Watch out! A technology that is 5 years away will probably seriously impact a standard that, although in heavy use today, will be superceded in a couple of years.
Now they not only tell us what vaporware is coming, but what other vaporware might impact it!
Someone call the Police and file a WGAS Report.
PS. If there was even a choice to be made it would be for the Lights. Reduction in power consumption is good for everyone but Oil companies and Opec.
The problem is that he's not an experienced admin. Sounds like a small company with limited IT resources. There are packages that can be installed on user's systems (Connected Backup which I mentioned earlier) that are set to backup particular directories (usually User's My Documents folder and any email or application data that might be used in recovering their desktop).
This would run as a service on user machines. You still have to rely on Users to store files where you expect them, and it backs up on either a scheduled or ad/hoc basis - even while they are working, etc. Really, it's the only good solution here, and user's have some semblance of privacy since the files are encrypted - only admins would have access - and they can save files outside of the backed up folders. Users can also manipulate which folders get backed up incase they have special situations.
My Company uses Connected Backup. All data is stored in encrypted fashion on remote hard drive, which presumably the IT dept. would then back up to tape or disk.
We used to have users copy important (company critical) docs to a remote drive which we backed up, but there were issues with encryption, incrementals, etc.
Despite the Anonymous Coward's comments, he has a point about site licenses. But the law that Peru is trying to pass would not prevent Microsoft from competing, nor would it prevent Peru from paying Money to M$ should it win a contract (in the unlikely event that M$ decided to make their source open and use true open standards). It also doesn't limit the ability of software companies in Peru from developing or selling their software locally or abroad.
If you read the Peruvian letter to M$, you will understand that the reasoning behind going with Open Source has nothing to do with being free or even inexpensive. Certainly the lowered cost of the software itself brings many followers, especially in poorer countries. But the effects of assuming that free software will be any cheaper to implement (other than the licesing savings) is wrong on it's face.
The real reason's to use Open Source are manyfold, and being cheap generally draws folks in, but if a poor country were to believe that they could get the software for free and have a cheap implementation, they are in for a nice surprise.
It's under attack for it's business practices here and abroad. It's FUD is not swaying many decision makers anymore and their "terrorist gambit" is not panning out as planned.
Because M$ has never been known as a service company it really has no model to fit into the Open Source idea. Since it has no direct way of benefiting, other than stealing code for use in their own products, they have to fight against it's upsurgence
M$ will move into the arena of small commercial packages, proprietary embedded systems and OS's and will fight tooth and nail the entire way. Of course the argument that they stabalized and helped build the current computer industry is partially correct, but had open standards been used to begin with (and not the embrace and extend crap) we might have a much more competetive landscape.
The fact is that innovations occur in the lab. And moving technology out of the lab and into manufacturing is a time consuming and expensive prospect. More often than not, several technologies and innovations combine to facilitate a "new" product.
Not only that, but lab technology is typically very fragile or requires unique setups to function. Engineers have to figure out how to get it from this primordial soup into the pipeline and that's not a simple thing.
I for one will be visiting Sydney when this is scheduled to happen. Being a Matrix fan, I see this as frosting on my particular vaction cake. But if they shutdown all of the shops and transport, it's going to make for an ugly weekend.
While it would be fantastic to see some of the actual film (maybe get some of the helicopter on video?) I think this could have been handled on CGI or with models. Of course, take a look back at some of the better modeling work and CGI and you realize that the real McCoy can often express nuances galore.
Of course they don't allow certain things on their site, but if someone buys a telescope for a gun, there are side deals going on for the gun it came on for sure.
Ebay, of course, brings in people who are addicted to the rush of the auction so they end up paying more than they would at a retail site. However, it offers an expansive selection of new and used items and lets the community police itself. In general it works, and surprisingly it scaled decently.
Why do you accept the fact that you have the freedom to post a message on the internet? Why do you (most likely) feel you have the right to live in peace, provide shelter and food for yourself and any assorted family, and live a decent, fun life?
Sovereignty is, in my opinion the basis for the Bill of Rights, the freedoms we enjoy and the willingness to fight for all of the above in the face of those who would have it otherwise for any reason
Until the Earth is one united people getting along with each other, allowing all of the basic freedoms and managing the environment and necessities of life, the "notion" of sovereignty will be a necessity. Good luck getting to that point without the resources, power, and people required to throw out the status quo. Until then, I'll take my country and it's well defined, though often imperfect stand on these issues, thanks.
The United Nations on it's face seems like a decent and good thing. Underneath it's a messy, contrived political body that lacks real power. To do anything of importance it has to resort to the same politics as any government and many say it's more corrupt given the number of governments involved.
I see the U.N. as yet another malformed, underfunded, and corrupt extension of the "civilized" world. It seeks to limit the freedoms and rights of it's member countries despite those government's rights to sovereignty. And for those people who think a utopian society will every come of a political body formed in the aftermath of war are surely fooling themselves.
As long as there are differences of opinion, language, creed, religion, power, wealth, resources, race and freedoms, there will be different countries with different agendas. The United Nations could be the spring board for a better thing, but at this point it's pretty worthless.
Mythology, as you so aptly point out, needs a hero to work. Lucas's problems with the prequels is the fact that they are laying the groundwork for that hero story. It is about the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. How exactly do you expect the story to be told?
Certainly George is a media whore and sells off the franchise, but he's reigned in the beast this time around after seeing shelves full of Jar Jar merchandise. But this is nothing new. Star Wars did similar sales in toys and by the time Jedi came around, we had tie ins galor. Spider-Man is NOT exempt from this, just take a look around and you see the red and blue leotard everywhere!
There are plenty of hero's to see in this movie, and we get a glimpse of when Jedi were in charge (if not starting to fall apart with pride). The prequels are about the fall of a promising hero set to the backdrop of political intrigue and war caused by the sith so they could overwhelm the galaxy. If I wanted to see someone wearing the American Flag or making reference to terrorists, I'd go see Spidey again. I see this as sort of a cheap, though probably heartfelt, string-pulling on Rami's part.
Apart from Jar Jar - Hell, the whole Gungan race - the first movie was kinda slow, but still hella cool to be back. And Lucas did go a little heavy on the nostalgia in the second flick, but it totally redeemed the franchise. It has everything one could want. Intrigue, conspiracies, war, Jedi battles, spaceship combat, Force powers, clones, droids and fairly relentless action. All set to a very familiar and amazingly rendered fantasy world. The love scenes could have been less flat, but actors only have so much to work with, and I think Lucas has always wanted his world to be platonic. It's not about Love - it's the Action. When was the last time you read Tolkein and thought "Where is the love story?"
Suffice it to say that comparing movies is pretty silly. Comparing Spider-Man to Star Wars: AOTC, is like comparing X-Men to The Matrix. What exactly is the point? Evaluate Star Wars on it's face... maybe against the other movies - which most felt it topped - but not against other movies.
One of the biggest barriers of bringing DSL to my community (other than it's small size) is the fact that after investing a rather large chunk of capital in equipment, the phone company would have to share access to competitors.
I'm all for competition, but when that very competition is delaying rollout by years, I see this as a partial win.
For those who already have the access they want, they probably have options such as DSL and Cable, and maybe even Wireless. I have none of those. When the phone company already has to compete with Cable and Wireless, they won't even enter a market when they have to make the investment in equipment that other get to use to add to the level of competition.
What kills me about the entire discussion of SW is everyone's complaining about the dialogue and plot. In no case (with the possible exception of SW:TESB) was the plot all that great or the dialogue all that good. And the only reason people forgive and forget with Empire is because it was the 2nd scene - okay movie - and bad stuff happens to the characters or you have no real drama.
Lucas's dialogue is as bad as about any B movie you can find. But he has a fantastic mind for imagery and setting. His art directors have always made StarWars what it is - Eye Candy. Up until Midichlorians, he even made up some pretty cool names, technological ideas and drew from the coolest philosophical ideals.
So, my point? Why do people keep going back with these unbelievable expectations? The SW franchise (and let's get this straight, that's EXACTLY what it is) has always had the pleasure of good actors spewing out camp dialogue while dealing with herky-jerky plot moves. Can you blame them for crap acting? Sure... outside of some scenes in Episode IV, Mark H. couldn't act his way out of a bag. But They do bring life to the ideas and that's all that matters
Most people go to Star Wars with one thing in mind: Special Effects. From Light Sabers to Space Ships and more recently CGI actors and settings, we get a grand sense of Sci-Fi "feel". If you came to see an actual love story or anything more than a weakly fleshed out backplot you weren't thinking.
Go to Star Wars to see the kick ass fighting scenes, the action, the special effects, and the amazing artwork. I generally agree with Ebert on most stuff, and yes, all the 'Wars movies could and should have been better. But if a card carrying Jedi came around, we'd all want to join up. 'Nuff Said!
Uh... it was a joke. I agree with your statements. The RIAA's Knee-jerk reaction to fair use of purchased recording's is just crazy. I was referring to their idea that they can charge us for the same "entertainment" in several different forms. They want me to pony up $18 for a CD and then they want a usage fee for me to have MP3s ripped from the same content I already purchased.
And if this is offtopic the moderator can kiss my ass.
Little Pain? Preventing typing? It appears you know very little about CTS. It can be crushingly painful and prevent ANY activity using your hands.
And how about giving us a list of those jobs you can find that don't require some use of your hands.
While I would have to grudgingly agree that CTS is typically due to lack of education about ergonomics, I hardly think it ranks with alcoholism or drug abuse. It's not as if any employers require you to repeatedly shoot up in order to maintain productivity!
Micro$oft may be the root of all that is evil in IT, but you can't claim they have failed. Very much the opposite.
The ONLY product I can recall failing miserably out of Redmond is BOB. All other 'failures' would be considered unbelievable successes by other companies.
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Watch out! A technology that is 5 years away will probably seriously impact a standard that, although in heavy use today, will be superceded in a couple of years.
Now they not only tell us what vaporware is coming, but what other vaporware might impact it!
Someone call the Police and file a WGAS Report.
PS. If there was even a choice to be made it would be for the Lights. Reduction in power consumption is good for everyone but Oil companies and Opec.
The problem is that he's not an experienced admin. Sounds like a small company with limited IT resources. There are packages that can be installed on user's systems (Connected Backup which I mentioned earlier) that are set to backup particular directories (usually User's My Documents folder and any email or application data that might be used in recovering their desktop).
This would run as a service on user machines. You still have to rely on Users to store files where you expect them, and it backs up on either a scheduled or ad/hoc basis - even while they are working, etc. Really, it's the only good solution here, and user's have some semblance of privacy since the files are encrypted - only admins would have access - and they can save files outside of the backed up folders. Users can also manipulate which folders get backed up incase they have special situations.
My Company uses Connected Backup. All data is stored in encrypted fashion on remote hard drive, which presumably the IT dept. would then back up to tape or disk.
We used to have users copy important (company critical) docs to a remote drive which we backed up, but there were issues with encryption, incrementals, etc.
Despite the Anonymous Coward's comments, he has a point about site licenses. But the law that Peru is trying to pass would not prevent Microsoft from competing, nor would it prevent Peru from paying Money to M$ should it win a contract (in the unlikely event that M$ decided to make their source open and use true open standards). It also doesn't limit the ability of software companies in Peru from developing or selling their software locally or abroad.
If you read the Peruvian letter to M$, you will understand that the reasoning behind going with Open Source has nothing to do with being free or even inexpensive. Certainly the lowered cost of the software itself brings many followers, especially in poorer countries. But the effects of assuming that free software will be any cheaper to implement (other than the licesing savings) is wrong on it's face.
The real reason's to use Open Source are manyfold, and being cheap generally draws folks in, but if a poor country were to believe that they could get the software for free and have a cheap implementation, they are in for a nice surprise.
It's under attack for it's business practices here and abroad. It's FUD is not swaying many decision makers anymore and their "terrorist gambit" is not panning out as planned.
Because M$ has never been known as a service company it really has no model to fit into the Open Source idea. Since it has no direct way of benefiting, other than stealing code for use in their own products, they have to fight against it's upsurgence
M$ will move into the arena of small commercial packages, proprietary embedded systems and OS's and will fight tooth and nail the entire way. Of course the argument that they stabalized and helped build the current computer industry is partially correct, but had open standards been used to begin with (and not the embrace and extend crap) we might have a much more competetive landscape.
The fact is that innovations occur in the lab. And moving technology out of the lab and into manufacturing is a time consuming and expensive prospect. More often than not, several technologies and innovations combine to facilitate a "new" product.
Not only that, but lab technology is typically very fragile or requires unique setups to function. Engineers have to figure out how to get it from this primordial soup into the pipeline and that's not a simple thing.
I for one will be visiting Sydney when this is scheduled to happen. Being a Matrix fan, I see this as frosting on my particular vaction cake. But if they shutdown all of the shops and transport, it's going to make for an ugly weekend.
While it would be fantastic to see some of the actual film (maybe get some of the helicopter on video?) I think this could have been handled on CGI or with models. Of course, take a look back at some of the better modeling work and CGI and you realize that the real McCoy can often express nuances galore.
Of course they don't allow certain things on their site, but if someone buys a telescope for a gun, there are side deals going on for the gun it came on for sure.
Ebay, of course, brings in people who are addicted to the rush of the auction so they end up paying more than they would at a retail site. However, it offers an expansive selection of new and used items and lets the community police itself. In general it works, and surprisingly it scaled decently.
Why do you accept the fact that you have the freedom to post a message on the internet? Why do you (most likely) feel you have the right to live in peace, provide shelter and food for yourself and any assorted family, and live a decent, fun life?
Sovereignty is, in my opinion the basis for the Bill of Rights, the freedoms we enjoy and the willingness to fight for all of the above in the face of those who would have it otherwise for any reason
Until the Earth is one united people getting along with each other, allowing all of the basic freedoms and managing the environment and necessities of life, the "notion" of sovereignty will be a necessity. Good luck getting to that point without the resources, power, and people required to throw out the status quo. Until then, I'll take my country and it's well defined, though often imperfect stand on these issues, thanks.
The United Nations on it's face seems like a decent and good thing. Underneath it's a messy, contrived political body that lacks real power. To do anything of importance it has to resort to the same politics as any government and many say it's more corrupt given the number of governments involved.
I see the U.N. as yet another malformed, underfunded, and corrupt extension of the "civilized" world. It seeks to limit the freedoms and rights of it's member countries despite those government's rights to sovereignty. And for those people who think a utopian society will every come of a political body formed in the aftermath of war are surely fooling themselves.
As long as there are differences of opinion, language, creed, religion, power, wealth, resources, race and freedoms, there will be different countries with different agendas. The United Nations could be the spring board for a better thing, but at this point it's pretty worthless.
Mythology, as you so aptly point out, needs a hero to work. Lucas's problems with the prequels is the fact that they are laying the groundwork for that hero story. It is about the fall and redemption of Anakin Skywalker. How exactly do you expect the story to be told?
Certainly George is a media whore and sells off the franchise, but he's reigned in the beast this time around after seeing shelves full of Jar Jar merchandise. But this is nothing new. Star Wars did similar sales in toys and by the time Jedi came around, we had tie ins galor. Spider-Man is NOT exempt from this, just take a look around and you see the red and blue leotard everywhere!
There are plenty of hero's to see in this movie, and we get a glimpse of when Jedi were in charge (if not starting to fall apart with pride). The prequels are about the fall of a promising hero set to the backdrop of political intrigue and war caused by the sith so they could overwhelm the galaxy. If I wanted to see someone wearing the American Flag or making reference to terrorists, I'd go see Spidey again. I see this as sort of a cheap, though probably heartfelt, string-pulling on Rami's part.
Apart from Jar Jar - Hell, the whole Gungan race - the first movie was kinda slow, but still hella cool to be back. And Lucas did go a little heavy on the nostalgia in the second flick, but it totally redeemed the franchise. It has everything one could want. Intrigue, conspiracies, war, Jedi battles, spaceship combat, Force powers, clones, droids and fairly relentless action. All set to a very familiar and amazingly rendered fantasy world. The love scenes could have been less flat, but actors only have so much to work with, and I think Lucas has always wanted his world to be platonic. It's not about Love - it's the Action. When was the last time you read Tolkein and thought "Where is the love story?"
Suffice it to say that comparing movies is pretty silly. Comparing Spider-Man to Star Wars: AOTC, is like comparing X-Men to The Matrix. What exactly is the point? Evaluate Star Wars on it's face... maybe against the other movies - which most felt it topped - but not against other movies.
One of the biggest barriers of bringing DSL to my community (other than it's small size) is the fact that after investing a rather large chunk of capital in equipment, the phone company would have to share access to competitors.
I'm all for competition, but when that very competition is delaying rollout by years, I see this as a partial win.
For those who already have the access they want, they probably have options such as DSL and Cable, and maybe even Wireless. I have none of those. When the phone company already has to compete with Cable and Wireless, they won't even enter a market when they have to make the investment in equipment that other get to use to add to the level of competition.
How the fuck is this off topic? I'm still laughing my ass off!
What kills me about the entire discussion of SW is everyone's complaining about the dialogue and plot. In no case (with the possible exception of SW:TESB) was the plot all that great or the dialogue all that good. And the only reason people forgive and forget with Empire is because it was the 2nd scene - okay movie - and bad stuff happens to the characters or you have no real drama.
Lucas's dialogue is as bad as about any B movie you can find. But he has a fantastic mind for imagery and setting. His art directors have always made StarWars what it is - Eye Candy. Up until Midichlorians, he even made up some pretty cool names, technological ideas and drew from the coolest philosophical ideals.
So, my point? Why do people keep going back with these unbelievable expectations? The SW franchise (and let's get this straight, that's EXACTLY what it is) has always had the pleasure of good actors spewing out camp dialogue while dealing with herky-jerky plot moves. Can you blame them for crap acting? Sure... outside of some scenes in Episode IV, Mark H. couldn't act his way out of a bag. But They do bring life to the ideas and that's all that matters
Most people go to Star Wars with one thing in mind: Special Effects. From Light Sabers to Space Ships and more recently CGI actors and settings, we get a grand sense of Sci-Fi "feel". If you came to see an actual love story or anything more than a weakly fleshed out backplot you weren't thinking.
Go to Star Wars to see the kick ass fighting scenes, the action, the special effects, and the amazing artwork. I generally agree with Ebert on most stuff, and yes, all the 'Wars movies could and should have been better. But if a card carrying Jedi came around, we'd all want to join up. 'Nuff Said!
Uh... it was a joke. I agree with your statements. The RIAA's Knee-jerk reaction to fair use of purchased recording's is just crazy. I was referring to their idea that they can charge us for the same "entertainment" in several different forms. They want me to pony up $18 for a CD and then they want a usage fee for me to have MP3s ripped from the same content I already purchased. And if this is offtopic the moderator can kiss my ass.
Time to siphon off some more profit from the RIAA.
Some might disagree with that one.
Little Pain? Preventing typing? It appears you know very little about CTS. It can be crushingly painful and prevent ANY activity using your hands. And how about giving us a list of those jobs you can find that don't require some use of your hands. While I would have to grudgingly agree that CTS is typically due to lack of education about ergonomics, I hardly think it ranks with alcoholism or drug abuse. It's not as if any employers require you to repeatedly shoot up in order to maintain productivity!
Yeah... when's the last time that the government got Microsoft to do anything?
Micro$oft may be the root of all that is evil in IT, but you can't claim they have failed. Very much the opposite.
The ONLY product I can recall failing miserably out of Redmond is BOB. All other 'failures' would be considered unbelievable successes by other companies.
Sorry to say, the xbox will not fail.