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StarOffice 5 is a free download from Sun microsystems at
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http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9908/sunflash.990831.2.html
http://www.sun.com/dot-com/staroffice.html
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.
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.
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
but keep you files so you don’t have to go back a fourth from the search page to the sites and back.
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.
TAKING NOTES:
Linux to attack Windows
in both the client and server arenas
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 ECU’s struggles, Japan’s and Asia’s 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 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
Finance Physics:
Linux to attack Windows
in both the client and server arenas"packets,"
each containing its own
routing information,
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. It’s not surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The leaders and leading institutions often don’t 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.
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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. It’s not surprising that it is difficult and there is a lot of active and passive resistance.
The leaders and leading institutions often don’t 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.
The future has arrived it just hasn't arrived at the same time everywhere -
Once More From the TOP:
It's about time ! The main line press has caught-on
to the power of the internet ? What wiredbrain and others ( mainly Netscape,
Oracle, ( considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions.
b. An authoritative or wise statement or prediction ) IBM, SunMicrosystems
and the NOISE group ) have been talking about since Netscape 1.0 and WINS
connections - the virtual office and the Network Computer has now arrived
in the PC world.
" The new concept ( only to you ) goes by
a variety of names: instant Web office; virtual office; instant intranet;
Web tone; Internet dial tone; and so on. The idea is to provide everything
a user needs on a central server. Users can then access that server over
the Internet with just a terminal and a phone line. Then they "rent"
Internet and intranet applications for as little as $10 to $20 per person
per month. (That's a fraction of the per-user cost of an in-house intranet.)"
and a box that cost 10 % of a PC work station ( $500 vs. $5,000 ) and doesn't crash, doesn't need systems managers, and doesn't require constant upgrades but does need bandwidth.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1997
Instant Intranets Just Stage One in Emerging Market Struggle
Jesse Berst, Editorial Director ZDNet AnchorDesk
What is clear but not said is this is the end of the Age of the PC. First the main frame, then the PC now the NC -
There is now a immense industry we can call
IT
“INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY”.
IT now represents the critical modern enterprise growing to be a quarter of all economic activity.
IT is a greater engine for growth than railroads in the 19th century, oil and chemical industries in the first half of this century. IT is equal to the auto industry, which reached 25 % in the 1950s. “IT” like the auto industry includes the hardware ( the computer or car), the infrastructure, (communications and networks or the roads) the energy ( software or oil ) the services, ( consultants and staff or Gas Stations ) and parts ( modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, drives, or car radios ). IT includes the computers ( the car ), the roads ( the telecom business ), services ( software ) and the social educational infrastructure.
There
are millions of new jobs and additional people needed world wide. IT
provides the web of
life for modern enterprise - design, production, distribution, sales, of
goods and services. IT is the growth industry and in labor market.
Unlike the auto industry the IT business evolves quickly.
New hardware computers and chips, new methods of communications, new applications
evolve quickly. IT is quickly becoming one unified, highly complex living
system on a global basis. The whole is more than the sum of the parts -
synergy that comes from elaborate interactions.
There are critical “flash point” - global telcom systems
based on satellites connect to earth stations that can use telephone lines
including new high bandwidth technologies, optic fiber, wireless broadband,
and cable connections. The high bandwidth connections use improved modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s
to provide support for networks. These new networks provide what have been
called telephones, television, personal computers, and something new -
beyond what now are common utilities.
The common base system is the “browser”, which will
provide all of the application in a Java type objects - in a Video User
Interface (VUI) using chips that can handle digital TV and Digital Hard
Drives for storage all as parts of the new super modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s.
The interface uses program “packets” as well as content
“packets” the The difference between program
and content no longer is significant. With bandwidth the “word processor”
is attached to the files and comes as an instant updated package at the
moment of use. This is Netscape’s, Oracle and others “vision” and the real
challenge to Microsoft.IT is why the DOJ Microsoft case
is important. What was called the “operation system” OS now becomes VUI,
an interface between a “terminal” ( telephone, TV, and PC = NC ) and a
communications media.
Berst Alert FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1997
The biggest explosion in corporate computing since the Local Area Network...
The Network Computer. In addition to discussions on everything from the benefits of the NC, to the use of Java and smart card technology, these informative and entertaining specials also featured interviews from Larry Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Oracle and Scott McNealy the CEO of Sun Microsystems, as well as testimonials from various companies who are currently operating in a Network Computing environment.
The Far Eastern NetWorks,
The Rapidly Changing Face Of Computing
The Far Eastern NetWorks, the Fourth Wave - a new topic
IT For
example: The
demand for skilled foreign IT
. The Information Technology Association of America,
which represents hundreds of companies from Intel and Microsoft
to consultants and recruiters, estimates there are already
190,000 high tech positions standing vacant in American IT and
non-IT companies. "This can be considered a conservative
estimate of the gap between companies&rsquo growth needs and
the current availability of IT workers," says the ITAA
study, "Help Wanted: The IT Workforce They warn that they may be forced to
take their production outside the country if they can&rsquot
hire more people from abroad.
A powerful coalition of
American IT companies say these highly educated immigrants are a
critical part of solving a severe personnel shortage that is a
drag on the U.S. industry.
IEEE-USA Legal Immigration Policy Issue ... URL: http://www.ieee.org/usab/DOCUMENTS/FORUM/ISSUES/immigration.html
Summary: In 1990, partly in response to claims that the nation faced serious shortages of engineers and scientists, Congress authorized substantial increases in employment-based immigration to the United States. Engineering unemployment increased from 2.1% in 1990 to an all time high of 4.1% in 1993 when 73,000 engineers were out of work. More Like This: Click here to perform a search for documents like this one.
The company plans to recruit 3,600 people, many of whom will
come from outside the US due to a shortage of good software developers
in the States.
The Independent, UK. 18/07/97
There is a current shortfall of 250,000 IT positions in the US, MS great idea was not technological but social.
They collected people and created synergy. What MS has is not a great leader but motivated and talented creators.
They hired "people" and then found how they fit in - they didn't create positions and try to fit people into jobs. It's the culture stupid. What happened to Apple was not technology but cultural.
There is no magic from above - some great idea or people CEO.. but a social system. It was a great place that was destroyed by people who didn't understand or care about relationships.
The mission of the synergy network is to explore the range of
The special talent of the human species is
The CATCH-ON factor Skills training started with better tools in stone, in metal, in hunting and fishing. With agriculture knowledge came organizational ability - SYNERGY - getting more from the group than the sum of the parts.
The MARS adventure is a example of team work, communications, shared hopes and benefits. SOMEHOW the internet should add to synergy, to the numbers who catch-on.
List SMART COMPANIES of companies the who's who of telecommunications
There has to be an emotional base, ability to change - to see in new ways - to be open to new experiences. PATHOS = caring - having the interest and doing something. What we value is what we do, not what we say. LOGOS = information, knowledge - the subject itself. ETHOS = what do we do with
The way they see things, the Internet shifts the balance of power in the computing world from the desktop, which Microsoft dominates, to the network, which is up for grabs. And they believe this shift makes the database the key ingredient in an Internet-based network.
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affect you!
The story is how the information age will connect
the PC's, which then become NC's (network computers ) with all the major
players rushing to take part. Compaq and Intel (INTC) earlier this month
also announced an initiative to set a technology standard for
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There was a time not long ago when the "in-the-know" were a special class. Some times they were the Global-Village idiots who saw the Emperor's fine new clothes, sometimes they saw the future coming and rode the wave such as Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, Andy Grove, motorola, Optic-fiber, satellites,
The Harvard Business School, expensive seminars, esoteric, hermetic, cryptic, hidden, OCCULT dark, mysterious, UNKNOWN expensive knowledge. Now I feel as if anyone can and should know anything - but INFORMATION overload gives more and more people knowledge of less and less. Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson could know everything - Forbes and some of the business publications do a goog job of information transfer of "what is important" and what is noise. It's not and easy job.
The word today is "BANDWIDTH"...(Excite Search)
Watch the keynote by MCI WorldCom’s
The outside material object is a reflection of its relationships - Con't on
Papers.htmNEW
YORK (CNNfn) -- Oracle Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp. said
Monday they will merge two subsidiaries in an attempt to open up the network
computer market. Oracle will bring its Network Computer, Inc. (NCI) unit
to the deal while Netscape will offer its Navio Communications, Inc. The
combined company will be known as NCI.
Network Computer Snapshot -- 1997 Hot Market Watch
--
62% likely to install network computers (NCs) in 12 months
Top
reasons for installing network computers
--
67% will install NCs to reduce support costs
-- 45% will install NCs to upgrade dumb terminals (Source: 1997 Network World 500 study)
"NCI's
purpose has been to create a single software standard for a family of low-cost
digital appliances," Oracle chairman Larry Ellison said today at a press
conference here. " The real competition is Microsoft--other players are
not significant in the least."
Microsoft's $425 million acquisition of WebTV Networks April 6 clearly motiviated both companies. WebTV is, so far, the market leader in Internet-enabled set-top boxes.
Con't on papers.htm
RE: Office of telecommunications:
The
U.S. Federal Government, the states and local government are the largest
buyer of telecommunications in the world. The federal agencies spend over
15 billion, with the total public sector purchase of telecommunications
exceeding 25 billion per annum.
Public
agencies are consumers not only of telephone services, such as the federal
phone system (GSA), but of dedicated networks for hundreds of civilian
and military agencies. ( Social Security, Unemployment, Criminal Justice,
transportation, NSA, DOD logistics, and many such networks reach into almost
every town and village ).
While
much of the industry's focus has been on the private sector, the US Military's
ADSL deployments bring to the forefront of our attention the governmental
sector of the US economy, which represents a growing share of the vast
demand for "no-wait" Internet and data access. This lucrative target market
is poised to take advantage of cost-effective Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
technology in areas where the cost of installing a fiber-optic data backbone
is prohibitive. These successful deployments of a GlobeSpan CAP- based
solution by the US Military represent another confirmation that CAP ADSL
solutions are, in fact, delivering "ready for prime time" services today.
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PROPOSAL:
All purchased tele-commutations contracts get a first offer and refusal
from the "National Office of Tele- communications", a federal corporation.
A central purchasing agency could wholesale services at a discount and
provide MUCH higher grade, lower cost services to this vast market worldwide.
Part of the saving could be used to support research, the wiring of base
schools, and contribute to the educational pool created by the FCC. The
agency does NOT provide communications, or set up satellite systems, but
buys bandwidth from the private sector. The DEMAND model works butter than
direct government construction or operation, notice the FAA. If you have
a demand, supply will follow.
The
National Telecommunications infrastructure could involve independent "stations"
connected to low orbit satellites, cable, or optic fiber that can provide
digital television bandwidth capacity. Agencies use this "common carrier"
as independent clients using whatever systems and protocols they want.
They connect to "stations" by modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog ), cable, wireless, or optic fiber as
they want. Local inter-governmental phone service could be from transponder
cells or on traditional local access providers.
The
system should be built an order of magnitude bigger than any demand projections.
Excess capacity can be sold to state school systems, colleges, local agencies.
If current cost can be cut by 1000 % ( from 10 cents a minute or GigByte
to .10 or .01 cents ) there is room for charging less than any open market
provider and still "making a profit" to invest in advanced systems and
international assistance. The standards for wireless transponders, worked
out with the European Community will provide the backbone of our information
age.
The
"system" will provide full video-conference world wide, video e-mail, voice,
data, Internet, intranets, extranets, as good as anything in the private
sector. It should cost the taxpayer "nothing" over current costs, to provide
a contracted common carrier for public agencies. EDWEEK
3/5/97 - News: Technology Vision Pursued With New Urgency
http://www.usatoday.com:80/life/cyber/tech/cta433.htm
FCC approves plan to wire schools, libraries:
The nation's schools can get discounts of up to 90% of the cost of connecting
classrooms to the Internet, under a government plan adopted Wednesday.
WASHINGTON
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Build
it and they will come! This will be the MOST important change in Public
Education, colleges and technical training since the school bus ? The technology
of roads and bus created the big school. Wired learning can reverse the
trend to small, smart and stable human organizations where doing is learning.
Since this money is tied to a revenue stream the passion to micro-manage
from Congress and the DOE maybe restrained. They will be a huge free market
for wired schools. If we build it then content will follow.. The Network
computer with Direct wireless connections offers a technology that schools
and teachers can use ( rather than the PC which is too complex )
The Knowledge Network
National Science Foundation, for National Science & Technology Week from DiscoverThe "annihilation fountain," spurting up from the center of galaxy, is created when bits of matter and anti-matter meet and destroy each other, the scientists said. Such warring particles were expected on the Milky Way's galactic plain, but never before have been detected hovering above the galaxy.
VEGAS-Claiming that the computing world is the midst of a tectonic shift, Marimba Inc.
President
and CEO Kim Polese opened NetWorld+Interop today, touting how her company's
Castanet architecture can help users manage that change. " The Internet
will have the same impact on users that electricity does today," said Polese
during her keynote address here. " The Internet is the new computing platform."
Polese predicted that the impact of the Internet will far outstrip the
gains made by the desktop computing revolution, yet today's application
development and distribution model cannot scale to meet the needs of network-centric
computing, where applications and content revisions occur in minutes instead
of months.
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RE:
SEATTLE, May 8 - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates called on some of the world's leading executives to develop a "digital nervous system" that would increase business productivity.
The
billionaire software magnate, speaking to 103 chief executive officers
from 25 countries at his two-day "CEO Summit," said businesses needed to
invest in a single infrastructure to connect employees and customers.
" The
excellence of that nervous system will define your competitiveness," he
told the CEOs. "To put this basic infrastructure together is a very serious
investment. ... It requires leadership from the top of the company."
Executives at the summit also heard views on the future of technology from Vice President Al Gore, former Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt.
"It's fair to say there were probably a hell of a lot more issues raised and vetted than answers," said Frank Biondi of Universal Studios.
He and other executives who participated in the summit, most of which was closed to the press, said Microsoft was not out selling its products overtly at the meeting.
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The DOMINATE (dominant) industry:
The class structure is built on the control of the means of production, according to Karl Marx. For millennium it was Agriculture, then in the 19th century, Railroads, then Big Oil, Automobiles, IBM and now Microsoft and the Computer Industry. Each period includes a cluster of actors and activities, means of transportation, communications, city shapes, finance, popular culture, intellectual models and politics.
Railroads are top down, highly structured and owned but geography dispersed. Public schools were founded in the "Age of Railroads" and reflect the basic paradigm.
Sloan and Dupont/GM ( US steel, GE, and RCA ) cluster activities into divisions. Corporate "empires" could be owned by one class but controlled by a new class of "professional managers" and NOT run by the owners from the center. Graduate Universities and the new deal grew up along side these empires.
IBM
is a corporate empire built on Sloan's model dealing with a fast changing
technology. The empire was built on control of "standards" - the protocols
that allows software to run, memory to record, systems to work together.
It was never the "best" or lowest cost but it worked. NASA and the advertising
industry along with TV grew up in the era of "smart corporations". THINK
!
Microsoft
is another empire built on the control of standards and now the standards
are going to change and become much harder to control. The dominate industry
"information" technology is shifting to Internet Standards and the network
computer.
I
could guess that Netscape/Sun Oracle using Java
cobra ATM ( the communications protocols ) using satellite, wireless direct
broadcast will become the new global dominate industry. The model is more
open, and complex, more like biological science rather that physical engineering.
The Ghost in the Machine, life force models replace the clock works as
a way of thinking. The on-line install as an active system, means the program can
check what you have, what you want, and update on line. The real power
of push/pull is current updates of both program and content. With a network
computer there is no reason to have a fixed set of programs, objects and
applications. Third parties should be able to offer individual elements,
such as a file manager that works with FAT files, web editors that really
work WYSIWYG and FTP correctly, and 1000's of applications on line. Programs
become services not packages, services provided by ISP with channels directly
to the user. Introducing the
Platform Preview of Internet Explorer 4.0! Netcaster
from netscape communicator see papers.htm
for more detains
(end)
With the new Explorer 4.0 you can down load a setup system. After you have
installed a basic set of programs ( hours ) you can go back and add new
elements.
The other advocates rearchitecting core technologies around Java. Campus rumors have it several key executives fomented this "Java rebellion."
The uprising was supposedly quashed by Gates himself, who reportedly stood up at a recent Java presentation to say, "Are you out of your f***ing minds! Has anybody heard of Windows?"
The consumer product is expected to combine a personal computer with a large television monitor and will probably also include consumer electronics-type features such as an advanced audio system. An optional DVD player could let users run movies and interactive content.
The latest example surfaced today when Excite (XCIT)
rolled out a new format on its Web site that includes 14
channels organized around general topics: arts and
entertainment, sports, business and investing, computers
and the Internet, careers and education, games, health
and science, lifestyle, news, people and chat, politics
and government, shopping, travel, and "my channel,"
customized by and for the individual.
EXAMPLE Peter's my page:
http://my.excite.com/?uid=A61BAC843351654C
The standards for HDTV Digital TV will include the Network Computer if not the existing PC. A VUI ( Video User interface ) will replace windows ( Graphic User Interface ).
The EC ( Europe) may well set the international standards for communications, wireless modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s that can do it all with lots of digital bandwidth.
The EC is after all the worlds biggest market and the US has little local TV hardware capacity. Four billion people in the world need simple, cheap, wireless communications.
They can pay for it by bring new products to market.
The Information superhighway becomes a farm to market road for shoes from Brazil, spices from the orient, accounting from Ireland, education and training from Australia, Global Villages Schools from New Smyrna Beach.
WIREDNEWS Time Warner Summons a Better Set-Top Box
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ALL THE WAY TO CHINA: Digital plans China NC venture
The systems would
be based on Digital's recently announced reference design, which uses Network
Computer Incorporated's operating system and application software. NCI,
a subsidiary of primary NC advocate Oracle, has defined the NC as a device
that is capable of downloading applications from a central server computer
and running them locally.
The Network computer (www.nc.com) will be the critical link of the new technologies: LOS low orbit satellites, wireless modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s, high capacity servers, Television, Internet's, Intranet, telephone, cable and computers.
The "network in a box" on LANS, connect to Network servers ( ISP ) for WAN.
These servers are the market and producers of open standards software. Companies like MS and Oracle and IBM and ATT., MCI, General Electric, et al, HAVE to become global providers of high capacity WAN servers, satellites and wireless communications utilities.
The TV "networks"
the BBC, RTF, CBC, become one of the many providers of content on this
universal wireless utility. ( With some cable for LANS )
This changes who we are as life form. http://www.wiredbrain.com/living.htm.
The the general systems model is from biological systems called
Autopoiesis, are self-organizing, reproducing, evolving patterns of interactions of Dissipative feedback loops within and among living things such as the stock market, families and states. "Humberto Maturana"These concepts will become the central paradigm of the "Information" age. It will take 20 to 30 years but you can start now.
These models are hard to understand not in their complexity but in their novelty. Because it takes a while to "catch on" to and shift into a reality from a new perspective.
The change from from the big heavy material models of the 19th and 20th
Century takes time. This is the systems model for the 21'st century. How
we order the world in our minds, does impact everything else.
The most important story of our time (see http://www.nc.com/ )
Cnet radio hear Larry on NC -
Larry
calls the PC the Microsoft computer and a monopoly owned by one person
( Bill Gates ). The computer contains a processor ( mostly Intel ), a box
( Dell, Compaq etc ) and software ( based on MS operations ). It has a
Graphic User Interface (GUI) called Windows. It's expensive, hard to operate
and cost a business $8,000 a year total costs. The Network computer, complete
package, costs less than Microsoft Office97, including the server, the
"network in a box" server, which can be a PC. It has far more capacity
than the PC for most operations. Existing PC's are NC's with a low cost
CD-ROM and it all works ! It has a digital (DUI ) with a Video User Interface
(VUI) that fully integrates office applications, word processing on one
editor which does presentations, mail, notes, time management, video, Internet
all based on Internet HTTP. standards. It costs less than $800.00 a year
total. It all depends on Networks as you can see below: General Instrument's
Next Level Satellite Data Networks Group Receives Commitment for 50,000
SURFboard Telco Return
Cable
modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s from Adelphia SAN DIEGO, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- General Instrument
Corporation (NYSE: GIC) announced today a commitment from Adelphia Communications
Corporation for 50,000 SURFboard telco return cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and the associated
network. Adelphia will use the modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s to provide its high-speed Internet
service, Powerlink, over the cable TV network to the personal computers
(PCs) of its subscribers in seven of its markets. General Instrument's
SURFboard cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s and associated network provide high-speed data services
to subscribers' PCs over a standard 6 MHz cable TV channel at shared transport
rates up to 27 Mbps. The return path is enabled via a telephone connection.
This technology approach enables the SURFboard cable modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s to be used
in virtually any cable TV network without an upgrade to two-way equipment.
The company currently has commitments for more than 120,000 SURFboard cable
modem ( or digital connection to replace the analog )s. Wireless options grow for fast access By
Jeff Pelline July 24, 1997, 1:30 p.m. PT
DSL
hardware pushes speed envelope
ANS Communications, Bertelsmann AG Plan To Deliver Multimedia Network Services Globally Partnership Pairs ANS' Internet Expertise With One of Europe's Leading Media .. Source: PR Newswire ELMSFORD, N.Y., April 15 /PRNewswire/ via Individual Inc. --
Addressing the growing demand by Pan-European businesses for integrated, Internet-based data and voice technologies in a single network, ANS Communications and Bertelsmann AG today announced a partnership through which the two organizations would provide managed multimedia network services to the Global 1000.
ANS is a leader in providing large- and mid-sized businesses with a broad range of managed network services that includes Internet access, Virtual Private Data Networks (VPDN), Intranets, Web hosting, security and remote dial access. ANS is a wholly owned subsidiary of America Online (AOL), the world's largest online service.
Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest media organizations, is a global group of companies involved in book, magazine and newspaper publishing and distribution, music and entertainment, radio, television, video, printing and manufacturing. Under the agreement, ANS and Bertelsmann AG will establish joint ventures throughout Europe to provide a suite of multimedia network services that meet stringent, uniform performance and customer service standards. Serving as a single point of contact for European companies seeking to deliver country- based or regional network services to their respective customers, this joint venture will also coordinate all efforts related to international circuit capacity planning. Bertelsmann AG issued a similar announcement today (see "Bertelsmann AG Cooperates with ANS Communications and Expands its Information Technology Activities").
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Netscape to push its version of push Company to detail its media delivery technology
Tuesday REUTERS MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
Netscape
Communications Corp. executives said they would on Tuesday unveil the company
plans for enabling media to push information out to readers over the Internet.
The new product, previously code-named Constellation, promises to transform
the experience of Internet users from an active, surfing endeavor where
they must hunt for information to a model in which content can be automatically
delivered.
(rest removed at request of publisher Reuters )
Microsoft's next product is still months away.
RE: On-line textbook updates:
One
service that will increase book sales is to have a WWW page that updates
the contents. If you visit http://www.wiredbrain.com/living.htm then weblife.html
you can see an example of what I mean ( A web page is worth a 1000 words
) The update is done at the time of the request from key words set into
search engines
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RE: A question of composition:
In-groups and between groups; Microsoft and Netscape are clusters of populations in a dynamic "information space" environment. Top down, CEO as hero, Commander Kirk, Good and Evil Empire models has been replaced by the TRW, 3M, collegiate, task force, small, fast and competent groups with open Assemblies. Policy comes from the "contest of ideas" rather than positional authority and traditions.
Government agencies including Schools have always followed the dominate economic model, from guilds to factories to IBM type corporations with GM / Slone like divisions. Public institutions will ( with up to 20 years delay time ) follow the "information age" model as independent, market sensitive, client specific services such as charter and voucher schools and faster than almost everyone now thinks.
The
key to the future is Telework,
telelearn, tele-organize. Downtowns and big central offices are a evolutionary
handicap, dinosaurs rather that the warm, fast and furry creatures with
a future. In-groups
like the teams of a professional sport are dependent on the league. Other
teams are not the enemy but a vital part of the "system".
Political parties and companies are not enemies but co-evolve within a set of general rules. Modern organizations have extended networks of clients, developers, promoters, and end users.
Netscape
claims to be more "open" and less likely to dominate or engulf other members
of its community. They both seek to control critical elements of the environment.
Microsoft / Intel / PC producers have succeeded in a highly complex PC
operating system context while Netscape will do better in a NC, network
computer, platform management environment.
The
PC is clearly too complex, updates are too hard, and management too expensive.
Specialization has no clear evolutionary
advantage over Java microbes
and program objects IIOP, COBRA, type systems. Microsoft is a dollar short
and a day late, and unless it's bought up ( very hard at today's stock
prices ) The Oracle/ Sun / Netscape NC model will take over the central
position in the third wave of the "information age". ( Mainframes, PC and
now NC's) SEE the SITE First.htm,
NC.txt, WEBTV, Ideaweb,
- short MS - long Oracle / Corel / Netscape /
Business,
politics, education, and social policy are all effected by the understanding
of social weblife
evolution
and biology. The idea of the survival of the fittest and social Darwinism
is politically incorrect but still dominates most institutions and not
only business thinking. evolutionary
biologist are not all that certain how evolution
actually works between groups but the politically correct view is punctuated
dynamic balance in the "ecological" of whole system.
There
is not a clear one to one relationship between the slow and irregular evolution
of natural systems and changes in "willful" people and organizations but
we all are creatures of nature so it's more than an analogy. People seek
understanding and regularities, laws and guiding principle in a period
of uncertainty. Our political economy is clearly evolving rapidly and the
traditional ideas and practices are not working very well.
Social
and biological ecology is a matter of composition between groups and within
groups. There are two things to keep in mind; Variance within groups
( specializations ) is different than Variance between groups ( the pattern
of life ); population distributions is what survival is all about.
Groups evolve at the right fringe ( on the scale of complexity ), natural system evolve from dynamic crisis of extinctions that promote flexibility and structural hardness. Microbes do better than dinosaurs under stress. Biology groups are breading communities that identify with each other ( at least as breading partners ) and have both cooperative and competitive interest.
Dynamic
ecologies are both synergist as elements on a food chain and dependent
on critical species to mold the environment, such as alligators in the
Everglades who make ponds used by many species in the dry season, or Elephants
which also make ponds and effect the whole nature of the bush for grazing
animals. The ants and the plants, the wolves and the sheep, co-evolve and
both benefit from the competition making defensive plants and clever ants,
better wolf packs and faster sheep.
Co-evolution
is a popular business model
of competition and cooperation. The issue is the balance between internal
specialization and complexity with flexibility under the dynamics of environmental
stress.
The
ghost in the machine: (Arthur Kessler) When we are out of touch with
feeling we are out of touch with life. To try to figure out social systems
without passions, feeling, myths, dreams, and humans as they are is not
very realistic or practical.
Plato
didn't write because people can only understand what they are able and
willing to understand. They live in a world of shadows and illusions. They
firmly believe the illusion are reality. Human passions and beliefs are
the ghost (spirit) in the machine. I have developed a process of experiences
that shed some light on the realities behind the illusions for some people.
It is a practice not an ideology. You don't want to replace one set of
illusion with another. The understanding of the construction of reality
is personal and situational. That does not mean it is all relative. There
are fixed, unchanging principals but they are hard or impossible to teach.
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The
(old) rules are: PFLAUM'S PFAMOUS PFIVE: VIRTUES
1.) PRINCIPLE: THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH, All of us have to make a living and there are limits on resources. PHYSICS: ENERGY & MATTER IS NEITHER, CREATED NOR DESTROYED - MORAL: RESPONSIBILITY - BETWEEN THE STIMULUS AND THE RESPONSE IS A CHOICE OF HOW TO RESPOND that will best use the abilities we have as groups.
2.) PRINCIPLE: IF NO ONE DOES IT, IT DOESN'T GET DONE - PHYSICS: ENTROPY ALWAYS INCREASES -MORAL: PEOPLE NEED TO WORK - BE PROACTIVE BE ASSERTIVE - TAKE INITIATIVE & LEADERSHIP -
3.) PRINCIPLE: IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU ARE GOING YOU END UP SOMEWHERE ELSE.- MORAL: MOTIVATION & INFLUENCE - CONSCIOUS CHOICE BASED ON VALUES - BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND PHYSICS: FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION - It is not always easy, there will be difficulties. What matters most? Priorities! Time management!
4.) PRINCIPLE: WHERE YOU STAND DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU SIT. PHYSICS: THE RESULTS YOU FIND DEPENDS ON HOW YOU GET THE INFORMATION - YOU CAN NOT BE CERTAIN ABOUT BOTH POSITION AND MOTION AT THE SAME TIME (UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE) EMPATHY (SEEING THINGS FROM OTHERS POINT OF VIEW) ALWAYS INCREASES - PEOPLE DO BETTER WHEN THEY CARE, AND ARE CARED FOR! People left to themselves, in isolation from others are weak but in unity there is strength. MORAL: COMPASSION - INTEGRITY - SINCERITY - THE GOLDEN RULE -
5) PRINCIPLE: THINK WIN/WIN COMMUNICATIONS - FIRST UNDERSTAND THEN BE UNDERSTOOD - PHYSICS: SYNERGIES - CATALYZES - UNIFY - MOBILIZE - FOCUS = CENTERED = GROUNDED - LIFE FORCE MORAL: LEARN TO IMPROVE SOCIAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL ASSETS.
Covey, S. R., Seven Habits of Effective People
RE:
The evolution
of species and technology:
The
US Government has the largest school and training system in the world.
Base schools and the constant training of people in the services in one
of the Dept. of Defence's major functions. The Advanced Research Project
Agency, Office of Navel Research, The NSA ( National Security Agency ),
NASA, CIA, are creators of communications technology. Defence contractors
such as McDonald Douglas, et al, are in the information business.
We
could put two and two together and develop models of high band wide, interactive
networks, where teaching and learning could take place on a global basis.
There are important economies of scale. KNOW, Knowledge Networks in the
Online World, could be a prototype Experimental (EPCOT) that world produce
increased efficiency for the military schools and help our society in the
Global economic struggle for survival.
It's more than a analogy, human evolution has been primarily by technology transfer, through the "catch-on" factor. We learn by doing, observations of others, and my making models of possible new realities in our heads. Stephen Jay Gould has described evolution as a random walk of populations whose variance becomes more sloped to the right, in favor of higher level complexity and specialization, but the "average = mode or median" stays close to the left "wall" of bacteria.
In times of mass extinction the complex tends to get wiped out leaving space for new life forms. It now appears as "life" in the form of microbes may exist widely in space in environments without a stable atmospheres, water and light but deep underground living on common geological chemistry.
The
PC/workstation Internet is a new complex addition to the human life form,
way out on the right of the curve of complexity. The system is too complex
and when it faces a period of "shake- down" the survival will tend to be
the simpler and less environmental sensitive and dependent prototypes.
In battle for the "survival of the fittest" high technology is often unsuited
to battlefield conditions, depending on the nature of the battle.
The
idea of competition is within and among population distributions, where
variety, distribution, and luck are all important. One reason the Internet
works is the original design was to create a command-control system that
could survive Atomic Warfare. The model selected promotes diversity.
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