I'm sure there is a joke in there somewhere... or the next video game title from Sierra, oh wait that was Redneck Rampage...
but seriously whatwere the kids doing with a Game rated NC17 and with guns? My suggestion-- castrate the hillbilly parent by kicking his sister on her chin;-)
...those crackers/hackers from the movies will usually guess it on the third try... while mouthing inanities like " "It's a UNIX system, I know this..."
--- A woman is helping her computer-illiterate husband set up his computer, and tells him that he will now need to choose and enter a password that he wants to use when logging on. The husband, thinking he'll be oh-so-manly, types in the following letters when prompted for his desired password by the computer... m - y - p - e - n - i - s His wife rolls her eyes. Then she nearly falls off her chair howling with laughter when the computer replies: PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH
In other new Darl McBride claimed that PhotoDisc is violating their sacred intellecutal property by distributing pictures of their smily network technician. McBride also sent invoices to Ipswitch and Plesk for $100 per page view.
In associated news Wall Street analyst Tom Wolfe of Morgan Stanley greeted the news by raising the rating on SCO from "Buy" to a "Strong Buy". SCO's shares are now trading up +$3.25.
India and China have an undeniable comparative advantage in terms of labor production costs. Taking advantage of this will help the US in the long run.
David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is probably one of the most important in understanding international trade. In a sense, this isn't something new. Back in the 18th century, Portugal had a big comparative advantage over Britain in textile production due to labor costs.
Ricardo and Portugal
In his example Ricardo imagined two countries, England and Portugal producing two goods, cloth and wine, using labor as the sole input in production. He assumed that the productivity of labor (i.e., the quantity of output produced per worker) varied between industries and across countries. However, instead of assuming, as Adam Smith did, that England is more productive in producing one good and Portugal is more productive in the other; Ricardo assumed that Portugal was more productive in both goods. Based on Smith's intuition, then, it would seem that trade could not be advantageous, at least for England.
However, Ricardo demonstrated numerically that if England specialized in producing one of the two goods, and if Portugal produced the other, then total world output of both goods could rise! If an appropriate terms of trade (i.e., amount of one good traded for another) were then chosen, both countries could end up with more of both goods after specialization and free trade then they each had before trade. This means that England may nevertheless benefit from free trade even though it is assumed to be technologically inferior to Portugal in the production of everything,.
See http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/40c000.html for an excellent introduction to comparative advantage.
Overall this maybe bad for a few programmers in the US but is good for the US economy overall!
As a business manager, I find the talent in India to be top notch! The university system, and the strong grounding in logic and mathematics has churned some very well educated people. In addition, I find Indians to be a very entrepreneurial bunch. Stifled by socialist governments for decades, these guys are hungry-- and will go the extra mile to make the buck. Something I cannot say about the average worker in the US.
Overall, I anticipate India to extend its comparative advantage to other areas. Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the beginning of this trend. For more information see http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm ?story_id=2012337
Over the last 18 months I have seen
Large US accounting firms outsourcing accounting and tax preparation activities to India.
Medical firms hiring doctors in India, who log on to servers in the US to analyse MRI/CAT scan and bronchioscopy data.
Law firms outsource US case-law research to India.
Microsoft managers sell their property in Seattle to relocate to India
Here's an advice to those who want to make money -- Go East young man!
You are all wrong its Disney and Sony who are going to buy Apple.
NEWSFLASH: Disney Buys Apple. Sony Also Buys Apple.
In a startling turn of events that has left the Macintosh community reeling, the Walt Disney Company, after years of rampant speculation, has purchased Apple Computer. In a second, equally startling turn of events that occurred just hours later, the Sony Corporation also bought Apple Computer.
With Apple stock trading at a 52-week low today, Disney finally seized the opportunity to conduct a leveraged buyout of Apple.
"We've been meaning to do this for years," said Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney. "At last the right opportunity presented itself and we couldn't be more excited! Now the company that popularized the mouse owns the company that popularized the mouse!"
A Mickey Mouse character standing next to Eisner nodded emphatically and clapped his white-gloved hands.
While Disney was holding its press conference, Sony was putting the finishing touches on its own acquisition of Apple.
Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei, paraphrasing Remmington president Victor Kayam's classic line, said, "I liked Apple's digital hub concept so much, I bought the company!"
A Sony Aibo standing next to Idei nodded emphatically and barked.
Wall Street analysts are uncertain exactly how it is both Disney and Apple were able to purchase the same company.
"It's possible there was some sort of mix-up with the paperwork," said Daniel Niles of Lehman Brothers. "You'd be surprised how often that happens. Or, maybe not..."
"At any rate, I'm sure they can work it out. Maybe Disney can have Apple on even days and Sony on odd days."
A more likely scenario has Disney owning Apple during the day in the continental U.S. and Sony owning it during the night, which is daytime in Japan.
The Macintosh community, stunned by the announcements, sought for a silver lining in the acquisitions.
Macworld columnist Andy Ihnatko said, "The combination of Disney's marketing ability and Sony's innovation could drive Apple to heights the Macintosh community has never seen. Think of the possibilities!"
"On the other hand, it could just be about putting Disney ads on Macs in schools and hooking a dumb electronic dog up to Macs in homes. I hope not, though, because that would just suck."
... the first post fry, some Gnu Stew beowulf tiered chocolate cake, Linux Lassi and some Apple Pie. If you are lucky you may get a recipe for Microsoftie ice cream;)
... and in darkness bind them. Just wait until Microsoft adds their IP to the protocol and mangle it so that you have a MS universal protocol. All others pay royalties of course.
I am not very optimistic about universal protocols.
*Finally* an industry standard for streaming. This means the end of the Sorenson codec that has caused so many aches to Linux users.
Real and Apple have commited to MPEG-4, the specification is open and there is no implementation fee (only a fee for non-free streams, ie free streams are not charged!) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943990.html?tag=fd _t op
This means that the new LOTR trailer and all future trailers can be viewed w/o proprietary codecs. Now all we need is for someone to deliver a MPEG-4 codec for Linux. I would help writing one, but I have no prior video experience.
We need to rally behind MPEG-4 and bring it to our platform. Else we'll see Microsoft stealing the market with a DRM based proprietary WMP codecs!!
Is there anyone working on MPEG-4 codecs for Linux besides these guys ?
The current crop of PMG4's have been EOL'd. Yup. Limited shelf life plus great discount packages can only mean one thing:
New PowerMacs at MacWorld!!! ---- http://www.cube-zone.com/ reports: The current PowerMac line has been EOled.... the current PowerMac line (800 Mhz, 933 Mhz and dual 1 Ghz) has been EOled. Computers dealers cannot order those computers from Apple anymore...
Is that a database dressed in Apple's Aqua? Like FileMaker Pro or OpenBase both of which have a lickable Aqua interface with translucent menus and stuff...;)
Seriously according to Bill this is akin to designing a 747 and that they have 500 people on the wing alone.
There are 4000 programmers and managers working on this product in the long term , excluding testing and Q/A folks. Assuming a rate of 100 bugs per programmer (typical MS level) per year that need to be Q/A'd and squashed thats 400,000 bugs/year to tackle. And since this will be released in 2.5 years thats close to a Million bugs!
And what is more bothersome is that Bill mentions that the groups don't talk to each other (well it's difficult when you have 500 guys designing the 'wing') -- he says that the fuselage guys don't do lunch with the wing guys. This has always been a big problem in the 'Super star' driven MS culture, and will be exacerbated even more.
The problem with MS has historically not been one of talent, but one of culture and management. I don't see Bill addressing these issues. Perhaps, Bill needs to be introduced to some Software management gurus.
Frederic P. Brooks Jr. meet William Gates Jr. III
Ultimately, tightly knit groups of developers in close contact with the users has a better chance of delivering the goods. Look at BSD or GNU/Linux. They've come so far because of a close knit group. As long as we keep our eye on the ball we will do well. Tackle the issues one at a time and build on the foundation.
For instance, take the filesystem. MS is going after a database filesystem with 500 people on the code. Look at BeOS, 2-4 people worked on the team with Giampaolo at the lead. It wasn't a true Database FS but it did a remarkable job of looking and fucntioning as one. Want to bet that the MS DBFS is going to be top heavy and over engineered and buggy as hell? Or look at security, a tightly knit group of volunteers have made one of the most secure OS's in the world - OpenBSD. And here we have a giant struggling with years of accumulated bad practices- more holes than all of the cheeses in Switzerland. Or look at Quartz and Quartz Extreme from Apple. The core group is less than 15 people led by Mike Paquette have developed a graphics subsystem that has not been matched by the 100+ strong DirectX/3d team from MS.
Ultimately, what matters is a closely knit team which works on building software one step at a time. There are no giant leaps in software, only tiny steps that accumulate over time. This is core to what BSD/Linux has achieved. Apple under Avie Tevenien (sp?) also seems to understand the value of incremental code releases. Release early and release often. This is our biggest advantage. Let's stick to it.
Bill can continue to make his grandiose plans. Heck, let him even get a persian kitty but his plans will take its natural time to evolve. They may have the money but we have the resources.
In the end, it will be lack of good taste and good management which will make Longhorn a spectacularly mediocre release like all other MS products.
Taco basically had nothing interesting to say, this was a disaster of a Keynote. Compared to Jobs' keynotes, heck even O'Reilly's keynotes, one can say that it was an abject failure.
Malda had absolutely no insight about anything. He tried to troll around but came out looking a fool.
This will be last time Malda will be invited to a keynote.
Isn't it about time the John Dvorak was simply discontinued--put down like an old dog? Why, exactly, does John Dvorak keep putting out his aged crap instead of starting fresh or at least introducing something new with fresh legs. Dvorak has become the Ann Landers of journalism world, except for the fact that she's prettier.
I'm not writing this post as an ageist to get attention, although plenty of people will accuse me of doing that. I've noticed a complete lack of intellectual content of this column for ages, and I'm now beginning to see John C. Dvorak as an old hound that can't hunt.
Some one give this man a shotgun. Or help him contact Jack Kevorkian.
A german, an american and a japanese man are playing golf.
The jerrys' mobile start's ringing. He starts talking to his pinky. The others are puzzled. The german replies that thanks to MEMS and microtechnology he has a microphone embedded in his pinky and a the receiver in his thumb.
A few minutes later, the yanks' cel goes off. He just starts talking. The others are puzzled. He replied that he has the transmitter implanted in his molar and the receiver in his ear canal. He's got a cel phone in his head.
A little later there's another call. The jap excuses himself and goes behind a bush. There's some whirring going on puzzled, the yank and the jerry peer into the bushes only to find the jap squatting with his pants off. He replies, "I am receiving a fax"
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Logos Celebrating the birthdays of Piet Mondrian and Claude Monet and earthday
BTW, here the first goolge logo . Prior to that it was called Project Backrub back in the Stanford days.
Looking forward to the launch of Froogle Cool!
I'm sure there is a joke in there somewhere ... or the next video game title from Sierra, oh wait that was Redneck Rampage...
;-)
but seriously whatwere the kids doing with a Game rated NC17 and with guns? My suggestion-- castrate the hillbilly parent by kicking his sister on her chin
...those crackers/hackers from the movies will usually guess it on the third try... while mouthing inanities like " "It's a UNIX system, I know this..."
---
A woman is helping her computer-illiterate husband set up his computer, and tells him that he will now need to choose and enter a password that he wants to use when logging on. The husband, thinking he'll be oh-so-manly, types in the following letters when prompted for his desired password by the computer... m - y - p - e - n - i - s His wife rolls her eyes. Then she nearly falls off her chair howling with laughter when the computer replies: PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH
In other new Darl McBride claimed that PhotoDisc is violating their sacred intellecutal property by distributing pictures of their smily network technician. McBride also sent invoices to Ipswitch and Plesk for $100 per page view.
In associated news Wall Street analyst Tom Wolfe of Morgan Stanley greeted the news by raising the rating on SCO from "Buy" to a "Strong Buy". SCO's shares are now trading up +$3.25.
Ms Stock Art , a freelance writer . Remember her from a few months ago when she switched from Mac to Win XP?
See old Slashdot article
David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is probably one of the most important in understanding international trade. In a sense, this isn't something new. Back in the 18th century, Portugal had a big comparative advantage over Britain in textile production due to labor costs.
Ricardo and Portugal
See http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/40c000.htm
Overall this maybe bad for a few programmers in the US but is good for the US economy overall!
As a business manager, I find the talent in India to be top notch! The university system, and the strong grounding in logic and mathematics has churned some very well educated people. In addition, I find Indians to be a very entrepreneurial bunch. Stifled by socialist governments for decades, these guys are hungry-- and will go the extra mile to make the buck. Something I cannot say about the average worker in the US.
Overall, I anticipate India to extend its comparative advantage to other areas. Business process outsourcing (BPO) is the beginning of this trend. For more information see http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cf
Over the last 18 months I have seen
Here's an advice to those who want to make money -- Go East young man!
Heh, Aacorn Computers beat them to it in the UK :)
1. Universal healthcare
2. Alternate fuel technology which is less polluting
3. US stops deterring democracy in the third world
... from Apple for blatantly ripping off the Aqua GUI?
;)
Come on guys, lickable buttons and pin stripes are so last year
You are all wrong its Disney and Sony who are going to buy Apple.
NEWSFLASH: Disney Buys Apple. Sony Also Buys Apple.
In a startling turn of events that has left the Macintosh community reeling, the Walt Disney Company, after years of rampant speculation, has purchased Apple Computer. In a second, equally startling turn of events that occurred just hours later, the Sony Corporation also bought Apple Computer.
With Apple stock trading at a 52-week low today, Disney finally seized the opportunity to conduct a leveraged buyout of Apple.
"We've been meaning to do this for years," said Michael Eisner, CEO of Disney. "At last the right opportunity presented itself and we couldn't be more excited! Now the company that popularized the mouse owns the company that popularized the mouse!"
A Mickey Mouse character standing next to Eisner nodded emphatically and clapped his white-gloved hands.
While Disney was holding its press conference, Sony was putting the finishing touches on its own acquisition of Apple.
Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei, paraphrasing Remmington president Victor Kayam's classic line, said, "I liked Apple's digital hub concept so much, I bought the company!"
A Sony Aibo standing next to Idei nodded emphatically and barked.
Wall Street analysts are uncertain exactly how it is both Disney and Apple were able to purchase the same company.
"It's possible there was some sort of mix-up with the paperwork," said Daniel Niles of Lehman Brothers. "You'd be surprised how often that happens. Or, maybe not..."
"At any rate, I'm sure they can work it out. Maybe Disney can have Apple on even days and Sony on odd days."
A more likely scenario has Disney owning Apple during the day in the continental U.S. and Sony owning it during the night, which is daytime in Japan.
The Macintosh community, stunned by the announcements, sought for a silver lining in the acquisitions.
Macworld columnist Andy Ihnatko said, "The combination of Disney's marketing ability and Sony's innovation could drive Apple to heights the Macintosh community has never seen. Think of the possibilities!"
"On the other hand, it could just be about putting Disney ads on Macs in schools and hooking a dumb electronic dog up to Macs in homes. I hope not, though, because that would just suck."
Well, I seen a horsefly. I seen a dragonfly. I seen a housefly. See, I seen all that too.
But I've never seen a spy fly.
... the first post fry, some Gnu Stew beowulf tiered chocolate cake, Linux Lassi and some Apple Pie. If you are lucky you may get a recipe for Microsoftie ice cream ;)
Confuses cell computing with network distributed networking.
... and in darkness bind them. Just wait until Microsoft adds their IP to the protocol and mangle it so that you have a MS universal protocol. All others pay royalties of course.
I am not very optimistic about universal protocols.
*Finally* an industry standard for streaming. This means the end of the Sorenson codec that has caused so many aches to Linux users.
d _t op
Real and Apple have commited to MPEG-4, the specification is open and there is no implementation fee (only a fee for non-free streams, ie free streams are not charged!)
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-943990.html?tag=f
This means that the new LOTR trailer and all future trailers can be viewed w/o proprietary codecs. Now all we need is for someone to deliver a MPEG-4 codec for Linux. I would help writing one, but I have no prior video experience.
We need to rally behind MPEG-4 and bring it to our platform. Else we'll see Microsoft stealing the market with a DRM based proprietary WMP codecs!!
Is there anyone working on MPEG-4 codecs for Linux besides these guys ?
Actually downloaded Software Update files are stored in /tmp/501 That way you don't have a large file sitting around and gobbling disk space...
BSD users are smarter than PC users? Of course, we looked down on the PC using sheep at work (and at school).
;)
Now we have damned statistics to prove it, since Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD
The current crop of PMG4's have been EOL'd. Yup. Limited shelf life plus great discount packages can only mean one thing:
... the current PowerMac line (800 Mhz, 933 Mhz and dual 1 Ghz) has been EOled. Computers dealers cannot order those computers from Apple anymore...
New PowerMacs at MacWorld!!!
----
http://www.cube-zone.com/ reports:
The current PowerMac line has been EOled.
---
... 3 bullets ;)
One for Mr. Case, one for Mr. Yang and a silver bullet embossed with a cross for Mr. Gates.
That's what's needed to get the protocols to unite!
Did Apple install a surreptitious mod_macrumors to block out traffic to Mac Rumors sites.
Please change this to the apple section of the site. Hate the awful poop and purple color scheme for the Apache section
Is that a database dressed in Apple's Aqua? Like FileMaker Pro or OpenBase both of which have a lickable Aqua interface with translucent menus and stuff... ;)
Seriously according to Bill this is akin to designing a 747 and that they have 500 people on the wing alone.
There are 4000 programmers and managers working on this product in the long term , excluding testing and Q/A folks. Assuming a rate of 100 bugs per programmer (typical MS level) per year that need to be Q/A'd and squashed thats 400,000 bugs/year to tackle. And since this will be released in 2.5 years thats close to a Million bugs!
And what is more bothersome is that Bill mentions that the groups don't talk to each other (well it's difficult when you have 500 guys designing the 'wing') -- he says that the fuselage guys don't do lunch with the wing guys. This has always been a big problem in the 'Super star' driven MS culture, and will be exacerbated even more.
The problem with MS has historically not been one of talent, but one of culture and management. I don't see Bill addressing these issues. Perhaps, Bill needs to be introduced to some Software management gurus.
Frederic P. Brooks Jr. meet William Gates Jr. III
Ultimately, tightly knit groups of developers in close contact with the users has a better chance of delivering the goods. Look at BSD or GNU/Linux. They've come so far because of a close knit group. As long as we keep our eye on the ball we will do well. Tackle the issues one at a time and build on the foundation.
For instance, take the filesystem. MS is going after a database filesystem with 500 people on the code. Look at BeOS, 2-4 people worked on the team with Giampaolo at the lead. It wasn't a true Database FS but it did a remarkable job of looking and fucntioning as one. Want to bet that the MS DBFS is going to be top heavy and over engineered and buggy as hell? Or look at security, a tightly knit group of volunteers have made one of the most secure OS's in the world - OpenBSD. And here we have a giant struggling with years of accumulated bad practices- more holes than all of the cheeses in Switzerland. Or look at Quartz and Quartz Extreme from Apple. The core group is less than 15 people led by Mike Paquette have developed a graphics subsystem that has not been matched by the 100+ strong DirectX/3d team from MS.
Ultimately, what matters is a closely knit team which works on building software one step at a time. There are no giant leaps in software, only tiny steps that accumulate over time. This is core to what BSD/Linux has achieved. Apple under Avie Tevenien (sp?) also seems to understand the value of incremental code releases. Release early and release often. This is our biggest advantage. Let's stick to it.
Bill can continue to make his grandiose plans. Heck, let him even get a persian kitty but his plans will take its natural time to evolve. They may have the money but we have the resources.
In the end, it will be lack of good taste and good management which will make Longhorn a spectacularly mediocre release like all other MS products.
Taco basically had nothing interesting to say, this was a disaster of a Keynote. Compared to Jobs' keynotes, heck even O'Reilly's keynotes, one can say that it was an abject failure.
Malda had absolutely no insight about anything. He tried to troll around but came out looking a fool.
This will be last time Malda will be invited to a keynote.
Isn't it about time the John Dvorak was simply discontinued--put down like an old dog? Why, exactly, does John Dvorak keep putting out his aged crap instead of starting fresh or at least introducing something new with fresh legs. Dvorak has become the Ann Landers of journalism world, except for the fact that she's prettier.
I'm not writing this post as an ageist to get attention, although plenty of people will accuse me of doing that. I've noticed a complete lack of intellectual content of this column for ages, and I'm now beginning to see John C. Dvorak as an old hound that can't hunt.
Some one give this man a shotgun. Or help him contact Jack Kevorkian.
A german, an american and a japanese man are playing golf.
The jerrys' mobile start's ringing. He starts talking to his pinky. The others are puzzled. The german replies that thanks to MEMS and microtechnology he has a microphone embedded in his pinky and a the receiver in his thumb.
A few minutes later, the yanks' cel goes off. He just starts talking. The others are puzzled. He replied that he has the transmitter implanted in his molar and the receiver in his ear canal. He's got a cel phone in his head.
A little later there's another call. The jap excuses himself and goes behind a bush. There's some whirring going on puzzled, the yank and the jerry peer into the bushes only to find the jap squatting with his pants off. He replies, "I am receiving a fax"