Apollo, DEC, Amdahl, Prime, RCA, Remington Rand, GE, Univac, Perkin Elmer, MassComp, Concurrent Computer, Compaq, Sequent, Encore, Xerox, Scientific Data Systems, Wang, GO corporation...and so many more.
The only lesson you could profit from in all this carnage is knowing when to sell your shares, when to find a good merger rather than waiting for the bankers to hold a fire sale of your patent portfolio.
by those who couldn't explain or even recognize principles of thermodynamics...this crock will probably sell well, especially in countries where credulous consumers no longer doubt you can get something for nothing.
OldSchool News-Literary-Media Culture, I'd like you to meet Remix Culture. Remix Culture, this is my friend Oldschool News-Literary-Media Culture. You guys probably didn't even realize you were related did you? I'm sure you have a lot to talk about, so if you'll excuse me I think I'll go get a drink. [sound of footsteps in hasty retreat]
There are some wonderfully informative comments to this thread but back on the topic: why would the router mfg co's sign such a memo to their congressman?
theory: if you tier up the peering, you have to have more [though less busy] routers. A completely non-neutral net would seem to a user like a fragmented net with some locations taking rediculous turn around times on httpGet(). more tiers than the "one" tier we now have has to mean more routers [and more hops to get on and off some particular class of backbone].
A lot more people know something about cars than about software.
There is an old rule of thumb that a line of code adds about as much complexity [design complexity, implementation complexity, maintenance complexity] as adding one moving part to a mechanical system...and cars are the one mechanical system most people have experience. [just pray they don't ask about the computer chip in todays cars...which in general, has saved detroit from a horrendous complexity of mechanical feedback systems that would otherwise accomplish pollution control]
Cars also have subsystems, eg electrical, transmission is a complex gizmo in its own right etc. so composition of systems from subsystems...one of the essential aspects of modern software, has a good analogy in the automobile.
And besides...nobody likes to sound stupid: they might be ok with saying your explaination of software is confusing but they won't admit the car analogy is over their heads...just talk, they'll nod and shut up and leave you alone pretty soon so you can go back to coding.
The relocation of the entire Tufts campus is just one of those college pranks pulled off by UMD or perhaps Johns Hopkins engineering students. The MIT kids have their work cut out to top that!
can magically relocate to Maryland, all natural laws are suspect, and the so-called "constants", including the cosmological constant, aren't.
In other, related news, the big bang was not unique and the universe is at least a trillion years old. If you think Katrina was too much for FEMA, wait until the next big bang!
Verizon is surely going to behave as a benign force once it has secured legal rights to double bill for bandwidth.
Anybody want to help me set up a cellular decentralized shadow to the internet? I won't filter your e-mail if you won't filter mine.
And after all these discoveries of what is terrorism and what funds terrorism and who are terrorists and what terrorism does, it seems ironic that the administration has missed the most obvious evil of terrorism...it make u stewpid.
only so much you can do to a desk, e.g. if its old and "expensed" on the company's books, drilling a few holes might be ok [for better cable routing]
And wireless everything could save some deskspace for books and papers and coffee.
But here is what I once did when I was stuck with one of those iron boxes. I removed the cushion from the arm rest and bolted on a plank cut from a shipping pallet. I made it so it could swing away or hover over my lap. then I fastened my keyboard to the plank. Since it was a swivel chair with liberal adjustments to the springs, I could get just the right line of sight from eye to terminal and rock back and forth as I typed, which is a lot less fatiguing than sitting still for hours at a time.
This president thinks there is more than one internet. This president has problems with words, let alone sentences. This president does not know how to operate a pretzel let alone a computer...IOW this president most certainly could not have dreamt up the massive internet spy engines or even the most general requirements. What is different about this president from Clinton? He is on record as being disdainful of any legal impediment to his spying on anyone. This president has a well documented habit of knowing beforehand just what the truth is and only retaining the staff who will go and find that truth.
Have any of you commenters realized that if you can read an unecrypted packet that has no digital signature, and see into its contents well enough to extract semantic content, then you can modify the content or store an alternative version of the content? Who is going to refute records NSA claims to have pulled out of it log files? At the very least, NSA will have more and better records of your internet traffic than you do.
yer damn straight its worrisome.
Kwajlein is hardly a cold bitter wasteland...but alcoholism soars for the longtimers there...they get compliments on their great suntans as they
check into the rehab.
That is disgusting but it works.
so if you want to stick to coding, and you like work in communicatons or realtime or robotics or uh , things that go boom...get a clearance.
Of course its the employer who pays for you to get a clearance all you have to do is not have debts, drugs, arrests etc on your record. Oh yes one other thing, now with bush throwing civil rights in revers, you better not be gay either.
all the defense contractors have great jobs that go begging for want of people who have a clearance. We just don't outsource secret work to other countries...not even Israel.
I have known too many perfectly practical teachers to subscribe to the old putdown that Those who can't do teach
But after all the years of SCOing around so that the name for a has-been operating system company has become a synonym for DESPERATE/FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT we may need a new saying: Those who can't code sue.
Relativity is not intuitive. Your questions demonstrate that much for sure.
The space traveler's DO NOT notice any change in the pace of time. Nobody will ever notice any change in the pace of their own clocks, chemical processes or entropy rates. The traveler will look back at earth and see that all its distances are foreshortened in the direction of travel. The earthlings will look at the space ship and think its clock is running too slow. The paradox is resolved by noting that one underwent acceleration and the other did not.
The question "two photons, L and R, head out from a lightbulb going in opposite directions, what is their relative speed?" is the classic question for separating the clued from the clueless. When you ask the question, you are acutally implying the fixed cartesian grid throughout space that you just said you knew to be a mistake. You're imaginging yourself in some priveleged observational frame seeing two photons but what question are you really asking? You are asking "what relative speed does photon L measure in trying to measure the speed of photon R?" The answer is always and only C no matter who takes the measurement. It was that observation, difficult though it was for others to accept it, that got Einstein thinking in the first place, it was like the proverbial apple that hit Newton on the head.
Try to think "space is squishy because of the time dimension"...not easy but it helps some people to visualize the physical world as relativistic observations reveal it to be.
Martin Gardener probably wrote some of the most accessible books on relativity for non physicists though he seems to leave some readers confused about GR...but then most people always will be. But if you are a really fast learner, you could try these lecturesSpace and Time in Special Relativity looks good but I have not read it...there are dozens of these. I got started with an introductory book by Bertrand Russell that is long out of print. Gamow was also a good popularizer.
The time dialation effect is apparent only to observers left behind on earth.
To the astronaut, the clock ticks as fast as always and they live their three score and ten like anybody else. They return from their trip and find WE have aged faster. The radiation thing is certainly real and certainly unrelated to relativity. When you build your almost-lightspeed ship, be sure to lay on plenty of sheilding.
Congress enacted sections 521-523 of the Depository Institutions Regulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 (DIDA)(4) to authorize federally-insured, state-chartered banks, and federally-chartered and federally-insured, state-chartered savings associations, and credit unions to charge interest at the greater of (i) one percent in excess of the ninety-day commercial paper discount rate in effect at the Federal Reserve Bank in the Federal Reserve District where the institution is located or (ii) the rate allowed by the laws of the state where the institution is located.]
Ever since then, banks make enough money on credit cards that they just write off the bad cards using the huge profits as insurance...they can be sloppy as hell and still make money and guess who pays their insurance premium: you, sucker [if you carry any revolving CC debt at all].
moral: pay the CC in full, the day before its due and take advantage of the system...these usurious rates also eliminated the annual fees.
start-ups are the cheapest way to get innovation. The established companies have to hack a lot of their entrenched bureaucracy along with gathering the talent and protecting them from distraction and letting them do threatening things to the technical or market underpinings of the companies existing success....so sure, the big guys will buy up open source start-ups. They don't do it to kill competition in all cases but they find the threat to business as usual is just as hard for other departments and divisions to swallow when it is coming from inside the walls as from outside.
The purchase saves money and fills a gap in a product line.
What I don't get is how the purchasing company determines whether or not taking its fork of the OS code private and perhaps adding value to the product by further development or by integration to the companies existing product is going to pay off. I mean what did they really buy? it certainly isn't the proprietary advantage of buying a company that has IP assets. And how could you judge the deal without knowing what sort of talent retention the merger would achieve?
it certainly underscores a strength of web based applications: It was looking like a bug one morning but by afternoon, only fixed versions of the code were to be found. Centralized reloading of gmail's servers means everybody got the fix at the same time more or less. What would the time line of such a security hole be if it occured in Outlook? Eudora?
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Apollo, DEC, Amdahl, Prime, RCA, Remington Rand, GE, Univac, Perkin Elmer, MassComp, Concurrent Computer, Compaq, Sequent, Encore, Xerox, Scientific Data Systems, Wang, GO corporation...and so many more.
The only lesson you could profit from in all this carnage is knowing when to sell your shares, when to find a good merger rather than waiting for the bankers to hold a fire sale of your patent portfolio.
by those who couldn't explain or even recognize principles of thermodynamics...this crock will probably sell well, especially in countries where credulous consumers no longer doubt you can get something for nothing.
yep, the feedback loop there is positive only in the system engineering sense.
depression is more likely for people who don't get out much:
and heart disease but other than that, no, you should be just fine without a real life, er, I mean without real life.
Since congress has no balls, this research may just save us all...oh wait, its a kind of stem cell research? Never mind. We are doomed.
OldSchool News-Literary-Media Culture, I'd like you to meet Remix Culture. Remix Culture, this is my friend Oldschool News-Literary-Media Culture. You guys probably didn't even realize you were related did you? I'm sure you have a lot to talk about, so if you'll excuse me I think I'll go get a drink. [sound of footsteps in hasty retreat]
There are some wonderfully informative comments to this thread but back on the topic: why would the router mfg co's sign such a memo to their congressman?
theory: if you tier up the peering, you have to have more [though less busy] routers. A completely non-neutral net would seem to a user like a fragmented net with some locations taking rediculous turn around times on httpGet(). more tiers than the "one" tier we now have has to mean more routers [and more hops to get on and off some particular class of backbone].
A lot more people know something about cars than about software. There is an old rule of thumb that a line of code adds about as much complexity [design complexity, implementation complexity, maintenance complexity] as adding one moving part to a mechanical system...and cars are the one mechanical system most people have experience. [just pray they don't ask about the computer chip in todays cars...which in general, has saved detroit from a horrendous complexity of mechanical feedback systems that would otherwise accomplish pollution control] Cars also have subsystems, eg electrical, transmission is a complex gizmo in its own right etc. so composition of systems from subsystems...one of the essential aspects of modern software, has a good analogy in the automobile. And besides...nobody likes to sound stupid: they might be ok with saying your explaination of software is confusing but they won't admit the car analogy is over their heads...just talk, they'll nod and shut up and leave you alone pretty soon so you can go back to coding.
can die of cancer.
The relocation of the entire Tufts campus is just one of those college pranks pulled off by UMD or perhaps Johns Hopkins engineering students. The MIT kids have their work cut out to top that!
can magically relocate to Maryland, all natural laws are suspect, and the so-called "constants", including the cosmological constant, aren't.
In other, related news, the big bang was not unique and the universe is at least a trillion years old. If you think Katrina was too much for FEMA, wait until the next big bang!
Verizon is surely going to behave as a benign force once it has secured legal rights to double bill for bandwidth. Anybody want to help me set up a cellular decentralized shadow to the internet? I won't filter your e-mail if you won't filter mine.
And after all these discoveries of what is terrorism and what funds terrorism and who are terrorists and what terrorism does, it seems ironic that the administration has missed the most obvious evil of terrorism...it make u stewpid.
only so much you can do to a desk, e.g. if its old and "expensed" on the company's books, drilling a few holes might be ok [for better cable routing] And wireless everything could save some deskspace for books and papers and coffee. But here is what I once did when I was stuck with one of those iron boxes. I removed the cushion from the arm rest and bolted on a plank cut from a shipping pallet. I made it so it could swing away or hover over my lap. then I fastened my keyboard to the plank. Since it was a swivel chair with liberal adjustments to the springs, I could get just the right line of sight from eye to terminal and rock back and forth as I typed, which is a lot less fatiguing than sitting still for hours at a time.
This president thinks there is more than one internet. This president has problems with words, let alone sentences. This president does not know how to operate a pretzel let alone a computer...IOW this president most certainly could not have dreamt up the massive internet spy engines or even the most general requirements. What is different about this president from Clinton? He is on record as being disdainful of any legal impediment to his spying on anyone. This president has a well documented habit of knowing beforehand just what the truth is and only retaining the staff who will go and find that truth.
Have any of you commenters realized that if you can read an unecrypted packet that has no digital signature, and see into its contents well enough to extract semantic content, then you can modify the content or store an alternative version of the content? Who is going to refute records NSA claims to have pulled out of it log files? At the very least, NSA will have more and better records of your internet traffic than you do. yer damn straight its worrisome.
Kwajlein is hardly a cold bitter wasteland...but alcoholism soars for the longtimers there...they get compliments on their great suntans as they check into the rehab.
but before you mod this comment down, check out the facts
It would be good if they had robots to do the dirty work in Korea because as it stands, they think that is what women are for.
That is disgusting but it works. so if you want to stick to coding, and you like work in communicatons or realtime or robotics or uh , things that go boom...get a clearance. Of course its the employer who pays for you to get a clearance all you have to do is not have debts, drugs, arrests etc on your record. Oh yes one other thing, now with bush throwing civil rights in revers, you better not be gay either. all the defense contractors have great jobs that go begging for want of people who have a clearance. We just don't outsource secret work to other countries...not even Israel.
I have known too many perfectly practical teachers to subscribe to the old putdown that
Those who can't do teach
But after all the years of SCOing around so that the name for a has-been operating system company has become a synonym for DESPERATE/FRIVOLOUS LAWSUIT we may need a new saying:
Those who can't code sue.
Relativity is not intuitive. Your questions demonstrate that much for sure.
The space traveler's DO NOT notice any change in the pace of time. Nobody will ever notice any change in the pace of their own clocks, chemical processes or entropy rates. The traveler will look back at earth and see that all its distances are foreshortened in the direction of travel. The earthlings will look at the space ship and think its clock is running too slow. The paradox is resolved by noting that one underwent acceleration and the other did not.
The question "two photons, L and R, head out from a lightbulb going in opposite directions, what is their relative speed?" is the classic question for separating the clued from the clueless. When you ask the question, you are acutally implying the fixed cartesian grid throughout space that you just said you knew to be a mistake. You're imaginging yourself in some priveleged observational frame seeing two photons but what question are you really asking? You are asking "what relative speed does photon L measure in trying to measure the speed of photon R?" The answer is always and only C no matter who takes the measurement. It was that observation, difficult though it was for others to accept it, that got Einstein thinking in the first place, it was like the proverbial apple that hit Newton on the head.
Try to think "space is squishy because of the time dimension"...not easy but it helps some people to visualize the physical world as relativistic observations reveal it to be.
Martin Gardener probably wrote some of the most accessible books on relativity for non physicists though he seems to leave some readers confused about GR...but then most people always will be. But if you are a really fast learner, you could try these lectures Space and Time in Special Relativity looks good but I have not read it...there are dozens of these. I got started with an introductory book by Bertrand Russell that is long out of print. Gamow was also a good popularizer.
The time dialation effect is apparent only to observers left behind on earth. To the astronaut, the clock ticks as fast as always and they live their three score and ten like anybody else. They return from their trip and find WE have aged faster. The radiation thing is certainly real and certainly unrelated to relativity. When you build your almost-lightspeed ship, be sure to lay on plenty of sheilding.
actually use there real names? Or refrain from killing/suing others who do?]7[
moral: pay the CC in full, the day before its due and take advantage of the system...these usurious rates also eliminated the annual fees.
start-ups are the cheapest way to get innovation. The established companies have to hack a lot of their entrenched bureaucracy along with gathering the talent and protecting them from distraction and letting them do threatening things to the technical or market underpinings of the companies existing success....so sure, the big guys will buy up open source start-ups. They don't do it to kill competition in all cases but they find the threat to business as usual is just as hard for other departments and divisions to swallow when it is coming from inside the walls as from outside. The purchase saves money and fills a gap in a product line. What I don't get is how the purchasing company determines whether or not taking its fork of the OS code private and perhaps adding value to the product by further development or by integration to the companies existing product is going to pay off. I mean what did they really buy? it certainly isn't the proprietary advantage of buying a company that has IP assets. And how could you judge the deal without knowing what sort of talent retention the merger would achieve?
it certainly underscores a strength of web based applications: It was looking like a bug one morning but by afternoon, only fixed versions of the code were to be found. Centralized reloading of gmail's servers means everybody got the fix at the same time more or less. What would the time line of such a security hole be if it occured in Outlook? Eudora?