Dell probably spent millions on research figuring out what they thought was the magic bullet in marketing a laptop to women. Focus groups, design teams of women, and they might have even found things that a majority of their women customers are interested in.
And they blew it. No woman actually wants to be told they should check out dieting tips, that's like telling a wife/girlfriend she looks fat in those jeans. On top of that even if a lot of women are interested in cooking and recipes it comes out in very bad taste when you release your laptop for women as an extension or helper of domestic chores. I wonder if the wives of Dell executives are upset, or maybe they're too busy doing the dishes and cooking dinner to even know what's going on...
An interesting point, and perhaps a bigger one points to the eventual shift away from a pay format in terms of a lot of this information. Already we've seen a dramatic rise in piracy or people going after free content. Taking this a step further the market place will eventually push out the pay per use model on a lot of this information be it WSJ or music, or TV, allowing ads for consumer based merchandise to fuel, at least for now the demands on the infrastructure. My question is though how long can this last, will ad revenue hold out at least until some new means comes about, or will the Internet like the other Alexandria Library burn or in this case crumble under overwhelmed and under maintained infrastructure.
The science behind this seems questionable at best... especially seeing how IE isn't popular so much as just saturated throughout the market.
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The phrase, "I'll just put it on my flash drive" is fairly ubiquitous these days and often people will be surprised or even shocked if you don't have one. With smaller ones like 1GB flash drives being given away at tech events this can hardly be surprising. With their large capacity, ease of use and ability to boot from USB they've definitely replaced floppy drives in the computing world. But it seems they're going a step further, as solid state drives continue to increase in both speed and size and continue to lower in cost it won't be long till they or a derivation there of replace standard harddrives. I see them eventually being able to vastly overtake even 15k scsi drives once the read write times are improved.
I like the look, I like the layout, now lets just hope that it follows through as intended. If so, this could be a great resource for both experienced pros as well as new users.
Without knowing exactly where it goes I can only speculate, but could this fine by so high to help fix European budgets stretched too thin by a weak economy?
Thanks for copying the title of the article. Did you read what I wrote? Or just the title? I'm not saying the news shouldn't report it, but this isn't anything new, and we'll continue to see more new articles like this till systems and security admins start taking a more serious approach to protecting their infrastructures.
I mean, yeah its good that someone is reporting, but this sort of thing seems to be run of the mill these days. This sort of occurrence is happening more not less, to the point that security admins need to start taking this type of threat more seriously.
The problem here is that it's global, and information spreads that much quicker. With more people using applications like Tor, it will be harder to track the legitimate pirates anyway, leaving the first time pirates, or the young kids not knowing what they're doing to get caught by this. There was a time when legislation could have stopped something like this, but that time is past and if anyone will get hurt by this it will be the companies/politicians that try to stand in its way.
You point out the flaw in your line of reasoning right in your own rebuttal.
Would create a serious barrier for all but the most connected terrorist groups.
The problem is that these are the ones that we have to defend ourselves against, the ones that fly planes into buildings. Racial profiling provides a very false sense of security as it only stops the small time and amateur people. Further more, the mere act of treating a group of people in that way can push them towards the well connected recruiters. To quote Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If we become the persecutors here, all we're doing is harming ourselves in the long run.
Is file sharing. Rather than waste time trying to fight this, find ways to work with it. Look at what Apple did with their music store, even in the days of "piracy" they're still doing quite well for themselves. Digital distribution is here to stay, rather than go after people downloading illegally, give them a reason and easy means to acquire your product. I know lots of people that pirate, and when they find something they like, they buy it. Funny how that works like that...
There's a fundamental flaw here, you assume that it would be just a matter of targeting Saudis. All this would do is make a smarter terrorist. Recruit from other countries, forge credentials, smuggle people in, or better yet attack targets outside our borders. I'm not against racial profiling on a moral standpoint, I'm against it on an effectiveness standpoint, because, simply put, it doesn't work. And neither will this brain scanning thing, people will find ways around it.
It might be a bit simple, but sometimes simple works. There is always a cost for something, "free" give aways are cost justified somehow, be it a one time get you hooked sort of idea, or a recoup losses elsewhere shifting of the burden, but the simple fact is, someone, somewhere is paying for that. Doesn't even have to be money, could be as simple as time or energy, but rest assured, there is always some sort of cost associated with everything.
A long time ago, Intel had all sorts of wondrous projects in the works. Open formats and innovative chips that would have made it possible for any OS to work with it. And then Microsoft swooped down and quashed this. Played hardball and pigeon holed Intel. Now, close to twenty years later they're finally being busted for similar practices. Part of me says good for the EU for not putting up with this, part of me is a little sad for the young Intel full of potential that got bullied into the position its in today.
Looking at Microsoft's history, I could see them releasing it, making it freely available, just to take a little bit away from Google. The animosity between Microsoft and Google isn't exactly a secret, and neither is Microsoft's do anything to win attitude. Case in point, look at how they've handled piracy overseas. Rather than crack down, they've been lenient to help keep their market share up. Better Window's for free than no Windows at all... I could see them going totally open source if they thought it would improve their hold on the market or at least hurt some competitors.
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Dell probably spent millions on research figuring out what they thought was the magic bullet in marketing a laptop to women. Focus groups, design teams of women, and they might have even found things that a majority of their women customers are interested in.
And they blew it. No woman actually wants to be told they should check out dieting tips, that's like telling a wife/girlfriend she looks fat in those jeans. On top of that even if a lot of women are interested in cooking and recipes it comes out in very bad taste when you release your laptop for women as an extension or helper of domestic chores. I wonder if the wives of Dell executives are upset, or maybe they're too busy doing the dishes and cooking dinner to even know what's going on...
An interesting point, and perhaps a bigger one points to the eventual shift away from a pay format in terms of a lot of this information. Already we've seen a dramatic rise in piracy or people going after free content. Taking this a step further the market place will eventually push out the pay per use model on a lot of this information be it WSJ or music, or TV, allowing ads for consumer based merchandise to fuel, at least for now the demands on the infrastructure. My question is though how long can this last, will ad revenue hold out at least until some new means comes about, or will the Internet like the other Alexandria Library burn or in this case crumble under overwhelmed and under maintained infrastructure.
Haha fair enough, still, not totally sure what makes this flamebait...
Every nerds favorite hobby could be in jeopardy!
The science behind this seems questionable at best... especially seeing how IE isn't popular so much as just saturated throughout the market.
The phrase, "I'll just put it on my flash drive" is fairly ubiquitous these days and often people will be surprised or even shocked if you don't have one. With smaller ones like 1GB flash drives being given away at tech events this can hardly be surprising. With their large capacity, ease of use and ability to boot from USB they've definitely replaced floppy drives in the computing world. But it seems they're going a step further, as solid state drives continue to increase in both speed and size and continue to lower in cost it won't be long till they or a derivation there of replace standard harddrives. I see them eventually being able to vastly overtake even 15k scsi drives once the read write times are improved.
Or travel through time and space?
I like the look, I like the layout, now lets just hope that it follows through as intended. If so, this could be a great resource for both experienced pros as well as new users.
Wow slashdot, wow...
Well I'm sure it won't get passed on to normal citizens, more likely will help pad budgets for government programs that may or may not help citizens.
Without knowing exactly where it goes I can only speculate, but could this fine by so high to help fix European budgets stretched too thin by a weak economy?
Will the camera also record so people can post videos of themselves failing around online?
Seriously, they're the land of a million cameras.
Thanks for copying the title of the article. Did you read what I wrote? Or just the title? I'm not saying the news shouldn't report it, but this isn't anything new, and we'll continue to see more new articles like this till systems and security admins start taking a more serious approach to protecting their infrastructures.
I mean, yeah its good that someone is reporting, but this sort of thing seems to be run of the mill these days. This sort of occurrence is happening more not less, to the point that security admins need to start taking this type of threat more seriously.
The problem here is that it's global, and information spreads that much quicker. With more people using applications like Tor, it will be harder to track the legitimate pirates anyway, leaving the first time pirates, or the young kids not knowing what they're doing to get caught by this. There was a time when legislation could have stopped something like this, but that time is past and if anyone will get hurt by this it will be the companies/politicians that try to stand in its way.
Would create a serious barrier for all but the most connected terrorist groups.
The problem is that these are the ones that we have to defend ourselves against, the ones that fly planes into buildings. Racial profiling provides a very false sense of security as it only stops the small time and amateur people. Further more, the mere act of treating a group of people in that way can push them towards the well connected recruiters. To quote Benjamin Franklin
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
If we become the persecutors here, all we're doing is harming ourselves in the long run.
Is file sharing. Rather than waste time trying to fight this, find ways to work with it. Look at what Apple did with their music store, even in the days of "piracy" they're still doing quite well for themselves. Digital distribution is here to stay, rather than go after people downloading illegally, give them a reason and easy means to acquire your product. I know lots of people that pirate, and when they find something they like, they buy it. Funny how that works like that...
There's a fundamental flaw here, you assume that it would be just a matter of targeting Saudis. All this would do is make a smarter terrorist. Recruit from other countries, forge credentials, smuggle people in, or better yet attack targets outside our borders. I'm not against racial profiling on a moral standpoint, I'm against it on an effectiveness standpoint, because, simply put, it doesn't work. And neither will this brain scanning thing, people will find ways around it.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
It might be a bit simple, but sometimes simple works. There is always a cost for something, "free" give aways are cost justified somehow, be it a one time get you hooked sort of idea, or a recoup losses elsewhere shifting of the burden, but the simple fact is, someone, somewhere is paying for that. Doesn't even have to be money, could be as simple as time or energy, but rest assured, there is always some sort of cost associated with everything.
I'd love to take credit for it... but really the Geek Squad isn't making it too hard to come up with decent material...
They're actually going to use pirated navigation software... and charge you full price!
A long time ago, Intel had all sorts of wondrous projects in the works. Open formats and innovative chips that would have made it possible for any OS to work with it. And then Microsoft swooped down and quashed this. Played hardball and pigeon holed Intel. Now, close to twenty years later they're finally being busted for similar practices. Part of me says good for the EU for not putting up with this, part of me is a little sad for the young Intel full of potential that got bullied into the position its in today.
Twenty minutes of work time and ten hours of charging time!
Looking at Microsoft's history, I could see them releasing it, making it freely available, just to take a little bit away from Google. The animosity between Microsoft and Google isn't exactly a secret, and neither is Microsoft's do anything to win attitude. Case in point, look at how they've handled piracy overseas. Rather than crack down, they've been lenient to help keep their market share up. Better Window's for free than no Windows at all... I could see them going totally open source if they thought it would improve their hold on the market or at least hurt some competitors.