if you paid attention, you would notice that it in fact says it costs MS 300k for each employee, and only part of that cost is their wage. Other things are factors, e.g. their computers, company cars, lunches, all the toilet paper they steal from the bathrooms, etc
Welcome to the real world, where your stock does not grow 10,000% in a matter of a few years, and companies have to *gasp* cut costs, or perhaps even *bigger gasp* innovate, to keep their companies from falling flat on their face.
Some of those backup drives can hold up to 90PB of data.. holy crap.. think of what you could do with 90,000,000 GB of space... it hurts to even think about it..
The only thing that hurts worse is trying to find a space to put an 8ft x 30ft x 200ft storage device that weighs 310k pounds (140.9 metric tons(2200lbs))
Apparently the ultimate goal is to eventually have ISR software running on every computer in the public domain. What is in this article is a good first step, but even if they can make the process and the software bulletproof, there are still many problems left to be faced:
1. Most people have lots of data on their computers (here, I define a 'lot' as over 10 GB of data). Even if they were only using say 200 mb of data, at today's broadband transfer speeds, that could take 10 minutes to transfer, or much more if they can only get dialup speeds. 2. As I said, most people have lots of stuff on their HD's (I for one always have 80-100GB on my HD). Where are they going to get the space to store 100GB(or more) for every person who is going to use the system? It will cost them a fortune just in the cost of disk space, not to mention bandwidth to transfer the running state of all these systems. 3. It might seem obvious to some, but how are they planning on getting the system into widespread use? If you haven't noticed, people tend to resist change, and even if they do get it into wide use, not everyone will use it, so there will still be computers you cant just walk up to and use. 4. If it costs money to use the service, I guarantee it will take a lot longer to get into widespread use. The only place I can really see it being worth the cost would be in a business setting, where you could sit down at any computer and it would be like you are sitting at your own desk.
In conclusion, good idea, but it needs major work, and there are many major major problems to be solved before it "revolutionizes" computing
These games arent even close... last night he had 40k at the end, the next closest was like 4 or 5k. The night before that he had over 25k, both of the other people were in the red, for nearly the entire show. It's one thing to win 25 closely contested shows, its quite another to win by the impressive margins that he does every night.
No, but if someone discovers a cure for cancer, and Microsoft decides to make their own version of the cure because they want to make a few bucks, unless it was overwhelmingly better, I wouldn't bother.. especially if the old drug was as well known as tivo is... tivo is almost synonimus with digital tv recording/playback/etc
Lets face it, the average consumer does not have the time or money to rush out and buy the new model every 6 months... I know that I for one dont replace my electronics until they break, or become very inconvinient to use, and I think most technology consumers are more that way than some tech obsessed people who replace everything they own the second something new comes out
I read the interview, but I couldn't find where he mentions about it becoming harder for beginner programmers.. maybe I'm just blind, but if someone could point it out for me
From the article: He[Pablo Funes] suggests networks might in the future be designed to work out who deserves the most help for themselves. "Sophisticated network behaviours might implement rules for reciprocity and trust," he says. "And conversely, for not cooperating with other others who try to abuse our resources."
The future of network security? Imagine the next computer virus outbreak: Every network in the world could recognize the virus type activity and allocate them lesser or zero resources, maybe sending them a "Virus detected, please run antivirus software or contact your IT Department" notice, and detecting outside attacks from viruses and automatically flagging them as unsafe, and not give much(or any) attention to traffic from or to that site
I think a lot of this games sucess is because it doesnt rely as much on the leveling treadmill type of mmo that pretty much all others are based off of. This opens the game up to the casual gamers, a group that is many times the size of the fanatical, play 10 hours a day, kind of gamer, that are willing to put in the massive amount of time required for the other games.
I dont see how putting projectors in phones will make them any more useful than they are, they will only make it more expensive.
The Laptop projectors on the other hand, if they are built in, would eliminate the need for bulky projectors when a worker needs to give a presentation to his boss or co workers.. they could even make mini tv's use this technology, and project onto any free space of wall.
if you knew anything about mozilla, you wouldl know that it doesnt support activex by default, and even the compatibility patches to allow activex in mozilla are flawed and hardly work at all
Haha, I've already got my "*beep* *beep* *beep* This radio station's music playing rights have been revoked because of repeat violations of the musical taste law. We are sorry for any inconvienience you may suffer *beep* *beep* *beep* silence....." track made up. With a 50 foot radius on my iTrip, theres no end to the possibilities >:)
indeed i did mean south korea.. and i also did not mean to include south korea in the where the normal people cant afford a computer. statement, i was more referring to some of the countries in africa
Keep in mind that although they only make 1$/day, it probably costs a whole lot less to live in those countries, us americans have the highest cost of living in the world
they might be dying in america, but they are still majorly profitable in place like korea and other places where the normal people cant afford a computer
I guess the point is that if you live in Nigeria and want to go on the internet, you should make a quick trip to Ghana, so you dont spend 5 days worth of wages in 1 hour
This configuration change to the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 operating systems improves system resiliency to protect against the Download.Ject attack.
In addition to this configuration change, which will protect customers against the immediate reported threats, Microsoft is working to provide a series of security updates to Internet Explorer in coming weeks that will provide additional protections for our customers.
Please note that this isnt a fix, it is only a configuration change to help defend against the problem and nullify the threat from the known places it is spreading from. No doubt that within a short time, whoever is behind the virus will find other places to have the virus attack from. This is just another "this will help for now, please wait for the real fix" incident from Microsoft.
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a) the preview button is there for a reason :)
b) they probably value the cubicles they work in at at least a couple hundred thousand a year.
if you paid attention, you would notice that it in fact says it costs MS 300k for each employee, and only part of that cost is their wage. Other things are factors, e.g. their computers, company cars, lunches, all the toilet paper they steal from the bathrooms, etc
Dear Microsoft,
Welcome to the real world, where your stock does not grow 10,000% in a matter of a few years, and companies have to *gasp* cut costs, or perhaps even *bigger gasp* innovate, to keep their companies from falling flat on their face.
With much love(sorta),
The World
Some of those backup drives can hold up to 90PB of data.. holy crap.. think of what you could do with 90,000,000 GB of space... it hurts to even think about it..
The only thing that hurts worse is trying to find a space to put an 8ft x 30ft x 200ft storage device that weighs 310k pounds (140.9 metric tons(2200lbs))
Gmail is not activex, thats why you had no problems
Apparently the ultimate goal is to eventually have ISR software running on every computer in the public domain. What is in this article is a good first step, but even if they can make the process and the software bulletproof, there are still many problems left to be faced:
1. Most people have lots of data on their computers (here, I define a 'lot' as over 10 GB of data). Even if they were only using say 200 mb of data, at today's broadband transfer speeds, that could take 10 minutes to transfer, or much more if they can only get dialup speeds.
2. As I said, most people have lots of stuff on their HD's (I for one always have 80-100GB on my HD). Where are they going to get the space to store 100GB(or more) for every person who is going to use the system? It will cost them a fortune just in the cost of disk space, not to mention bandwidth to transfer the running state of all these systems.
3. It might seem obvious to some, but how are they planning on getting the system into widespread use? If you haven't noticed, people tend to resist change, and even if they do get it into wide use, not everyone will use it, so there will still be computers you cant just walk up to and use.
4. If it costs money to use the service, I guarantee it will take a lot longer to get into widespread use. The only place I can really see it being worth the cost would be in a business setting, where you could sit down at any computer and it would be like you are sitting at your own desk.
In conclusion, good idea, but it needs major work, and there are many major major problems to be solved before it "revolutionizes" computing
It may be slightly inconvenient, but at least the Mozilla extension system isn't a blank check to hackers like IE's ActiveX system.
These games arent even close... last night he had 40k at the end, the next closest was like 4 or 5k. The night before that he had over 25k, both of the other people were in the red, for nearly the entire show. It's one thing to win 25 closely contested shows, its quite another to win by the impressive margins that he does every night.
No, but if someone discovers a cure for cancer, and Microsoft decides to make their own version of the cure because they want to make a few bucks, unless it was overwhelmingly better, I wouldn't bother.. especially if the old drug was as well known as tivo is... tivo is almost synonimus with digital tv recording/playback/etc
Lets face it, the average consumer does not have the time or money to rush out and buy the new model every 6 months... I know that I for one dont replace my electronics until they break, or become very inconvinient to use, and I think most technology consumers are more that way than some tech obsessed people who replace everything they own the second something new comes out
If they release the GIF patent to the public, they can spend their time doing other things, like fighting off the SCO army of lawyers.
I read the interview, but I couldn't find where he mentions about it becoming harder for beginner programmers.. maybe I'm just blind, but if someone could point it out for me
From the article:
He[Pablo Funes] suggests networks might in the future be designed to work out who deserves the most help for themselves. "Sophisticated network behaviours might implement rules for reciprocity and trust," he says. "And conversely, for not cooperating with other others who try to abuse our resources."
The future of network security? Imagine the next computer virus outbreak: Every network in the world could recognize the virus type activity and allocate them lesser or zero resources, maybe sending them a "Virus detected, please run antivirus software or contact your IT Department" notice, and detecting outside attacks from viruses and automatically flagging them as unsafe, and not give much(or any) attention to traffic from or to that site
my cell phone does what it was meant to do, make phone calls, it has none of those addons, like games, cameras, text messaging, etc
if I'm going to pay almost 1700$ on a remote, I better be able to drive my car with it like in that one James Bond movie :)
I think a lot of this games sucess is because it doesnt rely as much on the leveling treadmill type of mmo that pretty much all others are based off of. This opens the game up to the casual gamers, a group that is many times the size of the fanatical, play 10 hours a day, kind of gamer, that are willing to put in the massive amount of time required for the other games.
dark lit rooms? isnt that contradictory? O_o
I dont see how putting projectors in phones will make them any more useful than they are, they will only make it more expensive.
The Laptop projectors on the other hand, if they are built in, would eliminate the need for bulky projectors when a worker needs to give a presentation to his boss or co workers.. they could even make mini tv's use this technology, and project onto any free space of wall.
if you knew anything about mozilla, you wouldl know that it doesnt support activex by default, and even the compatibility patches to allow activex in mozilla are flawed and hardly work at all
Haha, I've already got my "*beep* *beep* *beep* This radio station's music playing rights have been revoked because of repeat violations of the musical taste law. We are sorry for any inconvienience you may suffer *beep* *beep* *beep* silence....." track made up. With a 50 foot radius on my iTrip, theres no end to the possibilities >:)
indeed i did mean south korea.. and i also did not mean to include south korea in the where the normal people cant afford a computer. statement, i was more referring to some of the countries in africa
Keep in mind that although they only make 1$/day, it probably costs a whole lot less to live in those countries, us americans have the highest cost of living in the world
they might be dying in america, but they are still majorly profitable in place like korea and other places where the normal people cant afford a computer
I guess the point is that if you live in Nigeria and want to go on the internet, you should make a quick trip to Ghana, so you dont spend 5 days worth of wages in 1 hour
This configuration change to the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 operating systems improves system resiliency to protect against the Download.Ject attack.
In addition to this configuration change, which will protect customers against the immediate reported threats, Microsoft is working to provide a series of security updates to Internet Explorer in coming weeks that will provide additional protections for our customers.
Please note that this isnt a fix, it is only a configuration change to help defend against the problem and nullify the threat from the known places it is spreading from. No doubt that within a short time, whoever is behind the virus will find other places to have the virus attack from. This is just another "this will help for now, please wait for the real fix" incident from Microsoft.