By being pre-installed on the majority of PCs, Windows does indeed appear to be free to the buyer, in that it's seen as part of the whole package and doesn't cost any time to install (time is money after all).
Linux would gain a significant boost on the desktop if more OEMs pre-installed it alongside same spec'd machines with Windows installed.
Then the price difference would become noticeable, and the cost in time needed to install it would also disappear.
The ironic thing is, the Blake's 7 Zen was actually destroyed by a space virus...
It was at the end of season 3. The Liberator had flown through a region of space that contained an unknown substance. As the episode progressed, the ship gradually dissolved until it went boom.
The crew, including Orac, had teleported off and returned for season 4. Zen, sadly, did not. "Confirmed."
Yes, web browsing, AAC and H.264 support is good, but Sony didn't HAVE to break homebrew software to support them.
Having both could have been good for the platform, instead of pushing the homebrewers into the same camp as the pirates, who will have worked out a way of patching 2.0 soon enough anyway.
Anyway, enjoy your PSPs - you're lucky to have a wife who likes the same toys as you!
Also, I think the term "geek blogger" is a bit oxymoronic, because a blogger IS a geek. The notion that somebody out there with the looks of Angelina Jolie is blogging away merrily is...
What about Ponzi? (She is Chris Perillo's fiancé.) Ponzi is not really a geek and has distinctly Angelina-like attributes. That is, looks beautiful, has a sexy as hell voice, great personality, amply endowed in the torso area, and well, lucky Chris is all I can say!
(I say not a geek because their podcast shows she can cook, use an iron and discuss feminism but not sort out her iPod. Not geek attributes!)
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of beautiful people in the blogosphere who aren't necessarily geeks.
I'd like to add that the 2nd law of thermodynamics holds that entropy in a closed system always increases. That suggests the cells in our bodies are continually tending towards disorder.
"Curing" aging is inevitably going to be a matter of somehow getting in and adding energy to the system to reverse that entropy.
>Or "Satan's Hound Of Comedy-Sidekick Hell", to give him his full title.
It could also have been Tom Baker who said that: apparently he didn't like all the stooping to get in shot with it.
Although, Lalla Ward (Romana 2) is reported to have described Tom Baker has her least favorite monster (presumably after the divorce) so all's fair in the Doctor Who family!
It would be nice to see the next series get a bit more self-referential. Throw a few more things in for the aging fans.
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You can also use a PSP, which has the advantage that you can use it to play games once the novelty of having portable videos with you wears off.
(And believe me, it does.)
There are also one or two podcatchers for the PSP, which both collect the video then encode it into the MPEG-4 format necessary for the PSP.
But I usually tire of watching video on a small screen after about 10 mins then flick over to play my favorite PSP games: Lumines, Mercury.
I agree, but it does beg the question: if a company doesn't behave monopolistically, will a company that does behave that way ultimately vanquish it?
In my RSS aggregator, CNet reported the news with the headline:
Just thought it amusing, 'tis all.
That'd be cool. It could power the frickin' laser beam!
Or, more practically, charge up the Bluetooth transponder.
You should patent that idea. (Well, you should if this wasn't /. where mentioning patents is bad.)
Blondes in glass houses shouldn't throw spelling examples.
By being pre-installed on the majority of PCs, Windows does indeed appear to be free to the buyer, in that it's seen as part of the whole package and doesn't cost any time to install (time is money after all).
Linux would gain a significant boost on the desktop if more OEMs pre-installed it alongside same spec'd machines with Windows installed.
Then the price difference would become noticeable, and the cost in time needed to install it would also disappear.
A moose once bit my sister.
The ironic thing is, the Blake's 7 Zen was actually destroyed by a space virus...
It was at the end of season 3. The Liberator had flown through a region of space that contained an unknown substance. As the episode progressed, the ship gradually dissolved until it went boom.
The crew, including Orac, had teleported off and returned for season 4. Zen, sadly, did not. "Confirmed."
(I'm such an anglophile geek.)
Yes, web browsing, AAC and H.264 support is good, but Sony didn't HAVE to break homebrew software to support them.
Having both could have been good for the platform, instead of pushing the homebrewers into the same camp as the pirates, who will have worked out a way of patching 2.0 soon enough anyway.
Anyway, enjoy your PSPs - you're lucky to have a wife who likes the same toys as you!
What about Ponzi? (She is Chris Perillo's fiancé.) Ponzi is not really a geek and has distinctly Angelina-like attributes. That is, looks beautiful, has a sexy as hell voice, great personality, amply endowed in the torso area, and well, lucky Chris is all I can say!
(I say not a geek because their podcast shows she can cook, use an iron and discuss feminism but not sort out her iPod. Not geek attributes!)
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of beautiful people in the blogosphere who aren't necessarily geeks.
Or something like that...
If you lived to 160, you could clean up on compound interest, and become an overlord!
An insightful post.
I'd like to add that the 2nd law of thermodynamics holds that entropy in a closed system always increases. That suggests the cells in our bodies are continually tending towards disorder.
"Curing" aging is inevitably going to be a matter of somehow getting in and adding energy to the system to reverse that entropy.
It could also have been Tom Baker who said that: apparently he didn't like all the stooping to get in shot with it.
Although, Lalla Ward (Romana 2) is reported to have described Tom Baker has her least favorite monster (presumably after the divorce) so all's fair in the Doctor Who family!
It would be nice to see the next series get a bit more self-referential. Throw a few more things in for the aging fans.