Steve Ballmer is more than happy to play along with Murdoch because although a deal with News Corps would reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business, it would inflict far more damage on Google than on Microsoft
That is because Microsoft looks further down the road then most, and has the money to fund the 'short term loss' required to outlast your competition in a war of attrition. Much in the same way that they look at the various fines being levied against them for unfair practices. its just another business expense.
So does package management. Video, networking, performance.... The FreeBSD was much more organized environment then the feathered alternative was at the time, which is why I also switched over back in the 4.x days.
Sure, everyone has advanced over the years, but i still haven't seen many reasons to leave the bsd camp.
Shouldn't one be able to believe the story summary? If not, why even bother having them?
And yes, unless its classified, it is in the American pubic domain on day one since it was paid for by US citizens. However that doesn't mean you cant sell a copy for the cost of 'printing', sort of like the GPL. Even the government often charges a 'reproduction fee' when you order documents directly.
Some would argue that since we get the same basic results from either party, we really have a one party system and its all smoke and mirrors between the 2.
I didn't say ban prepaid. I said ban *anonymous* prepaid. I can see them requiring ID to buy a device, and then track additional minutes you buy back to a particular device.
And require all devices to be registered, with clients shimmed into your ip stack being required to access anything online. This is where it will end up. Everyone will be running something like the old netzero client.. ack.
Remember only terrorists and pirates want to be anonymous... You have nothing to hide.. do you ?
It's just out of the question that a single user would be worth $150 for Google.
Unless there is more going on here then we know.
I have always questioned Googles goals and funding sources anyway. Giving away laptops like this wouldn't surprise me in the slightest and only serve to get them closer to their end goal agenda ( whatever that really is.. ).
Flawed analogy. And a very different issue. Your vehicle physically wears out, even just sitting there. Rubber gets brittle, hoses and belts crack, rust appears on all exposed metal parts. Normal use wears bearings, shafts, gears, cylinders, valves. Thus its value declines physically. Software is not like that at all. In fact, ASUS just sticks a sticker on and loads the software from a master. It's not like they take back your windows license and resell it as a "pre-owned" license. Rather they give you your $6 and then turn around and put a nice new version on a new computer and charge the full $45.
Are they actually charging, or is it just passed along from Microsoft as a 'license fee'? With all the funny stuff that goes on with OEMs, i was just curious.
But almost everyone is using a strawman (as Microsoft is). The point is not to replace Windows, it's an OS for web surfing. It's not for playing World of Warcraft, doing heavy photo editing, video editing, etc. >
But you forget that Microsoft is considering ( already? ) moving in that direction with the desktop, so while its not an issue today, if Google gets there first, it will hinder their long term roadmap plans.
Also, not that I'm interested in 'yet another webOS', but i find it sort of interesting that all the big players are slamming this so quickly. Are they scared?
Personally, I was offered $250 by my company's health insurance plan if I signed something that said I had not used tobacco products in the past 6 months. I hadn't but a few years ago I had (what I was told) were Cuban cigars in Mexico. Those friends put pictures of me on Facebook smoking them. So what? Well, if they found contrary evidence to my claim, I faced having my insurance terminated. Not worth the $250. Be aware of what Facebook puts on display for the world--even if you think it's private it's usually not. I mean, it could be as inane as some coworker who doesn't like her sees her other friend at work tagged in a photo with 'depressed' coworker on leave and decided to copy what photos they could see and forward them on to the insurance company?
Or even a "photoshop" of you smoking.. With the quality of the pictures often posted, might be impossible to prove it in either direction.
Perhaps for people that think a quality watch is a 2 dollar walmart special will migrate to their cellphone, but for those of us that still appreciate a quality ( normally mechanical ) timepiece, they will continue to wear a watch.
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Steve Ballmer is more than happy to play along with Murdoch because although a deal with News Corps would reduce the basic profitability of Microsoft's search business, it would inflict far more damage on Google than on Microsoft
That is because Microsoft looks further down the road then most, and has the money to fund the 'short term loss' required to outlast your competition in a war of attrition. Much in the same way that they look at the various fines being levied against them for unfair practices. its just another business expense.
Sound works
So does package management. Video, networking, performance.... The FreeBSD was much more organized environment then the feathered alternative was at the time, which is why I also switched over back in the 4.x days.
Sure, everyone has advanced over the years, but i still haven't seen many reasons to leave the bsd camp.
The iphone, well, its a phone...
Has just gone out the window. Lowest common denominator laws win.
Shouldn't one be able to believe the story summary? If not, why even bother having them?
And yes, unless its classified, it is in the American pubic domain on day one since it was paid for by US citizens. However that doesn't mean you cant sell a copy for the cost of 'printing', sort of like the GPL. Even the government often charges a 'reproduction fee' when you order documents directly.
For the rest of us, since only one lucky person will get the dead tree prize.
Are some people more equal than others?
Bingo.
I mean google does something similar for China wrt search results, how long before it spreads worldwide?
It already has, but most people don't notice something that is gone that they don't even knew existed
I don't know what is Where was this response when the 'bush monkey' pictures were all the rage? Oh, that's right, he's white.
Geesh, is that misconception ever going to die?
Some would argue that since we get the same basic results from either party, we really have a one party system and its all smoke and mirrors between the 2.
He is with the federal government.
Why? They can just buy the laws to criminalize it, then use your tax dollars to enforce it.
You don't have that right if the laws don't give it to you. Don't like the laws, move elsewhere.
I didn't say ban prepaid. I said ban *anonymous* prepaid. I can see them requiring ID to buy a device, and then track additional minutes you buy back to a particular device.
And require all devices to be registered, with clients shimmed into your ip stack being required to access anything online. This is where it will end up. Everyone will be running something like the old netzero client .. ack.
Remember only terrorists and pirates want to be anonymous... You have nothing to hide.. do you ?
It's just out of the question that a single user would be worth $150 for Google.
Unless there is more going on here then we know.
I have always questioned Googles goals and funding sources anyway. Giving away laptops like this wouldn't surprise me in the slightest and only serve to get them closer to their end goal agenda ( whatever that really is.. ).
You beat me to it, but just wanted to add that it really is that simple and is perfect for the situation in question.
Flawed analogy. And a very different issue. Your vehicle physically wears out, even just sitting there. Rubber gets brittle, hoses and belts crack, rust appears on all exposed metal parts. Normal use wears bearings, shafts, gears, cylinders, valves. Thus its value declines physically. Software is not like that at all. In fact, ASUS just sticks a sticker on and loads the software from a master. It's not like they take back your windows license and resell it as a "pre-owned" license. Rather they give you your $6 and then turn around and put a nice new version on a new computer and charge the full $45.
Are they actually charging, or is it just passed along from Microsoft as a 'license fee'? With all the funny stuff that goes on with OEMs, i was just curious.
But almost everyone is using a strawman (as Microsoft is). The point is not to replace Windows, it's an OS for web surfing. It's not for playing World of Warcraft, doing heavy photo editing, video editing, etc. >
But you forget that Microsoft is considering ( already? ) moving in that direction with the desktop, so while its not an issue today, if Google gets there first, it will hinder their long term roadmap plans.
Huh... really now..
Also, not that I'm interested in 'yet another webOS', but i find it sort of interesting that all the big players are slamming this so quickly. Are they scared?
Personally, I was offered $250 by my company's health insurance plan if I signed something that said I had not used tobacco products in the past 6 months. I hadn't but a few years ago I had (what I was told) were Cuban cigars in Mexico. Those friends put pictures of me on Facebook smoking them. So what? Well, if they found contrary evidence to my claim, I faced having my insurance terminated. Not worth the $250. Be aware of what Facebook puts on display for the world--even if you think it's private it's usually not. I mean, it could be as inane as some coworker who doesn't like her sees her other friend at work tagged in a photo with 'depressed' coworker on leave and decided to copy what photos they could see and forward them on to the insurance company?
Or even a "photoshop" of you smoking.. With the quality of the pictures often posted, might be impossible to prove it in either direction.
Do not negate depression. They ever think for a moment it might have been temporary, or even faked to 'fit in' with her friends?
Perhaps for people that think a quality watch is a 2 dollar walmart special will migrate to their cellphone, but for those of us that still appreciate a quality ( normally mechanical ) timepiece, they will continue to wear a watch.
Virtual was my first thought too.
Just p2v his entire data center first, then work on 'upgrades' from there.
Odd, the story called it a WORM.. which it is.