Dare I say it, my wife's work uses Windows desktops. She answers an email address that gets several hundred spams per day. She is trialing SpamAssassin Pro with Outlook, it seems to be doing good so far.
SpamAssassin Pro also has an enterprise version for Exchange, but I can imagine a lot of Exchange admins fearing fooling around with it too much.
You need to find methods of producting stable quality code more quickly.
Well, I don't know about "stable," but I hate to say it that the combination of ASP.NET and C#/.NET allows for very fast development of a wide range of Web-enabled business applications.
Alternatively, there is Java J2EE application server world if you really need serious "amazon.com" style performance.
I think the threat to US programmers from off-shore programmers is mild, but not something to be ignored. I've heard lots of horror stories about working with Indian development teams, but I'm sure they will start to get it right soon.
As an American or Western European, your primary value add is where you are helping effectively translate business opportunities into revenue. This includes entrepreneurial activity, effective management, sales, and business development.
I've said this before, the days of the black t-shirt smelly hacker who can't talk to non-technies is coming to an end. I've made the transition myself...hair much shorter, lost weight, became an engineering manager, and oh god, I'm wearing a tie!
Alternatively, you can move to a third-world country...cheaper to live there, and much better Indian food...
Maybe they mean that files compress better BEFORE they are encrypted than after. Good encryption should make the ciphertext look like random noise with no particular redudancies to exploit for compression.
I think that CO2 taxes (and perhaps Methane taxes) of some sort will happen at least in developed countries should pollutant moderated global climate change become fairly evident.
The question is how much to tax? Tax too much, and you could destroy global economies, and that could be worse than climate change itself.
Or we could wait until we were close to achieving a non-CO2 producing energy technology (close on a dollar-per-watt basis), and then kick in some minor CO2 taxes to "gently push" the new technology into production.
Famine and health are directly correlated with governments and economies. Good governments allow free market economies to work.
Working free market economies are very efficient at delivering what is needed where it is needed through price feedback.
Moreover, working free market economies grow technology quickly because technology is the only effective way of achieving productivity growth once you get almost everyone working.
Governments break free markets through two major routes: currency mismanagement (Argentina, for example) and attempts to control industries in ways that break free market price feedback loops (Cuba, North Korea, Zimbawe). These can be done for either corrupt or benign reasons, but the end result is not much different.
And, oh yeah, if we ended all immigration controls, the world would become $150 trillion richer.
In the US, Sprint PCS Vision offers unlimited CDMA 1xRTT data even in their $30/month plan - BUT they only guaranteee unlimited free data only for three months. You can buy on a month-by-month basis for $10 more per month to avoid getting locked in for a year. It seems kind of silly to me for them to only have unlimited for three months.
T-Mobile is selling the Danger Sidekick with unlimited GPRS data for $39.99 with 200 anytime minutes and 1000 weekend minutes. But they only guarantee unlimited data for one year.
Verizon Wireless "Unlimited Express Networks" gives you unlimited CDMA 1xRTT data for $100/month, no hedges.
Check out the Portable People Meter from Arbitron. It can recognize subaudible watermarks in music including over radio, Musak, and even some streaming audio compressions. Arbitron uses it for ratings purposes.
Of course, then there is IBOC from Ibiquity which is an on-channel digital enhacement for AM and FM signals, part of which could be used for datacasting, as part of most DTV signals will.
Of course, lasers are the perfect peacetime weapon...
Seriously, I imagine the Israelis are looking at this for intercepting the occasional terrorist mortar or shell. If it was an actual war, Israel would nuke them first.
I found OpenBSD to be an easy install EXCEPT for the disklabel editor. The editor should be able to present to the user a reasonable default partitioning scheme for servers(isn't that what OpenBSD is all about - having a secure, working system from the default install?)
Moreover, from reading the documentation, it appears that there is no warning about the creation of a partitioning scheme that is potentially unbootable. This is silly!
Looks at the facts: very high power, portable, limited firing time, unlimited range. All you'd need is a big spinning mirror and you could vaporize a human target from space!
But seriously, I propose that all dictators be given 60 days to establish multiparty democracies. Failing this, aircraft and space based lasers will be used for the vaporization of all remaining dictators. Should they be replaced by other dictators, then the replacements should be vaporized as well.
Yes, uncompressed HD (HDSDI) is 1.485 Gbps. It is either progressive scan 60 fps, 1280x720 or interlaced 30 fps, 1920x1080, both at 20 bits per sample.
What you receive on HD television sets is this signal compressed using MPEG-2 down to 19.34 Mbps. And yes, in scenes with lots of independently moving things, there are visible artifacts.
Reed-Solomon and Trellis coding are added to provide some forward error correction. This increases the transmission bandwidth to 32.38 Mbps.
In the US, the 32.38 Mbps signal is transmitted using 8VSB (vestigial sideband) modulation, 3 bits per symbol at a rate of 10.76 Msps, Nyquist filtered to take up 5.38 MHz, which fits into a 6 MHz television channel.
1) Cell Phone "camming" will become a rage among teenagers, who mainly use it to flash each other. Sprint (under CDMA2000) will benefit greatly from this.
2) A quantum computer will be built using a 2D array of hundreds of quantum dots using Si or GaAs. The theory is there today, all that remains is an efficient read of electron spins. The machine will factor a number in the range of 2^16, which will look much more interesting than IBM's factoring of 14 or whatever.
Developing countries have "brain drain" because their economies have not grown to the extent of developed countries.
Under pressure from the IMF/WB, many developing countries have significantly expanded their educational systems. Unfortunately, many studies have indicated that the expansion of education has had little average effect on increasing economic growth. Education is only useful if there is a demand for you with your education in your economy. If the only jobs are working in fields, you are better off working in the fields and earning money rather than wasting time in class. If there are no jobs for college educated in your country, you will either have wasted your education, or you try to go to another country where there are jobs for your college education. I'm not saying that education is unimportant for growth, because it is since sustainable long-term growth comes from investment in technology, but it is not sufficient for growth.
The requirements for economic growth is a stable monetary system, low government corruption, democracy, limited regulation (including business, labor, and trade controls), low budget deficits, privatization (including land), respect for property rights, and non-negative real interest rates. And then education can help.
Another issue is while "brain drain" is bad in one sense, there is a tremendous amount of money flowing back into developing countries from expatriots. El Salvador, for instance, gets 1/7th of its GDP from expatriot remissions. India also gets a large amount as well. Studies do indicate that remissions do not fully offset growth losses due to "brain drain," but at least they make up for some of the loss.
Got my MSEE, went into Internet company, several friends became millionaires, started my own company, company (and industry) tanked, $30K cc debt, paid it off on tail end of dot-bomb employment, now work for company that has been around as long as I have making median for my education.
Well, during that time I made videos seen by millions, got my picture in hundreds of newspapers and magazines, got to work with the ultra-cool Slashdot guys and a Net superstar who was on David Letteman, videos were in NY MOMA exhibit, flew around the country on crazy business deals that mainly never happened, friend of mine purchased warship, acquired stomach acid problem from crazy business deals, multicasted video over satellites (twice now), and got married in castle.
Now I just need to chill out at my 9-5 job... whew! At least I have something to tell my (future) children about.
There is also the new Provisional Patent application, which gives you a year to apply for a real patent. Ask a patent lawyer about this as well though, it is a new area of law in the US.
It is true that you can screw yourself out of foreign patents by disclosing information to the public, as many countries are "first-to-apply" rather than "first-to-invent."
And yes, you must file within one year of publication, use, or sale of the invention.
You state that it will take 20G's this is not quite true. When you put in a patent request, it should cost a couple hundred bucks at most.
Yes, you CAN get a patent for a few hundred bucks.
NO, it will probably NOT stand up in court.
A patent application is a legal document, and could be the key to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that you would like to win down the road.
Doing your own patent application is a like being your own lawyer in court. Patent law is a highly arcane system that is constantly changing. And you have to do the appropriate patent searching to properly identify prior art, not claim that art, and describe how your work goes beyond prior art.
For example, the patent I was involved in came from a simple circuit. The patent lawyer took our work, and figured out 13 specific claims we could make that did not infringe on prior art. It tooks months for the language of the application to be worked out, and then it took a year of back-and-forth between our lawyer and the PTO to finalize the patent.
Here is an example from my patent regarding its relation to the prior art:
The most pertinent art as to the sum-gain amplifier design of the instant disclosure includes Temes et al's U.S. Pat. No. 4,543,534 entitled `Offset Compensated Switched Capacitor Circuits` which teaches of a sample-hold circuit requirement for the input to the circuit for addition and subtraction operation due to the different time phases used within a time period. The instant disclosure does not require a sample hold circuit to accomplish this objective since all inputs to the amplifier occur during the same time phase. In addition, area-efficient sum-gain amplifiers are designed to reduce silicon area. The instant disclosure uses a similar switching device means for a bi-phasic operating regime as taught by the Temes et al. teaching which is hereby incorporated by reference.
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Dare I say it, my wife's work uses Windows desktops. She answers an email address that gets several hundred spams per day. She is trialing SpamAssassin Pro with Outlook, it seems to be doing good so far.
SpamAssassin Pro also has an enterprise version for Exchange, but I can imagine a lot of Exchange admins fearing fooling around with it too much.
You need to find methods of producting stable quality code more quickly.
Well, I don't know about "stable," but I hate to say it that the combination of ASP.NET and C#/.NET allows for very fast development of a wide range of Web-enabled business applications.
Alternatively, there is Java J2EE application server world if you really need serious "amazon.com" style performance.
I think the threat to US programmers from off-shore programmers is mild, but not something to be ignored. I've heard lots of horror stories about working with Indian development teams, but I'm sure they will start to get it right soon.
As an American or Western European, your primary value add is where you are helping effectively translate business opportunities into revenue. This includes entrepreneurial activity, effective management, sales, and business development.
I've said this before, the days of the black t-shirt smelly hacker who can't talk to non-technies is coming to an end. I've made the transition myself...hair much shorter, lost weight, became an engineering manager, and oh god, I'm wearing a tie!
Alternatively, you can move to a third-world country...cheaper to live there, and much better Indian food...
Maybe they mean that files compress better BEFORE they are encrypted than after. Good encryption should make the ciphertext look like random noise with no particular redudancies to exploit for compression.
For example:
Before encryption "she sells sea shells"
after encryption "ksydn23iocd6hxd8dh9j"
I need a viewer for MPEG-2 stored in QuickTime format (i.e. .mov main file, with .mpeg and .aiff video and audio files).
I was hoping Apple would have a QuickTime player with MPEG-2, but evidently not yet. Any ideas?
I think that CO2 taxes (and perhaps Methane taxes) of some sort will happen at least in developed countries should pollutant moderated global climate change become fairly evident.
The question is how much to tax? Tax too much, and you could destroy global economies, and that could be worse than climate change itself.
Or we could wait until we were close to achieving a non-CO2 producing energy technology (close on a dollar-per-watt basis), and then kick in some minor CO2 taxes to "gently push" the new technology into production.
Famine and health are directly correlated with governments and economies. Good governments allow free market economies to work.
Working free market economies are very efficient at delivering what is needed where it is needed through price feedback.
Moreover, working free market economies grow technology quickly because technology is the only effective way of achieving productivity growth once you get almost everyone working.
Governments break free markets through two major routes: currency mismanagement (Argentina, for example) and attempts to control industries in ways that break free market price feedback loops (Cuba, North Korea, Zimbawe). These can be done for either corrupt or benign reasons, but the end result is not much different.
And, oh yeah, if we ended all immigration controls, the world would become $150 trillion richer.
In the US, Sprint PCS Vision offers unlimited CDMA 1xRTT data even in their $30/month plan - BUT they only guaranteee unlimited free data only for three months. You can buy on a month-by-month basis for $10 more per month to avoid getting locked in for a year. It seems kind of silly to me for them to only have unlimited for three months.
T-Mobile is selling the Danger Sidekick with unlimited GPRS data for $39.99 with 200 anytime minutes and 1000 weekend minutes. But they only guarantee unlimited data for one year.
Verizon Wireless "Unlimited Express Networks" gives you unlimited CDMA 1xRTT data for $100/month, no hedges.
Check out the Portable People Meter from Arbitron. It can recognize subaudible watermarks in music including over radio, Musak, and even some streaming audio compressions. Arbitron uses it for ratings purposes.
Of course, then there is IBOC from Ibiquity which is an on-channel digital enhacement for AM and FM signals, part of which could be used for datacasting, as part of most DTV signals will.
Of course, lasers are the perfect peacetime weapon...
Seriously, I imagine the Israelis are looking at this for intercepting the occasional terrorist mortar or shell. If it was an actual war, Israel would nuke them first.
Shells don't kill (many) people by ballistic momentum, they kill mostly through shrapnel.
That said, raining shrapnel from the sky could still be dangerous, but it would land short of the original target. So just overshoot?
Well, think of it his way, better to evaporate one terrorist than helicopter rocket attack a car and kill innocent people walking by with shrapnel...
I found OpenBSD to be an easy install EXCEPT for the disklabel editor. The editor should be able to present to the user a reasonable default partitioning scheme for servers(isn't that what OpenBSD is all about - having a secure, working system from the default install?)
Moreover, from reading the documentation, it appears that there is no warning about the creation of a partitioning scheme that is potentially unbootable. This is silly!
Looks at the facts: very high power, portable, limited firing time, unlimited range. All you'd need is a big spinning mirror and you could vaporize a human target from space!
But seriously, I propose that all dictators be given 60 days to establish multiparty democracies. Failing this, aircraft and space based lasers will be used for the vaporization of all remaining dictators. Should they be replaced by other dictators, then the replacements should be vaporized as well.
Here are some supporting links:
Best Campaign-Finance Reform Is No Limits
Meaningful Campaign Reform Needed
No statistical relationship over time between campaign spending and public trust in American government
Three Myths About Enron and Campaign Finance
Term Limits and the Need for a Citizen Legislature
Yes, uncompressed HD (HDSDI) is 1.485 Gbps. It is either progressive scan 60 fps, 1280x720 or interlaced 30 fps, 1920x1080, both at 20 bits per sample.
What you receive on HD television sets is this signal compressed using MPEG-2 down to 19.34 Mbps. And yes, in scenes with lots of independently moving things, there are visible artifacts.
Reed-Solomon and Trellis coding are added to provide some forward error correction. This increases the transmission bandwidth to 32.38 Mbps.
In the US, the 32.38 Mbps signal is transmitted using 8VSB (vestigial sideband) modulation, 3 bits per symbol at a rate of 10.76 Msps, Nyquist filtered to take up 5.38 MHz, which fits into a 6 MHz television channel.
I know that Sprint PCS Vision has an unlimited plan for data (I think about $40/month, which is comparable with much slower Verizon unlimited CDPD).
Are there Sprint plans with limited talk time, but unlimited data?
Two big predictions for 12 months:
1) Cell Phone "camming" will become a rage among teenagers, who mainly use it to flash each other. Sprint (under CDMA2000) will benefit greatly from this.
2) A quantum computer will be built using a 2D array of hundreds of quantum dots using Si or GaAs. The theory is there today, all that remains is an efficient read of electron spins. The machine will factor a number in the range of 2^16, which will look much more interesting than IBM's factoring of 14 or whatever.
Developing countries have "brain drain" because their economies have not grown to the extent of developed countries.
Under pressure from the IMF/WB, many developing countries have significantly expanded their educational systems. Unfortunately, many studies have indicated that the expansion of education has had little average effect on increasing economic growth. Education is only useful if there is a demand for you with your education in your economy. If the only jobs are working in fields, you are better off working in the fields and earning money rather than wasting time in class. If there are no jobs for college educated in your country, you will either have wasted your education, or you try to go to another country where there are jobs for your college education. I'm not saying that education is unimportant for growth, because it is since sustainable long-term growth comes from investment in technology, but it is not sufficient for growth.
The requirements for economic growth is a stable monetary system, low government corruption, democracy, limited regulation (including business, labor, and trade controls), low budget deficits, privatization (including land), respect for property rights, and non-negative real interest rates. And then education can help.
Another issue is while "brain drain" is bad in one sense, there is a tremendous amount of money flowing back into developing countries from expatriots. El Salvador, for instance, gets 1/7th of its GDP from expatriot remissions. India also gets a large amount as well. Studies do indicate that remissions do not fully offset growth losses due to "brain drain," but at least they make up for some of the loss.
Got my MSEE, went into Internet company, several friends became millionaires, started my own company, company (and industry) tanked, $30K cc debt, paid it off on tail end of dot-bomb employment, now work for company that has been around as long as I have making median for my education.
Well, during that time I made videos seen by millions, got my picture in hundreds of newspapers and magazines, got to work with the ultra-cool Slashdot guys and a Net superstar who was on David Letteman, videos were in NY MOMA exhibit, flew around the country on crazy business deals that mainly never happened, friend of mine purchased warship, acquired stomach acid problem from crazy business deals, multicasted video over satellites (twice now), and got married in castle.
Now I just need to chill out at my 9-5 job... whew! At least I have something to tell my (future) children about.
Dude, you patented electric ear wax?
No, you have to put capacitors in your ear.
There is also the new Provisional Patent application, which gives you a year to apply for a real patent. Ask a patent lawyer about this as well though, it is a new area of law in the US.
It is true that you can screw yourself out of foreign patents by disclosing information to the public, as many countries are "first-to-apply" rather than "first-to-invent."
And yes, you must file within one year of publication, use, or sale of the invention.
it should cost a couple hundred bucks at most.
Yes, you CAN get a patent for a few hundred bucks.
NO, it will probably NOT stand up in court.
A patent application is a legal document, and could be the key to a multi-million dollar lawsuit that you would like to win down the road.
Doing your own patent application is a like being your own lawyer in court. Patent law is a highly arcane system that is constantly changing. And you have to do the appropriate patent searching to properly identify prior art, not claim that art, and describe how your work goes beyond prior art.
For example, the patent I was involved in came from a simple circuit. The patent lawyer took our work, and figured out 13 specific claims we could make that did not infringe on prior art. It tooks months for the language of the application to be worked out, and then it took a year of back-and-forth between our lawyer and the PTO to finalize the patent.
Here is an example from my patent regarding its relation to the prior art:
BTW, I am a co-inventor on US Patent#5,331,222 "Cochlear filter bank with switched-capacitor circuits", and have been through the process.