No, I dont think everyone at Microsoft is working on Vista. What I know it is the main cash cow of M$, and history showed that if you diversify the company profile, the result will be a few millions thrown out the window, and spinning of the unit, and selling it to the people, whose main profile is that, what the unit does. That is exactly what Intel has done with the embedded units recently, but embedded is a market which is actually growing. Me thinks that this market where M$ wants to go now, is full, and some of the players are real hevyweights.
I agree that adding more people to the Vista project now won't really help any more, but if they would have done it in time, maybe it could have.
I dont think M$ actually design hardware for this, not a lot of companies do it any more. I think they bought the design from people with main competence on that market.
The other companies you mentioned, the real question is if they dont do it, in a few years time are they still around or they second priority projects sink the whole company. For Sun things do not run very well at the moment.
This is the 25.000th way of watching Desperate Housewives. How fantastic! Im the only one who misses new developments in areas other than entertainment and gaming? Yeah, the article mentioned security applications, but anyway. We aren't really able to establish an intercontinental phone connection without massive amount of white noise, but we have thousand ways for watching TV while driving.
This reminds me to the story in the Frank Shatzing's book, The Swarm. Nice book actually, its like Dan Brown, but at least Frank has some idea about technology.
I agree, I also have an Msc. in Robotics, and when I graduated I also saw that there are two choices. If I want to do robotics, I have to apply for a Phd. and later become a university teacher specialising in this area somewhere. That means lots of theoretical work, doing publications, lots of reinventing the wheel, which is not bad, if you are into those things, but don't expect to buy a Mercedes from your first quarter of income. Or you look after a job, that pays. I'm currently doing embedded software.
I personally think we are not there, not technically, because we could do it, if we would invest the time and the effort. We are not there economically right now.
I have a WL-500g (not the Premium, or the Deluxe) up and running for one and a half year now, as a samba, ftp, and web server for my private lan, with an USB hard drive for storage. I use the Oleg firmware on it:
I had minor problems setting up PHP to run a CMS, but finally I managed it. (I dont use MySQL on the router, so dont think on a thing as fancy like PhPNuke, but maybe this can be done also.)
Im picking up my Premium this friday. So I dont have any information, how it works, also no info if the Oleg firmware is able to run on it at all.
We both know, thats nitpicking what you do here, so I dont comment on all your comments, just the last. Yeah, its mostly a requirements problem. You see, the requirements are mostly written by marketing people, or people with very little overseeing of the task involved. To make the device accepted by the regulatory people, and both get the filled out check from the customer, there are sometimes trade-offs involved, and last minute requirements changes. You can say that you dont implement something, because it just does not fit in your architecture, but then that client goes somewhere else next time. We dont write code for our own pleasure here, we are doing it for customers. If we were doing open source, we could do code thats elegant, but you see gasoline costs are a little higher here in Europe.
And I ignore all comments on my english skills, they are just fine for my needs. Im able to speak my native language fluently, and I also speek a second foreign language just as bad as english. As in the past people commenting on my english skills couldnt speak anything other than english, I just dont see why I should feel myself bad, because I make mistakes.
Correct. Im doing software design for embedded systems. Ive a Masters from electrical engineering, and I eat my colleges with Batchelors for lunch. The thing is they cant think in systems. For them good code is what does the thing it has to do. For me good code is what A, does it has to do B, in the least possible time, C until the end of the world, and D, does not make bigger problems, as the ones it solves.
No wonder most of the batchelor guys get lost in a year or two, because of too many stress.
If the poster thought about actually designing microcontrolllers, I dont think those guys are hired from the Vancouver Tribune. They are searched by head hunters, and basicly bought from other companies. I think in that league the get in ticket is a PHD.
You can't publish anything in this field, there are already a dozen different lobbyist to prove you are insane, so if you can't really comment which part of the model do you think is wrong, please don't say anything.
I can refer to a thirty year old report, because the parrent had this experience in 1978, so that was not long after this paper was published.
If you think other resources are plenty, please check the data about availability of copper, and think about the shortage of gas in Europe one month ago, because Gazprom closed the valves for a few days.
No, this was not just a program he made up, I think that program was based on the paper Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1971), which was written about exactly the same scenarion, the world running out of resources, because of massive population increase, and massive consumption increase, and came with a program (the version I saw was in basic, but I think the original was some other programming language), which simulates a dynamic system, which is basicly a very simple modell of the world. It has since then had a follow up Beyond the Limits (Meadows et al. 1992).
So maybe you shouldn't dismiss it, just because it does not fit in your picture of the world.
Others have already explained, that yours fears are totally unsubstantiated, but you are wrong also on global warming offsetting this, global warming also slows down oceanic currents, by melting polar ice caps, because the water coming from the melted ice basicly reduces overall salinity of water near the caps.
I don't think it would make any sense with the current technology to fill these space petrol stations from Earth, even if a space elevator would sometimes in the near future be available. It would make more sense to have one of those in L5, and fill them from ice found in space with electrolising water. But I think there is a plan for this since the 1970's, so nothing really new here, except of we couldn't make this work for the last 30 years.
I think you simply underestimate the chinese. Yes, what they do has a political part, but they will have cash from the science part sometimes in the future, and money also motivates them. And they can develop much cheaper as NASA. I think their overdeveloped military has also some fear, that the US can shut down their satellites, do other nasty things from space, and they want to defend themselves on this front also. So they care about this also because of non political reasons. But I also think they won't matter until 2020, if they do this alone.
I think China could do interesting things, but it is still too far behind. They need the next ten years to develop, what NASA already has. I wish China would team up with the Russians or ESA, because together they could make NASA run for their money. But I don't think this will ever happen.
I think NASA is pushing the responsibility to this teams, who want to compete here. We could say, that if they are willing to take over why not, but by NASA defining the rules of what has to be done, I think they limit the outcome in a way, that is unhealthy in the long run. If your idea does not fit in there, because you imagine the future of space exploration in a whole other way, you don't fit into the infrastructure provided by them, then you are screwed, and there is only one prize, or two. If you don't win, you invested a lot of efforts, money, manpower, for a cause that based on somebody others idea, that is maybe flawed, because the world goes into a whole other direction. If you win, NASA is happy, because it has technology very inexpensivly. To make these things work would cost a lot more, if NASA does it. So NASA always comes out of this laughing, because somebody else does the work, and they pay only if you are successful. I think that's strange, as a state sponsored institution they should pay for the basic research, what nobody would like to do, because no one sees if it will be ever profitable.
Are you sure you want to keep two F-16's airborne, pay the gasoline bill, and the two guys from Texas, who will get bored, and will start fireing 100,000$ AMRAAM's to protect 400,000$ UAVs?
Especially because nowadays no human being touches a product, except of assembling and packaging, and those process parts are made fool proof, you just cannot assemble consumer electronics so, that if you do it wrong, it will still work. PCB assembly is done mainly by machines. The only factor you can get wrong in assembly is part quality. So search the source of Sony's decline in development department, and the finance and controlling department, the latter is motivated to build in low cost part for a few more cents of profit.
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No, I dont think everyone at Microsoft is working on Vista. What I know it is the main cash cow of M$, and history showed that if you diversify the company profile, the result will be a few millions thrown out the window, and spinning of the unit, and selling it to the people, whose main profile is that, what the unit does. That is exactly what Intel has done with the embedded units recently, but embedded is a market which is actually growing. Me thinks that this market where M$ wants to go now, is full, and some of the players are real hevyweights.
I agree that adding more people to the Vista project now won't really help any more, but if they would have done it in time, maybe it could have.
I dont think M$ actually design hardware for this, not a lot of companies do it any more. I think they bought the design from people with main competence on that market.
The other companies you mentioned, the real question is if they dont do it, in a few years time are they still around or they second priority projects sink the whole company. For Sun things do not run very well at the moment.
Efficiency = Getting things done in the same time with less people
More People + Less Efficiency > Less People + Less Efficiency
They have spare engineers for this, but they can not finish Vista?
You intended to be funny, right?
This is the 25.000th way of watching Desperate Housewives. How fantastic! Im the only one who misses new developments in areas other than entertainment and gaming? Yeah, the article mentioned security applications, but anyway. We aren't really able to establish an intercontinental phone connection without massive amount of white noise, but we have thousand ways for watching TV while driving.
This reminds me to the story in the Frank Shatzing's book, The Swarm. Nice book actually, its like Dan Brown, but at least Frank has some idea about technology.
I agree, I also have an Msc. in Robotics, and when I graduated I also saw that there are two choices. If I want to do robotics, I have to apply for a Phd. and later become a university teacher specialising in this area somewhere. That means lots of theoretical work, doing publications, lots of reinventing the wheel, which is not bad, if you are into those things, but don't expect to buy a Mercedes from your first quarter of income. Or you look after a job, that pays. I'm currently doing embedded software.
I personally think we are not there, not technically, because we could do it, if we would invest the time and the effort. We are not there economically right now.
Its good to see that old Intel is able to lose money even on a market which is actually growing.
I have a WL-500g (not the Premium, or the Deluxe) up and running for one and a half year now, as a samba, ftp, and web server for my private lan, with an USB hard drive for storage. I use the Oleg firmware on it:
http://www.wl500g.info/
I had minor problems setting up PHP to run a CMS, but finally I managed it. (I dont use MySQL on the router, so dont think on a thing as fancy like PhPNuke, but maybe this can be done also.)
Im picking up my Premium this friday. So I dont have any information, how it works, also no info if the Oleg firmware is able to run on it at all.
We both know, thats nitpicking what you do here, so I dont comment on all your comments, just the last. Yeah, its mostly a requirements problem. You see, the requirements are mostly written by marketing people, or people with very little overseeing of the task involved. To make the device accepted by the regulatory people, and both get the filled out check from the customer, there are sometimes trade-offs involved, and last minute requirements changes. You can say that you dont implement something, because it just does not fit in your architecture, but then that client goes somewhere else next time. We dont write code for our own pleasure here, we are doing it for customers. If we were doing open source, we could do code thats elegant, but you see gasoline costs are a little higher here in Europe. And I ignore all comments on my english skills, they are just fine for my needs. Im able to speak my native language fluently, and I also speek a second foreign language just as bad as english. As in the past people commenting on my english skills couldnt speak anything other than english, I just dont see why I should feel myself bad, because I make mistakes.
Correct. Im doing software design for embedded systems. Ive a Masters from electrical engineering, and I eat my colleges with Batchelors for lunch. The thing is they cant think in systems. For them good code is what does the thing it has to do. For me good code is what A, does it has to do B, in the least possible time, C until the end of the world, and D, does not make bigger problems, as the ones it solves. No wonder most of the batchelor guys get lost in a year or two, because of too many stress. If the poster thought about actually designing microcontrolllers, I dont think those guys are hired from the Vancouver Tribune. They are searched by head hunters, and basicly bought from other companies. I think in that league the get in ticket is a PHD.
You can't publish anything in this field, there are already a dozen different lobbyist to prove you are insane, so if you can't really comment which part of the model do you think is wrong, please don't say anything.
I can refer to a thirty year old report, because the parrent had this experience in 1978, so that was not long after this paper was published.
If you think other resources are plenty, please check the data about availability of copper, and think about the shortage of gas in Europe one month ago, because Gazprom closed the valves for a few days.
No, this was not just a program he made up, I think that program was based on the paper Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1971), which was written about exactly the same scenarion, the world running out of resources, because of massive population increase, and massive consumption increase, and came with a program (the version I saw was in basic, but I think the original was some other programming language), which simulates a dynamic system, which is basicly a very simple modell of the world. It has since then had a follow up Beyond the Limits (Meadows et al. 1992).
So maybe you shouldn't dismiss it, just because it does not fit in your picture of the world.
Others have already explained, that yours fears are totally unsubstantiated, but you are wrong also on global warming offsetting this, global warming also slows down oceanic currents, by melting polar ice caps, because the water coming from the melted ice basicly reduces overall salinity of water near the caps.
>Voyager, which is out of solar system may have entered another such region where it varies.... Me thinks that that was Enterprise ;)
If you are already on it, why don't you solve other big problems of humanity?
Then after reentry there is boiled egg and roast chicken for lunch?
I don't think it would make any sense with the current technology to fill these space petrol stations from Earth, even if a space elevator would sometimes in the near future be available. It would make more sense to have one of those in L5, and fill them from ice found in space with electrolising water. But I think there is a plan for this since the 1970's, so nothing really new here, except of we couldn't make this work for the last 30 years.
I think you simply underestimate the chinese. Yes, what they do has a political part, but they will have cash from the science part sometimes in the future, and money also motivates them. And they can develop much cheaper as NASA. I think their overdeveloped military has also some fear, that the US can shut down their satellites, do other nasty things from space, and they want to defend themselves on this front also. So they care about this also because of non political reasons. But I also think they won't matter until 2020, if they do this alone.
I think China could do interesting things, but it is still too far behind. They need the next ten years to develop, what NASA already has. I wish China would team up with the Russians or ESA, because together they could make NASA run for their money. But I don't think this will ever happen.
I think NASA is pushing the responsibility to this teams, who want to compete here. We could say, that if they are willing to take over why not, but by NASA defining the rules of what has to be done, I think they limit the outcome in a way, that is unhealthy in the long run. If your idea does not fit in there, because you imagine the future of space exploration in a whole other way, you don't fit into the infrastructure provided by them, then you are screwed, and there is only one prize, or two. If you don't win, you invested a lot of efforts, money, manpower, for a cause that based on somebody others idea, that is maybe flawed, because the world goes into a whole other direction. If you win, NASA is happy, because it has technology very inexpensivly. To make these things work would cost a lot more, if NASA does it. So NASA always comes out of this laughing, because somebody else does the work, and they pay only if you are successful. I think that's strange, as a state sponsored institution they should pay for the basic research, what nobody would like to do, because no one sees if it will be ever profitable.
It easier to avoid collision in the less crowded airspace in 3D, as in downtown Los Angeles in 2D. And easier to avoid civilian airspace completely.
Are you sure you want to keep two F-16's airborne, pay the gasoline bill, and the two guys from Texas, who will get bored, and will start fireing 100,000$ AMRAAM's to protect 400,000$ UAVs?
A big enough explosive charge to rip it apart from inside? The integrity of the hull can work against you, if you can develop enough pressure inside.
Especially because nowadays no human being touches a product, except of assembling and packaging, and those process parts are made fool proof, you just cannot assemble consumer electronics so, that if you do it wrong, it will still work. PCB assembly is done mainly by machines. The only factor you can get wrong in assembly is part quality. So search the source of Sony's decline in development department, and the finance and controlling department, the latter is motivated to build in low cost part for a few more cents of profit.