I think the point of frustration is that a majority of the Internet infrastructure is reliant on the phone companies. The Internet was intended to survive large chunks of networks becoming inoperable and still be able to route data to the intended client. This may have been true then at its inception but I think today that the data bandwidth capacity and demand is so great that if critical access points went down, I think the smaller networks would die from the demand. The type of data being transmitted is alot more diverse too such that re-routing could be an extreme headache for network admins. Enabling the Internet to be truly decentralized from a physical layer point of view I think is the next challenge. We are seeing the great opportunity that Wifi has given us for digital communication ubiquity. If we could gear this concept towards how data is routed, it may also liberate us from the anti-competitive/consumer nature of the phone companies and the monopoly on landlines.
Reminds of the book "The Hot Zone." They describe all the different Ebola incarnations and the original peopls infected by it. One person got it from bat guano while spelunking. Pretty tough shit to go through. You think you have a bad flu, until you start coughing up parts of yourself and your epi/dermis seperates to form a 3rd layer made purely of blood. The bodies literally look like they got slow cooked because the virus just overtakes their flesh.
What I didn't really see mentioned in the comments is Microsoft's whole strategy in buying Claria. They want to use the web user data collected by Claria to combat the huge amounts of web user history data that Google already has.
The problem and the big difference is that Google is in the business of information and have tools that are directly related to this. They get their data by the ads that people click on and the search statistics they generate. Microsoft is going into waters they shouldn't be treading in the first place and have taken a back door to try and get the same data.
My big beef with Microsoft is that they spread themselves too thin in the market and use the brute force of their capital to stay in the game. They don't dare want to see another business in the IT market one-up them. They should stick to developing the OS and maybe then they might provide a better product. Stop trying to be the big dog in everything computers.
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I think the point of frustration is that a majority of the Internet infrastructure is reliant on the phone companies. The Internet was intended to survive large chunks of networks becoming inoperable and still be able to route data to the intended client. This may have been true then at its inception but I think today that the data bandwidth capacity and demand is so great that if critical access points went down, I think the smaller networks would die from the demand. The type of data being transmitted is alot more diverse too such that re-routing could be an extreme headache for network admins. Enabling the Internet to be truly decentralized from a physical layer point of view I think is the next challenge. We are seeing the great opportunity that Wifi has given us for digital communication ubiquity. If we could gear this concept towards how data is routed, it may also liberate us from the anti-competitive/consumer nature of the phone companies and the monopoly on landlines.
Reminds of the book "The Hot Zone." They describe all the different Ebola incarnations and the original peopls infected by it. One person got it from bat guano while spelunking. Pretty tough shit to go through. You think you have a bad flu, until you start coughing up parts of yourself and your epi/dermis seperates to form a 3rd layer made purely of blood. The bodies literally look like they got slow cooked because the virus just overtakes their flesh.
The group bleeding from their ass was considered more important.
The ironic part about it is that I went to the anti-slash site and saw one post. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/1 7/0430208 Dispite making a science joke, Zonk still posts an obviously fake article
And this is actually a real article with real people and events.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4252692.st m
What I didn't really see mentioned in the comments is Microsoft's whole strategy in buying Claria. They want to use the web user data collected by Claria to combat the huge amounts of web user history data that Google already has. The problem and the big difference is that Google is in the business of information and have tools that are directly related to this. They get their data by the ads that people click on and the search statistics they generate. Microsoft is going into waters they shouldn't be treading in the first place and have taken a back door to try and get the same data. My big beef with Microsoft is that they spread themselves too thin in the market and use the brute force of their capital to stay in the game. They don't dare want to see another business in the IT market one-up them. They should stick to developing the OS and maybe then they might provide a better product. Stop trying to be the big dog in everything computers.