However, I think in the argument of M$ Office vs. Open Office (I've used both), M$ Office is clearly the superior product. Easier to use, let system resources, etc...
Well...
I think, IMHO, the slant M$ will take on this will be to offer an either/or environment, offering a huge library of productivity services while online, and when offline, productivity can continue uninhibited, but without the overhead of maintaining service oriented functionality.
When "sync'd" to the net, users will be able to leverage that vast library of services such as communications, file sharing, document reprocessing (spell check, calc, etc...).
Think about it, what do you REALLY use the net for? Communication and sharing, perfect services candidates. What do you NOT(or not always) want to use the net for? File/data storage.
I think its too much of a strech to say that the thin client is back. Instead, I would say that a "Slender" Client (IP. 2005) is on the horizon, which, I would argue, will be better for everyone.
This whole mess just fortifies in my mind the clear lack of understanding of FOSS and licensing.
I think its time some new terminology gets added/altered/adopted to allow for a more clear description, and thereby understanding, of all the options available.
" Are we sure Hemos that SUSe soruce is nto aviable to cusotmozie and use for free from Novell or are just guessing?? Try guessig a little harder next time
Huh?!?
Capitalistic -> derivation of capitalizing -> "To turn something to one's advantage; benefit: capitalize on an opponent's error."
?Question? To Capitalize on "something", what is that something? Need... ok, fine.
So you are advocating capitalizing on someone else's need? Yes, your argument in favor of captalism is strong indeed...
Nonetheless, I am not arguing AGAINST Capitalism.
I am arguing AGAINST the principles (or lack of) being instilled in our children (as I live in a society of Capitalists) on the part of the government/institutions/parents of my nation.
I am arguing AGAINST the lack of concern of your fellow man
I am arguing AGAINST the 75 hour work week while the child sits in front of sponge bob, hoping that mommy or daddy remembers to bring him home his Mcdonalds dinner tonight.
I am arguing AGAINST teaching our children to "win at all costs" vs. win or lose with dignity.
I am arguing FOR teaching our children to respect their elders, their peers, pretty much everyone.
I am arguing FOR PARENTS teaching their children right from wrong, ethics, responsibility, humility, grace, and honor.
I am arguing AGAINST blaming someone else for YOUR problems.
I am arguing FOR the elevation of the individual from a mere gatherer to a more enlighted being, capable of hearing, listening, and understanding the views of others, without taking up arms when they disagree.
I am arguing AGAINST hot-headed, short-tempered, ill-informed meat heads who spout off whenever provided the opportunity, without consideration or concern of who they may offend.
If you disagree with any of these concepts, feel free. These are OPINIONS, MY OPINIONS, and I am welcomed to them, just as you are welcome to yours.
Never did I say anything about the merits or failings of any particular socio-economic system. But since you brought it up....
Yes, most social governments that exist today are corrupt, so there are few good examples. But speaking idealistically, and in the absense of corruption, a communal society would kick a capitalistic one's ass.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to even imagine such an Utopia at our current evolutionary stage. "Things" drive us, not thoughts.
Why don't we just finally admit that this capitalistic, ego-centric, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, greedy culture we have developed is just plain bad for a "social culture" and move on.
The bottom line and results are what drive our decisions on judging individuals (e.g. how many goals our little soccer stars get, how much money your changes saved the company, etc...), not how well we treat people or how much we participate in our own evolution.
Social mannerisms and forethought are not included in the curriculum of any of the schools I attended. Schools used to dedicate entire courses/semesters on "ediquette" and social conduct. When was the last time any of you attended such a course?
Read the posts here, it is evidence enough that we ALL could use some more of this.
Until we start focusing our attention on the REAL problems facing this society, NONE of the other problems (i.e. social empathy, poverty, etc..) will ever be resolved.
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If you can't walk away from your current job *today* without dooming yourself, then money has made itself your master. It's time for a revolution.
Sorry, but this is just a dumb thing to say. Money is a social construct, created by people to allow for the seperation of casts of individuals. The master is those who "control" the money.
As for revolution, I totally agree, but I think that instead of me having to eat ramen every night, how about EVERYONE eats steak. Everyone eats the same steak, drives the same car, lives in the same house, and those with 5000000 foot yachts turn them in to the Red Cross to be used as mercy ships.
Not gonna happen is it...
Do NOT say that employers are responsible for YOUR retirement. What are we teaching our next generation? That is it someone else's responsibility to take care of us in our old age.
Ummm, yeah? Why is this a BAD thing?
To expect that, after having worked for 40%-60% of your entire life, slept for 30% cause you are so damn tired of from your shit job, and having about 10% of your life to actually enjoy,
that you should, at the end, find comfort in knowing that before your time ends you will actually have some peace.
Yeah, I can see how you could be so fired up. WE MUST STOP THE INSANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" I've run 7 businesses in the 15 years I've been in business "
I can understand how you consider yourself competent enough to give advise and provide an opinion. You build a business, hire people to run it, and then run it and them into the ground?
And Finally...
To blame employers for this VERY complex situation is ridiculous, and I believe the author is a nut job to try to let other people try to spread the responsibility on those who were not responsible.
How can you NOT hold some of the responsibilities? Sure it is complex and sure its not ALL your fault.
But forcing overtime, reducing benefits and wages, firing and hiring to force greater production, all in the name of profitability is chasing the phoenix across the plains. It will never stop.
You, and those like you, FORCE people into "being more productive" or "go the extra mile", not only to increase their position in life, but now, merely to maintain it. Perhaps you are comfortable in stating that, without work, we should all live as vagrants, I however, have not so little opinion of my fellow man.
Feels like M$ is building a custom, personal sourceforge. There are many practical applications for this.
Restore and recovery comes to mind first. With ubiquitous broadband connections, its not as big a deal to d/l full version software packages.
Or perhaps, something even cooler, a full system mirroring, online.
As useful as this would be for an individual, think how useful this would be for corporations. Disater recovery from a corporations point of view would be a no brainer.
Building burned down? Just buy a couple servers and d/l everything from M$.
This could eliminate $1000s/yr off the company's bottom line in media storage, tape back up, etc...
That is, of course, until M$ jacks up the pricing once they cornered the market.
Very Intelligent Surveillance & Target Acquisition
Acronym finder...
thought this was an appropriate one given M$'s *heavy* DRM incorporation into the upcoming product...
This is partly to blame on the industry itslef. They have spent several generations now "teaching" (marketing) the new crop of the movie-going public what they should "think" is a good movie, to the detriment of themselves.
Chaplin is a genius, and was thought of as such, years ago. Years ago people enjoyed that work. BUT NOW...
Proper disater recovery and data restoration....
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Industry standard disaster recovery involves off-site storage of data on tape/dvd, or other media in a *SECURE* location. Most on-line data storage is by its very nature insecure. Data transfer in general over the web is risky. If you are talking about customer information, this is still very taboo.
Purchase a safety deposit box at your local bank and setup a rotation(daily, weekly, etc..) of cycling you media to and from.
OR, get in touch with another local business person in your area and setup mutual hot-sites within each others facilities.
Perhaps you, and others of your generation should have asked this question BEFORE you:
A) Tapped social security to the point of bankruptcy
B) Shipped all the high paying and industrial jobs overseas
C) Forced our college graduates to work for 20 years at McDonalds to pay off their student loans
D) Created a litigious, fearful society were our children see our culture as draconian and opressive
E) And frittered away America's prestige throughout the world through the implementation of ridiculous self-intererst policies at the expense of everyone else.
Geez, I can't think of why most of your so called "future crop" lacks the fire, drive and intensity you are looking for.
you CAN NOT transfer information, but you CAN receive verification of receipt of transmission through this method. Hence, for Mars, this WOULD work, since the transmission time from Mars to Earth =~ 1333 seconds, but the entangled response would be instantaneous. Therefore, since the ceiling on TCP transmission is 2400 seconds, I do not see the problem.
Quantum Networking:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/3 0/0132204&tid=93&tid=126&tid=1&tid=14
and basically develop binary-networks for use as communications hubs between planetary bodies? (iow, a set of computers is developed, entangled, and one is sent to celestrial body, other remains on earth.
M$ share prices rose dramatically today as news of a potentially new market opening up.
It turns out that M$, whose IP patents cover the automated downloading of information directly to the brain, has already put in place technology to automate image downloading through retinal implants.
Users must purchase a subsciption to use the service, but M$ spokesperson was quoted as saying "Our intent is not to capitalize on the misfortunes of individuals, but rather to put in place the technology to enable users to get the most out of offered services such as sight"
"It's an incremental thing. It's not a question of how long life should be, but whether the end of life should be hastened by action or inaction. "
AND THIS:
"We will realize there is an overpopulation problem, and if we have the sense we'll decide to fix it [by not reproducing] sooner rather than later, because the sooner we fix it the more choice we'll have about how we live and where we live and how much space we will have and all that. Therefore, the question is, what will we do? Will we decide to live a long time and have fewer children, or will we decide to reject these rejuvenation therapies in order that we can have children? It seems pretty damn clear to me that we'll take the former option, but the point is that I don't know and I don't need to know."
--------... leave me wondering of the implied necessities of "forcing" breeder selection onto the populus.
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all the other "hard" sciences (chemistry, biology, geology, etc) I can think of several other institutions who have made "hard" a science.
I'm no big fan of M$.
However, I think in the argument of M$ Office vs. Open Office (I've used both), M$ Office is clearly the superior product. Easier to use, let system resources, etc...
If you want a great gaming laptop with reasonable battery life, and still be able to lug it around, go with a Ferrari
"That should be we as in "we MS windows users" that have to bite this bullet thank you very much."
As opposed to what? "We" who insist on living in DOS?
Well... I think, IMHO, the slant M$ will take on this will be to offer an either/or environment, offering a huge library of productivity services while online, and when offline, productivity can continue uninhibited, but without the overhead of maintaining service oriented functionality.
When "sync'd" to the net, users will be able to leverage that vast library of services such as communications, file sharing, document reprocessing (spell check, calc, etc...).
Think about it, what do you REALLY use the net for? Communication and sharing, perfect services candidates. What do you NOT(or not always) want to use the net for? File/data storage.
I think its too much of a strech to say that the thin client is back. Instead, I would say that a "Slender" Client (IP. 2005) is on the horizon, which, I would argue, will be better for everyone.
How can the U.S. govt allow such blatent piracy?
$0.99 episodes of "Everybody Loves Raymond", might as well stick a gun to my head...
This whole mess just fortifies in my mind the clear lack of understanding of FOSS and licensing. I think its time some new terminology gets added/altered/adopted to allow for a more clear description, and thereby understanding, of all the options available.
" Are we sure Hemos that SUSe soruce is nto aviable to cusotmozie and use for free from Novell or are just guessing?? Try guessig a little harder next time Huh?!?
I like PostgreSQL.
Whenever SUN touches something, it always seems to turn to S***
PostgreSQL is a great product, I hope in this case history does not repeat itself.
Sorry, but your logic cannot be followed.
Capitalistic NOT EQUAL Capitalism
Capitalistic -> derivation of capitalizing -> "To turn something to one's advantage; benefit: capitalize on an opponent's error."
?Question? To Capitalize on "something", what is that something? Need... ok, fine.
So you are advocating capitalizing on someone else's need? Yes, your argument in favor of captalism is strong indeed...
Nonetheless, I am not arguing AGAINST Capitalism.
I am arguing AGAINST the principles (or lack of) being instilled in our children (as I live in a society of Capitalists) on the part of the government/institutions/parents of my nation.
I am arguing AGAINST the lack of concern of your fellow man
I am arguing AGAINST the 75 hour work week while the child sits in front of sponge bob, hoping that mommy or daddy remembers to bring him home his Mcdonalds dinner tonight.
I am arguing AGAINST teaching our children to "win at all costs" vs. win or lose with dignity.
I am arguing FOR teaching our children to respect their elders, their peers, pretty much everyone.
I am arguing FOR PARENTS teaching their children right from wrong, ethics, responsibility, humility, grace, and honor.
I am arguing AGAINST blaming someone else for YOUR problems.
I am arguing FOR the elevation of the individual from a mere gatherer to a more enlighted being, capable of hearing, listening, and understanding the views of others, without taking up arms when they disagree.
I am arguing AGAINST hot-headed, short-tempered, ill-informed meat heads who spout off whenever provided the opportunity, without consideration or concern of who they may offend.
If you disagree with any of these concepts, feel free. These are OPINIONS, MY OPINIONS, and I am welcomed to them, just as you are welcome to yours.
Never did I say anything about the merits or failings of any particular socio-economic system. But since you brought it up....
Yes, most social governments that exist today are corrupt, so there are few good examples. But speaking idealistically, and in the absense of corruption, a communal society would kick a capitalistic one's ass.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to even imagine such an Utopia at our current evolutionary stage. "Things" drive us, not thoughts.
Why don't we just finally admit that this capitalistic, ego-centric, self-obsessed, self-indulgent, greedy culture we have developed is just plain bad for a "social culture" and move on.
The bottom line and results are what drive our decisions on judging individuals (e.g. how many goals our little soccer stars get, how much money your changes saved the company, etc...), not how well we treat people or how much we participate in our own evolution.
Social mannerisms and forethought are not included in the curriculum of any of the schools I attended. Schools used to dedicate entire courses/semesters on "ediquette" and social conduct. When was the last time any of you attended such a course?
Read the posts here, it is evidence enough that we ALL could use some more of this.
Until we start focusing our attention on the REAL problems facing this society, NONE of the other problems (i.e. social empathy, poverty, etc..) will ever be resolved.
If you can't walk away from your current job *today* without dooming yourself, then money has made itself your master. It's time for a revolution. Sorry, but this is just a dumb thing to say. Money is a social construct, created by people to allow for the seperation of casts of individuals. The master is those who "control" the money. As for revolution, I totally agree, but I think that instead of me having to eat ramen every night, how about EVERYONE eats steak. Everyone eats the same steak, drives the same car, lives in the same house, and those with 5000000 foot yachts turn them in to the Red Cross to be used as mercy ships. Not gonna happen is it...
Do NOT say that employers are responsible for YOUR retirement. What are we teaching our next generation? That is it someone else's responsibility to take care of us in our old age.
Ummm, yeah? Why is this a BAD thing?
To expect that, after having worked for 40%-60% of your entire life, slept for 30% cause you are so damn tired of from your shit job, and having about 10% of your life to actually enjoy,
that you should, at the end, find comfort in knowing that before your time ends you will actually have some peace.
Yeah, I can see how you could be so fired up. WE MUST STOP THE INSANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
" I've run 7 businesses in the 15 years I've been in business "
I can understand how you consider yourself competent enough to give advise and provide an opinion. You build a business, hire people to run it, and then run it and them into the ground?
And Finally...
To blame employers for this VERY complex situation is ridiculous, and I believe the author is a nut job to try to let other people try to spread the responsibility on those who were not responsible.
How can you NOT hold some of the responsibilities? Sure it is complex and sure its not ALL your fault.
But forcing overtime, reducing benefits and wages, firing and hiring to force greater production, all in the name of profitability is chasing the phoenix across the plains. It will never stop.
You, and those like you, FORCE people into "being more productive" or "go the extra mile", not only to increase their position in life, but now, merely to maintain it. Perhaps you are comfortable in stating that, without work, we should all live as vagrants, I however, have not so little opinion of my fellow man.
Feels like M$ is building a custom, personal sourceforge. There are many practical applications for this.
Restore and recovery comes to mind first. With ubiquitous broadband connections, its not as big a deal to d/l full version software packages.
Or perhaps, something even cooler, a full system mirroring, online.
As useful as this would be for an individual, think how useful this would be for corporations. Disater recovery from a corporations point of view would be a no brainer.
Building burned down? Just buy a couple servers and d/l everything from M$.
This could eliminate $1000s/yr off the company's bottom line in media storage, tape back up, etc...
That is, of course, until M$ jacks up the pricing once they cornered the market.
Very Intelligent Surveillance & Target Acquisition Acronym finder... thought this was an appropriate one given M$'s *heavy* DRM incorporation into the upcoming product...
Your doom is at hand:
http://members.tripod.com/~beastwatch/
bah nevermind, this guy's just plain nutZ
This is partly to blame on the industry itslef. They have spent several generations now "teaching" (marketing) the new crop of the movie-going public what they should "think" is a good movie, to the detriment of themselves.
Chaplin is a genius, and was thought of as such, years ago. Years ago people enjoyed that work. BUT NOW...
Industry standard disaster recovery involves off-site storage of data on tape/dvd, or other media in a *SECURE* location. Most on-line data storage is by its very nature insecure. Data transfer in general over the web is risky. If you are talking about customer information, this is still very taboo.
Purchase a safety deposit box at your local bank and setup a rotation(daily, weekly, etc..) of cycling you media to and from.
OR, get in touch with another local business person in your area and setup mutual hot-sites within each others facilities.
Perhaps you, and others of your generation should have asked this question BEFORE you:
A) Tapped social security to the point of bankruptcy
B) Shipped all the high paying and industrial jobs overseas
C) Forced our college graduates to work for 20 years at McDonalds to pay off their student loans
D) Created a litigious, fearful society were our children see our culture as draconian and opressive
E) And frittered away America's prestige throughout the world through the implementation of ridiculous self-intererst policies at the expense of everyone else.
Geez, I can't think of why most of your so called "future crop" lacks the fire, drive and intensity you are looking for.
you CAN NOT transfer information, but you CAN receive verification of receipt of transmission through this method. Hence, for Mars, this WOULD work, since the transmission time from Mars to Earth =~ 1333 seconds, but the entangled response would be instantaneous. Therefore, since the ceiling on TCP transmission is 2400 seconds, I do not see the problem.
Quantum Networking: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/3 0/0132204&tid=93&tid=126&tid=1&tid=14
and basically develop binary-networks for use as communications hubs between planetary bodies? (iow, a set of computers is developed, entangled, and one is sent to celestrial body, other remains on earth.
Kinda late to worry about it now isn't it?
M$ share prices rose dramatically today as news of a potentially new market opening up. It turns out that M$, whose IP patents cover the automated downloading of information directly to the brain, has already put in place technology to automate image downloading through retinal implants. Users must purchase a subsciption to use the service, but M$ spokesperson was quoted as saying "Our intent is not to capitalize on the misfortunes of individuals, but rather to put in place the technology to enable users to get the most out of offered services such as sight"
The porn industry has been waiting for this....
"Culling" anyone?
... leave me wondering of the implied necessities of "forcing" breeder selection onto the populus.
THIS:
"It's an incremental thing. It's not a question of how long life should be, but whether the end of life should be hastened by action or inaction. "
AND THIS:
"We will realize there is an overpopulation problem, and if we have the sense we'll decide to fix it [by not reproducing] sooner rather than later, because the sooner we fix it the more choice we'll have about how we live and where we live and how much space we will have and all that. Therefore, the question is, what will we do? Will we decide to live a long time and have fewer children, or will we decide to reject these rejuvenation therapies in order that we can have children? It seems pretty damn clear to me that we'll take the former option, but the point is that I don't know and I don't need to know."
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Magic 8 Ball says: "Culling very likely.".
I'm worried, you should be.