I've worked for over 20 years in various tech roles, after getting advanced degrees in Physics from the biggest name skoolz in the US. The ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently is what matters, not how much acronymic crap you can pack into your resume. My general experience is that good people are those who can adapt, not ones who learned old-tech from profs in some academic environment. Direct academic training for entering the IT world is a total waste, and always has been so, even when the economy did not suck.
These have been around in some form or other since the 1960s. Every few years somebody introduces a new one. The problem was initially economic, or technological. Now it's simpler. People do not want to be seen, and do not want to see where creative conversationalists might place their camera. Remember 'Freevue'? Sort of like CUSeeMe for people who surfed without the unnecessary restriction of trousers.
One of the mobile phone providers advertises "UNLIMITED" minutes in one high-end package. In the submicrometer-sized print at the bottom of the ad it states that usage above 3000 minutes "is subject to review".
Reminds me of the old Dennis the Menace episode where Dennis sets up a lemonade stand with the sign "All you can drink, 5 cents". A thirsty customer gets a small paper cup, empties it promptly, and asks for more. Smart-ass Dennis replies: "That's all you can drink, for 5 cents!"
With a title like "Brazil Moves Away from Microsoft" I thought that there was some kind of massive tectonic rearrangement going on. Since I'm in Seattle and have not been to Brazil recently, I'd be thrilled if they moved TOWARD Microsoft. But Brazilians are generally nice, and Monkey-DanceCorp is generally evil and rapacious.
See, for instance, http://www.amasci.com/emotor/kelvin.html
Which operates under a very similar principle, but with macrochannels. I built one of these when I was a kid, thirty-some years ago. It is so damn cool, your tongue sticks to it!
The meteoric demise of Metricom's Richochet service (which was unlike most dot-bombs run sincerely, and provided pretty good value) should make it pretty clear as to the demand for such fun.
If this were some small Central African hereditary dictatorship, it would be more open and credible. This thing needs fair, open elections FOR ALL SEATS, and totally transparent finances. As it is now, the UN bogocity inspectors should be sent in, or failing that, the F-16s and the Tomahawks!
It was obvious all along that the incredibly poorly-managed nouveau telecoms were going to default on the many $billions of debt. Damn it was a great ride; the execs, arbitrageurs and dealmakers got -theirs-. (and the sucker investors got -theirs-, as well).
So now the RBOCs and ILECs sweep up the pieces for virtually nothing, and consolidate the landscape. This was obvious years ago.
Add the hegemony of the likes of Disney and Microsoft, and their political champions/marionettes, and we're all set for high-priced enslaved mediocrity!
Can you say Palladium? I know you can!
"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go dowwwwwwnnnnnn...."
Were it not for their onslaught of ever-more-bloated crap, the replacement rate of hardware would not be anywhere near so insane, and this dumping would be a far smaller problem.
Word 5.1 runs great on a P75. There really has been no reason to upgrade, for most boring PC uses.
Everytime one of my colleagues or I gets a new Sun box, we have to spend an inordinate amount of time making the thing half-useful. Sun should embrace GNU tools, and get rid of archaic junk tools like 'find' and 'tar', pre-install gcc, and have a decent choice of shells.
In short, make it as useful as a linux box!
Right now, it is not competitive. I avoid them unless totally necessary due to this, and the usual economic disadvantage.
Thank you, Steven Christensen, for
http://www.sunfreeware.com (which appears to have some Sun support, finally)
I downloaded & installed the RC3 stuff and am satisfied with the sound. -BUT- I did some -q3 encoding with oggenc, and the bad part is that the performance is about EIGHT times slower than RealJukebox's encoding to the same approximate bitrate to MP3, on the same exact box.
(oggenc encoding preripped wav files, run under Linux, RealJukebox doing straight rip/encode under Win98)
I can understand some lack of optimization, but not a factor of EIGHT! WTF!
I have it on good authority that the terrorists obtained food and beverages at their local supermarkets, and as such these are support centers and must be shut down immediately.
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I've worked for over 20 years in various tech roles, after getting advanced degrees in Physics from the biggest name skoolz in the US. The ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently is what matters, not how much acronymic crap you can pack into your resume. My general experience is that good people are those who can adapt, not ones who learned old-tech from profs in some academic environment. Direct academic training for entering the IT world is a total waste, and always has been so, even when the economy did not suck.
These have been around in some form or other since the 1960s. Every few years somebody introduces a new one. The problem was initially economic, or technological. Now it's simpler. People do not want to be seen, and do not want to see where creative conversationalists might place their camera. Remember 'Freevue'? Sort of like CUSeeMe for people who surfed without the unnecessary restriction of trousers.
for the Martian Air Defenses!
(Wonder if they buy their flying-saucer fuel from Halliburton?)
void main(){printf("Hello World!\n");}
Since the current government is committed to increasing efficiency wherever possible, the following plan will be pursued:
1) Get 75,000 WinCE-based Diebold machines built (and paid for!)
2) Send them to India and have lower-cost labour do the "voting"
Makes stealing elections MUCH more cost-effective!
For the Longhorn release, coming soon!
One of the mobile phone providers advertises "UNLIMITED" minutes in one high-end package. In the submicrometer-sized print at the bottom of the ad it states that usage above 3000 minutes "is subject to review".
Reminds me of the old Dennis the Menace episode where Dennis sets up a lemonade stand with the sign "All you can drink, 5 cents". A thirsty customer gets a small paper cup, empties it promptly, and asks for more. Smart-ass Dennis replies: "That's all you can drink, for 5 cents!"
Cringley is 100% correct. Look at the cost/speed. All this voting machine crap is just patronage & graft unbridled. Read the Cringley column.
The Canuck system is 100% open, 100% low-tech.
I'm screaming like some kind of Cliff Stoll now, but this shit is getting ridiculous.
Canadian cost per capita: $1.81
US cost $3.27
Whadda ya expect from a Canadian manufacturer?
With a title like "Brazil Moves Away from Microsoft" I thought that there was some kind of massive tectonic rearrangement going on. Since I'm in Seattle and have not been to Brazil recently, I'd be thrilled if they moved TOWARD Microsoft. But Brazilians are generally nice, and Monkey-DanceCorp is generally evil and rapacious.
See, for instance, http://www.amasci.com/emotor/kelvin.html
Which operates under a very similar principle, but with macrochannels. I built one of these when I was a kid, thirty-some years ago. It is so damn cool, your tongue sticks to it!
Check out, with Onkel Babelfish if your Deutsch is as bad as mine....
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-15.08.03
The meteoric demise of Metricom's Richochet service (which was unlike most dot-bombs run sincerely, and provided pretty good value) should make it pretty clear as to the demand for such fun.
If this were some small Central African hereditary dictatorship, it would be more open and credible. This thing needs fair, open elections FOR ALL SEATS, and totally transparent finances. As it is now, the UN bogocity inspectors should be sent in, or failing that, the F-16s and the Tomahawks!
that your tongue sticks to it.
This victimizes the users. Yahoo, MSN, et al. could care less.
So now the RBOCs and ILECs sweep up the pieces for virtually nothing, and consolidate the landscape. This was obvious years ago.
Add the hegemony of the likes of Disney and Microsoft, and their political champions/marionettes, and we're all set for high-priced enslaved mediocrity!
Can you say Palladium? I know you can!
"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go dowwwwwwnnnnnn...."
then we'd all be toast!!
"Save us, Ben Kenobi, you're our only hope...."
Were it not for their onslaught of ever-more-bloated crap, the replacement rate of hardware would not be anywhere near so insane, and this dumping would be a far smaller problem.
Word 5.1 runs great on a P75. There really has been no reason to upgrade, for most boring PC uses.
Where do I click? Where do I click?
Everytime one of my colleagues or I gets a new Sun box, we have to spend an inordinate amount of time making the thing half-useful. Sun should embrace GNU tools, and get rid of archaic junk tools like 'find' and 'tar', pre-install gcc, and have a decent choice of shells.
In short, make it as useful as a linux box!
Right now, it is not competitive. I avoid them unless totally necessary due to this, and the usual economic disadvantage.
Thank you, Steven Christensen, for
http://www.sunfreeware.com (which appears to have some Sun support, finally)
spray them with A-moxi-cillin!
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/amox.htm
I downloaded & installed the RC3 stuff and am satisfied with the sound. -BUT- I did some -q3 encoding with oggenc, and the bad part is that the performance is about EIGHT times slower than RealJukebox's encoding to the same approximate bitrate to MP3, on the same exact box.
(oggenc encoding preripped wav files, run under Linux, RealJukebox doing straight rip/encode under Win98)
I can understand some lack of optimization, but not a factor of EIGHT! WTF!
I have it on good authority that the terrorists obtained food and beverages at their local supermarkets, and as such these are support centers and must be shut down immediately.
Spammers -have- been doing this for a long time, appending some randomly generated crap characters to the subject line, to avoid hash-recognition.