This is one element of a much larger campaign. Who better to hit up (than your installed base) than the mobs at FB?
One man with a command of social media can indeed make a difference. The problem is that Netflix shot itself in the foot before, whizzing off their customer base, and they have part of that image to overcome.
My hopes? Somebody listens and makes Comcast become the neutral transport that they're supposed to be. Comcast will fight this tooth and nail; they will NOT roll over easily as they have the same "we own the wires" mentality that the rest of the once public utilities have.
Part of that same cluetrain is as obvious as the nose on your face. People, even in the town where you live, have sex without condoms.
I live in a college town. Every day of the week, unrelentingly, there are at least a half dozen DUIs. Yet every single student got the same intake video, and most more, about the dangers of drinking and driving.
You can make laws against murder, with hideous penalties, and people will still kill each other. Don't be a fool: the existence of a cluetrain is largely irrelevant as to whether people will jump on, off, or ignore it.
In the case of HIV, many people carrying it have no idea that they're infected, and infecting others; there are some people with DNA that don't get infected by the major strain of HIV. There are those that got transfusions that were tainted. There are those that still give blood not knowing their HIV status.
Education? Important, a clearly important road to knowledge and use of it. Social planning? A great form of education. Together, a powerful weapon. And that weapon flies in the face of erections, drunkenness, a thumbnail of meth, and so forth. Most of the statistical population of HIV+ people will need drugs, and many will have to fight AID, ARC, and a lifetime of guarding against hideous deaths by infection and the side effects of the drugs used to keep T-cell counts high, and virus loads low. This is the cluetrain: as Vonnegut might say, we're all meat humans, and we behave that way. That's not an citation to excuse pernicious behavior; instead, it's a way to help you understand that cluefulness is your gift, and perhaps not the gift of others. The clued-in have a moral obligation to assuage the effects of those that for whatever reasons, entered death row.
Go ahead and try to prevent it. Seems pretty tough to do. Let's, while were at it, prevent people from driving drunk, killing others in rage, and war.
People behave as they will behave. Some get HIV in ways that don't involve sex, although these are rare they are statistically significant.
Sex drives people, and they do it unprotected by condoms and common sense. This is who we are. So is cancer. We know a few things that can easily start it. A few things that can prevent it. A few things that cure it.
People still die from either one. Both need a cure. You're absolutely right: still a major problem to be solved.
Apache can be configured to drop sessions more quickly to get past the trauma, but the hosts need more configuration. Shortening TCP session duration is key, but so also is going to something else than BIND, which is also less survivable than other DNS servers, IMHO. There are some reasonable TOE card, router, and layer 2/3 switch configs that can also help cut down the pain.
Load balancing helps, watching syslogs for weird behavior and using a syslog manager to alert you when various events occur, all these do as much good as the expense of fortress-ware.
Who peed in Your beer? There's a large community of/. users that aren't thieves. More of us still believe that the MPAA/RIAA have the IQ of a box of rocks, and the morals of a politician.
Lots of pay for what we use, and we still hack, disassemble, reverse engineer, and concoct our own stuff, slip in free code, and have a merry time of it. Don't cast everyone by your edicts. We're all different. You hear lots of interesting signal, and lots of noise. Learn the difference.
The barrier to entry in the market is the reversal of the work that Judge Greene did to break up AT&T (the real one, not Southwestern Bell with lipstick). T-Mobile tried to get, via various acquistion and investment, a toehold. It's not working very well.
There is no old "Bell Standard" for quality of connection across the turf and geography of the US. No one can tell the telcos what to do to have minimum service qualities in any location for cellular data. The TCA helped remove a lot of jurisdiction by the various state public utility authorities to push it to Washington, where lobbying moneys could be more focused.
The hoarding effect is a great analogy. It's all about stockholder return and immunity from acquisition. It's not about service as the telcos are universally loated (in the US, anyway). The concept of free WiFi is being killed so as to provide further nails in the coffin. In the EU, free WiFi is mostly gone; in the US, it's tougher and tougher to find. Somehow, dammit, you're going to pay is the boardroom mantra.
I'll agree that the fanbase is often motivated by compulsion, rather than ideology. You paid for Windows, likely, a chief argument. I would have to say that FOSS apps are often right up their with their closed/commercial alternatives, and are often business plans to keep you buying, paying support, and so forth. Cost is a rational consideration. I cannot argue with gaming; it's tough.
In terms of direction, much has changed. The Deb-based Ubuntu and LinuxMint on the desktop are plainly usable and aren't prone to the strangenesses of their ancestors. They're actually slick. NO, not amazing eye candy, but things are moving in a direction where they provide reasonable alternatives to even MacOS.
Two years ago, I would have agreed with you. Windows 8 will branch away from a lot of philosophy that was hurting Microsoft, but at the price of several failures in the making, IMHO. W8 seems desperate to me. It has W7 DNA, but there is a sense that x-platform compatibility is forcing sacrifices.
I retract and defer my remark regarding smugness. I sensed astroturfing, but I was wrong. In a practical way, I think that FOSS has changed how Microsoft thinks about code development. But for me (and I realize not you), the open method still merits my use if on a personal level.
Tell me what you use, and how it's deficient. I'm not trying to bait you, rather understand you. I'm not a Linux zealot, but I do research operating systems. Your opinion runs counter to the streams that I hear, and I'd like enlightenment if you have the time.
The direct answer is that Windows 7 is a better designed version than its predecessors. I don't know of any Linux users, supposedly "fluent" or not, with any raging viruses. The history of Linux is better design through astute architecture and diligence. The history of Windows is NOT THAT. Until Microsoft separated kernel and user space, they were a target that was so simple to hit that people did it for grins. User space now has better separation. Your smugness is misplaced. But I'm happy that you don't have to scrape stuff from your Windows 7 installation. Seeming constant reinstallation of Windows was the impetus for thousands, maybe millions, to think about how computing could be done differently, spawning lots of lovely (and a few not) branches of operating system designs.
Motor efficiency would go way high as transducers become more effective, too. Add in transmission line efficiency, less loss from heat transfer, and should the material otherwise have little/no environmental impact, could add huge capacity and make mass transportation vastly more cost-effective through electrically-driven trains and transports overall.
The cost of manufacture of these superconductors and their overall lifecycle costs have to be known, too. Still, very nice to dream about.
But that was from heat. Consider that the numbers of heat-related death could go higher, but also that a single hard frost, typical and not unusual for April in the Midwest, could kill apples, cherries, berries, and quite a bit of produce. So you get a nice after shock of famine as well. Prices go higher. People freak, and the violence starts. The heatwave might be fun for basking in the sun, but it portends much potential for an ugly, ugly summer.
Yes, a lot of people lose data on mainframes and the problem was generally behind the console. Online production systems and job-based systems need to be designed with practicality and component failure in mind.
The cloud is a system, and the system needs redundancy, checks and reality checks, and quality ins-and-outs. That's right, just like what you've been doing all along. Same security, same backups, same contingencies-- as there are no shortcuts, just cheaper hardware.
I have to dismiss the cited article as it's entirely ephemeral, with not one single citation to back it up. Financial markets, while important, are a somewhat unique context to cite; they're built differently than many cloud components. There is nothing tangible cited, no case history, just some Yale-y's bad, after-lunch tummy growling coinciding with thinking about the complexity of modern infrastructure.
This whackamole approach serves no purpose, except to sell more inside, rather than outside, infrastructure.
While it's true that telcos have fought muni wifi, in San Jose's case, it was specifically the hotels that bitched-- they make mucho bucks from SJ Conv Center and other hotel stays. Free WiFi cuts their margins down significantly. The California Broadband Initiative and the local muni wifi advocates will be happy to point fingers at the roadblockers.
You can add them to the telcos. This is a very local objection, rather than a legislative bribery case; the legislature has its own problems on a California and national level. In this case--> local issues.
Realistically, like managers of the big banks, the NASA employee in charge of the laptop will go unpunished.
Using Citrix or VMware or Microsoft or other kvm solutions aren't as secure as you might think. Yes, their transports can be pretty tough to crack, but that's after the initial authentication process, which still has those messy humans involved.
One of those messy humans, irresponsible, allowed the machine to be lost. This particular human ought to be waiting without bond on Rikers Island, awaiting arraignment on US Federal charges. I hope no one kicked the living crap out of him on the way for jeopardizing the lives and missions up there by allowing the machine to be "lost".
Whoever dreamed up the protocols for asset management ought to be sweating in front of a Congressional committee this morning, explaining exactly how THOSE worked. And the people whose lives and livings depend on the security of the lost information, well, I hope they get pretty damn vocal about the matter.
These are engineers for the costliest space effort we have going? Ye gawds what a mess we're in.
Even the US Gov has trouble asserting itself over many of the self-governing bits of the Internet. Yes, ICANN is a tool of the US Gov, but many other elements are both international in membership (IETF) and very much interested in keeping governments out of the underpinnings (IEEE).
The UN, in my belief, is ineffective. So is the US Gov, but once in a while they get it right so long as Congress doesn't get involved.
Both tablets and smartphones were in the marketplace before Apple introduced theirs (after a prior attempt with the Newton). Like when Windows came around, Apple capitalized on a convergence of differing components and needs.
Android is evolving. Windows is evolving. Can or will they catch up to Apple? Google has tried to be a leader, but with vastly differing values than Apple. Microsoft is an acknowledged follower. Very few items have been really unique, although they've had some winners.
Will Microsoft tablets sell? Is that the real question? Is Windows 8 going to be that much cooler than iOS-based tablets? These are more rhetorical questions.
Apple didn't invent this stuff. I had a Treo and a Fujitsu tablet before Apple got out of bed. They didn't invent the market, but they were smart enough to build ecosystems to surf it, once the waves were up. Ever waited for high tide? It's boring, then suddenly a confluence of energy hits, and the waves call your name.
These markets (smartphones and tablets) are largely conquered. The telcos and their strange thinking sit between a home video distribution infrastructure and reality-- the ecosystems are chomping at the bit, but we have a third-world last mile system in the US; perhaps it will emerge in Japan or Sweden or first-world bandwidth countries.
Actual digital TV is being done now, but the telcos are reeling with misery over their poor investments in ATM and other crap that doesn't carry isochronous media very well. Couldn't happen to nicer guys. But to go all McLuhan on you: the media is the message, and you can't make a tablet into something that it's not. Yes, it's ruptured notebook sales, but not killed them. The media jumps all over headlines and memes like "death of the PC" and a lot of other rot. In reality, the herd does its job. It will move when high tide comes back in.
Sadly, people will still try to do real work and get frustrated.
I'm glad you caught the humor.
It seems strange... the question that started this all is Should Microsoft.... and apparently they have. I feel somehow orchestrated. Office 15 is a sledge hammer on a tablet. Takes up a lot of space that media might fill. I can only shrug and point to the dozens of failures of tablets now seen on secondary and even liquidation sites where there was lots of "underkill" where Office on an iPad or under Metro is "overkill". I see the comfort zones, I see feeding the addictions, and I still see lack of success. You can wave the sales figures for how many units the iPad(x) has sold, how people write "tetris-alikes" in 140 characters in Java, and what you're seeing is a phenomena where device cost and accessibility and adoptability are becoming confused, not being "reinvented". The success of the iPad (and conversely, the failure of other tablets) has much to do with approachability of the platform. The now well-copied and improved on iOS UI was really, really good when coupled to the form factor. Smartphones have had similar successes for similar reasons.
What happened was: the herd moved, and now everyone's trying to feed the herd with different food to see what the herd will swallow. My perspective is: the herd will move, and Office 15 will give them indigestion and a belly ache. The crippling form factor aside, it eats at the Office brand to have not one, but perhaps three segmented product offerings. This sort of diffusion can kill a product, and it's a BIG ONE to kill.
Let's agree that for document production, which fits the criteria for Office 15, the tablet is not a very useful choice.
I can get an ssh session into my NOC from my smartphone, but it doesn't mean that my smartphone's a good tool to manage it.
The thing about a new shiny screwdriver is that everything starts looking like a nail. A tablet's a great media viewing device. It's too small, really, but very handy and some have outstanding displays. They narrow the field of vision to do this, but I work on a notebook all day with a not-much-larger screen on it. It can be done. The keyboard and ergonomics setup for tablets as a document production tool stink, IMHO.
Maybe it's the engineer in me: you use the right tool for the right job, and tablets are far from optimal. Here and there, why not? Office 15 will apparently be very inexpensive on the Metro UI-- maybe even free. Free Office? There'll be a shareholder revolt, as Office is one of Microsoft's oilwells-in-the-basement.
If there were bullets flying to other places, it sounds like a Hatfield and McCoy sort of problem, doesn't it? But if the bullets are confined, and ought to be, then no harm, no fowl (pun intended).
The motorists, if they were in crossfire, face another dilemma. There's a theory of involuntary manslaughter that waxes when people are caught in crossfire, defense or not.
Unfortunately, animals were probably harmed during the filming of the video, but not as a result of the actions of the videographers.
I have great assurances that Google cannot be hacked, and that their contractors and affiliates use the excellent resources and high standards of Fleishman Hillard to protect data integrity from all possible hacking and cracking attempts.
I was under the impression it was private property. If it's public land, it's a different conclusion. The ostensible masculinity of hunters sadly has nothing to do with the actions they can take.
I'll preface this with the fact that civil rights know no geographical political boundary. Civil rights are mandated in the North or South, and if you're Republican or Democratic, or whatever.
Then I'll agree with everything you say. I think what these hunters do is plainly goofy.
The little hobby is going to get a lot of people in trouble. There are much larger drones that will be used for things like crop dusting, hunting for lost children, and governmental surveillance activities. I frankly believe that the use of drones and even satellites are invasions of privacy. The seeming convenience of satellite imagery is the same slippery slope that makes Google to usurp your privacy, and the dignities that privacy provides for profit.
Some hobbies need limits imposed on them. I believe that this is one of them. Limiting trespassing is the option of the property owner or controller. I believe that the right should be respected, and in all three dimensions.
The hunters, operating legally, were goaded. Trespassing can be a 3-dimensional endeavor. If an aircraft goes under 600' over my house, the FAA is getting a complaint-- they already do where I live, as people like to fly over a nudist camp not far from where I live. We get the tail # and call it in.
The people operating the RC helicopter aren't peace officers. They don't have a warrant, or suspicion of a crime in progress. I'm not a hunter and am not a fan of hunting in general, but I am a fan of privacy.
Should some idiot's RC helicopter have free reign over the private property of another? No. Shooting it down? A little over the top, but this is the one place where I think the Castle Doctrine has a place. The RC copter is a proxy agent of a human. Warn a human to stop and it's up to the human to do so or take the consequences; and yes, the consequences could be legal or illegal and possibly gruesome. Hunters, by their nature, are likely to use gruesome consequences, and to expect them to genuflect is certainly out of the realm of possibilities.
The outcomes in this case are that the RC copter was shot, other actions on the part of the operator of the RC copter (hovering over the highway, etc) aside.
The threat to the hunters was invasion of privacy. It's a real and present threat. Did each side over react? I find it incredulous that I'm siding with the hunters, but there it is: weighed regarding two sets of behaviors, I have to side with the injured party, and in this case, that's the group of hunters.
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This is one element of a much larger campaign. Who better to hit up (than your installed base) than the mobs at FB?
One man with a command of social media can indeed make a difference. The problem is that Netflix shot itself in the foot before, whizzing off their customer base, and they have part of that image to overcome.
My hopes? Somebody listens and makes Comcast become the neutral transport that they're supposed to be. Comcast will fight this tooth and nail; they will NOT roll over easily as they have the same "we own the wires" mentality that the rest of the once public utilities have.
Part of that same cluetrain is as obvious as the nose on your face. People, even in the town where you live, have sex without condoms.
I live in a college town. Every day of the week, unrelentingly, there are at least a half dozen DUIs. Yet every single student got the same intake video, and most more, about the dangers of drinking and driving.
You can make laws against murder, with hideous penalties, and people will still kill each other. Don't be a fool: the existence of a cluetrain is largely irrelevant as to whether people will jump on, off, or ignore it.
In the case of HIV, many people carrying it have no idea that they're infected, and infecting others; there are some people with DNA that don't get infected by the major strain of HIV. There are those that got transfusions that were tainted. There are those that still give blood not knowing their HIV status.
Education? Important, a clearly important road to knowledge and use of it. Social planning? A great form of education. Together, a powerful weapon. And that weapon flies in the face of erections, drunkenness, a thumbnail of meth, and so forth. Most of the statistical population of HIV+ people will need drugs, and many will have to fight AID, ARC, and a lifetime of guarding against hideous deaths by infection and the side effects of the drugs used to keep T-cell counts high, and virus loads low. This is the cluetrain: as Vonnegut might say, we're all meat humans, and we behave that way. That's not an citation to excuse pernicious behavior; instead, it's a way to help you understand that cluefulness is your gift, and perhaps not the gift of others. The clued-in have a moral obligation to assuage the effects of those that for whatever reasons, entered death row.
Go ahead and try to prevent it. Seems pretty tough to do. Let's, while were at it, prevent people from driving drunk, killing others in rage, and war.
People behave as they will behave. Some get HIV in ways that don't involve sex, although these are rare they are statistically significant.
Sex drives people, and they do it unprotected by condoms and common sense. This is who we are. So is cancer. We know a few things that can easily start it. A few things that can prevent it. A few things that cure it.
People still die from either one. Both need a cure. You're absolutely right: still a major problem to be solved.
Apache can be configured to drop sessions more quickly to get past the trauma, but the hosts need more configuration. Shortening TCP session duration is key, but so also is going to something else than BIND, which is also less survivable than other DNS servers, IMHO. There are some reasonable TOE card, router, and layer 2/3 switch configs that can also help cut down the pain.
Load balancing helps, watching syslogs for weird behavior and using a syslog manager to alert you when various events occur, all these do as much good as the expense of fortress-ware.
Who peed in Your beer? There's a large community of /. users that aren't thieves. More of us still believe that the MPAA/RIAA have the IQ of a box of rocks, and the morals of a politician.
Lots of pay for what we use, and we still hack, disassemble, reverse engineer, and concoct our own stuff, slip in free code, and have a merry time of it. Don't cast everyone by your edicts. We're all different. You hear lots of interesting signal, and lots of noise. Learn the difference.
The barrier to entry in the market is the reversal of the work that Judge Greene did to break up AT&T (the real one, not Southwestern Bell with lipstick). T-Mobile tried to get, via various acquistion and investment, a toehold. It's not working very well.
There is no old "Bell Standard" for quality of connection across the turf and geography of the US. No one can tell the telcos what to do to have minimum service qualities in any location for cellular data. The TCA helped remove a lot of jurisdiction by the various state public utility authorities to push it to Washington, where lobbying moneys could be more focused.
The hoarding effect is a great analogy. It's all about stockholder return and immunity from acquisition. It's not about service as the telcos are universally loated (in the US, anyway). The concept of free WiFi is being killed so as to provide further nails in the coffin. In the EU, free WiFi is mostly gone; in the US, it's tougher and tougher to find. Somehow, dammit, you're going to pay is the boardroom mantra.
I'll agree that the fanbase is often motivated by compulsion, rather than ideology. You paid for Windows, likely, a chief argument. I would have to say that FOSS apps are often right up their with their closed/commercial alternatives, and are often business plans to keep you buying, paying support, and so forth. Cost is a rational consideration. I cannot argue with gaming; it's tough.
In terms of direction, much has changed. The Deb-based Ubuntu and LinuxMint on the desktop are plainly usable and aren't prone to the strangenesses of their ancestors. They're actually slick. NO, not amazing eye candy, but things are moving in a direction where they provide reasonable alternatives to even MacOS.
Two years ago, I would have agreed with you. Windows 8 will branch away from a lot of philosophy that was hurting Microsoft, but at the price of several failures in the making, IMHO. W8 seems desperate to me. It has W7 DNA, but there is a sense that x-platform compatibility is forcing sacrifices.
I retract and defer my remark regarding smugness. I sensed astroturfing, but I was wrong. In a practical way, I think that FOSS has changed how Microsoft thinks about code development. But for me (and I realize not you), the open method still merits my use if on a personal level.
Tell me what you use, and how it's deficient. I'm not trying to bait you, rather understand you. I'm not a Linux zealot, but I do research operating systems. Your opinion runs counter to the streams that I hear, and I'd like enlightenment if you have the time.
The direct answer is that Windows 7 is a better designed version than its predecessors. I don't know of any Linux users, supposedly "fluent" or not, with any raging viruses. The history of Linux is better design through astute architecture and diligence. The history of Windows is NOT THAT. Until Microsoft separated kernel and user space, they were a target that was so simple to hit that people did it for grins. User space now has better separation. Your smugness is misplaced. But I'm happy that you don't have to scrape stuff from your Windows 7 installation. Seeming constant reinstallation of Windows was the impetus for thousands, maybe millions, to think about how computing could be done differently, spawning lots of lovely (and a few not) branches of operating system designs.
Motor efficiency would go way high as transducers become more effective, too. Add in transmission line efficiency, less loss from heat transfer, and should the material otherwise have little/no environmental impact, could add huge capacity and make mass transportation vastly more cost-effective through electrically-driven trains and transports overall.
The cost of manufacture of these superconductors and their overall lifecycle costs have to be known, too. Still, very nice to dream about.
But that was from heat. Consider that the numbers of heat-related death could go higher, but also that a single hard frost, typical and not unusual for April in the Midwest, could kill apples, cherries, berries, and quite a bit of produce. So you get a nice after shock of famine as well. Prices go higher. People freak, and the violence starts. The heatwave might be fun for basking in the sun, but it portends much potential for an ugly, ugly summer.
Yes, a lot of people lose data on mainframes and the problem was generally behind the console. Online production systems and job-based systems need to be designed with practicality and component failure in mind.
The cloud is a system, and the system needs redundancy, checks and reality checks, and quality ins-and-outs. That's right, just like what you've been doing all along. Same security, same backups, same contingencies-- as there are no shortcuts, just cheaper hardware.
I have to dismiss the cited article as it's entirely ephemeral, with not one single citation to back it up. Financial markets, while important, are a somewhat unique context to cite; they're built differently than many cloud components. There is nothing tangible cited, no case history, just some Yale-y's bad, after-lunch tummy growling coinciding with thinking about the complexity of modern infrastructure.
This whackamole approach serves no purpose, except to sell more inside, rather than outside, infrastructure.
While it's true that telcos have fought muni wifi, in San Jose's case, it was specifically the hotels that bitched-- they make mucho bucks from SJ Conv Center and other hotel stays. Free WiFi cuts their margins down significantly. The California Broadband Initiative and the local muni wifi advocates will be happy to point fingers at the roadblockers.
You can add them to the telcos. This is a very local objection, rather than a legislative bribery case; the legislature has its own problems on a California and national level. In this case--> local issues.
Realistically, like managers of the big banks, the NASA employee in charge of the laptop will go unpunished.
Using Citrix or VMware or Microsoft or other kvm solutions aren't as secure as you might think. Yes, their transports can be pretty tough to crack, but that's after the initial authentication process, which still has those messy humans involved.
One of those messy humans, irresponsible, allowed the machine to be lost. This particular human ought to be waiting without bond on Rikers Island, awaiting arraignment on US Federal charges. I hope no one kicked the living crap out of him on the way for jeopardizing the lives and missions up there by allowing the machine to be "lost".
Whoever dreamed up the protocols for asset management ought to be sweating in front of a Congressional committee this morning, explaining exactly how THOSE worked. And the people whose lives and livings depend on the security of the lost information, well, I hope they get pretty damn vocal about the matter.
These are engineers for the costliest space effort we have going? Ye gawds what a mess we're in.
A Schroedinger's Coder: Maybe he is, maybe he is naught.
Even the US Gov has trouble asserting itself over many of the self-governing bits of the Internet. Yes, ICANN is a tool of the US Gov, but many other elements are both international in membership (IETF) and very much interested in keeping governments out of the underpinnings (IEEE).
The UN, in my belief, is ineffective. So is the US Gov, but once in a while they get it right so long as Congress doesn't get involved.
Both tablets and smartphones were in the marketplace before Apple introduced theirs (after a prior attempt with the Newton). Like when Windows came around, Apple capitalized on a convergence of differing components and needs.
Android is evolving. Windows is evolving. Can or will they catch up to Apple? Google has tried to be a leader, but with vastly differing values than Apple. Microsoft is an acknowledged follower. Very few items have been really unique, although they've had some winners.
Will Microsoft tablets sell? Is that the real question? Is Windows 8 going to be that much cooler than iOS-based tablets? These are more rhetorical questions.
Apple didn't invent this stuff. I had a Treo and a Fujitsu tablet before Apple got out of bed. They didn't invent the market, but they were smart enough to build ecosystems to surf it, once the waves were up. Ever waited for high tide? It's boring, then suddenly a confluence of energy hits, and the waves call your name.
These markets (smartphones and tablets) are largely conquered. The telcos and their strange thinking sit between a home video distribution infrastructure and reality-- the ecosystems are chomping at the bit, but we have a third-world last mile system in the US; perhaps it will emerge in Japan or Sweden or first-world bandwidth countries.
Actual digital TV is being done now, but the telcos are reeling with misery over their poor investments in ATM and other crap that doesn't carry isochronous media very well. Couldn't happen to nicer guys. But to go all McLuhan on you: the media is the message, and you can't make a tablet into something that it's not. Yes, it's ruptured notebook sales, but not killed them. The media jumps all over headlines and memes like "death of the PC" and a lot of other rot. In reality, the herd does its job. It will move when high tide comes back in.
Sadly, people will still try to do real work and get frustrated.
I'm glad you caught the humor.
It seems strange... the question that started this all is Should Microsoft.... and apparently they have. I feel somehow orchestrated. Office 15 is a sledge hammer on a tablet. Takes up a lot of space that media might fill. I can only shrug and point to the dozens of failures of tablets now seen on secondary and even liquidation sites where there was lots of "underkill" where Office on an iPad or under Metro is "overkill". I see the comfort zones, I see feeding the addictions, and I still see lack of success. You can wave the sales figures for how many units the iPad(x) has sold, how people write "tetris-alikes" in 140 characters in Java, and what you're seeing is a phenomena where device cost and accessibility and adoptability are becoming confused, not being "reinvented". The success of the iPad (and conversely, the failure of other tablets) has much to do with approachability of the platform. The now well-copied and improved on iOS UI was really, really good when coupled to the form factor. Smartphones have had similar successes for similar reasons.
What happened was: the herd moved, and now everyone's trying to feed the herd with different food to see what the herd will swallow. My perspective is: the herd will move, and Office 15 will give them indigestion and a belly ache. The crippling form factor aside, it eats at the Office brand to have not one, but perhaps three segmented product offerings. This sort of diffusion can kill a product, and it's a BIG ONE to kill.
Let's agree that for document production, which fits the criteria for Office 15, the tablet is not a very useful choice.
I can get an ssh session into my NOC from my smartphone, but it doesn't mean that my smartphone's a good tool to manage it.
The thing about a new shiny screwdriver is that everything starts looking like a nail. A tablet's a great media viewing device. It's too small, really, but very handy and some have outstanding displays. They narrow the field of vision to do this, but I work on a notebook all day with a not-much-larger screen on it. It can be done. The keyboard and ergonomics setup for tablets as a document production tool stink, IMHO.
Maybe it's the engineer in me: you use the right tool for the right job, and tablets are far from optimal. Here and there, why not? Office 15 will apparently be very inexpensive on the Metro UI-- maybe even free. Free Office? There'll be a shareholder revolt, as Office is one of Microsoft's oilwells-in-the-basement.
If there were bullets flying to other places, it sounds like a Hatfield and McCoy sort of problem, doesn't it? But if the bullets are confined, and ought to be, then no harm, no fowl (pun intended).
The motorists, if they were in crossfire, face another dilemma. There's a theory of involuntary manslaughter that waxes when people are caught in crossfire, defense or not.
Unfortunately, animals were probably harmed during the filming of the video, but not as a result of the actions of the videographers.
...never leaves their own servers.
I have great assurances that Google cannot be hacked, and that their contractors and affiliates use the excellent resources and high standards of Fleishman Hillard to protect data integrity from all possible hacking and cracking attempts.
I was under the impression it was private property. If it's public land, it's a different conclusion. The ostensible masculinity of hunters sadly has nothing to do with the actions they can take.
I'll preface this with the fact that civil rights know no geographical political boundary. Civil rights are mandated in the North or South, and if you're Republican or Democratic, or whatever.
Then I'll agree with everything you say. I think what these hunters do is plainly goofy.
The little hobby is going to get a lot of people in trouble. There are much larger drones that will be used for things like crop dusting, hunting for lost children, and governmental surveillance activities. I frankly believe that the use of drones and even satellites are invasions of privacy. The seeming convenience of satellite imagery is the same slippery slope that makes Google to usurp your privacy, and the dignities that privacy provides for profit.
Some hobbies need limits imposed on them. I believe that this is one of them. Limiting trespassing is the option of the property owner or controller. I believe that the right should be respected, and in all three dimensions.
We'll have to disagree.
The hunters, operating legally, were goaded. Trespassing can be a 3-dimensional endeavor. If an aircraft goes under 600' over my house, the FAA is getting a complaint-- they already do where I live, as people like to fly over a nudist camp not far from where I live. We get the tail # and call it in.
The people operating the RC helicopter aren't peace officers. They don't have a warrant, or suspicion of a crime in progress. I'm not a hunter and am not a fan of hunting in general, but I am a fan of privacy.
Should some idiot's RC helicopter have free reign over the private property of another? No. Shooting it down? A little over the top, but this is the one place where I think the Castle Doctrine has a place. The RC copter is a proxy agent of a human. Warn a human to stop and it's up to the human to do so or take the consequences; and yes, the consequences could be legal or illegal and possibly gruesome. Hunters, by their nature, are likely to use gruesome consequences, and to expect them to genuflect is certainly out of the realm of possibilities.
The outcomes in this case are that the RC copter was shot, other actions on the part of the operator of the RC copter (hovering over the highway, etc) aside.
The threat to the hunters was invasion of privacy. It's a real and present threat. Did each side over react? I find it incredulous that I'm siding with the hunters, but there it is: weighed regarding two sets of behaviors, I have to side with the injured party, and in this case, that's the group of hunters.