>Actually, the Handspring Visor's expandability >is great, but finding one is a bit difficult.
Handspring does great business selling Visors direct. Go to the website and you shouldn't have much trouble ordering one online. I know they also sell them direct over the phone.
I've been very interested in Handspring's Visor, but I'm waiting for Springboard modules that aren't vaporware. It looks like there's gonna be a GPS springboard module Real Soon Now. As soon as that's out I'll be looking very closely at getting a Visor. My only gripe is that the maps that come with the GPS module don't include U.S. railroads.
This could be a really exciting development, especially given the threads on Dave Farber's IP listserv regarding the scarcity of high-tech workers and whether or not tech companies should be able to have all the high-tech visas they want.
The argument has shifted past debate over whether or not tech firms are trying to screw american workers and into examining fundamentally why the scarcity exists. The consensus seems to be that the quality of CS faculty is decreasing, becoming more and more isolated from the world outside of academia.
This could be amazing, injecting an academic perspective into the career-oriented IT pool. The concept of a free university is wonderful. But the big crippling problem I see is why should this be a post-bachelor program? If someone's got a degree, they don't really need a program like this as badly as say, someone who didn't have the financial means to go to/finish college in the first place.
Let's face it, the current university programs aren't doing a good job at making graduates understand the industry. An institute like this could take care of that problem.
If this program gets off the ground, I would like to see them courting the biggies like Cisco, Oracle, the IPO darlings (Hey, RHAT is going down but they've still got serious market capitalization value) for some heavy heavy endowments. That way they could dramatically widen the entitlement to prospective students.
With this sort of arrangement, prospective IT professionals get something more in-depth than an MCSE mill, and the tech companies get a solidly-trained work-force of people that really understand the concepts at hand.
1822-1835 It's All in the Follow-Through British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage begins to design and build the Difference Engine, a machine that uses logarithms and trigonometry to compute the navigational and celestial tables used by sailors. It takes ten years for Babbage to construct part of it, whereupon he abandons the project and starts work on a more sophisticated product called the Analytical Engine. He does not finish that either. Several other inventors, including George Barnard Grant and Georg and Edward Scheutz, build machines based on his work.
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He keeps writin' books even though he's dead, L. Ron Ron Ron, L.L. Ron Ron!
The Pinkerton Agency has a special hated spot in my heart.
The Pinkertons are the ones that shot Jesse James's family.
It was a Pinkerton spy that informed on the Molly McGuires.
It was Pinkerton thugs that threatened striking miners in West Virginia with beatings and machine guns.
The list goes on and on... The Pinkertons make big business these days with union-busting and workplace spying. It figures they'd try and extend their reach to High School.
Maybe I'm not reading the article closely enough, but I don't see how Network Associates' statesments and website equal Microsoft trying to spin this into a PR coup. Network Associates isn't connected with Microsoft, are they?
Sure, this is an example really bad technology reporting and an over-simplification of the DDoS phenomenon, but I'm not seeing a connection to the OS wars here.
If you search the MacWeek archives, you'll find an article about how a recent version of the MacOS would reply to a specific type of packet with a flood of data. Combined with IP spoofing, this could be used to hijack MacOS systems into becoming Denial of Service tools.
This isn't an issue of one OS being better than the other - all of these systems have some vulnerability. It's a network admins' responsibility to protect their systems from being vulnerable to this sort of attack and to prevent it from being used in an attack.
And let's face it, Windows is a long way from being secure. Remember BackOrfice?
Until the close of last night's Nove documentary, I had no idea that Turing had killed himself. I'd always known him as a great figure referred to in other text. The fact that he was denies security clearance and ostracized for being gay is northing other than tragic. It's another example of how the intelligence community can be cautious to a fault. Interactions between Oppenheimer and the OSS are another good example of the paranoid mentality that the spooks tend to adopt. Can anybody recommend a good turing biography?
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>Actually, the Handspring Visor's expandability >is great, but finding one is a bit difficult.
Handspring does great business selling Visors direct. Go to the website and you shouldn't have much trouble ordering one online. I know they also sell them direct over the phone.
I've been very interested in Handspring's Visor, but I'm waiting for Springboard modules that aren't vaporware. It looks like there's gonna be a GPS springboard module Real Soon Now. As soon as that's out I'll be looking very closely at getting a Visor. My only gripe is that the maps that come with the GPS module don't include U.S. railroads.
-carl
The Register has been running on ongoing series of stories about how Rambus is a huge conspiracy and anybodywho invests in them is a dupe.
God bledd The Register. Between BOFH and the pin they poke in the New Economy bubble, it's essential reading.
-carl
This could be a really exciting development, especially given the threads on Dave Farber's IP listserv regarding the scarcity of high-tech workers and whether or not tech companies should be able to have all the high-tech visas they want.
The argument has shifted past debate over whether or not tech firms are trying to screw american workers and into examining fundamentally why the scarcity exists. The consensus seems to be that the quality of CS faculty is decreasing, becoming more and more isolated from the world outside of academia.
This could be amazing, injecting an academic perspective into the career-oriented IT pool. The concept of a free university is wonderful. But the big crippling problem I see is why should this be a post-bachelor program? If someone's got a degree, they don't really need a program like this as badly as say, someone who didn't have the financial means to go to/finish college in the first place.
Let's face it, the current university programs aren't doing a good job at making graduates understand the industry. An institute like this could take care of that problem.
If this program gets off the ground, I would like to see them courting the biggies like Cisco, Oracle, the IPO darlings (Hey, RHAT is going down but they've still got serious market capitalization value) for some heavy heavy endowments. That way they could dramatically widen the entitlement to prospective students.
With this sort of arrangement, prospective IT professionals get something more in-depth than an MCSE mill, and the tech companies get a solidly-trained work-force of people that really understand the concepts at hand.
-carl
1822-1835 It's All in the Follow-Through British mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage begins to design and build the Difference Engine, a machine that uses logarithms and trigonometry to compute the navigational and celestial tables used by sailors. It takes ten years for Babbage to construct part of it, whereupon he abandons the project and starts work on a more sophisticated product called the Analytical Engine. He does not finish that either. Several other inventors, including George Barnard Grant and Georg and Edward Scheutz, build machines based on his work.
He keeps writin' books even though he's dead,
L. Ron Ron Ron, L.L. Ron Ron!
The Pinkerton Agency has a special hated spot in my heart.
The Pinkertons are the ones that shot Jesse James's family.
It was a Pinkerton spy that informed on the Molly McGuires.
It was Pinkerton thugs that threatened striking miners in West Virginia with beatings and machine guns.
The list goes on and on... The Pinkertons make big business these days with union-busting and workplace spying. It figures they'd try and extend their reach to High School.
-carl
Coke is a refined version of coal used in the production of steel. Perhaps the UMW should sue the Coca-Cola Company for infringing on prior art. -carl
Maybe I'm not reading the article closely enough, but I don't see how Network Associates' statesments and website equal Microsoft trying to spin this into a PR coup. Network Associates isn't connected with Microsoft, are they?
Sure, this is an example really bad technology reporting and an over-simplification of the DDoS phenomenon, but I'm not seeing a connection to the OS wars here.
If you search the MacWeek archives, you'll find an article about how a recent version of the MacOS would reply to a specific type of packet with a flood of data. Combined with IP spoofing, this could be used to hijack MacOS systems into becoming Denial of Service tools.
This isn't an issue of one OS being better than the other - all of these systems have some vulnerability. It's a network admins' responsibility to protect their systems from being vulnerable to this sort of attack and to prevent it from being used in an attack.
And let's face it, Windows is a long way from being secure. Remember BackOrfice?
-carl
Remember: HAL's storage was Holographic. Holographic Algorithmic Whatsit...
Yes, but how seriously can one take comments about art coming from a guy with a mullet?
Until the close of last night's Nove documentary, I had no idea that Turing had killed himself. I'd always known him as a great figure referred to in other text. The fact that he was denies security clearance and ostracized for being gay is northing other than tragic. It's another example of how the intelligence community can be cautious to a fault. Interactions between Oppenheimer and the OSS are another good example of the paranoid mentality that the spooks tend to adopt. Can anybody recommend a good turing biography?