This sounds great at first glance but my gut feeling is that most
of these units sold will be reformatted with Windows. That's the ugly truth methinks.
Their domain expires 09-apr-2007. I guess the short term domain "lease" suggests this was an experiment for them, which seems to have paid off. Now I'm wondering what else they've done or had planned.
I never said it didn't. (I"ve worked writing software for many years) However when Gates is saying that hardware will be virtually free while his software costs hundreds (or thousands) of dollars, money that will be added to MS' existing billions, his arguments come across as completely disingenuous.
He's saying the tangible parts of the
system (the hardware) will be virtually free while the freely
duplicated software will not be. Fabrication plants cost millions, each chip has a real cost, each resistor has a real cost. Software, once written, can be copied countless times..
You'd think Bill had a vested interest in all this..
They already have. Think of those nauseating photocopied letters you get from family and friends around Christmas. "Little Johnny had his first poop on his own now! Little Sally sold 100 boxes of cookies for Girl Guides!" etc etc
Isn't it The Passion of the Christ Security Architecture?
J.C. was very well secured; those fancy nails has large, flat heads on them so he couldn't slip off. Rumour has it they were going to resort to washers before they found those.
nb: I cancelled my cable entirely but kept the cable modem access in 2003
This was one of my major complaints about television. I had to pay for sports/golf/etc channels to get.CA's Space Channel (similar to SciFi in the US), PBS and Discovery channel. I used to like TLC but it went from "Learning" (the L) to "Lame" after it started hammering home crap like Trading Spaces, et al ad nauseum. Aren't there channels for that type of stuff already? Discovery channel was getting boring too with "Extreme $FOO"
Pick up a book and read instead or download what you really want to see.
Laws like this make me proud to live in a backwards country such as Canada.
I hear ya man..
I think there will soon be a market in junkets to Canada for Americans that will want to (smoke pot|buy cheap prescription drugs|download movies and music)
Hatch and Leahy get loads of money from the media moguls to make millions of people criminals while guys like OJ can walk the streets. What an awesome legal system!
I'd love to see the judge say "OK, Infinium.. Let's see your console that HardOCP has been blasting." It may be another SCOish "We'd love to but it's our proprietary product!"
I remember when it was released in '79. There were a good number of conservative religious groups protesting at theatres. If memory serves, I think the Catholic church slammed it too.
Intrustion cleanup is a real bastard to carry out with any degree of success.
Reinstallation is the only tried and true method. Cleaning up to the point where you're satisfied will usually take a lot longer and will leave nagging doubt.
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I wonder if MS-fans cried whenever I bought an e-machine and formatted it as soon as I opened the box?
Likely not. You paid the MS tax on your e-machine before you got it home from the store.
This sounds great at first glance but my gut feeling is that most of these units sold will be reformatted with Windows. That's the ugly truth methinks.
exceedingly pretty but easily charmed women. In purely genetic terms, that $20m could be a pretty good investment.
I don't know about that if they fall for that line. I mean.. they may be beautiful women but something about drool on the chin turns me off.
Their domain expires 09-apr-2007. I guess the short term domain "lease" suggests this was an experiment for them, which seems to have paid off. Now I'm wondering what else they've done or had planned.
Software has a cost.
I never said it didn't. (I"ve worked writing software for many years) However when Gates is saying that hardware will be virtually free while his software costs hundreds (or thousands) of dollars, money that will be added to MS' existing billions, his arguments come across as completely disingenuous.
First person shooter.
This reminds me of a cool hack that uses Doom as a "process manager". Killing a Doom baddie basically "kill -9"s the process.
Nice try, Bill.
He's saying the tangible parts of the system (the hardware) will be virtually free while the freely duplicated software will not be. Fabrication plants cost millions, each chip has a real cost, each resistor has a real cost. Software, once written, can be copied countless times..
You'd think Bill had a vested interest in all this..
How about combine blogging with snail mail?
They already have. Think of those nauseating photocopied letters you get from family and friends around Christmas. "Little Johnny had his first poop on his own now! Little Sally sold 100 boxes of cookies for Girl Guides!" etc etc
Isn't it The Passion of the Christ Security Architecture?
J.C. was very well secured; those fancy nails has large, flat heads on them so he couldn't slip off. Rumour has it they were going to resort to washers before they found those.
nb: I cancelled my cable entirely but kept the cable modem access in 2003
This was one of my major complaints about television. I had to pay for sports/golf/etc channels to get
Pick up a book and read instead or download what you really want to see.
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Laws like this make me proud to live in a backwards country such as Canada.
I hear ya man..
I think there will soon be a market in junkets to Canada for Americans that will want to (smoke pot|buy cheap prescription drugs|download movies and music)
I have 2 spare bedrooms for rent!
Hatch and Leahy get loads of money from the media moguls to make millions of people criminals while guys like OJ can walk the streets. What an awesome legal system!
I'd love to see the judge say "OK, Infinium.. Let's see your console that HardOCP has been blasting." It may be another SCOish "We'd love to but it's our proprietary product!"
Consoles have some nice features but I like my games with a keyboard and mouse, just as nature intended.
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through
They still don't get that to compete, not just with Open Source, you need quality products, not saturation advertising.
100,000 pre-orders alone [...] the biggest buyer of the iPod mini has in fact been those female tech geeks out there
Ha ha ha! Next they'll be telling us about the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus buying them.
Oo is vulnerable? lol
Maybe if they find a way to import Office macros..
I remember when it was released in '79. There were a good number of conservative religious groups protesting at theatres. If memory serves, I think the Catholic church slammed it too.
would have been possible even ten years ago.
Apple sold the Newton from 1993 to 1998. More info on Wikipedia
How will WalMart attach RFID tags to downloaded songs?
"[...] many are now wondering how long it'll now last for any platform."
I think the real question is "how long it'll last for any platform other than Windows?"
Sad.
We have a choice on where to shop "whether they like it or not"..
Intrustion cleanup is a real bastard to carry out with any degree of success.
Reinstallation is the only tried and true method. Cleaning up to the point where you're satisfied will usually take a lot longer and will leave nagging doubt.
I've seen numbers that claim 50,000,000 people in the US use P2P applications. Let's do the math:
In approximately 8 months the industry has sued 1,977 people. That's 1 in every 25,290.84 people. Now we get into speculation. Assume:
they keep up their current trend of filing that many lawsuits every 8 months.
the number of P2P users in the U.S. stays static
you were born today, will live for 74 years and are precocious enough to use P2P software today, the day of your birth.
That's 195,064 file sharers they'll sue in your lifetime. Heck, you have a 1 in 256.33 chance of being sued over your entire life, you lucky newborn!
Oh, there's one assumption I forgot to mention:
Assume: The RIAA racketeers are still in business your whole life.
NB: My math may be off, I've had a few cold ones.