Paul Allen owns (for the most part) Charter Communications, cable industry...number 3 M$ stockholder(?). Adelphia going into bankruptcy...Mr. Allen can step in here.
Can you say inexpensive cable company? I thought you could!
Meanwhile Mr. Bill and Mr. Steve back at the ranch start putting in this TIVO-type device; oh, and the OS for the set top boxes over at Charter...we'll get that for you Paul. Those pesky cable users that don't have Paul's service, well, we need their info, too...ah, bury it into the TIVO. "Add some more features, right Igor (oops, I mean Steve)?"
M$ is willing to lose money 'til then end of time on XBox...but I think that we all know M$ generally does nothing for free without some way to spin off cash being buried deep in the darkness.
What would the purpose be?
"The circle is complete, Ben Kenobi."
Because they get to trap the only missing user information that they do not currently get and send in back for better targeted marketing purposes? Imagine M$ now having access to what everyone does on the Net, the games they play, the music you listen to (attention Digital Rights fans), and the TV you watch? Add this all into Gates vision with Longhorn (database access to everything on your computer in a handy dandy, M$-way) and they own all the keys to the kingdom. There will be nowhere that you go that these boys aren't involved with. I would be very curious as to when Xbox's will start requesting downloads which will also send back information to M$. Nothing personal information will be sent, of course.
I've got IBM SCSI drives running raid5 in w2k servers. When they shut down (if I use the restart option) they go into failed mode. IBM, after having to pull teeth, gave me the microcode to do firmware upgrades; this was a known issue with my Adaptec 2100 series card and these drives.
What happens to people who need access to this type of stuff? Can't imagine Hitachi wants the tech support hassles...
This seems to be a better idea...what would happen if the sysadmin "expires" prior to the software? Company shuts down? These things must be able to carry on without us...
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Paul Allen owns (for the most part) Charter Communications, cable industry...number 3 M$ stockholder(?). Adelphia going into bankruptcy...Mr. Allen can step in here. Can you say inexpensive cable company? I thought you could!
Meanwhile Mr. Bill and Mr. Steve back at the ranch start putting in this TIVO-type device; oh, and the OS for the set top boxes over at Charter...we'll get that for you Paul. Those pesky cable users that don't have Paul's service, well, we need their info, too...ah, bury it into the TIVO. "Add some more features, right Igor (oops, I mean Steve)?"
M$ is willing to lose money 'til then end of time on XBox...but I think that we all know M$ generally does nothing for free without some way to spin off cash being buried deep in the darkness.
What would the purpose be?
"The circle is complete, Ben Kenobi."
Because they get to trap the only missing user information that they do not currently get and send in back for better targeted marketing purposes? Imagine M$ now having access to what everyone does on the Net, the games they play, the music you listen to (attention Digital Rights fans), and the TV you watch? Add this all into Gates vision with Longhorn (database access to everything on your computer in a handy dandy, M$-way) and they own all the keys to the kingdom. There will be nowhere that you go that these boys aren't involved with. I would be very curious as to when Xbox's will start requesting downloads which will also send back information to M$. Nothing personal information will be sent, of course.
No Xbox, please.
Plastics.
I've got IBM SCSI drives running raid5 in w2k servers. When they shut down (if I use the restart option) they go into failed mode. IBM, after having to pull teeth, gave me the microcode to do firmware upgrades; this was a known issue with my Adaptec 2100 series card and these drives. What happens to people who need access to this type of stuff? Can't imagine Hitachi wants the tech support hassles...
This seems to be a better idea...what would happen if the sysadmin "expires" prior to the software? Company shuts down? These things must be able to carry on without us...