Fact of the matter is that VERY few people are fired for choosing a Microsoft product that does not live up to the sales pitch. Many contractors or government bureaucrats will choose and sell to their superiors Office 365 as a "cloud" offering even though really isn't (Of course try to pin down what "cloud" means....that is a problem unto itself).
On the other hand if said contractor chose Google Apps and the user base revolts or it fails they could very well get canned.
Bottom line, for most professionals who are just there to satisfy the boss's urge for cloud computing it's a safe bet no matter how bad it's delivered. Why? Because they can shrug and say "It's Microsoft, not my fault!"
Fact of the matter is, the less companies, governments, organizations, etc trust their employees the less control they will give them. Every time a phisher is successful more control over the PC is taken away by security (in general).
I've seen this happen in my organization. The flexibility of having a computer you can install software that helps you do your job without permission is vanishing very quickly. Before long I expect that you will not be able to download any executable (even archived in zip) or run them. Of course this not saying they will not
Basically people's desktops at work are going to become less "personal computer" and more "web/document processing workstation".
Very Zen of you. The fact that it's not "new" is irrelevant.
Math does not equal reality. It's a conceptual framework based on axioms. Keeping this in mind will hopefully help people from falling into the trap of being closed minded about new approaches and ways of looking at things.
You are missing the point, which is that all knowledge stems from acceptance of a priori assumptions. A priori assumptions have no support. They cannot have support other than direct experience (individual to each person)
"At this point an enigma presents itself which in all ages has agitated inquiring minds. How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.
In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this:--As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
It's amazing how many scientists and mathematicians conveniently ignore Einsteins's speech on this matter. It's almost as if they sweep it under the rug because it's too uncomfortable to face the fact that all math and science are based on axiomatic "a priori" knowledge, basically it's faith. I have no evidence that my brain is not floating in some vat somewhere with electrodes sticking out of it, but I take it on faith that it's not. My knowledge starts from faith that the world exists as I see it. I can't confirm that independently of my own experience.
I find it ironic that it was a Democrat that really kicked off America's space program (Kennedy), a Republican to hobble it (Nixon) and finally a Democrat (Obama) to stomp on whats left....
Uh..it's disconcerting because the U.S. has a large investment in it? We own a share in the property. Without the Russians our investment returns nothing for the U.S...not research, not commercial whatever...nothing.
More disconcerting is the fact that ANY serious dispute with Russia will need to be taken into account as they could refuse to launch to the ISS (or let our astronauts down) in a diplomatic crisis.
Depending on another country that you are not the best friends with to provide you with the ONLY transportation to your space station does not sound like a good idea.
I wonder what the environmental community will say when/if Japan decides to close down their nuke plants and replace them with oil/coal/gas based power stations (there is no feasible way considering astronomical cost to use wind/solar/hydro to replace the output from all those reactors).
As far as safety, less people are killed per year from nuclear power generation vs fossil fuel generation (even adjusting for the difference of each respective production capacity). It may be a bit simplistic to use that as complete justification for the safety of nuclear vs fossil fuel but it definitely should not be blown off (no pun intended) and ignored.
Yea, the model seems to be to get a station going (scifi, mtv, techTV) and then buy it out right for the audience and milk it until it dies or is ignored.
It's SO much easier to migrate to Linux when all the apps operate primarily within the browser. My organization has been pushing to get every app we can running out of the browser using standards based (non IE specific) approaches.
Its not easy though. The fact of the matter is (and Apple is a good example) that developers still have much more flexibility and options to create desktop applications that are more feature rich and have that "bling" polish about them then your standard web app. People will continue to want to use word, excel and powerpoint until they can be convinced that using a web based alternative is better.
It's hard enough to get my mom to stop using Word and use google docs instead (even though she bitches every time she forgets where she saved that damn word file). People are loath to dump their broken way of doing things if it gets the job done...even if that means in a hobbled inefficient way.
What actually happens when a call comes in? Obviously any data streams stop, but if I have a laptop tethered will TCP connections get reset or is it like all of a sudden having dropped packets?
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Fact of the matter is that VERY few people are fired for choosing a Microsoft product that does not live up to the sales pitch. Many contractors or government bureaucrats will choose and sell to their superiors Office 365 as a "cloud" offering even though really isn't (Of course try to pin down what "cloud" means....that is a problem unto itself).
On the other hand if said contractor chose Google Apps and the user base revolts or it fails they could very well get canned.
Bottom line, for most professionals who are just there to satisfy the boss's urge for cloud computing it's a safe bet no matter how bad it's delivered. Why? Because they can shrug and say "It's Microsoft, not my fault!"
Fact of the matter is, the less companies, governments, organizations, etc trust their employees the less control they will give them. Every time a phisher is successful more control over the PC is taken away by security (in general).
I've seen this happen in my organization. The flexibility of having a computer you can install software that helps you do your job without permission is vanishing very quickly. Before long I expect that you will not be able to download any executable (even archived in zip) or run them. Of course this not saying they will not
Basically people's desktops at work are going to become less "personal computer" and more "web/document processing workstation".
Ok.....that is awesome. Some brave reporter needs to ask the President that at a press conference
Are you responding to me? Or Einstein? Did you read the paper at the end of the link I posted?
I'll have to be sure, but I don't think he rejected quantum mechanics, in fact from what I recall he accepted the mathematics of it.
He said he did not LIKE it. Big difference.
did you read the paper?
Read Einstein's paper. He explains it. I linked to it.
Very Zen of you. The fact that it's not "new" is irrelevant.
Math does not equal reality. It's a conceptual framework based on axioms. Keeping this in mind will hopefully help people from falling into the trap of being closed minded about new approaches and ways of looking at things.
You are missing the point, which is that all knowledge stems from acceptance of a priori assumptions. A priori assumptions have no support. They cannot have support other than direct experience (individual to each person)
Well..for Science I agree with you. Although the idea of beauty in an equation is one that HAS used (attractiveness),
I agree.
Absent information does not prove or disprove the existence of that which is unknown, it just means there is no information about it.
I never said he was a deity, just that I agreed with him
"At this point an enigma presents itself which in all ages has agitated inquiring minds. How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality? Is human reason, then, without experience, merely by taking thought, able to fathom the properties of real things.
In my opinion the answer to this question is, briefly, this:--As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
http://www.relativitybook.com/resources/Einstein_geometry.html
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It's amazing how many scientists and mathematicians conveniently ignore Einsteins's speech on this matter. It's almost as if they sweep it under the rug because it's too uncomfortable to face the fact that all math and science are based on axiomatic "a priori" knowledge, basically it's faith. I have no evidence that my brain is not floating in some vat somewhere with electrodes sticking out of it, but I take it on faith that it's not. My knowledge starts from faith that the world exists as I see it. I can't confirm that independently of my own experience.
I find it ironic that it was a Democrat that really kicked off America's space program (Kennedy), a Republican to hobble it (Nixon) and finally a Democrat (Obama) to stomp on whats left....
Uh..it's disconcerting because the U.S. has a large investment in it? We own a share in the property. Without the Russians our investment returns nothing for the U.S...not research, not commercial whatever...nothing.
More disconcerting is the fact that ANY serious dispute with Russia will need to be taken into account as they could refuse to launch to the ISS (or let our astronauts down) in a diplomatic crisis.
Depending on another country that you are not the best friends with to provide you with the ONLY transportation to your space station does not sound like a good idea.
I wonder what the environmental community will say when/if Japan decides to close down their nuke plants and replace them with oil/coal/gas based power stations (there is no feasible way considering astronomical cost to use wind/solar/hydro to replace the output from all those reactors).
As far as safety, less people are killed per year from nuclear power generation vs fossil fuel generation (even adjusting for the difference of each respective production capacity). It may be a bit simplistic to use that as complete justification for the safety of nuclear vs fossil fuel but it definitely should not be blown off (no pun intended) and ignored.
What lunacy...I guess Linux didn't go anywhere either cause it's open source...or Chrome.....or Firefox.....
We are a federal democratic republic....even if the "federal" part is almost entirely faux
Yea, the model seems to be to get a station going (scifi, mtv, techTV) and then buy it out right for the audience and milk it until it dies or is ignored.
It's SO much easier to migrate to Linux when all the apps operate primarily within the browser. My organization has been pushing to get every app we can running out of the browser using standards based (non IE specific) approaches.
Its not easy though. The fact of the matter is (and Apple is a good example) that developers still have much more flexibility and options to create desktop applications that are more feature rich and have that "bling" polish about them then your standard web app. People will continue to want to use word, excel and powerpoint until they can be convinced that using a web based alternative is better.
It's hard enough to get my mom to stop using Word and use google docs instead (even though she bitches every time she forgets where she saved that damn word file). People are loath to dump their broken way of doing things if it gets the job done...even if that means in a hobbled inefficient way.
Is it 2Gigs after compression?
Because the IETF thought that they were giving everybody enough lead time. I mean, it's been 15 years (1996) since RFC 1883 came out.
Well..we don't need all those obsolete users! :)
What actually happens when a call comes in? Obviously any data streams stop, but if I have a laptop tethered will TCP connections get reset or is it like all of a sudden having dropped packets?