how about tv.google.com for real time, newsfeed style program guides for mythtv? it should not infringe on the tvguide display patent and conforms to the usual google style(sheet) instead? with some half-intelligent local caching, it should do the job...
@ the apple store in palo alto, i counted five buyers for the miniPod in a space of about 15 minutes that i was there. 2 female, 3 male; all between 25-40 and judging by the questions they asked, not very computer savvy. i think the minipod is not being seen as a 'gadget' as all and is a high end consumable and convenient replacement for a music machine.
... the interesting question is that could this be used by various bio-tech companies to start claiming genomes (of rats or rice or humans) as similar protected 'collected' data. if so, there is an interesting debate to be had there for 'open source' sequencing (mySequence!) and how to make the results available for research. same goes for proteomics and gene expression research. arguably, they are just uncovering 'facts' and the groups they occur in...
on the news conf (NASA TV) and the story posted on their site, they say " the clues are only tantalizing, not conclusive, about whether the environment was watery when the rocks originally formed."
grrr. thats all they had to say ??? i was expecting at least a "conclusive" statement from this special/hyped news conf.
the folks living and working in the rarefied atmosphere of Palo Alto (CA) have been working at it for a few years. They also have a city run Utilities dept. and relevant experience. The trial has been very successful (i remember $90 for a fibre drop to the home) with a limited number of customers and now they are pushing for a bond-like measure to build and operate a city wide fiber access utility. As expected, the incumbent network operators (SBC in this case) is out spreading FUD at most city council meetings and with the decision makers. I hope it succeeds so we can move to a model where the road-builders are city/govt regulated and I can have my choice of service providers on the city owned/operated fiber network. Some discussions that I attended bogged down because the proposals defined fiber-to-the-home as a requirement and wasn't exactly friendly to other means of last-100ft access including wide-band wireless, ultra-wide band wireless, or copper operating at >10Mbps.
so why doesnt apple just give up the pretense of being a "computer" design/manuf/sell company (no point chasing a sub 5% market share) and focus on the overlap between computing and consumers a la ipod. i for one would love to buy an apple engineered uber DVR or digital media controller/center which is really a multi-tuner+computer with a terabyte disk array and plays/records HD and SD-tv and burns them to DVD-x and integrates the management of the content with iTV+iPics+iTunes on windows/mac. for $499 by eoy '04.
in the post-google world, UIs like the General Interface will appear. check out their demo at Integrated Web Services
and no i dont work there. i just like the direction they are going in.
x^n OSes are all fine but when the ipod won't work with both a mac and a PC, where's the fun. i need vmware fr my ipod so the windows-ipod wont slow down to a crawl when loading music from a mac and mac-ipod plain wont work with the pc.
yes this is offtopic/tangential/rant/vent post.
sue my karma.
I think EMC got a great deal -- the cnet press coverage stated EMC hopes to add 175-200 million in the next year as a result of the acquisition. even with EMC's added marketing/sales muscle, the acquisition cost is only 3x of sales... good deal in today's somewhat non-bearish market. also, if EMC was really after the 'brains' at vmware (and there are quite a few good ones), they wouldnt have gone for an all-cash deal which is usually lots of incentive for the vmwarriors to leave.
whatta crappy outcome from a relatively good shot at a multi-billion company... i guess thats what happens when the company is "closely held" and willing to cash out. i wish they had stuck with the independent route and not given in to the inevitable slow fade to obscurity with EMC (or IBM or whoever)
wasn't there an earlier slashdot story about nano-materials are being used to coat submarines to make them more slithery (or maybe it was on bbc.co.uk, i am too lazy to check) -- not hard to see applications like better wet/dry suits based on similar nanotechnology coming in soon... also , most high-$$ cars already have nano-engineered catalytic converter films that help reduce pollution...
and so it goes
-bokonon
... the "new" thing being reported is the microbends fail by going opaque when higher optical powers are being transmitted in the fibers. For modern systems in most inter-city networks, the number of channels (40, 80,...) is going up, as is the power per channel. This is a combination not seen earlier in installations where most fibers (bent or not) carried fairly low power signals.
Interestingly enough, microscopic dust particles are equally hazardous to the system's health at these high power levels. Dust particles caught in unclean connectors has been known to scatter enough power to fuse/weld (its those friggin laser beams) together the connector parts together.
yawn.
yes, 42.
FYI: 'lawful' intercept capabilities have been on every class IV/V voice switches (and soft switches) installed in US networks since late 70s. Cisco is merely catching up as they pander to Carrier/Service Provider markets in addition to their traditional Enterprise market.
Also, look at products like those offered by startups including CloudShield -www.cloudshield.com - these boxes when used with or within Cisco/Juniper/Avici/Procket/Caspian routers will make such 'intercepts' much more powerful. then all one needs is googling capabilities built in and voila.... sharks riding on elephants with frickiN laser beams on their heads....
... the future, if obvious, would have ocurred today. like anything else, the multiple trajectories of the right technology and large enough market must intersect at the right time to yield something useful/useable. meanwhile, many clueful technologies will die because they lacked one or the above. of hundred highlighted [/.] future tech.gadgets, maybe 1 will make it (commercially). why isn't that good enough?
now the 120GHz gizmo wont transmit very far (unless you have wireless laser-like (maser!) beams that go pt-pt) but that could result in low/no interference for others and a 10GigEthernet all to myself and my gadgets within 10 feet.
on a related note, TeraHz (light) carriers are being used to transmit 10Gbps x many wavelengths (colors) today (see Lightpointe, Zyoptics,...) but are finding limited use
so why should we continue SETI/space/etc... i think, quite simply, we owe it to the generations still to come. the most uncommon trait among us human-animals is to continually go beyond our habitat. so, once in a while, lets quit grazing without thinking in our selfish 'commons' ["The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin, Science, 1968] and do our part as one of the continuum...
whatever happened to the Next-Generation Internet or 'Internet2' or the National Grid Computing project. do you believe these will make a significant difference in defining the net for the next 5-7 years (the useful half-life of most net.engineers)?
Newswire:: Bell Labs Scientist Responsible for Fabrication of Research Data
Wednesday September 25, 11:55 am ET
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs said an independent committee investigating possible false data in published research found one scientist to be responsible for the fabrications.
Bell Labs said Wednesday in a statement that it has fired the scientist, J. Hendrick Schon, and cleared all others involved in the experiments of scientific misconduct. The experiments took place between 1998 and 2001.
The five-person committee of outside scientists and engineers found Mr. Schon committed misconduct on at least 16 occasions, mainly involving substitution of data, unrealistic precision and results that contradict known physics.
Papers by Mr. Schon and his team were called into question in May when other scientists found the experiments difficult to replicate and noted that paragraphs in several of the papers seemed similar. The experiments, involving molecular transistors, had been published in journals such as Science and Nature.
"The evidence that manipulation and misrepresentation of data occurred is compelling," the committee said. It added Mr. Schon "did this intentionally or recklessly and without the knowledge of any of his co-authors." A total of 20 researchers from Bell Labs and other institutions authored the approximately two dozen papers.
Bell Labs President Bill O'Shea said, "We are deeply disappointed that a case of scientific misconduct has occurred at Bell Labs -- the first in our 77-year history. Since Bell Labs' founding in 1925, tens of thousands of Bell Labs scientists and engineers have faithfully abided by the scientific honor code. That's an enviable track record, but we take this one exception very seriously."
In its executive summary, the committee said Mr. Schon "acknowledges that the data are incorrect in many... instances. He states that these substitutions could have occured by honest mistake. The recurrent nature of such mistakes suggest a deeper problem. At a minimum, Hendrik Schon showed reckless disregard for the sanctity of data in the value system of science."
may cost approx $2K per house to set up fiber to the home + monthly services fee (2 x DSL?)
high speed data + video + 2nd voice line seen as integral to plan
in place in 2-3 yrs if decision is a go
how do these numbers match up with other fiberhood installs?
if video and 2nd voice line are seen as necessities to make the dollar equations come out right, does that force the choice away from ethernet-over-fiber?
Slashdot Mirror
how about tv.google.com for real time, newsfeed style program guides for mythtv? it should not infringe on the tvguide display patent and conforms to the usual google style(sheet) instead? with some half-intelligent local caching, it should do the job...
@ the apple store in palo alto, i counted five buyers for the miniPod in a space of about 15 minutes that i was there. 2 female, 3 male; all between 25-40 and judging by the questions they asked, not very computer savvy. i think the minipod is not being seen as a 'gadget' as all and is a high end consumable and convenient replacement for a music machine.
dont you dare forget the NEXT machines which went to color err hrm in the mid 90s finally.
... the interesting question is that could this be used by various bio-tech companies to start claiming genomes (of rats or rice or humans) as similar protected 'collected' data. if so, there is an interesting debate to be had there for 'open source' sequencing (mySequence!) and how to make the results available for research. same goes for proteomics and gene expression research. arguably, they are just uncovering 'facts' and the groups they occur in...
on the news conf (NASA TV) and the story posted on their site, they say " the clues are only tantalizing, not conclusive, about whether the environment was watery when the rocks originally formed." grrr. thats all they had to say ??? i was expecting at least a "conclusive" statement from this special/hyped news conf.
the folks living and working in the rarefied atmosphere of Palo Alto (CA) have been working at it for a few years. They also have a city run Utilities dept. and relevant experience. The trial has been very successful (i remember $90 for a fibre drop to the home) with a limited number of customers and now they are pushing for a bond-like measure to build and operate a city wide fiber access utility. As expected, the incumbent network operators (SBC in this case) is out spreading FUD at most city council meetings and with the decision makers. I hope it succeeds so we can move to a model where the road-builders are city/govt regulated and I can have my choice of service providers on the city owned/operated fiber network. Some discussions that I attended bogged down because the proposals defined fiber-to-the-home as a requirement and wasn't exactly friendly to other means of last-100ft access including wide-band wireless, ultra-wide band wireless, or copper operating at >10Mbps.
... in other news, SCO is suing Mars.
maybe cleaing up balance sheets and business entanglements to merge Pixar and Apple?
so why doesnt apple just give up the pretense of being a "computer" design/manuf/sell company (no point chasing a sub 5% market share) and focus on the overlap between computing and consumers a la ipod. i for one would love to buy an apple engineered uber DVR or digital media controller/center which is really a multi-tuner+computer with a terabyte disk array and plays/records HD and SD-tv and burns them to DVD-x and integrates the management of the content with iTV+iPics+iTunes on windows/mac. for $499 by eoy '04.
in the post-google world, UIs like the General Interface will appear. check out their demo at Integrated Web Services and no i dont work there. i just like the direction they are going in.
x^n OSes are all fine but when the ipod won't work with both a mac and a PC, where's the fun. i need vmware fr my ipod so the windows-ipod wont slow down to a crawl when loading music from a mac and mac-ipod plain wont work with the pc. yes this is offtopic/tangential/rant/vent post. sue my karma.
I think EMC got a great deal -- the cnet press coverage stated EMC hopes to add 175-200 million in the next year as a result of the acquisition. even with EMC's added marketing/sales muscle, the acquisition cost is only 3x of sales... good deal in today's somewhat non-bearish market. also, if EMC was really after the 'brains' at vmware (and there are quite a few good ones), they wouldnt have gone for an all-cash deal which is usually lots of incentive for the vmwarriors to leave.
whatta crappy outcome from a relatively good shot at a multi-billion company... i guess thats what happens when the company is "closely held" and willing to cash out. i wish they had stuck with the independent route and not given in to the inevitable slow fade to obscurity with EMC (or IBM or whoever)
wasn't there an earlier slashdot story about nano-materials are being used to coat submarines to make them more slithery (or maybe it was on bbc.co.uk, i am too lazy to check) -- not hard to see applications like better wet/dry suits based on similar nanotechnology coming in soon... also , most high-$$ cars already have nano-engineered catalytic converter films that help reduce pollution... and so it goes -bokonon
...sun has made a big deal of simplifying price lists recently - if they cut solaris prices to below redhat/ibm equivalents, does that matter?
... the "new" thing being reported is the microbends fail by going opaque when higher optical powers are being transmitted in the fibers. For modern systems in most inter-city networks, the number of channels (40, 80, ...) is going up, as is the power per channel. This is a combination not seen earlier in installations where most fibers (bent or not) carried fairly low power signals.
Interestingly enough, microscopic dust particles are equally hazardous to the system's health at these high power levels. Dust particles caught in unclean connectors has been known to scatter enough power to fuse/weld (its those friggin laser beams) together the connector parts together.
yawn.
yes, 42.
Also, look at products like those offered by startups including CloudShield -www.cloudshield.com - these boxes when used with or within Cisco/Juniper/Avici/Procket/Caspian routers will make such 'intercepts' much more powerful. then all one needs is googling capabilities built in and voila.... sharks riding on elephants with frickiN laser beams on their heads....
this will surely tag/profile you at echelon/nsa/
also this related story> about the alberta premier's adviser referring to "that idiot George Bush"...
-Capt. Communism
now the 120GHz gizmo wont transmit very far (unless you have wireless laser-like (maser!) beams that go pt-pt) but that could result in low/no interference for others and a 10GigEthernet all to myself and my gadgets within 10 feet.
on a related note, TeraHz (light) carriers are being used to transmit 10Gbps x many wavelengths (colors) today (see Lightpointe, Zyoptics,...) but are finding limited use
-dharmic whore
so why should we continue SETI/space/etc... i think, quite simply, we owe it to the generations still to come. the most uncommon trait among us human-animals is to continually go beyond our habitat. so, once in a while, lets quit grazing without thinking in our selfish 'commons' ["The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin, Science, 1968] and do our part as one of the continuum...
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/osmhome.html
Chart @
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html
Useful links @
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/sites.html
-wk
Q for vint cerf:
whatever happened to the Next-Generation Internet or 'Internet2' or the National Grid Computing project. do you believe these will make a significant difference in defining the net for the next 5-7 years (the useful half-life of most net.engineers)?
http://www.lucent.com/press/0902/020925.bla.html
MURRAY HILL, N.J. -- Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Bell Labs said an independent committee investigating possible false data in published research found one scientist to be responsible for the fabrications.
Bell Labs said Wednesday in a statement that it has fired the scientist, J. Hendrick Schon, and cleared all others involved in the experiments of scientific misconduct. The experiments took place between 1998 and 2001.
The five-person committee of outside scientists and engineers found Mr. Schon committed misconduct on at least 16 occasions, mainly involving substitution of data, unrealistic precision and results that contradict known physics.
Papers by Mr. Schon and his team were called into question in May when other scientists found the experiments difficult to replicate and noted that paragraphs in several of the papers seemed similar. The experiments, involving molecular transistors, had been published in journals such as Science and Nature.
"The evidence that manipulation and misrepresentation of data occurred is compelling," the committee said. It added Mr. Schon "did this intentionally or recklessly and without the knowledge of any of his co-authors." A total of 20 researchers from Bell Labs and other institutions authored the approximately two dozen papers.
Bell Labs President Bill O'Shea said, "We are deeply disappointed that a case of scientific misconduct has occurred at Bell Labs -- the first in our 77-year history. Since Bell Labs' founding in 1925, tens of thousands of Bell Labs scientists and engineers have faithfully abided by the scientific honor code. That's an enviable track record, but we take this one exception very seriously."
In its executive summary, the committee said Mr. Schon "acknowledges that the data are incorrect in many ... instances. He states that these substitutions could have occured by honest mistake. The recurrent nature of such mistakes suggest a deeper problem. At a minimum, Hendrik Schon showed reckless disregard for the sanctity of data in the value system of science."
if video and 2nd voice line are seen as necessities to make the dollar equations come out right, does that force the choice away from ethernet-over-fiber?