I'm not speaking from experience here, but here's a suggestion:
You can open an IMAP server in Outlook and open your Exchange server at the same time and just drag the mail across. For 150 people, you might need a little help to do this, but with a few helpers, it's not totally insurmountable.
The Saturn V blueprints are still in NASA repositories, safe for historical documentation and such.
We *can't* build new Saturn V boosters because all of the plants have either been knocked down or retooled to support the shuttle. The launch pads that used to launch Saturns now launch Shuttles, and all of the support machinery has changed over.
Many many many of the parts for the Saturn V you can't get anymore.
It is cheaper and less trouble to build a new booster than it is to resurect a 40 year old design.
They've done it, Mr. Troll, but who uses them right now? How long did it take to go from wanting a pocket computer (Sharp Wizard, various Radio Shack pocket computers, Newton, etc, etc, etc,) to actually HAVING a usable pocket computer that caught on (PalmPilot, iPAQ, etc.) for widespread usage? At least 10 years.
This is what I am referring to -- the time when it goes from geekazoid toy to part of life for a good percentage of non-geeks.
You've got me on the watches being replaced by cell phones. I'll buy that one. But I won't buy the watch-sized cell phone. Unless the phone is somehow implanted, anything smaller than an existing phone isn't going to be convenient for people to talk into or dial out of.
I would believe half of the cell phone on the wrist and the other half of the cell phone in a headset. But I think the next step is to combine the cell phone and the PDA.
Actually, I have found that rudeness and shortcircuting of the preprogrammed speach does help with telemarketing, when coupled with an unlisted number. These firms keep notes about the person called, which profiles work best, which don't work so well.
For example, I have an 11 character polish last name. Very hard for your average telemarketer to prounounce. So one time, somebody called and while they were trying to pronounce my name (hello mr........) I just short circuted their speech before they could get a word in, etc. A few days later, they didn't bother using my last name, just my first name.
I also tend to be obscene with them, if I'm in an evil mood.
And I have noticed that the telemarketing calls have gone way way way down.
They are selling you 500K/128K with the implicit assumption that you are using a traditional home-user access pattern (i.e. occasional bursts when you hit a good porn site, lotsa intermittent email and ICQ traffic, etc.)
My biggest problem is that I could see why they don't want to allow full-scale hosting. Makes sense, because it distorts their network load equations. The big advantage of an always-on broadband connection is that you can run little servers for you and maybe one or two other people. Like you said, to check your CallerID logs. Or turn on/off the lights with X10. Or run your own mail server. So what the proper AUP is that you outlaw spam sending, heavy sustained traffic in over x GB/day, commercial hosting, and other things that could destabalize the network.
But because I like to SSH and VNC in to my machines and would like to eventually host mail on my machines instead of my ISP, I gnaw my fingernails off every time that it looks like Covad is in trouble because once CLECs dissapear, I won't be able to even SSH and VNC into my home machines.
See, I'm a little doubtful that we'll make a truly useful quantum computer. Just a gut feel, and it might be becaue I haven't tried to wrap my mind on how one would control a quantum computer.
Doubtlessley, even if we had a quantum computer with single-atom features, we'd find a way to exhaust its capabilities and would still want more power.;)
See, I'm still wondering what happens after the point where we make single-atom features. Either there's sub-atomic computing out there, or computers will start to get big and multiprocessor again.
Perhaps we'll be doing sub-atomic quantom computing with teleported laser beams transporting the signal faster than light.
Single atom transistor is the buzzword. 1.3 nm transistor is the reality. They've got 5 iterations of Moore's law (7-8 years) to perfect it for production for it to be useful.
It's like One Transistor SRAM. The One Transistor is the buzzword, the reality is that it's DRAM that can be indivually accessed like SRAM. People ignore the support logic for the larger goal of making a cute futuristic buzzword out of it.
Companies last such a short amount of time, and their quality changes so rapidly, that it's not worth bothering with trying to get a relationship with your average low-cost budget joint.
So I just find out which company is the cheapest at that particular moment in time and order parts from there. An acceptable alternative is to find the best place to get the most expensive part and then see how they stack up for the rest of the parts.
If you try this approach, make sure that you get total name-brand stuff. Hence you want real Mushkin/Corsair/etc. memory where the module and the chips are name brand. Bad memory can cause system instability really easily, so don't scrimp there. Get an ASUS/ATi/Matrox/VisionTek/etc. big-brand card instead of whatever Jaton or other generic crap they are trying to sell instead. Check about the waranty for the "white box" OEM parts. If there's no waranty for the white box components, get a retail box component with a waranty instead.
Check things with a fine-tooth comb when you receive them. Assemble the system entirely as soon as you have the parts, not a month down the line when you get the time. And make sure that you purchase everything with a real credit card (NOT a debit card)
Well, for one, I have a little more restraint than you.
My wife and I have an extra bedroom for our computers, books, etc. So that cuts down on the crampage.
You don't need a port in the bathroom. The reason why your girlfriend is pissed is probably not because you shouldn't have a port in the bathroom, but because the port in the bathroom is showing her what a nutcase she's going out with. Plus, it gets damn humid there when you take a shower. A moisture-short across the line is not going to do wonders for network performance. Just use wireless ethernet and be happy. Do you have a phone in every room? Of course not, you probably have a cordless phone. Same thing here.
For another, try to be organized about things. With a nice telecom rack, you can stick your 2 servers, the firewall, your UPS, your switch, etc. etc. etc. in a small 2'x3' area in the corner somewhere and have room for expansion. I've met very few geeks who really needed more than 1 server + firewall unless they were trying to compensate fo a small penis.
I mean, look at this from her prespective. She's going to like it if you have a nice network connection for her internet usage, an e-mail account for her to use, a nice home-movie experience so you can watch movies together, etc. She's not going to mind it if your computing gear is humming away neatly in a corner somewhere. She's going to hate it if you spend all of your time tinkering with all of your crap and not spending quality time with her. She's going to hate it if you have a messy piles of computing crap in every room that she has to watch out or she'll trip over, that keeps her up all night because the fans are obnoxiously loud, etc.
I mean, look at Alan Cox. His wife isn't filling her weblog with stories about how obnoxious and self-centered he is. She mentions about how he's fixing one problem or another with her laptop and seems to be more amused than anything else with his geekishness.
Actually, I think that multiple sets of coax/fiber/etc lines is counterproductive.
What we really need is to seperate the people who put the wire in the ground from the people who offer service on said wires. This creates an environment that preserves freedom of service (i.e. the ability for you to choose Speakeasy instead of the mass-market ISP you get by default) while not forcing the ILECs to aide their competitors. Plus you give the wiring providers an incentive to offer fiber to the curb, etc.
It's more of an evolutionary process. Even if the ratios are such that for every 1 object in a stable orbit around another, 10000 objects either were flung into a different orbit, impacted the body, or went out of the solar system, there will still likely be a lot of moons out there, becuase there's a LOT of objects out there.
Plus, as long as the object encountering another one doesn't impact or get flung out of the system, it will be in a new orbit and has a chance to encounter another object.
Our solar system works like clockwork. It got that way because everything that didn't look like clockwork was sliced off.
Generally people who have not coded before have problems in the intro classes. I've found that after this, they either become humble but good coders or get frustrated and leave. I have seen it go either way.
The problem is that the people who are in to CS because they want a high-paying job are too damn stubborn to get frustrated after the intro class and muddle their way to a degree.
I've actually found that your notion does not hold up in practice.
For one, most "bell curves" are not true bell curves but are the prof's personal interpretation of a curve, as statistics require. That your distribution is not necessarily a bell-curve of intelligence is another issue entirely.
Plus, most people who screw over their grades do so in other ways. Like not allowing enough time to complete an assignment, not turning something in, showing up to the test hung over, etc. etc. etc.
Furthermore, discussion is a two way street. If you are solely distributing information to a classmate, you are tutoring them and will probably require some compensation. But most of the collaboration I've seen at universities has been more two-sided, where each person comes out of it with a better understanding of things.
Not necessarily. Markup is determined by the relative efficency of the marketing scheme. So places like a bike shop, where there are two people who sit around all day long and sell a few expensive bikes a day have a 2x markup. Music stores are the same way. Things like stocks, where there's a few pieces of paper that have to be exchanged with the utmost assurance that they won't screw up, cost you $20 comission per trade because it doesn't really matter if you are trading 1 or 1000 stocks, it's all the same to them. Retail has it's own costs that force a markup to be rather high. You are paying for the convenience of them having it immediately in stock, the location, etc. etc. etc. Retail is a rough industry and, as is, very few people get truly rich in it. A large percentage of the markup goes towards the services of delivering said product.
Thus, overall, you get what you pay for when you buy from the store. Also note that the grocery stores generally buy from a supplier at a third to a half the cost it will sell at.
Now, what expenses do MLM people have? They work out of their home. The host company needs to have a warehouse and an office. But the major portion of the cost of an MLM product does not go towards these expenses. The major portion of the cost of an MLM product goes towards making the owners of the company rich, and making certain people in the MLM chain rich.
Plus, the actual markup of MLM is much much higher. Even quality products often give them an order-of-magnatude markup.
Thus, when you buy a MLM product, you are making a select group of people rich and not receiving any sort of service in exchange for the markup.
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Yeah, but given the excessive caffiene consumption and sleep deprevation, they'll stuffer all sorts of other health problems, too.
They are saying that sleep deprevation and caffiene is a surefire way to get, at the very least, Type II diabetes, later on in life.
I think it was "Catapult launched water-rockets"
Meaning, he catapolts at a reasonable acceleration that doesn't have blackouts, then using a water rocket to do the rest.
So he's not *quite* that categoriacly nuts.
I'm not speaking from experience here, but here's a suggestion:
You can open an IMAP server in Outlook and open your Exchange server at the same time and just drag the mail across. For 150 people, you might need a little help to do this, but with a few helpers, it's not totally insurmountable.
Yeah, but it brings new meaning to the phrase "Talk to the fist"
Bullshit.
The Saturn V blueprints are still in NASA repositories, safe for historical documentation and such.
We *can't* build new Saturn V boosters because all of the plants have either been knocked down or retooled to support the shuttle. The launch pads that used to launch Saturns now launch Shuttles, and all of the support machinery has changed over.
Many many many of the parts for the Saturn V you can't get anymore.
It is cheaper and less trouble to build a new booster than it is to resurect a 40 year old design.
Until the phone companies manage to put Covad out of business, which will then take Speakeasy.net out of the picture, too.
Good thing I'm not any more of a geek than I already am, or I'd be severely stressed or something.
They've done it, Mr. Troll, but who uses them right now? How long did it take to go from wanting a pocket computer (Sharp Wizard, various Radio Shack pocket computers, Newton, etc, etc, etc,) to actually HAVING a usable pocket computer that caught on (PalmPilot, iPAQ, etc.) for widespread usage? At least 10 years.
This is what I am referring to -- the time when it goes from geekazoid toy to part of life for a good percentage of non-geeks.
You've got me on the watches being replaced by cell phones. I'll buy that one. But I won't buy the watch-sized cell phone. Unless the phone is somehow implanted, anything smaller than an existing phone isn't going to be convenient for people to talk into or dial out of.
I would believe half of the cell phone on the wrist and the other half of the cell phone in a headset. But I think the next step is to combine the cell phone and the PDA.
Actually, I have found that rudeness and shortcircuting of the preprogrammed speach does help with telemarketing, when coupled with an unlisted number. These firms keep notes about the person called, which profiles work best, which don't work so well.
For example, I have an 11 character polish last name. Very hard for your average telemarketer to prounounce. So one time, somebody called and while they were trying to pronounce my name (hello mr........) I just short circuted their speech before they could get a word in, etc. A few days later, they didn't bother using my last name, just my first name.
I also tend to be obscene with them, if I'm in an evil mood.
And I have noticed that the telemarketing calls have gone way way way down.
True. But military grade fighters and bombers have ejection seats. So the penalty for failure is slightly lower.
Simple.
They are selling you 500K/128K with the implicit assumption that you are using a traditional home-user access pattern (i.e. occasional bursts when you hit a good porn site, lotsa intermittent email and ICQ traffic, etc.)
My biggest problem is that I could see why they don't want to allow full-scale hosting. Makes sense, because it distorts their network load equations. The big advantage of an always-on broadband connection is that you can run little servers for you and maybe one or two other people. Like you said, to check your CallerID logs. Or turn on/off the lights with X10. Or run your own mail server. So what the proper AUP is that you outlaw spam sending, heavy sustained traffic in over x GB/day, commercial hosting, and other things that could destabalize the network.
But because I like to SSH and VNC in to my machines and would like to eventually host mail on my machines instead of my ISP, I gnaw my fingernails off every time that it looks like Covad is in trouble because once CLECs dissapear, I won't be able to even SSH and VNC into my home machines.
See, I'm a little doubtful that we'll make a truly useful quantum computer. Just a gut feel, and it might be becaue I haven't tried to wrap my mind on how one would control a quantum computer.
;)
Doubtlessley, even if we had a quantum computer with single-atom features, we'd find a way to exhaust its capabilities and would still want more power.
Ahh.. Yes, you are absolutely right.
See, I'm still wondering what happens after the point where we make single-atom features. Either there's sub-atomic computing out there, or computers will start to get big and multiprocessor again.
Perhaps we'll be doing sub-atomic quantom computing with teleported laser beams transporting the signal faster than light.
Single atom transistor is the buzzword. 1.3 nm transistor is the reality. They've got 5 iterations of Moore's law (7-8 years) to perfect it for production for it to be useful.
It's like One Transistor SRAM. The One Transistor is the buzzword, the reality is that it's DRAM that can be indivually accessed like SRAM. People ignore the support logic for the larger goal of making a cute futuristic buzzword out of it.
Debit cards and credit cards have different chargeback systems. It is much easier to get a chargeback on a credit card.
Although, the debit cards have been upgraded somewhat lately.
Companies last such a short amount of time, and their quality changes so rapidly, that it's not worth bothering with trying to get a relationship with your average low-cost budget joint.
So I just find out which company is the cheapest at that particular moment in time and order parts from there. An acceptable alternative is to find the best place to get the most expensive part and then see how they stack up for the rest of the parts.
If you try this approach, make sure that you get total name-brand stuff. Hence you want real Mushkin/Corsair/etc. memory where the module and the chips are name brand. Bad memory can cause system instability really easily, so don't scrimp there. Get an ASUS/ATi/Matrox/VisionTek/etc. big-brand card instead of whatever Jaton or other generic crap they are trying to sell instead. Check about the waranty for the "white box" OEM parts. If there's no waranty for the white box components, get a retail box component with a waranty instead.
Check things with a fine-tooth comb when you receive them. Assemble the system entirely as soon as you have the parts, not a month down the line when you get the time. And make sure that you purchase everything with a real credit card (NOT a debit card)
Well, for one, I have a little more restraint than you.
My wife and I have an extra bedroom for our computers, books, etc. So that cuts down on the crampage.
You don't need a port in the bathroom. The reason why your girlfriend is pissed is probably not because you shouldn't have a port in the bathroom, but because the port in the bathroom is showing her what a nutcase she's going out with. Plus, it gets damn humid there when you take a shower. A moisture-short across the line is not going to do wonders for network performance. Just use wireless ethernet and be happy. Do you have a phone in every room? Of course not, you probably have a cordless phone. Same thing here.
For another, try to be organized about things. With a nice telecom rack, you can stick your 2 servers, the firewall, your UPS, your switch, etc. etc. etc. in a small 2'x3' area in the corner somewhere and have room for expansion. I've met very few geeks who really needed more than 1 server + firewall unless they were trying to compensate fo a small penis.
I mean, look at this from her prespective. She's going to like it if you have a nice network connection for her internet usage, an e-mail account for her to use, a nice home-movie experience so you can watch movies together, etc. She's not going to mind it if your computing gear is humming away neatly in a corner somewhere. She's going to hate it if you spend all of your time tinkering with all of your crap and not spending quality time with her. She's going to hate it if you have a messy piles of computing crap in every room that she has to watch out or she'll trip over, that keeps her up all night because the fans are obnoxiously loud, etc.
I mean, look at Alan Cox. His wife isn't filling her weblog with stories about how obnoxious and self-centered he is. She mentions about how he's fixing one problem or another with her laptop and seems to be more amused than anything else with his geekishness.
I'd take credit for the idea, but it was actually posted on slashdot months back and pulled out of my wildly associative memory. ;)
Actually, I think that multiple sets of coax/fiber/etc lines is counterproductive.
What we really need is to seperate the people who put the wire in the ground from the people who offer service on said wires. This creates an environment that preserves freedom of service (i.e. the ability for you to choose Speakeasy instead of the mass-market ISP you get by default) while not forcing the ILECs to aide their competitors. Plus you give the wiring providers an incentive to offer fiber to the curb, etc.
It's more of an evolutionary process. Even if the ratios are such that for every 1 object in a stable orbit around another, 10000 objects either were flung into a different orbit, impacted the body, or went out of the solar system, there will still likely be a lot of moons out there, becuase there's a LOT of objects out there.
Plus, as long as the object encountering another one doesn't impact or get flung out of the system, it will be in a new orbit and has a chance to encounter another object.
Our solar system works like clockwork. It got that way because everything that didn't look like clockwork was sliced off.
I'm hoping that the TridiaVNC folk are not the people who take it over.. They rubbed me the wrong way when I viewed their site.
/is/ the advantage of open-source software. Unlike in the case of Blender, SOMEBODY can go on and develop new stuff with VNC, no prob.
Of course, this
Generally people who have not coded before have problems in the intro classes. I've found that after this, they either become humble but good coders or get frustrated and leave. I have seen it go either way.
The problem is that the people who are in to CS because they want a high-paying job are too damn stubborn to get frustrated after the intro class and muddle their way to a degree.
I've actually found that your notion does not hold up in practice.
For one, most "bell curves" are not true bell curves but are the prof's personal interpretation of a curve, as statistics require. That your distribution is not necessarily a bell-curve of intelligence is another issue entirely.
Plus, most people who screw over their grades do so in other ways. Like not allowing enough time to complete an assignment, not turning something in, showing up to the test hung over, etc. etc. etc.
Furthermore, discussion is a two way street. If you are solely distributing information to a classmate, you are tutoring them and will probably require some compensation. But most of the collaboration I've seen at universities has been more two-sided, where each person comes out of it with a better understanding of things.
Yeah, but it doesn't NEED DOT and NPSOL to work, it can work with the other libraries.
;)
I bet it sucks without them, tho.
Not necessarily. Markup is determined by the relative efficency of the marketing scheme. So places like a bike shop, where there are two people who sit around all day long and sell a few expensive bikes a day have a 2x markup. Music stores are the same way. Things like stocks, where there's a few pieces of paper that have to be exchanged with the utmost assurance that they won't screw up, cost you $20 comission per trade because it doesn't really matter if you are trading 1 or 1000 stocks, it's all the same to them. Retail has it's own costs that force a markup to be rather high. You are paying for the convenience of them having it immediately in stock, the location, etc. etc. etc. Retail is a rough industry and, as is, very few people get truly rich in it. A large percentage of the markup goes towards the services of delivering said product.
Thus, overall, you get what you pay for when you buy from the store. Also note that the grocery stores generally buy from a supplier at a third to a half the cost it will sell at.
Now, what expenses do MLM people have? They work out of their home. The host company needs to have a warehouse and an office. But the major portion of the cost of an MLM product does not go towards these expenses. The major portion of the cost of an MLM product goes towards making the owners of the company rich, and making certain people in the MLM chain rich.
Plus, the actual markup of MLM is much much higher. Even quality products often give them an order-of-magnatude markup.
Thus, when you buy a MLM product, you are making a select group of people rich and not receiving any sort of service in exchange for the markup.