I don't know about you, but I don't have a "Windows 98 machine for games." Those Loki games I bought, or friends of mine that bought games, was because they wanted the game, and did not have a copy already.
As for QuickTime 6, sounds pretty cool to me. Apple is a relatively small niche, and Linux is much smaller. Apple charges for QuickTime because they can; Mac users are more willing to pay for quality software than most other users I have ever known. I would presume that Apple makes more money selling QuickTime for Windows than they do for the Mac, based soley on the number of Windows machines versus anything else.
..." Companies considering a switch to StarOffice or a competing product won't find the move cheap. Gartner estimates that the average cost per user would be about $1,200, which works out to about $800 for labor and $400 for productivity. In contrast, companies upgrading to Office every two years would spend about $550 per user, or $700 every four years. That means many businesses would take eight years to recover their initial investment."
"they are missing out on a large potential market: The LAN gamer."
I hate to say it, but as far as the number of people who actually buy barebones vs those who do the LAN party thing still vs those who go to Dell/Gateway etc is just too small. If there is a big enough demand shown, then it will happen. This release is to test the AMD barebones market, later revisions will have the good stuff, if the demand is high enough. IMO of course.
Actually, the first release of Star Wars, Episode 4, it did not have any mention of "Star Wars: A New Hope," but when it was re-released in '79, it had that added to the scrolling intro.
It is about as significant as the renaming of Return of the Jedi, orginally called, "Revenge of the Jedi." I have a copy of the old trailer here.
what is so secure about no password? this must be an idea of the US government...
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If you want optimum performance form an Apple notebook, you need to buy the Powerbook. That is the point of the Powerbook, it is a better machine. The iBook is great of email, internet, and basic office type functions, if you want good graphics, and gaming possibilities, the iBook is not the one.
I have done all my banking on my linux box using mozilla for quite some time now. Works great. And there are none of those infuriating bandwidth hogging ads to deal with either.
he/she is probably in a office/business that does not experience much change, growth or loss. which is nice, recession proof and all. the bad thing is, if Microsoft decides to jack the rates on all of the software licenses, it can be a very big deal. this is probably a company that has never thought of using venture capital to pay for hardware/software. they want to be able to use the same stuff they always have, for the same costs that they always have. this attitude is probably because that is how everything else works in the company.
I would assume that most people have 10 fingers, and thus you could have 10 different fingerprint id's.
You are also making the assumption that biometrics are going to be adopted soon, by everyone. Go to Maine, and count the number of gas stations that you can not "pay at the pump" with your credit card.
Personally, I hate cash. I think it is a complete waste of resources. Unfortunately, it can't be replace by a pure digital monetary system, yet. If I was still a dreamer, I would want one currency for the world, and for it to be digital only, nothing physical to it. No bills, coins, or "atm" cards.
I just wanted to thank you. Your reply was very thought provoking, and showed coherent thought. I truly wish my third semester college Physics teacher had been up to the standard you just set.
so if light is not moving, if you interpret a constant to mean that anytime light is in a vacuum it is moving at the given velocity c.
so, in my minds eye, light is only a particle if it is moving at speed c. but if it is a particle, it has a rest mass. but c is a constant, in a vacuum.
and then waves... those were never really well defined to me in school, but i interpet it as that a wave is constantly moving. this i have no clue.
the whole thing just becomes a mobius loop of logic to me.
That is not the point. It would not be there to be removed in the first place.
Not that it matters though, MS will just charge more for the 'new and improved' seperate items. How many Joe Users out there would pay for IE, Outlook Express, Media Player, etc just because that is what they are used to using? It could all be offered online, for 'only $20,' per program, and how many people would go for it. MS probably would end up making more money this way, IMO.
That is why I think that this sham of a trial is a waste of time, and of taxpayers money. Mr. Gates is too smart to get burned, IMO. Damnit:-(
Hollywood wants to create another revenue stream. This copyright stuff is just a convenient vessel to do so.
If you account for inflation, the music, movie and tv industries are making less money (profits) than they were before.
Think of it, what were the gross ticket sales for E.T. and Star Wars versus Titanic and the other newer "blockbuster" movies? The list is here. The newer movies just are not making the same money that the old ones did. Very much a "good ol' days" analogy.
It is the same for the music industry. The marketing required to get the big album sales is tremendous. MTV, VH1, and the 3 or 4 companies that own most of the radio stations (Viacom etc.) in the US only play what pays.
TV has lost potential revenues from advertisers over the years due to restrictions on what types of companies are allowed to advertise on TV. There are no more hard liquor or cigarette ads, both industries that having massive cash reserves. That is why the TV industry pushed so hard to be able to get back prescription medication ads. And that is why you see so many Viagra, Prilosec and others ads on the TV now. They can afford it, and the.com's are not wasting millions on TV ads like they did in the 1990's.
Despite all of this, I think it is ludicrous that Hollywood (the entertainment industry as a whole really) is pushing so hard for the DMCA or whatever.
Business' must adapt, or face the consequences. Look at IBM, Apple, and Microsoft. Who adapted the best to the situation around them? Microsoft did. Who should have the monopoly? IBM. Who should have a much more significant share of the market? Apple.
Different companies, different business models, different results.
comapring a $1900 machine with something that costs only $1600 more! it appears that the reviewer is a mac fan from the system 7 days, hence the comment about WinXP being more stable/usable than its predecessor (my gf has a brand new dell with WinXP and Office XP, and it is crap [of course, her mom has the same setup and it works fine...]), and not liking OSX. the weaknesses that the reviewer points out, namely iPhoto, has already been pointed out. my opinion is, if you want all the frills, that is what Photoshop is for. on the side, if iPhoto is too good, Photoshop will lose interest in supporting OSXI or whatever comes next.
Old co-worker of mine told me that when he lived in Australia most people did not leave their jobs, because the vacation time was huge. There are companies that give 3 months per year, after 20 years of service. The average person has 4 weeks off per year.
If this is true, it is no wonder that the turnover "down under" is next to nil.
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I don't know about you, but I don't have a "Windows 98 machine for games." Those Loki games I bought, or friends of mine that bought games, was because they wanted the game, and did not have a copy already.
As for QuickTime 6, sounds pretty cool to me. Apple is a relatively small niche, and Linux is much smaller. Apple charges for QuickTime because they can; Mac users are more willing to pay for quality software than most other users I have ever known. I would presume that Apple makes more money selling QuickTime for Windows than they do for the Mac, based soley on the number of Windows machines versus anything else.
..." Companies considering a switch to StarOffice or a competing product won't find the move cheap. Gartner estimates that the average cost per user would be about $1,200, which works out to about $800 for labor and $400 for productivity. In contrast, companies upgrading to Office every two years would spend about $550 per user, or $700 every four years. That means many businesses would take eight years to recover their initial investment."
That is from here.
How is a person doing a network install costing their company $800 per machine? What kind of hourly rate is that?
"they are missing out on a large potential market: The LAN gamer."
I hate to say it, but as far as the number of people who actually buy barebones vs those who do the LAN party thing still vs those who go to Dell/Gateway etc is just too small. If there is a big enough demand shown, then it will happen. This release is to test the AMD barebones market, later revisions will have the good stuff, if the demand is high enough. IMO of course.
Actually, the first release of Star Wars, Episode 4, it did not have any mention of "Star Wars: A New Hope," but when it was re-released in '79, it had that added to the scrolling intro.
It is about as significant as the renaming of Return of the Jedi, orginally called, "Revenge of the Jedi." I have a copy of the old trailer here.
yeah, it is the japanese version of the controller. apparently available on other areas as well now.
As far as dollars go, Spider-Man had twice the hype that AOTC did.
if the hominids of the time were doing the same thing, who says that the apes didn't learn from the hominids, or vice versa?
;-)
maybe hominids had a higher capacity for creativity and were able to do more with the 'simple tools' once they 'saw the light?'
this is all such a intrigueing, yet wasteful thing to discuss, until we have time travel. i guess i need to fall through a worm hole and find out
so what you are saying is when your laptop is stolen, you are completely covered? i think not.
what is so secure about no password? this must be an idea of the US government...
If you want optimum performance form an Apple notebook, you need to buy the Powerbook. That is the point of the Powerbook, it is a better machine. The iBook is great of email, internet, and basic office type functions, if you want good graphics, and gaming possibilities, the iBook is not the one.
"it's comments and attitudes like that that led to the falling viewing figures that led to its demise."
no, that would be the significant drop in quality of the shows episodes.
I have done all my banking on my linux box using mozilla for quite some time now. Works great. And there are none of those infuriating bandwidth hogging ads to deal with either.
he/she is probably in a office/business that does not experience much change, growth or loss. which is nice, recession proof and all. the bad thing is, if Microsoft decides to jack the rates on all of the software licenses, it can be a very big deal. this is probably a company that has never thought of using venture capital to pay for hardware/software. they want to be able to use the same stuff they always have, for the same costs that they always have. this attitude is probably because that is how everything else works in the company.
that has been my experience as of late.
A great example of why I am no longer a dreamer.
I would assume that most people have 10 fingers, and thus you could have 10 different fingerprint id's.
You are also making the assumption that biometrics are going to be adopted soon, by everyone. Go to Maine, and count the number of gas stations that you can not "pay at the pump" with your credit card.
Personally, I hate cash. I think it is a complete waste of resources. Unfortunately, it can't be replace by a pure digital monetary system, yet. If I was still a dreamer, I would want one currency for the world, and for it to be digital only, nothing physical to it. No bills, coins, or "atm" cards.
IMO, YMMV, of course.
or, you could rename the mozilla folder to something like, mozilla-RC1.
;-)
then, the "mozilla" folder does not exist
Michael,
I just wanted to thank you. Your reply was very thought provoking, and showed coherent thought. I truly wish my third semester college Physics teacher had been up to the standard you just set.
Again, thank you.
Chris
rest mass...
c = speed of light, a CONSTANT.
so if light is not moving, if you interpret a constant to mean that anytime light is in a vacuum it is moving at the given velocity c.
so, in my minds eye, light is only a particle if it is moving at speed c. but if it is a particle, it has a rest mass. but c is a constant, in a vacuum.
and then waves... those were never really well defined to me in school, but i interpet it as that a wave is constantly moving. this i have no clue.
the whole thing just becomes a mobius loop of logic to me.
Anything us silly humans determine as having a measurable mass. If e=mc^2, then m=e/(c^2). This is why I get so confused with light.
I thought photons were particles!
And I think it would be more like watching a TV with a broken tube.
That is not the point. It would not be there to be removed in the first place.
:-(
Not that it matters though, MS will just charge more for the 'new and improved' seperate items. How many Joe Users out there would pay for IE, Outlook Express, Media Player, etc just because that is what they are used to using? It could all be offered online, for 'only $20,' per program, and how many people would go for it. MS probably would end up making more money this way, IMO.
That is why I think that this sham of a trial is a waste of time, and of taxpayers money. Mr. Gates is too smart to get burned, IMO. Damnit
works fine for me!
Hollywood wants to create another revenue stream. This copyright stuff is just a convenient vessel to do so.
.com's are not wasting millions on TV ads like they did in the 1990's.
If you account for inflation, the music, movie and tv industries are making less money (profits) than they were before.
Think of it, what were the gross ticket sales for E.T. and Star Wars versus Titanic and the other newer "blockbuster" movies? The list is here. The newer movies just are not making the same money that the old ones did. Very much a "good ol' days" analogy.
It is the same for the music industry. The marketing required to get the big album sales is tremendous. MTV, VH1, and the 3 or 4 companies that own most of the radio stations (Viacom etc.) in the US only play what pays.
TV has lost potential revenues from advertisers over the years due to restrictions on what types of companies are allowed to advertise on TV. There are no more hard liquor or cigarette ads, both industries that having massive cash reserves. That is why the TV industry pushed so hard to be able to get back prescription medication ads. And that is why you see so many Viagra, Prilosec and others ads on the TV now. They can afford it, and the
Despite all of this, I think it is ludicrous that Hollywood (the entertainment industry as a whole really) is pushing so hard for the DMCA or whatever.
Business' must adapt, or face the consequences. Look at IBM, Apple, and Microsoft. Who adapted the best to the situation around them? Microsoft did. Who should have the monopoly? IBM. Who should have a much more significant share of the market? Apple.
Different companies, different business models, different results.
comapring a $1900 machine with something that costs only $1600 more! it appears that the reviewer is a mac fan from the system 7 days, hence the comment about WinXP being more stable/usable than its predecessor (my gf has a brand new dell with WinXP and Office XP, and it is crap [of course, her mom has the same setup and it works fine...]), and not liking OSX. the weaknesses that the reviewer points out, namely iPhoto, has already been pointed out. my opinion is, if you want all the frills, that is what Photoshop is for. on the side, if iPhoto is too good, Photoshop will lose interest in supporting OSXI or whatever comes next.
IMO, YMMV.
Old co-worker of mine told me that when he lived in Australia most people did not leave their jobs, because the vacation time was huge. There are companies that give 3 months per year, after 20 years of service. The average person has 4 weeks off per year.
If this is true, it is no wonder that the turnover "down under" is next to nil.