You might argue the real value in advertising a Lindows notebook is to increase the overall visibility of a Windows alternative - which the general public is almost completely unaware of.
I have to say this sounds very much like Bill when he gets a little flustered. Sure he sounds all calm and professional when doing a PR conference or other staged event, but when faced with a skeptical interviewer he tends to get very nervous soundsing, agitated, and generally starts speaking very quickly, often repetitive. He's learned a lot since the trial appearances - he at least appears much mellower now. But the arrogance is always right beneath the surface.
Interesting - I have the same exact scenario - I started using Trillian after getting sick of opening three differnt chat programs every time. I signed up with MSN only to use their messaging service - and to date not a single spam message! Just an occasional (monthly) mail from MS itself advertising some new lameass service they are pushing.
Perhaps this will be the eventual basis for a lawsuit. MS itself could create a number of dummy accounts that are kept non-public. Spam the accounts receive could be tracked (maybe) and used as evidence that the spammers illegally attained the addresses.
Yeah, this is typical elitist geek preaching here. You see this a lot when the so called commoners invade someones previously limited turf. I agree, there are a lot of garbage sites out there - but don't visit if you don't like it.
I'd say most personal bloggers don't really care if anyone reads their stuff, I do wonder why they feel the need to put their personal thoughts out in public instead of a sprial notebook - but who cares.
Well you can feel better knowing your Corolla has the better resale value! There's nothing wrong with making fun of Geo, all of their vehicles were simply rebadged imports, and they had one of the oddest advertising campaigns ever if you remember it.
Platform sharing within OEMs and even between OEMs has become pretty standard to cut costs. It was a lot worse in the past, when all they would do is a simple rebadge (GM, Ford and Chrysler all did this). At least now they try to give the vehicles their own identity and unique styling. But you would be hard pressed to find any current vehicle that does not share its platform with at least one other car.
Actually - as a proud owner of both a Geo Prizm and Toyota Corolla (BTW they are the same car) I know that these are on the top ten list of most stolen cars in the US. This is because they are a top seller - thus their parts are the most marketable on the black market.
The master key this is very true - I recall Ford having one of the worst cases with one of the older Taurus models - apparantly there were only about 80 or so key combinations on the market causing not only problems but honest mixups by owners.
This is an excellent point. Microsoft has a long history of tenaciously chasing certain ideas even after repeated disastrous. This is only MS's second stab at this product, it will likely fail in the market, but they will continue to come at it because they believe this is the holy grail of personal computing for the masses, not that.1% of technical users represented here. Sales of regular PCs are stagnant, and making them faster or cooler is not going to help. Building a truly natural computer will likely be the next big jolt in the market. This definitely is not it, and it may not come for a long time, but it will eventually.
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You might argue the real value in advertising a Lindows notebook is to increase the overall visibility of a Windows alternative - which the general public is almost completely unaware of.
I have to say this sounds very much like Bill when he gets a little flustered. Sure he sounds all calm and professional when doing a PR conference or other staged event, but when faced with a skeptical interviewer he tends to get very nervous soundsing, agitated, and generally starts speaking very quickly, often repetitive. He's learned a lot since the trial appearances - he at least appears much mellower now. But the arrogance is always right beneath the surface.
Interesting - I have the same exact scenario - I started using Trillian after getting sick of opening three differnt chat programs every time. I signed up with MSN only to use their messaging service - and to date not a single spam message! Just an occasional (monthly) mail from MS itself advertising some new lameass service they are pushing.
Perhaps this will be the eventual basis for a lawsuit. MS itself could create a number of dummy accounts that are kept non-public. Spam the accounts receive could be tracked (maybe) and used as evidence that the spammers illegally attained the addresses.
Yeah, this is typical elitist geek preaching here. You see this a lot when the so called commoners invade someones previously limited turf. I agree, there are a lot of garbage sites out there - but don't visit if you don't like it. I'd say most personal bloggers don't really care if anyone reads their stuff, I do wonder why they feel the need to put their personal thoughts out in public instead of a sprial notebook - but who cares.
Well you can feel better knowing your Corolla has the better resale value! There's nothing wrong with making fun of Geo, all of their vehicles were simply rebadged imports, and they had one of the oddest advertising campaigns ever if you remember it. Platform sharing within OEMs and even between OEMs has become pretty standard to cut costs. It was a lot worse in the past, when all they would do is a simple rebadge (GM, Ford and Chrysler all did this). At least now they try to give the vehicles their own identity and unique styling. But you would be hard pressed to find any current vehicle that does not share its platform with at least one other car.
Actually - as a proud owner of both a Geo Prizm and Toyota Corolla (BTW they are the same car) I know that these are on the top ten list of most stolen cars in the US. This is because they are a top seller - thus their parts are the most marketable on the black market. The master key this is very true - I recall Ford having one of the worst cases with one of the older Taurus models - apparantly there were only about 80 or so key combinations on the market causing not only problems but honest mixups by owners.
This is an excellent point. Microsoft has a long history of tenaciously chasing certain ideas even after repeated disastrous. This is only MS's second stab at this product, it will likely fail in the market, but they will continue to come at it because they believe this is the holy grail of personal computing for the masses, not that .1% of technical users represented here. Sales of regular PCs are stagnant, and making them faster or cooler is not going to help. Building a truly natural computer will likely be the next big jolt in the market. This definitely is not it, and it may not come for a long time, but it will eventually.