Or it could be that Australians pay for both upload and download traffic when it goes over to America, and the Americans pay not 1 brass razoo in return. Go check out one of the geographic Internet connection maps and see how many links out of this country don't go via the USA.
As for charges within Australia, this is how it works. That's why Optus like to give ABC News online lots of network access for free/very little... They get to charge Telstra and UUNet and the likes whenever Joe Public grabs a news story to read.
Oh... so you want to use your new major interface change the exact same way you use your current one. Whats the point in that?
You work in a lab, so I guess you might do things like log data from say a spectrophotometer or something into you computer and then do some stats processing on them... how about if you could just say (to the machine in the roof) "log these samples I'm running" and it does? and when you are finished doing the manual work you say "Run them through statlab with the usual parameters" and it does... my wouldn't that be handy.
A change in paradigm would come hand in hand with a change in useage. Do you really think you need a GUI and keyboard in your fridge just to order more butter???
The problem with voice input is not in the ability to hear, but the ability to understand. It's the AI that we are lacking for this, and when we get that why the hell not use it? Sure your private email might want to be entered by hand rather than dictated, but backward compatability is a powerful tool (just like a GUI) to be included, not made redundant.
My guess is it's YAWS specialised for mice and keyboards. The reson will be economic, it's obviously much cheaper to hack together a quick and easy wireless "standard" for mice and keyboards than implement the entire bluetooth standard.
What... a duel Athlon? That would be nice. Now lets see if we can find a chipset/motherboard that can do that.
Seriously though, I'm about to build up another machine (Have the case/HDD and RAID controller) that just wants to be a dual Athlon, but it seems it'll just be a dual PIII... Shame about that really.
All well and good, just don't expect to take over the desktop market in any big way. It's hard enough getting the tech support around here to install Photoshop on someones computer, I'd hate to even think what would happen if I wanted them to put Disksuit on the Ultra 5's.
Why do you think RPMS exist in the first place anyway? I mean a tarballs are all you need to get anything, RPMS and Solaris Packages and the likes makes the job easy enough for slightly computer savvy people to do it... a Windows Setup program means even your secretary can do (But not your boss.)
XSI Sells a rather nice external RAID setup, single SCSI channel into the box, but all IDE to the drives for the actual storage. Handy way of adding that much needed storage space to the little Sun Enterprise 1 you have thats filled up it's little 2G Drive:)
I think you missed something... the quote you copied was "Face it...the unwashed masses (or at least a large enough percentage of them) WANT to gamble. ALL you can do is try to reduce the harm associated with gambling by letting them do it legally, and try to educate them about gambling and its dangers. Anything else simply makes the situation worst."
Now as for rape... do the unwashed masses want to be raped, rape or have a wife/daughter/mother raped? Thus rape laws can work because the masses want them to work.
Here in Australia the Government has put a stop on all applications to run online gambling, but does that stop Australians from using American sites? Do you think that some country wont let it happen? You may be able to enforce American sites out by cutting off the Credit Card transactions, but do you think that VISA/MC/AE will want to stop payments from America to Monaco???
it would put IE onto Linux; it would port Office apps to Linux and elsewhere
And how is this a bad thing [tm]? Thats what competition is about. If the applications have to stand on their own two feet, and not rely on the "it's already here so I might as well just use it" bundling effect, then they must either improve or die.
A structurally altered Microsoft would be worth more -- not less -- on the market than the current monolithic Microsoft.
Once again is this a bad thing? They will be worth more combined (and the current share holders could well make a killing) but Individually they will be smaller. The point being they can not use bundling to make profit in one area by sacrificing another. If the products can not stand on their own feet then they die and the shareholders lose money. More to the point it doesn't stop other applications/OS/companies (Netscape? Wordperfect? BeOS? Apple? Linux?) from competing with a more even chance in there niche market. Netscape has struggled not due to an inferrior product (arguably at the time they had a superior product) but because market share (and thus income) was taken away by unfair leverage of the OS. IE would not be able to be bundled because it would be part of a seperate company (under one debated scheme at least).
Because free to innovate and chase opportunities -- as well as to better attract and reward engineers -- the company would once again be the worst nightmare of most of its competitors.
The company, or the companies? Thats the important question. If IE has to stand on it's own feet, and can't just be given away with the OS do you think that the company would remain free to innovate and chase opportunities without at least charging for a product? Could Netscape not also innovate and chase opportunites on the same grounds as a Baby Bill?
But a monolithic Microsoft, especially one stung by having to a) agree that it had done wrong, and b) sit under the eye of DOJ overseers, will be a mess.
Do you think Microsoft would not find ways to bypass the overseers/restrictions? They will work on that. At the same time they will keep supplying IE with the OS, just not as tightly coupled, and they will still unfairly maintain market share. They will still be able to use "undocumented" API features, they will just need to be sneaker about how different development teams find out about it.
The only way you can be assured that a tiger won't attack someone is to either lock it up and watch it closely all the time (that means watching it very closely ALL the time, with no mistakes or breaks to scratch yourself) or to kill the tiger. Both actions can work, what is "best" or wise or even feasible are things that we hope the DOJ/states/courts can figure out.
Careful what wish for...
Like a chance for my company to choose something other than SQLServer on NT as a datbase because there are products as good, stable *shudder* and cheap, supported and not stupidly chosen because "It's Microsoft."
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As for charges within Australia, this is how it works. That's why Optus like to give ABC News online lots of network access for free/very little... They get to charge Telstra and UUNet and the likes whenever Joe Public grabs a news story to read.
You work in a lab, so I guess you might do things like log data from say a spectrophotometer or something into you computer and then do some stats processing on them... how about if you could just say (to the machine in the roof) "log these samples I'm running" and it does? and when you are finished doing the manual work you say "Run them through statlab with the usual parameters" and it does... my wouldn't that be handy.
A change in paradigm would come hand in hand with a change in useage. Do you really think you need a GUI and keyboard in your fridge just to order more butter???
The problem with voice input is not in the ability to hear, but the ability to understand. It's the AI that we are lacking for this, and when we get that why the hell not use it? Sure your private email might want to be entered by hand rather than dictated, but backward compatability is a powerful tool (just like a GUI) to be included, not made redundant.
My guess is it's YAWS specialised for mice and keyboards. The reson will be economic, it's obviously much cheaper to hack together a quick and easy wireless "standard" for mice and keyboards than implement the entire bluetooth standard.
Damn those French bastards to hell!!!
Seriously though, I'm about to build up another machine (Have the case/HDD and RAID controller) that just wants to be a dual Athlon, but it seems it'll just be a dual PIII... Shame about that really.
All well and good, just don't expect to take over the desktop market in any big way. It's hard enough getting the tech support around here to install Photoshop on someones computer, I'd hate to even think what would happen if I wanted them to put Disksuit on the Ultra 5's.
Why do you think RPMS exist in the first place anyway? I mean a tarballs are all you need to get anything, RPMS and Solaris Packages and the likes makes the job easy enough for slightly computer savvy people to do it... a Windows Setup program means even your secretary can do (But not your boss.)
XSI Sells a rather nice external RAID setup, single SCSI channel into the box, but all IDE to the drives for the actual storage. Handy way of adding that much needed storage space to the little Sun Enterprise 1 you have thats filled up it's little 2G Drive :)
Now as for rape... do the unwashed masses want to be raped, rape or have a wife/daughter/mother raped? Thus rape laws can work because the masses want them to work.
Here in Australia the Government has put a stop on all applications to run online gambling, but does that stop Australians from using American sites? Do you think that some country wont let it happen? You may be able to enforce American sites out by cutting off the Credit Card transactions, but do you think that VISA/MC/AE will want to stop payments from America to Monaco???
And how is this a bad thing [tm]? Thats what competition is about. If the applications have to stand on their own two feet, and not rely on the "it's already here so I might as well just use it" bundling effect, then they must either improve or die.
A structurally altered Microsoft would be worth more -- not less -- on the market than the current monolithic Microsoft.
Once again is this a bad thing? They will be worth more combined (and the current share holders could well make a killing) but Individually they will be smaller. The point being they can not use bundling to make profit in one area by sacrificing another. If the products can not stand on their own feet then they die and the shareholders lose money. More to the point it doesn't stop other applications/OS/companies (Netscape? Wordperfect? BeOS? Apple? Linux?) from competing with a more even chance in there niche market. Netscape has struggled not due to an inferrior product (arguably at the time they had a superior product) but because market share (and thus income) was taken away by unfair leverage of the OS. IE would not be able to be bundled because it would be part of a seperate company (under one debated scheme at least).
Because free to innovate and chase opportunities -- as well as to better attract and reward engineers -- the company would once again be the worst nightmare of most of its competitors.
The company, or the companies? Thats the important question. If IE has to stand on it's own feet, and can't just be given away with the OS do you think that the company would remain free to innovate and chase opportunities without at least charging for a product? Could Netscape not also innovate and chase opportunites on the same grounds as a Baby Bill?
But a monolithic Microsoft, especially one stung by having to a) agree that it had done wrong, and b) sit under the eye of DOJ overseers, will be a mess.
Do you think Microsoft would not find ways to bypass the overseers/restrictions? They will work on that. At the same time they will keep supplying IE with the OS, just not as tightly coupled, and they will still unfairly maintain market share. They will still be able to use "undocumented" API features, they will just need to be sneaker about how different development teams find out about it.
The only way you can be assured that a tiger won't attack someone is to either lock it up and watch it closely all the time (that means watching it very closely ALL the time, with no mistakes or breaks to scratch yourself) or to kill the tiger. Both actions can work, what is "best" or wise or even feasible are things that we hope the DOJ/states/courts can figure out.
Careful what wish for ...
Like a chance for my company to choose something other than SQLServer on NT as a datbase because there are products as good, stable *shudder* and cheap, supported and not stupidly chosen because "It's Microsoft."
Ahh for a perfect world!