The reason RIM has the business market is that they have features which mate it scalable for the enterprise, every other player hasn't matched features for that target market.
The ability to brick lost phones, encrypt contents, apply IT security profiles, provision remotely over the air, sync to the server to make the hand-held expendable, data modem for the laptop, etc. And there are apps for the BB for many major ERP and sales tools. The key business integrations for the road warrior are already there.
I think the iPhone et al are cool as a *personal* tool/toy but more often than not, they don't scale into a company where protection of IP and low TCO are mandated. For your personal use, you can absorb all the geekiness you want because the support required starts and ends with yourself.
Try to deploy 1000 iPhones in a company and you're going to hemorrhage money.
RIM isn't as sexy but it's a stable, known, scalable, and for the most part, secure solution.
The point on making the f/w an appliance is that it has a predictable operating profile and known MTBF and reliability.
By opening it up as an app server, you're encouraging turning your key gateway security device into a one-off, unique, unpredictable infrastructure component.
I no longer participate in this nonsense -- pulled the pay TV plug 3 year ago, haven't looked back. I just watch DVDs or subscribe via iTunes. Given the quality of broadcast/pay TV, I'm not missing out on much I can't consume later.
Any musician will tell you that practice makes *permanent*.
If you learn to do something the wrong way, you will ingrain it incorrectly. It's critical to have any behavior corrected before any lengthy repetition occurs.
I had given up on using BT for Linux ISO transfers as they would take me down to 33KB/s no matter my encryption settings. After trying Deluge, I saw full-pipe transfers at 500 KB/s. Succes! (Or so I thought.)
I retryind Azureus and it too was showing full speeds -- even with crypto disabled.
Methinks Comcrap has learned a lesson. I was about to leave them for an ADSL provider or until AT&T gets their fiber to my door (it's underway in my alley).
"I'm tired of IT thinking they know more about my job,"
I'm tired of random people who think they're IT experts because they installed Quickbooks once. Most non-IT people are marketing tools who blindly listen to product marketing sales collateral and think technology will solve all their problems.
Suckers.
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So in your world there is no standardization. Every manufacturer can define common items as they wish: electrical plugs size, light sockets, tire sizes and mounting geometry -- in other words: chaos.
Look at the idiocy due to lack of mobile phone and laptop battery formats vs the benefit of standard sizes (A, AA, AAA, C, D, etc.).
Imagine if every state had its own set of standards so that you'd need a travel adapter for each state. Insanity.
There needs to be an independent standards body where both industry and consumers can find common ground.
VMs are perfect for low bandwidth task which would otherwise have to take up their own box (web-hosting small domains for example). If you're trying to use VMs as a high-performance file server, you've chosen a path of pain.
Also any memory intensive task will have severe performance impacts. ESX's virtualization of the MMU adds 35% overhead and in some cases causes tasks to take twice as long opposed to raw h/w. As with all vendors, don't believe the marketing hype but test and benchmark before deployment on ALL solutions.
Why is it that if someone had a severe spinal injury which caused them to limp or drag their leg behind them evokes sympathy and potentially assistance on the street but if the brain is involved, where behavior suddenly changes involuntarily, they can be mocked and ridiculed in public?
Have some respect and sympathy for a person going through a very difficult time.
NTP can handle lag to refine the local clock setting but what time standard will Mars adopt?
I can see treating the whole planet as GMT then having some local time standard for min/hrs/days/years and having the local o/s translate GMT into the local standard.
The story goes on to say that many of the artists featured on the mixtapes would never have had the exposure and thus sales they had if DJ Drama had not featured them on a mix. Then play by the rules and get a release beforehand.
Nowhere is a specific artist mentioned who claims to have been wronged by him. Additionally, the article states that mixtapes such as those made by DJ Drama are an accepted and integral part of rap music culture. So is violence and mysogeny, so that makes it OK because of it's "part of the culture".
They had to do business under the rules set down by the government in that country. The alternative was to not do business in China and let some other company do it, gain market share, and dilute Google's position.
If you haven't noticed, Communist regimes tend to crumble when they loose their grip on information and a middle-class develops -- Google being in China only accelerates the eventual slide from power.
"This is an effort by a company to lock its customers into its product artificially rather than creating a product that competes on actual features/support etc.."
Trek across desert on camel-back: $2500 Renting dragons from charter service: $8000 + flight insurance $100 Lodging (castle): $200/knight Medical: Various spells: $1500 + $10 copay each visit
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The reason RIM has the business market is that they have features which mate it scalable for the enterprise, every other player hasn't matched features for that target market.
The ability to brick lost phones, encrypt contents, apply IT security profiles, provision remotely over the air, sync to the server to make the hand-held expendable, data modem for the laptop, etc. And there are apps for the BB for many major ERP and sales tools. The key business integrations for the road warrior are already there.
I think the iPhone et al are cool as a *personal* tool/toy but more often than not, they don't scale into a company where protection of IP and low TCO are mandated. For your personal use, you can absorb all the geekiness you want because the support required starts and ends with yourself.
Try to deploy 1000 iPhones in a company and you're going to hemorrhage money.
RIM isn't as sexy but it's a stable, known, scalable, and for the most part, secure solution.
The point on making the f/w an appliance is that it has a predictable operating profile and known MTBF and reliability.
By opening it up as an app server, you're encouraging turning your key gateway security device into a one-off, unique, unpredictable infrastructure component.
I no longer participate in this nonsense -- pulled the pay TV plug 3 year ago, haven't looked back. I just watch DVDs or subscribe via iTunes. Given the quality of broadcast/pay TV, I'm not missing out on much I can't consume later.
Any musician will tell you that practice makes *permanent*.
If you learn to do something the wrong way, you will ingrain it incorrectly. It's critical to have any behavior corrected before any lengthy repetition occurs.
I blame Lou.
I had given up on using BT for Linux ISO transfers as they would take me down to 33KB/s no matter my encryption settings. After trying Deluge, I saw full-pipe transfers at 500 KB/s. Succes! (Or so I thought.)
I retryind Azureus and it too was showing full speeds -- even with crypto disabled.
Methinks Comcrap has learned a lesson. I was about to leave them for an ADSL provider or until AT&T gets their fiber to my door (it's underway in my alley).
Another device to assist the abdication of personal responsibility and proficiency.
If you didn't buy an unmanageable hulk of a car, you wouldn't need this.
"I'm tired of IT thinking they know more about my job,"
I'm tired of random people who think they're IT experts because they installed Quickbooks once. Most non-IT people are marketing tools who blindly listen to product marketing sales collateral and think technology will solve all their problems.
Suckers.
Avenue Q FTW!
So in your world there is no standardization. Every manufacturer can define common items as they wish: electrical plugs size, light sockets, tire sizes and mounting geometry -- in other words: chaos.
Look at the idiocy due to lack of mobile phone and laptop battery formats vs the benefit of standard sizes (A, AA, AAA, C, D, etc.).
Imagine if every state had its own set of standards so that you'd need a travel adapter for each state. Insanity.
There needs to be an independent standards body where both industry and consumers can find common ground.
Why does Microsoft hate 7/11?
I loved him on Gilligan's Island. /git of my lawn
VMs are perfect for low bandwidth task which would otherwise have to take up their own box (web-hosting small domains for example). If you're trying to use VMs as a high-performance file server, you've chosen a path of pain.
Also any memory intensive task will have severe performance impacts. ESX's virtualization of the MMU adds 35% overhead and in some cases causes tasks to take twice as long opposed to raw h/w. As with all vendors, don't believe the marketing hype but test and benchmark before deployment on ALL solutions.
Why is it that if someone had a severe spinal injury which caused them to limp or drag their leg behind them evokes sympathy and potentially assistance on the street but if the brain is involved, where behavior suddenly changes involuntarily, they can be mocked and ridiculed in public?
Have some respect and sympathy for a person going through a very difficult time.
Surrender?
NTP can handle lag to refine the local clock setting but what time standard will Mars adopt?
I can see treating the whole planet as GMT then having some local time standard for min/hrs/days/years and having the local o/s translate GMT into the local standard.
Will there be DST?
So is contempt of count.
Knowingly withholding subpoenaed documents is not a good game to play unless you want to be married to Bubba to get cigarettes.
Cue the "We're in UR stencils, stealin UR photons." cat pic.
"Scientists have devised numerous possible explanations, including mini black holes left over from the Big Bang"
I want their names -- show me a scientist who would publicly postulate this.
That about sums it up then. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Give me a break.
They had to do business under the rules set down by the government in that country. The alternative was to not do business in China and let some other company do it, gain market share, and dilute Google's position.
If you haven't noticed, Communist regimes tend to crumble when they loose their grip on information and a middle-class develops -- Google being in China only accelerates the eventual slide from power.
"This is an effort by a company to lock its customers into its product artificially rather than creating a product that competes on actual features/support etc.."
You mean like iTunes and iPod?
If you keep repeating something as true, it becomes true despite what actually transpired.
File business expenses against the income.
Trek across desert on camel-back: $2500
Renting dragons from charter service: $8000 + flight insurance $100
Lodging (castle): $200/knight
Medical: Various spells: $1500 + $10 copay each visit
Problem solved.