The memo could have highlighted more information about software piracy in India, and the fact that assembled PCs have the higher market share than branded ones like HP. In recent times some manufacturers have tried to introduce branded Linux installed boxes as mentioned here by LG electronics. What is needed here is a grassroots change, rather than in isolated cases like in schools, OR in establishments, OR in homes. For children to learn something useful, they should have similar computers at home AND school. Gates has played his card well by using the home-entrenched Windows. Its a tough game for the Linux supporters now.
Standards and familiarity would not be necessary, as long as people (ok, the majority of the people) tend to use the cellphone AS A cellphone. The moment you start to talk about a cellphone being used a mail client, a pocket computer, a storage device, and other "miniature" PC applications, then standards and familiarity become a must. The point is, nobody knows the market yet. Some analysts say, one device for one function is the best, some say a do-it-all device is better. And the market has not said anything yet.
Taken from the article=> ....build a faithful memory on that most reliable of entities, the PC.... Umm....Why do I feel that was one sarcastic comment in the article???
Well, now that all the possible spam is archived in one place, we can expect spammers to find out new methods of spamming, which are not in the archive. The people who are behind this, (no names, no addresses mentioned in the site) would do well instead to archive the latest developments in anti-spamming technologies, than just archive the spam. Also, IMO, a tool that is tested with such a big archive of general spam, will never work for specific anti-spamming applications, which is what consumers would prefer.
Ok. So I have read up a little on monopolies. So what? According to what you say, most companies that do business would be abusive then. The problem is, you are looking at it from a purely "abuse" point of view. How about looking at it from a "cause and effect" point of view? MS is able to mark up the prices BCOS they are in that position, and they came to that position because the market allowed it to. (And also through other measures, that I agree as abusive!). But "marking up" is not abusive. Any company that has a monopolistic status WILL cross-subsidise other business groups. Heck, as somebody else points out before, sometimes even the market demands it. Imagine a Sony AV set, or a Stax headphone reducing their price to sell in the market....It wont work.
How can this called as an abuse? Companies exist to make profits. If there is a monopoly, the profit margins tend to be higher. I fail to see how this can be termed as an abuse. We can talk about the practices followed by MS to gain its marketshare as an "abuse", but marking up the profits is IMO not an abuse, being in a capitalist economy.
Wait for another 3Q's before filing!
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Because according to this other article, the tech industry is going to go shoot up the curve of economy, and show growth in another 2-3 Q's ("forecasted" like this for the past 2 years:(( )
This patent # 6,161,106, was granted to Motorola, in 2000. While this depends on a magnetic method, it is interesting to know that the current referred method depends on interaction with air. How long before "mods" are made to have a drive enclosed in vacuum???:)))
As the originators of the CD format, Philips and Sony have been worried about the shifts in the market, due to undue restriction of the music distribution by DRM. This affected their revenues from royalty on CDs on one side, and affected the content market owned by Sony on the other side. With this deal, they can now hope to level the playing field. Till now, Philips has been seen to side with the customers, but Sony has traditionally stood for copyprotection with its key2audio technology. It would be interesting to see how the two merge their interests now. This should also be seen in perspective with the recent news of Macrovision's acquisition of Midbar recently.
This is somewhat similar to the way Simon was trying to reclaim Captain America way back, as in this link. To avoid issues like this, all data relating to money accruals for all films should be public. If the MPAA can support RIAA for taking action against copyright violators, why cant it do this??
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maybe...but what he DOES need to carry, is a "pocket-human-swiss-knife-organiser"!:)
Sonicblue introduced the fingerprinting functionality in its Rio series of players. It used Moodlogic database. That database had a good number of songs...But with this Neuros database, being proprietary, it has to be seen how much of use it can be, unless it has a large database it has. It is possible that they have a deal with some other fingerprinting companies.....
I was talking about practical applications of this idea. If "security" is your concern, "forget" BT. The security it provides is worse than that of Wi-Fi. On the question of interoperability, I fail to understand why a headset should be interoperable with other devices....
Why do we have to design a BT based headset for this purpose? Does going digital add any advantage to this kind of application? I would imagine an advantage when the data transmission itself is digital, for example in the case of MP3 streams to a BT enabled headphone. But this..?????
The most annoying one I have found is when you are typing away madly at the keyboard, and this window pops up saying "xxx yyy operation failed", or "zzz download complete". It does two agonising things: 1. The alphabet you are typing corresponds to a shortcut in the window, and the window happily closes itself, having done god-knows-what-damage-it-did. 2. It slows down your pace, disturbs your thinking process, and by the time you close the window and move to the position you were in before, one more word gets added to your swearing vocabulary.
It comes out of designing without taking into account user actions and reactions. This subject is un-fashionably called "Industrial Design", but is becoming fashionable again....
...BattleBots safety regulations required him to perform an analysis to prove that the laser would not harm anyone viewing the fight. McHargue performed the calculations for this analysis and typeset the report using Mathematica.... If the rules are so strict, this raises a legal question for most mathematical software. Consider this scenario: Due to a bug (which could have been accidental), mathematica reports an "unsafe" value to a "safe" value. 2. McHargue uses this unsafe laser in his bot. 3. Somebody gets hurt by viewing his fight.
Legally who is responsible? Wolfram? McHargue? The organisers? What???
The link here at isurftv, (one of the prominent members of the tvlinux alliance) shows that they offer a windows based solution already. But Linux is not mentioned anywhere except for the news release. It is clear that they started off with a Windows solution, but the profit margins are so thin in this industry, that they found it is viable only if the OS cost is not a part of the selling cost. I wonder how many other industries could follow this trend? Note that MS has its hand into other pies like HAVI (Home Audio Video Interoperability), Media center, recent announcements with Panasonic for CDs etc...
From the explorers area of the freenet pages: 6. Isn't censorship sometimes necessary?..Governments seek to prevent people from advocating ideas which are deemed damaging to society....The second argument is that this "good" censorship is counter-productive even when it does not leak into other areas. For example, it is generally more effective when trying to persuade someone of something to present them with the arguments against it, and then answer those arguments....
But what about questions that are not answerable? For instance, some anonymous person "places" a file containing the source codes for all the windows operating systems+MATHEMATICA source code+xyz corporations major software. The software companies attitude could be bad, and mainly oriented towards profit and monopoly. But do even such companies deserve such a death blow? At one stroke, their entire product goes down the drain. While I am not against freenet, it is not without its disadvantages. Taken to its limits, nobody can control us, yah, but nobody can control this "network" either!
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Umm....Why do I feel that was one sarcastic comment in the article???
"What happens when...."
For one, JVC and Canon camcorder models mentioned in the site get shock certified at 0.6 Mach speed, with forces exceeding 1G. Wow!
growth in another 2-3 Q's ("forecasted" like this for the past 2 years
This patent # :)))
6,161,106, was granted to Motorola, in 2000. While this depends on a magnetic method, it is interesting to know that the current referred method depends on interaction with air. How long before "mods" are made to have a drive enclosed in vacuum???
This should also be seen in perspective with the recent news of Macrovision's acquisition of Midbar recently.
maybe...but what he DOES need to carry, is a "pocket-human-swiss-knife-organiser"! :)
Now, in which pocket did I put that "human-swiss-knife-organiser"??? :)))
Why do we have to design a BT based headset for this purpose? Does going digital add any advantage to this kind of application? I would imagine an advantage when the data transmission itself is digital, for example in the case of MP3 streams to a BT enabled headphone. But this..?????
1. The alphabet you are typing corresponds to a shortcut in the window, and the window happily closes itself, having done god-knows-what-damage-it-did.
2. It slows down your pace, disturbs your thinking process, and by the time you close the window and move to the position you were in before, one more word gets added to your swearing vocabulary.
Though the author points out crufts only in software, these are prevalent in other places too, including interfaces to portable devices. I have a similar document on portable device interfaces here.
It comes out of designing without taking into account user actions and reactions. This subject is un-fashionably called "Industrial Design", but is becoming fashionable again....
If the rules are so strict, this raises a legal question for most mathematical software. Consider this scenario: Due to a bug (which could have been accidental), mathematica reports an "unsafe" value to a "safe" value.
2. McHargue uses this unsafe laser in his bot.
3. Somebody gets hurt by viewing his fight.
Legally who is responsible? Wolfram? McHargue? The organisers? What???
I wonder how many other industries could follow this trend? Note that MS has its hand into other pies like HAVI (Home Audio Video Interoperability), Media center, recent announcements with Panasonic for CDs etc...
From the explorers area of the freenet pages: ..Governments seek to prevent people from advocating ideas which are deemed damaging to society....The second argument is that this "good" censorship is counter-productive even when it does not leak into other areas. For example, it is generally more effective when trying to persuade someone of something to present them with the arguments against it, and then answer those arguments....
6. Isn't censorship sometimes necessary?
But what about questions that are not answerable? For instance, some anonymous person "places" a file containing the source codes for all the windows operating systems+MATHEMATICA source code+xyz corporations major software. The software companies attitude could be bad, and mainly oriented towards profit and monopoly. But do even such companies deserve such a death blow? At one stroke, their entire product goes down the drain.
While I am not against freenet, it is not without its disadvantages. Taken to its limits, nobody can control us, yah, but nobody can control this "network" either!