That's going to be next, in the name of 'balance' mind you. Adam and Eve riding their dinosaurs to Church, the whole shebang. Maybe Xenu can get in on it as well.
When a hardware company preaches to me how my future involves me spending money on their hardware to bring me yet more 'features' I don't want and no one asked me. And the 'features' I do want, specifically, lower power consumption, lower cost are not in their plans at all.
Guess what? I don't want streaming video/TV on my phone. I don't want a massive hard drive to store a directly replacement of my MP3 player. And I REALLY don't want Intel or anyone else 'partnering' with carriers to nickel and dime me to death for every new gewgaw and function on my phone either.
Here's what I want - a solid PDA phone I can synch with Lotus Notes and a few other groupware alternatives. I want a direct interface to the PC w/o having to pay for the carriers picture mail service in order to move jpegs from my phone to my PC. If you're going to cause me switch from a digital camera then make the camera a real replacement with swappable media and a full suite of camera functions. I want a solidly compatible browser for real web browsing at 3G speeds.
To repeat. I don't want a multimedia player. I don't want a sound system. I want a PDA phone. And guess what, Intel? I really do want it cheaper.
Yeah like 88.1 NC State went commercial a few years ago and now carries ever more college sports and college topical programming. There's a still a bar band scene on the radio but it's dying off as the bar band scene itself is dying off. WSHA is a college (Shaw University, oldest TBC [traditionally black college] in the US has 95% music programming but its Jazz and world music. Many UNC radio stations are NPR/PRI feeds. There is also the 'other' UNC radio station WXYC one of the first if not THE first internet radio but they have such a weird mixture of stuff it's not relevant. I mean do you care about Cambodian hiphop, Tarheel swing and Akbani Wright Yoruba music?
States AGs are looking at this purely as a political issue. One would have to conclude if one watched local news and listened to their State's AG that approximately 1 billion percent of everyone on the internet over the age of 17 is a child raping communist homosexual terrorist sex offender. A hundred crimes? That's what they point to? A hundred crimes.
If only getting guns off the street for a hundred murders were this easy. If only the regulation of dangerous dog breeds for a hundred maulings were this easy. But hey! The internet will turn your virgin daughters into Islamofascists with a crackpipe in one hand and a grown man's cock in the other.
This will be the end of music on radio. Period. AM radio is barely a blip on the screen relegated to church broadcasts and a few EIB partners now that 'talk' radio is moving to FM. There is already quite a track record of success using the 'talk' radio format. So when the RIAA does this, the radio stations I don't think will waste a lot of money fighting it. They'll just pull the plug and go to a 100% 'talk' radio programming schedule. I'm mixed about this. On the one I have zero tolerance for windbaggery and Crazy Redneck Libertarian Assholes in Stereo. On the other hand music on the radio truthfully died years ago. The only 'music' on the radio is Ballad Rock, "Country" and the meekest R&B/Hip Hop. So let that die. Even college stations are dropping music programming.
It will be a shame I guess to lose some of the more esoteric stuff like the all Jazz format of WSHA or the weekend world music programs on some of the left side of the band college and public radio stations. But if it means that that the RIAA has to eat dog food and sleep in a cardboard box on the sidewalk then it's worth it.
Got my only Palm device, an IBM rebranded III (C20) for free in 1999. After dutifully messing with it, flashing an OS upgrade or two all the way up to PalmOS 3.5 and then back down to 3.3, after installing 3rd party hacks up the wazoo and an application that allowed me to use unused flash for applications, speeding up the system clock and EasySync versions from 2.0 up to 4.3 all of which failed, broke or could not work with Lotus Notes then using Notes export functions to clone data to the Palm Desktop app then moving that to the Palm, I finally gave up on it last year when at one point the batteries conked out (old models had AAA batteries) and I just couldn't find a good enough reason to put another $3 in batteries into my paperweight.
Palm always seemed to be progressing about half the speed the marketplace wanted them to. They split off hardware from software, bought BeOS and wandered around doing silly pointless things for years. Ultimately their vaunted stability and battery life over PocketPC just wasn't enough. Palm always remained a work in progress, a lab experiment really in search of a stable suite of business apps and a good business model. The idea that apps generally to be workable needed big chunks of RAM, that Palm never seemed to be able to deliver on the hardware in time, or, if they did it cost a fantastic amount of money was inane. Does anyone remember that the first 2MB -> 8MB customer RAM upgrades required you to take apart the motherboard and spend more than $200 for the chip?
Yeah so I not glad or angry Palm is dead. I gave up on it years ago. I think the next thing I''ll get is a Moto-Q or whatever is roughly a Moto-Q next year when Sprint gives me a discount. The idea of a standalone PDA is over. And the idea of a PDA/Phone without good enough data entry is over too. I have the first and the last version of T9 for Palm which was great until T9 decided they only wanted the phone market and abandoned Palm. I had a portable keyboard and found it clunky too. Better to have a small built in hardware keyboard on the device. In retrospect the commonsense product decisions that would have made the Palm platform a viable handheld communicator, PDA, Phone, computer, whatever always seemed to elude Palm executives.
Since time immemorial the Yankee Group has made its money pretending to be smarter than everyone else in the room. They literally make up shit out of whole cloth in order to be the only guys with this 'new' idea whatever it is. The fact is that Yankee group gets paid by the largest customers and the largest vendors. Are they unbiased? Sort of, not really. They know full well who their own customers are. If not for the myth of self anointed 'expertise' not only would there be no closed source, there would be no market analysis consulting firms like Yankee.
To their credit though they're at least not a PR arm of Microsoft like Gartner.
Same thing is true for phone upgrades, such as the upgrades you buy under Sprint's own 'loyalty' rebate plan that gives you $150 more off, every other year. That extends the plan for another whatever 12 or 24 months.
My Sprint plan simply does not allow one to add infinite SMS w/o scrapping the whole plan and starting over. Although 600 per on 3 of the phones, 500 on the 4th and unlimited on one seems to work so far
My employer is dumping their real estate holdings and rental space as fast as it can. I'm sure the suits could care less even if they happened to know what the price of gas is. A bit of let them eat cake, you know.
It's insanely funny that these are the poster boys. I can't wait to hear the crickets chirp once XM decides it can have 26 minutes of advertising each hour like regular radio. I think XM's got us exactly where they want us.
Never. Not ever. Even if life exists we'll never find it and it will never find us. Never. The obstacles are too large. For all purposes that obey the physical laws of the universe as we understand them today, we are effectively alone in the universe.
Seems to me what's lacking is security taxonomy overlay for classes of documents. If you assign a document to a class of security then there are certain operations which are required and others which are prohibited.
It's axiomatic that the web will eventually become a weapon of tyranny. Through selective censorship and the general sense that it's so unreliable from an accuracy perspective and therefore easy to manipulate and spin, the web will be used for agendas and the geek era will be over.
CICS is OLTP (online transaction processing), JCL is batch control (Job Control Lang), LPAR is logical partition, the ability to slice up one OS into multiple independent instances, JES2/3 is the Job entry system, the application management side of systems programming, UDB/DB2 is DB2, an RDBMS (relational database management system).
There are CICS that run native on AIX. I've never worked with one. But I have worked with Command ASM on CICS for special high speed performance considerations.
MS couldn't deliver most of what they originally intended for Vista, like a new FS, even by adding years to the development cycle and millions of dollars and over a year of effort to such critical items as the shutdown sound wav file.
Now wouldn't we see a few things before they jettison 32 bit such as all these intended enhancements. To say nothing of the DRM uber alles that always lurks in the background. Oh and Zune 2, and buying another online service, and fixing patch management, and fixing security bugs, and trying to kill Google, Mac and Linux.
Seems like chucking everything just to make money for Intel is awfully ambitious of them. They just added 3 more years to the development cycle for the next turn of the crank for an OS. With current cycles running 6 years, adding 3 more, even if they started today would give them a release date of Christmas 2015.
But it's clear that Intel won't stand still for 9 more years so of course MS will release 64 bit 'enhanced enterprise' support in service packs. Which won't work right, won't install right, won't support many applications, will mess with security even more, and the millions of other unintended consequences that will happen.
Clearly the reason that Redmond said that Vista will represent the 'last of its kind' vis a vis operating systems is that they are coming to terms with the fact that they can't get this work done anymore and the resulting product is such a massive clunky abortion that it's ungovernable. But it puts them in a tough place because Redmond doesn't have a good track record of starting from scratch.
Unikix has been around since the early 90's. Moving gobs of COBOL II, JCL, and JES2/3 over has been done and redone. The real challenge is what to do with CICS? CICS code can be pretty damn hard to port with the same performance criteria. A well built CICS system can approach an RTOS in real time transaction performance. But the architectural complexity is a hard problem to solve in another system architecture. For instance one way to get CICS to fly is to run it as a continuous communications task in its own LPAR. I don't know how you do that in AIX which tends to be more queue driven. But maybe they solved that problem.
And for you who have a question about AIX, that's an IBM product too so are the servers it runs on. So from a cost perspective they're still paying IBM either way. I suspect also that they're running a UDB/DB2 back end database already which is why they're moving to AIX - DB2.
And you will be perfectly screwed. Background checks are only as useful as the veracity of the information they bring back and sadly that's not that good.
As someone who's name closely matches one famous white collar criminal and one famous serial killer I can't tell you how many times people who were super interested suddenly stopped even returning phone calls mid-process. Seriously I can't tell you, it's a big mystery but I'm sure the number is more than a few.
Also, and you can take this for what it's worth, there are lots of states who turn a more or less blind eye to even more extensive checks on your family members as well. Ever had a brother or child arrested? Yeah we're not going to hire you.
I think the surveillance society is going to eventually break down the economic incentive for there to be employers and employees. I can see a day where the vast majority of people are self employed or contractors just out of desperation that the ninny nanner world of employers has the set the bar so high that no one can work for them.
Seriously if can't move around outside a bubble like that then maybe you should think seriously of staying home. John Howard is one of your biggest friends. It's not like you're going to a Muslim Lesbian rally in Afghanistan or anything.
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That's going to be next, in the name of 'balance' mind you. Adam and Eve riding their dinosaurs to Church, the whole shebang. Maybe Xenu can get in on it as well.
When a hardware company preaches to me how my future involves me spending money on their hardware to bring me yet more 'features' I don't want and no one asked me. And the 'features' I do want, specifically, lower power consumption, lower cost are not in their plans at all.
Guess what? I don't want streaming video/TV on my phone. I don't want a massive hard drive to store a directly replacement of my MP3 player. And I REALLY don't want Intel or anyone else 'partnering' with carriers to nickel and dime me to death for every new gewgaw and function on my phone either.
Here's what I want - a solid PDA phone I can synch with Lotus Notes and a few other groupware alternatives. I want a direct interface to the PC w/o having to pay for the carriers picture mail service in order to move jpegs from my phone to my PC. If you're going to cause me switch from a digital camera then make the camera a real replacement with swappable media and a full suite of camera functions. I want a solidly compatible browser for real web browsing at 3G speeds.
To repeat. I don't want a multimedia player. I don't want a sound system. I want a PDA phone. And guess what, Intel? I really do want it cheaper.
Yeah like 88.1 NC State went commercial a few years ago and now carries ever more college sports and college topical programming. There's a still a bar band scene on the radio but it's dying off as the bar band scene itself is dying off. WSHA is a college (Shaw University, oldest TBC [traditionally black college] in the US has 95% music programming but its Jazz and world music. Many UNC radio stations are NPR/PRI feeds. There is also the 'other' UNC radio station WXYC one of the first if not THE first internet radio but they have such a weird mixture of stuff it's not relevant. I mean do you care about Cambodian hiphop, Tarheel swing and Akbani Wright Yoruba music?
States AGs are looking at this purely as a political issue. One would have to conclude if one watched local news and listened to their State's AG that approximately 1 billion percent of everyone on the internet over the age of 17 is a child raping communist homosexual terrorist sex offender. A hundred crimes? That's what they point to? A hundred crimes.
If only getting guns off the street for a hundred murders were this easy. If only the regulation of dangerous dog breeds for a hundred maulings were this easy. But hey! The internet will turn your virgin daughters into Islamofascists with a crackpipe in one hand and a grown man's cock in the other.
This will be the end of music on radio. Period. AM radio is barely a blip on the screen relegated to church broadcasts and a few EIB partners now that 'talk' radio is moving to FM. There is already quite a track record of success using the 'talk' radio format. So when the RIAA does this, the radio stations I don't think will waste a lot of money fighting it. They'll just pull the plug and go to a 100% 'talk' radio programming schedule. I'm mixed about this. On the one I have zero tolerance for windbaggery and Crazy Redneck Libertarian Assholes in Stereo. On the other hand music on the radio truthfully died years ago. The only 'music' on the radio is Ballad Rock, "Country" and the meekest R&B/Hip Hop. So let that die. Even college stations are dropping music programming.
It will be a shame I guess to lose some of the more esoteric stuff like the all Jazz format of WSHA or the weekend world music programs on some of the left side of the band college and public radio stations. But if it means that that the RIAA has to eat dog food and sleep in a cardboard box on the sidewalk then it's worth it.
Got my only Palm device, an IBM rebranded III (C20) for free in 1999. After dutifully messing with it, flashing an OS upgrade or two all the way up to PalmOS 3.5 and then back down to 3.3, after installing 3rd party hacks up the wazoo and an application that allowed me to use unused flash for applications, speeding up the system clock and EasySync versions from 2.0 up to 4.3 all of which failed, broke or could not work with Lotus Notes then using Notes export functions to clone data to the Palm Desktop app then moving that to the Palm, I finally gave up on it last year when at one point the batteries conked out (old models had AAA batteries) and I just couldn't find a good enough reason to put another $3 in batteries into my paperweight.
Palm always seemed to be progressing about half the speed the marketplace wanted them to. They split off hardware from software, bought BeOS and wandered around doing silly pointless things for years. Ultimately their vaunted stability and battery life over PocketPC just wasn't enough. Palm always remained a work in progress, a lab experiment really in search of a stable suite of business apps and a good business model. The idea that apps generally to be workable needed big chunks of RAM, that Palm never seemed to be able to deliver on the hardware in time, or, if they did it cost a fantastic amount of money was inane. Does anyone remember that the first 2MB -> 8MB customer RAM upgrades required you to take apart the motherboard and spend more than $200 for the chip?
Yeah so I not glad or angry Palm is dead. I gave up on it years ago. I think the next thing I''ll get is a Moto-Q or whatever is roughly a Moto-Q next year when Sprint gives me a discount. The idea of a standalone PDA is over. And the idea of a PDA/Phone without good enough data entry is over too. I have the first and the last version of T9 for Palm which was great until T9 decided they only wanted the phone market and abandoned Palm. I had a portable keyboard and found it clunky too. Better to have a small built in hardware keyboard on the device. In retrospect the commonsense product decisions that would have made the Palm platform a viable handheld communicator, PDA, Phone, computer, whatever always seemed to elude Palm executives.
Since time immemorial the Yankee Group has made its money pretending to be smarter than everyone else in the room. They literally make up shit out of whole cloth in order to be the only guys with this 'new' idea whatever it is. The fact is that Yankee group gets paid by the largest customers and the largest vendors. Are they unbiased? Sort of, not really. They know full well who their own customers are. If not for the myth of self anointed 'expertise' not only would there be no closed source, there would be no market analysis consulting firms like Yankee.
To their credit though they're at least not a PR arm of Microsoft like Gartner.
Take our IP !!!!!!
How droll that the ultimate right wing libertarian fantasy movie, Braveheart is restricted.
Even for the 65 seconds I could bear to watch it.
Same thing is true for phone upgrades, such as the upgrades you buy under Sprint's own 'loyalty' rebate plan that gives you $150 more off, every other year. That extends the plan for another whatever 12 or 24 months.
My Sprint plan simply does not allow one to add infinite SMS w/o scrapping the whole plan and starting over. Although 600 per on 3 of the phones, 500 on the 4th and unlimited on one seems to work so far
My employer is dumping their real estate holdings and rental space as fast as it can. I'm sure the suits could care less even if they happened to know what the price of gas is. A bit of let them eat cake, you know.
It's insanely funny that these are the poster boys. I can't wait to hear the crickets chirp once XM decides it can have 26 minutes of advertising each hour like regular radio. I think XM's got us exactly where they want us.
It's just a rhetorical point. One way or another the suits will drive us all to the bottom.
I'm sure the eager and well paid sysadmins in Mumbai and Bangalore will get right on that problem.
Since most pirated installations don't have the install media either, it's a sure fired way to wipe out thousands of fake installs in one fell swoop.
Never. Not ever. Even if life exists we'll never find it and it will never find us. Never. The obstacles are too large. For all purposes that obey the physical laws of the universe as we understand them today, we are effectively alone in the universe.
Seems to me what's lacking is security taxonomy overlay for classes of documents. If you assign a document to a class of security then there are certain operations which are required and others which are prohibited.
It's axiomatic that the web will eventually become a weapon of tyranny. Through selective censorship and the general sense that it's so unreliable from an accuracy perspective and therefore easy to manipulate and spin, the web will be used for agendas and the geek era will be over.
Seeing how it's basically NS7.2 with FF extensions. But it's Seamonkey so there are a few compatibility problems even with IE Tab.
Say does anyone have a way to see how much RAM/VM each xpi consumes?
CICS is OLTP (online transaction processing), JCL is batch control (Job Control Lang), LPAR is logical partition, the ability to slice up one OS into multiple independent instances, JES2/3 is the Job entry system, the application management side of systems programming, UDB/DB2 is DB2, an RDBMS (relational database management system).
There are CICS that run native on AIX. I've never worked with one. But I have worked with Command ASM on CICS for special high speed performance considerations.
MS couldn't deliver most of what they originally intended for Vista, like a new FS, even by adding years to the development cycle and millions of dollars and over a year of effort to such critical items as the shutdown sound wav file.
Now wouldn't we see a few things before they jettison 32 bit such as all these intended enhancements. To say nothing of the DRM uber alles that always lurks in the background. Oh and Zune 2, and buying another online service, and fixing patch management, and fixing security bugs, and trying to kill Google, Mac and Linux.
Seems like chucking everything just to make money for Intel is awfully ambitious of them. They just added 3 more years to the development cycle for the next turn of the crank for an OS. With current cycles running 6 years, adding 3 more, even if they started today would give them a release date of Christmas 2015.
But it's clear that Intel won't stand still for 9 more years so of course MS will release 64 bit 'enhanced enterprise' support in service packs. Which won't work right, won't install right, won't support many applications, will mess with security even more, and the millions of other unintended consequences that will happen.
Clearly the reason that Redmond said that Vista will represent the 'last of its kind' vis a vis operating systems is that they are coming to terms with the fact that they can't get this work done anymore and the resulting product is such a massive clunky abortion that it's ungovernable. But it puts them in a tough place because Redmond doesn't have a good track record of starting from scratch.
Unikix has been around since the early 90's. Moving gobs of COBOL II, JCL, and JES2/3 over has been done and redone. The real challenge is what to do with CICS? CICS code can be pretty damn hard to port with the same performance criteria. A well built CICS system can approach an RTOS in real time transaction performance. But the architectural complexity is a hard problem to solve in another system architecture. For instance one way to get CICS to fly is to run it as a continuous communications task in its own LPAR. I don't know how you do that in AIX which tends to be more queue driven. But maybe they solved that problem.
And for you who have a question about AIX, that's an IBM product too so are the servers it runs on. So from a cost perspective they're still paying IBM either way. I suspect also that they're running a UDB/DB2 back end database already which is why they're moving to AIX - DB2.
And you will be perfectly screwed. Background checks are only as useful as the veracity of the information they bring back and sadly that's not that good.
As someone who's name closely matches one famous white collar criminal and one famous serial killer I can't tell you how many times people who were super interested suddenly stopped even returning phone calls mid-process. Seriously I can't tell you, it's a big mystery but I'm sure the number is more than a few.
Also, and you can take this for what it's worth, there are lots of states who turn a more or less blind eye to even more extensive checks on your family members as well. Ever had a brother or child arrested? Yeah we're not going to hire you.
I think the surveillance society is going to eventually break down the economic incentive for there to be employers and employees. I can see a day where the vast majority of people are self employed or contractors just out of desperation that the ninny nanner world of employers has the set the bar so high that no one can work for them.
Seriously if can't move around outside a bubble like that then maybe you should think seriously of staying home. John Howard is one of your biggest friends. It's not like you're going to a Muslim Lesbian rally in Afghanistan or anything.