While I love the idea of banners posted by content providers about this, clearly it has been proven that the FCC (politicians) are only listening to the ISPs (conspiracy theorist part of me says the bribes paid to politicians). Maybe its time for the content providers (Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and throw in Cloudflare) to send a different message. In addition to the banners, why not slow down all traffic between the content providers and.gov to the 56k range?
This might drive home the point that while the ISPs and the.gov control the highway, its the content providers that own the service stations. If the FCC makes it legal to speed up/slow down traffic, then it sounds like it'd be perfectly legal to turn their own rules against them.
I guess it depends on what job you're going to be doing. If you job is interface design, then maybe an LA degree might be useful. When I look at a LA degree it says to me the person didn't know what they wanted to do, couldn't figure it out while they were in college, and paid enough money to academia to get some kind of degree to justify the expense. I've met entirely too many people with LA degrees that weren't qualified to do anything useful. To be fair, I'm in a more analytical/scientific field.
In my world, creative thinking, and problem solving are paramount, but in the end you needs results, not just pretty graphs.
Comcast (and indeed other ISPs) doesn't guarantee speed. They are very clear to point that out in the teeny tiny fine print. They only real guarantee you get is a bill. Since there are no SLAs on home service, just be glad you get a connection at all. The "free" market says they have to make a reasonable effort to keep connections up and running, else they would lose customers. With Comcast 'growing' like they are, they have less incentive to keep the systems running.
keep in mind that the core infrastructure used by the power grid makes up a sizable chunk of the internet. not only is it used for commercial and residenrial Internet access but it is used for things like traffic light timing systems. with that in mind it can't just be unplugged. it has to br properly firewalled and segregated. hopefully that is being done and it has to be constantly monitored.
Pretty well written, and looking at papers like the NY Times that are distributed all over the damn world, you'd think they would know how to leverage the internet to augment the lack of interest by most people under the age of 50 who are not in the financial business.
I work for a company in the financial industry and we ge the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal every day. Oddly, its only read by one person... maybe two. For the most part, our staff goes to their web sites to read what is in the papers.
By far, the complaint i get the most is that a registration is required. this isn't a money problem, its a logistical one. My users are quite lazy and don't want to have to be bothered to log into another web site to read the news. Thankfully, they're finding that they can get the same articles, and often from those papers from Google News, and Yahoo Finance.
If these papers want to avoid the fate of the dinosaur, as you said, they need to focus on advertising are an income source, not charging the people that actually would like to read what they have to say.
I have to start out by saying you're either trying to be funny or a complete twit. Hopefully the first.
Now, Its nice to see thing kind of thing happening. Communism is one of those things that works very well on paper, but in practice it has prove over and over again to be a dismal failure. Its hard to squash personal initiative.
The next part being, how many people are in China? Last I looked it was over a billion, so 100 million means that 10% and I'm guessing since there must a lot more than a billion people by now, its less than 10% (hooray for simple math).
Its a start, and should be interesting when the Great Firewall of China does finally come down, it will be a very significant advance for the rest of the world as well as the Chinese people. This should rank somewhere around the Berlin wall coming down.
I'm only partially in agreement with you. As far as HP having more units running linux in the field, I think that might be true, but what about the quality and price of the units.
The saying used to be 'No one ever got fired for buying an IBM' and there is a reason for this. The IBM boxen are a very nice, well designed box. I just purchased an xSeries 246 over the less expensive HP model. The reason for this is simple. IBM has been around longer than I have, and have a track record that I don't think is matched anywhere else in the industry including Microsoft. IBM also contributes heavily to the linux community so if you call IBM for support, they actually know what linux is.
Another point that has become somewhat of a sore spot that companies like HP and Dell are going to have to learn quickly is support. When I call IBM, I get someone with a brain who isn't just reading from a script. All too often when you call a company like HP/Dell you get some foreigner who is reading form a script, and hangs up on you when you deviate from that script.
I can't think of a single admin that wants to be treated like some idiot user when their shiny new $15,000 server just decided to put its fingers in its ears.
HP may be moving more units that happen to have Linux on them, but I strongly feel IBM's presence is going to be here for a very long time to come because the folks at the top have a brain in their skull, and are concerned with more than the bottom line.
Granted, but I don't think your TV is about to blue screen and become a remorseless killing machine with a taste for young children... (just a caffeine deprived thought)
Its nice to see someone finally exploited this long missing aspect of linux. What better way to make a windozer user feel more at home than with their old virus friends.
Nice article, and congrats matt on your first article.
I may be a bit off base here, but it seems to me that MS should allow updates for ALL copies, since they claim the virus problems begin with unpatched copies of windows.
They have to admit that someone is going to pirate windows, and there really isn't much they can do about it. personally, I think they should allow updates for everyone if only to help reduce the amount of garbage being tossed out on the internet.
If that is the case, I wonder how many of these people lock their doors at night, and set booby traps. I'm sure I'm not the only who has ever simply lost it when put on hold again for the billionth time... or spend 45 minutes listening to that music that makes me think of inserting pointy objects into small furry woodland creatures.
At least the recorded insanity can be used to desensatize new workers.
Digital certificates just give warm fuzzies to the ignorant masses that stumble across your site. They really don't gurantee anything except that you foolishly paid Verisign or someone else a bunch of money to ahve a little animated graphic on your website (I've done this cause my customers want warm fuzzies).
Its obvious this guy has no idea what he's talking about or he has been so brainwashed by microsoft that he believes the Ballmer's preachings. This ranks up there with the lady (AOL customer) a couple years ago that called Linux an 'Illegal hacker operating system'
I don't see how they can call this a new design. IBM, Gateway, and probably a few other have already sone this. IBMs was by far the most difficult to work with.
I agree with you but not for the same reasons. Word is very insecure, in fact, it is very simple to see all kinds of personal information based on the metadata that all word files contain. Simple open this monster in a text editor, and start digging. For someone who is aparently a very security minded person, how can he possibly publish something like this. This file should have been a PDF or something much more secure than word. I haven't read it yet (still downloading at a blazing 2.1K/s) but already I question his ability.
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You're exactly right. java is overhyped, and stuffed into places where it may not be the right tool. I personally have a deep hatred of Java, but am willing to give it a change to improve, and hope one day it will become as useful as the press says it is.
I agree with what you are saying. I have been using 2.6 since it came out in the gentoo portage, and have been very impressed so far. Especially with the UI optimizations that have been made. Hopefully, 2.7.x will be in portage soon, and will continue this great trend. Thanks to all of the kernel developers who have worked so hard.
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Most true developers care at least to some degree about performance. If you software is slow, and bulky, who is going to buy/use it? At the risk of becoming flaimbait, after reading that first line of your reply you have set the tone as someone who doesn't appear to know what he/she is talking about. I did finish reading your post, but as a thought, you might consider what you are going to say before you say it.
I have studied java in some detail, and my major complaint with Java is not the code, but the JVM. On a windows box, to launch java related stuff, the system has to start the virtual machine which is the painfully slow part.
I think C++ being closer to machine code than Java would make C++ faster, but would have to read more of what other people have tested regarding actual operation speed of the code.
Java is a powerful language, and despite my major complaints with it, I have to admit that it will most likely find itself in more embeded devices such as cell phones.
I'll probably get whacked for this, but am I the only one who is tired of hearing about this? It will be nice when this mess is over, and done with. It has been nothing but SCO for months. SCO could stay in business if they foced everyone to pay a royalty whenever their acronym is mentined.
As long as Microsuck doesn't somehow buy SCO out, I for one am tired of caring. If Adolf Gates gets SCO then we can expect this kind of crap to continue until hell freezes over.
I like your analogy. My thoughts were much the same as yours. Aparently this joker wants us to use the Homer Simpson/Microsoft security system. 'If I cover my eyes, and plug my ears, then there is no problem because someone would have told me.'
Thankfully in our system of justice, AutoZone is innocent until proven guilty (at least thats how it is supposed to work). I'm not entirely convince this is going to get to them. By the time Autozone is up to bat, I think SCO will be completely broke.
Last week, one of their big loans to wage this was was ercalled leaving them w/o a large chunk of thie war chest. Hopefully the Canadian bank (name is excaping me right now) will follow suit, and make this entire thing go away. SCO will be unable to keep the legal dog's teeth sharp and will lose their battle.
If SCO is bought out by.. oh... Microsuck, this could drag on for years. Having them out of business is not a good thing. They need to be on life support for another 20 years, and leave everyone alone. You can bet if SCO goes up for sale, Adolf Gates will buy it, just so he can continue to keep linux from chipping away at his profit margins.
It is nice to see AMD expanding its company. I have been using AMD chips for several years now, and couldn't be happier. When a company spends the time and money to make developments in arcitecture, they should get something nice in return. Unfortunatly I don't feel intel has been making the advances. The Intel name has been carrying them for a while now, and its time AMD got their recognition.
I've been using the Athlon64 chips and couldn't be happier. Hopefully the new plant will help them nibble away another part of Intel's market share.
I am inclined to agree with the general concensus. When I download an MP3, and like it, chances are, I'll go buy the CD.
Primarily, I don't think that kind of report would ever reach the bovine of the us. The RIAA is going to do everything they can to keep reports, and surverys that are going to hurt their cause from us. What public leg would they have to stand on if someone proved that CD sales in fact went up with the advent of P2P programs that most people can use?
honestly, i see many people like myself who are quite unhappy with the lack of service from their wireless carriers will be encouraged to swith to something better. It seems to me you will find the wireless carriers who are making te biggest stink are the ones who know they have a great number of unhappy customers, and with most of them locked into contracts, not to mention the fact that their numbers are gone if they switch right now are not going to switch.
I am a computer consultant, and my business runs from my cell phone, and that is the primary reason i do not switch from the evil Cingular to AT&T. I don't think verizon has a lot to be worried about because they seem to have afairly goo d service, while companies like cingular who have no support, and a billing department that could be replaced with an Altair 8800 will be hearing a giant sucking noise as their customers flee like rats from a sinking ship.
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While I love the idea of banners posted by content providers about this, clearly it has been proven that the FCC (politicians) are only listening to the ISPs (conspiracy theorist part of me says the bribes paid to politicians). Maybe its time for the content providers (Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, and throw in Cloudflare) to send a different message. In addition to the banners, why not slow down all traffic between the content providers and .gov to the 56k range?
This might drive home the point that while the ISPs and the .gov control the highway, its the content providers that own the service stations. If the FCC makes it legal to speed up/slow down traffic, then it sounds like it'd be perfectly legal to turn their own rules against them.
I guess it depends on what job you're going to be doing. If you job is interface design, then maybe an LA degree might be useful. When I look at a LA degree it says to me the person didn't know what they wanted to do, couldn't figure it out while they were in college, and paid enough money to academia to get some kind of degree to justify the expense. I've met entirely too many people with LA degrees that weren't qualified to do anything useful. To be fair, I'm in a more analytical/scientific field.
In my world, creative thinking, and problem solving are paramount, but in the end you needs results, not just pretty graphs.
Comcast (and indeed other ISPs) doesn't guarantee speed. They are very clear to point that out in the teeny tiny fine print. They only real guarantee you get is a bill. Since there are no SLAs on home service, just be glad you get a connection at all. The "free" market says they have to make a reasonable effort to keep connections up and running, else they would lose customers. With Comcast 'growing' like they are, they have less incentive to keep the systems running.
keep in mind that the core infrastructure used by the power grid makes up a sizable chunk of the internet. not only is it used for commercial and residenrial Internet access but it is used for things like traffic light timing systems. with that in mind it can't just be unplugged. it has to br properly firewalled and segregated. hopefully that is being done and it has to be constantly monitored.
Robin,
Pretty well written, and looking at papers like the NY Times that are distributed all over the damn world, you'd think they would know how to leverage the internet to augment the lack of interest by most people under the age of 50 who are not in the financial business.
I work for a company in the financial industry and we ge the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal every day. Oddly, its only read by one person... maybe two. For the most part, our staff goes to their web sites to read what is in the papers.
By far, the complaint i get the most is that a registration is required. this isn't a money problem, its a logistical one. My users are quite lazy and don't want to have to be bothered to log into another web site to read the news. Thankfully, they're finding that they can get the same articles, and often from those papers from Google News, and Yahoo Finance.
If these papers want to avoid the fate of the dinosaur, as you said, they need to focus on advertising are an income source, not charging the people that actually would like to read what they have to say.
I have to start out by saying you're either trying to be funny or a complete twit. Hopefully the first.
Now, Its nice to see thing kind of thing happening. Communism is one of those things that works very well on paper, but in practice it has prove over and over again to be a dismal failure. Its hard to squash personal initiative.
The next part being, how many people are in China? Last I looked it was over a billion, so 100 million means that 10% and I'm guessing since there must a lot more than a billion people by now, its less than 10% (hooray for simple math).
Its a start, and should be interesting when the Great Firewall of China does finally come down, it will be a very significant advance for the rest of the world as well as the Chinese people. This should rank somewhere around the Berlin wall coming down.
I'm only partially in agreement with you. As far as HP having more units running linux in the field, I think that might be true, but what about the quality and price of the units.
The saying used to be 'No one ever got fired for buying an IBM' and there is a reason for this. The IBM boxen are a very nice, well designed box. I just purchased an xSeries 246 over the less expensive HP model. The reason for this is simple. IBM has been around longer than I have, and have a track record that I don't think is matched anywhere else in the industry including Microsoft. IBM also contributes heavily to the linux community so if you call IBM for support, they actually know what linux is.
Another point that has become somewhat of a sore spot that companies like HP and Dell are going to have to learn quickly is support. When I call IBM, I get someone with a brain who isn't just reading from a script. All too often when you call a company like HP/Dell you get some foreigner who is reading form a script, and hangs up on you when you deviate from that script.
I can't think of a single admin that wants to be treated like some idiot user when their shiny new $15,000 server just decided to put its fingers in its ears.
HP may be moving more units that happen to have Linux on them, but I strongly feel IBM's presence is going to be here for a very long time to come because the folks at the top have a brain in their skull, and are concerned with more than the bottom line.
Granted, but I don't think your TV is about to blue screen and become a remorseless killing machine with a taste for young children... (just a caffeine deprived thought)
Its nice to see someone finally exploited this long missing aspect of linux. What better way to make a windozer user feel more at home than with their old virus friends.
Nice article, and congrats matt on your first article.
-Craig
I may be a bit off base here, but it seems to me that MS should allow updates for ALL copies, since they claim the virus problems begin with unpatched copies of windows.
They have to admit that someone is going to pirate windows, and there really isn't much they can do about it. personally, I think they should allow updates for everyone if only to help reduce the amount of garbage being tossed out on the internet.
If that is the case, I wonder how many of these people lock their doors at night, and set booby traps. I'm sure I'm not the only who has ever simply lost it when put on hold again for the billionth time... or spend 45 minutes listening to that music that makes me think of inserting pointy objects into small furry woodland creatures.
At least the recorded insanity can be used to desensatize new workers.
Digital certificates just give warm fuzzies to the ignorant masses that stumble across your site. They really don't gurantee anything except that you foolishly paid Verisign or someone else a bunch of money to ahve a little animated graphic on your website (I've done this cause my customers want warm fuzzies).
Its obvious this guy has no idea what he's talking about or he has been so brainwashed by microsoft that he believes the Ballmer's preachings. This ranks up there with the lady (AOL customer) a couple years ago that called Linux an 'Illegal hacker operating system'
Does this mean if I leave the phone attached to my head for a couple weeks, I's start growing another eye or some other nifty useful attachment?
I don't see how they can call this a new design. IBM, Gateway, and probably a few other have already sone this. IBMs was by far the most difficult to work with.
I agree with you but not for the same reasons. Word is very insecure, in fact, it is very simple to see all kinds of personal information based on the metadata that all word files contain. Simple open this monster in a text editor, and start digging. For someone who is aparently a very security minded person, how can he possibly publish something like this. This file should have been a PDF or something much more secure than word. I haven't read it yet (still downloading at a blazing 2.1K/s) but already I question his ability.
You're exactly right. java is overhyped, and stuffed into places where it may not be the right tool. I personally have a deep hatred of Java, but am willing to give it a change to improve, and hope one day it will become as useful as the press says it is.
I agree with what you are saying. I have been using 2.6 since it came out in the gentoo portage, and have been very impressed so far. Especially with the UI optimizations that have been made. Hopefully, 2.7.x will be in portage soon, and will continue this great trend. Thanks to all of the kernel developers who have worked so hard.
Most true developers care at least to some degree about performance. If you software is slow, and bulky, who is going to buy/use it? At the risk of becoming flaimbait, after reading that first line of your reply you have set the tone as someone who doesn't appear to know what he/she is talking about. I did finish reading your post, but as a thought, you might consider what you are going to say before you say it.
I have studied java in some detail, and my major complaint with Java is not the code, but the JVM. On a windows box, to launch java related stuff, the system has to start the virtual machine which is the painfully slow part.
I think C++ being closer to machine code than Java would make C++ faster, but would have to read more of what other people have tested regarding actual operation speed of the code.
Java is a powerful language, and despite my major complaints with it, I have to admit that it will most likely find itself in more embeded devices such as cell phones.
Just my $0.02
I'll probably get whacked for this, but am I the only one who is tired of hearing about this? It will be nice when this mess is over, and done with. It has been nothing but SCO for months. SCO could stay in business if they foced everyone to pay a royalty whenever their acronym is mentined.
As long as Microsuck doesn't somehow buy SCO out, I for one am tired of caring. If Adolf Gates gets SCO then we can expect this kind of crap to continue until hell freezes over.
I like your analogy. My thoughts were much the same as yours. Aparently this joker wants us to use the Homer Simpson/Microsoft security system. 'If I cover my eyes, and plug my ears, then there is no problem because someone would have told me.'
Thankfully in our system of justice, AutoZone is innocent until proven guilty (at least thats how it is supposed to work). I'm not entirely convince this is going to get to them. By the time Autozone is up to bat, I think SCO will be completely broke.
Last week, one of their big loans to wage this was was ercalled leaving them w/o a large chunk of thie war chest. Hopefully the Canadian bank (name is excaping me right now) will follow suit, and make this entire thing go away. SCO will be unable to keep the legal dog's teeth sharp and will lose their battle.
If SCO is bought out by.. oh... Microsuck, this could drag on for years. Having them out of business is not a good thing. They need to be on life support for another 20 years, and leave everyone alone. You can bet if SCO goes up for sale, Adolf Gates will buy it, just so he can continue to keep linux from chipping away at his profit margins.
It is nice to see AMD expanding its company. I have been using AMD chips for several years now, and couldn't be happier. When a company spends the time and money to make developments in arcitecture, they should get something nice in return. Unfortunatly I don't feel intel has been making the advances. The Intel name has been carrying them for a while now, and its time AMD got their recognition.
I've been using the Athlon64 chips and couldn't be happier. Hopefully the new plant will help them nibble away another part of Intel's market share.
I am inclined to agree with the general concensus. When I download an MP3, and like it, chances are, I'll go buy the CD.
Primarily, I don't think that kind of report would ever reach the bovine of the us. The RIAA is going to do everything they can to keep reports, and surverys that are going to hurt their cause from us. What public leg would they have to stand on if someone proved that CD sales in fact went up with the advent of P2P programs that most people can use?
honestly, i see many people like myself who are quite unhappy with the lack of service from their wireless carriers will be encouraged to swith to something better. It seems to me you will find the wireless carriers who are making te biggest stink are the ones who know they have a great number of unhappy customers, and with most of them locked into contracts, not to mention the fact that their numbers are gone if they switch right now are not going to switch.
I am a computer consultant, and my business runs from my cell phone, and that is the primary reason i do not switch from the evil Cingular to AT&T. I don't think verizon has a lot to be worried about because they seem to have afairly goo d service, while companies like cingular who have no support, and a billing department that could be replaced with an Altair 8800 will be hearing a giant sucking noise as their customers flee like rats from a sinking ship.
thats just my two cents for what its worth.