They release new software alltime. Theres a lot of software that microsoft works on besides office or windows. Have you seen their collection of enterprise software? Microsoft CRM,sharepoint, content management, mappoint, commerce server. Or what about their consumer line which include CE, whatever their mobile phone OS is. And hardware which they make the best keyboards IMO and mice.
By the time long horn gets released(2006 or later), onboard graphics controllers will easily meet requirements. We are talking about 2 to 3 years, right now mid line cards $150 to $250 implement vertex and pixel shader versions 3.0. Sub $75 cards are mostly at 1.1, but by this summer I bet most of them will be 2.0 or even 3.0.
People don't care what tech companies are on it. People are still gonna support Apple,Palm and Sun no matter what they do. But if Microsoft did the same, people would be up in arms.
news.google.com has been in beta for 3 years now. Same with google groups, same with froogle. Pretty much the only thing that google hasn't labeled beta is their main search engine.
Lot of car manufactors use the same engine through out their lines of cars. They'll detune the engine on the budget models. Would you call the budget models crippled?
They'll won't go out of business anytime soon but their market share will keep going down. Every year it drops, it is 1.7% down from 2% in 2002. And because of this, the 3rd party software market is drying up. I can count the number of games released in 2004 on my hand. Luckily apple has itunes and ipod to make up revenue difference.
Looking at the specs it comes with a dvd/cdburner with read/write cd speed at 24x. I mean come on now. I've had a 48x burner for 2 years now. Even their superdrive is slow, 4x dvd burn speed when 16x is common.
At my old office we had 20,000 square feet of office space. We had the whole building covered with WIFI, it would have been nice to a carry a wifi enabled office phone that intergrated with our pbx. Would have been nice to go down to the server room and still have people call up my extension to contact me. I know there are wireless systems out there for PBXs but most require a FCC permit or at least the nortel ones did. And they are pretty damn pricey.
I sacrifice sound quality, storage space and functionality in order to save space all the time. There's no way my laptop can compete with my workstation, there's noway my mp3 player comes close to the sound quality of my home system. I have two pockets. One stores my keys, one stores my phone, I gave up my PDA because it couldn't fit in my pocket along with my phone.
I bought my gf a digital camera for christmas, I could have bought her a camera that takes damn good pictures because it has a nice big lens. But she wouldn't use it, because it couldn't fit in her purse. Instead I had to get her a compact sony camera even though reviews says the pictures are decent but not excellent for a 5 megapixel cameras. Convience is just as important as features, quality and functionality.
Music phone will takeoff if they allow you to download songs over the air. With a ipod you can only buy songs while at your computer, but with a cell phone you can do it wherever, there's going to be a lot of impulse buying.
Verizon's 2 year upgrade plan for phones gives you a better deal on phones then new customers. You get $150 credit on any phone. I got my phone for $20 less than the lowest advertised priced.
Tell them to buy prepaid service. Cell companies listen to their valuable customers, someone shelling out $10 a month isn't a valuable customer. People like my sister, and her friends who shell out $50 to $100 a month because they talk on their phones all time are the ones they listen too. They are also the people who send picture messages at 0.25 cents a pop and text messages at 0.10 cents a pop. Can't send picture messages without a camera. Can't sell my sister $2 ring tones unless the phone supports them. Ring tones is a billion dollar industry.
Because NASA is controlled by politics, those spaces tiles come from a company on a government contract. And I bet that company heavily supports US congressmen. When contracts go out, its not about who has the better the product, its about which company can shell out the most cash to the policians.
$12 a month + $1000 HD TIVO for tivo. I own both directivo and Moxi PVR with HD, tivo has the better interface but there's no way it can compete with other PVRs if they don't change their pricing structure. The reason I switched from directv to Cable is because directivo HD was overpriced and adelphia rents you the equipment for $12(same price as standalone tivo service). There's no reason why I should pay a monthly fee for PVR access. Both with digital cable and directv, the guide is already being sent with basic service, why should I pay for it again? And with directivo, there's a daily call that needs to be placed so tivo's software(spyware) can send your viewing habits back to them. This daily call forces me to buy telephone service which adds another $20month on top of directivo service($5).
Directv is screwing themselves if they keep this up, I already switched to cable and cancelled my directv account. Everyone I know has ditched their tivo and now are using cable's PVR(moxi or microsoft).
Think about what directivo really is, a harddrive and somesort of cpu. There is no encoder and decoder is already in the directv unit. Directivo just saves the stream to the HD, there's no way a directivo HD unit should cost $1000.
Your car gets stolen, you have to buy a new one. I know the dealers profit a lot from stolen cars, by selling LoJack and even preinstalling it in some cases. Insurance companies profit by selling you comprehensive insurace to cover your car if its stolen.
I know.net has AppDomains which are modeled after NT processes which you can run use to isolate code/tasks. Sharing of data between appdomains has to be done over shared memory,.net remoting or someother type of marshaling. You can also unload and load them at will. I think java has something similiar but not as powerful called protected domains.
Really? Prove it, find me a Outlook2003 exploit that uses IE rendering engine. Actually find me any outlook 2003 exploit, that I can use to take over by a machine by having a user just view the email. I'll even help out a little.
Google takes a while to get information into the index usually a couple weeks(this doesn't apply to news sites or other sites google deems to be updated constantly), MSN beta search usually lags about a day after a crawl. I won't even talk about how slow yahoo is(After first crawl and index).
Slashdot Mirror
They release new software alltime. Theres a lot of software that microsoft works on besides office or windows. Have you seen their collection of enterprise software? Microsoft CRM,sharepoint, content management, mappoint, commerce server. Or what about their consumer line which include CE, whatever their mobile phone OS is. And hardware which they make the best keyboards IMO and mice.
People don't care what tech companies are on it. People are still gonna support Apple,Palm and Sun no matter what they do. But if Microsoft did the same, people would be up in arms.
N-Gage'd but now divourced
news.google.com has been in beta for 3 years now. Same with google groups, same with froogle. Pretty much the only thing that google hasn't labeled beta is their main search engine.
Lot of car manufactors use the same engine through out their lines of cars. They'll detune the engine on the budget models. Would you call the budget models crippled?
They'll won't go out of business anytime soon but their market share will keep going down. Every year it drops, it is 1.7% down from 2% in 2002. And because of this, the 3rd party software market is drying up. I can count the number of games released in 2004 on my hand. Luckily apple has itunes and ipod to make up revenue difference.
Looking at the specs it comes with a dvd/cdburner with read/write cd speed at 24x. I mean come on now. I've had a 48x burner for 2 years now. Even their superdrive is slow, 4x dvd burn speed when 16x is common.
Ethernet is limited to 100 meters. DSL is a few miles. Dialup or ISDN can be farther.
At my old office we had 20,000 square feet of office space. We had the whole building covered with WIFI, it would have been nice to a carry a wifi enabled office phone that intergrated with our pbx. Would have been nice to go down to the server room and still have people call up my extension to contact me. I know there are wireless systems out there for PBXs but most require a FCC permit or at least the nortel ones did. And they are pretty damn pricey.
I bought my gf a digital camera for christmas, I could have bought her a camera that takes damn good pictures because it has a nice big lens. But she wouldn't use it, because it couldn't fit in her purse. Instead I had to get her a compact sony camera even though reviews says the pictures are decent but not excellent for a 5 megapixel cameras. Convience is just as important as features, quality and functionality.
Each vendor gets their own key, same way it is done today with DVDs.
Music phone will takeoff if they allow you to download songs over the air. With a ipod you can only buy songs while at your computer, but with a cell phone you can do it wherever, there's going to be a lot of impulse buying.
Verizon's 2 year upgrade plan for phones gives you a better deal on phones then new customers. You get $150 credit on any phone. I got my phone for $20 less than the lowest advertised priced.
Tell them to buy prepaid service. Cell companies listen to their valuable customers, someone shelling out $10 a month isn't a valuable customer. People like my sister, and her friends who shell out $50 to $100 a month because they talk on their phones all time are the ones they listen too. They are also the people who send picture messages at 0.25 cents a pop and text messages at 0.10 cents a pop. Can't send picture messages without a camera. Can't sell my sister $2 ring tones unless the phone supports them. Ring tones is a billion dollar industry.
Because NASA is controlled by politics, those spaces tiles come from a company on a government contract. And I bet that company heavily supports US congressmen. When contracts go out, its not about who has the better the product, its about which company can shell out the most cash to the policians.
Directv is screwing themselves if they keep this up, I already switched to cable and cancelled my directv account. Everyone I know has ditched their tivo and now are using cable's PVR(moxi or microsoft).
Think about what directivo really is, a harddrive and somesort of cpu. There is no encoder and decoder is already in the directv unit. Directivo just saves the stream to the HD, there's no way a directivo HD unit should cost $1000.
Your car gets stolen, you have to buy a new one. I know the dealers profit a lot from stolen cars, by selling LoJack and even preinstalling it in some cases. Insurance companies profit by selling you comprehensive insurace to cover your car if its stolen.
I know .net has AppDomains which are modeled after NT processes which you can run use to isolate code/tasks. Sharing of data between appdomains has to be done over shared memory,.net remoting or someother type of marshaling. You can also unload and load them at will. I think java has something similiar but not as powerful called protected domains.
My old CTO used to talk about getting 1 compile day. And his favorite line after that was "You better hope you don't have any syntax errors".
Outlook Exploits
I was thinking the same thing. Imagine the expression on a blinds persons face when he "sees" goatse. "
Google takes a while to get information into the index usually a couple weeks(this doesn't apply to news sites or other sites google deems to be updated constantly), MSN beta search usually lags about a day after a crawl. I won't even talk about how slow yahoo is(After first crawl and index).
Yup, It had an inline three.
You can get 3 chips DLP sets out there. Usually 10% more than 1 chip ones. I really couldn't tell the difference though and went with the 1 chip DLP.