Then I wanted to be cool and modern and shit like everyone else so I upgraded my AMPS brick phone to one of those new models with a retardedly high resolution...
Now whenever I go to a site that dares give me a paired down mobile version automatically without asking it makes me sad..sometimes I even want to frown.
Occasionally it is nice to just sit fads out and wait for technology to go full circle instead of wasting time caring about useless short term problems like WAP and HTML browsers with ridiculously underpowered hardware and low res displays.
At least I have solace in the fact when it comes to necessary long term technology changes slashdot has got my back with its fully IPv4 enabled website.
I am particularly amused by these types of decisions requiring a third party to correctly guess the outcome of legal matters they are not a party or face some form of liability either way for guessing wrongly.
Do they have book stores in Australia? Does this same abstraction of guilt work there too or just against huge companies with deep pockets?
What about networks thru which this data flows? Can network operators be found guilty for conspiracy to propogate libel? Where does it end and why?
I wish google would have dug up actual evidence supporting criminal affiliations against this asshat... I assume the truth is an absolute defense even in the Soviet Republic of Australia?
When was the last time you upgraded a CPU and didn't get a new motherboard? Never?
You got a point there.
The biggest problem I would have is in initial selection of motherboard and CPU. Full matrix of CPU vs motherboard we enjoy today would be paired down significantly.
For example I always tend to get the slowest CPU I can find with the most capable motherboard.
With coupling it is not hard to see situations where you may be forced to purchase a faster processor to get more mainboard features (dual gige, x usbs, external satas, gobs of RAM..etc)
Making this sort of medical data available to any researcher with an itch for free is useful.
I also agree on the flip side better organizing online moderated and professionally reviewed resources to educate and provide legitimate advice and treatment options is also beneficial.
At the same time encouraging others to follow this same path will only enrich crackpots and scam artists selling their cures and assorted bs which simply does not work.
Even the better moderated cancer forums are filled with well intentioned people telling us all about how by ignoring doctor x they got y result therefore doctor x was wrong or worse in bed with the medical industrial complex...
Internet style colloberation/crowdsourcing fails spectacularly when the voices only qualifications are having stayed in a holiday inn express last night.
I can't think of anything more outrageous and distructive to the DNS system than allowing a bunch of useless new TLDs which only serve to enrich ICANN, phishers and name protection rackets.
I guess I should be appalled and dismayed when you develop a structure on the Internet which explicitly allows governments to weigh in on decisions and it quickly devolves into childish nonsense... Nobody could have possibly predicted this???..give me a fucking break.
Giving governments a taste of say/power over the happenings of the net is bad policy it only encourages governments to seek more power which only results in bad outcomes.
It might seem silly but those extra layers in the ISO model are getting to be more and more important to the design of protocols and operation of the network. Being sloppy, greedy and a total sellout (ICANN) instead of clever and concerned about the freedom and well-being of users is a recipe for disaster.
I distinctly remember on multiple occassions feeling irked by what I assumed were tinfoil hat wearing fools who required you to get the time kind of sort of right first before clocks would sync up from an external time source...especially within windows.
I could swear windows and the standard unix ntp systems explicitly check for and do not allow such shenanigans...yet this happened and as I hear from a few sources real systems were effected... Maybe there is some nuance with stratums or something which come into play in this equation...
Its just if you would have asked me if this could happen prior to today I would have said "NO" without any reservation. I'm an idiot.
If in fact you do make contact with Martians please let me know right away. I've got a lot of other things on my plate but I suspect that that would go to the top of the list even if they're just microbes. -prez O
I'm "curious"...can I at least ask if you talked to Obama about this?
What really bothers me is that MS is hitting retailers like BestBuy and Microcenter hard and FORCING THIS UPON USERS. If you want a new laptop YOU MUST use WIndows 8. You have to buy from a website and go out of your way with Windows 7.
In the past BestBuy had laptops with XP and Vista at the same time. Same with Microcenter. All the slashdotters post like users have a choice which OS to use. You don't unless you have images and an IT department ready to set them up. They are forcing Windows 8 marketshare so they can save people had the concious choice to use the shitty modern UI.
Isn't their laws agaisnt this? I prefer the past when MS releases a new OS you have a conscious choice to choose.
Walk into the store, tell the sales person what you want. If they can't deliver walk out and tell them why you are walking out.
Perhaps MS can afford to ignore clear and unambiguous messages from its user base.
Operating a blog where a 67 year old guy talks about his 17 and 20 year old girlfriends getting dressed while proclaiming his innocence while hiding from authorities for murder is not a way to gain any measure of public sympathy or positive PR of any kind. It just makes you look like even more of a sick fuck to a nontrivial portion of those who would be inclined to read your blog.
Now for all I know you are completely innocent but I aint the one you need to win over. The only thing I know for sure is your gross and a moron.
So microsoft is accusing them of not following standard extensions? That's beyond hilarious.
No, Microsoft is reminding people to to drop the vendor specific tags once they are no longer necessary to maximize compatibility.
it's IE complaining that they can't subvert web standards like they have been and continue to attempt to do for years.
Except this is not their complaint.
wah wah the world functions without IE, wah wah. That's what this is.
What would you have developers do? Keep vendor specific extensions forever even when they are no longer necessary or get with the program and support the open standard?
Two articles about republicans talking copyright reform and anti-SOPA in a single day...
Normally when politicans talk freedom it is in the form of maximizing "freedom" for their donating constituents with big pockets...I must say on the surface I'm impressed.
This country is in dire need of sane copyright and patent laws...and there is plenty of low hanging fruit like repeal of mickey mouse protection act.
Some entries involve racial slurs or threats of secession; others advocate openly for the assassination of Obama
1. So we have threats of secession which seems to happen every time a new president is elected. How quickly we forget what conspiracy nuts were spouting off about Bill Clinton while he was in office.
2. Racial slurs
3. Finally we have death threats.
Parse "death threat" carefully... TFA cites an example "I want an assassination" this by itself is not a death threat. Wishing someone to be killed is not the same as threatening or otherwise conspiring to have them killed.
While the people behind the racial slurs may find themselves in legal trouble
WTF? Why? The only way "free speech" and "freedom" work in society is tolerance of the bullshit of others.
In the USA nobody should be in "legal" trouble for dreams of secession, popping off slurs or wishing someone dead. Obviously there may incur other costs for being an asshat.
Legal trouble should only be limited to those who have actually made threats.
If you don't like the concept of freedom of speech then by all means feel free to move to Europe.
"Critical infustructure" has always been vulnerable to attack... countless thousands of miles of unguarded rail, transmission lines, hundreds of thousands of square miles of unguarded lands with easy access to aquifers, Ignition hazards around all manner of unguarded hydrocarbon storage facilities. Little furry creatures enjoying unfettered access to carry out suicide missions inside of transmission facilities. Construction operators and sailors accidently knocking out communications to entire cities and countries.
If you just follow common sense and keep your control shit off the net then external state actors who wish to damage your critical infustructure will need to try just a little bit harder than some made for TV scheme you heard about on 24 and therefore assume must be real.
Operational security against insider stupidity and bad actors is always a good thing but only in as much as it is done in the context of realization security of a system is only as good as its weakest link.
At the end of the day infustructure protection is a physical issue not a cyberspace issue and it does not deserve special attention above and beyond the considerations made for physical infustructure.
Any cyber doomsday scenarios by coordinated takeover of command and control can be avoided by keeping shit offline and using local interlocks which do not answer to C&C..hey that thing aint phase matched I don't think I will connect it up just yet... hey I'm overheating...I think I'll just shut down rather than melt into a pile of goo...tanks full...I'm going to stop pumping now... shit that should exist anyway and would go a long way to saving critical infustructure from the accident prone humans who operate it regardless of their intentions.
Windows 3.11 was an ugly clone and copy of the Mac.
Not really anything alike unless you think having a GUI makes it a clone.
Netbios was their poor attempt of copying VMS networking technologies
Wrong on all accounts. Microsoft did not even invent netbios.
Word was a copy of Wordperfect.
They were nothing alike outside of both being word processors.
Excel was bought and was a cheap clone of Lotus
Oh please all of the concepts and shit came from visicalc which lotus, quattro..etc ripped off.
IE a buggy clone of Netscape etc.
IE started from the Mosaic codebase.
Windows 8, Surface, and Windows Phone, are innovative and new
They copied Apple in all the crappy ways that matter... app store, absurd vendor control over software environment, no customization options, dumbed down, skyhook crowdsourcing without asking, narrow developer platform requirements.
Is this the same as last months "breakthrough" technology described in the MIT technology review.
It is the same in the sense someone has claimed they invented something new with spectacular results when the concepts are already well known and deployed in production.
How many queuing discplines are there that would do the same thing and without the side effect of skewing send side?
Interoperability in protocol, data, schema and communication is the critical first step. The enabling principal is integration not duplication.
It is unecessary for the same code to run everywhere... it is only necessary things are able to effectivly communicate and interact.
Agreed. But that can't happen when software is tied to a particular small list of form factors.
I think a bigger issue today in terms of enhancing software interop are silos between vendors. There is not even a common language anymore: java,obj c,.net... Things are moving backwards as each vendor does everything they can to enhance lockin. Apple does not allow apps which implement emulation or scripting languages.
It used to be the c compiler was available everywhere... If you wanted to port you simply abstracted the environment specific interfaces and moved on to the next project. Before the i* meme we at least had an embedded java that worked more or less universally on most handsets...yes even the "dumb" ones.
Yeah that's fair. Java was a huge step forward in ubiquitous computing. I think the range of Java devices from the JavaVM phones, to Android smartphones to server, to Java applets running in browsers, to embedded systems running without interface is proof of that.
Then where is it? What happened? The most salient example of "ubiquitous computing" I can find of this concept in actual use today take the form of USB and various bluetooth profiles. I think Interop of code obviously does not hurt but is not really the core challenge.
I said it in the very response. GDI has bitmaps and has GUI standards designed around bitmaps. One of the many things that needs to change is everything needs to be self adjusting vector graphics.
You need metro for vector graphics? Really? Last I checked UI elements and fonts can be scaled from the windows control panel. They have been layed down and rendered in hardware as vectors for many many many years.
Take for example the Lenovo yoga with full ultrabook functionality and a snap hinge for tablet functionality.
I'm sorry I don't understand.
Its not even a particularly powerful laptop with a screen that folds backwards... There were "IBM" thinkpads with screens that twisted and then folded down over keyboard YEARS AGO and nobody cared.
If not, if the only thing people like about Microsoft is legacy support, they've already lost.
Not if it gets the job done and people are willing to continue to pay MS for support and maintenance. When all is said and done technology is just a tool. At some point change is be correctly viewed as a liability especially when that change is ortagonal to the mission or does not translate into operational effeciency or other tangable benefit.
You can invent a new screwdriver and screws each year with incredible properties we can only dream of today.
You can invent a new power socket and voltage specification each year.
Would these inventions really do anything meaningful to help society or would they just cause excess waste of time, resources and unecessary expendetures?
There is nothing to piss away, they are permanently a legacy vendor damned to falling marketshare and less and less relevance.
Why do you have to choose between supporting existing systems and innovation? Why is it not possible to do both as MS has been doing all along for decades?
Well this is mainly sarcastic ranting. Ubiquitous computing is the idea of being able to run applications on a variety of devices. The same application on smartphone, tablet, laptop. And
All of these "devices" are just the same guts/computers in different form factors. The concept of "ubiquitous computing" is using intelligence to integrate and assist with aspects of the users *physical* environment. For example a networked computer which turns on the heat in various rooms of your family home when it detects family member(s) approaching. Home automation, a car integrating with a mobile phone, a fridge updating the families shopping list and budget as items are plucked out of it. TVs that pause themselves when you fall asleep or walk out of the room.
You can say having a bunch of computers which look different but can run the same apps is somehow "Ubiquitous computing"... but it just aint so nor does it do anything meaningful to advance the core concept behind "Ubiquitous computing". By your measure Java is "ubiquitous computing".
And yes Metro was needed for that, GDI didn't have fully scalable graphics.
I would love to hear why metro is required for "Ubiquitous computing".
The demand of users quite obviously for years has been more touch and less complexity.
The x86 platform has become a dead zone as upgrade times have gone from 3 to 5 to 7 to now 10 years. Sure those users who want to spend as little as possible while getting the moon are upset, who cares?
Ah... now we're gettin somewhere kids.
How DARE someone expect to have the same personal computer for 5 or 10 years and have it meet their needs during that time? Who do these freeloaders think they are?
The future is disposable computers which can not be upgraded or repaired. Designed to last a few years before the non-removable battery craps out or the AMOLED display melts into goo or a vendor decides you had enough value and shuts down a server turning all "legacy" devices into bricks.
And yes I'm serious about the 2012Q4 hardware it is a huge step forward.
What hardware and why is it a huge step forward?
Make metro optional and Metro just becomes a new style of GUI which is unsupported rather than the direction Microsoft is going. Like Silverlight and 800 other projects it fails.
Better to bail on a stupid idea now than double down and loose even more later.
Balmer needs to establish the kind of credibility that Jobs did
Balmer needs to be FIRED.
clear: Metro is the new Windows GUI and anyone who wants to have a windows application that can sell in 2015 is going to have a fully Metro version.
Windows strength and brand loyalty stems from backwards compatibility and massive investment in existing infustructure and skills. Pissing it all away seems counterproductive and unlikely.
I don't see how they pick a different OS strategy at this point than ubiquitous computing.
Before smartphones computing was more ubiquitous than it is now. Now it is a bunch of vendor controlled silos. Metro is in no way necessary to either enable or hinder the concept of ubiquitous computing.
Microsoft starts going squishy on Windows 8 i.e. Metro they will blow a crucial part of their strategy.
Ignoring the demands of users is never a winning strategy. Metro has its place...the desktop is not that place. Two apps on screen is unacceptable in a desktop environment. By denying basic reality Microsoft is only hurting itself.
Releasing another new paradigm in 2014-5 will be a complete yawn.
I bet it takes no more than a month tops to undo the damage that was done and none of it would be difficult. Make metro optional and allow RT apps to run within desktop windows and magically people look forward to upgrading.
The 2012Q4 x86 midlevel hardware has been really exciting stuff, innovative
Your serious?
the hardware manufacturers start one another's ideas 2013Q1 laptops and even desktops are going to feel a 6 years ahead of 2012Q1
LOL I can't wait to feel 6 years of progress in one. It is going to be incredible... I mean a new computer with less capabilities than the 5 year old one I have now... soo excited..can't wait...
If he hasn't got any bad things to say about Microsoft, why is this news?
If you ever exepect to land another job which does not involve flipping burgers you never say anything bad about your previous employer regardless of what you think or feel.
"I have a number of applications that will not run on 64-bit Windows"...
There is *NO* difference between 32-bit environment applications see on 64-bit windows vs 32-bit windows.
You either have driver issues, compatibility mode issues or ancient 16-bit apps that only run under a 16-bit wow. Some older installers for 32-bit apps used a 16-bit setup.
What's the likelihood this is even a remote exploit? I bet it's a LAN admin password, (the article doesn't say) which means that 99% of the routers are no less secure because of it. (in most cases if you are connected to the LAN, you already have physical access to the router, and there's nothing much that secures it against that)
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No one serious about security would use Comcast anyway.
Like your choice of ISP magically changes the reality of Internet being a fully untrusted and untrustworthy network.
Always assume your pipe is compromised and use end-to-end security if you care about the confidentiality and integrity of any data you transmit over the Internet.
I don't know anyone in the tech field that uses them
LOL I know of many network engineers who work for first and second tier operators who use comcast at home.
CenturyLink is so reliable that they own the market for professionals. I used Comcast for a while, but the 200+ msec ping made SSH unusable
YMMV... my pings are about 30ms to google and 20ms when using comcast as a WAN link to our corporate office.
like everyone else that needs a reliable connection, gave up on them years ago. They don't try and don't care.
These comments are pointless. If you look for it there will always be someone saying megaco x is horrible because y happened or megaco a is great because b happened. Our personal experiences mean squat. You would be on better footing by citing the results of a customer satisfaction survey.
I think at the end of the day what really matters whenever moores law is invoked is the underlying issue of cost per transister... I don't see cost ever being relegated to irrelevant.
As transistors get cheaper you can take any combination of two paths:
1. Build cheaper gear with same capabilities.
2. Cram more into the same device to increase capabilities while maintaining price.
Either way moores law is still critically important to the industry no matter who wins a CPU architecture war.
With regards to ARM vs x86 I am content to make some popcorn and watch from the sidelines as both sides talk shit and throw down ever more energy effecient gear.
Slashdot Mirror
First I used the normal slashdot from my PC.
Then I wanted to be cool and modern and shit like everyone else so I upgraded my AMPS brick phone to one of those new models with a retardedly high resolution...
Now whenever I go to a site that dares give me a paired down mobile version automatically without asking it makes me sad..sometimes I even want to frown.
Occasionally it is nice to just sit fads out and wait for technology to go full circle instead of wasting time caring about useless short term problems like WAP and HTML browsers with ridiculously underpowered hardware and low res displays.
At least I have solace in the fact when it comes to necessary long term technology changes slashdot has got my back with its fully IPv4 enabled website.
I am particularly amused by these types of decisions requiring a third party to correctly guess the outcome of legal matters they are not a party or face some form of liability either way for guessing wrongly.
Do they have book stores in Australia? Does this same abstraction of guilt work there too or just against huge companies with deep pockets?
What about networks thru which this data flows? Can network operators be found guilty for conspiracy to propogate libel? Where does it end and why?
I wish google would have dug up actual evidence supporting criminal affiliations against this asshat... I assume the truth is an absolute defense even in the Soviet Republic of Australia?
When was the last time you upgraded a CPU and didn't get a new motherboard? Never?
You got a point there.
The biggest problem I would have is in initial selection of motherboard and CPU. Full matrix of CPU vs motherboard we enjoy today would be paired down significantly.
For example I always tend to get the slowest CPU I can find with the most capable motherboard.
With coupling it is not hard to see situations where you may be forced to purchase a faster processor to get more mainboard features (dual gige, x usbs, external satas, gobs of RAM..etc)
I'm sorry that people get cancer.
Making this sort of medical data available to any researcher with an itch for free is useful.
I also agree on the flip side better organizing online moderated and professionally reviewed resources to educate and provide legitimate advice and treatment options is also beneficial.
At the same time encouraging others to follow this same path will only enrich crackpots and scam artists selling their cures and assorted bs which simply does not work.
Even the better moderated cancer forums are filled with well intentioned people telling us all about how by ignoring doctor x they got y result therefore doctor x was wrong or worse in bed with the medical industrial complex...
Internet style colloberation/crowdsourcing fails spectacularly when the voices only qualifications are having stayed in a holiday inn express last night.
I can't think of anything more outrageous and distructive to the DNS system than allowing a bunch of useless new TLDs which only serve to enrich ICANN, phishers and name protection rackets.
I guess I should be appalled and dismayed when you develop a structure on the Internet which explicitly allows governments to weigh in on decisions and it quickly devolves into childish nonsense... Nobody could have possibly predicted this??? ..give me a fucking break.
Giving governments a taste of say/power over the happenings of the net is bad policy it only encourages governments to seek more power which only results in bad outcomes.
It might seem silly but those extra layers in the ISO model are getting to be more and more important to the design of protocols and operation of the network. Being sloppy, greedy and a total sellout (ICANN) instead of clever and concerned about the freedom and well-being of users is a recipe for disaster.
I distinctly remember on multiple occassions feeling irked by what I assumed were tinfoil hat wearing fools who required you to get the time kind of sort of right first before clocks would sync up from an external time source...especially within windows.
I could swear windows and the standard unix ntp systems explicitly check for and do not allow such shenanigans...yet this happened and as I hear from a few sources real systems were effected... Maybe there is some nuance with stratums or something which come into play in this equation...
Its just if you would have asked me if this could happen prior to today I would have said "NO" without any reservation. I'm an idiot.
If in fact you do make contact with Martians please let me know right away. I've got a lot of other things on my plate but I suspect that that would go to the top of the list even if they're just microbes. -prez O
I'm "curious"...can I at least ask if you talked to Obama about this?
What really bothers me is that MS is hitting retailers like BestBuy and Microcenter hard and FORCING THIS UPON USERS. If you want a new laptop YOU MUST use WIndows 8. You have to buy from a website and go out of your way with Windows 7.
In the past BestBuy had laptops with XP and Vista at the same time. Same with Microcenter. All the slashdotters post like users have a choice which OS to use. You don't unless you have images and an IT department ready to set them up. They are forcing Windows 8 marketshare so they can save people had the concious choice to use the shitty modern UI.
Isn't their laws agaisnt this? I prefer the past when MS releases a new OS you have a conscious choice to choose.
Walk into the store, tell the sales person what you want. If they can't deliver walk out and tell them why you are walking out.
Perhaps MS can afford to ignore clear and unambiguous messages from its user base.
Best buy I know does not have that same luxury.
Operating a blog where a 67 year old guy talks about his 17 and 20 year old girlfriends getting dressed while proclaiming his innocence while hiding from authorities for murder is not a way to gain any measure of public sympathy or positive PR of any kind. It just makes you look like even more of a sick fuck to a nontrivial portion of those who would be inclined to read your blog.
Now for all I know you are completely innocent but I aint the one you need to win over. The only thing I know for sure is your gross and a moron.
So microsoft is accusing them of not following standard extensions? That's beyond hilarious.
No, Microsoft is reminding people to to drop the vendor specific tags once they are no longer necessary to maximize compatibility.
it's IE complaining that they can't subvert web standards like they have been and continue to attempt to do for years.
Except this is not their complaint.
wah wah the world functions without IE, wah wah. That's what this is.
What would you have developers do? Keep vendor specific extensions forever even when they are no longer necessary or get with the program and support the open standard?
Two articles about republicans talking copyright reform and anti-SOPA in a single day...
Normally when politicans talk freedom it is in the form of maximizing "freedom" for their donating constituents with big pockets...I must say on the surface I'm impressed.
This country is in dire need of sane copyright and patent laws...and there is plenty of low hanging fruit like repeal of mickey mouse protection act.
Some entries involve racial slurs or threats of secession; others advocate openly for the assassination of Obama
1. So we have threats of secession which seems to happen every time a new president is elected. How quickly we forget what conspiracy nuts were spouting off about Bill Clinton while he was in office.
2. Racial slurs
3. Finally we have death threats.
Parse "death threat" carefully... TFA cites an example "I want an assassination" this by itself is not a death threat. Wishing someone to be killed is not the same as threatening or otherwise conspiring to have them killed.
While the people behind the racial slurs may find themselves in legal trouble
WTF? Why? The only way "free speech" and "freedom" work in society is tolerance of the bullshit of others.
In the USA nobody should be in "legal" trouble for dreams of secession, popping off slurs or wishing someone dead. Obviously there may incur other costs for being an asshat.
Legal trouble should only be limited to those who have actually made threats.
If you don't like the concept of freedom of speech then by all means feel free to move to Europe.
"Critical infustructure" has always been vulnerable to attack... countless thousands of miles of unguarded rail, transmission lines, hundreds of thousands of square miles of unguarded lands with easy access to aquifers, Ignition hazards around all manner of unguarded hydrocarbon storage facilities. Little furry creatures enjoying unfettered access to carry out suicide missions inside of transmission facilities. Construction operators and sailors accidently knocking out communications to entire cities and countries.
If you just follow common sense and keep your control shit off the net then external state actors who wish to damage your critical infustructure will need to try just a little bit harder than some made for TV scheme you heard about on 24 and therefore assume must be real.
Operational security against insider stupidity and bad actors is always a good thing but only in as much as it is done in the context of realization security of a system is only as good as its weakest link.
At the end of the day infustructure protection is a physical issue not a cyberspace issue and it does not deserve special attention above and beyond the considerations made for physical infustructure.
Any cyber doomsday scenarios by coordinated takeover of command and control can be avoided by keeping shit offline and using local interlocks which do not answer to C&C..hey that thing aint phase matched I don't think I will connect it up just yet... hey I'm overheating...I think I'll just shut down rather than melt into a pile of goo...tanks full...I'm going to stop pumping now... shit that should exist anyway and would go a long way to saving critical infustructure from the accident prone humans who operate it regardless of their intentions.
Windows 3.11 was an ugly clone and copy of the Mac.
Not really anything alike unless you think having a GUI makes it a clone.
Netbios was their poor attempt of copying VMS networking technologies
Wrong on all accounts. Microsoft did not even invent netbios.
Word was a copy of Wordperfect.
They were nothing alike outside of both being word processors.
Excel was bought and was a cheap clone of Lotus
Oh please all of the concepts and shit came from visicalc which lotus, quattro..etc ripped off.
IE a buggy clone of Netscape etc.
IE started from the Mosaic codebase.
Windows 8, Surface, and Windows Phone, are innovative and new
They copied Apple in all the crappy ways that matter... app store, absurd vendor control over software environment, no customization options, dumbed down, skyhook crowdsourcing without asking, narrow developer platform requirements.
Maybe non power users and hipsters will like it?
I hope someone does.
Is this the same as last months "breakthrough" technology described in the MIT technology review.
It is the same in the sense someone has claimed they invented something new with spectacular results when the concepts are already well known and deployed in production.
How many queuing discplines are there that would do the same thing and without the side effect of skewing send side?
Because rather then fix the problem in the system its self, they will just ban the 'small radio transmitter' that is under your control.
A rooted phone does not translate into access to the baseband processor. :(
Which is a critical first step.
Interoperability in protocol, data, schema and communication is the critical first step. The enabling principal is integration not duplication.
It is unecessary for the same code to run everywhere... it is only necessary things are able to effectivly communicate and interact.
Agreed. But that can't happen when software is tied to a particular small list of form factors.
I think a bigger issue today in terms of enhancing software interop are silos between vendors. There is not even a common language anymore: java,obj c,.net... Things are moving backwards as each vendor does everything they can to enhance lockin. Apple does not allow apps which implement emulation or scripting languages.
It used to be the c compiler was available everywhere... If you wanted to port you simply abstracted the environment specific interfaces and moved on to the next project. Before the i* meme we at least had an embedded java that worked more or less universally on most handsets...yes even the "dumb" ones.
Yeah that's fair. Java was a huge step forward in ubiquitous computing. I think the range of Java devices from the JavaVM phones, to Android smartphones to server, to Java applets running in browsers, to embedded systems running without interface is proof of that.
Then where is it? What happened? The most salient example of "ubiquitous computing" I can find of this concept in actual use today take the form of USB and various bluetooth profiles. I think Interop of code obviously does not hurt but is not really the core challenge.
I said it in the very response. GDI has bitmaps and has GUI standards designed around bitmaps. One of the many things that needs to change is everything needs to be self adjusting vector graphics.
You need metro for vector graphics? Really? Last I checked UI elements and fonts can be scaled from the windows control panel. They have been layed down and rendered in hardware as vectors for many many many years.
Take for example the Lenovo yoga with full ultrabook functionality and a snap hinge for tablet functionality.
I'm sorry I don't understand.
Its not even a particularly powerful laptop with a screen that folds backwards... There were "IBM" thinkpads with screens that twisted and then folded down over keyboard YEARS AGO and nobody cared.
If not, if the only thing people like about Microsoft is legacy support, they've already lost.
Not if it gets the job done and people are willing to continue to pay MS for support and maintenance. When all is said and done technology is just a tool. At some point change is be correctly viewed as a liability especially when that change is ortagonal to the mission or does not translate into operational effeciency or other tangable benefit.
You can invent a new screwdriver and screws each year with incredible properties we can only dream of today.
You can invent a new power socket and voltage specification each year.
Would these inventions really do anything meaningful to help society or would they just cause excess waste of time, resources and unecessary expendetures?
There is nothing to piss away, they are permanently a legacy vendor damned to falling marketshare and less and less relevance.
Why do you have to choose between supporting existing systems and innovation? Why is it not possible to do both as MS has been doing all along for decades?
Well this is mainly sarcastic ranting. Ubiquitous computing is the idea of being able to run applications on a variety of devices. The same application on smartphone, tablet, laptop. And
All of these "devices" are just the same guts/computers in different form factors. The concept of "ubiquitous computing" is using intelligence to integrate and assist with aspects of the users *physical* environment. For example a networked computer which turns on the heat in various rooms of your family home when it detects family member(s) approaching. Home automation, a car integrating with a mobile phone, a fridge updating the families shopping list and budget as items are plucked out of it. TVs that pause themselves when you fall asleep or walk out of the room.
You can say having a bunch of computers which look different but can run the same apps is somehow "Ubiquitous computing" ... but it just aint so nor does it do anything meaningful to advance the core concept behind "Ubiquitous computing". By your measure Java is "ubiquitous computing".
And yes Metro was needed for that, GDI didn't have fully scalable graphics.
I would love to hear why metro is required for "Ubiquitous computing".
The demand of users quite obviously for years has been more touch and less complexity.
The x86 platform has become a dead zone as upgrade times have gone from 3 to 5 to 7 to now 10 years. Sure those users who want to spend as little as possible while getting the moon are upset, who cares?
Ah... now we're gettin somewhere kids.
How DARE someone expect to have the same personal computer for 5 or 10 years and have it meet their needs during that time? Who do these freeloaders think they are?
The future is disposable computers which can not be upgraded or repaired. Designed to last a few years before the non-removable battery craps out or the AMOLED display melts into goo or a vendor decides you had enough value and shuts down a server turning all "legacy" devices into bricks.
And yes I'm serious about the 2012Q4 hardware it is a huge step forward.
What hardware and why is it a huge step forward?
Make metro optional and Metro just becomes a new style of GUI which is unsupported rather than the direction Microsoft is going. Like Silverlight and 800 other projects it fails.
Better to bail on a stupid idea now than double down and loose even more later.
Balmer needs to establish the kind of credibility that Jobs did
Balmer needs to be FIRED.
clear: Metro is the new Windows GUI and anyone who wants to have a windows application that can sell in 2015 is going to have a fully Metro version.
Windows strength and brand loyalty stems from backwards compatibility and massive investment in existing infustructure and skills. Pissing it all away seems counterproductive and unlikely.
I don't see how they pick a different OS strategy at this point than ubiquitous computing.
Before smartphones computing was more ubiquitous than it is now. Now it is a bunch of vendor controlled silos. Metro is in no way necessary to either enable or hinder the concept of ubiquitous computing.
Microsoft starts going squishy on Windows 8 i.e. Metro they will blow a crucial part of their strategy.
Ignoring the demands of users is never a winning strategy. Metro has its place...the desktop is not that place. Two apps on screen is unacceptable in a desktop environment. By denying basic reality Microsoft is only hurting itself.
Releasing another new paradigm in 2014-5 will be a complete yawn.
I bet it takes no more than a month tops to undo the damage that was done and none of it would be difficult. Make metro optional and allow RT apps to run within desktop windows and magically people look forward to upgrading.
The 2012Q4 x86 midlevel hardware has been really exciting stuff, innovative
Your serious?
the hardware manufacturers start one another's ideas 2013Q1 laptops and even desktops are going to feel a 6 years ahead of 2012Q1
LOL I can't wait to feel 6 years of progress in one. It is going to be incredible... I mean a new computer with less capabilities than the 5 year old one I have now... soo excited..can't wait...
If he hasn't got any bad things to say about Microsoft, why is this news?
If you ever exepect to land another job which does not involve flipping burgers you never say anything bad about your previous employer regardless of what you think or feel.
"I have a number of applications that will not run on 64-bit Windows" ...
There is *NO* difference between 32-bit environment applications see on 64-bit windows vs 32-bit windows.
You either have driver issues, compatibility mode issues or ancient 16-bit apps that only run under a 16-bit wow. Some older installers for 32-bit apps used a 16-bit setup.
What's the likelihood this is even a remote exploit? I bet it's a LAN admin password, (the article doesn't say) which means that 99% of the routers are no less secure because of it. (in most cases if you are connected to the LAN, you already have physical access to the router, and there's nothing much that secures it against that)
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No one serious about security would use Comcast anyway.
Like your choice of ISP magically changes the reality of Internet being a fully untrusted and untrustworthy network.
Always assume your pipe is compromised and use end-to-end security if you care about the confidentiality and integrity of any data you transmit over the Internet.
I don't know anyone in the tech field that uses them
LOL I know of many network engineers who work for first and second tier operators who use comcast at home.
CenturyLink is so reliable that they own the market for professionals. I used Comcast for a while, but the 200+ msec ping made SSH unusable
YMMV... my pings are about 30ms to google and 20ms when using comcast as a WAN link to our corporate office.
like everyone else that needs a reliable connection, gave up on them years ago. They don't try and don't care.
These comments are pointless. If you look for it there will always be someone saying megaco x is horrible because y happened or megaco a is great because b happened. Our personal experiences mean squat. You would be on better footing by citing the results of a customer satisfaction survey.
Except for nostalgia for the hardware itself, I don't see why anybody would buy these.
Test taking - calculators do not have WiFi or Cellular radios.
Keypad - Physical keypads are superior to touch screens.
I think at the end of the day what really matters whenever moores law is invoked is the underlying issue of cost per transister... I don't see cost ever being relegated to irrelevant.
As transistors get cheaper you can take any combination of two paths:
1. Build cheaper gear with same capabilities.
2. Cram more into the same device to increase capabilities while maintaining price.
Either way moores law is still critically important to the industry no matter who wins a CPU architecture war.
With regards to ARM vs x86 I am content to make some popcorn and watch from the sidelines as both sides talk shit and throw down ever more energy effecient gear.