Years ago my group of friends set two goals to reach. A race of sorts. The first one with 1GB of RAM would win phase one, ( I was the winner on that one) and phase two was to get to 1TB of drive space. Looks like a friend named Paul will get to that one first, but a few others are not far behind.
Pretty soon we will have to set new goals. I guess 1TB RAM and 1EB (Exabyte is next isn't it?) of Drive space.
What do you think; maybe 5 to 6 years untill then?
Wow. Everyone I have spoken to - people who are fans of JMS (B5/Jeremiah) and Sci-Fi in general - has said that they had the same experience that I did.... By the fourth episode, I was so bored that I couldn't finish the episode.
Every once in a while I try to catch an episode, in case it gets better and I want to get back into it, but I never seem to make it to the end of a show. I just removed it from my Tivo record list this weekend.
Silent PC's have been on the market for a while. I bought a few of them 3 years ago. There were some that just ran Windows CE that booted right into a Metaframe client, and a few running Linux ( I forget which distro ) that had a ICA client but also had a local desktop. The machines had no moving parts and were totaly silent.
They used a PCMCIA memory card for both permemant storage and RAM. Their cases were designed to allow heated air to escape out the top drawing cooler air form the bottom thus using natural conduction to do the work of the fan. I think they used a cyrix processor.
I used the CE boxes for admin staff that only used office apps (Word and Excell) from a Metaframe server. The Linux boxes were from people who needed more than casual access to the web (graphics over metaframe is not a great idea).
Anyway, I have been trying to remember the name of the companies I bought from while I have been typing this, but I can't. I have changed jobs and really had not thought about them for a long time. I could check my records when I get home if anybody really cares ( and nobody has replied with it by then.) I am pretty sure that WYSE makes them too.
New price: $899.99 (but the service price is broken out. even if you want to add the up-front cost back in, it is still $100.00 cheaper than is was last week. This price is for an equal (160 hour) system. You can get the smallest one (40) for $350.00 now.
This is from Sony (PS2 fighting xbox) not from Sony(member of the RIAA).
Think of it as less like Jean Luc and more of JTK and his evil transporter-accident twin. Two components of the whole, just one is a lot more fun at parties (the type of parties you go to determins which one is more fun).
Resorting to signatures is a step back, and progress for the RIAA.
If this turns out to be the stimulas for more people using digital signatures, then heck, maybe it will be worth it!
Obviously 'joe user' has currently only faintly even heard of digital signatures. And the non-IT-industry person that can correctly use the term 'GPG' is rare indead. Maybe if a few of the common P2P clients came out with an out-of-the-box signing system, it may educate people on the whole idea of secure communications. I bet teaching people how to get the music they want is an easier sell than teaching people about encryption (even if in reality it is the same thing)
This could still turn into another compuserve.gif patent fight
We should be so lucky!
Quick poll: Who still uses.gif's?
.... anybody?
The patent holder for MP3 ( who ever that is now or in the future) whould have to be absolutely DAFT not to learn the lesson from the great migration to.jpeg. That story shows a beautiful way to destroy all revenue you are generating from a patent. If the people who own MP3 learn from it, we have no problem. If they do not, we switch to something else, THEN we have no problem. Either way; no problem.
There is only the possibility of a irritating transition period. And that will not happen if the people who are making money want to continue to make money ( a safe bet, eh?)
The original/. posting mentioned that Red Hat pulled their MP3 clients from their beta release IIRC. Is that also from a misinformed person? Or do the folks in NC think that there is something to this after all?
Sprint PCS has recently announced their "G3" PCS Vision plan. It allows them to fit more conversations on the same bandwidth. They also mentioned that it allows higher speed internet access than before. It is burst to 144k with sustained of about 50-70k. That beats burst to 56k any day and really beats the 14.4k that G2 phones have.
One thing they didn't really hype, however, is their Merlin C201 connection card. It is a PCMCIA wireless modem. It costs about the same as a new cell phone ($250.00) so it isn't exactly cheap, but it isn't outrageous either.
So if you don't have broadband at your home, but can get digital cell phone service, you can get wireless Internet connections 3 times faster than dial-up (Slightly faster than ISDN).
I don't work for them or anything, just passing it along.
Moore's Law describes an increase in transistor counts.
I hope you are referring to the idea that traditional microprocessor design would be obsolteted.....
Well, yes.
The role transistors play will not always be performed by transistors. Just like vacume tube technology halted in the 70's and buggy-whip disigns have been stagnate (for the most part) since the 1920's.
But I think you missed part of my point. That being: weather of not you are talking about a transistor, once a single molecule is used as the focal point of a device, the count will not be rising much from there.
Don't read too much into this. I am in my early 30's and for IT people my age, Moore's Law has been darned-near the only constant in our professional lives. I was just "thinking out loud" about the possibility if it now being obsolteted.
kind of a bummer: But at least it will be around for at least a bit longer.
I guess it has a bit of life left in it, but with the article talking about 'single molecule' focal points. I geuss we are about to run into a little wall if these ever actually make it to market.
Of course, with the computational power that will come of this, maybe we will be satisfied for a while. Somebody once said "Nobody will need more than 640 k of RAM" Right?
I work in the healthcare industry and have been following this fairly closely. One alarming thing that I have seen in various discussions is the idea that simply disabling the feature has any affect on the situation.
It does not.
The root of the problem is the agreement that M$ CAN download software on your computer without prior notification. If you agree to that, it really makes no difference if you check a box that tells you machine not to do it. At any time, either pre-programed or by an addition that you make, M$ can uncheck that box without letting you know. Think about it, if you sign a document that states I have the privilage to do something (whatever it is) and then you (outside of that document) simply tell me not to do it, am I legally bound not to do it? It is possible that not even using SUS (software update server) will mitigate this.
Also don't feel secure about non-W2K products either. Most (and soon all, I suspect) products M$ releases contain that same provision. If you have updated MediaPlayer ( I believe it is one with the new verbiage) then you have already given consent for M$ to add software to your machine whenever they choose. NOT Maybe, NOT sometime soon, NOT only if you have W2K, but right now on the box you are currently using. And although I don't have it right infront of me now, I'm pretty sure that mediaplayer even specificly mentions that current features may be removed (playing MP3's) by the unannounced 'upgrades'.
Although we are still evaluating this with our legal staff, it looks very possible that we will be purging M$ products from the vast majority of our network.
oh, DARN !;)
And for the record, I am not a lawyer. Don't take this as legal advise. Heck, I could be dead wrong. Localities and Nationalities will obviously differ in their approaches.
Now all of the money the government has spent on the detection of earthquales can actually help ME. Advance knowledge of net connection would make my life much easier.
Heck, VOIP might even actually be commercially feasable.
Well, it requires up-front money, sure. But so does developing a technology that has never clearly proven itself in a large scale environment. The probablity that you can sell dark fiber is very high (It is done every day by lots of different companies). The probability that you will develope the answer to a problem that other companies could not.... well that's a little bit lower than 'very high'. It might happen, it might not.
I just mean to say that if you already have the component that is the hardest to get, why not "go with the flow" since you are already way ahead of your competition.
I guess that the real issue is the 'last mile'. After thinking about it, the example I referenced, "Dominion communications" offers high speed services, but not to people's homes. They sell to large corporate users and resellers ( like the local cable-modem company). So this really boils down to more of a business choice than a technology one.
Why would a company already positioned to do well in the long-haul market (complete with long term corporate contracts) spend so much resources breaking into the last-mile market (dealing with user education tech support, collections from dead-beat customers, etc)?
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I smell flamebait. It must be close.
Pretty soon we will have to set new goals. I guess 1TB RAM and 1EB (Exabyte is next isn't it?) of Drive space.
What do you think; maybe 5 to 6 years untill then?
Wow. Everyone I have spoken to - people who are fans of JMS (B5/Jeremiah) and Sci-Fi in general - has said that they had the same experience that I did.... By the fourth episode, I was so bored that I couldn't finish the episode.
Every once in a while I try to catch an episode, in case it gets better and I want to get back into it, but I never seem to make it to the end of a show. I just removed it from my Tivo record list this weekend.
They used a PCMCIA memory card for both permemant storage and RAM. Their cases were designed to allow heated air to escape out the top drawing cooler air form the bottom thus using natural conduction to do the work of the fan. I think they used a cyrix processor.
I used the CE boxes for admin staff that only used office apps (Word and Excell) from a Metaframe server. The Linux boxes were from people who needed more than casual access to the web (graphics over metaframe is not a great idea).
Anyway, I have been trying to remember the name of the companies I bought from while I have been typing this, but I can't. I have changed jobs and really had not thought about them for a long time. I could check my records when I get home if anybody really cares ( and nobody has replied with it by then.) I am pretty sure that WYSE makes them too.
Would you rather that they iniate a large missile launch from the former Soviet Union without telling everyone first?
It was taken in 1972 from the Apollo 17
Old price: $1249.99
New price: $899.99 (but the service price is broken out. even if you want to add the up-front cost back in, it is still $100.00 cheaper than is was last week. This price is for an equal (160 hour) system. You can get the smallest one (40) for $350.00 now.
Here is the price page
competition is GOOD.
Think of it as less like Jean Luc and more of JTK and his evil transporter-accident twin. Two components of the whole, just one is a lot more fun at parties (the type of parties you go to determins which one is more fun).
"Cocoon" line of products that aim to become an alternative to the PC for accessing Internet content.
The Cocoon line sounds interesting, but as for this product, I didn't see much difference between it and the Replay4000.
Not that it is a bad thing, maybe now I will be able to afford upgrading to a 4k.
Wired Equivalent Protection
If this turns out to be the stimulas for more people using digital signatures, then heck, maybe it will be worth it!
Obviously 'joe user' has currently only faintly even heard of digital signatures. And the non-IT-industry person that can correctly use the term 'GPG' is rare indead. Maybe if a few of the common P2P clients came out with an out-of-the-box signing system, it may educate people on the whole idea of secure communications. I bet teaching people how to get the music they want is an easier sell than teaching people about encryption (even if in reality it is the same thing)
My day of vindication is at hand!
I guess I'll be cruising for karma to make up for THAT one.
What?
If you can't use CGI or connect to a database with a Linux box, I sure don't want you consulting for my company!
We should be so lucky!
Quick poll: Who still uses .gif's?
The patent holder for MP3 ( who ever that is now or in the future) whould have to be absolutely DAFT not to learn the lesson from the great migration to .jpeg. That story shows a beautiful way to destroy all revenue you are generating from a patent. If the people who own MP3 learn from it, we have no problem. If they do not, we switch to something else, THEN we have no problem. Either way; no problem.
There is only the possibility of a irritating transition period. And that will not happen if the people who are making money want to continue to make money ( a safe bet, eh?)
One thing they didn't really hype, however, is their Merlin C201 connection card. It is a PCMCIA wireless modem. It costs about the same as a new cell phone ($250.00) so it isn't exactly cheap, but it isn't outrageous either.
So if you don't have broadband at your home, but can get digital cell phone service, you can get wireless Internet connections 3 times faster than dial-up (Slightly faster than ISDN).
I don't work for them or anything, just passing it along.
I hope you are referring to the idea that traditional microprocessor design would be obsolteted .....
Well, yes.
The role transistors play will not always be performed by transistors. Just like vacume tube technology halted in the 70's and buggy-whip disigns have been stagnate (for the most part) since the 1920's.
But I think you missed part of my point. That being: weather of not you are talking about a transistor, once a single molecule is used as the focal point of a device, the count will not be rising much from there.
Don't read too much into this. I am in my early 30's and for IT people my age, Moore's Law has been darned-near the only constant in our professional lives. I was just "thinking out loud" about the possibility if it now being obsolteted.
kind of a bummer: But at least it will be around for at least a bit longer.
the story from CNN is here:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/20/speed.of. light.ap/
I guess it has a bit of life left in it, but with the article talking about 'single molecule' focal points. I geuss we are about to run into a little wall if these ever actually make it to market.
Of course, with the computational power that will come of this, maybe we will be satisfied for a while. Somebody once said "Nobody will need more than 640 k of RAM" Right?
That's why this law was written in the first place.
It does not.
The root of the problem is the agreement that M$ CAN download software on your computer without prior notification. If you agree to that, it really makes no difference if you check a box that tells you machine not to do it. At any time, either pre-programed or by an addition that you make, M$ can uncheck that box without letting you know. Think about it, if you sign a document that states I have the privilage to do something (whatever it is) and then you (outside of that document) simply tell me not to do it, am I legally bound not to do it? It is possible that not even using SUS (software update server) will mitigate this.
Also don't feel secure about non-W2K products either. Most (and soon all, I suspect) products M$ releases contain that same provision. If you have updated MediaPlayer ( I believe it is one with the new verbiage) then you have already given consent for M$ to add software to your machine whenever they choose. NOT Maybe, NOT sometime soon, NOT only if you have W2K, but right now on the box you are currently using. And although I don't have it right infront of me now, I'm pretty sure that mediaplayer even specificly mentions that current features may be removed (playing MP3's) by the unannounced 'upgrades'.
Although we are still evaluating this with our legal staff, it looks very possible that we will be purging M$ products from the vast majority of our network.
oh, DARN ! ;)
And for the record, I am not a lawyer. Don't take this as legal advise. Heck, I could be dead wrong. Localities and Nationalities will obviously differ in their approaches.
Now all of the money the government has spent on the detection of earthquales can actually help ME. Advance knowledge of net connection would make my life much easier.
Heck, VOIP might even actually be commercially feasable.
Well, it requires up-front money, sure. But so does developing a technology that has never clearly proven itself in a large scale environment. The probablity that you can sell dark fiber is very high (It is done every day by lots of different companies). The probability that you will develope the answer to a problem that other companies could not.... well that's a little bit lower than 'very high'. It might happen, it might not. I just mean to say that if you already have the component that is the hardest to get, why not "go with the flow" since you are already way ahead of your competition.
I guess that the real issue is the 'last mile'. After thinking about it, the example I referenced, "Dominion communications" offers high speed services, but not to people's homes. They sell to large corporate users and resellers ( like the local cable-modem company). So this really boils down to more of a business choice than a technology one.
Why would a company already positioned to do well in the long-haul market (complete with long term corporate contracts) spend so much resources breaking into the last-mile market (dealing with user education tech support, collections from dead-beat customers, etc)?
Can't have everybody getting around our spiffy new spyware now, can we?
At least somebody finally bought it.