That's just it though, with facial recognition, tagging doesn't really matter. They can identify who your friends are, make a quick call and find out who you really are. Are all of your friends going to know not to mention that you are a cop when someone calls up saying they are your buddy from the precinct?
Actually, I do believe a cool down is occurring for a couple reasons. For one, the tablet form factor as currently iterated (emphasis on battery life and light weight) is a new form factor that has not existed before. Previous tablets were laptops with the keyboard chopped off with no advantages to make up for the loss of the keyboard. The only thing even close in function was netbooks and they didn't have the same battery life. Since it is a new form factor, it will have quick adoption among those who are either a)swayed by marketing hype or b) actually have a legit use for the form factor that justifies the purchase. It has run for as long as it has do to supply shortages, but eventually that initial surge of purchasers will wear off and sales will drop to a lower, maintainable pace once the form factor exists in use in the market.
I'm sorry, I'm with you on a fair bit of the post, but what are you using for working on photos or hearing people are using for videos? Everything out there that I have seen thus far (and I've been looking) for photo touch up or video editing is crap. You can't even do good quality encoding of finished video in a timely manner. Tablets simply lack the processing power necessary for anything more than extremely basic photo touch up and putting clips together. Also, fingers don't make ideal tools for touching up photos (though the new Lenovo ThinkPad tablet with the digitizer does look interesting.).
Right, but you can make it so that the client can see two messages that it should only see once and teach it not to trust them in that case. As mentioned in the summary, it says it can detect MItM and possibly prevent it. In most cases it would simply detect and not use. Personally, I'd be curious to see what asymetric cryptography could do to protect against MItM.
It sounds like it was his choice to give up the power based on the recommendation from his friends and co-workers who thought he would keep focusing on it even if he left.
No, it shows that software patents are the equivalent of digital extortion. You have to patent whether you want to or not simply to protect yourself from being sued. It's a business necessity.
The issue comes from the conflict with Palestine. They are concerned about any highly accurate mapping that could be used for targeting attacks. Sure it's a little weird and probably mostly ineffective since my understanding is that the Palestinians lack anything with accurate guidance, but they may fear they will get something in the future. No doubt, they probably made a deal with Google to alter the accuracy of certain landmarks in exchange before giving approval.
You are still missing the point. I am saying that there are times when there are no tasks for me to do. If there is work that needs to be done, I do it. However, as a salaried individual, there is not always work that needs to be done. They keep me around because they want me to be available for them when they need my services. The difference between me and someone at McDonald's is that any old joe could do the job at McDonald's, so if they don't need the job for a few weeks, they fire the worker and hire someone later when they need the man power (or simply not bother with giving someone hours).
Consulting is an option that is available for professional services if it is only needed occasionally, but the same work that I do for about $50 an hour or so (including benefits and such, only about half of that is actual salary) would run closer to $150 or $200 an hour if they were to pay a consultant only when they needed one. Hiring salary workers isn't about how to make money, but how to save it. My skills are valuable to many companies and could fetch a high premium, but I accept a lower wage in exchange for stability and not having to constantly find jobs to do in order to get paid. The times when I'm killing time at work are times when there would be nobody working anyway if I wasn't around and they wouldn't be hiring someone at that time since they have no needs for the position at the time.
The thing about the earlier poster is that he probably is paid to be available. I know currently in my job, there is not a whole lot to be done so I have a lot of free time to kill (believe me I personally would much rather have meaningful work to do or not have to come in. They keep paying me for one simple reason, my services are valuable and they get a good deal on them by keeping me salaried. If I was a consultant, I would cost the company I work for a good 4 times more than I currently do. If they find my services valuable and keep me busy even 1/4 of the time, then they are making out on the deal. In exchange, I don't have to worry about the stress of trying to find work all the time and occasionally may be busy far more than 1/4 of the time. It balances out overall, but the whole idea behind salaried work is that you are paid to retain your skills, not for hours worked.
Perhaps at some point in the future, but currently web technologies are nowhere near mature enough to pull this off. It could be done with a low power native app that ran processing to the cloud in real time perhaps, but nothing like this currently exists or has even been announced as planned. I'm not saying it can't happen in the future, but it is certainly not here yet and it still doesn't address the fact that trying to do certain work requires finer granularity of control than what a touch interface can provide, though the addition of a digitizer pen such as the IBM ThinkPad tablet that is about to come out could work on changing that too. I was only saying that tablets are ill-equipped at this time. If/when the equation changes then things may be different, but for now we simply don't know where things will go in the future. Perhaps better streaming technologies will bring the concept of virtualization to the tablet sector where tablets will simply offload processing to either full powered desktops in the home or in the cloud based on end user's choice. We really don't know at this time.
I actually mean that I could care less what other people think. My valuation of myself comes from what I value, not what others value about me. The only way I care about what someone thinks is if they are close enough to me that I have given their opinion of me value. I am not unaware of what people think of me, but it doesn't define me and if they don't like me and I don't feel that their is justification to what they think myself, it won't bother me. Confidence allows someone to be more reliant on what they think of themselves and less reliant on what others think. This either makes them leaders (people who do what they do for themselves but value others) or arrogant assholes (who tromp through life not caring who they hurt because they see themselves as superior.) No matter how confident you are (atleast in my experience) you still need people close to you that you have to value what they think, but that I let what most people think about me bother me. I consider it, and evaluate for myself if I should change my behavior based on it, but it exert influence beyond my own desire to not be an ass.
Oh, I tried to post this too, but my phone died on me. The way I actually ended up reading your post, I thought you were saying is that if we as a society learned to value ourselves (individually more), then privacy issues would be less common on the sites. I was reading it as a societal thing instead of an individual priority to decision making, but your follow up made it much more clear.
Not sure if that is making a joke or simply trying to over-summarize my post. I don't think I like to talk about myself a lot as I don't post much other than details on contact and hobbies and activities. My facebook gets updated maybe once a month, if that. I just wanted to present an outliers view relevant to the previous posters comment that for people, their confidence actually makes it so privacy isn't a big deal and isn't something to be valued (or the point at which they view things as private may be much more personal as they are more comfortable with their life.)
Personally, based on the study results, my full assessment would be that there is actually a fairly standard distribution of how much people value privacy regardless of self confidence and that a lack of self confidence will make someone more willing to compromise their comfort to seek acceptance. ie, some people are going to post information that others would consider private regardless and at the very high end of confidence this might even be boosted (bloggers for example). Some are not going to be comfortable revealing private details but some of those will feel pressured in to doing it for acceptance. This is something we have known about people with low self confidence for decades. I don't really see it as all that big of a news flash.
Yeah, I was not faulting the study, I was just commenting on the assessment of the previous commenter that if people had confidence they wouldn't have a reason to put their personal information out there. That said I guess we were also kind of talking about different things as he seems to have more issues with spilling a life play by play instead simply exposing personal details. I was also trying to offer a counterpoint to show a rationale of outliers on the edge of the curve even if it is non-standard.
I find this interesting as I subscribe to the exact opposite thought process. I am an extremely confident individual who has almost no feeling of need to justify myself to others. I could care less about what people that I don't care about think of me and I don't really care to be close to people who don't like me (though I do try to be likeable as I don't want to intentionally upset people). I could care less what people know about me and have no issue with info about me being public information. I'd rather the information be out there for people who want to find it than not have it available for people who need to find it. I don't obsess over posting every detail of my life, but I also see no reason to conceal details of my life that I do feel like commenting on.
Agreed, but unfortunately it is reality and exactly why the patent office has no interest in changing it. They rake in patent fees and profit off the arms race.
No you can't, because the point of playing the patent game is a bit like mutually assured destruction. You need to be able to go offensive if someone attacks you and if you "open source" the patents as you suggest, then they are unable to do that and lose the entire point of having the patent in the first place. The chances of someone else patenting that particular stupid thing are rare, but the possibility that someone who might want to try trolling you would use that patent are high. That is what makes it an effective defense.
You are certainly not too old to learn new languages. I would recommend you towards languages like C# or Java (C# is my personal favorite) since they are more similar to the languages you know and are more useful towards more powerful coding. The other thing you might want to consider if you don't like being away from code completely and like design would be the possibility of going in to software architecture. It's probably more in line with your experience level and is less dependent on knowing a specific language in detail and more based around coming up with overall system designs to have developers implement. It maintains the technical work while letting you leverage your management experience and also mitigates your lack of coding experience in the most modern languages.
As long as you are familiar with the concept of how to organize code in an object oriented manner, not a whole lot has changed in terms of how code is written at it's most basic level. The only real changes are the shortcuts that have been introduced to simplify implementation.
Part of your problem is also your age. It starts getting really hard to get places to hire you in your mid 50s and up since they don't expect you to have all that long left before retirement age. I know my Dad ran in to that a lot with trying to find another high level accounting job and ended up getting something purely due to networking.
I've also found it makes my driving better and helps me stay alert. A GPS may be distracting when you first get it, but if you are used to it and have it well mounted, it provides great information on what is coming up ahead so you can focus on the traffic around you and not have to split your attention between what is coming up ahead of you (like turns and such) and what is going on around you. It also gives more than one thing to focus on so you can shift focus periodically to avoid losing focus or losing alertness.
For 75% of users I agree, but not for anyone that needs something like photo editing or video editing or a math intensive application. This still makes up a very large number of users and tablets are ill-equipped to meet that demand at this time. That was my point.
In fairness, it probably is also for business purposes of protecting themselves from law suits from someone else patenting it. They have to defend themselves and if they can have more absurd ones and sit on them, then why not? When they start going after people for patent violations, then I will agree they are being evil, but until such a time as they use their patents in an offensive way rather than a defensive way there is no story.
"What we'll probably see is a box on the desktop that has a low-power CPU like an Atom, connects to dual monitors, keyboard, mouse, USB, etc., and runs a minimal network-booted OS which basically serves like an X server for remotely-run applications in the server room. The hardware will be a little different from now, but the UI will be the same."
Yes, this is exactly what we are seeing. Wyse and HP both make quite nice terminals. At my office we have about 50 of the HP ones and are looking to roll out more once the pilot is up and running. They either operate on RDP, VNC, VMWare View (normally with PCoIP) or Citrix. The actual virtual machine is a standard Windows machine in most cases. Tablet UI sucks for day to day business tasks like managing documents and such. I agree with you whole heartedly on that and I actually am quite nervous about the direction MS appears to be going with Windows 8, though I imagine business users will be up in arms if they alter it too badly towards the entertainment tablet feel.
I was never claiming that tablets were going to replace business desktops. I claimed that the PC market share was being eroded by tablets in the retail sector and virtualization in the business sector. Tablets have very limited amounts of usefulness in business, mostly in sales.
"Millions upon millions of office workers use desktop PCs" This is a changing trend that I got in to later in my post when I talked about virtualization of the desktop. The rapidly growing trend in business IT is to move towards using virtual desktops which can be better secured, better backed up and more easily managed while centralizing the investment in IT hardware and avoiding desktop maintenance issues. Basically it's working it's way back to the dumb terminal days where your business desktop can actually run on a server cluster and the box on your desktop is simply an interface for the monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound and USB ports. The number of advantages it brings and the cost savings are quite compelling and will only become more compelling as multi-core processing advances further.
I am in fact an IT professional working in an organization with about 400 employees at two locations and we are working on rolling out this technology now and I know many others who are either investigating or actively trying to roll out the same technology. Desktops are simply more powerful than they need to be for business applications now and it is far easier to be able to simply add more power in to a cluster when you need it and still be able to use the old than it is to constantly throw out old hardware because you need a little more power on the desktop or the poorly treated desktop has worn out.
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That's just it though, with facial recognition, tagging doesn't really matter. They can identify who your friends are, make a quick call and find out who you really are. Are all of your friends going to know not to mention that you are a cop when someone calls up saying they are your buddy from the precinct?
Actually, I do believe a cool down is occurring for a couple reasons. For one, the tablet form factor as currently iterated (emphasis on battery life and light weight) is a new form factor that has not existed before. Previous tablets were laptops with the keyboard chopped off with no advantages to make up for the loss of the keyboard. The only thing even close in function was netbooks and they didn't have the same battery life. Since it is a new form factor, it will have quick adoption among those who are either a)swayed by marketing hype or b) actually have a legit use for the form factor that justifies the purchase. It has run for as long as it has do to supply shortages, but eventually that initial surge of purchasers will wear off and sales will drop to a lower, maintainable pace once the form factor exists in use in the market.
I'm sorry, I'm with you on a fair bit of the post, but what are you using for working on photos or hearing people are using for videos? Everything out there that I have seen thus far (and I've been looking) for photo touch up or video editing is crap. You can't even do good quality encoding of finished video in a timely manner. Tablets simply lack the processing power necessary for anything more than extremely basic photo touch up and putting clips together. Also, fingers don't make ideal tools for touching up photos (though the new Lenovo ThinkPad tablet with the digitizer does look interesting.).
Right, but you can make it so that the client can see two messages that it should only see once and teach it not to trust them in that case. As mentioned in the summary, it says it can detect MItM and possibly prevent it. In most cases it would simply detect and not use. Personally, I'd be curious to see what asymetric cryptography could do to protect against MItM.
It sounds like it was his choice to give up the power based on the recommendation from his friends and co-workers who thought he would keep focusing on it even if he left.
No, it shows that software patents are the equivalent of digital extortion. You have to patent whether you want to or not simply to protect yourself from being sued. It's a business necessity.
The issue comes from the conflict with Palestine. They are concerned about any highly accurate mapping that could be used for targeting attacks. Sure it's a little weird and probably mostly ineffective since my understanding is that the Palestinians lack anything with accurate guidance, but they may fear they will get something in the future. No doubt, they probably made a deal with Google to alter the accuracy of certain landmarks in exchange before giving approval.
You are still missing the point. I am saying that there are times when there are no tasks for me to do. If there is work that needs to be done, I do it. However, as a salaried individual, there is not always work that needs to be done. They keep me around because they want me to be available for them when they need my services. The difference between me and someone at McDonald's is that any old joe could do the job at McDonald's, so if they don't need the job for a few weeks, they fire the worker and hire someone later when they need the man power (or simply not bother with giving someone hours).
Consulting is an option that is available for professional services if it is only needed occasionally, but the same work that I do for about $50 an hour or so (including benefits and such, only about half of that is actual salary) would run closer to $150 or $200 an hour if they were to pay a consultant only when they needed one. Hiring salary workers isn't about how to make money, but how to save it. My skills are valuable to many companies and could fetch a high premium, but I accept a lower wage in exchange for stability and not having to constantly find jobs to do in order to get paid. The times when I'm killing time at work are times when there would be nobody working anyway if I wasn't around and they wouldn't be hiring someone at that time since they have no needs for the position at the time.
The thing about the earlier poster is that he probably is paid to be available. I know currently in my job, there is not a whole lot to be done so I have a lot of free time to kill (believe me I personally would much rather have meaningful work to do or not have to come in. They keep paying me for one simple reason, my services are valuable and they get a good deal on them by keeping me salaried. If I was a consultant, I would cost the company I work for a good 4 times more than I currently do. If they find my services valuable and keep me busy even 1/4 of the time, then they are making out on the deal. In exchange, I don't have to worry about the stress of trying to find work all the time and occasionally may be busy far more than 1/4 of the time. It balances out overall, but the whole idea behind salaried work is that you are paid to retain your skills, not for hours worked.
Perhaps at some point in the future, but currently web technologies are nowhere near mature enough to pull this off. It could be done with a low power native app that ran processing to the cloud in real time perhaps, but nothing like this currently exists or has even been announced as planned. I'm not saying it can't happen in the future, but it is certainly not here yet and it still doesn't address the fact that trying to do certain work requires finer granularity of control than what a touch interface can provide, though the addition of a digitizer pen such as the IBM ThinkPad tablet that is about to come out could work on changing that too. I was only saying that tablets are ill-equipped at this time. If/when the equation changes then things may be different, but for now we simply don't know where things will go in the future. Perhaps better streaming technologies will bring the concept of virtualization to the tablet sector where tablets will simply offload processing to either full powered desktops in the home or in the cloud based on end user's choice. We really don't know at this time.
I actually mean that I could care less what other people think. My valuation of myself comes from what I value, not what others value about me. The only way I care about what someone thinks is if they are close enough to me that I have given their opinion of me value. I am not unaware of what people think of me, but it doesn't define me and if they don't like me and I don't feel that their is justification to what they think myself, it won't bother me. Confidence allows someone to be more reliant on what they think of themselves and less reliant on what others think. This either makes them leaders (people who do what they do for themselves but value others) or arrogant assholes (who tromp through life not caring who they hurt because they see themselves as superior.) No matter how confident you are (atleast in my experience) you still need people close to you that you have to value what they think, but that I let what most people think about me bother me. I consider it, and evaluate for myself if I should change my behavior based on it, but it exert influence beyond my own desire to not be an ass.
Oh, I tried to post this too, but my phone died on me. The way I actually ended up reading your post, I thought you were saying is that if we as a society learned to value ourselves (individually more), then privacy issues would be less common on the sites. I was reading it as a societal thing instead of an individual priority to decision making, but your follow up made it much more clear.
Not sure if that is making a joke or simply trying to over-summarize my post. I don't think I like to talk about myself a lot as I don't post much other than details on contact and hobbies and activities. My facebook gets updated maybe once a month, if that. I just wanted to present an outliers view relevant to the previous posters comment that for people, their confidence actually makes it so privacy isn't a big deal and isn't something to be valued (or the point at which they view things as private may be much more personal as they are more comfortable with their life.)
Personally, based on the study results, my full assessment would be that there is actually a fairly standard distribution of how much people value privacy regardless of self confidence and that a lack of self confidence will make someone more willing to compromise their comfort to seek acceptance. ie, some people are going to post information that others would consider private regardless and at the very high end of confidence this might even be boosted (bloggers for example). Some are not going to be comfortable revealing private details but some of those will feel pressured in to doing it for acceptance. This is something we have known about people with low self confidence for decades. I don't really see it as all that big of a news flash.
Yeah, I was not faulting the study, I was just commenting on the assessment of the previous commenter that if people had confidence they wouldn't have a reason to put their personal information out there. That said I guess we were also kind of talking about different things as he seems to have more issues with spilling a life play by play instead simply exposing personal details. I was also trying to offer a counterpoint to show a rationale of outliers on the edge of the curve even if it is non-standard.
I find this interesting as I subscribe to the exact opposite thought process. I am an extremely confident individual who has almost no feeling of need to justify myself to others. I could care less about what people that I don't care about think of me and I don't really care to be close to people who don't like me (though I do try to be likeable as I don't want to intentionally upset people). I could care less what people know about me and have no issue with info about me being public information. I'd rather the information be out there for people who want to find it than not have it available for people who need to find it. I don't obsess over posting every detail of my life, but I also see no reason to conceal details of my life that I do feel like commenting on.
Agreed, but unfortunately it is reality and exactly why the patent office has no interest in changing it. They rake in patent fees and profit off the arms race.
No you can't, because the point of playing the patent game is a bit like mutually assured destruction. You need to be able to go offensive if someone attacks you and if you "open source" the patents as you suggest, then they are unable to do that and lose the entire point of having the patent in the first place. The chances of someone else patenting that particular stupid thing are rare, but the possibility that someone who might want to try trolling you would use that patent are high. That is what makes it an effective defense.
You are certainly not too old to learn new languages. I would recommend you towards languages like C# or Java (C# is my personal favorite) since they are more similar to the languages you know and are more useful towards more powerful coding. The other thing you might want to consider if you don't like being away from code completely and like design would be the possibility of going in to software architecture. It's probably more in line with your experience level and is less dependent on knowing a specific language in detail and more based around coming up with overall system designs to have developers implement. It maintains the technical work while letting you leverage your management experience and also mitigates your lack of coding experience in the most modern languages.
As long as you are familiar with the concept of how to organize code in an object oriented manner, not a whole lot has changed in terms of how code is written at it's most basic level. The only real changes are the shortcuts that have been introduced to simplify implementation.
Part of your problem is also your age. It starts getting really hard to get places to hire you in your mid 50s and up since they don't expect you to have all that long left before retirement age. I know my Dad ran in to that a lot with trying to find another high level accounting job and ended up getting something purely due to networking.
I've also found it makes my driving better and helps me stay alert. A GPS may be distracting when you first get it, but if you are used to it and have it well mounted, it provides great information on what is coming up ahead so you can focus on the traffic around you and not have to split your attention between what is coming up ahead of you (like turns and such) and what is going on around you. It also gives more than one thing to focus on so you can shift focus periodically to avoid losing focus or losing alertness.
For 75% of users I agree, but not for anyone that needs something like photo editing or video editing or a math intensive application. This still makes up a very large number of users and tablets are ill-equipped to meet that demand at this time. That was my point.
In fairness, it probably is also for business purposes of protecting themselves from law suits from someone else patenting it. They have to defend themselves and if they can have more absurd ones and sit on them, then why not? When they start going after people for patent violations, then I will agree they are being evil, but until such a time as they use their patents in an offensive way rather than a defensive way there is no story.
"What we'll probably see is a box on the desktop that has a low-power CPU like an Atom, connects to dual monitors, keyboard, mouse, USB, etc., and runs a minimal network-booted OS which basically serves like an X server for remotely-run applications in the server room. The hardware will be a little different from now, but the UI will be the same."
Yes, this is exactly what we are seeing. Wyse and HP both make quite nice terminals. At my office we have about 50 of the HP ones and are looking to roll out more once the pilot is up and running. They either operate on RDP, VNC, VMWare View (normally with PCoIP) or Citrix. The actual virtual machine is a standard Windows machine in most cases. Tablet UI sucks for day to day business tasks like managing documents and such. I agree with you whole heartedly on that and I actually am quite nervous about the direction MS appears to be going with Windows 8, though I imagine business users will be up in arms if they alter it too badly towards the entertainment tablet feel.
I was never claiming that tablets were going to replace business desktops. I claimed that the PC market share was being eroded by tablets in the retail sector and virtualization in the business sector. Tablets have very limited amounts of usefulness in business, mostly in sales.
"Millions upon millions of office workers use desktop PCs" This is a changing trend that I got in to later in my post when I talked about virtualization of the desktop. The rapidly growing trend in business IT is to move towards using virtual desktops which can be better secured, better backed up and more easily managed while centralizing the investment in IT hardware and avoiding desktop maintenance issues. Basically it's working it's way back to the dumb terminal days where your business desktop can actually run on a server cluster and the box on your desktop is simply an interface for the monitor, keyboard, mouse, sound and USB ports. The number of advantages it brings and the cost savings are quite compelling and will only become more compelling as multi-core processing advances further.
I am in fact an IT professional working in an organization with about 400 employees at two locations and we are working on rolling out this technology now and I know many others who are either investigating or actively trying to roll out the same technology. Desktops are simply more powerful than they need to be for business applications now and it is far easier to be able to simply add more power in to a cluster when you need it and still be able to use the old than it is to constantly throw out old hardware because you need a little more power on the desktop or the poorly treated desktop has worn out.