple hundred k a year, building your own house costs more than working with a competent person. but, competence, as we all know, is rare.
(http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.07/Myth.htm l)
and here is a nice little quote: "Consider a tale of two companies. Wal-Mart is among the most efficient corporations in the world today. In fact, a late-2001 McKinsey Global Institute study of the boom found that "Wal-Mart directly and indirectly caused the bulk of the productivity acceleration" in its category. How? Information technology, for the most part. Wal-Mart uses IT to help it store and transport goods more efficiently. (You'll never find a half-full pallet in a Wal-Mart.) It relies on forecasting tools to ensure that there are never too few or too many employees on the floor at any one time. It encourages suppliers to stock the stores themselves, using an elaborate data interchange system to make sure suppliers know when inventories are running low. And it takes advantage of economies of scale by building stores in a hub-and-spoke pattern around giant distribution centers. As a result, Wal-Mart has become one of the largest companies in the world while earning returns on capital that are the envy of its peers. By contrast, its competitor Kmart has been plagued with stock-outs and is hooked on sales and markdowns."
it backs up when you turn the machine back on. just because it misses the scheduled time doesn't mean it misses the back-up.
the bright blue screens!
provided by microsoft perhaps?
perhaps, as with open source, the days of making large profits (value through scarcity) on a mass produced object are coming to a close. Is the service economy spreading to areas which were unanticipated in the past? and, does this mean that society at large will be wealthier for the fact? i imagine that the accounting for where (and by who) value is actually created will become more precise in the future, as a result of the network, and that the compensation will be redirected as a result. is value actually created by the music industry, or has it simply facilitated the manufacturing of rock-stars as opposed to music?
i believe that this is in reference to the compression quality of mpeg-4. the licensing issues have made apple quite frustrated, since qt6 will be the first mpeg-4 capable media player available. i am not sure of the number of "dvd quality" streams that qt6 can handle, but the rumors are that it will be a great media server. we'll all believe 500 streams when we see it though.
this would likely soak up every extra bit of processing power available. does anybody know what the advantages to code-morphing might be in pattern recognition software? i am curious as to whether transmeta actually has an advantage here.
transmeta has created a good nitch. but, as a company you have to shift a lot of processors to make a decent profit. tmta has about $400M in debt, and a market cap of slightly less. those are some difficult straights for a company with less than a $100M in income. I imagine that they will be bought out and the tech will go on to influence others... the best result is likely to be the creation of a heterogeneous computing environment.
i imagine that you haven't seen real executives very much, other than the beautiful people that the popular press likes to present. imagine warren buffet in shorts and a t-shirt. sexy huh? it's a damn shame that accomplishment is linked with slick speaking skills and a good body. one time i saw this extremely wealthy executive in bad shorts and a faded t-shirt on an old sear's ten-speed.
this was the point of developing a supercomputer using transmeta processors. utilizing a customized os and software to fully take advantage of the processor's capabilities. this is the future, and i cannot wait for the 6000 system on a chip.
is set to launch during the summer.
that the notion of having to occupy a specified portion of the spectrum is no longer a necessity? and, that multiplexing over channels does no harm to the signal? the summary would then be that as opposed to x slots in the spectrum, there are now infinite slots. having read similar arguments to the spectrum issue, there is not discussion of moving up or down the spectrum. but, certain companies have been pushing for just that.
...sony will rely on game publishers to supply online features, and will work with any Internet service. here's the article: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-919372.html
...and essentially negate all of microsoft's effort. perhaps you have heard of sony records, or sony's movie studios. is microsoft really interested in purchasing content? and, from sony? a ps2 with ethernet and the software you mention, would allow sony to simply feed the beast it created.