That a AI researcher and professor thinks that he has the best skills to create a mass-market product that requires extreme low cost high volume engineering skill. Engineers spend days figuring out how to save a couple of *cents* on a project like this.
It's a nice idea and it should be done, but he's not the one that's going to do it.
Looking at those pricing numbers, and the [lack of significant] advantage UnixWare has over, say, everything else, it seems that SCO is still stuck back in the glory days of Unix
They're not just stuck, they are dancing around a cauldron at night during a full moon, with a pack of naked lawyers wearing goat's heads trying to conjure back up the glory days.
A Most Excellent point. I worked in the elections/vote counting business for several years and designed the electronics and optics for a high speed ballot counter. The elections business is a very specialized business with a hell of a lot to know besides how to write programs.
If I were to set up a VPN link between 2 sites and and added VoIP phones on each end? Or used sound cards, for that matter?
Seems like all they will be able to monitor is conversations through the big-name services, not anyone with the ability to buy and configure a pair of $50 routers with VPN.
Has been out of print for years but is available on ebay. I don't know about a Deutsch version.
The first 20-30 pages is a very good introduction to basic semiconductor physics as it was known in the 60's. I first read it when I was in high school.
Let's see, in 2 weeks the've anounced that they were looking a buying Novell and getting rid of circuit boards. I guess a positronic brain will be next.
This story reminds me of the one million dollar coffee cup legend.
The legend goes like this: A major company is negotiating with IBM for a new mainframe system. They've called in IBM and gotten a quote. Then they call in Amdahl and get a quote from them and a coffee cup. Next they call IBM back into the office with the Amdahl coffee cup in plain view. Legend has it that the coffee cup gets you an automatic 1 million dollar discount off the original quote.
There's a zillion of them, of which only about 4 are of any use to most of us...
Never, ever going to happen...
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I know a little about the railroads and they'll never let this thing on their tracks. They are absolutlely paranoid about safety and the idea of semi's moving onto and off of their mainline tracks would be totally unacceptable.
Here's an example. Another parallel-running railroad has a damaged track and they need to run on another railroad's track for a distance. What does the other railroad require? That at least one of it's employees ride along as a "pilot". In addition, steep fees are assessed the other railroad to use it's tracks.
Cute models and a hopeful business plan are nice, but it's just not going to happen in the US.
I work fo' some professional associashun dat be currently usin' several Symantec Act. Right On! databases t' keep track o' Membership, Event Registrashun and Continuin' Educashun. Dis 'solution' be growin' real long in de tooth as Act. Right On! be really plum some contact database and not some full blown management system and doesn't handle payments fo' memba' dues, orders o' registrashun fees at all. What it is, Mama! Ah gots worked fo' an Associashun dat used iMIS, which be fully featured but be way beyond mah current employer's budget t' implement. Dere's some short list o' software in de Google Directory, but foragin' de vendor's websites hopin' fo' some demo and tryin' t' git some quote fo' all o' dem would be unrealistic. Sheeeiit. Findin' sump'n dat uses some database back-end dat we kin interface otha' dings wid would be ideal. What it is, Mama! I'm OSS agnostic on dis one - we plum wants de most useful and practical solushun. Whut software would ya' recommend? Do ya' gots any 'speriences wid software t' avoid?"
What we'd really like to see is a web-based collaboration package that would let group members work on membership rolls, newsletter, event calander and mailing list.
She's involved with a ski club, Toastmaster's and a church, and in all three cases there is *no* good way to share the work of supporting the organization.
Just about all the members have broadband ethernet and she'd love to have a software package that would allow multiple members to share the work without stepping on each other's toes or corrupting the database.
I've heard that smoking will promote asbestosis, but that non-smokers get it as well. My father-in-law was exposed to it in Navy ships' boiler rooms in the 40's. He died of asbestosis in the 80's having been a non-smoker all his life.
I suspect the pants-shitting doesn't occur until sometime after the event. I'm guessing the adrenilin keeps the sphincter tight long enough for an accurate observance.
There's been credible reports of these for years. In "Silent Spring" Racheal Carlson mentioned a something like 125 foot wave that had been observed by reliable observers and measured against the mast of a ship.
Don't be bummed, bro. You're in for the most exciting time of your life. I've been there and done that. Nothing like holding your own lifeform in your hands for the first time.
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That a AI researcher and professor thinks that he has the best skills to create a mass-market product that requires extreme low cost high volume engineering skill. Engineers spend days figuring out how to save a couple of *cents* on a project like this.
It's a nice idea and it should be done, but he's not the one that's going to do it.
May I suggest that that's a helluva Beowolf Cluster of ants.
Looking at those pricing numbers, and the [lack of significant] advantage UnixWare has over, say, everything else, it seems that SCO is still stuck back in the glory days of Unix
They're not just stuck, they are dancing around a cauldron at night during a full moon, with a pack of naked lawyers wearing goat's heads trying to conjure back up the glory days.
A Most Excellent point. I worked in the elections/vote counting business for several years and designed the electronics and optics for a high speed ballot counter. The elections business is a very specialized business with a hell of a lot to know besides how to write programs.
"Let us not forget that an improperly wired CRT will emit X Rays"
Care to reach under your butt and pull out a cite to this amazing statement?
If I were to set up a VPN link between 2 sites and and added VoIP phones on each end? Or used sound cards, for that matter? Seems like all they will be able to monitor is conversations through the big-name services, not anyone with the ability to buy and configure a pair of $50 routers with VPN.
Has been out of print for years but is available on ebay. I don't know about a Deutsch version.
The first 20-30 pages is a very good introduction to basic semiconductor physics as it was known in the 60's. I first read it when I was in high school.
Let's see, in 2 weeks the've anounced that they were looking a buying Novell and getting rid of circuit boards. I guess a positronic brain will be next.
Bring Back our Flag...
And you've won. I'll be waiting.
This story reminds me of the one million dollar coffee cup legend.
The legend goes like this: A major company is negotiating with IBM for a new mainframe system. They've called in IBM and gotten a quote. Then they call in Amdahl and get a quote from them and a coffee cup. Next they call IBM back into the office with the Amdahl coffee cup in plain view. Legend has it that the coffee cup gets you an automatic 1 million dollar discount off the original quote.
Plenty of people. There's literally millions of people who need to find Windows bug and sploit fixes, driver updates and Office workarounds.
I, for one, welcome our new Redmond search overlord.
There's a zillion of them, of which only about 4 are of any use to most of us...
I know a little about the railroads and they'll never let this thing on their tracks. They are absolutlely paranoid about safety and the idea of semi's moving onto and off of their mainline tracks would be totally unacceptable.
Here's an example. Another parallel-running railroad has a damaged track and they need to run on another railroad's track for a distance. What does the other railroad require? That at least one of it's employees ride along as a "pilot". In addition, steep fees are assessed the other railroad to use it's tracks.
Cute models and a hopeful business plan are nice, but it's just not going to happen in the US.
I was just feeling like a smartass and thought it would be funny.
Go back about 3 posts to mine that said "Just talking with my wife about this subject" along with the OP's followup and you'll get the picture.
I work fo' some professional associashun dat be currently usin' several Symantec Act. Right On! databases t' keep track o' Membership, Event Registrashun and Continuin' Educashun. Dis 'solution' be growin' real long in de tooth as Act. Right On! be really plum some contact database and not some full blown management system and doesn't handle payments fo' memba' dues, orders o' registrashun fees at all. What it is, Mama! Ah gots worked fo' an Associashun dat used iMIS, which be fully featured but be way beyond mah current employer's budget t' implement. Dere's some short list o' software in de Google Directory, but foragin' de vendor's websites hopin' fo' some demo and tryin' t' git some quote fo' all o' dem would be unrealistic. Sheeeiit. Findin' sump'n dat uses some database back-end dat we kin interface otha' dings wid would be ideal. What it is, Mama! I'm OSS agnostic on dis one - we plum wants de most useful and practical solushun. Whut software would ya' recommend? Do ya' gots any 'speriences wid software t' avoid?"
What we'd really like to see is a web-based collaboration package that would let group members work on membership rolls, newsletter, event calander and mailing list.
She's involved with a ski club, Toastmaster's and a church, and in all three cases there is *no* good way to share the work of supporting the organization.
Just about all the members have broadband ethernet and she'd love to have a software package that would allow multiple members to share the work without stepping on each other's toes or corrupting the database.
I've heard that smoking will promote asbestosis, but that non-smokers get it as well. My father-in-law was exposed to it in Navy ships' boiler rooms in the 40's. He died of asbestosis in the 80's having been a non-smoker all his life.
RTFA.
The article says: Asbestos-related deaths have increased fourfold in the past three decades, according to a new CDC report.
Three decades is not recent and fourfold over 3 decades is not a skyrocket.
Lung cancer from asbestos is no joke. I lost my father-in-law to it and my grandfather to blacklung. Report the news, but report it honestly.
Wouldn't the shat pants in themselves be a reliable indication of the event?
I suspect the pants-shitting doesn't occur until sometime after the event. I'm guessing the adrenilin keeps the sphincter tight long enough for an accurate observance.
There's been credible reports of these for years. In "Silent Spring" Racheal Carlson mentioned a something like 125 foot wave that had been observed by reliable observers and measured against the mast of a ship.
Sorry, spelling counts.
SCO in the same breath as Edsel,
You misspelt Enron..................^
Either the rest of the world ridicules us as a bunch of ignorant louts or we get "worked up too easy" if we bitch when our morning paper is late.
Don't be bummed, bro. You're in for the most exciting time of your life. I've been there and done that. Nothing like holding your own lifeform in your hands for the first time.