Seems like the natural stepping stone...
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If MS wants to have Windows Media Center infiltrate the living rooms of America, this is a logical step. It also follows that they want to get their DRM involved at this side of things, both for encoding saved shows, and if there are Windows Media decoders at the set-top, perhaps on the production/encoding side of the cable.
Restructuring seems to be the way Boards of Directors justifies layoffs, blaming the placement of the "walls" for poor performance, rather than looking at lacking innovation, morale, and business savvy.
Besides the already-commented-about possibility of selling off parts, in this day and age the notion of dividing up divisions of a company differently just seems to fly in the face of the path of the enlightened employer of the 21st century.
By segmenting into distinct groups, you facilitate the blame game and hamper communication. This kind of restructuring certainly isn't what you do to revitalize.
You've surely heard of the CD replication facilities, particularly in the Far East, which pump out tens of thousands of copies of CDs which they haven't licensed the rights to...
Physical CD piracy is the selling of unlicensed duplicated CDs... like the guy selling CDs from a table on the street for $5.
Every "iPod killer" has ended up in a ditch at the side of the road. Incremental feature advances just aren't going to do it. The iPod family are a de facto standard, and while some people might get individually excited about another player, whether a Rio, Creative, or Sony, the fact that everything is being compared to the iPod means that Apple is the one who sets the tone, sets the mindshare standard, and racks up the sales.
Something would have to have twice the features at half the price with considerably more 'style' to "kill" the iPod. Everything out there now maxxes out at kicking iPod's shins.
A wet sponge would make for a more effective killing machine, a dry sponge (at least as presented theatrically in The Green Mile) makes it less efficient at killing, so there's a lot more pain/torture.
Every product meets up with delays in getting it to market, particularly technically complex products... if you allow more pre-orders than you can full, then - particularly in litigous societies - aren't you opening yourself up for allegations and possibly lawsuits of misrepresentation or fraud?
Hell hath no fury like a mother who's pissed off that the toy she already paid for won't be available until after Christmas.
I dunno about you, but phones (cellular, cordless, and home) seem to have really gone down in audio quality, at least from the microphone end. I don't know if it's because there's only a tiny hole somewhere up by your cheek with a 12 cent asstastic piezo mic... but while call quality may be on the rise, phone mic quality seems to be in the shitter.
Michael Powell: You've got to jam the Sirius satellites, Scotty, Howard Stern is corrupting the youth of America! Scotty: I'm givin' er all she's got, Chairman...
Airport Express is a wireless repeater, but it says it only works with AirPort APs to extend the network. Is there something similar, perhaps, for non-Apple networks?
Re:Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life?
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That and about having their kids out after dark, and going to strangers' doors.
Hasn't Halloween passed its useful life?
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With all the paranoia about kids trick-or-treating, and parents taking kids door-to-door while it's still light out (before people are home from work) it just seems like Halloween has become a dud.
Yes, that was a joke.
Though if.eu is meant to represent the European Union, there would once again the case where French and English acronyms are opposite - l'Union Europeen.
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If MS wants to have Windows Media Center infiltrate the living rooms of America, this is a logical step. It also follows that they want to get their DRM involved at this side of things, both for encoding saved shows, and if there are Windows Media decoders at the set-top, perhaps on the production/encoding side of the cable.
Unlike a movie, where someone can spoil it for you... what's the big deal?
Restructuring seems to be the way Boards of Directors justifies layoffs, blaming the placement of the "walls" for poor performance, rather than looking at lacking innovation, morale, and business savvy.
Besides the already-commented-about possibility of selling off parts, in this day and age the notion of dividing up divisions of a company differently just seems to fly in the face of the path of the enlightened employer of the 21st century.
By segmenting into distinct groups, you facilitate the blame game and hamper communication. This kind of restructuring certainly isn't what you do to revitalize.
You've surely heard of the CD replication facilities, particularly in the Far East, which pump out tens of thousands of copies of CDs which they haven't licensed the rights to...
Physical CD piracy is the selling of unlicensed duplicated CDs... like the guy selling CDs from a table on the street for $5.
Sorry, but your analogy is entirely irrelevant. People aren't repeatedly going around calling Macs "PC Killers".
Every "iPod killer" has ended up in a ditch at the side of the road. Incremental feature advances just aren't going to do it. The iPod family are a de facto standard, and while some people might get individually excited about another player, whether a Rio, Creative, or Sony, the fact that everything is being compared to the iPod means that Apple is the one who sets the tone, sets the mindshare standard, and racks up the sales.
Something would have to have twice the features at half the price with considerably more 'style' to "kill" the iPod. Everything out there now maxxes out at kicking iPod's shins.
Given the tasks that the average /. reader would actually be trying to run on a Beowulf cluster, there would be no loss of efficiency. :)
A wet sponge would make for a more effective killing machine, a dry sponge (at least as presented theatrically in The Green Mile) makes it less efficient at killing, so there's a lot more pain/torture.
I was about to say that dry lawyer is redundant, but there are too many that are like runny shit.
With a dry sponge, a la Green Mile?
*sigh* some people...
What makes you think it's a marketing campaign?
Every product meets up with delays in getting it to market, particularly technically complex products... if you allow more pre-orders than you can full, then - particularly in litigous societies - aren't you opening yourself up for allegations and possibly lawsuits of misrepresentation or fraud?
Hell hath no fury like a mother who's pissed off that the toy she already paid for won't be available until after Christmas.
I dunno about you, but phones (cellular, cordless, and home) seem to have really gone down in audio quality, at least from the microphone end. I don't know if it's because there's only a tiny hole somewhere up by your cheek with a 12 cent asstastic piezo mic... but while call quality may be on the rise, phone mic quality seems to be in the shitter.
Whoda thunk it?
Pardon my ignorance...
What do you get from hacked firmware on a burner?
overburn type stuff?
Michael Powell: You've got to jam the Sirius satellites, Scotty, Howard Stern is corrupting the youth of America!
Scotty: I'm givin' er all she's got, Chairman...
But after I vote for Kerry, I'm going home to beat off to some good porn to celebrate a vote against Ashcroft.
Airport Express is a wireless repeater, but it says it only works with AirPort APs to extend the network. Is there something similar, perhaps, for non-Apple networks?
That and about having their kids out after dark, and going to strangers' doors.
With all the paranoia about kids trick-or-treating, and parents taking kids door-to-door while it's still light out (before people are home from work) it just seems like Halloween has become a dud.
Love in an elevator... livin' it up while I'm goin' down...
1. Collect dot.com business plans 2. ??? 3. PROFIT!!!!!
Does Notes provide better CoverYourAss?
Yes, that was a joke. Though if .eu is meant to represent the European Union, there would once again the case where French and English acronyms are opposite - l'Union Europeen.
I'll send you a fake cheque, you send me lots and lots of pot.