Think of it as a "Tax Sale". The state can give up-front breaks to the corporation, they can offset this with additional revenue that is brought in from the ancillaries: more high-salary (high tax) workers moving in, other associated businesses that will benefit (and pay more taxes), and even other effects like rising property taxes.
Now I'm thinking like a business person on this. I have a deep cynicism that tells me that your average scum sucking low-rent politician isn't doing this kind of analysis. They're likely just handing over the tax breaks to generate a larger pool of benevolent corporations that give to their re-election coffers, and to stamp their campaign signs with "I created ### jobs for Iowa" pandering.
I get the feeling my ranting is going to burn some Karma. Oh well, it's election season, anything goes!!!
Perhaps I missed the explanation on a previous thread, but the "signed" tag seems to be reoccuring. My only recourse is start counter tagging with "unsigned". Is this some sort of new slashdot meme or is the joke literally on just me.
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"The Sims"
I believe the demographics on that one are more significantly female than other games.
Please mod parent up. The infamous rewind was a big factor in the death of VHS. Just stop for a moment and remember a simpler time when you had to say, "Hold on while I rewind this tape before we go to the video store."
BluRay might be better in many senses of the word, but it's not so much better that the average consumer will instantly see reasons to open their wallet.
Does anyone know what the price difference was when DVD was launched? I'd love to compare it to today's format change.
Microsoft has been selling this to application service providers for a long time now under the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA). It's designed to let ASPs host office apps for clients in a variety of ways (i.e. locally installed, via Citrix, via RDP, via web app, etc). They recognized that traditional retail licenses were not going to work, and volume licensing wasn't going to be quite right either, since ASPs tout turning initial capital expenditures into recurring operational costs as a big plus.
So, they started the SPLA nearly a decade ago I think, which is a rental model just like the one listed in the article. You get to run the most current version (or an old one if you need to), you get support and the like, all for a monthly fee. It makes a lot of sense for certain business models where upgrades are a requirement to an extent.
Now as a consumer, I don't know that I would follow suit. I think I'd be happy to purchase it outright and use the same version since the savings are really on the upgrade front. If you plan on using the same version for more than ~3 years, it makes more sense to buy it.
BTW - The cost of Office Standard via SPLA is about $125 a year. However, there are more rights available than the one they are mass marketing.
{Begin Troll} No I don't work for Microsoft, but I do spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with their horrific license programs. Any company that has to develop a certification program around how to buy their own products has serious problems. {/ Troll}
Ah, the 5 minutes that it takes US to replace RAM is spot on. I can imagine most non-techs having a nightmare experience as they try to find the right RAM, unplug 15 cables, open the box, probably drop the screwdriver in the case 4 times, add the RAM (after trying to force it in backwards), replace everything, and fire up the machine. Add to it the hour of trying to understand why the BIOS is not happy anymore after boot.
Oh yeah, i can see this being a world of hurt for non-technical people. Just like I shudder at the thought of crawling under my car.
I don't own a mac, but I would imagine they have nice documentation, and you could even head over to one of their stores instead.
I get my oil changed at the dealer for various reasons:
1. I don't know how to change my own
2. I prefer to use the dealer since they can do warranty replacement on the spot if something is broken
Yes, I pay probably twice as much, and I like it. Kinda seems like the same situation here.
What about the thermal impact? I live in a hot climate, so leaving a PC on seems to have a big impact on the temperature of the room. Sure, I might use a couple hundred Watts to run the gear, but what about the electricity required for the A/C to cool the room back down?
Hey, when it's 100 deg F outside, I notice the difference.
If they use the GTA4 Engine, I personally gaurantee success. Of course, kids will be rather shocked to see that in reality criminals aren't released from jail 4 hours later with nothing but their weapons and $1000 taken away.
I saw this article and ran to get my XO. Keep in mind I'm not a Linux user, so I type those command line instructions very slowly. After 15 minutes, I'm actively scanning my home network using Zenmap. If this goes well, I'll have to bring it along with me to a local, unidentified coffee shop!
I personally think the most telling aspect of this excercise is that it has helped open the door of linux a little bit.
"So what is wrong with the X7510? Well, since it has the raw capability, would it really have hurt to let people use it as a regular phone in a pinch, without a headset? It seems to me that this would have been a relatively minor tweak, though I imagine it was left out so as to position the Advantage as a non-voice device first and foremost - but I think it was a mistake."
It seems the manufacturer has answered the question of "What is it?" in a way, by requiring a second piece of equipment to effectively use the phone part.
True, this article is mostly troll, but the comments have merit and can serve as a warning to others.
I've been using Outlook 2007 for some time now, and before the service pack came out, it had a nasty habit of balloning to over 150MB of allocated memory, and it never closed out when you clicked on the big red X. Never. I always had to use Task Mangler to close it.
I mean really, do I need to consume that much RAM to sort email?
Mod parent up please. I tried a Steam game once and had a horrific experience due to the server check aspect. I won't buy another one now, even though my gaming tends to be multiplayer online. I still like to break out old games on occasion for nostalgia, and to see how well they run on hardware manufactured 15+ years later. This model severly prevents me from getting another excuse to not leave my chair.
After I installed SP3, it broke Microsoft Office Communicator 2005. Instead of launching as usual, it reverted back to the install script and wanted the CD. Not a big loss, but certainly a flag for an important point:
The service pack was NOT tested with all current or recent Microsoft software (this app is one version behind). Even just launching it would have revealed this one.
It's the potential for a bluetooth/wireless mod that frightens me. Then, if some kind of wireless is physically enabled, then passing through any public place (like an airport for instance) could mean passive extractions of all my data. That's really not much of a stretch.
Ok, I think I'll revert to a #2 pencil and big chief tablet now.
Good point. The market is likely driving this trend, and much to the shock and horror of the typical software developer, we are not a standard demographic that can be successfully used as a generalization for products.
For example, I personally feel it's a necessity to have dual hard drives in RAID 0 and the government should mandate 1024x768 as the minimum screen resolution by act of law. What, you don't think people will go for it?
Neither articles indicate that HP is planning on making changes at the factory floor level to prevent further infection. If their only response is to scan and clean it myself, then I might be motivated as a consumer to purchase my flash drives with a big "Gauranteed Fully Formatted" on the box.
Plus, this seems REALLY sloppy to me. If HP is allowing this type of software to slip into flash drives, what other types of defects, errors, and all around laziness is going on with other products?
Light sources have always been a pain for me when photoshopping. I'm not surprised that it's the key to this software, as it tends to be the most difficult aspect of manipulating an image (I'm a slightly more than casual user, but not a graphic designer). Light completely changes the color structure and I end up spending an inordinate amount of time trying to redo hues and fix shadows that don't line up.
If there's a plugin for helping me with that part of the struggle, I hereby scream to my fellow slashdotters to please fill me in!
As great as that sounds, I'm not downloading anything other than rentals.
I rarely watch movies more than a couple times, but for music or some movies, I'm buying it on physical media. Why? Because like most of the populace, I don't have a server or the organizational skills to keep up with a media collection. Hard drives die, Windows needs to get reinstalled (again), or other catastrophic events tend to reduce my collection of MP3s and videos. If I have it in the closet on a disc, at least I can pop it in again whenever I want. Plus, I don't have to fight the DRM restrictions as fiercly.
In my own fantasy utopia (at the risk of getting Trolled), I would buy a license for the bit of media that I want and the distributor would allow me unlimited playing rights on any device. If I lost a copy of the media, I could download it again. After all, I own the license, right?
But no, media companies are obsessed with reselling the same content as many times as possible to the same people. How many special basement-THX-director's-cut-lost-hidden-import-bootleg versions of Blade Runner do I need?
Does anyone know how often undersea cables normally have issues? Sure, 5 cuts in an area *seems* high to me, but then again, I don't have any frame of reference.
So, what is the statistical probability of an undersea cable having a minor, major, or catastrophic issue? If it's once a week, then perhaps we have an anomoly of location, not an anomoly of frequency.
I remember seeing some Discovery Channel show on how they end up fixing those cables, and it was rather interesting. I also have some fuzzy memory of how there are multiple boats designed to do this kind of repair work, and they are usually busy out at sea fixing *something*. I get the feeling (this is where my plea for verification comes in), that 5 cuts may not actually be TOO unusual.
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Think of it as a "Tax Sale". The state can give up-front breaks to the corporation, they can offset this with additional revenue that is brought in from the ancillaries: more high-salary (high tax) workers moving in, other associated businesses that will benefit (and pay more taxes), and even other effects like rising property taxes.
Now I'm thinking like a business person on this. I have a deep cynicism that tells me that your average scum sucking low-rent politician isn't doing this kind of analysis. They're likely just handing over the tax breaks to generate a larger pool of benevolent corporations that give to their re-election coffers, and to stamp their campaign signs with "I created ### jobs for Iowa" pandering.
I get the feeling my ranting is going to burn some Karma. Oh well, it's election season, anything goes!!!
Perhaps I missed the explanation on a previous thread, but the "signed" tag seems to be reoccuring. My only recourse is start counter tagging with "unsigned". Is this some sort of new slashdot meme or is the joke literally on just me.
"The Sims"
I believe the demographics on that one are more significantly female than other games.
Perhaps I'll start tagging things "unsigned" just to see if that elicits a response.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Anyone out there privy to it?
Please mod parent up. The infamous rewind was a big factor in the death of VHS. Just stop for a moment and remember a simpler time when you had to say, "Hold on while I rewind this tape before we go to the video store."
BluRay might be better in many senses of the word, but it's not so much better that the average consumer will instantly see reasons to open their wallet.
Does anyone know what the price difference was when DVD was launched? I'd love to compare it to today's format change.
Windows has become Classic Coke. If they try to replace it with New Coke, there will be rioting in the streets.
Also, as long as something still acts as a conveyor belt of piles of money, they won't turn it off.
Microsoft has been selling this to application service providers for a long time now under the Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA). It's designed to let ASPs host office apps for clients in a variety of ways (i.e. locally installed, via Citrix, via RDP, via web app, etc). They recognized that traditional retail licenses were not going to work, and volume licensing wasn't going to be quite right either, since ASPs tout turning initial capital expenditures into recurring operational costs as a big plus.
So, they started the SPLA nearly a decade ago I think, which is a rental model just like the one listed in the article. You get to run the most current version (or an old one if you need to), you get support and the like, all for a monthly fee. It makes a lot of sense for certain business models where upgrades are a requirement to an extent.
Now as a consumer, I don't know that I would follow suit. I think I'd be happy to purchase it outright and use the same version since the savings are really on the upgrade front. If you plan on using the same version for more than ~3 years, it makes more sense to buy it.
BTW - The cost of Office Standard via SPLA is about $125 a year. However, there are more rights available than the one they are mass marketing.
{Begin Troll} No I don't work for Microsoft, but I do spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with their horrific license programs. Any company that has to develop a certification program around how to buy their own products has serious problems. {/ Troll}
Ah, the 5 minutes that it takes US to replace RAM is spot on. I can imagine most non-techs having a nightmare experience as they try to find the right RAM, unplug 15 cables, open the box, probably drop the screwdriver in the case 4 times, add the RAM (after trying to force it in backwards), replace everything, and fire up the machine. Add to it the hour of trying to understand why the BIOS is not happy anymore after boot.
Oh yeah, i can see this being a world of hurt for non-technical people. Just like I shudder at the thought of crawling under my car.
I don't own a mac, but I would imagine they have nice documentation, and you could even head over to one of their stores instead.
I get my oil changed at the dealer for various reasons:
1. I don't know how to change my own
2. I prefer to use the dealer since they can do warranty replacement on the spot if something is broken
Yes, I pay probably twice as much, and I like it. Kinda seems like the same situation here.
What about the thermal impact? I live in a hot climate, so leaving a PC on seems to have a big impact on the temperature of the room. Sure, I might use a couple hundred Watts to run the gear, but what about the electricity required for the A/C to cool the room back down?
Hey, when it's 100 deg F outside, I notice the difference.
If they use the GTA4 Engine, I personally gaurantee success. Of course, kids will be rather shocked to see that in reality criminals aren't released from jail 4 hours later with nothing but their weapons and $1000 taken away.
I saw this article and ran to get my XO. Keep in mind I'm not a Linux user, so I type those command line instructions very slowly. After 15 minutes, I'm actively scanning my home network using Zenmap. If this goes well, I'll have to bring it along with me to a local, unidentified coffee shop! I personally think the most telling aspect of this excercise is that it has helped open the door of linux a little bit.
The author states:
"So what is wrong with the X7510? Well, since it has the raw capability, would it really have hurt to let people use it as a regular phone in a pinch, without a headset? It seems to me that this would have been a relatively minor tweak, though I imagine it was left out so as to position the Advantage as a non-voice device first and foremost - but I think it was a mistake."
It seems the manufacturer has answered the question of "What is it?" in a way, by requiring a second piece of equipment to effectively use the phone part.
True, this article is mostly troll, but the comments have merit and can serve as a warning to others.
I've been using Outlook 2007 for some time now, and before the service pack came out, it had a nasty habit of balloning to over 150MB of allocated memory, and it never closed out when you clicked on the big red X. Never. I always had to use Task Mangler to close it.
I mean really, do I need to consume that much RAM to sort email?
Mod parent up please. I tried a Steam game once and had a horrific experience due to the server check aspect. I won't buy another one now, even though my gaming tends to be multiplayer online. I still like to break out old games on occasion for nostalgia, and to see how well they run on hardware manufactured 15+ years later. This model severly prevents me from getting another excuse to not leave my chair.
At best given the explaination provided, the emails are not lost, they are simply unsorted.
Also, what about backup tapes? You don't do a major upgrade without a backup. Even the most slackjawed IT yokel (like me) knows that.
After I installed SP3, it broke Microsoft Office Communicator 2005. Instead of launching as usual, it reverted back to the install script and wanted the CD. Not a big loss, but certainly a flag for an important point:
The service pack was NOT tested with all current or recent Microsoft software (this app is one version behind). Even just launching it would have revealed this one.
It's the potential for a bluetooth/wireless mod that frightens me. Then, if some kind of wireless is physically enabled, then passing through any public place (like an airport for instance) could mean passive extractions of all my data. That's really not much of a stretch.
Ok, I think I'll revert to a #2 pencil and big chief tablet now.
Good point. The market is likely driving this trend, and much to the shock and horror of the typical software developer, we are not a standard demographic that can be successfully used as a generalization for products.
For example, I personally feel it's a necessity to have dual hard drives in RAID 0 and the government should mandate 1024x768 as the minimum screen resolution by act of law. What, you don't think people will go for it?
Neither articles indicate that HP is planning on making changes at the factory floor level to prevent further infection. If their only response is to scan and clean it myself, then I might be motivated as a consumer to purchase my flash drives with a big "Gauranteed Fully Formatted" on the box. Plus, this seems REALLY sloppy to me. If HP is allowing this type of software to slip into flash drives, what other types of defects, errors, and all around laziness is going on with other products?
Light sources have always been a pain for me when photoshopping. I'm not surprised that it's the key to this software, as it tends to be the most difficult aspect of manipulating an image (I'm a slightly more than casual user, but not a graphic designer). Light completely changes the color structure and I end up spending an inordinate amount of time trying to redo hues and fix shadows that don't line up.
If there's a plugin for helping me with that part of the struggle, I hereby scream to my fellow slashdotters to please fill me in!
As great as that sounds, I'm not downloading anything other than rentals.
I rarely watch movies more than a couple times, but for music or some movies, I'm buying it on physical media. Why? Because like most of the populace, I don't have a server or the organizational skills to keep up with a media collection. Hard drives die, Windows needs to get reinstalled (again), or other catastrophic events tend to reduce my collection of MP3s and videos. If I have it in the closet on a disc, at least I can pop it in again whenever I want. Plus, I don't have to fight the DRM restrictions as fiercly.
In my own fantasy utopia (at the risk of getting Trolled), I would buy a license for the bit of media that I want and the distributor would allow me unlimited playing rights on any device. If I lost a copy of the media, I could download it again. After all, I own the license, right?
But no, media companies are obsessed with reselling the same content as many times as possible to the same people. How many special basement-THX-director's-cut-lost-hidden-import-bootleg versions of Blade Runner do I need?
Does anyone know how often undersea cables normally have issues? Sure, 5 cuts in an area *seems* high to me, but then again, I don't have any frame of reference.
So, what is the statistical probability of an undersea cable having a minor, major, or catastrophic issue? If it's once a week, then perhaps we have an anomoly of location, not an anomoly of frequency.
I remember seeing some Discovery Channel show on how they end up fixing those cables, and it was rather interesting. I also have some fuzzy memory of how there are multiple boats designed to do this kind of repair work, and they are usually busy out at sea fixing *something*. I get the feeling (this is where my plea for verification comes in), that 5 cuts may not actually be TOO unusual.
I find myself conflicted. I want to stick it to Microsoft, but at the same time I want to stick it to the Government.
I guess in the end, corporations play the game they're given. If it's legal, then good for them.