Well yeah, use a network, and it slows down. The complication with the Internet, is that it's a network of networks. And you might have a favorite (fast) network, but that's also everybody else's favorite. By thrashing that fast network into the ground, the whole network suffers.
At least that's what the article makes it sound like. I imagine it's something like traffic here in Austin, TX. Everybody's morbidly fascinated with using I35 to get everywhere. It's probably because there's a > 50% of having to stop at any given light (as I've calculated). The problem is, with everybody getting on I35, those slower roads go unused, while I35 jams right up. In the end, it takes EVERYBODY longer to get wherever.
What I don't understand is how routers don't seem to consider alternatives as much as I would have thought. The article implies routers have tunnel vision when it comes to picking choices to destinations. I thought they adapted to traffic burdens, but I guess I'm wrong.
All of my friends have been asking me why I keep randomly throwing
spy USCOI Mena bluebird virus Sears Tower electronic surveillance
Vince Foster White Water ASPIC industrial espionage Semtex CBNRC
Mossad Juiliett Class Submarine
all these strange words into my emails. It's from spook, a
military asset class struggle AUTODIN Mafia MDA genetic cryptographic
South Africa Crypto AG keyhole Rubin Medco eavesdropping Chobetsu
little emacs script that adds high-risk words to my emails. The theory is, the extra traffic of false-positives will overwhelm any
Steve Case North Korea Cohiba computer terrorism PGP SCUD missile
AIMSX ARPA CISU arrangements class struggle chameleon man ISEC
security espionage
effort by the government to
gamma Uzi FIPS140 bemd assassinate CDMA ANDVT Elvis USCODE 22nd SAS
threat Bletchley Park colonel industrial espionage csystems
monitor email traffic.
Does that mean I can stop doing this now? My coworkers think I
chameleon man SWAT PGP JFK ANZUS top secret Cohiba USCODE Delta Force
ASDIC virus assassination Noriega World Trade Center cryptanalysis
have Tourettes.
Disgruntled Californians, dressed as Native Americans, boarded a solar panel-carrying cargo ship in San Francisco Bay last night and dumped all the contents overboard. Shouts of "No taxation without representation!" were heard all across the bay.
They also believe digital transmission over power lines will electrify rural broadband. It will supply the power small communities need to get on the Internet
Japan plans to spend about 1 billion yen (US$8.3 million) funding Asian software developers working on the open-source Linux
This makes it sound like a certain win, but what is this about "betting?"
Tokyo has already budgeted 50 million yen (US$416,000) for next fiscal year to study the possibility of switching government computers to an open-source operating system.
So are they putting that upfront to see if it's worth it, with the $8.3 million conditional? It sounds exciting, but I don't want to hold my breath without clarification.
Well, regardless of the poor rating of my original post, this seems to clear it enough for me. I suppose I'm a moron about it since I never really listened to the radio. This would, perhaps, also explain WHY I don't listen to the radio...
I read all this and couldn't help but mutter, "Wha?" I'm not a compulsive mouth-breather or anything; I just don't know what I'm supposed to think here. So please, who in the article am I supposed to hate? I am under the impression I'm supposed to hate somebody there. Is ClearChannel the bad guy? And what's this got to do with blipverts?...Or even Max for that matter.
My Kentucky Fried Movie DVD rotted out. I thought it had more to do with the content than the media itself, but that's what I get for liking the "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" skit.
OK then, how about something WORLD DOMINATION ADIRATIC DATA HAVEN CBNRC OFFENSIVE INFORMATION WARFARE like the spook script that's JOHN OATES ASO NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE in emacs? Just insert some of those goodies into JUWTF FORTEZZA NORIEGA SEARS TEOWER [HELLO TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FANS IN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE] ASSASSINATE SOUTH AFRICA CYPHERPUNK UZI a nice, polite email.
We do have concerns about our intellectual property in general," McBride said in an interview. "To us, it's not an issue of: Is Linux violating (SCO intellectual property)? It's an issue of: Is anybody violating it?"
So it's OK if Linux uses their technology, as long as nobody uses Linux?
Start message with: kitten computer candy mother father pig money happy birthday yams game scanner program office printer scanner paper car automobile doing... ... penguin telephone camel
At the end: HOT HOT RUSSIAN TEENS! [insert link here]
So how about that? That kind of stuff is already used on search engines!
Am I the only person curious about the response timothy got when he wrote in to Canada's Parliament? We discuss writing in all the time, but I rarely see the results of that on here.
These DNC lists only work within limited jurisdictions. You'd think the national list would be the end-all solution, but you forget the laws mean nothing outside the US border.
I know some folks on the New York DNC list, and they are getting calls from Canada. The fines can't stick on the Canadians, and they don't care about the DNC lists. Solicators have two choices when the national DNC list takes foot:
I do not believe the question raised was about programming in general. It was more focused on firmware, which is a real rough one from what I see. I'm still in school, but I already have developed a perception about firmware. As a computer engineer, I think it's too much like software. There's not enough hardware in it to keep me interested. On the other hand, the software engineers think it's too much hardware for their tastes.
So it's stuck in the middle, and it's not even considered that challenging. So it doesn't pay that much. Some people LOVE to do it. Good for them. However, I get the impression they're becoming a minority ("Hooray, Visual C at a system level"). So yes, I believe firmware programming is a dead-end job for an engineer. That is, a person that spent a good deal of time learning how to design things, and solve problems. They surrendered their lives to technology, and firmware is kind of an anticlimax given that.
All the other programming lives on, as the software engineers love that stuff. Hardware moves on, as the computer engineers love it. But put the two together and you get a big ball of bleh -- firmware.
The news here is that associating of search terms with an IP address. Are they planning on building a cache for each and every IP? That would allow personal caches, which I could find beneficial. But as much as I would enjoy such personal service, I highly doubt that's what it is for.
There might be some merit to that. I have a K2000 keyboard (sampler, for all that nitty-gritty industrial-techno), and a SCSI zip drive for it. I've read that the zip drive should not be placed above the keyboard's regular floppy drive. From what I understand, zip drives aren't magnetically shielded too well. Over time, the thing will start rattling and banging when one tries to access a zip disk. It will correct itself if moved away and operated for awhile. Similar to how an old monitor can (kind of) degauss itself if you let it run for awhile.
For more information, look at http://members.aol.com/zipcod1/Zip.html
Human journalists make connections between facts and between events or stories that can add context to a current report. This kind of contextualization is something that Newsblaster cannot do.
Now is this necessarily bad? I often times have to hack and slash through bias and opinion to get to the facts. It's time like that I wish I had a little robot to monotonously spit the facts to me. This is a great tool because it carries little opinion about the events, and forces the reader to do all the real thinking. Sure, it only cranks out blurbs, but I find these blurbs better than "3 Israelis Killed" [to 15 Palestinians]* headlines I keep seeing.
*I'm not trying to take a side in that, but I've recently found American news sources *seem* to skew that kind of news a little.
...a strip-search in which, he said, the electrodes were torn from his skin, causing bleeding, and several pieces of equipment were strewn about the room.
How are they going to explain the necessity of ripping that stuff off his body? Could he conceal a bomb under an electrode?! I highly doubt it. and I hope they enjoyed doing it, because they're not going to enjoy the lawsuit.
Gilligan, former
Energy Department CIO, has discussed security most often with executives at Microsoft. "They are the biggest supplier to the Air Force, and my attempt has been to encourage them to set an example," he says.
Woah woah woah... it is quite obvious he never discussed security while at the Energy Department! And it sure isn't Microsoft's fault a hard drive containing nuclear secrets magically appeared behind a mainframe after everybody started looking for it. Why the sudden change of heart?;)
What do you expect? Hardware continues to make a profit, albeit not as strong as during the.com boom. Hardware is a tangible, manufactured product. Of course, what we do with it is their own business. So research in these kind of technologies goes on.
What is NOT happening is this "pleateau" you talk about. Chip sizes continue to shrink, improving speed. Moore's Law is still in effect. I see an old AnandTech article predicting 10Ghz by 2005
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1379
[sorry, I'm a wuss that hasn't figured out pasting links yet]
The fact is the fast the CPU gets, the less efficient the software is to run on it. Not to say programmers are doing a bad job, just rather the engineering behind sees they can speed up turnaround. In other words, now that the processor speeds doubled, they can whip out the same software in 2 months that would have taken a year of optimized code.
Back in the day, you needed assembler to get anything to run reasonably well. Then unoptimized C (not making this a rule of thumb. Now we have virtual machines and scripting languages up the wazoo. You could make an argument everything is just a bunch of code held together with duct tape.
So as long as CPU's get faster, software turnaround will follow.
Sure, the Chinese finished researching "monarchy," "compass," and "gunpowder" before the rival European civilizations. However, the Europeans managed to steal the technology and upgraded their barracks to produce the new gun-equipped units. The Chinese countered by building the Great Wall wonder, which boosted their score significantly. The Europeans, always at war with each other, weren't as successful. However, they managed to eek out metallurgy, which nullified the Great Wall wonder. Soon after, they started building galleons and frigates.
All the European players found they couldn't build anymore cities on their part of the map, and decided to load the settlers on some boats and go romping around in the ocean to the west. They had not been explored there before. Sure, they had loaded some caravans onto boats to boost their gold intake, but they only sent them to the south and east.
Previously, the Chinese had sent a small fleet skirting around the world to get a good feel of where all the other civilizations were, but they hadn't put any settlers on their ships [big booboo]. So when the Europeans found this new land mass, it was a free-for-all. That is, with the exception of barbarians wandering into their towns. So they built up some musketeer units and captured the precious barbarian diplomat and got his ransom. That changed the momentum and put the Europeans squarely in the lead, later on leading to riflemen and mechanized infantry. However, the game's still open since nobody's launched a ship to Alpha Centauri yet.
IIRC, white is representative of young suns. So a white galaxy would be made up mostly of young suns. So what if all these galaxies put together result in a near-white color? Does that mean the collective age of the galaxies is quite young? Or, at the least, capable of much more energy?
[note: I avoided the use of the word "stars" so I could avoid Hollywood puns;) ]
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Well yeah, use a network, and it slows down. The complication with the Internet, is that it's a network of networks. And you might have a favorite (fast) network, but that's also everybody else's favorite. By thrashing that fast network into the ground, the whole network suffers.
At least that's what the article makes it sound like. I imagine it's something like traffic here in Austin, TX. Everybody's morbidly fascinated with using I35 to get everywhere. It's probably because there's a > 50% of having to stop at any given light (as I've calculated). The problem is, with everybody getting on I35, those slower roads go unused, while I35 jams right up. In the end, it takes EVERYBODY longer to get wherever.
What I don't understand is how routers don't seem to consider alternatives as much as I would have thought. The article implies routers have tunnel vision when it comes to picking choices to destinations. I thought they adapted to traffic burdens, but I guess I'm wrong.
All of my friends have been asking me why I keep randomly throwing spy USCOI Mena bluebird virus Sears Tower electronic surveillance Vince Foster White Water ASPIC industrial espionage Semtex CBNRC Mossad Juiliett Class Submarine all these strange words into my emails. It's from spook, a military asset class struggle AUTODIN Mafia MDA genetic cryptographic South Africa Crypto AG keyhole Rubin Medco eavesdropping Chobetsu little emacs script that adds high-risk words to my emails. The theory is, the extra traffic of false-positives will overwhelm any Steve Case North Korea Cohiba computer terrorism PGP SCUD missile AIMSX ARPA CISU arrangements class struggle chameleon man ISEC security espionage effort by the government to gamma Uzi FIPS140 bemd assassinate CDMA ANDVT Elvis USCODE 22nd SAS threat Bletchley Park colonel industrial espionage csystems monitor email traffic.
Does that mean I can stop doing this now? My coworkers think I chameleon man SWAT PGP JFK ANZUS top secret Cohiba USCODE Delta Force ASDIC virus assassination Noriega World Trade Center cryptanalysis have Tourettes.
Disgruntled Californians, dressed as Native Americans, boarded a solar panel-carrying cargo ship in San Francisco Bay last night and dumped all the contents overboard. Shouts of "No taxation without representation!" were heard all across the bay.
We'd go on strike, but then we'd all be terrorists. =(
...If it sounds shocking, consider this...
They also believe digital transmission over power lines will electrify rural broadband. It will supply the power small communities need to get on the Internet
Japan plans to spend about 1 billion yen (US$8.3 million) funding Asian software developers working on the open-source Linux
This makes it sound like a certain win, but what is this about "betting?"
Tokyo has already budgeted 50 million yen (US$416,000) for next fiscal year to study the possibility of switching government computers to an open-source operating system.
So are they putting that upfront to see if it's worth it, with the $8.3 million conditional? It sounds exciting, but I don't want to hold my breath without clarification.
Well, regardless of the poor rating of my original post, this seems to clear it enough for me. I suppose I'm a moron about it since I never really listened to the radio. This would, perhaps, also explain WHY I don't listen to the radio...
;)
Anyhow, I'm redundant so no use going further.
I read all this and couldn't help but mutter, "Wha?" I'm not a compulsive mouth-breather or anything; I just don't know what I'm supposed to think here. So please, who in the article am I supposed to hate? I am under the impression I'm supposed to hate somebody there. Is ClearChannel the bad guy? And what's this got to do with blipverts? ...Or even Max for that matter.
Wha?
My Kentucky Fried Movie DVD rotted out. I thought it had more to do with the content than the media itself, but that's what I get for liking the "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" skit.
OK then, how about something WORLD DOMINATION ADIRATIC DATA HAVEN CBNRC OFFENSIVE INFORMATION WARFARE like the spook script that's JOHN OATES ASO NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE in emacs? Just insert some of those goodies into JUWTF FORTEZZA NORIEGA SEARS TEOWER [HELLO TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND FANS IN DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE] ASSASSINATE SOUTH AFRICA CYPHERPUNK UZI a nice, polite email.
We do have concerns about our intellectual property in general," McBride said in an interview. "To us, it's not an issue of: Is Linux violating (SCO intellectual property)? It's an issue of: Is anybody violating it?"
So it's OK if Linux uses their technology, as long as nobody uses Linux?
Start message with: kitten computer candy mother father pig money happy birthday yams game scanner program office printer scanner paper car automobile doing ...
... penguin telephone camel
At the end: HOT HOT RUSSIAN TEENS! [insert link here]
So how about that? That kind of stuff is already used on search engines!
Am I the only person curious about the response timothy got when he wrote in to Canada's Parliament? We discuss writing in all the time, but I rarely see the results of that on here.
You know you've considered serving a spiked cmd.exe for all those hacked boxes out there that keep asking for it!
These DNC lists only work within limited jurisdictions. You'd think the national list would be the end-all solution, but you forget the laws mean nothing outside the US border.
I know some folks on the New York DNC list, and they are getting calls from Canada. The fines can't stick on the Canadians, and they don't care about the DNC lists. Solicators have two choices when the national DNC list takes foot:
1. Move to Canada
2. Move to Mexico
I do not believe the question raised was about programming in general. It was more focused on firmware, which is a real rough one from what I see. I'm still in school, but I already have developed a perception about firmware. As a computer engineer, I think it's too much like software. There's not enough hardware in it to keep me interested. On the other hand, the software engineers think it's too much hardware for their tastes.
So it's stuck in the middle, and it's not even considered that challenging. So it doesn't pay that much. Some people LOVE to do it. Good for them. However, I get the impression they're becoming a minority ("Hooray, Visual C at a system level"). So yes, I believe firmware programming is a dead-end job for an engineer. That is, a person that spent a good deal of time learning how to design things, and solve problems. They surrendered their lives to technology, and firmware is kind of an anticlimax given that.
All the other programming lives on, as the software engineers love that stuff. Hardware moves on, as the computer engineers love it. But put the two together and you get a big ball of bleh -- firmware.
The news here is that associating of search terms with an IP address. Are they planning on building a cache for each and every IP? That would allow personal caches, which I could find beneficial. But as much as I would enjoy such personal service, I highly doubt that's what it is for.
There might be some merit to that. I have a K2000 keyboard (sampler, for all that nitty-gritty industrial-techno), and a SCSI zip drive for it. I've read that the zip drive should not be placed above the keyboard's regular floppy drive. From what I understand, zip drives aren't magnetically shielded too well. Over time, the thing will start rattling and banging when one tries to access a zip disk. It will correct itself if moved away and operated for awhile. Similar to how an old monitor can (kind of) degauss itself if you let it run for awhile.
For more information, look at http://members.aol.com/zipcod1/Zip.html
*I'm not trying to take a side in that, but I've recently found American news sources *seem* to skew that kind of news a little.
What do you expect? Hardware continues to make a profit, albeit not as strong as during the .com boom. Hardware is a tangible, manufactured product. Of course, what we do with it is their own business. So research in these kind of technologies goes on.
What is NOT happening is this "pleateau" you talk about. Chip sizes continue to shrink, improving speed. Moore's Law is still in effect. I see an old AnandTech article predicting 10Ghz by 2005
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1379
[sorry, I'm a wuss that hasn't figured out pasting links yet]
The fact is the fast the CPU gets, the less efficient the software is to run on it. Not to say programmers are doing a bad job, just rather the engineering behind sees they can speed up turnaround. In other words, now that the processor speeds doubled, they can whip out the same software in 2 months that would have taken a year of optimized code.
Back in the day, you needed assembler to get anything to run reasonably well. Then unoptimized C (not making this a rule of thumb. Now we have virtual machines and scripting languages up the wazoo. You could make an argument everything is just a bunch of code held together with duct tape.
So as long as CPU's get faster, software turnaround will follow.
Sure, the Chinese finished researching "monarchy," "compass," and "gunpowder" before the rival European civilizations. However, the Europeans managed to steal the technology and upgraded their barracks to produce the new gun-equipped units. The Chinese countered by building the Great Wall wonder, which boosted their score significantly. The Europeans, always at war with each other, weren't as successful. However, they managed to eek out metallurgy, which nullified the Great Wall wonder. Soon after, they started building galleons and frigates.
All the European players found they couldn't build anymore cities on their part of the map, and decided to load the settlers on some boats and go romping around in the ocean to the west. They had not been explored there before. Sure, they had loaded some caravans onto boats to boost their gold intake, but they only sent them to the south and east.
Previously, the Chinese had sent a small fleet skirting around the world to get a good feel of where all the other civilizations were, but they hadn't put any settlers on their ships [big booboo]. So when the Europeans found this new land mass, it was a free-for-all. That is, with the exception of barbarians wandering into their towns. So they built up some musketeer units and captured the precious barbarian diplomat and got his ransom. That changed the momentum and put the Europeans squarely in the lead, later on leading to riflemen and mechanized infantry. However, the game's still open since nobody's launched a ship to Alpha Centauri yet.
IIRC, white is representative of young suns. So a white galaxy would be made up mostly of young suns. So what if all these galaxies put together result in a near-white color? Does that mean the collective age of the galaxies is quite young? Or, at the least, capable of much more energy?
;) ]
[note: I avoided the use of the word "stars" so I could avoid Hollywood puns