There are two ongoing problems with selling and marketing Linux "desktops".
#1. Support. If you stop selling the $100 piece-of-crap desktop as your "Linux product line" then you wont have so many people buying it simply because its the cheapest thing around. This causes your support issues. Not because of a learning curve, but because if they bought a $100 PC they probably havent the first clue what is in front of them, or even know what an OS is. Bringing us to #2.
#2. When you wise up and then realize that no self-respecting Linux user would buy one of those desktops, you also have to realize that if they know better than that, they probably also know well enough to just build their own for a better price and arguably better quality.
Students have to buy their own books, transportation, pay for housing, etc etc etc, now laptops and thousand-dollar propietary software too?! Where the hell are the thousands of dollars in tuition going? For the price most students pay for tuition, the least you could do is put a desktop on the TOP of their DESK. Those wont get stolen, broken, filled with porn, spyware, etc. Especially if you put Linux on them and... god forbid.. TEACH THEM SOMETHING. Not to mention that youd be furthering education and a science, rather than padding the pockets of more corporations who are only undoubtedly going to charge even more to this enormous locked-in userbase the next year around.
What does surprise me is that they haven't come up with a better product name to replace it. The whole point of using "Pentium" instead of "i586" was trademark and brand identity, and going back to numbers and letters loses that.
Sure, they lose the idiot audience from the 90s who ask questions like "what does that mean in terms of Pentium numbers?"
But this is a win for them in the long run. By slapping on letters and numbers to Intel, makes Intel the household name. A name that isnt restricted to a model or decade that can stay a household name for years to come, where as every model name will eventually have to die.
Those same idiots will soon be asking "What does that mean in terms of Intel letters and numbers?" when referring to an AMD processor. And they will never have to learn another name again.
Last time I checked, satellite radio wasn't free. If I pay for it, I damn well better be able to listen to it when I want to. I don't pay to do what you want when you want, I pay to do it my way. If you want users to do it your way, you better be footing the bill.
1. Integrate.Mac features into OS X
2. Give users 90 day trial
3. Wait for them to expire then subscribe, since they have already uploaded their whole collection there, and have no desire to learn anything new, now that they have finally mastered something.
4. Profit!
They don't want to be MSN.com, they want to be AOL. Hook them with a trial and "look how easy it is when it's all in one place!". The average user that is just now signing up is probably a Windows convert, and doesn't know "if Gmail will work on a Mac", anyways.
The average person that uses these kind of services, uses them because they are branded the same as the other products they use (Internet Explorer, anyone?) regardless of whether they are superior or inferior.
The Anti-Spyware Coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Symantec, Computer Associates, McAfee, AOL and Yahoo, said on Thursday that it has finalized its spyware detection guidelines.
They were quoted as saying "Any software that was not developed by us will be tagged as spyware and removed. Problem solved, nothing to see here, folks."
I was against the concept of a camera in a cell phone for a longtime.
After I got a phone that had one, I started to think what it would be good for. I figured it was a comfort to have it in the case of an accident.
Sure enough, I got into a small fender-bender in a parking lot. It was completely the other person's fault (they backed into me), but they later tried to blame me! Luckily, after it happened, I snapped some pics on my phone and sent them to my insurance company and theirs.
The photos show clearly where my car was and where their car was. My insurance company didn't pay a dime. I received a check from theirs.
So I don't think convergence in this respect is a bad thing.
Ironically enough, the woman who caused the accident was being distracted by the camera feature on her phone, instead of looking in her rear-view mirror.
... then change the camera angle to top-down. I know it exists on the Xbox in GTA3. I use it from time to time when the 3d cpu-controlled camera shows its main weakness, off-angle views.
Or I suppose you could keep complaining. That might work.
Other than the obvious fact that there is very little to do there, why Wisconsin? Shouldnt this be held in Pittsburgh, PA as it actually has a claim to fame there and was a major contributor to the "zombie culture"?
Finally, one of the comments further down says that "Blue-ray" is a cooler name. Don't discount this. I think that "Blue-ray" as a term resonates with both us geeks and the public. Silly as it might be for us, using specifications and capacity, etc., the coolness factor of something simple like a name might sway the buying public.
However, "HD-DVD" sounds like a defacto standard. Keep in mind the reason why so much bland music and movies are so successful is they're showing everyone something theyve already seen before. The mindless masses like what they know, it makes them comfortable. When you hear "HD-DVD" you know exactly what it is, without ever having heard of it. When you say "Blue-Ray" to an average Joe, he has no idea what youre talking about. Were starting with people who have never experienced either, and familiarity goes a long way.
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The difference between the two, the BlackBerry 'doesn't play video or music, and unlike the Q, it doesn't have a camera.'
In other words... "these are two completely different devices with completely different functions and this comparision is pointless".
The cast of Magnum PI just built a model airplane and didnt even sniff the glue.
There are two ongoing problems with selling and marketing Linux "desktops".
#1. Support. If you stop selling the $100 piece-of-crap desktop as your "Linux product line" then you wont have so many people buying it simply because its the cheapest thing around. This causes your support issues. Not because of a learning curve, but because if they bought a $100 PC they probably havent the first clue what is in front of them, or even know what an OS is. Bringing us to #2.
#2. When you wise up and then realize that no self-respecting Linux user would buy one of those desktops, you also have to realize that if they know better than that, they probably also know well enough to just build their own for a better price and arguably better quality.
So theres the rub.
A school is a place for coming together and participating with one another for the sake of education.
This definitely fits the idealogy and goals of Windows better than Linux.
That little text you clicked on was a link. It said "budget line of PCs and Notebooks"
Now I can look forward to seeing Sony's ultra-low standard of quality in my I-bought-it-to-get-rid-of-my-Sonys DVD drives.
Students have to buy their own books, transportation, pay for housing, etc etc etc, now laptops and thousand-dollar propietary software too?! Where the hell are the thousands of dollars in tuition going? For the price most students pay for tuition, the least you could do is put a desktop on the TOP of their DESK. Those wont get stolen, broken, filled with porn, spyware, etc. Especially if you put Linux on them and... god forbid.. TEACH THEM SOMETHING. Not to mention that youd be furthering education and a science, rather than padding the pockets of more corporations who are only undoubtedly going to charge even more to this enormous locked-in userbase the next year around.
What does surprise me is that they haven't come up with a better product name to replace it. The whole point of using "Pentium" instead of "i586" was trademark and brand identity, and going back to numbers and letters loses that.
Sure, they lose the idiot audience from the 90s who ask questions like "what does that mean in terms of Pentium numbers?"
But this is a win for them in the long run. By slapping on letters and numbers to Intel, makes Intel the household name. A name that isnt restricted to a model or decade that can stay a household name for years to come, where as every model name will eventually have to die.
Those same idiots will soon be asking "What does that mean in terms of Intel letters and numbers?" when referring to an AMD processor. And they will never have to learn another name again.
Last time I checked, satellite radio wasn't free. If I pay for it, I damn well better be able to listen to it when I want to. I don't pay to do what you want when you want, I pay to do it my way. If you want users to do it your way, you better be footing the bill.
In Soviet Russia, Mac dots you!
.Mac features into OS X
1. Integrate
2. Give users 90 day trial
3. Wait for them to expire then subscribe, since they have already uploaded their whole collection there, and have no desire to learn anything new, now that they have finally mastered something.
4. Profit!
They don't want to be MSN.com, they want to be AOL. Hook them with a trial and "look how easy it is when it's all in one place!". The average user that is just now signing up is probably a Windows convert, and doesn't know "if Gmail will work on a Mac", anyways.
The average person that uses these kind of services, uses them because they are branded the same as the other products they use (Internet Explorer, anyone?) regardless of whether they are superior or inferior.
The Anti-Spyware Coalition, whose members include Microsoft, Symantec, Computer Associates, McAfee, AOL and Yahoo, said on Thursday that it has finalized its spyware detection guidelines.
They were quoted as saying "Any software that was not developed by us will be tagged as spyware and removed. Problem solved, nothing to see here, folks."
I was against the concept of a camera in a cell phone for a longtime.
After I got a phone that had one, I started to think what it would be good for. I figured it was a comfort to have it in the case of an accident.
Sure enough, I got into a small fender-bender in a parking lot. It was completely the other person's fault (they backed into me), but they later tried to blame me! Luckily, after it happened, I snapped some pics on my phone and sent them to my insurance company and theirs.
The photos show clearly where my car was and where their car was. My insurance company didn't pay a dime. I received a check from theirs.
So I don't think convergence in this respect is a bad thing.
Ironically enough, the woman who caused the accident was being distracted by the camera feature on her phone, instead of looking in her rear-view mirror.
What I really want is live events. I see they have a deal with the NBA, so perhaps they will be streaming live NBA games.
Im hoping they will broadcast "pay per stream" live NHL games that people cant recieve in blackout areas.
We can merge Americas two favorite sayings.
You dirty rat, you sunk my battleship!
I'd fork her.
I keep hitting next and Im seeing the same movies over and over but where the hell is Stargate?!?! It ought to be in the top ten, as well.
All I want to know is if the x86 Linux binaries will work on the x86 Apple.
Id MUCH rather dual-boot OS X and Linux than Windows and Linux, but need true x86 arch for Nvidia drivers, games, etc.
... then change the camera angle to top-down. I know it exists on the Xbox in GTA3. I use it from time to time when the 3d cpu-controlled camera shows its main weakness, off-angle views.
Or I suppose you could keep complaining. That might work.
Other than the obvious fact that there is very little to do there, why Wisconsin? Shouldnt this be held in Pittsburgh, PA as it actually has a claim to fame there and was a major contributor to the "zombie culture"?
Wisconsin never did nothin for nobody...
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I didnt know you could just sue people for releasing a crappy product.
I guess Microsoft and ATI both owe me a few bucks.
Finally, one of the comments further down says that "Blue-ray" is a cooler name. Don't discount this. I think that "Blue-ray" as a term resonates with both us geeks and the public. Silly as it might be for us, using specifications and capacity, etc., the coolness factor of something simple like a name might sway the buying public.
However, "HD-DVD" sounds like a defacto standard. Keep in mind the reason why so much bland music and movies are so successful is they're showing everyone something theyve already seen before. The mindless masses like what they know, it makes them comfortable. When you hear "HD-DVD" you know exactly what it is, without ever having heard of it. When you say "Blue-Ray" to an average Joe, he has no idea what youre talking about. Were starting with people who have never experienced either, and familiarity goes a long way.
I'm surprised they didn't use the phrase "everybody does it".
Or "I learned it from GTA"
Damn martian tow-away zones.
But officer, *all* the curbs on this planet are red!
Internet Media DataBase. Done and done.