Unlike you, most of us don't like to lug around a coffee or Expresso machine while hiking or going out doors. Most coffee places aren't open at the times some outdoor activities start.
Furthermore, your comment on coffee making is just silly. I think many Cubans would disagree with you on the "apex of coffee perfection" as would any culture are DIFFERENT from your own. I personally prefer Cuban coffee when available, even though I'm not Cuban.
Starbucks exists because people like them. What a concept! Letting people choose what they like instead of forcing them to accept some existing concept of "perfection".
Wow, that actually explains a lot. When I'm in NYC, I take a "limo" service. These are actual Lincolns operated by Chinese companies. I have a business card with numbers on it. I call service and get picked up in a Lincoln and driven very quickly to where I want to go. Surprisingly, the cost of all this is a fraction of the cost of hailing a cab. The only downside is that you have to call in advance to be picked up and you have to speak Chinese. Otherwise, it's much better than taxis. I always wondered how it was possible for them to be that cheap while operating Lincolns. Your post explains a lot of it. These limo services apparently spread by word of mouth.
Plus, I mean really, camping and outside? If you're that big of a nerd, why would you go camping or even step outside? Those rumors of the day star which our planet orbits could very well be true! Better save the $1000, stay inside in your parents' basement, hide from the near-by day star, and surf Slashdot on your constant high speed Internet connection.
Given that I could only read a short summary instead of the whole report, I could be way off on this. Nonetheless, if it costs $25/month to break even then I say go for it! Why? Because the benefits per month to an individual is EASILY $25/Month. Then let's add in the benefit to your local business. Let's not forget Metcalfe[sp?]'s law. The value of a network goes up as more people participate. Becaues municipal WIFI is free, there will be a ton of people joining and using it, especially the lower income people. This opens up that many more people as potential customers for local businesses and services. Then let's add in the value of convience. To be able to rely on a constant network connection anywhere in town is invaluable. Do they realize how much people are willing to pay just for that? I know businesses would love to send their people around town and be able to communicate with them reliably anywhere in town for free.
$25/month per person is NOTHING! Infrastructures to enable people to work together are usually good investments for the government. Let's just ask S. Korea what they think about widespread access...
Don't want to sound like one of those guys who always go, "If you don't like it, change it." but you're in a good position to do that because of the academic setting. Make it a project for Comp Sci students or grad. students. It'll be good practice for them in managing real world projects and an good intro to open source development/philosophy. OSS seems in line with the open philosophy of academia. Find a project that does almost what you want and extend it.
My employer is classified as small to medium business but we use VoIP all the time between our offices. All our calls to London and NYC are routed over VoIP to our offices first and then dialed from there as a local call. VoIP for internal calls will probably be the direction of growth for now.
Actually, I think I need to thank Slashdot. It gave us a voice when we didn't have one. A stupid local journalist decided to write an article on us because his daugther, who went to our school, told him about us. Did he ever interviewed us? NOPE. He just made it all up from hearsay. Then one of us posted the experience on Slashdot and got the NYT Times and Katz' attention. The article was a vindication for us. We really had nowhere to go. Some of us were applying to colleges at the time and didn't want the world to know who we were. Who knows how colleges would have reacted. People just knew there was EvilCON and the article let them know we weren't psycho without revealing exactly who each member was. It's a bit hard to explain but thanks/.
Hey I was one of those kids and brought to the New York Times attention because of Slashdot!
NYT Article
6th paragraph down. That was us. What do you know? None of us shot anyone and ended up doing anything violent. Most of us graduated college fine. One of them ended up a computer science major with a degree from Yale and a rabid Slashdot reader, so maybe they should put a warning out for kids like us... Do we still have LAN parties and play shooters? Of course!
Perhaps MS could pay a bunch of people to be their guinea pigs but open source will still have their volunteers. Suppose something goes wrong, I think open source people will feel more guilty about it because: 1. It's one of their own who's testing. 2. There would be no excuse that they paid so it's alright. In fact, if open source started doing implants, it's more likely that the authors will be testing the devices out. Therefore, there will be more on the line for open source authors. In all, I think when it comes time for implants, taking away a monetary incentive might actually lead to better results.
And mostly you don't get any: the vast majority of dollar DVD's start playing the moment they're loaded.
And the rest of us geniuses pay about $14 more to NOT have this?! Man, I bet these DVDs don't even have that annoying FBI warning since some of them are in the public domain. These cheap DVDs already have the top 2 out of 3 items on my wish list for DVDs. Now, they just need to have a good movie to go along with the DVD.;-)
he states that he wants Microsoft to marry the PC, the cell phone and the desk phone,
Why? Has anyone thought of that? Integration is nice but sometimes it's pointless and harmful. For example, my Motorola v600 is Java powered. That's great except sometimes I can punch things in faster than it can handle. The battery life is poor. My older StarTac was perfect for me. No java or camera but it go the job done right. I never had to reboot a cellphone until I got this new one. Oh, let's not forget how the battery life is kind of mediocre. Let me count the number of times I've taken advantage of the Java and camera features: 5. Those 5 times, I could have done without them anyways. MS needs to take a lesson fron Apple and even *nix. Do one thing and do it well. Then make all those things play together well. God I wish Apply made cellphones.
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First, you can't disclaim expressed warranties. Also kind of hypocritical that they disclaim all responsibility for their product and turns around and sue Googles for what amounts to a warranty issue.
Very unprofessional. Obviously a bunch of dumbasses.
What you will about this but at least they make a distinction between dedicated pirates and Joe Average user who wants to make a copy or two. Unfortunately, their DRM targets the latter. Seems a bit reverse but at least they're no longer in denial that Joe Average user isn't some "communist, anti-American, terrorist-loving" pirate.
Well, I'm glad I didn't order a subscription to Forbes. I was considering it but now knowing this, I'll never read it. I've lost confidence and trust in it. How ironic that the editors at Forbes are guilty of what what they accuse Linus of. Kettle calling pot black? Wait, there is no pot here. Just a bunch of dumbasses writing to lose some business.
Agreed. A lot of us forget or don't know that MS actually sponsors a lot of researchers at universities to do academic work. When I did my senior thesis on wireless networking, my professor suggested that I ask MS to sponsor my work by donating some Pocket PCs. They turned me down but the possibility is there and I'm sure other people had better luck. As far as I know, there is no strings attached to it.
Bluetooth is an open standard I believe so licensing fee is not an issue. It's not as standard as you might think it is. The standard is clear but no one follows the rules. For example, Nokia or another cellphone maker, I believe, implements the audio profile for their phones instead of telephony. Most BT headsets use the telephony profile. Their BT headset does both audio and telephony. So you end up with a situation where their headset and only their headset can work with their phones. For a standard to work, people have to adhere to them.
People who succeed inspite of dropping out of school are those who maybe never really needed formalized learning in the first place. There have always been individuals who learn better on their own and will succeed in the same manner. They're incredibly intelligent but to top it off they're also incredibly self motivated. Those are few and far in between. What people often forget to mention is that in addition to their talents, these people are also very intense people. I've met a few of these people before. They weren't at the same level as Gates and Jobs but a Ph.D. when you're 22 or publishing a major conference paper before you graduated are impressive nonetheless. Most people like to offset their talent by claiming or portraying these people as somehow socially inept or otherwise very weak in other aspects. That was never the case for those who I knew. What I did noticed that they were really into what they did and never wasted anytime. They knew what they wanted and they went after it with a drive that will tire out most people. But they're very rare.
I've known a lot of very intelligent people but not all of them had the drive or the passion. Unfortunately, many children growing up, especially the intelligent ones, forget the other ingredient needed and assumes their natural talent will bring them success. They neglect school and somehow expect their talents to just kick in and solve all their problems when they need it. Memorization shouldn't be the only part of education but knowing things in advance will save you a lot of time from having to solve them again, probably in a worse way. So, for the rest of us, schooling and formal education are useful. There's no doubt that Jobs is an incredible person, very rare among people. His path to success will no doubt be different and inaccessible to the majority of students.
I agree. Wow, we are a sad bunch. When people discriminate against nerds for being themselves, we rage and complain. Judge by what's inside we say. Then we just turn around and do the exact same thing to those who are different and like to express themselves in a different manner. What hypocrisy. Maybe nerds deserve to be beat up and harassed in school. If it's how some of them like to treat others so why shouldn't they be treated the same way? What a sad bunch...
With the scientific rigor proposed in the article, no PHP will be able to understand it. Without special "keywords", the PHPs will have to waste their precious time reading the whole document and getting all the details.
Let me propose my own list of what a successful IT article should have: 1. Name recognition. If it fails to mention a well known company, it's not worth reading. Good example: Microsoft vs. Linux. Bad example: Gentoo vs. Debian. Rule of thumb, if none of the companies/brands mentioned is traded on the stock market, the article is not worth reading.
2. Graphs and pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words. Execs don't have time to read. It's even better if underneath the graphs/pictures there are captions that draw the conclusion for the reader. In fact, things like legend and numbers can be left out as long as there is a caption. If numbers must be included, use $ as the unit of measurement.
3. Keywords. Lots of marketing keywords. Keywords allow overworked execs to zoom in on important bits and pieces. Details aren't important. Example: "Microsoft's next generation KILLER APP will SIX SIGMA all the competitors on the WEB SERVICE market. blah... blah... blah..."
For the rest of my guide to being a top notch IT consulting firm, please Paypal $500,000 to me and accept my Draconian DRM scheme. Remember, free information is communist!
Did they confirm that they're going to use x86 with the switch to Intel? I'm a bit behind on the news. They could use another architecture. Again, just guessing here.
Apple might also be a good way for them to break away from the x86 architecture. Unlike the Itanium, with Apple, they can develop a new design or modify an existing design. Apple has the ability to push it through and still have developer support. Apple can supply the missing ingredient that killed the Itanium.
Suppose that this happens and they have some superior chip, we can expect some growth. Apple will handle the software side, attracting developers to the new architecture. Maybe they will be able to push x86 off the market and Intel can put an end to the patent sharing deal they have with AMD.
Just speculations of course but this seems like a win-win situation for both.
Slashdot Mirror
QWERY's the QWERTY's answer to Dvorak. By dropping one of the most common letters from the alphabet, they've claimed a speed increase of at least 15%!
Unlike you, most of us don't like to lug around a coffee or Expresso machine while hiking or going out doors. Most coffee places aren't open at the times some outdoor activities start.
Furthermore, your comment on coffee making is just silly. I think many Cubans would disagree with you on the "apex of coffee perfection" as would any culture are DIFFERENT from your own. I personally prefer Cuban coffee when available, even though I'm not Cuban.
Starbucks exists because people like them. What a concept! Letting people choose what they like instead of forcing them to accept some existing concept of "perfection".
Wow, that actually explains a lot. When I'm in NYC, I take a "limo" service. These are actual Lincolns operated by Chinese companies. I have a business card with numbers on it. I call service and get picked up in a Lincoln and driven very quickly to where I want to go. Surprisingly, the cost of all this is a fraction of the cost of hailing a cab. The only downside is that you have to call in advance to be picked up and you have to speak Chinese. Otherwise, it's much better than taxis. I always wondered how it was possible for them to be that cheap while operating Lincolns. Your post explains a lot of it. These limo services apparently spread by word of mouth.
Plus, I mean really, camping and outside? If you're that big of a nerd, why would you go camping or even step outside? Those rumors of the day star which our planet orbits could very well be true! Better save the $1000, stay inside in your parents' basement, hide from the near-by day star, and surf Slashdot on your constant high speed Internet connection.
Given that I could only read a short summary instead of the whole report, I could be way off on this. Nonetheless, if it costs $25/month to break even then I say go for it! Why? Because the benefits per month to an individual is EASILY $25/Month. Then let's add in the benefit to your local business. Let's not forget Metcalfe[sp?]'s law. The value of a network goes up as more people participate. Becaues municipal WIFI is free, there will be a ton of people joining and using it, especially the lower income people. This opens up that many more people as potential customers for local businesses and services. Then let's add in the value of convience. To be able to rely on a constant network connection anywhere in town is invaluable. Do they realize how much people are willing to pay just for that? I know businesses would love to send their people around town and be able to communicate with them reliably anywhere in town for free.
$25/month per person is NOTHING! Infrastructures to enable people to work together are usually good investments for the government. Let's just ask S. Korea what they think about widespread access...
Don't want to sound like one of those guys who always go, "If you don't like it, change it." but you're in a good position to do that because of the academic setting. Make it a project for Comp Sci students or grad. students. It'll be good practice for them in managing real world projects and an good intro to open source development/philosophy. OSS seems in line with the open philosophy of academia. Find a project that does almost what you want and extend it.
My employer is classified as small to medium business but we use VoIP all the time between our offices. All our calls to London and NYC are routed over VoIP to our offices first and then dialed from there as a local call. VoIP for internal calls will probably be the direction of growth for now.
Actually, I think I need to thank Slashdot. It gave us a voice when we didn't have one. A stupid local journalist decided to write an article on us because his daugther, who went to our school, told him about us. Did he ever interviewed us? NOPE. He just made it all up from hearsay. Then one of us posted the experience on Slashdot and got the NYT Times and Katz' attention. The article was a vindication for us. We really had nowhere to go. Some of us were applying to colleges at the time and didn't want the world to know who we were. Who knows how colleges would have reacted. People just knew there was EvilCON and the article let them know we weren't psycho without revealing exactly who each member was. It's a bit hard to explain but thanks /.
6th paragraph down. That was us. What do you know? None of us shot anyone and ended up doing anything violent. Most of us graduated college fine. One of them ended up a computer science major with a degree from Yale and a rabid Slashdot reader, so maybe they should put a warning out for kids like us... Do we still have LAN parties and play shooters? Of course!
Perhaps MS could pay a bunch of people to be their guinea pigs but open source will still have their volunteers. Suppose something goes wrong, I think open source people will feel more guilty about it because:
1. It's one of their own who's testing.
2. There would be no excuse that they paid so it's alright.
In fact, if open source started doing implants, it's more likely that the authors will be testing the devices out. Therefore, there will be more on the line for open source authors. In all, I think when it comes time for implants, taking away a monetary incentive might actually lead to better results.
Yes, I like them... Nice T and A shots of Saturn. :-P
And the rest of us geniuses pay about $14 more to NOT have this?! Man, I bet these DVDs don't even have that annoying FBI warning since some of them are in the public domain. These cheap DVDs already have the top 2 out of 3 items on my wish list for DVDs. Now, they just need to have a good movie to go along with the DVD. ;-)
he states that he wants Microsoft to marry the PC, the cell phone and the desk phone, Why? Has anyone thought of that? Integration is nice but sometimes it's pointless and harmful. For example, my Motorola v600 is Java powered. That's great except sometimes I can punch things in faster than it can handle. The battery life is poor. My older StarTac was perfect for me. No java or camera but it go the job done right. I never had to reboot a cellphone until I got this new one. Oh, let's not forget how the battery life is kind of mediocre. Let me count the number of times I've taken advantage of the Java and camera features: 5. Those 5 times, I could have done without them anyways. MS needs to take a lesson fron Apple and even *nix. Do one thing and do it well. Then make all those things play together well. God I wish Apply made cellphones.
More surprised that it doesn't happen more often.
Have you guys read the site? These guys are a bunch of ass clowns.
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First, you can't disclaim expressed warranties. Also kind of hypocritical that they disclaim all responsibility for their product and turns around and sue Googles for what amounts to a warranty issue.
Very unprofessional. Obviously a bunch of dumbasses.
What you will about this but at least they make a distinction between dedicated pirates and Joe Average user who wants to make a copy or two. Unfortunately, their DRM targets the latter. Seems a bit reverse but at least they're no longer in denial that Joe Average user isn't some "communist, anti-American, terrorist-loving" pirate.
Well, I'm glad I didn't order a subscription to Forbes. I was considering it but now knowing this, I'll never read it. I've lost confidence and trust in it. How ironic that the editors at Forbes are guilty of what what they accuse Linus of. Kettle calling pot black? Wait, there is no pot here. Just a bunch of dumbasses writing to lose some business.
Agreed. A lot of us forget or don't know that MS actually sponsors a lot of researchers at universities to do academic work. When I did my senior thesis on wireless networking, my professor suggested that I ask MS to sponsor my work by donating some Pocket PCs. They turned me down but the possibility is there and I'm sure other people had better luck. As far as I know, there is no strings attached to it.
Bluetooth is an open standard I believe so licensing fee is not an issue. It's not as standard as you might think it is. The standard is clear but no one follows the rules. For example, Nokia or another cellphone maker, I believe, implements the audio profile for their phones instead of telephony. Most BT headsets use the telephony profile. Their BT headset does both audio and telephony. So you end up with a situation where their headset and only their headset can work with their phones. For a standard to work, people have to adhere to them.
"Or two chicks at once..."
People who succeed inspite of dropping out of school are those who maybe never really needed formalized learning in the first place. There have always been individuals who learn better on their own and will succeed in the same manner. They're incredibly intelligent but to top it off they're also incredibly self motivated. Those are few and far in between. What people often forget to mention is that in addition to their talents, these people are also very intense people. I've met a few of these people before. They weren't at the same level as Gates and Jobs but a Ph.D. when you're 22 or publishing a major conference paper before you graduated are impressive nonetheless. Most people like to offset their talent by claiming or portraying these people as somehow socially inept or otherwise very weak in other aspects. That was never the case for those who I knew. What I did noticed that they were really into what they did and never wasted anytime. They knew what they wanted and they went after it with a drive that will tire out most people. But they're very rare.
I've known a lot of very intelligent people but not all of them had the drive or the passion. Unfortunately, many children growing up, especially the intelligent ones, forget the other ingredient needed and assumes their natural talent will bring them success. They neglect school and somehow expect their talents to just kick in and solve all their problems when they need it. Memorization shouldn't be the only part of education but knowing things in advance will save you a lot of time from having to solve them again, probably in a worse way. So, for the rest of us, schooling and formal education are useful. There's no doubt that Jobs is an incredible person, very rare among people. His path to success will no doubt be different and inaccessible to the majority of students.
I agree. Wow, we are a sad bunch. When people discriminate against nerds for being themselves, we rage and complain. Judge by what's inside we say. Then we just turn around and do the exact same thing to those who are different and like to express themselves in a different manner. What hypocrisy. Maybe nerds deserve to be beat up and harassed in school. If it's how some of them like to treat others so why shouldn't they be treated the same way? What a sad bunch...
With the scientific rigor proposed in the article, no PHP will be able to understand it. Without special "keywords", the PHPs will have to waste their precious time reading the whole document and getting all the details.
Let me propose my own list of what a successful IT article should have:
1. Name recognition. If it fails to mention a well known company, it's not worth reading. Good example: Microsoft vs. Linux. Bad example: Gentoo vs. Debian. Rule of thumb, if none of the companies/brands mentioned is traded on the stock market, the article is not worth reading.
2. Graphs and pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words. Execs don't have time to read. It's even better if underneath the graphs/pictures there are captions that draw the conclusion for the reader. In fact, things like legend and numbers can be left out as long as there is a caption. If numbers must be included, use $ as the unit of measurement.
3. Keywords. Lots of marketing keywords. Keywords allow overworked execs to zoom in on important bits and pieces. Details aren't important. Example: "Microsoft's next generation KILLER APP will SIX SIGMA all the competitors on the WEB SERVICE market. blah... blah... blah..."
For the rest of my guide to being a top notch IT consulting firm, please Paypal $500,000 to me and accept my Draconian DRM scheme. Remember, free information is communist!
Did they confirm that they're going to use x86 with the switch to Intel? I'm a bit behind on the news. They could use another architecture. Again, just guessing here.
Apple might also be a good way for them to break away from the x86 architecture. Unlike the Itanium, with Apple, they can develop a new design or modify an existing design. Apple has the ability to push it through and still have developer support. Apple can supply the missing ingredient that killed the Itanium.
Suppose that this happens and they have some superior chip, we can expect some growth. Apple will handle the software side, attracting developers to the new architecture. Maybe they will be able to push x86 off the market and Intel can put an end to the patent sharing deal they have with AMD.
Just speculations of course but this seems like a win-win situation for both.