Ha! I'm not old, and I must be older than you. My first computer, an Atari 800XL, didn't have a hard disk. My second and first PC-compatible, an IBM PS/1, had a 80 or 85 MB hard disk. Yes, that is megabyte.
From the F'ing Article: "People want content for free"...
I don't necessarily want content for free. I do want manuals for items I buy to be available from your website for free. I happen to also want these without have to hand over my life history. I am entirely okay with paying for your service, product, and content when the quality is worth the price you want to charge. Being smothered in ads and other marketing doesn't actually help you get my money when I have a choice in where it is spent.
This is yet another reason for me to not jump on the whole social website bandwagon. I've yet to understand the appeal and this doesn't help it's case. I do just fine with staying in touch with and involving people in my life. I do this all in the real world through face-to-face interaction and phone calls. I do it online using old technology like email.
Do people really need to be so connected and so in pseudo real-time? I don't. My family doesn't. My friends don't seem to. So, who does? Could the social thing be yet another thing where many are trying to be cool by adopting what a few think is cool? I suspect so.
I was wondering how a ship kite would impact air traffic. Perhaps only short haul island hopping planes would fly at this attitude away from land, and the ships would only use the kites far enough out to only have high altitude flights above their shipping routes.
Will speeding be overlooked for those that tend to like hard rock and speed metal? Sorry officer, that stretch back there just reminded me of my favorite Metallica song, and I just thought that it needed to be played faster just like the original.
Do you know for certain that the Everex PC ships with a mini-ITX board? Neither the product page on Everex's and Walmart's site specifies this, and the various reports I read across the web last week when this was launch weren't all in sync on the specs. I'd be shocked that two boards were manufactured, so called DEV micro-ATX board and the mini-ITX board installed in the PC.
I think XP will run just fine on this PC, because I am running XP Pro, Office2K, Photoshop, and other apps just fine on a P2/400 with 384MB of RAM. I'm actually going to load XP on the one I ordered first as a test and possibly order another if it runs fine. The one I did order will eventually replace my existing MP3 jukebox PC.
I'm never been one to play games or doing any 3D work. So, I'm confident that this PC will work fine with XP. The article states that Vista doesn't run well. We all know that Vista would tax even a super computer.
One more thing... I can just return it if reasons for not buying it surface between now and when I finally see it. I'm excited about this find. Thanks for submitting and posting this one people!
Well, I took a bite and ordered one to replace my existing four year old P3/650 MP3 jukebox running Debian. With it using a mini-ITX board, I hope I'll have to option of moving all but the optical drive to a smaller case. Even if not possible, this just seems like an awesome deal for building a home/media server. I just wish better specs and even internal photos were available. Everex's website presently refers back to Walmart.com.
I'd be more inclined to believe Microsoft intent would be to acquire and then shutdown the company. Well, they'd perhaps instead simply stop company sponsored development. Sure, even though the community could continue developing the product, how many products would live on without the support of the company original built around it? Microsoft has the cash to do this.
It doesn't matter, because measures implemented to protect or otherwise control digital media will eventually be circumvented and eventually in a way that is convenient for those wanting to share it.
I like albums and have found time after time that the songs not released as singles are even better. Singles are what you hear for free on the radio and during that one hour on MTV/VH1 when they are actually showing videos. Why pay for what you're likely to hear at any given time. Pay for what you're missing and find like I do that there's so much more good stuff on an album.
I'm still buying CDs and will continue to do so as long as I can get what I know is or suspect to be good music on the format. I've bought a couple dozen this year alone with some purchased in a brick-n-mortor store and the rest online. Granted, the future cost would be, of course, a factor.
I think many stores are attempting to sell CDs at a price too high for most of them. Come on, in general, a CD costing more than $14 won't make in to my shopping cart until I've shopped around and know that I can't get it cheaper. Still, I may just wait on it to drop in the price. I've done this. In my experience, the best time to buy CDs is the week of their release. Pricing tends to be best at the chain stores. I check weekly ads and then snap up those I want for the sale price.
With only one recent exception, I've not actually listened to a CD in more than two years. I buy and then immediately rip to MP3. I then add the music to my iPod(no iTunes here...so move along) and home-grown jukebox(Linux baby!). I buy CDs, because I want the physical item and a widely supported backup. Plus, I could also sell them if I ever needed the cash.
While I'm sure there are other reasons touted for moving to a software as a service model, is the primary reason not for these companies to adjust their business model to have a ongoing subscription-like revenue stream since people aren't upgrading applications like they use to do?
Drop the streaming all together and post your current line up and the good shows that you keep replacing with crap reality and game shows at the iTunes store. Yes, I know that you are doing this for some already; just post the rest. Streaming quality is never going to be as good an experience as is watching a show on my TV by way of my iPod. Streaming playback is even worse for those of us without a well equipped computer, and there are a lot of people in my boat.
Also for CBS... I'd like to watch the second half of that Super Bowl episode of Criminal Minds, and this series is on iTunes and wasn't available on Innertube at the time.
Living things are suppose to die, period. Not just eventually, but according to how nature decides. Humans are f'ing up the balance here with all this effort to prolong life. If you've lived a pretty good and decently long life, get the hell out of the way when nature starts knocking at your door. The whole idea of using other creatures to grow tissue and organs for humans just doesn't sit well with me at all. It just seems wrong.
My Time Warner cable upstream speed sucks, and at present, the connection is very unreliable. My mother's Charter upstream speed sucks as well. So, I wonder what plan Joost and other similar services have for broadband connections like mine where high speed is primarily a downstream feature.
This won't even put a dent in the M$ office suite installed base, because locally installed apps still work when the network is down and/or having problems.
Do you remember the 8" floppy disk? I've got a partial 10-pack of unused 8" floppies on my desk at work right now. I found them while cleaning up a client's IT room, and they seem to be a perfect condition!
I have the same gripe as you. Although I'm not running IE7, my mother got it via the forced install by auto-update. I don't like it, because the address and seach bar can't be changed and/or moved. IE7 should have an available IE6 theme and allow the same control over the UI elements as IE6. I still have no interest in using the browser UI to search, so I should be able to hide the search field. Google's webpage works just fine, and with it, "searching" functions the same way from computer to computer, regardless of what browser is used and how the browser is configured/extended(3rd party search toolbars/Firefox extensions).
I definitely second your points. Apple implements DRM, because content providers require it. They could be an online retailer of non-DRM'd music and video just the same as they are now.
You're not the only one, because there is at least me. I totally missed the whole MySpace craze and just don't get it. Granted, there's a lot of recent Internet-related sites/services/concepts/tech that I haven't bought into. This mainly is because I wasn't and still am not looking for something to replace the old way to do X. I've spent way more hours than I wish to admit at my PC since BBS's came about and of course on the net. The social networks crowd seem to be unable to disconnect. With each day that passes, I'm more and more interested in the face to face contact.
While credit and debit cards may have their problems, the speed of checking out isn't one them. Come on, how much of hurry must someone be that they can't take on more 30 more minutes to press a few buttons on the keypad and sign? With every new article about RFID being release, it seem that RFID is solution to fewer and fewer problems. It will only create privacy and security issues for credit and debit cards, and I don't want the tech in mine.
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Isn't that crime in general that has been on the decrease and violent crime has been on an upward swing?
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-Slashdot Junky
Make you feel old...
Ha! I'm not old, and I must be older than you. My first computer, an Atari 800XL, didn't have a hard disk. My second and first PC-compatible, an IBM PS/1, had a 80 or 85 MB hard disk. Yes, that is megabyte.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear content providers,
From the F'ing Article: "People want content for free"...
I don't necessarily want content for free. I do want manuals for items I buy to be available from your website for free. I happen to also want these without have to hand over my life history. I am entirely okay with paying for your service, product, and content when the quality is worth the price you want to charge. Being smothered in ads and other marketing doesn't actually help you get my money when I have a choice in where it is spent.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hello,
This is yet another reason for me to not jump on the whole social website bandwagon. I've yet to understand the appeal and this doesn't help it's case. I do just fine with staying in touch with and involving people in my life. I do this all in the real world through face-to-face interaction and phone calls. I do it online using old technology like email.
Do people really need to be so connected and so in pseudo real-time? I don't. My family doesn't. My friends don't seem to. So, who does? Could the social thing be yet another thing where many are trying to be cool by adopting what a few think is cool? I suspect so.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I was wondering how a ship kite would impact air traffic. Perhaps only short haul island hopping planes would fly at this attitude away from land, and the ships would only use the kites far enough out to only have high altitude flights above their shipping routes.
-Slashdot Junky
Dear world,
Will speeding be overlooked for those that tend to like hard rock and speed metal? Sorry officer, that stretch back there just reminded me of my favorite Metallica song, and I just thought that it needed to be played faster just like the original.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Do you know for certain that the Everex PC ships with a mini-ITX board? Neither the product page on Everex's and Walmart's site specifies this, and the various reports I read across the web last week when this was launch weren't all in sync on the specs. I'd be shocked that two boards were manufactured, so called DEV micro-ATX board and the mini-ITX board installed in the PC.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear world,
I think XP will run just fine on this PC, because I am running XP Pro, Office2K, Photoshop, and other apps just fine on a P2/400 with 384MB of RAM. I'm actually going to load XP on the one I ordered first as a test and possibly order another if it runs fine. The one I did order will eventually replace my existing MP3 jukebox PC.
I'm never been one to play games or doing any 3D work. So, I'm confident that this PC will work fine with XP. The article states that Vista doesn't run well. We all know that Vista would tax even a super computer.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
One more thing... I can just return it if reasons for not buying it surface between now and when I finally see it. I'm excited about this find. Thanks for submitting and posting this one people!
Dear world,
Well, I took a bite and ordered one to replace my existing four year old P3/650 MP3 jukebox running Debian. With it using a mini-ITX board, I hope I'll have to option of moving all but the optical drive to a smaller case. Even if not possible, this just seems like an awesome deal for building a home/media server. I just wish better specs and even internal photos were available. Everex's website presently refers back to Walmart.com.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear world,
I'd be more inclined to believe Microsoft intent would be to acquire and then shutdown the company. Well, they'd perhaps instead simply stop company sponsored development. Sure, even though the community could continue developing the product, how many products would live on without the support of the company original built around it? Microsoft has the cash to do this.
Later,
Slashdot Junky
It doesn't matter, because measures implemented to protect or otherwise control digital media will eventually be circumvented and eventually in a way that is convenient for those wanting to share it.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Dear world,
I like albums and have found time after time that the songs not released as singles are even better. Singles are what you hear for free on the radio and during that one hour on MTV/VH1 when they are actually showing videos. Why pay for what you're likely to hear at any given time. Pay for what you're missing and find like I do that there's so much more good stuff on an album.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hey,
I'm still buying CDs and will continue to do so as long as I can get what I know is or suspect to be good music on the format. I've bought a couple dozen this year alone with some purchased in a brick-n-mortor store and the rest online. Granted, the future cost would be, of course, a factor.
I think many stores are attempting to sell CDs at a price too high for most of them. Come on, in general, a CD costing more than $14 won't make in to my shopping cart until I've shopped around and know that I can't get it cheaper. Still, I may just wait on it to drop in the price. I've done this. In my experience, the best time to buy CDs is the week of their release. Pricing tends to be best at the chain stores. I check weekly ads and then snap up those I want for the sale price.
With only one recent exception, I've not actually listened to a CD in more than two years. I buy and then immediately rip to MP3. I then add the music to my iPod(no iTunes here...so move along) and home-grown jukebox(Linux baby!). I buy CDs, because I want the physical item and a widely supported backup. Plus, I could also sell them if I ever needed the cash.
Gotta get back to work!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hey world,
While I'm sure there are other reasons touted for moving to a software as a service model, is the primary reason not for these companies to adjust their business model to have a ongoing subscription-like revenue stream since people aren't upgrading applications like they use to do?
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hey CBS and others,
Drop the streaming all together and post your current line up and the good shows that you keep replacing with crap reality and game shows at the iTunes store. Yes, I know that you are doing this for some already; just post the rest. Streaming quality is never going to be as good an experience as is watching a show on my TV by way of my iPod. Streaming playback is even worse for those of us without a well equipped computer, and there are a lot of people in my boat.
Also for CBS... I'd like to watch the second half of that Super Bowl episode of Criminal Minds, and this series is on iTunes and wasn't available on Innertube at the time.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Living things are suppose to die, period. Not just eventually, but according to how nature decides. Humans are f'ing up the balance here with all this effort to prolong life. If you've lived a pretty good and decently long life, get the hell out of the way when nature starts knocking at your door. The whole idea of using other creatures to grow tissue and organs for humans just doesn't sit well with me at all. It just seems wrong.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
My Time Warner cable upstream speed sucks, and at present, the connection is very unreliable. My mother's Charter upstream speed sucks as well. So, I wonder what plan Joost and other similar services have for broadband connections like mine where high speed is primarily a downstream feature.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
This won't even put a dent in the M$ office suite installed base, because locally installed apps still work when the network is down and/or having problems.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Hey world,
Do you remember the 8" floppy disk? I've got a partial 10-pack of unused 8" floppies on my desk at work right now. I found them while cleaning up a client's IT room, and they seem to be a perfect condition!
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I have the same gripe as you. Although I'm not running IE7, my mother got it via the forced install by auto-update. I don't like it, because the address and seach bar can't be changed and/or moved. IE7 should have an available IE6 theme and allow the same control over the UI elements as IE6. I still have no interest in using the browser UI to search, so I should be able to hide the search field. Google's webpage works just fine, and with it, "searching" functions the same way from computer to computer, regardless of what browser is used and how the browser is configured/extended(3rd party search toolbars/Firefox extensions).
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
I definitely second your points. Apple implements DRM, because content providers require it. They could be an online retailer of non-DRM'd music and video just the same as they are now.
Later,
Slashdot Junky
You're not the only one, because there is at least me. I totally missed the whole MySpace craze and just don't get it. Granted, there's a lot of recent Internet-related sites/services/concepts/tech that I haven't bought into. This mainly is because I wasn't and still am not looking for something to replace the old way to do X. I've spent way more hours than I wish to admit at my PC since BBS's came about and of course on the net. The social networks crowd seem to be unable to disconnect. With each day that passes, I'm more and more interested in the face to face contact.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky
Holy Cow! First Post! This has never happened!
Dear world,
While credit and debit cards may have their problems, the speed of checking out isn't one them. Come on, how much of hurry must someone be that they can't take on more 30 more minutes to press a few buttons on the keypad and sign? With every new article about RFID being release, it seem that RFID is solution to fewer and fewer problems. It will only create privacy and security issues for credit and debit cards, and I don't want the tech in mine.
Later,
-Slashdot Junky