Executives contend that most American drivers are more interested in advanced safety systems than in entertainment options.
Exactually. Thats why us Americans buy SUVs that "feel" safe and spend billions on another war against an -ism. This would be fine, except from the two examples I have given you can see that our collective motto is "a good offense is the best defense."
If Sony has success with this it will be because they are trying to get new markets (just like they did with the playstation). They are trying to hook up women and electronics. From the article:
Sony is moving into ritzy shopping malls based on a widely held belief that conventional electronics stores do a lousy job with women
This sounds risky to me, but that is probably an under served market, and sexy Sony products probably have the best chance of success. They must try to not alienate men though. For example
"It's a cardinal rule -- don't show sports," Syracuse said. Even during the Olympics, televisions were tuned to the Discovery Channel and clips from Sony Corp. movies.
Personally I dont care for Firefox as the rest of the web doesnt really support it and pages dont render correctly
I used to have problems with Firefox and pages not displaying right, but that issue has gone away completely for me with new release. Even the/. crap out has gone away. I think the time is right to show firefox to the world.
For the 300 years following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Kings of England spoke only French. A large number of French words were assimilated into Old English, which also lost most of its inflections, the result being Middle English.
If they would have kept their version of bloated Latin to themselves, then me and millions of other English writers would not be shackled to our word processor spell check.
I look at it this way. Sure Wikipedia is not the most dependable source out there. But for a generation that will believe anything on a REGULAR webpage, wikipedia is a God send. Its simply better than 99% of sources on the internet because it can be changed.
The days of solid sources for non-academic work are long gone. All we need is good enough, thats what Wikipedia is.
Thanks for the reply Rob. In all honesty what many of us geeks want to see is that there are people who make decisions at tech companies who don't have to sugar coat everything or dumb down everything. I think that the real player for Linux is a fine product, hell the fact that it exists means a lot. Sometimes it seems like media companies consider Linux to be a four letter word, so the fact that Real addresses this adds street cred.
Oh, and don't worry about those that say real "can never be trusted again." Most of these people live in an Tin-Foil cage. Many geeks are willing to give Real a second chance, and I for one am impressed by Glaser's comments.
While wholesale prices vary depending on the label, today most labels charge approximately 65-70 cents per song.
Why do they keep the price of music so artificially high? Why? It costs them nothing for some other company to make digital copies of their work. Maybe if this was 1980 and the only way to release music is to make tapes or broadcast radio. Is this the era record companies are stuck in? Was this their golden era?
When Napster came out the hot topic was "What would you actually pay for music?" The answer again and again on message boards was 25 cents! We would have settled for 50 cents.
But what do they give us? 99 cents
I think I speak for much of your music market when I tell you record companies- you don't get to arbitrarily set your price anymore. It might work for Appleheads (we all know they got money because they use an Apple in the first place), but the rest of us will continue to pay 0 cents till you learn that you don't call the shots anymore!
So this year many states are switching to electronic voting machines, which use computer technology -- the same reliable, foolproof technology we use in the newspaper industry to wwr _)(%$@!@hkjhou((*7**%$ ERROR ERROR DELETING EVERYTHING FROM DAWN OF TIME
Broadband "fixes" the Internet for many people. It might shock some/.ers, but some people hate waiting for computers. In a world where your TV, dvd player, radio,ect. just instantly comes on and works, broadband allows the internet to do the same.
Recently my girlfriend started surfing big for the first time in her life when she got cable broadband. I asked her why she didn't use the internet back during dial-up days and she said "Well, it took so long to get to web pages; I always thought the Internet was broken! Its now like changing a channel on TV."
The true purpose of schooling, according to Gatto, is to produce an easily manageable workforce to serve employers in a mass-production economy.
Actually, we have a post-industrial economy. In basic terms that means that more of our labor is comprised of skilled labors than the world average. The mindless "mass-production" jobs we outsource to China for a few dollars a day per person.
But there's a snag. He has simply posted his results on the Internet and left his peers to work out for themselves whether he is right -- something they are still struggling to do.
"There is good reason to believe that Perelman's approach is correct. But the trouble is, he won't talk to anybody about it and has shown no interest in the money," said Keith Devlin, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University in California.
I'm always amazed how much free stuff is on the internet. Free million dollar solutions! Good luck with em!
I have known about Linux since it began. Yet it never enticed me because as it was orginally being developed for the office, windows turned into the ultimate media machine.
But this year I decided that Linux had come far enough to satify my needs. Now I wouldn't trade Fedora for any number of copies of XP.
I even installed Mandrake on a friend's computer. They guy is the target market for AOL, but he does fine. All he needed was someone to set it up for him!
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Exactually. Thats why us Americans buy SUVs that "feel" safe and spend billions on another war against an -ism. This would be fine, except from the two examples I have given you can see that our collective motto is "a good offense is the best defense."
Sony is moving into ritzy shopping malls based on a widely held belief that conventional electronics stores do a lousy job with women
This sounds risky to me, but that is probably an under served market, and sexy Sony products probably have the best chance of success. They must try to not alienate men though. For example
"It's a cardinal rule -- don't show sports," Syracuse said. Even during the Olympics, televisions were tuned to the Discovery Channel and clips from Sony Corp. movies.
Bad News: All this bandwidth will be wasted on fancy TV and Trusted Computing (TM) instead of your favorite Bit Torrent seed.
I'll wait for whatever cable does to compete with this, and then use that instead.
I used to have problems with Firefox and pages not displaying right, but that issue has gone away completely for me with new release. Even the /. crap out has gone away. I think the time is right to show firefox to the world.
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For the 300 years following the Norman Conquest in 1066, the Kings of England spoke only French. A large number of French words were assimilated into Old English, which also lost most of its inflections, the result being Middle English.
If they would have kept their version of bloated Latin to themselves, then me and millions of other English writers would not be shackled to our word processor spell check.
So...red states vs. the blue on this issue? How original.
Just to figure out the answer to a problem every 8th grader knows.
The days of solid sources for non-academic work are long gone. All we need is good enough, thats what Wikipedia is.
Does this actually matter? How many Madrake Users get their ISO's from Mandrake anyway? Torrents will probably have 10.1 within the day.
Thanks for the reply Rob. In all honesty what many of us geeks want to see is that there are people who make decisions at tech companies who don't have to sugar coat everything or dumb down everything. I think that the real player for Linux is a fine product, hell the fact that it exists means a lot. Sometimes it seems like media companies consider Linux to be a four letter word, so the fact that Real addresses this adds street cred.
Oh, and don't worry about those that say real "can never be trusted again." Most of these people live in an Tin-Foil cage. Many geeks are willing to give Real a second chance, and I for one am impressed by Glaser's comments.
Wife and /.er in the same sentence? Must be new around here. Or maybe he calls his hand his wife too!
Why do they keep the price of music so artificially high? Why? It costs them nothing for some other company to make digital copies of their work. Maybe if this was 1980 and the only way to release music is to make tapes or broadcast radio. Is this the era record companies are stuck in? Was this their golden era?
When Napster came out the hot topic was "What would you actually pay for music?" The answer again and again on message boards was 25 cents! We would have settled for 50 cents.
But what do they give us? 99 cents
I think I speak for much of your music market when I tell you record companies- you don't get to arbitrarily set your price anymore. It might work for Appleheads (we all know they got money because they use an Apple in the first place), but the rest of us will continue to pay 0 cents till you learn that you don't call the shots anymore!
A window user's cry for help?
Recently my girlfriend started surfing big for the first time in her life when she got cable broadband. I asked her why she didn't use the internet back during dial-up days and she said "Well, it took so long to get to web pages; I always thought the Internet was broken! Its now like changing a channel on TV."
*What would really happen*
Dad: You should watch this star wars movie. It was the best when I was a kid.
10 year old kid: No way! I saw both those stupid Star Wars movies. Jar-Jar suxs. I'm going to play Halo next door with Jon instead. bye dad
Dad:bye son
*Dad opens browser, go to /. rants about "Han shoots first.")
Actually, we have a post-industrial economy. In basic terms that means that more of our labor is comprised of skilled labors than the world average. The mindless "mass-production" jobs we outsource to China for a few dollars a day per person.
And I bought DVDRs to organize my closet.
Yes, because a year's worth of floppies for daily backup would cost more than $50. A 10 pack of floppies costs $7 on newegg. Floppies fail a lot.
Maybe the CD-ROM drive failing was you computer's way of begging you not to torture it by installing Windows ME.
Congress? simpler and cheaper? have you ever read a U.S. newspaper?
If congress does anything to change the status quo, the change would probably be more complicated and more expersive!
"There is good reason to believe that Perelman's approach is correct. But the trouble is, he won't talk to anybody about it and has shown no interest in the money," said Keith Devlin, Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University in California.
I'm always amazed how much free stuff is on the internet. Free million dollar solutions! Good luck with em!
But this year I decided that Linux had come far enough to satify my needs. Now I wouldn't trade Fedora for any number of copies of XP.
I even installed Mandrake on a friend's computer. They guy is the target market for AOL, but he does fine. All he needed was someone to set it up for him!
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