Not only are they buzzword bingo winners, they are also Luddites. Not using any technology at all? I wonder where their "hundreds of trained professionals are?" Somewhere totally cheap. Do you really want someone in China reading your e-mail? I am sticking with Cloudmark that harnesses the power of community but doesn't exploit third world people or expose my mail to privacy concerns.
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"Microsoft and its Affiliates hereby grant you ("Licensee") a fully paid, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license
under Microsoft's Necessary Claims to make, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise distribute Licensed
Implementations, provided, Licensee, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby grants Microsoft and all other
Specification Licensees, a reciprocal fully paid, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable,
license under Necessary Claims of Licensee to make, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise
distribute Licensed Implementations."
basically whatever code you write, you must give to microsoft for free. Good deal eh?
I know there are technologies which have revolutionized the life and power density of batteries. They have been surpressed just like the auto industry has sucessfully surpressed every alternative to the internal combustion engine for over 100 years. The problem is that batteries are a replacement business. If you double the life, you sell half the number of batteries. And you can't charge twice as much. So any innovation simply cuts into the bottom line. No real innovation will happen unless done by an evangelical start-up.
this reminds me of a funny event at a streaming media trade show a couple years ago. Apple was there showing off a new version of Quicktime that claimed an amazing quality advantage a very low data rates compared to Microsoft and Real. The standard measurement of data rates in streaming is Bits per Second (normal bandwidth terminology). So Apple is showing this glorious full screen video at 80 "K" per second. The I asked the booth bunny if it was Bits or Bytes. She didn't know. The marketing manager was called over and admitted it was Bytes. "We use our own math".
Those kooky apple guys.
Check out www.cloudmark.com. Community action is the foundation of this soluiton to spam. Individual end users do a much better job of saying what spam is and filtering it from their collective in-boxes than any politician will ever do!
I have a Segway. Have been trying to figure out how to hack it, but the buggers wrote their own OS or sump'n. Had to send it back to the factory once because of a short that caused random jerks to the right at high speeds sending the rider flying. Glad their machines didn't have this!
What is next? Will SCO claim that the GPL was written by aliens? The GPL is an individual contract between a publisher and a user. Those two private parties can agree to anything they want. They can agree that the first illegitimate offspring of any subsequent animal/human coupling must be sacraficed in the nearest volcano if they want. It is a contract that doesn't have to comply with copywrite regulations. Those are there for people who don't have explicit contracts between each other.
I have long been a supporter of free wifi. This article (slugfest or not) points out one of the core problems with the paid model. Anywhere you have alot of people and the monopolists want to tax people, you can also put up a free AP. And people will. There is even one guy in SF who is following Starbucks around and putting up accesspoints next to them with a cheaper per hour fee. When you open up "available networks" you see the expensive Starbucks one and the cheaper surf'n sip one. I bet you will see a free on there as well. There is no way to stop these free networks and lots of people motivated to set them up.
Power to the people!
Msft has taken alot of heat lately about patch management, so they put up a new hire from a security consulting firm? Why not a product group guy? How do you think they got where they are anyway? The product groups did their own thing. And you know this won't be open to any other vendors. I hope someone comes up with a cross vendor solution....
This is utterly stupid! Those who somehow argue that stealing music and other files over P2P is what the internet was made for are more than missing the point. What if all goods could be gotten for free? Just because it is technologically possible to steal music, video, software and text documents easilly does it make it any different than taking a physical good? Think about this from the production side. From the author side. Say I am a craftsman and I make widgets in my basement. I make a widget with $1 of raw materials and $20 of my labor and sell the things for $50 in the stores. The more widgets I make, the more money I make. Now say someone can get an exact copy of my widget for free in a magic duplicator machine? What do i have to do? Figure out a new way to live. A new way to pay for the other widgets in my life made by other people.
And don't pity the poor artist stuck in the "bad" contracts. I just saw the Matrix Reloaded and I know this world is all about choice. No-one forced them to sign the record contracts. Record companies invest alot of money into artists. Most of who never sell any records and OD in a bathroom somewhere. The few that do make it pay for all those who don't. That is life. Get over it!
IPV6 is not just a software upgrade. Take a look at how much processing is baked into the hardware in your infrastructure. Most routers, switches, IDS boxes, firewalls, etc. Anything that does DNS or even touches an IP address. You are going to have to replace ALOT of boxes on this one... I was thinking that the real way to re-ignite IT spending would be to mandate an upgrade to IPV6....
You are missing the REAL news. Individual applications of course have been able to program this in anytime they wanted to and some have. The REAL news here is the possibility of a cross application payment and collection system. Integrated into all your favorite games. With all the right protections. Now THAT is cool..
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Not only are they buzzword bingo winners, they are also Luddites. Not using any technology at all? I wonder where their "hundreds of trained professionals are?" Somewhere totally cheap. Do you really want someone in China reading your e-mail? I am sticking with Cloudmark that harnesses the power of community but doesn't exploit third world people or expose my mail to privacy concerns.
Check out the fine print. "Microsoft and its Affiliates hereby grant you ("Licensee") a fully paid, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide license under Microsoft's Necessary Claims to make, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise distribute Licensed Implementations, provided, Licensee, on behalf of itself and its Affiliates, hereby grants Microsoft and all other Specification Licensees, a reciprocal fully paid, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable, license under Necessary Claims of Licensee to make, use, sell, offer to sell, import, and otherwise distribute Licensed Implementations." basically whatever code you write, you must give to microsoft for free. Good deal eh?
I know there are technologies which have revolutionized the life and power density of batteries. They have been surpressed just like the auto industry has sucessfully surpressed every alternative to the internal combustion engine for over 100 years. The problem is that batteries are a replacement business. If you double the life, you sell half the number of batteries. And you can't charge twice as much. So any innovation simply cuts into the bottom line. No real innovation will happen unless done by an evangelical start-up.
this reminds me of a funny event at a streaming media trade show a couple years ago. Apple was there showing off a new version of Quicktime that claimed an amazing quality advantage a very low data rates compared to Microsoft and Real. The standard measurement of data rates in streaming is Bits per Second (normal bandwidth terminology). So Apple is showing this glorious full screen video at 80 "K" per second. The I asked the booth bunny if it was Bits or Bytes. She didn't know. The marketing manager was called over and admitted it was Bytes. "We use our own math". Those kooky apple guys.
Check out www.cloudmark.com. Community action is the foundation of this soluiton to spam. Individual end users do a much better job of saying what spam is and filtering it from their collective in-boxes than any politician will ever do!
I have a Segway. Have been trying to figure out how to hack it, but the buggers wrote their own OS or sump'n. Had to send it back to the factory once because of a short that caused random jerks to the right at high speeds sending the rider flying. Glad their machines didn't have this!
What is next? Will SCO claim that the GPL was written by aliens? The GPL is an individual contract between a publisher and a user. Those two private parties can agree to anything they want. They can agree that the first illegitimate offspring of any subsequent animal/human coupling must be sacraficed in the nearest volcano if they want. It is a contract that doesn't have to comply with copywrite regulations. Those are there for people who don't have explicit contracts between each other.
I have long been a supporter of free wifi. This article (slugfest or not) points out one of the core problems with the paid model. Anywhere you have alot of people and the monopolists want to tax people, you can also put up a free AP. And people will. There is even one guy in SF who is following Starbucks around and putting up accesspoints next to them with a cheaper per hour fee. When you open up "available networks" you see the expensive Starbucks one and the cheaper surf'n sip one. I bet you will see a free on there as well. There is no way to stop these free networks and lots of people motivated to set them up. Power to the people!
Msft has taken alot of heat lately about patch management, so they put up a new hire from a security consulting firm? Why not a product group guy? How do you think they got where they are anyway? The product groups did their own thing. And you know this won't be open to any other vendors. I hope someone comes up with a cross vendor solution....
dude, I am looking for the mirror. Can you point me the way to San Jose? thks m
This is utterly stupid! Those who somehow argue that stealing music and other files over P2P is what the internet was made for are more than missing the point. What if all goods could be gotten for free? Just because it is technologically possible to steal music, video, software and text documents easilly does it make it any different than taking a physical good? Think about this from the production side. From the author side. Say I am a craftsman and I make widgets in my basement. I make a widget with $1 of raw materials and $20 of my labor and sell the things for $50 in the stores. The more widgets I make, the more money I make. Now say someone can get an exact copy of my widget for free in a magic duplicator machine? What do i have to do? Figure out a new way to live. A new way to pay for the other widgets in my life made by other people. And don't pity the poor artist stuck in the "bad" contracts. I just saw the Matrix Reloaded and I know this world is all about choice. No-one forced them to sign the record contracts. Record companies invest alot of money into artists. Most of who never sell any records and OD in a bathroom somewhere. The few that do make it pay for all those who don't. That is life. Get over it!
IPV6 is not just a software upgrade. Take a look at how much processing is baked into the hardware in your infrastructure. Most routers, switches, IDS boxes, firewalls, etc. Anything that does DNS or even touches an IP address. You are going to have to replace ALOT of boxes on this one... I was thinking that the real way to re-ignite IT spending would be to mandate an upgrade to IPV6....
You are missing the REAL news. Individual applications of course have been able to program this in anytime they wanted to and some have. The REAL news here is the possibility of a cross application payment and collection system. Integrated into all your favorite games. With all the right protections. Now THAT is cool..