...is exactly what bullshit Time Warner is trying to pull here.
They sell both internet access and cable television. Once their subscribers are given a fat enough pipe, they can dump Time Warner cable and start paying someone else for TV.
Its not quite there yet, but everyone can see the writing on the wall.
Then they contract the technical stuff out to some contractor who feeds them a line of bullshit (instead of hiring their own people to do it, the way NASA did it in the 60's).
Contractors built all the hardware for NASA in the 60's. NASA provided general specs for the hardware, but the contractors designed and built it. What NASA did is train the astronauts and operate the vehicles and systems. Not to mention dump way, way more money into the program back then.
Since there is very little broadband choice for most consumers, your Grandmother will probably be charged $50 a month for the low tier. There simply wouldn't be any consumer friendly pricing plans.
I am currently getting my Master's degree online. Each class I take uses at least 600MB per week. Should Time Warner be allowed to tax my education?
The internet providers today are not having much difficulty in keeping up data through put. This is purely about them finding new revenue streams. So they take extremely examples to try and manipulate public sentiment to allow them to pull this BS. They see other companies making money over "their" pipes and want a cut.
...runs just fine. Actually, it runs really good. I have absolutely no complaints.
I am coming from a desktop with an Athlon XP 3200+ and a Geforce 6800GT video card running Windows XP. You know what? The laptop running vista is way smoother. It boots up faster. It opens file folders faster. It browses the web faster.
Now granted, my desktop isn't top of the line any more by a long shot, but it still ain't no slouch for normal things, like surfing the web and navigating file structures.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista. It updates just fine. It runs games almost as fast as XP, but that is because those games are specifically optimized for XP. And Vista can still run them almost at the same speed. Newer games will run faster on Vista than XP. Its not quite the same bitching that was going on during the switch from Windows 98 to Windows XP, but its close.
Even desktops are not totally standardized...
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Not every desktop case can fit the latest and greatest video card. I think the main factor is cooling.
There is such a wide variety of notebook processors and video cards, you would have dozens of standards. Do you want straight up desktop performance? Mobile gaming? Mobile gaming with battery life? Ultra portable? Large screen with battery life? There are so many ways to optomize a laptop you would have dozens of standards. Not just ATX, Mini-ATX, mid tower, full tower, etc.
Actually, that is exactly what you have right now. There are many brand name companies out selling re-branded, "standardized" notebooks.
Load up windows live search and get localized search results for restaurants, stores, anything. Add in a Blue-Tooth GPS receiver and get search results by distance from your present location.
The other great thing about this phone is free tethering. While that may be slightly outside of you agreement with sprint, they have been turning a blind eye to it for a very long time. Add in the fact Sprint has the cheapest and highest speed data plans out there and you never need to goto a coffee shop for internet access, for either your phone or your laptop.
Third party applications on the PPC platform have surpassed palm.
With the help of community efforts, the ability to not only load third party software, but create customized roms to squeeze out every bit of performance, the PPC-6700 is still one of the best pda phones out there. And its over 2 years old now.
Seriously... What the hell does that line mean? There is nothing illegal about being a monopoly. It is illegal to abuse monopoly status, but being a monopoly is not illegal.
What your use of that phrase implies though is fairly obvious. Your just another MS bashing troll who thinks MS was magically granted all their success by the monopoly fairies.
Because all of their products have been crap since that first complier written by Bill Gates himself.
People like you need to wake up to the fact their is NO DIFFERENCE between Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. They all do everything they can to improve their bottom lines.
A corporation is a emotionless entity with the sole purpose of creating a return on an investment by shareholders. PERIOD.
Google and Apple just haven't been caught yet...
Google will run into legal issues as it becomes a monopoly in the online advertising market.
I am not sure about Apple though. There may be something special about media. The media companies have abused their complete control over content creation, licensing, distribution, etc. for decades. I honestly can't understand how they have gotten away with it for so long.
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Honestly, who does an OS upgrade and not check for hardware compatibility?
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If you buy a Vista box from any of those manufactures now, it runs just fine. This guy didn't bother to check hardware compatibility. He is a complete moron for trying to run Vista on hardware that is not supported. Period.
Plenty of manufactures make devices capable of playing Microsoft DRM'ed files, that is what they mean by "open" DRM.
All of the consumers that have purchased music from ITMS cannot play their music in anything but Apple products. Its anti-competitive and Apple should be punished for their behavior.
Department of Housing and Urban Development 45,891
Department of the Interior 9,952
Department of Justice 24,643
Department of Labor 50,218
Department of State 15,225
Department of Transportation 65,928
Department of the Treasury:
Interest on Treasury debt securities (gross) 440,627
Other 58,626
Department of Veterans Affairs 74,032
Corps of Engineers 7,758
Other Defense Civil Programs 47,540
Environmental Protection Agency 7,875
Executive Office of the President 3,644
General Services Administration 881
International Assistance Program 17,246
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 16,350
National Science Foundation 5,837
Office of Personnel Management 67,428
Small Business Administration 1,433
Social Security Administration 621,979
Other independent agencies 22,295
That is a total of 3 trillion, which gives NASA a wopping 0.5% of the US budget. During Apollo, it was at 6%. That is quite a difference.
NASA still does amazing work, but its kind of hard to make everything work when Congress will not give them the budget they were told to plan to. Something gets cut when they don't get money they were supposed to.
For all the people saying size will be limiting factor, just remember that this is just the first HD DVD movie posted.
This medium (or blue-ray or some hybrid) will be around for years to come. In two years time, 1 terabyte of storage will probably be standard on mid range computers.
Was that clear enough? The media companies require digital signals to use HDCP, regardless of whether the Image Constraint Token is there.
You can get full resolution HD video right now if you don't have an HDCP digital connection by using analog outputs, whether that be on your HD-DVD player, BlueRay player, or computer. This is because the ICT is not enabled. In the future they MAY enable it. In that case, those without a digital connection with HDCP do not get full resolution HD video.
I know its a matter of course to bash anything Microsoft, and especially anything Vista, but for Christ's sakes, find some valid points to bash them on. This isn't one of them.
I am not claiming you can't be productive in Linux.
Right here on my desk at work I have a windows box I use for email, intranet and internet, and MS office applications.
I also have an HPC8000 workstation (with HP-UX, its not linux but its practically the same, i rlogin into linux boxes for submission of jobs to our linux cluster).
The HP is my primary machine for work, but I am a number crunching engineer. I prefer to surf on the windows box. Its snappier.
Windows is the standard for the average home user and worker. I am not saying it should be that way or not. Its reality. Thats what the numbers say.
Just sitting there and saying Linux is just as easy to learn as windows is not the point. Everyone knows windows. Given that, how difficult is it for someone trained in windows to pick up Linux? That is the question.
I am not saying its hard or easy. But that is the question that needs to be addressed, not sitting there saying they could just as easily learned Linux to begin with, because that just isn't going to happen.
I am specifically using tax software as my example for a reason. There isn't any open source alternative that is guaranteeing you against an IRS audit.
Why should any commercial software company spend the time and effort to port something to Linux when 90% of their intended audience is using Windows? It doesn't make any sense. There will not be enough of a return on their investment.
Now if you are talking about applications like Matlab, Tecplot, Maya, Bryce, etc. those applications need power and easy access to large data sets over network connections. That sounds like a strong point for a Linux install and those companies make sure their stuff runs on every thing.
Yes, there is a lot of open source software out there that can make you very productive. Most of it runs of windows too.
Installing software on windows (90% of the install base out there) is what it is. Its the same thing on 90% of the computers out there.
Installing software on Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Suse, Fedora, etc.) is not the same across distributions. I don't care what you say.
Where it doesn't make commercial sense for companies (Turbo Tax), they don't give a crap about Linux because it has to work not just on Linux, but all flavors of Linux because people who pay money for something, expect it to work for the most part.
Where it does make commercial sense (when you pay over $1000 per license), companies will support it.
I guess over all all my ramblings my main point is that there is a place for Linux, but its not going to replace windows.
Windows is "simpler" because people are used to it, not because it's actually easier to use. This is a VERY common misconception. A person with no experience what so ever would probably learn to do the same tasks in Gnome or KDE faster than in Windows.
This statement may or may not be true. Please point me to research, survey, hell, even some BS article giving some proof that this conception is true. I agree that games might pose a problem, but that's hardly Linux fault.
You might as well put any commercial software application in place of "games" in that statement. Person goes to compusa or best buy or whatever, buys turbo tax, pops the cd in their drive and bam... nothing. Hell, some half installed version of wine that may or may not be in their particular distribution may act like it does something with with it. But that software is not going to install properly. You can't simply dismiss it out of hand, "Oh, that's hardly Linux's fault." Its reality.
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They sell both internet access and cable television. Once their subscribers are given a fat enough pipe, they can dump Time Warner cable and start paying someone else for TV.
Its not quite there yet, but everyone can see the writing on the wall.
Ever hear of DNS Catch Poisoning?
Sometimes you can't always control where your browse goes.
Contractors built all the hardware for NASA in the 60's. NASA provided general specs for the hardware, but the contractors designed and built it. What NASA did is train the astronauts and operate the vehicles and systems. Not to mention dump way, way more money into the program back then.
No they are not. They are the people who cannot qualify to get a visa. And which types of people are unable to qualify for visas? Usually criminals.
Thats right, they aren't laws. He didn't go to jail, he got fired.
He is a producer for a media outlet. He decided to not give CNN the first option for publishing what he was writing. That is a huge no no.
The whole brain thing is pure BS to cloud a very clear violation of his relationship with his employer.
End of story.
Since there is very little broadband choice for most consumers, your Grandmother will probably be charged $50 a month for the low tier. There simply wouldn't be any consumer friendly pricing plans.
I am currently getting my Master's degree online. Each class I take uses at least 600MB per week. Should Time Warner be allowed to tax my education?
The internet providers today are not having much difficulty in keeping up data through put. This is purely about them finding new revenue streams. So they take extremely examples to try and manipulate public sentiment to allow them to pull this BS. They see other companies making money over "their" pipes and want a cut.
... did they really notice?
I am coming from a desktop with an Athlon XP 3200+ and a Geforce 6800GT video card running Windows XP. You know what? The laptop running vista is way smoother. It boots up faster. It opens file folders faster. It browses the web faster.
Now granted, my desktop isn't top of the line any more by a long shot, but it still ain't no slouch for normal things, like surfing the web and navigating file structures.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Vista. It updates just fine. It runs games almost as fast as XP, but that is because those games are specifically optimized for XP. And Vista can still run them almost at the same speed. Newer games will run faster on Vista than XP. Its not quite the same bitching that was going on during the switch from Windows 98 to Windows XP, but its close.
Not every desktop case can fit the latest and greatest video card. I think the main factor is cooling. There is such a wide variety of notebook processors and video cards, you would have dozens of standards. Do you want straight up desktop performance? Mobile gaming? Mobile gaming with battery life? Ultra portable? Large screen with battery life? There are so many ways to optomize a laptop you would have dozens of standards. Not just ATX, Mini-ATX, mid tower, full tower, etc. Actually, that is exactly what you have right now. There are many brand name companies out selling re-branded, "standardized" notebooks.
It has an extremely active community that has constantly back ported new windows mobile features into customized roms to flash your phone with. Goto the HTC Apache forum at ppc-geeks, http://www.ppcgeeks.com/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=6eba 1082d61ffec1693259b6d3560f0c
Load up windows live search and get localized search results for restaurants, stores, anything. Add in a Blue-Tooth GPS receiver and get search results by distance from your present location.
The other great thing about this phone is free tethering. While that may be slightly outside of you agreement with sprint, they have been turning a blind eye to it for a very long time. Add in the fact Sprint has the cheapest and highest speed data plans out there and you never need to goto a coffee shop for internet access, for either your phone or your laptop.
Third party applications on the PPC platform have surpassed palm.
With the help of community efforts, the ability to not only load third party software, but create customized roms to squeeze out every bit of performance, the PPC-6700 is still one of the best pda phones out there. And its over 2 years old now.
Other engineering groups probably want to keep it around to validate their engineering models.
Using those inputs, you could calculate your "damage" on the highways and tax you accordingly.
Seriously... What the hell does that line mean? There is nothing illegal about being a monopoly. It is illegal to abuse monopoly status, but being a monopoly is not illegal.
What your use of that phrase implies though is fairly obvious. Your just another MS bashing troll who thinks MS was magically granted all their success by the monopoly fairies.
Because all of their products have been crap since that first complier written by Bill Gates himself.
People like you need to wake up to the fact their is NO DIFFERENCE between Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc. They all do everything they can to improve their bottom lines.
A corporation is a emotionless entity with the sole purpose of creating a return on an investment by shareholders. PERIOD.
Google and Apple just haven't been caught yet...
Google will run into legal issues as it becomes a monopoly in the online advertising market.
I am not sure about Apple though. There may be something special about media. The media companies have abused their complete control over content creation, licensing, distribution, etc. for decades. I honestly can't understand how they have gotten away with it for so long.
Honestly, who does an OS upgrade and not check for hardware compatibility?
If you buy a Vista box from any of those manufactures now, it runs just fine. This guy didn't bother to check hardware compatibility. He is a complete moron for trying to run Vista on hardware that is not supported. Period.
Figuring out how to wire a aircraft with multiple seating configurations is very, very hard. Go ask Airbus...
They didn't have any in stock, but they said they were getting a shipment in the next day (Sunday morning).
So my in laws went to Best Buy at 8am and waited in line with over 150 other people. The first 48 got Wii's, the rest didn't.
That should say something about how well the Wii is selling, at least in Tuscon, AZ.
There are lots of PS3's available in Houston, TX. Also, I went to Tuscon this past weekend, and there was plenty to be had there as well.
All of the consumers that have purchased music from ITMS cannot play their music in anything but Apple products. Its anti-competitive and Apple should be punished for their behavior.
Maybe defense at 537 billion.
How about Health and human services at 687 billion? There is oodles of waste there.
Here is a breakdown of the US budget taken from the treasury departments website http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/index.html
Budget Outlays
Legislative Branch 4,463
Judicial Branch 6,382
Department of Agriculture 88,296
Department of Commerce 6,673
Department of Defense-Military 537,308
Department of Education 66,623
Department of Energy 21,583
Department of Health and Human Services 687,946
Department of Homeland Security 49,302
Department of Housing and Urban Development 45,891
Department of the Interior 9,952
Department of Justice 24,643
Department of Labor 50,218
Department of State 15,225
Department of Transportation 65,928
Department of the Treasury:
Interest on Treasury debt securities (gross) 440,627
Other 58,626
Department of Veterans Affairs 74,032
Corps of Engineers 7,758
Other Defense Civil Programs 47,540
Environmental Protection Agency 7,875
Executive Office of the President 3,644
General Services Administration 881
International Assistance Program 17,246
National Aeronautics and Space Administration 16,350
National Science Foundation 5,837
Office of Personnel Management 67,428
Small Business Administration 1,433
Social Security Administration 621,979
Other independent agencies 22,295
That is a total of 3 trillion, which gives NASA a wopping 0.5% of the US budget. During Apollo, it was at 6%. That is quite a difference.
NASA still does amazing work, but its kind of hard to make everything work when Congress will not give them the budget they were told to plan to. Something gets cut when they don't get money they were supposed to.
This medium (or blue-ray or some hybrid) will be around for years to come. In two years time, 1 terabyte of storage will probably be standard on mid range computers.
Was that clear enough? The media companies require digital signals to use HDCP, regardless of whether the Image Constraint Token is there.
You can get full resolution HD video right now if you don't have an HDCP digital connection by using analog outputs, whether that be on your HD-DVD player, BlueRay player, or computer. This is because the ICT is not enabled. In the future they MAY enable it. In that case, those without a digital connection with HDCP do not get full resolution HD video.
I know its a matter of course to bash anything Microsoft, and especially anything Vista, but for Christ's sakes, find some valid points to bash them on. This isn't one of them.
Its a bad idea to build more nuclear power stations?
I am not claiming you can't be productive in Linux.
Right here on my desk at work I have a windows box I use for email, intranet and internet, and MS office applications. I also have an HPC8000 workstation (with HP-UX, its not linux but its practically the same, i rlogin into linux boxes for submission of jobs to our linux cluster).
The HP is my primary machine for work, but I am a number crunching engineer. I prefer to surf on the windows box. Its snappier.
Windows is the standard for the average home user and worker. I am not saying it should be that way or not. Its reality. Thats what the numbers say.
Just sitting there and saying Linux is just as easy to learn as windows is not the point. Everyone knows windows. Given that, how difficult is it for someone trained in windows to pick up Linux? That is the question.
I am not saying its hard or easy. But that is the question that needs to be addressed, not sitting there saying they could just as easily learned Linux to begin with, because that just isn't going to happen.
I am specifically using tax software as my example for a reason. There isn't any open source alternative that is guaranteeing you against an IRS audit.
Why should any commercial software company spend the time and effort to port something to Linux when 90% of their intended audience is using Windows? It doesn't make any sense. There will not be enough of a return on their investment.
Now if you are talking about applications like Matlab, Tecplot, Maya, Bryce, etc. those applications need power and easy access to large data sets over network connections. That sounds like a strong point for a Linux install and those companies make sure their stuff runs on every thing.
Yes, there is a lot of open source software out there that can make you very productive. Most of it runs of windows too.
Installing software on windows (90% of the install base out there) is what it is. Its the same thing on 90% of the computers out there.
Installing software on Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Suse, Fedora, etc.) is not the same across distributions. I don't care what you say.
Where it doesn't make commercial sense for companies (Turbo Tax), they don't give a crap about Linux because it has to work not just on Linux, but all flavors of Linux because people who pay money for something, expect it to work for the most part.
Where it does make commercial sense (when you pay over $1000 per license), companies will support it.
I guess over all all my ramblings my main point is that there is a place for Linux, but its not going to replace windows.
Windows is "simpler" because people are used to it, not because it's actually easier to use. This is a VERY common misconception. A person with no experience what so ever would probably learn to do the same tasks in Gnome or KDE faster than in Windows.
This statement may or may not be true. Please point me to research, survey, hell, even some BS article giving some proof that this conception is true.
I agree that games might pose a problem, but that's hardly Linux fault.
You might as well put any commercial software application in place of "games" in that statement. Person goes to compusa or best buy or whatever, buys turbo tax, pops the cd in their drive and bam... nothing. Hell, some half installed version of wine that may or may not be in their particular distribution may act like it does something with with it. But that software is not going to install properly. You can't simply dismiss it out of hand, "Oh, that's hardly Linux's fault." Its reality.