Well, ditto on my XP PC, except during the brief "Let's run this experimental 3rd party Voodoo 5 driver" stage.
But if I recall this was a discussion about basic users. What the hell would Gran do without you?:)
As for virus, agreed, although Outlook (as opposed to express) seems to get to everything long before Norton.
But don't pretend Linux is in some way immune to virii. They're (incrdibly) rare but there is no reason you couldn't do some horribly nasty stuff, especially if you trick someone (hello gran!) into running as root.
They tried this trick at Cardiff University too. They INSISTED you use one particular model of network card. (strangely the one they sold)
They couldn't of course insist you bought it from them. So for my brother I found someone I knew with the nick, copied his so it'd be from Intel's range and just changed his AN other card to use it.
Unsurprisingly, never a problem.
Ditto at my uni. They controlled by MAC (that you supplied) but were almost impossible to get hold of if you ever needed to change it. When I upgraded my machine I simply told it to use said old MAC.
Then had them both on one network at home because I forgot. Whoops.
AOL already does this. Their entire UK operation is run out of the USA. They use this neat little trick to avoid paying sales tax on their subscriptions too.
Although that loop hole will be closed next June.
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Put it on a poster on the wall of your office. More of us would have got there before it all collapses like an anti-trust trial.
Cell phones are never going to be anything other than giveaways to sell the service. Once you start to charge real money, the phones have value and the theft rate makes the whole concept questionable.
And this is what precisely happened in britain.
We started to have popular paid for phones, and even cheap phones with no line rental that you bought outright (pay as you go)
The theft rate is through the roof to the point of large goernment campaigns to be careful using them in public.
iirc, we had the first mobile phone theft murder recently.
They went so far as to hire Steve Snake (author of the 2 best genesis emulators) to write the emulation layer for both the Sega Smash pack and Sonic Jam.
They've never persued mod chips, action replays or game genies.
The DC would quite happily play CDRs out of the box.
Some would maybe say : And look what happened to them.
What's becomming clear is that the inital tech boom was a 1-off. You're never going to get that kind of frenzy in the IT industry again. A lot of people were getting way over paid, or in this case of companies, way over funded.
A few people were big winners, they were funded by the much larger number of people who were losers.
It'll recover, of course it will, but never to quite the same excitement "next big thing" frenzy.
The result will be a stronger long term industry but it is entirely possible people will struggle to earn as much in the future as they could during the boom.
Especially as there are a lot of good graduates now that started degrees during the boom in the hope of getting a massive payig job. This over supply is going to restrict saleries for a few years.
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Yep, technically you should call the old circuit city one "Divx" and the new MPEG-4y one "Divx ;)" since that was its name until they tried to sell it.
no wait... that's not right.
Wow, someone who actually uses the "GNU" in that Name.
Well, ditto on my XP PC, except during the brief "Let's run this experimental 3rd party Voodoo 5 driver" stage.
:)
But if I recall this was a discussion about basic users. What the hell would Gran do without you?
As for virus, agreed, although Outlook (as opposed to express) seems to get to everything long before Norton.
But don't pretend Linux is in some way immune to virii. They're (incrdibly) rare but there is no reason you couldn't do some horribly nasty stuff, especially if you trick someone (hello gran!) into running as root.
If the ADA ruled against them fine, we'll just move our hosting to Malaysia.
For some reason the Federal government thinks it has the slightest right to govern these things. It doesn't.
It might be tricky for a US company to get away with it, but it can't be long before they'd start going after places like well.. slashdot.
Open Office is avaliable for Windows too, so that's like saying "ford cars run on gas" as a selling point.
Slow reboot time? No slower than any linux going straight to X.
And I won't even start on the virus checker.
So long as they work out what my Kazaa and WinMX nicknames are of course :)
They tried this trick at Cardiff University too. They INSISTED you use one particular model of network card. (strangely the one they sold)
They couldn't of course insist you bought it from them. So for my brother I found someone I knew with the nick, copied his so it'd be from Intel's range and just changed his AN other card to use it.
Unsurprisingly, never a problem.
Ditto at my uni. They controlled by MAC (that you supplied) but were almost impossible to get hold of if you ever needed to change it. When I upgraded my machine I simply told it to use said old MAC.
Then had them both on one network at home because I forgot. Whoops.
Just to add to the list.
Netgear FA311 - immediate option to change as above.
Ditto the unknown model of Allied Telesyn card I have. (another 10/100) PCI.
and yes, the average person trying to cheat is going to have to have been semi savvy to get the cheats working. So they probably know a little.
AOL already does this. Their entire UK operation is run out of the USA. They use this neat little trick to avoid paying sales tax on their subscriptions too.
Although that loop hole will be closed next June.
Put it on a poster on the wall of your office. More of us would have got there before it all collapses like an anti-trust trial.
As I said, it could be built in, but optional to actually use it in each photo.
I was trying to work that out.
I assume it comes with the flash but you don't have to use it for every shot.
Thus making it optional.
Bad grammar basically.
you think I'm right there?
They mean the Nokia 7650
Cell phones are never going to be anything other than giveaways to sell the service. Once you start to charge real money, the phones have value and the theft rate makes the whole concept questionable.
And this is what precisely happened in britain.
We started to have popular paid for phones, and even cheap phones with no line rental that you bought outright (pay as you go)
The theft rate is through the roof to the point of large goernment campaigns to be careful using them in public.
iirc, we had the first mobile phone theft murder recently.
Are they really doing that badly? They left the UK market a year or two ago, I didn't realise things were that bad everywhere.
Overclocking is why.
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Plus I'm sure I remember a 486-150. But then I think by that point everyone stopped caring
But people were saying this back when that guy's 160 wasn't laughably slow.
He can browse with it, why does the home user need more? That with linux or winNT and memory would do everything average Joe wants.
The answer is A)marketing B)keeping up with the Jones' and C)Because there IS always something new for people to do.
You won't stop CPU dev, there's always someone who could use it or some Redmond based multinational doing something to make it needed.
No-one NEEDs more than a P100 tops. They CAN find a use for it though and that'll never changed. The reason can be summeried thusly.
"Hey Ma, look at what this fancy computer can do!"
There's some simularity here. No-one in the right mind these days would use pascal (in the non-Delphi sense) for anything like a serious purpose.
But as a first introduction to procedural code as a teaching language it's superb.
Ditto minix. No-ones gonna run it on a serious machine, but there's a lot to learn if you run it on crappy old hardware.
Sega have generally been easy on this.
They never persued Bleemcast for instance.
They went so far as to hire Steve Snake (author of the 2 best genesis emulators) to write the emulation layer for both the Sega Smash pack and Sonic Jam.
They've never persued mod chips, action replays or game genies.
The DC would quite happily play CDRs out of the box.
Some would maybe say : And look what happened to them.
remind me not to have legal problems in Hong Kong
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Don't have a legal problem in Hong Kong
Unless I've gone all windows CE in my old age, isn't Digiguide, or rather its application, exactly what you need?
Indeed, but to generate the kind of frenzy of say 98/99 then we need something entirely new.
Space tourism might be next, you'll see every 2-bit organisation with "Space" in their name get far too much VC money.
What's becomming clear is that the inital tech boom was a 1-off. You're never going to get that kind of frenzy in the IT industry again. A lot of people were getting way over paid, or in this case of companies, way over funded.
A few people were big winners, they were funded by the much larger number of people who were losers.
It'll recover, of course it will, but never to quite the same excitement "next big thing" frenzy.
The result will be a stronger long term industry but it is entirely possible people will struggle to earn as much in the future as they could during the boom.
Especially as there are a lot of good graduates now that started degrees during the boom in the hope of getting a massive payig job. This over supply is going to restrict saleries for a few years.
Hardware has always been sold at a loss. Including the NES, SuperNES and N64, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn and both PS1 and 2.