I don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to work with the woz. Even though the woz has said his post plane-crash self wasn't as sharp, he's still a brilliant engineer. Wireless devices are useful, but only coupled with GPS and accurate location data. It's too bad the carriers are purposely holding that up. If the woz can manage to integrate a gps unit with the device and have it be under 200, he just might have a chance.
The article was good with all it's warts and gems. I take it more as a testament to the human spirit. I seriously doubt it's the largest database, though it might be the largest publicly accessible database. I'm sure the NSA could easily dwarf their database considering how much data they collect from around the world every day.
I consider multimillionaires rich and those who actually have to work to pay bills poor.
If the "poor" were day trading IPOs then they deserved it.
I consider those foolish. Any person got burned day trading let their own greed get the best of them. The people who made out are investors with millions in their portfolio. Most trading firms allow their "biggest" investor to jump in on hot deals. I know a few people (2) who are worth over 200 million and have the ability to buy two 800K dollar houses with cash. For some one like that, throwing down 1-2 million really is pocket change. The company did get screwed and so did a lot of other people. Money is the grease in the gears of greed:)
Ok, aside from all the jokes and "oh no, not another sequel." SS and HF both have pretty good track record over the last 2 decades. I seriously doubt it will be aweful. The chances it will be good is any body's guess, but there's a good chance it will be entertaining. As HF has said in the past, he wants to play an old Indy and pass the torch to some one else. In one of the E interviews, I remember HF saying "I would hope the character has more than just action, that he can age gracefully." That was a response to "will you do another IJ movie?"
Probably only HF and SS know who are the likely candidates to take the torch. I for one look forward to it. Except for IJ: temple of doom, the IJ series were great fun and had good character development.
Maybe I'm totally off the planet here, but here is an idea. Maybe XP is selling so bad, they are using the free CD give away to artificially increase the number of installed XP. There by creating the impression people are buying XP and bolster their image.
Hardware manufacturers aren't pushing IPv6, since the customers (Telco's) don't want it. It's a nice and convienant excuse. Telco say "there isn't hardware." Cisco, lucent and nortel say "there isn't enough demand." If ATT were to say "we are converting our network to IPv6 effective immediately." would the other telco's follow?
Oh well, established companies will only change when threatened by competitors or a crippling attack.
Really, for how many years have those of privledge misused their position to screw the poor just a bit more. Sure the stock brockers made a little money, the company made a lot of money and the rich made some nice play money. That 100million dollar fine is only for appearances, so chalk it up to the rich get richer and the poor get the shaft.
I don't know much about building a cluster, but I thought one of the limiting factors of clusters is network latency. If they have it all on the same motherboard, or designed their own bridge to connect multiple CPU/MB, it would be faster right?
By the fact that they are all incased in the same box, rather than connected via a switch, it has less distance to travel. I don't know that 5 feet of CAT5 could make that big of a difference. On the otherhand, they could have designed a different way of bridging the systems and dramatically reduce latency. In either case, it is intriguing.
Well just because it's a law, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. The information comes from a reliable friend who does not exaggerate. The programmers were making between 30-45K in a major metropolitan where the average is up around 75-85. Getting paid 1/4 does happen, although rare. You have to remember these people are desparate, so they'll take anything for the chance at a better life. If you grew up in a shack that was 30'x30', getting 30K a year would be a god send.
And actually, the company did hold the contractors passports and used the excuse "we're acting as a security deposit box" for the contractors. Yes, it is totally illegal, but since when has that stopped companies from abusing people. Get real, a percentage of the clothes people buy are still manufactured in sweat shops. Actually I do know people who had 1 job their whole life. It's rare, but it does happen. I've met plenty of people who stayed at a job for 25+ years, though half of them are teachers who taught at the same school since they were 23 and now are in their late 50's.
According to the article, the attack was been going on for a couple weeks. Part of me finds this very disturbing and alarming. Considering how many times IPv6 has been posted on/. and the possibility of mediating the problem of distributed denial of service attacks with the new features of IPv6, why hasn't adoption been more rapid? If a group of vandals can bring down an ISP, what's to stop them from repeating it?
Now that the Internet has shown to be a useful medium and is rapidly becoming an utility, it's time to make it more secure and robust against DDos attacks. The technology exist already, the telco's need to take the initiative and make it happen. From this document on ietf.org site:
7. Security consideration
Any public proxy is inherently a source of DOS attack. Rate limiting packet emission as suggested in 3.5 is expected to lower the risks.
I've heard horror stories from friends. One in particular has to do with foriegn programmers who are brought in with work visas. The hiring company holds both the visa and their passport. The programmers are threaten that if they don't work 12hrs a day, they'll be sent back. Typically, the programmers are paid 1/4-1/2 the wages of a citizen. High tech is not immuned to slave labor practices and mentality. The whole idea of staying with a company for 50-60 years doesn't exist anymore. Although some companies use it as a selling point in their recruiting, most companies have a policy that dedicate the opposite. Now more than ever, intelligence is necessary for steady employment.
Perhaps a good related article would be, "how to negotiate with your PM or CTO." Even if one is forced to use lesser tools, some of tips do apply. One in particular was:
They do advocate leaving out the bells, whistles, and features you don't need and add them later, if a real need is demonstrated. And that's incredibly important, because you can always add a feature, but you can never take it out. Once a feature is there, you can't say, sorry, we screwed up, we want to take it out because other code now depends on it. People will scream. So, when in doubt, leave it out.
I know that sometimes I am tempted to add x feature to the interface/code, because I think in 2 months the need for it will arise. Sometimes what I predict doesn't pan out. The lessons Joshua relates is very applicable in every day programming. Even if you use functional languages, the same challenges are there and the lessons can be beneficial. It's not always going to be useful, but it can be. It's up to each developer to make the effort. Sometimes you have no choice, but when you do have time, it's worth the trouble to take a minute to think a design/API through.
Here is what I know about GPS and cell phones. It may not be the most up to date.
e911 - law passed requiring carriers to have the ability to determine the location of a cell caller for emergency purposes.
currently most carriers use SignalSoft's equipment to determine the location based on the three closest tower otherwise known as MSC (Moble switching center) to perform standard triangulation based on angle of arrival or arch of arrival
TDMA, GSM and CDMA networks all define location tracking in their protocol, since it has to know how to pass off the signal to the tower with the clearest signal
All Towers are already geocoded (ie have it's long/lat coordinate)
not all carriers programmed their gear with the long/lat. example is sprintpcs network has it programmed in the east coast, but not the west coast
most manufacturers, like Ericcson, Nokia, Qualcomm are integrating GPS processors into their chipset
The average distance between towers is 5 miles. Depending on the terrain and population density, it could be more or less. This fact limits the accuracy of cell based determination. Because of the frequency, most cell signals have a hard time penetrating metal.
several companies have done tests using a combination of cell and gps to improve accuracy
in 2000 the government reduced the blocking on gps accuracy
Most phones sold today do not have GPS built in, but rather because all towers are geocoded and the tower keeps track of the phone, you can get decent location determination.
My knowledge is limited, but some thoughts..
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From my understanding of DWDM, optical equipment and sonet, hyperchip sounds interesting. If I am reading the articles and hyperchip's whitepaper correctly, what they have done is two fold:
create chipset that will allow for a greater number of ports, thereby increasing the limit of data sent down one optical trunk
design a different network architecture, which is point to point, rather than a ring. This has two benefits. 1. is there are fewer hops between backbone points. 2. the data is placed on the wavelength of the destination, therefore reducing latency and O-E-O conversion
Realistically, it will take a good 8-10 years to deploy this kind of technology for several reasons. Most telco's current use sonet architecture, and running new fiber between the major routing points takes time. Now of course there may already be some fiber laid by Quest or Level3, which the telco's can lease. But changing the entire architecture of the network isn't a trivial thing. Even though hyperchip can build the router, it is likely the actual speeds are far lower than Petabit. Plus, routing traffic at a rate exponentially faster than the rest of the system creates a different set of problems.
On the financial side, telco's have already placed orders for hardware and probably won't place orders for petabit routers for atleast another 4-6 years. It takes a tremendous amount of work, fine tuning and maintenance to keep the backbone operating reliably and efficiently. A more fruitful area of research today is intelligent routers, and routing software. We can only go so far with the hardware approach to network congestion. At some point, the network needs to be smarter to alleviate packet corruption and other related issues.
The only answer to that is live in china for a few years and you'll know first hand. A decent substitute to living in china for 10 years is watch about 100 chinese movies, learning chinese and immersing yourself in the local china town. Some good movies on the "People's revolution" and chinese history are:
farewell my concubine
to live
Qui Ju
life on a string
raise the red lantern
red firecracker, green firecracker
raise the red lantern
Historically, most of the people have been poor. All the way from Ching dynasty to the present. I doubt having bugs in the plane will really create additional problems as the article stated. Both government already expect this kind of behavior. They're simply using it to embarras Bush and the administration.
china, taiwan, thailand and the rest of asia will have to change and adjust, but I doubt it will happen over night like Adobe wants. China has been very slow to change, since the government isn't about to roll over considering it has fought so hard to stay in power.
How in the world are people supposed to have faith or trust the government, when it rolls over college students with tanks. Taiwan is not communist, but piracy is still pretty bad. On the other hand, Taiwan is more wealthy and has been playing in world economics for a while.
I don't like either extremes and think they are both unproductive. There has to be a balance between protecting a companies investments and rights of a consumer. Protecting a companies investments doesn't necessarily mean laws or copyright. There can be other forms producer/consumer relationship that doesn't require the explicit agreement that one body controls intellectual property. Difficult cultural problems require creative thinking, that requires both sides go beyond what they are comfortable with. Without understanding each other, negotiations will never have any weight, nor will they provide any benefit to either party.
Anyone that wants to get into the chinese market needs to learn one thing from the start. The idea of IP and copyright in chinese is non-existent. Pure and simple, chinese business operate on relationships and respect. American businesses have a hard time understanding it. When american companies sign contracts with Asian companies they don't realize that contract means squat. There a saying in chinese about doing business "just because a contract is signed, doesn't mean negotiations on the contract are finished."
In most cases, a handshake means more than a contract. Contracts in china are worth S_ _T. The government isn't going to enforce a law the entire country percieves as stupid. The chinese culture believes in practicality and utility. Take the phrase "Kung-fu". It isn't just martial arts. The phrase is applied to anyone who has refined/exceptional skill and strong work ethic. A businessman can be said to have "kung-fu" in the art of negotiation. A teacher can have "kung-fu" in inspiring students.
Adobe needs to first learn about the culture and understand it before they try to dictate how chinese people should behave. Chinese are very proud of the culture, history and tradition. No self respecting chinese is going to roll over just because adobe says so.
IMO the biggest reason M$'s share price has not rebounded (and is still hovering at about $60 and hasn't split in ages) is NOT because of ongoing fear about M$'s future under the DoJ's eye, but because subscription licensing, WPA, the overblown cost to value ratio for WinXP, and similar bullshit, have degraded the value of M$ where the real money is, in the corporate purchasing dept.
You're probably close to truth than MS would like to admit. Of course I was just guessing that's what the execs are thinking when they say "maximize shareholder value." I don't agree with that way of thinking, but it's possible that's how steve ballmer sees it. Alot of tech sectors see faster cycles as a way to increase revenues, be it good or bad. I've heard more than one business development director make that kind of statement and say it's modeled after MS. Now whether that is true or not is a different story. Don't quote me on it, but I remember past interviews with gates and ballmer that expressed that sentiment. In a couple interviews about XP, gates and ballmer gave their reasons were "it makes updates more incremental and allow us to get out newer releases faster (ie more revenue)."
According to our judicial system, a criminal gets double the sentence for theft than for murder. Think about this for a second.
If a person robs a bank, they will probably serve from 8-20 years in prison where as a murder will get 2-4 with good behavior. Now it's not that the US government has any against other countries. It's because the government doesn't care about lives of any kind. No government for that matter cares more about an individual than sustaining the government. From governments view, a few losses here or there is good, because it's "natural".
Even though we have a bill of rights, it's more like bill of sales. It is only important in that people can sell their rights for profit, or I could by cynical.
well if you live in CA the average life span of a car is 2-4 years, but in other parts of the country, people keep cars for 10-20 yrs. It all depends on where you live:). I've had the same truck for 10 years now and plan on driving it to the ground, so I personally would like bearing that can last more than 5-10 years.
Relating it back to MS new licensing, some people do get new machines every 8-10 months, so there are people who don't mind the new licensing model. On the other hand there are those with 486 still and don't really care to change. Heck in 97 I had a friend who was still using a IBM 286 until the hard drive controller died. He wanted to keep using it, but he couldn't find a replace controller or the software for it. Under MS new leasing plan, my friend absolutely has to get a whole new system, even if some one was willing to sell him the parts and software.
I don't remember the article exactly, since it was a long time ago, but it didn't cost honda more to produce the better bearings.
As the new scientist article stated at the end, "there are other ways." If the government has learned anything from current events is High Tech is useless when dealing with people who only trust those they know. As as the article said, "not using strong encryption just makes it easier" for bad people to exploit businesses.
Considering how much planning and communication had to take place for 9/11 to happen, we only have a video tape and a few files? Sounds like the low tech method works better for keeping things under raps. Is a computer isn't going to commit suicide if the FBI catches it (well I suppose you could boobie trap it). A terrorist on the otherhand can mislead, or commit suicide. The only thing weak encryption does is make businesses more vulnerable to government snooping and crackers. Plus the government can use things like a warrant to get access. Oh I forgot they hate having to ask judges for warrants and answering questions like "do you have sufficient proof or cause?"
HP started doing something completely different and lastest this long because the founders built a great company through years of hard work. Now CF has managed to take a great company and severely weaken it. That is a real shame and tragedy.
Then again, it could be part of the normal cycle and HP may survive this one and boot her out. I hope HP does not get rid of their PC division or their printer division. I love HP printers and have never had problems with them. I've had plenty of other printers that plain old suck and didn't work right. After getting a HP printer, I never looked back.
Who really knows what CF is talking about. It could be real or just political maneuvering. In either case, sounds like Ego is in play. I hope she retires, or works in some other field.
As some people know, the subject is a core value of Microsoft. Not "build quality software, provide the highest value to the customer, revolutionize the world." That type of core value will only get a company so far, because at some point, maximizing share holder value is in opposition to the long term health of the company.
Because microsoft measures value based on increasing revenues each year, maximizing share holder value means shorten the product cycle from 2-4 years to 1 year. From a share holder perspective, it's great. A rapid product cycle is a good thing for share holders because it means you're getting more repeat business more frequently.
From a user perspective, a certain level of product stability is necessary to create a sense of value and reliability. If the product cycles at a faster rate the customer is comfortable with, the company begins to loose business. Think of a can opener. What if every can opener was only good for 10 uses and it would break. No one would buy can goods or can openers. Food manufacturers would use some other container, like a jar instead of cans. It doesn't matter if the can opener is only 2.00. No one wants to buy a new can opener every week.
Microsoft is not immuned to the same market principles. Making a product too good or really poor isn't good for the company, consumers or the economy. Back in the 80's Honda found a good way to make bearings in such a way that they would last 30-50 years. Well guess what. Honda stopped using them in cars because they were too good. Using those bearings in cars made them way too reliable and was hurting replacement parts sales. There has to be some middle ground where corporate and consumer needs are in balance.
Microsoft may or may not realize it before it is too late.
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I don't know about anyone else, but I'd love to work with the woz. Even though the woz has said his post plane-crash self wasn't as sharp, he's still a brilliant engineer. Wireless devices are useful, but only coupled with GPS and accurate location data. It's too bad the carriers are purposely holding that up. If the woz can manage to integrate a gps unit with the device and have it be under 200, he just might have a chance.
The article was good with all it's warts and gems. I take it more as a testament to the human spirit. I seriously doubt it's the largest database, though it might be the largest publicly accessible database. I'm sure the NSA could easily dwarf their database considering how much data they collect from around the world every day.
If the "poor" were day trading IPOs then they deserved it.
I consider those foolish. Any person got burned day trading let their own greed get the best of them. The people who made out are investors with millions in their portfolio. Most trading firms allow their "biggest" investor to jump in on hot deals. I know a few people (2) who are worth over 200 million and have the ability to buy two 800K dollar houses with cash. For some one like that, throwing down 1-2 million really is pocket change. The company did get screwed and so did a lot of other people. Money is the grease in the gears of greed :)
Probably only HF and SS know who are the likely candidates to take the torch. I for one look forward to it. Except for IJ: temple of doom, the IJ series were great fun and had good character development.
If memory serves me correctly, the cup only works in the temple. When they tried to remove it, the whole place fell apart remember?
I could be just too cynical
Oh well, established companies will only change when threatened by competitors or a crippling attack.
The only gold rush is the rush to screw the poor.
By the fact that they are all incased in the same box, rather than connected via a switch, it has less distance to travel. I don't know that 5 feet of CAT5 could make that big of a difference. On the otherhand, they could have designed a different way of bridging the systems and dramatically reduce latency. In either case, it is intriguing.
And actually, the company did hold the contractors passports and used the excuse "we're acting as a security deposit box" for the contractors. Yes, it is totally illegal, but since when has that stopped companies from abusing people. Get real, a percentage of the clothes people buy are still manufactured in sweat shops. Actually I do know people who had 1 job their whole life. It's rare, but it does happen. I've met plenty of people who stayed at a job for 25+ years, though half of them are teachers who taught at the same school since they were 23 and now are in their late 50's.
Now that the Internet has shown to be a useful medium and is rapidly becoming an utility, it's time to make it more secure and robust against DDos attacks. The technology exist already, the telco's need to take the initiative and make it happen. From this document on ietf.org site:
7. Security consideration
Any public proxy is inherently a source of DOS attack. Rate limiting packet emission as suggested in 3.5 is expected to lower the risks.
I've heard horror stories from friends. One in particular has to do with foriegn programmers who are brought in with work visas. The hiring company holds both the visa and their passport. The programmers are threaten that if they don't work 12hrs a day, they'll be sent back. Typically, the programmers are paid 1/4-1/2 the wages of a citizen. High tech is not immuned to slave labor practices and mentality. The whole idea of staying with a company for 50-60 years doesn't exist anymore. Although some companies use it as a selling point in their recruiting, most companies have a policy that dedicate the opposite. Now more than ever, intelligence is necessary for steady employment.
They do advocate leaving out the bells, whistles, and features you don't need and add them later, if a real need is demonstrated. And that's incredibly important, because you can always add a feature, but you can never take it out. Once a feature is there, you can't say, sorry, we screwed up, we want to take it out because other code now depends on it. People will scream. So, when in doubt, leave it out.
I know that sometimes I am tempted to add x feature to the interface/code, because I think in 2 months the need for it will arise. Sometimes what I predict doesn't pan out. The lessons Joshua relates is very applicable in every day programming. Even if you use functional languages, the same challenges are there and the lessons can be beneficial. It's not always going to be useful, but it can be. It's up to each developer to make the effort. Sometimes you have no choice, but when you do have time, it's worth the trouble to take a minute to think a design/API through.
- e911 - law passed requiring carriers to have the ability to determine the location of a cell caller for emergency purposes.
- currently most carriers use SignalSoft's equipment to determine the location based on the three closest tower otherwise known as MSC (Moble switching center) to perform standard triangulation based on angle of arrival or arch of arrival
- TDMA, GSM and CDMA networks all define location tracking in their protocol, since it has to know how to pass off the signal to the tower with the clearest signal
- All Towers are already geocoded (ie have it's long/lat coordinate)
- not all carriers programmed their gear with the long/lat. example is sprintpcs network has it programmed in the east coast, but not the west coast
- most manufacturers, like Ericcson, Nokia, Qualcomm are integrating GPS processors into their chipset
- The average distance between towers is 5 miles. Depending on the terrain and population density, it could be more or less. This fact limits the accuracy of cell based determination. Because of the frequency, most cell signals have a hard time penetrating metal.
- several companies have done tests using a combination of cell and gps to improve accuracy
- in 2000 the government reduced the blocking on gps accuracy
Most phones sold today do not have GPS built in, but rather because all towers are geocoded and the tower keeps track of the phone, you can get decent location determination.- create chipset that will allow for a greater number of ports, thereby increasing the limit of data sent down one optical trunk
- design a different network architecture, which is point to point, rather than a ring. This has two benefits. 1. is there are fewer hops between backbone points. 2. the data is placed on the wavelength of the destination, therefore reducing latency and O-E-O conversion
Realistically, it will take a good 8-10 years to deploy this kind of technology for several reasons. Most telco's current use sonet architecture, and running new fiber between the major routing points takes time. Now of course there may already be some fiber laid by Quest or Level3, which the telco's can lease. But changing the entire architecture of the network isn't a trivial thing. Even though hyperchip can build the router, it is likely the actual speeds are far lower than Petabit. Plus, routing traffic at a rate exponentially faster than the rest of the system creates a different set of problems.On the financial side, telco's have already placed orders for hardware and probably won't place orders for petabit routers for atleast another 4-6 years. It takes a tremendous amount of work, fine tuning and maintenance to keep the backbone operating reliably and efficiently. A more fruitful area of research today is intelligent routers, and routing software. We can only go so far with the hardware approach to network congestion. At some point, the network needs to be smarter to alleviate packet corruption and other related issues.
farewell my concubine
to live
Qui Ju
life on a string
raise the red lantern
red firecracker, green firecracker
raise the red lantern
Historically, most of the people have been poor. All the way from Ching dynasty to the present. I doubt having bugs in the plane will really create additional problems as the article stated. Both government already expect this kind of behavior. They're simply using it to embarras Bush and the administration.
How in the world are people supposed to have faith or trust the government, when it rolls over college students with tanks. Taiwan is not communist, but piracy is still pretty bad. On the other hand, Taiwan is more wealthy and has been playing in world economics for a while.
I don't like either extremes and think they are both unproductive. There has to be a balance between protecting a companies investments and rights of a consumer. Protecting a companies investments doesn't necessarily mean laws or copyright. There can be other forms producer/consumer relationship that doesn't require the explicit agreement that one body controls intellectual property. Difficult cultural problems require creative thinking, that requires both sides go beyond what they are comfortable with. Without understanding each other, negotiations will never have any weight, nor will they provide any benefit to either party.
In most cases, a handshake means more than a contract. Contracts in china are worth S_ _T. The government isn't going to enforce a law the entire country percieves as stupid. The chinese culture believes in practicality and utility. Take the phrase "Kung-fu". It isn't just martial arts. The phrase is applied to anyone who has refined/exceptional skill and strong work ethic. A businessman can be said to have "kung-fu" in the art of negotiation. A teacher can have "kung-fu" in inspiring students.
Adobe needs to first learn about the culture and understand it before they try to dictate how chinese people should behave. Chinese are very proud of the culture, history and tradition. No self respecting chinese is going to roll over just because adobe says so.
You're probably close to truth than MS would like to admit. Of course I was just guessing that's what the execs are thinking when they say "maximize shareholder value." I don't agree with that way of thinking, but it's possible that's how steve ballmer sees it. Alot of tech sectors see faster cycles as a way to increase revenues, be it good or bad. I've heard more than one business development director make that kind of statement and say it's modeled after MS. Now whether that is true or not is a different story. Don't quote me on it, but I remember past interviews with gates and ballmer that expressed that sentiment. In a couple interviews about XP, gates and ballmer gave their reasons were "it makes updates more incremental and allow us to get out newer releases faster (ie more revenue)."
If a person robs a bank, they will probably serve from 8-20 years in prison where as a murder will get 2-4 with good behavior. Now it's not that the US government has any against other countries. It's because the government doesn't care about lives of any kind. No government for that matter cares more about an individual than sustaining the government. From governments view, a few losses here or there is good, because it's "natural".
Even though we have a bill of rights, it's more like bill of sales. It is only important in that people can sell their rights for profit, or I could by cynical.
Dare I dream she goes to microsoft? Nah, that would be idealistic of me
Relating it back to MS new licensing, some people do get new machines every 8-10 months, so there are people who don't mind the new licensing model. On the other hand there are those with 486 still and don't really care to change. Heck in 97 I had a friend who was still using a IBM 286 until the hard drive controller died. He wanted to keep using it, but he couldn't find a replace controller or the software for it. Under MS new leasing plan, my friend absolutely has to get a whole new system, even if some one was willing to sell him the parts and software.
I don't remember the article exactly, since it was a long time ago, but it didn't cost honda more to produce the better bearings.
Considering how much planning and communication had to take place for 9/11 to happen, we only have a video tape and a few files? Sounds like the low tech method works better for keeping things under raps. Is a computer isn't going to commit suicide if the FBI catches it (well I suppose you could boobie trap it). A terrorist on the otherhand can mislead, or commit suicide. The only thing weak encryption does is make businesses more vulnerable to government snooping and crackers. Plus the government can use things like a warrant to get access. Oh I forgot they hate having to ask judges for warrants and answering questions like "do you have sufficient proof or cause?"
Then again, it could be part of the normal cycle and HP may survive this one and boot her out. I hope HP does not get rid of their PC division or their printer division. I love HP printers and have never had problems with them. I've had plenty of other printers that plain old suck and didn't work right. After getting a HP printer, I never looked back.
Who really knows what CF is talking about. It could be real or just political maneuvering. In either case, sounds like Ego is in play. I hope she retires, or works in some other field.
Because microsoft measures value based on increasing revenues each year, maximizing share holder value means shorten the product cycle from 2-4 years to 1 year. From a share holder perspective, it's great. A rapid product cycle is a good thing for share holders because it means you're getting more repeat business more frequently.
From a user perspective, a certain level of product stability is necessary to create a sense of value and reliability. If the product cycles at a faster rate the customer is comfortable with, the company begins to loose business. Think of a can opener. What if every can opener was only good for 10 uses and it would break. No one would buy can goods or can openers. Food manufacturers would use some other container, like a jar instead of cans. It doesn't matter if the can opener is only 2.00. No one wants to buy a new can opener every week.
Microsoft is not immuned to the same market principles. Making a product too good or really poor isn't good for the company, consumers or the economy. Back in the 80's Honda found a good way to make bearings in such a way that they would last 30-50 years. Well guess what. Honda stopped using them in cars because they were too good. Using those bearings in cars made them way too reliable and was hurting replacement parts sales. There has to be some middle ground where corporate and consumer needs are in balance.
Microsoft may or may not realize it before it is too late.