That depends on how the data center is designed. Is it the typical 300W / sq foot that typical datacenters are, or is it designed for high density servers and the additional power / cooling they need? From the size of the generator, there is no way they can go that dense.
That has not been my experience. I can get at everything on my LG vx8100 verizon phone, and don't even need a USB cable. Bluetooth works. Of course my verizon Treo is even easier.
I wouldn't mind having the AJAX SDK as WELL as a native SDK, it's just not enough. There are way too many things you just can't do via a web browser app.
The bottom line is that you are free to go out and buy a pseudo smartphone for $500 that has a closed architecture, no 3G support, no keyboard, and no user-replacable battery but has a really nice UI, or you can buy a $300 true smartphone that can do everything the iPhone can do (albeit with an ugly UI) and DOES have all those features.
For corporate / enterprise users, it's a no-brainer. It's just not good enough. For individuals, well, sure, it's your choice to pay an extra $200 for a nice UI if the phone does what you want it to do. IMHO, not the smartest thing you can do, but it's your money.
Hey, I like Apple stuff for the most part (Leopard looks awesome,) and have a number of macs at home and at work. Like the AppleTV which lacks capture and SD support, this product doesn't fit my needs. At it's current price point, I only see the most die-hard apple fans buying it.
It depends on the community it is serving. Yeah, that is pretty pathetic compared to datacenters in major cities, but for a small city it would be perfectly fine.
When I first started using colocation back around 96, Exodus's colo room was 6 racks. They had explosive growth and by 2001 had massive datacenters in several cities around the globe. Anyway, give them time. If they do things right, they will grow.
The reason it's expensive to fill potholes is because it takes a 13 person crew to do it. No shit. I was watching from my window the other day when 6 vehicles showed up to fill a pothole in the street. A number of the guys were just drivers, one just ran a wheelbarrow, one for the back of the truck to fill the wheelbarrow, two flaggers, a guy to drive the compactor, etc. etc. Thank you Unions. You turned a $5 task into a $500 task.
Tolls don't work everywhere, unless you want a toll booth at the end of your driveway... And every driveway. Fuel tax is the easiest and most fair place to collect taxes to pay for roads.
In my state, the taxes paid on fuel don't go into a special road fund, they go into the general fund and less that 10% of the fuel tax collected is used for roads. Our roads here SUCK.
I don't mind double, triple or quadruple taxation.
Really? I do. I makes everything a lot more expensive than it should be. I figure that 80% of what I make goes to support the government directly or indirectly exactly because of this multiple taxation. It makes it that much harder to save money for retirement or sending my kids to college.
Let me know when you release your ssh v2 AJAX app for the iphone. Or a VNC client / RDP client, etc. Or how about an OGG player, Skype, etc.
Yeah, I saw the keynote. Simple apps that do simple things are possible / easy with ajax. Good luck doing anything that just won't run in a browser / javascript environment. If we had a full JVM in there, it would be a whole different ballgame. We don't.
Sorry Steve, your "solution" just doesn't cut it. Frankly, your lame excuse that a REAL SDK and openness will de-stabilize the phone / network ALSO doesn't cut it for any of us that has ever had a treo, blackberry, etc. Hey, you claim that you have the power of OSX in there, certainly you give us at least a restricted mini VM to run in without "destabilizing" anything...
Web apps with no 3G. Gee, thanks Steve. Thanks for nothing.
What you're saying essentially though is that the IT system has to prevent deliberate circumvention.
No, that's not what I'm saying at all.
It's trivial for most non-braindead mail servers to log / copy all inbound and outbound mail on sent / received via company servers. Company policy simply needs to require employees to use company servers and forbid the use of other services like hotmail. If you are in legal trouble due to an employee sending insider info using hotmail, that policy (as long as it's enforced) should let the company off the hook as far as data retention requirements goes. You may still be in trouble, but not because you didn't retain mail sent via hotmail.
Yeah, that's great until their seize all your computer equipment because they have logs showing that your IP downloaded child porn. The local DA will make much noise about the bust and your life as you know it is over. It doesn't matter that they won't actually find anything on your systems... It doesn't matter that it wasn't YOU that downloaded child porn. When it comes to child porn, you are guilty in the court of public opinion no matter what the evidence shows.
You had copies of Oregon Trail? We had to play (in '78) via model 33 teletype's, on acoustic coupler modems... I always liked the terminal on the far wall, because it had a jack for the other terminal's phone line. When MECC was busy, a paperclip in the old 4-prong jack and a quick dial of the rotary phone and I was in!
Let's say that you have a nightly backup schedule. VP at ACME sends an email to his broker buddy telling about a pending acquisition. Both delete the emails from their sent / received folders to hide traces. No record, nothing gets backed up.
Archiving needs to be done at a much lower level, such as the gateway / email server / etc.
Brute force password guessing is not the same as cracking WEP. WEP is broken, WPA is not. Yes, if you set your WPA password to something stupid like "password", you may get hacked, but this is nothing like WEP where no matter HOW good your password, it can probably be cracked in 20 mins or so...
connection-state-less uses such as surfing the web from my couch
HTTP uses TCP which is a connection oriented protocol. It works for you because of retransmits and the fact that you can't tell if a web site is just being slow or if there is a network problem (lost packet), and the fact the the connections are "short" in duration (unlike a big file transfer or SSH session.) Keep in mind that unless you disable keepalives, you can see even more frequent problems with web sessions.
I use wired connections wherever reasonable to do so, and re-wired my entire house to the point where there is a 48 port switch that is pretty full, even though only about half of the ports are active at any one time. I use VoIP hardphones (and some analog) too which ups the port usage significantly. I even have multiple drops in the detached garage. I look at it as future proofing. Conduit allows easy cable replacement (it's all tested/certified cat6 now... Plus the RG6UQS of course.)
I've played with WiSIP (WIFI) phones and have been quite underwhelmed with their reliability (horrible.)
You don't have to use it. Go get a Sangoma S518 ADSL PCI card and stick it in a linux box. Traffic shape / firewall to your hearts content. It works Very Very well.
True, the IP address itself is public. Use of the IP address in the normal way is not the problem. The problem is long-term logging and tying of the IP address to other information, such as search terms, sites visited, pages views, items purchased, books read, videos watched, email sent and received, etc. The fact that they not only collect but archive for a long period of time and analyze all this aggregate data is disturbing. Google probably not only knows exactly who you are, but where you live, what movies you like, how old you are, where you shop, your Girlfriend's name, address, kids, where you went on vacation, etc.
Where the GP post is wrong is presuming that a standard costs nothing and is worth nothing and therefore should be given away freely.
Standards MUST be given away freely in order to get adoption and ensure interoperability. Open free standards are why we have the internet. Imagine what it would be like if you had to pay a license fee in order to implement DNS, HTTP, TCP, HTML, SOAP, SMTP, NFS, PDF etc. We wouldn't have Apache, Firefox, or even Linux. All the companies that have contributed their people's time and efforts towards all the standards in use on the internet "get it". Yes, it is expensive, but the end result is worth it. It results in new innovative technology and even a whole industry (such as the web.)
What MS has are NOT standards. They are totally proprietary protocols and file formats. MS specifically and intentionally avoided standards wherever possible, such as with ODF/OOXML, and actively subverts real standards with "embrace and extend" methods such as LDAP / Kerberos in Active Directory. They can do this because they have the lion's share of the market. They don't HAVE to play nice (unless forced to by anti-trust action) and don't WANT to play nice. Playing nice would hurt their market share and give people choices.
I perfectly understand the mocking, and decided that it was beneath me to respond to such childish and uninformed drivel, but I did respond to your AC comment to further constructive dialog.
It's not "what Linux is doing right", it's "what can we add to Windows to make Linux unnecessary?" It's all about market share, and doing whatever it takes to make your product more attractive. Personally, I find Windows as attractive as an oil refinery, but when you are dealing with a corporate CIO mentality that everything must be single platform, it will become harder to get Linux / Solaris / BSD in the door when Windows can do what those OS's can do.
It won't be easy, but porting the mac version is the only viable way. You have Win32, Cocoa, and a possible X11 version based on??? QT? GTK? Motif? Running (correctly) under Wine? Considering how long it's taking for a Cocoa flavor of OOo, I would be surprised to see a MS Office for Linux sooner than 2009.
Seriously, what this means is that MS will become more compatible with Linux, not making Linux more compatible with MS products from an interoperability standpoint.
For example: better NFS client / serving from Windows server, Office being able to read (not write) ODF, running Linux applications on Windows, stuff like that. Things that help people migrate OFF Linux. There may be a side effect that some things in Linux will work better with MS, but that is a side effect and not intended behavior.
If MS was serious about working with Linux in a positive way, they would be releasing proper documentation on their file formats and network protocols with no strings attached (such as massive license fees.) Unless forced to do so (by the EU) this will NEVER happen.
MS's business model DEPENDS on them not working well with others. Both the US and EU tried to get them to play nice, and both have failed for various reasons (mostly political.) This should not be news to anyone at this point. It's a fact that MS fans don't care about and detractors gnash their teeth over.
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That depends on how the data center is designed. Is it the typical 300W / sq foot that typical datacenters are, or is it designed for high density servers and the additional power / cooling they need? From the size of the generator, there is no way they can go that dense.
That has not been my experience. I can get at everything on my LG vx8100 verizon phone, and don't even need a USB cable. Bluetooth works. Of course my verizon Treo is even easier.
Google maps is a stand-alone app, not a safari sandbox app.
I wouldn't mind having the AJAX SDK as WELL as a native SDK, it's just not enough. There are way too many things you just can't do via a web browser app.
The bottom line is that you are free to go out and buy a pseudo smartphone for $500 that has a closed architecture, no 3G support, no keyboard, and no user-replacable battery but has a really nice UI, or you can buy a $300 true smartphone that can do everything the iPhone can do (albeit with an ugly UI) and DOES have all those features.
For corporate / enterprise users, it's a no-brainer. It's just not good enough. For individuals, well, sure, it's your choice to pay an extra $200 for a nice UI if the phone does what you want it to do. IMHO, not the smartest thing you can do, but it's your money.
Hey, I like Apple stuff for the most part (Leopard looks awesome,) and have a number of macs at home and at work. Like the AppleTV which lacks capture and SD support, this product doesn't fit my needs. At it's current price point, I only see the most die-hard apple fans buying it.
It depends on the community it is serving. Yeah, that is pretty pathetic compared to datacenters in major cities, but for a small city it would be perfectly fine.
When I first started using colocation back around 96, Exodus's colo room was 6 racks. They had explosive growth and by 2001 had massive datacenters in several cities around the globe. Anyway, give them time. If they do things right, they will grow.
The reason it's expensive to fill potholes is because it takes a 13 person crew to do it. No shit. I was watching from my window the other day when 6 vehicles showed up to fill a pothole in the street. A number of the guys were just drivers, one just ran a wheelbarrow, one for the back of the truck to fill the wheelbarrow, two flaggers, a guy to drive the compactor, etc. etc. Thank you Unions. You turned a $5 task into a $500 task.
Tolls don't work everywhere, unless you want a toll booth at the end of your driveway... And every driveway. Fuel tax is the easiest and most fair place to collect taxes to pay for roads.
In my state, the taxes paid on fuel don't go into a special road fund, they go into the general fund and less that 10% of the fuel tax collected is used for roads. Our roads here SUCK.
I don't mind double, triple or quadruple taxation.
Really? I do. I makes everything a lot more expensive than it should be. I figure that 80% of what I make goes to support the government directly or indirectly exactly because of this multiple taxation. It makes it that much harder to save money for retirement or sending my kids to college.
Let me know when you release your ssh v2 AJAX app for the iphone. Or a VNC client / RDP client, etc. Or how about an OGG player, Skype, etc.
Yeah, I saw the keynote. Simple apps that do simple things are possible / easy with ajax. Good luck doing anything that just won't run in a browser / javascript environment. If we had a full JVM in there, it would be a whole different ballgame. We don't.
Sorry Steve, your "solution" just doesn't cut it. Frankly, your lame excuse that a REAL SDK and openness will de-stabilize the phone / network ALSO doesn't cut it for any of us that has ever had a treo, blackberry, etc. Hey, you claim that you have the power of OSX in there, certainly you give us at least a restricted mini VM to run in without "destabilizing" anything...
Web apps with no 3G. Gee, thanks Steve. Thanks for nothing.
What you're saying essentially though is that the IT system has to prevent deliberate circumvention.
No, that's not what I'm saying at all.
It's trivial for most non-braindead mail servers to log / copy all inbound and outbound mail on sent / received via company servers. Company policy simply needs to require employees to use company servers and forbid the use of other services like hotmail. If you are in legal trouble due to an employee sending insider info using hotmail, that policy (as long as it's enforced) should let the company off the hook as far as data retention requirements goes. You may still be in trouble, but not because you didn't retain mail sent via hotmail.
Yeah, that's great until their seize all your computer equipment because they have logs showing that your IP downloaded child porn. The local DA will make much noise about the bust and your life as you know it is over. It doesn't matter that they won't actually find anything on your systems... It doesn't matter that it wasn't YOU that downloaded child porn. When it comes to child porn, you are guilty in the court of public opinion no matter what the evidence shows.
You had copies of Oregon Trail? We had to play (in '78) via model 33 teletype's, on acoustic coupler modems... I always liked the terminal on the far wall, because it had a jack for the other terminal's phone line. When MECC was busy, a paperclip in the old 4-prong jack and a quick dial of the rotary phone and I was in!
No. Backup is not enough. Here's why.
Let's say that you have a nightly backup schedule. VP at ACME sends an email to his broker buddy telling about a pending acquisition. Both delete the emails from their sent / received folders to hide traces. No record, nothing gets backed up.
Archiving needs to be done at a much lower level, such as the gateway / email server / etc.
Brute force password guessing is not the same as cracking WEP. WEP is broken, WPA is not. Yes, if you set your WPA password to something stupid like "password", you may get hacked, but this is nothing like WEP where no matter HOW good your password, it can probably be cracked in 20 mins or so...
PC, did you try to upgrade to Vista again? I see you must have had the Geek Squad work on you, as you seem to be suffering from internal corruption...
- Mac.
connection-state-less uses such as surfing the web from my couch
HTTP uses TCP which is a connection oriented protocol. It works for you because of retransmits and the fact that you can't tell if a web site is just being slow or if there is a network problem (lost packet), and the fact the the connections are "short" in duration (unlike a big file transfer or SSH session.) Keep in mind that unless you disable keepalives, you can see even more frequent problems with web sessions.
I use wired connections wherever reasonable to do so, and re-wired my entire house to the point where there is a 48 port switch that is pretty full, even though only about half of the ports are active at any one time. I use VoIP hardphones (and some analog) too which ups the port usage significantly. I even have multiple drops in the detached garage. I look at it as future proofing. Conduit allows easy cable replacement (it's all tested/certified cat6 now... Plus the RG6UQS of course.)
I've played with WiSIP (WIFI) phones and have been quite underwhelmed with their reliability (horrible.)
You don't have to use it. Go get a Sangoma S518 ADSL PCI card and stick it in a linux box. Traffic shape / firewall to your hearts content. It works Very Very well.
You do know that WPA is not the same as WEP, right? And that one is easy to crack and the other isn't? Just checking...
True, the IP address itself is public. Use of the IP address in the normal way is not the problem. The problem is long-term logging and tying of the IP address to other information, such as search terms, sites visited, pages views, items purchased, books read, videos watched, email sent and received, etc. The fact that they not only collect but archive for a long period of time and analyze all this aggregate data is disturbing. Google probably not only knows exactly who you are, but where you live, what movies you like, how old you are, where you shop, your Girlfriend's name, address, kids, where you went on vacation, etc.
Where the GP post is wrong is presuming that a standard costs nothing and is worth nothing and therefore should be given away freely.
Standards MUST be given away freely in order to get adoption and ensure interoperability. Open free standards are why we have the internet. Imagine what it would be like if you had to pay a license fee in order to implement DNS, HTTP, TCP, HTML, SOAP, SMTP, NFS, PDF etc. We wouldn't have Apache, Firefox, or even Linux. All the companies that have contributed their people's time and efforts towards all the standards in use on the internet "get it". Yes, it is expensive, but the end result is worth it. It results in new innovative technology and even a whole industry (such as the web.)
What MS has are NOT standards. They are totally proprietary protocols and file formats. MS specifically and intentionally avoided standards wherever possible, such as with ODF/OOXML, and actively subverts real standards with "embrace and extend" methods such as LDAP / Kerberos in Active Directory. They can do this because they have the lion's share of the market. They don't HAVE to play nice (unless forced to by anti-trust action) and don't WANT to play nice. Playing nice would hurt their market share and give people choices.
I perfectly understand the mocking, and decided that it was beneath me to respond to such childish and uninformed drivel, but I did respond to your AC comment to further constructive dialog.
It's not "what Linux is doing right", it's "what can we add to Windows to make Linux unnecessary?" It's all about market share, and doing whatever it takes to make your product more attractive. Personally, I find Windows as attractive as an oil refinery, but when you are dealing with a corporate CIO mentality that everything must be single platform, it will become harder to get Linux / Solaris / BSD in the door when Windows can do what those OS's can do.
It won't be easy, but porting the mac version is the only viable way. You have Win32, Cocoa, and a possible X11 version based on??? QT? GTK? Motif? Running (correctly) under Wine? Considering how long it's taking for a Cocoa flavor of OOo, I would be surprised to see a MS Office for Linux sooner than 2009.
Seriously, what this means is that MS will become more compatible with Linux, not making Linux more compatible with MS products from an interoperability standpoint.
For example: better NFS client / serving from Windows server, Office being able to read (not write) ODF, running Linux applications on Windows, stuff like that. Things that help people migrate OFF Linux. There may be a side effect that some things in Linux will work better with MS, but that is a side effect and not intended behavior.
If MS was serious about working with Linux in a positive way, they would be releasing proper documentation on their file formats and network protocols with no strings attached (such as massive license fees.) Unless forced to do so (by the EU) this will NEVER happen.
MS's business model DEPENDS on them not working well with others. Both the US and EU tried to get them to play nice, and both have failed for various reasons (mostly political.) This should not be news to anyone at this point. It's a fact that MS fans don't care about and detractors gnash their teeth over.