I think the biggest impact in the near future in the Internet. More and more people are using the Internet, and at greater rates. They are building online communities with people in different parts of the world, relationships that a 'normal' person might not normally experience. So right now, the need might be in the minority, but as more and more people start communicating with more and more other people all over the world, time zones will present a growing confusion.
The system now is broken. Today's CEO get paid multi-million dollar bonuses win, lose or draw. Someone has to lose, and right now that is the rest of us. Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways. If they achieve it they win their bonus, if they lose they pay out. How much more effective would executives be under this system? It would certainly weed about the bullshit-artists and big talkers.
Or he could've prevented a new strain of pandemic virus from being released and saved billions of lives.
Or he could've accidently deleted the winning lottery numbers
Or if is Uncle was his Aunty...
Funny you say that. I've worked for a few companies that have made billions of dollars working with MS
But don't let facts get in the way of your fundamentalist drivel.
I don't know why security gets so much airtime in here. It's as if a generation of MS haters have been bred on this diet purely because it was the only argument they could use against one of the most successful companies of all time, and now they can't get off it.
This over-use of security as an argument is the probably what Dick Cheney would use if he worked in IT. The simple truth is that there is some minimal amount of danger out there in the real world, but it's not worth adjusting you way of life for. I've been using Windows since it came out and never had any real dramas over the last 20 odd years. Got a virus once or twice which caused less issues then the time I had rodents in my roof, or the time my car got broken into. Yes kids, shit happens, the trick is not to be scared of real life and lock yourself away in some padded cell. The only thing to fear is fear itself. Fuck you Apple:)
Apple is going after the market of users who are sick of dealing with security issues/malware/etc.
Rubbish. I run IT for fashion company whose employees are all the cool kids. Apple rules here for only one reason, it looks cool. The iphone looks cool, the touch screen looks cool, a 27" iMac looks cool sitting on your desk, and a Macbook air looks cool under your arm. These people pay $300 for a pair of jeans for the same reason. They don't even know what words malware, open source, or proprietary mean.
Lol, mod up.
I manage wireless infrastructure for a large warehouse. We have best-that-you-can-buy wireless, and it's still flakey for all the reasons you described. Give me the speed and reliability of wires any day.
Do you REALLY think that killing Osama changed anything? Think of it this way: Would killing the President of the US suddenly halt every operation running? Would killing the CEO of any large corporation make it fold and cease to exist?
We're not talking about a handful of loonies with a Bond-villainesque leader and a structure that would crumble when you remove the head.
Actually that is that is pretty close to what Al Qaeda is. The proof is in the pudding and apart from 9/11, which was mostly piss-poor logistical blunders on our part, Al Qaeda haven't really acheived much. If they we the massive co-ordinated terrorist organisation that the media claimed then, then where is the terror? No schools bombed, not sport stadiums gassed. Even a half baked biker gang could organise more destruction than Al Qaeda managed after 9/11.
Ozzy has already been replaced, and I guess it's safe to assume that this "devastating blow" didn't change jack. Considering how "prominent" Bin Laden had been, it's quite likely that the day to day "business" was already in the hands of someone else.
What business? If I had even 100 guys at my command I could achieve more terrorist acts in a week than these guys have done in ten years. Don't believe the hype.
What you're saying is that murdering one person is very different from murdering 5 or 6 people. It's not, it's the same, just different numbers.
A closer analogy would be that murdering one person is same as murdering thousands. A single murder, while still bad, is acceptable in the grand scheme of things. But thousands of people murdering thousands of people wouldn't be tolerated in any decent society.
Why do gamers care about the Grammys?
As a gamer, I couldn't care less about *any* award show. The whole concept is some outdated idea from the 20th century when media companies had a monopoly on distribution, and used these shows to peddle their wares. The rise of the Internet has made them obsolete.
Modern Media is nothing more than a giant social engineering program that is failing our adults.
There, fixed that for you.
I'm willing to bet that you haven't been in a school for a few years. Stop listening to talk-back radio, and internet forums and go out to the real world and take a look. Sure some schools suck, but equally some are producing very capable young adults. In my experience the difference has more to do individuals than the curriculum.
So take him out of that school? I see no problem with anyone making ridiculous demands, it only becomes a problem when people allow such behaviour to continue without action.
Maybe your point was: "What if my state requires me to submit tenders in docx format?"
Which still isn't such a big deal. You still have to buy a computer, and an internet connection. And before that you had to buy a pen and paper and some stamps. There is a cost to doing business, and if you're going to cry about the very simplest of tools required then perhaps life is just too hard for you and you should give up now.
Linux freaks come up with really stupid shit sometimes.
open source takes fewer people to support because it is generally more reliable. If Windows XP and Server families are any indication, it takes a veritable army of support personnel to keep it operational. Save money, ditch Microsoft!
You can easily run a server farm to support a $100million company on MS with one admin. Helpdesk numbers will depend on you level of service rather than your choice of client OS. I can only assume you have no idea what you are talking about, which seems to be typical of the linux zealots in this place.
It's funny, Bill has become quite an international hero after being seen as the devil of IT.
Speak for yourself. I work in IT consider Bill's contribution to our industry as net gain. There might've been a lot of crud that came out of Redmond over the years, but the core Windows/Office/Exchange/SQL family filled a necessary gap to bring IT from nerd-hobby to mainstream technology.
Why is 2 hours of flight time an apparent selling point for this thing? Why would anyone need or want to hover a few feet above the surface of a lake for 2 hours nonstop? Granted, you can "fly" much longer than in more traditional jetpacks, but it seems a bit like bragging about a car that can go 600 miles on a single tank but is permanently tethered to the gas station.
It has a range of about 100kms. That's enough to travel England to France, England to Ireland, Denmark to Norway, Poland to Sweden, Honk Kong to Macau, Australia to Indonesia etc etc With a bit of fine tuning there could be a reasonable, albeit niche market for something like this.
Personally I'm still not convinced tablets aren't a fad, much like an overpriced Tamigotchi or flares.
I'm with you. I've had an iPad since they were released (work toy). I hardly ever use it, and have actually given it to someone else who now also never uses it. The cycle is the same. The "wow that's cool" lasts about a day or two at most, then there's the "I'm sure I can find a use for it" for maybe a few more weeks, to "ipad who?" all within the first month. I'm sure there's people out there that have the energy to keep playing with them, but for me (and everyone I've observed), tablets are just a casual use gimmick.
The hype curve might last another year or two, then they'll disappear back into the niche market where they belong.
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I think the biggest impact in the near future in the Internet. More and more people are using the Internet, and at greater rates. They are building online communities with people in different parts of the world, relationships that a 'normal' person might not normally experience. So right now, the need might be in the minority, but as more and more people start communicating with more and more other people all over the world, time zones will present a growing confusion.
The system now is broken. Today's CEO get paid multi-million dollar bonuses win, lose or draw. Someone has to lose, and right now that is the rest of us. Every CEO should be given an agreed goal, and their bonus works both ways. If they achieve it they win their bonus, if they lose they pay out. How much more effective would executives be under this system? It would certainly weed about the bullshit-artists and big talkers.
Someone needs to tell the author that Dell are still in business and still making lots of money. Maybe those economists aren't so crazy after all.
Of course there is. If you were a former Al Qaeda Terrorist for example.
Or he could've prevented a new strain of pandemic virus from being released and saved billions of lives. Or he could've accidently deleted the winning lottery numbers Or if is Uncle was his Aunty...
Investing in MS technologies has always been foolhardy.
Well, except for all those many, many people that made millions of dollars out of investing in MS you mean?
Funny you say that. I've worked for a few companies that have made billions of dollars working with MS But don't let facts get in the way of your fundamentalist drivel.
That's the problem with nerds. You think logic is the answer to everything.
I don't know why security gets so much airtime in here. It's as if a generation of MS haters have been bred on this diet purely because it was the only argument they could use against one of the most successful companies of all time, and now they can't get off it. This over-use of security as an argument is the probably what Dick Cheney would use if he worked in IT. The simple truth is that there is some minimal amount of danger out there in the real world, but it's not worth adjusting you way of life for. I've been using Windows since it came out and never had any real dramas over the last 20 odd years. Got a virus once or twice which caused less issues then the time I had rodents in my roof, or the time my car got broken into. Yes kids, shit happens, the trick is not to be scared of real life and lock yourself away in some padded cell. The only thing to fear is fear itself. Fuck you Apple :)
Apple is going after the market of users who are sick of dealing with security issues/malware/etc.
Rubbish. I run IT for fashion company whose employees are all the cool kids. Apple rules here for only one reason, it looks cool. The iphone looks cool, the touch screen looks cool, a 27" iMac looks cool sitting on your desk, and a Macbook air looks cool under your arm. These people pay $300 for a pair of jeans for the same reason. They don't even know what words malware, open source, or proprietary mean.
lol I love how self-centered Europeans always think ...
Where was it written that the poster was European? You pretty much prove the parent's point about the general US lack of understanding of geography.
Lol, mod up. I manage wireless infrastructure for a large warehouse. We have best-that-you-can-buy wireless, and it's still flakey for all the reasons you described. Give me the speed and reliability of wires any day.
Yeah because we were all so much safer before wikileaks. There is no perfect scenario, but I prefer a world with wikileaks than one without.
Maybe you should look up "rules of engagement" and see what it's all about I'll give you a hint, in a war, you get to shoot the enemy without a trial.
Do you REALLY think that killing Osama changed anything? Think of it this way: Would killing the President of the US suddenly halt every operation running? Would killing the CEO of any large corporation make it fold and cease to exist?
We're not talking about a handful of loonies with a Bond-villainesque leader and a structure that would crumble when you remove the head.
Actually that is that is pretty close to what Al Qaeda is. The proof is in the pudding and apart from 9/11, which was mostly piss-poor logistical blunders on our part, Al Qaeda haven't really acheived much. If they we the massive co-ordinated terrorist organisation that the media claimed then, then where is the terror? No schools bombed, not sport stadiums gassed. Even a half baked biker gang could organise more destruction than Al Qaeda managed after 9/11.
Ozzy has already been replaced, and I guess it's safe to assume that this "devastating blow" didn't change jack. Considering how "prominent" Bin Laden had been, it's quite likely that the day to day "business" was already in the hands of someone else.
What business? If I had even 100 guys at my command I could achieve more terrorist acts in a week than these guys have done in ten years. Don't believe the hype.
What you're saying is that murdering one person is very different from murdering 5 or 6 people. It's not, it's the same, just different numbers.
A closer analogy would be that murdering one person is same as murdering thousands. A single murder, while still bad, is acceptable in the grand scheme of things. But thousands of people murdering thousands of people wouldn't be tolerated in any decent society.
Why do gamers care about the Grammys? As a gamer, I couldn't care less about *any* award show. The whole concept is some outdated idea from the 20th century when media companies had a monopoly on distribution, and used these shows to peddle their wares. The rise of the Internet has made them obsolete.
Modern Media is nothing more than a giant social engineering program that is failing our adults. There, fixed that for you. I'm willing to bet that you haven't been in a school for a few years. Stop listening to talk-back radio, and internet forums and go out to the real world and take a look. Sure some schools suck, but equally some are producing very capable young adults. In my experience the difference has more to do individuals than the curriculum.
So take him out of that school? I see no problem with anyone making ridiculous demands, it only becomes a problem when people allow such behaviour to continue without action.
Maybe your point was: "What if my state requires me to submit tenders in docx format?"
Which still isn't such a big deal. You still have to buy a computer, and an internet connection. And before that you had to buy a pen and paper and some stamps. There is a cost to doing business, and if you're going to cry about the very simplest of tools required then perhaps life is just too hard for you and you should give up now. Linux freaks come up with really stupid shit sometimes.
open source takes fewer people to support because it is generally more reliable. If Windows XP and Server families are any indication, it takes a veritable army of support personnel to keep it operational. Save money, ditch Microsoft!
You can easily run a server farm to support a $100million company on MS with one admin. Helpdesk numbers will depend on you level of service rather than your choice of client OS. I can only assume you have no idea what you are talking about, which seems to be typical of the linux zealots in this place.
It does here. Sucks to be you.
It's funny, Bill has become quite an international hero after being seen as the devil of IT.
Speak for yourself. I work in IT consider Bill's contribution to our industry as net gain. There might've been a lot of crud that came out of Redmond over the years, but the core Windows/Office/Exchange/SQL family filled a necessary gap to bring IT from nerd-hobby to mainstream technology.
Why is 2 hours of flight time an apparent selling point for this thing? Why would anyone need or want to hover a few feet above the surface of a lake for 2 hours nonstop? Granted, you can "fly" much longer than in more traditional jetpacks, but it seems a bit like bragging about a car that can go 600 miles on a single tank but is permanently tethered to the gas station.
It has a range of about 100kms. That's enough to travel England to France, England to Ireland, Denmark to Norway, Poland to Sweden, Honk Kong to Macau, Australia to Indonesia etc etc With a bit of fine tuning there could be a reasonable, albeit niche market for something like this.
Personally I'm still not convinced tablets aren't a fad, much like an overpriced Tamigotchi or flares.
I'm with you. I've had an iPad since they were released (work toy). I hardly ever use it, and have actually given it to someone else who now also never uses it. The cycle is the same. The "wow that's cool" lasts about a day or two at most, then there's the "I'm sure I can find a use for it" for maybe a few more weeks, to "ipad who?" all within the first month. I'm sure there's people out there that have the energy to keep playing with them, but for me (and everyone I've observed), tablets are just a casual use gimmick. The hype curve might last another year or two, then they'll disappear back into the niche market where they belong.