Well before Iomega launched its popular but hazardously flawed ZIP product line, Sony announced a portable MD data drive for laptops. The device could access something like 270 MB of data, and at the then-market price of US$15-18 per disc, it should have been a killer. There were several MD data formats slated for rollout: read-only, random access, and a hybrid that had read-only and space for writing.
Imagine what things would have been like if this line had actually become popular, all those years ago? Pocket players using MD to store games, and your place in them. Digital cameras, voice recorders, and PDAs using mass storage smaller than a floppy, with the stability and speed of an optical format and was random access, to boot.
Before you think putting MP3s on MD is a no-brainer, consider this: in an era where laptop drives were under 1/2 gigabyte and single-speed CD writers (not even rewriters) were still priced over US$1000, the market went for "click-of-death" instead of these downright sexy little discs.
That reminds me, I need to go rent Strange Days again.
renting a modem? hm... that is a weenie idea, but ADSL itself is consumer-oriented by nature, so you have to expect that kind of thing... most people rent their cable tv boxes, too. SDSL, on the other hand, is usually provisioned with a router. The company I work for usually bundles deals where the router is free with a year's contract, etc. That's not just a selling point: routers really make life easier for those of us who have to troubleshoot these circuits when they go down! Of course, SDSL costs a lot more...
Excellent question. I was about to pose it myself, but you beat me to it =)
I have no idea how this was designed, but I sure hope there's a big nice protective cover for the lens. They should be able to activate that cover regardless of being able to reorient the body to minimize exposure, right?
at least ones that don't do graphs. You can also reverse the screen to get cool greyish-white numbers on brownish-black. Definitely impressed my friends back in junior high!
Have you tried using pay phones in England? Do you know how expensive they are? 10p a minute's quite cheap, by comparison. when I was trying to call friends in London from Bath, I was putting in 10p every 30 seconds or so...
For that price I might buy a couple for friends. Even though the manual isn't totally translated properly, it's still cool, and SuSE deserves the money. =)
Let's have a discussion about why chameleons are better than penguins...
1) chameleons have big tongues 2) chameleons can't get their feathers ruffled 3) chameleons are masters of energy conservation, and, just like programmers, most people think they are lazy 4) chameleons are better engineered to adapt to surroundings 5) Quincy! (www.foxtrot.com - Jason's pet) x) penguins are for bird-brains
Without getting into some big debate about which distribution is better, or which company is larger, I think I've found part of the answer to why sales are up: SuSE is cutting big deals with software distributors.
I went to Fry's a couple of days ago, and when I went looking to see if they had BeOS 4.5 upgrades (they didn't have any Be at all =( ) I was surprised to find SuSE 6.1 on sale for $30. I thought I'd gottten a good deal at $40 a month ago. I'm sure the price has dropped considerably at other places, as well. With its shelf-neighbor Red Hat 6.0 selling for $80 at the same time, it's no wonder that more people are turning to SuSE...
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The directory needs to be used by competitors for administrative purposes relating to domain maintenance...
I work for an extremely large service provider (no guesses please) that recently got approval to be one of the new registrars. Right now, when our clients register domains with Internic, we have to wait a week or so for it to be approved. When clients change providers and ask for repointing of host nameservers, Internic drags again. Imagine what will happen when we have full access to that database directly. We will certainly get things done faster; if nothing else, the process would be more streamlined. Not only that, but we'll also be able to offer lower charges for registrations...
pretty soon you'll be able to pick from a number of different registrars. Most of them will probably let you register what you want, as long as it's not already taken. Or, go another route, and spell the domain so that it sounds like what you want, a la "fuh-q.org"
I'm thinking that the credit is there because Micron gave them the equipment. Just like they're probably getting the colo service from CRL for free. What do you think?
It sounds like the market had a simple barrier to entry: prior saturation by a competing product requiring incentives to retrain current users and "rekey" (heheh) existing hardware... the primary incentive in such an instance is to compete on features. That's not necessarily a market *failure* - products out to have a demonstrable advantage before penetrating markets, shouldn't they? Sounds like a marketing or design failure, to me. Or am I missing something?
By the way - B.S., Economics & Finance, UT Dallas, '96 =)
Solaris and SunOS and a lot of others have had it for years before Linux, and they have beaucoup market share in the high end graphics market. The idea that X would progress faster if Linux existed earlier only works if there were also real mass market apps available for the OS itself as well. Only now are those apps becoming available.
Just because the database server sees that an ip is requesting info about a cd with a certain id on it, do you really think they'll know who it is actually requesting that info, or whether that person actually owns a legal cd?
Besides, cd copies, unless done with ISO imaging, won't have the same ids. Not to mention that there are different cds out there that have the same ids, too.
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I just got the original "Greetings" message, but none of the responses. How very weird.
Enough of the gloom-and-doom stuff for a minute...
if y'all could be any O'Reilly animals, which would y'all be?
(I'm trying to think of some animal that would fit the name "Mudge,"
but I don't think Edward Gorey's made any covers, yet)
click a button, feed a hungry person:
http://www.thehungersite.com
it's real and free, so just do it, okay?
Well before Iomega launched its popular but hazardously flawed ZIP product line, Sony announced a portable MD data drive for laptops. The device could access something like 270 MB of data, and at the then-market price of US$15-18 per disc, it should have been a killer. There were several MD data formats slated for rollout: read-only, random access, and a hybrid that had read-only and space for writing.
Imagine what things would have been like if this line had actually become popular, all those years ago? Pocket players using MD to store games, and your place in them. Digital cameras, voice recorders, and PDAs using mass storage smaller than a floppy, with the stability and speed of an optical format and was random access, to boot.
Before you think putting MP3s on MD is a no-brainer, consider this: in an era where laptop drives were under 1/2 gigabyte and single-speed CD writers (not even rewriters) were still priced over US$1000, the market went for "click-of-death" instead of these downright sexy little discs.
That reminds me, I need to go rent Strange Days again.
renting a modem? hm...
that is a weenie idea, but ADSL itself is consumer-oriented by nature, so you have to expect that kind of thing... most people rent their cable tv boxes, too. SDSL, on the other hand, is usually provisioned with a router. The company I work for usually bundles deals where the router is free with a year's contract, etc. That's not just a selling point: routers really make life easier for those of us who have to troubleshoot these circuits when they go down! Of course, SDSL costs a lot more...
Excellent question. I was about to pose it myself, but you beat me to it =)
I have no idea how this was designed, but I sure hope there's a big nice protective cover for the lens. They should be able to activate that cover regardless of being able to reorient the body to minimize exposure, right?
the commercials could be made by the guy that did the music video... did you know he's the guy who does Wallace & Grommit?
at least ones that don't do graphs. You can also reverse the screen to get cool greyish-white numbers on brownish-black. Definitely impressed my friends back in junior high!
Have you tried using pay phones in England? Do you know how expensive they are? 10p a minute's quite cheap, by comparison. when I was trying to call friends in London from Bath, I was putting in 10p every 30 seconds or so...
Oh, that's right.
Darn it. How about if I say lizards are better than birds? =)
For that price I might buy a couple for friends. Even though the manual isn't totally translated properly, it's still cool, and SuSE deserves the money. =)
Let's have a discussion about why chameleons are better than penguins...
1) chameleons have big tongues
2) chameleons can't get their feathers ruffled
3) chameleons are masters of energy conservation, and, just like programmers, most people think they are lazy
4) chameleons are better engineered to adapt to surroundings
5) Quincy! (www.foxtrot.com - Jason's pet)
x) penguins are for bird-brains
Without getting into some big debate about which distribution is better, or which company is larger, I think I've found part of the answer to why sales are up: SuSE is cutting big deals with software distributors.
I went to Fry's a couple of days ago, and when I went looking to see if they had BeOS 4.5 upgrades (they didn't have any Be at all =( ) I was surprised to find SuSE 6.1 on sale for $30. I thought I'd gottten a good deal at $40 a month ago. I'm sure the price has dropped considerably at other places, as well. With its shelf-neighbor Red Hat 6.0 selling for $80 at the same time, it's no wonder that more people are turning to SuSE...
The directory needs to be used by competitors for administrative purposes relating to domain maintenance...
I work for an extremely large service provider (no guesses please) that recently got approval to be one of the new registrars. Right now, when our clients register domains with Internic, we have to wait a week or so for it to be approved. When clients change providers and ask for repointing of host nameservers, Internic drags again. Imagine what will happen when we have full access to that database directly. We will certainly get things done faster; if nothing else, the process would be more streamlined. Not only that, but we'll also be able to offer lower charges for registrations...
=) Just kidding.
Those were the cutest and smallest PCs I'd seen at that time - they just had this tiny problem with heat dissipation!
pretty soon you'll be able to pick from a number of different registrars. Most of them will probably let you register what you want, as long as it's not already taken.
Or, go another route, and spell the domain so that it sounds like what you want, a la "fuh-q.org"
I'm thinking that the credit is there because Micron gave them the equipment. Just like they're probably getting the colo service from CRL for free. What do you think?
are we watching the birth of the Beast?
Just kidding...
remember?
ok, you got me, I haven't read the article yet =) I'll do it tonight, I'm supposed to be working, now.
It sounds like the market had a simple barrier to entry: prior saturation by a competing product requiring incentives to retrain current users and "rekey" (heheh) existing hardware... the primary incentive in such an instance is to compete on features. That's not necessarily a market *failure* - products out to have a demonstrable advantage before penetrating markets, shouldn't they? Sounds like a marketing or design failure, to me. Or am I missing something?
By the way - B.S., Economics & Finance, UT Dallas, '96 =)
Solaris and SunOS and a lot of others have had it for years before Linux, and they have beaucoup market share in the high end graphics market. The idea that X would progress faster if Linux existed earlier only works if there were also real mass market apps available for the OS itself as well. Only now are those apps becoming available.
think IONIZING RADIATION.
what kind of link are you going to get with satellite feeds with the atmosphere all screwed up?
Just because the database server sees that an ip is requesting info about a cd with a certain id on it, do you really think they'll know who it is actually requesting that info, or whether that person actually owns a legal cd?
Besides, cd copies, unless done with ISO imaging, won't have the same ids. Not to mention that there are different cds out there that have the same ids, too.
Have you heard about the bug problem with wireless lans and only one assigned internet ip? NATs flying everywhere...
surely someone (not me) could write an interception that would return a user-assignable id number when queried, right?