4 GB of 2x2 GB DDR2 Kingston Value RAM is $50 anywhere you look. The retail shopper sees a 64 bit system that has very good specs to start with and is easily and cheaply up-graded to a barn-burner.
It's easy to imagine a 10% decline in XP's share and a 10% increase in Vista's share May-to-May.
The geek looks in the mirror and thinks that he is representative of the mass consumer market.
The HP desktop from WalMart is quad core and ships with 6 GB RAM and 64 Bit Vista. In six months - nine months, whatever - it will be an i7 with 9 GB RAM.
Serious horsepower at a mass market price. Mature 64 bit drivers. Win 7 just around the corner.
What's not to love?
Dual-core is Coming Soon to a netbook near you. It won't be long before XP stops making sense even at entry level.
The first challenge for the elderly shopper is getting to the store.
Then there is the problem is reading labels and prices.
Getting the attention of the butcher.
Managing bulky and heavy packages. Navigating the check out line with your pride and wallet intact. Making it home safely..,and packing everything away.
Product placement is in three dimesions.
Top shelf. Middle shelf, Bottom shelf. Traffic flow and product placement within the store are designed to maximize profits - not convenience.
Management can be prickly about revealing schemes that work.
What the elderly shopper needs isn't a high tech gadget. It's the box boy in the aisles. The kid willing to help out.
I have newer seen the word "effortlessly" used to describe sharepoint and exchange before.
That is why the administrator gets paid the big bucks.
The interesting thing about Sharepoint is that it generated around a billion dollars in sales for Microsoft before almost anyone grasped its significance.
Microsoft's understanding of the office workspace is one of its greatest strengths.
he feels that he might get a more of a chance to air his views with the democrats than with the republicans, who from the UK at least seem to be crazy right wing nut jobs at the moment
To simplify things, the Republicans are becoming the party of the depopulated northern plains and the cotton fields of the lower Mississippi Valley.
Obama illustrates the party's dilemma nicely.
He is very much a product of the multiracial and multicultural Pacific Rim.
But you can picture him equally at home in Hawaii or in the old - still vital - immigrant cities of Chicago and New York.
The reality is that almost all cases are settled out of court - and while no formal precedents are set - pre-trial settlements do affect how you view your own prospects for success.
Even with the "webanaught" at your back.
[a coinage, which, btw, I hope and pray I'll never see again]
Considering the number of TVs with VGA inputs, I'd argue that at this point convergence happened. I can (and do) use my 40inch TV as a monitor regularly.
The budget 1080p HDTV will have both HDMI and VGA inputs. But equally significant is the PC video card that can output audio and video over a single HDMI cable.
Wouldn't mind seeing a "retail" version of open office on the shelves at the local best buy or walmart. If open office was sitting on the retail shelf for, say $50 in a nice box with all the open office apps, next to MS office at $300 with all the apps, we could see its acceptance really start to soar.
It's been tried on Amazon with 79 cent CD-ROMs.
Ranking somewhere around 39 in sales of office suites, as I recall.
The chances are really quite good that you already qualify for a legit free or steeply discounted version of MS Office.
Office Home and Student 2007 is easily found at around $90 retail. But it's the consumables that eat you alive - not the OEM office suite that sits on your PC for the next five years.
The geek always quotes the stiffest price he can find for the retail box the lone wolf professional will buy only once.
Others prefer to take their chances under Larry Ellison, saying Oracle's take-no-prisoners salesforce and grudge against Microsoft could benefit OpenOffice.org
The geek sees an office suite.
What Microsoft really sells is the MS Office environment.
Integrated Client-Server solutions for damn near everything your people will ever need - solutions which scale "effortlessly" from the home office to the enterprise. On-line resources and third-party support that are miles wide and deep.
The geek doesn't have a clue.
Recruiting workers who are comfortable and productive in the MS Office environment is trivially easy for anyone based south of the North Pole -
and even there you could probably set up shop on the remnants of the ice pack without much trouble.
how many years it will be until most possible ways of talking, say, of what Dante meant in a certain canto in the Inferno, will be in the database
To me that seems superficial.
The instructor should be asking if you are using the canto effectively to buttress your own argument. You need to be consistent. You need to be plausible. You need to be passionate. You need to speak in a single voice.
why can the History channel portray these things but not game developers.
History implies distance - perspective.
The action game is mostly about the dynamics of small unit combat - which never really change all that much.
The technical problem is similar to that of the stealth shooter - the genre which begins with games like S.W.A.T and Rogue Spear. There your decisions are shaped by formal Rules of Engagement. The need to minimize civilian casualties and other unintended consequences. You can achieve your narrow tactical objectives but still fail in your mission.
These scenarios can force a player to think clearly and objectively about his motives and methods - while sustaining all the action and tension of the very best "shooters." But they are hell to write.
Actually, you'd be thrown off the jury for having a pre-conceived opinion
Jury Nullification is the classic geek fallacy.
He needs to think how unlikely it is that his case will ever go to trial.
It's a very expensive, very high risk proposition.
The federal courts - civil and criminal - accept only cases which have an interstate - a national - dimension. In Doc Brown's words, the potential juror comes in expecting to see some serious shit here, It could mean he'll be tied up for months.
The small-C conservative, the property-minded middle class - middle-aged - man or woman is willing to make that commitment.
But there are also lots of people who upload material in ways that...at least in the US...don't infringe copyright but are still complained about by record labels and other alleged copyright holders.
Legitimate distribution implies that you can produce a license from the owner of the copyright or his agent.
It doesn't matter how small and scattered are the pieces of the puzzle you've uploaded. If they can be requested, delivered and assembled on demand you are a distributor.
Talk of "Fair Use" is smoke and mirrors.
The uploader is tagged because his files are publicly exposed.
It's as simple as that.
His files are the primary P2P sources, the files with the Five-Star rating.
It's likely he stamps his own nickname over the opening credits - and its worth laying out real money to run him to ground.
Talk of "alleged" copyright holders is no less fraudulent.
You'll find the occasional enthusiast interested in forties radio, fifties television and the flicks that play on TCM.
The Okatu who needs his obscure anime fix.
But - for the uploader - the real prize is the movie not yet in first-run theatrical release.
If you can name a court case where the defendant uploader successfully challenged the plaintiff's ownership of a copyright, I should very much like to hear of it. But I don't believe the beast exists.
It's almost the same question with sports and steroids, if I had used that kind of drug to increase my studying capacity, I probably could have gotten enough of an extra boost to enter "free Ph.D." territory.
and what price does the steroid-boosted athlete pay later on in life - in the years when an academic is still likely to productive?
To the Catsouras family, I am deeply sorry for your loss, but your score to settle is not with the nebulous force of users that are the internet but with the Orange County Police Department.
We are each responsible for our own actions.
"I found it on the Internet" does not excuse the geek's voyeurism.
It is does not excuse transforming photos of a real death into your own schlock images of horror.
You are the pornographer.
His enabler. His client. Whatever you chose to call it.
Photoshop. The Internet.
These are your tools and your responsibility.
To hide among some great nebulous mass of users is cowardly.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you expecting a serious answer to that?
Not here.
But the geek needs to be brought to his senses.
4 GB of 2x2 GB DDR2 Kingston Value RAM is $50 anywhere you look. The retail shopper sees a 64 bit system that has very good specs to start with and is easily and cheaply up-graded to a barn-burner.
Apple participated in the design of the PowerPC.
The key word here are surely "participants in design." No capital investment. No long term commitments.
In a deep recession the iPhone can be seen for what it is - a high-tech gadget in a market that is moving towards the low-tech Jitterbug.
The basic cell phone the geek always says he wants but never actually buys.
What they really need is to get people to stop replacing it with an older version, and to stop trying to get the older one on their new hardware.
Vista is approaching a 25% share of the market.
Top Operating System Share Trend
It's easy to imagine a 10% decline in XP's share and a 10% increase in Vista's share May-to-May.
The geek looks in the mirror and thinks that he is representative of the mass consumer market.
The HP desktop from WalMart is quad core and ships with 6 GB RAM and 64 Bit Vista. In six months - nine months, whatever - it will be an i7 with 9 GB RAM.
Serious horsepower at a mass market price. Mature 64 bit drivers. Win 7 just around the corner.
What's not to love?
Dual-core is Coming Soon to a netbook near you. It won't be long before XP stops making sense even at entry level.
The first challenge for the elderly shopper is getting to the store.
Then there is the problem is reading labels and prices.
Getting the attention of the butcher.
Managing bulky and heavy packages. Navigating the check out line with your pride and wallet intact. Making it home safely..,and packing everything away.
Product placement is in three dimesions.
Top shelf. Middle shelf, Bottom shelf. Traffic flow and product placement within the store are designed to maximize profits - not convenience.
Management can be prickly about revealing schemes that work.
What the elderly shopper needs isn't a high tech gadget. It's the box boy in the aisles. The kid willing to help out.
I'm interested in helping the community build its own local Internet service, providing villagers another choice.
It sounds as if you have at least two established, viable, commercial competitors in a very small market.
If they are DSL or cable, then they are almost certainly offering bundled services that you are not going to be able to provide.
I think you need to sit back, relax, wait and see how small-scale projects in the 700 MHz band fare elsewhere.
That is why the administrator gets paid the big bucks.
The interesting thing about Sharepoint is that it generated around a billion dollars in sales for Microsoft before almost anyone grasped its significance.
Microsoft's understanding of the office workspace is one of its greatest strengths.
To simplify things, the Republicans are becoming the party of the depopulated northern plains and the cotton fields of the lower Mississippi Valley.
Obama illustrates the party's dilemma nicely.
He is very much a product of the multiracial and multicultural Pacific Rim.
But you can picture him equally at home in Hawaii or in the old - still vital - immigrant cities of Chicago and New York.
If a few lay-men webanaughts can find prior art in patents that were enough to force a company to settle out of court (for fear of legislation)
It was Tom-Tom that blinked first.
"Fear of legislation?"
What legislation?
This bill has a long way to go: H.R. 1260: Patent Reform Act of 2009
The reality is that almost all cases are settled out of court - and while no formal precedents are set - pre-trial settlements do affect how you view your own prospects for success.
Even with the "webanaught" at your back.
[a coinage, which, btw, I hope and pray I'll never see again]
How much does it cost to run this program?
Are you really adopting a line of code or contributing $4 a month to be used as required.
The budget 1080p HDTV will have both HDMI and VGA inputs. But equally significant is the PC video card that can output audio and video over a single HDMI cable.
It's been tried on Amazon with 79 cent CD-ROMs.
Ranking somewhere around 39 in sales of office suites, as I recall.
The chances are really quite good that you already qualify for a legit free or steeply discounted version of MS Office.
Through your employer. Your school or college.
The Ultimate Steal from Microsoft is $60 with student ID.
90% off retail list.
Office Home and Student 2007 is easily found at around $90 retail. But it's the consumables that eat you alive -
not the OEM office suite that sits on your PC for the next five years.
The geek always quotes the stiffest price he can find for the retail box the lone wolf professional will buy only once.
Forget the retail box.
The geek sees an office suite.
What Microsoft really sells is the MS Office environment.
Integrated Client-Server solutions for damn near everything your people will ever need - solutions which scale "effortlessly" from the home office to the enterprise. On-line resources and third-party support that are miles wide and deep.
The geek doesn't have a clue.
Recruiting workers who are comfortable and productive in the MS Office environment is trivially easy for anyone based south of the North Pole -
and even there you could probably set up shop on the remnants of the ice pack without much trouble.
Cablevision services metro New York.
4.7 million residential customers. 600,000 businesses.
No where else in the U.S. - no where else in the Western Hemisphere - will you find so tightly compacted and rich a market.
Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the Ziegfield Theater and other legendary houses.
Cablevision owns MSG, MSG Plus, Fuse, American Movie Classics, The Independent Film Channel, The Sundance Channel and We.tv.
Cablevision owns Long Island's "Newsday."
Cablevision
A subject poorly taught is poorly learned. You need clarity. You need consistently. A sense of style, a touch of humor.
To me that seems superficial.
The instructor should be asking if you are using the canto effectively to buttress your own argument. You need to be consistent. You need to be plausible. You need to be passionate. You need to speak in a single voice.
That is why the oral exam can be so devastating.
How much does this cost and who pays the bills?
You'd better be wearing gloves and don't be caught on camera.
History implies distance - perspective.
The action game is mostly about the dynamics of small unit combat - which never really change all that much.
The technical problem is similar to that of the stealth shooter - the genre which begins with games like S.W.A.T and Rogue Spear. There your decisions are shaped by formal Rules of Engagement. The need to minimize civilian casualties and other unintended consequences. You can achieve your narrow tactical objectives but still fail in your mission.
These scenarios can force a player to think clearly and objectively about his motives and methods - while sustaining all the action and tension of the very best "shooters." But they are hell to write.
The IP address isn't proof.
It is simply evidence: a relevant and admissible fact that points in a certain direction.
The courts never deal in absolutes, only in probabilities.
The deadliest mistake a geek can make in court is to spin out scenarios that when looked at closely make very little sense.
Scenarios that betray his own misbegotten ingenuity.
You aren't buying one TB hard drive.
You are buying multiple hard drives for redundant storage.
You are buying a UPS sized to protect your network and systems as a whole. The price goes up.
What you won't be buying is data center level protection against fire and flood for your grandma's basement.
For that you need cheap, secure, external back-up.
The 500 GB disk fits comfortably into the smallest media rated fire safe or your bank's safety deposit vault.
This is the geek's all-purpose defense to a charge of white collar crime.
But the police can multi-task.
Jury Nullification is the classic geek fallacy.
He needs to think how unlikely it is that his case will ever go to trial.
It's a very expensive, very high risk proposition.
The federal courts - civil and criminal - accept only cases which have an interstate - a national - dimension. In Doc Brown's words, the potential juror comes in expecting to see some serious shit here, It could mean he'll be tied up for months.
The small-C conservative, the property-minded middle class - middle-aged - man or woman is willing to make that commitment.
Not so many others are.
But there are also lots of people who upload material in ways that...at least in the US...don't infringe copyright but are still complained about by record labels and other alleged copyright holders.
Legitimate distribution implies that you can produce a license from the owner of the copyright or his agent.
It doesn't matter how small and scattered are the pieces of the puzzle you've uploaded. If they can be requested, delivered and assembled on demand you are a distributor.
Talk of "Fair Use" is smoke and mirrors.
The uploader is tagged because his files are publicly exposed.
It's as simple as that.
His files are the primary P2P sources, the files with the Five-Star rating.
It's likely he stamps his own nickname over the opening credits - and its worth laying out real money to run him to ground.
Talk of "alleged" copyright holders is no less fraudulent.
You'll find the occasional enthusiast interested in forties radio, fifties television and the flicks that play on TCM.
The Okatu who needs his obscure anime fix.
But - for the uploader - the real prize is the movie not yet in first-run theatrical release.
If you can name a court case where the defendant uploader successfully challenged the plaintiff's ownership of a copyright, I should very much like to hear of it. But I don't believe the beast exists.
and what price does the steroid-boosted athlete pay later on in life - in the years when an academic is still likely to productive?
To the Catsouras family, I am deeply sorry for your loss, but your score to settle is not with the nebulous force of users that are the internet but with the Orange County Police Department.
We are each responsible for our own actions.
"I found it on the Internet" does not excuse the geek's voyeurism.
It is does not excuse transforming photos of a real death into your own schlock images of horror.
You are the pornographer.
His enabler. His client. Whatever you chose to call it.
Photoshop. The Internet.
These are your tools and your responsibility.
To hide among some great nebulous mass of users is cowardly.
It is corrupting.
It demands a response.
The law always comes to Deadwood. Remember that.