Well I guess Del got that all figured out. Windows is like a Master Driver in essense, when your driver cost more than the hardware, you obvously is not leveraging from the mass production.
Plus Microsoft Screwed it big time, technology prices are meant to go down not up. Windows 95 was 95$, Vista is 10$. let me tell you, if it was 10-50$ kids whould not even bother pirating it. (yeah you will always have the guru that will want to do it just for the sake of it, but the non techy would just pay the buck)
stupid answer but it is what it is... DRIVERS!
XP comes with built in support, plug and play of about anything.
if you read the initial install status bar, it's actually alot of crap to make u fell that it's plug and play.
i mean hd are 1$/gig now, why are you complaining for 0.40$
anyway. i give you credit. Microsoft is wasting alot of hd. an 8mb excel sheet is down to 1mb on open office. but excel is smooth to use.
well if you think like this, you must not have used 95. XP is breeze.. my computer in the office didn't crashed for the past 3month.
this is AMAZING by MS Standard. try to work with window 95. random reboots, random freeze and BSOD every 15minutes.
i don't know what you did to your xp machine but xp is rock steady if you know how to set it and u patch it on time and i mean XP PRO.. i don't bother with the XP home crap.
the facebook CEO is a smart guy, he is learning from the best of the best.
I don't know if you ever seen he's keynote, but he sells a bit like Steve Job.
He buys a bit like Google and he monopolize a bit like Bill Gates.
give it a few year, if he manage to generate a yearly net worth of 100$ per users, he will be a billionaire.
Segway will buy it and sell it as the Segway2. Modern Amphibous transportation.
by year 2050. wings will be added and people will mod the skin to make it look like dragons and hence the dragon riders shall be reborn.
By 2075 a virus will take over all those beast and a new breed of dragon slayers will be born, armed with emp guns.
imagine all the $$$$$$
sooo true! i have to uncheck the Quicktime + iTune on the update alert all the time. I bet they will do the same for safari. itune + quicktime + safaru. boosting the installations but not the actual usage.
anyhow you need atleast 20% of market share before webdev starts paying attention to your browser.
well i am not sure.. but i think no one mentioned the fact that we can always build monster mother ships and live in them for generations. say a ship with a few millions humans that would travel for millions of generations.
they can halt and extract from visiting planets, build more ship and spread. once very billions year they would return to earth and share their findings. Earth would become the galactic library of mankind.
our colony would be man made ships, if you think about it, once perfected, the average man would not really care to be on earth or on a ship. what do we do on earth, we destroy forest and plains to build concret and towers. imagine if you build a city straight in space. you save the demolition time.
i was more refering to shi. 'Shi, a former writer for the financial publication Contemporary Business News, was jailed for allegedly providing state secrets to foreigners'
You know.. the saying about war was engaged in fist, then swords, then arrows, guns, then bombs, then nukes, and now MONEY! modern warfare.
information can make a country collapse by kick starting a downward spiral in the stock markets.
Depending on how secret the information was...
In English law high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered (men) or burnt at the stake (women)...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
you forgot one variable.
busted PC: X
Cost of fixing busted PC: 200$
Cost of lost sales to bad publicity: 200,000$
thus we can safely assume that they ship a lot of crap... 200$ * X > 200,000
well well.. you know what.. it's all statistical.. the more people they sue, the more chances they hit that one in a million unknown rising star lawyer.
i bet this lawyer will be rich and famous if he pull it off.
its funny when you think about it. computer do evolves really fast. we always hear things like years ago a computer used to take up a huge space. now that i read this, i think i will be able to say to my kids (when i'll have some).. you know.. when daddy was young, we used to have Server Rooms with tones and tones of computers working to getter to crunch numbers, now you little gizmo's is 10time more powerful.
no.. worse... they have a few thousand years ahead of us. both planet's been at war for ages. the SETI signal just put an end to the equilibrium. we disrupted all their equipment and they are coming toward us.
meanwhile, we are wasting our time fighting each other on the ground with no space technology ready.
there is no market because there is no will to sell them. consumer don't really know what they want. average joe wants what everyone wants. its called peer-pressure in early childhood. it just happens to be a human habit.
one things the consumer do know is when they get a good deal. more power, more features for the same price. for sure they will pick the non hybrid. but to get full efficiency it doesn't have to be a hybrid neither. bottom line, as long as the consumer can get more for their buck they will buy. and honestly, i am about to buy a hybrid, prices are expected to rise by 25% this summer because of the stupid broken pipes somewhere near Toronto, cutting the supplies for cities near the great lake and onward to the Atlantic. that means no more supplies from Alaska and Alberta. thats half of a week of my paycheck's in gaz per month, almost the same price of my car's monthly payment! OMFG!!!!!!
well well hope its just speculations but things are what they are, its not all that bad. I am sure that Mr. Bush has greater plans. War on Iraq can help the gaz increase. thus force the average American to shift toward non petroleum vehicles and free the world from this obsolete source of energy. hehe. anyhow within a few hundred year (say two) mankind will be living in space because we would be evolved enought to be space invaders and steal other civilization's resources. oh well i guess i am tired. just trolling around.
bottom line, i hope to see more fuel efficient cars this year, because i am about to change mine:D
Actually, the X Prize is a monopoly breaker, in the space industry no one except NASA was developing space ship, because there is no market for it. X Prize gave a market, a first initial client of X Million Dollars, this allow a higher ROI on initial years to expands and sell more units.
Same thing goes for the automotive industry, if you belive half of what the movie "who killed the electric car" then you would agree that the current automotive industry has no interest in changing its ways. in a oligopoly if everyone does almost the same thing, no one is pressured to create a more customer appealing product. its cheaper to spend a few million in advertising to make sure sales than spending billions on something that might not sell. (plus extra millions to shift consumers mind)
Actually, GM and FORD are playing catch up because Honda and Toyota broken off the rank and pushed hybrids. And they sell well, given a homeland boost in japan. being a smaller country than the USA it need to be more fuel efficient since it has less bargaining power on economy of scale (and gun power for the purist of the cause).
Anyhow, Automotive X Prize will give the auportunity for smalled researchers to invest upto half of the X Prize to win it. because a 50% ROI is still a good deal even if you don't sell any car. so in essence, the X Prize will allow new competitor to pressure even further the BIG car makers. that would be a few more RIA and Huydai eating up their market share. I mean, still neglectable, but X Prize will span at least 8 commercially viable solution. Thus 5 potential cash cow in the next 50 year to eat up the market.
A) current car maker will try to beat the prize before hand (which is not that far off, they can probably pull it off by 2008) most of them have hybrid car this year, the version two should be vastly enhanced with a few last minutes buck and if they each on their own pay their own X Prize. because in the end its to keep their pie.
B) Some X Prize will win, some Rich Millionnair will grab sponsor as a VC. and within 5 years new brands appears. mind you emerging marketing are starting to have their own local brands, thus the technology to work it up. guess what, this segment of the pie should be fairly big. and a lot of people will be willing to pay for the plants and cash out on a prepaid R&D.
C) the car manufacturer buys the technology and keep it shut or release it slowly. (which should not happen since the war on efficiency has started, Honda made the act of war on during the supper bowl ads, gm is pushing the wave vs the accent and the yaris... the trend is good, but a bit late because we are starting to fell the effect of global warming)
hey i mean its a amazing spring right now, and its gonna snow and frezzing rain again next week. last year there was snow in india. people think for now that global warming means hot temperature, but in reality it means shift of weather pattern. will be sad the day that all of America will be under ice.
well not to say anything... but i agree that firefox is as good if not better than explorer. (especially with skins, makes its amazing) but office still kicks open office's big time, its actually worth the money for a business to use ms office instead of open office.
and you know what sales speaks, office 2007 sales is doing much better than vista.:D
Slashdot Mirror
Or Remote Desktop http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=948
or maybe they are trying to get a piece of the mobile app business against Motorola.
think.. symbol.. corporate biz app..
that would be a classic slashdot theory of the universe!
"Anykind of junk can spawn profit after a mysterious step."
more commonly known as the
1. whatever
2. ?????
3. Profit!
Well I guess Del got that all figured out. Windows is like a Master Driver in essense, when your driver cost more than the hardware, you obvously is not leveraging from the mass production. Plus Microsoft Screwed it big time, technology prices are meant to go down not up. Windows 95 was 95$, Vista is 10$. let me tell you, if it was 10-50$ kids whould not even bother pirating it. (yeah you will always have the guru that will want to do it just for the sake of it, but the non techy would just pay the buck)
1/4 of the Piracy is irradiated. 3/4 to go and the software bureau can close office.
bah... you just can't see business opportunity. plus maybe u don't have any friends. i fell sorry for you now.
stupid answer but it is what it is... DRIVERS! XP comes with built in support, plug and play of about anything. if you read the initial install status bar, it's actually alot of crap to make u fell that it's plug and play. i mean hd are 1$/gig now, why are you complaining for 0.40$ anyway. i give you credit. Microsoft is wasting alot of hd. an 8mb excel sheet is down to 1mb on open office. but excel is smooth to use.
well if you think like this, you must not have used 95. XP is breeze.. my computer in the office didn't crashed for the past 3month. this is AMAZING by MS Standard. try to work with window 95. random reboots, random freeze and BSOD every 15minutes. i don't know what you did to your xp machine but xp is rock steady if you know how to set it and u patch it on time and i mean XP PRO.. i don't bother with the XP home crap.
95 crash every 15minutes. XP doesn't crash Vista looks nice.
the facebook CEO is a smart guy, he is learning from the best of the best. I don't know if you ever seen he's keynote, but he sells a bit like Steve Job. He buys a bit like Google and he monopolize a bit like Bill Gates. give it a few year, if he manage to generate a yearly net worth of 100$ per users, he will be a billionaire.
Segway will buy it and sell it as the Segway2. Modern Amphibous transportation. by year 2050. wings will be added and people will mod the skin to make it look like dragons and hence the dragon riders shall be reborn. By 2075 a virus will take over all those beast and a new breed of dragon slayers will be born, armed with emp guns. imagine all the $$$$$$
don't worry MS has a fix for the RROD long ago. the RROD is a FEATURE! it's part of the promotional campaign for Halo 3 ;)
Here is some twisted idea, Hybrid Grenade/Power Packs.
sooo true! i have to uncheck the Quicktime + iTune on the update alert all the time. I bet they will do the same for safari. itune + quicktime + safaru. boosting the installations but not the actual usage. anyhow you need atleast 20% of market share before webdev starts paying attention to your browser.
well i am not sure.. but i think no one mentioned the fact that we can always build monster mother ships and live in them for generations. say a ship with a few millions humans that would travel for millions of generations. they can halt and extract from visiting planets, build more ship and spread. once very billions year they would return to earth and share their findings. Earth would become the galactic library of mankind. our colony would be man made ships, if you think about it, once perfected, the average man would not really care to be on earth or on a ship. what do we do on earth, we destroy forest and plains to build concret and towers. imagine if you build a city straight in space. you save the demolition time.
my friend, you could have been rich... i feel sorry for you.. now someone just patterned it.
i was more refering to shi. 'Shi, a former writer for the financial publication Contemporary Business News, was jailed for allegedly providing state secrets to foreigners' You know.. the saying about war was engaged in fist, then swords, then arrows, guns, then bombs, then nukes, and now MONEY! modern warfare. information can make a country collapse by kick starting a downward spiral in the stock markets.
Depending on how secret the information was... In English law high treason was punishable by being hanged, drawn and quartered (men) or burnt at the stake (women)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason
you forgot one variable. busted PC: X Cost of fixing busted PC: 200$ Cost of lost sales to bad publicity: 200,000$ thus we can safely assume that they ship a lot of crap... 200$ * X > 200,000
well well.. you know what.. it's all statistical.. the more people they sue, the more chances they hit that one in a million unknown rising star lawyer. i bet this lawyer will be rich and famous if he pull it off.
its funny when you think about it. computer do evolves really fast. we always hear things like years ago a computer used to take up a huge space. now that i read this, i think i will be able to say to my kids (when i'll have some).. you know.. when daddy was young, we used to have Server Rooms with tones and tones of computers working to getter to crunch numbers, now you little gizmo's is 10time more powerful.
no.. worse... they have a few thousand years ahead of us. both planet's been at war for ages. the SETI signal just put an end to the equilibrium. we disrupted all their equipment and they are coming toward us.
meanwhile, we are wasting our time fighting each other on the ground with no space technology ready.
there is no market because there is no will to sell them. consumer don't really know what they want. average joe wants what everyone wants. its called peer-pressure in early childhood. it just happens to be a human habit. one things the consumer do know is when they get a good deal. more power, more features for the same price. for sure they will pick the non hybrid. but to get full efficiency it doesn't have to be a hybrid neither. bottom line, as long as the consumer can get more for their buck they will buy. and honestly, i am about to buy a hybrid, prices are expected to rise by 25% this summer because of the stupid broken pipes somewhere near Toronto, cutting the supplies for cities near the great lake and onward to the Atlantic. that means no more supplies from Alaska and Alberta. thats half of a week of my paycheck's in gaz per month, almost the same price of my car's monthly payment! OMFG!!!!!! well well hope its just speculations but things are what they are, its not all that bad. I am sure that Mr. Bush has greater plans. War on Iraq can help the gaz increase. thus force the average American to shift toward non petroleum vehicles and free the world from this obsolete source of energy. hehe. anyhow within a few hundred year (say two) mankind will be living in space because we would be evolved enought to be space invaders and steal other civilization's resources. oh well i guess i am tired. just trolling around. bottom line, i hope to see more fuel efficient cars this year, because i am about to change mine :D
Actually, the X Prize is a monopoly breaker, in the space industry no one except NASA was developing space ship, because there is no market for it.
X Prize gave a market, a first initial client of X Million Dollars, this allow a higher ROI on initial years to expands and sell more units.
Same thing goes for the automotive industry, if you belive half of what the movie "who killed the electric car" then you would agree that the current automotive industry has no interest in changing its ways. in a oligopoly if everyone does almost the same thing, no one is pressured to create a more customer appealing product. its cheaper to spend a few million in advertising to make sure sales than spending billions on something that might not sell. (plus extra millions to shift consumers mind)
Actually, GM and FORD are playing catch up because Honda and Toyota broken off the rank and pushed hybrids. And they sell well, given a homeland boost in japan. being a smaller country than the USA it need to be more fuel efficient since it has less bargaining power on economy of scale (and gun power for the purist of the cause).
Anyhow, Automotive X Prize will give the auportunity for smalled researchers to invest upto half of the X Prize to win it. because a 50% ROI is still a good deal even if you don't sell any car. so in essence, the X Prize will allow new competitor to pressure even further the BIG car makers. that would be a few more RIA and Huydai eating up their market share. I mean, still neglectable, but X Prize will span at least 8 commercially viable solution. Thus 5 potential cash cow in the next 50 year to eat up the market.
A) current car maker will try to beat the prize before hand (which is not that far off, they can probably pull it off by 2008) most of them have hybrid car this year, the version two should be vastly enhanced with a few last minutes buck and if they each on their own pay their own X Prize. because in the end its to keep their pie.
B) Some X Prize will win, some Rich Millionnair will grab sponsor as a VC. and within 5 years new brands appears. mind you emerging marketing are starting to have their own local brands, thus the technology to work it up. guess what, this segment of the pie should be fairly big. and a lot of people will be willing to pay for the plants and cash out on a prepaid R&D.
C) the car manufacturer buys the technology and keep it shut or release it slowly. (which should not happen since the war on efficiency has started, Honda made the act of war on during the supper bowl ads, gm is pushing the wave vs the accent and the yaris... the trend is good, but a bit late because we are starting to fell the effect of global warming)
hey i mean its a amazing spring right now, and its gonna snow and frezzing rain again next week. last year there was snow in india. people think for now that global warming means hot temperature, but in reality it means shift of weather pattern. will be sad the day that all of America will be under ice.
well not to say anything... but i agree that firefox is as good if not better than explorer. (especially with skins, makes its amazing) but office still kicks open office's big time, its actually worth the money for a business to use ms office instead of open office. and you know what sales speaks, office 2007 sales is doing much better than vista. :D