The biggest drawback in the phonograph wars on Edison's side was the fact that he thought the consumer wouldn't care who was singing, as long as they got to listen to music. Contrasting this with today's top 20 makes me really wonder if we've changed, or if he was just dense when it came to his customers.
His tech was better fidelity, less backing by popular artists, and less accepted by the public. The book "The Invisible Computer" really does a good job of telling Edison's story, I highly suggest you read it.
Edison's story teaches me that in emerging technology, one must establish a monopoly if there is to be any stability in future markets. If one standard is not a clear winner, the consumer is the clear loser. Consumers will sacrifice quality for market saturation every time.
I mean, if Apple announced that a study found that there was absolutely nothing wrong with slot-loading drives, and did so while you were on the phone with an Apple tech, that'd be ironic. You sir (or madam, I really didn't bother to find out) experienced a coincidence. For more info, check out Dictionary.com's definition of ironic, specifically the "Usage Note".
Obviously, you've never used HotJava before. Wow. Talk about a mediocre browser. IE 2.0 which comes with NT 4 is a better browser than that garbage. Makes even Netscape 4 look good. (that last bit may have been a little too harsh)
A video game is the perfect place for dream matches to happen. The reason is that you don't have to worry about the fan reaction to having Wolverine get trounced by Batman, or the Green Hulk getting beat down by the Green Lantern. Fan backlash would be minimal since it's the fans who are "writing" the outcome. Brilliant!
I concur, for a site that makes anything possible, zombo is free of clutter. The fusion of form and function. Truly awesome. Too bad it's down right now, or you could see for yourself.
But check this out: what if I develop a library, and GPL it when I want to LGPL it? Then any apps I build off of that library have to be GPL too. This is the viral nature of the GPL, if you're not careful, it'll attach itself to more products than you may have intended. I personally don't know why anyone would choose the GPL vs. the LGPL, but my preference is still BSD anyhow.
between Longhorn's Windowing System and Quartz is IE will have it's css extended to allow you to do crap like that to arbitrary windows, so popup ads will be mesmerizing.
the groundwork is in place already. It's only a matter of time before it's applied to the windows themselves.
for MSIE, that is. I can't remember where I read it (and if I'm making it up, I get credit for calling it first;), but MS is supposedly replacing IE with MSN Explorer for your internet exploring needs.
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is to make it unprofitable. It's really not a question of passing appropriate laws as much as combatting it with economics. If a practice doesn't yield dough, it'll die off. (probably to be replaced by something more annoying and worse, but still...) Ignoring it won't work, as the problem will still affect servers and hog bandwidth (hence the name). It really is parallel to the war on drugs. Maybe excessive taxation would work, but it's a global problem, not a local one.
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The biggest drawback in the phonograph wars on Edison's side was the fact that he thought the consumer wouldn't care who was singing, as long as they got to listen to music. Contrasting this with today's top 20 makes me really wonder if we've changed, or if he was just dense when it came to his customers.
I was specifically thinking of his phonograph, with the cylinders and the wax, not the AC/DC debate.
Edison used to round up stray animals and kill them to display the destructive capability of AC--tres creepy.
His tech was better fidelity, less backing by popular artists, and less accepted by the public. The book "The Invisible Computer" really does a good job of telling Edison's story, I highly suggest you read it.
Edison's story teaches me that in emerging technology, one must establish a monopoly if there is to be any stability in future markets. If one standard is not a clear winner, the consumer is the clear loser. Consumers will sacrifice quality for market saturation every time.
Combine with the Sims online and watch the chaos ensue.
I mean, if Apple announced that a study found that there was absolutely nothing wrong with slot-loading drives, and did so while you were on the phone with an Apple tech, that'd be ironic. You sir (or madam, I really didn't bother to find out) experienced a coincidence. For more info, check out Dictionary.com's definition of ironic, specifically the "Usage Note".
"Thanks for the HotJava link though."
Obviously, you've never used HotJava before. Wow. Talk about a mediocre browser. IE 2.0 which comes with NT 4 is a better browser than that garbage. Makes even Netscape 4 look good. (that last bit may have been a little too harsh)
ESPN2 to start broadcasting Madden games. My dad even watched me play Madden 2002 for a few hours after I got it, and he HATES videogames.
Sure you can, but will you provide any warranty?
A video game is the perfect place for dream matches to happen. The reason is that you don't have to worry about the fan reaction to having Wolverine get trounced by Batman, or the Green Hulk getting beat down by the Green Lantern. Fan backlash would be minimal since it's the fans who are "writing" the outcome. Brilliant!
The XBox uses usb, all you need to do is make a cable from a usb cable and an xbox extension cable. Am unsure of the pin order, though.
I concur, for a site that makes anything possible, zombo is free of clutter. The fusion of form and function. Truly awesome. Too bad it's down right now, or you could see for yourself.
But check this out: what if I develop a library, and GPL it when I want to LGPL it? Then any apps I build off of that library have to be GPL too. This is the viral nature of the GPL, if you're not careful, it'll attach itself to more products than you may have intended. I personally don't know why anyone would choose the GPL vs. the LGPL, but my preference is still BSD anyhow.
I was being serious, looks like the last laugh will be on the longhorn users ;)
between Longhorn's Windowing System and Quartz is IE will have it's css extended to allow you to do crap like that to arbitrary windows, so popup ads will be mesmerizing.
the groundwork is in place already. It's only a matter of time before it's applied to the windows themselves.
for MSIE, that is. I can't remember where I read it (and if I'm making it up, I get credit for calling it first ;), but MS is supposedly replacing IE with MSN Explorer for your internet exploring needs.
is to make it unprofitable. It's really not a question of passing appropriate laws as much as combatting it with economics. If a practice doesn't yield dough, it'll die off. (probably to be replaced by something more annoying and worse, but still...) Ignoring it won't work, as the problem will still affect servers and hog bandwidth (hence the name). It really is parallel to the war on drugs. Maybe excessive taxation would work, but it's a global problem, not a local one.
the factory is no more http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/ 20030505/ts_nm/weather_tornadoes_dc_9
aka Tetris Attack, the best SNES game of all time (puzzle anyway).
Looks like I'm gonna have to start saving now, so I can afford the extra controllers...
Do yourself a favor and get MPlayer2 for OSX. It's much better than WMP for OSX.
Well, apparently the guy who replied to me is correct, they've changed the page to be a CRT, not LCD.
here's an interesting one:
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where I found it
A little above the price range, but a good deal.
that Public Key Encryption was the answer to email woes. PK just needs to be adopted across the board.
I thought about writing more, but I really don't see the need to.
I really like the original Xbox controller. The shape is very comfortable.
The main gripe I have about the S is the black and white buttons are not in a position easily found by my fingers.
You get all sorts of great games from Zelda to Splinter Cell.
I think Nintendo has the best exclusive games (Halo aside). Outside of that, all 3 consoles have pretty much the same games nowadays.
Pikmin alone is worth renting a gamecube.
You'll probably be familiar with more characters from Nintendo to reconnect to the whole youth thing, too.
The only downside is you can't play Grand Theft Auto 3.