firefox will become translucent. god knows you cant browse the web unless its translucent (thats how they do it in minority report.) When will we see the genie effect added so the browser will finally pass the Acid exam with 100% and i can use web 2.0 the right way?
the DMCA and "intellectual property rights" cant possibly have caused a lull in innovation. those are around to protect your "freedoms." theyre certainly not designed to corner the market on an idea and lock users into a product or service that never changes for 20 years.
along with me who are sick of hearing, "we should switch to google" or "google gives me a trillion gigs of storage for mail why dont you?!" this outage proves a point: all services fail from time to time. the difference is when mine fails you can call me and ask WTF? When googles service fails you still have to pay me for network operations, but you also have to pay google for the privilege of asking "so whats wrong?"
and despite your hardest whining or assertiveness, you may never get an answer.
trend of naming complex things anthropomorphically? theyre nanospheres. they dont pollinate, they dont reproduce, and they certainly dont have wings.
calling them "bees" just gives the average american another excuse to avoid reading something other than harry potter novels, the average professor more funding for "shit that sounds fun and awesome"
and the average pharmaceutical company advertising ideas that involve more CGI bumblebees.
at the risk of sounding like an asshole, our environmental pollution, culture of fast-food-shit-fed overweight children and ethically bankrupt FDA are likely major factors in cancer today. eliminate or reform
these elements and i predict a decline in cancer. and i didnt even call it a bee.
a good deal of hope in this projection that someone will have broken timespace and licensed the procedure, silicon will stop being so uncooperative at the 4nm scale, or the higgs boson is getting discovered at the end of the month this year. this resounds with earlier city planning predictions around the start of the 20th century that people would fly through tubes both subterranean and through the air to their destinations. turns out that wont work.
Bill gates, a guy who arguably got rich by being ruthless and in the right place at the right time, is famous for his pot-shot predictions of the future as news media routinely mistakes him as a mystic sage, and computers in turn as a form of arcane magic. a better tile for this article would be "intel exec cracks skull on platinum yacht crapper during champagne island-wager, sees magic future in pool of head-blood."
a question id ask, before said exec bleeds out, is whether he thinks AMD is going to roll over and die around 2010, thereby paving the way for delusions of globe-dominating profit to be realized...and maybe while im at it id inquire if he knows how the word "nano" works outside of the ipod realm.
at the sight of this deal. it stinks like napster, wont make any money after its ground slowly through regulatory gears, and still has plenty of people interested in pummelling it in and around the court systems of various countries until it cant upset the dominant business model of entertainment and information. the pirate bay is just ugly from all sides, but many of the things they say about torrents are precisely the same things theyve said about grammaphones, tapes, dvr, and even cable TV. corporations fight these things not because theyre new and frightening methods of giving consumers choice and opportunity in a free market, but because they haven't figured out a way to patent, dominate, license, and control the system in a way that promotes revenue and profit...
in short, you have freedoms, it takes time to restructure the definition of your freedoms and interests so that a business model becomes an integral element of them, and its expensive and time consuming to do it every time something new comes along.
if the internet will always be slower than it can be, will we still have speed issues with some websites that mandate an upgraded pc? if not we'll probably see the new pc numbers drop to the bare minimum, and the microsoft curve of release-purchase cycle may diminish a bit as users start asking that pesky "why" question when faced with a new windows.
record labels may find people rethinking online purchases as music downloads could see just as much lag as just going to the store. Netflix and hulu users will probably see a steep decline as well, and open source communities could be hurt by torrent throttling too, all in the name of saving money on upgraded carrier infrastructure.
do i need to "make this a large for 49 cents extra" or not!? i mean, there are kids in china starving to death who would gladly take the melty stuff left in the bottom of my mcflurry cup.
but thats why my jazzy chair comes with a cup holder, damnit.
not only does the moon have faster data transfer rates than your house, but often times its transmitting far more interesting and pertanent data than the connection at your house.
unless 4chan has a section for materials science and physics now?
it would be an offense punishable by ban if when referring to the cloud, members didnt roll their eyes and make fart noises.
cloud is becoming less and less of a "news for nerds" thing because its surrounded by nothing but business jargon instead of tech talk. outsource your risks?? I still manage the same servers, in the same datacenter, with the same network but for some reason its been abstracted to "cloud" computing. you aren't outsourcing any new. theres still a guy you call at 5 AM when the mysql servers arent replicating properly, or the amanda job is hung.
a PRIME example, this article has NO NUMBERS!! no quantifiers or methods by which they tested the aformentioned services. they only say things were bad when one group of university students half a world away tested them. the university doesnt even mention the study!
and at seven months of presumably unauthorized stress testing, i wouldnt be surprised if google and amazon network engineers met over a few pints of beer and decided your asinine experiment deserved a bit of traffic shaping.
the dixie chicks were silently blacklisted from clearchannel and affiliate stations for criticizing the president publicly, ultimately ending their rise to fame.
fox news had been known to fire anchors and staff critical of the bush administration rather regularly as well.
things like this happen during every presidency. unfortunately i dont think its likely to stop anytime soon. thanks to the internet though there are other venues and locations this rogue artist can exercise his freedom of speech (ironically in some cases not based in america!)
it happened in New York...and in accordance with verizons standard operating procedures for the empire state physical violence is the second step to trouble-resolution, right after shouting and gesturing obscenities. the technician may not have been properly trained, and mistook the customer for telco equipment...this happens occasionally and other companies like AT&T can certainly attest that customers, especially if on fire, tend to resemble things like routers.
why yes, Ive done some PR work before, why do you ask?
japan is identified by foreign consumers, apple users included, as a tech haven. high tech things come from japan and it is presumed only high-tech things will survive in japan and become popular.
for apple, having their iphone shunned by a japanese public was a death sentence in some sense for both asia markets and the US. if the japanese dont want it, word of mouth dictates the iphone is stupid, or inferior, or lacks features that superior japanese technology like nokia would have. the snub from the japanese could have been as simple as "the kanji support sucks" or "NTT Docomo is slow as shit so i hate using data on any cellphone" but it has repercussions to the global marketing machine of apple.
the product is consumed after money is spent by apple. perhaps the iphone is cheaper, perhaps it offers more features and perhaps its "more free" than its american counterpart but the final statement is this: "japanese love iphone!" meaning stateside mac fanboy otaku can squee in joy as consumer maintenance takes hold and assures them its okay to continue purchasing the apple line.
this technology is totally useless in its current state. high power flying lasers will never find a use without a high power flying shark to combine it with.
read: if you didnt shit in a marble toilet this morning and start the day trying to figure out which of your sedans to drive to the office, you may find this chips introduction "problematic" from a pricing standpoint.
have always had this freedom, to hire a college student on a visa from a foreign country and save a ton on cost. they dont do this for alot of reasons:
contractors are by and large cheaper and easier to manage as a workforce.they have more job experience as well
asok, tan, and habeeb do not speak english as a first language, so their usefulness in a meeting, conference call, emergency or training situation is limited. in some cases ive worked with international students and hires that have served no greater purpose in their career other than a meat calculator I have to interpret before i go into a meeting managers wouldnt dream of including them on.
their eagerness is often mismatched to their ability as a direct result of their urgency to seek citizenship or maintain employment. I've worked with visa holders and foreign grads that insist they understand fibre san, brocade switches, etc...only to find out a month later they havent the slightest idea what theyre doing, have piles of books surrounding them and gallons of coffee working weekends to fix what theyve broken before they START on the task.
did i mention communication? if there is a problem i rarely hear about it. ive sat in team meetings for weeks on end with nodding heads and smiles while my goddamned data storage practically incinerated in an ops center because the pakistani in charge of my CRAC's was frightened to tell me he didnt understand liebert airhandlers and needed help.
the price is high, but saying no sends a powerful message. im glad to see at least two folks in the UK standing up for what little rights they have. Thoughtcrime law disgusts me.
sysadmin dad: son, your grandmother is getting old and she wont be around much longer. you should cherish the times you have with her
son: how do you know? sysadmin dad: i caught her throwing warnings to syslog when i was checking logwatches for the toilet and the fridge today. plus her cacti trend for ping time and load looks horrible. son: will grandma go to heaven? sysadmin dad: depends, I didnt an asset tag on her so chances are the property disposal authorization wont go through and she'll just sit on the shipping receiving dock forever. son: so shes going to be a ghost?? sysadmin dad: worse, people dont leave empties on you when your a ghost.
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firefox will become translucent. god knows you cant browse the web unless its translucent (thats how they do it in minority report.) When will we see the genie effect added so the browser will finally pass the Acid exam with 100% and i can use web 2.0 the right way?
saves the day. wasnt our last post about how innovation in tech is experiencing a lull?
the DMCA and "intellectual property rights" cant possibly have caused a lull in innovation. those are around to protect your "freedoms." theyre certainly not designed to corner the market on an idea and lock users into a product or service that never changes for 20 years.
along with me who are sick of hearing, "we should switch to google" or "google gives me a trillion gigs of storage for mail why dont you?!" this outage proves a point: all services fail from time to time. the difference is when mine fails you can call me and ask WTF? When googles service fails you still have to pay me for network operations, but you also have to pay google for the privilege of asking "so whats wrong?"
and despite your hardest whining or assertiveness, you may never get an answer.
that explains abu graib! our soldiers were too brain damaged to know any better!
man, i should run for president.
trend of naming complex things anthropomorphically? theyre nanospheres. they dont pollinate, they dont reproduce, and they certainly dont have wings.
calling them "bees" just gives the average american another excuse to avoid reading something other than harry potter novels, the average professor more funding for "shit that sounds fun and awesome" and the average pharmaceutical company advertising ideas that involve more CGI bumblebees.
at the risk of sounding like an asshole, our environmental pollution, culture of fast-food-shit-fed overweight children and ethically bankrupt FDA are likely major factors in cancer today. eliminate or reform these elements and i predict a decline in cancer. and i didnt even call it a bee.
until they relate this need with the superhackers working for the axis of evil and chinas plans to destroy our power grid.
we need to fire up the smelloscope and figure out if this WASP smells like the rest!
a good deal of hope in this projection that someone will have broken timespace and licensed the procedure, silicon will stop being so uncooperative at the 4nm scale, or the higgs boson is getting discovered at the end of the month this year. this resounds with earlier city planning predictions around the start of the 20th century that people would fly through tubes both subterranean and through the air to their destinations. turns out that wont work.
Bill gates, a guy who arguably got rich by being ruthless and in the right place at the right time, is famous for his pot-shot predictions of the future as news media routinely mistakes him as a mystic sage, and computers in turn as a form of arcane magic. a better tile for this article would be "intel exec cracks skull on platinum yacht crapper during champagne island-wager, sees magic future in pool of head-blood."
a question id ask, before said exec bleeds out, is whether he thinks AMD is going to roll over and die around 2010, thereby paving the way for delusions of globe-dominating profit to be realized...and maybe while im at it id inquire if he knows how the word "nano" works outside of the ipod realm.
at the sight of this deal. it stinks like napster, wont make any money after its ground slowly through regulatory gears, and still has plenty of people interested in pummelling it in and around the court systems of various countries until it cant upset the dominant business model of entertainment and information. the pirate bay is just ugly from all sides, but many of the things they say about torrents are precisely the same things theyve said about grammaphones, tapes, dvr, and even cable TV. corporations fight these things not because theyre new and frightening methods of giving consumers choice and opportunity in a free market, but because they haven't figured out a way to patent, dominate, license, and control the system in a way that promotes revenue and profit...
in short, you have freedoms, it takes time to restructure the definition of your freedoms and interests so that a business model becomes an integral element of them, and its expensive and time consuming to do it every time something new comes along.
their actions can have repercussions unintended.
if the internet will always be slower than it can be, will we still have speed issues with some websites that mandate an upgraded pc? if not we'll probably see the new pc numbers drop to the bare minimum, and the microsoft curve of release-purchase cycle may diminish a bit as users start asking that pesky "why" question when faced with a new windows.
record labels may find people rethinking online purchases as music downloads could see just as much lag as just going to the store. Netflix and hulu users will probably see a steep decline as well, and open source communities could be hurt by torrent throttling too, all in the name of saving money on upgraded carrier infrastructure.
has just replaced the whale in my nightmares.
do i need to "make this a large for 49 cents extra" or not!? i mean, there are kids in china starving to death who would gladly take the melty stuff left in the bottom of my mcflurry cup.
but thats why my jazzy chair comes with a cup holder, damnit.
at the boardroom is the one thing on my mind.
Engineer: very few, say less than 5% of people say they will refuse to buy an XBox due to its failure rate
Ballmer: so what is the failure rate?
Engineer: uh, more than 50%...
Ballmer: So....we're boiling a frog it seems?
Engineer: we may as well be vaporizing a frog. it neither knows, nor cares.
not only does the moon have faster data transfer rates than your house, but often times its transmitting far more interesting and pertanent data than the connection at your house.
unless 4chan has a section for materials science and physics now?
it would be an offense punishable by ban if when referring to the cloud, members didnt roll their eyes and make fart noises.
cloud is becoming less and less of a "news for nerds" thing because its surrounded by nothing but business jargon instead of tech talk. outsource your risks?? I still manage the same servers, in the same datacenter, with the same network but for some reason its been abstracted to "cloud" computing. you aren't outsourcing any new. theres still a guy you call at 5 AM when the mysql servers arent replicating properly, or the amanda job is hung.
a PRIME example, this article has NO NUMBERS!! no quantifiers or methods by which they tested the aformentioned services. they only say things were bad when one group of university students half a world away tested them. the university doesnt even mention the study!
and at seven months of presumably unauthorized stress testing, i wouldnt be surprised if google and amazon network engineers met over a few pints of beer and decided your asinine experiment deserved a bit of traffic shaping.
the dixie chicks were silently blacklisted from clearchannel and affiliate stations for criticizing the president publicly, ultimately ending their rise to fame.
fox news had been known to fire anchors and staff critical of the bush administration rather regularly as well.
things like this happen during every presidency. unfortunately i dont think its likely to stop anytime soon. thanks to the internet though there are other venues and locations this rogue artist can exercise his freedom of speech (ironically in some cases not based in america!)
it happened in New York...and in accordance with verizons standard operating procedures for the empire state physical violence is the second step to trouble-resolution, right after shouting and gesturing obscenities.
the technician may not have been properly trained, and mistook the customer for telco equipment...this happens occasionally and other companies like AT&T can certainly attest that customers, especially if on fire, tend to resemble things like routers.
why yes, Ive done some PR work before, why do you ask?
japan is identified by foreign consumers, apple users included, as a tech haven. high tech things come from japan and it is presumed only high-tech things will survive in japan and become popular.
for apple, having their iphone shunned by a japanese public was a death sentence in some sense for both asia markets and the US. if the japanese dont want it, word of mouth dictates the iphone is stupid, or inferior, or lacks features that superior japanese technology like nokia would have. the snub from the japanese could have been as simple as "the kanji support sucks" or "NTT Docomo is slow as shit so i hate using data on any cellphone" but it has repercussions to the global marketing machine of apple.
the product is consumed after money is spent by apple. perhaps the iphone is cheaper, perhaps it offers more features and perhaps its "more free" than its american counterpart but the final statement is this: "japanese love iphone!" meaning stateside mac fanboy otaku can squee in joy as consumer maintenance takes hold and assures them its okay to continue purchasing the apple line.
this technology is totally useless in its current state. high power flying lasers will never find a use without a high power flying shark to combine it with.
read: if you didnt shit in a marble toilet this morning and start the day trying to figure out which of your sedans to drive to the office, you may find this chips introduction "problematic" from a pricing standpoint.
have always had this freedom, to hire a college student on a visa from a foreign country and save a ton on cost. they dont do this for alot of reasons:
contractors are by and large cheaper and easier to manage as a workforce.they have more job experience as well
asok, tan, and habeeb do not speak english as a first language, so their usefulness in a meeting, conference call, emergency or training situation is limited. in some cases ive worked with international students and hires that have served no greater purpose in their career other than a meat calculator I have to interpret before i go into a meeting managers wouldnt dream of including them on.
their eagerness is often mismatched to their ability as a direct result of their urgency to seek citizenship or maintain employment. I've worked with visa holders and foreign grads that insist they understand fibre san, brocade switches, etc...only to find out a month later they havent the slightest idea what theyre doing, have piles of books surrounding them and gallons of coffee working weekends to fix what theyve broken before they START on the task.
did i mention communication? if there is a problem i rarely hear about it. ive sat in team meetings for weeks on end with nodding heads and smiles while my goddamned data storage practically incinerated in an ops center because the pakistani in charge of my CRAC's was frightened to tell me he didnt understand liebert airhandlers and needed help.
the price is high, but saying no sends a powerful message. im glad to see at least two folks in the UK standing up for what little rights they have. Thoughtcrime law disgusts me.
sysadmin dad: son, your grandmother is getting old and she wont be around much longer. you should cherish the times you have with her
son: how do you know?
sysadmin dad: i caught her throwing warnings to syslog when i was checking logwatches for the toilet and the fridge today. plus her cacti trend for ping time and load looks horrible.
son: will grandma go to heaven?
sysadmin dad: depends, I didnt an asset tag on her so chances are the property disposal authorization wont go through and she'll just sit on the shipping receiving dock forever.
son: so shes going to be a ghost??
sysadmin dad: worse, people dont leave empties on you when your a ghost.
covenants from a multi billion dollar megacorp famous for breaking all the rules? excuse me i snicker a bit.
id say the fact they got the copyright despite their quagmire with ODF is proof enough their intent.
just remember, if you kill all the rich people, who will remain to remind you how exciting and fun capitalism is?