There are many real problems, but the "killing" problem is the "commercial interference" the UWB will create on the cellphone industrie.
Companies have paid between 5 and 50 Billion for a technology that is currently only making porn barron rich.
And now some people under the false asumption that newer better technology should change something are trying to offer a technology that is faster and whose only "drawback" is that you might loose your connection if you are mouving very fast while downloading that clip.
With UMTS you will loose the connection for all sort of reasons but not necessarely because you are moving too fast.
So UWB will "work" when the pressure of the handheld industry will be stronger than the pressure of the telcos.
in about 3 to 4 years.
The Super Mega Super Alliance (short for my buddies and familly) has determined that all people that do not like me are stupid, will never amount to much and probably cheated at their exams.
At the last Super Mega Super Alliance meeting in An undisclosed place in the moldavian region of Transdniestra Rob ThatCrddle announced new findings about people that are not in full admiration of myself, they are naughty !!
The Super Mega Super Alliance has many members on many continents and represents billions of interconnected cells.
Some of the computing facilities they are using would clearly outcompute any top500 cluster on complex decision making algorithm (like wake up or stay in bed, omygood do these marketing critters have no shame at all).
You could read all about the Super Mega Super Alliance on our highly secure third generation Post-Internet unfortunatelly your security clearance is not high enough, but trust me it shows the validity of what we say.
As a separate note, I believe its an act of charity of the Open Source community to take some time off to write a couple of announcements for the "general public", having to rely on such marketdroid drivel to pad their magazines and web site is bad for the journalists karma.
But you cannot expect them to write all articles themselves, its just too time consuming compared to the cents per word they get.
Three remarks, I had two high level high profile hacker friend discuss this subject (concerning their friend)
One of these friend showed to his son cat/dev/hda1
and the child said "coool" and started to learn C.
the other showed a clown face blinking written on the Blit (if you do not know dont worry it's old)
The child said "ho ha, thanks", and decided to forget about this too hard stuff.
Second: LOGO is really cool to show kids why its cool to write programs.
Third: DO NOT LIE TO CHILDREN
IT is most probably dead for them.
They will have an opportunity to work in this domain in 10 or so years.
By then if the public is not doing something really drastic patents and patriot act and DCMA etc... will have utterly destroyed IT and made it a real boring subject.
On the other hand most probably no interesting scientific subject will remain anyway.
So who cares.
So do not forget to tell their parents that voting for any incumbent is evil.
Cheers
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You may access AIM Products only through the interfaces and protocols provided or authorized by AOL. You agree that you will not access AIM Products through unauthorized means, such as unlicensed software clients, and that you will only use AIM Products in conjunction with AOL authorized products and components."
This says "You agree not to access AIM Producs through unlicensed software clients"
So Gaim might not be illegal, but using it is.
Or seen another way: using MSN, AIM or any Instant messaging service that asks you to give away your privacy, and try to force you to use their own interface only is evil, you should not do it.
because not only is it evil, but as you join you encourage other through the network effect to do something evil.
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When I started learning CS (homygod) 27 years ago, my siste gave me a book called: "The Spychology of the Programmer", it stated lots of interesting things, one of them was that afer 10 years a large percentage (I do not remember how large but someting "interesting" like 25 or 33 %) of Computerscientist developped severe spychological problems.
Since I was a professional sculptor and doing CS just as a hobby I didnt care (but then I was offered a really cool IT job, so it shows that you are never to prudent:-))
But to get another insight on the reactions of women to geeks may I dare suggest you to look at
http://www.copinedegeek.com/
(ok so you will have to learn some french first)
So yes probably many computerist are certifiably crazy, but this is probably not such a great handicap.
Being part time teaching CS for a long time I believe that a more important aspect of this is that most people that go into CS are actually not very interested in CS but do it because they have the feeling that it might give them some job security.
In the post.com crash world, and with the economy in a "sticky wicket" many people try for other kinds of jobs.
And what happened to the women is that when the going where good, and the hype high, and when for a short time IT was "cool", and companies looking for any warm body that could spell HTML (and even there a typo or two where not so bad).
It looked like an opportunity for personal growth, and women that felt that they too could actually "build" something tried for an IT job.
When pension funds and investors had finished picking the pockets of small time investors and the.com boom was over all the companies downsized, and who where the first to leave ?
the latest to come.
To the great joy of bigots that could revel in "shadenfreude" and be happy that things are going back to normal.
If you are using a third party client, either its licensed and then it has the same conditions.
Or its illegal, and when the various large corporations will have finished to impose software patents on europe, any such client will be forbidden because of "conterfeiting" IP.
And they will send you a John Doe letter requesting all your money.
I do not understand how HBS could post their letter a full month in advance on their site (even in an hidden way).
In my opinion if the "posting date is" X, the final decisions should be X- something very short, not X - one full month.
I do feel that the 119 are really being punished because they realised that the admission procedure is sloppy, and understanding this about corporation is only for the fully initiated;-)
It would of course be different if the hacker would have told them how to change the letter, then HBS' decision would make sense.
People that want another kind of globalization will not be happy about this.
Look at the lousy "e-inclusion" program that was supposed to bring ICT to "the rest of the world", in reallity it took large chunk of philantropy money away from real philantropy projects and created unfair competition to local businesses.
And when the PR release is done, nothing is left
So the program will be:
loan occidental tax payers money
share between large us companies and local politicians
do something useless
slap a huge debt on the local country
let them pay the debt with their natural ressources sold at a discount
make sure through patents and GME that they have no chance to pay back with their work
make a nice PR before the fan hits the wachalmacalit
Well isn't this what "end of history" by fukuyama is all about ?
When "history" is stopped you can start to build a nice feodality.
Start by replacing inventors, developper and other neerds by nice "business administration masters".
And let them stall any progress since this is just a distraction from the "real work" : corporate politics.
[smile]
Personally I feel that the most productive environment was CP/M, but then this is probably nostalgia for an early age.
The objective assesment would of course be Unix V7, or if you do have to use more modern network features BSD 4.1.
On the graphic "front" the Blit was neat.
Actually, Bavaria is really sensibly Metric.
A standard glass of beer is one "Mas" which is of course one litter, except during Oktober Fest (which happens mostly in september as the name, ho foggetit...) so during Oktoberfest the Mas is anything between 1/2 litter and 0.8 litter depending on the tallent of the operator and the general level of inhebriation.
Servus:-)
It is kind of unfortunate that the board didn't find out what was wrong 4 or 5 years ago.
It is also great news for the US, as Carly's goal was to be the next Republican candidate for US presidency after Bush she now lost her marketing vehicle.
(well Hopefully this doesnt mean that they just decided to change the constitution to add more terms to the "war president").
The real issue now is that the top managers that are still at HP are the ones that wherent pushed out. Now the real test will be to see how many managers are called back, and especially are those managers content or industry focused (those where pushed out) or just some more territorial barons (the kind she liked to keep).
Actually she denied finding it easely,
if she would have remembered something from her learning she would have understood the ineficiencies of the feodal structure she tried to build.
But anyway why would a Medieval History Major be less efficient than a Creative Accounting (also called MBA) major in managing an High Tech company ?
The idea behind patents is to give a time limited monopoly to the bright inventor in exchange for revealing how his/her invention works.
In practice in Software (and in Health Care BTW) you cannot make "one invention", but you have to combine whatever invention you made with hundred or thousends of inventions other people have done in the past 20 years (so that is a large chunk of IT history).
So whatever you expect to gain from licencing your inventions has to be offset by what you have to pay to others.
And since finding and assesing the value of all the "invention" a software is using is a time consuming and non technicaly creative work the value will NOT be captured by Computer Scientists but by IP lawyers and Marketing people.
This obviously give a temporary adventage to huge companies (that can afford to capture a large portfolio of patents and pay all the leaches needed to suck money out of the system).
But it actually makes it harder for creators to create and over the time kills the incentive to invent.
If you find a radical new way to make an OS you will still need to get all those Apps to make it usefull (why do you think GNU/Linux happened:-))
And if you have to pay an huge amount of licencing fees you will probably just drop the subject.
So There Is No Excuse For Complex Systems Patents Ever.
Well they should have pretended that it's a way to better target the specific ink qualities to the environemental conditions in each region.
(dry air complient ink four Saudi and Irak for instance);-)
Anyway remember this when Carly is the republican candidate for the presidency of the USA in 4 years.
And the effective minimum US employment package is 1/4th of the EU equivalent.
Wich Consumers will win ? the Euro Consumers that are overcharged now ? or the US Consumers that would be overcharged then ?
BTW there is no reason for the Dollar to go UP before a very long time.
Blue collar/Service worker in the US are paid about 1/3 of their european conterparts (if you look at the salary+benefit+social benefit) and have 1/3 of their holidays.
So how are they going to be the consumers that the US would need to compensate their staggering public deficit.
BTW if you believe that the high entry level salaries come at the price of high unemployment try some simple math: add unemployment + jailed people + excess military and you will realize that mistreating poor people doesn't even bring you that.
DRM will be a *win* only if the customer *doze*;-)
It is created to bring truth in advertizement to windows.
After all without DRM they couldn't claim that they FULLY delivered Win Denial Of Web Services.
The Blue Screen of Death was an early version of DRM
it implemented the :
So you though you had any right on your software ! no way you didn't read the EULA
(ok so it's very early in the morning;-))
Interstates are useful for freight and personal transportation.
The official reason to create this large TOLL based interstate is to leverage NAFTA created product exchanges.
Efficient TRAIN based transportation, preferably something like the combination of Trucks transported on Train like the Swiss do would actually have a similar effect for a way lower price.
But Trains are not going to happen (remember the TGV project in texas ?) since it doesn't provide money to the right interests.
The real goal of such a project is to create a middle class sponsored welfare project.
It works this way: instead of using tax money you use toll money.
So if you are poor, you just stay at home
if you are rich, you do not care it's low compared to your income.
if you are middle class you pay through the nose.
Not only are you paying for all the service, but you are also paying for the service of being billed ! (tunrpike operator, billing systems, infrastructure, etc...).
But of course it gives a lot of "blue collar jobs" to the people that will build the highway.
Of course with illegal immigrant competition these jobs will be paid about half the average minimal income in europe (ou a 3th of the minimal swiss income) and of course none of the normal benefits like health care etc,... (well who said that road building was dangerous anyway:-)).
But nevertheless it will be welcomed by the Blue Collar Bushites.
And even more welcomed by the platinium collar bushites, think Gazillion of Galons of Gazonline.
And the Tender for construction works, just try to say something like "open" or "transparent" and you will see some very rich, very powerful figures having trouble breathing because they are laughting too hard.
Well I guess it is just retaliation for letting GWB on the rest of the world.
Buses in the US are slow because they are not a public transportation service but a marketing ploy to get you to buy cars.
The same people that ripped out as much of your railways as they could are making very sure that buses will NEVER be an efficient way to go to work in the US.
So instead of being able to catch some sleep, or read a book, newspaper, or technical documentation, or chat with your co-traveller you are wellcome to loose a big chunk of your life driving to and from work.
Try this:
look at the number of miles on your car
discount 20% that you actually used because it was: far away, you had lots of heavy luggadge, your car was packed full.
discount an additional 20% for the days where
your drove to work, and then had to visit many different clients, and even an efficient public stransport system wouldn't fit the complexity of your travel path
divide the rest by 20 (the effective average speed of a car in cities)
divide the rest by 16
This is the number of DAYS of your life that big car manufacture has stolen from you.
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There are many real problems, but the "killing" problem is the "commercial interference" the UWB will create on the cellphone industrie. Companies have paid between 5 and 50 Billion for a technology that is currently only making porn barron rich. And now some people under the false asumption that newer better technology should change something are trying to offer a technology that is faster and whose only "drawback" is that you might loose your connection if you are mouving very fast while downloading that clip. With UMTS you will loose the connection for all sort of reasons but not necessarely because you are moving too fast. So UWB will "work" when the pressure of the handheld industry will be stronger than the pressure of the telcos.
in about 3 to 4 years.
The Super Mega Super Alliance (short for my buddies and familly) has determined that all people that do not like me are stupid, will never amount to much and probably cheated at their exams. At the last Super Mega Super Alliance meeting in An undisclosed place in the moldavian region of Transdniestra Rob ThatCrddle announced new findings about people that are not in full admiration of myself, they are naughty !! The Super Mega Super Alliance has many members on many continents and represents billions of interconnected cells. Some of the computing facilities they are using would clearly outcompute any top500 cluster on complex decision making algorithm (like wake up or stay in bed, omygood do these marketing critters have no shame at all). You could read all about the Super Mega Super Alliance on our highly secure third generation Post-Internet unfortunatelly your security clearance is not high enough, but trust me it shows the validity of what we say.
As a separate note, I believe its an act of charity of the Open Source community to take some time off to write a couple of announcements for the "general public", having to rely on such marketdroid drivel to pad their magazines and web site is bad for the journalists karma.
But you cannot expect them to write all articles themselves, its just too time consuming compared to the cents per word they get.
Three remarks, I had two high level high profile hacker friend discuss this subject (concerning their friend) One of these friend showed to his son cat /dev/hda1
and the child said "coool" and started to learn C.
the other showed a clown face blinking written on the Blit (if you do not know dont worry it's old)
The child said "ho ha, thanks", and decided to forget about this too hard stuff.
Second: LOGO is really cool to show kids why its cool to write programs.
Third: DO NOT LIE TO CHILDREN
IT is most probably dead for them.
They will have an opportunity to work in this domain in 10 or so years.
By then if the public is not doing something really drastic patents and patriot act and DCMA etc... will have utterly destroyed IT and made it a real boring subject.
On the other hand most probably no interesting scientific subject will remain anyway.
So who cares.
So do not forget to tell their parents that voting for any incumbent is evil.
Cheers
from the AIM Terms of Services "Restrictions on Access to or Use of AIM Products You may access AIM Products only through the interfaces and protocols provided or authorized by AOL. You agree that you will not access AIM Products through unauthorized means, such as unlicensed software clients, and that you will only use AIM Products in conjunction with AOL authorized products and components."
This says "You agree not to access AIM Producs through unlicensed software clients"
So Gaim might not be illegal, but using it is.
Or seen another way: using MSN, AIM or any Instant messaging service that asks you to give away your privacy, and try to force you to use their own interface only is evil, you should not do it. because not only is it evil, but as you join you encourage other through the network effect to do something evil.
When I started learning CS (homygod) 27 years ago, my siste gave me a book called: "The Spychology of the Programmer", it stated lots of interesting things, one of them was that afer 10 years a large percentage (I do not remember how large but someting "interesting" like 25 or 33 %) of Computerscientist developped severe spychological problems. :-))
.com crash world, and with the economy in a "sticky wicket" many people try for other kinds of jobs.
.com boom was over all the companies downsized, and who where the first to leave ?
the latest to come.
Since I was a professional sculptor and doing CS just as a hobby I didnt care (but then I was offered a really cool IT job, so it shows that you are never to prudent
But to get another insight on the reactions of women to geeks may I dare suggest you to look at http://www.copinedegeek.com/ (ok so you will have to learn some french first)
So yes probably many computerist are certifiably crazy, but this is probably not such a great handicap.
Being part time teaching CS for a long time I believe that a more important aspect of this is that most people that go into CS are actually not very interested in CS but do it because they have the feeling that it might give them some job security.
In the post
And what happened to the women is that when the going where good, and the hype high, and when for a short time IT was "cool", and companies looking for any warm body that could spell HTML (and even there a typo or two where not so bad). It looked like an opportunity for personal growth, and women that felt that they too could actually "build" something tried for an IT job.
When pension funds and investors had finished picking the pockets of small time investors and the
To the great joy of bigots that could revel in "shadenfreude" and be happy that things are going back to normal.
If you are using a third party client, either its licensed and then it has the same conditions. Or its illegal, and when the various large corporations will have finished to impose software patents on europe, any such client will be forbidden because of "conterfeiting" IP. And they will send you a John Doe letter requesting all your money.
I do not understand how HBS could post their letter a full month in advance on their site (even in an hidden way). ;-)
In my opinion if the "posting date is" X, the final decisions should be X- something very short, not X - one full month.
I do feel that the 119 are really being punished because they realised that the admission procedure is sloppy, and understanding this about corporation is only for the fully initiated
It would of course be different if the hacker would have told them how to change the letter, then HBS' decision would make sense.
Look at the lousy "e-inclusion" program that was supposed to bring ICT to "the rest of the world", in reallity it took large chunk of philantropy money away from real philantropy projects and created unfair competition to local businesses.
And when the PR release is done, nothing is left
So the program will be:
loan occidental tax payers money
share between large us companies and local politicians
do something useless
slap a huge debt on the local country
let them pay the debt with their natural ressources sold at a discount
make sure through patents and GME that they have no chance to pay back with their work
make a nice PR before the fan hits the wachalmacalit
Well isn't this what "end of history" by fukuyama is all about ?
When "history" is stopped you can start to build a nice feodality.
Start by replacing inventors, developper and other neerds by nice "business administration masters". And let them stall any progress since this is just a distraction from the "real work" : corporate politics.
[smile]
Personally I feel that the most productive environment was CP/M, but then this is probably nostalgia for an early age. The objective assesment would of course be Unix V7, or if you do have to use more modern network features BSD 4.1. On the graphic "front" the Blit was neat.
himihergotsakelzement, I stand corrected, I guess I should have drunk a Mass or two before so that I would clearly see the s in double :-)
Actually, Bavaria is really sensibly Metric. A standard glass of beer is one "Mas" which is of course one litter, except during Oktober Fest (which happens mostly in september as the name, ho foggetit...) so during Oktoberfest the Mas is anything between 1/2 litter and 0.8 litter depending on the tallent of the operator and the general level of inhebriation. Servus :-)
It is kind of unfortunate that the board didn't find out what was wrong 4 or 5 years ago.
It is also great news for the US, as Carly's goal was to be the next Republican candidate for US presidency after Bush she now lost her marketing vehicle.
(well Hopefully this doesnt mean that they just decided to change the constitution to add more terms to the "war president").
The real issue now is that the top managers that are still at HP are the ones that wherent pushed out. Now the real test will be to see how many managers are called back, and especially are those managers content or industry focused (those where pushed out) or just some more territorial barons (the kind she liked to keep).
Actually she denied finding it easely, if she would have remembered something from her learning she would have understood the ineficiencies of the feodal structure she tried to build. But anyway why would a Medieval History Major be less efficient than a Creative Accounting (also called MBA) major in managing an High Tech company ?
The idea behind patents is to give a time limited monopoly to the bright inventor in exchange for revealing how his/her invention works.
In practice in Software (and in Health Care BTW) you cannot make "one invention", but you have to combine whatever invention you made with hundred or thousends of inventions other people have done in the past 20 years (so that is a large chunk of IT history).
So whatever you expect to gain from licencing your inventions has to be offset by what you have to pay to others.
And since finding and assesing the value of all the "invention" a software is using is a time consuming and non technicaly creative work the value will NOT be captured by Computer Scientists but by IP lawyers and Marketing people.
This obviously give a temporary adventage to huge companies (that can afford to capture a large portfolio of patents and pay all the leaches needed to suck money out of the system).
But it actually makes it harder for creators to create and over the time kills the incentive to invent.
If you find a radical new way to make an OS you will still need to get all those Apps to make it usefull (why do you think GNU/Linux happened :-))
And if you have to pay an huge amount of licencing fees you will probably just drop the subject.
So There Is No Excuse For Complex Systems Patents Ever.
And NO IT CANNOT BE FIXED.
Well they should have pretended that it's a way to better target the specific ink qualities to the environemental conditions in each region. (dry air complient ink four Saudi and Irak for instance) ;-)
Anyway remember this when Carly is the republican candidate for the presidency of the USA in 4 years.
And the effective minimum US employment package is 1/4th of the EU equivalent.
Wich Consumers will win ? the Euro Consumers that are overcharged now ? or the US Consumers that would be overcharged then ? BTW there is no reason for the Dollar to go UP before a very long time. Blue collar/Service worker in the US are paid about 1/3 of their european conterparts (if you look at the salary+benefit+social benefit) and have 1/3 of their holidays. So how are they going to be the consumers that the US would need to compensate their staggering public deficit. BTW if you believe that the high entry level salaries come at the price of high unemployment try some simple math: add unemployment + jailed people + excess military and you will realize that mistreating poor people doesn't even bring you that.
DRM will be a *win* only if the customer *doze* ;-)
It is created to bring truth in advertizement to windows.
After all without DRM they couldn't claim that they FULLY delivered Win Denial Of Web Services.
The Blue Screen of Death was an early version of DRM
it implemented the :
So you though you had any right on your software ! no way you didn't read the EULA
(ok so it's very early in the morning ;-))
Interstates are useful for freight and personal transportation. The official reason to create this large TOLL based interstate is to leverage NAFTA created product exchanges. Efficient TRAIN based transportation, preferably something like the combination of Trucks transported on Train like the Swiss do would actually have a similar effect for a way lower price. But Trains are not going to happen (remember the TGV project in texas ?) since it doesn't provide money to the right interests. The real goal of such a project is to create a middle class sponsored welfare project. It works this way: instead of using tax money you use toll money. So if you are poor, you just stay at home if you are rich, you do not care it's low compared to your income. if you are middle class you pay through the nose. Not only are you paying for all the service, but you are also paying for the service of being billed ! (tunrpike operator, billing systems, infrastructure, etc ...).
But of course it gives a lot of "blue collar jobs" to the people that will build the highway.
Of course with illegal immigrant competition these jobs will be paid about half the average minimal income in europe (ou a 3th of the minimal swiss income) and of course none of the normal benefits like health care etc, ... (well who said that road building was dangerous anyway :-)).
But nevertheless it will be welcomed by the Blue Collar Bushites.
And even more welcomed by the platinium collar bushites, think Gazillion of Galons of Gazonline.
And the Tender for construction works, just try to say something like "open" or "transparent" and you will see some very rich, very powerful figures having trouble breathing because they are laughting too hard.
Well I guess it is just retaliation for letting GWB on the rest of the world.
Buses in the US are slow because they are not a public transportation service but a marketing ploy to get you to buy cars.
The same people that ripped out as much of your railways as they could are making very sure that buses will NEVER be an efficient way to go to work in the US.
So instead of being able to catch some sleep, or read a book, newspaper, or technical documentation, or chat with your co-traveller you are wellcome to loose a big chunk of your life driving to and from work.
Try this:
look at the number of miles on your car
discount 20% that you actually used because it was: far away, you had lots of heavy luggadge, your car was packed full.
discount an additional 20% for the days where
your drove to work, and then had to visit many different clients, and even an efficient public stransport system wouldn't fit the complexity of your travel path
divide the rest by 20 (the effective average speed of a car in cities)
divide the rest by 16
This is the number of DAYS of your life that big car manufacture has stolen from you.