You have a defense if the drive-by download can be repeated. But you'll have a hard time explaining how you "accidentally" clicked on 500 thumbnails and downloaded the full-size images into cache.
With the damage that intellectual monopoly rights cause to the economy, consumers and taxpayers it shouldnt be too hard to recruit supporters provided one uses the correct arguments
The american motion picture and video industry alone directly employs 360,000 people, mostly in New York and Los Angeles: Motion Picture and Video Industries.
You do not build a taxpayer revolt around clean industries, high-wage jobs, and a lucrative export market.
If you think this is a little irrational, just remember that the financial damages caused by computer viruses are probably in the billions of dollars every year
How much in sales and profit do you suppose the mass market Windows PC generates in a year?
Think Microsoft, Dell, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Time-Warner, Verizon. The PC game industry, "in decline," still rakes in $1.6 billion annually.PC games battle the consoles by going online Our small village Rite-Aid stocks Kodak digital cameras, smart media cards, recordable DVDs, ink jet cartridges, papers, etc.
The real solution IMHO would be to remove all the bundled apps...
This is not the experience retail customer expect from Dell and their ISP. You unpack the system, connect the cables, power up, and you're good to go in under thirty minutes.
I find the depiction of computer technology in the vast majority of films appalling..Especially because it wouldn't be all that hard to get it right.
You have ninety minutes to tell your story. If something must be explained, you want to do it simply, quickly and in as strongly visual and entertaining a way as possible. Good examples of computer tech done right can be found in The Incredibles, amusingly, if you freeze-frame on a keyboard, you'll find the familiar Apple key and logo.
If Apple...is successful in marketing the advantages of a *nix system
Take a look at this add for the Mac mini: Introducing Mac mini If you look very, very, closely you'll find a single throwaway line that mentions UNIX. Apple doesn't market *nix, Apple markets Apple.
Estimates of legit Windows installs run from 300-500 million. It's difficult to believe that piracy was ever the driving force behind the success of the O/S.
Worse, OpenOffice, even with its reduced functionality, has all the functions that most people need, and there is no need to buy Microsoft Office.
I read these posts proclaiming the death of Microsoft Office. But at ground level:
Student-Teacher Office for Windows and the Mac rank #2 and #7 in Amazon software sales. Office upgrades and components remain consistent, reliable, performers at retail. Figure in OEM sales, academic distributions, corporate licensing, etc., and the numbers continue to look pretty damn good.
Local employers want MS Office skills. Period. End of story. Tired of welfare, SSI, flipping burgers, being a granny greeter at WalMart? Certification in Office is your ticket out.
Linux/Open Source engages no one beyond the university and college campus.
Apple is one step away from going toe-to-toe with Dell and Microsoft now.
Dell recently committed to purchasing 300,000 14" widescreen laptops a month from a single Chinese supplier. That is one model in one segment of its product line.
Windows users upgrade within the Windows family. Mac users within the Mac family, even the pros tend to stay with what they know. OS Platform Stats
Apple sells an upscale urban lifestyle, Dell and Microsoft solid middle-class values. There has never been the slightest doubt where the real money is to be made in the North American market.
It would be more accurate to say that Sarnoff believed that RCA should focus its energies and resources on the greater prize of television. FM was a distraction, AM paid the bills.
Or did you think it was a lucky coincidence that only one person broadcasts on a TV frequency at a time in any given area?
let me know how an RCA television set using the vacuum tube technology of 1946 selectively tunes stations using the same channel within seventy-five miles of each other.
when Joe and Pam realize that Linux can do everything that Windows can do (and more) and the price is what, $0.00, I can almost guarentee that they will stick with it.
Joe and Pam will probably not come across a live CD before they have had a ten year investment in Windows. They subscribe to Rhapsody or Y! Unlimited. They do their banking through Quicken. For the true retro-gaming experience they fire up the MSDOS system they played with as kids.
For a dual-boot system...Let's say that/dev/hda4 is your Windows partition,/dev/hda1 is/,/dev/hda2 is/boot, and/dev/hda3 is swap...
congratulations. you have lost your potential convert in a hopeless tangle of jargon, and it will be a cold day in hell before he even thinks about booting into Linux.
'I Love Lucy' had an even less complicated formula
But the formula is the least significant part of the show's success:
1 Lucy was the rarest of the rare, a female clown. We have seen nothing the like of her since.
2 Desi added a much needed sharpness, an ethnic, urban flavor to the comedy.
3 The series followed the postwar arc of its audience.
The desire to travel. The beginnings of a family. The move to the suburbs. The inescapable tensions within a marriage as the husband's career matures and the wife remains house bound.
The significant hydropower sites are fully exploited, often at great cost to the environment, archaeological sites, and so on. Glen Canyon is a prime example of what can be lost. Lake's Low Water Level Exposes Prized Canyons"
We fix our urban planning so that we walk short distances, cycle if we're going a mile, take different kinds of trains to go many miles
This conveniently ignores problems of weather and climate, the age distribution of the population, suburbanization and the decay of the urban core, etc. Henry Ford saw earlier than most that Americans do not like to be bound to the fixed routes and schedules of bus and rail.
Since the early 1900s we've had cars that work off of lead-acid batteries
But they were heavy, slow, and expensive, and first sold to the upper class as a replacement for a horse drawn coach, with roughly the same range and speed.
And I think Apple could really win this one, unless I'm just snowed by the/. perspective on Longhorn.
Windows users upgrade within the Windows family, Mac users within the Mac family. You'll not find many outside the Geek community interested in dual-booting or trashing a software library they began building up ten to twenty years ago.
There are plenty of people using un-surveyable means of downloading entire albums, say, via IRC/Bit Torrent, anonymous FTP sites, straight IRC DCC's, etc.
Which would be fine if I had hours to waste tracking down a single, serviceable, mp3 rip. Thank you, but no. I'm dining at out at the one-click, full service, all-you-can-eat buffet for $15/mo.
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You have a defense if the drive-by download can be repeated. But you'll have a hard time explaining how you "accidentally" clicked on 500 thumbnails and downloaded the full-size images into cache.
Student-Teacher Office for the Mac installs on three systems and is widely available for under $150.
The american motion picture and video industry alone directly employs 360,000 people, mostly in New York and Los Angeles: Motion Picture and Video Industries.
You do not build a taxpayer revolt around clean industries, high-wage jobs, and a lucrative export market.
How much in sales and profit do you suppose the mass market Windows PC generates in a year?
Think Microsoft, Dell, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Time-Warner, Verizon. The PC game industry, "in decline," still rakes in $1.6 billion annually.PC games battle the consoles by going online Our small village Rite-Aid stocks Kodak digital cameras, smart media cards, recordable DVDs, ink jet cartridges, papers, etc.
This is not the experience retail customer expect from Dell and their ISP. You unpack the system, connect the cables, power up, and you're good to go in under thirty minutes.
You have ninety minutes to tell your story. If something must be explained, you want to do it simply, quickly and in as strongly visual and entertaining a way as possible. Good examples of computer tech done right can be found in The Incredibles, amusingly, if you freeze-frame on a keyboard, you'll find the familiar Apple key and logo.
No they don't. That Batman is a hero without superpowers is what makes him special.
But the path arcs across upstate New York and southern Ontario, Hamilton, and Toronto. That is not an easy sell politically.
Take a look at this add for the Mac mini: Introducing Mac mini If you look very, very, closely you'll find a single throwaway line that mentions UNIX. Apple doesn't market *nix, Apple markets Apple.
Estimates of legit Windows installs run from 300-500 million. It's difficult to believe that piracy was ever the driving force behind the success of the O/S.
I'd like to know how they propose to ramp up to a launch-a-week, a brutal schedule even for an unmanned program.
I read these posts proclaiming the death of Microsoft Office. But at ground level:
Student-Teacher Office for Windows and the Mac rank #2 and #7 in Amazon software sales. Office upgrades and components remain consistent, reliable, performers at retail. Figure in OEM sales, academic distributions, corporate licensing, etc., and the numbers continue to look pretty damn good.
Local employers want MS Office skills. Period. End of story. Tired of welfare, SSI, flipping burgers, being a granny greeter at WalMart? Certification in Office is your ticket out.
Linux/Open Source engages no one beyond the university and college campus.
Dell recently committed to purchasing 300,000 14" widescreen laptops a month from a single Chinese supplier. That is one model in one segment of its product line.
Windows users upgrade within the Windows family. Mac users within the Mac family, even the pros tend to stay with what they know. OS Platform Stats
Apple sells an upscale urban lifestyle, Dell and Microsoft solid middle-class values. There has never been the slightest doubt where the real money is to be made in the North American market.
Dell will move into any market where it thinks there is money to be made. Dell to offer premium PC brand
It would be more accurate to say that Sarnoff believed that RCA should focus its energies and resources on the greater prize of television. FM was a distraction, AM paid the bills.
let me know how an RCA television set using the vacuum tube technology of 1946 selectively tunes stations using the same channel within seventy-five miles of each other.
Joe and Pam will probably not come across a live CD before they have had a ten year investment in Windows.
They subscribe to Rhapsody or Y! Unlimited. They do their banking through Quicken. For the true retro-gaming experience they fire up the MSDOS system they played with as kids.
They are not candidates for migration.
congratulations. you have lost your potential convert in a hopeless tangle of jargon, and it will be a cold day in hell before he even thinks about booting into Linux.
The more interesting question is whether 2D animation can show any strength at the box office even when the draw is The Simpsons.
But the formula is the least significant part of the show's success:
1 Lucy was the rarest of the rare, a female clown. We have seen nothing the like of her since.
2 Desi added a much needed sharpness, an ethnic, urban flavor to the comedy.
3 The series followed the postwar arc of its audience.
The desire to travel. The beginnings of a family. The move to the suburbs. The inescapable tensions within a marriage as the husband's career matures and the wife remains house bound.
Minority cultures have the most to lose when the majority culture is free for the taking.
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The significant hydropower sites are fully exploited, often at great cost to the environment, archaeological sites, and so on. Glen Canyon is a prime example of what can be lost. Lake's Low Water Level Exposes Prized Canyons"
We fix our urban planning so that we walk short distances, cycle if we're going a mile, take different kinds of trains to go many miles
This conveniently ignores problems of weather and climate, the age distribution of the population, suburbanization and the decay of the urban core, etc. Henry Ford saw earlier than most that Americans do not like to be bound to the fixed routes and schedules of bus and rail.
Since the early 1900s we've had cars that work off of lead-acid batteries
But they were heavy, slow, and expensive, and first sold to the upper class as a replacement for a horse drawn coach, with roughly the same range and speed.
Windows users upgrade within the Windows family, Mac users within the Mac family. You'll not find many outside the Geek community interested in dual-booting or trashing a software library they began building up ten to twenty years ago.
the combat environment is more complex and demanding than the loading dock and you won't find power-ups hidden behind every crate.
Which would be fine if I had hours to waste tracking down a single, serviceable, mp3 rip. Thank you, but no. I'm dining at out at the one-click, full service, all-you-can-eat buffet for $15/mo.