Bush beat Mccain in 2000 by resorting to hardball tactics that exemplify everything since. A sad day in history, IMHO. I am to blame. I did not vote.
McCain tows the line because that is better for his party, he's a better man than most of us, but I wish he would distance himself, at least to the extent that he stands up in the party against recent hegemonal, arrogant miss-steps, that seem, at least to some degree, to have turned the world against us while sqandering the good will of the world following 9/11.
'They hate us for our freedom' isnt flying anymore and he should publically stick a fork in that idea by showing more respect for the world. I don't see any reason why McCain could not do that. But not if he is still in bed with Bush.
Kick Bush to the curb and ride him like a sheep at the kiddee rodeo. It could be the best thing Bush does for America.
Back when aohell bought Netscape i thot a better fit was sun. seemed so obvious to me. Open source is the only hope against M$. Moz needs a big corp+$ to 'steer' it. sun needs frontends for it's servers.
Cheap sun(amd) + best browser = hope for sun else m$ wins
This is just the type of thing that i see here a lot. People crying about the injustice of systems knowing who you are and what you do. Dont do anything wrong and get over it - so that this information can be used for good things that helps everyone - like the fact that Bud is pond scum.
Back when the rumor was that Netscape was on the block i thought for sure Sun would buy it...seemed the best fit...but AOL did and till this day i still scratch my head. They could get a deal on it now and bring a browser into the mix - which has been notably absent thus far.
On to my point, 'The network is the computer' mantra suggests a client/server mentality for Sun and it has the goods to deliver on the backend but not the front end - which, i would argue IS the browser. I hope this mad hatter is good but it would be mad to ignore the obvious synergy between what sun has now and a competent/complimetary browser, like mozilla, which is sound but could use the commercial direction and funding of a large player. This would benefit the entire industry except M$.
Linux + Sun + Apache+ JBoss(or unix.NetMono) + Mozilla + Open Source items = At least a slim chance at gaining ground on redmond.
Medical records NEED to be open source precisely because of the nature of the business of keeping medical records. No one wants to share. I dont care if you can't read mine. Without an industry push possibly backed by big players the medical records will remain on islands, lost, inefficient and ineffective.
I'd guess the author chose ruby not java for pragmatic reasons inherent to interpreted languages over the rigidness of a compiled ones. You dont need the speed of a compiled language in the context of the article. Besides 'harnessing tools' was not the subject - but i'd bet ruby has similar fascilities that were not mentioned. Belittling the author's choice of tools assumes that you understand the problem more so than he.
Get a 64 bit processor with lots of memory and cache EVERYTHING. I'm using an app that caches the entire database(currently about 10 mg).It's lightning fast for hundreds of users. Suppose thousands could be handled.
Capitalism may not always work right the first time...but with this much demand, yes, it will work eventually.
I'm a believer - give me the koolaid!
And it's already there: IP
Sure, it's there... but nothing like a little peer preasure(eg mesh networks) to get the giants to play nicely - at least on it's perimeter.
And I think Time Warner is almost to A...they're testing IP phones that are damn good
interesting aint it? i'm considering biz class cable service (web/tv/phone when I can) in lieu of a colo of a couple servers and may share the connection with my neighbors with my 40 foot antenna. <notetoself>wonder if cable will mind?</notetoself>I'm gonna run Only Unpatched MS stuff too,...muhaaaaaaaa.
>>Americans protesting their government's actions somehow amounts to their being apathetic?
Let me restate that : American apathy for the liberties enjoyed daily.
People speeking freely for a cause deemed just is the cornerstone of america. We know that. Taking actions that endanger appointed officials of the govt(freely elected) is inexcusable.(exposing you and i's privacy is diffenet than openly exploiting Poindexters's privacy/position)
Arrogance toward the 'indignity' of the govt knowing what sites or countries visited or other information whose nature is only threatening if you are doing something wrong. Mocking the very freedom they are benefiting from while concurrently enjoying it's benefits. Pull these stunts in russia, or mexico or south africa and find yourelf in real hurt.
Ignorance to the fact that most of the worlds population would quite happily forgoe certain privacies for Democracy/Capitalism/Freedom enjoyed today by all americans.
Wait till something REALLY bad happens and watch the power of the govt escalate dramatically. Sniveling over insignificant privacy issues that MIGHT strengthen our ability to prevent hit and run massively destructive acts, belies the realities we face and underscores americans coddled nature and apathy for what they've got.
My view point is a utilitarian one - what is best for the most people - it's not ideal or utopic. Times are different.
These acts are inexcusable. We may not like Poin. or what he is doing but it is all in pursuant 'of a better way' to stop things like what happened 9/11. It may not be perfect. It might not even work. But these childish actions only serve to add credence to the notion that much of america is apathetic and unappreciative of the liberties we do have.
I'm a law abiding citizen who never had a big brother. So be it if I do tomorrow.
Microsft Transport Control Protocol is the obvious solution to the nitpicking issues you assert;)
A computer assisted 'super highway' could help to alleviate what you rightly point out is a nightmare waiting to fall out from the sky.
How about 'individual - mass transit' - sounds paradoxical but picture a routing system where you go to a hub and the 'system' takes over your vehicle . Kind of like tcp for real physical travel.
Scenerio 1: Go to station A and tell it I want to get to station B. Turn over the vehicle to the system and check up on email - maybe update your will too. The system checks routes much like tcp and finds the best path and gets you there.
A system like this I read about somewhere...maybe here... but it worked with cars.
Scenerio 2 : it's a bird it's a plane...oh #$%&#^ it's one of those &%^$#%ing flying machines - *duck*.
I think Microsoft could handle this 'system' no problem - preferably in Iraq.:)
For many folks it's not what you know but how many acronyms you can fit into a resume. Bad idea!
Long before the internet died I believed this field would be hyper saturated and I decided to pick a very few technologies that have long range legs and be demonstrably BETTER at those than the rest. (i may not be but that's been my strategy)
Some I would recommend:
-Javascript - it's not just for browsers anymore. (freshly baked into something new everyday - mozilla_the_platform for one)
-Xml(perhaps a few applications of it - like html and web services and xsl)
-Databases(Pick a flavor - ideally an open one)
-Photoshop
Know what you know demonstratably better than the next guy and leave the acronyms to the rest.
Quote from site 'Young Song, president and chief executive officer at StepUp Computing'
Young Song should StepDown and let Old News drive and read the writing on the wall (a good use for a pen).
-Keyboards are a good thing
-Lindows blows
-If I had to write this on a tablet you wouldnt be reading this
-They are going toe to toe with a bottomless money pit filled with severed toes
The only one of these things I'd consider using(as opposed to playing) is the Acer. But it has that dreaded keyboard.
Wait, update...it does have a keyboard as an accessory.
1) Make it part of the base product - seperable, maybe.
2) Same with the wi/fi card - what's the use of this if you cant get anywhere?
3) Hide in the bushes and hope ms does'nt make them sing a new song
bot's brains are powered by an open source version of this anemic, vertically and aesthetically challenged but smart bot.
bot aint got none smarts you like? Then twittle some bits. (holy open source batman!)
bot doesnt look like a dragon (want that? hire your mother in law - more expensive perhaps but meaner too)
bot embodies all that is Mac. In fact that's what it is mostly.
bot's drive train is similar to the Segway, its quite mobile and can run down any lesser charged bad person. (But it would'nt - it's a pacifist, you see - it would release the underfed rot-weiler boogie man visceration system. Bot believes in using the right tool for the job.)
bot knows how to charge itself [bot could learn us a thing or two]. With object recognition it just finds a jack and plugs itself in.
Bot doubles as a...
Mobile desktop/workstation (eg, 'bot, set up my workstation out there yonder by the olympic pool next to Heather - dont forget the beer this time. Oh and blow Heather up too')
Mobile access point
Mobile entertainment system
Door man.(If the guest is carrying a bible or a gun - other appropriate action is taken;-))
I've been playing Halo on a 36' rca crt (is crt the right term _big_heavy_tube_ that supports hdtv but no tuner). I'm no gamer- just interested and man was I blown away!! Better than the last game I got into... space invaders:)
Anyway, the one thing I would say about the darkness is that it is too dark on this tv as well. This tv I have is high end(2g when bought) so, the darkness might by more the game than the plasma screen...
I'm not rich but I live on a lake in Texas. For bandwidth, it might as well be antartica. I've been interested in wireless for sometime and believe the usefullness of self-propogating, self-healing,(and potentially mobile the kicker in my eyes), mesh-networks is endless - and not only for 'last mile' purposes, for which we see it's most immediate application.
really, i dont work for them(or anyone else;0/). There are many vying to use this same tech - mostly for the purpose of delivering bandwidth with wireless none line tech (as opposed to line of site that has had some success already)- but there are other reasons.
I remember way back when people liked the internet there were more than one 'visionary' wantabe entrapeneur proposing highly efficient planes (or even balloons) basically hovering over urbania and reflecting fat bandwith to all. Think of it as a flying high gain antenna - 24/7(pairs or quads i think). Really, i'm not making this up.
At the risk of ridicule and flame anybody ever power-chute? (stick with me I'm going somewhere with this), then picture a miniature sized, radio powered, highly efficient 802.11 WAP baring airplane (did you know there have been radio planes[not powered-chutes] that stayed up for as much as 30 hours or for trans - atlantic flights), with a panning camera...a kind of 802.11 distibution machine with eyes and limited brains. Swarm like even or autonomous drones or singular and remote controlled. In pairs, comunal even, slow, methodical but highly efficient INSTANTLY DEPLOYABLE ROAMING NETWORK.
Want an applicaton for meshnetworks?
-boats with bandwidth and beer
-live bikinis at high rez and beer
-instantly deployable roaming netowork
The hottest phones i've witnessed lately are leveraging services from the internet in sensible ways. Sprint services (All kinds of manufacturers) now have access to contacts in a web ui where you can input them or import them. The coolness of this(besides having an 'input' interface instead of a dial orsomething) is that once they are there calling them is as easy as - 'Call Heather'. I found especially interesting because the smarts that make the voice commands possible are actually on 'bigger iron'on the other end of the phone.
In short, this type of product will get's it's legs...(revenue) from the services it provides - right in concert with this.mac stuff....
If I can access my mp3s, voice messages, email,docs(virtual harddrive) etc from WHEREEVER , you've got something special - just the type of thing that keeps Steve in a job.
Funny how an off handed, benignly curious statement can cause such a stir.
In any case, I'm one of those who've wondered where the right mouse click is on my mac(I work on a PC). It provides more robost/immediate io management for me. So 3 is even better. Bring it on.
Otherwise, why not take the mouse click away entirely and instead, when you are over something interesting you hit some 'other' key? Thanks, no.
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++mod points if I had them.
Bush beat Mccain in 2000 by resorting to hardball tactics that exemplify everything since. A sad day in history, IMHO. I am to blame. I did not vote.
McCain tows the line because that is better for his party, he's a better man than most of us, but I wish he would distance himself, at least to the extent that he stands up in the party against recent hegemonal, arrogant miss-steps, that seem, at least to some degree, to have turned the world against us while sqandering the good will of the world following 9/11.
'They hate us for our freedom' isnt flying anymore and he should publically stick a fork in that idea by showing more respect for the world. I don't see any reason why McCain could not do that. But not if he is still in bed with Bush.
Kick Bush to the curb and ride him like a sheep at the kiddee rodeo. It could be the best thing Bush does for America.
http://mountbushmore.com/
Back when aohell bought Netscape i thot a better fit was sun. seemed so obvious to me. Open source is the only hope against M$. Moz needs a big corp+$ to 'steer' it. sun needs frontends for it's servers.
Cheap sun(amd) + best browser = hope for sun else m$ wins
This is just the type of thing that i see here a lot. People crying about the injustice of systems knowing who you are and what you do. Dont do anything wrong and get over it - so that this information can be used for good things that helps everyone - like the fact that Bud is pond scum.
This is because Palm knows Apple is coming out with its own phone/pda/ipod that syncs with .Mac and iTunes. Count on it.
well, most of the girls i know are stronger than most of the geeks i know on \., so i would not piss them off. they might kick your ass. :)
L I E
Back when the rumor was that Netscape was on the block i thought for sure Sun would buy it...seemed the best fit...but AOL did and till this day i still scratch my head. They could get a deal on it now and bring a browser into the mix - which has been notably absent thus far.
.NetMono) + Mozilla + Open Source items = At least a slim chance at gaining ground on redmond.
On to my point, 'The network is the computer' mantra suggests a client/server mentality for Sun and it has the goods to deliver on the backend but not the front end - which, i would argue IS the browser. I hope this mad hatter is good but it would be mad to ignore the obvious synergy between what sun has now and a competent/complimetary browser, like mozilla, which is sound but could use the commercial direction and funding of a large player. This would benefit the entire industry except M$.
Linux + Sun + Apache+ JBoss(or unix
Medical records NEED to be open source precisely because of the nature of the business of keeping medical records. No one wants to share. I dont care if you can't read mine. Without an industry push possibly backed by big players the medical records will remain on islands, lost, inefficient and ineffective.
I'd guess the author chose ruby not java for pragmatic reasons inherent to interpreted languages over the rigidness of a compiled ones. You dont need the speed of a compiled language in the context of the article. Besides 'harnessing tools' was not the subject - but i'd bet ruby has similar fascilities that were not mentioned. Belittling the author's choice of tools assumes that you understand the problem more so than he.
Get a 64 bit processor with lots of memory and cache EVERYTHING. I'm using an app that caches the entire database(currently about 10 mg).It's lightning fast for hundreds of users. Suppose thousands could be handled.
I'm a believer - give me the koolaid!
And it's already there: IP
Sure, it's there ... but nothing like a little peer preasure(eg mesh networks) to get the giants to play nicely - at least on it's perimeter.
And I think Time Warner is almost to A...they're testing IP phones that are damn good
interesting aint it? i'm considering biz class cable service (web/tv/phone when I can) in lieu of a colo of a couple servers and may share the connection with my neighbors with my 40 foot antenna. <notetoself>wonder if cable will mind?</notetoself>I'm gonna run Only Unpatched MS stuff too,...muhaaaaaaaa.
paul
I've been checking out ez systems. http://www.ez.no/
It's a cms system, written in object oriented php, and seems pretty comprehensive.
I'm holding out for a good server-side open source ecmascript interpreter(maybe mono?) with built in support for xml(e4x).
Good luck!
[anything remotely impinging] Isnt that what you do when you see if your chat buddies are on line?
>>Americans protesting their government's actions somehow amounts to their being apathetic?
Let me restate that : American apathy for the liberties enjoyed daily.
People speeking freely for a cause deemed just is the cornerstone of america. We know that. Taking actions that endanger appointed officials of the govt(freely elected) is inexcusable.(exposing you and i's privacy is diffenet than openly exploiting Poindexters's privacy/position)
Arrogance toward the 'indignity' of the govt knowing what sites or countries visited or other information whose nature is only threatening if you are doing something wrong. Mocking the very freedom they are benefiting from while concurrently enjoying it's benefits. Pull these stunts in russia, or mexico or south africa and find yourelf in real hurt.
Ignorance to the fact that most of the worlds population would quite happily forgoe certain privacies for Democracy/Capitalism/Freedom enjoyed today by all americans.
Wait till something REALLY bad happens and watch the power of the govt escalate dramatically. Sniveling over insignificant privacy issues that MIGHT strengthen our ability to prevent hit and run massively destructive acts, belies the realities we face and underscores americans coddled nature and apathy for what they've got.
My view point is a utilitarian one - what is best for the most people - it's not ideal or utopic.
Times are different.
These acts are inexcusable. We may not like Poin. or what he is doing but it is all in pursuant 'of a better way' to stop things like what happened 9/11. It may not be perfect. It might not even work. But these childish actions only serve to add credence to the notion that much of america is apathetic and unappreciative of the liberties we do have.
I'm a law abiding citizen who never had a big brother. So be it if I do tomorrow.
I highly recommend trusting any and all reviews you may encounter.
Microsft Transport Control Protocol is the obvious solution to the nitpicking issues you assert ;)
:)
A computer assisted 'super highway' could help to alleviate what you rightly point out is a nightmare waiting to fall out from the sky.
How about 'individual - mass transit' - sounds paradoxical but picture a routing system where you go to a hub and the 'system' takes over your vehicle . Kind of like tcp for real physical travel.
Scenerio 1: Go to station A and tell it I want to get to station B. Turn over the vehicle to the system and check up on email - maybe update your will too. The system checks routes much like tcp and finds the best path and gets you there.
A system like this I read about somewhere...maybe here... but it worked with cars.
Scenerio 2 : it's a bird it's a plane...oh #$%&#^ it's one of those &%^$#%ing flying machines - *duck*.
I think Microsoft could handle this 'system' no problem - preferably in Iraq.
Long before the internet died I believed this field would be hyper saturated and I decided to pick a very few technologies that have long range legs and be demonstrably BETTER at those than the rest. (i may not be but that's been my strategy)
Some I would recommend:
-Javascript - it's not just for browsers anymore. (freshly baked into something new everyday - mozilla_the_platform for one)
-Xml(perhaps a few applications of it - like html and web services and xsl)
-Databases(Pick a flavor - ideally an open one)
-Photoshop
Know what you know demonstratably better than the next guy and leave the acronyms to the rest.
Young Song should StepDown and let Old News drive and read the writing on the wall (a good use for a pen).
-Keyboards are a good thing
-Lindows blows
-If I had to write this on a tablet you wouldnt be reading this
-They are going toe to toe with a bottomless money pit filled with severed toes
The only one of these things I'd consider using(as opposed to playing) is the Acer. But it has that dreaded keyboard. Wait, update...it does have a keyboard as an accessory. 1) Make it part of the base product - seperable, maybe. 2) Same with the wi/fi card - what's the use of this if you cant get anywhere? 3) Hide in the bushes and hope ms does'nt make them sing a new song
Why?
I've been playing Halo on a 36' rca crt (is crt the right term _big_heavy_tube_ that supports hdtv but no tuner). I'm no gamer- just interested and man was I blown away!! Better than the last game I got into... space invaders :)
Anyway, the one thing I would say about the darkness is that it is too dark on this tv as well. This tv I have is high end(2g when bought) so, the darkness might by more the game than the plasma screen...
http://www.meshnetworks.com
really, i dont work for them(or anyone else ;0/). There are many vying to use this same tech - mostly for the purpose of delivering bandwidth with wireless none line tech (as opposed to line of site that has had some success already)- but there are other reasons.
I remember way back when people liked the internet there were more than one 'visionary' wantabe entrapeneur proposing highly efficient planes (or even balloons) basically hovering over urbania and reflecting fat bandwith to all. Think of it as a flying high gain antenna - 24/7(pairs or quads i think). Really, i'm not making this up.
At the risk of ridicule and flame anybody ever power-chute? (stick with me I'm going somewhere with this), then picture a miniature sized, radio powered, highly efficient 802.11 WAP baring airplane (did you know there have been radio planes[not powered-chutes] that stayed up for as much as 30 hours or for trans - atlantic flights), with a panning camera ...a kind of 802.11 distibution machine with eyes and limited brains. Swarm like even or autonomous drones or singular and remote controlled. In pairs, comunal even, slow, methodical but highly efficient INSTANTLY DEPLOYABLE ROAMING NETWORK.
Want an applicaton for meshnetworks?
-boats with bandwidth and beer
-live bikinis at high rez and beer
-instantly deployable roaming netowork
Back to the fridge....
Now, if they can only get the iLickable to uhm, lick, uhm, back, then you've got the seeds of Apple's own monopoly. :P
In short, this type of product will get's it's legs...(revenue) from the services it provides - right in concert with this .mac stuff ....
If I can access my mp3s, voice messages, email,docs(virtual harddrive) etc from WHEREEVER , you've got something special - just the type of thing that keeps Steve in a job.
In any case, I'm one of those who've wondered where the right mouse click is on my mac(I work on a PC). It provides more robost/immediate io management for me. So 3 is even better. Bring it on.
Otherwise, why not take the mouse click away entirely and instead, when you are over something interesting you hit some 'other' key? Thanks, no.