Good point. I re-read the article after my posting and realized that it's 3rd party. Apple isn't including them yet. Maybe Apple is just being really cautious here, because other early adopter picks they have made have failed to make it to industry standard (Firewire).
Dude, in business, you have to figure out the present value of cash, carrying costs, interest rates, depreciation, etc. all at the same time. Business math involves a lot of different skills at the same time. It's not all figuring up simple arithmetic like you think it is.
It's not a "nail in the coffin" of anything. If college kids have to pay a bit for their own connection, they will. Hell, I bet most college kids these days all have cable TV. What's another $20/month on a $100/month cable bill? They call their cable company, tack on the service, and it's over. No controversy.
You said God of War 2 was #1 in sales recently. (It is a fantastic game by the way.... money well spent). You gotta realize that all those people who are still enjoying their PS2's (like myself right now), are just gonna get a PS3 when their PS2 konks out because they already have an incredible library of games that'll still play for them. PS2 easily has the strongest game library out there right now, and that's a LOT of momentum when people know that they can keep playing their favorite games. I know that I haven't scratched the surface of good games for the PS2, and I'm buying up all the "Greatest Hits" up now at $20/each.
Currently playing: Burnout Revenge! on my PS2
I don't know why any kind of additional agreements would be needed... people should be able to do what they like with their Net connections, but that's kind of irrelevant. I like the FON setup. It still needs a lot of work to make it more professional looking in the US, but the principle behind it is good. I've paid to use several different FON hotspots because I don't have Net usage at home (If I had Net at home, I could share it, and use all other FON hotspots for free). If I get a home Net connection, I'll definitely set up a FON router. I'm not sure if I'd take free access to other FON hotspots, or if I'd be happy charging others to use my FON hotspot, but I'll definitely participate.
It's absurd that a $50 video game takes more computing power than my $10,000 point of sale system, or my $500 accounting package. It's absurd that you have to buy a $2000 PC to play $50 games, when a $200 console will work even better. To anybody who isn't a 12 year old with an unlimited allowance and tons of free time, it doesn't make any reasonable sense that you have to have a souped up PC to play a regular, mass-market game sold at Wal-Mart.
Actually, it's funny this article came up, because I just swore off PC games this weekend. I bought a brand new laptop last year so I figured that of course this game will work on a one year old PC. I bought Command and Conquer 3 last week, tried to install it, and it bombed on start. Apparently, my video card wasn't up to snuff. The thing is the box said it works with video card AGPblahblah123 and PDQblahblah456. I had an "Intel" which wasn't on the list anywhere. It just wasn't worth the headache to investigate. The game went back to the store, where I exchanged it for a two PS2 games that worked with no problem, whatsoever. PC games are a royal pain in the ass and aren't worth the hassle (or the expense of a new video card every 6 months).
Are you kidding? It must've improved a LOT in the past 6 months or so, because last time I tried it, it was embarrassingly bad. Really, really bad. Horribly buggy, and lacking most essential features. It was, quite literally, one of the worst applications that I've tried in the past few years.
Don't you read the posts before you make your own? Have you read the hundreds of (correct) posters that have said that there is no OSS equivalent to Outlook/Exchange?
Sure you can, if you want to throw money down the toilet. The only reason for paying the premium for an Apple box is an OS. If you don't want OSX, you'd have to be an idiot to buy an Apple, quite honestly. That's like buying a Porsche, and putting a Toyota 4 cylinder engine in it.
You buy a Mac that costs double what a beige box PC costs. Apple releases an "update". You can not install the update and deal with new apps not working with your Mac, or you can install Windows or Linux on your Mac, wasting the premium you paid for the box. That sounds like lock-in to me.
Let's not forget that Apple users are 100% locked in. It's a completely captive market. They can release the new service pack for their OS next week, or in a year. Either way, everybody using a Mac has to buy it and will buy it. There's no rush on the OS update... it's 100% gravy.
That's easy for you to say, and maybe you're right. But you have to remember that NASA is driving remote-controlled cars, complete with all kinds of sensing equipment MILLIONS ON MILES AWAY. I for one am amazed this project, and I have the utmost respect for NASA.
Collaborate with competitors in the same field for the common product they all need, then compete in pursuit of their market.
Why would any company willingly give up any competitive advantage? That's business suicide.
Why would I, as a business owner, give my good, custom, closed software away to competitors that don't have anything like it, just in the hopes that my software will be marginally improved? In the meantime, assuming that my competition CAN improve my software, I'm giving my competition a huge advantage they didn't previously have. It's a LOT of risk, with minimal reward, for people who already have a software advantage.
Wow. Nixon had NOTHING on the current thugs in the White House administration. It's patently absurd that these people haven't been impeached, fired, and tried for treason at this point.
Dump the TV. After a few weeks, you won't miss it. It's harder quitting caffeine than TV. Besides, with TV, you're paying them to watch advertisements.
Yeah...sucks. This is a "duh" story. Of course, you don't have to sign a contract if you don't want to, and just pay more in the short term. This hasn't been news since Ma Bell was broken up.
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Good point. I re-read the article after my posting and realized that it's 3rd party. Apple isn't including them yet. Maybe Apple is just being really cautious here, because other early adopter picks they have made have failed to make it to industry standard (Firewire).
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Yawn.
Dude, in business, you have to figure out the present value of cash, carrying costs, interest rates, depreciation, etc. all at the same time. Business math involves a lot of different skills at the same time. It's not all figuring up simple arithmetic like you think it is.
It's not a "nail in the coffin" of anything. If college kids have to pay a bit for their own connection, they will. Hell, I bet most college kids these days all have cable TV. What's another $20/month on a $100/month cable bill? They call their cable company, tack on the service, and it's over. No controversy.
You said God of War 2 was #1 in sales recently. (It is a fantastic game by the way.... money well spent). You gotta realize that all those people who are still enjoying their PS2's (like myself right now), are just gonna get a PS3 when their PS2 konks out because they already have an incredible library of games that'll still play for them. PS2 easily has the strongest game library out there right now, and that's a LOT of momentum when people know that they can keep playing their favorite games. I know that I haven't scratched the surface of good games for the PS2, and I'm buying up all the "Greatest Hits" up now at $20/each.
Currently playing: Burnout Revenge! on my PS2
The US won't let any other superpowers emerge. If anybody gets too powerful, the US will just bomb the hell out of them.
I don't know why any kind of additional agreements would be needed... people should be able to do what they like with their Net connections, but that's kind of irrelevant. I like the FON setup. It still needs a lot of work to make it more professional looking in the US, but the principle behind it is good. I've paid to use several different FON hotspots because I don't have Net usage at home (If I had Net at home, I could share it, and use all other FON hotspots for free). If I get a home Net connection, I'll definitely set up a FON router. I'm not sure if I'd take free access to other FON hotspots, or if I'd be happy charging others to use my FON hotspot, but I'll definitely participate.
It's absurd that a $50 video game takes more computing power than my $10,000 point of sale system, or my $500 accounting package. It's absurd that you have to buy a $2000 PC to play $50 games, when a $200 console will work even better. To anybody who isn't a 12 year old with an unlimited allowance and tons of free time, it doesn't make any reasonable sense that you have to have a souped up PC to play a regular, mass-market game sold at Wal-Mart.
Actually, it's funny this article came up, because I just swore off PC games this weekend. I bought a brand new laptop last year so I figured that of course this game will work on a one year old PC. I bought Command and Conquer 3 last week, tried to install it, and it bombed on start. Apparently, my video card wasn't up to snuff. The thing is the box said it works with video card AGPblahblah123 and PDQblahblah456. I had an "Intel" which wasn't on the list anywhere. It just wasn't worth the headache to investigate. The game went back to the store, where I exchanged it for a two PS2 games that worked with no problem, whatsoever. PC games are a royal pain in the ass and aren't worth the hassle (or the expense of a new video card every 6 months).
Paper lasts a lot longer and is a lot more reliable than hard drives.
Good for your school. What's your point?
A remote controlled lock? Via Ethernet? In all honesty, that is one of the stupidest ideas I have heard in a LONG time.
Are you kidding? It must've improved a LOT in the past 6 months or so, because last time I tried it, it was embarrassingly bad. Really, really bad. Horribly buggy, and lacking most essential features. It was, quite literally, one of the worst applications that I've tried in the past few years.
Don't you read the posts before you make your own? Have you read the hundreds of (correct) posters that have said that there is no OSS equivalent to Outlook/Exchange?
Sure you can, if you want to throw money down the toilet. The only reason for paying the premium for an Apple box is an OS. If you don't want OSX, you'd have to be an idiot to buy an Apple, quite honestly. That's like buying a Porsche, and putting a Toyota 4 cylinder engine in it.
You buy a Mac that costs double what a beige box PC costs. Apple releases an "update". You can not install the update and deal with new apps not working with your Mac, or you can install Windows or Linux on your Mac, wasting the premium you paid for the box. That sounds like lock-in to me.
Which would you choose?
I would choose to collaborate. But then, if I were the farmer with the land closer to that water source, I wouldn't.
Let's not forget that Apple users are 100% locked in. It's a completely captive market. They can release the new service pack for their OS next week, or in a year. Either way, everybody using a Mac has to buy it and will buy it. There's no rush on the OS update... it's 100% gravy.
That's easy for you to say, and maybe you're right. But you have to remember that NASA is driving remote-controlled cars, complete with all kinds of sensing equipment MILLIONS ON MILES AWAY. I for one am amazed this project, and I have the utmost respect for NASA.
Collaborate with competitors in the same field for the common product they all need, then compete in pursuit of their market.
Why would any company willingly give up any competitive advantage? That's business suicide.
Why would I, as a business owner, give my good, custom, closed software away to competitors that don't have anything like it, just in the hopes that my software will be marginally improved? In the meantime, assuming that my competition CAN improve my software, I'm giving my competition a huge advantage they didn't previously have. It's a LOT of risk, with minimal reward, for people who already have a software advantage.
[From an old TV commercial in the 1970's for a board game called "Connect Four]
"Pretty sneaky, sis!"
I guess they thought of everything...
Wow. Nixon had NOTHING on the current thugs in the White House administration. It's patently absurd that these people haven't been impeached, fired, and tried for treason at this point.
ll code (and other documents, research, etc) written/created by government employees is, by law, public domain.
Try telling that to our President. Please.
Dump the TV. After a few weeks, you won't miss it. It's harder quitting caffeine than TV. Besides, with TV, you're paying them to watch advertisements.
Yeah...sucks. This is a "duh" story. Of course, you don't have to sign a contract if you don't want to, and just pay more in the short term. This hasn't been news since Ma Bell was broken up.