MSFT has figured out that the end game includes appliances in a big way. If they ever got their shit together, we'd all be doomed. If you control the net box - aka "Residential Gateway" - you not only gain a product line but access to the consumer's appliances. Palladium? yes, but much more than just the desktop, which is a saturated market. The TV (Xbox), the "eHome" crap, the branded strategy from server to home.
MSFT has failed large before in the appliance space - notably nuking WebTV. And they didn't learn squat from the experience. I hope they fail again.
Here's the basic pitch. Let's imagine you are Joe or Juanita Global-Civ. There you are, a selfless, activist policy-wonk, one civilized soul in a darkening world where ethnic throat-cutting is rising sharply and trust in the biz community has plummeted.
Like adult Sesame street, right? Where the big birds and multiculturalists play... never is heard an exclusivity word - unless you're bashing Christians and defending some gays.
Learn fundamentals: physics, chemistry, math. From there you can adapt to any situation. Industry wants people that can think, not skill sets. You'll match up with the worst of all businesses by matching skill sets rather than mutual vision.
College is a great experience. I'll have my 20th year reunion next year. I've kept in touch with more friends from my college days than from anywhere else. Its a once in a lifetime experience. You'll have plenty of working years afterward.
How to fund it? In engineering, most schools offer excellent intern opportunities. You can come out debt free after your 5 years. I know lots of students who have maintained their finaincial sanity through good coop programs. Make it a priority in your search.
20 million samples per second will allow you a max analog signal bandwidth (BW) of 10 MHz. But that bandwidth can be placed anywhere in the spectrum. The only practical requirement is that the spectrum of interest needs to be analog filtered prior to sampling - otherwise you'll be mixing in the entire RF spectrum. So, with a 20 MHz ADC, you have plenty of oomph for receiving even HDTV or NTSC signals, both of which take a 6 MHz channel. It certainly has some great applications. I cannot think of any consumer or commercial applications which use a channel greater than 10 MHz.
I have thought all along that MSFT had a potential trademark infingement problem. The reason: the term "Windows" is a very generic user interface term which, as we all know, refers to segments of a multi-terminal (or similar) screen. This has been true long before MSFT introduced Windows 1.0 (which was limited to tiled or non-overlapping windows). The term for windows was used in a very generic sense by Gates himself when describing the fact that Windows 2.0 supported overlapping windows (he used the term windows genericly as I recall, and is likely not too hard to find in print).
So it seems to me that all Lindows has to do is argue that "Windows" (as opposed to MS or Microsoft Windows) is not a trademarkable name to begin with, and that the term is a valid public domain term as defined by prior useage in trade literature preceding MSFT. End of suit.
I think most likely, Lindows is another Linux distribution which is customized to look as nearly like MS Windows as possible. Applications would be chosen or adapted to fit into the MS Office niche. Games would likely not be an issue for a distro like this. Guaranteeing that abi-word, or OpenOffice can read/write all forms of MS Office documents would be the highest priority - next to ease of installation and GUI style configuration.
My guess is that any real Linux user would be offended...
This is absolutely true. KOffice and Open/StarOffice are far superior and further along. My preference for word processors and MS Word compatible documents is OpenOffice. It works very well (though not always perfectly) with embedded graphics and foreign imports.
However, doesn't this beg the question for Abiword: why bother? Why bother getting involved in a project that is so far behind other more promising projects? This is often the case in OpenSource land - too many projects with near 100% functional overlap.
What I see is someone making another fucking excuse for what amounts to the world's biggest WTO protest. The Taliban is really a bunch of disgruntled white boys from Idaho who dropped out of 8th grade - izzat it?
The resemblance is humorous. Timmothy McVeigh lives... reincarnated as a sand maggot.
This makes sense. I'm not particularly in favor of it, however, I can understand the reasoning.
What I find interesting is that the arguments for/against crypto are exactly those of the pro/anit gun forces:
1. The first/second amendment provides a guarantee of protection for my right to bear encryption/arms.
2. Criminals do not register encryption|arms.
3. When you ban/limit encryption/arms you only limit law abiding citizens, you do not limit law breakers.
4. And my personal favorite: The West/Net wasn't won with a registered gun/key.
What I really would like to know is this: are those who aggresively oppose limits on hard encryption also those who encourage limits on assault weapons and promote the registration of firearms? Somehow, I'm betting the answer is generally no - at least on/.
>>...assume that the act of buying and selling goods and services solves very complex issues...
Because it doesn't purport to solve anything except efficient allocation of resources. That is all.
>> History shows that there have always been players with lots of power and players with little power.
How often I hear the term "history teaches" without specific examples. Balony, salami, horseshit...
>> Catholic Church, German Nazis, Spanish Conquistadors,...
None of these can even pretend to be economic forces, let alone capitalist entities. These are moot to a discussion of capitalism.
>> This is a complex world and requires complex solutions.
Only the extremely arrogant and/or naive would pretend that complex problems can be solved with top-down legislation. That they can micro-manage an economy the scale of the US. 300+ million consumers and a 4+ trillion dollar GDP all subjected to "complex solutions"? Lemme guess, you gotta solution right? And its complex. I cannot wait. Ho boy. Everyone wants to be a dictator.
Jose Cuervos. The case of Napster (the prolific and deliberate violation of fair use) versus Sklyarov (the enabling of fair use) should be seen an complete opposites.
Napster, and those who see piracy as a right, only serve to give excuse to legislators who would entertain the notion of "nationalistic firewalls", and DMCA itself. I would bet that if it were not for Napster, and those who engaged in wholesale music piracy, there would be no DMCA. Sklyarov would not be in jail, and we would not be moving headlong into a world of dummed down internet.
Look in the mirror and see where 1/2 of the problem lies.
Also, someone tell me how Napster and music piracy enahnces creativity. That will be rich.
Don't get *anything* written by this author of FUD. Long on rhetoric and lacking any scientific underpinning or practical value.
This author should be discredited not only for bilking companies out of millions of $$$ through so-called "seminars" (which emphasize pretty pictures and quaint "processes"), but also for his completely off-base analysis of Y2K (yup, he predicted a melt-down).
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MSFT has figured out that the end game includes appliances in a big way. If they ever got their shit together, we'd all be doomed. If you control the net box - aka "Residential Gateway" - you not only gain a product line but access to the consumer's appliances. Palladium? yes, but much more than just the desktop, which is a saturated market. The TV (Xbox), the "eHome" crap, the branded strategy from server to home.
MSFT has failed large before in the appliance space - notably nuking WebTV. And they didn't learn squat from the experience. I hope they fail again.
Here's the basic pitch. Let's imagine you are Joe or Juanita Global-Civ. There you are, a selfless, activist policy-wonk, one civilized soul in a darkening world where ethnic throat-cutting is rising sharply and trust in the biz community has plummeted.
Like adult Sesame street, right? Where the big birds and multiculturalists play... never is heard an exclusivity word - unless you're bashing Christians and defending some gays.
Puh-lease.
repeat...
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Learn fundamentals: physics, chemistry, math. From there you can adapt to any situation. Industry wants people that can think, not skill sets. You'll match up with the worst of all businesses by matching skill sets rather than mutual vision.
College is a great experience. I'll have my 20th year reunion next year. I've kept in touch with more friends from my college days than from anywhere else. Its a once in a lifetime experience. You'll have plenty of working years afterward.
How to fund it? In engineering, most schools offer excellent intern opportunities. You can come out debt free after your 5 years. I know lots of students who have maintained their finaincial sanity through good coop programs. Make it a priority in your search.
Absolutely agree. You tape out with a bug and they'll have you hanging by the nearest tree. You ship a software bug and its expected.
One of the CNN pollees registers on slashdot.
Almost as much as the 70's show. That's sucks more. Yup, major suckage.
Yeah, right. And they call Christians stupid, narrow minded, superstiteous, ... humbug yerself.
Please requestthat the author put his review on Amazon.
Thanks.
Actually,
20 million samples per second will allow you a max analog signal bandwidth (BW) of 10 MHz. But that bandwidth can be placed anywhere in the spectrum. The only practical requirement is that the spectrum of interest needs to be analog filtered prior to sampling - otherwise you'll be mixing in the entire RF spectrum. So, with a 20 MHz ADC, you have plenty of oomph for receiving even HDTV or NTSC signals, both of which take a 6 MHz channel. It certainly has some great applications. I cannot think of any consumer or commercial applications which use a channel greater than 10 MHz.
The problem is: most users run with administrator priveledges.
The reason: installation of software requires it - AND NT/2000/XP (etc) has no 'su' command for convenient switching of user privs.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shan non1948.pdf
I have thought all along that MSFT had a potential trademark infingement problem. The reason: the term "Windows" is a very generic user interface term which, as we all know, refers to segments of a multi-terminal (or similar) screen. This has been true long before MSFT introduced Windows 1.0 (which was limited to tiled or non-overlapping windows). The term for windows was used in a very generic sense by Gates himself when describing the fact that Windows 2.0 supported overlapping windows (he used the term windows genericly as I recall, and is likely not too hard to find in print).
So it seems to me that all Lindows has to do is argue that "Windows" (as opposed to MS or Microsoft Windows) is not a trademarkable name to begin with, and that the term is a valid public domain term as defined by prior useage in trade literature preceding MSFT. End of suit.
I think most likely, Lindows is another Linux distribution which is customized to look as nearly like MS Windows as possible. Applications would be chosen or adapted to fit into the MS Office niche. Games would likely not be an issue for a distro like this. Guaranteeing that abi-word, or OpenOffice can read/write all forms of MS Office documents would be the highest priority - next to ease of installation and GUI style configuration.
My guess is that any real Linux user would be offended...
I hope those "autistic's" up in redmond are reading this...
This is absolutely true. KOffice and Open/StarOffice are far superior and further along. My preference for word processors and MS Word compatible documents is OpenOffice. It works very well (though not always perfectly) with embedded graphics and foreign imports.
However, doesn't this beg the question for Abiword: why bother? Why bother getting involved in a project that is so far behind other more promising projects? This is often the case in OpenSource land - too many projects with near 100% functional overlap.
Oh well...
Add the Gnu Scientific Library (GSL) - a very cool peice of work! http://sources.redhat.com/gsl/
If you really need an MSFT OS, you can still obtain Win2K on eBay for a little over $100 US.
What I see?
What I see is someone making another fucking excuse for what amounts to the world's biggest WTO protest. The Taliban is really a bunch of disgruntled white boys from Idaho who dropped out of 8th grade - izzat it?
The resemblance is humorous. Timmothy McVeigh lives... reincarnated as a sand maggot.
I seriously doubt that you have *any* programming abilities.
Please, leave. Don't let the door hit you in the ass.
This makes sense. I'm not particularly in favor of it, however, I can understand the reasoning.
/.
What I find interesting is that the arguments for/against crypto are exactly those of the pro/anit gun forces:
1. The first/second amendment provides a guarantee of protection for my right to bear encryption/arms.
2. Criminals do not register encryption|arms.
3. When you ban/limit encryption/arms you only limit law abiding citizens, you do not limit law breakers.
4. And my personal favorite: The West/Net wasn't won with a registered gun/key.
What I really would like to know is this: are those who aggresively oppose limits on hard encryption also those who encourage limits on assault weapons and promote the registration of firearms? Somehow, I'm betting the answer is generally no - at least on
>>...assume that the act of buying and selling goods and services solves very complex issues...
...
Because it doesn't purport to solve anything except efficient allocation of resources. That is all.
>> History shows that there have always been players with lots of power and players with little power.
How often I hear the term "history teaches" without specific examples. Balony, salami, horseshit...
>> Catholic Church, German Nazis, Spanish Conquistadors,
None of these can even pretend to be economic forces, let alone capitalist entities. These are moot to a discussion of capitalism.
>> This is a complex world and requires complex solutions.
Only the extremely arrogant and/or naive would pretend that complex problems can be solved with top-down legislation. That they can micro-manage an economy the scale of the US. 300+ million consumers and a 4+ trillion dollar GDP all subjected to "complex solutions"? Lemme guess, you gotta solution right? And its complex. I cannot wait. Ho boy. Everyone wants to be a dictator.
Jose Cuervos. The case of Napster (the prolific and deliberate violation of fair use) versus Sklyarov (the enabling of fair use) should be seen an complete opposites.
Napster, and those who see piracy as a right, only serve to give excuse to legislators who would entertain the notion of "nationalistic firewalls", and DMCA itself. I would bet that if it were not for Napster, and those who engaged in wholesale music piracy, there would be no DMCA. Sklyarov would not be in jail, and we would not be moving headlong into a world of dummed down internet.
Look in the mirror and see where 1/2 of the problem lies.
Also, someone tell me how Napster and music piracy enahnces creativity. That will be rich.
Don't get *anything* written by this author of FUD. Long on rhetoric and lacking any scientific underpinning or practical value.
...) ...) ...)
This author should be discredited not only for bilking companies out of millions of $$$ through so-called "seminars" (which emphasize pretty pictures and quaint "processes"), but also for his completely off-base analysis of Y2K (yup, he predicted a melt-down).
Get books built on:
1. Science (Knuth, Numerical Recipes,
2. Standards (O'Reilly, Stevens,
3. Implementations (O'Reilly, K&R, Sams,