The Amtrak capitol coridor, which runs from sacramento to oakland and san jose, has been testing out a wifi system provided by Point Shot Wireless. The are a fiar number of crazy people who live in the central valey and ride either amtrak or ACE trains into silicon valley, beacuse even after the bust, housing is still insane.
If I could surf the net and get work done, I certianly wouldn't mind 4 hours on a train everyday. My guess is that more trains don't have the technology already beacuse its pretty expensive. I'm sure on buys coridors like LA-San Diego and BOoston-New York-DC there would be enough business travels to make wifi profitible.
The OC is my dirty little secert. the only tv I watch is PBS and some sports. and then there's the OC. the girls in my dorm got me hooked last year and one of my roomates is keeping me hooke this year. Its totaly ridiculous but oh so fulfilling.
The OC (minus the comericals of course) is one of the most consistantly busy torrents I see. I have enver seen it with less than 2500 seeds. It must be all those college kids using up all the university bandwidth.
fox actually won the february sweeps for the first time in history, although only due to the superbowl.
The OC still is doing great, attracting lots of young people. Its all anyone talks about friday mornings here on campus. That used to be dominated by friends.
I do kinda wonder why people do these things. I mean I would love to sial arounf the world for the personal experience. but it seems to be the branson/fosset et al enjoy being in the lime light more than anything else.
That being siad, I do think its Kinda cool that why can fly arounf the world without refueling.
What would happen if such transgenic plants filled with dangerous chemicals start to crossbreed with natural ones?
Um a plant filled with dangerous chemicals crossbreeding isn't the problem, but a plant with the GENES that make it more likely to suck up chemicals is a problem. You can also engineer the genes so that they can't breed, and that solves the problem, although it makes it more expensive to replunish the plants.
I'm personaly a bit nervous about GMO in the food supply, but I think this kind of thing, if properly controled, good do great things for the enviroment
I think everyone knew what I meant when I said the signal to noise ratio was high (too much noise) although I did phrase it badly.
As much as people complain about moderation, I think the mod system is fairly effective at keeping the noise down, although good messages sometimes do get modded down while idiotic ones get moded up, but as a whole, it works.
I'm sure there's still some good newsgroups out there, but for me bikeforums.net took over my bike related groups, while gamespot and other gaming websites took over with my need for c&c tips. IRC and then P2P made bianaries a waste of time. I really do think that the usenets time is passing.
I've been using the internet since 1994 (well, 193 is you count comp-u-serve) and I remember Usenet fondly. It was a great source of information and discussion, but the signal to noise ratio got way to high. By 1999 it was eaiser to do a HotBot search to find relavent information than it was in the spam and troll infested usenet, save for a few good groups. I really doubt that anyone who got online in '97 or later ever used the usenet at all.
Apple has a patent out on an implementation of TV in quicktime. you can read about it here.
Microsoft proably has the cash to muscle out (or buy out) a lot of start ups in this area, but It wouldn't suprise me to see someone like apple, or maybe someone less consumer oriented like cisco stand up to microsoft and not let them take the market without a fight.
I bought a powerbook and an ipod with apple's "cram and jam" program for college in the fall of '03. After one week of using it, I was convinced that I should buy some apple stock. I was amazed at how beautiful and powerful OS X was, and how easy to use the iPod was. I thouhgt that if Apple kept up the marketing, they could takeover the mp3 player market and make a dent in the laptop market
I tired to convince my parents to give me some money to invest, but they thouhgt that they were already spending enough on my tution, plus my laptop.
I think apple stock was in the high teens at that time. If i had gotten to put the grand I wanted to into apple, I would have enough money to buy myslef a dual g5.
next time I have an inkling about a company with an awesome product, I'm jumping on it.
Out west, you can get James Squire ale at Trader Joe's, which I think is the best Aussie beer you can get here. When I live In australia, I drank mostly coopers, since it was good and not that much more expensive than VB or Tooheys. Too mad mac stuff was way way more expensive
aha, my ibook orginaly shipped with osx9 in the days before itunes and iphoto, and yet it still runs fine, even with the new ilife '05 software. That being said, I'm sure the apple programers would do wonderful things with all the power that the cell has to offer, but I think they also deserve credit for writing software that will run on a wide range of computers.
motorola and IBM production problems are the main factors in the slow upgrade cycle of Macs, but macs have a much longer useful life. My old 600mhz g3 ibook runs panther, safari, quicktime, iphoto, itunes and everything else I need on a daily basis pretty well. Try saying that about a five year old PC.
Administrators wrote grants to get new computers.
Administrators hired tech guy to install and maintain network.
Teachers had no idea how to use network for educational benefit.
Kids are allowed to run wild.
Within 6 months, the smart students have broken every security protocol on the netwrok, and shown the slow ones how they can p[lay games during class time.
Tech Guy conviences administrators that they need to upgrade in order to improve security.
Repeat.
I got on SBC when they first got DSL to my area in 2000. It was slow and once a motnh or so, would be down for an entire day. A fe months after my contract expired, and I switched to cable which had since been expanded to my area, I got a letter about a class action lawsuit which offered my a $75 service credit. Aparently they were sued (and lost) over service that was slowler and less reliable than what they claimed. It may have gotten better in the last 5 years, but us early adopters got screwed.
My uncle was a pure researcher in the laser wing at bell labs from 1975-2001. Between 1996-2001 when lucent took over, his department went from over 250 people, to 100, to 50 and then to none. Lucent was interested in only keeping its stock price high (it didn't work) and not investing into research that might not be profitible until along time down the road.
Without an investment in research, american industry would be no where. and if everyone keeps cutting their R&d, I think the the Asian companies will put every american one out of business.
My uncle is currently working with a Japanese company, along with AMD to develop a ~50nm silicon etching process that may be profitible by 2010. Right now its a big money hole, but in 5 years, it could be the next big thing.
There is no creativity or risk taking going on at bell labs anymore.
IIRC, Didn't all the SBC folks deny this last week when it first popped into the news? I find It strange that they would completly deny it if it was already to the point where they wer voting on it.
MY two years with SBC DSl were the worst two years of my life, always down, always slow, laggy on CS. I was glad when my contract was up.
I heard ATT wireless sucked untill it was sold to cingular. If this merger goes through, I wouldn't mind it so much if it meant consumers were going to get better service, but whats the chance of that?
My guess is that this will end up with a lot of layoffs and not much benefit to anyone except for a few large shareholders.
On Campus, It used to be that you were cool if you had an iPod, but over the course of the last year, it has become that you aren't cool if you don't have an iPod.
It more than a fashion thingsince I constantly hear people talk about how the ipod has changed their life. You can't underestimate the apeal of what it does, not just what it is.
Personaly, I got rid of my white earbuds, since all i cared about was the music and not the fashion.
and BTW, I proudly carry a manpurse.
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If I could surf the net and get work done, I certianly wouldn't mind 4 hours on a train everyday. My guess is that more trains don't have the technology already beacuse its pretty expensive. I'm sure on buys coridors like LA-San Diego and BOoston-New York-DC there would be enough business travels to make wifi profitible.
real hot girls get mad when you sit and stare at them for an hour. the girls on the OC don't.
How did I justify seeign ATOC, even thouhg i knew it was going to be horrible? two words Natalie Portman.
The OC is my dirty little secert. the only tv I watch is PBS and some sports. and then there's the OC. the girls in my dorm got me hooked last year and one of my roomates is keeping me hooke this year. Its totaly ridiculous but oh so fulfilling.
The OC (minus the comericals of course) is one of the most consistantly busy torrents I see. I have enver seen it with less than 2500 seeds. It must be all those college kids using up all the university bandwidth.
him the link didn't work, maybe that will teach me to use the preview button. lets try this again
The OC still is doing great, attracting lots of young people. Its all anyone talks about friday mornings here on campus. That used to be dominated by friends.
the story is
you forgot step 4...profit!!!
That being siad, I do think its Kinda cool that why can fly arounf the world without refueling.
Um a plant filled with dangerous chemicals crossbreeding isn't the problem, but a plant with the GENES that make it more likely to suck up chemicals is a problem. You can also engineer the genes so that they can't breed, and that solves the problem, although it makes it more expensive to replunish the plants.
I'm personaly a bit nervous about GMO in the food supply, but I think this kind of thing, if properly controled, good do great things for the enviroment
As much as people complain about moderation, I think the mod system is fairly effective at keeping the noise down, although good messages sometimes do get modded down while idiotic ones get moded up, but as a whole, it works.
I'm sure there's still some good newsgroups out there, but for me bikeforums.net took over my bike related groups, while gamespot and other gaming websites took over with my need for c&c tips. IRC and then P2P made bianaries a waste of time. I really do think that the usenets time is passing.
How many people still use dail-in BBSs?
I've been using the internet since 1994 (well, 193 is you count comp-u-serve) and I remember Usenet fondly. It was a great source of information and discussion, but the signal to noise ratio got way to high. By 1999 it was eaiser to do a HotBot search to find relavent information than it was in the spam and troll infested usenet, save for a few good groups. I really doubt that anyone who got online in '97 or later ever used the usenet at all.
Microsoft proably has the cash to muscle out (or buy out) a lot of start ups in this area, but It wouldn't suprise me to see someone like apple, or maybe someone less consumer oriented like cisco stand up to microsoft and not let them take the market without a fight.
I bought a powerbook and an ipod with apple's "cram and jam" program for college in the fall of '03. After one week of using it, I was convinced that I should buy some apple stock. I was amazed at how beautiful and powerful OS X was, and how easy to use the iPod was. I thouhgt that if Apple kept up the marketing, they could takeover the mp3 player market and make a dent in the laptop market I tired to convince my parents to give me some money to invest, but they thouhgt that they were already spending enough on my tution, plus my laptop. I think apple stock was in the high teens at that time. If i had gotten to put the grand I wanted to into apple, I would have enough money to buy myslef a dual g5. next time I have an inkling about a company with an awesome product, I'm jumping on it.
Wont this hurt the self esteem of the animals that already have barcodes?
Out west, you can get James Squire ale at Trader Joe's, which I think is the best Aussie beer you can get here. When I live In australia, I drank mostly coopers, since it was good and not that much more expensive than VB or Tooheys. Too mad mac stuff was way way more expensive
aha, my ibook orginaly shipped with osx9 in the days before itunes and iphoto, and yet it still runs fine, even with the new ilife '05 software. That being said, I'm sure the apple programers would do wonderful things with all the power that the cell has to offer, but I think they also deserve credit for writing software that will run on a wide range of computers.
motorola and IBM production problems are the main factors in the slow upgrade cycle of Macs, but macs have a much longer useful life. My old 600mhz g3 ibook runs panther, safari, quicktime, iphoto, itunes and everything else I need on a daily basis pretty well. Try saying that about a five year old PC.
This article, dated 17 Jan 2002, says that the system is off. This one, dated 30 june 2002. says its on, ready to be deployed in 2005.
Administrators wrote grants to get new computers.
Administrators hired tech guy to install and maintain network.
Teachers had no idea how to use network for educational benefit.
Kids are allowed to run wild.
Within 6 months, the smart students have broken every security protocol on the netwrok, and shown the slow ones how they can p[lay games during class time.
Tech Guy conviences administrators that they need to upgrade in order to improve security.
Repeat.
I got on SBC when they first got DSL to my area in 2000. It was slow and once a motnh or so, would be down for an entire day. A fe months after my contract expired, and I switched to cable which had since been expanded to my area, I got a letter about a class action lawsuit which offered my a $75 service credit. Aparently they were sued (and lost) over service that was slowler and less reliable than what they claimed. It may have gotten better in the last 5 years, but us early adopters got screwed.
Without an investment in research, american industry would be no where. and if everyone keeps cutting their R&d, I think the the Asian companies will put every american one out of business.
My uncle is currently working with a Japanese company, along with AMD to develop a ~50nm silicon etching process that may be profitible by 2010. Right now its a big money hole, but in 5 years, it could be the next big thing.
There is no creativity or risk taking going on at bell labs anymore.
IIRC, Didn't all the SBC folks deny this last week when it first popped into the news? I find It strange that they would completly deny it if it was already to the point where they wer voting on it.
I heard ATT wireless sucked untill it was sold to cingular. If this merger goes through, I wouldn't mind it so much if it meant consumers were going to get better service, but whats the chance of that?
My guess is that this will end up with a lot of layoffs and not much benefit to anyone except for a few large shareholders.
It more than a fashion thingsince I constantly hear people talk about how the ipod has changed their life. You can't underestimate the apeal of what it does, not just what it is.
Personaly, I got rid of my white earbuds, since all i cared about was the music and not the fashion. and BTW, I proudly carry a manpurse.