OEMs provide turnkey solutions. What if you change the hard drive to one that runs hotter and it burns up the CPU? When you're a turnkey solution provider it doesn't make sense to provide warranty services to customers who feel they can change any aspect of the product and still expect you to support them. Yes, sometimes you'll get silly things like the hinge is broken after you voided your warranty by changing the hard drive, memory, OS, etc. The expectation on your part though is if you void the warranty they don't provide service. Now if they did provide service you might note how outstanding they were. But in this case they went by the book and I don't fault them for it. My suggestion to you would be to spend your dollars in shops where linux is supported or you can get a laptop with no OS installed.
In theory I would hope that in a representative democracy that the politicians would represent the will of the people as it changes over time and the instances where they 'stick to their guns no matter what' would be a necessary exception but certainly not the rule. What kills me about the GP is that the inference is that Kerry is/was immoral when compared to Bush. I have a hard time believing either of those men were on higher moral ground. I mean they both wanted to be President.
Google won my heart by proving that non-annoying ads could be wildly successful and profitable. Google has always been a favorite of mine because the pages just give you what you want without all the extra crap. Compare google.com to yahoo.com for instance. Simple and to the point. While dilluting the page content with moving stuff and chewing up my bandwidth with videos and animated gifs isn't evil, it will likely make the GOOG less desirable to me. What might make me feel like it's evil is that it's a betrayal of the rampant support I've given them over the years. *shrug*
Once TCO of photovoltaics cost less than fossil fuel energy you won't have to worry about it. Every roof in America will be made of photovoltaics. People and/or businesses will gladly put those systems on their roof/land in order to A) supply their own energy, or B) turn a nominal profit on their 'waste space' by selling their excess energy back into the system. This phenomenon will solve lots of problems. First you won't have to make as many 'solar energy farms' because most people will produce a significant portion of their consumption. Second, the solar farms that do exist will be immensely less disastrous to the environment when compared to strip mining for coal or other fossil fuels. People are lazy, but not stupid. Once it reaches the tipping point of saving them a boat load of money they will buy in. I have pulled a prediction out of my rectum which suggests that market saturation will only take 5-10 years once we break the tipping point.
I've successfully used JMS in a high availability application (security system monitoring software) before and I have to say that you're correct. J2EE stuff is nice but it can also be very complex. In our situation JMS worked out exceptionally well and saved a ton of development time. However, it's just a tool. 99.9% of the time you don't need J2EE stuff to accomplish what you're doing. I think of J2EE in many the same ways I think about AJAX. It's a nice toy/tool but a little bit can go a long way and it should be used sparingly. Unfortunately in the corporate environment we tend to get buzzword happy. Not much you can do about it.
Forget mace as a personal safety device, just give your lady friend one of these puppies. Mace will slow them down for a few minutes, or not... just make them mad. Permanently blinding them? They'll stop whatever they were going to do for sure.
First I want to thank the GP for clarifying what I meant, it's obviously not a hardware driver that's the problem, it's the ability to decode and play most DVD videos. The problem with your statement is that joe user who wants to try the 'open source' thing doesn't get it and doesn't care.
I have mixed feelings about proprietary software on a Dell box. On one hand I try to promote the open source movement where I think it belongs (generally speaking any software that 'everyone needs'). On the other hand I can see many people wanting to try this 'open source' thing buying a computer from trusty Dell and going WTF when they can't play a DVD in their DVD drive. Dell, having complete power over what it installs in the box should have no problem choosing only hardware with open drivers. At the same time I wouldn't mind it too badly if they cut a deal a la Linspire so that users could (legally) get DVD playback.
Linux is not a 'grass roots' operating system, and hasn't been for a long time. It's been a very capable server OS which is backed by several large corporations. It's just now making headway into the desktop market. It's sort of the reverse of what Windows did. Linux needs to shake its grass roots image if it wants to make bigger waves in the business world. Please stop referring to it as such because it only strengthens the idea that linux is a toy for hobbyists.
Strangely enough there aren't many people calling for your blood when you don't use a particular OS. It's only when you try and force what you use on everyone else that they get testy. This is patently false. At my office, and in may offices in corporate America we have these regulations regarding running virus scanners and software licensing checkers, and a slew of other things which are required to protect my company from various boogie men. If I toss a *nix machine on my work network there will be a shit fit.
I think dumping an encrypted file over on someone else's network over a secure connection isn't such a big deal. I mean, you're not an idiot so you'll be using a pretty decent encryption tool on the data before handing it over to the semi-trusted peer. One box and a VPN is a lot cheaper than a colo. I think it's kind of an interesting experiment. You do make a valid point though about how it probably will not catch on in corporate america.
When I go to my bank or credit card website I never bother to put the https as I'm typing the URL because they will always redirect me to a secure connection. It's a basic and common practice for services with important information. I would argue you shouldn't be putting important information on Google's web servers, but that still doesn't mean that they can't make a very simple change and dramatically increase the security of the data they hold.
I realize he didn't specify this in his post, but I sort of assumed he was talking about small businesses. Large businesses are going to get major discounts from major OEM distributors, site licenses for windows, etc.
If you turn off the preview pane you won't have this problem. As an aside, turning off the preview pane is also good security practice regardless of your mail client.
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Something's got to respond to all those WGA requests calling home to big brother.
OEMs provide turnkey solutions. What if you change the hard drive to one that runs hotter and it burns up the CPU? When you're a turnkey solution provider it doesn't make sense to provide warranty services to customers who feel they can change any aspect of the product and still expect you to support them. Yes, sometimes you'll get silly things like the hinge is broken after you voided your warranty by changing the hard drive, memory, OS, etc. The expectation on your part though is if you void the warranty they don't provide service. Now if they did provide service you might note how outstanding they were. But in this case they went by the book and I don't fault them for it. My suggestion to you would be to spend your dollars in shops where linux is supported or you can get a laptop with no OS installed.
In theory I would hope that in a representative democracy that the politicians would represent the will of the people as it changes over time and the instances where they 'stick to their guns no matter what' would be a necessary exception but certainly not the rule. What kills me about the GP is that the inference is that Kerry is/was immoral when compared to Bush. I have a hard time believing either of those men were on higher moral ground. I mean they both wanted to be President.
Google won my heart by proving that non-annoying ads could be wildly successful and profitable. Google has always been a favorite of mine because the pages just give you what you want without all the extra crap. Compare google.com to yahoo.com for instance. Simple and to the point. While dilluting the page content with moving stuff and chewing up my bandwidth with videos and animated gifs isn't evil, it will likely make the GOOG less desirable to me. What might make me feel like it's evil is that it's a betrayal of the rampant support I've given them over the years. *shrug*
Once TCO of photovoltaics cost less than fossil fuel energy you won't have to worry about it. Every roof in America will be made of photovoltaics. People and/or businesses will gladly put those systems on their roof/land in order to A) supply their own energy, or B) turn a nominal profit on their 'waste space' by selling their excess energy back into the system. This phenomenon will solve lots of problems. First you won't have to make as many 'solar energy farms' because most people will produce a significant portion of their consumption. Second, the solar farms that do exist will be immensely less disastrous to the environment when compared to strip mining for coal or other fossil fuels. People are lazy, but not stupid. Once it reaches the tipping point of saving them a boat load of money they will buy in. I have pulled a prediction out of my rectum which suggests that market saturation will only take 5-10 years once we break the tipping point.
They should sell it for like $1 million + 10% revenue share. $6 Billion is chump change for the value this bandwidth will create.
I've successfully used JMS in a high availability application (security system monitoring software) before and I have to say that you're correct. J2EE stuff is nice but it can also be very complex. In our situation JMS worked out exceptionally well and saved a ton of development time. However, it's just a tool. 99.9% of the time you don't need J2EE stuff to accomplish what you're doing. I think of J2EE in many the same ways I think about AJAX. It's a nice toy/tool but a little bit can go a long way and it should be used sparingly. Unfortunately in the corporate environment we tend to get buzzword happy. Not much you can do about it.
I wouldn't consider what I get through my cable ISP 'high-speed' internet.
As a Floridian who voted Kerry in 2k4 I can say with great certainty that Billary has almost no chance of carrying Florida.
Inflation is a bitch.
The workaround is very complex. Send your IP and root password to pwnd@dodgeit.com and I'll take a look at your system to help make recommendations.
Forget mace as a personal safety device, just give your lady friend one of these puppies. Mace will slow them down for a few minutes, or not... just make them mad. Permanently blinding them? They'll stop whatever they were going to do for sure.
First I want to thank the GP for clarifying what I meant, it's obviously not a hardware driver that's the problem, it's the ability to decode and play most DVD videos. The problem with your statement is that joe user who wants to try the 'open source' thing doesn't get it and doesn't care.
I have mixed feelings about proprietary software on a Dell box. On one hand I try to promote the open source movement where I think it belongs (generally speaking any software that 'everyone needs'). On the other hand I can see many people wanting to try this 'open source' thing buying a computer from trusty Dell and going WTF when they can't play a DVD in their DVD drive. Dell, having complete power over what it installs in the box should have no problem choosing only hardware with open drivers. At the same time I wouldn't mind it too badly if they cut a deal a la Linspire so that users could (legally) get DVD playback.
Linux is not a 'grass roots' operating system, and hasn't been for a long time. It's been a very capable server OS which is backed by several large corporations. It's just now making headway into the desktop market. It's sort of the reverse of what Windows did. Linux needs to shake its grass roots image if it wants to make bigger waves in the business world. Please stop referring to it as such because it only strengthens the idea that linux is a toy for hobbyists.
Well, it's 42 according to the Google Calculator so it must be true.
I think dumping an encrypted file over on someone else's network over a secure connection isn't such a big deal. I mean, you're not an idiot so you'll be using a pretty decent encryption tool on the data before handing it over to the semi-trusted peer. One box and a VPN is a lot cheaper than a colo. I think it's kind of an interesting experiment. You do make a valid point though about how it probably will not catch on in corporate america.
When I go to my bank or credit card website I never bother to put the https as I'm typing the URL because they will always redirect me to a secure connection. It's a basic and common practice for services with important information. I would argue you shouldn't be putting important information on Google's web servers, but that still doesn't mean that they can't make a very simple change and dramatically increase the security of the data they hold.
I don't think it was intended to be rescuing Apple so much as a dig on lawyers.
Open source?
My concern isn't that this system will be used for catching criminals.
I realize he didn't specify this in his post, but I sort of assumed he was talking about small businesses. Large businesses are going to get major discounts from major OEM distributors, site licenses for windows, etc.
If you turn off the preview pane you won't have this problem. As an aside, turning off the preview pane is also good security practice regardless of your mail client.