The celebration NCSA is having doesn't even have one person speaking that had anything to do with Mosaic. Nearly everyone that had anything to do with it's long gone, and the department that created it (and NCSA telnet) was axed years ago.
They've been able to do this with watches for years. I had a Seiko when I was a kid that did this.
I would think that it would take a heckuva lot of moving around to charge a cellphone, but I would imagine that there are other parts of a phone that could take that energy and use it. Not everything would have to run off the battery you have now.
This time it was probably some Republican reader who didn't like it that he was getting cheated by the US grant system.
Um...Yeah! And then Alien spaceships came down and recouped the money for...uh....a new OS! Yeah, that's the ticket! But it'll only run on Gatewa...er, Hewlet....er, ALIENWARE...yeah, that's it...It'll only run on Alienware boxes.
You know, not everything's politically motivated. (Your life might run like that, but not the real world). Funding like this gets pulled from contracts/grants DARPA makes with universities all the time.
If they'd been motivated in the way your little conspiracy theory goes, Big Bad Old DARPA wouldn't have handed them the contract in the first place.
He's probably not the one that dropped it. It's the Program Manager. Unless this guy is the program manager for the project, he probably doesn't have the answer.
Theo wasn't the guy running the DARPA contract, the guy at UPENN was, so he really had nothing to do with points #2 and #3. The points are still valid. Theo agreed to take money from UPENN, who got the money from DARPA. The agreement was with a guy at UPENN, not DARPA.
In fact, if he said there were no strings attached, it's quite likely he never did anything to help #2 and #3 when DARPA need it from the guy who actually got the contract at UPENN. As I said, #2 and #3 are very important, and if DARPA didn't get the info they wanted, they'd get cut.
This isn't the way DARPA grants work. They re-evalutate grants all the time, at least every six months, and some probably even more.
It's a bear to get the money in the first place, and I swear once you have it, it's like they do everything they can to pull back as much as they can. It *IS* there money, but really, it's ridiculous how money time and effort you spent on bookkeeping for this stuff. I'd love to have a line item that said "Pleasing DARPA taskmasters... XYZZY percent".
Oh, Theo wasn't the one who got the original grant. It was someone at UPENN.
Hey, I've been in on DARPA funded grants before, and I'll tell you, there are a TON of reasons that funding could have been pulled...
1) The contact at DARPA changed. This happens all the freaking time. The guy who used to be your bonus baby might have been asked to move aside (or moved up, as the case may be), and the new guy just didn't "get" the project.
2) They expected milestones, or at least reports of the sort that backed up what was being done on the project. If someone was slacking in getting these reports written,....cut!
3) Questions weren't being answered in a way they wanted to see. I've seen this too. It's pretty damn embarrasing to watch the funding agency ask legit questions, and then get the runaround on answers. THEY HATE THIS.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Also, usually the main contact with the DARPA folks are NOT the guys implementing the project. It's the guy who's responsible for the grant. They don't give two rats cheeks about who's on the project, as long as the work gets done.
I seriously doubt they had any idea who Theo was, no matter how "famous" he is within his community. Putting too much stock in anyone's profile besides the guy who wrote the original grant is just grandstanding (grant-standing? heh).
It could have happened for any of the above reasons, or more. When I first hear about this a few hours ago, I looked for it on Slash.... Glad to see the submitter had a level head in posted what he/she did, since until the guy who wrote the grant speaks out, there are no facts here, just guesses.
Well, not necessarily. When ReplayTV got bought out, the company went away, and the assests went to SonicBlue. They honored the lifetime agreement for ReplayTV owners.
Look, Microsoft seems to think that ANY device with any computational capabilities at all for the mass market is *theirs*.
Is it any surpise that they'd want to get into this too? Imagine if that happened? You thought the RIAA was bad....hoo boy, you ain't seen nothing yet.
If *employees* at some companies aren't listened to, what makes you think consultants will be?
You're a hired gun asked to do what you were hired to do. If you what you were hired to do doesn't involve giving advice, my advice is to shut-up and do what they ask. They could be wrong, but trying to argue the point with them just pisses 'em off.
Six months? End of this month, actually. And the D&M deal fell through. They might still buy it at the asset auction, but nothing will be known until after the end of this month.
... not for home or office wireless. It's just too easy now to buy a nice, cheap little setup to free your laptop from a desk.
You think Starbucks is putting in wireless from the goodness of their heart? Bzzz...wrong answer... they'll sell more coffee...probably a LOT more.
If this blows up, it's not going to be to the extent of the fantasy dot-com boom that started with Netscape and finally died out in early 2000, and is responsible for this economy.......it'll only be to the extent for those startup's that didn't have a good revenue model figured out in the first place.
Then you're saying since you buy a lot of music, you can still go down to the local used CD shop and buy those CDs. If you don't like it, you can just sell it back.
Too late. Music industry is run by corporations, and they already do that. If you're listening to bands outside of all this, it doesn't effect you anyway.
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The celebration NCSA is having doesn't even have one person speaking that had anything to do with Mosaic. Nearly everyone that had anything to do with it's long gone, and the department that created it (and NCSA telnet) was axed years ago.
They've been able to do this with watches for years. I had a Seiko when I was a kid that did this.
I would think that it would take a heckuva lot of moving around to charge a cellphone, but I would imagine that there are other parts of a phone that could take that energy and use it. Not everything would have to run off the battery you have now.
Given the hint "Music to your ears", I'd say you're right on the mark.
Oh, and hopefully they've fixed the battery problem too.
Dell's been doing deals on iPods lately, probably getting rid of stock for Apple. New higher capacity iPods on the way, is my wager.
:-D
Yeah...really going out on a limb there.
Um...Yeah! And then Alien spaceships came down and recouped the money for...uh....a new OS! Yeah, that's the ticket! But it'll only run on Gatewa...er, Hewlet....er, ALIENWARE...yeah, that's it...It'll only run on Alienware boxes.
You know, not everything's politically motivated. (Your life might run like that, but not the real world). Funding like this gets pulled from contracts/grants DARPA makes with universities all the time.
If they'd been motivated in the way your little conspiracy theory goes, Big Bad Old DARPA wouldn't have handed them the contract in the first place.
Geesh.
He's probably not the one that dropped it. It's the Program Manager. Unless this guy is the program manager for the project, he probably doesn't have the answer.
Theo wasn't the guy running the DARPA contract, the guy at UPENN was, so he really had nothing to do with points #2 and #3. The points are still valid. Theo agreed to take money from UPENN, who got the money from DARPA. The agreement was with a guy at UPENN, not DARPA.
In fact, if he said there were no strings attached, it's quite likely he never did anything to help #2 and #3 when DARPA need it from the guy who actually got the contract at UPENN. As I said, #2 and #3 are very important, and if DARPA didn't get the info they wanted, they'd get cut.
This isn't the way DARPA grants work. They re-evalutate grants all the time, at least every six months, and some probably even more.
It's a bear to get the money in the first place, and I swear once you have it, it's like they do everything they can to pull back as much as they can. It *IS* there money, but really, it's ridiculous how money time and effort you spent on bookkeeping for this stuff. I'd love to have a line item that said "Pleasing DARPA taskmasters... XYZZY percent".
Oh, Theo wasn't the one who got the original grant. It was someone at UPENN.
20 billion so far.
DARPA grants, such as the one just cancelled, have the money put up far in advance, and it doesn't come out of that pot of money.
Hey, I've been in on DARPA funded grants before, and I'll tell you, there are a TON of reasons that funding could have been pulled...
....cut!
1) The contact at DARPA changed. This happens all the freaking time. The guy who used to be your bonus baby might have been asked to move aside (or moved up, as the case may be), and the new guy just didn't "get" the project.
2) They expected milestones, or at least reports of the sort that backed up what was being done on the project. If someone was slacking in getting these reports written,
3) Questions weren't being answered in a way they wanted to see. I've seen this too. It's pretty damn embarrasing to watch the funding agency ask legit questions, and then get the runaround on answers. THEY HATE THIS.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Also, usually the main contact with the DARPA folks are NOT the guys implementing the project. It's the guy who's responsible for the grant. They don't give two rats cheeks about who's on the project, as long as the work gets done.
I seriously doubt they had any idea who Theo was, no matter how "famous" he is within his community. Putting too much stock in anyone's profile besides the guy who wrote the original grant is just grandstanding (grant-standing? heh).
It could have happened for any of the above reasons, or more. When I first hear about this a few hours ago, I looked for it on Slash.... Glad to see the submitter had a level head in posted what he/she did, since until the guy who wrote the grant speaks out, there are no facts here, just guesses.
Well, not necessarily. When ReplayTV got bought out, the company went away, and the assests went to SonicBlue. They honored the lifetime agreement for ReplayTV owners.
Look, Microsoft seems to think that ANY device with any computational capabilities at all for the mass market is *theirs*.
Is it any surpise that they'd want to get into this too? Imagine if that happened? You thought the RIAA was bad....hoo boy, you ain't seen nothing yet.
Er, make that a logic error. doh! :-)
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They only screwed up because some goofball accidently had an abs() in the wrong place...doh!
Ok....what's a good way to find an accountant? Just opening the phonebook at taking a random guess gives me the heebie jeebies....
Great. Getting advice on legislation from the Chronicle and the Times.
Best advice. Read those left leaning rags, then read some right leaning rags. Read the right and left blogs.
Then decide.
Don't get your news from one side or the other. You're not going to get the whole story.
If *employees* at some companies aren't listened to, what makes you think consultants will be?
You're a hired gun asked to do what you were hired to do. If you what you were hired to do doesn't involve giving advice, my advice is to shut-up and do what they ask. They could be wrong, but trying to argue the point with them just pisses 'em off.
Six months? End of this month, actually. And the D&M deal fell through. They might still buy it at the asset auction, but nothing will be known until after the end of this month.
... not for home or office wireless. It's just too easy now to buy a nice, cheap little setup to free your laptop from a desk.
...it'll only be to the extent for those startup's that didn't have a good revenue model figured out in the first place.
You think Starbucks is putting in wireless from the goodness of their heart? Bzzz...wrong answer... they'll sell more coffee...probably a LOT more.
If this blows up, it's not going to be to the extent of the fantasy dot-com boom that started with Netscape and finally died out in early 2000, and is responsible for this economy....
This is a GREAT idea. Wish they did that.
Hell, if they did that with video games there'd be a lot less crapola out there too.
Then you're saying since you buy a lot of music, you can still go down to the local used CD shop and buy those CDs. If you don't like it, you can just sell it back.
Cool.
Too late. Music industry is run by corporations, and they already do that. If you're listening to bands outside of all this, it doesn't effect you anyway.
Well, sure, but if you look around, you'll find those samples online at music outfits.
I mean, if you can't, how are you finding them in the first place?