Posts by Mikel 2643 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2008
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Every road warrior's exploited laptop is a server on your network. And every PC that clicked a wrong link in IE, or previewed the wrong email in Outlook. And so on. And every PC that ever shared the network with those, even for one minute. And the printers and many other networked devices too. So... Everything.
The Nokia legacy brand itself is worth a small per unit premium, so it makes sense to go for volume first and prove the concept. If they don't try to over-tax the brand they will make some profits and then they can come with the high end devices at a higher premium. The key is to smoothly integrate their special sauce and get it in front of as many people as possible.
It will be a difficult trick to take, but I believe they can do it.
They have been flat refusing to build the devices Google wanted to be offered. Lead, follow or get out of the way.
Uniquely Pixel features: Google can add their own special sauce on top of Android just like anyone else can. There is nothing wrong with that. If the other OEMs find that Google's unique spin is popular they will no doubt copy it. Goodness know most things they do to stock Android subtract, not add, value.
And that is the problem. To make their Android products unique they take away from the smooth integration their products could have.
As I have said many times before, beating Nokia was unfinished business for Bill Gates that Steve Ballmer put excessive priority on. The shameful way he did it undid him and did immeasurable harm to both companies, consumers, technology in general, the nation of Finland and countless people invested in Nokia for their retirements. It was disgraceful. That noone went to prison in Finland for this economic sabotage is remarkable.
Nadella's carefully cleaning up the mess he inherited. In time most people will forget about this epic, as they have so many others. Nokia has begun to recover, and will be introducing Android devices shortly.
Windows Phone? A misconception that failed to thrive, and nearly killed its mother as well. Soon to fade from memory.
Whatever you're using it for is prohibited by the license.
Linux: still $0 per server, any number of processors or cores, any amount of RAM, any amount of storage, and client licenses are $0 too. All the features included at the same low $0. Use all you want. Clone and migrate your VMs with reckless abandon. And it's faster and more reliable, more secure, supports more devices, runs on more platforms, remains stable for a longer lifecycle, doesn't expire...
Software Assurance, Enterprise Agreements and the like are the pinnacle of marketing achievement: money you convince people to pay you !not! for goods or services - heavens no! Selling actual goods and services is for the marketing novice, the software sales plebeians who trudge out to offices in person, in the rain. This is money they pay you -in perpetuity- for the special privilege of being in the exclusive club with the right to buy your most premium products. You make tens of billions a year just from this. And typically they come to you to beg for entry, and you have to tolerate their filthy presence only once.
Great work if you can get it.
> Speaking to The Register today, a Lenovo spokesperson claimed the Chinese giant "does not intentionally block customers using other operating systems on its devices and is fully committed to providing Linux certifications and installation guidance on a wide range of products."
A wide range... but not specifically these offending ones.
> "Unsupported models will rely on Linux operating system vendors releasing new kernel and drivers to support features such as RAID on SSD," he added. "Unfortunately, I cannot confirm our relationship to the person at Best Buy."
Covered by the NDA. Can't say why we chose a controller that a Linux driver can't be made for. Ask the WinModem people why, if you can't figure it out on your own.
It's the non-denial denial. A confirmation that the story is true, pursed in such a way as to lead one to believe that it isn't. I have seen this sort of verbal footwork done much better.
The author's complaint seems to be not that Google collects and uses this data, nor how, but that others aren't permitted to do so.
Put me down for "I trust Google." I completely approve of the transaction of exchanging my position data in return for the services that data sharing enables - with Google only. I don't trust carriers, cable companies nor governments with this data at all, so they can pound sand.
All antivirus is solving the wrong problem, attempting to recognize an infinite variety of patterns - which is, of course, impossible. The need for this arises because the operating system itself is laughably insecure and attempts to run everything from everywhere by default.
The correct solution to this problem is to use an operating system correctly designed and configured to not take candy from strangers. Then antivirus is not needed.
> They exist, but I don't think they're at the terabit level just yet, which is what you'll need going forward (since it's the cities where all the broadband demand is). And that means new capex.
No. It happens that this is all single mode fiber of the sort that can now carry a terabit per strand. That is why they develop the optics for that fiber type. Back in the day it was laid the electronics were barely capable of a gigabit, but that was then - and they were looking to gross $2/MB (65336[64k bps]*60/8)/$ for long distance voice calls. That was the economics that made it worthwhile to bury all those thick bundles of fiber, and lend money to someone who was doing so. But the pace of progress in optics overtook the speed of cost recovery in long distance telephone service (mostly landline!) and the competition became who could drive whom out of business fastest. Suddenly lending the money became too big a risk and it all collapsed. But not before they buried the fiber, which was sold on the auction block in the bankruptcies at millicents on the dollar of the cost to buy and bury it.
But it -is- the terabit fiber, and the big cost isn't the electronics. It's getting the rights of way and burying the passive glass.
They busted up the Trusted Computing group because an audit that uncovered a glitch. Apparently they had been let go in the 90's for getting in the way of a product launch, but due to an accounting glitch they were still getting paid. They were still in the org chart, but even the building they worked in had been torn down. Nobody has seen them since the launch of W98 SE and some may have passed. So they fixed the glitch.
wget is broken and should DIE, dev tells Microsoft
"IE and Edge" is five different mutually incompatible browsers supported by four different mutually incompatible operating systems. And only one of two of those operating systems for each IE or Edge.
What I'm getting at is that it makes no more sense to add these numbers together to make a "share" than it does to arbitrarily add Opera and Firefox together. The different versions of IE ought to count as entirely different browsers, and separate entirely from Edge.
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