[I]was a MacPhile and OSS proponent the whole time... my boss and I clashed at every turn and I ultimately got a "no hire" recommendation, pretty much blacklisting me from ever working there again....[I] the way they do business... their FUD marketing... If someone had handed me a crystal ball and told me the shit the economy was about to become I would have kissed some serious ass and made sure I got an offer there.
If you can say that you probably deserve to work there. Hey, anyone can make a mistake and let their integrity get in the way of making a living. You are young and seemed to have learned a valuable lesson. Too bad you were not as clever as all those folks you admire at M$, you might have figured it out earlier. Don't worry, someone else will understand your potential and buy you.
"If you want more Known Space stories" was intended as an invitation to daydream, not to violate my copyrights and steal my ideas. Turning such dreams into stories is only done under restricted circumstances and with permission.
What kind of attitude is that? I love the known space story and other work by Neiven but my gratitude to its creator does not extend to limiting what I or others do. How does anyone intend to "share the dream" like that? Why would anyone bother to contribute back ideas to someone who would step on them like this? It's a very supprising attitude from such an amusing author.
No one owns an idea. Once you tell it, it belongs to everyone. Telling people that they can't write stories about rat tailed cats is about as silly as telling people they can't write stories about elves. Your words are yours, a phrase might be a trademark, implementations might be protected, but the rest is fair game.
Farm sales of electricity average $900 a week, Haubenschild says. When milk prices fell to all-time lows last year, his net returns from energy approached those from milk.
It's nice that he has a heated barn and is able to use all the electricity he want, but gee it's not a money maker. Even getting paid 7 cents a kilowatt hour, three times what a comercial generator gets, it does not match the worst year ever for milk! Getting rid of that dairy cow smell must make it worth the effort.
Now, there might really be fresh air in Green Acres.
Squatter? Thanks for the opinion, how about some information to back it up? Like who is Leon Stambler? That's not a nice description. This patent he has looks like he 0wnz public key encryption, the way Amazon does one click shopping. Following the other patent numbers here. If I were an ecryption dude I could interpret those patents, but I'm not and don't really know the history.
Looks more like evidence that the Patent office is owned by money and does not serve individual inventors. How are this man's patents any different from any other BS work protected by that office? Are they even valid? Most importantly, what makes you think he did not do anything with those patents or even needed to?
You don't need to do anything other than put a good faith effort. I could have an idea that would take billions of dollars to implement, it's still mine and the patent office would still grant me protection of that idea for being good enough to share it through them. If the only companies in the world with the kinds of resources to work that patent decided to sit for seventeen years the world is just that much worse off.
I like the detection method they used, BSoD
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... the mysterious crashes were actually a lucky break -- they gave away the presence of an until-then unknown tool that can render an intruder nearly undetectable on a hacked system. Now dubbed "Slanret", "IERK,..."
Field Day!
And here we thought that unstable interfaces for device drivers were a bug, they are a feature! This would be really useful if a BSoD only indicated intrusion, sadly it only indicates that your computer is turned on and what module it ran last. Hint to all you LEET HAXORS, make your names dumb like M$ does, rather than "0wned", "R000TED" or any varient of common four letter words like jerk.
Who says the ierk was responsible for the crash? We know that Windows does that, but we don't know anything about the ierk? Applying the razon, it's best to accept that Windows is still BSoD.
Oh the list of laughs to be had here go on and on. Who actually thought that it was impossible to hide applications and files on a system that's designed for DRM? Ha! those are features. Who would really trust an O$ by a company who's EULA says the company has the right to inspect and delete files at will and without notice? If they can read and delete, you bet they can write. The system is backdoored by design, of course people are going to take advantage of it.
You see those 250K pensioned retirees were the ones that were doing the brilliant nobel prize quality work back in the day when bell labs was not a "remnant" Part of their job benefits was that the money they invested (and lucent matched) to their pension fund would come back to them after they retired. Its your attitude that is causing the new attitude, work people until they retire and *cheat* them out of their legitimately earned pension funds ala enron ala PGL.
Attitudes causing attitudes?
Were all 250,000 reasearchers or were all of Ma Bell's retirees dumped on Lucent so that the baby Bells could move on without liability while Lucent goes belly up? I'd call that getting the ax for both the researchers and the retirees. I think I was saying something about corporate hubris and lack of job security. What was it?
Oh yeah, it's like Dogbert said, "I can't tell you what I'm going to do with the assets of this company, but it rhymes with village." Except it's not funny when it really happens and research is one of the first things to go.
Despite much lip service to individual contribution, most big dumb firms are assuming, in the words of an Intel CEO, "Neanderthal, top down management." "Standardization" of processes is king and it's being pushed across facilities where it does not make sense. Rigid structures, red tape and what not are all on the way back. Some of it's related to 9/11 security hysteria but most of it is just the result of market consolidation and hubris. New information systems make this kind of structure unnecessary but it's comming back without the corresponding benifits of job security and research. The new companies think they can strangle any opposition, just as the big three automakers do.
Research has been getting the axe for the last thirty years anyway. Look at Lucent, the sad remnant of Ma Bell's labs. They have some 3,000 employees who must strugle to support 250,000 pensioned retirees. Tell me what kind of "research" the local Bells have to take it's place, please. IBM? Shuting down, at least in the US. It's pathetic. It's like these companies think they can just fund a few graduate level slaves or wait for hobbiests to come up with ideas to steal.
I doubt this system would have helped Derek Bond with the FBI. Sykes faked his passport and Sykes would have faked this new number too. Why is it that people think electronic cures all?
If that's true, then what you have is not the internet. It's more like some kind of corperate advert browser. All governments can do to cyberspace is destroy it.
Am I, in the US, going to need this silly number to read BBC News or buy something from them? S-T-U-P-I-D.
What else would we expect from toxic666 but a troll?
Extraterrestrial mining will not be economical under foreseeable conditions.
Foreseable conditions do not exist. What exists tomorrow is the product of what we do today, a product is always greater than the sum of it's parts.
Mineral resources require extensive treatment to recover anything of value.
So?
You then suggest that rocks can't be crushed without gravity and that minerals can't be concentrated or seperate without water or earth gravity. Nonsense, the same arguments could be made right here on Earth. Water just hapens to be available and easier to work with here. If we can't extract water from the moon to do the work, other means will be found. I promise you that rocks can be crushed in free fall.
Mining is, for the most part, a barely profitable industry right here on earth.
You have a point there, but people keep doing don't they?
maybe the Chinese want to start another space race so we waste lots of money keeping "technologically ahead" of a perceived threat. From reading some of these extraterrestrial mining posts, we may be audacious (read arrogant and stupid) enough to try.
God, I hope so. If we stay here on Earth we WILL run out of resources sooner or later. "I for one do not intend to sleep by the light of a Communist moon." Get with it!
You say the article was "Just a dispassionate analysis of what Microsoft needs to do to maintain its dominance." You have to love M$ to waste your time thinking about that, not to mention writing about it as if it makes sense.
The author has cleverly confused "standards" with market lock in in order to push M$.NOT. Standards come from organizations like IEEE, W3C, ISO and what not. Market lock in comes from comercial vendors who corrupt those standards and make it painful for users to do anything but lease their software. Real standards alow for innovation because they don't change. You can add onto and improve real software without losing anything. Market lock in is a product of closed source development which he details very well in the first few paragraphs of the article to create fear. He details some of the wastefull losses suffered because of closed source development further that fear then paradoxially concludes that the answer is the newest closed source monster. Let's look at some of the silly things he says to support dubious chain of thought.
If we could start again from scratch, with hindsight, we might well decide to adopt the MCA bus, or something similar. Since we are not starting from scratch, we have to consider the switching costs.
PCI anyone? MCA failed because IBM made it too expensive relative to the hoads of imported clones that soon swamped the market. Yet CERN made a better bus and it was adopted under reasonable use terms. The more open standard won.
One of the many reasons that Apple lost the desktop wars was the conclusion arrived at by every rational person: that Apple was bound to lose. One day,
Apple is dying, he says. Right. I can't think of a better computer for most people to own. But that pales in comparison to the finishing touch:
One day, Microsoft could face a similar problem [that Apple supposedly suffered] with GNU/Linux. So not only must it maintain Windows' dominance, it has to maintain the perception of future dominance. In this case, of course, the answer is Microsoft.net.
Of course! Now I see the answer, all of the illogical strings above have tied my thoughts into a knot, but M$.NOT will set me free. I am free of fear and confusion knowing that M$ Office will alaways predominate, that my platoform performance and security is much less important than conforming so I don't look foolish. Yes, free from fear, uncertianty and doubt. I am a rational person and now know that market lock in is more important than standards. I'll just sit in my single window manager (AKA Windoze) prison and watch as warring companies smash all the ammenities so that nothing ever works right and what does work won't for long. I'll eat whatever new trash M$ throws into my cage.
What a laugh. It is so obvious that free code with it's transparency and freedom of modification solves all of the problems the author can dream up and that others suffered. Free software is modular, replacable and never dies. MCA runs just fine under linux and a 486 PS/2 makes an OK workstation that can effectively interoperate with more modern hardware. Under propriatory code, PS/2 is simply junk like most any older computer. Free software has been ported out to all maner of hardware and it's users can make use of anything out there, Arm to IA64. Because XFree86 is free and open, I can have any number of window managers, each vasty superior to M$, and they can all interoperate together. Even the silly painful world of M$ Office formats has been made less painful by Open Office, K Office and other free and open codes that can read that crap and extract the information out of it. It's amazing that the article started off with a very perceptive view of the evils of propriatory closed software development but ended up recomending no change except the adoption of some new M$ garbage.
Yes, but it's a lot harder to patch into twisted pair. Ever hear of warwalking? Try it sometime, and then try patching into the actual wire...it'll be an enlightening experience for you:)
Try walking into radio range of a nuclear power plant, or any other kind of plant for that matter. Well, that's beside the point as our sabatour must have physical access to be a real threat. It would be so much easier to misalign valves or damage critical equipment than it would be to mess with wires or, heavens, someone's customized wireless network.
And then realize that being a participant in a mesh network is far more access, far more readily given, than being a participant of a Wi-Fi network.
My whole point was that this does not have to be true. If you design your mesh to ignore unknown equipment it would be much harder to break than most wired networks. Judging the performance of the network you program by the way others have done Wi-Fi would be like judging computer security by the way M$ has done things.
how about that working water plant? Looks like the mesh saved a bunch of money there. Now all they have to do to add new points is stick in a new node. Having worked at a plant with thousands of miles of wires and huge costs to pull new ones, I can tell you that this is revolutonalry and I would not mind is the man who proposed it droped out of high school.
The main reason people had not done this before was that the technology did not exist or was too expensive. We've come a long long way since $200 ethernet cards and $1,000 "portable" phones, no?
Yeah, I know, I'm responding to a flaming troll, but the answer was so obvious I just had to post it.
My biggest problem with this type of network is the battery life.
Power is everywhere in the average plant, you don't need batteries. You just run a 20 foot line on the local skid. If ever you lose power to a pump you no longer need data on fluid flow. The advantage of wireless devices is that you don't have to pull a new signal wire all the way back to the control room.
For that matter, would you trust a network made entirely of network devices that everyone and their brother contributed, with those devices able to come and go like thieves in the night?
Would you trust the same information to a twisted pair that any old theif could patch into? Or does your plant routinely patrol the thousands of miles of wires you use? Where I used to work, there were many ways to make things go wrong and a sabatour would not have wasted time on data links. You could program your mesh to only talk to your nodes and encrypt the information just like you do with wired connections.
What will be interesting is to see how Dell plays in the ink cartridge business.
You expect Dell to make things that fit together?
Every Dell computer I've ever seen has as many "customizations" and propriatory parts as possible. AT, ATX, what's that to Dell? I've seen bizare two board mother board designs, strange floppy/scsi tape drives with custom connectors and documentation that conceals the type of memory the thing uses with a unique Dell Part number. Dells are as close to a disposable computer as you can get, except for the high retail price.
You realize another chunk has fallen out of the M$ damb. How many electronic component makers are going to start considering Linux drivers over this? Chances are, they already have the drivers ready.
[M$ crap costs too much] This is a problem most people under 24 seem to have...
No, it's a problem everyone has. Ask your IT guys how much your company pays for software. The product is greater than the sum its the parts as it is passed down through the food chain. Where do you think M$'s billions of dollars come from? Those billions of dollars represent a significant but unnecessary economic friction. The waste M$ forces onto everyone in the form of file formats and work disruption is even greater than the billions that can be counted. I don't even want to think about privacy and data security issues, but the costs of "I love you" were reported to be in the billions too.
The good people of Taiwan will be happy to pass thoses costs along and you can expect the cost of electronic components, clothes and other goods to go up by that little chunck. Or they will get smart and start using free software.
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If you can say that you probably deserve to work there. Hey, anyone can make a mistake and let their integrity get in the way of making a living. You are young and seemed to have learned a valuable lesson. Too bad you were not as clever as all those folks you admire at M$, you might have figured it out earlier. Don't worry, someone else will understand your potential and buy you.
Despite the sucess of certian secret sauses, community sharing is how cooking has worked forever.
If you are not evil and happy about it, you are fired!
at $4 per chicken, I can have as many BBQs as I want. Take that Bill Gates!
What kind of attitude is that? I love the known space story and other work by Neiven but my gratitude to its creator does not extend to limiting what I or others do. How does anyone intend to "share the dream" like that? Why would anyone bother to contribute back ideas to someone who would step on them like this? It's a very supprising attitude from such an amusing author.
No one owns an idea. Once you tell it, it belongs to everyone. Telling people that they can't write stories about rat tailed cats is about as silly as telling people they can't write stories about elves. Your words are yours, a phrase might be a trademark, implementations might be protected, but the rest is fair game.
Don't worry, someone will transgene a pig for you to fly all the way home.
Farm sales of electricity average $900 a week, Haubenschild says. When milk prices fell to all-time lows last year, his net returns from energy approached those from milk.
It's nice that he has a heated barn and is able to use all the electricity he want, but gee it's not a money maker. Even getting paid 7 cents a kilowatt hour, three times what a comercial generator gets, it does not match the worst year ever for milk! Getting rid of that dairy cow smell must make it worth the effort.
Now, there might really be fresh air in Green Acres.
Looks more like evidence that the Patent office is owned by money and does not serve individual inventors. How are this man's patents any different from any other BS work protected by that office? Are they even valid? Most importantly, what makes you think he did not do anything with those patents or even needed to?
You don't need to do anything other than put a good faith effort. I could have an idea that would take billions of dollars to implement, it's still mine and the patent office would still grant me protection of that idea for being good enough to share it through them. If the only companies in the world with the kinds of resources to work that patent decided to sit for seventeen years the world is just that much worse off.
Field Day!
And here we thought that unstable interfaces for device drivers were a bug, they are a feature! This would be really useful if a BSoD only indicated intrusion, sadly it only indicates that your computer is turned on and what module it ran last. Hint to all you LEET HAXORS, make your names dumb like M$ does, rather than "0wned", "R000TED" or any varient of common four letter words like jerk.
Who says the ierk was responsible for the crash? We know that Windows does that, but we don't know anything about the ierk? Applying the razon, it's best to accept that Windows is still BSoD.
Oh the list of laughs to be had here go on and on. Who actually thought that it was impossible to hide applications and files on a system that's designed for DRM? Ha! those are features. Who would really trust an O$ by a company who's EULA says the company has the right to inspect and delete files at will and without notice? If they can read and delete, you bet they can write. The system is backdoored by design, of course people are going to take advantage of it.
Attitudes causing attitudes?
Were all 250,000 reasearchers or were all of Ma Bell's retirees dumped on Lucent so that the baby Bells could move on without liability while Lucent goes belly up? I'd call that getting the ax for both the researchers and the retirees. I think I was saying something about corporate hubris and lack of job security. What was it?
Oh yeah, it's like Dogbert said, "I can't tell you what I'm going to do with the assets of this company, but it rhymes with village." Except it's not funny when it really happens and research is one of the first things to go.
Research has been getting the axe for the last thirty years anyway. Look at Lucent, the sad remnant of Ma Bell's labs. They have some 3,000 employees who must strugle to support 250,000 pensioned retirees. Tell me what kind of "research" the local Bells have to take it's place, please. IBM? Shuting down, at least in the US. It's pathetic. It's like these companies think they can just fund a few graduate level slaves or wait for hobbiests to come up with ideas to steal.
I doubt this system would have helped Derek Bond with the FBI. Sykes faked his passport and Sykes would have faked this new number too. Why is it that people think electronic cures all?
If that's true, then what you have is not the internet. It's more like some kind of corperate advert browser. All governments can do to cyberspace is destroy it.
Am I, in the US, going to need this silly number to read BBC News or buy something from them? S-T-U-P-I-D.
Extraterrestrial mining will not be economical under foreseeable conditions.
Foreseable conditions do not exist. What exists tomorrow is the product of what we do today, a product is always greater than the sum of it's parts.
Mineral resources require extensive treatment to recover anything of value.
So?
You then suggest that rocks can't be crushed without gravity and that minerals can't be concentrated or seperate without water or earth gravity. Nonsense, the same arguments could be made right here on Earth. Water just hapens to be available and easier to work with here. If we can't extract water from the moon to do the work, other means will be found. I promise you that rocks can be crushed in free fall.
Mining is, for the most part, a barely profitable industry right here on earth.
You have a point there, but people keep doing don't they?
maybe the Chinese want to start another space race so we waste lots of money keeping "technologically ahead" of a perceived threat. From reading some of these extraterrestrial mining posts, we may be audacious (read arrogant and stupid) enough to try.
God, I hope so. If we stay here on Earth we WILL run out of resources sooner or later. "I for one do not intend to sleep by the light of a Communist moon." Get with it!
You say the article was "Just a dispassionate analysis of what Microsoft needs to do to maintain its dominance." You have to love M$ to waste your time thinking about that, not to mention writing about it as if it makes sense.
If we could start again from scratch, with hindsight, we might well decide to adopt the MCA bus, or something similar. Since we are not starting from scratch, we have to consider the switching costs.
PCI anyone? MCA failed because IBM made it too expensive relative to the hoads of imported clones that soon swamped the market. Yet CERN made a better bus and it was adopted under reasonable use terms. The more open standard won.
One of the many reasons that Apple lost the desktop wars was the conclusion arrived at by every rational person: that Apple was bound to lose. One day,
Apple is dying, he says. Right. I can't think of a better computer for most people to own. But that pales in comparison to the finishing touch:
One day, Microsoft could face a similar problem [that Apple supposedly suffered] with GNU/Linux. So not only must it maintain Windows' dominance, it has to maintain the perception of future dominance. In this case, of course, the answer is Microsoft.net.
Of course! Now I see the answer, all of the illogical strings above have tied my thoughts into a knot, but M$.NOT will set me free. I am free of fear and confusion knowing that M$ Office will alaways predominate, that my platoform performance and security is much less important than conforming so I don't look foolish. Yes, free from fear, uncertianty and doubt. I am a rational person and now know that market lock in is more important than standards. I'll just sit in my single window manager (AKA Windoze) prison and watch as warring companies smash all the ammenities so that nothing ever works right and what does work won't for long. I'll eat whatever new trash M$ throws into my cage.
What a laugh. It is so obvious that free code with it's transparency and freedom of modification solves all of the problems the author can dream up and that others suffered. Free software is modular, replacable and never dies. MCA runs just fine under linux and a 486 PS/2 makes an OK workstation that can effectively interoperate with more modern hardware. Under propriatory code, PS/2 is simply junk like most any older computer. Free software has been ported out to all maner of hardware and it's users can make use of anything out there, Arm to IA64. Because XFree86 is free and open, I can have any number of window managers, each vasty superior to M$, and they can all interoperate together. Even the silly painful world of M$ Office formats has been made less painful by Open Office, K Office and other free and open codes that can read that crap and extract the information out of it. It's amazing that the article started off with a very perceptive view of the evils of propriatory closed software development but ended up recomending no change except the adoption of some new M$ garbage.
Try walking into radio range of a nuclear power plant, or any other kind of plant for that matter. Well, that's beside the point as our sabatour must have physical access to be a real threat. It would be so much easier to misalign valves or damage critical equipment than it would be to mess with wires or, heavens, someone's customized wireless network.
And then realize that being a participant in a mesh network is far more access, far more readily given, than being a participant of a Wi-Fi network.
My whole point was that this does not have to be true. If you design your mesh to ignore unknown equipment it would be much harder to break than most wired networks. Judging the performance of the network you program by the way others have done Wi-Fi would be like judging computer security by the way M$ has done things.
The main reason people had not done this before was that the technology did not exist or was too expensive. We've come a long long way since $200 ethernet cards and $1,000 "portable" phones, no?
Yeah, I know, I'm responding to a flaming troll, but the answer was so obvious I just had to post it.
Power is everywhere in the average plant, you don't need batteries. You just run a 20 foot line on the local skid. If ever you lose power to a pump you no longer need data on fluid flow. The advantage of wireless devices is that you don't have to pull a new signal wire all the way back to the control room.
Would you trust the same information to a twisted pair that any old theif could patch into? Or does your plant routinely patrol the thousands of miles of wires you use? Where I used to work, there were many ways to make things go wrong and a sabatour would not have wasted time on data links. You could program your mesh to only talk to your nodes and encrypt the information just like you do with wired connections.
You expect Dell to make things that fit together?
Every Dell computer I've ever seen has as many "customizations" and propriatory parts as possible. AT, ATX, what's that to Dell? I've seen bizare two board mother board designs, strange floppy/scsi tape drives with custom connectors and documentation that conceals the type of memory the thing uses with a unique Dell Part number. Dells are as close to a disposable computer as you can get, except for the high retail price.
Computers in Venuzuela think they are running faster. This condition lasts until overcurrent blows out your ac compressor and blowers.
You realize another chunk has fallen out of the M$ damb. How many electronic component makers are going to start considering Linux drivers over this? Chances are, they already have the drivers ready.
No, it's a problem everyone has. Ask your IT guys how much your company pays for software. The product is greater than the sum its the parts as it is passed down through the food chain. Where do you think M$'s billions of dollars come from? Those billions of dollars represent a significant but unnecessary economic friction. The waste M$ forces onto everyone in the form of file formats and work disruption is even greater than the billions that can be counted. I don't even want to think about privacy and data security issues, but the costs of "I love you" were reported to be in the billions too.
The good people of Taiwan will be happy to pass thoses costs along and you can expect the cost of electronic components, clothes and other goods to go up by that little chunck. Or they will get smart and start using free software.