Exactly. Not to mention that with hard drive sizes these days, securely deleting the data would take hours or days per drive. That might not be a big deal if you are getting rid of a handful of drives and have a couple spare computers but if you are getting rid of dozens of drives or more, just destroying them saves a lot of time.
Businesses still need land lines unless you plan on giving everyone a work cell phone or have them share phones. In a home environment, you certainly have a point. And even if you like have a regular phone at home, there are those cell phone bridges or whatever they are called where you can connect the phones in your house to it when you are at home.
Agreed. I think it is more that they don't want the increased scrutiny or the net neutrality restrictions. Since both of them could affect their bottom line.
It isn't too hard, when you select laptops for example (at least in the home division) on the left side there is a "Narrow your selection" thing and one of the categories is "Operating System" just check the box for "Ubuntu Linux" and it will show you all the laptops that have it as an option. There are only 4 right now (I just checked) but at least they are there.
If you use dnsmasq for your DNS server on your network, they have a config option called bogus-nxdomain so if a name resolves to that IP address it considers it invalid, and reports the domain as not existent. I did it on my smoothwall and it has worked great. Just ping some non-existent domains so you can get the IPs of their ad servers and them add them in.
Yeah, now what will happen is you'll have to wait for it to come back and say "Connection Refused". Because the IP will resolve to their web server if the domain doesn't exist. They just assume you are only using DNS for web stuff I guess.
Compatibility problems is probably part of it but I think what is keeping people on XP is that it works and works well for what most people want to do. Microsoft is really competing against themselves and they haven't provided a good enough reason to upgrade, so most are going to stick with XP for as long as possible.
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But if people aren't forced to use IE and basically as a consequence, Windows, that will affect Microsoft. It would remove one less reason someone might have to stay on Windows or run Windows in a VM.
In addition it will affect their own web products if they are not the majority market holder on web browsers; they will have to make their apps compatible with the other browsers.
The problem isn't with Boxee per-se or necessarily Hulu. It is with the content providers that give Hulu its content (and I think own Hulu).
Boxee is making it easy for people to watch Internet videos on your TV. That is what is scaring the content providers. They DO NOT want you to link (physically or mentally) your TV with free internet based video. Because then you might realize you don't need to pay for your expensive cable subscription when you can just wait a day and watch it on Hulu when you want to.
Boxee just accesses Hulu's site and displays the video, they don't take out the commercials or anything. The content providers just don't want you using Hulu on your actual TV.
Even the most reliable components may be expected to fail in 5 years.
I think he's been very fortunate that his setup has lasted 15 years. On average, a computer has had a lifetime of 5 years, before some hardware failures occur. To be honest.. in many cases, newer hard drives has been less reliable or has not lasted as long.
I think a big part of the reason those computers have lasted so long is that they produce so much less heat than computers these days. Heat is a big killer over the long term to electronics.
They don't require so many heatsinks in the systems and they were probably built with better parts. Less hardware density also means less things to go wrong.
Lots of people play electronic slot machines everyday and put tons of money into them. Slot machines and the like are heavily regulated. In order for a machine to be installed in a casino every state requires 3rd party examination of the device including the code behind it. Most US states hire GLI to do it: http://www.gaminglabs.com/?contentID=4
The issue is that people care more about their money than their freedoms. Voting machines should have the same rigorous standards.
And that is one of the core issues in the problem. Our culture has defined smart people as uncool. Those students you spoke of, they should be rewarded for their excellent work but when the school singles them out once and doesn't routinely recognize academic achievements, it just makes them social outcasts.
Colleges recruit athletes from high school why don't they try and recruit the smart people too?
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Exactly. Not to mention that with hard drive sizes these days, securely deleting the data would take hours or days per drive. That might not be a big deal if you are getting rid of a handful of drives and have a couple spare computers but if you are getting rid of dozens of drives or more, just destroying them saves a lot of time.
Businesses still need land lines unless you plan on giving everyone a work cell phone or have them share phones. In a home environment, you certainly have a point. And even if you like have a regular phone at home, there are those cell phone bridges or whatever they are called where you can connect the phones in your house to it when you are at home.
Agreed. I think it is more that they don't want the increased scrutiny or the net neutrality restrictions. Since both of them could affect their bottom line.
It isn't too hard, when you select laptops for example (at least in the home division) on the left side there is a "Narrow your selection" thing and one of the categories is "Operating System" just check the box for "Ubuntu Linux" and it will show you all the laptops that have it as an option. There are only 4 right now (I just checked) but at least they are there.
If you use dnsmasq for your DNS server on your network, they have a config option called bogus-nxdomain so if a name resolves to that IP address it considers it invalid, and reports the domain as not existent. I did it on my smoothwall and it has worked great. Just ping some non-existent domains so you can get the IPs of their ad servers and them add them in.
Yeah, now what will happen is you'll have to wait for it to come back and say "Connection Refused". Because the IP will resolve to their web server if the domain doesn't exist. They just assume you are only using DNS for web stuff I guess.
Compatibility problems is probably part of it but I think what is keeping people on XP is that it works and works well for what most people want to do. Microsoft is really competing against themselves and they haven't provided a good enough reason to upgrade, so most are going to stick with XP for as long as possible.
This looks like it has what you are looking for. There are even instructions on how to upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 and keep KDE 3.
But if people aren't forced to use IE and basically as a consequence, Windows, that will affect Microsoft. It would remove one less reason someone might have to stay on Windows or run Windows in a VM.
In addition it will affect their own web products if they are not the majority market holder on web browsers; they will have to make their apps compatible with the other browsers.
What is Boxee doing wrong to piss off Hulu?
The problem isn't with Boxee per-se or necessarily Hulu. It is with the content providers that give Hulu its content (and I think own Hulu).
Boxee is making it easy for people to watch Internet videos on your TV. That is what is scaring the content providers. They DO NOT want you to link (physically or mentally) your TV with free internet based video. Because then you might realize you don't need to pay for your expensive cable subscription when you can just wait a day and watch it on Hulu when you want to.
Boxee just accesses Hulu's site and displays the video, they don't take out the commercials or anything. The content providers just don't want you using Hulu on your actual TV.
Even the most reliable components may be expected to fail in 5 years.
I think he's been very fortunate that his setup has lasted 15 years. On average, a computer has had a lifetime of 5 years, before some hardware failures occur. To be honest.. in many cases, newer hard drives has been less reliable or has not lasted as long.
I think a big part of the reason those computers have lasted so long is that they produce so much less heat than computers these days. Heat is a big killer over the long term to electronics. They don't require so many heatsinks in the systems and they were probably built with better parts. Less hardware density also means less things to go wrong.
AT&T wireless will let you block text messages, other carriers probably offer it too. It is done on their end, not on your phone.
Yes you can see them but you can't change focus to them without the full screen game minimizing usually.
Hulu will also be airing the actual inauguration and they use flash: http://www.hulu.com/spotlight/obamapresidency
Lots of people play electronic slot machines everyday and put tons of money into them. Slot machines and the like are heavily regulated. In order for a machine to be installed in a casino every state requires 3rd party examination of the device including the code behind it. Most US states hire GLI to do it: http://www.gaminglabs.com/?contentID=4
The issue is that people care more about their money than their freedoms. Voting machines should have the same rigorous standards.
And that is one of the core issues in the problem. Our culture has defined smart people as uncool. Those students you spoke of, they should be rewarded for their excellent work but when the school singles them out once and doesn't routinely recognize academic achievements, it just makes them social outcasts. Colleges recruit athletes from high school why don't they try and recruit the smart people too?