Perhaps part of the problem is the incestuousness between Ballmer's wife's PR company and the problem at hand. If Microsoft wanted to be effective, they'd stop having yes-people surrounding them and more WTF Were You Thinking people surrounding them.
The sad thing is that they're burning money on this while (and Ballmer admits to it) while Windows Mobile is burning. The lost opportunities to shine are endless there.
He's acting like another Vonnegut character piece of anatomy, as in the appendage of Dwayne Hoobler, who as all but a few inches of his johnson's 11million mile length in another dimension (if I recall the details correctly).
Certainly, but not to the rabid extent that existed before. The line forming to watch Bill Gates at Comdex might start well before dawn, and people would actually bring sleeping bags so they could be the first ones to get a copy of Windows 98.
Now, almost anyone with a clue already has at least an RC version and/or the RTM, so it's all moot. Microsoft's been leaking Windows 7 for more than a year. A general release is not so much a non-event as not developing any real back-pressure for a "product release".
I write some of those technology blogs. I have more freaking W7 CDs than coffee cups. How many Snow Leopard releases did I get before release? Zero. Qu'elle surprise.
In reality, there was a lot of fanfare with Windows 95 and 98. ME broke a bubble but Windows 2000, where DOS was finally dealt a death as an underpinning, was a comparatively big deal. There was fanboyism that in turn, gave Microsoft a lift into data centers where they'd never been allowed before. The rest of history is as we know it.
So yeah-- they had and even may have fanboys. Linux once really sucked, despite its philosophical underpinnings. Apple's MacOS wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, either. Things change.
This is a company that's trying to get back the fanfare that they lost after dragging out XP in three service packs, then a real loser with Vista, and misses those lines at Best Buys. Community support makes Windows 7 a kind of empty event. We wanted Vista to be cool, but it was a slap in the face. Trying to buy back user fanboyness isn't easy to do, and this one looks like a backlash attempt.
If you make good stuff, they'll come and love you. Viz others currently enjoying heaps of (oft undeserved) fanboy love.
Then you extract the DDR2 sticks from the server, their little hearts beating still, and read the damn key. Then you let them die on the table, the key now intact, somewhere else.
It's not necessarily a mess, but it does have a lot of code for compatibility sake, and the ever-increasing needs of safety. Add in processor family support, weird memory models and odd chipsets, and it simply blimps. The microkernel approach sounds wiser until you discover that the kernel might be small, but the drivers and other glue start taking up enormous amounts of space as well.
The distros are mightily bloated with lots of stuff that's irrelevant for most civilians, but fun for coders and glue artists. The reason: everyone believes that disk space is cheap. Why not throw it in, since we're all using dial-up modems to download massive amounts of code?/sarcasm
And the solution is to make feta cheese into something that doesn't claim to be Greek, but tastes the same. Who judges that it tastes the same? Business opportunity, methinks. It's the same thing with Parmasen cheese, Bordeaux, and so on.
So, FauxFeta. ErsatzBordeaux. Whatever. FakeFob Board Approval. We think it tastes the same. So sue us if you don't think so. Pit your ten samples against ours, and let Hizzoner decide.
And the laughable madness of the Malaysians will just make them frustrated. In fact, I think I'm make some tonight, whatever it is. Can't be tough.
It's ok to use apt and derivatives for control, even it if it's not perfect, and it isn't.
The domain that's vulnerable is Windows. As shown apt isn't very useful there, as few vendors participate in a delivery structure that keeps things up to date.
Altiris/Symantec do a respectable job-- when the patches are available, across multiple platforms. There are others.
All of those, however, are dependent on the patches being available.
All of that need is incumbent on the need to patch, meaning poor quality software from a vulnerabilities stand point. In other words, the apps, while delivering superficially good results, are poorly written, poorly tested, and poorly quality-verified/reviewed-- then too slowly patched, if at all. That's the core of the problem: crappy coders turning out crummy work.
They would charge for the very air you breathe if they could. Stick with La Quinta. Free open wifi, and it's usually pretty damn fast.
It's publicly documented that many Muni-WiFi and regional attempts have been thwarted by the downtown hotels. Silicon Valley has been thwarted for this and other reasons.
If you go on the other side of San Jose Airport, however, the La Quinta gives it away.
I think they're referring to Muni-WiFi, not hotspots.
Muni-WiFi angered the telecom gods, and they rained storms of money up on the legislatures to prevent the airwaves from this abomination.
The hotel/motel gods also were highly upset that their revenues would be stanched, and so also did voice much objection up on the Muni-WiFi.
But some still lives, legends like Loma Linda CA, Berkeley, Minneapolis, and others. Some say, if the telco gods are ever smited, then many good things may once again occur in the land of the once-plenty.
This, too, is a fallacy, as each connection to another device brings incumbent risk. Your phone, a flash drive, somebody's DVD of pictures, any wired/wireless connection is a potential hack point. Diligence says we remove as many as we can and know of, but the statistical fact of botnets means that there IS NO SUCH THING AS TOTAL TRUST.
There isn't a protocol that hasn't been cracked, and only many layers of authentication and encryption bring the capacity to admit information into a machine that then is vetted-- not necessarily trusted.
It's not paranoia, it's what we've let connectivity become. The Trusted Computing initiative adds only additional vetting. An infected machine that has trust is still a breach. This makes Trusted Computing more of a marketing initiative than some sort of titanium wall. Yes, your machine is more vulnerable, and people will screw you unwittingly. Admittance control helps, but is no panacea.
You're stuck in VDI. Cloud means nothing more than a virtual network; other definitions are perversions by marketing sorts.
If I can rent an app like Salesforce and do my thing, it's a lot simpler than rolling my own. If I can get a rack of servers to render stuff, then go away, then I'm happy. It's all cloud, and means nothing more. Doctorow once again vents his paranoia that the centrists are taking over. Instead, it's a lot looser than that.
Sure, Google and Microsoft and dozens of others with SaaS apps would love you to http or ssh or whatever into their systems and rent their stuff. But that's as it should be. Nothing new here. Tell him to take his Seroquel and move on.
It might be cheaper, but consider that flash has an upper end write limit. No one's tested that adequately yet. It could brick your motherboard, should the number of writes exceed an upper end limit of flash-- which has them and DRAM does not.
ActiveSync isn't supported unless you get PocketMac or an alternative.
Although other phones are supported, Apple doesn't do a very good job supporting Windows in general, leaving such matters to third parties generaly.
And it sucks. The days of compatibility, rare as they were, are pretty much gone, and phones are perhaps the least compatible devices we use today. The smarter the phone, the weaker the compatibility it seems.
It's part of the condition. People that exhibit signs of depression are often caught in a downward spiral. They don't want to do anything about it because of avoidance behavior. Some seek treatment, others reject it, some ignore it and just have a crappy life.
Your analogy doesn't work. One is a self-curable condition when attitude combined with drugs will work. The other are cells gone out of control.
It's a lot, lot deeper than what you describe. There is no method for homeostasis because what happens to us changes each and every day, hour, and minute. What you eat has an effect; carbo loading is a curative that many people apply, as are other drugs which also try to fill the gap when serotonin uptake misfires.
It's a long stairstep recovery. Drugs aren't the only answer; CBT and therapy really do help. I've seen the effects on numerous people first hand. I'm not a psychdoc, but I've watched it in action. It takes willpower to get out. Otherwise, you lie to yourself and the circular logic starts, preventing you from rising above liking depression. Face it: you really do like it; it's natural to do so given the condition. It's a worthy excuse not to face the real battle (and it's a REAL BATTLE) to re-habituate a normalcy that doesn't include depression-- with the aid of drugs, CBT, and therapy. Depression didn't happen overnight and it's not cured overnight. But it can be dealt with. I've seen the success. It was rough. Really really rough-- but do-able.
These aren't comparable qualities-- intelligence and depression.
I didn't say it was easy to lift off depression.
I did say that the same creative juices can be found from depression and also from conditions where depression isn't found.
My citation is anecdotal, but at least a dozen cases that I've seen. Depressed people WANT to be depressed. It's part of the chemistry. Emerging from depression, and habituating that emergence, is tougher than quitting cigarettes and drugs and is only a partial answer. CBT has to be in the formula.
Comparing intelligence, which requires a condition of using memory and cognition isn't comparable to depression, which is a state brought on by serotonin uptake dysfunction. You can take drugs for somewhat effective depression mitigation. There is no pill for intelligence (although caffeine and nicotine addicts might tell you otherwise).
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On one hand, the patent enables the horrible constraints that the telcos seem to feel they have to exercise to prevent feature use.
On the other hand, the telcos might not want to implement it because they'd have to pay royalities to Apple.
Oh, wait....
I thought Micello might push Google to try and claim that turf. Let's see who's spread thinner.
Perhaps part of the problem is the incestuousness between Ballmer's wife's PR company and the problem at hand. If Microsoft wanted to be effective, they'd stop having yes-people surrounding them and more WTF Were You Thinking people surrounding them.
The sad thing is that they're burning money on this while (and Ballmer admits to it) while Windows Mobile is burning. The lost opportunities to shine are endless there.
He's acting like another Vonnegut character piece of anatomy, as in the appendage of Dwayne Hoobler, who as all but a few inches of his johnson's 11million mile length in another dimension (if I recall the details correctly).
Mod parent up.
But the real question is: did he drink milk on those 331 days???
Certainly, but not to the rabid extent that existed before. The line forming to watch Bill Gates at Comdex might start well before dawn, and people would actually bring sleeping bags so they could be the first ones to get a copy of Windows 98.
Now, almost anyone with a clue already has at least an RC version and/or the RTM, so it's all moot. Microsoft's been leaking Windows 7 for more than a year. A general release is not so much a non-event as not developing any real back-pressure for a "product release".
I write some of those technology blogs. I have more freaking W7 CDs than coffee cups. How many Snow Leopard releases did I get before release? Zero. Qu'elle surprise.
Both, now that I think of it.
It's actually more than lipstick, but it's also anti-climactic.
In reality, there was a lot of fanfare with Windows 95 and 98. ME broke a bubble but Windows 2000, where DOS was finally dealt a death as an underpinning, was a comparatively big deal. There was fanboyism that in turn, gave Microsoft a lift into data centers where they'd never been allowed before. The rest of history is as we know it.
So yeah-- they had and even may have fanboys. Linux once really sucked, despite its philosophical underpinnings. Apple's MacOS wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, either. Things change.
This is a company that's trying to get back the fanfare that they lost after dragging out XP in three service packs, then a real loser with Vista, and misses those lines at Best Buys. Community support makes Windows 7 a kind of empty event. We wanted Vista to be cool, but it was a slap in the face. Trying to buy back user fanboyness isn't easy to do, and this one looks like a backlash attempt.
If you make good stuff, they'll come and love you. Viz others currently enjoying heaps of (oft undeserved) fanboy love.
And if it were, it would still be on the physical memory.
Then you extract the DDR2 sticks from the server, their little hearts beating still, and read the damn key. Then you let them die on the table, the key now intact, somewhere else.
It's not necessarily a mess, but it does have a lot of code for compatibility sake, and the ever-increasing needs of safety. Add in processor family support, weird memory models and odd chipsets, and it simply blimps. The microkernel approach sounds wiser until you discover that the kernel might be small, but the drivers and other glue start taking up enormous amounts of space as well.
The distros are mightily bloated with lots of stuff that's irrelevant for most civilians, but fun for coders and glue artists. The reason: everyone believes that disk space is cheap. Why not throw it in, since we're all using dial-up modems to download massive amounts of code? /sarcasm
And the solution is to make feta cheese into something that doesn't claim to be Greek, but tastes the same. Who judges that it tastes the same? Business opportunity, methinks. It's the same thing with Parmasen cheese, Bordeaux, and so on.
So, FauxFeta. ErsatzBordeaux. Whatever. FakeFob Board Approval. We think it tastes the same. So sue us if you don't think so. Pit your ten samples against ours, and let Hizzoner decide.
And the laughable madness of the Malaysians will just make them frustrated. In fact, I think I'm make some tonight, whatever it is. Can't be tough.
It's ok to use apt and derivatives for control, even it if it's not perfect, and it isn't.
The domain that's vulnerable is Windows. As shown apt isn't very useful there, as few vendors participate in a delivery structure that keeps things up to date.
Altiris/Symantec do a respectable job-- when the patches are available, across multiple platforms. There are others.
All of those, however, are dependent on the patches being available.
All of that need is incumbent on the need to patch, meaning poor quality software from a vulnerabilities stand point. In other words, the apps, while delivering superficially good results, are poorly written, poorly tested, and poorly quality-verified/reviewed-- then too slowly patched, if at all. That's the core of the problem: crappy coders turning out crummy work.
They would charge for the very air you breathe if they could. Stick with La Quinta. Free open wifi, and it's usually pretty damn fast.
It's publicly documented that many Muni-WiFi and regional attempts have been thwarted by the downtown hotels. Silicon Valley has been thwarted for this and other reasons.
If you go on the other side of San Jose Airport, however, the La Quinta gives it away.
I think they're referring to Muni-WiFi, not hotspots.
Muni-WiFi angered the telecom gods, and they rained storms of money up on the legislatures to prevent the airwaves from this abomination.
The hotel/motel gods also were highly upset that their revenues would be stanched, and so also did voice much objection up on the Muni-WiFi.
But some still lives, legends like Loma Linda CA, Berkeley, Minneapolis, and others. Some say, if the telco gods are ever smited, then many good things may once again occur in the land of the once-plenty.
It also apologizes for the discrimination he faced. A small, but meaningful token is this.
Consider that today, you can be gay and a programmer, and nobody cares except the bigots. That's as it should be-- except we need fewer bigots.
This, too, is a fallacy, as each connection to another device brings incumbent risk. Your phone, a flash drive, somebody's DVD of pictures, any wired/wireless connection is a potential hack point. Diligence says we remove as many as we can and know of, but the statistical fact of botnets means that there IS NO SUCH THING AS TOTAL TRUST.
There isn't a protocol that hasn't been cracked, and only many layers of authentication and encryption bring the capacity to admit information into a machine that then is vetted-- not necessarily trusted.
It's not paranoia, it's what we've let connectivity become. The Trusted Computing initiative adds only additional vetting. An infected machine that has trust is still a breach. This makes Trusted Computing more of a marketing initiative than some sort of titanium wall. Yes, your machine is more vulnerable, and people will screw you unwittingly. Admittance control helps, but is no panacea.
There is no such thing as total trust. Bots aren't trustworthy, and there are millions of machines that have them handily installed.
Oops.
You're stuck in VDI. Cloud means nothing more than a virtual network; other definitions are perversions by marketing sorts.
If I can rent an app like Salesforce and do my thing, it's a lot simpler than rolling my own. If I can get a rack of servers to render stuff, then go away, then I'm happy. It's all cloud, and means nothing more. Doctorow once again vents his paranoia that the centrists are taking over. Instead, it's a lot looser than that.
Sure, Google and Microsoft and dozens of others with SaaS apps would love you to http or ssh or whatever into their systems and rent their stuff. But that's as it should be. Nothing new here. Tell him to take his Seroquel and move on.
It might be cheaper, but consider that flash has an upper end write limit. No one's tested that adequately yet. It could brick your motherboard, should the number of writes exceed an upper end limit of flash-- which has them and DRAM does not.
ActiveSync isn't supported unless you get PocketMac or an alternative.
Although other phones are supported, Apple doesn't do a very good job supporting Windows in general, leaving such matters to third parties generaly.
And it sucks. The days of compatibility, rare as they were, are pretty much gone, and phones are perhaps the least compatible devices we use today. The smarter the phone, the weaker the compatibility it seems.
It's part of the condition. People that exhibit signs of depression are often caught in a downward spiral. They don't want to do anything about it because of avoidance behavior. Some seek treatment, others reject it, some ignore it and just have a crappy life.
Your analogy doesn't work. One is a self-curable condition when attitude combined with drugs will work. The other are cells gone out of control.
It's a lot, lot deeper than what you describe. There is no method for homeostasis because what happens to us changes each and every day, hour, and minute. What you eat has an effect; carbo loading is a curative that many people apply, as are other drugs which also try to fill the gap when serotonin uptake misfires.
It's a long stairstep recovery. Drugs aren't the only answer; CBT and therapy really do help. I've seen the effects on numerous people first hand. I'm not a psychdoc, but I've watched it in action. It takes willpower to get out. Otherwise, you lie to yourself and the circular logic starts, preventing you from rising above liking depression. Face it: you really do like it; it's natural to do so given the condition. It's a worthy excuse not to face the real battle (and it's a REAL BATTLE) to re-habituate a normalcy that doesn't include depression-- with the aid of drugs, CBT, and therapy. Depression didn't happen overnight and it's not cured overnight. But it can be dealt with. I've seen the success. It was rough. Really really rough-- but do-able.
These aren't comparable qualities-- intelligence and depression.
I didn't say it was easy to lift off depression.
I did say that the same creative juices can be found from depression and also from conditions where depression isn't found.
My citation is anecdotal, but at least a dozen cases that I've seen. Depressed people WANT to be depressed. It's part of the chemistry. Emerging from depression, and habituating that emergence, is tougher than quitting cigarettes and drugs and is only a partial answer. CBT has to be in the formula.
Comparing intelligence, which requires a condition of using memory and cognition isn't comparable to depression, which is a state brought on by serotonin uptake dysfunction. You can take drugs for somewhat effective depression mitigation. There is no pill for intelligence (although caffeine and nicotine addicts might tell you otherwise).