Here's my solution:
write a program that, whenever you type an email, instead of sending the email, it writes the text in a self destroying webpage, and then sends the link to the page instead of the text itself.
so the email that's actually sent would read something like "Jose Garcia has sent you an email, pres here to see it. and when the user clicks de page, a browser displays the content on a secure server (https). once the page is seen once, it is forever deleted from the server (or whatever settings you provide for number of views and type of deletion). the reader can save the html file in his computer if it wants a copy.
ok, so i didn't sovle the problem, since government can still see the email with the link and click the link, but at least you'll know you're been watched... =)
now if this idea even makes sense, and someone decides to do it, feel free. this post is GPLed (or whatever it is i need to do to make it free information), just put my name somewhere so i can brag to chics ok?
Are you so arrogant as to think that the US is the only acceptable place for classy millionaires with space travel wishes? well I'll tell you what, pretty much ANY classy millionaire would accept living in a whole lot of places outside the US. Argentina, France, Australia, Canada, etc., and in fact many of them do.
And that only speaks of your lack of knowledge, but I also have a problem with your judgement. I would suspect that any marker research done to establish the demand for space tourism will throw out numbers that would contradict your statement. The Denis Titos and James Camerons of the world wouldn't mind traveling to, say, Brazil, to get on a rocket heading for a space station. Believe me, it is not in Brazil that they will encounter an unconfortable, unsafe environment, it will be in space.
Now I do agree that they'll rather do the whole thing in the states, in spite of all the legal hurdles. Why? well because it's cheaper, to the point where it seems to be feasible. Most of the technology required to go to space, and the knowledgeable people that make it work, are in greater supply in the US. Furthermore, if you read the article, they are counting on someone else to develop a cheaper way of taking people to earth orbit, and most projects heading that way are either in the US or Canada.
I can only think of Russia, France, Japan and maybe Brazil, as viable alternatives, due mainly to the fact that those countries have space launch infrastructure (and I'm sure I left some out). Still I would think that it would be cheaper to do it in the US because of the greater availability of engineers specialized in the field.
But you know what? since I haven't seen the BP for this enterprise, I can't be certain. Unlike you, who seem to know it all...
I seem to be the only one here that thinks different when it comes to looks. I'm sorry, but to me, looks are TOO important.
Sure, I still do some coding now and then. Sure I write all my own business plans and financial reports and analisys, and sure it's important for my PC to function properly, but that's not hard to do anymore. I can use pretty much any computer and fix whatever problems I have on them on the fly, and as long as I have enough RAM and HDD, i don't care about the rest (not even the CPU as long as it's at least a PII or more). I don't even care if it runs windows or linux, as long as I can get the job done, and I usually can.
The huge difference I see is that to me, looks are VERY VERY important. I want my computer to look cool, my cars to look impressive and my women to be pretty (and to me my wife is). Why? i don't know. I'm not insecure at all. I don't have a problem with my penis size, I'm not a show off and I'm usually a very idealistic guy (instead of materialistic), but there's nothing like a good design. To me, it's inspirational. If I love the way my computer looks, it makes me want to spend more time on it, and probably I'll feel more motivated. It's like a house. I don't just want four walls, a place to sit and a net jack every few feet, I want a good looking house, with pilars, a patio, good lighting, cool plants, lots of maps and that sort of excentric stuff.
Maybe it's because I really do love art, or maybe it's because i'm just human. Even the software my company develops has to be pretty, even if we still have to iron out some bugs. And i know this would make a lot of people unconfortable, but a system that looks good sells easily, because it looks polished, even if it's a piece of crap on the inside (and no, we don't develop pieces of crap, really!), but a system that does EVERYTHING, but looks like one of those casio electronic agendas of the 80's is less likely to succeed. That's just how humans work. It's all about perception, no matter how hard we try here to make everyone believe that function is more important. And if I have to mention our holy war just to connect (i'm reading too much katz, sorry), that's why linux is not very popular as a desktop OS for the masses, and windows with all it's bugs and BSOD's is.
Heck, in our experience, if the software looks good, people are more likely to use and enjoy it and less likely to complain about any faults, even if it's a fault in the system (which creates a different set of problems, especially related to feedback)
so if this line of computers offers nothing new in terms of functionality or practicality, but look cool as hell, when I get the cash I'll buy one of those, an Audi TT convertible and go watch The Matrix with my wife again in a brand new Plasma screen. Trust me, I'll be inspired. Maybe that day i'll finish my novel....
I've read the whole thing and i still can't figure out if this actually records 3d images, and if so, how does it do it?
When it says you can have eye contact, does it mean that the person being "teleported" (at least you know they have a marketing department) will also receive an image of the room he's being teleported to? if not, this isn't eye contact any more than staring at a monalisa painting is...
So, if this is what it sounds like, and what they have is a 3d recorder and a 3d proyector (they claim 40" by 30") on each end, then a $70,000.00 price tag is a bargain I think. I can even see how it could pay for itself at that price. Just imagine how much it costs a company to have bi-monthly meetings with executives, say, from their Japan branch. Not just the plane ticket, but hotel costs, the 3 wasted days traveling, etc. Most likely they just wouldn't have those meetings, so this product opens up new possibilities...
Now if you ask me how I would have done it, well, I'd stick with glasses that project images into your eyes. You can record the whole scene with several traditional cameras on both ends, have the computer generate a 3d model of both places (this can be done pretty easily already) and have them transmitted to their destination, where people are wearing glasses that project the "teleported" person in a fixed area somewhere in front of you, and have the image stay there even if you move your head. All of this has been done already but not with this application
And i don't mean slashdot, i mean the idiots that wrote the story in the first place.
ANYONE who has ever written a shopping cart type app, or has used a canned one (a la site server or commerce server) knows that you only pass along the item's identifier (usually a number or string). this ID is then used ON THE SERVER SIDE to retrieve pricing info from the product tables.
I haven't seen a shopping cart app out there, EVER, that uses pricing as a variable in the html code, and i doubt the writers of the story have either.
and just trying to say this is the same problem that the united airlines site had is just plain lieing.
so now that slamming the tech sector is hip, are they all just gonna start making shit up?
I wouldn't know how to measure it, but I bet a good percentage of all Slashdotters make their best effort to post good comments to get some karma points. You know why? because it's fun. yes, this IS a game, and in my book, everything is.
Sure, the main motivation behind most posts is to share your thoughts, but if I have instant feedback on what people think of what I write, AND i can keep track of that feedback in a measureable manner, what you have is a VERY fun game to play.
A good deal of the success of slashdot is owed to Karma points. I used to care about it a lot. After the cap, I got to open my eyes and realize what Slashdot's real value was, the news, and stopped caring about posting or letting others know my thoughts. Now I rarely post, only when i feel too passionate about a subject or don't have much else to do. I don't find time to write comments anymore, and I'm afraid others will open their eyes eventually and slashdot will be no more. I'll have to go back to the more traditional ways of getting news: the other's websites where people either don't have a comment option, or don't have enough motivation to comment.
I think karma is a great MARKETING (uuuuuh!) tool for slashdot but they refuse to use it. Not sure why though.
I can't possible make myself read 2 hours of katz again, so i read the the first few lines and a thought jumped in my head. Thought I'd share it with you, knowing that by know you're probably somewhat bored (you know why):
Thats because these are the figures that are more likely to make you support all those G's you need to put up with in trainning and flight. Shorter people have an edge here...I'm saved!
well, what if people started writing games for dreamcast booting on a linux kernel (after all the OS can reside on every CD or GDROM, like the almost never used winCE): wouldn't that make gaming for linux desktops way closer to reality? we could have a set of drivers a la DirectX as an abstraction layer that would make the difference between PC hardware and Dreamcast hardware almost irrelevant....
1- i haven't done those great things because i'm just a good programmer, not a great programmer, much less a game programmer. this doesn't mean there aren't any great programmers out there who would make good games, just like there are great programmers out there that decided to write samba and apache.
2- the copy of 3ds max that i have was downloaded off of warez. i'm not ashamed to say it. i use it to satisfy my own personal artistic needs (stress relief they call it), and if i were to profit from it i would probably have to buy it (although reluctantly). in that case $4,000.00 would not be a high price to pay compared to what good 3d scenes go for nowadays.
3- didn't you read the article? guess you were busy flaming the world. developing for indrema would cost as much as developing for linux: $0 plus tax. you pay if you sell your games, you pay if you want the technical certification.
4- indrema is not something i already have: there are no good standard (or widely used) APIs for game development in linux. and if i wanted to make games for directX on the windows platform, i would be restricted to closed everything. indrema gives you standard hardware/software and promotes a game development community through their website and overall cool attitude where you can share textures, game engines, ideas, characters, etc. you can also collaborate with games that are being developped much like you can do today with open source and free software projects.
5- and as i write this post, i realize what indrema is already giving me. like i said i'm no game developer, but i can come up with pretty pictures and efficient 3d meshes of my own. that qualifies me to participate in any open source game out there! and you said indrema is something i already had? no way! wouldn't it be cool to have your monster design make it to quake 7? i'll leave it at that.
probalby the biggest argument against indrema and its open source approach to gaming is that individuals, regardles of how motivated, cannot compete with the high production cost of big studios. I believe this is argumant is failed and about to be put to rest.
I'm just a regular guy with a PII300, 128MB of ram and a TNT2 card. In spite of this i can have 3ds MAX run fairly well on my system, create complex 3d worlds and characters and choose and run any programming language i desire and come up with a cool 3d engine and a story. hell, i can give my system to Carmack for 2 months in a deserted island and you'll see what production value is..
my point is, you only need big studios for pre-rendered, motion captured scenes, and i can certainly live without that. a good game, good enough to compete with today's greatest, can still be a garage game, i guarantee you. motivated individuals can conceive and program entire worlds using good 3d software and programming skills, everything else is the story, gameplay and experience, and these can't be bought.
the days of commander keen, wolfenstein 3d and why not, wing commander I are not over yet...
but the backers decided that the name sounded too like the word 'Hell' and that it wouldn't have much resonance with younger customers.
what are they crazy? who did they choose for their focus groups?? the computer would probably sell among younger customers BECAUSE its name sounds like hell!
I would think doing something like this would be fairly simple technically, but what about the legal aspects of it. what if the site reports, say, CNN as being down and they sue? (i can think of a number of arguments for a legal action). i don't think we'll see a solution anytime soon unless someone has the negotiating power to actually have a contract with all reportes websites.
The one reason i wouldn't use a video phone would be that when i use a phone, i'm always doing something else. this is true for most people, i would think. specially if it's a handheld. it all goes down to productivity. if i can have the phone in my left hand or shoulder, i still have my eyes, and one or two hands for doing something else like using the computer, watching tv or driving.
the only case i can think of right now where i would want to see the person on the other side would be during a meeting on a conference call, but that's usually only a small fraction of all the calls y make/receive.
so i read the manifesto. i felt the nostalgia. then thought about it for a little while. then went to the gopher links provided in the article and i the same question remained there all the way to this post: WHY?
it would be like bringing back the BBS', betamax or 8Tracks. they were all great at what they did but their time has passed. it's called progress and i do think that the web is way superior to gopher. after all you can do with http/html what you do with gopher and more, using gopher would be like using token ring networks. sure it cures collissions, but at what cost?
hmm, what makes you automatically think that he WANTS to be a US Citizen? maybe he had said so and i missed it, but i'd rather be finnish (sp?).
and please don't mod me down as a troll, i AM entitled to my opinion even if it is not wanting to be a US Citizen (I'm already an American because I live in the American Continent).
I wonder how much of the "internet revolution" is really centered around Silicon VAlley. Sure, there's an unlimited supply of companies, buzzwords and tech themes there, but most of what's really relevant seems to come from all over the world...
Of course i agree with you 100%, I was just trying to be sarcastic. I guess the moderators took note. I've seen exchange cost organisations so much it's not even funny anymore.
Well, if you don't live in the US or England and don't play soccer (or football or whatever), a hat trick is what a magician does when he pulls something (like a rabit) from his hat.
Let'em install Exchange!! really! it will cause so much trouble and cost so much money that whover opposed it will be heroes for the rest of the existance of the company!! sendmail will be back in in about 4 months, i guarantee you.
but of course, if you own stocks of your company, sell them before they start!
Slashdot Mirror
Here's my solution: write a program that, whenever you type an email, instead of sending the email, it writes the text in a self destroying webpage, and then sends the link to the page instead of the text itself.
so the email that's actually sent would read something like "Jose Garcia has sent you an email, pres here to see it. and when the user clicks de page, a browser displays the content on a secure server (https). once the page is seen once, it is forever deleted from the server (or whatever settings you provide for number of views and type of deletion). the reader can save the html file in his computer if it wants a copy.
ok, so i didn't sovle the problem, since government can still see the email with the link and click the link, but at least you'll know you're been watched... =)
now if this idea even makes sense, and someone decides to do it, feel free. this post is GPLed (or whatever it is i need to do to make it free information), just put my name somewhere so i can brag to chics ok?
*SIGH* I saw this coming from miles away...
Are you so arrogant as to think that the US is the only acceptable place for classy millionaires with space travel wishes? well I'll tell you what, pretty much ANY classy millionaire would accept living in a whole lot of places outside the US. Argentina, France, Australia, Canada, etc., and in fact many of them do.
And that only speaks of your lack of knowledge, but I also have a problem with your judgement. I would suspect that any marker research done to establish the demand for space tourism will throw out numbers that would contradict your statement. The Denis Titos and James Camerons of the world wouldn't mind traveling to, say, Brazil, to get on a rocket heading for a space station. Believe me, it is not in Brazil that they will encounter an unconfortable, unsafe environment, it will be in space.
Now I do agree that they'll rather do the whole thing in the states, in spite of all the legal hurdles. Why? well because it's cheaper, to the point where it seems to be feasible. Most of the technology required to go to space, and the knowledgeable people that make it work, are in greater supply in the US. Furthermore, if you read the article, they are counting on someone else to develop a cheaper way of taking people to earth orbit, and most projects heading that way are either in the US or Canada.
I can only think of Russia, France, Japan and maybe Brazil, as viable alternatives, due mainly to the fact that those countries have space launch infrastructure (and I'm sure I left some out). Still I would think that it would be cheaper to do it in the US because of the greater availability of engineers specialized in the field.
But you know what? since I haven't seen the BP for this enterprise, I can't be certain. Unlike you, who seem to know it all...
Well, the last time something was called ICANN, they couldn't. I just hope these guys can...
I seem to be the only one here that thinks different when it comes to looks. I'm sorry, but to me, looks are TOO important.
Sure, I still do some coding now and then. Sure I write all my own business plans and financial reports and analisys, and sure it's important for my PC to function properly, but that's not hard to do anymore. I can use pretty much any computer and fix whatever problems I have on them on the fly, and as long as I have enough RAM and HDD, i don't care about the rest (not even the CPU as long as it's at least a PII or more). I don't even care if it runs windows or linux, as long as I can get the job done, and I usually can.
The huge difference I see is that to me, looks are VERY VERY important. I want my computer to look cool, my cars to look impressive and my women to be pretty (and to me my wife is). Why? i don't know. I'm not insecure at all. I don't have a problem with my penis size, I'm not a show off and I'm usually a very idealistic guy (instead of materialistic), but there's nothing like a good design. To me, it's inspirational. If I love the way my computer looks, it makes me want to spend more time on it, and probably I'll feel more motivated. It's like a house. I don't just want four walls, a place to sit and a net jack every few feet, I want a good looking house, with pilars, a patio, good lighting, cool plants, lots of maps and that sort of excentric stuff.
Maybe it's because I really do love art, or maybe it's because i'm just human. Even the software my company develops has to be pretty, even if we still have to iron out some bugs. And i know this would make a lot of people unconfortable, but a system that looks good sells easily, because it looks polished, even if it's a piece of crap on the inside (and no, we don't develop pieces of crap, really!), but a system that does EVERYTHING, but looks like one of those casio electronic agendas of the 80's is less likely to succeed. That's just how humans work. It's all about perception, no matter how hard we try here to make everyone believe that function is more important. And if I have to mention our holy war just to connect (i'm reading too much katz, sorry), that's why linux is not very popular as a desktop OS for the masses, and windows with all it's bugs and BSOD's is.
Heck, in our experience, if the software looks good, people are more likely to use and enjoy it and less likely to complain about any faults, even if it's a fault in the system (which creates a different set of problems, especially related to feedback)
so if this line of computers offers nothing new in terms of functionality or practicality, but look cool as hell, when I get the cash I'll buy one of those, an Audi TT convertible and go watch The Matrix with my wife again in a brand new Plasma screen. Trust me, I'll be inspired. Maybe that day i'll finish my novel....
I've read the whole thing and i still can't figure out if this actually records 3d images, and if so, how does it do it?
When it says you can have eye contact, does it mean that the person being "teleported" (at least you know they have a marketing department) will also receive an image of the room he's being teleported to? if not, this isn't eye contact any more than staring at a monalisa painting is...
So, if this is what it sounds like, and what they have is a 3d recorder and a 3d proyector (they claim 40" by 30") on each end, then a $70,000.00 price tag is a bargain I think. I can even see how it could pay for itself at that price. Just imagine how much it costs a company to have bi-monthly meetings with executives, say, from their Japan branch. Not just the plane ticket, but hotel costs, the 3 wasted days traveling, etc. Most likely they just wouldn't have those meetings, so this product opens up new possibilities...
Now if you ask me how I would have done it, well, I'd stick with glasses that project images into your eyes. You can record the whole scene with several traditional cameras on both ends, have the computer generate a 3d model of both places (this can be done pretty easily already) and have them transmitted to their destination, where people are wearing glasses that project the "teleported" person in a fixed area somewhere in front of you, and have the image stay there even if you move your head. All of this has been done already but not with this application
And i don't mean slashdot, i mean the idiots that wrote the story in the first place.
ANYONE who has ever written a shopping cart type app, or has used a canned one (a la site server or commerce server) knows that you only pass along the item's identifier (usually a number or string). this ID is then used ON THE SERVER SIDE to retrieve pricing info from the product tables.
I haven't seen a shopping cart app out there, EVER, that uses pricing as a variable in the html code, and i doubt the writers of the story have either.
and just trying to say this is the same problem that the united airlines site had is just plain lieing.
so now that slamming the tech sector is hip, are they all just gonna start making shit up?
sorry, but this really upsets me.
Karma does matter.
I wouldn't know how to measure it, but I bet a good percentage of all Slashdotters make their best effort to post good comments to get some karma points. You know why? because it's fun. yes, this IS a game, and in my book, everything is.
Sure, the main motivation behind most posts is to share your thoughts, but if I have instant feedback on what people think of what I write, AND i can keep track of that feedback in a measureable manner, what you have is a VERY fun game to play.
A good deal of the success of slashdot is owed to Karma points. I used to care about it a lot. After the cap, I got to open my eyes and realize what Slashdot's real value was, the news, and stopped caring about posting or letting others know my thoughts. Now I rarely post, only when i feel too passionate about a subject or don't have much else to do. I don't find time to write comments anymore, and I'm afraid others will open their eyes eventually and slashdot will be no more. I'll have to go back to the more traditional ways of getting news: the other's websites where people either don't have a comment option, or don't have enough motivation to comment.
I think karma is a great MARKETING (uuuuuh!) tool for slashdot but they refuse to use it. Not sure why though.
I can't possible make myself read 2 hours of katz again, so i read the the first few lines and a thought jumped in my head. Thought I'd share it with you, knowing that by know you're probably somewhat bored (you know why):
RU-486?
No, I'm Pentium.
where the heck is Shapespeare?!?!?
I'm sorry, but a lot of people, me included, think he's the best writer of all time, yet he didn't make it to the top ten?
certainly Hamlet IS better than Harry Potter.
and BTW, i do think that in 1000 years people will be reading or referring to LoTR.
I have been told by alot of graduates that CIS and CS majors are being hired for the same job for the same money. Is this true?
Yes.
I doubt the Iraq can afford a single PS2 at the prices they're selling in those parts of the world...
Thats because these are the figures that are more likely to make you support all those G's you need to put up with in trainning and flight. Shorter people have an edge here...I'm saved!
well, what if people started writing games for dreamcast booting on a linux kernel (after all the OS can reside on every CD or GDROM, like the almost never used winCE): wouldn't that make gaming for linux desktops way closer to reality? we could have a set of drivers a la DirectX as an abstraction layer that would make the difference between PC hardware and Dreamcast hardware almost irrelevant....
1- i haven't done those great things because i'm just a good programmer, not a great programmer, much less a game programmer. this doesn't mean there aren't any great programmers out there who would make good games, just like there are great programmers out there that decided to write samba and apache.
2- the copy of 3ds max that i have was downloaded off of warez. i'm not ashamed to say it. i use it to satisfy my own personal artistic needs (stress relief they call it), and if i were to profit from it i would probably have to buy it (although reluctantly). in that case $4,000.00 would not be a high price to pay compared to what good 3d scenes go for nowadays.
3- didn't you read the article? guess you were busy flaming the world. developing for indrema would cost as much as developing for linux: $0 plus tax. you pay if you sell your games, you pay if you want the technical certification.
4- indrema is not something i already have: there are no good standard (or widely used) APIs for game development in linux. and if i wanted to make games for directX on the windows platform, i would be restricted to closed everything. indrema gives you standard hardware/software and promotes a game development community through their website and overall cool attitude where you can share textures, game engines, ideas, characters, etc. you can also collaborate with games that are being developped much like you can do today with open source and free software projects.
5- and as i write this post, i realize what indrema is already giving me. like i said i'm no game developer, but i can come up with pretty pictures and efficient 3d meshes of my own. that qualifies me to participate in any open source game out there! and you said indrema is something i already had? no way! wouldn't it be cool to have your monster design make it to quake 7? i'll leave it at that.
probalby the biggest argument against indrema and its open source approach to gaming is that individuals, regardles of how motivated, cannot compete with the high production cost of big studios. I believe this is argumant is failed and about to be put to rest.
I'm just a regular guy with a PII300, 128MB of ram and a TNT2 card. In spite of this i can have 3ds MAX run fairly well on my system, create complex 3d worlds and characters and choose and run any programming language i desire and come up with a cool 3d engine and a story. hell, i can give my system to Carmack for 2 months in a deserted island and you'll see what production value is..
my point is, you only need big studios for pre-rendered, motion captured scenes, and i can certainly live without that. a good game, good enough to compete with today's greatest, can still be a garage game, i guarantee you. motivated individuals can conceive and program entire worlds using good 3d software and programming skills, everything else is the story, gameplay and experience, and these can't be bought.
the days of commander keen, wolfenstein 3d and why not, wing commander I are not over yet...
but the backers decided that the name sounded too like the word 'Hell' and that it wouldn't have much resonance with younger customers.
what are they crazy? who did they choose for their focus groups?? the computer would probably sell among younger customers BECAUSE its name sounds like hell!
I would think doing something like this would be fairly simple technically, but what about the legal aspects of it. what if the site reports, say, CNN as being down and they sue? (i can think of a number of arguments for a legal action). i don't think we'll see a solution anytime soon unless someone has the negotiating power to actually have a contract with all reportes websites.
The one reason i wouldn't use a video phone would be that when i use a phone, i'm always doing something else. this is true for most people, i would think. specially if it's a handheld. it all goes down to productivity. if i can have the phone in my left hand or shoulder, i still have my eyes, and one or two hands for doing something else like using the computer, watching tv or driving.
the only case i can think of right now where i would want to see the person on the other side would be during a meeting on a conference call, but that's usually only a small fraction of all the calls y make/receive.
so i read the manifesto. i felt the nostalgia. then thought about it for a little while. then went to the gopher links provided in the article and i the same question remained there all the way to this post: WHY?
it would be like bringing back the BBS', betamax or 8Tracks. they were all great at what they did but their time has passed. it's called progress and i do think that the web is way superior to gopher. after all you can do with http/html what you do with gopher and more, using gopher would be like using token ring networks. sure it cures collissions, but at what cost?
just my opinion.
hmm, what makes you automatically think that he WANTS to be a US Citizen? maybe he had said so and i missed it, but i'd rather be finnish (sp?).
and please don't mod me down as a troll, i AM entitled to my opinion even if it is not wanting to be a US Citizen (I'm already an American because I live in the American Continent).
I wonder how much of the "internet revolution" is really centered around Silicon VAlley. Sure, there's an unlimited supply of companies, buzzwords and tech themes there, but most of what's really relevant seems to come from all over the world...
, I'm curious what you could do with BASIC on a PS2.
...the same thing i did with a compumate computer sitting on top of my atari 2600 about a thousand years ago, learn to program!
it's a great tool to inspire youngsters to learn computer programming.
Of course i agree with you 100%, I was just trying to be sarcastic. I guess the moderators took note. I've seen exchange cost organisations so much it's not even funny anymore.
Well, if you don't live in the US or England and don't play soccer (or football or whatever), a hat trick is what a magician does when he pulls something (like a rabit) from his hat.
this is probably what the reviewer means.
Let'em install Exchange!! really! it will cause so much trouble and cost so much money that whover opposed it will be heroes for the rest of the existance of the company!! sendmail will be back in in about 4 months, i guarantee you.
but of course, if you own stocks of your company, sell them before they start!