I'm talking about web content. When I refer to the thin client, I'm referring to a Pentium 233 in a coffee shop in Sierra Leone. Case in point: Google Maps VS NASA Worldwind. Within a year, the same functionality will be available on Google Maps.
As time goes on, the processing power of the "thin client" will grow to the point that 5 years from now, a JAVA compile will be a joke.
But the real issue here is "the simplicity of the current Web browsing experience needs to be maintained". Thin clients, security, cross-platform compatibility and consistency... these are the driving factors for the new Internet. As more and more people move to W3C standards, etc... Microsoft will lose their strangelhold on the market that has been littered with alternate, proprietary technologies that no one wants and no one really needs (ActiveX,.NET, Microsoft BOB [:)] and join the rest of the world. Microsoft is not going anywhere anytime soon, but they can't grow by being different from the other 10% (and climbing) of the market. The browser may be the great equalizer.
We do NOT need a Google toolbar. We have pop-up blocking and we have a definable Google search window built into Firefox. They should know better and not release the damned thing. Besides, when people open up Firefox for the first time, they go to "Firefox Start".
Million dollar PCs (sans gold-plating) and (quite seriously) mission-critical blade servers, customer ip routers, etc.... I have clients that pay upwards of $600 canadian now (though that's for quad cards with ample on-board processing to off-load from cpu horsepower).
I hope this release addresses some of the problems plaguing previous versions. It is time to concentrate on a single codec that has interoperability options to it that allows for better tweaking to a media stream's needs so that we can forgo this silliness of multiple codecs and file formats.
OK, so we're at $100 more than Dell. But wait...... Windows isn't included. Legal copies cost at least $115.
How does Dell do it? They have a sweet deal with Microsoft that allows them to get Windows for incredibly cheap. They have a sweet deal with Intel that allows them to get CPUs and first-run as well as end-of-line runs for cheap. They make their own cases. They deliver late in may cases in order to save on run costs.
Mainly, it is very very difficult to actually purchase the $350 PC. If you call, you'll be on line for an hour with the Hindu sales department (not trying to be insensitive, just the way it is) that will convince you that the PC you're buying for $350 won't work unless you get the add-on packages that takes it up to the $600-$800 range. On-line, you have to ignore many many prompts, and often go back and remove options that have "somehow" been added, increasing the price.
Bottom line, we don't sell basic PCs anymore, haven't for a year. Staples, Future Shop (Best buy), etc.... or Dell/IBM, etc... We'll fix them when they break or get broken, even if we don't have the warranty contract.
Quite seriously, have a watchdog-type timer purge the records after a day or so. Chances are, anyone good enough to crack your well-maintained and patched box and do some nastys is going to be smart enough to mask his true ip-idetifiable location, and the user information can be kept safe.
Sites like this, along with, say, Anti-Microsoft sites are, as of yet, under no obligation to keep logs of who is posting. Allowing the FBI or other agencies access to this type of information is a recipe for misuse.
However, nice as we are sometimes to the powers that be (in this case the campus IT department) some things are considered to be written in stone by general staff once a decision has been made by the higher-ups. Only review by, say, faculty may change this stance, or even get it reviewed properly in an open forum with input from both (if limited to two) sides.
On the other hand, going in guns blazing and attitude turned up to the max will not help matters. Kudos to the parent poster.
We really are a bunch of unqualified amateurs. That is, except for a top-level 3% or so (I could be wrong..... I could also be wrong about putting myself in this category). What matters is persistence and continuing research & education (self-taught properly niched persons, not that tech school stuff that is one of the greatest rip-offs and causes of problems in IT today)
What it comes down to is a very specialized people with a knack for dealing with themundane problems encountered on the desktop today. Server maintenance, network design and upkeep is simple in comparison to the myriad of problems encountered by a low-level desktop tech today, in retail or in a SMB environment.
The author does bring up some interesting points, however, regarding the difference between car/washing machine repairmen and computer techs..... there is very little one can do to ensure they are being serviced properly in todays marketplace that, at this time, can have no place for certification and the like.... "A+ Certified and Toilet Trained: Equally proud of both." to quote.
The US Government should follow suit... no pun intended.
Seriously, in the global economy, trade similarities are going to become more and more important, especially with the US economy taking a very important second place to the EU. They will have to comply to trade. The US is no longer the bully hey once were.
I'm 4'6, blonde with red highlights. I love sleigh rides in the snow and cozy nights by the fire cuddling raw starfruit. My turn-ons are Makita power drills and rusted Ladas with Llamas towing them.
I mean come on: This is Hotmail! How are they REALLY going to tell who we are?
My bank (a big chartered bank here in Canada) lost "a number of documents" in their branch renovation move - across the street! My documents were in the "number" that they had lost. I have a letter on bank letterhead to prove it, even if it took me over a month to get it. The bank seemed unconcerned.
What a way to start a Friday morning.... glad it wasn't Monday. Floaters & popups? Wow. There's a mental image you don't want before a little Java!
Seriously, though.... We need some kind of legislation/senate bill to curb those doing these things. Perhaps a tax on Internet ads, I don't know. Not a popular suggestion, I know, but maybe it's the only way to stop neddless and RECKLESS advertising.
One advantage that pop-up ads (of one kind or another) have over mass emails is a generally reliable traceable route back to the originator.
No, but your fowl will be more colorful and musical with MMX, folding layers will be easier with SSE and with 3DNOW! your souflées will reach new horizontal highs and have incredible depth.
Looks like a safe place to point out that "retirees" really shouldn't be driving. - RED HERRING anyone?
Problem is: we (the people) won't accept driving without a cell phoneas the only option, and it simply fuels the fire for people who, for reasons not limited to but including old age (sight, height, reflexes, etc...), wish to continue operating motor vehicles to continue to do so.
I'm not trying to be a biggot or a pensioner -basher, just pointing out how this type of drivel can really backfire for the wrong reasons.
1. a) Can Microsoft run their own infastructure for both internet and intranet operations on their own software? ie: Would it make economic and technological sense rather than go with a more efficient and scalable system, like Linux?
b) Would they want to? ie: Do they believe www.microsoft.com, as one example, to be safe running IIS?
2. a) Will Microsoft guarantee/certify/insure the integrety of.net passport services against compromise?
b) Would Bill Gates store the keys to the kingdom in.net?
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I think the law should apply to anyone except for Microsoft. Then, common sense should take over.
I'm talking about web content. When I refer to the thin client, I'm referring to a Pentium 233 in a coffee shop in Sierra Leone. Case in point: Google Maps VS NASA Worldwind. Within a year, the same functionality will be available on Google Maps.
As time goes on, the processing power of the "thin client" will grow to the point that 5 years from now, a JAVA compile will be a joke.
But the real issue here is "the simplicity of the current Web browsing experience needs to be maintained". Thin clients, security, cross-platform compatibility and consistency... these are the driving factors for the new Internet. As more and more people move to W3C standards, etc... Microsoft will lose their strangelhold on the market that has been littered with alternate, proprietary technologies that no one wants and no one really needs (ActiveX, .NET, Microsoft BOB [:)] and join the rest of the world. Microsoft is not going anywhere anytime soon, but they can't grow by being different from the other 10% (and climbing) of the market. The browser may be the great equalizer.
For Linux, Windows or OS X.
Uh.... I prefer Linux just like most of us, but I like my GF better.
We do NOT need a Google toolbar. We have pop-up blocking and we have a definable Google search window built into Firefox. They should know better and not release the damned thing. Besides, when people open up Firefox for the first time, they go to "Firefox Start".
Comet!
And this from the guy who said he'd swim from Norway to the US.
Million dollar PCs (sans gold-plating) and (quite seriously) mission-critical blade servers, customer ip routers, etc.... I have clients that pay upwards of $600 canadian now (though that's for quad cards with ample on-board processing to off-load from cpu horsepower).
I hope this release addresses some of the problems plaguing previous versions. It is time to concentrate on a single codec that has interoperability options to it that allows for better tweaking to a media stream's needs so that we can forgo this silliness of multiple codecs and file formats.
This is true: Let's convert to $CDN first.
$300 $USD = $375.00, which is awfully close to what Dell is selling their base PC for. ($349)
Basic, decent case $50
Basic, decent integrated MB $80
Celeron 2.4 $90
512PC3200 $75
80GB HD $95
keybard & mouse $15
CD-RW $40
grand total of $445
OK, so we're at $100 more than Dell. But wait...... Windows isn't included. Legal copies cost at least $115.
How does Dell do it? They have a sweet deal with Microsoft that allows them to get Windows for incredibly cheap. They have a sweet deal with Intel that allows them to get CPUs and first-run as well as end-of-line runs for cheap. They make their own cases. They deliver late in may cases in order to save on run costs.
Mainly, it is very very difficult to actually purchase the $350 PC. If you call, you'll be on line for an hour with the Hindu sales department (not trying to be insensitive, just the way it is) that will convince you that the PC you're buying for $350 won't work unless you get the add-on packages that takes it up to the $600-$800 range. On-line, you have to ignore many many prompts, and often go back and remove options that have "somehow" been added, increasing the price.
Bottom line, we don't sell basic PCs anymore, haven't for a year. Staples, Future Shop (Best buy), etc.... or Dell/IBM, etc... We'll fix them when they break or get broken, even if we don't have the warranty contract.
Uh...... this is the magnetic north, very little if anything to do directly with climate.
Julius Caesar with and Aldis Lamp!
Why do they even bother? 24hrs.... DRM shot to hell... good riddance.
DON'T....
KEEP...
LOGS....
Quite seriously, have a watchdog-type timer purge the records after a day or so. Chances are, anyone good enough to crack your well-maintained and patched box and do some nastys is going to be smart enough to mask his true ip-idetifiable location, and the user information can be kept safe.
Sites like this, along with, say, Anti-Microsoft sites are, as of yet, under no obligation to keep logs of who is posting. Allowing the FBI or other agencies access to this type of information is a recipe for misuse.
I agree 99.9%.
However, nice as we are sometimes to the powers that be (in this case the campus IT department) some things are considered to be written in stone by general staff once a decision has been made by the higher-ups. Only review by, say, faculty may change this stance, or even get it reviewed properly in an open forum with input from both (if limited to two) sides.
On the other hand, going in guns blazing and attitude turned up to the max will not help matters. Kudos to the parent poster.
We really are a bunch of unqualified amateurs. That is, except for a top-level 3% or so (I could be wrong..... I could also be wrong about putting myself in this category). What matters is persistence and continuing research & education (self-taught properly niched persons, not that tech school stuff that is one of the greatest rip-offs and causes of problems in IT today)
What it comes down to is a very specialized people with a knack for dealing with themundane problems encountered on the desktop today. Server maintenance, network design and upkeep is simple in comparison to the myriad of problems encountered by a low-level desktop tech today, in retail or in a SMB environment.
The author does bring up some interesting points, however, regarding the difference between car/washing machine repairmen and computer techs..... there is very little one can do to ensure they are being serviced properly in todays marketplace that, at this time, can have no place for certification and the like.... "A+ Certified and Toilet Trained: Equally proud of both." to quote.
The US Government should follow suit... no pun intended.
Seriously, in the global economy, trade similarities are going to become more and more important, especially with the US economy taking a very important second place to the EU. They will have to comply to trade. The US is no longer the bully hey once were.
I'm 4'6, blonde with red highlights. I love sleigh rides in the snow and cozy nights by the fire cuddling raw starfruit. My turn-ons are Makita power drills and rusted Ladas with Llamas towing them. I mean come on: This is Hotmail! How are they REALLY going to tell who we are?
My bank (a big chartered bank here in Canada) lost "a number of documents" in their branch renovation move - across the street! My documents were in the "number" that they had lost. I have a letter on bank letterhead to prove it, even if it took me over a month to get it. The bank seemed unconcerned.
What a way to start a Friday morning.... glad it wasn't Monday. Floaters & popups? Wow. There's a mental image you don't want before a little Java!
Seriously, though.... We need some kind of legislation/senate bill to curb those doing these things. Perhaps a tax on Internet ads, I don't know. Not a popular suggestion, I know, but maybe it's the only way to stop neddless and RECKLESS advertising.
One advantage that pop-up ads (of one kind or another) have over mass emails is a generally reliable traceable route back to the originator.
No, but your fowl will be more colorful and musical with MMX, folding layers will be easier with SSE and with 3DNOW! your souflées will reach new horizontal highs and have incredible depth.
What about all those who signed the Gator/Gain network EULA which prohibits the removal of said spyware/adware from PCs?
Looks like a safe place to point out that "retirees" really shouldn't be driving. - RED HERRING anyone?
Problem is: we (the people) won't accept driving without a cell phoneas the only option, and it simply fuels the fire for people who, for reasons not limited to but including old age (sight, height, reflexes, etc...), wish to continue operating motor vehicles to continue to do so.
I'm not trying to be a biggot or a pensioner -basher, just pointing out how this type of drivel can really backfire for the wrong reasons.
1. a) Can Microsoft run their own infastructure for both internet and intranet operations on their own software? ie: Would it make economic and technological sense rather than go with a more efficient and scalable system, like Linux? b) Would they want to? ie: Do they believe www.microsoft.com, as one example, to be safe running IIS? 2. a) Will Microsoft guarantee/certify/insure the integrety of .net passport services against compromise?
b) Would Bill Gates store the keys to the kingdom in .net?
It's so obvious. it's ridiculous!
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.