My start page is my.yahoo.com. I still use their e-mail service as my primary e-mail, and their finance content is second to none. For other contents, I have RSS feeds on the start page which allows me to satisfy majority of my information browsing needs without ever leaving the page.
I have tried iGoogle and Google finance in the past and wasn't impressed. Facebook? I guess I'm no longer a teenager without tons of free time.
Besides, I didn't realize there was an "incorrect" way to use Internet.
so you do admit that there's a difference between a web browser and a p2p software. otherwise, you'd be saying bittorent inside the opera is just pointless redundant feature.
so what's the percentage of those legitimate p2p uses?
i'm pretty sure the game companies can come up with p2p functions inside their games that'll allow patching but will still be called a game and not a p2p software.
The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983
It doesn't mean that people started using TCP/IP in 1983. I think the 1983 marks the year AT&T had come out with its packet switching network service, making it the first year the Internet became widely available. TCP/IP had been in use for more than 10 years by then.
I agree wholeheartedly! Not only music, but software too! $280 for Windows XP? $4000 for AutoCAD? I spend more time listening to music than working on these software and I wouldn't even pay $5 for them. Selling tiny plastic for hundreds or even thousands of dollars is preposterous! Get rid of the activation crap and make them available for download at about $10 each. Otherwise, P2P remains as my only method of getting software for my business!
Also, what is this GPL crap that comes with these free software? It's not like the original authors lose money when I decide not to agree with it. Why won't they spend the time to write better software if they had time to write up such stupid statements?
not that i'm disagreeing with you but your analogies are less than perfect...
movies in theater vs. your tiny tv = huge difference in screen size and sound quality
records vs radio = lack of on-demand
library vs bookstore = inconvenince of having to renew a book every a few weeks if you want to keep it
cd vs any half decently ripped music file = Not much of a difference!
Gator gets integrated into future versions of Windows or service packs and everytime users visit MS's competitors' sites 100 pop-ups appear. They now have the arsenal to really destroy google now.
I have a K6-2 450mhz machine running Windows XP flawlessly for about 5 years. Are you seriously using that G4-450 as your main Final Cut Pro machine? Yeah, I can load Adobe Premiere on my K6-2 too, but why load a thousand dollar software on a $50 machine??? I've had a G3-600 that was crawling under OS X 10.0 (though strangely with each point release, the UI became snappier and more responsive) which I found unacceptable for anything other than basic day-to-day business tasks.
Good insightful post!
I'd like to sadly add that slashdotters aren't the only ones of guilty of this, but people in general all have one standard that affect themselves and another for others. Much like the the term troll, the term hypocrite is overly used.
I'd been a Firefox user since the Phoenix 0.1 days, but recently switched to Mozilla 1.8B for speed and memory requirement. Firefox is actually slower than Mozilla now as covered by slashdot before, and Firefox and Thunderbird load their own separate page rendering engine unlike the Mozilla suite. In my case, I save about 10-15Mb RAM with Mozilla. The reason why I switched to Firefox in the first place was the promise of being lean and fast. I for one am sorry to see the Mozilla suite go.
"Thus far, the concept PC is just a piece of plastic, literally, although its design showed a clock display and optical drive in front, with ports such as USB, optical audio and FireWire in the back."
Apparently the CPU, motherboard, and all the other stuff that comprises a computer.
Shin Cho, an electronics lecturer at WonKwang University, has a 100-mbps network at his home on the outskirts of Seoul that costs about $20 a month for the broadband.
For those of you who are not impressed by the writer's 1.5mb/s SDSL connection, Iksan, South Korea is a farming town.
HP did not come close to having a 6"x6"x2" desktop pc. Also, their "small" pcs cost typically hundreds of dollars more than their normal-sized ones, whereas the Minimacs are of entry-level costs among the Mac lineup.
It seems like a translation error. Nowhere in the original Korean version of the article mentions higher resolution. The corresponding section should have been translated "enables smoother video/animation display."
I remember back when AMD announced a 64 bit desktop CPU. The common consensus was that they were completely daft
I don't believe that was the common consensus, but rather Intel's marketing pitch that wall street investors paid attention to. AMD is successful with their 64-bit lineup because of compatibility and performance enhancement with existing applications (reason why Itanic sank), not for being 64-bit per se as 99% of the people still don't run any 64-bit applications. Having said that, I do think AMD has the upper hand for the foreseeable future as AMD's strength is with the computer hobbyists who constantly push for higher speed while demanding the best price/perforamance ratio, compared to Intel's more office-oriented "I don't need more speed" crowd. But competition is good. I'm waiting for home/office-oriented CPU that consumes little power that can be cooled passively -- basically Pentium M for desktops at a more sane price.
I disagree.
I think Walmart would be happy to sell them a copy of Windows XP and Microsoft Office should the customers want them, and true newbies would buy them.
However, there are no changes in number of hours that people waste meaninglessly (myself included). All that's changed was pressing buttons on tv remote controls to clicking mouse buttons.
Slashdot Mirror
let alone 86+ years
where is the "center" of supposedly an infinite entity? have we found the edge of the universe?
My start page is my.yahoo.com. I still use their e-mail service as my primary e-mail, and their finance content is second to none. For other contents, I have RSS feeds on the start page which allows me to satisfy majority of my information browsing needs without ever leaving the page. I have tried iGoogle and Google finance in the past and wasn't impressed. Facebook? I guess I'm no longer a teenager without tons of free time. Besides, I didn't realize there was an "incorrect" way to use Internet.
so you do admit that there's a difference between a web browser and a p2p software. otherwise, you'd be saying bittorent inside the opera is just pointless redundant feature.
so what's the percentage of those legitimate p2p uses? i'm pretty sure the game companies can come up with p2p functions inside their games that'll allow patching but will still be called a game and not a p2p software.
techies have poor grasp of politics?
so I guess it depends on one's definition of what Internet is then in determining which came before.
Most men/boys want to have fun! More women/girls prefer safety.
No, we're not raising our kids to be wusses, just feminine.
I agree wholeheartedly! Not only music, but software too! $280 for Windows XP? $4000 for AutoCAD? I spend more time listening to music than working on these software and I wouldn't even pay $5 for them. Selling tiny plastic for hundreds or even thousands of dollars is preposterous! Get rid of the activation crap and make them available for download at about $10 each. Otherwise, P2P remains as my only method of getting software for my business!
Also, what is this GPL crap that comes with these free software? It's not like the original authors lose money when I decide not to agree with it. Why won't they spend the time to write better software if they had time to write up such stupid statements?
mod me +4 insightful!
cd vs any half decently ripped music file = Not much of a difference!movies in theater vs. your tiny tv = huge difference in screen size and sound quality
records vs radio = lack of on-demand
library vs bookstore = inconvenince of having to renew a book every a few weeks if you want to keep it
Gator gets integrated into future versions of Windows or service packs and everytime users visit MS's competitors' sites 100 pop-ups appear. They now have the arsenal to really destroy google now.
Why is Yahoo only at fault here? Why isn't she suing her ex-boyfriend?
I have a K6-2 450mhz machine running Windows XP flawlessly for about 5 years. Are you seriously using that G4-450 as your main Final Cut Pro machine? Yeah, I can load Adobe Premiere on my K6-2 too, but why load a thousand dollar software on a $50 machine??? I've had a G3-600 that was crawling under OS X 10.0 (though strangely with each point release, the UI became snappier and more responsive) which I found unacceptable for anything other than basic day-to-day business tasks.
Good insightful post! I'd like to sadly add that slashdotters aren't the only ones of guilty of this, but people in general all have one standard that affect themselves and another for others. Much like the the term troll, the term hypocrite is overly used.
I'd been a Firefox user since the Phoenix 0.1 days, but recently switched to Mozilla 1.8B for speed and memory requirement. Firefox is actually slower than Mozilla now as covered by slashdot before, and Firefox and Thunderbird load their own separate page rendering engine unlike the Mozilla suite. In my case, I save about 10-15Mb RAM with Mozilla. The reason why I switched to Firefox in the first place was the promise of being lean and fast. I for one am sorry to see the Mozilla suite go.
"Thus far, the concept PC is just a piece of plastic, literally, although its design showed a clock display and optical drive in front, with ports such as USB, optical audio and FireWire in the back."
Apparently the CPU, motherboard, and all the other stuff that comprises a computer.Shin Cho, an electronics lecturer at WonKwang University, has a 100-mbps network at his home on the outskirts of Seoul that costs about $20 a month for the broadband.
For those of you who are not impressed by the writer's 1.5mb/s SDSL connection, Iksan, South Korea is a farming town.HP did not come close to having a 6"x6"x2" desktop pc. Also, their "small" pcs cost typically hundreds of dollars more than their normal-sized ones, whereas the Minimacs are of entry-level costs among the Mac lineup.
Forgive my ignorance, but can someone tell me what exactly SCO wants that they can't get from kernel.org?
It seems like a translation error. Nowhere in the original Korean version of the article mentions higher resolution. The corresponding section should have been translated "enables smoother video/animation display."
I don't believe that was the common consensus, but rather Intel's marketing pitch that wall street investors paid attention to. AMD is successful with their 64-bit lineup because of compatibility and performance enhancement with existing applications (reason why Itanic sank), not for being 64-bit per se as 99% of the people still don't run any 64-bit applications. Having said that, I do think AMD has the upper hand for the foreseeable future as AMD's strength is with the computer hobbyists who constantly push for higher speed while demanding the best price/perforamance ratio, compared to Intel's more office-oriented "I don't need more speed" crowd. But competition is good. I'm waiting for home/office-oriented CPU that consumes little power that can be cooled passively -- basically Pentium M for desktops at a more sane price.
I disagree. I think Walmart would be happy to sell them a copy of Windows XP and Microsoft Office should the customers want them, and true newbies would buy them.
However, there are no changes in number of hours that people waste meaninglessly (myself included). All that's changed was pressing buttons on tv remote controls to clicking mouse buttons.