The only conclusion one could come to from looking at this data is that launching a new MMOG today is an exercise in futility. The number of subscribers you can expect is drastically lowered because of the primary first mover Everquest. In short, the barrier to entry for new MMOGs is raised to the point that finding investors willing to take a gamble on your game will be near impossible.
In fact most computers sold today come with Office pre-installed. There is no reason for these people to pirate the software nor install workalikes like OpenOffice.
Likewise, as broadband becomes more ubiquitous and work from home becomes more acceptable, a large number of those people will use VPN/VNC to connect to at-work resources.
The problem has always been that if you buy a corporate license, you expect that you can use the software on all of the work machines. Shouldn't a home-based worker also be counted as having a work machine? Now MS explicitly says this is okay.
It isn't a means of controlling customers and forcing them into the Borg collective (or whatever bad metaphor you want to use here). It's MS's reaction and response to upset customers. MS is what it is because it caters to customer demands.
Software pirates are the main reason these draconian licensing agreements have come into existence. There used to be a time when it was possible to buy a piece of software and be assured that you could move it from machine to machine so long as you only installed it on one machine at a time. Not so now because disreputable companies have taken to installing a single copy of software on all their machines.
What is worse is that there is a large group of people dedicated to making excuses for and promoting these software pirates.
I'm not saying that I like draconian licensing agreements, but it's easy to understand where the impetus to create them comes from when the goodwill of the software publisher is exploited time and again.
This was a report from a government agency to the law-making governmental body. Did you think they'd throw in anything but a defanged, easily disputable con argument?
Spam is simply not profitable enough to last much longer. It is the last of a dying breed of pioneering Internet money-making schemes like the pyramid scheme emails and banner ads. Eventually the spammers will move on to other means of money making because their revenue is guaranteed to drop off as their tactics turn more and more people off.
Instead of fighting the good fight here, the best thing to do is let this dying ember peter out on its own. Forcing spammers to use more drastic tactics just results in them doing more harm in the long run. If there had been no resistance at all, we'd probably be seeing a much more mature and respectable online advertising industry instead of the random, haphazard, and very annoying multitude of spam king wannabes downloading their spam kits and setting up shop.
Anytime a device manufacturer wants to use a Microsoft trademarked logo ("Mira", "Smart Display"), Microsoft gets the right to decide whether the device meets certain requirements.
"Designed for Microsoft Windows XXXX" "Intel Inside" "100% Java compatible" etc.
All of those stickers and labels and icons that you have on your computer got there because they passed certain requirements that the trademark owners felt were necessary.
Anyone could have created Transmeta-based Smart Display workalike but they couldn't call it Smart Display nor could they mention Smart Display anywhere in the product literature.
What they need to do is forget about getting their brand name out there. Just get the chips into the devices and let the ODMs worry about their own brand name. Especially for a thin client like Mira, processing power is the least of the problems; any chip will do. Transmeta will never win going head to head with Intel in the consumer market. They've got to make their chips attractive to ODMs and that's through pricing and production capacity. Unfortunately Transmeta fails it on on both accounts.
It seems like this question has been asked several times in this thread.
Here's the short version:
Mira (Smart Display) is a small, tablet-like device that becomes a remote terminal to a Windows XP machine. It uses wireless networking to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with the XP host. When connected, the Mira device can use all functions of the host PC.
It's like having VPN from anywhere in your house. It sounds like a dumb idea and for 95% of the people out there it probably is, but for the 5% who are left it is a real great technology.
It's laptop power without the heat and power consumption of a full-blown system.
x86 is only one processor supported by the Mira platform.
To say that Transmeta is edging out a giant like Intel who has the PXA255 is just wrong. Transmeta doesn't have any edge in this market whereas Intel certainly does.
Money is the key to end all your woes Your ups, your downs, your highs and your lows Won't you tell me the last time that love bought you clothes? It's like that, and that's the way it is
Those rats are poor little creatures indeed, taking brain tumors for mankind and being dissected after 140 days of life. But like the dying soldier on the battlefield, their deaths have meaning and significance.
I certainly hope this treatment works without problems, but that it is being reported by CNN doesn't really give me much confidence.
Clone after clone after clone. Perhaps all game genres have been tapped out. There just doesn't seem to be anything new out these days, only rehashes of the same old same old.
Drudge Limbaugh Fark MSNBC Slate CNN Natural disasters National disasters etc.
It seems like you're just coming up with questions for the sake of asking a question. That's the epitome of boring. Responding to such a question is only marginally less boring.
Pay per view only makes up a very small portion of the entire media universe. There is no reason to believe that VOD will make significant headway against DVD. DVD, VHS, and CDs have the fundamental benefit of being able to be watched/listened to any time that it is convenient. VOD requires too many infrastructure improvements to be a viable media delivery system for years to come.
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It sounds like a normal Windows install to me! haha!
Mod me up!
The only conclusion one could come to from looking at this data is that launching a new MMOG today is an exercise in futility. The number of subscribers you can expect is drastically lowered because of the primary first mover Everquest. In short, the barrier to entry for new MMOGs is raised to the point that finding investors willing to take a gamble on your game will be near impossible.
50%
75%
90%
99%
What's the magic number, Rosco?
Not true.
In fact most computers sold today come with Office pre-installed. There is no reason for these people to pirate the software nor install workalikes like OpenOffice.
Likewise, as broadband becomes more ubiquitous and work from home becomes more acceptable, a large number of those people will use VPN/VNC to connect to at-work resources.
The problem has always been that if you buy a corporate license, you expect that you can use the software on all of the work machines. Shouldn't a home-based worker also be counted as having a work machine? Now MS explicitly says this is okay.
It isn't a means of controlling customers and forcing them into the Borg collective (or whatever bad metaphor you want to use here). It's MS's reaction and response to upset customers. MS is what it is because it caters to customer demands.
Software pirates are the main reason these draconian licensing agreements have come into existence. There used to be a time when it was possible to buy a piece of software and be assured that you could move it from machine to machine so long as you only installed it on one machine at a time. Not so now because disreputable companies have taken to installing a single copy of software on all their machines.
What is worse is that there is a large group of people dedicated to making excuses for and promoting these software pirates.
I'm not saying that I like draconian licensing agreements, but it's easy to understand where the impetus to create them comes from when the goodwill of the software publisher is exploited time and again.
This was a report from a government agency to the law-making governmental body. Did you think they'd throw in anything but a defanged, easily disputable con argument?
Spam is simply not profitable enough to last much longer. It is the last of a dying breed of pioneering Internet money-making schemes like the pyramid scheme emails and banner ads. Eventually the spammers will move on to other means of money making because their revenue is guaranteed to drop off as their tactics turn more and more people off.
Instead of fighting the good fight here, the best thing to do is let this dying ember peter out on its own. Forcing spammers to use more drastic tactics just results in them doing more harm in the long run. If there had been no resistance at all, we'd probably be seeing a much more mature and respectable online advertising industry instead of the random, haphazard, and very annoying multitude of spam king wannabes downloading their spam kits and setting up shop.
Windows XP only has a single seat license. You won't be able to have two users using the host at the same time.
It's like the MOOs play YOU.
If the game allows you to mold the game to your liking, is the game the final product or the path leading to it?
Your even-handedness and actual knowledge of the issues at hand are confusing and disconcerting to me. Are you sure you're on the right website?
Anytime a device manufacturer wants to use a Microsoft trademarked logo ("Mira", "Smart Display"), Microsoft gets the right to decide whether the device meets certain requirements.
"Designed for Microsoft Windows XXXX"
"Intel Inside"
"100% Java compatible"
etc.
All of those stickers and labels and icons that you have on your computer got there because they passed certain requirements that the trademark owners felt were necessary.
Anyone could have created Transmeta-based Smart Display workalike but they couldn't call it Smart Display nor could they mention Smart Display anywhere in the product literature.
What they need to do is forget about getting their brand name out there. Just get the chips into the devices and let the ODMs worry about their own brand name. Especially for a thin client like Mira, processing power is the least of the problems; any chip will do. Transmeta will never win going head to head with Intel in the consumer market. They've got to make their chips attractive to ODMs and that's through pricing and production capacity. Unfortunately Transmeta fails it on on both accounts.
It seems like this question has been asked several times in this thread.
e valuation/news/fromms/mira.asp
Here's the short version:
Mira (Smart Display) is a small, tablet-like device that becomes a remote terminal to a Windows XP machine. It uses wireless networking to create a Virtual Private Network (VPN) with the XP host. When connected, the Mira device can use all functions of the host PC.
Here's Microsoft's version:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Embedded/ce.NET/
It's like having VPN from anywhere in your house. It sounds like a dumb idea and for 95% of the people out there it probably is, but for the 5% who are left it is a real great technology.
It's laptop power without the heat and power consumption of a full-blown system.
x86 is only one processor supported by the Mira platform.
To say that Transmeta is edging out a giant like Intel who has the PXA255 is just wrong. Transmeta doesn't have any edge in this market whereas Intel certainly does.
Run DMC:
Money is the key to end all your woes
Your ups, your downs, your highs and your lows
Won't you tell me the last time that love bought you clothes?
It's like that, and that's the way it is
Available to all.
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I mean, the windowing subsystem and the networking subsystem should be able to work together, right?
Those rats are poor little creatures indeed, taking brain tumors for mankind and being dissected after 140 days of life. But like the dying soldier on the battlefield, their deaths have meaning and significance.
I certainly hope this treatment works without problems, but that it is being reported by CNN doesn't really give me much confidence.
Clone after clone after clone. Perhaps all game genres have been tapped out. There just doesn't seem to be anything new out these days, only rehashes of the same old same old.
value = pin[0]*1 + pin[1]*2 + pin[2]*4 + pin[3]*8 + pin[4]*16 + pin[5]*32 + pin[6]*64 + pin[7]*128;
And they say Perl looks like line noise.
Drudgel disasters
Limbaugh
Fark
MSNBC
Slate
CNN
Natura
National disasters
etc.
It seems like you're just coming up with questions for the sake of asking a question. That's the epitome of boring. Responding to such a question is only marginally less boring.
You got it backwards.
VOD will die once it is discovered that you can capture video streams.
I don't see it. Would a judge?
Pay per view only makes up a very small portion of the entire media universe. There is no reason to believe that VOD will make significant headway against DVD. DVD, VHS, and CDs have the fundamental benefit of being able to be watched/listened to any time that it is convenient. VOD requires too many infrastructure improvements to be a viable media delivery system for years to come.