I see your point, that Prohibition created the atmosphere to make a Capone what he was. Now, however, "Capones" are already made. Organized criminals in the US *like* the widespread legal wagering, because this provides the entre to their more "advanced" products. By your reasoning, we might go on to say that all narcotics should be legally available, even though the health effects of most of them are significantly worse than alcohol (and, I'd argue, tobacco).
Frankly, I think it's becoming evident that widespread wagering isn't producing the public benefits that most schemes were sold on, and I suspect that cranking down on overseas purveyors is only the start... not that we're ever going to attempt a total ban.
Because many US states license gambling in some form or another, some assume this is just a pissing match over something the US hasn't figured out how to tax, yet. However, there are many folks in the US who aren't at all happy with the spread of gaming here no matter what the tax revenue is, and quite a few of them sit in the US Congress.
Ever tried looking up anti-semitic sites on Yahoo from France? Tried bidding on swastika-embellished merchandise on eBay from Germany? Think the problem is just because someone isn't collecting VAT?
What it comes down to is that some folks don't want to let the next Hitler find his voice, and other folks the next Al Capone to fund his.
If you're in some little start up, neither an MS or MBA will make any difference (unless you're working AND getting the degree). As you move out into your thirties and forties, you'll probably find that the MS in what ever will provide more oportunity (than a BS) on the programmer, engineer, tech lead, scientist, senior scientist track, while the MBA will set you up for the section head, department head, site lead, etc track.
If you want to work on and create technology, go MS. If you want to manage it, go MBA.
If you wnat to know what program to do NOW, before your life responsibilities stack up, and you can hack the program, go MS. Frankly, the vast majority of MBA programs can easily be completed in your spare time, even if you've got a working spouse and a couple of kids, so you can safely put that off until you turn 30 or 35. Then, with both an MS and MBA, you'll be head and shoulders over many of your peers no matter what direction you decide to go (including doing your own thing).
One method for breaking down the formal hierarchy is to decentralize. Bruce Sterling gives an example in Islands In The Net. For a more socialistic example, the 'Aztlan/El Paso' chapter in Strieber and Kunetka's Warday.
A current example is the content production end of the US film industry, where a number of nominally independent contractors pull together to create a film, then break after the wrap, until someone pulls them together for another project. Granted, the components aren't equal (ie. the producer, and the massive corporation that's gonna distribute the product), but it's a starting point you can tweak to your own purposes.
Because there's an imminent threat of attack from its own citizens?
Not right at the moment, but I'd agree that blocking GE isn't going to slow them down. The Sheik and his family are Sunni, while the majority of Bahrainis are Shia. For years, the Shia perceived that they weren't getting a fair shake from the sheik, and the revolution in Iran didn't help. The opposition has been coopted to some degree by the introduction of a two house Parliment and regular elections (The GE closing may be a result of conservative morality agenda w/in the lower house, which also led to blocked porn sites). However, this is offset to some degree by the Sheik's long standing policies to assist the US in the Gulf, which aren't popular with most citizens.
Analysis: before implementing a solution, is to make sure you've got the full picture. Note that your neighbor is in fact being harassed by something, if not intentionally. What is that thing? If it's something you are doing... Trade Study: will it be a major or minor imposition to not do it; can you bring yourself to politely inform your neighbor that you'll not do it in exchange for taking the offending device offline?
If either you or the neighbor doesn't want to deal: since you've already alerted the authorities that the device is an issue, I'd pass on petty crime or felony-based solutions you likely suspect, you. You and your neighors should keep a running record of your complaints to the police. You might try borrowing/buying a meter that'll measure the dB of the frequency in question. Then, while you can ask for a younger officer that can hear the noise, if you get someone my age, at least the officer will have something to go on.
If you get the device taken offline without dealing with what's pissing your neighbor off, you may just be trading one headache for another.
Yeah, since the list was a bit heavy with writers, you'd think he'd rate. His Qdial desk accessory was one of my favorate bits of code back in the mid-80's, when I was constantly dialing up BBS'. Its innovation was to flog the modem during a Mac's vertical blanking interval (screen refresh, when whatever application you were using and the OS were otherwise twiddling their thumbs), which allowed me to keep working while I waited to connect to a busy board. This was before the Multifinder, and my first practical taste of multitasking, outside of a VAX/VMS system.
this allows ISPs to make sure that developing connectivity can in fact, keep up with the explosive demand for broadband in more places. In other words, it allows for fatter pipes.
Just about any business situation allows for fatter pipes, but tiered services aren't the fast track to getting them. In fact, tiered services are a great way to ration available bandwidth. The infrastructure owners could sit on the system they've got now, and in the face of growing demand, those who pay top dollar get to satisfy their need. One could milk this for quite a while to delay capital expenditures.
It may be easier to build some flood walls than buy a zillion solar panels, for example.
Boy, now there's a statement begging to get ripped apart by a 20 to 50 year cost of money analysis. Unless the contractor, municipality, state, or national government makes sure the flood walls cost less by building to what they want it to cost, rather than what's needed to work, even a few hundred miles of dikes can get rather pricey. The Netherlands is densely populated enough that it's cost effective to do them right. Given the geography and political culture in the US, it would be a political necessity to - in future hindsight - fuck it up.
What it boils down to is that it's the oil and coal extractors and the coal fired power companies that will really have their nuts in a vice over the expense of prevention. They would prefer to continue offloading the effect of their current business practice by spreading the cost of adjustment over the entire economy.
You may be spliting hairs. Back in the day, SV was just a lot of cheap land ready for tilt up concrete business parks. SF hasn't had any elbow room or cheap office space to spread out on since the Big One, which I'm sure the city fathers in places like Campbell are forever grateful. The people with the bucks were and are up in Atherton, the Oakland hills, and SF proper. Without some cultural center, the bucks are just snowbirds, and don't invest in anything but real estate.
And I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that the geeks down around Stanford and early SV were wearing ruts in the freeways up to SF and Berkeley when they wanted some action.
Looking back on Toshiba and similar cases during the (last) Cold War, the result would be that Lenovo would end up on the shit list for a year or so, then back to business as usual. In the meantime, the damage would have been done, a certain amount of intel collected.
The State Department, as a bureaucracy, didn't decide to send the family jewels to China. It was the political appointees and their business cronies who sent our manufacturing sector overseas, and the Taiwanese who moved it to the PRC. Right now, Lenovo has a certain number of Americans in the management chain, and a final assembly (put the motherboard and lcd in the case) plant in Mexico. All of that can change in short order.
So, what the bureaucracy was left with is either risk reduction now, or retribution later.
'Way back when we read the first rev of this discussion, Tanenbaum made good points. At the same time, Linus was able his little monolithic kernel project jump through the hoops he wanted it to.
Years later, Tanenbaum still makes valid observations, Linus and others continue to make a rather larger project jump through the hoops, and that's fine. The results of academic research may or may not get traction outside of a university, but without the research, there wouldn't be alternatives to contemplate. If I've gathered nothing else about Linus' personality from his writings over the years, it's that he seems to be practical, not particularly hung up on architectural (or licensing) theories... unlike me.
At some point, if his current architecture just isn't doing it for him any more, he might morph into Tanenbaum's 'A' student. It won't be because a microkernel was always right, but that it was right now.
When NetworkWorld's McNamara asks an opinion from an attorney, the guy quickly digs up two libel verdicts (1903, 1940) and one dismissal (1999).
The legal issue would likely be whether the statements were actual imputations of a crime, or were 'rhetorical hyperbole,' essentially a statement of opinion, not of fact. The former could be considered libelous, while the latter could not.
Of course, hyperbole is the eye of the beholder... or juror.
In my opinion, today's average juror would look at Prof. Goldman's statement, the facts surrounding the class action suit, and conclude that a) it's a rhetorical hyperbole in common use, much like saying "I could just kill that kid", or b) that the attorneys suing Yahoo are in fact engaging in barratry for the sake of squeezing cash out of the defendant. This assumes no existing Yahoo advertisers slip into the jury box.
Our (human) pyramids are only 6000 years old, and their outer surface is gone - another 100k years, they'll just be piles of rubble.
If it were just a matter of nature, the Giza pyramids would last longer than that. The outer casing (still found tightly fitted at the top of the Khefre pyramid) erosion rate is estimated at 5mm/kyr, the inner stones at 50mm/kyr. In addition, they're set well back from likely meanders of the Nile over the next few millenia. The Giza pyramids lost their outer surface to Cairo after it's Islamic conquest. Some of today's more wild eyed Islamic radicals in Egypt are all for reducing all evidence of it's pre-Islamic past to dust.
Left to the elements, the Giza pyramids might lose about 15 feet in 100kyrs. Left to people, they might not make it to the next century.
I'll agree, most educated Indians are conversant in English. However, to be comfortable, conversational Hindi and/or Kannada (for Bangalore) or Telugu (for Hyderabad) would be a major plus.
While I'm sure your rationale for avoiding US engineers is working for you now, it reminded me of a Doonesbury cartoon from 1991. Which of these characters best fits your position.....?
CEO: [spells out the corporate advantages of laying off their development staff, bringing them back as on-call consultants.]
Not a huge shock that someone would try bringing to broadcast what we've already got in DVD. Lately, I've been finding DVDs on the verge of unwatchable with up to ten minutes of trailers and ads I can't skip (but can speed thru). Really pisses me off when the laptop is on battery. Caused me to go out of my way to dig up dvd rippers for my preferred OS.
Of course, just because Philips patents it doesn't mean that the FCC will sign off on it, or the networks will use it. Imagine how pissed off viewers would get if they can't speed through the channels to see what lights their fire. It would render remotes virtually useless.
I hear Google spiders pages. Rather than hammer some idiot's 'lux goodes' site, why not search for and surf to the frickin' OEM? This player is just a one-off for a zillionare.
The Brits come in low and the US high because that's their doctrine. The RAF's concept is to stay under the SAM coverage, the US above the AAA. Each has its place. In Iraq '90, the RAF took at lot of hits because once the bad guys get a clue that you'd like to hit X, it's pretty straight forward to set up flak boxes along the most likely flight paths. After a bit of that, they added altitude.
The USAF ate plenty of humble pie figuring that out in Vietnam, and usually hopes to supress the SAMs with ECM and targeting launch sites, so that they can take their sweet time at altitude.
If USAF gets into a situation where they can't supress the SAMs, they'll probably start taking their chances with the AAA.
Virtually all laptop manufacturing is already off-shore. If you're worried about foreign spying, you've already lost the war. This "investigation" is a complete waste of time.
Better late than never. If there's no problem, no problem, which would be nice to know. If there is a problem, the US needs to react to it. Consider it an unintentional consequence of the wholesale offshoring of US (or for that matter, all of the OECD's) manufacturing to cheap labor markets. It's an uncontrolled economics experiment for a major economic power to suddenly switch to having someone else make all of their shit for them. Who knew that not only would the "market" sell the rope that hung them, they would outsource rope making to the hangman.
Looks like Clancy needs to update one of his opus', in which an agent slips the Chinese Politboro an 0wn3d laptop.
Combine NASA's budget with it's marching orders from the Administration and Congress, and you've got a situation that in-house creativity ain't gonna solve.
Between the ISS and Shuttle ops, 40% of the budget goes to Lock-Mart and Boeing just to keep the ISS' lights on. Then 25% for technologies to support the Moon/Mars plan.
The remaining 35% ($5.3 bil) for space science can only go so far. Got existing missions to support/complete. Plus, this Administration ain't too hot on Earth science missions. The data returned tends to include a lot of climatology data they don't want to hear about, so it's cheaper to not collect the data in the first place, rather than twist researchers' arms after the fact.
Wal-Mart sells a huge variety of well-known well-regarded quality brands.... including Apple and Sony.
Go back to AR, shill. Wal-Mart is FORCED to sell brand-name goods at MSRP in some cases because of very strong brand names. Saunter into the personal music player section. Notice that, particularly after Xmas, the iPods have been pretty well cleared off the shelves, while the racks still groan under the weight of Phillips, RCA, and other MP3 players. At the moment, if they don't offer iPods, they basically won't sell MP3 players, so they're forced to sell at pretty much the same price as everyone else.
For other goods where they've got the suppliers by the balls, if the product isn't currently crap, it soon will be.
The initial query seemed to assume that an internet that was divied up would be completely disconnected. I think that at worst the firewalls at the routers between some nations would be more rigorous. Ie. If Motorola, Inc (USA) wanted to link with () [that is, Motorola China. Damn, no Unicode support at/.?], there would be a prearrangement for an approved VPN. If Dell had a tech support center in China handling all of its Spanish customers, the call center's network would have a passthrough.
In general, there'd be a lot of whitelists to join for outsiders wanting into Iran, Saudi, etc, and DNS remapping for getting between places like the PRC and the US. Anyone not mapped wouldn't exist. How hard it would be to get mapped would differ depending on the politics of the case.
Robert Mitchell is full of it on a number of levels, but the fetid steamer that first caught my eye was:
"The globalization of IT is an opportunity. [..blah, blah.] The good news is that the next generation of IT professionals will find a global job market with opportunities to live and work in many different countries."
Where does this idiot live, the EU? Out here in the rest of the world, there's this thing called nation-states, which use arbitrary concepts like citizenship, immigration laws, and work permits to control who gets to play in their labor pool. That these won't apply to anyone starting college now, or 20 years from now is a WSJ wet-dream.
Mr. Mitchell is talking out of his ass, and this claim leaves the rest of his propaganda piece suspect.
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I see your point, that Prohibition created the atmosphere to make a Capone what he was. Now, however, "Capones" are already made. Organized criminals in the US *like* the widespread legal wagering, because this provides the entre to their more "advanced" products. By your reasoning, we might go on to say that all narcotics should be legally available, even though the health effects of most of them are significantly worse than alcohol (and, I'd argue, tobacco).
Frankly, I think it's becoming evident that widespread wagering isn't producing the public benefits that most schemes were sold on, and I suspect that cranking down on overseas purveyors is only the start... not that we're ever going to attempt a total ban.
Because many US states license gambling in some form or another, some assume this is just a pissing match over something the US hasn't figured out how to tax, yet. However, there are many folks in the US who aren't at all happy with the spread of gaming here no matter what the tax revenue is, and quite a few of them sit in the US Congress.
Ever tried looking up anti-semitic sites on Yahoo from France? Tried bidding on swastika-embellished merchandise on eBay from Germany? Think the problem is just because someone isn't collecting VAT?
What it comes down to is that some folks don't want to let the next Hitler find his voice, and other folks the next Al Capone to fund his.
If you're in some little start up, neither an MS or MBA will make any difference (unless you're working AND getting the degree). As you move out into your thirties and forties, you'll probably find that the MS in what ever will provide more oportunity (than a BS) on the programmer, engineer, tech lead, scientist, senior scientist track, while the MBA will set you up for the section head, department head, site lead, etc track.
If you want to work on and create technology, go MS. If you want to manage it, go MBA.
If you wnat to know what program to do NOW, before your life responsibilities stack up, and you can hack the program, go MS. Frankly, the vast majority of MBA programs can easily be completed in your spare time, even if you've got a working spouse and a couple of kids, so you can safely put that off until you turn 30 or 35. Then, with both an MS and MBA, you'll be head and shoulders over many of your peers no matter what direction you decide to go (including doing your own thing).
One method for breaking down the formal hierarchy is to decentralize. Bruce Sterling gives an example in Islands In The Net. For a more socialistic example, the 'Aztlan/El Paso' chapter in Strieber and Kunetka's Warday.
A current example is the content production end of the US film industry, where a number of nominally independent contractors pull together to create a film, then break after the wrap, until someone pulls them together for another project. Granted, the components aren't equal (ie. the producer, and the massive corporation that's gonna distribute the product), but it's a starting point you can tweak to your own purposes.
Because there's an imminent threat of attack from its own citizens?
Not right at the moment, but I'd agree that blocking GE isn't going to slow them down. The Sheik and his family are Sunni, while the majority of Bahrainis are Shia. For years, the Shia perceived that they weren't getting a fair shake from the sheik, and the revolution in Iran didn't help. The opposition has been coopted to some degree by the introduction of a two house Parliment and regular elections (The GE closing may be a result of conservative morality agenda w/in the lower house, which also led to blocked porn sites). However, this is offset to some degree by the Sheik's long standing policies to assist the US in the Gulf, which aren't popular with most citizens.
Analysis: before implementing a solution, is to make sure you've got the full picture. Note that your neighbor is in fact being harassed by something, if not intentionally. What is that thing? If it's something you are doing... Trade Study: will it be a major or minor imposition to not do it; can you bring yourself to politely inform your neighbor that you'll not do it in exchange for taking the offending device offline?
If either you or the neighbor doesn't want to deal: since you've already alerted the authorities that the device is an issue, I'd pass on petty crime or felony-based solutions you likely suspect, you. You and your neighors should keep a running record of your complaints to the police. You might try borrowing/buying a meter that'll measure the dB of the frequency in question. Then, while you can ask for a younger officer that can hear the noise, if you get someone my age, at least the officer will have something to go on.
If you get the device taken offline without dealing with what's pissing your neighbor off, you may just be trading one headache for another.
Yeah, since the list was a bit heavy with writers, you'd think he'd rate. His Qdial desk accessory was one of my favorate bits of code back in the mid-80's, when I was constantly dialing up BBS'. Its innovation was to flog the modem during a Mac's vertical blanking interval (screen refresh, when whatever application you were using and the OS were otherwise twiddling their thumbs), which allowed me to keep working while I waited to connect to a busy board. This was before the Multifinder, and my first practical taste of multitasking, outside of a VAX/VMS system.
this allows ISPs to make sure that developing connectivity can in fact, keep up with the explosive demand for broadband in more places. In other words, it allows for fatter pipes.
Just about any business situation allows for fatter pipes, but tiered services aren't the fast track to getting them. In fact, tiered services are a great way to ration available bandwidth. The infrastructure owners could sit on the system they've got now, and in the face of growing demand, those who pay top dollar get to satisfy their need. One could milk this for quite a while to delay capital expenditures.
Boy, now there's a statement begging to get ripped apart by a 20 to 50 year cost of money analysis. Unless the contractor, municipality, state, or national government makes sure the flood walls cost less by building to what they want it to cost, rather than what's needed to work, even a few hundred miles of dikes can get rather pricey. The Netherlands is densely populated enough that it's cost effective to do them right. Given the geography and political culture in the US, it would be a political necessity to - in future hindsight - fuck it up.
What it boils down to is that it's the oil and coal extractors and the coal fired power companies that will really have their nuts in a vice over the expense of prevention. They would prefer to continue offloading the effect of their current business practice by spreading the cost of adjustment over the entire economy.
If you'll excuse the broad brush, fuck 'em.
And I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that the geeks down around Stanford and early SV were wearing ruts in the freeways up to SF and Berkeley when they wanted some action.
Looking back on Toshiba and similar cases during the (last) Cold War, the result would be that Lenovo would end up on the shit list for a year or so, then back to business as usual. In the meantime, the damage would have been done, a certain amount of intel collected.
The State Department, as a bureaucracy, didn't decide to send the family jewels to China. It was the political appointees and their business cronies who sent our manufacturing sector overseas, and the Taiwanese who moved it to the PRC. Right now, Lenovo has a certain number of Americans in the management chain, and a final assembly (put the motherboard and lcd in the case) plant in Mexico. All of that can change in short order.
So, what the bureaucracy was left with is either risk reduction now, or retribution later.
Years later, Tanenbaum still makes valid observations, Linus and others continue to make a rather larger project jump through the hoops, and that's fine. The results of academic research may or may not get traction outside of a university, but without the research, there wouldn't be alternatives to contemplate. If I've gathered nothing else about Linus' personality from his writings over the years, it's that he seems to be practical, not particularly hung up on architectural (or licensing) theories... unlike me.
At some point, if his current architecture just isn't doing it for him any more, he might morph into Tanenbaum's 'A' student. It won't be because a microkernel was always right, but that it was right now.
When NetworkWorld's McNamara asks an opinion from an attorney, the guy quickly digs up two libel verdicts (1903, 1940) and one dismissal (1999).
... or juror.
The legal issue would likely be whether the statements were actual imputations of a crime, or were 'rhetorical hyperbole,' essentially a statement of opinion, not of fact. The former could be considered libelous, while the latter could not.
Of course, hyperbole is the eye of the beholder
In my opinion, today's average juror would look at Prof. Goldman's statement, the facts surrounding the class action suit, and conclude that a) it's a rhetorical hyperbole in common use, much like saying "I could just kill that kid", or b) that the attorneys suing Yahoo are in fact engaging in barratry for the sake of squeezing cash out of the defendant. This assumes no existing Yahoo advertisers slip into the jury box.
If it were just a matter of nature, the Giza pyramids would last longer than that. The outer casing (still found tightly fitted at the top of the Khefre pyramid) erosion rate is estimated at 5mm/kyr, the inner stones at 50mm/kyr. In addition, they're set well back from likely meanders of the Nile over the next few millenia. The Giza pyramids lost their outer surface to Cairo after it's Islamic conquest. Some of today's more wild eyed Islamic radicals in Egypt are all for reducing all evidence of it's pre-Islamic past to dust.
Left to the elements, the Giza pyramids might lose about 15 feet in 100kyrs. Left to people, they might not make it to the next century.
So NeuroSky ain't into Gibson territory, by a long shot. But, nice try.
I'll agree, most educated Indians are conversant in English. However, to be comfortable, conversational Hindi and/or Kannada (for Bangalore) or Telugu (for Hyderabad) would be a major plus.
While I'm sure your rationale for avoiding US engineers is working for you now, it reminded me of a Doonesbury cartoon from 1991. Which of these characters best fits your position .....?
CEO: [spells out the corporate advantages of laying off their development staff, bringing them back as on-call consultants.]
VP: "Sounds like a good deal for us."
CEO: "What do you mean, 'us'?"
Of course, just because Philips patents it doesn't mean that the FCC will sign off on it, or the networks will use it. Imagine how pissed off viewers would get if they can't speed through the channels to see what lights their fire. It would render remotes virtually useless.
I hear Google spiders pages. Rather than hammer some idiot's 'lux goodes' site, why not search for and surf to the frickin' OEM? This player is just a one-off for a zillionare.
The USAF ate plenty of humble pie figuring that out in Vietnam, and usually hopes to supress the SAMs with ECM and targeting launch sites, so that they can take their sweet time at altitude.
If USAF gets into a situation where they can't supress the SAMs, they'll probably start taking their chances with the AAA.
Better late than never. If there's no problem, no problem, which would be nice to know. If there is a problem, the US needs to react to it. Consider it an unintentional consequence of the wholesale offshoring of US (or for that matter, all of the OECD's) manufacturing to cheap labor markets. It's an uncontrolled economics experiment for a major economic power to suddenly switch to having someone else make all of their shit for them. Who knew that not only would the "market" sell the rope that hung them, they would outsource rope making to the hangman.
Looks like Clancy needs to update one of his opus', in which an agent slips the Chinese Politboro an 0wn3d laptop.
Between the ISS and Shuttle ops, 40% of the budget goes to Lock-Mart and Boeing just to keep the ISS' lights on. Then 25% for technologies to support the Moon/Mars plan.
The remaining 35% ($5.3 bil) for space science can only go so far. Got existing missions to support/complete. Plus, this Administration ain't too hot on Earth science missions. The data returned tends to include a lot of climatology data they don't want to hear about, so it's cheaper to not collect the data in the first place, rather than twist researchers' arms after the fact.
Go back to AR, shill. Wal-Mart is FORCED to sell brand-name goods at MSRP in some cases because of very strong brand names. Saunter into the personal music player section. Notice that, particularly after Xmas, the iPods have been pretty well cleared off the shelves, while the racks still groan under the weight of Phillips, RCA, and other MP3 players. At the moment, if they don't offer iPods, they basically won't sell MP3 players, so they're forced to sell at pretty much the same price as everyone else.
For other goods where they've got the suppliers by the balls, if the product isn't currently crap, it soon will be.
In general, there'd be a lot of whitelists to join for outsiders wanting into Iran, Saudi, etc, and DNS remapping for getting between places like the PRC and the US. Anyone not mapped wouldn't exist. How hard it would be to get mapped would differ depending on the politics of the case.
"The globalization of IT is an opportunity. [..blah, blah.] The good news is that the next generation of IT professionals will find a global job market with opportunities to live and work in many different countries."
Where does this idiot live, the EU? Out here in the rest of the world, there's this thing called nation-states, which use arbitrary concepts like citizenship, immigration laws, and work permits to control who gets to play in their labor pool. That these won't apply to anyone starting college now, or 20 years from now is a WSJ wet-dream.
Mr. Mitchell is talking out of his ass, and this claim leaves the rest of his propaganda piece suspect.