There has been a need for this forever. Just look at the rate that people go through disposible cellphones. Those roving wiretap laws are a real PITA for people involved in certain types of transactional businesses. Instead of having to come up on a new burner every couple of days, they just can rock the 'droid and get around the LEOs.
If.NET is ONLY server side then why is there a downloadable version of it for clients? There obviously has to be some sort of processing going on with the client that requires certain DLLs.
What do you mean when you say Turkey is heading south? Everything I've read points to Turkey being the largest player in the region within the next decade or so.
Right. Let me go ahead and leave a multi-million dollar firm that does business with the SEC, DoJ and just about every major law firm out there because the best document review and eDiscovery tools are built around a Microsoft stack. I don't care who makes the tools I use. I care that the tools get the job done. FYI - I have a bunch of LAMP and WAMP servers up too.
It hooks into the.Net APIs that are on the client OS. I'm thinking about it in terms of a lot of the applications that I have dealt with over the last couple of years. They all seem to be built in.Net, and leverage IIS and SQL. The client workstations all need.Net and IIS for the application to work.
I think it is a lot like what Google is doing with Chrome. Google has a vision about what applications and services they want to offer via their platform. Rather than pin their hopes on "browser vendors" to adopt specific ways of doing things, Google made their own browser. That browser supports the functionality that Google devs need.
You almost got it right. It's more like, "Provide a free browser that fully supports.Net so that the thousands of developers who develop against the Microsoft stack (SQL Server, Sharepoint, etc) will have a stable target to aim for."
I get the sense that as a company, Microsoft could give two shits about which browser home users are using. They do care about their developers though. They do care about the enterprise. They need a known platform for their developers to target. That is why they need IE.
In Japan, a 3 hour rail ride across country doesn't sound so bad when compared with a 45 minute plane ride plus 45-60 minutes waiting in an airport + 30 minutes parking, etc (about 2 hours). But in the US it would be a 12 hour rail ride cross country (even at 250 mph) vs. a 4-5 hour plane ride.
I think you're missing the bigger picture. In twenty years, air travel will be out of the reach of all but the super wealthy due to insane fuel costs. High speed rail will be it.
As much as I hate to undo nearly 15 points of moderation, I have to point out that you're wrong here. Toyota vehicles have uncontrolled acceleration problems. How else do you explain the issue with the Lexus, driven by the CHP officer whose family was on the phone with 911? A CHP officer, who spends the majority of his life behind the wheel, often times at higher than average speeds, died when he was unable to slow down his Lexus.
Your "...none of these drivers were capable enough..." is an idiotic statement that flies in the face of the reality of the situation. Just because the Prius managed to pass an inspection does not mean that Toyota's are safe, or that everyone who had a problem with them is an idiot.
The article claims 3 challenges. I claim the article is worthless without addressing the 4th!
the relatively high cost of offshore wind energy; technical challenges surrounding installation, operations, and grid interconnection; and the lack of site data and experience with project permitting processes."
They missed NIMBYism!!! Amateurs.
UNLESS, they included it in "...project permitting processes."
Maybe now that the Kennedy's have more or less completely kicked off at this point, Obama can finally tap the North Eastern ocean?
I think that comes a distant second. For right now, it is the service providers that will be supporting it. You have to understand how the market works. The consumers with IPv6 addresses will be coming primarily from Asia. The United States has a sizeable stockpile of addresses. Even the last non-profit that I worked for had a/26 chunk, and they only had a couple NATs for traffic on 25 and a few application specific hosts. The ISPs will take care of the consumers. Another poster already mentioned how he contacted Qwest. Those guys are jokers when it comes to getting the job done right, and even they already have a canned form letter that explains their transition and how customers do not need to worry about it.
Unless you're looking to consume Asian internet, you'll probably be fine for a while with your IPv4, as will everyone you know. I predict the front runners for adoption will be corporations with operations in developing markets. Coming close second will be the vendors who provide services to those corporations, and who need to allow overseas connections into their resources.
Like I said earlier, the market will keep your IPv4 available for as long as you want it. Sure, IPv4 might become like the AOL of the first half of the 21st century. It will still be there, but nobody but old people will use it.
Do you have final sign off on the work that you do, or is their someone above you? I'm willing to bet that you report to someone else, and either that person is a licensed engineer, or they are reporting to someone else who is. At some level, there needs to be an official signatory on whatever work is done. That person needs to have the right credentials.
Most likely there is a pompous idiot who the city engineer reports to. That idiot decided that the city could not afford the cost of the traffic lights. He then directed the engineer to justify that position. The engineer is now caught in between the proverbal rock (his boss) and a hard place (the findings of the community).
The real investigation should be into why the city engineer is being obstructionist and refusing to follow well presented logic. That is the thing about engineering. The facts and figures are black and white. Either they support the need for a traffic signal or they do not. The community needs to go to the city council and get on the record. They need to show that the city engineer is intentionally creating a dangerous situation by refusing to put in the lights. Then they need to wait. The first person who gets involved in an accident in one of those intersections will be rich when they sue the city for negligence.
Isn't that convenient. Guest wireless access on the same network as the POS terminals and EVERYTHING else. I'm all for VLAN segregation and ACLs, but come on now? How hard is it to isolate the network that handles transactions from the network that the fans are using to update Facebook?
I am going to give these guys the benefit of the doubt and assume that the reporter is just an idiot. There is no way that everything is on the same network. That would be security stupidity. I can imagine it now, "No you silly switch, THIS is what your ARP table is supposed to look like."
The only point where I would disagree with anything you said is that we are talking AT&T here. Assuming malice when dealing with AT&T (which is no longer the AT&T of old, but was taken over by the onetime Baby Bell SBC, arguably the worst of lot) is actually a good defensive strategy. Those boys rarely do anything by accident, and shafting customers is a fundamental tenet of their business model.
This point deserves to be re-enforced. AT&T screws their customers over on situations like this one. Any time there is a large enough transaction volume, the customer needs to be aware of the potential for billing abuse by AT&T. The last company I worked at had about 50 cellphone with AT&T. Because they were added at various times there were about four or five different plans. AT&T refused to consolidate us onto the best plan, so it was all piecemeal nonsense.
We constantly had problems with numbers that weren't ours showing up on the bill. Over the course of two years, there were five or six occurances where we had to call AT&T to dispute charges. I'm not talking about a couple calls that were on one of our numbers. I'm talking entire phone numbers that belonged to other accounts that showed up on our bill.
Also, we had employees who travelled interntionally from time to time. During those time periods, we would call AT&T and have them activate international roaming, data, etc. We weren't switching plans. The accounts were international accounts. We just had those features disabled when they weren't needed. 75%+ of the time after activating the international features, AT&T would manage to "accidently" knock the account down to the lowest tier, most expensive possible. So the month after the employee got back, they'd start getting overage charges for state side data. We'd call AT&T, and it was always the same story. First they swear that nothing is wrong. Then after two hours of dealing with their inept reps, a manager's manager finally admits that the account type got changed and they flip it back and undo the charges.
There is a clause in every AT&T contract that you only have a certain amount of time to dispute charges (60 days I think). They will also only refund a certain amount of overbilling. If you have been over billed for two years, they will only refund the last month or two worth of charges. With AT&T's shady business practices and subpar network, I won't go anywhere near them. They are terrible. Their sales people suck. Their tech support sucks. They are the WORST of the major wireless carriers out there.
Maybe you're only now noticing it because you pay more attention to Microsoft than anything else? ARM has been gaining traction for the last couple of years. I think the big push that initiated a lot of the momentum that ARM has had was the netbook craze. Intel tried to join the party with the Atom processors, but those seem to have fallen by the wayside.
I agree completely. It seems like Microsoft has some sort of complex where they feel like they need to be involved in everything that has anything to do with personal computers or consumer electronics. It would be great to see them jettison all of the dead weight, clean up the company with some serious re-structuring, and then focus their enterprise on providing a solid OS and application stack to developers and businesses.
How do American companies function every day? The company that I am working for is actually losing business because our clients do not want to store their data on our servers here in the United States. Everyone is concerned about the PATRIOT Act and the power it gives the government to compel disclosure of what should be private and confidential data. Although it is not exactly the same as being shut down, it goes to show that the effects of government policy are not just related to dictators in African countries.
Pop culture has co-opted nearly everything worth while from geek culture and moved on. That is what pop culture does once a sub-culture achieves critical mass. In my life time it has happened twice. The first was with raves/electronica/underground dance music. The second was with computers/internet/geeks. In both cases the sub-cultures went from being isolated, to being referenced in 'popular' ways (techno music in commercials, "rave" fashion on television, companies deciding employees need email, grandma wanting to be on AOL).
The acceptance of computers in popular culture was the biggest change. For raves, even when they were "big" it was still very much a sub-culture. There are only so many people who are ever going to get into heavy bass and recreational drug use. On the other hand computers have leapt from the point where "nobody" (from a pop-culture perspective) wanted to use them, to the point where "everybody" has at least one. Of those who have computers, only a small percentage actually care how they work. The rest just have them because they need one to function in society. That is the co-opting that took place.
In a more subtle way, society's perspective of IT has shifted. In the late 1990s and early 21st century (before the tech bubble exploded), I used to get recognition from strangers for being in IT. It was one of those jobs where people didn't know much about it, but it sounded cutting edge and cool. Society knew they needed to know how to use computers, so being out ahead of the curve was an advantage. Now IT people are just the work place bitches, a rung or two above the mailroom guys (unless you work for a technology company).
Won't anyone think of the rodents?! How many of them are going to have themselves, and generations of their decendants sold into slavery to power this nefarious contraption. How many hamsters have to die in the line of duty to move 10,000 tons of freight?!!?!!
I would reply to this, but if you were to reply back to me, I would have to drill down through a whole slew of posts to find what you wrote. Where as previously I could just go to http://slashdot.org/~dave562/comments and then click on the comment you replied to. It would bring up a nice, EXPANDED tree view of the discussion thread.
One step forward, two steps back? Ah hell, who am I kidding. We all know that three steps were taken, but they were all in the same direction.
What kind of company do you work at where they can't afford an IT professional to coordinate a virus cleanup? A Conficker clean up is something a $30 an hour network tech can handle if given the right instructions, time and leeway to take care of it.
It isn't hyperbole when it is trotted out time and time again as one of the benefits of OSS. Stability and Security are two of the corner stones that OSS advocates build their arguments against "closed source" on top of. Some of the others are cost and portability of data.
To say that "nobody" has claimed that Apache is best ever is just as extreme of a statement as the original one I made about "everybody" talking about how secure OSS is.
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There has been a need for this forever. Just look at the rate that people go through disposible cellphones. Those roving wiretap laws are a real PITA for people involved in certain types of transactional businesses. Instead of having to come up on a new burner every couple of days, they just can rock the 'droid and get around the LEOs.
.NET is server-side code in the shape of ASP.NET
If .NET is ONLY server side then why is there a downloadable version of it for clients? There obviously has to be some sort of processing going on with the client that requires certain DLLs.
What do you mean when you say Turkey is heading south? Everything I've read points to Turkey being the largest player in the region within the next decade or so.
SQL and IIS are on the back end. The client is just IE with the .Net environment.
Right. Let me go ahead and leave a multi-million dollar firm that does business with the SEC, DoJ and just about every major law firm out there because the best document review and eDiscovery tools are built around a Microsoft stack. I don't care who makes the tools I use. I care that the tools get the job done. FYI - I have a bunch of LAMP and WAMP servers up too.
It hooks into the .Net APIs that are on the client OS. I'm thinking about it in terms of a lot of the applications that I have dealt with over the last couple of years. They all seem to be built in .Net, and leverage IIS and SQL. The client workstations all need .Net and IIS for the application to work.
I think it is a lot like what Google is doing with Chrome. Google has a vision about what applications and services they want to offer via their platform. Rather than pin their hopes on "browser vendors" to adopt specific ways of doing things, Google made their own browser. That browser supports the functionality that Google devs need.
You almost got it right. It's more like, "Provide a free browser that fully supports .Net so that the thousands of developers who develop against the Microsoft stack (SQL Server, Sharepoint, etc) will have a stable target to aim for."
I get the sense that as a company, Microsoft could give two shits about which browser home users are using. They do care about their developers though. They do care about the enterprise. They need a known platform for their developers to target. That is why they need IE.
In Japan, a 3 hour rail ride across country doesn't sound so bad when compared with a 45 minute plane ride plus 45-60 minutes waiting in an airport + 30 minutes parking, etc (about 2 hours). But in the US it would be a 12 hour rail ride cross country (even at 250 mph) vs. a 4-5 hour plane ride.
I think you're missing the bigger picture. In twenty years, air travel will be out of the reach of all but the super wealthy due to insane fuel costs. High speed rail will be it.
As much as I hate to undo nearly 15 points of moderation, I have to point out that you're wrong here. Toyota vehicles have uncontrolled acceleration problems. How else do you explain the issue with the Lexus, driven by the CHP officer whose family was on the phone with 911? A CHP officer, who spends the majority of his life behind the wheel, often times at higher than average speeds, died when he was unable to slow down his Lexus.
Your "...none of these drivers were capable enough..." is an idiotic statement that flies in the face of the reality of the situation. Just because the Prius managed to pass an inspection does not mean that Toyota's are safe, or that everyone who had a problem with them is an idiot.
They are directing Federal funding to broadband services. Federal funding is a fun thing. It comes with all sorts of stipulations.
The article claims 3 challenges. I claim the article is worthless without addressing the 4th!
the relatively high cost of offshore wind energy; technical challenges surrounding installation, operations, and grid interconnection; and the lack of site data and experience with project permitting processes."
They missed NIMBYism!!! Amateurs.
UNLESS, they included it in "...project permitting processes."
Maybe now that the Kennedy's have more or less completely kicked off at this point, Obama can finally tap the North Eastern ocean?
I think that comes a distant second. For right now, it is the service providers that will be supporting it. You have to understand how the market works. The consumers with IPv6 addresses will be coming primarily from Asia. The United States has a sizeable stockpile of addresses. Even the last non-profit that I worked for had a /26 chunk, and they only had a couple NATs for traffic on 25 and a few application specific hosts. The ISPs will take care of the consumers. Another poster already mentioned how he contacted Qwest. Those guys are jokers when it comes to getting the job done right, and even they already have a canned form letter that explains their transition and how customers do not need to worry about it.
Unless you're looking to consume Asian internet, you'll probably be fine for a while with your IPv4, as will everyone you know. I predict the front runners for adoption will be corporations with operations in developing markets. Coming close second will be the vendors who provide services to those corporations, and who need to allow overseas connections into their resources.
Like I said earlier, the market will keep your IPv4 available for as long as you want it. Sure, IPv4 might become like the AOL of the first half of the 21st century. It will still be there, but nobody but old people will use it.
You're right. Unless you are a business that is offering internet based services, you can probably ignore IPv6.
Do you have final sign off on the work that you do, or is their someone above you? I'm willing to bet that you report to someone else, and either that person is a licensed engineer, or they are reporting to someone else who is. At some level, there needs to be an official signatory on whatever work is done. That person needs to have the right credentials.
Most likely there is a pompous idiot who the city engineer reports to. That idiot decided that the city could not afford the cost of the traffic lights. He then directed the engineer to justify that position. The engineer is now caught in between the proverbal rock (his boss) and a hard place (the findings of the community).
The real investigation should be into why the city engineer is being obstructionist and refusing to follow well presented logic. That is the thing about engineering. The facts and figures are black and white. Either they support the need for a traffic signal or they do not. The community needs to go to the city council and get on the record. They need to show that the city engineer is intentionally creating a dangerous situation by refusing to put in the lights. Then they need to wait. The first person who gets involved in an accident in one of those intersections will be rich when they sue the city for negligence.
Isn't that convenient. Guest wireless access on the same network as the POS terminals and EVERYTHING else. I'm all for VLAN segregation and ACLs, but come on now? How hard is it to isolate the network that handles transactions from the network that the fans are using to update Facebook?
I am going to give these guys the benefit of the doubt and assume that the reporter is just an idiot. There is no way that everything is on the same network. That would be security stupidity. I can imagine it now, "No you silly switch, THIS is what your ARP table is supposed to look like."
The only point where I would disagree with anything you said is that we are talking AT&T here. Assuming malice when dealing with AT&T (which is no longer the AT&T of old, but was taken over by the onetime Baby Bell SBC, arguably the worst of lot) is actually a good defensive strategy. Those boys rarely do anything by accident, and shafting customers is a fundamental tenet of their business model.
This point deserves to be re-enforced. AT&T screws their customers over on situations like this one. Any time there is a large enough transaction volume, the customer needs to be aware of the potential for billing abuse by AT&T. The last company I worked at had about 50 cellphone with AT&T. Because they were added at various times there were about four or five different plans. AT&T refused to consolidate us onto the best plan, so it was all piecemeal nonsense.
We constantly had problems with numbers that weren't ours showing up on the bill. Over the course of two years, there were five or six occurances where we had to call AT&T to dispute charges. I'm not talking about a couple calls that were on one of our numbers. I'm talking entire phone numbers that belonged to other accounts that showed up on our bill.
Also, we had employees who travelled interntionally from time to time. During those time periods, we would call AT&T and have them activate international roaming, data, etc. We weren't switching plans. The accounts were international accounts. We just had those features disabled when they weren't needed. 75%+ of the time after activating the international features, AT&T would manage to "accidently" knock the account down to the lowest tier, most expensive possible. So the month after the employee got back, they'd start getting overage charges for state side data. We'd call AT&T, and it was always the same story. First they swear that nothing is wrong. Then after two hours of dealing with their inept reps, a manager's manager finally admits that the account type got changed and they flip it back and undo the charges.
There is a clause in every AT&T contract that you only have a certain amount of time to dispute charges (60 days I think). They will also only refund a certain amount of overbilling. If you have been over billed for two years, they will only refund the last month or two worth of charges. With AT&T's shady business practices and subpar network, I won't go anywhere near them. They are terrible. Their sales people suck. Their tech support sucks. They are the WORST of the major wireless carriers out there.
Maybe you're only now noticing it because you pay more attention to Microsoft than anything else? ARM has been gaining traction for the last couple of years. I think the big push that initiated a lot of the momentum that ARM has had was the netbook craze. Intel tried to join the party with the Atom processors, but those seem to have fallen by the wayside.
I agree completely. It seems like Microsoft has some sort of complex where they feel like they need to be involved in everything that has anything to do with personal computers or consumer electronics. It would be great to see them jettison all of the dead weight, clean up the company with some serious re-structuring, and then focus their enterprise on providing a solid OS and application stack to developers and businesses.
How do American companies function every day? The company that I am working for is actually losing business because our clients do not want to store their data on our servers here in the United States. Everyone is concerned about the PATRIOT Act and the power it gives the government to compel disclosure of what should be private and confidential data. Although it is not exactly the same as being shut down, it goes to show that the effects of government policy are not just related to dictators in African countries.
Pop culture has co-opted nearly everything worth while from geek culture and moved on. That is what pop culture does once a sub-culture achieves critical mass. In my life time it has happened twice. The first was with raves/electronica/underground dance music. The second was with computers/internet/geeks. In both cases the sub-cultures went from being isolated, to being referenced in 'popular' ways (techno music in commercials, "rave" fashion on television, companies deciding employees need email, grandma wanting to be on AOL).
The acceptance of computers in popular culture was the biggest change. For raves, even when they were "big" it was still very much a sub-culture. There are only so many people who are ever going to get into heavy bass and recreational drug use. On the other hand computers have leapt from the point where "nobody" (from a pop-culture perspective) wanted to use them, to the point where "everybody" has at least one. Of those who have computers, only a small percentage actually care how they work. The rest just have them because they need one to function in society. That is the co-opting that took place.
In a more subtle way, society's perspective of IT has shifted. In the late 1990s and early 21st century (before the tech bubble exploded), I used to get recognition from strangers for being in IT. It was one of those jobs where people didn't know much about it, but it sounded cutting edge and cool. Society knew they needed to know how to use computers, so being out ahead of the curve was an advantage. Now IT people are just the work place bitches, a rung or two above the mailroom guys (unless you work for a technology company).
Won't anyone think of the rodents?! How many of them are going to have themselves, and generations of their decendants sold into slavery to power this nefarious contraption. How many hamsters have to die in the line of duty to move 10,000 tons of freight?!!?!!
Just wait til PETA gets wind of this!
I would reply to this, but if you were to reply back to me, I would have to drill down through a whole slew of posts to find what you wrote. Where as previously I could just go to http://slashdot.org/~dave562/comments and then click on the comment you replied to. It would bring up a nice, EXPANDED tree view of the discussion thread.
One step forward, two steps back? Ah hell, who am I kidding. We all know that three steps were taken, but they were all in the same direction.
What kind of company do you work at where they can't afford an IT professional to coordinate a virus cleanup? A Conficker clean up is something a $30 an hour network tech can handle if given the right instructions, time and leeway to take care of it.
It isn't hyperbole when it is trotted out time and time again as one of the benefits of OSS. Stability and Security are two of the corner stones that OSS advocates build their arguments against "closed source" on top of. Some of the others are cost and portability of data.
To say that "nobody" has claimed that Apache is best ever is just as extreme of a statement as the original one I made about "everybody" talking about how secure OSS is.