No kidding! I am looking at buying a new laptop and IBM is winning in terms of performance/cost. I asked a rep if I could get Linux on the box instead of M$ and I was told that it comes with M$ only. If Big Blue wants to go do this right...offer SUSE on the desktops/laptops. Heck, they just put $50M of investment in Novell. I guess that I will just get the laptop, run Knoppix and strip off the goodies (docs and stuff) then bless the hard drive with a proper load of "The Penguin". I guess their marketing department really does not have their act together.
Grab the book "We Almost Lost Detroit". It is about the partial meltdown of Fermi #1 (if I remember right). The book details the issues involved on how an afterthought design change that was believed to help out in case of a core meltdown backfired and almost caused what it was to help control.
Since when is 720 lines HDTV considered High Quality let alone interlaced 525 line stuff? ROTFLMAO! Give me my 1600x1200 computer display - Now that is high quality!! I don't record off cable and TV anyways. It's >= 99 % junk that is not worth the investment in a $1.00 video tape.
Centrino != Pentium
Intel must be fixing their HUGE mistake here in not allowing us to program F/OSS drivers for the Centrino chips like they did when the introduced the x86 chips and letting us program F/OSS drivers...
There seems to be a pair of fronts pushing this unfortunate issue but we have made our own bed so now we are stuck sleeping in it. Wall Street, CEO's contracts, etc. have caused the clamor for increased profits, "> 10% profit growth in the following year...". Sounds familiar? I hear and read this type of hooey all the time because some million-dollar-boy has to say this to keep Wall Street from dumping their stock. In order for the million-dollar-boy to keep his job in an economy that has a real low growth or loss, the only thing that really easily controlled is the cost of labor. Raw materials are usually fixed and not easily changable but grunt labor is. So away goes the jobs offshore to where labor costs are insignificant and the education pool is far higher than here. Which takes me to our second point...our educational system is turning out really dumb graduates. Moore's Law can be applied to the demands of technology and the knowledge needed to understand and use it effectively but our higher education system sure isn't keeping up. Our high schools are turning out operational idiots. There was a time where a high school education meant that you could go on from there. Now it requires a Master's Degree or higher to get anywhere but that does not even guarantee that the person knows the subject that they are supposedly educated in. This is not going to be an easy fix unless there is a huge paradigm shift that states we have to re-educate our current workforce and the up-and-coming to compete in the global race of education that we so fail to compete in.
Any person who has a job or assignment that requires them to be contacted in an emergency should not have to see a "No Service" blurb flashing on the display because some facility does not like cellphones. I could see this happening...a doctor who is seeing a movie, who is not on call but has to be available 24/7, doesn't get the call to assist a life-or-death situation and the patient dies but could have survived if the doctor was able to handle the call. Lawyer: "Did you have your cellphone on?", Doctor: "Yes, I did but it was showing 'No Service' and the signal indicator was at full."...Lawyer: "Do you have a record of the doctor being called?", Cell Company: "Yes, he was called at 8:25 pm. We saw his PIN number as being logged into the system but the phone did not respond."...Lawyer:"Do you have a cellphone signal jammer installed in your facility?", Theatre Owner:"We have a unit to protect the quiet of our clients while watching a movie." IANAL but I smell wrongful death lawsuit. Let alone the grief from the FCC. --- This boils down to courtesy of the phone user, not the phone. If the user was being courteous to the people around them, then put the unit on vibrate. There is no need to hurt the rest because of a few rotten apples.
I wonder what would happen when you give the chipset a specific channel to use and it decides to use the old pentium math section and approximates the transmit frequency - all the computers start talking on a Fed's channel...too funny. Now I guess Intel wants to implement planned obsolescence in the Wi-Fi market. My Orinoco cards work just fine thank you. One other idea comes to mind: Microsoft integrates web browser into Windows -> Intel integrates WiFi into their chips. I smell a parallel here...
Leave it to our elected "representatives" in Washington to mess things up. As always...follow the money. Opt-Out instead of Opt-In. Who gets the fines and monetary penalties? All this hooey is just feelgood spinmeistered legislation. Once again, the feds screwed up. The government doesn't have to put up with the spam, the users do. If they wanted to do it correctly, then it should be mandatory Opt-In and the fines don't end up in the useless government wastebaskets but in the victim's hands. Keep the monetary limits present. Keep the jail time the same. When the legislation takes place, ALL lists have to be cleared. Even businesses that you do business with have to clear their list and you, the user, have to opt-in to get the mailings. Yes, we know that the spammers will move offshore and wreak their brand of stench from outside the states. Another interesting provision that could be entered is that if there are offshore spammers sending in their garbage, block those domains from access into the US. Allow access out of the US but not in. I am sure that the host governments will complain about the shutoff of access but it is a great way to get their attention for them to can their spam. This may be the least workable but it is worth the consideration.
For all you anti-monopolists out there...IF ATT was not broken up into these wildly competing and anti-cooperative fiefdoms, this could have been implemented. There are benefits to a single communications system that can be scaled up to meet the current state of technology. I sincerely doubt seeing this country being placed in a situation where all will be hooked up. Good going South Korea and glad to hear it!!!
This may be off topic but here goes...Many years ago, Microsoft and IBM were participating together on a microcomputer operating system. After some fallout between the two, I believe that IBM told Microsoft to pound sand and they went it alone with OS/2 (I still have original OS/2 Warp Connect CD's). Well, we all know what happened to OS/2. I wonder if Microsoft is using SCO as their lackey to go after IBM hoping they would win. MS then buys SCO because then SCO would have the "rights" to *NIX based systems and then with MS purchasing SCO gives MS control over both Windows and *NIX. I realize that *NIX and Linux are two completely different systems based on a published set of thoughts and ideas and it appears that SCO is trying to legally create linkage between the two. Just my $0.02 worth (1976 base value).
Pulling over to the right is the courteous thing to do but when you can't tell that an emergency vehicle is behind you until it is visiting your tailpipe doesn't help either. You could tell where an emergency vehicle was when they had honest, loud motorized sirens, not the wussy CHEAP electronic ones that put out less audio than a normal stock car stereo. If you want to be known that you are coming, then make yourself HEARD!! Better yet, replace the air horns with ones off a train...far louder!!!! LOUD IS GOOD for getting attention. If a driver doesn't want to move over, then lay on the train horn and blast his/her windows out!!! Guaranteed the driver will get the message.
The business model that an organization chooses to work with is their own choice - I believe that is called "FREE MARKET OPERATION" if I remember right. If a site wants to support itself by selling advert space, that is their choice. It is not my choice to watch images that flash at 8-10 times/second that are visually annoying and gives me headaches. So I block them out plus if an ad banner is THAT annoying, I guarantee that I will not be visiting the site sponsor.
Whenever I get a magazine in the mail, the first thing I do is let the magazine tell me where the reply cards are so I can rip them out first thing before reading the magazine. I don't hear the magazine publishers banging on my door whining about that practice. So I equate it this way: Magazine=website; reply card=banner ad; hand ripping out card into trash=ad blocking software.
If you can't support your website because no one wants to see the visual garbage, sounds like it is your problem to solve, not mine. The ad has to be appealing to me to investigate and most aren't. That is the job of the advertising guru to make an ad into eye candy and get people to respond. Many sure don't know how to do that!!!
As long as there are annoyances, there will be annoyance filters. Viva la Free Market!
SCO and crew sound like a whiney kid looking for food at dinner - won't eat what's being served and fusses, fumes and demands something else and will raise the biggest stink until they get it. You make what they are demanding and serve it to them and they raise a bigger stink because that is not what they want, even though you acceded to their request.
Problem is, you can't put SCO in the naughty corner like you can a six-year-old but the thought is kewl.
One quote for the power consumption of a Power Mac G5 Dual Processor stock is 800 watts. Now 1100 of these - 880kW! 880kW at 120 volts is about 8000 amps. Mind you, this is not including all the glue electronics...
I am glad I don't have to pay THIS electric bill!!!:-)
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I miss the W6TRW swap living in the east. Best geek stuff around. Hamvention is definitely far better. Wish it was every month *sniff* but it would not be possible. Will be there visiting old friends from high school (kewl place to have reunion).
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No kidding! I am looking at buying a new laptop and IBM is winning in terms of performance/cost. I asked a rep if I could get Linux on the box instead of M$ and I was told that it comes with M$ only. If Big Blue wants to go do this right...offer SUSE on the desktops/laptops. Heck, they just put $50M of investment in Novell. I guess that I will just get the laptop, run Knoppix and strip off the goodies (docs and stuff) then bless the hard drive with a proper load of "The Penguin". I guess their marketing department really does not have their act together.
Grab the book "We Almost Lost Detroit". It is about the partial meltdown of Fermi #1 (if I remember right). The book details the issues involved on how an afterthought design change that was believed to help out in case of a core meltdown backfired and almost caused what it was to help control.
Since when is 720 lines HDTV considered High Quality let alone interlaced 525 line stuff? ROTFLMAO! Give me my 1600x1200 computer display - Now that is high quality!! I don't record off cable and TV anyways. It's >= 99 % junk that is not worth the investment in a $1.00 video tape.
Centrino != Pentium Intel must be fixing their HUGE mistake here in not allowing us to program F/OSS drivers for the Centrino chips like they did when the introduced the x86 chips and letting us program F/OSS drivers...
The only stupid question that exists is the one that does not get asked.
There seems to be a pair of fronts pushing this unfortunate issue but we have made our own bed so now we are stuck sleeping in it. Wall Street, CEO's contracts, etc. have caused the clamor for increased profits, "> 10% profit growth in the following year...". Sounds familiar? I hear and read this type of hooey all the time because some million-dollar-boy has to say this to keep Wall Street from dumping their stock. In order for the million-dollar-boy to keep his job in an economy that has a real low growth or loss, the only thing that really easily controlled is the cost of labor. Raw materials are usually fixed and not easily changable but grunt labor is. So away goes the jobs offshore to where labor costs are insignificant and the education pool is far higher than here. Which takes me to our second point...our educational system is turning out really dumb graduates. Moore's Law can be applied to the demands of technology and the knowledge needed to understand and use it effectively but our higher education system sure isn't keeping up. Our high schools are turning out operational idiots. There was a time where a high school education meant that you could go on from there. Now it requires a Master's Degree or higher to get anywhere but that does not even guarantee that the person knows the subject that they are supposedly educated in. This is not going to be an easy fix unless there is a huge paradigm shift that states we have to re-educate our current workforce and the up-and-coming to compete in the global race of education that we so fail to compete in.
Any person who has a job or assignment that requires them to be contacted in an emergency should not have to see a "No Service" blurb flashing on the display because some facility does not like cellphones. I could see this happening...a doctor who is seeing a movie, who is not on call but has to be available 24/7, doesn't get the call to assist a life-or-death situation and the patient dies but could have survived if the doctor was able to handle the call. Lawyer: "Did you have your cellphone on?", Doctor: "Yes, I did but it was showing 'No Service' and the signal indicator was at full."...Lawyer: "Do you have a record of the doctor being called?", Cell Company: "Yes, he was called at 8:25 pm. We saw his PIN number as being logged into the system but the phone did not respond."...Lawyer:"Do you have a cellphone signal jammer installed in your facility?", Theatre Owner:"We have a unit to protect the quiet of our clients while watching a movie." IANAL but I smell wrongful death lawsuit. Let alone the grief from the FCC. --- This boils down to courtesy of the phone user, not the phone. If the user was being courteous to the people around them, then put the unit on vibrate. There is no need to hurt the rest because of a few rotten apples.
I wonder what would happen when you give the chipset a specific channel to use and it decides to use the old pentium math section and approximates the transmit frequency - all the computers start talking on a Fed's channel...too funny. Now I guess Intel wants to implement planned obsolescence in the Wi-Fi market. My Orinoco cards work just fine thank you. One other idea comes to mind: Microsoft integrates web browser into Windows -> Intel integrates WiFi into their chips. I smell a parallel here...
Leave it to our elected "representatives" in Washington to mess things up. As always...follow the money. Opt-Out instead of Opt-In. Who gets the fines and monetary penalties? All this hooey is just feelgood spinmeistered legislation. Once again, the feds screwed up. The government doesn't have to put up with the spam, the users do. If they wanted to do it correctly, then it should be mandatory Opt-In and the fines don't end up in the useless government wastebaskets but in the victim's hands. Keep the monetary limits present. Keep the jail time the same. When the legislation takes place, ALL lists have to be cleared. Even businesses that you do business with have to clear their list and you, the user, have to opt-in to get the mailings. Yes, we know that the spammers will move offshore and wreak their brand of stench from outside the states. Another interesting provision that could be entered is that if there are offshore spammers sending in their garbage, block those domains from access into the US. Allow access out of the US but not in. I am sure that the host governments will complain about the shutoff of access but it is a great way to get their attention for them to can their spam. This may be the least workable but it is worth the consideration.
For all you anti-monopolists out there...IF ATT was not broken up into these wildly competing and anti-cooperative fiefdoms, this could have been implemented. There are benefits to a single communications system that can be scaled up to meet the current state of technology. I sincerely doubt seeing this country being placed in a situation where all will be hooked up. Good going South Korea and glad to hear it!!!
This may be off topic but here goes...Many years ago, Microsoft and IBM were participating together on a microcomputer operating system. After some fallout between the two, I believe that IBM told Microsoft to pound sand and they went it alone with OS/2 (I still have original OS/2 Warp Connect CD's). Well, we all know what happened to OS/2. I wonder if Microsoft is using SCO as their lackey to go after IBM hoping they would win. MS then buys SCO because then SCO would have the "rights" to *NIX based systems and then with MS purchasing SCO gives MS control over both Windows and *NIX. I realize that *NIX and Linux are two completely different systems based on a published set of thoughts and ideas and it appears that SCO is trying to legally create linkage between the two. Just my $0.02 worth (1976 base value).
Pulling over to the right is the courteous thing to do but when you can't tell that an emergency vehicle is behind you until it is visiting your tailpipe doesn't help either. You could tell where an emergency vehicle was when they had honest, loud motorized sirens, not the wussy CHEAP electronic ones that put out less audio than a normal stock car stereo. If you want to be known that you are coming, then make yourself HEARD!! Better yet, replace the air horns with ones off a train...far louder!!!! LOUD IS GOOD for getting attention. If a driver doesn't want to move over, then lay on the train horn and blast his/her windows out!!! Guaranteed the driver will get the message.
The business model that an organization chooses to work with is their own choice - I believe that is called "FREE MARKET OPERATION" if I remember right. If a site wants to support itself by selling advert space, that is their choice. It is not my choice to watch images that flash at 8-10 times/second that are visually annoying and gives me headaches. So I block them out plus if an ad banner is THAT annoying, I guarantee that I will not be visiting the site sponsor. Whenever I get a magazine in the mail, the first thing I do is let the magazine tell me where the reply cards are so I can rip them out first thing before reading the magazine. I don't hear the magazine publishers banging on my door whining about that practice. So I equate it this way: Magazine=website; reply card=banner ad; hand ripping out card into trash=ad blocking software. If you can't support your website because no one wants to see the visual garbage, sounds like it is your problem to solve, not mine. The ad has to be appealing to me to investigate and most aren't. That is the job of the advertising guru to make an ad into eye candy and get people to respond. Many sure don't know how to do that!!! As long as there are annoyances, there will be annoyance filters. Viva la Free Market!
Of course there are Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Then substitute your favorite company in place of "Statistics" (Obligatory...couldn't resist).
P.T. Barnum...your Magnum Opus has been proved again....
I wonder if they know that moving the computer mouse back and forth too many times results in blindness.....
SCO and crew sound like a whiney kid looking for food at dinner - won't eat what's being served and fusses, fumes and demands something else and will raise the biggest stink until they get it. You make what they are demanding and serve it to them and they raise a bigger stink because that is not what they want, even though you acceded to their request. Problem is, you can't put SCO in the naughty corner like you can a six-year-old but the thought is kewl.
...as the French and American researchers ask "Where did it come from?" ;-)
One quote for the power consumption of a Power Mac G5 Dual Processor stock is 800 watts. Now 1100 of these - 880kW! 880kW at 120 volts is about 8000 amps. Mind you, this is not including all the glue electronics... I am glad I don't have to pay THIS electric bill!!! :-)
I miss the W6TRW swap living in the east. Best geek stuff around. Hamvention is definitely far better. Wish it was every month *sniff* but it would not be possible. Will be there visiting old friends from high school (kewl place to have reunion). Amateur Radio: We communicate, when no one else can!!