The PCjr entered an area when IBM-based PCs had hardly become the norm, and many critics believed a personal computer in the home would never become a reality. It was a step in the right direction, and people forget that there were MANY alternatives back then. The fact that 99% of home computers are based on IBM standards today is not a flop.
Putting old fart hat on:
IBM computers were at least 4 times more expensive than the IBM "compatibles" or "clones". The PC Jr. was an attempt by IBM to provide a "lower cost" PC for the home market. Unfortunately apart from the built in music chip (at a time when everyone else's machines just went "beep") and a few graphics tweaks, it was a dog of a machine and still way more expensive than IBM-compatibles (at least double the price).
It flopped because people can detect crap, and are unwilling to pay premium prices for it.
The fact that most computers today are "IBM" type computers is largely due to the proliferation of cheap clones. When a genuine IBM computer would cost you $5000 or $6000, a "name brand" clone (like Dell or Gateway) would cost you about $1000 less. A generic clone could be had/built for $1500 or less. IMO price is the main reason for the 80x86 architecture's great successes.
As an aside, I wonder how popular computers would be nowadays had patents and copyrights been enforced as vigorously in the 1980's as they are today.
The article was 90% (it worked fine and I have no problems) and the rest was (I am annoyed by UAC and dont understand how it works)+ I had a single driver issue ZOMG.
Chicken04GTO I think the whole point is the KIND of driver issue. I mean ok if once in a while the fonts are a bit fuzzy or the apps take a while to load, big deal. But trashing someone's RAID array is a serious issue for an OS, even if it only happens ONCE.
What really sucks about slideshows are the idiots who try to cram 3 chapters in 6 pt font on a single slide, then read the damned slide to you.
What's the point of taking notes
What's the point of taking notes, period? Pay attention, prepare for the damned class by skimming over the material. Then pay attention during class - you might get a better insight into stuff you didn't quite understand in your preview. Then try to remember the important stuff, and after class then LOOK IT UP in books/trade magazines. Talk about what you are learning with your friends, try to quiz each other verbally, and try to explain things to each other. 70% of what you hear in a lecture is just fluff anyway. The real trick is learning to distinguish between the important stuff and the waffle.
Note taking is silly because it reduces your ability to pay attention - and it encourages the dangerous habit of studying your notes instead of studying the actual concepts/material. Depending on your field most of your notes may be obsolete by the time you graduate anyway.
Hey, but I only consistently finish in the 98th percentile of courses and/or standardized national tests, just ignore me.
I claim the patent on the use of a fork and a spoon. Now you're all stuck using sporks!
That's ok, I already hold a patent on chewing food before swallowing it. So if you want people to actually make any use of the fork and spoon, I suggest you pay me royalties. A billion dollars should do it. That way if you don't pay up, I can always sue google.
a large number of American's don't believe in that newfangled "evolution" thing. Don't see why you'd expect them to want the Constitution to evolve when they don't subscribe to the concept
Of course we might get lucky and have it evolve several noodly appendages and a couple meatballs... see you in the volcano!
If they provide a high quality movies with a fast download speed, people will buy it.
Oh they'll do that. The problem is they will want to charge you $10 to watch it, each time you want to watch it. This is what they just don't get. There's no excuse anymore, people know just how cheap the media and bandwidth have become.
they would sue PRQ for co-hosting them with known criminals that made them vulnerable to such police action.
IANAL but I'm sure an argument can easily be made here. After all, the case against TPB was dropped. Therefore they are NOT criminals (and this is a civil matter, btw). Therefore your case gets thrown out too. QED. The REAL culprit is, of course, the MAFIAA. THAT's who you need to sue for wasting police time, government resources, defamation and lost income.
there is no way in hell that is going to be tolerated indefinitely by media producers and distributors.
TPB carries torrent files, not the actual content. This is not illegal in Sweden. Considering the MAFIAA just got their asses handed to them by the Swedish legal system I doubt very much they are going to go for even more bad press.
Hollywood and the rest will just sue the ISPs for providing the bandwidth.
The IP for TPB is well aware of what that site does. Again, it's not illegal. And TPB doesn't carry kiddie porn.
If you've been pulling stuff from PB don't be surprised when you get a letter a year from now with a bill attached.
They can bill me all they want. I don't live in the US and the DMCA doesn't apply here, either.
It's been a few years since the Napster hubbub and both new arrivals and recalcitrant veterans need to (re)learn how it works.
Hey Joe, just because you found out about TPB today doesn't mean they're newcomers. I suggest you have a look at their "legal threats" page. And the dates on some of those e-mails. From "small" companies like Apple, Microsoft, EA, Warner Brothers, etc?
Short of bombing the servers, the MAFIAA can't stop this.
Alcohol is controlled and regulated by the government. There are rules in place to reduce the harm do
Ha ha ha ha ha! Looks like you bought the story. The controls are simply to make sure that every single bottle of booze is TAXED. They don't give a shit about you. If they did, it would be treated just like a controlled medication (eg opioids) - some authority has to sign so you can get it, you only get small doses at a time, and special measures are in place to make sure you don't go "shopping" to "stock up". Even in this case the controls are to prevent someone becoming a supplier of opioids rather than abusing them.
You can walk into any liquor store and buy all the booze you want - enough to kill yourself many times over. So long as it's taxed. Same deal with tobacco. And gambling must be done in specific places, so the government can keep its eye on the books to make sure the tax is paid.
There's nothing pathetic about protecting your citizens from gambling away their mortgage/rent/food money with the ease of a click of a mouse button.
Someone that stupid deserves to be on the streets.
Wait, if we follow your argument, perhaps a government appointed agent should visit you during sex and make sure you use a condom. After all, there's nothing pathetic about protecting your citizens from contracting a deadly disease from a 5 minute sexual encounter.
How can the US be slammed for protectionism when we don't let anyone in the US to do online gambling?
But you do let people gamble in American casinos in Vegas, Atlantic City (at times!) and certain native American reservations? Why not online? Protectionism, see?
It's like Columbia complaining to the WTO that we ban cocaine.
No it's not. Cocaine is illegal in both the US and Colombia. Gambling is legal in parts of the US and in Antigua. The US created a law to make "online" gambling illegal, but no one goes to jail for going to Vegas even if gambling is illegal in their state. Therefore Antigua complains. Especially since most of their business came from the US. That's what trade organizations are all about, really.
but I think online gambling falls into a different realm. Because of the ease of access, it could lead to an major increase in gambling.
Thank God that we have you as our self-appointed Censor!
Yes some people have gambling problems, and can ruin their lives (and their family) through gambling. However not everyone has this problem. Most people can keep to the limits they establish themselves.
You suggest a prohibition type scenario. If you look around you perhaps you might understand what happens when government prohibits something that the people want. The people do it ANYWAY. Example - alchol in the 20's. Drugs today. Prohibition enables organized crime to get rich from the public vice. It does not stop the vice.
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dumb enough to think that a program will magically launch itself automatically when you plug something in the usb port ?
Hey - if it's from SONY, it just might!
the RIAA knew the keys were being given out for free, but are trying to say "Only those people that found the keys can have the music".
Funny - if leaving something in a public bathroom doesn't constitute putting it in the public domain, I don't know WHAT does...
They should be careful with that marketing thing...!
An 'industry' that big is hardly a flop.
:D
So when is the "next" one - 2037 or something isn't it? Not as "catchy" as y2k though
The PCjr entered an area when IBM-based PCs had hardly become the norm, and many critics believed a personal computer in the home would never become a reality. It was a step in the right direction, and people forget that there were MANY alternatives back then. The fact that 99% of home computers are based on IBM standards today is not a flop.
Putting old fart hat on:
IBM computers were at least 4 times more expensive than the IBM "compatibles" or "clones". The PC Jr. was an attempt by IBM to provide a "lower cost" PC for the home market. Unfortunately apart from the built in music chip (at a time when everyone else's machines just went "beep") and a few graphics tweaks, it was a dog of a machine and still way more expensive than IBM-compatibles (at least double the price).
It flopped because people can detect crap, and are unwilling to pay premium prices for it.
The fact that most computers today are "IBM" type computers is largely due to the proliferation of cheap clones. When a genuine IBM computer would cost you $5000 or $6000, a "name brand" clone (like Dell or Gateway) would cost you about $1000 less. A generic clone could be had/built for $1500 or less. IMO price is the main reason for the 80x86 architecture's great successes.
As an aside, I wonder how popular computers would be nowadays had patents and copyrights been enforced as vigorously in the 1980's as they are today.
proving once again that in the warped universe of techno-hype, one plus one can equal zero.
Nah, any computer programmer knows that 1 AND 1 = 1. Were you referring to XOR, by any chance?
what is so wrong with it they need to make a new version.
It's called defensive licensing.
The article was 90% (it worked fine and I have no problems) and the rest was (I am annoyed by UAC and dont understand how it works)+ I had a single driver issue ZOMG.
Chicken04GTO I think the whole point is the KIND of driver issue. I mean ok if once in a while the fonts are a bit fuzzy or the apps take a while to load, big deal. But trashing someone's RAID array is a serious issue for an OS, even if it only happens ONCE.
because Vista keeps corrupting my SATA Raid, and cause it to disapear.
This anti-piracy measure is a feature, friend. Surely only copyright infringers have large hard drives!
What really sucks about slideshows are the idiots who try to cram 3 chapters in 6 pt font on a single slide, then read the damned slide to you.
What's the point of taking notes
What's the point of taking notes, period? Pay attention, prepare for the damned class by skimming over the material. Then pay attention during class - you might get a better insight into stuff you didn't quite understand in your preview. Then try to remember the important stuff, and after class then LOOK IT UP in books/trade magazines. Talk about what you are learning with your friends, try to quiz each other verbally, and try to explain things to each other. 70% of what you hear in a lecture is just fluff anyway. The real trick is learning to distinguish between the important stuff and the waffle.
Note taking is silly because it reduces your ability to pay attention - and it encourages the dangerous habit of studying your notes instead of studying the actual concepts/material. Depending on your field most of your notes may be obsolete by the time you graduate anyway.
Hey, but I only consistently finish in the 98th percentile of courses and/or standardized national tests, just ignore me.
In Soviet Russia, YOU defraud the Government!
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Sorry there's a spelling mistake in your patent. Please try again later.
The Grammar Nazi (pat pending).
I claim the patent on the use of a fork and a spoon. Now you're all stuck using sporks!
That's ok, I already hold a patent on chewing food before swallowing it. So if you want people to actually make any use of the fork and spoon, I suggest you pay me royalties. A billion dollars should do it. That way if you don't pay up, I can always sue google.
...but I couldn't help the machine because that
would be against the patent.
You should have posted as AC, because now the patent police (and SCO) are on their way to bust down your door.
He then proceeded to give a tipoff about what Oxygen was doing around the corner with those two Hydrogen fellers....
And then laughed and laughed, because everyone knows that Carbon can take 4 at a time...
a large number of American's don't believe in that newfangled "evolution" thing. Don't see why you'd expect them to want the Constitution to evolve when they don't subscribe to the concept
Of course we might get lucky and have it evolve several noodly appendages and a couple meatballs... see you in the volcano!
If they provide a high quality movies with a fast download speed, people will buy it.
Oh they'll do that. The problem is they will want to charge you $10 to watch it, each time you want to watch it. This is what they just don't get. There's no excuse anymore, people know just how cheap the media and bandwidth have become.
What happened with the raid on Pirate Bay could very well be a constitutional offense.
Yarr, string the minister up on the yard arm for treason, boys! I'll be seein him dance the hemp fandango before breakfast arrr!
they would sue PRQ for co-hosting them with known criminals that made them vulnerable to such police action.
IANAL but I'm sure an argument can easily be made here. After all, the case against TPB was dropped. Therefore they are NOT criminals (and this is a civil matter, btw). Therefore your case gets thrown out too. QED. The REAL culprit is, of course, the MAFIAA. THAT's who you need to sue for wasting police time, government resources, defamation and lost income.
there is no way in hell that is going to be tolerated indefinitely by media producers and distributors.
TPB carries torrent files, not the actual content. This is not illegal in Sweden. Considering the MAFIAA just got their asses handed to them by the Swedish legal system I doubt very much they are going to go for even more bad press.
Hollywood and the rest will just sue the ISPs for providing the bandwidth.
The IP for TPB is well aware of what that site does. Again, it's not illegal. And TPB doesn't carry kiddie porn.
If you've been pulling stuff from PB don't be surprised when you get a letter a year from now with a bill attached.
They can bill me all they want. I don't live in the US and the DMCA doesn't apply here, either.
It's been a few years since the Napster hubbub and both new arrivals and recalcitrant veterans need to (re)learn how it works.
Hey Joe, just because you found out about TPB today doesn't mean they're newcomers. I suggest you have a look at their "legal threats" page. And the dates on some of those e-mails. From "small" companies like Apple, Microsoft, EA, Warner Brothers, etc?
Short of bombing the servers, the MAFIAA can't stop this.
If this were the case they would happily sell it to people under the age of 21 wouldn't they?
You mean they don't? I never used to have trouble... you just have to know where to go.
Technically, the NA reservations don't count. It's a very complicated arrangement, but they are semi-autonomous.
I understand your point. I mean, historically - this arrangement lasts for as long as the US government wants it to last.
Alcohol is controlled and regulated by the government. There are rules in place to reduce the harm do
Ha ha ha ha ha! Looks like you bought the story. The controls are simply to make sure that every single bottle of booze is TAXED. They don't give a shit about you. If they did, it would be treated just like a controlled medication (eg opioids) - some authority has to sign so you can get it, you only get small doses at a time, and special measures are in place to make sure you don't go "shopping" to "stock up". Even in this case the controls are to prevent someone becoming a supplier of opioids rather than abusing them.
You can walk into any liquor store and buy all the booze you want - enough to kill yourself many times over. So long as it's taxed. Same deal with tobacco. And gambling must be done in specific places, so the government can keep its eye on the books to make sure the tax is paid.
There's nothing pathetic about protecting your citizens from gambling away their mortgage/rent/food money with the ease of a click of a mouse button.
Someone that stupid deserves to be on the streets.
Wait, if we follow your argument, perhaps a government appointed agent should visit you during sex and make sure you use a condom. After all, there's nothing pathetic about protecting your citizens from contracting a deadly disease from a 5 minute sexual encounter.
How can the US be slammed for protectionism when we don't let anyone in the US to do online gambling?
But you do let people gamble in American casinos in Vegas, Atlantic City (at times!) and certain native American reservations? Why not online? Protectionism, see?
It's like Columbia complaining to the WTO that we ban cocaine.
No it's not. Cocaine is illegal in both the US and Colombia. Gambling is legal in parts of the US and in Antigua. The US created a law to make "online" gambling illegal, but no one goes to jail for going to Vegas even if gambling is illegal in their state. Therefore Antigua complains. Especially since most of their business came from the US. That's what trade organizations are all about, really.
but I think online gambling falls into a different realm. Because of the ease of access, it could lead to an major increase in gambling.
Thank God that we have you as our self-appointed Censor!
Yes some people have gambling problems, and can ruin their lives (and their family) through gambling. However not everyone has this problem. Most people can keep to the limits they establish themselves.
You suggest a prohibition type scenario. If you look around you perhaps you might understand what happens when government prohibits something that the people want. The people do it ANYWAY. Example - alchol in the 20's. Drugs today. Prohibition enables organized crime to get rich from the public vice. It does not stop the vice.
Please cite just one case of an artist that is starving because people swapped his songs using peer-to-peer technology.
Yeah, I'm still waiting to meet one of the "thousands of people" the MPAA claim are put out of work each year by piracy.