When I make a purchase, no one writes down my VIN to track my spending habits. The closest tracking any store can do is add a phone number or zip code in the computer (assuming I'm paying cash). But I can refuse these requests (particularly the phone number).
But it seems to me that with this Intel proposal, one runs the risk of vendors secretly tracking what computers on the Internet are spending the most money on whatever items. And making money off of the data.
I have no idea how this works with a multiuser system, but I can just see the new flood of junk mail to those computers that actually do commerce on the Internet.
Comparison to hard drive, computer, broom, or other serial numbers are not valid since they cannot be queried in software and collected by some outside organization. THAT's the problem I have with it.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
The amount of refund is a good question. The OEM obviously must get some kind of discount that gets included in the hardware price because of the exclusive contracts. Are we talking about a $15 refund? How big are these discounts? I don't even know what M$-95-NT retails for.
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I'm upset now that I missed Steve Kilston's presentation here at Ball Aerospace. Hopefully they taped it. Just wish we could get a contract for something like this.:)
afniv
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
News articles? What percentage of hits include news articles? Last I checked, Micro$oft is all over the news. Linux is only recently gaining in this area.
afniv
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Okay if your phone doesn't work, try e-mail, snail-mail, or when your truck driver shows up to pick up the order, have him give a message from management. I don't see the phones going out at the same time. If it does (computer networks or whatever), I wouldn't expect it to be down any longer than say the PanAmSat satellite failure for pagers. Y2K just isn't going to be the end of the world.
Maybe this is the best time for natural selection to work on human intelligence.
afniv
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I keep saying so the power goes out (light a candle), stop lights go out (treat as a four-way stop), shipping goofs (use your phone). Anything and everything can be handled.
But if everyone's brain goes dead, then I think we have a problem.
What can happen with Y2K that doesn't already happen every so often?
afniv
~afniv "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier" "We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
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Party on. Have a beer on me.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
When I make a purchase, no one writes down my VIN to track my spending habits. The closest tracking any store can do is add a phone number or zip code in the computer (assuming I'm paying cash). But I can refuse these requests (particularly the phone number).
But it seems to me that with this Intel proposal, one runs the risk of vendors secretly tracking what computers on the Internet are spending the most money on whatever items. And making money off of the data.
I have no idea how this works with a multiuser system, but I can just see the new flood of junk mail to those computers that actually do commerce on the Internet.
Comparison to hard drive, computer, broom, or other serial numbers are not valid since they cannot be queried in software and collected by some outside organization. THAT's the problem I have with it.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
The amount of refund is a good question. The OEM obviously must get some kind of discount that gets included in the hardware price because of the exclusive contracts. Are we talking about a $15 refund? How big are these discounts? I don't even know what M$-95-NT retails for.
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I'm upset now that I missed Steve Kilston's presentation here at Ball Aerospace. Hopefully they taped it. Just wish we could get a contract for something like this. :)
afniv
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Order pizza from the web!
Now, how to get the beer. Maybe a fridge next to the computer. But to resupply it....
afniv
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
News articles? What percentage of hits include news articles? Last I checked, Micro$oft is all over the news. Linux is only recently gaining in this area.
afniv
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
Okay if your phone doesn't work, try e-mail, snail-mail, or when your truck driver shows up to pick up the order, have him give a message from management. I don't see the phones going out at the same time. If it does (computer networks or whatever), I wouldn't expect it to be down any longer than say the PanAmSat satellite failure for pagers. Y2K just isn't going to be the end of the world.
Maybe this is the best time for natural selection to work on human intelligence.
afniv
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"
I keep saying so the power goes out (light a candle), stop lights go out (treat as a four-way stop), shipping goofs (use your phone). Anything and everything can be handled.
But if everyone's brain goes dead, then I think we have a problem.
What can happen with Y2K that doesn't already happen every so often?
afniv
~afniv
"Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"
"We could be happy if the air was as pure as the beer"