A one-size-fits-all UI is like trying to find a nubile cutie fresh out of college who can calculate quaternion rotations in her head, thinks emacs sucks, wants to marry a typical slashdotter and have his babies, but at the same time loves hunting, fishing, and, oh BTW - she's a billionaire.
In other words? Not going to frickin' happen. Too many damned use cases out there to credibly squeeze together into one coherent UI.
Most companies that hold credit-affecting data (SSNs, names, addys, etc) are actually obligated in some (but not nearly enough) states to provide anti- ID theft protection/correction at their expense, and to eat any additional costs associated with that.
One would hope that it would become federal law, but good luck with that one...
One would hope that better security is already a given in a new from-scratch system... especially one that you want people to have trust in, away from the existing banks. But... if someone were to want to compromise Google Wallet, the script kiddie's best bet is to not attack the servers, but the individual phones, where Google will lose a lot of the control.
Unless Google is working to get FDIC insured and become their own bank, they themselves will have to connect to the banks to access the money somehow. They can minimize it by using something like an ACH debit or merchant credit transaction (for each purchase, or, say, once a day with accumulated transactions lumped together, though the latter would make individual purchase tracking iffy from the bank POV).
But... there's still that link.
Google and the like have a harder row to hoe than a typical bank with web-based services will at this time.
I almost told him yes, but then I remembered the new Windows 8 tablets coming out in the next year or so, and asked him if he'd rather have that. He immediately said yes, because he understands how much more usable a Windows environment is in the business world than an Apple one; I agreed with him.
Ooookay... so what we've learned here, is:
1) you talked yr old man into waiting an entire year (or more) for some promise which may or may not fully materialize, based on technical expectations of which he knows little about (since he had to ask someone else, namely you).
2) he has no idea what the rejected device really is or does, and unless you own and use one in a business situation, neither do you.
3) you made that recommendation based on a promise which you yourself are not fully certain of ("If MS can pull this off...")
Let me guess - you're an EMC consultant, aren't you?
...basically, even back in granddad's day, cat-and-mouse with radio signals were commonplace during wars and unrest. Now fast forward to today, where you only need to point a signal upwards, with a tighter beam and lower wattage than any WWII resistance radio operator could only dream of having.
Unless, say, Syria shingles the whole country 24/7 with flying radio triangulation equipment, they're going to have a real tough time spotting a well-camouflaged sat tranceiver hidden under a radio-friendly material.
Err, before pronouncing doom and gloom upon all things Apple, you may want to think ahead a bit... this patent appears sufficiently broad enough so that Android and WP7 developers may well be next.
Personally, while Apple does need to get it in gear and provide as much aid as possible (can 'tortious interference' be a case here if Apple were indeed to sue Lodsys?), Microsoft and Google may *very* well want to get off their butts and at least start making moves to protect their own dev stables.
PS: Even worst-case, this would be a chilling effect only if your iPhone app included an in-app payment system.
Having an incredibly common name is a wonderful thing sometimes. There are literally thousands of me in there. Even in my current town, there are approximately ~400 that people they've pulled up - and *none* of the results have my current address (even after drilling down manually *myself*) - they had exactly one addy/name combo that matched, that was inaccurate by over 3 years. I popped in via open proxy to insure that they didn't dredge through their visit records and get a sniff.:)
Good luck finding out which one the thousands of guys who share my name is me, s'all I can say.
(Heh - John Galt? No thanks - I have a perfectly usable and apparently damned anonymous real name, thanks.)
Tweet #1: I'm sorry that BluInc is run by a bunch of petty self-serving asshats. Tweet #2: I apologize for offending the sensibilities of a pack of hyper-sensitive shitheads like BluInc. Tweet #3: I feel horrible that BluInc is run by a group of fucktards, so I'm sorry. Tweet #4: [...]
I know folks in the IT realm (in many disciplines) who have nothing more than a high school diploma and a couple of industry certifications, but (years later, mind) command one hell of a salary due to experience and demonstrable levels of skill. I have a former student who has nothing more than a 2-year degree, but is pulling in six figures working for Juniper as a high-end technical consultant.
Certainly, folks like the Intel Corporation will shred your resume w/o a second thought, unless they see an engineering degree in it somewhere (yep - worked there, seen it happen... unless you're an intern, don't bother). That said, most businesses that aren't IT- or tech-oriented are more than happy to take on employees who know what the hell they're talking about, with the references (and/or for programmers, publicly available FOSS code) to prove it. Even on the admin side, I've had many interviews where they ask me why they should hire a spark-chaser, but after showing them (with a metric ton of references) that I am happier in IT and have pursued it with more than enough competence, they tend to come around rather quickly on the topic.
Long story short, you;re absolutely right - especially in this climate. OTOH, it's a decision that will take research, talent, and more than just a little work... sort of like life, really.:)
FWIW, you can get a minor in what you love, and a major in what will earn. No one is forcing you to gear your entire curriculum to the Benjamins.
I did that eons ago, with a major in EE, but a minor in history. I've long since translated the engineering skills to the IT world, but the history I still have and treasure. It happens that I love the engineering side of things, so it fit me in either case (yes, I still have a bench at home, though time doesn't permit me much for playing at it).
If the field you truly love doesn't make any money, so what? Be happy with the less luxurious lifestyle, but living a life that matches your passions. FFS, if you love doing archaeology, even though the life would be pretty poverty-stricken, then by all means *do it*.
The guy who dies with a smile on his face is the one who wins, not the one whose bank account is the biggest.
Actually, Apple does have enterprise support options: You just have to know where to look (and don't let the "server" page name fool you - OS support sits right at the top of the page).
If you spec out a similar HP or Dell (esp. at corporate pricing), you often pay around the same amount - sometimes more. Seriously, look around sometime and try it. A lot of it depends on where in Apple's refresh cycle you are when you make the purchase, and a lot of it depends on how close to the end of the fiscal quarter HP and Dell are, but generally the prices are close once you start matching spec for spec.
( While I'm pretty sure that some bargain hunter will come up with something that is cheaper if they look hard enough, the general rule applies, and since most businesses don't have the time or expertise to go do the tech equivalent of extreme couponing, it definitely applies here. )
The perception of expense comes with folks being used to seeing the cheap low-end consumer-grade stuff that {$OEM} pukes out in volume. Since Apple doesn't bother with that market, they get the perception of being too expensive.
...plus you need the Windows 7 Licenses.
Those are going to be dirt cheap compared to the seat licenses of Visual Studio that the guy coughed up for - after all, we're talking about a business here.
Not getting why a community can't build their own broadband, and at the same time allow private companies to compete on the same fiber (or add their own fiber).
'course, this isn't the first time that the cablecos/ISPs have banded together to push politicians to enforce mono/duopoly. See also UTOPIA. Comcast and Qwest raped quite a few cities (and bought more than a few politicians) to keep that network restricted, lest they have to compete on a level playing field...
If you pretend to be a journalist and claim some statistics and it's not out of a peer-reviewed _published_ paper, you get an automatic fine. Why not ?
It would depend on the "peers" that do the reviewing, methinks.
Meanwhile, why not just ridicule and ignore the liars (of any stripe) outright? Seems to be a lot more reasonable, plus those of us who aren't ideological jack-heads get some humor out of it.
Dude - he was probably referring to the OS, not the apps.
Uncle (below) answered it adequately - that the OS would reboot with a 'pristine' state - including the same flaws it had before. While this would frustrate some forms of trojan or malware, it certainly wouldn't even begin to stop it all.
You can do something similar with virtual machinery, but the pristine VM could get corrupted too... becomes a chicken/egg question if the user isn't too awful computer-savvy.
Now someone with some sysadmin mojo could use it to good effect (oh? that website infected my VM? Well, time to clone off another from the virgin copy, test it out to be sure, and just avoid that site - maybe notify the site owner...) But normal users? Nuh-uh. They'll just get re-infected again 6 or 7 times out of ten.
I have a HARD time believing that only 14 in 1000 windows XP machines are infected.
The reason why they came up with that number is in TFA:
"Microsoft calculated the infection rates using its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) by detecting and deleting selected malware such as fake antivirus programs, worms, viruses, and trojans."
In other words, they used their internal tool, which would certainly not catch all the bugaboos lurking in a given box.
To be fair, Powershell isn't pre-installed, either.;)
Powershell is however "perfect" for the job because half of anything you do on Exchange 2007 or 2010 requires using the thing anyway, and while clumsy as hell, it is miles above using *vb* to do anything.
Only question is, how much can you burden each core?
After all, you could have a bajillion cores in a chip, but if each core in it can only handle one-bajillionth the load of a single-core x86 or PPC chip, then where's the advantage?
Slashdot Mirror
It'll end up being worse than Unity.
Wait - that's possible?
(.../me gets shown image of WP 7 Metro UI...)
Urgh. I take it all back.
You do bring up a good point, though.
A one-size-fits-all UI is like trying to find a nubile cutie fresh out of college who can calculate quaternion rotations in her head, thinks emacs sucks, wants to marry a typical slashdotter and have his babies, but at the same time loves hunting, fishing, and, oh BTW - she's a billionaire.
In other words? Not going to frickin' happen. Too many damned use cases out there to credibly squeeze together into one coherent UI.
Most companies that hold credit-affecting data (SSNs, names, addys, etc) are actually obligated in some (but not nearly enough) states to provide anti- ID theft protection/correction at their expense, and to eat any additional costs associated with that.
One would hope that it would become federal law, but good luck with that one...
One would hope that better security is already a given in a new from-scratch system... especially one that you want people to have trust in, away from the existing banks. But... if someone were to want to compromise Google Wallet, the script kiddie's best bet is to not attack the servers, but the individual phones, where Google will lose a lot of the control.
Unless Google is working to get FDIC insured and become their own bank, they themselves will have to connect to the banks to access the money somehow. They can minimize it by using something like an ACH debit or merchant credit transaction (for each purchase, or, say, once a day with accumulated transactions lumped together, though the latter would make individual purchase tracking iffy from the bank POV).
But... there's still that link.
Google and the like have a harder row to hoe than a typical bank with web-based services will at this time.
I almost told him yes, but then I remembered the new Windows 8 tablets coming out in the next year or so, and asked him if he'd rather have that. He immediately said yes, because he understands how much more usable a Windows environment is in the business world than an Apple one; I agreed with him.
Ooookay... so what we've learned here, is:
1) you talked yr old man into waiting an entire year (or more) for some promise which may or may not fully materialize, based on technical expectations of which he knows little about (since he had to ask someone else, namely you).
2) he has no idea what the rejected device really is or does, and unless you own and use one in a business situation, neither do you.
3) you made that recommendation based on a promise which you yourself are not fully certain of ("If MS can pull this off...")
Let me guess - you're an EMC consultant, aren't you?
Posting to destroy a mod gone wrong... my bad.
(stupid 2.0...)
No. They just look for people with antennas, and send the men with rifles round there.
Err, not always that easy, either.
This is, after all, not a new game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_resistance
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Orchestra_(espionage)
Unless, say, Syria shingles the whole country 24/7 with flying radio triangulation equipment, they're going to have a real tough time spotting a well-camouflaged sat tranceiver hidden under a radio-friendly material.
Well, you can still download it and find out!
(yeah, I was kind of amazed too).
Err, before pronouncing doom and gloom upon all things Apple, you may want to think ahead a bit... this patent appears sufficiently broad enough so that Android and WP7 developers may well be next.
Personally, while Apple does need to get it in gear and provide as much aid as possible (can 'tortious interference' be a case here if Apple were indeed to sue Lodsys?), Microsoft and Google may *very* well want to get off their butts and at least start making moves to protect their own dev stables.
PS: Even worst-case, this would be a chilling effect only if your iPhone app included an in-app payment system.
I'd be pretty damn surprised. I don't think that many serfs could read in 1568.
True, but what if that printing contained a woodcut rendering of his penis?
Having an incredibly common name is a wonderful thing sometimes. There are literally thousands of me in there. Even in my current town, there are approximately ~400 that people they've pulled up - and *none* of the results have my current address (even after drilling down manually *myself*) - they had exactly one addy/name combo that matched, that was inaccurate by over 3 years. I popped in via open proxy to insure that they didn't dredge through their visit records and get a sniff. :)
Good luck finding out which one the thousands of guys who share my name is me, s'all I can say.
(Heh - John Galt? No thanks - I have a perfectly usable and apparently damned anonymous real name, thanks.)
Tweet #1: I'm sorry that BluInc is run by a bunch of petty self-serving asshats.
Tweet #2: I apologize for offending the sensibilities of a pack of hyper-sensitive shitheads like BluInc.
Tweet #3: I feel horrible that BluInc is run by a group of fucktards, so I'm sorry.
Tweet #4: [...]
Agreed, on many, many fronts.
I know folks in the IT realm (in many disciplines) who have nothing more than a high school diploma and a couple of industry certifications, but (years later, mind) command one hell of a salary due to experience and demonstrable levels of skill. I have a former student who has nothing more than a 2-year degree, but is pulling in six figures working for Juniper as a high-end technical consultant.
Certainly, folks like the Intel Corporation will shred your resume w/o a second thought, unless they see an engineering degree in it somewhere (yep - worked there, seen it happen... unless you're an intern, don't bother). That said, most businesses that aren't IT- or tech-oriented are more than happy to take on employees who know what the hell they're talking about, with the references (and/or for programmers, publicly available FOSS code) to prove it. Even on the admin side, I've had many interviews where they ask me why they should hire a spark-chaser, but after showing them (with a metric ton of references) that I am happier in IT and have pursued it with more than enough competence, they tend to come around rather quickly on the topic.
Long story short, you;re absolutely right - especially in this climate. OTOH, it's a decision that will take research, talent, and more than just a little work... sort of like life, really. :)
FWIW, you can get a minor in what you love, and a major in what will earn. No one is forcing you to gear your entire curriculum to the Benjamins.
I did that eons ago, with a major in EE, but a minor in history. I've long since translated the engineering skills to the IT world, but the history I still have and treasure. It happens that I love the engineering side of things, so it fit me in either case (yes, I still have a bench at home, though time doesn't permit me much for playing at it).
If the field you truly love doesn't make any money, so what? Be happy with the less luxurious lifestyle, but living a life that matches your passions. FFS, if you love doing archaeology, even though the life would be pretty poverty-stricken, then by all means *do it*.
The guy who dies with a smile on his face is the one who wins, not the one whose bank account is the biggest.
Actually, Apple does have enterprise support options: You just have to know where to look (and don't let the "server" page name fool you - OS support sits right at the top of the page).
"Talk about wasting money."
If you spec out a similar HP or Dell (esp. at corporate pricing), you often pay around the same amount - sometimes more. Seriously, look around sometime and try it. A lot of it depends on where in Apple's refresh cycle you are when you make the purchase, and a lot of it depends on how close to the end of the fiscal quarter HP and Dell are, but generally the prices are close once you start matching spec for spec.
( While I'm pretty sure that some bargain hunter will come up with something that is cheaper if they look hard enough, the general rule applies, and since most businesses don't have the time or expertise to go do the tech equivalent of extreme couponing, it definitely applies here. )
The perception of expense comes with folks being used to seeing the cheap low-end consumer-grade stuff that {$OEM} pukes out in volume. Since Apple doesn't bother with that market, they get the perception of being too expensive.
...plus you need the Windows 7 Licenses.
Those are going to be dirt cheap compared to the seat licenses of Visual Studio that the guy coughed up for - after all, we're talking about a business here.
Not getting why a community can't build their own broadband, and at the same time allow private companies to compete on the same fiber (or add their own fiber).
'course, this isn't the first time that the cablecos/ISPs have banded together to push politicians to enforce mono/duopoly. See also UTOPIA. Comcast and Qwest raped quite a few cities (and bought more than a few politicians) to keep that network restricted, lest they have to compete on a level playing field...
I can't wait to see what happens come the next FB scam/spam blitz, now that SEO's have a huge incentive to push a few in their favor.
Also, for some odd reason I foresee Farmville and other Zynga games at the top of damned near every Bing results page...
If you pretend to be a journalist and claim some statistics and it's not out of a peer-reviewed _published_ paper, you get an automatic fine. Why not ?
It would depend on the "peers" that do the reviewing, methinks.
Meanwhile, why not just ridicule and ignore the liars (of any stripe) outright? Seems to be a lot more reasonable, plus those of us who aren't ideological jack-heads get some humor out of it.
Yup - and the 3.5" ones had a little slider that did the exact same thing.
Dude - he was probably referring to the OS, not the apps.
Uncle (below) answered it adequately - that the OS would reboot with a 'pristine' state - including the same flaws it had before. While this would frustrate some forms of trojan or malware, it certainly wouldn't even begin to stop it all.
You can do something similar with virtual machinery, but the pristine VM could get corrupted too... becomes a chicken/egg question if the user isn't too awful computer-savvy.
Now someone with some sysadmin mojo could use it to good effect (oh? that website infected my VM? Well, time to clone off another from the virgin copy, test it out to be sure, and just avoid that site - maybe notify the site owner...) But normal users? Nuh-uh. They'll just get re-infected again 6 or 7 times out of ten.
That's because there's no mod for "Gallows Humor".
*facepalm*
Err, "whoosh"?
(damn...)
I have a HARD time believing that only 14 in 1000 windows XP machines are infected.
The reason why they came up with that number is in TFA:
"Microsoft calculated the infection rates using its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) by detecting and deleting selected malware such as fake antivirus programs, worms, viruses, and trojans."
In other words, they used their internal tool, which would certainly not catch all the bugaboos lurking in a given box.
To be fair, Powershell isn't pre-installed, either. ;)
Powershell is however "perfect" for the job because half of anything you do on Exchange 2007 or 2010 requires using the thing anyway, and while clumsy as hell, it is miles above using *vb* to do anything.
Only question is, how much can you burden each core?
After all, you could have a bajillion cores in a chip, but if each core in it can only handle one-bajillionth the load of a single-core x86 or PPC chip, then where's the advantage?