MS does not make much if any money on the hardware to begin with, they make it on the games. This may end up making them a lot of money. Big kudos for them not requiring you to buy an Xbox and turn in a rebate to get your money back like Apple does with the iPod promotion.
Although Firewire was technically far superior to USB, it failed for a variety of reasons that Apple is mostly not repeating.
It was Apple Vs. Intel. Apple developed Firewire, Intel designed USB. Intel was able to push its chip purchasers toward USB. This time Apple went to Intel and had them develop the standard.
Apple did not let other users use the Firewire name, causing fragmentation of the brand and thus a watered down marketing push (ie1394, iLink, Firewire).
Cost. Apple wanted a cut of every firewire port put on a device. USB was designed to be cheap to build, Firewire was designed to perform. Apple is not taking a cut at least, but have no idea how cost compares to USB3. This may be an issue.
Many people believe USB 3 is faster. Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB3 x 2 channels, plus video in/out.
- USB2 - 0.48 Gbps
- eSata - 3.0 Gbps
- USB3 - 5.0 Gbps
- Thunerbolt - 10.0 Gbps x 2 channels + Video In/Out
I like very common sense approaches to consumer protection, this seems like a good move. I am pro business (have MBA), but also recognize that part of governments job is to protect consumers from all out ruthlessness. How long before we can get this in the US?
This really is a bigger blow to Google than Apple. Apple is a hardware company, making software to complete the experience (and tidy profit). Google is in the business of selling information, and this hits them where it hurts. Google has been collecting and selling the location data from Android, Apple has been collecting it in a file and forgetting about it (until recent update that trims it). Although apps makers are another story.
Makes what Apple did almost seamlessly transitioning OS X from G's to Intel look great. I think the engineers that pulled that off are watching this just waiting for their chance to do a little dance.
My sister teaches math at a small college. A student came to her aghast that she must show her work. When she explained the reasons it was necessary, she took her issue to the head of the math department. When that didn't work she kept moving up the chain of command, eventually talking to the president of the college. When the president backed the teacher, the student dropped out of college.
I am forever glad my high school math teacher not only forced us to show our work, but work without calculators unless we really needed them (i.e. trig functions).
With each accident, building new facilities gets more difficult. We have many existing plants that are of older designs, that are much more susceptible to failure than modern designs. This leads to our current situation of using these old plants way past their design life. This keeps plants from being replaced by modern designs that are multiple times less prone to meltdown. Irrational fear is compounding the problem of old nuke plants, making future problems more likely.
As a US company, I want even playing field. As a US consumer this is awesome! The last company I worked for did backups for banks and courts etc., and their server room was built in a concrete vault. The main selling point was... "do you know where your data is?".
Monitors - Put the money in a quality monitor over the computer. People tend to keep a monitor over the life of several computers. This may be dated, as you can pick up about any size HD monitor you want now for under $200. The next wave should be getting more pixels on those big screens (i hope).
Storage - Buy what you need today, as the price of storage is always falling. Buy more when you need it. Only downside to this rule is the hassle of upgrading drives, and the cost of multi-gig hard drives is getting really cheap. Perhaps today this should be buy the solid state drive that fits your needs if you can afford it, and upgrade when you need more?
Before they force an uninstall in a software update, and sue anyone that tries to jailbreak them to reinstall the software of their choosing. Obviously this is sarcasm, but I truly do not trust Sony at all.
I loved WP back in the day, when its menus and actions made a lot more sense IMO than Word's. They went to crap when they sold out, and the development team tried copying Word instead of innovating. Usually a desperation move that does not work unless other market forces are at play. Honestly Word 2007 was the first version I could stomach to use. As a side note, a company I was working for bought a site license for about $400 that covered a couple hundred installs, where Word was going to cost that much each seat.
SS1 had the same feature, and flew several flights. Because they are just now getting to this phase of testing with SS2, does not make it unique for the first time. Is this wording possible since they added "Commercial" to the sentence? Lame.
If I could buy the 5 channels we watched for a reasonable price I'd bite. But we don't watch enough TV to justify the $60 a month they want for them. And they only put those 5 channels in the upper packages, not the cheap ones. 2-3 years cable free, not missing it that much.
There are severe signs they are headed the wrong way. The good news is they still have tons of cash flow and resources. It is really up to them if they can turn around their software platform to compete in a modern iOS and Android market. Switching to Android is not a good option for long term profits either. Looking at their management structure I don't think they have it in them, but it is too early to place bets.
Facebook is not really that great, they are only popular right now because everyone else is on it. There is potential for MySpace to retake the lead, but it would not be easy, and would upset the 10 people still there. What would it take?
Switch to a few very clean styles (end the kiddy dazzling unicorn look).
Take privacy seriously, and make this your selling point
Make it easy to turn games completely off. I personally don't want to ever get another game notice in my life.
Make the settings very clear and simple.
Have a setting to completely wipe data from servers after a usable selectable time period (i.e. 6 months).
Clean ads, they need to make money, but it not obtrusively (again, think google).
Build own ad system (if they don't have already), and screen ads for clean look, quality, privacy.
Put assurances in user agreement that they will never sell my personal data, or any data to make linking possible (i.e. UserID)
As a patent holder I can join Google, and make sure I never receive money from creating that patent, or I can join MPEG, which I probably already am a member, and perhaps receive royalties from large customers in the future. Hmmm... tough choice. Even Goog is now basically admitting WebM is patent incumbered.
It still acts like two independent screens, call me when it unfolds to form one large screen. Besides its hardly the first, and I will never buy Sony again.
We are not fortunate(?) enough to have everything from one carrier, so therefore can not bundle. Our DSL is $30/month, and Satellite TV was about $65. We cancelled the satellite TV.
The difference is many of us have switched to Internet as our main source of entertainment. If we had to choose between internet or Cable it is an easy choice. We are saving $65 a month, as we can't bundle like you do.
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So you are asking if you should buy your own server or rent space on someone elses?
MS does not make much if any money on the hardware to begin with, they make it on the games. This may end up making them a lot of money. Big kudos for them not requiring you to buy an Xbox and turn in a rebate to get your money back like Apple does with the iPod promotion.
Although Firewire was technically far superior to USB, it failed for a variety of reasons that Apple is mostly not repeating.
It was Apple Vs. Intel. Apple developed Firewire, Intel designed USB. Intel was able to push its chip purchasers toward USB. This time Apple went to Intel and had them develop the standard.
Apple did not let other users use the Firewire name, causing fragmentation of the brand and thus a watered down marketing push (ie1394, iLink, Firewire).
Cost. Apple wanted a cut of every firewire port put on a device. USB was designed to be cheap to build, Firewire was designed to perform. Apple is not taking a cut at least, but have no idea how cost compares to USB3. This may be an issue.
Many people believe USB 3 is faster. Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB3 x 2 channels, plus video in/out.
Dunno about you... but I want it.
If I thought my hard drive was failing, I'd buy a new hard drive, not software to fix a worn hardware problem. I don't get it.
I like very common sense approaches to consumer protection, this seems like a good move. I am pro business (have MBA), but also recognize that part of governments job is to protect consumers from all out ruthlessness. How long before we can get this in the US?
This really is a bigger blow to Google than Apple. Apple is a hardware company, making software to complete the experience (and tidy profit). Google is in the business of selling information, and this hits them where it hurts. Google has been collecting and selling the location data from Android, Apple has been collecting it in a file and forgetting about it (until recent update that trims it). Although apps makers are another story.
It is past time for an open source curriculum.
Makes what Apple did almost seamlessly transitioning OS X from G's to Intel look great. I think the engineers that pulled that off are watching this just waiting for their chance to do a little dance.
How hard to use usb port (is it accessible?) or network port to add big hard drive and config for a personal drop box?
I thought they already had?
My sister teaches math at a small college. A student came to her aghast that she must show her work. When she explained the reasons it was necessary, she took her issue to the head of the math department. When that didn't work she kept moving up the chain of command, eventually talking to the president of the college. When the president backed the teacher, the student dropped out of college.
I am forever glad my high school math teacher not only forced us to show our work, but work without calculators unless we really needed them (i.e. trig functions).
With each accident, building new facilities gets more difficult. We have many existing plants that are of older designs, that are much more susceptible to failure than modern designs. This leads to our current situation of using these old plants way past their design life. This keeps plants from being replaced by modern designs that are multiple times less prone to meltdown. Irrational fear is compounding the problem of old nuke plants, making future problems more likely.
As a US company, I want even playing field. As a US consumer this is awesome! The last company I worked for did backups for banks and courts etc., and their server room was built in a concrete vault. The main selling point was ... "do you know where your data is?".
Monitors - Put the money in a quality monitor over the computer. People tend to keep a monitor over the life of several computers. This may be dated, as you can pick up about any size HD monitor you want now for under $200. The next wave should be getting more pixels on those big screens (i hope).
Storage - Buy what you need today, as the price of storage is always falling. Buy more when you need it. Only downside to this rule is the hassle of upgrading drives, and the cost of multi-gig hard drives is getting really cheap. Perhaps today this should be buy the solid state drive that fits your needs if you can afford it, and upgrade when you need more?
Before they force an uninstall in a software update, and sue anyone that tries to jailbreak them to reinstall the software of their choosing. Obviously this is sarcasm, but I truly do not trust Sony at all.
I loved WP back in the day, when its menus and actions made a lot more sense IMO than Word's. They went to crap when they sold out, and the development team tried copying Word instead of innovating. Usually a desperation move that does not work unless other market forces are at play. Honestly Word 2007 was the first version I could stomach to use. As a side note, a company I was working for bought a site license for about $400 that covered a couple hundred installs, where Word was going to cost that much each seat.
SS1 had the same feature, and flew several flights. Because they are just now getting to this phase of testing with SS2, does not make it unique for the first time. Is this wording possible since they added "Commercial" to the sentence? Lame.
If I could buy the 5 channels we watched for a reasonable price I'd bite. But we don't watch enough TV to justify the $60 a month they want for them. And they only put those 5 channels in the upper packages, not the cheap ones. 2-3 years cable free, not missing it that much.
There are severe signs they are headed the wrong way. The good news is they still have tons of cash flow and resources. It is really up to them if they can turn around their software platform to compete in a modern iOS and Android market. Switching to Android is not a good option for long term profits either. Looking at their management structure I don't think they have it in them, but it is too early to place bets.
Facebook is not really that great, they are only popular right now because everyone else is on it. There is potential for MySpace to retake the lead, but it would not be easy, and would upset the 10 people still there. What would it take?
Office 97 is the first usable version. According to to MS studies, I'm in the majority. I do realize many people have trouble with change though.
As a patent holder I can join Google, and make sure I never receive money from creating that patent, or I can join MPEG, which I probably already am a member, and perhaps receive royalties from large customers in the future. Hmmm... tough choice. Even Goog is now basically admitting WebM is patent incumbered.
It still acts like two independent screens, call me when it unfolds to form one large screen. Besides its hardly the first, and I will never buy Sony again.
So they took out the good parts of a browser, and tacked on a bunch of bits I don't need, and call it better? I don't think so.
We are not fortunate(?) enough to have everything from one carrier, so therefore can not bundle. Our DSL is $30/month, and Satellite TV was about $65. We cancelled the satellite TV.
The difference is many of us have switched to Internet as our main source of entertainment. If we had to choose between internet or Cable it is an easy choice. We are saving $65 a month, as we can't bundle like you do.