I think this is the best alternative. Put the reponsibility for security in the hands of the CC's. It's easier for each of the Card Companies to have a team of security gurus, than for every business to have even one of their own. I believe that the guys that work at the CC's probably have done quite a bit of work to make the unique transaction numbering issue a non-issue. It is in their business interest to engineer secure systems, much more so than the individual business owner.
I have to say that i thought that this year, while frought with a lot of change, was a good one. I think that we are being taught a lesson about technology, and that is good.
We have to get away from building things because they are chic and trendy, and start to build things that have meaning to people.
I think that that is what the.com market problems is going to bear out for us. We have to get back to having the user as our primary concern, and not the servers, and the network.
What do I want to see next year, and in the near future?
Please, lets watch George Bush VERY carefully. He really concerns me.
I think that GNOME and KDE are both great, but I want to see someone take the step outside of the current user-interface model - "Start bar, everything in hierarchical menus" and build something new (or old) and different. I am hoping to see new steps taken in UI design. Its time.
I want to stop having to worry about the network. I am hoping to see someone build a router that can sense its surroundings, and deal with more of the complex configuration issues on its own. Oh yeah, how about a NIC card that did that too? What about an IP stack in hardware?
Lets all hope for if not peace, at least agreement in the Middle East.
It'd be nice to see something besides HTTP, for once... Remember HyperWave?
I'd like to see the inital efforts at devices that allow real brain augmentation (Storage, computation, or something) in 10 years.
Yes, it was authored by MS, but so what... There are alot of systems that support it.
The biggest bonus is the number of tools that'll author it.
I dont think your asking for anything XML based, as others have rightly pointed out -- which DTD, or schema? You could use DocBook, but then you have to find an authoring tool.
With RTF, you can continue to use Word, or you can use other tools that work on other platforms.
You can forget about the underpinnings of getting the job done, and focus on the doing of work.
Basically, this already exists. It is called Napigator, and it allows you to surf napster through genre's. Sure each one is connecting to a diffreent gateway server, but it accomplishes the same thing.
Secondly, I really hate being canned like that. I like napster because I can search for anything. I have an eclectic taste, and it does not lend itself to being canned.
Napster does not need this, napster needs a way to get out of the legal troubles it is in, and this will not even begin to curtail that.
Back to the drawing board, Adam. I guess this means another 20 years.
Most important, I think that we need to record the progression of technology. I think that the best way to do this is to store a meta-event that caused a major impact on human-kind. Geez -- I didn't even mention its effect on the planet... One way to do this is by recording all media on some device similar to this. Another alternative is to store everything published by all the major research centers. We might want to raise the filter and just store technological advances that made it into the mainstream, like the effect of the moon landing, and the mars probes. And there is always that little piece of software written about 7 years ago by a young guy at CREN which has pretty much changed the face of knowledge distribution as we know it. I guess what I am getting at is that if we were to store this kind of meta-event, then the other changes which are so well covered and perviasive in the media would make sense.
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I think this is the best alternative. Put the reponsibility for security in the hands of the CC's. It's easier for each of the Card Companies to have a team of security gurus, than for every business to have even one of their own. I believe that the guys that work at the CC's probably have done quite a bit of work to make the unique transaction numbering issue a non-issue. It is in their business interest to engineer secure systems, much more so than the individual business owner.
We have to get away from building things because they are chic and trendy, and start to build things that have meaning to people.
I think that that is what the .com market problems is going to bear out for us. We have to get back to having the user as our primary concern, and not the servers, and the network.
What do I want to see next year, and in the near future?
Please, lets watch George Bush VERY carefully. He really concerns me.
I think that GNOME and KDE are both great, but I want to see someone take the step outside of the current user-interface model - "Start bar, everything in hierarchical menus" and build something new (or old) and different. I am hoping to see new steps taken in UI design. Its time.
I want to stop having to worry about the network. I am hoping to see someone build a router that can sense its surroundings, and deal with more of the complex configuration issues on its own. Oh yeah, how about a NIC card that did that too? What about an IP stack in hardware?
Lets all hope for if not peace, at least agreement in the Middle East.
It'd be nice to see something besides HTTP, for once... Remember HyperWave?
I'd like to see the inital efforts at devices that allow real brain augmentation (Storage, computation, or something) in 10 years.
Thanks.
The biggest bonus is the number of tools that'll author it.
I dont think your asking for anything XML based, as others have rightly pointed out -- which DTD, or schema? You could use DocBook, but then you have to find an authoring tool.
With RTF, you can continue to use Word, or you can use other tools that work on other platforms.
You can forget about the underpinnings of getting the job done, and focus on the doing of work.
Basically, this already exists. It is called Napigator, and it allows you to surf napster through genre's. Sure each one is connecting to a diffreent gateway server, but it accomplishes the same thing.
Secondly, I really hate being canned like that. I like napster because I can search for anything. I have an eclectic taste, and it does not lend itself to being canned.
Napster does not need this, napster needs a way to get out of the legal troubles it is in, and this will not even begin to curtail that.
Back to the drawing board, Adam. I guess this means another 20 years.
Most important, I think that we need to record the progression of technology. I think that the best way to do this is to store a meta-event that caused a major impact on human-kind. Geez -- I didn't even mention its effect on the planet... One way to do this is by recording all media on some device similar to this. Another alternative is to store everything published by all the major research centers. We might want to raise the filter and just store technological advances that made it into the mainstream, like the effect of the moon landing, and the mars probes. And there is always that little piece of software written about 7 years ago by a young guy at CREN which has pretty much changed the face of knowledge distribution as we know it. I guess what I am getting at is that if we were to store this kind of meta-event, then the other changes which are so well covered and perviasive in the media would make sense.