How much trust is needed? The U.S. isn't enforcing any laws internationally. You just have to register your DNS entries here. Other than that it's open to do what you want as far as I can tell. Are you worried that the U.S. will no longer allow other countries to register domain names?
There is nothing stopping other countries from making their own internet, with their own DNS servers. Hell, it could probably be technically better if they did it right.
It would kind of defeat the purpose of the internet though. You lose the worldwide collaberation, and the global community aspect that have made the internet what it is today.
I don't see why people feel the need for changes. Things are working just fine as they are. What benefit is there? Maybe the ability to enforce a global DMCA? That would be just fantastic.
If anyone is going to get control it should be Amsterdam. It would be an online free for all.
It seems to me like there is beginning to be a greater divide between the people who create components and the people who take those components and make them into something useful. It's not that they *cant* understand it, but more that they don't either need or want to. Don't worry about it at this point, there is still a place for both types for a long time to come.
The school can not force you to learn no matter how great the teacher is. No matter what school you go to you will not get out any more than you put into your education, and I'm not talking about money.
I hear people talk about how great someone is based on what school they went to. The school doesn't cause you to be great at your job, it's just a nudge in the right direction at best.
This just reminds me of all the George Carlin euphamisms.
"water landing"... we're gonna crash into the water and die
"let you go"... you're freakin' FIRED!!...
Microsoft has a long time before this change happens. People fear change and will cling to their existing apps and OS as long as they can before the pressure from others to switch breaks them. It took us a long time to get away from ISA bus, and we still have serial and parallel connectors on computers for some reason. Software is the same thing. If someone has something that works for them they are not likely to switch.
The other problem is that of how you make money from online apps. Micro payments? Subscription? Advertising model? DRM download?
A lot of people like the idea of buying something and having a CD that you can reinstall anytime you want to without paying any more money. To me that eliminates DRM download as a good way of getting software.
Micro payments are still a fantasy that may not ever actually happen.
Subscription could work, but you have to come up with a way to make it really cheap and good enough to warrant paying for it. If you could have an online version of and office style suite for $1 or $2 a month it could be worthwhile. Always having the latest version could be a good thing.
An advertising model could work also. Maybe something like GMail where it scans the contents of the office document you are working on and shows related links. I know that the tinfoil hat crowd would fear this, but it would be free.
If the web is the platform, is there any reason for a Google OS? I suppose they could just market their own flavor of Linux if they want to, but any more than that would probably not be a worthwhile investment for Google. If the web truly becomes the platform then the OS is virtually irrelevant and the price for the OS eventually drops as people realize that it's not the main thing they need anymore. As fewer people upgrade at the first whisper from Microsoft the demand for OSs drops and the price drops.
It seems like it's just the opposite of the article description. Stupid people seem to reproduce more from what I have seen. Witness the logic of reproducing to get a bigger welfare check.
I have to agree with you. I bought 3 Deathstars on the same day, and all of them failed within a year and a half. I will stick with Western Digital or Seagate for my next few computers. Maybe Hitachi can come up with something better and improve on the quality. It's going to take some time to win me back though.
I've also had issues with Abit motherboards. Big stack of dead ones in my closet. They claim to have improved quality recently. Maybe I'll give them another chance in a couple of years.
Why is it that nVidia and ATI can make significant changes to their graphics chips every year, but Intel and AMD can only manage seemingly much smaller changes and over a wider timespan?
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Microsoft technology, newbie programmers, and nuclear power. Somehow it seems like these things just should never go together.
I have never heard of this. Are these laws actually enforced, or are they just there and ignored?
How much trust is needed? The U.S. isn't enforcing any laws internationally. You just have to register your DNS entries here. Other than that it's open to do what you want as far as I can tell. Are you worried that the U.S. will no longer allow other countries to register domain names?
There is nothing stopping other countries from making their own internet, with their own DNS servers. Hell, it could probably be technically better if they did it right.
It would kind of defeat the purpose of the internet though. You lose the worldwide collaberation, and the global community aspect that have made the internet what it is today.
I don't see why people feel the need for changes. Things are working just fine as they are. What benefit is there? Maybe the ability to enforce a global DMCA? That would be just fantastic.
If anyone is going to get control it should be Amsterdam. It would be an online free for all.
It seems to me like there is beginning to be a greater divide between the people who create components and the people who take those components and make them into something useful. It's not that they *cant* understand it, but more that they don't either need or want to. Don't worry about it at this point, there is still a place for both types for a long time to come.
The school can not force you to learn no matter how great the teacher is. No matter what school you go to you will not get out any more than you put into your education, and I'm not talking about money.
I hear people talk about how great someone is based on what school they went to. The school doesn't cause you to be great at your job, it's just a nudge in the right direction at best.
This just reminds me of all the George Carlin euphamisms. "water landing"... we're gonna crash into the water and die "let you go"... you're freakin' FIRED!! ...
Microsoft has a long time before this change happens. People fear change and will cling to their existing apps and OS as long as they can before the pressure from others to switch breaks them. It took us a long time to get away from ISA bus, and we still have serial and parallel connectors on computers for some reason. Software is the same thing. If someone has something that works for them they are not likely to switch.
The other problem is that of how you make money from online apps. Micro payments? Subscription? Advertising model? DRM download?
A lot of people like the idea of buying something and having a CD that you can reinstall anytime you want to without paying any more money. To me that eliminates DRM download as a good way of getting software.
Micro payments are still a fantasy that may not ever actually happen.
Subscription could work, but you have to come up with a way to make it really cheap and good enough to warrant paying for it. If you could have an online version of and office style suite for $1 or $2 a month it could be worthwhile. Always having the latest version could be a good thing.
An advertising model could work also. Maybe something like GMail where it scans the contents of the office document you are working on and shows related links. I know that the tinfoil hat crowd would fear this, but it would be free.
If the web is the platform, is there any reason for a Google OS? I suppose they could just market their own flavor of Linux if they want to, but any more than that would probably not be a worthwhile investment for Google. If the web truly becomes the platform then the OS is virtually irrelevant and the price for the OS eventually drops as people realize that it's not the main thing they need anymore. As fewer people upgrade at the first whisper from Microsoft the demand for OSs drops and the price drops.
And how many years did this take them on the same version?
that data is protected under the DMCA. Please wait patiently for your court summons.
So what we need to do is kill off all those animals exhaling CO2. Thanks, great idea!
I don't know. It was probably one of Pauly Shore's favorite words.
The tabs in Visual Studio can be reordered. So, maybe they'll do it.
Just the cost of the Blue Man Group alone would put this price at $1000/cpu!
Just have Superman stand in the middle and spin really fast in the opposite direction!
It seems like it's just the opposite of the article description. Stupid people seem to reproduce more from what I have seen. Witness the logic of reproducing to get a bigger welfare check.
I have to agree with you. I bought 3 Deathstars on the same day, and all of them failed within a year and a half. I will stick with Western Digital or Seagate for my next few computers. Maybe Hitachi can come up with something better and improve on the quality. It's going to take some time to win me back though. I've also had issues with Abit motherboards. Big stack of dead ones in my closet. They claim to have improved quality recently. Maybe I'll give them another chance in a couple of years.
All of my Deathstars blew up like someone hit them with a torpedo or something.
You left out JB, the JiggaByte derived from the JiggaWatt.
Please tell me that these are not built on the same technology as the old IBM Deathstars.
Why should installing a FREE trial allow you to get a cheaper version?
I would like to know what kind of servers, how many, network bandwidth, etc., for WoW.
Why is it that nVidia and ATI can make significant changes to their graphics chips every year, but Intel and AMD can only manage seemingly much smaller changes and over a wider timespan?
Maybe at the moment. But now that they are available you can be sure that develpers are beginning to write code to take advantage of multi-core cpus.
There is also a X2 3800 now that is not too much more than Intel's dual core cpu.