on the other hand, if independent developers would test their stuff under WINE and label the retail boxes with "Runs under WINE" instead of just "for Windows 2000, XP,..."
It's great that Wii is just a marginal improvement over GC. This was Nintendo presents its console to market within the required timeframe to compete with the obvious superpowered competitor consoles, while waiting for the correct timing to present its 3rd generation console. It's quite obvious that in the USA there's plenty of big screen and HD tv sets, but in Japan the urban client can't fit such a device in his/her living room and in Europe there's people waiting for cable TV to reach them, others waiting for HD TV over the air, others waiting for IPTV and in the end it's not that normal for people in the right demographics for gaming to have 70cm widescreen HD TVs to benefit from Xbox and PS3 improved graphics.
A couple of years before there's a PS4, XBOX 720 or whatever, Nintendo can release a Wii+ featuring a better CPU/GPU for HD graphics, a better optical drive and sell yet another generation of consoles and games at a proper profit margin and still within normal prices for consumer electronics.
from now on you can explain your grandchildren that there was a time when the internet did not have many ads, websites were made only of HTML and tubgirl was not mainstream.
During the iPhone prototype presentation, Steve Jobs talked about IMAP and his partnership with Yahoo. Add iSync and OS X calendar app to the mix and there we have an alternative the the core of what Exchange does for a lot of businesses. I'm all for that.
it is not surprising that Dell is looking into Linux, since proliferation of the latter will benefit Dell in that it will limit the extent to which Dell depends on Microsoft in the long run
Dell would also miss out on those sales opportunities caused by 6 month old malware-ridden Windows boxes becoming cheaper to replace than to fix.
the current market dynamics works for me. People in the know will lobby for document standards to ease the information exchange, while people who don't care will choose whataver computer/OS they think is best. It's not that important if that individual choice is good or bad, as long as there's a level playing field and the rate of improvement on the hardware side continues as it is. If most people would run Linux and played no games, what kind of roadmap would intel/nvidia/amd/ati have for us?
Can Sony legimitately still call this thing a DVD anymore without being sued for fraud?
IMHO this should be dealt with the other way around. Instead of preventing companies from labeling these discs as DVD/CD/whatever, they should be forced to tag the boxes with "CONTAINS DRM", "Content is remotely managed by $CompanyName", "Contains rootkit by Sony", etc. This is a matter of consumer rights, not just distributors' rights. The consumer should be made aware of how the device is meant to work and hopefully a standard set of consumer warnings and advisories should foster the much needed discussion on the fairness of these distributors' tools.
Sometimes conquering a specific 5% of total users means selling way more than 5% of the total market value. This is very clear on the beer market, I'm not sure about the automotive business. What I do know is that F1 racing has an impact on what may turn up on production cars some years later. If a company delivers an electric car that has extra performance compared to the usual suspects in the high-performance segment: Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW... they have a chance to get the attention of the people who are more willing to invest in bringing the tech to other market segments. Besides, all high performance vehicles put together might have a larger impact on emissions than a lot of regular cars. Selling these cars for more than what a house costs may be a first step in a desirable direction.
"How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time."
So... Compuserve deserves a spot on the list as the first major BBS, Napster is the best thing since sliced bread because it shaped the way consumers use music, but there are no search engines on the top50. The people who wrote this list must be Gopher zealots or something.
If only they'd kill the toy-like design and fitted these 7" screens on grown up laptops, I'd be one happy email/OpenOffice user. And they even used NAND instead of harddrives for longer battery life.. must be a tease...
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Could this be the major breakthrough of search where one could choose not to include results from blogs and shopping-review sites?
D'oh!
on the other hand, if independent developers would test their stuff under WINE and label the retail boxes with "Runs under WINE" instead of just "for Windows 2000, XP, ..."
A couple of years before there's a PS4, XBOX 720 or whatever, Nintendo can release a Wii+ featuring a better CPU/GPU for HD graphics, a better optical drive and sell yet another generation of consoles and games at a proper profit margin and still within normal prices for consumer electronics.
There should have been only one.
you must be anonymous tough guy, heh?
He manufactured a computer and he's got an original hairdo. that's good enough for me.
from now on you can explain your grandchildren that there was a time when the internet did not have many ads, websites were made only of HTML and tubgirl was not mainstream.
his sworn enemy happens to have a bunch of sidekicks ready to push him off the top of a building.
During the iPhone prototype presentation, Steve Jobs talked about IMAP and his partnership with Yahoo. Add iSync and OS X calendar app to the mix and there we have an alternative the the core of what Exchange does for a lot of businesses. I'm all for that.
Dell would also miss out on those sales opportunities caused by 6 month old malware-ridden Windows boxes becoming cheaper to replace than to fix.
the current market dynamics works for me. People in the know will lobby for document standards to ease the information exchange, while people who don't care will choose whataver computer/OS they think is best. It's not that important if that individual choice is good or bad, as long as there's a level playing field and the rate of improvement on the hardware side continues as it is. If most people would run Linux and played no games, what kind of roadmap would intel/nvidia/amd/ati have for us?
Michael Jordan is real enough for me to sign that contract.
not even dd?
IMHO this should be dealt with the other way around. Instead of preventing companies from labeling these discs as DVD/CD/whatever, they should be forced to tag the boxes with "CONTAINS DRM", "Content is remotely managed by $CompanyName", "Contains rootkit by Sony", etc. This is a matter of consumer rights, not just distributors' rights. The consumer should be made aware of how the device is meant to work and hopefully a standard set of consumer warnings and advisories should foster the much needed discussion on the fairness of these distributors' tools.
You should have provided links for both the KDE edition and the GTK edition.
Sweden was probably the country you heard about. they changed lanes in 1967 and there are many other stories like that.
how many copies can one make of the contents of the USB drive in order to try different passwords on each copy?
Sometimes conquering a specific 5% of total users means selling way more than 5% of the total market value. This is very clear on the beer market, I'm not sure about the automotive business. What I do know is that F1 racing has an impact on what may turn up on production cars some years later. If a company delivers an electric car that has extra performance compared to the usual suspects in the high-performance segment: Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW... they have a chance to get the attention of the people who are more willing to invest in bringing the tech to other market segments. Besides, all high performance vehicles put together might have a larger impact on emissions than a lot of regular cars. Selling these cars for more than what a house costs may be a first step in a desirable direction.
* - Bullshit!
yeah, but dogs are edible and chimps aren't.
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time."
--From Othello (II, iii, 376-379)
hoo! hurr! grr! huuuh! hoooh! hoo!
not enough chrome if you ask me.
So... Compuserve deserves a spot on the list as the first major BBS, Napster is the best thing since sliced bread because it shaped the way consumers use music, but there are no search engines on the top50. The people who wrote this list must be Gopher zealots or something.
If only they'd kill the toy-like design and fitted these 7" screens on grown up laptops, I'd be one happy email/OpenOffice user. And they even used NAND instead of harddrives for longer battery life.. must be a tease...