And in the first case I'll need to start a corporation (under $100, I'm assured).
Assured by who? If you can figure out how to start a corporation in your home state for less than $100, you need to tell me how. Most states charge more than that just for the corp license. Check out any of the incorporation web sites, and take a close look at the fees just for the state alone - before the lawyers get involved. Here in Texas, it's something like $260 if I remember right.
For what it's worth, whoever is assuring you that shouldn't be trusted for anything else they tell you, either.
The cheapest 22" monitor I found was $528. The Sony Trinitrons are upwards of $1K.
Pricewatch shows 21" Sony Trinitrons for $650 from fly-by-night guys, and CDW has them for $799. I got my used one for $300 from a CAD shop that was switching over to big LCD's.
But all of this is irrelevant, though - what I was asking is, why do people want a TV-out on a high-end video card? If you're putting together a machine to play DVD's and Bleem, you certainly don't need a Geforce Ti. Like you said, an AIW Radeon goes for $150, and that's more than good enough. This particular article was talking about $300 cards that don't even do video capture. For those cards, a TV out is almost useless.
First, some of us haave the money for the card, but not for the Trinitron 22" Monitor.
If you don't have the money for a decent monitor, why would you blow $300 on a video card?That's like getting a 2ghz P4 or Athlon, but stifling it with 64mb ram. You don't blow your whole wad on a single component, you spread it around so you can get a decent system.
Second, Do you prefer you DVDs on TV (with armchair and Family) or on Monitor (on the bed with a coke) ?
I prefer them on TV, and that's why I use a DVD player. PC's don't have remotes, and I don't want to have to get up and go to the PC every time I want to pause or jump around to different features. (Then again, I like watching every extra feature on a DVD, and most people probably don't.)
Sometimes I need 1920x1200 resolution on the desktop, but othertimes I just want to display video on the TV.
Yeah, I've got a TV card for that, though. That way, you don't have to replace it every time you upgrade your main video card. It's not like TV cards are getting more and more functionality with each new version.
That's because Katz is a faggot, commie kike who rapes little boys. DUH!
That's what I don't get: commies would be all over this issue, right? Microsoft is clearly flying in the face of the red empire, flouting its capitalism, and yet Katz stands still on the sidelines.
The article whines a lot about inadequate tv-out capabilities for these cards. Call me crazy, but why would somebody blow the big bucks on something so high-powered as a Titanium, and then hook it up to a crummy TV? Seems like anybody who'd buy these things would rather use a big quality monitor instead. Even if you're going to use one of the nice big plasma flat panels from Pioneer or Sony, they come with VGA inputs anyway. You certainly wouldn't want to use TV outputs. What am I missing here?
The chapter that really made me lose interest was the one entitled "Nerds In the Bunker." I was expecting a short tale of how geeks (like us slashdotters) were taking on MS with Linux and other open source and free (as in beer) software.
Tell me about it. Of all the books Jon Katz should be writing, this is it - but he's absent on this subject. He seems to love the touchy-feely stuff, but steers far away from anything with dollar implications.
The Slashdot article doesn't make it quite clear enough that they weren't trying to keep the shuttle clear of the debris - they were trying to keep the space station clear of debris. That's why it consumed so much fuel (they had to budge the entire space station 3/4 of a mile.) It's easy to move the shuttle, much harder to use the shuttle as a tugboat.
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I walk past someone on a street in London who flies off to Tokyo and goes dancing allnight - soon most of Japan is infected with 'all your squares are belong to torus'. How cool a game is that! I'd play!
Sadly, that's not much different from the STD situation, except that you don't want to have your name on the "high scoring" boards.
Forget the binary one - check out the infrared one
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It says: This page is under construction
In a few days we will present a complete new type of watch.
This watch will communicate with other similar watches and send virus to each other.
Wow, nothing like truth in marketing, I guess.
Re:So I look at the BBC article..
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A guy is throwing a ball up into the air and the caption reads "Nasa's Michael Watkins: A new map every month." What does that picture have to do with anything?
He studies gravity, making gravity maps for NASA. Get it? Throwing a ball up, the ball comes down, forces at work.... Ringing any bells?
I thought it was brilliant. One of the funniest publicity photos I've seen in a while, better than the dot-com ones.
Oh, it's not actually LAUNCHED yet
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I was poking around in all of the sites for a few minutes before I found out that the satellites haven't been launched, and aren't scheduled to go up until Feb 2002. The BBC says it's going to be just a few weeks, but the official site says 97 days.
Interesting note from their site: A secondary experiment that GRACE will perform is to examine how the atmosphere affects signals from the Global Possioning Satellites (GPS). Ahhh, another Slashdot hotbutton! This project just keeps looking better and better the more you check it out.
What are the odds that antivirus software could be updated to find this virus?
I think you have to look a lot deeper than that. Even if Symantec tells me that they're protecting me against this "virus", can I really believe them? And what happens after that, does Uncle Sam release version 2? If you're Symantec, do you really want to draw the wrath of the government to fight a virus that isn't, and get into a codefight with government agencies? AV companies might have some deep pockets, but they're no match for our tax dollars, if Ashcroft decides he wants to spend our money this way.
This is the time when a foreign virus detection has the opportunity to jump into the limelight and steal some serious business from the big US AV companies.
Ummm, re: public radio... I thought that was supposed to be supported with tax dollars. Tax dollars that are collected and spent even if I don't use public radio/TV.
Nope, public radio is no longer allowed to accept government funding. Hasn't been for years. It's 100% listener-supported. For example, KUHF here in Houston is allowed to broadcast from the university campus, but that's about the only freebie they get. The government-funded thing is a common misconception.
pay and be anonymous at the same time? just tell me how.
Donations, man, just like church. (You DO go to church, don't you?) I don't give my name at church, but they get money from me every week. (Well, every couple of weeks.) Support the system, and it supports you. You don't have to be anonymous to support it - you can give your name when you support it, but it's not directly related to the services you consume. Now subscriptions, on the other hand, that's not anonymous, but donations are.
Seems like Safeweb was the last one to cancel providing free anonymizing service. Rest in peace, Safeweb, I loved you a lot.
Hmm, you loved it a lot, but you're not willing to pay, eh? Sounds like the tombstone of every other dot-com. What's the surprise here? When people realize that you have to pay to play, maybe the dot-com economy will change. News flash, folks, if there's something good, and you love it, you need to chip in and contribute. If you don't, as they say on public radio, nobody else will.
384mb? Whoop-dee-doo.
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...and created 384 megabytes of computer data in the process.
Things like this used to sound a lot more impressive before I could buy that much memory for $50 at Fry's.
It's even cooler than you think. Forget about using it with your desktop: think PDA, cell phone, and laptop.
For those of you who didn't click on the link, Samsung has a virtual wireless keyboard that just straps rings on your fingers, links the rings back to a control device on your wrist, and then operates over Bluetooth, so you don't actually have a keyboard - let alone wires.
IMHO, the biggest problem with packaging laptops is the keyboard. Take that away, and suddenly the tablet-style look makes a lot of sense. Give me just a screen, no drives, and this virtual wireless keyboard. I can just see using that in coach class on airplanes, which is just about impossible now with conventional full-size laptops. By the time you fold it open, the guy in front of you has already leaned back, and there's no room for the laptop. With this, I could just put the screen on my lap and type away.
I'd like to see how they handled the security risks, though. I can just see three guys sitting next to each other with these things, and all of their laptops getting all of their keystrokes correctly, without accepting keystrokes from the other. You'd want the security on both ends: you sure don't want another device intercepting every keystroke (hello, passwords!) and you don't want to accidentally send a bunch of keystrokes to your cell phone or PDA or laptop.
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Now Gate's will finally understand failure!!!!
Oh, that's not fair. He understands it, alright. I've got one word for you: "Bob".
Sorry, folks, but as a sailor, I've gotta tell you that this bat will never fly. A big, big part of the romance of sailing is the beauty of the sailboats. Spend enough time around sailors, and you'll get to know the various boat designers and be able to recognize their work from afar.
Anything with this hideous-looking contraption on board is going to be shunned at the local yacht club, and that's where the real decisions are made. Whether you agree with the rationale or not, most sailboat buyers are going to live with their purchase for a decade or more, and they want their boat to be a representation of their own personality. Boats are purchased with 30-year loans - think about that for a second. Do you really, really want a boat ahead of its time? Nope, almost everybody wants timeless classics, gorgeous boats with clean lines.
Take a look at any marina, and you'll see what I mean. This is an industry where teak is still preferred over carbon fiber, where people talk about canvas sails, and where tradition dictates that you never change the name of a boat. A lot of people still don't even accept catamarans as real sailboats, let alone contraptions with folding bat-like sails.
Why bother supporting an operating system that has built-in terminal services 10x better than the product you're currently selling? PcAnywhere is gonna disappear soon when everyone is running XP...
No, spend some time on a help desk and you'll understand why Terminal Services isn't going to replace pcAnywhere anytime soon. For starters, it doesn't work over phone lines without a tcp/ip connection. When you support single workstations scattered across the country, TS is useless.
Then there's file synch. If you deal with big files, TS isn't smart enough to only synch the changed parts of the files, whereas pcA is.
I have no clue why this is news. It took months and months for my ISP (SWBell) to "support" Windows 2000, a long time after it was released. Their client software wouldn't work on Win2k, and even though the maker had released a new version of the software, their staff wasn't trained on it. So oddly, if you could find the newer software by tracking down the manufacturer (who gave it away free), it would work fine.
This is really no big deal. Lots of companies won't support XP yet. Even Symantec's pcAnywhere doesn't support XP yet. It's like this with every new operating system, and the way it will probably always be.
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In the last 20 years, we have seen Europe replace its cafes and coffee shops with McDonalds and Starbucks.
The only Starbucks stores in Europe are in the UK and Switzerland. Besides, if you think Americans enjoy that sort of thing, you're mistaken. We have citizens that are just as upset that Wal-Mart is replacing local hardware stores, and Barnes & Noble is bankrupting local booksellers. Nobody's excited about that kind of globalization, not even us.
The real problem of globalization is the American attitude which puts individual freedom above just about every other principle. In Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Japan, Russia etc our values are different. We put family and religion first. We do not care about your profit motive.
Huh? In one sentence, you say that we put freedom over every principle. In the next, you say you're different because you put family and religion first. I'm not sure how you can choose your religion without first having the freedom to choose it - unless, of course, you're in favor of state-sponsored religion that enforces your personal choice. The freedom of religion was the whole point over here in the US, and the driving force behind our nation's founding. If you see freedom as a value that jeopardizes family and religion, you don't understand freedom. The whole point over here is the freedom to choose your religion, your friends, and for that matter, the brands that you buy.
We will eventually win, because we will eventually stop buying into your culture of greed. It may not happen today or tomorrow, but it will happen.
What's stopping it? You're the ones buying our products. Nobody's holding a gun to your head at the Gap and making you buy their t-shirts. It's not like you don't have your own products to choose from. McDonald's isn't the only place to buy hamburgers, and Starbucks isn't the only place to get a cup of joe.
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And in the first case I'll need to start a corporation (under $100, I'm assured).
Assured by who? If you can figure out how to start a corporation in your home state for less than $100, you need to tell me how. Most states charge more than that just for the corp license. Check out any of the incorporation web sites, and take a close look at the fees just for the state alone - before the lawyers get involved. Here in Texas, it's something like $260 if I remember right.
For what it's worth, whoever is assuring you that shouldn't be trusted for anything else they tell you, either.
The cheapest 22" monitor I found was $528. The Sony Trinitrons are upwards of $1K.
Pricewatch shows 21" Sony Trinitrons for $650 from fly-by-night guys, and CDW has them for $799. I got my used one for $300 from a CAD shop that was switching over to big LCD's.
But all of this is irrelevant, though - what I was asking is, why do people want a TV-out on a high-end video card? If you're putting together a machine to play DVD's and Bleem, you certainly don't need a Geforce Ti. Like you said, an AIW Radeon goes for $150, and that's more than good enough. This particular article was talking about $300 cards that don't even do video capture. For those cards, a TV out is almost useless.
First, some of us haave the money for the card, but not for the Trinitron 22" Monitor.
If you don't have the money for a decent monitor, why would you blow $300 on a video card?That's like getting a 2ghz P4 or Athlon, but stifling it with 64mb ram. You don't blow your whole wad on a single component, you spread it around so you can get a decent system.
Second, Do you prefer you DVDs on TV (with armchair and Family) or on Monitor (on the bed with a coke) ?
I prefer them on TV, and that's why I use a DVD player. PC's don't have remotes, and I don't want to have to get up and go to the PC every time I want to pause or jump around to different features. (Then again, I like watching every extra feature on a DVD, and most people probably don't.)
Sometimes I need 1920x1200 resolution on the desktop, but othertimes I just want to display video on the TV.
Yeah, I've got a TV card for that, though. That way, you don't have to replace it every time you upgrade your main video card. It's not like TV cards are getting more and more functionality with each new version.
That's because Katz is a faggot, commie kike who rapes little boys. DUH!
That's what I don't get: commies would be all over this issue, right? Microsoft is clearly flying in the face of the red empire, flouting its capitalism, and yet Katz stands still on the sidelines.
The article whines a lot about inadequate tv-out capabilities for these cards. Call me crazy, but why would somebody blow the big bucks on something so high-powered as a Titanium, and then hook it up to a crummy TV? Seems like anybody who'd buy these things would rather use a big quality monitor instead. Even if you're going to use one of the nice big plasma flat panels from Pioneer or Sony, they come with VGA inputs anyway. You certainly wouldn't want to use TV outputs. What am I missing here?
The chapter that really made me lose interest was the one entitled "Nerds In the Bunker." I was expecting a short tale of how geeks (like us slashdotters) were taking on MS with Linux and other open source and free (as in beer) software.
Tell me about it. Of all the books Jon Katz should be writing, this is it - but he's absent on this subject. He seems to love the touchy-feely stuff, but steers far away from anything with dollar implications.
The Slashdot article doesn't make it quite clear enough that they weren't trying to keep the shuttle clear of the debris - they were trying to keep the space station clear of debris. That's why it consumed so much fuel (they had to budge the entire space station 3/4 of a mile.) It's easy to move the shuttle, much harder to use the shuttle as a tugboat.
I walk past someone on a street in London who flies off to Tokyo and goes dancing allnight - soon most of Japan is infected with 'all your squares are belong to torus'. How cool a game is that! I'd play!
Sadly, that's not much different from the STD situation, except that you don't want to have your name on the "high scoring" boards.
It says:
This page is under construction
In a few days we will present a complete new type of watch.
This watch will communicate with other similar watches and send virus to each other.
Wow, nothing like truth in marketing, I guess.
A guy is throwing a ball up into the air and the caption reads "Nasa's Michael Watkins: A new map every month." What does that picture have to do with anything?
He studies gravity, making gravity maps for NASA. Get it? Throwing a ball up, the ball comes down, forces at work.... Ringing any bells?
I thought it was brilliant. One of the funniest publicity photos I've seen in a while, better than the dot-com ones.
I was poking around in all of the sites for a few minutes before I found out that the satellites haven't been launched, and aren't scheduled to go up until Feb 2002. The BBC says it's going to be just a few weeks, but the official site says 97 days.
Interesting note from their site: A secondary experiment that GRACE will perform is to examine how the atmosphere affects signals from the Global Possioning Satellites (GPS). Ahhh, another Slashdot hotbutton! This project just keeps looking better and better the more you check it out.
What are the odds that antivirus software could be updated to find this virus?
I think you have to look a lot deeper than that. Even if Symantec tells me that they're protecting me against this "virus", can I really believe them? And what happens after that, does Uncle Sam release version 2? If you're Symantec, do you really want to draw the wrath of the government to fight a virus that isn't, and get into a codefight with government agencies? AV companies might have some deep pockets, but they're no match for our tax dollars, if Ashcroft decides he wants to spend our money this way.
This is the time when a foreign virus detection has the opportunity to jump into the limelight and steal some serious business from the big US AV companies.
This graph might help clear it up - it's a chart from NPR showing their funding sources.
Ummm, re: public radio... I thought that was supposed to be supported with tax dollars. Tax dollars that are collected and spent even if I don't use public radio/TV.
Nope, public radio is no longer allowed to accept government funding. Hasn't been for years. It's 100% listener-supported. For example, KUHF here in Houston is allowed to broadcast from the university campus, but that's about the only freebie they get. The government-funded thing is a common misconception.
pay and be anonymous at the same time? just tell me how.
Donations, man, just like church. (You DO go to church, don't you?) I don't give my name at church, but they get money from me every week. (Well, every couple of weeks.) Support the system, and it supports you. You don't have to be anonymous to support it - you can give your name when you support it, but it's not directly related to the services you consume. Now subscriptions, on the other hand, that's not anonymous, but donations are.
Seems like Safeweb was the last one to cancel providing free anonymizing service. Rest in peace, Safeweb, I loved you a lot.
Hmm, you loved it a lot, but you're not willing to pay, eh? Sounds like the tombstone of every other dot-com. What's the surprise here? When people realize that you have to pay to play, maybe the dot-com economy will change. News flash, folks, if there's something good, and you love it, you need to chip in and contribute. If you don't, as they say on public radio, nobody else will.
...and created 384 megabytes of computer data in the process.
Things like this used to sound a lot more impressive before I could buy that much memory for $50 at Fry's.
It's even cooler than you think. Forget about using it with your desktop: think PDA, cell phone, and laptop.
For those of you who didn't click on the link, Samsung has a virtual wireless keyboard that just straps rings on your fingers, links the rings back to a control device on your wrist, and then operates over Bluetooth, so you don't actually have a keyboard - let alone wires.
IMHO, the biggest problem with packaging laptops is the keyboard. Take that away, and suddenly the tablet-style look makes a lot of sense. Give me just a screen, no drives, and this virtual wireless keyboard. I can just see using that in coach class on airplanes, which is just about impossible now with conventional full-size laptops. By the time you fold it open, the guy in front of you has already leaned back, and there's no room for the laptop. With this, I could just put the screen on my lap and type away.
I'd like to see how they handled the security risks, though. I can just see three guys sitting next to each other with these things, and all of their laptops getting all of their keystrokes correctly, without accepting keystrokes from the other. You'd want the security on both ends: you sure don't want another device intercepting every keystroke (hello, passwords!) and you don't want to accidentally send a bunch of keystrokes to your cell phone or PDA or laptop.
Now Gate's will finally understand failure!!!!
Oh, that's not fair. He understands it, alright. I've got one word for you: "Bob".
Sorry, folks, but as a sailor, I've gotta tell you that this bat will never fly. A big, big part of the romance of sailing is the beauty of the sailboats. Spend enough time around sailors, and you'll get to know the various boat designers and be able to recognize their work from afar.
Anything with this hideous-looking contraption on board is going to be shunned at the local yacht club, and that's where the real decisions are made. Whether you agree with the rationale or not, most sailboat buyers are going to live with their purchase for a decade or more, and they want their boat to be a representation of their own personality. Boats are purchased with 30-year loans - think about that for a second. Do you really, really want a boat ahead of its time? Nope, almost everybody wants timeless classics, gorgeous boats with clean lines.
Take a look at any marina, and you'll see what I mean. This is an industry where teak is still preferred over carbon fiber, where people talk about canvas sails, and where tradition dictates that you never change the name of a boat. A lot of people still don't even accept catamarans as real sailboats, let alone contraptions with folding bat-like sails.
It's already starting to slow down. Now would be a good chance to start dedicating some of those machines as backup web servers, eh?
Why bother supporting an operating system that has built-in terminal services 10x better than the product you're currently selling? PcAnywhere is gonna disappear soon when everyone is running XP...
No, spend some time on a help desk and you'll understand why Terminal Services isn't going to replace pcAnywhere anytime soon. For starters, it doesn't work over phone lines without a tcp/ip connection. When you support single workstations scattered across the country, TS is useless.
Then there's file synch. If you deal with big files, TS isn't smart enough to only synch the changed parts of the files, whereas pcA is.
I have no clue why this is news. It took months and months for my ISP (SWBell) to "support" Windows 2000, a long time after it was released. Their client software wouldn't work on Win2k, and even though the maker had released a new version of the software, their staff wasn't trained on it. So oddly, if you could find the newer software by tracking down the manufacturer (who gave it away free), it would work fine.
This is really no big deal. Lots of companies won't support XP yet. Even Symantec's pcAnywhere doesn't support XP yet. It's like this with every new operating system, and the way it will probably always be.
In the last 20 years, we have seen Europe replace its cafes and coffee shops with McDonalds and Starbucks.
The only Starbucks stores in Europe are in the UK and Switzerland. Besides, if you think Americans enjoy that sort of thing, you're mistaken. We have citizens that are just as upset that Wal-Mart is replacing local hardware stores, and Barnes & Noble is bankrupting local booksellers. Nobody's excited about that kind of globalization, not even us.
The real problem of globalization is the American attitude which puts individual freedom above just about every other principle. In Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South America, Japan, Russia etc our values are different. We put family and religion first. We do not care about your profit motive.
Huh? In one sentence, you say that we put freedom over every principle. In the next, you say you're different because you put family and religion first. I'm not sure how you can choose your religion without first having the freedom to choose it - unless, of course, you're in favor of state-sponsored religion that enforces your personal choice. The freedom of religion was the whole point over here in the US, and the driving force behind our nation's founding. If you see freedom as a value that jeopardizes family and religion, you don't understand freedom. The whole point over here is the freedom to choose your religion, your friends, and for that matter, the brands that you buy.
We will eventually win, because we will eventually stop buying into your culture of greed. It may not happen today or tomorrow, but it will happen.
What's stopping it? You're the ones buying our products. Nobody's holding a gun to your head at the Gap and making you buy their t-shirts. It's not like you don't have your own products to choose from. McDonald's isn't the only place to buy hamburgers, and Starbucks isn't the only place to get a cup of joe.