1) People find out in their newspaper their tv wont work after next year 2) They get the tv converter box for $50 3) They continue to watch tv on their 20 year old RCA set with their new fangled box 4) They tell all their friends about how they are able to get 30 channels of digital tv for free! 5) Lifeline cable customers cancel their packages because they get a better picture from OTA digital than from 10 channel cable 6) life goes on
IBM will spend more money on this lawsuit than they get...
This is not about generic batteries, if Shentech sold "Ibm compatible" batteries that melted and burned then Ibm would say "not our battery...not our problem". Plenty of companies legitimately sell 3rd party ibm compatible batteries of reasonable quality.
Shentech was supposedly selling counterfeit batteries with ibm logos.
Its about 1) Protecting their public image 2) Protecting their trademark 3) Protecting customers who are trying to buy legitimate ibm sold/authorized products
Anyone comparing this to RIAA is a clueless moron.
IBM has spent 70 years developing a sqeaky clean reputation. Heck they even spent money developing linux products. When ibm products malfunction because of ibms mistake they just replace things free of charge.
They have enough problems with legitmate batteries made by sony
They deserve to put counterfeiters heads on pikes...these counterfeiters are potentially injuring ibms customers.
Harvard- 350 year history, $2 billion endowment, alumni include Senators, supreme court justices, some of the best lawyers in the country.
RIAA: Hello Harvard, we want you to hand over the names of students and put our filters on your internet access Harvard President: No RIAA: If you dont we'll sue Harvard President: (chuckle) Let me think about that, who do we know that went to our school. (checks the alumni directory)
John Roberts Antonin Scalia David Souter Anthony Kennedy
Asus is already coming out with the EEE pc, so intel will have to keep making classmates.
There is a market in the US for $200 laptops, in classrooms if nothing else. The ability to have a laptop cart with 20 laptops for under 5k instead of the normal $25000 is a disruptive technology.
If XO does nothing else but bring down the cost of laptops for people around the world..then Mr. Negroponte deserves our gratitude.
The last time I checked Taiwan is a multiparty democratic capitalist country with a GDP per capita of $29,600. The only people who claim Taiwan is part of PRC is the PRC and people who dont know geography
They do have factories in China just like every american manufacturer but the corporation and the chips are from Taiwan.
1) Staged faked news conferences and failed to tell the real reporters 2) Cant decide whether waterboarding is torture
These people will do anything they are allowed to until they are told no and sometimes even after they are told no.
There is a way around this, if a court says the ISP agreement is what creates or does not create a reasonable expectation of privacy then the day after the court rules as such then I will tell my ISP either they change their ISP agreement to say that my emails are private and will only be disclosed upon a valid court order or I will find a new ISP that will do so.
I have a Vista Desktop and a Linux Laptop. I recently switched my laptop from Suse Linux 10.3 to Ubuntu 7.1 for my laptop not for the moral reasons or any particular "open source" mantra but because Ubuntu now that they offer some proprietary "restricted" software works BETTER than suse.
I can use Skype on linux laptop just like I do on my windows desktop, and I use openoffice on both too.
Many, many people do not use their laptop as a "desktop replacement" for them a laptop is something you use to write letters, send email , surf the net and other basic stuff you do when your away from home.. Sound familiar? I can even watch youtube and listen to mp3s.
Linux is BETTER for laptops(especially older laptops) than Vista BY FAR. I can run the latest version of Ubuntu 7.1 VERY WELL on a 1 ghz Dell C600 laptop with 512mb of memory...try doing that with vista.
Im glad Ubuntu folks finally got their head out of their ass and realized this. The little things like wireless drivers for intel cards make ALL the difference.
Ubuntu 7.1 should have been Ubuntu 8.0 because its a quantum leap over 7.04...its that much better.
The only thing I cant get working with ubuntu...yet is usb webcams
They use outlook express or thunderbird or webmail or AOL clients. Many home users dont even both to configure standalone email clients anymore their webmail clients are "good enough"
I dont understand this obsession about overtaking microsoft office in businesses.
If you ask what most people would like to see in Openoffice. Speed is not the problem for most openoffice users. On my reasonably new desktop writer opens within 3 seconds.
1) Desktop/Web publishing (a replacement for Publisher) the most common activity done by people at home other than writing letters. 2) More polished Presentations(more clip art, more templates, better designed wizards) 3) better compatibility with Office
1) Its a chinese Mmorpg, the laws in the US and europe would probably prevent a webcam verfication policy 2) Unless the avatar is using deception to commit fraud, most western mmorpgs care more about the subscription fees.
All that would happen is that vendors like dell would simply be required to offer alternate operating systems to their european customers pre-loaded. It doesnt mean they are required to support these operating systems and they can still say "we recommend windows whatever". What might happen is that dell might actually ask their hardware suppliers to provide linux drivers which could be a good thing.
Maybe the cable companies could simply send their basic channels over QAM in the clear so all you need is a QAM compatible converter box(which already exist and QAM is already part of the tuner of many digital tvs) That way the cable companies could simply offer cheap QAM boxes to their customers without having to give them the full featured digital cable box.
The market for this computer is not for people with SDTV's but EDTV's (480p) A 720x480p tv set with component video would make a perfectly acceptable computer monitor for people without a lot of money.
Post digital switchover most small cheap tv sets will be 480p not 1080 or 720.
I read the book, the final story in the anthology does have the computers taking over the running of the world.
I thought the "I robot" film was more realistic in its takeover scenario than the book was with its silly benign utopian vision. Three laws robots are a pain in the butt, Zeroth law robots are a threat to human freedom.
A zeroth law computer might decide that humanity would be its best with a population of 1 billion, and then decide to exterminate or sterilize the other 5 billion as a necessary measure.
HD-DVD or blue-ray over component video?
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Blue Blu-ray
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Millions of us bought HDtvs with component video ports before HDMI came out. I have 1080i but neither blue-ray nor hd-dvd will give me a signal higher than 480p.
The truth is most people with PS3's dont even have hdtvs since many ps3s were bought without either hdmi or component video cables.
When I can get a blue-ray or hd-dvd that plays 1080i over component video for under $200 thats the standard Ill buy.
I just bought an HP A6110N which is an X2 4400 system. I have my SATA booting windows and I installed a 120gb IDE drive from my old system booting linux switchable in bios. It only has 1 PATA port so its primarily for legacy. I suspect a number of manufacturers will keep an ide port for legacy purposes at least on towers.
Why should we expect aliens flying spacecraft to be more competent than humans driving cars or flying small personal aircraft?
There is no evidence that the roswell craft assuming it existed was anything more than a small landing craft quite possibly incapable of interstellar flight. Likewise most human being flying on space shuttle or commercial aircraft could not pilot the craft to literally save their life.
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1) People find out in their newspaper their tv wont work after next year
2) They get the tv converter box for $50
3) They continue to watch tv on their 20 year old RCA set with their new fangled box
4) They tell all their friends about how they are able to get 30 channels of digital tv for free!
5) Lifeline cable customers cancel their packages because they get a better picture from OTA digital than from 10 channel cable
6) life goes on
IBM will spend more money on this lawsuit than they get...
This is not about generic batteries, if Shentech sold "Ibm compatible" batteries
that melted and burned then Ibm would say "not our battery...not our problem". Plenty
of companies legitimately sell 3rd party ibm compatible batteries of reasonable quality.
Shentech was supposedly selling counterfeit batteries with ibm logos.
Its about
1) Protecting their public image
2) Protecting their trademark
3) Protecting customers who are trying to buy legitimate ibm sold/authorized products
Anyone comparing this to RIAA is a clueless moron.
IBM has spent 70 years developing a sqeaky clean reputation. Heck they even spent money
developing linux products. When ibm products malfunction because of ibms mistake they just
replace things free of charge.
They have enough problems with legitmate batteries made by sony
They deserve to put counterfeiters heads on pikes...these counterfeiters are potentially
injuring ibms customers.
Maybe its more like this
Harvard- 350 year history, $2 billion endowment, alumni include Senators, supreme court justices, some of the
best lawyers in the country.
RIAA: Hello Harvard, we want you to hand over the names of students and put our filters on your internet access
Harvard President: No
RIAA: If you dont we'll sue
Harvard President: (chuckle) Let me think about that, who do we know that went to our school.
(checks the alumni directory)
John Roberts
Antonin Scalia
David Souter
Anthony Kennedy
Asus is already coming out with the EEE pc, so intel will have to keep making classmates.
There is a market in the US for $200 laptops, in classrooms if nothing else.
The ability to have a laptop cart with 20 laptops for under 5k instead of the normal $25000
is a disruptive technology.
If XO does nothing else but bring down the cost of laptops for people around the world..then
Mr. Negroponte deserves our gratitude.
The last time I checked Taiwan is a multiparty democratic capitalist country with a
GDP per capita of $29,600. The only people who claim Taiwan is part of PRC is the PRC
and people who dont know geography
They do have factories in China just like every american manufacturer but the
corporation and the chips are from Taiwan.
I kind of resent the implication that veterans day is a political holiday. I oppose
the war in iraq, I do not read WND but Veterans day is important.
The reason it was changed from armistice day to veterans day in the US was to honor the
veterans of world war II and Korea.
Maybe we could put aside the crass partisan catcalling for a day and remember that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist)
For god's sake the man has his own wikipedia entry!
1) The first firewall
2) Altavista
3) the Alt hierarchy on usenet
and they fire him 9 days before the IPO announcement...
COME ON!
This is the same administration...
1) Staged faked news conferences and failed to tell the real reporters
2) Cant decide whether waterboarding is torture
These people will do anything they are allowed to until they are told no and
sometimes even after they are told no.
There is a way around this, if a court says the ISP agreement is what creates
or does not create a reasonable expectation of privacy then the day after
the court rules as such then I will tell my ISP either they change their ISP
agreement to say that my emails are private and will only be disclosed upon a valid
court order or I will find a new ISP that will do so.
A 35 year old is not a baby boomer Anyone born in the 68-82 is generation X.
;-)
Which includes
Gwen Stefani
Cameron Diaz
Drew Barrymore
This is not your moms generation this is your younger hot stepmoms generation
I have 1400x1050 resolution on my laptop...I never knew that...holy crap!
Ubuntu is great!
The latitude c600 only does 1024x768
Hey my old creative webcam works in Ubuntu 7.1, holy crap! :)
I have a Vista Desktop and a Linux Laptop. I recently switched my laptop from Suse Linux 10.3 to Ubuntu 7.1 for my laptop not for the moral reasons or any particular
"open source" mantra but because Ubuntu now that they offer some proprietary "restricted" software works BETTER than suse.
I can use Skype on linux laptop just like I do on my windows desktop, and I use openoffice on both too.
Many, many people do not use their laptop as a "desktop replacement" for them a laptop is something you use to
write letters, send email , surf the net and other basic stuff you do when your away from home.. Sound familiar?
I can even watch youtube and listen to mp3s.
Linux is BETTER for laptops(especially older laptops) than Vista BY FAR. I can run the latest version of Ubuntu 7.1
VERY WELL on a 1 ghz Dell C600 laptop with 512mb of memory...try doing that with vista.
Im glad Ubuntu folks finally got their head out of their ass and realized this. The little things like wireless drivers
for intel cards make ALL the difference.
Ubuntu 7.1 should have been Ubuntu 8.0 because its a quantum leap over 7.04...its that much better.
The only thing I cant get working with ubuntu...yet is usb webcams
Amen
They use outlook express or thunderbird or webmail or AOL clients. Many home users dont even both to configure standalone email clients anymore their
webmail clients are "good enough"
I dont understand this obsession about overtaking microsoft office in businesses.
If you ask what most people would like to see in Openoffice.
Speed is not the problem for most openoffice users. On my reasonably new desktop writer opens within 3 seconds.
1) Desktop/Web publishing (a replacement for Publisher) the most common activity done by people at home other than writing letters.
2) More polished Presentations(more clip art, more templates, better designed wizards)
3) better compatibility with Office
1) Its a chinese Mmorpg, the laws in the US and europe would probably prevent a webcam verfication policy
2) Unless the avatar is using deception to commit fraud, most western mmorpgs care more about the subscription fees.
All that would happen is that vendors like dell would simply be required to offer alternate operating systems to their european customers pre-loaded.
It doesnt mean they are required to support these operating systems and they can still say "we recommend windows whatever". What might happen is that dell
might actually ask their hardware suppliers to provide linux drivers which could be a good thing.
Maybe the cable companies could simply send their basic channels over QAM in the clear so all you need is a QAM compatible converter box(which already exist
and QAM is already part of the tuner of many digital tvs)
That way the cable companies could simply offer cheap QAM boxes to their customers without having to give them the full featured digital cable box.
The market for this computer is not for people with SDTV's but EDTV's (480p)
A 720x480p tv set with component video would make a perfectly acceptable computer monitor
for people without a lot of money.
Post digital switchover most small cheap tv sets will be 480p not 1080 or 720.
Thats not quite the case.
I read the book, the final story in the anthology does have the computers taking over the running of the world.
I thought the "I robot" film was more realistic in its takeover scenario than the book was with its silly
benign utopian vision. Three laws robots are a pain in the butt, Zeroth law robots are a threat to human freedom.
A zeroth law computer might decide that humanity would be its best with a population of 1 billion, and then decide
to exterminate or sterilize the other 5 billion as a necessary measure.
Millions of us bought HDtvs with component video ports before HDMI came out.
I have 1080i but neither blue-ray nor hd-dvd will give me a signal higher than 480p.
The truth is most people with PS3's dont even have hdtvs since many ps3s were bought
without either hdmi or component video cables.
When I can get a blue-ray or hd-dvd that plays 1080i over component video for under
$200 thats the standard Ill buy.
I just bought an HP A6110N which is an X2 4400 system. I have my SATA booting windows and I installed a 120gb IDE drive from my old system booting linux switchable in bios. It only has 1 PATA port so its primarily for legacy. I suspect a number of manufacturers will keep an ide port for legacy purposes at least on towers.
Why should we expect aliens flying spacecraft to be more competent than humans driving cars or flying small personal aircraft?
There is no evidence that the roswell craft assuming it existed was anything more than a small landing craft
quite possibly incapable of interstellar flight. Likewise most human being flying on space shuttle or commercial
aircraft could not pilot the craft to literally save their life.
You dont have to buy the entire country you just buy the government.
buy it completely. Google cant afford South Africa...it can probably afford Kenya.
The GDP of south africa is 201 billion, The GDP of Kenya is 17 billion, the Net worth of Google 150 billion.