From a personal computing standpoint, that drives sales because while people can use newer programs on older hardware, they tend to run slower.
From a business prospective, they loss in productivity from slow equiptment is less than the cost of an upgrade. That is why I type this on an Intel Pentium II. As a journalist, I write my articles with Word 97 and brows the Internet with IE 6, suprisingly. (Firefox doesn't work with our current network configueration, but we're working on that... I hope.)
Lag is an issue from time to time. To open a.pdf takes almost a minute, giving me time for a trip to the water cooler. And one of my co-workers, almost daily, slaps his machine, talking about "hot lead" as an IT solution.
Now if we were to switch to Linux and get newer, cheap systems, it might not cost that much. Hmmm... I think I have figured out a project for this week. Something more exciting than the motercycle v.s. bear MVA.
I feel no remorse for EA and their stupidity. And I must smile at this, after they overtook Westwood and bastardized the Command and Conquer Universe.
While playablity increased, plot is lacking. It seems with Battle Field 2, EA is getting rid of playability as well.
Well the prick does have a point. After all, if advertisers stop supporting Web sites, then they may have to charge for content.
However, wouldn't be a novel idea to have advertisments that annoy people. I mean eliminating pop-ups is not something difficult to do.
Look at/. Ads exist, but they are not annoying. They don't inhbit the usability of the Web site, and further to the point, they are integrated rather well with the design.
What annoys me the most are the ads that jump out of their little box and block the content I am looking at. That and ones with sounds as well. Annoying indeed.
I wouldn't doubt it. Or they may make it available on computers in the Municipal Building.
Being a reporter in a small town, it's easy to see that how fearful of technology some people are, and how difficult it is to get someone to give up information that should be free knowledge.
Take public schools for instance. Pennsylvania's Department of Education had a large amount of information available about public schools. However this abundence of data has been reduced to this (.pdf).
Uncomfirmed report, but Sen. Murry (D-Wash.) is aware of the action and is against it, though it is not her top priority.
At least someone is on the side of freedom.
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I guess it goes to show you that some more thoughts should go into headlines, or use lowercase letters for everything but proper names.
From a personal computing standpoint, that drives sales because while people can use newer programs on older hardware, they tend to run slower. From a business prospective, they loss in productivity from slow equiptment is less than the cost of an upgrade. That is why I type this on an Intel Pentium II. As a journalist, I write my articles with Word 97 and brows the Internet with IE 6, suprisingly. (Firefox doesn't work with our current network configueration, but we're working on that ... I hope.)
Lag is an issue from time to time. To open a .pdf takes almost a minute, giving me time for a trip to the water cooler. And one of my co-workers, almost daily, slaps his machine, talking about "hot lead" as an IT solution.
Now if we were to switch to Linux and get newer, cheap systems, it might not cost that much. Hmmm ... I think I have figured out a project for this week. Something more exciting than the motercycle v.s. bear MVA.
I feel no remorse for EA and their stupidity. And I must smile at this, after they overtook Westwood and bastardized the Command and Conquer Universe. While playablity increased, plot is lacking. It seems with Battle Field 2, EA is getting rid of playability as well.
Well the prick does have a point. After all, if advertisers stop supporting Web sites, then they may have to charge for content. However, wouldn't be a novel idea to have advertisments that annoy people. I mean eliminating pop-ups is not something difficult to do. Look at /. Ads exist, but they are not annoying. They don't inhbit the usability of the Web site, and further to the point, they are integrated rather well with the design.
What annoys me the most are the ads that jump out of their little box and block the content I am looking at. That and ones with sounds as well. Annoying indeed.
Noted. Thanks for the tip.
I wouldn't doubt it. Or they may make it available on computers in the Municipal Building. Being a reporter in a small town, it's easy to see that how fearful of technology some people are, and how difficult it is to get someone to give up information that should be free knowledge. Take public schools for instance. Pennsylvania's Department of Education had a large amount of information available about public schools. However this abundence of data has been reduced to this (.pdf).
Uncomfirmed report, but Sen. Murry (D-Wash.) is aware of the action and is against it, though it is not her top priority. At least someone is on the side of freedom.