If you could wave a reader over the car for 5 seconds, and be given a few key bits of information like peak acceleration, that would be just about useless?
If that were to happen, not only would most governments and companies in Europe decide that depending on Microsoft would be too risky, but many governments and companies throughout the world would arrive at the same conclusion.
Home users will make different choices as they always do, but Microsoft would lose it's status as the de facto standard.
Microsoft thrives on being the "safe" choice. It will do nothing to jeapordize that.
IR is just another medium. It is/will be useful in it's own niche.
I doubt the security issue will be the big selling point.
802.11* has problems coexisting with other wireless networks, as well as unintentional interference, and it will only get worse. That doesn't mean the party is over, just that sometimes other solutions might be better suited.
Your boss doesn't know that it poses no risk to his property, and he is not obligated to listen to arguments to that effect.
To him, taking the risk offers no return, so it makes no sense.
I don't think it's about the dot com bubble, at least not completely.
There are a lot of conflicting viewpoints, and lobbying dollars at the moment. The entertainment industry wants to castrate some technologies, so they can't be used for piracy. The manufacturors want fewer restrictions, because restrictions will lower demand, and restrict possible international exports. The open source communities, the ACLU, etc, want fewer restrictions on principal. And so on like that.
In an environment like that, strong support for any given position is likely to get a politician in trouble from someone, so they probably think it's better to be seen as indifferent or neutral.
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I will have to take your word for it. I don't know much about it, and I don't care enough to do any research. :)
If you could wave a reader over the car for 5 seconds, and be given a few key bits of information like peak acceleration, that would be just about useless?
And the first thing to happen after getting back online is getting slashdotted. :)
That would make things worse for Microsoft.
If that were to happen, not only would most governments and companies in Europe decide that depending on Microsoft would be too risky, but many governments and companies throughout the world would arrive at the same conclusion.
Home users will make different choices as they always do, but Microsoft would lose it's status as the de facto standard.
Microsoft thrives on being the "safe" choice. It will do nothing to jeapordize that.
IR is just another medium. It is/will be useful in it's own niche.
I doubt the security issue will be the big selling point.
802.11* has problems coexisting with other wireless networks, as well as unintentional interference, and it will only get worse. That doesn't mean the party is over, just that sometimes other solutions might be better suited.
Your boss doesn't know that it poses no risk to his property, and he is not obligated to listen to arguments to that effect. To him, taking the risk offers no return, so it makes no sense.
I don't think it's about the dot com bubble, at least not completely. There are a lot of conflicting viewpoints, and lobbying dollars at the moment. The entertainment industry wants to castrate some technologies, so they can't be used for piracy. The manufacturors want fewer restrictions, because restrictions will lower demand, and restrict possible international exports. The open source communities, the ACLU, etc, want fewer restrictions on principal. And so on like that. In an environment like that, strong support for any given position is likely to get a politician in trouble from someone, so they probably think it's better to be seen as indifferent or neutral.