Also look at a Tachyon solution www.tachyon.com Don't know about pricing, but they have coverage in the area, and unlike some of the other names mentioned, they focus on data....at broadband speeds....
Years ago in the early 90s SONY VCRs - even the consumer level models were built like tanks - sure they cost a couple hundred, but they lasted well, and had a great feature set. Nowadays, $69 at Target gets you a SONY VCR that's no better than any of the other brands!
Scan Ebay, and you'll actually see people bidding big $$$ for older Sony VHS VCRs, while new ones aren't really that popular.
There is nothing more frustrating than trying to get all of the fonts in X to look as readable as the way they are on Windows - particularly when it comes to web browsing. I've actually seen Linux devotees fire up web pages under lynx when the *NIX version of Mozilla renders fonts to mere dotty ant-like blocks.
Hell, I'd be amused to death if DC brought fuel-cell cars over to the States in the demonstrated form of an A-Class Mercedes-Benz....yet another European car that *might* have a decent chance around here if the stupid automakers would just try it out. More likely I suppose, we'll see it in the more upscale models....
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I thought Microsoft used Bill Brown to compose all those dreamy melodies:X P_Tour6bed. mp3
http://www.billbrownmusic.com/soundBB/
Also look at a Tachyon solution www.tachyon.com
Don't know about pricing, but they have coverage in the area, and unlike some of the other names mentioned, they focus on data....at broadband speeds....
http://www.poetictech.com/
I think this was posted on slashdot several years ago.....oh for those wonderfully artificially inflated *dot com* years......where have they gone?
Years ago in the early 90s SONY VCRs - even the consumer level models were built like tanks - sure they cost a couple hundred, but they lasted well, and had a great feature set.
Nowadays, $69 at Target gets you a SONY VCR that's no better than any of the other brands!
Scan Ebay, and you'll actually see people bidding big $$$ for older Sony VHS VCRs, while new ones aren't really that popular.
There is nothing more frustrating than trying to get all of the fonts in X to look as readable as the way they are on Windows - particularly when it comes to web browsing. I've actually seen Linux devotees fire up web pages under lynx when the *NIX version of Mozilla renders fonts to mere dotty ant-like blocks.
I won't even get in to font management.....
Hell, I'd be amused to death if DC brought fuel-cell cars over to the States in the demonstrated form of an A-Class Mercedes-Benz....yet another European car that *might* have a decent chance around here if the stupid automakers would just try it out.
More likely I suppose, we'll see it in the more upscale models....