Here was this economist lecturing pompously (to) this room full of the country's most accomplished scholars on women's issues in science and engineering, and he kept saying things we had refuted in the first half of the day
The scholarly work was not his. It was that which he says was assembled for the conference. His 'scholarly work' on the subject was summed up in an example he gave about observing his daughter playing with toy trucks as if they were dolls. What a dork.
This is something for the marketing department to handle, not IT. I think that you have to scale back the site and simply provide a low bandwidth message that will send people away even more curious and happy until the demand falls back to something that can be handled.
"Once, my girlfriend happened upon a tree... kind of like the round, thin trees in the game, and began to shake it -- one in-game way of receiving money, goods and bees," Weisberg-Roberts said. "When nothing fell from its branches, I think she quickly realized how this must have looked to the other hundred or so people in the park."
Must have looked about as funny as iPod zombies walking into traffic or people walking around with hands-free mobile phones talking loudly at the air in front of them.
Apple's mighty legal team will not lose this fight. Further, this poor guy is going to the poorhouse after he pays his legal bills when the Apple legal team gets through with him.
They must not be getting anywhere, because they now have to aquire their security apps.
They just want to cash in on the opportunity. Security looks like good business, so why not exploit it? Remember the theory that antivirus software makers were actually making the viruses in the first place? That may not have been true, but it did look like an amazing business model with unlimited revenue potential.
Skype uses 256-bit encryption, so the only easy way to intercept this kind of voice data would be to do it before it is encrypted by bundling Skype in an evil wrapper application like say... KAZAA
I'll bet that Apple will not grace this new product with the exalted mantle of iPod. Remember when Apple created a low-end laptop? They didn't let it share a name with the pro line of PowerBooks, but instead called it the iBook. The iBook eventually came into its own and became a desirable machine even for business users, but that was not Apple's original intent.
Similarly, Apple has looked down its nose at the Flash-based music player market and will probably give their own device a non-iPod name. Something like iFlash maybe.
My beef with the camera/mp3/browser phones is that they are trying to consolidate everything into a single device that...
* Has limited battery life because of it's required small size
* Ends up getting replaced every two years
* Marginalizes the performance of each feature (i.e. lenses)
* Reduces cnosumer choice through bundling features
Often, CD rot is due to poor evacuation of oxygen between the layers of the CD during manufacture. If the O2 is already present, a new coating won't help much.
I would be brave enough to state that a Win2k / WinXP / Win2003 is just as secure as UNIX / FreeBSD / OSX, if: -
* The user using the machine doesn't have admin rights,
* Windows and related networking software is kept up-to-date,
* Doesn't use IE / related mail product.
Long run costs aside (where linux clearly dominates), corporations have to focus on the short run costs both in terms of dollars, time and the mental friction of the admins and especially the user base. Of course there's the cost of replacing software licenses, but the major barrier (economic and cultural) that I see to OS migration in the corporate environment is the retraining of the user base.
People don't like to have change shoved down their throats. They will resist the change and tend to blame all their problems on the new system. You have to make the change palatable in order to get past that resistance as early as possibe. Good training and technical support is essential, but expensive. How many of the MCSE's on staff will welcome their new *nix masters? How many people might simply leave the organization rather that deal with the changes?
The upshot is that the change is not likely to occur all at once. I think that if they are smart they will take a small sample of willing people in non-critical roles, move them to linux and support the heck out of those users. With the positive experiences from a pilot program like this, they can start to create internal popular support for a bigger linux rollout.
Mac OS X is great, but Apple still hasn't positioned itself very well for this corporate environment. I think that Apple's best chance to get on the corporate desktop will come after linux has already made the inroads for *nix. This is good for Mac fans like myself because it will keep Apple from becoming another Microsoft.
...allowing it vibrate between states using only femtowatts of power.
And I thought magnetic shielding was a problem before... Maybe the density of this type of memory will be offset by the shielding required to isolate it. Any thoughts?
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Here was this economist lecturing pompously (to) this room full of the country's most accomplished scholars on women's issues in science and engineering, and he kept saying things we had refuted in the first half of the day
The scholarly work was not his. It was that which he says was assembled for the conference. His 'scholarly work' on the subject was summed up in an example he gave about observing his daughter playing with toy trucks as if they were dolls. What a dork.
This is something for the marketing department to handle, not IT. I think that you have to scale back the site and simply provide a low bandwidth message that will send people away even more curious and happy until the demand falls back to something that can be handled.
...fat and happy and don't need the funding anymore.
"Once, my girlfriend happened upon a tree ... kind of like the round, thin trees in the game, and began to shake it -- one in-game way of receiving money, goods and bees," Weisberg-Roberts said. "When nothing fell from its branches, I think she quickly realized how this must have looked to the other hundred or so people in the park."
Must have looked about as funny as iPod zombies walking into traffic or people walking around with hands-free mobile phones talking loudly at the air in front of them.
Not sure, but I think that Apple is holding off until the release of Core Video with Tiger this year.
Apple's mighty legal team will not lose this fight. Further, this poor guy is going to the poorhouse after he pays his legal bills when the Apple legal team gets through with him.
About 33 minutes in and just after the second crash, Conan provides some filler and gives my favorite quote in the presentation:
... I got so drunk, I woke up with a hooker. Bill got so drunk, he woke up with an Apple computer."
"Last night
Gates in particular derided the license as "Pac Man-like,"
They must not be getting anywhere, because they now have to aquire their security apps.
They just want to cash in on the opportunity. Security looks like good business, so why not exploit it? Remember the theory that antivirus software makers were actually making the viruses in the first place? That may not have been true, but it did look like an amazing business model with unlimited revenue potential.
Yep, fast switching from root user A to root user B. Windows is a major innovator there boy!
Skype uses 256-bit encryption, so the only easy way to intercept this kind of voice data would be to do it before it is encrypted by bundling Skype in an evil wrapper application like say... KAZAA
I'll bet that Apple will not grace this new product with the exalted mantle of iPod. Remember when Apple created a low-end laptop? They didn't let it share a name with the pro line of PowerBooks, but instead called it the iBook. The iBook eventually came into its own and became a desirable machine even for business users, but that was not Apple's original intent.
Similarly, Apple has looked down its nose at the Flash-based music player market and will probably give their own device a non-iPod name. Something like iFlash maybe.
This guy. *snigger*
Boy, they could have picked a better photo.
My beef with the camera/mp3/browser phones is that they are trying to consolidate everything into a single device that...
* Has limited battery life because of it's required small size
* Ends up getting replaced every two years
* Marginalizes the performance of each feature (i.e. lenses)
* Reduces cnosumer choice through bundling features
Often, CD rot is due to poor evacuation of oxygen between the layers of the CD during manufacture. If the O2 is already present, a new coating won't help much.
Somebody else RTFA! I don't want to know how I'm gonna die.
I would be brave enough to state that a Win2k / WinXP / Win2003 is just as secure as UNIX / FreeBSD / OSX, if: -
* The user using the machine doesn't have admin rights,
* Windows and related networking software is kept up-to-date,
* Doesn't use IE / related mail product.
* Doesn't connect to the Internet
Long run costs aside (where linux clearly dominates), corporations have to focus on the short run costs both in terms of dollars, time and the mental friction of the admins and especially the user base. Of course there's the cost of replacing software licenses, but the major barrier (economic and cultural) that I see to OS migration in the corporate environment is the retraining of the user base.
People don't like to have change shoved down their throats. They will resist the change and tend to blame all their problems on the new system. You have to make the change palatable in order to get past that resistance as early as possibe. Good training and technical support is essential, but expensive. How many of the MCSE's on staff will welcome their new *nix masters? How many people might simply leave the organization rather that deal with the changes?
The upshot is that the change is not likely to occur all at once. I think that if they are smart they will take a small sample of willing people in non-critical roles, move them to linux and support the heck out of those users. With the positive experiences from a pilot program like this, they can start to create internal popular support for a bigger linux rollout.
Mac OS X is great, but Apple still hasn't positioned itself very well for this corporate environment. I think that Apple's best chance to get on the corporate desktop will come after linux has already made the inroads for *nix. This is good for Mac fans like myself because it will keep Apple from becoming another Microsoft.
And I thought magnetic shielding was a problem before... Maybe the density of this type of memory will be offset by the shielding required to isolate it. Any thoughts?
The TC chip would be on the motherboard, not on the PPC CPU itself. So it's Apple's decision to include TC or not.
that lightning had become so bad!
*nods agreement*
I'd like a gmail invite, thanks!