The live fee is to pay the bills for the datacenters they built. As far as the games I agree with you. Only one I really liked was Max Payne. Splinter Cell is so so and I'm going to give Ghost Recon a chance. I'm waiting for SW Knights of the Old Republic.
As far as the graphics, my Geforce 4 in my PC will spank the x-box any time.
Most people don't have these problems. Broadband is available to a huge segment of the population and MS knows this. You're always going to have people living in places that don't have the latest tech.
It's $50 for the first year and whatever they decide after that. There is also going to be premium services that will cost more. I assume MMORPG's are going to fall in the premium category and cost more to play.
I bought mine on launch day along with mechassault and unreal. I sold both on ebay. Mechassault is pretty mediocre single player and multi player is any better. You walk in a line and shoot stuff as you get to it. No strategy like outflanking your enemies.
Unreal is the same. You shoot and kill and that's it. I also bought Ghost Recon, but haven't had a chance to play it. Going to try it this week. Otherwise it's a wait for some decent games other than sports.
As far as the service itself, it's pretty good. On my sdsl connection I don't see any lag.
There are other things in life. If everquest is your life then you have serious problems. Add some variety to your life. Play other games. Go to museums or theater. Find a girlfriend. Everything in moderation.
That's the usuall/. mantra around here. But to a lot of people it only applies if the IP belongs to a big company like IBM or MS. If it's a small company against a big company then IP has to be protected.
Didn't all those people who signed up for the subscription did so on the premise of a new upgrade every 2 years or so? So now MS gets to take their money and no product to show for it.
MS has had IM as part of Exchange 2000 for 2 years now. Other vendors have sold similar products. I always wondered why AOL never used their IM clout to make money in the enterprise market and try to lock MS out of it in at least 1 product.
You save money by outsourcing to IBM. But then you have other things to look at.
First you'll still need some sort of helpdesk staff. Internal or outsourced to IBM.
Second you're going to be spending more money on telecom circuits. Now you'll need enough bandwith out to the internet to support all of your "knowledge workers."
Third security. Who will own the data? How will the data be secured against competitors who might also be IBM's customers?
Fourth is backups. What is the liability if IBM can't restore a deleted file or email? What about redundancy and downtime? Who is responsible for lost revenue?
Fifth it won't save as much money as IBM is hyping. Every company has tons of data that is rarely used, but still sits on file servers taking up space. This model won't change this. You will still be paying for storage that rarely gets used.
What about support contracts? Cisco and Nortel can just jack up the price of support contracts for anyone who buys their gear through a clearing house like that.
Besides, like others said. No one knows the details here. Maybe Kmart was on the per year licensing deal? This way they can't transfer the licenses? Many companies work out their own deals with MS for lower prices.
If this is an Exchange killer then where are the killer features?
FIrst no mention of single instance storage. The money you save in licensing you'll spend in increased storage costs.
Second where is the server based mail storage? Again the money you save on licensing you'll spend backing up mail downloaded on users' computers or home folders.
Third, I didn't read anything about a web interface to read your mail like Outlook Web Access.
Fourth, unlike Exchange 2000 it doesn't seem to have any mailbox recovery except for back up tape. Exchange 2000 if you accidentaly delete a mailbox you can recover it easily without back up tapes.
What about mail restore for terminated employees? Exchange you just restore it into the same mailbox and give others access to it. Not with this.
On the surface you'll save in licensing. But when you dig deeper, you'll spend more on storage, back up resources and help desk costs. And don't start with the daily BSOD's. My company's exchange servers run, and run and run. I think we reboot once every quarter or so. And the better architecture more than makes up for UNIX's superior up time.
Not true in Dept of the Army. We had IDIQ contracts that were updated monthly sometimes. With all the paperwork took about 2-3 weeks to get a PC in Italy, and 6 weeks during the beginning of the FY.
US Army Corps Of Engineers we had a contract with Dell. We'd call the rep, get a quote faxed to us and then order it. Same thing took 3 weeks or so.
Not as fast as private industry, but not as bad as you say.
University of Phoenix along with a few other schools already have online programs for undergrad and graduate degrees.
The classroom part of this can be done online. But what about the labs and the on the job training? Many hospitals are teaching hospitals where the medical students work alongside doctors.
Have you thought about spending a little more and getting better quality? I've had a Motorola startac 7868 for over 18 months now and the only problem was that I cracked the antenna and it cost $10 to get it fixed on the spot.
It cost me $150 for the phone back in early 2001, but it seems it's about the same price as all of the phones that you've owned.
My girlfriend is looking at a new phone this year, and her current phone will go to a battered women's group. They give the phones to battered women so they can call 911 if the need arises. All phones are supposed to have 911 access even if there isn't any active account with a provider.
At my company we run Exchange 5.5 and all resumes are sent to a public folder. We just went through a lay off. So just in case I needed some tips I copied the entire public folder into my personal folders in MS Outlook. You should be able to do the same thing in Lotus Notes or any other email system where resumes are sent to a central location.
If you haven't realized it, the USPS has been around since the 1800's. Fedex and UPS since the 70's I believe. UPS only went public in 1999. Only trouble with getting rid of the post office is deciding who takes care of residential mail which no one wants because of the cost involved.
Private schools are another example, but education was basically nationalized in the last century. Only private schools are religious ones and those who cater to the wealthier people in society.
If the NSA software would compete with MS, then the government has no business releasing it. Government isn't there to compete with private industry. It's unfair, especially considering the fact that the government can subsidize any projects with tax money that comes from it's competitors.
That's awesome. I really can't understand how someone can take it in customer support. I'll join the military again and jump out of airplanes before I take any customer support job.
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The live fee is to pay the bills for the datacenters they built. As far as the games I agree with you. Only one I really liked was Max Payne. Splinter Cell is so so and I'm going to give Ghost Recon a chance. I'm waiting for SW Knights of the Old Republic.
As far as the graphics, my Geforce 4 in my PC will spank the x-box any time.
Most people don't have these problems. Broadband is available to a huge segment of the population and MS knows this. You're always going to have people living in places that don't have the latest tech.
It's $50 for the first year and whatever they decide after that. There is also going to be premium services that will cost more. I assume MMORPG's are going to fall in the premium category and cost more to play.
I bought mine on launch day along with mechassault and unreal. I sold both on ebay. Mechassault is pretty mediocre single player and multi player is any better. You walk in a line and shoot stuff as you get to it. No strategy like outflanking your enemies.
Unreal is the same. You shoot and kill and that's it. I also bought Ghost Recon, but haven't had a chance to play it. Going to try it this week. Otherwise it's a wait for some decent games other than sports.
As far as the service itself, it's pretty good. On my sdsl connection I don't see any lag.
There are other things in life. If everquest is your life then you have serious problems. Add some variety to your life. Play other games. Go to museums or theater. Find a girlfriend. Everything in moderation.
That's the usuall /. mantra around here. But to a lot of people it only applies if the IP belongs to a big company like IBM or MS. If it's a small company against a big company then IP has to be protected.
Information wants to be free. Sendo should have shared their work with the world so people can make products on it, others would improve it etc.
I've refused to give out my info to numerous retailers.
Didn't all those people who signed up for the subscription did so on the premise of a new upgrade every 2 years or so? So now MS gets to take their money and no product to show for it.
Maybe not enough people signed up?
MS has had IM as part of Exchange 2000 for 2 years now. Other vendors have sold similar products. I always wondered why AOL never used their IM clout to make money in the enterprise market and try to lock MS out of it in at least 1 product.
You save money by outsourcing to IBM. But then you have other things to look at.
First you'll still need some sort of helpdesk staff. Internal or outsourced to IBM.
Second you're going to be spending more money on telecom circuits. Now you'll need enough bandwith out to the internet to support all of your "knowledge workers."
Third security. Who will own the data? How will the data be secured against competitors who might also be IBM's customers?
Fourth is backups. What is the liability if IBM can't restore a deleted file or email? What about redundancy and downtime? Who is responsible for lost revenue?
Fifth it won't save as much money as IBM is hyping. Every company has tons of data that is rarely used, but still sits on file servers taking up space. This model won't change this. You will still be paying for storage that rarely gets used.
There is Redhat Network. It scans your computer and downloads RPM's as needed.
What about support contracts? Cisco and Nortel can just jack up the price of support contracts for anyone who buys their gear through a clearing house like that.
Besides, like others said. No one knows the details here. Maybe Kmart was on the per year licensing deal? This way they can't transfer the licenses? Many companies work out their own deals with MS for lower prices.
If this is an Exchange killer then where are the killer features?
FIrst no mention of single instance storage. The money you save in licensing you'll spend in increased storage costs.
Second where is the server based mail storage? Again the money you save on licensing you'll spend backing up mail downloaded on users' computers or home folders.
Third, I didn't read anything about a web interface to read your mail like Outlook Web Access.
Fourth, unlike Exchange 2000 it doesn't seem to have any mailbox recovery except for back up tape. Exchange 2000 if you accidentaly delete a mailbox you can recover it easily without back up tapes.
What about mail restore for terminated employees? Exchange you just restore it into the same mailbox and give others access to it. Not with this.
On the surface you'll save in licensing. But when you dig deeper, you'll spend more on storage, back up resources and help desk costs. And don't start with the daily BSOD's. My company's exchange servers run, and run and run. I think we reboot once every quarter or so. And the better architecture more than makes up for UNIX's superior up time.
Not true in Dept of the Army. We had IDIQ contracts that were updated monthly sometimes. With all the paperwork took about 2-3 weeks to get a PC in Italy, and 6 weeks during the beginning of the FY.
US Army Corps Of Engineers we had a contract with Dell. We'd call the rep, get a quote faxed to us and then order it. Same thing took 3 weeks or so.
Not as fast as private industry, but not as bad as you say.
The classroom part of this can be done online. But what about the labs and the on the job training? Many hospitals are teaching hospitals where the medical students work alongside doctors.
Have you thought about spending a little more and getting better quality? I've had a Motorola startac 7868 for over 18 months now and the only problem was that I cracked the antenna and it cost $10 to get it fixed on the spot.
It cost me $150 for the phone back in early 2001, but it seems it's about the same price as all of the phones that you've owned.
My girlfriend is looking at a new phone this year, and her current phone will go to a battered women's group. They give the phones to battered women so they can call 911 if the need arises. All phones are supposed to have 911 access even if there isn't any active account with a provider.
At my company we run Exchange 5.5 and all resumes are sent to a public folder. We just went through a lay off. So just in case I needed some tips I copied the entire public folder into my personal folders in MS Outlook. You should be able to do the same thing in Lotus Notes or any other email system where resumes are sent to a central location.
If you haven't realized it, the USPS has been around since the 1800's. Fedex and UPS since the 70's I believe. UPS only went public in 1999. Only trouble with getting rid of the post office is deciding who takes care of residential mail which no one wants because of the cost involved.
Private schools are another example, but education was basically nationalized in the last century. Only private schools are religious ones and those who cater to the wealthier people in society.
If the NSA software would compete with MS, then the government has no business releasing it. Government isn't there to compete with private industry. It's unfair, especially considering the fact that the government can subsidize any projects with tax money that comes from it's competitors.
Haven't you heard of metro cards? I haven't used tokens in years. $63 a month for unlimited subway and limited bus travel is pretty good.
Mine has a DVI connector on it. Don't know about your specific resolution, but mine supports resolutions up to 2048 x something.
It wasn't entirely Dell's fault. All online companies use fraud detection software. But Dell didn't handle it very well.
That's awesome. I really can't understand how someone can take it in customer support. I'll join the military again and jump out of airplanes before I take any customer support job.