Windows/Dos used to have bundled AV I think but it was taken out for whatever reason.
I'm sorry but it's time to force MS to concentrate on the OS, not adding features that will cause other companies to go out of business. If the consumer already has a browser installed they'll stick with it. The same will apply to the antivirus. Only users that know better will go with anything different and it's true.. The average AOL user does not know how to use the internet outside of AOL most times. Once I showed someone how to minimize AOL and use exploder outside of AOL and they freaked out and was like "Why do I need AOL if it's already there"
This poor person had a AOL broadband account and could save 20 dollars with a local DSL/Cable account.. Needless to say they switched and use AOLIm to keep up with their contacts.
Norton, PC Chilln, and other companies need to protest this action.
It's time for MS to quit adding software people were buying and intergrating it into the OS squashing out the competition and killing off companies, the economy, and innovation.
Make a opensource AV solution but work with norton for it to use their definitions.. software is free norton makes $$ from definition subscriptions and updates..
That way the AV designers work on the product and dont have to worry about providing the tons of manhours required to get the newest updates out within 24 hours or whatever Norton does right now.
This could use any av's signatures norton just came to mind due to it's fast updates IMO.
At one point the author stated that the same scenario is taking place where the RIAA has the monopoly but here's the difference today.
Today you have full blown capitalism in it's worst form. You need credit for anything so this is the limiting factor the independents would have to challenge to take on the RIAA and break their Trust (There's really no monopoly here so I'll go with Trust)
They dont control distribution, media (Cd's), players, or locations to play the music. At least not yet so that's one difference here.
An independent can come along and they did back in 98-2000 area via mp3.com which used to be a great site when it was just no name indie bands that were there. Then they sold out and now there's tons of RIAA backed bands there selling music.
When MP3.com tried to copy all the music in the world and stream it to users the RIAA jumped on them. Before that time there were a handful of name brand bands located there but shortly after you couldnt go to any genre and see one of the indie bands pop up in the top 20 they had all been replaced by the big bands.
The limiting capital factor here hurts the independent from breaking the Trust. At this point in time you need money to produce, money to advertise, and you need clout to get your product in the shelves of any store such as walmart. While it'd might be possible to distribute via independent music stores getting the word out is more important.
Factors that would help the independents -
Cheap internet access to distribute from. Lets get real here bandwidth is there, we've got miles of dark fiber and frankly as a network engineer costs have come down from the copper line days. The T1 needs to cease to be the cash cow it's been for the telco's the last 20 years. Let the T3+ become the cash cows and let the consumer have multimegabit access up and downstream.
If it was cheap for them to advertise on the internet and then distribute their music then they could easily get the word out and do the sales themselves. It's far cheaper to do a bulk mailing job with a bunch of machines burning cd's and also doing online paid music downloads than doing all the hard work it takes to get into one store.
It's no coincidence that the RIAA's outlash against Napster and the subsequent loss of full speed uploads via cable/dsl (Most are now limited at 128k) so people just cannot have a home webserver running where they can share their creations witht he world. Once again I have to point to the T1 cash cow. Server hosting is prohibitive in the sense it costs to pay for all the bandwidth you'd pump out before you get a return in sales. Of course your band has to be loved to make sales so then it comes down to a gamble there.
And it's that gamble that creditors will not be likely to loan musicans money especially if they're not known world wide.
Now as the internet continues to socialize the world things may change but it's not going to happen over night.
I'll be damnned if MicroShaft is going to assign me a Zip code. However if a international body came up with a royalty free standard then I'll listen. Otherwise MS can kiss my arse.
Shamelessly writing this from Outlook XP via WinXp still trying to convert off the MS platform. Trapped by my games:(
For those who still complain about nuclear waste all the nuclear waste in the world can be stored in a 2 story building with the footprint of 2 basketball courts.. In consideration it's not that much and it's not gallons of oozing drums that you think of all the time either it's all dry and solid.
It's more of a dig at how XP is superior to Linux at the end instead of a proper Linux Mandrake review.
My one and only gripe on Linux is the DirectX stranglehold Microsoft has on the desktop market.
Leaving your options to hope WineX or Wine will let you play the game or just Dual boot which you'll always end up using XP the most unless you was brought up on Linux (Rare)
I've seen this system used for the last several years. There are several cgi/pl scripts out there that email processors or mail clients would use to do the same function.
And lastly I'll never let a 3rd party process my email other than my ISP holding it on the servers there.
I may be wrong here but I recall choosing ot use a RBL with my personal mail handler I was not forced. Since the community is sick of telemarketers, spammers, Instant Message spams and even spam in the mail I think it's high time we could at least have control over one of them.
Spam in the snailmail is a necessary evil so I can accept it. My apt complex is even courteous enough to provide a garbage can at the mailboxes so they can recycle all the wasted paper.
Personally I wish the big bells would go after people that are sending all the spam.
Considering how Turbine has been a MS partner the past few years I can only wonder if a Linux Client will be available. Considerng their G3 engine is DirectX I highly doubt it. But would be nice to see it ported.
Of course one can hope WineX will be able to use DX9 by then also.
Well now it's coming down to them spewing out card after card that only nets you 5-10 FPS for each upgrade without any real performance improvements to speak of. 90% of the games played are non-fps dependent other than getting a decent rate so there's no jerkyness in movement or animations.
It's the same deal with the rest of the computer industry. It's time to make products that work better and not require bigger and more expensive iron.
Everyone has the right to free speech. And I have the right to plug my ears.
They can send spam all they want but I'm damn sure going to block them with the software I "Choose" to install. In essence I'm plugging my ears to the crap the spammers are sending me.
I dont think any judge is going to force people to listen. Especially when a bill is being pushed through congress to form a national no spam list.
It's DirectX that's keeping many from adopting any Linux OS as their primary operating system. Maybe it's time to sue MS to make a Linux compatible version since DirectX stifles competition.
If console games run on all 3 major consoles it makes sense that they can also code these games to run on any os just as easily. I'm pretty sure the Xbox runs DirectX in some form though I dont own one myself.
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Windows/Dos used to have bundled AV I think but it was taken out for whatever reason.
I'm sorry but it's time to force MS to concentrate on the OS, not adding features that will cause other companies to go out of business. If the consumer already has a browser installed they'll stick with it. The same will apply to the antivirus. Only users that know better will go with anything different and it's true.. The average AOL user does not know how to use the internet outside of AOL most times. Once I showed someone how to minimize AOL and use exploder outside of AOL and they freaked out and was like "Why do I need AOL if it's already there"
This poor person had a AOL broadband account and could save 20 dollars with a local DSL/Cable account.. Needless to say they switched and use AOLIm to keep up with their contacts.
Norton, PC Chilln, and other companies need to protest this action.
It's time for MS to quit adding software people were buying and intergrating it into the OS squashing out the competition and killing off companies, the economy, and innovation.
Make a opensource AV solution but work with norton for it to use their definitions.. software is free norton makes $$ from definition subscriptions and updates..
That way the AV designers work on the product and dont have to worry about providing the tons of manhours required to get the newest updates out within 24 hours or whatever Norton does right now.
This could use any av's signatures norton just came to mind due to it's fast updates IMO.
I'd say about 90% of those pc's will not be powerful enough to even boot XP nor run very fast.. so the users will just switch back to Lindows.
At one point the author stated that the same scenario is taking place where the RIAA has the monopoly but here's the difference today.
Today you have full blown capitalism in it's worst form. You need credit for anything so this is the limiting factor the independents would have to challenge to take on the RIAA and break their Trust (There's really no monopoly here so I'll go with Trust)
They dont control distribution, media (Cd's), players, or locations to play the music. At least not yet so that's one difference here.
An independent can come along and they did back in 98-2000 area via mp3.com which used to be a great site when it was just no name indie bands that were there. Then they sold out and now there's tons of RIAA backed bands there selling music.
When MP3.com tried to copy all the music in the world and stream it to users the RIAA jumped on them. Before that time there were a handful of name brand bands located there but shortly after you couldnt go to any genre and see one of the indie bands pop up in the top 20 they had all been replaced by the big bands.
The limiting capital factor here hurts the independent from breaking the Trust. At this point in time you need money to produce, money to advertise, and you need clout to get your product in the shelves of any store such as walmart. While it'd might be possible to distribute via independent music stores getting the word out is more important.
Factors that would help the independents -
Cheap internet access to distribute from. Lets get real here bandwidth is there, we've got miles of dark fiber and frankly as a network engineer costs have come down from the copper line days. The T1 needs to cease to be the cash cow it's been for the telco's the last 20 years. Let the T3+ become the cash cows and let the consumer have multimegabit access up and downstream.
If it was cheap for them to advertise on the internet and then distribute their music then they could easily get the word out and do the sales themselves. It's far cheaper to do a bulk mailing job with a bunch of machines burning cd's and also doing online paid music downloads than doing all the hard work it takes to get into one store.
It's no coincidence that the RIAA's outlash against Napster and the subsequent loss of full speed uploads via cable/dsl (Most are now limited at 128k) so people just cannot have a home webserver running where they can share their creations witht he world. Once again I have to point to the T1 cash cow. Server hosting is prohibitive in the sense it costs to pay for all the bandwidth you'd pump out before you get a return in sales. Of course your band has to be loved to make sales so then it comes down to a gamble there.
And it's that gamble that creditors will not be likely to loan musicans money especially if they're not known world wide.
Now as the internet continues to socialize the world things may change but it's not going to happen over night.
Verizon Wireless is not Verizon, VZW was formed by the former Bell Alantic, GTE Mobilenet and Vodaphone Airtouch companies merging together.
Verizon has the largest wireless footprint in the US while AT&T and others do not work well once you're away from the interstates.
You definately dont want to pay the national roaming network.
I'll be damnned if MicroShaft is going to assign me a Zip code. However if a international body came up with a royalty free standard then I'll listen. Otherwise MS can kiss my arse.
:(
Shamelessly writing this from Outlook XP via WinXp still trying to convert off the MS platform. Trapped by my games
For those who still complain about nuclear waste all the nuclear waste in the world can be stored in a 2 story building with the footprint of 2 basketball courts.. In consideration it's not that much and it's not gallons of oozing drums that you think of all the time either it's all dry and solid.
Then they can miror the site and let unsuspecting people continute to use the site.
Then they'll sue verizon to tell them who they are.. ad nauseam
AOL Sues for infringement on Netscape then they go and get 7 years of using Internet Exploder for free.
If they're so worried about Netscape being infringed on you'd think they would strive to have it as the default AOL browser.
The loss of 750 Million isnt going to hurt MS and hell 7 years of Ie being on X more desktops will probably work out in their favor anyways.
I'll stick with Mozilla
Linus could always say Ni to all the source he's committed into every Linux Kernel and SCO would be in a world of hurt maybe.
Obviously it's time to stop talking about it becuase all you're doing is advertising their name for free.
It's more of a dig at how XP is superior to Linux at the end instead of a proper Linux Mandrake review.
My one and only gripe on Linux is the DirectX stranglehold Microsoft has on the desktop market.
Leaving your options to hope WineX or Wine will let you play the game or just Dual boot which you'll always end up using XP the most unless you was brought up on Linux (Rare)
Verizon Wireless is testing EVDO (Evolution Data Only) in the beltline area of Washington State.
z il la-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf- 8
:)
While it does not promise 14 megabit speeds (What you gonna run slashdot off it?) it will do 600Kbit while moving and 2.4 megabit stationary.
I think also there's an expansion out in San Diego also.
http://www.google.com/search?q=EVDO&sourceid=mo
Edumacate yourself
Why would you want to do this unless you were stealing source?
;)
I'd just leave it alone.
http://lmo.warcry.com/mp3lpd.php Lazy Link to Mirror Enjoy
I've seen this system used for the last several years. There are several cgi/pl scripts out there that email processors or mail clients would use to do the same function.
And lastly I'll never let a 3rd party process my email other than my ISP holding it on the servers there.
I may be wrong here but I recall choosing ot use a RBL with my personal mail handler I was not forced. Since the community is sick of telemarketers, spammers, Instant Message spams and even spam in the mail I think it's high time we could at least have control over one of them.
Spam in the snailmail is a necessary evil so I can accept it. My apt complex is even courteous enough to provide a garbage can at the mailboxes so they can recycle all the wasted paper.
Personally I wish the big bells would go after people that are sending all the spam.
My mind was so stunned by the Matrix Revolutions that I was blown away to idiocy!
Cant wait to see a PS2 hack for Linux.
Though the Xbox does look a little more eye pleasing but I'm sure casemods could fix that little problem.
Considering how Turbine has been a MS partner the past few years I can only wonder if a Linux Client will be available. Considerng their G3 engine is DirectX I highly doubt it. But would be nice to see it ported.
Of course one can hope WineX will be able to use DX9 by then also.
Well now it's coming down to them spewing out card after card that only nets you 5-10 FPS for each upgrade without any real performance improvements to speak of. 90% of the games played are non-fps dependent other than getting a decent rate so there's no jerkyness in movement or animations.
It's the same deal with the rest of the computer industry. It's time to make products that work better and not require bigger and more expensive iron.
Everyone has the right to free speech. And I have the right to plug my ears.
They can send spam all they want but I'm damn sure going to block them with the software I "Choose" to install. In essence I'm plugging my ears to the crap the spammers are sending me.
I dont think any judge is going to force people to listen. Especially when a bill is being pushed through congress to form a national no spam list.
WTH does 1 dollar per DRAM Chip mean? They make it for one dollar? And is this reguardless of the memory density of the chip.
I'm assuming that they're speaking of the chips themselves and not the assembled DRAM Bank chips on PCB ready to be put into computers.
That service gives up all those's peoples public ip addresses. Wonder how many of them know that.
It's DirectX that's keeping many from adopting any Linux OS as their primary operating system. Maybe it's time to sue MS to make a Linux compatible version since DirectX stifles competition.
If console games run on all 3 major consoles it makes sense that they can also code these games to run on any os just as easily. I'm pretty sure the Xbox runs DirectX in some form though I dont own one myself.