Moores law being about transistors aside, I see prices as having reached a relative plateau, where we will see the same prices with just faster, greener, smaller computers. There will always be exception, but tech pushes some hardware off the market before it's time, other hardware items can't keep up, it averages out.
I've used M$ word, and corel, star office, and OO pretty extensively, even taught courses in M$ Office certification, and other that just making documents an eyesore, I still see a reason we can't just use RTF... Course me sending in resumes in RTF might also explain why I can't get a decent job...
Sony's MSRP on the website is 3199, no extended warranty, etc. I was more impressed by the carbon fiber body than the SSD, can always just buy the SSD and throw it in any laptop. Now all i need to do is find a way to get a contract job with that plus wages as my fee.
I've always wondered about relative galactic positioning and time travel... If you travel in time are you anchored to the same galatic spot you started your journey at... Monty said it best....
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown And things seem hard or tough And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft And you feel that you've had quite enough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of a galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars, it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side It bulges in the middle, 16,000 lightyears thick, but out by us it's just 3,000 lightyears wide We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your birth And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space ''cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Number 2 was the killer of most of the projects in the IT shops I've worked for. Too many pointy haired managers more interested in appearances than results... obviously they should have done a better job implementing step 6.
Several arguements where covered, and comments are just rehashing them. Yes, you will have people that sell to both sides, yes prices may get driven up, but it's also going to drive up the number of honest people out there. For every exploit sold to both sides, how many will be discovered by honest people that otherwise wouldn't have invested the time without any returns. So what if an exploit is sold to both sides, better M$ be working on a patch while the blackhats are still making / destributing the explotation system vs. M$ being completely behind and the exploit in place before the patch comes. M$ could even go for something that doesn't really cost them as much, like instead of cash, copies of software. Blackhats aren't going to worry about something they would steal anyway, but many whitehats could put an MSDN subscription to use. It's almost like the old MAFFIA arguement... does it really cost M$ anything if they wouldn't have bought the software anyway, which only leaves them out the cost of the media.
Every time I've ever had to do a setup, SBC DSL, AT&T DSL, TW-RR, anything, I either do it over the phone, or just tell the tech I have to do it for security reasons, and have them walk me through it step by step. They tell you to click start, I open a console. Granted some linux guru's may not have enough windows savy to be able to fake it, but it's not that hard to figure out what they want you to do if you listen. When they expect the CD to autorun, just tell them it's not, feed them a few lines... there's not a company out there that doesn't have a manual option, windows machine or not. So many people are focusing on getting these companies to recognize your altOS, instead of just getting the problem solved. Aside from getting program specific responses, there's nothing you can't mimic in OSX or *nix to fool your average installer or phone tech. Only time i've ever had problems was with onsite installers, and I just gave them a coke and told'em to sit back and enjoy the break on the clock while I do thier job, there were more than cool with it so long as I signed the ticket.
I'm a member of several projects where I look at pictures or videos and classify them or mark them for review to save time and money on research projects. Geek I am, I would love to be able to put up an internet feed and watch live video of one of these things on an pre-defined patrol path, with an option to click a button when I see something going on. Granted there would have to be several safegaurds, A. some serious firewalling and middleware proxies so that the video is the only thing streamed, and when the plane reaches certain areas in it's patrol such as convoys or US bases, international installations, public works the video feed shuts off (basically only allowing public roads, etc). B. you have to create an account, ip based in the US, etc, that would be suspended / banned for mis use. C. All your base are belong to us, etc... Pressing a button for something going on would go to some lowly private, who would then forward it up the chain to someone who has the authority to push the fire button, or put a mark against that user, etc. With that type of human observation, and several thousand of the drones, I could see it making things considerably safer. I understand there would be a substancial cost in a venture like this, not just the drones, but the bandwidth and monitoring the civies using the feeds, but think of the money saved shipping those pine boxes home.
I'm currently a 'network specialist' which from the job title and 2 interviews, translated to assistant network / systems administrator, which offered average pay for this area and that position, and I knew I wouldn't be allowed to make any choices on anything anyway, because of the type of low life my boss is. Come to find out I am THE network / systems administrator, which means, all the responsibility, without the authority to make changes, and extremely low pay for the job. Nothing like being blame for network downtime when your boss over-rules your changes that would have prevented it. Pay's not worth the headache...
Also used to not have much competition. Since Plug'N'Play has come out, seems like everyone and thier son can troubleshoot and fix problems. I've seen ISP's and computer shops offer 7 dollar an hour jobs, and have to sort out dozens or sometimes hundreds of resumes from 'techs'. All these pretenders running around are giving us a bad name. People are getting used to 3rd rate support (thier own fault for not paying for better), but just being a tech isn't what it used to be, too many others to muddy the waters, and the good name.
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Moores law being about transistors aside, I see prices as having reached a relative plateau, where we will see the same prices with just faster, greener, smaller computers. There will always be exception, but tech pushes some hardware off the market before it's time, other hardware items can't keep up, it averages out.
Am I the only one that read "Alfresco" and started thinking italian food?
I've used M$ word, and corel, star office, and OO pretty extensively, even taught courses in M$ Office certification, and other that just making documents an eyesore, I still see a reason we can't just use RTF... Course me sending in resumes in RTF might also explain why I can't get a decent job...
TFA mentioned specific models / features sony put out before mac, stating most people / fanboys would think it was a copy.
Sony's MSRP on the website is 3199, no extended warranty, etc. I was more impressed by the carbon fiber body than the SSD, can always just buy the SSD and throw it in any laptop. Now all i need to do is find a way to get a contract job with that plus wages as my fee.
I've always wondered about relative galactic positioning and time travel... If you travel in time are you anchored to the same galatic spot you started your journey at... Monty said it best....
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown
And things seem hard or tough
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft
And you feel that you've had quite enough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving and revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 90 miles a second, so it's reckoned, the sun that is the source of all our power
The Sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour, of a galaxy we call the Milky Way
Our Galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars, it's a hundred thousand lightyears side to side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 lightyears thick, but out by us it's just 3,000 lightyears wide
We're 30,000 lightyears from galactic central point, we go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions in this amazing and expanding universe
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding, in all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, the speed of light you know, twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when you're feeling very small and insecure how amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space ''cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
Number 2 was the killer of most of the projects in the IT shops I've worked for. Too many pointy haired managers more interested in appearances than results... obviously they should have done a better job implementing step 6.
Several arguements where covered, and comments are just rehashing them. Yes, you will have people that sell to both sides, yes prices may get driven up, but it's also going to drive up the number of honest people out there. For every exploit sold to both sides, how many will be discovered by honest people that otherwise wouldn't have invested the time without any returns. So what if an exploit is sold to both sides, better M$ be working on a patch while the blackhats are still making / destributing the explotation system vs. M$ being completely behind and the exploit in place before the patch comes. M$ could even go for something that doesn't really cost them as much, like instead of cash, copies of software. Blackhats aren't going to worry about something they would steal anyway, but many whitehats could put an MSDN subscription to use. It's almost like the old MAFFIA arguement... does it really cost M$ anything if they wouldn't have bought the software anyway, which only leaves them out the cost of the media.
Every time I've ever had to do a setup, SBC DSL, AT&T DSL, TW-RR, anything, I either do it over the phone, or just tell the tech I have to do it for security reasons, and have them walk me through it step by step. They tell you to click start, I open a console. Granted some linux guru's may not have enough windows savy to be able to fake it, but it's not that hard to figure out what they want you to do if you listen. When they expect the CD to autorun, just tell them it's not, feed them a few lines... there's not a company out there that doesn't have a manual option, windows machine or not. So many people are focusing on getting these companies to recognize your altOS, instead of just getting the problem solved. Aside from getting program specific responses, there's nothing you can't mimic in OSX or *nix to fool your average installer or phone tech. Only time i've ever had problems was with onsite installers, and I just gave them a coke and told'em to sit back and enjoy the break on the clock while I do thier job, there were more than cool with it so long as I signed the ticket.
When I look at a map, and see that the destination is me getting screwed, I don't feel any better about having said map...
I'm a member of several projects where I look at pictures or videos and classify them or mark them for review to save time and money on research projects. Geek I am, I would love to be able to put up an internet feed and watch live video of one of these things on an pre-defined patrol path, with an option to click a button when I see something going on. Granted there would have to be several safegaurds, A. some serious firewalling and middleware proxies so that the video is the only thing streamed, and when the plane reaches certain areas in it's patrol such as convoys or US bases, international installations, public works the video feed shuts off (basically only allowing public roads, etc). B. you have to create an account, ip based in the US, etc, that would be suspended / banned for mis use. C. All your base are belong to us, etc... Pressing a button for something going on would go to some lowly private, who would then forward it up the chain to someone who has the authority to push the fire button, or put a mark against that user, etc. With that type of human observation, and several thousand of the drones, I could see it making things considerably safer. I understand there would be a substancial cost in a venture like this, not just the drones, but the bandwidth and monitoring the civies using the feeds, but think of the money saved shipping those pine boxes home.
I'm currently a 'network specialist' which from the job title and 2 interviews, translated to assistant network / systems administrator, which offered average pay for this area and that position, and I knew I wouldn't be allowed to make any choices on anything anyway, because of the type of low life my boss is. Come to find out I am THE network / systems administrator, which means, all the responsibility, without the authority to make changes, and extremely low pay for the job. Nothing like being blame for network downtime when your boss over-rules your changes that would have prevented it. Pay's not worth the headache...
I recently bought the entire season of firefly, including the never aired episodes from amazon for only 30 bucks. love that series.
Also used to not have much competition. Since Plug'N'Play has come out, seems like everyone and thier son can troubleshoot and fix problems. I've seen ISP's and computer shops offer 7 dollar an hour jobs, and have to sort out dozens or sometimes hundreds of resumes from 'techs'. All these pretenders running around are giving us a bad name. People are getting used to 3rd rate support (thier own fault for not paying for better), but just being a tech isn't what it used to be, too many others to muddy the waters, and the good name.