Wouldn't it be a lot easier to build a few bird houses, or maybe a couple bat boxes? This will also give the advantage of know when West Nile Virus has moved into the area, maintenance is a non-issue, plus bats and birds will NEVER claim protection under the DCMA.
I'm a technologist, but why fight nature when cooperating is so much more elegant.
Why do you want to stop there? There are a lot more issues hindering would be US employers, than just a tax advantage.
How about all the worker safety laws? Let's either eliminate OSHA, or forbid the import of any product that isn't produce in a facility that complies with their guidelines.
Environmental protectionism? Some of the lengths that local manufacturers have to go to 'protect' the environment are really expensive. Forbid the import of any product that is produced by breaking these laws.
Civil rights legislation? Another poster cited how it would be impossible for a non-Indian to compete in India. Forbid the import of any good or service until India implements and enforces equal oportunity laws.
This is not a troll, but serious issues. Forcing companies or programmers to do what you want is like herding cats. Trying to force them into compliance here, while letting them run amock abroad will only result in more trying to move abroad.
'Course, you'll never hear that from you're pet candidate, Kerry, as it would be tatamount to an admission that the Democrat's policies have driven jobs overseas.
90% of the posts here are overly concerned with the cost of subscriptions and the peer review system. To both I say, "Who gives a flip!?!"
First of all, the peer review system and high subscription cost exist due to the scarcity of page space. I would graciously direct you to the NASA Larc website. (Do a google search.) About 50 years of NASA studies have been opened for anyone to read. Do a search on whatever interest you have and be presented with a list of papers. An amazing resource, and no need for any sort of reviewer.
Second is the argument that scientist don't have time to read through every study. The government has already paid for the previous research. If you don't have time to read the papers in your area of study that the government has already for, then why should the government pay for you to create more verbage that wont' be read. Peer review!?! Damnit, if I'm going to pay you, you ARE the peer that is doing the reviewing. If you're not qualified to review the previous research, how are you qualified to do more!?!
Thirdly, are the American taxpayers paying for studies to determine if ketchup is a vegetable? How do we know when the results get locked away. All the funded research should be opened so that we can all review what we're paying for. If you're doing valuable research, then you'll have no problem. But if you're researching something that a large majority of the taxPAYERS find unworthy or reprehensible, then you need to look for funding from someone who agrees with you. I'll answer the objection now as/. loves to scream about censorship. No one has a RIGHT to taxpayer funding, regardless of whether you call yourself an artist or a scientist.
This is one of the few instances where the government is coming to their senses and using some basic logic. The one who pays the band gets to choose the song. Hooray for the NIH!!
> Ten years after Demi Moore went for a million bucks, we've found a way to bring the objectification of women to a new level. The computer is apparently Larry Flynt's new meat grinder.
Why do you have a problem with Demi Moore cashing in on here physical assets any more than you would object to Michael Jorden or Clay Aiken doing it?
All the feminist complain about how strip club dancers 'get taken advantage of', but who is richer at 2am Saturday morning...the dancer or the guy who's been forking out the money all night long?
I know some guys who really know how to weld with ocy-acetelyne. I mean REALLY know. Their weldments make me drool.
But they can't tell me how to do it. They can tell me what I did wrong (You used to much heat there), but they can tell me what it is that lets them know that (You just learn it).
Language is how we convey and obtaing information and instructions. If Joe can't tell you how to weld or why a weldment is bad, does that mean that he doesn't really know how or understand the process (which it would seem like at first), or does it just mean that the bridge to convey his knowledge and understanding is broken?
IE never was about making money. It was about locking out the possibility of an alternative platform. What does MS do when Firefox has trouble working within the.NET platform space? Worse yet, what do they do when Firefox works just fine with.NET and they can't lock big buyers into the Windows platform any longer?
Your argument is the same that military fighter planes should dump their armor because it doesn't help the plane fly faster.
And when we seek to control those companies here, but let them exercise the same atrocities elsewhere and yet still sell their products here,.... what happens?
I LOVED Kerry's bogus DNC speech. We're going to give everyone a job, while we tax those EVIL corporations to death!!"
Just like programmers, trying to herd companies is just like herding cats. If you want to put everyone on a 'fair playing field' (whatever that means), then set the condition that to sell products in this country you have to enforce our workplace and environmental rules. You won't hear that from the Republican ('cause it might appear anti-business) and you won't hear it from the Democrats ('cause it would be tatamount to admitting that the environmental, civil rights and union laws they champion are chasing governments overseas).
Maybe the scientific reason is that a bleeding artery isn't pulling a vacuum? Or could it be that there isn't a brass nipple conveniently sticking out from the cut artery waiting for a suitable piece of surgical tubing? It's even possible that the artery in question is attached on all sides by very tenous tissue.
Of course, barring cosmetic surgery, we have to ignore that most people on an operating table are sick people who have been taken one step closer to death with anesthetics.
Don't know about the audio cassette, but the car needn't necessarily be run directly from the solar panel. Insert battery.
I work for 8hrs, drive for 40min. That's a ratio of 13:1 (give or take a smidge). That brings the require panel surface down to 4m^2. About 6ftx6ft, or about the hood and roof space of a VW.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you lower the requirements 8*)
Shit guys. They were saying the same thing about OS/2 for years before it finally died enough for me to move on. Of course, the difference here is that there isn't an IBM to kill Linux, so we can keep going as long as we like. But let's quit whining about the big commercial companies not supporting our little movement. That don't give a damn about us, and frankly and could care any less than that for them.
Does no one but me see the real import of this move by IBM. 1) Why would they sell off patents worth millions? 2) What do they have in the pipe that would replace hard drives?
1) Smart technology companies dump technology that is on the way out. IBM is saying here that hard drives are on there way out and will be dissappearing in three years.
2) Solid state storage. In a few years we'll all be using 'flash crystals' or some other 50Gig per portable ounce technology. Hard drives are headed the way of bubble memory, and good riddance. They have been the bottleneck of systems for way to long now.
I worked for AT&T a few years back as a technician. We were building a system for the government that would track submarines. The system was a HUGE array of DSPs that would recognize the sound of a sub hundreds of miles away. The thing was handbuilt onto ceramic tiles and stress tested for months. It was supposed to live underwater for years.
While I was there we delivered a system on time, for the first time ever. As they were moving it from the truck to the boat on a fork lift, they didn't strap the thing to the forklift.
You guessed it. It fell off and broke into hundreds of irreperable pieces.
"what this company is doing with.Pro domains is innovative."
Seperating stupid people from their money by offering to sell symbols of success is not innovative. Read "The Emperor's New Clothes" for prior art. 8*)
Doesn't it still mandate that telcom's must invest in expensive fiber optic rollouts,
Fiber is only slightly more expensive at this point than copper, and telecoms are scheduled to replace about 300,000 miles of copper this year alone. Furthermore, the upkeep of passive optical networks is less than copper due to no need for amplifiers and other electrics.
It took my cable company years and $$$$$$ to replace the splitters to go up to 1000 MHz so they could offer digital TV and internet access. And that was *just* the splitters in the outdoor enclosures. Imagine digging up or laying down new cable...(and it would be fiber so labour would be higher and cable would be more expensive)
The splitter wasn't the problem. The problem was rolling the truck. That is what cable and telecoms are truly concerned about, because a $2 splitter just doesn't compare to a $40 man hour and a truck. The idea that fiber is more exspensive to work with is quickly becoming a myth, and at the present time the added installation cost is almost immediately recouped from cheaper operating expenses. Can you imagine how much it cost to provide battery backed power to a remote amplifier station every couple of miles. A PON will span 30miles with no amplification. Can anyone find anything resembling a price tag? I Looked over the website and the only refference to money that I could find was an "Investors" link, LOL!
Alcatel has been advertising to vendors (ie, the telecoms) that they can easily provide the "triple play" for less than what people are paying now and still have a 3 to 5 year recovery period.
Last I heard in IEEE journal a year ago, this kind of 1-fiber line to your house is more of what Ameritech and Comcast are going to use to thwack the telephone companies, and not vice versa.
Don't believe everything you read in IEEE then. Telecoms are testing PONs with plans to roll them out RSN. The big hurdle is regulatory (as usual). The FCC doesn't allow telecoms to send video. Hard to deliver a triple play that way. It is true that some of the cable companies are also looking at fiber, because it is cheaper than copper and coax has some realistic bandwidth limits. Once the fiber is in the ground, it doesn't react with water and can be upgraded with end equipment for pratically infinite bandwidth.
The real kicker right now is that the telecoms are running scared of the cable guys. ADSL can't deliver TV, phone and data. It just doesn't have enough bandwidth for the video. But the cable guys are getting into the phone business. This gives them a huge advantage. Once the FCC lets the big telecom guys sell video, watch for a huge rollout of PON systems.
Fiber is hard to work with.
Things. They are a changin'.
Coax has plenty of bandwidth.
And no one needs more than 640K of memory either.
Finally. This technology won't see much play. Telecoms won't pick it up until it complies with ITU G.983.2. Those guys just don't play with things that aren't based on a written standard because of the headaches involved with swithing vendors. The only company with a 983.2 compliant PON system is Alcatel (of ADSL fame). You might want to check them out for a system that you might actually see installed at some point in the future.
Indeed, one of the big benefits that Carey sees is that Merrill can write an application once and then deploy it with minimal work on mainframes, minicomputers, desktops, laptops and handhelds--whether it be on Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) hardware or something else.
Very rarely do you see someone who is able to exploit such opportunity the way Microsoft has done.
Oh! Great gobs of bullshit! Pick up any history book to find loads of examples of nearly the exact same exploitation occuring in every revolutionary phase. It boils down to one lucky person realizing that some things are changing and then latching onto an aspect of that thing which they can use to manipulate great movements later on. The old land baron and sweat shops in the industrial revolution pop to my mind immediately.
Bill Gates got lucky in getting his hand on the lever first, and he was smart in realizing that he had the lever in hand. But it is nothing spectacular or anything requiring genius. Really all it required was for him to hold on to what he had really hard. Big fucking deal.
After he had the lever in hand, he used it to beat the competition out of the marketplace, just like the land baron, railroad tycoons, and oil executives that came before him.
Watched the discovery channel a while back. Had a piece about these devices that implanted wires to help paralyzed people walk. Problem was that the wires break/wear-out. The paralyzed people end up with hundred of wire filaments lacing their legs where the few good nerves are. The xrays looked like steel wool. They reported that it tended to be painful but surgery to remove the thousands of little pieces of broken up wires was just too difficult.
Beware of combining organic and non organic substances. The living things break and rebuild themselves constantly, in fact it is part of their design. Metal wire are not organic.
I don't understand the question? I have a workstation here at my desk and one in the lab. Either one gives me the exact same desktop. In fact, if I log into any workstation on the network I get the exact same desktop with access to ALL my data.
What kind of ass-backward, braindead system are you using that locks you down to one physical access point?
If the thing is caused by warm water, what's to stop a bunch of these soon to be out of work fishermen from banning together, taking a trek down south, and hauling that huge as iceburg and dropping it in the Gulf right in the middle of the black water?
Yeah, it would be somewhat expensive, but it beats getting your feet ate be microorganisms.
I'd rather they give use Mandrake 8.3, and make sure everthying worked together. I'm holding off on upgrading until I hear that everything is stable together, then I will pay the $60 for their club membership and download an ISO.
I've reluctanly entered the 'end-user' club. I want my computer to do things without having to CONSTANTLY fiddle with things not related to what I want to do. I want a nice simple script to set up the networked workstation as a firewall and then be done with networking. Mandrake seems to keep promising this, and I'm willing to pay for it, but I don't want to have to constantly be upgrading huge pieces of the OS. (and yes, I consider the window manager to be part of the operating system, because it is part of the system that I use to operate the computer.)
Google already filters the link so that multiple links from the same sight don't drive up the link count. Someone trying to get people to set-up Geocities account that link to their sight would most like distribute a html file with instructions on how to use it as a Geocities homepage. It would be a simple (though compute intensive) task to do a diff against current pages that link to a sight before adding a new page. If it is exactly (or nearly exactly) the same, it doesn't get added.
Summed up, only add unique pages from unique sites.
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Wouldn't it be a lot easier to build a few bird houses, or maybe a couple bat boxes? This will also give the advantage of know when West Nile Virus has moved into the area, maintenance is a non-issue, plus bats and birds will NEVER claim protection under the DCMA.
I'm a technologist, but why fight nature when cooperating is so much more elegant.
Why do you want to stop there? There are a lot more issues hindering would be US employers, than just a tax advantage.
How about all the worker safety laws? Let's either eliminate OSHA, or forbid the import of any product that isn't produce in a facility that complies with their guidelines.
Environmental protectionism? Some of the lengths that local manufacturers have to go to 'protect' the environment are really expensive. Forbid the import of any product that is produced by breaking these laws.
Civil rights legislation? Another poster cited how it would be impossible for a non-Indian to compete in India. Forbid the import of any good or service until India implements and enforces equal oportunity laws.
This is not a troll, but serious issues. Forcing companies or programmers to do what you want is like herding cats. Trying to force them into compliance here, while letting them run amock abroad will only result in more trying to move abroad.
'Course, you'll never hear that from you're pet candidate, Kerry, as it would be tatamount to an admission that the Democrat's policies have driven jobs overseas.
with a cart to carry the battery around?
90% of the posts here are overly concerned with the cost of subscriptions and the peer review system. To both I say, "Who gives a flip!?!"
/. loves to scream about censorship. No one has a RIGHT to taxpayer funding, regardless of whether you call yourself an artist or a scientist.
First of all, the peer review system and high subscription cost exist due to the scarcity of page space. I would graciously direct you to the NASA Larc website. (Do a google search.) About 50 years of NASA studies have been opened for anyone to read. Do a search on whatever interest you have and be presented with a list of papers. An amazing resource, and no need for any sort of reviewer.
Second is the argument that scientist don't have time to read through every study. The government has already paid for the previous research. If you don't have time to read the papers in your area of study that the government has already for, then why should the government pay for you to create more verbage that wont' be read. Peer review!?! Damnit, if I'm going to pay you, you ARE the peer that is doing the reviewing. If you're not qualified to review the previous research, how are you qualified to do more!?!
Thirdly, are the American taxpayers paying for studies to determine if ketchup is a vegetable? How do we know when the results get locked away. All the funded research should be opened so that we can all review what we're paying for. If you're doing valuable research, then you'll have no problem. But if you're researching something that a large majority of the taxPAYERS find unworthy or reprehensible, then you need to look for funding from someone who agrees with you. I'll answer the objection now as
This is one of the few instances where the government is coming to their senses and using some basic logic. The one who pays the band gets to choose the song. Hooray for the NIH!!
> Ten years after Demi Moore went for a million bucks, we've found a way to bring the objectification of women to a new level. The computer is apparently Larry Flynt's new meat grinder.
Why do you have a problem with Demi Moore cashing in on here physical assets any more than you would object to Michael Jorden or Clay Aiken doing it?
All the feminist complain about how strip club dancers 'get taken advantage of', but who is richer at 2am Saturday morning...the dancer or the guy who's been forking out the money all night long?
I know some guys who really know how to weld with ocy-acetelyne. I mean REALLY know. Their weldments make me drool.
But they can't tell me how to do it. They can tell me what I did wrong (You used to much heat there), but they can tell me what it is that lets them know that (You just learn it).
Language is how we convey and obtaing information and instructions. If Joe can't tell you how to weld or why a weldment is bad, does that mean that he doesn't really know how or understand the process (which it would seem like at first), or does it just mean that the bridge to convey his knowledge and understanding is broken?
Where the hell have you been for the last decade?
.NET platform space? Worse yet, what do they do when Firefox works just fine with .NET and they can't lock big buyers into the Windows platform any longer?
IE never was about making money. It was about locking out the possibility of an alternative platform. What does MS do when Firefox has trouble working within the
Your argument is the same that military fighter planes should dump their armor because it doesn't help the plane fly faster.
And when we seek to control those companies here, but let them exercise the same atrocities elsewhere and yet still sell their products here, .... what happens?
I LOVED Kerry's bogus DNC speech. We're going to give everyone a job, while we tax those EVIL corporations to death!!"
Just like programmers, trying to herd companies is just like herding cats. If you want to put everyone on a 'fair playing field' (whatever that means), then set the condition that to sell products in this country you have to enforce our workplace and environmental rules. You won't hear that from the Republican ('cause it might appear anti-business) and you won't hear it from the Democrats ('cause it would be tatamount to admitting that the environmental, civil rights and union laws they champion are chasing governments overseas).
Maybe the scientific reason is that a bleeding artery isn't pulling a vacuum? Or could it be that there isn't a brass nipple conveniently sticking out from the cut artery waiting for a suitable piece of surgical tubing? It's even possible that the artery in question is attached on all sides by very tenous tissue.
Of course, barring cosmetic surgery, we have to ignore that most people on an operating table are sick people who have been taken one step closer to death with anesthetics.
Don't know about the audio cassette, but the car needn't necessarily be run directly from the solar panel. Insert battery.
I work for 8hrs, drive for 40min. That's a ratio of 13:1 (give or take a smidge). That brings the require panel surface down to 4m^2. About 6ftx6ft, or about the hood and roof space of a VW.
It's amazing what you can accomplish when you lower the requirements 8*)
Still don't know about that audio cassette thing.
Shit guys. They were saying the same thing about OS/2 for years before it finally died enough for me to move on. Of course, the difference here is that there isn't an IBM to kill Linux, so we can keep going as long as we like. But let's quit whining about the big commercial companies not supporting our little movement. That don't give a damn about us, and frankly and could care any less than that for them.
No. We need scientist who actually get some now and again. You can't judge that which you have never experienced.
Does no one but me see the real import of this move by IBM. 1) Why would they sell off patents worth millions? 2) What do they have in the pipe that would replace hard drives?
1) Smart technology companies dump technology that is on the way out. IBM is saying here that hard drives are on there way out and will be dissappearing in three years.
2) Solid state storage. In a few years we'll all be using 'flash crystals' or some other 50Gig per portable ounce technology. Hard drives are headed the way of bubble memory, and good riddance. They have been the bottleneck of systems for way to long now.
I worked for AT&T a few years back as a technician. We were building a system for the government that would track submarines. The system was a HUGE array of DSPs that would recognize the sound of a sub hundreds of miles away. The thing was handbuilt onto ceramic tiles and stress tested for months. It was supposed to live underwater for years.
While I was there we delivered a system on time, for the first time ever. As they were moving it from the truck to the boat on a fork lift, they didn't strap the thing to the forklift.
You guessed it. It fell off and broke into hundreds of irreperable pieces.
"what this company is doing with .Pro domains is innovative."
Seperating stupid people from their money by offering to sell symbols of success is not innovative. Read "The Emperor's New Clothes" for prior art. 8*)
I can't find the information on the website. Care to give a more direct pointer?
Doesn't it still mandate that telcom's must invest in expensive fiber optic rollouts,
Fiber is only slightly more expensive at this point than copper, and telecoms are scheduled to replace about 300,000 miles of copper this year alone. Furthermore, the upkeep of passive optical networks is less than copper due to no need for amplifiers and other electrics.
It took my cable company years and $$$$$$ to replace the splitters to go up to 1000 MHz so they could offer digital TV and internet access. And that was *just* the splitters in the outdoor enclosures. Imagine digging up or laying down new cable...(and it would be fiber so labour would be higher and cable would be more expensive)
The splitter wasn't the problem. The problem was rolling the truck. That is what cable and telecoms are truly concerned about, because a $2 splitter just doesn't compare to a $40 man hour and a truck. The idea that fiber is more exspensive to work with is quickly becoming a myth, and at the present time the added installation cost is almost immediately recouped from cheaper operating expenses. Can you imagine how much it cost to provide battery backed power to a remote amplifier station every couple of miles. A PON will span 30miles with no amplification.
Can anyone find anything resembling a price tag? I Looked over the website and the only refference to money that I could find was an "Investors" link, LOL!
Alcatel has been advertising to vendors (ie, the telecoms) that they can easily provide the "triple play" for less than what people are paying now and still have a 3 to 5 year recovery period.
Last I heard in IEEE journal a year ago, this kind of 1-fiber line to your house is more of what Ameritech and Comcast are going to use to thwack the telephone companies, and not vice versa.
Don't believe everything you read in IEEE then. Telecoms are testing PONs with plans to roll them out RSN. The big hurdle is regulatory (as usual). The FCC doesn't allow telecoms to send video. Hard to deliver a triple play that way. It is true that some of the cable companies are also looking at fiber, because it is cheaper than copper and coax has some realistic bandwidth limits. Once the fiber is in the ground, it doesn't react with water and can be upgraded with end equipment for pratically infinite bandwidth.
The real kicker right now is that the telecoms are running scared of the cable guys. ADSL can't deliver TV, phone and data. It just doesn't have enough bandwidth for the video. But the cable guys are getting into the phone business. This gives them a huge advantage. Once the FCC lets the big telecom guys sell video, watch for a huge rollout of PON systems.
Fiber is hard to work with.
Things. They are a changin'.
Coax has plenty of bandwidth.
And no one needs more than 640K of memory either.
Finally. This technology won't see much play. Telecoms won't pick it up until it complies with ITU G.983.2. Those guys just don't play with things that aren't based on a written standard because of the headaches involved with swithing vendors. The only company with a 983.2 compliant PON system is Alcatel (of ADSL fame). You might want to check them out for a system that you might actually see installed at some point in the future.
From the article:
Indeed, one of the big benefits that Carey sees is that Merrill can write an application once and then deploy it with minimal work on mainframes, minicomputers, desktops, laptops and handhelds--whether it be on Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people) hardware or something else.
You're right they didn't mention Windows systems.
Obviously, your not old enough to remember or learned enough to read the DR-DOS lawsuit.
Very rarely do you see someone who is able to exploit such opportunity the way Microsoft has done.
Oh! Great gobs of bullshit! Pick up any history book to find loads of examples of nearly the exact same exploitation occuring in every revolutionary phase. It boils down to one lucky person realizing that some things are changing and then latching onto an aspect of that thing which they can use to manipulate great movements later on. The old land baron and sweat shops in the industrial revolution pop to my mind immediately.
Bill Gates got lucky in getting his hand on the lever first, and he was smart in realizing that he had the lever in hand. But it is nothing spectacular or anything requiring genius. Really all it required was for him to hold on to what he had really hard. Big fucking deal.
After he had the lever in hand, he used it to beat the competition out of the marketplace, just like the land baron, railroad tycoons, and oil executives that came before him.
Watched the discovery channel a while back. Had a piece about these devices that implanted wires to help paralyzed people walk. Problem was that the wires break/wear-out. The paralyzed people end up with hundred of wire filaments lacing their legs where the few good nerves are. The xrays looked like steel wool. They reported that it tended to be painful but surgery to remove the thousands of little pieces of broken up wires was just too difficult.
Beware of combining organic and non organic substances. The living things break and rebuild themselves constantly, in fact it is part of their design. Metal wire are not organic.
I don't understand the question? I have a workstation here at my desk and one in the lab. Either one gives me the exact same desktop. In fact, if I log into any workstation on the network I get the exact same desktop with access to ALL my data.
What kind of ass-backward, braindead system are you using that locks you down to one physical access point?
If the thing is caused by warm water, what's to stop a bunch of these soon to be out of work fishermen from banning together, taking a trek down south, and hauling that huge as iceburg and dropping it in the Gulf right in the middle of the black water?
Yeah, it would be somewhat expensive, but it beats getting your feet ate be microorganisms.
I'd rather they give use Mandrake 8.3, and make sure everthying worked together. I'm holding off on upgrading until I hear that everything is stable together, then I will pay the $60 for their club membership and download an ISO.
I've reluctanly entered the 'end-user' club. I want my computer to do things without having to CONSTANTLY fiddle with things not related to what I want to do. I want a nice simple script to set up the networked workstation as a firewall and then be done with networking. Mandrake seems to keep promising this, and I'm willing to pay for it, but I don't want to have to constantly be upgrading huge pieces of the OS. (and yes, I consider the window manager to be part of the operating system, because it is part of the system that I use to operate the computer.)
Google already filters the link so that multiple links from the same sight don't drive up the link count. Someone trying to get people to set-up Geocities account that link to their sight would most like distribute a html file with instructions on how to use it as a Geocities homepage. It would be a simple (though compute intensive) task to do a diff against current pages that link to a sight before adding a new page. If it is exactly (or nearly exactly) the same, it doesn't get added.
Summed up, only add unique pages from unique sites.