I'm not so sure that in 10-20 years anything will be as we predict. Just because we have gone from stand alone systems to the internet, that doesnt mean that we are going to go from an online/offline to always online model. Just like we didnt go from horse and buggy to car to flying cars.
There are limits to the amount of bandwidth that will be available at all times. As more bandwidth and higher speeds become available, so to will more uses for that bandwidth and speed be dreamed up. Right now 20% (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) of the worlds population has access to the internet. As time goes on and economies in Africa and Asia grow, and their people come online, and that 20% gets closer to 60%, you are going to see how ridiculous it is to think about waisting precious bandwidth on delivering "Word" via "the Internets".
5-10 years from now alot more people in China and India are going to go online and the internet is going to become much bigger without becoming much faster. I really believe the whole "desktop on the web" idea is the absolute wrong horse to put your money on.
No. The killer is "programs". Period. Whether its accounting, audio, games, or something else someone needs that does not run on Linux. Its a very simple equation, Linux runs 90% and Windows runs 100% of applications, Windows wins. The appliance analogy is fairly accurate, people just dont care, they just want it to work.
Now, server space is a completely different story. Linux has pretty much all the server apps you could ever need, more stable, more reliable, more robust, widely supported, overly documented... yet there are still windows DNS servers and Web servers out there. Sorry, this offends me so much I cannot keep typing.
You put the hammer right on the head. The only way China is going to "leap" ahead of the US in nano-technology is either by playing nice with major corporations looking for some serious tax breaks or regulatory freedom (which seems kind of odd, going to a communist country for regulatory freedom, but the Chi-Com have been pretty savvy playing the whole capitalist game these days) or the same way they been competing against the US in the "space race". http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22936164.htm
Ultimately, its going to be corporations that make the gains. I am not exactly sure how putting a nationalistic spin on "technology" advances is relevant anymore. Most of the major players in the technology/R&D space are international conglomerates, beholden only to their own bottom line as opposed to the countries they make money from. Their only restraints are based on government grants and import/export controls of the country they have their HQ in. But as we have seen with Haliburton (operating US bases in Iraq and oil fields in Iran), these import/export controls are relatively easy to by pass if you know the game.
All things equal, who gives a rats ass if China leap frogs ahead of the US in Nano-tech anyway? Lets face it, if the US pours BILLIONS into researching nano-technology, and makes a major break through, guess where all that technology is going to go anyway? A factory in China to send cheap shit right back to the USA for profit. Let China foot the R&D bill this time around.
Its rather retarded to think the our planet hosts the only life that has ever existed or will exist. Show me something to the contrary. Link?
Especially if you are not religious. While the requirements and conditions must be almost perfect for life to form as we know it, You know life as something else? Care to share something everyone else is missing? Or are you going from sci-fi imagination or some stretched out speculation?
there are for all intents and purposes, infinate possiblities for such a thing to occur in the universe due to the shear size and mass available in it. Stop it. You call me retarded and your calling the universe INFINITE (not infinate) and it is not.
While the odds are that it will probably have some sort of mostly random distribution across the universe, statistics and odds are just that. They aren't facts, and the possiblity that it existed/exists in our own back yard is there. What is the possibility? How is this possibility generated? These possibilities you speak of, are infinitesimally small...
And... we can actually look there, so doing so isn't a bad idea. Right, we looked there, for YEARS AND YEARS. We have robots on the ground for YEARS. Nothing. You cannot compare mars to earth. Its not like saying "well maybe we just landed them in a desert..." and use that as an excuse to why they arent finding anything. WE SEE MARS CLEARLY. The spots were picked carefully for the rovers. There IS NO LIFE. Just move on...
It is also rather retarded to think that because life formed on Earth as a carbon based organism that anything anywhere else in the universe will have done it the same way. Its extremely short sited to say 'life won't exist on Mars because no Earth based life form could live there'. Its also retarded to base your argument on a conclusion that I never made. I never said "theres no life on mars because earth life cant exist there." I said "STOP IT". Its a dead rock in space that we have spent alot of time "looking for life on". For crying out loud, if your going to call me a retard at least attack my argument and not some argument that your making up in your own head....
Even on Earth we still find life that survives in places we never thought possible... and all of the sudden we find it and say 'holy crap, how the hell is it doing that?!' And then we figure it out that life doesn't have to work by the narrow little rules we have defined for it. Ok. Still arguing against an argument that I didnt even present... never the less.. please show link to where you see life not going by the fundamental rules, even the extremophiles.
Life is, after all, just one big serious of chemical reactions, so... okay... our types of chemical reactions can't occur on Mars... it doesn't have to be the same type of chemical reaction! Or... for that matter a chemical reaction. Could end up being that we are rare, cause the rest of the life forms in the universe are electrical reactions, or magnetic, or nuclear. Its just plain stupid to think we understand or know about all forms of life. What these scientists are looking for is mostly life forms like us, but also just signs of life in general in the hopes that if its not like us, they may discover some other form.
You sir, are too close minded to be a scientist. Sir, you are too far deranged, arguing against an argument that was never made in the first place, to be a turnip.
... with this searching for life on Mars. This is getting ridiculous already... seriously. I understand the importance of finding life on another planet. I do. Seriously though, Mars is a big ball of dust with little atmosphere, no magnetosphere, no water... its practically a giant red moon with two little asteroids circling around it. Its only important because its a planet that we can land on without being crushed and/or incinerated. I know it sucks, especially for those who believe that there "must be life out there" like religious fanatics say there "must be a god" but really... nothing, NADA, suggests life is out there. Its ok to keep looking, but looking on Mars is like checking your pockets two more times for the keys you misplaced... better analogy, checking your pocket for the $100 bill you NEVER HAD TO BEGIN WITH. STOP IT.
Go ahead and research it all day long. Get answers to some serious questions, whatever they may be in the name of science, but looking for life on Mars is beating a dead horse to DEATH. Its like someone typing over and over again about how looking for life on mars is like beating a dead horse...
I wonder if the hacker team had access to rooted Romainian desktops to launch 0 day attacks against the students to give them some realistic idea what they're really going to be up against when they get out into the real world. Because letting them feel that they can actually "stop" and "track" a "hacker" is stupid. If your not facing an 0-day exploit, and your network gets pwned, then someone should be fired (admin or engineer) for not patching / updating anti-virus software.
Take a look at the work place today, even for IT. Just like school, it grossly resembles a factory. 8-5, 1 hour lunch, produce something, go home, wash rinse repeat. The only solution is to stop using the factory worker model when it comes to handling IT. Stop putting pressure on the need for people to spend "8 hours" doing work. Instead demand results and let the people use the best tools available to do that particular kind of job. If your an "admin", you should be responsible for maintaining your infrastructure 24/7. This means when things are working, your filling in TPS reports to keep Connie in HR occupied in between filling up coffee for VP Bob.
I wonder how many "Remote Management" software vendors actually allow their employees to work from home... I'd bet very few. Why? Because you cant run a factory like environment, where your CLEARLY on top with a nice office while everyone else works in cubicle land.
Its more than just IT that suffers, its society as a whole. Our schools are run in a similar bullshit fashion that doesnt really do much to motivate those who are there to learn. Its not just academics that suffer from this as well (seems like College's/Universities are the only institutions that actually have this figured out).
We have all this wonderful technology that can push industry, commerce and education light years into the future, but we are mired with early 20th century management techniques, and ideas. Perhaps I'm just an idealist, but having gone from High School to College, I found the difference between the two environments exhillerating. In University, I picked courses of interest, scheduled things to fit my time, and was actually able to learn a LOT more than in High School, where I had to try and keep myself from passing out with boredom as the evolutionary failure in the back of the room tried to learn and sleep at the same time. I get similar feelings during my 8 hour day at work, except I'm only competing with absolute boredom.
Not sure voice is needed, or even desired. Being a user of teamspeak, I can tell you how much more I appreciate silent text over screaming 13 year old...
On another note, will we now have to buy the "multi-player" version of Wii Sports? I mean, lets face it, everyone I know who has a Wii, loves Wii sports. In fact, almost half the people I know who own a Wii have almost no interest in any other game (since they are not "hard core" gamers and just use Wii for a work out... for now). I would imagine that Nintendo will sell Wii Sports -- Multiplayer... it wouldnt make sense to give the second hit of crack away for free....
Liberals are generally your artsy types. Engineers and Mathemeticians are most likely not liberal (its alot of hardwork to be an engineer/math person). As we all know people with real technical ability use Linux/BSD while the very opinionated people who really dont know much, like Mac.
Its a good thing that these devices can offer SSL, but it should only be talked about as "additional" security measures. There seems to be a trend in the IT world where one "new" security tool comes along and renders some "other" (other, not older) security tool/method discarded. These lessons have been learned, and shouldnt be repeated: Defense in Depth.
This wont matter unless somehow a major player in the Linux market does something that makes LINUX more appealing to the masses. Open Office is a good start, but that isnt enough in itself. Unless several major software companies release a "linux native" version of thier software, I fear that Vista will just take "longer" to become the "desktop".
FTA... "In fact, there are a number of reasons for not upgrading, Mintz said, including the hardware/software/services costs of upgrading; backward compatibility problems with Office 2007, specifically Word (I'm guessing he's referring to the new XML file formats here, but not sure); internal funding limitations; and a pending DOT headquarters move..."
Aka: Give us Vista cheaper... havent we seen this before?
Are you seriously asking a question? If I can give a free service to 10,000 people, or give paying service to 1,000 people... where do you think I make more profit? Dont really need to hear about "losing customers" because the "x-box" fans are going to buy x-box no matter what (well, pretty much). I cant believe people are actually asking why Microsoft is making them pay... on Slashdot... wtf...
Yeah, there is a law that is already against this whacko treaty...
"nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself,"
IANAL... but its called the 5th Amendment.... http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment05/
Your boss is part of the problem. Its bullshit statements like these that keep the big FUD vendors in business and legitimate startups from flourishing. The whole concept of "enterprise" is a bullshit web 2.0 falacy that keeps ONM out and HPOV in. What magic does HPOV do that ONM doesnt do? Lemme see... they all run on x86 hardware, use SNMP polling, databases, and some shit tk/web interface... i'm waiting to see something that is more impressive and robust than SCOTTY and have yet to find it.
I didnt realise MS office was the symbol of efficiency and effectiveness. To say that OO sucks because you dont like a few pieces of its "package" is like me saying the same for M$ office. I think only a retard would use MS Access database. That doesnt mean that it "sucks", thats just my opinion. Open Office is FREE, uses OPEN STANDARDS that dont LOCK YOU IN just in case your favorite vendor decides to DROP SUPPORT for your Operating system just to be a dickhead. Perhaps you missed the whole point of TFA and should read it again and then maybe you'll understand why people say OO is better than MS Office....
If you've wasted any portions of your life reading M$ FUD, you'll find that M$ repeatedly states, and has convinced a large part of "Middlemanagement America" that Windows is actually has a cheaper TCO than Linux. As 90% of IT professionals/ametures/downsyndrome know this is complete crap, that 90% goes to 10% when it comes to untechnical Management types.
However, the summary is completely... full of shit.
"Once Apple is positioned, Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two fronts."
Microsoft facing off in the Desktop market, no matter what "part" of the "desktop market" you talk about, is like the USA taking on Hati and St. Lucia in conventional warfare. If Apple could even reach %20 market share, thats still less than a minor threat to Microsoft, and Linux hasnt even seen a 5% share of desktops.... So a loss of %25 market share for desktops would make microsoft angry, but by no means "bring the giant down".
TFA also hasnt been paying attention much to the past 20 years in personal computing... like... Apple has ALWAYS had a higher profit margin... but that doesnt mean shit when you lose out on penetrating massive amounts of markets... which is EXACTLY what M$ did rather well and Apple dropped the ball on, and the rest is what it is today.
To the parent Papa TrollFlamebate you might just do a fucking search for "MS Monopoly + Linux" and you'll have 400000000 pages of explinations. Or perhaps, you can go back to highschool and do a research paper on "monopolies" and their affects on the free market instead of prentending to be some sort of insightful visionary who asks one line questions that "no one" has asked before.
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No, it's not the company's choice. They've received a LOT of funding from the Canadian government, as did their predecessor.
It's the same as the sale of US ports to outsiders.
No, it's not the company's choice. They've received a LOT of funding from the Canadian government, as did their predecessor.
It's the same as the sale of US ports to outsiders.
To US hating fucktards like the the post above: http://gs.mdacorporation.com/about/client.asp MDA's biggest customer IS THE USA.I'm not so sure that in 10-20 years anything will be as we predict. Just because we have gone from stand alone systems to the internet, that doesnt mean that we are going to go from an online/offline to always online model. Just like we didnt go from horse and buggy to car to flying cars.
There are limits to the amount of bandwidth that will be available at all times. As more bandwidth and higher speeds become available, so to will more uses for that bandwidth and speed be dreamed up. Right now 20% (http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm) of the worlds population has access to the internet. As time goes on and economies in Africa and Asia grow, and their people come online, and that 20% gets closer to 60%, you are going to see how ridiculous it is to think about waisting precious bandwidth on delivering "Word" via "the Internets".
5-10 years from now alot more people in China and India are going to go online and the internet is going to become much bigger without becoming much faster. I really believe the whole "desktop on the web" idea is the absolute wrong horse to put your money on.
No. The killer is "programs". Period. Whether its accounting, audio, games, or something else someone needs that does not run on Linux. Its a very simple equation, Linux runs 90% and Windows runs 100% of applications, Windows wins. The appliance analogy is fairly accurate, people just dont care, they just want it to work. Now, server space is a completely different story. Linux has pretty much all the server apps you could ever need, more stable, more reliable, more robust, widely supported, overly documented... yet there are still windows DNS servers and Web servers out there. Sorry, this offends me so much I cannot keep typing.
You put the hammer right on the head. The only way China is going to "leap" ahead of the US in nano-technology is either by playing nice with major corporations looking for some serious tax breaks or regulatory freedom (which seems kind of odd, going to a communist country for regulatory freedom, but the Chi-Com have been pretty savvy playing the whole capitalist game these days) or the same way they been competing against the US in the "space race". http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22936164.htm
Ultimately, its going to be corporations that make the gains. I am not exactly sure how putting a nationalistic spin on "technology" advances is relevant anymore. Most of the major players in the technology/R&D space are international conglomerates, beholden only to their own bottom line as opposed to the countries they make money from. Their only restraints are based on government grants and import/export controls of the country they have their HQ in. But as we have seen with Haliburton (operating US bases in Iraq and oil fields in Iran), these import/export controls are relatively easy to by pass if you know the game.
All things equal, who gives a rats ass if China leap frogs ahead of the US in Nano-tech anyway? Lets face it, if the US pours BILLIONS into researching nano-technology, and makes a major break through, guess where all that technology is going to go anyway? A factory in China to send cheap shit right back to the USA for profit. Let China foot the R&D bill this time around.
You sir, are too close minded to be a scientist. Sir, you are too far deranged, arguing against an argument that was never made in the first place, to be a turnip.
... with this searching for life on Mars. This is getting ridiculous already... seriously. I understand the importance of finding life on another planet. I do. Seriously though, Mars is a big ball of dust with little atmosphere, no magnetosphere, no water... its practically a giant red moon with two little asteroids circling around it. Its only important because its a planet that we can land on without being crushed and/or incinerated. I know it sucks, especially for those who believe that there "must be life out there" like religious fanatics say there "must be a god" but really... nothing, NADA, suggests life is out there. Its ok to keep looking, but looking on Mars is like checking your pockets two more times for the keys you misplaced... better analogy, checking your pocket for the $100 bill you NEVER HAD TO BEGIN WITH. STOP IT. Go ahead and research it all day long. Get answers to some serious questions, whatever they may be in the name of science, but looking for life on Mars is beating a dead horse to DEATH. Its like someone typing over and over again about how looking for life on mars is like beating a dead horse...
I wonder if rogue DNS servers know if their hide in shadows and move silently checks fail?
I wonder if the hacker team had access to rooted Romainian desktops to launch 0 day attacks against the students to give them some realistic idea what they're really going to be up against when they get out into the real world. Because letting them feel that they can actually "stop" and "track" a "hacker" is stupid. If your not facing an 0-day exploit, and your network gets pwned, then someone should be fired (admin or engineer) for not patching / updating anti-virus software.
Take a look at the work place today, even for IT. Just like school, it grossly resembles a factory. 8-5, 1 hour lunch, produce something, go home, wash rinse repeat. The only solution is to stop using the factory worker model when it comes to handling IT. Stop putting pressure on the need for people to spend "8 hours" doing work. Instead demand results and let the people use the best tools available to do that particular kind of job. If your an "admin", you should be responsible for maintaining your infrastructure 24/7. This means when things are working, your filling in TPS reports to keep Connie in HR occupied in between filling up coffee for VP Bob.
I wonder how many "Remote Management" software vendors actually allow their employees to work from home... I'd bet very few. Why? Because you cant run a factory like environment, where your CLEARLY on top with a nice office while everyone else works in cubicle land.
Its more than just IT that suffers, its society as a whole. Our schools are run in a similar bullshit fashion that doesnt really do much to motivate those who are there to learn. Its not just academics that suffer from this as well (seems like College's/Universities are the only institutions that actually have this figured out).
We have all this wonderful technology that can push industry, commerce and education light years into the future, but we are mired with early 20th century management techniques, and ideas. Perhaps I'm just an idealist, but having gone from High School to College, I found the difference between the two environments exhillerating. In University, I picked courses of interest, scheduled things to fit my time, and was actually able to learn a LOT more than in High School, where I had to try and keep myself from passing out with boredom as the evolutionary failure in the back of the room tried to learn and sleep at the same time. I get similar feelings during my 8 hour day at work, except I'm only competing with absolute boredom.
Do you know why Microsoft comes late to the buffet? Because they like their meal well fed.
$40 million is quiet harsh, but shit, I hate spammers so much, that I'll just have to ignore the fact that they got pwned by the legal system.
Not sure voice is needed, or even desired. Being a user of teamspeak, I can tell you how much more I appreciate silent text over screaming 13 year old...
On another note, will we now have to buy the "multi-player" version of Wii Sports? I mean, lets face it, everyone I know who has a Wii, loves Wii sports. In fact, almost half the people I know who own a Wii have almost no interest in any other game (since they are not "hard core" gamers and just use Wii for a work out... for now). I would imagine that Nintendo will sell Wii Sports -- Multiplayer... it wouldnt make sense to give the second hit of crack away for free....
Liberals are generally your artsy types. Engineers and Mathemeticians are most likely not liberal (its alot of hardwork to be an engineer/math person). As we all know people with real technical ability use Linux/BSD while the very opinionated people who really dont know much, like Mac.
/troll
I wonder how Google, Yahoo and/or Microsoft play into this?
http://news.com.com/2061-10811_3-6033949.html
If microsoft is Emporor Palpatine, I could say that Yahoo and Google are becoming his fine little Siths...
Its a good thing that these devices can offer SSL, but it should only be talked about as "additional" security measures. There seems to be a trend in the IT world where one "new" security tool comes along and renders some "other" (other, not older) security tool/method discarded. These lessons have been learned, and shouldnt be repeated: Defense in Depth.
This wont matter unless somehow a major player in the Linux market does something that makes LINUX more appealing to the masses. Open Office is a good start, but that isnt enough in itself. Unless several major software companies release a "linux native" version of thier software, I fear that Vista will just take "longer" to become the "desktop".
FTA... "In fact, there are a number of reasons for not upgrading, Mintz said, including the hardware/software/services costs of upgrading; backward compatibility problems with Office 2007, specifically Word (I'm guessing he's referring to the new XML file formats here, but not sure); internal funding limitations; and a pending DOT headquarters move..."
Aka: Give us Vista cheaper... havent we seen this before?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30743
Are you seriously asking a question? If I can give a free service to 10,000 people, or give paying service to 1,000 people... where do you think I make more profit? Dont really need to hear about "losing customers" because the "x-box" fans are going to buy x-box no matter what (well, pretty much). I cant believe people are actually asking why Microsoft is making them pay... on Slashdot... wtf...
Yeah, there is a law that is already against this whacko treaty... "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself," IANAL... but its called the 5th Amendment.... http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment05/
Well... this is actual proof that the Anti-Phishing shit actually works...
Your boss is part of the problem. Its bullshit statements like these that keep the big FUD vendors in business and legitimate startups from flourishing. The whole concept of "enterprise" is a bullshit web 2.0 falacy that keeps ONM out and HPOV in. What magic does HPOV do that ONM doesnt do? Lemme see... they all run on x86 hardware, use SNMP polling, databases, and some shit tk/web interface... i'm waiting to see something that is more impressive and robust than SCOTTY and have yet to find it.
I didnt realise MS office was the symbol of efficiency and effectiveness. To say that OO sucks because you dont like a few pieces of its "package" is like me saying the same for M$ office. I think only a retard would use MS Access database. That doesnt mean that it "sucks", thats just my opinion. Open Office is FREE, uses OPEN STANDARDS that dont LOCK YOU IN just in case your favorite vendor decides to DROP SUPPORT for your Operating system just to be a dickhead. Perhaps you missed the whole point of TFA and should read it again and then maybe you'll understand why people say OO is better than MS Office....
If you've wasted any portions of your life reading M$ FUD, you'll find that M$ repeatedly states, and has convinced a large part of "Middlemanagement America" that Windows is actually has a cheaper TCO than Linux. As 90% of IT professionals/ametures/downsyndrome know this is complete crap, that 90% goes to 10% when it comes to untechnical Management types. However, the summary is completely... full of shit. "Once Apple is positioned, Microsoft will be forced to choose whether it wants to battle Mac OS X for control of the slick consumer desktop, or repurpose Windows as a cheaper, mass market alternative to Linux in corporate sales. If it doesn't make a choice, the company will face difficult battles on two fronts." Microsoft facing off in the Desktop market, no matter what "part" of the "desktop market" you talk about, is like the USA taking on Hati and St. Lucia in conventional warfare. If Apple could even reach %20 market share, thats still less than a minor threat to Microsoft, and Linux hasnt even seen a 5% share of desktops.... So a loss of %25 market share for desktops would make microsoft angry, but by no means "bring the giant down". TFA also hasnt been paying attention much to the past 20 years in personal computing... like... Apple has ALWAYS had a higher profit margin... but that doesnt mean shit when you lose out on penetrating massive amounts of markets... which is EXACTLY what M$ did rather well and Apple dropped the ball on, and the rest is what it is today. To the parent Papa TrollFlamebate you might just do a fucking search for "MS Monopoly + Linux" and you'll have 400000000 pages of explinations. Or perhaps, you can go back to highschool and do a research paper on "monopolies" and their affects on the free market instead of prentending to be some sort of insightful visionary who asks one line questions that "no one" has asked before.
Ok. So... how is approving "marketing" dis/similar to approving "use"? There has to be a difference...