right, so that's the enormous proportion of market share who are *given* an ipod for free sorted. can we consider the small proportion of ipod owners who paid for their player now?
perhaps this is one of the reasons they're doing a "basic" flavour: they can point the EU monopoly people at it and say "look, we've produced a stripped down version you're free to buy!" whilst not actually losing much in terms of monopolies as the OEMs won't ship it...
I didn't say they were attractive to people who knew about the alternatives. I said they're going into Vista, and like it or not Vista will end up on a lot of people's desktops. It'll leverage MS tech into the home. Whether this is a good or bad thing is immaterial.
Oh, and Activesync is one of the good bits of MS software, along with Exchange server.
the number of retail copies of XP sold, compared to the number shipped preinstalled on systems is pretty inconsequential. MS don't *have* to offer much beyond continued support and patches, some eye candy and an iron-clad OEM agreement with the PC manufacturers and it'll end up on millions of desktops by default.
the real question is how much leverage will it put on new markets for them: mobile devices (activesync as core component, "plays for sure" tie-ins to MP3 players, windows mobile messaging integration into exchange server, media center and xbox 360 integration - if done successfully it'll leverage a whole load more of joe sixpack's home into the MS domain...
The US government is already being passed details of EU citizens' airline flights *within Europe* - along with all of their personal information - this is happening right now in the cause of The War Against Terror (TWAT)...
I'd conjecture that a device that's produced in league with MS and PFS is probably going to have a pretty tight integration into Vista. This might be like Netscape vs Internet Explorer all over again...
MS Vista's out this year. Who knows how much "push" the PFS/portable media etc thing is going to get given by the OS and MS marketing? MP3 players are like browsers: people have their favourites, but they're "disposable" and it wouldn't surprise me if the MS one ends up a defacto standard just because they have a large userbase and can push for it by making it integrate better with their OS...Perhaps a PFS-compatible media player will "just work" much like iTunes and the iPod did...if it does, a lot of people who've not converted to digital music might well choose WMA rather than MP3 or AAC...
"they're not going to be installing Bonzi Buddy"...on a well managed network, the users shouldn't be able to do anything that does any more than hoses that machine - certainly nothing that damages the network's integrity. a bored sysadmin who's a bit of a loose cannon? they'll be the ones putting in backdoors to the system, opening ports on the firewall so they can mess about, etc - they're the ones who can really pose a threat to the integrity of your environment and data...
you put the business first. anything else is myopic. thinking about whether you're on the side of the silicon or the human is foolish - you are supporting a business and that business' job is to maximise shareholder revenue. it might mean that you (for example) have to piss off a lot of people by restricting their user rights on a client PC because it demonstrably lowers support costs by x percent. it might be that you have to block certain ports on the firewall because some idiots are abusing your bandwidth downloading movies whilst your remote sales force are getting timeouts trying to connect.
and just how well supported and innovative do you think your service will be once the majority of their income goes down the pan? in the unlikely event the lawsuits go against RIM, their future may well be rocky...
Getting a two year old to hold a pen correctly and start drawing more or less inside the lines of a colouring book means their working on their hand/eye coordination and fingertip fine control. I'd argue you won't get the same from a mouse, and it's a pretty valuable basic building block of physical competence.
The only disks it won't copy are a few recent Sony ones (and we fcking *hate* Sony right now, yes?). These generate a CRC failure on read and the first few you meet you'd probably put down to scratches on the disk.
For those small number that don't copy (assuming you're using Windows), use DVD Decrypter and then burn the result with any CD burning program.
Or, use DVD43 and leave it running in your systray at all times. It'll strip out this protection on the fly, allowing DVDshrink to do its thing.
gee, when i grow up can i be just like you?
sysadmins aren't wizards anymore: they administer the IT systems. by your reckoning, a hospital sysadmin could do brain surgery and i don't mean BOFH-style brain surgery.
I can buy an ipod, spending quite a bit more than a roughly-equivalent no-name mp3 player, so that it synchs seamlessly with iTunes.
Or, I can buy an ipod, spending quite a bit more than a roughly-equivalent no-name mp3 player, and have it work like a no-name bulk-storage device player?
If you don't want to use iTunes, why not save some cash and get something like an iRiver?
recruitment agencies deal with thousands of applicants. they're gradually getting with the times and storing these incoming CVs in electronic format. if you send them a PDF, sure, they can store it on the network, but they can't (as an example) readily search through them all for certain skills, or copy and paste the contents readily into another application. certainly where i work, agencies attempting to supply contractors will be doing it all electronically - and if someone just supplies a paper CV or a one in a different format, it makes life just that little bit more difficult. anything that causes HR/recruitment a bit of a problem tends to slip down the pile.
like it or not, word is a defacto standard now - i'm sure they wouldn't care if you wrote it using Open Office though.
you have to ask yourself, do i want the job? how can i make it easier for them to pick me?
1) you're not the target market. this is aimed at enterprise who want mobile exchange server access, with the emphasis on groupware. this means full calendar functionality with other mailboxes, contacts, global address list etc. it's got to be a full outlook client in your pocket, and work anywhere. it's not aimed at an individual who has a phone and quite fancies checking his email.
2)integrate the hardware? my smartphone does all of the functions you mention above natively, with the exception of GPS: i use a bluetooth GPS device and run the navigation software on the phone.
i'm no MS apologist, but it's going to be very tough sell indeed for businesses to use anything other than windows mobile for handheld outlook functionality.
not just search: look at the Google Desktop Search
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..if you use the "spread indexing over multiple computers" option, they'll get a copy of your documents uploaded to Google servers.
bit OT, but have to share. Having your car's ECU remapped isn't illegal!
Had by Skoda diesel engine remapped on Friday by Jabbasport in the UK. 1.9PD 130 engine now running at 193BHP, and 311lbs/foot of torque, and it's also marginally more economical. Fast as hell, too.
See http://www.richarris.plus.com/jabba.jpg for a dynoplot showing before and after...
This is a good example of geeks using their skills to improve on existing products via some skillful tinkering.
bang on, brother. design it right, and you'll also have something that disabled users can read and navigate successfully too. blind users with screenreaders can't use flash or crappily-designed webpages, for example.
you're bang on there: ex-accenture girls are where it's at. don't know why this is: whether they just hire them like that or it's part of the training or something they put in the coffee machines there, but....*damn*
it's a good suggestion. the most common infection vector these days is via IE exploits and iffy websites. blocking these in your hosts file means you won't inadvertently visit these sites in the first place, with the benefit of adblocking from these addresses too. it's another layer of protection.
if you have a business need that's not being met by your IT dept, submit a business case and let your manager sort it out. easy. ban stuff on a business, case, reinstate it on one too.
1) "juristically"?
2) "deprave"?
3) Stealing data is still stealing. If someone's IP is contained within some electronic files, and you take a copy of it and infringe their IP: that's stealing. If you take a copy of someone's payroll info and use that to do ID theft on those people: that's stealing.
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right, so that's the enormous proportion of market share who are *given* an ipod for free sorted. can we consider the small proportion of ipod owners who paid for their player now?
perhaps this is one of the reasons they're doing a "basic" flavour: they can point the EU monopoly people at it and say "look, we've produced a stripped down version you're free to buy!" whilst not actually losing much in terms of monopolies as the OEMs won't ship it...
I didn't say they were attractive to people who knew about the alternatives. I said they're going into Vista, and like it or not Vista will end up on a lot of people's desktops. It'll leverage MS tech into the home. Whether this is a good or bad thing is immaterial.
Oh, and Activesync is one of the good bits of MS software, along with Exchange server.
the number of retail copies of XP sold, compared to the number shipped preinstalled on systems is pretty inconsequential. MS don't *have* to offer much beyond continued support and patches, some eye candy and an iron-clad OEM agreement with the PC manufacturers and it'll end up on millions of desktops by default.
the real question is how much leverage will it put on new markets for them: mobile devices (activesync as core component, "plays for sure" tie-ins to MP3 players, windows mobile messaging integration into exchange server, media center and xbox 360 integration - if done successfully it'll leverage a whole load more of joe sixpack's home into the MS domain...
The US government is already being passed details of EU citizens' airline flights *within Europe* - along with all of their personal information - this is happening right now in the cause of The War Against Terror (TWAT)...
I'd conjecture that a device that's produced in league with MS and PFS is probably going to have a pretty tight integration into Vista. This might be like Netscape vs Internet Explorer all over again...
MS Vista's out this year. Who knows how much "push" the PFS/portable media etc thing is going to get given by the OS and MS marketing? MP3 players are like browsers: people have their favourites, but they're "disposable" and it wouldn't surprise me if the MS one ends up a defacto standard just because they have a large userbase and can push for it by making it integrate better with their OS...Perhaps a PFS-compatible media player will "just work" much like iTunes and the iPod did...if it does, a lot of people who've not converted to digital music might well choose WMA rather than MP3 or AAC...
"they're not going to be installing Bonzi Buddy"...on a well managed network, the users shouldn't be able to do anything that does any more than hoses that machine - certainly nothing that damages the network's integrity. a bored sysadmin who's a bit of a loose cannon? they'll be the ones putting in backdoors to the system, opening ports on the firewall so they can mess about, etc - they're the ones who can really pose a threat to the integrity of your environment and data...
you put the business first. anything else is myopic. thinking about whether you're on the side of the silicon or the human is foolish - you are supporting a business and that business' job is to maximise shareholder revenue. it might mean that you (for example) have to piss off a lot of people by restricting their user rights on a client PC because it demonstrably lowers support costs by x percent. it might be that you have to block certain ports on the firewall because some idiots are abusing your bandwidth downloading movies whilst your remote sales force are getting timeouts trying to connect.
and just how well supported and innovative do you think your service will be once the majority of their income goes down the pan? in the unlikely event the lawsuits go against RIM, their future may well be rocky...
Getting a two year old to hold a pen correctly and start drawing more or less inside the lines of a colouring book means their working on their hand/eye coordination and fingertip fine control. I'd argue you won't get the same from a mouse, and it's a pretty valuable basic building block of physical competence.
The only disks it won't copy are a few recent Sony ones (and we fcking *hate* Sony right now, yes?). These generate a CRC failure on read and the first few you meet you'd probably put down to scratches on the disk.
For those small number that don't copy (assuming you're using Windows), use DVD Decrypter and then burn the result with any CD burning program.
Or, use DVD43 and leave it running in your systray at all times. It'll strip out this protection on the fly, allowing DVDshrink to do its thing.
gee, when i grow up can i be just like you?
sysadmins aren't wizards anymore: they administer the IT systems. by your reckoning, a hospital sysadmin could do brain surgery and i don't mean BOFH-style brain surgery.
I can buy an ipod, spending quite a bit more than a roughly-equivalent no-name mp3 player, so that it synchs seamlessly with iTunes.
Or, I can buy an ipod, spending quite a bit more than a roughly-equivalent no-name mp3 player, and have it work like a no-name bulk-storage device player?
If you don't want to use iTunes, why not save some cash and get something like an iRiver?
iTunes ripped CDs have zero DRM in them. nothing. nada. iTunes *downloaded* tunes do.
recruitment agencies deal with thousands of applicants. they're gradually getting with the times and storing these incoming CVs in electronic format.
if you send them a PDF, sure, they can store it on the network, but they can't (as an example) readily search through them all for certain skills, or copy and paste the contents readily into another application.
certainly where i work, agencies attempting to supply contractors will be doing it all electronically - and if someone just supplies a paper CV or a one in a different format, it makes life just that little bit more difficult. anything that causes HR/recruitment a bit of a problem tends to slip down the pile. like it or not, word is a defacto standard now - i'm sure they wouldn't care if you wrote it using Open Office though.
you have to ask yourself, do i want the job? how can i make it easier for them to pick me?
1) you're not the target market. this is aimed at enterprise who want mobile exchange server access, with the emphasis on groupware. this means full calendar functionality with other mailboxes, contacts, global address list etc. it's got to be a full outlook client in your pocket, and work anywhere. it's not aimed at an individual who has a phone and quite fancies checking his email.
2)integrate the hardware? my smartphone does all of the functions you mention above natively, with the exception of GPS: i use a bluetooth GPS device and run the navigation software on the phone.
i'm no MS apologist, but it's going to be very tough sell indeed for businesses to use anything other than windows mobile for handheld outlook functionality.
..if you use the "spread indexing over multiple computers" option, they'll get a copy of your documents uploaded to Google servers.
bit OT, but have to share. Having your car's ECU remapped isn't illegal!
Had by Skoda diesel engine remapped on Friday by Jabbasport in the UK. 1.9PD 130 engine now running at 193BHP, and 311lbs/foot of torque, and it's also marginally more economical. Fast as hell, too.
See http://www.richarris.plus.com/jabba.jpg for a dynoplot showing before and after...
This is a good example of geeks using their skills to improve on existing products via some skillful tinkering.
bang on, brother. design it right, and you'll also have something that disabled users can read and navigate successfully too. blind users with screenreaders can't use flash or crappily-designed webpages, for example.
you're bang on there: ex-accenture girls are where it's at. don't know why this is: whether they just hire them like that or it's part of the training or something they put in the coffee machines there, but....*damn*
it's a good suggestion. the most common infection vector these days is via IE exploits and iffy websites. blocking these in your hosts file means you won't inadvertently visit these sites in the first place, with the benefit of adblocking from these addresses too. it's another layer of protection.
so deny users access to usbstor.sys via an AD policy. USB peripherals will work fine, APART from USB bulk storage. sheesh, this isn't rocket science.
if you have a business need that's not being met by your IT dept, submit a business case and let your manager sort it out. easy. ban stuff on a business, case, reinstate it on one too.
1) "juristically"?
2) "deprave"?
3) Stealing data is still stealing. If someone's IP is contained within some electronic files, and you take a copy of it and infringe their IP: that's stealing. If you take a copy of someone's payroll info and use that to do ID theft on those people: that's stealing.