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If Gore had been president the World Trade Center towers might still be standing. Really.
When the Bush administration came in, Clinton's national security team warned them very directly that they should be spending 80% of there time on this Al Qaida thing. Condoleezza Rice dropped the ball. Big time. Some have said deliberately (or under orders).
In terms of stock market paper loss as a percent of GDP this is worse than the great depression. We are nearing 100% of GDP ($10 trillion loss). We would need 3 or 4 years of 4% _growth_ to get back to being just as bad as the decade from 1928 to 1938. You won't see that on the news...;-)
We're also nearing the 4th year of losses on the market which hasn't happened since the depression.
Now, if we're only now getting to the bottom how many years of recovering will there be?
Actually it was State-of-the-art Text-to-speech at the time... Centigram Communications now SS8 Networks (91 E. Tasman San Jose surrounded by Cisco buildings ) started licensing the technology in 1993. It is based on a mathematical simulation of the vocal cords and voice tract and was very good in the day.
Beside the actually voice quality the system also had very context sensitive parsing and could read addresses, titles, newspaper headaline, etc. properly.
One of the major licensees was Lernout & Hauspie who sometime around 1997 bought the division from Centigram.
Everyone knows it as the voice of Stephen Hawking. We also gave a courtesy system to Governor Pete Wilson back in 94/95 when he lost his voice while campaigning.
Centigram is now long gone. It was bought by ADC Telecommunications at the height of the telco frenzy back in the summer of 2000 for $200M cash. ADC sold it to SS8 Networks a year later for ten cents on the dollar.
Easy come, easy go. Technology marches on, soon to make all current forms of government obsolete... or die trying.
Andrew
Twelve $600 2Ghz Celeron systems circa 2003 have the same (or greater) rendering power as the $5M+ 300 100Mhz SuperSparc (SparcStation 20s) cluster used by Pixar to render Toy STory in 1995. I'm having fun with Povray...:-)
Older clocks, like the ones in grade schools back in the 60s and 70s (and also many of those old electromechanical wall timers) work by following the 60 hz cycle from their AC supply. Typically an 1800 or 900 rpm motor scaled down with a planetary gear. Quite simple and clever if you ever open one up.
They're losing 9000 cycles per day (150 seconds * 60 cycles/second * 24 hours). Which works out to 59.896 cycles per second. They're running at 4-nines instead of 5-nines.:-)
I'm not sure how clever it is to lower the frequency since that will more power consumption by the load. Here in Silicon Valley -- and elsewhere in north america -- when the power company wants to conserve energy they lower the voltage -- say to 110V or even lower some times -- again this requires more current draw from the load (P=V*A) but this way you make the consumer pay for the below par service. Their appliances are running less efficiently, heating up and burning out. It's not a bad idea to keep track of the quality of your mains power.
For a brilliant and entertaining read about many other ancient inventions check out this book.
And at the risk of stretching credulity there is some conjecture that the Ark of the Covenant may have had the dual characteristic of being a very large capacitor -- two large gold plate surface areas with an acacia wood core -- which may explain its dangerous properties. That is, if the high-priest had impure thoughts, or didn't follow the manual, he would get killed by a lightning bolt. Legend had it that attendants would tie a rope to the high-priest's ankle and in the event of an untimely death they could pull him out instead of risking another's life.
If it weren't for the regulation of society through the mechanism of slavery, and hence the suppression of the free market, we could have had the industrial revolution 2000 years ago.
200 BC: Alexandria, Egypt: A cultured city with a population of 500,000, the world's first lighthouse, university, library with 500,000 manuscripts/books, multi-decked shipping, theatres, temples with automatic sliding doors, and engineers working with a simple steam engine. From: Peter James and Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions.
In which case we would be about where we are now in high-tech back in AD 200. By AD
230 Billus Gaticus and Laurence of Ellisonius would be multi-trillionaires, clone many offspring, build a sanctuary in space, and then destroy the planet, so they can make version 3.1 the way it was supposed to be, and then encode their plan in DNA, enslave their new creations, and create a secret society so the information isn't lost.
Who needs money when you can have a planet of slaves?
There are lots of good ideas here for the main focus of the cover art.
Here's an idea for the background of the cover. Have different types and and configurations of "Tuxen" carrying out varried tasks and functions.
For example a gaggle of Tuxen representing a Beowolf cluster; a Tux working with Apache to hand out "pages"; little tiny Tuxen diving into PDA's, set-top boxes, cell-phones, and medical equipment; a tired looking Tux handing files and printing stuff for Windoze 95/98/NT clients, etc...
What is it you hate about it? QNX4 has got full POSIX APIs, plus quite a few BSD and SysV libs, ANSI C/C++. With Watcom 10.6 and the unix lib PD stuff from the 'net ports pretty easily. I ported Samba in a couple of hours and I think Apache just compiles and links these days. It's got full POSIX threads and a couple of Java VMs now. Kaffe has also been ported by different people.
Neutrino gets more QNX4 features everyday. Soon it will be QNX5 (Maybe Amiga OS5 _is_ QNX5?:)
And in terms of raw speed and determinism it's hard to beat. This lowly 400Mhz Pentium II does a full process-to-process context switch in less than 500nS (yes, nanoseconds).
Yes, development licenses aren't cheap but your runtime licensing is based on your volume. If you're selling thousands of units your price drops to $50 and less.
If you are looking to switch to Linux you might be interested in a QNX scheduler for Linux here: http://linuxhq.com/doc/QNX-scheduler-2.0.31-pre3-1 .patch.README
and QNX kernel APIs implemented as a Linux kernel module here: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~fcsoft/index.html
alternatively a shared-memory implementation of Send()/Receive()/Reply() can be found here: http://www.holoweb.net/~simpl
They are the leading realtime OS for the x86 platform.
The Amiga project is based on their new Neutrino kernel which runs on x86, PPC, MIPS(and whatever the Amiga is going to run on:-)
From their corporate backgrounder at: http://www.qnx.com/company/compover.html
"We lead the realtime industry not only in innovation but in experience as well. No other realtime OS vendor has over 18 years on the x86 platform. As a result, no other realtime OS offers more options for this environment. (We are now porting our advanced OS technology to several other platforms.)
QNX also leads the industry in marketshare. According to a recent Emerging Technologies report, "QNX Software Systems has the largest realtime OS market share in the Intel x86 marketplace". IDC Consulting and First Technology discovered similar findings. According to their recent Industry Report, QSSL has almost 22% of the marketshare for self-hosted development environments while the next largest share held by a realtime OS competitor is just over 11%."
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Roadmap for War on Iraq and the New American Empire brought to by:
Elliott Abrams , Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney , Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes , Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld , Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz
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Interesting group of people...
Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
I. Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz
And some more names you may recognize from the Statement of Principles page:
Elliott Abrams
Gary Bauer
William J. Bennett
Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney
Eliot A. Cohen
Midge Decter
Paula Dobriansky
Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg
Francis Fukuyama
Frank Gaffney
Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
I. Lewis Libby
Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle
Peter W. Rodman
Stephen P. Rosen
Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld
Vin Weber
George Weigel
Paul Wolfowitz
Bush is merely a puppet of this organization.
Here's a short list of the puppet masters:
Ronald Asmus, Max Boot, Eliot Cohen, Ivo H. Daalder, Thomas Donnelly, Peter Galbraith, Robert S. Gelbard, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Martin S. Indyk, Bruce P. Jackson, Robert Kagan, Craig Kennedy, William Kristol, Tod Lindberg, Will Marshall, Danielle Pletka, Dennis Ross, Randy Scheunemann, Gary Schmitt, Walter Slocombe, James B. Steinberg, R. James Woolsey
sorry. this.
What you are witnessing is the manifestation of this.
Indeed. This was all planned by late 1996 at the latest. The right-wing Pentagon hawks tried to convince Clinton to give it a go back in early 1997.
PNAC
Google: Project New American Century
If Gore had been president the World Trade Center towers might still be standing. Really.
When the Bush administration came in, Clinton's national security team warned them very directly that they should be spending 80% of there time on this Al Qaida thing. Condoleezza Rice dropped the ball. Big time. Some have said deliberately (or under orders).
Google: clinton warned condoleezza
Stewart Brand was the author of "The Whole Earth Catalog" and also a founding member of The LongNow, how appropriate...
The LongNow
Indeed.
In terms of stock market paper loss as a percent of GDP this is worse than the great depression. We are nearing 100% of GDP ($10 trillion loss). We would need 3 or 4 years of 4% _growth_ to get back to being just as bad as the decade from 1928 to 1938. You won't see that on the news...
We're also nearing the 4th year of losses on the market which hasn't happened since the depression.
Now, if we're only now getting to the bottom how many years of recovering will there be?
Andrew
Actually it was State-of-the-art Text-to-speech at the time... Centigram Communications now SS8 Networks (91 E. Tasman San Jose surrounded by Cisco buildings ) started licensing the technology in 1993. It is based on a mathematical simulation of the vocal cords and voice tract and was very good in the day.
:-)
Beside the actually voice quality the system also had very context sensitive parsing and could read addresses, titles, newspaper headaline, etc. properly.
One of the major licensees was Lernout & Hauspie who sometime around 1997 bought the division from Centigram.
Everyone knows it as the voice of Stephen Hawking. We also gave a courtesy system to Governor Pete Wilson back in 94/95 when he lost his voice while campaigning.
Centigram is now long gone. It was bought by ADC Telecommunications at the height of the telco frenzy back in the summer of 2000 for $200M cash. ADC sold it to SS8 Networks a year later for ten cents on the dollar.
Easy come, easy go. Technology marches on, soon to make all current forms of government obsolete... or die trying.
Andrew
Twelve $600 2Ghz Celeron systems circa 2003 have the same (or greater) rendering power as the $5M+ 300 100Mhz SuperSparc (SparcStation 20s) cluster used by Pixar to render Toy STory in 1995. I'm having fun with Povray...
Older clocks, like the ones in grade schools back in the 60s and 70s (and also many of those old electromechanical wall timers) work by following the 60 hz cycle from their AC supply. Typically an 1800 or 900 rpm motor scaled down with a planetary gear. Quite simple and clever if you ever open one up.
:-)
They're losing 9000 cycles per day (150 seconds * 60 cycles/second * 24 hours). Which works out to 59.896 cycles per second. They're running at 4-nines instead of 5-nines.
I'm not sure how clever it is to lower the frequency since that will more power consumption by the load. Here in Silicon Valley -- and elsewhere in north america -- when the power company wants to conserve energy they lower the voltage -- say to 110V or even lower some times -- again this requires more current draw from the load (P=V*A) but this way you make the consumer pay for the below par service. Their appliances are running less efficiently, heating up and burning out. It's not a bad idea to keep track of the quality of your mains power.
For a brilliant and entertaining read about many other ancient inventions check out this book.
And at the risk of stretching credulity there is some conjecture that the Ark of the Covenant may have had the dual characteristic of being a very large capacitor -- two large gold plate surface areas with an acacia wood core -- which may explain its dangerous properties. That is, if the high-priest had impure thoughts, or didn't follow the manual, he would get killed by a lightning bolt. Legend had it that attendants would tie a rope to the high-priest's ankle and in the event of an untimely death they could pull him out instead of risking another's life.
Perhaps it contained a battery of Bagdad cells?
Not a myth just a different thread of the multiverse.
See my comment regarding the Industrial Revolution 2000 years ago here.
AJ
If it weren't for the regulation of society through the mechanism of slavery, and hence the suppression of the free market, we could have had the industrial revolution 2000 years ago.
200 BC: Alexandria, Egypt: A cultured city with a population of 500,000, the world's first lighthouse, university, library with 500,000 manuscripts/books, multi-decked shipping, theatres, temples with automatic sliding doors, and engineers working with a simple steam engine. From: Peter James and Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions.
In which case we would be about where we are now in high-tech back in AD 200. By AD
230 Billus Gaticus and Laurence of Ellisonius would be multi-trillionaires, clone many offspring, build a sanctuary in space, and then des troy the planet, so they can make version 3.1 the way it was supposed to be, and then encode their plan in DNA, enslave their new creations, and create a secret society so the information isn't lost.
Who needs money when you can have a planet of slaves?
Engraved Nickel
The Rosetta Disk
AJ
And "The Chrysalids" also by John Wyndam, required reading in highschool...
There are lots of good ideas here for the main focus of the cover art.
Here's an idea for the background of the cover. Have different types and and configurations of "Tuxen" carrying out varried tasks and functions.
For example a gaggle of Tuxen representing a Beowolf cluster; a Tux working with Apache to hand out "pages"; little tiny Tuxen diving into PDA's, set-top boxes, cell-phones, and medical equipment; a tired looking Tux handing files and printing stuff for Windoze 95/98/NT clients, etc...
You get the idea.
--aj
test
test
Right.
We all know it's going to be based on Transmeta's MMP.
:-)
It's back up 14:45 PT. How long before it's /.'ed again?
I think you're ranting -- just a little.
:)
1 .patch.README
Are you talking QNX4 or Neutrino?
What is it you hate about it? QNX4 has got full POSIX APIs, plus quite a few BSD and SysV libs, ANSI C/C++. With Watcom 10.6 and the unix lib PD stuff from the 'net ports pretty easily. I ported Samba in a couple of hours and I think Apache just compiles and links these days. It's got full POSIX threads and a couple of Java VMs now. Kaffe has also been ported by different people.
Neutrino gets more QNX4 features everyday. Soon it will be QNX5 (Maybe Amiga OS5 _is_ QNX5?
And in terms of raw speed and determinism it's hard to beat. This lowly 400Mhz Pentium II does a full process-to-process context switch in less than 500nS (yes, nanoseconds).
Yes, development licenses aren't cheap but your runtime licensing is based on your volume. If you're selling thousands of units your price drops to $50 and less.
If you are looking to switch to Linux you might be interested in a QNX scheduler for Linux here: http://linuxhq.com/doc/QNX-scheduler-2.0.31-pre3-
and QNX kernel APIs implemented as a Linux kernel module here: http://tor-pw1.netcom.ca/~fcsoft/index.html
alternatively a shared-memory implementation of Send()/Receive()/Reply() can be found here:
http://www.holoweb.net/~simpl
Regards,
--aj
They are the leading realtime OS for the x86 platform.
:-)
The Amiga project is based on their new Neutrino kernel which runs on x86, PPC, MIPS(and whatever the Amiga is going to run on
From their corporate backgrounder at: http://www.qnx.com/company/compover.html
"We lead the realtime industry not only in innovation but in experience as well. No other realtime OS vendor has over 18 years on the x86 platform. As a result, no other realtime OS offers more options for this environment. (We are now porting our advanced OS technology to several other platforms.)
QNX also leads the industry in marketshare. According to a recent Emerging Technologies report, "QNX Software Systems has the largest realtime OS market share in the Intel x86 marketplace". IDC Consulting and First Technology discovered similar findings. According to their recent Industry Report, QSSL has almost 22% of the marketshare for self-hosted development environments while the next largest share held by a realtime OS competitor is just over 11%."