On Windows all the apps do not look or work the same by a mile. Not even all Microsoft apps look and work the same, i.e. Microsoft Office (XP and above) has its own look and feel that no other Microsoft app has.
ethereal requires you to have access to my network (physically - the wire). You're probably not going to be able to snoop on my LAN connected to the internet through a firewall unless you break into my house.
With wireless, some guy in his car parked in front of my house could snoop in on everything.
That's what people refer to when they say wireless is unsecured. Get it?
This how installing apps work for most applications on RPM based distributions (Redhat, Mandrake, etc). There are even GUI tools for RPM. I could be wrong, but double-clicking on a RPM (in Gnome or KDE) will launch it.
I say most applications because of course not all developer make RPMs for their apps. But most do these days.
1. The US government can and does restrict what can legaly come through it's borders. What you suggest may end up being costly, difficult and illegal.
2. Probably that would be OK legally, but not a huge concern in the long run. With time these old parts will die and won't have replacements.
3. As long as you can get a signature for that emulator from Microsoft. Remember, these new motherboards will only run signed code. Who gets to sign the code is still up in the air at this point.
Don't get me wrong, I am completely on your side. But don't underestimate the stupidy (and/or evilness) of governments. The biggest contributors often get their way.
I can see maybe see your point about iTunes - after all, you agree to certain terms ("a contract") when you sign up. Regarding DVDs (or books, or CDs, etc) I disagree with you. The ONLY right you don't have (in spite of the publisher's clever attempts to restrict you through technological means) is to redistribute it. If I want to make a copy of a DVD so that I can store a copy in every single room of my house, I have not broken the law. The DMCA is an end run against that right we have to use what we bought any way we want.
While I agree that the constant comparison with the rate of inflation is annoying, cable prices (in my area anyway, but it appears to be a national trend) have been rising out of control for the last few years, and they were not cheap to begin with.
I also don't agree with you that value as grown, or at least nowhere near in proportion with the cable prices. While I personally like Trading Spaces and Queer Eye, they might just be the only two shows I can think of that are in that category.
3. The number of quality programs may have increased, but I am sure that it hasn't increased nearly as much as the number of channels I get, or in proportion with my cable bill for that matter. That's the big problem.
If it wasn't for that one foreign channel I watch that's only on digital (it's channel 253 or something - way off the analog spectrum) I probably also wouldn't have digital cable. The quality is not better, and probably worst.
The only nice feature I like about digital (but probably wouldn't pay extra for) is the On-screen programming guide. It is so nice to flip through channels and see what is playing on it. Since the picture itself is a commercial more often than not, the text that says what's playing in between commercials is very useful.
Nobody says that the cable companies can't also offer "bundles". I suspect most people would select the bundles (price discounts for doing so), and the economics you describe would still work. But I only watch 2 channels (plus the networks). And of course, these 2 channel are currently only available with the Super-Platinum-plus-Pak (or whatever Adelphia calls it this week) which give me hundreds of channels. That's where the a-la-carte option would be great.
Selective filters? It's really not that hard. I have digital cable. It's trivial for them to turn channels on and off. I've called several times to turn specific channels on, it takes a minute of so (usually happens while I am still on the phone).
Not as easy for analog cable of course. I suspect analog cable would have to be discontinued to implement this a-la-carte scheme.
Many online store (not sure about Dell) have a real problem with sending anything to an address other than the billing address. The risk of fraud is much too high. You have to pay a higher % fee to the credit card processor for that.
While hacking is illegal, CMU is (mostly) a technology oriented school. Being the first the break an ATM (granted, this one broke itself) would probably enhance the school's image more than anything, at least within its demographic.
A reporter today, if he reported this story the way you think they could would loose any kind of credibility whatsoever. I believe even my grandma knows who owns and maintains ATMs.
I think most people (99.9999%) know that ATMs are owned by banks and not the owner of the building (the bank name in big lighted letters above EVERY ATM is a pretty good clue of that). I mean, this is like saying that this crashed ATM reflects poorly on Pittsburgh, PA.
If anything, the first article in a few years might say that the first ATM was hacked by CMU students. Not such a bad thing.
If there is one thing most users appreciate more than anything is consistency. I use ATMs both for deposits and widthraws. I am OK with having to enter decimals.
Having said all that, I don't remember using any ATMs recently that needed decimals on widthraws.
If they had the money, they wouldn't be so cheap to outsource to!
You're confusing two issues here: cost of living and cash reserve.
It is widely acknowledged that we have the best University system in the world.
Widely acknowledged by who? Americans? As a foreign born I have never of heard of it. And except for a select few universities, they're all rather mediocre here.
We will have lots of jobs available for lower-skilled people in nanotech
No we won't. Even by your own arguments, "lower skilled" stuff will go abroad.
I am sorry, I just don't buy your assertion that China and India can't and won't compete in areas that require a high capital investment. They DO have the money. And they have and will continue to invest. You keep hanging onto a myth that universities in this country are more advanced that in other countries. It is simply not true (first hand observation).
Eventually, these jobs too will become commoditized, but there will always be jobs that require too much capital investment in training for countries like India to compete for, and thus rich countries like the US will always be able to specialize in them
That's so incredibly arrogant, I think you're in for a big surprise. Maybe not tommorow, maybe not next year, but soon. Countries like Indian and China definetely ave enough money to compete in training (in part thanks to all the cash we send over there - heard anything about a little trade deficit problem we have?) and they've achieved everything they've set their mind (and money) to at record breaking speed (i.e. space program in China).
But you are missing my point by a mile anyway.
Advanced research may indeed stay in this country for the time being. But these type of jobs (the researchers) will only employ a very small minority of the population in this country (or anywhere else for that matter). Not only the need is limited, but certainly not everybody in this country (or anywhere) has the ability or potential to become an "advanced researcher". I am talking about the jobs for the "average american".
So that leaves us (potentially) with very large unemployment. How do you imagine this country will do with let's say a 20-30% unemployment rate? In today's economy any indication that consummer looses confidence (i.e. loose their jobs) and everything crumbles like a house of card.
"You can't outsource biotech/nanotech jobs to India if nobody has the requisite skills."
What makes you think that nobody has the skills in India (or anywhere else)? It's pretty arrogant to think that and it doesn't match reality. And more importantly, how much of the US population do you can and will be employed in biotech? I am talking about a bigger picture than just a single industry (IT or biotech). I am talking about the overall trend that's forming of outsourcing any and all desk jobs (manufacturing jobs having already left the country a long time ago).
"In the end, you're giving the job to *someone*, but in the latter case, you're not robbing your customers in the process."
That won't be a problem. With unemployement going up and everybody surviving on welfare you're probably not gonna have much of a customer base to worry about. Companies in this country keep forgetting that the people they are taking the jobs away from ARE their customers.
I don't think education has much to do with outsourcing. Outsourcing has to do with money and nothing else. US$1 is worth a lot more in India than it is in the US.
Don't get more wrong, I am not against education, and just don't see it as a way out of THIS problem. There are only so many advanced/research jobs out there. The rest of the population still has to do something, and even at poverty level wages, they're still going to be more expensive than Indias.
Outsourcing would stop if american corporations had souls. Most of companies cry how they need outsourcing to remain competitive. So they'll outsource all their employees so that their profit can be $0.27/share instead of $0.25/share. It's kind of pathetic. From most of them we're not talking about needing it for survival.
I don't have much problems with companies like Microsoft that have "research centers" in foreign countries - after all it'd be rather arrogant to think that only the US has smart people. I have a problem with companies that go after the cost saving (most).
I am very familiar with uncapping methods (not that I've done it myself, hem, I wouldn't want to break my ISP's TOS). And they're are not particularly trivial for a virus to do (or a user for that matter), especially when pressing power buttons, unplugging cables, and/or reconfiguring routers (if you have one between the modem and the virus infected PC). I would say it would be amazing feat of social engineering for a virus to manage to convince a user to do these things.
in modem, he means cable modem. It's not an integrated piece of hardware but a little box that sits somewhere outside of the PC. I can't really imagine a virus being able to reconfigure the modem, no. At least not trivially.
Feel free to identify a single group (in the US) that benefits long term from having pretty much the whole range of jobs in manufacturing and service slowly outsourced abroad. It certainly isn't the consumer.
Outsourcing hurts the folks that get outsourced, but the rest of us win
Two points:
what makes you think there is or will be a "rest of us". Manufacturing is pretty much all outsourced, and service jobs (not just IT) are being outsourced.
You should read about the trickle down effect - it works both ways. High unemployment means less people spending and less tax revenue (less teachers: more unemployment, less roads being build: more unemployment)
Your views are very narrowminded. Short term profits, long term disaster.
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On Windows all the apps do not look or work the same by a mile. Not even all Microsoft apps look and work the same, i.e. Microsoft Office (XP and above) has its own look and feel that no other Microsoft app has.
If anything, KDE does a better job there.
ethereal requires you to have access to my network (physically - the wire). You're probably not going to be able to snoop on my LAN connected to the internet through a firewall unless you break into my house.
With wireless, some guy in his car parked in front of my house could snoop in on everything.
That's what people refer to when they say wireless is unsecured. Get it?
4) rpm -i application_name
This how installing apps work for most applications on RPM based distributions (Redhat, Mandrake, etc). There are even GUI tools for RPM. I could be wrong, but double-clicking on a RPM (in Gnome or KDE) will launch it.
I say most applications because of course not all developer make RPMs for their apps. But most do these days.
1. The US government can and does restrict what can legaly come through it's borders. What you suggest may end up being costly, difficult and illegal.
2. Probably that would be OK legally, but not a huge concern in the long run. With time these old parts will die and won't have replacements.
3. As long as you can get a signature for that emulator from Microsoft. Remember, these new motherboards will only run signed code. Who gets to sign the code is still up in the air at this point.
Don't get me wrong, I am completely on your side. But don't underestimate the stupidy (and/or evilness) of governments. The biggest contributors often get their way.
I can see maybe see your point about iTunes - after all, you agree to certain terms ("a contract") when you sign up. Regarding DVDs (or books, or CDs, etc) I disagree with you. The ONLY right you don't have (in spite of the publisher's clever attempts to restrict you through technological means) is to redistribute it. If I want to make a copy of a DVD so that I can store a copy in every single room of my house, I have not broken the law. The DMCA is an end run against that right we have to use what we bought any way we want.
While I agree that the constant comparison with the rate of inflation is annoying, cable prices (in my area anyway, but it appears to be a national trend) have been rising out of control for the last few years, and they were not cheap to begin with.
I also don't agree with you that value as grown, or at least nowhere near in proportion with the cable prices. While I personally like Trading Spaces and Queer Eye, they might just be the only two shows I can think of that are in that category.
3. The number of quality programs may have increased, but I am sure that it hasn't increased nearly as much as the number of channels I get, or in proportion with my cable bill for that matter. That's the big problem.
If it wasn't for that one foreign channel I watch that's only on digital (it's channel 253 or something - way off the analog spectrum) I probably also wouldn't have digital cable. The quality is not better, and probably worst.
The only nice feature I like about digital (but probably wouldn't pay extra for) is the On-screen programming guide. It is so nice to flip through channels and see what is playing on it. Since the picture itself is a commercial more often than not, the text that says what's playing in between commercials is very useful.
Nobody says that the cable companies can't also offer "bundles". I suspect most people would select the bundles (price discounts for doing so), and the economics you describe would still work. But I only watch 2 channels (plus the networks). And of course, these 2 channel are currently only available with the Super-Platinum-plus-Pak (or whatever Adelphia calls it this week) which give me hundreds of channels. That's where the a-la-carte option would be great.
Selective filters? It's really not that hard. I have digital cable. It's trivial for them to turn channels on and off. I've called several times to turn specific channels on, it takes a minute of so (usually happens while I am still on the phone).
Not as easy for analog cable of course. I suspect analog cable would have to be discontinued to implement this a-la-carte scheme.
Many online store (not sure about Dell) have a real problem with sending anything to an address other than the billing address. The risk of fraud is much too high. You have to pay a higher % fee to the credit card processor for that.
While hacking is illegal, CMU is (mostly) a technology oriented school. Being the first the break an ATM (granted, this one broke itself) would probably enhance the school's image more than anything, at least within its demographic.
A reporter today, if he reported this story the way you think they could would loose any kind of credibility whatsoever. I believe even my grandma knows who owns and maintains ATMs.
I think most people (99.9999%) know that ATMs are owned by banks and not the owner of the building (the bank name in big lighted letters above EVERY ATM is a pretty good clue of that). I mean, this is like saying that this crashed ATM reflects poorly on Pittsburgh, PA.
If anything, the first article in a few years might say that the first ATM was hacked by CMU students. Not such a bad thing.
If there is one thing most users appreciate more than anything is consistency. I use ATMs both for deposits and widthraws. I am OK with having to enter decimals.
Having said all that, I don't remember using any ATMs recently that needed decimals on widthraws.
If they had the money, they wouldn't be so cheap to outsource to!
You're confusing two issues here: cost of living and cash reserve.
It is widely acknowledged that we have the best University system in the world.
Widely acknowledged by who? Americans? As a foreign born I have never of heard of it. And except for a select few universities, they're all rather mediocre here.
We will have lots of jobs available for lower-skilled people in nanotech
No we won't. Even by your own arguments, "lower skilled" stuff will go abroad.
I am sorry, I just don't buy your assertion that China and India can't and won't compete in areas that require a high capital investment. They DO have the money. And they have and will continue to invest. You keep hanging onto a myth that universities in this country are more advanced that in other countries. It is simply not true (first hand observation).
Eventually, these jobs too will become commoditized, but there will always be jobs that require too much capital investment in training for countries like India to compete for, and thus rich countries like the US will always be able to specialize in them
That's so incredibly arrogant, I think you're in for a big surprise. Maybe not tommorow, maybe not next year, but soon. Countries like Indian and China definetely ave enough money to compete in training (in part thanks to all the cash we send over there - heard anything about a little trade deficit problem we have?) and they've achieved everything they've set their mind (and money) to at record breaking speed (i.e. space program in China).
But you are missing my point by a mile anyway.
Advanced research may indeed stay in this country for the time being. But these type of jobs (the researchers) will only employ a very small minority of the population in this country (or anywhere else for that matter). Not only the need is limited, but certainly not everybody in this country (or anywhere) has the ability or potential to become an "advanced researcher". I am talking about the jobs for the "average american".
So that leaves us (potentially) with very large unemployment. How do you imagine this country will do with let's say a 20-30% unemployment rate? In today's economy any indication that consummer looses confidence (i.e. loose their jobs) and everything crumbles like a house of card.
"You can't outsource biotech/nanotech jobs to India if nobody has the requisite skills."
What makes you think that nobody has the skills in India (or anywhere else)? It's pretty arrogant to think that and it doesn't match reality. And more importantly, how much of the US population do you can and will be employed in biotech? I am talking about a bigger picture than just a single industry (IT or biotech). I am talking about the overall trend that's forming of outsourcing any and all desk jobs (manufacturing jobs having already left the country a long time ago).
"In the end, you're giving the job to *someone*, but in the latter case, you're not robbing your customers in the process."
That won't be a problem. With unemployement going up and everybody surviving on welfare you're probably not gonna have much of a customer base to worry about. Companies in this country keep forgetting that the people they are taking the jobs away from ARE their customers.
I don't think education has much to do with outsourcing. Outsourcing has to do with money and nothing else. US$1 is worth a lot more in India than it is in the US.
Don't get more wrong, I am not against education, and just don't see it as a way out of THIS problem. There are only so many advanced/research jobs out there. The rest of the population still has to do something, and even at poverty level wages, they're still going to be more expensive than Indias.
Outsourcing would stop if american corporations had souls. Most of companies cry how they need outsourcing to remain competitive. So they'll outsource all their employees so that their profit can be $0.27/share instead of $0.25/share. It's kind of pathetic. From most of them we're not talking about needing it for survival.
I don't have much problems with companies like Microsoft that have "research centers" in foreign countries - after all it'd be rather arrogant to think that only the US has smart people. I have a problem with companies that go after the cost saving (most).
I am very familiar with uncapping methods (not that I've done it myself, hem, I wouldn't want to break my ISP's TOS). And they're are not particularly trivial for a virus to do (or a user for that matter), especially when pressing power buttons, unplugging cables, and/or reconfiguring routers (if you have one between the modem and the virus infected PC). I would say it would be amazing feat of social engineering for a virus to manage to convince a user to do these things.
in modem, he means cable modem. It's not an integrated piece of hardware but a little box that sits somewhere outside of the PC. I can't really imagine a virus being able to reconfigure the modem, no. At least not trivially.
CA may be stupid (I wouldn't know) but they didn't have much of a choice about buying stuff from SCO. It was part of a lawsuit settlement.
Not unless they backport all security fixes to XP SP1
Feel free to identify a single group (in the US) that benefits long term from having pretty much the whole range of jobs in manufacturing and service slowly outsourced abroad. It certainly isn't the consumer.
Outsourcing hurts the folks that get outsourced, but the rest of us win
Two points:
what makes you think there is or will be a "rest of us". Manufacturing is pretty much all outsourced, and service jobs (not just IT) are being outsourced.
You should read about the trickle down effect - it works both ways. High unemployment means less people spending and less tax revenue (less teachers: more unemployment, less roads being build: more unemployment)
Your views are very narrowminded. Short term profits, long term disaster.