The irony in this comment is that it was the fact that Japanese and Korean cars offered fancy electrics (which people wanted) cheaply that they managed to penetrate western markets fairly easily.
Pah. An connector that feeds to the audio channel costs a few cents. They want to convince people to buy the more expensive sound system which does have an input, for hundreds of dollars more. They can all go to hell.
Where can I go to a car dealership and buy a brand new 2004 model car? Where can I go buy a new 8-track tape player?
Irrelevant. The point is that most PCs are sold with Windows, and the only realistic alternative to Vista is, you guessed it, Windows XP. People who buy a new PC have no choice but to be "adopters"
Let me give you a hint:software companies sell software. If you stop making new software you have nothing to sell.
Sure. But for them it makes little difference if the machine comes with Vista or XP. The Microsoft Tax is the same (or even more for XP if some sources are believed). For (almost) every PC sold they get a share. Very few copies of Windows are consumer sales who voluntarily upgrade.
There are many SIP clients out there Quetcom or Twinkle are two interesting examples. Problem is the lock-in: If all your friends use Skype, you have to use fucking Skype. Or you ditch your friends.
Maybe that will change when the first devs start selling a PC-synchronising mp3 player app, and a VOIP app.
I think it's quite likely that the two device categories will have completely converged by the time Nintendo releases the next generation of handhelds.
If it came up with a porn site, chances are it wasn't a random term. I used to try sometimes to see how fast I could "click" my way from a respectable site to explicit images, by solely using the links on site.
In conclusion it's safe to say that it doesn't happen very often. If you activate Google's safesearch you can't really find any even if you're looking.
It's perfectly normal for kids to be curious about sex. It's up to you if you want to allow them to look at the stuff on the internet. They sure as hell won't be corrupted "by accident".
Headphones are fundamentally limited, because they use on speaker for the entire spectrum. While many people are perfectly happy with that, it still means that the $1500 headphones sound fundamentally different than your entry-level surround system.
So while they are good for accurately reproducing stereo audio signal, for someone who wants the entire acoustic spectrum and a 3-dimensional sound field, headphones just don't cut it.
What you're saying devalues Newtons work, in an odd way though.
He certainly wasn't the first to think that down is relative. Newton wasn't the first to have revolutionary ideas inconsistent with "truths". There are plenty of people who "think different", but what differentiates him from philosophers and pseudoscience is that he applied the scientific method and gave evidence for his ideas.
That's because the FAQs are completely contained works comparable to a book. There is no cross-referencing and there are no images. They have to resort to ASCII art to represent maps etc.
The best thing about this approach is that it's much nicer for printing long guides. And that's the thing: When you're playing a game you want a paper-copy of the guide to have by the couch. GameFaqs is merely a database for these guides, it's nothing new.
Actually if Conventional telephone companies switch to delivering internet (fiber to the home), they they will care a lot less about losing their telephone business. They would rather have a single fiber line going to the house rather than a fiber and a twisted pair both. (more money for them to install and upkeep two lines).
It costs them zero to upkeep phone lines. All costs were from the initial investment of laying the cables to properties. That's the problem. Just because they put down wires as a state monopoly decades ago, the phone companies have control over practically every residential customer. And laying down new cables everywhere is not a realistic option.
The telco's eventually would rather switch everybody to fiber/internet anyway so they'll just sell you your "landline" as a box they install off your property that converts their internet into VoIP anyway.
While I don't fully comprehend what you mean, this sounds like what most providers do anyway. At their telephone stations they convert their digital fiber-based communication (both internet connection and their own telephone service) to DSL frequencies and analogue phone calls. They feed them into a filter, which you then split at your home and send to your phone and DSL modem.
I don't see the reason that landlines can't just die. There's no "critical app" that keeps them rooted anymore.
Judging from my provider's performance, I'd say we need minimum reliability requirements by law before we consider abandoning analog telephones. And there is still practically no consumer hardware that supports QOS.
The only reason it's still here is legacy. In first world countries, it will die as soon as market penetration gets too low, and i think that'll happen in the next 10 or 20 years.
As long as we still have technophobes and customers with more money than knowledge, the phone companies will continue to provide the service described above as it costs them very little on their modern infrastructure.
But as i said, cell phones will do the killing, not VoIP. More people have cell phones than have internet connections.
The cell phone oligopoly will, in turn, be replaced by other wireless internet providers. Their roaming and text messaging charges make the old state monopolies look cheap.
The sooner we are charged depending on the actual expense to the provider, the better. At the moment we only have business models specifically designed to milk customers and stifle competition.
I use exclusively DSL communication. It' delivered on a conventional telephone wire, but it has no option of using an analog phone. My provider rents the two kilometers of wire to my home from the former state phone company. I have no idea how much they pay though.
Do you have any sources? Because counterfeit merchandise is incredibly difficult to disguise as "legitimate business". All the authorities need to do is inspect their store which they need to run openly to even attract customers. There's so many things they could sell to make it look legit, that adding pirate DVDs to the selection probably isn' worth it.
Umm, I was under the impression that by laundering money, you conceal your illicit activities by showing a perfectly legal business to authorities. If the cops turn up and want to know the source and destination of all your money, it probably isn't going to help by saying "oh yes, I made all this money selling dodgy DVDs at the local market."
The report repeatedly mentions online piracy and praises france's deal with ISPs. It also misses several (inconvinient) key facts and has numerous logical errors.
The main reason why so much money can be made by counterfeiting movies in developing countries is because of the international scope of copyright combined with local and national licensing schemes and total ignorance of the rights holders to these markets. If they were serious about preventing counterfeit sales in developing markets they would scrap region locks, abandon regional licensing (how this is considered legal anyway is beyond me) and make an effort to establish legal retail at affordable prices.
The report does touch upon the fact that the Yakuza's profits from pornography have collapsed thanks to the internet. Strangely though, it doesn't lose any words about the impact on counterfeit movies.
I'm really intersted in the "no Windoze allowed" part, at least for now. It will create a headstart for devices, so Microsoft can't come to the party and screw everyone over, like they did with ULCPC XP on current Netbooks.
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The irony in this comment is that it was the fact that Japanese and Korean cars offered fancy electrics (which people wanted) cheaply that they managed to penetrate western markets fairly easily.
Pah. An connector that feeds to the audio channel costs a few cents. They want to convince people to buy the more expensive sound system which does have an input, for hundreds of dollars more.
They can all go to hell.
Where can I go to a car dealership and buy a brand new 2004 model car? Where can I go buy a new 8-track tape player?
Irrelevant. The point is that most PCs are sold with Windows, and the only realistic alternative to Vista is, you guessed it, Windows XP. People who buy a new PC have no choice but to be "adopters"
Let me give you a hint:software companies sell software. If you stop making new software you have nothing to sell.
Sure. But for them it makes little difference if the machine comes with Vista or XP. The Microsoft Tax is the same (or even more for XP if some sources are believed). For (almost) every PC sold they get a share. Very few copies of Windows are consumer sales who voluntarily upgrade.
There are many SIP clients out there Quetcom or Twinkle are two interesting examples. Problem is the lock-in: If all your friends use Skype, you have to use fucking Skype. Or you ditch your friends.
Maybe that will change when the first devs start selling a PC-synchronising mp3 player app, and a VOIP app.
I think it's quite likely that the two device categories will have completely converged by the time Nintendo releases the next generation of handhelds.
I have a navigator based on Windows CE. It makes me feel so dirty...
If it came up with a porn site, chances are it wasn't a random term. I used to try sometimes to see how fast I could "click" my way from a respectable site to explicit images, by solely using the links on site.
In conclusion it's safe to say that it doesn't happen very often. If you activate Google's safesearch you can't really find any even if you're looking.
It's perfectly normal for kids to be curious about sex. It's up to you if you want to allow them to look at the stuff on the internet. They sure as hell won't be corrupted "by accident".
Well, it means they're more of a database than a web site.
Mod parent up! This is also commonly known as "Goldilocks pricing". The consumer is supposed to settle on the price that's "just right".
In this case they're probably betting that this will increase sales of their $100-$500 headphones.
What the f**k is "solder of reasonable quality"?
What the fuck is "solder of reasonable quality"?
Headphones are fundamentally limited, because they use on speaker for the entire spectrum. While many people are perfectly happy with that, it still means that the $1500 headphones sound fundamentally different than your entry-level surround system.
So while they are good for accurately reproducing stereo audio signal, for someone who wants the entire acoustic spectrum and a 3-dimensional sound field, headphones just don't cut it.
And it aint just explosions.
What you're saying devalues Newtons work, in an odd way though.
He certainly wasn't the first to think that down is relative.
Newton wasn't the first to have revolutionary ideas inconsistent with "truths".
There are plenty of people who "think different", but what differentiates him from philosophers and pseudoscience is that he applied the scientific method and gave evidence for his ideas.
That's because the FAQs are completely contained works comparable to a book. There is no cross-referencing and there are no images. They have to resort to ASCII art to represent maps etc.
The best thing about this approach is that it's much nicer for printing long guides. And that's the thing: When you're playing a game you want a paper-copy of the guide to have by the couch. GameFaqs is merely a database for these guides, it's nothing new.
That's why it wouldn't be a "website" but a tree. Pretty useless by web standards.
Actually if Conventional telephone companies switch to delivering internet (fiber to the home), they they will care a lot less about losing their telephone business. They would rather have a single fiber line going to the house rather than a fiber and a twisted pair both. (more money for them to install and upkeep two lines).
It costs them zero to upkeep phone lines. All costs were from the initial investment of laying the cables to properties. That's the problem. Just because they put down wires as a state monopoly decades ago, the phone companies have control over practically every residential customer. And laying down new cables everywhere is not a realistic option.
The telco's eventually would rather switch everybody to fiber/internet anyway so they'll just sell you your "landline" as a box they install off your property that converts their internet into VoIP anyway.
While I don't fully comprehend what you mean, this sounds like what most providers do anyway. At their telephone stations they convert their digital fiber-based communication (both internet connection and their own telephone service) to DSL frequencies and analogue phone calls. They feed them into a filter, which you then split at your home and send to your phone and DSL modem.
I don't see the reason that landlines can't just die. There's no "critical app" that keeps them rooted anymore.
Judging from my provider's performance, I'd say we need minimum reliability requirements by law before we consider abandoning analog telephones. And there is still practically no consumer hardware that supports QOS.
The only reason it's still here is legacy. In first world countries, it will die as soon as market penetration gets too low, and i think that'll happen in the next 10 or 20 years.
As long as we still have technophobes and customers with more money than knowledge, the phone companies will continue to provide the service described above as it costs them very little on their modern infrastructure.
But as i said, cell phones will do the killing, not VoIP. More people have cell phones than have internet connections.
The cell phone oligopoly will, in turn, be replaced by other wireless internet providers. Their roaming and text messaging charges make the old state monopolies look cheap.
The sooner we are charged depending on the actual expense to the provider, the better. At the moment we only have business models specifically designed to milk customers and stifle competition.
I use exclusively DSL communication. It' delivered on a conventional telephone wire, but it has no option of using an analog phone.
My provider rents the two kilometers of wire to my home from the former state phone company. I have no idea how much they pay though.
You must be new here (on Earth)
Do you have any sources? Because counterfeit merchandise is incredibly difficult to disguise as "legitimate business". All the authorities need to do is inspect their store which they need to run openly to even attract customers. There's so many things they could sell to make it look legit, that adding pirate DVDs to the selection probably isn' worth it.
Moron. That's cause a patent covers the patented method, not the name. The patents were probably filed long before anybody used the term "UDF"
Umm, I was under the impression that by laundering money, you conceal your illicit activities by showing a perfectly legal business to authorities. If the cops turn up and want to know the source and destination of all your money, it probably isn't going to help by saying "oh yes, I made all this money selling dodgy DVDs at the local market."
The report repeatedly mentions online piracy and praises france's deal with ISPs.
It also misses several (inconvinient) key facts and has numerous logical errors.
The main reason why so much money can be made by counterfeiting movies in developing countries is because of the international scope of copyright combined with local and national licensing schemes and total ignorance of the rights holders to these markets.
If they were serious about preventing counterfeit sales in developing markets they would scrap region locks, abandon regional licensing (how this is considered legal anyway is beyond me) and make an effort to establish legal retail at affordable prices.
The report does touch upon the fact that the Yakuza's profits from pornography have collapsed thanks to the internet. Strangely though, it doesn't lose any words about the impact on counterfeit movies.
Depends on the terms that were negotiated. Most of them certainly aren't limited to a few years.
They retain the copyright, but publishers usually have exclusive deals.
I'm really intersted in the "no Windoze allowed" part, at least for now. It will create a headstart for devices, so Microsoft can't come to the party and screw everyone over, like they did with ULCPC XP on current Netbooks.