People who've had their identity stolen because of a rootkit exploit installed by sony will no doubt be very happy to hear that all their woes can be solved by downloading sony's crapmedia.
I can't comment on your precise situation, but I can imagine this happening:
In urban centers, if people getty crappy DSL/Cable Internet service, someone WILL come along with WiMax to offer an alternative.
If your phone company/cable company offer voip services, then that might become a problem:
Most of your calls are probably local, that means that using WiMax and mesh routing, your calls won't even GET to the second-tier ISP; they're cut right out of the picture.
When people start taking advantage of that, how long will it be before the ISPs smarten-up?
Then you repeat the process until your ISP tells HIS downstream ISP provider that their service is unaceptable and finds a different provider. I'm not going to let any ISP hold me hostage. The important thing is to be clear in your communications with your ISP, just cancelling your service with telling them why you are leaving is boneheaded. If enough people simply reject their offerings, they will scramble to provide better service or someone else will. It's the Wal-Mart supplier philosophy with the roles reversed...
Ever heard of WiMax? It won't take long for someone to come along and offer the disgruntled clients a better solution/deal. Protectionism and other artificial methods never win in the long run.
It's like cellular phone contracts, I signed mine a long time ago and have a very good rate, which DOESN'T include lots of the new service fees.
However, if I ever want to change my phone for a newer model, my contract will not be renewable.
I found this out the other day.
When the salesman asked "so what model do you want?", I replied, "never mind - I'll go to your competitor and see if they have a better deal or I'll cancel my service if they don't"
Granted, most people will groan a little and bite the bullet, but I feel we have more options today, and the only way to ensure that is by either boycotting, cancelling or changing providers.
Brilliant. Thank you. No sarcasm here. That really was both enlightening and informative, you really DID answer my question. I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft, but all the advances you mentioned are good news; they'll be addressed by Java and other competitors, no doubt, and that will be good for everyone. Great analysis and thanks again.
If there really was Pangea millenia ago, then it looks like the same thing happened at the Strait of Gibraltar to first fill the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Agean seas...
>It would be the same way for any other OS if it where the dominate. Linux, etc. would have had the same problem if it had made it to the top of the food chain.
There would be more blackhats gunning for it, yes, but they'd have to make do with exploits:
As it is now, Windows is unusable unless your user is an administrator, so a virus only has to find a user ignorant enough to answer "Yes" to letting it run.
On *nix, even if the user runs the trojan, it can't infect the whole system unless it has privilege-escalation mechanism built-in.
It frightens me that Microsoft has suceeded so well with their shoddy products that we all think that having to run a spyware tool is normal. It is NOT normal to have to do this.
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> "I am as constant as the Northern Star." Always though Caesar was a little unstable and went round and round in circles....
;-)
constantly?
*wipes tears away from eyes*
You can have C++ when you pry it from my dead, cold hands.
People who've had their identity stolen because of a rootkit exploit installed by sony will no doubt be very happy to hear that all their woes can be solved by downloading sony's crapmedia.
Sounds like a half-baked Star Trek explanation.
Just doesn't sound realistic to me.
YMMV
>our only hope is that some of the leaders of our virtual world (Bezos, Carmack, Allen) are also the pioneers of space exploration.
;-)o me
You mean John Carmack is the evolutionary next-step then
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/H
There were articles recently mentioning that Kingdom Hearts would have environments like the movie Tron.
Whatever became of that?
>all my work computers are Mac's.
Ask you boss to get you your own computer and stop using Mac's.
Good for Australia.
is not to play
I can't comment on your precise situation, but I can imagine this happening:
In urban centers, if people getty crappy DSL/Cable Internet service, someone WILL come along with WiMax to offer an alternative.
If your phone company/cable company offer voip services, then that might become a problem:
Most of your calls are probably local, that means that using WiMax and mesh routing, your calls won't even GET to the second-tier ISP; they're cut right out of the picture.
When people start taking advantage of that, how long will it be before the ISPs smarten-up?
Then you repeat the process until your ISP tells HIS downstream ISP provider that their service is unaceptable and finds a different provider.
I'm not going to let any ISP hold me hostage.
The important thing is to be clear in your communications with your ISP, just cancelling your service with telling them why you are leaving is boneheaded.
If enough people simply reject their offerings, they will scramble to provide better service or someone else will.
It's the Wal-Mart supplier philosophy with the roles reversed...
Ever heard of WiMax?
It won't take long for someone to come along and offer the disgruntled clients a better solution/deal.
Protectionism and other artificial methods never win in the long run.
That is true.
But they generally can't just spring it on you:
It's like cellular phone contracts, I signed mine a long time ago and have a very good rate, which DOESN'T include lots of the new service fees.
However, if I ever want to change my phone for a newer model, my contract will not be renewable.
I found this out the other day.
When the salesman asked "so what model do you want?", I replied, "never mind - I'll go to your competitor and see if they have a better deal or I'll cancel my service if they don't"
Granted, most people will groan a little and bite the bullet, but I feel we have more options today, and the only way to ensure that is by either boycotting, cancelling or changing providers.
As soon as I figure out what a "Linup" is...
If your ISP does this, find a better ISP, cancel your subscription with the former.
When ISPs get enough of it, they'll come around
I think we have to look at the more likely application: Detection of thoughtcrime!
Many cars heat the passengers by using the excess heat drawn away from the engine.
So I expect that the added efficiency in such a situation would be closer to 0%
I keed, I keed...
Brilliant. Thank you. No sarcasm here.
That really was both enlightening and informative, you really DID answer my question.
I'm certainly no fan of Microsoft, but all the advances you mentioned are good news; they'll be addressed by Java and other competitors, no doubt, and that will be good for everyone.
Great analysis and thanks again.
Can someone explain to me how .NET is so fundamentally different from Java that it could escape Java's fate?
.NET (C# really) just a Java rip-off?
.NET more attractive?
Isn't
I mean really, not long after MS dropped Java, C# "popped up"
It's clear that C# is only a repackaging of Java, why should its fate be any different?
What makes
I was just about to order my own gravity generator, but your post had enough gravity that it would be redundant now...
If there really was Pangea millenia ago, then it looks like the same thing happened at the Strait of Gibraltar to first fill the Mediterranean, Adriatic and Agean seas...
It looks a lot like the Bosporus.
>It would be the same way for any other OS if it where the dominate. Linux, etc. would have had the same problem if it had made it to the top of the food chain.
There would be more blackhats gunning for it, yes, but they'd have to make do with exploits:
As it is now, Windows is unusable unless your user is an administrator, so a virus only has to find a user ignorant enough to answer "Yes" to letting it run.
On *nix, even if the user runs the trojan, it can't infect the whole system unless it has privilege-escalation mechanism built-in.
On Windows, all the user need do is click "Yes"
It frightens me that Microsoft has suceeded so well with their shoddy products that we all think that having to run a spyware tool is normal.
It is NOT normal to have to do this.
I've looked over your post history and I think you're misunderstood.
You aren't a troll, you're hilarious!
Welcome, welcome.