One serious problem is the difficulty with credit reporting agencies. I don't understand why when you have a case open with the Secret Service the "big three" aren't require to flush your account, setup a new SSN and reporting info, and restoring your rating based on the FICO you had before the breach occured. Voila, you're golden again! All of your current accounts can be identified and made aware of the change and a special notation can be on the account that some history is unobtainable due to identity theft.
Hey, Dumbass, who paid for all this? The U.S.! Those are schools in the U.S. that are subsidized by tax dollars. So, yeah, the U.S. should control it. BTW: The backbone at the time was part of the military. No backbone, now place to hone your new technologies. The EU and UN should piss off! Let them create their own closed networks then vai for a "trust" relationship to ours. Problem solved. This idea that there's a one-world government called the U.N. is horrifying. The U.N. is a front for corruption and a tolerator or terrorism. The EU is just trying to be relevant.
Like or hate it, had Office been available for Linux natively it would have gone a long way towards Linux adoption. That is probably the best reason MS doesn't want to do it. I still say had AOL adopted Linux a long time ago it also would have helped. Now AOL is going south and Linux is on the up-swing. Dumb move by AOL. Not so dumb for MS but in the long run it may prove to be. If Linux takes 50% of the desktop market share, it would behove MS to create Office for it. However, given that Office is becoming more and more bloated and closed, by that time it won't matter. OOo and StarOffice will eventually fair well against Office.
Balmer: "ARGH!" (tosses chair, breaks glass, rips off tie) "I will OWN THE MEDIA MARKET! I WILL KILL THEM ALL! So, what did they think of our single-play DVD?"
Assistant: "Uh...they laughed, Sir."
Balmer: "Oh!...Ummm...Okay...well...uh...let's play it as a hoax."
Assistant: "Yes, Sir. New chair, Sir?"
Balmer: "That would be nice, and some decaf!"
With my cheap DVD player, this would play out as follows:
DVD is playing....get's about 2/3 into the movie at the most critical part of the story.
Screen freezes...
"Error: This disc cannot be played."
Eject, wipe of DVD, re-insert.
"Warning: You've already played this video once. Please dispose of properly! Copyright 2005 Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved...except yours, of course!"
"When is someone going to start selling some decent Linux portables?"
It's interesting, really. When you add Linux to anything sub-laptop like a PDA, the price goes up. Zaurus and the plethora of Korean/Japan-sold only PDA's taught us this. When you add it to a laptop or PC, it goes down. Microtel, etc.
The thing is, we've all been waiting for this since it was touted at the 'next big thing" about 5 years ago. Either no one wanted to jump in and actually make it happen or the interest was sketchy. I'm guessing a little of both. The reason Google is named here is because they're have the expendable cash to throw at this and see if it sticks. It won't. Office on the Web is just not the answer. Yes, it may work out for the home user or even SOHO, but certainly not for enterprise offices. Security will become a huge issue. If not in reality, Microsoft and their PR machine will talk about the security of online apps. How can they do this and at the same time try to push their own Web apps? Easy, they're Microsoft. This is a solution looking for a problem. The supposed problem is MSOffice and it's high cost. However, people want to replace it with a product that they can own.
There's a moon in the sky
It's called the moon
And everybody is there, including,
Saturn, Mercury
Saturn, Venus
Saturn, Mars
Saturn, Jupiter
The Van Allen Belt
Since science articles are only 50% correct, it's 10 million years old. BTW,it looks remarkably like spiders that are merely 20 days old. Queue NOVA voice over: "20 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place...with much difference life forms!" Kid: "Sir! What about this spider!?" NOVA voice: "Okay! Okay! The spiders were all the same! But there were no humans to screw things up! GOT IT!" Kid: "Sorry...."
Wait, according to their website they're already "personally affordable" at $3.5million. Must be my neighborhood, but I don't know anyone "personally" who can afford that.
I've asked myself this. My opinion is that Microsoft doesn't like to be beat at virtually any game. They have MSN, Hotmail, and Messanger. The idea that someone would beat them out, or in this case stay well ahead of them, bothers them. They're paranoid that Google will enter into other spaces. Also, don't discount the fact that Microsoft has probably put a lot of similar technologies in the cooker that Google has been working on. That being said, I'm still convinced that to a great extent they just don't want anyone out growing them. Google could get big enough to endorse or push their own OS (doubtful) or even an office suite. OTOH, Microsoft is the one benefiting from all of this Google hype. The more Microsoft can make Google look like the bully, the more "journalists" will fret that maybe there's a huge shift coming. What will it mean? What will become of computing? Then the FUD machine from Microsoft can whip the entire technology sector into a frenzy. I'm not sure of the entire strategy, but I'm fairly convinced that Microsoft is glad to see all of this hype.
Each side is waiting for the other to blink. My hope and guess is it won't be Jobs. Why should he? You think the RIAA is going to screw with their best / only real online revenue stream? Then again, their suing 12 year old girls, so why not?
As someone has already pointed out, this was in the OPINION section of Fox News. It was NOT a news item. I've seen very liberal opinions written there too, so yes they are fairly balanced. Will we see a pro OSS commentary, that I don't know. At least this was in the Views section, though.
I'm suspicious of this article because of all of the buzz words. It's practically rife with Microsoft's comparison campaign phrases. Furthermore, that SAP had difficulty running on Linux is a SAP issue, not a Linux issue.
So where is the "death of the PC Game?" Where is the death of the "online Gaming Industry?" I keep hearing about the death of the PC but it just doesn't die. Notice that lately this has come up ALOT with the Microsoft vs. Google reports. The idea is with Google rising to power and not even offering an OS, the desktop must be dying. After all, look at all you can to with a cell phone, PDA, PDA-phone, Laptop, Laptop-phone-PDA-expresso machine now! I just don't see it. Home users just are not trading in their 2.5Ghz desktops for 300Mhz PDA's and probably won't until that PDA/Phone/Web-box can beat the PC's ass. We've almost been conditions to envy the next fast CPU and they expect to wean our addiction by showing us shiny candy-like handhelds and promises that the Web can one day power our Everquest!? Puhleez!
I've always thought of the political spectrum as represented by a circle. Liberalism, authoritarianism, communism, and socialism being very close to one another yet stretched out on a sting, they might be extremes of each other. In an authoritarian regime you would have perhaps a dictator taking control of assets to wrestle it away from the people, thus utilizing them for the good of the state, yourself. With socialism, they'd be taken for the good of the state but the state's intentions are supposedly for good, not ill.
We can only hope, being the smartest mammals on the planet, that they can tell the good guys from the bad guys.
I found it interesting with all of the "science" about how smart dolphins are to find that they're also quite capable of evil. I mean, dolphin lovers like to talk about how smart and how "humane" they are and if we would be more like them we'd all live in this utopia. I thought this was an interesting take until I saw the Discovery Channel show about how young male dolphins gang up and kidnap and rape female dolphins.
Why does Slashdot persist in posting such a waste of read? Listen, Folks, because apparently this is fscking news to some people. China is a communist nation. I know, I know, some of you sitting there with hand-over-mouth, agast that such could exist in this day and age but it's true. I'll pause while everything you've ever read on Slashdot about China comes crashing into focus....... ....
Okay. Welcome to page 12, where the rest of the ENTIRE FSCKING WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO CATCH UP!
You make excellent points. This was supposed to already happen. Everything would move to the Web, we'd all do our computing off "the Network" because "the Network" is the "PC." I believe Sun touted that about 4 years ago. You can't just take the PC away for the reasons you site. You can't give people 3Ghz PC's to play Doom3D on and then say, "Forget all that, we're moving to the Web." Furthermore, when you convert an entire infrastructure over to "the Web" and your workers start complaining about the time it takes to type up and print out that order you wanted guess what? You're going to dig up your obsolete 3Ghz desktop and do it faster. It will take YEARS for web services to have the kinks worked out enough to replace the PC. IMO, it's patently foolish to compare text messaging, java games, and order tracking over a cell phone with the wealth of apps on a PC. The idea that all of my apps can be replaced with my cell phone or a Web appliance is foolish. What these "visionaries" fail to take into account is the customer. I'm sure most of those people who say "they'd rather have access to Internet services than their desktop computing applications" will kick and scream when you take their office suite, graphics applications, CAD programs and the like completely away from them and move them to "the Network." Sun has been counting on this idea for years but few are listening. The future will still hold PC's AND Web applications. Yes, we may eventually move to smaller and smaller devices, phones, and PC's but the PC will be around for the foreseeable future. This will no doubt piss off Sun. It sucks to be irrelevant.
There's a reason for this. In corporate culture each of these teams are not likely to share a lot of code. Yes, at some point they will share that which is needed to thread them together, but I would imagine there was a lot of hoarding going on. With Linux, the code is released and different groups contribute and scrutinize it.
GMail's primary feature is space. Frankly, I don't care for the interface. Deleting mail is problematic. I've found stuff I've removed show up. You move stuff to Trash, empty Trash, and expect it to be gone. They have no real filtering. Folders are basically non-existent replaced with labelling that difficult to follow. Thank goodness you can attach via a pop client. That being said, I use it.
Slashdot Mirror
Will it clean explorer.exe from my system?
One serious problem is the difficulty with credit reporting agencies. I don't understand why when you have a case open with the Secret Service the "big three" aren't require to flush your account, setup a new SSN and reporting info, and restoring your rating based on the FICO you had before the breach occured. Voila, you're golden again! All of your current accounts can be identified and made aware of the change and a special notation can be on the account that some history is unobtainable due to identity theft.
"But the world trusts them more than the US." :)
OH! Another good point for not trusting THEM with the root servers!
Hey, Dumbass, who paid for all this? The U.S.! Those are schools in the U.S. that are subsidized by tax dollars. So, yeah, the U.S. should control it. BTW: The backbone at the time was part of the military. No backbone, now place to hone your new technologies. The EU and UN should piss off! Let them create their own closed networks then vai for a "trust" relationship to ours. Problem solved. This idea that there's a one-world government called the U.N. is horrifying. The U.N. is a front for corruption and a tolerator or terrorism. The EU is just trying to be relevant.
Like or hate it, had Office been available for Linux natively it would have gone a long way towards Linux adoption. That is probably the best reason MS doesn't want to do it. I still say had AOL adopted Linux a long time ago it also would have helped. Now AOL is going south and Linux is on the up-swing. Dumb move by AOL. Not so dumb for MS but in the long run it may prove to be. If Linux takes 50% of the desktop market share, it would behove MS to create Office for it. However, given that Office is becoming more and more bloated and closed, by that time it won't matter. OOo and StarOffice will eventually fair well against Office.
Balmer: "ARGH!" (tosses chair, breaks glass, rips off tie) "I will OWN THE MEDIA MARKET! I WILL KILL THEM ALL! So, what did they think of our single-play DVD?"
Assistant: "Uh...they laughed, Sir."
Balmer: "Oh!...Ummm...Okay...well...uh...let's play it as a hoax."
Assistant: "Yes, Sir. New chair, Sir?"
Balmer: "That would be nice, and some decaf!"
With my cheap DVD player, this would play out as follows:
DVD is playing....get's about 2/3 into the movie at the most critical part of the story.
Screen freezes...
"Error: This disc cannot be played."
Eject, wipe of DVD, re-insert.
"Warning: You've already played this video once. Please dispose of properly! Copyright 2005 Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved...except yours, of course!"
If Microsoft is buying a controlling stake in AOL, as has been reported, how long will this deal hold?
"When is someone going to start selling some decent Linux portables?"
It's interesting, really. When you add Linux to anything sub-laptop like a PDA, the price goes up. Zaurus and the plethora of Korean/Japan-sold only PDA's taught us this. When you add it to a laptop or PC, it goes down. Microtel, etc.
The thing is, we've all been waiting for this since it was touted at the 'next big thing" about 5 years ago. Either no one wanted to jump in and actually make it happen or the interest was sketchy. I'm guessing a little of both. The reason Google is named here is because they're have the expendable cash to throw at this and see if it sticks. It won't. Office on the Web is just not the answer. Yes, it may work out for the home user or even SOHO, but certainly not for enterprise offices. Security will become a huge issue. If not in reality, Microsoft and their PR machine will talk about the security of online apps. How can they do this and at the same time try to push their own Web apps? Easy, they're Microsoft. This is a solution looking for a problem. The supposed problem is MSOffice and it's high cost. However, people want to replace it with a product that they can own.
There's a moon in the sky
It's called the moon
And everybody is there, including,
Saturn, Mercury
Saturn, Venus
Saturn, Mars
Saturn, Jupiter
The Van Allen Belt
From my "point:"
"BTW,it looks remarkably like spiders that are merely 20 days old"
See, you've already found a huge mistake in the article! How could this be a NEW species if it's 20..er...10 million years old!? NYAH!
Since science articles are only 50% correct, it's 10 million years old.
BTW,it looks remarkably like spiders that are merely 20 days old.
Queue NOVA voice over: "20 million years ago, the Earth was a much different place...with much difference life forms!"
Kid: "Sir! What about this spider!?"
NOVA voice: "Okay! Okay! The spiders were all the same! But there were no humans to screw things up! GOT IT!"
Kid: "Sorry...."
Wait, according to their website they're already "personally affordable" at $3.5million. Must be my neighborhood, but I don't know anyone "personally" who can afford that.
I've asked myself this. My opinion is that Microsoft doesn't like to be beat at virtually any game. They have MSN, Hotmail, and Messanger. The idea that someone would beat them out, or in this case stay well ahead of them, bothers them. They're paranoid that Google will enter into other spaces. Also, don't discount the fact that Microsoft has probably put a lot of similar technologies in the cooker that Google has been working on. That being said, I'm still convinced that to a great extent they just don't want anyone out growing them. Google could get big enough to endorse or push their own OS (doubtful) or even an office suite. OTOH, Microsoft is the one benefiting from all of this Google hype. The more Microsoft can make Google look like the bully, the more "journalists" will fret that maybe there's a huge shift coming. What will it mean? What will become of computing? Then the FUD machine from Microsoft can whip the entire technology sector into a frenzy. I'm not sure of the entire strategy, but I'm fairly convinced that Microsoft is glad to see all of this hype.
Each side is waiting for the other to blink. My hope and guess is it won't be Jobs. Why should he? You think the RIAA is going to screw with their best / only real online revenue stream? Then again, their suing 12 year old girls, so why not?
As someone has already pointed out, this was in the OPINION section of Fox News. It was NOT a news item. I've seen very liberal opinions written there too, so yes they are fairly balanced. Will we see a pro OSS commentary, that I don't know. At least this was in the Views section, though.
I'm suspicious of this article because of all of the buzz words. It's practically rife with Microsoft's comparison campaign phrases. Furthermore, that SAP had difficulty running on Linux is a SAP issue, not a Linux issue.
So where is the "death of the PC Game?" Where is the death of the "online Gaming Industry?" I keep hearing about the death of the PC but it just doesn't die. Notice that lately this has come up ALOT with the Microsoft vs. Google reports. The idea is with Google rising to power and not even offering an OS, the desktop must be dying. After all, look at all you can to with a cell phone, PDA, PDA-phone, Laptop, Laptop-phone-PDA-expresso machine now! I just don't see it. Home users just are not trading in their 2.5Ghz desktops for 300Mhz PDA's and probably won't until that PDA/Phone/Web-box can beat the PC's ass. We've almost been conditions to envy the next fast CPU and they expect to wean our addiction by showing us shiny candy-like handhelds and promises that the Web can one day power our Everquest!? Puhleez!
I've always thought of the political spectrum as represented by a circle. Liberalism, authoritarianism, communism, and socialism being very close to one another yet stretched out on a sting, they might be extremes of each other. In an authoritarian regime you would have perhaps a dictator taking control of assets to wrestle it away from the people, thus utilizing them for the good of the state, yourself. With socialism, they'd be taken for the good of the state but the state's intentions are supposedly for good, not ill.
We can only hope, being the smartest mammals on the planet, that they can tell the good guys from the bad guys.
I found it interesting with all of the "science" about how smart dolphins are to find that they're also quite capable of evil. I mean, dolphin lovers like to talk about how smart and how "humane" they are and if we would be more like them we'd all live in this utopia. I thought this was an interesting take until I saw the Discovery Channel show about how young male dolphins gang up and kidnap and rape female dolphins.
Why does Slashdot persist in posting such a waste of read? Listen, Folks, because apparently this is fscking news to some people. China is a communist nation. I know, I know, some of you sitting there with hand-over-mouth, agast that such could exist in this day and age but it's true. I'll pause while everything you've ever read on Slashdot about China comes crashing into focus.......
....
Okay. Welcome to page 12, where the rest of the ENTIRE FSCKING WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO CATCH UP!
You make excellent points. This was supposed to already happen. Everything would move to the Web, we'd all do our computing off "the Network" because "the Network" is the "PC." I believe Sun touted that about 4 years ago. You can't just take the PC away for the reasons you site. You can't give people 3Ghz PC's to play Doom3D on and then say, "Forget all that, we're moving to the Web." Furthermore, when you convert an entire infrastructure over to "the Web" and your workers start complaining about the time it takes to type up and print out that order you wanted guess what? You're going to dig up your obsolete 3Ghz desktop and do it faster. It will take YEARS for web services to have the kinks worked out enough to replace the PC. IMO, it's patently foolish to compare text messaging, java games, and order tracking over a cell phone with the wealth of apps on a PC. The idea that all of my apps can be replaced with my cell phone or a Web appliance is foolish. What these "visionaries" fail to take into account is the customer. I'm sure most of those people who say "they'd rather have access to Internet services than their desktop computing applications" will kick and scream when you take their office suite, graphics applications, CAD programs and the like completely away from them and move them to "the Network." Sun has been counting on this idea for years but few are listening. The future will still hold PC's AND Web applications. Yes, we may eventually move to smaller and smaller devices, phones, and PC's but the PC will be around for the foreseeable future. This will no doubt piss off Sun. It sucks to be irrelevant.
There's a reason for this. In corporate culture each of these teams are not likely to share a lot of code. Yes, at some point they will share that which is needed to thread them together, but I would imagine there was a lot of hoarding going on. With Linux, the code is released and different groups contribute and scrutinize it.
GMail's primary feature is space. Frankly, I don't care for the interface. Deleting mail is problematic. I've found stuff I've removed show up. You move stuff to Trash, empty Trash, and expect it to be gone. They have no real filtering. Folders are basically non-existent replaced with labelling that difficult to follow. Thank goodness you can attach via a pop client. That being said, I use it.