I think this sort of incident around the ISS could drive the development of a simple space ROV for picking up these sorts of things, or serving as a camera platform for observing docking/separations etc. It wont be the last time this happens, and I guess that generally they will be relatively low velocity.
Whilst I am on my high horse!, a lot of developers seem to think that the company is there to present them with hardware/software they can show off on. They are actually there to make the hardware/software do things for the company they work for.
When in an educational institution the former IS the relationship with the institution, some seem to fail to recognise that this changes when they go in to commerce.
The user is king/queen.
Beware knowledge 'squirrels', those who believe knowledge is power.
Look for those who treat communication as the transfer of ideas, and do not accept those that use it as an opportunity to demonstrate technical superiority.
Jerry
If you want to employ a cabinet maker, you ask them about cabinets they have made. In passing, you may ask what tools they used, but, if they are good, they can easily pick up and use new tools. Far too much emphasis has been laid on which tools you know, e.g. SQLserver vs Oracle, a good db specialist can transfer from on to the other in very little time.
Always hire for attitude, you can change skills, changing attitudes is much tougher.
Look for a little passion about results and user needs.
Jerry
I get the feeling that as the world said 'google is creating a cloud OS' it got believed, and this is the response to what google weren't doing? It seems as though they are trying to second guess the market rather than lead it.
go to http://www.sweetchillisauce.com/ this guy winds up the scammers all the way in, hilarious stuff. If more people did this, now that would slow the scammers!
Jerry
It is also worth noting, that when you grow a human in isolation, you do not get intelligence, a human has to grow within a society to get observable intelligence. An AI 'bot' would presumably have to 'grow' in a similar way, you can't just 'switch on' intelligence.
Jerry
I have been 30+ years in IT and the spectacular arrogance of people in IT depresses me.
All IT needs business.
Not all business needs IT.
IT staff treat the business as if they are doing them a huge favour instead of just doing their job. I have been witness to IT staff telling a very successful business manager that he didnt understand his own business, disrespectful little toads!.
When IT starts to respect business, then, PERHAPS, business might start to respect IT.
Jerry
In (approx) 1992 I went to SID (society for information display) in Florida, and a keynote speaker said, roughly:
"I have been coming here for 30 years, and I expect to hear, just like I heard 30 years ago and most years since, that within 10 years flat panels will overtake CRTs and make them redundant. Why has this not happened? Because CRT has continued to get cheaper and better quality, thus removing the opportunity for flat panel, because the goals keep moving"
He also pointed out that we would get there (and we have) but that we should never underestimate where old technologies can go. In 1983 I put together a business plan for an outsourced proposal I was working on, and we put in £17K (thats $28k) to cover a 70 megabyte hard drive. Now I see one inch drives in iPods carrying multi gigs.
I believe that we will see phased take up, ie where it is needed most (e.g. like the way airlines put in flat panels instead of CRTs to reduce weight), before the HDD manufacturers will curl up and leave the scene.
Jerry
J Edgar Hoover (JEHoover's witness?) famously used to insist on not taking a left turn on journeys (apparently, when the G Men couldnt avoid it, they distracted him whilst the turns were made)
J
www.fon.com exists to promote wifi sharing, I even have the POI file for the UK downloaded into my SatNav (take me to the nearest hotspot) all I have to do in return is leave my Fon router open.
Jerry
Between 1987 and 1990 I led a team in Digital which built a global currency management system running across 40 machines worldwide acting as a single system, and all operating in parallel, without stopping for synchronisation. We built a global 'synch wave' which allowed the business to be 'closed' without interruption. The near infinitely scaleable techniques we developed were unfortunately never picked up on and exploited, however, it was not particualarly difficult, once we had built our underlying (I only care about my neighbouring process) architecture rather than the central control processor architecture. As for the 'Moores Law for Programming' unfortunately there is not the industry incentive to seek such humungous gains, as the revenues of the business software businesses are predicated upon man hours, effectively 'cost plus' economic models.
all the best
Jerry
Customer "You said this software was foolproof"
Dogbert (on support line) "you bought it, that is proof you are a fool"
I think this is just as foolproof
J
back in the 80s the easiest wp package to copy was Word (Lic key 123456789), so, when the big Corps were performing research to decide on which WP to standardize on, they selected Word because more people knew Word.
Nice strategy
Jerry
Well, MS Word didn't used to be the most popular word processing program, Wordperfect was. They (wordperfect) protected their 'asset' and MS Word was notoriously easy to copy. Some time after this period corporations decided they needed to standardise on word processing, so research was conducted as to which wp program was the best known in their 'pool' from which they drew staff. The future computer users (students) within their corporations were MS Word users! Word got selected, many copies were bought, and many of those students got a copy bundled with their PC when they bought a new one for their personal use. We have had the period where we all bought a new PC every couple of years, as both Moore's law and the demands of our personal killer apps drove us, and the hardware makers forward, and all the time MS picked up a result for every time we bought. What Google, et al, have done, is to let us realise we now only really need a browser, so Microsofts revenue 'expectations' have gone down the toilet, (not in little part for their rejection of the wintel alliance). Expect to see reflex kickback, demanding full payment for installed base, as the traditional revenue feeds dry up. It is all reminiscent of the Telcos who just havnt yet woken up to the fact that their original revenue model was based on renting a pair of copper wires over time and distance, and just havnt yet worked out how to make the same revenues when the world has changed to 'how fat is your data pipe?' and 'how much data do you want to move through it?'.
Anyway, that's my 2cs worth
Jerry
In the UK the immediate assumption would be that the quid pro quo for the printer manufacturers would be the contracts to supply to government agencies, so the next time an inconvenient government document was leaked to the press they could be straight on to where it leaked from.
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I think this sort of incident around the ISS could drive the development of a simple space ROV for picking up these sorts of things, or serving as a camera platform for observing docking/separations etc. It wont be the last time this happens, and I guess that generally they will be relatively low velocity.
Whilst I am on my high horse!, a lot of developers seem to think that the company is there to present them with hardware/software they can show off on. They are actually there to make the hardware/software do things for the company they work for. When in an educational institution the former IS the relationship with the institution, some seem to fail to recognise that this changes when they go in to commerce. The user is king/queen. Beware knowledge 'squirrels', those who believe knowledge is power. Look for those who treat communication as the transfer of ideas, and do not accept those that use it as an opportunity to demonstrate technical superiority. Jerry
I wrote my first program in 1970 at age 13. Jerry
If you want to employ a cabinet maker, you ask them about cabinets they have made. In passing, you may ask what tools they used, but, if they are good, they can easily pick up and use new tools. Far too much emphasis has been laid on which tools you know, e.g. SQLserver vs Oracle, a good db specialist can transfer from on to the other in very little time. Always hire for attitude, you can change skills, changing attitudes is much tougher. Look for a little passion about results and user needs. Jerry
I get the feeling that as the world said 'google is creating a cloud OS' it got believed, and this is the response to what google weren't doing? It seems as though they are trying to second guess the market rather than lead it.
go to http://www.sweetchillisauce.com/ this guy winds up the scammers all the way in, hilarious stuff. If more people did this, now that would slow the scammers! Jerry
It is also worth noting, that when you grow a human in isolation, you do not get intelligence, a human has to grow within a society to get observable intelligence. An AI 'bot' would presumably have to 'grow' in a similar way, you can't just 'switch on' intelligence. Jerry
10 input a$ print "I do not understand " a$ goto 10
I have been 30+ years in IT and the spectacular arrogance of people in IT depresses me. All IT needs business. Not all business needs IT. IT staff treat the business as if they are doing them a huge favour instead of just doing their job. I have been witness to IT staff telling a very successful business manager that he didnt understand his own business, disrespectful little toads!. When IT starts to respect business, then, PERHAPS, business might start to respect IT. Jerry
I'm pisces, and I am pleased to say it has been proved that pisces people don't believe in astrology. Jerry
In (approx) 1992 I went to SID (society for information display) in Florida, and a keynote speaker said, roughly: "I have been coming here for 30 years, and I expect to hear, just like I heard 30 years ago and most years since, that within 10 years flat panels will overtake CRTs and make them redundant. Why has this not happened? Because CRT has continued to get cheaper and better quality, thus removing the opportunity for flat panel, because the goals keep moving" He also pointed out that we would get there (and we have) but that we should never underestimate where old technologies can go. In 1983 I put together a business plan for an outsourced proposal I was working on, and we put in £17K (thats $28k) to cover a 70 megabyte hard drive. Now I see one inch drives in iPods carrying multi gigs. I believe that we will see phased take up, ie where it is needed most (e.g. like the way airlines put in flat panels instead of CRTs to reduce weight), before the HDD manufacturers will curl up and leave the scene. Jerry
J Edgar Hoover (JEHoover's witness?) famously used to insist on not taking a left turn on journeys (apparently, when the G Men couldnt avoid it, they distracted him whilst the turns were made) J
www.fon.com exists to promote wifi sharing, I even have the POI file for the UK downloaded into my SatNav (take me to the nearest hotspot) all I have to do in return is leave my Fon router open. Jerry
Between 1987 and 1990 I led a team in Digital which built a global currency management system running across 40 machines worldwide acting as a single system, and all operating in parallel, without stopping for synchronisation. We built a global 'synch wave' which allowed the business to be 'closed' without interruption. The near infinitely scaleable techniques we developed were unfortunately never picked up on and exploited, however, it was not particualarly difficult, once we had built our underlying (I only care about my neighbouring process) architecture rather than the central control processor architecture. As for the 'Moores Law for Programming' unfortunately there is not the industry incentive to seek such humungous gains, as the revenues of the business software businesses are predicated upon man hours, effectively 'cost plus' economic models. all the best Jerry
Customer "You said this software was foolproof" Dogbert (on support line) "you bought it, that is proof you are a fool" I think this is just as foolproof J
In the early days of the USA they ignored most Intellectual Property laws, until they developed a pool of their own.....
back in the 80s the easiest wp package to copy was Word (Lic key 123456789), so, when the big Corps were performing research to decide on which WP to standardize on, they selected Word because more people knew Word. Nice strategy Jerry
My comments pre-date windows, Jerry
Well, MS Word didn't used to be the most popular word processing program, Wordperfect was. They (wordperfect) protected their 'asset' and MS Word was notoriously easy to copy. Some time after this period corporations decided they needed to standardise on word processing, so research was conducted as to which wp program was the best known in their 'pool' from which they drew staff. The future computer users (students) within their corporations were MS Word users! Word got selected, many copies were bought, and many of those students got a copy bundled with their PC when they bought a new one for their personal use. We have had the period where we all bought a new PC every couple of years, as both Moore's law and the demands of our personal killer apps drove us, and the hardware makers forward, and all the time MS picked up a result for every time we bought. What Google, et al, have done, is to let us realise we now only really need a browser, so Microsofts revenue 'expectations' have gone down the toilet, (not in little part for their rejection of the wintel alliance). Expect to see reflex kickback, demanding full payment for installed base, as the traditional revenue feeds dry up. It is all reminiscent of the Telcos who just havnt yet woken up to the fact that their original revenue model was based on renting a pair of copper wires over time and distance, and just havnt yet worked out how to make the same revenues when the world has changed to 'how fat is your data pipe?' and 'how much data do you want to move through it?'. Anyway, that's my 2cs worth Jerry
In the UK the immediate assumption would be that the quid pro quo for the printer manufacturers would be the contracts to supply to government agencies, so the next time an inconvenient government document was leaked to the press they could be straight on to where it leaked from.
Jerry