From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10461e,7f8fc37d854731d6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10461e,public From: Peter Pflaum Subject: Re: Interesting but sensitive topic to discuss (HELP: - OOP and CASE tools) Date: 1996/11/13 Message-ID: <328A3286.3074@mail.trevista.com> X-Deja-AN: 196284529 references: <32813322.41C6@kyebek3.kjist.ac.kr> <55pqr5$136a@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <3280BA64.30F8@rase.com> to: snowballinfo@rase.com content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: synergy network mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: synergy@mail.trevista.com newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.ai x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Date: 1996-11-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: *SYNERGY-NET on http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump http://www.altavista.forum.digital.com/ Floor 503 If you need other assistance, please write to synergy@mail.trevista.com (do not reply to this e-mail). RE: Punctuated Equilibrium - PC revolution II How to survive ? The recruits to a tough training program are traditionally told to "Look to the right, look to the left, one of you won't be here next year." Sixty five million years ago, at the annual meeting of the Dinosaurs /IBM/MS/PC Productions Inc. they heard a talk by the current management guru about becoming small, fast and furry. They were told, their survival depended on their ability to adapt to the rapid changes in their global environment. The huge Dinosaurs looked at each other and wondered how they were going to change from large, cold blooded reptiles to mammals. The motivational speaker suggested "visualization". They should relax and imagine "in their minds" eye that they were small, fast and furry. If they had a "positive" attitude nothing was impossible. It didn't work. Almost all species that ever existed are extinct. Human, as all creatures large and small ( except maybe insects ) are not biologically designed for rapid change. What happens is mass extinctions. The space ( niches ) made by short periods of extinctions are then slowly filled ( somewhat at random ) by the survivors. Species survive by geographic dispersion and innate variety. How to survive the mass extinction that NC's will cause among PC 's or how to become very small, very fast and very furry. The high ground is an expanded vision of the ISP ( Internet Service Provider ) and this will happen a order of magnitude faster than most people think. RE: EPCOT II: Electronic Prototype Community On-line Technology MS/GE/NBC, ATT, MCI/BT, Oracle/Netscape/Sun - ( and others ) evolve and create new networks of low orbit satellites, earth stations, transponders, cells, wires, cables, something like the NSA/DOD and Navy global communications systems. For big organizations the systems are almost in place, for middle size companies they are serviced from "EPCOT II Club Houses ", and individual consumers on a ad hoc basis using AS phone modems, cable, dishes, microwaves and what ever sort of works. The earth stations are all purpose servers using object management multi- channel programs to provide complete on-line services. (IIOP) So you can do a lot of things from almost anywhere. EPCOT II is a set of franchise EPCOT II clubs offering work station cubicles to office suites with T3 satellite up links. Within their zone they are a quality Internet Service Provider ( ISP ) for the big organization and individual users. People can work on the road or at home, so they can live in some very nice places. The current market targets are places where there is already a high density of high tech users. The idea is "synergy" shared resources rather than stand alone systems. The idea is "plug and play" turn-key utilities rather than complex on-site equipment and operations. Larry ( Oracle ) has it about right but is a little possessive, Marc (Netscape) understands the technology and Bill (MS) who is very possessive will get on board by the end of the year. Where do you want to be, alone on the California coast, in a planned community in Costa Rica, The Swiss or Colorado Mountains, New Zealand or Australia, the French Riviera, a Greek Village; the EPCOT work and pay master will help you do your work, using temporary synergy groups, video conferences, high quality image processing, what ever, where ever. EPCOT II global work groups can produce content, hardware, software, server management, education and training, video, web pages, news, applications what ever. It's a company made of off site locations, with a temporary work group and employment agency, it's a server of home and remote work locations, it's a hotel, it's a cafe, it's a node and ISP, it's a planned physical place and network of hard wired connections between international high-tech communities of transponders, cables and phones. It is the Electric Prototype Community on-line Technology of today and tomorrow, the global village, the world according to Charles Handy. see http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump/hotflash.htm for AS lines and communications systems. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1996-11/12/098L-111296-idx.html Wireless connections: businesses and schools that have been trying out a system that beams data from the Internet to their computers using high- frequency radio waves. The wireless technology allows users to travel in cyberspace at about 10 million bits per second, nearly seven times faster than today's high-speed data lines and almost 350 to 700 times faster than the average modem. "The speed is just blinding," said Stephen Coran, a partner at the firm who uses the Internet to search legal databases. The radio wave pilot project, which has been operating since early summer, is run by CAI Wireless Systems Inc. in Albany, N.Y., and Hybrid Networks Inc. in Cupertino, Calif. Hybrid plans to offer commercial service in the area by the middle of next year, said Chuck Zumbaugh, a Hybrid consultant working on the project. Copies of the SYNERGY JOURNAL sent by request: pflaump@MSN.COM SYNERGY-NET on http://synergy.trevista.com/ Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 pflaump@mail.trevista.com http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump/ http://forum.trevista.com/ or join #synergybunch on IRC. Go in and set up conference, documents, newspaper, teams. http://www.altavista.forum.digital.com/ Directory Floor 503 & 504 http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/faqs/punc-eq.html http://earth.ics.uci.edu:8080/origins/biblio/punctuated_equilibri um.html Natura non facit saltum; ( Nature does not take leaps but it does?) http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump/winhttpd/htdocs/doc1a.htm Evolution, competition, survival of the fittest is a fact but Darwin's theory of evolution does not explain the " Origins of the Species" or the "Decent of man". The physical fossil record does not support, and never has, the idea of slow steady "progress" from simple to complex, in small steps from ammonites to people. "Time Frames" by Niles Eldredge explains how science adjusted to the reasonable social expectations of the machine age by imposing on the data preconceived notions of progress and order. Darwin's type of slow evolution does happen but so does rather sudden extinctions and discontinuous bursts of creative activity. Physics: The Uncertainty principle: Con't doc1a.htm ( above ) Copies of the SYNERGY JOURNAL sent by request: pflaump@MSN.COM SYNERGY-NET on http://synergy.trevista.com/ Peter E. Pflaum Ph.D. , Headmaster GLOBAL_VILLAGE_SCHOOLHOUSE 225 Robinson Road, New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169-2176 (904) 428-9609 pflaump@mail.trevista.com http://metro.turnpike.net/~pflaump/ http://forum.trevista.com/ or join #synergybunch on IRC. Go in and set up conference, documents, newspaper, teams. http://www.altavista.forum.digital.com/ Directory Floor 503 & 504