OEM licensing runs ~$10 for a copy of XP, or 2% of the total cost of the machine, effectively free.
Looking at the bigger picture, it is cheaper for a company like Dell to just support 1 OS. Think about it, which scenario is cheaper: offering machines with a copy of Windows XP for $10, or offering a choice of Windows and Linux (saving $10 a machine on those that choose Linux), and having to train a group of linux techs? the first option is cheaper by a long shot.
Most of the books I read are references, as an engineer I mark up texts, making notes or re-writing equations. It is hard to earmark, highlight, or otherwise deface an eBook in such a way that helps me digest the material and assists me in future work. It is also easier to flop a book down on the desk next to me and read it, rather than alt-tabbing between a book and my work.
But the marking up issue is the biggest in my book (pun not intended). Handwritten notes are a killer.
3-4% isn't enough to combat inflation. The Fed increased the M3 money supply by 10% in 2005, so 4% would be a 6% loss for many. No thanks. Even the stock market rarely pays that much over time.
You are still caught up on the fact that this direct increase in money supply is a direct increase in inflation. It isn't. I agree I don't want a 3-4% interest rate when I was/am making 3-4 times that in stocks/mutual funds.
(the average stock owner made 2.6% annually according to some recent analyses of real investors between the 80s and the 00s).
Then the "average stock owner" did worse than the stock market average through some incredibly convoluted math I can't begin to comprehend. Do a quick google, the average return was 13%.
To see homes go from $50k to $250k in just 15-20 years is ridiculous.
Depends on where you are. They got for a lot closer to the lower number everywhere I've lived. The number I paid for my house is very close to the number my parents paid for their house 18 years ago when you adjust for inflation and when you consider I moved to a higher income part of the country I may very well have gotten a better deal.
The American dream is to own a home but not fill it with junk.
Again, you are speaking for some, not for all. Don't make generalizations. Not all of us max out credit cards and take out second mortgages.
When you save money in a free market, you generally give it to a bank. In a free market with the Fed, banks that need money will offer better interest rates (not the 1% you get today).
Several online banks offer 3-4%... or you could invest in the stock market. I've beaten those numbers so far this year already in my investments.
By investing that money in a bank, they are free to loan it to stable businesses with good business plans and equity, who are able to pay the loan back. They'll also loan it out to homeowners, but at a much higher interest rate than we see today.
That's one way to do it but then you create an entry barrier to new homeowners, conficting with the american dream. Personally I'm glad things are the way they are.
Higher interest rates all around mean more wealth is created for everyone, rather than the quite theft that inflation takes from us, that confuses the entrepreneurs and that creates a massive amount of debt for your children and grandchildren to pay back.
I am not creating any debt for my descendants... how exactly does this work? How does a mortgage automatically put my descendants in debt? The only thing that puts my descendants in debt is irresponsible money management and that happens under any system. If anything your system makes it worse with higher interest rates.
The US currenty has debt and off-book liabilities totalling over US$70 trillion. We can never pay this back, so we shove it to the next generations.
I'm a moral guy, and I think this is wrong. I'd rather live poorly than make others pay for my mistakes. The rest of the country would rather live beyond their means and let others pay for it.
Irresponsible people exist now, they will exist then. Get over it.
dual layer dvd 9.4 gb. And I doubt Google is gonna give you much more than that. You can automate a 9.4gb dual layer dvd backup...
Do you worry about who might be breaking into your office at night to read your docs?
No, not whatsoever, I work in a classified installation:P My hard drive is physically locked at night disconnected from the network.
but yes count me among the paranoid. At home I take security seriously and lock my stuff up. My business is my business. I don't need my shit coming back to haunt me later in life if someone I know and trust now decides to become vendictive, or if laws change, etc.
Google has stated numerous times that their goal is to "index the world's knowlege." Taking your data from you and archiving it online is one step to that end.
Except when rendered in Firefox, the background of "Find anything using the new Windows Live" bubble is few pixels short at the bottom and the whole page looks odd because of that.
What version of Firefox? Looks fine to me in 1.5.0.1... might want to try upgrading.
He's saying "it isn't feasible to support numerous distributions due to their incompatibilities"; you think creating another distro will solve incompatibilities among the distros?
why? I understand not starting people off with C++, I wouldn't suggest starting someone off with C++, but other than religous zealotry why java over C++?
(1) just because you delete it doesn't mean *they* will delete it - think documents you might regret seeing in court.
(2) why do you think Google is going to give you free storage? They aren't benevolent, they are using your data to make a quick buck. Do you really want them to aggregate your life based off your data so they can advertise to you?
(3) you don't know who will have access to your data.
(4) is it really worth having your data out of your hands? You can get 16x dual layer DVD burners for $24.00. Media is pretty cheap too nowadays. Back it up yourself and don't feed the Google Monster, don't worry about your private life coming back to haunt you.
My outlook consumes over 100mb of space; my messages only go back 4 months and I'm a lowly peon where I work. Take someone higher up on higher traffic distribution lists with excel spreadsheets / word documents who has been at the company for a few years and doesn't clean out irrelevant emails (or AutoArchive) and yeah, you will have a lot of users at a gig and a lot of users over that.
The ones at 10+ gigs probably - like I said - are on distribution lists and aren't deleting attachments.
Traditional fabrics are woven in 2 dimensions. Consider cloth a plane, a 2 dimensional entity. It is wrapped about a 3-D body to create a piece of clothing. Cloth is very 2-dimensional.
Instead here the fabrics are being considered in three dimensions from square one - their manufacture is in three directions to provide sweat wicking and other interesting properties.
Depends who put it there. If Doritos put it there, hey, its Doritos product, and it is a free market. The consumer will decide whether they want to consume doritos with an alternate beverage or consume another chip.
If however Pepsi had some say in the design there are other issues...
*THAT* is the question GP was asking and you completely missed...
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OEM licensing runs ~$10 for a copy of XP, or 2% of the total cost of the machine, effectively free.
Looking at the bigger picture, it is cheaper for a company like Dell to just support 1 OS. Think about it, which scenario is cheaper: offering machines with a copy of Windows XP for $10, or offering a choice of Windows and Linux (saving $10 a machine on those that choose Linux), and having to train a group of linux techs? the first option is cheaper by a long shot.
yeah, your right, the artificial sugar triggered her migraine :)
because start.com, the beta version of live.com, predates google.com/ig. You can read the post here Google copied Microsoft. Check and mate.
Most of the books I read are references, as an engineer I mark up texts, making notes or re-writing equations. It is hard to earmark, highlight, or otherwise deface an eBook in such a way that helps me digest the material and assists me in future work. It is also easier to flop a book down on the desk next to me and read it, rather than alt-tabbing between a book and my work.
But the marking up issue is the biggest in my book (pun not intended). Handwritten notes are a killer.
3-4% isn't enough to combat inflation. The Fed increased the M3 money supply by 10% in 2005, so 4% would be a 6% loss for many. No thanks. Even the stock market rarely pays that much over time .
You are still caught up on the fact that this direct increase in money supply is a direct increase in inflation. It isn't. I agree I don't want a 3-4% interest rate when I was/am making 3-4 times that in stocks/mutual funds.
(the average stock owner made 2.6% annually according to some recent analyses of real investors between the 80s and the 00s).
Then the "average stock owner" did worse than the stock market average through some incredibly convoluted math I can't begin to comprehend. Do a quick google, the average return was 13%.
To see homes go from $50k to $250k in just 15-20 years is ridiculous.
Depends on where you are. They got for a lot closer to the lower number everywhere I've lived. The number I paid for my house is very close to the number my parents paid for their house 18 years ago when you adjust for inflation and when you consider I moved to a higher income part of the country I may very well have gotten a better deal.
The American dream is to own a home but not fill it with junk.
Again, you are speaking for some, not for all. Don't make generalizations. Not all of us max out credit cards and take out second mortgages.
When you save money in a free market, you generally give it to a bank. In a free market with the Fed, banks that need money will offer better interest rates (not the 1% you get today).
... or you could invest in the stock market. I've beaten those numbers so far this year already in my investments.
Several online banks offer 3-4%
By investing that money in a bank, they are free to loan it to stable businesses with good business plans and equity, who are able to pay the loan back. They'll also loan it out to homeowners, but at a much higher interest rate than we see today.
That's one way to do it but then you create an entry barrier to new homeowners, conficting with the american dream. Personally I'm glad things are the way they are.
Higher interest rates all around mean more wealth is created for everyone, rather than the quite theft that inflation takes from us, that confuses the entrepreneurs and that creates a massive amount of debt for your children and grandchildren to pay back.
I am not creating any debt for my descendants... how exactly does this work? How does a mortgage automatically put my descendants in debt? The only thing that puts my descendants in debt is irresponsible money management and that happens under any system. If anything your system makes it worse with higher interest rates.
The US currenty has debt and off-book liabilities totalling over US$70 trillion. We can never pay this back, so we shove it to the next generations.
I'm a moral guy, and I think this is wrong. I'd rather live poorly than make others pay for my mistakes. The rest of the country would rather live beyond their means and let others pay for it.
Irresponsible people exist now, they will exist then. Get over it.
dual layer dvd 9.4 gb. And I doubt Google is gonna give you much more than that. You can automate a 9.4gb dual layer dvd backup...
:P My hard drive is physically locked at night disconnected from the network.
Do you worry about who might be breaking into your office at night to read your docs?
No, not whatsoever, I work in a classified installation
but yes count me among the paranoid. At home I take security seriously and lock my stuff up. My business is my business. I don't need my shit coming back to haunt me later in life if someone I know and trust now decides to become vendictive, or if laws change, etc.
Google has stated numerous times that their goal is to "index the world's knowlege." Taking your data from you and archiving it online is one step to that end.
"I'm running linux kernel 0.0.9, it's not my problem it doesn't support the latest and greatest hardware"...
Yes it it is.
Except when rendered in Firefox, the background of "Find anything using the new Windows Live" bubble is few pixels short at the bottom and the whole page looks odd because of that.
What version of Firefox? Looks fine to me in 1.5.0.1... might want to try upgrading.
he complained about clutter, not size. And it takes less than 2 second to load on my DSL. Those scripts don't have to load before you can search.
Simpler than Google
:P
check and mate
... gmail breaks the back button too ...
... no they didnt break the backbutton in firefox 1.5.0.1 ... Microsoft 1, Google 0!)
(and actually
(especially with all the clutter on the screen).
Dude, you miss the point... this is supposed to contend with this: Google Customized Home. Except Live.com actually came first. If you want to you can close all of the boxes and get a search page that is just as simple as the Google page - a "Windows Live beta" splash icon in the upper left hand corner (smaller than the Google logo), a search box in the middle of the page, and a very small "©2006 Microsoft | privacy | legal | feedback | support | Windows Live Ideas" at the bottom. Actually cleaner than Google's default page.
Just AJAX, same as Google's customized home
He's saying "it isn't feasible to support numerous distributions due to their incompatibilities"; you think creating another distro will solve incompatibilities among the distros?
why? I understand not starting people off with C++, I wouldn't suggest starting someone off with C++, but other than religous zealotry why java over C++?
where I work only archived emails are saved locally. And honestly I wouldn't be suprised if auto archived emails are saved on Exchange as well.
(a lot of companies have good reason to save emails...)
(1) just because you delete it doesn't mean *they* will delete it - think documents you might regret seeing in court.
(2) why do you think Google is going to give you free storage? They aren't benevolent, they are using your data to make a quick buck. Do you really want them to aggregate your life based off your data so they can advertise to you?
(3) you don't know who will have access to your data.
(4) is it really worth having your data out of your hands? You can get 16x dual layer DVD burners for $24.00. Media is pretty cheap too nowadays. Back it up yourself and don't feed the Google Monster, don't worry about your private life coming back to haunt you.
snaaaaake! its a snaaaaake!
My outlook consumes over 100mb of space; my messages only go back 4 months and I'm a lowly peon where I work. Take someone higher up on higher traffic distribution lists with excel spreadsheets / word documents who has been at the company for a few years and doesn't clean out irrelevant emails (or AutoArchive) and yeah, you will have a lot of users at a gig and a lot of users over that.
The ones at 10+ gigs probably - like I said - are on distribution lists and aren't deleting attachments.
Cause my company's intranet webmail is open two tabs over in Firefox...
Traditional fabrics are woven in 2 dimensions. Consider cloth a plane, a 2 dimensional entity. It is wrapped about a 3-D body to create a piece of clothing. Cloth is very 2-dimensional.
Instead here the fabrics are being considered in three dimensions from square one - their manufacture is in three directions to provide sweat wicking and other interesting properties.
Sorry, don't drink Pepsi... and the analogy is borked then cause intel doesn't own a major stake in Skype as far as I can tell.
At this point in time we don't know why there is a processor preference in Skype.
Was it a payback from Intel?
Was it some technical engineering thing at Skype?
I don't know, you don't know. That is the point of this subpoena.
Depends who put it there. If Doritos put it there, hey, its Doritos product, and it is a free market. The consumer will decide whether they want to consume doritos with an alternate beverage or consume another chip.
If however Pepsi had some say in the design there are other issues...
*THAT* is the question GP was asking and you completely missed...
EQ2 at 30FPS :P
(i kid, i kid)