The "Internet" still works remarkably well under load, and there is a self limiting factor: So much of the traffic is youtube etc by volume that if you DID get slowdowns, once those drop below real time people will just turn off anyway.
On one hand that is a cool little hack. But on the other hand, so what? How many cases occur where even with social engineering will someone run ldd but not run the executable? E.g. In the example most sysadmins would run the program itself anyway
Small Business Server's $1000 price + $77/cal actually is the feature competitor to Snow Leopard:
As thats Microsoft Server, plus exchange, plush SharePoint, plus software update management...
In other words, what Snow Leopard Server already includes as well, albeit exchange you have to substitute Mozilla groupware since Outlook doesn't support CalDAV, and there are tools that can do the SharePoint task on OS-X but there isn't a cool wizzy gui for it...
So for the price of JUST the software, you get the Apple equivelent functionality on software and the hardware for free...
For small business purposes, Microsoft server offerings are horrid. Windows Server OEM price! is $800, and then there is the whole "client access liscence" crap where until you pay even more if you want more than 5 computers to talk to your server!
This, on the other hand, is a complete system for $1000, thats silent (so you can have it in your office, suprisingly important!), doesn't have client access liscence crap, and can support a bunch of windows systems as well as macs for file sharing, email, calendaring if you want to use Mozilla rather than Outlook, etc etc etc.... Don't have enough storage for your liking? Simply add a 4 TB external USB array for $800...
Its a really brutal product to deal with if you are Microsoft.
The question: Is Android trying to dethrone Symbian or Apple?
If the goal is Symbian, this is a good thing: An OS thats customed by the handset deliverer with development being secondary, because the platform ends up grossly fragmented (different screens, capabilities, processing power, UI presentation, storage, etc...)
If the goal is Apple, this is a horrid thing: Apple's huge lock is the ecosystem, with all the developers. Which would you rather develop for, a platform which has everything being the same capability, or one with a grossly fragmented market where screens, UI conventions, etc are all different?
Its mandating a standard behavior for the glass in the non-visible part of the spectrum, that has a conequesnce of keeping your car from getting so F@#)(*@# hot in the sun.
This is why the iPhone has become so entrenched, it has the developers. Its not just a matter of building hardware that matches Apple, you now have to build an ecology to match Apple.
Which is very hard:. Look at the MP3 player market. People have made plenty of players better than the iPod-of-the-time, but Apple has the ecology annd is now hard to displace.
Its not just "linux vs Windows" but "trusted boot": All you need to rely on is that the live CD is OK and your BIOS is not corrupted and you can effectively safely connect to your bank.
I use it myself for my Schwab account, with the added bonus of there is enough math to show active traders lose big, so don't trade active, which goes into play here.
If you have a real smartphone, one with a wide variety of applications, one that everyone will WANT to use, you must have an unlimited data plan.
Rather, what AT&T and Apple need to do is "WiFi tunnels": Have the iPhone associate with WiFi networks and encrypt traffic through a tunnel opportunistically to AT&T, so you can use and migrate between WiFi networks transparently, and between the WiFi and 3G, while having the phone act like its just continuously connected through a single network.
ISPs need to notify their customers. Many customers don't really have email contact from their ISP for various reasons (eg, me!). But injecting a pop-up for notification purposes DOES work.
Yes, the same technology can be used for evil abuses like ad injection, but this is exactly what SHOULD be done.
This is a very VERY bad deal for AT&T: VoIP is less efficient than the dedicated cellphone protocols in bandwidth usage, AND AT&T makes less money on data packets over voice packets.
I think this says just how important the iPhone and iPhone users have become to AT&T that they'd even consider this.
The problem: a digital archive MUST be a live archive.
Every X years (with X being a reasonably low number, probably 3-5 is good for safety), everything in the archive must be both copied AND transcoded, with both the original and transcoded version saved.
The original requirement is obvious, and keeps data degredation from having an effect, but transcoding: opening it up in the latest software version and saving it in the software's most up to date format, is also necessary, lest the source material become unusable, like a wire recorder is today.
If the settlement was "any other company may also have the same rights under the same terms", it would be a VERY good deal.
But with the exclusivity, it is very bad. Without the exclusivity, someone else could take the time to do the scanning, and the sales. EG, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, or even a new startup.
But with the exclusivity, you give Google a monopoly over out-of-print books.
A heart rate monitor is an incredibly valuable exercise aid.
You want to keep your heart going fast, but not TOO fast. Especially when coupled with treadmills and similar devices, you can stay in the target heart rate zone automatically as the device adjusts the load.
Likewise, its very useful in combination with a GPS-based bicycle computer: it really allows you to see where you are strong, where you are pushing yourself TOO hard, and when you really need to go harder.
Also, exercise heart-rate monitors aren't THAT precise: you can detect a gross abnormality like atrial fibrilation, but nothing subtle.
This is both the big advantage (for providers) and disadvantage (for customers) with SaaS-type "cloud" services: data lock-in. Its interesting that Google believes that they can compete enough on quality that lock-in is no longer an advantage to them because it scares away more potential customers than it traps.
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OTOH, 110 is far less likely to whack you on your ass if you DO get shocked!
The "Internet" still works remarkably well under load, and there is a self limiting factor: So much of the traffic is youtube etc by volume that if you DID get slowdowns, once those drop below real time people will just turn off anyway.
On one hand that is a cool little hack. But on the other hand, so what? How many cases occur where even with social engineering will someone run ldd but not run the executable? E.g. In the example most sysadmins would run the program itself anyway
Mediawiki does a lot of that kinda stuff.
Small Business Server's $1000 price + $77/cal actually is the feature competitor to Snow Leopard:
As thats Microsoft Server, plus exchange, plush SharePoint, plus software update management...
In other words, what Snow Leopard Server already includes as well, albeit exchange you have to substitute Mozilla groupware since Outlook doesn't support CalDAV, and there are tools that can do the SharePoint task on OS-X but there isn't a cool wizzy gui for it...
So for the price of JUST the software, you get the Apple equivelent functionality on software and the hardware for free...
For small business purposes, Microsoft server offerings are horrid. Windows Server OEM price! is $800, and then there is the whole "client access liscence" crap where until you pay even more if you want more than 5 computers to talk to your server!
This, on the other hand, is a complete system for $1000, thats silent (so you can have it in your office, suprisingly important!), doesn't have client access liscence crap, and can support a bunch of windows systems as well as macs for file sharing, email, calendaring if you want to use Mozilla rather than Outlook, etc etc etc.... Don't have enough storage for your liking? Simply add a 4 TB external USB array for $800...
Its a really brutal product to deal with if you are Microsoft.
The question: Is Android trying to dethrone Symbian or Apple?
If the goal is Symbian, this is a good thing: An OS thats customed by the handset deliverer with development being secondary, because the platform ends up grossly fragmented (different screens, capabilities, processing power, UI presentation, storage, etc...)
If the goal is Apple, this is a horrid thing: Apple's huge lock is the ecosystem, with all the developers. Which would you rather develop for, a platform which has everything being the same capability, or one with a grossly fragmented market where screens, UI conventions, etc are all different?
Its mandating a standard behavior for the glass in the non-visible part of the spectrum, that has a conequesnce of keeping your car from getting so F@#)(*@# hot in the sun.
To quote MonkeyBoy, err, Steve Ballmer...
This is why the iPhone has become so entrenched, it has the developers. Its not just a matter of building hardware that matches Apple, you now have to build an ecology to match Apple.
Which is very hard: . Look at the MP3 player market. People have made plenty of players better than the iPod-of-the-time, but Apple has the ecology annd is now hard to displace.
Its not just "linux vs Windows" but "trusted boot": All you need to rely on is that the live CD is OK and your BIOS is not corrupted and you can effectively safely connect to your bank.
I use it myself for my Schwab account, with the added bonus of there is enough math to show active traders lose big, so don't trade active, which goes into play here.
There was the one howler onetime however where 3 earth-ships, sections rotating, turned on a dime and ran.
JMS got so much hell from the fans over that on.
B5 was very consistant and deliberately very low on the techno-BABBLE per se.
There was technologies needed for the plot (Hyperspace et al, etc etc etc), but it was established and not really changed.
If you have a real smartphone, one with a wide variety of applications, one that everyone will WANT to use, you must have an unlimited data plan.
Rather, what AT&T and Apple need to do is "WiFi tunnels": Have the iPhone associate with WiFi networks and encrypt traffic through a tunnel opportunistically to AT&T, so you can use and migrate between WiFi networks transparently, and between the WiFi and 3G, while having the phone act like its just continuously connected through a single network.
Do you think the GTA series would be improved by having the adds be for Dunkin Doughnuts instead of Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts?
ISPs need to notify their customers. Many customers don't really have email contact from their ISP for various reasons (eg, me!). But injecting a pop-up for notification purposes DOES work.
Yes, the same technology can be used for evil abuses like ad injection, but this is exactly what SHOULD be done.
This is a very VERY bad deal for AT&T: VoIP is less efficient than the dedicated cellphone protocols in bandwidth usage, AND AT&T makes less money on data packets over voice packets.
I think this says just how important the iPhone and iPhone users have become to AT&T that they'd even consider this.
Lets give a 12 hour lifespan, and say 25K VMs at the same time.
At 5 VMs/physical host (I suspect it is MUCH denser actually), thats only 5K servers. At 50 servers/rack, its 100 racks.
Or, in translation, not THAT much.
The problem: a digital archive MUST be a live archive.
Every X years (with X being a reasonably low number, probably 3-5 is good for safety), everything in the archive must be both copied AND transcoded, with both the original and transcoded version saved.
The original requirement is obvious, and keeps data degredation from having an effect, but transcoding: opening it up in the latest software version and saving it in the software's most up to date format, is also necessary, lest the source material become unusable, like a wire recorder is today.
Lets assume that spidering a page costs 10 kB of data.
So thats $2 for 1M pages, or 10 GB of data download.
So thats at least $1 of data transfer that is being shifted onto the suckers, err "volunteers" who's home network is running this app.
I'd hope that Bing would already crawl these documents. To NOT do so is an oversight.
If the settlement was "any other company may also have the same rights under the same terms", it would be a VERY good deal.
But with the exclusivity, it is very bad. Without the exclusivity, someone else could take the time to do the scanning, and the sales. EG, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, or even a new startup.
But with the exclusivity, you give Google a monopoly over out-of-print books.
A heart rate monitor is an incredibly valuable exercise aid.
You want to keep your heart going fast, but not TOO fast. Especially when coupled with treadmills and similar devices, you can stay in the target heart rate zone automatically as the device adjusts the load.
Likewise, its very useful in combination with a GPS-based bicycle computer: it really allows you to see where you are strong, where you are pushing yourself TOO hard, and when you really need to go harder.
Also, exercise heart-rate monitors aren't THAT precise: you can detect a gross abnormality like atrial fibrilation, but nothing subtle.
This is both the big advantage (for providers) and disadvantage (for customers) with SaaS-type "cloud" services: data lock-in. Its interesting that Google believes that they can compete enough on quality that lock-in is no longer an advantage to them because it scares away more potential customers than it traps.
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"We framed you for murder of this prostitute. Will you get angry and succumb to wrath? Or will you become depressed and sullen"
Its really the secret final level of the Omegathon: the contestent with the best immune system wins...