...the commoditization of so many high tech items (cell phones, PCs, etc.). We all want something a little different from the beige box or the grey flip-phone. Manufacturers (check out Nokia's new stuff, for example) try to hit us with "out there" styles, but retro is cool because, at least for a while, tech companies won't touch it. After all, we're not going to see a Pentium4 boxed up in an IBM PCjr box any time soon.
...numbers to be scary. And, they want the bad news to come from them. Otherwise, people would wake up and start using products like Panda or Kaspersky.
But Pizarro and Cortez were looking for gold and riches (oh, and to do some conversions as a side hobby). If we were to encounter an alien race who were genuine explorers and not out to just rape and pillage, I think we'd do OK.
..for CE because, as usual, people will have to patch their CE-based PDA. If desktop Windows is any example, most people won't bother to download security updates, leading to exposure to other damaging varients.
I'm sure the brains at Symantec are running in high gear right about now.
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Good point. I believe one of the reasons we have averted all-out nuclear war in the past is because it would have global consequences. But an offworld power with nukes would have no such concerns.
...exploration really takes off, property rights will become of paramount importance. In fact, I predict that, in the next 100 years, there will be a terrestrial war over something in our Solar System that is rich in minerals. While I have no love for lawyers, the forward-thinking people in our society had better work this stuff out NOW.
This makes me sick! We better outlaw the production of any software that plays MP3s as well, since they are accessories to the crime of stealing music. Oh, and CD burners, and operating systems, can PCs and phone and cable lines.
In fact, someone had just better come over to my house and arrest me right now. Sheesh!
Firefox, you need to do yourself a favor. Flawless pop-up blocking, the beauty of tabbed browsing...real standards implementation...the list goes on and on. Now, if only Windows would be declared a national security risk...
Good point...and, down the road, I'm sure there will be real-world Spybots and Ad-Awares that will scan your clothes and other items looking for RFID items that you can them remove/disable. Remember, there were radar guns and then radar detectors. The marketplace will always respond.
...heard of this. I, too, would love to trust my state government with my important docs. After all, we all know they handle our property taxes soooo well.
'Don't know what you don't know.'; 'Never trade a bad date for an equally bad date.'; and 'Enrapture the customers.
Hasn't Microsoft violated every one of those rules, even recently? I'm not trying to be flippant. I just can't take a symposium on software development held by MS very seriously.
What I would really, really like to see is a conference in which some developers from MS discuss how they deal with damage control on a daily basis. I think that would drum up some interest.
...the uneducated user. Let's face it: the internet has been sold as this great tool and all you need to get on it is a PC and a phone line, cable, or whatever. If you preach the need for basic education, you are some kind of geek (how often have you heard, "I don't want to know all that, I just want to get online!") and if you make even the slightest suggestion that some people just don't belong online due to their own lack of common sense, you are some kind of elitist (try telling people to use the BCC option of their e-mail client instead of CC'ing everyone in their address book and see what kind of reaction you get).
As a previous poster said, it is, once again, unpatched systems that are causing the problem. And here's the chorus now, "I didn't know! No one told me! It's not my fault!" And we, of course, will pick up the pieces.
of a successful democracy is the free flow of information without government interference. I hope this is a good start for the continent. After all, there is no more free medium for the dissemination of information than the web. After all, why is China so scared of unfiltered access?
...levels that one of MS's approaches to fighting open source would be to bring up the spectre of lawsuits. Considering the last few years, one would think that Redmond would have a healthy aversion to courtrooms and wouldn't wish that on anyone.
But then, I guess I'm not being a realist. What disappoints me, regardless of history, is that MS is not willing to compete against open source in the marketplace without trying to stack the deck. Have they no confidence in their product? If not, why not? And if not, then why aren't they working to make it better? And if they are, then where are the results?
for XP will be rolled in SP1 for Longhorn, due to be released in Q3 2014. An insider who did not wished to be named said, "Hey! What do you want?! Security and timeliness?!!! PFFFTTT!!!"
...the pilot's skill. However, this is to be expected with any prototype. It's always the early pioneers who take the risks; I guarantee that Rutan and crew are working on fixing the attitude problem as we speak. And, knowing those guys, the next flight will be perfect.
Google provides an ad-supported service...for a profit. They are about to become a publicly-held company with the intention of...continuing to make a profit. I don't believe that Google owes the open source community anything---some may feel it's noble, but I think that it helps promote a certain "debtor" feeling, as if success should bring out timidity and apologies and giveaways.
Google's competitors would be better served by innovating on their own and sticking it to them with better search results and more value-added features.
I think it's bold, and a move in the right direction, but it's folly to think that they media lobbies are going to let this go unmolested. They have almost unlimited funds (money we've paid for CDs and movies) to fight this.
...amaze me. I recently helped a friend put together a website for his bakery. Why did he want a website? Because it was something to do that he hadn't done before. Will it drive customers to his place? I doubt it; most small companies like that survive on local ads and word of mouth.
I guess my point is that I am still, after all this time, doubtful when it comes to the accuracy of usefulness of ads or site based on visits, click-throughs, etc. I don't think knowledge of the availability of a product is enough; a site must be informative and interactive above and beyond what other forms of advertising can do. While some companies do a great job of this, too many others are like my friend's site---little more than a billboard.
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...do we get to see the dilithium crystals?
...the commoditization of so many high tech items (cell phones, PCs, etc.). We all want something a little different from the beige box or the grey flip-phone. Manufacturers (check out Nokia's new stuff, for example) try to hit us with "out there" styles, but retro is cool because, at least for a while, tech companies won't touch it. After all, we're not going to see a Pentium4 boxed up in an IBM PCjr box any time soon.
...numbers to be scary. And, they want the bad news to come from them. Otherwise, people would wake up and start using products like Panda or Kaspersky.
But Pizarro and Cortez were looking for gold and riches (oh, and to do some conversions as a side hobby). If we were to encounter an alien race who were genuine explorers and not out to just rape and pillage, I think we'd do OK.
..for CE because, as usual, people will have to patch their CE-based PDA. If desktop Windows is any example, most people won't bother to download security updates, leading to exposure to other damaging varients. I'm sure the brains at Symantec are running in high gear right about now.
Good point. I believe one of the reasons we have averted all-out nuclear war in the past is because it would have global consequences. But an offworld power with nukes would have no such concerns.
...exploration really takes off, property rights will become of paramount importance. In fact, I predict that, in the next 100 years, there will be a terrestrial war over something in our Solar System that is rich in minerals. While I have no love for lawyers, the forward-thinking people in our society had better work this stuff out NOW.
...this idea? After all, we KNOW that the gub'ment has never, ever arrested people based on faulty info. Trust the man, people; trust the MAN.
...against Hawking would be something to tell the grandchildren about. Hell, it would be an honor to lose a bet to him.
This makes me sick! We better outlaw the production of any software that plays MP3s as well, since they are accessories to the crime of stealing music. Oh, and CD burners, and operating systems, can PCs and phone and cable lines. In fact, someone had just better come over to my house and arrest me right now. Sheesh!
point taken
Firefox, you need to do yourself a favor. Flawless pop-up blocking, the beauty of tabbed browsing...real standards implementation...the list goes on and on. Now, if only Windows would be declared a national security risk...
...these planets? Is it some kind of spectrum analysis?
Good point...and, down the road, I'm sure there will be real-world Spybots and Ad-Awares that will scan your clothes and other items looking for RFID items that you can them remove/disable. Remember, there were radar guns and then radar detectors. The marketplace will always respond.
...heard of this. I, too, would love to trust my state government with my important docs. After all, we all know they handle our property taxes soooo well.
'Don't know what you don't know.'; 'Never trade a bad date for an equally bad date.'; and 'Enrapture the customers. Hasn't Microsoft violated every one of those rules, even recently? I'm not trying to be flippant. I just can't take a symposium on software development held by MS very seriously. What I would really, really like to see is a conference in which some developers from MS discuss how they deal with damage control on a daily basis. I think that would drum up some interest.
...the uneducated user. Let's face it: the internet has been sold as this great tool and all you need to get on it is a PC and a phone line, cable, or whatever. If you preach the need for basic education, you are some kind of geek (how often have you heard, "I don't want to know all that, I just want to get online!") and if you make even the slightest suggestion that some people just don't belong online due to their own lack of common sense, you are some kind of elitist (try telling people to use the BCC option of their e-mail client instead of CC'ing everyone in their address book and see what kind of reaction you get). As a previous poster said, it is, once again, unpatched systems that are causing the problem. And here's the chorus now, "I didn't know! No one told me! It's not my fault!" And we, of course, will pick up the pieces.
of a successful democracy is the free flow of information without government interference. I hope this is a good start for the continent. After all, there is no more free medium for the dissemination of information than the web. After all, why is China so scared of unfiltered access?
...levels that one of MS's approaches to fighting open source would be to bring up the spectre of lawsuits. Considering the last few years, one would think that Redmond would have a healthy aversion to courtrooms and wouldn't wish that on anyone.
But then, I guess I'm not being a realist. What disappoints me, regardless of history, is that MS is not willing to compete against open source in the marketplace without trying to stack the deck. Have they no confidence in their product? If not, why not? And if not, then why aren't they working to make it better? And if they are, then where are the results?
for XP will be rolled in SP1 for Longhorn, due to be released in Q3 2014. An insider who did not wished to be named said, "Hey! What do you want?! Security and timeliness?!!! PFFFTTT!!!"
...the pilot's skill. However, this is to be expected with any prototype. It's always the early pioneers who take the risks; I guarantee that Rutan and crew are working on fixing the attitude problem as we speak. And, knowing those guys, the next flight will be perfect.
Google provides an ad-supported service...for a profit. They are about to become a publicly-held company with the intention of...continuing to make a profit. I don't believe that Google owes the open source community anything---some may feel it's noble, but I think that it helps promote a certain "debtor" feeling, as if success should bring out timidity and apologies and giveaways. Google's competitors would be better served by innovating on their own and sticking it to them with better search results and more value-added features.
I think it's bold, and a move in the right direction, but it's folly to think that they media lobbies are going to let this go unmolested. They have almost unlimited funds (money we've paid for CDs and movies) to fight this.
...commercial, for-profit ventures going into space, the sooner it will become accessible to the common man. Just not in any of our lifetimes.
...amaze me. I recently helped a friend put together a website for his bakery. Why did he want a website? Because it was something to do that he hadn't done before. Will it drive customers to his place? I doubt it; most small companies like that survive on local ads and word of mouth. I guess my point is that I am still, after all this time, doubtful when it comes to the accuracy of usefulness of ads or site based on visits, click-throughs, etc. I don't think knowledge of the availability of a product is enough; a site must be informative and interactive above and beyond what other forms of advertising can do. While some companies do a great job of this, too many others are like my friend's site---little more than a billboard.