I recently bought one of these (the $249 version) more out of curiosity than anything. It's a pretty bad experience that has led me to believe that ARM is as much the issue as anything. It is slower than molasses to load even a reasonably complex Web page. Slashdot and even GMail peg the thing... four or five seconds minimum to start reading.
And because it's locked down, Google pre-loads a bunch of obscure Chrome extensions that would otherwise be separate programs. Besides that, the build cheapness makes it a throwaway.
I love my Nexus 7, which is a bargain and constructed properly for the tablet use case. (It's also slow to load pages, leading me to suspect ARM.) Anyway, Chromebook is a netbook without any flexibility.
I've argued for years about the need for a single, free authoritative certificate provider, and the Post Office is the obvious candidate. There's no need to do any deep checks or inspection though... Just make sure that the certificate is the same from use to use. Then let the history of usage improve its quality over time; e.g., certificate reputation. If I have paid utility bills and taxes with a certificate over a period of time, you can be pretty sure it's legitimately me. Yes certs can be stolen/lost, but teaching the importance of good practices places the burden on the user, and in any event it's preferable to expensive verification processes (which as we know can be gamed).
Where are my mod points.... Right now even elite colleges are finding it hard to get all the full-tuition students they need. My daughter enrolled at a top school this year which gave us a no-strings-attached discount that dwarfed the cobbled-together combination of (grade-contingent) scholarships, loans, and grants that her other options offered. Now she's getting a household-name education, plus perks like great professors and a single room. Of course she's doing all the work and taking full advantage of everything on offer there.
Now's the time to go a little contrarian in your educational choices.
Same deal here. Except for the fact that 3G will *never* be supported on AT&T with this phone (I called and they said "oh you have the T Mobile version"), I love this puppy. But it does seem to be a second class citizen.
That said, I've done both the original Froyo and the FRF72 update. Just have to go looking for them and do it manually. The big benefit for me was better landscape handling of applications, especially the phone application in the car dock.
I just got a Nexus One too, and admit that I never used an iPhone to compare it with.... but here's my assessment: You need the fingers of a friggin' safecracker to make this thing work consistently. I don't consider myself graceless*, and with practice it's a bit easier, but all I can say is thank god for the voice recognition -- that works sweet! I can pull up a Web site or call someone with one touch, so it all balances out.
...because you're even asking the question.
This is about people who can't, or don't care, to take any trouble to change defaults -- in other words, the vast majority of computer users. This is exactly the same principle Microsoft has employed over the years: "We'll just do whatever we want and the people who understand it, will find a way to stay out of our clutches. Everyone else we own." Same principle behind Facebook's recent "Privacy enhancements" and all the software that takes over every option of your PC when you install it (Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, Apple, Real....).
As H.L. Mencken pointed out, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," and that thought extends perfectly to the computing public. Unfortunately the bad guys understand this.
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IP reputation and RBL will always be vulnerable because the attackers just hide within the population, like guerrillas or terrorists. If you block legitimate ranges or addresses because you saw a spam come from there, it's like bombing a village because someone shot at you from one of the houses. You may kill the bad guy but you make the population REALLY mad.
This is consistent with recent findings that >50% of spam actually originates from "trusted domains."
Deja vu..... You'll recall that the Web was gonna kill the desktop, and client/server, but look around. Sure you'll see a TREND toward more Web/cloud stuff, but the use cases for the old stuff don't go away. Everyone's a top-down, absolutist on these things. If you think bottoms-up, based on customer use cases, you'll have mainframes, terminals, PCs, and client/server -- for good or for bad -- around forever.
That and ego/politics; few Type A managers are gonna give their sensitive data over to someone they can't choke. So you'll see more cloud, and yes a greater tolerance for the model overall. But you won't see everything go online. What remains to be seen is whether the cloud enthusiasm tempers progressively, or bursts like a bubble.
I have a domain I've owned and not used for almost 15 years, it's a.com that would be very attractive to anyone with a directory or yellow pages plan. Every so often I get a query on it but it's always.... wait for it... a domain squatter. I tell them it's $10k and never hear back. If I had a query from someone who really was going to do something with it, I would negotiate rationally.
So for those who say "registrant!=squatter" that's not my experience. (Well except for me, um, never mind.)
I thought I might have found the switch with the "back/forward" button at the lower right.... but it was just there to urge me to install Silverlight. Grrrr.....
Here at IBM it is well known that it takes 20 minutes for everyone to join the e-meeting and/or track down the necessary "executives." So the 40 minute meeting just makes sure you use what's left.
Haven't really caught much Futurama but Billy West is one of the funniest and most versatile voice actors, evar. He was on WBCN Boston for most of the 80s (Charles Laquidara's "Big Mattress" program) and to this day I'm still re-using his shtick most days. If you ever heard him doing all Three Stooges in succession, you would agree. Or the old "Fool's Parade," where they would stage a complete virtual parade down Commonwealth Ave on April 1, just to see how many people would actually show up. I still smile thinking about the Somerville Float (to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree").... "Oh Sumville, oh Sumville, the people there are pissah!"
I still wish they'd been able to buy Yahoo. Now THAT would have efficiently diminished the checkbook-as-weapon strategy MS has perfected over the years.
No, many people voted for him the first time because Gore is such a schmuck, but voted against him the second time despite the fact that Kerry (my senator) is an even bigger schmuck. This is called learning from experience. Luckily this last time neither option approached the shmuckiness of those two contests.
Wow you're right.... it ain't 20k but how'd I get such a relatively low user number?
Oh right. To not be modded off topic... 250GB might seem like a lot, but being a Verizon DSL customer (previously ISDN), I just wish I had a speed that would allow me to approach that limit. FIOS is a distant dream for my little (3k residents) town. (Charter owns cable here so that's out of the question.)
If it wasn't so daunting to even try to D/L big files I'd prolly be tempted. For example, my internal software builds are 5-6 GB and I'd love to live on the edge with the nightly stuff -- but as it stands it's too painful to update more than every week or two because it requires planning ahead before bedtime.
I mean, I like the Bittorrenting Brit sitcoms and pr0n as much as the next guy... RIP Verizon newsgroups. But it's depressing to think that by the time I get the real-world opportunity to approach that volume, some dickhead bean-counter might judge me an edge case for wanting to. If I thought 250 GB was the base and it would move north from there, well ok, but that's not the direction I anticipate.
Here's an idea. I moved from Verizon Wireless (~20 years) to AT&T earlier this year. Rollover minutes saved my ass last month (three teenagers). If someone came to me and offered a reasonable *average* limit, I'd probably listen. Can we meet somewhere in the middle?
That's a troll. There are a zillion examples of game-changing ideas, in technology, transportation, manufacturing, farming.... Ultimately the benefits flow through as lower costs-per-unit, adopted by larger populations of people.
I'm not saying this is one of them, though I damn well hope one of these redundant stories turns out to be so. Each press release seems to scream a little louder than the previous, and come to think of it that's probably closer to a function of the factors you argue as reasons a breakthrough's benefits won't flow through to consumers.
But a range of approaches seems the best way to find that breakthrough, so I for one am content to put up with this, and even get a little thrill every time one of these screeching articles appears. We need to figure out a way out of the carbon fuel problem. I say, more power to all of 'em.
Late to thread, no energy to write it all again. It's about fixing the critical path dependency where the OS decision happens on the left and everything flows from there. Decouple OS from applications and things get groovy fast.
Like many of my IBM peers I use Open Client for Linux and for Windows XP. (We used to turn in our old PCs but now we just load the IBM RHEL or SUSE image.) My next machine will be a Mac. It's possible because all the IBM software I use works natively on all three platforms: Notes, Sametime, Symphony, Firefox Web conferencing, expense reporting and travel reservation apps (used to require IE).
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Don't go ad hominem, don't go ad hominem. Ok I can't help myself, you are the stupidest person on the internet today, AC.
From the NYT coverage: “You can watch the entire trilogy of ‘Lord of the Rings,’ ” on a single charge, Mr. Schiller said.
Two incredibly boring hipster co-opted concepts combined in one sentence.
I recently bought one of these (the $249 version) more out of curiosity than anything. It's a pretty bad experience that has led me to believe that ARM is as much the issue as anything. It is slower than molasses to load even a reasonably complex Web page. Slashdot and even GMail peg the thing... four or five seconds minimum to start reading.
And because it's locked down, Google pre-loads a bunch of obscure Chrome extensions that would otherwise be separate programs. Besides that, the build cheapness makes it a throwaway.
I love my Nexus 7, which is a bargain and constructed properly for the tablet use case. (It's also slow to load pages, leading me to suspect ARM.) Anyway, Chromebook is a netbook without any flexibility.
I've argued for years about the need for a single, free authoritative certificate provider, and the Post Office is the obvious candidate. There's no need to do any deep checks or inspection though... Just make sure that the certificate is the same from use to use. Then let the history of usage improve its quality over time; e.g., certificate reputation. If I have paid utility bills and taxes with a certificate over a period of time, you can be pretty sure it's legitimately me. Yes certs can be stolen/lost, but teaching the importance of good practices places the burden on the user, and in any event it's preferable to expensive verification processes (which as we know can be gamed).
http://www.opaopabrewing.com/
...runs off to check out this excellent offer.
Now, now, now... that's uncalled for. He's far more witty than MS is innovative. To match MS's innovativeness, he'd have to have posted "this".
This
Where are my mod points.... Right now even elite colleges are finding it hard to get all the full-tuition students they need. My daughter enrolled at a top school this year which gave us a no-strings-attached discount that dwarfed the cobbled-together combination of (grade-contingent) scholarships, loans, and grants that her other options offered. Now she's getting a household-name education, plus perks like great professors and a single room. Of course she's doing all the work and taking full advantage of everything on offer there. Now's the time to go a little contrarian in your educational choices.
Same deal here. Except for the fact that 3G will *never* be supported on AT&T with this phone (I called and they said "oh you have the T Mobile version"), I love this puppy. But it does seem to be a second class citizen. That said, I've done both the original Froyo and the FRF72 update. Just have to go looking for them and do it manually. The big benefit for me was better landscape handling of applications, especially the phone application in the car dock.
I just got a Nexus One too, and admit that I never used an iPhone to compare it with.... but here's my assessment: You need the fingers of a friggin' safecracker to make this thing work consistently. I don't consider myself graceless*, and with practice it's a bit easier, but all I can say is thank god for the voice recognition -- that works sweet! I can pull up a Web site or call someone with one touch, so it all balances out.
*Those who've seen me golf may disagree.
...because you're even asking the question. This is about people who can't, or don't care, to take any trouble to change defaults -- in other words, the vast majority of computer users. This is exactly the same principle Microsoft has employed over the years: "We'll just do whatever we want and the people who understand it, will find a way to stay out of our clutches. Everyone else we own." Same principle behind Facebook's recent "Privacy enhancements" and all the software that takes over every option of your PC when you install it (Microsoft, Adobe, AOL, Apple, Real....).
As H.L. Mencken pointed out, "No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public," and that thought extends perfectly to the computing public. Unfortunately the bad guys understand this.
IP reputation and RBL will always be vulnerable because the attackers just hide within the population, like guerrillas or terrorists. If you block legitimate ranges or addresses because you saw a spam come from there, it's like bombing a village because someone shot at you from one of the houses. You may kill the bad guy but you make the population REALLY mad. This is consistent with recent findings that >50% of spam actually originates from "trusted domains."
Deja vu..... You'll recall that the Web was gonna kill the desktop, and client/server, but look around. Sure you'll see a TREND toward more Web/cloud stuff, but the use cases for the old stuff don't go away. Everyone's a top-down, absolutist on these things. If you think bottoms-up, based on customer use cases, you'll have mainframes, terminals, PCs, and client/server -- for good or for bad -- around forever.
That and ego/politics; few Type A managers are gonna give their sensitive data over to someone they can't choke. So you'll see more cloud, and yes a greater tolerance for the model overall. But you won't see everything go online. What remains to be seen is whether the cloud enthusiasm tempers progressively, or bursts like a bubble.
I have a domain I've owned and not used for almost 15 years, it's a .com that would be very attractive to anyone with a directory or yellow pages plan. Every so often I get a query on it but it's always.... wait for it... a domain squatter. I tell them it's $10k and never hear back. If I had a query from someone who really was going to do something with it, I would negotiate rationally.
So for those who say "registrant!=squatter" that's not my experience. (Well except for me, um, never mind.)
I thought I might have found the switch with the "back/forward" button at the lower right.... but it was just there to urge me to install Silverlight. Grrrr.....
Here at IBM it is well known that it takes 20 minutes for everyone to join the e-meeting and/or track down the necessary "executives." So the 40 minute meeting just makes sure you use what's left.
Haven't really caught much Futurama but Billy West is one of the funniest and most versatile voice actors, evar. He was on WBCN Boston for most of the 80s (Charles Laquidara's "Big Mattress" program) and to this day I'm still re-using his shtick most days. If you ever heard him doing all Three Stooges in succession, you would agree. Or the old "Fool's Parade," where they would stage a complete virtual parade down Commonwealth Ave on April 1, just to see how many people would actually show up. I still smile thinking about the Somerville Float (to the tune of "Oh Christmas Tree").... "Oh Sumville, oh Sumville, the people there are pissah!"
I still wish they'd been able to buy Yahoo. Now THAT would have efficiently diminished the checkbook-as-weapon strategy MS has perfected over the years.
Wow he's not kidding about the Monty Burns thing. http://www.visit-springfieldillinois.com/design/Simpsons/pic-MrBurns-z.jpg
Wow that font looks like ass. I went there hoping for a positive reaction, but are they serious?
No, many people voted for him the first time because Gore is such a schmuck, but voted against him the second time despite the fact that Kerry (my senator) is an even bigger schmuck. This is called learning from experience. Luckily this last time neither option approached the shmuckiness of those two contests.
Wow you're right.... it ain't 20k but how'd I get such a relatively low user number?
Oh right. To not be modded off topic... 250GB might seem like a lot, but being a Verizon DSL customer (previously ISDN), I just wish I had a speed that would allow me to approach that limit. FIOS is a distant dream for my little (3k residents) town. (Charter owns cable here so that's out of the question.)
If it wasn't so daunting to even try to D/L big files I'd prolly be tempted. For example, my internal software builds are 5-6 GB and I'd love to live on the edge with the nightly stuff -- but as it stands it's too painful to update more than every week or two because it requires planning ahead before bedtime.
I mean, I like the Bittorrenting Brit sitcoms and pr0n as much as the next guy... RIP Verizon newsgroups. But it's depressing to think that by the time I get the real-world opportunity to approach that volume, some dickhead bean-counter might judge me an edge case for wanting to. If I thought 250 GB was the base and it would move north from there, well ok, but that's not the direction I anticipate.
Here's an idea. I moved from Verizon Wireless (~20 years) to AT&T earlier this year. Rollover minutes saved my ass last month (three teenagers). If someone came to me and offered a reasonable *average* limit, I'd probably listen. Can we meet somewhere in the middle?
That's a troll. There are a zillion examples of game-changing ideas, in technology, transportation, manufacturing, farming.... Ultimately the benefits flow through as lower costs-per-unit, adopted by larger populations of people.
I'm not saying this is one of them, though I damn well hope one of these redundant stories turns out to be so. Each press release seems to scream a little louder than the previous, and come to think of it that's probably closer to a function of the factors you argue as reasons a breakthrough's benefits won't flow through to consumers.
But a range of approaches seems the best way to find that breakthrough, so I for one am content to put up with this, and even get a little thrill every time one of these screeching articles appears. We need to figure out a way out of the carbon fuel problem. I say, more power to all of 'em.
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=221968&cid=17986866
Like many of my IBM peers I use Open Client for Linux and for Windows XP. (We used to turn in our old PCs but now we just load the IBM RHEL or SUSE image.) My next machine will be a Mac. It's possible because all the IBM software I use works natively on all three platforms: Notes, Sametime, Symphony, Firefox Web conferencing, expense reporting and travel reservation apps (used to require IE).