Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Funny that the president would refuse to hear the grievances of the people.
No the rise of H1B is the result of poor education in the US. I taught college and I was stunned at the out right stupidity of the students coming out of schools. The low education of a typical American means to get someone who can actually add number without a calculator they HAVE to go outside the US. Try this in your area. Go up to someone and ask them to name 10 American presidents and then ask how many presidents have been assasinated. I have yet to find someone under the age of 30 that can name 10 presidents. I am ashamed of my own country now. A nation of morons.
5 years ago the average programmer in Minnesota was making $64 an hour (this counts web coders to as far as I can tell) With the influx of cheap labor the market rate has been dropping. With a lack of demand the market rate drops further. Go around and talk to H1B visa holders and ask them how much they make. I've seen the paycheck. It makes me sick.
H1B Market Rate: The H1B flood lowered market rate. Try talking to people that are on an H1B. Every week they next H1Bs get less and less as market saturation drives down the market rate.
Must Take a US Citizen if Qualified: Have you looked at the US average SAT scores? The qualifications standards are shot. I have yet to work with someone qualified. Half of Americans cannot read past a 5th grade level. That is a glaring lack of qualifications.
The sad truth is that the H1B Visa is no longer an issue. It is easier and cheaper to outsource your entire support staff to a foreign country. With the maturing of high speed communications the ability to work with staff across the world is forcing labor costs down. Any law passed is easily circumvented as the support center ( consulting shop outside the US) is not part of the business entity. The only way that this behavior could be deterred is by putting a tarriff on foreign services which would too broadly impact other industries that arn't "abusing" (relative term here) this business option. P.S> Thank Clinton for raising the H1B visa cap his last day of executive power. 3 days later 2000 IT staff nation wide (US) were given notice. 700 here in Minnesota. Where I was at the time EVERY person that was laid off was replaced by H1B staff the following month (That totalled 22 people). One of my co-worker at $33/hr was replaced by a H1B @ $9.50/hr. NY Times was applauding Bill for helping create a 5 BILLION dollar IT industry in India. That's 5 billion that American Workers lost. That's 5 billion directly gone from the US economy.
am I the only one that sees a cronic pattern of behavior by fans that re-makes and spins offs should cater to their own personal memory of the series? Has it ever dawned on anyone that the re-made show isn't for the old fans but maybe, just maybe, written for a new crowd of people? All I head is whiny Trekkie-types complaining that it isn't like they remember it. Perhaps that is the point. Not ever spin-off of a franchise if meant to cater to the fading memory of "OLD SCHOOL" fan.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government...
The time draws near. It won't be pretty. God help us all...
Brilliant assesment! I am disturbed by this communist-like behavior that is taking root in Open Source. Why is the government involved at all? Let the market decide, why does everything have to be controlled and regulated by the government? So much for the hypocritical "Freedom to Choose" premise.
"If innovation is not profitable, there will be no reason to innovate. Staving, homeless programmers who cannot afford computers are not very productive."
I am very interested in new programming styles for fault tolerant systems modeled around fundamental biology for checks and balances, i.e error control.
Prairie dog effect: When a loud noise in a cubicle area causes dozens of employees to pop up from their cubes to see what happened? Wanna see it happen? Drop a phone book on you desk and see who pops up:)
Build cube wall double height (your facilities team will know what that meants.) and place widow panel units near the entrance to the cube. With the extra height place plants in such a fashion that it looks like a tree canopy. Plants always make cubes farms look less desolate.
P.S. Double height cube walls prevents the Prairie Dog effect.
I have to say with this merger they have quite possibly the greatest writers and character creators in video game history. With the two companies no longer competing it may give them more money to work with for development. MMmmm Dragon Warrior (Quest) Online... BUhahaahha! I can see it now they'll release a FF title, then a DW title, and keep rotating.. Edrick lives again! What about the shots Square took at Enix in FF1? Will they re-release it without to pot shots (Look at tombstones and you'll see an RIP Edrick poking fun at Dragon Warrior). I pray we get some excellent titles out of this merger. They have the creative minds to do it. More importantly Enix just Got Nabutso Utsemei (I know I fucked up the spelling!) at a better price I'm sure. My.02
In 1-2 years the cellular companies will ask for federal assistance to salvage the industry. They will receive more than 100 million dollars in assitance while the top 5 executives will pull down well over 100 million dollars collectivly in their pockets.
God Bless companies like Qwest where they lay off thousands with no severance (And no warning) but the CEO when laid off walks away with 33 million.
Head out to tsewq.com for details on that.
Niche Popularity and Affliction
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2 Part question really, with a renewed popularity and, from what I gather, a content life, how has you affliction (I have forgotten the name) that causes the ringing in your ears been? I had heard that stress can cause it to act up. As of late has presence of the ailment been reduced or eliminated?
Ok first it's a TV show. I watch Dr. Who since I was a kid, but I am also not an obsessive fan. First of all the very fundamental paradox of time travel is you cannot change the past if you are from the same time-space. Why? Because your present is the result of that past. You present has already taken your actions into account (because they have already happened.) I have a few friends that are physicists and they BS about this all day long. The only was that the past can be changed is a CFS (Continum Fracture Scenario) in which the infinite possible outcomes fork infinite universes of outcomes. If Time Travellers can pull themselves out of a continun then they can navigate the infinite outcomes.
With that side based on the CFS ANYTHING is possible (we have infinite outcomes to deal with) thus it is possible that as screwed up as the storyline appears it is perfectly plausable based on CFS (as I call it Chaos Formulated Spaces, sounds better).
That should end the non-sense of people complaining about the inconsistencies. Or you can subscribe to my TST (Time-Speed-Theory) that states that a change in the past must travel through time-space granting that a change in the past will take X amount of time to catch up to the present where X =( (TimeInPresent) - (TimeInPast) )* (Speed of Light)
Therefore an secret agency that monitors timespace can see the subtle changes in time-space and calculate the change, then send a demonic entity back in time to correct the anomoly ensuring that their present is maintained.
BUahahahahahahh (Yes I am tinkering with a book based on the idea about an evil tyrant that is trying to prevent timetravel from altering his present.) Did I mention Muahauhahaahaauhah!
Where is the "TRICK" in this question? Hell whether you think it's an IQ test or not it's one hell of a listening test. Again IQ will always be subjective but I find the ability to correctly interpret a message a sign of intelligence.
You make many points, but if I took $400 dollars a day from your checking account do you want to pay for "Trial and Error?" The concept of Intelligence will always be subjective. The fact that he STUDIED to be an MCSE bothers me, and now that I am dealing with new High school graduates I see a disturbing trend. Case in point is the way math works versus history. If I give you
3x+5=31 you can figure this out right? Right because there is a method.
Who was the first president of the US? Again easy to memorize.
The problem with education now is they depend less on method and more on memorization. Thus when presented with a problem that "isn't in the book" they choke. The consultant (and most people I end up firing) do not understand (this is really dangerous) on how to APPLY what they know. They have been spoon fed a terrible education (I knew things were getting bad when I canned a UofM graduate who not only graduated with honors but has held a perfect 4.0 for being incompetent) for not knowing how to fix a lab created problem (That contract I was responsible for "trimming" the staff and was conducting quarterly training, failure meant a pink slip.) I must say this, St. Kate and Purdue (MIT of course) have been putting out excellent, intelligent people; but I swear what is coming out of other schools fail that simple test. It's not hard, you have to listen and be intelligent. Part of being intelligent is not falling into lemming behavior by blindly (ironic) following what the information before you presents. People (especially Americans) have such little self-concept that when presented anything complex we switch to lemming mode and start assuming everything. When you read the post I said blind. WHY would anyone assume he's deaf or mute? Did you just drag dissimilar information along to the next person? There is NO trick to this. None. What it shows is whether a person switches to that lemming mode or not. It's a partial IQ test but it's the most important test a person in a technical field (and medical to a point) must pass. Would you want your doctor making some irrational assumption about a surgery? Here is the ultimate conclusion to that test, I have NEVER had someone ASK ME a question whether the blind man was also deaf or blind. Nowhere in the test does it say the person cannot ask questions or demand additional information. See what I mean?
Ok basic terminology BANDWIDTH IS NOT SPEED. Speed is a ratio of bandwidth and latency. Again speed doesn't change Firewire into something new. It's nothing more than a faster serial port period. The Pinto analogy that you use proves my point, it's still a car. Long before you hatched we were multiplexing serial ports for high speed operations, the speeds firewire has is not all that impressive.
Concerning your last parapgraph, "Everyone wants fasterm biggerm cheaper". Fine but you need to understand that there was little, if any innovation in firewire. It is still a serial communication that does nothing new that serial did. Firewire alone does NOTHING you've mentioned. The devices ATTACHED to firewire do. Case in point, palm pilots. Concerning the unrealistcally big data sets, bull. In a cluster environment you put 1 "PORT" interface in each machine in the cluster then pipe those connections to a multiplexer you get a ratio increase in bandwidth. I have a 2 year old USB multiplexer unit (now a door stop due to a power surge) that we had running in a MAN that pipped 41 USB channels for a proprietary communcation channel (do the math, and the 42nd connection was a control connection for a terminal).
There has been little innovation in computers in the last 10 years. Clusters are nothing more than the new version of mainframe, thin clients are an extension of the dumb terminal/main frame concept, KDE, Windows, Gnome, X Windows, etc are just new iterations of a really old interface that Xerox developed. Firewire is nothing new, just improved.
Think about it. YOu said your self, they are still cars in your example.
P.S. The Viper is not that good of a car, I'll take a 69 Mustang when cars were made of metal.
I fail to see how making something faster changes it's nature. When firewire is long outdated I'll call you and point this post out. Bandwidth is irellivant. Does your car transform as it goes faster on the highway? Is it Navy Blue when going 30mph and suddenly turn Pink when you hit 55? No. Just because you juiced up a serial port doesn't change that fact.
Where is the trick? I learned in school that blind and mute are not the same thing. It's a sign of a slow mind that cannot listen (or in this case read).
Really people it's just a high speed interface. Not really that much different that an old serial port, just faster. Do you ohh and ahh over the fact you can hook up "almost anything" to a serial port? Of course not. Firewire is no more, or less, versitle than USB, older serial, or even parallel ports.
Now is firewire had a liquid metal port that accepted any type of interface by morphing the connection, then firewire would be fucktacular! (Copyright 2003).
P.S. Starting throwing Copyright notifications on your posts, the "media" is starting to post OUR comments in their papers without our consent!
Great, just what I need, anohter 24 hours book. I remember once when a manager under me hired someone who learned programming from a QUE 24 hour book. He could code, but he sure as hell couldn't think. Just because I tell you how to do something doesn't mean you've LEARNED anything. Any kid can memorize how to DO sysadmin tasks, it takes an EDUCATION on how to IMPLEMENT AND USE what you've learned. Sorry but the DOT.COM area has ended and the BLOT.COM (Copyright 2003) era has begun. Time to go back to 4 year degrees (or 10 years of experience, I'll accept either) and suits. God I miss the days when computer professionals used to wear lab coats and could actually think instead of quote a useless text book.... sob....
REAL QUOTE FROM A RECENT MCSE HIRE While working with a lacky on fixing an Exchange server we had to disable several features in the registry. When I ask him why he didn't disable the keys himself he said,
"It never mentioned in the textbook how to do that."
I would gladly take a smart recently converted AMISH FARMER over ANY MCSE that has been certified in the last 2 years. I can always teach a smart person what I need them to do (and hire them at a lower pay rate initially to boot!:) )
Here is a simple quiz on how to find a SMART person. Use this!
"A deaf and dumb (mute) man walks into a hardware store and wants to buy some nails. He approaches the store owner and places his left hand on the counter and starts pounding with his right hand, as if holding a hammer.
The store owner gets him a hammer.
The deaf man shakes his head and uses two fingers on his left hand and does the same pounding motion with his right hand.
The store owner nods and gets several nails for the man to pick from. He picks two nails and buy a couple of boxes.
The next day a blind man comes in. How does he ask for a pair of scissors? (What is you guess, think about it then read on.)
Now if your employee makes a scissors motion with his hands I would move him (or her) to the bottom of the stack. Why? The man is blind, not mute, he would simple ask for a pair of scissors. It's this kind of INTELLIGENCE that is needed in the work place that isn't being taught in most schools. I did this test to several instructors at universities to see what kind of staff they had. Most fail. To give credit where credit is due I discovered this test in Issac Asimov's book "The Realativity of Wrong" when Asimov was presented with this same test from... his automechanic. Asimov failed also it seems (in his younger years). This test show that there is more to intelligence than simply memorizing and regurgitating information, it's listening and applying what you've memorized, something a Blah in 24 hours book cannot teach.
I think the reason it was cancelled is because Britney Spears is a pseudo-intelligent Borax demon from Nebcuntz Pholoplax and used her evil brain powers to change the NASA's mind on the book as it would expose that hundreds of Gurblatz demons are posing as humans. Some examples are: Dennis Rodman, Prince, Evil Kenival, John Tesh, Carrot Top, and the lieutenant commander of the Hufberg Uboolats Kevin Bacon.
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Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Funny that the president would refuse to hear the grievances of the people.
No the rise of H1B is the result of poor education in the US. I taught college and I was stunned at the out right stupidity of the students coming out of schools. The low education of a typical American means to get someone who can actually add number without a calculator they HAVE to go outside the US. Try this in your area. Go up to someone and ask them to name 10 American presidents and then ask how many presidents have been assasinated. I have yet to find someone under the age of 30 that can name 10 presidents. I am ashamed of my own country now. A nation of morons.
5 years ago the average programmer in Minnesota was making $64 an hour (this counts web coders to as far as I can tell) With the influx of cheap labor the market rate has been dropping. With a lack of demand the market rate drops further. Go around and talk to H1B visa holders and ask them how much they make. I've seen the paycheck. It makes me sick.
H1B Market Rate: The H1B flood lowered market rate. Try talking to people that are on an H1B. Every week they next H1Bs get less and less as market saturation drives down the market rate.
Must Take a US Citizen if Qualified: Have you looked at the US average SAT scores? The qualifications standards are shot. I have yet to work with someone qualified. Half of Americans cannot read past a 5th grade level. That is a glaring lack of qualifications.
The sad truth is that the H1B Visa is no longer an issue. It is easier and cheaper to outsource your entire support staff to a foreign country. With the maturing of high speed communications the ability to work with staff across the world is forcing labor costs down. Any law passed is easily circumvented as the support center ( consulting shop outside the US) is not part of the business entity. The only way that this behavior could be deterred is by putting a tarriff on foreign services which would too broadly impact other industries that arn't "abusing" (relative term here) this business option. P.S> Thank Clinton for raising the H1B visa cap his last day of executive power. 3 days later 2000 IT staff nation wide (US) were given notice. 700 here in Minnesota. Where I was at the time EVERY person that was laid off was replaced by H1B staff the following month (That totalled 22 people). One of my co-worker at $33/hr was replaced by a H1B @ $9.50/hr. NY Times was applauding Bill for helping create a 5 BILLION dollar IT industry in India. That's 5 billion that American Workers lost. That's 5 billion directly gone from the US economy.
am I the only one that sees a cronic pattern of behavior by fans that re-makes and spins offs should cater to their own personal memory of the series? Has it ever dawned on anyone that the re-made show isn't for the old fans but maybe, just maybe, written for a new crowd of people? All I head is whiny Trekkie-types complaining that it isn't like they remember it. Perhaps that is the point. Not ever spin-off of a franchise if meant to cater to the fading memory of "OLD SCHOOL" fan.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government...
The time draws near. It won't be pretty. God help us all...
Brilliant assesment! I am disturbed by this communist-like behavior that is taking root in Open Source. Why is the government involved at all? Let the market decide, why does everything have to be controlled and regulated by the government? So much for the hypocritical "Freedom to Choose" premise.
"If innovation is not profitable, there will be no reason to innovate. Staving, homeless programmers who cannot afford computers are not very productive."
I am very interested in new programming styles for fault tolerant systems modeled around fundamental biology for checks and balances, i.e error control.
Am I the only one that feels the decline in growth is a direct result of the commericalization of the net?
Small rodent like a gopher that lives is borrows. They tend to pop their head out of the holes when they hear something.
Prairie dog effect: When a loud noise in a cubicle area causes dozens of employees to pop up from their cubes to see what happened? Wanna see it happen? Drop a phone book on you desk and see who pops up :)
Build cube wall double height (your facilities team will know what that meants.) and place widow panel units near the entrance to the cube. With the extra height place plants in such a fashion that it looks like a tree canopy. Plants always make cubes farms look less desolate.
P.S. Double height cube walls prevents the Prairie Dog effect.
I have to say with this merger they have quite possibly the greatest writers and character creators in video game history. With the two companies no longer competing it may give them more money to work with for development. MMmmm Dragon Warrior (Quest) Online... BUhahaahha! I can see it now they'll release a FF title, then a DW title, and keep rotating.. Edrick lives again! What about the shots Square took at Enix in FF1? Will they re-release it without to pot shots (Look at tombstones and you'll see an RIP Edrick poking fun at Dragon Warrior). I pray we get some excellent titles out of this merger. They have the creative minds to do it. More importantly Enix just Got Nabutso Utsemei (I know I fucked up the spelling!) at a better price I'm sure. My .02
I have a Ken P. Prediction!
In 1-2 years the cellular companies will ask for federal assistance to salvage the industry. They will receive more than 100 million dollars in assitance while the top 5 executives will pull down well over 100 million dollars collectivly in their pockets.
God Bless companies like Qwest where they lay off thousands with no severance (And no warning) but the CEO when laid off walks away with 33 million.
Head out to tsewq.com for details on that.
2 Part question really, with a renewed popularity and, from what I gather, a content life, how has you affliction (I have forgotten the name) that causes the ringing in your ears been? I had heard that stress can cause it to act up. As of late has presence of the ailment been reduced or eliminated?
Ok first it's a TV show. I watch Dr. Who since I was a kid, but I am also not an obsessive fan. First of all the very fundamental paradox of time travel is you cannot change the past if you are from the same time-space. Why? Because your present is the result of that past. You present has already taken your actions into account (because they have already happened.) I have a few friends that are physicists and they BS about this all day long. The only was that the past can be changed is a CFS (Continum Fracture Scenario) in which the infinite possible outcomes fork infinite universes of outcomes. If Time Travellers can pull themselves out of a continun then they can navigate the infinite outcomes.
With that side based on the CFS ANYTHING is possible (we have infinite outcomes to deal with) thus it is possible that as screwed up as the storyline appears it is perfectly plausable based on CFS (as I call it Chaos Formulated Spaces, sounds better).
That should end the non-sense of people complaining about the inconsistencies. Or you can subscribe to my TST (Time-Speed-Theory) that states that a change in the past must travel through time-space granting that a change in the past will take X amount of time to catch up to the present where X =( (TimeInPresent) - (TimeInPast) )* (Speed of Light)
Therefore an secret agency that monitors timespace can see the subtle changes in time-space and calculate the change, then send a demonic entity back in time to correct the anomoly ensuring that their present is maintained.
BUahahahahahahh (Yes I am tinkering with a book based on the idea about an evil tyrant that is trying to prevent timetravel from altering his present.) Did I mention Muahauhahaahaauhah!
Where is the "TRICK" in this question? Hell whether you think it's an IQ test or not it's one hell of a listening test. Again IQ will always be subjective but I find the ability to correctly interpret a message a sign of intelligence.
You make many points, but if I took $400 dollars a day from your checking account do you want to pay for "Trial and Error?" The concept of Intelligence will always be subjective. The fact that he STUDIED to be an MCSE bothers me, and now that I am dealing with new High school graduates I see a disturbing trend. Case in point is the way math works versus history. If I give you
3x+5=31 you can figure this out right? Right because there is a method.
Who was the first president of the US? Again easy to memorize.
The problem with education now is they depend less on method and more on memorization. Thus when presented with a problem that "isn't in the book" they choke. The consultant (and most people I end up firing) do not understand (this is really dangerous) on how to APPLY what they know. They have been spoon fed a terrible education (I knew things were getting bad when I canned a UofM graduate who not only graduated with honors but has held a perfect 4.0 for being incompetent) for not knowing how to fix a lab created problem (That contract I was responsible for "trimming" the staff and was conducting quarterly training, failure meant a pink slip.) I must say this, St. Kate and Purdue (MIT of course) have been putting out excellent, intelligent people; but I swear what is coming out of other schools fail that simple test. It's not hard, you have to listen and be intelligent. Part of being intelligent is not falling into lemming behavior by blindly (ironic) following what the information before you presents. People (especially Americans) have such little self-concept that when presented anything complex we switch to lemming mode and start assuming everything. When you read the post I said blind. WHY would anyone assume he's deaf or mute? Did you just drag dissimilar information along to the next person? There is NO trick to this. None. What it shows is whether a person switches to that lemming mode or not. It's a partial IQ test but it's the most important test a person in a technical field (and medical to a point) must pass. Would you want your doctor making some irrational assumption about a surgery? Here is the ultimate conclusion to that test, I have NEVER had someone ASK ME a question whether the blind man was also deaf or blind. Nowhere in the test does it say the person cannot ask questions or demand additional information. See what I mean?
Ok basic terminology BANDWIDTH IS NOT SPEED. Speed is a ratio of bandwidth and latency. Again speed doesn't change Firewire into something new. It's nothing more than a faster serial port period. The Pinto analogy that you use proves my point, it's still a car. Long before you hatched we were multiplexing serial ports for high speed operations, the speeds firewire has is not all that impressive.
Concerning your last parapgraph, "Everyone wants fasterm biggerm cheaper". Fine but you need to understand that there was little, if any innovation in firewire. It is still a serial communication that does nothing new that serial did. Firewire alone does NOTHING you've mentioned. The devices ATTACHED to firewire do. Case in point, palm pilots. Concerning the unrealistcally big data sets, bull. In a cluster environment you put 1 "PORT" interface in each machine in the cluster then pipe those connections to a multiplexer you get a ratio increase in bandwidth. I have a 2 year old USB multiplexer unit (now a door stop due to a power surge) that we had running in a MAN that pipped 41 USB channels for a proprietary communcation channel (do the math, and the 42nd connection was a control connection for a terminal).
There has been little innovation in computers in the last 10 years. Clusters are nothing more than the new version of mainframe, thin clients are an extension of the dumb terminal/main frame concept, KDE, Windows, Gnome, X Windows, etc are just new iterations of a really old interface that Xerox developed. Firewire is nothing new, just improved.
Think about it. YOu said your self, they are still cars in your example.
P.S. The Viper is not that good of a car, I'll take a 69 Mustang when cars were made of metal.
I fail to see how making something faster changes it's nature. When firewire is long outdated I'll call you and point this post out. Bandwidth is irellivant. Does your car transform as it goes faster on the highway? Is it Navy Blue when going 30mph and suddenly turn Pink when you hit 55? No. Just because you juiced up a serial port doesn't change that fact.
Where is the trick? I learned in school that blind and mute are not the same thing. It's a sign of a slow mind that cannot listen (or in this case read).
Really people it's just a high speed interface. Not really that much different that an old serial port, just faster. Do you ohh and ahh over the fact you can hook up "almost anything" to a serial port? Of course not. Firewire is no more, or less, versitle than USB, older serial, or even parallel ports.
Now is firewire had a liquid metal port that accepted any type of interface by morphing the connection, then firewire would be fucktacular! (Copyright 2003).
P.S. Starting throwing Copyright notifications on your posts, the "media" is starting to post OUR comments in their papers without our consent!
Great, just what I need, anohter 24 hours book. I remember once when a manager under me hired someone who learned programming from a QUE 24 hour book. He could code, but he sure as hell couldn't think. Just because I tell you how to do something doesn't mean you've LEARNED anything. Any kid can memorize how to DO sysadmin tasks, it takes an EDUCATION on how to IMPLEMENT AND USE what you've learned. Sorry but the DOT.COM area has ended and the BLOT.COM (Copyright 2003) era has begun. Time to go back to 4 year degrees (or 10 years of experience, I'll accept either) and suits. God I miss the days when computer professionals used to wear lab coats and could actually think instead of quote a useless text book.... sob....
:) )
REAL QUOTE FROM A RECENT MCSE HIRE
While working with a lacky on fixing an Exchange server we had to disable several features in the registry. When I ask him why he didn't disable the keys himself he said,
"It never mentioned in the textbook how to do that."
I would gladly take a smart recently converted AMISH FARMER over ANY MCSE that has been certified in the last 2 years. I can always teach a smart person what I need them to do (and hire them at a lower pay rate initially to boot!
Here is a simple quiz on how to find a SMART person. Use this!
"A deaf and dumb (mute) man walks into a hardware store and wants to buy some nails. He approaches the store owner and places his left hand on the counter and starts pounding with his right hand, as if holding a hammer.
The store owner gets him a hammer.
The deaf man shakes his head and uses two fingers on his left hand and does the same pounding motion with his right hand.
The store owner nods and gets several nails for the man to pick from. He picks two nails and buy a couple of boxes.
The next day a blind man comes in. How does he ask for a pair of scissors? (What is you guess, think about it then read on.)
Now if your employee makes a scissors motion with his hands I would move him (or her) to the bottom of the stack. Why? The man is blind, not mute, he would simple ask for a pair of scissors. It's this kind of INTELLIGENCE that is needed in the work place that isn't being taught in most schools. I did this test to several instructors at universities to see what kind of staff they had. Most fail. To give credit where credit is due I discovered this test in Issac Asimov's book "The Realativity of Wrong" when Asimov was presented with this same test from... his automechanic. Asimov failed also it seems (in his younger years). This test show that there is more to intelligence than simply memorizing and regurgitating information, it's listening and applying what you've memorized, something a Blah in 24 hours book cannot teach.
P.S. No time for spell check. Later.
I think the reason it was cancelled is because Britney Spears is a pseudo-intelligent Borax demon from Nebcuntz Pholoplax and used her evil brain powers to change the NASA's mind on the book as it would expose that hundreds of Gurblatz demons are posing as humans. Some examples are: Dennis Rodman, Prince, Evil Kenival, John Tesh, Carrot Top, and the lieutenant commander of the Hufberg Uboolats Kevin Bacon.