You see, the 'consumer' can always take advantage of something called an 'upgrade'.
A lot of consumers are buying laptops, and laptops can't easily be upgraded. The most crucial aspect of running Vista's "glass gui" is the graphics card. Tell me, how you are going to upgrade this on a laptop?
If the PC can run Vista (Aero is not Vista), then it can say it's Vista capable. What's wrong with that?
The problem is that Vista is all about the WOW, so if you don't get the WOW, you don't get Vista. Can you imagine getting home with a brand new machine and turning it on and not seeing the WOW?.
From the story: Consumers will pay a higher price for the premium singles, but the same price for albums either with or without the copy protection software.
I think this is a good deal for people like me who like to buy the whole album instead of singles. We get higher quality at the same price without being locked-in.
I agree with many of your assertions, but as an educator, I see too many students in middle school and high school who lack basic reading and writing skills. It is extremely important for students to have a strong foundation in cultural literacy and in the "basic skills" or it becomes extremely difficult for students to succeed. It takes hard work to become proficient in reading, writing, and arithmetic. It seems to me that too many young people today want everything to be fun and easy.
The consumers are getting mixed messages. On one hand media and cable companies are pushing for movie downloads, TV over the Internet and other bandwidth heavy applications, but at the same time some internet providers who are also pushing for TV and movie downloads are trying to limit how much consumers can use. Something just isn't right here. Companies that limit bandwidth need to advertise limited Internet access and not have flashy commercial with people downloading movies 24-7. Can you imagine if all the people actually used what they are paying for?
I would think that if you believed in God you would want to go to him as soon as possible. So why would one fight death? Wouldn't death bring us to our God and heaven? I just don't get it. I bet the soldiers who survived had some woman or man waiting at home for them. Thinking about getting laid is what kept them going!
Why does it seem that the USA is progressively skimping on education? Is it any wonder that India and Japan (I am sure there are others) are surpassing us in general academic, and therefore work, achievement?
The difference between our educational system and that of other countries like India and Japan is that we want all children to succeed academically, while other countries have testing and assessments which eliminates a certain number of less functioning students. In the United States, our educational system is setup so everyone is suppose to learn at the same time, at the same level, and eventually go to college, which is impossible and sets our educational system for failure. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a total joke. The law states that by 2014 all students will be performing at a certain level, which we all know is totally unrealistic.
Also, other countries have academic and vocational tracks for students. If certain students can achieve a high enough score to get into the academic track they are placed in a vocational track. So when we compare our scores with other countries we are including all students: special ed., English Language Learners, general ed, AP students, while their scores only reflect the academic kids. Go to India and see how many kids are on the street or working instead of being in school. In the United States the educational system takes in everyone. Go observe a couple of inner city high school and you will see what I'm talking about.
On a more serious note, this beg the questions of what more can be added to the Windows Operating system? Isn't going to be complete at some point? I played around with Vista and there are some like a nice improvements, but I don't see six-years of work or enhancements. Maybe they should concentrate on building a solid kernel and leave the GUI to third party developers.
'there's just this one more thing we want you to sign...' and in desperation to get the other parts of the deal done they rushed it through."
What was so great about the rest of the deal? It seems to me that someone at Novell had something to gain personally.
SCO has lost all self-respect and are acting like sore losers. My five-year older daughter behaves better than this. When will SCO's head fall at the feet of IBM, so we won't have to hear any more crying --it's getting old!
The Windows iDisk client simply does not work (I've yet to get the client to connect).
This has simply not been my experience. I have used the iDisk Client for Windows XP many times on different machines, and it has worked for me flawlessly. It installs in seconds and the idisk shows up as a mapped drive.
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A lot of consumers are buying laptops, and laptops can't easily be upgraded. The most crucial aspect of running Vista's "glass gui" is the graphics card. Tell me, how you are going to upgrade this on a laptop?
The problem is that Vista is all about the WOW, so if you don't get the WOW, you don't get Vista. Can you imagine getting home with a brand new machine and turning it on and not seeing the WOW?.
I'd be mad and mislead!
I think this is a good deal for people like me who like to buy the whole album instead of singles. We get higher quality at the same price without being locked-in.
I agree with many of your assertions, but as an educator, I see too many students in middle school and high school who lack basic reading and writing skills. It is extremely important for students to have a strong foundation in cultural literacy and in the "basic skills" or it becomes extremely difficult for students to succeed. It takes hard work to become proficient in reading, writing, and arithmetic. It seems to me that too many young people today want everything to be fun and easy.
The consumers are getting mixed messages. On one hand media and cable companies are pushing for movie downloads, TV over the Internet and other bandwidth heavy applications, but at the same time some internet providers who are also pushing for TV and movie downloads are trying to limit how much consumers can use. Something just isn't right here. Companies that limit bandwidth need to advertise limited Internet access and not have flashy commercial with people downloading movies 24-7. Can you imagine if all the people actually used what they are paying for?
I would think that if you believed in God you would want to go to him as soon as possible. So why would one fight death? Wouldn't death bring us to our God and heaven? I just don't get it. I bet the soldiers who survived had some woman or man waiting at home for them. Thinking about getting laid is what kept them going!
Why does it seem that the USA is progressively skimping on education? Is it any wonder that India and Japan (I am sure there are others) are surpassing us in general academic, and therefore work, achievement?
The difference between our educational system and that of other countries like India and Japan is that we want all children to succeed academically, while other countries have testing and assessments which eliminates a certain number of less functioning students. In the United States, our educational system is setup so everyone is suppose to learn at the same time, at the same level, and eventually go to college, which is impossible and sets our educational system for failure. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a total joke. The law states that by 2014 all students will be performing at a certain level, which we all know is totally unrealistic.
Also, other countries have academic and vocational tracks for students. If certain students can achieve a high enough score to get into the academic track they are placed in a vocational track. So when we compare our scores with other countries we are including all students: special ed., English Language Learners, general ed, AP students, while their scores only reflect the academic kids. Go to India and see how many kids are on the street or working instead of being in school. In the United States the educational system takes in everyone. Go observe a couple of inner city high school and you will see what I'm talking about.
On a more serious note, this beg the questions of what more can be added to the Windows Operating system? Isn't going to be complete at some point? I played around with Vista and there are some like a nice improvements, but I don't see six-years of work or enhancements. Maybe they should concentrate on building a solid kernel and leave the GUI to third party developers.
Does any know if the RIAA has targeted Usenet?
You make a good point. What is the benefit of this technology over TTY or using text messaging?
Okay, since I jumped the gun, I will answer my own questions: RTFA, yes it does!
so doesn't this effect it also?
talking about her experiences with Linux.
'there's just this one more thing we want you to sign...' and in desperation to get the other parts of the deal done they rushed it through." What was so great about the rest of the deal? It seems to me that someone at Novell had something to gain personally.
against individuals or have all of them been settled out of court? This has been going on for so long that I've lost track!
display the blue screen of death? It's only a joke :)
ThinkFree Office wasn't even mentioned?
what motherboards work best with Nvidia cards?
when a plane runs into the elevator? It only takes one crazy pilot.
adding more pipes so the internet can run faster?
Just turn off the LCD and use the optical view finder
This may be a stupid question, but why do anti-virus applications need kernel access? Do these programs need kernel access to simply scan for viruses?
SCO has lost all self-respect and are acting like sore losers. My five-year older daughter behaves better than this. When will SCO's head fall at the feet of IBM, so we won't have to hear any more crying --it's getting old!
This has simply not been my experience. I have used the iDisk Client for Windows XP many times on different machines, and it has worked for me flawlessly. It installs in seconds and the idisk shows up as a mapped drive.
Linux is on the outside looking in; its hard to break into the inner circle of the policy and decision makers.