The Internet2 is massively broadband and can handle way more than any WorldCup could throw at it.
But, it's unlikely to cause any major disruptions in Canada and the US, as they don't follow the World Cup that closely.
Even the standard Internet will cope, although if we'd moved to IPv6 already, it would have been fairly easy to ensure that any WorldCup traffic was pipelined so that it never took up more than half the bandwidth in any major trunk, just from the headers. With our current reliance on IPv4, though, it's possible you might see some disruption in Europe, although you'll get a far far better picture quality from standard television, unless you're forced to work during the WorldCup - at which point having a desktop small pic of the game might be expected.
well, when the root poster parent of the thread claimed that such high-paying tech jobs didn't exist, a claim by someone that such things did - in fact - exist, makes it informative.
just as if you posted AC trying to bring up a statistical correlation aspect, given a non-randomized group, where a supposed outlier was claimed not to be informative, even though you posted no links nor data nor verifiable track record of reliable posts to back up your insinuation that it was:
a. an outlier b. an anecdote (in economics, anecdotes are frequently data) c. an outsize mod (especially since you were unwilling to risk mod points by replying with your actual account, but posted AC).
a. you watch way too much CSI: Miami (yes, I loved that the young woman was the winner);
Haven't seen that one. Tell me about it?
oh, there was a game development firm that had a "live" contest with their new game, where Univ Miami students competed to rack up points by playing the game "live" and robbing banks, shooting people, etc, all while wearing hockey masks spraypainted. Turned out the winner was a young woman, one of the player helpers died while playing online for 72 hours straight, and the game firm was supplying full auto weapons and armor-piercing bullets.
This is why much of America thinks that gamers are murderers, IMHO. It's a very popular show.
now, seriously, seizing games as "evidence" of a murder only makes sense if:
a. you watch way too much CSI: Miami (yes, I loved that the young woman was the winner); or b. you find blood spattered on the game; or c. you are trying to get media attention for a pretty flimsy case.
If the lag time needs to be changed, they can still fix it.
If they need to lower the price to a reasonable $499 for a non-crippled version, they can still do it.
If they need to alter the Blu-Ray drive, that's why they're testing it.
Please refer to the front cover of your friendly Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, secure your towel in a comfortable position behind your head, and Don't Panic!
"The days of high-paying technology-based jobs right out of highschool are over."
Those days never existed and for christ's sake I wish IT-types would stop perpetuating the myth.
Actually, they did exist.
My first job, in 1980-1982, was as a Power Engineer for Tek Cominco (back then Cominco), and it paid $12 when I started as an Assitant and I was making $22 within a year. Back then, that was more than a wealthy white collar worker made, and even CEOs only made about $40 an hour then.
When I moved to Seattle, shortly after the tech boom hit, and many people were getting four or five job offers at 100K+ if they left work in one place, in the late 1990s. I remember having a job end, going on vacation to go surf in Santa Barbara, and getting two job offers the week I was surfing, starting work the day after I got back.
I agree, my ex-wife is faced with the same problem. She used to make more than me, was earning $65K in 1992 when I moved to Seattle, and now she makes $12 an hour even though she has more education than I do.
But, I earn about the same, as I transitioned from standard Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer over to Medical (with databases), worked on Medical interfaces, went into Bioinformatics (DNA/RNA databases), and now am a Data Manager in Medical Genetics.
The demand - in our aging, increasily sick, population - is on the medical side - not the traditional tech side.
Go with the flow. Don't fight the river, swim with the current, grab a flat log, and surf down the whitewater to a sandy beach.
I was hoping SLI on a Stick meant USB or Firewire
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because for the large numbers of us with laptops, it's really hard to upgrade our video cards, given space constraints, but quite easy to pop in a "stick" video card so we can run the latest graphics apps.
Sigh.
See, if I'd bought the "latest" computer, I'd already be out of date - by choosing to just buy a cheap $500 laptop, I'm just as out of date as I was a month ago.
Quite seriously, we save a bundle on the license fee by having our own University of Washington issue the certificate and be the verifying authority, rather than pay a fairly steep SSL fee. Now, admittedly, you need a user base that will "trust" a certificate "verified" by the University of Washington, but in the research world this is fairly common.
If you don't trust us, why are you sharing data with us?
That's the question we ask.
Now, if you're going commercial, I think you need to use one of the standard SSL authorities, even though it is more expensive.
That will *NEVER* happen unless they drop Blu-ray. I hear people musing that Sony will drop the price point soon, but they can't do it.
Yeah, I read the same print version of the Fortune interview and the analysis in Wall Street Journal print edition as to the costs.
But, I reiterate, I believe if their stated goal is to dominate the market with Blu-Ray, they must let the PS3 ship far below cost, or they won't get critical mass, and they must ship cheap PS3 dev kits and provide market muscle for a diverse game set, or they will lose the war.
Sony makes most of its money from: banking - and - insurance.
Surprised? When I owned the stock, I sure was. Their shares have been dropping for years (sold mine at a profit way back before the DRM/rootkit scandal). They've brought in a Scottish CEO who isn't tech and wasn't from Sony.
They need to realize that winning the war is more important (revenues from Blu-Ray direct, license fees from Blu-Ray indirect, revenues from music, games, movies direct and indirect) than winning the short-term profit battle.
Besides, if the Cell costs as much as it does and the Blu-Ray costs as much as it does, they're already running at a loss anyway, estimated at $1 billion just for 2006 for the PS3.
It's one thing to speculate on clay prices, another to supply goods to people heading for a goldrush (why Seattle is bigger than Tacoma), but if they actually allowed you to create a mutual fund to invest in property speculation and rentals to lazy heros, now that's intriguing.
Wonder how many gold one would have to invest to be able to live off the proceeds and get a new two-handed sword every month in earnings...
you actually pay per byte to download? You need a better ISP.
Try a better country. The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month.
Man, next thing you know, you'll tell us you have to pay per minute for local phone calls...
I never doubted Sony would be able to sell more PS3's in Japan than MSFT will sell xBox360's. The question was if they would lock up dominance like they did with the PS2, and the result of E3 is they are going to have a hard fight to keep Nintendo out of the #1 spot with the Wii, both in the US and in Japan. I can't speak for Europe, but my gut tells me that Nintendo will probably do better than Sony there.
Once they announce their price point for a non-crippled P3 is $499 USD/EU, that DRM has been removed, and they realize that they won't have 80 percent of market share like they did with the PS2.
The sooner they do this, the better off they'll be.
no, Captain Copyright isn't a ripoff of Captain America, he's based on Captain Canuck, a comic book a friend of mine used to write. I have a few of the early issues in a box somewhere in my attic.
And, actually, Captain America was based on a German soldier hero, originally. Some people claim it was a French soldier, but most people agree it was a German archetype.
copyrights, as well as a trademark, I think this is a bad thing.
Look, why won't Captain Copyright teach them about Fair Use, or the fact that colleges, schools, and universities are exempt from many copyright restrictions, or about public copyrights?
Now, having actually travelled across Canada on a Canada Council Grant, as a playwright and author, I know where some of the money paid by the library system goes. I'm not against copyrights, but let's tell the truth, not a distorted pro-corporate version...
[fyi, if you try to look me up in the online database, my legal name is much much longer in Canada and has two hyphens]
I don't understand why people buy super-high-end performance laptops. You pay a huge power, weight and cost premium for a laptop that will be top-o-the-line for very little time, and you can't upgrade it when that time passes.
They're a lot cheaper than boats or fancy cars, and they work a lot better. Plus, you can expense them if you're a consultant - I used to expense my computers when I ran a play-by-mail game business in Canada, including my Apple II+ and software for it. Not the game software, unless it was for research (I kid you not, the best ideas are stolen).
Hot Hardware is right - anyone know how hot these thing run? How fast will the burn a hole in your lap?
Probably pretty darned quick. I've found, even with a good pair of corduroys (nice air venting) or thick jeans, that many laptops run pretty darned hot, especially near the CPU(s) and the video card(s).
Is there a ThinkGeek laptop thing like you see for those 133L people in New Yorker who read books and have a laptop tray? I could use one big enough so I can sit on the couch and watch my HDTV while using my laptop - but it needs a side mouse location, not only big enough for the laptop itself.
however, my comment in regards to WinVista video cards was mostly meant as a joke. But I do expect many unsuspecting laptop users will get very irate when they find they have problems, as it's no mean task to upgrade the video card on a laptop.
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The Internet2 is massively broadband and can handle way more than any WorldCup could throw at it.
But, it's unlikely to cause any major disruptions in Canada and the US, as they don't follow the World Cup that closely.
Even the standard Internet will cope, although if we'd moved to IPv6 already, it would have been fairly easy to ensure that any WorldCup traffic was pipelined so that it never took up more than half the bandwidth in any major trunk, just from the headers. With our current reliance on IPv4, though, it's possible you might see some disruption in Europe, although you'll get a far far better picture quality from standard television, unless you're forced to work during the WorldCup - at which point having a desktop small pic of the game might be expected.
are you sure you don't mean April 1st?
the Lance of Longinus anytime soon (reference to Evangelion).
...
Pop.
Um, Houston, we've got a problem.
What?
We've sprung a leak.
Why?
There's a large lance-like DNA needle stuck in our space station and we're losing air pressure fast
not I. I was just referring to the angle of the shot.
of course, if we're to believe your claim, that would validate the saying that the pen is mightier than the shotgun.
well, when the root poster parent of the thread claimed that such high-paying tech jobs didn't exist, a claim by someone that such things did - in fact - exist, makes it informative.
just as if you posted AC trying to bring up a statistical correlation aspect, given a non-randomized group, where a supposed outlier was claimed not to be informative, even though you posted no links nor data nor verifiable track record of reliable posts to back up your insinuation that it was:
a. an outlier
b. an anecdote (in economics, anecdotes are frequently data)
c. an outsize mod (especially since you were unwilling to risk mod points by replying with your actual account, but posted AC).
Does that clarify the situation?
a. you watch way too much CSI: Miami (yes, I loved that the young woman was the winner);
Haven't seen that one. Tell me about it?
oh, there was a game development firm that had a "live" contest with their new game, where Univ Miami students competed to rack up points by playing the game "live" and robbing banks, shooting people, etc, all while wearing hockey masks spraypainted. Turned out the winner was a young woman, one of the player helpers died while playing online for 72 hours straight, and the game firm was supplying full auto weapons and armor-piercing bullets.
This is why much of America thinks that gamers are murderers, IMHO. It's a very popular show.
No, sorry, it's Bush that plays Duck Hunt.
...
Dick Cheney plays Doom 3.
How to tell the difference:
Bush would shoot in the face.
Cheney would aim for the heart.
now, seriously, seizing games as "evidence" of a murder only makes sense if:
a. you watch way too much CSI: Miami (yes, I loved that the young woman was the winner); or
b. you find blood spattered on the game; or
c. you are trying to get media attention for a pretty flimsy case.
If the lag time needs to be changed, they can still fix it.
If they need to lower the price to a reasonable $499 for a non-crippled version, they can still do it.
If they need to alter the Blu-Ray drive, that's why they're testing it.
Please refer to the front cover of your friendly Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, secure your towel in a comfortable position behind your head, and Don't Panic!
"The days of high-paying technology-based jobs right out of highschool are over."
Those days never existed and for christ's sake I wish IT-types would stop perpetuating the myth.
Actually, they did exist.
My first job, in 1980-1982, was as a Power Engineer for Tek Cominco (back then Cominco), and it paid $12 when I started as an Assitant and I was making $22 within a year. Back then, that was more than a wealthy white collar worker made, and even CEOs only made about $40 an hour then.
When I moved to Seattle, shortly after the tech boom hit, and many people were getting four or five job offers at 100K+ if they left work in one place, in the late 1990s. I remember having a job end, going on vacation to go surf in Santa Barbara, and getting two job offers the week I was surfing, starting work the day after I got back.
I agree, my ex-wife is faced with the same problem. She used to make more than me, was earning $65K in 1992 when I moved to Seattle, and now she makes $12 an hour even though she has more education than I do.
But, I earn about the same, as I transitioned from standard Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer over to Medical (with databases), worked on Medical interfaces, went into Bioinformatics (DNA/RNA databases), and now am a Data Manager in Medical Genetics.
The demand - in our aging, increasily sick, population - is on the medical side - not the traditional tech side.
Go with the flow. Don't fight the river, swim with the current, grab a flat log, and surf down the whitewater to a sandy beach.
because for the large numbers of us with laptops, it's really hard to upgrade our video cards, given space constraints, but quite easy to pop in a "stick" video card so we can run the latest graphics apps.
... I will need to be able to play Spore ...
Sigh.
See, if I'd bought the "latest" computer, I'd already be out of date - by choosing to just buy a cheap $500 laptop, I'm just as out of date as I was a month ago.
But
Quite seriously, we save a bundle on the license fee by having our own University of Washington issue the certificate and be the verifying authority, rather than pay a fairly steep SSL fee. Now, admittedly, you need a user base that will "trust" a certificate "verified" by the University of Washington, but in the research world this is fairly common.
If you don't trust us, why are you sharing data with us?
That's the question we ask.
Now, if you're going commercial, I think you need to use one of the standard SSL authorities, even though it is more expensive.
if so, then he must be a murderer too, cause that's a game.
That will *NEVER* happen unless they drop Blu-ray. I hear people musing that Sony will drop the price point soon, but they can't do it.
Yeah, I read the same print version of the Fortune interview and the analysis in Wall Street Journal print edition as to the costs.
But, I reiterate, I believe if their stated goal is to dominate the market with Blu-Ray, they must let the PS3 ship far below cost, or they won't get critical mass, and they must ship cheap PS3 dev kits and provide market muscle for a diverse game set, or they will lose the war.
Sony makes most of its money from: banking - and - insurance.
Surprised? When I owned the stock, I sure was. Their shares have been dropping for years (sold mine at a profit way back before the DRM/rootkit scandal). They've brought in a Scottish CEO who isn't tech and wasn't from Sony.
They need to realize that winning the war is more important (revenues from Blu-Ray direct, license fees from Blu-Ray indirect, revenues from music, games, movies direct and indirect) than winning the short-term profit battle.
Besides, if the Cell costs as much as it does and the Blu-Ray costs as much as it does, they're already running at a loss anyway, estimated at $1 billion just for 2006 for the PS3.
Real Estate Investment Trusts?
...
It's one thing to speculate on clay prices, another to supply goods to people heading for a goldrush (why Seattle is bigger than Tacoma), but if they actually allowed you to create a mutual fund to invest in property speculation and rentals to lazy heros, now that's intriguing.
Wonder how many gold one would have to invest to be able to live off the proceeds and get a new two-handed sword every month in earnings
you actually pay per byte to download? You need a better ISP.
...
Try a better country. The oligopoly situation in e.g. Australia and New Zealand, combined with the limited bandwidth on and off the continent, has allowed residential "broadband" providers to get away with billing per megabyte over the first 3000 in a month.
Man, next thing you know, you'll tell us you have to pay per minute for local phone calls
I never doubted Sony would be able to sell more PS3's in Japan than MSFT will sell xBox360's. The question was if they would lock up dominance like they did with the PS2, and the result of E3 is they are going to have a hard fight to keep Nintendo out of the #1 spot with the Wii, both in the US and in Japan. I can't speak for Europe, but my gut tells me that Nintendo will probably do better than Sony there.
Once they announce their price point for a non-crippled P3 is $499 USD/EU, that DRM has been removed, and they realize that they won't have 80 percent of market share like they did with the PS2.
The sooner they do this, the better off they'll be.
no, Captain Copyright isn't a ripoff of Captain America, he's based on Captain Canuck, a comic book a friend of mine used to write. I have a few of the early issues in a box somewhere in my attic.
And, actually, Captain America was based on a German soldier hero, originally. Some people claim it was a French soldier, but most people agree it was a German archetype.
copyrights, as well as a trademark, I think this is a bad thing.
...
Look, why won't Captain Copyright teach them about Fair Use, or the fact that colleges, schools, and universities are exempt from many copyright restrictions, or about public copyrights?
Now, having actually travelled across Canada on a Canada Council Grant, as a playwright and author, I know where some of the money paid by the library system goes. I'm not against copyrights, but let's tell the truth, not a distorted pro-corporate version
[fyi, if you try to look me up in the online database, my legal name is much much longer in Canada and has two hyphens]
I don't understand why people buy super-high-end performance laptops. You pay a huge power, weight and cost premium for a laptop that will be top-o-the-line for very little time, and you can't upgrade it when that time passes.
They're a lot cheaper than boats or fancy cars, and they work a lot better. Plus, you can expense them if you're a consultant - I used to expense my computers when I ran a play-by-mail game business in Canada, including my Apple II+ and software for it. Not the game software, unless it was for research (I kid you not, the best ideas are stolen).
Hot Hardware is right - anyone know how hot these thing run? How fast will the burn a hole in your lap?
Probably pretty darned quick. I've found, even with a good pair of corduroys (nice air venting) or thick jeans, that many laptops run pretty darned hot, especially near the CPU(s) and the video card(s).
Is there a ThinkGeek laptop thing like you see for those 133L people in New Yorker who read books and have a laptop tray? I could use one big enough so I can sit on the couch and watch my HDTV while using my laptop - but it needs a side mouse location, not only big enough for the laptop itself.
sorry, meant video card. good catch.
however, my comment in regards to WinVista video cards was mostly meant as a joke. But I do expect many unsuspecting laptop users will get very irate when they find they have problems, as it's no mean task to upgrade the video card on a laptop.
True, but you can always buy a reconditioned one for about half the price if you just wait three months.
Note that, with 2GB of RAM, it actually is Windows Vista Premium capable.
But your basic point on the difficulty in upgrading laptops is a very good one.
I have a decent memory card. It works fine with most Linux apps - it's just the WinXP overloads.