Skype, being owned by a private company, seems to be headed down the road of trying to lock in as many people as possible. All well and good, but the standard is closed (as you said) and the current Skype CEO is also the co-founder of Kazaa, Niklas Zennstr. He obviously has no qualms will malware or spyware since he ok'd the company that bought Kazaa from him ( now a notorious spyware bomb) to come bundled with Skype sometime around Nov of 2004.
This will hurt VOIP in the long run because it will sap any open standard implementations and will, if it takes off, determine the standard instead of following an open one.
You can also argue that the problem with Boeing was that the company wasn't nimble enough. Recounting second hand from an MSN article (can't locate it exactly) someone stated that he looked out over the water to Boeing's fabrication plant in Seattle and saw planes stretched out on the tarmac waiting to be painted. At the time he marvel at what he saw ans though of it as an example of Boeing's industrial power.
He later realized that it was a marvel of industrial waste. Those planes should have been in the hands of the customer, making monkey, and not sitting unused at Boeing.
Forget tin Whiskers, Nanotechnology will kill.
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The issue with tin whiskers is that they are so small and invasive. Next to this problem however nanotechnology will make it look trivial.
The small particles being produced with nanotechnology concepts will enable it to invade and affect the body in ways that connot possibly be handeled by todays technology or our immune systems.
I'm all for technology but we need some protections before a company starts spewing these waste/production nanoparticles off into the enviroment in order to save in producing costs for that lastest flat screen tv using carbon nanotubes.
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Skype, being owned by a private company, seems to be headed down the road of trying to lock in as many people as possible. All well and good, but the standard is closed (as you said) and the current Skype CEO is also the co-founder of Kazaa, Niklas Zennstr. He obviously has no qualms will malware or spyware since he ok'd the company that bought Kazaa from him ( now a notorious spyware bomb) to come bundled with Skype sometime around Nov of 2004.
This will hurt VOIP in the long run because it will sap any open standard implementations and will, if it takes off, determine the standard instead of following an open one.
You can also argue that the problem with Boeing was that the company wasn't nimble enough. Recounting second hand from an MSN article (can't locate it exactly) someone stated that he looked out over the water to Boeing's fabrication plant in Seattle and saw planes stretched out on the tarmac waiting to be painted. At the time he marvel at what he saw ans though of it as an example of Boeing's industrial power.
He later realized that it was a marvel of industrial waste. Those planes should have been in the hands of the customer, making monkey, and not sitting unused at Boeing.
The issue with tin whiskers is that they are so small and invasive. Next to this problem however nanotechnology will make it look trivial.
The small particles being produced with nanotechnology concepts will enable it to invade and affect the body in ways that connot possibly be handeled by todays technology or our immune systems.
I'm all for technology but we need some protections before a company starts spewing these waste/production nanoparticles off into the enviroment in order to save in producing costs for that lastest flat screen tv using carbon nanotubes.