While all you little people were reading the pro-Microsoft 'drivel' that Gartner (and others) put out, we were getting reports from them that basically said, "Drop Microsoft garbage and run like hell! Not ready for the enterprise."
Not only are their findings seemingly always in favor of who paid for it, but their opinions and recommendations also change depending on who signed the check!!
So again, what part of anything Gartner publishes or says is believable? Why would anyone pay these people? Its not like they are fooling anyone anymore.
For those not Gartner clients, buying a specific MQ can be expensive.
But paying clients can always seem to end up Best in Class even if the class consists of precisely themselves and carefully selected (and obviously inferior) products.
I've always felt that, like Alice's Restaurant, you can get anything you want at Gartner's Restaurant. (excepting Alice). It will have circles and arrows and color glossy charts. But I won't find any of it convincing.
I have grown suspicious of any company that advertises a Gartner award, immediately skeptical of any Gartner study, and completely discount anything they publish to bolster one trend or product over another. Maybe it's just me, but I've been bitten too many times by studies, ratings, and products carrying Gartner awards.
Since when is 3.5 screen size the magic line in the sand?
Most people's fingers are too large to do anything on small screens, which is why people are CHOOSING larger phones.
People are voting with their wallet. Most cell phone buyers don't give a rats ass about specs. If it works well and looks nice and "feels good in the hand" (meaning its heavy), and FITS THEIR SIZE CRITERIA they buy it. And the market is overwhelmingly choosing larger phones.
Oh, and like Ockenden trying to dictate phone size choices, you trying to dictate what I should read on the web is just beyond the pale.
o really. Then the crack in my Samsung Galaxy s2 is a figment of my imagination.
No, its user abuse.
For every user with a cracked glass I raise you 1 million users who do not abuse their phones.
The point was never that you couldn't break a alkali-aluminosilicate glass screen, its just that it breaks less easily than prior materials, and allows equal strength with less thickness.
Odd you should lash out a a key component of miniaturization in a story suggesting that phones are getting too big.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. This is an iPhone concentric view point.
There is no shortage of smart phone models to choose from. People can have the size they want from any of 6 more manufacturers, in any platform except IOS. You often see people drawing a line in the sand that suggest 4.3 inch screens are the absolute maximum size they would ever buy, and a year later they post about 4.7. In the mean time they saw 4.6 and fell in love with it.
There is no reason for a blogger to jump into this fray. The market is deciding quite nicely.
(Actually it seems there was no fray until Ockenden decided to create one to garner readership, so I stand corrected, there apparently was a rather self serving reason for him to jump in).
I can't imagine a worse situation than having phone development directed by bloggers.
When large phones go unsold in favor of small ones the market will know exactly what is too big. The "Samsung Note" sells well. But not well enough for many others to enter that niche. The smallest smartphones are selling as well. But again not as well as the flag ship phones from all the big manufacturers.
So Ockenden, please just butt out and vote with your wallet like the rest of us.
She's probably writing code to save up for her own boob job. Leetspeek kiddies may see patterns in hex constants but people who have actual paying jobs generally don't. I've been dealing with hex my entire life and had to read it 4 times to see what the problem was.
Lots of luck there. The other manufacturers will be paying a license fee to Sony. And besides, you're probably buying Sony products without being aware of it. They don't put their name on everything.
I hate to break it to you, but thermal pads and thermal tape have been on the market for years.
Nobody is going to be paying Sony much of anything, because this is simply an ALSO RAN product in a crowded field of products.
Like anyone ever changes paste! It just does not happen in the real world until you find the device suffering overheating issues.
You seem to be arguing from the basis that there is something better than pads, and that fact alone out weighs the mess, the fact that paste dries out, and gets pumped out from where its needed.
That's just a silly line of argument. The solution chosen need only be good enough, it doesn't have to be the best available. And any solution that requires routine maintenance in a consumer electronic device is way worse than something that works ever so slightly less well but lasts forever with zero attention.
The fact is that pads are more than good enough, becoming ubiquitous, and used more and more in manufacturing.
Since 2004, Thermal pads are the solution AMD recommends for AMD Athlonô MP, AMD Athlon XP and AMD Duron processors. The advantages of thermal pads for these processors include:
They can be handled more easily than thermal grease.
The thermal pad interface material is less likely to be pumped out of the space between the processor die and the heatsink surface.
The thermal compound is distributed in a uniform manner on the thermal interface pads.
The pads contain the appropriate dosage needed to achieve optimal heat dissipation to the heatsink.
Yes, that is the law of the land, virtually everywhere on earth.
If entrepreneur was manufacturing it first, he can prove that in court and have the patent invalidated, but if entrepreneur uses something covered by a preexisting patent, he is subject to royalty payments at the very least.
GP is actually right. There was never any justifiable reason to continue run these DNS servers, and they should have just been shut down when the FBI found them. The client machines were infected, and there is no reason to assume the DNSChanger was the only virus or malware running on the boxes. The best bet is to just unplug the DNS servers and let the chips fall where they may.
Yeah, all of a sudden lots of people would find that they can't resolve anything. So what?
I suspect the reason they didn't was to mine the DNS requests going out from those infected clients. Meanwhile all those infected machines are still on the net.
And none of this required packet inspection or torrent tracking. All it would have required was for the ISPs to do NOTHING.
In the dream world of the future, you might be able to read a book, but even Google has an attentive driver behind the wheel ready to take command at an instant. Not reported by Google is the number of instances this is necessary. I don't see it rising to that level of autonomous control for a coupe of decades, and even then, probably not on regular streets and freeways.
It only takes a few serious accidents to slow down the whole adoption process.
Drunk is carried out of a bar by the bouncer, thrown into the BACK seat of his self-driving car, and the bouncer hits the GO HOME button while the drunk promptly falls asleep. Car runs over somebody.
Who gets sued? Who gets ticketed? Could someone in the backseat even be cited for OMVI? Is Ford going to pick up that tab? Google?
Ah, my speedometer is lying to me, and it is backed up by my GPS which is fudging the calculation in exactly the same way, and my cell phone that agrees with both of them?
Around Washington state, the state patrol motto is 8 you're great, 9 you're mine.
Some of this is dictated by the accuracy of the radar guns, but quite frankly the size of the fine comes into play more often than you think.
10% is a conservative estimate of what you can get away with just about everywhere and not have to worry about some hick sheriff's speed trap. On the freeway, anything in keeping with the flow of traffic will seldom get any attention.
In some states If you are constantly changing lanes to jump around cars AND slightly over the limit you are more likely go get stopped for speeding and have an aggressive driving charge added.
I tend to agree that the technology for acceptable self driving cars is probably quite a ways off.
The current crop of such cars are merely aimed at getting around safely and not running into anything. They don't currently notice that two lanes to the right they could be moving much faster, and are content to putz along in the slow lane following a city bus that stops every two blocks.
They don't watch brake lights 4 cars ahead to provide clues about the need to slow down, and instead rely on slower speeds and (more than) adequate spacing. They don't yield to people in the next lane with their turn signal on indicating a merge, and again rely on excess space so that they are never in situation of failing to allow a merge.
In many other ways, they drive like student drivers, except they do it ALL the time and never learn, never improve.
But I disagree that these will appeal to the rich or to high end car owners. You don't buy a high end car to NOT drive it. If there is no environmentalism goodie-two-shoes angle, the rich won't buy this to park in the garage next to the unused Prius.
Commuters. People who can put the commute time to good use, are the likely target market. Especially where that commute time is an hour or more.
It would seem the summary author hasn't been driving on the freeway anywhere in the US for the last 30 years. The normal speed of traffic is 10% over the limit. It is far from limited to the rich.
It seems far more likely that these cars obey the speed limit today simply as a condition of being used on the public roads. That restriction is unlikely to prevail in production, as a lot of people enjoy driving, and wouldn't buy them if they came with a huge number of restrictions. The rich seem to me to be the last group who will buy such cars.
Further there is no felony modification laws that I am aware of. As long as the vehicle is street legal just about anything goes. And if its not street legal its merely an infraction and a fix-it-ticket.
Not only did the fitness levels increase to nearly modern-day levels, but also some of the altered lineages actually became healthier than their modern counterpart.
So yes, one hopes this doesn't get out of the Level 4 Bio Lab.
500 million years ago there were no warm blooded animals, and most life was aquatic. Whereas today, its rare (but not un-heard of) to find an e.coli strain that can live for long outside the gut of a warm blooded animal, clearly this was not the case in the Cambrian.
Chances are this gene is from a time when water born e.coli were the norm.
Son, do try to wander more than a few blocks from the tourist beaches and hotels some time. You are totally missing those countries. I assure you small to medium size towns away from the tourist centers do not have Wall-Marts.
As far as I care, the very idea that ideas can be owned is wrong and a hindrance on every aspect of society.
Well actually, owning an IDEA is not something that a Patent, or even a Copyright grants. Ideas can't be patented. Patenting an Idea makes it known to the world.
Historically You had to actually produce something from your Idea. You had to implement your idea in order to obtain a patent. Now it seems all you need do is scrawl it in paper.
At best you are granted a limited time in which your competitors can not use your invention drive you out of the market. You are granted a limited monopoly on the ability to profit from your invention. Someone else can read your patent, see a way to do the same thing in a different way, and develop that.
If you want to own an idea, never disclose it to anyone, and only use it shielded from public view.
The Judge suggests we return to the requirement to implement the idea in a patentable form, and further to do this within a set period of time (a period that may very depending on the industry).
You should read the Judges article (linked to this story). His explanation is quite lucid, and his examples are quite clear.
We already know from both copyrights AND patents that once you have established the concept of "intellectual property," it will only expand to consume every area of the economy, until economic collapse.
We do absolutely NOT know this.
The ruling in Canada today as well as Judge Richard Posner article suggest exactly the opposite. Its become patently obvious (sorry - bad pun) that the pendulum has swung too far and the Judiciary is applying the brakes. You overstate the case sir.
This process has been going on for generations. Just go upstairs out of your basement and ask your mom. She remembers the little grocery stores on the corner edged out by the big chains. She remembers one shoe store in town, now long shuttered by the 3 or 4 stores in town.
And the product variety and quality has improved dramatically every step of the way. That corner store usually and no more than 4 round steaks to choose from. Not an entire meat counter full of various sizes. They had poor quality fruit, when it was in season. Not a fruit section with fruit from all over the world all year around.
Oh, and hey, they had flys.
That kind of variety and quality doesn't come from mom and pop stores. It comes from big corporations.
But hey its a free country. You want those filthy little corner stores with limited selection, just drive 100 miles across the Mexican border. They still have them there. And the Flys too. No selection, very few products to sell. Go further down in central America, South America, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and it gets worse still.
The one thing you notice when you return to the US/Canada after traveling overseas is the Grocery Stores. My god the quality, the prices, the variety, the freshness, the helpful staff.
Don't talk to me about self harming cheerleaders. You don't have the first clue how good you have it.
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While all you little people were reading the pro-Microsoft 'drivel' that Gartner (and others) put out, we were getting reports from them that basically said, "Drop Microsoft garbage and run like hell! Not ready for the enterprise."
Not only are their findings seemingly always in favor of who paid for it, but their opinions and recommendations also change depending on who signed the check!!
So again, what part of anything Gartner publishes or says is believable? Why would anyone pay these people? Its not like they are fooling anyone anymore.
For those not Gartner clients, buying a specific MQ can be expensive.
But paying clients can always seem to end up Best in Class even if the class consists of precisely themselves and carefully selected (and obviously inferior) products.
I've always felt that, like Alice's Restaurant, you can get anything you want at Gartner's Restaurant. (excepting Alice). It will have circles and arrows and color glossy charts. But I won't find any of it convincing.
I have grown suspicious of any company that advertises a Gartner award, immediately skeptical of any Gartner study, and completely discount anything they publish to bolster one trend or product over another. Maybe it's just me, but I've been bitten too many times by studies, ratings, and products carrying Gartner awards.
Probably. But on the other hand, they always seem to be running around in circles.
wrong. There are no modern android phones that offer a 3.5" screen or smaller.
Wrong.
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-M580ZKABST
Since when is 3.5 screen size the magic line in the sand?
Most people's fingers are too large to do anything on small screens, which is why people are CHOOSING larger phones.
People are voting with their wallet. Most cell phone buyers don't give a rats ass about specs. If it works well and looks
nice and "feels good in the hand" (meaning its heavy), and FITS THEIR SIZE CRITERIA they buy it. And the market is
overwhelmingly choosing larger phones.
Oh, and like Ockenden trying to dictate phone size choices, you trying to dictate what I should
read on the web is just beyond the pale.
o really. Then the crack in my Samsung Galaxy s2 is a figment of my imagination.
No, its user abuse.
For every user with a cracked glass I raise you 1 million users who do not abuse their phones.
The point was never that you couldn't break a alkali-aluminosilicate glass screen, its just that it breaks less easily than prior materials, and allows equal strength with less thickness.
Odd you should lash out a a key component of miniaturization in a story suggesting that phones are getting too big.
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. This is an iPhone concentric view point.
There is no shortage of smart phone models to choose from. People can have the size they want from any of 6 more manufacturers, in any platform except IOS. You often see people drawing a line in the sand that suggest 4.3 inch screens are the absolute maximum size they would ever buy, and a year later they post about 4.7. In the mean time they saw 4.6 and fell in love with it.
There is no reason for a blogger to jump into this fray. The market is deciding quite nicely.
(Actually it seems there was no fray until Ockenden decided to create one to garner readership, so I stand corrected, there apparently was a rather self serving reason for him to jump in).
I can't imagine a worse situation than having phone development directed by bloggers.
When large phones go unsold in favor of small ones the market will know exactly what is too big. The "Samsung Note" sells well. But not well enough for many others to enter that niche. The smallest smartphones are selling as well. But again not as well as the flag ship phones from all the big manufacturers.
So Ockenden, please just butt out and vote with your wallet like the rest of us.
It might make her feel uncomfortable?
She's probably writing code to save up for her own boob job.
Leetspeek kiddies may see patterns in hex constants but people who have actual paying jobs
generally don't. I've been dealing with hex my entire life and had to read it 4 times to see
what the problem was.
I came to make this exact same post. And messy? Just follow directions and you wont get thermal grease everywhere. So simple.
Especially when using Thermal Pads or Thermal Tape. Far easier, far less messy, and won't dry out.
Lots of luck there. The other manufacturers will be paying a license fee to Sony. And besides, you're probably buying Sony products without being aware of it. They don't put their name on everything.
I hate to break it to you, but thermal pads and thermal tape have been on the market for years.
Nobody is going to be paying Sony much of anything, because this is simply an ALSO RAN product in a crowded field of products.
Like anyone ever changes paste!
It just does not happen in the real world until you find the device suffering overheating issues.
You seem to be arguing from the basis that there is something better than pads, and that fact alone out weighs the mess, the fact that paste dries out, and gets pumped out from where its needed.
That's just a silly line of argument. The solution chosen need only be good enough, it doesn't have to be the best available. And any solution that requires routine maintenance in a consumer electronic device is way worse than something that works ever so slightly less well but lasts forever with zero attention.
The fact is that pads are more than good enough, becoming ubiquitous, and used more and more in manufacturing.
Since 2004, Thermal pads are the solution AMD recommends for AMD Athlonô MP, AMD Athlon XP and
AMD Duron processors. The advantages of thermal pads for these processors include:
They can be handled more easily than thermal grease.
The thermal pad interface material is less likely to be pumped out of the space between the
processor die and the heatsink surface.
The thermal compound is distributed in a uniform manner on the thermal interface pads.
The pads contain the appropriate dosage needed to achieve optimal heat dissipation to the
heatsink.
Yes, that is the law of the land, virtually everywhere on earth.
If entrepreneur was manufacturing it first, he can prove that in court and have the patent invalidated, but if entrepreneur uses something covered by a preexisting patent, he is subject to royalty payments at the very least.
The law is designed to reward the first inventor.
So confident.
Nothing this sophisticated exists. Not even the Google cars come close. Yet, with a wish, you hand waive it all into existence.
GP is actually right. There was never any justifiable reason to continue run these DNS servers, and they should have just been shut down when the FBI found them.
The client machines were infected, and there is no reason to assume the DNSChanger was the only virus or malware running on the boxes. The best bet is to just unplug the DNS servers and let the chips fall where they may.
Yeah, all of a sudden lots of people would find that they can't resolve anything. So what?
I suspect the reason they didn't was to mine the DNS requests going out from those infected clients.
Meanwhile all those infected machines are still on the net.
And none of this required packet inspection or torrent tracking. All it would have required was for the ISPs to do NOTHING.
1.8% is a far cry from the alleged 10%.
That two different GPS instruments agree over the course of several miles of perfectly straight flat Nevada highway is far from a simple coincidence.
In the dream world of the future, you might be able to read a book, but even Google has an attentive driver behind the wheel ready to take command at an instant. Not reported by Google is the number of instances this is necessary. I don't see it rising to that level of autonomous control for a coupe of decades, and even then, probably not on regular streets and freeways.
It only takes a few serious accidents to slow down the whole adoption process.
Drunk is carried out of a bar by the bouncer, thrown into the BACK seat of his self-driving car, and the bouncer hits the GO HOME button while the drunk promptly falls asleep. Car runs over somebody.
Who gets sued? Who gets ticketed? Could someone in the backseat even be cited for OMVI? Is Ford going to pick up that tab? Google?
Ah, my speedometer is lying to me, and it is backed up by my GPS which is fudging the calculation in exactly the same way, and my cell phone that agrees with both of them?
I don't think so tin foil boy.
Around Washington state, the state patrol motto is
8 you're great, 9 you're mine.
Some of this is dictated by the accuracy of the radar guns, but quite frankly the size of the fine comes into play more often than you think.
10% is a conservative estimate of what you can get away with just about everywhere and not have to worry about some hick sheriff's speed trap. On the freeway, anything in keeping with the flow of traffic will seldom get any attention.
In some states If you are constantly changing lanes to jump around cars AND slightly over the limit you are more likely go get stopped for speeding and have an aggressive driving charge added.
I tend to agree that the technology for acceptable self driving cars is probably quite a ways off.
The current crop of such cars are merely aimed at getting around safely and not running into anything. They don't currently notice that two lanes to the right they could be moving much faster, and are content to putz along in the slow lane following a city bus that stops every two blocks.
They don't watch brake lights 4 cars ahead to provide clues about the need to slow down, and instead rely on slower speeds and (more than) adequate spacing. They don't yield to people in the next lane with their turn signal on indicating a merge, and again rely on excess space so that they are never in situation of failing to allow a merge.
In many other ways, they drive like student drivers, except they do it ALL the time and never learn, never improve.
But I disagree that these will appeal to the rich or to high end car owners. You don't buy a high end car to NOT drive it.
If there is no environmentalism goodie-two-shoes angle, the rich won't buy this to park in the garage next to the unused Prius.
Commuters. People who can put the commute time to good use, are the likely target market. Especially where that commute time is an hour or more.
It would seem the summary author hasn't been driving on the freeway anywhere in the US for the last 30 years. The normal speed of traffic is 10% over the limit. It is far from limited to the rich.
It seems far more likely that these cars obey the speed limit today simply as a condition of being used on the public roads. That restriction is unlikely to prevail in production, as a lot of people enjoy driving, and wouldn't buy them if they came with a huge number of restrictions. The rich seem to me to be the last group who will buy such cars.
Further there is no felony modification laws that I am aware of. As long as the vehicle is street legal just about anything goes. And if its not street legal its merely an infraction and a fix-it-ticket.
Jurassic. Park.
so in other words?
What could possibly go wrong....
Last line of the summary:
Not only did the fitness levels increase to nearly modern-day levels, but also some of the altered lineages actually became healthier than their modern counterpart.
So yes, one hopes this doesn't get out of the Level 4 Bio Lab.
500 million years ago there were no warm blooded animals, and most life was aquatic. Whereas today, its rare (but not un-heard of) to find an e.coli strain that can live for long outside the gut of a warm blooded animal, clearly this was not the case in the Cambrian.
Chances are this gene is from a time when water born e.coli were the norm.
Son, do try to wander more than a few blocks from the tourist beaches and hotels some time. You are totally missing those countries. I assure you small to medium size towns away from the tourist centers do not have Wall-Marts.
As far as I care, the very idea that ideas can be owned is wrong and a hindrance on every aspect of society.
Well actually, owning an IDEA is not something that a Patent, or even a Copyright grants. Ideas can't be patented. Patenting an Idea makes it known to the world.
Historically You had to actually produce something from your Idea. You had to implement your idea in order to obtain a patent. Now it seems all you need do is scrawl it in paper.
At best you are granted a limited time in which your competitors can not use your invention drive you out of the market. You are granted a limited monopoly on the ability to profit from your invention. Someone else can read your patent, see a way to do the same thing in a different way, and develop that.
If you want to own an idea, never disclose it to anyone, and only use it shielded from public view.
The Judge suggests we return to the requirement to implement the idea in a patentable form, and further to do this within a set period of time (a period that may very depending on the industry).
You should read the Judges article (linked to this story). His explanation is quite lucid, and his examples are quite clear.
We already know from both copyrights AND patents that once you have established the concept of "intellectual property," it will only expand to consume every area of the economy, until economic collapse.
We do absolutely NOT know this.
The ruling in Canada today as well as Judge Richard Posner article suggest exactly the opposite.
Its become patently obvious (sorry - bad pun) that the pendulum has swung too far and
the Judiciary is applying the brakes. You overstate the case sir.
Local presence != local company
Distinction != Difference.
What a blind fool you are.
This process has been going on for generations. Just go upstairs out of your basement and ask your mom.
She remembers the little grocery stores on the corner edged out by the big chains. She remembers one shoe store in town, now long shuttered by the 3 or 4 stores in town.
And the product variety and quality has improved dramatically every step of the way. That corner store usually and no more than 4 round steaks to choose from. Not an entire meat counter full of various sizes. They had poor quality fruit, when it was in season. Not a fruit section with fruit from all over the world all year around.
Oh, and hey, they had flys.
That kind of variety and quality doesn't come from mom and pop stores. It comes from big corporations.
But hey its a free country. You want those filthy little corner stores with limited selection, just drive 100 miles across the Mexican border. They still have them there. And the Flys too. No selection, very few products to sell. Go further down in central America, South America, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and it gets worse still.
The one thing you notice when you return to the US/Canada after traveling overseas is the Grocery Stores. My god the quality, the prices, the variety, the freshness, the helpful staff.
Don't talk to me about self harming cheerleaders. You don't have the first clue how good you have it.