There is a need for a third part patch to Windows that gives it similar security precautions found in Unix say a secure mode where only 'installed' software may run and only the os may read program files and nothing may write,edit,erase same. You have to turn it off to update/install/remove software but I doupt many admin would complain. This dosen't stop email worms but it's a step in the right direction.
Windows admin and a lot of Unix admin don't take security sereously. Managment can fix that. If a hack could have been prevented by a patch fire admin.
Also a third party auditing of Linux destros for security flaws (and other things) would be valuable. (Maybe VA could do this?)
At one time security on a desktop didn't make sense. But that was a long time ago in a day when phisical access was needed to do anything. Now computers are interconected on live networks. Security is paramount. Microsoft , some destros and many admin don't get this.
'Even if CMOS density follows Moore's Law for 40 more years, molecular cascades are still going to be smaller,' Thusly they won't have it practical within that time frame. Neat thow. So they'll be using this some day and to find out that day just use Moor's law.
I'm going to draw a guess here and suggest that maybe they are hand monitoring and some jerk has desided to watch your friends bandwith useage for any excuse. It's quite possable for manual monitoring to go unnoticed as the few violations would be rare enough. The rule is one complaint represents 1,000 costummers or something like that. So if you only have 50 angry ex costummers the few (if any) complaints will seam like cranks and trolls. If they can ever automate it then you'll notice it more. I guess outside that we know it can be done and they want to do it. But we can only take the word of a handful of people that it's happening and I'm not comfortable with that.
Hay I'm not a Marxist. Anywho Microsofts monopoly started with MsDos and nobody complained about that. It wasn't untill Microsoft pushed Windows on it's exsisting userbase that it had 75% install numbers. At the same time however Windows users in the real world weren't that common. Most Windows installs did nothing more that occupy disk space. Yet all those idle installs were used to justify software develupment. Clue: Use application sales to mesure intrest not unit sales.
In short users picked user hostile Dos over everything else and got shoved into Windows. Nobody noticed or cared about Microsofts growing monopoly untill Windows.
This begs the question can an EPOC minopoly be used to force something evil? I doupt it. And I will NOT use a Linux cell phone. I'm a zelot not an idiot....
No I wouldn't. Could it be becouse I wouldn't do anything so outragously foolish? Or would it be my objection to Microsoft?
Well those are good reasons but no...
I'm just to lazy. Sorry but to jump around like a monkey takes to much effort. He's proven however he can and will do it at the drop of a hat. (This kinda disproves the notion that lazy eq fat.. He's fat I'm lazy end of story..)
Software piracy is enemy number two. The enemy isn't Linux as a compeditor but open source as a method of develuping software for free. Just as software theft hurts the ability to sell software open source makes it difficult to make commertal software available. People are not willing to buy what they can have for free. What makes open source a greater enemy than piracy is simple. Piracy is theft: Somebodys hard work is used with out paying for it. This is moraly, ethicly and legally wrong. The software is not free but taken as much so as one who steals from the store. Open sorce is a free gift given in good faith to be used by anyone who will have it. A way to prove your skill. Co branding may be done eventually. "Download Kelloggs Linux from our website or get a CD free with Kellogs brand cereals". Oh I see your using Pepsi Office. AOL gives away millions of CDs to keep the AOL name in our faces. Coke, Pepsi and other companys do put a great deal of effort into the same. Free software keeps odd names in our minds all the time. xmms, ogg, gimp all household names in the Linux world. Plus the job potental for a graduated OS develuper improves with the success of his software. Transmeta got lucky Linus didn't want to be a consultent a strong posability for populare OS develupers. Software has become like air. You can buy it or you can get it for free. Even if it's better quality when you buy it you'll only do it when the free stuff won't take you where you want to go. (Under water or some new FPS game)
Microsoft makes it's money making the kind of software anyone can make. In the future commertal software will do things that take years of R and D to make possable. Stuff thats not going to come from a team of hobbyests. Microsoft dosen't make that kind of software. Not yet anyway. But excluding cutting edge games the mass market dosen't buy such software. They want stuff thats relitively easy to make. Microsoft is facing the fact that the alternitive to software theft isn't buying software but downloading open sorce.
Why don't they simple puke beta OS type sorce code and leave it for us to support from there? Not saying OS is better than CS but that consistancy is good. The whole *nix world is wrapped around downloading the souce. "Many eyes" fixes problems and really makes things run smoothly. Yes"Many eyes" is the best way to find,fix,maintain software. But before we get into the whole OS religion thing let me say ME is not exclusive to OS (ME: Many eyes) (OS: Open Source)
Wide beta, Code review, breaking code into digestable segments for exper review and vareous auditing protocalls give closed source the benifit of ME plus tech support and user servays for after release input used for future updates etc. But the Linux world uses OS for ME. There just isn't enough closed sorce ME software review going on to know what works for *nix and what dosen't. OS ME has similar issues on Windows. You can't fight the world an os lives in. Thats one hold back for Linux in the CS world.
People have less time on there hands but I doupt that fact was noticed by the movie industry before DVDs and movie downloads became an issue.
Some dump time consumming hobbys and focus on just one thing. For some thats the local theator. Some will catch a new flick a week on the one free day they have. Those people buy VCRs and rent movies but still go to the theator becouse it's better. Buy wide screen TVs but still go to the box office. TV movie cable networks but theator is still better. They'll buy everything but still visit theator. Avoid the lower quality theators. Then the home theator comes to match the box office experence. No more theator. Then there are the movie goers who don't want to spend money on DVDs and home theators. They aren't about quality but COST. They don't catch so many movies so the box office is cheaper even at $20 a pop. But downloading is cheaper still.
This prediction has been repeated nearly every six months for years. I think people predict Microsoft will colaps just to laugh in the face of this sillyness.
While people busy themselfs predicting the downfall of open source companys closed source companys get flushed.
Microsoft is an annololy.. they won't die but companys who attempt to mimic Microsofts success will.
The "Linux will die" dream of every Microsoft fanatic is gona happen the same day Microsoft dies...
And we can all teach satan to ice skate when that day comes..
Stores silently refuse to sell items every day. Lesure Suit Larry never made it to Toys r us, Wards or other department stores with a Computer games department. It did make it to Eggheads and Fantacy Plaza. Early erotica games never saw store shelfs and one apple ][ graphics demo was pulled. The actions were quiet as if mundain everyday choices. But for this game the retaillers announced it like this was some glorious act of moral outrage.
They can make choices like this all day long. But remember that now you've just told software makers to leave you out of any plans they have. Microsoft should exclude them from new software release partys. Rebates etc.. any premotional that requires store participation should be not be tried with thies retaillers.
Don't make a public spectical of a personal objection. Ever... You may find your suppliers objectting to your lack of tact next time you want to restock.
Why an Os is more secure than annother matters mostly to security companys and os makers.
But from the implementing viewpoint it's more the issue of who usually dose the best. The reason matters to Linux people so they can keep pushing it and closing the problems. The reason should matter to Microsoft as they can then revamp and make the next release more secure however instead they use it to nitpik and say how "well you COULD make Windows more reliable"... Sure and you could make Linux user friendly but unless your an expert in the platform it's not gona happen.
The whole reason "user friendly" matters is becouse only a few people can preform small mirricals.
The typical Linux installation is more secure than the typical Windows installation. Maybe it's the clueless Win admin... if most are clueless you can forget finding one with a clue. Maybe it's poor documentation... Well do we have the time and resorces to compile good documentation? Wouldn't that money be better spent elsewhere? Maybe it's just bad software.
Maybe crackers just target Windows machines.
What ever the reason the results remain the same.
The same for viruses. No matter how many times anti-virus companys release Linux viruse alerts for viruses that don't exist untill somebody actually makes a virus for Linux there isn't any reason to be conserned about them.
I guess non-experts should watch for Linux virus alerts etc becouse it's safer than trying trying to explain worms, trojens and back doors that remain a consern to Linux.
PS: Yes I know there is ONE virus so there is reason to be conserned about IT. Use sesnable precautions such as actually using a password on ROOT and not running software as super user.
Free as in beer and speach.. just to make myself clear...
I want the code so I can recompile on my system and optomise for my systems querks. I don't want to fork it over for utilitys.
If software is preticularly powerful or on the inverse specturm purely entertainment I'll make an exception. BUT any time the liccens includes language that says how I can use it or what I can't do with it... byond the obligitory "don't steal" stuff that's in every software liccens sence the 1980's I won't even bother.
I don't know what Bitkeeper is and now I'll probably never bother to find out.
I'm against IP property on the grounds that it's knowladge and the person who can say who knows what rules the world. But untill the laws are changed people are making a living creating this knowladge and have as much right to be compinsated for the work they do as anyone producing a product. Theft of movies (in it's raw form it's knowlage but it's not more than entertainment.. the candy of brain food and of no importence the tyrany mentioned before dose not exsist here) The same runs in RL theft. Person steals a service and justifys it as being 'non-tagable' but real work was done. Person steals an item "you have to many" (kid actually said this to a merchant once) It's ok everone else is bad but MY theft is ok. I think selling knowladge is evil but thats not jusifying theft any better than the justification for food theft.
God help us if I'm right... Not becouse there is anything bad happening in my prediction but that should I actually get a 12 month prediction right we should join lucifer in a snowball fight. Ok anywho... Hardware companys that presist in the notion that giving out tech specs will lose money due to lack of support in Linux. Folow me here... While I predict Linux user stats to not rise above 15% this year the problem is larg buyers will start buying inmass only. Corprate accounts will continue to buy 90% Windows however when they order from an OEM they'll order 99,999,999 Windows boxes and one Linux box...byond the software they will be exactly the same system. As OEMs will make sure the systems they sell run Linux and Windows so they don't lose contracts due to one or two Linux boxes. Software makers won't be effected by this and continue to survive by shunning Linux. Robots taking over earth will crash as humans aren't going to provide "take over earth" drivers for any os.
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Everyone to young to have "come of age" before then end of the 1970's get's called "Generation X" it's come to mean "That other generation" rather than a single generation.
Generation X is this generation that spends there time infront of a video screen.
This is one of those red flags where you say "author didn't do any research"
Other red flags "Mac's aren't powerful enough" and "Linux is to hard" easy trappings.
"baby boomlet" or "Baby boom" is the term used when research is done.
Some of "Generation X" retired some are just starting to make "real money".
Each writer means something diffrent when he says "generation X" and it's nice that SOME actually speak what they call Gen X.
For me it's the "I said don't lable me and they did it awayway" generation.
The "Techno Generation" the "Information Generation" the "TV generation" all good meaningful and used often but news media culture prefers the misleading lable "X Generation" and it makes sense to me that the news media would do something so misinforming it's what they do and they do it well.
It's the "Your beneathe me and I'm gona tell you why" lable.
We had a very strange time. We've seen the world change by technology we've seen a culture shock of our elders. We've had more knowladge than our parents and seen our schools decay forcing us to take our education in our own hands. We've seen the world change so much that predictors who once would predict 50 to 100 years in the future only to be the bunt of jokes 50 to 100 years later started making predictions only weeks into the future and need only wait 24 hours to be proven wrong.
We've had quite a few millionairs show up not all from the Dot Com boom. We've seen millionairs broken as well.
Most of all we've seen people do what they love and love what they do and get paid for it more now than before. Is that comming to an end? People sure love to talk about how things are over. I'm wondering what grumblings about "The United States" and our freedom were anything like this? Ohh it won't last. Those people in the states will come crawling back to us when they can't survive on there own. Freedom? Hah Lawlessness and chaos.
The economic downfall was this and only this: To Many Unrealistic Expectations.
The successful dot coms were planned out like any brick and morter company, treated like a brick and morter company and run like a brick and morter company. The failures lived in la-la land.
To many people took the Internet as some Commerce utopia and not as the business tool that it is. If enough companys fall in a short piriod of time the ecconomys going to be effected. Every company plans based on current ecconomics but has room to cut back... well every SEREOUS company anyway.
So a major custummer falls you cut back. A major custummer cuts back you cut back. A bunch of major custummers cut back. All your custummers cut back. Most of your costummers fall.
Thats what's happening...
Dot Com A-F fall. Everyone doing business with them have to cut back. Everyone doing business with those companys cut back. Etc.
Shockwaves.
And that brings reality back to the ecconomy.
As for the future of "X Gen" earnings... Well it all depends on how good we are at applying what we know. Becouse we've got the knowladge and thats a start. But you gotta get down on your hands and knees and work. I think most people assume Gen X are lazy. Lazy becouse we can do everything by computer.
But how lazy is a generation of users who ask parents for code books and computer parts instead of cars and driving lessons?
Newtion has the same first mover disadvantages for the Pen top that Transmeda has for the CPU.
The Newtion was Apples attempt at a pentop after the consept had long been flushed out.
The PenTop industry already recognised that in order to survive a PenTop had to be small and cheap. The Newtion was big and expensive. That was as close to success as it could ever get.
The Amiga was also no first mover. At first the Amiga was press released as a high end home computer at a low price. Home computers were already a major market item. This however was also near the end of the videogame dark ages. Commodore sold it as a video game console. This is as bright as selling a high tech ice maker to ludites living in the antartic.
There was such a demand for a computer like the Amiga that people were willing to do the research to discover that the Amiga was NOT the "peace of junk toy" Commodore marketted it as.
In short... Newtion: Do exactly what the experts say will doom your device and your device is doomed. Amiga: Sell it as junk and people will think it is.
Dr Who- K9 voice "Relevence to TiVO device.. zero" [FYI: The actual line is "Peace of cake: Relevence to the key to time.. zero"]
The TiVO is what we want marketted correctly. They look more like Intel to me... first on doing well and coolness factor backing them up.
The TiVO name is already a household word. It's not "I want a Digtital video recorder" but "I want a TiVO".
TiVOs gona fail like Linux and Windows already have.....
While the whole DIVX thing was going on I was saying "If I never buy it I never need to care" Thats how I feal about this new device.
Anyone who has had content theft (Microsoft and many music artists) will see content control as a nessisity or even a right.
Victoms or survivers of victioms often see it as a good thing to throw away other peoples rights to prevent a crime. Some times they actually do (prevent the crime).
But while it's carrer destorying content theft is as petty as shoplifting. Ban pockets or put antitheft devices in cloathing.
Microsoft like the RIAA has been a victiom of content theft. The big diffrence here is Microsoft's staff uses computers extensively the RIAA staff do not use fileshareing or if they do use MP3 players they use them for soungs they have full rights of. Oh like we all can afford to buy the whole rights to any artist we like yes?
Yes Microsoft is philosophicly bound to try far more than Circuit City.
I don't see Microsoft doing a Circuit City (We won't offer DVD players just DIVX) and then spend the next few years making it's money in car stereos and refridgerators.
I see Microsoft stuffing it's policy in EVERYTHING they make and going like Commodore did with the CD TV. Invest EVERYTHING so much that if it isn't a smash hit... not even Microsofts 210% marketshare will keep it alive.
(Yes I know you can't have more than 100% or can you? Just sell the same software to everyone twice and some people three times and make sure everyone has to buy the product even if they don't want it/need it or can ever use it. Who dose this? Microsoft... It's to prevent software theft. Becouse if everyone pays for the software nobody can steal it.)
However that was Commodore they were already really bad off and this is Microsoft they are pritty well off. So I guess even at best we'll see Microsoft for the next five years at least.
In mass production there is a human to monitor and/or control the machines. The problem with absolute automation is defects. Take the now famous red light camras. They go off when the light is yellow or occasionally green. If a larg vehical blocks your view of the light and it runs a red if you folow the camra gets you. Alternitivly you could catch a ticket for impeding traffic by waiting for the buss to get out of the way and let you verify the light really is green.
Thies storys go on for days. I like the camras but don't give them the power to issue tickets. Just use the system for statistical sampling. Then place a live officer at the worst spots during the worst times.
I don't mean slashdotted eather. The bad mouthing and venem is probably containned to the mail list but now that he's gone out and sued it and Google then we all know somethings up.
Soon he'll be out of business and he'll have to sell those domains he took.
Whats sad is some people have caved to his demands.
If memory serves this is a Win CE based cell phone. As with the history of Microsoft products it's great hardware defective software. The Handspring counterpart is nice hardware but the service plans are from one carrer Sprint that really cuts down on your options. The visor + cell phone module combination is really nice but given the fact that Handspring is discontinuing that option you may want to pass. On the other hand a Visor delux [$99] + cell phone module [free] is a pritty good deal however forget Internet access unless you get at least the Visor Neo or platnum [$1.19]. (referbished prices)
For now wait. The software defects MIGHT be addressed with time and they may be ignored (as is the history with Microsoft) The Treo may have more service plans eventually but I doupt it. But the most likely thing to happen is more compeditive devices. I expect many PDA and cell phone makers to enter the market with better units in the months ahead. Some with WinCE some Palm os some Linux and others with costum made PDA operat
I'll meet you halfway on this. Let Amazon shut the account down and sue. After all this could easly be a breach of contract with Amazon and the P2P or defrauding Amazon and the true affiliate nither of whom came anywhere near agreeing to the P2P click through liccens.
It only makes sence that most of the obveous and commen prior art type methods of controlling content is a patent. The type of person who thinks about content control would say "patent it" no matter how obveous it is.
With the music industry running in the whole (knownladge as propety) croud it's only a matter of time before a music industry stunt was patented. I wouldn't be supprised if the preveous stunts did have rejected patent applications from a time when you had to earn a patent award not just buy it.
My Boss made me take off my speakers becouse he felt I could do my job. Most of the time offices use recognisable out of box consummer pcs with the bundled speakers ripped off.
I like e voice mail but I supose if someone were to BS me I'd stuff his phone number in the spam filter and set up a folder for my GF and one for famally and one for the boss. I'd like it if you could filter based on whay they say. "Congradulations Mr Jeffery" ZAP "You could save" zap "Our research indicates your a sucker" zap
and smart zap "yadda yadda" click on "change topic button "bs bs bs" zap it again "Well I guess I had nothing important to say" click never take his calls again.
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There is a need for a third part patch to Windows that gives it similar security precautions found in Unix say a secure mode where only 'installed' software may run and only the os may read program files and nothing may write,edit,erase same.
You have to turn it off to update/install/remove software but I doupt many admin would complain.
This dosen't stop email worms but it's a step in the right direction.
Windows admin and a lot of Unix admin don't take security sereously.
Managment can fix that.
If a hack could have been prevented by a patch fire admin.
Also a third party auditing of Linux destros for security flaws (and other things) would be valuable.
(Maybe VA could do this?)
At one time security on a desktop didn't make sense. But that was a long time ago in a day when phisical access was needed to do anything.
Now computers are interconected on live networks. Security is paramount.
Microsoft , some destros and many admin don't get this.
'Even if CMOS density follows Moore's Law for 40 more years, molecular cascades are still going to be smaller,'
Thusly they won't have it practical within that time frame.
Neat thow. So they'll be using this some day and to find out that day just use Moor's law.
I'm going to draw a guess here and suggest that maybe they are hand monitoring and some jerk has desided to watch your friends bandwith useage for any excuse.
It's quite possable for manual monitoring to go unnoticed as the few violations would be rare enough. The rule is one complaint represents 1,000 costummers or something like that. So if you only have 50 angry ex costummers the few (if any) complaints will seam like cranks and trolls.
If they can ever automate it then you'll notice it more.
I guess outside that we know it can be done and they want to do it. But we can only take the word of a handful of people that it's happening and I'm not comfortable with that.
Hay I'm not a Marxist.
Anywho Microsofts monopoly started with MsDos and nobody complained about that.
It wasn't untill Microsoft pushed Windows on it's exsisting userbase that it had 75% install numbers. At the same time however Windows users in the real world weren't that common. Most Windows installs did nothing more that occupy disk space.
Yet all those idle installs were used to justify software develupment.
Clue: Use application sales to mesure intrest not unit sales.
In short users picked user hostile Dos over everything else and got shoved into Windows.
Nobody noticed or cared about Microsofts growing monopoly untill Windows.
This begs the question can an EPOC minopoly be used to force something evil?
I doupt it. And I will NOT use a Linux cell phone.
I'm a zelot not an idiot....
No I wouldn't.
Could it be becouse I wouldn't do anything so outragously foolish?
Or would it be my objection to Microsoft?
Well those are good reasons but no...
I'm just to lazy. Sorry but to jump around like a monkey takes to much effort.
He's proven however he can and will do it at the drop of a hat.
(This kinda disproves the notion that lazy eq fat.. He's fat I'm lazy end of story..)
Not C.. Minix was writen entirely in ASM for complactness.
The original target machine was the XT with at most 640k of memory.
Show for me a platform with out rabid support and I'll show you an os that sucks.
Microsofts PR department dosen't count.
Software piracy is enemy number two.
The enemy isn't Linux as a compeditor but open source as a method of develuping software for free.
Just as software theft hurts the ability to sell software open source makes it difficult to make commertal software available.
People are not willing to buy what they can have for free.
What makes open source a greater enemy than piracy is simple.
Piracy is theft: Somebodys hard work is used with out paying for it. This is moraly, ethicly and legally wrong. The software is not free but taken as much so as one who steals from the store.
Open sorce is a free gift given in good faith to be used by anyone who will have it.
A way to prove your skill. Co branding may be done eventually. "Download Kelloggs Linux from our website or get a CD free with Kellogs brand cereals".
Oh I see your using Pepsi Office.
AOL gives away millions of CDs to keep the AOL name in our faces. Coke, Pepsi and other companys do put a great deal of effort into the same. Free software keeps odd names in our minds all the time. xmms, ogg, gimp all household names in the Linux world.
Plus the job potental for a graduated OS develuper improves with the success of his software.
Transmeta got lucky Linus didn't want to be a consultent a strong posability for populare OS develupers.
Software has become like air. You can buy it or you can get it for free.
Even if it's better quality when you buy it you'll only do it when the free stuff won't take you where you want to go.
(Under water or some new FPS game)
Microsoft makes it's money making the kind of software anyone can make. In the future commertal software will do things that take years of R and D to make possable. Stuff thats not going to come from a team of hobbyests.
Microsoft dosen't make that kind of software. Not yet anyway.
But excluding cutting edge games the mass market dosen't buy such software. They want stuff thats relitively easy to make.
Microsoft is facing the fact that the alternitive to software theft isn't buying software but downloading open sorce.
Why don't they simple puke beta OS type sorce code and leave it for us to support from there?
Not saying OS is better than CS but that consistancy is good.
The whole *nix world is wrapped around downloading the souce.
"Many eyes" fixes problems and really makes things run smoothly.
Yes"Many eyes" is the best way to find,fix,maintain software.
But before we get into the whole OS religion thing let me say ME is not exclusive to OS
(ME: Many eyes)
(OS: Open Source)
Wide beta, Code review, breaking code into digestable segments for exper review and vareous auditing protocalls give closed source the benifit of ME plus tech support and user servays for after release input used for future updates etc.
But the Linux world uses OS for ME. There just isn't enough closed sorce ME software review going on to know what works for *nix and what dosen't.
OS ME has similar issues on Windows.
You can't fight the world an os lives in.
Thats one hold back for Linux in the CS world.
People have less time on there hands but I doupt that fact was noticed by the movie industry before DVDs and movie downloads became an issue.
Some dump time consumming hobbys and focus on just one thing. For some thats the local theator. Some will catch a new flick a week on the one free day they have. Those people buy VCRs and rent movies but still go to the theator becouse it's better. Buy wide screen TVs but still go to the box office.
TV movie cable networks but theator is still better.
They'll buy everything but still visit theator. Avoid the lower quality theators. Then the home theator comes to match the box office experence. No more theator.
Then there are the movie goers who don't want to spend money on DVDs and home theators.
They aren't about quality but COST. They don't catch so many movies so the box office is cheaper even at $20 a pop.
But downloading is cheaper still.
This prediction has been repeated nearly every six months for years.
I think people predict Microsoft will colaps just to laugh in the face of this sillyness.
While people busy themselfs predicting the downfall of open source companys closed source companys get flushed.
Microsoft is an annololy.. they won't die but companys who attempt to mimic Microsofts success will.
The "Linux will die" dream of every Microsoft fanatic is gona happen the same day Microsoft dies...
And we can all teach satan to ice skate when that day comes..
Stores silently refuse to sell items every day.
Lesure Suit Larry never made it to Toys r us, Wards or other department stores with a Computer games department.
It did make it to Eggheads and Fantacy Plaza.
Early erotica games never saw store shelfs and one apple ][ graphics demo was pulled.
The actions were quiet as if mundain everyday choices.
But for this game the retaillers announced it like this was some glorious act of moral outrage.
They can make choices like this all day long. But remember that now you've just told software makers to leave you out of any plans they have.
Microsoft should exclude them from new software release partys. Rebates etc.. any premotional that requires store participation should be not be tried with thies retaillers.
Don't make a public spectical of a personal objection.
Ever... You may find your suppliers objectting to your lack of tact next time you want to restock.
Why an Os is more secure than annother matters mostly to security companys and os makers.
But from the implementing viewpoint it's more the issue of who usually dose the best.
The reason matters to Linux people so they can keep pushing it and closing the problems.
The reason should matter to Microsoft as they can then revamp and make the next release more secure however instead they use it to nitpik and say how "well you COULD make Windows more reliable"... Sure and you could make Linux user friendly but unless your an expert in the platform it's not gona happen.
The whole reason "user friendly" matters is becouse only a few people can preform small mirricals.
The typical Linux installation is more secure than the typical Windows installation.
Maybe it's the clueless Win admin... if most are clueless you can forget finding one with a clue.
Maybe it's poor documentation... Well do we have the time and resorces to compile good documentation? Wouldn't that money be better spent elsewhere?
Maybe it's just bad software.
Maybe crackers just target Windows machines.
What ever the reason the results remain the same.
The same for viruses. No matter how many times anti-virus companys release Linux viruse alerts for viruses that don't exist untill somebody actually makes a virus for Linux there isn't any reason to be conserned about them.
I guess non-experts should watch for Linux virus alerts etc becouse it's safer than trying trying to explain worms, trojens and back doors that remain a consern to Linux.
PS: Yes I know there is ONE virus so there is reason to be conserned about IT.
Use sesnable precautions such as actually using a password on ROOT and not running software as super user.
Free as in beer and speach.. just to make myself clear...
I want the code so I can recompile on my system and optomise for my systems querks.
I don't want to fork it over for utilitys.
If software is preticularly powerful or on the inverse specturm purely entertainment I'll make an exception.
BUT any time the liccens includes language that says how I can use it or what I can't do with it... byond the obligitory "don't steal" stuff that's in every software liccens sence the 1980's I won't even bother.
I don't know what Bitkeeper is and now I'll probably never bother to find out.
I'm against IP property on the grounds that it's knowladge and the person who can say who knows what rules the world.
But untill the laws are changed people are making a living creating this knowladge and have as much right to be compinsated for the work they do as anyone producing a product.
Theft of movies (in it's raw form it's knowlage but it's not more than entertainment.. the candy of brain food and of no importence the tyrany mentioned before dose not exsist here)
The same runs in RL theft.
Person steals a service and justifys it as being 'non-tagable' but real work was done.
Person steals an item "you have to many" (kid actually said this to a merchant once)
It's ok everone else is bad but MY theft is ok.
I think selling knowladge is evil but thats not jusifying theft any better than the justification for food theft.
God help us if I'm right...
Not becouse there is anything bad happening in my prediction but that should I actually get a 12 month prediction right we should join lucifer in a snowball fight.
Ok anywho...
Hardware companys that presist in the notion that giving out tech specs will lose money due to lack of support in Linux.
Folow me here...
While I predict Linux user stats to not rise above 15% this year the problem is larg buyers will start buying inmass only.
Corprate accounts will continue to buy 90% Windows however when they order from an OEM they'll order 99,999,999 Windows boxes and one Linux box...byond the software they will be exactly the same system.
As OEMs will make sure the systems they sell run Linux and Windows so they don't lose contracts due to one or two Linux boxes.
Software makers won't be effected by this and continue to survive by shunning Linux.
Robots taking over earth will crash as humans aren't going to provide "take over earth" drivers for any os.
Everyone to young to have "come of age" before then end of the 1970's get's called "Generation X" it's come to mean "That other generation" rather than a single generation.
Generation X is this generation that spends there time infront of a video screen.
This is one of those red flags where you say "author didn't do any research"
Other red flags
"Mac's aren't powerful enough" and "Linux is to hard" easy trappings.
"baby boomlet" or "Baby boom" is the term used when research is done.
Some of "Generation X" retired some are just starting to make "real money".
Each writer means something diffrent when he says "generation X" and it's nice that SOME actually speak what they call Gen X.
For me it's the "I said don't lable me and they did it awayway" generation.
The "Techno Generation" the "Information Generation" the "TV generation" all good meaningful and used often but news media culture prefers the misleading lable "X Generation" and it makes sense to me that the news media would do something so misinforming it's what they do and they do it well.
It's the "Your beneathe me and I'm gona tell you why" lable.
We had a very strange time. We've seen the world change by technology we've seen a culture shock of our elders. We've had more knowladge than our parents and seen our schools decay forcing us to take our education in our own hands.
We've seen the world change so much that predictors who once would predict 50 to 100 years in the future only to be the bunt of jokes 50 to 100 years later started making predictions only weeks into the future and need only wait 24 hours to be proven wrong.
We've had quite a few millionairs show up not all from the Dot Com boom. We've seen millionairs broken as well.
Most of all we've seen people do what they love and love what they do and get paid for it more now than before.
Is that comming to an end? People sure love to talk about how things are over. I'm wondering what grumblings about "The United States" and our freedom were anything like this? Ohh it won't last. Those people in the states will come crawling back to us when they can't survive on there own. Freedom? Hah Lawlessness and chaos.
The economic downfall was this and only this: To Many Unrealistic Expectations.
The successful dot coms were planned out like any brick and morter company, treated like a brick and morter company and run like a brick and morter company.
The failures lived in la-la land.
To many people took the Internet as some Commerce utopia and not as the business tool that it is.
If enough companys fall in a short piriod of time the ecconomys going to be effected.
Every company plans based on current ecconomics but has room to cut back... well every SEREOUS company anyway.
So a major custummer falls you cut back.
A major custummer cuts back you cut back.
A bunch of major custummers cut back.
All your custummers cut back.
Most of your costummers fall.
Thats what's happening...
Dot Com A-F fall. Everyone doing business with them have to cut back. Everyone doing business with those companys cut back. Etc.
Shockwaves.
And that brings reality back to the ecconomy.
As for the future of "X Gen" earnings...
Well it all depends on how good we are at applying what we know.
Becouse we've got the knowladge and thats a start. But you gotta get down on your hands and knees and work.
I think most people assume Gen X are lazy. Lazy becouse we can do everything by computer.
But how lazy is a generation of users who ask parents for code books and computer parts instead of cars and driving lessons?
Newtion has the same first mover disadvantages for the Pen top that Transmeda has for the CPU.
The Newtion was Apples attempt at a pentop after the consept had long been flushed out.
The PenTop industry already recognised that in order to survive a PenTop had to be small and cheap. The Newtion was big and expensive.
That was as close to success as it could ever get.
The Amiga was also no first mover.
At first the Amiga was press released as a high end home computer at a low price. Home computers were already a major market item.
This however was also near the end of the videogame dark ages. Commodore sold it as a video game console. This is as bright as selling a high tech ice maker to ludites living in the antartic.
There was such a demand for a computer like the Amiga that people were willing to do the research to discover that the Amiga was NOT the "peace of junk toy" Commodore marketted it as.
In short... Newtion: Do exactly what the experts say will doom your device and your device is doomed.
Amiga: Sell it as junk and people will think it is.
Dr Who- K9 voice
"Relevence to TiVO device.. zero"
[FYI: The actual line is "Peace of cake: Relevence to the key to time.. zero"]
The TiVO is what we want marketted correctly.
They look more like Intel to me... first on doing well and coolness factor backing them up.
The TiVO name is already a household word. It's not "I want a Digtital video recorder" but "I want a TiVO".
TiVOs gona fail like Linux and Windows already have.....
While the whole DIVX thing was going on I was saying "If I never buy it I never need to care"
Thats how I feal about this new device.
Anyone who has had content theft (Microsoft and many music artists) will see content control as a nessisity or even a right.
Victoms or survivers of victioms often see it as a good thing to throw away other peoples rights to prevent a crime. Some times they actually do (prevent the crime).
But while it's carrer destorying content theft is as petty as shoplifting. Ban pockets or put antitheft devices in cloathing.
Microsoft like the RIAA has been a victiom of content theft. The big diffrence here is Microsoft's staff uses computers extensively the RIAA staff do not use fileshareing or if they do use MP3 players they use them for soungs they have full rights of. Oh like we all can afford to buy the whole rights to any artist we like yes?
Yes Microsoft is philosophicly bound to try far more than Circuit City.
I don't see Microsoft doing a Circuit City (We won't offer DVD players just DIVX) and then spend the next few years making it's money in car stereos and refridgerators.
I see Microsoft stuffing it's policy in EVERYTHING they make and going like Commodore did with the CD TV. Invest EVERYTHING so much that if it isn't a smash hit... not even Microsofts 210% marketshare will keep it alive.
(Yes I know you can't have more than 100% or can you? Just sell the same software to everyone twice and some people three times and make sure everyone has to buy the product even if they don't want it/need it or can ever use it. Who dose this? Microsoft... It's to prevent software theft. Becouse if everyone pays for the software nobody can steal it.)
However that was Commodore they were already really bad off and this is Microsoft they are pritty well off.
So I guess even at best we'll see Microsoft for the next five years at least.
In mass production there is a human to monitor and/or control the machines.
The problem with absolute automation is defects.
Take the now famous red light camras. They go off when the light is yellow or occasionally green.
If a larg vehical blocks your view of the light and it runs a red if you folow the camra gets you.
Alternitivly you could catch a ticket for impeding traffic by waiting for the buss to get out of the way and let you verify the light really is green.
Thies storys go on for days.
I like the camras but don't give them the power to issue tickets. Just use the system for statistical sampling. Then place a live officer at the worst spots during the worst times.
I don't mean slashdotted eather.
The bad mouthing and venem is probably containned to the mail list but now that he's gone out and sued it and Google then we all know somethings up.
Soon he'll be out of business and he'll have to sell those domains he took.
Whats sad is some people have caved to his demands.
If memory serves this is a Win CE based cell phone.
As with the history of Microsoft products it's great hardware defective software.
The Handspring counterpart is nice hardware but the service plans are from one carrer Sprint that really cuts down on your options.
The visor + cell phone module combination is really nice but given the fact that Handspring is discontinuing that option you may want to pass. On the other hand a Visor delux [$99] + cell phone module [free] is a pritty good deal however forget Internet access unless you get at least the Visor Neo or platnum [$1.19].
(referbished prices)
For now wait. The software defects MIGHT be addressed with time and they may be ignored (as is the history with Microsoft) The Treo may have more service plans eventually but I doupt it.
But the most likely thing to happen is more compeditive devices. I expect many PDA and cell phone makers to enter the market with better units in the months ahead.
Some with WinCE some Palm os some Linux and others with costum made PDA operat
I'll meet you halfway on this.
Let Amazon shut the account down and sue.
After all this could easly be a breach of contract with Amazon and the P2P or defrauding Amazon and the true affiliate nither of whom came anywhere near agreeing to the P2P click through liccens.
It only makes sence that most of the obveous and commen prior art type methods of controlling content is a patent.
The type of person who thinks about content control would say "patent it" no matter how obveous it is.
With the music industry running in the whole (knownladge as propety) croud it's only a matter of time before a music industry stunt was patented. I wouldn't be supprised if the preveous stunts did have rejected patent applications from a time when you had to earn a patent award not just buy it.
My Boss made me take off my speakers becouse he felt I could do my job.
Most of the time offices use recognisable out of box consummer pcs with the bundled speakers ripped off.
I like e voice mail but I supose if someone were to BS me I'd stuff his phone number in the spam filter and set up a folder for my GF and one for famally and one for the boss.
I'd like it if you could filter based on whay they say.
"Congradulations Mr Jeffery" ZAP
"You could save" zap
"Our research indicates your a sucker" zap
and smart zap
"yadda yadda" click on "change topic button
"bs bs bs" zap it again
"Well I guess I had nothing important to say" click never take his calls again.