So he can compare the logistics of deploying software on the desktop to that on the internet and pretend that Amazon can outship MS simply because the software only has to run on a few servers? Congratulations on pointing out the obvious.
My company was bought recently, and is in the process of becoming a C# VisualStudio shop. I said thanks, but no thanks and left. Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay? Probably the result of reading slashdot for too long. The hatred for Microsoft here is amusing and pervasive. Microsoft is the primary platform that most businesses worth dealing with are using, and that's why all the companies I've worked at embrace Microsoft fully and completely. Our clients are happy and we make money. It's a win-win for everyone.
I admire his courage in all of this, but it's not something reasonable--the expectation that you can get on a plane without ID (although if they are't going to do anything with that ID pre-flight it is indeed a total waste of time).
The english language and american culture already permeats the world view. If you don't like it, bring something better to the table. I'm not even American, but English is my native language, and it's the best. If the French want their language extended beyond their borders to a greater degree they can create frog.google.com.
While I'm at it, I think the american culture is one of the best too - actually not American per se, but western industrial culture. Apparently most of the world agrees with me, since people from all walks of life are striving to model it.
The french should spend more time dealing with their 12% national unemployment rate and less time worrying about the dissemination of good, helpful knowledge.
It's a reasonable assumption that pumping an atmostphere full of greenhouse gasses is going to cause global warming. Whether or not we currently are experiencing the results of this warming may be hard to say, but I would have to question the intelligence/motives of someone who said that doing this is not dangerous.
Yes, it's a resonable assumption if you're not lazy or living in a fantasy world. Unfortunately a lot of people are. We DO need hard data. I know that humans influence the environment. You do, but a lot of people deny it. They will look for any dissenting piece of evidence to prove that "our scientists just don't know enough yet". And then of those who do believe it's "a bit of a problem" they've all faith in scientists to fix it.
The fact is agent smith was right in the matrix, and humans are a virus on the planet. Wanton consumption knows no boundaries, and a few well proven psychological phenomena (like the tragedy of the commons) indicate to me that we're more or less screwed.
Already there are transmitters attached to some people on parole around their ankles. This merely increases the range and potential capabilities. What's there not to like? You don't like it; you serve your time in jail.
Charter's cable internet right now has a 2 X 128 kbps unlimited download from the news server they're outsourcing too. That's not fast, but it is free with charter, and reliability/retention/completion are not bad at all.
This is the natural course of technology. As it gains in power and people are able to do more with data and tracking, plus the national infatuation with terrorism, we'll see more things like this. I'm not particularly opposed to it, because it's rather impossible to fight, long term.
Eventually we'll have a DNA database for everybody as well. It seems mostly abhorant now, but in time opposition will wane.
That's what I want to know as well. I've been hearing about distributing load to different cells every since the first PS3 announcements, but even on a broadband connection with _unlimited_ bandwidth you've still got a latency issue to deal with. Electricity can only travel so far. Certainly for something like a big spreadsheet calculation one expects a delay, but clearly on something like a video game one cannot wait for distributed CPUs to render a frame:)
It's a free service and people are whining that it doesn't cater to the lowliest, least popular browsers out there. Opera? Who cares! Hardly anybody uses it. If you don't like IE, then you don't have to use it, but don't complain when a company can't be bothered to tailer a site to a feature-sparse browser that four people on the planet use.
All of this fandom is merely encouraging poor performance. It's almost universally agreed that Enterprise is the worst of the lot, but diehard trekies can't do without at least one star trek line still in production. Well, the sooner we can put this horse down the sooner we can train another, hopefully better horse - though if history is any determinant of the future it would be consistent if the next star trek effort is in fact worse than this one; they seem to have gotten worse after TNG.
In the near future this is a silly pipe dream. Besides the fact that a new $100 laptop would be made with parts so cheap Pontiac wouldn't even use them (thus introducing a spectacularly unreliable machine into an atmosphere that demands above-average reliability), it simply cannot be done.
Next thing we know this thing will use Cell cpus and a glaze 3D video card.
"first version of the chip will run at speeds faster than 4GHz. Engineers were vague on how much faster, but reports from design partners say 4.6GHz is likely. By comparison, the fastest current Pentium PC processor tops out at 3.8GHz." Who else is tired of this poor reporting technique, in which a reporter compares future technology to current? It would be like AMD saying they have a new CPU coming out that hits 10 ghz, compared to Intel's current 3.8. Oh, but wait it won't be out for four years.
This is sensationalist nonsense, trying to invoke awe at what a miracle IBM has performed, blowing out of the water AMD and Intel.
I heard that the PS3 will have 5000 of these and they can actually fly and make you psychic.
To the continued chagrin of those who've got nothing better to do than tinker with an unpolished, low-functioning OS, the rest of the world would rather _pay_ to have something worth using. Fact is even with Linux and non-MS OSes being free people still don't want to use them. And while their "ignorance" is the dismissive reason used here, the reality of it is that you get what you pay for.
In regards to interoperability he's quite right. How well does Biztalk 2004 server run on Redhat? MS has a more polished OS with far more software and server packages available, and support known the industry wide for smacking down any competitor.
Probably. In any case I'd heard the exact same thing FIVE years ago, when I first tried Linux then as a desktop OS. It was garbage then as a desktop OS for the average person, and is now too. FIVE years - at least - we've heard this same nonsense. The fact is that nothing on the horizon shows that Linux will ever be a good gaming OS. Not until it represents a large portion of the market will publishers bother coding towards the Linux base, and as geeky as some of the people are here they have to admit that in terms of usability Linux is about 1/15 as usable as what Windows has to offer, which is why people continue to support windows...just as they did five years ago, and just as they will five years from now.
Biometrics are obviously the answer, but - and I'm not being facetious - in the future when we've got an increasing command on cloning it's not beyond the realm of possibility that somebody could grow a finger or an eye to get around some authentication.
As bad as passwords supposedly are in this article, everybody uses them and you pretty well never hear about people's security being subverted (where the authentication was the weakpoint).
Limit attempts to three...this makes a brute force attack essentially impossible.
And in regards to people posting their passwords on a piece of paper on their desk, well you can't anticipate all levels of stupidity; If the gatekeeper is making free copies of keys for people he shouldn't be working in that position. It's hard to protect people from themselves and the only way to truly do it is to not allow access to anything.
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So he can compare the logistics of deploying software on the desktop to that on the internet and pretend that Amazon can outship MS simply because the software only has to run on a few servers? Congratulations on pointing out the obvious.
My company was bought recently, and is in the process of becoming a C# VisualStudio shop. I said thanks, but no thanks and left. Am I a fool for giving up steady work and good pay? Probably the result of reading slashdot for too long. The hatred for Microsoft here is amusing and pervasive. Microsoft is the primary platform that most businesses worth dealing with are using, and that's why all the companies I've worked at embrace Microsoft fully and completely. Our clients are happy and we make money. It's a win-win for everyone.
I admire his courage in all of this, but it's not something reasonable--the expectation that you can get on a plane without ID (although if they are't going to do anything with that ID pre-flight it is indeed a total waste of time).
He's onto something :) I am rather tired of reading the lazy ponderings of idiots.
Wouldn't surprise me at all. I go with Canon because they have incredibly cheap cartriges (and refill kits are junk).
What else doesn't surprise me is that somebody was so bored with life as to make a lawsuit like this.
The english language and american culture already permeats the world view. If you don't like it, bring something better to the table. I'm not even American, but English is my native language, and it's the best. If the French want their language extended beyond their borders to a greater degree they can create frog.google.com.
While I'm at it, I think the american culture is one of the best too - actually not American per se, but western industrial culture. Apparently most of the world agrees with me, since people from all walks of life are striving to model it.
The french should spend more time dealing with their 12% national unemployment rate and less time worrying about the dissemination of good, helpful knowledge.
It's a reasonable assumption that pumping an atmostphere full of greenhouse gasses is going to cause global warming. Whether or not we currently are experiencing the results of this warming may be hard to say, but I would have to question the intelligence/motives of someone who said that doing this is not dangerous.
Yes, it's a resonable assumption if you're not lazy or living in a fantasy world. Unfortunately a lot of people are. We DO need hard data. I know that humans influence the environment. You do, but a lot of people deny it. They will look for any dissenting piece of evidence to prove that "our scientists just don't know enough yet". And then of those who do believe it's "a bit of a problem" they've all faith in scientists to fix it.
The fact is agent smith was right in the matrix, and humans are a virus on the planet. Wanton consumption knows no boundaries, and a few well proven psychological phenomena (like the tragedy of the commons) indicate to me that we're more or less screwed.
I've been thinking of doing this for years. The dude got totally owned by that camera!
Already there are transmitters attached to some people on parole around their ankles. This merely increases the range and potential capabilities. What's there not to like? You don't like it; you serve your time in jail.
Charter's cable internet right now has a 2 X 128 kbps unlimited download from the news server they're outsourcing too. That's not fast, but it is free with charter, and reliability/retention/completion are not bad at all.
This is the natural course of technology. As it gains in power and people are able to do more with data and tracking, plus the national infatuation with terrorism, we'll see more things like this. I'm not particularly opposed to it, because it's rather impossible to fight, long term.
Eventually we'll have a DNA database for everybody as well. It seems mostly abhorant now, but in time opposition will wane.
That's what I want to know as well. I've been hearing about distributing load to different cells every since the first PS3 announcements, but even on a broadband connection with _unlimited_ bandwidth you've still got a latency issue to deal with. Electricity can only travel so far. Certainly for something like a big spreadsheet calculation one expects a delay, but clearly on something like a video game one cannot wait for distributed CPUs to render a frame :)
It's a free service and people are whining that it doesn't cater to the lowliest, least popular browsers out there. Opera? Who cares! Hardly anybody uses it. If you don't like IE, then you don't have to use it, but don't complain when a company can't be bothered to tailer a site to a feature-sparse browser that four people on the planet use.
All of this fandom is merely encouraging poor performance. It's almost universally agreed that Enterprise is the worst of the lot, but diehard trekies can't do without at least one star trek line still in production. Well, the sooner we can put this horse down the sooner we can train another, hopefully better horse - though if history is any determinant of the future it would be consistent if the next star trek effort is in fact worse than this one; they seem to have gotten worse after TNG.
In the near future this is a silly pipe dream. Besides the fact that a new $100 laptop would be made with parts so cheap Pontiac wouldn't even use them (thus introducing a spectacularly unreliable machine into an atmosphere that demands above-average reliability), it simply cannot be done. Next thing we know this thing will use Cell cpus and a glaze 3D video card.
"first version of the chip will run at speeds faster than 4GHz. Engineers were vague on how much faster, but reports from design partners say 4.6GHz is likely. By comparison, the fastest current Pentium PC processor tops out at 3.8GHz." Who else is tired of this poor reporting technique, in which a reporter compares future technology to current? It would be like AMD saying they have a new CPU coming out that hits 10 ghz, compared to Intel's current 3.8. Oh, but wait it won't be out for four years. This is sensationalist nonsense, trying to invoke awe at what a miracle IBM has performed, blowing out of the water AMD and Intel. I heard that the PS3 will have 5000 of these and they can actually fly and make you psychic.
To the continued chagrin of those who've got nothing better to do than tinker with an unpolished, low-functioning OS, the rest of the world would rather _pay_ to have something worth using. Fact is even with Linux and non-MS OSes being free people still don't want to use them. And while their "ignorance" is the dismissive reason used here, the reality of it is that you get what you pay for. In regards to interoperability he's quite right. How well does Biztalk 2004 server run on Redhat? MS has a more polished OS with far more software and server packages available, and support known the industry wide for smacking down any competitor.
Probably. In any case I'd heard the exact same thing FIVE years ago, when I first tried Linux then as a desktop OS. It was garbage then as a desktop OS for the average person, and is now too. FIVE years - at least - we've heard this same nonsense. The fact is that nothing on the horizon shows that Linux will ever be a good gaming OS. Not until it represents a large portion of the market will publishers bother coding towards the Linux base, and as geeky as some of the people are here they have to admit that in terms of usability Linux is about 1/15 as usable as what Windows has to offer, which is why people continue to support windows...just as they did five years ago, and just as they will five years from now.
Biometrics are obviously the answer, but - and I'm not being facetious - in the future when we've got an increasing command on cloning it's not beyond the realm of possibility that somebody could grow a finger or an eye to get around some authentication. As bad as passwords supposedly are in this article, everybody uses them and you pretty well never hear about people's security being subverted (where the authentication was the weakpoint). Limit attempts to three...this makes a brute force attack essentially impossible. And in regards to people posting their passwords on a piece of paper on their desk, well you can't anticipate all levels of stupidity; If the gatekeeper is making free copies of keys for people he shouldn't be working in that position. It's hard to protect people from themselves and the only way to truly do it is to not allow access to anything.
A laptop. It will be similarly unupgradeable, and even smaller, after you include the keyboard and mouse you'd need with the mini.