Nobody used Windows 1.0. People were using DOS. DOS shipped with every PC and it was funding Microsoft. MS Office only became relevant when WYSWYG became possible on hardware sold at the PC price point, and at that time, the Windows 3.0/3.1 days, MS didn't care about Apple, they cared about Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.
In 1988, the Mac was a pretty computer used by families who could afford $2k on a computer which wasn't compatible with anyone else's $1k clone.
"You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just fiddling about in the business records of some tiny business of no great importance," he said.
It's no more a victory than a bully who's been caught stealing your lunch money. They won't repay, they won't stop bullying, they just wont' bully you for your lunch money... probably.
(BTW, Teksavvy is offering cable Internet now. Switch if you can.)
How the f** can they screw up an alarm clock? It happened to me too. It just blew my mind.
I swapped my Blackberry 9700 for a Nokia C3. The Nokia does half as much, but I was sick of wasting my time with my unreliable POS Blackberry. The C3 was supposed to be temporary, it's not perfect, but I'm getting good at working around its quirks.
Gerstner saved IBM from irrelevance and possible bankruptcy. Palmisano turned it from a hardware company into a services company, a services company particularly adept at outsourcing.
It is not lithe. These guys steer the company 5 years into the future. They have an advantage in that where they move, they tend to change the future, but if they pick a bad direction, the company is screwed for at least a decade.
The sour grapes you're hearing are not from people who were OS/2 or Thinkpad loyalists, they're from present and former employees.
Or maybe the U.S. *wants* North Korea to think that the U.S. is not pleased.
Although... North Korea showing their hand by jamming a signal in peace time is a pretty stupid move. Maybe North Korea *wants* the U.S. to think that North Korea is pleased about jamming a U.S. plane, when infact they have a much more powerful jammer which they didn't use. Hmm....
Sexuality themed words are in there. pube, vagina, homo, anus, dildo, orgasm, clitoris. It sounds like some unimaginative school board operator just did a mind dump of every word he or she could think of. Some therapist should have a chat with them.
Or... remove all markings, signs and traffic controls!
"The goal of shared space is an improvement in road safety, encouraging negotiation of shared areas at appropriate speeds and with due consideration for the other users, using simple rules like giving way to the right.
It's like accounting. Your superiors make the call, and you have an ethical decision if they don't do the right thing.
Although.... accountants have tighter laws and professional bodies to revoke designations. Security will get to the same point in the next 10 or 20 years.
Until somebody shoves a camera under the cubicle wall and takes a picture of your son or daughter with their pants down. Then when the other students say "but I don't have a picture, do you have a picture?" and the teacher is powerless to do anything, the photo will be recirculated for years.
Crimes take place in schools which would never be tolerated in the outside world.
"I might as well not even bother with encryption if I am going to turn to "laws" to protect me. Hushmail is snake oil cryptography, "
I disagree here. While it's true that you can't expect any service provider to protect you more than the laws permit, if you choose those laws, the situation and the country very carefully, you can ensure that the service provider has more to lose than you do.
The idea that a company is going to break the law arbitrarily with your data is paranoia. Your landlord could bug your apartment, your phonecompany could tap your phone, your girlfriend could be bugging you. Your ISP could be reading your email. It's all the same. It's not unprecedented, but the punishment is severe. You need to weigh the motive against the punishment.
If I'm in Baltimore, and I need to send my x-rays to my doctor in Los Angeles, I can be reasonably confident that the Canadian company is not going to violate Canadian privacy laws to harvest and sell the data to healthcare or insurance providers in the U.S.
If I'm sending instructions to somebody smuggling people over the Mexican border though, I can expect that the U.S. legal system could approach a Canadian court to have any existing records revealed.
So if you're trying to send your medical records to your doctor, Hushmail might be a good option. If you're trying to profit from smuggling illegal aliens, then you might want to consider something with no legal escrow.
It provides SSL encryption on servers protected by Canadian laws, including Canadian privacy laws. While they respect U.S. court orders, there's no reason to believe that such orders could be executed in secret outside an investigation of a crime recognized by both Canada and the U.S.
PGP is stronger, but a people aren't using it, so practical applications are limited.
I tried to set myself up to do some development on the Blackberry platform, and gave up too. It seems they want to keep a short leash on the apps. Blackberry has always been about security, control and business. I would imagine that by introducing such a controlled platform, it's not fart-apps which they're worried about, but trojans, rootkits, etc.
I don't know if the strategy will work. History has shown it will not.
What I do know though is that $200 fee locks out all the under-18 developers out of the market, making it a platform at best one where old people sell established ideas to young people. It clearly locks out all the interesting innovation.
I have a Blackberry, work pays for it. I hate it. I feel like there's a second dot-com mobile boom going on and my Blackberry is making me stupid, behind the times and illiterate. I can't even sync the thing with my ical, my personal ldap directory, I can't write Yelp reviews, Facebook is crap, webbrowsing is useless, the service is expensive, it's a POS.
The only thing it can do is corporate email. Everything else is garbage.
I think you're thinking of a CMA. I'm pretty sure it's possible to hold a CMA without holding an undergrad degree.
Not to say that it's useless, but it's sort of an accountingology for project managers, mangement and executives, not a real hardcore accounting designation with the ability to sign off on financial statements.
We weren't there. This kinda looks like it was early in the night with a lot of his friends around. We don't know what the mood was like. Cameras can suck a lot of life out of a cool situation.
Not sure why people are so hard on this guy. He took an idea, did somethign with it. It may not have been perfect, but he learned from doing it.
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Nobody used Windows 1.0. People were using DOS. DOS shipped with every PC and it was funding Microsoft. MS Office only became relevant when WYSWYG became possible on hardware sold at the PC price point, and at that time, the Windows 3.0/3.1 days, MS didn't care about Apple, they cared about Lotus 1-2-3 and Wordperfect.
In 1988, the Mac was a pretty computer used by families who could afford $2k on a computer which wasn't compatible with anyone else's $1k clone.
ooo, that's got to hurt.
Now McDonald's is using SMS to log identities. This means now only the big guys can afford offer free Internet access.
Just another way to crush the little guy.
...unless there are serious repercussions.
It's no more a victory than a bully who's been caught stealing your lunch money. They won't repay, they won't stop bullying, they just wont' bully you for your lunch money... probably.
(BTW, Teksavvy is offering cable Internet now. Switch if you can.)
How the f** can they screw up an alarm clock? It happened to me too. It just blew my mind.
I swapped my Blackberry 9700 for a Nokia C3. The Nokia does half as much, but I was sick of wasting my time with my unreliable POS Blackberry. The C3 was supposed to be temporary, it's not perfect, but I'm getting good at working around its quirks.
Gerstner saved IBM from irrelevance and possible bankruptcy. Palmisano turned it from a hardware company into a services company, a services company particularly adept at outsourcing.
It is not lithe. These guys steer the company 5 years into the future. They have an advantage in that where they move, they tend to change the future, but if they pick a bad direction, the company is screwed for at least a decade.
The sour grapes you're hearing are not from people who were OS/2 or Thinkpad loyalists, they're from present and former employees.
Release the robotic Richard Simmons.
"I'm sure the US isn't pleased about this"
Or maybe the U.S. *wants* North Korea to think that the U.S. is not pleased.
Although... North Korea showing their hand by jamming a signal in peace time is a pretty stupid move. Maybe North Korea *wants* the U.S. to think that North Korea is pleased about jamming a U.S. plane, when infact they have a much more powerful jammer which they didn't use. Hmm....
"screw" is on there too.
As are serious words like "rape"
Sexuality themed words are in there. pube, vagina, homo, anus, dildo, orgasm, clitoris. It sounds like some unimaginative school board operator just did a mind dump of every word he or she could think of. Some therapist should have a chat with them.
It worked on my 386 back in the day. It was the first live audio stream I ever heard on my computer.
They went downhill from there. Their nice tidy player got rewritten and then the whole thing went spammy.
Or... remove all markings, signs and traffic controls!
"The goal of shared space is an improvement in road safety, encouraging negotiation of shared areas at appropriate speeds and with due consideration for the other users, using simple rules like giving way to the right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space
I have the same on my budget Nokia... and has an 8-day battery life.
It's like accounting. Your superiors make the call, and you have an ethical decision if they don't do the right thing.
Although.... accountants have tighter laws and professional bodies to revoke designations. Security will get to the same point in the next 10 or 20 years.
Until somebody shoves a camera under the cubicle wall and takes a picture of your son or daughter with their pants down. Then when the other students say "but I don't have a picture, do you have a picture?" and the teacher is powerless to do anything, the photo will be recirculated for years.
Crimes take place in schools which would never be tolerated in the outside world.
"I might as well not even bother with encryption if I am going to turn to "laws" to protect me. Hushmail is snake oil cryptography, "
I disagree here. While it's true that you can't expect any service provider to protect you more than the laws permit, if you choose those laws, the situation and the country very carefully, you can ensure that the service provider has more to lose than you do.
The idea that a company is going to break the law arbitrarily with your data is paranoia. Your landlord could bug your apartment, your phonecompany could tap your phone, your girlfriend could be bugging you. Your ISP could be reading your email. It's all the same. It's not unprecedented, but the punishment is severe. You need to weigh the motive against the punishment.
If I'm in Baltimore, and I need to send my x-rays to my doctor in Los Angeles, I can be reasonably confident that the Canadian company is not going to violate Canadian privacy laws to harvest and sell the data to healthcare or insurance providers in the U.S.
If I'm sending instructions to somebody smuggling people over the Mexican border though, I can expect that the U.S. legal system could approach a Canadian court to have any existing records revealed.
So if you're trying to send your medical records to your doctor, Hushmail might be a good option. If you're trying to profit from smuggling illegal aliens, then you might want to consider something with no legal escrow.
What's wrong with Hushmail?
It provides SSL encryption on servers protected by Canadian laws, including Canadian privacy laws. While they respect U.S. court orders, there's no reason to believe that such orders could be executed in secret outside an investigation of a crime recognized by both Canada and the U.S.
PGP is stronger, but a people aren't using it, so practical applications are limited.
"The only problem i see with this is companies not wanting to port their apps"
That's a pretty big problem. Especially when apps are marketed and developed natively on other platforms first.
Oh and it does a good job at my personal email and Google maps. Google apps is great.
I tried to set myself up to do some development on the Blackberry platform, and gave up too. It seems they want to keep a short leash on the apps. Blackberry has always been about security, control and business. I would imagine that by introducing such a controlled platform, it's not fart-apps which they're worried about, but trojans, rootkits, etc.
I don't know if the strategy will work. History has shown it will not.
What I do know though is that $200 fee locks out all the under-18 developers out of the market, making it a platform at best one where old people sell established ideas to young people. It clearly locks out all the interesting innovation.
I have a Blackberry, work pays for it. I hate it. I feel like there's a second dot-com mobile boom going on and my Blackberry is making me stupid, behind the times and illiterate. I can't even sync the thing with my ical, my personal ldap directory, I can't write Yelp reviews, Facebook is crap, webbrowsing is useless, the service is expensive, it's a POS.
The only thing it can do is corporate email. Everything else is garbage.
These jokes were old when Slashdot UIDs were in the 4 digits.
You're favouring one person's article over another person's because of their gender. It's the definition of sexism.
I think you're thinking of a CMA. I'm pretty sure it's possible to hold a CMA without holding an undergrad degree.
Not to say that it's useless, but it's sort of an accountingology for project managers, mangement and executives, not a real hardcore accounting designation with the ability to sign off on financial statements.
We weren't there. This kinda looks like it was early in the night with a lot of his friends around. We don't know what the mood was like. Cameras can suck a lot of life out of a cool situation.
Not sure why people are so hard on this guy. He took an idea, did somethign with it. It may not have been perfect, but he learned from doing it.
....for whatever reason. People signed on to Facebook with their real names.
It's the first popular social network where you can actually find people from real life.
Or... Steve will get sick, leave the helm and the stock will tank.