Bitcoin is fantastic, but the way it is distributed is not.
Aggregating bitcoin to the most efficient "farmer" is like bringing a currency into existence by throwing out handfuls of it to a wild mob at varying times of the day. This is why the coin still has very little value as relates to real world goods or services and why it is plagued by these get-rich-quick ponzi schemes.
If a government entity could somehow be convinced to create bitcoin at a defined rate to pay for public services while also accepting it as a payment for taxes then the currency would have legitimacy and would be a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Umm... QNX anyone?
You can preview their QNX implementation on a playbook today and expect to see this running on phones as early as this quarter (but likely Q1 2012).
The problem of course is no ones exactly sure how BES or BIS will interface with QNX... if at all.
If it doesn't you'll still have an "iphone like" OS that can run flash and a select series of android apps on a full touch device. Their plan may be to deploy this new strategy out to consumer markets and keep supporting the current software frameworks for business... but no ones really sure yet.
RIMs centralized model is probably all that's keeping them alive right now... at least in Canada.
Every provider in Canada offers an atrocious data plan, or a "blackberry plan" (I'm assuming by subsidy from RIM) that you can only use on blackberries. The "blackberry plan" of course comes with free emails, BBM, facebook, and text messages but no "data" (ie. dynamic web browsing).
Not only does this give lower budget users a cheap way to access popular data services but it ties them in to proprietary technologies like BBM where they build networks and become dependent.
Is anyone else getting tired of these lawsuits between tech companies? It seems like every day on slashdot there's a 'google v. apple trial', 'google v. java trial', 'microsoft v. apple trial', ' trial'. It's getting ridiculous.
We actually just had this happen at my work place. The most senior guy that had been here since the company started got a better offer. He got offered large raises, stock options, etc, to stay but ultimately wanted to try something new.
What ended up happening is he is now working for his new job, making more money, and he still consults for us at around $80 an hour.
Ultimately you have to do what's best for you and you aren't betraying anybody by doing so. Your boss will figure out what to do and if he can't, his business would have never survived anyways.
1) Measles is coming back because people are stupid.
2) People are stupid because stupidity hasnt been naturally selected out of the population.
3) Those that are unvaccinated have a greater risk of death vs. those that aren't.
4) Their stupidity is naturally selected out via their refusal of vaccination.
That's kinda what I was thinking. Smells a little conspiracy...ey.. to me. We're seeing so much of this lately it almost seems like it's a reason being engineered to squash net neutrality/freedom.
Finally a smart move on MS' part. Apple is backing HTML5, linux (of course) is backing HTML5. Finally MS has realized it's tougher to swim against the current. This is a new strategy evolved out of the simple realization that their stock price can't fall forever.
It's ironic Schmidt himself said this. I was recently responsible for deploying google apps (for mail only) across an entire network. This involved using the Google Apps Sync for Outlook plugin on ALL desktops and the google sync application on all mobile phones. It took roughly a week to implement.
In contrast clients that spend a little extra money and adhere to our exchange/bes solution could have had desktops completed by GPO and enterprise activation passwords sent out within a couple hours.
So.... in real word application his "cloud services" required about 10000x the setup support as conventional methods.
I dont know what kind of end-user Schmidt is used to working with. In my experience moving things "to the cloud" just means your IT guy(s) no longer have physical access. You still have to set up network shares and permissions, manage email accounts, change passwords, install applications (even if it's just a link on a desktop), implement and manage the internal networks, etc.
Unless this magical cloud manages to create more competent end users IT isn't going anywhere.
Erroneous. The point is given some major outage (see: 3 day EC3 outage) I have the ability to do something about it with my own servers. With everything in the cloud I do not.
I've never understood how things became so abstracted with software patents. I suppose it's because in the real world mother nature does most of the foundational work for us, whereas in the software world everything has to be done from scratch.
Since we all seem to agree that you cant patent wood, or fire, or dirt wouldn't it be logical to extend this to the software realm? No more patenting drivers, utility libraries, or user interfaces since these can be seen as materials. You may only patent the unique functionality of the software you made by using those materials. And like all patents, it has an expiry date.
I notice a huge difference with gaming mice. Most importantly:
1) Anything less than 1800dpi is horrendous, esp for FPS
2) Wireless is a joke
3) Mapping one of the side buttons to shift, alt, or ctrl exponentially multiplies your keyboard hotkeys.
That being said, mice like the Naga are absolute overkill.
This reminds me of stuff like the nokia morph concept. It took 10 years for me to be able to properly view a webpage on my phone. The monopolized 'slow roll' of our technology wont allow this stuff to happen in our life time.
All ISP's keep logs. Knowing the IP immediately identifies the ISP. From there it's just a petition away to find the account/modem MAC that was using that IP at that time.
Proving exactly who was on the computer at that time would be impossible. But you could easily narrow it down to the household.
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Bitcoin is fantastic, but the way it is distributed is not.
Aggregating bitcoin to the most efficient "farmer" is like bringing a currency into existence by throwing out handfuls of it to a wild mob at varying times of the day. This is why the coin still has very little value as relates to real world goods or services and why it is plagued by these get-rich-quick ponzi schemes.
If a government entity could somehow be convinced to create bitcoin at a defined rate to pay for public services while also accepting it as a payment for taxes then the currency would have legitimacy and would be a wonderful, wonderful thing.
Umm... QNX anyone?
You can preview their QNX implementation on a playbook today and expect to see this running on phones as early as this quarter (but likely Q1 2012).
The problem of course is no ones exactly sure how BES or BIS will interface with QNX... if at all.
If it doesn't you'll still have an "iphone like" OS that can run flash and a select series of android apps on a full touch device. Their plan may be to deploy this new strategy out to consumer markets and keep supporting the current software frameworks for business... but no ones really sure yet.
RIMs centralized model is probably all that's keeping them alive right now... at least in Canada.
Every provider in Canada offers an atrocious data plan, or a "blackberry plan" (I'm assuming by subsidy from RIM) that you can only use on blackberries. The "blackberry plan" of course comes with free emails, BBM, facebook, and text messages but no "data" (ie. dynamic web browsing).
Not only does this give lower budget users a cheap way to access popular data services but it ties them in to proprietary technologies like BBM where they build networks and become dependent.
Did no one else notice the phone is upside down in the picture?
If this thing erupts before SW:TOR comes out there is no god.
Is anyone else getting tired of these lawsuits between tech companies? It seems like every day on slashdot there's a 'google v. apple trial', 'google v. java trial', 'microsoft v. apple trial', ' trial'. It's getting ridiculous.
This.
We actually just had this happen at my work place. The most senior guy that had been here since the company started got a better offer. He got offered large raises, stock options, etc, to stay but ultimately wanted to try something new.
What ended up happening is he is now working for his new job, making more money, and he still consults for us at around $80 an hour.
Ultimately you have to do what's best for you and you aren't betraying anybody by doing so. Your boss will figure out what to do and if he can't, his business would have never survived anyways.
Just invent pre-cogs... problem solved.
He was right then and he's right now. Tablets STILL suck. Especially the ipad.
1) Measles is coming back because people are stupid.
2) People are stupid because stupidity hasnt been naturally selected out of the population.
3) Those that are unvaccinated have a greater risk of death vs. those that aren't.
4) Their stupidity is naturally selected out via their refusal of vaccination.
Oh, the ironing is delicious.
I heard it was 2 out of 5 of Americans.
That's kinda what I was thinking. Smells a little conspiracy...ey.. to me. We're seeing so much of this lately it almost seems like it's a reason being engineered to squash net neutrality/freedom.
Finally a smart move on MS' part. Apple is backing HTML5, linux (of course) is backing HTML5. Finally MS has realized it's tougher to swim against the current. This is a new strategy evolved out of the simple realization that their stock price can't fall forever.
I've never understood the demand for this choppy grainy voyeur stuff with the current...... economic availability of porn on the internet.
Really? Not a single Borat joke yet?
It's ironic Schmidt himself said this. I was recently responsible for deploying google apps (for mail only) across an entire network. This involved using the Google Apps Sync for Outlook plugin on ALL desktops and the google sync application on all mobile phones. It took roughly a week to implement.
In contrast clients that spend a little extra money and adhere to our exchange/bes solution could have had desktops completed by GPO and enterprise activation passwords sent out within a couple hours.
So.... in real word application his "cloud services" required about 10000x the setup support as conventional methods.
Thanks for showing me how underpaid I am.
I dont know what kind of end-user Schmidt is used to working with. In my experience moving things "to the cloud" just means your IT guy(s) no longer have physical access. You still have to set up network shares and permissions, manage email accounts, change passwords, install applications (even if it's just a link on a desktop), implement and manage the internal networks, etc.
Unless this magical cloud manages to create more competent end users IT isn't going anywhere.
Erroneous. The point is given some major outage (see: 3 day EC3 outage) I have the ability to do something about it with my own servers. With everything in the cloud I do not.
I've never understood how things became so abstracted with software patents. I suppose it's because in the real world mother nature does most of the foundational work for us, whereas in the software world everything has to be done from scratch.
Since we all seem to agree that you cant patent wood, or fire, or dirt wouldn't it be logical to extend this to the software realm? No more patenting drivers, utility libraries, or user interfaces since these can be seen as materials. You may only patent the unique functionality of the software you made by using those materials. And like all patents, it has an expiry date.
It surprises me no one looks at it this way.
You're forgetting one thing: ThinkPad's are god awfully ugly.
I notice a huge difference with gaming mice. Most importantly:
1) Anything less than 1800dpi is horrendous, esp for FPS
2) Wireless is a joke
3) Mapping one of the side buttons to shift, alt, or ctrl exponentially multiplies your keyboard hotkeys.
That being said, mice like the Naga are absolute overkill.
This reminds me of stuff like the nokia morph concept. It took 10 years for me to be able to properly view a webpage on my phone. The monopolized 'slow roll' of our technology wont allow this stuff to happen in our life time.
All ISP's keep logs. Knowing the IP immediately identifies the ISP. From there it's just a petition away to find the account/modem MAC that was using that IP at that time.
Proving exactly who was on the computer at that time would be impossible. But you could easily narrow it down to the household.
Aww... I wanted to have the first minority report reference!