I'm guessing there are still 4 million XP machines with default Administrator accounts and no password. Microsoft has done a much better job with default user security starting with Vista and improving in Windows 7. Even if you're silly enough to run as admin, as long as you don't turn off UAC, you're a million times better off than running Windows XP as admin.
File serving and AV isn't really MS infrastructure. The MS stuff are the domain controllers, system center manager, DHCP server. Those can be cloud-based. File serving can be a Linux box running SMB to tie into your AD authentication.
I think the issue with government versus private is that private won't do anything unless there's money in it. The government will do lots of things for the greater good, not only roads and bridges, but science.
Not the original poster, but one advantage of Office365 is that you can tie it in with the Cloud AD. The MS infrastructure hardware is run somewhere else to manage your systems, and you use the same authentication for Office 365 access. And as the user mentioned there's Lync which is chat/video like Google, but also allows VOIP, voicemail transcription, etc.
If Apple is going to spend all this time reviewing apps and rejecting them for all kinds of reasons, you'd think they might rename the ones that are going to cause people problems rather than taking the unprofessional passive/aggressive approach: "Well, you should have read the description! Just because it says it's a Super Cell Phone Tracker doesn't mean it IS one!"
I'm all for being candid, but not when people are confusing your potential roadmap with some engineer's personal opinion.
President (overheard on microphone he thought was off): Man, we should just turn Kansas into a sheet of glass.
President (prepared statement): Each state...has a right...provided by the Constitution...to dictate the terms of their public schools.
First one is (FICTIONAL) very candid, but obviously so. The second is actually the stance the government is taking. If Asa had said, "In my opinion, and I don't speak for Mozilla in general, let's make that clear, I'd rather see the browser focused on the people who don't have a centrally administered environment," this would have been fine. Still candid, but it doesn't bring down the garage door on potential Mozilla investors.
A word of caution (or words): When you have the attention of billions of people, you need to put your best foot forward. Having your colleague blurt that Firefox is for "regular" people, and therefore alienating not just corporate users but educational users (of which I am one), he took something that wasn't even a really good foot, and shoved it firmly in his mouth. When you're as big as Mozilla Firefox, the phrase is "prepared statement". Not so you can sound hopelessly cheesy like a politician, but so you're all in agreement with what you want to tell your adoring fans.
1: Final version of release candidates. Expect some bugs that weren't caught in pre-wide release use. 1.01: First set of wide release bugs fixed 1.02: Second set of bugs and some undiscovered security holes patched 1.10: More bugs, a cool new feature, advanced plugin support, more security fixes 2: After many beta releases and time for plugins to test again, this is the next major release which will likely bork some websites, have the later standards in use, break untested plugins, etc.
Firefox is going from 4 to somewhere between and inclusive of 4.01 and 5. But we really don't know and can't really test until the thing is released. This model does not work for enterprise where the turnaround on web application testing is months and years, not weeks.
If Firefox 5 was essentially what we'd expect in 4.01 or 4.02, there wouldn't be a problem. But because it actually jumped to 5 and borked plugins...well, that's a loss. If this isn't changed, I expect Firefox marketshare in the enterprise to plummet right quick.
So he has the CDs for some of his downloaded music. Does that mean it's legal to listen to ripped versions? Wasn't it the dream of the RIAA at one point for there to be one device, one music license? Is that not the case any more? Can I buy a piece of music on CD, then play it on any of my devices? And if I have the cassette tapes, can I download for free the music and still be legal?
And if I'm asking these questions, should I really care? The RIAA should become the MAA (no, not Missing in Action Association...but Marketing Association of America) -- recording after the first time is trivial with digital technology. Put your money into marketing the musicians in various venues. Marketing the MUSICIANS not the music. I like to hear covers of popular songs and it's refreshing to also hear the original sung in concert by the original singer. Sure everyone will make less money (unless you spread your marketing talent out beyond the usually junk pop you focus on), but not everyone needs to be a millionaire musician either.
Isn't this how people want it to work? Don't sue the ISP or threaten the University. Go after the individual file sharers. And now that they're doing it, people are trying to stop the process? Ugh.
Musicians should go back to performing for money, rather than just selling their recordings. Too much hassle.:-)
I just read the related summary on my Amazon Times e-magazine:
"Free software guru Richard Stallman claims consumers should accept eBooks because they "respect our freedoms". He highlights the DRM embedded in eBooks sold by Amazon as an example, citing the famous case of Amazon returning copies of George Orwell's 1984 to users' Kindles. He also applauds Amazon for allowing people to identify themselves before buying eBooks. His suggested next steps? Distributing tax funds to authors based on their popularity, or "designing players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary payments."
(So for those of you without irony meters, this is a joke referencing Winston Smith's job as a news adjuster in 1984.)
I'm waiting for the Microsoft Office Tablet Edition ($80) to be installed next to Microsoft Office Desktop Edition Professional ($230) -- one using a touch interface in App format, the other the more traditional GUI.
College teaches critical thinking over technical skills (you can go to a technical college of course, like ITT). Theories and concepts are put into practice of course, but the focus is being able to go beyond the technical skills you learn and expand upon them using the theories and concepts. Sort of what Thiel wants to do -- take smart, critical thinking people and put those talents out there to create new stuff. The people who haven't gained critical thinking already should probably stay in college.
I have no idea why you've been modded insightful on either of your posts. We should have a tag for "Unhelpful".
The question is valid -- the proper answer isn't a technical one, nor is it just to dismiss it. His options:
1) Take some classes, do some reading, play around a lot with all the technologies he's learning about. Check back in a year or two.
2) If his site is really expected to explode (millions of accounts), he should hire a company to build and host his infrastructure while he does development.
Developers aren't always sys admins the same way physicists aren't mechanical engineers. They might know enough to ask a question like: "I want to measure gravity waves. I know I need something like an oscilloscope to display output and something to sense the wave. Any ideas?" You can shake your head, or you can tell them that it just isn't that easy, and they should hire a mechanical engineer.
I was thinking more along the lines of vigilante justices when he wrote that. Judges that come up with their own out-of-bounds penalty for a situation. $1.5 million to what? Fix their own network security? For pain and suffering? Terry Childs deserves jail time, not an unaffordable fine.
Microsoft has the ability to play with all facets of the market. They have $50 billion in movie money. Trying out Phone OSes, hypervisors, gaming consoles, cluster technology...they can throw things out until something sticks. Hyper-V is a pretty damned good product and it integrates well with all the other administrative server software you need for a Microsoft-based shop. Only now all you have to do is shell out thousands for MS VM licenses instead of a massive server farm. Adding CentOS just means you can now homogenize your VM solution for your HPC infrastructure -- your VMs are now CentOS running your Linux compute cluster LDAP/Kerberos/BackupPC/Apache-Ganglia servers.
Microsoft is finally learning their place in the server industry: infrastructure. Not HPC or anything computing intensive. But they can be the software that runs that, or they can be the software that infrastructure runs on. Either way they are making money.
Why not just add a "medical tricorder"-style hand gadget that emits X-rays, put that on one side of the area to be imaged, and the "tricorder" (which would act as the digital X-ray "film" plate) on the other?
That'd be like carrying around a pager AND a cell phone. Who's going to want to do that?:-)
You just need something that sends out a wavelength that will:
1) Penetrate fat and muscle (and all the things that constitute those) 2) Does not penetrate bone 3) Has enough backscatter (reflection) in an intensity enough to not kill people and still give a detailed picture of the bone 4) Profit
More likely it would be a noise canceling thing -- something like a gas chromatograph (picks out energy excitation from particular elements, letting you know what the contents of a gas is), that then just doesn't display the stuff you don't care about. So it analyzes everything, but only gives you back bone in detail.
Broken bones: something that bounces off bone and can detect the time to travel which will determine fractures and breaks. If you're using a flat scanning device, everything needs to bounce off something inside the body, rather than pass through and imprint itself on x-ray paper, etc.
Diseases: Lasers can tell blood type now (I think)...might be you could fine tune it to detect anything from genes to bacteria.
Muscle and ligament tears: same deal as bone I suppose -- would need to reflect off of a certain type of material.
Internal bleeding: scan for pools of blood versus the normal trails of blood (veins, arteries, capillaries)
My only question is why we need 4 different devices (MRI, pad, phone, tricorder)...I'd fully expect this to have solar-rechargeable batteries and a form factor that can fit in my back pocket (which would require a wide-angle "lens" for the probes so it doesn't take you 20 minutes to scan someone). And I darn well better hear the "wee-ooo, wee-ooo" sound without having to put on headphones!
Well, in theory, selling that data should allow your electricity provider to provide service for less money, but that's not a given by any means.
I always thought this would be the case with branded clothing, the shirts that have the manufacturer's logo emblazoned in bright letters across the sleeve, back, and/or chest. You're basically a walking billboard. But generally they are more expensive than unbranded clothes. So this led me to believe that perhaps the branded clothes are of a significantly higher quality than unbranded clothes and, without the logo, might actually be even twice what we pay for them.
But then I thought that we're probably just getting ripped off.
So you get around things like this by signing contracts and service level agreements. If you don't have one of those or, more likely when dealing with Apple, you can't get one of those, then you probably shouldn't bother using their service, or at least be prepared when those goalposts move. Eggs in multiple baskets, the smallest fraction of those eggs in Apple, etc.
Sigh...can't tell if that's sarcasm or not. Generally, if I say "I agree", I don't necessarily need to give a reason. If I disagree, then I should as what I'm thinking isn't necessarily reflected in your post. So just a "disagree" mod is worthless if you're actually trying to fuel debate.
But then, when does a debate on the internet ever really need fuel.
Rather than moderation scores, I'd rather see and "I agree" mod of various types (let's say "Insightful", "Informative", or "Agreed"). But if you disagree, you need to include a reason why. I imagine you'd get a lot of gibberish just to bypass the text input requirement or likely a lot of ("cuz u suck" comments), but it would be a start.
As far as UI tweaks, adding Facebook-like autocompletes for links would be nice.
Group citations too...so when you disagree and add a citation (a link or reference), you can choose from an existing list or enter something by hand which then gets added to that list. "Your citation has been used 27 times."
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I'm guessing there are still 4 million XP machines with default Administrator accounts and no password. Microsoft has done a much better job with default user security starting with Vista and improving in Windows 7. Even if you're silly enough to run as admin, as long as you don't turn off UAC, you're a million times better off than running Windows XP as admin.
File serving and AV isn't really MS infrastructure. The MS stuff are the domain controllers, system center manager, DHCP server. Those can be cloud-based. File serving can be a Linux box running SMB to tie into your AD authentication.
I think the issue with government versus private is that private won't do anything unless there's money in it. The government will do lots of things for the greater good, not only roads and bridges, but science.
Not the original poster, but one advantage of Office365 is that you can tie it in with the Cloud AD. The MS infrastructure hardware is run somewhere else to manage your systems, and you use the same authentication for Office 365 access. And as the user mentioned there's Lync which is chat/video like Google, but also allows VOIP, voicemail transcription, etc.
If Apple is going to spend all this time reviewing apps and rejecting them for all kinds of reasons, you'd think they might rename the ones that are going to cause people problems rather than taking the unprofessional passive/aggressive approach: "Well, you should have read the description! Just because it says it's a Super Cell Phone Tracker doesn't mean it IS one!"
I'm all for being candid, but not when people are confusing your potential roadmap with some engineer's personal opinion.
President (overheard on microphone he thought was off): Man, we should just turn Kansas into a sheet of glass.
President (prepared statement): Each state...has a right...provided by the Constitution...to dictate the terms of their public schools.
First one is (FICTIONAL) very candid, but obviously so. The second is actually the stance the government is taking. If Asa had said, "In my opinion, and I don't speak for Mozilla in general, let's make that clear, I'd rather see the browser focused on the people who don't have a centrally administered environment," this would have been fine. Still candid, but it doesn't bring down the garage door on potential Mozilla investors.
A word of caution (or words): When you have the attention of billions of people, you need to put your best foot forward. Having your colleague blurt that Firefox is for "regular" people, and therefore alienating not just corporate users but educational users (of which I am one), he took something that wasn't even a really good foot, and shoved it firmly in his mouth. When you're as big as Mozilla Firefox, the phrase is "prepared statement". Not so you can sound hopelessly cheesy like a politician, but so you're all in agreement with what you want to tell your adoring fans.
Version numbers:
1: Final version of release candidates. Expect some bugs that weren't caught in pre-wide release use.
1.01: First set of wide release bugs fixed
1.02: Second set of bugs and some undiscovered security holes patched
1.10: More bugs, a cool new feature, advanced plugin support, more security fixes
2: After many beta releases and time for plugins to test again, this is the next major release which will likely bork some websites, have the later standards in use, break untested plugins, etc.
Firefox is going from 4 to somewhere between and inclusive of 4.01 and 5. But we really don't know and can't really test until the thing is released. This model does not work for enterprise where the turnaround on web application testing is months and years, not weeks.
If Firefox 5 was essentially what we'd expect in 4.01 or 4.02, there wouldn't be a problem. But because it actually jumped to 5 and borked plugins...well, that's a loss. If this isn't changed, I expect Firefox marketshare in the enterprise to plummet right quick.
So he has the CDs for some of his downloaded music. Does that mean it's legal to listen to ripped versions? Wasn't it the dream of the RIAA at one point for there to be one device, one music license? Is that not the case any more? Can I buy a piece of music on CD, then play it on any of my devices? And if I have the cassette tapes, can I download for free the music and still be legal?
And if I'm asking these questions, should I really care? The RIAA should become the MAA (no, not Missing in Action Association...but Marketing Association of America) -- recording after the first time is trivial with digital technology. Put your money into marketing the musicians in various venues. Marketing the MUSICIANS not the music. I like to hear covers of popular songs and it's refreshing to also hear the original sung in concert by the original singer. Sure everyone will make less money (unless you spread your marketing talent out beyond the usually junk pop you focus on), but not everyone needs to be a millionaire musician either.
There are a lot of great comic stories (and they don't have to be graphic novels). So far, Hollywood has yet to put any of them to good use.
The spokeswoman declined to say whether the eight executives were laid off or resigned.
Someone knows something not in the linked article?
Isn't this how people want it to work? Don't sue the ISP or threaten the University. Go after the individual file sharers. And now that they're doing it, people are trying to stop the process? Ugh.
Musicians should go back to performing for money, rather than just selling their recordings. Too much hassle. :-)
I just read the related summary on my Amazon Times e-magazine:
"Free software guru Richard Stallman claims consumers should accept eBooks because they "respect our freedoms". He highlights the DRM embedded in eBooks sold by Amazon as an example, citing the famous case of Amazon returning copies of George Orwell's 1984 to users' Kindles. He also applauds Amazon for allowing people to identify themselves before buying eBooks. His suggested next steps? Distributing tax funds to authors based on their popularity, or "designing players so users can send authors anonymous voluntary payments."
(So for those of you without irony meters, this is a joke referencing Winston Smith's job as a news adjuster in 1984.)
Why would we use speech with our phone?
(Returns to typing his blog on his iPhone...)
I'm waiting for the Microsoft Office Tablet Edition ($80) to be installed next to Microsoft Office Desktop Edition Professional ($230) -- one using a touch interface in App format, the other the more traditional GUI.
Should be fun and expensive.
College teaches critical thinking over technical skills (you can go to a technical college of course, like ITT). Theories and concepts are put into practice of course, but the focus is being able to go beyond the technical skills you learn and expand upon them using the theories and concepts. Sort of what Thiel wants to do -- take smart, critical thinking people and put those talents out there to create new stuff. The people who haven't gained critical thinking already should probably stay in college.
I have no idea why you've been modded insightful on either of your posts. We should have a tag for "Unhelpful".
The question is valid -- the proper answer isn't a technical one, nor is it just to dismiss it. His options:
1) Take some classes, do some reading, play around a lot with all the technologies he's learning about. Check back in a year or two.
2) If his site is really expected to explode (millions of accounts), he should hire a company to build and host his infrastructure while he does development.
Developers aren't always sys admins the same way physicists aren't mechanical engineers. They might know enough to ask a question like: "I want to measure gravity waves. I know I need something like an oscilloscope to display output and something to sense the wave. Any ideas?" You can shake your head, or you can tell them that it just isn't that easy, and they should hire a mechanical engineer.
I was thinking more along the lines of vigilante justices when he wrote that. Judges that come up with their own out-of-bounds penalty for a situation. $1.5 million to what? Fix their own network security? For pain and suffering? Terry Childs deserves jail time, not an unaffordable fine.
Microsoft has the ability to play with all facets of the market. They have $50 billion in movie money. Trying out Phone OSes, hypervisors, gaming consoles, cluster technology...they can throw things out until something sticks. Hyper-V is a pretty damned good product and it integrates well with all the other administrative server software you need for a Microsoft-based shop. Only now all you have to do is shell out thousands for MS VM licenses instead of a massive server farm. Adding CentOS just means you can now homogenize your VM solution for your HPC infrastructure -- your VMs are now CentOS running your Linux compute cluster LDAP/Kerberos/BackupPC/Apache-Ganglia servers.
Microsoft is finally learning their place in the server industry: infrastructure. Not HPC or anything computing intensive. But they can be the software that runs that, or they can be the software that infrastructure runs on. Either way they are making money.
Why not just add a "medical tricorder"-style hand gadget that emits X-rays, put that on one side of the area to be imaged, and the "tricorder" (which would act as the digital X-ray "film" plate) on the other?
That'd be like carrying around a pager AND a cell phone. Who's going to want to do that? :-)
You just need something that sends out a wavelength that will:
1) Penetrate fat and muscle (and all the things that constitute those)
2) Does not penetrate bone
3) Has enough backscatter (reflection) in an intensity enough to not kill people and still give a detailed picture of the bone
4) Profit
More likely it would be a noise canceling thing -- something like a gas chromatograph (picks out energy excitation from particular elements, letting you know what the contents of a gas is), that then just doesn't display the stuff you don't care about. So it analyzes everything, but only gives you back bone in detail.
You'd need...
Broken bones: something that bounces off bone and can detect the time to travel which will determine fractures and breaks. If you're using a flat scanning device, everything needs to bounce off something inside the body, rather than pass through and imprint itself on x-ray paper, etc.
Diseases: Lasers can tell blood type now (I think)...might be you could fine tune it to detect anything from genes to bacteria.
Muscle and ligament tears: same deal as bone I suppose -- would need to reflect off of a certain type of material.
Internal bleeding: scan for pools of blood versus the normal trails of blood (veins, arteries, capillaries)
My only question is why we need 4 different devices (MRI, pad, phone, tricorder)...I'd fully expect this to have solar-rechargeable batteries and a form factor that can fit in my back pocket (which would require a wide-angle "lens" for the probes so it doesn't take you 20 minutes to scan someone). And I darn well better hear the "wee-ooo, wee-ooo" sound without having to put on headphones!
Well, in theory, selling that data should allow your electricity provider to provide service for less money, but that's not a given by any means.
I always thought this would be the case with branded clothing, the shirts that have the manufacturer's logo emblazoned in bright letters across the sleeve, back, and/or chest. You're basically a walking billboard. But generally they are more expensive than unbranded clothes. So this led me to believe that perhaps the branded clothes are of a significantly higher quality than unbranded clothes and, without the logo, might actually be even twice what we pay for them.
But then I thought that we're probably just getting ripped off.
So you get around things like this by signing contracts and service level agreements. If you don't have one of those or, more likely when dealing with Apple, you can't get one of those, then you probably shouldn't bother using their service, or at least be prepared when those goalposts move. Eggs in multiple baskets, the smallest fraction of those eggs in Apple, etc.
Get a lawyer, get it signed. This is business.
Sigh...can't tell if that's sarcasm or not. Generally, if I say "I agree", I don't necessarily need to give a reason. If I disagree, then I should as what I'm thinking isn't necessarily reflected in your post. So just a "disagree" mod is worthless if you're actually trying to fuel debate.
But then, when does a debate on the internet ever really need fuel.
Rather than moderation scores, I'd rather see and "I agree" mod of various types (let's say "Insightful", "Informative", or "Agreed"). But if you disagree, you need to include a reason why. I imagine you'd get a lot of gibberish just to bypass the text input requirement or likely a lot of ("cuz u suck" comments), but it would be a start.
As far as UI tweaks, adding Facebook-like autocompletes for links would be nice.
Group citations too...so when you disagree and add a citation (a link or reference), you can choose from an existing list or enter something by hand which then gets added to that list. "Your citation has been used 27 times."