Do you honestly think I won't be taking my grandparents with me when I leave? Who do you think setup "the intarweb" for those grandparents? They definitely didn't do it themselves!
Oh, don't worry, there will be no caps and unlimited speed for those downloads directly off the tw network. Media distribution will be great once they get that lock in place! Don't mind those pesky commercials, it's just something you deal with, I mean, you didn't think media should be free did you??
I saw this coming the day 9/11 happened. We're all now guilty until proven innocent "in this post 9/11 world". Welcome to AmeriKKKa, home of the rich, land of the have's. Why do it for the children when you can do it "to stop terrorism!!!!".
Just because they standardize, doesn't mean it'll be an OPEN standard. I would guess the answer is "hell no". The cable companies will most likely play nicely with each other, and lock anyone and everyone out that isn't charging a mint for the "privilege" of getting their data.
Not to mention that in 3 years time (or however long the lease is), when the new version roles out, the old version of the software quite conceivably could be worthless. (think turbo tax 2007). If you're going to HAVE to buy new software every 5 years anyways, why not just lease it? Owning it buys you nothing, and actually loses you money (you can always invest that $1million and make interest).
What exactly is it they need to *turn around*. You say that like they're a failing company... Last I checked, profits were up 12% last quarter. Hardly a sinking ship...
If you know you've had the vaccine, and you know you can't get high, and you continue to snort cocaine anyways, you win the darwin award. No amount of medical technology can prevent stupidity. What happens is we all rejoice that he didn't spread his stupidity into our gene pool any further than he may already have done.
Don't get me wrong, the phone and concept look cool, but if it wants to play in the business sector, exchange integration is a must. So... is there any exchange integration currently, or planned?
I'm still waiting them to go all the way and add local photo album support to it. Looks like they're getting there. I really need to be able to organize stuff offline a-la picasa, only with an easy to upload interface. Kind of like the api they added to picasa for smugmug.
Queue the comments about how the first gen xbox was an utter failure and how Sony owned the market and would never be dethroned. Seems to me MS is doing a bang-up job of selling a lot of product into a near-monopolistic market. In all reality, we're one government intervention away from MS being on-par with apple.
The sad part is that people still view apple as the *underdog*. In all reality, their position in the MP3 player market is no different than MS's in the OS market, except they're far more abusive, proprietary, and monopolistic. Why anyone would champion that is beyond me. Let me know when they've opened up itunes to download music from any vendor I choose, and their car jacks etc to be opened and licensed to other players. I don't want an "ipod" jack in my car, I want a universal mp3 player jack.
For 99% of the windows users out there, the second the drive is plugged in, it's going to autorun the virus. Sure, they can format it after that, but it's already too late. So how exactly do you expect them to wipe this drive? Oh, let me guess, consumers should know better than leave the default windows autorun settings *right*.
Good luck finding one. That's part of the problem. At least in my state (MN), you're lucky if you can even find a payphone anymore. If you do find one, the odds it works are nearly 0 as well. Cellphones, at least around here, == death of the payphone.
The rationalization isn't weak though. It is explicitly aimed at private businesses, and it is spot on. No, you don't blockade an interstate to stop bad drivers, but a private parking garage owner is well within his rights to say... deny entry to all ferrari's, because his statistics show these cars are more likely to cause damage, or be a source of lawsuits for his garage. We're talking PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENTS, not public thoroughfares...
Ok Theo. Making administration easier is definitely a *BAD THING*. Who could POSSIBLY want easy to use utilities that can be scripted to scan the system, and then the requisite repo to see if there's any vulnerable packages installed. I should definitely memorize every package on all 250 of the systems I admin to make sure that they're properly patched.
Maybe when you grow up and get a real job you'll understand that manually checking systems is not an acceptable solution. Hard to understand why openbsd doesn't get donations or widespread adoption with attitudes like that!
So have they included any sort of package auditing yet? Something along the lines of portaudit in freebsd? For those of us who don't enjoy upgrading just to upgrade, and don't want to have to monitor mailing lists to see everytime a package has an issue, is there any automated package auditing?
Let me get this straight... polticians are corrupt, so we shouldn't buy cellphones? Am I reading that correctly? Politicians are corrupt... so in response... we punish ourselves by not using a very convenient technology. Are we really that apathetic? Is that what this country has come to?
HOW ABOUT PUNISH THE POLITCIANS!? I'm so sick of people repeatedly voting in incumbents, then whining about how things never change, and they're just all so corrupt. Vote for an independent, hell, write in yourself, but don't whine that you'd just be *wasting a vote*, and continue to support people who are not serving you! Then tell people they should live the life of a hermit to *stick it to the man*. It is NOT the corporations fault that they attempt to maximize profits. That is the job of a public company. Our government allowing them to do so through shady practices is a problem with the GOVERNMENT!
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That's about the time we find out they get kickbacks from the law firms representing the above :D
Do you honestly think I won't be taking my grandparents with me when I leave? Who do you think setup "the intarweb" for those grandparents? They definitely didn't do it themselves!
Oh, don't worry, there will be no caps and unlimited speed for those downloads directly off the tw network. Media distribution will be great once they get that lock in place! Don't mind those pesky commercials, it's just something you deal with, I mean, you didn't think media should be free did you??
I saw this coming the day 9/11 happened. We're all now guilty until proven innocent "in this post 9/11 world". Welcome to AmeriKKKa, home of the rich, land of the have's. Why do it for the children when you can do it "to stop terrorism!!!!".
Just because they standardize, doesn't mean it'll be an OPEN standard. I would guess the answer is "hell no". The cable companies will most likely play nicely with each other, and lock anyone and everyone out that isn't charging a mint for the "privilege" of getting their data.
Not to mention that in 3 years time (or however long the lease is), when the new version roles out, the old version of the software quite conceivably could be worthless. (think turbo tax 2007). If you're going to HAVE to buy new software every 5 years anyways, why not just lease it? Owning it buys you nothing, and actually loses you money (you can always invest that $1million and make interest).
What exactly is it they need to *turn around*. You say that like they're a failing company... Last I checked, profits were up 12% last quarter. Hardly a sinking ship...
If you know you've had the vaccine, and you know you can't get high, and you continue to snort cocaine anyways, you win the darwin award. No amount of medical technology can prevent stupidity. What happens is we all rejoice that he didn't spread his stupidity into our gene pool any further than he may already have done.
Don't get me wrong, the phone and concept look cool, but if it wants to play in the business sector, exchange integration is a must. So... is there any exchange integration currently, or planned?
8Gb FC will be out long before 10Gb ethernet becomes reasonably priced.
I'm still waiting them to go all the way and add local photo album support to it. Looks like they're getting there. I really need to be able to organize stuff offline a-la picasa, only with an easy to upload interface. Kind of like the api they added to picasa for smugmug.
Queue the comments about how the first gen xbox was an utter failure and how Sony owned the market and would never be dethroned. Seems to me MS is doing a bang-up job of selling a lot of product into a near-monopolistic market. In all reality, we're one government intervention away from MS being on-par with apple.
The sad part is that people still view apple as the *underdog*. In all reality, their position in the MP3 player market is no different than MS's in the OS market, except they're far more abusive, proprietary, and monopolistic. Why anyone would champion that is beyond me. Let me know when they've opened up itunes to download music from any vendor I choose, and their car jacks etc to be opened and licensed to other players. I don't want an "ipod" jack in my car, I want a universal mp3 player jack.
It's not open source, it is a private company. If by some act of god this did take off, remind me again what's stopping MS from just buying them up?
I think you underestimate the influence, and ego of Ellison.
I do recall the chinese government... er... a *private* chinese firm wanting to buy seagate. Why not??? What could possibly go wrong?!?
For 99% of the windows users out there, the second the drive is plugged in, it's going to autorun the virus. Sure, they can format it after that, but it's already too late. So how exactly do you expect them to wipe this drive? Oh, let me guess, consumers should know better than leave the default windows autorun settings *right*.
What is there to debate? Impeach already.
I didn't say it was legal, I said the analogy sucked. I gave one more appropriate.
Good luck finding one. That's part of the problem. At least in my state (MN), you're lucky if you can even find a payphone anymore. If you do find one, the odds it works are nearly 0 as well. Cellphones, at least around here, == death of the payphone.
The rationalization isn't weak though. It is explicitly aimed at private businesses, and it is spot on. No, you don't blockade an interstate to stop bad drivers, but a private parking garage owner is well within his rights to say... deny entry to all ferrari's, because his statistics show these cars are more likely to cause damage, or be a source of lawsuits for his garage. We're talking PRIVATE ESTABLISHMENTS, not public thoroughfares...
Ok Theo. Making administration easier is definitely a *BAD THING*. Who could POSSIBLY want easy to use utilities that can be scripted to scan the system, and then the requisite repo to see if there's any vulnerable packages installed. I should definitely memorize every package on all 250 of the systems I admin to make sure that they're properly patched.
Maybe when you grow up and get a real job you'll understand that manually checking systems is not an acceptable solution. Hard to understand why openbsd doesn't get donations or widespread adoption with attitudes like that!
fool me can't get fooled again?
So have they included any sort of package auditing yet? Something along the lines of portaudit in freebsd? For those of us who don't enjoy upgrading just to upgrade, and don't want to have to monitor mailing lists to see everytime a package has an issue, is there any automated package auditing?
Let me get this straight... polticians are corrupt, so we shouldn't buy cellphones? Am I reading that correctly? Politicians are corrupt... so in response... we punish ourselves by not using a very convenient technology. Are we really that apathetic? Is that what this country has come to?
HOW ABOUT PUNISH THE POLITCIANS!? I'm so sick of people repeatedly voting in incumbents, then whining about how things never change, and they're just all so corrupt. Vote for an independent, hell, write in yourself, but don't whine that you'd just be *wasting a vote*, and continue to support people who are not serving you! Then tell people they should live the life of a hermit to *stick it to the man*. It is NOT the corporations fault that they attempt to maximize profits. That is the job of a public company. Our government allowing them to do so through shady practices is a problem with the GOVERNMENT!
stability and enterprise hardware vendor support (by way of RHEL).