AMD is on the right track and I will tell you why. By supporting 32bit x86 in the Athlong 64 they allow an easy migration to the new 64 bit instruction sets. Then at some point in the future they can start phasing 16 and 32 bit apps out because people will be running on win 64 and It would be more expensive to develop those less efficient apps. It certainly is better then having to force people at some point to just sqitch and incure the cost of new 64 bit software which will be VERY expensive to develop.
In Charter's defense, they have been putting a lot of effort at least here in West Virginia to upgrading their cables to latch on to the broadband market. I have been more then satisfied with my charter access even more then when I had adelphia cable access in morgantown, wv. But every person is different.
Charter isn't that expensive, although I still dislike having to have basic or expanded basic cable before I can have pipeline. On the other hand I got a letter from charter thanking me for being a good customer. They apparently are increasing my bandwidth to 2mbps (from 256kbps) at no additional cost for me until march of 2004. It remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
You know I have never confirmed that, but the start page charter gives you is something like http://charter.msn.com or http://msn.charter.net. Maybe they have a business relationship where msn provides services to charter in exchange for something or other.
Easy enough, I listen to talk radio, or listener supported radio such as KLOVE or Christian Family Radio. The point is valid though the RIAA is going to reap what it sows in the end. After all forcing people to go into debt to pay huge fines over a trivial non destructive infringement of copyright is only going to lead to decreased sales in the end.
Let's face it yahoo and msn messengers were never designed with security in mind. With the advant of worms like blaster the time has come to make sure that messengers are secure. They have a duty to update their protocol as they need to, but there has to come a point where it needs no further updating. I am a Trillian Pro user, and Have had no problems with yahoo since I have seen these messages and I probably never will. These companies need to wake up and try to work together for a change if you ask me.
The more and more I read about these RIAA lawsuits the more it gets the appearance of being a child throwing a tantrum. Let's face it the RIAA profits have decreased as much do to their decrease in producing quality products as it is through these file sharers. They have had plenty of time to grab the internet distribution medium by the horns, but so far have fallen well short of the starting line. The reality is that most companies choose to adapt their business models when they realize they aren't makeing the profits they once did rather then sue their consumers for not buying their products
these are some very good points, but let me add this one addition. What about Radio? It used to be thats how people got their music out, most stations (not all) get advertising dollars to defray operating costs and the artists get very cheap exposure to the public. Guess what If I wanted i can record from a streaming media format just like I can for the Radio, it isnt that hard really. Notice that the RIAA isnt going after people that record from radio broadcasts. The RIAA like MCI-WorldCom and other of these companies needs to take a look at its business model and make changes otherwise they will be gone.
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AMD is on the right track and I will tell you why. By supporting 32bit x86 in the Athlong 64 they allow an easy migration to the new 64 bit instruction sets. Then at some point in the future they can start phasing 16 and 32 bit apps out because people will be running on win 64 and It would be more expensive to develop those less efficient apps. It certainly is better then having to force people at some point to just sqitch and incure the cost of new 64 bit software which will be VERY expensive to develop.
In Charter's defense, they have been putting a lot of effort at least here in West Virginia to upgrading their cables to latch on to the broadband market. I have been more then satisfied with my charter access even more then when I had adelphia cable access in morgantown, wv. But every person is different.
Charter isn't that expensive, although I still dislike having to have basic or expanded basic cable before I can have pipeline. On the other hand I got a letter from charter thanking me for being a good customer. They apparently are increasing my bandwidth to 2mbps (from 256kbps) at no additional cost for me until march of 2004. It remains to be seen what will happen at that point.
You know I have never confirmed that, but the start page charter gives you is something like http://charter.msn.com or http://msn.charter.net. Maybe they have a business relationship where msn provides services to charter in exchange for something or other.
Easy enough, I listen to talk radio, or listener supported radio such as KLOVE or Christian Family Radio. The point is valid though the RIAA is going to reap what it sows in the end. After all forcing people to go into debt to pay huge fines over a trivial non destructive infringement of copyright is only going to lead to decreased sales in the end.
Man that is sad you mean there are people still programming in fortran? Man and I thought learning ada in college was bad.
Let's face it yahoo and msn messengers were never designed with security in mind. With the advant of worms like blaster the time has come to make sure that messengers are secure. They have a duty to update their protocol as they need to, but there has to come a point where it needs no further updating. I am a Trillian Pro user, and Have had no problems with yahoo since I have seen these messages and I probably never will. These companies need to wake up and try to work together for a change if you ask me.
The more and more I read about these RIAA lawsuits the more it gets the appearance of being a child throwing a tantrum. Let's face it the RIAA profits have decreased as much do to their decrease in producing quality products as it is through these file sharers. They have had plenty of time to grab the internet distribution medium by the horns, but so far have fallen well short of the starting line. The reality is that most companies choose to adapt their business models when they realize they aren't makeing the profits they once did rather then sue their consumers for not buying their products
these are some very good points, but let me add this one addition. What about Radio? It used to be thats how people got their music out, most stations (not all) get advertising dollars to defray operating costs and the artists get very cheap exposure to the public. Guess what If I wanted i can record from a streaming media format just like I can for the Radio, it isnt that hard really. Notice that the RIAA isnt going after people that record from radio broadcasts. The RIAA like MCI-WorldCom and other of these companies needs to take a look at its business model and make changes otherwise they will be gone.