Just for clarity, Apple has way less than 10% of the cell phone market. It has a good chunk of the smart phone market, but that is a small chunk of the overall cell market.
I think you hit on what really makes the analysis impossible. Apple is a turnkey solution provider whereas Google just makes software. It's apples and oranges. You'd have to analyze Google + Motorola + HTC + etc. etc.
Yes, if there's anything our two current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us it's that untrained civilians with lower quality technology have no chance whatsoever at mounting a defense against an occupying force.
Meh, it has its benefits. The state of Wisconsin alone has 600k hunters. That constitutes the 8th largest army in the world. The United States will never be successfully invaded/occupied by an unwanted force.
My opinion is that there's probably only several dozen botnets out there in Anonymous-land large enough to impact a major corporate website. And on top of that, any given botnet will likely have several controllers. In any given "strike" 1 or more of those several dozen bot-nets will be involved. I'm not viewing it as any sort of top-down model at all. There will, however, be some relatively limited number of "powerhouses" controlling large enough botnets to matter. Those are the people they want to get.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on the cost of lost productivity due to complex password requirements compared to the cost of actual hacks/cracks/etc.
That may be true, but there's bound to be a relatively small core of people who are controlling the botnets. Those people might not be involved in every "Anonymous" attack, but they will likely participate semi-regularly in them. Those are the people they're after. Not joe idiot who downloaded the little flooding app.
Meh, when the iPhone 1 came out there were plenty of devices which were technically superior. I doubt Google can pull it off on consumer devices because that's not their forte, but anything is possible.
Meh, most people said similar things about smart phones until Apple came out with a consumer/user friendly iphone. Will Chrome-OS be the iPhone of "cloud computing" systems? IMO probably not, but I wouldn't call the idea dead just yet. I personally don't own a document processor anymore and use Google Apps exclusively. As long as they got the "offline" mode working fine with local synching I think it could be a real winner. Do I want my entire OS to be that way? Not really, but that would fit for all the purposes of my current netbook. I browse the web, IM, and occasionally do some light documents through Google Apps.
Yes. When your country becomes poor they don't tend to enforce copyright/patent laws as much. You steal all the intellectual property, build up your own set of IP, and then you run around the world telling everyone else not to copy your stuff until it finally crumbles down and you're poor again. Guess where we are on the cycle?
I pretty much agree with your premise but I did want to give a shout out to the other category of consultants. There's some really bright people out there who just prefer to not pay any taxes. They're a very small percentage of the temp pool though. We have a guy who has worked in our office off and on for the last 10 years like that. Works out great for everyone.
I don't think so. Supporting Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse couldn't be that much harder than supporting XP, Vista, and 7. There's plenty of infrastructure already in place to write code for, deploy, and test on the various linux platforms. I'm not saying migrating gaming to linux would be a good idea, just that it's not technically much more difficult than what they do now. The real difficulty would be waiting for the lag from hardware manufacturers to release better *nix drivers for video cards and such.
In my experience it generally comes down as "Your department must lose X headcount or X salary." and then relatively lower level management makes the final decision. I'm sure there's exceptions but if the CEO/board is making low level personnel decisions then you've got bigger problems at your company.
Generally speaking the people who are left behind to pick up the pieces have a harder time than the people who were laid off. The unemployed mourn and then move on. The people left behind take years to get over the stress of extra work and the depression caused by wondering if you're next.
My understanding was that part of the reason WikiLeaks was taken down was due to the DDOS attacks on it. I expect Amazon to be able to handle RIDICULOUS amounts of traffic, but I don't expect them to put me (potential paying customer) ahead of their own site.
I would suggest not offering any Yes or Nos. Simply politely provide the officer your license, registration, and potentially car insurance information if asked for it. The only thing you need to say is "Am I being detained?" and "Am I free to go?" If the answer to either of those questions is "No." Then your only response after that is that you need your lawyer.
Speaking of spoon feeding, I'm still not getting where all of those constants come from.. I can't find any reference, for example, of G = 900.91. Much less the rest of the constants. I sort of expected them to be universal constants, but apparently not. Perhaps someone could inform a moron?
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I think she fails to see the differences between people and corporations. People can be idealists, corporations exist to make money.
Given standard historical P/E ratios of 15:1, makes it sound even more reasonable.
Just for clarity, Apple has way less than 10% of the cell phone market. It has a good chunk of the smart phone market, but that is a small chunk of the overall cell market.
I think you hit on what really makes the analysis impossible. Apple is a turnkey solution provider whereas Google just makes software. It's apples and oranges. You'd have to analyze Google + Motorola + HTC + etc. etc.
I bet your grandparents wouldn't have minded a gun when Hitler was demolishing your continent.
Yes, if there's anything our two current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us it's that untrained civilians with lower quality technology have no chance whatsoever at mounting a defense against an occupying force.
Meh, it has its benefits. The state of Wisconsin alone has 600k hunters. That constitutes the 8th largest army in the world. The United States will never be successfully invaded/occupied by an unwanted force.
It took a while to get the word out because the editors use skype to communicate.
Here's a 2007 interview of Ron Paul on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12224561
Here's one from CBS News:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/25/politics/politicalplayers/main3412826.shtml
I stopped bothering to search after that. If Ron Paul was good for ratings, he'd get more coverage.
Several articles here and elsewhere have noted that the LOIC was both a small part of the attack.
My opinion is that there's probably only several dozen botnets out there in Anonymous-land large enough to impact a major corporate website. And on top of that, any given botnet will likely have several controllers. In any given "strike" 1 or more of those several dozen bot-nets will be involved. I'm not viewing it as any sort of top-down model at all. There will, however, be some relatively limited number of "powerhouses" controlling large enough botnets to matter. Those are the people they want to get.
I wonder if anyone has done a study on the cost of lost productivity due to complex password requirements compared to the cost of actual hacks/cracks/etc.
That may be true, but there's bound to be a relatively small core of people who are controlling the botnets. Those people might not be involved in every "Anonymous" attack, but they will likely participate semi-regularly in them. Those are the people they're after. Not joe idiot who downloaded the little flooding app.
Meh, when the iPhone 1 came out there were plenty of devices which were technically superior. I doubt Google can pull it off on consumer devices because that's not their forte, but anything is possible.
Meh, most people said similar things about smart phones until Apple came out with a consumer/user friendly iphone. Will Chrome-OS be the iPhone of "cloud computing" systems? IMO probably not, but I wouldn't call the idea dead just yet. I personally don't own a document processor anymore and use Google Apps exclusively. As long as they got the "offline" mode working fine with local synching I think it could be a real winner. Do I want my entire OS to be that way? Not really, but that would fit for all the purposes of my current netbook. I browse the web, IM, and occasionally do some light documents through Google Apps.
You do realize that the GPL derives its power from copyright laws?
Yes. When your country becomes poor they don't tend to enforce copyright/patent laws as much. You steal all the intellectual property, build up your own set of IP, and then you run around the world telling everyone else not to copy your stuff until it finally crumbles down and you're poor again. Guess where we are on the cycle?
I pretty much agree with your premise but I did want to give a shout out to the other category of consultants. There's some really bright people out there who just prefer to not pay any taxes. They're a very small percentage of the temp pool though. We have a guy who has worked in our office off and on for the last 10 years like that. Works out great for everyone.
I don't think so. Supporting Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse couldn't be that much harder than supporting XP, Vista, and 7. There's plenty of infrastructure already in place to write code for, deploy, and test on the various linux platforms. I'm not saying migrating gaming to linux would be a good idea, just that it's not technically much more difficult than what they do now. The real difficulty would be waiting for the lag from hardware manufacturers to release better *nix drivers for video cards and such.
In my experience it generally comes down as "Your department must lose X headcount or X salary." and then relatively lower level management makes the final decision. I'm sure there's exceptions but if the CEO/board is making low level personnel decisions then you've got bigger problems at your company.
Generally speaking the people who are left behind to pick up the pieces have a harder time than the people who were laid off. The unemployed mourn and then move on. The people left behind take years to get over the stress of extra work and the depression caused by wondering if you're next.
My understanding was that part of the reason WikiLeaks was taken down was due to the DDOS attacks on it. I expect Amazon to be able to handle RIDICULOUS amounts of traffic, but I don't expect them to put me (potential paying customer) ahead of their own site.
I don't believe I'm in the middle. I'm for incredibly small government interference both fiscally and socially. *shrug*
I would suggest not offering any Yes or Nos. Simply politely provide the officer your license, registration, and potentially car insurance information if asked for it. The only thing you need to say is "Am I being detained?" and "Am I free to go?" If the answer to either of those questions is "No." Then your only response after that is that you need your lawyer.
Speaking of spoon feeding, I'm still not getting where all of those constants come from.. I can't find any reference, for example, of G = 900.91. Much less the rest of the constants. I sort of expected them to be universal constants, but apparently not. Perhaps someone could inform a moron?