...and if every home can generate their own power at point of usage.. Well there is no long term market in that except panel cleaning.
Well, not exactly:
* inverters blow out, occasionally needing replacement * sometimes you use more power than the panels can provide (especially if you have a garage) * a home with north-facing roof or on the north side of anything bigger than it doesn't fare so well. * as sibling said - the sun goes down every day. * if you have kids, odds are good they're going to throw something onto the roof. Odds are better that it'll be hard enough to crack the glass on a panel. * even top-end panels last about 25 years max before peak output drops below 80% of rated Wp.
Finally, to make a panel, you have to burn an unholy amount of electricity just to feed the CZ furnaces for the wafers/cells (letting alone wafering, cell processing, panel construction, etc). It has to come from *somewhere*...
True, but they cannot simply be ignored, either. A pissed-off FCC can seriously ruin the day of any telecom carrier (or manufacturer, or broadcaster for that matter).
So yeah, basically Verizon will do what they say. I'm pretty sure Verizon wouldn't want some massive snafu getting in the way of license renewals or the next round of spectrum purchase bidding.
s'okay - even if the FCC ruled that Verizon cannot charge for any tethering at all, they'd simply charge for using the phone in a 'special data mode', or they'd happily rig all new phones to count double towards your data cap while tethered (after all, you're using two data 'channels' now - one to the laptop, and one to the tower!). Basically, they'd come up with some other sleazy move that sounds halfway legit to the non-techie user.
Never underestimate the capacity of a telecom carrier to do evil for profit.
"Competition for limited resources" is a weasel expression.
...until those resources start running low.
It's easy to preach 'peace at all costs' with a full belly and from a warm armchair.
A quick mental peek at history pulls up the Maya: self-annihilated by civil war thanks to a long drought, which in turn cut short the amount of food and clean water they needed to survive in the numbers they had when it began.
If teaching was really so easy and so well paid, then you (yes - YOU) could use your superior skills and abilities to make a real difference in the world and a substantial contribution to society by quitting your bit-twiddling, script-reading, Windoze-hating, printer cartridge-changing job and start teaching. So why don't you?
Teachers are becoming the targets of the new skinheads, with pogroms just around the corner. Wisconsin and Florida are leading the way.
Actually, I did just that... for six years.
As an associate CompSci prof, I pulled in around 80% of what sysadmins made in the area (near Ogden, UT), not counting the massive benefits*, and the additional pay for teaching a couple of night classes each week. Out of three CompSci profs on the campus, I was the only one who set up his own in-class network, did his own imaging, ran his own servers, etc.
I originally took the job in 1999 as a means to duck out of the dot-bust, but damn... it was a fine way to do it. I finally left when budget cuts meant low faculty on the various departmental totem poles had to be laid off. By then, IT hiring in the real world was back up in a massive way, so it took very little time to find what I wanted.
I can easily admit that this is not a typical case, but I will say that it is more common than the NEA will ever let on. Take a gander at what the fine faculty in Portland, OR (my current home)'s district will pull in: http://www.patpdx.org/salary . A fresh-out-of-school BA holder with 0 CE/credit hours gets an entry-level salary of $36k, which is kinda typical for most entry-level BA/BS jobs. Now here's the fun part: It's laughably easy to rack up the hours and get the raises. Most of these courses are usually some pet project of some prof somewhere, an easy "A", and I spent most of the required ones getting real work done on the laptop (seriously - I was even required to take early childhood literacy courses in spite of teaching at a collegiate level. Welcome to the Utah State Office of Education...)
The best part of it all was, my weekends and holidays were all mine. Name me a decent IT position that has that one carved in stone...
I won't say it was all cotton candy and unicorns, but compared to being a sysadmin out here in the real world? Shit, it was a relative vacation.
* this included 95% paid healthcare in-or-out of network for $0 premium w/ no limits, a very generous 401k matching program, a metric ton of days off in spite of teaching year-round, and a pension system that allows me, even now, to draw an extra $4k/year at age 65, in spite of only being in it for six years. Oh, and then there was the customary 50-60% off of std. tuition costs for most collegiate-level courses. Oh - and at a time when most folks were lucky to get 2 weeks vacation, I accrued 5 weeks per year, with no carryover limits... on top of all those days off. When I finally left, my severance check (3 months vacation backed up) was frickin' massive.
Actually, I think it's a damned good thing for any vendor to do.
BH has been a solid source of good old fashioned hacking knowledge (I daresay second only to 2600 back in that publication's heyday).
Most folks here know that the best way to make secure software (or at least improve what you've got) is to talk and interact with the hobbyists who love tearing it apart. But instead of lavishing time and attention on attention-whores like (IMHO) Charlie Miller, it's better to instead take the time and get in the effing trenches, away from the press and the bloggers.
The only negatives I can see is that it might just be lip service. If Apple is serious about this, it had damned well bring more to the table than marketing copy.
TBH, if Microsoft did this I'd applaud the move... not holding my breath on that one happening, though.
What is this deadly thing that is chasing humanity and necessitates the environmental destruction of the past 100-150 years?
I know of at least one: Starvation.
Without technology (currently-petroleum-based) to run the tractors and fertilize the soil, the 1.6-to-2 acres requirement per person becomes a minimum of ~20 acres per person.
The whole "organic" thing is cool and all, but there's a reason that shit's expensive: spoilage, crop losses before harvest (no pesticides/herbicides), lower yields, greater labor intensity, etc...
So unless someone can cough up sufficiently cheap electric/hybrid tractors and a fertilizer that's just as good as Anhydrous Ammonia, stopping that nasty evil petro-based ag industry is going to starve a whole lot of people off.
if a woman feels uncomfortable with something men are doing, she's automatically "uptight" or "frigid."
...and if a guy is uncomfortable with something women (or even other men) are doing, he usually gets called a "prude", or "uptight", or worse.
So if your point was that women have it oh-so-bad, and that's the worst you can come up with, then you're in for a big letdown out here in the real world, sister.
I daresay that it's quite the opposite these days. If a woman is "uncomfortable with something men are doing", one word to the HR department of any large company will see half of those men either fired or damned close to it.
Professionalism dictates keeping this sort of thing out of the workplace.
Please tell me where you work, so I don't ever accidentally apply there.
I know female sysadmins who can crank out jokes dirtier than any sailor can think up. We used to keep a rubber chicken hanging from a cable tray by a noose made of Cat6e. We went out of our way to come up with the most evil and funny descriptions of our incompetent (then)head of IT. The difference is that we kept it in the server room, and away from the serious bits.
In the real world of insane work hours and incredible pressure, any IT manager who insists on worshipping "Professionalism" usually finds him/her/itself having to explain high turnover/burn-out/wastage rates, and is quickly blackballed in the local professional network.
Sure, some women may be able to laugh it off for the sake of appearing to be a "team player" and putting the men on the team at ease, but honestly I can't imagine very many of us are actually truly completely comfortable with the idea of people we aren't reasonably intimate with commenting on our chests.
The cure is simple - comment on penises. I mean, shit - it's way the hell easier to joke about "shortcomings" than it is about "mosquito bites". I guarantee that shit will stop in a heartbeat if you fought fire with fire.
Life is rough - wear a helmet and remember to aim for the torso.
As long as you don't have an officemate who's constantly showering you with unsolicited innuendo.
There's a vast diff between the rare and occasional goof and "constantly showering". If you're seeing the latter, go to HR or get a lawyer. If you're seeing the former, then stand up for yourself and hit back, or ignore it. If you can't tell the difference, then the problem is yours, and you're making it everyone else's problem at the same time. So stop doing that, or I guarantee that your career will eventually crash and burn.
As a guy who still has a fully functioning dual G5, I'm thinking I'll either run Linux on it, or I'm gonna have a nice little case mod coming up to house my next motherboard...
I pushed my old-but-usable gaming rig and ancient-but-serviceable PowerMac into the closet a year ago, replacing them with a small shoebox desktop PC running Ubuntu... which I use as a home server/NAS/web box. It happens to hold laptop backup images and family photos, with occasional bittorrent-grabbing. It also charges my wife's iPod once in awhile.
My missus has a laptop, but she only uses Firefox, iTunes and Irfanview (basic photo thingy) on it - nothing else of note. Her usage patterns are typical for most of my neighbors.
My laptop is a bit of a fire-breather, but mostly so I can grind on CG modeling and artwork, type up my little book projects, and play the occasional game or two. I went to a laptop because I travel a lot, and I like bringing my tools and toys with me as I go. (Besides, I already typed the "A" clean off the key, and the "S" and "E" key decals are rapidly starting to dwindle.)
In my missus' case, I can get her an iPad tomorrow and she'd be set for life. In my case, I figure on replacing my laptop in about 6-12 months or so, but this time upgrading from a semi-shitty* 15" Samsung RC512 to a new 15" MBP.
Long story short - there's still a place for the desktop, though it'll be more relegated to a server role. In my case, I'll be using laptops for a long time (it's mobile, yet with a powerful CPU, real keyboard, and lots of screen real estate). My missus? A tablet would easily keep her happy from this point on.
*I say "semi-shitty" because the laptop has of late kicked the CPU thermals and shut down while rendering particularly complex scenes. That and the original 750GB HDD blew up six months ago; I replaced it with a 1TB disk.
Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written.
Given the recent ass-borking they did with their (Intel-chipped) 10gE cards and VMWare ESX (dual port cards basically become single-port ones), I wouldn't even take those anymore.
True, but once they suck you in all Christian organisations want your money and they want it tax free.
In almost every Christian denomination, giving is voluntary, not compulsory. As a practicing Christian, I give what I can, because I know the money goes into local charities, into keeping the lights and heat on in the church, feeds and houses the priest (giving him time to minister to the homebound, imprisoned, critically/terminally ill), etc. Most Christian denominations follow a similar pattern (note that I'm excluding the televangelists, and for obvious reasons, as most of them are blatant and obvious scam artists.)
There is only one denomination I can think of which comes with a monetary requirement: The LDS/Mormon church, where you're required to give 10% of your income (among other requirements) in order to be considered "temple-worthy".
So, waitaminute... one guy (who wasn't even Christian) in roughly 6000 years of history, no bombs involved, and he's proof that all fundies are suicide bombers?
LeMay ran what used to be the Strategic Air Command. One very harsh motherfucker to work under, if rumors circulating around the USAF as late as the 1980's (when I enlisted) are to be believed. His idea of responding to varying nuclear incidents was to launch everything, and full-throttle nuke the unholy shit out of everyone who ever pissed the United States off. Only when someone leaked that fact to Kennedy was LeMay ordered to come up with something more graduated.
You ought to look him up sometime... all by himself he is a very solid counterpoint to the original article, and in a big way.
We do have setups exactly as you describe (Christians living under Islamic regimes). Curiously, there seems to be a lack of Christian suicide bombers in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria...
A suicide bomber doesn't mind dying while they blow other people up.
The whole abortion clinic bombing thing reduced down to a few crazy-asses who liked using bombs, which, curiously, doesn't require religion as an excuse.
You're obviously unaware of what RIM is doing except for what the doomsayers are trumpeting. RIM understands the work/life balance issue and the paradigm shift away from a work provided device to the BYOD [wikipedia.org] model.
Honest question here... do you work for them? I ask because honestly, that's not what I was shooting for when I wrote what I did. When I'm saying is that RIM has nothing coming that will make the world at large sit up and take notice. Nothing. A BES bolt-on and a pseudo-VM/app thingy isn't going to make the public cream their pants and line up for hours to buy it, like they would a new iPhone. It isn't going to make gadget-heads stumble over each other trying to get their hands on one, like a high-end Android phone. It won't appeal to the budget crowd, because Android took that crowd too. BB is scrapping with Microsoft for the ass-end of the market right now, and if RIM intends to survive, that needs to change... drastically.
The only reason RIM is accommodating the BYOD model at all is because their competition pioneered the BYOD model! Seriously - RIM is not even aiming for where the puck is now... it's following the damned thing. The Mobile Fusion "innovation" is just BB's way of accommodating existing demands - the tech is pretty and all, but it's not pushing any boundaries, and it's damned sure not taking the market at large into any sort of new direction. If anything, it's a desperate attempt to remain relevant.
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Or moveon.org, The Huffington Post, Democratic Underground, etc and their followers, to varying degrees of rabidity.
Either way, both sides are making even my puny Facebook page a rotten mess.
...and if every home can generate their own power at point of usage.. Well there is no long term market in that except panel cleaning.
Well, not exactly:
* inverters blow out, occasionally needing replacement
* sometimes you use more power than the panels can provide (especially if you have a garage)
* a home with north-facing roof or on the north side of anything bigger than it doesn't fare so well.
* as sibling said - the sun goes down every day.
* if you have kids, odds are good they're going to throw something onto the roof. Odds are better that it'll be hard enough to crack the glass on a panel.
* even top-end panels last about 25 years max before peak output drops below 80% of rated Wp.
Finally, to make a panel, you have to burn an unholy amount of electricity just to feed the CZ furnaces for the wafers/cells (letting alone wafering, cell processing, panel construction, etc). It has to come from *somewhere*...
Well, judging by UBS's saber-rattling, we know who got left holding a big bag of Zuckerberg-fueled hype, now don't we?
Protip: The FCC is not a court.
True, but they cannot simply be ignored, either. A pissed-off FCC can seriously ruin the day of any telecom carrier (or manufacturer, or broadcaster for that matter).
So yeah, basically Verizon will do what they say. I'm pretty sure Verizon wouldn't want some massive snafu getting in the way of license renewals or the next round of spectrum purchase bidding.
s'okay - even if the FCC ruled that Verizon cannot charge for any tethering at all, they'd simply charge for using the phone in a 'special data mode', or they'd happily rig all new phones to count double towards your data cap while tethered (after all, you're using two data 'channels' now - one to the laptop, and one to the tower!). Basically, they'd come up with some other sleazy move that sounds halfway legit to the non-techie user.
Never underestimate the capacity of a telecom carrier to do evil for profit.
"Competition for limited resources" is a weasel expression.
...until those resources start running low.
It's easy to preach 'peace at all costs' with a full belly and from a warm armchair.
A quick mental peek at history pulls up the Maya: self-annihilated by civil war thanks to a long drought, which in turn cut short the amount of food and clean water they needed to survive in the numbers they had when it began.
Joke aside, I wonder what this will do to battery life on a typical laptop?
If teaching was really so easy and so well paid, then you (yes - YOU) could use your superior skills and abilities to make a real difference in the world and a substantial contribution to society by quitting your bit-twiddling, script-reading, Windoze-hating, printer cartridge-changing job and start teaching. So why don't you?
Teachers are becoming the targets of the new skinheads, with pogroms just around the corner. Wisconsin and Florida are leading the way.
Actually, I did just that... for six years.
As an associate CompSci prof, I pulled in around 80% of what sysadmins made in the area (near Ogden, UT), not counting the massive benefits*, and the additional pay for teaching a couple of night classes each week. Out of three CompSci profs on the campus, I was the only one who set up his own in-class network, did his own imaging, ran his own servers, etc.
I originally took the job in 1999 as a means to duck out of the dot-bust, but damn... it was a fine way to do it. I finally left when budget cuts meant low faculty on the various departmental totem poles had to be laid off. By then, IT hiring in the real world was back up in a massive way, so it took very little time to find what I wanted.
I can easily admit that this is not a typical case, but I will say that it is more common than the NEA will ever let on. Take a gander at what the fine faculty in Portland, OR (my current home)'s district will pull in: http://www.patpdx.org/salary . A fresh-out-of-school BA holder with 0 CE/credit hours gets an entry-level salary of $36k, which is kinda typical for most entry-level BA/BS jobs. Now here's the fun part: It's laughably easy to rack up the hours and get the raises. Most of these courses are usually some pet project of some prof somewhere, an easy "A", and I spent most of the required ones getting real work done on the laptop (seriously - I was even required to take early childhood literacy courses in spite of teaching at a collegiate level. Welcome to the Utah State Office of Education...)
The best part of it all was, my weekends and holidays were all mine. Name me a decent IT position that has that one carved in stone...
I won't say it was all cotton candy and unicorns, but compared to being a sysadmin out here in the real world? Shit, it was a relative vacation.
* this included 95% paid healthcare in-or-out of network for $0 premium w/ no limits, a very generous 401k matching program, a metric ton of days off in spite of teaching year-round, and a pension system that allows me, even now, to draw an extra $4k/year at age 65, in spite of only being in it for six years. Oh, and then there was the customary 50-60% off of std. tuition costs for most collegiate-level courses. Oh - and at a time when most folks were lucky to get 2 weeks vacation, I accrued 5 weeks per year, with no carryover limits... on top of all those days off. When I finally left, my severance check (3 months vacation backed up) was frickin' massive.
Actually, I think it's a damned good thing for any vendor to do.
BH has been a solid source of good old fashioned hacking knowledge (I daresay second only to 2600 back in that publication's heyday).
Most folks here know that the best way to make secure software (or at least improve what you've got) is to talk and interact with the hobbyists who love tearing it apart. But instead of lavishing time and attention on attention-whores like (IMHO) Charlie Miller, it's better to instead take the time and get in the effing trenches, away from the press and the bloggers.
The only negatives I can see is that it might just be lip service. If Apple is serious about this, it had damned well bring more to the table than marketing copy.
TBH, if Microsoft did this I'd applaud the move... not holding my breath on that one happening, though.
What is this deadly thing that is chasing humanity and necessitates the environmental destruction of the past 100-150 years?
I know of at least one: Starvation.
Without technology (currently-petroleum-based) to run the tractors and fertilize the soil, the 1.6-to-2 acres requirement per person becomes a minimum of ~20 acres per person.
The whole "organic" thing is cool and all, but there's a reason that shit's expensive: spoilage, crop losses before harvest (no pesticides/herbicides), lower yields, greater labor intensity, etc...
So unless someone can cough up sufficiently cheap electric/hybrid tractors and a fertilizer that's just as good as Anhydrous Ammonia, stopping that nasty evil petro-based ag industry is going to starve a whole lot of people off.
if a woman feels uncomfortable with something men are doing, she's automatically "uptight" or "frigid."
...and if a guy is uncomfortable with something women (or even other men) are doing, he usually gets called a "prude", or "uptight", or worse.
So if your point was that women have it oh-so-bad, and that's the worst you can come up with, then you're in for a big letdown out here in the real world, sister.
I daresay that it's quite the opposite these days. If a woman is "uncomfortable with something men are doing", one word to the HR department of any large company will see half of those men either fired or damned close to it.
Professionalism dictates keeping this sort of thing out of the workplace.
Please tell me where you work, so I don't ever accidentally apply there.
I know female sysadmins who can crank out jokes dirtier than any sailor can think up. We used to keep a rubber chicken hanging from a cable tray by a noose made of Cat6e. We went out of our way to come up with the most evil and funny descriptions of our incompetent (then)head of IT. The difference is that we kept it in the server room, and away from the serious bits.
In the real world of insane work hours and incredible pressure, any IT manager who insists on worshipping "Professionalism" usually finds him/her/itself having to explain high turnover/burn-out/wastage rates, and is quickly blackballed in the local professional network.
Sure, some women may be able to laugh it off for the sake of appearing to be a "team player" and putting the men on the team at ease, but honestly I can't imagine very many of us are actually truly completely comfortable with the idea of people we aren't reasonably intimate with commenting on our chests.
The cure is simple - comment on penises. I mean, shit - it's way the hell easier to joke about "shortcomings" than it is about "mosquito bites". I guarantee that shit will stop in a heartbeat if you fought fire with fire.
Life is rough - wear a helmet and remember to aim for the torso.
As long as you don't have an officemate who's constantly showering you with unsolicited innuendo.
There's a vast diff between the rare and occasional goof and "constantly showering". If you're seeing the latter, go to HR or get a lawyer. If you're seeing the former, then stand up for yourself and hit back, or ignore it. If you can't tell the difference, then the problem is yours, and you're making it everyone else's problem at the same time. So stop doing that, or I guarantee that your career will eventually crash and burn.
By now, you might have an easier time replacing the kernel with Darwin.
Then again, probably not.
As a guy who still has a fully functioning dual G5, I'm thinking I'll either run Linux on it, or I'm gonna have a nice little case mod coming up to house my next motherboard...
Well, I can sum it up the revulsion in one word: Unity.
If you've ever had to use it, you'll know why Metro is (at least IMO) the suck.
Don't screw with my desktop paradigm by simplifying it too damned much - you introduce too much complexity that way.
(and to think - my favorite WM of all time is fluxbox.)
I'll take that challenge: Lynx + RedHat 5.0.
It wont be gorgeous, but I could damned sure get there. :p
Exact same story here.
I pushed my old-but-usable gaming rig and ancient-but-serviceable PowerMac into the closet a year ago, replacing them with a small shoebox desktop PC running Ubuntu... which I use as a home server/NAS/web box. It happens to hold laptop backup images and family photos, with occasional bittorrent-grabbing. It also charges my wife's iPod once in awhile.
My missus has a laptop, but she only uses Firefox, iTunes and Irfanview (basic photo thingy) on it - nothing else of note. Her usage patterns are typical for most of my neighbors.
My laptop is a bit of a fire-breather, but mostly so I can grind on CG modeling and artwork, type up my little book projects, and play the occasional game or two. I went to a laptop because I travel a lot, and I like bringing my tools and toys with me as I go. (Besides, I already typed the "A" clean off the key, and the "S" and "E" key decals are rapidly starting to dwindle.)
In my missus' case, I can get her an iPad tomorrow and she'd be set for life. In my case, I figure on replacing my laptop in about 6-12 months or so, but this time upgrading from a semi-shitty* 15" Samsung RC512 to a new 15" MBP.
Long story short - there's still a place for the desktop, though it'll be more relegated to a server role. In my case, I'll be using laptops for a long time (it's mobile, yet with a powerful CPU, real keyboard, and lots of screen real estate). My missus? A tablet would easily keep her happy from this point on.
*I say "semi-shitty" because the laptop has of late kicked the CPU thermals and shut down while rendering particularly complex scenes. That and the original 750GB HDD blew up six months ago; I replaced it with a 1TB disk.
Then Moses turned and went down from the mountain with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, tablets that were written on both sides; on the front and on the back they were written.
...so even *that* tablet had multitasking.
WTF, Apple?
As a man who considers himself Christian, I'm saying the same damned thing.
Chalk it up to a scam angle used to push out crap tablets.
(besides, if you want a bible on an iPad that bad, well: go get one - there's like a bajillion of them in there!)
Dude - seriously, "whoosh!"
Besides, I use fread() straight off the network card to get all my website content. Doesn't everybody?
Given the recent ass-borking they did with their (Intel-chipped) 10gE cards and VMWare ESX (dual port cards basically become single-port ones), I wouldn't even take those anymore.
True, but once they suck you in all Christian organisations want your money and they want it tax free.
In almost every Christian denomination, giving is voluntary, not compulsory. As a practicing Christian, I give what I can, because I know the money goes into local charities, into keeping the lights and heat on in the church, feeds and houses the priest (giving him time to minister to the homebound, imprisoned, critically/terminally ill), etc. Most Christian denominations follow a similar pattern (note that I'm excluding the televangelists, and for obvious reasons, as most of them are blatant and obvious scam artists.)
There is only one denomination I can think of which comes with a monetary requirement: The LDS/Mormon church, where you're required to give 10% of your income (among other requirements) in order to be considered "temple-worthy".
So, waitaminute... one guy (who wasn't even Christian) in roughly 6000 years of history, no bombs involved, and he's proof that all fundies are suicide bombers?
Am I missing something here?
LeMay ran what used to be the Strategic Air Command. One very harsh motherfucker to work under, if rumors circulating around the USAF as late as the 1980's (when I enlisted) are to be believed. His idea of responding to varying nuclear incidents was to launch everything, and full-throttle nuke the unholy shit out of everyone who ever pissed the United States off. Only when someone leaked that fact to Kennedy was LeMay ordered to come up with something more graduated.
You ought to look him up sometime... all by himself he is a very solid counterpoint to the original article, and in a big way.
We do have setups exactly as you describe (Christians living under Islamic regimes). Curiously, there seems to be a lack of Christian suicide bombers in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria...
Can you point some out for us, perhaps?
Protip: They weren't suicide bombers.
A suicide bomber doesn't mind dying while they blow other people up.
The whole abortion clinic bombing thing reduced down to a few crazy-asses who liked using bombs, which, curiously, doesn't require religion as an excuse.
You're obviously unaware of what RIM is doing except for what the doomsayers are trumpeting. RIM understands the work/life balance issue and the paradigm shift away from a work provided device to the BYOD [wikipedia.org] model.
Honest question here... do you work for them? I ask because honestly, that's not what I was shooting for when I wrote what I did. When I'm saying is that RIM has nothing coming that will make the world at large sit up and take notice. Nothing. A BES bolt-on and a pseudo-VM/app thingy isn't going to make the public cream their pants and line up for hours to buy it, like they would a new iPhone. It isn't going to make gadget-heads stumble over each other trying to get their hands on one, like a high-end Android phone. It won't appeal to the budget crowd, because Android took that crowd too. BB is scrapping with Microsoft for the ass-end of the market right now, and if RIM intends to survive, that needs to change... drastically.
The only reason RIM is accommodating the BYOD model at all is because their competition pioneered the BYOD model! Seriously - RIM is not even aiming for where the puck is now... it's following the damned thing. The Mobile Fusion "innovation" is just BB's way of accommodating existing demands - the tech is pretty and all, but it's not pushing any boundaries, and it's damned sure not taking the market at large into any sort of new direction. If anything, it's a desperate attempt to remain relevant.