Get an education? I thought only students from Asia and India did that! After all, isn't college just an extension of the big high school party with better access to drugs, alcohol, and broadband wireless?
Post-graduate workplace performance would tend to confirm this. Foreign student and worker visas would be unnecessary if more American kids would 1)pursue degrees in high-demand majors, e.g. engineering and the physical sciences, and 2)actually apply themselves to the pursuit. Oh, wait, I forgot...smart isn't cool and work isn't fun. My mistake.
Relevant question for statistical analysis: How many burgers do we have to eat to keep the Class of 2007 off of Unemployment?
Political Correctness is a matter of ideological censorship, not politeness. The Orwellian Newspeak we see every day in Reuters news dispatches, college course descriptions, and political speechwriting is just ideology wrapped in a pseudo-intellectual sugar coating. It invariably involves ignoring (or actively suppressing)the demonstrably true and painfully obvious in favor of cherished myths and dreams. It is quite possible to be erudite and sophisticated without being politically correct (William F. Buckley, e.g.) just as it is also possible to be a politically correct asshole (Bill Maher or Michael Moore).
I want one. I want one now.
As a gamer who has blown countless thousands of dollars over the years building PC gaming Uberboxen, only to collapse in shuddering tears at seeing the $200 PS2's graphics, controls, and game titles...
I want one now!
To be perfectly accurate, Stanford was much more of a home to LSD than Berkeley. Ken Kesey was a Stanford writing student when he volunteered for CIA-sponsored, university-administered clinical LSD experimentation. With the profits from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" he bought his ranch house in La Honda just south of the Palo Alto campus. Berkeley at the time was much better known for noisy political thetoric than recreational chemicals. The rest, as they say, is rock 'n roll.
How much do we whine and kvetch about catalogs, sweepstakes, and credit offers in our snailmail boxes? How irate are we at the endless flow of crappola spewing from our televisions and radios? And how incensed are we at a few viagra ads in our inboxes?
Advertising of all kinds is here to stay, and there is no avoiding it, short of a Luddite/Amish rejection of all forms of modern communication.
With a declining economy, a degraded environment, dangerous Moslem lunatics, and male pattern baldness to worry about, a couple dozen strokes of the [del] key a day doesn't seem like much of a problem, now does it?
Since a lot of protected-mode games will never be re-ported to Win32 or Linux, I still keep my old DOS disks handy.
I actually built a special PIII 733Mhz/133FSB dosbox with intentionally obsolete (for compatability) sound & video just so I could have an MS-DOS 7.22 platform to run those cool old 4GW games on.
Funny things can happen in autoplay mode, though...the frame rate is so fast the game looks like a bunch of munchkins on crack.
Not with the Bots themselves, but with the way they (or anything Linux) can be interfaced into current CMMS and CAD/CAM architectures.
I've worked with programming and networking ASEA/ABB and Fanuc industrial bots in the automotive industry for years, and getting a Linux-based robot language to run seamlessly with the dominant Windows-based platforms like Wonderware, Rockwell, MP2, Alta, or Visual Plant is a real API challenge(not to mention the political battle with the bean-counters and corporate IT hacks).
It wouldn't surprise me if the Japanese do it first, given their coporate technical xenophobia. They'd rather spend a mint on a domestic solution than see an Allen-Bradley or Siemens logo in their plants.
I'd love to see it, but probably not in my ever-shrinking lifetime.
I worked for years at the Solarex plant in Virginia that pioneered trying to make thin-film photovoltaics cost-efective. Our corporate parents finally pulled the plug last year when our latest amorphous silicon demonstration project came up with a 41% efficient panel that cost much more per watt to produce than nuclear. Now the only place you'll find them is on a few Coleman campers and a gas station pump island awning in Indiana.
Thin-film technology held a lot of promise, but that's all it was. File it away with global warming and cold fusion under "BS".
Unless your are a site operator having your ad crappola trumped by somebody else's ad crappola, just run Panicware or Webwasher and be done with it.
There are a myriad of fine tools out there to kill adjunk as fast as the crapmeisters can dream up new XML applets.
This article could be the show prep for another Larry King snooze session.
Once Palladium/DRM turns every Winbox into a lockbox with $msft/ holding all hkeys for media and applications, how many of these "journalists" are going to be playing softball with Brother Bill, especially when they find out they can't play their mp3s or mpegs without MSFT-managed MPAA/RIAA licenses any more?
In case you've missed the forest for the trees, this isn't just about running DRM-protected apps/content on the little boxes on our desks and laps.
Now that Big Biz has swallowed web-based networking and software management, it only follows that in the future ISP's will be required to enforce DRM by not allowing noncompliant connections. Read: our way or no way, Skippy!
End result? Microslut, through the magic of DRM, finally has everyone by the short hairs.
When it reaches that point, what good will OSS do anyone, except maybe having a low-cost species of the same freedom-choking anaconda?
Funny, I can envision a world where completely unfettered exchange of ideas devolves back to the one medium that isn't software-dependent: print.
At least until Gates et al decide DRM 1984 isn't enough and implement Fahrenheit 4.51
Flatulence- the smart choice! Talk about a renewable resource! I'm sure we'll all want to own a laptop with a seatbottom power source. Heck, we just convert our cars, and presto! Exxon Stations are replaced by Taco Bells. It gives the term "plugged in" a whole new meaning. Why isn't Nader "behind" this?
While IBM is making great strides in its quest to scale Linux up into the Big League with MVS, Solaris, and HP-UX as an eventual AIX replacement, it is just not there yet for major enterprise deployments (defined as >5K unique clients with >10K unique users spread over >50 locations).
And Windows? One of the few nuggets of eternal IT wisdom that Fortune 500 CEO/COO's either carried away from business school or learned the hard way is that Windows is fine on your secretary's desktop, but never bet your business on it.
By any benchmark, NT 4.0 SPx (aka Win2K)can not, by ihnerent design, outperform any of the various Unices deployed as ERPs my major corporations. Too much overhead, too much housekeeping.
Way back when, at least in 81'/'82/'83, there was a really great biker/hippie bar up in the hills in Mountain View called Rizotti's Beer Garden. I was working as a neophyte IBM ironworker, swapping tape reels at a SF bank's data center, and some of us would spend some of our spare time at Rizotti's getting sluiced. I remember a few times listening to these incredible ubergeeks from places like Sun, HP, Xerox, Digital, and UC argue about acrcana like implementing PDP-11 over this new TCP/IP thing and so on.
Being a 22-year-old nitwit who barely understood C, I had no idea that these guys would one day rule my world when XENIX hit the street a while later. But that was the culture back then. Much like the Linux community today.
Now Unix is just a toy for MBA raiders and a football for lawyers. It's one of those "Paris was Yesterday" kind of things that reminds us that when intellect meets money, money wins. We're all whores by necessity. Some are just skankier than others.
Linus need not worry (of course, he wouldn't anyway) because when IBM gets through with SCO, Darl McBride will be paying a licensing fee just to breath the same air.
SCO intends to vigorously pursue a business model of
greenmailing major players in the software industry in order to
sue itself into otherwise-unattainable profitability.
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Is tin foil on sale at the Dollar Store?
IMHO, humanity makes progress in spite of religion rather than because of it.
Get an education? I thought only students from Asia and India did that! After all, isn't college just an extension of the big high school party with better access to drugs, alcohol, and broadband wireless? Post-graduate workplace performance would tend to confirm this. Foreign student and worker visas would be unnecessary if more American kids would 1)pursue degrees in high-demand majors, e.g. engineering and the physical sciences, and 2)actually apply themselves to the pursuit. Oh, wait, I forgot...smart isn't cool and work isn't fun. My mistake. Relevant question for statistical analysis: How many burgers do we have to eat to keep the Class of 2007 off of Unemployment?
Political Correctness is a matter of ideological censorship, not politeness. The Orwellian Newspeak we see every day in Reuters news dispatches, college course descriptions, and political speechwriting is just ideology wrapped in a pseudo-intellectual sugar coating. It invariably involves ignoring (or actively suppressing)the demonstrably true and painfully obvious in favor of cherished myths and dreams. It is quite possible to be erudite and sophisticated without being politically correct (William F. Buckley, e.g.) just as it is also possible to be a politically correct asshole (Bill Maher or Michael Moore).
Who cares? Nobody with even a half-life. I thought the media hype about this publicity whore was finally over.
I want one. I want one now. As a gamer who has blown countless thousands of dollars over the years building PC gaming Uberboxen, only to collapse in shuddering tears at seeing the $200 PS2's graphics, controls, and game titles... I want one now!
To be perfectly accurate, Stanford was much more of a home to LSD than Berkeley. Ken Kesey was a Stanford writing student when he volunteered for CIA-sponsored, university-administered clinical LSD experimentation. With the profits from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" he bought his ranch house in La Honda just south of the Palo Alto campus. Berkeley at the time was much better known for noisy political thetoric than recreational chemicals. The rest, as they say, is rock 'n roll.
Kurt Vonnegut, in his infinite prescience, tried to warn us about reproductive molecular tinkering in Cat's Cradle. Oh, ye suckers...
How much do we whine and kvetch about catalogs, sweepstakes, and credit offers in our snailmail boxes? How irate are we at the endless flow of crappola spewing from our televisions and radios? And how incensed are we at a few viagra ads in our inboxes? Advertising of all kinds is here to stay, and there is no avoiding it, short of a Luddite/Amish rejection of all forms of modern communication. With a declining economy, a degraded environment, dangerous Moslem lunatics, and male pattern baldness to worry about, a couple dozen strokes of the [del] key a day doesn't seem like much of a problem, now does it?
Let's see now, my garbage disposal locks up, causing a buffer overflow in my toilet. Meanwhile, my Smart Car fails to map my driveway and crashes.
Welcome to the brave new world.
Since a lot of protected-mode games will never be re-ported to Win32 or Linux, I still keep my old DOS disks handy.
I actually built a special PIII 733Mhz/133FSB dosbox with intentionally obsolete (for compatability) sound & video just so I could have an MS-DOS 7.22 platform to run those cool old 4GW games on.
Funny things can happen in autoplay mode, though...the frame rate is so fast the game looks like a bunch of munchkins on crack.
Not with the Bots themselves, but with the way they (or anything Linux) can be interfaced into current CMMS and CAD/CAM architectures.
I've worked with programming and networking ASEA/ABB and Fanuc industrial bots in the automotive industry for years, and getting a Linux-based robot language to run seamlessly with the dominant Windows-based platforms like Wonderware, Rockwell, MP2, Alta, or Visual Plant is a real API challenge(not to mention the political battle with the bean-counters and corporate IT hacks).
It wouldn't surprise me if the Japanese do it first, given their coporate technical xenophobia. They'd rather spend a mint on a domestic solution than see an Allen-Bradley or Siemens logo in their plants.
I'd love to see it, but probably not in my ever-shrinking lifetime.
Kinda reminds you of gcc, doesn't it? :)
I worked for years at the Solarex plant in Virginia that pioneered trying to make thin-film photovoltaics cost-efective. Our corporate parents finally pulled the plug last year when our latest amorphous silicon demonstration project came up with a 41% efficient panel that cost much more per watt to produce than nuclear. Now the only place you'll find them is on a few Coleman campers and a gas station pump island awning in Indiana.
Thin-film technology held a lot of promise, but that's all it was. File it away with global warming and cold fusion under "BS".
Unless your are a site operator having your ad crappola trumped by somebody else's ad crappola, just run Panicware or Webwasher and be done with it. There are a myriad of fine tools out there to kill adjunk as fast as the crapmeisters can dream up new XML applets.
Without a DRM-compliant public key, you won't even be able to log on to your ISP. No Usenet, no BBS, no telnet, no nuthin'.
This article could be the show prep for another Larry King snooze session.
Once Palladium/DRM turns every Winbox into a lockbox with $msft/ holding all hkeys for media and applications, how many of these "journalists" are going to be playing softball with Brother Bill, especially when they find out they can't play their mp3s or mpegs without MSFT-managed MPAA/RIAA licenses any more?
In case you've missed the forest for the trees, this isn't just about running DRM-protected apps/content on the little boxes on our desks and laps.
Now that Big Biz has swallowed web-based networking and software management, it only follows that in the future ISP's will be required to enforce DRM by not allowing noncompliant connections. Read: our way or no way, Skippy!
End result? Microslut, through the magic of DRM, finally has everyone by the short hairs.
When it reaches that point, what good will OSS do anyone, except maybe having a low-cost species of the same freedom-choking anaconda?
Funny, I can envision a world where completely unfettered exchange of ideas devolves back to the one medium that isn't software-dependent: print.
At least until Gates et al decide DRM 1984 isn't enough and implement Fahrenheit 4.51
Flatulence- the smart choice! Talk about a renewable resource! I'm sure we'll all want to own a laptop with a seatbottom power source. Heck, we just convert our cars, and presto! Exxon Stations are replaced by Taco Bells. It gives the term "plugged in" a whole new meaning. Why isn't Nader "behind" this?
Timothy got it right in his "dept." tag.
While IBM is making great strides in its quest to scale Linux up into the Big League with MVS, Solaris, and HP-UX as an eventual AIX replacement, it is just not there yet for major enterprise deployments (defined as >5K unique clients with >10K unique users spread over >50 locations).
And Windows? One of the few nuggets of eternal IT wisdom that Fortune 500 CEO/COO's either carried away from business school or learned the hard way is that Windows is fine on your secretary's desktop, but never bet your business on it.
It must have happened at some time or another.
Um...no, it hasn't, and never will.
By any benchmark, NT 4.0 SPx (aka Win2K)can not, by ihnerent design, outperform any of the various Unices deployed as ERPs my major corporations. Too much overhead, too much housekeeping.
Way back when, at least in 81'/'82/'83, there was a really great biker/hippie bar up in the hills in Mountain View called Rizotti's Beer Garden. I was working as a neophyte IBM ironworker, swapping tape reels at a SF bank's data center, and some of us would spend some of our spare time at Rizotti's getting sluiced. I remember a few times listening to these incredible ubergeeks from places like Sun, HP, Xerox, Digital, and UC argue about acrcana like implementing PDP-11 over this new TCP/IP thing and so on.
Being a 22-year-old nitwit who barely understood C, I had no idea that these guys would one day rule my world when XENIX hit the street a while later. But that was the culture back then. Much like the Linux community today.
Now Unix is just a toy for MBA raiders and a football for lawyers. It's one of those "Paris was Yesterday" kind of things that reminds us that when intellect meets money, money wins. We're all whores by necessity. Some are just skankier than others.
Linus need not worry (of course, he wouldn't anyway) because when IBM gets through with SCO, Darl McBride will be paying a licensing fee just to breath the same air.
SCO intends to vigorously pursue a business model of greenmailing major players in the software industry in order to sue itself into otherwise-unattainable profitability.
I guess some dot-bombers never learn.
SCO's bizarre behavior is akin to the thrashing of a drowning kayaker caught in a maelstrom. Fear not; Big Blue will prevail.