If Android phones don't step up to the plate app-wise, AND touch-wise, accelerometer-wise, GPS-wise, compass-wise, iTunes-wise... then you're just going to have a lot of companies betting on the wrong horse.
Huh? Android phones have a capacitive touch screen, gps, and an accelerometer. A "compass" is an application that uses an accelerometer. And I'm surprised anyone would list iTunes as a strength. Android devices allow you to mount the sd card as a drive.
And finally, I think we've determined in this case that the chicken comes before the egg. The apps will follow after the platform becomes popular. iPhone has lots of apps, because lots of people have an iPhone.
Anyway, in a nutshell, I think you're completely wrong.:)
The only reason I would move to Windows 7 (or 8 or 9) if the current version of application XYZ I'm using is no longer supported under XP, and for whatever reason I *must* upgrade.
Well, really, the reason you'd switch is when it's obsoleted by Microsoft. Once that happens, you won't find much in the way of new drivers, application fixes, or windows updates. That day is coming.
I'm fine with XP and I use it as my main OS. I have Ubuntu on another HD but compatibility issues keep me from using it most the time. Silly stuff that's not under the control of anyone working on Linux, like not being able to watch Lost on ABC's site and Google Talk not having a Linux version. I'm well-aware that Pidgen can login to it too, but I like Gtalk.
Linux has come a long long way, especially in the past few years. It detects almost all of my hardware now and in this way it's easier to setup than Windows, but Linux's momentum is slowed just by the fact that it's not Windows and doesn't enjoy near-universal support.
By the way, Slashdot is a particularly unfortunate example, since people not reading the original article is a running joke and "Slashdot Effect" is not a term used to describe an abundance of ad revenue giving your business a huge boost.
Agreed with everything you said except this last sentence. If people didn't really read the article then there would be no slashdot effect. Most of the urls linked from Slashdot don't go down and I'm sure -do- gain an enormous amount of traffic from the link.
As to Win2k vs WinXP, I didn't have compatibility issues with games. It was a timely release from Microsoft, as I was considering moving to linux at home. I have a feeling alot of people were as we were all getting fed up with the limitations of Win 9.x.:)
I can't agree with that at all, Dave.
Windows 95 was fantastic at it's release. In converted many diehard DOS users when they had turned their nose to Windows 3.x. Windows 98 on the other hand was nothing but a bloated Windows 95. They just added enough "needed features" in 98, that you had to upgrade. I mostly upgraded for the USB support.
Win2k was an absolute masterpiece at it's release. It just never caught on outside of enterprise, which was really a great shame. It was bad marketing on Microsoft's part. They worked out the kinks in their marketing with Windows XP, which again was just a bloated Win2k. Most companies transitioned from Win2k only because Microsoft stopped supporting it. (And many still haven't)
Citations are hardly required when discussing a topic on an internet forum.
Nevertheless, the data you require can be found in abundance. I'd start with the World Health Report 2008 from the World Health Organization. Or even Wikipedia. The article on differences between the Canadian and US healthcare systems is a pretty good read.
Whenever people compare a single payer system to the DMV, its a clue that they haven't even done basic research into it. We pay more per capita for healthcare than anyone and yet we're nowhere near the top in any measure of health care outcomes. We're also among the only developed nation that still uses avoids government run healthcare.
And let's not even get into how the government ALREADY covers some 45% of our healthcare costs as it is through tax credits to employers.
... downloading w4r3z (infringing copies of proprietary commercial software), or doing something comparably dangerous?
You just described 90% of what I use computers for!
Not sure why people are modding Goaway up. He's expressing a fallacy.
If we live in a deterministic universe our actions are indeed predetermined,
whether we know what we are predetermined to do or not. The ability to predict them isn't required.
Determinism and free will are mutually exclusive by definition. The article is stating that we do NOT live in a deterministic universe which preserves free will.
There's no conclusive studies, no new evidence, nothing to lead any credibility to this guy's memo at all. By his own admission, he's trying to scare people rather than wait for the evidence to come in.
Insightful post on the true question of energy generation. There's already enough renewable energy sources available now and at a lower cost. The costs of "foot-powered" electricity don't scale well and only provide power during "peak traffic" times in highly congested locations..
What bothers me is that all this is built on top of tcp/ip, and that is inherently insecure.
Tcp/ip isn't inherently insecure, it's not inherently anything except a transport protocol. The protocol you mean is https, which is the primary protocol you use to make anything secure when submitting data from a client to a webserver.
Given that there exists hardware to inspect packets for p2p traffic, how hard would it be to for a person of unpleasant intent to get hold of some of that and start mining 'encrypted' health information.
They can't inspect encrypted p2p traffic. Many p2p apps now allow you to encrypt your traffic which prevents the isp from determining the content. Although they can generally still figure out that it is p2p due to the nature of the traffic (but again, not the content).
All the ISP could determine is that someone was communicating to an https server at health.google.com.
Health care clearinghouses include billing services, repricing
companies, community health management information systems, and value-added
networks and switches if these entities perform clearinghouse functions.
I'm certainly no expert but I do speak english. Is Google not a "community health management information system"?
Ubuntu does a really great job of making sure you get into X even if it can't detect your graphics card and monitor. See also: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX
Windows Update provides most drivers automatically (if it wasn't on the CD). Ubuntu's auto-update is supposed to (and often does) provide the latest drivers too. It just failed to in this case.
I also didn't bash Linux. I agreed with the parent post that said that it was a bad user experience installing an NVIDIA driver under Linux. Which.. it is.
Unfortunately, my mainstream Nvidia card did not have drivers and the pkg installer for Mint didn't work. Now what do I do. Well, I had to get out of X. Care to tell me how to do that in Mint? Someone had too. It's a multistep process requiring strange keyboard combinations using function keys. Then I had to run the installer. Double-clicking is intuitive these days "sh" isn't.
You unfortunately have a point here. I recently had to do the same with my 9600 GT and was surprised it wasn't supported in Ubuntu yet. For me it was something like 'sudo apt-get install build-essential && sudo/etc/init.d/gdm stop && sudo sh Desktop/NVIDIA-installer-thingy.bin && sudo/etc/init.d/gdm start'. Then you go through and answer confusing questions like whether you'd like to download a kernel module or compile your own. That's a poor user experience.
Well now my video card works but I can't map any drives and my computer is constantly flooding the network with queries (how embarrassing). Our IT department is wanting to know what I was doing. I don't know. I manage to figure out the circuitous route to accessing shared drives on the network but when I doubleclick on the openoffice document on one of those network drives, I see the open office splash screen but it never opens the document. I learn that there is more to do than just "get to" the shared drives.
This entire paragraph makes no sense though. Samba under Linux is better than Windows' implementation and Gnome makes it dead simple to use. It REALLY is as easy as going to Places : Network, browsing to your file on a shared folder, and double-clicking. In general, Linux computers don't "flood the network with queries" so I'd have to know what you were doing. Remember that the majority of the internet is served on a Linux server so you can assume it knows how to play nice.
For all of you who have "set up a machine" for their parents and it "works just fine", I submit that requiring an expert to set up a system for an end user is the very definition of "not ready". In today's world that end user (even Mom) might need to change something, install something new, access something different and then things require an expert to "ssh in to fix things"
I set up Windows on my grandmother's computer and it works fine. I could have just as easily set up a Linux computer for her and she would still need me to come by and fix things on it occasionally. Windows isn't easier to setup, it's just easier to find an "expert" to help you in Windows.
Your "standard" flip phone is more likely a cheap Java phone. There's a muddled line between a feature phone and a smartphone these days.
Java phones can work great but they suffer from a slow processor and low specs. I really recommend the Pantech Duo if you're looking for an upgraded phone that retains the standard dial pad.
Symbian devices rule the world. Followed by Windows Mobile.
Blackberry is popular in North America but are practically unheard of in Asia and are just recently making strides in Europe. The iPhone has made an impact in new phone design, but Apple's still got a long way to go.
The problem was an oddity in his taxes. Then the second problem was that she was a prostitute, which is what the previous poster was alluding to. They are probably going to charge him under federal laws prohibiting solicititation of sexual services across state lines.
This guy is a complete moron who clearly lacks any perspective on the internet. It's not the tubes that are the problem. It's the people using computers without known exploits clicking on things their friends send.
The solution isn't replacing the tubes. That'd be retarded. The solution is more secure software that protects the users from themselves.
It's no wonder the FBI can't track down cases of ID theft if this guy is an example of the people in charge.
So, like, this guy got a spam email that said "Hello Slashdot webmaster".
He sued the spammer in small claims court. The judge threw it out because this was a personal email from the spammer to the "webmaster of Slashdot". Hilarity ensued.
Also there was some point about federal courts inserted in there to make it more confusing.
And they all lived happily ever after.
Slashdot Mirror
.. since he actually invented the internet. (The lawsuit involves 300 patents Allen claims were pivotal to the development of the internet).
Ogg is unrestricted by software patents.
Huh? Android phones have a capacitive touch screen, gps, and an accelerometer. A "compass" is an application that uses an accelerometer. And I'm surprised anyone would list iTunes as a strength. Android devices allow you to mount the sd card as a drive. And finally, I think we've determined in this case that the chicken comes before the egg. The apps will follow after the platform becomes popular. iPhone has lots of apps, because lots of people have an iPhone. Anyway, in a nutshell, I think you're completely wrong. :)
Well, really, the reason you'd switch is when it's obsoleted by Microsoft. Once that happens, you won't find much in the way of new drivers, application fixes, or windows updates. That day is coming.
I'm fine with XP and I use it as my main OS. I have Ubuntu on another HD but compatibility issues keep me from using it most the time. Silly stuff that's not under the control of anyone working on Linux, like not being able to watch Lost on ABC's site and Google Talk not having a Linux version. I'm well-aware that Pidgen can login to it too, but I like Gtalk.
Linux has come a long long way, especially in the past few years. It detects almost all of my hardware now and in this way it's easier to setup than Windows, but Linux's momentum is slowed just by the fact that it's not Windows and doesn't enjoy near-universal support.
Agreed with everything you said except this last sentence. If people didn't really read the article then there would be no slashdot effect. Most of the urls linked from Slashdot don't go down and I'm sure -do- gain an enormous amount of traffic from the link.
Agreed on the 16 bit code in Win 95.
:)
As to Win2k vs WinXP, I didn't have compatibility issues with games. It was a timely release from Microsoft, as I was considering moving to linux at home. I have a feeling alot of people were as we were all getting fed up with the limitations of Win 9.x.
I can't agree with that at all, Dave. Windows 95 was fantastic at it's release. In converted many diehard DOS users when they had turned their nose to Windows 3.x. Windows 98 on the other hand was nothing but a bloated Windows 95. They just added enough "needed features" in 98, that you had to upgrade. I mostly upgraded for the USB support. Win2k was an absolute masterpiece at it's release. It just never caught on outside of enterprise, which was really a great shame. It was bad marketing on Microsoft's part. They worked out the kinks in their marketing with Windows XP, which again was just a bloated Win2k. Most companies transitioned from Win2k only because Microsoft stopped supporting it. (And many still haven't)
Citations are hardly required when discussing a topic on an internet forum.
Nevertheless, the data you require can be found in abundance. I'd start with the World Health Report 2008 from the World Health Organization. Or even Wikipedia. The article on differences between the Canadian and US healthcare systems is a pretty good read.
Whenever people compare a single payer system to the DMV, its a clue that they haven't even done basic research into it. We pay more per capita for healthcare than anyone and yet we're nowhere near the top in any measure of health care outcomes. We're also among the only developed nation that still uses avoids government run healthcare.
And let's not even get into how the government ALREADY covers some 45% of our healthcare costs as it is through tax credits to employers.
... downloading w4r3z (infringing copies of proprietary commercial software), or doing something comparably dangerous?
You just described 90% of what I use computers for!
Not sure why people are modding Goaway up. He's expressing a fallacy.
If we live in a deterministic universe our actions are indeed predetermined, whether we know what we are predetermined to do or not. The ability to predict them isn't required.
Determinism and free will are mutually exclusive by definition. The article is stating that we do NOT live in a deterministic universe which preserves free will.
There's no conclusive studies, no new evidence, nothing to lead any credibility to this guy's memo at all. By his own admission, he's trying to scare people rather than wait for the evidence to come in.
And Firefox 3.0 renders it with pure bruteforce Javascript rendering power.
Insightful post on the true question of energy generation. There's already enough renewable energy sources available now and at a lower cost. The costs of "foot-powered" electricity don't scale well and only provide power during "peak traffic" times in highly congested locations..
All the ISP could determine is that someone was communicating to an https server at health.google.com.
Ubuntu does a really great job of making sure you get into X even if it can't detect your graphics card and monitor. See also: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BulletProofX
Windows Update provides most drivers automatically (if it wasn't on the CD). Ubuntu's auto-update is supposed to (and often does) provide the latest drivers too. It just failed to in this case.
I also didn't bash Linux. I agreed with the parent post that said that it was a bad user experience installing an NVIDIA driver under Linux. Which.. it is.
Heh. Just think, the equivalent to a library burning in the digital world is 'rm -rf *'.
Your "standard" flip phone is more likely a cheap Java phone. There's a muddled line between a feature phone and a smartphone these days.
Java phones can work great but they suffer from a slow processor and low specs. I really recommend the Pantech Duo if you're looking for an upgraded phone that retains the standard dial pad.
See subject. Also, I'd recommend the HTC TyTN 2 over the HTC Titan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN_II
It's unfortunately heavy but has an impressive processor, tons of memory, and comes with GPS.
Symbian devices rule the world. Followed by Windows Mobile.
Blackberry is popular in North America but are practically unheard of in Asia and are just recently making strides in Europe. The iPhone has made an impact in new phone design, but Apple's still got a long way to go.
The problem was an oddity in his taxes. Then the second problem was that she was a prostitute, which is what the previous poster was alluding to. They are probably going to charge him under federal laws prohibiting solicititation of sexual services across state lines.
This guy is a complete moron who clearly lacks any perspective on the internet. It's not the tubes that are the problem. It's the people using computers without known exploits clicking on things their friends send.
The solution isn't replacing the tubes. That'd be retarded. The solution is more secure software that protects the users from themselves.
It's no wonder the FBI can't track down cases of ID theft if this guy is an example of the people in charge.
So, like, this guy got a spam email that said "Hello Slashdot webmaster". He sued the spammer in small claims court. The judge threw it out because this was a personal email from the spammer to the "webmaster of Slashdot". Hilarity ensued. Also there was some point about federal courts inserted in there to make it more confusing. And they all lived happily ever after.