Excellent piece. Anyone who bothered to RTF(boring,pedantic,condescending)A would quickly see that the headline is a complete fiction. All the author did was exploit a hole in a for-pay Public Access WiFi network. No opportunity to route trains onto otherwise occupied platforms. No threat to a "major transportation hub."
Just some guy doing trivial guesswork to get free wireless access...that happens to be at Boston's South Station
Was writing the article his post-priori justification for the service theft ?
Some early video editing HW I worked on used TIFF as an intermediate stage between the MJPEG decompressor and the final raster output. Makes sense to me.
Yeah, but that's just for the years part. What about for smaller time units, say less than a second ?
OK, I'm kidding. My understanding is that NTP's algorithm is good for taking an arbitrary point in time and estimating the time for that machine (endpoint). In part because NTP relies on creating a scattergram from multiple samples, it is NOT a good algorithm for synchronizing two streams at seperate endpoints.
However, it's probably that you could sync the endpoints sufficiently that the real problem becomes audio propagation delays rather than the digital sync to the endpoints.
Which space agencies would they be ? They number of agencies currently able to put a human carrying flight tested launch into space is precisely two: the United States and Russia.
China is close, but their technology is still very much in the development stage. Only the US and Russia have anything like the ability to launch an off the shelf vehicle with limited warning.
In fact, the US and the then Soviet Union agreed a common 'docking' arrangement in order to be able to provide mutual aid. Although, the SU was probably more interested in getting access to the US's superior (and more reliable) docking technolgy. http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/report/1989/LCE.htm
My guess is that this is the agreement you're thinking of. -S
Not necessarily indicative of Powerbook G5. Indicative of a company that builds products that have components that give out heat: recall the G4 "windtunnel" Macs: some PCI cards overheated in this machine due to its poor thermal design. The Mac Mini would also have required a great deal of thermal design.
Note, if Apple is indeed advertising for thermal engineers for a G5 Powerbook today, then there is no chance that we're going to see such a machine any time soon.
Well, because the member companies of the RIAA promote the music that they think will provide them with the most profit, and to a certain extent, that promotion is self fulfilling: most people buy the music they hear on the radio and television, which is the music the RIAA wants you to hear and buy.
Zero marketing dollars will always have a very tough time competing with millions of marketing dollars. The market is distorted: music does not compete for playtime on the basis of its quality.
Re:Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
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Must be awful having no personal choice. Does Sony bill you automatically every time they release a new product or do they use a mind control device.
I'm not sure what this has to do with Betamax. Minidisc may certainly have been disadvantaged by failing to support MP3, but it isn't clear that is the only thing that Kutaragi is talking about. Equally, Minidisc is VERY popular in Europe and Asia, just much less so in the US.
And the PSP ? Well, it seems inevitable to me that you'll need smaller disks if they are to work in a pocketable handheld machine. Don't buy it if you don't want it.
So, you authored a script and then GAVE UP OWNERSHIP OF THE CODE TO THE CONTRACTOR ?
If this story is remotely true then you were very foolish indeed. As others have said, you need concrete acceptance criteria.
This story has nothing to do with outsourcing per se. The mistakes you made could just as easily have happened if you had been as lax with a US contractor working in house.
I strongly suspect this article is an attempt to discredit the practise of outsourcing. The biggest problem I see is with your common sense.
There's certainly no legitimate TiVo service in Australia, but for those willing to do a little work, there certainly are ways to get a TiVo to work in OZ:
They just said that the most they could expect the battery to last would be seven hours. The scientist was grinning though and said he didn't want to say any more.
The orbiter does go out of range, but there are earth stations that recieve the data directly from the lander, and they are saying that they are asking more radio telescopes to download data. It strikes me that this is something that would have been arranged before hand had it been expected. Hence, they must be expecting more data than they hoped for.
As a former Pizza delivery person (Hello Mamma's in Edinburgh !), I can guarantee that an unsecured pizza box is far more likely to be stolen on a Friday night after the pubs turn out than an unsecured laptop bag.
The thief wants pizza, is fairly confident that the Pizza company is too busy to report the theft and in all likelihood would never dream of stealing a laptop.
I own a small software company. It's not difficult to find serial numbers for my software using Google. While I'm not particularly delighted by that, I understand that there is little practical that Google can do about it. Google isn't hosting the information.
However, a lot of these sites get closed down very quickly. What bugs me is that Google DOES continue to host that information in their caches of the web pages.
Courteous, well written emails and letters to Google asking for help in avoiding this material loss to my business go unanswered. Thanks guys !
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They licensed technology from Rambus.
Excellent piece. Anyone who bothered to RTF(boring,pedantic,condescending)A would quickly see that the headline is a complete fiction. All the author did was exploit a hole in a for-pay Public Access WiFi network. No opportunity to route trains onto otherwise occupied platforms. No threat to a "major transportation hub."
Just some guy doing trivial guesswork to get free wireless access...that happens to be at Boston's South Station
Was writing the article his post-priori justification for the service theft ?
Some early video editing HW I worked on used TIFF as an intermediate stage between the MJPEG decompressor and the final raster output. Makes sense to me.
-S
MXF is a metadata format, not a compression format.
-S
I'd still prefer my archived data to not be affected by strong EM fields.
Absolutely. The first thing I'm going to worry about after a nuclear attack is my porn collection. I hear nuclear winters are very long and cold.
-S
digitalgimpus: Do you regret asking that question ?
that's a problem that NTP has solved for years
Yeah, but that's just for the years part. What about for smaller time units, say less than a second ?
OK, I'm kidding. My understanding is that NTP's algorithm is good for taking an arbitrary point in time and estimating the time for that machine (endpoint). In part because NTP relies on creating a scattergram from multiple samples, it is NOT a good algorithm for synchronizing two streams at seperate endpoints.
However, it's probably that you could sync the endpoints sufficiently that the real problem becomes audio propagation delays rather than the digital sync to the endpoints.
-S
Which space agencies would they be ? They number of agencies currently able to put a human carrying flight tested launch into space is precisely two:
t /1989/LCE.htm
the United States and Russia.
China is close, but their technology is still very much in the development stage. Only the US and Russia have anything like the ability to launch an off the shelf vehicle with limited warning.
In fact, the US and the then Soviet Union agreed a common 'docking' arrangement in order to be able to provide mutual aid. Although, the SU was probably more interested in getting access to the US's superior (and more reliable) docking technolgy. http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/repor
My guess is that this is the agreement you're thinking of.
-S
ANY URL RETURNS A 1x1 WEBBUG:
b ook f or_macintosh
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g6_powerbook
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g7_powerbook
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_hotsex_power
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_g5_newton
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/microsoft_windows_
http://switch.atdmt.com/action/apple_cheesegrater
Nothing to see here.
-S
Not necessarily indicative of Powerbook G5. Indicative of a company that builds products that have components that give out heat: recall the G4 "windtunnel" Macs: some PCI cards overheated in this machine due to its poor thermal design.
The Mac Mini would also have required a great deal of thermal design.
Note, if Apple is indeed advertising for thermal engineers for a G5 Powerbook today, then there is no chance that we're going to see such a machine any time soon.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants." --Newton to Hooke, 5 Feb. 1676;
'Nuff said really.
Well, because the member companies of the RIAA promote the music that they think will provide them with the most profit, and to a certain extent, that promotion is self fulfilling: most people buy the music they hear on the radio and television, which is the music the RIAA wants you to hear and buy.
Zero marketing dollars will always have a very tough time competing with millions of marketing dollars. The market is distorted: music does not compete for playtime on the basis of its quality.
Must be awful having no personal choice. Does Sony bill you automatically every time they release a new product or do they use a mind control device.
I'm not sure what this has to do with Betamax. Minidisc may certainly have been disadvantaged by failing to support MP3, but it isn't clear that is the only thing that Kutaragi is talking about. Equally, Minidisc is VERY popular in Europe and Asia, just much less so in the US.
And the PSP ? Well, it seems inevitable to me that you'll need smaller disks if they are to work in a pocketable handheld machine. Don't buy it if you don't want it.
Sony's Minidisc players are fabulous little machines. Great form factor, cheap media etc...
If Sony had native support for MP3s a few years ago, I would not own an iPod right now.
-S
So, you authored a script and then GAVE UP OWNERSHIP OF THE CODE TO THE CONTRACTOR ?
If this story is remotely true then you were very foolish indeed. As others have said, you need concrete acceptance criteria.
This story has nothing to do with outsourcing per se. The mistakes you made could just as easily have happened if you had been as lax with a US contractor working in house.
I strongly suspect this article is an attempt to discredit the practise of outsourcing. The biggest problem I see is with your common sense.
-S
Venezuela, he forgot Venezuela ! V. has also moved to denominating oil trades in Euros. Note dear Dr. Rice's comments about Venezuela yesterday.
There's certainly no legitimate TiVo service in Australia, but for those willing to do a little work, there certainly are ways to get a TiVo to work in OZ:
i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
http://www.google.com/search?q=tivo+in+australia&
And, you can thank Tridge (Andrew Tridgell for a lot of the groundwork for this.)
-S
Google could easily provide a much richer DNS service.
-S
They just said that the most they could expect the battery to last would be seven hours. The scientist was grinning though and said he didn't want to say any more.
The orbiter does go out of range, but there are earth stations that recieve the data directly from the lander, and they are saying that they are asking more radio telescopes to download data. It strikes me that this is something that would have been arranged before hand had it been expected. Hence, they must be expecting more data than they hoped for.
-S
Married with two young kids...still haven't quite finished KOTOR I....
As a former Pizza delivery person (Hello Mamma's in Edinburgh !), I can guarantee that an unsecured pizza box is far more likely to be stolen on a Friday night after the pubs turn out than an unsecured laptop bag.
The thief wants pizza, is fairly confident that the Pizza company is too busy to report the theft and in all likelihood would never dream of stealing a laptop.
-S
I own a small software company. It's not difficult to find serial numbers for my software using Google. While I'm not particularly delighted by that, I understand that there is little practical that Google can do about it. Google isn't hosting the information.
However, a lot of these sites get closed down very quickly. What bugs me is that Google DOES continue to host that information in their caches of the web pages.
Courteous, well written emails and letters to Google asking for help in avoiding this material loss to my business go unanswered. Thanks guys !
-S
All these geeks trying their hand at medical diagnosis.
Here's why computer programmers shouldn't be physicians:
"OK, we're going to shut the patient down and bring up his systems one by one."
-S
Move so that the selective service can't find you
And so that Republican "challengers" can deny you the right to vote in future elections.
-S
Is there such a thing ? Does this review offer it ?
Appeals to my inner nerd anyhoo.
-S