What else would they they want other than to conquer a sizable portion of the market?
(Isn't this obvious, as it would be what every big corporation wants?)
(Yes, I forsee the answer "profit" coming too, but for that to matter to Microsoft for the expenditures they put in hyping the thing, they need marketshare.)
With every Zune sold, some of it goes toward the RIAA. Apple (nor any other mp3 player else I know of) doesn't share it's hardware sales with the music industry (rightly so).
This may not be a feature, but it is important to some people. Also, there are a good number of other mp3 players out there, notably iRiver. Apple and MS aren't the only ones to consider.
Right now, it's becoming clear to me that the problem is that the weak chain in the link is that the creditors/banks/etcetera consistently rely on a few lines of data to complete transactions and identify the parties involved, 95% of which is publicly available, the other 5% easily stolen.
I don't know what to do to solve this, any suggestions?
(Way back when, my friend who worked at a Sam Goody used to actually check credit cards when customers bought something on his first day on the job. After the manager caught wind that he denied someone using their friend's mom's credit card, supposedly with permission, he got yelled at and told not to do it again. I can't help but think that the laws are too lax in this area and the industry has little interest fixing it.)
Al-Jeezera news has an audience here. So does Fox News. And CNN.
People already pick out TV/book/magazines that align with their beliefs. The internet is no different.
The only difference is that the "mainstream" (traditional) news can't define what "mainstream" as much as they used to. (If you really want to call the 11 o'clock even news on CBS/NBC/ABC mainstream instead of just corporate and mostly inane.)
Yes, pretty much - I mean I can generally type faster (English) than before and the pain in my wrists went away (it usually happened while typing long letters with QWERTY). For programming, the characters like semicolon, brackets and stuff may be about the same as QWERTY as DVORAK in convenience, as DVORAK was not generally made for that.
It presents no problem on my computers (Ubuntu, Mac OSX, Windows XP) as they all can switch your layout in software. The worst operating system with this is actually Microsoft's because when you switch keyboard layout from the default on the toolbar, it changes it for one application instead of system wide. But this problem only crops up if you have multiple users who use different layouts on the same profile constantly. OS X and Ubuntu is real easy in this regard.
For the benefits of dvorak, I just lost the ability to type fast on terminals and my school's computers which don't let me change the keyboard layout for some idiotic reason (they reimage the computers every login or night anyway). But that is an annoyance I put up with infrequently. If someone wants me to fix their computer, they let me change the layout temporarily anyway, which takes all of 30 seconds on any OS.
Also, forgetting QWERTY may just be my problem - I know people who say they can switch between the 2 layouts like someone speaking English and then Spanish without problem. I may have just willfully forgot it to learn the other layout faster and I certainly don't go out of my way to type QWERTY, which could explain it.
There are other layouts which may be better for you, I just picked dvorak because it was the most common alternative sure to be in every OS. The other alternatives, like NEO or de_ergo may not even be in the computer and you'd have to load it in like a driver - and I didn't want that hassle. Read more about your choices here, though it is a pro-NEO article (written by the guy who invented it):
And that BTW is how Richard Stallman came up with the whole idea that software represented an artificial economy. When in actual practice a good costs: -- a lot to make the first copy of -- very little / nothing to make additional copies of -- a lot per copy for support
Many assembly line products (talking cheaper things here, not cars) can be described this way. Of course, the 2nd rule would be very little as there are always material costs..... but the cost of a copy of software is never nothing either - considering bandwidth and harddrive costs, etcetera. We could list it as very, very small.
The third condition with physical goods would mostly be honoring the warranty, if any.
Like it or not, software can be treated as a per copy product, just like anything else. That makes me appreciate free software all the more.
Interesting you mention typing. I touch-typed with a regular QWERTY keyboard for at least 10 years, and two years back, I switched to the DVORAK layout. These days, people look at me in disbelief if they know I can program computers, but I start fumble with a regular keyboard. My muscle memory has completely changed over to dvorak and I can't type QWERTY worth a damn. I am a relatively quick learner (learned fluent dvorak by forcing it on myself in 8 hours of concentration) too.
My mother used to be fluent in French, being a translator. She hasn't used the language in 20 years. She has almost forgotten it completely as she can't make sentences so easily. (Though I am sure she can get back into it 100x faster than a newcomer).
It is almost like the brain is a muscle. After Terry Shiavo died, the autopsy found that her brain shrunk to the size of grapefruit.
I wonder if there is a correlation of speed of learning and speed of forgetting and the brains that "erase" (or shove aside) old info faster take in new information easier.
It's not just a matter of being smart, but rather being into it. I'm sure programming talk can sound like gibberish to some very smart physicists the first time around.
Pennies are made of zinc, not copper except it's coating which is minimal. Haven't for a while. I don't think the other coins have a significant copper content.
Drain them. All of them if you can. It's not hard. Insulate the ones you can't.
I don't know your exact circumstances - if you live close enough to a friend or neighbor - have them look out the house periodically - I don't know why people try to do a job with technology that can only be accomplished 1/100 as well for 10x the price.
If ebay has shown anything, firstmover status (specifically the domain name attached to it) in the internet is very important - no matter how crappy the service becomes. It becomes very hard to come into the internet later on and take on a sucessful service that is moderately competent at what they do. (I'm still amazed that Google managed to win search away from yahoo because of this).
Google didn't buy a videosharing service, they bought a domain name for that 1.5B. And they are banking that it will be the future of Television on the internet.
I also learned that whenever the oldschool wants in on the internet, they become secondtier (barnes and noble), and if it's a collaboration (modern napster.com), forget about it - the bosses just don't understand what makes a sucessful site or internet service and they'll hamper whatever their employees are trying to put together, much like all the other divisions of Sony hampered the PS3 division until it became compromised to the market.
Youtube is under no threat whatsoever unless they drop the ball themselves.
Is Yahoo also be falling behind Gmail in their webbased mail client (in terms of "customers")?
In order to catch up to Gmail, they had a new interface available in Beta for a while, but IMO it's worse than the original.
And there My Yahoo page is something I configured once and never used again because it was faster searching for the info I want. Maybe they're still stuck with the internet portal idea from the 90s, which itself probably got inspired by AOL or some such.
If the Constitution has one overwhelming flaw, it's that amending it is too hard.
Your perceived flaw is what I consider the greatest thing about the constitution.
The fact that a piece of paper still holds after 200+ for the most part attests to its strength. That it is not followed completely attests to our own flaws (of the court, people putting up with it, etcetera).
Is the off the shelf rugged enough? What happens when they connect to the internet and get a spyware infection? Windows does not have a good reputation in this direction.
Is windows so entrenched in their region that they could not use OO.org or a lightweight office application? Can they read the screen in the sun? Does the more expensive laptop use it's wireless to automatically link up with other laptops?
Once the battery is depleted in a couple years, can they get a replacement battery cheaply? Can they can power (manually crank) the laptop with a seperate device like the OLPC can?
Do you believe in giving people only food, like giving a man a fish, or would you like to give him a useful tool that could help them compete economically and perhaps lead them to self-sufficiency?
look down at MS precisely because it tosses about the word "innovation". The way they toot their own horn, you think they hired marching band. The word seems to be used in the most disappropriate way, where they actually copied the features. And they used that damn word so much and so often, it becomes nearly meaningless.
That alone overshadows everything else they do, including stuff that may actually be innovative.
I have seen Ubuntu use 6 months updates to great advantage - every release just gets better and better because you don't expect too much out of a 6 month update, while MS promises the sky and doesn't release for years on end.
I think MS needs to at least consider a model to one of incremental updates (and I'm not talking security fixes, or SP packs here.) This could turn out to be an advantage to them (especially as I see Linux distros closing the gap with tremendous speed).
Add to this the propensity of large supermarkets (versus a small grocery store such as Aldi) and you can see walking becomes more quickly unreasonable for the average person - because the parking lots alone are 10x bigger than they are in Europe for the neighborhood store (with 10x distance to cover lengthxwidth). That becomes a lot of walking distance. Especially as zoning here tends to seperate commercial and residential so much that the closest house is at least a quarter mile away.
That said, since my store is just 1/2 mile away, I'd love to bike there to get what I need, but the lack of sidewalks and the fast traffic totally unaccustomed to dealing with bikes (it's more like bikes dealing with them), I'm afraid I'd get killed:( (A good friend in middleschool got killed riding a bike on his curvy rural road where he lived - fucking driver hit and ran too, left him for dead in the ditch at the side of the road.)
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The Hulk was utterly mediocre. Wouldn't buy it for $4.99, let alone whatever it is high def movies fetch.
Where are the real classics that I would actually want to see in hi-def?
What else would they they want other than to conquer a sizable portion of the market?
(Isn't this obvious, as it would be what every big corporation wants?)
(Yes, I forsee the answer "profit" coming too, but for that to matter to Microsoft for the expenditures they put in hyping the thing, they need marketshare.)
With every Zune sold, some of it goes toward the RIAA. Apple (nor any other mp3 player else I know of) doesn't share it's hardware sales with the music industry (rightly so).
This may not be a feature, but it is important to some people. Also, there are a good number of other mp3 players out there, notably iRiver. Apple and MS aren't the only ones to consider.
Right now, it's becoming clear to me that the problem is that the weak chain in the link is that the creditors/banks/etcetera consistently rely on a few lines of data to complete transactions and identify the parties involved, 95% of which is publicly available, the other 5% easily stolen.
I don't know what to do to solve this, any suggestions?
(Way back when, my friend who worked at a Sam Goody used to actually check credit cards when customers bought something on his first day on the job. After the manager caught wind that he denied someone using their friend's mom's credit card, supposedly with permission, he got yelled at and told not to do it again. I can't help but think that the laws are too lax in this area and the industry has little interest fixing it.)
Al-Jeezera news has an audience here. So does Fox News. And CNN.
People already pick out TV/book/magazines that align with their beliefs. The internet is no different.
The only difference is that the "mainstream" (traditional) news can't define what "mainstream" as much as they used to. (If you really want to call the 11 o'clock even news on CBS/NBC/ABC mainstream instead of just corporate and mostly inane.)
Yes, pretty much - I mean I can generally type faster (English) than before and the pain in my wrists went away (it usually happened while typing long letters with QWERTY). For programming, the characters like semicolon, brackets and stuff may be about the same as QWERTY as DVORAK in convenience, as DVORAK was not generally made for that.
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It presents no problem on my computers (Ubuntu, Mac OSX, Windows XP) as they all can switch your layout in software. The worst operating system with this is actually Microsoft's because when you switch keyboard layout from the default on the toolbar, it changes it for one application instead of system wide. But this problem only crops up if you have multiple users who use different layouts on the same profile constantly. OS X and Ubuntu is real easy in this regard.
For the benefits of dvorak, I just lost the ability to type fast on terminals and my school's computers which don't let me change the keyboard layout for some idiotic reason (they reimage the computers every login or night anyway). But that is an annoyance I put up with infrequently. If someone wants me to fix their computer, they let me change the layout temporarily anyway, which takes all of 30 seconds on any OS.
Also, forgetting QWERTY may just be my problem - I know people who say they can switch between the 2 layouts like someone speaking English and then Spanish without problem. I may have just willfully forgot it to learn the other layout faster and I certainly don't go out of my way to type QWERTY, which could explain it.
There are other layouts which may be better for you, I just picked dvorak because it was the most common alternative sure to be in every OS. The other alternatives, like NEO or de_ergo may not even be in the computer and you'd have to load it in like a driver - and I didn't want that hassle. Read more about your choices here, though it is a pro-NEO article (written by the guy who invented it):
http://pebbles.schattenlauf.de/layout/index_us.ht
Many assembly line products (talking cheaper things here, not cars) can be described this way. Of course, the 2nd rule would be very little as there are always material costs..... but the cost of a copy of software is never nothing either - considering bandwidth and harddrive costs, etcetera. We could list it as very, very small.
The third condition with physical goods would mostly be honoring the warranty, if any.
Like it or not, software can be treated as a per copy product, just like anything else. That makes me appreciate free software all the more.
often stands to make the most money (margin wise).
Interesting you mention typing. I touch-typed with a regular QWERTY keyboard for at least 10 years, and two years back, I switched to the DVORAK layout. These days, people look at me in disbelief if they know I can program computers, but I start fumble with a regular keyboard. My muscle memory has completely changed over to dvorak and I can't type QWERTY worth a damn. I am a relatively quick learner (learned fluent dvorak by forcing it on myself in 8 hours of concentration) too.
My mother used to be fluent in French, being a translator. She hasn't used the language in 20 years. She has almost forgotten it completely as she can't make sentences so easily. (Though I am sure she can get back into it 100x faster than a newcomer).
It is almost like the brain is a muscle. After Terry Shiavo died, the autopsy found that her brain shrunk to the size of grapefruit.
I wonder if there is a correlation of speed of learning and speed of forgetting and the brains that "erase" (or shove aside) old info faster take in new information easier.
It's not just a matter of being smart, but rather being into it. I'm sure programming talk can sound like gibberish to some very smart physicists the first time around.
Pennies are made of zinc, not copper except it's coating which is minimal. Haven't for a while. I don't think the other coins have a significant copper content.
Why can't the new Federal ID be my passport? Why do I have to carry more crap around?
Um, Von Neumann was a hard-core mathematician.
Drain them. All of them if you can. It's not hard. Insulate the ones you can't.
I don't know your exact circumstances - if you live close enough to a friend or neighbor - have them look out the house periodically - I don't know why people try to do a job with technology that can only be accomplished 1/100 as well for 10x the price.
If ebay has shown anything, firstmover status (specifically the domain name attached to it) in the internet is very important - no matter how crappy the service becomes. It becomes very hard to come into the internet later on and take on a sucessful service that is moderately competent at what they do. (I'm still amazed that Google managed to win search away from yahoo because of this).
Google didn't buy a videosharing service, they bought a domain name for that 1.5B. And they are banking that it will be the future of Television on the internet.
I also learned that whenever the oldschool wants in on the internet, they become secondtier (barnes and noble), and if it's a collaboration (modern napster.com), forget about it - the bosses just don't understand what makes a sucessful site or internet service and they'll hamper whatever their employees are trying to put together, much like all the other divisions of Sony hampered the PS3 division until it became compromised to the market.
Youtube is under no threat whatsoever unless they drop the ball themselves.
Is Yahoo also be falling behind Gmail in their webbased mail client (in terms of "customers")?
In order to catch up to Gmail, they had a new interface available in Beta for a while, but IMO it's worse than the original.
And there My Yahoo page is something I configured once and never used again because it was faster searching for the info I want. Maybe they're still stuck with the internet portal idea from the 90s, which itself probably got inspired by AOL or some such.
Shit happens.
Why does everybody believe they can legislate problems away, especially by taking rights away?
Again, shit happens and will always happen - no matter what.
Your perceived flaw is what I consider the greatest thing about the constitution.
The fact that a piece of paper still holds after 200+ for the most part attests to its strength. That it is not followed completely attests to our own flaws (of the court, people putting up with it, etcetera).
Is the off the shelf rugged enough? What happens when they connect to the internet and get a spyware infection? Windows does not have a good reputation in this direction.
Is windows so entrenched in their region that they could not use OO.org or a lightweight office application? Can they read the screen in the sun? Does the more expensive laptop use it's wireless to automatically link up with other laptops?
Once the battery is depleted in a couple years, can they get a replacement battery cheaply? Can they can power (manually crank) the laptop with a seperate device like the OLPC can?
Do you believe in giving people only food, like giving a man a fish, or would you like to give him a useful tool that could help them compete economically and perhaps lead them to self-sufficiency?
That the PS2 still sells is not surprising at all - it costs only $125 or so, IIRC, and has a library, and with new titles still coming out.
The new systems won't be fully entrenched for at least 2 years.
look down at MS precisely because it tosses about the word "innovation". The way they toot their own horn, you think they hired marching band. The word seems to be used in the most disappropriate way, where they actually copied the features. And they used that damn word so much and so often, it becomes nearly meaningless.
That alone overshadows everything else they do, including stuff that may actually be innovative.
Actually, I'm glad I am not burdened by some proprietary battery, which is almost always the case when they include a rechargeable battery for you.
And $25 sounds steep, I got 4 AAA, 6 AAs, and a charger (all Panasonic, all with a decent aH rating) for $16 at Costco some time back.
It may be more of a question of game depth rather than pure length.
I have seen Ubuntu use 6 months updates to great advantage - every release just gets better and better because you don't expect too much out of a 6 month update, while MS promises the sky and doesn't release for years on end.
I think MS needs to at least consider a model to one of incremental updates (and I'm not talking security fixes, or SP packs here.) This could turn out to be an advantage to them (especially as I see Linux distros closing the gap with tremendous speed).
Add to this the propensity of large supermarkets (versus a small grocery store such as Aldi) and you can see walking becomes more quickly unreasonable for the average person - because the parking lots alone are 10x bigger than they are in Europe for the neighborhood store (with 10x distance to cover lengthxwidth). That becomes a lot of walking distance. Especially as zoning here tends to seperate commercial and residential so much that the closest house is at least a quarter mile away.
That said, since my store is just 1/2 mile away, I'd love to bike there to get what I need, but the lack of sidewalks and the fast traffic totally unaccustomed to dealing with bikes (it's more like bikes dealing with them), I'm afraid I'd get killed:( (A good friend in middleschool got killed riding a bike on his curvy rural road where he lived - fucking driver hit and ran too, left him for dead in the ditch at the side of the road.)