Google Fiber is already free for Grandma who only wants to email, Facebook and Netflix one FullHD stream at a time. I wish you people who like metered Internet would just go away. There is no good reason for it. Bandwidth is not precious. There is so much of it that well over 95% of the transit fibers are entirely dark or using legacy tech that doesn't saturate 1% of what modern endpoints would give.
It's not the public key that's the problem. The secretary doesn't understand. She'll decrypt your CV and everything else you send her, scan it to her email and then post the scan in the CMS. You might as well just print a flyer and hang it on every phone pole.
Microsoft's problem with ARM is that their software is proprietary. ARM systems integrators with Linux get to try out various configurations in a simulator before the silicon even gets wet. All of the various peripheral vendors have Linux drivers that work in the simulator - they make these drivers in parallel with device development because the open nature of the OS lets them test their device in private, and then submit any changes to the OS they need before they make the device public. But most especially having drivers that work in the simulator allows them to be considered in devices with a quick time to market. Proprietary software just doesn't work that way. You have to have NDA's, and meetings, full disclosure about your plans, bilateral patents agreement in place. It's a big legal tangle with lawyers and business people who play golf and have to schedule things months in advance, not engineers who don't play ever and want to see their creations exist NOW. It takes years and years.
Microsoft's problem with Surface is that we don't do things like they do things any more. They still live in the bad old days when progress was slow. They have to buy their development platforms at retail, and by the time they've got their software fit to publish on it that's legacy hardware and we've moved on. They can't keep up because they aren't even in the game. That's without considering that they have to put in some special hardware to make sure you can't make the device useful with good software one they blow it.
If the secretary can find somebody to decrypt your info, she will handle it improperly. Probably scan it directly to their compromised CMS. This is not a company you want to work for.
Yeah, and neither works with Intel's Haswell SOC which has an Intel CPU and Intel GPU integrated into one System On a Chip, or SOC. Are we all together on this now? Is anybody still confused? Show of hands.
Background: I've got an AMC Pacer - picked it up about a week ago at auction.
The weird way the stickshift works doesn't both me - it's not like I could compare it to anything.
The big killer for me though (and why I got it to replace my Pinto) is the humungous doors. Yeah, most people don't like doors that tilt the car when they open, but I think it's cool.
Fitting stuff in the back is nice too. It's ugly as hell, but I can get my stuff in it.
That's OK. It's fun to torment you. Do you remember this phrase?: "We are going mobile and Microsoft isn't coming with us."
Do you know why Microsoft isn't coming with us? It isn't because they don't know how to make good software (though they don't) It's because they are the obnoxious person we move the party to get away from, and then don't tell them where we went.
Actually, no. It's about the retailer's portion of the app sales that they weren't getting. By taking the app store in-house and getting the same deal that Google and Apple are getting they even the score with those two. The thing that they forgot is that the retailer who sold PCs wasn't making any money at all on the sale of Windows PCs, but was carrying them to get the software and accessories money at high margin. Since that's gone now there's no reason to carry the Windows PCs any more. They can put pillows or footballs in that space and make more profit.
BTW: While the NVidia Tegra Surface led to $900M in writedowns for Microsoft, the device is was built on - the Asus Prime - continues to sell and make profits to this day with an Android OS. The next gen product released before Surface RT launched - the Asus Infinity - is even more successful and profitable.
No, because Intel's Haswell has an integrated GPU that obviates nVidia's participation as a GPU provider. There is no point in bringing Haswell into an nVidia discussion, nor bringing nVidia into a Haswell, except for comparison. They are mutually exclusive for everything except comparison purposes. They are not going to be combined together into a product.
Metro apps are how Microsoft is going to let go of their Win32 legacy. They really, really need for their mobile efforts to take off so they can let go of app compat and the 30 years of spaghetti code they made to prevent competitors in that open market. Even they no longer understand how that shit works. The canonical reference for their SMB protocol is now the open source SAMBA project, which is compatible with more versions of their own software than they are. They really need a new basis where they can control who can make apps through administrative rather than technological means.
W32 apps are going away. Get over it. Soon your ancient copies of pirated Photoshop and Quicken will not work. You can limit your search for replacements to their ecosystem if you want to, or look wider afield. Since Windows devices are only 1/5 of endpoints today, looking wider is not really a bad idea.
I guess if all you know is the Windows world this seems drastic. I never did sign up for that. I was a Unix geek originally. Back before there was a Windows I was doing windows and Athena Widgets on SVR-III and never saw the benefit of the whole Windows thing. Yeah, they can make their Office dominate if they make their OS reject every other office software product - but I was never a big generator of form letters anyway, and I was doing WYSIWYG before DOS was a thing. I tried it, but what broke it for me was the driver model where to interact with the sound device even the maker of the sound device couldn't tell you how to interact with their gear on a hardware level: you had to get that from their subcontractor, who was wholly owned by Microsoft and not disposed to tell you how to do that if you weren't running a Microsoft OS. The people who invented the gear were literally contractually obligated to not tell me how it worked.
Windows Servers' default services IIS,.NET, Sharepoint, Exchange, Active-X, Silverlight and so on encourage developers to develop server-side systems that cannot serve these non-Windows end-points at all, ever - or at least not well. Their entire web developer ecosystem is purposefully designed around preventing useful access to these endpoints. This was a selling point to stay in their ecosystem when they had 90% control. When they have 20% of endpoints sold, not so much. Then it becomes a reason not to buy their server-side tech. The change happened so fast that they have had no chance to correct.
I'm not going to ever agree that basic ignorance is evil. You don't know what you don't know, a rightful man does the best he can with what he knows. Will-full ignorance though, you have a point. Many avoid learning the truth deliberately. They look the other way for reasons not having to do with doing the right thing, but with gaining personal advantage. I think the true nature of evil is providing this personal advantage: effectively paying flexible people to do the wrong thing for short term benefit and long-term pain. It's the devil's deal.
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Google Fiber is already free for Grandma who only wants to email, Facebook and Netflix one FullHD stream at a time. I wish you people who like metered Internet would just go away. There is no good reason for it. Bandwidth is not precious. There is so much of it that well over 95% of the transit fibers are entirely dark or using legacy tech that doesn't saturate 1% of what modern endpoints would give.
One every three weeks might do the trick, if they're good. Who do they think they're competing against? Apple?
13,000 years ago was the peak of the Holocene Optimum, when the Earth was warmer, glaciers smaller and the seas higher than today.
Sure it will. In a virtual machine, where it belongs. That way it can't hurt anybody.
It's not the public key that's the problem. The secretary doesn't understand. She'll decrypt your CV and everything else you send her, scan it to her email and then post the scan in the CMS. You might as well just print a flyer and hang it on every phone pole.
Windows tablets do have an 18 year history of failure. Their first Windows tablet failure would now be old enough to vote.
Not to put too fine a point on it, some folks need a swift guide into the pages of history.
Microsoft's problem with ARM is that their software is proprietary. ARM systems integrators with Linux get to try out various configurations in a simulator before the silicon even gets wet. All of the various peripheral vendors have Linux drivers that work in the simulator - they make these drivers in parallel with device development because the open nature of the OS lets them test their device in private, and then submit any changes to the OS they need before they make the device public. But most especially having drivers that work in the simulator allows them to be considered in devices with a quick time to market. Proprietary software just doesn't work that way. You have to have NDA's, and meetings, full disclosure about your plans, bilateral patents agreement in place. It's a big legal tangle with lawyers and business people who play golf and have to schedule things months in advance, not engineers who don't play ever and want to see their creations exist NOW. It takes years and years.
Microsoft's problem with Surface is that we don't do things like they do things any more. They still live in the bad old days when progress was slow. They have to buy their development platforms at retail, and by the time they've got their software fit to publish on it that's legacy hardware and we've moved on. They can't keep up because they aren't even in the game. That's without considering that they have to put in some special hardware to make sure you can't make the device useful with good software one they blow it.
If the secretary can find somebody to decrypt your info, she will handle it improperly. Probably scan it directly to their compromised CMS. This is not a company you want to work for.
I certainly hope we see a Haswell refresh of the Surface. That will quit Intel of tilting at the Windows tablet windmill once and for all.
Yeah, and neither works with Intel's Haswell SOC which has an Intel CPU and Intel GPU integrated into one System On a Chip, or SOC. Are we all together on this now? Is anybody still confused? Show of hands.
Background: I've got an AMC Pacer - picked it up about a week ago at auction.
The weird way the stickshift works doesn't both me - it's not like I could compare it to anything.
The big killer for me though (and why I got it to replace my Pinto) is the humungous doors. Yeah, most people don't like doors that tilt the car when they open, but I think it's cool.
Fitting stuff in the back is nice too. It's ugly as hell, but I can get my stuff in it.
Oh yeah. They're cross platform. They work on IE7, IE8 and IE9.
Gah. You guys don't quit.
That's OK. It's fun to torment you. Do you remember this phrase?: "We are going mobile and Microsoft isn't coming with us."
Do you know why Microsoft isn't coming with us? It isn't because they don't know how to make good software (though they don't) It's because they are the obnoxious person we move the party to get away from, and then don't tell them where we went.
Actually, no. It's about the retailer's portion of the app sales that they weren't getting. By taking the app store in-house and getting the same deal that Google and Apple are getting they even the score with those two. The thing that they forgot is that the retailer who sold PCs wasn't making any money at all on the sale of Windows PCs, but was carrying them to get the software and accessories money at high margin. Since that's gone now there's no reason to carry the Windows PCs any more. They can put pillows or footballs in that space and make more profit.
I am also not a fan. But that is the plan.
BTW: While the NVidia Tegra Surface led to $900M in writedowns for Microsoft, the device is was built on - the Asus Prime - continues to sell and make profits to this day with an Android OS. The next gen product released before Surface RT launched - the Asus Infinity - is even more successful and profitable.
No, because Intel's Haswell has an integrated GPU that obviates nVidia's participation as a GPU provider. There is no point in bringing Haswell into an nVidia discussion, nor bringing nVidia into a Haswell, except for comparison. They are mutually exclusive for everything except comparison purposes. They are not going to be combined together into a product.
Metro apps are how Microsoft is going to let go of their Win32 legacy. They really, really need for their mobile efforts to take off so they can let go of app compat and the 30 years of spaghetti code they made to prevent competitors in that open market. Even they no longer understand how that shit works. The canonical reference for their SMB protocol is now the open source SAMBA project, which is compatible with more versions of their own software than they are. They really need a new basis where they can control who can make apps through administrative rather than technological means.
W32 apps are going away. Get over it. Soon your ancient copies of pirated Photoshop and Quicken will not work. You can limit your search for replacements to their ecosystem if you want to, or look wider afield. Since Windows devices are only 1/5 of endpoints today, looking wider is not really a bad idea.
I'm not sure why you think nVidia would be involved with making a Haswell Surface. Are you lost?
I guess if all you know is the Windows world this seems drastic. I never did sign up for that. I was a Unix geek originally. Back before there was a Windows I was doing windows and Athena Widgets on SVR-III and never saw the benefit of the whole Windows thing. Yeah, they can make their Office dominate if they make their OS reject every other office software product - but I was never a big generator of form letters anyway, and I was doing WYSIWYG before DOS was a thing. I tried it, but what broke it for me was the driver model where to interact with the sound device even the maker of the sound device couldn't tell you how to interact with their gear on a hardware level: you had to get that from their subcontractor, who was wholly owned by Microsoft and not disposed to tell you how to do that if you weren't running a Microsoft OS. The people who invented the gear were literally contractually obligated to not tell me how it worked.
Spooks spy. That's what they do. It's their job and they're good at it.
How many months to go before the total of all Linux -strike- smartphones -/strike- devices alone exceeds the total of all Microsoft PCs?
About 12, give or take 3 if you're talking about installed base. About -18 months if you're talking about sales.
Windows Servers' default services IIS, .NET, Sharepoint, Exchange, Active-X, Silverlight and so on encourage developers to develop server-side systems that cannot serve these non-Windows end-points at all, ever - or at least not well. Their entire web developer ecosystem is purposefully designed around preventing useful access to these endpoints. This was a selling point to stay in their ecosystem when they had 90% control. When they have 20% of endpoints sold, not so much. Then it becomes a reason not to buy their server-side tech. The change happened so fast that they have had no chance to correct.
I'm not going to ever agree that basic ignorance is evil. You don't know what you don't know, a rightful man does the best he can with what he knows. Will-full ignorance though, you have a point. Many avoid learning the truth deliberately. They look the other way for reasons not having to do with doing the right thing, but with gaining personal advantage. I think the true nature of evil is providing this personal advantage: effectively paying flexible people to do the wrong thing for short term benefit and long-term pain. It's the devil's deal.