Perhaps the potential for purloining customers from the juicy mainframe market outstrips any misgivings Microsoft may have about open source.
The only misgivings MS ever had about open source is for the potential it has for giving away what it has always charged money for, thus eroding their profit share. I've often wondered why they don't leverage it to their own advantage more, much like the way they appropriated BSD code for much of their networking utilities, like netstat et al.
Public display of these garments is considered VERY taboo in Mormon culture.
Sacrilegious would probably be a more accurate term.
Anyway, anything I've ever read about the scanners (and the images that have been made public from them) indicates that they're looking through the undergarments, not at them. I would assume that's what Chaffetz, like most privacy-concerned indviduals, would be protesting.
...a compatibility module that would let them use a NEW browser with their old applications...It would seem like the smoothest way to get over this problem.
As long as IE6 and Winxp are still in support, how is your suggestion smoother than just cruising along with status quo?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning the choice, but it's not hard to see why some people and organisations are reluctant to get on the treadmill.
My brother is the HVAC chief for one of Canada's larger cities, and he recently purchased Windows 98 on ebay because it is required to run the climate controls in city hall.
Yeah, sooner or later they'll have to upgrade, but if you think IE6 is going to magically vanish tomorrow or even in a couple years when support officially runs out, prepare for a shock.
Parent should be modded insightful, not funny (although this story packs its share of irony). The E^3 strategy was very much behind IE6's idiosyncrasies, and after all these years it has proven quite effective against competing products, including those put forward by Microsoft itself. Where are the defectivebydesign and lockin tags?
"If part of the internet has a problem, should the President have the authority to stop it?"
If the poll question was in fact worded so poorly as this, then I might argue that the pollsters are part of the so-called propaganda machine. I might even go so far as to say that net-security.org is playing its part by reporting the results of a poll without reporting the details of the actual poll.
Nay, but most Americans have no idea about computers, let alone computer security.
This is not a question of computers or security so much as it is a question of the freedom of information, communication, expression and speech. Perhaps the propaganda machine has convinced the American public otherwise.
DSL here has as good a record as fiber for uptime. Find a provider that will do mlppp and doesn't prevent you from reselling. TekSavvy is a good choice in Canada. They support up to 8 bundled 6/1 connections at ~$50 apiece (dry loop).
Next you need a bunch of modems, a router that will do mlppp and probably a vlan switch. I like the ST 516v6, pfsense 2.0 and the Netgear GS724T.
For distribution you'll need wireless gear and a tower. Ubiquiti Airmax is tough to beat for the price. I use the Bullet M5 HP because it's good to -40 (did I mention I'm in Canada?). Your local municipal government probably has towers for their own gear. Talk to the right person and you can probably work something out where they give you tower space in exchange for service. I found a retired ham with a 25m tower sitting unused in his back yard. He was happy to see somebody put it to use.
Add in some UPSs and standard mounting gear, outdoor wiring, etc, and you're good to go. Be sure to check local wireless and business regulations.
pfsense on Supermicro 5015A-PHF: $360
8*516v6: $400
Bullet M5 HP: $90
5GHz omni antenna: $100
Netgear GS724T: $280
short-depth wall rack: $50
500VA UPS: $60
mounting gear, wire, surge protectors: $100
Total startup cost: $1440
8*6/1 DSL: $400/month
There you go. At this point I expect somebody to jump in and insist that this ought to be done with thousands of dollars worth of Cisco and Canopy and fiber, etc, just like the big telcos do. All I can say is that there is the text book way of doing things, and then there is the affordable way. For somebody that isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and do their homework, I highly recommend the latter. It works for me, and after less than 6 months in business next week I'll be hooking up my 300th happy customer. No, it's not enough to retire on at this point, but I have great internet, no bill from the local telephone company, and positive cashflow that's growing.
I strongly believe that if more people took this sort of initiative the telco duopolists would be forced to shape up.
Sorry for the late response. It's been an unspeakable couple of weeks here:(
Start your own WISP then. It's easier than you might think. I got sick of the lack of options here (6/1, reasonably reliable, in fact), and now I provide internet to my neighbours, 100% legally. It cost me a couple thousand to get started and some sweat ethic, but I now enjoy a 30/4 connection and my neighbours are good enough to pay the bill for me.
If you don't want to hear of all the wonderful ideas the rest of the world has
Wrong. Compare this quote from the beginning of the summary:
anytime a government promotes ideas on the Internet with the goal of subverting another country's government
with this one at the end:
The Russians, and a lot of other countries such as Iran and China, apparently consider the free exchange of information to be an information technology threat
Two things immediately wrong with this: First, Korotkov, according to the former quote, is opposing the subversion of another government, not the free exchange of information. He's not talking about blogs and Linux isos, he's talking about propaganda. Second, if he posits that the internet should not be a permitted avenue for propaganda, how is this suddenly a threat to information technology? Pure hyperbole.
So demanding of a retort was this troll summary that I haven't even had a chance to read the article yet:(
The Edison2, according to the article, is practical, affordable, and offers real and immediate savings to the consumer. None of the models you listed can make all these same claims.
I don't know if the oil companies will keep the Edison2 off the roads and out of the minds of the consumer, but I am well confident they will try.
The problem is that you were using a MacBook Pro. Apple refuses to allow Adobe to write the Flash player properly for OSX, so an inferior product is a result.
Your argument makes a lot of sense if we ignore the fact that Adobe's flash performs as bad or worse on platforms that are demonstrably more open than Windows.
Yes, I get your point and totally agree (except when I'm using voip), but I still have to laugh at Linus's comment. I think he would tell you that if you say you want throughput on your iso download, then the real issue is that you want to have your iso in 20 minutes instead of 3 hours: latency!
If we assume everything that you wrote is 100% true, it still doesn't explain why women are leaving IT. Why did they start in IT in the first place? Why leave now? Are they only recently smarter? Are the men in IT only recently dumber, aspy-typic, sneering, arrogant, closet bully, phallic-compensating, "helpful", sexually inept, leering consumerists?
Your explanation, regardless of how true it may be or not, might make a better argument in a discussion for the reason that there are fewer women in IT in the first place.
Just buy two for your children or your technologically challenged family members and let them have their fun while you keep using the devices that suit your own needs.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps the potential for purloining customers from the juicy mainframe market outstrips any misgivings Microsoft may have about open source.
The only misgivings MS ever had about open source is for the potential it has for giving away what it has always charged money for, thus eroding their profit share. I've often wondered why they don't leverage it to their own advantage more, much like the way they appropriated BSD code for much of their networking utilities, like netstat et al.
Public display of these garments is considered VERY taboo in Mormon culture.
Sacrilegious would probably be a more accurate term.
Anyway, anything I've ever read about the scanners (and the images that have been made public from them) indicates that they're looking through the undergarments, not at them. I would assume that's what Chaffetz, like most privacy-concerned indviduals, would be protesting.
How is this smoother?
Sitting on a years-old OS and browser that finally mostly works the way we expect it to vs:
Changing OS: more work and money. Point: IE6
Changing browsers: more work. Point: IE6
Rewriting the app: more work and money. Point: IE6
Setting up and maintaining a vm: more work and money. Point: IE6
If all the workstations are running XP, what incentive is there to update that app?
If running a new OS is your only reason to update your internal app, then why would you bother to do either?
No matter how much Winxp or IE6 suck, some organisations are comfortable with it, so what else is there?
...a compatibility module that would let them use a NEW browser with their old applications...It would seem like the smoothest way to get over this problem.
As long as IE6 and Winxp are still in support, how is your suggestion smoother than just cruising along with status quo?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not condoning the choice, but it's not hard to see why some people and organisations are reluctant to get on the treadmill.
You gotta upgrade sometime, people.
My brother is the HVAC chief for one of Canada's larger cities, and he recently purchased Windows 98 on ebay because it is required to run the climate controls in city hall.
Yeah, sooner or later they'll have to upgrade, but if you think IE6 is going to magically vanish tomorrow or even in a couple years when support officially runs out, prepare for a shock.
Parent should be modded insightful, not funny (although this story packs its share of irony). The E^3 strategy was very much behind IE6's idiosyncrasies, and after all these years it has proven quite effective against competing products, including those put forward by Microsoft itself. Where are the defectivebydesign and lockin tags?
"If part of the internet has a problem, should the President have the authority to stop it?"
If the poll question was in fact worded so poorly as this, then I might argue that the pollsters are part of the so-called propaganda machine. I might even go so far as to say that net-security.org is playing its part by reporting the results of a poll without reporting the details of the actual poll.
Nay, but most Americans have no idea about computers, let alone computer security.
This is not a question of computers or security so much as it is a question of the freedom of information, communication, expression and speech. Perhaps the propaganda machine has convinced the American public otherwise.
You have to understand that "first beta" is Microsoft's code word for service pack 1.
DSL here has as good a record as fiber for uptime. Find a provider that will do mlppp and doesn't prevent you from reselling. TekSavvy is a good choice in Canada. They support up to 8 bundled 6/1 connections at ~$50 apiece (dry loop).
Next you need a bunch of modems, a router that will do mlppp and probably a vlan switch. I like the ST 516v6, pfsense 2.0 and the Netgear GS724T.
For distribution you'll need wireless gear and a tower. Ubiquiti Airmax is tough to beat for the price. I use the Bullet M5 HP because it's good to -40 (did I mention I'm in Canada?). Your local municipal government probably has towers for their own gear. Talk to the right person and you can probably work something out where they give you tower space in exchange for service. I found a retired ham with a 25m tower sitting unused in his back yard. He was happy to see somebody put it to use.
Add in some UPSs and standard mounting gear, outdoor wiring, etc, and you're good to go. Be sure to check local wireless and business regulations.
Total startup cost: $1440
8*6/1 DSL: $400/month
There you go. At this point I expect somebody to jump in and insist that this ought to be done with thousands of dollars worth of Cisco and Canopy and fiber, etc, just like the big telcos do. All I can say is that there is the text book way of doing things, and then there is the affordable way. For somebody that isn't afraid to roll up their sleeves and do their homework, I highly recommend the latter. It works for me, and after less than 6 months in business next week I'll be hooking up my 300th happy customer. No, it's not enough to retire on at this point, but I have great internet, no bill from the local telephone company, and positive cashflow that's growing.
I strongly believe that if more people took this sort of initiative the telco duopolists would be forced to shape up.
Sorry for the late response. It's been an unspeakable couple of weeks here :(
Start your own WISP then. It's easier than you might think. I got sick of the lack of options here (6/1, reasonably reliable, in fact), and now I provide internet to my neighbours, 100% legally. It cost me a couple thousand to get started and some sweat ethic, but I now enjoy a 30/4 connection and my neighbours are good enough to pay the bill for me.
If you don't want to hear of all the wonderful ideas the rest of the world has
Wrong. Compare this quote from the beginning of the summary:
anytime a government promotes ideas on the Internet with the goal of subverting another country's government
with this one at the end:
The Russians, and a lot of other countries such as Iran and China, apparently consider the free exchange of information to be an information technology threat
Two things immediately wrong with this: First, Korotkov, according to the former quote, is opposing the subversion of another government, not the free exchange of information. He's not talking about blogs and Linux isos, he's talking about propaganda. Second, if he posits that the internet should not be a permitted avenue for propaganda, how is this suddenly a threat to information technology? Pure hyperbole.
So demanding of a retort was this troll summary that I haven't even had a chance to read the article yet :(
Is there a difference any more?
The Edison2, according to the article, is practical, affordable, and offers real and immediate savings to the consumer. None of the models you listed can make all these same claims.
I don't know if the oil companies will keep the Edison2 off the roads and out of the minds of the consumer, but I am well confident they will try.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3767/media-streamer-platforms-roundup/5 You can read a decent (although aging) round-up of your options there, or just go buy the O!Play. It plays anything that matters.
Not so fast! I have a patent on that.
If you don't know you haven't lived. http://www.canadianfavourites.com/Quaker_Muffets_p/quaker005.htm
Sadly, your comment is much more insightful than funny.
Doh! s/patron/patrons/
That would be redundant, seeing how they've already outsourced that to the pirate bay and its patron with zero cost to themselves.
Where I'm from they're called Video Lottery Terminals and they make the government billions every year.
The problem is that you were using a MacBook Pro. Apple refuses to allow Adobe to write the Flash player properly for OSX, so an inferior product is a result.
Your argument makes a lot of sense if we ignore the fact that Adobe's flash performs as bad or worse on platforms that are demonstrably more open than Windows.
Yes, I get your point and totally agree (except when I'm using voip), but I still have to laugh at Linus's comment. I think he would tell you that if you say you want throughput on your iso download, then the real issue is that you want to have your iso in 20 minutes instead of 3 hours: latency!
If we assume everything that you wrote is 100% true, it still doesn't explain why women are leaving IT. Why did they start in IT in the first place? Why leave now? Are they only recently smarter? Are the men in IT only recently dumber, aspy-typic, sneering, arrogant, closet bully, phallic-compensating, "helpful", sexually inept, leering consumerists?
Your explanation, regardless of how true it may be or not, might make a better argument in a discussion for the reason that there are fewer women in IT in the first place.
Just buy two for your children or your technologically challenged family members and let them have their fun while you keep using the devices that suit your own needs.
Fixed that for you.