Answer 1: yes. Look me up on Unite, my name is... Even easier: let me mail/IM you my site's adress, you just need a browser to view it, no need to sign up for Yet Another Social Website. Sames as you have a mail adress which anyone can use with any mail client, you have a unite adress which anyone can use with any browser. Convenient, eh ?
Answer 2: You pay for your bandwidth ? Mine is free, and the low volume on a personal site is negligible anyway.
Answer 3: In case I DO have personal content, I don't have to relinquish my rights to it by posting it on someone else's websites. I'll even have true control over who gets to see it, be able to take it offline if I want too, to back it up...
Answer 4: if I just want to hyperlink someone else's content.. guess what, I can !
- Privacy ? uncheck. - ownership rights ? uncheck (woman's personal photo used in an add) - data security ? uncheck (see Sidekick)
Any connexion to the Web is a conduit for malware: Bittorrent, IE... Because MS regularly makes a hash of things does not mean that any connexion is unsafe. Please, prove your point.
Yep, stick with IE, get yesteryear's features with very high "usage numbers" (sic). You won't be missed. Don't forget to eat all your meals at McDonald's, wear whatever is the fashion, watch Fox, and use Windows+Office on a Dell.
What should they have done ? - rebelled and gotten their employess imprisoned ? - pulled out and deprived people in China from an alternative to whatever the government prefers ?
Not really relevant, IMHO: - at worst, you can switch Unite off, and just keep Opera - you can finagle that it's not a server, but a browser - the data volume is going to be so low that your ISP won't care anyway - it's clearly capable at best of serving some kind of personal page, not a high-volume, commercial web site, which is what your ISP doesn't want you to setup on a home line.
- I keep ownership of my data. No more finding my personal photo used in an add, like happened to that woman a while back. - I keep control of my data. No more entrusting it to some advertiser, their trainees, their subcontractors... - I can easily backup all of my data. See the Sidekick debacle. - Everything is in ONE location - I have relatively fine control over who can see what, and can change content and rights at any time.
It currently is not very polished, though It IS very easy to use, much easier that setting up the same services with the usual software. - not very good looking - nor very feature rich
Hopefuly the design will get smoother, and addons will make it better... the idea by itself sounds very good, and the implementation is kinda OK, for a 1.0 version.
Slashdot needs a paradigm change too. Let's hire Eric Schmidt as CEO (the guy is all about Paradigm Changes, or some such), and replace car analogies with pizza analogies !
Something in your tone tells me you're not the open-minded type. Maybe you just failed to get into the language, expecting it instead to fit your own mindset+knowledge ?
From your question, I'd say you're on the verge of a huge screw-up.
You must be young. Don't set out to make your mark. On the contrary, set out to make yourself entirely forgettable, which is what people want from their IT infrastructure.
First, look to replacing what's currently there, and nothing more. There don't seem to be any requests for added features.
If you can do that within budget, look at what is lacking. It may be ease of use, reliability, redundancy, backups, disaster recovery, speed, room to grow, features...
If you want to be really smart, do just what's asked of you, under budget, under deadline, with no hassle. But plan ahead for the next few requests, and document that. When those requests come up, you'll be able to turn back and said: I knew it, I planned for it already. THAT earns you points. Not trying to force any random feature that catches your fancy down management and users' throats.
I'm playing WoW (which is far from cutting-edge as far as graphics are concerned) on a 1900x1200 monitor with an ATI 4750. I have to put all details at the lowest setting when raiding, otherwise the game becomes unplayable.
I do agree that very high frame rates are useless. In games though, frame rates tend to vary wildly... in WoW for exemple, I can go from 160+ when alone in the wilderness to 4 in a boss fight with lots of AOE spells. So as a gamer I need a large FPS margin from my video card.
The other issue is monitor size... I wanted a big one, so I got an Asus 26" 1900x1200 (excellent monitor, BTW). Moving all those pixels around requires much more power than for my old 1280x1024 CRT.
I'm kinda hoping resolutions and screen sizes will stabilize (frankly, my 26" is too big for computer work, I'd have been better off with 2x22" for the same price), and that IGPs will offer reasonable performance for MMOs and casual games. They already do for video.
If I understand right, the issue is not so much DPI per se, but font size. Windows XP was notoriously bad at ramping it up across all OS apps/finctions and across all 3rd-party apps. I hear 7 is much better, as is Linux. I don't know about Macs. I konw for a fact that MS and Apple have an "accessibility" department, that mainly czters to disabled users but should be of tremendous help.
If I were you, I would investigate in that direction, instead of looking for a very expensive specialty monitor.
Or, on the contrary, you could play the multiples game, and try and test a 1900x1200 display @ 950x600 ?
1- even if it's true, so what ? Democracy = people can vote for whomever they want, for whatever reason they want. 2- I don't know if I'm a democrat or republican, but I sure know I'm not in favor of father-son or husband-wife dynasties. Maybe that was a factor too ? 3- as yet, Obama has not started a war under false pretenses, let the banking system go to ruin, alienated most of the rest of the world, awarded billions in no-bid contracts to his VP's company... so he doesn't yet look as bad as the previous president.
DVD is a consumer electronics media, 8" was a computer media. You can still read Vinyls without having to look to hard... the first commercial one was released in1946. that's 63 years, and counting.
My parents no longer have admin rights on their own PC. It takes me much less time to remote connect and install whatever stuff they want, than to clean up their wesses... every other week.
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Answer 1: yes. Look me up on Unite, my name is...
Even easier: let me mail/IM you my site's adress, you just need a browser to view it, no need to sign up for Yet Another Social Website. Sames as you have a mail adress which anyone can use with any mail client, you have a unite adress which anyone can use with any browser. Convenient, eh ?
Answer 2: You pay for your bandwidth ? Mine is free, and the low volume on a personal site is negligible anyway.
Answer 3: In case I DO have personal content, I don't have to relinquish my rights to it by posting it on someone else's websites. I'll even have true control over who gets to see it, be able to take it offline if I want too, to back it up...
Answer 4: if I just want to hyperlink someone else's content.. guess what, I can !
What protections does the cloud afford ?
- Privacy ? uncheck.
- ownership rights ? uncheck (woman's personal photo used in an add)
- data security ? uncheck (see Sidekick)
Any connexion to the Web is a conduit for malware: Bittorrent, IE... Because MS regularly makes a hash of things does not mean that any connexion is unsafe. Please, prove your point.
Not so much Hi-Fi separates vs Computers, rather Hi-FI Separates vs cheap all-in-one stereos.
Guess what sold more ?
Can I give you my Mom's phone number so you can explain her how to do that ?
With Unite, she was up and running in 20 minutes.
Yep, stick with IE, get yesteryear's features with very high "usage numbers" (sic). You won't be missed. Don't forget to eat all your meals at McDonald's, wear whatever is the fashion, watch Fox, and use Windows+Office on a Dell.
You won't be missed.
What should they have done ?
- rebelled and gotten their employess imprisoned ?
- pulled out and deprived people in China from an alternative to whatever the government prefers ?
How is any of the above better than comromising ?
Not really relevant, IMHO:
- at worst, you can switch Unite off, and just keep Opera
- you can finagle that it's not a server, but a browser
- the data volume is going to be so low that your ISP won't care anyway
- it's clearly capable at best of serving some kind of personal page, not a high-volume, commercial web site, which is what your ISP doesn't want you to setup on a home line.
Mmmm how does it require UPnP ?
Unite makes a lot of sense to me:
- I keep ownership of my data. No more finding my personal photo used in an add, like happened to that woman a while back.
- I keep control of my data. No more entrusting it to some advertiser, their trainees, their subcontractors...
- I can easily backup all of my data. See the Sidekick debacle.
- Everything is in ONE location
- I have relatively fine control over who can see what, and can change content and rights at any time.
It currently is not very polished, though It IS very easy to use, much easier that setting up the same services with the usual software.
- not very good looking
- nor very feature rich
Hopefuly the design will get smoother, and addons will make it better... the idea by itself sounds very good, and the implementation is kinda OK, for a 1.0 version.
Dude, my fingers can figure out where the middle is on a 7cm-long device.
no sex talk, please, were slashot. ish.
agreed.
Slashdot needs a paradigm change too. Let's hire Eric Schmidt as CEO (the guy is all about Paradigm Changes, or some such), and replace car analogies with pizza analogies !
Something in your tone tells me you're not the open-minded type. Maybe you just failed to get into the language, expecting it instead to fit your own mindset+knowledge ?
but all their code security auditors were working on the Chrome plugin :-p^
From your question, I'd say you're on the verge of a huge screw-up.
You must be young. Don't set out to make your mark. On the contrary, set out to make yourself entirely forgettable, which is what people want from their IT infrastructure.
First, look to replacing what's currently there, and nothing more. There don't seem to be any requests for added features.
If you can do that within budget, look at what is lacking. It may be ease of use, reliability, redundancy, backups, disaster recovery, speed, room to grow, features...
If you want to be really smart, do just what's asked of you, under budget, under deadline, with no hassle. But plan ahead for the next few requests, and document that. When those requests come up, you'll be able to turn back and said: I knew it, I planned for it already. THAT earns you points. Not trying to force any random feature that catches your fancy down management and users' throats.
I'm not sure how that compares to the money other people bring, and to the costs.
If I can have a pen for $100, and a car for $1000... the cheap one is the car, even though it costs more money...
MS has security researchers ?
Don't they have anything better to do than nitpick with an addon that 0.001% of the user base has ?
Come on !
I'm playing WoW (which is far from cutting-edge as far as graphics are concerned) on a 1900x1200 monitor with an ATI 4750. I have to put all details at the lowest setting when raiding, otherwise the game becomes unplayable.
I do agree that very high frame rates are useless. In games though, frame rates tend to vary wildly... in WoW for exemple, I can go from 160+ when alone in the wilderness to 4 in a boss fight with lots of AOE spells. So as a gamer I need a large FPS margin from my video card.
The other issue is monitor size... I wanted a big one, so I got an Asus 26" 1900x1200 (excellent monitor, BTW). Moving all those pixels around requires much more power than for my old 1280x1024 CRT.
I'm kinda hoping resolutions and screen sizes will stabilize (frankly, my 26" is too big for computer work, I'd have been better off with 2x22" for the same price), and that IGPs will offer reasonable performance for MMOs and casual games. They already do for video.
If I understand right, the issue is not so much DPI per se, but font size. Windows XP was notoriously bad at ramping it up across all OS apps/finctions and across all 3rd-party apps. I hear 7 is much better, as is Linux. I don't know about Macs. I konw for a fact that MS and Apple have an "accessibility" department, that mainly czters to disabled users but should be of tremendous help.
If I were you, I would investigate in that direction, instead of looking for a very expensive specialty monitor.
Or, on the contrary, you could play the multiples game, and try and test a 1900x1200 display @ 950x600 ?
Is it the custom in the US to use a person's middle name too, or just a way reactionnary focus groups have found to lump to gather Saddam and Obama ?
I'm asking because I only ever saw John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bill Clinton... but I keep seeing Barack Hussein Obama ?
1- even if it's true, so what ? Democracy = people can vote for whomever they want, for whatever reason they want.
2- I don't know if I'm a democrat or republican, but I sure know I'm not in favor of father-son or husband-wife dynasties. Maybe that was a factor too ?
3- as yet, Obama has not started a war under false pretenses, let the banking system go to ruin, alienated most of the rest of the world, awarded billions in no-bid contracts to his VP's company... so he doesn't yet look as bad as the previous president.
DVD is a consumer electronics media, 8" was a computer media. You can still read Vinyls without having to look to hard... the first commercial one was released in1946. that's 63 years, and counting.
My parents no longer have admin rights on their own PC. It takes me much less time to remote connect and install whatever stuff they want, than to clean up their wesses... every other week.
I just hate anything that makes my browser's UI (mouse gestures) not work. the armadamusic.nl one drove me away very quickly
Honestly, if one such example is your .sig site, that takes a bit to load, and contains essentially nothing (one picture ?), I'm not overly impressed.