Because the cable company wants to sell you kable modem service, the telcos dont want to give up $1000/mnt T-1 contracts, and your city wants ISPs and telcos to pay exorbitant franchise fees.
Who still uses glass? I think all the commericial stuff out there is already plastic. I mean who wants to splice fiber every 10ms because someone breathed on it wrong?
"The Universal Patent: A system, method, function, model, device or idea for permuting all possible ideas and immediately patenting them. Then, identifying infringers and immediately issuing 'cease-and-desist' notices followed by lawsuits."
All the lawyers at the bottom of the sea: the sharks should check their wallets.
Private-sector, duh! Anything with the word "government" in it means incompetence, mismanagement and waste. $300 toilet seats and $200 keyboards, maybe they should spend more on procurement management and analysis instead of throwing money at problems.
As for working conditions in government jobs: lower pay, lower morale, less flexibility and more paperwork and bureaucracy than typical equivalent private enterprise jobs. Then again, some big businesses are run as horribly as governments.
If they'd just put more labels on the tabs, or color-code them it'd be far more effective. So, where do the batteries go? Besides, who wants to pay for extra electronic components that are only going to be used once? I bet this would raise the price of furniture at least $10. This sounds like another over-application of technology for technology's sake. Nice try, but this looks like another research project not thinking about practicality.
Sorry, but that is incorrect. The net charge of any amount of table salt in DI water is 0. Na and Cl do become ionized (dissolved in water). The water does have the ionization power to break (dissolve) NaCl, but that doesn't really give you anything. Electricity (a source of charge) is needed to attract and seperate ions, since they are oppositely charged and tend to pull on each other. Na+ will be attracted to the (-) and Cl- will be attracted to (+). Potentially (hehe), the now net-charged solution, probably the solution containing more chlorine ions than sodium ions would be used for disinfection or whatever.
In about two seconds, you can make a XML gui maker with java...
then take your JFrame,
XMLEncoder xe = new XMLEncoder( new FileOutputStream( "gui.xml" )); xe.writeObject(yourJFrameObjectHere);
and then here's the code to read it back:
XMLDecoder xd = new XMLDecoder( new FileInputStream("gui.xml")); JFrame jf = (JFrame)xd.readObject(); jf.show();
Hopefully, the java FUD of the 1990s is laid to rest, as java HotSpot and native binary compilers have really improved alot since the first-generation slow-ass JVMs. Then M$FT comes along and copies Java, calling it J++ then going to some panacea java-replacement platform called.NET to get away from a perceived foot-hold gained by sun. java might be dead on the wintel platform, but it sure-as-shit isn't anywhere near dead in ISV/IT/IS/IM/I* world. Enterprise JavaBeans and JSPs are the best thing to happen application servers. Too bad M$FT doesn't like open standards that everyone else is using. Sux to their as-mar.
Apple could get on the ball and make a line of sleek, pimpy PCs, pre-loaded with OS X interchangeable with commodity hardware (remember Macs, LOL), and they could use any chips they want, Transmeta, Amd, Intel, Motorola, MediaGX, etc. That way, they leverage against the chip mfgrs by having multiple vendors.
Using electricity, it splits table salt (NaCl) into Na+ and Cl- ions, and you get chlorinated, swimming pool water. And the Na+ is recycled by recombining with Cl- and all you ever add is salt. I saw one of these units on "This Old House," for a swimming pool. Bottom line: never add chlorine, just salt and electricity.
Dare I mention that this is nothing new nor original? MisterHouse have much better ideas: the guys at misterhouse made some all-in-one home control centers, and the system even has text-to-speech "Trekkie-style," and the system even has GPS receivers on the vehicles with some kind of ARPS data relay to give telemetry. There's also some kind of WAP bridge so that you can control house stuff from a cell phone. In short, MisterHouse is light-years beyond a remote control. And best of all... it's GPL'd... and it knows Kung-Fu! Btw, it would really suck if someone hacked your house.... Water shooting out of the drains, the toaster burning things and the lights going on and off.
It looks cool. Yeah, that CPU will last about a day. Thermal stresses will destroy that cpu very shortly. Also, the P4's have huge #s of pipeline-stages that result in LOWER cycle efficiency that older models and comparable AMD chips. Wintel has the folks suckered into thinking higher GHz == faster. Nyet! Sun's chips exec instrs alot more efficiently that intel's; the exact numbers escape me, but i remember 250 MHz Ultrasparcs being hella fast.
Yes, WTF is up w/ not being able to get DSL in San Jose, CA? All your base are belong to AT&T.... SBC Pacbell owns nine *9* of the original baby bells now. And AT&T "Broadband" is supposedly rolling out cable-modem service to a "select" portion of San Jose, CA... that's not all, they are also competing with PacBell by offering phone service and "Digital" cable. Screw that crap, $80 for utilities that used to cost $60. %$#@*@ city-hall and their goddamn "franchises." Pretty soon, you'll have to have a franchise license from the local gov't to run an ISP.
Oh, and PacHell wants to keep sucking on dumb-ass companies that pay $1k for internet access when they could *potentially* get 1.5M SDSL for $270. And forget the PacBell FUD that xDSL is a "best-effort" service; hell, all telco products are best-effort.
In conclusion... it makes you wonder what ISDN is going for these days.
Many software dev jobs are moving to India, because HP and other big businesses are sick of paying Silicon Valley wages when they can hire Indians to do the same work for $1/day. Who cares if quality suffers, as customers don't seem to care.
Multi-National, Conglomerate Get-Rich-Quick Formula: "Just setup in Kerplekiztan or some 3rd world country, work the locals cheap, and you'll make bank."
'sounds like you live in San Jose, CA; because I can't get any broadband here either. screw pachell and their $1000/mnth crap. stupid city council here too, there's one cable company (AT&T) and one phone company (SBC PacBell). gee, sounds like innovation and competition to me. shit, and 20-30+GHz wireless line-of-sight is neglected and shelved *cough* Sprint, even though some of that shit works farther than some xDSLs do, but your ping and upload bandwidth will suck and it doesn't work so good with humidity/rain.
rant keywords="broadband,wireless,optical,ad-hoc"
WTF, why don't we all just establish ad-hoc wireless, optical band Line-Of-Sight (LOS) metro networks w/ lots of redundancy. Everyone gets somewhere between 5-10 up/download links and stick it into a packet router, sorta like packet modem relay/forwarding. Because we really need two types of QoS services, low ping/low bandwidth and high bandwidth/best-effor. At optical speeds, should be able to get 1-10Mbs, and WDM w/ spread-spectrum (frequency hopping) could be used to give it about 10-100Mbs at News 10 weather relay tower as an example, some kind of retro thing. There's a crazy-huge mast in Shanghai, it looks like a stick-and-ball molecule model but it's meant to be the literal interpretation of a poem. So, in Antarctica, dress up all the radar towers as Tuxs. =)
There is speculation about that.... I'm 24yo T-Ter and looking "forward" to an EMG and possible surgery. Me thinks that there's some other predispositions to RSI/CTS/tendonitis/etc. such as diet, (lack of) exercise, stress, hormones, genes, or so on. I don't know of any other students having problems in the CS dept., and there's about 500 people in the dept. Btw, the avg. RSI/CTS age is approx. 40.
rgr that, but i still have major RSI problems. i have that kbd, but i think that an adjustable sightly-angled keyboard would be better... im probably going to have to drop $1k on a Data Hand keyboard. =(
The FCC is a corrupt PoS. Not only do they "control" who gets to broadcast what/how/when and where, they want to limit the wire bandwidth to only companies that pay them the most money and sit on the FCC's "advisory" boards. What a self-serving crock of crap!
Shit, why the hell don't municipalities start non-profit NGOs to install/maintain another set of wires (or fiber)? Maybe with another type of utility, we can get the Bells off our collective backs. Btw, who needs local telephone service anyhow? It seems that alot of cell phones are cheaper than long-distance in most cases, and with a high-speed conxn, VoIP would be essentially free.
I vote that we scrap the FCC and start over, because they are NOT serving the people, only themselves and the big oglopolies.
P.S.: "Deregulation" means fewer rights for consumers, and more market power for "Baby" Bells (SBC == 4 Baby Bells).
DivX is a bad analogy, sounds more like SVHS or BetaMax reincarnated to me. Why not just go to DVD-RW/RAM? Sequential-access media just plain sucks. Tapes wear out, strech/shrink and start losing data in about 10-20 years. I'd get tivo before sinking a bunch of money into a new vcr. Most stuff you record you watch once anyhow, and a fixed disk system shouldn't piss MPAA/RIAA/etc. too much, because it would be more difficult to copy stuff. I'm still miffed about the digital "macrovision" no-copy bit in the DTV feeds. Oh well, someone will just have to "violate" the DMCA and build a box to strip it out; that means another project and more money for the l337 h4x0rs i guess.
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Hehe... I bet you want to be paid hourly too. ;)
Because the cable company wants to sell you kable modem service, the telcos dont want to give up $1000/mnt T-1 contracts, and your city wants ISPs and telcos to pay exorbitant franchise fees.
Who still uses glass? I think all the commericial stuff out there is already plastic. I mean who wants to splice fiber every 10ms because someone breathed on it wrong?
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Patent# 11,010,101:
"The Universal Patent: A system, method, function, model, device or idea for permuting all possible ideas and immediately patenting them. Then, identifying infringers and immediately issuing 'cease-and-desist' notices followed by lawsuits."
All the lawyers at the bottom of the sea: the sharks should check their wallets.
Private-sector, duh! Anything with the word "government" in it means incompetence, mismanagement and waste. $300 toilet seats and $200 keyboards, maybe they should spend more on procurement management and analysis instead of throwing money at problems.
As for working conditions in government jobs: lower pay, lower morale, less flexibility and more paperwork and bureaucracy than typical equivalent private enterprise jobs. Then again, some big businesses are run as horribly as governments.
If they'd just put more labels on the tabs, or color-code them it'd be far more effective. So, where do the batteries go? Besides, who wants to pay for extra electronic components that are only going to be used once? I bet this would raise the price of furniture at least $10. This sounds like another over-application of technology for technology's sake. Nice try, but this looks like another research project not thinking about practicality.
Sorry, but that is incorrect. The net charge of any amount of table salt in DI water is 0. Na and Cl do become ionized (dissolved in water). The water does have the ionization power to break (dissolve) NaCl, but that doesn't really give you anything. Electricity (a source of charge) is needed to attract and seperate ions, since they are oppositely charged and tend to pull on each other. Na+ will be attracted to the (-) and Cl- will be attracted to (+). Potentially (hehe), the now net-charged solution, probably the solution containing more chlorine ions than sodium ions would be used for disinfection or whatever.
Apple could get on the ball and make a line of sleek, pimpy PCs, pre-loaded with OS X interchangeable with commodity hardware (remember Macs, LOL), and they could use any chips they want, Transmeta, Amd, Intel, Motorola, MediaGX, etc. That way, they leverage against the chip mfgrs by having multiple vendors.
Using electricity, it splits table salt (NaCl) into Na+ and Cl- ions, and you get chlorinated, swimming pool water. And the Na+ is recycled by recombining with Cl- and all you ever add is salt. I saw one of these units on "This Old House," for a swimming pool. Bottom line: never add chlorine, just salt and electricity.
Dare I mention that this is nothing new nor original? MisterHouse have much better ideas: the guys at misterhouse made some all-in-one home control centers, and the system even has text-to-speech "Trekkie-style," and the system even has GPS receivers on the vehicles with some kind of ARPS data relay to give telemetry. There's also some kind of WAP bridge so that you can control house stuff from a cell phone. In short, MisterHouse is light-years beyond a remote control. And best of all... it's GPL'd ... and it knows Kung-Fu! Btw, it would really suck if someone hacked your house. ... Water shooting out of the drains, the toaster burning things and the lights going on and off.
It looks cool. Yeah, that CPU will last about a day. Thermal stresses will destroy that cpu very shortly. Also, the P4's have huge #s of pipeline-stages that result in LOWER cycle efficiency that older models and comparable AMD chips. Wintel has the folks suckered into thinking higher GHz == faster. Nyet! Sun's chips exec instrs alot more efficiently that intel's; the exact numbers escape me, but i remember 250 MHz Ultrasparcs being hella fast.
BTW, does this mean 1000 fps in Quake3?
Yes, WTF is up w/ not being able to get DSL in San Jose, CA? All your base are belong to AT&T.... SBC Pacbell owns nine *9* of the original baby bells now. And AT&T "Broadband" is supposedly rolling out cable-modem service to a "select" portion of San Jose, CA... that's not all, they are also competing with PacBell by offering phone service and "Digital" cable. Screw that crap, $80 for utilities that used to cost $60. %$#@*@ city-hall and their goddamn "franchises." Pretty soon, you'll have to have a franchise license from the local gov't to run an ISP.
Oh, and PacHell wants to keep sucking on dumb-ass companies that pay $1k for internet access when they could *potentially* get 1.5M SDSL for $270. And forget the PacBell FUD that xDSL is a "best-effort" service; hell, all telco products are best-effort.
In conclusion... it makes you wonder what ISDN is going for these days.
Many software dev jobs are moving to India, because HP and other big businesses are sick of paying Silicon Valley wages when they can hire Indians to do the same work for $1/day. Who cares if quality suffers, as customers don't seem to care. Multi-National, Conglomerate Get-Rich-Quick Formula: "Just setup in Kerplekiztan or some 3rd world country, work the locals cheap, and you'll make bank."
winamp 3.0 is still free, as of aug 27 2002 21:00 UTC.
That's the *order* page, I think. They are just "thinking" about taking pre-orders. Geez, why can't they just translate it to frickin' english.
'sounds like you live in San Jose, CA; because I can't get any broadband here either. screw pachell and their $1000/mnth crap. stupid city council here too, there's one cable company (AT&T) and one phone company (SBC PacBell). gee, sounds like innovation and competition to me. shit, and 20-30+GHz wireless line-of-sight is neglected and shelved *cough* Sprint, even though some of that shit works farther than some xDSLs do, but your ping and upload bandwidth will suck and it doesn't work so good with humidity/rain.
rant keywords="broadband,wireless,optical,ad-hoc"
WTF, why don't we all just establish ad-hoc wireless, optical band Line-Of-Sight (LOS) metro networks w/ lots of redundancy. Everyone gets somewhere between 5-10 up/download links and stick it into a packet router, sorta like packet modem relay/forwarding. Because we really need two types of QoS services, low ping/low bandwidth and high bandwidth/best-effor. At optical speeds, should be able to get 1-10Mbs, and WDM w/ spread-spectrum (frequency hopping) could be used to give it about 10-100Mbs at News 10 weather relay tower as an example, some kind of retro thing. There's a crazy-huge mast in Shanghai, it looks like a stick-and-ball molecule model but it's meant to be the literal interpretation of a poem. So, in Antarctica, dress up all the radar towers as Tuxs. =)
How the hell are we supposed to record anything? Is this another MPAA/RIAA/Divx stunt? Circuit Shitty has always been lame.
I saw this thing on TV at some rich $!@#'s house, probably on "Lifestyles of the megalorich and bored fux0r$"
There is speculation about that.... I'm 24yo T-Ter and looking "forward" to an EMG and possible surgery. Me thinks that there's some other predispositions to RSI/CTS/tendonitis/etc. such as diet, (lack of) exercise, stress, hormones, genes, or so on. I don't know of any other students having problems in the CS dept., and there's about 500 people in the dept. Btw, the avg. RSI/CTS age is approx. 40.
wow, here's a good link
rgr that, but i still have major RSI problems. i have that kbd, but i think that an adjustable sightly-angled keyboard would be better... im probably going to have to drop $1k on a Data Hand keyboard. =(
Yeah, right... which university and how much were they paid? Ow, typing too much == pain == RSI == surgery. =(
The FCC is a corrupt PoS. Not only do they "control" who gets to broadcast what/how/when and where, they want to limit the wire bandwidth to only companies that pay them the most money and sit on the FCC's "advisory" boards. What a self-serving crock of crap!
Shit, why the hell don't municipalities start non-profit NGOs to install/maintain another set of wires (or fiber)? Maybe with another type of utility, we can get the Bells off our collective backs. Btw, who needs local telephone service anyhow? It seems that alot of cell phones are cheaper than long-distance in most cases, and with a high-speed conxn, VoIP would be essentially free.
I vote that we scrap the FCC and start over, because they are NOT serving the people, only themselves and the big oglopolies.
P.S.: "Deregulation" means fewer rights for consumers, and more market power for "Baby" Bells (SBC == 4 Baby Bells).
DivX is a bad analogy, sounds more like SVHS or BetaMax reincarnated to me. Why not just go to DVD-RW/RAM? Sequential-access media just plain sucks. Tapes wear out, strech/shrink and start losing data in about 10-20 years. I'd get tivo before sinking a bunch of money into a new vcr. Most stuff you record you watch once anyhow, and a fixed disk system shouldn't piss MPAA/RIAA/etc. too much, because it would be more difficult to copy stuff. I'm still miffed about the digital "macrovision" no-copy bit in the DTV feeds. Oh well, someone will just have to "violate" the DMCA and build a box to strip it out; that means another project and more money for the l337 h4x0rs i guess.
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