What might replace laptops are those laptops that double as tablets (where the monitor rotates, and then folds, so the laptop is closed, but the monitor faces out). Those might catch on.
You mean something like this Compaq Tablet PC? Seems to double as a laptop, as it has a keyboard built in. It also has USB ports so you can plug in a mouse. This really does look like a fun toy. I haven't personally test driven one myself, but I would definately consider purchasing this when I decide to replace my laptop.
Since the report wasn't very descriptive, I was hoping someone could enlighten me. I would assume that since they don't ask you to provide your old password to change it, this is a method for users who forgot their old password to get it reset to some random password that Microsoft gave, and have it sent to an email that the user provided from the website.
So couldn't Microsoft simply fix this by having the email sent to the person's email address they provided when they registered with.NET? (assuming it's non-hotmail)
this is not true. When i took my econ 103 course (microecon) in college, (i still have my notes) we did a case study on the microsoft case. From 1996 to later, IE's browser share went up from 3% to 27%, and from 1996 to later, Netscape's browser share went down from 80% to 41%.
Yes, I'll agree with you that Netscape blew, and IE was superior. But Microsoft's integration of IE into their OS did not help Netscape's cause any.
Windows 98 integrated IE into its operating system (and still is to date) to eliminate competition from Netscape. That is the reason IE is everywhere, not because Netscape was slacking on Mozilla as you suggested. If Mozilla was better than IE in terms of ease of use (for the people using windows, IE was just there, and was convenient to use), Mozilla would have come up ahead of IE. But the fact of the matter is (and the DOJ ruled on this) that Microsoft was using anti-competitive behavior to drive competition away from Netscape.
It had exceptional and ground breaking special effects
Yes, the Matrix was the first movie to use multi-cameras (motion and still) to create bullet-time effects, which was truly a revolutionary technique that other movies/games took on as well (Swordfish, Max Payne, Conan O'Brian). I have to agree with you completely there.
I still to this day, fail to see the overclocker's reasoning for losing at least 1/4th the life of the processor to gain a few extra MHz and a very hot computer.
Even in the Home edition, Windows contains the "Network Neighborhood" which allows people to download files you have shared, and Windows has specific options to enable file sharing. Albeit they cap the maximum number of connections at 10 (in the EULA), this is still file sharing. the Sydney Morning Herald's article doesn't summarize that accurately. The study doesn't actually specifically say that file sharing isn't allowed in Windows XP does it?
Looking over the actual study, it dosen't appear to be an actual analysis as much as it is a simplification of the EULA. The "Analysis" Sections seem to just sort through the actual EULA and dumb down the lawyer/"Politically Correct" lingo into Laman's terms.
Only in a few sections of the GPL's "Analysis" does it actually compare the two EULAs.
It's still a very interesting read, as I rarely ever actually read the EULAs that come with software I buy/download.
I'll be the first to admit that I skipped over the EULA when I installed Windows XP, so I was very surprised when i read this. From what I can recall, this has been implemented in Windows since Windows 95.
Yet network and internet filesharing is still built into Windows XP...
They already have this implemented, the GameBoys if i'm not mistaken already have infared ports on them so you can play wireless multiplayer with another person (although both GameBoys must have the same game cartridge in them).
Wireless companies say the mandate will increase their costs and do little to promote competition in an industry already battered by a price war. Traditional phone companies, meanwhile, have joined the fight out of concern that the new rules could allow wireless companies to take customers from their wired networks.
Well once again, the article is showing the corporate point of view in that competition is BAD! it DRIVES DOWN PRICES!!! AHHH!
No Seriously, the claim by the wireless companies that it will do little to competition is just rediculously underestimated. It makes switching phone services easier and more attractive to consumers, thus increasing competition. How will their costs also be raised? Assuming the number-portability system is implemented and is easy to use by telephone companies (I'm not a phone guru, I don't know myself), labor won't be significantly increased, they might have to buy a computer or something to use the new system... the costs will in all likelyhood be minimal (If someone can refute this I'm all ears, that was those were the only costs I could think of).Personally I can't wait to port my number out of this horrible U.S. Cellular contract I'm in.
Sure, maybe my point of view is biased because I'm an unhappy consumer with my phone plan. But changing my cell phone number would be a headache to both my clients and my family/friends, and this (and the 2 months i still have left on my 2-year contract) is the reason I haven't switched cell phone contracts yet.
You're taught in MicroEconomics 101 that perfect competition exists when a product is homogeneus among vendors and there are many vendors in the market. By making the numbers portable to different vendors, the product (airtime in this case) is only becoming more homogeneus. Hopefully the courts will realize the phone companies claims to be bullshit and throw them out soon enough.
Ahh yes, I never even took that into account when I considered my position. Napster did infact create their network. I guess the real question is, does the fact that the network already existed grounds for ruling this completely different than Napster? Just a thought.
Napster was sued for indexing... and shut down. Yeah, so Napster only allowed indexing of mp3s, but that's besides the point. the RIAA seems to think they can pull it off again and intimidate campuses to regulate their networks.
They thought wrong. Hopefully.
(/me goes and prays that my campus dosen't shut down our DC hub as a result of this)
my point wasn't to prove to you that I liked microsoft, nor that I was 1e37/V3s5 (i can't read that for the life of me). My point was that this article was nothing new and the topic the article covers is redundant in the fact that this is nothing new.
If you want to argue that Microsoft sucks, we can take the discussion elsewhere, but yes I happen to be a Windows user, and I will admit that I've been relatively unhappy with Windows up until XP was released, but IMO Windows XP was truely a good release and was their most stable ever.
But let's not get offtopic here. The fact is, i was trying to prove a point, and I (and the moderators) seem to think that I have gotten it across.
there were also keys that did the exact same thing with Windows XP Pro/Home, Office XP, Visual Studio.NET.... This is NOT a new threat to microsoft. This threat has always existed. If I am remembering correctly, Microsoft makes a handful of these keys for large corporations who do mass installs of Windows on corporate machines, so they don't have to register every single machine, and reregister if they upgrade them.
uhm... hi. My name is _________ and I'VE NEVER PURCHASED A COPY OF WINDOWS IN MY LIFE!
let's see here...
Windows 98, got key from a friend Windows 98 SE, got key from a friend Windows ME, got key from a friend, uninstalled the next day Windows 2000, found a key on an altalavista search Windows 2000 Server, "borrowed" a key from work Windows XP Pro, hello mr. corporate no-registration key
Don't get me started on other microsoft products. Office XP has its own registration work-arounds as well.
I'm just surprised this made it to a/. story. Most anyone in this community would know where to go to get a windows key if they needed one.
I would think this would be expected for any and all releases of software microsoft puts out. Hell, we can get software from my school for so dirt cheap, ($30 for Windows XP Pro) they might as well give it away for free.
Ehh... people hate America for all sorts of reasons. I'm not much of a political person myself, but if you ask me, the primary reason why middle easterns and all other people that kill americans in the name of Allah is our foreign policy.
Yes, this is a weak argument, but let's face it. We get involved in many situations where we'd be best staying the hell out of (Vietnam, Kosovo situation, "The Holy Land" comes to mind).
I'm sure though, however, that the list of reasons why people hate America extends for endless miles, but personally I see this as the biggest issue out there.
Not so much sun directly as much as the businesses in the surrounding area in the college donate money to the computer science program and thus are given some influence on what languages are taught.
Myself, I am a CS student at UWEC and the businesses in the surrounding Chippewa Valley area do donate big bucks to our computer science program, because they always come to our campus to recruit, and they want Java programmers. So indirectly... take this for what you will.. Sun does have some influence on what is taught at Universities.
If i'm not mistaken, DVD-writers burn DVDs faster than normal CD-writers. The amount of time it takes a CD-R to be burned at 2x is the same amount of time it takes a DVD-R to be burned at 2x, only DVD-R's hold much more data than CD-R's. So the speed is about equal, as I'm sure the burn rate would increase with the blue-violet laser, compared to traditional red-beam.
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You mean something like this Compaq Tablet PC? Seems to double as a laptop, as it has a keyboard built in. It also has USB ports so you can plug in a mouse. This really does look like a fun toy. I haven't personally test driven one myself, but I would definately consider purchasing this when I decide to replace my laptop.
Since the report wasn't very descriptive, I was hoping someone could enlighten me. I would assume that since they don't ask you to provide your old password to change it, this is a method for users who forgot their old password to get it reset to some random password that Microsoft gave, and have it sent to an email that the user provided from the website.
.NET? (assuming it's non-hotmail)
So couldn't Microsoft simply fix this by having the email sent to the person's email address they provided when they registered with
this is not true. When i took my econ 103 course (microecon) in college, (i still have my notes) we did a case study on the microsoft case. From 1996 to later, IE's browser share went up from 3% to 27%, and from 1996 to later, Netscape's browser share went down from 80% to 41%.
Yes, I'll agree with you that Netscape blew, and IE was superior. But Microsoft's integration of IE into their OS did not help Netscape's cause any.
Windows 98 integrated IE into its operating system (and still is to date) to eliminate competition from Netscape. That is the reason IE is everywhere, not because Netscape was slacking on Mozilla as you suggested. If Mozilla was better than IE in terms of ease of use (for the people using windows, IE was just there, and was convenient to use), Mozilla would have come up ahead of IE. But the fact of the matter is (and the DOJ ruled on this) that Microsoft was using anti-competitive behavior to drive competition away from Netscape.
enough to want to kill (user_base_size*file_size*avg_times_download_per_u ser) bytes of their bandwidth :-)
I still to this day, fail to see the overclocker's reasoning for losing at least 1/4th the life of the processor to gain a few extra MHz and a very hot computer.
Even in the Home edition, Windows contains the "Network Neighborhood" which allows people to download files you have shared, and Windows has specific options to enable file sharing. Albeit they cap the maximum number of connections at 10 (in the EULA), this is still file sharing. the Sydney Morning Herald's article doesn't summarize that accurately. The study doesn't actually specifically say that file sharing isn't allowed in Windows XP does it?
Looking over the actual study, it dosen't appear to be an actual analysis as much as it is a simplification of the EULA. The "Analysis" Sections seem to just sort through the actual EULA and dumb down the lawyer/"Politically Correct" lingo into Laman's terms.
Only in a few sections of the GPL's "Analysis" does it actually compare the two EULAs.
It's still a very interesting read, as I rarely ever actually read the EULAs that come with software I buy/download.
Yet network and internet filesharing is still built into Windows XP...
I remember the days when they used to be 3 1/2" floppies, and you could just format them and use them as blank disks!
Now if AOL sent out their software on CD-RW's....
They already have this implemented, the GameBoys if i'm not mistaken already have infared ports on them so you can play wireless multiplayer with another person (although both GameBoys must have the same game cartridge in them).
No Seriously, the claim by the wireless companies that it will do little to competition is just rediculously underestimated. It makes switching phone services easier and more attractive to consumers, thus increasing competition. How will their costs also be raised? Assuming the number-portability system is implemented and is easy to use by telephone companies (I'm not a phone guru, I don't know myself), labor won't be significantly increased, they might have to buy a computer or something to use the new system... the costs will in all likelyhood be minimal (If someone can refute this I'm all ears, that was those were the only costs I could think of).Personally I can't wait to port my number out of this horrible U.S. Cellular contract I'm in.
Sure, maybe my point of view is biased because I'm an unhappy consumer with my phone plan. But changing my cell phone number would be a headache to both my clients and my family/friends, and this (and the 2 months i still have left on my 2-year contract) is the reason I haven't switched cell phone contracts yet.
You're taught in MicroEconomics 101 that perfect competition exists when a product is homogeneus among vendors and there are many vendors in the market. By making the numbers portable to different vendors, the product (airtime in this case) is only becoming more homogeneus. Hopefully the courts will realize the phone companies claims to be bullshit and throw them out soon enough.
Ahh yes, I never even took that into account when I considered my position. Napster did infact create their network. I guess the real question is, does the fact that the network already existed grounds for ruling this completely different than Napster? Just a thought.
Thanks for pointing that out though.
Napster was sued for indexing... and shut down. Yeah, so Napster only allowed indexing of mp3s, but that's besides the point. the RIAA seems to think they can pull it off again and intimidate campuses to regulate their networks.
They thought wrong. Hopefully.
(/me goes and prays that my campus dosen't shut down our DC hub as a result of this)
my point wasn't to prove to you that I liked microsoft, nor that I was 1e37/V3s5 (i can't read that for the life of me). My point was that this article was nothing new and the topic the article covers is redundant in the fact that this is nothing new.
If you want to argue that Microsoft sucks, we can take the discussion elsewhere, but yes I happen to be a Windows user, and I will admit that I've been relatively unhappy with Windows up until XP was released, but IMO Windows XP was truely a good release and was their most stable ever.
But let's not get offtopic here. The fact is, i was trying to prove a point, and I (and the moderators) seem to think that I have gotten it across.
there were also keys that did the exact same thing with Windows XP Pro/Home, Office XP, Visual Studio .NET.... This is NOT a new threat to microsoft. This threat has always existed. If I am remembering correctly, Microsoft makes a handful of these keys for large corporations who do mass installs of Windows on corporate machines, so they don't have to register every single machine, and reregister if they upgrade them.
uhm... hi. My name is _________ and I'VE NEVER PURCHASED A COPY OF WINDOWS IN MY LIFE!
/. story. Most anyone in this community would know where to go to get a windows key if they needed one.
let's see here...
Windows 98, got key from a friend
Windows 98 SE, got key from a friend
Windows ME, got key from a friend, uninstalled the next day
Windows 2000, found a key on an altalavista search
Windows 2000 Server, "borrowed" a key from work
Windows XP Pro, hello mr. corporate no-registration key
Don't get me started on other microsoft products. Office XP has its own registration work-arounds as well.
I'm just surprised this made it to a
I would think this would be expected for any and all releases of software microsoft puts out. Hell, we can get software from my school for so dirt cheap, ($30 for Windows XP Pro) they might as well give it away for free.
WILL SMITH = B3ST 4cT0|2 EV4|2!!!
Seriously, that was the worst movie ever.
anyone have a mirror?
Ehh... people hate America for all sorts of reasons. I'm not much of a political person myself, but if you ask me, the primary reason why middle easterns and all other people that kill americans in the name of Allah is our foreign policy.
Yes, this is a weak argument, but let's face it. We get involved in many situations where we'd be best staying the hell out of (Vietnam, Kosovo situation, "The Holy Land" comes to mind).
I'm sure though, however, that the list of reasons why people hate America extends for endless miles, but personally I see this as the biggest issue out there.
as bold as that speech he gave to Yale University grads
Not so much sun directly as much as the businesses in the surrounding area in the college donate money to the computer science program and thus are given some influence on what languages are taught.
Myself, I am a CS student at UWEC and the businesses in the surrounding Chippewa Valley area do donate big bucks to our computer science program, because they always come to our campus to recruit, and they want Java programmers. So indirectly... take this for what you will.. Sun does have some influence on what is taught at Universities.
yeah, this makes sense. thanks for correcting me.
If i'm not mistaken, DVD-writers burn DVDs faster than normal CD-writers. The amount of time it takes a CD-R to be burned at 2x is the same amount of time it takes a DVD-R to be burned at 2x, only DVD-R's hold much more data than CD-R's. So the speed is about equal, as I'm sure the burn rate would increase with the blue-violet laser, compared to traditional red-beam.