The article(s) don't have any substantial new information. They're just wishful thinking on behalf of the author.
The cellphone industry is an offshoot of the telco industry, and you'll have to look long and hard to find something more difficult to change. That industry predates the personal computer industry. It benefits from network effects and local near-monopolies, from massive lock-in and from being the gatekeeper to something that people want to do: make phone calls.
Note that I'm not saying that the industry shouldn't change, or that it won't. I'm just skeptical that Apple will do the changing, in a way that's profitable to them.
Before I started at my current workplace, the Exchange server was "administered" by a couple of Linux geeks. This was in the early years of the century, when you had to do stuff on the cheap or go out of business. Basically the soi-disant admins were members of the devel team.
Like many small companies, the office server was one box running Exchange, file services etc. So they ran low on disk space, and the 2 guys logged in and saw a whole slew of files ending with.log, with text file icons.
Hey, they said, that must be something we can remove. So they did.
Then Exchange didn't work. The expensive consultant couldn't do anything (backups? what backups?). It was like taking a rather large icepick and performing a crude lobotomy on the poor machine.
They went with Cyrus IMAP after that:)
Then we were acquired, and are on Exchange again. But at least the admins are competent now.
The ability to run a great OS like Linux on really old hardware (which 386's are, in computer time) means that poor countries in Africa and Latin America can get a 'net infrastructure up and running with less effort than by using NT.
The fact is, MS and hardware vendors want you to buy new hardware -- it's no surprise NT needs big machines to run on. Everybody "wins" -- even Linux users, as old-but-perfectly-good machines flood the market, keeping computers affordable for more people.
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The article(s) don't have any substantial new information. They're just wishful thinking on behalf of the author.
The cellphone industry is an offshoot of the telco industry, and you'll have to look long and hard to find something more difficult to change. That industry predates the personal computer industry. It benefits from network effects and local near-monopolies, from massive lock-in and from being the gatekeeper to something that people want to do: make phone calls.
Note that I'm not saying that the industry shouldn't change, or that it won't. I'm just skeptical that Apple will do the changing, in a way that's profitable to them.
Before I started at my current workplace, the Exchange server was "administered" by a couple of Linux geeks. This was in the early years of the century, when you had to do stuff on the cheap or go out of business. Basically the soi-disant admins were members of the devel team.
.log, with text file icons.
:)
Like many small companies, the office server was one box running Exchange, file services etc. So they ran low on disk space, and the 2 guys logged in and saw a whole slew of files ending with
Hey, they said, that must be something we can remove. So they did.
Then Exchange didn't work. The expensive consultant couldn't do anything (backups? what backups?). It was like taking a rather large icepick and performing a crude lobotomy on the poor machine.
They went with Cyrus IMAP after that
Then we were acquired, and are on Exchange again. But at least the admins are competent now.
If you use Emacs as your editor, typing M-x spook
will give you something like this:
Saddam Hussein AK-47 Mossad Serbian genetic Marxist assassination ammunition Semtex BATF World Trade Center Nazi Delta Force kibo Legion of Doom
(Note how this targets Echelon *and* Kibo!)
This is easily inserted into mail messages. I've
hacked together a Swedish version too, for those
pesky internal monitors at work.
/g.
--
The ability to run a great OS like Linux on really
old hardware (which 386's are, in computer time)
means that poor countries in Africa and Latin
America can get a 'net infrastructure up and
running with less effort than by using NT.
The fact is, MS and hardware vendors want you to
buy new hardware -- it's no surprise NT needs big
machines to run on. Everybody "wins" -- even Linux
users, as old-but-perfectly-good machines flood
the market, keeping computers affordable for more
people.
/g.