It's ironic that the guy himself has a blog, he's an Amazon employee and he publishes "Amazon employees shouldn't be blogging" diatribes on it. I mean, I myself think blogs are idiotic with rare exceptions, but his choosing of the medium is entertaining.
Then there shouldn't be any problem with US Navy going to Persian Gulf against Iran, right? Iran only has Moskit/Sunburn missiles, which is a smaller range (but higher speed) variation of the same set of ideas. BTW, both Yakhont and Moskit/Sunburn these days can effectively counteract Aegis, they don't just make them unmodified for decades.
That's the way it happens with the US - like in that old joke where Russians used pencil and NASA spent billion dollars building pen that writes in space. Russian anti-tank weapons fired off the shoulder penetrate US tanks (demonstrated in Iraq). Russian ICBM warheads can penetrate US anti missile defense (thankfully, not yet demonstrated). Russian anti-aircraft defense can shoot down ANY American war plane, no matter how fast and no matter the altitude. Russian fighter jets exceed the capabilities of their US counterparts. Russian tanks work fine in the desert (as opposed to US tanks). All of this is built at 1/10th the cost. Chinese have it. India has it. Iran has it. Whoever else is willing to buy (with obvious exceptions) can have it, too. Be glad Iraq did not have latest Russian gear.
Russians believe there won't be anything to effectively counteract these missiles til 2020. And those folks are VERY conservative in their estimates. NATO doesn't call it "Shipwreck" for nothing.:-) Sunburn, while a cool weapon in itself, and designed specifically to defeat Aegis, is not the best anti-ship missile in Russian arsenal. And even so, it's enough to scare US Navy shitless.
This baby is supersonic, can be launched in "flocks" of 20 with one missile flying high and conducting reconnaissance and others flying low. If the high flying one gets hit, another one takes its place. It has AI, it maneuvers in flight, it can carry 500KG regular or 620KT nuclear warhead. And believe me, even 200 of these don't cost as much as one fully loaded aircraft carrier. And it has attack range of 360 miles.
I helped design that low-flying shit which you know nothing about, luckily. You'd be scared to step onto a military ship if you knew as much as I do. Read up on Yakhont anti-ship missiles which is an earlier version of these missiles. 300KM range, fire and forget, pseudo-random maneuvers in flight, imprevious to jamming, flies at 2.3Mach. Can be launched from the ground, from the sub or from whenever else you want. It fully expects that you'll be able to detect its launch. It flies at 15KM altitude early in its flight cycle, but goes down to 5 meters above water when approaching the target. "Approaching the target" means target is within reach of its radar, at 75KM. Best of all, this stuff can be launched by dozens at a time. It can also be adjusted so that if one rocket hits a ship and there are other ships nearby, AI in other rockets will direct the remaining rockets from the launch group to hit other ships. Or they can be all directed to attack the largest ship (say, an aircraft carrier).
You won't be able to shoot it down. It's kind of like Satan ICBM, where warheads fly fast, maneuver in flight, and come in by dozens at a time.
I'm afraid of this shit. I love bacon and eggs every now and then, and the same shit could happen with this as with corn - you can't buy non-GM corn flakes anymore unless you shop at an "organic" store and pay twice the price. Leave bacon alone, I say. Or at least clearly mark the non-GM variety so that I'd know which one to buy.
They can travel hundreds of miles before striking a ship, way beyond any ship's detection range, similar to cruise missiles. That's the whole point of having them - to not have to send expensive ships that can be easily destroyed by aircraft or cannons or missiles.
In retrospect, I bet it was nice to have two countries in the world with roughly equal amounts of military power. If USSR was still around, the US would not even attempt to attack Iraq, because Iraq would have a constant supply of first-class weapons.
Russians, for one, have missiles that fly just above water and only go up when they're close and it's time to attack. They're impossible to intercept because radars can't see them due to reflections from water. Launch a few of these and this $4B toy will sink like a fucking rock. US, no doubt, has similar tech. Russians also have supercavitation torpedoes which no one can intercept because of their speed. This is not even taking submarines into account. A sub can stay close to the sea floor with motors turned off. Once this thing goes above it, it will just launch half a dozen torpedoes and move on.
Carriers are only useful against countries that don't have (or can't buy) such rockets / torpedoes / subs and don't have decent airforce or submarines. Those countries can be "shocked and awed" without aircraft carriers, though.
Icons are very telling of Microsoft's attention to detail. Notice how folders stand on their sides (hint, MS designers, papers will fall out if you do that) and every single display in pictures has horrible glare on the screen. Apple would never do something like that, Steve Jobs would not approve.
More of a hit to Microsoft and Yahoo, actually. Google saw it coming. They've purchased dark fiber to protect themselves against that. They're also actively exploring wireless. If tomorrow Google starts a WiMax network where I live and charges $20 for access (instead of Verizon's $45, with all the taxes and extra fees), I'll dump my Verizon DSL. In fact, if there's enough bandwidth, I'll even dump Verizon landline and switch to VOIP. Suddenly, my monthly communications bill will be $45 instead of $80 and Verizon won't get a dime of it.
Now MS and Yahoo - they haven't seen this coming. They'll have to pay through the nose for bandwidth. And so will smaller web sites and service providers whose users don't use Google internet access. So Google gets their own private internet on a silver platter from short-sighted, greedy, incompetent morons in Cable companies and telcos.
Your deleted images are kept in backups for a while, and even if you close your account it remains in the DB for 90 days in case FBI/DOJ wants to take a look. This is a common practice everywhere. Don't like it? Set up your own mail server.
A disappointing, low-key announcement. Now watch the following happen: 1. Next announcement will be one heck of a blockbuster announcement. Like iPod Video, Mac Pro and totally redesigned Intel iBook in one shot. 2. They'll slash the price on the minis by a hundred bucks a couple of months down the road. Crowds of Mac fanatics will bust the doors down if it's just $100 less. 3. They'll re-price their boombox at $299.
>> programming should be opened out to non-developers
Anyone who worked in a large software company (such as Microsoft, for example) knows this is already so. There are tons of people who can't write good code to save their life and have only one skill - they excel at brown-nosing. And they do pretty well. They do drain life out of those who can code, so if their percentage increases beyond certain threshold those who can code leave for greener pastures and projects fold.
Think about it, what does a word processing program do to your shiny new 4GHz P4 with 4GB RAM? It turns it into a glorified typewriter. Not a damn thing would change if you used notepad instead. What's the advantage of a standalone (exchange-less) email client over, say, mutt? Prettier UI. Spreadsheet is somewhat useful for tinkering with numbers, but when you need more than just back of the envelope calculation, you need an integrated solution that will eliminate double and triple entry of data along with errors associated with that.
The future is pretty darn bright for browser based (but not necessarily web based) groupware. You deploy one single server and voila, everyone in your org has everything they need to do their work. No installation is necessary. And not just that, all "apps" are integrated with each other. Need your spreadsheet to lookup on the DB? Insert a lookup field. Want your document to automatically update itself based on a simple DB query? No problem.
I know all of the above (except no-install deployment) can be done using MS Office, but as of right now this is NOT done. Microsoft would rather see someone do it and then copy the ideas than get into the messy business of developing customized solutions using office as a platform.
I didn't say it was sane. To the contrary, I said Google is overpriced. And whoever gambles with an overpriced stock deserves to be punished. Which is what we're observing. Also, Google never releases any projections, so "expected profits" in their case are pulled out of some analyst's ass.
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It's ironic that the guy himself has a blog, he's an Amazon employee and he publishes "Amazon employees shouldn't be blogging" diatribes on it. I mean, I myself think blogs are idiotic with rare exceptions, but his choosing of the medium is entertaining.
Could anyone give a rundown on how it compares to Microsoft Office Live? Their beta came out earlier than Google's. :0)
Either they patent it, or Microsoft/Yahoo/Somebodyelse does. It's not like they could afford to get hit by another 1B patent infringement lawsuit.
Then there shouldn't be any problem with US Navy going to Persian Gulf against Iran, right? Iran only has Moskit/Sunburn missiles, which is a smaller range (but higher speed) variation of the same set of ideas. BTW, both Yakhont and Moskit/Sunburn these days can effectively counteract Aegis, they don't just make them unmodified for decades.
That's the way it happens with the US - like in that old joke where Russians used pencil and NASA spent billion dollars building pen that writes in space. Russian anti-tank weapons fired off the shoulder penetrate US tanks (demonstrated in Iraq). Russian ICBM warheads can penetrate US anti missile defense (thankfully, not yet demonstrated). Russian anti-aircraft defense can shoot down ANY American war plane, no matter how fast and no matter the altitude. Russian fighter jets exceed the capabilities of their US counterparts. Russian tanks work fine in the desert (as opposed to US tanks). All of this is built at 1/10th the cost. Chinese have it. India has it. Iran has it. Whoever else is willing to buy (with obvious exceptions) can have it, too. Be glad Iraq did not have latest Russian gear.
Russians believe there won't be anything to effectively counteract these missiles til 2020. And those folks are VERY conservative in their estimates. NATO doesn't call it "Shipwreck" for nothing. :-) Sunburn, while a cool weapon in itself, and designed specifically to defeat Aegis, is not the best anti-ship missile in Russian arsenal. And even so, it's enough to scare US Navy shitless.
>> 50-75 mile effective range when flying low-profile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-N-19
This baby is supersonic, can be launched in "flocks" of 20 with one missile flying high and conducting reconnaissance and others flying low. If the high flying one gets hit, another one takes its place. It has AI, it maneuvers in flight, it can carry 500KG regular or 620KT nuclear warhead. And believe me, even 200 of these don't cost as much as one fully loaded aircraft carrier. And it has attack range of 360 miles.
I helped design that low-flying shit which you know nothing about, luckily. You'd be scared to step onto a military ship if you knew as much as I do. Read up on Yakhont anti-ship missiles which is an earlier version of these missiles. 300KM range, fire and forget, pseudo-random maneuvers in flight, imprevious to jamming, flies at 2.3Mach. Can be launched from the ground, from the sub or from whenever else you want. It fully expects that you'll be able to detect its launch. It flies at 15KM altitude early in its flight cycle, but goes down to 5 meters above water when approaching the target. "Approaching the target" means target is within reach of its radar, at 75KM. Best of all, this stuff can be launched by dozens at a time. It can also be adjusted so that if one rocket hits a ship and there are other ships nearby, AI in other rockets will direct the remaining rockets from the launch group to hit other ships. Or they can be all directed to attack the largest ship (say, an aircraft carrier).
You won't be able to shoot it down. It's kind of like Satan ICBM, where warheads fly fast, maneuver in flight, and come in by dozens at a time.
I'm afraid of this shit. I love bacon and eggs every now and then, and the same shit could happen with this as with corn - you can't buy non-GM corn flakes anymore unless you shop at an "organic" store and pay twice the price. Leave bacon alone, I say. Or at least clearly mark the non-GM variety so that I'd know which one to buy.
They can travel hundreds of miles before striking a ship, way beyond any ship's detection range, similar to cruise missiles. That's the whole point of having them - to not have to send expensive ships that can be easily destroyed by aircraft or cannons or missiles.
In retrospect, I bet it was nice to have two countries in the world with roughly equal amounts of military power. If USSR was still around, the US would not even attempt to attack Iraq, because Iraq would have a constant supply of first-class weapons.
Russians, for one, have missiles that fly just above water and only go up when they're close and it's time to attack. They're impossible to intercept because radars can't see them due to reflections from water. Launch a few of these and this $4B toy will sink like a fucking rock. US, no doubt, has similar tech. Russians also have supercavitation torpedoes which no one can intercept because of their speed. This is not even taking submarines into account. A sub can stay close to the sea floor with motors turned off. Once this thing goes above it, it will just launch half a dozen torpedoes and move on.
Carriers are only useful against countries that don't have (or can't buy) such rockets / torpedoes / subs and don't have decent airforce or submarines. Those countries can be "shocked and awed" without aircraft carriers, though.
>> would give us less than an hour
It takes ICBM launched from Russia only 9 minutes to reach the US.
Once more Germans start paying for software (to avoid jail), FOSS uptake will be a lot better.
Icons are very telling of Microsoft's attention to detail. Notice how folders stand on their sides (hint, MS designers, papers will fall out if you do that) and every single display in pictures has horrible glare on the screen. Apple would never do something like that, Steve Jobs would not approve.
More of a hit to Microsoft and Yahoo, actually. Google saw it coming. They've purchased dark fiber to protect themselves against that. They're also actively exploring wireless. If tomorrow Google starts a WiMax network where I live and charges $20 for access (instead of Verizon's $45, with all the taxes and extra fees), I'll dump my Verizon DSL. In fact, if there's enough bandwidth, I'll even dump Verizon landline and switch to VOIP. Suddenly, my monthly communications bill will be $45 instead of $80 and Verizon won't get a dime of it.
Now MS and Yahoo - they haven't seen this coming. They'll have to pay through the nose for bandwidth. And so will smaller web sites and service providers whose users don't use Google internet access. So Google gets their own private internet on a silver platter from short-sighted, greedy, incompetent morons in Cable companies and telcos.
Your deleted images are kept in backups for a while, and even if you close your account it remains in the DB for 90 days in case FBI/DOJ wants to take a look. This is a common practice everywhere. Don't like it? Set up your own mail server.
A disappointing, low-key announcement. Now watch the following happen:
1. Next announcement will be one heck of a blockbuster announcement. Like iPod Video, Mac Pro and totally redesigned Intel iBook in one shot.
2. They'll slash the price on the minis by a hundred bucks a couple of months down the road. Crowds of Mac fanatics will bust the doors down if it's just $100 less.
3. They'll re-price their boombox at $299.
Does it have a fartpipe?
>> programming should be opened out to non-developers
Anyone who worked in a large software company (such as Microsoft, for example) knows this is already so. There are tons of people who can't write good code to save their life and have only one skill - they excel at brown-nosing. And they do pretty well. They do drain life out of those who can code, so if their percentage increases beyond certain threshold those who can code leave for greener pastures and projects fold.
That's what I was wondering, too. I need Quartz Extreme on this thing. If it doesn't support it, I'm not going to buy.
Check this out: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=47.63942 2~-122.127583&style=o&lvl=2&scene=3729998&sp=adr.1 %20Microsoft%20Way%2C%20Redmond%2C%20WA%2098052
You can freakin' see Bill Gates there almost.
1. Give away hardware for free to geeks who live with their parents and blog from the basement
2. ???
3. Profit
If I were a Sun shareholder (which thanks god I'm not) I'd be pissed.
Think about it, what does a word processing program do to your shiny new 4GHz P4 with 4GB RAM? It turns it into a glorified typewriter. Not a damn thing would change if you used notepad instead. What's the advantage of a standalone (exchange-less) email client over, say, mutt? Prettier UI. Spreadsheet is somewhat useful for tinkering with numbers, but when you need more than just back of the envelope calculation, you need an integrated solution that will eliminate double and triple entry of data along with errors associated with that.
The future is pretty darn bright for browser based (but not necessarily web based) groupware. You deploy one single server and voila, everyone in your org has everything they need to do their work. No installation is necessary. And not just that, all "apps" are integrated with each other. Need your spreadsheet to lookup on the DB? Insert a lookup field. Want your document to automatically update itself based on a simple DB query? No problem.
I know all of the above (except no-install deployment) can be done using MS Office, but as of right now this is NOT done. Microsoft would rather see someone do it and then copy the ideas than get into the messy business of developing customized solutions using office as a platform.
You don't bitch about Skype, right? So what's wrong with Ekiga? At least it's not GMeeting.
I didn't say it was sane. To the contrary, I said Google is overpriced. And whoever gambles with an overpriced stock deserves to be punished. Which is what we're observing. Also, Google never releases any projections, so "expected profits" in their case are pulled out of some analyst's ass.