Apple is a fashion brand, and Cingular (AT&T) probably is not. One of the biggest headaches for Apple is getting the right branding partners so that the iphone does not get associated with stodgy/boring services. Cell phone companies really hate churn. The iphone will probably have significant brand loyalty (as ipods do) and an exclusive deal will combat churn. However Cingular will have to come up with suitable ad campaigns etc to make sure that they appeal to the apple set otherwise both brands will suffer. No doubt Apple, who are very brand savvy, would have made these campaigns part of the deal.
The flip side: (1) does a parent have the responsibility to look after their children [protect them from harm etc] and the responsibility to ensure that they grow up "right" [provide moral guidance etc] -vs- (2) does the parent have the right to control their offspring?
I hunch you are not a parent, or at least I hope you aren't! You have clearly no idea as to how to provide the correct environment for a child to grow up.
China have a demonstrated ability to kill a satellite. Why not use this to get Hubble, or for that matter, any other satellite down?
NASA have proven their inability to produce the right transport for many jobs. The shuttle is woefully old, unreliable, expensive and inappropriate for many of the tasks it is used for. Likely much of the reason is that NASA is not a scienfici or engineering body, it is by its own name an **administration**. Rather than try do everything themselves or pork-barrel subcontractors, it can make a lot of sense to just outsource work to people who have cheaper technology.
Why didn't they do this 6 months or a year back? Nope, they're waiting for Vista. Thus is an extra encouragement for people to "Get Legal" and thus get Vista and push up Vista sales numbers.
After a few months people (shareholders, analysts etc) will be looking at Vista sales and they better be selling it like crazy to support all the hype.
I don't keep one (OK I use Linux, and most valuable stuff is replicated elsewhere), but I doubt very much that more than 5% of Windows users keep full backups, let alone current ones. Suggesting that people should do this as a matter of course is just ignoring reality.
By setting the example, you have to pay to get people to load their content, other providers of similar services will have to also play the game or they will lose market share. Google has a shitload of money and can play this game for a lot longer than most. They should prevail and kill all competition.
OK, I agree that Windows is likely to be a bot host, but your stats are bad.
To draw the conclusion that Windows is bot friendly and Linux is bot-hostile is bad stats because there are other factors that come into the equation.
To set up and run Linux requires a degree of net-savvyness beyond wahat default WIndows requires. Thus installations running Linux are likely to be run by better informed people who are bot-aware and take precautions. I run Linux at home and am pretty sure I don't have any bots. I also power down everything when not in use too. However, at work we run Windows hosts. The IT guys have very tight security and I would expect that they have zero bots either.
God is getting too cheap to pay the heating bill so he's turned down the thermostat.
This probably is a precursor for the Second Coming. Unlike the first kid who dropped out of carpentry class, the next kid wants to go to college and he needs to save up.
It is very easy to get stuck in a mindset of what matters. Storage density only really matters if you have to charge the batteries overnight.
The Re-Fuel guys think you can easily make vehicles with a 50 mile range (and going further just means storing more juice). After 50 miles you just need a recharge which just takes a couple of minutes (pump out old and pump in new).
For example, my daily commute is approx 35 miles each way. I could easily do a re fuel for my trip home.
Services could very easily be provided that do a mobile recharge. While your car is in the parking lot, someone comes along with a tanker and refills.
Sure many CEOs are smart, hardworking and zero bullshit, but the majority of successful CEOs are more concerned with being figure heads that articulate well and improve investor confidence.
It amazes me that Clinton got impeached for telling some lies about a few off-side blowjobs and for getting a few laundry bills.
A few years later, a different president tells lies about so-called weapons of mass destruction, fabricates connections between Saddam and terror groups, and uses those lies as a means to justify a war that get tens of thousands of people killed. But y'all cool with that?
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Apple is a fashion brand, and Cingular (AT&T) probably is not. One of the biggest headaches for Apple is getting the right branding partners so that the iphone does not get associated with stodgy/boring services. Cell phone companies really hate churn. The iphone will probably have significant brand loyalty (as ipods do) and an exclusive deal will combat churn. However Cingular will have to come up with suitable ad campaigns etc to make sure that they appeal to the apple set otherwise both brands will suffer. No doubt Apple, who are very brand savvy, would have made these campaigns part of the deal.
She vets all his mail!
I hunch you are not a parent, or at least I hope you aren't! You have clearly no idea as to how to provide the correct environment for a child to grow up.
China have a demonstrated ability to kill a satellite. Why not use this to get Hubble, or for that matter, any other satellite down?
NASA have proven their inability to produce the right transport for many jobs. The shuttle is woefully old, unreliable, expensive and inappropriate for many of the tasks it is used for. Likely much of the reason is that NASA is not a scienfici or engineering body, it is by its own name an **administration**. Rather than try do everything themselves or pork-barrel subcontractors, it can make a lot of sense to just outsource work to people who have cheaper technology.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/01/18/china.mis sile/index.html
Why didn't they do this 6 months or a year back? Nope, they're waiting for Vista. Thus is an extra encouragement for people to "Get Legal" and thus get Vista and push up Vista sales numbers.
After a few months people (shareholders, analysts etc) will be looking at Vista sales and they better be selling it like crazy to support all the hype.
RTFA, if you must, but never RTFS.
I have a haf-not-ium processor.
I don't keep one (OK I use Linux, and most valuable stuff is replicated elsewhere), but I doubt very much that more than 5% of Windows users keep full backups, let alone current ones. Suggesting that people should do this as a matter of course is just ignoring reality.
By setting the example, you have to pay to get people to load their content, other providers of similar services will have to also play the game or they will lose market share. Google has a shitload of money and can play this game for a lot longer than most. They should prevail and kill all competition.
Yes folks, MS will completely turn the current paradigm around. It will be called metube.
Did you invade her privacy to determine that she's a girl?
... oh, wait....
Good old witch hunting! I remember when the dinosaur kill-off was blamed on radiation (A big uranium meteorite), comets, and everything else.
To draw the conclusion that Windows is bot friendly and Linux is bot-hostile is bad stats because there are other factors that come into the equation.
To set up and run Linux requires a degree of net-savvyness beyond wahat default WIndows requires. Thus installations running Linux are likely to be run by better informed people who are bot-aware and take precautions. I run Linux at home and am pretty sure I don't have any bots. I also power down everything when not in use too. However, at work we run Windows hosts. The IT guys have very tight security and I would expect that they have zero bots either.
The first release was really just to get something out so that those who budgeted expenditure last year could still buy something.
MS software is never usable before SP1.
This probably is a precursor for the Second Coming. Unlike the first kid who dropped out of carpentry class, the next kid wants to go to college and he needs to save up.
... but watching youtube makes you intelligent. Yup, broadband as an intelligence measure beats all those dumb ink blot tests.
chains, slugs, inches of mercury... at least these are defined units
Wrong. According to string theory, they are all the same, they're just vibrating differently.
... or maybe you have a "gas station" model where you can reload.
The Re-Fuel guys think you can easily make vehicles with a 50 mile range (and going further just means storing more juice). After 50 miles you just need a recharge which just takes a couple of minutes (pump out old and pump in new).
For example, my daily commute is approx 35 miles each way. I could easily do a re fuel for my trip home.
Services could very easily be provided that do a mobile recharge. While your car is in the parking lot, someone comes along with a tanker and refills.
Sure many CEOs are smart, hardworking and zero bullshit, but the majority of successful CEOs are more concerned with being figure heads that articulate well and improve investor confidence.
A few years later, a different president tells lies about so-called weapons of mass destruction, fabricates connections between Saddam and terror groups, and uses those lies as a means to justify a war that get tens of thousands of people killed. But y'all cool with that?