It makes sense. In an ecosystem, every species depends on certain resources and produces others. The net result is to form a network of interdependent links.
With Linux, there are a large number of corporations, companies and self-employed consultants/contractors who exchange services for money. Application developers depend on GUI and API developers who in turn depend on device driver developers, who depend on kernel developers. All depend on compiler developers who depend on development tools.
Look up the Indian word "vimana". They had the concept of flying cars before aviation, aerodynamics, combustion engines, thermo-acoustic engines, rocket motors were invented.
The problem is that many locations with large laundry facilities (rented apartments built in the 60's, or private laundries) have opening hours that usually close at 9pm or 10pm - so the machines are in continuous use until this time and then they suddenly switch off.
Large multi-story condo tower blocks and rental apartments just magnified this effect - you could have a good percentage of over a 500 all doing their laundry each day until this time.
The partridge and the pear tree were both confiscated after being detected by sniffer dogs patrols operated by the Department of Agriculture. They are now being cared for at the local zoo. At this time the DoA would like to remind all air travellers not to bring in non-native species to any location they are travelling to.
And if you wish to purchase a Mobile Internet PAYG SIM phone card in France (Mobicarte), you have to provide some photographic ID to the retailer (photocopy of passport).
The funny part about this is that you can just as easily use a PAYG SIM card from the UK, although it is a bit more expensive being outside of the home network.
I would assume that the individual particles would continue to travel in a straight line at a constant velocity since there is nothing else in the way. You only get turbulence because of the interaction of the different pressure/temperatures/densities of the burning material and the surrounding atmosphere. Maybe if there was a gravitationally strong enough object, any leaking smoke would form streamers around whatever large gravitational object there was.
The space shuttle had problems with the exhaust vent for the sanitation equipment forming ice sculptures.
Somebody was awarded a Darwin Award for doing similar: A 63 year old man in East Germany (Zingst)electrocuted himself when running high-voltage lines (380V) through his yard in an effort to get rid of a mole on his vacation property. Apparently he put several metal rods into the ground and connected these to high-voltage lines. The police had to remove all circuit breakers before they could get on his property. They do not know yet how long he had been lying there before they found him on Wednesday. No word about what happened to the mole.
One office block I once visited had an IBM mainframe located in the basement. One of the problems that the data center operators had, was with homeless people camping down beside the exhaust air vents. These vents generated so much heat that in Winter you could still walk around in this "bubble" of warm air in a short-sleeved shirt, while 3-4 metres away you would be frozen to your bones.
From what I read, you can download E-mail spamming list management applications from just about anywhere. This can be set up to use lists of remote relays and lists of E-mail addresses. Both of these can be collected by yourself or bought online.
Alternatively, you can download an application from botnet owners that allows you to send E-mails for a given fee per thousand machines or E-mails.
Small companies will take on people to do the jobs that the existing staff do not want to do. The hazard is that they will so paranoid about you gaining experience and moving on, that they will try and stop you learning the simplest skills; applications, API's or hardware programming.
On the other hand, many corporations expect each division to grow by at least 10% each year, otherwise they dissolve that division and move the staff elsewhere. This requires automatic promotions each year. "The Peter Principle" is a good guide to this effect - they refer to this as "pull". It can be a bad thing if you are pulled away from the job you enjoy doing (eg. software programmer) and find yourself spending more time attending board meetings and running between programmers and directors, only to be downsized out of job a year later. But it can be good if you get promoted to somewhere like a software architect. But then they might just as well be tempted to recruit such a person from another company that to promote someone internally.
Also, shareholders like to see staff being "rotated". That way nobody can gain enough experience in their field to become "irreplacable" and demand higher salaries. Such companies will also be the ones trying to slap Non-Compete Agreements onto every employee.
The only other strategy is to keep changing jobs every two-three years and see what skill are in demand in the marketplace or to set up your own company.
With the high-profile institutions, it's a case of "publish or perish". If you don't publish papers, you don't get track-tenure (a job-for-life).
I'd say a job for life is a fairly good incentive to keep publishing papers.
And if you make a really groundbreaking discovery (like DNA or a cure for a disease or a new algorithm), your name goes down in history.
Plus, there's the fun of going to conventions and conferences - seeing the latest hardware and applications. With genetics and biology, it always seems the case that what would have filled an entire room five years ago, will now be a desktop unit.
There is something like that in an economic textbook, I saw in a college bookstore: If a company deposits a sum of money with a bank in return for a business loan, and the bank uses the money as collateral for other personal loans, the bank is said to have "tripled the value of its financial assets".
Today it might be called "wealth generation", but in the 1980's, creating money out of nowhere was called "voodoo economics".
People used to have to save to buy a refrigerator (The Exploding Metropolis - editors of Fortune magazine, 1950). The editors had the opinion that if people didn't want to own a refrigerator, they wouldn't need a suburban home, not need a car to drive to the supermarket, be able to remain in the city and buy from the local corner shop.
I knew a guy who at work who bought a SUV, his wife bought a jeep. They bought a condominium together, had stock options, and discovered they still didn't have enough to buy a house.
That is the exact same situation in every popular city in the UK. All developers want to build are "luxury apartments" (used to be "retirement flats") and terraced "executive homes" (but smaller than 1970's builds) in whatever bit of greenbelt they can get planning permission for.
Anything "affordable" will usually be red-brick mock-georgian terraced housing with a communal car park.
The tradition used to be that the developers would build housing luxurious enough to attract the wealthy people out of their homes, and they could trade up while still making a profit, and free up the housing for other people on lower incomes. But that has been broken. In London, the tradition was that couples could buy a "fixer-up" home which would need modernising, but could then be sold at a higher price. Private speculators jumped into that market and fixed-up every property they could buy and sell within three months.
There's nothing wrong with somebody wanting an extra room or two to start a family, a home business or private study.
The fault is entirely with the expectation that house prices will continuously rise, or that they should be traded like company shares. Banks were more than willing to provide "jumbo loans" going above a quarter of a million units of currency in the belief that they would get a return on the investment (money deposited after the sale of the property). Any newspaper will have stories about how prices of desirable properties have risen (6K in the 1960's, 90K in the 1980's, 250K in the 2000's). After so many boom years, people came to expect this growth to be normal, and then found themselves in
I would be interested to see a comparison of the speed of this system against the other different methods for artists to generate content. Some artists would create clay models of the character, have that baked, and then use a laser scanner or digital 3D pen to acquire a mesh. Others would draw sketches of the character viewed from different directions, then import these into a 3D modeller, set up three views and slowly tweak the control points until a match was achieved in a fourth view window (a 3D Expo tutorial). Yet others would just build the character from parametric surfaces, then convert to polygons and tweak the final vertex points.
What have they done in the last 5 years that improved the personal computing world? World leaders they no longer are. The MS way of doing things is no longer the ONLY way to do things.
That is the main Microsoft strategy of dominating any field in the computer industry. With any established field in the computer industry, there are experienced veterans who will be reluctant to switch over to Microsoft products simple because Microsoft tells them to.
The solution is to create a "hive mind" culture where the collective experience of veterans are outnumbered by the vast number of entry-level graduates led by the Microsoft architectural teams. Then they can make the veterans appear out of date and take over the direction of the industry. The way to achieve this is to create a brand-new data format or language that graduates feel it is necessary to learn in order to find employment. So Microsoft has to keep pumping out all these "new" programming languages/API's.
Examples: C++ vs. Microsoft MFC /.NET
OpenGL vs. DirectX
Open Document Format vs. OOXML
CCTV cameras were installed all over the country as a response to IRA terrorism. You couldn't stop somebody from leaving a package at a public location, but you could make that person stand out from the crowd by removing all dustbins, require cleaners to use transparent plastic bags, eliminate all spaces where packages could be hidden, add CCTV cameras to monitor public spaces, corridors and other remote corners where people were frequently mugged.
Then the terrorists switched to car and van bombs. Then the authorities started looking out for large purchases of ammonium-nitrate related products. That snagged a few cells as rental storage owners reported suspicious amounts being stored in urban locations. Also, national tracking of car number plates was implemented as attempts were made to steal vans and trucks, change the number plates and use those as delivery vehicles.
People didn't really have access to a E-mail account with national access until the late 1980's (with BT gold), and full online internet access wasn't available until around the mid 1990's (with Demon Internet). Up until around the early 1990's, mobile telephones were only affordable to all but yuppies and city traders. Digital mobile communications are relatively recent (SMS, multimedia messages).
So the authorities resort to logging the connection information of every SMS, E-mail and telephone call. And terrorists respond by using the template/drafts feature of online E-mail to transfer messages without sending them. Then we end up where we are today, where everything is logged, and this information is made accessible to every local council department to "save investigation time and money".
So people will probably go back to meeting in person in quite locations, which will require the authorities to install concealed microphones in every cafe table, restaurant, pub and cappachino shop.
That's true in the UK as well, a footballer earns something with six or seven digits of salary, a London underground tube driver earns 45K, busdrivers and hairdressers earns around 25K, while postgraduate students earn less than 20K.
"Walkman" allowed you to listen to your mix-tapes while on the move - but you had to wait to change tracks as the machine fast-forwarded or rewound, but could only carry one album.
"ipod" allows you to listen to a whole range of music - you can put your entire collection of videos and music onto a single system.
Going from "man" to "i" indicates a more personal experience, while going from "walk" to "pod" means it is more encompassing.
The future system would probably have a VR headset that could allow you to watch an entire 3D stereoscopic video or digital TV while on the move. Maybe the VR headset could be combined with GPS to give you a head-up display for driving.
Slashdot Mirror
It makes sense. In an ecosystem, every species depends on certain resources and produces others. The net result is to form a network of interdependent links.
With Linux, there are a large number of corporations, companies and self-employed consultants/contractors who exchange services for money. Application developers depend on GUI and API developers who in turn depend on device driver developers, who depend on kernel developers. All depend on compiler developers who depend on development tools.
Look up the Indian word "vimana". They had the concept of flying cars before aviation, aerodynamics, combustion engines, thermo-acoustic engines, rocket motors were invented.
The problem is that many locations with large laundry facilities (rented apartments built in the 60's, or private laundries) have opening hours that usually close at 9pm or 10pm - so the machines are in continuous use until this time and then they suddenly switch off.
Large multi-story condo tower blocks and rental apartments just magnified this effect - you could have a good percentage of over a 500 all doing their laundry each day until this time.
Or you could always get a second keyboard and a monkey. Combined together, they should generate enough random data to disguise what you are typing.
The partridge and the pear tree were both confiscated after being detected by sniffer dogs patrols operated by the Department of Agriculture. They are now being cared for at the local zoo. At this time the DoA would like to remind all air travellers not to bring in non-native species to any location they are travelling to.
And if you wish to purchase a Mobile Internet PAYG SIM phone card in France (Mobicarte), you have to provide some photographic ID to the retailer (photocopy of passport).
The funny part about this is that you can just as easily use a PAYG SIM card from the UK, although it is a bit more expensive being outside of the home network.
I would assume that the individual particles would continue to travel in a straight line at a constant velocity since there is nothing else in the way. You only get turbulence because of the interaction of the different pressure/temperatures/densities of the burning material and the surrounding atmosphere. Maybe if there was a gravitationally strong enough object, any leaking smoke would form streamers around whatever large gravitational object there was.
The space shuttle had problems with the exhaust vent for the sanitation equipment forming ice sculptures.
Somebody was awarded a Darwin Award for doing similar:
A 63 year old man in East Germany (Zingst)electrocuted himself when running high-voltage lines (380V) through his yard in an effort to get rid of a mole on his vacation property. Apparently he put several metal rods into the ground and connected these to high-voltage lines. The police had to remove all circuit breakers before they could get on his property. They do not know yet how long he had been lying there before they found him on Wednesday. No word about what happened to the mole.
One office block I once visited had an IBM mainframe located in the basement. One of the problems that the data center operators had, was with homeless people camping down beside the exhaust air vents. These vents generated so much heat that in Winter you could still walk around in this "bubble" of warm air in a short-sleeved shirt, while 3-4 metres away you would be frozen to your bones.
From what I read, you can download E-mail spamming list management applications from just about anywhere. This can be set up to use lists of remote relays and lists of E-mail addresses. Both of these can be collected by yourself or bought online.
Alternatively, you can download an application from botnet owners that allows you to send E-mails for a given fee per thousand machines or E-mails.
The university that took those pictures also made some timelapse movies
Solar Granulation movies
Windows 7.7 with service pack 7 - that's got a certain ring to it. I can hear the coins pouring out of the slot machines already.
Small companies will take on people to do the jobs that the existing staff do not want to do. The hazard is that they will so paranoid about you gaining experience and moving on, that they will try and stop you learning the simplest skills; applications, API's or hardware programming.
On the other hand, many corporations expect each division to grow by at least 10% each year, otherwise they dissolve that division and move the staff elsewhere.
This requires automatic promotions each year. "The Peter Principle" is a good guide to
this effect - they refer to this as "pull". It can be a bad thing if you are pulled away from the job you enjoy doing (eg. software programmer) and find yourself spending more time attending board meetings and running between programmers and directors, only to be downsized out of job a year later. But it can be good if you get promoted to somewhere like a software
architect. But then they might just as well be tempted to recruit such a person from another company that to promote someone internally.
Also, shareholders like to see staff being "rotated". That way nobody can gain enough experience in their field to become "irreplacable" and demand higher salaries. Such companies will also be the ones trying to slap Non-Compete Agreements onto every employee.
The only other strategy is to keep changing jobs every two-three years and see what skill are in demand in the marketplace or to set up your own company.
With the high-profile institutions, it's a case of "publish or perish". If you don't publish papers, you don't get track-tenure (a job-for-life).
I'd say a job for life is a fairly good incentive to keep publishing papers.
And if you make a really groundbreaking discovery (like DNA or a cure for a disease or a new algorithm), your name goes down in history.
Plus, there's the fun of going to conventions and conferences - seeing the latest hardware and applications. With genetics and biology, it always seems the case that what would have filled an entire room five years ago, will now be a desktop unit.
There is something like that in an economic textbook, I saw in a college bookstore:
If a company deposits a sum of money with a bank in return for a business loan, and the bank uses the money as collateral for other personal loans, the bank is said to have "tripled the value of its financial assets".
Today it might be called "wealth generation", but in the 1980's, creating money out of nowhere was called "voodoo economics".
Do you mean the Renault Megane?
It just doesn't look very aerodyamic to me - whenever I see one, I always imagine that the designer forgot to smooth out the back.
People used to have to save to buy a refrigerator (The Exploding Metropolis - editors of Fortune magazine, 1950). The editors had the opinion that if people didn't want to own a refrigerator, they wouldn't need a suburban home, not need a car to drive to the supermarket, be able to remain in the city and buy from the local corner shop.
I knew a guy who at work who bought a SUV, his wife bought a jeep. They bought a condominium together, had stock options, and discovered they still didn't have enough to buy a house.
That is the exact same situation in every popular city in the UK. All developers want to build are "luxury apartments" (used to be "retirement flats") and terraced "executive homes" (but smaller than 1970's builds) in whatever bit of greenbelt they can get planning permission for.
Anything "affordable" will usually be red-brick mock-georgian terraced housing with a communal car park.
The tradition used to be that the developers would build housing luxurious enough to attract the wealthy people out of their homes, and they could trade up while still making a profit, and free up the housing for other people on
lower incomes. But that has been broken. In London, the tradition was that
couples could buy a "fixer-up" home which would need modernising, but could
then be sold at a higher price. Private speculators jumped into that market and fixed-up every property they could buy and sell within three months.
negative equity once the market collapsed as in the 1980's.
There's nothing wrong with somebody wanting an extra room or two to start a family, a home business or private study.
The fault is entirely with the expectation that house prices will continuously rise, or that they should be traded like company shares. Banks were more than willing to provide "jumbo loans" going above a quarter of a million units of currency in the belief that they would get a return on the investment (money deposited after the sale of the property). Any newspaper will have stories about how prices of desirable properties have risen (6K in the 1960's, 90K in the 1980's, 250K in the 2000's). After so many boom years, people came to expect this growth to be normal, and then found themselves in
I would be interested to see a comparison of the speed of this system against the other different methods for artists to generate content. Some artists would create clay models of the character, have that baked, and then use a laser scanner or digital 3D pen to acquire a mesh. Others would draw sketches of the character viewed from different directions, then import these into a 3D modeller, set up three views and slowly tweak the control points until a match was achieved in a fourth view window (a 3D Expo tutorial). Yet others would just build the character from parametric surfaces, then convert to polygons and tweak the final vertex points.
What have they done in the last 5 years that improved the personal computing world? World leaders they no longer are. The MS way of doing things is no longer the ONLY way to do things.
That is the main Microsoft strategy of dominating any field in the computer industry. With any established field in the computer industry, there are experienced veterans who will be reluctant to switch over to Microsoft products simple because Microsoft tells them to.
The solution is to create a "hive mind" culture where the collective experience of veterans are outnumbered by the vast number of entry-level graduates led by the Microsoft architectural teams. Then they can make the veterans appear out of date and take over the direction of the industry. The way to achieve this is to create a brand-new data format or language that graduates feel it is necessary to learn in order to find employment. So Microsoft has to keep pumping out all these "new" programming languages/API's.
Examples: C++ vs. Microsoft MFC / .NET
OpenGL vs. DirectX
Open Document Format vs. OOXML
CCTV cameras were installed all over the country as a response to IRA terrorism. You couldn't stop somebody from leaving a package at a public location, but you could make that person stand out from the crowd by removing all dustbins, require cleaners to use transparent plastic bags, eliminate all spaces where packages could be hidden, add CCTV cameras to monitor public spaces, corridors and other remote corners where people were frequently mugged.
Then the terrorists switched to car and van bombs. Then the authorities started looking out for large purchases of ammonium-nitrate related products. That snagged a few cells as rental storage owners reported suspicious amounts being stored in urban locations. Also, national tracking of car number plates was implemented as attempts were made to steal vans and trucks, change the number plates and use those as delivery vehicles.
People didn't really have access to a E-mail account with national access until the late 1980's (with BT gold), and full online internet access wasn't available until around the mid 1990's (with Demon Internet). Up until around the early 1990's, mobile telephones were only affordable to all but yuppies and city traders. Digital mobile communications are relatively recent (SMS, multimedia messages).
So the authorities resort to logging the connection information of every SMS, E-mail and telephone call. And terrorists respond by using the template/drafts feature of online E-mail to transfer messages without sending them. Then we end up where we are today, where everything is logged, and this information is made accessible to every local council department to "save investigation time and money".
So people will probably go back to meeting in person in quite locations, which will require the authorities to install concealed microphones in every cafe table, restaurant, pub and cappachino shop.
That's true in the UK as well, a footballer earns something with six or seven digits of salary, a London underground tube driver earns 45K, busdrivers and hairdressers earns around 25K, while postgraduate students earn less than 20K.
The evolution of the names might give a clue:
"Walkman" allowed you to listen to your mix-tapes while on the move - but you had to wait to change tracks as the machine fast-forwarded or rewound, but could only carry one album.
"ipod" allows you to listen to a whole range of music - you can put your entire collection of videos and music onto a single system.
Going from "man" to "i" indicates a more personal experience, while going from "walk" to "pod" means it is more encompassing.
The future system would probably have a VR headset that could allow you to watch an entire 3D stereoscopic video or digital TV while on the move. Maybe the VR headset could be combined with GPS to give you a head-up display for driving.