Because people trust their Churches and religious leaders more than their politicians? And something of this nature would strike deeply at a person's beliefs and mental state.
But, IMHO, I think this is the Catholic Church trying to modernize and accept science more than any world shaking announcement that your friend Ford, who you have known for several years and believe him to be "an out of work actor from the town of Guildford" in Surrey, is in fact an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
Basically it's Sony's answer to people who have too much money and not enough common sense. Share's the PS3's XBR system, holds 200 Blu-Ray discs and has a 500GB hard drive. Reading the owner's manual there's a lot to dislike (DRM everywhere), but I can see the people that they are targeting, and it does look 'cool'.
Simpler reason why Germany never laid a finger on Switzerland; Too many German officials had secret accounts there. Which I'm sure they'd love to their graft come to light once the bank books where opened.
Sure, why not. Except for lost or damaged discs, and the fact that every review is going to say the PS3 version is better because you don't have to change discs mid-game.
Pay-per-view. Yep, as in, MS' technology now completes with the cable company's product. So, do you think that cable companies are going to roll out fiber to everyone's door just so MS, Apple, Blockbuster and Netflix can deliver video on demand? Nope.
I think that's the main issue looking over all the on-going conversations. Just because is shares many of the same abilities does not mean that Apple is under obligation to allow you to fully use those abilities. Just like your under no obligation to buy the damn phone if it doesn't do what you want it to do.
Interesting that most of the economists talked about downloads as if they would slay Blu-Ray. Until Comcast allows me to download 50GB of data in 5 minutes, Blu-Ray (along with Netflix and the USPO) wins. Not to say that streaming isn't nice, but until hiccups in the delivery system are ironed out, along with some ownership rights, physical media will always win over electronic media.
That said, I agree 100% with the notion that this is MS' Waterloo. They have effectively stated that they can not, even with owning the OS and web browser, use people's web habits and make money from that.
Perhaps a bunch of Silicon Valley types should buy some MS shares and start a proxy war over where MS is headed (demand that MS pay out their war chest for example)?
Ah, but MY point being that if MS offers companies advertising for less money, or offers web sites more money for carrying their ads- or some combination of the two, then Google has a problem.
Does it matter to the website owners if Google gives better ads or if MS pays more for worse ads? Remember that Google's ads run in a lot more places than just on Google's servers. And while search is nice (hell, the company that I work for just bought two Enterprise Search Engines), it doesn't drive me to any of the web sites that I have bookmarked.
the real reason to buy Yahoo is to kill it. I can see this in a two prong attack to get to Google. First, by buying Yahoo, they get access to all of Yahoo's users which will be migrated over to MSN. This will give MS the strength to talk to Madison Ave and have the technology that is good enough.
Second, MS will then offer cut rate advertisement (or perhaps a new click model which is deeply discounted), which will force Google to react or lose market share. Remember that Google is primarily a advertisement firm with some killer search technology, not a technology firm that also does ads- so to use a Ballmer quote from the past, to kill a company, you "cut out the air supply". Google's air is adverts.
Finally, this will cut into Yahoo's open source projects; just a little benefit for MS, but still, it's there.
To a monopolist, $40b is cheep money for killing 2 birds with one stone.
It's one thing to joke about politics, it's another to make the politics into a joke. In doing the later, Colbert was going to take the focus off of the race and put it onto himself. And as bad as the politics are these days, this really wouldn't have been a good thing at all- for everyone. SC Democrat votes would appear to be buffoons, the media would just play this as a joke- missing even more the issues that no-one talks about, and the legitimate candidates would just be sidelined.
Now, I'm not certain if he would have been a good leader, but if he wants to have an honest run at it, by all means, he can. Just that he'd have to be serious about it.
It's one thing to joke about politics, it's another to make the politics into a joke. In doing the later, Colbert was going to take the focus off of the race and put it onto himself.
It wouldn't really matter now, would it- if EA wrote their own OS that the system boots into to play the game, and if they gave it a place to store the save games to a web site, USB drive, or read / write access to a hard disk.
er, no- the law said that you are a allowed a $2 mark up. Until that law is changed, and the House is working on it, you are not allowed to charge more than $2.
The interesting thing that I noticed in reading up on the cable was that Pear is local to me. So I looked up their address listed, and it's residential. From the appearance, this appears to be a virtual company, in a nice Tony neighborhood, and all the owners have to do is sell a hundred cables and the house is paid for.
So far, everything I've read really doesn't sound like it's geared towards an enterprise level; mostly put a bunch of files out there in a folder somewhere and let a crawler index them. That's all good and fine until someone gets the idea to search for the payroll documents...
At work, and granted it's a fair size HMO, we use Universal Content Management by Oracle, formerly known as Stellent's Content Management System. UCM allows for named accounts with control over access, plus a full audit log, full change log (plus revisions), and a centralized location for searching for document of any type (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, AutoCAD, MPG movies, TIFF, etc.).
Supports work flows as well, a nice plus if something needs to go through a formal process, gives nice audit trails, and supports 3 different full text indexes (FAST, Verity, and database) of the stored content.
This might not be for everyone, but it is a decent tool for large size companies to manage documents.
The AMD question was raised on their Forums, and there is no issues with TTB running on AMD CPUs. And, if there was, well it's under the GPL now, and I'm sure someone would have added / corrected that mistake.
Could also be that we had the expectation that we where there to LEARN and not act like complete animals.
Just because you don't like the teacher's methods automatically means that the teacher is shitty. It could be that you were just a really bad student? Could it be that she had a discipline issue and sought out a quick and effective method to bring us in line, or that it was the AP course in English and wanted to give us a challenge?
A single point of data on a chart does not give a complete picture. And just because one method of learning doesn't work for you does not mean that other s don't respond differently.
I think I would have assigned a 50 page single space typed essay to the entire class, to be submitted in 3 week's time on the values of a good education or something along the lines of the course's subject.[1]
But really, students poking fun of a teacher has been around since day one. Teachers doling out the punishment to fit the crime has been around since day two- which brings me to the 2nd point- 40 days really is too long. A week, perhaps, but not 40 days.
[1] Before everyone gets their underwear in a knot, when I was in high school, my English teacher made her class read the entire collection of Shakespeare in 3 weeks with a 3 page report on each play and collection of sonnets.
Well, think of it like this: While you are paying Cox to play you the show / event at a time of your choosing, the media company is losing money in that you are not seeing the ads shown at the original time- the money goes right to Cox's bank account.
Now, if Cox said, we're going to offer two levels- level 1 will cost $1 (made up price) and will be ad sponsored (where the money is split one way), and level 2 will cost $5, but will not have ads (of which some larger percentage will go to the media company), I'm sure that people would find this more palatable and the market would be the decider as to which method is preferred.
(Of course this totally ignores the greed of the media company- I'm sure they'll figure out someway of stuffing in commercials somehow; be it product placements or sponsorship.)
And of course this is far more complex than my 3 minute reply here does justice to the debate.
It's called Eating Your Own Dog Food. Think of the business argument like this- Why should I buy Windows to run my business if Microsoft doesn't run Windows to run their's?
A long time ago, MS ran their accounting department on AS/400s as the story goes, and other F500 companies where pointing this fact to the MS sales people. MS then, again as the story goes, tried to move everything over to a Windows based system, and failed. Failed horribly, and to the point where MS had to make a tough choice- run AS/400 systems and run the company or not and not get payroll and bills out on time. What did they do? Created a company to run the accounting department systems, moved everyone over to that new company, and then to the outside world it appeared that MS was indeed eating their own dog food.
Any serious offer on the table and the parties need to sit down and have a chat. to do otherwise would be ignoring your duties.
On one side I don't see this being more than a chat to work out a deal- to buy Yahoo would cost MS all of their cash reserves, and then there is the little problem of moving their technology base from *unix to Windows would be a multiyear screw up, er, project (how long did it take MS to move Hotmail over to Windows?).
On the other side- MS does need to move against Google in some meaningful manner- Google's judo flip and really put MS off balance in a way that will play out for years to come- and I doubt MS shareholders are happy with the flat stock price for the last 7 years.
I suggest a large bowl of popcorn while we wait this one out, with extra butter.
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Because people trust their Churches and religious leaders more than their politicians? And something of this nature would strike deeply at a person's beliefs and mental state.
But, IMHO, I think this is the Catholic Church trying to modernize and accept science more than any world shaking announcement that your friend Ford, who you have known for several years and believe him to be "an out of work actor from the town of Guildford" in Surrey, is in fact an alien from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
I didn't see anyone mentioning this beast at all.
Basically it's Sony's answer to people who have too much money and not enough common sense. Share's the PS3's XBR system, holds 200 Blu-Ray discs and has a 500GB hard drive. Reading the owner's manual there's a lot to dislike (DRM everywhere), but I can see the people that they are targeting, and it does look 'cool'.
Simpler reason why Germany never laid a finger on Switzerland; Too many German officials had secret accounts there.
Which I'm sure they'd love to their graft come to light once the bank books where opened.
Sure, why not. Except for lost or damaged discs, and the fact that every review is going to say the PS3 version is better because you don't have to change discs mid-game.
Pay-per-view.
Yep, as in, MS' technology now completes with the cable company's product. So, do you think that cable companies are going to roll out fiber to everyone's door just so MS, Apple, Blockbuster and Netflix can deliver video on demand?
Nope.
I think that's the main issue looking over all the on-going conversations.
Just because is shares many of the same abilities does not mean that Apple is under obligation to allow you to fully use those abilities.
Just like your under no obligation to buy the damn phone if it doesn't do what you want it to do.
Interesting that most of the economists talked about downloads as if they would slay Blu-Ray.
Until Comcast allows me to download 50GB of data in 5 minutes, Blu-Ray (along with Netflix and the USPO) wins.
Not to say that streaming isn't nice, but until hiccups in the delivery system are ironed out, along with some ownership rights, physical media will always win over electronic media.
I believe it's called a Library.
Because in California, Non-Competes have no legal value.
That said, I agree 100% with the notion that this is MS' Waterloo. They have effectively stated that they can not, even with owning the OS and web browser, use people's web habits and make money from that.
Perhaps a bunch of Silicon Valley types should buy some MS shares and start a proxy war over where MS is headed (demand that MS pay out their war chest for example)?
Just a RND thought.
Ah, but MY point being that if MS offers companies advertising for less money, or offers web sites more money for carrying their ads- or some combination of the two, then Google has a problem.
Does it matter to the website owners if Google gives better ads or if MS pays more for worse ads? Remember that Google's ads run in a lot more places than just on Google's servers. And while search is nice (hell, the company that I work for just bought two Enterprise Search Engines), it doesn't drive me to any of the web sites that I have bookmarked.
the real reason to buy Yahoo is to kill it.
I can see this in a two prong attack to get to Google.
First, by buying Yahoo, they get access to all of Yahoo's users which will be migrated over to MSN. This will give MS the strength to talk to Madison Ave and have the technology that is good enough.
Second, MS will then offer cut rate advertisement (or perhaps a new click model which is deeply discounted), which will force Google to react or lose market share.
Remember that Google is primarily a advertisement firm with some killer search technology, not a technology firm that also does ads- so to use a Ballmer quote from the past, to kill a company, you "cut out the air supply". Google's air is adverts.
Finally, this will cut into Yahoo's open source projects; just a little benefit for MS, but still, it's there.
To a monopolist, $40b is cheep money for killing 2 birds with one stone.
Now, will it happen?
That's another question.
Damn- hit the wrong button...
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It's one thing to joke about politics, it's another to make the politics into a joke.
In doing the later, Colbert was going to take the focus off of the race and put it onto himself. And as bad as the politics are these days, this really wouldn't have been a good thing at all- for everyone. SC Democrat votes would appear to be buffoons, the media would just play this as a joke- missing even more the issues that no-one talks about, and the legitimate candidates would just be sidelined.
Now, I'm not certain if he would have been a good leader, but if he wants to have an honest run at it, by all means, he can. Just that he'd have to be serious about it.
It's one thing to joke about politics, it's another to make the politics into a joke.
In doing the later, Colbert was going to take the focus off of the race and put it onto himself.
It wouldn't really matter now, would it- if EA wrote their own OS that the system boots into to play the game, and if they gave it a place to store the save games to a web site, USB drive, or read / write access to a hard disk.
er, no- the law said that you are a allowed a $2 mark up.
Until that law is changed, and the House is working on it, you are not allowed to charge more than $2.
The interesting thing that I noticed in reading up on the cable was that Pear is local to me.
So I looked up their address listed, and it's residential. From the appearance, this appears to be a virtual company, in a nice Tony neighborhood, and all the owners have to do is sell a hundred cables and the house is paid for.
Oh, and the first and final word on speaker cable is from McIntosh's Rodger Russell.
So far, everything I've read really doesn't sound like it's geared towards an enterprise level; mostly put a bunch of files out there in a folder somewhere and let a crawler index them. That's all good and fine until someone gets the idea to search for the payroll documents...
At work, and granted it's a fair size HMO, we use Universal Content Management by Oracle, formerly known as Stellent's Content Management System.
UCM allows for named accounts with control over access, plus a full audit log, full change log (plus revisions), and a centralized location for searching for document of any type (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, AutoCAD, MPG movies, TIFF, etc.).
Supports work flows as well, a nice plus if something needs to go through a formal process, gives nice audit trails, and supports 3 different full text indexes (FAST, Verity, and database) of the stored content.
This might not be for everyone, but it is a decent tool for large size companies to manage documents.
The AMD question was raised on their Forums, and there is no issues with TTB running on AMD CPUs.
And, if there was, well it's under the GPL now, and I'm sure someone would have added / corrected that mistake.
The Slipheed that *I* remember was the Sega CD version, from the 1990s.
:D
Great intro and a total blast.
Time to break out the CD and emulator.
Barge bottom- thus the house can float.
Could also be that we had the expectation that we where there to LEARN and not act like complete animals.
Just because you don't like the teacher's methods automatically means that the teacher is shitty. It could be that you were just a really bad student? Could it be that she had a discipline issue and sought out a quick and effective method to bring us in line, or that it was the AP course in English and wanted to give us a challenge?
A single point of data on a chart does not give a complete picture.
And just because one method of learning doesn't work for you does not mean that other s don't respond differently.
I think I would have assigned a 50 page single space typed essay to the entire class, to be submitted in 3 week's time on the values of a good education or something along the lines of the course's subject.[1]
But really, students poking fun of a teacher has been around since day one. Teachers doling out the punishment to fit the crime has been around since day two- which brings me to the 2nd point- 40 days really is too long. A week, perhaps, but not 40 days.
[1] Before everyone gets their underwear in a knot, when I was in high school, my English teacher made her class read the entire collection of Shakespeare in 3 weeks with a 3 page report on each play and collection of sonnets.
Well, think of it like this:
While you are paying Cox to play you the show / event at a time of your choosing, the media company is losing money in that you are not seeing the ads shown at the original time- the money goes right to Cox's bank account.
Now, if Cox said, we're going to offer two levels- level 1 will cost $1 (made up price) and will be ad sponsored (where the money is split one way), and level 2 will cost $5, but will not have ads (of which some larger percentage will go to the media company), I'm sure that people would find this more palatable and the market would be the decider as to which method is preferred.
(Of course this totally ignores the greed of the media company- I'm sure they'll figure out someway of stuffing in commercials somehow; be it product placements or sponsorship.)
And of course this is far more complex than my 3 minute reply here does justice to the debate.
It's called Eating Your Own Dog Food.
Think of the business argument like this- Why should I buy Windows to run my business if Microsoft doesn't run Windows to run their's?
A long time ago, MS ran their accounting department on AS/400s as the story goes, and other F500 companies where pointing this fact to the MS sales people. MS then, again as the story goes, tried to move everything over to a Windows based system, and failed. Failed horribly, and to the point where MS had to make a tough choice- run AS/400 systems and run the company or not and not get payroll and bills out on time. What did they do? Created a company to run the accounting department systems, moved everyone over to that new company, and then to the outside world it appeared that MS was indeed eating their own dog food.
Any serious offer on the table and the parties need to sit down and have a chat. to do otherwise would be ignoring your duties.
On one side I don't see this being more than a chat to work out a deal- to buy Yahoo would cost MS all of their cash reserves, and then there is the little problem of moving their technology base from *unix to Windows would be a multiyear screw up, er, project (how long did it take MS to move Hotmail over to Windows?).
On the other side- MS does need to move against Google in some meaningful manner- Google's judo flip and really put MS off balance in a way that will play out for years to come- and I doubt MS shareholders are happy with the flat stock price for the last 7 years.
I suggest a large bowl of popcorn while we wait this one out, with extra butter.