But generally speaking, the extreme high end of modern computing consists of a big ugly box housing that generates a lot of noise. I won't say that I'm much of an Apple fan, but in many cases they are absolutely spot on with the less is more philosophy. No matter how "cool" this thing looks, it doesn't really disprove that high-end computing is typically ugly box housing. It adds new elements of annoyance that I would not like to see in any room.
What you are raising is the issue of the morality of taxation. We pay taxes for education, whether we have children or not, because we believe that society as a whole benefits from schools. Except for the vital point that your government taxes you, not corporations.
It may sound like a noble and interesting idea to some, but there are other issues besides the fact that it will be nearly impossible to divide the money correctly.
The real issue here is the morality of the fee. Those who are pirates download content worth significantly more than $5. This fee would be no problem to a person who downloads hundreds of songs per month, but a technologically impaired senior who wants to communicate with his children who live in another state/country will also have to pay.
If such fee would pass, then I say we should pay $1 to reimburse victims of pedophilia, who were victimized over the internet. And many other types of victims, of course.
My point is obviously that the music industry should have no say in this matter, nor any other industry or company. Or we could flip the coin and make the music industry pay for the rehabilitation of all drug users who snorted coke while listening to Kurt Cobain, or small girls who cannot handle the pressure of looking like Christina Aguilera.
He's especially unhappy with Intel, which he says has integrated graphics chipsets that 'just don't work'. Which is why you get what you pay for. Such chipsets are not targeted for gamers, but energy efficient laptops and general surf machines / business application computers. Otherwise he could rant about how much the Wii graphics suck when compared to the PS3, but ultimately, it is the developers who push the graphics to an insane level of realism.
There are many examples of games with "dated" graphics that sell in high volumes.
I think a lot of people use Firefox because it is so easy to modify to your needs. IE can be configured, but not even remotely close to what FF can do with the help of plug-ins and extensions.
Also, I would say that most people who use Firefox are experienced users. Firefox cannot grow beyond this market simply because my inexperienced father is happy with what comes bundled with the computer. I hope you understand that analogy. Most people simply don't see the difference, nor do they care.
Apple released a non-3G iPhone, to ensure that everyone who buys the first iPhone for $500, will buy the iPhone3G for $500, a year later. That doesn't sound like Apple at all, does it? For starters, EDGE sucks on a phone that is intended for YouTube, Safari and mail applications. It makes as little sense as putting FIAT tires on a Lamborghini. Secondly, Apple's top of the line products usually equip the latest hardware. Just look at their computers and software products.
There is probably an entirely different reason Apple "chose" not to include 3G.
Several months ago, New Englanders were the first consumers to experience Comcast Communications' latest high-speed Internet upgrade - PowerBoost Speed Enhancer. The speed upgrade is now being rolled out to Comcast customers nationwide. This new network technology temporarily doubles Internet speeds for consumers subscribing to the company's 6 megabits per second and 8 Mbps services, bringing download speeds to 12 Mbps and 16 Mbps, respectively.
Some consumers may not notice the speed increase when downloading smaller files, such as text-based e-mails and simple Web sites with few graphics. However, customers who frequently download large files, such as software, games, music, photos, and videos will now download at speeds that are faster than ever before. For example, PowerBoost significantly reduces the time it takes to download a one hour television program. Comcast subscribers at the 6 Mbps tier would reduce their wait time in half - from 4 minutes and 29 seconds to 2 minutes and 15 seconds. And MP3 fans will be able to download music files as fast as 2.2 seconds! See more here
I don't understand how he could buy a computer for $2100 even a year ago and call it an e-mail machine while running Vista. I bought my computer in February 2007 for $2085.42 (just checked the receipt) and it works well on Vista and gaming. Either he was scammed, or just speaking REALLY metaphorically.
I remember reading a story about a guy who had a lot of activity at Facebook. Deactivation of the account is the basic way of saying good bye, but very ineffective since everything but your profile left. Here's what you must do to get rid of your account, THEN mail Facebook and ask for complete removal:
1. Delete your photo
2. Delete Comments and messages you wrote
3. Delete your friends from your friends list.
4. Leave all your networks and groups you have joined.
5. Delete all your photo albums.
It's obviously a ridiculous way of keeping as many users as possible. Anyone with just a few comments and photos will not bother. Anyone with thousands will obviously not have time to do it. By the way, here's what Facebook say in the Privacy Policy on changing/removing information:
Access and control over most personal information on Facebook is readily available through the profile editing tools. Facebook users may modify or delete any of their profile information at any time by logging into their account. Information will be updated immediately. Individuals who wish to deactivate their Facebook account may do so on the My Account page. Removed information may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time but will not be generally available to members of Facebook.
Where you make use of the communication features of the service to share information with other individuals on Facebook, however, (e.g., sending a personal message to another Facebook user) you generally cannot remove such communications.
And how exactly is one supposed to become a pedophile? The internet can certainly help you in many ways, but it's not going to create pedophiles because of explicit content or whatnot. Much like television doesn't make people become serial killers.
I haven't got the faintest idea why pedophilia exists, but my guess is early child abuse, abnormal levels of serotonin or a DNA flaw.
It's a very interesting question, but from my point of view, hard drive space is so ridiculously cheap nowadays that it is utterly pointless to look for a useful application that will fill it up.
Let's assume that the average computer has 80 GB of storage. Multiply that by 100 and you get 8 TB of space. That's what you can get into one or two computers nowadays without plunging out too much cash.
What's more interesting is how much processing power you have as well as how fast the internet connection is.
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You have a choice: you buy a product NOW, or you read the news: oh, there is a quad-GPU graphics card scheduled in 6 months. By the time it's ready, you read again: there is another one with 64 GPU's ready in one year. So, if your choice is to never be happy, don't blame it on tech. You're missing the point. iPhone over EDGE is a premature product, because the phone is meant to serve as both mobile phone and internet browser. You won't get that benefit before you reach 3G speeds.
You are obviously correct that hardware is under constant development, but put my point above to consideration and add the really expensive hardware you must plunge out cash for, suddenly some advice does come in handy.
Or is it an effective way to attract customers from HostGator who find that 1,000 gigs of disk space is simply not enough? Almost nobody needs this, but some might be influenced by it. I don't think it's so much about attracting customers who need a kazillion gigabytes of space as much as it is attractive to people who just want a service that works without any added costs. I mean, how is a regular guy supposed to know if 50 gigs per month is enough or not? This is flatrate. Use it as you please, just pay the fee and we [Yahoo] will sort the rest.
Right. And all the dozens of places you have registered to with your e-mail address? Forums? Services? News letters? Some people depend on their e-mail address to a greater extent than you may realize.
Sources say that once Jack Bauer got bailed out of jail, he then met with the WGA to discuss the details over a friendly cup of White House approved tea. Interestingly, it took only 30 minutes for the WGA to agree on a 30% salary cut.
Another solution is not to use Hotmail at all. Not the easiest thing to do if you have had Hotmail for many years. Besides, Hotmail is not a bad email client at all. It's definitely not better than Gmail, but still versatile enough.
I agree with Linus Torvalds on what he said about operating systems. Basically, a regular user who's upgrading the OS should not notice a too big difference, nor should he have to upgrade the computer. The big problem with Vista is that it runs significantly slower than XP. Most of the annoyances are gone now that a year has passed since the release, so after a year of Vista, I am finally pleased (except for the exceptionally steep hardware requirements).
If only Microsoft can make Windows 7 blazing fast again, I have no doubt it will be a huge success. Imagine the millions of users out there who switch from Vista to Windows 7 to notice that things are running fast like hell now. That's what we need. Linus was right.
European politicians do not agree on many things at all. I wonder what made you write that? There's not a single issue that doesn't come across differently in every European country. Take the War in Iraq, the EU CAP, the EU itself, religion and religious issues such as abortion, ethnic discrimination, immigration, European integration, NATO organisation and so on. You are not looking at it from the right angle. I am obviously not saying that the entire EU ministry is agreeing on everything. My point is that some countries in Europe are looking at internet regulations (Germany, Spain, etc) and Denmark will surely not be of great help from this point of view since they've clearly taken the first step of controlling the internet. So if Denmark does this, Germany watches that, it will have a good reason to follow because it certainly looks better to imitate Denmark rather than China and Turkey alone.
Last but not least, just because there are indifferences, you must also admit that the reason the EU exists is because there are in fact a lot of agreements within the EU. Otherwise, it wouldn't exist at all. And the whole point of the union is to agree more.No, it's not important to the people of Europe. Any verdicts in Denmark will have practically zero value outside. If it was decided upon in the Court of First Instance perhaps. This case will not change anything in Europe in general It is ignorant of you to believe that a country cannot have an effect on the rest of the EU. Prior to this case, Europe had no cases of internet censorship (except for child pornography, etc). Not only will it cause debates, but also concerns over privacy in other countries if governments with similar thoughts reflect on the ideas of a pioneering Denmark.
Also, I am fluent in French, German and Spanish. Please tell me how I just spotted articles on this topic in major news papers from all three countries?
Fighting this new law is not only important to the people of Denmark, but also to the rest of the European Union. European politicians tend to agree on many issues and it takes only one country to influence the rest.
Although the price is still pretty hefty, it indicates that the capacity/price ratio on these wireless flash-based players is starting to move in the right direction. Starting to move in the right direction? It's been declining in a fast pace ever since I bought my first Samsung 32 MB mp3 player, which was about $400.
My main concern with RIAA's methodology is not that they are suing people, but that they are doing it at the wrong end. They should focus all their firepower on the distributing powers of the pirated software, because going after individuals will only screw up the life of a few selected ones. It doesn't scare anyone because the odds of a lawsuit are about the same as winning a Megaball lottery.
The music industry is one of a few industries that struggles with technological breakthroughs. A car maker will obviously want to adopt to the latest gadgets. As will cell phone makers and so on. For some reason, that piece of plastic is the only viable option to the music industry - as if the age of digitalization was totally absent.
Don't get me wrong, the choice of games (besides perhaps Civ 4) is questionable, but make no mistake YOU are the one trolling. No he wasn't. If anything, he was semi-trolling. The author is way off if he thinks that he can draw a conclusion like "Linux has better Windows compatibility than Vista" with a tiny test like this.
Does he have a point? Yes. Is the article interesting? Yes. Is it biased? Yes.
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It may sound like a noble and interesting idea to some, but there are other issues besides the fact that it will be nearly impossible to divide the money correctly.
The real issue here is the morality of the fee. Those who are pirates download content worth significantly more than $5. This fee would be no problem to a person who downloads hundreds of songs per month, but a technologically impaired senior who wants to communicate with his children who live in another state/country will also have to pay.
If such fee would pass, then I say we should pay $1 to reimburse victims of pedophilia, who were victimized over the internet. And many other types of victims, of course.
My point is obviously that the music industry should have no say in this matter, nor any other industry or company. Or we could flip the coin and make the music industry pay for the rehabilitation of all drug users who snorted coke while listening to Kurt Cobain, or small girls who cannot handle the pressure of looking like Christina Aguilera.
There are many examples of games with "dated" graphics that sell in high volumes.
NASA should use simple wind turbines. Must be windy up there since all of George's movies make sound barabooms in space.
I think a lot of people use Firefox because it is so easy to modify to your needs. IE can be configured, but not even remotely close to what FF can do with the help of plug-ins and extensions.
Also, I would say that most people who use Firefox are experienced users. Firefox cannot grow beyond this market simply because my inexperienced father is happy with what comes bundled with the computer. I hope you understand that analogy. Most people simply don't see the difference, nor do they care.
There is probably an entirely different reason Apple "chose" not to include 3G.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's actually 1.332.
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Some consumers may not notice the speed increase when downloading smaller files, such as text-based e-mails and simple Web sites with few graphics. However, customers who frequently download large files, such as software, games, music, photos, and videos will now download at speeds that are faster than ever before. For example, PowerBoost significantly reduces the time it takes to download a one hour television program. Comcast subscribers at the 6 Mbps tier would reduce their wait time in half - from 4 minutes and 29 seconds to 2 minutes and 15 seconds. And MP3 fans will be able to download music files as fast as 2.2 seconds! See more here
I don't understand how he could buy a computer for $2100 even a year ago and call it an e-mail machine while running Vista. I bought my computer in February 2007 for $2085.42 (just checked the receipt) and it works well on Vista and gaming. Either he was scammed, or just speaking REALLY metaphorically.
Having said that, XP owns Vista.
And how exactly is one supposed to become a pedophile? The internet can certainly help you in many ways, but it's not going to create pedophiles because of explicit content or whatnot. Much like television doesn't make people become serial killers.
I haven't got the faintest idea why pedophilia exists, but my guess is early child abuse, abnormal levels of serotonin or a DNA flaw.
It's a very interesting question, but from my point of view, hard drive space is so ridiculously cheap nowadays that it is utterly pointless to look for a useful application that will fill it up.
Let's assume that the average computer has 80 GB of storage. Multiply that by 100 and you get 8 TB of space. That's what you can get into one or two computers nowadays without plunging out too much cash.
What's more interesting is how much processing power you have as well as how fast the internet connection is.
You are obviously correct that hardware is under constant development, but put my point above to consideration and add the really expensive hardware you must plunge out cash for, suddenly some advice does come in handy.
Right. And all the dozens of places you have registered to with your e-mail address? Forums? Services? News letters? Some people depend on their e-mail address to a greater extent than you may realize.
Sources say that once Jack Bauer got bailed out of jail, he then met with the WGA to discuss the details over a friendly cup of White House approved tea. Interestingly, it took only 30 minutes for the WGA to agree on a 30% salary cut.
I agree with Linus Torvalds on what he said about operating systems. Basically, a regular user who's upgrading the OS should not notice a too big difference, nor should he have to upgrade the computer. The big problem with Vista is that it runs significantly slower than XP. Most of the annoyances are gone now that a year has passed since the release, so after a year of Vista, I am finally pleased (except for the exceptionally steep hardware requirements).
If only Microsoft can make Windows 7 blazing fast again, I have no doubt it will be a huge success. Imagine the millions of users out there who switch from Vista to Windows 7 to notice that things are running fast like hell now. That's what we need. Linus was right.
Last but not least, just because there are indifferences, you must also admit that the reason the EU exists is because there are in fact a lot of agreements within the EU. Otherwise, it wouldn't exist at all. And the whole point of the union is to agree more. No, it's not important to the people of Europe. Any verdicts in Denmark will have practically zero value outside. If it was decided upon in the Court of First Instance perhaps. This case will not change anything in Europe in general It is ignorant of you to believe that a country cannot have an effect on the rest of the EU. Prior to this case, Europe had no cases of internet censorship (except for child pornography, etc). Not only will it cause debates, but also concerns over privacy in other countries if governments with similar thoughts reflect on the ideas of a pioneering Denmark.
Also, I am fluent in French, German and Spanish. Please tell me how I just spotted articles on this topic in major news papers from all three countries?
Fighting this new law is not only important to the people of Denmark, but also to the rest of the European Union. European politicians tend to agree on many issues and it takes only one country to influence the rest.
My main concern with RIAA's methodology is not that they are suing people, but that they are doing it at the wrong end. They should focus all their firepower on the distributing powers of the pirated software, because going after individuals will only screw up the life of a few selected ones. It doesn't scare anyone because the odds of a lawsuit are about the same as winning a Megaball lottery.
The music industry is one of a few industries that struggles with technological breakthroughs. A car maker will obviously want to adopt to the latest gadgets. As will cell phone makers and so on. For some reason, that piece of plastic is the only viable option to the music industry - as if the age of digitalization was totally absent.
Isn't Will Smith starring in some movie with tagline "the last man on earth"? Did the women kill the rest of them?
Does he have a point? Yes.
Is the article interesting? Yes.
Is it biased? Yes.