As someone who works in a large financial institution and who's job is basically to assess SaaS vendors to whom we give data to, I wish this was true. However, I'll tell you what happens in the real world:
1) Someone comes up to me with a project. "We need to give <restricted data X> to <5 man garden shed operation Y> to perform <task Z>" 2) I say "never heard of this company before. We need to go over and check them out, They're in <country W>, it will cost $10k to get me there and back." 3) project goes: "we can't afford that, we only have a budget of $5k for the entire project" 4) I say "too bad, the risk is too high, we can't engage the vendor" 5) project says "we have already entered into a contract with them and they've been doing <task Z> for two months already" 6) project escalates to risk management who rubber stamp approval for the deviation. 7) ??? 8) Profit! 9) <restricted data X> leaks data like a sieve. my company gets bad media attention and gets hit with multi-million dollar fines from regulators. Senior management come to me and ask "why did you let this happen?".
The truth of the matter is, in a large company it is so much cheaper to simply outsource anything you can. The person who is running the project doesn't care about the quality of the solution, their only concern is to deliver to scope, on time, and on budget. By the time the whole thing goes cactus shaped they're long out of the picture.
Software as a Service in reality meets very little barrier to adoption.
As someone who works in a large financial institution and who's job is basically to assess SaaS vendors to whom we give data to, I wish this was true. However, I'll tell you what happens in the real world:
1) Someone comes up to me with a project. "We need to give to to perform " 2) I say "never heard of this company before. We need to go over and check them out, They're in , it will cost $10k to get me there and back." 3) project goes: "we can't afford that, we only have a budget of $5k for the entire project" 4) I say "too bad, the risk is too high, we can't engage the vendor" 5) project says "we have already entered into a contract with them and they've been doing for two months already" 6) project escalates to risk management who rubber stamp approval for the deviation. 7) ??? 8) Profit! 9) leaks data like a sieve. my company gets bad media attention and gets hit with multi-million dollar fines from regulators. Senior management come to me and ask "why did you let this happen?".
The truth of the matter is, in a large company it is so much cheaper to simply outsource anything you can. The person who is running the project doesn't care about the quality of the solution, their only concern is to deliver to scope, on time, and on budget. By the time the whole thing goes cactus shaped they're long out of the picture.
Software as a Service in reality meets very little barrier to adoption.
ubuntu. hands down, I tried a few different distros and ubuntu was the one that just worked. I install it on my laptop and every piece of hardware works with no issues. Plus any issue you have a quick google solves 9 times out of 10.
why is this post modded troll? it's absolutely correct. As much as people say "package managers solve everything", the truth is installing any software that is not packaged for your distribution in some way is a royal pain in the butt. The other main issue I have with Ubuntu (my linux distribution of choice) is that the software is stuck at a particular version. Why doesn't canonical put out firefox 3.5 and openoffice.org 3 for what is the latest Ubuntu?
The number of times I've tried to run some little app and it actually turned out to be easier to download the windows version and then run it under WINE than it has to download the Linux version, it's quite shocking.
What needs to happen to fix this solution?
LSB is a good start. It needs to be expanded and used more. We need a unified repository system. We need an easy (one click) way of adding a repository and installing a package from it
the ideal situation is one where a vendor needs to compile and package one linux version of their software. Put it in a repository that can be accessed by anyone. User just clicks the link and it installs the software, and the repo so that they get future updates. This system would be miles ahead of anything offered by Windows/Linux/Mac. There have been numerous attempts at solving this issue but what we need is a solution run and backed by the big boys (Red Hat, Canonical, Novell). Really if the solution works on all three of those distributions, it will work pretty much everywhere, and be supported by vendors.
well while you till your acre field with your ox we can continue to design ICs in nanometre scale and measure the exact mm length of steel required to build a bridge.
charge some sort of energy storage unit (batteries, caps, flywheels, whatever. it's gotta be cheap, not small and light) during off peak hours. Discharge during peak when people plug in their cars. You can even build them way above capacity and feed the power back into the grid during peak hours, causing a net decrease in the amount of energy used.
If I have access to the physical machine I have access to the data.
Ever seen a Thales card payment system HSM? These are the devices that protect your PIN, credit card verification number, bank interchanges, all sorts of different keys. Try getting an encryption key out of one of those: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Security_Module
Not to mention any modern EFTPOS devices, while more compact. are good enough that pretty much anyone can be given one and we can remain confident that the key is safe in there.
When you control the hardware, it is possible to hide the key. Not that I'm saying these devices will never be cracked, but the technology to do so certainly doesn't exist today.
adding another wire from a power source is much easier, cheaper and space efficient than adding another fuel bowser. A charging station could look like a small parking lot, you take a park, plug your car in, swipe your credit/smart/whatever card, and then you can go and find something else to do for the next 10 minutes (grab a snack, fill your tires, wash your windscreens, huge advantage is you don't need to be sitting there watching the fuel)
In the same space as a petrol station with 10 pumps you could fit at least 20 such parking spots.
and this would actually have the effect of decreasing the load on the power grid, resulting in the burning of less fuel (at least until the demand caught up with them)
the issue with this solution, however, is that if the demand increases too much you can find yourself at a charging station unable to fill up, it's much easier to keep a petrol tank filled.
The main issue with this is then you're locked into a particular type of battery. It has to be a standard size, shape, weight, in order to fit into all cars. This might stop you from making changes to the battery which may increase the performance.
Electricity is pretty much standard across the board, if you can get manufacturers to agree on AC/DC, the voltage and the plug design. Of course, you still have the issue with greedy manufacturers who don't like standardising, but you're not "locked in" as much as you would be with standard batteries.
(I know it would have been pithier to just leave this post at "Audiosurf", and I admit I considered it, but I felt an actual description of the game would be more useful.)
Maybe you should have changed the subject then? That was certainly a very long word!
You're living in a crazy world where everyone has the same requirements as you. I could perfectly own a Model S and never have to take any form of public transport. The car I currently have has a 300km range. I have not once driven 300km in one day since I was legally permitted to drive 8 years ago. I take a plane for journeys longer than that (it's cheaper)
Stick with your ICE car, I don't care, it's clear you're never going to be happy with an electric. But you're an idiot if you think that your driving needs are the same as everyone elses. You've failed to explain how this car is not perfect for my needs. If I could afford $50k I'd buy one.
there are plenty of people like me who barely ever travel more than 100km in a day and for us an electric car is perfect. No one is trying to sell one to you. Go and troll some other article.
we are in the shit because it's going to be a long time from the building of the first quantum computer capable of cracking any regular crypto message to the point where everyone can afford one.
During that time, how do you ensure security of your message?
The computer I am running right now has an NVidia graphics card, and I installed Ubuntu 9.04 only two weeks ago. The default driver used was nv and the compositing was disabled by default.
That's definitive enough for me, although of course I can't prove this to you.
There was a lot of talk about enabling proprietry nvidia drivers by default, I am fairly certain in the end for gutsy they backed down and decided to stick with the free driver by default at the last minute (I don't remember exactly, however, I could be wrong on this point. But it's definitely not included now)
incorrect. The proprietry nvidia drivers are not even installed by default, and never have been. There was talk about providing them out of the box but it never eventuated. They are, however, easily installable via the "hardware drivers" app.
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damn. lost my tags =(
As someone who works in a large financial institution and who's job is basically to assess SaaS vendors to whom we give data to, I wish this was true. However, I'll tell you what happens in the real world:
1) Someone comes up to me with a project. "We need to give <restricted data X> to <5 man garden shed operation Y> to perform <task Z>"
2) I say "never heard of this company before. We need to go over and check them out, They're in <country W>, it will cost $10k to get me there and back."
3) project goes: "we can't afford that, we only have a budget of $5k for the entire project"
4) I say "too bad, the risk is too high, we can't engage the vendor"
5) project says "we have already entered into a contract with them and they've been doing <task Z> for two months already"
6) project escalates to risk management who rubber stamp approval for the deviation.
7) ???
8) Profit!
9) <restricted data X> leaks data like a sieve. my company gets bad media attention and gets hit with multi-million dollar fines from regulators. Senior management come to me and ask "why did you let this happen?".
The truth of the matter is, in a large company it is so much cheaper to simply outsource anything you can. The person who is running the project doesn't care about the quality of the solution, their only concern is to deliver to scope, on time, and on budget. By the time the whole thing goes cactus shaped they're long out of the picture.
Software as a Service in reality meets very little barrier to adoption.
As someone who works in a large financial institution and who's job is basically to assess SaaS vendors to whom we give data to, I wish this was true. However, I'll tell you what happens in the real world:
1) Someone comes up to me with a project. "We need to give to to perform "
2) I say "never heard of this company before. We need to go over and check them out, They're in , it will cost $10k to get me there and back."
3) project goes: "we can't afford that, we only have a budget of $5k for the entire project"
4) I say "too bad, the risk is too high, we can't engage the vendor"
5) project says "we have already entered into a contract with them and they've been doing for two months already"
6) project escalates to risk management who rubber stamp approval for the deviation.
7) ???
8) Profit!
9) leaks data like a sieve. my company gets bad media attention and gets hit with multi-million dollar fines from regulators. Senior management come to me and ask "why did you let this happen?".
The truth of the matter is, in a large company it is so much cheaper to simply outsource anything you can. The person who is running the project doesn't care about the quality of the solution, their only concern is to deliver to scope, on time, and on budget. By the time the whole thing goes cactus shaped they're long out of the picture.
Software as a Service in reality meets very little barrier to adoption.
actually sunburn is caused by ultraviolet light, not visible light.
ubuntu. hands down, I tried a few different distros and ubuntu was the one that just worked. I install it on my laptop and every piece of hardware works with no issues. Plus any issue you have a quick google solves 9 times out of 10.
why is this post modded troll? it's absolutely correct. As much as people say "package managers solve everything", the truth is installing any software that is not packaged for your distribution in some way is a royal pain in the butt. The other main issue I have with Ubuntu (my linux distribution of choice) is that the software is stuck at a particular version. Why doesn't canonical put out firefox 3.5 and openoffice.org 3 for what is the latest Ubuntu?
The number of times I've tried to run some little app and it actually turned out to be easier to download the windows version and then run it under WINE than it has to download the Linux version, it's quite shocking.
What needs to happen to fix this solution?
LSB is a good start. It needs to be expanded and used more.
We need a unified repository system.
We need an easy (one click) way of adding a repository and installing a package from it
the ideal situation is one where a vendor needs to compile and package one linux version of their software. Put it in a repository that can be accessed by anyone. User just clicks the link and it installs the software, and the repo so that they get future updates. This system would be miles ahead of anything offered by Windows/Linux/Mac. There have been numerous attempts at solving this issue but what we need is a solution run and backed by the big boys (Red Hat, Canonical, Novell). Really if the solution works on all three of those distributions, it will work pretty much everywhere, and be supported by vendors.
well while you till your acre field with your ox we can continue to design ICs in nanometre scale and measure the exact mm length of steel required to build a bridge.
no it would be GGFSFS
actually your pizza would have an area of pi*z*z. If it was of thickness a, it would have a volume of pi*z*z*a
charge some sort of energy storage unit (batteries, caps, flywheels, whatever. it's gotta be cheap, not small and light) during off peak hours. Discharge during peak when people plug in their cars. You can even build them way above capacity and feed the power back into the grid during peak hours, causing a net decrease in the amount of energy used.
If I have access to the physical machine I have access to the data.
Ever seen a Thales card payment system HSM? These are the devices that protect your PIN, credit card verification number, bank interchanges, all sorts of different keys. Try getting an encryption key out of one of those:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Security_Module
Not to mention any modern EFTPOS devices, while more compact. are good enough that pretty much anyone can be given one and we can remain confident that the key is safe in there.
When you control the hardware, it is possible to hide the key. Not that I'm saying these devices will never be cracked, but the technology to do so certainly doesn't exist today.
Disclaimer: I work in security for a bank.
more "pumps"
adding another wire from a power source is much easier, cheaper and space efficient than adding another fuel bowser. A charging station could look like a small parking lot, you take a park, plug your car in, swipe your credit/smart/whatever card, and then you can go and find something else to do for the next 10 minutes (grab a snack, fill your tires, wash your windscreens, huge advantage is you don't need to be sitting there watching the fuel)
In the same space as a petrol station with 10 pumps you could fit at least 20 such parking spots.
and this would actually have the effect of decreasing the load on the power grid, resulting in the burning of less fuel (at least until the demand caught up with them)
the issue with this solution, however, is that if the demand increases too much you can find yourself at a charging station unable to fill up, it's much easier to keep a petrol tank filled.
The main issue with this is then you're locked into a particular type of battery. It has to be a standard size, shape, weight, in order to fit into all cars. This might stop you from making changes to the battery which may increase the performance.
Electricity is pretty much standard across the board, if you can get manufacturers to agree on AC/DC, the voltage and the plug design. Of course, you still have the issue with greedy manufacturers who don't like standardising, but you're not "locked in" as much as you would be with standard batteries.
(I know it would have been pithier to just leave this post at "Audiosurf", and I admit I considered it, but I felt an actual description of the game would be more useful.)
Maybe you should have changed the subject then? That was certainly a very long word!
and you've clearly never been to a Justin Timberlake concert...
You're living in a crazy world where everyone has the same requirements as you. I could perfectly own a Model S and never have to take any form of public transport. The car I currently have has a 300km range. I have not once driven 300km in one day since I was legally permitted to drive 8 years ago. I take a plane for journeys longer than that (it's cheaper)
Stick with your ICE car, I don't care, it's clear you're never going to be happy with an electric. But you're an idiot if you think that your driving needs are the same as everyone elses. You've failed to explain how this car is not perfect for my needs. If I could afford $50k I'd buy one.
so if you're surfing using IEtab, your hit is (correctly) counted as a hit for IE
the electric car is not for you, get over it.
there are plenty of people like me who barely ever travel more than 100km in a day and for us an electric car is perfect. No one is trying to sell one to you. Go and troll some other article.
he didn't base it off Tesla's design...
we are in the shit because it's going to be a long time from the building of the first quantum computer capable of cracking any regular crypto message to the point where everyone can afford one.
During that time, how do you ensure security of your message?
Great stuff! It found my location as a 10m radius in Mountain View, California.
Unfortunately, I live in Melbourne, Australia.
I suggest an experiment involving two hammers and a very tall person.
The computer I am running right now has an NVidia graphics card, and I installed Ubuntu 9.04 only two weeks ago. The default driver used was nv and the compositing was disabled by default.
That's definitive enough for me, although of course I can't prove this to you.
There was a lot of talk about enabling proprietry nvidia drivers by default, I am fairly certain in the end for gutsy they backed down and decided to stick with the free driver by default at the last minute (I don't remember exactly, however, I could be wrong on this point. But it's definitely not included now)
incorrect. The proprietry nvidia drivers are not even installed by default, and never have been. There was talk about providing them out of the box but it never eventuated. They are, however, easily installable via the "hardware drivers" app.
I can tell things have happened to me with my eyes, and that happens at light speed!