Newsstand purchases are verifiable and serve as an indication of reader interest in the magazine. A magazine with strong newsstand sales has high reader interest.
$2.56/copy? LJ can layoff/fire anyone involved with either new subscriptions and/or renewal order processing.
As readership drops (this makes it harder to read the magazine and eliminates newstand purchases entirely) advertising rates will drop, as ad revenue drops, content will suffer. As content suffers, readership drops further, forcing ad rates even lower, and so on...
Pity this is happening now, just as Linux is ready to breakout and become the dominant desktop OS - it's got about 1/6th the marketshare of Windows Vista...
50 years of data sounds like a lot, until you realize it doesn't even go back in time far enough to include the last ice age... It's like extrapolating the stock market's performance for the day by analyzing the previous few minutes of trading.
I once gave a minor presentation on using linux or Windows in our local school system, and one of the attendees gave a personal exapmle of Linux non-adoption. Remember when the first netbook PCs arrived running Linux? Well this fellow went out and bought one, but once he found out how limited Linux was for his own use/needs, he simply put the netbook in the closet. He didn't relish the idea of paying $100 for a Windows license to make his cheap under-powered netbook a slightly more useful under-powered netbook for another $100.
It's like giving someone a phillips head screwdriver when he has a sloted screww to remove. You can tell him how wonderful the design of the phillips head screw is, but it doesn't solve his immediate problem. Yes, they could go out and look for a replacement crew with a phillips head on it, but they don't care and would really prefer a slot screwdriver. Similarly, a user that wants to run MS Office on a PC will not be receptive to a PC running Linux, despite the availability of Open Office or one of it's many variants (Google Apps, etc.), your technical arguments will not be convincing.
Microsoft doesn't do free - it does allow charities to install Win FLP on any device the charity has that has a WIndows 2000 or greater COA sticker attached for free. Win FLP. Win FLP is like Win XP but a bit trimmed-down feature-wise.
Giving someone a computer running Linux (or simply NOT Windows or OS X) will likely come a cross as a cheap knock-off, kinda like giving someone that wants a DVD player a VHS VCR - you can argue till you are blue in the face that it provides more features, is much more flexible, and that they can get movies almost for free as videotape rental shops close up, but they want to play DVDs.
With a desktop user base 1/6th the size of Vista, you'll have your work cut out for you explaining how it is so much better than any stinky old "commercial" operating system...
I wonder if they are hoping to get these new super-power USB ports classified as Electric Vehicle charging stations, thus eligible for several thousand dollars in federal subsidies and grants? Imagine charging your Chevy Volt from your laptop USB port!
MS makes a very good anti-virus software package available for free (Security Essentials), and it and the underlying OS are easily updated without operator intervention. The updating of software packages is a non-issue in most cases - you don't need the latest version of most software, and when you doesn't to upgrade, many/most programs have their own integrated upgrade mechanisms (typically as trivial as clicking 'yes' to the "do you want to upgrade_______?" question).
The kids most likely use Windows at school (XP, 7, whatever) and giving them a flavor of Linux will appear to be a lesser choice in the eyes of the recipient, who likely doesn't share your enthusiasm for an OS that is less popular than Vista... That one out of one hundred users of desktop computers chooses Linux isn't really a convincing argument.
ubuntu will not run on any computer with a "Designed for XP" sticker
Are you serious?
The first dual-core Pentiums (805, 630, 930, etc) shipped with "Designed for XP" stickers, and the early Core systems did as well...
Ubuntu & other Linux reach back to PII era CPUs and run acceptably, for people with time on their hands. A P3 system with a gig of RAM is a usable Linux desktop.
A clean install of an OS allows the recipient to easily test that the box functions, and allows the donor to confirm it is fully-functional (I.e. the optical drive works, etc,). I would perform an install on systems I donate, but I wouldn't expect it to remain on the system.
For elementary school age kids, whatever OS you install will be obsolete by the time they graduate middle school, let alone high school or college. Same for current middle school kids.
WinXP is an anomaly for it's lifespan - it retains almost 50% of the total desktop market after what, almost ten years of use?
For kids, especially young kids, it is about supporting not just web browsers, but 10+ year-old software written for WinXP and earlier OSes. Besides, you can only donate OSes you have a legal right to install - of course, that means all the FOSS OSes like *BSD, Linux, and some others, but unless you have an excess of licenses, Win7 isn't likely an option.
WinXP supports most new software, for example Office 2010, BTW.
Our ten year budget projections have us adding about $7-9 Trillion to our $14.3T national debt (which we've now decided to increase to $16.8T by Jan. 2014), depending on if you look to the GOP or Dem budget plans...
We had a 'grand deal - $4T in cuts, $2.5T in debt ceiling increase, and $800BN in new tax revenues, but POTUS decided to push the GOP to $1.2T in new tax revenues, blowing the deal. Boehner had new revenue on the table, Obama got greedy and blew the deal, if reports are to be believed.
The under $200/250K tax cuts 'cost' $300BN/year, the over $200/250K tax cuts 'cost' $70BN a year. The master logicians on the left felt that we could 'afford' the $300BN/ for the middle & lower income Americans, but that additional $70BN to treat all Americans equally was excessive and would bankrupt the country.
The initial call from the Republicans was simply "all or nothing" - either keep everyone's taxes the same, or raise/restore everyone's taxes. If we couldn't afford $70BN, we certainly couldn't afford $300BN.
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Newsstand purchases are verifiable and serve as an indication of reader interest in the magazine. A magazine with strong newsstand sales has high reader interest.
$2.56/copy? LJ can layoff/fire anyone involved with either new subscriptions and/or renewal order processing.
As readership drops (this makes it harder to read the magazine and eliminates newstand purchases entirely) advertising rates will drop, as ad revenue drops, content will suffer. As content suffers, readership drops further, forcing ad rates even lower, and so on...
Pity this is happening now, just as Linux is ready to breakout and become the dominant desktop OS - it's got about 1/6th the marketshare of Windows Vista...
50 years of data sounds like a lot, until you realize it doesn't even go back in time far enough to include the last ice age... It's like extrapolating the stock market's performance for the day by analyzing the previous few minutes of trading.
Al "Man-Bear-Pig" Gore would disagree with your contention most vehemently, you holocaust-denying, flat-earth Luddite!
To paraphrase Sigmond Freud - "Sometines an exclaimation mark is just an exclamation mark!"
Seriously, factorial? ;^)
The outgoing CIO Vivek Kundra assumed his position on March, 5th, 2009 under this administration, not Bush'43.
Too bad Obama wasn't in the Senate to influence these decisions... Oh, wait...
The Intel 930 and similar era CPU were released under the "designed for Win XP" banner, and they support virtualization - just a datapoint...
I once gave a minor presentation on using linux or Windows in our local school system, and one of the attendees gave a personal exapmle of Linux non-adoption. Remember when the first netbook PCs arrived running Linux? Well this fellow went out and bought one, but once he found out how limited Linux was for his own use/needs, he simply put the netbook in the closet. He didn't relish the idea of paying $100 for a Windows license to make his cheap under-powered netbook a slightly more useful under-powered netbook for another $100.
It's like giving someone a phillips head screwdriver when he has a sloted screww to remove. You can tell him how wonderful the design of the phillips head screw is, but it doesn't solve his immediate problem. Yes, they could go out and look for a replacement crew with a phillips head on it, but they don't care and would really prefer a slot screwdriver. Similarly, a user that wants to run MS Office on a PC will not be receptive to a PC running Linux, despite the availability of Open Office or one of it's many variants (Google Apps, etc.), your technical arguments will not be convincing.
Microsoft doesn't do free - it does allow charities to install Win FLP on any device the charity has that has a WIndows 2000 or greater COA sticker attached for free. Win FLP. Win FLP is like Win XP but a bit trimmed-down feature-wise.
Giving someone a computer running Linux (or simply NOT Windows or OS X) will likely come a cross as a cheap knock-off, kinda like giving someone that wants a DVD player a VHS VCR - you can argue till you are blue in the face that it provides more features, is much more flexible, and that they can get movies almost for free as videotape rental shops close up, but they want to play DVDs.
With a desktop user base 1/6th the size of Vista, you'll have your work cut out for you explaining how it is so much better than any stinky old "commercial" operating system...
I wonder if they are hoping to get these new super-power USB ports classified as Electric Vehicle charging stations, thus eligible for several thousand dollars in federal subsidies and grants? Imagine charging your Chevy Volt from your laptop USB port!
Finally I see a purpose for the 1.2Kilowatt PC power supplies.
One hundred watts per port? That's insane! I could run a nicely-equipped Atom ITX MB, HD, DVD drive, and ION graphics adapter off such a port!
I see USB hubs getting much more expensive if this standard gains traction...
MS makes a very good anti-virus software package available for free (Security Essentials), and it and the underlying OS are easily updated without operator intervention. The updating of software packages is a non-issue in most cases - you don't need the latest version of most software, and when you doesn't to upgrade, many/most programs have their own integrated upgrade mechanisms (typically as trivial as clicking 'yes' to the "do you want to upgrade_______?" question).
The kids most likely use Windows at school (XP, 7, whatever) and giving them a flavor of Linux will appear to be a lesser choice in the eyes of the recipient, who likely doesn't share your enthusiasm for an OS that is less popular than Vista... That one out of one hundred users of desktop computers chooses Linux isn't really a convincing argument.
Are you serious?
The first dual-core Pentiums (805, 630, 930, etc) shipped with "Designed for XP" stickers, and the early Core systems did as well...
Ubuntu & other Linux reach back to PII era CPUs and run acceptably, for people with time on their hands. A P3 system with a gig of RAM is a usable Linux desktop.
WinXP is running on 49%+ of all desktop systems, Linux runs on 1% - I'd stick with WinXP.
A clean install of an OS allows the recipient to easily test that the box functions, and allows the donor to confirm it is fully-functional (I.e. the optical drive works, etc,). I would perform an install on systems I donate, but I wouldn't expect it to remain on the system.
For elementary school age kids, whatever OS you install will be obsolete by the time they graduate middle school, let alone high school or college. Same for current middle school kids.
WinXP is an anomaly for it's lifespan - it retains almost 50% of the total desktop market after what, almost ten years of use?
For kids, especially young kids, it is about supporting not just web browsers, but 10+ year-old software written for WinXP and earlier OSes. Besides, you can only donate OSes you have a legal right to install - of course, that means all the FOSS OSes like *BSD, Linux, and some others, but unless you have an excess of licenses, Win7 isn't likely an option.
WinXP supports most new software, for example Office 2010, BTW.
Mortgages are backed by real assets, treasuries are, effectively, unsecured debt.
If we defaulted, China couldn't seize California as repayment of defaulted debt.
The difference is the Gov't printing presses and their willingness to use them to print more money.
We can all agree that S&P shouldn't be trusted, but if bond buyers still trust them we're screwed...
Our ten year budget projections have us adding about $7-9 Trillion to our $14.3T national debt (which we've now decided to increase to $16.8T by Jan. 2014), depending on if you look to the GOP or Dem budget plans...
We had a 'grand deal - $4T in cuts, $2.5T in debt ceiling increase, and $800BN in new tax revenues, but POTUS decided to push the GOP to $1.2T in new tax revenues, blowing the deal. Boehner had new revenue on the table, Obama got greedy and blew the deal, if reports are to be believed.
Buffett's opinion is based on the fact that all US Treasuries are dollar denominated and the US can just print more money to meet our obligations...
Uhm, I guess that's true, but that same logic would have ginen the Weimar republic an AAA rating for their bonds.
That's small comfort.
90 democratic congressmen could have rendered the Tea Party congressmen irrelevant, but chose not to, why not?
The under $200/250K tax cuts 'cost' $300BN/year, the over $200/250K tax cuts 'cost' $70BN a year. The master logicians on the left felt that we could 'afford' the $300BN/ for the middle & lower income Americans, but that additional $70BN to treat all Americans equally was excessive and would bankrupt the country.
The initial call from the Republicans was simply "all or nothing" - either keep everyone's taxes the same, or raise/restore everyone's taxes. If we couldn't afford $70BN, we certainly couldn't afford $300BN.
We'd still owe $14.3T and we still wouldn't have a plan to actually reduce spending in any meaningful way...