First off, the smart tags were just a beta, and not a final product, you really have no idea how it would have ended up, and it seemed to be going in a good direction.
Secondly, the website creator made the website, they website creator made the custom tags on the website. It is up to the creator of the website to decide what content goes on it, not you. Plus, smart tags could be easily disabled from the browser (by the user).
But how do you think the software got installed in the first place? The user has to install it somehow.
Guess what will happen on OSX. The user will try to open up the file, it will prompt for the admin password, the user puts it in, and it does the same exact damage.
There are still two facts that remain:
One, that when you need to install something, you are going to go to the admin account.
Two, a trojan, spyware, whatever, is just an application that gets installed, and it would be installed by having to go to the admin account to do it.
I charge $50/hr with a two hour minimum.
And when you consider that I have to shell at $65/week for advertisting... it's not enough.
I've only had to turn down one person, really. And I'm glad I did.
While on the phone with them they asked how muchI charged, and I told them, she went on to tell me her problem, then says so you charge $50/hr.
To clarify, I make sure I told her there is a 2 hour minimum, then of course she goes on to say she doesn't have that kind of money.
So I told her flat out, those are my rates, and sorry I couldn't help her any further.
I'm not doing this stuff for practice, it's my living.
Well, if you've ever used digital cable, you know how much of a pain it is.
Changing the channel alone takes a few seconds, the boxes drop channel information constantly, lines get bogged down sometimes out of the blue, etc....
With IPTV you have instant channel changes, you can actually watch little thumbnail views of every show that is listed on your channel guide (it plays them all right next to the description, simultaniously), Picture in Picture actually works well, and a whole mess of other reasons.
While it is just a marketing platform for Bill Gates, you should watch his keynote for CES from this year, he demostrates a lot of IPTV stuff.
It may put them in monopoly status, but it would be VERY different than 20 years ago.
Today we have the wireless companies to compete against AT&T, and ANY phone service they ever offer.
Lucent Technologies is the spinoff company that was formed from Bell Labs.
I think this would be great. Yes, it may create another monopoly, but also a highly regulated monopoly, also a monopoly that has fierce competition from the wireless market (something that didn't really exist when the breakup occured). It may also bring us back Bell Labs, which was by far the best research group in history (my opinion, of course).
If the merger were to go well, I think it will be a great step forward in the markets they pariticipate in.
Why would they wanted an extremely underpowered and overpirced computer to do business stuff?
Once again... as it has been said for EVERY fucking Longhorn UI article, you will be able to switch between 3 different tiers, ranging from today's GDI+ style (does not require a heavy duty graphics card), all the way up to full desktop compositing.
Well... it does.
This has been said time and TIME AGAIN!
There will be 3 tiers, ranging from GDI+ type rendering, up to fully accellerated Dx based compositing.
In the end, it all comes down to what they were using it for. I mean, is somone 2000yrs from now who discovers our binary of just 1 and 0 going to say 'Oh my, that's wierd, did the guy who invented that only have 2 fingers and 2 toes?"
If this 7bit binary was the base of their counting system, then I'd say that's a bit wierd, but it doesn't say that.
1) How is the radar to detect what is a car, or just something else ahead.
2) What about oncoming traffic in the other lane?
3) What about the driver being able to make sharp maneuvers with the car, with this on, the car will effectivly take away the drivers ability to do this.
4) Knight Rider already has this patented:) (sorry, couldn't leave out the patent comment)
A much better system would be to put a sort of locator into your car that could detect other locators in other cars, say, 200 meters out. These locators would have GPS access so it could sort through which cars are a threat. Even with this suggested system, you CANNOT have the system automatically tap the brakes, as it takes a tremendous amount of power out of the drivers hands, and could even end up being worse than having no system at all.
(sorry about the double post, forgot this was HTML formatted)
I think this is a very bad way to go about this.
1) How is the radar to detect what is a car, or just something else ahead.
2) What about oncoming traffic in the other lane?
3) What about the driver being able to make sharp maneuvers with the car, with this on, the car will effectivly take away the drivers ability to do this.
4) Knight Rider already has this patented:) (sorry, couldn't leave out the patent comment)
A much better system would be to put a sort of locator into your car that could detect other locators in other cars, say, 200 meters out. These locators would have GPS access so it could sort through which cars are a threat.
Even with this suggested system, you CANNOT have the system automatically tap the brakes, as it takes a tremendous amount of power out of the drivers hands, and could even end up being worse than having no system at all.
I hate to burst your anti-MS bubble, but Microsoft has been working on IPv6 but Microsoft has been working on IPv6 since 1996.
Hardly, as you put it, "sitting on their asses".
The internet that we know today started out as a US government project as a way to continue communications in the event of a nuclear strike.
The project was code-named DARPA-NET.
For that matter, networking in general started in the US.
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First off, the smart tags were just a beta, and not a final product, you really have no idea how it would have ended up, and it seemed to be going in a good direction.
Secondly, the website creator made the website, they website creator made the custom tags on the website. It is up to the creator of the website to decide what content goes on it, not you.
Plus, smart tags could be easily disabled from the browser (by the user).
Yeah, and much is that fat CPU increasing your monthly electric bill?
But how do you think the software got installed in the first place? The user has to install it somehow.
Guess what will happen on OSX. The user will try to open up the file, it will prompt for the admin password, the user puts it in, and it does the same exact damage.
There are still two facts that remain:
One, that when you need to install something, you are going to go to the admin account.
Two, a trojan, spyware, whatever, is just an application that gets installed, and it would be installed by having to go to the admin account to do it.
How is it lower cost than Windows?
It's $129 per upgrade
Retail price for WinXP Pro Full is $300, upgrade is like $150, and you can get them both much much cheaper.
And you have to remember, you are paying $129 every year or so.
I charge $50/hr with a two hour minimum. And when you consider that I have to shell at $65/week for advertisting... it's not enough. I've only had to turn down one person, really. And I'm glad I did. While on the phone with them they asked how muchI charged, and I told them, she went on to tell me her problem, then says so you charge $50/hr. To clarify, I make sure I told her there is a 2 hour minimum, then of course she goes on to say she doesn't have that kind of money. So I told her flat out, those are my rates, and sorry I couldn't help her any further. I'm not doing this stuff for practice, it's my living.
Cable can't even do Digital TV very well.... nothing does it well at this point.
Dangit, I keep forgetting to change it off of HTML formatted, as I never put HTML tags to format my posts.
Well, if you've ever used digital cable, you know how much of a pain it is. Changing the channel alone takes a few seconds, the boxes drop channel information constantly, lines get bogged down sometimes out of the blue, etc.... With IPTV you have instant channel changes, you can actually watch little thumbnail views of every show that is listed on your channel guide (it plays them all right next to the description, simultaniously), Picture in Picture actually works well, and a whole mess of other reasons. While it is just a marketing platform for Bill Gates, you should watch his keynote for CES from this year, he demostrates a lot of IPTV stuff.
The latest versions are X-box only though.
But Tommy Lee Jones is in the commercials!!!!
It may put them in monopoly status, but it would be VERY different than 20 years ago. Today we have the wireless companies to compete against AT&T, and ANY phone service they ever offer.
Lucent Technologies is the spinoff company that was formed from Bell Labs.
I think this would be great. Yes, it may create another monopoly, but also a highly regulated monopoly, also a monopoly that has fierce competition from the wireless market (something that didn't really exist when the breakup occured). It may also bring us back Bell Labs, which was by far the best research group in history (my opinion, of course).
If the merger were to go well, I think it will be a great step forward in the markets they pariticipate in.
Why would they wanted an extremely underpowered and overpirced computer to do business stuff? Once again... as it has been said for EVERY fucking Longhorn UI article, you will be able to switch between 3 different tiers, ranging from today's GDI+ style (does not require a heavy duty graphics card), all the way up to full desktop compositing.
Well... it does. This has been said time and TIME AGAIN! There will be 3 tiers, ranging from GDI+ type rendering, up to fully accellerated Dx based compositing.
You forgot 6, 60 is evenly divisible by 6 :)
In the end, it all comes down to what they were using it for. I mean, is somone 2000yrs from now who discovers our binary of just 1 and 0 going to say 'Oh my, that's wierd, did the guy who invented that only have 2 fingers and 2 toes?"
If this 7bit binary was the base of their counting system, then I'd say that's a bit wierd, but it doesn't say that.
I think this is a very bad way to go about this.
:) (sorry, couldn't leave out the patent comment)
1) How is the radar to detect what is a car, or just something else ahead.
2) What about oncoming traffic in the other lane?
3) What about the driver being able to make sharp maneuvers with the car, with this on, the car will effectivly take away the drivers ability to do this.
4) Knight Rider already has this patented
A much better system would be to put a sort of locator into your car that could detect other locators in other cars, say, 200 meters out. These locators would have GPS access so it could sort through which cars are a threat.
Even with this suggested system, you CANNOT have the system automatically tap the brakes, as it takes a tremendous amount of power out of the drivers hands, and could even end up being worse than having no system at all.
(sorry about the double post, forgot this was HTML formatted)
I think this is a very bad way to go about this. 1) How is the radar to detect what is a car, or just something else ahead. 2) What about oncoming traffic in the other lane? 3) What about the driver being able to make sharp maneuvers with the car, with this on, the car will effectivly take away the drivers ability to do this. 4) Knight Rider already has this patented :) (sorry, couldn't leave out the patent comment)
A much better system would be to put a sort of locator into your car that could detect other locators in other cars, say, 200 meters out. These locators would have GPS access so it could sort through which cars are a threat.
Even with this suggested system, you CANNOT have the system automatically tap the brakes, as it takes a tremendous amount of power out of the drivers hands, and could even end up being worse than having no system at all.
And I suppose you are the alimighty chip counter?
Seriously, come off your high horse.
I hate to burst your anti-MS bubble, but Microsoft has been working on IPv6 but Microsoft has been working on IPv6 since 1996. Hardly, as you put it, "sitting on their asses".
The internet that we know today started out as a US government project as a way to continue communications in the event of a nuclear strike. The project was code-named DARPA-NET. For that matter, networking in general started in the US.