Too many CIOs of too many western corporations report to the CFO, not the CEO. There are WAY too many CIOs who come into organizations with an eye, or a reputation, for cost cutting instead of tech innovation.
Assuming the corporation is not in the IT business but only uses IT, I thing that's only fair to use risk management as the second term of the contrast (instead of tech innovation).
Deferring any maintenance can have calamitous effects.
I fail to see why this is newsworthy?
Probably the estimated amount of money it would be needed to catch-up with the backlog (the so called "IT debt") and a few words on how the estimation has been made? Also, where these money would be needed? TFA:
$500 billion -- it's a number so big you'd assume it's a component of the national debt. It isn't. Instead, it's what Gartner analyst Andy Kyte calls the IT debt. "
The "debt" really has two major components: One is underfunding and even neglect of routine but important hardware replacement purchases and software upgrades. The other is the slow degradation of enterprise applications.
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Is that $500 billion number too high? Kyte says he derived it by analyzing several large Gartner clients that generally do a good job of keeping applications up to date. That led him to estimate that a typical Fortune 2000 company would require upgrades costing more than $200 million each.
I admit, these as scraps of "meat", but they are nevertheless still meat. I imagine that this may be the first step (as an argument) in a push the big IT houses (hardware/software/services) will make to get so more revenue... Something on the line of "well... Apple and Android tablets and phones (that is, the consumer space) are all well and good... But, guys, what are we going to do with the enterprise?".
Interesting question. Wild guess: up to 5-8 watts?
Some data on what other components consume. Not very rigorously determined, but good to make an idea.
Some other data on how much switching from 1.5V to 1.35V to 1.25V DDR3 type of RAM impacts the power consumption at idle time (scroll to the bottom of the page: 1W).
The RAM power consumption will have, though, an impact on how long you can keep a laptop/notebook on idle (so, little CPU, no HDD and LCD, no graphics) before it shuts down and you loose everything you had in RAM (if this matters to someone).
Why is such a slow platform enforced in Android-OS in the first place ? You know the low-power, low-performance mobile platform. no wonder Google needs another core to tame such a lousy system
Huh, why complain?! This is an opportunity for you my friend. Fork Android, come with another dev medium/language, make it faster and reap the benefits.
I can definitely imagine Apple moving to cloud-booting ipads/iphones/imacs/appleTV's/whatevers.
Of course, at that point who really owns (pwns) your hardware? Hmm.
Wrong question. The right ones would have been:
a. who pays for the data transfer when you switch on the iPhone/iPad? A good reason never to switch-off your phone (or a very good deterrent to use a phone that eats your data allowance and a bit over evry time you switch on the phone).
b. who the hell have enough time to wait their iphone to boot over internet? Or, for that matter, their TV? I still remember the pre-semi-conductors era TV-sets, using vacuum tube - about 1-2 mins for the TV to come alive. Wonder if the iTV-OS would download faster than that?
Unless Apple has in mind to change their OS to a very slim size, you are absolutely right: this is a show-stopper for the patented technology, no matter for which market segments. And, of course, unless Apple knows something that we don't about how ISP/Telecom will bill their clients and expand their network/bandwidth.
Apple products != real estate. People will buy their new iPhones every year, or risk being obsolete. Not just a fashion trend, but a worker trend.
As I haven't ever bought an iPhone to start with, am I "obsolete" already or am I not among the people? I wonder which category I fit in, seems not to be the "trendy worker" either.
I imagine a tech support nightmare for supporting the Gentle Users. It couid work OK for IT professionals.
I don't see this for mobile devices for the unwashed masses however...
On the contrary, I'd argue it is exacly for unwashed masses. Because, the l337 IT proffesionals may use this by tricking the iPhone to boot from their "cloud" and "temporary jailbreak" their phone (reverting afterwards to the Apple/intercom cloud when they like), they won't be scared by a patented method.
But yet you insist that Microsoft is "royally not amused" and will involve "law enforcement" (bold-face makes things sound scary, amiright?)
So with that said, can you please stop the attempts at pedantry?
Nah, looking silly is never a good reason to stop asking. Otherwise, how can I get to know different points of view that others may have? (and a sincere thanks for yours... I mean it.) Are you afraid enough to stay at a point where you seem to have all the answers and no further questions?
Mate, I do agree that they didn't need to "jail-break" the hardware, they only needed to "break the protocol/encoding". However, it still seems that MS is
"royaly not amused":
Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.
Linux drivers for the device itself have been available the entire time (since it was 'hacked'). You are completely free to use that to make whatever style of HID you wish.
Informative... but...
those are the drivers for MS incarnation of Kinect Core. Are you sure the Asus incarnation will use the same encoding/protocol? Are you sure it will be equally easy to break by RE?
Is there a parking problem on Venus? I would have thought that there was plenty of room, given how few cars are designed to operate in such a hostile environment.
On the bright side: electric cars from renewable energy would be the choice (even if not because the pressure from environmental groups - btw, these groups would be themselves under a pressure 90 times the one on Earth). Not only there's not enough oxygen to burn fossil fuels, but the winds on Venus are rated a 300 km/h and the insolation value is almost twice of the Earth's. Granted, no hydro, though. .
They have had something like this at BWI for years. Even better - you don't have to look at your phone while driving. There are red and green lights marking open spots and the number of free spaces listed at the head of each row.
Similarly, the parking structure at the Grove in LA lists the number of free spaces per floor.
Hell, yeah... but was it developed originally for Venus exploration? Ehh?
So the plan is to explore Venus by burying sensors around the planet and detecting when something parks on top of them?
At least the pioneers will be able to locate a parking spot quickly!
I think I know why they grounded the "Venus gig".
Can you imagine a connection Earth-Venus with coax cable to the server and the number of tower cells they need to build on Venus in the first place? Granted, "roaming fees" would probably be... well, astonomical... but not so many prospective customers, I think the ROI figures would have been abysmally low.
People continue to prefer not paying for things. Also, most people like having privacy in their lives.
Couldn't it be that the "digital newsstand" is too expensive for casual readers (and who the hell have time nowadays to read in full any newspaper?)
I mean, yet about 9 months ago some publications sold on "digital newsstand" at the same price as the printed edition ($4.99). Not to mention that, for casual readers, the trade-off "Here's my name and address. Now, let me read a single article in this issue" is quite awful.
Possibly, the "an entire issue is news wholesale" may need some adjustements (micro-payments per article only?).
Is the poster arguing we should eliminate the patent system?
I don't know about original poster, but my argument would be on the line of eliminating patents for software. Copyright and trade-secret should be more than enough for software (even disregrading what the trademark can do: see the faec... errr.. pardon me... facebook I meant)
So it begins. OSI is here, and soon Apple, Oracle, etc will merge with many others to form The Guild of Calamitous Intent. So where do I sign up? I wanna arch Richard Stallman!
And thus the final battle over the very existence of software patents began (!?)
Well duh. Larger, more powerful nations nations have more influence around the world - Film at 11!
... and having more influence chooses to use dirty tricks because... well.. it's not home and the american interests should prevail (not)... News at 11.
Well, Germany seems to be a pretty obvious counter example.
US didn't bring democracy in Germany: only won a war (and not alone, I might say) and economically helped Germany to revert to democracy (Marshall plan and all that). How's this relevant: just when were the people of Zimbabwe experiencing a democracy ever?
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Too many CIOs of too many western corporations report to the CFO, not the CEO. There are WAY too many CIOs who come into organizations with an eye, or a reputation, for cost cutting instead of tech innovation.
Assuming the corporation is not in the IT business but only uses IT, I thing that's only fair to use risk management as the second term of the contrast (instead of tech innovation).
Deferring any maintenance can have calamitous effects.
I fail to see why this is newsworthy?
Probably the estimated amount of money it would be needed to catch-up with the backlog (the so called "IT debt") and a few words on how the estimation has been made? Also, where these money would be needed? TFA:
$500 billion -- it's a number so big you'd assume it's a component of the national debt. It isn't. Instead, it's what Gartner analyst Andy Kyte calls the IT debt. "
The "debt" really has two major components: One is underfunding and even neglect of routine but important hardware replacement purchases and software upgrades. The other is the slow degradation of enterprise applications.
Is that $500 billion number too high? Kyte says he derived it by analyzing several large Gartner clients that generally do a good job of keeping applications up to date. That led him to estimate that a typical Fortune 2000 company would require upgrades costing more than $200 million each.
I admit, these as scraps of "meat", but they are nevertheless still meat.
I imagine that this may be the first step (as an argument) in a push the big IT houses (hardware/software/services) will make to get so more revenue... Something on the line of "well... Apple and Android tablets and phones (that is, the consumer space) are all well and good... But, guys, what are we going to do with the enterprise?".
Some data on what other components consume. Not very rigorously determined, but good to make an idea.
Some other data on how much switching from 1.5V to 1.35V to 1.25V DDR3 type of RAM impacts the power consumption at idle time (scroll to the bottom of the page: 1W).
The RAM power consumption will have, though, an impact on how long you can keep a laptop/notebook on idle (so, little CPU, no HDD and LCD, no graphics) before it shuts down and you loose everything you had in RAM (if this matters to someone).
Why is such a slow platform enforced in Android-OS in the first place ? You know the low-power, low-performance mobile platform.
no wonder Google needs another core to tame such a lousy system
Huh, why complain?! This is an opportunity for you my friend. Fork Android, come with another dev medium/language, make it faster and reap the benefits.
"who really owns (pwns) your hardware? "
Why are you asking that question on an article about Apple? Isn't it obvious?
Le'me guess... AT&T? (the man in the middle?)
I can definitely imagine Apple moving to cloud-booting ipads/iphones/imacs/appleTV's/whatevers.
Of course, at that point who really owns (pwns) your hardware? Hmm.
Wrong question. The right ones would have been:
a. who pays for the data transfer when you switch on the iPhone/iPad? A good reason never to switch-off your phone (or a very good deterrent to use a phone that eats your data allowance and a bit over evry time you switch on the phone).
b. who the hell have enough time to wait their iphone to boot over internet? Or, for that matter, their TV? I still remember the pre-semi-conductors era TV-sets, using vacuum tube - about 1-2 mins for the TV to come alive. Wonder if the iTV-OS would download faster than that?
Unless Apple has in mind to change their OS to a very slim size, you are absolutely right: this is a show-stopper for the patented technology, no matter for which market segments.
And, of course, unless Apple knows something that we don't about how ISP/Telecom will bill their clients and expand their network/bandwidth.
Apple products != real estate. People will buy their new iPhones every year, or risk being obsolete. Not just a fashion trend, but a worker trend.
As I haven't ever bought an iPhone to start with, am I "obsolete" already or am I not among the people? I wonder which category I fit in, seems not to be the "trendy worker" either.
I imagine a tech support nightmare for supporting the Gentle Users. It couid work OK for IT professionals.
I don't see this for mobile devices for the unwashed masses however...
On the contrary, I'd argue it is exacly for unwashed masses. Because, the l337 IT proffesionals may use this by tricking the iPhone to boot from their "cloud" and "temporary jailbreak" their phone (reverting afterwards to the Apple/intercom cloud when they like), they won't be scared by a patented method.
But yet you insist that Microsoft is "royally not amused" and will involve "law enforcement" (bold-face makes things sound scary, amiright?)
So with that said, can you please stop the attempts at pedantry?
Nah, looking silly is never a good reason to stop asking. Otherwise, how can I get to know different points of view that others may have? (and a sincere thanks for yours... I mean it.)
Are you afraid enough to stay at a point where you seem to have all the answers and no further questions?
However, it still seems that MS is "royaly not amused":
Microsoft will continue to make advances in these types of safeguards and work closely with law enforcement and product safety groups to keep Kinect tamper-resistant.
True, but Apple has nowhere to go but up.
This is a piece of wisdow from the same pool as "Home/real estate prices never go down" about 2 years ago, eh?
There was nothing to break.
Wasn't it?
Is this why the EFF received $2000?
"Drivers and libraries for the Xbox Kinect device on WIndows, Linux, and OS X"
Linux drivers for the device itself have been available the entire time (since it was 'hacked'). You are completely free to use that to make whatever style of HID you wish.
Informative... but...
those are the drivers for MS incarnation of Kinect Core. Are you sure the Asus incarnation will use the same encoding/protocol? Are you sure it will be equally easy to break by RE?
There have been Linux drivers for the kinect since the first day it was opened up...
For a device yet to be adapted for PC-es? Got that time machine primed already?
....or something else.
Linux drivers would be desirable.
Does it scream like my passengers?
No. TF clip: the guy's "driving" on the wrong side of the road and the "mummy" on his left is, like, "good idea, let's try that".
Is there a parking problem on Venus? I would have thought that there was plenty of room, given how few cars are designed to operate in such a hostile environment.
On the bright side: electric cars from renewable energy would be the choice (even if not because the pressure from environmental groups - btw, these groups would be themselves under a pressure 90 times the one on Earth).
Not only there's not enough oxygen to burn fossil fuels, but the winds on Venus are rated a 300 km/h and the insolation value is almost twice of the Earth's. Granted, no hydro, though.
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They have had something like this at BWI for years. Even better - you don't have to look at your phone while driving. There are red and green lights marking open spots and the number of free spaces listed at the head of each row.
Similarly, the parking structure at the Grove in LA lists the number of free spaces per floor.
Hell, yeah... but was it developed originally for Venus exploration? Ehh?
So the plan is to explore Venus by burying sensors around the planet and detecting when something parks on top of them?
At least the pioneers will be able to locate a parking spot quickly!
I think I know why they grounded the "Venus gig".
Can you imagine a connection Earth-Venus with coax cable to the server and the number of tower cells they need to build on Venus in the first place? Granted, "roaming fees" would probably be... well, astonomical... but not so many prospective customers, I think the ROI figures would have been abysmally low.
People continue to prefer not paying for things. Also, most people like having privacy in their lives.
Couldn't it be that the "digital newsstand" is too expensive for casual readers (and who the hell have time nowadays to read in full any newspaper?)
I mean, yet about 9 months ago some publications sold on "digital newsstand" at the same price as the printed edition ($4.99). Not to mention that, for casual readers, the trade-off "Here's my name and address. Now, let me read a single article in this issue" is quite awful.
Possibly, the "an entire issue is news wholesale" may need some adjustements (micro-payments per article only?).
Is the poster arguing we should eliminate the patent system?
I don't know about original poster, but my argument would be on the line of eliminating patents for software. Copyright and trade-secret should be more than enough for software (even disregrading what the trademark can do: see the faec... errr.. pardon me... facebook I meant)
So it begins. OSI is here, and soon Apple, Oracle, etc will merge with many others to form The Guild of Calamitous Intent. So where do I sign up? I wanna arch Richard Stallman!
And thus the final battle over the very existence of software patents began (!?)
We are one of the worst offenders in that regard.
Well duh. Larger, more powerful nations nations have more influence around the world - Film at 11!
... and having more influence chooses to use dirty tricks because... well.. it's not home and the american interests should prevail (not)... News at 11.
Well, Germany seems to be a pretty obvious counter example.
US didn't bring democracy in Germany: only won a war (and not alone, I might say) and economically helped Germany to revert to democracy (Marshall plan and all that).
How's this relevant: just when were the people of Zimbabwe experiencing a democracy ever?