We currentlly have marketing focus at postcode level, the id number will get it down to individual level. I am signed up to no2id and would be prepared to go to jail rather than carry an id card, fortunately there are so many like minded refuseniks that that is unlikely to be tested.
I think it is generally recognised that the recovery cost for a bent platter would be huge.
The environment where this would be useful, e.g. a PC shop is going to have a large bucket of these bent drives.
The bad guy/gal with the mega budget is now going to have to staff the inside of the entire Hamalayas with white boiler suit clad minions to crack all of these on the off chance of finding the data pot of gold, or my facebook login.
The reality of the problem this addresses is the PC shop taking in customer PCs and not having the embarrassment of the customer's identity being cloned in Nigeria where the disk wound up.
Webapp vs cloudapp
They are not the same. I think everything possible will go web technology app, the question is whether the server is in your business or google/ms/amazon/?? host it, which is a decision for each business. Maintaining desktops is an expensive business. Everything accessible through a browser is a very enticing proposition.
I think the answer lies in the "I" in your question.
I believe there are millions of people out there (I teach a bunch of them for free on winter evenings) who only want a browser. They want to browse, email, skype and maybe upload their pictures to a picasa like environment. If they ever need word processing, google docs will be fine, if the connection is down, they'll happily wait. they don't want to think about viruses, malware, blackhats etc etc. They want an appliance, like their kettle or toaster, you switch it on, you use it (straight away).
The boot sequence, the wait while anti virus messes around, and windows updates, are all irrelevant to these people, to these people modern computers are as easy to drive as a Model T Ford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxb5R4rSgxE.
You may quite understandably and reasonably, never use it or have use for it, but for a whole lot of people, this is just what they want.
Total agreement. If you are a business with 3000 + employees with XP on every desktop, where is the motive to retrain those staff? What do you gain? The machines are to a large extent treated as glorified dumb terminals, and their performance is sufficient!. The *only* reason to put a new machine on someone's desk is because the old one has worn out, and it is easier to put a new box with XP on it rather than carry out the most minimal training to convert the user to Win7. It doesn't matter if Win7 is the greatest thing ever, the corporate view is going to be 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. The fact is, they get their job done with XP, more and more in house functionality is moving to intranet, so all you really need is a browser. Of course, if MS can't persuade these corporates to move soon, then *all* inhouse systems will wind up browser based, so IT can then just roll out a linux appliance desktop - booting straight to browser.
Home users, and SMEs may well move to Win7, but global corporates??
I wonder whether Google will develop, or have developed, a cached response mechanism for situations such as this. There would seem little point, during a massive spike, in actually loading the servers with the search element of these queries. I know it's what I would do. why would you not do so? I ask because, as a designer, I would be interested in what the/. ers would think to be the pros and cons of that.
I think that had the internet been around when John Lennon was shot, (it was so 'instant', verifiable and on the street) the spike would have been massive.
At the Sainsbury supermarket in Dartmouth, Devon, near where I live, they have put a wind turbine in the car park 'to power the tills'.
I have never seen it rotate.
At each new store they are doing some faux 'green' initiative, ideally as headline grabbing as possible to gain green cred.
I should be interested to know the balance between electricity produced and the cost of production and laying in of the equipment.
Ignoring the ludicrous US vs EU philosophy in the summary, I still think this is worth noting,
a mate of mine who flew airbus told me once the most common phrase in the cockpit was...
"what the f**k is it doing now?"
"The sponsored links, as everyone knows, are displayed in a separate section from the "organic" links"
Slashdotters may know, but a LOT of people do not recognise the difference, especially when the sponsored links are above the listing rather than to the right...
The interesting thing will be how they 'drape' the streetview imagery over the 3D that they create from the stereoscopic analysis from streetview. A bit like the way the satellite imagery is draped over the terrain in google earth. It will mean that a city fly through will be stunningly realistic, and sort of spooky, as they will then be able to easily completely remove people from the virtual space.
Years ago I built a panoramic, stereographic photography system (spaceshot) and also did a great deal of work with rendering and measuring spaces using stereo images. This leads me to the following theory, which, if Google are NOT doing what I describe here would be pretty damn surprising.
J
from: http://jerrykew.blogspot.com/
If you have a perfect spherical photo of a city, taken at equidistant intervals, then you have the necessary information (think stereo images) to reverse engineer the 3D form of the city.
Google will build a virtual version of every city, and we will click on objects in that 'space' to go to sites. PPC ads will follow in the space, and thus their investment in Google Maps, Earth, Sketchup and Streetview will deliver their returns.
I am sure they will be playing with it now in their labs.
I first encountered Empire on VAX machines, but I believe it was originally written for 16 bit machines in 1972. Home machines? - I guess not.
http://www.langston.com/#OlderP
There was a legend that Admiral Grace Hopper of COBOL fame once asked a japanes person at a conference the way to the bathroom in COBOL. Probably apocryphal, and I have often pondered how it may have been phrased (or parsed!).
I first developed cobol based systems 32 years ago, along the way I was architect and designer of, amongst a number of large systems, DEC's global currency management systems - 40 clusters worldwide operating 365/24, with self healing properties. I built a ton of systems in the interim, though no cobol for 20 years, all the time trying to lose programming altogether from the steps between definition and delivery. I have effectively achieved this (www.2di2d.com), using ubiquitous tools. So, to answer the question posed, yes, there is value in replacing, because 250bn lines of code, whilst robust, ultimately becomes inpenetrable. It must, however, be replaced with something far simpler, more robust and certainly more transparent.
After 32 years in this business, ouch, I have come to the conclusion that the graduate problem is as follows:
At college they are the customer, and the college the supplier, they are presented with a computer and 'patted on the head' when they make it do something complicated. They arrive in the workplace and think it the same, the difference actually is that they are now the supplier (of skill) and the establishment is the customer. The computer is there to help the establishment, and they are there to help the computer help the establishment. They still expect to be patted on the head for making it do something complicated, and don't recognise that they are there to help the business. This is very curable, I usually take them to meet users and introduce them to the concept of empathy, a trait often lacking in IT graduates;-).
The fundamental telco problem is that they were founded on a profit model based on time/distance. You paid more for more time and more for more distance, essentially renting a circuit. IP is modelled on you pay for how fat your pipe (or tube;-) ) is and how much you put through it, and time/distance are completely irrelevant.
No national telco anywhere seems to have come up with a solution to this, so they try to hold back the tide by arbitrary control over IP content.
They make me think of drunks who don't realise the brewery is now shut.
Jerry
I trust that the USA would let its citizens exhaust the legal system before handing them over to another country for trial. That is what he is doing in the UK.
J
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We currentlly have marketing focus at postcode level, the id number will get it down to individual level. I am signed up to no2id and would be prepared to go to jail rather than carry an id card, fortunately there are so many like minded refuseniks that that is unlikely to be tested.
Jerry
I think it is generally recognised that the recovery cost for a bent platter would be huge.
The environment where this would be useful, e.g. a PC shop is going to have a large bucket of these bent drives.
The bad guy/gal with the mega budget is now going to have to staff the inside of the entire Hamalayas with white boiler suit clad minions to crack all of these on the off chance of finding the data pot of gold, or my facebook login.
The reality of the problem this addresses is the PC shop taking in customer PCs and not having the embarrassment of the customer's identity being cloned in Nigeria where the disk wound up.
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."
Howard Aitken, Computer Scientist, (1900-1973)
Webapp vs cloudapp They are not the same. I think everything possible will go web technology app, the question is whether the server is in your business or google/ms/amazon/?? host it, which is a decision for each business. Maintaining desktops is an expensive business. Everything accessible through a browser is a very enticing proposition.
One of the attractions in the 'Crystal Palace' was the 'Alarm Bed' which tipped you out of bed.
I think the answer lies in the "I" in your question.
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I believe there are millions of people out there (I teach a bunch of them for free on winter evenings) who only want a browser. They want to browse, email, skype and maybe upload their pictures to a picasa like environment. If they ever need word processing, google docs will be fine, if the connection is down, they'll happily wait. they don't want to think about viruses, malware, blackhats etc etc. They want an appliance, like their kettle or toaster, you switch it on, you use it (straight away).
The boot sequence, the wait while anti virus messes around, and windows updates, are all irrelevant to these people, to these people modern computers are as easy to drive as a Model T Ford http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxb5R4rSgxE
You may quite understandably and reasonably, never use it or have use for it, but for a whole lot of people, this is just what they want.
I do it all the time,
I add a string key, e.g., AAA_BBB_CCC_DDD..... and alpha index it
To find all the offspring of AAA_BBB_CCC look for like 'AAA_BBB_CCC*'
To find all the siblings of AAA_BBB_CCC look for like 'AAA_BBB_%%%' where % is a single char wildcard.
Total agreement. If you are a business with 3000 + employees with XP on every desktop, where is the motive to retrain those staff? What do you gain? The machines are to a large extent treated as glorified dumb terminals, and their performance is sufficient!. The *only* reason to put a new machine on someone's desk is because the old one has worn out, and it is easier to put a new box with XP on it rather than carry out the most minimal training to convert the user to Win7. It doesn't matter if Win7 is the greatest thing ever, the corporate view is going to be 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. The fact is, they get their job done with XP, more and more in house functionality is moving to intranet, so all you really need is a browser. Of course, if MS can't persuade these corporates to move soon, then *all* inhouse systems will wind up browser based, so IT can then just roll out a linux appliance desktop - booting straight to browser.
Home users, and SMEs may well move to Win7, but global corporates??
I wonder whether Google will develop, or have developed, a cached response mechanism for situations such as this. There would seem little point, during a massive spike, in actually loading the servers with the search element of these queries. I know it's what I would do. why would you not do so? I ask because, as a designer, I would be interested in what the /. ers would think to be the pros and cons of that.
I think that had the internet been around when John Lennon was shot, (it was so 'instant', verifiable and on the street) the spike would have been massive.
Fair comment, you got me there, the water and the solar panels seem like a good plan.
At the Sainsbury supermarket in Dartmouth, Devon, near where I live, they have put a wind turbine in the car park 'to power the tills'. I have never seen it rotate. At each new store they are doing some faux 'green' initiative, ideally as headline grabbing as possible to gain green cred. I should be interested to know the balance between electricity produced and the cost of production and laying in of the equipment.
Ignoring the ludicrous US vs EU philosophy in the summary, I still think this is worth noting, a mate of mine who flew airbus told me once the most common phrase in the cockpit was... "what the f**k is it doing now?"
"The sponsored links, as everyone knows, are displayed in a separate section from the "organic" links"
Slashdotters may know, but a LOT of people do not recognise the difference, especially when the sponsored links are above the listing rather than to the right...
The interesting thing will be how they 'drape' the streetview imagery over the 3D that they create from the stereoscopic analysis from streetview. A bit like the way the satellite imagery is draped over the terrain in google earth.
It will mean that a city fly through will be stunningly realistic, and sort of spooky, as they will then be able to easily completely remove people from the virtual space.
We have double decker buses here in the UK, even taller than the camera height
Years ago I built a panoramic, stereographic photography system (spaceshot) and also did a great deal of work with rendering and measuring spaces using stereo images. This leads me to the following theory, which, if Google are NOT doing what I describe here would be pretty damn surprising. J from: http://jerrykew.blogspot.com/ If you have a perfect spherical photo of a city, taken at equidistant intervals, then you have the necessary information (think stereo images) to reverse engineer the 3D form of the city. Google will build a virtual version of every city, and we will click on objects in that 'space' to go to sites. PPC ads will follow in the space, and thus their investment in Google Maps, Earth, Sketchup and Streetview will deliver their returns. I am sure they will be playing with it now in their labs.
I first encountered Empire on VAX machines, but I believe it was originally written for 16 bit machines in 1972. Home machines? - I guess not. http://www.langston.com/#OlderP
There was a legend that Admiral Grace Hopper of COBOL fame once asked a japanes person at a conference the way to the bathroom in COBOL. Probably apocryphal, and I have often pondered how it may have been phrased (or parsed!).
I first developed cobol based systems 32 years ago, along the way I was architect and designer of, amongst a number of large systems, DEC's global currency management systems - 40 clusters worldwide operating 365/24, with self healing properties. I built a ton of systems in the interim, though no cobol for 20 years, all the time trying to lose programming altogether from the steps between definition and delivery. I have effectively achieved this (www.2di2d.com), using ubiquitous tools. So, to answer the question posed, yes, there is value in replacing, because 250bn lines of code, whilst robust, ultimately becomes inpenetrable. It must, however, be replaced with something far simpler, more robust and certainly more transparent.
3rd option "Hello Dave"
After 32 years in this business, ouch, I have come to the conclusion that the graduate problem is as follows: At college they are the customer, and the college the supplier, they are presented with a computer and 'patted on the head' when they make it do something complicated. They arrive in the workplace and think it the same, the difference actually is that they are now the supplier (of skill) and the establishment is the customer. The computer is there to help the establishment, and they are there to help the computer help the establishment. They still expect to be patted on the head for making it do something complicated, and don't recognise that they are there to help the business. This is very curable, I usually take them to meet users and introduce them to the concept of empathy, a trait often lacking in IT graduates ;-).
The fundamental telco problem is that they were founded on a profit model based on time/distance. You paid more for more time and more for more distance, essentially renting a circuit. IP is modelled on you pay for how fat your pipe (or tube ;-) ) is and how much you put through it, and time/distance are completely irrelevant.
No national telco anywhere seems to have come up with a solution to this, so they try to hold back the tide by arbitrary control over IP content.
They make me think of drunks who don't realise the brewery is now shut.
Jerry
I trust that the USA would let its citizens exhaust the legal system before handing them over to another country for trial. That is what he is doing in the UK. J
Somewhere along the line I think you may have lost your soul.