It will never "end." It is a large market. Some people prefer safety at any cost, to freedom. That is fine. I just hope that soon it won't be the ONLY option.
And who is in first place again? https://www.idooble.com/posts/1434 Amusingly enough when you add HTCs android share and Windows Mobile share, you get 20% of the market, with only Apple having more.
The problem will be the storm surge in the subway tunnels flooding them, and a lot of the power conduits. That will take a long time to drain and repair. And Manhattan without power for a week? Not someplace I want to be...
Left some out... IBM, beat by Microsoft, Apple, Google (or Google Apple, it is a tough call) Facebook, Netflix (I have to pay more, and deal with you dam popups?) Amazon. And throughout it all as an undercurrent SONY... (We were evil before Evil was cool)
In that case it was different methods to get the same product; Ice. A textbook and an eBook are NOT the same product. I have yet to find an eReader I like as much as a book, even for pleasure reading. But for reference reading, nothing comes close. Bookstores need to recognize that they can work as a niche, and fill that niche, not pretend nothing has changed.
Yes I can, because they refuse to compete in the one place they can win; Right Fucking Now. I have wanted a book, and gone to several stores so I could have it that day, and no one would have it. "We can order it for you" does not work, since I can too and for less. Yet, every time I go into Barns and Noble, they have less books? WTF?!? How can you have books 1,2,5,7,9, and 11 in a 13 book series, and not expect people to want the missing ones? (Real story. Dresden Files) Here is a plan. Instead of 14 stores in Houston with a crappy selection, how about 4 stores with an amazing selection?
I guess he should have said, "And who was the first to SUCCESSFULLY commercialize it?" I loved the Star system, but it was not exactly a raging success.
Depends on how much is tied up to make it. If you profit margin is 2% and a certificate of deposit is 4%, than it makes sense to put that capital elsewhere. No where does it say how much capital is tied up making that 2%, however.
Does not matter. HP sold it as there's and solved the issues with a hearty "Fuck You." They did the same thing a few years back with a white list for the mini-pci slot. Love the printers. Would not take the computers as a gift.
It's why I often wonder at why Linux users dream about taking over the desktop. If that did occur, it would mean a drive to lower cost that would result, almost inevitably, in the wholesale adoption of s single choice, reducing all the other choices to total irrelevance.
But when that choice goes goofy, you can change it quickly. Like the watershead from KDE for a while. Next it will be from Unity and Gnome Shell, for a while. Then the leaders either shape up, or fall aside, like XFree86. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86 You can have a market leader (A good thing for standards) and still have choice. (A good thing for freedom)
Not really. If I take a hard drive from my Ubuntu running PC, and stick it in a totally different PC, it will boot. And even X may come up. (And to cover the different level of your analogy, I can copy my "CryaonPhysicsDelux" folder from my Ubuntu system to a Red Hat system and it will run.) If I take a boot image from one ARM device, and stick it in another it will hang.
Yet if you look at the FOSS projects with any real market penetration (outside the FOSS world) they are all the market leaders. Firefox, Apache, MySQL, Open Office, and so on. Yes, KOffice exists on Windows, but show me one non-linux type running it...
Right now ARM is a bunch of FOSS projects with no clear leader. Once there is one, it will get the mindshare, and hence the support. Then others will be compatible so they can use the ecosystem, and things will get better. But right now, it is Linux 1999.
Quake Wars did not have a Linux client for several months. I did not buy it until it did. I will do the same here. I run Linux. Yes I can do workarounds, but I will not buy software I have to work around.
A few days ago, I had a really nasty virus that held my computer hostage (it wouldn't stop unless I paid them $50)! I was desperate for solutions, and no product seemed to work! Then I found MyDickInMyHand...
Find a local Computer Recycler. These guys are local to me. http://www.compurecyclers.com/ You can get a box of IDE drives for the cost of lunch. Also, lots of old hardware, and hard to find memory.
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i386 is a platform and 80386sx or 80386dx is a CPU. And that CPU does not have the advanced instruction sets from the 80486 CPU that is now required. Just like the mainstream Nvidia driver no longer supports Gforce2 cards.
So all those i386 distributions that you can get (Fedora, Debian, etc) don't run on the i386 platform?
i386 is a platform and 80386sx or 80386dx is a CPU. And that CPU does not have the advanced instruction sets from the 80486 CPU that is now required. Just like the mainstream Nvidia driver no longer supports Gforce2 cards.
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It will never "end." It is a large market. Some people prefer safety at any cost, to freedom. That is fine. I just hope that soon it won't be the ONLY option.
And who is in first place again? https://www.idooble.com/posts/1434 Amusingly enough when you add HTCs android share and Windows Mobile share, you get 20% of the market, with only Apple having more.
So hackers like it but do companies want hackers as their customers?
Hardware companies do! Service companies, not so much.
No, they never like anyone to question them...
Lucky bastard... It was a Rick Roll.
Funny. No one did that when Ike passed through... But don't let the facts get in the way of a good rant or anything.
The problem will be the storm surge in the subway tunnels flooding them, and a lot of the power conduits. That will take a long time to drain and repair. And Manhattan without power for a week? Not someplace I want to be...
Left some out... IBM, beat by Microsoft, Apple, Google (or Google Apple, it is a tough call) Facebook, Netflix (I have to pay more, and deal with you dam popups?) Amazon. And throughout it all as an undercurrent SONY... (We were evil before Evil was cool)
Just ask the people who deliver ice to houses.
In that case it was different methods to get the same product; Ice. A textbook and an eBook are NOT the same product. I have yet to find an eReader I like as much as a book, even for pleasure reading. But for reference reading, nothing comes close. Bookstores need to recognize that they can work as a niche, and fill that niche, not pretend nothing has changed.
Yes I can, because they refuse to compete in the one place they can win; Right Fucking Now. I have wanted a book, and gone to several stores so I could have it that day, and no one would have it. "We can order it for you" does not work, since I can too and for less. Yet, every time I go into Barns and Noble, they have less books? WTF?!? How can you have books 1,2,5,7,9, and 11 in a 13 book series, and not expect people to want the missing ones? (Real story. Dresden Files) Here is a plan. Instead of 14 stores in Houston with a crappy selection, how about 4 stores with an amazing selection?
Look at 5 different 4 door economy sedans from a distance. How about 5 different luxery sedans? 5 Different pickups?
:)
That covers the car analogy angle as well.
I guess he should have said, "And who was the first to SUCCESSFULLY commercialize it?" I loved the Star system, but it was not exactly a raging success.
I think you have some gaping security holes there...
Depends on how much is tied up to make it. If you profit margin is 2% and a certificate of deposit is 4%, than it makes sense to put that capital elsewhere. No where does it say how much capital is tied up making that 2%, however.
Does not matter. HP sold it as there's and solved the issues with a hearty "Fuck You." They did the same thing a few years back with a white list for the mini-pci slot. Love the printers. Would not take the computers as a gift.
It's why I often wonder at why Linux users dream about taking over the desktop. If that did occur, it would mean a drive to lower cost that would result, almost inevitably, in the wholesale adoption of s single choice, reducing all the other choices to total irrelevance.
But when that choice goes goofy, you can change it quickly. Like the watershead from KDE for a while. Next it will be from Unity and Gnome Shell, for a while. Then the leaders either shape up, or fall aside, like XFree86. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86 You can have a market leader (A good thing for standards) and still have choice. (A good thing for freedom)
Not really. If I take a hard drive from my Ubuntu running PC, and stick it in a totally different PC, it will boot. And even X may come up. (And to cover the different level of your analogy, I can copy my "CryaonPhysicsDelux" folder from my Ubuntu system to a Red Hat system and it will run.) If I take a boot image from one ARM device, and stick it in another it will hang.
Yet if you look at the FOSS projects with any real market penetration (outside the FOSS world) they are all the market leaders. Firefox, Apache, MySQL, Open Office, and so on. Yes, KOffice exists on Windows, but show me one non-linux type running it...
Right now ARM is a bunch of FOSS projects with no clear leader. Once there is one, it will get the mindshare, and hence the support. Then others will be compatible so they can use the ecosystem, and things will get better. But right now, it is Linux 1999.
Quake Wars did not have a Linux client for several months. I did not buy it until it did. I will do the same here. I run Linux. Yes I can do workarounds, but I will not buy software I have to work around.
Like I said... Non-pc. I also have 2 DEC RA-50 disk packs with RSTS/e on them. Now I will have nightmares.
A few days ago, I had a really nasty virus that held my computer hostage (it wouldn't stop unless I paid them $50)! I was desperate for solutions, and no product seemed to work! Then I found MyDickInMyHand...
Can we get Anon to go after this idiot?
At the rate things are going, Mexico may have the better economy soon. And half of them are here anyway...
Find a local Computer Recycler. These guys are local to me. http://www.compurecyclers.com/ You can get a box of IDE drives for the cost of lunch. Also, lots of old hardware, and hard to find memory.
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2378254&cid=37079672 i386 is a platform and 80386sx or 80386dx is a CPU. And that CPU does not have the advanced instruction sets from the 80486 CPU that is now required. Just like the mainstream Nvidia driver no longer supports Gforce2 cards.
So all those i386 distributions that you can get (Fedora, Debian, etc) don't run on the i386 platform?
i386 is a platform and 80386sx or 80386dx is a CPU. And that CPU does not have the advanced instruction sets from the 80486 CPU that is now required. Just like the mainstream Nvidia driver no longer supports Gforce2 cards.