Looks like it's already been taken down, according to the site:
"Please note that on November 14, 2007 the US government raided the warehouse for the Liberty Dollar certificates and digital currency and they are currently unavailable or redeemable except as numismatic items on eBay.
Here's the long answer: every derivative of OO can make its own UI if they choose to, such as in this case from windows. This doesn't mean all OO will do so. Therefore, no.
Especially since people were kicking and screaming over the fact that Microtard needed to be standards compliant from when IE8 dev began...I remember the posts where people were like "you need to be standards compliant" and MS was like "well, you have the option, thats good enough".
Something is way wrong (which is obvious with MS) if it takes a huge company months to decide to listen to their customers/employees/etc.
They know damn well the average usages of their customers, this is more a refusal to upgrade the infrastructure and blaming it on those who are serious users. Doing so would actually be competitive even and earn more business! what an idea!
If you are advertising XYZ service, it doesn't mean shoot anyone else in the foot in order to guarantee it. If you can guarantee something by shortchanging the rest of your customers, thats not exactly a bargain.
How about use your government subsidies for what they were intended (which would actually generate more revenue) and not as profit margins?
In the end its the cable companies looking at short term revenue instead of long term
I agree that small acceptance can still = market impact, but if only a small group adopts your idea you won't recoup development costs. Sure, say for example you make 20mil off your product but your net is still negative after all associated costs, distribution, etc.
Thus, no, if it's not a hit, the company won't necessarily make a profit (or a significant profit) off it.
I plan to keep an open mind and check it out, but like any game; you never know what you expect until you play it. I did like some of the newer ones, like I said I don't hate the series, just a lack of new names.
Strike one? Since you think you can perceive the world, why don't you tell me more of what you know that I don't, huh? You come off as a rather intolerable individual.
What was I factually incorrect about? The EEE can come in at rather decent claimed hours, even if it's not realistic. Also, people's reviews of the damn thing are not close to as rosy as you would think your market numbers are suggesting.
In the meantime, reply to someone else; you're pretty insulting and I don't value your one-sided debating.
So what you're saying is that you disagree, but you are right and I am wrong? I'd hardly call this an even remotely respectful debate.
Consider that your opinion is not possibly representative of the population as well. Then what? What if what people care about doesn't match your conception of a bulky clunky laptop vs a small and light one. Just because it sounds good to you doesn't make it fact.
There are cheap laptops that are light and not ultraportables, but the intent of the difference is obviously size. Also, there are small laptops that are inexpensive. There are 13" cheap laptops that are also light. The difference is 4inches, which also means smaller keyboard real estate on the ultraportables.
I understand what you're saying, however cars and trucks have distinctly different purposes.
Those lines of functionality are distinctly closer with an ultraportable laptop and a plain jane cheap laptop. Size and convenience of size are about the only things separating.
I'd compare this more to buying a truck, and buying a hybrid truck for better gas mileage (that may have sacrificed some horsepower for additional mileage).
Don't get me wrong here, I welcome ultraportables as a sign that everything can and will get cheaper. However, that doesn't mean that every company that releases one has both a good idea and will do wonderful with their idea.
Battery life is a horse of a different color when it comes to a laptop versus the ultraportables. The things can do much better than most laptops can achieve. Get a laptop into the 8-10 hour range on a single fresh battery with a good charge and still at the same price point, and then you won't see the ultraportables selling so well.
Everyone has resolutions they can live with and I'm sure I personally could live with the resolutions on such a device. I always welcome a debate you know, I never said I'm automatically right (and I welcome corrections) but you don't need to make it worded as a personal attack.
In Dell's case and considering the shoddy build quality of anything that isn't top of the line for Dell I'd definitely get an Asus over the dell even if they put ubuntu preinstalled on both.
Also, for people who don't have a laptop sometimes the ultraportables are perfectly acceptable. I have an E61i that translates to be equivalent to a EEEpc (and 300 bucks, so about the same price...but less capability on the computing side).
It also depends on what you do. Like I said, everyone has preference....but in dells case I'm rather skeptical of this being an improvement and not just cheaper smaller lower build quality.
That's what they state. It's kinda early to believe that it has absolutely nothing to do with it. Depending on how deep people look into the lore, the entire series has involvement with sands of time in a sense. This is like creating a new mario, nobody said it has to be a shitty game, just that they need to start coming up with new title names.
There are models for 300 bucks and they think that they will sell well at $500?
It may have some potential. Having a good cheap system to surf with is definitely a good idea. But for $500 you can get a regular fully functional laptop in many instances.
Dell's going to be competing with their own price points no matter where they put this product in the spectrum from 3-500$ they'll be cannibalizing their own market.
I don't know hard disk encryption that great but I do have a basic understanding of encryption itself.
Are you saying that TPM is a successful method of encrypting a hard drive in some sort of manner that couldn't be done as well or better using other methods? Please explain if so.
Also, how is this to prevent any of the vulnerabilities that other forms of crypto have as well?
minimizing kernel bloat should be a focus of every operating system/software, exception none. Windows is the only one that has been "planning" to optimize their software, so to speak.
Minwin sounds like "we're getting rid of the crap that made no sense in the first place, but we'll be sure to leave in TPM and DRM".
I wonder how many wasted clock cycles can be eliminated via getting rid of DRM/TPM?
My thoughts exactly, I'll be searching for motherboards that don't include a TPM chip. I don't pirate games, but I don't care to have unwelcome hardware on my motherboards.
One day businesses will learn that forced price discrepancies like that kill your business long term. If the jackasses stopped looking so short term they'd realize that./works for a global engineering company//we just rolled out equal global pricing...no more shopping around, which is what happens when it's not equal...plus other confusion internally too
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Looks like it's already been taken down, according to the site:
"Please note that on November 14, 2007 the US government raided the warehouse for the Liberty Dollar certificates and digital currency and they are currently unavailable or redeemable except as numismatic items on eBay.
Wasn't china working on their own High Def format?
Toshiba's name is not absent this list, so I'm guessing this is the same format.
You think people read articles on slashdot?
You must be new here!
Here's the short answer: no.
Here's the long answer: every derivative of OO can make its own UI if they choose to, such as in this case from windows. This doesn't mean all OO will do so. Therefore, no.
I agree.
Especially since people were kicking and screaming over the fact that Microtard needed to be standards compliant from when IE8 dev began...I remember the posts where people were like "you need to be standards compliant" and MS was like "well, you have the option, thats good enough".
Something is way wrong (which is obvious with MS) if it takes a huge company months to decide to listen to their customers/employees/etc.
They've already been paid billions of dollars by the government. You saying they should get more?
Not being oversold = pay more? Please.
They know damn well the average usages of their customers, this is more a refusal to upgrade the infrastructure and blaming it on those who are serious users. Doing so would actually be competitive even and earn more business! what an idea!
If you are advertising XYZ service, it doesn't mean shoot anyone else in the foot in order to guarantee it.
If you can guarantee something by shortchanging the rest of your customers, thats not exactly a bargain.
How about use your government subsidies for what they were intended (which would actually generate more revenue) and not as profit margins?
In the end its the cable companies looking at short term revenue instead of long term
I agree that small acceptance can still = market impact, but if only a small group adopts your idea you won't recoup development costs. Sure, say for example you make 20mil off your product but your net is still negative after all associated costs, distribution, etc.
Thus, no, if it's not a hit, the company won't necessarily make a profit (or a significant profit) off it.
Yes, Many.
Mono for one example....and we all know how crappy it is putting MS on linux already.
I plan to keep an open mind and check it out, but like any game; you never know what you expect until you play it. I did like some of the newer ones, like I said I don't hate the series, just a lack of new names.
Factually huh?
Strike one?
Since you think you can perceive the world, why don't you tell me more of what you know that I don't, huh? You come off as a rather intolerable individual.
What was I factually incorrect about? The EEE can come in at rather decent claimed hours, even if it's not realistic. Also, people's reviews of the damn thing are not close to as rosy as you would think your market numbers are suggesting.
In the meantime, reply to someone else; you're pretty insulting and I don't value your one-sided debating.
So what you're saying is that you disagree, but you are right and I am wrong? I'd hardly call this an even remotely respectful debate.
Consider that your opinion is not possibly representative of the population as well. Then what? What if what people care about doesn't match your conception of a bulky clunky laptop vs a small and light one. Just because it sounds good to you doesn't make it fact.
There are cheap laptops that are light and not ultraportables, but the intent of the difference is obviously size. Also, there are small laptops that are inexpensive. There are 13" cheap laptops that are also light. The difference is 4inches, which also means smaller keyboard real estate on the ultraportables.
I understand what you're saying, however cars and trucks have distinctly different purposes.
Those lines of functionality are distinctly closer with an ultraportable laptop and a plain jane cheap laptop. Size and convenience of size are about the only things separating.
I'd compare this more to buying a truck, and buying a hybrid truck for better gas mileage (that may have sacrificed some horsepower for additional mileage).
Don't get me wrong here, I welcome ultraportables as a sign that everything can and will get cheaper. However, that doesn't mean that every company that releases one has both a good idea and will do wonderful with their idea.
The reason is simple:
Battery life is a horse of a different color when it comes to a laptop versus the ultraportables. The things can do much better than most laptops can achieve. Get a laptop into the 8-10 hour range on a single fresh battery with a good charge and still at the same price point, and then you won't see the ultraportables selling so well.
Everyone has resolutions they can live with and I'm sure I personally could live with the resolutions on such a device. I always welcome a debate you know, I never said I'm automatically right (and I welcome corrections) but you don't need to make it worded as a personal attack.
In Dell's case and considering the shoddy build quality of anything that isn't top of the line for Dell I'd definitely get an Asus over the dell even if they put ubuntu preinstalled on both.
Also, for people who don't have a laptop sometimes the ultraportables are perfectly acceptable. I have an E61i that translates to be equivalent to a EEEpc (and 300 bucks, so about the same price...but less capability on the computing side).
It also depends on what you do. Like I said, everyone has preference....but in dells case I'm rather skeptical of this being an improvement and not just cheaper smaller lower build quality.
That's what they state. It's kinda early to believe that it has absolutely nothing to do with it. Depending on how deep people look into the lore, the entire series has involvement with sands of time in a sense. This is like creating a new mario, nobody said it has to be a shitty game, just that they need to start coming up with new title names.
Another 37 episode Prince of Persia series.
I admit the series is hit or miss, but jesus, why can't they come up with a new title/new premise?
"we've taken the same thing and made it cartoony" is not exactly creative, regardless of if the game actually does turn out good/fun.
I agree completely that it's a different capability.
:)
However, as they are a company with sub 500$ laptops, they will be competing with themselves on some levels as mentioned
Of course, that really means that the laptops they offer are unreasonably priced.
There are models for 300 bucks and they think that they will sell well at $500?
It may have some potential. Having a good cheap system to surf with is definitely a good idea. But for $500 you can get a regular fully functional laptop in many instances.
Dell's going to be competing with their own price points no matter where they put this product in the spectrum from 3-500$ they'll be cannibalizing their own market.
Add anything that is not "politically correct", and it'll be filtered.
Thus, about 99% of all media.
I don't know hard disk encryption that great but I do have a basic understanding of encryption itself.
Are you saying that TPM is a successful method of encrypting a hard drive in some sort of manner that couldn't be done as well or better using other methods? Please explain if so.
Also, how is this to prevent any of the vulnerabilities that other forms of crypto have as well?
minimizing kernel bloat should be a focus of every operating system/software, exception none. Windows is the only one that has been "planning" to optimize their software, so to speak.
Minwin sounds like "we're getting rid of the crap that made no sense in the first place, but we'll be sure to leave in TPM and DRM".
I wonder how many wasted clock cycles can be eliminated via getting rid of DRM/TPM?
I may be wrong,
but as far as I knew the only things that used/implemented it were vista related hardware
Maybe more people can shed the light. So yeah, enjoy vista and vista enabled.
Actually, I run my own business, and I think long term, and it pays off every time.
Not every business is stupid enough to think short term, just the ones that want to be big now and die out just as fast.
It's only the fault of the companies that give shareholders majority control thus failed long term thinking in the first place.
My thoughts exactly, I'll be searching for motherboards that don't include a TPM chip. I don't pirate games, but I don't care to have unwelcome hardware on my motherboards.
One day businesses will learn that forced price discrepancies like that kill your business long term. If the jackasses stopped looking so short term they'd realize that. /works for a global engineering company //we just rolled out equal global pricing...no more shopping around, which is what happens when it's not equal...plus other confusion internally too