Well the first techie appreciation day is almost over, and by all counts it was a great success.
We heard speeches about the difficulties of holding onto jobs, the instability in a techies life and the isolation caused by it all.
The fact that these problems are caused by massive salaries, a huge job market and owning houses so big that we can't find the front door anymore was not mentioned.
Look in the employment section of any newspaper; techie appreciation day is everyday.
Completed in the year 1999, the good chip Itanium set sail for the new world. They said it couldn't crash, that new technology made it invincible.
However, late one night the ill-fated CPU struck a large 32-bit instruction floating somewhere in the "Internet information economy" which ripped a large hole in her stack and damaged her bus. With the cache on fire, the order was made to abandon chip.
Luckily a nearby chip, the SS Athlon was able to support all of the Itanium's users and no lives were lost.
In a related press release, Microsoft corp announced support for the emerging C3D data format:
"Microsoft corp has been waiting for portable storage capacities to catch up with our dreams for the desktop. We have already developed a 74 GB talking paperclip that can help users with letter writing and swear in spanish.
With current storage technologies we are severely limited in what we can do. A simple 28 MB singing elephant is not much good when it only knows one song."
When asked whether Microsoft CEO Bill Gates' android brain will accept the new disc format, company officials said "We have no idea what you're talking about."
They then smiled and winked before hiding under the table and claiming they were invisible.
Man, I didn't think they were in this much trouble. From the article:
"Last quarter, AMD reported a walloping $173 million in operating losses and revealed that Atiq Raza, one of its most highly regarded executives, had made a deal with Beelzebub and was recalled to the astral plane for punishment.
There was no word on how Andy Groves, CEO of Intel corp had managed to maintain his working relationship with the lord of the underworld.
Some cite his strict open door policy, while others think he may actually be the devil."
If you read down near the bottom of the article, however, you will find this:
"The network was configured with just 11 artificial neurons, and in a sub-stage a live goat brain. The brain was activated through a patented process involving a castle and a lightning storm.
The researchers said one day they hoped that all humanity could benifit from the power of lighting.
"Our wearable computers will bring user interaction to new heights. For example, when email is received the user is automatically notified by the unit which sticks a pin in their eye."
I think I remember hearing of Microsoft attempting to collect the prize from locker #784 in Grand Central station.
However, when a Microsoft representative tried to retrieve the prize, they were surprised by Mr. Ellison's underfed and agitated toupee trapped within the locker.
The Microsoft rep. is listed in fair condition and is awaiting the beginning of his medical benefits to begin treatment.
"Hilton hotels has confirmed that there are no current plans for a space hotel.
In related news, Hilton corporation revealed they would be using some of the technology designed for use in space to create 'odourless bedding' and 'non-irritant complimentary shampoo.'
These technologies are currently beyond the hotel industry's capabilities."
I never thought it was a great idea that the same company controlled the language spec as well as competed with others in the development environment market. Maybe now they can focus on the stinking language and deliver some of the details on those promises they made a couple years ago.
I just wish they'd leave Netbeans alone, they'll probably wreck it.
"Hands off my Netbeans, they're very sensitive right now."
Linus has lost it in this one, and I would guess that its his work with Transmeta causing him to say such things as "I believe in purpose-built devices."
His legacy as an OS creator will be in that it enabled legions of general purpose devices to be made more effective.
"What if one family member wants to watch television and another wants to browse the Net?" Well then you have two Net-TV devices Mr. Torvalds. It is much easier to support and understand one type of device than a seperate interface for every function that an information appliance could potentially be useful for.
Today the mysterious company known as Transmeta finally revealed its primary business as marketing. Other areas of expertise include making geeks crazy by thinking up cool names and not telling them what they mean.
When asked what future projects they would be working on, a company spokseperson said "Our next initiative is named GorpoTron 3000, but I can't tell you what it does."
As addressed somewhat by the article, it seems to me that the address problem is only the most obvious part of the problems with IPv4. The components of IPv6 to do with intelligent routing will greatly increase our usage of available bandwidth, something we'll need even more if we have an address for "every toaster in the world."
Besides, if I stick knife in my toaster to get out the bread, I'll probably blow the whole Internet.
You are all splitting technical hairs here. If the person in the US logs on to a server and changes some function names, then they are not developing crytography, they are changing function names, so no problem. If they log on and write significant portions of any type of cryptography routine then restricted knowledge is leaving the US through whatever channel, and yes you are probably going to be in trouble. Remember, Cryptography is categorized a munition, so its export is controlled as such. In past cases, just because someone has leaked nuclear secrets over the phone and not actually shipped out any nuclear material does not nullify the export requirements.
Well, that's a nice rumor and sounds like it could be an interesting piece of hardware. However, Amiga's problems before were never with their hardware, it was with their marketing. If they don't get that right this time they're still going nowhere.
I always come across these tech support nightmare stories and am happy that I don't have their job, but it really points out whose problem this really all is.
Computers are the most complicated machines ever to be used by this large a section of the world's population, and we will not begin to see the proper productivity increases that these machines were supposed to bring until we find a way to tame this complexity.
A writer shouldn't have to know about 7 different types of recordable media in order to write her book. Same goes for anyone that uses a machine to get something done.
In time our industry will mature and we will get past most of these problems, especially as good solutions to the most common problems (those problems solved by the office type suite of programs for example) head into their 10th revision.
I need a shovel to dig a hole, not to become an expert at shovels.
The article description is a little misleading. Anti-matter isn't really that rare at all, in fact its around all the time as quantum effects cause particle / anti-particle pairs to be created and then destroyed all over the place.
This is in fact how black holes radiate energy, because the anti-particle half of that randomly occuring pairing is sucked in and the particle half goes free.
The sad thing about this is that it seems Microsoft has spent so much on Windows 2000 that they can no longer afford to a UPS to avoid things like power fluctuations.
Thats what you get when you let a marketing person field technical questions, "Umm, my kid put a peanut butter sandwich in the disk drive and it crashed. Therefore my kid is the winner of the contest."
I've been following this topic of research for some time now and the article didn't mention and interesting effect of on ramps.
The team in Germany has determined that the best way to keep a traffic flow fluid is to stagger the traffic merging onto the highway in a random manner. They initially tried a regular pacing of cars onto the freeway, but this turned out to be worse that just letting people come on whenever they got there.
Their work seems to be focused on maintaining what they call "synchronized flow" in the article, or the intermitent state of driving at a fair speed in dense traffic, and usually signals the onset of a jam somewhere around the next on ramp.
If anyone is interested further, send me some mail and I'll give you some other related articles, if I can find them.
As I understand it they were some breed of Unix in the early days (Solaris?) and then after the Microsoft purchase, MS spent another few million to get it all onto NT.
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Well the first techie appreciation day is almost over, and by all counts it was a great success.
We heard speeches about the difficulties of holding onto jobs, the instability in a techies life and the isolation caused by it all.
The fact that these problems are caused by massive salaries, a huge job market and owning houses so big that we can't find the front door anymore was not mentioned.
Look in the employment section of any newspaper; techie appreciation day is everyday.
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Completed in the year 1999, the good chip Itanium set sail for the new world. They said it couldn't crash, that new technology made it invincible.
However, late one night the ill-fated CPU struck a large 32-bit instruction floating somewhere in the "Internet information economy" which ripped a large hole in her stack and damaged her bus. With the cache on fire, the order was made to abandon chip.
Luckily a nearby chip, the SS Athlon was able to support all of the Itanium's users and no lives were lost.
Except for that damn Leo DiCaprio who exploded.
Hotnutz.com
In a related press release, Microsoft corp announced support for the emerging C3D data format:
"Microsoft corp has been waiting for portable storage capacities to catch up with our dreams for the desktop. We have already developed a 74 GB talking paperclip that can help users with letter writing and swear in spanish.
With current storage technologies we are severely limited in what we can do. A simple 28 MB singing elephant is not much good when it only knows one song."
When asked whether Microsoft CEO Bill Gates' android brain will accept the new disc format, company officials said "We have no idea what you're talking about."
They then smiled and winked before hiding under the table and claiming they were invisible.
Hotnutz.com
Man, I didn't think they were in this much trouble. From the article:
"Last quarter, AMD reported a walloping $173 million in operating losses and revealed that Atiq Raza, one of its most highly regarded executives, had made a deal with Beelzebub and was recalled to the astral plane for punishment.
There was no word on how Andy Groves, CEO of Intel corp had managed to maintain his working relationship with the lord of the underworld.
Some cite his strict open door policy, while others think he may actually be the devil."
Hotnutz.com
If you read down near the bottom of the article, however, you will find this:
"The network was configured with just 11 artificial neurons, and in a sub-stage a live goat brain. The brain was activated through a patented process involving a castle and a lightning storm.
The researchers said one day they hoped that all humanity could benifit from the power of lighting.
Then they laughed kind of ominously."
Hotnutz.com
Uhhh, from the IBM product website:
"Our wearable computers will bring user interaction to new heights. For example, when email is received the user is automatically notified by the unit which sticks a pin in their eye."
Hotnutz.com
I think I remember hearing of Microsoft attempting to collect the prize from locker #784 in Grand Central station.
However, when a Microsoft representative tried to retrieve the prize, they were surprised by Mr. Ellison's underfed and agitated toupee trapped within the locker.
The Microsoft rep. is listed in fair condition and is awaiting the beginning of his medical benefits to begin treatment.
Hotnutz.com
Printed material is easier on the eyes, the contrast is better, its more portable and you can leave it somewhere and not worry about it.
Until we get some digital replacements that can meet these requirements, there will still be uses for printed material.
Hotnutz.com
"Hilton hotels has confirmed that there are no current plans for a space hotel.
In related news, Hilton corporation revealed they would be using some of the technology designed for use in space to create 'odourless bedding' and 'non-irritant complimentary shampoo.'
These technologies are currently beyond the hotel industry's capabilities."
Hotnutz.com
I never thought it was a great idea that the same company controlled the language spec as well as competed with others in the development environment market. Maybe now they can focus on the stinking language and deliver some of the details on those promises they made a couple years ago.
I just wish they'd leave Netbeans alone, they'll probably wreck it.
"Hands off my Netbeans, they're very sensitive right now."
Hotnutz.com
Linus has lost it in this one, and I would guess that its his work with Transmeta causing him to say such things as "I believe in purpose-built devices."
His legacy as an OS creator will be in that it enabled legions of general purpose devices to be made more effective.
"What if one family member wants to watch television and another wants to browse the Net?" Well then you have two Net-TV devices Mr. Torvalds. It is much easier to support and understand one type of device than a seperate interface for every function that an information appliance could potentially be useful for.
Hotnutz.com
Today the mysterious company known as Transmeta finally revealed its primary business as marketing. Other areas of expertise include making geeks crazy by thinking up cool names and not telling them what they mean.
When asked what future projects they would be working on, a company spokseperson said "Our next initiative is named GorpoTron 3000, but I can't tell you what it does."
Hotnutz.com
I am considering starting a company.
I'm not sure who I'm going to hire yet or who I need because I'm not sure what I'm going to sell yet.
My biggest problem is to figure out whether this company should be valued at 90 million, or a more reasonable jack squat.
Hotnutz.com
Overheard on an unsecured line:
"Did you pay off the hackers?"
"Yes, they're covered."
"How bout the crackers?"
"Ya, we got them too."
"Snackers?"
"Trying to find them."
"Meat packers?"
"I can only work so fast boss..."
Hotnutz.com
As addressed somewhat by the article, it seems to me that the address problem is only the most obvious part of the problems with IPv4. The components of IPv6 to do with intelligent routing will greatly increase our usage of available bandwidth, something we'll need even more if we have an address for "every toaster in the world."
Besides, if I stick knife in my toaster to get out the bread, I'll probably blow the whole Internet.
Hotnutz.com
You are all splitting technical hairs here. If the person in the US logs on to a server and changes some function names, then they are not developing crytography, they are changing function names, so no problem. If they log on and write significant portions of any type of cryptography routine then restricted knowledge is leaving the US through whatever channel, and yes you are probably going to be in trouble. Remember, Cryptography is categorized a munition, so its export is controlled as such. In past cases, just because someone has leaked nuclear secrets over the phone and not actually shipped out any nuclear material does not nullify the export requirements.
Well, that's a nice rumor and sounds like it could be an interesting piece of hardware. However, Amiga's problems before were never with their hardware, it was with their marketing. If they don't get that right this time they're still going nowhere.
I always come across these tech support nightmare stories and am happy that I don't have their job, but it really points out whose problem this really all is.
Computers are the most complicated machines ever to be used by this large a section of the world's population, and we will not begin to see the proper productivity increases that these machines were supposed to bring until we find a way to tame this complexity.
A writer shouldn't have to know about 7 different types of recordable media in order to write her book. Same goes for anyone that uses a machine to get something done.
In time our industry will mature and we will get past most of these problems, especially as good solutions to the most common problems (those problems solved by the office type suite of programs for example) head into their 10th revision.
I need a shovel to dig a hole, not to become an expert at shovels.
The article description is a little misleading. Anti-matter isn't really that rare at all, in fact its around all the time as quantum effects cause particle / anti-particle pairs to be created and then destroyed all over the place.
This is in fact how black holes radiate energy, because the anti-particle half of that randomly occuring pairing is sucked in and the particle half goes free.
Well, maybe its only interesting to me.
The sad thing about this is that it seems Microsoft has spent so much on Windows 2000 that they can no longer afford to a UPS to avoid things like power fluctuations.
Thats what you get when you let a marketing person field technical questions, "Umm, my kid put a peanut butter sandwich in the disk drive and it crashed. Therefore my kid is the winner of the contest."
I've been following this topic of research for some time now and the article didn't mention and interesting effect of on ramps.
The team in Germany has determined that the best way to keep a traffic flow fluid is to stagger the traffic merging onto the highway in a random manner. They initially tried a regular pacing of cars onto the freeway, but this turned out to be worse that just letting people come on whenever they got there.
Their work seems to be focused on maintaining what they call "synchronized flow" in the article, or the intermitent state of driving at a fair speed in dense traffic, and usually signals the onset of a jam somewhere around the next on ramp.
If anyone is interested further, send me some mail and I'll give you some other related articles, if I can find them.
Well I saw a guy with a rubber case on his and he was trying to fit it all in his mouth.
So, yes, thats probably a fetish.
Hey thats interesting, I read a letter from Bill Clinton asking all Wassanaar nations to remove people from office that look like Janet Reno.
Maybe she's mad.
Let's not forget that many institutional investors thought that MP3.com owned the rights to the MP3 technology and so bought in heavy.
Although MP3's been in a nosedive, let's face it, that stock ain't work $105 to start with. Their initial pricing was gonna be $9.
Nutz.
As I understand it they were some breed of Unix in the early days (Solaris?) and then after the Microsoft purchase, MS spent another few million to get it all onto NT.