i get analog cable, digital cable, and all the movie channels. about 250 channels in all.
i get cable modem access with 1mbit down and 788 up. yes, 788 up.
i get my telephone, call waiting, caller id, and call notes.
i get my home alarm and fire alarm monitiored.
so for me, if they toss in something my TiVo could use (video on demand, video file sharing across my local LAN, etc) then sure i will pay more. i can see $200 being an easy target as they make more things i want.
- BUT -
i currently don't use Time Warner or Road Runner...so they aren't even getting my money now b/c in houston, they don't offer a package like what i listed above.
The worm does not destroy files on a user's computer, but renames all files of the.jpeg and.zip type and moves them to the PC's root directory, said Patrick Nolan, a virus researcher with McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT).
Although the worm does not delete files, it can clog e-mail networks and take e-mail servers offline. Cleaning up files that have been relocated and renamed could also waste considerable man hours, Nolan said.
like most viri written by 1337 script kiddies, the real aim appears to create confusion and waste people's time/money. the "I Love You" virus didn't have a real payload, but boy did it do a job on the mail servers of many corporation. several friends' companies lost several days of work b/c their employees like to click EXEs. this will be the same. plenty of people send funnies with SWF files - with the virus infecting via that cute pink icon, expect plenty of people to click away.
The addition of the RealOne Player software to TiVo's upcoming line of second-generation boxes would let users record music from CDs on the devices, as well as download music from the Internet.
i can't wait to see Hilary Rosen's comments on this.
possibly the most interesting and contentious item mentioned in this blurb.
that would be a great idea. unfortunately, many schools segregate the programs, so that those business school electives would not even count as electives in your CS program. essentially, you would be taking them for "fun" or personal achievment. nothing wrong with that!
IMHO - take all the math you can get, if you are a math oriented person. upper level math teaches skills that cannot be learned in most other areas of education. for me, i am wired as a non-math person. i can and did take some Cal, but i really didn't enjoy it and it showed: it was one of the few Cs i ever received.
so besides picking what you think you will enjoy in the future, also pick what you think you will enjoy overall. afterall - your career will span your lifetime!
when CS people can't figure out amortization schedules and have a hard time mixing financal theory with cost-based accounting systems. sorry, but it's true.
don't buy into the CS / MIS us vs them crap, but rather look for a more generalized answer:
lots of MIS programs will vary. mine allowed us 8 hours (2 semesters of 4 hour classes) of C++ and VC++ MFC programming. I added in some OO programming which taught language agnostic principles. plus there was another 8 hours worth of DB stuff - SPs, tables, schemas, etc. on top of all that, we had several "capstone" classes which matched full semester group projects with business area focus. we had several companies bring in real world business issues which we then solved using our class knowledge (and the companies got a free consulting solution if they decided to use our work!)
i took Cal I and B-Cal - no more, no less. the CIS people i know from my university took Cal I-III and often some other elective mathematical classes.
the real questions is what will you envision yourself working on in 5 years? if you plan on doing business level programming, then the MIS degree is going to give you the requiste background in accounting, finance, and economics to survive. i found employeers were chomping at the bit b/c i had these skills - of course, i interviewed with (and work for) Fortune 300 companies.
we have some CS people at my company - these guys are wicked smart and several of them have military or NASA backgrounds. they do the low level, to the metal programming that our apps need. these guys are not building our accounting modules. that's not their strength. they might be able to - it's just not what they are working on.
with either degree you are not just purchasing a job - you are showing your employeer an ability to learn. my father graduated one of the top engineering schools in 1969. he did chemical engineering for about 3 years and then did all business management stuff for the next 27. his company hired him b/c his degree showed he could think and learn. both a CS and MIS degree from a well respected university will get you this.
good luck and have fun! i miss my college profs about once a month!
What I got wrong the last time out was I wrote that the recession would be over by now, that Microsoft would be a bad stock to own, and that Cisco would be a good one.
Finally, I think last year's prediction for Cisco Systems will come true this year. I wrote "The answer to every problem with the Internet will continue to be 'pay more money to Cisco.' At current prices[emphasis mine] the stock is a bargain."
there are a lot of things Cringley is - an asute business man, he is not. CSCO was at a high around $86 in Sept 2000. That was the pinnacle for the company. Since then it has been proven that their plan to buy small companies - 20 to 25 a year - was not a fantastic growth plan for the.BOOM. With their price low (around $20 currently), don't look for CSCO to have a way to continue their old strategy. also, though a large percentage of the internet runs on their equipment, during a slow recession cycle, look for companies to hold their equip a little longer than previously. couple that with the fact that swtiches, routers, etc don't need constant upgrades like PCs and Servers and you are looking at a slow growth year for CSCO.
so is $20 a good price to get in on? prolly - but it isn't going to pop and hit $80 in the next 12 months, so as long as that is not your plan, sure, by some. i avg'd down in nov. if you own some CSCO this is a prime time to do that.
a buddy of mine is the manager of The Game Stop (aka Babbages). he told us when we purchased ours (1st release day) that MS wanted all returns to go thourgh their contracted companies. His store (the most active store in Houston) was providing customers with this same info.
not sure what would happen if an angry customer came in and demanded a new unit within 30 days, but i do know he was told to refuse giving out his stock as replacements.
his MS rep told him there were two reasons for this:
1) giving out a new unit in exchange would lower the Xbox's launch sell total. MS was adamant that they would sell all 1.5 million units pre Dec 31st.
2) MS wanted to be able to tightly manage returns - which it has greater control over when owners ship their defected units to centralized locations.
sounds like the contracted company that MS chose sucked. guess i was fortunate...mines been playing 3-5 hours a day for the whole time!:-)
no where did i find an instance of Randall doing this to prove to Intel execs their passwords were insecure. got any links where your info came from?
he casually mentioned this lame excuse when being questioned by the authorities (both Intel and Police) but no where was it shown he told anyone in Intel that their passwords were insecure.
what was mentioned by Randall was that he wanted access to these computers for his own purpose and did so basically b/c he was could.
Randal had moved the process to Brillig about 5 or 6 months ago, after this process was discovered on a system named Mink. He mentioned he was told not to run it on Mink and at this time he moved it to Hermes, which he found too slow for his needs. He then changed it slightly, and moved it back to Mink where it was found for a second time. This occurrence resulted in the Mink system administrator to remove his account, and Randal then moved the process to Brillig.
not sure where most/.ers work, but i know most Fortune 500 companies would not give you essentially 3 strikes to get your sh|t together.
he should have been canned the first time his access to MINK was found to be against company policy. guess this instance shows the evils of how big bureaucratic companies work when: someone allowed him to be found out on MINK not once, but twice and yet still be allowed to work at Intel where he then did the same policy violation on BRILLIG.
we use AIM at work - i would say it is a vital tool to our everyday development environment.
sure, we also use email and newsservers, but unlike these asynchronous-type mediums, chat proggys are synchronous (or at least more so than email.) when i pop a question to a mate, i usually get a prompt response...whether i am asking him for the next round of foosball or if the SQL server is up.
just b/c you don't see a use for it, don't think that it isn't useful to others. i am very happy in my open environment now where i have email and AIM, as opposed to the corporate hell-hole i worked for previously who wouldn't let us run AIM at all....
Tx is one and these employement agreements that many sign (i did when i was fresh out of school) are worthless. you should see if you are employed in a Right to Work state, which basically means that employers can hire/fire you at will and you can work for almost anyone you want at any time.
i work for a huge fortune 200 company right now and when some of our competitors tried this crap we took 'em to court and easily had it thrown out.
one thing to note that always sucks, when these companies sue, they sue the former employee and the new employer...sometimes the new employer won't want to pay the cost of lawyers....
Here's and article from this week's Newsweek that explains how CA failed (both due to planning and implementation) and what it might mean for other states on the brink (like my home state, TX.)
an interesting read...summerized, they say CA failed due to 2 things:
1. But then the economy jumped into high gear and demand spiked, thanks in part to power-hungry dot-coms.
2. Because of a thicket of state regulations, it takes up to seven years to plan and build a power plant. Finding a place to build one is even tougher in California....
the article seems to feel that TX will be a better implementation b/c it doesn't suffer from as much of either of these problems...Austin is our only Dot-Com city and we'll let ya' build almost anything anywhere b/c we have so much space!
Assassins should have left the "ins" off the end of the title - then it would have been titled Double "Ass" - describing how a crappy film it was. of course, coming from the director (Donner) who then went on to direct Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4....can't fault the boys - sometimes you write a good script and it still gets turned into drivel.
But no, i don't think either of these two films leads to the assumption that The Matrix 2 will be a winner. if anything, Bound shows how easy it is to make an OK film, but for something to top the draw and reach of The Matrix.... their work is cut out for them.
in the day and age when first run stories cost upwards of $100mil and the original ranks in at #55 all-time with $177mil world wide, have no fear.
they will make this film - without Yeoh, with Keanu, and as quickly as possible (even if SAG strikes.)
what you SHOULD worry about is whether the Wachowski boys were a one hit wonder with the original or will they come through. sequels generally suck....
yeah - i read your posts and i know the cost of cable....
whaddya think that 85 ft dish cost?
or the Gore-Tex covered ball?
or the security equipment?
look, the government routinely auctions items off - part of the deal is that the buyer pays for removal and shipping.
a common tenant of business is that many "companies" (in this case think of this site like that) are worth more DIVIDED than as a whole unit. so while they sold it to this well informed lucky buyer, my supposition was that having the largest informed market (exactly who knew this place was for sale?) and selling the items piece by piece would have generated significant revenue - IMHO.
granted, i admitted that after reading the mission statement of the buyer and seeing their work, that it was prolly best where it ended up, but the tacit assumption of our freshman poster that the public school system is such a perfect example of efficiency and there by we should just ignore options is both ignorant and wasteful.
the cable was the least of the stuff there to be sold.
maybe you should think the whole thing through...twice.
your reply is completly asine...i didn't say take all the monies going to the NSA (or national security) and use it for education (or public schools.)
i did say that if they recouped their investment of materials at the site (say auctioned them off) and then donated that revenue stream to education (like grants for college freshmen,) we'd be better off.
ok ok...after checking out the site of the people who bought it i am a little more at ease...at least their mission statement looks honest, forward thinking, and relevant in it's scope.
it seemed wasteful, but i guess it would be all worth it is we got one more kid interested in astronomy or one or college student who was able to do their master's thesus while working there.
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i pay $130.
i get analog cable, digital cable, and all the movie channels. about 250 channels in all.
i get cable modem access with 1mbit down and 788 up. yes, 788 up.
i get my telephone, call waiting, caller id, and call notes.
i get my home alarm and fire alarm monitiored.
so for me, if they toss in something my TiVo could use (video on demand, video file sharing across my local LAN, etc) then sure i will pay more. i can see $200 being an easy target as they make more things i want.
- BUT -
i currently don't use Time Warner or Road Runner...so they aren't even getting my money now b/c in houston, they don't offer a package like what i listed above.
this link on CNN has a little more info on what will be "new" for Series2.
look for online games from the Jellyvision, maker of You Don't Know Jack and Smush.
also look for some sort of video on demand by Radiance Technologies Inc.
this is in addition to the Real Networks partnering and the USB support.
not quite the networking capability that i was hoping for but something nonetheless that might be interesting.
The worm does not destroy files on a user's computer, but renames all files of the .jpeg and .zip type and moves them to the PC's root directory, said Patrick Nolan, a virus researcher with McAfee's Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT).
Although the worm does not delete files, it can clog e-mail networks and take e-mail servers offline. Cleaning up files that have been relocated and renamed could also waste considerable man hours, Nolan said.
like most viri written by 1337 script kiddies, the real aim appears to create confusion and waste people's time/money. the "I Love You" virus didn't have a real payload, but boy did it do a job on the mail servers of many corporation. several friends' companies lost several days of work b/c their employees like to click EXEs. this will be the same. plenty of people send funnies with SWF files - with the virus infecting via that cute pink icon, expect plenty of people to click away.
The addition of the RealOne Player software to TiVo's upcoming line of second-generation boxes would let users record music from CDs on the devices, as well as download music from the Internet.
i can't wait to see Hilary Rosen's comments on this.
possibly the most interesting and contentious item mentioned in this blurb.
found this site run by a Disney employee.
has some very detailed info.
enjoy!
thanks for the link!
here is the U.S. link for those of us on this side of the pond.
again - great idea...appreciate the link (as i forward it to my brother who is currently in college!)
that would be a great idea. unfortunately, many schools segregate the programs, so that those business school electives would not even count as electives in your CS program. essentially, you would be taking them for "fun" or personal achievment. nothing wrong with that!
IMHO - take all the math you can get, if you are a math oriented person. upper level math teaches skills that cannot be learned in most other areas of education. for me, i am wired as a non-math person. i can and did take some Cal, but i really didn't enjoy it and it showed: it was one of the few Cs i ever received.
so besides picking what you think you will enjoy in the future, also pick what you think you will enjoy overall. afterall - your career will span your lifetime!
when CS people can't figure out amortization schedules and have a hard time mixing financal theory with cost-based accounting systems. sorry, but it's true.
don't buy into the CS / MIS us vs them crap, but rather look for a more generalized answer:
lots of MIS programs will vary. mine allowed us 8 hours (2 semesters of 4 hour classes) of C++ and VC++ MFC programming. I added in some OO programming which taught language agnostic principles. plus there was another 8 hours worth of DB stuff - SPs, tables, schemas, etc. on top of all that, we had several "capstone" classes which matched full semester group projects with business area focus. we had several companies bring in real world business issues which we then solved using our class knowledge (and the companies got a free consulting solution if they decided to use our work!)
i took Cal I and B-Cal - no more, no less. the CIS people i know from my university took Cal I-III and often some other elective mathematical classes.
the real questions is what will you envision yourself working on in 5 years? if you plan on doing business level programming, then the MIS degree is going to give you the requiste background in accounting, finance, and economics to survive. i found employeers were chomping at the bit b/c i had these skills - of course, i interviewed with (and work for) Fortune 300 companies.
we have some CS people at my company - these guys are wicked smart and several of them have military or NASA backgrounds. they do the low level, to the metal programming that our apps need. these guys are not building our accounting modules. that's not their strength. they might be able to - it's just not what they are working on.
with either degree you are not just purchasing a job - you are showing your employeer an ability to learn. my father graduated one of the top engineering schools in 1969. he did chemical engineering for about 3 years and then did all business management stuff for the next 27. his company hired him b/c his degree showed he could think and learn. both a CS and MIS degree from a well respected university will get you this.
good luck and have fun! i miss my college profs about once a month!
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whole slew of trained monekys read them and choose.
What I got wrong the last time out was I wrote that the recession would be over by now, that Microsoft would be a bad stock to own, and that Cisco would be a good one.
.BOOM. With their price low (around $20 currently), don't look for CSCO to have a way to continue their old strategy. also, though a large percentage of the internet runs on their equipment, during a slow recession cycle, look for companies to hold their equip a little longer than previously. couple that with the fact that swtiches, routers, etc don't need constant upgrades like PCs and Servers and you are looking at a slow growth year for CSCO.
Finally, I think last year's prediction for Cisco Systems will come true this year. I wrote "The answer to every problem with the Internet will continue to be 'pay more money to Cisco.' At current prices[emphasis mine] the stock is a bargain."
there are a lot of things Cringley is - an asute business man, he is not. CSCO was at a high around $86 in Sept 2000. That was the pinnacle for the company. Since then it has been proven that their plan to buy small companies - 20 to 25 a year - was not a fantastic growth plan for the
so is $20 a good price to get in on? prolly - but it isn't going to pop and hit $80 in the next 12 months, so as long as that is not your plan, sure, by some. i avg'd down in nov. if you own some CSCO this is a prime time to do that.
a buddy of mine is the manager of The Game Stop (aka Babbages). he told us when we purchased ours (1st release day) that MS wanted all returns to go thourgh their contracted companies. His store (the most active store in Houston) was providing customers with this same info.
:-)
not sure what would happen if an angry customer came in and demanded a new unit within 30 days, but i do know he was told to refuse giving out his stock as replacements.
his MS rep told him there were two reasons for this:
1) giving out a new unit in exchange would lower the Xbox's launch sell total. MS was adamant that they would sell all 1.5 million units pre Dec 31st.
2) MS wanted to be able to tightly manage returns - which it has greater control over when owners ship their defected units to centralized locations.
sounds like the contracted company that MS chose sucked. guess i was fortunate...mines been playing 3-5 hours a day for the whole time!
Here is the register's take on this PC Format story.
It will tie into Microsoft's .NET strategy, delivering video-on-demand
good article at Forbes (free registration required) talking about video on demand and the burgeoning digital cable market.
fake or not, this is the plan that Bill is seeking - a trojan horse in your house that will play games, videos, cable, etc.
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no where did i find an instance of Randall doing this to prove to Intel execs their passwords were insecure. got any links where your info came from?
he casually mentioned this lame excuse when being questioned by the authorities (both Intel and Police) but no where was it shown he told anyone in Intel that their passwords were insecure.
what was mentioned by Randall was that he wanted access to these computers for his own purpose and did so basically b/c he was could.
please do some reading
PS - i enjoy the look into his background, where essentially he has had prior problems of this same nature.
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/.ers work, but i know most Fortune 500 companies would not give you essentially 3 strikes to get your sh|t together.
Randal had moved the process to Brillig about 5 or 6 months ago, after this process was discovered on a system named Mink. He mentioned he was told not to run it on Mink and at this time he moved it to Hermes, which he found too slow for his needs. He then changed it slightly, and moved it back to Mink where it was found for a second time. This occurrence resulted in the Mink system administrator to remove his account, and Randal then moved the process to Brillig.
not sure where most
he should have been canned the first time his access to MINK was found to be against company policy. guess this instance shows the evils of how big bureaucratic companies work when: someone allowed him to be found out on MINK not once, but twice and yet still be allowed to work at Intel where he then did the same policy violation on BRILLIG.
I would say this was asking nicely.
we use AIM at work - i would say it is a vital tool to our everyday development environment.
sure, we also use email and newsservers, but unlike these asynchronous-type mediums, chat proggys are synchronous (or at least more so than email.) when i pop a question to a mate, i usually get a prompt response...whether i am asking him for the next round of foosball or if the SQL server is up.
just b/c you don't see a use for it, don't think that it isn't useful to others. i am very happy in my open environment now where i have email and AIM, as opposed to the corporate hell-hole i worked for previously who wouldn't let us run AIM at all....
it's like everything else a tool!
Tx is one and these employement agreements that many sign (i did when i was fresh out of school) are worthless. you should see if you are employed in a Right to Work state, which basically means that employers can hire/fire you at will and you can work for almost anyone you want at any time.
i work for a huge fortune 200 company right now and when some of our competitors tried this crap we took 'em to court and easily had it thrown out.
one thing to note that always sucks, when these companies sue, they sue the former employee and the new employer...sometimes the new employer won't want to pay the cost of lawyers....
BTW - IANAL!!
Here's and article from this week's Newsweek that explains how CA failed (both due to planning and implementation) and what it might mean for other states on the brink (like my home state, TX.)
an interesting read...summerized, they say CA failed due to 2 things:
1. But then the economy jumped into high gear and demand spiked, thanks in part to power-hungry dot-coms.
2. Because of a thicket of state regulations, it takes up to seven years to plan and build a power plant. Finding a place to build one is even tougher in California....
the article seems to feel that TX will be a better implementation b/c it doesn't suffer from as much of either of these problems...Austin is our only Dot-Com city and we'll let ya' build almost anything anywhere b/c we have so much space!
Bound was good; yes it was a rental, but enjoyed.
Assassins should have left the "ins" off the end of the title - then it would have been titled Double "Ass" - describing how a crappy film it was. of course, coming from the director (Donner) who then went on to direct Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4....can't fault the boys - sometimes you write a good script and it still gets turned into drivel.
But no, i don't think either of these two films leads to the assumption that The Matrix 2 will be a winner. if anything, Bound shows how easy it is to make an OK film, but for something to top the draw and reach of The Matrix.... their work is cut out for them.
in the day and age when first run stories cost upwards of $100mil and the original ranks in at #55 all-time with $177mil world wide, have no fear.
they will make this film - without Yeoh, with Keanu, and as quickly as possible (even if SAG strikes.)
what you SHOULD worry about is whether the Wachowski boys were a one hit wonder with the original or will they come through. sequels generally suck....
INHO, of course!
yeah - i read your posts and i know the cost of cable....
whaddya think that 85 ft dish cost?
or the Gore-Tex covered ball?
or the security equipment?
look, the government routinely auctions items off - part of the deal is that the buyer pays for removal and shipping.
a common tenant of business is that many "companies" (in this case think of this site like that) are worth more DIVIDED than as a whole unit. so while they sold it to this well informed lucky buyer, my supposition was that having the largest informed market (exactly who knew this place was for sale?) and selling the items piece by piece would have generated significant revenue - IMHO.
granted, i admitted that after reading the mission statement of the buyer and seeing their work, that it was prolly best where it ended up, but the tacit assumption of our freshman poster that the public school system is such a perfect example of efficiency and there by we should just ignore options is both ignorant and wasteful.
the cable was the least of the stuff there to be sold.
maybe you should think the whole thing through...twice.
your reply is completly asine...i didn't say take all the monies going to the NSA (or national security) and use it for education (or public schools.)
i did say that if they recouped their investment of materials at the site (say auctioned them off) and then donated that revenue stream to education (like grants for college freshmen,) we'd be better off.
whaddya think - WPI gets no federal funding?
please - troll elsewhere.
ok ok...after checking out the site of the people who bought it i am a little more at ease...at least their mission statement looks honest, forward thinking, and relevant in it's scope.
it seemed wasteful, but i guess it would be all worth it is we got one more kid interested in astronomy or one or college student who was able to do their master's thesus while working there.
less caffine for me...
link for you to site - good pics of smiley dish!
here's the place that got the site.
click tour for site layout and pics!
i guess their mission statement puts me more at ease.