>>So, what's next for the telecom industry? The electric utilities start selling broadband over electric lines. Joe sixpack discovers voip. Media company's start bypassing the cable networks and sell thieir products directly to the customer over broadband (The rest of us use bittorent:D ).
The telecom industry dies off.
Ultimately, it comes down this: Q. How many wires do you ABSOLUTELY need running to your house? A. For most people it is one - electricity.
[Rant]Galactica is my favorite SciFi MINI series so far. I do not understand why they are trying to make this into a space SOAP opera.
It probably comes down to money, but why don't they start on another brilliant script instead of dragging this out through gwad knows how many sesons.[/Rant]
>>It gets me wondering why consumer is willing to pay $4999 for a Plasma TV that has a specific (say 20,000 hours) lifespan, but can't stand paying a $49 software that has an expiry date.
Would you pay $10 for a t-shirt you *could not* use after a year? A customer is willing to pay $4999 for a plasma tv that will last 20,000 hous because it could just as well last 21,000 hours or 22,000 hours. The makers of plasma TV's aren't sabotaging their products.
Why are they using GPL'd software in the military. All the enemy has to do is ask for a copy of the source code (which they are oblidged to produce undr the GPL).
Granted that this may not apply to the non GPL'ed utilities, but it still opens up the base OS for hacking/Cracking....
I downloaded and installed Mandrake 10.1 a couple of weeks ago. It took me a whole week to get it functional. Firstly, the default music player amaroK kept crashing. I then installed xmms (a painful experience in itself), it too kept crashing. Finally I updated the latest version of Taglib and now things are ok.
This was just to play my mp3 collection, I had other problems that I am not going to go into.
Linux is great and now that I have a functioning box, I really enjoy it, but it isn't grandmother proof. They need to come up with a standardized and easy (and free) way to install and update software.
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>>So, what's next for the telecom industry? :D ).
The electric utilities start selling broadband over electric lines. Joe sixpack discovers voip. Media company's start bypassing the cable networks and sell thieir products directly to the customer over broadband (The rest of us use bittorent
The telecom industry dies off.
Ultimately, it comes down this:
Q. How many wires do you ABSOLUTELY need running to your house?
A. For most people it is one - electricity.
[Rant]Galactica is my favorite SciFi MINI series so far. I do not understand why they are trying to make this into a space SOAP opera.
It probably comes down to money, but why don't they start on another brilliant script instead of dragging this out through gwad knows how many sesons.[/Rant]
>>It gets me wondering why consumer is willing to pay $4999 for a Plasma TV that has a specific (say 20,000 hours) lifespan, but can't stand paying a $49 software that has an expiry date.
Would you pay $10 for a t-shirt you *could not* use after a year?
A customer is willing to pay $4999 for a plasma tv that will last 20,000 hous because it could just as well last 21,000 hours or 22,000 hours. The makers of plasma TV's aren't sabotaging their products.
Kinda like a B grade Scifi movie, release a disease and charge money for the cure.
Why are they using GPL'd software in the military. All the enemy has to do is ask for a copy of the source code (which they are oblidged to produce undr the GPL).
Granted that this may not apply to the non GPL'ed utilities, but it still opens up the base OS for hacking/Cracking....
I downloaded and installed Mandrake 10.1 a couple of weeks ago. It took me a whole week to get it functional.
Firstly, the default music player amaroK kept crashing. I then installed xmms (a painful experience in itself), it too kept crashing. Finally I updated the latest version of Taglib and now things are ok.
This was just to play my mp3 collection, I had other problems that I am not going to go into.
Linux is great and now that I have a functioning box, I really enjoy it, but it isn't grandmother proof. They need to come up with a standardized and easy (and free) way to install and update software.
Eventually these desktop searches will become glorified adware at best and spyware at worst.
Ad-Aware should advertise on Gator...