I think the end result would be almost a total abandonment of a large part of the spectrum by commercial companies... you'd see radio being used mostly by hobbyists and individuals...
With the greed and unwillingness to give customers what they really want the cell carriers shown already that they'll overprice, meter, and "extra-cost" everything.
And paying $billions up-front for spectrum gives them the perfect reason/excuse to do so.
They're way ahead of you... quite a few chains with storefronts allow you to exchange mail-ordered items at any store.
For me, a gift is about the only time I would buy clothing online. If it's for me I don't buy online, because you can't quite tell what it will look like or how it will fit. But as a gift, those problems are the same whether buying online or at a store.
I don't see much point in complaining about the size or battery life unless there's some other system that's comparable in performance but with a smaller size. The comparison to a desktop is just silly; this thing is "only" 5cm thick including a screen which, though bad for a laptop, puts in in a whole different class of portability than a desktop. And the width and height are about the same as a 17" Powerbook which, though too big for me, some people seem to like.
You'd need drivers for the Apple hardware - and my first guess would be that it wouldn't be Apples biggest priority to ensure MSWin compatibility.
What Apple hardware? I'm not being facetious, I'm curious what components will be different than a PC. One bit of speculation I've heard is that the PC BIOS won't be in there.
Anyways, I'll bet Linux support will be quick in coming, and I could get by so long as VMWare could run Windows under Linux on the new Powerbooks.
The concept of ownership is not an artificial construct; it describes who currently controls a thing.
I wouldn't call that "property," but simple "possession." Property goes a step further; Ug may not take the stick away even if he's strong enough to do so, and (here's the important part) if he does so, society will intervene to punish him and return the stick to me.
People have a moral imperative to be nice to each other; if this means that people have the right to be treated nicely, then Og has the right to expect Ug to not take away his stick, because taking something that belongs to somebody else is not nice.
I don't know. I think the "natural" state is the law of the jungle, or "might makes right": something is "yours" for however long you can defend it. Humanity still reverts to force often enough.
Out of curiosity, do you feel intellectual property is a natural right also?
The NEC machine is 2000... OTOH, a current mac with similar specs is also $2000.
There's currently no powerbook with a CPU anywhere near the Yonah. I'll be very disappointed if the Yonah isn't at least triple the speed of a G4 powerbook. I wouldn't call that a similar spec.
Hopefully Apple will make a giant leap forward with Yonah-based laptops. If they pick up the ability to run WinXP and Linux at the same time, I'll be buying my first Mac, even if they are a bit more expensive.
If Apple releases a small dual-core Yonah laptop with 4 hours runtime, I will be ALL OVER it... if and only if it can also run WinXP and Linux as well.
My current laptop dual boots between XP and Linux. I don't need OSX, but I'm intrigued. I doubt I'd use all 3 OS regularly, but the ability to triple-boot would give me a risk-free way to contemplate a "switch," and fall back in the inevitable emergencies.
Given that, I wouldn't even care if OSX was a bit buggy initially, so long as Linux and WinXP were OK.
Well, I use my laptop pretty hard. I carry it around every day (physical wear), and I develop scientific applications on it (compute intensive). My T40 has served well for 2 1/2 years, and is starting to get a bit creaky. The left mouse button has to be pushed extra hard, the optical drive is shot, the headphone jack is starting to cut out. And the LCD response time has always been noticeably slow. Until Yonah, nothing seemed to offer much more than my current 1.6 GHz pentium-M processor. But apparently the FPU on Yonah really kick butt over the Pentium-M.... and Yonah has 2 of 'em:) If they can pack all that into a small laptop with 4 hrs battery life, I'll be buying.
But that's true of all laptops. 4 hour initial battery life is not out of line with other laptops.
Anyways, what I do is get a second battery with the laptop - the smallest, cheapest one they've got. That's my daily battery for when I don't really care about duration because I'm just "traveling" from one room to another, or to a 1 hour meeting or whatever. This battery is ruined after a couple years, yet still meets daily needs. Then when I want extended runtime I take out my good battery.
It'll be nice when fuel cells allow for instant 50 cent "recharges," eh?
Lemme see...five customers for each employee? With an American workforce pulling down $40K each with benefits, that means each customer needs to buy $8K of useless crap from this one company every year.
It does seem like a lot of wasted ink... why didn't they simply say "our scenario is based on pets.com"
Oh wait, five customers for each employee? I read it backwards.
Is it really fair to compare an open-source project, designed to compete with for-pay commercial products, with crippled versions of said commercial products?
You think it's more fair to compare $0 vs $$$$ than $0 vs $0?
Also, every software developer (or gentoo user:) will immediately benefit from multiple cores. make -j2.
Actually I'd bet that within the useful lifetime of a laptop bought now (about 3 years), almost all performance-sensitive apps will benefit from multiple cores, because they're quickly becoming standard equipment.
Well, he ponied up for the stock, why shouldn't he have his say? It's just capitalism, people who own things get the power to make decisions and be heard. In principle it's not much different from a shareholder campaigning to get the CEO fired or outsource some jobs or whatever else. Since he's now part owner of the company, he should have a say in proportion to his ownership (which I suspect is relatively small).
Yes, and I didn't mean to imply that legal contrivance is necessarily bad. I support most aspects of property and intellectual property rights (and other financial regulations). But certain people assume economics is (or should be) purely about natural rights or cause and effect, and don't realize that alot of it is rules society has created and adopted simply because they work well in practice - including property.
Even the notion of "earning" $X is somewhat misleading; the dynamics of culture (including laws) have a big effect on the value of work and investment. So instead of layering some shallow wealth-redistribution measures on top of our economy without any real change, we should be thinking about (for instance) why the middle class is now shrinking and address the deeper causes.
Anyway, tell me exactly WHY the Government has to redistribute wealth?
I don't think Robinhood-style redistribution of wealth is the right idea. Instead, government should look at how wealth is distributed (as opposed to re-distributed).
If all kids get a quality education, there will be less need to redistribute wealth later. If labor law is set democratically instead of by corporate special interests, employees will have more leverage and the market rate for their services will be higher.
I also don't think higher tax rates for the wealthy and lower rates for the poor necessarily amount to wealth redistribution. The fact is, Bill Gates profits far more from the legal contrivance called intellectual property than I do. Without this form of government assistance he would have no fortune. The lawmakers, police, and judges are partners in his business. So why shouldn't he pay?
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Yup, that's a lot of money. Say goodbye to any affordable cellphone or wireless data services on that spectrum.
Apple is supposedly planning Yonah-based laptops. Yonah is only 32 bit.
For me, a gift is about the only time I would buy clothing online. If it's for me I don't buy online, because you can't quite tell what it will look like or how it will fit. But as a gift, those problems are the same whether buying online or at a store.
In the US income tax is also "voluntary." That just means the burden of assessing and filing falls on you, but you're still forced to pay.
I don't see much point in complaining about the size or battery life unless there's some other system that's comparable in performance but with a smaller size. The comparison to a desktop is just silly; this thing is "only" 5cm thick including a screen which, though bad for a laptop, puts in in a whole different class of portability than a desktop. And the width and height are about the same as a 17" Powerbook which, though too big for me, some people seem to like.
Why would it be different than any other vehicle? If it breaks you get out.
Anyways, I'll bet Linux support will be quick in coming, and I could get by so long as VMWare could run Windows under Linux on the new Powerbooks.
Out of curiosity, do you feel intellectual property is a natural right also?
Hopefully Apple will make a giant leap forward with Yonah-based laptops. If they pick up the ability to run WinXP and Linux at the same time, I'll be buying my first Mac, even if they are a bit more expensive.
My current laptop dual boots between XP and Linux. I don't need OSX, but I'm intrigued. I doubt I'd use all 3 OS regularly, but the ability to triple-boot would give me a risk-free way to contemplate a "switch," and fall back in the inevitable emergencies.
Given that, I wouldn't even care if OSX was a bit buggy initially, so long as Linux and WinXP were OK.
Well, I use my laptop pretty hard. I carry it around every day (physical wear), and I develop scientific applications on it (compute intensive). My T40 has served well for 2 1/2 years, and is starting to get a bit creaky. The left mouse button has to be pushed extra hard, the optical drive is shot, the headphone jack is starting to cut out. And the LCD response time has always been noticeably slow. Until Yonah, nothing seemed to offer much more than my current 1.6 GHz pentium-M processor. But apparently the FPU on Yonah really kick butt over the Pentium-M.... and Yonah has 2 of 'em :) If they can pack all that into a small laptop with 4 hrs battery life, I'll be buying.
Anyways, what I do is get a second battery with the laptop - the smallest, cheapest one they've got. That's my daily battery for when I don't really care about duration because I'm just "traveling" from one room to another, or to a 1 hour meeting or whatever. This battery is ruined after a couple years, yet still meets daily needs. Then when I want extended runtime I take out my good battery.
It'll be nice when fuel cells allow for instant 50 cent "recharges," eh?
Which free version of each product should they have compared?
Oh wait, five customers for each employee? I read it backwards.
Actually I'd bet that within the useful lifetime of a laptop bought now (about 3 years), almost all performance-sensitive apps will benefit from multiple cores, because they're quickly becoming standard equipment.
Doesn't really matter assuming the claimed 4 hours of battery life for this Yonah laptop is true. That's not bad at all.
If laptops were ever limited to certain applications, they sure aren't now.
Well, he ponied up for the stock, why shouldn't he have his say? It's just capitalism, people who own things get the power to make decisions and be heard. In principle it's not much different from a shareholder campaigning to get the CEO fired or outsource some jobs or whatever else. Since he's now part owner of the company, he should have a say in proportion to his ownership (which I suspect is relatively small).
Even the notion of "earning" $X is somewhat misleading; the dynamics of culture (including laws) have a big effect on the value of work and investment. So instead of layering some shallow wealth-redistribution measures on top of our economy without any real change, we should be thinking about (for instance) why the middle class is now shrinking and address the deeper causes.
If all kids get a quality education, there will be less need to redistribute wealth later. If labor law is set democratically instead of by corporate special interests, employees will have more leverage and the market rate for their services will be higher.
I also don't think higher tax rates for the wealthy and lower rates for the poor necessarily amount to wealth redistribution. The fact is, Bill Gates profits far more from the legal contrivance called intellectual property than I do. Without this form of government assistance he would have no fortune. The lawmakers, police, and judges are partners in his business. So why shouldn't he pay?