Of course the office is going away and mobile has massive advantages. What business is going to pay for real estate, air conditioning and furniture when the employees can pay for all that stuff themselves? Yes there definitely is a paradigm shift coming with the availability of mobile computing. You can pay for your own mobile computing equipment too.
If you think work is going to become like hanging out with your friends at a bar then I'm sorry to say that it isn't. What it is becoming is that your boss can call you at three am and tell you to sort out a problem going on in a different timezone. All of which you will be able to accomplish on your fondleslab. Later on in the day when you have taken your children to school you will return to your lonely broom cupboard office where you will spend the rest of the day cold calling customers who hate you, earning almost no commission, which is all you will get as a salary will be a thing of the past along with the office and human work colleagues.
Oh and don't worry about becoming more open with your information. Your search provider will know when you need to buy life insurance and which health care plans your genetic test excludes you from. Your employer will even be able to tell which bar you got your hangover from the next day!
As you say the "possibilities could be enormous". They are likely to be so enormous that you are probably better off killing yourself now. Rather than waiting to experience the full enormity of what work will be like in the future with the ascendency of mobile computing.
Or maybe it wont take off and things will carry on pretty much like they do today with just a few mobile workers taking advantage of mobile technology and a strong backlash from users to control their own data. Who knows? perhaps you do?
Hey don't you insult end user written Microsoft Access Databases. We could run the whole planet on them if the zombies in the IT department didn't keep adding windows 7 machines and migrating everything from one version of Samba to another.
As for agile businesses, I have to agree, why bother doing any business at all when you can sit there and make a fortune off of a trivial game like Angry Birds running on a mobile slightly less powerful than a Coleco Colorvision with its sixteen color sprites. If the customers want to buy stuff that was shit thirty years ago then who are we to complain about them throwing their money away to us again, morons.
But I'm sorry, I refuse to believe that anything dual-core with a battery in it is going to be used for anything more mission critical than cross word puzzles whilst sitting on the bog - preferably a khazi with a power-point at that. Tablets are like Furbies, this years cute must have fashion and next years irritating landfill or circuit bending victim. (Boy you should see the critters go when hooked up to a 15KVA welding transformer. though its a bugger trying to get rid of the smell of scorched fur afterwards).
The only good thing about Instagram is that the images are so small and of such low quality that they are easy to spot and avoid. Especially pictures of Furbies on fire.
Ah, another trend monger who sees the overthrow of all that has gone before because it doesnt make sense to be left behind. Well I have news for you, you are a fuckwit. Of course the bulk of profits coming up are from selling toys to billions of poor people who want to buy HBO movies on their cheap little portable phones. But what you trend mongering shitheads are forgetting is that the content creators are going to be using PC's and workstations to sell all that content to the morons with their cell phones. So yes you are doing the technology companies a favour by big upping all that cheap mobile shit. But do be aware that we all think you are pathetic scumbags crawling in front of the latest marketing fad and that nobody is going to listen to a thing you say for a decade after this embarassing sell out to the marketing droids. Who the fuck pays your wages? your listeners or the companies you are reporting on. Shithead.
So basically you are just a drone who consumes content and runs a couple of remote applications to administer things. And yes a cell phone is the future of computing for users like you. All we need is a yes no button for you to press on the payment screen, you will be very profitable for someone as a monopoly subsciber you will have to pay whatever we fucking feel like charging you. We like obedient morons like you, so easy to make money out of.
The most insightful post in the entire forum. But no one is going to listen to you because consumers do what marketing tells them in the western gulag. Soviet communism was better than what we have ended up with, its a disgrace.
A very reasonable reply to the question raised. What we are up against though is where the future profits are comming from according to the analysts. According to them everything is going to be mobile in the future so all the current software and hardware users are just fuckwits in the way of future moneymaking schemes. So nice though your argument is your not part of the future market. So Fuck off dimwit.
What sort of business are you talking about? There are no businesses who have their core data in instagram images. Ask the news databases like Reuters whether they are going to be featuring large quantities of instagram images in their paid for content. Instagram is a consumer platform for socia media and nobody gives a fuck what your put on it as its only worth money to social media. Are you completely fucking stupid?
Acutually industry are pressurising the governnment to switch of FM radio in the UK as soon as possible so that all the scum consumers have to buy a digital DAB radio as soon as possible. Of course that will mean the end of high fidelity radio transmissons as the bandwith and dynamic range of DAB channels is lower than FM. But who gives a fuck about quality, we are talking about creating more channels at lower quality and rendering 40 million car radios useless. Think of the marketing opportunities, the total available market is huge, and fuck the consumers, they dont know the difference between a mp3 and a CD wav file, morons deserve to be ripped off. Screw the suckers.
Who gives a toss about what you can do with a device. Aspiring content creators like you are a total thorn in the side of commerce, if they could kill you they would, always winging about how useful a device is for creating content having paid peantuts for it. Scum like you should be shut up by putting into political re-education, they are working on it dont worry. What shareholders want to hear is how technology companies are addressing the total addressable market. The total adressable market these days means all the morons who need a device and software to buy content. So that meant that the exisitng customers of hardware and software need to fuck off and die because they are worth peanuts compared to the additional billions of consumers. So basically anybody who uses a computer today had better fuck off and die. If this bothers you why not fuck off and die, your market is not worth a pint of piss, so just fuck off.
Nuclear technology is verifyable and in a reasonably stable world it is possible to enforce a ban. So we should. Bioweapons and cyberwarfare isnt verifyable so we should be working on that.
Game theory and logic suggest that you are correct. Sabotage your fellow workers whenever the opportunity presents itself. Whisper slanderous lies to your boss about fellow workers, give the impression that you think they are pedophiles, spouse beaters and communist druggies. Play their game and destroy their company.
If you are dictating to your pocket fondle slab anywhere near me in my office I will personally shove it so far up your left nostril that your arm wont be long enough to reach it.
It may interest you unemployed thirteen year olds spending your parents money on all this portable technology to know that you are lusting after entertainment devices. These entertainment devices are designed for one purpose only. That purpose is to ensure that you have the means on your person at all times to pay for content that your feeble brains are addicted to.
Meanwhile let me as an adult with a job explain to you, that its very nice for Microsoft and Apple to be wiring the world up for the extraction of small payments from everyone and to have the radical (gosh you hipsters are so radical) youth slavering away for mobile products. But there is one slight problem. Us adults with jobs earning the money that you are spending, need to do some work, in an office, on a screen large enough to contain something bigger than a MacDonalds receipt, with a keyboard attached so that we can type away quietly without getting death threats from our colleagues.
We gave up shite 640x480 interfaces over two decades ago and no amount of trendy hype is going to persuade us that going backwards is going forwards (See Newspeak in George Orwells 1984 for explanation).
So enjoy your portable sex toys or whatever they represent to you but realize that they are just toys most of the time. Sometimes useful to working travelers and therefore welcome but almost never the tool of anybody who is making money out of other people.
Mobile = Payment device Desktop = Productivity device.
Schneier is a fool, nothing can stop cyber warfare because there is no way of monitoring it. With all other weapons treaties you have some chance of verifying them but all cyber warefare needs is a laptop and a WiFi hotspot. So it is coming and we all know it. Good time to buy shares in secure products and cyber security businesses.
Sometimes I find it astonishing how naive people can be. And if you see a vulnerability in scum like Kim Barking Mad Teapots North Korea or Ahmadinejad's Iran then we should be doing our best to take them out now whilst we still can.
We dont care what the law says or about the nicetys of debate because we are angry. Monsanto should not be allowed to own a genome, it is more morally wrong than abortion, being gay, slavery, recreational drug use, female emancipation, animal rights or any number of things that human beings argue about the morality of. No corporation or entity should be allowed to own a genome, it is more reprehensible than genocide as in the end it will become the same thing.
Actually I think you will find that there is a high degree of sanity floating about in this discussion. Most people are so revolted by Monsantos business model that blind incoherent rage is reducing our interest in anything supporting the evil bloodsucking bastards who think they can own and profit from the very genes of life itself. Seriously, if any genetic variant is developed which is of benefit to the world then it should be freely available at cost and not owned by any entity. If we need to fund genetic research then we will pay our governments to develop them thank you very much. Now eff off back into your hole you rational piece of scum.
I also feel that it is my civic duty to use strong encryption, Tor networks and proxies where ever I can, just like the undesirables that universal internet monitoring fails to address. It has come to the point where the ordinary citizen is obliged to use weapons to defend their ordinary privacy. So much for half a century of Cold War fighting the communists. Turns out that western democracy is just as evil.
The only difference between a $3000 certified aid and a $500 uncertified aid is the pile of paper proving that the $3000 one is made the same way as the one that was tested and approved. Safety certification is almost entirely a pile of shit and if the world wasnt full of ambulance chasing lawyers the market wouldnt pay the price.
If you treat people as enemies then expect them to treat you as an enemy. Thats both game theory and free market economics in action. Its also the reason why IT systems are a pain in the arse to use and cost twice as much as they should. Its a free choice.
If you check out analysis of why the Republicans cosy up to religious nutters, its because there are a lot of them and they vote. Broadly speaking they are a reasonable fit to - Small government, rampant capitalism, strongly enforced arbitrary laws and illegal overseas crusades.
Certainly a better fit than to Democratic - Education and health for all, heavily regulated capitalism, updating law in line with societal change, illegal overseas wars just for economic interests.
Certainly that's how it seems from Europe. The religious have been bought by one political party. Basically man its the money, they bought the religious for the votes.
They come with a whole lot of baggage unfortunately, being bat shit crazy that is.
Don't kid yourself, the security forces have been monitoring for years, Carnivore started in 1997. I don't think many people have qualms about the spooks looking for nutters with explosives from their IP traffic.
Its just time to start opening the data up to regular law enforcement agencies so that they can openly take to court all you criminal copyright thieves and put you in jail. Because we all know by now that 'home taping kills music' and that copyright infringement is 'Terrorism' or 'Pedophilia', just ask Hollywood or the RIAA.
You might feel that this is a little excessive, especially as the next tier of petty bureaucrats to be given access to your traffic will be Local Government and Social Service droids. Don't kid yourself that the Sheeple are going to object to this, after all it will be done to catch 'Terrorists' and 'Pedophiles', and anyway Facebook will be telling them what to think by then anyway.
Isn't it weird how we fought a cold war for half a century against totalitarian communism and now we are becoming totalitarian democracy's.
I seem to recall that the Coke marketing plan assesses the total available market for their product as three liters per day for every human being on the planet, that's roughly 7 1/2 Billion tonnes of Coke per year.
Advertisers have a similar view, if they could etch their product name on your eyeballs then that would be a plus.
Personally I think advertising on radio and video should be banned under a United Nations convention on human rights as toxic pollution of your life. Ever figured out how many decades of your life you have you will have been asleep when you reach your dotage - well, whilst you are at it go and figure out how many years you sat in front of a TV commercial for cat food. Sounds like a useful life enhancing way to spend your life, watching cat food commercials.
Anyway, basically I think that death is too good for advertisers on radio and video. I'd happily jump up and down on the bits after they are dead too. I don't watch or listen to anything which carries advertising if I can help it.
Oh and don't hold your breath waiting for a paid for service that strips out advertising. That would be an attack on a dinosaur business model and as we all know by now this is also known as Terrorism.
Its always been true that a robot or a book could do the job. I learned my math way back in 1980 from Engineering Mathematics by K A Stroud and Dexter J Booth. Oh it helps to have a lecturer and other students to back it up but the only way to really learn is by doing and this book takes you there. ISBN-10: 1403942463 ISBN-13: 978-1403942463
I have come to the conclusion that it isn't the politicians that are the problem. Its the Civil Service. Governments are just a passing inconvenience to them, all the policies floated by the last government that were called out as being hated by the people are steadily being re-introduced by the current government. It seems that the reforming Tories in power actually have no power at all. So there is no point ranting at an individual politician because they may as well not be there for all the good it will do.
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Of course the office is going away and mobile has massive advantages. What business is going to pay for real estate, air conditioning and furniture when the employees can pay for all that stuff themselves? Yes there definitely is a paradigm shift coming with the availability of mobile computing. You can pay for your own mobile computing equipment too.
If you think work is going to become like hanging out with your friends at a bar then I'm sorry to say that it isn't. What it is becoming is that your boss can call you at three am and tell you to sort out a problem going on in a different timezone. All of which you will be able to accomplish on your fondleslab. Later on in the day when you have taken your children to school you will return to your lonely broom cupboard office where you will spend the rest of the day cold calling customers who hate you, earning almost no commission, which is all you will get as a salary will be a thing of the past along with the office and human work colleagues.
Oh and don't worry about becoming more open with your information. Your search provider will know when you need to buy life insurance and which health care plans your genetic test excludes you from. Your employer will even be able to tell which bar you got your hangover from the next day!
As you say the "possibilities could be enormous". They are likely to be so enormous that you are probably better off killing yourself now. Rather than waiting to experience the full enormity of what work will be like in the future with the ascendency of mobile computing.
Or maybe it wont take off and things will carry on pretty much like they do today with just a few mobile workers taking advantage of mobile technology and a strong backlash from users to control their own data. Who knows? perhaps you do?
Hey don't you insult end user written Microsoft Access Databases. We could run the whole planet on them if the zombies in the IT department didn't keep adding windows 7 machines and migrating everything from one version of Samba to another.
As for agile businesses, I have to agree, why bother doing any business at all when you can sit there and make a fortune off of a trivial game like Angry Birds running on a mobile slightly less powerful than a Coleco Colorvision with its sixteen color sprites. If the customers want to buy stuff that was shit thirty years ago then who are we to complain about them throwing their money away to us again, morons.
But I'm sorry, I refuse to believe that anything dual-core with a battery in it is going to be used for anything more mission critical than cross word puzzles whilst sitting on the bog - preferably a khazi with a power-point at that. Tablets are like Furbies, this years cute must have fashion and next years irritating landfill or circuit bending victim. (Boy you should see the critters go when hooked up to a 15KVA welding transformer. though its a bugger trying to get rid of the smell of scorched fur afterwards).
The only good thing about Instagram is that the images are so small and of such low quality that they are easy to spot and avoid. Especially pictures of Furbies on fire.
Ah, another trend monger who sees the overthrow of all that has gone before because it doesnt make sense to be left behind. Well I have news for you, you are a fuckwit. Of course the bulk of profits coming up are from selling toys to billions of poor people who want to buy HBO movies on their cheap little portable phones. But what you trend mongering shitheads are forgetting is that the content creators are going to be using PC's and workstations to sell all that content to the morons with their cell phones. So yes you are doing the technology companies a favour by big upping all that cheap mobile shit. But do be aware that we all think you are pathetic scumbags crawling in front of the latest marketing fad and that nobody is going to listen to a thing you say for a decade after this embarassing sell out to the marketing droids. Who the fuck pays your wages? your listeners or the companies you are reporting on. Shithead.
So basically you are just a drone who consumes content and runs a couple of remote applications to administer things. And yes a cell phone is the future of computing for users like you. All we need is a yes no button for you to press on the payment screen, you will be very profitable for someone as a monopoly subsciber you will have to pay whatever we fucking feel like charging you. We like obedient morons like you, so easy to make money out of.
The most insightful post in the entire forum. But no one is going to listen to you because consumers do what marketing tells them in the western gulag. Soviet communism was better than what we have ended up with, its a disgrace.
A very reasonable reply to the question raised. What we are up against though is where the future profits are comming from according to the analysts. According to them everything is going to be mobile in the future so all the current software and hardware users are just fuckwits in the way of future moneymaking schemes. So nice though your argument is your not part of the future market. So Fuck off dimwit.
What sort of business are you talking about? There are no businesses who have their core data in instagram images. Ask the news databases like Reuters whether they are going to be featuring large quantities of instagram images in their paid for content. Instagram is a consumer platform for socia media and nobody gives a fuck what your put on it as its only worth money to social media. Are you completely fucking stupid?
Acutually industry are pressurising the governnment to switch of FM radio in the UK as soon as possible so that all the scum consumers have to buy a digital DAB radio as soon as possible. Of course that will mean the end of high fidelity radio transmissons as the bandwith and dynamic range of DAB channels is lower than FM. But who gives a fuck about quality, we are talking about creating more channels at lower quality and rendering 40 million car radios useless. Think of the marketing opportunities, the total available market is huge, and fuck the consumers, they dont know the difference between a mp3 and a CD wav file, morons deserve to be ripped off. Screw the suckers.
Who gives a toss about what you can do with a device. Aspiring content creators like you are a total thorn in the side of commerce, if they could kill you they would, always winging about how useful a device is for creating content having paid peantuts for it. Scum like you should be shut up by putting into political re-education, they are working on it dont worry. What shareholders want to hear is how technology companies are addressing the total addressable market. The total adressable market these days means all the morons who need a device and software to buy content. So that meant that the exisitng customers of hardware and software need to fuck off and die because they are worth peanuts compared to the additional billions of consumers. So basically anybody who uses a computer today had better fuck off and die. If this bothers you why not fuck off and die, your market is not worth a pint of piss, so just fuck off.
The quality of patents is so low they are a joke. Good luck with expecting the China to aknowledge them
Nuclear technology is verifyable and in a reasonably stable world it is possible to enforce a ban. So we should. Bioweapons and cyberwarfare isnt verifyable so we should be working on that.
Game theory and logic suggest that you are correct. Sabotage your fellow workers whenever the opportunity presents itself. Whisper slanderous lies to your boss about fellow workers, give the impression that you think they are pedophiles, spouse beaters and communist druggies. Play their game and destroy their company.
If you are dictating to your pocket fondle slab anywhere near me in my office I will personally shove it so far up your left nostril that your arm wont be long enough to reach it.
It may interest you unemployed thirteen year olds spending your parents money on all this portable technology to know that you are lusting after entertainment devices. These entertainment devices are designed for one purpose only. That purpose is to ensure that you have the means on your person at all times to pay for content that your feeble brains are addicted to.
Meanwhile let me as an adult with a job explain to you, that its very nice for Microsoft and Apple to be wiring the world up for the extraction of small payments from everyone and to have the radical (gosh you hipsters are so radical) youth slavering away for mobile products. But there is one slight problem. Us adults with jobs earning the money that you are spending, need to do some work, in an office, on a screen large enough to contain something bigger than a MacDonalds receipt, with a keyboard attached so that we can type away quietly without getting death threats from our colleagues.
We gave up shite 640x480 interfaces over two decades ago and no amount of trendy hype is going to persuade us that going backwards is going forwards (See Newspeak in George Orwells 1984 for explanation).
So enjoy your portable sex toys or whatever they represent to you but realize that they are just toys most of the time. Sometimes useful to working travelers and therefore welcome but almost never the tool of anybody who is making money out of other people.
Mobile = Payment device
Desktop = Productivity device.
Did you get that or do I need to tweet it to you?
Schneier is a fool, nothing can stop cyber warfare because there is no way of monitoring it. With all other weapons treaties you have some chance of verifying them but all cyber warefare needs is a laptop and a WiFi hotspot. So it is coming and we all know it. Good time to buy shares in secure products and cyber security businesses.
Sometimes I find it astonishing how naive people can be. And if you see a vulnerability in scum like Kim Barking Mad Teapots North Korea or Ahmadinejad's Iran then we should be doing our best to take them out now whilst we still can.
We dont care what the law says or about the nicetys of debate because we are angry. Monsanto should not be allowed to own a genome, it is more morally wrong than abortion, being gay, slavery, recreational drug use, female emancipation, animal rights or any number of things that human beings argue about the morality of. No corporation or entity should be allowed to own a genome, it is more reprehensible than genocide as in the end it will become the same thing.
Actually I think you will find that there is a high degree of sanity floating about in this discussion. Most people are so revolted by Monsantos business model that blind incoherent rage is reducing our interest in anything supporting the evil bloodsucking bastards who think they can own and profit from the very genes of life itself. Seriously, if any genetic variant is developed which is of benefit to the world then it should be freely available at cost and not owned by any entity. If we need to fund genetic research then we will pay our governments to develop them thank you very much. Now eff off back into your hole you rational piece of scum.
Absolutely, unless it generates more advertising revenue who cares?
I also feel that it is my civic duty to use strong encryption, Tor networks and proxies where ever I can, just like the undesirables that universal internet monitoring fails to address. It has come to the point where the ordinary citizen is obliged to use weapons to defend their ordinary privacy. So much for half a century of Cold War fighting the communists. Turns out that western democracy is just as evil.
The only difference between a $3000 certified aid and a $500 uncertified aid is the pile of paper proving that the $3000 one is made the same way as the one that was tested and approved. Safety certification is almost entirely a pile of shit and if the world wasnt full of ambulance chasing lawyers the market wouldnt pay the price.
If you treat people as enemies then expect them to treat you as an enemy. Thats both game theory and free market economics in action. Its also the reason why IT systems are a pain in the arse to use and cost twice as much as they should. Its a free choice.
If you check out analysis of why the Republicans cosy up to religious nutters, its because there are a lot of them and they vote. Broadly speaking they are a reasonable fit to - Small government, rampant capitalism, strongly enforced arbitrary laws and illegal overseas crusades.
Certainly a better fit than to Democratic - Education and health for all, heavily regulated capitalism, updating law in line with societal change, illegal overseas wars just for economic interests.
Certainly that's how it seems from Europe. The religious have been bought by one political party. Basically man its the money, they bought the religious for the votes.
They come with a whole lot of baggage unfortunately, being bat shit crazy that is.
Don't kid yourself, the security forces have been monitoring for years, Carnivore started in 1997. I don't think many people have qualms about the spooks looking for nutters with explosives from their IP traffic.
Its just time to start opening the data up to regular law enforcement agencies so that they can openly take to court all you criminal copyright thieves and put you in jail. Because we all know by now that 'home taping kills music' and that copyright infringement is 'Terrorism' or 'Pedophilia', just ask Hollywood or the RIAA.
You might feel that this is a little excessive, especially as the next tier of petty bureaucrats to be given access to your traffic will be Local Government and Social Service droids. Don't kid yourself that the Sheeple are going to object to this, after all it will be done to catch 'Terrorists' and 'Pedophiles', and anyway Facebook will be telling them what to think by then anyway.
Isn't it weird how we fought a cold war for half a century against totalitarian communism and now we are becoming totalitarian democracy's.
Its a bit disappointing.
I seem to recall that the Coke marketing plan assesses the total available market for their product as three liters per day for every human being on the planet, that's roughly 7 1/2 Billion tonnes of Coke per year.
Advertisers have a similar view, if they could etch their product name on your eyeballs then that would be a plus.
Personally I think advertising on radio and video should be banned under a United Nations convention on human rights as toxic pollution of your life. Ever figured out how many decades of your life you have you will have been asleep when you reach your dotage - well, whilst you are at it go and figure out how many years you sat in front of a TV commercial for cat food. Sounds like a useful life enhancing way to spend your life, watching cat food commercials.
Anyway, basically I think that death is too good for advertisers on radio and video. I'd happily jump up and down on the bits after they are dead too. I don't watch or listen to anything which carries advertising if I can help it.
Oh and don't hold your breath waiting for a paid for service that strips out advertising. That would be an attack on a dinosaur business model and as we all know by now this is also known as Terrorism.
Its always been true that a robot or a book could do the job. I learned my math way back in 1980 from Engineering Mathematics by K A Stroud and Dexter J Booth. Oh it helps to have a lecturer and other students to back it up but the only way to really learn is by doing and this book takes you there.
ISBN-10: 1403942463
ISBN-13: 978-1403942463
I have come to the conclusion that it isn't the politicians that are the problem. Its the Civil Service. Governments are just a passing inconvenience to them, all the policies floated by the last government that were called out as being hated by the people are steadily being re-introduced by the current government. It seems that the reforming Tories in power actually have no power at all. So there is no point ranting at an individual politician because they may as well not be there for all the good it will do.