Wired service is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Your new high speed data connection to the internet, voice telephone network, cable television, video on demand, etc. will be delivered by wireless (yes, radio,) because the cost of installing and maintaining a wired network is extremely expensive, and the cost for wireless delivery keeps dropping... Very, very soon, wireless will be cheaper than wired and all the RBOCs and CATV conglomerates will be wondering what hit them. So who cares what AT&T or any of the RBOCs do? there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
Besides all the points made by jabber, they would learn a marketable skill. Sure, there are jobs for perl, python, or VB hackers, but there is some serious demand for Java programmers... And that does not appear to be going away. Besides, a java programmer knows enough basic syntax to be able to translate their java skills to C or C++...
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Those old DEC operating systems won't die... My dad was a TOPS-20 user (archaic DEC operating system, precursor to VMS); he used to wear a T shirt around that had the famous Mark Twain quote "the reports of my death have been greatly exagerated" and on the back a system crash message "%DECSystem-20 not running"...
I want one for OpenVMS, except it could say something like "MCR OPCCRASH".
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I likes the part about DEC being founded by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie! Hardly.
For maddog, DEC in the 80s must have been like being in purgatory... Ken Olson (the actual founder) always said that unix was "snake oil" and that VAX/VMS was the key. Ultrix (DEC's unix) was a second class citizen, underfunded and dissed by the top brass. Of course, Ken was wrong about a few other things, too...
there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
I have an AGFA ePHOTO 1280, had it for about 2 years. It swivels, too. It is native 1024 x 768 and uses SSFDC cards... there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
100 watts will go a lot further than 7 miles if you just put your antenna up higher. The FM broadcast band is VHF, which is line-of-sight, so if you put your antenna 1000 feet above average terrain, you are going to get way, way more coverage than a 7 mile radius. 25 to 50 miles seems more like it.
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Of course AlGore wants to get involved. First he will figure out which way the popular wind blows, then he'll adopt that as his platform. He doesn't care about "the right to innovate" any more than the right to operate in a balanced, free market, without getting squished like a bug. He just wants to be president. there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
This whole argument is nothing but a big vat of doo-doo.
If I don't want to buy broadband internet access from AT&T/Media One, there is always my local RBOC, Bell South, who will happily sell me a DSL, wireless cable television, wireless telephones, whatever.
The brief states that Lessig &is/was on GTE and Bell Atlantic's payroll to argue against the merger, so exactly how unbiased is he?
The fact is that high-speed, always on internet technology marginalizes or completely eliminates the value provided by today's dialup ISPs. Of course they will cry "foul!" and try to get the government to protect their business. But it's a whole new world; dialup-style ISPs will become obsolete just like electric refrigeration made the icebox obsolete.
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It was always "DIX Ethernet", as in Digital-Intel-Xerox. And it was Boggs and Metcalfe, not that just Metcalfe the so-called industry pundit who invented it.
L.
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PIC assembler is remarkably efficient; PICs are "Harvard Architecture", and much of the data can be combined with the instruction so the operator and operand fit into a single word... The instruction words & bus are either 12 or 14 bits wide (depending on the PIC; the 12C509 has 12-bit instructions), but the data bytes and bus are eight-bit.
So it's not 512 bytes, it's 512 cleverly crafted words...
jeff
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Cable down, telco up is not the technology that I want for my broadband access. If I wanted that kind of asymetric access, I would already have one of those DirectPC setups. But that's not what I call "broadband" since it's only fast in one direction. I would argue that nobody who reads Slashdot is even remotely interested in 1.5 MB/sec if the upstream rate is only 28.8 KB/sec.
A lot of the technology that true broadband could offer won't even work with such a slow uplink. I want video conferencing! I want to be able to send huge files quickly! I want to be able to transmit real-time, high fidelity audio.
I expect the owner of the pipe is going to be required to to lease access to other services, just like the RBOCs have to lease their plant to the CLECs. But like another comment stated, who needs an ISP when you have a dedicated high speed connection? AOL needs to focus on selling content, not connections. ISPs that don't add any value other than the internet connection (such as Mindspring) are in real trouble. They need to focus on other services, such as email, www service, file service, etc. ISPs as we know them today will go the way of the Icehouse in the day of refrigeration.
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Alpha: Born 1992. Merced: Born 2000? Who needs yet another 64-bit architecture, anyway, especially since Alpha is rumored to be at 1400 MHz in 2000? there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
BellSouth advertises ADSL here in Atlanta, and they show a huge map on their website showing their impressively large service area. Last fall I tried to buy ADSL service. BS tested all three of my residential phone lines (which are all cursed with multiple analog/digital conversions) and told me that exactly zero of them would support ADSL. Nobody I know who has tried to order BellSouth ADSL has been able to get it. I think it's all marketing, with no deliverables. there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
Oooh. This is a perfect article for the Wired reader. Seriously, just who is Thieme trying to impress? It must be himself, cus it sure ain't me. Loph... there are 3 kinds of people: * those who can count
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Wired service is already dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Your new high speed data connection to the internet, voice telephone network, cable television, video on demand, etc. will be delivered by wireless (yes, radio,) because the cost of installing and maintaining a wired network is extremely expensive, and the cost for wireless delivery keeps dropping... Very, very soon, wireless will be cheaper than wired and all the RBOCs and CATV conglomerates will be wondering what hit them. So who cares what AT&T or any of the RBOCs do?
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
I want one for OpenVMS, except it could say something like "MCR OPCCRASH".
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
For maddog, DEC in the 80s must have been like being in purgatory... Ken Olson (the actual founder) always said that unix was "snake oil" and that VAX/VMS was the key. Ultrix (DEC's unix) was a second class citizen, underfunded and dissed by the top brass. Of course, Ken was wrong about a few other things, too...
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
I have an AGFA ePHOTO 1280, had it for about 2 years. It swivels, too. It is native 1024 x 768 and uses SSFDC cards...
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
I was looking for some reference to "I wish I had done that better" or something. Even Gosling has his regrets...
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
l.
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* those who can count
Now that was a computer magazine.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
Of course AlGore wants to get involved. First he will figure out which way the popular wind blows, then he'll adopt that as his platform. He doesn't care about "the right to innovate" any more than the right to operate in a balanced, free market, without getting squished like a bug. He just wants to be president.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
If I don't want to buy broadband internet access from AT&T/Media One, there is always my local RBOC, Bell South, who will happily sell me a DSL, wireless cable television, wireless telephones, whatever.
The brief states that Lessig &is/was on GTE and Bell Atlantic's payroll to argue against the merger, so exactly how unbiased is he?
The fact is that high-speed, always on internet technology marginalizes or completely eliminates the value provided by today's dialup ISPs. Of course they will cry "foul!" and try to get the government to protect their business. But it's a whole new world; dialup-style ISPs will become obsolete just like electric refrigeration made the icebox obsolete.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
l.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
L.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
So it's not 512 bytes, it's 512 cleverly crafted words...
jeff
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
Cable down, telco up is not the technology that I want for my broadband access. If I wanted that kind of asymetric access, I would already have one of those DirectPC setups. But that's not what I call "broadband" since it's only fast in one direction. I would argue that nobody who reads Slashdot is even remotely interested in 1.5 MB/sec if the upstream rate is only 28.8 KB/sec.
A lot of the technology that true broadband could offer won't even work with such a slow uplink. I want video conferencing! I want to be able to send huge files quickly! I want to be able to transmit real-time, high fidelity audio.
I expect the owner of the pipe is going to be required to to lease access to other services, just like the RBOCs have to lease their plant to the CLECs. But like another comment stated, who needs an ISP when you have a dedicated high speed connection? AOL needs to focus on selling content, not connections. ISPs that don't add any value other than the internet connection (such as Mindspring) are in real trouble. They need to focus on other services, such as email, www service, file service, etc. ISPs as we know them today will go the way of the Icehouse in the day of refrigeration.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
Alpha: Born 1992. Merced: Born 2000? Who needs yet another 64-bit architecture, anyway, especially since Alpha is rumored to be at 1400 MHz in 2000?
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
BellSouth advertises ADSL here in Atlanta, and they show a huge map on their website showing their impressively large service area. Last fall I tried to buy ADSL service. BS tested all three of my residential phone lines (which are all cursed with multiple analog/digital conversions) and told me that exactly zero of them would support ADSL. Nobody I know who has tried to order BellSouth ADSL has been able to get it. I think it's all marketing, with no deliverables.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
In the end, they screw themselves; people will look for (and find) better alternatives.
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count
Oooh. This is a perfect article for the Wired reader. Seriously, just who is Thieme trying to impress? It must be himself, cus it sure ain't me. Loph...
there are 3 kinds of people:
* those who can count