This is such a breathtakingly stupid statement, it's amazing anyone could even think it, let alone post it.
No it is not. My comment is very intelligent and completely irrefutable (by the likes of you anyway.)
Your comment, however, has no value. There is no information or relevant opinion. Your statement attacks me directly despite the fact that you do not know anything about me. The wording is clumsy. The sentence is grammatically incorrect. You use a word that does not exist and one that is ambiguous. There is a missing word. You also make two absurd statements. You have created a piece of putrid mumbling, dense with stupidity, void of meaning and not worthy of a six year old reader.
You, sir, are flamebait and I a ball of hydrogen plasma.
Wrong. Most of the software that was written for Win95, 98 and ME has to be changed to run on 2K or XP. I have a huge pile of CDROMs that are worthless because I bought a new PC. My Unix software may or may not need to be recompiled when switching between 8000 different distros each with different hardware. If there are any problems, I can always go to sourceforge and download the latest For FREE. Hell, some of it can even be compiled and run under Windows. That is what I call compatibility. As for support, well 5 seconds on google will answer any Linux question I have. Two hours on the phone and $35 (or $245 for a real question) will only get me more questions with a MS product.
But real backward compatibility is not about software but hardware. I can not run XP on a computer that is 5 years old. I can run just about any Linux distro I want on a 386 without any need for support.
BTW, we already have eight versions of Windows XP. The difference is, Microsoft (in the bug2feature development tradition) will be marketing eight different versions as a tiered pricing strategy instead of a cluster fuck.
The eight versions of XP are: Microsoft Windows XP Professional for Itanium-based systems Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 1 Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2 Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002 Microsoft Windows XP Professional Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
The group of people who's IQ points have fallen the most are the readers of this stupid article.
This article compares a IQ applied to certain subjects to General IQ scores and then goes on to say that they have fallen "3 years worth." Three years of what worth? Three years education, three years of "Flynn Effect" improvement, three years stupid articles like this one?
"In 1718, French colonist Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ignored his engineers' warnings about the hazards of flooding and mapped a settlement in a pinch of swampland between the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico and a massive lake to the north."
I think the people in shelters would like to communicate that they are alive. Evacuees and others would also like to try to find friends and family that they can not contact. If you are looking for someone that was in NO,LA then phone won't help much. A database of names, pictures and locations would help.
I am in Houston and am an out of work Network Engineer. I don't have anything to donate but my time. So, if anyone wants to arrange to get Kiosks to the Astrodome or other shelters, I am willing to lead that effort.
While it is not hard to get cars to travel in a straight line, like fork lifts, superdump truks, crawlers, drilling rigs, etc. It is really hard to get a bunch of cops with shinny new criminal justice (what a joke) degrees to allow technology to take away their (and their sorry little town's) only source of income.
Everyone knows the standing on the side of the road with your radar gun to arbitrarily tax and racial profile passing citizens is the fastest growing industry in the country.
It may be really easy to pass a certification exam if you have the skills, but there is more than one to pass. I don't have the time, money or energy to keep up with the certs when they can't even keep up with me.
I paid a lot of money to take my Novel 3.x CNE classes, but did not finish the tests because I was too busy installing Win3.12 machines to build a network. When I moved on to NT4.0 Microsoft had created a certification program, but it did not teach me anything new. Besides, I was a really busy replacing NT4.0 machines with Linux servers. I was also more interested in Cisco routers than server technology anyway. I learned alot about Cisco, but by the time they developed their certs and I could get mine, I was already into optical networking products. Cisco bought Cerent and created a cert for their new line of optical gear but they were too late. I had already attended Juniper seminars to learn about traffic shaping. Well now there is a JunOS cert, but I am not even interested in boring layer3 stuff anymore, I am into layer one now, DWDM baby! I don't even know if and who has the cert on that technology, and I don't care because I am thinking about raising carrier pigeons next. Where is the biology cert? Can anyone recommend a boot camp for a Winged Messaging Administrator cert?
So you see, if you have a certification, then that means you arrived at the technology late in the game and are sitting in a stagnant pool of information tying to become the big fish. Believe me, there are no certs where I'm going.
There is more than just range or location of objects to map. You could possibly map the density of objects, or even dynamic media like beer, dense air in storms, fluctuating seawater or even semen salinity, or the complex atmospheres on other planets/planetoids using echo location derived technologies. These capabilities come from the fact that sound is a different form of energy wave than EM waves. Sound is a compression of the medium, like air, at certain times, like 50 times per second (the brown noise.) So it is very well suited to detecting changes in matter that other waves can pass right through or simply bounce off the mere surface of.
There are also different ways to map objects and their locations. The simple approach would be to send out a sound, listen for it to return, then try to decide how far away was the object from which it reflected. An alternative way of mapping would be perhaps a statistical process.
First you send out a sound or just listen to ambient noise and determine how many ways it can change. Then you can fly around while you record what you hear. You also want to record each time you run into an object and all of the acoustic features each object you run into possesses. Eventually, you will have enough data to build a statistical probability or regression or whatever model and a derived algorithm for listening to the environment.
By using a listening algorithm tailored for the environment, like xmas2003's Frisbee ridden house, the robot bat can simply fly around and guess when it will hit something. The robot bat can even determine if it is about to hit a Frisbee, a window screen, a tennis racket or whatever weapon the flying mammal hater has deployed.
This is probably a lot closer to what a live bat actually does. Rather than draw a map of where the moth is, the bat simply remembers what a moth three feet away sounds like and veers in the direction that sounds better.
Of course, the live bat's OS is not Linux but Hunger1.0. Not a very stable platform, but the computational power is fantastic!
I don't really know a lot about echo location or sonar, but I play like I do on/. I have also seen statistical mapping used in many similar applications like ground penetrating radar. Statistics is applied in geophysical/seismic mapping. Mechanical failure analysis can be done by listening to vibrations which are just below the audible frequencies. Then there is the Weather Channel. So, if statistical mapping of sonar and echo data is not in use by robots for navigation and targeting today, then it will be soon.
The sad part is that IP is not necessarily the best network to provide some of these services. There are effectual monopolies over the "last mile" physical networks that we depend on as basic utilities.
For example the copper pair which carries the most basic electrical signaling circuit, a telephone line, is owned by SBC in my area. SBC decides to multiplex the telephone with a DSL circuit and then overlay it with FrameRelay and then IP over that so they can build an Ethernet bridge over the IP network to form a tunnel to run a Point to Point connection (yes like dialup) through it so IP again can be put over the Ethernet so you can get your tcp and eventually your VoIP and telent applications alike. If you have heard of PPPoE then you are in this group of bandwidth and CPU cycle wasting MoFos. If you think I am confused about the network topology of SBC DSL, then that just proves how convoluted it really is.
The next group of bandwidth wasters is the cable users. Time Warner Cable is owned by Time Warner which of course is the borg. But it will take more than a transphasic torpedo to push future technologies over their network. They use a fiber-coax network over which they supply a noisy and crappy analog TV signal. Don't believe it's noisy, check out one of those cable trucks with that PVC pipe rig used to see who in the hood is stealing cable TV. If they can tell you your watching cable from the street, then it's gotta be crappy. Then they multiplex another signal with that one over which they can deliver digital TV and of course IP, so you can have your VoIP, so you can wait on hold with TW Cable, so you can talk to the hive queen to complain about the fuzzy lines on the SciFi channel while I watch picture perfect HBO in High Definition and while running telnet.
Now I don't know what kind of technology TW uses to deliver the digital signal, or what is going down on the fiber side of the fiber-coax hybrid network that still uses those crappy F connectors that I can't unscrew anyway. I don't want to know because I am sure it is crappier than I can imagine. However, they could just give me a fiber-fiber network with a fiber to my house and into a box where I can connect a SONET ring, FDDI, DWDM or maybe just a $99 Gigabit Ethernet card into. Then I can have VoIP, video-on-demand, video conferencing, a regular telephone line and of course my telnet app all while running an Internet Provider out of my bedroom with just one piece of fiber. But that would make too much sense.
So would using the DSL line in an efficient manner make too much sense for SBC. Anyone could provide much more speed over that pair of copper by delivering voice, video-on-demand, video conferencing, and IP services all in parallel to each other using ATM over DSL without all of that extra encapsulation and tunneling. Unfortunately you have to have a clean DSL line to deliver those services and who has heard of a growing DSL provider other than their local phone company in the last few years.
So you think that sux, don't even get me started into FM/AM and all of the other frequencies that are wasted by FCC regulation. Ever wonder why your new cell phone, cordless phone, WiFi router, Bluetooth headset, wireless weather station, outdoor speakers, door bell and personal radios all manage to use the same tiny frequency while just barely interfering with each other? You can bet it is not the protection that the FCC provides to Clear Channel and other radio operators.
Next time you are thinking, "Gee, VoIP is so great!" remember that we would not even need it if we had started using packet technologies in the 1970s like we would have without media monopolies. Cash over IP would be the 2007 goal for Intel if there was someone to compete with Time Warner Cable, SBC, Comcast, Clear Channel and the other grubberment licensed power brokers.
It is the stream-lining of the INet for the real time delivery of services over IP while conserving bandwidth. So I don't have drops in my phone call, or so my alarm system does not have to wait while you send your email or login to with that bandwidth hogging telnet application.
It also has to do with determining were all of the bandwidth is going. With technologies that support VoIP, a network eng. can build a nice fat pipe for VoIP calls and charge accordingly for its usage. That way you don't have to pay five cents per min for your telnet connection just because you are on the same IP network as a bunch of Asia calling VoIPers.
Caterpillar 1750 kW Standby Diesel Generator
and the starting bid is only $240,000.00.
It looks a little bigger than an F16, but it will get you started fer sure.
Ebay, baby!
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No it is not. My comment is very intelligent and completely irrefutable (by the likes of you anyway.)
Your comment, however, has no value. There is no information or relevant opinion. Your statement attacks me directly despite the fact that you do not know anything about me. The wording is clumsy. The sentence is grammatically incorrect. You use a word that does not exist and one that is ambiguous. There is a missing word. You also make two absurd statements. You have created a piece of putrid mumbling, dense with stupidity, void of meaning and not worthy of a six year old reader.
You, sir, are flamebait and I a ball of hydrogen plasma.
Wrong. Most of the software that was written for Win95, 98 and ME has to be changed to run on 2K or XP. I have a huge pile of CDROMs that are worthless because I bought a new PC. My Unix software may or may not need to be recompiled when switching between 8000 different distros each with different hardware. If there are any problems, I can always go to sourceforge and download the latest For FREE. Hell, some of it can even be compiled and run under Windows. That is what I call compatibility. As for support, well 5 seconds on google will answer any Linux question I have. Two hours on the phone and $35 (or $245 for a real question) will only get me more questions with a MS product.
But real backward compatibility is not about software but hardware. I can not run XP on a computer that is 5 years old. I can run just about any Linux distro I want on a 386 without any need for support.
BTW, we already have eight versions of Windows XP. The difference is, Microsoft (in the bug2feature development tradition) will be marketing eight different versions as a tiered pricing strategy instead of a cluster fuck.
The eight versions of XP are:
Microsoft Windows XP Professional for Itanium-based systems
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 1
Microsoft Windows XP Embedded Service Pack 2
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004
Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Yeah, but they are not real, just silicon implants.
The group of people who's IQ points have fallen the most are the readers of this stupid article.
This article compares a IQ applied to certain subjects to General IQ scores and then goes on to say that they have fallen "3 years worth." Three years of what worth? Three years education, three years of "Flynn Effect" improvement, three years stupid articles like this one?
Tripe, the lot.
I think the prediction was made a little earlier:
"In 1718, French colonist Jean Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ignored his engineers' warnings about the hazards of flooding and mapped a settlement in a pinch of swampland between the mouth of the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico and a massive lake to the north."
I think the people in shelters would like to communicate that they are alive. Evacuees and others would also like to try to find friends and family that they can not contact. If you are looking for someone that was in NO,LA then phone won't help much. A database of names, pictures and locations would help.
I am in Houston and am an out of work Network Engineer. I don't have anything to donate but my time. So, if anyone wants to arrange to get Kiosks to the Astrodome or other shelters, I am willing to lead that effort.
Send emails to brandonvne@yahoo.com
Exactly right.
While it is not hard to get cars to travel in a straight line, like fork lifts, superdump truks, crawlers, drilling rigs, etc. It is really hard to get a bunch of cops with shinny new criminal justice (what a joke) degrees to allow technology to take away their (and their sorry little town's) only source of income.
Everyone knows the standing on the side of the road with your radar gun to arbitrarily tax and racial profile passing citizens is the fastest growing industry in the country.
A combination of things like pressure, gravity and oh yeah, it's Aquaman's secret HIDEOUT!
Duhhhhhhhh. Don't you know nuting?
It may be really easy to pass a certification exam if you have the skills, but there is more than one to pass. I don't have the time, money or energy to keep up with the certs when they can't even keep up with me.
I paid a lot of money to take my Novel 3.x CNE classes, but did not finish the tests because I was too busy installing Win3.12 machines to build a network. When I moved on to NT4.0 Microsoft had created a certification program, but it did not teach me anything new. Besides, I was a really busy replacing NT4.0 machines with Linux servers. I was also more interested in Cisco routers than server technology anyway. I learned alot about Cisco, but by the time they developed their certs and I could get mine, I was already into optical networking products. Cisco bought Cerent and created a cert for their new line of optical gear but they were too late. I had already attended Juniper seminars to learn about traffic shaping. Well now there is a JunOS cert, but I am not even interested in boring layer3 stuff anymore, I am into layer one now, DWDM baby! I don't even know if and who has the cert on that technology, and I don't care because I am thinking about raising carrier pigeons next. Where is the biology cert? Can anyone recommend a boot camp for a Winged Messaging Administrator cert?
So you see, if you have a certification, then that means you arrived at the technology late in the game and are sitting in a stagnant pool of information tying to become the big fish. Believe me, there are no certs where I'm going.
There is more than just range or location of objects to map. You could possibly map the density of objects, or even dynamic media like beer, dense air in storms, fluctuating seawater or even semen salinity, or the complex atmospheres on other planets/planetoids using echo location derived technologies. These capabilities come from the fact that sound is a different form of energy wave than EM waves. Sound is a compression of the medium, like air, at certain times, like 50 times per second (the brown noise.) So it is very well suited to detecting changes in matter that other waves can pass right through or simply bounce off the mere surface of. There are also different ways to map objects and their locations. The simple approach would be to send out a sound, listen for it to return, then try to decide how far away was the object from which it reflected. An alternative way of mapping would be perhaps a statistical process. First you send out a sound or just listen to ambient noise and determine how many ways it can change. Then you can fly around while you record what you hear. You also want to record each time you run into an object and all of the acoustic features each object you run into possesses. Eventually, you will have enough data to build a statistical probability or regression or whatever model and a derived algorithm for listening to the environment. By using a listening algorithm tailored for the environment, like xmas2003's Frisbee ridden house, the robot bat can simply fly around and guess when it will hit something. The robot bat can even determine if it is about to hit a Frisbee, a window screen, a tennis racket or whatever weapon the flying mammal hater has deployed. This is probably a lot closer to what a live bat actually does. Rather than draw a map of where the moth is, the bat simply remembers what a moth three feet away sounds like and veers in the direction that sounds better. Of course, the live bat's OS is not Linux but Hunger1.0. Not a very stable platform, but the computational power is fantastic! I don't really know a lot about echo location or sonar, but I play like I do on /. I have also seen statistical mapping used in many similar applications like ground penetrating radar. Statistics is applied in geophysical/seismic mapping. Mechanical failure analysis can be done by listening to vibrations which are just below the audible frequencies. Then there is the Weather Channel. So, if statistical mapping of sonar and echo data is not in use by robots for navigation and targeting today, then it will be soon.
Greetings Programs,
The sad part is that IP is not necessarily the best network to provide some of these services. There are effectual monopolies over the "last mile" physical networks that we depend on as basic utilities.
For example the copper pair which carries the most basic electrical signaling circuit, a telephone line, is owned by SBC in my area. SBC decides to multiplex the telephone with a DSL circuit and then overlay it with FrameRelay and then IP over that so they can build an Ethernet bridge over the IP network to form a tunnel to run a Point to Point connection (yes like dialup) through it so IP again can be put over the Ethernet so you can get your tcp and eventually your VoIP and telent applications alike. If you have heard of PPPoE then you are in this group of bandwidth and CPU cycle wasting MoFos. If you think I am confused about the network topology of SBC DSL, then that just proves how convoluted it really is.
The next group of bandwidth wasters is the cable users. Time Warner Cable is owned by Time Warner which of course is the borg. But it will take more than a transphasic torpedo to push future technologies over their network. They use a fiber-coax network over which they supply a noisy and crappy analog TV signal. Don't believe it's noisy, check out one of those cable trucks with that PVC pipe rig used to see who in the hood is stealing cable TV. If they can tell you your watching cable from the street, then it's gotta be crappy. Then they multiplex another signal with that one over which they can deliver digital TV and of course IP, so you can have your VoIP, so you can wait on hold with TW Cable, so you can talk to the hive queen to complain about the fuzzy lines on the SciFi channel while I watch picture perfect HBO in High Definition and while running telnet.
Now I don't know what kind of technology TW uses to deliver the digital signal, or what is going down on the fiber side of the fiber-coax hybrid network that still uses those crappy F connectors that I can't unscrew anyway. I don't want to know because I am sure it is crappier than I can imagine. However, they could just give me a fiber-fiber network with a fiber to my house and into a box where I can connect a SONET ring, FDDI, DWDM or maybe just a $99 Gigabit Ethernet card into. Then I can have VoIP, video-on-demand, video conferencing, a regular telephone line and of course my telnet app all while running an Internet Provider out of my bedroom with just one piece of fiber. But that would make too much sense.
So would using the DSL line in an efficient manner make too much sense for SBC. Anyone could provide much more speed over that pair of copper by delivering voice, video-on-demand, video conferencing, and IP services all in parallel to each other using ATM over DSL without all of that extra encapsulation and tunneling. Unfortunately you have to have a clean DSL line to deliver those services and who has heard of a growing DSL provider other than their local phone company in the last few years.
So you think that sux, don't even get me started into FM/AM and all of the other frequencies that are wasted by FCC regulation. Ever wonder why your new cell phone, cordless phone, WiFi router, Bluetooth headset, wireless weather station, outdoor speakers, door bell and personal radios all manage to use the same tiny frequency while just barely interfering with each other? You can bet it is not the protection that the FCC provides to Clear Channel and other radio operators.
Next time you are thinking, "Gee, VoIP is so great!" remember that we would not even need it if we had started using packet technologies in the 1970s like we would have without media monopolies. Cash over IP would be the 2007 goal for Intel if there was someone to compete with Time Warner Cable, SBC, Comcast, Clear Channel and the other grubberment licensed power brokers.
EOL
It is the stream-lining of the INet for the real time delivery of services over IP while conserving bandwidth. So I don't have drops in my phone call, or so my alarm system does not have to wait while you send your email or login to with that bandwidth hogging telnet application. It also has to do with determining were all of the bandwidth is going. With technologies that support VoIP, a network eng. can build a nice fat pipe for VoIP calls and charge accordingly for its usage. That way you don't have to pay five cents per min for your telnet connection just because you are on the same IP network as a bunch of Asia calling VoIPers.
Caterpillar 1750 kW Standby Diesel Generator and the starting bid is only $240,000.00. It looks a little bigger than an F16, but it will get you started fer sure. Ebay, baby!