For PC gaming to survive, it must receive acceptance from most family members. So a game that gives endless hours of enjoyment to one person is expensive at $50, but if it entertains 4 people, $50 is actually affordable, and it might even become a household grocery like biscuits or milk that everybody in the house eats or drinks.
Having said all the above, the problem is not the lighting or forgotten bedrooms, it's the interior design of this computer room.
If there's a fridge, a couple of lazyboy sofas and a coffee table in this 'computer gaming' room, i'm sure parents might venture in and stay there watching their kids knocking themselves out. In another word, we need a inviting gaming room.
I have a 'movie' room, which is dark (for projector), a couch and some beverages, and everybody can't wait to go in there.
Why are we trying to create robots that are smart, interactive and intellingent like human? We can't even create a human the way we wanted it, why do we think we can on a machine?
Shouldn't we concentrate on making robots doing the things right, i.e. doing the assigned tasks right, instead of trying to design robots that can decide what are the right things to do.
Based on Microsoft's recently move to compete in search engine, I wonder why it doesn't do more in Hotmail? Does it think it has secured enough user base to ignore new comers?
Oh by the way, if Google has gmail, MS introduce hmail, Apple gives you imail, Sun introduces jmail...:)
It's important to note that MPG has a lot to do with driving style. While my car cannot get 1700 MPG, a bit of predictive driving (i.e. know when to start slowing down, when to build up momentum) will greatly increase the MPG.
In your scenario, a bulk of Mozilla users (the ones that don't download small 2Kb patch, but only full major releases) will be vulnerable to well-known bug too.
If wirelessly beaming songs between iPods is popular, wouldn't Apple develop something to fill the need rather quickly?
Do all these 'Get-Around-Something' companies just try to make a quick profit before the "Real Slim Shady" comes into play? Or do they actually have a bright future?
It's because some browsers (like my Firefox) use google.com to search for the typo, and sure enough, www.microsoft.com is the first link if you search http in google.com.
If you enter "imoou" in the Firefox address field (without anything else, just imoou), you'll get redirected to the first link as if you search the same term in google.com.
As stated in the article's summary, the main problem with most spam-filter is the need for constant maintenance. We need a solution that requires ZERO maintenance by the joe-users, and yet cost-effective enough to implement.
My ISP seems to have a so-called "Watch Dog" spam filter, where they actually hire people to read spams and filter them manually, that's probably the most effective way to filter spam, but I wonder if it is cost-effective though.
The whole thing is about marketing. If you have agreed to mention Blah Inc. during your press conference, but you failed to do so, you'll get sued. And it doesn't matter if you want to also mention Baa Inc., but you must mention Blah Inc.
MLB failed to give RealNetworks such marketing presence, thus gets sued.
It only says "U.S. market", but didn't specify if it's the PC market, or streaming market. So maybe 37% of the others don't have any streaming client installed?
I can't see what's wrong with the lawsuit. RealNetworks has a contract with MLB.
Please note that Real is not asking MLB to only broadcast in Real, as the article stated, "MLB is free to use Microsoft's Windows Media format if it wants, but under the Feb. 8 agreement, it also must use RealNetworks' RealMedia format to provide live coverage of the entire baseball season, including spring training."
As you can tell I don't view porn, but is the Porn Industry doing full content streaming yet?
The advertising industry nowadays wants/tries to do something more than just plain banner ads on the website, but have they found a way to do a full streaming efficiently?
Does it mean that the current business models and laws are flawed? Or that 'other' consumers just have to put up with it until such time that it is legal to obtain the product?
Imagine if you want a Cuban cigar, but you can't get it in Canada, and nobody can sell it to Canada, should you try to smuggler some in, or wait for it to become available in your local friendly shop?
Linux alone has so many distros to try on, while I welcome such variety and swift updates, I also find myself grasping for breath after a couple of such releases.
Yes, unlike most people, I'm still on a 56K dial-up connection.
so sometimes I find myself waiting for so-and-so releases to be available on a magazine CD before I do the 'upgrades', and we're talking about weeks if not months.
I'm wondering if there are others who are in the similar 56K boat like myself, and feel that another group is slowly pulling away from me.
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I think the iPod-madness is getting a bit dated now. Just not long ago we have iPod going almost wireless, with the help of a PocketPC, and now this?
While it is nice to think of something innovative uses on iPod, we must also look at the practicality of such efforts.
Is there a website to record things like that? If not I'm going to start one.
For PC gaming to survive, it must receive acceptance from most family members. So a game that gives endless hours of enjoyment to one person is expensive at $50, but if it entertains 4 people, $50 is actually affordable, and it might even become a household grocery like biscuits or milk that everybody in the house eats or drinks.
Having said all the above, the problem is not the lighting or forgotten bedrooms, it's the interior design of this computer room.
If there's a fridge, a couple of lazyboy sofas and a coffee table in this 'computer gaming' room, i'm sure parents might venture in and stay there watching their kids knocking themselves out. In another word, we need a inviting gaming room.
I have a 'movie' room, which is dark (for projector), a couch and some beverages, and everybody can't wait to go in there.
Why are we trying to create robots that are smart, interactive and intellingent like human? We can't even create a human the way we wanted it, why do we think we can on a machine?
Shouldn't we concentrate on making robots doing the things right, i.e. doing the assigned tasks right, instead of trying to design robots that can decide what are the right things to do.
Based on Microsoft's recently move to compete in search engine, I wonder why it doesn't do more in Hotmail? Does it think it has secured enough user base to ignore new comers?
:)
Oh by the way, if Google has gmail, MS introduce hmail, Apple gives you imail, Sun introduces jmail...
It's important to note that MPG has a lot to do with driving style. While my car cannot get 1700 MPG, a bit of predictive driving (i.e. know when to start slowing down, when to build up momentum) will greatly increase the MPG.
Whois.sc displays screenshot of website homepage at least a couple of months ago.
In your scenario, a bulk of Mozilla users (the ones that don't download small 2Kb patch, but only full major releases) will be vulnerable to well-known bug too.
They're not fast enough until you see spoilers fitted at the back of the bicycles!
Will we start seeing hotspots (intentional or otherwise) allowing iPod users to exchange files?
Imagine a pseudo-P2P service run by hotspots installed (or infected) with the P2P apps......
If wirelessly beaming songs between iPods is popular, wouldn't Apple develop something to fill the need rather quickly?
Do all these 'Get-Around-Something' companies just try to make a quick profit before the "Real Slim Shady" comes into play? Or do they actually have a bright future?
Why don't we just connect iPod to a iBook, which conects to a AirPort? This will keep everything in the same franchise :)
Is it easier to deal with ice than venturing into deep sea? I have read that many interesting creatures are in deep sea where we cannot quite reach.
Either way, I'm equally excited to know that something else we don't know might be within reach, pretty much like others being excited by aliens.
Is it not possible to have a On-Demand update, so if a domain name's DNS has been changed, the owner can trigger an update request.
This might save unnecessary traffics, similar to a hub vs a switch?
It's because some browsers (like my Firefox) use google.com to search for the typo, and sure enough, www.microsoft.com is the first link if you search http in google.com.
If you enter "imoou" in the Firefox address field (without anything else, just imoou), you'll get redirected to the first link as if you search the same term in google.com.
How many people do you know that have hair that has turned grey?
My granparents to start with, then a couple of old folks in the neighbourhood, and Harrison Ford too..
As stated in the article's summary, the main problem with most spam-filter is the need for constant maintenance. We need a solution that requires ZERO maintenance by the joe-users, and yet cost-effective enough to implement.
My ISP seems to have a so-called "Watch Dog" spam filter, where they actually hire people to read spams and filter them manually, that's probably the most effective way to filter spam, but I wonder if it is cost-effective though.
The whole thing is about marketing. If you have agreed to mention Blah Inc. during your press conference, but you failed to do so, you'll get sued. And it doesn't matter if you want to also mention Baa Inc., but you must mention Blah Inc.
MLB failed to give RealNetworks such marketing presence, thus gets sued.
It only says "U.S. market", but didn't specify if it's the PC market, or streaming market. So maybe 37% of the others don't have any streaming client installed?
I can't see what's wrong with the lawsuit. RealNetworks has a contract with MLB.
Please note that Real is not asking MLB to only broadcast in Real, as the article stated, "MLB is free to use Microsoft's Windows Media format if it wants, but under the Feb. 8 agreement, it also must use RealNetworks' RealMedia format to provide live coverage of the entire baseball season, including spring training."
So how do you think the market will react if we are spoilt with choice between Microsoft product and Linux products, all free of charge?
Most of us here would choose Linux any day not because of the price, but the freedom and security. But how would the mass consumers think of it?
With MS's cash reserve, they could very soon use such tactics, like they have a cheaper version of Windows for pirate-infested countries.
As you can tell I don't view porn, but is the Porn Industry doing full content streaming yet?
:)
The advertising industry nowadays wants/tries to do something more than just plain banner ads on the website, but have they found a way to do a full streaming efficiently?
IS PORN TECH THE ANSWER?
Does it mean that the current business models and laws are flawed? Or that 'other' consumers just have to put up with it until such time that it is legal to obtain the product?
Imagine if you want a Cuban cigar, but you can't get it in Canada, and nobody can sell it to Canada, should you try to smuggler some in, or wait for it to become available in your local friendly shop?
Linux alone has so many distros to try on, while I welcome such variety and swift updates, I also find myself grasping for breath after a couple of such releases.
Yes, unlike most people, I'm still on a 56K dial-up connection.
so sometimes I find myself waiting for so-and-so releases to be available on a magazine CD before I do the 'upgrades', and we're talking about weeks if not months.
I'm wondering if there are others who are in the similar 56K boat like myself, and feel that another group is slowly pulling away from me.
The patents *might* be in all digital cameras, however it's always more profitable to target the biggest corporation first.
Yeah, my point wasn't about using Google to search for them, but using Google's technology.
I did a search for "a" on Google, and Results 1 - 10 of about 3,370,000,000. Search took 0.14 seconds . Does US have that many people?