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the political market and media babble ?
You've come to the right place for dirt, attitude and opinionated character reviews of all the Presidential Candidates.
http://www.wiredbrain.com/reform.htm
If we can see beyond the trench of our experience and get a glance at the bigger universe what kind of world would we see ?
If we can look back from the future what would we see then that we should have known now if we had paid attention ?
The elements in the inventory of forces that shape our time and our reaction to these forces are the choices we make, the concepts we belief are true, and joint action we are able to make. These factors are continuations of forces from the middle of the passing millennium.
The ideas that created the modern world unchained the human mind, spirit and imagination from superstition using rational scientific methods . Ba·con (bâ¹ken), Francis First Baron Verulam and Viscount Saint Albans. 1561-1626
English philosopher, essayist, courtier, jurist, and statesman. His writings include The Advancement of Learning (1605) and the Novum Organum (1620), in which he proposed a theory of scientific knowledge based on observation and experiment that came to be known as the inductive method.of interpreting nature as opposed to the deductive logic of Aristotle. Bacon insists on observation and experience as the sole source of knowledge
We can not control the engines of change. The image of Frank·en·stein
Frank·en·stein
(fràng¹ken-stìn´) noun
1. An
agency or a creation that slips from the control of and ultimately
destroys its creator.
2.
A monster having the appearance of a man.
[From
Frankenstein, the creator of the artificial monster in Frankenstein
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.]
Word History: The word Frankenstein has taken on a life of its own, somewhat like the monster created from parts of corpses by the Swiss student Frankenstein, whose name serves as the title of Mary Shelley's novel, published in 1818. People have persisted in calling the monster Frankenstein; in fact, the first recorded use of the name as a common noun in 1838 refers to mules as Frankensteins. The word has gone on to refer to a monster having the appearance of a man and an agency that slips from the control of and ultimately destroys its creator. Since most people have given the name of the novel's protagonist to his creation, Frankenstein's monster has, in a sense, destroyed its creator.
Machinery The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.
Lewis
Mumford (18951990), U.S. social philosopher. The Culture of
Cities, ch. 7, sct. 16 (1938).
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.
Lewis Mumford (18951990), U.S. social philosopher. The Conduct Of Life, ch. 1 (1951), remarking on the condition of life in the modern city.
Individual development, organizational change, and In the computer industry, power comes not from the barrel of a gun but from the interface of a protocol.
Also some new technology may come along to change all the rules
"Nortel has used its technology, called Digital PowerLine (DPL), successfully in European and Asian markets. Currently, the company has agreements with 10 non-U.S. utilities that serve 35 million homes, says Dan Middleton, director of carrier packet solutions at Nortel's power line networks division.
That could take the company he cofounded in North Dallas, Media Fusion L.L.C., to heights greater than Microsoft in both
earnings and market value.
I do think that nano quantum computers - optic and laser [acronym for
light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation], device for the
creation and amplification of a narrow, intense beam of coherent LIGHT.
connected to wideband wireless will be the most important events of our
time - having more importance than the silly political debates, because
economics come from the structure of industry and enterprise - clearly
the railroads, automobiles, radio, TV, computers and the internet are
the drivers of our history - culture - social being - and therefore our
economy and political system. The new world order is not an idea or
ideology but of commerce based on transportation and communications.
Bill Gates, Edison, Ford, are the great forgers of our times -
http://mediafusioncorp.net/
http://www.wiredbrain.com/NEXUM.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.com/nano.htm
http://www.wiredbrain.com/symbian.htm
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000131/tc/ti_chip_1.html
Last week, the Hong Kong government took another step to open further the telecom market to competition by issuing a total of 17 fixed network licenses (5 licenses for wireless local fixed telecommunications network services (FTNS), and another 12 licenses for external FTNS using satellites). The licenses will last for 15 years, with an option to extend for another 15 years. In addition, the government has agreed to issue an FTNS license to Hong Kong Cable TV to provide telecom services over its hybrid fiber-coaxial cable networks.
http://www.yankeegroup.com/webfolder/yg21a.nsf/latestnews/Broadband+Race+Is+on+the+Rise+in+Hong+Kong
The battle of the air waves is just not between cable modems ( which don't work
very well ) and DSL which has many problems and is priced too high. Optic fiber to
the door and new wideband line of sight or some technology using power lines may
jump ahead. It's a tough call to invest billions per day. The dense urban markets, the rural markets, the issues in China and other world markets, all may not have the
same solution. Satellite systems have a role, but it seems the analysis is too tightly drawn in the box - there are sure to be out of the box answers.
``Wireless Internet devices will not only capture some existing PC applications but
introduce brand new applications that the desk-top PC has no way to handle today,''
Engibous told a Tokyo seminar on the company's strategy.
``I think the availability of a wireless device that is online all the time with broadband data capability...offers the possibility of applications that Silicon Valley'' is just beginning to dream about, he added.
With next-generation mobile phone services, users will be able to surf the Web,
check and respond to e-mail, conduct videoconferences and use new mobile
services such as e-commerce, he said.
Next-generation mobile phone services will be offered in Japan beginning in the
spring of 2001, and later in other parts of the world.
Broadband in the Local Loop 98:
Cable Modem Madness vs. xDSL Dementia
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/brdbnd98.htm
New Study Concludes G.lite not enough to overcome advantages
and head start of cable modems
http://www.fwdconcepts.com/press13.htm
According to the study, cable modems will win the lion's share of the residential
broadband market, outnumbering DSL modems 5:1 in North American and 2.6:1
worldwide by the year 2003. The five-year growth rate for cable modems is
forecast to be 93% in North America and 114% in other regions.
The Study concludes that the rollout plans announced by the telcos are unrealistically
optimistic, that the services are too high-priced for the mainstream residential
market, and face many technical and regulatory hurdles--oft overlooked in the
excitement of bringing in a new age of high speed IP-based telecommunications.
Forward Concepts also believes that splitterless DSL still has many technical
unknowns, and that its suitability as a "universal" service is still open to question.
DSL services also jeopardize existing, highly profitable, data communications
services, further reducing motivation for rollout by the telcos. The cable companies,
in contrast, see IP-video, IP telephony, Internet access, and remote LAN access as
pure incremental upside revenue opportunities, unencumbered by existing services.
Part-time remote consulting:
Advanced technology will affect the way we work, learn, play, trade and shop, and
form communities. I would like to work with organizations that want to get ahead of
the curve in both the learning and technology game.
I have been following technology for many years and really have a good feel and
record in forecasting and analysis. I would like to work with other on the NEXUM
project and study the effects of http://www.wiredbrain.com/nano.htm and a few
other pages
I could do remote education and training - project projections - systems analysis or
just communicate with a group, motivational manager, thinking out of the box,
win-win, future, and other ideas.
AOL can do what Sears did. The Sears brands were produced by OEM ( original equipment manufactures ) with Sears keeping a very tight control of quality and margins. Many of their providers became dependents. B2B means the intermediary can arrange shipments from the provider to the buyer and become the super market of the world.
Symbian
joint venture between Psion, Nokia,
Ericsson, Matsushita and Motorola will be a connection between smart
mobile phones and Internet-ready games such as the consoless Sonys
PlayStation 2
weirdbrain
' (wîrd)
adj., weird·er, weird·est.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of the preternatural or supernatural.
Of a strikingly odd or unusual character; strange.
Archaic. Of or relating to fate or the Fates.
n.
Fate; destiny.
One's assigned lot or fortune, especially when evil.
Often Weird. Greek Mythology. Roman Mythology. One of the Fates.
weird'ly adv.
weird'ness n.
SYNONYMS: weird, eerie, uncanny, unearthly. These adjectives refer to what is of a mysteriously strange, usually frightening nature. Weird may suggest the operation of supernatural influences, but it may also be applied to what is merely odd or unusual: “The person of the house gave a weird little laugh” (Charles Dickens). “There is a weird power in a spoken word” (Joseph Conrad). Something eerie inspires inexplicable fear or uneasiness that seems to result from a sinister influence: “At nightfall on the marshes, the thing was eerie and fantastic to behold” (Robert Louis Stevenson). Uncanny refers to what is unnatural and peculiarly unsettling: “The queer stumps . . . had uncanny shapes, as of monstrous creatures, whose eyes seemed to peer out at you” (John Galsworthy). Something unearthly seems so strange and unnatural as to come from or belong to another world: “He could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din” (Henry Kingsley).
http://www.compaq.com/rcfoc/index.html
Does the term "Network Computer" sound familiar...?
* Another Broadband Alternative -- More acronyms: LMDS and
MMDS. These are technologies for deploying high speed Internet
access using broadcast radio waves -- think of it as wireless
cable or wireless DSL. A few areas, such as New York City and
Silicon Valley, already have some limited implementations. But
according to the Oct. 26 New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/yr/mo/biztech/
articles/26internet-wireless.html), a new big-name consortium led
by Cisco plans to give cable and DSL companies a run for their
broadband money -- and they point out that their terrestrial
radio-based MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service)
solution doesn't require digging up any streets or placing
equipment in the difficult-to-enter telephone company offices.
(A tutorial on MMDS and related technologies is at
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html
http://www.webproforum.com/wire_broad/topic10.html ).
Behind
the news: a common thread of interconnectedness
Third-generation
services are coming soon
to a mobile phone near you -- but
first the platforms and standards have
to be resolved. A
machine called NEXUM
The comprehensive, omnibus, all-embracing, all-encompassing, across-the-board, INCLUSIVE, EXTENSIVE widespread, epidemic, GENERAL international, world-wide, global, cosmic, UNIVERSAL, UBIQUITOUS appliance device, mechanical contraption, gadget, gismo, CONTRIVANCE doodad, doohickey, thingy, thingamabob, thingamajig, that we all will carry around. At the counter in Wal-Mat it connects quickly by infra-red link to the charge ( debit ) machine. The true paper-less banking. What do we have ? What did we buy ? How much did it cost on record.
We talk to it. Call home. Get personal mail. Check on the price of dry wall. What is the quote on 20 year fixed term money ? Where do I go next ? How do I get there ? Call ahead and confirm I will be 10 minutes late. What’s on the menu, reserve the table by the window and order ahead.
Who has the best price on or for or going - on anything ? Who wants to buy or sell ? How is the car doing ? Can I fly to Jerusalem in the morning and rent a car and get a hotel and make appointments ?
When connected to a terminal I can type or see better - out of the digital airwaves or on cable or on optic fiber in Africa to China down-links and up links with nodes and storage and services at my command charges by the micro-penny. Always on with a flat connection fee.
Of
course, market prices are the result of foggy feeling, mass
psychology called perceptions. BUT, over the longer run, basic
economic principles and the laws of social physics will "correct"
the difference between false perceptions and a harder reality.
In
the current
context the following will happen - the only question is when:
1.) The
misbalance between American growth and ECUs struggles, Japans
and Asias problems put pressure on the dollar because of the
trade gap:
2.) Raw
declines in the dollar forces increases in the interest rates dollar
securities have to pay;
3.) The
higher cost of capital slows U.S. growth rates and forces a market
"correction" of the irrational exuberance of speculative
stocks.
We're
moving toward a world of 1 billion connected computers sometime in
the next decade," Grove said, saying it would represent some 20
percent of the world's population and a great opportunity" for
the Pacific Rim. The theme of "wiredbrain" is that the "new
world orders" are global connections between utility network
computers.
Like
the human brain, the internet's
packets system can reconfigure itself to work even after portions
were destroyed. Using the noise-prone analog circuits of the time, it
was impossible to build the necessary switches. Baran concluded that
all the traffic would have to be digital. Moreover, the digital
traffic would have to be broken into short message blocks now called
each
containing its own routing information, like
a DNA molecule, and able to replicate itself correctly whenever a
transmission error occurred. With many additions and permutations,
his original design is today termed the Internet, click here for the
emerging history of the 21st century.
StarOffice
Calc for creating spreadsheets,
StarOffice
Impress for creating presentations,
StarOffice
Draw and StarImage for creating vector and bit-mapped graphics,
StarOffice
Schedule for managing calendars and to-do lists,
StarOffice
Mail for handling e-mail,
StarOffice
Base for creating interfaces to databases,
StarOffice
Discussion for reading Internet news, and
StarOffice
Math for creating complex formulas,
StarOffice
Workplace for creating a desktop environment
For Example:
Dialpad.com is the world's first free Java-based web-to-phone service. With Dialpad.com, you can make unlimited free phone calls to anybody in the US as long as the other party has a valid phone number. Dialpad.com works just like your own telephone. You can make phone calls to any phone number in the US. Furthermore, you don't need to manually download and install any software. You can make any call while your are browsing the Internet and it is FREE!
Religion and theology
[1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Reminds me of the republican "Christian cops" debate.
Religion is one area of human experience, theology is another, Politics is one part of our lives, Ideology another, we tend to get them confused. Religion is an experience, theology is an idea; politics is about power, Ideology about beliefs.
We tend to get experience, feeling, passions confused with ideas, theories, thoughts and positions. Gestalt is a psychological practice that works to make the separation clear by the direct experience of feeling. To understand the difference is very useful in getting control of choices in life, government, education, health and science.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced. They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.
Politics is one thing, ideology is another.
Thoughts are about power. We use our minds to get ahead, influence others, get a sense or feeling of control. But without passion, desire, feeling there is a hollow or emptiness in pure knowledge. Pure passion is wayward or dangerous and we feel the need to control or feeling with reason. Thus an internal conflict between what we desire and what we do.
Theology is about power in the church as an institution - Rome or Henry VIII - by social control of feelings and people and institutions.
Ideology is about control of social power by law and police and military force. The God police of the Christian activists would control the bedrooms and doctors offices, The green Cops of the Mullahs, Neighbor watch committees of China, The KGB, CIA, FBI or DEA.
Religion is an experience of the holy ghost. You can have religious experience. You can know when someone is genuinely spiritual or just using God talk to get ahead or change the power balance. Commercial are expert in connecting feeling to product in order to create actions - sell the product. Commercial give the illusion of ideas but are pure feeling. Politics often does the same - the illusion of policy designed to connect feeling - positive and negative to people and parties in order to sell the product which is power, control, favors, winners and losers.
OUT of the box -
In order for people, institutions, and societies to advance to the next level - ( Blue, Red, yellow, brown, white, green, black and gold ) the difference between passion or feeling ( the colors are different levels of spiritual awareness ) and ideas that gain power, control, progress and win - they must directly experience the difference - since otherwise it’s an ideas about feeling not feeling, or an idea about religion not spiritual, or an idea about love not love, or an idea about health not health, or an idea about a more perfect society not an experience of a more perfect union.
People and communities can’t work hard and progress to a place they don’t understand and have never experienced. They never have been on the mountain top and don’t care. You can’t create a great school if you never experience a great school - all is flat gray and dull. You can’t create a great company if there is no occurrence of greatness, you can’t create a great society without the image, the vision of greatness.
Imagine
a fat monitor or a hand held device or a card which is a personal
linking device that plugs into the electrical system and a USB (
universal serial Bus ) modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ) that creates the connection to the life
force. The device can carry talk, pictures, e-mail, white board
functions. The device can charge expenses, such as parking, travel,
meals, and pay by use applications.
Electricity
made mass production, telephones, photographs, radio, TV, and
computers possible, and now powers the internet. Packets replace
circuits, self fixing double encoded packets travel fast and faster.
The Personal Communications Utility or Appliance PCU, PCA, or PAD (
personal access device ) or NC ( network computer ) plugs into a
pipeline that connects you to the backbone of the internet.
How
our packets travel is the trillion dollar question; digital cell
phones, broadband, on the electric wires, cable, optic fiber,
DSL or all of the above ?
The
news tracker connection then runs everything. The Star Office 5.1
is a good example. It runs on open platforms and can be updated,
reconfigured to include sound and video telephones, and doesn't need
to be completely installed on every terminal but can run off the
system network.
In
doing web pages, Netscape Composer, MS FrontPage, and Star Office use
different forms of code, HTTP ( hypertext ) different Java scripts,
and can mess each other and the author up. Now since they (
Netscape ( AOL ) and Sun - part of the NOISE group, Netscape, Oracle,
IBM, Sun and everyone else - ) are enemies they may intend to screw
each other with the author in the middle.
How
about http://www.wiredbrain.com/battle.wav
and
too many other changes that work here but not there - audio plug-ins,
ActiveX, virtual machines, XML, etc. Etc..
This
is why the complex stuff has to be up-stream on the server if the
communications systems can communicate with each other. The
system knows where you are (GPS), who you are ( IP) and what you are
( kind of device you are using ) and what you want - voice, e-mail,
conference, word processor, accounts, pay a bill, collect a bill etc.
The
standards have to be set by SOMEONE - it cant be done by a
voluntary committee as in the good old non commercial days when the
DOD and NSF controlled the net. It cant be done by government (
too slow ) IT has to be global - the EU and Asia are involved -
sometimes well ahead. The WWW system standard was set at CERN - and
the UN or a global trade or international postal telecommunications
agreement could set up a fast working body the approve PROTOCALS. Now
MS does the global job but is clearly not neutral or trustworthy,
since it is worth a good share of the almost trillion dollars in
systems sales.
Tomorrow's
story today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
Finance
Physics:
NEXUM
"packets,"
Something
missing:
An
astro-physicist has said there is no reason that people should
be ever be able to understand the universe. Our biological and
intellectual background is so naturally limited by our life
experience here on Earth. We have no way of comprehending or
visioning space time plasma that behaves in ways impossibly strange
to our ways of being and knowing. Atomic physics involves models that
are not intuitive - even counter- intuitive.
Most
people who have ever lived on this planet, were born and died within
a fifty mile range. Their perceptions are defined within what is
called a tribal culture - part real and part superstition. Applied
rational knowledge is fairly modern as a cultural style and still not
seriously or firmly established as a norm. The irrational base of
human understanding is clearly demonstrated by politics and
commercials.
NOW as
we enter into a global technical society our social world is as
little understood as the physical. The new world order - lacks a
vision or social psychological foundation. ]
The
technology itself is revolutionary.
The
global economy requires new models of thought. Its not
surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and
passive resistance. The leaders and leading institutions often dont
get it. Non-linear, transactional, mutually dependent rapid change
appears to many as anarchy and chaos - morally questionable and in
conflict with traditional values. That is because global
transformations are a real revolution. Serious changes are disruptive
of the existing order.
StarOffice
5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
http://www.sun.com/
65
MB without recover ( not easy the CD is $10 plus
shippinghttp://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/get.html
StarOffice
has a fully integrated set of powerful applications that provides
Microsoft Office compatible word processing, spreadsheet, graphic
design, presentations, HTML editor, mail/news reader, scheduler, and
database functions. With the release of the new 5.1 version for
worldwide distribution, StarOffice provides significant performance
and feature upgrades that improve user experience and productivity.
StarOffice
5.1 includes:
StarOffice
Writer for document editing,
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
It's
really good !
The
integration of text, http editor, spreadsheets, presentations,
drawing, mail, frames, work folders, database, global documents,
diagrams, images, formula, is really MUCH better than Office and
word.
And
it's free
What science knows
MSN
now does the best
searchOUR
Social ergonomics
Research methods
for the Internet:
Many students and
professionals now use the Internet as a primary research tool. There
are some simple methods to take advantage of some of the new
technology which enable the research to create multi-search engine
archives and move fairly smoothly through the better sites. Since
most browses limit bookmarks and are prejudice in the use of search
engines, commercial interest now overwhelm academic or professional
standards and interest.
First
you need some basic tools - the Internet connection, explorer and
Netscape ( why not both ? ) Then look at
http://www.wiredbrain.com/portals.htm
for a list of search engines. One should try the same search of about
5 to 10 words common in the area of your interest, on several to get
an idea of their advantages and limitations.
Then find and
down load:
http://www.copernic.com/netsonic/promo/
http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html
The GO networks
engine is too unstable and has banners and ads that get in the way
but some people may find it useful and they may fix the problems.
http://express.infoseek.com/
After you have
downloaded and saved these files - open them and check the options to
set them for the browser you use, set the search for time and number
limits.
All
the multi-search work like http://www.multicrawl.com/
but keep you
files so you dont have to go back a forth from the search page
to the sites and back.
TAKING NOTES:
On most pages (
not too Long ) you can use "edit" select all, copy and
paste to notebook or wordpad, then to Word or wordperfect word
processor. By using an unformatted plain text insert you may avoid
hard returns and other editing errors that will transfer with the
text. Otherwise you have to remove the line returns or hard returns
that break-up sentences and paragraphs. Otherwise you can highlight
the parts you want and copy and paste. Images can be saved By using
the right click in Netscape, view images, files save as, and in
Explorer right click "save picture as" BE sure to give
credit where credit is due.
Tomorrows story
today: Wiredbrain's Reports from the future:
As important as
the transistor ?
Imagine 3.4
terabytes in a device the size of a credit card. Imagine it costing
about $48!!
FROM
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/
Videos
would be on a rechargeable card, so would banking, purchases, all
using personal communication systems and very smart cards - every
transaction can be online, from parking meters, gas, soda machines,
ticket-less travel, using a smart card with memory and a small web
connection. Add the GPS and the map is the territory; anywhere and
anytime all is in a cell phone type device. You can not only know
where you are all the time but "the system" can know where
you or your kids are or where your car is. The connection of GPS,
tiny web servers, vast memory capacity, even without great bandwidth
can produce a money machine for consumption - paper-less banking,
travel, purchases, but also instant communications with other data
such as market prices, scores, news, menus, et al. Plug into the PAD
Personal Access Device, and do all the sound and fury signifying what
ever you want - chat, do business, news, markets, movies, games
including day trading, security systems, ( little transponders at
each window and door ), or recording that recharge themselves.
Fast
transportable records means a whole new world of record keeping and
economic transactions. Indeed the time for Global Money as well as
communications. The concept of a virtual organization - of a
transitory network of individuals coupled together by advanced
communications technologies - continues to grow in prominence.
However, a lack of detailed, real-world cases poses a significant
problem when attempting to analyze the business potential of linking
remote workers in patterns of virtual
organization. Such a lack of examples is particularly acute
within the small business sector. A case study of a UK-based SME -
Cavendish Management Resources - is presented. Both practical and
theoretical insights into new flexible patterns
of organization in the small business sector are presented.
While
it's far too early to tell how this might play out, RCFoC readers
Michael Mayer and others have brought our attention to a report from
Britain's Keele University, and from Cavendish Management Resources
(CMR), of a "3-D Memory System" that promises this magic.
And they expect that this could be on the market in two years!
According
to CMR (http://www.cmruk.com/cmrinventions.html
), Professor Ted Williams and his team are able to store 86 gigabytes
per square centimeter, and to read and write this data at 100
megabits/second. While few details are available while their patents
are pending, CMR does indicate that the process, funded in part by
the UK Department of Trade and Industry, exploits a new family of
metal alloys to create, "...a magneto-optical system not
dissimilar to that of CD-ROM, except that the system is fixed, solid
state, and has a different operating approach."
And
to top that off, they point out that this no-moving-parts, very low
power storage solution "...can be put onto virtually every
surface," essentially providing massive data storage for almost
anything.
Indeed,
CMR's managing director Mike Downey suggests that,
"The
technology is scalable, either up or down, so that even wristwatches
will be capable of handling a memory capacity of more than 100
gigabytes."It
also occurs to me that with a data transfer rate of 100
megabits/second, could this also replace conventional semiconductor
memory for some applications?
Of
course, this might seem to be in the "too good to be true"
category, and healthy skepticism is called for. On the other hand,
the Aug. 10 London Daily Mail does point out that this is the same
Ted Williams who "...led the team that built the ground-breaking
nuclear magnetic resonance bodyscanner for EMI," and so it
should hardly be discounted out of hand.
IF
this does turn out as the new development company, "Keele High
Density" hopes, imagine the implications: storage could become
so inexpensive and so pervasive that we'd never again have to think
about deleting old data; digital video might become as common as text
is today; and the multi-billion dollar rotating disk drive industry
could, er, grind to a halt, redistributing significant wealth.
Note
that I'm not saying that any of these things will necessarily come to
pass based on this announcement from CMR -- I'm only suggesting that
such innovations, this one or another one from some other source, do
have the potential to "change all the rules" in the blink
of an eye.
In
the Knowledge Age, complacency is NEVER a good idea...
Ah,
how quickly things change. This past February we caught a glimpse of
an amazingly small complete Web server at Stanford's "Wearables"
lab (http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201.htm#Default_7
)
[Image
- Stanford Univ. matchbox Web server -
http://www.digital.com/rcfoc/19990201_images/Matchbox.jpg ]
It
was the size of a matchbox.
Now,
but a half-year later and on the other side of the continent, we see
a complete Web server that's but the size of the HEAD of one of the
matches in that box!
[Image
- U of Mass. Ipic tiny Web server -
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/%7Eshri/iPicPic/iPic.jpg
Brought
to our attention by RCFoC reader Christian Miller, this tiny Web
server was built at the University of Massachusetts and contains the
CPU, memory, serial port, and file system -- literally everything
needed, and connects to an Internet router via a serial connection.
Indeed, you can directly surf this match head Web server through a
link on the page that describes this accomplishment in more detail -
http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html
. And this tiny Web server costs less than one dollar.
Of
course this little Web server is, er, no match for the huge servers
that power Internet portals and the like or even for typical smaller
Web servers, so what good is it? Think "Internet Appliance."
Think "Internet-enabling" just about anything, like light
switches, and even light bulbs! Think Internet-enabled cell phones.
Think a Web server just about everywhere you look.
In
fact, think like this, and you'll be thinking about a future that is
clearly not all that far away...
The
best loan and phone rates
Action
at a distance
You get all that for $19.99 a month for 48 months

Real
people, real schools:
We
have 15,000 school boards and committees. They oversee 60,000 schools
for 55 million students. About a forth of students are in different
schools or districts by the end of each year there has been a 25 %
turnover. In some places its much higher, some lower. There is
a general expectation of what students should learn - what kids from
the 5th grade should be able to do - arithmetic multiplication
tables, reading, and more vaguely geography, science, history,
spelling. These standards have declined since 1947, so more than half
do not know what they are expected to know or do. They are passed on
to the next grade with the hope they can catch up.
The
reality is that if a teacher gives bad grades for poor performance
there is trouble. If they give good grades for little effort and poor
performance there are no complaints or external pressure to get the
performance up to standard. Everyone passes. By high schools more
than half the students are behind, many below 6th grade levels of
math and reading. Since they cant read history, literature is
rather a mute point. By the end of secondary education about 1/3 are
gone having learning almost nothing at the cost of $50,000, about 1/3
have some skills, and about 1/3 are almost ready for post secondary
education.
What
it would take to made schools work is no mystery. The secret is that
it would not be popular. School boards, superintendents, principles,
teachers MUST be popular. As soon as anyone really try to enforce
standards there are those who will complain. Someone will FAIL - get
bad grades, will be held back ! There is no way that is popular. The
student maybe a minority, maybe handicapped, failure is the teachers
fault, its the systems fault, its prejudice, NEVER the lack of
effort on the part of the student and the parents. Elected school
boards can never enforce standards of dress, conduct, performance, on
the part of unionized teachers who make up a critical electoral
constituency, or parents which make up most of the rest of the
voters. Local standards will never pass the popularity contest.
State
and national politicians are less dependent on popularity of specific
school teachers and parents. Voters will support the abstract idea of
good schools, and employer groups are desperate with the poor quality
of youth entering the labor market. So some states have tried to
impose external standards. NOW if you empress external standards on a
system with quality faults, you just drive everyone crazy. Maybe some
schools can pass the buck when John fails by talking about external
standards - but there will be a lot of bitching.
As
everyone should know the only answer is open enrollment. If you fail
go someplace else which accepts less. If you exceed standards you get
rewards and more opportunities. Like the real world ? If you dont
get a year, or 50 % of a years progress for a year of school you are
less effective than someone who can. Competition gets your attention.
It can bring pressure to hold to standards - of attendance, dress,
conduct, homework, behavior, learning - like the real world.
Extremism
and critical mass:
Mother
tells of her aunts who wanted telephones early in the century. The
problem was there was no one to call so they called each other.
Critical mass is shown in any technology that goes through stages
before it become really economic. Radio needed stations and
receivers, computers application, and political ideas are very
similar. The early states of a new technology is the "hobbyist
and tech freak" stage- automobiles, radio, computers went
through this first stage. The political equivalent were abolitionist,
womens rights, union rights, civil rights, who were small
activist organizations. At some point theses extreme views become
common and take over a critical mass. The drug laws, gun laws, Cuba,
are current examples of ideas that about to take on critical mass and
there will be a sudden shift in the market for such ideas.
Liberal
become libertarian and offer new political marketing opportunities.
The party that takes on unnecessary public interference in civil
liberty, economic freedom and open markets must include drugs, free
trade, and demilitarization.
The
rule of law, civil society and social progress depend on protection
of the center from radical extremist. Murder, rape, robbery and other
violence are extreme and acts of disorder. Slavery, succession and
radical federalism was extremism causing a great civil war. Racism,
extreme nationalism and militarism caused great world wars. The war
on drugs, extreme right to lifers, IRA et al are forms of attacks on
the rule of law and order that protect the center majority from
violence.
So
the people that use the idea of the rule of law, law and order have
made more criminals by making more private actions criminal and are
in fact enemies of social peace and order.
The
civil war imposed a ordered national state but since the world does
not have a global new order, radicals such as Serbia or Iraq have
been constrained by violence. Domestic and global peace is dependent
on strong central power that only rarely has to use force as an
exception that proves the rule.
People
behave not because that are terrorized or forced into obedience but
because of an assumption and habit of deceit behavior. The existence
of a national state means succession is not a option.
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the
American experience in the last half of the 20th century.
It
is the stuff of myths and myths are very true and powerful.
The
American Civilization is still unformed, vague, confused, complex,
defused and largely based on myth and fiction - dreams and false
impressions. We are NOT a Christian country as so often and loudly
proclaimed. We are NOT a popular democracy, but a republic with all
kinds of barriers to the general will. We are not the most free and
the home of the most brave, but a diverse, half educated, confused,
commercial, misinformed, friendly, competitive, arrogant, etc.
Characters like the Kennedy clan -
We
weep for ourselves - lost hope - and sometimes reckless disregard for
the safety of others
Show
business, celebrity, news, and the political entertainment business.
John
Kennedy and George Magazine explored the world of political show
business which reflected his experience in this world. He was from
birth a political celebrity or "super star", exploited by
the media to sell product. You must remember that TV is a means to
draw an audience, stimulate their psychics, cause arousal by sex,
violence, tragedy, fights, outrageousness, by what ever means
necessary to sell the product. The industry has discovered that
aroused people are more likely to act on the commercial message that
is the heart and soul of the media. The death of JFK is no different.
The
"news" has become an soap opera. There is no line between
entertainment, sports and news. If it bleeds it leads.
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While
the total amount has been going up - the PUBLICly held debt has gone
down. The Government owns it self a large part of the debt. Social
Security funds when NOT spent are put into treasury bonds. The cost
of almost one billion dollars a day partly goes to pay interest to
itself. IT'S COMPLEX and everyone can tell some of the truth and NOT
be telling the truth at the same time.
http://socrates.berkeley.edu:6997/cgi-bin/report.budget.pl
What's
New on the Concord Coalition Web Site
The
projections for surpluses of over 1 trillion dollars over the
next 15 years are based on the assumption that there will be BIG cuts
in discretionary spending that have not yet taken place.
[Discretionary
spending is the budget minus interest on the debt and
entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security.] In other
words, the politicians would have you believe they can either give
you a tax cut or spend more money on your favorite programs
first, then cut other spending later.
Welcome
to the National Budget Simulation!
Issues
2000: The campaign
THE
REAL ISSUE ( while we discuss details )

240,000
more people every day 1.75 Million born and 1.4 million die
Since
1927, in less than a lifetime, population has tripled from 2 billion
to 6 billion - the last billion in five years. An estimated 114
million acts of sexual intercourse take place in the world every day:
The birth of the world's six billionth person, due some time this
year, will probably not be in happy circumstances: If you think of
the earth as a Noah's Ark, a life-friendly speck floating through
space, you will appreciate its passenger capacity is limited
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four
) important differences between the United States and other "modern"
societies:
1.)
We have money driven political systems,
2.)
We dont have a health system, or a National Educational
program, urban policy etc.
3.)
We allow open sales of firearms.Senator
McCain is right that we cant have useful public policies about
health, education, social security, taxes, or much else when
decisions are driven by money in
politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate
Washington. Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and
Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/logos/plan.txt
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The
New York Times
John
F. Kennedy Jr., 38, Heir to a Formidable Dynasty
By
KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
WASHINGTON -- John F. Kennedy Jr., a scion of the nation's ost
celebrated political dynasty, was reported lost and presumed dead in
an accident that resounded this weekend with echoes of the family's
many misfortunes.
Kennedy,
38, has been missing since Friday night after the plane he was flying
to a cousin's wedding on Cape Cod failed to arrive on Martha's
Vineyard. His disappearance in the prime of his life, like the deaths
of his father, two uncles, an aunt and two cousins before him,
only added to the perception that his larger-than-life family has
been besieged by a near-biblical blight.
Kennedy,
son of the 35th president, was touched by both the Kennedy charisma
and its curse. The public ached in 1963 as it watched him, in his
blue dresscoat and short pants, salute his slain father. It cheered
as he emerged with his dazzling bride from their secret wedding in
1996. And as he sought a measure of privacy even while forsaking a
career in law or government for a role in publishing, the public
never ceased dwelling on his future and the swings of his family's
fortunes between triumph and disaster.
Guiding
his life was a scriptural passage, Luke 12:48, that was voiced
frequently by his grandmother Rose and paraphrased by his father: "Of
those to whom much is given, much is required." Kennedy taught
English to underprivileged children, aided people who were homeless
and disabled, and was a patron of the arts.
But
like many sons of famous fathers, Kennedy still seemed to be
searching for his place in the public constellation, the expectations
for him as great as his father's legend was gripping. And he was
conscious of his burden as an American icon.
"It's
hard for me to talk about a legacy or a mystique," Kennedy said
in a 1993 interview. "It's my family. The fact that there have
been difficulties and hardships, or obstacles, makes us closer."
He
was most recently founder and editor of George, a glossy journal of
politics, but some of his family's admirers still hoped his venture
into publishing was merely a prologue to a career in politics.
While
he helped the Democratic Party raise money, he never ran for office.
He made his political debut at the 1988 Democratic National
Convention in Atlanta, where he introduced his uncle, Sen.
Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Invoking his father's inaugural speech, which
called a generation to public service, he received a two-minute
standing ovation.
Cameras
swarmed after him wherever he went, whether it was as a toddler
playing under his father's desk in the White House, or as a young
lawyer and avid athlete who was often photographed shirtless. In 1988
People Magazine called him "the sexiest man alive."
John
Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. was born on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 25, 1960,
just three weeks after his father, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was
elected president. He was the first infant to live in the White House
since 1893.
President
Kennedy's funeral was held on his son's third birthday. In one
indelible moment of family heartache and American history, the boy
stood outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington with his mother
and sister, raising his hand in a salute as he squinted in the
sun while his father's coffin rolled by. His mother, Jacqueline
Bouvier Kennedy, had leaned down and whispered to him in advance to
salute, a gesture the boy had seen many times as military escorts
greeted the commander in chief.
After
his father's death, his mother moved the family to an apartment on
the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Security was always a major
preoccupation. When her son was six, Mrs. Kennedy commented on his
maturity, adding, "Sometimes it almost seems that he is trying
to protect me instead of just the other way around."
He
attended a Catholic elementary school and was so rambunctious that
Secret Service agents gave him the code name "Lark." But
his mother worried about her children's safety, especially after
Robert F. Kennedy, their uncle, was assassinated in 1968.
"If
they're killing Kennedys, then my children are targets,"
Jacqueline Kennedy said at the time. "I want to get out of this
country."
On
Oct. 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Socrates Onassis, a Greek
shipping magnate who was 29 years her senior, in part because of his
ability to provide the family security.
Mrs.
Onassis, one of the world's most fabled women, sought desperately to
give her children a normal life. Once when John was 13 and mugged in
Central Park, his mother said it was a good experience for him.
According
to family files recently made public, Mrs. Onassis told her
bodyguards that her son "must be allowed to experience life,"
and that "unless he is allowed freedom, he'll be a vegetable."
As
an adult, John made a point of taking public transportation in New
York. "I have a pretty normal life, surprisingly," he told
Larry King.
He
attended Collegiate School for Boys in New York but enrolled in 11th
grade at Philips Academy in Andover, Mass. Breaking with family
tradition, he went to Brown University instead of Harvard, graduating
in 1983. He majored in American history and was a member of the Phi
Kappa Psi fraternity.
He
once appeared to aspire to be an actor, and participated in numerous
amateur theater productions, but his mother worried that the stage
life would expose him too much to the media from which she had tried
to shelter him. Eventually, he enrolled in law school at New
York
University, mostly, friends said, to please his mother. He
failed the New York bar exam twice before passing, which allowed him
to keep his job as a prosecutor in the office of Robert Morgenthau,
the Manhattan district attorney. "I'm clearly not a major legal
genius," he said after the New York tabloids labeled him the
"Hunk Who Flunked."
After
four years as an assistant district attorney, and a perfect 6-0
conviction record, he let it be known that the law bored him. As he
left the district attorney's office, he told a friend, "I don't
want to be just another passenger on a linear."
At
34, he started George magazine in a joint venture with Hachette
Filipacchi, a media conglomerate. For the scion of America's most
illustrious political dynasty, the magazine was a vehicle that both
connected him to his family's past and enabled him to strike out on
his own.
Kennedy,
who did not use either his middle initial or Jr. on his business
cards, observed in a 1998 interview with USA Today, "I think
everyone needs to feel they've created something that was their own,
on their own terms."
He
appeared in George as both an interviewer and essayist. In a
much-discussed George essay published in August 1997, he described
his first cousins Joseph and Michael as "poster boys for bad
behavior."
He
seemed to enjoy being provocative, posing semi-nude in George and
inviting Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt to be his magazine's
guest at the annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington
last spring. Last March, he visited the imprisoned boxer Mike Tyson,
whom Kennedy pronounced "a friend" who was "much
different" from his public image.
On
Sept. 21, 1996, he married a fashion publicist, Carolyn Bessette, on
a barrier island off the coast of Georgia. The couple lived in
Manhattan. He served on the boards of several family foundations and
a number of nonprofit organizations.
Since
1989 he had headed Reaching Up, a nonprofit group that provides
educational and other opportunities for workers who help people with
disabilities. William Ebenstein, executive director of Reaching Up,
said, "He was always concerned with the working poor, and his
family always
had
an interest in helping them." Ebenstein said Kennedy helped
expand the organization. He
also pursued his family's enthusiasm for all types of athletic
endeavors. The 6-foot-1, 190-pound fitness enthusiast liked to
bicycle, rollerblade, dance and throw footballs.
Not
long ago, he flew to South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore. Officials
at the national shrine refused his request to rappel down the
monument, although he was permitted to climb onto the 60-foot faces
of Jefferson, Roosevelt, Lincoln and Washington.
He
was sidelined after he broke his ankle over Memorial Day weekend on
Martha's Vineyard.
Although
he repeatedly played down expectations that he would one day mount
his own political climb, the dream persisted. A few months ago,
Alfonse D'Amato, the former Republican senator from New York who
signed on as a contributor to George, said Kennedy would make
a
strong candidate for mayor in New York City, a suggestion
that Kennedy laughed off. "A
public career is -- it's a lot to bite off," he said in a
televised interview four years ago. "And you better be ready for
it, and you better have your life set up for it, and you better be
prepared to do it for the long haul."
Kennedy
is survived by his sister, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, of
Manhattan.
Copyright
1999 The New York Times Company
Perhaps
the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the defining event of the
American experience in the last half of the 20th century.
Kennedy,
American family, active in U.S. government and politics. Joseph
Patrick Kennedy, 18881969, b. Boston, engaged in banking,
shipbuilding, and motion-picture distribution before serving as
chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (193435) and
head of the U.S. Maritime Commission (193637). He was U.S.
ambassador to Great Britain (193740).
His
son John Fitzgerald Kennedy was president of the U.S. (see separate
article KENNEDY).
His
son Robert Francis Kennedy, 192568, b. Brookline, Mass., served
(196164) as U.S. attorney general. He resigned after Pres.
Kennedy's death and was elected (1964) U.S. senator from New York. In
1968 he sought the Democratic presidential nomination, but after
winning the California primary he was mortally wounded by a gunman,
Sirhan B. Sirhan.
Joseph
Kennedy's youngest son, Edward Moore Kennedy, 1932, b. Boston,
has served as U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962. A spokesman
for liberal causes, he has advocated such reforms as national health
insurance and tax reform. His political future was marred somewhat by
the Chappaquiddick incident (July 1969) in which Mary Jo Kopechne, a
passenger in a car he was driving on an island near Martha's
Vineyard, Mass., was drowned when the car ran off a bridge. Kennedy
unsuccessfully challenged Pres. Jimmy CARTeR for the 1980 Democratic
presidential nomination.
The
Kennedy Family
We
have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the
Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did
it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was
good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten
by this handsome, vivacious family. . . . We wanted to hug their
golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.
P.
J. ORourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. Give War a Chance,
"Mordred Had a PointCamelot Revisited" (1992). "Two
were shot," ORourke wrote of the Kennedys, "but
under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might have been
hoped, after due process of law."
The
Kennedy Family
Ask
every person if hes heard the story,
And tell it
strong and clear if he has not,
That once there was a
fleeting wisp of glory
Called Camelot . . .
Dont
let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one
brief shining moment that was known
As Camelot.Alan
Jay Lerner (191886), U.S. composer, lyricist. Lyric from title
song of musical Camelot (1960). The song was named by Jackie Kennedy
in an interview shortly after John F. Kennedys assassination as
one of which her husband was particularly fond. Official biographer
William Manchester called his book One Brief Shining Moment.
Issues
2000: The campaign
http://www.politics1.com/p2000.htm
With
a decent respect for the option of mankind there are three ( or four
) important differences between the United States and other "modern"
societies:
1.)
We have money driven political systems,
2.)
We dont have a health system, or a National Educational
program, urban policy etc.
3.)
We allow open sales of firearms.Senator
McCain is right that we cant have useful public policies about
health, education, social security, taxes, or much else when
decisions are driven by money in
politics.
http://www.itsyourcountry.com/Today,
special interests and their unlimited campaign funds dominate
Washington. Only by breaking their chokehold on the White House and
Congress.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/election2000/issues_forum.html#form
http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/logos/platform.txt
http://www.wiredbrain.com/documents/logos/plan.txt
ADD
your ideas to this page write:
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