In my limited experience with Gartner -- hearing the grackles (product marketing folk) speak about Gartner and how/when they use them -- they are paid fees by firms pushing this or that "message" to makes sales, create buzz, blah, blah...
So, who signs up for this conference? Managers from mostly large (IBM, HP, etc.) firms or random managers from small shops or even a startup? AFAIK, Gartner talks mostly about product in review, not its development process.
If it's already known up front that this is paid-for messaging, then the kool-aid sippers are already fools. The article's "Your Boss" reference sounds like a limited audience.
Sorry, mixed up my facts on this one. Embarrassed to say I majored in astrophysics...
Here's a decent link about life on the HR diagram:
http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeat h/stellardeath_intro.html
Basically, I was talking about the helium flash not a nova. Sun turns to red giant and fusion changes from hydrogen to helium burning. We're dead here, up to 200 times former stellar diameter. But the light show is great!
That starts with a big burp, ends with another big burp -- a planetary nebula. Novae come later, if the leftover white dwarf gets hold of more mass.
Not happening for us.
Still, and I can't find a link, there's this case
where the sun can have a good burp anyway, just a random bad mix of fuel -- think of the randomness of sunspots -- and an outgassing occurs.
Good news: don't have to repay those high interest credit cards...
This is my concern with fusion reactors, control is required to keep anomalies from burning beyond the intended level. Is this any different than fission reactors though? I don't know.
I think we get a "feature" first, like a nova, when there is a collapse of an outer atmospheric layer inward after some fuel exhaustion. Then, a puff of intense burn and expulsion -- the nova. I believe that one would do us in. That usually precedes several other interesting events in the change from normal middle age of a star to old age.
Oh, and some anomalies are such that it could happen tomorrow.
Bruce Cockburn sang:
"When the sun goes nova,
and the world turns over" (in a twang...)
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So, who signs up for this conference? Managers from mostly large (IBM, HP, etc.) firms or random managers from small shops or even a startup? AFAIK, Gartner talks mostly about product in review, not its development process.
If it's already known up front that this is paid-for messaging, then the kool-aid sippers are already fools. The article's "Your Boss" reference sounds like a limited audience.
I suppose they could deliver the content in an ActiveX control, if you've not blocked that already.
Watching cookies accumulate on Firefox under Linux, I'd guess they'd have to be a bit more clever.
A sandbox could be a chroot environment on Linux/UNIX, trouble is network traffic is still going in and out.
Sorry, mixed up my facts on this one. Embarrassed to say I majored in astrophysics... Here's a decent link about life on the HR diagram: http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/space/stellardeat h/stellardeath_intro.html
Basically, I was talking about the helium flash not a nova. Sun turns to red giant and fusion changes from hydrogen to helium burning. We're dead here, up to 200 times former stellar diameter. But the light show is great!
That starts with a big burp, ends with another big burp -- a planetary nebula. Novae come later, if the leftover white dwarf gets hold of more mass.
Not happening for us.
Still, and I can't find a link, there's this case
where the sun can have a good burp anyway, just a random bad mix of fuel -- think of the randomness of sunspots -- and an outgassing occurs.
Good news: don't have to repay those high interest credit cards...
This is my concern with fusion reactors, control is required to keep anomalies from burning beyond the intended level. Is this any different than fission reactors though? I don't know.
I think we get a "feature" first, like a nova, when there is a collapse of an outer atmospheric layer inward after some fuel exhaustion. Then, a puff of intense burn and expulsion -- the nova. I believe that one would do us in. That usually precedes several other interesting events in the change from normal middle age of a star to old age. Oh, and some anomalies are such that it could happen tomorrow. Bruce Cockburn sang: "When the sun goes nova, and the world turns over" (in a twang...)