Very insightful commentary.:) I've also read that because wages in India are rising, *they* are starting to outsource *their* stuff to Bangladesh, Thailand, China and Vietnam!
Why not conserve and use the materials here on Earth more frugally before sullying other planet(oid)s? There's plenty of raw material on this planet if we use it judiciously instead of landfilling everything.
You're absolutely right. 32b processors will continue to enjoy a healthy uptake in the embedded market. In fact, many embedded companies are still selling 8b and 16b processors en masse.
This article is rubbish. Anything that can be reduced to arithmetic and boolean functions can be expressed on a computer. The gates on a CPU could care less what they're storing or calculating.
In this day and age, I think such a 'low-tech' approach is ludicrous. Aside from the environmental costs (fuel, pollution), any updates to maps take a long time. Why not use GIS (Geographical Information Service) data? Since most of these systems are tax-funded, mapquest.com could get them for free. Or hell, localities can SELL the data to mapquest, helping to offset budget crises.
I think Sun has become much like Digital Equipment. For decades, played second fiddle to IBM. Finally in the late 1990's, they got squeezed from both above and below. The same is happening to Sun. Just like Compaq bought out DEC for its customer base and intellectual property, I foresee Sun being ripe for a takeover by let's see...perhaps Dell? I mean it's no secret that Dell views the consumer white-box market as a sunset industry, so it's been aggressively expanding upward into the enterprise/server space. So what does it do? It buys up Sun to head off the HP/Compaq behemoth.
The US is worse. On average, a movie being aired will be interrupted every 18 minutes. In fact, I took a mass comm. class, and the statistic is that for every hour of broadcasting, 22 minutes consists of commercials. As a contrast, from 1948 (when TV first started being broadcast on a regular basis after WWII) until the last 1980's, for every hour of broadcasting, only 12 minutes consisted of commercials. I think what's at fault is that instead of Madison Avenue delivering a poignant, succinct message in 30 seconds, every commercial has to be a 'production' with bells and whistles, flash and glam. It'll get to the point where we say, 'Would you like a show with that commercial?' It's kind of like hockey games: 'I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.'
By the way, what follows is NOT a troll. Here's one big solution to all these blackouts: BURY THE FUCKING LINES!!!!! Yeah, it'll cost tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Would you like to spend $100B now, or a $1 trillion over the course of the next 50 years from the cumulative effects of blackouts?
Every attempt at 'deregulation' I have seen has sent quality into the shitter and prices up. It's simply for this reason: providers only maintain their network when it's 'profitable', and they can determine that profit point. They usually let a network go to pot before they're forced to upgrade it. I don't want to see the electrical grid go the way of the airlines or the cable TV market.
I'm sorry, but for all of the media wonks saying this doesn't appear to be terrorism, I think they're just trying to keep the masses from going nuts. I think this *is* a terrorist act. It's entirely too 'coincidental' for my tastes. And notice how close it is to the 2nd anniversary of 9/11 (within a month).
I think the tripe about 'young minds working faster' is a load of bollocks. They hire younger people because they can work them 80 hours a week and not have them complain about never seeing the spouse and kids. That's what it comes down to. PHB's can work young whippersnappers longer and harder because they have increased physical stamina. They can also pay them a lot less to do the same work because these kids don't have mortgages and kid's college funds to worry about.
It's no accident that the Apple ][ led the market in the early 80's precisely due to its open nature. Once they introduced the relatively closed Mac in '84, their market-share steadily dwindled over the next 20ish years.
Good. When I was in CS, I had people in my classes who couldn't even turn on a computer. They admitted that they hate computers, but were in the field to make $$$. Good riddance to those sorry fuckwads. Let them go back to jockeying the grill at McDonald's.
Look at this page: http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link0110/ att-0140/01-100Mbps_internet_access_at_home__M_ttg r_nd__Ume_.htm
It details how a Swedish neighbourhood installed fibre to every home. If you're going to break ground, you might as well go hole-hog and do it right the first time.
I agree with those posters who say Cornell's network is solely for educational purposes. As long as Cornell provides access to outside broadband providers (cable, xDSL, FSO, wireless), there should be no problem with people putting two NIC's in their machines and dual-homing them. I mean, shit. I can pop down to CompUSA and get a 100baseT PCI NIC for about $10. Bottom line: the school is obligated to provide for students' education, but not their entertainment. Another solution is for Cornell to completely get out of the business of providing connectivity to dorms and open it up to those companies providing access to MDU's (multiple dwelling units) -- and there are plenty of those companies. That way, the economics would cease to be distorted and those who use up a resource would have to pay proportionally. It's the same argument with water. I think it's silly that many apartment complexes include unmetered water useage with the rent. This distorts the allocation of this resource, as some people will wash their SUV's daily, whilst others hardly use water at all.
This merely confirms what we already knew intuitively. Musicians don't make money from records. In fact, a record can be viewed as an advertisement. They make money from merchandising, endorsements and ticket sales.
At what point will Microsoft decide - and start telling Joe Public - that a "Microsoft PC" is more trustworthy than an identical box built by Dell?
Isn't that what the Xbox is? Notice MS's big push into the living-room and all of its media initiatives. It would be a *very* small step for MS to start touting the Xbox as a general-purpose home solution. Now I know you guys are saying, 'Well that's great, but what about the corporate setting?' I've got an answer for that too. Look at their big push for a return to fat servers and thin clients. What if they are gearing.NET Server to run on big, locked-down iron, connected to crippled thin clients (nothing more than displays and input devices)? This is how I see it going. And it makes more sense. Sally in HR won't be as much of a headache for the desktop support guys if all she can do is use apps run remotely from a server as opposed to installing her own shit.
This has already been done before. Circuit City tried this lame strategy with Divx. And they failed miserably. I predict this strategy will fail equally miserably. Not to mention the environmental travesty of having billions of useless DVD's clogging landfills (unless they make provisions to recycle DVD's).
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Very insightful commentary. :) I've also read that because wages in India are rising, *they* are starting to outsource *their* stuff to Bangladesh, Thailand, China and Vietnam!
Why not conserve and use the materials here on Earth more frugally before sullying other planet(oid)s? There's plenty of raw material on this planet if we use it judiciously instead of landfilling everything.
You're absolutely right. 32b processors will continue to enjoy a healthy uptake in the embedded market. In fact, many embedded companies are still selling 8b and 16b processors en masse.
'Oh great, now I have to get the White Album all over again.'
I use Roboform myself. It's better than Gator, and has no spyware.
This article is rubbish. Anything that can be reduced to arithmetic and boolean functions can be expressed on a computer. The gates on a CPU could care less what they're storing or calculating.
In this day and age, I think such a 'low-tech' approach is ludicrous. Aside from the environmental costs (fuel, pollution), any updates to maps take a long time. Why not use GIS (Geographical Information Service) data? Since most of these systems are tax-funded, mapquest.com could get them for free. Or hell, localities can SELL the data to mapquest, helping to offset budget crises.
The title says it all.
I think Sun has become much like Digital Equipment. For decades, played second fiddle to IBM. Finally in the late 1990's, they got squeezed from both above and below. The same is happening to Sun. Just like Compaq bought out DEC for its customer base and intellectual property, I foresee Sun being ripe for a takeover by let's see...perhaps Dell? I mean it's no secret that Dell views the consumer white-box market as a sunset industry, so it's been aggressively expanding upward into the enterprise/server space. So what does it do? It buys up Sun to head off the HP/Compaq behemoth.
The US is worse. On average, a movie being aired will be interrupted every 18 minutes. In fact, I took a mass comm. class, and the statistic is that for every hour of broadcasting, 22 minutes consists of commercials. As a contrast, from 1948 (when TV first started being broadcast on a regular basis after WWII) until the last 1980's, for every hour of broadcasting, only 12 minutes consisted of commercials. I think what's at fault is that instead of Madison Avenue delivering a poignant, succinct message in 30 seconds, every commercial has to be a 'production' with bells and whistles, flash and glam. It'll get to the point where we say, 'Would you like a show with that commercial?' It's kind of like hockey games: 'I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.'
By the way, what follows is NOT a troll. Here's one big solution to all these blackouts: BURY THE FUCKING LINES!!!!! Yeah, it'll cost tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, but an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Would you like to spend $100B now, or a $1 trillion over the course of the next 50 years from the cumulative effects of blackouts?
There's already an X-replacement out there. It's called Fresco (www.fresco.org). Check it out.
Every attempt at 'deregulation' I have seen has sent quality into the shitter and prices up. It's simply for this reason: providers only maintain their network when it's 'profitable', and they can determine that profit point. They usually let a network go to pot before they're forced to upgrade it. I don't want to see the electrical grid go the way of the airlines or the cable TV market.
I'm sorry, but for all of the media wonks saying this doesn't appear to be terrorism, I think they're just trying to keep the masses from going nuts. I think this *is* a terrorist act. It's entirely too 'coincidental' for my tastes. And notice how close it is to the 2nd anniversary of 9/11 (within a month).
I think the tripe about 'young minds working faster' is a load of bollocks. They hire younger people because they can work them 80 hours a week and not have them complain about never seeing the spouse and kids. That's what it comes down to. PHB's can work young whippersnappers longer and harder because they have increased physical stamina. They can also pay them a lot less to do the same work because these kids don't have mortgages and kid's college funds to worry about.
It's no accident that the Apple ][ led the market in the early 80's precisely due to its open nature. Once they introduced the relatively closed Mac in '84, their market-share steadily dwindled over the next 20ish years.
Good. When I was in CS, I had people in my classes who couldn't even turn on a computer. They admitted that they hate computers, but were in the field to make $$$. Good riddance to those sorry fuckwads. Let them go back to jockeying the grill at McDonald's.
I'll *still* shop online for many things, because it's so much more convenient than having to negotiate hordes of prepubescent mall-crawlers.
Look at this page: http://www.anu.edu.au/mail-archives/link/link0110/ att-0140/01-100Mbps_internet_access_at_home__M_ttg r_nd__Ume_.htm
It details how a Swedish neighbourhood installed fibre to every home. If you're going to break ground, you might as well go hole-hog and do it right the first time.
since you're building a new house, i would add fibre...it's effective future-proofing.
I agree with those posters who say Cornell's network is solely for educational purposes. As long as Cornell provides access to outside broadband providers (cable, xDSL, FSO, wireless), there should be no problem with people putting two NIC's in their machines and dual-homing them. I mean, shit. I can pop down to CompUSA and get a 100baseT PCI NIC for about $10. Bottom line: the school is obligated to provide for students' education, but not their entertainment. Another solution is for Cornell to completely get out of the business of providing connectivity to dorms and open it up to those companies providing access to MDU's (multiple dwelling units) -- and there are plenty of those companies. That way, the economics would cease to be distorted and those who use up a resource would have to pay proportionally. It's the same argument with water. I think it's silly that many apartment complexes include unmetered water useage with the rent. This distorts the allocation of this resource, as some people will wash their SUV's daily, whilst others hardly use water at all.
This merely confirms what we already knew intuitively. Musicians don't make money from records. In fact, a record can be viewed as an advertisement. They make money from merchandising, endorsements and ticket sales.
...isn't it funny? Hitler ascended to power by operating under the pretence of protecting the people from seditious and traitorous characters.
At what point will Microsoft decide - and start telling Joe Public - that a "Microsoft PC" is more trustworthy than an identical box built by Dell?
Isn't that what the Xbox is? Notice MS's big push into the living-room and all of its media initiatives. It would be a *very* small step for MS to start touting the Xbox as a general-purpose home solution. Now I know you guys are saying, 'Well that's great, but what about the corporate setting?' I've got an answer for that too. Look at their big push for a return to fat servers and thin clients. What if they are gearing .NET Server to run on big, locked-down iron, connected to crippled thin clients (nothing more than displays and input devices)? This is how I see it going. And it makes more sense. Sally in HR won't be as much of a headache for the desktop support guys if all she can do is use apps run remotely from a server as opposed to installing her own shit.
This has already been done before. Circuit City tried this lame strategy with Divx. And they failed miserably. I predict this strategy will fail equally miserably. Not to mention the environmental travesty of having billions of useless DVD's clogging landfills (unless they make provisions to recycle DVD's).