If you're an Enterprise customer, you'll get a copy of XP with your Select disks that you can use to build images. If you're buying single licenses, you're SOL.
Ir so we've been told. We'll see how it plays out.
I've been an ATT/RoadRunner customer. I recently got two seperate notices: one saying @home was taking over, and one saying my bill was going up $5/month.
If you put links in the results chart, that will skew future results. The easy access to the queries will cause people to run them who otherwise wouldn't.
If Microsoft is allowed to operate unchanged until a software interface standard is chosen, they'll be home free. The process to decide such a standard will make an original PC running Windows 1.0 look fast.
When choosing a VPN for remote access, remember that IPSec solutions (such as FreeS/WAN) do not like it if the client is behind a Network Address Translation device. Since many home networks share a single IP address among many computers by using NAT, IPSec VPNs may not be your best choice.
What most people mean when they say they want more choice is that they want the music they like to be pushed by the record companies, rather than (#insert the-artist-you-love-to-hate).
jonkatz sed: "What would really protect artists..and believe me, I am for that...is a new way of distributing music that offers it more cheaply and with more choice."
On 'more choice': How much more choice do you need? Have you every walked into a Tower Records? What most people mean when they say they want more choice is that they want the music they like to be pushed by the record companies, rather than .
On 'cheap':
The price to the consumer has to be less, otherwise pirating is just too desirable (and as we all know, piracy is getting easier every day, and technically impossible to prevent). But the artist needs to be able to make a living, preferably a good one, or there will be 'less choice'. And there needs to be enough money in it to support the delivery systems. Right now we can download MP3s for 'free', but that only because there's no rational pricing for bandwidth use at this time. I just wish I had the answer - whoever comes up with it will be _rich_!
What is not going to happen: prices for current delivery systems (CDs) will not drop. Shortly after they were marketed, CDs were less expensive to produce than vinyl. But corporations get addicted to high profit margins, and they collude to keep prices up. (If we could get the anti-trust people to drop M$ and go after the RIAA, then they'd be serving the interests of the people. Collusion is _much_ worse than a monopoly - it creates a mechanism for co-opting the competition). If alternative delivery systems become more popular, CD prices will go _up_, to preserve profits.
Don't take sound quality too seriously. Most people who listen to MP3s listen to their digital music on crappy little PC sound systems, or dub it to cassettes. I used to tape songs by putting my cheap portable cassette recorder in front of my cheap AM radio. Quality helps, but people like music. If all there is is a drunk beating out a rhythym on a cardboard box, then people will settle for that.
Note: The first time I submitted this, I got a message saying that it had been submitted previously, which obviously wans't true. Perhaps there's a bug - I submitted just after the article dropped off the home page.)
jonkatz sed: "What would really protect artists..and believe me, I am for that...is a new way of distributing music that offers it more cheaply and with more choice." On 'more choice': How much more choice do you need? Have you every walked into a Tower Records? What most people mean when they say they want more choice is that they want the music they like to be pushed by the record companies, rather than . On 'cheap': The price to the consumer has to be less, otherwise pirating is just too desirable (and as we all know, piracy is getting easier every day, and technically impossible to prevent). But the artist needs to be able to make a living, preferably a good one, or there will be 'less choice'. And there needs to be enough money in it to support the delivery systems. Right now we can download MP3s for 'free', but that only because there's no rational pricing for bandwidth use at this time. I just wish I had the answer - whoever comes up with it will be _rich_! What is not going to happen: prices for current delivery systems (CDs) will not drop. Shortly after they were marketed, CDs were less expensive to produce than vinyl. But corporations get addicted to high profit margins, and they collude to keep prices up. (If we could get the anti-trust people to drop M$ and go after the RIAA, then they'd be serving the interests of the people. Collusion is _much_ worse than a monopoly - it creates a mechanism for co-opting the competition). If alternative delivery systems become more popular, CD prices will go _up_, to preserve profits. Don't take sound quality too seriously. Most people who listen to MP3s listen to their digital music on crappy little PC sound systems, or dub it to cassettes. I used to tape songs by putting my cheap portable cassette recorder in front of my cheap AM radio. Quality helps, but people like music. If all there is is a drunk beating out a rhythym on a cardboard box, then people will settle for that.
There's no reason a foreign country can't use the truck bomb method. Or the tramp steamer in New York harbor method, or any of a multitude of other cheap delivery systems. Expensive anti-missle systems will not provide that much protection, nor will the ability to screw with GPS precision. Much of the defense we pay for serves no useful direct purpose. But the indirect benefits (employmnet, R&D) are great. There might be _better_ ways to do it...
Acer makes (or made...) a split keyboard with a touchpad in the center.
I found arm position necessary to use the touchpad to be uncomfortable, but the keyboard has a detachable numeric keypad, so I can move it aside. This allows me to move the mouse closer to my body, making it more comfortable to use.
Yes, the first person to get a modified set of genes will have to pay a lot. But thereafter (unless a horrible mistake is made), access to the genes will be no more expensive than what your parents went through to create you.
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If you're an Enterprise customer, you'll get a copy of XP with your Select disks that you can use to build images. If you're buying single licenses, you're SOL.
Ir so we've been told. We'll see how it plays out.
Keep this in mind the next time you're dumping on M$ for announcing they've fixed thousands of bugs in a Windows product
Nothing _wrong_ with sci-fi, it just carries a 'less-serious' connotation.
I've been an ATT/RoadRunner customer. I recently got two seperate notices: one saying @home was taking over, and one saying my bill was going up $5/month.
If you put links in the results chart, that will skew future results. The easy access to the queries will cause people to run them who otherwise wouldn't.
Mrs. Premise would be proud.
For some people, it stands for "I'm Anal".
If he makes enough to cover the bills, he is not only a web entrepreneur, but one of the very few successful ones!
What, you're older than Aerosmith and still live with your mother???
If Microsoft is allowed to operate unchanged until a software interface standard is chosen, they'll be home free. The process to decide such a standard will make an original PC running Windows 1.0 look fast.
...is Honda making the source code for the Three Laws available?
When choosing a VPN for remote access, remember that IPSec solutions (such as FreeS/WAN) do not like it if the client is behind a Network Address Translation device. Since many home networks share a single IP address among many computers by using NAT, IPSec VPNs may not be your best choice.
"Because of all the horrendous assumptions they made years ago (ie, Who will ever need more RAM than 640k)"
The 640K limitation was due to the processor architecture, not Microsoft.
Does that mean I can't install Win2K if I read it?
What most people mean when they say they want more choice is that they want the music they like to be pushed by the record companies, rather than (#insert the-artist-you-love-to-hate).
(I WILL preview messages before I post them)
jonkatz sed:
"What would really protect artists..and believe me, I am for that...is a new way of distributing music that offers it more cheaply and with more choice."
On 'more choice':
How much more choice do you need? Have you every walked into a Tower Records? What most people mean when they say they want more choice is that they want the music they like to be pushed by the record companies, rather than .
On 'cheap':
The price to the consumer has to be less, otherwise pirating is just too desirable (and as we all know, piracy is getting easier every day, and technically impossible to prevent). But the artist needs to be able to make a living, preferably a good one, or there will be 'less choice'. And there needs to be enough money in it to support the delivery systems. Right now we can download MP3s for 'free', but that only because there's no rational pricing for bandwidth use at this time. I just wish I had the answer - whoever comes up with it will be _rich_!
What is not going to happen: prices for current delivery systems (CDs) will not drop. Shortly after they were marketed, CDs were less expensive to produce than vinyl. But corporations get addicted to high profit margins, and they collude to keep prices up. (If we could get the anti-trust people to drop M$ and go after the RIAA, then they'd be serving the interests of the people. Collusion is _much_ worse than a monopoly - it creates a mechanism for co-opting the competition). If alternative delivery systems become more popular, CD prices will go _up_, to preserve profits.
Don't take sound quality too seriously. Most people who listen to MP3s listen to their digital music on crappy little PC sound systems, or dub it to cassettes. I used to tape songs by putting my cheap portable cassette recorder in front of my cheap AM radio. Quality helps, but people like music. If all there is is a drunk beating out a rhythym on a cardboard box, then people will settle for that.
Note: The first time I submitted this, I got a message saying that it had been submitted previously, which obviously wans't true. Perhaps there's a bug - I submitted just after the article dropped off the home page.)
jonkatz sed: "What would really protect artists..and believe me, I am for that...is a new way of distributing music that offers it more cheaply and with more choice." On 'more choice': How much more choice do you need? Have you every walked into a Tower Records? What most people mean when they say they want more choice is that they want the music they like to be pushed by the record companies, rather than . On 'cheap': The price to the consumer has to be less, otherwise pirating is just too desirable (and as we all know, piracy is getting easier every day, and technically impossible to prevent). But the artist needs to be able to make a living, preferably a good one, or there will be 'less choice'. And there needs to be enough money in it to support the delivery systems. Right now we can download MP3s for 'free', but that only because there's no rational pricing for bandwidth use at this time. I just wish I had the answer - whoever comes up with it will be _rich_! What is not going to happen: prices for current delivery systems (CDs) will not drop. Shortly after they were marketed, CDs were less expensive to produce than vinyl. But corporations get addicted to high profit margins, and they collude to keep prices up. (If we could get the anti-trust people to drop M$ and go after the RIAA, then they'd be serving the interests of the people. Collusion is _much_ worse than a monopoly - it creates a mechanism for co-opting the competition). If alternative delivery systems become more popular, CD prices will go _up_, to preserve profits. Don't take sound quality too seriously. Most people who listen to MP3s listen to their digital music on crappy little PC sound systems, or dub it to cassettes. I used to tape songs by putting my cheap portable cassette recorder in front of my cheap AM radio. Quality helps, but people like music. If all there is is a drunk beating out a rhythym on a cardboard box, then people will settle for that.
There's no reason a foreign country can't use the truck bomb method. Or the tramp steamer in New York harbor method, or any of a multitude of other cheap delivery systems. Expensive anti-missle systems will not provide that much protection, nor will the ability to screw with GPS precision. Much of the defense we pay for serves no useful direct purpose. But the indirect benefits (employmnet, R&D) are great. There might be _better_ ways to do it...
Acer makes (or made...) a split keyboard with a touchpad in the center.
I found arm position necessary to use the touchpad to be uncomfortable, but the keyboard has a detachable numeric keypad, so I can move it aside. This allows me to move the mouse closer to my body, making it more comfortable to use.
Yes, the first person to get a modified set of genes will have to pay a lot. But thereafter (unless a horrible mistake is made), access to the genes will be no more expensive than what your parents went through to create you.