In a former life I used to sell audio. The first half of the job was "de-educating" potential customers from the misconceptions they get from the ads. ("Listen to the 3" speaker fed by a 1 transistor damn near "Class C" amplifier in this $50 portable TV, and we'll show you how much better this $1000 system sounds than this $500 system!")
Directionality goes up as frequency goes up, no matter what the source, for sound waves as well as electromagnetic/electrostatic; i.e., radio,TV,microwave,et cetera. The higher the frequency the shorter the wavelength, the shorter the wavelength, the less the waves are able to "wrap around" obstacles so the chair that blocks your tweeter doesn't stop your woofer and the pine tree that blocks a UHF station doesn't block a VHF station.
When some of these cases do go to court "expert witnesses" are going to be able to make a nice living getting paid to testify as the lawyers try to sort out whether the fault lay in the hardware (which part?) or the software (operating system or application ?)or in the combination and which company is what per cent of liable. Final case--last appeal should be settled just in time for y10K.
The mere fact that none of you ever heard anything about the World Trade Center bombing or the Oklahoma City federal building bombing or the embassy bombings in Africa should be sufficient evidence of how successfully the U.S. disinformation campaign keeps us in the dark. But seriously folks, I suspect the ones you don't hear about are where the authorities find out about in advance and prevent terrorist activities and don't publicize it to prevent revealing techniques and sources as well as avoid giving the bad guys free publicity or giving anybody else any ideas.
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Hey Mr./Ms. 99th percentile! Anyone over 30 (except perhaps Katz)is incapable of reading your post without laughing. Companies want you for what you can do for them right now and in the near term. By the time that long run you speak of comes around they may very well have used you up and tossed you aside for the next 20 yr. old whiz kid, or if you're with someone to whom you're still useful, maybe you'll realize then how much you didn't know now that only experience could have taught you. I ain't saying you ain't worth good money but unless you've had a lot of experience as an employer running the kind of business you're looking to get into, chances are really good that you haven't evaluated yourself as objectively as you think you have.
Two Katz posts in one day, my target range runneth over. Actually, this one wasn't all that bad, comparitively, but....
"telephones, radio, TV - which were, from the first, commercialized and corporate." No one else had, and was willing to risk, the money to make them happen.
"Although his vision almost literally made the Net as free as it is, he's almost known, online or off." In the future we will all be almost known for 15 minutes.
"Nobody will ever know how many smaller entrepreneurs, companies and individual enterprises corporations like Disney, Time-Warner-Turner, Microsoft (or Wal-Mart) have been engulfed and devoured." It works better if you decide which way you want to word the sentence and stick with that one way, either "Nobody will ever know how many smaller entrepreneurs, companies and individual enterprises corporations like Disney, Time-Warner-Turner, Microsoft (or Wal-Mart) have engulfed and devoured.", or "Nobody will ever know how many smaller entrepreneurs, companies and individual enterprises have been engulfed and devoured by corporations like Disney, Time-Warner-Turner, Microsoft (or Wal-Mart)."
"Compare that with what happened to TV, which was only a couple of years old before it was regulated by the federal government, then licensed to three network moguls for nearly half a century." There was also the DuMont network for a while as well, but the licenses went to the individual television stations (as part of the FCC's stewardship of the public's property, the airwaves) who were free to affiliate with one or more networks or not, as they chose. The current issue of satellite providers not being allowed to provide their subscribers with network programming is about bypassing the local affiliates whose coverage area the subscribers live in. Obviously the local affiliates aren't too thrilled at having their audience siphoned off and the networks don't want the affiliates that keep them alive ticked off. You'll probably find the "none too thrilled about satellite tv" cable television industry lurking in the background of this as well.
"The early hackers made it nearly a religion to break down walls wherever they find them. Although companies have gotten much more sophisticated at keeping the hackers out, the hacker ethic still runs powerful and deep." Congratulations, you just equated hackers with crackers and crooks.
C'mon Jon, get back to the Linux Chronicles, I wanna hear how it's going so I can learn from your misfortunes instead of my own.
Actually the guy (I can't remember who but I'm pretty sure he was a member of U.S. Congress at the time and maybe the same guy who came up with "klong" -a sudden rush of shit to the heart)who invented/coined the term "factoid" meant it to mean something that sounded like a fact but was actually false.
or in a blatantly commercial attempt by Be to increase consumer awareness of BeOS so that more people will give them money for it so that they can achieve dominance.
Poor John and Jane! Before the 'net they had no exposure to radio, television, comic books, or movies. Yeah, right. Actually there's precious little new here. Teens and twenty-somethings have been preoccupied with the latest in pop culture since at least the days of Glenn Miller, the Dorsey brothers, et cetera, and probably a lot further back than that. As for the spirituality angle, change the names and the references ("Godspell", "Jesus Christ, Superstar", and just to be obscure, "Mass in F Minor" by The Electric Prune )and this could have been written about the baby boomers back in the sixties. And probably was.
And you may rest assured that Hollywood will portray characters from your discipline every bit as accurately as they do doctors and lawyers and law-enforcement officers.
Now somebody get busy and FLAME KATZ! I can't do it all myself:)
Wasn't it a Toshiba laptop that the guy in Australia or thereabouts who started the Microsoft refund thing had? Is Toshiba shooting itself in the other foot now?
I'm only about 4 years less ancient than Katz (which makes him about 30 years older than I had thought him to be), and my parents are still together and as far as I know neither is planning to run off and abandon their family, so there must be some other hidden cause of all my neuroses and psychoses that cause me to find so much of Katz's writing to be touchy feely drivel and new age psychobable desperately in need of proofreading, editing and a lot less "let me tell you all about how I'm a professional journalist even though it's irrelevant to the topic at hand" self-promotion, and, just to make this a good example of a run-on sentence, if he never uses the word "geeks" again he's still used up all of his quota and a goodly sized chunk of mine. Perhaps if I were better able to wring immeasurable depths of alienation out of my interest in "tech" stuff I wouldn't wonder how he could be so blind to how his career at slashdot to date could be seen by some as a cross between cloying sycophancy,infuriating patronizing, and desperate bandwagon jumping. Having said all that(and having withheld a whole lot more), let me say here and now that I want him to stay. I believe that he is, in his own peculiar and baffling way, sincere, and, as I have indicated before, his writing is, slowly, getting better. And, to steal a previous poster's analogy, he's an incredibly tempting target of a top hat on the other side of the hedge from an arsenal of snowballs.
are they saying that what they own is the knowledge that 205.244.119.10 = http://www.familycom.com or that what they own is the knowledge that http://www.familycom.com = 205.244.119.10 or what?
The reason American television scans at 60 Hz vertical (and European TV at 50, where the power line frequency is 50 Hz) is to avoid having the TV picture "beat" against the 60 Hz pulsation of AC powered lighting(or vice versa), so at 75 Hz you're seeing a 15 Hz flicker and a 25 Hz flicker at 85 Hz and at 60 Hz a 0 Hz flicker; the flicker is there, but it's standing still.
You're absolutely correct about the inconsistencies and illogicities of English. Unfortunately trying to correct them now results in stuff in print that just looks "wrong". However, if you know the way it's supposed to be, you can do it "wrong" for effect. (This usually works better in speaking than in writing)
The sad thing is that not only does this person handle English much better than 99.44% of the "English as a first language" posters would handle this AC's native tongue, he/she handles English better than those "English as a first language" persons handle English.
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In a former life I used to sell audio. The first half of the job was "de-educating" potential customers from the misconceptions they get from the ads. ("Listen to the 3" speaker fed by a 1 transistor damn near "Class C" amplifier in this $50 portable TV, and we'll show you how much better this $1000 system sounds than this $500 system!")
Directionality goes up as frequency goes up, no matter what the source, for sound waves as well as electromagnetic/electrostatic; i.e., radio,TV,microwave,et cetera. The higher the frequency the shorter the wavelength, the shorter the wavelength, the less the waves are able to "wrap around" obstacles so the chair that blocks your tweeter doesn't stop your woofer and the pine tree that blocks a UHF station doesn't block a VHF station.
When some of these cases do go to court "expert witnesses" are going to be able to make a nice living getting paid to testify as the lawyers try to sort out whether the fault lay in the hardware (which part?) or the software (operating system or application ?)or in the combination and which company is what per cent of liable. Final case--last appeal should be settled just in time for y10K.
The mere fact that none of you ever heard anything about the World Trade Center bombing or the Oklahoma City federal building bombing or the embassy bombings in Africa should be sufficient evidence of how successfully the U.S. disinformation campaign keeps us in the dark.
But seriously folks, I suspect the ones you don't hear about are where the authorities find out about in advance and prevent terrorist activities and don't publicize it to prevent revealing techniques and sources as well as avoid giving the bad guys free publicity or giving anybody else any ideas.
Someone besides me please check this page
http://www.msnbc.com/news/195260.asp
and tell me if box halfway down the page isn't using pictures of Tux as bullets.
Another interesting take on Intel's future is Cringely's current column over at PBS
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit199902
Hey Mr./Ms. 99th percentile!
Anyone over 30 (except perhaps Katz)is incapable of reading your post without laughing. Companies want you for what you can do for them right now and in the near term. By the time that long run you speak of comes around they may very well have used you up and tossed you aside for the next 20 yr. old whiz kid, or if you're with someone to whom you're still useful, maybe you'll realize then how much you didn't know now that only experience could have taught you.
I ain't saying you ain't worth good money but unless you've had a lot of experience as an employer running the kind of business you're looking to get into, chances are really good that you haven't evaluated yourself as objectively as you think you have.
No Amazon link!
Two Katz posts in one day, my target range runneth over.
Actually, this one wasn't all that bad, comparitively, but....
"telephones, radio, TV - which were, from the first, commercialized and corporate." No one else had, and was willing to risk, the money to make them happen.
"Although his vision almost literally made the Net as free as it is, he's almost known, online or off." In the future we will all be almost known for 15 minutes.
"Nobody will ever know how many smaller entrepreneurs, companies and individual enterprises corporations like Disney, Time-Warner-Turner, Microsoft (or Wal-Mart) have been engulfed and devoured." It works better if you decide which way you want to word the sentence and stick with that one way, either "Nobody will ever know how many smaller entrepreneurs, companies and individual enterprises corporations like Disney, Time-Warner-Turner, Microsoft (or Wal-Mart) have engulfed and devoured.", or "Nobody will ever know how many smaller entrepreneurs, companies and individual enterprises have been engulfed and devoured by corporations like Disney, Time-Warner-Turner, Microsoft (or Wal-Mart)."
"Compare that with what happened to TV, which was only a couple of years old before it was regulated by the federal government, then licensed to three network moguls for nearly half a century." There was also the DuMont network for a while as well, but the licenses went to the individual television stations (as part of the FCC's stewardship of the public's property, the airwaves) who were free to affiliate with one or more networks or not, as they chose. The current issue of satellite providers not being allowed to provide their subscribers with network programming is about bypassing the local affiliates whose coverage area the subscribers live in. Obviously the local affiliates aren't too thrilled at having their audience siphoned off and the networks don't want the affiliates that keep them alive ticked off. You'll probably find the "none too thrilled about satellite tv" cable television industry lurking in the background of this as well.
"The early hackers made it nearly a religion to break down walls wherever they find them. Although companies have gotten much more sophisticated at keeping the hackers out, the hacker ethic still runs powerful and deep." Congratulations, you just equated hackers with crackers and crooks.
C'mon Jon, get back to the Linux Chronicles, I wanna hear how it's going so I can learn from your misfortunes instead of my own.
Actually the guy (I can't remember who but I'm pretty sure he was a member of U.S. Congress at the time and maybe the same guy who came up with "klong" -a sudden rush of shit to the heart)who invented/coined the term "factoid" meant it to mean something that sounded like a fact but was actually false.
or in a blatantly commercial attempt by Be to increase consumer awareness of BeOS so that more people will give them money for it so that they can achieve dominance.
Poor John and Jane! Before the 'net they had no exposure to radio, television, comic books, or movies. Yeah, right.
Actually there's precious little new here. Teens and twenty-somethings have been preoccupied with the latest in pop culture since at least the days of Glenn Miller, the Dorsey brothers, et cetera, and probably a lot further back than that.
As for the spirituality angle, change the names and the references ("Godspell", "Jesus Christ, Superstar", and just to be obscure, "Mass in F Minor" by The Electric Prune )and this could have been written about the baby boomers back in the sixties. And probably was.
And you may rest assured that Hollywood will portray characters from your discipline every bit as accurately as they do doctors and lawyers and law-enforcement officers.
:)
Now somebody get busy and FLAME KATZ! I can't do it all myself
Wasn't it a Toshiba laptop that the guy in Australia or thereabouts who started the Microsoft refund thing had?
Is Toshiba shooting itself in the other foot now?
I'm only about 4 years less ancient than Katz (which makes him about 30 years older than I had thought him to be), and my parents are still together and as far as I know neither is planning to run off and abandon their family, so there must be some other hidden cause of all my neuroses and psychoses that cause me to find so much of Katz's writing to be touchy feely drivel and new age psychobable desperately in need of proofreading, editing and a lot less "let me tell you all about how I'm a professional journalist even though it's irrelevant to the topic at hand" self-promotion, and, just to make this a good example of a run-on sentence, if he never uses the word "geeks" again he's still used up all of his quota and a goodly sized chunk of mine. Perhaps if I were better able to wring immeasurable depths of alienation out of my interest in "tech" stuff I wouldn't wonder how he could be so blind to how his career at slashdot to date could be seen by some as a cross between cloying sycophancy,infuriating patronizing, and desperate bandwagon jumping.
Having said all that(and having withheld a whole lot more), let me say here and now that I want him to stay. I believe that he is, in his own peculiar and baffling way, sincere, and, as I have indicated before, his writing is, slowly, getting better. And, to steal a previous poster's analogy, he's an incredibly tempting target of a top hat on the other side of the hedge from an arsenal of snowballs.
When those guys say
"All customer data is our intellectual property,"
are they saying that what they own is the knowledge that 205.244.119.10 = http://www.familycom.com or that what they own is the knowledge that http://www.familycom.com = 205.244.119.10 or what?
There's an idea! We can all chip in to get Katz his own web page. If you want Katz to go away, pay up!
The reason American television scans at 60 Hz vertical (and European TV at 50, where the power line frequency is 50 Hz) is to avoid having the TV picture "beat" against the 60 Hz pulsation of AC powered lighting(or vice versa), so at 75 Hz you're seeing a 15 Hz flicker and a 25 Hz flicker at 85 Hz and at 60 Hz a 0 Hz flicker; the flicker is there, but it's standing still.
But do they monitor your scanner?
"blatant propensity for abuse" + MS
Yeah, sounds about right.
Cable companies, just about the only thing this side of the mafia which, in comparison to, Microsoft looks at least benign if not benevolent.
Yeah, but I'm a conservatively liberal radical moderate!
You're absolutely correct about the inconsistencies and illogicities of English. Unfortunately trying to correct them now results in stuff in print that just looks "wrong".
However, if you know the way it's supposed to be, you can do it "wrong" for effect. (This usually works better in speaking than in writing)
The sad thing is that not only does this person handle English much better than 99.44% of the "English as a first language" posters would handle this AC's native tongue, he/she handles English better than those "English as a first language" persons handle English.
To think, I could have had an MSAC, but Nooo, I had to go and get this lousy nick and password.
We must regain the lead. Our sacred honor demands no less.
After all, he's OUR obnoxious windbag!