The problem with Linux support is there's too many developers. It's like 1 waiter taking orders and needs to work with 10 chefs in the kitchen.
The only benefit Linux support will provide is to save you time, i.e. the time it takes to search all the places, etc... AND find that your problem is pretty unique and not currently solvable. How many times do you remember looking for linux solutions and finding mainly debates on how to implement things? What's also a problem is everyone is trying to use the latest open-source release for enterprise apps, not so stable IMO.
99% of the time, the support/problem info you search for is either obsolete or not explained well enough. It would be best instead to have a screen capture error-search tool instead of person-to-person support. Google and Linux support (i..e searching for linux solutions) do not mix well with the informal nature of discussing and solving defects.
You guys need to realize. Hollywood needs to satisfy everyone. Not just the./-ers, beautiful people, or old rich white guys, but everyone--it's always been in their objectives...of course, largely motivated by greed (but hey that's capitalism).
I'm sitting here and there's a lot of technology being discussed for new media, but many folks, though wanting progress, can't just jump on the bandwagon, a lot is at stake from a business and standards standpoint. Yes, there are pros and cons we can talk about all day long, but what I've found working in Hollywood and in Politics are that they are very similar industries. A lot of flaky folks, but at least the movie execs will admit fault. Try getting that out of a politician (or intelligence heads;))
Oh, and you'll always find someone that will disagree with a movie or a law, that's what's great about this country, you have an opinion.
Replace the word Microsoft with FBI, or CIA, or even US Gov't. Same deal. Same situation.
This guy just describes what happens when an innovative idea (or even a paradigm shift in thinking) has to fit in a Business model. Anyone who has been in a real startup can relate this his ideology. But what he asks from fellow M$ofties is a lot of work.
And as scooged McDuck used to say:
"Work smart. NOT HARD". He should realize it's time to move on.
One thing I wonder through reading all the posts is why everyone considers a comet or meteor zipping through the atmosphere impacting the earth at great velocities? Yes, there's gravity, but you're assuming there's no reactionary forces.
Billions of years ago, I would expect the atmosphere was thinner (not smog-dense like as current)--and considering the earth had less surface water, the impact was at a much slower pace than what we idealize, so slow that not much really "burned" up, i.e. nothing spectacular as everyone would desire (we all know./-ers like things that go boom). For all I know, we could be living on Earth V2.1, i.e. remember the theories on how the moon was created? Recombination.
As for the PBS's series and PBS's politics, I see a lot of their shows now becoming strawmans, so buyer/watcher beware.
iPod morphs into a cellphone iPod, morphs into a video iPod (with integrated cellphone eventually).
Looks like a Nokia phone with Verizon Vcast.
I see 2 battelships coming towards each other (computer & telcom industries) and the playing field is media (i.e content providers). And the winner will be the one with the best GUI (I bet).
Yes, Apple's strategy is to test the market for music cellphones, but look at Nokia and Sony's intros a few months ago. Still unknown to the mainstream and they had a tepid market reaction when introduced. And my SE k700i already does what the above phones do, but unfortunately had lousy memory (42Mb)--that phone is almost 2 yrs old, so the technology has been around for a while. Hence, no much market reaction in general I say for music cellphones.
Apple will upstage all the cellphone companies when the time is right. Heck, in 1-2 years all you need is a WiMax, good coverage, and a softphone (Gimzo) and it's over for the cellphone companies.
(Considering eBay/Skype deal will force regulation in the VOIP market), hence VOIP will be on the same legal footing as the cell industry.
PalmOS just doesn't make sense anymore with the proliferation of devices with unique behaviors. Unlike the PC industry, which consolidated on a set of H/W upheld by standards, the mobile device industry got out of hand with proprietary IP and features. And Palm hacked in these features leading to PocketPC quality, hence lower customer rating due to snafus resulting.
Java/J2ME was a holy grail, but it was too late. Fortunately, inside track (and from talk with Sales Engineers) has it that PalmOne will resurrect Java soon. Looks like very soon after this news.
Let just look back and savior the fact that PalmOS had its day. And that it should be a model for future OSes since it was way more rock solid than PocketPC and even Linux for mobile devices.
As for me, another 'well learn't language into the heap'. Out of all the APIs, I found Palm (along with Java) as one of the best thought out 'languages'.
I'm hearing on the news, really bad water(toxic), lack of resources, lack of troops, panic in residents, marshal law, lack of a plan for the worse case scenario (except run away, don't come back about a month! And that's in gov't time, so in reality that's 3 months).
This will be a true test of government using technology since we are looking at a natural disaster in a highly populated, highly advanced city (we're not looking at '2nd' world islands like the tsunamis).
Considering technology has helped up conclude the high probability of this event, the tools to monitor the amount of damage/intensity, the history of the area (interpolation/modeling/simulation), and has gven us the facts to date. It is now up to the execution of the people's will, i.e. the policies and laws. Considering the policy/culture of the last few years is 'everyman for himself', the future looks tough. In the end, just like the SF earthquake and H. Andrew in the mid-90's, are we making the best use of technology and knowledge (in particular science)? have we learned anything from history [thru tech]?
I see about 6-8 months to return to some form of a modern US city. I think it took about a year for the victims of hurricane Andrew. If that is so, then technology is working as we expect. Then again is the rest of the country suffers (ecomonically, infrastruture, transportation, policy, etc...), then technology likely isn't being used properly.
Really all check out lines will be eliminated. Just walk out the store and you get charged. Shoplift prevention and checkout killed with 1 stone--brilliant.
For those with cash? Have a set of kiosks just like the airport or some cart id you enter and insert the dollars, etc... Okay, that some level of checkout.
Can't these companies realize the the real problem is parking lots?
Cringely's got a point, though all speculation. I mean what is the last "undiscovered country"? It's the industry that started it all, media, a.k.a. entertainment. "Content is King", remember? No company has solved the media problem and so far media+entertainment are the only thing on the horizon were new things are expected. I mean the enterprise has been locked in by big blue, no one cares about financial tech, auto industry is giving cars away, and people realized communication is as simple as yelling across the room...without a nextel phone.
Every, and I mean every tech company is hitting the media networks for new business. It's pretty ridiculous seeing all those salesmen from the 90's boom, again. And that's why goggle is saving the cash ($4bil), cause the media/entertainment industry has a high step in cost if you want to deal. Just ask any exec from Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple, they are all going all out as we speak to grab this industry.
"with built-in security measures and support for ubiquitous sensors and wireless communications devices, among other things"
Hmmm, sounds like the current POTS system. In the end, the internet will turn into another controlled network of the telcom companies and governments of the world from the current state of a maintained but uncontrolled system.
For one, DC's Dulles airport is a little over 20 miles from the center of the city (and a $45 cab ride!). Similarly layed out to DIA (hmmm, IAD, same lettering), just that the area's built up more in DC. I suspect DIA had similar expectations for a tech boom;)
Anyway, I'm surprised no one's talked about comaring this system to any Wal-Mart distribution center. which carries more stuff over more miles--technology has come a long way.
What would stop a adult material company from advertising under the.com,.net,.tv,.info? No one is restricting domain placement (playboy for example).
Censorship I think not.
What the heck is Bush worrying about, geez, like the.com domain is not a virtual red light district already!? Sounds more like something to divert attention from people getting shot at a place 4000miles away.
See what happens when you don't use your email for 4 years?
powerlines area great idea fulfilling the holy grail of reuse of resources, but when a tornado or thunderstorm blows through an area, it can wipe out a good portion of internet service for days vs. underground cable or satellite. Also, reuse has a downside usually, a single point of failure usually presents itself, which doesn't fall within the original philosophy of the internet.
"Since the system was very customized to my previous employer, I wanted to rewrite all the code into something more generic and usable by anybody, which is when it was renamed Cygnus. "
Hmmm. There a pattern here with google vs. the world (i.e. Microsoft Lee case)? If the original code was developed under a gov't contractor, much licensing/restrictions issues pop up.
Anyway cisco stuff has much things to exploit, just a matter of time... they're working on it at least.
this is really a flaw in the reconnection process. All they need to do is change the reconnection procedure--make it more complex (mathematically that is). For instance, during reconnect the sender's PIN must be encoded and resent (with the previously setup key stored on the sending device--which is likely not on the hackers device).
With the relibility of bluetooth, peer reconnect is uncommon unless a guy w/a big antenna is sitting right next to you trying to disrupt your connection (as mentioned). It's not the PIN nor encryption at fault, just the [lazy] way of reconnecting.
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The only benefit Linux support will provide is to save you time, i.e. the time it takes to search all the places, etc... AND find that your problem is pretty unique and not currently solvable. How many times do you remember looking for linux solutions and finding mainly debates on how to implement things? What's also a problem is everyone is trying to use the latest open-source release for enterprise apps, not so stable IMO.
99% of the time, the support/problem info you search for is either obsolete or not explained well enough. It would be best instead to have a screen capture error-search tool instead of person-to-person support. Google and Linux support (i..e searching for linux solutions) do not mix well with the informal nature of discussing and solving defects.
I'm sitting here and there's a lot of technology being discussed for new media, but many folks, though wanting progress, can't just jump on the bandwagon, a lot is at stake from a business and standards standpoint. Yes, there are pros and cons we can talk about all day long, but what I've found working in Hollywood and in Politics are that they are very similar industries. A lot of flaky folks, but at least the movie execs will admit fault. Try getting that out of a politician (or intelligence heads ;))
Oh, and you'll always find someone that will disagree with a movie or a law, that's what's great about this country, you have an opinion.
This guy just describes what happens when an innovative idea (or even a paradigm shift in thinking) has to fit in a Business model. Anyone who has been in a real startup can relate this his ideology. But what he asks from fellow M$ofties is a lot of work.
And as scooged McDuck used to say:
"Work smart. NOT HARD". He should realize it's time to move on.
One thing I wonder through reading all the posts is why everyone considers a comet or meteor zipping through the atmosphere impacting the earth at great velocities? Yes, there's gravity, but you're assuming there's no reactionary forces.
Billions of years ago, I would expect the atmosphere was thinner (not smog-dense like as current)--and considering the earth had less surface water, the impact was at a much slower pace than what we idealize, so slow that not much really "burned" up, i.e. nothing spectacular as everyone would desire (we all know ./-ers like things that go boom). For all I know, we could be living on Earth V2.1, i.e. remember the theories on how the moon was created? Recombination.
As for the PBS's series and PBS's politics, I see a lot of their shows now becoming strawmans, so buyer/watcher beware.
Man, this is starting to sound like a movie from 1995, but there's no Anglie Jolie in site. Crap.
I'm wanting for a "hackers of the world unite" call, but I doubt this would be it.
Looks like a Nokia phone with Verizon Vcast.
I see 2 battelships coming towards each other (computer & telcom industries) and the playing field is media (i.e content providers). And the winner will be the one with the best GUI (I bet).
Hey, it looks like IE6.0.
Apple will upstage all the cellphone companies when the time is right. Heck, in 1-2 years all you need is a WiMax, good coverage, and a softphone (Gimzo) and it's over for the cellphone companies. (Considering eBay/Skype deal will force regulation in the VOIP market), hence VOIP will be on the same legal footing as the cell industry.
"Refugee Radio Station Blocked by Red State"
Had to do a double take and all is well now.
Might I say it was a good ride from 1999 fellas.
PalmOS just doesn't make sense anymore with the proliferation of devices with unique behaviors. Unlike the PC industry, which consolidated on a set of H/W upheld by standards, the mobile device industry got out of hand with proprietary IP and features. And Palm hacked in these features leading to PocketPC quality, hence lower customer rating due to snafus resulting.
Java/J2ME was a holy grail, but it was too late. Fortunately, inside track (and from talk with Sales Engineers) has it that PalmOne will resurrect Java soon. Looks like very soon after this news.
Let just look back and savior the fact that PalmOS had its day. And that it should be a model for future OSes since it was way more rock solid than PocketPC and even Linux for mobile devices.
As for me, another 'well learn't language into the heap'. Out of all the APIs, I found Palm (along with Java) as one of the best thought out 'languages'.
This will be a true test of government using technology since we are looking at a natural disaster in a highly populated, highly advanced city (we're not looking at '2nd' world islands like the tsunamis).
Considering technology has helped up conclude the high probability of this event, the tools to monitor the amount of damage/intensity, the history of the area (interpolation/modeling/simulation), and has gven us the facts to date. It is now up to the execution of the people's will, i.e. the policies and laws. Considering the policy/culture of the last few years is 'everyman for himself', the future looks tough. In the end, just like the SF earthquake and H. Andrew in the mid-90's, are we making the best use of technology and knowledge (in particular science)? have we learned anything from history [thru tech]?
I see about 6-8 months to return to some form of a modern US city. I think it took about a year for the victims of hurricane Andrew. If that is so, then technology is working as we expect. Then again is the rest of the country suffers (ecomonically, infrastruture, transportation, policy, etc...), then technology likely isn't being used properly.
To justify blaming someone.
For those with cash? Have a set of kiosks just like the airport or some cart id you enter and insert the dollars, etc... Okay, that some level of checkout.
Can't these companies realize the the real problem is parking lots?
Every, and I mean every tech company is hitting the media networks for new business. It's pretty ridiculous seeing all those salesmen from the 90's boom, again. And that's why goggle is saving the cash ($4bil), cause the media/entertainment industry has a high step in cost if you want to deal. Just ask any exec from Microsoft, Yahoo, and Apple, they are all going all out as we speak to grab this industry.
Hmmm, sounds like the current POTS system. In the end, the internet will turn into another controlled network of the telcom companies and governments of the world from the current state of a maintained but uncontrolled system.
Savior the moment while it lasts fellas.
Anyway, I'm surprised no one's talked about comaring this system to any Wal-Mart distribution center. which carries more stuff over more miles--technology has come a long way.
i Am Amazed.
Censorship I think not.
What the heck is Bush worrying about, geez, like the .com domain is not a virtual red light district already!? Sounds more like something to divert attention from people getting shot at a place 4000miles away.
See what happens when you don't use your email for 4 years?
powerlines area great idea fulfilling the holy grail of reuse of resources, but when a tornado or thunderstorm blows through an area, it can wipe out a good portion of internet service for days vs. underground cable or satellite. Also, reuse has a downside usually, a single point of failure usually presents itself, which doesn't fall within the original philosophy of the internet.
As for DSL vs. cable reliability
Whatever happened to the simple phone call?
Hmmm. There a pattern here with google vs. the world (i.e. Microsoft Lee case)? If the original code was developed under a gov't contractor, much licensing/restrictions issues pop up.
Anyway cisco stuff has much things to exploit, just a matter of time... they're working on it at least.
Again, programming is a syntax/grammar. This is a moot question--call it a art if you want, it's just like any other language know to mankind.
With the relibility of bluetooth, peer reconnect is uncommon unless a guy w/a big antenna is sitting right next to you trying to disrupt your connection (as mentioned). It's not the PIN nor encryption at fault, just the [lazy] way of reconnecting.
Marketing rules everyone. Nothing novel here.
Whatever happened to ultrafast 3G/EDGE networks and "home" storage?