I honestly think that if Bush is way down in the polls in November, he will find a way to postpone the election under some guise of national security. There were already articles about how Tom Ridge has been instructed to postpone the election in case of "disaster".
If you want to reverse the censorship of this administration, vote against them. I remember watching Alaister Cooke Masterpiece Theater as a kid and routinely hearing the f-bomb or seeing some topless woman in some victorian romance. Hell, there is a classic Monty Python sketch where Palin walks into a smoke shop and the news clerk is a topless woman. Saw that when I was like 10 years old on PBS.
If Bush has his way, we will need streaming video over the internet to watch a PBS that has been driven offshore because it's been replaced with 24/7 programming about Jesus and how Darwin was wrong.
You are joking, right? Frontline oftens has interviews with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a republican administration, highly placed military leaders spoke at length about the issues with the Iraq war.
When somebody from the left goes on Fox news, you get some blowhard like Bill O'reilley just shouting them down and calling them names.
The proof is in the facts, many conservatives appear on PBS because they know it represents the MOST balanced reporting out there. Nobody of merit appears on FOX News, because they know it's a joke. Limbaugh would lick Bush's boots if Cheney told him to. I hit Limbaugh on the am dial flipping stations the other day - he was DEFENDING Cheney telling the Democrats to "fuck off" - saying that sometimes strong words were needed. If Clinton told somebody to fuck off, Limbaugh would need some of his pills to calm down. There is NO LINE with Limbaugh, he does not think for himself. If the GOP whiteboys who control him told him to defend killing Arab women and children in the streets of the U.S., he would. There is nothing he won't do or say in defense of the administration. I really think you need to watch more PBS.
OK dude, I clicked on your church membership agreement. When I read the part about "kneel and accept the Lord's Golden Shower on your head." -- I spit my Coke out all over my keyboard and it came out my nose! Christ, that hurt!
I grew up in St. Joseph, MI down the street from the Heath/Zenith plant. They released the heathkit HERO robot, the first (this is arguable, Im not really a robot historian) consumer grade robot.
We had one in school, our science teacher had buddies at Heathkit. You programmed it in assembly, via a keypad on the top of the robot. I don't even remember if there was a way to load an instruction set into it, until later models came along.
There is a website dedicated to the good ol Hero. Back then (late 1980s) we were sure that by 2004 we'd all be living with robots like the ones in the new I,Robot movie. I guess it didn't really happen.
It would be cool if the I,Robot bad guy (only seen the trailer, they got THAT GUY, who always plays villans, to play the villan) had a HERO on his desk or something. Esp. since the USR company in the movie is supposed to be in Chicago, right across the lake and home of several Zenith facilities.
McNealy would go to convention after convention and other speaking engagements. He would go off on the Microsoft rant, talking about no viruses in Java and go on and on about the evils.
It did nothing, changed nothing. He lost more and more mindshare until he got bought off to stick around on life support and keep his mouth shut.
Jobs is smarter than McNealy. He won't push Apple marketshare by basing Microsft security, and he knows it. He will do it by expanding what Apple's are. By going heavily into the portable computing space, making ergonomically pleasing Apple appliances, under the iBook, iPod and other product iMonikers. Video playback, capturing, music players. He knows to become strong, his competition is not Microsoft, but Sony. There is nothing to be gained by jumping on the open source bandwagon, there is much money to be made in licensing content distribution methods.
If I'm a distinguished engineer at Apple (and I'm not) I would be working on a movie projector that can download films in Quicktime format and display them with the quality of movie film projectors. I hook these projectors up to theater chains with broadband, and start competing with Sony, who invented this technology but only have penetrated a limited market with it.
It goes back to a PBS documentary I saw on Al-Queda cells in the United States. The documentary focused on a neighborhood in New Jersey, and how some of them were rounded up using provisions of the Patriot Act. I just picked Hoboken from that, although I don't think that's where they are. I'd have to search PBS.org and the FRONTLINE series to find out what I am thinking of...
The truck driver is driving 100 pounds of TNT in a delivery crate right into the airport unchecked. What pisses me off most about this loss of privacy, how your personal information including your underwear size and what are the last 3 videos you rented are - is that for all that work, and all that money spent on technology, they don't do shit to actually secure the place. You think you can drive a truck up to an El Al airliner in Tel Aviv unchecked? Not unless you want a.50cal Barrett round in the chest from 5000 meters away before you get anywhere NEAR the airliner.
Read Marcus Ranum's book, the "Myth of Homeland Security." Yay, we paid for a bunch of blackberries that will get lost or stolen and some tech firm pocketed good change with a fat ass Oracle project. Yay.
You, the passenger, aren't one damn bit safer. Tell yourself that while you watch the truck load the pretzels and soda pop out the window while the guys are looking in your toiletry bag at your toothbrush and blackberrying to see if you ever lived in Hoboken, NJ.
Lastly, you know why the terrorists picked Logan to board? As CNN and others reported in the weeks that followed 9/11 - Logan's security was known to be the worst on the eastern seaboard.
I believe she's saying "Compile that pre-release kernel, bitch!"
It's a new employment test in the States. You stand for 24 hours straight on a chair in a freezing room with a bag over your head while naked, get beaten about the knees with a nightstick, and then have to run a step through debug using gdb. If you find and correct all 10 bugs in 10 minutes, you get the job. Otherwise you take a bullet to the temple.
I think you don't understand what he is saying. He is talking about the elimination of the E.164 standard. There will be directory systems that underly systems like Mobile IP.
I think you fail to understand the kind of shift that will happen when international dialing codes and area codes simply go away. When you can rely on underlying systems like DynDNS married to a directory system that will allow you to plug a SIP phone anywhere, get a DHCP address - register to a directory server - and start taking calls immediately. Or what will happen when cellular providers go IP behind the scenes.
His insight that Domain Naming services tie it all together is quite important. Despite what you think.
The Microsoft TV IPTV platform would make it possible to deliver standard-and high-definition TV programming to multiple TV sets in the home over an FTTN network while leaving ample bandwidth available for super high-speed broadband and Voice over IP (VoIP) services.
A motion JPEG stream of a NTSC signal takes about 8Mb/s. With Divx and Xvid and other newer MPEG compressions that may have come down.
Cable's value is that it can package analog or digital offerings on the same coax that brings you data digitally. DSL was just about data. But with Video Over IP and de-regulation, we reset the table. Now Telcos have an advantage again. Converged services over IP, esp. voice and video. This puts Vonage and their ilk and Comcast in a position to ward these off. Why use Vonage over the Internet with no service levels, when you can use IP telephony over the DSL provider network with service guarantees? The only reason would be cost.
Comcast may fight back with partnerships to offer voice in a bundle. Vonage's offering already goes a long way to destroying the E.164 convention. I live in one state and have 4 phone numbers on my line, the last 3 being in different states so people can call me without toll to them. International prefixes and U.S. area codes will simply vanish.
99% of home users cannot use that much bandwidth regularly. But I think some of this will be licensed by Covad and other national DSL providers to provide business class service over.
If you look at Covad's web site, they have restructured the business offerings to offer DSL and Fractional T1 as EQUAL alternatives. And the large reason, I feel, is that DSL has issues with troubleshooting and reliability. It's hard to offer an SLA on DSL, when it was designed to adapt for noise. I've seen people get 8k of throughput on a 512k DSL line, just because the line has so much interference or has been bridged tapped too many times, that it is almost not useable. Almost. it costs money to train help deks to go into CPE and look at the db levels. With T1, it's a bit more cut and dried. You may need to adjust the CSU for power, but once it is going - well, that's what it is. ESF is going to give you the number of channels x 64k (56k if you need bit robbing).
But T1s get expensive as you start to bundle them. Multiple CSUs start adding up. Covad has them equal for now, because the fastest business class DSL they have is also 1.5Mb/s. Probably because they backhaul it over DS1.
With offerings of 25Mb/s, I know alot of companies that would like to get that for ROBOs. Very attractive. An office of 50 people can use that much bandwidth, I've seen it happen.
hell I made a example prototype from the information I recieved from mister Zimmerman back in 1997 for playing around with PAN's when i was heavy into the wearable computing research.
It isn't CIOs who created this trend. It's Human Resource professionals. How many HR people do you know, people with a background or a degree in HR, that you would want to be stranded on an island with? And discount the cute ones who are hot. Answer: none.
Why? It's because they are trained in the art of evaluation and discipline. They couch it words like training and development, compensation analysis, etc. But it's about deciding how to hire people, how to fire people without putting the corporation at risk. Very few, if any, lead any efforts toward team building or fostering leadership. That's just crap on their resume.
I went to a seminar hosted by my state on technology. They had sessions, I went to the HR one just for kicks. They had HR people from a major carrier there, and the questions were big softballs like "what do you look for when hiring people for hi tech jobs?" The answer made me want to puke. "We look for people with something extrordinary on their resume, something that sets them apart from the crowd. Extra volunteer work, to show they are community minded." Bull and shit. They look for certs. They don't know any better, they have no clue how to distinguish a solid technical candidate from one that knows a bunch of acronyms. There is big big money in the IT training industry, so they fold and defer to the "system". In many cases, if these are jobs online such as Monster or something - submissions are run through filters that weed out any resume that doesn't have the right letters in it.
This has an interesting effect. Really smart people who don't want to run through cert treadmills almost never fill the ranks of corporate button down places. Consultants from places like the Big 5 and "big name" IT consultant places are, in my experience, uniformly idiots who are hired because they are sheep and will get the certs and sit in cubes and be good little boys and girls. Really bright people go to start-ups and work in small, dynamic companies and network personally at conventions, and set up website SHOWING their skills. Most of them don't hold any certs, and wouldn't want to. Many of them come from top university programs, in the states those would be Cal-Berk, MIT and Carnegie Mellon. And some others.
Take a look at these guys in Bucharest doing a submarine game (http://www.silent-hunteriii.com/uk/dev_team.php). Think any of these guys have certs? I doubt it. Think they need them? No.
Damn, Perl is already on the trash-heap of programming languages? I guess so. I just saw a university site that I had coded a perl CGI with a RBDMS back end web-app replaced last week with an ASP, after 5 years of solid use.
*IF* the Xbox2 will be backwards compatible (and considering the architecture of a proposed PPC chip and all, that will be very surprising)
I'm having trouble finding articles suggesting what will happen one way or another. I can't see how they would freeze out current Xbox owners, and expect to sell new expensive consoles. People would go nuts. But, as you say, Intel vs. PPC. Any links on this issue?
Yes, I know. It was banned last year. Yet Renault continues to blast off the line better than any other team. Last year, much was made of how Renault had made great strides with LC. It seems to be a subtle difference from the driver's standpoint. They used to push a button to launch the car, now they just seem to push a different button to handle the clutching.
I was just browsing the responses, seeing if anybody was going to say this.
It's nice that the parent poster likes Word 5.1. Great. It's time to put that away and get with OpenOffice. Rome is burning, kids, let's stop fiddling. Use Open Office and contribute to it's proliferation with everyone you know.
Do you want to know just how far towards the jackbooted brownshirts they've become? Tom Clancy is against Bush. I don't think he can bring himself to publically say he will vote for Kerry, but he and several ex-joint chiefs of staff, including a couple of admirals from the Reagan era are coming out publically against the Bush administration. He cannot stand the way Bush went into Iraq with a lie, and now U.S. servicemen and women are being hung out to dry.
Ron Reagan Jr. is not a guy who is known as an arch-conservative, I grant you that. But nevertheless, he took the opportunity at the Reagan funeral to say the Bush administration was the most corrupt in history! The Reagans HATE the Bush family, Nancy even got a backhanded dig in at GW trying to get some spin off the funeral.
At this point you almost need somebody like Newt Gingrich to try and get the podium at the republican convention (unlikely) and start screaming how the party has been hijacked by extremists. This isn't Bush part II, this has become Pat Buchanan's administration at this point.
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I honestly think that if Bush is way down in the polls in November, he will find a way to postpone the election under some guise of national security. There were already articles about how Tom Ridge has been instructed to postpone the election in case of "disaster".
If you want to reverse the censorship of this administration, vote against them. I remember watching Alaister Cooke Masterpiece Theater as a kid and routinely hearing the f-bomb or seeing some topless woman in some victorian romance. Hell, there is a classic Monty Python sketch where Palin walks into a smoke shop and the news clerk is a topless woman. Saw that when I was like 10 years old on PBS.
If Bush has his way, we will need streaming video over the internet to watch a PBS that has been driven offshore because it's been replaced with 24/7 programming about Jesus and how Darwin was wrong.
You are joking, right? Frontline oftens has interviews with members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a republican administration, highly placed military leaders spoke at length about the issues with the Iraq war.
When somebody from the left goes on Fox news, you get some blowhard like Bill O'reilley just shouting them down and calling them names.
The proof is in the facts, many conservatives appear on PBS because they know it represents the MOST balanced reporting out there. Nobody of merit appears on FOX News, because they know it's a joke. Limbaugh would lick Bush's boots if Cheney told him to. I hit Limbaugh on the am dial flipping stations the other day - he was DEFENDING Cheney telling the Democrats to "fuck off" - saying that sometimes strong words were needed. If Clinton told somebody to fuck off, Limbaugh would need some of his pills to calm down. There is NO LINE with Limbaugh, he does not think for himself. If the GOP whiteboys who control him told him to defend killing Arab women and children in the streets of the U.S., he would. There is nothing he won't do or say in defense of the administration. I really think you need to watch more PBS.
OK dude, I clicked on your church membership agreement. When I read the part about "kneel and accept the Lord's Golden Shower on your head." -- I spit my Coke out all over my keyboard and it came out my nose! Christ, that hurt!
Jesus, that was funny.
I grew up in St. Joseph, MI down the street from the Heath/Zenith plant. They released the heathkit HERO robot, the first (this is arguable, Im not really a robot historian) consumer grade robot.
We had one in school, our science teacher had buddies at Heathkit. You programmed it in assembly, via a keypad on the top of the robot. I don't even remember if there was a way to load an instruction set into it, until later models came along.
There is a website dedicated to the good ol Hero. Back then (late 1980s) we were sure that by 2004 we'd all be living with robots like the ones in the new I,Robot movie. I guess it didn't really happen.
It would be cool if the I,Robot bad guy (only seen the trailer, they got THAT GUY, who always plays villans, to play the villan) had a HERO on his desk or something. Esp. since the USR company in the movie is supposed to be in Chicago, right across the lake and home of several Zenith facilities.
McNealy would go to convention after convention and other speaking engagements. He would go off on the Microsoft rant, talking about no viruses in Java and go on and on about the evils.
It did nothing, changed nothing. He lost more and more mindshare until he got bought off to stick around on life support and keep his mouth shut.
Jobs is smarter than McNealy. He won't push Apple marketshare by basing Microsft security, and he knows it. He will do it by expanding what Apple's are. By going heavily into the portable computing space, making ergonomically pleasing Apple appliances, under the iBook, iPod and other product iMonikers. Video playback, capturing, music players. He knows to become strong, his competition is not Microsoft, but Sony. There is nothing to be gained by jumping on the open source bandwagon, there is much money to be made in licensing content distribution methods.
If I'm a distinguished engineer at Apple (and I'm not) I would be working on a movie projector that can download films in Quicktime format and display them with the quality of movie film projectors. I hook these projectors up to theater chains with broadband, and start competing with Sony, who invented this technology but only have penetrated a limited market with it.
But, hey what do I know...
Who wants to see Shatner play the evil Romulan? Huh? Raise your hands!
It goes back to a PBS documentary I saw on Al-Queda cells in the United States. The documentary focused on a neighborhood in New Jersey, and how some of them were rounded up using provisions of the Patriot Act. I just picked Hoboken from that, although I don't think that's where they are. I'd have to search PBS.org and the FRONTLINE series to find out what I am thinking of...
The truck driver is driving 100 pounds of TNT in a delivery crate right into the airport unchecked. What pisses me off most about this loss of privacy, how your personal information including your underwear size and what are the last 3 videos you rented are - is that for all that work, and all that money spent on technology, they don't do shit to actually secure the place. You think you can drive a truck up to an El Al airliner in Tel Aviv unchecked? Not unless you want a .50cal Barrett round in the chest from 5000 meters away before you get anywhere NEAR the airliner.
Read Marcus Ranum's book, the "Myth of Homeland Security." Yay, we paid for a bunch of blackberries that will get lost or stolen and some tech firm pocketed good change with a fat ass Oracle project. Yay.
You, the passenger, aren't one damn bit safer. Tell yourself that while you watch the truck load the pretzels and soda pop out the window while the guys are looking in your toiletry bag at your toothbrush and blackberrying to see if you ever lived in Hoboken, NJ.
Lastly, you know why the terrorists picked Logan to board? As CNN and others reported in the weeks that followed 9/11 - Logan's security was known to be the worst on the eastern seaboard.
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Click Here, it's funny in the so-true-it's-sad way
The nerds will rebuild, and will be filthy rich. Women will throw themselves at us.
This implies that all nerds are men. Or lesbians.
I believe she's saying "Compile that pre-release kernel, bitch!"
It's a new employment test in the States. You stand for 24 hours straight on a chair in a freezing room with a bag over your head while naked, get beaten about the knees with a nightstick, and then have to run a step through debug using gdb. If you find and correct all 10 bugs in 10 minutes, you get the job. Otherwise you take a bullet to the temple.
I think you don't understand what he is saying. He is talking about the elimination of the E.164 standard. There will be directory systems that underly systems like Mobile IP.
I think you fail to understand the kind of shift that will happen when international dialing codes and area codes simply go away. When you can rely on underlying systems like DynDNS married to a directory system that will allow you to plug a SIP phone anywhere, get a DHCP address - register to a directory server - and start taking calls immediately. Or what will happen when cellular providers go IP behind the scenes.
His insight that Domain Naming services tie it all together is quite important. Despite what you think.
The Microsoft TV IPTV platform would make it possible to deliver standard-and high-definition TV programming to multiple TV sets in the home over an FTTN network while leaving ample bandwidth available for super high-speed broadband and Voice over IP (VoIP) services.
A motion JPEG stream of a NTSC signal takes about 8Mb/s. With Divx and Xvid and other newer MPEG compressions that may have come down.
Cable's value is that it can package analog or digital offerings on the same coax that brings you data digitally. DSL was just about data. But with Video Over IP and de-regulation, we reset the table. Now Telcos have an advantage again. Converged services over IP, esp. voice and video. This puts Vonage and their ilk and Comcast in a position to ward these off. Why use Vonage over the Internet with no service levels, when you can use IP telephony over the DSL provider network with service guarantees? The only reason would be cost.
Comcast may fight back with partnerships to offer voice in a bundle. Vonage's offering already goes a long way to destroying the E.164 convention. I live in one state and have 4 phone numbers on my line, the last 3 being in different states so people can call me without toll to them. International prefixes and U.S. area codes will simply vanish.
99% of home users cannot use that much bandwidth regularly. But I think some of this will be licensed by Covad and other national DSL providers to provide business class service over.
If you look at Covad's web site, they have restructured the business offerings to offer DSL and Fractional T1 as EQUAL alternatives. And the large reason, I feel, is that DSL has issues with troubleshooting and reliability. It's hard to offer an SLA on DSL, when it was designed to adapt for noise. I've seen people get 8k of throughput on a 512k DSL line, just because the line has so much interference or has been bridged tapped too many times, that it is almost not useable. Almost. it costs money to train help deks to go into CPE and look at the db levels. With T1, it's a bit more cut and dried. You may need to adjust the CSU for power, but once it is going - well, that's what it is. ESF is going to give you the number of channels x 64k (56k if you need bit robbing).
But T1s get expensive as you start to bundle them. Multiple CSUs start adding up. Covad has them equal for now, because the fastest business class DSL they have is also 1.5Mb/s. Probably because they backhaul it over DS1.
With offerings of 25Mb/s, I know alot of companies that would like to get that for ROBOs. Very attractive. An office of 50 people can use that much bandwidth, I've seen it happen.
hell I made a example prototype from the information I recieved from mister Zimmerman back in 1997 for playing around with PAN's when i was heavy into the wearable computing research.
:-)
Is that why your handle is "Lumpy"?
I thought I saw it on the front of an ATI video card box. "The Radeon is the best perfevid on the market!"
It isn't CIOs who created this trend. It's Human Resource professionals. How many HR people do you know, people with a background or a degree in HR, that you would want to be stranded on an island with? And discount the cute ones who are hot. Answer: none.
. Think any of these guys have certs? I doubt it. Think they need them? No.
Why? It's because they are trained in the art of evaluation and discipline. They couch it words like training and development, compensation analysis, etc. But it's about deciding how to hire people, how to fire people without putting the corporation at risk. Very few, if any, lead any efforts toward team building or fostering leadership. That's just crap on their resume.
I went to a seminar hosted by my state on technology. They had sessions, I went to the HR one just for kicks. They had HR people from a major carrier there, and the questions were big softballs like "what do you look for when hiring people for hi tech jobs?" The answer made me want to puke. "We look for people with something extrordinary on their resume, something that sets them apart from the crowd. Extra volunteer work, to show they are community minded." Bull and shit. They look for certs. They don't know any better, they have no clue how to distinguish a solid technical candidate from one that knows a bunch of acronyms. There is big big money in the IT training industry, so they fold and defer to the "system". In many cases, if these are jobs online such as Monster or something - submissions are run through filters that weed out any resume that doesn't have the right letters in it.
This has an interesting effect. Really smart people who don't want to run through cert treadmills almost never fill the ranks of corporate button down places. Consultants from places like the Big 5 and "big name" IT consultant places are, in my experience, uniformly idiots who are hired because they are sheep and will get the certs and sit in cubes and be good little boys and girls. Really bright people go to start-ups and work in small, dynamic companies and network personally at conventions, and set up website SHOWING their skills. Most of them don't hold any certs, and wouldn't want to. Many of them come from top university programs, in the states those would be Cal-Berk, MIT and Carnegie Mellon. And some others.
Take a look at these guys in Bucharest doing a submarine game (http://www.silent-hunteriii.com/uk/dev_team.php)
I think Billy Mumy should be the curator. I mean, really, what else is he doing?
"Cap'n - I think if we reverse the heavy light mesons, we can interuupt the Klingon's charmed anti-quark field just long enuf to escape!"
Shatner: "Scotty, you only have 60 seconds, hurry!"
And, BTW, congrats to the Fermi team. I have plenty of friends employed there, I always like to see new discoveries. Good job, guys.
like C++ or perl
Damn, Perl is already on the trash-heap of programming languages? I guess so. I just saw a university site that I had coded a perl CGI with a RBDMS back end web-app replaced last week with an ASP, after 5 years of solid use.
Better go hang myself now, I'm done...
*IF* the Xbox2 will be backwards compatible (and considering the architecture of a proposed PPC chip and all, that will be very surprising)
I'm having trouble finding articles suggesting what will happen one way or another. I can't see how they would freeze out current Xbox owners, and expect to sell new expensive consoles. People would go nuts. But, as you say, Intel vs. PPC. Any links on this issue?
Yes, I know. It was banned last year. Yet Renault continues to blast off the line better than any other team. Last year, much was made of how Renault had made great strides with LC. It seems to be a subtle difference from the driver's standpoint. They used to push a button to launch the car, now they just seem to push a different button to handle the clutching.
I was just browsing the responses, seeing if anybody was going to say this.
It's nice that the parent poster likes Word 5.1. Great. It's time to put that away and get with OpenOffice. Rome is burning, kids, let's stop fiddling. Use Open Office and contribute to it's proliferation with everyone you know.
Do you want to know just how far towards the jackbooted brownshirts they've become? Tom Clancy is against Bush. I don't think he can bring himself to publically say he will vote for Kerry, but he and several ex-joint chiefs of staff, including a couple of admirals from the Reagan era are coming out publically against the Bush administration. He cannot stand the way Bush went into Iraq with a lie, and now U.S. servicemen and women are being hung out to dry.
Ron Reagan Jr. is not a guy who is known as an arch-conservative, I grant you that. But nevertheless, he took the opportunity at the Reagan funeral to say the Bush administration was the most corrupt in history! The Reagans HATE the Bush family, Nancy even got a backhanded dig in at GW trying to get some spin off the funeral.
At this point you almost need somebody like Newt Gingrich to try and get the podium at the republican convention (unlikely) and start screaming how the party has been hijacked by extremists. This isn't Bush part II, this has become Pat Buchanan's administration at this point.
...either that or his car is only hooked up at 128k. Cause it's slashdotted... anyone have a mirror?