I am a truly satisfied customer, but a note of warning in that once things get huge, a single corruption in an Omni-Outliner file can zap a file & make data retention dicey.
I had something in a link to an external file which introduced corruption and had to get a backup file to replace it.
Now I limit the size of my OO files.
Better to have lots of small files than one humongous one that goes kapboom, like has happened to me with Time Machine and proprietary single file archives like Retrospect.
If Sony didn't plan for this in the beginning, then I understand why they have resorted to this as a last gasp. That means there was a major hole in their business plan.
Sony once held the mindshare Apple has now. For me, so many Sony items have had problems, that they are off my radar.
The world moves on and a major player must move ahead of it, or at least with it or it dies. I just don't get the concept of a company suing the retail consumers of its hardware.
If Moto spent as much time truly innovating products that were on the leading edge of consumer demand, as they once did, they would not be looking like losers now.
Patents are only good IF YOU USE THEM IN YOUR PRODUCTS.
Patent trolls don't have ongoing brand value.
I loved the early Moto "flip phones" in the late 80s that were damn near indestructible, if bulky for a pocket.
Then when they started to miniaturize their phones, my experiences led me to believe that they lost the good designers, because of all the faults I saw in my phones (at rather inflated prices).
schnikies noted" There are few reasons to upgrade hardware anymore unless you are a gamer or do ultra high end work. There hasn't been anything worthy since the introduction of the c2d. I have a 2008 unibody macbook and will most likely stick with this for the next several years."
Right on.
I have a 2008 C2D for backup and odd jobs, but running Win7 native with 3D CAD, it was bogging down.
The i7 @ 2.56Ghz is quite a bit faster and definitely a time saver giving greater productivity. If you don't do heavy lifting, though, they i7 is just for bragging rights, as nothing in MSOffice or iWorks is going to strain it.
"Anyone who says regulation doesn't work deserves to have his brake lines slit."
Regulation by a single entity is a despotic solution or an authoritarian solution if I were to be kinder. Kings and Monarchs have never been known to be able to regulate things well for their whole populace.
My point made later indeed, was to have regulation be open sourced so all the tricks and code whacks are out in the open for analysis by the programmers who understand and take the time to analyze and report and argue about what is right and wrong.
One entity or two doing the "regulation" can leave just enough of a sliver to allow "back doors", "exploits", etc. and that is just what we do NOT want.
Having just the government do regulation means those with the most $s to hand under the table or thru the PAC gets more attention.
I doubt seriously that any of the top or upper level "regulators" and certainly not Congress have one whit of understanding of programming or "Code".
What I detect is that the smartest & most motivated people do NOT inhabit the regulatory agencies and indeed probably do not inhabit the exchanges themselves.
The various brokers hire people at much higher salaries &/or bonuses and pay them VERY well to find the tactics, some would say loopholes, to allow quick profits each day. That in itself is not what the original intent of share ownership markets were about.
I wonder when the word "Day Trader" was invented, but it certainly was quite awhile back but it didn't include the ability to do tens of thousands of trades out of one broker in a matter of seconds, and it certainly wasn't considered why we needed a share exchange in the first place. Exchanges were to allow companies to raise funds and to promote their value based on earnings and assets over time and allow a company to achieve an immortal status that an individual person could not achieve.
I think governments as the regulatory overseer are flawed, but then recognize the brokers are also very self-interested, so the whole mess needs more transparency.
That sort of transparency has been achieved with the likes of Linux.
I wonder if open sourcing the rules of the share markets could achieve the results where everyone knows the rules of the game & small individual investors have the same info that the large brokers do?
The worst thing in the world for a share market is to eliminate the small investor leaving only the whales to thrash about.
It is a big problem to solve and the self-interest of the big brokers cause all sorts of broken arms in WDC, if I guess right (meaning $s passed behind between arms).
I think these attempts are inevitable and ultimately will lead to manufacturers who leave products more open and those who lock them down with biometrics thighter than a you know what.
Peter Drucker (& other management experts) said "Eliminate everything that doesn't benefit the consumer".
It is up to the innovative producer of products to make a compelling case for their product and not just a hook with handcuffs, that the consumer will buy into long term.
I understand manufacturers and distributors will come and go. That is what happens in a dynamic business, and is why ANY business that wants to last had better innovate continually, or...THEY WILL BE FOOTNOTES IN HISTORY.
What happens if you use the old "torn sheet of paper" routine?
Each drive or device moving from A to B goes with a different courier/ISP/method and no "piece" contains enough information to be identifiable or usable.
All the pieces need to arrive at the destination to be able to be re-constructed back into usable form.
Any time you send a complete message in one burp, one hard drive or one CD or one image, there is a chance for decryption by any number of accidents or threat of death to all your family members one person at a time while you watch.
No encryption was used in the creation of this message...thus I have deniability.
It is one thing for an isolated programmer to make security errors in a program.
It is entirely another thing when a Siemens or similar puts out code all over the world and they OBVIOUSLY have no serious security review of their code.
If a giant plant or process is taken down by this type of worm or similar, is Siemans going to plead that their EULA protects and indemnifies them from any responsibility for loss by the user of the software?
Germany figured out how to convert coal into fuel, which is "sorta like" petroleum . Entrepeneurs will figure out the ways and we will continue society nearly as before.
Today we have massive amounts of both relatively easily obtained oil from oil shale. We can't get it for the price of oil at the well-head yet, but it is there in the Rockies in truly massive quantities.
Shell has shown how to get it out without mining by liquifying it with steam and pumping it out.
Methane Hydrate is a source of immense supply for use in thermal power plants, though figuring out how to safely get it to the surface has not been tried.
Many other sources exist.
Hence I agree, there is no "wall" reached in energy production. We just keep innovating. This is the likely nature of humankind until the next global cataclysm happens.
The question of how to survive a vaguely anticipated global cataclysm as generally indicated in the paleontology record is a bigger question. How do you survive if ice sheets return & cover all of Canada, Siberia, Scandanavia and Northern Europe & Russia?
Forgot to note a key factor and that is ultimately format independence, since email clients come and go over time & then many key output formats, so you are not restricted on that avenue.
The search function is certainly a key for me, as sometimes I know only one key word in attempting to find a note about material, object or company from 15 years back.
...all the money in the bank account and assets and has constructed an alibi that "the Maquiladora" took it, then that is what?
This is just an extension of stealing from the company. People can bitch about the office supplies and customer info, but there is a lot of stealing that goes on with the executives and shareholder/partners.
Ben there for 40 years and seen it all. No answer to it other than vigilance and pre-worked out plans and the deliberate attempt to treat people nicely and fairly.
If you DO NOT treat people fairly, don't expect your back to not have the scars and stitch marks.
Otherwise he would have gleaned first hand user insights from real world users and coders on Slashdot for over a decade.
Unfortunately hiring a marketing/sales guy as lead guru for corporate direction has turned out to be a failure for Microsoft.
Just look at the market cap over the last decade.
You need an "innovation director" with virtual dictator authority to execute on BETTER concepts once they are planned and demonstrated and knowing that the playing field is changing in hardware and software every 6-12 months.
But,... that means Balmer would no longer be in control, so...
And...when you go to the very bottom chart from your Figure 1-3, you can clearly see that within a short number of thousands of years, we will again descend toward the next ice age, no matter what humans do now or later!
We may get a bit warmer in the near term, but eventually a billion people will be displaced and as they and their descendents "invade" the areas nearer the mid-latitudes, there will be the biggest argument you have ever seen about "illegal immigrants".
Once we start into the next ice age, say goodbye to Canada, Scandanavia, Russia, Siberia and Mongolia, plus a lot of other nearby places.
Slashdot Mirror
I am a truly satisfied customer, but a note of warning in that once things get huge, a single corruption in an Omni-Outliner file can zap a file & make data retention dicey. I had something in a link to an external file which introduced corruption and had to get a backup file to replace it. Now I limit the size of my OO files. Better to have lots of small files than one humongous one that goes kapboom, like has happened to me with Time Machine and proprietary single file archives like Retrospect.
If Sony didn't plan for this in the beginning, then I understand why they have resorted to this as a last gasp. That means there was a major hole in their business plan.
Sony once held the mindshare Apple has now. For me, so many Sony items have had problems, that they are off my radar.
The world moves on and a major player must move ahead of it, or at least with it or it dies. I just don't get the concept of a company suing the retail consumers of its hardware.
"...looks just like something perfectly harmless that people would normally carry around with them in their pockets will make a killing."
Uh, it is EXACTLY the killing thing that I am worried about.
Issued in 1993 + 17 years from issue means the patent is or is almost expired.
If Moto spent as much time truly innovating products that were on the leading edge of consumer demand, as they once did, they would not be looking like losers now.
Patents are only good IF YOU USE THEM IN YOUR PRODUCTS.
Patent trolls don't have ongoing brand value.
I loved the early Moto "flip phones" in the late 80s that were damn near indestructible, if bulky for a pocket.
Then when they started to miniaturize their phones, my experiences led me to believe that they lost the good designers, because of all the faults I saw in my phones (at rather inflated prices).
schnikies noted" There are few reasons to upgrade hardware anymore unless you are a gamer or do ultra high end work. There hasn't been anything worthy since the introduction of the c2d. I have a 2008 unibody macbook and will most likely stick with this for the next several years."
Right on.
I have a 2008 C2D for backup and odd jobs, but running Win7 native with 3D CAD, it was bogging down.
The i7 @ 2.56Ghz is quite a bit faster and definitely a time saver giving greater productivity. If you don't do heavy lifting, though, they i7 is just for bragging rights, as nothing in MSOffice or iWorks is going to strain it.
They arrested "The Usual Suspects".
"Anyone who says regulation doesn't work deserves to have his brake lines slit."
Regulation by a single entity is a despotic solution or an authoritarian solution if I were to be kinder. Kings and Monarchs have never been known to be able to regulate things well for their whole populace.
My point made later indeed, was to have regulation be open sourced so all the tricks and code whacks are out in the open for analysis by the programmers who understand and take the time to analyze and report and argue about what is right and wrong.
One entity or two doing the "regulation" can leave just enough of a sliver to allow "back doors", "exploits", etc. and that is just what we do NOT want.
Having just the government do regulation means those with the most $s to hand under the table or thru the PAC gets more attention.
I doubt seriously that any of the top or upper level "regulators" and certainly not Congress have one whit of understanding of programming or "Code".
I agree that "prevent" could be considered wrong.
What I detect is that the smartest & most motivated people do NOT inhabit the regulatory agencies and indeed probably do not inhabit the exchanges themselves.
The various brokers hire people at much higher salaries &/or bonuses and pay them VERY well to find the tactics, some would say loopholes, to allow quick profits each day. That in itself is not what the original intent of share ownership markets were about.
I wonder when the word "Day Trader" was invented, but it certainly was quite awhile back but it didn't include the ability to do tens of thousands of trades out of one broker in a matter of seconds, and it certainly wasn't considered why we needed a share exchange in the first place. Exchanges were to allow companies to raise funds and to promote their value based on earnings and assets over time and allow a company to achieve an immortal status that an individual person could not achieve.
I think governments as the regulatory overseer are flawed, but then recognize the brokers are also very self-interested, so the whole mess needs more transparency.
That sort of transparency has been achieved with the likes of Linux.
I wonder if open sourcing the rules of the share markets could achieve the results where everyone knows the rules of the game & small individual investors have the same info that the large brokers do?
The worst thing in the world for a share market is to eliminate the small investor leaving only the whales to thrash about.
It is a big problem to solve and the self-interest of the big brokers cause all sorts of broken arms in WDC, if I guess right (meaning $s passed behind between arms).
Transparency is the only solution I see.
Prevent airplane crashes.
RIM headquarters.
"...think about how dangerous a keyboard or a mouse could be."
After all, they hold more & more different microbes than virtually any other surface on your desk.
"Collective"?
Not me.
I think these attempts are inevitable and ultimately will lead to manufacturers who leave products more open and those who lock them down with biometrics thighter than a you know what.
Peter Drucker (& other management experts) said "Eliminate everything that doesn't benefit the consumer".
It is up to the innovative producer of products to make a compelling case for their product and not just a hook with handcuffs, that the consumer will buy into long term.
I understand manufacturers and distributors will come and go. That is what happens in a dynamic business, and is why ANY business that wants to last had better innovate continually, or...THEY WILL BE FOOTNOTES IN HISTORY.
Hence, even recommending the doctor by name in an email could be considered infringing.
So I won't recommend her to any other potential clients.
But, as others note, I can put her name down and put the (TM) trademark symbol up and that is OK, just like when I refer to Sony or 3M.
Ill thought out in my estimation, though I understand what she is trying to do.
What happens if you use the old "torn sheet of paper" routine?
Each drive or device moving from A to B goes with a different courier/ISP/method and no "piece" contains enough information to be identifiable or usable.
All the pieces need to arrive at the destination to be able to be re-constructed back into usable form.
Any time you send a complete message in one burp, one hard drive or one CD or one image, there is a chance for decryption by any number of accidents or threat of death to all your family members one person at a time while you watch.
No encryption was used in the creation of this message...thus I have deniability.
I thought only one weirdo did that at Google and he was fired last week.
It is one thing for an isolated programmer to make security errors in a program.
It is entirely another thing when a Siemens or similar puts out code all over the world and they OBVIOUSLY have no serious security review of their code.
If a giant plant or process is taken down by this type of worm or similar, is Siemans going to plead that their EULA protects and indemnifies them from any responsibility for loss by the user of the software?
This gives me the willys.
Welcome welcome to Windows Seven
Wrapped up safely again
In bubble wrapped Microsoft Heaven
Germany figured out how to convert coal into fuel, which is "sorta like" petroleum . Entrepeneurs will figure out the ways and we will continue society nearly as before.
Today we have massive amounts of both relatively easily obtained oil from oil shale. We can't get it for the price of oil at the well-head yet, but it is there in the Rockies in truly massive quantities.
Shell has shown how to get it out without mining by liquifying it with steam and pumping it out.
Methane Hydrate is a source of immense supply for use in thermal power plants, though figuring out how to safely get it to the surface has not been tried.
Many other sources exist.
Hence I agree, there is no "wall" reached in energy production. We just keep innovating. This is the likely nature of humankind until the next global cataclysm happens.
The question of how to survive a vaguely anticipated global cataclysm as generally indicated in the paleontology record is a bigger question. How do you survive if ice sheets return & cover all of Canada, Siberia, Scandanavia and Northern Europe & Russia?
iPads (& similar) can be THE computer for the rest of society who didn't want a laptop or other computer.
Why?
Because it doesn't have to be treated and coddled like a "computer", at least if it is an iPad.
I've seen both the very young and very old become adept in doing things they like in minutes.
Forgot to note a key factor and that is ultimately format independence, since email clients come and go over time & then many key output formats, so you are not restricted on that avenue.
The search function is certainly a key for me, as sometimes I know only one key word in attempting to find a note about material, object or company from 15 years back.
MailSteward on the Mac.
SQL database. Good, Inexpensive, works w/many tens of thousands of emails & more.
http://mailsteward.com/
...all the money in the bank account and assets and has constructed an alibi that "the Maquiladora" took it, then that is what?
This is just an extension of stealing from the company. People can bitch about the office supplies and customer info, but there is a lot of stealing that goes on with the executives and shareholder/partners.
Ben there for 40 years and seen it all. No answer to it other than vigilance and pre-worked out plans and the deliberate attempt to treat people nicely and fairly.
If you DO NOT treat people fairly, don't expect your back to not have the scars and stitch marks.
Otherwise he would have gleaned first hand user insights from real world users and coders on Slashdot for over a decade.
Unfortunately hiring a marketing/sales guy as lead guru for corporate direction has turned out to be a failure for Microsoft.
Just look at the market cap over the last decade.
You need an "innovation director" with virtual dictator authority to execute on BETTER concepts once they are planned and demonstrated and knowing that the playing field is changing in hardware and software every 6-12 months.
But, ... that means Balmer would no longer be in control, so...
And...when you go to the very bottom chart from your Figure 1-3, you can clearly see that within a short number of thousands of years, we will again descend toward the next ice age, no matter what humans do now or later!
We may get a bit warmer in the near term, but eventually a billion people will be displaced and as they and their descendents "invade" the areas nearer the mid-latitudes, there will be the biggest argument you have ever seen about "illegal immigrants".
Once we start into the next ice age, say goodbye to Canada, Scandanavia, Russia, Siberia and Mongolia, plus a lot of other nearby places.
I'm passing on my sled and snow shoes in my will.