The mention of grey-market is a bit confusing. In the usual sense, a grey-market item is produced by the manufacturer, but is simply allocated/marketed for an item other than the one you're in. US Photographers are very familiar with this, as they can buy grey-market cameras and lenses for much less than they would spend for the 'USA' items. These are genuine items, but simply don't have a US-valid warranty.
Now, it's probably easier for a counterfeit product to come in via the grey-market route, but just because it's grey doesn't mean it's a fake.
Well, it sounds less like they need to be kept in one area, and more like we shouldn't be using precious real estate for them. For power, cooling, and management purposes, you still want a consolidated area. But by invoking the idea of having a generator located out of sight, it seems he's saying that computing is a utility, and should be treated as such.
However, I suspect that as long as computers have cool blinkenlights, managers will always want to show off the datacenter to customers.
What confuses me is how does this guy make or have money? Really? He loses every case he touches, unless there a less public ones out there. He initiates all the lawsuits on his own, so I assume it's out of his pocket, especially considering he always loses.
I'm sure he has many people who support his fight against 'evil' and provide him with all the financial backing he needs.
When you spend $1.6B you're supposed to have a plan ahead of time. Now that doesn't mean they don't have a plan, they just aren't telling us what it is yet.
Well, I'm sure they do have a plan, but it's not like they actually spent $1.6B in cash. It was an all stock transaction.
Contrary to what the submitter implied, the service did not allow you to watch full ESPN content on the phone. You could only view highlight clips. I heard an analyst on NPR yesterday who said that the inability to actually watch ESPN was one of the reasons it failed. However, as most have mentioned, the small display would still have probably been a sticking point for consumers.
My personal opinion is that unlike other virtual operators, the ESPN service needed to be compelling enough to make people switch to their service. Boost, amp'd, Virgin, etc. all target the youth and/or prepaid markets, so I'd guess their typical customer is a first-time cell phone owner, or they don't have any particular ties to a carrier. OTOH, I'd guess the target ESPN demographic is a bit older, so they probably already have a phone/contract, and they didn't view switching as worth the cost/hassle. So ESPN should have done from the start what they're doing now: contract with the carriers to provide their content as an option.
It's not even new construction. Our local gas utility has been replacing the copper feeds from the main to the house with plastic. In most cases, the plastic tubing is pulled through the existing copper, but I know for a fact that on my house, when they pulled under the street, that section of copper came out in the process.
Because safety technology sounds good, but frequently doesn't hold up to heavy use, rough handling, dirt, etc. on the job site. Then the safety device gets in the way of getting work done, and it gets bypassed. And for all of that, you get to pay more for the tool.
I'm a huge fan of the used HP market. I keep my eyes open for LJ 4 series, as they added power saving features (the III and earlier kept themselves warmed up all the time). These are the old workhorses, and are nearly impossible to kill. They're also pretty easy to maintain, and parts are readily available. I've even found perfectly good ones sitting out at the curb (though missing the MIO card and PS module).
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't violate your rights. Yeah, the guys running the site sound like they're probably scumbags and fraudsters. But the feds are clearly going to go after online gambling operations as much as they can. So any gambling site is going to be a potential target. And when Congress is debating a bill to further restrict onling gambling, but carve out exceptions for interstate lotteries and horse betting, it's a bit hard to not see a double standard: I can bet on horses, but not poker. Sounds like my rights are involved.
Heh... This plan ties in nicely with the idea to halt engine development. Max Mosley is going to kill off all the technical advancement in F1, when it is the technology that everyone loves. Next year will probably give us talk of using a common engine supplier and chassis supplier, and then it can be just like F3000.
With all that cash in the bank, that's all the more reason to cash out rather than piss all that money away on some failed business venture.
Except it wasn't pissed away on some failed business venture. It was invested into new products that performed quite well for the company. If Apple didn't have that cash socked away, they probably wouldn't have survived. Another case study of why a company needs to keep cash on hand and not satiate the short-term desires of investors.
Since you're trying IE7, can you comment on MS's statement that the default search is 'easy to change?' Does it have a simple pull-down like FF, or do you have to dig through eight levels of tabs and buttons?
Why haven't the telecoms be doing the same? Why didn't they push this issue earlier?
Because the telecoms operate in a way where they won't ever invest anything unless they can get regulations passed that make it super attractive for them. Instead of investing money and marketing a desired product, they whine and stamp their feet about rules that allow competition.
Now they're on a push to do away with local franchising rules so they can enter the CATV market. Again they're complaining about lack of fairness, when in reality what they're pushing for is special treatment. "We're Ma Bell, and we don't have time to mess about with all of the local franchise rules that all the cable companies work within, so those rules should go away."
So, what is going on here is something a bit extraordinary. It's saying that licensees have in certain cirumstances the ability to transfer their relationship with the licensor to a third party, without the licensor's consent.
No, it's not. It's using terms in the license that allow the licensee to transfer the license. The featured company is acting as a broker, matching interested parties, and they use MS's own forms to do the transfer.
One, most of this surplus sales are auctions meant for volume buyers. They don't advertise them in consumer channels because they don't want to sell 1 computer to an individual, they want to sell 2000 computers to a guy with forklift and a truck that will haul them away. When companies/schools decommission large amounts of technology, they want to get them out of the way as quickly as possible.
They also frequently want to sell them to a company that will do data destruction, etc. for them, so they don't have to mess with it. While they can invite qualified companies who will do that to bid, they can't exactly put together contractual agreements for every person who wants a single box.
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My father bought a Treo 650 about six months ago for around $500. After seeing/using his I decided to give the pda/phone combo a try. But instead of dropping the cash on a Treo 650, I bought the "old" 600 model on eBay for about $150.
Yes, the 600 will do most of what you need. But the display on the 650 is spectacular in comparison, and the camera is far better. Also, the 650 has some things built in (like Versamail) that you'd need to pay extra for if you need them on the 600.
Of course, this points out another issue on saving money, and that's to make wise decisions. The parent poster can get by just fine with the 600, but perhaps they also wanted to be able to buy a couple of the hottest new video games, so they avoided the latest tech where they didn't feel they needed it.
The calls to wait and to buy used are also good advice. I've been wanting a digital SLR for a while now, but am just now getting ready to actually buy one, now that my finances are in better shape. For that, I'll probably buy new, because to me it will be worth it to have newer features and a warranty.
While not directly tech-related, buying used in other areas can save you enough money to feed your technology jones. Consider cars. With some careful shopping, you can find an excellent used car for a huge discount over new, saving you thousands of dollars. You may even be able to afford to pay cash for it, rather than taking out a loan.
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We're doing this at work just for the Office and other desktop product licenses. It is a great value if you can qualify for the program and need the software.
You can go to TJ Maxx and get a nice pair of Khakis for the same price as the jeans they sell. Do you ever even bother looking at that rack?
Yes, and I've actually bought things from it before. However, that selection is usually very limited.
If you do blue collar work, then you should wear blue-collar clothes, and we're not talking about you. Programmers and engineers don't crawl under desks typically.
Why does it sound like you're living in the 1950s?
t-shirts and cutoffs aren't very comfortable compared to well-made, ironed clothing). It's about laziness. They see you as too lazy to make yourself look good, and let's face it you (and I) are too lazy to do the work. Business clothes aren't any more expensive than jeans,
What a load of crap. You put on nice ironed clothing to lounge around the house on a weekend?
And business clothes are a lot more expensive than jeans. I can go to TJ Maxx and get a pair of CK or Chaps jeans for under $20. And I crawl around under desks, etc. without worrying about them. If I'm wearing nice khakis, there's a good chance of ruining them that way, or at least looking really bad the rest of the day.
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The mention of grey-market is a bit confusing. In the usual sense, a grey-market item is produced by the manufacturer, but is simply allocated/marketed for an item other than the one you're in. US Photographers are very familiar with this, as they can buy grey-market cameras and lenses for much less than they would spend for the 'USA' items. These are genuine items, but simply don't have a US-valid warranty.
Now, it's probably easier for a counterfeit product to come in via the grey-market route, but just because it's grey doesn't mean it's a fake.
But they'd also have to create a support infrastructure, etc. Much easier to just create the knockoffs and sell them as the genuine article.
Well, it sounds less like they need to be kept in one area, and more like we shouldn't be using precious real estate for them. For power, cooling, and management purposes, you still want a consolidated area. But by invoking the idea of having a generator located out of sight, it seems he's saying that computing is a utility, and should be treated as such.
However, I suspect that as long as computers have cool blinkenlights, managers will always want to show off the datacenter to customers.
What confuses me is how does this guy make or have money? Really? He loses every case he touches, unless there a less public ones out there. He initiates all the lawsuits on his own, so I assume it's out of his pocket, especially considering he always loses.
I'm sure he has many people who support his fight against 'evil' and provide him with all the financial backing he needs.
When you spend $1.6B you're supposed to have a plan ahead of time. Now that doesn't mean they don't have a plan, they just aren't telling us what it is yet.
Well, I'm sure they do have a plan, but it's not like they actually spent $1.6B in cash. It was an all stock transaction.
Contrary to what the submitter implied, the service did not allow you to watch full ESPN content on the phone. You could only view highlight clips. I heard an analyst on NPR yesterday who said that the inability to actually watch ESPN was one of the reasons it failed. However, as most have mentioned, the small display would still have probably been a sticking point for consumers.
My personal opinion is that unlike other virtual operators, the ESPN service needed to be compelling enough to make people switch to their service. Boost, amp'd, Virgin, etc. all target the youth and/or prepaid markets, so I'd guess their typical customer is a first-time cell phone owner, or they don't have any particular ties to a carrier. OTOH, I'd guess the target ESPN demographic is a bit older, so they probably already have a phone/contract, and they didn't view switching as worth the cost/hassle. So ESPN should have done from the start what they're doing now: contract with the carriers to provide their content as an option.
It's not even new construction. Our local gas utility has been replacing the copper feeds from the main to the house with plastic. In most cases, the plastic tubing is pulled through the existing copper, but I know for a fact that on my house, when they pulled under the street, that section of copper came out in the process.
Because safety technology sounds good, but frequently doesn't hold up to heavy use, rough handling, dirt, etc. on the job site. Then the safety device gets in the way of getting work done, and it gets bypassed. And for all of that, you get to pay more for the tool.
If the dogs cause problems inside, why doesn't he crate them?
I'm a huge fan of the used HP market. I keep my eyes open for LJ 4 series, as they added power saving features (the III and earlier kept themselves warmed up all the time). These are the old workhorses, and are nearly impossible to kill. They're also pretty easy to maintain, and parts are readily available. I've even found perfectly good ones sitting out at the curb (though missing the MIO card and PS module).
Just because it's illegal doesn't mean it doesn't violate your rights. Yeah, the guys running the site sound like they're probably scumbags and fraudsters. But the feds are clearly going to go after online gambling operations as much as they can. So any gambling site is going to be a potential target. And when Congress is debating a bill to further restrict onling gambling, but carve out exceptions for interstate lotteries and horse betting, it's a bit hard to not see a double standard: I can bet on horses, but not poker. Sounds like my rights are involved.
That, and those poker chips block the Internet's tubes....
Also, with midterm elections looming, it doesn't hurt for the Republicans to crack down on some 'immoral' activity to appease their 'values' voters.
Heh...
This plan ties in nicely with the idea to halt engine development. Max Mosley is going to kill off all the technical advancement in F1, when it is the technology that everyone loves. Next year will probably give us talk of using a common engine supplier and chassis supplier, and then it can be just like F3000.
Though maybe Xerox should buy the naming rights to a baseball stadium, and call it Xerox Park.
That's Xerox PARC, not Park....
With all that cash in the bank, that's all the more reason to cash out rather than piss all that money away on some failed business venture.
Except it wasn't pissed away on some failed business venture. It was invested into new products that performed quite well for the company. If Apple didn't have that cash socked away, they probably wouldn't have survived. Another case study of why a company needs to keep cash on hand and not satiate the short-term desires of investors.
Since you're trying IE7, can you comment on MS's statement that the default search is 'easy to change?' Does it have a simple pull-down like FF, or do you have to dig through eight levels of tabs and buttons?
Does this drive anyone else nuts? FTA: ...one of Apple's main suppliers for so-called NAND flash memory.
It seems like anytime some media type doesn't understand tech, they drop 'so-called' in front of the name.
Why haven't the telecoms be doing the same? Why didn't they push this issue earlier?
Because the telecoms operate in a way where they won't ever invest anything unless they can get regulations passed that make it super attractive for them. Instead of investing money and marketing a desired product, they whine and stamp their feet about rules that allow competition.
Now they're on a push to do away with local franchising rules so they can enter the CATV market. Again they're complaining about lack of fairness, when in reality what they're pushing for is special treatment. "We're Ma Bell, and we don't have time to mess about with all of the local franchise rules that all the cable companies work within, so those rules should go away."
So, what is going on here is something a bit extraordinary. It's saying that licensees have in certain cirumstances the ability to transfer their relationship with the licensor to a third party, without the licensor's consent.
No, it's not. It's using terms in the license that allow the licensee to transfer the license. The featured company is acting as a broker, matching interested parties, and they use MS's own forms to do the transfer.
One, most of this surplus sales are auctions meant for volume buyers. They don't advertise them in consumer channels because they don't want to sell 1 computer to an individual, they want to sell 2000 computers to a guy with forklift and a truck that will haul them away. When companies/schools decommission large amounts of technology, they want to get them out of the way as quickly as possible.
They also frequently want to sell them to a company that will do data destruction, etc. for them, so they don't have to mess with it. While they can invite qualified companies who will do that to bid, they can't exactly put together contractual agreements for every person who wants a single box.
My father bought a Treo 650 about six months ago for around $500. After seeing/using his I decided to give the pda/phone combo a try. But instead of dropping the cash on a Treo 650, I bought the "old" 600 model on eBay for about $150.
Yes, the 600 will do most of what you need. But the display on the 650 is spectacular in comparison, and the camera is far better. Also, the 650 has some things built in (like Versamail) that you'd need to pay extra for if you need them on the 600.
Of course, this points out another issue on saving money, and that's to make wise decisions. The parent poster can get by just fine with the 600, but perhaps they also wanted to be able to buy a couple of the hottest new video games, so they avoided the latest tech where they didn't feel they needed it.
The calls to wait and to buy used are also good advice. I've been wanting a digital SLR for a while now, but am just now getting ready to actually buy one, now that my finances are in better shape. For that, I'll probably buy new, because to me it will be worth it to have newer features and a warranty.
While not directly tech-related, buying used in other areas can save you enough money to feed your technology jones. Consider cars. With some careful shopping, you can find an excellent used car for a huge discount over new, saving you thousands of dollars. You may even be able to afford to pay cash for it, rather than taking out a loan.
We're doing this at work just for the Office and other desktop product licenses. It is a great value if you can qualify for the program and need the software.
You can go to TJ Maxx and get a nice pair of Khakis for the same price as the jeans they sell. Do you ever even bother looking at that rack?
Yes, and I've actually bought things from it before. However, that selection is usually very limited.
If you do blue collar work, then you should wear blue-collar clothes, and we're not talking about you. Programmers and engineers don't crawl under desks typically.
Why does it sound like you're living in the 1950s?
t-shirts and cutoffs aren't very comfortable compared to well-made, ironed clothing). It's about laziness. They see you as too lazy to make yourself look good, and let's face it you (and I) are too lazy to do the work. Business clothes aren't any more expensive than jeans,
What a load of crap. You put on nice ironed clothing to lounge around the house on a weekend?
And business clothes are a lot more expensive than jeans. I can go to TJ Maxx and get a pair of CK or Chaps jeans for under $20. And I crawl around under desks, etc. without worrying about them. If I'm wearing nice khakis, there's a good chance of ruining them that way, or at least looking really bad the rest of the day.