i think internet savvy has increased to the point where having multiple browsing tabs would be useful to all
These savvy users you're talking about are by definition not the novices that are being discussed here. The savvy users are savvy enough to enable tabs by themselves. The novices are not savvy enough to disable them. Therefore, tabs should be disabled by default.
Yes, what is.NET, anyway? I thought this review would shed some light on that, but the reviewer uses.NET terminology as if those who might consider reading this.NET introduction book already knew everything about it.
Acer [acer.com] makes some PalmOS based PDA's that use Memory stick.
All right, I stand corrected. But my point remains - SD/MMC is the de facto standard for PalmOS based devices, meaning you have more options if your PDA can use them.
Acer [acer.com] makes some PalmOS based PDA's that use Memory stick.
Which leaves us with a total of 1 producer to buy these items from. 1 producer = no competition. And thus, memory sticks are indeed more expensive than their SD/MMC equivalents.
In fact, you might be surprized at the number of devices that support memory stick [memorystick.com] (Kenwood, Pioneer, Samsung, HP, Fujitsu, NEC, Alpine, Konica, Mitsubishi, and Sharp are among the companies that make memory stick devices)
Right, but I'm not interested in those. I'm a PDA guy. (Note that my original post began with "The thing that I don't like about MS...")
The thing that I don't like about Sony's Memory Stick technology is that, well, no other PalmOS based PDAs use them. The others use a card system called SD/MMC (if memory serves), and those cards are cheaper, etc. There are also many types of non-memory expansions you can get for those PDAs, such as GPS modules, Bluetooth (if the PDA in question doesn't already have it). You can't use these if you have a memory stick PDA.
"It is so easy to distribute free things now," said Esther Dyson, a longtime Internet investor and chairman of EDVenture Holdings in New York. "That's one of the things Napster told us: If people like it, it will spread freely."
Yeah, we had no idea that was true before Napster.
The parent to this post is spot-on. The key to this case is whether any digital media (such as a html file containing a price list, or a PDF) has been copied or not. If it is, then Walmart *does* have a case since an actual copyrighted *file* has been copied (the fact that the file contains a non-copyrighted price list is irrelevant, the file itself is still copyrighted). But, if no digital media was copied, if someone just looked at Walmart's price list and typed down the prices in a post on FatWallet, then Walmart *doesn't* have a case. I repeat, this is the *key* to this whole thing.
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Eh? Why wouldn't we? I pretty much always carry my Clie with me (which has built-in MP3 support, and a 128MB memory stick), so it's always right there in my pocket when I feel like listening to my favourite tunes.
I'm guessing that the deal is that Sony isn't releasing the specs of its Clie line, so the author can't make his application run on them. We're probably supposed to mail Sony to complain about this.
This game will be successful for the same reason that TV shows like Big Brother and Survivor are successful: A lot of people's lives are so boring, they want to watch somebody else's life:-)
But seriously, I think it will be successful because it focuses on the one common denominator of pretty much all successful online games: socialization. The human species is a "flock species", in the sense that we prefer to not be alone. Real life socializing (in all it's forms, hehe) is the world's most popular activity. The same thing goes in the online world. Couple that with the fact that this is a game that everybody (including women) can relate to, as opposed to games like Everquest, and you've got a huge blockbuster.
Not exactly. What you say would be true if they tried to *force* people to pay the bill. They don't.
They have every right to sue right away. But instead, they choose to be nice and offer the offenders to pay up to avoid being dragged off to court. Therefore, it's not extortion.
Let's make an analogy:
You sell your car to a buddy. Said buddy refuses to pay after you give the car to him. So, you say, "pay for the car, or I'll sue you". Is that extortion too? Ofcourse not.
Ok, I'll admit that this analogy isn't 100%, since in the case of a car sale, there's an agreement, which there isn't in the case of downloading copyrighted material. But still, I think the analogy is useful for comparison.
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X-Com Enemy Unknown anyone?
There's a guy who's planning on making an unofficial clone of X-Com (called X-Force) for PalmOS based PDAs:
http://www.gotactics.com (click the X-Force link on the left).
I'm definitely looking forward to that one.
Yeah, but, uhmm...
Never mind. You're right. I didn't think of that. *bonks self*
i think internet savvy has increased to the point where having multiple browsing tabs would be useful to all
These savvy users you're talking about are by definition not the novices that are being discussed here. The savvy users are savvy enough to enable tabs by themselves. The novices are not savvy enough to disable them. Therefore, tabs should be disabled by default.
It's like starving out a country to depose a dictator. Whoops. :-(
No it's not. Users of said ISP can switch ISPs. Citizens in dictatorships can't (usually) move to a different country.
Gameboy is made by Nintendo, unless something changed drastically recently.
Yes, what is .NET, anyway? I thought this review would shed some light on that, but the reviewer uses .NET terminology as if those who might consider reading this .NET introduction book already knew everything about it.
If the lusers can't take the time to learn how to use their computers properly, well, that's their own fault.
But what if this happens to people who are in the process of learning? Your arrogance isn't very becoming.
Acer [acer.com] makes some PalmOS based PDA's that use Memory stick.
All right, I stand corrected. But my point remains - SD/MMC is the de facto standard for PalmOS based devices, meaning you have more options if your PDA can use them.
Acer [acer.com] makes some PalmOS based PDA's that use Memory stick.
Which leaves us with a total of 1 producer to buy these items from. 1 producer = no competition. And thus, memory sticks are indeed more expensive than their SD/MMC equivalents.
In fact, you might be surprized at the number of devices that support memory stick [memorystick.com] (Kenwood, Pioneer, Samsung, HP, Fujitsu, NEC, Alpine, Konica, Mitsubishi, and Sharp are among the companies that make memory stick devices)
Right, but I'm not interested in those. I'm a PDA guy. (Note that my original post began with "The thing that I don't like about MS...")
The thing that I don't like about Sony's Memory Stick technology is that, well, no other PalmOS based PDAs use them. The others use a card system called SD/MMC (if memory serves), and those cards are cheaper, etc. There are also many types of non-memory expansions you can get for those PDAs, such as GPS modules, Bluetooth (if the PDA in question doesn't already have it). You can't use these if you have a memory stick PDA.
Yeah, we had no idea that was true before Napster.
The parent to this post is spot-on. The key to this case is whether any digital media (such as a html file containing a price list, or a PDF) has been copied or not. If it is, then Walmart *does* have a case since an actual copyrighted *file* has been copied (the fact that the file contains a non-copyrighted price list is irrelevant, the file itself is still copyrighted).
But, if no digital media was copied, if someone just looked at Walmart's price list and typed down the prices in a post on FatWallet, then Walmart *doesn't* have a case. I repeat, this is the *key* to this whole thing.
Eh? Why wouldn't we? I pretty much always carry my Clie with me (which has built-in MP3 support, and a 128MB memory stick), so it's always right there in my pocket when I feel like listening to my favourite tunes.
I'm guessing that the deal is that Sony isn't releasing the specs of its Clie line, so the author can't make his application run on them. We're probably supposed to mail Sony to complain about this.
This game will be successful for the same reason that TV shows like Big Brother and Survivor are successful: A lot of people's lives are so boring, they want to watch somebody else's life :-)
But seriously, I think it will be successful because it focuses on the one common denominator of pretty much all successful online games: socialization. The human species is a "flock species", in the sense that we prefer to not be alone. Real life socializing (in all it's forms, hehe) is the world's most popular activity. The same thing goes in the online world. Couple that with the fact that this is a game that everybody (including women) can relate to, as opposed to games like Everquest, and you've got a huge blockbuster.
Not exactly. What you say would be true if they tried to *force* people to pay the bill. They don't.
They have every right to sue right away. But instead, they choose to be nice and offer the offenders to pay up to avoid being dragged off to court. Therefore, it's not extortion.
Let's make an analogy:
You sell your car to a buddy. Said buddy refuses to pay after you give the car to him. So, you say, "pay for the car, or I'll sue you". Is that extortion too? Ofcourse not.
Ok, I'll admit that this analogy isn't 100%, since in the case of a car sale, there's an agreement, which there isn't in the case of downloading copyrighted material. But still, I think the analogy is useful for comparison.
I thought Europolitan in Sweden already had a 3G network? GPMS, isn't that 3G? Or am I missing something?