Occasionally I get insider knowledge about whats going on inside the company as well as companies that make synths and other goodies. Sometimes I'll post a rumor about it that is so vague that no one will ever guess (but be completely obvious when its released), but never any details. Sadly, the details are never from the guys that work there (I'm very good friends with a few upper management types as well as the lowly cubicle jockies) -- its always from contractors or beta testers looking to make their mark.
As I work for a company that is often the target of your rumour-mongering, I gotta say, you don't really do a good job of differentiating yourself from "contractors and beta testers looking to make their mark", though. The difference between 'fucktards who run Thinksecret' and 'gossip junkies on sonikmatter'? Not much, really. Thinksecret just has more readers.
I'd put you in the same camp, frankly; just because you have a 'mob' behind you in the sonikmatter forums, doesn't excuse rampant unravelling of product development and marketing campaigns by a self-righteous 'few' who think they have a God-given right to promote the open propagation of trade secrets far and wide.
Its like, I just discovered that you've been working on a new back-end for sonikmatter, and I know one or two of your passwords. Because I'm self-righteous, its my duty to propagate these details about your back-end far and wide...
Personally, the slimey nerds always trying to 'get the scoop before everyone else' has often tainted the market (synths) I work in.. those guys really make it un-fun to have something cool to tell the world about.
Starbucks are the damned leaches, remember that, distant-caffeine-fogged memories of the 90's notwithstanding!!
Bloody rude, if you ask me, anyway, not letting a customer 'power up' if they need to, while using so-called 'free WLAN services' while enjoying raped-the-earth-coffee..
it seems to me that transmeta should get -serious- about what the real issue with sillicon-business is: getting the product *used*.
as a more-than-casual observer of the sillicon markets, but being consequently, admittedly, ignorant of transmeta's "consumer" stance, i can't help but feel that transmeta are still in the 'precocious spoiled brat', rather than 'serious competitive contender against golliath', stage of 'tech biz' development..
obviously, what they needed to do was conqure small-run manufacturing, and get the 'last-gap' hardware issues solved, while fostering their development cults. they didn't do this, instead just forever 'being defeated in the Desktop war'.
we -need- more bold new CPU and silicon vendors, people. if only a handful of people in the world can print and manufacture silicon, that's sad..
if, after their cut-up, whatevers left of Transmetas' engineering team get enough of a reboot, maybe we'll see them focusing on chips for devices, rather than chips for general-purpose computing (in weird ways).
as a developer, if i could have 10,000 transmeta cpu's, all in good low-power/high-performance ratio, on 10,000 motherboards, with 10,000 power-supplies and invoices for 10,000 cases/assembly, i would write some bad-ass software, which would put those 10k cpu's to *use*. (i like to think i do this for a living..)
but i never got the sense that transmeta gave a rats about *actual* devices, preferring to over-general-purpose-ize their engineering efforts, so that everything was *expensive*.
(10k worth of 8051's, some batteries and leds==90's::10k ARM/PPC/TM-core ass'lies, some batteries, LCD, and a radio==2000's)
GUI for when graphics are needed, CLI for when its just faster for me to type (I average 140wpm).
With my new setup (smokin' new powerbook) I run OSX for all its GUI goodness and vitality, and I registered (thats how much I like it) Launchbar..
With Launchbar/OSX/Terminal.app you get the best of all worlds. When I need to mouse, I mouse. When I need to type, I type.
A more interesting question to me is: "When will the lazy generations realize that the best way to do something is not always the easiest way?"
All this malarky about "GUI is dying!!" or "CLI is King" is just rubbish.. get to the [real] point, which is that designers and developers don't take nearly enough responsibility for just how pathetically stupid their software makes the end-user...
I've seen so-called 'stupids' learn a CLI method of working in a few hours, and then use it for years and years to get real shit done with your computer. In the end, it all still matters: USE WHAT WORKS AND GETS YOU USING THE SYSTEM.
(.. used to be that the 'ideal' computer interface was an ON/OFF switch.. i.e., when its on, its working, when its off, its not. oh, how i yearn for those days..)
I agree with the sentiment of both of you, that it is a) wonderful to travel, and b) stupid to complain all the time.
As an Australian who has travelled the world though (seriously, I've been everywhere I've ever wanted to go), I have to say that if it weren't for the culture, I'd definitely live in Australia. I love my country. Its the people I can't stand.
German culture, generally, is a lot more interesting - heck, European culture, anyway - than Australians. I can't stand that TV-fed nation of consumerican plebes any more than I can stand the U.S. of A, alas.. but I sure do miss my beaches.
You have a pretty distorted view of the United States, I have to say. Sadly, that isn't unusual.
you say that as if "United States" is some finite element you can look at with a microscope and go "yup, you've got it, United States"..
sure, there are people 'like me', out here in the world, who have lived globally, including extended (long) stints in the 'United States', and yet have 'such a distorted view of america that there is something wrong with them'... sadly, you're right, its not unusual.
but this is because of The United States, not.. erm.. 'us'.
I have been enjoying it, but you just don't know how glorious the beaches were this Christmas (I went home for Christmas) and just how horrendous its been to return to cold, grey, wet..
look, i'm not dissing germany, just saying it has no beaches. those things you call in the north are fine, and fun to get away to if you're a damned yuppy, but they're simply not the same, as say, 40-mile, or honeymoon, or heck, even scabs for that matter..
You are there to get a nice fast German car/ Bike and go nuts around the Nurburgring.... yeah, right. i thought so too, but the company car is italian. pfft..
.. I once saw a wealthy game-company exec (nameless) wet his pants, urologically crippling-like, over the fact that one player/household had played his game straight, multiplayer on the newly installed net-hub, for over 72 hours.
That was when I decided I needed to get the fuck out, and stay the fuck out, of the gaming industry.
Video Games really are mind programming, folks. Think about it.
Look, 9/11 was 'a tragedy', but its been a worse tragedy that the entire American Nation 'completely changed' afterwards.
I'm not American. To me, Americans taking offense at someone feeling '9/11 is irrelevant' is more offensive. The U.S. gov't, and its people (and its psycho-techno-militant-industrial complex) used 9/11 'as an excuse', with 'the emotions of the people' toyed with all so well, oh so cleverly, to produce the results desired: wanton invasion, and promotion of warfare, on a global scale.
What I wish is for America, and its nation of consumers, to Chill The Fuck Out, realize that the New World Order is upon you, and forget about nationalistic pride in the face of the human condition.
The Tsunami [(c) 2000 Mad Magazine] taught me that the notions of nation are irrelevant in the face of natures fury. And I choose to follow natures path over mankinds irrelevent discourse, any day... and reject nationalistic jingo-ism, in all its forms.
9/11 was a farce. Anyone getting upset over it is an idiot.
Germans ain't got no beach. So what if they've now 'got one' in a bubble, it still ain't no beach. That said, its still frickin' cool.. tho' its far from me, I may one day take a day trip just to go experience it, though..
And.. as an Australian who just got back from Australia, and our glorious, glorious, oh so *sob* glorious *sob* beaches.. let me just say that this 'bubble-sphere' thingy is Very Welcome in the dismal reality that is the German countryside. What am I doing living here?!!
[If it weren't for my perfect German job, I'd be back home on the beaches tomorrow, sheesh..]
The oh-so subtle difference between positions (shadow internet vs. VPN) is that if someone does a google for VPN, they'll realize just how damn easy it is.
(Not just 'elite techno-psycho-fascist' types hell-bent on destroying 'systems'. *Anyone*.)
Obscure, eh?
just got back from the beaches ..
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.. of bali and australia. no internet, no world, just me, my loved ones, and whatever was out there. wow.
i'm sure, nestled deep in the bowels of/., my sid belies my addiction, but surely this past month of disconnect won't sway the karma. much.
but damn, it felt good to not read/. daily, for a whole 30 or so days. i'm not going back to my old ways, anyway. the urge to check the last 30 days worth of articles, and 'catch up', can.. be.. resisted..
People who are addicted to it are incredibly boring.
TV executives ought to be more concerned about clans of people getting together and making their own media.. but because they've so successfully been brainwashing generations of consumericans, this isn't even really on the horizon... yet.
Assumption: You 'need' an 'expensive Western Education' to get anything done in life. Fact: FALSE Reason: Too much data to support the fact that "EWE"'s are, in fact, an utter waste of time.
Assumption: Nomads freak about posessions. Fact: FALSE. Reason: If you haven't chucked it *all* away, completely, and started fresh at least 3 or 4 times, you are not a nomad. You are probably owned by your posessions, though.
Assumption: Sick in India. Solution: There are a few million people living in India who do just fine without medical problems. Do what they do.
2. nomads don't posess much. things posess you, take only what you need.
What I think we really need is a tribe of nomads that migrate from country to country together and can make deals for our services as a group.
Yes, I have encountered this idea many times in my travels.. it would indeed be an interesting association to make, a few thousand nomads on the globe, or so..
What I'm talking about is the globalist point of view, not your knee-jerk reactionary tinfoil version.
Thinking globally; changing from an introverted to extroverted view, is globalization.
As for 'exploiting 3rd world countries', as soon as I'm done exploiting the so-called '1st World' ones, you can bet your ass I'll be off to Timbuktu to help them put new tech to use.
And I've -travelled-, not lived, in far more places than just the 4 I've mentioned... I know parts of the world most couldn't find on a map.. so I resent your assumption that my 'attitude needs changing'... its the root-seeders that need an attitude change, especially them white-picket-fence ones!!
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Occasionally I get insider knowledge about whats going on inside the company as well as companies that make synths and other goodies. Sometimes I'll post a rumor about it that is so vague that no one will ever guess (but be completely obvious when its released), but never any details. Sadly, the details are never from the guys that work there (I'm very good friends with a few upper management types as well as the lowly cubicle jockies) -- its always from contractors or beta testers looking to make their mark.
As I work for a company that is often the target of your rumour-mongering, I gotta say, you don't really do a good job of differentiating yourself from "contractors and beta testers looking to make their mark", though. The difference between 'fucktards who run Thinksecret' and 'gossip junkies on sonikmatter'? Not much, really. Thinksecret just has more readers.
I'd put you in the same camp, frankly; just because you have a 'mob' behind you in the sonikmatter forums, doesn't excuse rampant unravelling of product development and marketing campaigns by a self-righteous 'few' who think they have a God-given right to promote the open propagation of trade secrets far and wide.
Its like, I just discovered that you've been working on a new back-end for sonikmatter, and I know one or two of your passwords. Because I'm self-righteous, its my duty to propagate these details about your back-end far and wide...
Personally, the slimey nerds always trying to 'get the scoop before everyone else' has often tainted the market (synths) I work in.. those guys really make it un-fun to have something cool to tell the world about.
Its a case of pot-kettle-black, anyway.
Starbucks are the damned leaches, remember that, distant-caffeine-fogged memories of the 90's notwithstanding!!
Bloody rude, if you ask me, anyway, not letting a customer 'power up' if they need to, while using so-called 'free WLAN services' while enjoying raped-the-earth-coffee
what a shitty fucking question. everyone knows there is no answer to any question, ever.
.. then I've got some sea-weed to sell you.
.. they haven't even tried.
..
it seems to me that transmeta should get -serious- about what the real issue with sillicon-business is: getting the product *used*.
as a more-than-casual observer of the sillicon markets, but being consequently, admittedly, ignorant of transmeta's "consumer" stance, i can't help but feel that transmeta are still in the 'precocious spoiled brat', rather than 'serious competitive contender against golliath', stage of 'tech biz' development
obviously, what they needed to do was conqure small-run manufacturing, and get the 'last-gap' hardware issues solved, while fostering their development cults. they didn't do this, instead just forever 'being defeated in the Desktop war'.
we -need- more bold new CPU and silicon vendors, people. if only a handful of people in the world can print and manufacture silicon, that's sad..
if, after their cut-up, whatevers left of Transmetas' engineering team get enough of a reboot, maybe we'll see them focusing on chips for devices, rather than chips for general-purpose computing (in weird ways).
as a developer, if i could have 10,000 transmeta cpu's, all in good low-power/high-performance ratio, on 10,000 motherboards, with 10,000 power-supplies and invoices for 10,000 cases/assembly, i would write some bad-ass software, which would put those 10k cpu's to *use*. (i like to think i do this for a living..)
but i never got the sense that transmeta gave a rats about *actual* devices, preferring to over-general-purpose-ize their engineering efforts, so that everything was *expensive*.
(10k worth of 8051's, some batteries and leds==90's::10k ARM/PPC/TM-core ass'lies, some batteries, LCD, and a radio==2000's)
in sum: transmeta didn't think small enough.
GUI for when graphics are needed, CLI for when its just faster for me to type (I average 140wpm).
..
.. get to the [real] point, which is that designers and developers don't take nearly enough responsibility for just how pathetically stupid their software makes the end-user ...
.. i.e., when its on, its working, when its off, its not. oh, how i yearn for those days..)
With my new setup (smokin' new powerbook) I run OSX for all its GUI goodness and vitality, and I registered (thats how much I like it) Launchbar
With Launchbar/OSX/Terminal.app you get the best of all worlds. When I need to mouse, I mouse. When I need to type, I type.
A more interesting question to me is: "When will the lazy generations realize that the best way to do something is not always the easiest way?"
All this malarky about "GUI is dying!!" or "CLI is King" is just rubbish
I've seen so-called 'stupids' learn a CLI method of working in a few hours, and then use it for years and years to get real shit done with your computer. In the end, it all still matters: USE WHAT WORKS AND GETS YOU USING THE SYSTEM.
(.. used to be that the 'ideal' computer interface was an ON/OFF switch
I agree with the sentiment of both of you, that it is a) wonderful to travel, and b) stupid to complain all the time.
.. but I sure do miss my beaches.
As an Australian who has travelled the world though (seriously, I've been everywhere I've ever wanted to go), I have to say that if it weren't for the culture, I'd definitely live in Australia. I love my country. Its the people I can't stand.
German culture, generally, is a lot more interesting - heck, European culture, anyway - than Australians. I can't stand that TV-fed nation of consumerican plebes any more than I can stand the U.S. of A, alas
Uh huh. I guess you're talking 'global market', not just Fry's, right?
.. even DVD systems ..
Globally, Linux is everywhere. Camera's, phones, PDA's
.. watch your Embedded there, though. Linux rules in this domain right now, and there is a big storm coming in this front..
..
The way Linux will win the Desktop is through Embedded, but thats the way it'll rule everything in the end, anyway
You have a pretty distorted view of the United States, I have to say. Sadly, that isn't unusual.
..
... sadly, you're right, its not unusual.
.. erm .. 'us'.
you say that as if "United States" is some finite element you can look at with a microscope and go "yup, you've got it, United States"
sure, there are people 'like me', out here in the world, who have lived globally, including extended (long) stints in the 'United States', and yet have 'such a distorted view of america that there is something wrong with them'
but this is because of The United States, not
i realized we'd lost germany to the robots when i saw tanning salons. on every corner. for streets and streets.
I have been enjoying it, but you just don't know how glorious the beaches were this Christmas (I went home for Christmas) and just how horrendous its been to return to cold, grey, wet ..
look, i'm not dissing germany, just saying it has no beaches. those things you call in the north are fine, and fun to get away to if you're a damned yuppy, but they're simply not the same, as say, 40-mile, or honeymoon, or heck, even scabs for that matter ..
You are there to get a nice fast German car/ Bike and go nuts around the Nurburgring. ... yeah, right. i thought so too, but the company car is italian. pfft..
.. I once saw a wealthy game-company exec (nameless) wet his pants, urologically crippling-like, over the fact that one player/household had played his game straight, multiplayer on the newly installed net-hub, for over 72 hours.
That was when I decided I needed to get the fuck out, and stay the fuck out, of the gaming industry.
Video Games really are mind programming, folks. Think about it.
Look, 9/11 was 'a tragedy', but its been a worse tragedy that the entire American Nation 'completely changed' afterwards.
... and reject nationalistic jingo-ism, in all its forms.
I'm not American. To me, Americans taking offense at someone feeling '9/11 is irrelevant' is more offensive. The U.S. gov't, and its people (and its psycho-techno-militant-industrial complex) used 9/11 'as an excuse', with 'the emotions of the people' toyed with all so well, oh so cleverly, to produce the results desired: wanton invasion, and promotion of warfare, on a global scale.
What I wish is for America, and its nation of consumers, to Chill The Fuck Out, realize that the New World Order is upon you, and forget about nationalistic pride in the face of the human condition.
The Tsunami [(c) 2000 Mad Magazine] taught me that the notions of nation are irrelevant in the face of natures fury. And I choose to follow natures path over mankinds irrelevent discourse, any day
9/11 was a farce. Anyone getting upset over it is an idiot.
Germans ain't got no beach. So what if they've now 'got one' in a bubble, it still ain't no beach. That said, its still frickin' cool
And
[If it weren't for my perfect German job, I'd be back home on the beaches tomorrow, sheesh..]
.. not 'shadow internet'.
Virtual Private Network.
The oh-so subtle difference between positions (shadow internet vs. VPN) is that if someone does a google for VPN, they'll realize just how damn easy it is.
"Shadow Internet"-way just sounds comic-book super-hero, and as we all know thats as literary as most peoples thoughts go, it won't be obvious that 'any joe can build their own private and secret Internet on top of the Internet'.
(Not just 'elite techno-psycho-fascist' types hell-bent on destroying 'systems'. *Anyone*.)
Obscure, eh?
.. of bali and australia. no internet, no world, just me, my loved ones, and whatever was out there. wow.
/., my sid belies my addiction, but surely this past month of disconnect won't sway the karma. much.
/. daily, for a whole 30 or so days. i'm not going back to my old ways, anyway. the urge to check the last 30 days worth of articles, and 'catch up', can .. be .. resisted ..
i'm sure, nestled deep in the bowels of
but damn, it felt good to not read
People who are addicted to it are incredibly boring.
.. but because they've so successfully been brainwashing generations of consumericans, this isn't even really on the horizon ... yet.
TV executives ought to be more concerned about clans of people getting together and making their own media
Assumption: You 'need' an 'expensive Western Education' to get anything done in life. Fact: FALSE Reason: Too much data to support the fact that "EWE"'s are, in fact, an utter waste of time.
Assumption: Nomads freak about posessions. Fact: FALSE. Reason: If you haven't chucked it *all* away, completely, and started fresh at least 3 or 4 times, you are not a nomad. You are probably owned by your posessions, though.
Assumption: Sick in India. Solution: There are a few million people living in India who do just fine without medical problems. Do what they do.
Fatalism? Democracy? Aren't they one and the same?
..
Nationalist pride in 'systems' are irrelevant when multi-national corps can demolish an entire economic system in a moments bank-wire
The New World Order is upon us. The only thing we can do about it is construct another one, right on top of it.
Well, I'm a nomad and all I can say is:
..
1. nomads have no need for pets.
2. nomads don't posess much. things posess you, take only what you need.
What I think we really need is a tribe of nomads that migrate from country to country together and can make deals for our services as a group.
Yes, I have encountered this idea many times in my travels.. it would indeed be an interesting association to make, a few thousand nomads on the globe, or so
Actually, option d) isn't an option, in my life, its a reality anyway.
Every single place I've worked has improved my skills, and my salary is decent enough, believe me
What I'm talking about is the globalist point of view, not your knee-jerk reactionary tinfoil version.
... I know parts of the world most couldn't find on a map .. so I resent your assumption that my 'attitude needs changing' ... its the root-seeders that need an attitude change, especially them white-picket-fence ones!!
Thinking globally; changing from an introverted to extroverted view, is globalization.
As for 'exploiting 3rd world countries', as soon as I'm done exploiting the so-called '1st World' ones, you can bet your ass I'll be off to Timbuktu to help them put new tech to use.
And I've -travelled-, not lived, in far more places than just the 4 I've mentioned