I'd say, so does Microsoft. The plan is to no doubt give people a taste and entice users to 'upgrade' to a full version. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't laced with various pop-up dialogue boxes; "To activate this great feature, purchase XP full..etc.." but I'm not sure that would happen at all.
These people aren't forking out a few hundred bucks for a 'full' OS, they'll just see what they're missing out on and pirate it.
If I bought a new car and only three of the gears worked, I wouldn't upgrade to a newer model, I'd go to their competition. The competition in this case just happens to be a pirated model, or (shock, horror) doing without a computer at all.
I blog my ass off, but I sure as shit don't mention anything I shouldn't. I know the limits of the law in my area and what I could potentially get in the shit over. Occasionally I tread a pretty fine line between kosher and not-so-kosher (a recent issue over feral animals comes to mind), but I know where the line is that you just shouldn't step over.
What's so hard about just not being a dumb-ass these days? If you want to keep your job, don't blog about work. Simple.
In your area, you no doubt have easy access to perhaps several movie cinemas, entertainment districts, a few theatres maybe? Entertainment isn't all that thin on the ground I'm sure. Suffice to say if I was in Perth (for example), I wouldn't even bother with PayTV. There's plenty of other things to occupy ones time in a capital city.
On the edge of a desert we have one cinema (often several months behind in the lackluster selection of films screened on its 'falling apart' screens..) or going outside to kick a bit of dust around. When it's 43 degrees (C) outside for days on end and you don't feel like dodging big lizards for a laugh, Pay TV is where it's at.
Really I'm just pissed their plans are so inflexible. $100 a month is not good value, and when bundled in with my other Telstra services, I'm paying almost $400 a month to those bastards and getting approximately dick in value.
My only other option? Go with other providers and get nothing. So us country guys are left with a bad option, or a worse option.
I don't think yanks realise just how hard any kind of comms of broadcasting can be to get down here.
.. I live in a regional area. You don't know how good the capital city guys have it until you're limited to two or three channels, all of which have as little variety as humanly possible (Football, Cricket, Cricket, Football, local fuzzy news..).
I have pay TV for the nights when I'm too damn tired to do much else. I pay $100 a month for this service, because it's the only way to get the movie channels and the science-type channels all in one package. I can easily say I'm not getting my moneys worth, but with bandwidth being so damn expensive out here (currently paying $60 a month for a 1.5meg ADSL link with a 10 gig limit..) cutting the pay TV out and going to a download-only system doesn't do me any favours either. Pay TV lags behind the states a hell of a lot and it's about 60% repeats (I shit you not, there are entire channels dedicated to repeats..). We're still getting first run seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond and other such crap on a regular basis.
I just wish I had the will to cut TV out altogether, but I'll be honest and say I'm not that kind of person. I do enjoy the news channels, the Discovery channel gets a lot of airtime in my home, I just wish I was getting value for money instead of paying stupid amounts of cash because I have no other option...
I haven't read it (nor heard of it until this morning) but if you could expand upon the judgement of "this book sucks" with a bit more detail, I'd be more inclined not to proverbially throw your opinion of it across the room.
Apart from bashing me in the side of the head, and making it essentially impossible to interact with the volume or track selection without taking them off, are there other bad points I'm missing in this?
I work for a company that has only in the last month started rolling out Windows XP SP1, and almost every day we're finding shit that doesn't work correctly.
On the one hand, I'm pissed off that these problems weren't found many months ago in the testing phase, then I remember that it's beancounters and not techs making the calls of what we roll out and when, how expensive testing is, and how it's clearly better just to fix problems as they arise, then I quietly cry into my keyboard.
So, being in these two minds, I weep for the tech monkeys like myself, and pray for death to the legume reckoning wankers that wouldn't allow us the time in the first place to roll this shit out properly.
.. but I'd be disgusted if I had a child that a school wanted to monitor in this way.
Is this really the way of the future? Get the kiddly-winks used to the idea of being constantly under watch nice and early?
This kind of stuff worries me greatly. Are we going to be looking back at these episodes in five years wondering how we let things get so out of hand so quickly?
Funnier than dwarf tossing, seven of them even.
Seriously though, if a group with enough cash to grease the wheels of progress comes along, this patent would be granted in a bio-engineered heartbeat.
Unless G.W gets a hard on for fake Nike shoes and cheap kung-fu movies, North Korea will continue to go about it's crazy-ass ways unhindered.
Thanks for all the fucking help down here George, glad to know we've got a poweful ally looking out for the real crackpots instead of just tracking down oil fields.
I'm contemplating getting one of these for my mother (okay... and one for myself...) but I'm wondering if this is a case of form over function?
I'm totally new to the Mac world, save from a few experiences with an iPod which I found to be totally unfulfilling, so is the Mac Mini really a good place for me to start, or is it much like the iPod, and just another fashion accessory with secondary consideration given to functions?
It's available to such a small slice of the population with such small data allowances, only the truly stoned and miraculously wealthy will be in line for it.
Picture a pair of cans connected by a string hanging over a cesspool. That is the current Australian "Broadband" situation.
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Why, was he trying to hatch them himself?
You sir, just earned a cookie.
That's a bloody good point that I didn't even consider.
... but of course another alternative to piracy or not having a PC at all that I forgot to mention is *nix/BSD/etc based PC.
Go easy on me, brain is fried from auditing this week...
"I would consider that barely useful!"
I'd say, so does Microsoft. The plan is to no doubt give people a taste and entice users to 'upgrade' to a full version. I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't laced with various pop-up dialogue boxes; "To activate this great feature, purchase XP full..etc.." but I'm not sure that would happen at all.
These people aren't forking out a few hundred bucks for a 'full' OS, they'll just see what they're missing out on and pirate it.
If I bought a new car and only three of the gears worked, I wouldn't upgrade to a newer model, I'd go to their competition. The competition in this case just happens to be a pirated model, or (shock, horror) doing without a computer at all.
I hope this plan fails miserably. It deserves to.
How about a guide to using some common sense?
I blog my ass off, but I sure as shit don't mention anything I shouldn't. I know the limits of the law in my area and what I could potentially get in the shit over. Occasionally I tread a pretty fine line between kosher and not-so-kosher (a recent issue over feral animals comes to mind), but I know where the line is that you just shouldn't step over.
What's so hard about just not being a dumb-ass these days? If you want to keep your job, don't blog about work. Simple.
In your area, you no doubt have easy access to perhaps several movie cinemas, entertainment districts, a few theatres maybe? Entertainment isn't all that thin on the ground I'm sure. Suffice to say if I was in Perth (for example), I wouldn't even bother with PayTV. There's plenty of other things to occupy ones time in a capital city.
On the edge of a desert we have one cinema (often several months behind in the lackluster selection of films screened on its 'falling apart' screens..) or going outside to kick a bit of dust around. When it's 43 degrees (C) outside for days on end and you don't feel like dodging big lizards for a laugh, Pay TV is where it's at.
Really I'm just pissed their plans are so inflexible. $100 a month is not good value, and when bundled in with my other Telstra services, I'm paying almost $400 a month to those bastards and getting approximately dick in value.
My only other option? Go with other providers and get nothing. So us country guys are left with a bad option, or a worse option.
I don't think yanks realise just how hard any kind of comms of broadcasting can be to get down here.
.. I live in a regional area. You don't know how good the capital city guys have it until you're limited to two or three channels, all of which have as little variety as humanly possible (Football, Cricket, Cricket, Football, local fuzzy news..).
I have pay TV for the nights when I'm too damn tired to do much else. I pay $100 a month for this service, because it's the only way to get the movie channels and the science-type channels all in one package. I can easily say I'm not getting my moneys worth, but with bandwidth being so damn expensive out here (currently paying $60 a month for a 1.5meg ADSL link with a 10 gig limit..) cutting the pay TV out and going to a download-only system doesn't do me any favours either. Pay TV lags behind the states a hell of a lot and it's about 60% repeats (I shit you not, there are entire channels dedicated to repeats..). We're still getting first run seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond and other such crap on a regular basis.
I just wish I had the will to cut TV out altogether, but I'll be honest and say I'm not that kind of person. I do enjoy the news channels, the Discovery channel gets a lot of airtime in my home, I just wish I was getting value for money instead of paying stupid amounts of cash because I have no other option...
You're new here, right?
.. but why?
I haven't read it (nor heard of it until this morning) but if you could expand upon the judgement of "this book sucks" with a bit more detail, I'd be more inclined not to proverbially throw your opinion of it across the room.
Apart from bashing me in the side of the head, and making it essentially impossible to interact with the volume or track selection without taking them off, are there other bad points I'm missing in this?
Preaching to the choir man.
Like I said, these are choices made by beancounters, because they run the fucking place.
I work for a company that has only in the last month started rolling out Windows XP SP1, and almost every day we're finding shit that doesn't work correctly.
On the one hand, I'm pissed off that these problems weren't found many months ago in the testing phase, then I remember that it's beancounters and not techs making the calls of what we roll out and when, how expensive testing is, and how it's clearly better just to fix problems as they arise, then I quietly cry into my keyboard.
So, being in these two minds, I weep for the tech monkeys like myself, and pray for death to the legume reckoning wankers that wouldn't allow us the time in the first place to roll this shit out properly.
"18 months. You heard it here."
I'll wait until Netcraft confirms that if you don't mind.
.. but I'd be disgusted if I had a child that a school wanted to monitor in this way. Is this really the way of the future? Get the kiddly-winks used to the idea of being constantly under watch nice and early? This kind of stuff worries me greatly. Are we going to be looking back at these episodes in five years wondering how we let things get so out of hand so quickly?
Funnier than dwarf tossing, seven of them even. Seriously though, if a group with enough cash to grease the wheels of progress comes along, this patent would be granted in a bio-engineered heartbeat.
.. if he'd hired Disneys lawyers.
Unless G.W gets a hard on for fake Nike shoes and cheap kung-fu movies, North Korea will continue to go about it's crazy-ass ways unhindered.
Thanks for all the fucking help down here George, glad to know we've got a poweful ally looking out for the real crackpots instead of just tracking down oil fields.
I'm contemplating getting one of these for my mother (okay... and one for myself...) but I'm wondering if this is a case of form over function?
I'm totally new to the Mac world, save from a few experiences with an iPod which I found to be totally unfulfilling, so is the Mac Mini really a good place for me to start, or is it much like the iPod, and just another fashion accessory with secondary consideration given to functions?
I needed a few new links!
This isn't even newsworthy yet.
It's available to such a small slice of the population with such small data allowances, only the truly stoned and miraculously wealthy will be in line for it.
Picture a pair of cans connected by a string hanging over a cesspool. That is the current Australian "Broadband" situation.
Damn, and I usually double check all my post's to, be sure gramma. Is correct. I must, be using the "sydlecix". setting's.
Jesus titty-fucking-christ, ususally I'm the one that get's accused of being humorless..
"Nothing particularly surprising here."
... slow day then?
Where's the "Stuff that matters"?
How the hell do such unbalanced people get into a position of power where they can approve these labels in the first place?
Get the jerk-offs out of office. Remember it's your tax dollars that get wasted on their zealous religious efforts.
... this movie could only possibly look worse if Paul W.S. Anderson had written and directed.
Jessica Alba may be a fine piece of ass, but she is totally wrong for this film, as is the rest of the cast.
I almost wish this Hollywood comic book phase was over so they'd stop fucking with my childhood heros.