Now that is a complete furphy. Data flow network can be completely separate from a control system. If hardware can only detect an single increase in power that is all that it is capable of, it can not magically mystically accept digital data transmission. For a laptop if you connect it to a power point even when it is possible to send digital transmission down that power cable there is no way in hell that laptop will be able to accept that signal unless the transformer in the laptop has additional specific hardware to accept and decode that signal.
As for that earlier post that having more systems connected means fewer failure points that is a lie it mores more failure points not less in the system and it is harder to discover the actuall failure point and when one part of the system suffers a catastrophic failure often the whole system fails. Higher cost of maintenance, far higher replacement costs but far cheaper initial installation that is all that is provided by a fully interconnected system, and strangely enough it all adds together for greater profits for the aircraft manufacturer.
Air gap is the only real security in a hard wired network and there can be no guarantee of security in a wireless network (as dollars will always gain you access in a world of greed).
You know that might be true true for typical reasonably well of/.ers, but for the lower IQ, lower paid in society, that swallow the mass media marketing that they must have the very latest crap even if they can't afford it, so they have no choice they 'must have it now', so they just copy it from a friend or download it.
Do I think that is bad, nah, not really, they are better off spending what little money they have on food, lodging, clothing, transportation and their health, better that the rich become poor than the poor go hungry.
I think you missed the part where a clearer picture often breaks the illusion and you need to res down the picture in order to be able to enjoy it. For example I have heard from CGI houses that the movie studios are having to pay for special effects 'sic' to make up for bad acting (poor facial expressions), digital surgery to make of for bad plastic surgery.
It is all about the story and how well that story is portrayed, a clearer picture will not improve ether aspect but it can certainly make it far worse, and no being able to more clearly see that fake scenery is fake or to more readily spot the errors in special effects doesn't do anything for me.
Back to reality. The catch with high definition DVD and plain old DVD is that most of the content included TV series is barely above SVHS quality let alone full DVD quality (high bit rate) so we can completely ignore any pseudo benefit from high definition DVD.
For a lot of content that can be shown at high definition should not be because when it was created they did not take it into account and a lot of defects turn up, including actors with dead botox overdose faces, botched up plastic surgery and special effects not suited to higher resolution displays.
Not saying that I don't enjoy high definition displays (I have one) it's just that the best content I have seen to date is scenery demos, so bring on a scenery channel and forget the rest, it's generally a lot more viewable at lower resolutions.
Yes there is a market, first and second world children who as yet do not have a school notebook on their desk, by far the majority, a market of hundreds of millions. So, yes, greed is the answer.
They simply do not care about the limitations of the third world market, nor are the interested in any restrictions that the third world would put on supplying units for the first and second world.
Combined with typical first and second world lobbying and politicking and they will be able to sell the units to every school child at grossly inflated profit margins, and be able to sell them again and again (they will definitely not be as stable or as durable) plus a full range of proprietary extras. Greed upon greed all for the sake of even more greed.
The ecomomist's would say once you have achieved sufficient buzz with the whole 'entertaining exercise game playing', you limit supply in order to maintain a higher price. It already has been categorically states that the Wii is sold at a profit, limited supply ensures that profit margin is maintained.
Naturally enough if the public becomes to aware of the inflated price being driven by an artificial limitation of supply then demand for the game will fall off, resulting in a drop of per unit pricing to maintain sales, people do not like to be scammed.
As a side issue, a lot of people are likely to stick with the sports games that came with the unit and not really wanting any others.
The other console manufacturers need to catch up and came up with similarly packaged and bundled units targeted at the 'entertaining exercise game playing' market, which seems to be a growing market segment, along with waistlines;).
Well what does it matter. Amazon is not the target of the end of DRM. The old music and video distribution channels are. The ones the everybody already knows. The ones that already give it away for free (save a bit of excessive advertising).
The TV networks are the most logical distribution point. They'll be streaming content down the internet with embedded adds and for a nominal cost per unit or with an annual subscription fee you can own the content you are listening/watching advertising free or even look through the archives for older content including TV series, News Articles, Comedy Shows etc. The logical extension is of course as a registered user you can continue to legally download the content you have bought should you lose it due to hardware failure.
The publishers already have their hooks into the networks why the hell would they bother to give away profits to Apple or Amazon.
I take dreams to be memory collation, where events and your associated emotional states are compared and collated with similar past emotional states and the events surrounding those emotional states and how potential behaviour can moderate events to avoid worse potentialities and what behavioural trend is required to work to better conditions.
Of course we confuse the crap out of it with mixed messages (media, advertising, societal moral strictures, religion, politics, war) and hence get confusing unrelated dreams. So there are a range of influences upon your dreams and your subconscious states, not only that but some have the ability to control and direct dreams, which further confuses the issue.
So M$ thinks every other tech company is stupid. M$ wants to charge a licence fee, so that other companies can pay for the additional costs of hardware, to what, sell more M$ licence controlled content to improve M$ profits. So what exactly is the benefit, for the other company, exactly nothing, except of course if you think paying M$ for the privileg of making more money for M$ is of benefit to other companies.
The whole idea is utterly fucking nuts (sounds more like another ballmer delusion). Shit M$ should be paying other companies (plus a share of future revenue) to install xbox licensed compatible hardware in their media devices rather than the other way round.
On a more humorous side note it would appear that Brier Dudley has some serious idol worship/love issues with a certain Mr Gates. A more fawning article I have never read (I actually checked he used gates name 31 times in the article);).
Sounds like a potential ex-Sears VP is double dipping on salaries or simply has to much focus on the value of his comscore (hitbox/visual sciences/webside story) stock options rather than the public image of the company he is meant to be working for rather than ab-using.
It would not really be a global parallel system as the only people likely to use the Russian DNS servers would be Russians, just as for the Chinese DNS servers. Being that the choice of DNS server configuration is yours to make, you can of course use them or any other DNS server.
This would mean that your browser should clearly show and define exactly which DNS server you are actually using to avoid confusion.
Of course the other big thing is that the.gov,.mil and.edu can all immediately get reassigned to local addresses rather than some foreign imperialistic state;).
Well that is not completely accurate. They don't do it to stop you from running a server, they do it to 'charge you a lot extra' if you want to easily run a server.
So with IPv6 comes the dirt cheap home web/mail/file server (bye bye web and ISP email), enormously long and ever growing IP address blocking lists (billions of entries), possibly hardware manufactured with a fixed IP address and compulsory personal registration (government and corporations watching and monitoring all of your digital interactions all of the time), the growth of web IP anonymising services.
A lot of opportunities and unfortunately a lot of problems unless the corporate and political, greed and power control freaks, are not kept under strict control and preferably behind bars where they belong.
It is actually quite easy. If you create that code for what ever administrative purpose and give that code to some one else who uses it to commit a computer related crime, you are immediately guilty and in fact must prove yourself innocent. Even using bit torrent can make you and unknowing criminal in the distribution of the code.
Code is just code and should be protected by freedom of speech. What the British government as well as other governments the use these laws is really saying, is only they and friendly election sponsoring corporations are allowed to have these tools to hack into unconnected people's computers.
Being able to work on these tools in public is of major security benefit and is the only way of enabling the effective security hardening of general computer systems against unwarranted attack whether by government, corporate or individuals.
Well that is what is good about open source it can be used by many people, for what ever reason and adapted to their purpose. So rather than the M$ bullshit about forks being a problem they are of benefit because the enable different facets of the code set to be explored and expanded upon.
I don't think you really understand why companies using open source software. They use it because it is more cost efficient, they have greater control over the software and are not bound to forced upgrades. So google just like every company they use Linux to reduce costs, increase profits and improve system stability and reliability. Besides who wants the gmail code, privacy invasive web mail is doomed anyhow, cheap server appliances means everybody will be doing their own email serving direct.
The biggest threat to M$ is Steve Ballmer and a continuing string of poor management decisions. They flatly refuse to adapt to the new more mature computer market place and are on the verge of getting left behind. The other things are M$'s terrible branding image, it comes off as a small, wrinkly, white, old, worm (Micro-Softies) image that makes it as uncool as can be it the consumer market place. It simply dies when ever they try to launch a new product in the market place and they just lose money whilst trying to keep those products out there.
They need new life, new management, new ideas and a new name (perhaps should they could try Lies 'R' Us).
Google results are based upon what the community think? is that anything like addwords are democratic (as long as you have the money to pay for them).
Google is coming off more and more as a smarmy, slimy, privacy invasive, viral marketer.
Overall it looks to be a very interesting project and of worth while value to the community and is sure to create many lively debates as it grows.
There is also likely to considerable support from commercial companies looking to gain a piece of the search engine market, by sponsoring and supporting it they gain revenue opportunities that would otherwise be lost to them.
More pointedly the number of people turning up at any specific polling station is not known. Hence each polling station should have an excess of ballots to ensure people can vote, at least 25% greater than any previous turn out at that polling station would be suitable along with a minimum reserve so that extra can be delivered if required.
Printing at site sounds like a reasonable idea, they should not forget to have oversized ballots printed and on display so people can check the validity of the ballot they have received and they should still have a few printed in advance for when the printer jams, power brownout etc. Is the additional risk worth it, because printing the ballots in this method will still be far more expensive than mass bulk printing, so who is the printer manufacturer with good political connections.
Well if it is the distress of paying a lot of money for a fake prop he should sue Brent Spiner for telling him the truth, he was quite happy until he found out that he had a fake;).
It is the very definition of modern corporate marketing. Computerised voting is only needed to inflate the profit margins of politically biased corporations. The unimaginably stupid idea of second chance voting is ludicrous. Voting is meant to be secret and anonymous but some corporate slug comes up the the marketing bull shit of checking peoples votes, which is inherently the most anti-democratic obscene idea.
Corrupting election based upon manual systems requires a huge amount of effort and in countries where there is even a minimum of honest election auditing, more often than not, gets found out and the anti-democracy offenders get prosecuted.
Electronic voting allows for the mass corruption of elections and is most often supported by corporate executives for exactly that reason.
Do you really know how stupid that statement is. Well for $450.00 you can also get a better Linux system and it will be running a full featured operating system rather than a part install and it will be running it far faster and you can get a free open document standards compliant office suite.
So a Linux system is still the better buy. Compare apples with apples, what would a $199 vista system be like compared to the Linux system, hmm?
No matter it it still makes much more sense for AOL simply to adhere to the fire fox open source licence, re-skin firefox to AOL and create their own default search configuration, menu configuration to suit the web site, client tools etc and even compete with firefox.com.
To simply walk away from the branding advantages of having your own browser and email client available to download from your servers for your internet customers doesn't make any sense, and is just a silly as coding a browser from scratch when you don't have to.
Restructuring makes a lot more sense than just shutting it down.
Actually when it comes to showing other peoples adds most people will go with whom ever pays them the most. Of course people are slowly becoming more careful and want to review add content prior to showing it to ensure it does not conflict with their morals or business goals. When it comes to paying for add space, people are again becoming more careful and want to ensure their adds are not show on web sites that conflict with their morals or business goals.
Now of course add words and double click are really aimed at different add cost markets, with add words being a cheap Internet add placement and double click being for more expensive banner etc. style adds.
Google as a (privacy invasive) marketing company has to make that marketing adjustment because revenue growth for add words is slowing and will start shrinking because it is a low end spam words style add of limited long term marketing value. The real contention with double click was how privacy invasive google is becoming with regards to that additional point of personal information gathering ie. a persons web browsing preferences and choices.
If M$ want to expand into the marketing segment than can do, apart from nobody trusts them, they have a history of competing with their clients or partners, and why the hell would you want to show them your upcoming marketing strategy. Besides Internet advertising just seems to be in another boom cycle awaiting yet another bust when the actual sales revenue yet again doesn't live up to the marketing about marketing hype.
More importantly it allows for the creation of non-persons, those that have no rights due to their consistent willingness to question and challenge authority.
Not that I am against a 'voluntary' universal ID system. One that is legally protected from unauthorised access, one that you only voluntarily obtain and one that you only voluntarily show and one where there are severe criminal penalties for attempting to over ride those 'voluntary' principles.
A citizen should also be notified when ever anybody access data stored by the government about a citizen that is associated with the universal ID, detailing who accessed that data, from which department or organisation they are from and why they accessed that data.
In that case it is an ID and not an internal passport. Of course the simple route is to drop the whole idea along with other obscene ideas like human implanted RFID chips or turning a person into a human ID via biometric scanning.
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As for that earlier post that having more systems connected means fewer failure points that is a lie it mores more failure points not less in the system and it is harder to discover the actuall failure point and when one part of the system suffers a catastrophic failure often the whole system fails. Higher cost of maintenance, far higher replacement costs but far cheaper initial installation that is all that is provided by a fully interconnected system, and strangely enough it all adds together for greater profits for the aircraft manufacturer.
Air gap is the only real security in a hard wired network and there can be no guarantee of security in a wireless network (as dollars will always gain you access in a world of greed).
And they have been smearing vaseline on camera lenses to hide wrinkled, haggard actors faces, so what of it?
Do I think that is bad, nah, not really, they are better off spending what little money they have on food, lodging, clothing, transportation and their health, better that the rich become poor than the poor go hungry.
It is all about the story and how well that story is portrayed, a clearer picture will not improve ether aspect but it can certainly make it far worse, and no being able to more clearly see that fake scenery is fake or to more readily spot the errors in special effects doesn't do anything for me.
For a lot of content that can be shown at high definition should not be because when it was created they did not take it into account and a lot of defects turn up, including actors with dead botox overdose faces, botched up plastic surgery and special effects not suited to higher resolution displays.
Not saying that I don't enjoy high definition displays (I have one) it's just that the best content I have seen to date is scenery demos, so bring on a scenery channel and forget the rest, it's generally a lot more viewable at lower resolutions.
They simply do not care about the limitations of the third world market, nor are the interested in any restrictions that the third world would put on supplying units for the first and second world.
Combined with typical first and second world lobbying and politicking and they will be able to sell the units to every school child at grossly inflated profit margins, and be able to sell them again and again (they will definitely not be as stable or as durable) plus a full range of proprietary extras. Greed upon greed all for the sake of even more greed.
Naturally enough if the public becomes to aware of the inflated price being driven by an artificial limitation of supply then demand for the game will fall off, resulting in a drop of per unit pricing to maintain sales, people do not like to be scammed.
As a side issue, a lot of people are likely to stick with the sports games that came with the unit and not really wanting any others.
The other console manufacturers need to catch up and came up with similarly packaged and bundled units targeted at the 'entertaining exercise game playing' market, which seems to be a growing market segment, along with waistlines ;).
The TV networks are the most logical distribution point. They'll be streaming content down the internet with embedded adds and for a nominal cost per unit or with an annual subscription fee you can own the content you are listening/watching advertising free or even look through the archives for older content including TV series, News Articles, Comedy Shows etc. The logical extension is of course as a registered user you can continue to legally download the content you have bought should you lose it due to hardware failure.
The publishers already have their hooks into the networks why the hell would they bother to give away profits to Apple or Amazon.
Of course we confuse the crap out of it with mixed messages (media, advertising, societal moral strictures, religion, politics, war) and hence get confusing unrelated dreams. So there are a range of influences upon your dreams and your subconscious states, not only that but some have the ability to control and direct dreams, which further confuses the issue.
The whole idea is utterly fucking nuts (sounds more like another ballmer delusion). Shit M$ should be paying other companies (plus a share of future revenue) to install xbox licensed compatible hardware in their media devices rather than the other way round.
On a more humorous side note it would appear that Brier Dudley has some serious idol worship/love issues with a certain Mr Gates. A more fawning article I have never read (I actually checked he used gates name 31 times in the article) ;).
Sounds like a potential ex-Sears VP is double dipping on salaries or simply has to much focus on the value of his comscore (hitbox/visual sciences/webside story) stock options rather than the public image of the company he is meant to be working for rather than ab-using.
This would mean that your browser should clearly show and define exactly which DNS server you are actually using to avoid confusion.
Of course the other big thing is that the .gov, .mil and .edu can all immediately get reassigned to local addresses rather than some foreign imperialistic state ;).
So with IPv6 comes the dirt cheap home web/mail/file server (bye bye web and ISP email), enormously long and ever growing IP address blocking lists (billions of entries), possibly hardware manufactured with a fixed IP address and compulsory personal registration (government and corporations watching and monitoring all of your digital interactions all of the time), the growth of web IP anonymising services.
A lot of opportunities and unfortunately a lot of problems unless the corporate and political, greed and power control freaks, are not kept under strict control and preferably behind bars where they belong.
Code is just code and should be protected by freedom of speech. What the British government as well as other governments the use these laws is really saying, is only they and friendly election sponsoring corporations are allowed to have these tools to hack into unconnected people's computers.
Being able to work on these tools in public is of major security benefit and is the only way of enabling the effective security hardening of general computer systems against unwarranted attack whether by government, corporate or individuals.
Well that is what is good about open source it can be used by many people, for what ever reason and adapted to their purpose. So rather than the M$ bullshit about forks being a problem they are of benefit because the enable different facets of the code set to be explored and expanded upon.
As you said it is just 'one' factor and I am sure that factor also adds in google anal-ytics page links as well as many purely add related links.
The biggest threat to M$ is Steve Ballmer and a continuing string of poor management decisions. They flatly refuse to adapt to the new more mature computer market place and are on the verge of getting left behind. The other things are M$'s terrible branding image, it comes off as a small, wrinkly, white, old, worm (Micro-Softies) image that makes it as uncool as can be it the consumer market place. It simply dies when ever they try to launch a new product in the market place and they just lose money whilst trying to keep those products out there.
They need new life, new management, new ideas and a new name (perhaps should they could try Lies 'R' Us).
Google is coming off more and more as a smarmy, slimy, privacy invasive, viral marketer.
Overall it looks to be a very interesting project and of worth while value to the community and is sure to create many lively debates as it grows.
There is also likely to considerable support from commercial companies looking to gain a piece of the search engine market, by sponsoring and supporting it they gain revenue opportunities that would otherwise be lost to them.
Printing at site sounds like a reasonable idea, they should not forget to have oversized ballots printed and on display so people can check the validity of the ballot they have received and they should still have a few printed in advance for when the printer jams, power brownout etc. Is the additional risk worth it, because printing the ballots in this method will still be far more expensive than mass bulk printing, so who is the printer manufacturer with good political connections.
Well if it is the distress of paying a lot of money for a fake prop he should sue Brent Spiner for telling him the truth, he was quite happy until he found out that he had a fake ;).
Corrupting election based upon manual systems requires a huge amount of effort and in countries where there is even a minimum of honest election auditing, more often than not, gets found out and the anti-democracy offenders get prosecuted.
Electronic voting allows for the mass corruption of elections and is most often supported by corporate executives for exactly that reason.
So a Linux system is still the better buy. Compare apples with apples, what would a $199 vista system be like compared to the Linux system, hmm?
To simply walk away from the branding advantages of having your own browser and email client available to download from your servers for your internet customers doesn't make any sense, and is just a silly as coding a browser from scratch when you don't have to.
Restructuring makes a lot more sense than just shutting it down.
Now of course add words and double click are really aimed at different add cost markets, with add words being a cheap Internet add placement and double click being for more expensive banner etc. style adds.
Google as a (privacy invasive) marketing company has to make that marketing adjustment because revenue growth for add words is slowing and will start shrinking because it is a low end spam words style add of limited long term marketing value. The real contention with double click was how privacy invasive google is becoming with regards to that additional point of personal information gathering ie. a persons web browsing preferences and choices.
If M$ want to expand into the marketing segment than can do, apart from nobody trusts them, they have a history of competing with their clients or partners, and why the hell would you want to show them your upcoming marketing strategy. Besides Internet advertising just seems to be in another boom cycle awaiting yet another bust when the actual sales revenue yet again doesn't live up to the marketing about marketing hype.
Not that I am against a 'voluntary' universal ID system. One that is legally protected from unauthorised access, one that you only voluntarily obtain and one that you only voluntarily show and one where there are severe criminal penalties for attempting to over ride those 'voluntary' principles.
A citizen should also be notified when ever anybody access data stored by the government about a citizen that is associated with the universal ID, detailing who accessed that data, from which department or organisation they are from and why they accessed that data.
In that case it is an ID and not an internal passport. Of course the simple route is to drop the whole idea along with other obscene ideas like human implanted RFID chips or turning a person into a human ID via biometric scanning.