They used the same argumnent about the phase out of analog TV. It is going to leave the elderly and poor behind...i dont think that happend. They found a way to get a big government subsidy to give out free converter boxes.
What ATT will do is get the government to finance a massive vDSL deployment in these areas and plop an ATA out there on a little battery (they get to keep their phone number and their phone) oh...and we will also give you a video and internet feed. Technology for everyone...ATT bankrolls an upgrade and then reduces their operating cost and increases their revenues. The PSC is supposed to keep that in check but there are a bunch of former ATT/BellSouth exec's sitting on the commission so it is what it is...
I am forced (stupid enough) to pay extra for 4G serves on my HTC EVO when there is no 4G server in my area (Louisville, KY) and the 3G server that was once king is now almost unusable...coupled that with the fact that Sprint is ditching WiMAX in favor of LTE so my phone wont work on the 4G if and when it ever gets here in the first place.
I bought quicken a few years ago...i think it was around $75 or 80 dollars...i just upgraded to Quicken 2005 because I want the most current software...especically when it is handling my finances. I dont really see a problem. My guess is that you are wanting to install this on a pirated copy of XP or something. The software is not that expensive...what is the big deal. This is something that you should expect from a company like Intuit. Do you scream at Ford when your car breaks down? Did you know that that purposly use parts that have a 2 to 3 year life expectancy? Everyone does this...get over it...use it or GnuCash or write your own.
I would say that you would definitely go the laptop. One key thing to look at is battery wear and tear. Charging and discharging those batteries are going to greatly shorten their life.
You definitely want to look at using a battery array. Even when my G4 is running on A/C power...it can be tuned to run pretty effenciently. Im sure you could also just cut the wall wart off the end and wire it straigh to the batteries. Then it wouldnt make much difference.
What really gets me...You are taxed when you make the money and you are taxed when you spend the money. You are taxed on things yearly for items you bought...such as your automobile or home. I think the whole thing is a mess that needs to be reformed.
It depends on what your users are doing...but lets do the math. If you are looking at 60 computers at roughly $600/upgrade. Why not take that $36,000 and roll it into a Win2k Terminal Server. You can build several nice multi-processor servers and let everyone connect via the client...make the server do the work. The only licensing concers would come in if you had any win9x boxes on the network. Win2k Pro shouldn't eat up a CAL. BTW...you can really lock the users down so they dont mess anything up or load those goofy screen savers and other crap.
Do you really think that this is the problem? These guys have been doing this for a long time. There has to be another explination for loosing a satellite. Great excuse though.
Pull the banner ads and change the name of the site. I think GDP is starting to loose a ton of money because the dead are no longer touring. It ain't about the money. It's the music that started this whole thing, let preserve it and keep it playing. It's ashame that GPD has gone to this.
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They used the same argumnent about the phase out of analog TV. It is going to leave the elderly and poor behind...i dont think that happend. They found a way to get a big government subsidy to give out free converter boxes.
What ATT will do is get the government to finance a massive vDSL deployment in these areas and plop an ATA out there on a little battery (they get to keep their phone number and their phone) oh...and we will also give you a video and internet feed. Technology for everyone...ATT bankrolls an upgrade and then reduces their operating cost and increases their revenues. The PSC is supposed to keep that in check but there are a bunch of former ATT/BellSouth exec's sitting on the commission so it is what it is...
For all the great news! I have been reading since day 1.../. really helps pass those slow times at the office. Good luck in the future!
I am forced (stupid enough) to pay extra for 4G serves on my HTC EVO when there is no 4G server in my area (Louisville, KY) and the 3G server that was once king is now almost unusable...coupled that with the fact that Sprint is ditching WiMAX in favor of LTE so my phone wont work on the 4G if and when it ever gets here in the first place.
I bought quicken a few years ago...i think it was around $75 or 80 dollars...i just upgraded to Quicken 2005 because I want the most current software...especically when it is handling my finances. I dont really see a problem. My guess is that you are wanting to install this on a pirated copy of XP or something. The software is not that expensive...what is the big deal. This is something that you should expect from a company like Intuit. Do you scream at Ford when your car breaks down? Did you know that that purposly use parts that have a 2 to 3 year life expectancy? Everyone does this...get over it...use it or GnuCash or write your own.
I would say that you would definitely go the laptop. One key thing to look at is battery wear and tear. Charging and discharging those batteries are going to greatly shorten their life.
You definitely want to look at using a battery array. Even when my G4 is running on A/C power...it can be tuned to run pretty effenciently. Im sure you could also just cut the wall wart off the end and wire it straigh to the batteries. Then it wouldnt make much difference.
What really gets me...You are taxed when you make the money and you are taxed when you spend the money. You are taxed on things yearly for items you bought...such as your automobile or home. I think the whole thing is a mess that needs to be reformed.
It depends on what your users are doing...but lets do the math. If you are looking at 60 computers at roughly $600/upgrade. Why not take that $36,000 and roll it into a Win2k Terminal Server. You can build several nice multi-processor servers and let everyone connect via the client...make the server do the work. The only licensing concers would come in if you had any win9x boxes on the network. Win2k Pro shouldn't eat up a CAL. BTW...you can really lock the users down so they dont mess anything up or load those goofy screen savers and other crap.
Do you really think that this is the problem? These guys have been doing this for a long time. There has to be another explination for loosing a satellite. Great excuse though.
Gnome and KDE both run flawless on my FreeBSD machines along with linux binaries.
Pull the banner ads and change the name of the site. I think GDP is starting to loose a ton of money because the dead are no longer touring. It ain't about the money. It's the music that started this whole thing, let preserve it and keep it playing. It's ashame that GPD has gone to this.