I don't know which country you are living in, but in the UK, outsourcing is a major concern in the IT industry, with over 44,000 contractors unemployed. If you do the arithmetic, you will figure out that is a loss of at least 750 million pounds/year in income tax/VAT.
The biggest fear now is that the outsourcing will spread from the IT industry and call centres to financial jobs such as accountancy and stockbroking. I'd recommend you visit the following sites:
RFID tags seem a good way of preventing books from being stolen from a library. But how long before they are placed in books direct from the publisher? Distributors would find it easier to track merchandise, and local bookshops could also reduce their "natural reduction" in stock. Maybe we'll even see RFID tags on music and burnable CD's.
Suns products have always been priced very high, and they have never been willing to make the effort to penetrate mass markets.
In the past, Sun didn't want to enter the mass markets, because the profit margins weren't large enough to support the quality of service they wanted to provide.
Try reading the ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE Papers for the last few years. A good deal of papers have been describing techniques that can be implemented using consumer graphics hardware.
That's a great idea - but what about adding RFID sensors and face-recognition technology?
Face recognition with clouds. Now that sounds like fun:
Latest sightings from RadarNet for the last 24 hours - date 24th December 2003:
Date Time Lat Lon Duration Station Details Probability 03/12/24 10:23 45E 45N 90 secs RDR-34 Mickey Mouse/Cumulus 100.00% 03/12/24 14:45 95E 34N 3 mins RDR-94 Elvis/Stratus 55.95% 03/12/25 00:01 54E 10N 2 mins RDR-72 Santa Claus/Cumulus 99.99% 03/12/25 07:45 30E 43N 1 min RDR-32 Kermit the Frog 100.00%
The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen discusses this problem in great detail.
First written in 1997 during the height of the dot com boom, it discusses how disruptive technology introduced by a startup can cause a large company with an established product to collapse. You don't need to take away all of a companies customers to cause it to collapse, you just need to take away enough for it not to maintain it's profit margins (which are fairly slim to start with).
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I think that if capping is implemented, the prices of the broadband connections should be decreased appropriately - since you will be recieving a lesser service
Better still, they should give the users the option of installing ad-filters, spam-filters, and flash-filters to filter out all those
I'm not suprised that Microsoft are complaining. That would upset their mass marketing systems. Other companies who will be affected by this will be RealNetworks and Macromedia.
Another benefit of this is there isn't as big a rush to launch the first testbed satellite that was going to block/reserve the frequency blocks that Galileo is going to use for fear the Chinese will get their first.
Which is probably why they want to get involved in the first place. What's to stop the Chinese from pulling out of the project in the near future, having delayed the launch of the first satellite, gained knowledge of the technology required, only to launch their own system later with ownership of the frequency blocks in their
hands?
I've seen this strategy used with companies in the same country.
What happens if there's some political dispute in the future (water, land, air pollution) and one
party chooses to switch the system down?
Does anyone know if it shoots a thin mist or fog to project the image on?
Obviously, you want to convert the air to form a mirror of some sort to form a superior mirage effect.
So, the simplest solution would be to implement some cooling system to create the cool air layer, and use the heat of the projector to create the warm air layer. Once you have this boundary layer, you should have an air mirror and maybe a
holographic image.
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Complete Googledekobb - I am going to use that word in my thesis.
If you are marketing shareware/freeware etc specifically, what are the extra implications. Is this simply for tax reasons?
Tax reasons are no problem, as I'm a full-time student in the UK. The first 5000 pounds of income is tax free. I'd be lucky to exceed that amount.
However, things do get tricky when renting a flat, as the rental agreement states that the property "cannot be used as a place of business".
More than likely that means people can't convert the property into offices, use it as a warehouse, a call-answering centre or as a mail-sorting centre. For this reason I don't want to disclose the address, since it is only temporary.
If I lived in student accomodation, things are even worse, as the college claims ownership of all technology developed on university land and buildings.
Of course this government needs all these expensive high-tech solutions in order to combat tax evasion. How else are they going to be able to afford to buy all this technology?
I did a project a while back using TIGA and the associated chips. You might want to take a look at ,
FPGA and
User Interface Guide.
It's all obsolete and legacy now. But it gives you a good idea about how a current day graphics card is designed. Back then, the various components had to be implemented on separate chips (eg. RAMDAC's, clock oscillators, memory decoding, graphics).
TI also had the TMS34082 vector processor. You could have up to four of those in a slave/master configuration (a bit like the PS2 VU0 processor).
The TMS34020 supported 1/2/4/8/16/24/32 bit pixel sizes and had a parallogram rendering instruction (Two of those allow you to render a triangle). If they had kept the product range going and allowed Moore's law to keep going, they would probably have been able to keep up with 3Dfx.
Intel also has the i860 which combined the floating point and graphics processing onto a single chip. The Intel XEON chip still supports this instruction set.
If you can access the IEEE and ACM archives, you'll find out about dozens more such processors.
Presently, you should have a look at the OpenGL extension a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/regis try/ARB/vertex_program.txt">ARB_vertex_program and "a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/regis try/ARB/fragment_program.txt">ARB_fragment_program .
Any Google search on these topics will provide an almost infinite list of topics.
This a major concern to me. I've spent some time at home writing an application that I'd consider distributing as freeware/shareware. Setting up the paypal/P.O Box number payment system is no problem, but as every application nearly always has a website, registering a domain name introduces some hassle, not least of all, distributing my name/home phone number/address.
From reading previous Slashdot articles, being able to seen the domain name/IP address of owners and customers has been extremely useful in detecting all sorts of shenanigans with hyping up new products.
However, for someone trying to augment their basic salary through shareware software, this is a disadvantage.
With broadband internet via cable/satellite/telco, I have a permanent Internet connection, but the companies respect my right for privacy. Surely the same could be done for domains registered by home residences?
If my ISP gave me a slick web interface that allowed me to open or block ports specific to when I connect, I'd be all for it. Set the defaults to block things, to protect against worms and the like, but if I want those ports open to do something, it should be easy for me to open them. I think that's the perfect middle ground. People who don't know (or care) will be protected. Those who care can easily do whatever they want. The ISP just has to make it clear where the options are.
For the web applications that I write (that require custom socket protocols) I always give the user the choice of using SSL, a password and a trusted hosts/domain list. Everything would be so much simpler if this could be done by the OS/firewall.
The bill defines P2P as...software that enables the transmission of computer files or data over the Internet or any other public network of computers and that has as its primary function the capability to do all of the following--...
Does that mean Kermit is outlawed as well (I mean the MIT software, not the frog:)
DRM works on the basis a unique ID in the BIOS and a central DRM server.
Now that's interesting. We've seen the concept of unique ID numbers shift from encryption chips (Key escrow/clipper chip with centralised server) to CPUID (Intel Pentium III) to Ethernet cards (MAC addresses) and now into the BIOS. Other methods have been proposed (smart cards), but these are probably not going to take off, since ownership of a card programmer is considered a crime.
Out of curiosity, don't PC's still copy the BIOS to RAM, so it should be possible to diddle with the RAM copy in some way? Alternatively, won't
people try and mod their BIOS chips?
Doesn't the use of a DRM server increase the chances of a DDoS attack on the Internet becoming even more disruptive? Knock out a server, and an entire segment of some application's user base is unable to renew their licences/use their applications?
My personal guess is that DRM in the BIOS is just another fad, just like CPUID.
Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?
But does it have transparent magazine cases? I only use high-tech equipment if it has the same aesthetic design and ergonomic functionality as an Apple nMac.
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I don't know which country you are living in, but in the UK, outsourcing is a major concern in the IT industry, with over 44,000 contractors unemployed. If you do the arithmetic, you will figure out that is a loss of at least 750 million pounds/year in income tax/VAT.
The biggest fear now is that the outsourcing will spread from the IT industry and call centres to financial jobs such as accountancy and stockbroking. I'd recommend you visit the following sites:
Prescott enters outsourcing furore
The Sunday Times also had an article:
Where is your job going?
And a discussion group for UK contractors who are trying to fight the IR35 legislation Shout99
These should provide a more detailed snapshot of the current state of the IT industry.
... I'm patenting the concept of having telephone calls that reach non-existant numbers redirected to telemarketers.
RFID tags seem a good way of preventing books from being stolen from a library. But how long before they are placed in books direct from the publisher? Distributors would find it easier to track merchandise, and local bookshops could also reduce their "natural reduction" in stock. Maybe we'll even see RFID tags on music and burnable CD's.
Suns products have always been priced very high, and they have never been willing to make the effort to penetrate mass markets.
In the past, Sun didn't want to enter the mass markets, because the profit margins weren't large enough to support the quality of service they wanted to provide.
Try reading the ACM SIGGRAPH and IEEE Papers for the last few years. A good deal of papers have been describing techniques that can be implemented using consumer graphics hardware.
Face recognition with clouds. Now that sounds like fun:
Latest sightings from RadarNet for the last 24 hours - date 24th December 2003:
The Innovators Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen discusses this problem in great detail.
First written in 1997 during the height of the dot com boom, it discusses how disruptive technology introduced by a startup can cause a large company with an established product to collapse. You don't need to take away all of a companies customers to cause it to collapse, you just need to take away enough for it not to maintain it's profit margins (which are fairly slim to start with).
Imhotep Industries Egyptian pyramid and tomb architects Need vital documents and belongings to last several millenia for the after-life? Using our patented pyramid building and tomb decorating techniques, we will design and build a pyramid to match your custom requirements. Guaranteed to last a millenium or your money back! Listen to what one of our satisfied customers have to say: "Imhotep industries really solved all of my after-life storage needs. Before, I always had to worry about floods, looters, sand-storms and camels. But not any more. Thank you Imhotep industries." (Djoser, Pharaoh of the 3rd Dynasty)
I think that if capping is implemented, the prices of the broadband connections should be decreased appropriately - since you will be recieving a lesser service
Better still, they should give the users the option of installing ad-filters, spam-filters, and flash-filters to filter out all those
I'm not suprised that Microsoft are complaining. That would upset their mass marketing systems. Other companies who will be affected by this will be RealNetworks and Macromedia.
I think the individual is levitating. Maybe some aliens are beaming him up to their mothership.
Another benefit of this is there isn't as big a rush to launch the first testbed satellite that was going to block/reserve the frequency blocks that Galileo is going to use for fear the Chinese will get their first. Which is probably why they want to get involved in the first place. What's to stop the Chinese from pulling out of the project in the near future, having delayed the launch of the first satellite, gained knowledge of the technology required, only to launch their own system later with ownership of the frequency blocks in their hands? I've seen this strategy used with companies in the same country. What happens if there's some political dispute in the future (water, land, air pollution) and one party chooses to switch the system down?
Does anyone know if it shoots a thin mist or fog to project the image on?
Obviously, you want to convert the air to form a mirror of some sort to form a superior mirage effect. So, the simplest solution would be to implement some cooling system to create the cool air layer, and use the heat of the projector to create the warm air layer. Once you have this boundary layer, you should have an air mirror and maybe a holographic image.
Complete Googledekobb - I am going to use that word in my thesis.
To me, the Connection Machine range of supercomputers were the ultimate in blinkenlighten computing.
The Connection Machine CM-2 cube. Another picture.
Presently, there's the Connection Machine CM-5. Another image.
If you are marketing shareware/freeware etc specifically, what are the extra implications. Is this simply for tax reasons?
Tax reasons are no problem, as I'm a full-time student in the UK. The first 5000 pounds of income is tax free. I'd be lucky to exceed that amount.
However, things do get tricky when renting a flat, as the rental agreement states that the property "cannot be used as a place of business". More than likely that means people can't convert the property into offices, use it as a warehouse, a call-answering centre or as a mail-sorting centre. For this reason I don't want to disclose the address, since it is only temporary.
If I lived in student accomodation, things are even worse, as the college claims ownership of all technology developed on university land and buildings.
Of course this government needs all these expensive high-tech solutions in order to combat tax evasion. How else are they going to be able to afford to buy all this technology?
I did a project a while back using TIGA and the associated chips. You might want to take a look at , FPGA and User Interface Guide.
s try/ARB/vertex_program.txt">ARB_vertex_program and "a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/regis try/ARB/fragment_program.txt">ARB_fragment_program .
It's all obsolete and legacy now. But it gives you a good idea about how a current day graphics card is designed. Back then, the various components had to be implemented on separate chips (eg. RAMDAC's, clock oscillators, memory decoding, graphics).
TI also had the TMS34082 vector processor. You could have up to four of those in a slave/master configuration (a bit like the PS2 VU0 processor). The TMS34020 supported 1/2/4/8/16/24/32 bit pixel sizes and had a parallogram rendering instruction (Two of those allow you to render a triangle). If they had kept the product range going and allowed Moore's law to keep going, they would probably have been able to keep up with 3Dfx.
Intel also has the i860 which combined the floating point and graphics processing onto a single chip. The Intel XEON chip still supports this instruction set.
If you can access the IEEE and ACM archives, you'll find out about dozens more such processors.
Presently, you should have a look at the OpenGL extension a href="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/ogl-sample/regi
Any Google search on these topics will provide an almost infinite list of topics.
This a major concern to me. I've spent some time at home writing an application that I'd consider distributing as freeware/shareware. Setting up the paypal/P.O Box number payment system is no problem, but as every application nearly always has a website, registering a domain name introduces some hassle, not least of all, distributing my name/home phone number/address.
From reading previous Slashdot articles, being able to seen the domain name/IP address of owners and customers has been extremely useful in detecting all sorts of shenanigans with hyping up new products.
However, for someone trying to augment their basic salary through shareware software, this is a disadvantage.
With broadband internet via cable/satellite/telco, I have a permanent Internet connection, but the companies respect my right for privacy. Surely the same could be done for domains registered by home residences?
Wind River Systems made the following acquisitions and sales:
In May 2000, they bought AudeSi for $40,000,000 and Norwegian company ICESoft for $25,000,000
In April 2001, they bought the software assets of Berkeley Software Design Inc.
There's an interesting quote from Business Week at this time.
owning the assets of an open-source software company doesn't guarantee gaining access to the talent of programmers in the open-source community
Rather not surprisingly, in January 2002, they sold FreeBSD
From Algonet: Diab Data was bought by ISI who in turn were bought by Wind River Systems. EST Corporation were also bought out by Wind River Systems.
I guess Wind River Systems were just trying to expand to fill their niche market.
Will a web-accelerator accelerate make my broadband connection five times faster?
The vaccuum cleaner wasn't a VAX by any chance?
If my ISP gave me a slick web interface that allowed me to open or block ports specific to when I connect, I'd be all for it. Set the defaults to block things, to protect against worms and the like, but if I want those ports open to do something, it should be easy for me to open them. I think that's the perfect middle ground. People who don't know (or care) will be protected. Those who care can easily do whatever they want. The ISP just has to make it clear where the options are.
For the web applications that I write (that require custom socket protocols) I always give the user the choice of using SSL, a password and a trusted hosts/domain list. Everything would be so much simpler if this could be done by the OS/firewall.
The bill defines P2P as ...software that enables the transmission of computer files or data over the Internet or any other public network of computers and that has as its primary function the capability to do all of the following-- ...
:)
Does that mean Kermit is outlawed as well (I mean the MIT software, not the frog
DRM works on the basis a unique ID in the BIOS and a central DRM server.
Now that's interesting. We've seen the concept of unique ID numbers shift from encryption chips (Key escrow/clipper chip with centralised server) to CPUID (Intel Pentium III) to Ethernet cards (MAC addresses) and now into the BIOS. Other methods have been proposed (smart cards), but these are probably not going to take off, since ownership of a card programmer is considered a crime.
Out of curiosity, don't PC's still copy the BIOS to RAM, so it should be possible to diddle with the RAM copy in some way? Alternatively, won't people try and mod their BIOS chips?
Doesn't the use of a DRM server increase the chances of a DDoS attack on the Internet becoming even more disruptive? Knock out a server, and an entire segment of some application's user base is unable to renew their licences/use their applications?
My personal guess is that DRM in the BIOS is just another fad, just like CPUID.
Why go with a low caliber MP5 when you can use This?
But does it have transparent magazine cases? I only use high-tech equipment if it has the same aesthetic design and ergonomic functionality as an Apple nMac.