A virus that can propagate through an entire enterprise's array of servers, and then wipe out all data?
Most enterprises comprise a heterogeneous mix of servers of differing breeds. Getting a program to run on all of them, and then to gain access to data and transform it all in a single virus would be a great piece of programming, and any enterprise looking to hire an efficient data migration specialist or integration architect should consider hiring...
What Mix? They got the government discount at dell
And paintball in wintertime probably hurt just as much as the real gun shot in a non-vital location.
Note to self, do not let the wife freeze her paintballs next time....
I agree, but not everything that is annoying should be made illegal.
While I agree with you now, years ago my lil sister alone would of caused me to find a way of arguing that all things annoying indeed should be made illegal. LoL
Love the idea, but I don't see it working.
Basically what we are talking about (Sooner or later) is the Credstick from Shadowrun. Your whole ID/Bank/Credit etc all on stick to "slot and run"
The whole "Its Credit" thing is crap, it could be attached to a credit system, or it could be debt system or pre-paid. But then again Pre-paid is crap as well, its the same as gift cards, your giving money for a service your not using/getting, if the store / company goes away you lost the money, if you didn't spend the credit within a certain time, you lost the money. And then you have the problem of readers. If I win/loose the bet with the guy in the cube next to me. We have to have a reader just to know exactly what our balances are, have a way to transfer the balance, and someway of that change update to the master database. which at the root of it all is what your really talking about.
But Personally putting it on your phone is a bad idea. In the last year I had 5 phones. 1 stolen, 2 upgrades, and 3 destroyed. Anyone know where your info goes, when your cell is off to the shop to be repaired or stolen. Anyone ever dropped a cell. (FYI 250$ for a new screen on a iPhone)
Now ask a cabbie, or someone that works in a restaurant how many cells get left behind....
I one saw a guy with a briefcase walk through a subway station and come back with the data from every phone and pda that was powered on in the place at that time, and if you feel safe putting your funds into it go for it. It is making a more hackable, destroyable, losable, more expensive credit card that needs changed all the time. (Not to mention cellular contracts)
RFID is not new, its been in use in the states for a long long time, on a lot of toll highways and bridges for commercial use. Could it be done as a sole means of monetary usage in the states, Not a Chance.
US is nowhere near as small as Europe, Nor does it have the years of infrastructure in place. Unless your talking about one of the major cities (NYC, LA, etc) and even then we don't even have complete cable coverage or cell coverage here yet!
Trains, Bus's, don't exist outside of those major cities which is where most people live.
To Put things into comparison, for those that think that one can simply say poof and have miles and miles of line ran, and towers put up.
The Whole of The UK is 245,000 km that is all of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
The Whole of the single state of Florida is 170,304 kmÂ
The Whole of the United States is 9,158,960 km of land.
You do the math, and please think of the Cat(6)'s
I was not whining about how it got too soapy, I said it did, and I stopped watching.
But at least they didn't kill it by whoring it out like they did with Eureka did adding on all the Degree Advertising, Or another channels Movie/Infomercial Series that is Ford errr Knight Rider
Proprietary Hardware/Software is what led 90% us away from Apple once upon a time. I hear all this screaming, Oh noes, but its Micro$oft. Apples greed and plan of action resulted directly in Microsoft's market share.
Point in fact, when it limits our actions then we truly care. But what everyone seems to be missing is my iPhone is stuck with the most craptastic browser ever invented, its called "Safari" I have no option of un-installing it, I have no option to install something else, all apps must be approved by Apple, and Apple "Will not approve an application for iPhone/Touch that competes with an already existing application" One look around the app store and can you find 300 versions of the same fitness software some free and some paid, 900 different flashlight apps, yet nothing that competes with an "APPLE" App which is what the disclaimer should read, not to mention that nasty little virus named Apple Update, which has forced mandatory installs of Safari on Millions of computer. Yes a few million complaints later you can un-check that box, EVERY SINGLE TIME...
Most Linux distros behave the same way, whoever they are backing gets installed, and like the rest of us, you use it once, to download Firefox (or whatever flavor you like)
I 100% Agree The web should use Agreed Standards, but there always has to be room for improvement.
Gamer First, PC User Second, "Just remember Photoshop is not a game!"
Where I work 9-9-9-9-9 as the standard, and if I'm lucky I don't have to come in on the weekend, and if I'm really lucky I don't have to stay after the 9. which sucks during winter, its dark outside when I got in, and its dark outside when I go home, add in 30-60 mins for the going to and from work, and its closer to 10hrs to 11hrs (Winter traffic sucks) of your day gone. (Not counting remoting in from home, and crackberry time) Anything like Doctor Appointments and such that have to be scheduled usually end up having to become a PTO day. During the Summer they offer Flex Days, (They give they give us like 2 or 3) If we use one of them we only have to work for 10hrs a day for two weeks to get that 1 Friday off. And if its release time all bets are off, 116hrs is not unheard of.
Catering to the Hollywood crowd and adding in all the DRM did not help Microsoft. The 32 bit version really shouldn't exist because to be honest if the processor is not 64 bit then it really should not be going beyond XP.
But as one of the people that ran beta, I did find something amusing about it. Running on a P4 3.4ghz with 1gb of RAM I had a performance increase switching from XP Pro SP2 to Vista RC1 yet after installing Vista Ultimate on the same system it suffered massive decreases across the board, running the exact same programs such as Vent, EvE-Online, Firefox, office 2k3, etc.
While some users that are not afraid of all that is new might be willing to pay to upgrade, the price tag they chose to set was unrealistic. At the moment Vista is selling for 144.99 to 319.99 or if one does not need a shiny box or Microsoft's worthless tech support 94.99 to 179.99 for OEM Copys.
And the bad news is this is not over, I ran "Longhorn" a.k.a. Server 2008 beta which performed well but again the differences between Vista RC1 and Release lead me to think the same will happen to Server 2k8. And then the matter of Pricing comes into play. The following information was sent to me by Microsoft.
All will be available in 32-bit or 64-bit versions, with the exception of Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems, which will only be available as a 64-bit version. Other changes include the availability of Windows Web Server 2008, a 64-bit edition of Web server. The Hyper-V feature will only be available with 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008.
Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent for all distribution channels. Estimated MSRP* are listed by each version below:
Windows Server 2008 Standard: $999 (with five Client Access Licenses, or CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 (with 25 CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter: $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: $2,999 (per processor)
Windows Web Server 2008: $469
Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V: $971 (with five CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V: $3,971 (with 25 CALs)
Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V: $2,971 (per processor)
Music industry has been a dinosaur for years, and face it they where never interested in the consumer.
For years people HAD to purchase a CD, Tape, Album for all of song, and 10 or 11 pieces of crap filler.
Its the EVIL P2P people that our killing the industry they say. Cassette tape have been around for decades and decks biggest selling features being that of high speed dubbing, & synchro starting. Piracy has always been around and always will be. Music always has and always will be copied. Its nothing new, what is new is by being forced to sell music in piecemeal, People are only buying what they want and not getting ripped off on the filler. Using digital format, we make backups. CD/Tape get lost, stolen, broken we don't go out and buy a new one, we burn a copy. (After buying the Metallica Black Album 4 times, who in their right mind would play for yet another copy of something you have already bought and own.)
Now while I may download a song, If I like it (ie listen to it more than once) I will support the ARTIST and buy a copy or at least order a t-shirt or something from their website. Nobody ever has any love for the greedy labels, who do nothing but take most the profits of the artists. Today with digital formats the artist can bypass the label all together and guess what they get 100% of the profit and nobody misses the label. We the consumer are not forced into paying extra money for bad songs that we will never listen to.
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A virus that can propagate through an entire enterprise's array of servers, and then wipe out all data?
Most enterprises comprise a heterogeneous mix of servers of differing breeds. Getting a program to run on all of them, and then to gain access to data and transform it all in a single virus would be a great piece of programming, and any enterprise looking to hire an efficient data migration specialist or integration architect should consider hiring...
What Mix? They got the government discount at dell
Look like he was flying through a cyberspace version of his city while he was doing it???
1984 was a Typo
That was MM/DD/YYYY the Superbowl is February 1st
And paintball in wintertime probably hurt just as much as the real gun shot in a non-vital location. Note to self, do not let the wife freeze her paintballs next time....
Sad but true...
I agree, but not everything that is annoying should be made illegal.
While I agree with you now, years ago my lil sister alone would of caused me to find a way of arguing that all things annoying indeed should be made illegal. LoL
Love the idea, but I don't see it working. Basically what we are talking about (Sooner or later) is the Credstick from Shadowrun. Your whole ID/Bank/Credit etc all on stick to "slot and run" The whole "Its Credit" thing is crap, it could be attached to a credit system, or it could be debt system or pre-paid. But then again Pre-paid is crap as well, its the same as gift cards, your giving money for a service your not using/getting, if the store / company goes away you lost the money, if you didn't spend the credit within a certain time, you lost the money. And then you have the problem of readers. If I win/loose the bet with the guy in the cube next to me. We have to have a reader just to know exactly what our balances are, have a way to transfer the balance, and someway of that change update to the master database. which at the root of it all is what your really talking about. But Personally putting it on your phone is a bad idea. In the last year I had 5 phones. 1 stolen, 2 upgrades, and 3 destroyed. Anyone know where your info goes, when your cell is off to the shop to be repaired or stolen. Anyone ever dropped a cell. (FYI 250$ for a new screen on a iPhone) Now ask a cabbie, or someone that works in a restaurant how many cells get left behind.... I one saw a guy with a briefcase walk through a subway station and come back with the data from every phone and pda that was powered on in the place at that time, and if you feel safe putting your funds into it go for it. It is making a more hackable, destroyable, losable, more expensive credit card that needs changed all the time. (Not to mention cellular contracts) RFID is not new, its been in use in the states for a long long time, on a lot of toll highways and bridges for commercial use. Could it be done as a sole means of monetary usage in the states, Not a Chance. US is nowhere near as small as Europe, Nor does it have the years of infrastructure in place. Unless your talking about one of the major cities (NYC, LA, etc) and even then we don't even have complete cable coverage or cell coverage here yet! Trains, Bus's, don't exist outside of those major cities which is where most people live. To Put things into comparison, for those that think that one can simply say poof and have miles and miles of line ran, and towers put up. The Whole of The UK is 245,000 km that is all of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales The Whole of the single state of Florida is 170,304 km The Whole of the United States is 9,158,960 km of land. You do the math, and please think of the Cat(6)'s
Blah, Soon enough people will go out of their way to pirate the DRM version. After all look what DRM did for Spore.
Revolution is not an AOL Keyword
I was not whining about how it got too soapy, I said it did, and I stopped watching. But at least they didn't kill it by whoring it out like they did with Eureka did adding on all the Degree Advertising, Or another channels Movie/Infomercial Series that is Ford errr Knight Rider
I hear there is going to be a season 5 sponsored by Degree Deodorant
Seriously, when it went from Battlestar to sci-fi version of general hospital, myself and most people I know pretty much moved on.
Proprietary Hardware/Software is what led 90% us away from Apple once upon a time. I hear all this screaming, Oh noes, but its Micro$oft. Apples greed and plan of action resulted directly in Microsoft's market share. Point in fact, when it limits our actions then we truly care. But what everyone seems to be missing is my iPhone is stuck with the most craptastic browser ever invented, its called "Safari" I have no option of un-installing it, I have no option to install something else, all apps must be approved by Apple, and Apple "Will not approve an application for iPhone/Touch that competes with an already existing application" One look around the app store and can you find 300 versions of the same fitness software some free and some paid, 900 different flashlight apps, yet nothing that competes with an "APPLE" App which is what the disclaimer should read, not to mention that nasty little virus named Apple Update, which has forced mandatory installs of Safari on Millions of computer. Yes a few million complaints later you can un-check that box, EVERY SINGLE TIME... Most Linux distros behave the same way, whoever they are backing gets installed, and like the rest of us, you use it once, to download Firefox (or whatever flavor you like) I 100% Agree The web should use Agreed Standards, but there always has to be room for improvement. Gamer First, PC User Second, "Just remember Photoshop is not a game!"
Where I work 9-9-9-9-9 as the standard, and if I'm lucky I don't have to come in on the weekend, and if I'm really lucky I don't have to stay after the 9. which sucks during winter, its dark outside when I got in, and its dark outside when I go home, add in 30-60 mins for the going to and from work, and its closer to 10hrs to 11hrs (Winter traffic sucks) of your day gone. (Not counting remoting in from home, and crackberry time) Anything like Doctor Appointments and such that have to be scheduled usually end up having to become a PTO day. During the Summer they offer Flex Days, (They give they give us like 2 or 3) If we use one of them we only have to work for 10hrs a day for two weeks to get that 1 Friday off. And if its release time all bets are off, 116hrs is not unheard of.
Catering to the Hollywood crowd and adding in all the DRM did not help Microsoft. The 32 bit version really shouldn't exist because to be honest if the processor is not 64 bit then it really should not be going beyond XP. But as one of the people that ran beta, I did find something amusing about it. Running on a P4 3.4ghz with 1gb of RAM I had a performance increase switching from XP Pro SP2 to Vista RC1 yet after installing Vista Ultimate on the same system it suffered massive decreases across the board, running the exact same programs such as Vent, EvE-Online, Firefox, office 2k3, etc. While some users that are not afraid of all that is new might be willing to pay to upgrade, the price tag they chose to set was unrealistic. At the moment Vista is selling for 144.99 to 319.99 or if one does not need a shiny box or Microsoft's worthless tech support 94.99 to 179.99 for OEM Copys. And the bad news is this is not over, I ran "Longhorn" a.k.a. Server 2008 beta which performed well but again the differences between Vista RC1 and Release lead me to think the same will happen to Server 2k8. And then the matter of Pricing comes into play. The following information was sent to me by Microsoft. All will be available in 32-bit or 64-bit versions, with the exception of Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems, which will only be available as a 64-bit version. Other changes include the availability of Windows Web Server 2008, a 64-bit edition of Web server. The Hyper-V feature will only be available with 64-bit editions of Windows Server 2008. Pricing for all Windows Server 2008 products will be increasing by approximately 1 percent for all distribution channels. Estimated MSRP* are listed by each version below: Windows Server 2008 Standard: $999 (with five Client Access Licenses, or CALs) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise: $3,999 (with 25 CALs) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter: $2,999 (per processor) Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems: $2,999 (per processor) Windows Web Server 2008: $469 Windows Server 2008 Standard without Hyper-V: $971 (with five CALs) Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V: $3,971 (with 25 CALs) Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V: $2,971 (per processor)
Music industry has been a dinosaur for years, and face it they where never interested in the consumer. For years people HAD to purchase a CD, Tape, Album for all of song, and 10 or 11 pieces of crap filler. Its the EVIL P2P people that our killing the industry they say. Cassette tape have been around for decades and decks biggest selling features being that of high speed dubbing, & synchro starting. Piracy has always been around and always will be. Music always has and always will be copied. Its nothing new, what is new is by being forced to sell music in piecemeal, People are only buying what they want and not getting ripped off on the filler. Using digital format, we make backups. CD/Tape get lost, stolen, broken we don't go out and buy a new one, we burn a copy. (After buying the Metallica Black Album 4 times, who in their right mind would play for yet another copy of something you have already bought and own.) Now while I may download a song, If I like it (ie listen to it more than once) I will support the ARTIST and buy a copy or at least order a t-shirt or something from their website. Nobody ever has any love for the greedy labels, who do nothing but take most the profits of the artists. Today with digital formats the artist can bypass the label all together and guess what they get 100% of the profit and nobody misses the label. We the consumer are not forced into paying extra money for bad songs that we will never listen to.