Theoretically yes, but this article deals with the real world. Who exactly is going to set up the Linux box(es) to boot directly to X, with all the drivers installed and the software configured? Nobody free. And like it or not, most people who can use Windows (post 95/NT) can install it.
I use Netscape 4.7 at home and Mozilla at work. But I have to have IE installed and configured on both boxes because there are sites which don't work in those browsers. Some of them just plain won't render the page, instead saying "Document: Done" while displaying a blank page. One of those sites was done in PHP ferchrissake.
A guy I play hockey with said that his company rented some ice and had a "friendly" game. A fight broke out. I'm not sure what the atmosphere was like before hand, but I bet it was a little more strained Monday morning.
Ironically I have an interview there later this week.
His payoff is obfuscation. Someone asks him a tough question that he doesn't want to answer, and he says something stupid or makes up a word. The news carries a story about how "Bush is a moron" and has nothing about whatever he was trying to dodge.
We did a similar thing at work. The manager has shortcuts all over her desktop so we took a screenshot and removed all the icons. All of a sudden she couldn't launch anything.
As you said yourself, as they make more units the per-unit price drops. If there is a huge demand for PS2s the price should drop far enough that they make a profit. And even if they don't, unless this is being used as a server or hardware controller (ie no user interaction) it will give them great market penetration. Who really will buy a PS2 for computing or DVDs and then not buy any games? You've already shelled out over $400 for this thing, why not try out the latest golf sim or RPG. It's just like with PCs, people who aren't going to buy the latest Tekken Tag Team Fortress will buy something like Myst or Rollercoaster Tycoon, because they've already got the hardware.
Erik at Old Man Murray said it much better than I ever could:
First of all, God forbid someone uses sex to sell a product. Unless of course that product is Salon itself, which advertises as one of its subscription services "
Premium-only galleries of erotic art and photography in Salon Sex."
The rest of his rant is funnier, but not as easily taken out of context.
What self-respecting Linux developer would use Hotmail at all? I mean really. Not that I'm condoning such snobbishness, just pointing out that it ought to exist.
I really hope you're wrong, because that would be a really crappy way to compute. Your files, your apps, everything that makes your computer worth the $500 you paid for it are out there on the internet. If that server goes down, or you lose your network connection, you have no computer. The more things are on a server, the more people get angry when that server dies. If my computer crashes I can't do anything for a little while it reboots. If the server crashes, thousands of people can't do anything till someone else reboots it for them.
Besides, storage is cheap. Why move things off-site when you can store anything you want with no network issues right there on your PC?
Did you read the article? AOL could revert back to a walled garden, ie an area you can't get out of. So all the AOL users, and all the MSN users, and all the Yahoo users (that stay) are now essentially not on the internet. So there are less eyeballs for the independent sites, who lose advertising, who then either go under or join one of the massive enclaves. Which means there is less on the internet worth indexing, and it becomes a moot point whether anyone fills the indexing void.
That's what the article was saying. Who cares about whether outsiders can get to Yahoo? There are already other indexes out there. The point is that Yahoo is one of the only really big internet companies which hasn't merged with an old-economy media conglomorate.
Website defacement isn't the same as real cracking anyway. Why recruit script kiddies when there are people out there who can legitimately break into government computers. Or maybe they tried, and only the kiddies were stupid enough to tell the government "hey, I'm a hacker!"
The problem with a two party system is that the election is basically decided before the election ever happens. That's why so many people were voting for whichever of the two spoiled rich kids they saw as the lesser evil.
Actually, it's more like the teacher said "I dare you to break into my house" and then calls the cops. If you dare someone to commit a real crime (ie breaking into someone else's house) and they do it, they're still guilty of a crime. You're just guilty of conspiracy on top of it.
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Theoretically yes, but this article deals with the real world. Who exactly is going to set up the Linux box(es) to boot directly to X, with all the drivers installed and the software configured? Nobody free. And like it or not, most people who can use Windows (post 95/NT) can install it.
I use Netscape 4.7 at home and Mozilla at work. But I have to have IE installed and configured on both boxes because there are sites which don't work in those browsers. Some of them just plain won't render the page, instead saying "Document: Done" while displaying a blank page. One of those sites was done in PHP ferchrissake.
Ironically I have an interview there later this week.
Oh, the F stands for Further. That wasn't my firts guess.
I assumed he meant they wear chastity belts.
His payoff is obfuscation. Someone asks him a tough question that he doesn't want to answer, and he says something stupid or makes up a word. The news carries a story about how "Bush is a moron" and has nothing about whatever he was trying to dodge.
Who, exactly, do you want to nuke? Hmmm? No one has claimed responsibility yet.
Instant 5 Insightful.
Perhaps Coke wasn't the best example you could have chosen.
We did a similar thing at work. The manager has shortcuts all over her desktop so we took a screenshot and removed all the icons. All of a sudden she couldn't launch anything.
Ahem, Plastic. They even use Slash, for chrissake.
As you said yourself, as they make more units the per-unit price drops. If there is a huge demand for PS2s the price should drop far enough that they make a profit. And even if they don't, unless this is being used as a server or hardware controller (ie no user interaction) it will give them great market penetration. Who really will buy a PS2 for computing or DVDs and then not buy any games? You've already shelled out over $400 for this thing, why not try out the latest golf sim or RPG. It's just like with PCs, people who aren't going to buy the latest Tekken Tag Team Fortress will buy something like Myst or Rollercoaster Tycoon, because they've already got the hardware.
Dammit, I didn't log in. If you'd like to remonstrate me please reply to this post.
What self-respecting Linux developer would use Hotmail at all? I mean really. Not that I'm condoning such snobbishness, just pointing out that it ought to exist.
Isn't this almost exactly what happened in the simulated space war with China? You'd think they'd be better prepared.
Besides, storage is cheap. Why move things off-site when you can store anything you want with no network issues right there on your PC?
That's what the article was saying. Who cares about whether outsiders can get to Yahoo? There are already other indexes out there. The point is that Yahoo is one of the only really big internet companies which hasn't merged with an old-economy media conglomorate.
That's why I don't pay that much attention to the W3C. Great, it's a standard--in another year maybe software will start to implememnt it.
Also Jeff Blake, the guy Brooks is showing up, as well as Shaun King, Kordell Stewart, Tony Dungy (coach), Ray Rhodes (ex-coach), and Tony Banks.
Website defacement isn't the same as real cracking anyway. Why recruit script kiddies when there are people out there who can legitimately break into government computers. Or maybe they tried, and only the kiddies were stupid enough to tell the government "hey, I'm a hacker!"
The problem with a two party system is that the election is basically decided before the election ever happens. That's why so many people were voting for whichever of the two spoiled rich kids they saw as the lesser evil.
Actually, it's more like the teacher said "I dare you to break into my house" and then calls the cops. If you dare someone to commit a real crime (ie breaking into someone else's house) and they do it, they're still guilty of a crime. You're just guilty of conspiracy on top of it.
Windows doesn't have passwords, just a cancel button.
Maybe for computer engineers, but where I went most Mechies went to geo-science next.