The second page of the story is 12 bullet points and the following paragraph which is hardly controversial:
He also accused Intel of killing the PC games market
with its integrated graphics laptops and desktops.
"Intel is evil, we need to kick its ass....
The difference in price in offering better graphics
chips is negligible. You couldn't buy a meal for
that price [difference]. We're talking five bucks."
make almost anything a succes by just marketing a product down peoples throat
Actually if it's a consumer product that depend on repeat purchases, you drastically shorten the product lifecycle when extra-heavy marketing is applied to inferior goods.
When I called Dell to request new motherboards (since the machines were under warranty) they promptly told me that they could not replace motherboards.
If it was a low-end unit with Dell's 12 month (or 90 day!) basic warranty, it is unfortunate if those people paid extra to extend the coverage by a few more years at the time of purchase. Who knows better than a manufacturer -- when it comes to how long machines last before the breakdown rate starts ramping up?
Likewise, if a consumer buys a Western Digital hard drive with a standard 1 year warranty, they should not think that sending in the enclosed $18 insurance policy for two extra years of 'protection' means that their disk was manufactured to last three years in the first place.
Dell marketing only understands that selling warranties equals "profit margin"
the balance is being pushed in favour of consumers instead of the other way.
Give the punters some credit on this one -- it is a rope that is pulled by consumer demand, not a rope that can be pushed by business to placate anyone.
You know the rope is almost being pulled hard enough when you start hearing about how it is consumers who foot the cost of change, not businesses!
Proprietary formats have kept them in business for many years -- why change now?
More money. Microsoft's driving force. Change gets folks to upgrade that Office Suite cash cow.
People bought Office95 and ran it for 3 years on one machine, and then put it on the replacment for that computer for another 3 years. Same with Office '97 and Office 2000 lasting for six years... and $149 for Small Office Edition works out to be less than fifty cents a week for Microsoft.
Time to change document creation -- to a new distribution model like the antivirus publishers did.
A few years ago, that wouldn't even be illegal most places.
Twenty years ago in Texas, open-container law merely meant that a passenger could pour wine into her glass, while the driver could pour a beer into his open mouth.
After Sept 1st of 1986 you could fool cops with a 16oz beer coozie shaped like this
little phone
late 80's and early 90's, PC games were in the $30-40 range, most in the $30 range. They'd drop to $19.99 after a year.
At that time, it also "made sense" to spend $30 on that Amiga500 or AtariST game that was nearly as good as its arcade counterpart which was taking $30 a month in quarters out of your pocket.
to fully prodcue one Pentium 4 processor at 90um costs them about 24 bucks
If the new Intel chips in the $150-$300 range really were so monumentally better than the existing line, they'd drop the Celerons and continue making the 2.8-3.4GHz P4s as their entry level.
However, the new Intel is going to try increasing market share by focusing more on better marketing than just better engineering.
they can REMOVE the PS2 hardware from the PS3, THAT would make the price come down.
Maybe Sony can REMOVE BluRay initially for a $399 model with no optical technology. A few months later
a person could buy an external drive for, say, a fifty dollar penalty over the top tier. Think of it as an installment
purchase plan... you can still be the first on your block and have one at midnight the very day they go on sale!
Folks who are complaining about their ABSOLUTE speed seem to forget that tier levels work in *both* directions.
Why expect "X% faster while paying Y% more" to bump up a tier, but when you drop a tier you act all surprised with
100X/(100+X) percent slower, for 100Y/(100+Y) percent less? Real slowly now, "You pay less, you get less."
eg., 200% faster for 150% more in one direction, becomes 66% slower for 60% less, in the other direction.
--
Real numbers instead of a formula, for the math-challenged:
60% faster for 25% more (2500 for $40 becomes 4000 for $50)
37.5% slower for 20% less (4000 for $50 back to 2500 for $40)
an article about Vista brought up a mini-advert for Sun.
Sun has money for ads, but are now laying off 5000 workers? That's over 13% of their workforce.
I guess I'll be purchasing 13% less SUN servers next quarter to help them maintain...
Every month I manually grab Windows 2000 patches, the XP patches for SP1 and then for SP2.
It isn't particularly convenient this way, but takes 5 minutes and you only download each once.
This is facilitated by a link off of the homepage of one of the largest usergroups , HAL-PC.org Critical Updates
When Microsoft goes !Live! with just Windows web Update... Voila, it's not a patch anymore.
Microsoft steals the lucrative business of fixing Microsofts mistakes.
Look back to a year after Windows 3.1 and you see Microsoft putting out DOS 6.x with competitors' applications.
(the fifth version of anything is usually when it jumps the shark, anyway)
MSAV was a crude antivirus, MEMMAKER was a crummy QEMM, and DOUBLESPACE was a crappy Stacker.
But nobody said you ever had to produce a better product (as long as its copied and free) to kill the competition.
* "MS-DOS 6.0 had been released
following competition from Digital Research"
Most of the spam does advertise something so fight the seller, not the spammer.
The world does not completely operate based on the overly simplistic profit-motive-is-everything assumption.
Sometimes 100,000 motivated people can do more than a few people with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"The innovative approach in the fight
against spam caught the attention of
investors in 2004 when Blue Security
received more than $4 million in
venture capital"
A commercial effort will quit when there isn't enough money to be made. A grass-roots effort ends when the
problem goes away or little interest remains. Spam hasn't gone away, and most people are still pissed about it.
There are low-cost solutions from sufficiently organized/motivated consumers. Pay with money or with effort.
McAfee and Norton are working on it as we speak. As soon as they can put together something more fearful
McAfee sales and marketing are always hard at work compared to their development team.
Except for NAI's website, I had damn near forgotten what dire popup warnings look like.
The mandatory ads (that you must accept to update some of their subscription products)
are nauseating since you see the same ones every time. Paying customers deserve better.
You don't save money with subscriptions... product gets disabled if you don't sign in...
while they force you to view bogus interruptions like "your system may be infected!"
And McAfee would like to make consumers think that cookies are worse than the kind
Hansel and Gretel got from the mean old witch who poisoned them.
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I'd say any time there's over 27 brazilian simultaneous users.
He also accused Intel of killing the PC games market ...
with its integrated graphics laptops and desktops.
"Intel is evil, we need to kick its ass.
The difference in price in offering better graphics
chips is negligible. You couldn't buy a meal for
that price [difference]. We're talking five bucks."
Actually if it's a consumer product that depend on repeat purchases, you drastically shorten the product lifecycle when extra-heavy marketing is applied to inferior goods.
If it was a low-end unit with Dell's 12 month (or 90 day!) basic warranty, it is unfortunate if those people paid extra to extend the coverage by a few more years at the time of purchase. Who knows better than a manufacturer -- when it comes to how long machines last before the breakdown rate starts ramping up?
Likewise, if a consumer buys a Western Digital hard drive with a standard 1 year warranty, they should not think that sending in the enclosed $18 insurance policy for two extra years of 'protection' means that their disk was manufactured to last three years in the first place.
Dell marketing only understands that selling warranties equals "profit margin"
Give the punters some credit on this one -- it is a rope that is pulled by consumer demand, not a rope that can be pushed by business to placate anyone.
You know the rope is almost being pulled hard enough when you start hearing about how it is consumers who foot the cost of change, not businesses!
Itasca IL, 10 Oct 2006
Preliminary Q3 results for Office Max Inc. (formerly Boise Cascade Corp)
show same store sales down 3% -- although profits and volumes on target.
Baffled analysts are investigating recent complicated bookkeeping changes.
The company reiterates that every other single sales measure has improved.
More money. Microsoft's driving force. Change gets folks to upgrade that Office Suite cash cow.
People bought Office95 and ran it for 3 years on one machine, and then put it on the replacment for that computer for another 3 years. Same with Office '97 and Office 2000 lasting for six years ... and $149 for Small Office Edition works out to be less than fifty cents a week for Microsoft.
Time to change document creation -- to a new distribution model like the antivirus publishers did.
Twenty years ago in Texas, open-container law merely meant that a passenger could pour wine into her glass, while the driver could pour a beer into his open mouth.
After Sept 1st of 1986 you could fool cops with a 16oz beer coozie shaped like this little phone
At that time, it also "made sense" to spend $30 on that Amiga500 or AtariST game that was nearly as good as its arcade counterpart which was taking $30 a month in quarters out of your pocket.
KitchenAid -- The last pan you'll ever buy!
HandyKlean -- The last mop you'll ever buy!
Windows XP -- The last O/S you'll ever buy!
NEVER! You are forgetting the modified slogan for the most hardcore of Slashdot users:
"The nuts and dolts of IT"
If the new Intel chips in the $150-$300 range really were so monumentally better than the existing line, they'd drop the Celerons and continue making the 2.8-3.4GHz P4s as their entry level.
However, the new Intel is going to try increasing market share by focusing more on better marketing than just better engineering.
Maybe Sony can REMOVE BluRay initially for a $399 model with no optical technology. A few months later ... you can still be the first on your block and have one at midnight the very day they go on sale!
a person could buy an external drive for, say, a fifty dollar penalty over the top tier. Think of it as an installment
purchase plan
WindowsCE/Mobile at version 5 is just barely ready-for-primetime...
and it's only v5 because Marketing needed something new every year.
--
New rule:
Wait until even number Microsoft
releases that are divisible by seven
Why expect "X% faster while paying Y% more" to bump up a tier, but when you drop a tier you act all surprised with
100X/(100+X) percent slower, for 100Y/(100+Y) percent less? Real slowly now, "You pay less, you get less."
eg., 200% faster for 150% more in one direction, becomes 66% slower for 60% less, in the other direction.
--
Real numbers instead of a formula, for the math-challenged:
60% faster for 25% more (2500 for $40 becomes 4000 for $50)
37.5% slower for 20% less (4000 for $50 back to 2500 for $40)
'Windows firewall recognized Windows Media Player and created a
a Windows Defender rule to allow it to access Windows Internet'
--
The Firewall recognized "Microsoft DRM utility"
and has allowed it to access the RIAA website.
of your products being "tried and true" and improving over time ?
So is the new mantra going to be, 'Security through Immaturity' ?
Is the underlying foundation of WindowsNT so shaky that Microsoft
had to just throw up their hands and flatout give up?
Does anybody wonder if they are protecting users or market share?
Sun has money for ads, but are now laying off 5000 workers? That's over 13% of their workforce.
I guess I'll be purchasing 13% less SUN servers next quarter to help them maintain...
It's a good thing that Redmond isn't in South Dakota
It isn't particularly convenient this way, but takes 5 minutes and you only download each once.
This is facilitated by a link off of the homepage of one of the largest usergroups , HAL-PC.org
Critical Updates
When Microsoft goes !Live! with just Windows web Update ... Voila, it's not a patch anymore.
Look back to a year after Windows 3.1 and you see Microsoft putting out DOS 6.x with competitors' applications.
(the fifth version of anything is usually when it jumps the shark, anyway)
MSAV was a crude antivirus, MEMMAKER was a crummy QEMM, and DOUBLESPACE was a crappy Stacker.
But nobody said you ever had to produce a better product (as long as its copied and free) to kill the competition.
* "MS-DOS 6.0 had been released following competition from Digital Research"
The world does not completely operate based on the overly simplistic profit-motive-is-everything assumption.
Sometimes 100,000 motivated people can do more than a few people with hundreds of thousands of dollars.
"The innovative approach in the fight
against spam caught the attention of
investors in 2004 when Blue Security
received more than $4 million in
venture capital"
A commercial effort will quit when there isn't enough money to be made. A grass-roots effort ends when the
problem goes away or little interest remains. Spam hasn't gone away, and most people are still pissed about it.
There are low-cost solutions from sufficiently organized/motivated consumers. Pay with money or with effort.
Yes, there is no new bogeyman so that 2006 is suddenly different than 2001 or 1999. MacWorld should know better than to state it as such.
How about giving away the console with the purchase of the first game -- "Buy a Wii get one Free"
If Nintendo sells a base unit for $59, they can lose just as much as Microsoft does, for each one sold!
McAfee sales and marketing are always hard at work compared to their development team.
Except for NAI's website, I had damn near forgotten what dire popup warnings look like.
The mandatory ads (that you must accept to update some of their subscription products)
are nauseating since you see the same ones every time. Paying customers deserve better.
You don't save money with subscriptions ... product gets disabled if you don't sign in ...
while they force you to view bogus interruptions like "your system may be infected!"
And McAfee would like to make consumers think that cookies are worse than the kind
Hansel and Gretel got from the mean old witch who poisoned them.