Its time that the IIPA, MPAA, RIAA and their fellow travelers be prosecuted for Rackettering under the RICO Act These folks are international terrorists destroying fundamental liberties and democratic values around the world.
You people don't remember all the promises of Nuclear Power 1.0.
This is just another chorus of promises that mask the dangers and inefficiencies of using radioactive materials to boil water.
Why should we be spending orders of magnitude more than other power sources just to build new terrorist targets and devices that spew the ultimate terrorist material?
Even if somehow a scalable, cost effective process to "burn" nuclear waste was created, the reactors themselves become high level nuclear waste that has to be dealt with.
There are so many reasons that nuclear power technology now available or is on the horizon is bad and so many better alternatives, why are we wasting time on it?
It would be interesting to see how much AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner has contributed to these folks.
I would say that Internet first/last mile deployment and innovation stopped when it was re-oligopolized 10 years ago.
I still don't have ANY choice of ANY high speed Internet service in Saratoga, CA part of Silicon Valley. The best Internet connection I can get for my startup in Mountain View Callifornia, the heart of Silicon Valley is limited to 500Kbps upstream.
I would say that they are already doing a bad job with no net neutrality legislation and it will only get worse until we break them up. This time correctly.
Just glanced at the bill and could only find wireless as the only tech available for grants. This is ridiculous as what we need is fiber deployments. Wireless is not going to deliver tomorrows broadband, just the lousy "broadband" of a few Mbps at the max.
Don't believe the WiMax hype. A cell which can only cover a mile or two (if you are lucky) has to share the 10's of MBps that a WiMax base station sector.
If we want to stop the US's descent to an Internet 3rd world country, we need fiber to the home and office.
If you have SafariStand installed when you install Safari 3.0 on the Mac, it will cause Safari 3.0 to fail in weird ways (like not display most web pages)
Uninstall SafariStand by removing ~/Library/InputManagers/SafariStand
I also uninstalled Saft, as it gave an error message when Safari started up, but did not fully test if it had any other impact.
Who is trying to take away the freedoms that the US stands for? Who has been more effective? It seems to me its the Neocon Republicans who have destroyed more of our freedoms than any terrorist....
It is time for those who are so ready to give up freedom to be ejected from the political sphere.
I did a pretty major research project on Open Spectrum this year at the
Center for Global Communications
in Tokyo that included studying the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force
and other FCC utterings. Also was on some panels with folks from the
FCC or who worked with the FCC.
In many ways, it is appropriate to question if the FCC will make these
kind of changes in our lifetimes. There is a significant portion of the
FCC who want to completely privitize spectrum!
But there are also a good group of progressive folks there who really
believe that Open Spectrum may be an important set of tools to get them
out of the deadlock of traditional spectrum allocations. Everyone
should really read the FCC's
Spectrum Policy Task Force Report. Its truely amazing that any
government buearacracy could ever produce something like this. There
are a bunch of other supporting documents at the FCC SPTF page.
Unfortunately it does seem that the trend is for the Lobbyists to
overwhelm any technological impertives within the FCC and for the FCC
top management to go with the political flow instead of doing the right
technical thing.
The situation that someone mentioned about low power FM was a case
where the FCC had done the right thing. They showed that there was no
technological reason why there could not be new low power FM stations
added without interfering with exisiting FM stations. The passed a
rulemaking that allowed such low power FM stations. As soon as the FCC
did that, the National Assocation of Broadcasters went to Congress and
had Congress pass a law to overturn the FCC rules allowing low power FM.
So its not always the FCC that is the retro party in these things.
Unfortunately the FCC tends not to have the balls to push forward these
things even when they believe in them because of all this political
wind that is against them.
So that is why all of us in the techno community should be following
this, submitting opinons to the FCC and supporting congressmen who are
promoting things like more unlicensed spectrum. Senators Barbara Boxer
(California) and George Allen (Virginia) have co-authored legislation
called the Jumpstart Broadband Act. This bill calls for the FCC to
allocate not less than 255 megahertz of contiguous spectrum in the 5
gigahertz band for unlicensed use by wireless broadband devices. The
FCC Chairman Powell has already generated an NPRM supporting this
action.
So its true that the FCC is slow and will probably not do the right thing very often. But we should support those in the FCC that are trying and we should not give up the fight to bring Open Spectrum into reality just as Open Source has defied all odds to become a major force in the computer world.
I have not studied the final 802.16a yet, but from looking at 802.16
about a year ago, I got the impression that 802.16 is to 802.11
as 802.12 VG-AnyLAN was to 802.3 Fast (100Mbps) Ethernet.
802.3 100bT Fast Ethernet and 802.12 VG-AnyLan were considered
competitors in 1994
with VG-AnyLan offering "advanced QoS features making it more suitable
for Enterprise applications"
The 802.12 standard for 100 VG-AnyLAN allows for a backbone supporting
both the 802.3 frames and the 802.5 frames. This means that an existing
enterprise network with both token ring, ethernet, and some central
backbone can easily migrate to the 100 VG-AnyLAN environment. This is
due to the diverse media architecture this new technology can utilize:
Cat. 3,4,&5 four pair UTP, Cat. 2 two pair STP, and
single/multimode optical fiber. Meaning that if there is an existing
FDDI, token ring, or 10baseT backbone in place all that need be done is
simply replace the endpoints (router or HUB blades), connect the 100
VG-AnyLAN repeaters together, and voila a network structure based on a
high speed new technology.
Highlights
# Support for those applications demanding a not only high bandwidth,
but that are also time sensitive (this is due to the media access
method called demand priority)
# Adapt legacy ethernet and tokenring networks to a high speed backbone
with great ease because nodes with 100 VG adapters can be configured to
transmit either tokenring or ethernet
# Extremely expandable when compared to tokenring, and all forms of
ethernet
# Maximum network diameter 8000 meters
# Cascading up to five levels
Hi! Welcome to V1.2 of Richard's Unofficial 100VG AnyLan Web FAQ!
This substance of this FAQ was last updated on Sunday, January 28, 1997.
January, 2001: At one time, 100VG AnyLan was a very promising
technology. However, due to market forces (Fast Ethernet slaughtered it
in the market), VG is a dead technology. To my knowledge, there no
currently no VG products for sale.
I love lots of science fiction. Been reading it since I was in 2nd
grade after being read the first few Tom Swift Jr books by my Mom. It
was when she stopped reading them to me, that I really learnt to read
and started finishing up the series and then consuming every science
fiction book I could find (which was hard back then!).
So I love everythingn from E.E. Doc Smith through the "Great Ones"
of Asimov, Bradbury, Clark, Heinlin and on to Brunner, Zelazney, Niven
and most of the other mentioned earlier in this thread.
Now days mostly read Asimov's
Science Fiction Magazine which keeps me up with the huge amount
of great stuff being written to this day. Mostly really high quality in
every dimension (and extra-dimensions too).
But my all time favorite is one by an author that is not normaly
listed as science fiction. Doris Lessing wrote a series of books that
were kind of outside her "normal" fiction. It is a five book series
called Canopus in Argus with
the first one being the most intense and stimulating, though most of
the others were very good and very different from each other, but all
in the same "universe".
Book 1, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta is basically "Biblical
History" through the eyes of extra terrestrials who helped human
evolution get started on Earth and then helped Earth get through a very
bad period (like most of human history) where human potential dropped
and lots of various extra terrestrial beings at different levels of
evolution where playing around with humans as well.
Book Three The Sirian Experiments is basically the same
history line but through the eyes of a Sirian woman who lives through
and observes the Canopians and Humans and goes through her own
evolution. My description does not at all do the book justice. Check out the blurb
Its not just the story line, but the way that she tells the story
and builds the characters that is truely amazing.
Why not a class action suit against Microsoft? Seems that would be an appropriate action since Microsoft is now officially a monopoly, end users who are recieving the SirCam files who are not Microsoft users are one good class. ISPs who do not use Microsoft servers who's networks are being floodded by Code Red and SirCam are another good class...
And even the clueless ones who continue to use inherently defective software such as Outlook and IIS have as much right to sue MS as people who smoked for 50 years have to sue tobacco firms...
The movie is quite good! Its definately of documentary style yet conveys things in a narrative way.
There were some folks with us who are not from the computer world and they enjoyed as well. They felt it gave them a good insight into what Open Source and Linux is about.
There is quite a bit of focus on VA Linux but that doesn't distract too much...
It definatly has a "PBS" feel to it.(ie it would do well as a show on public broadcasting or Arts and Entertainment network. It definately won't be a Major Motion Picture for the Masses...
The movie will also be great when its out on DVD or Videotape so we can give it to our family and non-Linux oriented friends to convey some of the more philosophical reasons why we are crazy for Linux and Open Source.
Unfortunately they haven't gotten any distribution deals yet, so it might be a while before we see the film (and it is shot on film) on TV, theaters or on Videotape/DVD
Actually Radiata did have a private demo at the N+I demo in Atlanta. Your other comments were quite right on.
Would the author of that note (xtp) please contact me at rberger[nospam] at ultradevices.com? He didn't leave an email address.
We are working on such designs for WAN applications and we are looking for people knowledgable about the design, software and implementation of wireless lan/wan like products.
Many people are saying things like:
Me, I'm voting for Browne. Whether he wins or loses, I'm sick of all this 'lesser of two evils' nonsense.
I've been sick of the lesser of two evils for decades now (I'm 45, you can call me an old fart, but I'm an old fart that has had some experience:-)
I voted libertarian the first time I had a chance to vote in a presidential campaign (I believe it was 1980) and Regan became president. No one noticed my vote for the libertarian candidate and we had 8 years of regressive politics and the biggest runup of the US deficit in history.
So don't think that voting a 3rd party actually does anything. You might as well not vote.
If you vote for anyone other than the two parties you are voting for Bush.
And if you want a repeat of a president who sleeps through most of his rule and allows the old (and new) guard monopolist (Oil, Real Estate, Big Ag, Microsoft) do what they want with the World, vote Bush or a 3rd party.
I myself am voting for Gore this time. Not because he's great or perfect, but because:
Gore will not destroy the environment (as much)
will definately not allow reproductive freedoms be squashed and allow women to be second class citizens again (see the Republican Platform on Abortion, not what Bush doesn't say in public)
In case of an emergency Gore may have a Clue and G.W. Bush won't know what to do unless Dick, an Oil Company exec or Dad tell him what to do.
Did you know that G.W.Bush failed in 3 major businesses before he got the football team going with hugh amounts of Public Money? Each of the failed attempts he was still supported by his dad or his Dad's friends and never had to do a real job in his life? Did you know that he was a major participant in the Savings and Loan debacle of the 80's? How about the coverup of his virtual AWOL from the Texas Air Reserve?
I've always wondered why when you initially started GNU and FSF you initially targeted Unix and not the Lisp Machine environment to be made the focus of free software?
I know you had already contributed huge amounts of code to the MIT Lisp Machine effort and the Lisp Machine architecture was (maybe even still is in some ways) a far more advanced environment than the static C based Unix environment. Do you think a community would have grown up around that or was the path to Unix ordained?
I thought it was a phunny word to use. I guess its slow and stolid like phlegm. Something you clear your throat of...
Not to cast aspertions on Bill who has always been one of my heros.
My favorite part was:
Joy is less clear on how such a scenario could be prevented. When asked how he personally would stop this progression, he stumbled. "Sun has always struggled with being an ethical innovator," he said. "We are tool builders. I'm trailing off here."
Which could be the conclusion of this entire discussion by us proud techno-knerds. We won't be able to stop or control the future. We just all need to act out of as much integrity as we can each day and hope for the best.
PAM_ALEXANDER == "A high powered and attractive female leader of a major PR house Alexander Ogilvy that has focused on High Tech and was started I believe in the Bay Area"
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They might as well rename the FBI to GESTAPO We are now officially to far gone to continue to observe Godwin's Law.
All I can say to Fred Kaplan, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relation: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?
Its time that the IIPA, MPAA, RIAA and their fellow travelers be prosecuted for Rackettering under the RICO Act These folks are international terrorists destroying fundamental liberties and democratic values around the world.
Dell should just shut down the company and sell the stock back to shareholders
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html
"They don't know what to say. They don't know what to do."
That was true before porn and video games....
Yes, this Larson carton is immediately what I thought of when I read the article!
The US Government and its Corporate Overlords lust after and are working hard to emulate the Chinese Government
You people don't remember all the promises of Nuclear Power 1.0.
This is just another chorus of promises that mask the dangers and inefficiencies of using radioactive materials to boil water.
Why should we be spending orders of magnitude more than other power sources just to build new terrorist targets and devices that spew the ultimate terrorist material?
Even if somehow a scalable, cost effective process to "burn" nuclear waste was created, the reactors themselves become high level nuclear waste that has to be dealt with.
There are so many reasons that nuclear power technology now available or is on the horizon is bad and so many better alternatives, why are we wasting time on it?
So can we now expect a doubling of cores every 18 months?
It would be interesting to see how much AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner has contributed to these folks.
I would say that Internet first/last mile deployment and innovation stopped when it was re-oligopolized 10 years ago.
I still don't have ANY choice of ANY high speed Internet service in Saratoga, CA part of Silicon Valley. The best Internet connection I can get for my startup in Mountain View Callifornia, the heart of Silicon Valley is limited to 500Kbps upstream.
I would say that they are already doing a bad job with no net neutrality legislation and it will only get worse until we break them up. This time correctly.
Can't wait to hear the story about the Therapist who goes in to cure, gets the "disease" and becomes and addict themselves..
Just glanced at the bill and could only find wireless as the only tech available for grants. This is ridiculous as what we need is fiber deployments. Wireless is not going to deliver tomorrows broadband, just the lousy "broadband" of a few Mbps at the max.
Don't believe the WiMax hype. A cell which can only cover a mile or two (if you are lucky) has to share the 10's of MBps that a WiMax base station sector.
If we want to stop the US's descent to an Internet 3rd world country, we need fiber to the home and office.
I guess all you folks who think this is a wonderful idea don't understand propaganda techniques, have read 1984 or are sheep being led to slaughter..
Where is the America of the unafraid and who has more trust in its people than its manipulative leaders who want to control everything thru fear?
If you have SafariStand installed when you install Safari 3.0 on the Mac, it will cause Safari 3.0 to fail in weird ways (like not display most web pages)
Uninstall SafariStand by removing ~/Library/InputManagers/SafariStand
I also uninstalled Saft, as it gave an error message when Safari started up, but did not fully test if it had any other impact.
Who is trying to take away the freedoms that the US stands for? Who has been more effective? It seems to me its the Neocon Republicans who have destroyed more of our freedoms than any terrorist....
It is time for those who are so ready to give up freedom to be ejected from the political sphere.
I did a pretty major research project on Open Spectrum this year at the Center for Global Communications in Tokyo that included studying the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force and other FCC utterings. Also was on some panels with folks from the FCC or who worked with the FCC.
In many ways, it is appropriate to question if the FCC will make these kind of changes in our lifetimes. There is a significant portion of the FCC who want to completely privitize spectrum!
But there are also a good group of progressive folks there who really believe that Open Spectrum may be an important set of tools to get them out of the deadlock of traditional spectrum allocations. Everyone should really read the FCC's Spectrum Policy Task Force Report. Its truely amazing that any government buearacracy could ever produce something like this. There are a bunch of other supporting documents at the FCC SPTF page.
Unfortunately it does seem that the trend is for the Lobbyists to overwhelm any technological impertives within the FCC and for the FCC top management to go with the political flow instead of doing the right technical thing.
The situation that someone mentioned about low power FM was a case where the FCC had done the right thing. They showed that there was no technological reason why there could not be new low power FM stations added without interfering with exisiting FM stations. The passed a rulemaking that allowed such low power FM stations. As soon as the FCC did that, the National Assocation of Broadcasters went to Congress and had Congress pass a law to overturn the FCC rules allowing low power FM.
So its not always the FCC that is the retro party in these things. Unfortunately the FCC tends not to have the balls to push forward these things even when they believe in them because of all this political wind that is against them.
So that is why all of us in the techno community should be following this, submitting opinons to the FCC and supporting congressmen who are promoting things like more unlicensed spectrum. Senators Barbara Boxer (California) and George Allen (Virginia) have co-authored legislation called the Jumpstart Broadband Act. This bill calls for the FCC to allocate not less than 255 megahertz of contiguous spectrum in the 5 gigahertz band for unlicensed use by wireless broadband devices. The FCC Chairman Powell has already generated an NPRM supporting this action.
So its true that the FCC is slow and will probably not do the right thing very often. But we should support those in the FCC that are trying and we should not give up the fight to bring Open Spectrum into reality just as Open Source has defied all odds to become a major force in the computer world.
I have not studied the final 802.16a yet, but from looking at 802.16 about a year ago, I got the impression that 802.16 is to 802.11 as 802.12 VG-AnyLAN was to 802.3 Fast (100Mbps) Ethernet.
802.3 100bT Fast Ethernet and 802.12 VG-AnyLan were considered competitors in 1994 with VG-AnyLan offering "advanced QoS features making it more suitable for Enterprise applications"
The claims even sound similar:
The 802.12 standard for 100 VG-AnyLAN allows for a backbone supporting both the 802.3 frames and the 802.5 frames. This means that an existing enterprise network with both token ring, ethernet, and some central backbone can easily migrate to the 100 VG-AnyLAN environment. This is due to the diverse media architecture this new technology can utilize: Cat. 3,4,&5 four pair UTP, Cat. 2 two pair STP, and single/multimode optical fiber. Meaning that if there is an existing FDDI, token ring, or 10baseT backbone in place all that need be done is simply replace the endpoints (router or HUB blades), connect the 100 VG-AnyLAN repeaters together, and voila a network structure based on a high speed new technology.
Highlights
# Support for those applications demanding a not only high bandwidth, but that are also time sensitive (this is due to the media access method called demand priority)
# Adapt legacy ethernet and tokenring networks to a high speed backbone with great ease because nodes with 100 VG adapters can be configured to transmit either tokenring or ethernet
# Extremely expandable when compared to tokenring, and all forms of ethernet
# Maximum network diameter 8000 meters
# Cascading up to five levels
Here's an obituary from a 100VG AnyLan FAQ
Hi! Welcome to V1.2 of Richard's Unofficial 100VG AnyLan Web FAQ! This substance of this FAQ was last updated on Sunday, January 28, 1997.
January, 2001: At one time, 100VG AnyLan was a very promising technology. However, due to market forces (Fast Ethernet slaughtered it in the market), VG is a dead technology. To my knowledge, there no currently no VG products for sale.
So I love everythingn from E.E. Doc Smith through the "Great Ones" of Asimov, Bradbury, Clark, Heinlin and on to Brunner, Zelazney, Niven and most of the other mentioned earlier in this thread.
Now days mostly read Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine which keeps me up with the huge amount of great stuff being written to this day. Mostly really high quality in every dimension (and extra-dimensions too).
But my all time favorite is one by an author that is not normaly listed as science fiction. Doris Lessing wrote a series of books that were kind of outside her "normal" fiction. It is a five book series called Canopus in Argus with the first one being the most intense and stimulating, though most of the others were very good and very different from each other, but all in the same "universe".
Book 1, Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta is basically "Biblical History" through the eyes of extra terrestrials who helped human evolution get started on Earth and then helped Earth get through a very bad period (like most of human history) where human potential dropped and lots of various extra terrestrial beings at different levels of evolution where playing around with humans as well.
Book Three The Sirian Experiments is basically the same history line but through the eyes of a Sirian woman who lives through and observes the Canopians and Humans and goes through her own evolution. My description does not at all do the book justice. Check out the blurb Its not just the story line, but the way that she tells the story and builds the characters that is truely amazing.
And even the clueless ones who continue to use inherently defective software such as Outlook and IIS have as much right to sue MS as people who smoked for 50 years have to sue tobacco firms...
There were some folks with us who are not from the computer world and they enjoyed as well. They felt it gave them a good insight into what Open Source and Linux is about.
There is quite a bit of focus on VA Linux but that doesn't distract too much...
It definatly has a "PBS" feel to it.(ie it would do well as a show on public broadcasting or Arts and Entertainment network. It definately won't be a Major Motion Picture for the Masses...
The movie will also be great when its out on DVD or Videotape so we can give it to our family and non-Linux oriented friends to convey some of the more philosophical reasons why we are crazy for Linux and Open Source.
Unfortunately they haven't gotten any distribution deals yet, so it might be a while before we see the film (and it is shot on film) on TV, theaters or on Videotape/DVD
Would the author of that note (xtp) please contact me at rberger[nospam] at ultradevices.com? He didn't leave an email address.
We are working on such designs for WAN applications and we are looking for people knowledgable about the design, software and implementation of wireless lan/wan like products.
Thanks!
I've been sick of the lesser of two evils for decades now (I'm 45, you can call me an old fart, but I'm an old fart that has had some experience :-)
I voted libertarian the first time I had a chance to vote in a presidential campaign (I believe it was 1980) and Regan became president. No one noticed my vote for the libertarian candidate and we had 8 years of regressive politics and the biggest runup of the US deficit in history.
So don't think that voting a 3rd party actually does anything. You might as well not vote.
If you vote for anyone other than the two parties you are voting for Bush.
And if you want a repeat of a president who sleeps through most of his rule and allows the old (and new) guard monopolist (Oil, Real Estate, Big Ag, Microsoft) do what they want with the World, vote Bush or a 3rd party.
I myself am voting for Gore this time. Not because he's great or perfect, but because:
Gore will not destroy the environment (as much)
will definately not allow reproductive freedoms be squashed and allow women to be second class citizens again (see the Republican Platform on Abortion, not what Bush doesn't say in public)
In case of an emergency Gore may have a Clue and G.W. Bush won't know what to do unless Dick, an Oil Company exec or Dad tell him what to do.
I know you had already contributed huge amounts of code to the MIT Lisp Machine effort and the Lisp Machine architecture was (maybe even still is in some ways) a far more advanced environment than the static C based Unix environment. Do you think a community would have grown up around that or was the path to Unix ordained?
Not to cast aspertions on Bill who has always been one of my heros.
My favorite part was:
Joy is less clear on how such a scenario could be prevented. When asked how he personally would stop this progression, he stumbled. "Sun has always struggled with being an ethical innovator," he said. "We are tool builders. I'm trailing off here."
Which could be the conclusion of this entire discussion by us proud techno-knerds. We won't be able to stop or control the future. We just all need to act out of as much integrity as we can each day and hope for the best.
PAM_ALEXANDER == "A high powered and attractive female leader of a major PR house Alexander Ogilvy that has focused on High Tech and was started I believe in the Bay Area"
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