What with all the business lost by Microsoft to the legit open source and free software vendors, it's a sure bet that Microsoft will again send out it's pushers to pass out free candy and dope (copies of windoze and developer tools/suites/whatever) to all the young kids, get them hooked on windoze stuff then start charging them for it. That's what happened years ago during the Win3.xx dayz. Ruined a lot of lives, left a lot of programmers with bitter and broken spirits, a lot of good apps went bad, a lot of people suffered with crapware, standards and users were violated, and a lot of money was wasted.
As a recovered, former Windoze programmer, I say that the youth of today should save their health and sanity, and Just Say No!
First, it was a hip-hop thing and Flava-Flav upsizing his watch to wear across his chest, then Apple upsized the iPhone to the iPad and now Toshiba upsizes the DSi.
Too many vulnerabilities to find them all and it monopolizes resources so that nothing else can be done and you can't quit it in the same day without pulling the plug, which you'll shortly have to do anyway to avoid a meltdown and letting the magic smoke escape.
Adobe: "It's Our way or no way. We're too big to do it right."
The switch to non-paper, non-printed records must be accelerated, if anything. We must be able to forget the past and move forward.
Too many things in the past are inconvenient, unpleasant, ugly, and horrid. Many mistakes were made, even by right-thinking and well-intentioned people. It serves no purpose to those memories and regrets.
There are a lot of things that are best forgotten: The Holocaust, the Crusades, George Bush, The fall of the Soviet Union, et cetera.
If there must be a past, then change it into something better. Rewrite it and make all the bad things go away. It is very easy as long as everything is not printed.
Perhaps there might be a true record kept but it should not be made public, accessible to the masses. It will serve no good purpose for the masses to know the truth and inconvenient for the leadership. It will only serve to hinder progress with needless comparisons and deceptions.
Eliminate paper, keep everything on computers where anything can be kept hidden or changed as necessary to serve our enlightened leaders' purposes.
Actually, NOT! Keeping everything on computers is a really , really stupid idea.
Really? I hadn't noticed any change since McColo was taken out: Since the moment McColo was taken out, spam received jumped over tenfold. It's been steady since.
Such a word appears in Japanese when written in Romaji (roman letters). Sometimes mail written in Romaji disappears without a trace.
I often wonder if someone who writes "shitsurei shimasu", "deshita" or "shite" in their messages or on their web pages will be jailed by the bad words cops or be expelled from university for "using bad words".
It's a honey trap. A devious revenue enhancement scheme. That's a "good excuse" to invest in such a pricey technology.
Notice that there's always a sign posted that shows a specific time limit for parking? The time limits are being enforced more and more often.
A ticket will bring in more money to the city than a meter. Of course, they'll gladly keep any additional money you put in the meter after the time limit, too.
Besides, do you have any idea as to how much money SF makes off just the meters? It's a LOT!
Really? UV LEDS under a blob of phosphor? Proof, please?
All I see now are blue lEDs with yellow phosphor. That's also what the mfr/vendor docs describe.
And, no, the phosphor doesn't degrade all that much: It's the blue LED itself else there would not be lower overall light output, just much less not-blue output.
This kind of dichromic light is a real bear to spend time under. You think you feel crappy watching B/W TV, try it as bright ambient light for 8+ hours.
Now it really would be revolutionary if a true white phosphor did exist...
I first used images in links in 1993 and it was possible to use those links in the Mosaic, Netscape and, IIRC, some AOL browsers at the time, as well as customized/proprietary versions/rip-offs of Mosaic. In 1994, a lot of businesses started using the same method and imagemaps as well.
This appears to be yet another sco type fud & fright campaign, trying to rake in some very undeserved revenue.
the states already do all this. It is effective and will always be far more effective than any federal level law.
Wot da hell ever happened to educating people? That is the most effective thing against lender fraud. But, no, the stupid and ignorant must be protected instead (after all it's the stupid and ignorant who can be most easily manipulated).
This usurps states' rights and appears to be unconstitutional on the face of it. The states already do background checks on lenders, real estate brokers and agents, loan brokers, et cetera, ad nauseum. There is no need for yet another useless federal program. The federal government has no right to do this but I know that will not stop them.
It appears to be yet another federalisation plan, similar to the health care bullpuckey that Clinttoon wants to force everyone into and the federal welfare program that has been so successful at destroying families and creating new and serious problems by forcing social changes. It will be as useful and effective. It will make it far more difficult to get a legitimate mortgage, preventing many from owning their own home. It will do severe harm to business by delegating the administration of this law to unelected, capricious and unaccountable bureaucrats.
This is a fake! It does not exist! Plastic CANNOT be decomposed by bacteria! We have no proof! The plastic is not decomposing! It lives forever! Here, I'll prove it: I'll show you a plastic bag that has been buried for ten years--
This is a business that seems to regard it's customers as the enemy. The way it's going, they will eventually start suing anyone just for buying their product.
There seems to a yet another massive explosion of XOR thought that seems to ignore the possibility of using more than one hash to sign an object, whether it be code, text or other data.
It has occurred to a few people--just a few people--to sign objects with both MD5 and SHA-1.
It seems that it is more difficult to get both MD5 and SHA-1 collisions by quite some orders of magnitude. Someday, perhaps, it can be done but not today. Well, no one has said so, at least.
Is this a hint that the product of this project is not real or is it something related to an area of something? Or was this written by a certain Miss Speller?
Just by looking at their own website, it is clear that they have no clue regarding even half-assed security: Tempered glass doors, basic commercial drywall, padlocks, sesamee locks, bolt-together, clamp-together industrial cages that can be cut through or torn apart in mere seconds, the absence of their alleged man-traps, no visible cameras, et cetera, ad nasueum. No wonder they're so popular with criminals. This is an example, soon to be classic textbook, of how not to do security. Pocket the money you save on security and charge beaucoup bux for it--competitive rates, you know--and be prepared to spend it on legal fees or escape to Brasil.
Japan was basically levelled in the Second World War
And so were most cities in Germany, many other European cities. What happened to them?
There seem to be some odd assumptions about Japan that strangely do not seem to arise from the article despite it's misleading basis.
There are almost 130 million people in a land roughly the size of California, concentrated around the big cities, mostly in the south, and only 8 million are able to use fiber. I wouldn't say that the nation of Japan has fiber all over the place.
It's the big cities, especially Tokyo, where high tech like fiber to the home is to be found, but it's not everywhere, even in the big cities. There are still older sections of Tokyo that do not have fiber even to their street, let alone to the building and home.
The farther away from the big city one goes, especially going north into the most sparsely populated areas and the outlying islands, the less technology such as fiber and cable will be found, until one is soon unable to find anything but the most basic of phone service--if even that.
I live in a town of about 14,000, about 55miles/99Km from a big city, surrounded by similar towns. I can get network access with at least 5Mb/s both ways without a problem. Can't do that in many similar towns in Japan, where they are lucky to have 1Mb/s available and it costs many times more than my 5Mb/s would. Here, 56K dialup is fairly reliable, though it may not be quite as fast as 56K. In many parts of Japan, the only net access is by dialup and it is unreliable even at 300baud. And in Japan, phone service is generally expensive, and one pays for the time on the phone, just like a cellular call.
Pay attention to the comment attributed to the phone companies: that they are installing the fiber and selling the service at below cost. The price as well as the cost will rise over time, as the hoped-for revenue from enhanced services fails to materialise. Perhaps they will not abandon fiber like certain non-Japanese businesses have--Japanese tend to look and plan farther ahead than others do--but it is unlikely to be so "cheap" for long, even if they amortise costs out for many decades.
The Japanese did not plan out their infrastructure and prepare for all this stuff when they rebuilt after the war. They are not that prescient. But they are constantly improving things, which why there are so many construction projects in the big cities. It seems as the work is constantly ongoing, as they upgrade plumbing here, add new conduit there for pulling more copper and fiber for power and telecom, or expand on existing underground utilities, etc. It seems as if two more spring up when one finishes.
Don't envy Japan and imagine it has all this technostuff available all over the country. It doesn't.
Don't try to compare Japan to the rest of the world: That's like trying to compare cabbages to oranges.
I don't get it. Why are they finally getting it? We idiots have been telling them this for ages and they just kept saying it's a useless little wiggly thing.
Did someone substitute their koolaid with iced tea or something? Are they off their meds? What happened?
This article is too damned dangerous for publication.
Decades and decades of "facts" about the history of electronics are threatened by this article.
The "facts", as was taught by California's own schools, that electronics technology was all invented by Edison and his neighbour there in Menlo Park (New Jersey), Lee De Forest, and that, at least until Mayor Janet Gray Hayes announced San Jose to be the Capitol of Silicon Valley, nothing but fruits and vegetables, beef, Disney, cowboys and movie stars came out of California.
Lee De Forest was in Menlo Park, all right--Menlo Park, California and certainly no neighbour of The Great Edison. And it seems that the first regularly broadcasting radio station was in San Jose. But let's fudge a few years or so and say it was somewhere out East, instead--Nothing but the Wild, Wild West, out there in California, no way they could be technological leaders in their own right!
California was considered "the wild west" well into the 20th century. Except by those who lived there. Kind of hard to reconcile the romantic notion of the wild west with reality, it would seem.
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What with all the business lost by Microsoft to the legit open source and free software vendors, it's a sure bet that Microsoft will again send out it's pushers to pass out free candy and dope (copies of windoze and developer tools/suites/whatever) to all the young kids, get them hooked on windoze stuff then start charging them for it. That's what happened years ago during the Win3.xx dayz. Ruined a lot of lives, left a lot of programmers with bitter and broken spirits, a lot of good apps went bad, a lot of people suffered with crapware, standards and users were violated, and a lot of money was wasted.
As a recovered, former Windoze programmer, I say that the youth of today should save their health and sanity, and Just Say No!
And perhaps they will reinforce the rule about such brainfarts not being patentable, as well.
Big is all the rage now:
First, it was a hip-hop thing and Flava-Flav upsizing his watch to wear across his chest, then Apple upsized the iPhone to the iPad and now Toshiba upsizes the DSi.
What's next? Cars? Barbie action figures?
They really know how to write code, don't they?
Too many vulnerabilities to find them all and it monopolizes resources so that nothing else can be done and you can't quit it in the same day without pulling the plug, which you'll shortly have to do anyway to avoid a meltdown and letting the magic smoke escape.
Adobe: "It's Our way or no way. We're too big to do it right."
woot woot woot
go on, take the money and run.
fsck everything else.
The switch to non-paper, non-printed records must be accelerated, if anything. We must be able to forget the past and move forward.
Too many things in the past are inconvenient, unpleasant, ugly, and horrid. Many mistakes were made, even by right-thinking and well-intentioned people. It serves no purpose to those memories and regrets.
There are a lot of things that are best forgotten: The Holocaust, the Crusades, George Bush, The fall of the Soviet Union, et cetera.
If there must be a past, then change it into something better. Rewrite it and make all the bad things go away. It is very easy as long as everything is not printed.
Perhaps there might be a true record kept but it should not be made public, accessible to the masses. It will serve no good purpose for the masses to know the truth and inconvenient for the leadership. It will only serve to hinder progress with needless comparisons and deceptions.
Eliminate paper, keep everything on computers where anything can be kept hidden or changed as necessary to serve our enlightened leaders' purposes.
Actually, NOT! Keeping everything on computers is a really , really stupid idea.
Really? I hadn't noticed any change since McColo was taken out: Since the moment McColo was taken out, spam received jumped over tenfold. It's been steady since.
how do they give their employees an immediate change in pay rate at all other times?
if what the controller says is true then that is not possible.
i doubt that pay rates and salaries are hard coded.
Such a word appears in Japanese when written in Romaji (roman letters). Sometimes mail written in Romaji disappears without a trace.
I often wonder if someone who writes "shitsurei shimasu", "deshita" or "shite" in their messages or on their web pages will be jailed by the bad words cops or be expelled from university for "using bad words".
i am reminded of the parable of the fisherman and the hungry fish.
the fish trusted what the fisherman said and became the fisherman's dinner.
given microsoft's history and actions, why believe what it says over what it does?
"The world's largest wave"?
What the hell are they smoking over at geology.com?
Or are they a National Enquirer subsidiary?
Whatever the case, they have just "awsh@t" their credibility.
Be suspicious. Be very suspicious.
It's a honey trap. A devious revenue enhancement scheme. That's a "good excuse" to invest in such a pricey technology.
Notice that there's always a sign posted that shows a specific time limit for parking? The time limits are being enforced more and more often.
A ticket will bring in more money to the city than a meter. Of course, they'll gladly keep any additional money you put in the meter after the time limit, too.
Besides, do you have any idea as to how much money SF makes off just the meters? It's a LOT!
He used and spelled "discrete" correctly.
wow.
He used and spelled "discrete" correctly.
wow.
ummm... the story? yeah, sure.
Whatever.
He used and spelled "discrete" correctly.
Really? UV LEDS under a blob of phosphor? Proof, please?
All I see now are blue lEDs with yellow phosphor. That's also what the mfr/vendor docs describe.
And, no, the phosphor doesn't degrade all that much: It's the blue LED itself else there would not be lower overall light output, just much less not-blue output.
This kind of dichromic light is a real bear to spend time under. You think you feel crappy watching B/W TV, try it as bright ambient light for 8+ hours.
Now it really would be revolutionary if a true white phosphor did exist...
I first used images in links in 1993 and it was possible to use those links in the Mosaic, Netscape and, IIRC, some AOL browsers at the time, as well as customized/proprietary versions/rip-offs of Mosaic. In 1994, a lot of businesses started using the same method and imagemaps as well.
This appears to be yet another sco type fud & fright campaign, trying to rake in some very undeserved revenue.
May they go as sco.
the states already do all this. It is effective and will always be far more effective than any federal level law.
Wot da hell ever happened to educating people? That is the most effective thing against lender fraud. But, no, the stupid and ignorant must be protected instead (after all it's the stupid and ignorant who can be most easily manipulated).
This usurps states' rights and appears to be unconstitutional on the face of it. The states already do background checks on lenders, real estate brokers and agents, loan brokers, et cetera, ad nauseum. There is no need for yet another useless federal program. The federal government has no right to do this but I know that will not stop them.
It appears to be yet another federalisation plan, similar to the health care bullpuckey that Clinttoon wants to force everyone into and the federal welfare program that has been so successful at destroying families and creating new and serious problems by forcing social changes. It will be as useful and effective. It will make it far more difficult to get a legitimate mortgage, preventing many from owning their own home. It will do severe harm to business by delegating the administration of this law to unelected, capricious and unaccountable bureaucrats.
This is a fake! It does not exist! Plastic CANNOT be decomposed by bacteria! We have no proof! The plastic is not decomposing! It lives forever! Here, I'll prove it: I'll show you a plastic bag that has been buried for ten years--
Hey! Where'd it go? I buried it right here!
This is a business that seems to regard it's customers as the enemy. The way it's going, they will eventually start suing anyone just for buying their product.
More and more frequently it seems that the first patch to be applied to broken software like this is a legal patch.
There seems to a yet another massive explosion of XOR thought that seems to ignore the possibility of using more than one hash to sign an object, whether it be code, text or other data.
It has occurred to a few people--just a few people--to sign objects with both MD5 and SHA-1.
It seems that it is more difficult to get both MD5 and SHA-1 collisions by quite some orders of magnitude. Someday, perhaps, it can be done but not today. Well, no one has said so, at least.
Anyone for some OR thinking?
Is this a hint that the product of this project is not real or is it something related to an area of something? Or was this written by a certain Miss Speller?
Hay! I cud spel two! Juana Sea?
Just by looking at their own website, it is clear that they have no clue regarding even half-assed security: Tempered glass doors, basic commercial drywall, padlocks, sesamee locks, bolt-together, clamp-together industrial cages that can be cut through or torn apart in mere seconds, the absence of their alleged man-traps, no visible cameras, et cetera, ad nasueum. No wonder they're so popular with criminals. This is an example, soon to be classic textbook, of how not to do security. Pocket the money you save on security and charge beaucoup bux for it--competitive rates, you know--and be prepared to spend it on legal fees or escape to Brasil.
Japan was basically levelled in the Second World War
And so were most cities in Germany, many other European cities. What happened to them?
There seem to be some odd assumptions about Japan that strangely do not seem to arise from the article despite it's misleading basis.
There are almost 130 million people in a land roughly the size of California, concentrated around the big cities, mostly in the south, and only 8 million are able to use fiber. I wouldn't say that the nation of Japan has fiber all over the place.
It's the big cities, especially Tokyo, where high tech like fiber to the home is to be found, but it's not everywhere, even in the big cities. There are still older sections of Tokyo that do not have fiber even to their street, let alone to the building and home.
The farther away from the big city one goes, especially going north into the most sparsely populated areas and the outlying islands, the less technology such as fiber and cable will be found, until one is soon unable to find anything but the most basic of phone service--if even that.
I live in a town of about 14,000, about 55miles/99Km from a big city, surrounded by similar towns. I can get network access with at least 5Mb/s both ways without a problem. Can't do that in many similar towns in Japan, where they are lucky to have 1Mb/s available and it costs many times more than my 5Mb/s would. Here, 56K dialup is fairly reliable, though it may not be quite as fast as 56K. In many parts of Japan, the only net access is by dialup and it is unreliable even at 300baud. And in Japan, phone service is generally expensive, and one pays for the time on the phone, just like a cellular call.
Pay attention to the comment attributed to the phone companies: that they are installing the fiber and selling the service at below cost. The price as well as the cost will rise over time, as the hoped-for revenue from enhanced services fails to materialise. Perhaps they will not abandon fiber like certain non-Japanese businesses have--Japanese tend to look and plan farther ahead than others do--but it is unlikely to be so "cheap" for long, even if they amortise costs out for many decades.
The Japanese did not plan out their infrastructure and prepare for all this stuff when they rebuilt after the war. They are not that prescient. But they are constantly improving things, which why there are so many construction projects in the big cities. It seems as the work is constantly ongoing, as they upgrade plumbing here, add new conduit there for pulling more copper and fiber for power and telecom, or expand on existing underground utilities, etc. It seems as if two more spring up when one finishes.
Don't envy Japan and imagine it has all this technostuff available all over the country. It doesn't.
Don't try to compare Japan to the rest of the world: That's like trying to compare cabbages to oranges.
I don't get it. Why are they finally getting it? We idiots have been telling them this for ages and they just kept saying it's a useless little wiggly thing.
Did someone substitute their koolaid with iced tea or something? Are they off their meds? What happened?
This article is too damned dangerous for publication.
Decades and decades of "facts" about the history of electronics are threatened by this article.
The "facts", as was taught by California's own schools, that electronics technology was all invented by Edison and his neighbour there in Menlo Park (New Jersey), Lee De Forest, and that, at least until Mayor Janet Gray Hayes announced San Jose to be the Capitol of Silicon Valley, nothing but fruits and vegetables, beef, Disney, cowboys and movie stars came out of California.
Lee De Forest was in Menlo Park, all right--Menlo Park, California and certainly no neighbour of The Great Edison. And it seems that the first regularly broadcasting radio station was in San Jose. But let's fudge a few years or so and say it was somewhere out East, instead--Nothing but the Wild, Wild West, out there in California, no way they could be technological leaders in their own right!
California was considered "the wild west" well into the 20th century. Except by those who lived there. Kind of hard to reconcile the romantic notion of the wild west with reality, it would seem.
O well, it's about time the facts got out.