You will NEVER see a person come out of his 4 bedroom house, walk past his 2 Mercedes and BMW cars, out of his gated community to go riot, throw stones and chant 'death to the evil infidels' in any language. culture. country or society. It does not happen.
It sure as hell does happen.
The Bin Laden clan owns a five billion dollar construction firm, the largest in the Islamic world and a fortune built on a monopoly in construction for the Saudi royal family. The House of Bin Laden Osama's share was worth something like $200 million.
On instinct, I would mod down to hell below zero any quote from Pastor Niemöller or Gandhi. Because it will almost always be wildly inappropriate, vain and self-serving and guaranteed a quick mod up to +5. Godwin's Law.
have all the techs who feel strongly about this get an MBA become managers, and make non DRM corporate/institutionional policy.
so long as internal controls look good to management and the board of directors - and outside auditors - your techie is not going to get that promotion.
When businesses use or don't use a technology then people who want to work from home will use similar technology, then their kids will use it.
the home pc market is driven by its own imperatives and not those of the office. has been for for the better part of twenty-five years.
that is the fundamental reason why OEM Linux tanks at retail and Win MCE becomes the default consumer install even on the laptop.
I'd wager that 90% (or more) of average household computer usage is spent in two applications: email and internet browser. (the other 10% is word processing, accounting/taxes, etc.)
Dell has been moving very fast to Win MCE as the default install even on the laptop. Vista will be even more strongly media oriented.
It's the future for the OEM Linux box that looks bleak. On Walmart.com that has dwindled to four pathetic Microtel boxes.
I can't shake the feeling that the typical Slashdot Geek is frozen in a time capsule where it is always 1998 and the consumer market never changes.
It says something when upstate New York soccer moms, the Haitian poor of Miami, Las Vegas prostitutes and center-right politicians everywhere unite in a common cause.
Take Two tried damage control. Then HC was found embedded in the console ports of the game...
I think it is one case of DRM where average people will care, because they don't want to buy new monitors.
When Vista arrives, along about Christmas, I'll be in the market for a new monitor, anyway. The wide-screen HDCP enabled panel will be a no-brainer.
Vista may have hit the sweet spot, where new technologies are at the take-off point: Where the 4:3 display suddenly becomes as painfully nostalgic as Grandpa's roundish B&W TV in the attic.
I'm sure it will at least have "product activation," for starters. And then the "compatibility" with Microsoft's music DRM, yeah. And also the signed drivers and support for Treacherous Computing.
wake me when any of this affects mass market sales. wake me again when trusted computing doesn't look attractive to your boss.
For the same reason you pay for PC and console games, cable and satellite TV, DVDs, Netflix, iTunes, Rhapsody, XM radio and any of a hundred other products and services:
Content, Quality, and Convenience.
Middle-class value, in short, and Windows is preeminently the OS of choice for the middle class.
What he should be doing is marketing this to rural farmers in developed countries. If I lived on a farm with access to the fuel, I would love to have a kilowatt generator for $1000 to supplement my electricity use.
In the developed world, farmers are on the grid.
There is often a need for portable power or heavy-duty emergency back-up. But there are existing solutions that work very well.
What a farmer in the developed world does not want is a labor-intensive solution that generates trivial amounts of power while substantially upping the risks in handling organic wastes.
I just get a feeling that its all about to crumble. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will both fail I believe and a 3rd technology will emerge at some point that doesn't have the backing of Hollywood.
The Harry Potter franchise alone is worth billions to Time-Warner. You think the asian OEMs don't look at these numbers when they place their bets?
What is the version for home users / smaller offices that don't want/need all the extra bells and whistles? I'd say 95% of any work is done in either Word or Excel. Why not have a "Basic" version of office that just includes those, maybe throw in Outlook, too?
Microsoft has sold home office bundles (not academic distributions) at least since Word 97.
The mix varies but the pricing always hovers around $125. Office Home 2007 will install on three PCs. Office at $50 a seat is not good news for OpenOffice.org.
Is the consumer expected to look at an Amazon-branded MP3 player they've never seen before and think, "Ah, Amazon! They do such a good job shipping gifts on or around Christmas, I'll bet their digital music service rocks?"
Amazon is evolving into something like the Sears, Roebuck catalog, which was in every middle class home for 100 years.
I think this can work.
I think what the "realistic" games do is allow an outlet for things that should not be let out in public. Like killing people, or walking around randomly pissing on folks.
This doesn't say much for the maturity of the M rated game.
It does reinforce the stereotype that the real market for these games is the adolescent male.
I would welcome an M-rated RPG (a successor to Fallout or Planescape: Torment) that didn't leave me feeling like I had regressed to my sophomore year in high school.
Keep in mind that laws have to have widespread public support in order to be truly effective and beneficial.
Would you care to guess how many people are employed in the entertainment business?
---Mind you this includes only those whose stake is directly in production. Not finance, not support services. Not those clerking at Blockbuster or laboring in the mail room at Netflix.
When you consider how many people actively engage in filesharing, it becomes quite clear that the vast segment of the populace does not consider such activities to be morally or ethically wrong, regardless of what the law might be.
My own suspicion is that the file-sharing demographic looks a lot like the stereotypical video gaming demographic: Young, male, and politically impotent.
So is drinking milk on a sidewalk every third Saturday in some place or another, but that doesn't make it wrong.
The consequences of being ticketed for drinking milk on the sidewalk doesn't hit with the force of a civil lawsuit or a felony charge.
It was designed to encourage the creation of a large public domain with which to advance society
You could argue with equal justice that copyright was designed to reward competition: that derivative works are of secondary merit.
The most significant truth about American art, music and literature is that it almost entirely the creation of the lower and middle classes and a commercial enterprise since its beginnings.
It implies that the {MP,RI}AA memberships better get their collective butts in gear if they want to become relevant again.
The majors will never be irrelevant so long as the content they produce dominates all channels of distribution worldwide including the P2P nets.
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It sure as hell does happen.
The Bin Laden clan owns a five billion dollar construction firm, the largest in the Islamic world and a fortune built on a monopoly in construction for the Saudi royal family. The House of Bin Laden Osama's share was worth something like $200 million.
This simply drops Linux and Open Source off the edge of the world.
On instinct, I would mod down to hell below zero any quote from Pastor Niemöller or Gandhi.
Because it will almost always be wildly inappropriate, vain and self-serving and guaranteed a quick mod up to +5. Godwin's Law.
There's no reason a whitebox board maker would limit itself in such a manner. There is one reason to build TC into your boards: OEM Sales.
so long as internal controls look good to management and the board of directors - and outside auditors - your techie is not going to get that promotion.
When businesses use or don't use a technology then people who want to work from home will use similar technology, then their kids will use it.
the home pc market is driven by its own imperatives and not those of the office. has been for for the better part of twenty-five years.
that is the fundamental reason why OEM Linux tanks at retail and Win MCE becomes the default consumer install even on the laptop.
The short answer: Mac users upgrade within the Mac family, Windows users within the Windows family. Nothing ever changes that equation.
In the consumer market, the PC is sold as a ready-to-run office machine or home appliance. That leaves Linux pretty much out in the cold.
Dell has been moving very fast to Win MCE as the default install even on the laptop. Vista will be even more strongly media oriented.
It's the future for the OEM Linux box that looks bleak. On Walmart.com that has dwindled to four pathetic Microtel boxes.
I can't shake the feeling that the typical Slashdot Geek is frozen in a time capsule where it is always 1998 and the consumer market never changes.
Take Two had all the enemies it could stand.
It says something when upstate New York soccer moms, the Haitian poor of Miami, Las Vegas prostitutes and center-right politicians everywhere unite in a common cause.
Take Two tried damage control.
Then HC was found embedded in the console ports of the game...
When Vista arrives, along about Christmas, I'll be in the market for a new monitor, anyway. The wide-screen HDCP enabled panel will be a no-brainer.
Vista may have hit the sweet spot, where new technologies are at the take-off point: Where the 4:3 display suddenly becomes as painfully nostalgic as Grandpa's roundish B&W TV in the attic.
wake me when any of this affects mass market sales. wake me again when trusted computing doesn't look attractive to your boss.
For the same reason you pay for PC and console games, cable and satellite TV, DVDs, Netflix, iTunes, Rhapsody, XM radio and any of a hundred other products and services:
Content, Quality, and Convenience.
Middle-class value, in short, and Windows is preeminently the OS of choice for the middle class.
In the developed world, farmers are on the grid.
There is often a need for portable power or heavy-duty emergency back-up. But there are existing solutions that work very well.
What a farmer in the developed world does not want is a labor-intensive solution that generates trivial amounts of power while substantially upping the risks in handling organic wastes.
The Harry Potter franchise alone is worth billions to Time-Warner. You think the asian OEMs don't look at these numbers when they place their bets?
OneNote 2007 replaces Outlook in Office Home. Vista Home will include an improved Windows Mail app and Windows Calendar with iCalendar support.
Four words: Office Temp, Senior Volunteer.
Microsoft has sold home office bundles (not academic distributions) at least since Word 97.
The mix varies but the pricing always hovers around $125. Office Home 2007 will install on three PCs. Office at $50 a seat is not good news for OpenOffice.org.
Retail list $150 US
Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote
Installs on three PCs.
Retail boxed. Doesn't even pretend to be an "academic" distribution.
Let's just forget the nonsense about arm and a leg pricing, shall we? Because Office Home at $50 a seat will be #1 in sales at Amazon.
is likely to be the most requested app at your local church or library. it could all be done in Word but Publisher makes it simple.
Like OpenOffice.org is free from Sun?
OSS can demand as much money, talent, organization and discipline as any proprietary project. The suits do have a voice.
Amazon is evolving into something like the Sears, Roebuck catalog, which was in every middle class home for 100 years. I think this can work.
This doesn't say much for the maturity of the M rated game.
It does reinforce the stereotype that the real market for these games is the adolescent male.
I would welcome an M-rated RPG (a successor to Fallout or Planescape: Torment) that didn't leave me feeling like I had regressed to my sophomore year in high school.
Would you care to guess how many people are employed in the entertainment business?
---Mind you this includes only those whose stake is directly in production. Not finance, not support services. Not those clerking at Blockbuster or laboring in the mail room at Netflix.
I'll give you a hint: It is big enough to be politically significant and concentrated in the states and cities that elect the President and shape the Congress: Concentration of Entertainment-related Employment by Metropolitan Area
When you consider how many people actively engage in filesharing, it becomes quite clear that the vast segment of the populace does not consider such activities to be morally or ethically wrong, regardless of what the law might be.
My own suspicion is that the file-sharing demographic looks a lot like the stereotypical video gaming demographic: Young, male, and politically impotent.
The consequences of being ticketed for drinking milk on the sidewalk doesn't hit with the force of a civil lawsuit or a felony charge.
It was designed to encourage the creation of a large public domain with which to advance society
You could argue with equal justice that copyright was designed to reward competition: that derivative works are of secondary merit.
The most significant truth about American art, music and literature is that it almost entirely the creation of the lower and middle classes and a commercial enterprise since its beginnings.
It implies that the {MP,RI}AA memberships better get their collective butts in gear if they want to become relevant again.
The majors will never be irrelevant so long as the content they produce dominates all channels of distribution worldwide including the P2P nets.
1, 2, 3. It's a virtual card.
4. The card is part of IE7 and Vista.
In the consumer market, OEM Windows is cheap and prices are stable.
"Wired" ran a cover story on a Doom mod used by the marines abour a decade back.
What a small unit must have to survive in combat is instinctive, by-the-book, disciplined, team play. You cannot improvise solutions under fire.