When a British media consultancy recently distributed some TiVos, 30 percent of the recipient households "never really got to grips with them"--or, in other words, they preferred to let the pricey boxes gather dust rather than waste another second figuring out the labyrinthine menus.
If any of 30% are reading this I'll give you £100 and a shiney button for it right now!
Presumably because some people don't have the skill. The Freeplay radio was invented for the middle of Africa where neither the parts or the expertise was avaliable.
What if I now pointed out I'm a windows user who wouldn't touch a desktop linux machine with a reinforced bargepole yet I still think the laptop market is where they need to advertise.
Let's be honest, as a desktop machine, the MAc has few strengths that could convince Joe Public. But a low power fast notebook that can do everything you need to do on the move is a FAR more marketable commodity.
Yes, I'm surprised I missed this one on an Intel one. I wonder if you could use the excess heat to boil water and use the steam to get some electricity back:P
I'm certinally considering a Mac laptop. I don't really get on with the design desktopwise, but as a laptop something like the powerbooks look really nice.
Plus what I want in a notebook is low power consumption, good screen, easy access to the smaller number of things I need to DO with my laptop.
Plus of course new toy syndrome:)
I actually think Apple should be stressing this market a lot more than they are.
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Very simply they're giving it away so the corporations have someone to use it WITH.
If you see what i mean.
If the home users have PGP then the businesses will find it's worth buying it to use to digitally sign stuff heading for them. Different versions of the above apply for all the PGP product lines.
-- Personally I find it very hard to believe that as many people use Windows 2000 as Google reports: Windows 2000 is a `professional' OS, and it was never marketed or really sold to the home population (and it's expensive as well), yet 20% of Google users use it? I have to guess that that 20% is mostly corporate users, or developers. --
Or more likely a large portion of it is the students and other assorted geeks who upgrade to "Differently legal" Win2000 copies but then didn't like the look of XP.
2000 was reasonably popular in the home, if only because of how bad ME really was.
It's easy, if they post this topic again in two weeks because they've forgotten about it, they must have cellphones that are affecting their long term memory.
On another note, are they really sure that rats are close enough to humans for this to have any real bearing, had anyone done studies on actual humans?
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The reverse engineering exception is also enshrined in UK law.
cf the Nintendo v Codemasters case as a for instance.
When a British media consultancy recently distributed some TiVos, 30 percent of the recipient households "never really got to grips with them"--or, in other words, they preferred to let the pricey boxes gather dust rather than waste another second figuring out the labyrinthine menus.
If any of 30% are reading this I'll give you £100 and a shiney button for it right now!
Presumably because some people don't have the skill. The Freeplay radio was invented for the middle of Africa where neither the parts or the expertise was avaliable.
Yeah, September ain't a good move to be a couple of towers :)
Well, The BBC did a TV series of the first 2 books and it was 6 episodes (180minutes)
i.e - 2 films worth and that certinally wasn't slim.
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If Douglas Addams isn't involved at all stages, frankly I'm not interested in this.
The BBC in the UK skipped "the people of new york vs homer simpson" during the latest Simpsons run.
They offered no explanation and never responded to my email.
Are we now not allowed to see any media that might slightly reference new york or anything tall?
It's the name of an old, OLD book. If someone builds a bible towers and then it falls over will they ban the bible?
What if I now pointed out I'm a windows user who wouldn't touch a desktop linux machine with a reinforced bargepole yet I still think the laptop market is where they need to advertise.
Let's be honest, as a desktop machine, the MAc has few strengths that could convince Joe Public. But a low power fast notebook that can do everything you need to do on the move is a FAR more marketable commodity.
ROFL
:P
Yes, I'm surprised I missed this one on an Intel one. I wonder if you could use the excess heat to boil water and use the steam to get some electricity back
I don't like the nipples any more than the pads but.
Is this keyboard prob confined to the powerbooks or is the i-book just as bad/worse?
That could be a show stopper.
I don;'t mean use the same case, but an aniversary cased PC (something "home user/mac"y") with those specs could work well.
I'm certinally considering a Mac laptop. I don't really get on with the design desktopwise, but as a laptop something like the powerbooks look really nice.
:)
Plus what I want in a notebook is low power consumption, good screen, easy access to the smaller number of things I need to DO with my laptop.
Plus of course new toy syndrome
I actually think Apple should be stressing this market a lot more than they are.
I'm sorry, and it had to be funny why?
Actually if done properly, and anniversary IBM could be really good. At the very least they could use them for promotion.
Say, make 100 of em, and give em away on radio/TV/Whatever.
Well we need 3 OSs, Windows XP and Linux are something of a given. What else is there that a consumer might find attractive?
I suppose since it's an "option for 1 of 3" you could either offer FreeBSD or something, or really screw the universe and install Os/2.
Well you could do XP Home, XP Pro, Linux I suppose.
and after all 640mhz is enough for everyone.
I agree with you, but I also remember people saying exactly what you just said a decade ago and it didn't happen then.
We have to be getting close to the point where you'll need an industrial turbine for cooling though.
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- Someone complains that they should be changing the architechture not the speed.
- Reply about how he just described the G4
- Further reply that G4 is now behind
- Sulky Apple - Intel speculation
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- AMD Roolz
- Intel Roolz
- Motorola Roolz
- Crusoe Roolz
- ARM roolz
- No AMD roolz (repeat to fade)
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- Complaint that no-one needs that power
- You said that last time and we did
- I don't, I like my 486
- Ever Rendered, played a game, video edited
- Reasons for needing that much power
- Offtopic bitch about CmdrTaco and reference to 640k being enough for everyone
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Very simply they're giving it away so the corporations have someone to use it WITH.
If you see what i mean.
If the home users have PGP then the businesses will find it's worth buying it to use to digitally sign stuff heading for them. Different versions of the above apply for all the PGP product lines.
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Personally I find it very hard to believe that as many people use Windows 2000 as Google reports: Windows 2000 is a `professional' OS, and it was never marketed or really sold to the home population (and it's expensive as well), yet 20% of Google users use it? I have to guess that that 20% is mostly corporate users, or developers.
--
Or more likely a large portion of it is the students and other assorted geeks who upgrade to "Differently legal" Win2000 copies but then didn't like the look of XP.
2000 was reasonably popular in the home, if only because of how bad ME really was.
I don't place much credence in this.
Sega closed their PC software division recently after the release of Sega Rally 2, this makes it damned hard for them go software only
I don't know about US law, but UK law's "fair use" clause woule protect him in this instance.
Exactly, the british had asolutely no toruble tracking an F-117a when they flew one over in for an air show.
This is of course the benefit of the UK not having the "accompanied by parent" clause in the law
This just meant I got the "15 year old who thinks he's hard" sitting behind me who still managed to scare himself shitless
To vote that microsoft is a monopoly obviously ignores a very viable alternative...
You may have heard of it, it's called linux
... if the slashdot staff use mobiles...
It's easy, if they post this topic again in two weeks because they've forgotten about it, they must have cellphones that are affecting their long term memory.
On another note, are they really sure that rats are close enough to humans for this to have any real bearing, had anyone done studies on actual humans?