In a later section of the report, Info-Tech admits the majority of IT projects are in fact delivered on time, on budget and do meet expectations. So what's eating the executives?
Efffing Marketing/Technology Groups who tell us that most projects aren't delivered on time or on budget or meet expectations. 95% of the time reports from organizations like Info-tech are not statistically sound nor based on a representative sample of the real world.
he's supporting the legal effort on behalf of Grokster, the online file-sharing network being sued by MGM Studios for allegedly infringing copyrights.
I still maintain that he's a megalomaniac who loves attention, but I also have to say I don't mind his efforts on behalf of our side of the issues. Besides, if I had been anywhere near as successful as him during the bubble I would be as bad if not worse (and I trip on my ego daily) - so power to him. Good thing though that he's helping fund, and not actually stepping into court himself to do the arguments.
not since the bubble, man the things that would go on at those IT trade shows. I went to a wireless one in New Orleans that just 'happened' to be scheduled in the middle of Mardi Gras...damn, talk about viruses
Oh for the world of stock options and big promotional booths for products that didn't exist then and still don't now. To booth babes and bunnys, T-shirts and ice cream. I never won a car or PDA, but I haven't bought a pen in 6 years.
Please ignore China, Russia, and maybe Brazil and Australia.
if you mean size - then it's Canada at #2 - if you mean population then China(1), India(2), top the list ahead of everybody else, Canada doesn't make the top 20, but that's ok, because of other good stats:
In terms of per capita foriegn aid Canada's around #4
Among the G-7 countries - the richest economies in the world - Canada's per capita purchasing power is second only to the United States.
And somewhere I read a stat about being #2 in production of garbage - again second to the US if I remember correctly. (but seriously who studies that?)
In setting up remote sales, and development people for a company in different locations, we often encountered many different laws (including our own gov'ts laws) about how the employees were paid in those regions. In most cases the solution was to set up a branch office - rent the space from the employee in his house and move on.
I've worked with parts of Microsoft before and strangely enough this article reinforces what I saw, they aren't all bad - oh I know they are the evil empire and everything - but you can't get that much money and geekness together without some good happening. Besides when it comes down to evilness I'll take the big MS over millions of dirty little spammers everyday, at least their damage to my computer is more bad program design then malicious malware.
I imagine like many a young geek I was not alone in repairing PC's for access to food, money and girls. I didn't have qualifications other then being born into a household where computers were modded on a regular basis.(my appleIIc dual booted between an ibm board and the apple board) Of course what was important to me as a young geek isn't as important now. Fixing someones PC is a pain in the ass. Inevitably there is going to be something you didn't expect - like very few people keep motherboard manuals, and how do you look up jumper info when the only machine around is the one your repairing. When I was 16-20 it provided pocket money and access to girls and food (pasta for powerpoint anyone?) but as an adult I long ago realized that my time is more valuable - if I was doing it for a company I would expect min $50 an hour, I spent the years accumulating the experience and refining the skills. The average home user isn't willing to pay the 50$ an hour so they get 16-19 year old kids(unqualified amaturs)fixing their pc's. I have nothing against these kids, and I imagine many of them are more capable then me with some of these technologies. As long as the home user refuses to pay professional rates for PC service then that market place will stay the domain of young geeks, and provide them a place to use their skills for food, girls and money. Let em have it - if you are worth professional rates work in the professional market - don't work in the home market and crowd out the kids.
Spelling errors intact from his blog(I added the bold): So , the real reason of this blog. To let everyone know that the EFF and others came to me and asked if I would finance the legal effort against MGM. I said yes. I would provide them the money they need. So now the truth has been told. This isnt the big content companies against the technology companies. This is the big content companies, against me. Mark Cuban and my little content company. Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple
Dood wants to be a Hero - the Benefactor, the Mavericks, this guy is desperate for attention - not that I don't mind his neurosis helping protect my freedoms.
It is the architecture of Apple's operating system that protects its users from these bugs. And, we are simply irritated by the near absence of major news outlets who reliably report that fact.
The major conflict in OS fundamentals, this argument has provided many hours of great reading by parties on either side.
Funny story on OS history I wish though that I could find a better article outlining the battles fought between OS proponents over the years - the best I imagine are in the newsgroups, archived somewhere. A view point issue on Linux v Windows focus on Sun - however the fundamentals in the OS are common to OSX as well.
Nova did a great piece on the all of physics (a lot on the universe and big focus on Quantum Mechanics and String Theory). It's pretty good if you are trying to find commonplace explanations of some of the theories the article just mentions and doesn't explain.
If They talk about it, We talk about it. If We talk about it, They will listen, and even We at some point may be Them. That's what's important.
So many posters have got it right, pointing out deficiencies and flaws in this report, highlighting the areas where improvement is needed and areas of unnecessary risks in our current infrastructure and IT practices. Even if the report is deficient due to governmental deficiencies, the fact that it is out there is a good thing because there will be debate, and other reports attempting to support or refute this one, and the general process of discovery goes on. Much better for this information to be "open"
9/11 wasn't the worst thing one group of humans has done to another. Let us be honest about what we really are, in fact more people died in Rwanda through the 90's by 13 year old boys carrying guns, then in 9/11. The word genocide is used to describe that. I understand the holier then thou attitude, but remember the point of my post was to point out that it isn't just terrorists (which the original article/report focuses on) but any group or individual dedicated enough to attacking the infrastructure that we should consider. The US (9/11)Terrorism card may be played too often and despite how much you show your wounds and carry your scars in public, other things happen in this world that affect people just as much if not more. I don't mean to minimize the tragedy, I lost a friend myself that day, but the distinction between terrorism, nationalism, and revolution is so hard to define that I would rather we avoid it and just talk about the actions themselves, without loaded words.
That's why I was careful to not over do it in talking about just "terrorist" attacks - but any attack on the infrastructure - 13 year old boys with too much time on their hands can do, and have done, as much damage as a terrorist attack.
The first link in the Post goes to their Homepage
Here is the google cache:
google cache
Here is the blurb from their page, good luck trying to get the PDF though.
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee
The President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) was chartered by Congress under the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 (P. L. 102-194) and the Next Generation Internet Act of 1998 (P. L. 105-305) as a Federal Advisory Committee. The Committee provides the President, Congress, and the Federal agencies involved in information technology research and development (IT R&D) with expert, independent advice on maintaining America's preeminence in advanced information technologies, including such critical elements of the national infrastructure as high performance computing, large-scale networking, and high assurance software and systems design. As part of this assessment, the PITAC reviews the Federal Networking and IT R&D Program. Comprising leading IT experts from industry and academia, the Committee helps guide the Administration's efforts to accelerate the development and adoption of information technologies vital for American prosperity in the 21st century. PITAC is formally renewed through Presidential Executive Orders. The current Executive Order is due to expire June 1, 2005.
I don't know if this is just to increase paranoia or not in the US, but if there are security issues it is better that they talk about them, bring them out into the "open" so to speak. There is nothing they couldn't dream up as a terrorist or other attack on the IT infrastructure that hasn't been thought up already by others, even in the terror game it is hard to be truely original. And at least by going through the exercise of thinking like an attacker they may help spur the development of better defenses, traps, early warnings, recovery procedures , what have you.
In so many ways - spurs, growth, whatever, into.
Truely a line that will stand for ages.
I read your comment earlier on the subect of growth
I'd also say that most growth nowadays, in any market, is due to more widely available internet access. It seems that today, most businesses have broadband and have all of their computers online, which allows for employee surfing during slow time/breaks. Open, unsecured, and fee-based wireless access is available almost everywhere you go, and with more people having handheld and laptop devices, and all these portable gaming platforms with access, the numbers are only going to increase.
When I was trying to define connected to the internet where did I draw the limit?
I'm on broadband, so essentially am always connected.
As long as my IM is up I'm online, and I can hear it chirp from most anywhere.
Beyond that though even outside of the house, through SMS I'm connected.
Heck even spam to my inbox is my usage through proxy
I defined those as passive connections - and tried to consider the article in light of active connections - ie actively searching the web, gaming, IRC or IM conversations. In the sense though of being connected it's increasing common for people to have access to some facets of the internet at all times. Trying to measure our "Usage of the Internet" is likely not truely possible. (unless you go total packets moved per/second divided by total people connected in world, and just get a number per person/second - and that's a useless stat I imagine)
Nielsen
has the full report in PDF format, It was a short article
I imagine many people are like me, when I'm hanging out watching tv(which I do on my second monitor mainly), I'm also connected to the internet, either to followup on what I saw on TV, or to see if friends are on IM, or even just because I'm board and just do a sweep of news sites. The article says:
Nielsen//NetRatings concluded that mature markets are in wait of "the next big thing" whereas emerging markets were rife with opportunity for companies online. Some of the growth engines cited in the report is the proliferation of broadband and societal changes in media consumption.
I'm waiting for a more fully interactive TV/Computer/Internet I think, more then TIVO, and Digital Cable has given me.
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot Story Generator only they one the editors have is better, because it actually links to real stories.
how much longer til it ends?
Beauty, this will replace the legions of QA people that used to do my code commenting
Efffing Marketing/Technology Groups who tell us that most projects aren't delivered on time or on budget or meet expectations. 95% of the time reports from organizations like Info-tech are not statistically sound nor based on a representative sample of the real world.
I still maintain that he's a megalomaniac who loves attention, but I also have to say I don't mind his efforts on behalf of our side of the issues. Besides, if I had been anywhere near as successful as him during the bubble I would be as bad if not worse (and I trip on my ego daily) - so power to him. Good thing though that he's helping fund, and not actually stepping into court himself to do the arguments.
not since the bubble, man the things that would go on at those IT trade shows. I went to a wireless one in New Orleans that just 'happened' to be scheduled in the middle of Mardi Gras...damn, talk about viruses
Oh for the world of stock options and big promotional booths for products that didn't exist then and still don't now. To booth babes and bunnys, T-shirts and ice cream. I never won a car or PDA, but I haven't bought a pen in 6 years.
if you mean size - then it's Canada at #2 - if you mean population then China(1), India(2), top the list ahead of everybody else, Canada doesn't make the top 20, but that's ok, because of other good stats:
In terms of per capita foriegn aid Canada's around #4
Among the G-7 countries - the richest economies in the world - Canada's per capita purchasing power is second only to the United States.
And somewhere I read a stat about being #2 in production of garbage - again second to the US if I remember correctly. (but seriously who studies that?)
In setting up remote sales, and development people for a company in different locations, we often encountered many different laws (including our own gov'ts laws) about how the employees were paid in those regions. In most cases the solution was to set up a branch office - rent the space from the employee in his house and move on.
I've worked with parts of Microsoft before and strangely enough this article reinforces what I saw, they aren't all bad - oh I know they are the evil empire and everything - but you can't get that much money and geekness together without some good happening. Besides when it comes down to evilness I'll take the big MS over millions of dirty little spammers everyday, at least their damage to my computer is more bad program design then malicious malware.
I imagine like many a young geek I was not alone in repairing PC's for access to food, money and girls. I didn't have qualifications other then being born into a household where computers were modded on a regular basis.(my appleIIc dual booted between an ibm board and the apple board) Of course what was important to me as a young geek isn't as important now. Fixing someones PC is a pain in the ass. Inevitably there is going to be something you didn't expect - like very few people keep motherboard manuals, and how do you look up jumper info when the only machine around is the one your repairing. When I was 16-20 it provided pocket money and access to girls and food (pasta for powerpoint anyone?) but as an adult I long ago realized that my time is more valuable - if I was doing it for a company I would expect min $50 an hour, I spent the years accumulating the experience and refining the skills. The average home user isn't willing to pay the 50$ an hour so they get 16-19 year old kids(unqualified amaturs)fixing their pc's. I have nothing against these kids, and I imagine many of them are more capable then me with some of these technologies. As long as the home user refuses to pay professional rates for PC service then that market place will stay the domain of young geeks, and provide them a place to use their skills for food, girls and money. Let em have it - if you are worth professional rates work in the professional market - don't work in the home market and crowd out the kids.
Spelling errors intact from his blog(I added the bold) :
So , the real reason of this blog. To let everyone know that the EFF and others came to me and asked if I would finance the legal effort against MGM. I said yes. I would provide them the money they need. So now the truth has been told. This isnt the big content companies against the technology companies. This is the big content companies, against me. Mark Cuban and my little content company. Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple
Dood wants to be a Hero - the Benefactor, the Mavericks, this guy is desperate for attention - not that I don't mind his neurosis helping protect my freedoms.
The major conflict in OS fundamentals, this argument has provided many hours of great reading by parties on either side. Funny story on OS history I wish though that I could find a better article outlining the battles fought between OS proponents over the years - the best I imagine are in the newsgroups, archived somewhere.
A view point issue on Linux v Windows focus on Sun - however the fundamentals in the OS are common to OSX as well.
The Current idea of "Balance" in reporting. Wall street article on changing Journalism
BBC Article on Balance in Reporting focused on Politics This one isn't technology focused, but the themes apply to technology reporting.
Nova did a great piece on the all of physics (a lot on the universe and big focus on Quantum Mechanics and String Theory). It's pretty good if you are trying to find commonplace explanations of some of the theories the article just mentions and doesn't explain.
no difference, matter and energy are the same (not trek science either) - just a matter of velocity or something.
ummmm, that's because technically we were British at that point.
Anybody remember this? Dood has a great natural feel for products.
crap, seriously I was expecting it to work, but it seems to insist I have no mispellings above. Scratch my subject line.
If They talk about it, We talk about it. If We talk about it, They will listen, and even We at some point may be Them. That's what's important.
So many posters have got it right, pointing out deficiencies and flaws in this report, highlighting the areas where improvement is needed and areas of unnecessary risks in our current infrastructure and IT practices. Even if the report is deficient due to governmental deficiencies, the fact that it is out there is a good thing because there will be debate, and other reports attempting to support or refute this one, and the general process of discovery goes on. Much better for this information to be "open"
9/11 wasn't the worst thing one group of humans has done to another. Let us be honest about what we really are, in fact more people died in Rwanda through the 90's by 13 year old boys carrying guns, then in 9/11. The word genocide is used to describe that. I understand the holier then thou attitude, but remember the point of my post was to point out that it isn't just terrorists (which the original article/report focuses on) but any group or individual dedicated enough to attacking the infrastructure that we should consider. The US (9/11)Terrorism card may be played too often and despite how much you show your wounds and carry your scars in public, other things happen in this world that affect people just as much if not more. I don't mean to minimize the tragedy, I lost a friend myself that day, but the distinction between terrorism, nationalism, and revolution is so hard to define that I would rather we avoid it and just talk about the actions themselves, without loaded words.
That's why I was careful to not over do it in talking about just "terrorist" attacks - but any attack on the infrastructure - 13 year old boys with too much time on their hands can do, and have done, as much damage as a terrorist attack.
Here is the google cache: google cache
Here is the blurb from their page, good luck trying to get the PDF though.
I don't know if this is just to increase paranoia or not in the US, but if there are security issues it is better that they talk about them, bring them out into the "open" so to speak. There is nothing they couldn't dream up as a terrorist or other attack on the IT infrastructure that hasn't been thought up already by others, even in the terror game it is hard to be truely original. And at least by going through the exercise of thinking like an attacker they may help spur the development of better defenses, traps, early warnings, recovery procedures , what have you.
yeah but he's great for the short term (20,30min contest in the competition) but for long term you want his buddy Maxtor
In so many ways - spurs, growth, whatever, into.
Truely a line that will stand for ages.
I read your comment earlier on the subect of growth
I'd also say that most growth nowadays, in any market, is due to more widely available internet access. It seems that today, most businesses have broadband and have all of their computers online, which allows for employee surfing during slow time/breaks. Open, unsecured, and fee-based wireless access is available almost everywhere you go, and with more people having handheld and laptop devices, and all these portable gaming platforms with access, the numbers are only going to increase.
When I was trying to define connected to the internet where did I draw the limit?
I'm on broadband, so essentially am always connected.
As long as my IM is up I'm online, and I can hear it chirp from most anywhere.
Beyond that though even outside of the house, through SMS I'm connected.
Heck even spam to my inbox is my usage through proxy
I defined those as passive connections - and tried to consider the article in light of active connections - ie actively searching the web, gaming, IRC or IM conversations.
In the sense though of being connected it's increasing common for people to have access to some facets of the internet at all times. Trying to measure our "Usage of the Internet" is likely not truely possible. (unless you go total packets moved per/second divided by total people connected in world, and just get a number per person/second - and that's a useless stat I imagine)
Nielsen
has the full report in PDF format, It was a short article
I imagine many people are like me, when I'm hanging out watching tv(which I do on my second monitor mainly), I'm also connected to the internet, either to followup on what I saw on TV, or to see if friends are on IM, or even just because I'm board and just do a sweep of news sites. The article says:
Nielsen//NetRatings concluded that mature markets are in wait of "the next big thing" whereas emerging markets were rife with opportunity for companies online. Some of the growth engines cited in the report is the proliferation of broadband and societal changes in media consumption.
I'm waiting for a more fully interactive TV/Computer/Internet I think, more then TIVO, and Digital Cable has given me.