>Remember the basic principle of if the advert gets me to buy the product I'm validating the technique and therefore causing more ads in the future
>Makes note to avoid in any reasonable way buying that product
I know my thought process isn't usual, but if more people thought like me and tried to actively avoid products that were advertised in places they didn't like to see adverts, then the adverts would start to disappear or lessen. Apparently trying to work the system in your favour doesn't occur to normal people, which is ashame- although many people do like useful adverts or don't mind them and it may just be my pet peeve but I'm not alone.
This information does give some value (despite what some posters say about bad comparisons) because what it shows, is that those users who are not going across to vista, are not going to OSX, they are just staying with XP and so are likely to just adopt vista later. This means that although the adoption statistics aren't great for vista, the base of people is not going anywhere so the future of vista looks solid if not quite bright.
However ~23% is unaccounted for, and the countries in the EU are: -- Austria -- Belgium -- Bulgaria -- Cyprus -- Czech Republic -- Denmark -- Estonia -- Finland -- France -- Germany -- Greece -- Hungary -- Ireland -- Italy -- Latvia -- Lithuania -- Luxembourg -- Malta -- Netherlands, The -- Poland -- Portugal -- Romania -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Spain -- Sweden -- United Kingdom
May I suggest that the countries that don't appear in the top 10 make up for a significant amount of the missing % and so the EU does infact containt the largest percentage.
I think the difference you'll find is, more surveillence, but as of recent events you can see the US has organisations much more willling to abuse the facilities they do have (Illegal phone tapping anyone?). Yes, the EU does seem to have in place far more abillity to betray citizens, but the US is actively doing more.
You do realise microsoft claims patent infringements about linux all the time, and as such, even running linux without any virtualisation software would be illegal in microsoft's eyes.
Now, I've never known any school official to walk in on someone downloading illegal files, so you cant be caught that way.
The likely hood is that they don't ahve the resources to monitor traffic, so that's pretty much out.
So the two things are left is the RIAA just sending a letter to the school about anyone they like and that person gets their internet access and their career at that university absolutely screwed. Or the university searches your files, hmmmm... time to invest in one of those new fangled MP3 players, store all your music on that and not keep copies on your copmuter (this works only if you have friends who will help you replace your files if they are lost due to theft of the mp3 player or death of the mp3 player)
They say you don't pay thgat much more for a laptop, but they're kinda wrong, they're right in straight forward terms, its clear to see, but for me a laptop isn't a laptop really untill its portable, and really protable laptops are MUCH more expensive. Not to mention the fact you can't get large screens while being portable (its fine for out and about, but I'd have to keep my screens at home cos I do want my two screens)
Small isn't a strength, DENSE DATA is a strength, as in much data small space, small not always good. I mean like "Wow that's good its nice and small" two minutes later "Oh wait, all the games suck cos there's no space on the disc.
This means that next genreration there will be an affordable PS4- which would be very competitive, a reliable Xbox 3, which would be very competitive, and a wii2 that actually has better hardware than my stapler, which combined with its ability of taking advantage of hardware would be very competitve.
If there's one thing I learned from the UK government ( they created a terror law specifically to deport basiclaly a single individaul and then found after having putting in all the copmlicated legislation the guy no longer qualified) is that no matter how hard you try you can't legislate your competitors into doing something they don't wat.
"O2 Offered iPhone Contract in UK - Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the sought-after deal to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK."
First, the first line seems to imply different things, and secondly, they weren't offered it, apparently they were the winning competitor practically bidding for the contract. I'm so tired of misleading summaries, its not a long article, its shouldn't be hard to summarise *waits for someone to compaign about the article's "Girth"*
How people normally start legally downloading, then turn to illegal downloading when either they can't afford, don't want to afford, or can't find the music they like. Very rarely however, have I heard of a music downloader who has ceased any illegal activity and started paying for the music, it just doesn't seem to happen. Now given this piece of information, you would thnk that teh music industry would be keen to stop people from downloading illegally in the first place, but all they've done is get a bad reputation by sueing everything and anything that has been near a 1 or a 0.
Are you nuts?
You have three choices, nintendo, which is completely different to the others, so the choice is gonna be on other things than reliability (I don't care how stable it is if it isn't fun for me, no purpose), xbox, which isn't good for reliability (not bad either though) is the midrange console, possibly even the safe option and when something does go wrong they are prompt to take it back and fix it, and finally the sony PS3, which isnt known for reliability either, and again is quite a large step up.
With those big a differences, I don't think reliability should be an issue in you buying a console, as reliability still is good in all of them, even if it varies a little we're talking about small degrees.
Secondly if you claim reliability is most important cos what's the use if it doesn't work- things get fixed, on the whole quite well, and what's the point of a console if it doesn't do what I want it to do in the first place, reliably useless is still useless.
When you are shipping a chip in two motnhs, its pretty hard to do a bench mark, comparing your chip to a chip from a competitor which they wont let you have FOR TWO MONTHS! I mean, they can't very well compare their chip to a chip that hasn't been released, so they did the next best thing and compared it to the chips that are around, anyone who actually looks at bench marks seriously will take note, look at what it is comparing to, and of course consider how much further intel are likely to advance in the next 2 months, take the information they give and work with it, they aren't just going to present it in an unbiased way because they are trying to turn a profit.
"Perhaps Media Defender won't use its own name on the registrar the next time around, but it just goes to show the lengths at which the MPAA is willing to go, to fight piracy." Illegally install spyware on my fucking machine, search my PRIVATE FILES, oh and then to top it off, with the MPAA the mess that it is in, they'll probably sue you for having a file named "Hostel", you may or may not have stayed in a hostel last year on holiday, but it sure does seem like copyright so we're gunna take your hard disk and have a closer inspection of my PRIVATE FILES!
Without huge data transfers, they can't fully check a file, so the best they can do is spy on your file names, and steal your documents, not any media files though, I hope people get sued for this I really do, so the MPAA gets screwed with the huge countersuit.
It's a time bomb, going to explode any second causing massive data loss sending us into an eternal dark age where no one can access old copies of childrens TV programs!
Come on, I know I shouldn't be surprised, you can only expect such FUD about a news company, but still, this is crap. You know what they need to do, they need to keep all the original recordings, then, in a digital database they have the recordings saved digitally standardised recordings (in highest possible qualities necessary) along with information in the database about where it is saved in original format, what format it was originally in, and a final piece of information, about where the necessary equipment to veiw the original recordings should be, and they should have a store, backed up, with every single piece of playing equipment to playback every file in the library. This sounds like overkill, but is only a good method of backing up, and the complications are from the silliness of how badly standardised in the past they were, but with an effort they can maintain that library. Not only that but they should be standardising future recordings, so backing up and future proofing can be done more easily in future.
See, two minutes and you can think up a simple strategy to preserve all data, make it future proof, and in actuality, with a concerted effort over time it can be simple, as past data is safe, and by standardising future data you are significantly cut down on future efforts. All that and I didn't even need to refer to explosives terrorists or any scare tactics, weird isn't it.
That, or stick all the files on a torrent and they'll float round the internet for years:)
Is it not the case that its negotiating using OOXML as well as ODF?
I mean, if so surely this is a big sign about the usefulness of ODF and in direct competition it'd be likely that ODF, if not only because some states only allow ODF and other states would want to have files compatible inter-states....
"Many of the open source advocates take it way too far in my opinion"
I'm not sure you can really take that view when Apple is the subject of such obvious cult fanboyism, which is often over-zealous nad unneccessary
More to the point, unless Apple starting taking that code and made the iphone software with it 3hours before they released the iPhone, NO code in it was GPL v3, the newer versions of that code may be, but most certainly not the actual code that went in, because when that code was taken and reworked, about a year ago, there was no GPL v3 so none of the software they used could possibly be using that license.
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Well, HD = 460? 720? 1080? i or p? (Btw, I have no idea what that stuff is, but I figure its to do with quality cos everyone says 1080i is bestest)
>See advert in game
>Take notice of product
>Remember the basic principle of if the advert gets me to buy the product I'm validating the technique and therefore causing more ads in the future
>Makes note to avoid in any reasonable way buying that product
I know my thought process isn't usual, but if more people thought like me and tried to actively avoid products that were advertised in places they didn't like to see adverts, then the adverts would start to disappear or lessen. Apparently trying to work the system in your favour doesn't occur to normal people, which is ashame- although many people do like useful adverts or don't mind them and it may just be my pet peeve but I'm not alone.
This information does give some value (despite what some posters say about bad comparisons) because what it shows, is that those users who are not going across to vista, are not going to OSX, they are just staying with XP and so are likely to just adopt vista later. This means that although the adoption statistics aren't great for vista, the base of people is not going anywhere so the future of vista looks solid if not quite bright.
They almost definitely wrongly counted Turkey...
However ~23% is unaccounted for, and the countries in the EU are:
-- Austria
-- Belgium
-- Bulgaria
-- Cyprus
-- Czech Republic
-- Denmark
-- Estonia
-- Finland
-- France
-- Germany
-- Greece
-- Hungary
-- Ireland
-- Italy
-- Latvia
-- Lithuania
-- Luxembourg
-- Malta
-- Netherlands, The
-- Poland
-- Portugal
-- Romania
-- Slovakia
-- Slovenia
-- Spain
-- Sweden
-- United Kingdom
May I suggest that the countries that don't appear in the top 10 make up for a significant amount of the missing % and so the EU does infact containt the largest percentage.
Now thats weird, cos a more direct mind would have just wished for their coworkers to die....
I think the difference you'll find is, more surveillence, but as of recent events you can see the US has organisations much more willling to abuse the facilities they do have (Illegal phone tapping anyone?). Yes, the EU does seem to have in place far more abillity to betray citizens, but the US is actively doing more.
You do realise microsoft claims patent infringements about linux all the time, and as such, even running linux without any virtualisation software would be illegal in microsoft's eyes.
"XP is continuing its huge sales performance with even better statisitcs, even though we're thinking about stopping it"
Slashdot says
"Vista is absolutely crap and their new operating system isn't making sales"
Guys, XP sales != Vista lack of sales
Now, I've never known any school official to walk in on someone downloading illegal files, so you cant be caught that way.
The likely hood is that they don't ahve the resources to monitor traffic, so that's pretty much out.
So the two things are left is the RIAA just sending a letter to the school about anyone they like and that person gets their internet access and their career at that university absolutely screwed. Or the university searches your files, hmmmm... time to invest in one of those new fangled MP3 players, store all your music on that and not keep copies on your copmuter (this works only if you have friends who will help you replace your files if they are lost due to theft of the mp3 player or death of the mp3 player)
They say you don't pay thgat much more for a laptop, but they're kinda wrong, they're right in straight forward terms, its clear to see, but for me a laptop isn't a laptop really untill its portable, and really protable laptops are MUCH more expensive. Not to mention the fact you can't get large screens while being portable (its fine for out and about, but I'd have to keep my screens at home cos I do want my two screens)
"it should be noted he doesn't see the DS or Wii prices moving any time soon"
Ermmm... the wii is half the price! A Price cut is not necessary becauser the wii is sooooooooooooooo much cheaper anyway.
Small isn't a strength, DENSE DATA is a strength, as in much data small space, small not always good. I mean like "Wow that's good its nice and small" two minutes later "Oh wait, all the games suck cos there's no space on the disc.
This means that next genreration there will be an affordable PS4- which would be very competitive, a reliable Xbox 3, which would be very competitive, and a wii2 that actually has better hardware than my stapler, which combined with its ability of taking advantage of hardware would be very competitve.
If there's one thing I learned from the UK government ( they created a terror law specifically to deport basiclaly a single individaul and then found after having putting in all the copmlicated legislation the guy no longer qualified) is that no matter how hard you try you can't legislate your competitors into doing something they don't wat.
Sorry to reply to myself, but just wanted to correct the second headline, it should read
"O2 'to get iPhone contract in UK' -Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the sought-after deal to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK."
"O2 Offered iPhone Contract in UK"
OR
"O2 Offered iPhone Contract in UK - Mobile phone operator O2 is reported to have won the sought-after deal to sell Apple's iPhone in the UK."
First, the first line seems to imply different things, and secondly, they weren't offered it, apparently they were the winning competitor practically bidding for the contract. I'm so tired of misleading summaries, its not a long article, its shouldn't be hard to summarise *waits for someone to compaign about the article's "Girth"*
How people normally start legally downloading, then turn to illegal downloading when either they can't afford, don't want to afford, or can't find the music they like. Very rarely however, have I heard of a music downloader who has ceased any illegal activity and started paying for the music, it just doesn't seem to happen. Now given this piece of information, you would thnk that teh music industry would be keen to stop people from downloading illegally in the first place, but all they've done is get a bad reputation by sueing everything and anything that has been near a 1 or a 0.
Are you nuts? You have three choices, nintendo, which is completely different to the others, so the choice is gonna be on other things than reliability (I don't care how stable it is if it isn't fun for me, no purpose), xbox, which isn't good for reliability (not bad either though) is the midrange console, possibly even the safe option and when something does go wrong they are prompt to take it back and fix it, and finally the sony PS3, which isnt known for reliability either, and again is quite a large step up. With those big a differences, I don't think reliability should be an issue in you buying a console, as reliability still is good in all of them, even if it varies a little we're talking about small degrees. Secondly if you claim reliability is most important cos what's the use if it doesn't work- things get fixed, on the whole quite well, and what's the point of a console if it doesn't do what I want it to do in the first place, reliably useless is still useless.
When you are shipping a chip in two motnhs, its pretty hard to do a bench mark, comparing your chip to a chip from a competitor which they wont let you have FOR TWO MONTHS! I mean, they can't very well compare their chip to a chip that hasn't been released, so they did the next best thing and compared it to the chips that are around, anyone who actually looks at bench marks seriously will take note, look at what it is comparing to, and of course consider how much further intel are likely to advance in the next 2 months, take the information they give and work with it, they aren't just going to present it in an unbiased way because they are trying to turn a profit.
"Perhaps Media Defender won't use its own name on the registrar the next time around, but it just goes to show the lengths at which the MPAA is willing to go, to fight piracy." Illegally install spyware on my fucking machine, search my PRIVATE FILES, oh and then to top it off, with the MPAA the mess that it is in, they'll probably sue you for having a file named "Hostel", you may or may not have stayed in a hostel last year on holiday, but it sure does seem like copyright so we're gunna take your hard disk and have a closer inspection of my PRIVATE FILES!
Without huge data transfers, they can't fully check a file, so the best they can do is spy on your file names, and steal your documents, not any media files though, I hope people get sued for this I really do, so the MPAA gets screwed with the huge countersuit.
It's a time bomb, going to explode any second causing massive data loss sending us into an eternal dark age where no one can access old copies of childrens TV programs!
:)
Come on, I know I shouldn't be surprised, you can only expect such FUD about a news company, but still, this is crap. You know what they need to do, they need to keep all the original recordings, then, in a digital database they have the recordings saved digitally standardised recordings (in highest possible qualities necessary) along with information in the database about where it is saved in original format, what format it was originally in, and a final piece of information, about where the necessary equipment to veiw the original recordings should be, and they should have a store, backed up, with every single piece of playing equipment to playback every file in the library. This sounds like overkill, but is only a good method of backing up, and the complications are from the silliness of how badly standardised in the past they were, but with an effort they can maintain that library. Not only that but they should be standardising future recordings, so backing up and future proofing can be done more easily in future.
See, two minutes and you can think up a simple strategy to preserve all data, make it future proof, and in actuality, with a concerted effort over time it can be simple, as past data is safe, and by standardising future data you are significantly cut down on future efforts. All that and I didn't even need to refer to explosives terrorists or any scare tactics, weird isn't it.
That, or stick all the files on a torrent and they'll float round the internet for years
Is it not the case that its negotiating using OOXML as well as ODF?
I mean, if so surely this is a big sign about the usefulness of ODF and in direct competition it'd be likely that ODF, if not only because some states only allow ODF and other states would want to have files compatible inter-states....
"Many of the open source advocates take it way too far in my opinion" I'm not sure you can really take that view when Apple is the subject of such obvious cult fanboyism, which is often over-zealous nad unneccessary
More to the point, unless Apple starting taking that code and made the iphone software with it 3hours before they released the iPhone, NO code in it was GPL v3, the newer versions of that code may be, but most certainly not the actual code that went in, because when that code was taken and reworked, about a year ago, there was no GPL v3 so none of the software they used could possibly be using that license.
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