Yes, Apple's increased support for the Exchange protocol may improve the user experience when dealing with Exchange servers. However, it does nothing to actually free users from Microsoft.
Actually, anyone heard of PostPath? Cisco acquired them a while back and they make what amounts to a hugely scalable 'exchange' back end, thus Snow Leopard + PostPath (actually being called WebEx Mail, now I believe) and then there is no M$ needed.
You forgot to mention Carley's history prior to HP. She did a job on Lucent also. I don't think she every met a company she couldn't fuck up if given the chance.
Sorry. Calling BS on this one.:)
OF COURSE its popular, its 'free' to the recipients, but when you ask the people who are actually forking over the money to pay for it its not so popular in that demographic. You don't fix health care by taxing more out of people, you let the system work like it should. Competition, kill the BS lawsuits which drive up malpractice insurance, kill the BS extended term patents on meds, make the insurance companies not try and bill everyone you ever knew on the planet when you have your teeth cleaned, 'just in case'.
The democrats plan always seems to just boil down to 'Well, so and so wants something for free and the best way to do that is to tax others more'
Thanks, but no thanks. I already pay a decent chunk for my families care, as well as other 'benefits' I will never see in my life time due to the system being broken and people wanting it for free. Fix the real problem, a litigious society and people wanting something for nothing, which I guess amounts to the same thing a lot of the time today.
While I am all for books and paper, at the same time, we don't ride in horse and buggies or rub sticks together either for fire (for the most part). Calling the Internet rubbish is like calling libraries rubbish. Believe me, I have spent a great deal of time in them and there is a whole load of crap on the shelves, as there is a whole load of good knowledge. Just like the Internet you have to pick and choose what is nonsense and what isn't.
You miss the point. Its not about if fee/interest free loans are available or not, its that loan terms do not define a Free Market. A free market is defined and driven by supply and demand, not the day to day terms of cost of money.
Yep, heard of it. FYI its defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury . You may want to read it. It describes the terms of a loan which do not preclude charging interest or fees, but thats not relevant to your premise. Free Market != Usury. Apples and Oranges my boyo.
There are still parts of the spec that cannot be corrected with firware changes. There could still be changes that would necessitate different radios, etc. Not sure why this 'just change the firmware' post was modded to 4 'Insightful.':(
Even if it were a firmware change ask some wireless vendors who only had to change firmware to be compliant with previous standards how well that worked out. Like for example, encryption in hardware, but to be compliant they had ro release a firmware update (but then they had to do it in software and there is a 50% performance penalty)
A number of approaches can use DH. http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06mar/slides/raia rea-1/raiarea-1.ppt The tunneling aspect is not so straight forward with voip since the signalling and bearer channels are not necessarily going to the same place. Another challenge with VoIP encryption is how to deal with non point-to-point streams, ie. conference calls. The device doing the audio/video bridging needs to maintain key pairs with all connected participants which in itself isnt all that bad, but from a users perspective all you know is that you have a secure session to the bridge, you do not know who else the bridge has sessions with and if it is (intentionaly or not) leaking your audio to someplace it shouldnt be.
Ummm, not entirely true. It could still be done. Easiest if the abuser didnt use a forged mac address. But even if they did, then there is still the possability of fingerprinting the host (assuming the open wifi site used such tools) to reduce the possible solution set.
The more I think about it, your argument seems to be based on the assumtion that *nix is somehow _new_. It isn't, it chronology can be found here: http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#05
As to it being perfect, it isn't and I dont think anyone is really expecting such. Windows is far from perfect, but it isn't marketed as such. It is marketed as an OS for the masses. It falls short in many areas, but Joe User isn't expected to know the guts of the OS in order to load a new peice of hardware or load a new app.
As much as it surprises me to say it, Apple has stepped into that void in the last couple years and filled done an admirable job at filling that gap. Have you looked at 10.3 or 10.4 recently?
Over time, the OS is getting better, but folks (especially linux savvy folks such as yourself) don't help things any by standing around and whining that it's not perfect RIGHT NOW.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux and *nix and such, I grew up on them, but that sounds alot like whining. We have the better OS, but we _do not_ have the better desktop user experience overall.
Linux needs more spit and polish to cover the corner cases, which as yet, are large from the perspective of Joe User.
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So sad, but true.. .it's like Purgatory 2.0 :)
Yes, Apple's increased support for the Exchange protocol may improve the user experience when dealing with Exchange servers. However, it does nothing to actually free users from Microsoft.
Actually, anyone heard of PostPath? Cisco acquired them a while back and they make what amounts to a hugely scalable 'exchange' back end, thus Snow Leopard + PostPath (actually being called WebEx Mail, now I believe) and then there is no M$ needed.
You forgot to mention Carley's history prior to HP. She did a job on Lucent also. I don't think she every met a company she couldn't fuck up if given the chance.
Does it run in vmware? :) Does hand written assembly run as well on a virtualized platform? ;)
Sorry. Calling BS on this one. :)
OF COURSE its popular, its 'free' to the recipients, but when you ask the people who are actually forking over the money to pay for it its not so popular in that demographic. You don't fix health care by taxing more out of people, you let the system work like it should. Competition, kill the BS lawsuits which drive up malpractice insurance, kill the BS extended term patents on meds, make the insurance companies not try and bill everyone you ever knew on the planet when you have your teeth cleaned, 'just in case'.
The democrats plan always seems to just boil down to 'Well, so and so wants something for free and the best way to do that is to tax others more'
Thanks, but no thanks. I already pay a decent chunk for my families care, as well as other 'benefits' I will never see in my life time due to the system being broken and people wanting it for free. Fix the real problem, a litigious society and people wanting something for nothing, which I guess amounts to the same thing a lot of the time today.
While I am all for books and paper, at the same time, we don't ride in horse and buggies or rub sticks together either for fire (for the most part). Calling the Internet rubbish is like calling libraries rubbish. Believe me, I have spent a great deal of time in them and there is a whole load of crap on the shelves, as there is a whole load of good knowledge. Just like the Internet you have to pick and choose what is nonsense and what isn't.
Yep. I was going to post the same thing, although C3D actually had a working prototype supposedly.
Hmmm, I don't think I have ever run across anyone who owned a mansion who would be caught dead in a Miata.
You miss the point. Its not about if fee/interest free loans are available or not, its that loan terms do not define a Free Market. A free market is defined and driven by supply and demand, not the day to day terms of cost of money.
Yep, heard of it. FYI its defined at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury . You may want to read it. It describes the terms of a loan which do not preclude charging interest or fees, but thats not relevant to your premise. Free Market != Usury. Apples and Oranges my boyo.
There are still parts of the spec that cannot be corrected with firware changes. There could still be changes that would necessitate different radios, etc. Not sure why this 'just change the firmware' post was modded to 4 'Insightful.' :(
Even if it were a firmware change ask some wireless vendors who only had to change firmware to be compliant with previous standards how well that worked out. Like for example, encryption in hardware, but to be compliant they had ro release a firmware update (but then they had to do it in software and there is a 50% performance penalty)
A number of approaches can use DH. http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06mar/slides/raia rea-1/raiarea-1.ppt The tunneling aspect is not so straight forward with voip since the signalling and bearer channels are not necessarily going to the same place. Another challenge with VoIP encryption is how to deal with non point-to-point streams, ie. conference calls. The device doing the audio/video bridging needs to maintain key pairs with all connected participants which in itself isnt all that bad, but from a users perspective all you know is that you have a secure session to the bridge, you do not know who else the bridge has sessions with and if it is (intentionaly or not) leaking your audio to someplace it shouldnt be.
Ummm, not entirely true. It could still be done. Easiest if the abuser didnt use a forged mac address. But even if they did, then there is still the possability of fingerprinting the host (assuming the open wifi site used such tools) to reduce the possible solution set.
The more I think about it, your argument seems to be based on the assumtion that *nix is somehow _new_. It isn't, it chronology can be found here: http://www.levenez.com/unix/history.html#05 As to it being perfect, it isn't and I dont think anyone is really expecting such. Windows is far from perfect, but it isn't marketed as such. It is marketed as an OS for the masses. It falls short in many areas, but Joe User isn't expected to know the guts of the OS in order to load a new peice of hardware or load a new app. As much as it surprises me to say it, Apple has stepped into that void in the last couple years and filled done an admirable job at filling that gap. Have you looked at 10.3 or 10.4 recently?