Consultants are usually hired to solve existing problems. If what the customer is asking you to do is going to create new problems, then by simply going forward without saying a thing you are not doing your job.
The best approach to solving a customer's problems is to offer them options, 3 or so is usually a good number. Prepare various scenarios which vary in terms of time, cost and quality and offer those 3 potential solutions for the customer to choose from. Try to be as unbiased as possible in also giving the possible outcomes of each of the 3 solutions. The decision should always be the customer's, you are mostly there to offer expert advice and direction in the form of options.
You may not always like the decisions the customer makes, but you will have done your job as a consultant if you have offered them realistic options.
POS over OC192 is way faster.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/pub lic/nov99/nicholl_1_1199.pdf
And Lucent is already working even faster Sonet technologies that will blow OC192 out of the water.
Why don't those silly P2P programmers get smart and start making their software work off port 80.
That oughta stall them sys admins for a few more months.
1) METHOD TO DEAL WITH PER GIG COSTS PER MONTH: To have software installed on each of these computers that are connected to the broadband access directly to monitor how much traffic they've sent and received that month.This should be simple enough to accomplish. I say this because if this thing really takes off, it won't be long before Telco's clue in and start charging per gig per month for direct broadband users. With such software the user willing to share his broadband connection to a comfortable threshold limit... say 50% of his 'free-bandwidth-before-he-has-to-pay-additional-ch arges-to-his-ISP-per-month'. This allows the wireless network to grow at a rate that is sustainable by the people willing to share their broadband access. It also encourages others who have direct broadband to share their connection with nearly ZERO risk of having to pay additional monthly charges. (this is sort of already done with Kazaa, where you can limit the upload speed, how many users can download from you etc.. only we'd need, max output per month, max speed per second, max users sharing service -- CONTROLS.)
2) DONATION/PAYMENT AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL: Imagine a wireless user turns on his laptop in an area with multiple shared broadband connections, a dialog box comes up displaying a list of 10 different connections he can choose from. This list would be sortable by: available speed, cost per gig, max users, etc. The laptop wireless user then can click on the cheapest connection, or the one with the most available bandwidth (if he has deeper pockets), and start surfing the net. The donation authentication protocol would allow the laptop user to automagically transfer funds from his paypal (or-insert-future-online- digital-fund-transfer-systems-here) to the broad band service provider (the user sharing his DSL/cable modem), and thus we have created: a) A cost per use wireless network b) A method to allow for individual directly broadband connected individuals to have free internet access (their monthly fees would be paid by their wireless customers)
A WIN:WIN for everyone? I think so... even the telcos could benefit if they choose to start charging per gig.. that would just end up eventually defining more precisely the cost per meg/gig a wireless user would have to pay depending on the area he's in.
" But teleporting something from the everyday world like a person that contains more than a trillion atoms is highly unlikely, if not impossible."
The teleportation of humans, objects and anything else is already possible and has been for thousands of years, but not with the aid of technological gadgets. The ability to create something out of nothing has been spoken about in religion since it's very conception and up to modern times.
Now before you scoff at the rest of the post thinking it is religious crap please consider the following scientific aphorisms:
1) There can only be one truth/one set of laws that govern the Universe. A simplistic example, gravity does not go both up and down and/or sideways, when you drop an object it always falls down. Over the last many centuries our scientists have proved over and over again that things in our physical universe behave according to a set of laws. Laws which even to this day science is discovering, which means we do not as of yet know or understand all of these laws. Therefore one can conclude that the very scientific community we praise and cheer for thinking they have all the answers - that very same community admits their ignorance. Every single day they claim to be discovering this or that. If you are at the discovering stage, then you can not possibly know everything.
2) If you read both ancient religious texts from several different religions (Christian, Buddhism, Hinduism, to name but a small few), all of them contain accounts of so called "miracles". What is a miracle? Is it really something that defies the natural laws of the Universe? No, that's hogwash. You can not claim the Universe is has 1 set of laws and in the same breath claim those laws can be somehow put aside and something takes place which defies those laws. That is just absolutely ridiculous - if we've learned anything from science it is exactly THAT! What is more likely as I've stated is that we don't know how all the laws work yet and when we see or hear of something which seems to defy the few laws we do currently know, we tend to say it is lies, or magic, or miracles or anything but something NORMAL. However; let's wind the clock back a few centuries and let's pretend we could teleport/travel back in time and bring with us some gadgets with us, say a video camera. We walk into the most advanced city on Earth at that time, say the Roman empire for example, and we tape Julius Caesar giving a speech.. then we walk a few miles away and show somebody who was not able to be at the speech presentation and we hit the play button. To the ignorant watching the movie playback on the LCD screen this is nothing short of a miracle, a magical act, how can after all Caesar and his entire palace fit inside this little box? And how can you possibly make him give the same speech exactly the same time after time???? I think you get my point. Those that have performed great feats in the past were not doing something beyond what is physically possible. A video camera that works in 2002 will work just as well in the year 1000 B.C. The laws of the Universe have not evolved over 3000 years - they are the same. Eternal and Immutable!
Miracles are given that name, IMO by those who do not understand how a specific feat was conceived. How did Christ turn water into wine? Or resurrect, or cure people with touch? How do Indian Yogi's or ZEN Masters perform acts of levitation or how are they able to accelerate the growth of plants by a factor of 20-100 times, making them grow right before your very eyes? How have so many Christian saints and Hindu Yogis performed acts of Bi-location (being in 2 places physically at the same time, witnessed being there and having conversations by different people at different locations at the same time?) These are just truly very few examples of the so called acts we name miracles and they have not all been performed by a single person, or claimed by a single religion. In fact at the core of every major religion you will find such miracles and claims of the so called super-natural, more correctly assigned the name of the occult mysteries (occult meaning hidden - do not confuse this world with some of the crazy cults going around). But the reality is not that it is super-natural... the reality is that it is natural, the average person just does not understand how such an act is performed. And this may sound like a surprise to you but believe me intellectual understanding will NEVER allow you to mimic such miraculous acts. The very same people
At any rate here, my point is, man can only accomplish what he is capable of imagining. If he can not imagine it, he can not create it.
But let's get back on topic, so how can teleportation be accomplished? Well, let's take a look at a simpler version of teleportation - clairvoyance. What is clairvoyance as most people understand it? It is the reading of thoughts, in particular images from the past or future and somehow having access to them in the present. This is a very common so called unexplained miracle performed today, however it is not called a miracle as much by most people because it has become far more common place and therefore a little bit more acceptable and considered closer to normal, yet not quite there because even the people who perform such feats can not explain in scientific or any other intelligible words how this is accomplished, at least not to the satisfaction of a scientist wanting to replicate the feat.
The fact that not Jesus, nor any Yogi, Zen Master, Christian Saint, or any high ranking Buddhist master are considered to be extremely high intellects possessing at the tip of their tongues the answers to all scientific questions serves to us as proof that it is not through scientific intelligence that teleportation can be accomplished today. It is therefore an act feasible today not by scientists possessing great intellect, but by their counterparts - the true spiritual man!
My friends, I could go on, and on and on... My point is science may one day be able to explain in intelligible language how teleportation of a human being can be accomplished, but I guarantee you it will not be within our life times and whenever it does one day become possible - if by scientists - it shall require very fancy highly complex and expensive machines. If you wish to teleport within your life time, your best bet are to not only study, but in particularly practice the occult sciences - i.e. Alchemy (the founding science of Chemistry initiated by Paracelsus - a science which combined chemistry and spirituality and philosophy in one great art, but the 2 more important parts of it have now been thrown out by those who chose not to see beyond what their eyes show them in the physical), Astrology (the founding science of Astronomy - Astrology combined the science of Astronomy with the spiritual and philosophical, but again modern-ignorant man has stripped out 2/3rds of that and chose to look at only what he could see. If you chose to ignore 2/3rds of reality, then do not expect to be able to understand the whole of the Universal laws! If modern scientists would learn this, we'd be centuries ahead in every aspect of evolution than we are today).
Enough said. "Seek and ye shall find!" Now go seek.. I have;-)
-Adeptus
PS. "The wise every seeketh that which once known, ALL is known!" - One may come to realize this scientifically through yet to be conceptualized "theory of everything" or one may achieve it today through spiritual enlightenment. The latter of which will provide you not with mere knowledge, but with the experience of the ALL - to experience ALL there is, was and there will be is to be omnipresent, omnisencient and even omnipotent - That my friends is to truly know GOD. Once this takes place, the act of teleportation will be as amazing to you as a grain of sand in the Sahara!
... if you want something done right, just DDOS it. Then as we've witnessed here, many months later *coff* genius *coff* scientists will find a way to improve efficiency by 98%!!
Why, oh why, do we keep bashing | 31337 skr1p7 |1dd13s?! Everyone in society is needed, even the lame.:P
If they patent 2 click shopping they will be twice in conflict with their 1 click shopping patent.
Question is, are they big enough (and stupid enough) to sue themselves for pantent infringement? LOL.
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Consultants are usually hired to solve existing problems. If what the customer is asking you to do is going to create new problems, then by simply going forward without saying a thing you are not doing your job.
The best approach to solving a customer's problems is to offer them options, 3 or so is usually a good number. Prepare various scenarios which vary in terms of time, cost and quality and offer those 3 potential solutions for the customer to choose from. Try to be as unbiased as possible in also giving the possible outcomes of each of the 3 solutions. The decision should always be the customer's, you are mostly there to offer expert advice and direction in the form of options.
You may not always like the decisions the customer makes, but you will have done your job as a consultant if you have offered them realistic options.
I have a suspicion that the sale of sledge hammers and hand guns will rise shortly after this product debuts. Time to buy hardware store stocks.
OC192 Re-submitting a story from 5 hours ago is one thing, but from 4 years ago ? :P
POS over OC192 is way faster. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/pub lic/nov99/nicholl_1_1199.pdf
And Lucent is already working even faster Sonet technologies that will blow OC192 out of the water.
Why don't those silly P2P programmers get smart and start making their software work off port 80. That oughta stall them sys admins for a few more months.
... is:
h arges-to-his-ISP-per-month'. This allows the wireless network to grow at a rate that is sustainable by the people willing to share their broadband access. It also encourages others who have direct broadband to share their connection with nearly ZERO risk of having to pay additional monthly charges. (this is sort of already done with Kazaa, where you can limit the upload speed, how many users can download from you etc.. only we'd need, max output per month, max speed per second, max users sharing service -- CONTROLS.)
1) METHOD TO DEAL WITH PER GIG COSTS PER MONTH:
To have software installed on each of these computers that are connected to the broadband access directly to monitor how much traffic they've sent and received that month.This should be simple enough to accomplish. I say this because if this thing really takes off, it won't be long before Telco's clue in and start charging per gig per month for direct broadband users. With such software the user willing to share his broadband connection to a comfortable threshold limit... say 50% of his 'free-bandwidth-before-he-has-to-pay-additional-c
2) DONATION/PAYMENT AUTHENTICATION PROTOCOL: Imagine a wireless user turns on his laptop in an area with multiple shared broadband connections, a dialog box comes up displaying a list of 10 different connections he can choose from. This list would be sortable by: available speed, cost per gig, max users, etc. The laptop wireless user then can click on the cheapest connection, or the one with the most available bandwidth (if he has deeper pockets), and start surfing the net. The donation authentication protocol would allow the laptop user to automagically transfer funds from his paypal (or-insert-future-online- digital-fund-transfer-systems-here) to the broad band service provider (the user sharing his DSL/cable modem), and thus we have created:
a) A cost per use wireless network
b) A method to allow for individual directly broadband connected individuals to have free internet access (their monthly fees would be paid by their wireless customers)
A WIN:WIN for everyone? I think so... even the telcos could benefit if they choose to start charging per gig.. that would just end up eventually defining more precisely the cost per meg/gig a wireless user would have to pay depending on the area he's in.
" But teleporting something from the everyday world like a person that contains more than a trillion atoms is highly unlikely, if not impossible."
;-)
The teleportation of humans, objects and anything else is already possible and has been for thousands of years, but not with the aid of technological gadgets. The ability to create something out of nothing has been spoken about in religion since it's very conception and up to modern times.
Now before you scoff at the rest of the post thinking it is religious crap please consider the following scientific aphorisms:
1) There can only be one truth/one set of laws that govern the Universe. A simplistic example, gravity does not go both up and down and/or sideways, when you drop an object it always falls down. Over the last many centuries our scientists have proved over and over again that things in our physical universe behave according to a set of laws. Laws which even to this day science is discovering, which means we do not as of yet know or understand all of these laws. Therefore one can conclude that the very scientific community we praise and cheer for thinking they have all the answers - that very same community admits their ignorance. Every single day they claim to be discovering this or that. If you are at the discovering stage, then you can not possibly know everything.
2) If you read both ancient religious texts from several different religions (Christian, Buddhism, Hinduism, to name but a small few), all of them contain accounts of so called "miracles". What is a miracle? Is it really something that defies the natural laws of the Universe? No, that's hogwash. You can not claim the Universe is has 1 set of laws and in the same breath claim those laws can be somehow put aside and something takes place which defies those laws. That is just absolutely ridiculous - if we've learned anything from science it is exactly THAT! What is more likely as I've stated is that we don't know how all the laws work yet and when we see or hear of something which seems to defy the few laws we do currently know, we tend to say it is lies, or magic, or miracles or anything but something NORMAL. However; let's wind the clock back a few centuries and let's pretend we could teleport/travel back in time and bring with us some gadgets with us, say a video camera. We walk into the most advanced city on Earth at that time, say the Roman empire for example, and we tape Julius Caesar giving a speech.. then we walk a few miles away and show somebody who was not able to be at the speech presentation and we hit the play button. To the ignorant watching the movie playback on the LCD screen this is nothing short of a miracle, a magical act, how can after all Caesar and his entire palace fit inside this little box? And how can you possibly make him give the same speech exactly the same time after time???? I think you get my point. Those that have performed great feats in the past were not doing something beyond what is physically possible. A video camera that works in 2002 will work just as well in the year 1000 B.C. The laws of the Universe have not evolved over 3000 years - they are the same. Eternal and Immutable!
Miracles are given that name, IMO by those who do not understand how a specific feat was conceived. How did Christ turn water into wine? Or resurrect, or cure people with touch? How do Indian Yogi's or ZEN Masters perform acts of levitation or how are they able to accelerate the growth of plants by a factor of 20-100 times, making them grow right before your very eyes? How have so many Christian saints and Hindu Yogis performed acts of Bi-location (being in 2 places physically at the same time, witnessed being there and having conversations by different people at different locations at the same time?) These are just truly very few examples of the so called acts we name miracles and they have not all been performed by a single person, or claimed by a single religion. In fact at the core of every major religion you will find such miracles and claims of the so called super-natural, more correctly assigned the name of the occult mysteries (occult meaning hidden - do not confuse this world with some of the crazy cults going around). But the reality is not that it is super-natural... the reality is that it is natural, the average person just does not understand how such an act is performed. And this may sound like a surprise to you but believe me intellectual understanding will NEVER allow you to mimic such miraculous acts. The very same people
At any rate here, my point is, man can only accomplish what he is capable of imagining. If he can not imagine it, he can not create it.
But let's get back on topic, so how can teleportation be accomplished? Well, let's take a look at a simpler version of teleportation - clairvoyance. What is clairvoyance as most people understand it? It is the reading of thoughts, in particular images from the past or future and somehow having access to them in the present. This is a very common so called unexplained miracle performed today, however it is not called a miracle as much by most people because it has become far more common place and therefore a little bit more acceptable and considered closer to normal, yet not quite there because even the people who perform such feats can not explain in scientific or any other intelligible words how this is accomplished, at least not to the satisfaction of a scientist wanting to replicate the feat.
The fact that not Jesus, nor any Yogi, Zen Master, Christian Saint, or any high ranking Buddhist master are considered to be extremely high intellects possessing at the tip of their tongues the answers to all scientific questions serves to us as proof that it is not through scientific intelligence that teleportation can be accomplished today. It is therefore an act feasible today not by scientists possessing great intellect, but by their counterparts - the true spiritual man!
My friends, I could go on, and on and on... My point is science may one day be able to explain in intelligible language how teleportation of a human being can be accomplished, but I guarantee you it will not be within our life times and whenever it does one day become possible - if by scientists - it shall require very fancy highly complex and expensive machines. If you wish to teleport within your life time, your best bet are to not only study, but in particularly practice the occult sciences - i.e. Alchemy (the founding science of Chemistry initiated by Paracelsus - a science which combined chemistry and spirituality and philosophy in one great art, but the 2 more important parts of it have now been thrown out by those who chose not to see beyond what their eyes show them in the physical), Astrology (the founding science of Astronomy - Astrology combined the science of Astronomy with the spiritual and philosophical, but again modern-ignorant man has stripped out 2/3rds of that and chose to look at only what he could see. If you chose to ignore 2/3rds of reality, then do not expect to be able to understand the whole of the Universal laws! If modern scientists would learn this, we'd be centuries ahead in every aspect of evolution than we are today).
Enough said. "Seek and ye shall find!"
Now go seek.. I have
-Adeptus
PS. "The wise every seeketh that which once known, ALL is known!" - One may come to realize this scientifically through yet to be conceptualized "theory of everything" or one may achieve it today through spiritual enlightenment. The latter of which will provide you not with mere knowledge, but with the experience of the ALL - to experience ALL there is, was and there will be is to be omnipresent, omnisencient and even omnipotent - That my friends is to truly know GOD. Once this takes place, the act of teleportation will be as amazing to you as a grain of sand in the Sahara!
... if you want something done right, just DDOS it. Then as we've witnessed here, many months later *coff* genius *coff* scientists will find a way to improve efficiency by 98%!! Why, oh why, do we keep bashing | 31337 skr1p7 |1dd13s?! Everyone in society is needed, even the lame. :P
If they patent 2 click shopping they will be twice in conflict with their 1 click shopping patent. Question is, are they big enough (and stupid enough) to sue themselves for pantent infringement? LOL.
If only they invented something to make old people feel young, then maybe I'd throw in my 2 cents into their IPO.