For every new wave of computing - mainframe, minicomputers, PC, client-server, web 1.0, web 2.0, cloud - there has been this talk about the immediate disappearance of the previous wave(s). It just never happened. Mainframes and Cobol are still - some 50-60 years after they first appeared on the market - in demand.
Linux on the desktop/laptop appeals to people experienced in computing using laptops or desktops. That's a nice & that's good - it's a defined target group and they know what they want! It's large enough for now; millions of users and it's growing with a growing total market. With a keyboard and large screen you want a functioning desktop - not something targeting phone or tablet users. You want a stable, secure OS, applications, efficient use & supportive community. Sounds like Linux to me.
MS is in terminal decline. They will disinvest in the desktop, not enough money there; they are targeting servers applications and will be forced to open up in order to support "bring your own device".
It's a mistake to exclusively target the Linux desktop for phones and pads. Wrong kind of users. Go for the laptops and desktops. Lots of old hardware out there with XP on it that won't run Win7/Win8 either because of hardware or license costs. And there are plenty of disgruntled MS users around. Preinstalled and easy install is key.
Well, I terminated both my account at PayPal and Amazon today
That's called voting with my feet
Think you guys in the US should watch out for your free speech rights; doesn't sound good when Library of Congress starts to block sites; sounds more like China to be honest.
Where I live I can have broadband via fiber, adsl, ca-tv, or 3G. So in my case, it's not a monopoly Where my brother lives, which is in the countryside, it's different. None of the major telcos where too interested in pulling fiber even to the nearest phone station. So, the local government financed and contracted a company to build a dark-fiber network plus run a basic IP-infrastructure on top. This community is now connected to several telcos, so that each subscriber can sign up to the telco he/she prefers while the local network is still community-owned and neutral.
That's funny. The PgDn and PgUp keys where on the original DEC VT100 text terminal keyboard introduced in 1978. Believe the keyboard is older than that, which makes it older than Microsoft itself. Funny.
Here are the population densities (pop/sq km) for a few countries: US 31, Sweden 20, Finland 15.5, Norway: 12 and Iceland 2.9
In what I guess would be a comparable town of approx 7000 people in Sweden I would expect one or two small supermarkets, a handful other shops, several bus stops and in many cases a high-speed train service that would each take me to nearby cities and towns in a time comparable to taking my car. Healthcare is fine, schools are fine, daycare is fine
The lack of services that you are referring to is simply an effect of your energy policies. In Europe, energy prices has been maintained at higher levels through taxation. This has led to more energy efficient thinking, resulting in smaller, more efficient cars, more public transportation and an opportunity for smaller towns and cities to stay alive with local shopping, local services offering in many cases locally produced foods and produce. It all adds up to a more balanced and carbon-efficient economy.
And all these countries are among the top 15 or so on the GDP per capita list.
If I remember correctly, an assumption underpinning the Big Bang theory is that all directions where equal. Now, if all directions are not equal at present time, that may be the result of many factors between Big Bang and now. However, should the alignment of 200 000 galaxies somehow depend on some event close to the Big Bang (as the uneven distribution of background radiation may indicate) then we may have to do some serious re-thinking
Interesting that the US is taking a rather regulation-friendly route!
In Sweden, anyone can apply to each local municipality to pull your own fiber - and I have never heard anyone being denied that. In rural areas aswell as cities, many municipalities have pulled their own fibers in order to give their areas a improved competitive edge when any of the main telcos have not been up to the task quick enough. The business model many have choosen is a completely open one; the offer to lease dark fibers, wavelenghts on lit fibers, and in many cases all the way up to the IP level. And yes, they will give themselves preferential treatments by connecting schools, administrations and hospitals to a well working, high-capacity network at competitive cost -. a service level that would not have been available to them otherwise. Many individual networks are interconnected, forming regional gigabit networks. Facilities for co-location of equipment is generally also on offer. I believe most Telcos has seen this as an opportunity since it gives the access to more infrastructure at lower risk of investment.
I woud attribute the high broadband penetration and low costs in Sweden partly to this de-regulation. According to recent figures 97% of the households can have at least DSL access and about 20% have a fiber to their home.
>rest of the person apart from the face is present.
Well, the rest of what person?
All biometrics apps that I have looked at assumes that you pre-store some kind of imprint of yourself somewhere, and that you sometime later use yourself (finger print, face scan, eye scan, whatever) to verify a certain number of reference points against the pre-stored imprint. If match: OK; if no match: not OK
The problem is: where do you store the pre-stored reference FILE? Is that a SAFE location to avoid that someone copies that file to make a working copy of - you? Well, the only place I would even consider reasonably safe would be encrypted on a card that I hold on to.
>, and Sweden
Yes, even more since Swedish courts recently came to the same conclusion as their German counterparts. Freedom means Europe, these days. God knows what RIAA and the Bush administration will do to us!
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For every new wave of computing - mainframe, minicomputers, PC, client-server, web 1.0, web 2.0, cloud - there has been this talk about the immediate disappearance of the previous wave(s). It just never happened. Mainframes and Cobol are still - some 50-60 years after they first appeared on the market - in demand.
Linux on the desktop/laptop appeals to people experienced in computing using laptops or desktops. That's a nice & that's good - it's a defined target group and they know what they want! It's large enough for now; millions of users and it's growing with a growing total market. With a keyboard and large screen you want a functioning desktop - not something targeting phone or tablet users. You want a stable, secure OS, applications, efficient use & supportive community. Sounds like Linux to me.
MS is in terminal decline. They will disinvest in the desktop, not enough money there; they are targeting servers applications and will be forced to open up in order to support "bring your own device".
It's a mistake to exclusively target the Linux desktop for phones and pads. Wrong kind of users. Go for the laptops and desktops. Lots of old hardware out there with XP on it that won't run Win7/Win8 either because of hardware or license costs. And there are plenty of disgruntled MS users around. Preinstalled and easy install is key.
Didn't know it was enforced but it is certainly paid!
Well, I terminated both my account at PayPal and Amazon today
That's called voting with my feet
Think you guys in the US should watch out for your free speech rights; doesn't sound good when Library of Congress starts to block sites; sounds more like China to be honest.
Augmented reality!
Double-blink the restaurant to see the menu!
Double-blink the shopping window to see product specs
I'v been waiting for this since sometime 1998!
Cheers
Peter
... and further to that; Swedish police are unable to confirm that this took place at all... ... and from the same source; servers in the ring where accessible by non-anonymous ftp.
http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.216376/antipiratbyran-rekordtillslag-mot-svensk-piratserver
I agree; likely to be an imaginary event.
Where I live I can have broadband via fiber, adsl, ca-tv, or 3G. So in my case, it's not a monopoly
Where my brother lives, which is in the countryside, it's different. None of the major telcos where too interested in pulling fiber even to the nearest phone station. So, the local government financed and contracted a company to build a dark-fiber network plus run a basic IP-infrastructure on top. This community is now connected to several telcos, so that each subscriber can sign up to the telco he/she prefers while the local network is still community-owned and neutral.
That's funny. The PgDn and PgUp keys where on the original DEC VT100 text terminal keyboard introduced in 1978. Believe the keyboard is older than that, which makes it older than Microsoft itself. Funny.
I agree. I would only sign that if the company would pay me full salary and benefits corresponding to 6 months work.
Oh, sorry, forgott - you have your own little planet over there; for the rest of us, let's hope it silently drifts away into it's own little future.
Here are the population densities (pop/sq km) for a few countries:
US 31, Sweden 20, Finland 15.5, Norway: 12 and Iceland 2.9
In what I guess would be a comparable town of approx 7000 people in Sweden I would expect one or two small supermarkets, a handful other shops, several bus stops and in many cases a high-speed train service that would each take me to nearby cities and towns in a time comparable to taking my car. Healthcare is fine, schools are fine, daycare is fine
The lack of services that you are referring to is simply an effect of your energy policies. In Europe, energy prices has been maintained at higher levels through taxation. This has led to more energy efficient thinking, resulting in smaller, more efficient cars, more public transportation and an opportunity for smaller towns and cities to stay alive with local shopping, local services offering in many cases locally produced foods and produce. It all adds up to a more balanced and carbon-efficient economy.
And all these countries are among the top 15 or so on the GDP per capita list.
Replace all: "Chinese" for "American". Any difference in a post War-on-Iraq world?
If I remember correctly, an assumption underpinning the Big Bang theory is that all directions where equal. Now, if all directions are not equal at present time, that may be the result of many factors between Big Bang and now. However, should the alignment of 200 000 galaxies somehow depend on some event close to the Big Bang (as the uneven distribution of background radiation may indicate) then we may have to do some serious re-thinking
Interesting that the US is taking a rather regulation-friendly route! In Sweden, anyone can apply to each local municipality to pull your own fiber - and I have never heard anyone being denied that. In rural areas aswell as cities, many municipalities have pulled their own fibers in order to give their areas a improved competitive edge when any of the main telcos have not been up to the task quick enough. The business model many have choosen is a completely open one; the offer to lease dark fibers, wavelenghts on lit fibers, and in many cases all the way up to the IP level. And yes, they will give themselves preferential treatments by connecting schools, administrations and hospitals to a well working, high-capacity network at competitive cost -. a service level that would not have been available to them otherwise. Many individual networks are interconnected, forming regional gigabit networks. Facilities for co-location of equipment is generally also on offer. I believe most Telcos has seen this as an opportunity since it gives the access to more infrastructure at lower risk of investment. I woud attribute the high broadband penetration and low costs in Sweden partly to this de-regulation. According to recent figures 97% of the households can have at least DSL access and about 20% have a fiber to their home.
>rest of the person apart from the face is present. Well, the rest of what person? All biometrics apps that I have looked at assumes that you pre-store some kind of imprint of yourself somewhere, and that you sometime later use yourself (finger print, face scan, eye scan, whatever) to verify a certain number of reference points against the pre-stored imprint. If match: OK; if no match: not OK The problem is: where do you store the pre-stored reference FILE? Is that a SAFE location to avoid that someone copies that file to make a working copy of - you? Well, the only place I would even consider reasonably safe would be encrypted on a card that I hold on to.
>, and Sweden Yes, even more since Swedish courts recently came to the same conclusion as their German counterparts. Freedom means Europe, these days. God knows what RIAA and the Bush administration will do to us!