It was one of the Asimov books that talked about an area of science that analyzed politician's statements. The analyzed a particular politician's 2-hour speech and discover he had not said anything. That is the art of politics. Convincing people that you are on their side without makeing any promises.
I predict the Google tool will predict 0% truth in most statements, because a prerequisite will be that something was stated.
All the big telcos will do it this way, because they all love ATM. ATM gives them more power to set QoS, pipe sizes, control jitter and delay values throughout their network. Basically, they can keep a finger on each and every packet. Just giving the customers a pipe and letting the bits fall where they may is against their business interest. Unfortunately, the Ethernet gets dumped into ATM (with ridiculously high overhead costs), and then is locked up until it gets to the CO and possibly dumped into a router. It's also possible to dump it into a different router possibly owned by another ISP.
'Cmon? Does everything have to be "a new way to power your laptop"? First, who the hell wants a 500,000 RPM anything sitting in their lap? The high squeal resonant frequencies will be hell once it is about two weeks old. I'll pass, and I'll ask the stewardess to shut down the guy trying to use one next to me. Second, what happens when the enterprize standardizes on this thing, and you have a cubicle farm of laptops spew CO2 (and a small component of CO) into the closed office atmosphere. I'll pass, and I'll use the Worker's Compensation claim to its max if I survive the asphixiation.
The guy says that he was surprised that designing the combustion chamber turned out to be easy, but the bearings were hard. He expected it to be the other way around. Well, no shit, Sherlock? Stationary components are easy and moving parts are hard. That applies to all mechanical systems. Duh? Someone else justified the high RPM in a previous post, noting how small the rotor will be. The gyroscopic forces trying to pull the laptop from your hands when the taxi rounds the corner will indeed be small, but the forces on the rotor bearings in relation to their size will be huge. The laptop may not rip from your hands, but it will get quiet (which the taxi driver will appreciate).
How about putting one of these in a container the size of a breadbox, and mounting it above a septic tank in a small village or country farm. Have it charge a battery as it feeds off the methane produced?
So when the director of "Focus on the Family" publishes a study that shows homosexual men have a high rate of dysfunctional relationships with their fathers, and 'cures' (that is the point of the debate) the homosexual tendencies through counselling on the father-son relationship, it is OK to have his liscense to practice revoked?
Offer unlimited access within the switch (neighborhood).
Can't, or at least WON'T, be done. The box on the side of your house dumps your ethernet into an ATM VC. That's carried to a box on the corner that consolidates all the VCs into a woefully undersized VP that gets dumped into a router at the central office. Basically, your box has no connection to the other boxes around it. The NT in the box on the corner that does all the consolidation doesn't have a router, it would be to expensive to add one, and you wouldn't want it if it could be added (something else to get hacked, and a route for your neighbors to hack you). The design goal was to route a pipe to your house, and that is what they've delivered.
I worked in the design of the equipment before getting laid off after the bubble burst. There have been big slowdowns due to being able to deliver optical components that can deliver the needed amount of power, fights with regulators to allow the phone company to compete on a level playing field, and waiting for old copper to die before spending the big time money to replace it.
Because, it is extremely simple and a very effective lock against 99.9% of the people out there. The time and energy needed to implement more advanced solutions are then balanced against the time and energy required to recover from a hack times the possibility of it occuring. The latter is generally found wanting.
I'm a little late, but I still thought you might like to know. There actually isn't any problem with dumping as many wavelengths you like into a mixer and out through the fiber. The big issue is the composition of the fiber itself. They are carefully crafted to offer the least impediment to certain wavelengths. The fibers themselves are 'tuned' so to speak. Hence, you have single-mode and multi-mode fibers. The terms are referring specifically to the wavelengths that the fibers were designed for. 1380nm was the first fiber line. The later multi-mode fibers added 1460 and 15(something). Forgive me if my numbers aren't exactly correct. I'm working from memory here.
The point is that this technology would offer zero advantage to the fiber optic world 8*( , except for those radically cool fiber optic lamps. 8*)
I'm in North Carolina (America). I had a neighbor call the police, because my 10yr old was trying to 'step on a bird'. Police show up at the door all serious about it, according to my wife. Good thing I wasn't home, as they'd dragged me off to jail under the assumption I was on some sort of drug, because I would have been laughing hysterically in their faces.
I'd hate to be a policeman and have to enforce such silly shit.
Such limited imagination. How about a solar tacking sail? Not enough to pull it to a higher orbit, but enough to slowly pull it away from the Earth, and constantly slow it's angular velocity. Sort of a solar orbit decay device...
That said, as another poster stated, it is foolish to throw it away. There's so much energy locked up in there. That's why it's dangerous in the first place. Why can't the decay be accelerated by submitting it to extreme pressure, the way it occurs in a bomb?
I don't see a large mass of people falling over themselves to upgrade to Vista. Most are just happy with what they have. My PC is nearly 6 yrs old, but I have no need to upgrade. I'm not editing video, and the last game I was into in a big way was Doom. Cruise the web and read email about does it for me nowadays. Compared to the vast majority of the people I meet, I'm a power user that lives for my computer. So how do we get people to buy new computers (MS' biggest source of OS revenue), if they're plenty happy with the one they have? Make the box pretty.
There was a big push to beautify boxes just after Apple started their resurgance. It had an impact, but not a big one. People still looked for the same thing...the cheapest price. I don't know anyone who will buy a new computer just because the new one has a prettier box.
And for our cars being "wussified", we sure do drive faster. I never understood how you guys buy those really big engines (2.5 liter +) and drive so slow. Why buy big engines then?
Oh, that's obvious. To carry our big, clumsy laptops, of course 8*)
Thirdly, let's please not hold up remote controls as examples of cutting-edge technology. We're still using the same mess of unreliable, incompatible infrared code sequences we were using when wireless remotes were introduced 25 years ago. Is there nobody in the home electronics industry willing to commit to an open standard, maybe something Bluetooth-like, that will let me treat my collection of components as a sensible and cohesive whole, instead of having to teach my "learning" remote how to deal with each one individually?
Dude, have you no idea how much money they make from selling replacement remotes? Why do you think devices are starting to lose buttons from their face so that the remote is REQUIRED!!
My dad was a painter. Same story. The benefit of using the painter ruse is that you can tape off the conference room, cover everything with tarps, spread some paint around to get it good and smelly, and people will AVOID it. You won't even have to try to be sneaky while scanning the network.
I think most of the security in corporate buildings is more about insurance liability than security. When I was a security guard while going to college*, we were told not to approach anyone we saw on the premises at night. If they looked suspicious we were to call the police. The company recieved something like a 30% discount for having a minimum wage person walk through the building every few hours. Our job was to to discourage vandalism by our presence, and to observe and report (so that the fire only guts half of the north wing instead of the whole thing).
The card readers are much the same. We just want to keep the random passerby from wandering through on sightseeing expeditions, and have something to cover our butts with at the civil trial when the judge asks why we were letting murderers and rapist wander the halls. Mention of coporate espionage will raise a few snickers amoung the security managers.
Ask yourself if - in all honesty - anything has really changed to make them less competitive?
I don't know. Being declared a monopoly by two of the largest governments in the world might have some significance.
MS-DOS wouldn't have beaten DR-DOS without per-processor licensing that kill some of DR's major contracts. 'Course they weren't a declared monopoly at that time.
Why did MS withold Win95 from IBM's PC division until the PC division agreed to pull all support for OS/2 Warp? Maybe they were afraid of something. Good thing they weren't a monopoly then. They might have been required to compete a little on technical merits.
Word beat the competition. Wouldn't have anything to do with hidden API's now would it?
The there is the famed dominance of Excel over all the other spreadsheets. Windows ain't done, 'til Lotus won't run.
Outlook beating anybody. Could that be because it is installed with every copy of Windows and makes itself so damn hard to remove? Same with MSN. Encarta, FrontPage, Publisher, and many others are only popular because MS pushed bundling deals for years.
But MS can't play this game with impunity any longer. They are a legally declared monopoly. They must compete on the merits of their technology, and everyone knows they're going down. The rate of decline will be exponential. Expect Dell to start offering their own 'OS' (a Dellified Linux) right after Gateway or Acer does. Within three years. Intel doesn't really care about MS. Never has. The BSA is just, and always has been, nothing but a front for more MS thuggery.
MS has stated that it wants to take Red Hat's business. Red Hat's business is taking MS' business, and it has grown up by doing just that. Your logic simply fails you.
MS WAS a juggernaut. Now it is a fat, old gangster that is finally standing before the judge. They hate Google, because they enjoyed hiding behind the image of being the smart kids, developing stuff in their garage. Without that PR spin, they have to stand in the light and be exposed for the ruthless gangsters they've always been.
Or change the rules in NASCAR to limit the amount of fuel each team recieves so that at least 1/2 of the drivers will run out of gas before the end of the race. Make them good ol' boys get out of their cars and run a little bit.
I'd like to see NASCAR change the rules from using a restrictor for limiting speed to just rationing gasoline. Each team would get a set amount at the start of the race (just a little less than what was needed to complete the race last year), and the winner would be the first man to cross the line. Now driver would become real athletes, as they get out and run to complete the last 1/2 mile.
With the millions poured into NASCAR, you would see real innovation...real fast.
I don't know that "irrational paranoia and hatred" is a proper definition. I buy Harbor Freight tools. I know that for the most part, they are cheap crap. I'm quite willing to tell people they are cheap crap. I buy and use them, because they are sufficient for the job (intermittent hobby work).
When I need a tool to be solid and work well when I need it, I avoid Harbor Freight like the plague. I would avoid them all the time, except that their cheap crap is so cheap. If I could buy solid tools for the price of the cheap ones, I wouldn't deal with Harbor Freight. Dealing with the broken tools just wouldn't be worth the headache. Just imagine if their crappy tools cost MORE than the good expensive one!!
I don't hate Microsoft (or fear them). I just know where to get a cheaper product that will actually work when I need it.
I think if most people would have most of what they needed once that can comprehend that there is code and there is data, and that the computer doesn't know the difference...we have to do that for them.
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Just like the politicians statements.
It was one of the Asimov books that talked about an area of science that analyzed politician's statements. The analyzed a particular politician's 2-hour speech and discover he had not said anything. That is the art of politics. Convincing people that you are on their side without makeing any promises.
I predict the Google tool will predict 0% truth in most statements, because a prerequisite will be that something was stated.
All the big telcos will do it this way, because they all love ATM. ATM gives them more power to set QoS, pipe sizes, control jitter and delay values throughout their network. Basically, they can keep a finger on each and every packet. Just giving the customers a pipe and letting the bits fall where they may is against their business interest. Unfortunately, the Ethernet gets dumped into ATM (with ridiculously high overhead costs), and then is locked up until it gets to the CO and possibly dumped into a router. It's also possible to dump it into a different router possibly owned by another ISP.
People have already found ways to attack the Vista kernel,
Then why all the fuss. Problem solved.
Bzzt. Wrong answer. Please try again.
This is absolutely bogus, because we all know that GM make no quality parts.
8*)
New battery? Must be for laptops!!
'Cmon? Does everything have to be "a new way to power your laptop"? First, who the hell wants a 500,000 RPM anything sitting in their lap? The high squeal resonant frequencies will be hell once it is about two weeks old. I'll pass, and I'll ask the stewardess to shut down the guy trying to use one next to me. Second, what happens when the enterprize standardizes on this thing, and you have a cubicle farm of laptops spew CO2 (and a small component of CO) into the closed office atmosphere. I'll pass, and I'll use the Worker's Compensation claim to its max if I survive the asphixiation.
The guy says that he was surprised that designing the combustion chamber turned out to be easy, but the bearings were hard. He expected it to be the other way around. Well, no shit, Sherlock? Stationary components are easy and moving parts are hard. That applies to all mechanical systems. Duh? Someone else justified the high RPM in a previous post, noting how small the rotor will be. The gyroscopic forces trying to pull the laptop from your hands when the taxi rounds the corner will indeed be small, but the forces on the rotor bearings in relation to their size will be huge. The laptop may not rip from your hands, but it will get quiet (which the taxi driver will appreciate).
How about putting one of these in a container the size of a breadbox, and mounting it above a septic tank in a small village or country farm. Have it charge a battery as it feeds off the methane produced?
So when the director of "Focus on the Family" publishes a study that shows homosexual men have a high rate of dysfunctional relationships with their fathers, and 'cures' (that is the point of the debate) the homosexual tendencies through counselling on the father-son relationship, it is OK to have his liscense to practice revoked?
Offer unlimited access within the switch (neighborhood).
Can't, or at least WON'T, be done.
The box on the side of your house dumps your ethernet into an ATM VC. That's carried to a box on the corner that consolidates all the VCs into a woefully undersized VP that gets dumped into a router at the central office. Basically, your box has no connection to the other boxes around it. The NT in the box on the corner that does all the consolidation doesn't have a router, it would be to expensive to add one, and you wouldn't want it if it could be added (something else to get hacked, and a route for your neighbors to hack you). The design goal was to route a pipe to your house, and that is what they've delivered.
I worked in the design of the equipment before getting laid off after the bubble burst. There have been big slowdowns due to being able to deliver optical components that can deliver the needed amount of power, fights with regulators to allow the phone company to compete on a level playing field, and waiting for old copper to die before spending the big time money to replace it.
We should all pay for it. Somehow, this world has become so short-sighted, in-the-moment, materialistic, and irresponsible, that
Become? Might want to pick up a history book or two. 8*)
Because, it is extremely simple and a very effective lock against 99.9% of the people out there. The time and energy needed to implement more advanced solutions are then balanced against the time and energy required to recover from a hack times the possibility of it occuring. The latter is generally found wanting.
Minor nit:
.05% part will be a military grade part destined for the space shuttle.
Those tolerances are more like 5 and 10%. At least that is what is guaranteed by the manufacturer. Actual tolerances are usually much closer.
A published
FTA:
The e-card provided information about the owner's current context and activities.
In other words, "managers could track employee's activities without having to look over their shoulders."
Ummm...could I skip this 'upgrade'?
I'm a little late, but I still thought you might like to know. There actually isn't any problem with dumping as many wavelengths you like into a mixer and out through the fiber. The big issue is the composition of the fiber itself. They are carefully crafted to offer the least impediment to certain wavelengths. The fibers themselves are 'tuned' so to speak. Hence, you have single-mode and multi-mode fibers. The terms are referring specifically to the wavelengths that the fibers were designed for. 1380nm was the first fiber line. The later multi-mode fibers added 1460 and 15(something). Forgive me if my numbers aren't exactly correct. I'm working from memory here.
The point is that this technology would offer zero advantage to the fiber optic world 8*( , except for those radically cool fiber optic lamps. 8*)
I'm in North Carolina (America). I had a neighbor call the police, because my 10yr old was trying to 'step on a bird'. Police show up at the door all serious about it, according to my wife. Good thing I wasn't home, as they'd dragged me off to jail under the assumption I was on some sort of drug, because I would have been laughing hysterically in their faces.
I'd hate to be a policeman and have to enforce such silly shit.
Such limited imagination. How about a solar tacking sail? Not enough to pull it to a higher orbit, but enough to slowly pull it away from the Earth, and constantly slow it's angular velocity. Sort of a solar orbit decay device...
That said, as another poster stated, it is foolish to throw it away. There's so much energy locked up in there. That's why it's dangerous in the first place. Why can't the decay be accelerated by submitting it to extreme pressure, the way it occurs in a bomb?
except then it will be for 1/8/7, 2/8/7, and 3/8/7.
You can add that story to this one now, but it will add faster if you wait till then.
I don't see a large mass of people falling over themselves to upgrade to Vista. Most are just happy with what they have. My PC is nearly 6 yrs old, but I have no need to upgrade. I'm not editing video, and the last game I was into in a big way was Doom. Cruise the web and read email about does it for me nowadays. Compared to the vast majority of the people I meet, I'm a power user that lives for my computer. So how do we get people to buy new computers (MS' biggest source of OS revenue), if they're plenty happy with the one they have? Make the box pretty.
There was a big push to beautify boxes just after Apple started their resurgance. It had an impact, but not a big one. People still looked for the same thing...the cheapest price. I don't know anyone who will buy a new computer just because the new one has a prettier box.
And for our cars being "wussified", we sure do drive faster. I never understood how you guys buy those really big engines (2.5 liter +) and drive so slow. Why buy big engines then?
Oh, that's obvious. To carry our big, clumsy laptops, of course 8*)
Thirdly, let's please not hold up remote controls as examples of cutting-edge technology. We're still using the same mess of unreliable, incompatible infrared code sequences we were using when wireless remotes were introduced 25 years ago. Is there nobody in the home electronics industry willing to commit to an open standard, maybe something Bluetooth-like, that will let me treat my collection of components as a sensible and cohesive whole, instead of having to teach my "learning" remote how to deal with each one individually?
Dude, have you no idea how much money they make from selling replacement remotes? Why do you think devices are starting to lose buttons from their face so that the remote is REQUIRED!!
My dad was a painter. Same story. The benefit of using the painter ruse is that you can tape off the conference room, cover everything with tarps, spread some paint around to get it good and smelly, and people will AVOID it. You won't even have to try to be sneaky while scanning the network.
I think most of the security in corporate buildings is more about insurance liability than security. When I was a security guard while going to college*, we were told not to approach anyone we saw on the premises at night. If they looked suspicious we were to call the police. The company recieved something like a 30% discount for having a minimum wage person walk through the building every few hours. Our job was to to discourage vandalism by our presence, and to observe and report (so that the fire only guts half of the north wing instead of the whole thing).
The card readers are much the same. We just want to keep the random passerby from wandering through on sightseeing expeditions, and have something to cover our butts with at the civil trial when the judge asks why we were letting murderers and rapist wander the halls. Mention of coporate espionage will raise a few snickers amoung the security managers.
It's only 14" tall. What are you? Mormon?
Ask yourself if - in all honesty - anything has really changed to make them less competitive?
I don't know. Being declared a monopoly by two of the largest governments in the world might have some significance.
MS-DOS wouldn't have beaten DR-DOS without per-processor licensing that kill some of DR's major contracts. 'Course they weren't a declared monopoly at that time.
Why did MS withold Win95 from IBM's PC division until the PC division agreed to pull all support for OS/2 Warp? Maybe they were afraid of something. Good thing they weren't a monopoly then. They might have been required to compete a little on technical merits.
Word beat the competition. Wouldn't have anything to do with hidden API's now would it?
The there is the famed dominance of Excel over all the other spreadsheets. Windows ain't done, 'til Lotus won't run.
Outlook beating anybody. Could that be because it is installed with every copy of Windows and makes itself so damn hard to remove? Same with MSN. Encarta, FrontPage, Publisher, and many others are only popular because MS pushed bundling deals for years.
But MS can't play this game with impunity any longer. They are a legally declared monopoly. They must compete on the merits of their technology, and everyone knows they're going down. The rate of decline will be exponential. Expect Dell to start offering their own 'OS' (a Dellified Linux) right after Gateway or Acer does. Within three years. Intel doesn't really care about MS. Never has. The BSA is just, and always has been, nothing but a front for more MS thuggery.
MS has stated that it wants to take Red Hat's business. Red Hat's business is taking MS' business, and it has grown up by doing just that. Your logic simply fails you.
MS WAS a juggernaut. Now it is a fat, old gangster that is finally standing before the judge. They hate Google, because they enjoyed hiding behind the image of being the smart kids, developing stuff in their garage. Without that PR spin, they have to stand in the light and be exposed for the ruthless gangsters they've always been.
Or change the rules in NASCAR to limit the amount of fuel each team recieves so that at least 1/2 of the drivers will run out of gas before the end of the race. Make them good ol' boys get out of their cars and run a little bit.
I'd like to see NASCAR change the rules from using a restrictor for limiting speed to just rationing gasoline. Each team would get a set amount at the start of the race (just a little less than what was needed to complete the race last year), and the winner would be the first man to cross the line. Now driver would become real athletes, as they get out and run to complete the last 1/2 mile.
With the millions poured into NASCAR, you would see real innovation...real fast.
I don't know that "irrational paranoia and hatred" is a proper definition. I buy Harbor Freight tools. I know that for the most part, they are cheap crap. I'm quite willing to tell people they are cheap crap. I buy and use them, because they are sufficient for the job (intermittent hobby work).
When I need a tool to be solid and work well when I need it, I avoid Harbor Freight like the plague. I would avoid them all the time, except that their cheap crap is so cheap. If I could buy solid tools for the price of the cheap ones, I wouldn't deal with Harbor Freight. Dealing with the broken tools just wouldn't be worth the headache. Just imagine if their crappy tools cost MORE than the good expensive one!!
I don't hate Microsoft (or fear them). I just know where to get a cheaper product that will actually work when I need it.
I think if most people would have most of what they needed once that can comprehend that there is code and there is data, and that the computer doesn't know the difference...we have to do that for them.