I have no idea why this is modded as funny. I am not Russian, nor Chinese, but Western (grew up in Europe, Canada, and the States). And jokes like these is what made us inferior. Remember those jokes in the 1970's regarding Japanese cars! What could wrong! HA! We know what went wrong...
I am not saying let's be confrontational. I am saying don't laugh since the last laugh might be on us!
>Industrialist Carnegie came from Scotland and loved the U.S., and maintained loyalty until his death. He would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
How do you freaken know? That was pre 1900, and we are now post 2000. Globalization during that time was a minimum. Protectionism was the norm of the day. And protectionism served large corporations like his, and the financier J.P. Morgan. You have to remember that at that time America WAS controlled by a few industrialists...
If you don't believe me do some research during that time 1880's to 1920's and you will be surprised how controlled America was. This "control" that corporations have is nothing compared to back then. Remember back then it was J.P. Morgan that made the Fed a private entity!
I mean seriously, who in their right freaken mind would ever buy any of the assets from GM? Oh gee, 1 used car manufacturing plant building outdated vehicles! Yeah that will work REALLY well.
While I agree that there is contract law it does not matter squat if thousands of people get unemployed, the economy collapses, etc. And as a matter of fact contract law was not ignored. What happened is that a majority of people agreed with the terms and a small minority disagreed! In fact I could argue whatever happened to majority shareholder decisions? BTW the bankruptcy judge seems to have agreed with Chrysler.
Let's get real with the Indiana pension funds it was a scam to raise dirt even though they would loose very little in the overall scheme of things. They just wanted to whine and scream and score political points. It was never an intellectual discussion.
But you see the point here is that you assume that there was no measurable chance of working. And I said the same thing. BUT I also realize that it could have worked. The point is that what you consider as slim, is actually not that slim at all. It is the fat tail problem.
The issue here is that we are biased to our answers on what we think is right. And this has only become more obvious with the invention of blogs, Slashdot, etc. We make arguments without anyone saying, "ooops hey he could be right."
In the context of finance, which is the original point of this post, I say many of them don't give enough appreciation that alternative worlds can happen. Especially since it is an arbitrary concept to start off with.
I said, "I argued on the day of the invasion with a good friend of mine that it was stupid, idiotic for the exact reasons of why it is failing."
I am agreeing with you. BUT, people don't do the what if it did work. This is my beef with the financial industry, and the fact that you are applying your narrative, when in fact the opposite could have happened. What if Iraq worked, would you change your opinion? Would you be able to admit? I know I would have said, "ok I am wrong..."
Wars, financial markets, economics are arbitrary concepts that come out of the figment of our imaginations. We could have other systems, and did have other systems.
I work in the financial world, and I do modeling, and I understand the quants because I do much of the same work that the quants do. Except I am an algo-trader.
The reality with all of this quant stuff is that it works until it doesn't. This is the crux of the problem and I would say a large part of the industry JUST DOES NOT GET IT... For example the comment to test models is hogwash. This financial engineering is not science. Its a scientific approach to madness of crowds. And the reality is that crowds can be mad and they will do irrational things that will just blow our minds.
Think about this, the Darwin awards gives awards to those humans that do REALLY stupid things. I for one am truly amazed, not at the stupidity, but at the shear creativity. I mean really, who on earth would think of that. And it is that creativity that blows up models, and blew up the entire financial market.
The models that the quants used worked until they did not. Sure there are many saying, "hey I told you so." Yeah whatever, humanity is stupid and will do stupid things because whenever we are told it can't be done, or should not be done we do it anyways.
In fact I think it is a good trait to have in humanity. Granted there are moments where we wish we did not have so many idiots.
Here is an example, George Bush and Iraq. I argued on the day of the invasion with a good friend of mine that it was stupid, idiotic for the exact reasons of why it is failing. I argued Sadam is a bad guy no doubt, but toppling Sadam will result in a quagmire. And I personally don't think it is worth it. My friend argued otherwise with weapons, etc, etc.
But, and here is the big but... WHAT IF it did work? What if everything worked out? It could have happened. What then? But you don't know that until you try it! For to try and fail is human! And nothing will ever avoid that...
As people have modded you funny, that was exactly what I was thinking... I live in Switzerland and see these long unwieldy instruments and they look very similar to the things that they are trying to play. But of course going to Switzerland, comparing notes would have BEEN TOO EASY...
Here is an idea... I don't know maybe it is a CRAZY WHACKY idea...
Everybody who works has to show proof of residence in the country. Everybody who attends school has to show proof of residence. Everybody who uses services has to show proof of residence!
In most countries this is a requirement. Those countries are not trying to be bigoted, or racist, they just want to know if you are there to live or visit.
Some in America liked illegal immigration because it brought down prices, and kept things cheap. In other words SLAVES! Now that there are problems in the economy the slaves are not needed and told to go home!
There were days when Microsoft would innovate. Yes many will scoff, but Microsoft Office is an example. The suite is holding its own and people like it! Open Office has not been able to touch it! Yes, yes there have been naysayers, but if you look and the Office PnL you cannot deny it.
With operating systems on the other hand they have collapsed. Imagine how much more productive Microsoft would be if they could target any OS! Windows while giving Microsoft an advantage around the 2000's, is now their anchor!
Personally I do believe Microsoft will collapse since their operating system cannot keep pace. And what is now killing Microsoft is that nobody is scared of them. When Microsoft enters a new market around 2000 fear dominated the market. Now its boredom, yawn, and laughter! Microsoft needs to understand this, which they obviously are not.
Answer is yes they will raise their prices to 535 because they will say they offer you services XYZ...
When a product becomes transparent competition reduces because there is no ability to innovate. When a product is opaque there is lots of competition because you can innovate and push off the charges.
Take the example of nail. Last I heard not much competition in nails, screws or bolts. It is a completely transparent process because you can easily calculate the steel, and the amount of labor. The remainder is overhead. And as such nothing to innovate on. You can say your bolts are made of material XYZ, but that results in a creating a niche product where you don't make much to begin with.
Now take the example of organic food. You can say, "hey my lettuce grows on the south side of hill surrounded by cows giving real live fertilizer." Another can say, "hey I have chickens running through my fields". The decision lies on an arbitrary cow or chicken and your desire to have a cow or chicken fertilize your lettuce. And who can price whether a cow or chicken is more effective? It gives you breathing room to build margins and keep the entire pricing opaque and competitive...
Thus... If PC pricing is transparent you will get less competition and potentially higher prices... Think about the following... Apple... Transparent? HA! Oh wait their margins are glorious!!!
The person using GVIM or EMACS has 10,000 lines BECAUSE of GVIM, or EMACS... Flipping files in an IDE is trivial... In an editor like GVIM, or EMACS it is not a trivial. Ok not that hard, but I wonder if tedious as compared to an IDE.
HENCE, they have 10,000 lines in a source code file because of the environment they are using.
Let's say that you started making this about 18. This means by the time somebody who gets a degree hits the workplace and makes the same amount they are about 26. And they have debts to pay off, etc. So let's say around 30 they are pulling in the money.
If we do the math, with your 12 years you made an entire 600K! And if you were conservative and did not spend too much you could still have half of it.
Yes it is sad people look down on trades...
My brother went to German trade school (Industrial Mechanic). Me on the other hand I had two left hands as a tradesman. I was always dropping my tools. My strength was thinking, and oddly enough finance and financial products.
Though due to my German upbringing was never allowed to pursue it since it was not "real".
My degree says Mechanical Engineering, and my wife's says Electrical Engineering, and my dad's said Mechanical Engineering, and my grandfather said, "Technical Engineering", and my great great grandfather was a roaming engineering...
My point is that my family is a long line of German engineers (Me first Canadian). And quite frankly I can operate a Lathe, Milling machine, and have the tool and die experience (did not bother with my license even though I had the background and experience).
So while an engineer needs to be a knowledge worker they also need experience at the shop floor. Makes no sense designing a car without ever having driven or taken one apart. Me I could take industrial production machines apart.
These days I work as a trader, and algo developer. Though because I have a habit of learning the basics I learned on what it was to be a trader before actually writing systematic trading systems.
I can understand that comment, and while there is truth to it, there is some bias to it.
Take the example of SnapOn Tools. SnapOn Tools are bleeding expensive. Not just a little, but REALLY expensive. But their products are indestructable and made for day long use in the industrial setting. If you amortize the SnapOn Tools you are actually paying less.
SnapOn could change and build a product that lasts X years ensuring them a money stream. Yet they don't because they know they have been and are number 1 for those who need to rely on the product.
The sad matter of fact is that very few companies want to go down this route. More would rather go down the route of "cash flows".
Ok, there is the argument that you can reason with kids yes? So hence we must use physical punishment...
So here is an argument saying the physical punishment is actually very wrong. DOGS...
Can you reason with a dog? I don't think so... Dogs have the intelligence of about 1 year old. Dogs do react to discipline, much more than a human actually.
And the thing is how do you train a dog? By beating it? Sure it will listen to you, but out of fear. Will a beaten dog protect you? Not likely.
A dog is trained by non-contact discipline and paying attention to the needs of the dog. When a dog is made part of the "pack" it actually becomes a protector of the pack.
If people paid a bit more attention to this maybe people would understand that physical punishment is a weak response to not being able to deal with the situation.
BTW I was physically punished quite a bit, but it did nothing to change my habits. It only made more sneaky...
And here is why people don't go into engineering. I happen to be an engineer (4th generation) and my wife is an engineer. YET my mother is an artist, and I happen be able to paint as well.
Want to know why you think engineers are the way they are? Because engineers tend to be problem solvers and tend to think in a systematic approach.
YET things like politics and social life is anything but systematic. Witness the California social queen event, and Fox News.
The conflict is actually pre-programmed.
It is this kind of rationality that leads people to sell when they should buy, and buy when they should sell...
3 strikes and you are out if you violate copyrights. Well, the same can be said of corporations... Imagine how many companies could be locked out of the Internet if they violate the copyright of Open Source? I think this is a fantastic opportunity!!!
Or is this a more sinster fact that many Slashdotters don't want to pay for music?
Sorry I don't agree there! You can't have it both ways!!!!
Before I undertake any task I do absolutely nothing. For about a day I will just idle around thinking about the problem. Kicking around one solution and another.... And I keep doing this until I am happy...
I for one think that the RIAA should be able to do what they do. Not because I like the RIAA, but because I believe in Open Source...
Remember Open Source relies on copyright. And if people believe in infringing in copyright then what stops a company from infringing the rights of Open Source?
So when the RIAA wants three strikes you are out, I would actually like to apply this to companies that infringe on Open Source copyright!
Think about it, a side benefit of this is that a company like DieBold that infringed could be cut off the Internet! They could not get back onto the Internet! Imagine how fast they might even comply!
So folks think of this as a blessing in disguise...
I don't know anymore about a company that wont disappear soon...
I have been thinking quite a bit about this and the one thing that could REALLY do major damage is the fabled Apple Tablet.
Up to this point Apple has been gaining market share, by building new markets for itself. Point to Apple.
But this netbook thing I think is here to stay and we have not seen the end of that design. Thus if Apple were to bring onto market an Apple Tablet in the netbook range then people would seriously look at that device.
I don't have an iBook (had one several years ago). Write code for the most part using Windows and.NET. But I have an iPod Touch and Apple has made some nice revenue from my buying of music and apps.
Now if they were to bring onto market a Tablet I would be client number 1 because right now I want an easy to use tablet to surf my information. Yes I have a Windows Tablet, but Vista sucks big time.
And this raises another point. If Apple puts in a stake in the netbook market how much longer will companies like HP wait and beg for scraps from Apple? They will go scurrying to Apple for anything because they don't want to risk landing in the abyss...
And I am sure that Steve Jobs would just love to stick a stake into Microsoft for the decades of damage Microsoft caused...
Thus I do think if something like this happened, Microsoft VERY QUICKLY would go the way of the Dodo...
Disclosure: I write programs using.NET and that would put a crimp in lifestyle...
You are modded funny, but frankly you are I think onto something.
Let's look at the stats. Ever since licensing was introduced in grand style the adoption of Windows has slowed dramatically.
While we all complain about Vista, the reality is that the adoption of it SUCKS! People are staying on XP and I am tempted to believe because the cost of upgrading the machines is too expensive. I know that previously I would buy maybe one or two licenses and upgrade my five machines.
But to buy 5 licenses? Get REAL! Not a chance...
So I think with a stronger DRM I do think that their license revenue will go down...
As much as people like to say that this is a price issue, it really isn't. Otherwise, why on earth would OSX be near the 10% range? Why on earth would iPhone, and iPod touch be even registering on the radar? It is not cost.
What matters to the end user is functionality. They want to be able to get things done and that means flash, executables, etc, etc.
On Windows everything just works because it has momentum. On OSX people KNOW that it is OSX and expect things to be different (eg commercial Think Different HINT HINT...) And there are applications that get things done for users that are based on OSX.
Linux is more problematic. First there is very little commercialware support. THus the end user has to figure things out for themselves. And there is very little support among hardware vendors, meaning the end user has to figure things out.
The end result is that Linux will remain a niche product. I look at 1% and think, great in 2100 we might even get drivers to work... Yippeee...
What I think they are doing and I think it would indicate an encrypted drive is distribution analysis.
If you have truly random data then there is a specific pattern. If you have deleted or unused blocks there will be a specific pattern.
But if you have an encrypted block the distribution will not be like any of the other pieces of data. This is your indicator.
Think of it as follows. You are driving on the highway and somebody on the highway drives the speed limit exactly, stays in the center lane, and does not switch lanes at all. Even though that would seem to be right, it is actually quite wrong and it would make police suspicious.
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I have no idea why this is modded as funny. I am not Russian, nor Chinese, but Western (grew up in Europe, Canada, and the States). And jokes like these is what made us inferior. Remember those jokes in the 1970's regarding Japanese cars! What could wrong! HA! We know what went wrong...
I am not saying let's be confrontational. I am saying don't laugh since the last laugh might be on us!
>Industrialist Carnegie came from Scotland and loved the U.S., and maintained loyalty until his death. He would have never entertained the idea of moving factories to China for cheap labor.
How do you freaken know? That was pre 1900, and we are now post 2000. Globalization during that time was a minimum. Protectionism was the norm of the day. And protectionism served large corporations like his, and the financier J.P. Morgan. You have to remember that at that time America WAS controlled by a few industrialists...
If you don't believe me do some research during that time 1880's to 1920's and you will be surprised how controlled America was. This "control" that corporations have is nothing compared to back then. Remember back then it was J.P. Morgan that made the Fed a private entity!
And the alternative is????
I mean seriously, who in their right freaken mind would ever buy any of the assets from GM? Oh gee, 1 used car manufacturing plant building outdated vehicles! Yeah that will work REALLY well.
While I agree that there is contract law it does not matter squat if thousands of people get unemployed, the economy collapses, etc. And as a matter of fact contract law was not ignored. What happened is that a majority of people agreed with the terms and a small minority disagreed! In fact I could argue whatever happened to majority shareholder decisions? BTW the bankruptcy judge seems to have agreed with Chrysler.
Let's get real with the Indiana pension funds it was a scam to raise dirt even though they would loose very little in the overall scheme of things. They just wanted to whine and scream and score political points. It was never an intellectual discussion.
But you see the point here is that you assume that there was no measurable chance of working. And I said the same thing. BUT I also realize that it could have worked. The point is that what you consider as slim, is actually not that slim at all. It is the fat tail problem.
The issue here is that we are biased to our answers on what we think is right. And this has only become more obvious with the invention of blogs, Slashdot, etc. We make arguments without anyone saying, "ooops hey he could be right."
In the context of finance, which is the original point of this post, I say many of them don't give enough appreciation that alternative worlds can happen. Especially since it is an arbitrary concept to start off with.
And this is missing my point...
I said, "I argued on the day of the invasion with a good friend of mine that it was stupid, idiotic for the exact reasons of why it is failing."
I am agreeing with you. BUT, people don't do the what if it did work. This is my beef with the financial industry, and the fact that you are applying your narrative, when in fact the opposite could have happened. What if Iraq worked, would you change your opinion? Would you be able to admit? I know I would have said, "ok I am wrong..."
Wars, financial markets, economics are arbitrary concepts that come out of the figment of our imaginations. We could have other systems, and did have other systems.
EXACTLY...
I work in the financial world, and I do modeling, and I understand the quants because I do much of the same work that the quants do. Except I am an algo-trader.
The reality with all of this quant stuff is that it works until it doesn't. This is the crux of the problem and I would say a large part of the industry JUST DOES NOT GET IT... For example the comment to test models is hogwash. This financial engineering is not science. Its a scientific approach to madness of crowds. And the reality is that crowds can be mad and they will do irrational things that will just blow our minds.
Think about this, the Darwin awards gives awards to those humans that do REALLY stupid things. I for one am truly amazed, not at the stupidity, but at the shear creativity. I mean really, who on earth would think of that. And it is that creativity that blows up models, and blew up the entire financial market.
The models that the quants used worked until they did not. Sure there are many saying, "hey I told you so." Yeah whatever, humanity is stupid and will do stupid things because whenever we are told it can't be done, or should not be done we do it anyways.
In fact I think it is a good trait to have in humanity. Granted there are moments where we wish we did not have so many idiots.
Here is an example, George Bush and Iraq. I argued on the day of the invasion with a good friend of mine that it was stupid, idiotic for the exact reasons of why it is failing. I argued Sadam is a bad guy no doubt, but toppling Sadam will result in a quagmire. And I personally don't think it is worth it. My friend argued otherwise with weapons, etc, etc.
But, and here is the big but... WHAT IF it did work? What if everything worked out? It could have happened. What then? But you don't know that until you try it! For to try and fail is human! And nothing will ever avoid that...
As people have modded you funny, that was exactly what I was thinking... I live in Switzerland and see these long unwieldy instruments and they look very similar to the things that they are trying to play. But of course going to Switzerland, comparing notes would have BEEN TOO EASY...
Here is an idea... I don't know maybe it is a CRAZY WHACKY idea...
Everybody who works has to show proof of residence in the country. Everybody who attends school has to show proof of residence. Everybody who uses services has to show proof of residence!
In most countries this is a requirement. Those countries are not trying to be bigoted, or racist, they just want to know if you are there to live or visit.
Some in America liked illegal immigration because it brought down prices, and kept things cheap. In other words SLAVES! Now that there are problems in the economy the slaves are not needed and told to go home!
Microsoft is a ZOMBIE!!!
There were days when Microsoft would innovate. Yes many will scoff, but Microsoft Office is an example. The suite is holding its own and people like it! Open Office has not been able to touch it! Yes, yes there have been naysayers, but if you look and the Office PnL you cannot deny it.
With operating systems on the other hand they have collapsed. Imagine how much more productive Microsoft would be if they could target any OS! Windows while giving Microsoft an advantage around the 2000's, is now their anchor!
Personally I do believe Microsoft will collapse since their operating system cannot keep pace. And what is now killing Microsoft is that nobody is scared of them. When Microsoft enters a new market around 2000 fear dominated the market. Now its boredom, yawn, and laughter! Microsoft needs to understand this, which they obviously are not.
Answer is yes they will raise their prices to 535 because they will say they offer you services XYZ...
When a product becomes transparent competition reduces because there is no ability to innovate. When a product is opaque there is lots of competition because you can innovate and push off the charges.
Take the example of nail. Last I heard not much competition in nails, screws or bolts. It is a completely transparent process because you can easily calculate the steel, and the amount of labor. The remainder is overhead. And as such nothing to innovate on. You can say your bolts are made of material XYZ, but that results in a creating a niche product where you don't make much to begin with.
Now take the example of organic food. You can say, "hey my lettuce grows on the south side of hill surrounded by cows giving real live fertilizer." Another can say, "hey I have chickens running through my fields". The decision lies on an arbitrary cow or chicken and your desire to have a cow or chicken fertilize your lettuce. And who can price whether a cow or chicken is more effective? It gives you breathing room to build margins and keep the entire pricing opaque and competitive...
Thus... If PC pricing is transparent you will get less competition and potentially higher prices... Think about the following... Apple... Transparent? HA! Oh wait their margins are glorious!!!
Let me make a bet here...
The person using GVIM or EMACS has 10,000 lines BECAUSE of GVIM, or EMACS... Flipping files in an IDE is trivial... In an editor like GVIM, or EMACS it is not a trivial. Ok not that hard, but I wonder if tedious as compared to an IDE.
HENCE, they have 10,000 lines in a source code file because of the environment they are using.
Oh wait what if the attacker knew you had a text/page/call/tweet and disabled that before breaking down the door.
THEN you would think your house is being protected, even though it is being robbed blind!
Want to know what the sad part about this is...
Let's say that you started making this about 18. This means by the time somebody who gets a degree hits the workplace and makes the same amount they are about 26. And they have debts to pay off, etc. So let's say around 30 they are pulling in the money.
If we do the math, with your 12 years you made an entire 600K! And if you were conservative and did not spend too much you could still have half of it.
Yes it is sad people look down on trades...
My brother went to German trade school (Industrial Mechanic). Me on the other hand I had two left hands as a tradesman. I was always dropping my tools. My strength was thinking, and oddly enough finance and financial products.
Though due to my German upbringing was never allowed to pursue it since it was not "real".
Huh...
My degree says Mechanical Engineering, and my wife's says Electrical Engineering, and my dad's said Mechanical Engineering, and my grandfather said, "Technical Engineering", and my great great grandfather was a roaming engineering...
My point is that my family is a long line of German engineers (Me first Canadian). And quite frankly I can operate a Lathe, Milling machine, and have the tool and die experience (did not bother with my license even though I had the background and experience).
So while an engineer needs to be a knowledge worker they also need experience at the shop floor. Makes no sense designing a car without ever having driven or taken one apart. Me I could take industrial production machines apart.
These days I work as a trader, and algo developer. Though because I have a habit of learning the basics I learned on what it was to be a trader before actually writing systematic trading systems.
I can understand that comment, and while there is truth to it, there is some bias to it.
Take the example of SnapOn Tools. SnapOn Tools are bleeding expensive. Not just a little, but REALLY expensive. But their products are indestructable and made for day long use in the industrial setting. If you amortize the SnapOn Tools you are actually paying less.
SnapOn could change and build a product that lasts X years ensuring them a money stream. Yet they don't because they know they have been and are number 1 for those who need to rely on the product.
The sad matter of fact is that very few companies want to go down this route. More would rather go down the route of "cash flows".
Wow... physical punishment works, yes?
Ok, there is the argument that you can reason with kids yes? So hence we must use physical punishment...
So here is an argument saying the physical punishment is actually very wrong. DOGS...
Can you reason with a dog? I don't think so... Dogs have the intelligence of about 1 year old. Dogs do react to discipline, much more than a human actually.
And the thing is how do you train a dog? By beating it? Sure it will listen to you, but out of fear. Will a beaten dog protect you? Not likely.
A dog is trained by non-contact discipline and paying attention to the needs of the dog. When a dog is made part of the "pack" it actually becomes a protector of the pack.
If people paid a bit more attention to this maybe people would understand that physical punishment is a weak response to not being able to deal with the situation.
BTW I was physically punished quite a bit, but it did nothing to change my habits. It only made more sneaky...
And here is why people don't go into engineering. I happen to be an engineer (4th generation) and my wife is an engineer. YET my mother is an artist, and I happen be able to paint as well.
Want to know why you think engineers are the way they are? Because engineers tend to be problem solvers and tend to think in a systematic approach.
YET things like politics and social life is anything but systematic. Witness the California social queen event, and Fox News.
The conflict is actually pre-programmed.
It is this kind of rationality that leads people to sell when they should buy, and buy when they should sell...
Why on earth am I modded flamebait?
Think about this folks...
3 strikes and you are out if you violate copyrights. Well, the same can be said of corporations... Imagine how many companies could be locked out of the Internet if they violate the copyright of Open Source? I think this is a fantastic opportunity!!!
Or is this a more sinster fact that many Slashdotters don't want to pay for music?
Sorry I don't agree there! You can't have it both ways!!!!
Before I undertake any task I do absolutely nothing. For about a day I will just idle around thinking about the problem. Kicking around one solution and another.... And I keep doing this until I am happy...
Wow, very good point, and you should be modded...
I for one think that the RIAA should be able to do what they do. Not because I like the RIAA, but because I believe in Open Source...
Remember Open Source relies on copyright. And if people believe in infringing in copyright then what stops a company from infringing the rights of Open Source?
So when the RIAA wants three strikes you are out, I would actually like to apply this to companies that infringe on Open Source copyright!
Think about it, a side benefit of this is that a company like DieBold that infringed could be cut off the Internet! They could not get back onto the Internet! Imagine how fast they might even comply!
So folks think of this as a blessing in disguise...
I don't know anymore about a company that wont disappear soon...
I have been thinking quite a bit about this and the one thing that could REALLY do major damage is the fabled Apple Tablet.
Up to this point Apple has been gaining market share, by building new markets for itself. Point to Apple.
But this netbook thing I think is here to stay and we have not seen the end of that design. Thus if Apple were to bring onto market an Apple Tablet in the netbook range then people would seriously look at that device.
I don't have an iBook (had one several years ago). Write code for the most part using Windows and .NET. But I have an iPod Touch and Apple has made some nice revenue from my buying of music and apps.
Now if they were to bring onto market a Tablet I would be client number 1 because right now I want an easy to use tablet to surf my information. Yes I have a Windows Tablet, but Vista sucks big time.
And this raises another point. If Apple puts in a stake in the netbook market how much longer will companies like HP wait and beg for scraps from Apple? They will go scurrying to Apple for anything because they don't want to risk landing in the abyss...
And I am sure that Steve Jobs would just love to stick a stake into Microsoft for the decades of damage Microsoft caused...
Thus I do think if something like this happened, Microsoft VERY QUICKLY would go the way of the Dodo...
Disclosure: I write programs using .NET and that would put a crimp in lifestyle...
You are modded funny, but frankly you are I think onto something.
Let's look at the stats. Ever since licensing was introduced in grand style the adoption of Windows has slowed dramatically.
While we all complain about Vista, the reality is that the adoption of it SUCKS! People are staying on XP and I am tempted to believe because the cost of upgrading the machines is too expensive. I know that previously I would buy maybe one or two licenses and upgrade my five machines.
But to buy 5 licenses? Get REAL! Not a chance...
So I think with a stronger DRM I do think that their license revenue will go down...
>Hey Bill! Maybe they don't want to go...
Bill has virtually nothing to do with this. Bill basically has cashed out his chips and moved on...
If anything say, "hey steve..."
As much as people like to say that this is a price issue, it really isn't. Otherwise, why on earth would OSX be near the 10% range? Why on earth would iPhone, and iPod touch be even registering on the radar? It is not cost.
What matters to the end user is functionality. They want to be able to get things done and that means flash, executables, etc, etc.
On Windows everything just works because it has momentum. On OSX people KNOW that it is OSX and expect things to be different (eg commercial Think Different HINT HINT...) And there are applications that get things done for users that are based on OSX.
Linux is more problematic. First there is very little commercialware support. THus the end user has to figure things out for themselves. And there is very little support among hardware vendors, meaning the end user has to figure things out.
The end result is that Linux will remain a niche product. I look at 1% and think, great in 2100 we might even get drivers to work... Yippeee...
What I think they are doing and I think it would indicate an encrypted drive is distribution analysis.
If you have truly random data then there is a specific pattern. If you have deleted or unused blocks there will be a specific pattern.
But if you have an encrypted block the distribution will not be like any of the other pieces of data. This is your indicator.
Think of it as follows. You are driving on the highway and somebody on the highway drives the speed limit exactly, stays in the center lane, and does not switch lanes at all. Even though that would seem to be right, it is actually quite wrong and it would make police suspicious.