The tech boom is from the 1970s when homebrewers started creating homebrew microcomputers such as the Apple and the IMSAI 8080.
For us geeks this is true, but we only make up a small portion of the population.
For the masses, it was not til of millions started pouring onto the Internet in the mid 1990's.
Companies like Dell went from Dorm rooms to billionaires, because joe six pack wanted a PC.
Companies went from paper ledgers to Lotus, Excel and Quick Books, it was a paradigm shift, the bulk of the ramp up occured during clinton's 8 years.
I know ppl that got a PC primarily for Turbo Tax and Quicken.
What does VoIP have to do with the boom? The tech boom was going along great before VoIP came on the scene.
I worked for cisco systems doing convergence work.
The migration from SS7 to IP based communications in the carrier class.
in the 1990's ppl started engineering a move from circuit switched PSTN SS7 networks to IP based telecom, and it made companies move their long distance to VoIP to save millions.
With multi strand fiber the bandwidth goes even higher.
The change the would make the biggest difference in my humble opinion, is a 100% mandated optical long haul core with zero latency due to its being 100% optical.
Then in the MAN ( metro networks ) Have it as Sonet as it is the closest thing to Synchronous communications.
ATM is Asynch, and has issues with out of order delivery of packets for real time apps like Voip/Video.
ATM is cheap, thus why they love it so much.
In your neighborhoods go to multi channel Wifi/WiMAX/Ultrawideband.
For ppl needing big bandwidth run them a Sonet line.
If everyone was 2 - 4 hops off the optical backbone, the internet would be much better for all.
Right now you can do Tracert to ppl you know and the latency on cable networks is poor, due to the fact that the companies are profit oriented vs. quality oriented.
DWDM gear has come down though, and it would be nice if they started rolling it out nationwide, but for some tight fisted ISPs it will take a mandate to get them onboard.
How many people with poor people skills have you worked with, who later turned it around? I know my total would be 0, and I suspect many others have had the same experience.
So true.
A-holes abound in all job fields, and lots of them got their jobs because of who they know, vs. what they know. Butt kissing and nepotism play a big factor in some jobs in the US.
I imagine it occurs overseas as well.
I have seen ppl at companies here in the US who are totally unqualified for the job that not even decent ppl to work just because those ppl go to the same church as someone that does the hiring or is the supervisor.
I have a degree in German from a State college in Oregon but I make bank in San Antonio Texas making PowerPoint slides for management teams of a huge grocery chain.
Naturally. Aim for the stars and you shall surely reach them.
sometimes life is not about that stars, it is about the family, good medical care for them and you, and sometimes you are limited to the jobs that are available.
Sometimes those "star" jobs are limited in number, and have a few million "eager beavers" already in line for them.
Yea supposedly small government types create a balloon a large national debt whereas a big government neoliberal almost wipes out the national debt as well as created the largest surplus. The US went from the largest national surplus, under a Democrat, to the largest national debt, under a Republican, within 8 years.
Falcon
Ok, here is the truth.
The presidents impact on the economy is pretty small, the reason that clinton's time saw a surplus was because of a Tech boom.
You are using it right now.
The billions poured into the internet, VoIP, and Y2K mania.
Most VoIP suffered from latency issues, and other problems.
Y2K once gone was gone.
The internet is still kicking, but US broadband has fallen to 16th worldwide.
Telso's are reluctant to roll out fast, low latency broadband, because then VoIP is going to sideline all their long distance charges.
Wifi enabled mobile phones could make VoIP calls.
People at home on their DSL/Cable modems already do.
I credit the Tech Boom, not some blowhard getting blowjobs in the Oval Orifice, and if it was a republican same for them too.
Put a Squid/smoothwall/IPcop box on the backside of the T1 for caching, all the web graphics and commonly accessed sites can be cached and effectively increase the bandwidth.
I am more concerned about them dumping their US Treasury bond holdings thereby sending long-term interest rates skyrocketing, tanking the US housing market and most of our economy in the process
They recently dumped 67 billion and they are converting to hard assets like gold.
Look for this to continue, and....
This little civil war we are about to have should provide for some interesting effects on the US economy:
Once SP1 hits, the flywheel's going to spin a LOT faster.
Vista is a bloated DRM infested cess pool of an OS that is not even as good as XP.
Its enormous RAM requirements alone make it worthless.
Gamers don't want a slower computer for their games, CAD drafters and editors do not want to have to wait longer for their apps to respond.
"Ohhhh pretty, is for the dumb home users that don't have a damn clue what DRM is."
I work for Dell, the consumers were SCREAMING for XP back after a few weeks of Vista being a worthless piece of shit.
Is Vista neat, new, and stylish ??? sure...But who cares if most of your critical apps are broke and don't work.
MS has already announced the Vista replacement..as far as I am concerned and most of my co-workers at Dell MS is replacing it for a REASON...It is crap.
Vista is the new Windows ME ( millenium ) which was also a total shit bag.
Really, they can just shut down the gas pipeline in the middle of the winter and watch Europe surrender.
Maybe in the short term, but in the long term ppl are starting to realize that the insane amount of solar power hitting the earth can be collected with something as simple as mirrors in the form of heat.
* The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year.[5]
* Oceans absorb approximately 285 ZJ of solar energy per year.[6]
* Winds can theoretically supply 6 ZJ of energy per year.[7]
* Biomass captures approximately 1.8 ZJ of solar energy per year.[8][9]
* Worldwide energy consumption was.471 ZJ in 2004.[10]
This is not even considering the wind power, tidal power, sewer methane capture, and a host of other technologies coming along to transition the planet off oil and gas.
John Hobbes, Thomas Locke, people Thomas Jefferson looked to for guidance along with Ayn Rand are the people that intelligent libertarians most agree with.
Thomas Jefferson had a fair idea for a fair country at the time he had the idea.
Not all of it applies to the new and modern world, and a mix of this and a Technocracy is what will most likely be the best choice to save the planet as a whole.
Think Open Government, direct representation, no soft money, no lobbyists rolling out party favors under the table that cannot be traced thru bank accounts.
Open Source is good for an OS, a government with corruption as its highest sin could clean up a lot of the criminal element that now plagues our once fine nation.
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The tech boom is from the 1970s when homebrewers started creating homebrew microcomputers such as the Apple and the IMSAI 8080.
For us geeks this is true, but we only make up a small portion of the population.
For the masses, it was not til of millions started pouring onto the Internet in the mid 1990's.
Companies like Dell went from Dorm rooms to billionaires, because joe six pack wanted a PC.
Companies went from paper ledgers to Lotus, Excel and Quick Books, it was a paradigm shift,
the bulk of the ramp up occured during clinton's 8 years.
I know ppl that got a PC primarily for Turbo Tax and Quicken.
What does VoIP have to do with the boom? The tech boom was going along great before VoIP came on the scene.
I worked for cisco systems doing convergence work.
The migration from SS7 to IP based communications in the carrier class.
in the 1990's ppl started engineering a move from circuit switched PSTN
SS7 networks to IP based telecom, and it made companies move their long distance
to VoIP to save millions.
many diverse systems together in one unregulated mass
The series of RFC's for each protocol.
FTP, SSH, SSL, HTTP(s), DNS, IPsec, PPTP, PPOE, PPP, ATM, Sonet, Frame Relay, xDSL,
T-carrier, V.35, Ethernet, it is truly too many to list.
Organizations IANA, ICANN, ITU, ANSI, and several others.
People may think it is unregulated, but it trust me it is regulated.
Not to mention what the major long haul providers implement
via there own machinations.
There are optical routing switches that will pass 100 - 200 channels of high density Sonet or ATM
down a single strand of fiber.
What does that equate to ? how about an OC-768/STM-256
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OC-192#OC-768_.2F_STM-256x
With multi strand fiber the bandwidth goes even higher.
The change the would make the biggest difference in my humble opinion,
is a 100% mandated optical long haul core with zero latency due to its being 100% optical.
Then in the MAN ( metro networks ) Have it as Sonet as it is the closest thing to Synchronous communications.
ATM is Asynch, and has issues with out of order delivery of packets for real time apps like Voip/Video.
ATM is cheap, thus why they love it so much.
In your neighborhoods go to multi channel Wifi/WiMAX/Ultrawideband.
For ppl needing big bandwidth run them a Sonet line.
If everyone was 2 - 4 hops off the optical backbone, the internet would be much better for all.
Right now you can do Tracert to ppl you know and the latency on cable networks is poor,
due to the fact that the companies are profit oriented vs. quality oriented.
DWDM gear has come down though, and it would be nice if they started rolling it out
nationwide, but for some tight fisted ISPs it will take a mandate to get them onboard.
How many people with poor people skills have you worked with, who later turned it around? I know my total would be 0, and I suspect many others have had the same experience.
So true.
A-holes abound in all job fields, and lots of them got their jobs because of who they know,
vs. what they know. Butt kissing and nepotism play a big factor in some jobs in the US.
I imagine it occurs overseas as well.
I have seen ppl at companies here in the US who are totally unqualified for the job
that not even decent ppl to work just because those ppl go to the same church as
someone that does the hiring or is the supervisor.
"pathetic"
I have a degree in German from a State college in Oregon but I make bank in San Antonio Texas making PowerPoint slides for management teams of a huge grocery chain.
Naturally. Aim for the stars and you shall surely reach them.
sometimes life is not about that stars, it is about the family, good medical care for them and you,
and sometimes you are limited to the jobs that are available.
Sometimes those "star" jobs are limited in number, and have a few million "eager beavers" already in line for them.
The US Navy and some long time ridiculed folks might have the answer for you:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/05/2148217
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke_ZhgAKjhs
They are getting close now, very close.
Trust me the aviation maintenance hangars, and wal-marts cover some real estate.
The biggest power draw is not residential, its commercial.
All the commercial buildings that no one lives in could house a lot of photovoltaics.
Yea supposedly small government types create a balloon a large national debt whereas a big government neoliberal almost wipes out the national debt as well as created the largest surplus. The US went from the largest national surplus, under a Democrat, to the largest national debt, under a Republican, within 8 years.
Falcon
Ok, here is the truth.
The presidents impact on the economy is pretty small, the reason that
clinton's time saw a surplus was because of a Tech boom.
You are using it right now.
The billions poured into the internet, VoIP, and Y2K mania.
Most VoIP suffered from latency issues, and other problems.
Y2K once gone was gone.
The internet is still kicking, but US broadband has fallen to 16th worldwide.
Telso's are reluctant to roll out fast, low latency broadband, because then
VoIP is going to sideline all their long distance charges.
Wifi enabled mobile phones could make VoIP calls.
People at home on their DSL/Cable modems already do.
I credit the Tech Boom, not some blowhard getting blowjobs in the Oval Orifice,
and if it was a republican same for them too.
If it is mounted on roof tops it will reduce building heating,
and use space that goes unused 95% of the time.
Some buildings put a few things up there, but none of them
need the sun to work, ie. the AC units.
Some giant warehouse buildings could even produce excess power.
Put a Squid/smoothwall/IPcop box on the backside of the T1 for caching,
all the web graphics and commonly accessed sites can
be cached and effectively increase the bandwidth.
http://www.skullbox.net/squid.php
http://www.dageek.co.uk/ipcop/addonz/dansguardian.htm
I am more concerned about them dumping their US Treasury bond holdings thereby sending long-term interest rates skyrocketing, tanking the US housing market and most of our economy in the process
....
They recently dumped 67 billion and they are converting to hard assets like gold.
Look for this to continue, and
This little civil war we are about to have should provide for some interesting effects on the US economy:
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
~ Adios Amigos ! ~
See if the snd card works in another system, also chk
to see if there is a linux driver for the snd card.
If it is a common card there most likely is a driver.
If not, they you may be out of luck.
Once SP1 hits, the flywheel's going to spin a LOT faster.
...But who cares if most of your
Vista is a bloated DRM infested cess pool of an OS that is not even as good as XP.
Its enormous RAM requirements alone make it worthless.
Gamers don't want a slower computer for their games,
CAD drafters and editors do not want to have to wait
longer for their apps to respond.
"Ohhhh pretty, is for the dumb home users that don't have a damn clue what DRM is."
I work for Dell, the consumers were SCREAMING for XP back after a few weeks of
Vista being a worthless piece of shit.
Is Vista neat, new, and stylish ??? sure
critical apps are broke and don't work.
MS has already announced the Vista replacement..as far as I am concerned
and most of my co-workers at Dell MS is replacing it for a REASON...It is crap.
Vista is the new Windows ME ( millenium ) which was also a total shit bag.
Vista = Fistya...
Really, they can just shut down the gas pipeline in the middle of the winter and watch Europe surrender.
.471 ZJ in 2004.[10]
Maybe in the short term, but in the long term ppl are starting to realize
that the insane amount of solar power hitting the earth can be collected
with something as simple as mirrors in the form of heat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power#Energy_from_the_Sun
* The total solar energy available to the earth is approximately 3850 zettajoules (ZJ) per year.[5]
* Oceans absorb approximately 285 ZJ of solar energy per year.[6]
* Winds can theoretically supply 6 ZJ of energy per year.[7]
* Biomass captures approximately 1.8 ZJ of solar energy per year.[8][9]
* Worldwide energy consumption was
This is not even considering the wind power, tidal power, sewer methane capture,
and a host of other technologies coming along to transition the planet off oil and gas.
Small Hydro power is also viable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_hydro
In time, renewable and alternative will replace the fossil fuels for heat and electricity.
Hmmm the link won't work, but if you got to the site and enter "pc-dos" in the
search you can then click a link that "will" work.
Ahem....take a look at file # 141 in this torrent...
http://btjunkie.org/torrent/MS-DOS-PC-DOS-DR-DOS-Etc-BIG-Collection/3562e5ceb5c0956646911e1af23d4b09afb5a17c599e/download.torrent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio_Diesel#Algaculture
Too bad he's dead. If he could grasp the concept of null as well, he would be a fine programmer.
... I am here all week, *tap* *tap* is this mic on ? ....
Nah...his typing would just be hunt and peck.....
No, I am afraid I have seen how the the chinese and soviet communism worked.
It didn't.
better done by government.
I had to reread this a few times to believe you posted it.
I do not know what government you are talking about,
but it is not one I have experienced.
Also, I know when I am deathly sick I will want a doctor,
and me not dying creates happiness and well being.
Beyond that making widgets means a lot less to me,
and I am guessing a lot of other ppl as well.
The rest of the world just needs to deal with it's own problems.
Read up about the times after world war one, you will find this mind set
was part of the formula for world war two.
Problem is what role we have played we have done poorly, and primarily for profit
instead of what is right.
The Whore of babylon rides the beast into the Apocalypse.
Gravity...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian#Natural_r ights_and_consequentialism
John Hobbes, Thomas Locke, people Thomas Jefferson looked to for guidance
along with Ayn Rand are the people that intelligent libertarians most
agree with.
Thomas Jefferson had a fair idea for a fair country at the time he had the idea.
Not all of it applies to the new and modern world, and a mix of this and a Technocracy
is what will most likely be the best choice to save the planet as a whole.
Think Open Government, direct representation, no soft money, no lobbyists rolling
out party favors under the table that cannot be traced thru bank accounts.
Open Source is good for an OS, a government with corruption as its highest sin
could clean up a lot of the criminal element that now plagues our once fine nation.
Carpe Diem ~
Vista = Fistya
Anything would be better than what we have right now.
We pay more for broadband, but we have fallen to 16th worldwide.
Totally pathetic...
It is just plain old greed, nothing new, and it is going to take
some serious leverage to pry these telecom ticks off the ass of society.