[...] if this album is ripped, lobbed on bit-torrent and limewire then Macca is unlikely to be out on the streets through lost revenue.
You have to realise that the album would be ripped and lobbed on bit-torrent even if released with the most perfect DRM known to-date. And once it is there, it does not really matter if one person ripped it or five thousand people did. DRM can only delay the spread of the rip by few days, before the volume of copies rumps up.
But danaris was refering to the RF dongle where dongle is the important part, not RF. So it is not logic but reading skills that seem to be lacking these days.
Ooops, you're right, I have not seen the OP, was probably hidden by slashdot or I was just blind. Sorry, in this context your comment makes perfect sense, my bad.
Oh, come on, how is this insightful? Since when is "actual work" equivalent to typing code? Just because something is not useful for one purpose does not make it useless. I don't think anyone even suggested that this is cool for coding or that all input devides should be replaced with this one. Sorry, but your comment is so narrow-minded that I would consider it "troll" rather than "insightful".
Don't get me wrong, I was not aiming for saving the Earth and stuff. It's just that if I buy this, save the Earth 20 units of evil stuff by charging my iPod thru this, but the production cost was 36 evil units, then I am not being green at all, I am making things worse.
I would rather prefer to use X kWh of electricity than have the factory that makes those gorilla things use up 5X kWh plus 3 tons of drinking water and what not in the process.
I looked at the solargorilla but could not find any information about how much energy I need to generate with this device to reach the green break even - to offset the environmental cost of making this device. Anyone knows this information?
Little bit of playing the Devil's advocate here... but can you name me another enterprise solution that lets you send and receive emails, delegate access to mailboxes (R, R/W), share calendars and delegate access to calendars with reasonable granularity?
The first clue is that the letter starts off "we write to you..." Notice the uncapitalized w that starts the sentence. That's a grammatical error. If a lawyer really wrote that letter, you can bank on such a careless error NOT being in there, let alone the first frickin' letter of the letter. As the first sentence starts with salutation which is then followed by a comma, in many languages the first letter of the following line is not capitalized. If this was written by a German native speaker, even a laywer, such an error is not surprising.
the majority claim they're more intelligent than the average person - which simply can't be true. Well... vast majority of people have more than average number of fingers.
It all comes down to your definition of "average". But it is perfectly possible for majority of people to be more inteligent than average - if by average you take something like "mean".
Well, the important distinction here is between "no-one wants to use it" which means the demand curve is low, and "no-one will use it at this price" which means the volume demanded at current price is low. If the telcos knew that the low demand is due to price-sensitivity, they would change the price first. It is better to sell at a lower price than not sell at all, especially as most of the cost is fixed in cases like telcos.
Eh, I think you logic is somewhat flawed. You are mixing two things - when a comodity, for which there is a demand, is demanded in a low volume due to its price (and remember that price does not change the demand - it only changes the volume demanded, as the demand is a function mapping price to volume). On the other hand, then the demand curve shifts (the volume demanded for a given price changes), this is a different story.
Furthermore, the parent does not talk about availability but about price change induced by change in demand.
Well, as a matter of fact, I tend to type Esc:w after every sentence, but that is not the point. The point is that in general corporate environment the users will be much less computer savvy than the Slashdot crowd.
The answer is simple. Tiny minority of the computers that are on could still be used by someone doing something important. You do not want to cut them off from the network.
Why would you have to uninstall Vista or Encarta or Office? You get the "free" software only _after_ your monitoring period is over, not before. So when you opt out, you have nothing to be uninstalled except for the monitoring software.
I have downloaded and installed Pidgin and it looks nice and all, but it does not seem able to tunnel through our proxy. So far the only IM that succeeds is Miranda which I hate soooo much.:)
The settings that work in Miranda are "" proxy type and proxy name, with no authorisation. No combination of HTTP, SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 with or without my account credentials seems to work in Pidgin. Which is a pity.
There are no AMD chips that you could plug into it. It is not that Intel created a socket/bus that can take AMD chips. The news is that they opened it so that their competitors can develop chips for their socket/bus if they would desire to do so. So in the future we may see AMD chips that will fit into Intel FSB, but I doubt that will happen in the near future.
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[...] if this album is ripped, lobbed on bit-torrent and limewire then Macca is unlikely to be out on the streets through lost revenue.
You have to realise that the album would be ripped and lobbed on bit-torrent even if released with the most perfect DRM known to-date. And once it is there, it does not really matter if one person ripped it or five thousand people did. DRM can only delay the spread of the rip by few days, before the volume of copies rumps up.
So which is it... change of rate of adoption (as the summary indicates) or adoption (as the headline indicates)? (And no, I have not RTFA.)
You should probably look up the word Synecdoche.
But danaris was refering to the RF dongle where dongle is the important part, not RF. So it is not logic but reading skills that seem to be lacking these days.
Ooops, you're right, I have not seen the OP, was probably hidden by slashdot or I was just blind. Sorry, in this context your comment makes perfect sense, my bad.
Oh, come on, how is this insightful? Since when is "actual work" equivalent to typing code? Just because something is not useful for one purpose does not make it useless. I don't think anyone even suggested that this is cool for coding or that all input devides should be replaced with this one. Sorry, but your comment is so narrow-minded that I would consider it "troll" rather than "insightful".
Don't get me wrong, I was not aiming for saving the Earth and stuff. It's just that if I buy this, save the Earth 20 units of evil stuff by charging my iPod thru this, but the production cost was 36 evil units, then I am not being green at all, I am making things worse.
I would rather prefer to use X kWh of electricity than have the factory that makes those gorilla things use up 5X kWh plus 3 tons of drinking water and what not in the process.
I looked at the solargorilla but could not find any information about how much energy I need to generate with this device to reach the green break even - to offset the environmental cost of making this device. Anyone knows this information?
Add Czech Republic to your list... 13 Mbps uncapped for $35.
Funny you say this, as there is no such thing as KDE 4.2 :-)
Sincere question: does Microsoft tax their profits in the States? Do they not "optimise" their taxes?
Little bit of playing the Devil's advocate here... but can you name me another enterprise solution that lets you send and receive emails, delegate access to mailboxes (R, R/W), share calendars and delegate access to calendars with reasonable granularity?
Professor Farnsworth: It can do other things, why shouldn't it!
It all comes down to your definition of "average". But it is perfectly possible for majority of people to be more inteligent than average - if by average you take something like "mean".
Well, the important distinction here is between "no-one wants to use it" which means the demand curve is low, and "no-one will use it at this price" which means the volume demanded at current price is low. If the telcos knew that the low demand is due to price-sensitivity, they would change the price first. It is better to sell at a lower price than not sell at all, especially as most of the cost is fixed in cases like telcos.
Eh, I think you logic is somewhat flawed. You are mixing two things - when a comodity, for which there is a demand, is demanded in a low volume due to its price (and remember that price does not change the demand - it only changes the volume demanded, as the demand is a function mapping price to volume). On the other hand, then the demand curve shifts (the volume demanded for a given price changes), this is a different story.
Furthermore, the parent does not talk about availability but about price change induced by change in demand.
Well, as a matter of fact, I tend to type Esc:w after every sentence, but that is not the point. The point is that in general corporate environment the users will be much less computer savvy than the Slashdot crowd.
So, what happens to the unsaved documents?
The answer is simple. Tiny minority of the computers that are on could still be used by someone doing something important. You do not want to cut them off from the network.
Oh, come on, do it properly.
It's spelled ARRRRR and assplodes.
Why would you have to uninstall Vista or Encarta or Office? You get the "free" software only _after_ your monitoring period is over, not before. So when you opt out, you have nothing to be uninstalled except for the monitoring software.
I did hit "Preview" but screwed up nevertheless. :-) The proxy type in Miranda is <mixed>.
I have downloaded and installed Pidgin and it looks nice and all, but it does not seem able to tunnel through our proxy. So far the only IM that succeeds is Miranda which I hate soooo much. :)
The settings that work in Miranda are "" proxy type and proxy name, with no authorisation. No combination of HTTP, SOCKS4 or SOCKS5 with or without my account credentials seems to work in Pidgin. Which is a pity.
There are no AMD chips that you could plug into it. It is not that Intel created a socket/bus that can take AMD chips. The news is that they opened it so that their competitors can develop chips for their socket/bus if they would desire to do so. So in the future we may see AMD chips that will fit into Intel FSB, but I doubt that will happen in the near future.