If there is no incentive for any consumer to buy the fries, the fries are valueless and the fry producer should look into new ways to make money. Maybe give away creatively seasoned fries as an incentive for consumers to come to his hamburger joint, I don't know. Similar technology-facilitated removal of value has happened countless times throughout history. Affected businesses either adapted or failed. The RIAA needs to do the same.
I could do that, but then there's still the Firefox chrome there to confuse her. This way, there's no buttons, no address bar, no status bar, nothing but the app she wants to use.
My grandmother, or any of the users I support who are completely baffled by tabbed browsing.
My grandmother has a gmail account. In order for her to use it, I had to turn on POP for the account and set her up with Thunderbird. Then I changed the icon on the Thunderbird shortcut to an envelope and the name of the shortcut to "Mail" so she could find it. The thing is, I've showed her the web interface for gmail, and she actually likes it better than Thunderbird, but opening a browser, typing gmail.com and logging in are too much for her to handle. With this, I can give her that same shortcut on her desktop with the Envelope and the word "Mail" and it'll take her straight to the Gmail web interface, without an address bar, or forward/back/stop buttons to add confusion.
The users here are set up with IRC chatrooms for their teams. We tried moving them to Campfire for a simpler interface and better opportunities for offsite access, but they liked mIRC better. They said it was easier to use than Campfire. When I asked them how Campfire's interface could possibly be more difficult to use than mIRC, they said it wasn't the interface, it was the fact that they had to leave a web browser or tab open all the time, and then they couldn't find it on the taskbar when they wanted to check out the chat. With Prism, I could give them a shortcut on the desktop that would open a Prism window to the chatroom, where the window title would be the name of the chatroom and the icon would be unique. Plus, it wouldn't get lumped in with all the other browser windows when the taskbar filled up.
I've used a Blackberry for years. The only third party apps I ever use on it are Google Maps, JiveTalk (a multi-network IM client), and an RSS reader.
The "killer app" for that Blackberry has always been and will always be its tight Exchange server integration. If you look at the Curve, the first Blackberry really aimed at non-business users, it's the media player, the camera, and the keyboard that are the major draws. Nobody who's interested in the Curve as a personal phone is thinking "Wow, I bet I can run some really cool third-party apps on there!".
Everyone keeps repeating the whole phone-as-a-killer-app thing, but I think the true "killer app" for the iPhone will be the browser. If a kid can carry in his pocket an iPod, an IM client, and a browser capable of handling MySpace/Facebook/whatever, that kid will be bothering his parents *constantly* to get one. And, just like the iPod, once the parents see how nice and easy to use it is, they'll get them for themselves too.
As soon as you show my mom how to do 3 - 6 with her exactly ONE (1, uno, etc) Windows XP computer, I'll stop "yapping"
Want to know how I made my wife's iBook secure?
1. Turned it on 2. Didn't show her how to use the root account
The thing that kills me is that the argument you gave to support your view is so completely useless for any home PC user. The thing that makes Windows insecurity a problem isn't that it's hard for a Windows network administrator with 5000 machines to secure it effectively, it's that it is so hard for a soccer mom with one computer to do it.
If I'm understanding what you're looking for (I've never seen Sniffer Pro in action), I think EtherApe might do it. It hasn't been updated since January of 2003, but the current version works fine for me.
In the original version of the Cantina scene, Han shoots Greedo under the table before Greedo shoots at him. In the ruined version of the Cantina scene, Greedo, an experienced bounty hunter shoots first and misses from all of 3 feet away. This was apparently done to make the scene more PC and not have a "hero" doing something underhanded, never mind the fact that the "hero" is supposed to be a smuggler and a scoundrel.
You are familiar with the concept of "salesmen", yes? It is very necessary for salesmen to be easily reachable. A public email address makes them easily reachable. Would you like to suggest to the salesmen where I work that they should not have public email addresses? Would you like for me to redirect the spam filtered out of the mailboxes of the salesmen to you? These are business contact addresses, by the way.
Do you figure the spiders that crawl the web and harvest email addresses are intelligent enough to be able to tell the business addresses from the personal ones?
I think it's terrific that you "get NO spam at all". I also think that the idea that getting rid of publicly-available email addresses is a solution to the problem of spam deserves Fark's [assinine] tag.
How would Businesses be reachable via email under your fabulous no-one-has-a-public-email-address spam solution?
Or to use the same (rather silly) metaphor, the Wal-Mart down the street has a public phone number. Does this mean Wal-Mart's phone is constantly ringing?
I am not a celebrity, in real life or on the Internet. Would you like me to forward my spam to you? I guarantee that I get more spam than Bob Barker gets phone calls.
The point I was trying to make was that it took me around 3 minutes to find a machine that met all his requirements for under $1000. If you spent the time to check Smalldog or Ebay or shop that carries refurbished or discontinued hardware, I'm sure you could easily find a Mac that met all of his requirements for much less than his "about a grand".
I'll also point out that his G4 requirement for OSX worthiness is not accurate. My G3 iBook plays full-screen DivX movies just fine (And we all know that full-screen DivX is the only thing that could make OSX worth running).
A quick trip to the Apple's online store to check will show you that a iMac G4 800MHz/256MB/60GB/Combo/E/56K/15" - Refurbished, which meets all of your listed requirements can be had for $899 direct from Apple, with a 1 year warranty.
I think you misunderstand the way the buffer works. The iPod doesn't play from the disk, it plays from the buffer. The disk is only used to move track data into memory. You'd have to constantly shake the iPod in order to screw that up. Like a paint mixer. Not like jogging. Unless you shake like a paint mixer while you jog, but then you've got bigger problems than skipping music.
Just FYI -
The iPod (and I assume the mini) has something like 20 minutes worth of shock protection. It does not play from the disk, it buffers the songs in memory and plays from there. This also increases battery life quite a bit, since the disk isn't constantly spinning.
You could make the iPod skip if you put it in a paint mixer or something, but if it skips while you're jogging, it should be sent in for repair. That or you jog really badly:-)
You have to look at it in the correct perspective. In comparison to the BPI, they are a small business, in comparison to Bo-Joe's House of Chicken and Waffles, they aren't.
1. Here is one for $55 at Newegg
2. Most new computers have front-mounted USB ports.
3. You need drivers for older versions of Windows and DOS. They are bootable with most newer motherboards/BIOSes.
4. I've had a 128 MB pen drive living in my front pocket for at least a year. Do that with your "durable" floppy.
Well, lets say the two of us are manufacturers of USB drives. You sell yours formatted FAT and tack $0.50 onto the price. I, however, decide to sell mine unformatted and let the end user format them from Windows. Now my drives are $0.50 cheaper than yours. Which one of us will the distributor buy from?
Granted, the simple answer is for both of us to sell our products unformatted but it's not that simple when you start talking about products where firmware will have to be rewritten in order to avoid using FAT. Of course, all the manufacturers may decide to tack that $0.50 on in more complicated areas, in which case the consumer would eat the cost.
All I'm really trying to say is "Just tack on $n" isn't really simple as most people seem to think.
So you (the manufacturer) raise the price by a dollar. Do you only sell 10 units to the company that distributes your product? Multiply that one tiny dollar by 100,000 units, suddenly your product costs the distributor $100,000 more to distribute. Remember, it's not (usually) the distributor who charges you $400 for a PDA that has to eat the cost of this license, it's the manufacturer who implements the FAT filesystem in the product it manufactures.
Drug addiction didn't cause crime until drug addiction became a crime
Crackheads don't steal VCRs from people because crack is illegal, they steal them because crack is expensive and, being addicted to crack, they are unemployable.
And, from the quick glance I gave it, it would appear that credit card info would only be taken from those who pose a possible security risk.
Categories of Records in the System:
Passenger Name Records (PNRs) and associated data; reservation and
manifest information of passenger carriers and, in the case of
individuals who are deemed to pose a possible risk to transportation
security, record categories may include: risk assessment reports;
financial and transactional data; public source information;
proprietary data; and information from law enforcement and intelligence
sources.
What constitutes 'a possible risk to transportation security', I don't know.
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If there is no incentive for any consumer to buy the fries, the fries are valueless and the fry producer should look into new ways to make money. Maybe give away creatively seasoned fries as an incentive for consumers to come to his hamburger joint, I don't know. Similar technology-facilitated removal of value has happened countless times throughout history. Affected businesses either adapted or failed. The RIAA needs to do the same.
I could do that, but then there's still the Firefox chrome there to confuse her. This way, there's no buttons, no address bar, no status bar, nothing but the app she wants to use.
My grandmother, or any of the users I support who are completely baffled by tabbed browsing.
My grandmother has a gmail account. In order for her to use it, I had to turn on POP for the account and set her up with Thunderbird. Then I changed the icon on the Thunderbird shortcut to an envelope and the name of the shortcut to "Mail" so she could find it. The thing is, I've showed her the web interface for gmail, and she actually likes it better than Thunderbird, but opening a browser, typing gmail.com and logging in are too much for her to handle. With this, I can give her that same shortcut on her desktop with the Envelope and the word "Mail" and it'll take her straight to the Gmail web interface, without an address bar, or forward/back/stop buttons to add confusion.
The users here are set up with IRC chatrooms for their teams. We tried moving them to Campfire for a simpler interface and better opportunities for offsite access, but they liked mIRC better. They said it was easier to use than Campfire. When I asked them how Campfire's interface could possibly be more difficult to use than mIRC, they said it wasn't the interface, it was the fact that they had to leave a web browser or tab open all the time, and then they couldn't find it on the taskbar when they wanted to check out the chat. With Prism, I could give them a shortcut on the desktop that would open a Prism window to the chatroom, where the window title would be the name of the chatroom and the icon would be unique. Plus, it wouldn't get lumped in with all the other browser windows when the taskbar filled up.
I've used a Blackberry for years. The only third party apps I ever use on it are Google Maps, JiveTalk (a multi-network IM client), and an RSS reader.
The "killer app" for that Blackberry has always been and will always be its tight Exchange server integration. If you look at the Curve, the first Blackberry really aimed at non-business users, it's the media player, the camera, and the keyboard that are the major draws. Nobody who's interested in the Curve as a personal phone is thinking "Wow, I bet I can run some really cool third-party apps on there!".
Everyone keeps repeating the whole phone-as-a-killer-app thing, but I think the true "killer app" for the iPhone will be the browser. If a kid can carry in his pocket an iPod, an IM client, and a browser capable of handling MySpace/Facebook/whatever, that kid will be bothering his parents *constantly* to get one. And, just like the iPod, once the parents see how nice and easy to use it is, they'll get them for themselves too.
Yeah, they'll blow through $10 billion in no time.
You're absolutely right, there are no non-Apple products available for purchase anywhere. You're totally locked in.
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They're talking about iCal support, not iCal support, duh! :)
As soon as you show my mom how to do 3 - 6 with her exactly ONE (1, uno, etc) Windows XP computer, I'll stop "yapping"
Want to know how I made my wife's iBook secure?
1. Turned it on
2. Didn't show her how to use the root account
The thing that kills me is that the argument you gave to support your view is so completely useless for any home PC user. The thing that makes Windows insecurity a problem isn't that it's hard for a Windows network administrator with 5000 machines to secure it effectively, it's that it is so hard for a soccer mom with one computer to do it.
If I'm understanding what you're looking for (I've never seen Sniffer Pro in action), I think EtherApe might do it. It hasn't been updated since January of 2003, but the current version works fine for me.
In the original version of the Cantina scene, Han shoots Greedo under the table before Greedo shoots at him. In the ruined version of the Cantina scene, Greedo, an experienced bounty hunter shoots first and misses from all of 3 feet away. This was apparently done to make the scene more PC and not have a "hero" doing something underhanded, never mind the fact that the "hero" is supposed to be a smuggler and a scoundrel.
You are familiar with the concept of "salesmen", yes? It is very necessary for salesmen to be easily reachable. A public email address makes them easily reachable. Would you like to suggest to the salesmen where I work that they should not have public email addresses? Would you like for me to redirect the spam filtered out of the mailboxes of the salesmen to you? These are business contact addresses, by the way.
Do you figure the spiders that crawl the web and harvest email addresses are intelligent enough to be able to tell the business addresses from the personal ones?
I think it's terrific that you "get NO spam at all". I also think that the idea that getting rid of publicly-available email addresses is a solution to the problem of spam deserves Fark's [assinine] tag.
How would Businesses be reachable via email under your fabulous no-one-has-a-public-email-address spam solution?
Or to use the same (rather silly) metaphor, the Wal-Mart down the street has a public phone number. Does this mean Wal-Mart's phone is constantly ringing?
I am not a celebrity, in real life or on the Internet. Would you like me to forward my spam to you? I guarantee that I get more spam than Bob Barker gets phone calls.
The point I was trying to make was that it took me around 3 minutes to find a machine that met all his requirements for under $1000. If you spent the time to check Smalldog or Ebay or shop that carries refurbished or discontinued hardware, I'm sure you could easily find a Mac that met all of his requirements for much less than his "about a grand".
I'll also point out that his G4 requirement for OSX worthiness is not accurate. My G3 iBook plays full-screen DivX movies just fine (And we all know that full-screen DivX is the only thing that could make OSX worth running).
A quick trip to the Apple's online store to check will show you that a iMac G4 800MHz/256MB/60GB/Combo/E/56K/15" - Refurbished, which meets all of your listed requirements can be had for $899 direct from Apple, with a 1 year warranty.
I think you misunderstand the way the buffer works. The iPod doesn't play from the disk, it plays from the buffer. The disk is only used to move track data into memory. You'd have to constantly shake the iPod in order to screw that up. Like a paint mixer. Not like jogging. Unless you shake like a paint mixer while you jog, but then you've got bigger problems than skipping music.
Just FYI -
:-)
The iPod (and I assume the mini) has something like 20 minutes worth of shock protection. It does not play from the disk, it buffers the songs in memory and plays from there. This also increases battery life quite a bit, since the disk isn't constantly spinning.
You could make the iPod skip if you put it in a paint mixer or something, but if it skips while you're jogging, it should be sent in for repair. That or you jog really badly
You have to look at it in the correct perspective. In comparison to the BPI, they are a small business, in comparison to Bo-Joe's House of Chicken and Waffles, they aren't.
1. Here is one for $55 at Newegg
2. Most new computers have front-mounted USB ports.
3. You need drivers for older versions of Windows and DOS. They are bootable with most newer motherboards/BIOSes.
4. I've had a 128 MB pen drive living in my front pocket for at least a year. Do that with your "durable" floppy.
Well, lets say the two of us are manufacturers of USB drives. You sell yours formatted FAT and tack $0.50 onto the price. I, however, decide to sell mine unformatted and let the end user format them from Windows. Now my drives are $0.50 cheaper than yours. Which one of us will the distributor buy from?
Granted, the simple answer is for both of us to sell our products unformatted but it's not that simple when you start talking about products where firmware will have to be rewritten in order to avoid using FAT. Of course, all the manufacturers may decide to tack that $0.50 on in more complicated areas, in which case the consumer would eat the cost.
All I'm really trying to say is "Just tack on $n" isn't really simple as most people seem to think.
So you (the manufacturer) raise the price by a dollar. Do you only sell 10 units to the company that distributes your product? Multiply that one tiny dollar by 100,000 units, suddenly your product costs the distributor $100,000 more to distribute. Remember, it's not (usually) the distributor who charges you $400 for a PDA that has to eat the cost of this license, it's the manufacturer who implements the FAT filesystem in the product it manufactures.
Drug addiction didn't cause crime until drug addiction became a crime
Crackheads don't steal VCRs from people because crack is illegal, they steal them because crack is expensive and, being addicted to crack, they are unemployable.