I've been curious why it costs more to buy an entire album via download, than it does to buy the cd... IIRC it cost the lables more to make a tape, than to produce a cd, and the prices for cd were greater than tapes. Now without having to produce a pyhsical tangible disc or tape, the costs are higher still, witrhout packaging and liner notes, and printing costs.
smells like price gouging to me.
Let me see if i am understanding this fully? Broadband company sells unlimited service at flat fee, overselling its bandwidth at a rate of typically 4 to 1. Users use the bandwidth they are sold. Greedy broadband companies oversell policy is so overdone that it hurts their QOS (qulaity of service). Greedy broadband company decides to push media sensationalism stating their need to upsell. End user gets prices raised for using what they were guaranteed in the first place. Why not go back to compuserve and pay per MB. I like to scream when i burn.
If they are so aware of their inner workings and their exploits doesn't this beg the question why don't they fix them and not realease the os with them? Instead they market an upsell profiting from these exploits.
shameful
I'm a bit surprised to see that this isn't already mentioned, as it struck me as immediately relevant when i heard they were buying an antivirus company last year (sybari?) i think. Now if they are selling an anti virus/spyware product, and profiting from it, what interest do they have in actually hardening their os, and making it secure? In that regard they will lose out on money. So there is no incentive to make a secure system. IN fact they could claim that without this add-on they cant gurantee the reliability or security of the os or network. Now the fact that they are selling this is just a lowly business practice profiting from their own weakness. But had they started pushing this as a feature itself like the media player browser etc,. as a core of the os, the implications towards anti competitiveness would be vast, but then theyd not profit from it.
I think you are responding more with anger than with logic. Firstly, whoever did your deployment of firefox, should have tested it before he went to everysingle machine and deployed the update, this is called quality contorl/damage contorl. secondly it is very easy to remoe firefox, and install whichever version you need. From what i gathered in your statement, you are claiming you have never had any down time or senseless tech cycles put towards removing spyware or malware on any of your computers. I do tech support as a consultant for about 20 small businesses. this is by far the most common phone call i receive, "my computer is broken i cant get past these pop up adds, internet explorer keeps crashing its really slow and i cant get my work done" now there are some malwares and spywares you cant get rid of, i've reimaged machines after several hours of attempting to remove some of the newer variants. now let me ask you where did you save the time, and money? was it from the extended hours of firefox, in a deployment cycle, (seriously this should take moments to install and uninstall)?
If you think i am exaggerating call Dell or any other computer support company and ask them the number one call they receive, it isnt that firefox isnt working its their entire os, to which they respond put in your restore disk, so they can keep a profit margin. Im not a fanboy, but i do see the weakness behind Internet Explorer, and the fact that microsoft didnt update a thing until they lost ground to Firefox (ie: they had to protect their name) seriously redo your math, and figure out, where your costs lie, if you think the only response is hiring a unix/firefox coder to analyze and fix firefox code, then your techs are incapable, or just plain idiotic,or you should cease doing your own tech cos you are doing more damage than good.but i suppose you just pass the costs along to your customers, as is the american way.
I only recall seeing one wookie, in the original series. That one was named Chewbacca. I don't recall having noticed, him doing a tarzan cry. Had i noted it i would have thought it silly then too, even at that younger age. If there were more wookies in the original trilogy then i should watch them again. Now as for my original statement it still struck me as cheese. I didn't wait to long to say it as i have only recently seen the movie asshole. How excited were you to make a smarmy half assed irrelevant remark about a movie thats still in theaters. in kind stfu you worthless pigfucker.. Yes thats a hunter s thompson reference in case you missed. as for the anonymous coward part: get in the ring little man
did anyone else get offended when chewbacca swinging on a a vine on the the back of a battle wheel type ship did a tarzan yell. this cheese is my biggest complaint about the film by far.
but this is slashdot, respond first think seldom... we have no details about this issue, so speaking without knowledge tends to lead to well slashdot... sadly enough im still a junkie. as for the the logs in question, what would warrant appropriation by the government? a confessed murder, a planned attack, a child pornographer? cmon people, freedom of speech doesnt mean i can advertise as a hitman in soldier of fortune magazine.
I've used knoppix for many varied task cleaning windows for clients, f-prot has cleaned virii, i've gotten data recovered. The one thing that keeps this from being able to rescue, windows, is a spyware/malware cleaner. has anyone seen a project like this to for a live disc? i understand windoze blows etc. but these are client machines, i just support them.
by easy install do you mean apps afterwards, or to install as an os on the hd? i ask this because i dont think youve tried many different linux installs, they are every bit as easy as windows, if not easier. as for mac, i think macs idea of reducing things to the lowest common denominator relieves the end user/power user of configurabilty or micromanagment. and they are far from (working on virtually every big-vendor box)
theres an older creation called woodhenge, which i made the mistake of visiting. complete waste of time though cos wood rots. so i drove an hour from stonehenge to see concrete stumps in a field of sheep. quite the let down. yes this is off topic mod me down
75 dollars per hour for home users and basic small business support, nights and weekends, rates can go up to 150. I find the less i charge the more people feel the need to pick at the price. if they are willing to pay the 75 an hour they are usually willing to listen and feel comfortable that they are dealing with a professional. but then again, most of my friends get free support as do family.
i did read the f******* article. It hasnt mentioned the os it would be running yet? perhaps is this the foray into microsoft territory by using a stripped down os like in their sub 200 internet/amd thing. simply put is this a full blown OS or a stripped down one. considering the bloated price of an ipod, look how much more they get if they get the pc as well. epsecially if some simpleton is going to base his pc choice of his ipod fetish/cultural myopia.
you mean those guys that had their things cut off?
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from what i had gathered this device is not capable of letting you add a camera. or install software. or even look into the bios to optimize it. how does this make your comment at all relevant. this int a pc per se, its a cripplwared device that is capable of more, and they wont let it be.
ms has something to gain out of this, and im certain its got something to do with their os in emerging markets (or eroding markets)
epsons ultrachrome (non archival is considered lightfast for 75 years (85- a hundred except yellow tends to fade a bit earlier) now, if you use their archival inkset add on about 25 years and lose a little bit of color accuracy (yellow again) what i see that is important is which print heads does it use, as far as i know most of them use old technology epson, yes even roland and hp. micropiezal technology. epson is far ahead of the game and is hell bent on putting these companies in their wake, theyve been a media company since before they invented the first printer for the olympics years ago. it seems to me this is very little to be excited about and about two years too late to be newsworthy. except for the uninformed
elegant and sleek. are these the criteria that make a computer good? buy a computer not an image. if paddingyour self esteem by buyingoverpriced devices, makes you feel better about yourself, then do yourself a favor an realize that is your shortcoming. i for one, dont need an ipod to feel sleek and elegant. stop posing and bringing the world to the lowest common denominator.
If you hate ask slashdot, then don't read, it. we have all had to learn something in our lives and at some point it comes from community, asking questions, reading a book, taking a training course, or testing with the help of others. your lack of a sense of community is, highly selfish, and i hope when you have a question, that you need information form someone that they refuse to help you. especially a doctor, when they try to wrench the gerbil out of your ass.
the only people i have seen with the segway, are posers. one guy brought it to a bar, and was wearing this poncelike helmet, while he drank in the bar. looking the way he did he should have been in starbucks nextdoor.
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I've been curious why it costs more to buy an entire album via download, than it does to buy the cd... IIRC it cost the lables more to make a tape, than to produce a cd, and the prices for cd were greater than tapes. Now without having to produce a pyhsical tangible disc or tape, the costs are higher still, witrhout packaging and liner notes, and printing costs. smells like price gouging to me.
Let me see if i am understanding this fully? Broadband company sells unlimited service at flat fee, overselling its bandwidth at a rate of typically 4 to 1. Users use the bandwidth they are sold. Greedy broadband companies oversell policy is so overdone that it hurts their QOS (qulaity of service). Greedy broadband company decides to push media sensationalism stating their need to upsell. End user gets prices raised for using what they were guaranteed in the first place. Why not go back to compuserve and pay per MB. I like to scream when i burn.
If they are so aware of their inner workings and their exploits doesn't this beg the question why don't they fix them and not realease the os with them? Instead they market an upsell profiting from these exploits. shameful
I'm a bit surprised to see that this isn't already mentioned, as it struck me as immediately relevant when i heard they were buying an antivirus company last year (sybari?) i think. Now if they are selling an anti virus/spyware product, and profiting from it, what interest do they have in actually hardening their os, and making it secure? In that regard they will lose out on money. So there is no incentive to make a secure system. IN fact they could claim that without this add-on they cant gurantee the reliability or security of the os or network. Now the fact that they are selling this is just a lowly business practice profiting from their own weakness. But had they started pushing this as a feature itself like the media player browser etc,. as a core of the os, the implications towards anti competitiveness would be vast, but then theyd not profit from it.
I think you are responding more with anger than with logic. Firstly, whoever did your deployment of firefox, should have tested it before he went to everysingle machine and deployed the update, this is called quality contorl/damage contorl. secondly it is very easy to remoe firefox, and install whichever version you need. From what i gathered in your statement, you are claiming you have never had any down time or senseless tech cycles put towards removing spyware or malware on any of your computers. I do tech support as a consultant for about 20 small businesses. this is by far the most common phone call i receive, "my computer is broken i cant get past these pop up adds, internet explorer keeps crashing its really slow and i cant get my work done" now there are some malwares and spywares you cant get rid of, i've reimaged machines after several hours of attempting to remove some of the newer variants. now let me ask you where did you save the time, and money? was it from the extended hours of firefox, in a deployment cycle, (seriously this should take moments to install and uninstall)? If you think i am exaggerating call Dell or any other computer support company and ask them the number one call they receive, it isnt that firefox isnt working its their entire os, to which they respond put in your restore disk, so they can keep a profit margin. Im not a fanboy, but i do see the weakness behind Internet Explorer, and the fact that microsoft didnt update a thing until they lost ground to Firefox (ie: they had to protect their name) seriously redo your math, and figure out, where your costs lie, if you think the only response is hiring a unix/firefox coder to analyze and fix firefox code, then your techs are incapable, or just plain idiotic,or you should cease doing your own tech cos you are doing more damage than good.but i suppose you just pass the costs along to your customers, as is the american way.
I only recall seeing one wookie, in the original series. That one was named Chewbacca. I don't recall having noticed, him doing a tarzan cry. Had i noted it i would have thought it silly then too, even at that younger age. If there were more wookies in the original trilogy then i should watch them again. Now as for my original statement it still struck me as cheese. I didn't wait to long to say it as i have only recently seen the movie asshole. How excited were you to make a smarmy half assed irrelevant remark about a movie thats still in theaters. in kind stfu you worthless pigfucker.. Yes thats a hunter s thompson reference in case you missed. as for the anonymous coward part: get in the ring little man
did anyone else get offended when chewbacca swinging on a a vine on the the back of a battle wheel type ship did a tarzan yell. this cheese is my biggest complaint about the film by far.
its freedom of "speech" you illiterate moron.
but this is slashdot, respond first think seldom... we have no details about this issue, so speaking without knowledge tends to lead to well slashdot... sadly enough im still a junkie. as for the the logs in question, what would warrant appropriation by the government? a confessed murder, a planned attack, a child pornographer? cmon people, freedom of speech doesnt mean i can advertise as a hitman in soldier of fortune magazine.
pure gibberish
I've used knoppix for many varied task cleaning windows for clients, f-prot has cleaned virii, i've gotten data recovered. The one thing that keeps this from being able to rescue, windows, is a spyware/malware cleaner. has anyone seen a project like this to for a live disc? i understand windoze blows etc. but these are client machines, i just support them.
by easy install do you mean apps afterwards, or to install as an os on the hd? i ask this because i dont think youve tried many different linux installs, they are every bit as easy as windows, if not easier. as for mac, i think macs idea of reducing things to the lowest common denominator relieves the end user/power user of configurabilty or micromanagment. and they are far from (working on virtually every big-vendor box)
theres an older creation called woodhenge, which i made the mistake of visiting. complete waste of time though cos wood rots. so i drove an hour from stonehenge to see concrete stumps in a field of sheep. quite the let down. yes this is off topic mod me down
75 dollars per hour for home users and basic small business support, nights and weekends, rates can go up to 150. I find the less i charge the more people feel the need to pick at the price. if they are willing to pay the 75 an hour they are usually willing to listen and feel comfortable that they are dealing with a professional. but then again, most of my friends get free support as do family.
holy jabberin jesus
i did read the f******* article. It hasnt mentioned the os it would be running yet? perhaps is this the foray into microsoft territory by using a stripped down os like in their sub 200 internet/amd thing. simply put is this a full blown OS or a stripped down one. considering the bloated price of an ipod, look how much more they get if they get the pc as well.
epsecially if some simpleton is going to base his pc choice of his ipod fetish/cultural myopia.
they have no penis'
from what i had gathered this device is not capable of letting you add a camera. or install software. or even look into the bios to optimize it. how does this make your comment at all relevant. this int a pc per se, its a cripplwared device that is capable of more, and they wont let it be. ms has something to gain out of this, and im certain its got something to do with their os in emerging markets (or eroding markets)
mensa a group that exists to fill the self indulgence of moderately intelligent people to each other. let me use them as my guide.
epsons ultrachrome (non archival is considered lightfast for 75 years (85- a hundred except yellow tends to fade a bit earlier) now, if you use their archival inkset add on about 25 years and lose a little bit of color accuracy (yellow again) what i see that is important is which print heads does it use, as far as i know most of them use old technology epson, yes even roland and hp. micropiezal technology. epson is far ahead of the game and is hell bent on putting these companies in their wake, theyve been a media company since before they invented the first printer for the olympics years ago. it seems to me this is very little to be excited about and about two years too late to be newsworthy. except for the uninformed
elegant and sleek.
are these the criteria that make a computer good?
buy a computer not an image. if paddingyour self esteem by buyingoverpriced devices, makes you feel better about yourself, then do yourself a favor an realize that is your shortcoming. i for one, dont need an ipod to feel sleek and elegant. stop posing and bringing the world to the lowest common denominator.
get past your ego.
If you hate ask slashdot, then don't read, it. we have all had to learn something in our lives and at some point it comes from community, asking questions, reading a book, taking a training course, or testing with the help of others. your lack of a sense of community is, highly selfish, and i hope when you have a question, that you need information form someone that they refuse to help you. especially a doctor, when they try to wrench the gerbil out of your ass.
the only people i have seen with the segway, are posers. one guy brought it to a bar, and was wearing this poncelike helmet, while he drank in the bar. looking the way he did he should have been in starbucks nextdoor.
Again this proves that the SCO suits are all media driven: if this were so, is not a website a form of media?
what is wild tangent if not this? or am i misunderstanding their business model?