The history of communications has been very simple up until now; one pipe = one method of communication.
Telegraph lines = telegraphs Broadcast radio = sound Broadcast televison = sound + pictures Cable television = sound + pictures (originally) diced up into "channels" with one channel per signal. Phone lines = speech (originally) + telefaxes (secondary) diced up into specific numbers
One pipe = one medium "I have a pipe, all of my media must be streamed."
You're keeping up, right?
Enter the Internet. One pipe = unlimited media. That's bad from a content provider's perspective. The more media you can stuff down that single pipe, the less money the content providers make. The CPs have no real way of shuting off content. If they can't shut it off and turn it on, where's the easy profit?
Ignore for a moment that we are running out of pipes (IPv6 vs IPv4) and ignore that some media might be best offered over some other pipe (Internet1 vs Internet2 vs cable vs ?). The fact is that the content providers desperatly NEED their old ways of providing content or they might need to devlope new business plans. That's risky. Historically new business plans have a high rate of failure and anyone can copy you and get it right before you can.
So, this is where we are. Content providers make money by selling us a stream of content (radio and TV in channels (via advertisments)and cable and telephone in channels/numbers(via channels signal blockers)) Content providers need to cut the Internet into pipes in order ro make money with their old business plans.
Unless we are VERY carefull, we WILL end up with an internet cut up into pipes. One for each provider and one for each media.
On the other hand, if you invest in Comcast now, you may become VERY rich indeed.
Business does not and will never care if the iPhone works with systems or not.
Okay, show of hands:
Who has worked on some completely lame technology because some VP thought it was the Next Big Thing and decided to force the company to use it?
Ta Da! iPhone to the ruscue. A VP's wet-dream. A solution looking for a problem. Make it work with something (anything) and justify the CEO carrying one around and you are the Golden Boy. Fail, and some poor IT slob goes down.
I was under the impression that most people had great memories, just lousy retreival systems. We remember the dramatic things and the important things in part becasue those things are linked to something else - like other important facts or strong emotions.
While this research is fantastic and will surely result in breakthoughs to help people who cannot store information, I'm pretty sure it won't help me remember my father-in-law's birthday.
What if a MAJOR CORPORATION like, say, Sony or Disney were to, um, realease their video content to the web and, well, sell some ads with it.
1) Do you think they could make money? I mean, seeing as how the ads are turned on by force? 2) Would that hurt GooTube? 3) Is the condecending irony too thick on this post?
1) Manufactuers use the printers to create parts for mass production 2) Smaller manufacturer get cheaper copies of the printers and use those to create entire devices (piece by piece) 3) Robotic assembly takes over at large Mfgs and the entire process is automated at the top level, and then at smaller levels 4) Eventually an Ikea-like store is created where parts are created as needed, eliminating warehouses for kit-based home assembly 5) personal 3D printers reach the masses and people download couches from the Ikea-like retailer, then from more complex retailers (far future) 6) TRANSPORTER invented and this repeats.:-)
Microsoft doesn't sell hardware, they sell software, and the last time I looked the one "Great Thing" about the new mac hardware is that it runs Windows.
Now, I know many (many many) people will run windows without a license, but it will be the same percentage that run windows without licenses on non-apple hardware. People will buy more licenses for Windows because of the great mac hardware.
The only thing you can count on when you use one of these laptops if that the web ads will all be there. Doesn't anyone see that this is just a way to make sure these poor, undeveloped countries have access to all of the millions of dollars of ads generated by the "developed" countries.
Yes, intelligent people will use these for great things, the rest will just look at the pretty ads.
This smells of another expensive techno-solution begging for a problem to solve. The fact that someone put it in place before they have a need just points towards ineptitude at a high level.
By this time next year the people operating the equipment will be reassigned and whatever data is collected will be shunted to/dev/null just to get it out of the way.
The geek in me says its good that an online service has a nationally reported awards show. The cultural critic says its bad that awards are so ubiquitous that even an online service has an awards show.
I work in a Very Large Corporation where mistakes are met with instant and severe retaliation from management. It has become a part of our corporate culture that you don't do ANYTHING unless you have someone else's signature on it. Get somone to sign off and its they're problem, not yours.
That said, even if I were to get out and work someplace sane, I would probably do what your managers are doing. It just makes sense to check of there is a fault in the system before you stick our your neck.
Why just two choices? Seems a bit arbitrary, not to mention limiting. What about people who choose not to have a life outside of work? Those people aren't integrators because they have nothing to integrate. Does this mean that anyone who keeps to the '40 hours of work for 40 hours of pay' ideal is a 'segmentor'? This smacks of managment speak and PHBs.
JUDGE - Mr. Gates, let vendors see the InterOp code at a reasonable price. BILL G - Of course. Here's the code for Windows 98 JUDGE - Something more recent, perhaps? BILL G - Windows 2000? JUDGE - More recent, Mr. Gates BILL G - Okay, okay. Windows XP, but that was the last OS covered under your judgement. JUDGE - Sigh. Fair enough.
Yes, I know that LOOKS like it means normal, but just wait.
If I support a network and I am a low-level flunky, I want everything to work smoothly, right? Wrong! I want Controled Mayhem and I want to be the one fixing it. I want the network to be 1) designed by somone else so I can blame them for the screw ups, and 2) only fixable by me, so I can take credit for the repairs.
A network that works perfectly makes me look Bad becasue then I have nothing to do. OTOH, I want to be able to fix this puppy at some point, hopefully right before someone esle is scheduled to replace it with another screwed-up system. It should be error free long enough for someone to notice, but not long enough for someone to suggest I am not needed.
D&D is a lot like this. You don't want uncontrolled mayhem becasue 100% battle is as boring as no battle, and you don't want stupid players doing stupid things because then the game becomes a pointless, endless search for a way to do stupid things.
Bingo! Oh, and the costs must be bourne by the local plant and any time the corporation wants to change something because someone higher up has nothing to do (special project time), I need to let someone tinker with my servers.
And the best part is that if something goes wrong its may fault, but since there are just enough out-dated and unenforced backup "suggestions" out in the document pools, if anything goes right, someone else takes the credit.
My corp has no (that's zero) client data retention policies. That leave lil' ol' me justifying the backups and archives for the eight years wort of client files. Here's what I have to cover my backside:
1) Hourly disk snap shots for the fat-finger mistakes 2) Weekly full tape bakups on a three week schedule for disaster recovery 3) Nightly incremental tape backups to keep the weekly backups up to date 4) Tape archive system to hold all of the old files that would otherwise be deleted after the job is finished (can't have that) 5) Double copies of the archive tapes - Just In Case 6) Off-site storage of all backups and duplicate archives - Just In Case 7) Weekly test of backups BEFORE those are shipped off-site. 8) Clause in my contract saying I can't be fired if this system fails - I really wish that were true.
Most of this stuff was standard issue, out of the box, flip the switch and use the defaults. Why is this so hard for a government agency to do the same?
1) Pass legislation to block evil pr0n from innocent kiddies by assigning it to a special port 2) Make it acceptable for an ISP to block an entire port, 3) Pass more legislation forcing some services onto certain ports (and allowing ownership of other ports (just like tv)) 4) Buy up ports and force ISPs to pay to use those. 5) Both profit AND control of file sharing.
Think of it this way. Linux is a kernel, like popcorn. As long as users can put whatever they want on their popcorn, you can't ensure they won't complain that their licorice-basil topping tastes horrible on your popcorn.
Apple's OS X (and Microsoft Windows) is like Doritos (yum, Doritos). Doritos arrive fully loaded. Now, if you really want, you can load MORE stuff unto the Dorito by dipping it, and you can even scrape away some of the cheese-like topping, but not much. Most people eat Doritos right out of the bag and do not dip or top. That's why you buy a Dorito. After all, if you wanted to top it yourself, you'd buy corn chips.
That's what this poll is about. Does Dell sell popcorn on servers for geeks or does it sell Doritos on desktops for moms 'n' dads? Vote early and often for your favorite choice, but my layman's guess is that the results will show "overwhelming support" for linux on servers.
Surprised? Nah, not really. These people took the power our congress gave to them and abused it. Maybe it was on purpose and maybe it was by accident. We'll never know.
Is the FBI a "good" organization or a "Bad" organization? Neither. The FBI is persuing its organizational goals which are to gather information about people. The fact that the information it gathers and the tactics it uses fall on one side or another of an arbitrary line defining "good" or "bad" changes nothing.
The fact is that gathering ANY information on ANY person in ANY way is inherently abusive.
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I guess he's fine with consumers NOT being able to rip DVDs for personal use, too.
Very simple explanation.
The history of communications has been very simple up until now; one pipe = one method of communication.
Telegraph lines = telegraphs
Broadcast radio = sound
Broadcast televison = sound + pictures
Cable television = sound + pictures (originally) diced up into "channels" with one channel per signal.
Phone lines = speech (originally) + telefaxes (secondary) diced up into specific numbers
One pipe = one medium
"I have a pipe, all of my media must be streamed."
You're keeping up, right?
Enter the Internet. One pipe = unlimited media. That's bad from a content provider's perspective. The more media you can stuff down that single pipe, the less money the content providers make. The CPs have no real way of shuting off content. If they can't shut it off and turn it on, where's the easy profit?
Ignore for a moment that we are running out of pipes (IPv6 vs IPv4) and ignore that some media might be best offered over some other pipe (Internet1 vs Internet2 vs cable vs ?). The fact is that the content providers desperatly NEED their old ways of providing content or they might need to devlope new business plans. That's risky. Historically new business plans have a high rate of failure and anyone can copy you and get it right before you can.
So, this is where we are. Content providers make money by selling us a stream of content (radio and TV in channels (via advertisments)and cable and telephone in channels/numbers(via channels signal blockers)) Content providers need to cut the Internet into pipes in order ro make money with their old business plans.
Unless we are VERY carefull, we WILL end up with an internet cut up into pipes. One for each provider and one for each media.
On the other hand, if you invest in Comcast now, you may become VERY rich indeed.
Business does not and will never care if the iPhone works with systems or not.
Okay, show of hands:
Who has worked on some completely lame technology because some VP thought it was the Next Big Thing and decided to force the company to use it?
Ta Da! iPhone to the ruscue. A VP's wet-dream. A solution looking for a problem. Make it work with something (anything) and justify the CEO carrying one around and you are the Golden Boy. Fail, and some poor IT slob goes down.
I was under the impression that most people had great memories, just lousy retreival systems. We remember the dramatic things and the important things in part becasue those things are linked to something else - like other important facts or strong emotions.
While this research is fantastic and will surely result in breakthoughs to help people who cannot store information, I'm pretty sure it won't help me remember my father-in-law's birthday.
What if a MAJOR CORPORATION like, say, Sony or Disney were to, um, realease their video content to the web and, well, sell some ads with it.
1) Do you think they could make money? I mean, seeing as how the ads are turned on by force?
2) Would that hurt GooTube?
3) Is the condecending irony too thick on this post?
Congress always provides a carrot and a stick. The carrot is ALWAYS funds and the stick is always penalties on funds.
The real question is - where's the stick?
1) Manufactuers use the printers to create parts for mass production :-)
2) Smaller manufacturer get cheaper copies of the printers and use those to create entire devices (piece by piece)
3) Robotic assembly takes over at large Mfgs and the entire process is automated at the top level, and then at smaller levels
4) Eventually an Ikea-like store is created where parts are created as needed, eliminating warehouses for kit-based home assembly
5) personal 3D printers reach the masses and people download couches from the Ikea-like retailer, then from more complex retailers (far future)
6) TRANSPORTER invented and this repeats.
Microsoft doesn't sell hardware, they sell software, and the last time I looked the one "Great Thing" about the new mac hardware is that it runs Windows.
Now, I know many (many many) people will run windows without a license, but it will be the same percentage that run windows without licenses on non-apple hardware. People will buy more licenses for Windows because of the great mac hardware.
The only thing you can count on when you use one of these laptops if that the web ads will all be there. Doesn't anyone see that this is just a way to make sure these poor, undeveloped countries have access to all of the millions of dollars of ads generated by the "developed" countries.
Yes, intelligent people will use these for great things, the rest will just look at the pretty ads.
And in other news, Mice demand Cats stop chasing them.
Yawn.
"demonstrations like this help pave the way for potentially using this technology in small manned and unmanned air vehicles."
That means "weapons", folks.
This smells of another expensive techno-solution begging for a problem to solve. The fact that someone put it in place before they have a need just points towards ineptitude at a high level.
/dev/null just to get it out of the way.
By this time next year the people operating the equipment will be reassigned and whatever data is collected will be shunted to
But it will appear on Slashdot again and again.
The geek in me says its good that an online service has a nationally reported awards show. The cultural critic says its bad that awards are so ubiquitous that even an online service has an awards show.
Wow, maaan. Dis jest like when i were in skool.
I think I can smell the chalk and the flop-sweat from the nerdy guy in the high-waters in the desk in the front row.
Wait a minute, that's you, isn't it?
I work in a Very Large Corporation where mistakes are met with instant and severe retaliation from management. It has become a part of our corporate culture that you don't do ANYTHING unless you have someone else's signature on it. Get somone to sign off and its they're problem, not yours.
That said, even if I were to get out and work someplace sane, I would probably do what your managers are doing. It just makes sense to check of there is a fault in the system before you stick our your neck.
Why just two choices? Seems a bit arbitrary, not to mention limiting. What about people who choose not to have a life outside of work? Those people aren't integrators because they have nothing to integrate. Does this mean that anyone who keeps to the '40 hours of work for 40 hours of pay' ideal is a 'segmentor'? This smacks of managment speak and PHBs.
JUDGE - Mr. Gates, let vendors see the InterOp code at a reasonable price.
BILL G - Of course. Here's the code for Windows 98
JUDGE - Something more recent, perhaps?
BILL G - Windows 2000?
JUDGE - More recent, Mr. Gates
BILL G - Okay, okay. Windows XP, but that was the last OS covered under your judgement.
JUDGE - Sigh. Fair enough.
Yes, I know that LOOKS like it means normal, but just wait.
If I support a network and I am a low-level flunky, I want everything to work smoothly, right?
Wrong! I want Controled Mayhem and I want to be the one fixing it. I want the network to be 1) designed by somone else so I can blame them for the screw ups, and 2) only fixable by me, so I can take credit for the repairs.
A network that works perfectly makes me look Bad becasue then I have nothing to do. OTOH, I want to be able to fix this puppy at some point, hopefully right before someone esle is scheduled to replace it with another screwed-up system. It should be error free long enough for someone to notice, but not long enough for someone to suggest I am not needed.
D&D is a lot like this. You don't want uncontrolled mayhem becasue 100% battle is as boring as no battle, and you don't want stupid players doing stupid things because then the game becomes a pointless, endless search for a way to do stupid things.
Bingo! Oh, and the costs must be bourne by the local plant and any time the corporation wants to change something because someone higher up has nothing to do (special project time), I need to let someone tinker with my servers.
....
And the best part is that if something goes wrong its may fault, but since there are just enough out-dated and unenforced backup "suggestions" out in the document pools, if anything goes right, someone else takes the credit.
Still, why is this so hard
Okay, I see the point.
My corp has no (that's zero) client data retention policies. That leave lil' ol' me justifying the backups and archives for the eight years wort of client files. Here's what I have to cover my backside:
1) Hourly disk snap shots for the fat-finger mistakes
2) Weekly full tape bakups on a three week schedule for disaster recovery
3) Nightly incremental tape backups to keep the weekly backups up to date
4) Tape archive system to hold all of the old files that would otherwise be deleted after the job is finished (can't have that)
5) Double copies of the archive tapes - Just In Case
6) Off-site storage of all backups and duplicate archives - Just In Case
7) Weekly test of backups BEFORE those are shipped off-site.
8) Clause in my contract saying I can't be fired if this system fails - I really wish that were true.
Most of this stuff was standard issue, out of the box, flip the switch and use the defaults.
Why is this so hard for a government agency to do the same?
I can just hear the copyright holders meeting now ....
"And our projections show that if we choke the goose hard enough we'll get more eggs."
Companies asked to donate unused dollars.
Like that will happen
1) Pass legislation to block evil pr0n from innocent kiddies by assigning it to a special port
2) Make it acceptable for an ISP to block an entire port,
3) Pass more legislation forcing some services onto certain ports (and allowing ownership of other ports (just like tv))
4) Buy up ports and force ISPs to pay to use those.
5) Both profit AND control of file sharing.
STOP THIS LAW!!!
Think of it this way. Linux is a kernel, like popcorn. As long as users can put whatever they want on their popcorn, you can't ensure they won't complain that their licorice-basil topping tastes horrible on your popcorn.
Apple's OS X (and Microsoft Windows) is like Doritos (yum, Doritos). Doritos arrive fully loaded. Now, if you really want, you can load MORE stuff unto the Dorito by dipping it, and you can even scrape away some of the cheese-like topping, but not much. Most people eat Doritos right out of the bag and do not dip or top. That's why you buy a Dorito. After all, if you wanted to top it yourself, you'd buy corn chips.
That's what this poll is about. Does Dell sell popcorn on servers for geeks or does it sell Doritos on desktops for moms 'n' dads? Vote early and often for your favorite choice, but my layman's guess is that the results will show "overwhelming support" for linux on servers.
Surprised? Nah, not really.
These people took the power our congress gave to them and abused it. Maybe it was on purpose and maybe it was by accident. We'll never know.
Is the FBI a "good" organization or a "Bad" organization? Neither. The FBI is persuing its organizational goals which are to gather information about people. The fact that the information it gathers and the tactics it uses fall on one side or another of an arbitrary line defining "good" or "bad" changes nothing.
The fact is that gathering ANY information on ANY person in ANY way is inherently abusive.