If I might make a suggestion: Keep out anything that comes near VBScript, auto-rendering of e-mail, and other technologies that are easily misused by virus-builders. Outlook performs well enough as a groupware client, but its abundance of features are often used against it.
Evolution is also trying this, and they deliver Exchange connectivity. The KDE group is busy on a groupware solution, and it will shortly be released.
If you want to use Linux in an office environment, a groupware solution is a must-have. The more people who are working on this subject, the better, in my opinion....
It also scattered the P2P-communitiy from 1 app to a lot of small app. Controlling Napster might have been a hell of a job, so they shut it down. Now they have to shut down about 10 P2P-networks, let alone think about controlling it...
They might argue that a cd delivers better audio quality. They might even have a point there. But why don't we use an equal system to reward artistic quality?
I will gladly reward an artist who puts his/her heart and soul into his/her music, but why should I pay for an untalented tart around whom a musical concept is worked out by a bunch of producers, and all she has to do walk around in ultra-short skirts?
The system as we know it is not supporting art, it's just supporting sales. The record industry has held a monopoly in creating professional sounding music and distributing it on a large scale, but today's technology allows everyone to do it him/herself.
Instead of trying to break the RIAA, maybe we should just ignore them. Let the little kids have their Britney Spears and NSync, let the real artist create their music in an atmosphere which supports creativity, and use the internet for distribution.
I don't think that would solve the problem. I know of a scam where people would get a phonecall where somebody would claim to work for a bank, and ask them their PIN-code (4-digit auth. code for ATM-machines...), because some administrative error had occurred. A lot of people fell for it because the guy sounded sincere, or make up your own excuse here...
It's easy to trick people into doing stuff like this. If John Doe had recently transferred a large amount of money to a 'known good' escrow service, and he received a call from that escrow service, or his bank that something had gone wrong during the transaction, and please could he send the money again, how big do you think the chance is that he actually would?
It all comes down to the amount of trust you can generate with the person whose money you're trying to steal. Claiming to be calling on behalve of eBays Escrow service will probably give you a head start.
Even though we're a Tru64 shop here, I have Linux running on an Alpha at work. It's 'barely legal'. I still must see what I can actually do with it, cause I can't officially devote time to it.
But since HP is doing it's very best to put Tru64 Unix away as fast as possible, (nowadays, that OS has lifecycles which are half that of OSses from Redmont...) Linux might just be a good alternative to use on our huge pile of Big-ass alpha's once they're through... (They'll probably be done with it in about 2 years time...)
Just like the first Greek to leave ship at Troy was bound to fall, the first big MP3-sharing service was bound to be taken down by the RIAA. Still however, the Greek took Troy nontheless, it just took 'em a couple of years...
Has anyone ever looked into the effectiveness op pop-up advertisements? Is there any company that can say 'my revenues were up X% since we started advertising through pop-ups?' Same probably goes for spam. Are there any figures that show the effectiveness of spamming?
Maybe this is just too straightforward thinking, but how many time can you spend 1 dollar? In my opinion: Just Once. With all the budget in the world, you can't make me spend money I don't have. Still billions of dollars are being spent on advertisements that try just that. Isn't it time someone got a clue?
They'd like this. Digital is part of DRM, and DRM means no more videotaping a 10 year old movie on TV, so if you want to see it, it's another buck in Jack Valenti's pocket.
Mozilla 1.0 is 'getting there'. Support for flash / shockwave is decent. Frontpage-generated pages still distort often. Java works great (better than IE). At leasts it beats opera on stability and functionality, plus it's (banner)free.
With Linux, I guess it's your best choice, with Windows, frontpage makes the difference, not IE.
I don't see the logic behind sueing ISPs because the telco's failed to see there was 'another way' and paid a lot for those frequencies.
Besides, voice-communication is still very important, and possibly the killer-app for mobile devices. Since the datacom vendors still haven't created a standard for VoIP, a 802.11b appliance with voice communication enabled has to be a:) very proprietary and thus will not be likely to be very interoperable. b:) equipped with a UMTS interface
Besides that, I haven't looked into it recently, but probably the voice quality of VoIP won't be too good either...
So probably mobile appliances will need UMTS too be able to function as a phone.
It's quite clear. Someone has to pay the bills. Routers don't buy themselves, infrastructure doesn't just materialize. How many telecom/datacom companies have we seen go bankrupt in recent time? I've lost count.
In Holland, an ISP tried to gain revenue by giving out stock. Huge mistake. Stock devaluated rapidly, company bought by the Italians, not heard much of 'em since. A number of companies use 'creative accounting' to make things look better, but we've seen what that leads to.
Maybe it has something to do with scaling, and in a couple of years 4 out of 5 ISPs will have been weeded out, to leave a few strong, healthy ISPs. But right now, it doesn't seem like an ISP can live of the revenues of user accounts. Since no customer is very willing to pay twice/thrice the price he's paying allready, revenues must come from another direction.
So either the government must put up a program to help their people onto the net (but since India is not that rich, that's not likely), or the revenues must come from the other side of the line, the content providers.
But then again, how many content providers are able to cough up a bag of dollars/euros for every ISP in the world? Putting an extra strain on them will probably increase the amount of banners, popups and spam on the web.
If this system won't turn out to be so secure, who will take responsibility for 'stolen money'?
I won't care if anyone 0wns my hotmail account, and it's pretty hard still to express server downtime in dollars or euros, but money loss through cracked passport/creditcard systems will be. Who's going to take the responsibility if that happens? Visa, MS, or, most likely, the owner of the creditcard?
Guess I'll go back to paying in hard cash once more:(
I remember reading a memo from BG a while back, speaking about 'Trustworthy Computing'. Bill told everyone @ microsoft that the focus should not be on great user-friendly features, but on a trustworthy safe and reliable system.
The info about longhorn here once more speaks about features features and still some more features. The more user-friendly an OS is, the less the user (or administrator!) is going to care about securing his/her box. If the install is easy, flashy, and fully automated, the admin will be lured into a false sense of safety. Flashy features and lots of wizards might turn on this OS like it did on its predecessors.
I think you're right in this. A project manager should, in my opinion, be responsible for planning and control, and not for any tech-stuff. In my company, there is a group of persons that discusses with the customers about what they want, and what is possible. THAT's a point where tech-expertise is needen. When the specs are settled, it is handed over to a PM to make sure it gets implemented.
The fewer moving parts, the better. I haven't yet met a portable audio device that plays CD's and is shock-proof (even though they try very hard to convince you they are...) Probably the same for the portable video devices that will undoubtly emerge in the near future.
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If I might make a suggestion: Keep out anything that comes near VBScript, auto-rendering of e-mail, and other technologies that are easily misused by virus-builders. Outlook performs well enough as a groupware client, but its abundance of features are often used against it.
Evolution is also trying this, and they deliver Exchange connectivity. The KDE group is busy on a groupware solution, and it will shortly be released.
If you want to use Linux in an office environment, a groupware solution is a must-have. The more people who are working on this subject, the better, in my opinion....
They finally have proof that TOC with Windows is lower than with Linux :)
It also scattered the P2P-communitiy from 1 app to a lot of small app. Controlling Napster might have been a hell of a job, so they shut it down. Now they have to shut down about 10 P2P-networks, let alone think about controlling it...
They might argue that a cd delivers better audio quality. They might even have a point there. But why don't we use an equal system to reward artistic quality?
I will gladly reward an artist who puts his/her heart and soul into his/her music, but why should I pay for an untalented tart around whom a musical concept is worked out by a bunch of producers, and all she has to do walk around in ultra-short skirts?
The system as we know it is not supporting art, it's just supporting sales. The record industry has held a monopoly in creating professional sounding music and distributing it on a large scale, but today's technology allows everyone to do it him/herself.
Instead of trying to break the RIAA, maybe we should just ignore them. Let the little kids have their Britney Spears and NSync, let the real artist create their music in an atmosphere which supports creativity, and use the internet for distribution.
It would make scamming even more easy. Receive both the goods AND the money...
I don't think that would solve the problem. I know of a scam where people would get a phonecall where somebody would claim to work for a bank, and ask them their PIN-code (4-digit auth. code for ATM-machines...), because some administrative error had occurred. A lot of people fell for it because the guy sounded sincere, or make up your own excuse here...
It's easy to trick people into doing stuff like this. If John Doe had recently transferred a large amount of money to a 'known good' escrow service, and he received a call from that escrow service, or his bank that something had gone wrong during the transaction, and please could he send the money again, how big do you think the chance is that he actually would?
It all comes down to the amount of trust you can generate with the person whose money you're trying to steal. Claiming to be calling on behalve of eBays Escrow service will probably give you a head start.
Even though we're a Tru64 shop here, I have Linux running on an Alpha at work. It's 'barely legal'.
I still must see what I can actually do with it, cause I can't officially devote time to it.
But since HP is doing it's very best to put Tru64 Unix away as fast as possible, (nowadays, that OS has lifecycles which are half that of OSses from Redmont...) Linux might just be a good alternative to use on our huge pile of Big-ass alpha's once they're through... (They'll probably be done with it in about 2 years time...)
Since a lot of politicians depend on 'supportive' parties for "$$$MONEY!!!$$$", i guess this shed some light in modern politics :)
Just like the first Greek to leave ship at Troy was bound to fall, the first big MP3-sharing service was bound to be taken down by the RIAA.
Still however, the Greek took Troy nontheless, it just took 'em a couple of years...
It would be a walking distance from my house.
Has anyone ever looked into the effectiveness op pop-up advertisements? Is there any company that can say 'my revenues were up X% since we started advertising through pop-ups?'
Same probably goes for spam. Are there any figures that show the effectiveness of spamming?
Maybe this is just too straightforward thinking, but how many time can you spend 1 dollar? In my opinion: Just Once. With all the budget in the world, you can't make me spend money I don't have.
Still billions of dollars are being spent on advertisements that try just that. Isn't it time someone got a clue?
They'd like this. Digital is part of DRM, and DRM means no more videotaping a 10 year old movie on TV, so if you want to see it, it's another buck in Jack Valenti's pocket.
Mozilla 1.0 is 'getting there'.
Support for flash / shockwave is decent.
Frontpage-generated pages still distort often.
Java works great (better than IE).
At leasts it beats opera on stability and functionality, plus it's (banner)free.
With Linux, I guess it's your best choice, with Windows, frontpage makes the difference, not IE.
I don't see the logic behind sueing ISPs because the telco's failed to see there was 'another way' and paid a lot for those frequencies.
Besides, voice-communication is still very important, and possibly the killer-app for mobile devices. Since the datacom vendors still haven't created a standard for VoIP, a 802.11b appliance with voice communication enabled has to be
a:) very proprietary and thus will not be likely to be very interoperable.
b:) equipped with a UMTS interface
Besides that, I haven't looked into it recently, but probably the voice quality of VoIP won't be too good either...
So probably mobile appliances will need UMTS too be able to function as a phone.
My provider offers DSL modems with wireless interface. They won't be bothered too much about it.
As long as nobody is spamming or cracking through it of course...
It's quite clear. Someone has to pay the bills. Routers don't buy themselves, infrastructure doesn't just materialize.
How many telecom/datacom companies have we seen go bankrupt in recent time? I've lost count.
In Holland, an ISP tried to gain revenue by giving out stock. Huge mistake. Stock devaluated rapidly, company bought by the Italians, not heard much of 'em since.
A number of companies use 'creative accounting' to make things look better, but we've seen what that leads to.
Maybe it has something to do with scaling, and in a couple of years 4 out of 5 ISPs will have been weeded out, to leave a few strong, healthy ISPs. But right now, it doesn't seem like an ISP can live of the revenues of user accounts.
Since no customer is very willing to pay twice/thrice the price he's paying allready, revenues must come from another direction.
So either the government must put up a program to help their people onto the net (but since India is not that rich, that's not likely), or the revenues must come from the other side of the line, the content providers.
But then again, how many content providers are able to cough up a bag of dollars/euros for every ISP in the world? Putting an extra strain on them will probably increase the amount of banners, popups and spam on the web.
I think it's a bad idea.
If this system won't turn out to be so secure, who will take responsibility for 'stolen money'?
:(
I won't care if anyone 0wns my hotmail account, and it's pretty hard still to express server downtime in dollars or euros, but money loss through cracked passport/creditcard systems will be. Who's going to take the responsibility if that happens?
Visa, MS, or, most likely, the owner of the creditcard?
Guess I'll go back to paying in hard cash once more
The Hives allready did this.
Listen to their album 'Veni Vidi Vicious' and behold:
The Hives... Introduce the metric system in time.
I remember reading a memo from BG a while back, speaking about 'Trustworthy Computing'. Bill told everyone @ microsoft that the focus should not be on great user-friendly features, but on a trustworthy safe and reliable system.
The info about longhorn here once more speaks about features features and still some more features. The more user-friendly an OS is, the less the user (or administrator!) is going to care about securing his/her box. If the install is easy, flashy, and fully automated, the admin will be lured into a false sense of safety.
Flashy features and lots of wizards might turn on this OS like it did on its predecessors.
I think you're right in this. A project manager should, in my opinion, be responsible for planning and control, and not for any tech-stuff.
In my company, there is a group of persons that discusses with the customers about what they want, and what is possible. THAT's a point where tech-expertise is needen. When the specs are settled, it is handed over to a PM to make sure it gets implemented.
The fewer moving parts, the better.
I haven't yet met a portable audio device that plays CD's and is shock-proof (even though they try very hard to convince you they are...)
Probably the same for the portable video devices that will undoubtly emerge in the near future.
Too bad the 'game' didn't really give me any background info.
"I might have infringed copyrights." What if I did?
Are they coming to get me now?
Did it ever occur to him to free his robot brethren? /really/ scary...
If that were the case, it would be
Telepathically? That would raise a privacy-issue I think...