First off, the government does not grant rights. Rather, the founding documents were worded so that anything the government does not explicitly prohibit is a guaranteed right.
Now, I know that threatens a whole cadre of civil servants, and organizations with 'People' and 'Public Interest' in their title don't like it, because they fundamentally don't trust people's own judgements. But it's the way things are.
I think you're expected to specify a vendor with in all requests of capacitors with Compaq. I am not sure if they use cheap aluminum Nichicon parts still. They should be using AVX parts, but then they're cheap mothers.
Pray to the Gods of 'protect us from what we don't understand well.' heh.
Back when I was a board troubleshooter at a company with notorious quality problems I used to scoff at the dogmatic ESD protection rules they implemented. Lord help us from mandatory wrist-strap policies at stations where only bipolar assemblies are being worked on. It's cheaper to invoke a near-religious fear in the staff than to properly educate them. I used to chime in at 'ESD Protection Pep-Rallies' that it isn't the 100,000 volts that does the damage, but the charge behind said voltage.
Still, there's no reason not go overboard when it comes to the general public, especially when there's money to be made. Surge protectors and UPS boxes are big markup items in many stores.
Last week I received a shipment of used Pentium chips I bought from a complete idiot. They were nicely sealed in a fresh anti-static bag, but inside the bag I found them all pressed into a big hunk of regular white styrofoam, a notorious source of static charge. I hope they are going to be okay processors, but I'm not betting on it. I only paid $5.50 for all seven. Some QA staff at a place I once worked were reprimanded for doing something similar with a whole batch of expensive SRAM chips they shipped back to a vendor stuck in white styro.
I've seen single resistors sealed in ESD protection bags at surplus stores. Then again, with that kind of ninnys running the project, it isn't surprising that their parts all ended up in the bin at a surplus store.
Yeah, but running an overcloxored processor so fast that the refrigeration unit makes the floor studs in the room it's in shake....
My brother-in-law has one of those machines that sound like a rocket engine. He's proud he didn't buy Intel, cuz he's sockin' it to The Man. Damn it's noisy.
Is it true that black faceplate peripherals are the profit center that serves as equivalent to the deluxe stock in-dash radio at the car dealership? My friend's Delta 88 had the deluxe 8-Track player in it, years back....
Elvis wasn't black. He just became famous because he was white and sang like a black man, back when white people wouldn't allow black people to perform for them.
Yes, but Netscape 'going open source' amounted to the same kind of openness that a fish encounters on the dock. I have come to see 'open sourcing' a formerly closed project as similar to a fisherman 'opening' a fish with a knife.
The reason this story was posted to the front page twice is that people like me, who have all the (Apple) topics blocked from view (this is supposed to be a geek/hacker website, for gods sake!) will still see news about it. I scrolled down the front page and no, I didn't see the first posting of the story.
(I know, mod this to flamebait. Anything that picks on Apple should be marked flamebait because Apple zealots are such little torchboys.)
It doesn't have firewire support. It doesn't have power management.
It may as well only communicate to the user over a serial port.
"Uh, I pull that VT-100 terminal around on a wagon behind me so I can run a Bash shell session on my iPod."
heh
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That, and you'll have to carry a stopwatch, since there's no power management. 'Oops, the stopwatch says it's been running for two hours, I'd better put it on the charger.'
And the lack of firewire support. Well, that's a trivial feature on the iPod, right?
I guess I'd like you to provide a few examples where Microsoft ran a competitor out of business by bundling a feature for free and then later started charging for it.
An example of them bundling something is that they provided a defrag tool that some could say has cut into Norton/Symantec's market. But they licensed that defrag tool from Symantec. And they haven't started charging extra for it.
Really, I am trying to come up with an example of what you are claiming, but I can't. I suspect you're blowing smoke.
It might have been easier to just sell the Xbox as a cheap PC to begin with...?
Yes, but Microsoft can't afford to be perceived as a competitor by the OEMs who bundle Windows on their hardware. That was part of the reason OS/2 failed. IBM was the OS/2 vendor, and a company like Compaq had no enthusiasm at all to pay a software tax on every unit sold with OS/2 to one of their competitors in the hardware market. So Microsoft is wise to not compete. They sell nice mice and keyboards, but they stay out of the markets their OEMs are in.
Multiple-media releases were a stocking nightmare for the retailer. A better solution would be for there to be an additional DVD disk in the package, but that would make the total package significantly more expensive.
A small amount of potting epoxy or some other conformal coating will do fine. Really, it's surprising they haven't already started using such methods. It would actually be a value add, people could spill coke in their XBox and not stop buying games.
AMD 'can't get no respect' so their only markets are the cheap consumer-line brandname boxes and the screwdriver shops.
So their position of the their new 64 bit line is all they're capable of. There's just no way they're going to penetrate the high end market, at least not in the short term.
I remember when AMD was a company with cool high end parts with technical respectability. The old bit slice processor line. But that was decades ago.
The Grateful Dead's albums actually sold fairly poorly. It's common knowledge that they were a 'live' band not an 'album' band, and deadheads swapped concert tapes. Very few Dead albums were ever sold, and the freedom they gave their fans to record their music didn't promote album sales at all.
So they were successful at selling tickets to live performances, which the RIAA and the Music Recording Industry could care two hoots about.
1) people sample music by hearing it on radio 2) they like it and buy the cd 3) profit
There's nothing there new in people downloading it over the internet except they don't have to sit around waiting for it to come on the radio. In fact, they don't even have to go to the store and buy the CD.
Why aren't they selling DVDs filled with music videos, interviews, lyrics, kareokee(sp?) and what not rather than simple music CDs for so much?
Because the 'install base' the music industry sells to is slow moving. People still have those funny CD audio players. You know, the plain old ones that just have speaker or headphone output. They're selling them all over the place. They're so cheap these days that they pile them in front of the checkouts at the supermarket.
It took about a decade for retail shops to phase out LP albums. Audio CDs aren't going to disappear overnight.
Actually, I feel that there's already a convergence happening, for most general purpose uses of the computer. Hardware has always ran far ahead of the software that's run on it. Frankly, most of the install base of processors now in place will serve the people who own it fine for the forseeable future. The software needs to get better, and it is, slowly. For 'desktop use' I don't know of anybody who's bought a machine in the last 12 months who is now saying 'damn, this isn't fast enough anymore.' That may be true for some people who play games, but let's face it, the code most people run on their machines is sub-optimal, yet it does most of the things they want to do.
Still, if you want to be an optomist, and/or you're in the sales business and need that annual 20% growth thing to pay for your summer home, keep talkin' grow-grow-grow. Maybe you're right. It's not likely growth will be exponential. Ever heard of market saturation? Compaq-HP/IBM/Dell/Gateway sure have.
Sun can't sustain themselves as a company if all they sell is the limited number of boxes with 72 processors with 8MB of L2 cache and 576 GB of RAM. Nobody is buying Sun desktops, and fewer people all the time are buying Mid-sized Sun boxes. There are legacy engineering apps for Sparc, but it's not a market segment where Sparc is growing.
I have a medium-sized collection of almost all the older desktop Sparc hardware, and I think it's really cool, really good stuff. But it's from the past.
Yes, but this is Slashdot, where everybody thinks the computing world is centered on ATX motherboards and framerates in 3D games.
'Go hotdog, go!' says the fanboy, on his overclocked box. The case is painted black, the LEDs have all been upgraded to blue, and it has an orange racing stripe.
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Clearly there should be a minimum price that vendors are allowed to charge. Committes should be formed, and the price lists compiled.
Please don't interfere in the work of the committee, citizen. They are acting in your interest.
Now its getting to the point that you have to pay out the yazoo Just for something that works to spec!
Have you ever tried to actually get specs on most cheap consumer devices?
"Where's the product spec on this device?"
"Ummm, have you checked the power cord?"
First off, the government does not grant rights. Rather, the founding documents were worded so that anything the government does not explicitly prohibit is a guaranteed right.
Now, I know that threatens a whole cadre of civil servants, and organizations with 'People' and 'Public Interest' in their title don't like it, because they fundamentally don't trust people's own judgements. But it's the way things are.
"Pay no attention to the chips on the board! Here, look at this shiney blue led."
I think you're expected to specify a vendor with in all requests of capacitors with Compaq. I am not sure if they use cheap aluminum Nichicon parts still. They should be using AVX parts, but then they're cheap mothers.
Ah, a marketing opportunity.
Pray to the Gods of 'protect us from what we don't understand well.' heh.
Back when I was a board troubleshooter at a company with notorious quality problems I used to scoff at the dogmatic ESD protection rules they implemented. Lord help us from mandatory wrist-strap policies at stations where only bipolar assemblies are being worked on. It's cheaper to invoke a near-religious fear in the staff than to properly educate them. I used to chime in at 'ESD Protection Pep-Rallies' that it isn't the 100,000 volts that does the damage, but the charge behind said voltage.
Still, there's no reason not go overboard when it comes to the general public, especially when there's money to be made. Surge protectors and UPS boxes are big markup items in many stores.
Last week I received a shipment of used Pentium chips I bought from a complete idiot. They were nicely sealed in a fresh anti-static bag, but inside the bag I found them all pressed into a big hunk of regular white styrofoam, a notorious source of static charge. I hope they are going to be okay processors, but I'm not betting on it. I only paid $5.50 for all seven. Some QA staff at a place I once worked were reprimanded for doing something similar with a whole batch of expensive SRAM chips they shipped back to a vendor stuck in white styro.
I've seen single resistors sealed in ESD protection bags at surplus stores. Then again, with that kind of ninnys running the project, it isn't surprising that their parts all ended up in the bin at a surplus store.
Yeah, but running an overcloxored processor so fast that the refrigeration unit makes the floor studs in the room it's in shake....
My brother-in-law has one of those machines that sound like a rocket engine. He's proud he didn't buy Intel, cuz he's sockin' it to The Man. Damn it's noisy.
Is it true that black faceplate peripherals are the profit center that serves as equivalent to the deluxe stock in-dash radio at the car dealership? My friend's Delta 88 had the deluxe 8-Track player in it, years back....
Elvis wasn't black. He just became famous because he was white and sang like a black man, back when white people wouldn't allow black people to perform for them.
Yes, but Netscape 'going open source' amounted to the same kind of openness that a fish encounters on the dock. I have come to see 'open sourcing' a formerly closed project as similar to a fisherman 'opening' a fish with a knife.
It's almost always a dead fish.
The reason this story was posted to the front page twice is that people like me, who have all the (Apple) topics blocked from view (this is supposed to be a geek/hacker website, for gods sake!) will still see news about it. I scrolled down the front page and no, I didn't see the first posting of the story.
(I know, mod this to flamebait. Anything that picks on Apple should be marked flamebait because Apple zealots are such little torchboys.)
It doesn't have firewire support. It doesn't have power management.
It may as well only communicate to the user over a serial port.
"Uh, I pull that VT-100 terminal around on a wagon behind me so I can run a Bash shell session on my iPod."
heh
That, and you'll have to carry a stopwatch, since there's no power management. 'Oops, the stopwatch says it's been running for two hours, I'd better put it on the charger.'
And the lack of firewire support. Well, that's a trivial feature on the iPod, right?
I guess I'd like you to provide a few examples where Microsoft ran a competitor out of business by bundling a feature for free and then later started charging for it.
An example of them bundling something is that they provided a defrag tool that some could say has cut into Norton/Symantec's market. But they licensed that defrag tool from Symantec. And they haven't started charging extra for it.
Really, I am trying to come up with an example of what you are claiming, but I can't. I suspect you're blowing smoke.
(remember that not everyone have broadband)
I don't have broadband. It isn't available here.
I have a headless NetBSD box running a NAT server. Every machine in our house has ethernet, and every machine is connected to the net.
You aren't seriously going to propose that people dial onto the net directly with their gaming console, are you? Geez.
Yes, but Microsoft can't afford to be perceived as a competitor by the OEMs who bundle Windows on their hardware. That was part of the reason OS/2 failed. IBM was the OS/2 vendor, and a company like Compaq had no enthusiasm at all to pay a software tax on every unit sold with OS/2 to one of their competitors in the hardware market. So Microsoft is wise to not compete. They sell nice mice and keyboards, but they stay out of the markets their OEMs are in.
It sucks when your nicest case is AT form factor. I have a number of really nice AT cases, too.
But I recently got an AT form factor Dual Pentium-Pro motherboard for $15 at an auction. woo. hoo.
Multiple-media releases were a stocking nightmare for the retailer. A better solution would be for there to be an additional DVD disk in the package, but that would make the total package significantly more expensive.
bulletproof kryptonite is not necessary.
A small amount of potting epoxy or some other conformal coating will do fine. Really, it's surprising they haven't already started using such methods. It would actually be a value add, people could spill coke in their XBox and not stop buying games.
AMD 'can't get no respect' so their only markets are the cheap consumer-line brandname boxes and the screwdriver shops.
So their position of the their new 64 bit line is all they're capable of. There's just no way they're going to penetrate the high end market, at least not in the short term.
I remember when AMD was a company with cool high end parts with technical respectability. The old bit slice processor line. But that was decades ago.
The Grateful Dead's albums actually sold fairly poorly. It's common knowledge that they were a 'live' band not an 'album' band, and deadheads swapped concert tapes. Very few Dead albums were ever sold, and the freedom they gave their fans to record their music didn't promote album sales at all.
So they were successful at selling tickets to live performances, which the RIAA and the Music Recording Industry could care two hoots about.
You'll have to come up with a better example.
1) people sample music by hearing it on radio
2) they like it and buy the cd
3) profit
There's nothing there new in people downloading it over the internet except they don't have to sit around waiting for it to come on the radio. In fact, they don't even have to go to the store and buy the CD.
Oh......
Why aren't they selling DVDs filled with music videos, interviews, lyrics, kareokee(sp?) and what not rather than simple music CDs for so much?
Because the 'install base' the music industry sells to is slow moving. People still have those funny CD audio players. You know, the plain old ones that just have speaker or headphone output. They're selling them all over the place. They're so cheap these days that they pile them in front of the checkouts at the supermarket.
It took about a decade for retail shops to phase out LP albums. Audio CDs aren't going to disappear overnight.
Actually, I feel that there's already a convergence happening, for most general purpose uses of the computer. Hardware has always ran far ahead of the software that's run on it. Frankly, most of the install base of processors now in place will serve the people who own it fine for the forseeable future. The software needs to get better, and it is, slowly. For 'desktop use' I don't know of anybody who's bought a machine in the last 12 months who is now saying 'damn, this isn't fast enough anymore.' That may be true for some people who play games, but let's face it, the code most people run on their machines is sub-optimal, yet it does most of the things they want to do.
Still, if you want to be an optomist, and/or you're in the sales business and need that annual 20% growth thing to pay for your summer home, keep talkin' grow-grow-grow. Maybe you're right. It's not likely growth will be exponential. Ever heard of market saturation? Compaq-HP/IBM/Dell/Gateway sure have.
Sun can't sustain themselves as a company if all they sell is the limited number of boxes with 72 processors with 8MB of L2 cache and 576 GB of RAM. Nobody is buying Sun desktops, and fewer people all the time are buying Mid-sized Sun boxes. There are legacy engineering apps for Sparc, but it's not a market segment where Sparc is growing.
I have a medium-sized collection of almost all the older desktop Sparc hardware, and I think it's really cool, really good stuff. But it's from the past.
Yes, but this is Slashdot, where everybody thinks the computing world is centered on ATX motherboards and framerates in 3D games.
'Go hotdog, go!' says the fanboy, on his overclocked box. The case is painted black, the LEDs have all been upgraded to blue, and it has an orange racing stripe.