Hey, answer me this, don't you have to already have an intel mac to run bootcamp? It makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever that is the goal.
Now if Apple were to do it the other way [sell OSX for PC version 10.5.XX] then I'd buy it (both the OS & this stupid article). Call me silly, but the author seems to be in another dimension.
Wow, why not a rebate of say 100.00 to make a user switch from win-ux and just fill a warehouse with the junk.
When it's full they can have a new ad campaign with bulldozers loading barges with all the junk and crow about how many people switched. They could probably write it all off as marketing costs and sell more hardware to boot!. Apple wins!
Yes, now that the legal discovery process has begun, now is the time to get the public relations machinery in gear.
Poor-mouthing and playing up their enemy's stature so the judge will look sympathetically at Intel and say: "Oh poor Intel, even though your enemy makes a good case, the competition has leveled out satisfactorily in this case... case dismissed!"
I believe this could very-well be the strategy at this point in time. IANAL but playing wounded to the judge will/should score them points.
For the vast majority of US households lucky enough to have better than dial up, the ISP forbids running "servers" of any kind.
You do realize those restrictions are in place for "home" broadband specifically. Pony up some cash and yes, you too can be your own web/email/ftp server with no restrictions whatsoever.
Most folks have absolutely no reason to have their own web/email/ftp server, and if you did you would be very willing to pay about $100.00 a month for the right to have one.
Would Microsoft want a (1) record label, a (2) film studio or a (3)consumer electronics business?
(1)Yes, (2)Yes & (3)Yes!
(1) gets you revenue from all the purchases from iTMS + a valuable music catalog and an avenue to start up the MS Live Music Store (TM). (2) gets you the contenet for IPTV and/or streaming video (think of the value of the catalog alone) and opens up the MS Live Video On Demand (TM) Store. And (3) means they can go to-toe with apple as an upscale hardware seller/provider. The Dells/Gateways of the world could always be persuaded to sign off if the margin is considerably greater than the clone-makers. Then the fanboys can fulfill their innate need to spend more money on software then is neccessary/warranted!
It make sense to me because with more products to hawk they aren't locked into relying on an upgrade market/new oem software only model.
It's not that I didn't understand, I was merely making a point that if linux was going to take over because a book comes with a distro then you could chart its progress. Because I service computers/networks as a job, I just do not see any penetration in the marketplace. People ask me questions all the time but not a one has ever asked me about linux.
I always tell cutomers that they don't need MS-Office, that if they already have it to save files as RTF's then everyone can read/edit that document on any box around. I also install a copy of OO2.0 just to prove the point they don't need MS-Office and what do you think happens? They say get me a copy of MS-Office basic and install it on their machine.
That goes likewise after I wipe a drive and the customer does not have a restore disk, I offer to put an Ubuntu OS on their machine for free (after considerable explanation), but they'll always pay the price for an OEM install disk (about 150.00).
Maybe someday Linux & FOSS will make headway in the marketplace but from what I see the average user still has trouble copying/pasting between apps.
According to Amazon's ratings, the two top-selling books for Linux and MS-XP have the following ratings:
Linux Bible 2006
Paperback: 912 pages
Publisher: Wiley; Bk/CD/DVD edition (January 30, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 0471754897
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,483 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
Yesterday: #20,527 in Books
Microsoft Windows XP Inside Out, 2nd Edition.
Paperback: 1344 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 20th Bk&Cr edition (November 3, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 073562044X
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,871 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
Yesterday: #3,073 in Books
I have a smart display and love it. What is especially nice about mine (viewsonic 5.4" size) is the fact I don't need a special stylus, a fingernail will do. I hope that more touch products without special stylii are marketed.
That being said, it's a little 5.4" screen that works with any XP-Pro or server RDP enabled box. Got mine for 400 bucks after it was discontinued with keyboard and stand included. It probably weighs 1.5 lbs. and has a stand and keyboard with USB's for the keyboard & mouse. It really free's me up to check on backups, read mail, surf etc... all while laying down on my couch in front of the plasma watching old movies.
I believe anyone who ever got to play with one would agree that it is functional, even just being a slave to another machine. But having something around the same size with a fast processor, storage and an OS should be great! I hope they can sell these at the published price-points because Smart Display was a failure due to the high price. For around $1200.00 when they were first marketed was nothing but a rich-toy. I never would have bought one for that price. But south of $1000.00 for something similar with more than just a screen, WOW... Can't wait!
What if IPV6 was adopted to its' fullest potential? Wouldn't/couldn't that have an impact IF the networks were open to all? ISP's (a so-called on-ramp) in my mind only came about because of scarcity of addresses and the use of NAT! What if phone service was considered the only pre-requisite to internet access ('ala, common carrier)? If everything that could be accessed via its' own unique IPadd was internet aware then that would surely disintegrate the integrators (ISP's)
Standard was nearly destroyed by a new competitor: gasoline.
Just a side note for the record:
My grandfather (If alive would be well over 110 years old) used to be the foreman of the main Standard Oil refinery in Cleveland on the banks of the Cuyahoga River.
The story he told me was that after gasoline won out to fuel automobiles they would routinely dump kerosene into the river as they had no way to market the excess capacity. Standard Oil put the whalers out of business by producing a cheaper product (kerosene) and after the advent of the gasoline engine they couldn't produce gasoline fast-enough for a spell.
As he explained to me about the cracking process, for every gallon of oil you would get a fixed quantity of so much of the other (heavier) petroleum components since gasoline is much lighter (further up the refinery cracking tower) than kerosene. Thank goodness that jets, diesel and home heating oils filled that market void.
The market fixes almost all problems, even nasty things like gross pollution!
You can't change the past, live your life to make the future and markets better everyday!
It would seem you buy the hardware first @ $360.00 then the rest is all gravy (software and such) @ $720.00. Retail, the system is probably about 800.00. Still not a bad deal.
Isn't our GOD(vermin)t going to subsidize the purchase of settop boxes for the poor when the digital revolution (i.e. RESOLUTION)is implemented? Wow what a concept... get into the market with both feet and get extra revenue from the trough!
As usual, the car manufacturers will start to paste the hybrid label on anything with wheels. There used to be an SUV tax (markup) because they were the hot product. They were able to reduce the price of their econobox cars because they were making so much freakin' money from SUV's. Looks like it has switched the other way, judging by the falling prices of SUV's.
We'll be buying a big +6000lb'er and guess what, they're cheap now! Thank you to all the hybrid buyers out there and congress for those generous tax-breaks on +6000 GVW vehicles.
I feel your pain as I too have wrestled with this very subject.
In a perfect world all formats would (should) be compatible but since we live on earth with all these competing interests I took the only route I could. It's simply that I started out with mp3's and that is the only way I will store/listen/use from now on. With all the time invested in ripping/encoding/tagging already I cannot bring myself to change formats... even to try them out!
So no ITMS, SONY or other DRM-laden purveyor of goods. If it's not mp3 it's just not for me. They are the ones who lose my business by not embracing a true standard.
My Emusic account gets used monthly (as far as it goes) and because I've never been a *top-tier* music follower (*what's hot with the masses today*), I find plenty of great stuff and it's all DRM-less mp3's. (No you won't find titles on all the larger labels or SONY's labels but what you will find a lot of indie stuff that is listenable.
This gives me the idea that all the talk about hosted apps/services/storage is way overblown. Google shows their hand M$ bites, nothing to show for it (yet); yet let's create some more buzz how you should keep your stuff in some far-away place with little control.
I believe that even though it sounds good, people are reluctant only because ownership physically changes hands. Which in the business world that is an important distinction. I know this may seem offtopic but this posting really does point in this direction.
Maybe with the history of easily being able to access your servers/workstations via a multitude of ways (term servs, RDC, VPN, Citrix... etc.), the market just isn't getting worked up about it. Which in M$'s case, you get that ability standard with as little as 1 online XP box (RDC), but for us with servers and domain controllers RDC is a godsend...
Me, as a business owner will gladly deal with licensing fees for a variety of uses instead of leasing space for a monthly/subscription price. Even though EULA-wise you technically don't own anything M$, but physical possesion alludes that it is a tangible asset.
I was at a Microsoft event last month where the presenter was really talking up Microsoft® Virtual PC 2004 as being the cats meow. He actually spent 10 minutes out of the 3hr+ technet program to hawk it.
So..... I went to look it up after seeing the story posted (No, I didn't RTFA) but they had links to download a free 45 day trial and the listed price was ($129.00 MSRP) for the software title. So then I went to VMWare Inc's site to compare products and darn it if MS is undercutting their price by $60.00 ($189.00 MSRP)for their VMware Workstation 5.
Call me cynical but it smells like a little competitive marketing!
When we were in the market for a reliable, functional and full-featured NAS appliance we found the offerings lacking. The only thing available besides a snap-server was a unit by Fastora. It had so much more to offer at the price than the snap-server that it was a no-brainer.
Besides having multiple NICS (1-10/100 and 1-100 baseT) it also had 2 hot-swappable harddrives. The VIA C3 processor is pretty decent in this unit. (the file sever is now dual XEON and it is just noticeably faster *not headsnapping-fast*) it came stock with 512MB RAM.
The user interface is very handy and seeing it is the windows storage server edition you can also use remote desktop to do everything else. We originally used it as a file server which it performed admirably, it is now used for backups only. What's great is its size which is barely bigger than a shoe-box.
It's good to see this market developing a little bit more. I know Buffalo's terrawhatever unit looks pretty handy for $1.00 a gig, but there was no hot-swap when I originally looked them over.
Alois Senefelder was no slouch either. Gutenberg's concept was revolutionary, but Senefelder really transformed the printing process through lithography!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Senefelder
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Hey, answer me this, don't you have to already have an intel mac to run bootcamp? It makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever that is the goal.
Now if Apple were to do it the other way [sell OSX for PC version 10.5.XX] then I'd buy it (both the OS & this stupid article). Call me silly, but the author seems to be in another dimension.
Wow, why not a rebate of say 100.00 to make a user switch from win-ux and just fill a warehouse with the junk.
When it's full they can have a new ad campaign with bulldozers loading barges with all the junk and crow about how many people switched. They could probably write it all off as marketing costs and sell more hardware to boot!. Apple wins!
Yes, now that the legal discovery process has begun, now is the time to get the public relations machinery in gear.
Poor-mouthing and playing up their enemy's stature so the judge will look sympathetically at Intel and say:
"Oh poor Intel, even though your enemy makes a good case, the competition has leveled out satisfactorily in this case... case dismissed!"
I believe this could very-well be the strategy at this point in time. IANAL but playing wounded to the judge will/should score them points.
Alt title could be When Penguins Attack!
For the vast majority of US households lucky enough to have better than dial up, the ISP forbids running "servers" of any kind.
You do realize those restrictions are in place for "home" broadband specifically. Pony up some cash and yes, you too can be your own web/email/ftp server with no restrictions whatsoever.
Most folks have absolutely no reason to have their own web/email/ftp server, and if you did you would be very willing to pay about $100.00 a month for the right to have one.
.Damn, I never previewed this... .
Software should be hardware
(1)Yes, (2)Yes & (3)Yes!
(1) gets you revenue from all the purchases from iTMS + a valuable music catalog and an avenue to start up the MS Live Music Store (TM).
It make sense to me because with more products to hawk they aren't locked into relying on an upgrade market/new oem software only model.(2) gets you the contenet for IPTV and/or streaming video (think of the value of the catalog alone) and opens up the MS Live Video On Demand (TM) Store.
And (3) means they can go to-toe with apple as an upscale hardware seller/provider.
The Dells/Gateways of the world could always be persuaded to sign off if the margin is considerably greater than the clone-makers. Then the fanboys can fulfill their innate need to spend more money on software then is neccessary/warranted!
Blair lied, cellphones died!
It's not that I didn't understand, I was merely making a point that if linux was going to take over because a book comes with a distro then you could chart its progress. Because I service computers/networks as a job, I just do not see any penetration in the marketplace. People ask me questions all the time but not a one has ever asked me about linux.
I always tell cutomers that they don't need MS-Office, that if they already have it to save files as RTF's then everyone can read/edit that document on any box around. I also install a copy of OO2.0 just to prove the point they don't need MS-Office and what do you think happens? They say get me a copy of MS-Office basic and install it on their machine.
That goes likewise after I wipe a drive and the customer does not have a restore disk, I offer to put an Ubuntu OS on their machine for free (after considerable explanation), but they'll always pay the price for an OEM install disk (about 150.00).
Maybe someday Linux & FOSS will make headway in the marketplace but from what I see the average user still has trouble copying/pasting between apps.
Looks like the value never shifted.
According to Amazon's ratings, the two top-selling books for Linux and MS-XP have the following ratings:
Paperback: 912 pages
Publisher: Wiley; Bk/CD/DVD edition (January 30, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 0471754897
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #7,483 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
Yesterday: #20,527 in Books
Paperback: 1344 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press; 20th Bk&Cr edition (November 3, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN: 073562044X
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,871 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
Yesterday: #3,073 in Books
I have a smart display and love it. What is especially nice about mine (viewsonic 5.4" size) is the fact I don't need a special stylus, a fingernail will do. I hope that more touch products without special stylii are marketed.
That being said, it's a little 5.4" screen that works with any XP-Pro or server RDP enabled box. Got mine for 400 bucks after it was discontinued with keyboard and stand included. It probably weighs 1.5 lbs. and has a stand and keyboard with USB's for the keyboard & mouse. It really free's me up to check on backups, read mail, surf etc... all while laying down on my couch in front of the plasma watching old movies.
I believe anyone who ever got to play with one would agree that it is functional, even just being a slave to another machine. But having something around the same size with a fast processor, storage and an OS should be great! I hope they can sell these at the published price-points because Smart Display was a failure due to the high price. For around $1200.00 when they were first marketed was nothing but a rich-toy. I never would have bought one for that price. But south of $1000.00 for something similar with more than just a screen, WOW... Can't wait!
Never be a fan-boy, just callsum like I seeum!
You'd notice a big difference, not only would the spelling and grammar be flawless, the ideas would be rational!
No trick, just a setting change will do.
control panel>internet options>advanced[tab]>Search from address bar select: Just display the results in the main window.
What if IPV6 was adopted to its' fullest potential? Wouldn't/couldn't that have an impact IF the networks were open to all? ISP's (a so-called on-ramp) in my mind only came about because of scarcity of addresses and the use of NAT! What if phone service was considered the only pre-requisite to internet access ('ala, common carrier)? If everything that could be accessed via its' own unique IPadd was internet aware then that would surely disintegrate the integrators (ISP's)
Just a tought....
Just a side note for the record:
My grandfather (If alive would be well over 110 years old) used to be the foreman of the main Standard Oil refinery in Cleveland on the banks of the Cuyahoga River.
The story he told me was that after gasoline won out to fuel automobiles they would routinely dump kerosene into the river as they had no way to market the excess capacity. Standard Oil put the whalers out of business by producing a cheaper product (kerosene) and after the advent of the gasoline engine they couldn't produce gasoline fast-enough for a spell.
As he explained to me about the cracking process, for every gallon of oil you would get a fixed quantity of so much of the other (heavier) petroleum components since gasoline is much lighter (further up the refinery cracking tower) than kerosene. Thank goodness that jets, diesel and home heating oils filled that market void.
The market fixes almost all problems, even nasty things like gross pollution!
You can't change the past, live your life to make the future and markets better everyday!
Flame Away!
It would seem you buy the hardware first @ $360.00 then the rest is all gravy (software and such) @ $720.00. Retail, the system is probably about 800.00. Still not a bad deal.
If you must answer that, just watch "Village of the Damned"!
http://imdb.com/title/tt0054443/
Chew on that angle
As usual, the car manufacturers will start to paste the hybrid label on anything with wheels. There used to be an SUV tax (markup) because they were the hot product. They were able to reduce the price of their econobox cars because they were making so much freakin' money from SUV's. Looks like it has switched the other way, judging by the falling prices of SUV's.
We'll be buying a big +6000lb'er and guess what, they're cheap now! Thank you to all the hybrid buyers out there and congress for those generous tax-breaks on +6000 GVW vehicles.
In a perfect world all formats would (should) be compatible but since we live on earth with all these competing interests I took the only route I could. It's simply that I started out with mp3's and that is the only way I will store/listen/use from now on. With all the time invested in ripping/encoding/tagging already I cannot bring myself to change formats... even to try them out!
So no ITMS, SONY or other DRM-laden purveyor of goods. If it's not mp3 it's just not for me. They are the ones who lose my business by not embracing a true standard.
My Emusic account gets used monthly (as far as it goes) and because I've never been a *top-tier* music follower (*what's hot with the masses today*), I find plenty of great stuff and it's all DRM-less mp3's. (No you won't find titles on all the larger labels or SONY's labels but what you will find a lot of indie stuff that is listenable.
This gives me the idea that all the talk about hosted apps/services/storage is way overblown. Google shows their hand M$ bites, nothing to show for it (yet); yet let's create some more buzz how you should keep your stuff in some far-away place with little control.
I believe that even though it sounds good, people are reluctant only because ownership physically changes hands. Which in the business world that is an important distinction. I know this may seem offtopic but this posting really does point in this direction.
Maybe with the history of easily being able to access your servers/workstations via a multitude of ways (term servs, RDC, VPN, Citrix... etc.), the market just isn't getting worked up about it. Which in M$'s case, you get that ability standard with as little as 1 online XP box (RDC), but for us with servers and domain controllers RDC is a godsend...
Me, as a business owner will gladly deal with licensing fees for a variety of uses instead of leasing space for a monthly/subscription price. Even though EULA-wise you technically don't own anything M$, but physical possesion alludes that it is a tangible asset.
I was at a Microsoft event last month where the presenter was really talking up Microsoft® Virtual PC 2004 as being the cats meow. He actually spent 10 minutes out of the 3hr+ technet program to hawk it.
So..... I went to look it up after seeing the story posted (No, I didn't RTFA) but they had links to download a free 45 day trial and the listed price was ($129.00 MSRP) for the software title. So then I went to VMWare Inc's site to compare products and darn it if MS is undercutting their price by $60.00 ($189.00 MSRP)for their VMware Workstation 5.
Call me cynical but it smells like a little competitive marketing!
Besides having multiple NICS (1-10/100 and 1-100 baseT) it also had 2 hot-swappable harddrives. The VIA C3 processor is pretty decent in this unit. (the file sever is now dual XEON and it is just noticeably faster *not headsnapping-fast*) it came stock with 512MB RAM.
The user interface is very handy and seeing it is the windows storage server edition you can also use remote desktop to do everything else. We originally used it as a file server which it performed admirably, it is now used for backups only. What's great is its size which is barely bigger than a shoe-box.
It's good to see this market developing a little bit more. I know Buffalo's terrawhatever unit looks pretty handy for $1.00 a gig, but there was no hot-swap when I originally looked them over.
http://www.fastora.com/product_index.php?doc_name= nas-t2w
Alois Senefelder was no slouch either. Gutenberg's concept was revolutionary, but Senefelder really transformed the printing process through lithography! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Senefelder