What is the difference between charging people "extra" for something or including it in an inflated price?
Do you suppose the "free" shipping at amazon come at no expense? What is the difference between Vista Home and Vista Ultimate. Well, Vista Ultimate costs $200 more than Home, but it comes with additional "free" software.
If you are an at-will employee, which I imagine most professionals are in the US, there is little recourse you have. If there is no contract to protect you, you have little recourse. On the other hand if you were offered a job on Friday afternoon, you would not need to show up for work on Monday.
Your employer may have policies in place to prevent this, but I don't think there is much legal grounds you would have without a contract - aside from collecting unemployment.
According to this guy http://www.rense.com/general3/coca.htm Coca-Cola has been working with the CIA to spy on several foreign governments for years, so I guess that it is not that far fetched that the CIA would use Microsoft as well.
We will have to see what other major hardware vendors are going to be charging for dual core 15" LCD laptops before we call the MacBook overpriced No? I don't think Dell has announced their plans yet on dual cores, but a bare bones Precision laptop from Dell is $2300. So I doubt Apple's entry here can be called overpriced.
OK, fine, but once a developer can tell Mac users to run their application in a Windows window. Why would they produce both a Mac and Windows version of any application. I think the mac's ability to Virtual PC at the same speeds as a regular Windows machine will be a death knell for development on the Mac
Want a Mac version of AutoCAD? No problem, just boot into Windows on your Mac and run it. And that's a high ticket sale. Why would anyone ever produce another Mac version of any game software ever again?
The Mac OS on Intel could very well be the end of software development on the Mac platform.
Still, if a lot of people start buying Macs and putting Windows on them - just because the design is better. Apple would be crazy not to support that, and take that market share away from Dell and others. I just don't think that scenario bodes very well for the Mac OS.
I hate to be cynical, but I bet the reason that they are still selling the PowerBook at the same price is that they have 30-day price protection on-line and in their stores. If they were to cut the price now, all those people would be wanting refunds. If they don't sell many for the next 30-days, they will not have to offer refunds to the people who bought laptops last month. This month they will sell the new ones only. Also the new ones are not available for the next thirty days. What about people who need a laptop in the next two weeks?
They have to sell something. Why lower the price until they need to?
This is so right on! The only (really really)smart people that would ever go into science or engineering are ones that are very unselfish. The inventors get short shrift while the hacks that sell the stuff make millions. Why would anyone look at the US economy and reward structures and do anything other than get their business degree and exploit the inventors and researchers to the greatest extent possible?
Compare if you would the seperate fates of the Steves Jobs and Wozniak to see what I mean.
Firewire is secured by 5C style encryption. Free to Copy, Copy Once, or Copy Never. Singnal other than Free to Copy are not passed out firewire if there is any device on the firewire chain that is non-5C compliant.
Now, I don't know you at all, but if you are getting in arguments with Staples clerks that escalate into, "Leave or we'll call the police." You must be a "major league asshole". Are you a physician?
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think an instruction set constitutes IP. I don't think there is anything (excpet money) standing in the way of anyone creating a PowerPC compatible chip. They would just need to take the instruction set and then reverse engineer it back into the chip.
I don't know much about chip design either, but I get the idea that it is kind of expensive.
For the IT staff of a small organization, Windows XP offers three important improvements to Windows 2000 (off the top of my head) 1. Built in remote access. You can shadow/remote control a machine without leaving your desk. 2. System save states. A user mucks up hear system, you can roll it back to the way the computer was before she installed the Aquarium Screen saver and assorted spyware. 3. Built in not too shabby firewall. I thought of some more. 4. Faster boot times. 5. Support for Bluetooth 6. Better wireless support. 7. Lots of Group Policy Objects for securing clients are XP only.
All of these (first three) things of course may be added on to Windows 2000 for added expense from third parties, but having it in the OS means it will be patched and supported by MS PSS.
Windows XP is leaps and bounds better on laptops than 2000, but for a desktop machine, you'd have to decide whether any of the 7 points above are worth switching for. I would say any two would be worth the switch.
I have found that machines that were infected by a worm as some point often have residual rootkits installed on them. It may look like you have cleaned off your computer, but maybe haven't fully. Often times these other compromises come along and take advantage of the residual compromise that is still on your machine.
This absolutly stops your ability to record digital television. Before the broadcasty flag was turned on, I could record HDTV programs onto my computer to watch later. I had just gotten rid of my TIVO because it couldn't record TV. About 1 month after I got everything working, my cable company turned on the broadcast flag (or more accurately, enabled the broadcast flag on all programming whether the programming was marked 5c=1 or not) and I could no longer record any programming. The only way to record HDTV is to either by a VCR (seriously? a VCR?) or pay an additional monthly fee to the cable provider to rent one of their DVRs with it's shit interface and 8 hour (!!) capacity.
Dual Link DVI The 30-inch Cinema HD Display requires the next level of DVI connectivity -- "dual link" to drive the massive amount of pixels to the screen. And the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card (available from the Apple Store) delivers, with the most advanced graphics engine available. This card, designed specifically to support the dual link DVI connection, delivers 2560 by 1600 resolution. Even better, it can drive two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays, giving you the ultimate creative canvas. This card will be available for Mac only in August 2004.
Not sure if Dual Link is the same thing as SLI, but with a different name.
They are not going after you for downloading music. They are going after you for allowing others to download from you. They attempt to download music from you and note the time and track that they downloaded from you and then begin a court case. So in your illustration, they ARE going after the one giving the music away for free illegally, not the person accepting the free music. With regards to p2p file sharing however, there is little distinction between the two parties.
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What is the difference between charging people "extra" for something or including it in an inflated price?
Do you suppose the "free" shipping at amazon come at no expense? What is the difference between Vista Home and Vista Ultimate. Well, Vista Ultimate costs $200 more than Home, but it comes with additional "free" software.
If you are an at-will employee, which I imagine most professionals are in the US, there is little recourse you have. If there is no contract to protect you, you have little recourse. On the other hand if you were offered a job on Friday afternoon, you would not need to show up for work on Monday.
Your employer may have policies in place to prevent this, but I don't think there is much legal grounds you would have without a contract - aside from collecting unemployment.
Someone has probably thought of this already, but I just thought of it, so it's new to me.
Microsoft will change the name from Windows Vista to Windows Horizon. You can see it off in the distance, but you can never really get there.
According to this guy http://www.rense.com/general3/coca.htm Coca-Cola has been working with the CIA to spy on several foreign governments for years, so I guess that it is not that far fetched that the CIA would use Microsoft as well.
We will have to see what other major hardware vendors are going to be charging for dual core 15" LCD laptops before we call the MacBook overpriced No? I don't think Dell has announced their plans yet on dual cores, but a bare bones Precision laptop from Dell is $2300. So I doubt Apple's entry here can be called overpriced.
OK, fine, but once a developer can tell Mac users to run their application in a Windows window. Why would they produce both a Mac and Windows version of any application. I think the mac's ability to Virtual PC at the same speeds as a regular Windows machine will be a death knell for development on the Mac
Want a Mac version of AutoCAD? No problem, just boot into Windows on your Mac and run it. And that's a high ticket sale. Why would anyone ever produce another Mac version of any game software ever again?
The Mac OS on Intel could very well be the end of software development on the Mac platform.
Still, if a lot of people start buying Macs and putting Windows on them - just because the design is better. Apple would be crazy not to support that, and take that market share away from Dell and others. I just don't think that scenario bodes very well for the Mac OS.
I hate to be cynical, but I bet the reason that they are still selling the PowerBook at the same price is that they have 30-day price protection on-line and in their stores. If they were to cut the price now, all those people would be wanting refunds. If they don't sell many for the next 30-days, they will not have to offer refunds to the people who bought laptops last month. This month they will sell the new ones only. Also the new ones are not available for the next thirty days. What about people who need a laptop in the next two weeks?
They have to sell something. Why lower the price until they need to?
This is so right on! The only (really really)smart people that would ever go into science or engineering are ones that are very unselfish. The inventors get short shrift while the hacks that sell the stuff make millions. Why would anyone look at the US economy and reward structures and do anything other than get their business degree and exploit the inventors and researchers to the greatest extent possible?
Compare if you would the seperate fates of the Steves Jobs and Wozniak to see what I mean.
Firewire is secured by 5C style encryption. Free to Copy, Copy Once, or Copy Never. Singnal other than Free to Copy are not passed out firewire if there is any device on the firewire chain that is non-5C compliant.
Boooogus.
Now, I don't know you at all, but if you are getting in arguments with Staples clerks that escalate into, "Leave or we'll call the police." You must be a "major league asshole". Are you a physician?
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think an instruction set constitutes IP. I don't think there is anything (excpet money) standing in the way of anyone creating a PowerPC compatible chip. They would just need to take the instruction set and then reverse engineer it back into the chip.
I don't know much about chip design either, but I get the idea that it is kind of expensive.
For the IT staff of a small organization, Windows XP offers three important improvements to Windows 2000 (off the top of my head)
1. Built in remote access. You can shadow/remote control a machine without leaving your desk.
2. System save states. A user mucks up hear system, you can roll it back to the way the computer was before she installed the Aquarium Screen saver and assorted spyware.
3. Built in not too shabby firewall.
I thought of some more.
4. Faster boot times.
5. Support for Bluetooth
6. Better wireless support.
7. Lots of Group Policy Objects for securing clients are XP only.
All of these (first three) things of course may be added on to Windows 2000 for added expense from third parties, but having it in the OS means it will be patched and supported by MS PSS.
Windows XP is leaps and bounds better on laptops than 2000, but for a desktop machine, you'd have to decide whether any of the 7 points above are worth switching for. I would say any two would be worth the switch.
I have found that machines that were infected by a worm as some point often have residual rootkits installed on them. It may look like you have cleaned off your computer, but maybe haven't fully. Often times these other compromises come along and take advantage of the residual compromise that is still on your machine.
This absolutly stops your ability to record digital television. Before the broadcasty flag was turned on, I could record HDTV programs onto my computer to watch later. I had just gotten rid of my TIVO because it couldn't record TV. About 1 month after I got everything working, my cable company turned on the broadcast flag (or more accurately, enabled the broadcast flag on all programming whether the programming was marked 5c=1 or not) and I could no longer record any programming. The only way to record HDTV is to either by a VCR (seriously? a VCR?) or pay an additional monthly fee to the cable provider to rent one of their DVRs with it's shit interface and 8 hour (!!) capacity.
The iPAQ and TabletPC offerings are Comp[aq contributions as well.
There is an Apple event scheduled for April 20th. Unless I dreamed that.
I would assume that this is the day that Tiger will be released.
This is a clip from the apple web site
Dual Link DVI
The 30-inch Cinema HD Display requires the next level of DVI connectivity -- "dual link" to drive the massive amount of pixels to the screen. And the NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card (available from the Apple Store) delivers, with the most advanced graphics engine available. This card, designed specifically to support the dual link DVI connection, delivers 2560 by 1600 resolution. Even better, it can drive two 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Displays, giving you the ultimate creative canvas. This card will be available for Mac only in August 2004.
Not sure if Dual Link is the same thing as SLI, but with a different name.
They are not going after you for downloading music. They are going after you for allowing others to download from you. They attempt to download music from you and note the time and track that they downloaded from you and then begin a court case. So in your illustration, they ARE going after the one giving the music away for free illegally, not the person accepting the free music. With regards to p2p file sharing however, there is little distinction between the two parties.
I just hope that one day updaytes won't disable CUPS printing.