Okay, there were some problems. NOTE THE DATE: As of January 30th. Nothing has been posted since March in there. I think it's safe to say the situation may have changed since january, seriously thats almost 4 months ago.
Really why is this even a post today that far back?
This was not ad hominem but I guess you are not familiar with sarcasm/not defending a position that was never taken. I was never equating this to you.
However, if a product that was X dollars before, is now X dollars a month, how is it more valuable after a the price is now beyond the old version? In order for this model to work they would have to drop support for all older versions of their programs. Otherwise nobody has a reason to want more than say, office 2003.
Most things involving subscriptions have fees to sign up. This is like removing leasing as an option and renting to be the only option.
The difference here is you don't have a choice, let alone that there is a monumental subscription cancellation fee (note: losing the ability to use a program completely).
I think what he may have meant to say is that the poor pay a greater percentage of their money towards taxes and/or don't know how to lower the amount that you end up getting taxed on, stuff like that.
Trust me, if the rich poor and middle class were paying a fair share, they would prevent bogus methods of people with higher incomes from discounting the taxes, as there are more loopholes than swiss cheese for upper class and not so many for lower class.
If I have to spend 5% of my income to get that 5% back additionally as a tax return, (say itemized tax return) what's the benefit? If someone at a higher income level is paying 1% extra for the costs of the itemized tax return (since that cost doesn't scale the same for itemized) to get back 5% of their income, as an easy example, how is that balanced?
I'd guess torrents since they usually have a healthy amounts of reviews on whatever the subject matter is being hosted, therefore you can usually read up and see "OMFG YOU ASS THIS IS A VIRUS" or "nice torrent", especially on piratebay there are pages of comments.
You will of course see RIAA posting like "omg this is bogus" sometimes too. Always a small level of risk.
Lol, I am amused by your humor. However, as far as depth is concerned its all personal preference on that. Really, a laptop is only so good whether its width or length. Turn a wide laptop sideways and whups, you're still carrying the same general size. There is a reasonable size and after that it's an excessive lug (and power draw).
As far as screen real estate, resolution. Let me show you it. Resolutions get better that monitors can handle, more real estate, it gets to a point where people's personal preference doesn't care for higher resolution, etc.
I do understand that movies are recorded in more 4:3 friendly resolutions, and I agree it works well for movie experiences. That doesn't draw away from the intentional marketing to saturate price, really.
An interesting philosophy. I don't think I know enough technically to make a good evaluation of what I think about this, but 5-7 years does sound about right for when "everyone is using linux/macOS". I figure one more release of windows that is so horrid that even non pc literate folks are able to decide to figure out a linux distro instead. Follow that up with 1 more release of windows that fits into "nobody cares" and then everyone will abandon completely. Definitely seems to be heading towards that way little by little.
I'll be celebrating the day it comes, but it is nice to know that it is at least coming, albeit a bit slow. I admit I had some computer illiterate customers I couldn't transition them away from windows and even they (1yr ago) didn't want to go to vista.
Although I am amused at your wording, I'm glad you actually understand:) I think the market is already saturated though, which makes me disgusted they fight so hard to keep the price.
Really, so how long have 24" monitors been around 5-600$ again? 5 years? 10? Do you really think the manufacturing costs haven't ever continually gone lower is just by magic??
Or lets look at TVs. How about 32" monitors and TV's floating around 800$, is this magic? No. They add or remove a single feature that costs nothing (maybe they change the software implementation of something or change a menu), label it a new feature, and keep the price the same. Old models of course fall slowly cheaper, but in reality the price should slowly and constantly go down on new models.
Instead, this is how they can dictate and control price.
Really? Maybe you should do a bit more research into the price of TV's over the last, hmm, 10 years on a size basis alone. You'll see a lot.
Also, since I have looked at the accounting for multiple LCD makers (on a global scale, and I can't mention names for liability but its not Panasonic on that one), I can tell you for a fact that indeed, people do allocate for widescreen markup. So too bad that you elected to be ad hominem, but feel free to keep believing otherwise.
My work actually is forcing all computers with XP to turn off autorun today. The funny thing is, the reason is that someone had "spyware and/or viruses" installed from the disks.
Really, do you think autorun is the issue here? I think it's safe to say that running Mcafee might not be the best idea to keep a computer safe (I seem to recall Clam doing a thousandfold better job), and also plain old stupidity from one of the users no doubt.
Just a little FYI, I have a bit of family working for Panasonic and other LCD/high def makers. The reason that widescreen is the new big thing, is so that they can keep market prices high while offering the same or VERY SLIGHTLY more service (technical features) than before. It has nothing to do with HD, or being "more beautiful", its so that 5 or 10 years from now they can reintroduce the square as a "premium" and control market prices with absolutely no quality or feature improvement. It's the same way with TVs and why you continually find TV's around the same price on an inch by inch basis instead of prices going down as they should be.
The phrase for this should be plainly obvious: they're trying to scoop up the bottom line. The fact is, they have almost nothing to advertise on a monitor as a special feature, therefore "widescreen" has become the new special feature.
Of course, by your logic what could possibly go wrong until we see how horrid it is, right?
Not to mention the privacy implications, the lack of an opt-out, or the fact that this doesn't work if things aren't hosted in your area, right?
You have to know quite a bit to magically route things local.
Given comcast's track record, why would you ever assume they turned over a new leaf? That's like thinking that Microsoft has a real open-source offering because they made a new announcement to be more open-source friendly. Yet how many years have we heard stuff like that, again?
I wouldn't know one way or the other if it is factually correct or not....
How or why would government sales be less in the EU than the US? (regardless of facts, since I wouldn't know where to pull something up to verify what you're saying there...I think some refined google searching still might have a hard time finding it)
Where do you come up with this magic "EU is half of the size of the US business market" number? Where do you derive at this information? According to wiki, EU and US GDP are practically equal.
Anyway, it's the other way around about your statement. It's "who is corrupt enough to be bought off by MS to cancel this", not the other way around. Meanwhile, if MS even tries to cancel this it will backfire on them bigtime (antitrust round 3 anyone?). I'd say that this is pretty much guaranteed although the bigger question is how to enforce existing contracts through that duration and also the question of if the countries in the EU will have the balls to follow through on this.
Not to be totally ad hominem, but where is your incorrect logic coming from? The situation here is the exact opposite of what you posted, and coincides with your signature. WTF?
It's like one of those spam letters with a philosophical message at the bottom.
Agreed. If the motion sensors activated the CCTV would be equally useful but that will still have its own flaws - aka what happens if something is going on in an area but no movement.
I think the simple realistic answer here is there are only so many camera feeds and you need a sufficient number of eyes to watch them, of course dependent on how much action and detail is needed to be seen in each area. Having worked in Loss prevention at a retail setting I am extremely impressed with how many screens they can monitor, but anything more than 4 or 6 when you have to be watchful of people's hand movements is impossible.
This is just a cost cutting attempt to attempt to ease peace of mind, without any realistic improvement (and plenty of degradation of quality)
I do think motion sensors are useful, but perhaps not in the fashion that they are intending here. I could see them supplementing video feeds in a smart fashion (say a simple LED next to each video feed corresponding to if a movement sensor in that room is going off or not for easier cursory glancing). Or on a higher tech level, put an overlay over the video feed where the movement is detected...note to self, patenting/researching idea with engineers now:D
In addition, Microsoft will release some 30,000 pages of documentation surrounding Windows client and server protocols.
Note: WILL not "HAS" and/or not "Will sometime soon". They could be delaying this just long enough to figure out how to break all the protocols on the new OS/on the next service pack.
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Okay, there were some problems. NOTE THE DATE: As of January 30th. Nothing has been posted since March in there. I think it's safe to say the situation may have changed since january, seriously thats almost 4 months ago.
Really why is this even a post today that far back?
This was not ad hominem but I guess you are not familiar with sarcasm/not defending a position that was never taken. I was never equating this to you.
However, if a product that was X dollars before, is now X dollars a month, how is it more valuable after a the price is now beyond the old version? In order for this model to work they would have to drop support for all older versions of their programs. Otherwise nobody has a reason to want more than say, office 2003.
Umm, no.
Most things involving subscriptions have fees to sign up. This is like removing leasing as an option and renting to be the only option.
The difference here is you don't have a choice, let alone that there is a monumental subscription cancellation fee (note: losing the ability to use a program completely).
This is like WGA validation version 3.0
I'm humored you managed to use reasonable and Microsoft in the same sentence!
Nothing like not even owning something that you pay for at the same rate as previous. Yes, that sounds like a good idea.
Aren't there ways to prepare for/secure from DDOS attacks? Sure, server capabilities taken into account too.
I think what he may have meant to say is that the poor pay a greater percentage of their money towards taxes and/or don't know how to lower the amount that you end up getting taxed on, stuff like that.
Trust me, if the rich poor and middle class were paying a fair share, they would prevent bogus methods of people with higher incomes from discounting the taxes, as there are more loopholes than swiss cheese for upper class and not so many for lower class.
If I have to spend 5% of my income to get that 5% back additionally as a tax return, (say itemized tax return) what's the benefit? If someone at a higher income level is paying 1% extra for the costs of the itemized tax return (since that cost doesn't scale the same for itemized) to get back 5% of their income, as an easy example, how is that balanced?
I'd guess torrents since they usually have a healthy amounts of reviews on whatever the subject matter is being hosted, therefore you can usually read up and see "OMFG YOU ASS THIS IS A VIRUS" or "nice torrent", especially on piratebay there are pages of comments.
You will of course see RIAA posting like "omg this is bogus" sometimes too. Always a small level of risk.
Lol, I am amused by your humor. However, as far as depth is concerned its all personal preference on that.
Really, a laptop is only so good whether its width or length. Turn a wide laptop sideways and whups, you're still carrying the same general size. There is a reasonable size and after that it's an excessive lug (and power draw).
As far as screen real estate, resolution. Let me show you it. Resolutions get better that monitors can handle, more real estate, it gets to a point where people's personal preference doesn't care for higher resolution, etc.
I do understand that movies are recorded in more 4:3 friendly resolutions, and I agree it works well for movie experiences. That doesn't draw away from the intentional marketing to saturate price, really.
An interesting philosophy. I don't think I know enough technically to make a good evaluation of what I think about this, but 5-7 years does sound about right for when "everyone is using linux/macOS". I figure one more release of windows that is so horrid that even non pc literate folks are able to decide to figure out a linux distro instead. Follow that up with 1 more release of windows that fits into "nobody cares" and then everyone will abandon completely. Definitely seems to be heading towards that way little by little.
I'll be celebrating the day it comes, but it is nice to know that it is at least coming, albeit a bit slow. I admit I had some computer illiterate customers I couldn't transition them away from windows and even they (1yr ago) didn't want to go to vista.
Although I am amused at your wording, I'm glad you actually understand :) I think the market is already saturated though, which makes me disgusted they fight so hard to keep the price.
Lets see,
number of companies that can make a format that works with ODF (aka compete): infinite
number of companies that can make a format that works with OOXML (aka compete): 0.
Let alone global trade rules that having overlap in standards doesn't allow, this will not pass over smoothly or easily.
So how much does MS pay you? I admit I'd take the cash too but I'd openly admit that I am, if that were the case.
I agree :)
However, to say it is due to virus/spyware when they have thousands of other loopholes (stupid employees) shows more things that are wrong.
Really, so how long have 24" monitors been around 5-600$ again? 5 years? 10? Do you really think the manufacturing costs haven't ever continually gone lower is just by magic??
Or lets look at TVs. How about 32" monitors and TV's floating around 800$, is this magic? No. They add or remove a single feature that costs nothing (maybe they change the software implementation of something or change a menu), label it a new feature, and keep the price the same. Old models of course fall slowly cheaper, but in reality the price should slowly and constantly go down on new models.
Instead, this is how they can dictate and control price.
Making sense?
Really? Maybe you should do a bit more research into the price of TV's over the last, hmm, 10 years on a size basis alone. You'll see a lot.
Also, since I have looked at the accounting for multiple LCD makers (on a global scale, and I can't mention names for liability but its not Panasonic on that one), I can tell you for a fact that indeed, people do allocate for widescreen markup. So too bad that you elected to be ad hominem, but feel free to keep believing otherwise.
My work actually is forcing all computers with XP to turn off autorun today. The funny thing is, the reason is that someone had "spyware and/or viruses" installed from the disks.
Really, do you think autorun is the issue here? I think it's safe to say that running Mcafee might not be the best idea to keep a computer safe (I seem to recall Clam doing a thousandfold better job), and also plain old stupidity from one of the users no doubt.
Just a little FYI, I have a bit of family working for Panasonic and other LCD/high def makers. The reason that widescreen is the new big thing, is so that they can keep market prices high while offering the same or VERY SLIGHTLY more service (technical features) than before. It has nothing to do with HD, or being "more beautiful", its so that 5 or 10 years from now they can reintroduce the square as a "premium" and control market prices with absolutely no quality or feature improvement. It's the same way with TVs and why you continually find TV's around the same price on an inch by inch basis instead of prices going down as they should be.
The phrase for this should be plainly obvious: they're trying to scoop up the bottom line. The fact is, they have almost nothing to advertise on a monitor as a special feature, therefore "widescreen" has become the new special feature.
So, you mean versus when you just pay for a backbone at a flat rate, its cheaper if you use that same flat rate in one way versus another?
That is definitely some magic right there.
Remind me again where an OC96/etc line would have a reason to care whether its intra-network or not.
Of course, by your logic what could possibly go wrong until we see how horrid it is, right?
Not to mention the privacy implications, the lack of an opt-out, or the fact that this doesn't work if things aren't hosted in your area, right?
You have to know quite a bit to magically route things local.
Given comcast's track record, why would you ever assume they turned over a new leaf? That's like thinking that Microsoft has a real open-source offering because they made a new announcement to be more open-source friendly. Yet how many years have we heard stuff like that, again?
Hmm, perhaps after you've persuaded someone else to do something, verbally perhaps?
Unless you set the motion sensor so sensitive that even air conditioning/heating sets it off, it's not going to catch those situations.
I before E, except after C?
I wouldn't know one way or the other if it is factually correct or not....
How or why would government sales be less in the EU than the US? (regardless of facts, since I wouldn't know where to pull something up to verify what you're saying there...I think some refined google searching still might have a hard time finding it)
Where do you come up with this magic "EU is half of the size of the US business market" number? Where do you derive at this information? According to wiki, EU and US GDP are practically equal.
Anyway, it's the other way around about your statement. It's "who is corrupt enough to be bought off by MS to cancel this", not the other way around. Meanwhile, if MS even tries to cancel this it will backfire on them bigtime (antitrust round 3 anyone?). I'd say that this is pretty much guaranteed although the bigger question is how to enforce existing contracts through that duration and also the question of if the countries in the EU will have the balls to follow through on this.
Not to be totally ad hominem, but where is your incorrect logic coming from? The situation here is the exact opposite of what you posted, and coincides with your signature. WTF?
It's like one of those spam letters with a philosophical message at the bottom.
Agreed. If the motion sensors activated the CCTV would be equally useful but that will still have its own flaws - aka what happens if something is going on in an area but no movement.
:D
I think the simple realistic answer here is there are only so many camera feeds and you need a sufficient number of eyes to watch them, of course dependent on how much action and detail is needed to be seen in each area. Having worked in Loss prevention at a retail setting I am extremely impressed with how many screens they can monitor, but anything more than 4 or 6 when you have to be watchful of people's hand movements is impossible.
This is just a cost cutting attempt to attempt to ease peace of mind, without any realistic improvement (and plenty of degradation of quality)
I do think motion sensors are useful, but perhaps not in the fashion that they are intending here. I could see them supplementing video feeds in a smart fashion (say a simple LED next to each video feed corresponding to if a movement sensor in that room is going off or not for easier cursory glancing). Or on a higher tech level, put an overlay over the video feed where the movement is detected...note to self, patenting/researching idea with engineers now
Most important part of this article:
In addition, Microsoft will release some 30,000 pages of documentation surrounding Windows client and server protocols.
Note: WILL not "HAS" and/or not "Will sometime soon". They could be delaying this just long enough to figure out how to break all the protocols on the new OS/on the next service pack.
It's the same concept as an insurance policy. Remember all those people in Katrina who had hurricane insurance and had to fight on collecting due to overselling?
Same idea. 100% marketing, 0% quality, 1% actual service.