My prediction (from the Microsoft side of things) is going to be "Microsoft Home Server.Net" or similar. This will be "terminal services" for the consumer. The average family that is looking at having more than one computer will buy a package from Dell or Gateway that includes several pieces:
1. A modestly powerful server without a monitor that runs Microsoft Home Server.Net - this goes in a closet somewhere.
2. Several thin clients or NC's or whatever you want to call them - these are placed in the den, the kids room or on the porch.
Everything is connected wirelessly and you can have a fully-functioning (in terms of power and customizeability), multi-user, multi-access-point home computer system/network.
I think the thin clients will have everything a computer has except:
- fast processor
- lots of memory
- hard disk
You cut those costs out, develop some protocols for dealing with a "remote OS" interacting with "local hardware" and the merging of the PC and the NC is complete. Functionality (full-blown unhindered Windows applications), power (server runs everything), customizeability (add external peripherals) all in a client-server environment.
I think the best solution would be to have some kind of published standard (XML, anyone?) for operating as an "authenticator" with one company (or a small number of companies) being the "router" to those companies that actually do the authentication:
1. User attemps to gain access to some resource or web service.
2. Resource or Web Service checks with several "gateways" to find out which actual company does the authentication for this user.
3. The correct system is located, some encrypted (standard XML) data is passed back and forth and voila, the user gains access.
This way, you can choose who you want to be your authenticator (Microsoft or otherwise) and all the other sites and web services out there just know where to look to find your information (and only if you allow them to of course by providing the right password or key or what-have-you).
Microsoft is a medium-sized company. IBM employs some 250,000. Microsoft is some 30,000. Sun is about the same. Oracle has slightly more. So MS may be big compared to Red Hat, but they're not a BIG corporation. Especially considering the breadth of software they produce from operating systems to application software to server software.
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I think they *are* trying to replace the WinTel market. And it's not a secret. Apple's got 5 perecent in the PC market and WinTel has the other 95 (rough figures). Jobs' latest stint is: "5 down. 95 to go." launched right along with the new retail stores. So what else could he mean by that:
http://www.apple.com/retail/
Off topic but the precession of the planet does not reverse the seasons every 13,000 years, it merely augments the time spans in which they happen. Just wanted to clarify that.
Yeah - and we get a new president every 4 years or so. Should we just stop talking about that? I mean, it's been done, right? Guys become president.
When a new twist is brought to the table or a new twist on a new twist, then why not highlight it. Plus, not everyone started reading Slashdot when they were 3 months old and not everyone spends 3 hours a day reading it, either.
Yes - automate it. Even if they didn't want to use volunteers, it seems they'are spending a lot of time at odd hours doing this which is what they're trying to avoid.
Why not use something like E-Quill which I think is just an excellent web tool anyway: http://www.e-quill.com/
Works in IE/Netscape/Mozilla. They could just point this tool at the site and snapshot it. Then come back at their leisure to move it to their own systems.
Internet Explorer Windows only with MAC version on the way but still, it solves the problem.
It's a complete misnomer... I'd hate to call it a "party" - it's a "get together" of a group of incredibly desperate individuals with apparently nothing better to do than hook up a bunch of computers and play video games.
I'm all about hard core computing, programming, etc... but this has got to be one of the lamest things I've seen people do.
I have a CS degree, do programming and consulting for a living, and enjoy the occasional video game, so save your flames, but... a LAN party? Gimme a break.
Right, except that the whole point of a Xerox machine is that it is dirt cheap and blazing fast... you can make better copies of things if you want to: scan at high resolution and re-print on a high-quality printer. A copy machine is intended to give you an extremely low cost reproductin within seconds... I think that is amazing technology!
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My prediction (from the Microsoft side of things) is going to be "Microsoft Home Server.Net" or similar. This will be "terminal services" for the consumer. The average family that is looking at having more than one computer will buy a package from Dell or Gateway that includes several pieces:
1. A modestly powerful server without a monitor that runs Microsoft Home Server.Net - this goes in a closet somewhere.
2. Several thin clients or NC's or whatever you want to call them - these are placed in the den, the kids room or on the porch.
Everything is connected wirelessly and you can have a fully-functioning (in terms of power and customizeability), multi-user, multi-access-point home computer system/network.
I think the thin clients will have everything a computer has except:
- fast processor
- lots of memory
- hard disk
You cut those costs out, develop some protocols for dealing with a "remote OS" interacting with "local hardware" and the merging of the PC and the NC is complete. Functionality (full-blown unhindered Windows applications), power (server runs everything), customizeability (add external peripherals) all in a client-server environment.
I think the best solution would be to have some kind of published standard (XML, anyone?) for operating as an "authenticator" with one company (or a small number of companies) being the "router" to those companies that actually do the authentication:
1. User attemps to gain access to some resource or web service.
2. Resource or Web Service checks with several "gateways" to find out which actual company does the authentication for this user.
3. The correct system is located, some encrypted (standard XML) data is passed back and forth and voila, the user gains access.
This way, you can choose who you want to be your authenticator (Microsoft or otherwise) and all the other sites and web services out there just know where to look to find your information (and only if you allow them to of course by providing the right password or key or what-have-you).
Microsoft is a medium-sized company. IBM employs some 250,000. Microsoft is some 30,000. Sun is about the same. Oracle has slightly more. So MS may be big compared to Red Hat, but they're not a BIG corporation. Especially considering the breadth of software they produce from operating systems to application software to server software.
I think they *are* trying to replace the WinTel market. And it's not a secret. Apple's got 5 perecent in the PC market and WinTel has the other 95 (rough figures). Jobs' latest stint is: "5 down. 95 to go." launched right along with the new retail stores. So what else could he mean by that: http://www.apple.com/retail/
Plus think of all the people that would cease to exist because they were born in November or December. That's not riotous, that's tragic.
Off topic but the precession of the planet does not reverse the seasons every 13,000 years, it merely augments the time spans in which they happen. Just wanted to clarify that.
Yeah - and we get a new president every 4 years or so. Should we just stop talking about that? I mean, it's been done, right? Guys become president.
When a new twist is brought to the table or a new twist on a new twist, then why not highlight it. Plus, not everyone started reading Slashdot when they were 3 months old and not everyone spends 3 hours a day reading it, either.
Yes - automate it. Even if they didn't want to use volunteers, it seems they'are spending a lot of time at odd hours doing this which is what they're trying to avoid.
Why not use something like E-Quill which I think is just an excellent web tool anyway: http://www.e-quill.com/
Example:
http://view.equill.com/id/5d6fa819e76ac0af
Works in IE/Netscape/Mozilla. They could just point this tool at the site and snapshot it. Then come back at their leisure to move it to their own systems.
Internet Explorer Windows only with MAC version on the way but still, it solves the problem.
It's a complete misnomer... I'd hate to call it a "party" - it's a "get together" of a group of incredibly desperate individuals with apparently nothing better to do than hook up a bunch of computers and play video games. I'm all about hard core computing, programming, etc... but this has got to be one of the lamest things I've seen people do. I have a CS degree, do programming and consulting for a living, and enjoy the occasional video game, so save your flames, but... a LAN party? Gimme a break.
Right, except that the whole point of a Xerox machine is that it is dirt cheap and blazing fast... you can make better copies of things if you want to: scan at high resolution and re-print on a high-quality printer. A copy machine is intended to give you an extremely low cost reproductin within seconds... I think that is amazing technology!