I always thought a CEO should know as much as possible about what is going on in his/her firm. Sounds like this guy thinks that way too. And he does it HIMSELF, not via his admin assistant. Some CEOs couldn't even turn on a Blackberry, and others don't give a rat's ass what is going on as long as they get thier way and thier bonuses.
The downside of actually reading his email is that he can't say "I didn't know" if the Feds come asking questions about his company's actions or financial statements.
Employees shouldn't be dropping him emails when the towels are out in the restroom. Only really imporant issues/crises should be sent to him.
You can send a package first class mail. If you want to pay the postage. FedEx does not handle first class LETTERS to be technically correct. Since FedEx is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for USPS packages and USPS packages are cheaper than FedEx, I use USPS a lot more now. I can send up to 3 lbs overnight for like $12-15 buck USPS versus about $22 for FedEx. Of course my USPS doesn't make it by 10AM or my money back. Time is money:)
Actually FedEx has one of the trucking contracts to deliver Bulk USMail from town to town. FedEx was NOT prohibted, it couldn't make money at the rate the USPS charged. Notice since USPS has gone private postage has gone up each year?
FedEx and UPS will deliver almost anywhere. It just won't be there overnight. I have relatives who live the backside of nowhere town in Texas and they get FedEx and UPS just fine. If you got a street address and live in the USA your package will get to you. If you live in Backwoods, Alaska it will be dropped at the nearest town, but then again so will your USPS mail at the nearest Post Office.
Ever heard of touring? Bands that tour make a LOT more money and get great exposure. It's not as easy as going into the studio but it works. All they need is a booking agent, an RV or two, and that don't mean a big record label. Without a label it might take longer to get to the top but when you get there YOU make the biggest cut of the money not the label.
Major labels gamble all the time on talent, most of the time they are WRONG. Which is why no one buys the crap they put out at the assinine prices they want. If they had TALENTED artists people would not gripe so much about the costs.
Government contracts are very rarely sole sourced (i.e. without competition) unless their is only 1 company that can meet the specifications such as clearances, ownership, technology, etc.. There are books full of regultations (called FAR and DFAR) that must be applied to level the playing field. Your oblique reference is to Halliburton's work in Iraq. Halliburton was the only US company that could do the work required on the scale required (other companies could but were not US firms...that eliminated them).
Read the comments in the code. It says if protothreads call other C routines and when in that context the called routine blocks then things don't work right.
Explicit scheduling is NOT pre-emptive, it's static. It can be priority driven though as is pre-emptive. Pre-emptive is dynamic based on operating conditions such as a user input, interrupt, etc. I've never seen a lot of overhead on task/thread changes in an OS in many years.
Producer- Consumer tasks have to be very tightly coupled and managed unless you use some type of semaphore (i.e. primitves as you call them) to manage who has control of the resource. Personally, I prefer semaphores versus co-routines, it's a heck of a lot easier to debug. Tightly coupled routines are not considered good Software practices. If you are running this under the priority of a system thread then are you really gaining anything? I'd prefer things be simple and just make it a small thread of it's own instead of a proto-thread.
Memory these days is cheap, small and fast as are CPUs. Why waste a lot of labor on this "really cool" implementation which IMO will be dam hard to maintain and debug? Now back when I had 2K of RAM for all data AND Stack I had to be concerned, but then hardware was expensive, slow and tricky and my time was cheap:)
It is bound to a paticular KIND of OS. This code would not work right in a pre-emptive multi-tasking OS unless it was the highest priority task. It works best without an OS as it makes it's own blocking.
I read his paper where he said "writing an event-driven system is hard". I guess he has never heard of a using Finite State Automata for the design? State machines are very simple to program. An event driven system is not at all hard to write, although you often times do have to have some deep hardware and/or procesor knowledge to do it well. I wrote many of them in the 1980's when I did embedded C code for DOD work, although I have not done so in quite a few years. Once Ada came along everyone abandoned C as too obtuse for embedded work for the DOD. I once did benchmarks that showed decent C code without strong optimization outperformed Ada code, but C was dead already in their minds. I'm glad to see some folks are still interested in it on the commercial side of programming. After all we can't write everything in Java;)
You can't mix licenses with Sun. IF you write code for them it MUST be under their license. You could never GPL it.
I have problems with Software Patents too, anyone who doesn't it pretty dumb about software and patents and certainly has not been keeping up with the MS Patent crap. IPR -- Intellectual Property Rights? The GPL has no problems with that. All rights belong to the person who wrote the code.
Just keep on beleiving all those good things about Sun. I'm staying the hell away from OpenSolaris and advising my clients to do so also.
"Licensable by Initial Developer[SUN], to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Original Software (or portions thereof), with or without Modifications, and/or as part of a Larger Work..."
That means SUN holds the re-use license not you when you contribute back. And they don't have to pay for a license. That was one of the big sticking points with developers. It also means Sun could move it to other (non-free) versions of Solaris and not owe you a cent. If you are OK with working for free for a big company that can well afford to pay you then go ahead. Or you may prefer the GPL model.
The GPL doesn't require you give up any of your rights to the code when you contribute it. Of course the GPL doesn't mean you will get paid either but you can enforce your copyright if someone takes you code and sells it w/o your consent.
OSI and GPL are two competing Open Source licenses. I'm never heard of any others.
It's NOT really open source. "OpenSolaris" is NOT released under the GPL. Search Groklaw for some articles about that. Basically if you change the code, you have to give it back to Sun who will then decide if it wants to release it to the public, and Sun retains all ownership of the code. That's what I recall, but there was a lot of talk about it on Groklaw a couple months ago.
If all you are doing is TEXT like spreadsheets/word processing you don't need to worry about which way you do it. With the bandwidth most people have now, repainting isn't a problem. HTTP isn't the most compact protocol either.
I didn't say they were dumb terminals. I said the CONCEPT was nothing new. The implementation is of the UI is quite different. We didn't have GUIs back in the 80's (OK, we had early Macs but no Client/Server GUIs till X.11 came along) so that is an advancement for the users. I'm all for taking old stuff, adding new things and making it useful again (reuse rocks if done well) Just don't claim originality. Most/.'ers are "kids" who don't even remember the days of "green-screens".
If what is going to happen is the apps will be downloaded and memory resident on the LOCAL machine, calling back to the server to get new things as needed then that *IS* a bit of a new twist for these types of applications. I know you can run client side Java apps but they are not full up word processors or the like. But I've seen nothing that says that is the way it will be done. If someone has information on the way they will implement the idea I'd love to see it.
The files should be secure as they should be on your local disk with your security level. Of course that knocks out the diskless/PDA client option, so they may have a desktop and a "mobile" version at some point.
They don't run the search engines on it. I know that. Perhaps they use it for other areas within the business. I wouldn't swap Linux for Solaris (even the open FREE version). Now maybe if Sun allowed me to "tweak" things a bit I'd test it out and see if it was worth the switch. I could see Sun server easier than Solaris as the servers will run Linux.
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"no harm, no foul" theory is exactly the argument made frequently...
The argument made most frequently is how somone enjoys screwing the RIAA. There is "harm" of a kind, I think everyone knows that. It is WHO the harm occurs to (a "evil" entity called RIAA) that justifies the action.
The tort is probably conversion not theft (theft is criminal). Conversion means to take something that is not your and use it like it was yours. That is pretty much the case with "ripping" music. When you buy a CD you implicitly enter a contract based on copyright law. However, SOME places you cannot enter into an implicit contract and you can't enter ANY contract as a minor.
Nitpicking..:) Radio has been around since the 1920's and that reached a VERY broad audience at one time. How they solved copyright was a "pay per play" fee to ASCAP which then sent it on to the artists. It was not (and still is not) a lot, maybe 25 cents per play. I really don't see any reason why that idea couldn't be copied. In fact thats pretty much what iTunes does, and thats why the RIAA hates it. Personally I think the $$$ should go to the artist, and not be a 90/10 cut to the record companies. Just wait until some hot new artist puts thier content distribution EXCLUSIVELY on the Internet (radio stations download it to play..still pay fee per play as they are a COMMERCIAL interest) such as iTunes where fans get it cheap but the biggest cut goes to the artist.
Well, most big companies don't sign partnership agreements for the purposes of just looking cool. Google doesn't run Solaris (they use Linux), nor do they use Sun servers (they use cheap white boxes). So, why else would they "partner" with Sun? Google isn't going to swap our the OS on 1000's of servers even if Solaris was FREE, nor are they going to switch hardware. SO...what else does Sun have to offer, StarOffice which competes with MS-Office. It's been pretty obvious Google is targeting MS, since they hired away the guy (Dr. Lee) who was helping MS develop thier strategy for the worlds biggest market (China) until he fell into disfavor with Bill and/or Steve.
But really using apps over the network is NOT I repeat NOT new. When I started in software in the early 1980s all we had were cheap green-screen Televideo 9600 buad terminals hardwired to a mainframe (or VAX in some cases) server. All the applications ran on the server. This is just an "upgrade" to 1980s technology, with a nicer user interface. I'm not impressed with the idea, but I am glad someone is after MS. INMHO, competition is good and produces better products for less.
With a population that size I'll bet you are right. I too call BS on this test. If they said 165 per second to every cell tower zone I might beleive that. If one cell is zapping out 1000's of messages you know they are going to throttle it or take it down. Problem is if you get a group of people doing the slamming THEN you might clog the system.
Wow, we go from Texas to anti-semetic slurs. The indictment has been dropped. The orginal indictment tolled the statue, you can't charge someone under new laws for what they did BEFORE the law was passed. Earl is desperate, and he has taken the cheapest of cheap shots. The man obviously is playing to his base. I wouldn't be surprised to see him run for something other than DA in the near future. Mark my words, the indictments WILL be thrown out just as sure as the sun rises in the East.
This sh*t happens all the time here in TX on the local and state level (Hell, we can't have an City Council election w/o someone claiming "money laundering" or "voter fraud") and it never goes to court. Even when they got the REAL goods (like on some city council crooks in Dallas) it never reached a jury. This stuff is very, very hard to prove on any half-competent political "machine" of any party.
That's the Fischer-Tropsch process to take coal and convert/refine into high octane gasoline. It was invented in Germany in the 1920's. Fischer was awarded the Nobel in Chemistry (1902) but not for for this idea. South Afica makes most of thier gasoline this way still since they adopted the process when embargoed in the 1980s for Apartheid. SA has lots of coal but not much oil. Sasol and Shell are using the process today to make gasoline from coal in SA and from natural gas in Malaysia. It's quite a good process, very scalable to industrial use. Why we don't use it in the USA I don't know as we also have plenty of coal.
MS and the RIAA is like two spoiled kids fighting over something. Each wants it but wants it even more so that the other CAN'T get it. What's a billion or two between two slowly dying virtual monopolies.
Get fucking real and smell the smoke. Ronnie Earl goes after Republicans ONLY when they become big names. Nice strawman, but Ronnie Earl's home county (Travis) in TX is about 90% Democrat so it make sense he would mostly prosecute Democrats. He went after Kay Bailey Hutchison when she was first elected to the Senate using the SAME tactics and lost. He wants Delay convicted to appease his constituents in liberal haven Travis County (where the sources of all that Bush National Guard stuff that proved to be make came from) who can't get something on GWB. For Christ sake, Earl had a FILM crew following him making a movie about this, and that's NOT grandstanding? Earl indicted and shook down companies (P&G, Wendy's and others) that LEGALLY contributed to Republican candidates by offering to drop the indictments and fines if they would contribute to his friends' (at UT) "research project" on how big bad companies donate to political campaigns. He wanted more "donations" than the fines would have been! That is extortion and/or blackmail and if he is going to take Delay to a Grand Jury someone should return the favor. Go read the indictments and go read election law, Delay did NOTHING wrong. You may argue the laws are screwy ( and I'd agree) but they are what they are. A good DA can get a Grand Jury to indict just about anything but proving it is a whole 'nother story.
"We cannot do anything with light approaching phase shift modulation, spread spectrum techniques"
Really? Google these terms and see what you get. PSM of Lasers can certainly be done. And I'll wager you a good deal of $$$ that there is quite extensive research in all of these areas in the Defense industry and telecom. If they can filter comb light in frequency [part of the reason they won the Nobel] then spread spectrum is possible. Possible is NOT equal practical. Practical has to be low cost and sturdy, etc. that may take some time to get here. The first transistors were not practical but look where we are 40 years later.
Aren't you running your Enterpise DBs on a SAN or NAS? You still got local RAID on the boxes? When you move to BladeServers are you going to let the BladeCenter do the balancing on the Blades in the box (and CPUs on a blade) or are you still going to use a front end load balancer? Ever thought of doing software load balancing using Websphere to spread a big Java application across several instances of Websphere on different boxes? You could load balance to the subnet of Websphere platforms and let Websphere do the rest.
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I always thought a CEO should know as much as possible about what is going on in his/her firm. Sounds like this guy thinks that way too. And he does it HIMSELF, not via his admin assistant. Some CEOs couldn't even turn on a Blackberry, and others don't give a rat's ass what is going on as long as they get thier way and thier bonuses.
The downside of actually reading his email is that he can't say "I didn't know" if the Feds come asking questions about his company's actions or financial statements.
Employees shouldn't be dropping him emails when the towels are out in the restroom. Only really imporant issues/crises should be sent to him.
You can send a package first class mail. If you want to pay the postage. FedEx does not handle first class LETTERS to be technically correct. Since FedEx is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for USPS packages and USPS packages are cheaper than FedEx, I use USPS a lot more now. I can send up to 3 lbs overnight for like $12-15 buck USPS versus about $22 for FedEx. Of course my USPS doesn't make it by 10AM or my money back. Time is money :)
Actually FedEx has one of the trucking contracts to deliver Bulk USMail from town to town. FedEx was NOT prohibted, it couldn't make money at the rate the USPS charged. Notice since USPS has gone private postage has gone up each year?
FedEx and UPS will deliver almost anywhere. It just won't be there overnight. I have relatives who live the backside of nowhere town in Texas and they get FedEx and UPS just fine. If you got a street address and live in the USA your package will get to you. If you live in Backwoods, Alaska it will be dropped at the nearest town, but then again so will your USPS mail at the nearest Post Office.
Ever heard of touring? Bands that tour make a LOT more money and get great exposure. It's not as easy as going into the studio but it works. All they need is a booking agent, an RV or two, and that don't mean a big record label. Without a label it might take longer to get to the top but when you get there YOU make the biggest cut of the money not the label.
Major labels gamble all the time on talent, most of the time they are WRONG. Which is why no one buys the crap they put out at the assinine prices they want. If they had TALENTED artists people would not gripe so much about the costs.
Government contracts are very rarely sole sourced (i.e. without competition) unless their is only 1 company that can meet the specifications such as clearances, ownership, technology, etc.. There are books full of regultations (called FAR and DFAR) that must be applied to level the playing field. Your oblique reference is to Halliburton's work in Iraq. Halliburton was the only US company that could do the work required on the scale required (other companies could but were not US firms...that eliminated them).
Read the comments in the code. It says if protothreads call other C routines and when in that context the called routine blocks then things don't work right.
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Explicit scheduling is NOT pre-emptive, it's static. It can be priority driven though as is pre-emptive. Pre-emptive is dynamic based on operating conditions such as a user input, interrupt, etc. I've never seen a lot of overhead on task/thread changes in an OS in many years.
Producer- Consumer tasks have to be very tightly coupled and managed unless you use some type of semaphore (i.e. primitves as you call them) to manage who has control of the resource. Personally, I prefer semaphores versus co-routines, it's a heck of a lot easier to debug. Tightly coupled routines are not considered good Software practices. If you are running this under the priority of a system thread then are you really gaining anything? I'd prefer things be simple and just make it a small thread of it's own instead of a proto-thread.
Memory these days is cheap, small and fast as are CPUs. Why waste a lot of labor on this "really cool" implementation which IMO will be dam hard to maintain and debug? Now back when I had 2K of RAM for all data AND Stack I had to be concerned, but then hardware was expensive, slow and tricky and my time was cheap
It is bound to a paticular KIND of OS. This code would not work right in a pre-emptive multi-tasking OS unless it was the highest priority task. It works best without an OS as it makes it's own blocking.
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I read his paper where he said "writing an event-driven system is hard". I guess he has never heard of a using Finite State Automata for the design? State machines are very simple to program. An event driven system is not at all hard to write, although you often times do have to have some deep hardware and/or procesor knowledge to do it well. I wrote many of them in the 1980's when I did embedded C code for DOD work, although I have not done so in quite a few years. Once Ada came along everyone abandoned C as too obtuse for embedded work for the DOD. I once did benchmarks that showed decent C code without strong optimization outperformed Ada code, but C was dead already in their minds. I'm glad to see some folks are still interested in it on the commercial side of programming. After all we can't write everything in Java
You can't mix licenses with Sun. IF you write code for them it MUST be under their license. You could never GPL it.
I have problems with Software Patents too, anyone who doesn't it pretty dumb about software and patents and certainly has not been keeping up with the MS Patent crap. IPR -- Intellectual Property Rights? The GPL has no problems with that. All rights belong to the person who wrote the code.
Just keep on beleiving all those good things about Sun. I'm staying the hell away from OpenSolaris and advising my clients to do so also.
"Licensable by Initial Developer[SUN], to use, reproduce, modify, display, perform, sublicense and distribute the Original Software (or portions thereof), with or without Modifications, and/or as part of a Larger Work..."
That means SUN holds the re-use license not you when you contribute back. And they don't have to pay for a license. That was one of the big sticking points with developers. It also means Sun could move it to other (non-free) versions of Solaris and not owe you a cent. If you are OK with working for free for a big company that can well afford to pay you then go ahead. Or you may prefer the GPL model.
The GPL doesn't require you give up any of your rights to the code when you contribute it. Of course the GPL doesn't mean you will get paid either but you can enforce your copyright if someone takes you code and sells it w/o your consent.
OSI and GPL are two competing Open Source licenses. I'm never heard of any others.
It's NOT really open source. "OpenSolaris" is NOT released under the GPL. Search Groklaw for some articles about that. Basically if you change the code, you have to give it back to Sun who will then decide if it wants to release it to the public, and Sun retains all ownership of the code. That's what I recall, but there was a lot of talk about it on Groklaw a couple months ago.
If all you are doing is TEXT like spreadsheets/word processing you don't need to worry about which way you do it. With the bandwidth most people have now, repainting isn't a problem. HTTP isn't the most compact protocol either.
/.'ers are "kids" who don't even remember the days of "green-screens".
I didn't say they were dumb terminals. I said the CONCEPT was nothing new. The implementation is of the UI is quite different. We didn't have GUIs back in the 80's (OK, we had early Macs but no Client/Server GUIs till X.11 came along) so that is an advancement for the users. I'm all for taking old stuff, adding new things and making it useful again (reuse rocks if done well) Just don't claim originality. Most
If what is going to happen is the apps will be downloaded and memory resident on the LOCAL machine, calling back to the server to get new things as needed then that *IS* a bit of a new twist for these types of applications. I know you can run client side Java apps but they are not full up word processors or the like. But I've seen nothing that says that is the way it will be done. If someone has information on the way they will implement the idea I'd love to see it.
The files should be secure as they should be on your local disk with your security level. Of course that knocks out the diskless/PDA client option, so they may have a desktop and a "mobile" version at some point.
They don't run the search engines on it. I know that. Perhaps they use it for other areas within the business. I wouldn't swap Linux for Solaris (even the open FREE version). Now maybe if Sun allowed me to "tweak" things a bit I'd test it out and see if it was worth the switch. I could see Sun server easier than Solaris as the servers will run Linux.
"no harm, no foul" theory is exactly the argument made frequently...
The argument made most frequently is how somone enjoys screwing the RIAA. There is "harm" of a kind, I think everyone knows that. It is WHO the harm occurs to (a "evil" entity called RIAA) that justifies the action.
The tort is probably conversion not theft (theft is criminal). Conversion means to take something that is not your and use it like it was yours. That is pretty much the case with "ripping" music. When you buy a CD you implicitly enter a contract based on copyright law. However, SOME places you cannot enter into an implicit contract and you can't enter ANY contract as a minor.
Nitpicking..:) Radio has been around since the 1920's and that reached a VERY broad audience at one time. How they solved copyright was a "pay per play" fee to ASCAP which then sent it on to the artists. It was not (and still is not) a lot, maybe 25 cents per play. I really don't see any reason why that idea couldn't be copied. In fact thats pretty much what iTunes does, and thats why the RIAA hates it. Personally I think the $$$ should go to the artist, and not be a 90/10 cut to the record companies. Just wait until some hot new artist puts thier content distribution EXCLUSIVELY on the Internet (radio stations download it to play..still pay fee per play as they are a COMMERCIAL interest) such as iTunes where fans get it cheap but the biggest cut goes to the artist.
Well, most big companies don't sign partnership agreements for the purposes of just looking cool. Google doesn't run Solaris (they use Linux), nor do they use Sun servers (they use cheap white boxes). So, why else would they "partner" with Sun? Google isn't going to swap our the OS on 1000's of servers even if Solaris was FREE, nor are they going to switch hardware. SO...what else does Sun have to offer, StarOffice which competes with MS-Office. It's been pretty obvious Google is targeting MS, since they hired away the guy (Dr. Lee) who was helping MS develop thier strategy for the worlds biggest market (China) until he fell into disfavor with Bill and/or Steve.
But really using apps over the network is NOT I repeat NOT new. When I started in software in the early 1980s all we had were cheap green-screen Televideo 9600 buad terminals hardwired to a mainframe (or VAX in some cases) server. All the applications ran on the server. This is just an "upgrade" to 1980s technology, with a nicer user interface. I'm not impressed with the idea, but I am glad someone is after MS. INMHO, competition is good and produces better products for less.
With a population that size I'll bet you are right. I too call BS on this test. If they said 165 per second to every cell tower zone I might beleive that. If one cell is zapping out 1000's of messages you know they are going to throttle it or take it down. Problem is if you get a group of people doing the slamming THEN you might clog the system.
Wow, we go from Texas to anti-semetic slurs. The indictment has been dropped. The orginal indictment tolled the statue, you can't charge someone under new laws for what they did BEFORE the law was passed. Earl is desperate, and he has taken the cheapest of cheap shots. The man obviously is playing to his base. I wouldn't be surprised to see him run for something other than DA in the near future. Mark my words, the indictments WILL be thrown out just as sure as the sun rises in the East.
This sh*t happens all the time here in TX on the local and state level (Hell, we can't have an City Council election w/o someone claiming "money laundering" or "voter fraud") and it never goes to court. Even when they got the REAL goods (like on some city council crooks in Dallas) it never reached a jury. This stuff is very, very hard to prove on any half-competent political "machine" of any party.
That's the Fischer-Tropsch process to take coal and convert/refine into high octane gasoline. It was invented in Germany in the 1920's. Fischer was awarded the Nobel in Chemistry (1902) but not for for this idea. South Afica makes most of thier gasoline this way still since they adopted the process when embargoed in the 1980s for Apartheid. SA has lots of coal but not much oil. Sasol and Shell are using the process today to make gasoline from coal in SA and from natural gas in Malaysia. It's quite a good process, very scalable to industrial use. Why we don't use it in the USA I don't know as we also have plenty of coal.
If no one is around does the collision make a Sound? And if it does will the RIAA record it, and DRM it? :)
MS and the RIAA is like two spoiled kids fighting over something. Each wants it but wants it even more so that the other CAN'T get it. What's a billion or two between two slowly dying virtual monopolies.
Disney and Pixar were complementary companies. Disney can develop the Graphics and Pixar can't do the Marketing. Both have suffered from the split-up.
Get fucking real and smell the smoke. Ronnie Earl goes after Republicans ONLY when they become big names. Nice strawman, but Ronnie Earl's home county (Travis) in TX is about 90% Democrat so it make sense he would mostly prosecute Democrats. He went after Kay Bailey Hutchison when she was first elected to the Senate using the SAME tactics and lost. He wants Delay convicted to appease his constituents in liberal haven Travis County (where the sources of all that Bush National Guard stuff that proved to be make came from) who can't get something on GWB. For Christ sake, Earl had a FILM crew following him making a movie about this, and that's NOT grandstanding? Earl indicted and shook down companies (P&G, Wendy's and others) that LEGALLY contributed to Republican candidates by offering to drop the indictments and fines if they would contribute to his friends' (at UT) "research project" on how big bad companies donate to political campaigns. He wanted more "donations" than the fines would have been! That is extortion and/or blackmail and if he is going to take Delay to a Grand Jury someone should return the favor. Go read the indictments and go read election law, Delay did NOTHING wrong. You may argue the laws are screwy ( and I'd agree) but they are what they are. A good DA can get a Grand Jury to indict just about anything but proving it is a whole 'nother story.
"We cannot do anything with light approaching phase shift modulation, spread spectrum techniques"
Really? Google these terms and see what you get. PSM of Lasers can certainly be done. And I'll wager you a good deal of $$$ that there is quite extensive research in all of these areas in the Defense industry and telecom. If they can filter comb light in frequency [part of the reason they won the Nobel] then spread spectrum is possible. Possible is NOT equal practical. Practical has to be low cost and sturdy, etc. that may take some time to get here. The first transistors were not practical but look where we are 40 years later.
Wow..someone on /. that AGREES with me ;) I gotta post more controversal ideas! :)
Aren't you running your Enterpise DBs on a SAN or NAS? You still got local RAID on the boxes? When you move to BladeServers are you going to let the BladeCenter do the balancing on the Blades in the box (and CPUs on a blade) or are you still going to use a front end load balancer? Ever thought of doing software load balancing using Websphere to spread a big Java application across several instances of Websphere on different boxes? You could load balance to the subnet of Websphere platforms and let Websphere do the rest.