$500 actually doesnt seem out of whack and seems modest? given what phones cost and how they are financed
In Canada, Rogers (the canadian provider for iPhoe) has the Treo 680 for $299 with a 3 year plan (and you have to take a specific call plan/data rate). if I take a 2 year term i pay $449, $499 if I go with a one year.
If I get a blackberry 8700r, i can pay $299 if I sign for a 3 year term, and 599 if I go for 1 year.
HP ipaq 6955 - $649 + 3 year term and $749 for a 1 year term.
I estimate the phone to be around $600 which is very much the same as what I see for other devices and when I compare to those noted above which one I am going to sign up for.
Yes but this just highlights the fundamental difference between MS and Apple.
When Apple announced something or shows something, its practically damn done. When Steve gets up on stage and says "oh, and just one more thing..." you are pretty much going to be able to buy the stuff that day or in a couple months when Steve promised. The hype starts then and there. Steve said leopard would ship march 07 at WWDC. The mill says its comming march.
Microsoft? those assholes show off the product well before is ever done and by the time you get it, its not anything like the original. They jsut cant help themselves trying to tell us how cool they are (we all know they seriously are not...). A year ago when they announced the drop dead date for Vista and all the things cut out we already knew this release was going to be a turd. there was no suprise, no "Wow" left in the Vist "Wow" campaign because it had already been overhyped to the nth degree.
I think the real thing here is that they are looking for coverage of Mono is possibly infringing on.NET patents. I think this is the first time that software has done a cross-licensing deal for patents in the same way that a lot of hardware companies do (amd and intel have a cross patent agreement If I remember correctly). Novell has bet a lot on mono to build up apps that run on linux/windows and this is ensuring that. if there are some casualties that arent part of their business agenda so be it.
A more interesting question would be why packet radio dint progress? i realize that the bandwidth was limited (9600 baud max? but i remember seend 1200 and 2400 more commonly). My understandingwas that it was basically a wireless mesh that covered the USA even if it was speed limited. I never understood why the HAMS and other gEEk's never looked at remaking the network with something more like wifi? The telco's would certainly have to smarten up and rethink if there was "another" net out there.
great. i signed up for windows live mail beta in september. fine. i realize i might not get a lotter ticket to try it out. but then i signed up again. then i started getting emails from hotmail itself saying how great it is and that I should sign up. I signed up 22 times in response to 22 emails from them telling me how great it is.
Do I have an account yet ? no. do i suspect I will get one before they roll out? no. do I want to try the service? yes.
back to gmail....
if I can't get an invite in 8 months, I cant imagine them being able to ship this schlock in the intervening time...
I dont know if its because of regional licensing or the CRTC, but yet another iTunes thing we dont wont be getting any time soon. I guess this is why canadians are the biggest downloaders of content off the internet...
The biggest problem that I know of is the lack of 6.1 content. i know of just a handful of titles that are 6.1:star wars episodes 1-2-3 and top gun are about the only thing explicitly labelled 6.1. More DTS encodings might be 6.1 but they usually never "light" the center back speaker on the receiver like the aforementioned tracks do. most dramas and comedies barely make use of 5.1, if at all. A Action adventure/sci fi do make use of them to great effect but those sound tracks eat space like crazy even on a dual layer dvd - a DTS stream is typically 6-800 mb. This goes away with bluray or hddvd but i dont see the studios doing much to add to selection of soundtrack encodings. if they do, it will be nice and I wont say as many bad things about the studios.
Like it or not MS is still a good Wall Street darling, growing in size *AND* actually turning a profit today, not tommorrow. My IPO prospectus doesn't look that good to investors when it says that I am tangled up in court with the firm with the larget market cap in the U.S. Get that behind you and you are looking at first day closing prices of $100-$150. If not, you might be looking at $4-14.
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Anyone know how this is different from the existing Landsat 2000 data that's been available for years ?
https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/
Other than the fact that its mostly in the MrSid format ?
$500 actually doesnt seem out of whack and seems modest? given what phones cost and how they are financed
In Canada, Rogers (the canadian provider for iPhoe) has the Treo 680 for $299 with a 3 year plan (and you have to take a specific call plan/data rate). if I take a 2 year term i pay $449, $499 if I go with a one year.
If I get a blackberry 8700r, i can pay $299 if I sign for a 3 year term, and 599 if I go for 1 year.
HP ipaq 6955 - $649 + 3 year term and $749 for a 1 year term.
I estimate the phone to be around $600 which is very much the same as what I see for other devices and when I compare to those noted above which one I am going to sign up for.
Yes but this just highlights the fundamental difference between MS and Apple.
When Apple announced something or shows something, its practically damn done. When Steve gets up on stage and says "oh, and just one more thing..." you are pretty much going to be able to buy the stuff that day or in a couple months when Steve promised. The hype starts then and there. Steve said leopard would ship march 07 at WWDC. The mill says its comming march.
Microsoft? those assholes show off the product well before is ever done and by the time you get it, its not anything like the original. They jsut cant help themselves trying to tell us how cool they are (we all know they seriously are not...). A year ago when they announced the drop dead date for Vista and all the things cut out we already knew this release was going to be a turd. there was no suprise, no "Wow" left in the Vist "Wow" campaign because it had already been overhyped to the nth degree.
I think the real thing here is that they are looking for coverage of Mono is possibly infringing on .NET patents. I think this is the first time that software has done a cross-licensing deal for patents in the same way that a lot of hardware companies do (amd and intel have a cross patent agreement If I remember correctly). Novell has bet a lot on mono to build up apps that run on linux/windows and this is ensuring that. if there are some casualties that arent part of their business agenda so be it.
Isnt that "Metric" Football?
A more interesting question would be why packet radio dint progress? i realize that the bandwidth was limited (9600 baud max? but i remember seend 1200 and 2400 more commonly). My understandingwas that it was basically a wireless mesh that covered the USA even if it was speed limited. I never understood why the HAMS and other gEEk's never looked at remaking the network with something more like wifi? The telco's would certainly have to smarten up and rethink if there was "another" net out there.
Where copyright means it was copied correctly.
This just can't be. Apple is all that is pure and good in the world. It's Microsoft that kicks puppies and clubs baby seals....
I find your lack of compensation....disturbing....
great. i signed up for windows live mail beta in september. fine. i realize i might not get a lotter ticket to try it out. but then i signed up again. then i started getting emails from hotmail itself saying how great it is and that I should sign up. I signed up 22 times in response to 22 emails from them telling me how great it is.
Do I have an account yet ? no. do i suspect I will get one before they roll out? no. do I want to try the service? yes.
back to gmail....
if I can't get an invite in 8 months, I cant imagine them being able to ship this schlock in the intervening time...
I am sure we can get teenage angst regarding lots of time between
0) the kids of tatooine high
1) alderran 90210
2) buffy the jedi slayer...
I dont know if its because of regional licensing or the CRTC, but yet another iTunes thing we dont wont be getting any time soon. I guess this is why canadians are the biggest downloaders of content off the internet...
The biggest problem that I know of is the lack of 6.1 content. i know of just a handful of titles that are 6.1 :star wars episodes 1-2-3 and top gun are about the only thing explicitly labelled 6.1. More DTS encodings might be 6.1 but they usually never "light" the center back speaker on the receiver like the aforementioned tracks do. most dramas and comedies barely make use of 5.1, if at all. A
Action adventure/sci fi do make use of them to great effect but those sound tracks eat space like crazy even on a dual layer dvd - a DTS stream is typically 6-800 mb. This goes away with bluray or hddvd but i dont see the studios doing much to add to selection of soundtrack encodings. if they do, it will be nice and I wont say as many bad things about the studios.
Like it or not MS is still a good Wall Street darling, growing in size *AND* actually turning a profit today, not tommorrow. My IPO prospectus doesn't look that good to investors when it says that I am tangled up in court with the firm with the larget market cap in the U.S. Get that behind you and you are looking at first day closing prices of $100-$150. If not, you might be looking at $4-14.