And what about the possabilities for fraud? You are teased with some form of header that you are intrested in and then go on to click though the artical. Meanwhile the "micropayment" has gone from $0.01 per click to $0.50 with micro-fine print at the bottom of the page informing of you so. (Or none at all.)
Next thing you know your paying out the nose for something that once was free. (Ad supported.)
The idea of micropayments is nice in theory but there are many pitfalls that must be fleshed out before I see myself ever using such a thing.
A very good point. Sounds like a class action in the works.
Quick, let me go out and get one of their routers off EBay (Ain't no way I'm gonna let them get any sales from me.) and then log some time doing day tradeing. Whoops, you just cost me $x dollars thanks to your built in spam Belkin, hellllooooo lawsuit.
Fair enough! I didn't even bother to look up any facts so since at the time that was the way things went, Apple 1st then others for most things, I just assumed it was so.
Although, I must say the C64 had some amazeing games that never did get ported to anything due to the fact that the C64 had that neato blitter chip and far better sound than any Apple// (Save the//gs) ever did. But by then Apple was allready ready to do that whole Mac thing so...
If I remember correctly it was orginally programmed for the Apple// series then ported over to the Atari's. As were many games at that time. (Apple having a larger userbase.)
Very fun game, I have even found myself breaking out my Apple//e emu and playing it for some odd reason every now and then.
While don't get me wrong, $250,000 is a lot of money. If MS was really serious about this they should invest about 10x that into either a) going though all of their code with many many coders and stomping out every bug hole they can find even if it is at the expense of some "features" or b) offer that much up as a bounty.
Either way, if your MS with pockets full of cash this seems more like a PR stunt (aka cheap way) to try and fix their problems than any real type of effort.
But even then you face the reality that the system is rigged for the status quo. The more power you want, the more the system beat you down, in various ways: having to go though countless background checks that will expose every little detail of your life (By goverment officals who are currently in power who you intend to knock down and the press.), you must be very very rich in order to run for office without any backing and even then who wants to waste their money on something you might end up loseing anyway thus you give in and accept money from special intrest groups who then "own" you, and of course lets not forget when/if all that fails your opponents will simply out and out lie about you and your family if you are deemed enough of a theat to their intrests.
So then you say, ok lets band together! Strength in numbers and all that. But that's a problem because then you have many many viewpoints to represent and geeks tend to be well informed about things so it's not like joe sixpack who you can gloss over with a few platatudes. No, you will have to carefully weigh each viewpoint and even then if you explain exactly why you chose to do x instead of y some will still get pissed off and either drop their support or defect and work against you just out of spite!
I mean just the thought of all that makes me very ill, and then to have to go though it? It is of course not impossable but at this point in the game where we still have the "illusion of freedom" it will be very improbable.
Witness just about any marital argument and listen to what each side is shouting. You will generally be hearing people describing themselves very accurately, and mischaracterizing the other accordingly as they seek to pin the accusation on the other.
And to my sad dismay, Fox seeminly upped the anti by making Fox News the loudest and most "flashy" 24 hour news there is. You used the word extreme and I think it applys to all aspects of what modern media has done to many aspects of what we know of as media. Yes, there are many outlets of media that don't scream, mischaracterize, and or out and out lie often but they tend to get drounded out with this new tactic: Scream your spin the loudest and hope that you get heard above the noise, or better yet are the only noise that can be heard.
We see this in other aspects of our meida as well, big budget pictures are expected and when they don't perform well due to a bad plot, bad acting, bad casting, etc there is much finger pointing about who did what wrong rather than just accepting that maxing out on volume is not always the key to success.
Diddo the RIAA. Their buisness plan exists such that they must have control of what content is dilvered to the masses. Rather than accepting that change was on the horizen they ignored it and when things did change they now are shouting at the top of their collective lungs, you must ONLY listen to our music! (Yes, a strech but hey, it's only/.)
I personally watch maybe 30 mins of TV news a week, and that is mostly when I'm subjected to it by others. I find that it has decended into nearly pure brainwashing tactics with the same messages repeated over and over and over in self rightious tones that almost reach out of the TV and knock me over the head. And since all that glass window does is tell me what it thinks I never can get the sadsifacation of giving it any good wacks back. Print news can be as bad in a diffrent way but it's much easier to filter out the dreck and put it down if it simply becomes too much.
My major thought was that since this is true that MS is just making some PR showings now so that PHBs and the herd on Wall Street don't forget about them.
Remember, this is the co that is giving FUD lessons to SCO. They know all about useless press releases just to keep themselves in the spotlight.
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C is a low level language and makes no bones about it being such.
Is such a high level language such as one that is designed to run upon other protocals the same?
Even more so, if you sell a lisance in person and the buyer does not make any amdends to the contract (lisance) they have not just commited to a full contract.
It is at this point that I would have to disagree with the oringal poster beacuse it would seem to me that any company that is worth it's salt would have it's legal team at they very least look at a contract that could possaibly lock them into many many years worth of expendatures.
Is the intro to the artical. Where they talk about users in comp stores on a daily?! basis. Ouch, what is up with that.
Then returning hardware a day or a week later when it's in perfect condition. I know retailers have to be good to their customers in order to keep them but wow. I never consdiered returning anything I got unless it was broken. Which back in some of the early days happened often enough as it was.
I know it's hard to avoid the/. temptation never to RTFA but I think that anyone who even looked at that poll might have to think again about who really is being bashed there.
I just love it when ppl break out their crystal balls and start saying that something is going to "die".
Why oh why does such drivel even get published!? Now, don't anwser that. Thats a whole other can of worms and we might as well try to stay on topic here.
I own no less than 3 Palms and have keyboards for 2 of them. (I can plug any of them into the 2 keyboards but you get the idea.) The 2 IIIc's I have are getting a little long in the tooth but they still function pretty well. My 550c is a little more modern but it still could use an upgrade too even.
Also let me throw in here that I do have a laptop as well as the number of computers on my home network to use so I'm pretty much covered when it comes to computing in all it's forms.
Now, having said that, let me also now say that I've been in the market for a new cell phone too and while the little ones that are PDAs are neat, they could never replace my PDAs for a few reasons:
1. As has been pointed out in this thread a few times, I would not be able to access my PDA very easily if I was using my phone. I can see how that would get old real quick. 2. If I'm using my PDA/Phone I'm using up charge on it. If my PDA dies it's not a huge deal but it does not effect my ability to make a call. 3. While some of the new PDA/Phones have decent sized screens they still are always smaller than a full sized PDA. They rarely offer much in the way of stylus room and no, I don't want my phone to get bigger. 4. I've not looked that hard but I don't think very many of them come with the keyboard option. If they do, well thats cool that would remove this point but I'm pretty sure that the majority of them don't and even if only that is true it would limit my available list of phones that I would be willing to buy.
In short, I'm not sure I can even understand why anyone would think that any "tool" would "die". They may adapt and evolve but I think that PDAs serve a market that is quite diffrent than a cell phone. Cell phones may incorpirate some of the features that are on PDAs but they really are two diffrent things as far as I'm concerned.
(Side note, the one thing that I have been thinking about is the camera phones. While the image quality is not great it would be neat to be able to just carry a phone/camera. It would not be a subistute for a real digital camera but I don't always need one of those on me. And using a camera is not the same as trying to use a phone and a PDA at the same time.)
Hrm, shame you posted as an AC because you bring up some very good points.
I think many people like the functionality of MS products, like Exchange, and think that moving over to something else will be a very big hassle so they just stay with an all MS solution but they just don't know enough.
Key of course is getting a good set of admins and then letting them goto work. Of course having a good set of admins is key for any enterprise level IT but as has been noted many times before here on/. MCSE's are easier to find. Some of them actually even know what they are doing but...still.
I read some of the other replys to this post and some of them said about how Quicktime was poor. And I'd have to agree.
While I don't know if I'd rate Quicktime as terrable or anything worse than poor, but it def was not written with anything in mind other than trying to show Windows users how much better Mac apps can be.
But I think this actually is a departure for Apple. They *want* people to use this software and not have to clickthough "Upgrade to Quicktime Pro Now!" Rather use it and maybe buy the iPod, then maybe think about a Mac.
I think it's a good move for Apple as they have really improved the quality of their OS and hardware over time whereas MS and it's coharts at the x86 factorys still seem to still be in "blob" mode.
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And what about the possabilities for fraud? You are teased with some form of header that you are intrested in and then go on to click though the artical. Meanwhile the "micropayment" has gone from $0.01 per click to $0.50 with micro-fine print at the bottom of the page informing of you so. (Or none at all.)
Next thing you know your paying out the nose for something that once was free. (Ad supported.)
The idea of micropayments is nice in theory but there are many pitfalls that must be fleshed out before I see myself ever using such a thing.
But I have burned my fair share discs and while I can't speak for any of their other media, the Memorex Black line was pretty sweet.
I can't find any information about them on Memorex.com so they might have discontinued them due to what I'm sure was a higher cost in manufactoring.
A very good point. Sounds like a class action in the works.
Quick, let me go out and get one of their routers off EBay (Ain't no way I'm gonna let them get any sales from me.) and then log some time doing day tradeing. Whoops, you just cost me $x dollars thanks to your built in spam Belkin, hellllooooo lawsuit.
Fair enough! I didn't even bother to look up any facts so since at the time that was the way things went, Apple 1st then others for most things, I just assumed it was so.
//gs) ever did. But by then Apple was allready ready to do that whole Mac thing so...
Although, I must say the C64 had some amazeing games that never did get ported to anything due to the fact that the C64 had that neato blitter chip and far better sound than any Apple// (Save the
Is yummy. I never can get enough of it, thanks /. for keeping me fed!
If I remember correctly it was orginally programmed for the Apple// series then ported over to the Atari's. As were many games at that time. (Apple having a larger userbase.)
Very fun game, I have even found myself breaking out my Apple//e emu and playing it for some odd reason every now and then.
While don't get me wrong, $250,000 is a lot of money. If MS was really serious about this they should invest about 10x that into either a) going though all of their code with many many coders and stomping out every bug hole they can find even if it is at the expense of some "features" or b) offer that much up as a bounty.
Either way, if your MS with pockets full of cash this seems more like a PR stunt (aka cheap way) to try and fix their problems than any real type of effort.
But even then you face the reality that the system is rigged for the status quo. The more power you want, the more the system beat you down, in various ways: having to go though countless background checks that will expose every little detail of your life (By goverment officals who are currently in power who you intend to knock down and the press.), you must be very very rich in order to run for office without any backing and even then who wants to waste their money on something you might end up loseing anyway thus you give in and accept money from special intrest groups who then "own" you, and of course lets not forget when/if all that fails your opponents will simply out and out lie about you and your family if you are deemed enough of a theat to their intrests.
So then you say, ok lets band together! Strength in numbers and all that. But that's a problem because then you have many many viewpoints to represent and geeks tend to be well informed about things so it's not like joe sixpack who you can gloss over with a few platatudes. No, you will have to carefully weigh each viewpoint and even then if you explain exactly why you chose to do x instead of y some will still get pissed off and either drop their support or defect and work against you just out of spite!
I mean just the thought of all that makes me very ill, and then to have to go though it? It is of course not impossable but at this point in the game where we still have the "illusion of freedom" it will be very improbable.
Witness just about any marital argument and listen to what each side is shouting. You will generally be hearing people describing themselves very accurately, and mischaracterizing the other accordingly as they seek to pin the accusation on the other.
/.)
And to my sad dismay, Fox seeminly upped the anti by making Fox News the loudest and most "flashy" 24 hour news there is. You used the word extreme and I think it applys to all aspects of what modern media has done to many aspects of what we know of as media. Yes, there are many outlets of media that don't scream, mischaracterize, and or out and out lie often but they tend to get drounded out with this new tactic: Scream your spin the loudest and hope that you get heard above the noise, or better yet are the only noise that can be heard.
We see this in other aspects of our meida as well, big budget pictures are expected and when they don't perform well due to a bad plot, bad acting, bad casting, etc there is much finger pointing about who did what wrong rather than just accepting that maxing out on volume is not always the key to success.
Diddo the RIAA. Their buisness plan exists such that they must have control of what content is dilvered to the masses. Rather than accepting that change was on the horizen they ignored it and when things did change they now are shouting at the top of their collective lungs, you must ONLY listen to our music! (Yes, a strech but hey, it's only
I personally watch maybe 30 mins of TV news a week, and that is mostly when I'm subjected to it by others. I find that it has decended into nearly pure brainwashing tactics with the same messages repeated over and over and over in self rightious tones that almost reach out of the TV and knock me over the head. And since all that glass window does is tell me what it thinks I never can get the sadsifacation of giving it any good wacks back. Print news can be as bad in a diffrent way but it's much easier to filter out the dreck and put it down if it simply becomes too much.
They are going after MIT. MIT has never been afraid, not even of MS. Fun fun.
Just say that?
;)
You were a lot more clear than me however.
My major thought was that since this is true that MS is just making some PR showings now so that PHBs and the herd on Wall Street don't forget about them.
Remember, this is the co that is giving FUD lessons to SCO. They know all about useless press releases just to keep themselves in the spotlight.
C is a low level language and makes no bones about it being such.
Is such a high level language such as one that is designed to run upon other protocals the same?
No.
Thank you sir, you made my day.
Are you saying that MS's software is secure enough to withstand attacks from corrupted servers?
Uhm, this is MS remember. IIS. Helloooooo.
Good points, all of which should however *never* involve having to install spyware to get such functionality.
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Yeah.
Even more so, if you sell a lisance in person and the buyer does not make any amdends to the contract (lisance) they have not just commited to a full contract.
It is at this point that I would have to disagree with the oringal poster beacuse it would seem to me that any company that is worth it's salt would have it's legal team at they very least look at a contract that could possaibly lock them into many many years worth of expendatures.
No, I don't that's correct.
Is the intro to the artical. Where they talk about users in comp stores on a daily?! basis. Ouch, what is up with that.
Then returning hardware a day or a week later when it's in perfect condition. I know retailers have to be good to their customers in order to keep them but wow. I never consdiered returning anything I got unless it was broken. Which back in some of the early days happened often enough as it was.
Come on geeks, that's just not right!
The top 3:
/. temptation never to RTFA but I think that anyone who even looked at that poll might have to think again about who really is being bashed there.
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France 12739
*USA* 10761
Saudi Arabia 5845
I know it's hard to avoid the
I just love it when ppl break out their crystal balls and start saying that something is going to "die".
Why oh why does such drivel even get published!? Now, don't anwser that. Thats a whole other can of worms and we might as well try to stay on topic here.
I own no less than 3 Palms and have keyboards for 2 of them. (I can plug any of them into the 2 keyboards but you get the idea.) The 2 IIIc's I have are getting a little long in the tooth but they still function pretty well. My 550c is a little more modern but it still could use an upgrade too even.
Also let me throw in here that I do have a laptop as well as the number of computers on my home network to use so I'm pretty much covered when it comes to computing in all it's forms.
Now, having said that, let me also now say that I've been in the market for a new cell phone too and while the little ones that are PDAs are neat, they could never replace my PDAs for a few reasons:
1. As has been pointed out in this thread a few times, I would not be able to access my PDA very easily if I was using my phone. I can see how that would get old real quick.
2. If I'm using my PDA/Phone I'm using up charge on it. If my PDA dies it's not a huge deal but it does not effect my ability to make a call.
3. While some of the new PDA/Phones have decent sized screens they still are always smaller than a full sized PDA. They rarely offer much in the way of stylus room and no, I don't want my phone to get bigger.
4. I've not looked that hard but I don't think very many of them come with the keyboard option. If they do, well thats cool that would remove this point but I'm pretty sure that the majority of them don't and even if only that is true it would limit my available list of phones that I would be willing to buy.
In short, I'm not sure I can even understand why anyone would think that any "tool" would "die". They may adapt and evolve but I think that PDAs serve a market that is quite diffrent than a cell phone. Cell phones may incorpirate some of the features that are on PDAs but they really are two diffrent things as far as I'm concerned.
(Side note, the one thing that I have been thinking about is the camera phones. While the image quality is not great it would be neat to be able to just carry a phone/camera. It would not be a subistute for a real digital camera but I don't always need one of those on me. And using a camera is not the same as trying to use a phone and a PDA at the same time.)
Hrm, shame you posted as an AC because you bring up some very good points.
/. MCSE's are easier to find. Some of them actually even know what they are doing but...still.
I think many people like the functionality of MS products, like Exchange, and think that moving over to something else will be a very big hassle so they just stay with an all MS solution but they just don't know enough.
Key of course is getting a good set of admins and then letting them goto work. Of course having a good set of admins is key for any enterprise level IT but as has been noted many times before here on
Or any well?
I read some of the other replys to this post and some of them said about how Quicktime was poor. And I'd have to agree.
While I don't know if I'd rate Quicktime as terrable or anything worse than poor, but it def was not written with anything in mind other than trying to show Windows users how much better Mac apps can be.
But I think this actually is a departure for Apple. They *want* people to use this software and not have to clickthough "Upgrade to Quicktime Pro Now!" Rather use it and maybe buy the iPod, then maybe think about a Mac.
I think it's a good move for Apple as they have really improved the quality of their OS and hardware over time whereas MS and it's coharts at the x86 factorys still seem to still be in "blob" mode.
Ok, an AC tells me to have a little understanding for Sun?
Excuse me, why?
When reading this all I could think about was how Sun no longer has any good hardware vs the x86 and even the new Mac line.
/. just even have a post about the new G5 cluster? Where is Sun in building such systems? I don't see them anywhere.
Your telling me that the ultra-costly UltraSPARC can compeate vs the hardware that I see now?
Didn't