Is the digital convergance. By that i mean, some people are just hardcore about technology and own a PS3 or Xbox 360 because of the online functionality, movie rentals, dvd/bluray playback, UPnP support that works in hi-def and on top of that a fantastic linup of games.
Its going to be easier for Microsoft and Sony to backtrack and publish "casual" games than it is for Nintendo to frontload a hardware changed or new device to use new technologies.
Thats just my 2 cents. I'm a hardcore nerd. I guess i'd be a hardcore gamer if i had the time. I have absolutely 0 ambition to buy a wii since i don't have the time to play games casually. If i want to play a game i'm going to escape reality, not mimmic it.
So its better to used a closed source system a-la flash? With all the hate you ahve regardling moonlight, why not fork it and make your own as you see fit?
Through their marketing speak it doesn't look like they're targeting the small business sectory. Even their TCO demo starts out at 10tb and their cost per terabyte is 2,500 if that 2.50/gig is correct. 10 tb for 25,000 doesn't sound terribly bad but by the time you figure integration costs is it really saving you? From my perspective cloud storage is fine for an archival/repository situation in which cases you will find hardware based solutions that are very easily self managed from EMC/Clarrion that do this and probably even cheaper and automagically with cool applications to handle it all.
Its about your investment.. For me Phenom II was a no brainer because of AM2+ compatibility. Once newegg put those suckers at 200 bucks i jumped. Its like i have an entire new PC and that was upgrading from the 9600 quad core.
Oddly enough i didn't have complaints about the performance of the 9600.. i just figured encoding times and processing times would be reduced enough that it would accelerate my work and well, for 200 bucks its done so and more so than i expected.
i7 is a nice platform but i'm penny pinching right now and looking for better ROI vs bragging rights.
"Originally created in the late 1980s by NextBase Ltd, a UK company, under the name "AutoRoute", it was sold for DOS based PCs and later for the Apple Macintosh. In the early 1990s it was ported to the Microsoft Windows operating system. The company created a version for the United States called AutoMap. In 1994 the product was sold to Microsoft. Microsoft sold products for Windows 95 as AutoMap Road Atlas and AutoMap Streets under the Microsoft Home brand."
Corporations want standard processes, standard functionality and standard builds. They're not going to chose linux because its free - they would chose it because it gets the job done.
BTW, why does linux insinuate intelligence? Where do you come up with logic like that?
How is linux a higher quality product? Have you tried Windows lately? Your making a bold statement while completely ignoring the facts.
Windows isn't a saint by any means, but it isn't a weak os either. GPO, AD, IIS,.NET and everything else make for a robust enterprise system that i have yet to see a Linux system come close to supporting without gimping the end user even more.
Who are you trying to fool here? You honestly think if the government even offered these for pennies on the dollar that it would translate to lower fees for the consumer?
In our "Free market" private investment firms would snatch these up and re-market them for a profit. Why is the government exclusive of selling a spectrum for what its worth?
Why can't the free markets come up with new technologies that don't depend on the government subsidizing them?
I mean, get real. If the spectrum went cheap private investors would buy it out and lease it to the highest bidder and "lil guys" would still be screwed.
"A corporation big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." -- Someone who knows the world isn't black and white.
Funny.. you do realize that your iPhone will end up costing you well into 3grand after a mere 2 years of service where it will ultimately be long outdated & replaced.
Where as the reader doesn't require a subscription and even the base price is cheaper than the entry price for a phone.
i guess my point is, some people like to talk on phones. Some people like to read books. The cost of the Book reader is MUCH more economical to either of those people. For the 99/month that you pay in service fees you could buy a slew of books.
Good question. Our household will usually watch about 10 gigs a day of video content. Thats with 2 people working from home and 2 young girls all watching either netflix, hulu or xbox live content (we don't have cable tv)
Last month i did about 220gigs.. this month i'm already up to 38gigs.
With cold weather and snow i see we do about 15-20 gigs a day..
i'll have to keep an eye on my bills. Otherwise i use internet for vpn access myself but that bandwidth isn' much.
Orbit space is already becoming rare, why waste it with bus sized objects that would never be used and be require continual maintenance and replacement? Space superiority is sort of moot and I think politicizing space on a military basis is a waste of humanity.
Also, what doe it gimp? Just making baseless statements doesn't mean your insightful. I just think you don't get it. (or your have a war perversion)
Consoles prove my point entirely. Ports of games that are on all consoles tend to suck because there is no polish. Work that could have been spent on the game; making it better, faster, fancier or simply more playable is spent on the process of porting - to platforms in which bugs may not be reproducible at all. A variety of OS's, hardware configurations, kernel schedulers, drivers and whatnot doesn't make a game better. Just means more people, increased costs, more delays and less features.
Tell me, how do you "grade" teachers? Why can't you simply go to your PTA meetings and your teacher in service meetings and be a responsible parent and know what your children are doing?
The reason i don't want teacher "appraisals" outside of what a school district does in and of itself is because some people would rate teachers poorly because they're not christian enough, not moral enough or not forcing "family values" enough or other non public educational focused education based issues.
Start by giving teachers livable wages, start by funding real programs that put books, science and math into students hands. Start challenging and teaching kids AT school. Get away from homework, let kids live a life after school and make school about learning.
BTW, if the middle class is doing better, so will the schools. Fix it from the bottom up, not top down.
Honestly. McCain is all about mud slinging and Obama is all about Change. Whether either of them can pull it off is up in the air, but the person that i'm voting for is the person working on real issues.
Obama 08.
GOP doesn't deserve another term. Not not, now for a long time. Not till they tell the religious fanatics to f off.
So let me get this straight. There was no MS tax on these, NO one was apparently buying them, so they're dropping the line and we still have to rattle on and on about a MS tax?
If i buy an apple, how do i get rid of the OSX/Apple tax?
If I buy a ford, how do i put a Mazda engine it it from the getgo and not pay the Ford tax?
Linux isn't the answer to everything. Typical linux users don't pay the premium lenovo/IBM pricing anyway for the most part. They would go HP/Dell and put their own OS on since the "MS tax" has little to do with the price differences of Lenovo and other options.
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Is the digital convergance. By that i mean, some people are just hardcore about technology and own a PS3 or Xbox 360 because of the online functionality, movie rentals, dvd/bluray playback, UPnP support that works in hi-def and on top of that a fantastic linup of games.
Its going to be easier for Microsoft and Sony to backtrack and publish "casual" games than it is for Nintendo to frontload a hardware changed or new device to use new technologies.
Thats just my 2 cents. I'm a hardcore nerd. I guess i'd be a hardcore gamer if i had the time. I have absolutely 0 ambition to buy a wii since i don't have the time to play games casually. If i want to play a game i'm going to escape reality, not mimmic it.
Nope. Helmet is much safer. Between debris, bugs, noise and everything else the helmet offers a safe environment in which to ride.
Its not pork, its infrastructure. Infrastructure that is long overdue.
Now i can just keep smoking knowing my new lungs will fit in no problem! /s
So its better to used a closed source system a-la flash? With all the hate you ahve regardling moonlight, why not fork it and make your own as you see fit?
Through their marketing speak it doesn't look like they're targeting the small business sectory. Even their TCO demo starts out at 10tb and their cost per terabyte is 2,500 if that 2.50/gig is correct. 10 tb for 25,000 doesn't sound terribly bad but by the time you figure integration costs is it really saving you? From my perspective cloud storage is fine for an archival/repository situation in which cases you will find hardware based solutions that are very easily self managed from EMC/Clarrion that do this and probably even cheaper and automagically with cool applications to handle it all.
I wish i could mod you up.. i'm not sure what high horse the OP was on, but i'd like some of what he is smoking!
Its about your investment.. For me Phenom II was a no brainer because of AM2+ compatibility. Once newegg put those suckers at 200 bucks i jumped. Its like i have an entire new PC and that was upgrading from the 9600 quad core.
Oddly enough i didn't have complaints about the performance of the 9600.. i just figured encoding times and processing times would be reduced enough that it would accelerate my work and well, for 200 bucks its done so and more so than i expected.
i7 is a nice platform but i'm penny pinching right now and looking for better ROI vs bragging rights.
From wikipedia:
"Originally created in the late 1980s by NextBase Ltd, a UK company, under the name "AutoRoute", it was sold for DOS based PCs and later for the Apple Macintosh. In the early 1990s it was ported to the Microsoft Windows operating system. The company created a version for the United States called AutoMap. In 1994 the product was sold to Microsoft. Microsoft sold products for Windows 95 as AutoMap Road Atlas and AutoMap Streets under the Microsoft Home brand."
MS mapping existed before TomTom was even borne
Corporations want standard processes, standard functionality and standard builds. They're not going to chose linux because its free - they would chose it because it gets the job done.
BTW, why does linux insinuate intelligence? Where do you come up with logic like that?
How is linux a higher quality product? Have you tried Windows lately? Your making a bold statement while completely ignoring the facts.
Windows isn't a saint by any means, but it isn't a weak os either. GPO, AD, IIS, .NET and everything else make for a robust enterprise system that i have yet to see a Linux system come close to supporting without gimping the end user even more.
The government is selling a managed spectrum for what its worth. Period.
Why is it a tax if the government provides a service (which it is) but if a business provides a service its called a service?
Who are you trying to fool here? You honestly think if the government even offered these for pennies on the dollar that it would translate to lower fees for the consumer?
In our "Free market" private investment firms would snatch these up and re-market them for a profit. Why is the government exclusive of selling a spectrum for what its worth?
Why can't the free markets come up with new technologies that don't depend on the government subsidizing them?
I mean, get real. If the spectrum went cheap private investors would buy it out and lease it to the highest bidder and "lil guys" would still be screwed.
"A corporation big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." -- Someone who knows the world isn't black and white.
Wow. The only dipshit i know of is you. I mean, when you try and compare costs - you should - compare the true costs.
For the price of a 2 year commitment and phone your looking at roughly 3 grand
Compared to a 359.00 device that you can use to read your current pdfs
So uh.. i suggest you go see a dr and get a refill on your drugs buddy. You obviously have problems blowing fuses.
kthxbai
Funny.. you do realize that your iPhone will end up costing you well into 3grand after a mere 2 years of service where it will ultimately be long outdated & replaced.
Where as the reader doesn't require a subscription and even the base price is cheaper than the entry price for a phone.
i guess my point is, some people like to talk on phones. Some people like to read books. The cost of the Book reader is MUCH more economical to either of those people. For the 99/month that you pay in service fees you could buy a slew of books.
Good question. Our household will usually watch about 10 gigs a day of video content. Thats with 2 people working from home and 2 young girls all watching either netflix, hulu or xbox live content (we don't have cable tv)
Last month i did about 220gigs.. this month i'm already up to 38gigs.
With cold weather and snow i see we do about 15-20 gigs a day..
i'll have to keep an eye on my bills. Otherwise i use internet for vpn access myself but that bandwidth isn' much.
Orbit space is already becoming rare, why waste it with bus sized objects that would never be used and be require continual maintenance and replacement? Space superiority is sort of moot and I think politicizing space on a military basis is a waste of humanity.
Also, what doe it gimp? Just making baseless statements doesn't mean your insightful. I just think you don't get it. (or your have a war perversion)
Consoles prove my point entirely. Ports of games that are on all consoles tend to suck because there is no polish. Work that could have been spent on the game; making it better, faster, fancier or simply more playable is spent on the process of porting - to platforms in which bugs may not be reproducible at all. A variety of OS's, hardware configurations, kernel schedulers, drivers and whatnot doesn't make a game better. Just means more people, increased costs, more delays and less features.
I am running the latest build on Vista X64 and it passes the acid 2 test and renders it fast for me.
What is everyone bickering about now? The fact they like to diss something they know nothing about because they think they know everything?
If it doesn't kill people, Mccain doesn't support it.
Tell me, how do you "grade" teachers? Why can't you simply go to your PTA meetings and your teacher in service meetings and be a responsible parent and know what your children are doing?
The reason i don't want teacher "appraisals" outside of what a school district does in and of itself is because some people would rate teachers poorly because they're not christian enough, not moral enough or not forcing "family values" enough or other non public educational focused education based issues.
Start by giving teachers livable wages, start by funding real programs that put books, science and math into students hands. Start challenging and teaching kids AT school. Get away from homework, let kids live a life after school and make school about learning.
BTW, if the middle class is doing better, so will the schools. Fix it from the bottom up, not top down.
Obama'08
Honestly. McCain is all about mud slinging and Obama is all about Change. Whether either of them can pull it off is up in the air, but the person that i'm voting for is the person working on real issues.
Obama 08.
GOP doesn't deserve another term. Not not, now for a long time. Not till they tell the religious fanatics to f off.
So let me get this straight. There was no MS tax on these, NO one was apparently buying them, so they're dropping the line and we still have to rattle on and on about a MS tax?
If i buy an apple, how do i get rid of the OSX/Apple tax?
If I buy a ford, how do i put a Mazda engine it it from the getgo and not pay the Ford tax?
Agreed..
Linux isn't the answer to everything. Typical linux users don't pay the premium lenovo/IBM pricing anyway for the most part. They would go HP/Dell and put their own OS on since the "MS tax" has little to do with the price differences of Lenovo and other options.
BTW, when will Apple get rid of the Apple Tax? :)