Perhaps you haven't kept up on the legal landscape, but next year, broadcast analogue TV goes dark in the US.
As I said in my original post, congress backed down on that last week. It won't go dark, because consumer pressure forced them to back off.
Again, the market cares nought for man nor beast.
If the price drops to $500 in five years, I agree - it will go dark. If it stays up in the $2000 range you can rant all you want, but the market will choose to continue it.
The price to consumers isn't going to be the cost plus some small markup. The price to consumers will be whatever the manufacturer figures will maximize their profit, which could be quite high considering the demand.
Ah, I can see you never took marketing or economics courses...
The reality is that, until the price drops to about $500, widescale use of HDTVs won't happen, economies of scale won't happen, and the TV stations will have to continue to broadcast in non-HDTV format. Consumer pressure on national forces will ensure that.
So, it is critical to drop the cost down.
It's like cell phones - until they became commodities and cheaper than $500, widescale introduction didn't happen. This can be achieved partially thru consumer leasing or lease to buy options, but the market pushes the price down to the sweet spot.
Same thing happened with radio. And Black and White TV. And color TV. And PCs.
PCs were a bit atypical, in that a higher level was maintained for many years, but recent market actions show the invisible hand cares nought for man nor beast.
until prices drop to under $500 for a useable commercial HDTV, it will never hit full introduction, no matter how much the media industry tries to change it.
Evidence - the reaction of reps just last week delaying required signal death for non-HDTV signal, after a firestorm of consumer complaints at forcing overpriced HDTVs down our gullets.
It all goes back to my Marketing 101 courses in my (first) BusMgmt degree - until the price drops to $500 for a system, why bother buying it.
Same goes for HDTV from my viewpoint - I've been a tech leader way too often, burned $8000 on a PC or Mac at times, but the risk/reward ratio is not there any more.
The diff between a 3.6G Intel PC with broadband and a 2.4G AMD PC with broadband is way less than 50 percent - more like 20 percent if you have sufficient RAM - so why should I pay $2000 for a Wintel box when I can get one that only costs less than $500 for everything all combined?
That's the prob for MSFT. As price drops for consumer purchase - and people aim for $500 - the OS fraction of $200 plus for MSFT becomes more and more a burden and not worth the cash.
Markets don't care about ideology. They care about choices - and MSFT is not adding enough value to make it worth it's while.
...on the myth of renegade hackers coding in their parent's basements to create the Linux OS. He suggests this hasn't been the case for many years and goes on to claim that of the top 25 core developers, more than 90% of them are fully employed with some of the largest technology companies in the world.
Just because they're fully employed by some of the largest tech companies doesn't mean they don't live in their parent's basements and telecommute.
Set A can always include Set B.
It's like saying that since the wealthiest people in the world are tech geeks, and wealthy people get hot babes, that tech geeks have hot babes.
Perhaps most tech geeks - even those who are wealthy - don't have hot babes (or hunks, whatever) - but most wealthy people (of which tech geeks are a very wealthy subset) do have hot babes/hunks?
Therefore, it's totally possible for them to live in very fancy basements in their parents homes and still be fully employed by big tech firms.
And maybe a few actually own their own homes, but who knows, because the statistics are flawed by virtue of the premise as stated.
Think of it as a Venn diagram in action. Just because top models hang with some economists doesn't make economists party animals and opposite-gender magnets.
My teacher for my networking class has subscribed this year to MSDNAA for about $800, and students and teachers can receive all the operating systems, visual studio, other programs I've never even heard of, etc. We've got two full CD slip cases of MS software, and we get sent new CDs each month. We have XP volume license keys, and for software that isn't a volume licensed version there is a database of keys that can be used specifically by students. The only downside is Office isn't included in the package my teacher subscribed to, oh well. There's varying packages which contain more and more software, thus costing more money.
Exactly. If we paid list price, of course we'd switch, but we don't. We pay a lot less - just like when I buy software, as an educational employee I pay about 50 percent what you pay retail. We get Office in our package, though, but we're a University.
This is a show stopper! You can't display the slide presentation on one monitor and the list of slides with notes, etc. another for the presenter to use. Until this gets fixed, it can't be used in most environments as an alternative to Powerpoint.
Just buy a bigger monitor. We use 21 or 24 inchers as our baseline.
There is nothing I live more than reading every thread about the Matrix or Star Wars telling me that certain movies stink. It doesn't grow tired at all.
1. It is darker than the other movies...but not much darker than Empire. I think it's only two scenes that, if removed, would have given this the same rating as the other movies.
You won't like Heaven on Earth then. It's really dark too, even if it has a certain actor who played Legolas.
Is that why, based on everything that was published by the major media regarding about global warming in the early nineties, Florida should be underwater by now, but it's, like, not? The media, as near as I can tell, are all so gung-ho about how big a deal global warming is, they exaggerate it out of all proportion.
If you actually looked at the maps of inundation, you'd see it's mostly around 2024 to 2048 that Florida starts going underwater.
Stick your head in the sandbar, but don't whine to me when the tide comes in.
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Why would you want to intentionally fuck up your car's computer?
Why did/do people make cars into hotrods?
Because it's there.
Because they can.
Next!
After all, cell phone virii only attack those who pay way too much for a car, without increased efficiency ...
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Hmmm, maybe the Matrix is happening
Perhaps you haven't kept up on the legal landscape, but next year, broadcast analogue TV goes dark in the US.
As I said in my original post, congress backed down on that last week. It won't go dark, because consumer pressure forced them to back off.
Again, the market cares nought for man nor beast.
If the price drops to $500 in five years, I agree - it will go dark. If it stays up in the $2000 range you can rant all you want, but the market will choose to continue it.
The price to consumers isn't going to be the cost plus some small markup. The price to consumers will be whatever the manufacturer figures will maximize their profit, which could be quite high considering the demand.
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Ah, I can see you never took marketing or economics courses
The reality is that, until the price drops to about $500, widescale use of HDTVs won't happen, economies of scale won't happen, and the TV stations will have to continue to broadcast in non-HDTV format. Consumer pressure on national forces will ensure that.
So, it is critical to drop the cost down.
It's like cell phones - until they became commodities and cheaper than $500, widescale introduction didn't happen. This can be achieved partially thru consumer leasing or lease to buy options, but the market pushes the price down to the sweet spot.
Same thing happened with radio. And Black and White TV. And color TV. And PCs.
PCs were a bit atypical, in that a higher level was maintained for many years, but recent market actions show the invisible hand cares nought for man nor beast.
Another noticeable thing in the article was that LCD electronics are low cost, but what about low power?
If I can get a 40 inch HDTV screen that uses as much energy as a lightbulb, it has a major impact both on heat and power usage.
until prices drop to under $500 for a useable commercial HDTV, it will never hit full introduction, no matter how much the media industry tries to change it.
Evidence - the reaction of reps just last week delaying required signal death for non-HDTV signal, after a firestorm of consumer complaints at forcing overpriced HDTVs down our gullets.
So, this has been a long time coming.
it's totally legit to rip the CDs you own there and pop them onto your iPod.
Maybe she should travel more. She might meet some Tigers and get into a discussion of copyright infringement with them, over lunch.
Naturally, the tigers will have her for lunch.
I wouldn't worry about promptly reported and fixed Firefox exploits.
It all goes back to my Marketing 101 courses in my (first) BusMgmt degree - until the price drops to $500 for a system, why bother buying it.
Same goes for HDTV from my viewpoint - I've been a tech leader way too often, burned $8000 on a PC or Mac at times, but the risk/reward ratio is not there any more.
The diff between a 3.6G Intel PC with broadband and a 2.4G AMD PC with broadband is way less than 50 percent - more like 20 percent if you have sufficient RAM - so why should I pay $2000 for a Wintel box when I can get one that only costs less than $500 for everything all combined?
That's the prob for MSFT. As price drops for consumer purchase - and people aim for $500 - the OS fraction of $200 plus for MSFT becomes more and more a burden and not worth the cash.
Markets don't care about ideology. They care about choices - and MSFT is not adding enough value to make it worth it's while.
[caveat - I own MSFT shares]
...on the myth of renegade hackers coding in their parent's basements to create the Linux OS. He suggests this hasn't been the case for many years and goes on to claim that of the top 25 core developers, more than 90% of them are fully employed with some of the largest technology companies in the world.
Just because they're fully employed by some of the largest tech companies doesn't mean they don't live in their parent's basements and telecommute.
Set A can always include Set B.
It's like saying that since the wealthiest people in the world are tech geeks, and wealthy people get hot babes, that tech geeks have hot babes.
Perhaps most tech geeks - even those who are wealthy - don't have hot babes (or hunks, whatever) - but most wealthy people (of which tech geeks are a very wealthy subset) do have hot babes/hunks?
Therefore, it's totally possible for them to live in very fancy basements in their parents homes and still be fully employed by big tech firms.
And maybe a few actually own their own homes, but who knows, because the statistics are flawed by virtue of the premise as stated.
Think of it as a Venn diagram in action. Just because top models hang with some economists doesn't make economists party animals and opposite-gender magnets.
My teacher for my networking class has subscribed this year to MSDNAA for about $800, and students and teachers can receive all the operating systems, visual studio, other programs I've never even heard of, etc. We've got two full CD slip cases of MS software, and we get sent new CDs each month. We have XP volume license keys, and for software that isn't a volume licensed version there is a database of keys that can be used specifically by students. The only downside is Office isn't included in the package my teacher subscribed to, oh well. There's varying packages which contain more and more software, thus costing more money.
Exactly. If we paid list price, of course we'd switch, but we don't. We pay a lot less - just like when I buy software, as an educational employee I pay about 50 percent what you pay retail. We get Office in our package, though, but we're a University.
but heck, we have entire buildings built with MSFT money - about 1/4 of all the buildings here, and a lot of the departments.
Let's not be too hasty, shall we? Use the educational discount if it makes sense, and use Linux for servers that do a lot of work and at home.
[caveat - I live in Seattle, this might not be true where you are]
This is a show stopper! You can't display the slide presentation on one monitor and the list of slides with notes, etc. another for the presenter to use. Until this gets fixed, it can't be used in most environments as an alternative to Powerpoint.
Just buy a bigger monitor. We use 21 or 24 inchers as our baseline.
In fact, we surplus anything less than 19 inch.
after hearing that AP was favorably reviewing something better than a MSFT product.
[caveat - I own MSFT shares]
Are you kidding?
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Yeah, right. And WMD will be found tomorrow.
Sorry, I don't believe in your fairy tales. Try another \.er
Causes Forums to log on to you!
And in Soviet America, comrade Google causes Forums to barcode your retina pattern as a good Patriot Act Citizen Comrade.
Same diff.
There is nothing I live more than reading every thread about the Matrix or Star Wars telling me that certain movies stink. It doesn't grow tired at all.
Try the red pill, Luke. Anakin never did.
1. It is darker than the other movies...but not much darker than Empire. I think it's only two scenes that, if removed, would have given this the same rating as the other movies.
You won't like Heaven on Earth then. It's really dark too, even if it has a certain actor who played Legolas.
Force has been good, Yes.
Jar-Jar disemboweled by Anakin. Sad, but not very.
Dancing on Jar-Jar's grave like animatronic puppet I am, yes.
Is that why, based on everything that was published by the major media regarding about global warming in the early nineties, Florida should be underwater by now, but it's, like, not? The media, as near as I can tell, are all so gung-ho about how big a deal global warming is, they exaggerate it out of all proportion.
If you actually looked at the maps of inundation, you'd see it's mostly around 2024 to 2048 that Florida starts going underwater.
Stick your head in the sandbar, but don't whine to me when the tide comes in.
Losing implies you were trying to win. They're just trying to rake in the cash.
How is that different from IBM?
It's just not as obvious, maybe.
there are lies, statistics, and politics.
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the lie is that there isn't global warming.
the statistics can be easily misused by those who ignore the fact that there is global warming.
and the politics is the fact that Tuvalu will still sink under the waves and their entire population will be forced to move to New Zealand.
When you can buy media wholesale (or own it) as those who deny global warming can, it's easy to come up with an article "proving" it doesn't exist.
But it still does.
Here endeth the lesson
There Is No Lumber Cartel.
Let the wooden droids go - be on your way.
Try there is not - only success or failure, or a costarring role in Episode III for Frank Oz.
"Keystroke loggers are rapidly becoming the lure of choice for phishers.
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If we just take away the Wood on the Internets, the Loggers will go home. And then they'll stop phishing for Newbs
It's poorly worded, but it's NOT $500-$6000 a month for the wifi. This is the cost for a place to provide the service.
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The article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer business section said it was $800 a month to get T1 wireless and $500 a month to get 1.5 Mbps.
Sounds pretty well worded to me