There are plenty of court cases on point. Generally, the IRS has a bias that most folks are in fact (regardless of the understanding of the affected parties) employees. When folks treated as contractors get "re-classified" by the IRS it is generally "bad news" for payor, and can be "bad news" for the recipient. I was surprised that this thread progressed this deep without that issue coming up.
Actually the Foveon is utilizing analog at the capture level, which apparently is the key for the non-degradation on enlargements. I can remember reading articles that what the Foveon does (the complexity of analog chips) couldn't be done. As others noted, this camera is directed at professional photographers and may not be easy to reverse engineer. Gene
With more than a little irony, these machines seem to fit the model Clayton Christensen describes in his book "The Innovator's Dilemma: When distruptive technologies cause great firms to fail" These "bottom-feeders" would currently be the least desirable of "lost customers" for MS (those who spend the least amount of money). However, as you note, once they reach some level of numbers, they will reach upward to market just above (I'm describing the market here, not the functionality of the competing OS's). The irony being that is not unlike how MS got its' original foot in everybody's door. Gene
To really understand what is going on, one should read the Gilder Technology Reports (http://www.gildertech.com/)a subscription monthly newsletter which explain much of the Telecosm, which is also the name of a soon to be released book. That's two things to buy:-). Will that get me thrown out of here?:-)
I haven't read Davis' book, but my general perception is that magic is "illusion" (that is something made to appear different than it really is) and consequently a lie. So I'm not certain about the applicability of the trilogy.
George Gilder, author of Microcosm, Life After Television, the upcoming Telecosm, and fee based newsletter Gilder Technology Reports believes one benefit is the elimination of most of the expensive switchs we currently are routed through. So while I continue to "make do" with bonded ISDN (128K) I anxiously anticipate the impending bandwidth availability. There is huge pentup demand for bandwidth (even by folks who aren't aware of it:-). The Gilder paradigm will change where we impute value in communications.
Well I had him last:-) Actually, he did put together the Media Lab at MIT which in addition to extracting money from suits has an impressive list of alumni (Danny Hillis, Martin Minsky, etc.)
I've noticed that peoples notions regarding such things as enviromental and regulatory issues for waterfront property depends primarily on whether they own some or not. That is, political and other philosophical ideologies get reconciled between those who own finitely limited resources.
Perhaps there is a correlation between any entity that reaches some pinnacle (not necessarily financial success) and those who find attaining similar achievement elusive. To the extent that notion is true, it might get exasperated when those reaching the pinnacle aren't much different from those who don't. Successful worldwide marketing entities may be as limited (although by different criteria) as the amount of waterfront property. So the more successful Red Hat becomes the more rocks that will be thrown, notwithstanding that the pervasiveness of Linux depends on entities like Red Hat.
Anyway I happen to own a beautiful waterfront lot, so I'm all for Red Hat:-)
The clergy sermonizes about protecting dogma and faith in a world in which the young have access to all the information in the world, including heresy.
There is a difference between access to information and knowledge (although the latter somewhat depends on the former). To some extent, mere access to information (such as words on/.) do not necessarily result in knowledge, envoking freedom. That notion depends on truth emerging from the information. Often some visual representation of information is needed in order to "see the truth." For instance the information existed, and was in fact debated, on the day before the Challenger 7 disaster that would have scrubbed the launch if only the information was organized and presented in a manner that knowledge based on truth could be seen. Those "who didn't get it" and consequently allowed the launch were in fact the world's best "rocket scientists."
So we need to learn how to present information in a manner that the viewer understands truth leading to knowledge. Any illuminating view needs the underlying data/information available for independent analysis and signed by its creator to expect credibility.
Some may recognize some influence of the notions of Edward Tufte, professor of statiscal evidence, information and interface design, at Yale University in this epistle.
The March-April, 1999, edition of Technology Review (MIT's Magazine of Innovation) has a series of articles dwelling on the competing technologies that will allow placing instructions on silicon at the sub-micron level. Likely one or more of these technologies will succeed and one result will be a continuum of Moore's Law.
We run Apache/NT on an old 486 with 48MB of memory on a low volume site on an ISDN connection. It runs very responsively and stable. We attempted to install RH Linux on a twin and ran into issues with some of the older hardware components, so we haven't been able compare in that fashion.
Actually you point out a solid Linux opportunity. Even if the tests were not conducted on a level playing field (and many are not) paying attention to where the bottlenecks were should allow improvements to occur. Nothing would be particularly wrong with an improved Linux regardless as to how it stacks up against other OSes.
Wonder who would be questioning what if the study indicated Linux was twice as fast as NT?:-)
Regarding experiencing a slashdot effect, just your posting my name (GenePrescott) as the submitter of one of your articles created more traffic to our site in a 24 hour period than we normally get in two weeks. While most of these visitors appeared to have "bailed out" immediately upon discovering we are a CPA firm, about 5% appeared to have traveled on the the AICPA's Top 10 Tech List from our site:
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That notion increasingly pops into my mind as I observe persons currently in leadership positions who seemingly believe that "technology competence" is knowing how to boot Win95 and run a couple of apps. Perhaps there is too much truth in Dogbert's statement that "Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow". It seems to me that today's (and certainly the short term future's) leadership will have to understand how the Internet works. Politicians and business executives whose notion of using email is having their administrative assitant print out a bunch of messages, prioritize the, after which they make handwritten notations in the margins from which the assistant keys in and sends replies is wearing a blindfold. It is my viewpoint that those who refuse to take pro-active technological leadership stances, undergirded by their personal knowledge obtained by experience, are diminishing in value.
Not trying to talk you out of voting against AG, just wondering how are you going to vote for anyone if having personal understanding of technology is part of criteria:-)
And I have business clients with smaller and larger networks.
what the hell are you saying? That you don't have the problems slashdot posters say, or you do?
We have experienced solid stability with Xenix (in the '80s), Novell (early '90s), and NT (present) in systems supported in small businesses. If NT were as unstable as I read about here we would have to abandon it --- we have to have high % of uptime. Granted we don't have 100s banging on NT, but those we do bang a lot and it is important that they have effective uptime.
When suitable app software is available for client(s) environment(s) we will consider installing Linux. Nothing elitist about that, just that systems need to serve people effectively. For some people, Linux is best option today. For others, MS cannot be excluded today.
Keep in mind that some of those legacy Intel PCs have various components that Linux might not be directly anticipating. Learning of indirect sources of drivers, etc. may take more time than cost of a Cobalt machine.
Yep, and as that becomes more pervasive lots of folks will file using web-based tax software. In terms of total number of 1040s the potential is for a large majority to file that way. But tax professionals with clients with extensive complications (we spend 20-75 hours of competent professional time on some of them). For that kind of work, calc speed (frequent iterations) is king. So I'm skeptical that we'll have enough fulltime Internet bandwidth to compete with FastEthernet LAN and fast HD. I expect as things move to XML that many more apps will become web-based. I'm ready for the next best way. But I also have to deal with the present and short term future... and in doing so, cannot abandon MS.
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There are plenty of court cases on point. Generally, the IRS has a bias that most folks are in fact (regardless of the understanding of the affected parties) employees. When folks treated as contractors get "re-classified" by the IRS it is generally "bad news" for payor, and can be "bad news" for the recipient. I was surprised that this thread progressed this deep without that issue coming up.
Actually the Foveon is utilizing analog at the capture level, which apparently is the key for the non-degradation on enlargements. I can remember reading articles that what the Foveon does (the complexity of analog chips) couldn't be done. As others noted, this camera is directed at professional photographers and may not be easy to reverse engineer. Gene
NT running Apache? Seems that would eleminate whatever advantages Apache might provide.
With more than a little irony, these machines seem to fit the model Clayton Christensen describes in his book "The Innovator's Dilemma: When distruptive technologies cause great firms to fail" These "bottom-feeders" would currently be the least desirable of "lost customers" for MS (those who spend the least amount of money). However, as you note, once they reach some level of numbers, they will reach upward to market just above (I'm describing the market here, not the functionality of the competing OS's). The irony being that is not unlike how MS got its' original foot in everybody's door. Gene
To really understand what is going on, one should read the Gilder Technology Reports (http://www.gildertech.com/)a subscription monthly newsletter which explain much of the Telecosm, which is also the name of a soon to be released book. That's two things to buy :-). Will that get me thrown out of here? :-)
I haven't read Davis' book, but my general perception is that magic is "illusion" (that is something made to appear different than it really is) and consequently a lie. So I'm not certain about the applicability of the trilogy.
George Gilder, author of Microcosm, Life After Television, the upcoming Telecosm, and fee based newsletter Gilder Technology Reports believes one benefit is the elimination of most of the expensive switchs we currently are routed through. So while I continue to "make do" with bonded ISDN (128K) I anxiously anticipate the impending bandwidth availability. There is huge pentup demand for bandwidth (even by folks who aren't aware of it :-). The Gilder paradigm will change where we impute value in communications.
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Well I had him last :-) Actually, he did put together the Media Lab at MIT which in addition to extracting money from suits has an impressive list of alumni (Danny Hillis, Martin Minsky, etc.)
George Gilder
Carver Meade
Gordon Bell
Gordon Moore
Andy Grove
Nicholas Negroponte
Just as an aside, I can recall when Mr. Michel (and his father) and users of their OS (Xenix) were considered sort of "religious zealots".
Well here is a link to a website of a woman that really knows:
http://www.sandismith.com/y2kindex.html
I've noticed that peoples notions regarding such things as enviromental and regulatory issues for waterfront property depends primarily on whether they own some or not. That is, political and other philosophical ideologies get reconciled between those who own finitely limited resources.
:-)
Perhaps there is a correlation between any entity that reaches some pinnacle (not necessarily financial success) and those who find attaining similar achievement elusive. To the extent that notion is true, it might get exasperated when those reaching the pinnacle aren't much different from those who don't. Successful worldwide marketing entities may be as limited (although by different criteria) as the amount of waterfront property. So the more successful Red Hat becomes the more rocks that will be thrown, notwithstanding that the pervasiveness of Linux depends on entities like Red Hat.
Anyway I happen to own a beautiful waterfront lot, so I'm all for Red Hat
The clergy sermonizes about protecting dogma and faith in a world in which the young have access to all the information in the world, including heresy.
/.) do not necessarily result in knowledge, envoking freedom. That notion depends on truth emerging from the information. Often some visual representation of information is needed in order to "see the truth." For instance the information existed, and was in fact debated, on the day before the Challenger 7 disaster that would have scrubbed the launch if only the information was organized and presented in a manner that knowledge based on truth could be seen. Those "who didn't get it" and consequently allowed the launch were in fact the world's best "rocket scientists."
There is a difference between access to information and knowledge (although the latter somewhat depends on the former). To some extent, mere access to information (such as words on
So we need to learn how to present information in a manner that the viewer understands truth leading to knowledge. Any illuminating view needs the underlying data/information available for independent analysis and signed by its creator to expect credibility.
Some may recognize some influence of the notions of Edward Tufte, professor of statiscal evidence, information and interface design, at Yale University in this epistle.
The March-April, 1999, edition of Technology Review (MIT's Magazine of Innovation) has a series of articles dwelling on the competing technologies that will allow placing instructions on silicon at the sub-micron level. Likely one or more of these technologies will succeed and one result will be a continuum of Moore's Law.
We run Apache/NT on an old 486 with 48MB of memory on a low volume site on an ISDN connection. It runs very responsively and stable. We attempted to install RH Linux on a twin and ran into issues with some of the older hardware components, so we haven't been able compare in that fashion.
Actually you point out a solid Linux opportunity. Even if the tests were not conducted on a level playing field (and many are not) paying attention to where the bottlenecks were should allow improvements to occur. Nothing would be particularly wrong with an improved Linux regardless as to how it stacks up against other OSes.
:-)
Wonder who would be questioning what if the study indicated Linux was twice as fast as NT?
Just noting that Apache runs on NT.
Regarding experiencing a slashdot effect, just your posting my name (GenePrescott) as the submitter of one of your articles created more traffic to our site in a 24 hour period than we normally get in two weeks. While most of these visitors appeared to have "bailed out" immediately upon discovering we are a CPA firm, about 5% appeared to have traveled on the the AICPA's Top 10 Tech List from our site:
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http://www.taxtechcpa.com/Technology/1999TopTen
That notion increasingly pops into my mind as I observe persons currently in leadership positions who seemingly believe that "technology competence" is knowing how to boot Win95 and run a couple of apps. Perhaps there is too much truth in Dogbert's statement that "Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow". It seems to me that today's (and certainly the short term future's) leadership will have to understand how the Internet works. Politicians and business executives whose notion of using email is having their administrative assitant print out a bunch of messages, prioritize the, after which they make handwritten notations in the margins from which the assistant keys in and sends replies is wearing a blindfold. It is my viewpoint that those who refuse to take pro-active technological leadership stances, undergirded by their personal knowledge obtained by experience, are diminishing in value.
Not trying to talk you out of voting against AG, just wondering how are you going to vote for anyone if having personal understanding of technology is part of criteria :-)
I notice they aren't precisely flat on the back, so they may not hang elegantly.
And I have business clients with smaller and larger networks.
what the hell are you saying? That you don't have the problems slashdot posters say, or you do?
We have experienced solid stability with Xenix (in the '80s), Novell (early '90s), and NT (present) in systems supported in small businesses. If NT were as unstable as I read about here we would have to abandon it --- we have to have high % of uptime. Granted we don't have 100s banging on NT, but those we do bang a lot and it is important that they have effective uptime.
When suitable app software is available for client(s) environment(s) we will consider installing Linux. Nothing elitist about that, just that systems need to serve people effectively. For some people, Linux is best option today. For others, MS cannot be excluded today.
Keep in mind that some of those legacy Intel PCs have various components that Linux might not be directly anticipating. Learning of indirect sources of drivers, etc. may take more time than cost of a Cobalt machine.
Yep, and as that becomes more pervasive lots of folks will file using web-based tax software. In terms of total number of 1040s the potential is for a large majority to file that way. But tax professionals with clients with extensive complications (we spend 20-75 hours of competent professional time on some of them). For that kind of work, calc speed (frequent iterations) is king. So I'm skeptical that we'll have enough fulltime Internet bandwidth to compete with FastEthernet LAN and fast HD. I expect as things move to XML that many more apps will become web-based. I'm ready for the next best way. But I also have to deal with the present and short term future ... and in doing so, cannot abandon MS.