I was beginning to feel old when I used the term "Zerg Rush" to describe anything involving lots of people swarming to get at something. By younger IT colleagues would roll their eyes at the "old man" with his dated terms.
Now there will be a new generation of geeks who will learn the power of the Zerg...
The DTI specification has a distance limitation of 200 meters between the CMTS and edge QAM modulator. There are ideas of utilizing global positioning system (GPS) to sync multiple time servers to allow the edge QAM modulator to be in a hub site and the CMTS in the headend.
The US of A is a big place. Much bigger than say - the UK. Or Japan. Each of which are about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. The US of A is MUCH MUCH larger. You start running into economies of scale, since your HFC needs to run to individual neighborhood drops.
It's a much bigger problem, and not quite the answer to FiOS dropping MMF right into your home.
Suddenly, with Garriott on the witness stand, Rainz, cleverly disguised using his 'Appearance as Matlock' spell - reaches into his briefcase and produces a fire scroll!!!!!!!!!!
Alas, Bailiff Blackthorne could not reach him in time...
It's criminal overlord Mandarin, controlling his gang of Triads from an underground bunker that can only be accessed via secret door in the base of the Statue of Liberty.
It will take an epic alliance of Tony Stark and Peter Parker to put aside their past differences, fighting over the woman they both loved, and both lost, to put a stop to this criminal masterplot to end the world as we know it.
Starring: Jackie Chan as the Mandarin
Zac Efron as Peter Parker
and Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark.
This probably makes the Actor's Guild shit themselves. Technically, they may have an intellectual property clause wide enough to drive a Freightliner full of liquid nitrogen through. They could digitize him, and as long as he didn't have a speaking part, they could even have an action sequence with him fighting Bale/Connor and all of that, and say "hey, it's all covered under the same contract that lets us use your likeness for Terminator toys, etc. We don't owe you anything."
That, of course, would probably put a halt to actors willing to be greenscreened and bodysuited, and do voiceover for tie-in games like Jackman and Wolverine.
Not to toot my own horn, but I predicted Oracle would buy Sun [infoworld.com] before the deal was announced -- but I didn't do it months ago.
Neil McAllister called it first, people! He didn't want to toot his own horn, but my stupid generalization made him!
I'm very sorry, Neil. You did call it, and my Google searches cannot find an older periodical that did. You win the IT columnist Pulitzer, whatever that is called. Richly deserved.
Speculation in Usenet and mailing lists predate this, but it was of the "Oracle could use Sun" commentary variety, and nothing akin to your piece that clearly lays out the logic why.
If I had bought in at 6.5 the day your article was published, I would be sitting pretty at 9 now, probably 10 and a half by the end of the week. My bad.
I got your space raspberry right here....
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There was an article published online several months ago explaining why Oracle and Sun were a good fit. All of Oracle's application server architecture is built around Java. J2EE rules the Oracle roost. Oracle will pull the plug on selling servers, they wanted Java and Solaris. Solaris gives them SIGNIFICANT leverage over Redhat when working deals for large installs of Oracle. They can bundle a complete solution, even down to the hardware and lock EVERYONE else out of big deals.
Lots of analysts saw this as a possible deal, and McNealy was extremely arrogant in walking away from IBM so you had to figure something was up.
Sounds like the brass at Microsoft is suffering brain drain of its own. I bet Schmidt over at Google already knew exactly what was going to happen.
It's not about the environment that suits me, it's about getting me away from other people. I need to talk to the code, saying things like "shit", or "are you serious?" when looking at something that won't work or was poorly written.
I also snap gum, click my tounge and make whirring noises to add sound effects to traces.
So it's really just about getting me away from other coders (or anyone who wants to concentrate) when I am coding.
On one hand, in Proactive security mode, it will tell you anytime a process it doesn't know does anything. Accessess a registry key, tries to open a socket, tries to piggyback outbound placing a HTTP connection via the IE object, what.dll is getting linked for anything it doesn't know. It's miles ahead of Zonealarm, and it's free.
On the other hand, if CIPAV has an exception deep in the executable, then it's pointless.
I wish Comodo was distributed open source and you could compile it yourself using Visual Studio.
And a love interest. Some incredibly hot early 20s actress who uses a Macbook Pro and wears librarian glasses. In real life, as an actress, she can't even spell kernel correctly. But in this plot, she's writing code so fast it looks like you just cat'ed the source tree to Quake or something. And her terminal should have a black screen, with pink text - to highlight her kick ass femininity.
Are You Ready Swedes?
Aye Aye Captain
I Can't Hear You
AYE AYE CAPTAIN
OHHHHHH
Who lives in a datacenter under the sea?
computer vetenskapsman!
Absorbant and yellow and porous are we?
computer vetenskapsman!
Who's nautical nonsense be something you wish?
computer vetenskapsman!
So drop on the deck and flop like a fish!
computer vetenskapsman!
Ready?
computer vetenskapsman!
computer vetenskapsman!
computer vetenskapsman!
computer vetenskapsman!
Did you not see Independence Day?
Jeff Goldblum took down AlienO/S with some C++ he wrote on a fucking Apple Notebook. He didn't even AUTHENTICATE for god's sake.
Vista is a goddamn fortress next to that.
Linux is taking over in the data centers of America. You don't WANT competition from voucher trained indviduals. The free market will value your Linux skills, and the scarcity will drive your value up.
Look what MCSE boot camps did to Windows SysAdmin salaries. Just historically chart them with Janco data or Salary.com historical data.
Personally, I want EVERY government training program to be training people is skills the real free market considers useless. Don't you?
Someday... I gave up speculating when... Internet 2 may revive the concept of the MBONE. YouTube is the end result of killing multicast. Yes, sometimes I want to see home made videos of cats flushing toilets. Yes, I know it has no social value.
A central hosting model will NOT work. Only a distributed one will. And it should support LIVE one-to-many scaling. The END USER should pay for this. If my garage band hits it big, I should be able to push a medium bit rate H.264 stream into the grid, and the grid should copy it to everyone who subscribes. Maybe it's PIM driven multicast, maybe it's something in Internet 2 I don't even know about yet.
If 120,000 people watch my feed, then so be it. I don't pay extra for feeding that content into the grid, it's absorbed into my fixed cost. Also, there should be no censorship. PIM doesn't support authenticated joins, but the future model must.
The "You" in You tube has to go back out to the people. Multicast or the network based model is the only way to do it.
Sony Playstation 3 firmware upgrade added the link-in to Youtube during the last upgrade. Anyone who DIDN'T see this coming was blind.
Sony and it's empire vs. Microsoft and Disney and ABC on the other. Paramount is on the Hulu/Xbox side, owning NBC which really started moving so much of its stuff to Hulu, all the SNL episodes and lots of its archive stuff.
This fight will expand to be a USA vs. the world thing. If I am over at Google/Youtube my strategy is to take licensing outside the states. Get international content exclusive to Youtube with the Playstation tie in. Get broadband deals done with the major providers in Europe. Isolate the Hulu guys to providing US content only.
Content is king, and it's like suddenly everyone realized the general public couldn't do it. There are only so many videos of your guild's Epic WoW raid or cats flushing toilets that will hold an ad revenue stream in place.
Sony can really break the Hulu grip if they eschew any embedded commercials in the video streams. Grab Fox Studios and maybe Lionsgate, get New Line Cinema and it's game over.
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I was beginning to feel old when I used the term "Zerg Rush" to describe anything involving lots of people swarming to get at something. By younger IT colleagues would roll their eyes at the "old man" with his dated terms.
Now there will be a new generation of geeks who will learn the power of the Zerg...
You are correct. I should have said dis-economies of scale - but then I would just be making language up. I should have corrected it.
Lest anyone think DOCSIS 3 is just new hardware at both ends, let me assure you - it isn't.
From: http://www.cable360.net/ct/strategy/emergingtech/34304.html
The DTI specification has a distance limitation of 200 meters between the CMTS and edge QAM modulator. There are ideas of utilizing global positioning system (GPS) to sync multiple time servers to allow the edge QAM modulator to be in a hub site and the CMTS in the headend.
The US of A is a big place. Much bigger than say - the UK. Or Japan. Each of which are about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. The US of A is MUCH MUCH larger. You start running into economies of scale, since your HFC needs to run to individual neighborhood drops.
It's a much bigger problem, and not quite the answer to FiOS dropping MMF right into your home.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/1997/0512borland.html
In the end, Microsoft strategy of simply throwing obscene salaries at the Borland talent ultimately worked. It was systematic, it was effective.
Now go suck on Visual Studio.
http://gmtristan.com/the-man-who-killed-lord-british/
Suddenly, with Garriott on the witness stand, Rainz, cleverly disguised using his 'Appearance as Matlock' spell - reaches into his briefcase and produces a fire scroll!!!!!!!!!!
Alas, Bailiff Blackthorne could not reach him in time...
Come on, Slashdot!
The first rule of World of Fight is that nobody talks about World of Fight.
It's criminal overlord Mandarin, controlling his gang of Triads from an underground bunker that can only be accessed via secret door in the base of the Statue of Liberty.
It will take an epic alliance of Tony Stark and Peter Parker to put aside their past differences, fighting over the woman they both loved, and both lost, to put a stop to this criminal masterplot to end the world as we know it.
Starring: Jackie Chan as the Mandarin
Zac Efron as Peter Parker
and Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark.
This probably makes the Actor's Guild shit themselves. Technically, they may have an intellectual property clause wide enough to drive a Freightliner full of liquid nitrogen through. They could digitize him, and as long as he didn't have a speaking part, they could even have an action sequence with him fighting Bale/Connor and all of that, and say "hey, it's all covered under the same contract that lets us use your likeness for Terminator toys, etc. We don't owe you anything."
That, of course, would probably put a halt to actors willing to be greenscreened and bodysuited, and do voiceover for tie-in games like Jackman and Wolverine.
In the United States, this is known as the Cheney-Libby Axiom.
Some of us just called it getting Dick'ed.
Not to toot my own horn, but I predicted Oracle would buy Sun [infoworld.com] before the deal was announced -- but I didn't do it months ago.
Neil McAllister called it first, people! He didn't want to toot his own horn, but my stupid generalization made him!
I'm very sorry, Neil. You did call it, and my Google searches cannot find an older periodical that did. You win the IT columnist Pulitzer, whatever that is called. Richly deserved.
Speculation in Usenet and mailing lists predate this, but it was of the "Oracle could use Sun" commentary variety, and nothing akin to your piece that clearly lays out the logic why.
If I had bought in at 6.5 the day your article was published, I would be sitting pretty at 9 now, probably 10 and a half by the end of the week. My bad.
Pttttttttttttttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Set that to Strauss' Blue Danube and suck on it!
That Ballmer had no prepared spin is amazing.
...developers, developers, developers, developers.....ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There was an article published online several months ago explaining why Oracle and Sun were a good fit. All of Oracle's application server architecture is built around Java. J2EE rules the Oracle roost. Oracle will pull the plug on selling servers, they wanted Java and Solaris. Solaris gives them SIGNIFICANT leverage over Redhat when working deals for large installs of Oracle. They can bundle a complete solution, even down to the hardware and lock EVERYONE else out of big deals.
Lots of analysts saw this as a possible deal, and McNealy was extremely arrogant in walking away from IBM so you had to figure something was up.
Sounds like the brass at Microsoft is suffering brain drain of its own. I bet Schmidt over at Google already knew exactly what was going to happen.
Old and slow Ballmer.... old and slow...
Yeah! He probably still thinks the Internet is a big truck.
You could give the gun barrel head, thus removing the stress from your knees.
Just trying to help...
It's not about the environment that suits me, it's about getting me away from other people. I need to talk to the code, saying things like "shit", or "are you serious?" when looking at something that won't work or was poorly written.
I also snap gum, click my tounge and make whirring noises to add sound effects to traces.
So it's really just about getting me away from other coders (or anyone who wants to concentrate) when I am coding.
He leaves his sweaty armpit dress shirts down there, though.
I have mixed feelings about Comodo:
.dll is getting linked for anything it doesn't know. It's miles ahead of Zonealarm, and it's free.
http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/
On one hand, in Proactive security mode, it will tell you anytime a process it doesn't know does anything. Accessess a registry key, tries to open a socket, tries to piggyback outbound placing a HTTP connection via the IE object, what
On the other hand, if CIPAV has an exception deep in the executable, then it's pointless.
I wish Comodo was distributed open source and you could compile it yourself using Visual Studio.
And a love interest. Some incredibly hot early 20s actress who uses a Macbook Pro and wears librarian glasses. In real life, as an actress, she can't even spell kernel correctly. But in this plot, she's writing code so fast it looks like you just cat'ed the source tree to Quake or something. And her terminal should have a black screen, with pink text - to highlight her kick ass femininity.
Are You Ready Swedes?
Aye Aye Captain
I Can't Hear You
AYE AYE CAPTAIN
OHHHHHH
Who lives in a datacenter under the sea?
computer vetenskapsman!
Absorbant and yellow and porous are we?
computer vetenskapsman!
Who's nautical nonsense be something you wish?
computer vetenskapsman!
So drop on the deck and flop like a fish! computer vetenskapsman!
Ready?
computer vetenskapsman!
computer vetenskapsman!
computer vetenskapsman!
computer vetenskapsman!
Did you not see Independence Day? Jeff Goldblum took down AlienO/S with some C++ he wrote on a fucking Apple Notebook. He didn't even AUTHENTICATE for god's sake. Vista is a goddamn fortress next to that.
Why you consider this bad, I don't understand.
Linux is taking over in the data centers of America. You don't WANT competition from voucher trained indviduals. The free market will value your Linux skills, and the scarcity will drive your value up.
Look what MCSE boot camps did to Windows SysAdmin salaries. Just historically chart them with Janco data or Salary.com historical data.
Personally, I want EVERY government training program to be training people is skills the real free market considers useless. Don't you?
Someday... I gave up speculating when... Internet 2 may revive the concept of the MBONE. YouTube is the end result of killing multicast. Yes, sometimes I want to see home made videos of cats flushing toilets. Yes, I know it has no social value.
A central hosting model will NOT work. Only a distributed one will. And it should support LIVE one-to-many scaling. The END USER should pay for this. If my garage band hits it big, I should be able to push a medium bit rate H.264 stream into the grid, and the grid should copy it to everyone who subscribes. Maybe it's PIM driven multicast, maybe it's something in Internet 2 I don't even know about yet.
If 120,000 people watch my feed, then so be it. I don't pay extra for feeding that content into the grid, it's absorbed into my fixed cost. Also, there should be no censorship. PIM doesn't support authenticated joins, but the future model must.
The "You" in You tube has to go back out to the people. Multicast or the network based model is the only way to do it.
You get to landing on Titan, only to find out you have the wrong JRE installed.
Picture of spaceship crater, with caption: FAIL
I didn't realize I did that.
Come on. Destinated. That's a fucking cool word. It's a physical destination along with the inevitability of destiny.
I'm a god damn genius.
Sony Playstation 3 firmware upgrade added the link-in to Youtube during the last upgrade. Anyone who DIDN'T see this coming was blind.
Sony and it's empire vs. Microsoft and Disney and ABC on the other. Paramount is on the Hulu/Xbox side, owning NBC which really started moving so much of its stuff to Hulu, all the SNL episodes and lots of its archive stuff.
This fight will expand to be a USA vs. the world thing. If I am over at Google/Youtube my strategy is to take licensing outside the states. Get international content exclusive to Youtube with the Playstation tie in. Get broadband deals done with the major providers in Europe. Isolate the Hulu guys to providing US content only.
Content is king, and it's like suddenly everyone realized the general public couldn't do it. There are only so many videos of your guild's Epic WoW raid or cats flushing toilets that will hold an ad revenue stream in place.
Sony can really break the Hulu grip if they eschew any embedded commercials in the video streams. Grab Fox Studios and maybe Lionsgate, get New Line Cinema and it's game over.
Should be interesting...