Not if your business lacks the necessary fiber to buy a traditional T1.
When I was selling T1s not long ago, there were a number of people "out in the sticks" that would have had to pay the phone company between $3000-8000 to trench and lay fiber for the privledge of buying a T1.
And even then, you're still looking at anywhere from $200-600/mo depending on a number of other factors.
$600/mo for 1.5mbps is a great deal if you're one of the unfortunate businesses.
"this site is not an officially supported site. it is an incubation experiment and doesn't represent any particular strategy or policy. for other incubation experiments, see http://sandbox.msn.com./ enjoy!"
Without telling me how much IE sucks, can anyone out there tell me that these three browsers will render *every* webpage perfectly, and identically to each other?
Honest question, because I've heard people say that other browsers are not 100% perfect either. Granted, IE 7 may not even be 80% perfect, but unless the ACID test is your homepage, is it really THAT big a deal?
I realize this is a bit off-topic, but today I was at Target and saw them selling a PSP version of the movie Kill Bill 2.
Thing is, it was selling for $29.99.
Did their market research really show them that people would be willing to pay thirty bucks for that? Will those things even play in normal DVD players?
Even at Amazon, I see PSP movies priced at $20 and up. What's the logic here?
Visit the site running IE and you get a splash screen from the webmaster saying something like "This site uses CSS and doesn't work with non-compliant browsers like IE. Continue at your own risk or upgrade to a better browser."
Funny thing is, the site looked just fine. *shrug*
Unless you pay, you only appear to get about 5% of the game.
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IE has had a "search bar" for as long as I can remember. You can expose it by hitting the "Search" icon and it will stick to the left of the screen very nicely.
Or, you can just type anything you damn well please into the Address Bar that doesn't look like a website, hit the 'down arrow' and it will search. (And you can even change the default from MSN to Google or anything else with a few extra clicks.)
Or you can type a ? followed by your search string and have it search that way.
How many FireFox features are borrowed from Microsoft, Netscape, Mosaic, Opera, etc?
As for Refresh, you can make those icons bigger, or hit F5 to reload, or Ctrl-F5 to *force* a full reload.
I hadn't really experienced "security" issues before until I installed SimCity 4.
While the program installs into your Program Files directory, the saved games are all in My Documents for the user that installs it. There is no way to change this, regardless of your l33t hacking skillz.
If you want multiple people on your PC to enjoy the game and all share in developing a Region, the only way to do this is to create a "SimCity" user and install the app as that account, and then have people log in as SimCity.
While this doesn't relate to Restricted User Mode, for a user to have to go through that much trouble on what I think would be a standard request, seems absurd.
By "we" you mean the 1% of us who actually like video game music, own Final Fantasy CDs, and maybe even attended the concert. I'm in that crowd.
For the other 99%, there's MTV and their new "video game music" category.
What we should all be doing, instead of complaining about MTV's crap, is asking more geek-oriented stations, magazines, and shows to consider an awards thing.
If I had to guess, the reason there are fewer "child" games on the shelves is the same reason there are fewer "child" movies in theatres.
The fact is that your market of 18-35 year olds is the one that is most likely to spend money on things like video games. Your 18 year olds don't have the money to spend (and parents can only spend so much) and your 35+ give their interests to other things.
While it may be depressing for this author, you can't blame the game industry for realizing their market and going after it.
Many don't know this, but Office 2003 Student/Teacher edition allows you to install it on up-to three PCs in a home or school room.
And, you can pick it up at school book stores for around $125.
Agreed though, I'd love to see a "Family Version" of the OS that maybe lets you have three licenses, even some "Pro-qesue" features like Remote Desktop and trusted security but only for the local network.
And who knows, you could even build that on top of the X-Box 360 and Media Centers and... okay I'll stop.
To me, all this talk about how Apple should port OS X to an Intel box is silly.
Honestly, if I could run Windows XP on a sexy, stable, slim Titanium I would do it.
I couldn't care less about the Apple's operating system, but when it comes to great hardware they seem to know what they're doing very well.
I realize a lot of people out there will disagree -- this is/. afterall -- but I know a lot of die-hard Windows users who wish their laptops were as cool as the ones their Apple friends use.
While the threat of a lawsuit from MS is certainly enough to keep one up at night (and personally I don't think they'd try to sue Vista since they held their name first)... this is great publicity for vista.com.
No one heard of them, and now millions of people might accidentially come across their website or read about them in regards to this potential lawsuit.
Besides, they don't appear to be a software company -- from the looks of their website, they do website hosting and design, ecommerce.
I admit I don't know anything about the X-Box or X-Box Live... but I am looking forward to the 360 as both a gaming platform and a "spare" computer around the house.
It will be nice to casually use when I'm downstairs and the PC is upstairs.. or a spare when a guest is over.. or to play music from my digital collection.. etc.
Looking at the article though, the guy it focuses on seems pretty determined to keep it a console first, and computer second.
For Allard, Xbox 360 is all about gaming. For Microsoft, it's about gaming - and a whole lot more. The big picture isn't 10 million hardcore gamers trash-talking one another over a massively multiplayer version of Halo 3. It's 100 million Middle Americans using Xbox 360 as the linchpin of their Windows-powered digital home.
What's amazing to me is that MegaMan 2 actually had cut scenes and manual artwork that clearly depicted what MegaMan looks like, and even the cartoony aspect of the art.
Not this creepy-looking dude with the hand gun, and psuedo-realistic artwork.
Even today, most offices (we're talking real business offices, not your 1-2 employees office or home office) have hard-wired phones at peoples' cubicles.
Those phones don't require power, just the wire that connects them to the PBX.
With non-PoE VoIP implementations, you need to power the VoIP phone which means a few workstations might need an extra power outlet. This also adds tremendous cost if you want it to work in power outages.
The attraction of PoE is you can power the VoIP phone from the Ethernet link, thus no extra outlet and you get UPS protection (assuming your switch is on a UPS).
Even better, some VoIP phones now offer a built-in two-port Ethernet switch, which means you can plug your computer into the phone for network connectivity without having to run extra wire to every cube.
OMG i just got spammed from bluesecurity.com! We better rush out and DDOS them.
Seriously, what's to stop a spammer from sending spam on behalf of a competitor, and laughing while BlueSecurity shuts down their website?
And who decides what is spam? BlueSecurity employees? A poll of users? A 13 yr old who scripts a bunch of canned messages to "BS" and says Microsoft spammed him?
Spam is Evil, but so is fighting spam *with* Evil.
It will also remind many of us of the Audrey -- 3Com's very clevery attempt at a similar type of device that did a LOT more than chat and still didn't sell.
Granted, their device was around the $300 range (now you can get them for about $50 on eBay), but it had a 640x480 screen and full web browser and contact management which even sync'd to your Palm.
This ZipIt has only a B&W screen, lower resolution than my PDA, and although it may be open source it has a very limited feature-set out of the box. That will change, but how many teenage chatters will figure out how to update the kernel as hacks become available?
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Well yeah, I meant 3D in general.. as opposed to side-scrolling goodness.
Right now there is a marketing guy at Rockstar laughing his ass off.
Why?
Because he just got his company national press and awareness for their new game, for free.
At worst, this will deter a very few number of sales as parents decide not to buy it for their 12 year old.
At best, a few extra thousand young/mid adults now know about the game and are more likely to become customers.
No, you're not.
I got sick of first-person style games about six months after Mario came out on the N64. Because *everything* followed suit.
I was so disappointed with Castlevainia and some of the others that I basically stopped playing action games entirely and stuck to RPGs.
Street Fighter-games don't need to be 3D, neither does Zelda or Mario or Metroid.
I give big props to the Konami/Gradius team who released Gradius 5 as an old-school shoot-em-up.
Not if your business lacks the necessary fiber to buy a traditional T1.
When I was selling T1s not long ago, there were a number of people "out in the sticks" that would have had to pay the phone company between $3000-8000 to trench and lay fiber for the privledge of buying a T1.
And even then, you're still looking at anywhere from $200-600/mo depending on a number of other factors.
$600/mo for 1.5mbps is a great deal if you're one of the unfortunate businesses.
I think the disclaimer says it all:
"this site is not an officially supported site. it is an incubation experiment and doesn't represent any particular strategy or policy. for other incubation experiments, see http://sandbox.msn.com./ enjoy!"
Without telling me how much IE sucks, can anyone out there tell me that these three browsers will render *every* webpage perfectly, and identically to each other?
Honest question, because I've heard people say that other browsers are not 100% perfect either. Granted, IE 7 may not even be 80% perfect, but unless the ACID test is your homepage, is it really THAT big a deal?
I realize this is a bit off-topic, but today I was at Target and saw them selling a PSP version of the movie Kill Bill 2.
Thing is, it was selling for $29.99.
Did their market research really show them that people would be willing to pay thirty bucks for that? Will those things even play in normal DVD players?
Even at Amazon, I see PSP movies priced at $20 and up. What's the logic here?
Visit the site running IE and you get a splash screen from the webmaster saying something like "This site uses CSS and doesn't work with non-compliant browsers like IE. Continue at your own risk or upgrade to a better browser."
Funny thing is, the site looked just fine. *shrug*
Is this some kind of crazy advertising gimmick?
FaitH, mentioned in the article with a screen shot, is only free as a limited version according to the company's website:
http://www.dragonclawstudio.com/faith/upgrade/
Unless you pay, you only appear to get about 5% of the game.
IE has had a "search bar" for as long as I can remember. You can expose it by hitting the "Search" icon and it will stick to the left of the screen very nicely.
Or, you can just type anything you damn well please into the Address Bar that doesn't look like a website, hit the 'down arrow' and it will search. (And you can even change the default from MSN to Google or anything else with a few extra clicks.)
Or you can type a ? followed by your search string and have it search that way.
How many FireFox features are borrowed from Microsoft, Netscape, Mosaic, Opera, etc?
As for Refresh, you can make those icons bigger, or hit F5 to reload, or Ctrl-F5 to *force* a full reload.
I hadn't really experienced "security" issues before until I installed SimCity 4.
While the program installs into your Program Files directory, the saved games are all in My Documents for the user that installs it. There is no way to change this, regardless of your l33t hacking skillz.
If you want multiple people on your PC to enjoy the game and all share in developing a Region, the only way to do this is to create a "SimCity" user and install the app as that account, and then have people log in as SimCity.
While this doesn't relate to Restricted User Mode, for a user to have to go through that much trouble on what I think would be a standard request, seems absurd.
By "we" you mean the 1% of us who actually like video game music, own Final Fantasy CDs, and maybe even attended the concert. I'm in that crowd.
For the other 99%, there's MTV and their new "video game music" category.
What we should all be doing, instead of complaining about MTV's crap, is asking more geek-oriented stations, magazines, and shows to consider an awards thing.
If I had to guess, the reason there are fewer "child" games on the shelves is the same reason there are fewer "child" movies in theatres.
The fact is that your market of 18-35 year olds is the one that is most likely to spend money on things like video games. Your 18 year olds don't have the money to spend (and parents can only spend so much) and your 35+ give their interests to other things.
While it may be depressing for this author, you can't blame the game industry for realizing their market and going after it.
Many don't know this, but Office 2003 Student/Teacher edition allows you to install it on up-to three PCs in a home or school room.
And, you can pick it up at school book stores for around $125.
Agreed though, I'd love to see a "Family Version" of the OS that maybe lets you have three licenses, even some "Pro-qesue" features like Remote Desktop and trusted security but only for the local network.
And who knows, you could even build that on top of the X-Box 360 and Media Centers and... okay I'll stop.
Outlook 2003 does this now with dynamic search folders and it's quite slick.
I have a folder for "emails over 3 megs" that I periodically clean out.
Another folder for "emails from my boss" or "emails that I've red flagged" or whatever.
Doing that with files that I need frequently could be handy.
To me, all this talk about how Apple should port OS X to an Intel box is silly.
/. afterall -- but I know a lot of die-hard Windows users who wish their laptops were as cool as the ones their Apple friends use.
Honestly, if I could run Windows XP on a sexy, stable, slim Titanium I would do it.
I couldn't care less about the Apple's operating system, but when it comes to great hardware they seem to know what they're doing very well.
I realize a lot of people out there will disagree -- this is
What about this glove?
While the threat of a lawsuit from MS is certainly enough to keep one up at night (and personally I don't think they'd try to sue Vista since they held their name first)... this is great publicity for vista.com.
No one heard of them, and now millions of people might accidentially come across their website or read about them in regards to this potential lawsuit.
Besides, they don't appear to be a software company -- from the looks of their website, they do website hosting and design, ecommerce.
I admit I don't know anything about the X-Box or X-Box Live ... but I am looking forward to the 360 as both a gaming platform and a "spare" computer around the house.
It will be nice to casually use when I'm downstairs and the PC is upstairs.. or a spare when a guest is over.. or to play music from my digital collection.. etc.
Looking at the article though, the guy it focuses on seems pretty determined to keep it a console first, and computer second.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.06/xbox.html
From that article:
What's amazing to me is that MegaMan 2 actually had cut scenes and manual artwork that clearly depicted what MegaMan looks like, and even the cartoony aspect of the art.
Not this creepy-looking dude with the hand gun, and psuedo-realistic artwork.
You're entirely right.. but one thing *hasn't* changed:
The site still gets slashdotted.
*sigh*
You obviously haven't been in an office before.
Even today, most offices (we're talking real business offices, not your 1-2 employees office or home office) have hard-wired phones at peoples' cubicles.
Those phones don't require power, just the wire that connects them to the PBX.
With non-PoE VoIP implementations, you need to power the VoIP phone which means a few workstations might need an extra power outlet. This also adds tremendous cost if you want it to work in power outages.
The attraction of PoE is you can power the VoIP phone from the Ethernet link, thus no extra outlet and you get UPS protection (assuming your switch is on a UPS).
Even better, some VoIP phones now offer a built-in two-port Ethernet switch, which means you can plug your computer into the phone for network connectivity without having to run extra wire to every cube.
OMG i just got spammed from bluesecurity.com! We better rush out and DDOS them.
Seriously, what's to stop a spammer from sending spam on behalf of a competitor, and laughing while BlueSecurity shuts down their website?
And who decides what is spam? BlueSecurity employees? A poll of users? A 13 yr old who scripts a bunch of canned messages to "BS" and says Microsoft spammed him?
Spam is Evil, but so is fighting spam *with* Evil.
Seems that this device, which appears to be aimed at a market of teens for chatting, is not ready to be sold for that purpose.
One look at the bug/wish list at http://www.elkgrovewireless.com/zipit will show you that.
It will also remind many of us of the Audrey -- 3Com's very clevery attempt at a similar type of device that did a LOT more than chat and still didn't sell.
Granted, their device was around the $300 range (now you can get them for about $50 on eBay), but it had a 640x480 screen and full web browser and contact management which even sync'd to your Palm.
This ZipIt has only a B&W screen, lower resolution than my PDA, and although it may be open source it has a very limited feature-set out of the box. That will change, but how many teenage chatters will figure out how to update the kernel as hacks become available?