Appliances may do self-diagnosis, and there might even be some with option to "phone home" but few people will avail themselves of it for several reasons:
1. Too much bother to run the wiring and too expensive to do it with
wireless.
2. Too expensive to put in the machine in the first place, and most
appliances are reliable enough it's not worth it --- people will
opt for the cheaper ones.
IM: A
I think you're dead on with IM, both having it and the controversy.
RFID: F
There might be a variation on the self-scan checkouts that are happening already, but you won't be able to just walk out the door and have things charged to you. No one in their right mind would allow that sort of free access to their bank account. You will have to go through a checkout confirmation process of some sort. I would give it a C, but you specifically said "walk now, pay later" and that's the part that I think simply won't happen ever even if it's technologically possible.
Prime Time: B
I'm already there, though only with 1/10th the disk space. I expect I'll probably be in the terabyte range in about 5 years. Rather than seeing advertising disappear as a result, however, I think you'll see a shift to product placement and creation of ads that are actually entertaining in their own right, such as the old Taster's Choice serial ads, or the BMW videos they're doing at the moment (though not that lavish).
...I also think that more and more, people are realizing that the only way to really effectively block spam is to use whitelists
In the long run, I think you're right, but thank the stars for spamassassin in the meantime! When I first installed it, about a year ago I think, it was blocking about 8000 message/month just to me! I checked earlier today for other reasons, and found it's grown to 13,000 blocked messages in the last month adding up to 116Meg. It's just f***ing insane. Unfortunately, the 4% it lets through adds up to over 500 messages in the last month, and it did manage to block 3 real messages, but it's still worth it...
What has caused such a change in the scientific world?
Maybe all the bogus patents everyone else is getting. Legitimate researchers these days don't take out patents to get rich --- they take them out as a defense mechanism to keep from getting screwed. I know for a fact that this is one of the major factors at one large company in encouraging patent applications.
($2.5MM for SG1 vs. $750K for Farscape, per episode)
Where did you get those figures? Farscape News quotes CNN quoting Jim Henson TV that Farscape is $1.5M/episode, though they also say that Buffy and Enterprise are in the $2M range. All the estimates I've seen for SG-1 are in the $700K-1.5M range too...
They do take credit cards, using paypal as the clearing house. Same way I do it. What makes paypal different in this respect from Veriphone et al (besides the "good will" many people don't have towards paypal)?
Just don't put the barcode on the back of your neck or you'll have the people from Manticore chasing you!
Re:Sysadmins need to pursue intrusion attempts
on
Due Diligence?
·
· Score: 2
"If one of your system was infected, wouldn't you want to be told about it?"
Yes, I would. But how many of these reports did your sysadmin get? Probably quite a few, daily. What would his manager say if he spent most of his time helping other people administer their systems instead of doing his job? If it's an occasional occurrence, you can help, but the infections are endemic, and helping a few is unlikely to change anything, as there are thousands of new virus cultures sold every day...
most of the time if I find something online for cheap, I can find it within a 1 hour drive of my home for the same price.
I'm sorry you value your time so low that you think that all the time you spend searching for that low price (even a 1/2hr radius for an hour round trip covers a lot of territory...) is cheaper than saving a few bucks.
Don't get me wrong: trying to make online merchants cope with a bazillion tax agencies is evil, and sales taxes in general are annoying, but buying online is still a vast improvement.
Still, thank goodness I live in Oregon and don't have to deal with them.
Also, unless you have a major objection to it, focus your energy on smaller companies.
Smaller companies generally have a lot better working environment anyway. The only place a big company wins is in things like stock options and sometimes pay. It's also generally easy to move around and do different things if you get bored. Even so, I'd rather work for a small company that appreciates what I do.
That much is clear. Unfortunately, I live in the real world, where I'm having to put in ATM lines to connect to the phone companies so as an ISP I can offer DSL services. The phone company is built on ATM, and from what I was hearing several years ago when I had closer contacts, so are most of the backbone IP providers.
Although I think Marvel is scum to pull this, this scam is so old I have to blame Lee and/or his agent on this one. No one in their right mind sells movies rights on profit any more --- it's always on the gross because of exactly this fake accounting. "Fool me once..."
I used to work at a gas station, though that was back when people complained about our gas being expensive at $0.69/gallon. Out of that, we got a nickel, the rest went to the wholesaler, who I think is who paid the per-gallon taxes. The owner said most of his profit came from our mechanic (who was really good), though I see that in the years since, the shop has been converted to a mini-mart, like most others.
Not just streams; I couldn't find a single mp3 download! I'm sorry, but how do they expect to make a name for themselves if no one can listen to them? This site was a total waste of time.
In response to another reply here: the way to make money is the way atom did (at least at one time --- since all they have had for some time is either poor quality stream-only or shockwave, I've rarely gone back). I watched a couple of good shorts and then bought a DVD from them that had the shorts on it. What localbands.com, et. al. needs to do is either custom cds or have a "buy this song" option for people who want to do it themselves. It would at the very least be a test to see if people really want to support artists or just rip them off (though you need a voting system to see which ones people actually like --- just because it's downloaded doesn't mean it's liked and kept).
Democrats will stay out of your personal lives if you give the government all your money, but nothing will keep them out of your business.
Republicans will stay out of your business if you give them and other businesses some of your money, but nothing will keep them out of your personal lives.
Both want to be Big Brother, they just differ on who they want the Little Siblings to be.
I recently got fed up with my windoze box crashes and got a PowerMac G4 733 with OS X 10.2. The switchover was much easier than I expected, but the thing is dog slow. It has 640M memory, but I added another 512M. That helped, but even then it still was a lot slower than my windoze box. Granted, it's a 1.8Ghz system, but that's the point: you can argue about exact equivalencies, but you double the clock rate and it's going to be a lot faster. Period.
This prediction makes no sense: On the one hand, with vmware and wine able to or soon will be able to run office, they can still sell it for those platforms. On the other hand, with open office, abi, staroffice etc, the handwriting is on the wall for Office as much as it is (or isn't) for Windoze. I don't think Microsoft is in any imminent danger though.
Minimizing your time through an obstacle course is a far cry from most normal driving. It's simply a matter of making driving the highest priority process so when it demands more processor time, the cell phone is what starts seeing the lag.
11+ accident free years of driving with a cell phone...
RIAA doesn't have any hold over independent artists. If you get the agreement from an artist who hasn't already signed away rights to their music elsewhere, you can webcast it to your heart's content.
Conversely, if you want to webcast music they have got their mits on, well, there's no reason you should be any different than any other radio station that has to pay royalties on it. The main difference is they advertise or hold beg-a-thons so they can pay the royalties (and for other minor things like salaries and equipment). Granted, the royalties should be scaled to the audience size, but if the rates are unreasonable, I find it really hard to believe that artists that have signed away all rights to their works to RIAA are the only ones making good music.
Webcasters need to tell RIAA to stick it, and come up with a working model that works well for good new independents looking for exposure, and by working, I mean keeps working after they're exposed so they can actually make a living from it (which I think should be easy to do if RIAA/studios are taking so much off the top). When webcasting then takes off with good new unaffiliated talent but won't air the "mainstream" artists because of the restrictive rules/pricing, I think you'll see a lot of major squawking and rewritten contracts and rules.
Games are the last reason I have to run Windoze; every other app I use has a viable option on Unix, though some, like Quicken, may require the Mac version (and I try gnucash every now and then to see if I can't replace that). Though truth be told, I hate to think of the lag of EQ under Wine.
Then again, we don't have to commute to work in most cases if most people, especially managers would just get used to the concept of telecommuting and rented satellite offices.
Yup. I've been on the "old" TDMA AT&T since it was Cellular One in 1991. I have friends who have Sprint, and invariably, once you get away from downtown, I have better coverage. Last summer, I tried Voicestream and GSM so I'd have better compatibility when I go to Europe (mostly dreaming;-) ), but GSM stops completely about 100 miles out of the Portland area (unless you're on I-5). My relatives live about 200 miles to the east. Bzzzt. No cigar. I was glad I'd never completely disconnected my AT&T service.
I don't care how good it is technically, if it doesn't go where I go, it's useless to me.
I run a small ISP in Portland, OR who's been down for two days because my network got deleted from the RADB from which the backbone ISP builds their routing tables. It's been working fine since I started using it almost a year ago, and magically stopped working the evening of Oct 1 (first of the month, in the evening when the backbone updates their tables), so I think a policy change topside is the "routing anomaly" that has barfed up everything. At least I'm supposed to be back online later this evening...
Slashdot Mirror
Here's how I would grade his 2012 predictions:
Appliances: D
Appliances may do self-diagnosis, and there might even be some with option
to "phone home" but few people will avail themselves of it for several
reasons:
1. Too much bother to run the wiring and too expensive to do it with
wireless.
2. Too expensive to put in the machine in the first place, and most
appliances are reliable enough it's not worth it --- people will
opt for the cheaper ones.
IM: A
I think you're dead on with IM, both having it and the controversy.
RFID: F
There might be a variation on the self-scan checkouts that are happening
already, but you won't be able to just walk out the door and have things
charged to you. No one in their right mind would allow that sort of free
access to their bank account. You will have to go through a checkout
confirmation process of some sort. I would give it a C, but you
specifically said "walk now, pay later" and that's the part that I think
simply won't happen ever even if it's technologically possible.
Prime Time: B
I'm already there, though only with 1/10th the disk space. I expect I'll
probably be in the terabyte range in about 5 years. Rather than seeing
advertising disappear as a result, however, I think you'll see a shift to
product placement and creation of ads that are actually entertaining in
their own right, such as the old Taster's Choice serial ads, or the BMW
videos they're doing at the moment (though not that lavish).
In the long run, I think you're right, but thank the stars for spamassassin in the meantime! When I first installed it, about a year ago I think, it was blocking about 8000 message/month just to me! I checked earlier today for other reasons, and found it's grown to 13,000 blocked messages in the last month adding up to 116Meg. It's just f***ing insane. Unfortunately, the 4% it lets through adds up to over 500 messages in the last month, and it did manage to block 3 real messages, but it's still worth it...
So does that mean the billboard will go out when I drive by listening to CDs?
...to use my non-verizon cell phone for all calls. Long distance is already free on my plan and I've got plenty of minutes...
Maybe all the bogus patents everyone else is getting. Legitimate researchers these days don't take out patents to get rich --- they take them out as a defense mechanism to keep from getting screwed. I know for a fact that this is one of the major factors at one large company in encouraging patent applications.
Where did you get those figures? Farscape News quotes CNN quoting Jim Henson TV that Farscape is $1.5M/episode, though they also say that Buffy and Enterprise are in the $2M range. All the estimates I've seen for SG-1 are in the $700K-1.5M range too...
They do take credit cards, using paypal as the clearing house. Same way I do it. What makes paypal different in this respect from Veriphone et al (besides the "good will" many people don't have towards paypal)?
Just don't put the barcode on the back of your neck or you'll have the people from Manticore chasing you!
"If one of your system was infected, wouldn't you want to be told about it?"
Yes, I would. But how many of these reports did your sysadmin get? Probably quite a few, daily. What would his manager say if he spent most of his time helping other people administer their systems instead of doing his job? If it's an occasional occurrence, you can help, but the infections are endemic, and helping a few is unlikely to change anything, as there are thousands of new virus cultures sold every day...
Granted, ATM is hardly recent technology, but it's clearly not a dying breed either.
Or perhaps they're as disfunctional as the phone companies and first they switch it to IP and then back to ATM...
I never thought much of the idea of running IP over ATM in the first place, but that's what I saw. Make of it what you will...
most of the time if I find something online for cheap, I can find it within a 1 hour drive of my home for the same price.
I'm sorry you value your time so low that you think that all the time you spend searching for that low price (even a 1/2hr radius for an hour round trip covers a lot of territory...) is cheaper than saving a few bucks.
Don't get me wrong: trying to make online merchants cope with a bazillion tax agencies is evil, and sales taxes in general are annoying, but buying online is still a vast improvement.
Still, thank goodness I live in Oregon and don't have to deal with them.
Smaller companies generally have a lot better working environment anyway. The only place a big company wins is in things like stock options and sometimes pay. It's also generally easy to move around and do different things if you get bored. Even so, I'd rather work for a small company that appreciates what I do.
That much is clear. Unfortunately, I live in the real world, where I'm having to put in ATM lines to connect to the phone companies so as an ISP I can offer DSL services. The phone company is built on ATM, and from what I was hearing several years ago when I had closer contacts, so are most of the backbone IP providers.
Although I think Marvel is scum to pull this, this scam is so old I have to blame Lee and/or his agent on this one. No one in their right mind sells movies rights on profit any more --- it's always on the gross because of exactly this fake accounting. "Fool me once..."
I used to work at a gas station, though that was back when people complained about our gas being expensive at $0.69/gallon. Out of that, we got a nickel, the rest went to the wholesaler, who I think is who paid the per-gallon taxes. The owner said most of his profit came from our mechanic (who was really good), though I see that in the years since, the shop has been converted to a mini-mart, like most others.
Not just streams; I couldn't find a single mp3 download! I'm sorry, but how do they expect to make a name for themselves if no one can listen to them? This site was a total waste of time.
In response to another reply here: the way to make money is the way atom did (at least at one time --- since all they have had for some time is either poor quality stream-only or shockwave, I've rarely gone back). I watched a couple of good shorts and then bought a DVD from them that had the shorts on it. What localbands.com, et. al. needs to do is either custom cds or have a "buy this song" option for people who want to do it themselves. It would at the very least be a test to see if people really want to support artists or just rip them off (though you need a voting system to see which ones people actually like --- just because it's downloaded doesn't mean it's liked and kept).
Democrats will stay out of your personal lives if you give the government all your money, but nothing will keep them out of your business.
Republicans will stay out of your business if you give them and other businesses some of your money, but nothing will keep them out of your personal lives.
Both want to be Big Brother, they just differ on who they want the Little Siblings to be.
I recently got fed up with my windoze box crashes and got a PowerMac G4 733 with OS X 10.2. The switchover was much easier than I expected, but the thing is dog slow. It has 640M memory, but I added another 512M. That helped, but even then it still was a lot slower than my windoze box. Granted, it's a 1.8Ghz system, but that's the point: you can argue about exact equivalencies, but you double the clock rate and it's going to be a lot faster. Period.
This prediction makes no sense: On the one hand, with vmware and wine able to or soon will be able to run office, they can still sell it for those platforms. On the other hand, with open office, abi, staroffice etc, the handwriting is on the wall for Office as much as it is (or isn't) for Windoze. I don't think Microsoft is in any imminent danger though.
Minimizing your time through an obstacle course is a far cry from most normal driving. It's simply a matter of making driving the highest priority process so when it demands more processor time, the cell phone is what starts seeing the lag.
11+ accident free years of driving with a cell phone...
RIAA doesn't have any hold over independent artists. If you get the agreement from an artist who hasn't already signed away rights to their music elsewhere, you can webcast it to your heart's content.
Conversely, if you want to webcast music they have got their mits on, well, there's no reason you should be any different than any other radio station that has to pay royalties on it. The main difference is they advertise or hold beg-a-thons so they can pay the royalties (and for other minor things like salaries and equipment). Granted, the royalties should be scaled to the audience size, but if the rates are unreasonable, I find it really hard to believe that artists that have signed away all rights to their works to RIAA are the only ones making good music.
Webcasters need to tell RIAA to stick it, and come up with a working model that works well for good new independents looking for exposure, and by working, I mean keeps working after they're exposed so they can actually make a living from it (which I think should be easy to do if RIAA/studios are taking so much off the top). When webcasting then takes off with good new unaffiliated talent but won't air the "mainstream" artists because of the restrictive rules/pricing, I think you'll see a lot of major squawking and rewritten contracts and rules.
Games are the last reason I have to run Windoze; every other app I use has a viable option on Unix, though some, like Quicken, may require the Mac version (and I try gnucash every now and then to see if I can't replace that). Though truth be told, I hate to think of the lag of EQ under Wine.
Personally, I'm holding out for teleporting...
Yup. I've been on the "old" TDMA AT&T since it was Cellular One in 1991. I have friends who have Sprint, and invariably, once you get away from downtown, I have better coverage. Last summer, I tried Voicestream and GSM so I'd have better compatibility when I go to Europe (mostly dreaming
I don't care how good it is technically, if it doesn't go where I go, it's useless to me.
I run a small ISP in Portland, OR who's been down for two days because my network got deleted from the RADB from which the backbone ISP builds their routing tables. It's been working fine since I started using it almost a year ago, and magically stopped working the evening of Oct 1 (first of the month, in the evening when the backbone updates their tables), so I think a policy change topside is the "routing anomaly" that has barfed up everything. At least I'm supposed to be back online later this evening...