Since there's no financial benefit to Company A, and there's no legal reason forcing them to (yet) then the consumer is just SOL.
Actually, the legal reason DOES exist since MS is (in the eyes of the law) a monopoly. They need to play be different rules. Now if companies B1 and B2 go to court, which they probably will when Vista is released, then they can get some relief AFTER THE FACT.
IMHO, MS isn't being smart. They WILL get smacked by the courts again, and since the consent decree is still in effect, it won't take 5 years for that smacking to happen. Also, they still have the EU which will probably smack them too.
It was a HUGE blunder for the courts to not break up MS into smaller parts that competed, and all consumers (even non-MS users) are losing because of it.
If anyone is, um, silly enough to run Vista without waiting for at least 6 months after SP2, then they probably are not really concerned about security, compatibility, and reliability anyway. It's pretty standard practice to wait.
Over the last 20 years I've watched as American business management seemed to forget about delivering the best product, and focused on maximizing profits instead, as if the two could be entirely separated.
There are a number of cases of this to prove the point.
Walmart and cronies, and the people who shop there, are mainly to blame for a lot of this IMHO. They kept demanding lower and lower prices from manufacturers, which resulted in many of the manufacturers needing to cut costs. Slowly over the years manufacturers have accomplished this in a number of ways by substituting materials, using less material (thinner plastics / metals) and moving manufacturering overseas for cheaper labor.
One case is snowshovels. You can NOT buy a good snowshovel at any of the big box stores. They are all made in china with thin, soft plastic or very thin aluminum. They collapse when you hit a crack in the concrete, or the handle bends, etc. My local hardware store (which just closed after being in business after 92 years because they couldn't compete with Lowes and Home Depot) carried shovels made in Canada that were awesome. The Canadian shovels only costs $5 more, but probably had 1/4th the markup on them. I hope I can find another retailer for those snow shovels if I ever need a new one (which may be many years.)
Another is shoes. We have a local shoe manufacturer that made high-end slippers and sandles for a number of well known major retailers. About 4 years ago, they moved all manufacturing to China. Quality dropped significantly resulting in massive product returns. Since these were private labeled products, the retailers reputation (which is based on only selling quality products) was in question. The local management team spent about 2 years trying to solve the quality issues in China and failed losing tens of millions of dollars (they had moved all their manufacturing equipment to China as well.) Late last year they announced that they were moving production back to the US, and started rehiring some of their old employees (of course most already had other jobs.)
IT is no different. Anyone remember the corporate backlash against Dell for moving support to India? This resulted in support for corporate models being returned to the US (consumer model support is still overseas. I advise against Dell and a couple other companies for this reason.)
From an article in BM: "Offshore outsourcing has grown so fast in countries such as India that the number of people that they have to do the services doesn't meet the demand in a lot of cases. There is a lot of competition for the best resources and they move from job to job for fairly small pay that translates into high turnover rates."
One quote from Mark Jennings, Vice President of Synergroup Systems: "Offshore providers are a popular solution for large corporations that need to cut costs, but overseas vendors are not without issues. Workers in India and other popular offshore countries are difficult to oversee and typically require the creation of a US-based management position, complete with a hefty salary and benefits, to act as a liaison between the offshore workers and the corporation. Companies are faced with language and cultural differences, time zone disconnects and the hidden costs encountered when communication breakdowns cause projects to be compromised."
Not all companies (like Dell) make good decisions on offshoring / outsourcing.
Well, the wires would come out of the back, and you use bluetooth wireless accessories. Problem solved.
I would assume that if you have the ability to do a nice computer case, you could take the guts of a mouse and put them in a nice wooden shell. Ditto for a keyboard. Frankly, you may be able to just veneer over an existing keyboard shell.
As always, should you or any of your I. M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This notebook will self destruct in 10 seconds...
Damn Mr. Phelps! At least read your messages in private!
Unfortunately Sony seems to being merging all their fingers into one pie at the moment in the form of the PS3.
Um, No. I don't think you realize how large and diverse Sony is.
Sony is in three main lines of business: consumer electronics (the Walkman, TVs, boomboxes, playstation, stereos), professional and business electronics (telephones and telecommunications, computer peripherals, semiconductors, broadcasting equipment, medical imaging, display systems, factory automation systems), and entertainment (music and movies, movie theaters, CD-ROMs).
Somehow I don't think the PS3 is going to play a large part of Sony's overall business. In fact, I would expect it to remain down in the 1% range at best.
No, Sony is doing just fine. They are a massive company with their fingers in thousands of pies. Being massive, bad things happen all the time - kind of like New York City is massive and has hundreds of car accidents every day.
Sony does most things pretty well, but some things wrong (backdoor malware on music CD's is another example.)
Yes it will work, but the reason people generally don't do it is because these type of applications would be very slow over a WAN - especially when users are used to LAN based mail. Think attachments and shared folders. This is, of course, assuming that you don't have some kind of very-high speed WAN (fiber, T3, etc.) Depending on how many users you have, how they use exchange, and your traffic volume levels, it may or may not be acceptable. You can simulate a wan in a lan environment by setting up a test network (using a few linux boxes with a few NIC's as routers) and use rate limiting to simulate your WAN speed. Then it's just a matter of trying it out.
In any larger company, you really NEED a test environment anyway that can simulate at least part of your network at a time. Hell, with vmware, you can actually setup a whole virtual network within ONE machine (just make sure you have a lot of RAM:-) I once ran a network of 12 virtual machines with a mix of Windows and Linux on my desktop that simulated 3 different networks and VPN links between them. It was pretty slow on a p4 2.4G with 1G. It's quite snappy on a dual-cpu, dual core opteron with 16G:-)
Although VMware appears to be better for now, will it have the same level of support and compatibility that Microsoft provides?
God I hope not. If VMWare gave end-users (that paid for the software) the level of support that MS gives end-users (that paid for the software,) I wouldn't even be able to open a ticket without forking over additional large $$$. Nope, I hope VMWare keeps up with the high quality of support it gives paying users and doesn't stoop to the non-support level MS has.
One of us seems to be confused. WAN is networking - outside the computer. Virtualization is inside the computer. Your question is kinda like asking if you can drive a car in a state that has a river. Can you manage a virtualized machine over a WAN? Yes. Can you access a VM over a WAN? Yes. A VM "server" is no different than a traditional server other than it doesn't have dedicated, direct, and unrestricted access to hardware resources. Keep in mind that accessing an application via a WAN when you have traditionally accessed it via a LAN may have a severe performance impact.
I've been through the security checkpoints enough that I just get annoyed. Seriously annoyed. If we were SERIOUS about security, we would be profiling rather than harrassing grannies, nursing mothers, etc.
But I agree with you on all your other points. Most of the US's allies are taking on a lot of bad US traits such as errosion of rights, and putting large corporations profits before consumers.
We as a world, have not learned from history at all. It's still all about Power and Money, with an elite class ruling it all while the people suffer. Some countries are better than others, but they all share this common trait.
The more people one these lists means more taxpayer funded people to manage the list and terrorize the people on the lists. It also means that "we have a larger problem" so more rights-restricting laws will be passed.
I don't want the TSA sued. I want the TSA employees involved fired, along with their direct manager. I want the head of the TSA and all the employees to know that if this happens again, criminal charges will be filed. I want it to be a felony for any officer to intentionally stifle free speach.
Note that script kiddies are, by definition, not skilled enough to do anything on their own. The talented hackers / crackers are the ones that write the code used by the script kiddies.
The other problem of showing tech in a belivable way is resolution. I run my terminal windows on a widescreen (2560x1600) monitor, with a fairly small font (big monitor.) In order to capture anything meaningful and show it on someone's television, they would need to use a 120 point font. They also don't want the screen cluttered with icons, other applications, etc. otherwise the viewer would be distracted from what they want you to focus on (the story.)
I think the thing that bugs tech people the most in movies is the bastardization of terminology. Note to studios: please hire someone with at least the education of a 12 year old to make sure that a discusssion is SOMEWHAT reasonable. Don't the studios have anyone at all on staff that has a clue? Surely they have someone who is managing the technology for them in the first place...
You miss the point. Rather than just banning the BATTERIES, they would ban the DEVICE. If you ban the device, that seriously damages business travel since it's not feasable to check it due to the mishandling (breakage, theft, putting it on the wrong plane, etc.) Seriously, I've had REALLY bad luck with luggage. I have a less than 50% success rate with checked luggage. Most frequent is delays of at LEAST 24 hours, seconded by damage to very well packed items. I've had 3 bags in 5 years that I never saw again. Nothing goes in checked luggage that I care about or truely need upon arriving at my destination. Larger items that I need are shipped FedEx.
Furthermore, one option is to not allow the laptops on the airplane AT ALL since they could explode in the cargo hold too. That would be pretty devistating in the modern business world. It would sure fuck over my business travel, that's for sure.
It would not be reasonable for the FAA to ban Li-ion batteries in devices, that toses iPods, phones, cameras, portable DVD players, etc. in the modern world. It would kill air travel. Furthermore, I'm not sure you would want these things in checked baggage either (not that checking laptops and other expensive tech is an option anyway due to the massive mishandling / theft that occurs.)
I'm still waiting for airlines to install power sockets. I've flown hundreds of flights around the US on several airlines in the past several years and I have only found ONE plane that had power.
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Since there's no financial benefit to Company A, and there's no legal reason forcing them to (yet) then the consumer is just SOL.
Actually, the legal reason DOES exist since MS is (in the eyes of the law) a monopoly. They need to play be different rules. Now if companies B1 and B2 go to court, which they probably will when Vista is released, then they can get some relief AFTER THE FACT.
IMHO, MS isn't being smart. They WILL get smacked by the courts again, and since the consent decree is still in effect, it won't take 5 years for that smacking to happen. Also, they still have the EU which will probably smack them too.
It was a HUGE blunder for the courts to not break up MS into smaller parts that competed, and all consumers (even non-MS users) are losing because of it.
If anyone is, um, silly enough to run Vista without waiting for at least 6 months after SP2, then they probably are not really concerned about security, compatibility, and reliability anyway. It's pretty standard practice to wait.
TPM+proper software design is the only way this can be mitigated.
Depends. If the only way software will run is if MICROSOFT signs it, then no.
If I can "accept" trusted publishers and if as an enduser I can sign software so that it runs, then yes.
God knows what will happen with GPLv3 software though if publishers have to hand over the keys. I guess we stick to GPLv2?
Furthermore, we have the famous Swinging Patent. While not everything should be patentable, the US patent office disagrees. Everything is fair game.
Over the last 20 years I've watched as American business management seemed to forget about delivering the best product, and focused on maximizing profits instead, as if the two could be entirely separated.
There are a number of cases of this to prove the point.
Walmart and cronies, and the people who shop there, are mainly to blame for a lot of this IMHO. They kept demanding lower and lower prices from manufacturers, which resulted in many of the manufacturers needing to cut costs. Slowly over the years manufacturers have accomplished this in a number of ways by substituting materials, using less material (thinner plastics / metals) and moving manufacturering overseas for cheaper labor.
One case is snowshovels. You can NOT buy a good snowshovel at any of the big box stores. They are all made in china with thin, soft plastic or very thin aluminum. They collapse when you hit a crack in the concrete, or the handle bends, etc. My local hardware store (which just closed after being in business after 92 years because they couldn't compete with Lowes and Home Depot) carried shovels made in Canada that were awesome. The Canadian shovels only costs $5 more, but probably had 1/4th the markup on them. I hope I can find another retailer for those snow shovels if I ever need a new one (which may be many years.)
Another is shoes. We have a local shoe manufacturer that made high-end slippers and sandles for a number of well known major retailers. About 4 years ago, they moved all manufacturing to China. Quality dropped significantly resulting in massive product returns. Since these were private labeled products, the retailers reputation (which is based on only selling quality products) was in question. The local management team spent about 2 years trying to solve the quality issues in China and failed losing tens of millions of dollars (they had moved all their manufacturing equipment to China as well.) Late last year they announced that they were moving production back to the US, and started rehiring some of their old employees (of course most already had other jobs.)
IT is no different. Anyone remember the corporate backlash against Dell for moving support to India? This resulted in support for corporate models being returned to the US (consumer model support is still overseas. I advise against Dell and a couple other companies for this reason.)
From an article in BM: "Offshore outsourcing has grown so fast in countries such as India that the number of people that they have to do the services doesn't meet the demand in a lot of cases. There is a lot of competition for the best resources and they move from job to job for fairly small pay that translates into high turnover rates."
One quote from Mark Jennings, Vice President of Synergroup Systems: "Offshore providers are a popular solution for large corporations that need to cut costs, but overseas vendors are not without issues. Workers in India and other popular offshore countries are difficult to oversee and typically require the creation of a US-based management position, complete with a hefty salary and benefits, to act as a liaison between the offshore workers and the corporation. Companies are faced with language and cultural differences, time zone disconnects and the hidden costs encountered when communication breakdowns cause projects to be compromised."
Not all companies (like Dell) make good decisions on offshoring / outsourcing.
Well, the wires would come out of the back, and you use bluetooth wireless accessories. Problem solved.
I would assume that if you have the ability to do a nice computer case, you could take the guts of a mouse and put them in a nice wooden shell. Ditto for a keyboard. Frankly, you may be able to just veneer over an existing keyboard shell.
The claim that a case needs to be made out of a conductive material is basically a hoax perpetuated to sell aluminum cases.
Um, what about EMI shielding? Wood is horrible at that. I would bet that these systems have internal EMI shields.
As always, should you or any of your I. M. Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This notebook will self destruct in 10 seconds...
Damn Mr. Phelps! At least read your messages in private!
Unfortunately Sony seems to being merging all their fingers into one pie at the moment in the form of the PS3.
Um, No. I don't think you realize how large and diverse Sony is.
Sony is in three main lines of business: consumer electronics (the Walkman, TVs, boomboxes, playstation, stereos), professional and business electronics (telephones and telecommunications, computer peripherals, semiconductors, broadcasting equipment, medical imaging, display systems, factory automation systems), and entertainment (music and movies, movie theaters, CD-ROMs).
Somehow I don't think the PS3 is going to play a large part of Sony's overall business. In fact, I would expect it to remain down in the 1% range at best.
So what relation does the Tokamok have to the Typodong missle? :-)
No, Sony is doing just fine. They are a massive company with their fingers in thousands of pies. Being massive, bad things happen all the time - kind of like New York City is massive and has hundreds of car accidents every day.
Sony does most things pretty well, but some things wrong (backdoor malware on music CD's is another example.)
They already announced that they will. Not sure what took them so long...
Yes it will work, but the reason people generally don't do it is because these type of applications would be very slow over a WAN - especially when users are used to LAN based mail. Think attachments and shared folders. This is, of course, assuming that you don't have some kind of very-high speed WAN (fiber, T3, etc.) Depending on how many users you have, how they use exchange, and your traffic volume levels, it may or may not be acceptable. You can simulate a wan in a lan environment by setting up a test network (using a few linux boxes with a few NIC's as routers) and use rate limiting to simulate your WAN speed. Then it's just a matter of trying it out.
:-) I once ran a network of 12 virtual machines with a mix of Windows and Linux on my desktop that simulated 3 different networks and VPN links between them. It was pretty slow on a p4 2.4G with 1G. It's quite snappy on a dual-cpu, dual core opteron with 16G :-)
In any larger company, you really NEED a test environment anyway that can simulate at least part of your network at a time. Hell, with vmware, you can actually setup a whole virtual network within ONE machine (just make sure you have a lot of RAM
Although VMware appears to be better for now, will it have the same level of support and compatibility that Microsoft provides?
God I hope not. If VMWare gave end-users (that paid for the software) the level of support that MS gives end-users (that paid for the software,) I wouldn't even be able to open a ticket without forking over additional large $$$. Nope, I hope VMWare keeps up with the high quality of support it gives paying users and doesn't stoop to the non-support level MS has.
One of us seems to be confused. WAN is networking - outside the computer. Virtualization is inside the computer. Your question is kinda like asking if you can drive a car in a state that has a river. Can you manage a virtualized machine over a WAN? Yes. Can you access a VM over a WAN? Yes. A VM "server" is no different than a traditional server other than it doesn't have dedicated, direct, and unrestricted access to hardware resources. Keep in mind that accessing an application via a WAN when you have traditionally accessed it via a LAN may have a severe performance impact.
I've been through the security checkpoints enough that I just get annoyed. Seriously annoyed. If we were SERIOUS about security, we would be profiling rather than harrassing grannies, nursing mothers, etc.
But I agree with you on all your other points. Most of the US's allies are taking on a lot of bad US traits such as errosion of rights, and putting large corporations profits before consumers.
We as a world, have not learned from history at all. It's still all about Power and Money, with an elite class ruling it all while the people suffer. Some countries are better than others, but they all share this common trait.
I don't think you understand how this works.
The more people one these lists means more taxpayer funded people to manage the list and terrorize the people on the lists. It also means that "we have a larger problem" so more rights-restricting laws will be passed.
I don't want the TSA sued. I want the TSA employees involved fired, along with their direct manager. I want the head of the TSA and all the employees to know that if this happens again, criminal charges will be filed. I want it to be a felony for any officer to intentionally stifle free speach.
And 80 cores worth of blistering heat to cook over... Yee haw!
Note that script kiddies are, by definition, not skilled enough to do anything on their own. The talented hackers / crackers are the ones that write the code used by the script kiddies.
The other problem of showing tech in a belivable way is resolution. I run my terminal windows on a widescreen (2560x1600) monitor, with a fairly small font (big monitor.) In order to capture anything meaningful and show it on someone's television, they would need to use a 120 point font. They also don't want the screen cluttered with icons, other applications, etc. otherwise the viewer would be distracted from what they want you to focus on (the story.)
I think the thing that bugs tech people the most in movies is the bastardization of terminology. Note to studios: please hire someone with at least the education of a 12 year old to make sure that a discusssion is SOMEWHAT reasonable. Don't the studios have anyone at all on staff that has a clue? Surely they have someone who is managing the technology for them in the first place...
You miss the point. Rather than just banning the BATTERIES, they would ban the DEVICE. If you ban the device, that seriously damages business travel since it's not feasable to check it due to the mishandling (breakage, theft, putting it on the wrong plane, etc.) Seriously, I've had REALLY bad luck with luggage. I have a less than 50% success rate with checked luggage. Most frequent is delays of at LEAST 24 hours, seconded by damage to very well packed items. I've had 3 bags in 5 years that I never saw again. Nothing goes in checked luggage that I care about or truely need upon arriving at my destination. Larger items that I need are shipped FedEx.
Furthermore, one option is to not allow the laptops on the airplane AT ALL since they could explode in the cargo hold too. That would be pretty devistating in the modern business world. It would sure fuck over my business travel, that's for sure.
It would not be reasonable for the FAA to ban Li-ion batteries in devices, that toses iPods, phones, cameras, portable DVD players, etc. in the modern world. It would kill air travel. Furthermore, I'm not sure you would want these things in checked baggage either (not that checking laptops and other expensive tech is an option anyway due to the massive mishandling / theft that occurs.)
I'm still waiting for airlines to install power sockets. I've flown hundreds of flights around the US on several airlines in the past several years and I have only found ONE plane that had power.
I bet you don't have a Li-Ion battery in your UPS either. Totally different tech.