It also about supply, IBM was bad enough making enough processors for Apple. AMD is a lot smaller than either Intel or IBM... They would be betting their future on a company on the ability for AMD to fill their demand. I don't think it was a risk they were willing to take.
It the whole razor / razor blade model all over again. Or how about the HP model of selling a printer a cost and then charging you out the a$$ for ink or toner.
Console manufactures are trying to seed the demand curve. There is no demand if there are no console out there, remember NeoGeo? So if you price the console low enough, the demand will go up hence the demand for games with increase as well but at a larger factor than the console demand. Because who only buys one game for a console?
I can now read./ without fear. If someone peeks at my screen, I just tell them my Windows machine is rebooting due to a security update / spyware fix... It a great excuse and can work multiple times a day, every day.
Set up playlists of arbitrary programs, i.e. 'show me season two of Buffy'.
The problem is your example will never happen. The content owners which in Buffy's case is Twentieth Century Fox, will each have their own licening agreements. A given provider will have deals with 4 or 5 owners and another provider will a have different 4 or 5 with minor overlap.
Just like you cannot go to a single site and download all the music of your choice, there will not be a universal library of TV or movies unless the whole industry changes it approach. Which is very unlikly given attempts like the broadcast flag. You would think the Battlestar Galactic story would change minds...
I still have a few sites that are found of their ActiveX controls. I find that the controls display just fine but when you try to use their events, things go south.
It was nice and unexpected to see that MSDN now works fairly well with Firefox... I wonder who made the change??
Maybe when George heads to that big ranch in the sky, someone can make the Zhan books into VII - IX.
TV is such a natural place to go, I mean the Holiday Special proved that Star Wars does great on the small screen...
I wonder if Bea Arthur is around to reprise her role...
Yeah, but look on the bright side, obesity rates throughout this group would drop dramatically when they had to leave the trailer park to find other sources of entertainment...
But in all reality, over 75% percent of homes in the US have access some type of advanced wired access (satellite, cable, broadband). [source NTCA] And thanks to the 1992 Cable Act, you can get "lifeline" cable for an average of $16.82 a month across the States. Many public assistance programs will now cover the cost of this access in their utilities compensation.
Cable could still provide an analog signal for the people who cannot afford to upgrade and in the meantime the majority of the country will get a needed upgrade.
Man... Can't believe some beat me to the Mansquito joke.
In all seriousness, I would like to see HHGTG get the same treatment SciFi gave Dune and may the people who butchered EarthSea pay for their crimes against humanity...
Did you try Gimp Print, it works for most USB printers. It works for my Lexamrk laser printer but not my HP inkjet, so YMMV...
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
Here's a great overview of WinFS at Tom's Hardware:
http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/
Too bad it will not ship with Longhorn... Not to mention I'm sure the relational database will work like Master File Table of NTFS. or not work like the MFT in NTFS...
Microsoft has remained the dominate player in both the server OS market and the desktop OS market. With technologies like LAMP becoming popular in Internet development, many of the server applications becoming commoditized due to open-source projects, and many enterprises concerned with security of Windows, is the strategy remaining the same? Many of the exciting NOS features of Longhorn will be delayed, there has been the creation of a low-cost desktop Windows, and the promised features for R2 Windows Server 2003 update have slipped; all this seems to show a shift. Is Microsoft circling the wagons around the desktop? Is the desktop dominance more important?
Did everyone forget that Lucas almost stole the plot of Star Wars from Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress?"
In The Hidden Fortress, a short cheerful guy and a tall fussy guy escort a haughty princess and a warrior to an impregnable fortress. The princess gets her comeuppance and learns to relate to the common people, while the warrior engages in a saber duel with a former friend. Lucas is quoted as saying it more of an Homage to the Hidden Fortress but watch them back to back some time. There are patys where even the music and the style of "wipe" cuts are close to identical to the Hidden Fortress.
Anyway, I love them both but it's impossible to capture the magic of the first two films, even Jedi failed. Originality is not Lucas's strong suit and had he used outside help like Zahn to help him craft the story, we might be seeing Star Wars at the Acadamy Awards instead of Lord of the Rings... JMHO
Having been a hiring manager of a small company, hiring a lot (30 or more) of tech people, the Internet job board saved money over recruiting fees most times. I found it paid to have one account at one of the top 3 boards, (I would have to say not Monster being the most expensive), would generate good leads. However, sifting through the 200 non-qualified people was a real pain to find the two or three you wanted to call back.
Anyway, I am now one of the unemployed and have tried all the job boards, even some pay ones, responded to about 50 different postings and 99% of them are black holes. No repsonse...
So to save my time I created a job meta-search engine and now I sell subscription to it for $6 bucks a month. I have a few hundred subscribers and sold it branded to a local college. Doesn't pay the bills yet, but keeps me from draining all my savings. The irony is I get a couple emails a week of people finding jobs with my product, but alas, I still have not...
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It also about supply, IBM was bad enough making enough processors for Apple. AMD is a lot smaller than either Intel or IBM... They would be betting their future on a company on the ability for AMD to fill their demand. I don't think it was a risk they were willing to take.
It the whole razor / razor blade model all over again. Or how about the HP model of selling a printer a cost and then charging you out the a$$ for ink or toner. Console manufactures are trying to seed the demand curve. There is no demand if there are no console out there, remember NeoGeo? So if you price the console low enough, the demand will go up hence the demand for games with increase as well but at a larger factor than the console demand. Because who only buys one game for a console?
As long as the music will play out speakers or headphones there will be the "analog hole." You will always be able to pirate music...
I can now read ./ without fear. If someone peeks at my screen, I just tell them my Windows machine is rebooting due to a security update / spyware fix... It a great excuse and can work multiple times a day, every day.
Anyone want to take this bet? Please?? I agree more with Cringely in his article here about Google place in the market: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050512. html
Set up playlists of arbitrary programs, i.e. 'show me season two of Buffy'.
The problem is your example will never happen. The content owners which in Buffy's case is Twentieth Century Fox, will each have their own licening agreements. A given provider will have deals with 4 or 5 owners and another provider will a have different 4 or 5 with minor overlap.
Just like you cannot go to a single site and download all the music of your choice, there will not be a universal library of TV or movies unless the whole industry changes it approach. Which is very unlikly given attempts like the broadcast flag. You would think the Battlestar Galactic story would change minds...
I still have a few sites that are found of their ActiveX controls. I find that the controls display just fine but when you try to use their events, things go south. It was nice and unexpected to see that MSDN now works fairly well with Firefox... I wonder who made the change??
"Meesa so happy that Ani, ummm, Kevin liking the Sith! Meesa on the next shuttle to Alderaan..."
Yeah but its a theme with Transparency... Looks like X crossed with Aqua...
It's really unlike MS to skew things towards their products... I'm sure it's a mistake or a "Linux Zealots" distorting the facts...
Maybe when George heads to that big ranch in the sky, someone can make the Zhan books into VII - IX.
TV is such a natural place to go, I mean the Holiday Special proved that Star Wars does great on the small screen...
I wonder if Bea Arthur is around to reprise her role...
Yeah, but look on the bright side, obesity rates throughout this group would drop dramatically when they had to leave the trailer park to find other sources of entertainment... But in all reality, over 75% percent of homes in the US have access some type of advanced wired access (satellite, cable, broadband). [source NTCA] And thanks to the 1992 Cable Act, you can get "lifeline" cable for an average of $16.82 a month across the States. Many public assistance programs will now cover the cost of this access in their utilities compensation. Cable could still provide an analog signal for the people who cannot afford to upgrade and in the meantime the majority of the country will get a needed upgrade.
Man... Can't believe some beat me to the Mansquito joke. In all seriousness, I would like to see HHGTG get the same treatment SciFi gave Dune and may the people who butchered EarthSea pay for their crimes against humanity...
Did you try Gimp Print, it works for most USB printers. It works for my Lexamrk laser printer but not my HP inkjet, so YMMV... http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
Here's a great overview of WinFS at Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/
Too bad it will not ship with Longhorn... Not to mention I'm sure the relational database will work like Master File Table of NTFS. or not work like the MFT in NTFS...
Microsoft has remained the dominate player in both the server OS market and the desktop OS market. With technologies like LAMP becoming popular in Internet development, many of the server applications becoming commoditized due to open-source projects, and many enterprises concerned with security of Windows, is the strategy remaining the same? Many of the exciting NOS features of Longhorn will be delayed, there has been the creation of a low-cost desktop Windows, and the promised features for R2 Windows Server 2003 update have slipped; all this seems to show a shift. Is Microsoft circling the wagons around the desktop? Is the desktop dominance more important?
Did everyone forget that Lucas almost stole the plot of Star Wars from Akira Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress?" In The Hidden Fortress, a short cheerful guy and a tall fussy guy escort a haughty princess and a warrior to an impregnable fortress. The princess gets her comeuppance and learns to relate to the common people, while the warrior engages in a saber duel with a former friend. Lucas is quoted as saying it more of an Homage to the Hidden Fortress but watch them back to back some time. There are patys where even the music and the style of "wipe" cuts are close to identical to the Hidden Fortress. Anyway, I love them both but it's impossible to capture the magic of the first two films, even Jedi failed. Originality is not Lucas's strong suit and had he used outside help like Zahn to help him craft the story, we might be seeing Star Wars at the Acadamy Awards instead of Lord of the Rings... JMHO
Having been a hiring manager of a small company, hiring a lot (30 or more) of tech people, the Internet job board saved money over recruiting fees most times. I found it paid to have one account at one of the top 3 boards, (I would have to say not Monster being the most expensive), would generate good leads. However, sifting through the 200 non-qualified people was a real pain to find the two or three you wanted to call back.
Anyway, I am now one of the unemployed and have tried all the job boards, even some pay ones, responded to about 50 different postings and 99% of them are black holes. No repsonse...
So to save my time I created a job meta-search engine and now I sell subscription to it for $6 bucks a month. I have a few hundred subscribers and sold it branded to a local college. Doesn't pay the bills yet, but keeps me from draining all my savings. The irony is I get a couple emails a week of people finding jobs with my product, but alas, I still have not...
If you want to check it out, please do... http://www.careerfish.com
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