Where did you get your 3 out of 4 numbers? Of the 3000 bands in my town, most of the better paid only take in about $250 a week. I suspect thats its more like 14000 out of 15000 music professionals are already out of work.
The Southeastern freaway in Melbourne Australia has some nice features. Some of the exit ramps and acceleration ramps are on the wrong sides. Its almost like the inital contracting on the road was done someplace else where they drive on the right side of the road. Its quite clear its messed up while flying over it.
Victora likes to have the slow lane exit as well as when three lanes go to two, they always drop the slow lane so it results in lots of people getting on the highway and moving to the middle or 2nd right lane. With the recent "wipe off 5" ads, the average speed on that lane is often less than 80kph on a road that has a 100 limit. The result is clusters of trafic and tailgating is the norm and the wrecks on the road went from normal for a highway to more like a typical high speed city road. Slow down and have fewer accidents. Too bad the stats don't show it works on that road.
TAC also loves to put exit signs up that say things like "someroad 1 km" but the exit isn't 1 km, the cross road is 1km and there isn't enough time at normal speeds to read the signs and get in the proper lane.
The left lane is ending signs also are nice big white signs about where the lane ends and not a way before it and they haven't decided to use the international yellow diamond with pictures of the lane ending.
They still use a white line to mark lanes no matter if they are in the same direction or not but the highways are marked with yellow reflectors as if someone thought about putting a yellow line there sometime in the future. Back in the 1960's the US DOT found out it was a very cheap way to reduce accidents. While it wasn't highly effective, it did save lives and over time the costs are about as to zero as you can get on a goverment project since all they have to do is put yellow paint in the bin.
Is it a problem? I've got hundreds of lines of critical code in many gnu programs and most of it was submitted anonymously. I gave out that code for the common good so why should stealing from me be any different than bootlegging a copy of MS office?
There are 100mpg carbureators but they are on very small light weight cars (if you want to call the over grown scooters that).
I don't think most of the middle ages grand master paintings were repainted every year without too much fading. It seems to me that the modern Amish would make paints very much the same way as Da Vinic did and look how long some of his stuff lasted.
Years ago when GCC was about the only multiplatform compiler that was even close to stable it had the same optimizations as Microsoft C version 5. Since GCC came first and everyone could find its source, I wonder what an extensive code review of the two packages would show.
But we know MS is so pig headed they are going to rewrite everything in house anyway -- especially specs to "open standards"
With many large projects to day with many tema members, many things can leak in. For example 3Com's NBX 100 phone system has both Gzip and GNU tar in its binary image which makes the whole thing licensed under GNU but try to get source from them.
The domain name squating stuff that we have seen so far will be small time compared to the issues of who gets what name. You can't pretend to be someone else and there are many laws on the books to prevent it. The result is lots of reasons for law suits that will be much worse that we have ever seen in.com law. Trademarks are unique for an area and geography. The courts seem to have extended this a bit but when someone says "I'm John Smith the Lawyer" that can and will be confusing with other John Smiths that are also lawyers.
The only solution to the ".pro" domains will be what I've proposed in the past as a "resolution server". This is some service company holds "John Smith" and then deals with the differentiations. The courts will come to this conclusion at some point down the road but its going to be a heavly litigated path.
A long, long time ago I can still remember how computing used to be worthwhile.
And I knew from the day I was born that I could make that code perform and maybe I could do it with some style.
But last September made me shudder, with every 'nouncement Carly uttered.
Bad news in my In-tray, I couldn't take one more day.
I can't remember if I sighed when I read about our latest stride, something cut me deep inside, the day the HPWay died.
So
Purge, purge, Ms. Technology Scourge, Drove my Beetle to the Needle, Now my job's on the verge.
Them Compaq boys were drinking Starbuck's and Surge singing "This'll be the day that we merge, This'll be the day that we merge."
Did you write the Book of DOS And do you believe an albatross Can really save our company? Now do you believe in buying time? Can Compaq save our bottom line? And can you teach me how write a resume?
For all the words in a much better formated way (thanks lameness filter!) go here
Several of the compaines that make the print heads and other printer bits decided to get into the Point of Sale area. The POS people have been using $4 ribbons and cheap paper for a long time using nice 8 pin dot matrix and are very sensitive to the consumbales costs. The result is that now there are some very long life good inkjets that will use any ink you care to dump in them and have running costs lower than dot matrix printers. The big players aren't going to intorduce these into the consumer or business market yet but the noname tiawan compaines have already started. In a few years these $75 printers that use $50 worth of ink every week will be gone but only if people stop buying name brand printers. BTW the epson RX80 I got for a birhtday present in '82 still works great for program listings so I can see why people can get loyal to a printer brand.
There have been very good reports of roundabouts in Florida in an area well known for its high desnity of retirement homes.
DC has traffic circles. Traffic circles work well if you have hourse and not so well for cars. Roundabouts are different than traffic circles. How you ask? For a start in a roundabout, the car in the circle has the right of way. If you have a wreck in a roundabout you know who's fault it is by looking at how the cars hit. Roundabouts also direct cars the proper way in the circle. They also can deal with 4x to 10x the number of cars per hour than trafic lights.
Modern lights (like any of the ones after say 1980) will turn red for a short time before they turn the other green on.
British stop lights trun yellow before turning green.
Many of these problem areas could be fixed by converting the intersection ot a round-a-bout which would allow about twice as many cars to go through and cut drive times and pollution.
I've got some.... On the South Eastern Freeway in Melbourne Australia, they put in a few cameras at the city end. The average speed on the 100km road dropped and now the max speed is about 110 but is ususaly closer to 100 so speed limit compliance is well over 95%. The result is trafic density is way up, tail gating is up and accidents are up 400%. While the road used to have a fatality rate closer to a good highway, its now about the same has a high speed urban street.
Or did you want eveidence that speed cameras help? They fine 300 to 800 people a day on average now and collect about $150 from each.
HP won't be making anything off inkjets after next year or so. When the inkjet companies started looking at going into the Point Of Sale (POS) market, they quickly found that that merchants were not going to pay more when the system they have been using for 20 years works fine. So in an effort to break into that market they had to build printers that could cost a bit more but had cheap consumables. The result is some $500 POS inkjet printers that have ink cost less than the old dot matrix ribbons. This technology isn't in the home market because they won't be sellnig all thouse $50 ink cartages but there are a few companies out ot Tiawan that don't have any market share so they have nothing to lose and over the next year their home printer products will be rolling out.
Java is fucked. That is all there is to it. Its a lame language of the week thats been replaced by a different language of the week (c#) just like modula 2 trashed pascal. In 10 years java will be like Ada. It was trendy once but now dead. sun needs to understand that but they are clueless and so they will kill off a few tens of thousands of jobs but they aren't my job so I could care less.
My attemtps to get sun clued in to modern realilty have failed. I've invited sun reps to a number of socal meetings of technical people but they never show so screw them. I've been running sun hardware for over a decade and some these markting idiots have been in diapers before I ran my first sun box but they want to fuck me over, but in the months to come they may get to worry where their next meal is going to come from. I don't have that problem and I'll jump the sun ship when needed.
In Oz the XBox has less than 15 games and they all cost over $100. The console is now $388 (down from like $700 last month) and Nintendo is going to run a trade in where if you give then 10 or so N64 or PS2 games, they will give you the new console for $199. AU$200 is currently about US$100.
There have been some nice advances on optical networks and now a few different people are doing optical mesh networks and a few people are working on optical point to multipoint systems. Since the optical systems work at 600THz they have a theoretical limit of about 3.6petabites/second based on all the current R&D lab stuff working well in production systems over the next few decades.
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My dish system would have problems during nasty midwest style thunderstorms but it was inside the house looking through a window that was narower than then dish.
If a dish is slightly off center then the wind will cause dropouts.
I've been looking for info about this. I think gen2 is more about voice lines (fractional voice t1) and not about $60/mo home users.
What I've been hearing is that 3.5Ghz works great up to about 12,000 users in an area based on the bandwidth typicaly used in the US. I've heard that some areas once a new user gets added, someone else will end up with degraded service.
3.5Ghz isn't used because its near line of sight. This tends to mean that you have to be line of site to use it but interfeerance can be non-line of site.
It also only seems to work where you've got high ground for an antenna that overlooks a large flat area.
I've tried the same thing but the calls only worked well one way. It was great for picking up voice mail but sounded like a bad mobile phone call most of the time.
The 3com system by default isn't VoIP, its voice over ethernet since they cut down on the packet size by just sending out the ethernet packets.
Has anyone else messed with this system? It seems there are lots of tricks that could be done with it and 3com is quite slow getting stuff working. I've bene working on decoding their protocol and I've been able to do some tricks like I've got a program that tells me whos on the phone that runs under linux.
Phone costs aren't quite shared. They are set by the local countries and the US prices are set close to that. Where you have goverments that insist on high taxes on calls (like Egypt), the rates to call there are high. In other places where the taxes aren't as high (like the UK), the rates are some of the lowest.
Right now you can buy a 64k isdn link to tel$tra at AU$.20/megabyte. Odd thing is thats the same cost as having someone (with a decent call plan) call OZ and transfer the data. Data rates in Oz have dropped a bit over the last 3 years but are still very high. In a well connected area in the US, data is about US$2/gigbyte including the local loop (assume lots about the data flow/capcity and that stuff).
The solution to part of the problems was the Southern cross cable which was built by some Kiwi's that had the same problem Afirca has. Now that tyco (didn't they used to make toy trians or was that someone else?) is about to run a much bigger cable combined with a few dot bombs not making good on their long term data commnitments means you can get a nice 45mb link to the US for about US$33,000/mo. Connect that to a peering point and you should be able to get 20 E1's for about $5k each unlimited data(from the Aussie point of view, 95% full from the US POV)
With some of the new 100% optical repeaters, there will be the option to run undersea cables that don't need heaps of electronics hiding deep in the ocean. Lucent (or AT&T or TPC or whatever) just did a major link with repeaters every 100km. I think they were doing 5000km total span but that won't go from Hawaii to Fiji and their gear isn't the underwater type. One of the problems in Africa is that people dig up the cable to take the wire out (wire is used to provide power just like the undersea cables). Africa and Australia both have the problem of critters that seem to have a taste for cable.
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Where did you get your 3 out of 4 numbers? Of the 3000 bands in my town, most of the better paid only take in about $250 a week. I suspect thats its more like 14000 out of 15000 music professionals are already out of work.
The Southeastern freaway in Melbourne Australia has some nice features. Some of the exit ramps and acceleration ramps are on the wrong sides. Its almost like the inital contracting on the road was done someplace else where they drive on the right side of the road. Its quite clear its messed up while flying over it.
Victora likes to have the slow lane exit as well as when three lanes go to two, they always drop the slow lane so it results in lots of people getting on the highway and moving to the middle or 2nd right lane. With the recent "wipe off 5" ads, the average speed on that lane is often less than 80kph on a road that has a 100 limit. The result is clusters of trafic and tailgating is the norm and the wrecks on the road went from normal for a highway to more like a typical high speed city road. Slow down and have fewer accidents. Too bad the stats don't show it works on that road.
TAC also loves to put exit signs up that say things like "someroad 1 km" but the exit isn't 1 km, the cross road is 1km and there isn't enough time at normal speeds to read the signs and get in the proper lane.
The left lane is ending signs also are nice big white signs about where the lane ends and not a way before it and they haven't decided to use the international yellow diamond with pictures of the lane ending.
They still use a white line to mark lanes no matter if they are in the same direction or not but the highways are marked with yellow reflectors as if someone thought about putting a yellow line there sometime in the future. Back in the 1960's the US DOT found out it was a very cheap way to reduce accidents. While it wasn't highly effective, it did save lives and over time the costs are about as to zero as you can get on a goverment project since all they have to do is put yellow paint in the bin.
The highest property values in Columbia Missouri just happen to be in an area within a mile of one of the oldest working reactors in the US.
If your worried about radiation, stay away from Bananas and other sources of potasium since they will all drive a gigier counter nuts.
Is it a problem? I've got hundreds of lines of critical code in many gnu programs and most of it was submitted anonymously. I gave out that code for the common good so why should stealing from me be any different than bootlegging a copy of MS office?
There are 100mpg carbureators but they are on very small light weight cars (if you want to call the over grown scooters that).
I don't think most of the middle ages grand master paintings were repainted every year without too much fading. It seems to me that the modern Amish would make paints very much the same way as Da Vinic did and look how long some of his stuff lasted.
Years ago when GCC was about the only multiplatform compiler that was even close to stable it had the same optimizations as Microsoft C version 5. Since GCC came first and everyone could find its source, I wonder what an extensive code review of the two packages would show.
But we know MS is so pig headed they are going to rewrite everything in house anyway -- especially specs to "open standards"
With many large projects to day with many tema members, many things can leak in. For example 3Com's NBX 100 phone system has both Gzip and GNU tar in its binary image which makes the whole thing licensed under GNU but try to get source from them.
The domain name squating stuff that we have seen so far will be small time compared to the issues of who gets what name. You can't pretend to be someone else and there are many laws on the books to prevent it. The result is lots of reasons for law suits that will be much worse that we have ever seen in .com law. Trademarks are unique for an area and geography. The courts seem to have extended this a bit but when someone says "I'm John Smith the Lawyer" that can and will be confusing with other John Smiths that are also lawyers.
The only solution to the ".pro" domains will be what I've proposed in the past as a "resolution server". This is some service company holds "John Smith" and then deals with the differentiations. The courts will come to this conclusion at some point down the road but its going to be a heavly litigated path.
Seen in rec.humor.funny (by King Ables)
With apologies to Don McLean...
A long, long time ago
I can still remember how computing
used to be worthwhile.
And I knew from the day I was born
that I could make that code perform
and maybe I could do it with some style.
But last September made me shudder,
with every 'nouncement Carly uttered.
Bad news in my In-tray,
I couldn't take one more day.
I can't remember if I sighed when I
read about our latest stride,
something cut me deep inside,
the day the HPWay died.
So
Purge, purge, Ms. Technology Scourge,
Drove my Beetle to the Needle,
Now my job's on the verge.
Them Compaq boys were
drinking Starbuck's and Surge
singing "This'll be the day that we merge,
This'll be the day that we merge."
Did you write the Book of DOS
And do you believe an albatross
Can really save our company?
Now do you believe in buying time?
Can Compaq save our bottom line?
And can you teach me how write a resume?
For all the words in a much better formated way (thanks lameness filter!) go here
Several of the compaines that make the print heads and other printer bits decided to get into the Point of Sale area. The POS people have been using $4 ribbons and cheap paper for a long time using nice 8 pin dot matrix and are very sensitive to the consumbales costs. The result is that now there are some very long life good inkjets that will use any ink you care to dump in them and have running costs lower than dot matrix printers. The big players aren't going to intorduce these into the consumer or business market yet but the noname tiawan compaines have already started. In a few years these $75 printers that use $50 worth of ink every week will be gone but only if people stop buying name brand printers. BTW the epson RX80 I got for a birhtday present in '82 still works great for program listings so I can see why people can get loyal to a printer brand.
There have been very good reports of roundabouts in Florida in an area well known for its high desnity of retirement homes.
DC has traffic circles. Traffic circles work well if you have hourse and not so well for cars. Roundabouts are different than traffic circles. How you ask? For a start in a roundabout, the car in the circle has the right of way. If you have a wreck in a roundabout you know who's fault it is by looking at how the cars hit. Roundabouts also direct cars the proper way in the circle. They also can deal with 4x to 10x the number of cars per hour than trafic lights.
If you set the lights so that 29 works well in a 35, you will also find that some speed in high 40's will also work.
Modern lights (like any of the ones after say 1980) will turn red for a short time before they turn the other green on.
British stop lights trun yellow before turning green.
Many of these problem areas could be fixed by converting the intersection ot a round-a-bout which would allow about twice as many cars to go through and cut drive times and pollution.
I've got some....
On the South Eastern Freeway in Melbourne Australia, they put in a few cameras at the city end. The average speed on the 100km road dropped and now the max speed is about 110 but is ususaly closer to 100 so speed limit compliance is well over 95%. The result is trafic density is way up, tail gating is up and accidents are up 400%. While the road used to have a fatality rate closer to a good highway, its now about the same has a high speed urban street.
Or did you want eveidence that speed cameras help?
They fine 300 to 800 people a day on average now and collect about $150 from each.
Wanted: Hosting ISP with lots of connectivity. Perfer a company with small legal team and not very deep pockets. We Promise [TM] not to Spam [TM].
HP won't be making anything off inkjets after next year or so. When the inkjet companies started looking at going into the Point Of Sale (POS) market, they quickly found that that merchants were not going to pay more when the system they have been using for 20 years works fine. So in an effort to break into that market they had to build printers that could cost a bit more but had cheap consumables. The result is some $500 POS inkjet printers that have ink cost less than the old dot matrix ribbons. This technology isn't in the home market because they won't be sellnig all thouse $50 ink cartages but there are a few companies out ot Tiawan that don't have any market share so they have nothing to lose and over the next year their home printer products will be rolling out.
Mach 1.0 is a long way away from mach .9
Java is fucked. That is all there is to it. Its a lame language of the week thats been replaced by a different language of the week (c#) just like modula 2 trashed pascal. In 10 years java will be like Ada. It was trendy once but now dead. sun needs to understand that but they are clueless and so they will kill off a few tens of thousands of jobs but they aren't my job so I could care less.
My attemtps to get sun clued in to modern realilty have failed. I've invited sun reps to a number of socal meetings of technical people but they never show so screw them. I've been running sun hardware for over a decade and some these markting idiots have been in diapers before I ran my first sun box but they want to fuck me over, but in the months to come they may get to worry where their next meal is going to come from. I don't have that problem and I'll jump the sun ship when needed.
God they are F*cking clueless.
In Oz the XBox has less than 15 games and they all cost over $100. The console is now $388 (down from like $700 last month) and Nintendo is going to run a trade in where if you give then 10 or so N64 or PS2 games, they will give you the new console for $199. AU$200 is currently about US$100.
There have been some nice advances on optical networks and now a few different people are doing optical mesh networks and a few people are working on optical point to multipoint systems. Since the optical systems work at 600THz they have a theoretical limit of about 3.6petabites/second based on all the current R&D lab stuff working well in production systems over the next few decades.
My dish system would have problems during nasty midwest style thunderstorms but it was inside the house looking through a window that was narower than then dish.
If a dish is slightly off center then the wind will cause dropouts.
I've been looking for info about this. I think gen2 is more about voice lines (fractional voice t1) and not about $60/mo home users.
What I've been hearing is that 3.5Ghz works great up to about 12,000 users in an area based on the bandwidth typicaly used in the US. I've heard that some areas once a new user gets added, someone else will end up with degraded service.
3.5Ghz isn't used because its near line of sight. This tends to mean that you have to be line of site to use it but interfeerance can be non-line of site.
It also only seems to work where you've got high ground for an antenna that overlooks a large flat area.
I've tried the same thing but the calls only worked well one way. It was great for picking up voice mail but sounded like a bad mobile phone call most of the time.
The 3com system by default isn't VoIP, its voice over ethernet since they cut down on the packet size by just sending out the ethernet packets.
Has anyone else messed with this system? It seems there are lots of tricks that could be done with it and 3com is quite slow getting stuff working. I've bene working on decoding their protocol and I've been able to do some tricks like I've got a program that tells me whos on the phone that runs under linux.
Phone costs aren't quite shared. They are set by the local countries and the US prices are set close to that. Where you have goverments that insist on high taxes on calls (like Egypt), the rates to call there are high. In other places where the taxes aren't as high (like the UK), the rates are some of the lowest.
Right now you can buy a 64k isdn link to tel$tra at AU$.20/megabyte. Odd thing is thats the same cost as having someone (with a decent call plan) call OZ and transfer the data. Data rates in Oz have dropped a bit over the last 3 years but are still very high. In a well connected area in the US, data is about US$2/gigbyte including the local loop (assume lots about the data flow/capcity and that stuff).
The solution to part of the problems was the Southern cross cable which was built by some Kiwi's that had the same problem Afirca has. Now that tyco (didn't they used to make toy trians or was that someone else?) is about to run a much bigger cable combined with a few dot bombs not making good on their long term data commnitments means you can get a nice 45mb link to the US for about US$33,000/mo. Connect that to a peering point and you should be able to get 20 E1's for about $5k each unlimited data(from the Aussie point of view, 95% full from the US POV)
With some of the new 100% optical repeaters, there will be the option to run undersea cables that don't need heaps of electronics hiding deep in the ocean. Lucent (or AT&T or TPC or whatever) just did a major link with repeaters every 100km. I think they were doing 5000km total span but that won't go from Hawaii to Fiji and their gear isn't the underwater type. One of the problems in Africa is that people dig up the cable to take the wire out (wire is used to provide power just like the undersea cables). Africa and Australia both have the problem of critters that seem to have a taste for cable.
The ARRL handbook says that over half of all hams build gear. Doesn't seem dead to me...
My father has that edition. What was it, 1954 or so?