They are how ever running into much stiffer competition, competition that oddly enough the OLPC project created. Low cost UMPCs are starting to appear all over the place and their numbers will rise. A lot of first world governments are moving to get a laptop into every students hands, as such it is a huge market.
Quite simply FOSS has matured and gained sufficient public attention that it is the most desirable solution to ensure cost effective solutions. First world governments can save a huge amount money in text books costs alone by digitising them and distributing them schools. With FOSS companies can offer customers complete software hardware solutions at very low prices, no B$ licence audits and the customer retains full control of their software installation.
XP on the XO is M$ attempt simply to pull some popularity out of the XO and from their point of view trying to force up the cost of hardware to prevent the software appearing as such an expensive waste of money in comparison, hence the resource hog vista. They really have become a myopically greedy company with a complete disregard for the harm their actions cause.
That's absolutely not true, the marketdroid trolls read everything and 'digg' and bury as they are paid to do, shit, they'll get fired if they don't. Funnily enough according to digg there is no such thing as a bad movie or a bad music album and anybody that attempts to post anything to the contrary will get buried. Easy to see the mafia/mass media tie up in the terminology that digg chooses to use;).
Nah, it has nothing to do with that. It is all about getting people to chuck their dvd's in the bin and buy the same content, yet again, in another format. Unfortunately, at the moment, most people are watching DVD's on their Hi definition TV and noting that the picture quality of Hi definition broadcasts is very often no better and often even worse quality than their DVDs.
So the publishing companies are really pissed, they were seriously expecting everyone to chuck their DVDs in the bin and buy the new higher priced hi definition content (most of which would be no better than the dvds it is meant to replace), all they had to do was jam enough B$ advertising into the gullible publics minds and they would mindlessly go forth and buy, buy, buy;D.
Well, just to keep you happy. It would appear M$ is attempting to re-invent LCD style technology while the rest of the industry is moving onto OLED (that's organic light emitting diodes for the backwards looking windrone engineers) style displays. What will M$ engineers come up with next, more efficient CRTs, I mean really, who cares.
I wasn't even going to bother posting in this thread until I read your post. If you find the content of/. so upsetting why keep reading it, surely there is a M$ forum that you would find far more comfortable or are you just biased by greed and I am guilty of feeding a troll or do you really secretly love/. and, loathe M$ and secretly goad the microtrolls under another assumed identity;).
Catch is on ADSL system it is an illegal monitoring of telephone activity. It is a telephone line and whether the communications are straight voice or digitised content it is still illegal. The ISP and the advertising agency should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law including imprisonment and government that lets this get by in criminally complicit.
In reality for MMO's to work and survive over the long term they need to be supported and promoted by ISP's. The benefit for an ISP is keeping off network traffic to a minimum if the MMO is limited to the ISP's own user base.
Of course all the ISP's can share a part of the continued development of the MMO and the cost would be paid for out of some of the off network traffic savings.
Ah, but googlite expert A says to many people are starting to use wikipedia as a first search point and this represents a threat to revenue and a blackhole in their user thoughts probing and recording databases.
Personally if I wanted to combine advertising with an encyclopaedia, I would simply talk it over with the wikipedia people so that wikipedia articles could be embedded in my site with local search, in a non-editing format, with my advertising in return for some sponsorship to wikipedia, why re-invent the wheel, some companies simply just can't think outside of their teeny tiny cubicle.
The whole concept flies in the face of all day use, overnight recharge UMPCs. It really is pointless technology. The big technology push should be for fan less CPU's to further conserve power and limit noise.
You want effective predictive. How about ISP supplied, white lists of good addresses with IPv6 coming on stream attmetping to blacklist billions of addresses will be a pain. Of course when a ISP supplies contaminated white lists range block the ISP until they behave.
Which is going to disappear once the majority want to run their on mine appliance server with IPv6 and regain a measure of privacy with their own personal email server. The money for jam IPv4 address range is coming to any end.
The reality is the ISP and simply trying to squeeze up the profit margins by throttling traffic whilst falsely advertising it as being available, that and a legalised excuse to grossly invade their users privacy so that they can show a continuous stream of targeted psychologically manipulative marketing bull shit down the throats of every person in the household.
The government should be ashamed out itself, every MP who supported this should look in a mirror with disgust at their willingness to sell out the privacy of their own children and grandchildren to placate some of the most exploitative parasites in society. The gross invasiveness of monitoring every user 24 hours a day in their own homes is sickening, what next compulsory web cams and microphones in every room of the house because once cell phones have shifted to IP addressing and voip is the norm, this gives companies the excuse to monitor every phone call, every email basically any type of internet access as the thieving contemptible general public who might deny some the richest and greediest ever more money, might be embedding 10 second copyrighted ring tones in those communications.
The general public in England would be seriously stupid to let this slide.
Unless it is a 360 degree in the horizontal and vertical panorama camera it is a pretty pointless idea.
Trying to penny pinch is hardly any reason to implement an idea that doesn't really work. Why wouldn't any sane government choose not to sponsor educating the public about their society, their environment, and themselves. It really is the stuff of craziness to somehow think it is of value to society to keep it citizens as stupid as possible unless they are willing to pay huge sums of money to empower themselves with knowledge.
A modern properly functioning democracy requires a knowledgeable populace as a fundamental requirement.Trying to keep the lie going that gut level knee jerk reactions are somehow good and are superior to well informed considered opinion is insanity. Education along with health (physical and mental) should be the two main focus points of any modern society and not feeding the greed of a minority.
However your point is grossly misleading as the concentration of microwave output is increased with a smaller antennae, hence it is more dangerous.
That is very similar to the stupid idea about what difference does microwave tumour threat of mobile phones make when compared to all the other carcinogenic threats in the environment, it makes a huge difference as your are compounding the problems as they most definitely do not cancel each other out but make the problem far greater.
Likely this is coming out now because there is likely some problems just starting to appear for younger people who have been using mobile phones during their formative years, we are basically reach the point where pre-teen starting cell phone users will have achieved many years of exposure and we will shortly be able to see the consequences.
I have got to be honest and say that I still don't have a cell phone and do use the health threat as a means of fending them off (I like to be connected to the world not the other way round).
No, libel is hugely different on the internet. Want to draw attention to opposing opinions, launch a libel suit, want to create the impression that you have a hugely inflated opinion of your self worth - launch a libel suit, perversely enough, want the convince people that you have something to hide launch a libel suit and, finally want to convince people that you have more money than sense, launch a libel suit.
So there is a huge difference between 20th century print libel and 21st century internet libel and a bunch of people and companies are just going to have to get over their inflated egos and realise that 1 page amongst billions of web pages doesn't really mean that much until you make yourself look like a fool by drawing attention to it.
I can't see how you can fail to understand how full disclosure of faults represents an extreme risk, well, to profits at least. You just can't be having them customers know all about how insecure their security software really is, other wise why would they be paying you?
Not really accurate. What you are in fact saying, is someone foolish enough to allow photos of them to be published on the internet which could possibly be interpreted as them being unrepentant, rather than perhaps being severely depressed and attempting to deal with that depression by the foolish consumption of alcohol which would alter their behaviour by affecting inhibitions.
On the other hand of course are people who were careful enough and had better friends and hence no pictures were published of their activities, when attempting to deal with the guilt, shock and of course trying to bury the fear of upcoming penalties for their poor behaviour.
After all isn't it extremely rare for people to deal with stress by drinking alcohol, or when dealing with depression, or when attempting to assuage a guilty conscience. Either the judges should wake up to themselves or everybody should be treated the same under law, that after all is one of the most important principles of justice that all should be treated equally.
AOL is a content provider via Time Warner. AOL is just a part of the group. Time Warner obviously paid to much and still has work to do but is making some moves. M$ obviously wants Time Warner's content which it will attempt to lock in it's distribution to products like silverfish only, or windows media player only. M$ is in real trouble with the Yahoo bids because of Ballmer's idiotic 'we will replace yahoo's board and but it on the cheap' bid, some thing that could get him in real trouble with the SEC.
So what is this bid really all about, an admission by M$ that they don't know how to run MSN and are trying to buy in expertise or just more desperate attempts by Ballmer to appear significant.
All M$ has to do is invest the money in MSN wisely and run it properly, for a start kill 'undead' search and go back to MSN search, branding, gees don't those idiots understand anything.
At a guess, the embargo will last until the mafia get their casinos back. Just who do you think really runs your entertainment industries and in turn your government;).
Twitter has a long way to go to be the most infamous poster on slashdot. The worst and hence most infamous trolls on slashdot are the paid to post losers. If you pay attention to them you can even start to readily recognise the different sources. Generally the better ones are sitting in tech company offices posting whilst at work with a distinct bias to their place of work. Next up are a swag of US government propagandist, from better to worse, US government intelligence agencies (NSA>FBI and bottom of the barrel CIA), US government military (air force> navy>army and bottom of the barrel the marines) and of course the worst of the worst party political hacks (democrats>libertarians and bottom of the barrel republicans). However it is all a part of slashdot and not too bad as long as it is somewhat amusing.
Back to topic, this was bound to be a pretty inflammatory topic and overall does not really make much sense as it is two comparisons at once, web served office applications versus local office applications and of course for the second part you really need to compare just off line office applications. Low cost hardware and storage getting cheaper every day along with free quality office suits really makes putting up with the hassles of web based office applications a pretty pointless exercise as you need to pay for additional hardware to connect to the net as well as of course paying for your internet connection. Big point in computer security, if you need absolutely need to connect work computers to the internet then do so, however in you can possibly avoid it then simplify your network security and just don't do it.
Oh, and yeah and, you are a bad person and a crappy slash dotter if you mod a person down, rather than just particularly poor postings.
I bet a whole lot of women given the opportunity would demand an equal number of men in maternity wards, as patients, the US congress had better start pondering that one;D.
However it is a very important example of exactly why SSD drives a important for portable computers, drop factor and, that is especially important for UMPC's especially in school use, where drops will be a expected now add OLED displays and you have significant improvements in reliable and battery life. So all you have to do is wait out patent greed because the obviously simpler construction method of SSD drives versus spinning platters means they will eventually end up being cheaper.
Not to be too picky on Toms hardware, but they are a well known cash for comment web site (ie. vista has 'nearly' the same performance as xp) and, that article is about as wishy washy as can be and implies a whole lot without saying anything at all.
Gees don't you know, V8s and tiny 4 cylinders use about much the same fuel 'er' when a car is rolling down a hill and your foot is off the accelerator or when in 'er' 'energy saving mode' and the engine is like switched off.
Of course up until a successful appeal, I think you kinda a missed the point about your lawyer versus their lawyer and. of course that was a one off and needs to be repeated every single time. To have fun with the subpoena, shut down the company, start up a new one and, the subpoena dies, so what is your point.
Well then technically the legal argument is fine I will keep the records in RAM for as long as it last or until it is overwritten, basically boils down to your lawyers technical arguments versus theirs. The only data your are really legally required to keep is what will satisfy the relevant taxation departments.
What it still boils down to for google is google, as a privacy invasive marketing firm, has not desire to give away data that it considers valuable enough to store for years and only rents out. Tricky for google to argue that it court and claim Viacom is actually trying to steal valuable data that could be used to psychologically analyses an extensive customer base for marketing purposes, as Viacom also manages a less successful video portal and is in affect trying to steal that commercially valuable data via the court in order to try to make it more successful.
It is far more than that. It is all about building localised search services. The larger local media distributors ie. local newspaper or television channels can effectively incorporate the global search facility and enhance it with their localised knowledge and content to more suit their local market. In turn of course Yahoo can then incorporate that localised search more effectively into their global search engine.
This in affect gives Yahoo and the local media players and far more effective search platform and a real market threat to google as well as of course that other major players in the search engine business.
This wider distribution of search engine services will also push search from the current marketing perceived foreground way into the back ground as simply a subsidiary service of any typical major web portal whilst simultaneously pushing local web portals into the foreground in local markets by them being able to offer globally effective search services on their site.
However pulling out features to meet cost budgets and then saying it is about deadlines does kill a product. Seems more like the product is being dumped onto the market with a reduced feature set, hence reduced cost, to see if their target market will accept it as it is ie. more profit. Then the features will be added 'er' charged for as an expansion pack ie. more profit. So EA at work, bean counters versus game developers, expect a full suit a bugs as customer pay for the privilege of being beta testers ie. even more profit.
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They are how ever running into much stiffer competition, competition that oddly enough the OLPC project created. Low cost UMPCs are starting to appear all over the place and their numbers will rise. A lot of first world governments are moving to get a laptop into every students hands, as such it is a huge market.
Quite simply FOSS has matured and gained sufficient public attention that it is the most desirable solution to ensure cost effective solutions. First world governments can save a huge amount money in text books costs alone by digitising them and distributing them schools. With FOSS companies can offer customers complete software hardware solutions at very low prices, no B$ licence audits and the customer retains full control of their software installation.
XP on the XO is M$ attempt simply to pull some popularity out of the XO and from their point of view trying to force up the cost of hardware to prevent the software appearing as such an expensive waste of money in comparison, hence the resource hog vista. They really have become a myopically greedy company with a complete disregard for the harm their actions cause.
That's absolutely not true, the marketdroid trolls read everything and 'digg' and bury as they are paid to do, shit, they'll get fired if they don't. Funnily enough according to digg there is no such thing as a bad movie or a bad music album and anybody that attempts to post anything to the contrary will get buried. Easy to see the mafia/mass media tie up in the terminology that digg chooses to use ;).
Nah, it has nothing to do with that. It is all about getting people to chuck their dvd's in the bin and buy the same content, yet again, in another format. Unfortunately, at the moment, most people are watching DVD's on their Hi definition TV and noting that the picture quality of Hi definition broadcasts is very often no better and often even worse quality than their DVDs.
So the publishing companies are really pissed, they were seriously expecting everyone to chuck their DVDs in the bin and buy the new higher priced hi definition content (most of which would be no better than the dvds it is meant to replace), all they had to do was jam enough B$ advertising into the gullible publics minds and they would mindlessly go forth and buy, buy, buy ;D.
Well, just to keep you happy. It would appear M$ is attempting to re-invent LCD style technology while the rest of the industry is moving onto OLED (that's organic light emitting diodes for the backwards looking windrone engineers) style displays. What will M$ engineers come up with next, more efficient CRTs, I mean really, who cares.
I wasn't even going to bother posting in this thread until I read your post. If you find the content of /. so upsetting why keep reading it, surely there is a M$ forum that you would find far more comfortable or are you just biased by greed and I am guilty of feeding a troll or do you really secretly love /. and, loathe M$ and secretly goad the microtrolls under another assumed identity ;).
Catch is on ADSL system it is an illegal monitoring of telephone activity. It is a telephone line and whether the communications are straight voice or digitised content it is still illegal. The ISP and the advertising agency should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law including imprisonment and government that lets this get by in criminally complicit.
In reality for MMO's to work and survive over the long term they need to be supported and promoted by ISP's. The benefit for an ISP is keeping off network traffic to a minimum if the MMO is limited to the ISP's own user base.
Of course all the ISP's can share a part of the continued development of the MMO and the cost would be paid for out of some of the off network traffic savings.
Ah, but googlite expert A says to many people are starting to use wikipedia as a first search point and this represents a threat to revenue and a blackhole in their user thoughts probing and recording databases.
Personally if I wanted to combine advertising with an encyclopaedia, I would simply talk it over with the wikipedia people so that wikipedia articles could be embedded in my site with local search, in a non-editing format, with my advertising in return for some sponsorship to wikipedia, why re-invent the wheel, some companies simply just can't think outside of their teeny tiny cubicle.
The whole concept flies in the face of all day use, overnight recharge UMPCs. It really is pointless technology. The big technology push should be for fan less CPU's to further conserve power and limit noise.
You want effective predictive. How about ISP supplied, white lists of good addresses with IPv6 coming on stream attmetping to blacklist billions of addresses will be a pain. Of course when a ISP supplies contaminated white lists range block the ISP until they behave.
Which is going to disappear once the majority want to run their on mine appliance server with IPv6 and regain a measure of privacy with their own personal email server. The money for jam IPv4 address range is coming to any end.
The reality is the ISP and simply trying to squeeze up the profit margins by throttling traffic whilst falsely advertising it as being available, that and a legalised excuse to grossly invade their users privacy so that they can show a continuous stream of targeted psychologically manipulative marketing bull shit down the throats of every person in the household.
The government should be ashamed out itself, every MP who supported this should look in a mirror with disgust at their willingness to sell out the privacy of their own children and grandchildren to placate some of the most exploitative parasites in society. The gross invasiveness of monitoring every user 24 hours a day in their own homes is sickening, what next compulsory web cams and microphones in every room of the house because once cell phones have shifted to IP addressing and voip is the norm, this gives companies the excuse to monitor every phone call, every email basically any type of internet access as the thieving contemptible general public who might deny some the richest and greediest ever more money, might be embedding 10 second copyrighted ring tones in those communications.
The general public in England would be seriously stupid to let this slide.
Unless it is a 360 degree in the horizontal and vertical panorama camera it is a pretty pointless idea.
Trying to penny pinch is hardly any reason to implement an idea that doesn't really work. Why wouldn't any sane government choose not to sponsor educating the public about their society, their environment, and themselves. It really is the stuff of craziness to somehow think it is of value to society to keep it citizens as stupid as possible unless they are willing to pay huge sums of money to empower themselves with knowledge.
A modern properly functioning democracy requires a knowledgeable populace as a fundamental requirement.Trying to keep the lie going that gut level knee jerk reactions are somehow good and are superior to well informed considered opinion is insanity. Education along with health (physical and mental) should be the two main focus points of any modern society and not feeding the greed of a minority.
However your point is grossly misleading as the concentration of microwave output is increased with a smaller antennae, hence it is more dangerous.
That is very similar to the stupid idea about what difference does microwave tumour threat of mobile phones make when compared to all the other carcinogenic threats in the environment, it makes a huge difference as your are compounding the problems as they most definitely do not cancel each other out but make the problem far greater.
Likely this is coming out now because there is likely some problems just starting to appear for younger people who have been using mobile phones during their formative years, we are basically reach the point where pre-teen starting cell phone users will have achieved many years of exposure and we will shortly be able to see the consequences.
I have got to be honest and say that I still don't have a cell phone and do use the health threat as a means of fending them off (I like to be connected to the world not the other way round).
No, libel is hugely different on the internet. Want to draw attention to opposing opinions, launch a libel suit, want to create the impression that you have a hugely inflated opinion of your self worth - launch a libel suit, perversely enough, want the convince people that you have something to hide launch a libel suit and, finally want to convince people that you have more money than sense, launch a libel suit.
So there is a huge difference between 20th century print libel and 21st century internet libel and a bunch of people and companies are just going to have to get over their inflated egos and realise that 1 page amongst billions of web pages doesn't really mean that much until you make yourself look like a fool by drawing attention to it.
I can't see how you can fail to understand how full disclosure of faults represents an extreme risk, well, to profits at least. You just can't be having them customers know all about how insecure their security software really is, other wise why would they be paying you?
Not only that but M$ also pump up 360 numbers by including warranty replacements and talking about units shipped rather than sold.
Not really accurate. What you are in fact saying, is someone foolish enough to allow photos of them to be published on the internet which could possibly be interpreted as them being unrepentant, rather than perhaps being severely depressed and attempting to deal with that depression by the foolish consumption of alcohol which would alter their behaviour by affecting inhibitions.
On the other hand of course are people who were careful enough and had better friends and hence no pictures were published of their activities, when attempting to deal with the guilt, shock and of course trying to bury the fear of upcoming penalties for their poor behaviour.
After all isn't it extremely rare for people to deal with stress by drinking alcohol, or when dealing with depression, or when attempting to assuage a guilty conscience. Either the judges should wake up to themselves or everybody should be treated the same under law, that after all is one of the most important principles of justice that all should be treated equally.
AOL is a content provider via Time Warner. AOL is just a part of the group. Time Warner obviously paid to much and still has work to do but is making some moves. M$ obviously wants Time Warner's content which it will attempt to lock in it's distribution to products like silverfish only, or windows media player only. M$ is in real trouble with the Yahoo bids because of Ballmer's idiotic 'we will replace yahoo's board and but it on the cheap' bid, some thing that could get him in real trouble with the SEC.
So what is this bid really all about, an admission by M$ that they don't know how to run MSN and are trying to buy in expertise or just more desperate attempts by Ballmer to appear significant.
All M$ has to do is invest the money in MSN wisely and run it properly, for a start kill 'undead' search and go back to MSN search, branding, gees don't those idiots understand anything.
At a guess, the embargo will last until the mafia get their casinos back. Just who do you think really runs your entertainment industries and in turn your government ;).
Twitter has a long way to go to be the most infamous poster on slashdot. The worst and hence most infamous trolls on slashdot are the paid to post losers. If you pay attention to them you can even start to readily recognise the different sources. Generally the better ones are sitting in tech company offices posting whilst at work with a distinct bias to their place of work. Next up are a swag of US government propagandist, from better to worse, US government intelligence agencies (NSA>FBI and bottom of the barrel CIA), US government military (air force> navy>army and bottom of the barrel the marines) and of course the worst of the worst party political hacks (democrats>libertarians and bottom of the barrel republicans). However it is all a part of slashdot and not too bad as long as it is somewhat amusing.
Back to topic, this was bound to be a pretty inflammatory topic and overall does not really make much sense as it is two comparisons at once, web served office applications versus local office applications and of course for the second part you really need to compare just off line office applications. Low cost hardware and storage getting cheaper every day along with free quality office suits really makes putting up with the hassles of web based office applications a pretty pointless exercise as you need to pay for additional hardware to connect to the net as well as of course paying for your internet connection. Big point in computer security, if you need absolutely need to connect work computers to the internet then do so, however in you can possibly avoid it then simplify your network security and just don't do it.
Oh, and yeah and, you are a bad person and a crappy slash dotter if you mod a person down, rather than just particularly poor postings.
I bet a whole lot of women given the opportunity would demand an equal number of men in maternity wards, as patients, the US congress had better start pondering that one ;D.
Not to be too picky on Toms hardware, but they are a well known cash for comment web site (ie. vista has 'nearly' the same performance as xp) and, that article is about as wishy washy as can be and implies a whole lot without saying anything at all.
Gees don't you know, V8s and tiny 4 cylinders use about much the same fuel 'er' when a car is rolling down a hill and your foot is off the accelerator or when in 'er' 'energy saving mode' and the engine is like switched off.
Of course up until a successful appeal, I think you kinda a missed the point about your lawyer versus their lawyer and. of course that was a one off and needs to be repeated every single time. To have fun with the subpoena, shut down the company, start up a new one and, the subpoena dies, so what is your point.
What it still boils down to for google is google, as a privacy invasive marketing firm, has not desire to give away data that it considers valuable enough to store for years and only rents out. Tricky for google to argue that it court and claim Viacom is actually trying to steal valuable data that could be used to psychologically analyses an extensive customer base for marketing purposes, as Viacom also manages a less successful video portal and is in affect trying to steal that commercially valuable data via the court in order to try to make it more successful.
This in affect gives Yahoo and the local media players and far more effective search platform and a real market threat to google as well as of course that other major players in the search engine business.
This wider distribution of search engine services will also push search from the current marketing perceived foreground way into the back ground as simply a subsidiary service of any typical major web portal whilst simultaneously pushing local web portals into the foreground in local markets by them being able to offer globally effective search services on their site.
However pulling out features to meet cost budgets and then saying it is about deadlines does kill a product. Seems more like the product is being dumped onto the market with a reduced feature set, hence reduced cost, to see if their target market will accept it as it is ie. more profit. Then the features will be added 'er' charged for as an expansion pack ie. more profit. So EA at work, bean counters versus game developers, expect a full suit a bugs as customer pay for the privilege of being beta testers ie. even more profit.