I definitely agree with sunset provisions and also the ideas that for every law written at least that much text must be removed in chucks of whole laws.
WRT the NW proposal, clearly this is to "shock-and-awe" the people. Then they'll pop out the real idea - require it for cars owned by DUI defendants. Still a large enough market to make some people rich. And not a bad idea either.
People don't really care about that. Time periods are just a way to eliminate. When the market is competitive, then the first task is to throw away most of the resumes. Don't put stuff on there that says "Throw me away". Much more important is skills. Make sure you read the job description and can list of your resume where you've done most or all of them.
Best luck,
TimJowers
Good thing is technology is advancing and will innovate away from monopolies such as TWX and the phone companies. I'll bet if ten years ago someone would have told you people would no longer have home phones then you'd not have believed it.
Good idea wold be for Fed gov. to step in and require states counties, and cities to open up the right-of-way to EVERYONE and not just those few elite who are on the list with the politicians. I once consulted on a project to do this for a city in 1998. Well, the city officials had allowed the local energy monopoly to lay fiber as well as the ILEC but told us we'd have to pay them to lay the fiber and pay rent to them for it!
Do you realize how much taxes we pay on roads? $660/family. Every year. Surely a national fiber network could be really cheap but take a look at the mail system. Their fees are extreme compared to other delivery companies especially if you consider their volumes. I have no illusions that socializing technology would make it any better. Maybe it would not be $660/year but I'll bet my fast Internet bill in two years will be down to $250/year.
Have you driven on any Interstates lately. The planning and maintenance thereof is a joke. Shut down a lane for years in order to have another lane in the future? Why not plan ahead for once. Now just imagine how shitty the Internet would be if the government managed it all. As it stands the Internet speeds to the masses are advancing fairly rapidly and lockstep with content. It's the best, fastest humans can change. Hell, look at IP allocation. They really screwed that one up and its hurting and will hurt alot more before IPv6 takes over.
You're right. The USA is sue-happy. Of course, who doesn't have personal experience that the courts in the USA are unjust? I think the technology will be adopted in another country outside the USA. While driving many hours up I-95 late one night last week I realized the decade-old technology for computer controlled car caravans and the almost 2-decade old technology for following lines on the sides of roads (given good lines) were no-brainers. It is only our legalistic society that is stopping progress.
As to the DARPA. I understand they had more response than they desired and eliminated many teams because they were not University teams. Not the original proposition but who can argue.
Also, when invited to participate on this last year I quickly brought up Delorme Maps 2003 and chose "prefer Forest Roads". With that done, one can barely make it in 10 hours. I concluded that clearly flying vehicles are the right choice and there are many other interesting problems which may be addressed successfully. Therefore, I'd place any bets that the money will never be rewarded. Also, I believe the statement in the course description was that all tracks can be crossed by an SUV and a professional driver.
I propose that a solid open source collaboration be done on autonomous vehicles and robotics in general. I looked through a few projects on sourceforge but did not see any upon which to build. I did see a few projects which were being formed or seemed to be a custom project for a certain piece of source code. Maybe the problem is soure forge needs to be organized better to allow collaboration rather than just source code control...
Prediction: Windows marriage of Linux in China. We'll all be importing Chinese Winux in a few years.:-)
If Linux developers in the USA use ideas from Chinese Winux they will not know about a possible relating Windows copyright?
Worse yet, the leak will probably reveal how unadvanced Windows really is. Aside from the blue screen and bloat technical people will have to actually compare the implementations of Windows versus Linux. Scheduler for instance! Windows books always say it was a round robin but maybe we find it is more timesharing like the 2.3 kernel.
Currently, the only positive side to this system I can see is stock ownership. By allowing all people to participate in company ownership then they share in the wealth. As people historically humankind has sought a ruler and this probably was necessary to build cooperation and organization; yet, now we are at a very interesting crossroad because organization can exist using software to help organize people. This has to be scary to both governments and companies as they exist by taking a portion in exchange for organizing people.
My answer is that the $62,000 (or maybe 64k question) is in a new way of doing business. For example, in the USA a group of people called the Amish still live from their labors and, thus, avoid taxes (well over 50% for regular folks). So, they effectivly double their salaries. This is also a big trend in construction, agriculture, and such where illegal aliens (from Mexico for example) are paid in cash and never pay taxes. But rich people have various loopholes so they do not pay taxes either. I feel the taxes should be evenly levied.
In a few years I hope we will see more direct manufacturer-to-consumer systems based on software. This will eliminate alot of middle-man needs. This, I think, is where the profits are driven to the producer and consumer and dry up for anyone not actually adding value.
For instance, you cannot imagine people buying their groceries through a web page because computers and fast networks are still beyond the wealth of the average person (even in America); but several businesses have been bron and failed trying to realize this vision before its time.
Before its time technically and socially. If we figure out when to hit this ball though then we will knock it out of the park.
Tim
P.S> I think good tools make me at least 10 times more productive. Experience makes me around four times productive. Heck, if only my employer paid based on value! Then I'd owe them money for being on/. !;-)
yes a fortune 500 contract company did this on me. day I arrived in a new state and day before contact started. what to do? And I am a US citizen. So, those naysayers are rather nayknowers - I'm sure the H1'ers take it all the time. This is the state of the market today. Unethical business practices. Sorta reminds me of "Les Miserables". Point is, when the money gets low the morals do too.
By rapidly allowing the dollar to tumble the US government is able to continue to overspend while making those of us who worked and saved fight to get returns on our money just to keep up with dollar deflation. Pay rates will continue to tumble as companies try to adjust to an environment where earnings are not growing in magnitude (though relative to dollar's fall the earnings will not be too bad).
WTF's a sommelier? JK... I dictionary.com'ed it. Wine dude. cool. I think a huge op. is for us to commonize this idea. Why let all the CRM guys shave all the fun (and false info) at the person's expense? Commonize it. Let me manage my info. Then the id card can hook up to the big computer in the sky and get REAL and ACCURATE info on who I am and what I like. Ooo, using technology to benefit people rather then the man - this just ain't right is it? I'll bet equifax, dnb, and the crm companies will be spitting bricks at anyone that tries to empower the actually subject of this whole subject - you.
Oh, maybe you did not know I was referring to the referenced article. Anyways, Delorme Maps is a great, amazing program but has lots of wrong data (2003 version). I proposed to them to have a sort of beta program where the GPS allows them to learn their flaws as drivers take the more optimal paths. No response from them but surely this device is also knocking on the door of future features.
How long do you think it takes to report a traffic accident today? How long did it take 30 years ago?
Everybody will have all this neat stuff eventually and then life will be alot different.
What I am hinting at is much more "drunk" of an idea than you realize: large companies and governments were needed through the past centuries to co-ordinate. Someone had to rule and cause harmony. Distributed powerful tools and communications are starting to change this social paradigm. People and entities in general now openly migrate to goverenments offering the best tax/benefit tradeoffs (us jobs to india, china, mexico and US citizens migrate residence to TX, FL, etc.).
Put a powerful device in the hands of the masses and the uses and innovation are exponential. That is what is happening with the Internet and will happen with all human efforts over this century.
A more concrete example is a super-computer. In the past these were mega-millions of dollars but now people regularly tout distributed frameworks as having nearly equal power at thousandths of the cost (of course for some problems loose coupling is not a solution;-).
When one reads the last few sentences, the magnitude of the chang ein what people can do strikes you. No longer is a $20M satellite needed to image the earth. Shoot, who'll be the first to set up an OS site to share pictures of GPS points? Then we truly can have one wicked awesome map program on our notebook that flashes up exactly what the turn looks like before we get there! Future is bright!
Yes, US News or a similar magazine has done a few articles on this over the decades and, soundly, the tradesman beats out the professional in lifetime earnings. The mechanic can parlay his earnings jumpstart into a savings plan and have more monney than a doctor upon retirement when you account for 7+ years in lost earnings and hefty education debt. Law of compound interest. Now if you get a scholarship or something then the formulas probably do not work out that way.
The interview transcipt at http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/28/cnncom.00.h tml mentions variants. I suppose an "official" taxonomy does not use the name "MyDoom" and the names are referring to something found in the virus? The bad thing about viruses is we see quotes like "cntained the name Andy" but never see the source. Analysis without analyzing the primary source is always, at best, suspect. Could have been some bit vector or shifted struct for all we know.
Symantec as of June 02 still was suggesting a taxonomy: http://www.scmagazine.com/scmagazine/sc-online/200 2/article/29/article.html. And current papers are using similarity rather than possible revisions/evolution: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=948190&dl=AC M&coll=portal.
My point was the comparison algorithm is similar to the new image search algorithms. How to find all images of a ball? That's not easy. Likewise for viruses. Some similarity assessment with known viruses could lead to faster detection. Surely the virus writers are re-using each other's work?
Of course, one day someone will marry file formats and evolutionary algorithms to make an evolving virus. Then the taxonomy may not even be appropriate. Obviously they are not evolving as the rate of evolution has to be matched to the host reproduction so one would surely expect a "killer" virus. Interestingly, the current viruses that dominate, Doom2, soBig etc. do not destroy the OS and, in this respect, clearly mimic the successful viruses of nature. BTW, life form viruses are also not classified by evolution as only in the last few years has the computer power begun to be significant enough to allow this analysis. Of course the assumption is the same as with computer viruses that similar structure implies similar evolution.
Tim P.S> I ran a virus scan on my computer and apparently had lots. I cleaned them all but still get pop-ups unrelated to the web page when I use IE! Just don't remember how to track down those ActiveX controls so I use myIE2. I can turn off all ActiveX controls in IE but it gives me no way to select certain ones.
Tried to search for more info and came across the 1992 Doom2 virus: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/doom2.htm l
I am curious about these viruses. Are they "evolving" from older viruses? Seems like some fun research to find algorithms to track this evolution and predict/detect he next one.
perhaps he was laid off from symantec etc. and was trying to get his old job back... get it? Sarcasm "Do your job." "what job?". Let's just hope the doctor's jobs don't go overseas;-0
Thanks! I couldn't get to it from work either. Maybe there's a virus on my machine. Funny that the news reporters never tell how to determine if you have the virus. Guess they really want it to spread.
How much again is M$FT paying to take over the EU OS market? Or did you naively think government penalties were somehow to benefit the consumer... reminds me of the SEC and my losses in a Merrill-Lynch mutual fund. Not waiting for the SEC to mail me my check for the money they are taking in in penalties!
I would think y'all would realize the anticompetitive fees M$FT will pay in the EU are NOT penalties but actually fees... they are paying for the right to do business anti-competitively - something the US government has allowed here for years. So, expect to see lots of upcoming laws and ruling making M$FT the only valid product choice in Europe.
Greenspans recommends leaving tech but is unable to tell you where to go... http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/26/news/econom y/green span_jobs/index.htm. If he doesn't know what you should do to start a company or have a next career, and I quote "by its very nature is not easily predictable", how can you expect to know what company to start?
customers. if your products can be sold then perhaps your customers will invest in your company if they really believe in it. You can read some VC books but largely the q. is whether you are willing to spend your family's life savings or give the company over to someone else. E.g. you can let some VC's take it over. You might end up with some money but certainly not control in my experience.
..also been involved in several. You need a market a small company can penetrate. E.g. insurance and other large industries do not do business with small companies. You need a market that will not be trashed by free products; and that makes the phrase "software market" almost an oxymoron for a small company. What I am saying is that you must identify your market first and then make your company. Make what people will buy rather than what they might buy. Or get some exec. from a large company to own part of your copmany: that's how most of the successful VC's make sure their companies are successful, incestuous relations.
BTW, you might assume the companies I worked for were not profitable... they were. Just can make more by moving the jobs to India and Phillipines.
Best luck. We can make the world better with better software... but better for ourselves and our neighbors or better for the king atop the mountain?
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I definitely agree with sunset provisions and also the ideas that for every law written at least that much text must be removed in chucks of whole laws.
WRT the NW proposal, clearly this is to "shock-and-awe" the people. Then they'll pop out the real idea - require it for cars owned by DUI defendants. Still a large enough market to make some people rich. And not a bad idea either.
People don't really care about that. Time periods are just a way to eliminate. When the market is competitive, then the first task is to throw away most of the resumes. Don't put stuff on there that says "Throw me away". Much more important is skills. Make sure you read the job description and can list of your resume where you've done most or all of them. Best luck, TimJowers
Good thing is technology is advancing and will innovate away from monopolies such as TWX and the phone companies. I'll bet if ten years ago someone would have told you people would no longer have home phones then you'd not have believed it.
Good idea wold be for Fed gov. to step in and require states counties, and cities to open up the right-of-way to EVERYONE and not just those few elite who are on the list with the politicians. I once consulted on a project to do this for a city in 1998. Well, the city officials had allowed the local energy monopoly to lay fiber as well as the ILEC but told us we'd have to pay them to lay the fiber and pay rent to them for it!
Do you realize how much taxes we pay on roads? $660/family. Every year. Surely a national fiber network could be really cheap but take a look at the mail system. Their fees are extreme compared to other delivery companies especially if you consider their volumes. I have no illusions that socializing technology would make it any better. Maybe it would not be $660/year but I'll bet my fast Internet bill in two years will be down to $250/year.
Have you driven on any Interstates lately. The planning and maintenance thereof is a joke. Shut down a lane for years in order to have another lane in the future? Why not plan ahead for once. Now just imagine how shitty the Internet would be if the government managed it all. As it stands the Internet speeds to the masses are advancing fairly rapidly and lockstep with content. It's the best, fastest humans can change. Hell, look at IP allocation. They really screwed that one up and its hurting and will hurt alot more before IPv6 takes over.
Who'd vote to spend $87B on better Interstates?
I can't believe those dunces at the U. taught me it was 128 bytes at a time!!! I knew that instruction re-ordering was B.S.
The Linux Kernel for one takes up far less than 1GB. The "spare" room in the Kernel space is given over to caching functions.
You're right. The USA is sue-happy. Of course, who doesn't have personal experience that the courts in the USA are unjust? I think the technology will be adopted in another country outside the USA. While driving many hours up I-95 late one night last week I realized the decade-old technology for computer controlled car caravans and the almost 2-decade old technology for following lines on the sides of roads (given good lines) were no-brainers. It is only our legalistic society that is stopping progress.
As to the DARPA. I understand they had more response than they desired and eliminated many teams because they were not University teams. Not the original proposition but who can argue.
Also, when invited to participate on this last year I quickly brought up Delorme Maps 2003 and chose "prefer Forest Roads". With that done, one can barely make it in 10 hours. I concluded that clearly flying vehicles are the right choice and there are many other interesting problems which may be addressed successfully. Therefore, I'd place any bets that the money will never be rewarded. Also, I believe the statement in the course description was that all tracks can be crossed by an SUV and a professional driver.
I propose that a solid open source collaboration be done on autonomous vehicles and robotics in general. I looked through a few projects on sourceforge but did not see any upon which to build. I did see a few projects which were being formed or seemed to be a custom project for a certain piece of source code. Maybe the problem is soure forge needs to be organized better to allow collaboration rather than just source code control...
Cheers,
TimJowers
Prediction: Windows marriage of Linux in China. We'll all be importing Chinese Winux in a few years.
If Linux developers in the USA use ideas from Chinese Winux they will not know about a possible relating Windows copyright?
Worse yet, the leak will probably reveal how unadvanced Windows really is. Aside from the blue screen and bloat technical people will have to actually compare the implementations of Windows versus Linux. Scheduler for instance! Windows books always say it was a round robin but maybe we find it is more timesharing like the 2.3 kernel.
Bharath,
/. !;-)
Currently, the only positive side to this system I can see is stock ownership. By allowing all people to participate in company ownership then they share in the wealth. As people historically humankind has sought a ruler and this probably was necessary to build cooperation and organization; yet, now we are at a very interesting crossroad because organization can exist using software to help organize people. This has to be scary to both governments and companies as they exist by taking a portion in exchange for organizing people.
My answer is that the $62,000 (or maybe 64k question) is in a new way of doing business. For example, in the USA a group of people called the Amish still live from their labors and, thus, avoid taxes (well over 50% for regular folks). So, they effectivly double their salaries. This is also a big trend in construction, agriculture, and such where illegal aliens (from Mexico for example) are paid in cash and never pay taxes. But rich people have various loopholes so they do not pay taxes either. I feel the taxes should be evenly levied.
In a few years I hope we will see more direct manufacturer-to-consumer systems based on software. This will eliminate alot of middle-man needs. This, I think, is where the profits are driven to the producer and consumer and dry up for anyone not actually adding value.
For instance, you cannot imagine people buying their groceries through a web page because computers and fast networks are still beyond the wealth of the average person (even in America); but several businesses have been bron and failed trying to realize this vision before its time.
Before its time technically and socially. If we figure out when to hit this ball though then we will knock it out of the park.
Tim
P.S> I think good tools make me at least 10 times more productive. Experience makes me around four times productive. Heck, if only my employer paid based on value! Then I'd owe them money for being on
yes a fortune 500 contract company did this on me. day I arrived in a new state and day before contact started. what to do? And I am a US citizen. So, those naysayers are rather nayknowers - I'm sure the H1'ers take it all the time. This is the state of the market today. Unethical business practices. Sorta reminds me of "Les Miserables". Point is, when the money gets low the morals do too. By rapidly allowing the dollar to tumble the US government is able to continue to overspend while making those of us who worked and saved fight to get returns on our money just to keep up with dollar deflation. Pay rates will continue to tumble as companies try to adjust to an environment where earnings are not growing in magnitude (though relative to dollar's fall the earnings will not be too bad).
WTF's a sommelier? JK... I dictionary.com'ed it. Wine dude. cool. I think a huge op. is for us to commonize this idea. Why let all the CRM guys shave all the fun (and false info) at the person's expense? Commonize it. Let me manage my info. Then the id card can hook up to the big computer in the sky and get REAL and ACCURATE info on who I am and what I like. Ooo, using technology to benefit people rather then the man - this just ain't right is it? I'll bet equifax, dnb, and the crm companies will be spitting bricks at anyone that tries to empower the actually subject of this whole subject - you.
Oh, maybe you did not know I was referring to the referenced article. Anyways, Delorme Maps is a great, amazing program but has lots of wrong data (2003 version). I proposed to them to have a sort of beta program where the GPS allows them to learn their flaws as drivers take the more optimal paths. No response from them but surely this device is also knocking on the door of future features.
Not.
;-).
How long do you think it takes to report a traffic accident today? How long did it take 30 years ago?
Everybody will have all this neat stuff eventually and then life will be alot different.
What I am hinting at is much more "drunk" of an idea than you realize: large companies and governments were needed through the past centuries to co-ordinate. Someone had to rule and cause harmony. Distributed powerful tools and communications are starting to change this social paradigm. People and entities in general now openly migrate to goverenments offering the best tax/benefit tradeoffs (us jobs to india, china, mexico and US citizens migrate residence to TX, FL, etc.).
Put a powerful device in the hands of the masses and the uses and innovation are exponential. That is what is happening with the Internet and will happen with all human efforts over this century.
A more concrete example is a super-computer. In the past these were mega-millions of dollars but now people regularly tout distributed frameworks as having nearly equal power at thousandths of the cost (of course for some problems loose coupling is not a solution
So, I re-iterate, "I like it..."
When one reads the last few sentences, the magnitude of the chang ein what people can do strikes you. No longer is a $20M satellite needed to image the earth. Shoot, who'll be the first to set up an OS site to share pictures of GPS points? Then we truly can have one wicked awesome map program on our notebook that flashes up exactly what the turn looks like before we get there! Future is bright!
Yes, US News or a similar magazine has done a few articles on this over the decades and, soundly, the tradesman beats out the professional in lifetime earnings. The mechanic can parlay his earnings jumpstart into a savings plan and have more monney than a doctor upon retirement when you account for 7+ years in lost earnings and hefty education debt. Law of compound interest. Now if you get a scholarship or something then the formulas probably do not work out that way.
The interview transcipt at http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0107/28/cnncom.00.h tml mentions variants. I suppose an "official" taxonomy does not use the name "MyDoom" and the names are referring to something found in the virus? The bad thing about viruses is we see quotes like "cntained the name Andy" but never see the source. Analysis without analyzing the primary source is always, at best, suspect. Could have been some bit vector or shifted struct for all we know.0 2/article/29/article.html. And current papers are using similarity rather than possible revisions/evolution: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=948190&dl=AC M&coll=portal.
Symantec as of June 02 still was suggesting a taxonomy: http://www.scmagazine.com/scmagazine/sc-online/20
My point was the comparison algorithm is similar to the new image search algorithms. How to find all images of a ball? That's not easy. Likewise for viruses. Some similarity assessment with known viruses could lead to faster detection. Surely the virus writers are re-using each other's work?
Of course, one day someone will marry file formats and evolutionary algorithms to make an evolving virus. Then the taxonomy may not even be appropriate. Obviously they are not evolving as the rate of evolution has to be matched to the host reproduction so one would surely expect a "killer" virus. Interestingly, the current viruses that dominate, Doom2, soBig etc. do not destroy the OS and, in this respect, clearly mimic the successful viruses of nature. BTW, life form viruses are also not classified by evolution as only in the last few years has the computer power begun to be significant enough to allow this analysis. Of course the assumption is the same as with computer viruses that similar structure implies similar evolution.
Tim
P.S> I ran a virus scan on my computer and apparently had lots. I cleaned them all but still get pop-ups unrelated to the web page when I use IE! Just don't remember how to track down those ActiveX controls so I use myIE2. I can turn off all ActiveX controls in IE but it gives me no way to select certain ones.
Tried to search for more info and came across the 1992 Doom2 virus: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/doom2.ht
I am curious about these viruses. Are they "evolving" from older viruses? Seems like some fun research to find algorithms to track this evolution and predict/detect he next one.
Any links?
perhaps he was laid off from symantec etc. and was trying to get his old job back... get it? Sarcasm "Do your job." "what job?". Let's just hope the doctor's jobs don't go overseas ;-0
Perhaps one should require a warning on operating systems and other software that says "This could be hazardous to your data!".
Thanks! I couldn't get to it from work either. Maybe there's a virus on my machine. Funny that the news reporters never tell how to determine if you have the virus. Guess they really want it to spread.
How much again is M$FT paying to take over the EU OS market? Or did you naively think government penalties were somehow to benefit the consumer... reminds me of the SEC and my losses in a Merrill-Lynch mutual fund. Not waiting for the SEC to mail me my check for the money they are taking in in penalties!
I would think y'all would realize the anticompetitive fees M$FT will pay in the EU are NOT penalties but actually fees... they are paying for the right to do business anti-competitively - something the US government has allowed here for years. So, expect to see lots of upcoming laws and ruling making M$FT the only valid product choice in Europe.
Greenspans recommends leaving tech but is unable to tell you where to go...m y/green span_jobs/index.htm.
http://money.cnn.com/2004/01/26/news/econo
If he doesn't know what you should do to start a company or have a next career, and I quote "by its very nature is not easily predictable", how can you expect to know what company to start?
customers.
if your products can be sold then perhaps your customers will invest in your company if they really believe in it.
You can read some VC books but largely the q. is whether you are willing to spend your family's life savings or give the company over to someone else. E.g. you can let some VC's take it over. You might end up with some money but certainly not control in my experience.
you forgot 95% connections in the case of the aforementioned. It always has and always will be not what you know but who you know.
..also been involved in several. You need a market a small company can penetrate. E.g. insurance and other large industries do not do business with small companies. You need a market that will not be trashed by free products; and that makes the phrase "software market" almost an oxymoron for a small company. What I am saying is that you must identify your market first and then make your company. Make what people will buy rather than what they might buy. Or get some exec. from a large company to own part of your copmany: that's how most of the successful VC's make sure their companies are successful, incestuous relations.
BTW, you might assume the companies I worked for were not profitable... they were. Just can make more by moving the jobs to India and Phillipines.
Best luck. We can make the world better with better software... but better for ourselves and our neighbors or better for the king atop the mountain?