They've tried to do this to me every time I moved - 4 times since 2000.
I always managed to get them to waive or refund it, though it took a LOT of back-and-forth calls and e-mails before they would. I'm sure they made it hard on purpose.
There is ZERO market in providing cheap PCs to poor people. There is no profit beyond paying the bills of the company.
Again, Intel is just trying to generate press, "Look at us! Look at how great we are! We are trying to help the poor!" Don't really agree with you on this point. There is a market, although it's a long term proposition. Provide cheap laptops today and when a consumer market emerges, the consumers will either remember the 'charity' of Intel, or simply buy what they are familiar with (Intel, again).
This is the same strategy Apple used (although with limited success) by selling it's Apple ][s, ]|[s and Macs cheap as dirt to schools to try and capitalize on the students as they eventually became consumers.
Aren't we still speculating whether water exists on other planets within our own solar system? To say with such conviction that there's a whole planet made of nothing but water with so little data is a big leap of faith.
I'm not a flat-earther, but they should have a little more to go on before announcing something like this.
Although my college days are far behind me, I would look at free wireless 'net access throughout campus as a big plus on my list, but I would most certainly be going for some science degree. That's the geek coming out in me.
I live on my laptop, and not having good 'net-based access to resources to do research, homework, mail,/., etc would be a big downside.
OK, all that aside (problems with delivery and execution), there's a few other things that will make the whole idea a dud, and the first of these is open source. Why pay by subscription for something that you can get open source for free? By the time that the whole subscription thing get's it's legs (a couple of years perhaps) OSS will have started to become an acceptable option to the masses.
The second problem is control. Are you willing to give up your private documents, schedules and e-mail to another company? Some are. I'm not. Many others aren't either.
This reminds me of a keynote address (or something of the sort) that Gates gave in the past year where he predicted that end users will not purchase computers in the near future, but rather, they will be given away with subscriptions - you know - like cell phones. It's possible that this will happen to some extent (and serve his need to control content), but there will always be a substantial market that will want the raw goods.
Is there something I missed (which is quite likely)? Doesn't AOL sell 'net access already? Why do they want to include NetZero and Juno in this?
Do I smell buyout?
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They've tried to do this to me every time I moved - 4 times since 2000. I always managed to get them to waive or refund it, though it took a LOT of back-and-forth calls and e-mails before they would. I'm sure they made it hard on purpose.
What are those lines on the display? (see picture in article).
If this is a PR thing for Sony, that's a REALLY bad 1st impression.
Again, Intel is just trying to generate press, "Look at us! Look at how great we are! We are trying to help the poor!"
Don't really agree with you on this point. There is a market, although it's a long term proposition. Provide cheap laptops today and when a consumer market emerges, the consumers will either remember the 'charity' of Intel, or simply buy what they are familiar with (Intel, again).
This is the same strategy Apple used (although with limited success) by selling it's Apple ][s, ]|[s and Macs cheap as dirt to schools to try and capitalize on the students as they eventually became consumers.
Aren't we still speculating whether water exists on other planets within our own solar system? To say with such conviction that there's a whole planet made of nothing but water with so little data is a big leap of faith. I'm not a flat-earther, but they should have a little more to go on before announcing something like this.
It'll give Java and .NET a run for it's money.
Too bad it's not done yet.
What's to prevent students from creating ad-hoc networks?
Although my college days are far behind me, I would look at free wireless 'net access throughout campus as a big plus on my list, but I would most certainly be going for some science degree. That's the geek coming out in me.
/., etc would be a big downside.
I live on my laptop, and not having good 'net-based access to resources to do research, homework, mail,
OK, all that aside (problems with delivery and execution), there's a few other things that will make the whole idea a dud, and the first of these is open source. Why pay by subscription for something that you can get open source for free? By the time that the whole subscription thing get's it's legs (a couple of years perhaps) OSS will have started to become an acceptable option to the masses.
The second problem is control. Are you willing to give up your private documents, schedules and e-mail to another company? Some are. I'm not. Many others aren't either.
This reminds me of a keynote address (or something of the sort) that Gates gave in the past year where he predicted that end users will not purchase computers in the near future, but rather, they will be given away with subscriptions - you know - like cell phones. It's possible that this will happen to some extent (and serve his need to control content), but there will always be a substantial market that will want the raw goods.
Just like software.
Dupe, dupe, dupe.
Dupe of URL.
Dupe, dupe, dupe of URL.
Dupe, dupe, dupe of URL.
Dupe, dupe, dupe of URL.
(Think Duke of Earl)
Be nice when modding me. I know it's lame.
I'm thinking so ...
(SNL Sketch)
Is there something I missed (which is quite likely)? Doesn't AOL sell 'net access already? Why do they want to include NetZero and Juno in this? Do I smell buyout?