the equation depends on maintaining schedules and the total cost of shipping and handling---which was profoundly transformed by the modern shipping container.
we are almost two generations removed now from the labor intensive break-bulk system which was the norm throughout history.
And they seem completely unwilling to sell something that's just a telephone, which is all I want
The margins are better and the sales are better on the multi-function phones.
Even a prepaid phone may have SMS, music, games, a camera, a color screen. You have a closed market, a very profitable market, in after-market sales of ringtones, etc.
This isn't unique to cellular:
When was the last time you saw an add for a single-function scanner for home use?
If you have been habitually giving up your rights since childhood, you will not hesitate to do so again when you're an adult.
You don't "give up" rights as a child, you gain them in stages.
Every culture, every religion, has its rituals, its ceremonies, that mark a child's passage into adulthood.
But searching without evidence of a crime is wrong.
The fundamental truth about a child is that he often neither legally or morally responsible for actions which may be an imminent danger to himself or others.
The rules are different and will always remain different when it comes to searches and seizures.
I'll make no objection if the wannabee terrorist finds himself in a place where he can do no harm to himself or others. The born-loser, looking for his one chance at fame, can be the most dangerous person on earth.
AT&T is private. Much of their infrastructure was originally government funded (they are one of several companies that replaced Bell when Bell was broken up in the early 1980s
AT&T's corporate history goes back to 1876.
Its core, defined by Theodore Vail in 1907, was one system, provoding universal service, privately financed.
AT&T was delievering long distance service New York-San Francisco by 1915 and to Europe by shortwave in 1927. AT&T's Telstar (1962) was the first privately owned sattelite.
But it puts a major obstacle in the way of paying customers that just want to watch movies
1. Family loads Walmart's $150 blu-ray player wirh Netflix HD rental.
2. Family watches movie.
3. The end.
This scenario or one very much like it will play out in tens of millions of homes as HD media takes hold. The entire edifice which the Geek builds around his fear of DRM is the one which will collapse.
I suppose you could reconstruct an HD movie frame by frame. Synchronize the lossless digital audio track. Repair the closed captioning, foreign language dialog and multilinguak commentary tracks.
Reprogram the alternative camera angles. Deleted scenes. Etc. Recorded to one or more 50 GB disks.
But why anyone sane would go to all that trouble when with one click in Vista, OSX, Xandros or Linspire, he could launch managed copy to HDD, archieve to an HD burner, and synch low-res feeds to portable players is beyond me.
I run Linux. I should not be locked out of media I purchase over the counter?
You are locked out if you are too stubborn to buy a decoder.
--which will be offered by every Linux distro sold as an OEM systen install. Every Linux distro with the slightest chance for commercial auccess in the North American home market,
The point of AOL is that it provides an appealing mix of on-line services to 18 million paying subscribers--none of them so young and certainly none so ideologically driven as the stereotypical Slashdot Geek. I am discovering as I grow older that the right place for me is the majors' DRM'd subscription services and not the outlaw's P2P nets.
i am sorry but when the virtual world hits reality it doesn't seem that punishment fits the crime
In the american federal systen, crimes of violence are almost always prosecuted under state law. If you think sentencing is too light, talk to your state assemblyman or state senator.
But I wouldn't advise commiting a felony in DC or in any other setting where the feds do have jurisdiction.
Would you commit murder if there was no such thing as police?
In traditional societies such matters are settled by the warlord, the family or the clan. Sometimes through the punishment of nn innocent: the gang rape of your wife or daughter perhaps.
There is always a mechanism in place to discipline those who cannot discipline themselves.
When my dad when to college in the 50's, it was pretty affordable. The university offered the following services: classes, access to professors, labs, libraries. As nicities that also had housing, food, and athletic facilities.
It was affordable if you were on the GI Bill. It is only after World War Two that college becomes a realistic option for the majority of (white) middle class students.
It was also typically an environment more insular and controlled than Hogwarts.
You were not encoraged or allowed to spend much time off campus. Nor would you be particulary welcomed in town. No off-campus housing. Strict sexual segregation in the dorms.
It goes without saying that you would not be seeing many black, asian or hispanic faces on campus. While the co-ed remains a second-class citizen in both academics and sports. In a private college, chapel could still be mandatory.
The Frat House was a problem. Big-time collegiate athletics was a problem.
I still have not forgiven them for installing rootkits on all of my boxen, thus 0wning my boxen. It just goes to show: "0wn me and I won't 0wn your stuff."
There is nothing on this earth more pathetic than a Geek boycott of the mass consumer market.
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Um...and just WHY would anyone be interested in downloading any of this non-free garbage?
This is Slashdot, after all, did we forget?
I'll not mind pointers to any interesting program, "free" or "non-free," however you choose to define it.
I haven't the faintest trace of ideological purity or political correctness when it comes to the use of my personal computer, which is why, I suppose, I am a likely candidate for migration to Vista.
That said.
I have been frustrated more than once in trying to find free and open source software which might be of use to me, other than the marquee projects like Firefox and OpenOffice.org and the usual suspects to be found on any compilation CD.
If MS would offer whitebox builders the same price that they offer to the big OEMs like Dell and Gateway, they'd probably see a lot less for-profit piracy.
The white box builders have been reduced to advertising on the mini-mart bulletin boards.
The PC has been sold as a plug and play home appliance for over twenty-five years. The OEM Windows install is the gold standard in this market and that is not going to change any time soon.
You will never get a quote on generic OEM hardware that will allow you to compete with Dell. You might find a niche in high-end gaming. Labor-intensive case mods, custom cooling...
But it sure did piss off a whole lot of people who did pay for their copy.
I doubt that even the tinest fraction of Windows users (who do not post to Slashdot) have given a second thought to WGA or even heard any one of the paranoid rumors which fill these pages.
Corel had not only a Linux distro, but also their WordPerfect Office and Photopaint Linux apps as well. These apps are not sold or supported by Xandros.
Photo-Paint 9 for LInux was and remains a free download. Corel Photo-Paint 9
Firefox, as an open source project, and an incredibly successful one, can compete on price, as it doesn't require the kind of funding that Netscape did as a company.
In March 2006, Weblogs, Inc. founder Jason Calacanis reported a rumor on his blog that Mozilla Corporation gained $72M during the previous year, mainly thanks to the Google search box in the Firefox browser...The rumor was later addressed by Christopher Blizzard, a member of the Mozilla board, who wrote on his blog that "it's not correct, though not off by an order of magnitude." Mozilla Corporation
The Mozilla Foundation began with Netscape's IP and a substantial contribution of corporate cash and services from AOL. There are clear parallels with OpenOffice.org.
I suspect if you opened the books, you'd find that Firefox needs the same level of funding as Netscape.
By dumping a product with the OS
The web browser has become a standard part of an OS distribution intended for non-technical end users. Microsoft made the first move and most decisively.
There were losers, of course. The long-forgotten would-be alternative browsers from Delrina, Quarterdeck and a dozen others. The hometown BBS. AOL. Compuserve. IRC. Usenet.
But there are also winners when every PC has the hardware and software needed to connect to the net.
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They are as a class well-hardened against protests from outside their own district.
the advantage is in running a shorter great-circle route (more or less) independent of seasonal winds and currents
the equation depends on maintaining schedules and the total cost of shipping and handling---which was profoundly transformed by the modern shipping container.
we are almost two generations removed now from the labor intensive break-bulk system which was the norm throughout history.
The margins are better and the sales are better on the multi-function phones.
Even a prepaid phone may have SMS, music, games, a camera, a color screen. You have a closed market, a very profitable market, in after-market sales of ringtones, etc.
This isn't unique to cellular:
When was the last time you saw an add for a single-function scanner for home use?
You don't "give up" rights as a child, you gain them in stages.
Every culture, every religion, has its rituals, its ceremonies, that mark a child's passage into adulthood.
But searching without evidence of a crime is wrong.
The fundamental truth about a child is that he often neither legally or morally responsible for actions which may be an imminent danger to himself or others.
The rules are different and will always remain different when it comes to searches and seizures.
an obvious example of this type would be the sometimes street preacher who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart.
I'll make no objection if the wannabee terrorist finds himself in a place where he can do no harm to himself or others. The born-loser, looking for his one chance at fame, can be the most dangerous person on earth.
I dislike amd distrust throw-away comments like this on deep instinct. Details and a dhow of proof are in order here.
AT&T's corporate history goes back to 1876.
Its core, defined by Theodore Vail in 1907, was one system, provoding universal service, privately financed.
AT&T was delievering long distance service New York-San Francisco by 1915 and to Europe by shortwave in 1927. AT&T's Telstar (1962) was the first privately owned sattelite.
1. Family loads Walmart's $150 blu-ray player wirh Netflix HD rental.
2. Family watches movie.
3. The end.
This scenario or one very much like it will play out in tens of millions of homes as HD media takes hold. The entire edifice which the Geek builds around his fear of DRM is the one which will collapse.
I suppose you could reconstruct an HD movie frame by frame. Synchronize the lossless digital audio track. Repair the closed captioning, foreign language dialog and multilinguak commentary tracks.
Reprogram the alternative camera angles. Deleted scenes. Etc. Recorded to one or more 50 GB disks.
But why anyone sane would go to all that trouble when with one click in Vista, OSX, Xandros or Linspire, he could launch managed copy to HDD, archieve to an HD burner, and synch low-res feeds to portable players is beyond me.
You are locked out if you are too stubborn to buy a decoder.
--which will be offered by every Linux distro sold as an OEM systen install. Every Linux distro with the slightest chance for commercial auccess in the North American home market,
The point of AOL is that it provides an appealing mix of on-line services to 18 million paying subscribers--none of them so young and certainly none so ideologically driven as the stereotypical Slashdot Geek. I am discovering as I grow older that the right place for me is the majors' DRM'd subscription services and not the outlaw's P2P nets.
In the american federal systen, crimes of violence are almost always prosecuted under state law. If you think sentencing is too light, talk to your state assemblyman or state senator.
But I wouldn't advise commiting a felony in DC or in any other setting where the feds do have jurisdiction.
In traditional societies such matters are settled by the warlord, the family or the clan. Sometimes through the punishment of nn innocent: the gang rape of your wife or daughter perhaps.
There is always a mechanism in place to discipline those who cannot discipline themselves.
The question you ask has no meaning.
It was affordable if you were on the GI Bill. It is only after World War Two that college becomes a realistic option for the majority of (white) middle class students.
It was also typically an environment more insular and controlled than Hogwarts.
You were not encoraged or allowed to spend much time off campus. Nor would you be particulary welcomed in town. No off-campus housing. Strict sexual segregation in the dorms.
It goes without saying that you would not be seeing many black, asian or hispanic faces on campus. While the co-ed remains a second-class citizen in both academics and sports. In a private college, chapel could still be mandatory.
The Frat House was a problem. Big-time collegiate athletics was a problem.
There is nothing on this earth more pathetic than a Geek boycott of the mass consumer market.
This is Slashdot, after all, did we forget?
I'll not mind pointers to any interesting program, "free" or "non-free," however you choose to define it.
I haven't the faintest trace of ideological purity or political correctness when it comes to the use of my personal computer, which is why, I suppose, I am a likely candidate for migration to Vista.
That said.
I have been frustrated more than once in trying to find free and open source software which might be of use to me, other than the marquee projects like Firefox and OpenOffice.org and the usual suspects to be found on any compilation CD.
Navigarting Sourceforge is not my idea of fun.
This is what gives your words meaning and currency in the larger world. Burma blocking Gmail, Gtalk
The white box builders have been reduced to advertising on the mini-mart bulletin boards.
The PC has been sold as a plug and play home appliance for over twenty-five years. The OEM Windows install is the gold standard in this market and that is not going to change any time soon.
You will never get a quote on generic OEM hardware that will allow you to compete with Dell. You might find a niche in high-end gaming. Labor-intensive case mods, custom cooling...
I doubt that even the tinest fraction of Windows users (who do not post to Slashdot) have given a second thought to WGA or even heard any one of the paranoid rumors which fill these pages.
One can but hope.
Slashdot tends to shake your faith a little.
Photo-Paint 9 for LInux was and remains a free download. Corel Photo-Paint 9
Competition? What competition?
Tell me which OSS projects had the maturity of Word Perfect and Corel Draw in 1999.
In March 2006, Weblogs, Inc. founder Jason Calacanis reported a rumor on his blog that Mozilla Corporation gained $72M during the previous year, mainly thanks to the Google search box in the Firefox browser...The rumor was later addressed by Christopher Blizzard, a member of the Mozilla board, who wrote on his blog that "it's not correct, though not off by an order of magnitude." Mozilla Corporation
The Mozilla Foundation began with Netscape's IP and a substantial contribution of corporate cash and services from AOL. There are clear parallels with OpenOffice.org.
I suspect if you opened the books, you'd find that Firefox needs the same level of funding as Netscape.
By dumping a product with the OS
The web browser has become a standard part of an OS distribution intended for non-technical end users. Microsoft made the first move and most decisively.
There were losers, of course. The long-forgotten would-be alternative browsers from Delrina, Quarterdeck and a dozen others. The hometown BBS. AOL. Compuserve. IRC. Usenet.
But there are also winners when every PC has the hardware and software needed to connect to the net.
This isn't American Idol.
You'd be surprised how few people outside of the hothouse environment of Slashdot have a substantial emotional investment in Google.
Not that it matters much, really: Judges are appointed for life to insulate them from popular pressure.