I started predicting last year that 2011 would be the year that Android tablets would finally become popular. I wasn't expecting Amazon.com to make that happen with the Kindle Fire, though... I was expecting a PC manufacturer like Dell or Lenovo to pull it off.
Next year will be the year where the Android tablets start taking market share away from Apple... the days where the iPad had 90% market share and developers didn't bother optimizing their apps for Android tablets will soon be over.
Unless you put a bunch of games on the Linux PC's that aren't on the Windows PC's, 90% of the students will never bother to use it. People like to stick with what they already know from home use when they get a chance... they're lazy like that.
The 10% that do will probably be the classroom geeks that already know what they're doing.
Nope, that doesn't work either. By rating tech support people on user satisfaction, you're basically asking them to beg/bribe/coerce their users into giving them a high satisfaction rating in order to save their jobs.
The best example of this would be my local Audi dealer...Audi only gives bonuses to staff that gets a 5 out of 5 customer rating, so they practically beg their customers to either give them a perfect rating or to not to bother rating them at all. How are you supposed to give a honest review after hearing that, knowing that you're basically screwing the person out of their bonus if you give them a "4" rating for ANY aspect of your visit?
You would think that the talented technicians would get the higher support ratings, but in reality the technicians who are the best at schmoozing their users will get them.
* Microsoft decides to bundle free anti-virus software with Windows 8, causing millions of Windows users to stop purchasing other antivirus software and use what's pre-installed. Because, hey, people are lazy and will use the default option when given a chance. * Several of the smaller security software companies get out of the business due to declining profits/market share thanks to the built in antivirus software, leaving only a few major players for Enterprise customers and Microsoft. * The smarter malware authors take advantage of the situation, and write a virus that specifically targets and disables the Microsoft anti-virus, along with several of the other remaining anti-virus products. Bingo, it's like 2001 all over again. * People feel the need to start having two anti-virus programs on their computer, in order to protect themselves if the primary anti-virus program gets disabled. A new industry is born: AntiVirus software for your AntiVirus software.
No offence, but I knew that I was going to go through a divorce a year from now I wouldn't be stupid enough to put any incriminating evidence on Facebook to begin with.
Besides, Facebook's privacy policies are so lax that it's best to assume that anything that you post there is public knowledge anyway.
Last I heard, there is still a free version of VMWare ESXi out there. That's still cheaper than any Windows based solution, which requires at least 1 Windows license.
Even if you want to go through the hell of using the free HyperV server and enabling remote administration on it, you still need a licensed Windows 7 Pro client to administer it.
I'll give Google six months to catch up. Android has had voice search and voice actions for awhile now, so it really only needs a few interface tweaks to make it as user friendly as Siri.
But, seriously, Slashdot should really stop posting articles from Forbes. They're not a technology magazine, and their technology news seems to be little more than regurgitated PR press releases from the technology manufacturers.
Yeah... Ginni was my division boss when I worked at IBM a few years ago. I think I even met her once... she give our department a "major" award with a very "minor" cash bonus attached to it. Under her tenure, half of my department's workload was outsourced to India, China, and Brazil.
So, yeah... don't expect anything other than more of the same from her leadership.
The big difference is that Chrome doesn't seem to be breaking half of it's plug-ins with every new release. Their browser updates are seamless, and just seem to WORK.
You can buy laptops and tablets and internet connected TV's from Newegg as well, along with all of the cables and add-ons. They'll do fine.
I'd be more concerned about video game stores... there isn't much of a point in buying games in a box when you can download them from your broadband connection for $10 cheaper.
Yeah... I'd rather IBM own this patent than a company like Google or Garmin, who would have an incentive to use it in their next navigation software releases for additional revenue.
That said, IBM has been known to sell their patents to the highest bidder. Grr.
No offense against Google, but HTC is the only cell phone provider that's developed a UI for Android that's actually an improvement over the stock platform. Both Samsung's TouchWiz and Motorola's MotoBlur UI changes just make the Android phones they run under phone slower and flakier.
If any cell phone provided can make WebOS a serious contender, it's HTC.
Perhaps Firefox should take a page out of Ubuntu's playbook, and offer a special LTS (Long Term Support) release that will receive back-ported security fixes for the next two or three years. That will give the IT departments and embedded systems manufacturers the long term stability they want, while general users and browser enthusiasts can continue to update their browser every three months.
Or they can do nothing, and continue to lose marketshare to Internet Explorer and Google Chrome when IT departments start adding Firefox to their unapproved/unsupported software lists. Their call, I guess.
While you're at it, can you please develop a creative new Facebook game ideas as well? It seems that almost every Facebook game out there is a variation of farming game. They all give you X number of energy points to do something, and then require you to show up every X hours to collect something or risk losing it.
Yeah, Yeah... I should be ashamed at myself for even trying these games out. I know, I know.
Yep... IT seems fairly easy for a layman until you have a hardware failure due a power outage, and suddenly find out that your daily backups haven't been working correctly for the past few weeks.
Only THEN will many people understand how important IT concepts like UPS battery backup, RAID, and scheduled backup tests are.
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I started predicting last year that 2011 would be the year that Android tablets would finally become popular. I wasn't expecting Amazon.com to make that happen with the Kindle Fire, though... I was expecting a PC manufacturer like Dell or Lenovo to pull it off.
Next year will be the year where the Android tablets start taking market share away from Apple... the days where the iPad had 90% market share and developers didn't bother optimizing their apps for Android tablets will soon be over.
Option 3 scares me... I'm envisioning the "Hi, my name is iPad! Hi, my name is Android" commercials now :)
Unless you put a bunch of games on the Linux PC's that aren't on the Windows PC's, 90% of the students will never bother to use it. People like to stick with what they already know from home use when they get a chance... they're lazy like that.
The 10% that do will probably be the classroom geeks that already know what they're doing.
Nope, that doesn't work either. By rating tech support people on user satisfaction, you're basically asking them to beg/bribe/coerce their users into giving them a high satisfaction rating in order to save their jobs.
The best example of this would be my local Audi dealer...Audi only gives bonuses to staff that gets a 5 out of 5 customer rating, so they practically beg their customers to either give them a perfect rating or to not to bother rating them at all. How are you supposed to give a honest review after hearing that, knowing that you're basically screwing the person out of their bonus if you give them a "4" rating for ANY aspect of your visit?
You would think that the talented technicians would get the higher support ratings, but in reality the technicians who are the best at schmoozing their users will get them.
Funny that you mentioned CentOS, considering that it's basically RHEL in drag...
Why limit this to just high school? Most major business decisions seem to be made to same way as well.
Wow, I can see where can this go wrong:
* Microsoft decides to bundle free anti-virus software with Windows 8, causing millions of Windows users to stop purchasing other antivirus software and use what's pre-installed. Because, hey, people are lazy and will use the default option when given a chance.
* Several of the smaller security software companies get out of the business due to declining profits/market share thanks to the built in antivirus software, leaving only a few major players for Enterprise customers and Microsoft.
* The smarter malware authors take advantage of the situation, and write a virus that specifically targets and disables the Microsoft anti-virus, along with several of the other remaining anti-virus products. Bingo, it's like 2001 all over again.
* People feel the need to start having two anti-virus programs on their computer, in order to protect themselves if the primary anti-virus program gets disabled. A new industry is born: AntiVirus software for your AntiVirus software.
No offence, but I knew that I was going to go through a divorce a year from now I wouldn't be stupid enough to put any incriminating evidence on Facebook to begin with.
Besides, Facebook's privacy policies are so lax that it's best to assume that anything that you post there is public knowledge anyway.
Last I heard, there is still a free version of VMWare ESXi out there. That's still cheaper than any Windows based solution, which requires at least 1 Windows license.
Even if you want to go through the hell of using the free HyperV server and enabling remote administration on it, you still need a licensed Windows 7 Pro client to administer it.
I'll give Google six months to catch up. Android has had voice search and voice actions for awhile now, so it really only needs a few interface tweaks to make it as user friendly as Siri.
But, seriously, Slashdot should really stop posting articles from Forbes. They're not a technology magazine, and their technology news seems to be little more than regurgitated PR press releases from the technology manufacturers.
Sure, it's nice to know what video card I should be buying, but how about the CPU?
Something tells me that upgrading to a Radeon 6990 isn't going so be so helpful if you're still running a 4 year old Core 2 Duo.
Unlike a bitcoin, this is probably worth more than $3.
Yeah... Ginni was my division boss when I worked at IBM a few years ago. I think I even met her once... she give our department a "major" award with a very "minor" cash bonus attached to it. Under her tenure, half of my department's workload was outsourced to India, China, and Brazil.
So, yeah... don't expect anything other than more of the same from her leadership.
Ah, Bitcoins. Funny how the Slashdot stories on those stopped now that they're only worth $2 each...
Or, maybe those "Occupy $YourMajorCity" protests are actually getting politicians to notice rampant corporate tax fraud?
Nah... I didn't think so, either.
The big difference is that Chrome doesn't seem to be breaking half of it's plug-ins with every new release. Their browser updates are seamless, and just seem to WORK.
You can buy laptops and tablets and internet connected TV's from Newegg as well, along with all of the cables and add-ons. They'll do fine.
I'd be more concerned about video game stores... there isn't much of a point in buying games in a box when you can download them from your broadband connection for $10 cheaper.
Yeah... I'd rather IBM own this patent than a company like Google or Garmin, who would have an incentive to use it in their next navigation software releases for additional revenue.
That said, IBM has been known to sell their patents to the highest bidder. Grr.
Cool idea, but unfortunately most of my friends and relatives have no clue how to secure their computers properly.
How tough would it be for some outside script kiddie to decrypt your remote backups stored on their computer?
No offense against Google, but HTC is the only cell phone provider that's developed a UI for Android that's actually an improvement over the stock platform. Both Samsung's TouchWiz and Motorola's MotoBlur UI changes just make the Android phones they run under phone slower and flakier.
If any cell phone provided can make WebOS a serious contender, it's HTC.
Perhaps Firefox should take a page out of Ubuntu's playbook, and offer a special LTS (Long Term Support) release that will receive back-ported security fixes for the next two or three years. That will give the IT departments and embedded systems manufacturers the long term stability they want, while general users and browser enthusiasts can continue to update their browser every three months.
Or they can do nothing, and continue to lose marketshare to Internet Explorer and Google Chrome when IT departments start adding Firefox to their unapproved/unsupported software lists. Their call, I guess.
Forget plugins... the logon page to our whole freakin corporate website no longer works thanks to the CSS changes they made in the 5.0 release.
At least Internet Explorer has a compatibility mode to get around stuff like this when they do new releases.
While you're at it, can you please develop a creative new Facebook game ideas as well? It seems that almost every Facebook game out there is a variation of farming game. They all give you X number of energy points to do something, and then require you to show up every X hours to collect something or risk losing it.
Yeah, Yeah... I should be ashamed at myself for even trying these games out. I know, I know.
I'd imagine that most people want Flash for Facebook games and videos. And by videos, I mean porn.
Hey... let's be honest here!
Yep... IT seems fairly easy for a layman until you have a hardware failure due a power outage, and suddenly find out that your daily backups haven't been working correctly for the past few weeks.
Only THEN will many people understand how important IT concepts like UPS battery backup, RAID, and scheduled backup tests are.