Reading the article makes it seem like all computers will disappear. I find it so hard to believe that the new cell processors will be that advanced. I can believe they are good for specialized uses but not as a general computer.
I guess your idea of saving money is spending 2X as much. Your lqzp4 with the same hardware as the basic Mac mini with mouse/keyboard/OS is almost twice as much. Why spend $1405 compared to $727 for the Mac mini? This is the same mantra I have heard for almost 20 years how a PC can do what a Mac can "IF I BUY" this and that gizmo. You end up with a Frankenstien collection of things that semi work together with no support and costs as much or more then a Mac. Why not buy a Mac mini and add Yellow Dog Linux? They will even sell you one with it installed and a warranty.
Nice to have 11000 titles but what is the volume per title? For years I have read so many articles that companies made so much money off of porn. The largest porno movie company is Vivid Entertainment Group their volume was $150 million for 2003. How many movies a year have a gross larger then that in US ticket sales? Not counting world wide ticket sales,DVD and VHS sales. Seems like there are a zillion porno sites out there. How many of the porno sites are all owned by the same company on a handful of servers? Porn companies have a virtual presence more then a real one. I would think one or two block buster movies would sell more DVD's then the top 10 porno companies combined. They aren't the driving force that most people think they are. They will have less of an effect then most people think. Do they have a very large audience that buy a few DVDs each or is it a small audience that buys a lot of DVDs? To drive the mfg of a new type DVD requires a large customer base that will buy hardware not a small customer base that buys a lot of DVDs. How many/. have rented or actually bought a porn DVD in the past 2 years? If you have bought porn how many non porn DVDs have you bought? I think most people will find that porn isn't as much of a driving force as it seems. YMMV
Ever think that maybe Apple would rather spend a few more $$$ on the computer and less on memory that the user can easily upgrade? Compare the fit and finish of any Apple product to any Dull product. The Dulls rattle and have case worth about $25 if you are real generous. So Apple builds a better computer with less memory or Dull builds a shitty computer with more memory. I add the memory to an Apple and I have a good computer with the Dull I still have a shitty computer.
Ever think of running 2 operating systems for security reasons? Run one operating system on a red network and one on the black network. Each operating system uses it's own network interface and seperate user volume. This way you can play on your p0rn sites and still be connected to a secure netwrok with no worry of compromising your data or system.
The reason they do is you are carring a brick in your pocket.
Go anywhere size: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz.
Look how thick it is. What if I ducktape my iPod to a 3.5" hard drive and have 400 gigs of storage bet that would really imperss some people. People want the small size and weight and putting a laptop drive in an MP3 player doesn't achieve what the bulk of the people want. I have never even seen a person with a Neuros. On the other hand I see iPod owners all the time.
You better hope for more then an 80 gig drive since you have to load your music by bluetooth or an IR port. How many days are you going to spend loading 80 gigs on your cell phone?
The bacteria didn't evolve it was naturally immune to antibotics. So based on your scientific findings then people who are immune to HIV evolved. Check this link the one woman is in her 40's. Born long before there was an AIDS problem. So just how did she evolve?
Isn't the big thing with Linux users free software? How many Linux users will spend a $1000 on software? A market of millions that want only free software isn't a good market to sell a product. Also on the number of desktops there is a lot of question on how many desktops purchased with Linux variations are being wiped and pirate copies of WinBlows installed. Not trying to start a holy war but what is the market for desktop Linux applications in $$$ per year vs the Mac? Seems to me if there is such a huge desktop application market there would be a lot of software. Can anyone name any desktop applications that are widely sold for Linux that you can't download for free?
People actually will be less safe. The minimum wage workers will rely on the scan to verify the passport. They will spend less time giving a visual inspection because it has the RFID.
Just as your gf has a problem with lower temp I have a problem with higher temps I get sick to my stomach if the office is too warm. I keep the computer room I work in at 60 year round and it is comfortable in causal clothes. I live in the northern part of the US in the Midwest and I don't bother to wear a coat outside ever because I am totally comfortable at 10 degres F with no coat. Bottom line it that it will be impossible to use one setting to meet the needs of all people. If they want to add me to that study. I am sitting at a desk right now in a room that is 72 and I am feeling ill. I need to step outside to start feeling better.
Why do people keep talking about the PeeCees they can build for 50% of the price of a Mac? If they can build computers so cheap and they are such wonder machines why isn't a single soul building super-computers using these super cheap can run faster then any computer on the planet for $9.95 computers. Every time a super computer is spec'ed out using PC's why are the Mac's always 30% to 40% cheaper then their WinTel competition. Are all of the people building super computers so stupid that they can't see that the/. crowd can save them 50% with their home brewed computers running their hacked Linux on a pen drive.
Your solution is OK for individuals but what about small shareware authors who do all of their tech support by e-mail? I have had a number of freeware programmers who have helped me with problems. How do you suggest they pay for e-mail? To charge for e-mail is a waste. You want to stop SPAM find the companies the are selling the products and fine them big $$$. If every company that used the services of a spammer is tied up in court for years and all of their cash is used to fight the lawsuits spamming would not be a viable business choice.
A far better reason to use a pay phone is they are charged an access fee of $.40 or more for each call. So use pay phones and call them 10,000 times kinda ruins their VOIP savings.
Personally I am offended by your comment. Not all of us poor people want to use Food Stamps at the iTMS. I have no Food Stamps left over at the end of the month after I buy my cigs and beer.
Lets see I had a bad laptop from Sony they wouldn't do a thing about it. I had a bad laptop from HP they wouldn't do a thing about it. I was lucky on both of them I bought Best Buys extra warranty. So Best Buy bit it. I won't even go into the hell Dell put me thru. Dell came out 14 times to repair my notebook and refused to replace it even though they spent $1000's on repairs they are no great shakes either. They wouldn't do anything except kept repairing it till the warranty ran out and I have a dead $4000 notebook for sale cheap. Dell wouldn't take it back the 1st time it died after 25 days and it wasn't a custom computer. Always buy the extended warranties on a laptop.
Have you tried using webmin? I can't get into the main site right now (www.webmin.com) but the mirrors seem fine (webmin.desiato.de) It lets you use a web browswer to control just about everything on your computer. I have mine setup with SSL so I can control my Mac from anywhere. Makes it very easy to set up Bind, PostFix, MySQL and Apache webserver. I even use it so I can have both Apache 1 and Apache 2 on my Mac. You can start and stop processes, you can move files, you can delete files, and run a console session. And for those who need help there is a book out by the programmer.
Google is starting to skew the search results based on things like Adwords. They give you results based on payment. I understand it is difficult to come up with a rating system that works for everybody. A lot of people including myself use Google all the time. They have a lot of power because they are the best search engine. So they also influence who makes money on the Internet to a degree. Google buries you 20 pages down your online business would just about dry up. I wish they would make it more plain which results are based on payment instead of some other means. I have no problem with advertisements on their site if they are plainly that.
And they detect the traffic jam and by the time you know about it you already kinda figured it out by noticing the old lady with the walker just passed you.
I live in a truly rual area. My nearest neighbor is 1.5 miles away and the next is a mile farther then that. The nearest streetlight to me is 9 miles away. Wouldn't help the truly rural if they tried this in midwest USA. Sometimes it is good to live in a tech backwater. It would be too expensive to monitor here.
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Reading the article makes it seem like all computers will disappear. I find it so hard to believe that the new cell processors will be that advanced. I can believe they are good for specialized uses but not as a general computer.
I guess your idea of saving money is spending 2X as much. Your lqzp4 with the same hardware as the basic Mac mini with mouse/keyboard/OS is almost twice as much. Why spend $1405 compared to $727 for the Mac mini? This is the same mantra I have heard for almost 20 years how a PC can do what a Mac can "IF I BUY" this and that gizmo. You end up with a Frankenstien collection of things that semi work together with no support and costs as much or more then a Mac. Why not buy a Mac mini and add Yellow Dog Linux? They will even sell you one with it installed and a warranty.
Nice to have 11000 titles but what is the volume per title? For years I have read so many articles that companies made so much money off of porn. The largest porno movie company is Vivid Entertainment Group their volume was $150 million for 2003. How many movies a year have a gross larger then that in US ticket sales? Not counting world wide ticket sales,DVD and VHS sales. Seems like there are a zillion porno sites out there. How many of the porno sites are all owned by the same company on a handful of servers? Porn companies have a virtual presence more then a real one. I would think one or two block buster movies would sell more DVD's then the top 10 porno companies combined. They aren't the driving force that most people think they are. They will have less of an effect then most people think. Do they have a very large audience that buy a few DVDs each or is it a small audience that buys a lot of DVDs? To drive the mfg of a new type DVD requires a large customer base that will buy hardware not a small customer base that buys a lot of DVDs. How many /. have rented or actually bought a porn DVD in the past 2 years? If you have bought porn how many non porn DVDs have you bought? I think most people will find that porn isn't as much of a driving force as it seems. YMMV
Ever think that maybe Apple would rather spend a few more $$$ on the computer and less on memory that the user can easily upgrade? Compare the fit and finish of any Apple product to any Dull product. The Dulls rattle and have case worth about $25 if you are real generous. So Apple builds a better computer with less memory or Dull builds a shitty computer with more memory. I add the memory to an Apple and I have a good computer with the Dull I still have a shitty computer.
Ever think of running 2 operating systems for security reasons? Run one operating system on a red network and one on the black network. Each operating system uses it's own network interface and seperate user volume. This way you can play on your p0rn sites and still be connected to a secure netwrok with no worry of compromising your data or system.
The reason they do is you are carring a brick in your pocket. Go anywhere size: 5.3" x 3.1" x 1.3", 9.4 oz. Look how thick it is. What if I ducktape my iPod to a 3.5" hard drive and have 400 gigs of storage bet that would really imperss some people. People want the small size and weight and putting a laptop drive in an MP3 player doesn't achieve what the bulk of the people want. I have never even seen a person with a Neuros. On the other hand I see iPod owners all the time.
You better hope for more then an 80 gig drive since you have to load your music by bluetooth or an IR port. How many days are you going to spend loading 80 gigs on your cell phone?
I am using Safari 1.2.4 (v125.12) and I don't get the Secunia pop up.
The bacteria didn't evolve it was naturally immune to antibotics. So based on your scientific findings then people who are immune to HIV evolved. Check this link the one woman is in her 40's. Born long before there was an AIDS problem. So just how did she evolve?
Isn't the big thing with Linux users free software? How many Linux users will spend a $1000 on software? A market of millions that want only free software isn't a good market to sell a product. Also on the number of desktops there is a lot of question on how many desktops purchased with Linux variations are being wiped and pirate copies of WinBlows installed. Not trying to start a holy war but what is the market for desktop Linux applications in $$$ per year vs the Mac? Seems to me if there is such a huge desktop application market there would be a lot of software. Can anyone name any desktop applications that are widely sold for Linux that you can't download for free?
People actually will be less safe. The minimum wage workers will rely on the scan to verify the passport. They will spend less time giving a visual inspection because it has the RFID.
Just as your gf has a problem with lower temp I have a problem with higher temps I get sick to my stomach if the office is too warm. I keep the computer room I work in at 60 year round and it is comfortable in causal clothes. I live in the northern part of the US in the Midwest and I don't bother to wear a coat outside ever because I am totally comfortable at 10 degres F with no coat. Bottom line it that it will be impossible to use one setting to meet the needs of all people. If they want to add me to that study. I am sitting at a desk right now in a room that is 72 and I am feeling ill. I need to step outside to start feeling better.
Why do people keep talking about the PeeCees they can build for 50% of the price of a Mac? If they can build computers so cheap and they are such wonder machines why isn't a single soul building super-computers using these super cheap can run faster then any computer on the planet for $9.95 computers. Every time a super computer is spec'ed out using PC's why are the Mac's always 30% to 40% cheaper then their WinTel competition. Are all of the people building super computers so stupid that they can't see that the /. crowd can save them 50% with their home brewed computers running their hacked Linux on a pen drive.
Your solution is OK for individuals but what about small shareware authors who do all of their tech support by e-mail? I have had a number of freeware programmers who have helped me with problems. How do you suggest they pay for e-mail? To charge for e-mail is a waste. You want to stop SPAM find the companies the are selling the products and fine them big $$$. If every company that used the services of a spammer is tied up in court for years and all of their cash is used to fight the lawsuits spamming would not be a viable business choice.
A far better reason to use a pay phone is they are charged an access fee of $.40 or more for each call. So use pay phones and call them 10,000 times kinda ruins their VOIP savings.
Personally I am offended by your comment. Not all of us poor people want to use Food Stamps at the iTMS. I have no Food Stamps left over at the end of the month after I buy my cigs and beer.
Lets see I had a bad laptop from Sony they wouldn't do a thing about it. I had a bad laptop from HP they wouldn't do a thing about it. I was lucky on both of them I bought Best Buys extra warranty. So Best Buy bit it. I won't even go into the hell Dell put me thru. Dell came out 14 times to repair my notebook and refused to replace it even though they spent $1000's on repairs they are no great shakes either. They wouldn't do anything except kept repairing it till the warranty ran out and I have a dead $4000 notebook for sale cheap. Dell wouldn't take it back the 1st time it died after 25 days and it wasn't a custom computer. Always buy the extended warranties on a laptop.
Have you tried using webmin? I can't get into the main site right now (www.webmin.com) but the mirrors seem fine (webmin.desiato.de) It lets you use a web browswer to control just about everything on your computer. I have mine setup with SSL so I can control my Mac from anywhere. Makes it very easy to set up Bind, PostFix, MySQL and Apache webserver. I even use it so I can have both Apache 1 and Apache 2 on my Mac. You can start and stop processes, you can move files, you can delete files, and run a console session. And for those who need help there is a book out by the programmer.
Google is starting to skew the search results based on things like Adwords. They give you results based on payment. I understand it is difficult to come up with a rating system that works for everybody. A lot of people including myself use Google all the time. They have a lot of power because they are the best search engine. So they also influence who makes money on the Internet to a degree. Google buries you 20 pages down your online business would just about dry up. I wish they would make it more plain which results are based on payment instead of some other means. I have no problem with advertisements on their site if they are plainly that.
And they detect the traffic jam and by the time you know about it you already kinda figured it out by noticing the old lady with the walker just passed you.
I live in a truly rual area. My nearest neighbor is 1.5 miles away and the next is a mile farther then that. The nearest streetlight to me is 9 miles away. Wouldn't help the truly rural if they tried this in midwest USA. Sometimes it is good to live in a tech backwater. It would be too expensive to monitor here.