He did not make much mention of the Internet in the first revision of his book, however, in this Time Magazine article from 1995:
Gates is as fearful as he is feared, and these days he worries most about the Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. The Internet, by design, has no central operating system that Microsoft or anybody else can patent and license. And its libertarian culture is devoted to open—that is to say, nonproprietary—standards, none of which were set by Microsoft. Gates moved quickly this year to embrace the Net, although it sometimes seemed he was trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it.
In Bill Gates' book from 1995, "The Road Ahead", he discusses how computing switched from "mainframe"-type applications where the bulk of the storage and processing was done by a centralized system, and how that was falling out of favor for a more distributed desktop PC environment. He further predicted this model would eventually revert back to the "mainframe" (now known as "cloud").
I think the only reason Google Chrome is gaining ground is due to the fact that it's forced along with any other Google application, and in many cases sets itself to be the default browser. Most people are too stupid/apathetic to notice or care, so it stays.
First off - yes, this is very illegal which is why you don't see the use of active jamming equipment in the US. If they want to instead build a Faraday cage around the entire campus, this would be the "legal" - though prohibitively expensive - way of getting around the issue.
If in fact they attempt this, and staff or a student have a bona-fide medical emergency and are unable to summon emergency services, this district will then be tasked for paying for a home nurse to wipe the drool off of said victim's face for the rest of their lives.
You would think those who work in education would, you know, educate themselves on the relevant laws and ramifications of actions... nahhh, this is the US public school system we're talking about here.
My city can't even fix a fucking pothole in less than a month, and somehow this place expects a bureaucratically-heavy municipal government to be able to provide reliable Internet service?
I bet all the traffic runs through the police station for "analysis" anyway. Scary.
Showing my age again... I want something mainstream, that's widely supported without reading wikis and compiling kernels and chasing down drivers for my Bluetooth chipset. I unfortunately need to run Microsoft Office in a stable, proven platform. And, for the moment, I support the mainstream OSes for all of my clients, so it helps to be running the same software they use.
I get the allure of Linux, I understand its stability and security, I buy devices that use it whenever possible... I just don't have the time or desire to contribute to its care and feeding...
I have been a die-hard Microsoft user since MS-DOS on my ancient Heathkit XT clone. I currently use XP Pro and XP Media Center. I refuse to install Vista, as I enjoy a certain degree of control over my operating system. I still, by habit, use command lines in a DOS window to do things that Windows can do via the GUI. I guess I'm showing my age...
This experience comes at a cost, namely supporting machines for my family and friends. Never mind what the media and professionals say about Vista, but when my friends and family BEG me to remove Vista and replace it with XP, you know something is bad wrong with this operating system.
These days, if someone is buying a new machine, and all they do is email, browsing, pictures and the like, I will always recommend a Mac. I don't have to support the damn thing - it just works. If they're intent on a PC or need one for certain software, I send them to the Dell Outlet where you can still get a fantastic Core 2 Duo Optiplex with a 3-year warranty and XP for a few hundred bucks.
If by chance I'm forced into Vista, I too am moving to Mac. Times change. Microsoft fucked up. I never thought I'd be advocating Macs, ever.
The boxes for the mesh radios are BLACK! Totally stupid decision, as they do not reflect sunlight and allow the guts of the box to heat up to levels which will either degrade performance or cause the radios to malfunction completely.
How do I know this? Let's just say I've learned from personal experience.
You know, Scott. I've been a frickin' evil doctor for 30 frickin' years, OK? Cut me some "frickin'" slack. You forget Scott. We're in a volcano. We're surrounded by liquid hot magma.
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How our school's aren't producing scientifically oriented graduates.
Booting from USB is BIOS-dependent, not OS dependent.
Some manufacturers actually released BIOS updates which added this functionality to their systems. I VERY rarely will find a PIII system that can boot from USB, but it seems that it became a common feature as the P4 was introduced.
Most early Pentium I systems could not even boot from the CD-ROM drive. The only way to access the drive was to create a boot diskette with manufacturer-specific drivers.
I think Google would have an extraordinarily difficult time becoming the "de-facto" standard for online payments through ebay, considering PayPal is deeply entrenched within the ebay framework. I'd have to imagine the market for other person-to-person micropayments outside of online auctions isn't very large.
You're conveniently forgetting that the $1200 TV can be used for things other than playing the XBox. For those of us who purchased our HD sets a while ago, the cost for the 360 is what I would consider "reasonable".
I was a Spamcop subscriber, using their SMTP forwarding/filtering system. I got fed up with the downtime and the false positives, and canceled the account. A month later, I start getting MASSIVE amounts of spam directed to the "secret" account that is set up for forwarding of "clean" email. Most of these messages had both my true email account and the secret account as recipients.
There's no possible way anyone could have guessed this address (it consisted of random characters), and Spamcop was the only other organization that ever had record of it, and that ever used both of these addresses together.
I'm in the "my time is valuable and I need things to work" camp. For better or worse, XP provides me with an experience that allows me to be productive without having to resort to recompiling my kernel or learning another command line interface.
If I were using Linux as long as I've been using Windows, the situation might be different. Unfortunately, the reality is that Windows is in the majority and has been the (desktop) OS of choice for just about every business and individual I've dealt with.
Alternately, you can spend 30 seconds installing Orb on your Windows XP box and start streaming from just about ANY mobile device. But hey, some people like the feeling of empowerment that comes from wasting lots of time modifying scripts and tweaking config files to gain mediocre results.
The Cox DVR is awful. From a usability perspective, TiVo blows it away.
I've been through three. All of them like to spontaneously reboot themselves, especially while in the middle of recording a show (which is subsequently lost as the box spends 5 minutes booting up).
If you start playback of a program that is being recorded, the DVR will stop when the program is finished recording, and throw you right back to the beginning of the program so you have to fast-forward to where you were. Maybe they fixed this since I gave up on the thing a few months ago.
Search functionality is useless. The box isn't smart enough to figure out that programs sometimes move from their original time slot, so it will continue to record as usual, just the wrong stuff.
If the TiVo supported digital cable channels, OnDemand, and multiple tuners, I'd buy one yesterday.
If you want free, Avast is excellent, as is AVG. I currently prefer Avast as it seems to have a higher malware/spyware (read "not virus or worm") detection rate than AVG, and isn't quite as "cartoony" in the UI.
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Gates is as fearful as he is feared, and these days he worries most about the Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. The Internet, by design, has no central operating system that Microsoft or anybody else can patent and license. And its libertarian culture is devoted to open—that is to say, nonproprietary—standards, none of which were set by Microsoft. Gates moved quickly this year to embrace the Net, although it sometimes seemed he was trying to wrap Microsoft's long arms around it.
Time Magazine - 12/22/1995
In Bill Gates' book from 1995, "The Road Ahead", he discusses how computing switched from "mainframe"-type applications where the bulk of the storage and processing was done by a centralized system, and how that was falling out of favor for a more distributed desktop PC environment. He further predicted this model would eventually revert back to the "mainframe" (now known as "cloud").
Steve Jobs must have read this book.
I think the only reason Google Chrome is gaining ground is due to the fact that it's forced along with any other Google application, and in many cases sets itself to be the default browser. Most people are too stupid/apathetic to notice or care, so it stays.
First off - yes, this is very illegal which is why you don't see the use of active jamming equipment in the US. If they want to instead build a Faraday cage around the entire campus, this would be the "legal" - though prohibitively expensive - way of getting around the issue.
If in fact they attempt this, and staff or a student have a bona-fide medical emergency and are unable to summon emergency services, this district will then be tasked for paying for a home nurse to wipe the drool off of said victim's face for the rest of their lives.
You would think those who work in education would, you know, educate themselves on the relevant laws and ramifications of actions... nahhh, this is the US public school system we're talking about here.
Yawn, Loopt has been doing this forever.
My city can't even fix a fucking pothole in less than a month, and somehow this place expects a bureaucratically-heavy municipal government to be able to provide reliable Internet service?
I bet all the traffic runs through the police station for "analysis" anyway. Scary.
Maybe folks just couldn't get used to Kitt's computerized voice...
It's unfortunate that this device is hobbled by the crappiest network in the US. They should have picked Verizon or AT&T.
Showing my age again... I want something mainstream, that's widely supported without reading wikis and compiling kernels and chasing down drivers for my Bluetooth chipset. I unfortunately need to run Microsoft Office in a stable, proven platform. And, for the moment, I support the mainstream OSes for all of my clients, so it helps to be running the same software they use.
I get the allure of Linux, I understand its stability and security, I buy devices that use it whenever possible... I just don't have the time or desire to contribute to its care and feeding...
I have been a die-hard Microsoft user since MS-DOS on my ancient Heathkit XT clone. I currently use XP Pro and XP Media Center. I refuse to install Vista, as I enjoy a certain degree of control over my operating system. I still, by habit, use command lines in a DOS window to do things that Windows can do via the GUI. I guess I'm showing my age...
This experience comes at a cost, namely supporting machines for my family and friends. Never mind what the media and professionals say about Vista, but when my friends and family BEG me to remove Vista and replace it with XP, you know something is bad wrong with this operating system.
These days, if someone is buying a new machine, and all they do is email, browsing, pictures and the like, I will always recommend a Mac. I don't have to support the damn thing - it just works. If they're intent on a PC or need one for certain software, I send them to the Dell Outlet where you can still get a fantastic Core 2 Duo Optiplex with a 3-year warranty and XP for a few hundred bucks.
If by chance I'm forced into Vista, I too am moving to Mac. Times change. Microsoft fucked up. I never thought I'd be advocating Macs, ever.
The boxes for the mesh radios are BLACK! Totally stupid decision, as they do not reflect sunlight and allow the guts of the box to heat up to levels which will either degrade performance or cause the radios to malfunction completely.
How do I know this? Let's just say I've learned from personal experience.
You know, Scott. I've been a frickin' evil doctor for 30 frickin' years, OK? Cut me some "frickin'" slack. You forget Scott. We're in a volcano. We're surrounded by liquid hot magma.
Grammatically-oriented graduates, either...
Does anyone care?
Would it be too much to ask to post reviews that don't appear to be written by twelve-year-olds?
Booting from USB is BIOS-dependent, not OS dependent.
Some manufacturers actually released BIOS updates which added this functionality to their systems. I VERY rarely will find a PIII system that can boot from USB, but it seems that it became a common feature as the P4 was introduced.
Most early Pentium I systems could not even boot from the CD-ROM drive. The only way to access the drive was to create a boot diskette with manufacturer-specific drivers.
d:\i386\setup.exe and such.
This wasn't that long ago, was it?
I think Google would have an extraordinarily difficult time becoming the "de-facto" standard for online payments through ebay, considering PayPal is deeply entrenched within the ebay framework. I'd have to imagine the market for other person-to-person micropayments outside of online auctions isn't very large.
You're conveniently forgetting that the $1200 TV can be used for things other than playing the XBox. For those of us who purchased our HD sets a while ago, the cost for the 360 is what I would consider "reasonable".
I was a Spamcop subscriber, using their SMTP forwarding/filtering system. I got fed up with the downtime and the false positives, and canceled the account. A month later, I start getting MASSIVE amounts of spam directed to the "secret" account that is set up for forwarding of "clean" email. Most of these messages had both my true email account and the secret account as recipients.
There's no possible way anyone could have guessed this address (it consisted of random characters), and Spamcop was the only other organization that ever had record of it, and that ever used both of these addresses together.
I don't trust them at all.
I'm in the "my time is valuable and I need things to work" camp. For better or worse, XP provides me with an experience that allows me to be productive without having to resort to recompiling my kernel or learning another command line interface.
If I were using Linux as long as I've been using Windows, the situation might be different. Unfortunately, the reality is that Windows is in the majority and has been the (desktop) OS of choice for just about every business and individual I've dealt with.
Uh, Orb is free. I've been using it for 6 months and they have never requested any type of payment.
Alternately, you can spend 30 seconds installing Orb on your Windows XP box and start streaming from just about ANY mobile device. But hey, some people like the feeling of empowerment that comes from wasting lots of time modifying scripts and tweaking config files to gain mediocre results.
The Cox DVR is awful. From a usability perspective, TiVo blows it away.
I've been through three. All of them like to spontaneously reboot themselves, especially while in the middle of recording a show (which is subsequently lost as the box spends 5 minutes booting up).
If you start playback of a program that is being recorded, the DVR will stop when the program is finished recording, and throw you right back to the beginning of the program so you have to fast-forward to where you were. Maybe they fixed this since I gave up on the thing a few months ago.
Search functionality is useless. The box isn't smart enough to figure out that programs sometimes move from their original time slot, so it will continue to record as usual, just the wrong stuff.
If the TiVo supported digital cable channels, OnDemand, and multiple tuners, I'd buy one yesterday.
And why should anyone care?
If you want free, Avast is excellent, as is AVG. I currently prefer Avast as it seems to have a higher malware/spyware (read "not virus or worm") detection rate than AVG, and isn't quite as "cartoony" in the UI.