Property values in most places in the US are still on an artificial bubble, IMO, and one of the reason debt is so high is because housing costs so much.
Absolutely! I'm in my mid 30s now, and even as a teenager then I never quite understood the concept of investing in a home. It was an American culture (started in the 50s?) that we can always flip a house into a better home and find a newer one in its place. Perhaps this culture was restricted to the urbanites, but even I knew then it wasn't sustainable with our fiat system. And just when it couldn't get worse, our Federal Gov compounds the issue with new laws in order to make housing more affordable to those that otherwise couldn't afford one. Sounds like a great idea in theory, but we all saw careless the banks got rolling loans over into an oblivious abstract cluster. Not to mention buyers getting into debt so high they couldn't pay off the principle. Sure enough, the entire system collapsed and no one wants to sell their home. Can't blame them, but it's still ratcheted too high. They're sitting on debt and now there's what seems like an eternal struggle between the seller and prospective buyer. Only when the home owner defaults, property returned to the bank, can the re-evaluation and negotiation take place at the "true" market value. Either way it's not pretty.
FYI, there is a nasty real estate bubble in Shanghai, China. God forbid, that's another shoe waiting to drop.
And here I've been told by the media that Barack Obama would be the "Great Unifier" when in fact he's really propped up to defend against anyone who disagrees with his policies as "racist" by people like you.
Our tax code is complicated for several reasons. 1.) Yes, corruption and special interests, but also 2.) to social engineer society to vote "my way" in whatever direction is currently lead by the party in control. The most recent example is the IRS giving tax breaks to mothers who breast feed. Why? It's like they tax the hell out of us and then where supposed to act all "ohhh, thank you master for giving us a nice break". Ya well, eff that! Especially since none of that money being collected goes to where it's supposed to go in the first place. I mean, tax revenue gets directed toward a general slushfund anyways without any external accountability. That behavior has got to stop!
There's no benefit to using a cell phone in a docking station rather than a cheap thin client. There are a heck of a lot of disadvantages of using a cell phone in a docking station rather than a cheap thin client
The newer phones will include multiple cores and be multi-threaded. Even John Carmack is blown away at what the iPhone can do. Rage running at 60fps is nothing to scoff at. That, and newer Droid phones can output HiDef at 720p and soon 1080. So yes, the hardware is definitely there and getting more powerful with each generation.
OK, you could carry all your work around on your phone so you don't need to access it remotely from the thin client, but again, what company in their right mind wants all their employees walking out of the building with their work in an easily lost, easily stolen phone?
Last I checked, corporate owned phones can be wiped remotely. Laptops cannot be that I'm aware of. At least not without an expensive 3rd party solution.
1. People are mobile. 2. Cell phone technology is the fastest growing technology segment around the world. 3. Nations such as Africa, China, and India use their phone more than a PC. 4. The phone allows complete mobility and the ability to back-up local data to the cloud. 5. Technology changes so quickly, spending time and money to upgrade individual components are no longer a cost effective solution for the commodity PC. Want to upgrade, replace the phone. Simple as that.
The days of the desktop PC and the expensive maintenance they require will be on the way out. The desktop will be replaced with cell phones on a docking station. Or at the very least, thin clients.
If you need a stationary computer, it will be classified as a "Workstation". I contend that the days of the cheap/commodity desktop will be replaced by the dock-able mobile phone. Sorry, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
Of course, most anti-virus software is reactionary based off previous viri found in the wild. They're reversed engineered and a solution is rolled up into the next set of scheduled updates. Most of the time, anti-virus is good to have for the home user and/or small and medium business. But if your organization is explicitly targeted with custom code, most anti-virus software will do squat to help unless you provide them exploited code to reverse engineer.
I wouldn't be too worked up over this. The future has always been in mobile computing, especially the phone market. It wont be long before we dock our cell phones in a station and work via KVM at our office desk. Wireless I'm sure. Aside from full blown out laptops, this has the potential to render the desktop (not high end workstation) obsolete. It will also force admins and managers to consolidate and secure data at the server side. At least more so than now days. That's a very good thing.
No, I think the days of the average desktop PC are numbered. In this fast paced throw-away technological society, the phone is future. Intel would best be suited to focus on this market for mobile CPU and GPUs.
Why is the Democrat party imploding into insanity?
I cannot believe you people allow idiots such as Al Gore, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden to even open their mouths. They make all Democrats look insane just by association.
Spun, you're the only one that's hate filled. Somehow, you think the Truth = Hate. Well, the Truth outshines your ignorance and that of everyone else's. Islam is a pathetic religion in that they don't take out their own trash. No, it's America, Australia, Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, India, and China having to do it for them. Now why is that, hmmm?
If telling the truth is "hate speech", we need more of it in the world.
I'm sure McAfee doesn't want death threats being that's the only group that's guaranteed these days to deliver them these days. So ya, the cowards block that site I'm sure. Fact remains, there isn't a religion on Earth that comes even close to the heinous and egregious crimes committed in the name of a religion.
Which would you feel more comfortable with? Burning a Bible in the Vatican, or burning a Koran in any densely populated Middle Eastern city? If having to chose between the two, the choice should be obvious to anyone with an IQ over 80.
ALL?? No, that would be just silly now wouldn't it. I mean, It's not like they blow people up and cut their heads off ~ while alive. Oh, and stoning seems to be a popular method of justice. But other then that, certainly not "ALL". Of course not.
I say Muslims are the worst of the bunch. Religion-of-peace my ass!
Are we sure that not doing multi-tasking is at the requests of the Cell Carriers? I seem to remember that each tower can only handle X amount of connections at any given time. By having a multi-tasking OS, that could potentially leave cell phones latched onto the network (data side) 24/7. Eventually, rolling drop offs will occur in densely populated cities. I'm not sure if this applies to both GSM and CDMA or just one of them.
Well, I can say from a support side of things, all those different Droid GUIs makes my life hell. It's not like the iPhone or BlackBerry where the UI is somewhat unified across multiple phones. But the Droid platform sucks for remote support because vendors (and their mothers too) tacks on additional shit. It can become confusing as hell to walk someone over the phone through configuring corporate e-mail.
While it's very rare, I've seen smart switches act all strange because of corrupted tables. In some instances, entire ports stop working until the whole unit is rebooted. And no, unplugging and replugging the CAT5 cable never resolved the issue even if temporary.
FYI, it was a Dell switch. To my knowledge, the problem was resolved with a firmware update.
Can't wait for the genetically modified human slave. I mean, they will be engineered to WANT to be slaves. But I'm guessing most of Slashdot will think that will be ethical based on the last pole.
We can't seem to get our own affairs in order here on planet Earth. What makes you think we won't have infighting and mutiny in a space ship? Within a thousand year trek to the final destination, there might not be anyone left alive by that time!
We're the most innovative of all live as we know it. But, in one form or another we still fling poo. Some things never change regardless of where events take place.
Even if that was possible, you still wouldn't want to smoke. Emphysema is a bad thing to have. It leaves you with a torturous shortness of breath sometimes requiring the assistance of oxygen bottles. At minimum, smoking ruins your sense of smell and taste. Not to mention your 2nd hand smoke lingers on your clothes leaving a very unpleasant smell.
All that said. It's your body. Just don't ask the rest of society to pick up the tab for the health care needed to cover the self-inflicted abuse you've done to yourself.
It's just that firing someone in the US is easier than anywhere else in the world. It's just one more way we're behind the rest of the world.
Ya, behind the rest of the world in a race to the bottom you mean. Seriously, making it difficult to fire someone is precisely why we have bad customer service from government institutions, higher prices, and crappy quality. It only gets worse when you put Unions into the mix. In fact, it was the UAW that drove our domestic automotive industry into the ground, and all of Michigan paid a price for it.
The idea that people are "entitled" to keep their job, for whatever reason grates on me. If it's that big if a deal to you, then form your own company and be self-employed.
Signed: A fellow citizen who busts his ass off every day to earn an honest living and refuses to accept hand-outs.
Ya, that's what my wife says too (Shanghainese). But after living in the US for sometime, her long suspicions of "right and wrong" became vindicated. No longer does she have this nagging feeling that wronging someone is still wrong even if everyone else does it to her. And that's the silver lining in the cloud here. Eventually, the Chinese will come to realize that cultural relativism is all BS and that there really *is* a baseline of morals and ethics to adhere to.
I suspect with a growing eccomomy and the bounties of plenty that it provides, the rest of the world will start to see a change within Chinese culture for the better. Perhaps an entire Age of Enlightenment revolution will come about. I hope so, but only time will tell if at all.
It's all up to the Chinese people. But first Beijing needs to stop being so imperialistic over the other provinces. The vanity and news propaganda that comes from the CCP is so obvious, it's insulting to most Chinese that can afford to watch TV. My guess is that they'll either find their roots again, or create a more enlightened culture that mimics other neighboring nations...including Japan if you can believe it.
It's called the Cultural Revolution and it officially started in 1966. While it was mainly toward purging capitalism, it was in fact much much more damaging. Essentially, 3000+ years of Chinese culture was WIPED OUT. In effect, all modern Chinese are suffering from cultural amnesia. An entire civilization "rebooted" back to the very beginning except for language and minor customs. From a Western POV, China post-revolution is a new nation formed in the year 1966. Quite young.
If you're like me, you get the feeling that you're walking among a nation ran like the Lord of the Flies mentality when walking the streets of any major city. No manners, no trust, no honor, and lots of back stabbing politics from friends and co-workers. At best, family is all you can rely on in that nation. Quite sad!
“Terrorists are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through. I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?” Janet Napolitano
Plenty of people buy routers, however they often hire someone else to set them up. Either professionally, or through family and friend associations. But you're right, rarely are they "managed". They're often set and forgotten about until such time needed.
I couldn't break down the numbers for you, but more and more ISPs offer WiFi support with their leased equipment. I know U-Verse provides an all-in-one 2Wire modem/router device with an SPI firewall and WiFi capabilities. Those are the only ones that get managed with periodic firmware updates. Other then that, those bundled cheapo Netgear wgr614 units that come with your Cable Co ISP package never get managed or updated.
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Absolutely! I'm in my mid 30s now, and even as a teenager then I never quite understood the concept of investing in a home. It was an American culture (started in the 50s?) that we can always flip a house into a better home and find a newer one in its place. Perhaps this culture was restricted to the urbanites, but even I knew then it wasn't sustainable with our fiat system. And just when it couldn't get worse, our Federal Gov compounds the issue with new laws in order to make housing more affordable to those that otherwise couldn't afford one. Sounds like a great idea in theory, but we all saw careless the banks got rolling loans over into an oblivious abstract cluster. Not to mention buyers getting into debt so high they couldn't pay off the principle. Sure enough, the entire system collapsed and no one wants to sell their home. Can't blame them, but it's still ratcheted too high. They're sitting on debt and now there's what seems like an eternal struggle between the seller and prospective buyer. Only when the home owner defaults, property returned to the bank, can the re-evaluation and negotiation take place at the "true" market value. Either way it's not pretty.
FYI, there is a nasty real estate bubble in Shanghai, China. God forbid, that's another shoe waiting to drop.
And here I've been told by the media that Barack Obama would be the "Great Unifier" when in fact he's really propped up to defend against anyone who disagrees with his policies as "racist" by people like you.
Our tax code is complicated for several reasons. 1.) Yes, corruption and special interests, but also 2.) to social engineer society to vote "my way" in whatever direction is currently lead by the party in control. The most recent example is the IRS giving tax breaks to mothers who breast feed. Why? It's like they tax the hell out of us and then where supposed to act all "ohhh, thank you master for giving us a nice break". Ya well, eff that! Especially since none of that money being collected goes to where it's supposed to go in the first place. I mean, tax revenue gets directed toward a general slushfund anyways without any external accountability. That behavior has got to stop!
The newer phones will include multiple cores and be multi-threaded. Even John Carmack is blown away at what the iPhone can do. Rage running at 60fps is nothing to scoff at. That, and newer Droid phones can output HiDef at 720p and soon 1080. So yes, the hardware is definitely there and getting more powerful with each generation.
Last I checked, corporate owned phones can be wiped remotely. Laptops cannot be that I'm aware of. At least not without an expensive 3rd party solution.
1. People are mobile.
2. Cell phone technology is the fastest growing technology segment around the world.
3. Nations such as Africa, China, and India use their phone more than a PC.
4. The phone allows complete mobility and the ability to back-up local data to the cloud.
5. Technology changes so quickly, spending time and money to upgrade individual components are no longer a cost effective solution for the commodity PC. Want to upgrade, replace the phone. Simple as that.
The days of the desktop PC and the expensive maintenance they require will be on the way out. The desktop will be replaced with cell phones on a docking station. Or at the very least, thin clients.
If you need a stationary computer, it will be classified as a "Workstation". I contend that the days of the cheap/commodity desktop will be replaced by the dock-able mobile phone. Sorry, but I'm sticking to my guns on this one.
Of course, most anti-virus software is reactionary based off previous viri found in the wild. They're reversed engineered and a solution is rolled up into the next set of scheduled updates. Most of the time, anti-virus is good to have for the home user and/or small and medium business. But if your organization is explicitly targeted with custom code, most anti-virus software will do squat to help unless you provide them exploited code to reverse engineer.
I wouldn't be too worked up over this. The future has always been in mobile computing, especially the phone market. It wont be long before we dock our cell phones in a station and work via KVM at our office desk. Wireless I'm sure. Aside from full blown out laptops, this has the potential to render the desktop (not high end workstation) obsolete. It will also force admins and managers to consolidate and secure data at the server side. At least more so than now days. That's a very good thing.
No, I think the days of the average desktop PC are numbered. In this fast paced throw-away technological society, the phone is future. Intel would best be suited to focus on this market for mobile CPU and GPUs.
Why is the Democrat party imploding into insanity?
I cannot believe you people allow idiots such as Al Gore, John Edwards, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Joe Biden to even open their mouths. They make all Democrats look insane just by association.
Spun, you're the only one that's hate filled. Somehow, you think the Truth = Hate. Well, the Truth outshines your ignorance and that of everyone else's. Islam is a pathetic religion in that they don't take out their own trash. No, it's America, Australia, Canada, Europe, Russia, Israel, India, and China having to do it for them. Now why is that, hmmm?
If telling the truth is "hate speech", we need more of it in the world.
I'm sure McAfee doesn't want death threats being that's the only group that's guaranteed these days to deliver them these days. So ya, the cowards block that site I'm sure. Fact remains, there isn't a religion on Earth that comes even close to the heinous and egregious crimes committed in the name of a religion.
Which would you feel more comfortable with? Burning a Bible in the Vatican, or burning a Koran in any densely populated Middle Eastern city? If having to chose between the two, the choice should be obvious to anyone with an IQ over 80.
Feel free look through these yearly logs. They're not petty, by a long shot.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/index.html#Attacks
ALL?? No, that would be just silly now wouldn't it. I mean, It's not like they blow people up and cut their heads off ~ while alive. Oh, and stoning seems to be a popular method of justice. But other then that, certainly not "ALL". Of course not.
I say Muslims are the worst of the bunch. Religion-of-peace my ass!
Are we sure that not doing multi-tasking is at the requests of the Cell Carriers? I seem to remember that each tower can only handle X amount of connections at any given time. By having a multi-tasking OS, that could potentially leave cell phones latched onto the network (data side) 24/7. Eventually, rolling drop offs will occur in densely populated cities. I'm not sure if this applies to both GSM and CDMA or just one of them.
Well, I can say from a support side of things, all those different Droid GUIs makes my life hell. It's not like the iPhone or BlackBerry where the UI is somewhat unified across multiple phones. But the Droid platform sucks for remote support because vendors (and their mothers too) tacks on additional shit. It can become confusing as hell to walk someone over the phone through configuring corporate e-mail.
Throw in the Muslims for added entertainment. Just be sure to stand back after lighting that match.
While it's very rare, I've seen smart switches act all strange because of corrupted tables. In some instances, entire ports stop working until the whole unit is rebooted. And no, unplugging and replugging the CAT5 cable never resolved the issue even if temporary.
FYI, it was a Dell switch. To my knowledge, the problem was resolved with a firmware update.
Can't wait for the genetically modified human slave. I mean, they will be engineered to WANT to be slaves. But I'm guessing most of Slashdot will think that will be ethical based on the last pole.
We can't seem to get our own affairs in order here on planet Earth. What makes you think we won't have infighting and mutiny in a space ship? Within a thousand year trek to the final destination, there might not be anyone left alive by that time!
We're the most innovative of all live as we know it. But, in one form or another we still fling poo. Some things never change regardless of where events take place.
Even if that was possible, you still wouldn't want to smoke. Emphysema is a bad thing to have. It leaves you with a torturous shortness of breath sometimes requiring the assistance of oxygen bottles. At minimum, smoking ruins your sense of smell and taste. Not to mention your 2nd hand smoke lingers on your clothes leaving a very unpleasant smell.
All that said. It's your body. Just don't ask the rest of society to pick up the tab for the health care needed to cover the self-inflicted abuse you've done to yourself.
Ya, behind the rest of the world in a race to the bottom you mean. Seriously, making it difficult to fire someone is precisely why we have bad customer service from government institutions, higher prices, and crappy quality. It only gets worse when you put Unions into the mix. In fact, it was the UAW that drove our domestic automotive industry into the ground, and all of Michigan paid a price for it.
The idea that people are "entitled" to keep their job, for whatever reason grates on me. If it's that big if a deal to you, then form your own company and be self-employed.
Signed: A fellow citizen who busts his ass off every day to earn an honest living and refuses to accept hand-outs.
Ya, that's what my wife says too (Shanghainese). But after living in the US for sometime, her long suspicions of "right and wrong" became vindicated. No longer does she have this nagging feeling that wronging someone is still wrong even if everyone else does it to her. And that's the silver lining in the cloud here. Eventually, the Chinese will come to realize that cultural relativism is all BS and that there really *is* a baseline of morals and ethics to adhere to.
I suspect with a growing eccomomy and the bounties of plenty that it provides, the rest of the world will start to see a change within Chinese culture for the better. Perhaps an entire Age of Enlightenment revolution will come about. I hope so, but only time will tell if at all.
It's all up to the Chinese people. But first Beijing needs to stop being so imperialistic over the other provinces. The vanity and news propaganda that comes from the CCP is so obvious, it's insulting to most Chinese that can afford to watch TV. My guess is that they'll either find their roots again, or create a more enlightened culture that mimics other neighboring nations...including Japan if you can believe it.
It's called the Cultural Revolution and it officially started in 1966. While it was mainly toward purging capitalism, it was in fact much much more damaging. Essentially, 3000+ years of Chinese culture was WIPED OUT. In effect, all modern Chinese are suffering from cultural amnesia. An entire civilization "rebooted" back to the very beginning except for language and minor customs. From a Western POV, China post-revolution is a new nation formed in the year 1966. Quite young.
If you're like me, you get the feeling that you're walking among a nation ran like the Lord of the Flies mentality when walking the streets of any major city. No manners, no trust, no honor, and lots of back stabbing politics from friends and co-workers. At best, family is all you can rely on in that nation. Quite sad!
You were saying?
Plenty of people buy routers, however they often hire someone else to set them up. Either professionally, or through family and friend associations. But you're right, rarely are they "managed". They're often set and forgotten about until such time needed.
I couldn't break down the numbers for you, but more and more ISPs offer WiFi support with their leased equipment. I know U-Verse provides an all-in-one 2Wire modem/router device with an SPI firewall and WiFi capabilities. Those are the only ones that get managed with periodic firmware updates. Other then that, those bundled cheapo Netgear wgr614 units that come with your Cable Co ISP package never get managed or updated.