That's not true any more. Most of the infections we have to address at work are coming through the ad networks. A harmless site spinning content from a company that puts up anything where a check clears. Local radio stations are the worst with a little player surrounded by ads from various providers.
The thing I like about the Kindle is that it's software as well as the hardware device. I have a Kindle app on my phone, desktop, laptop, and tablet, but no hardware from Amazon.
I think they're more interested in the part where you can press a button and buy the book from Amazon and keep your bookmarks and annotations.
Taking your position that the patent's only value is to defend against or attack Microsoft (which I think is a massive oversimplificaiton), there are three states.
Google wins the patents alone (and Google is safe from them and use them leverage) Google bids with the pool (and Google is safe from them but can't use them against the pool members) Google loses the patents (and Google is vulnerable if they infringe them)
Google is protected in 2 of the 3, vulnerable in other. So unless they wanted them for agressive purposes, they should have gone with the pool as it's the lowest cost option. Or won the patents alone, but not lose and then complain about how unfair it all is for them.
Seriously? The general counsel of the company shows you the e-mail he sent to Google inviting them to bid and you want to deny it with a wave of your hand? When they only showed it after Google tried to claim they got screwed when they bid alone?
The whole point of buying the patents was to prevent them from being used against them. They offered for Google to join in and lower the cost for everyone. Google said no and now wants to complain about how unfair it is for them.
Google is wrong here. It happens. We can't lose the ability to critically evaluate Google's actions because we want them to be good.
Where is this sharp increase in Macintosh market share? The latest report (covered here earlier today) puts the Mac at 5.59% compared to 88.29% for Windows. I'd agree that Mac's expensive offerings are still selling well, and Apple is making a lot of money, but not that they're making great increases in market share on the desktop. The iPhone and iPad are their money makers.
Typically your volume license only covers machines that ship with Windows. You can run your enteripse edition on a machine that shipped with home edition, and you're entitled to future versions, but it had to come with something.
Maybe Google is a threat to Microsoft's enterprise operations, but not Apple. The biggest reason is that they don't want to be there. They've discontinued their rack mount hardware and their server is just an add-on for the Mac Mini. Their AD integration and SMB support is horrible, so you can't just drop them into an existing infrastructure as a 1:1 replacement. We do it where I work with some add-on software that makes it so our Macs can work and share files with the windows computers.
Apple could easily fix all of these things, but for whatever reason, they haven't. They're making boatloads of money in the consumer space, and seem happy with that. Google would like to eat some of Microsoft's enterprise lunch, but their products just aren't there yet.
The difference is that most people don't know they can do it or just won't put in the effort to set it up. Now, it's install a free iPad app from the AppStore I already use and connect to the home WiFi I'm already using.
It's like how USENET is the biggest channel for illegal programs and media, but most people don't know how to use it. So it flies under the radar.
I've seen people who got infected from an e-mail, with a password protected zip file. They had to copy the file, open it, enter the password, then run the file in there, then click through UAC, then got infected.
There is no level of technical protection that can protect that user.
It isn't a valid strategy for Windows Servers either. Rebooting is a lazy fix for any platform. It *may* make the problem go away, but you have no clue why. Often you can find the crappy program that's causing the problem and kill it or fix it and no reboot is necessary. It takes longer, but only once. Restarting a service is way faster than rebooting and you don't have this mystery problem hanging over the box.
I have more than 100 Windows Severs under management and other than patches we don't reboot them. We have some poorly written software that we script to shut down every night, but we're restarting that bad app, not the box.
As linux starts to pick up steam, the same crappy admins who make windows look worse than it is are bringing their poor skills into the *nix realm.
Games are a big deal on smartphones right now and this device has the (on paper) ability to do them better than anyone else.
I also support corporate Blackberry users and the ability to open and edit office documents is a freqent request. I'm not sure I'm going to be interested in that, but Exchange sync to a mobile implementation of Outlook is a big draw.
I'm just not sure that because it isn't right for you, it isn't right for anyone.
Except that most people don't have a smartphone. That's the untapped market, people who will get a smartphone as their next phone, not converting iPhone or Android owners.
As far as having nothing new, for the home market xbox live is new and for business true office integration is new.
They killed the Kin long before it launched, they just had to put out something to fullfill their contract with Verizon. Otherwise, I don't think it would have ever left the campus. They already stole all the good parts for the Windows 7 Phone.
Because of this we have enabled inPrivate filtering for IE8 via group policy (not the same as inPrivate browsing). It's an effective ad blocking tool. I hate that we have to block the revenue sources of the pages we visit, but when they're being used to deliver malware, I don't see an alternative.
No one finds it funny that this milestone of the rise of social networking is that facebook surpassed google. Did they not read the next line where before google MySpace was the top site?
I had to install it to both of mine. I'd be curious as to how many of the banned consoled shipped with the NXE and if that has any impact on whether the feature no longer works.
When I get home I'll pull the network cable and see if you need to be on live to install to HD. I can't find any video demos where they aren't loged in before the do the install) It may still be tied to XBL and subject to the TOS.
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That's not true any more. Most of the infections we have to address at work are coming through the ad networks. A harmless site spinning content from a company that puts up anything where a check clears. Local radio stations are the worst with a little player surrounded by ads from various providers.
So city traffic management is stuck in the 80s?
The thing I like about the Kindle is that it's software as well as the hardware device. I have a Kindle app on my phone, desktop, laptop, and tablet, but no hardware from Amazon.
I think they're more interested in the part where you can press a button and buy the book from Amazon and keep your bookmarks and annotations.
You need to read your own link. That survey was a hoax.
If they're of no value, then why did Google bid for them independently?
Taking your position that the patent's only value is to defend against or attack Microsoft (which I think is a massive oversimplificaiton), there are three states.
Google wins the patents alone (and Google is safe from them and use them leverage)
Google bids with the pool (and Google is safe from them but can't use them against the pool members)
Google loses the patents (and Google is vulnerable if they infringe them)
Google is protected in 2 of the 3, vulnerable in other. So unless they wanted them for agressive purposes, they should have gone with the pool as it's the lowest cost option. Or won the patents alone, but not lose and then complain about how unfair it all is for them.
Seriously? The general counsel of the company shows you the e-mail he sent to Google inviting them to bid and you want to deny it with a wave of your hand? When they only showed it after Google tried to claim they got screwed when they bid alone?
The whole point of buying the patents was to prevent them from being used against them. They offered for Google to join in and lower the cost for everyone. Google said no and now wants to complain about how unfair it is for them.
Google is wrong here. It happens. We can't lose the ability to critically evaluate Google's actions because we want them to be good.
Where is this sharp increase in Macintosh market share? The latest report (covered here earlier today) puts the Mac at 5.59% compared to 88.29% for Windows. I'd agree that Mac's expensive offerings are still selling well, and Apple is making a lot of money, but not that they're making great increases in market share on the desktop. The iPhone and iPad are their money makers.
Typically your volume license only covers machines that ship with Windows. You can run your enteripse edition on a machine that shipped with home edition, and you're entitled to future versions, but it had to come with something.
Maybe Google is a threat to Microsoft's enterprise operations, but not Apple. The biggest reason is that they don't want to be there. They've discontinued their rack mount hardware and their server is just an add-on for the Mac Mini. Their AD integration and SMB support is horrible, so you can't just drop them into an existing infrastructure as a 1:1 replacement. We do it where I work with some add-on software that makes it so our Macs can work and share files with the windows computers.
Apple could easily fix all of these things, but for whatever reason, they haven't. They're making boatloads of money in the consumer space, and seem happy with that. Google would like to eat some of Microsoft's enterprise lunch, but their products just aren't there yet.
Thanks for posting the link to http://www.google.com/reviews/t, I couldn't get block to appear even after logging in. Bye-bye experts exchange!
The difference is that most people don't know they can do it or just won't put in the effort to set it up. Now, it's install a free iPad app from the AppStore I already use and connect to the home WiFi I'm already using.
It's like how USENET is the biggest channel for illegal programs and media, but most people don't know how to use it. So it flies under the radar.
I've seen people who got infected from an e-mail, with a password protected zip file. They had to copy the file, open it, enter the password, then run the file in there, then click through UAC, then got infected.
There is no level of technical protection that can protect that user.
A lot of the bots encrypt their communications, so the ISP will just see an SSL connection to a web server.
Sometimes the IP or domain used for C&C is known and some ISP's will block them.
There are problems in how they recruited students, so the skills of the students who finish are in question? How does one lead to the other?
It isn't a valid strategy for Windows Servers either. Rebooting is a lazy fix for any platform. It *may* make the problem go away, but you have no clue why. Often you can find the crappy program that's causing the problem and kill it or fix it and no reboot is necessary. It takes longer, but only once. Restarting a service is way faster than rebooting and you don't have this mystery problem hanging over the box.
I have more than 100 Windows Severs under management and other than patches we don't reboot them. We have some poorly written software that we script to shut down every night, but we're restarting that bad app, not the box.
As linux starts to pick up steam, the same crappy admins who make windows look worse than it is are bringing their poor skills into the *nix realm.
Games are a big deal on smartphones right now and this device has the (on paper) ability to do them better than anyone else.
I also support corporate Blackberry users and the ability to open and edit office documents is a freqent request. I'm not sure I'm going to be interested in that, but Exchange sync to a mobile implementation of Outlook is a big draw.
I'm just not sure that because it isn't right for you, it isn't right for anyone.
Except that most people don't have a smartphone. That's the untapped market, people who will get a smartphone as their next phone, not converting iPhone or Android owners.
As far as having nothing new, for the home market xbox live is new and for business true office integration is new.
See, I thought it was funny and didn't think about it again. Whether it was true or not didn't really matter. Still doesn't today.
He was even dumber than that, his corp was under a wardec.
They killed the Kin long before it launched, they just had to put out something to fullfill their contract with Verizon. Otherwise, I don't think it would have ever left the campus. They already stole all the good parts for the Windows 7 Phone.
Link or it didn't happen.
Because of this we have enabled inPrivate filtering for IE8 via group policy (not the same as inPrivate browsing). It's an effective ad blocking tool. I hate that we have to block the revenue sources of the pages we visit, but when they're being used to deliver malware, I don't see an alternative.
No one finds it funny that this milestone of the rise of social networking is that facebook surpassed google. Did they not read the next line where before google MySpace was the top site?
Social Site - Search Engine - Social Site
I had to install it to both of mine. I'd be curious as to how many of the banned consoled shipped with the NXE and if that has any impact on whether the feature no longer works.
When I get home I'll pull the network cable and see if you need to be on live to install to HD. I can't find any video demos where they aren't loged in before the do the install) It may still be tied to XBL and subject to the TOS.