It sounds like they are studying the effect of having intelligent nodes in a network that not just forwards a packet, but also performs error correction, has some basic path intelligence, and sends the packet out multiple interfaces. The end node then receives these hybrid packets from different directions, some coming faster, some later, developing a map with the most efficient path.
The eternal wheel of IT endlessly rotates old ideas into newness. Interpret that as either my mostly new source route bridged SDLC mainframe network in the early 90s or my decaying decrepit X.25 network in the late 90s. I played with some stuff like that using AX.25 as the phy layer around 1990. We had tools and papers and equations back then to analyze.
Did you know you can make networks like that oscillate if you're not careful? We also collapsed a few accidentally by packet flooding beyond a certain hard threshold. Also the behavior of an intelligent network of identical clones is easy to predict and damn near impossible if some of the clones are different in even the slightest way, not just different mfgr but even minor software revisions causing different bugs, but even improvements making some faster than others or removing bugs from some devices can cause collapse. Another fun one is trying to give a holographic picture of the routing to all nodes ends up in 90s era OSPF collapse when there's just too dang much in one area for it to ever converge. Another fun situation is when processing the routing data takes longer than sending the routing data (more or less similar to the previously mentioned OSPF collapse scenario)
Everything old, is new again... Personally I'm waiting for something like 3725 communication controllers to come back in vogue, kinda like akamai or anycast root DNS servers but did distributed back end also, not just front end caching.... a cool and weird tech.
Don't confuse him with Ward Christensen, another early computer networking pioneer. I wonder how many people ask Cunningham about his invention of the BBS and the invention of xmodem.
Ah but GOOG voice forwarding is free and always works, so I have no reason to get rid of them. There are other providers who can be ported away from GOOG if it ever becomes necessary. I'm using less voice every year so I could just get rid of "my" number.
The point is phone number termination and forwarding to a handset is, or can be, decoupled from handset access to the network.
I remember back in 93 when I had a home SLIP account to the internet with my own personal static ip address, and I was kinda pissed when it went away in '95 or '96 or whatever and I had a crappy dynamic address via PPP. But I got over it eventually and its not so big of a deal after awhile.
In some industries you can pretty well predict the future. In others.. no.
One app I built years ago would have literally required geographic changes to expand. Then "surprise" it gets rolled out to 5 additional bigger cities. Well, that was unexpected... I had a O(n**2) algorithm in there that did pretty well for values of N around 7 where N can never increase beyond 7, but not so good for values of N around 57. whoops.
The timing of this announcement causes me to think there is something else going on
GM earnings release last week 5/4 or something like that. GM doesn't ask me for permission, and I have no inside information, but I was once dumb enough to own some GM stock in the 90s and they seem to "do big stuff" a couple weeks after quarterlies. Makes sense in a way, announce last period's results, start making changes for next period. You'd think they'd be better off announcing changes the same day as financials get released but maybe its a "keep yourself in the news" strategy or whatever.
GM sold only 2.5 million cars last year (they are a dying company, that is about half what they sold in the 90s, in fact pretty much the bailout destroyed about half their sales) That is $16 of facebook costs per car sold. So you could have a "rebate" where anyone who "likes" GM on FB gets a $15 coupon to print out. Personally I think it would be hilarious if new buyers were given the option of paying an extra $15 per car to not have them advertise on FB, just to generate buzzzzzz
Gas is really cheap. For what my young male cousin is paying in monthly car insurance, despite having a clean record, he could fill up almost weekly and drive about one thousand miles per month, or about 30 miles per day, which is actually a hell of a lot of driving. Just for the cost of insurance alone.
Of course he also has to pay for the car itself, and maintenance and afford to pay for whatever it is he's driving to, unless he's just cruising or getting into trouble with friends ($20/person average movie cost, shopping, blah blah).
Gas is probably the cheapest cost of owning a car.
I once owned an ISP that put up a large ad in the pre-show slides at the movie theatre. It worked great for a year, as shown by the survey on our signup form. However, after a year went by, it seems that we had either exhausted that demographic, or the slides were broken (the few movies I went to seemed to support the latter). We shifted that advertising money elsewhere.
Hmm lets think about this, get an internet account to download movies, so advertise at theater, what could go wrong... Although I'm guessing unless you owned a cable company you were doing 28.8 tops and movie downloading was not an issue.
I haven't seen the Scion commercial and I'm not native English speaker, but is the babe really doing donuts, not making them?:-)
Careful, native english speakers (well, the guys anyway) would probably interpret a babe "doing" donuts as insertion fantasies involving phallic shaped donuts, or maybe something involving "cream filling". Hmm, that kind of commercial might actually motivate me to buy donuts, some company should try that marketing angle. Think of "doing" in the context of "your mom" jokes, that kind of thing.
I think the OP meant eating donuts vs driving a car really fast in a circle. Much more boring.
Back to the original topic, I would not be surprised if "pr0n on 4chan involving car in background" is not being paid for by car mfgr, product placement and all that. I wonder how often that occurs. How "sharpie company" is paying them is a mystery.
$30 million isn't as much as it seems when taking into account operating costs, salaries, consultant fees, and other expenses.
OK divide it out. I'm not on FB so I can't directly comment, but a good metric might be posts per day. $30M is $82192 per day. I can't imagine following a feed with more than 10 posts per day, unless its a pr0n star posting pics or something, too spammy. So thats $8219.20 per post.
Someone in India would make spam posts for maybe $0.01 each, but they would be terrible. So stand on a street corner at a university with a stack of $20 bills and give one to each marketing major who makes a decent post. That leaves $8199.20 per post for executive bonuses.
I checked some graphics artist freelance rates and they seem to charge about $75/hr. 10 posts per day is 2.4 hours work per post. So one dude (more realistically you need 5 dudes for 24 hour 7 day week coverage of a slot) could do all the work for $180 per post. That leaves a mere $80392 per day left over for the office slush fund, foozball tables, exec bonuses, etc. Honestly I think they're earning their $75/hr if they can think of ten interesting things to post, 365 days per year. I really like my ancient Saturn, but I'd run out of ideas the first week if not sooner.
2. Carrier, 2 year contracts to lock you in. Part of the issue is the "discounted" phones but the MAIN issue is the Carrier's WON'T give a discount on service if you buy your phone outright so you gain nothing by doing it.
Also no service discount after the 2 years are up. At least as of last time I had a contract phone, probably nearly a decade ago now.
I'm much more worried about fire or lightning or theft than about long term archival storage. Probably by the time the ink fades a kids year 2200 quantum cpu based ipod would be able to factor and crack the gpg key anyway. I have other offsite backup strategies too, this is just one way to backup a couple thousand bits. Guess whats printed and in my bank safe deposit box, for example. I'm not using thermal receipt paper, just toner on letter sized paper.
Also few people know you can mcrypt a gpg secret keyring. I mcrypt it before printing out, as if even 1 in 1e7 people would know what to do with my GPG keyring if they got it from me, anyway.
I would like to see the look on the face of a meth head who spends hours sledge hammering open my safe only to find pages of barcodes...
But the real story may be that programmers are never satisfied with the tool they have.
Ah typo
But the real story may be that programmers don't know how to store data
They many not know because no one knows the business needs, but more often because they have no idea what they're doing WRT to data storage.
IT training tends to cover data manipulation pretty well "how to add two numbers' IT training gets shakey on data structures "So, in junior level class we will talk about data structures, which is too bad because you've already developed at least two years of bad habits first" IT training tends to pretty much skip data storage "In a senior level class, you might talk about scalability, maybe in an optional class. Or maybe you'll take a semester of cobol instead"
This devolves into a mathematical tiling problem using different size qr codes. 8 one inch qr codes across vs 11 down, etc. The error correction level people tolerate is going to impact things..
Its very much like networking in many ways. So are you doing your error detection and correction on the wire, at the packet level, at the tcp/udp level, at a level above? with QRs you can do some error detection and correction inside the codes, and the next level up maybe as PAR2 files, then the next level up its storing a zip file, it can all get kinda wasteful.
What would be a use case for wanting to sit 2' away from your TV, poking it with your hand
Personal research shows the popularity of this activity seems to peak around age 3. I'm guessing this is going to do well as part of the next "Dora the Explorer" wii game. Probably not the right demographic for Saints Row 2013.
How bout AutoComputerMultimediaExtension? ACME? like the roadrunner cartoons?
No, the more I think about it, the "laptop that sits on a desk instead of a lap" should probably just be called "laptop 2.0" You know, for new trendy social media apps rather than the old laptop 1.0 paradigm. I'm thinking I could become a "laptop 2.0" social media consultant and help companies integrate this new hardware technology to replace their legacy tablet computing infrastructures. I know this was initially a solution for a drooling toddler, but most mid level cubie dwellers behave like spoiled toddlers anyway, including temper tantrums, so I'm thinking its a good fit in the modern business environment.
There's a fireproof safe bolted to the floor with my GPG keyring on it using something extremely close to this method.
My lazy ass solution was uuencode and uudecode because thats very easy to split at line breaks and I used somewhat smaller QR blocks since each line is short. Its no great achievement to put a GPG key on a couple sheets of paper... after all I can put darn near 4800 bytes of english text characters on each sheet so... if I was less lazy about packing the QR codes in...
A previous version involved simply PAR files with extremely high redundancy and uuencode the works and print it out and hope OCR doesn't fail me.
"Somebody" out there should make a dedicated android / iphone backup and restore app to print and scan tiny, yet important, data files like this. Assuming it's not already been done. I suppose I'm missing out on becoming the next facebook IPO by posting this instead of monetizing this.
"sheet of paper filesystem" or "sheet of paper enclosure format" or whatever.
We were thinking of getting Baby 2.0 to see if the problem has been fixed, but the delivery time is outrageous!
Instead of having one employee work on it, just assign nine, and guaranteed it'll be done nine times faster; maybe even faster with synergy. Don't they teach anything at MBA school anymore?
Why didn't my ask slashdot submission get accepted? I'm looking for a good way to copy my files from the computer in my living room to the computer in my bedroom without using wireless internet. Any ideas?
Noobs. Us old timers know everything. Use the unix "split" command to make a bunch of little 2 kilobyte files, turn each into 40-L QR code each of which holds about 2900 bytes, print those bastards, hand carry or armed courier or military gunship escorted transport chopper, whatever is needed in your situation to approach the bedroom, then feed the QR codes thru ye olde sheet feeder scanner and use unix "cat" command to merge the binaries together. If you're really leet you'd use PAR files but I can be arsed to figure out the options to split down to 2 K. Bonus, it uses linux. This is also a pretty good backup scheme. The bad news is I assume you're transferring blueray dvd pr0n rips downloaded from u****t so thats gonna be about seven million pages at one QR per page. Well, if you wanna be 'leet you gotta pay the price.
If only you could buy a box, that when plugged into a computer and peripherals, was just like a laptop, except it didn't use batteries and wasn't portable and was cheap. Why, I bet you could place a technological marvel like that on a desk, instead of on a lap like a laptop. I'm sure marketing can come up with a good name like the ideskbook or the desk-ster or the e-mini-desk or the deskr or maybe the socialdesk or something like that. Hmm like a laptop but instead of sitting on a lap it sits on a desk... what could that be called... Naw I got nothin' Sorry. Good luck dude!
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It sounds like they are studying the effect of having intelligent nodes in a network that not just forwards a packet, but also performs error correction, has some basic path intelligence, and sends the packet out multiple interfaces. The end node then receives these hybrid packets from different directions, some coming faster, some later, developing a map with the most efficient path.
The eternal wheel of IT endlessly rotates old ideas into newness. Interpret that as either my mostly new source route bridged SDLC mainframe network in the early 90s or my decaying decrepit X.25 network in the late 90s. I played with some stuff like that using AX.25 as the phy layer around 1990. We had tools and papers and equations back then to analyze.
Did you know you can make networks like that oscillate if you're not careful? We also collapsed a few accidentally by packet flooding beyond a certain hard threshold. Also the behavior of an intelligent network of identical clones is easy to predict and damn near impossible if some of the clones are different in even the slightest way, not just different mfgr but even minor software revisions causing different bugs, but even improvements making some faster than others or removing bugs from some devices can cause collapse. Another fun one is trying to give a holographic picture of the routing to all nodes ends up in 90s era OSPF collapse when there's just too dang much in one area for it to ever converge. Another fun situation is when processing the routing data takes longer than sending the routing data (more or less similar to the previously mentioned OSPF collapse scenario)
Everything old, is new again... Personally I'm waiting for something like 3725 communication controllers to come back in vogue, kinda like akamai or anycast root DNS servers but did distributed back end also, not just front end caching.... a cool and weird tech.
Don't confuse him with Ward Christensen, another early computer networking pioneer. I wonder how many people ask Cunningham about his invention of the BBS and the invention of xmodem.
Ah but GOOG voice forwarding is free and always works, so I have no reason to get rid of them.
There are other providers who can be ported away from GOOG if it ever becomes necessary.
I'm using less voice every year so I could just get rid of "my" number.
The point is phone number termination and forwarding to a handset is, or can be, decoupled from handset access to the network.
I remember back in 93 when I had a home SLIP account to the internet with my own personal static ip address, and I was kinda pissed when it went away in '95 or '96 or whatever and I had a crappy dynamic address via PPP. But I got over it eventually and its not so big of a deal after awhile.
1) I know my business needs.
In some industries you can pretty well predict the future. In others.. no.
One app I built years ago would have literally required geographic changes to expand. Then "surprise" it gets rolled out to 5 additional bigger cities. Well, that was unexpected... I had a O(n**2) algorithm in there that did pretty well for values of N around 7 where N can never increase beyond 7, but not so good for values of N around 57. whoops.
The timing of this announcement causes me to think there is something else going on
GM earnings release last week 5/4 or something like that. GM doesn't ask me for permission, and I have no inside information, but I was once dumb enough to own some GM stock in the 90s and they seem to "do big stuff" a couple weeks after quarterlies. Makes sense in a way, announce last period's results, start making changes for next period. You'd think they'd be better off announcing changes the same day as financials get released but maybe its a "keep yourself in the news" strategy or whatever.
GM sold only 2.5 million cars last year (they are a dying company, that is about half what they sold in the 90s, in fact pretty much the bailout destroyed about half their sales)
That is $16 of facebook costs per car sold.
So you could have a "rebate" where anyone who "likes" GM on FB gets a $15 coupon to print out.
Personally I think it would be hilarious if new buyers were given the option of paying an extra $15 per car to not have them advertise on FB, just to generate buzzzzzz
Gas is really cheap. For what my young male cousin is paying in monthly car insurance, despite having a clean record, he could fill up almost weekly and drive about one thousand miles per month, or about 30 miles per day, which is actually a hell of a lot of driving. Just for the cost of insurance alone.
Of course he also has to pay for the car itself, and maintenance and afford to pay for whatever it is he's driving to, unless he's just cruising or getting into trouble with friends ($20/person average movie cost, shopping, blah blah).
Gas is probably the cheapest cost of owning a car.
I once owned an ISP that put up a large ad in the pre-show slides at the movie theatre. It worked great for a year, as shown by the survey on our signup form. However, after a year went by, it seems that we had either exhausted that demographic, or the slides were broken (the few movies I went to seemed to support the latter). We shifted that advertising money elsewhere.
Hmm lets think about this, get an internet account to download movies, so advertise at theater, what could go wrong... Although I'm guessing unless you owned a cable company you were doing 28.8 tops and movie downloading was not an issue.
I haven't seen the Scion commercial and I'm not native English speaker, but is the babe really doing donuts, not making them? :-)
Careful, native english speakers (well, the guys anyway) would probably interpret a babe "doing" donuts as insertion fantasies involving phallic shaped donuts, or maybe something involving "cream filling". Hmm, that kind of commercial might actually motivate me to buy donuts, some company should try that marketing angle. Think of "doing" in the context of "your mom" jokes, that kind of thing.
I think the OP meant eating donuts vs driving a car really fast in a circle. Much more boring.
Back to the original topic, I would not be surprised if "pr0n on 4chan involving car in background" is not being paid for by car mfgr, product placement and all that. I wonder how often that occurs. How "sharpie company" is paying them is a mystery.
$30 million isn't as much as it seems when taking into account operating costs, salaries, consultant fees, and other expenses.
OK divide it out. I'm not on FB so I can't directly comment, but a good metric might be posts per day. $30M is $82192 per day. I can't imagine following a feed with more than 10 posts per day, unless its a pr0n star posting pics or something, too spammy. So thats $8219.20 per post.
Someone in India would make spam posts for maybe $0.01 each, but they would be terrible. So stand on a street corner at a university with a stack of $20 bills and give one to each marketing major who makes a decent post. That leaves $8199.20 per post for executive bonuses.
I checked some graphics artist freelance rates and they seem to charge about $75/hr. 10 posts per day is 2.4 hours work per post. So one dude (more realistically you need 5 dudes for 24 hour 7 day week coverage of a slot) could do all the work for $180 per post. That leaves a mere $80392 per day left over for the office slush fund, foozball tables, exec bonuses, etc. Honestly I think they're earning their $75/hr if they can think of ten interesting things to post, 365 days per year. I really like my ancient Saturn, but I'd run out of ideas the first week if not sooner.
If I switch carriers, I lose my number.
My solution to a similar problem with a different cause was GOOG voice. Port it to GOOG and point GOOG to the new number.
After doing this I noticed how rarely "other people" call my cellphone for voice. Communication seems to have moved to email and social networks.
2. Carrier, 2 year contracts to lock you in. Part of the issue is the "discounted" phones but the MAIN issue is the Carrier's WON'T give a discount on service if you buy your phone outright so you gain nothing by doing it.
Also no service discount after the 2 years are up. At least as of last time I had a contract phone, probably nearly a decade ago now.
I'm much more worried about fire or lightning or theft than about long term archival storage. Probably by the time the ink fades a kids year 2200 quantum cpu based ipod would be able to factor and crack the gpg key anyway. I have other offsite backup strategies too, this is just one way to backup a couple thousand bits. Guess whats printed and in my bank safe deposit box, for example. I'm not using thermal receipt paper, just toner on letter sized paper.
Also few people know you can mcrypt a gpg secret keyring. I mcrypt it before printing out, as if even 1 in 1e7 people would know what to do with my GPG keyring if they got it from me, anyway.
I would like to see the look on the face of a meth head who spends hours sledge hammering open my safe only to find pages of barcodes...
But the real story may be that programmers are never satisfied with the tool they have.
Ah typo
But the real story may be that programmers don't know how to store data
They many not know because no one knows the business needs, but more often because they have no idea what they're doing WRT to data storage.
IT training tends to cover data manipulation pretty well "how to add two numbers'
IT training gets shakey on data structures "So, in junior level class we will talk about data structures, which is too bad because you've already developed at least two years of bad habits first"
IT training tends to pretty much skip data storage "In a senior level class, you might talk about scalability, maybe in an optional class. Or maybe you'll take a semester of cobol instead"
Sounds like they are using a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Wombs.
Yeah but you lose more than you gain due to increased anti-virus requirements.
This devolves into a mathematical tiling problem using different size qr codes. 8 one inch qr codes across vs 11 down, etc.
The error correction level people tolerate is going to impact things..
Its very much like networking in many ways. So are you doing your error detection and correction on the wire, at the packet level, at the tcp/udp level, at a level above? with QRs you can do some error detection and correction inside the codes, and the next level up maybe as PAR2 files, then the next level up its storing a zip file, it can all get kinda wasteful.
As soon as I get home tonight, this is happening.
Baby 2.0? Assigning 8 more women to the task? Come on man, clarify
What would be a use case for wanting to sit 2' away from your TV, poking it with your hand
Personal research shows the popularity of this activity seems to peak around age 3.
I'm guessing this is going to do well as part of the next "Dora the Explorer" wii game.
Probably not the right demographic for Saints Row 2013.
How bout AutoComputerMultimediaExtension? ACME? like the roadrunner cartoons?
No, the more I think about it, the "laptop that sits on a desk instead of a lap" should probably just be called "laptop 2.0" You know, for new trendy social media apps rather than the old laptop 1.0 paradigm. I'm thinking I could become a "laptop 2.0" social media consultant and help companies integrate this new hardware technology to replace their legacy tablet computing infrastructures. I know this was initially a solution for a drooling toddler, but most mid level cubie dwellers behave like spoiled toddlers anyway, including temper tantrums, so I'm thinking its a good fit in the modern business environment.
There's a fireproof safe bolted to the floor with my GPG keyring on it using something extremely close to this method.
My lazy ass solution was uuencode and uudecode because thats very easy to split at line breaks and I used somewhat smaller QR blocks since each line is short. Its no great achievement to put a GPG key on a couple sheets of paper... after all I can put darn near 4800 bytes of english text characters on each sheet so... if I was less lazy about packing the QR codes in...
A previous version involved simply PAR files with extremely high redundancy and uuencode the works and print it out and hope OCR doesn't fail me.
"Somebody" out there should make a dedicated android / iphone backup and restore app to print and scan tiny, yet important, data files like this. Assuming it's not already been done. I suppose I'm missing out on becoming the next facebook IPO by posting this instead of monetizing this.
"sheet of paper filesystem" or "sheet of paper enclosure format" or whatever.
no chatroulette jokes? no rickroll jokes? /. going downhill.
yeah that's what happened to JP Morgan. Oh no wait you're talking about that old commercial. Same difference.
We were thinking of getting Baby 2.0 to see if the problem has been fixed, but the delivery time is outrageous!
Instead of having one employee work on it, just assign nine, and guaranteed it'll be done nine times faster; maybe even faster with synergy. Don't they teach anything at MBA school anymore?
Why didn't my ask slashdot submission get accepted? I'm looking for a good way to copy my files from the computer in my living room to the computer in my bedroom without using wireless internet. Any ideas?
Noobs. Us old timers know everything. Use the unix "split" command to make a bunch of little 2 kilobyte files, turn each into 40-L QR code each of which holds about 2900 bytes, print those bastards, hand carry or armed courier or military gunship escorted transport chopper, whatever is needed in your situation to approach the bedroom, then feed the QR codes thru ye olde sheet feeder scanner and use unix "cat" command to merge the binaries together. If you're really leet you'd use PAR files but I can be arsed to figure out the options to split down to 2 K. Bonus, it uses linux. This is also a pretty good backup scheme. The bad news is I assume you're transferring blueray dvd pr0n rips downloaded from u****t so thats gonna be about seven million pages at one QR per page. Well, if you wanna be 'leet you gotta pay the price.
this must be the lamest ask /. I've ever seen.
If only you could buy a box, that when plugged into a computer and peripherals, was just like a laptop, except it didn't use batteries and wasn't portable and was cheap. Why, I bet you could place a technological marvel like that on a desk, instead of on a lap like a laptop. I'm sure marketing can come up with a good name like the ideskbook or the desk-ster or the e-mini-desk or the deskr or maybe the socialdesk or something like that. Hmm like a laptop but instead of sitting on a lap it sits on a desk... what could that be called... Naw I got nothin' Sorry. Good luck dude!