I agree more and more of over the air programming is aimed at Joe six pack. The professionals have moved on to premium programming & Internet for real content leaving the remaining low budget folks to catch the latest reality/shock tv/trivia game show. I watch almost no TV anymore except rentals. There are not many TV ads for Forbes Magazine, but lots of stuff for Joe Six pack. Case in point, Spaceship skateboard soft drink ads, Lottery ads, and drippy hamburger ads. These are not upper class content ads. They are lower class ads. It's aimed more at the WWF crowd and not the PBS Nova crowd. They know their demographics won't pay $40/month & up for TV and they program to attract them. I think this is exactly what's killing HDTV. Joe Six pack won't buy it. Professionals won't buy it to watch the on air informercials and junk TV. It'll have to be a Cable/DVD thing first.
I filter all mail as trash except those I regularly write to. I must also have my name in the To:. My sig line states such. They either have to ask a freind to foreward something back to me to get added, or write me via snail mail. If abused, it gets removed. I don't receive unsolisited mail. Reply mail goes to a to be checked folder, so product registrations can arrive. It only gets checked if I am expecting something. Otherwise it gets flushed.
I'd like to see your source of info. Is that just the cost of printing, etching, and packaging, or does it count the R&D, equipment, obsolence and so on? I think if all these factors were added up for an older process like the Pentium II, we could get a good idea of the true cost. A certain amount of money was spent on all these factors and a quanity of chips were made. It should be easy to figure out the true cost per unit.
It can not be figured out for the Pentium 4 yet because we don't know how many units are going to be made and what price they will be sold. The R & D and construction costs could be gleaned from the financial statements on line. (chech the stockholder info)
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Most users here have never seen anything that uses serial data at mechanical speeds. I have forgotten, is that one of the original machines using 5 bits and 1 1/2 stop bits, or is it one of the newer 7/8 bit machines? Last time I saw a functioning Teletype was about 15 years ago. I do remember they did not impliment any copy protection.;-) Just oad the punched tape and you could get a printout, with a carbon copy and punch a new tape on the punch that was a bit for bit duplicate of the original. Maybe we will have to go back to these and demand our sereaming data at 65 bps.
One of the colors that can not be produced by the present RGB system is the vilot produced by a laser or prism. It is the shorter wavelength color next to blue. It doesn't have red in it at all, unlike the red/blue aproximation seen much of the time. To experiance this vivid color, it is often seen in laser light shows as it is one of the colors produced and split out of the white argon laser. Too bad film and digital cameras can not properly capture this beautiful color.
Umm, The plug-in works fine! You need to change your graphics card and monitor with the one supporting the 4 color phosphors. Until then don't expect it to display properly on an obsolete 3 color video system. The video system should also support the proper earthworm smell as mentioned in the article when the color is used.
Does this force Microsoft to abide by the law of Japan? It would be sweet if it forced them to permit the 4th & 5th instalation & registration of used Office 2000 software to properly work! Will they be able to get past this by claiming the software is a subscription, like cable TV? Will the Software box be then free like the AOL disks? Software will only work when registered^h^h^h^h subscribed? Will games follow suit?
Umm, I was mistaken thinking it was well known, like the moon affects tides (also no link) but a quick search on google turned up this; http://www.cala.com/cala12.htm I have seen lots of products that are no longer avaliable or very high priced because of missuse and lawsuits. Many people make career decisions to stay out of the laywers sights, instead of where they can provide the most benifit. I for one am in that group. I chose to work on electronics instead of medicine because of the risk of lawsuits. I could have made lots more as a skilled doctor. Many electronics techs are not the best paid because much stuff is cheaper to replace than pay the hourly to get it fixed. People don't have that option for their medical care. The article covers a few of the areas that have been eliminated or very high priced due to the shortage of people taking on the responsibility and risk.
MS has gone further on this. They are advertising on the radio in the Portland Oregon area for disgruntled employees to turn in their companies. I expect Portland Oregon to be the next Virgina Beach. They are doing it through a third party that does the audits. Autodesk does not advertise "turn in your company" on the public radio.
I think this get back at your employer tatic of advertising on the radio is about as slimeball a thing you can do. It's worse than ambulance chasers.
Did anyone know the more litigation in a society, the lower the GNP? It's a proven fact. Productivity drops sharply. Quality of life goes down.
I think lots of people are sticking with WIN 98 and Office 97. They can't justify it to the bean counters. New versions can't be uninstalled off one machine and reinstalled on it's replacement hardware without MS blessing. I have never upgraded and don't plan to because of that very reason. I tinker with the hardware and upgrade bit by bit. Replacing the 2 gig drive with a 45 Gig drive should not prevent the software from installing. (Office 2K breaks if not registered) It's hard to get it registered as it is already registered on another hard drive. This is the big reason not to use it. I don't want to trigger an audit because I upgraded the hardware. We can't afford it.
Yea, that was pretty dumb ordering pizza on a stolen phone and having it delivered! I had a friend who had a phone, and he opted to leave it on to put a way the crook. It worked. A quick check of all the people he phoned the day before gave all the info needed. Who called you yesterday at 2 "my son" Did you deliver a pizza yesterday to XXXX nw 55th st. at 7:45 PM? Yea. Did they pay by check? Yea. May I have it? Yea.... End of story.
The office just bought Windows 2000 professional and installed it on my wifes personal machine to use at work as we needed Access. It won't work as we discovered the rest of the office is using Office 97 and the data base will not work with both versions. It either wants to upgrade the data base so the rest of the office can't use it or we need to downgrade the one machine. 4 copies to one vote meant downgrade! We uninstalled it. We can't return it. Are we hosed for the money. We registered it, do we have right of first sale? (can we sell it?) We bought Office 97 Professional for our personal machine to use as a replacement. The disk unchucked in the drive (52X drive) and is now unreadable. Finished the install from another workers disk. My company provided Office 97 Standard. We want to install it on our personal machine my wife uses at work. We can't uninstall the other version as it is asking for the original by serial number (the scratched one) We have the certificate and the original unreadable disk so we would have no problems proving one copy on one machine. We can't uninstall it! Are we hosed again as that one copy can not be removed to be properly installed on only one machine?
Please tell me how to get past the roadblock of can't sell unusuitable to the task software, and can't return damaged software. (it was installed and registered, so it was proven it was readable once)
At 16 - 25 bucks a pop, 1000's of CD's imply he makes enough to get a nicer house. My 20 years of collecting CD's is still less than a hundred. I just don't see the value in it. I rarely buy more than a half dozen CD's a year. I bought a mustang instead. I think it would be interesting if just once, the industry had an experiment and sold all CD's for $2 each. How many people would then begin to build a library. Could the increase in volume cause an increase in revenue? At that price, replacing damaged CD's is no longer an issue. They could be sold at Starbucks Coffee. Get coffee and this weeks tunes in one stop.
Actualy I think they will sell as well as the Circuit City Divix DVD's. Not that many people will buy them only to go to the hastle of trying to return them. They will just follow Slashdot to find out how well they work and what hardware / software is needed. If none works, sales will match.. almost NONE!
I am wondering if one of the two way stand alone print servers will work. They tout 2 way to support Win Printers and many of them support serial printers. A prime example is the Intel NetPort express 3 port. It has 2 par. ports and one 2 way serial port. Intel even has them on sale in their test drive program at about $150. A quick search on google for netport express will bring up the info. A small amount of scripting should talk to the "serial printer" device and put the data into SQL. It could be programed to print a confirmation time and date stamp on a reciept printer on the same print server!
DRM will have a bunch of people with issues with damaged media. My wife ran into this problem with a brand new legal copy of Office 97. During it's first install, it came loose in the CD drive and became badly scratched. (I am convinced any CD over 12X is a hazard to CD's.) She finished the install from a borrowed copy. She is changing machines and needs to uninstall it because someone else is getting the hand-me down. It won't uninstall. It asks for the damaged CD with serial number XXXXX-XXXXX to be placed into the drive. Where do you get a replacement for that! When your backup copy or replacement does not work, and the original is damaged, who do you turn to for help? The retailer doesn't want it, and Microsoft refers you to your dealer. It is much easier to convince the office to switch to Star Office now! It has less expensive problems. Microsoft's Copy Protection has become a real problem. High priced media that can't be protected from real world failures will quickly loose favor with the public.
It's a moot point now. There is tons of stuff out to replace it. Got a Cue Cat(unmodified)? Got a Smart Card Reader? Got a new hard drive? Got a network card? Got Windows (any of the phone home^H^H^H^Hsubscription stuff)? Got MS Office? Got a Microsoft Optical Mouse? Any Matell Software? The CPUID is the least of your security holes.
This is not a flamebait. This is the math on typical solar collection and full size electric vehicle power requirements. Most fuel cell cars need a fuel cell in the 12-25 KW range giving them poor acceleration. Adding the weight of a bank of batteries increases the vehicle weight so the higher acceleration power is needed to make it onto a freeway ramp.
Q How much power can I get from sunlight?
A typical 2 ft X 4 ft solar panel is about 65 watts. If you can park in the sun for 8 hours you will collect about 500 Watt hours.
How much power does it take to drive a sporty car on the freeway?
Accelerating onto a freeway, about 100,000 watts. Divided by 60 minutes shows a consumption of 1.667 KWH per minute. Cruising on the freeway, about 12-25 KW uses about 200-500 KWH per minute.
Q How far can I go on a day's sunlight?
A About 1/2 mile at expected performance.
For references, look up electric vehicles and fuel cell cars in google.
In Oregon it's considered distracted driving, regardless of TV, cell phone, map, hot coffee, nail polish etc. If involved in a fender bender or pulled over, the fines increase. I just don't understand how they get away with putting up TV video billboards at busy intersections. It should be illegal. We have enough active distractions already.
When trying to install the beast, the provided drivers claimed a windows file was missing (original Win 95 upgrade). The file missing was the USB driver! The USB driver would not install on a non-OSR 2 version of Win 95. It is very easy to see where I got misslead into beliving the video card will not work without the "USB support" I guess the USB support is unrelated to ther video card driver but what is missing just happens to tag along with the USB support driver. If anybody has the real iformation, let me know!
Any MS driver info seems a little vague.
Actualy when they get too much energy, due to the laws of conservation of matter and energy, they finaly explode forming a new galaxie. Most of the black holes are from the original big bang and are part of the expanding universe. They are busy re-collecting small amounts of matter and energy. I don't expect any to explode soon as most of the material needed from the original explosion is still scattered far and wide.
I lived there. Expats can get a work permit for up to 6 years, then they have to leave. They have to have a Cayman employer in order to get a permit. Don't just plan on moving there to live. It won't happen. The import duty is kinda steep also. Electric power is by diesel generator so it's not cheap. Not only do they tax the price of imported items, they also tax the shipping and handeling. (there is no duty on localy manufactured stuff though so local produce is cheap.) The oxtail stew, jerk chicken, and sea turtle steak is delicious. (they farm grow sea turtles) Porn and gambeling in all forms is illegal. You can be busted for a playboy magazine. The drug laws are strict. The phone monopoly had a 25 cent per minute internet service that dropped to 15 cents when I left 4 years ago. All local calls are per minute. Long distance is over $1.50 per minute to the USA. It's a nice place if you get out and enjoy the sunshine. The have the highest per capita density of FAX machines due to the phone rates. Nobody just chats on the phone. Likewise people don't hang out in chat rooms online. It's too expensive. I didn't do internet until I got back in 1998. This is no place for a server farm due to the phone monopoly, import duty, salt air, and power costs.
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I agree more and more of over the air programming is aimed at Joe six pack. The professionals have moved on to premium programming & Internet for real content leaving the remaining low budget folks to catch the latest reality/shock tv/trivia game show. I watch almost no TV anymore except rentals. There are not many TV ads for Forbes Magazine, but lots of stuff for Joe Six pack. Case in point, Spaceship skateboard soft drink ads, Lottery ads, and drippy hamburger ads. These are not upper class content ads. They are lower class ads. It's aimed more at the WWF crowd and not the PBS Nova crowd. They know their demographics won't pay $40/month & up for TV and they program to attract them. I think this is exactly what's killing HDTV. Joe Six pack won't buy it. Professionals won't buy it to watch the on air informercials and junk TV. It'll have to be a Cable/DVD thing first.
I filter all mail as trash except those I regularly write to. I must also have my name in the To:. My sig line states such. They either have to ask a freind to foreward something back to me to get added, or write me via snail mail. If abused, it gets removed. I don't receive unsolisited mail. Reply mail goes to a to be checked folder, so product registrations can arrive. It only gets checked if I am expecting something. Otherwise it gets flushed.
It can not be figured out for the Pentium 4 yet because we don't know how many units are going to be made and what price they will be sold. The R & D and construction costs could be gleaned from the financial statements on line. (chech the stockholder info)
Most users here have never seen anything that uses serial data at mechanical speeds. I have forgotten, is that one of the original machines using 5 bits and 1 1/2 stop bits, or is it one of the newer 7/8 bit machines? Last time I saw a functioning Teletype was about 15 years ago. I do remember they did not impliment any copy protection. ;-) Just oad the punched tape and you could get a printout, with a carbon copy and punch a new tape on the punch that was a bit for bit duplicate of the original. Maybe we will have to go back to these and demand our sereaming data at 65 bps.
One of the colors that can not be produced by the present RGB system is the vilot produced by a laser or prism. It is the shorter wavelength color next to blue. It doesn't have red in it at all, unlike the red/blue aproximation seen much of the time. To experiance this vivid color, it is often seen in laser light shows as it is one of the colors produced and split out of the white argon laser. Too bad film and digital cameras can not properly capture this beautiful color.
Does this force Microsoft to abide by the law of Japan? It would be sweet if it forced them to permit the 4th & 5th instalation & registration of used Office 2000 software to properly work! Will they be able to get past this by claiming the software is a subscription, like cable TV? Will the Software box be then free like the AOL disks? Software will only work when registered^h^h^h^h subscribed? Will games follow suit?
This article is a year old. It's dated April 1 2000.
Umm, I was mistaken thinking it was well known, like the moon affects tides (also no link) but a quick search on google turned up this; http://www.cala.com/cala12.htm I have seen lots of products that are no longer avaliable or very high priced because of missuse and lawsuits. Many people make career decisions to stay out of the laywers sights, instead of where they can provide the most benifit. I for one am in that group. I chose to work on electronics instead of medicine because of the risk of lawsuits. I could have made lots more as a skilled doctor. Many electronics techs are not the best paid because much stuff is cheaper to replace than pay the hourly to get it fixed. People don't have that option for their medical care. The article covers a few of the areas that have been eliminated or very high priced due to the shortage of people taking on the responsibility and risk.
Try this. http://www.cala.com/cala12.htm. Litigation has made many small towns loose delivery doctors and there are many more examples in the example.
I think this get back at your employer tatic of advertising on the radio is about as slimeball a thing you can do. It's worse than ambulance chasers.
Did anyone know the more litigation in a society, the lower the GNP? It's a proven fact. Productivity drops sharply. Quality of life goes down.
I think lots of people are sticking with WIN 98 and Office 97. They can't justify it to the bean counters. New versions can't be uninstalled off one machine and reinstalled on it's replacement hardware without MS blessing. I have never upgraded and don't plan to because of that very reason. I tinker with the hardware and upgrade bit by bit. Replacing the 2 gig drive with a 45 Gig drive should not prevent the software from installing. (Office 2K breaks if not registered) It's hard to get it registered as it is already registered on another hard drive. This is the big reason not to use it. I don't want to trigger an audit because I upgraded the hardware. We can't afford it.
Yea, that was pretty dumb ordering pizza on a stolen phone and having it delivered! I had a friend who had a phone, and he opted to leave it on to put a way the crook. It worked. A quick check of all the people he phoned the day before gave all the info needed. Who called you yesterday at 2 "my son" Did you deliver a pizza yesterday to XXXX nw 55th st. at 7:45 PM? Yea. Did they pay by check? Yea. May I have it? Yea.... End of story.
Please tell me how to get past the roadblock of can't sell unusuitable to the task software, and can't return damaged software. (it was installed and registered, so it was proven it was readable once)
At 16 - 25 bucks a pop, 1000's of CD's imply he makes enough to get a nicer house. My 20 years of collecting CD's is still less than a hundred. I just don't see the value in it. I rarely buy more than a half dozen CD's a year. I bought a mustang instead. I think it would be interesting if just once, the industry had an experiment and sold all CD's for $2 each. How many people would then begin to build a library. Could the increase in volume cause an increase in revenue? At that price, replacing damaged CD's is no longer an issue. They could be sold at Starbucks Coffee. Get coffee and this weeks tunes in one stop.
Actualy I think they will sell as well as the Circuit City Divix DVD's. Not that many people will buy them only to go to the hastle of trying to return them. They will just follow Slashdot to find out how well they work and what hardware / software is needed. If none works, sales will match .. almost NONE!
I am wondering if one of the two way stand alone print servers will work. They tout 2 way to support Win Printers and many of them support serial printers. A prime example is the Intel NetPort express 3 port. It has 2 par. ports and one 2 way serial port. Intel even has them on sale in their test drive program at about $150. A quick search on google for netport express will bring up the info. A small amount of scripting should talk to the "serial printer" device and put the data into SQL. It could be programed to print a confirmation time and date stamp on a reciept printer on the same print server!
DRM will have a bunch of people with issues with damaged media. My wife ran into this problem with a brand new legal copy of Office 97. During it's first install, it came loose in the CD drive and became badly scratched. (I am convinced any CD over 12X is a hazard to CD's.) She finished the install from a borrowed copy. She is changing machines and needs to uninstall it because someone else is getting the hand-me down. It won't uninstall. It asks for the damaged CD with serial number XXXXX-XXXXX to be placed into the drive. Where do you get a replacement for that! When your backup copy or replacement does not work, and the original is damaged, who do you turn to for help? The retailer doesn't want it, and Microsoft refers you to your dealer. It is much easier to convince the office to switch to Star Office now! It has less expensive problems. Microsoft's Copy Protection has become a real problem. High priced media that can't be protected from real world failures will quickly loose favor with the public.
It's a moot point now. There is tons of stuff out to replace it. Got a Cue Cat(unmodified)? Got a Smart Card Reader? Got a new hard drive? Got a network card? Got Windows (any of the phone home^H^H^H^Hsubscription stuff)? Got MS Office? Got a Microsoft Optical Mouse? Any Matell Software? The CPUID is the least of your security holes.
Crusing is 200 to 500 Watt hours per minute, not Kilo Watt Hours. Sorry for the typo.
Q How much power can I get from sunlight?
A typical 2 ft X 4 ft solar panel is about 65 watts. If you can park in the sun for 8 hours you will collect about 500 Watt hours.
How much power does it take to drive a sporty car on the freeway?
Accelerating onto a freeway, about 100,000 watts. Divided by 60 minutes shows a consumption of 1.667 KWH per minute. Cruising on the freeway, about 12-25 KW uses about 200-500 KWH per minute.
Q How far can I go on a day's sunlight?
A About 1/2 mile at expected performance.
For references, look up electric vehicles and fuel cell cars in google.
In Oregon it's considered distracted driving, regardless of TV, cell phone, map, hot coffee, nail polish etc. If involved in a fender bender or pulled over, the fines increase. I just don't understand how they get away with putting up TV video billboards at busy intersections. It should be illegal. We have enough active distractions already.
When trying to install the beast, the provided drivers claimed a windows file was missing (original Win 95 upgrade). The file missing was the USB driver! The USB driver would not install on a non-OSR 2 version of Win 95. It is very easy to see where I got misslead into beliving the video card will not work without the "USB support" I guess the USB support is unrelated to ther video card driver but what is missing just happens to tag along with the USB support driver. If anybody has the real iformation, let me know! Any MS driver info seems a little vague.
Actualy when they get too much energy, due to the laws of conservation of matter and energy, they finaly explode forming a new galaxie. Most of the black holes are from the original big bang and are part of the expanding universe. They are busy re-collecting small amounts of matter and energy. I don't expect any to explode soon as most of the material needed from the original explosion is still scattered far and wide.
I lived there. Expats can get a work permit for up to 6 years, then they have to leave. They have to have a Cayman employer in order to get a permit. Don't just plan on moving there to live. It won't happen. The import duty is kinda steep also. Electric power is by diesel generator so it's not cheap. Not only do they tax the price of imported items, they also tax the shipping and handeling. (there is no duty on localy manufactured stuff though so local produce is cheap.) The oxtail stew, jerk chicken, and sea turtle steak is delicious. (they farm grow sea turtles) Porn and gambeling in all forms is illegal. You can be busted for a playboy magazine. The drug laws are strict. The phone monopoly had a 25 cent per minute internet service that dropped to 15 cents when I left 4 years ago. All local calls are per minute. Long distance is over $1.50 per minute to the USA. It's a nice place if you get out and enjoy the sunshine. The have the highest per capita density of FAX machines due to the phone rates. Nobody just chats on the phone. Likewise people don't hang out in chat rooms online. It's too expensive. I didn't do internet until I got back in 1998. This is no place for a server farm due to the phone monopoly, import duty, salt air, and power costs.