is the home market, where there is little choice. If you buy a PC, you pretty much get Vista installed.
The business market has a little more choice available (XP is still being sold to businesses), and Windows XP is still the big seller.
So what does this tell us? When there is a choice, XP is purchased instead of Vista. Microsoft tis so desperate to make it appear as if Vista is selling, that they are counting the Vista->XP "downgrade" as a Vista license in use.
If what you say is correct, a better sense would be that the CRIA cartel does not lift a finger to assure the money gets back to the artists. I am sure that if the CRIA were due the money, it would most assuredly be collected.
The surcharge would help compensate artists for piracy, according to SOCAN's reasoning. The publishing group draws similarities between this and a 21-cent fee already applied to blank CDs in the country
Has anyone ever followed up to see just how much of the 21-cent fee actually makes it back to the artists, and how much is sucked up by the record company cartel?
Why would web designers want to use fonts that require the use of Windows Vista to render? Isn't it bad enough that web designers have to work around all the bugs in IE?
Of course it matters. Any information given to the enemy, no matter how trivial it seems, will help the enemy. Beyond the actual information itself, the enemy can also look at the means that were used to discover and develop the weaknesses in the censorship.
Why? What Internet connection do you have that would come close to maxing out even a 10Mb connection? How many hundreds of machines do you have on your home network that would requires a Gigabit on the inside port?
I have a subnet on my home network that I use for the media servers, players and editors. I frequently copy around multi-gigabyte files. So the gigabit bandwidth is rather well utilized.
I also need a way for that subnet to access other subnets on my home network. Hence a gigabit port on a router.
I'm just providing them some marketing feedback - if they want me to buy their product, I need a gigabit port. From what you are saying, they've no intention of supporting my requirements, so then I'll just move to a vendor that does.
You know, you do not want your speaker cables to be resting on the floor. That results in distortion of the sound. Make sure you are using cable towers to hold the $900 per foot cables off the floor.
Do you need wider browser support than just Microsoft's IE?
Google endeavors to support a much broader range of browsers than any of the Microsoft websites support. Give the users of what you are developing a choice, don't force them to use Microsoft's IE in order to take advantage of the functionality of your website.
I spoke with a comcast friend of mine who is at the executive level about two weeks ago on this... He said... then if that does not work, they tell the particular customers to please stop it, and in the few cases where this does not work then they finally just pull the plug on the problematic customer.
Hmmm.... all the reports I have read about Comcast shutting down their customers have indicated that the first step your friend mentioned ("telling the customer to stop it") does not exist, that Comcast goes directly and without notice to pulling the plug.
So it appears that your executive friend is either misinformed of what it really occurring out in the wilds of Comcastland, or he is being less than honest.
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The business market has a little more choice available (XP is still being sold to businesses), and Windows XP is still the big seller.
So what does this tell us? When there is a choice, XP is purchased instead of Vista. Microsoft tis so desperate to make it appear as if Vista is selling, that they are counting the Vista->XP "downgrade" as a Vista license in use.
It is looking more and more that the court systems of the world are looking to EULA click-through "agreements" as contracts of adhesion.
Unfortunately for Apple, it's OS competitor has a much better track record in the quality of new releases.
If what you say is correct, a better sense would be that the CRIA cartel does not lift a finger to assure the money gets back to the artists. I am sure that if the CRIA were due the money, it would most assuredly be collected.
Wow, thanks for the correction. I even proof-read the message before I posted it. So much for listening to [non-pirated] tunes while I type.
Doesn't this tax acknowledge that privacy occurs and is governmment sanctioned?
Has anyone ever followed up to see just how much of the 21-cent fee actually makes it back to the artists, and how much is sucked up by the record company cartel?
Accepted. Thank-you.
Thanks for the valid correction, even if it was obnoxiously presented.
Why would web designers want to use fonts that require the use of Windows Vista to render? Isn't it bad enough that web designers have to work around all the bugs in IE?
Microsoft doesn't even have Windows Vista working yet.
Of course it matters. Any information given to the enemy, no matter how trivial it seems, will help the enemy. Beyond the actual information itself, the enemy can also look at the means that were used to discover and develop the weaknesses in the censorship.
Let's tell the powers that be all the ways in which we bypass their censorship so they can close the loopholes.
What was he thinking?
I have a subnet on my home network that I use for the media servers, players and editors. I frequently copy around multi-gigabyte files. So the gigabit bandwidth is rather well utilized.
I also need a way for that subnet to access other subnets on my home network. Hence a gigabit port on a router.
I'm just providing them some marketing feedback - if they want me to buy their product, I need a gigabit port. From what you are saying, they've no intention of supporting my requirements, so then I'll just move to a vendor that does.
it needs at least one gigabit port.
... if Yahoo's website were not dog slow all the time.
That is something that really needed to be fixed.
Windows 2000 users and Windows XP SP1 users are excluded.
You know, you do not want your speaker cables to be resting on the floor. That results in distortion of the sound. Make sure you are using cable towers to hold the $900 per foot cables off the floor.
Google endeavors to support a much broader range of browsers than any of the Microsoft websites support. Give the users of what you are developing a choice, don't force them to use Microsoft's IE in order to take advantage of the functionality of your website.
XP is an upgrade from Vista, not a downgrade.
Most computer users are so accustomed to Microsoft's products being insecure, that they don't really notice the insecurity any more.
If Microsoft product security has improved so much, they why do we still have all those Windows zombies spamming us each day?
Isn't "Plays for Sure" the code phrase that means "won't play on Zune"?
The truth of the matter can lie anywhere between the two endpoints, or at either of the endpoints. It does not have to lie in the middle.
Hmmm.... all the reports I have read about Comcast shutting down their customers have indicated that the first step your friend mentioned ("telling the customer to stop it") does not exist, that Comcast goes directly and without notice to pulling the plug.
So it appears that your executive friend is either misinformed of what it really occurring out in the wilds of Comcastland, or he is being less than honest.