Advertising costs the consumer money also; however the additional revenue generated offsets that cost. The implementation and continuing costs of WMP has to be much less than the value the marketing gurus extract out of it.
Without including an audio and video player with Windows means that users must install their choice. A choice they perhaps do not want to make but is now be forced upon them.
A documented API for the WMP codec would make compatibility easier, so that competitors can add that functionality easily. Ultimately, this will be irrelevant as the operating system and general applications become well covered by open source software and distributions.
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A beowolf of mini-itx boards is probably the cheapest way to get bragging rights. As a practical way of fast and cheap parallel computation they are not.
However, I have purchased three (V10000 boards) thus far and intend to add more to my network as low power (as in Watts) servers.
I worked out that given the power of 10.78W (source: mini-itx.com's power comparison tool) for the V series (probably the one with the slowest CPU in the series, board only), I could save a fortune on electricity compared to a more regular computer.
The electricity company sells electricity at the rate of 0.63 ($1.18) per watt per year. Compared with a standard PC of 100W, I can regain the purchase costs (in savings) of the board and memory within two to three years.
Also, I found rack mount chassis available cheaper than one for a regular sized case. This influenced my decision a little - who doesn't want a network of rack mounted computers?
Overall, because of the low price and low power the mini-itx boards are a no brainer if and only if the CPU power of each computer isn't important.
Not necessarily, they could sell a list of all the Trojan infected hosts flooding their network. Perhaps that might be a more viable business plan than suing IBM et al.
Can't be *that* bad if they still develop the hardware for their operating system.
PA-RISC/HP-UX is perhaps one of the last examples of the old-HP - where every piece of equipment was designed and manufactured in-house. They used to make their own screws for goodness sake!
NAC Geographic Products Incalready sells encoding services to convert zip/postcodes from the systems we use worldwide, to their own. They call this "geocoding".
We can expect that NAC Geo will retain the sole rights to geocoding. Considering the need for this service they stand to make a lot of money.
You can, for free, geocode addresses in small quantities at Travelgis.
An article on spam is quite appropriate right now, particularly as dozens of mailer daemon responses fill my inbox - it is abuse my address to spam day:(
It *should* be easy to sue for impersonation, but it most definately isn't. When the lawyers fail, it's time for a technical solution - replacing SMTP *could* help.
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You are correct about the lithium batteries, they are useless with this new model.
My HP48G however used AAA's like machine gun bullets when my classmates played Lemmings and Frogger. Maybe 2-3 months a set, three a time.
Games obtained from www.hpcalc.org.
I can't imagine what data you might need to restore... oh wait, this is slashdot and your data is flesh tone pink.
Advertising costs the consumer money also; however the additional revenue generated offsets that cost. The implementation and continuing costs of WMP has to be much less than the value the marketing gurus extract out of it.
Without including an audio and video player with Windows means that users must install their choice. A choice they perhaps do not want to make but is now be forced upon them.
A documented API for the WMP codec would make compatibility easier, so that competitors can add that functionality easily. Ultimately, this will be irrelevant as the operating system and general applications become well covered by open source software and distributions.
A beowolf of mini-itx boards is probably the cheapest way to get bragging rights. As a practical way of fast and cheap parallel computation they are not.
However, I have purchased three (V10000 boards) thus far and intend to add more to my network as low power (as in Watts) servers.
I worked out that given the power of 10.78W (source: mini-itx.com's power comparison tool) for the V series (probably the one with the slowest CPU in the series, board only), I could save a fortune on electricity compared to a more regular computer.
The electricity company sells electricity at the rate of 0.63 ($1.18) per watt per year. Compared with a standard PC of 100W, I can regain the purchase costs (in savings) of the board and memory within two to three years.
Also, I found rack mount chassis available cheaper than one for a regular sized case. This influenced my decision a little - who doesn't want a network of rack mounted computers?
Overall, because of the low price and low power the mini-itx boards are a no brainer if and only if the CPU power of each computer isn't important.
Jonathan
Not necessarily, they could sell a list of all the Trojan infected hosts flooding their network. Perhaps that might be a more viable business plan than suing IBM et al.
Dear Dr Anonymous Coward,
Payment shall not be a problem for the consultancy - your good name is worth every penny.
Jonathan
[Reality check - don't take medical advice from anonymous strangers, even if they post a lot on slashdot]
HP RISC architecture based workstations
HP-UX 11i operating system
Can't be *that* bad if they still develop the hardware for their operating system.
PA-RISC/HP-UX is perhaps one of the last examples of the old-HP - where every piece of equipment was designed and manufactured in-house. They used to make their own screws for goodness sake!
We can expect that NAC Geo will retain the sole rights to geocoding. Considering the need for this service they stand to make a lot of money.
You can, for free, geocode addresses in small quantities at Travelgis.
An article on spam is quite appropriate right now, particularly as dozens of mailer daemon responses fill my inbox - it is abuse my address to spam day :(
It *should* be easy to sue for impersonation, but it most definately isn't. When the lawyers fail, it's time for a technical solution - replacing SMTP *could* help.