Consider marketing research firms that get paid boatloads of money to put people into demographic categories. Now, consider Microsoft's Passport initiative that tracks you online, where you surf, what you buy, where you live, work, and travel, and can infer all kinds of personal info like your domestic status. You are no longer part of a demographic group, you are a demographic; one of 200 million. How much would advertisers be willing to pay Microsoft for access to that database?
"How perfectly Goddam delightful it all is, to be sure." - Robert Crumb
I don't own a PDA, but I've been struggling to justify getting one for some time now. I've suspected that if I got one, 99% of what I'd do with it is administrative: configure, personalize, enter stuff. And of course, the occasional game. The other 1% would be legitimate application.
Now, you sons o' #%&*es are just verifying that lack of justification. Well, I'll show you...
I'm gettin one anyway. Just to spite you. It'll serve you right. You'll be sorry.
I'm interested in where Adobe comes down on this, being a major player in desktop publishing. Standard XML based docs may not be a PDF killer, but could be a Distiller killer, which is most of Adobe's revenue stream from the PDF format.
If microsoft is planning to "spend" Sony into oblivion, they may have finally picked the wrong fight. Consider that Sony only recently dropped support for the Beta video format, dispite its demise more than 10 years ago, even in professional use.
The bottom line is, the only MS products that make money are Windows, Office, and server licensing. See this article. They are clearly using their obscene profits from those products to subsidize MSN (to crush AOL), Pocket PC (to crush Palm), and X-Box (to crush Sony). There is currently no evidence that they can have any success beyond PCs, which is a mature market. I think they know the jig is almost up and they just want to drain the last few drops of blood with Licensing 6.
I actually do like the folding design; but I would prefer it fold 180 degrees so you can use it like a PDA and ignore the keyboard (except for the rare times you really need it). In the picture here, it looks like the hinge is too obtrusive for that.
A modal editor is just not practical to most Windows uses. They're better off with one of the available shareware editors. Shareware isn't open or even free, so it doesn't bear mentioning in this forum - but since it's too late for that, on Windows, I like GWD.
I used to think that in 100 years, nearly everyone in the World (except for inhabitants of the most undeveloped countries) will speak English fluently. I don't think that any more. 50 years tops. Two to three generations for non-English speaking netizens to die off. Remember that everyone in India, the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and almost everyone in Continental Europe and Africa already speak English (and not Chinese). Do the math.
Latin America and Japan are the last bastions of resistence. When I last looked, neither was doing very well economically. I wonder why.
I don't know, but I honestly thought that U-2s and SR-71s flew above 100,000 feet routinely. I also thought that most modern fighters could go >60K' (unclassified; max altitudes are actually classified). The records stated in that article just don't seem all that impressive to me. Maybe straight and level flight for a certain period is needed to set a record.
Ok, it was only a movie, but in "The Right Stuff", Chuck Yeager attempts to break a Soviet altitude record of 114,000'. He gets to about 102,000' before he 'screws the pooch'. Guess that wouldn't count anyway.
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Consider marketing research firms that get paid boatloads of money to put people into demographic categories. Now, consider Microsoft's Passport initiative that tracks you online, where you surf, what you buy, where you live, work, and travel, and can infer all kinds of personal info like your domestic status. You are no longer part of a demographic group, you are a demographic; one of 200 million. How much would advertisers be willing to pay Microsoft for access to that database?
"How perfectly Goddam delightful it all is, to be sure." - Robert Crumb
This article (originally referred to in this submittal) comprehensively outlines how it's an uphill battle for Microsoft.
Mozilla's tabbed browsing is ideal for posting links on
I don't own a PDA, but I've been struggling to justify getting one for some time now. I've suspected that if I got one, 99% of what I'd do with it is administrative: configure, personalize, enter stuff. And of course, the occasional game. The other 1% would be legitimate application.
Now, you sons o' #%&*es are just verifying that lack of justification. Well, I'll show you
I'm gettin one anyway. Just to spite you. It'll serve you right. You'll be sorry.
You'll all be sorry.
Because it's *E3'd XML. Or "MSXML", whatever that is.
't aint' XML. Got it?
*E3 = Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
I'm interested in where Adobe comes down on this, being a major player in desktop publishing. Standard XML based docs may not be a PDF killer, but could be a Distiller killer, which is most of Adobe's revenue stream from the PDF format.
If microsoft is planning to "spend" Sony into oblivion, they may have finally picked the wrong fight. Consider that Sony only recently dropped support for the Beta video format, dispite its demise more than 10 years ago, even in professional use.
The bottom line is, the only MS products that make money are Windows, Office, and server licensing. See this article. They are clearly using their obscene profits from those products to subsidize MSN (to crush AOL), Pocket PC (to crush Palm), and X-Box (to crush Sony). There is currently no evidence that they can have any success beyond PCs, which is a mature market. I think they know the jig is almost up and they just want to drain the last few drops of blood with Licensing 6.
"And instead of the Army servicing their own F14s, ... they should outsource all their service and development to Kinkos."
... whoaboy ...
Shouldn't be much of a problem, since the Army doesn't have any F-14s. Now, if the Navy tried that,
Let them eat SH[ared Source]IT.
I own a Linksys 4-port router and I upgraded the firmware once. I don't recall how I did it, but I do recall it was very easy. Anyone can do it.
i d= 1
http://www.linksys.com/download/firmware.asp?fw
The Linksys BEFSR41 is an absolutely sublime piece of design and usability. I just love when somebody gets it right.
I wonder, on what platform they run it. A typewriter?
"And seriously, whats with the 8 wheel design?"
There are probably 5,000 pounds of batteries and dual titanium I-beams (RAMMING SPEED!!) running the length of the chassis to support them.
I actually do like the folding design; but I would prefer it fold 180 degrees so you can use it like a PDA and ignore the keyboard (except for the rare times you really need it). In the picture here, it looks like the hinge is too obtrusive for that.
A modal editor is just not practical to most Windows uses. They're better off with one of the available shareware editors. Shareware isn't open or even free, so it doesn't bear mentioning in this forum - but since it's too late for that, on Windows, I like
GWD.
Nobody beat me up in middle school.
I used to think that in 100 years, nearly everyone in the World (except for inhabitants of the most undeveloped countries) will speak English fluently. I don't think that any more. 50 years tops. Two to three generations for non-English speaking netizens to die off. Remember that everyone in India, the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and almost everyone in Continental Europe and Africa already speak English (and not Chinese). Do the math.
Latin America and Japan are the last bastions of resistence. When I last looked, neither was doing very well economically. I wonder why.
I don't know, but I honestly thought that U-2s and SR-71s flew above 100,000 feet routinely. I also thought that most modern fighters could go >60K' (unclassified; max altitudes are actually classified). The records stated in that article just don't seem all that impressive to me. Maybe straight and level flight for a certain period is needed to set a record.
Ok, it was only a movie, but in "The Right Stuff", Chuck Yeager attempts to break a Soviet altitude record of 114,000'. He gets to about 102,000' before he 'screws the pooch'. Guess that wouldn't count anyway.