How funny. Of course I freely allow myself to be spied on, on certain of my computers, but others of my laptops are totally offline and shielded
I've written this before. But here goes again- briefly
THE CLOUD is a strategy to eventually and totally eliminate offline processing, storage, archiving and security. It is the ultimate gift to the intel bureaus worldwide. So be my guest. Send all your data online. Try to invent something and keep it secret- go ahead. try it
No thanks. Security is tough enough already, CLOUD computing. makes it a specious exercise in self deceptive foolishness.
How funny. Of course I freely allow myself to be spied on, on certain of my computers, but others of my laptops are totally offline and shielded
I've written this before. But here goes again- briefly
THE CLOUD is a strategy to eventually and totally eliminate offline processing, storage, archiving and security. It is the ultimate gift to the intel bureaus worldwide. So be my guest. Send all your data online. Try to invent something and keep it secret- go ahead. try it
No thanks. Security is tough enough already, CLOUD computing. makes it a specious exercise in self deceptive foolishness.
Since "9/11" the intelligence initiatives in the continental US have probably grown by 10 fold. You don't need to visit Starbucks to hear this, just read something other than the mainstream press. It's a huge business now and Aldous Huxley's fantasies have come true. Brave New World is here. But it's not all bad and fearsome. I'm also thinking about replacing our 2003 XP desktop with an iMac when it (the peecee) gives up the ghost 
My wife owns one which I've used. I guess my glass is half-full because at least we didn't fork over the dough and get one for me.
Not really. I'm just passing along my observations in my small corporate world. Not questioning the Facebookers, tweeters or the liesure crowd because the device is perfect for them.
Yeah, probably a loaded thread but 6 months ago my wife insisted on getting one. She's a heavy MS Office user on her MacBook and I basically told her the iPad doesn't do anything compared to her Mac and is severely limited especially in a work environment. So now it sits, unused except for the occasional game on a plane.
Go back to January. I notice my work colleagues begin showing up for Staff meetings gleefully pecking away at new, shiny iPads.
They say to me, "You need one of these things Krazy Bill!"
I reply over the top of my MBP13, "Why? It doesn't do anything."
Suffice it to say, by May... *all* 10 of these people had abandoned their iPads and were split between using various laptops and good old pencil/paper. I asked them "where their iPads were" and got a flurry of answers... none too specific.
From a general business perspective, the iPad needs 3 things:
1.) a semi-real Keyboard
2.) MS-Office
3.) The muscle to handle #2.
The keyboard is available and iPads are getting more powerful with each release. The problem I see is getting MS-Office for iOS. Honestly, with Microsoft about to release their very own tablet, it would be stupid for them to make one of their flagship products for the iPad. (And no. Numbers/Pages aren't the same as Word/Excel in a professional work environment. I didn't make that rule... it's just the way it is.)
So... after the luster has worn off, anyone else relegate their iPads to the dust bin?
