you know you look like an idiot with that earpiece and talking to yourself at Starbucks.The first time I visited a cold snowy place, a lot of people seemed comfortable about walking around with their hands in their pockets and using bluetooth headsets.
Oh, and another thing: Can you imitate a zune using a WLAN access point and send out files this way? Certainly there is right now no software available to do that, but think of the opportunities in the future: [...] RIAA planting files on your library; p0rn flying around in public hotspots; viruses; "send this to 100 friends and you'll get 10 days of good luck";... I have a phone with Bluetooth enabled, and I'm sure that MS and their developers would have to be extremely stupid to take a step back and remove the option to refuse files sent over the air.
Do you think that computer technicians can make a difference in the adoption of OSS? Well, yes, however I don't see why would a person living off of repairing broken Windows would suggest that people would use something that doesn't break as often...
The difference here just might be that Sony is selling a product WITHOUT ANY cars or courses to run them on. So you could basically buy the product and be able to sit there and look at how pretty the GUI is.
That would be the worst scenario, yes. It could also happen that someone who doesn't care about the built-in courses might choose to spend less on the complete version of the game and get the stripped-own version, and then get the courses and cars from a (relatively) independent dealer. Another idea would be to have sponsors supply the cars/courses. It could make a bit more sense than to have always the same adverts scattered around the racetrack.
I'd say it's a matter of hiting the right price point between the full and the stripped down version.
considering industry estimates that roughly 90 percent of the content viewed on its site violates copyright laws Which in turn represent US$43 000 000 000 000 000 in estimated lost sales.
Aside from Mario stealing the occational kiss from Peach... Mario's buddies aren't really attractive to the 'adult theme'. YMMV. When I fire up my gamecube, the whole family rushes to pick Donkey Kong:) What I don't imagine is anybody I know being comfortable about playing GTA or any other 1st person shooter in the living room, where other relatives could see them. In an ideal world, the Nintendo games would be more successful just because of that: people would have healthier hobbies.
But as far as we know Nintendo has never sold a system at a loss. They generally optimize during the design phase to keep manufacturing costs low And not only Mario & Luigi get lower salaries than their GTA counterparts, as they also help sell merchandise items, which would be hard to do legally in the case of GTA and similar franchises.
Well IMHO Linux is ready for wide scale deployment when the IT people deploy it. IT and Support people will do IT and Support work, and users will carry on with their normal work and computer cluelessness (if applicable). Business as usual.
My favourite USB thingy is my memory card reader. Instead of the 347-in-1 readers that take up a lot of desk space, this one is a SD memory card reader shaped like regular thumbdrives. This should last a life time (mine or of the SD/MMC card standard).
http://www.amazon.com/Simple-BONZAI-CARD-READER-ST I-USB2BONZAI/dp/B000189W0A
an new version of Airport Express [apple.com] that allows you to stream video as well as music. *and* works as a TV Tuner. Unless I missed something this here is a huge 24" screen, looks nicely in the centre of the living room, however you can't watch tv on it... nor plug in a games console...
Other people can get two systems in one, ideal for laptop users. Others can keep on running that essential Windows app. Silly as it may seem, there's another group of people interested in boot camp. People who have never ever touched anything other than MS Windows and crave for the coolness of been spotted in public using a high end Powerbook. Cool design sells, and so does having a direct comparison between the 2002-ish GUI of MS Windows and OS X. I haven't seen an Intel mac booting yet, so I must presume that Bootcamp is at least as visible as GRUB or LILO, but with those nice logos for Windows and OS X. If such Mac gets it's Windows install all f***d up because of viruses and spyware, and OS X goes on and on and on... that's one new switcher waiting to happen and certainly that person will have a lot of good things to say to all his/her friends.
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What would you do with 16GB in your pocket? Besides carrying my files in it, I plug in my headphones and listen to music while I'm working out.
That's very short-sighted. What makes you think that anyone who tries FF is going to stick with it if it doesn't blow IE7 out of the water?
I can think of several different groups of people using Firefox:
people who got IE replaced by something else by someone who knew better - these don't need FF to blow IE out of the water
people using OS X or some other platform that is not supported by MS - these don't need FF to to blow IE out of the water
people who actively choose to have different browsers concurrently - these people won't need FF to be amazingly better than IE to have them both on their PC
This all depends on how much more market share you think that is there to be gained. If the project forks between "newMozilla Suite" and "Firefox" then you might end up with an aggregate market share higher than what Firefox originally had, I just hope that such development is really made on different branches instead of spoiling one good piece of software.
They'll end up thinking that FF is inferior only because they don't have the ability or knowledge to take full advantage of what it has to offer.
Good for them! What makes you think that group of people ever stopped using MS IE?
Why not offer a few different builds with pre-installed extensions so that Mom & Pop can just download a version with the features they want? That can be done. It just doesn't need to be part of the browser. At www.getfirefox.com you could get the browser and then "related downloads" "other people are downloading this...". Just add a big ZIP file with a bunch of plugins and there you go. No need to fix something that's working just for the sake of competing with IE7. It's not like the growing number of Linux users will suddenly start using IE7 like crazy.
It only takes 1 realy angry 12 year old to make a copy of a piece of media (un DRMed through various means including cracking and the analog hole) Don't tell anyone, but instead of a 12 year-old making low quality copies, you can have a fully licensed and DRM enabled Windows virtual box playing music inside VMware. Then the host OS can capture whatever is coming out of the host soundcard, regardless of the protection that the guest OS thinks it has enabled. digital holes sound better than analog ones.
Because when my mother/sister/neighbour's cat purchases a new computer it inevitably comes with a new version of Office that has features senselessly 'hidden' in different spots. It causes no end of agony to help these poor users adapt. "Sorry, I don't know where things are on MS Office, I use Openoffice.org, it's better" "Sorry, can't help you with that, I use a different kind of software, I wouldn't know how to work that one there."
Easy, huh? PC->Mac switchers offer this as a tip for many other situations.
Clearly it was a slow news weekend. This report got a ton of coverage and have you noticed the number of moderation points used / posts on this story? now *that's* that I call a slow start for this week.
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wow! it's been more than 3 years since I last had a look at Lycos!
Pamela Anderson is now 2nd on their popular search list! what a shocker!
If this were a poll, the answer would be "breasts"
you know you look like an idiot with that earpiece and talking to yourself at Starbucks.The first time I visited a cold snowy place, a lot of people seemed comfortable about walking around with their hands in their pockets and using bluetooth headsets.
Oh, and another thing: Can you imitate a zune using a WLAN access point and send out files this way? Certainly there is right now no software available to do that, but think of the opportunities in the future: [...] ...
RIAA planting files on your library; p0rn flying around in public hotspots; viruses; "send this to 100 friends and you'll get 10 days of good luck";
I have a phone with Bluetooth enabled, and I'm sure that MS and their developers would have to be extremely stupid to take a step back and remove the option to refuse files sent over the air.
Do you think that computer technicians can make a difference in the adoption of OSS?
Well, yes, however I don't see why would a person living off of repairing broken Windows would suggest that people would use something that doesn't break as often...
That would be the worst scenario, yes. It could also happen that someone who doesn't care about the built-in courses might choose to spend less on the complete version of the game and get the stripped-own version, and then get the courses and cars from a (relatively) independent dealer. Another idea would be to have sponsors supply the cars/courses. It could make a bit more sense than to have always the same adverts scattered around the racetrack.
I'd say it's a matter of hiting the right price point between the full and the stripped down version.
Which in turn represent US$43 000 000 000 000 000 in estimated lost sales.
or US$540 000 000 000 000 000.3 in lost profits
hey ! this is fun! US$230 002 000 100!
US$432 294 100! weeeeeeeeee!
do you have a source for that? thanks.
Aside from Mario stealing the occational kiss from Peach... Mario's buddies aren't really attractive to the 'adult theme'. :)
YMMV. When I fire up my gamecube, the whole family rushes to pick Donkey Kong
What I don't imagine is anybody I know being comfortable about playing GTA or any other 1st person shooter in the living room, where other relatives could see them. In an ideal world, the Nintendo games would be more successful just because of that: people would have healthier hobbies.
But as far as we know Nintendo has never sold a system at a loss. They generally optimize during the design phase to keep manufacturing costs low
And not only Mario & Luigi get lower salaries than their GTA counterparts, as they also help sell merchandise items, which would be hard to do legally in the case of GTA and similar franchises.
Europe will see a total of 1.2 mln paychecks thanks to the new operating system
Can we have those EUR2.5M per day checks first?
Well IMHO Linux is ready for wide scale deployment when the IT people deploy it. IT and Support people will do IT and Support work, and users will carry on with their normal work and computer cluelessness (if applicable). Business as usual.
My favourite USB thingy is my memory card reader. Instead of the 347-in-1 readers that take up a lot of desk space, this one is a SD memory card reader shaped like regular thumbdrives. This should last a life time (mine or of the SD/MMC card standard). http://www.amazon.com/Simple-BONZAI-CARD-READER-ST I-USB2BONZAI/dp/B000189W0A
an new version of Airport Express [apple.com] that allows you to stream video as well as music.
*and* works as a TV Tuner. Unless I missed something this here is a huge 24" screen, looks nicely in the centre of the living room, however you can't watch tv on it... nor plug in a games console...
That's one Big Mac !
oxente? por que é que todo o mundo está falando inglês por aqui?!?!
Other people can get two systems in one, ideal for laptop users. Others can keep on running that essential Windows app.
Silly as it may seem, there's another group of people interested in boot camp. People who have never ever touched anything other than MS Windows and crave for the coolness of been spotted in public using a high end Powerbook.
Cool design sells, and so does having a direct comparison between the 2002-ish GUI of MS Windows and OS X. I haven't seen an Intel mac booting yet, so I must presume that Bootcamp is at least as visible as GRUB or LILO, but with those nice logos for Windows and OS X. If such Mac gets it's Windows install all f***d up because of viruses and spyware, and OS X goes on and on and on... that's one new switcher waiting to happen and certainly that person will have a lot of good things to say to all his/her friends.
What would you do with 16GB in your pocket?
Besides carrying my files in it, I plug in my headphones and listen to music while I'm working out.
I can think of several different groups of people using Firefox:
This all depends on how much more market share you think that is there to be gained. If the project forks between "newMozilla Suite" and "Firefox" then you might end up with an aggregate market share higher than what Firefox originally had, I just hope that such development is really made on different branches instead of spoiling one good piece of software.
Good for them! What makes you think that group of people ever stopped using MS IE?
Why not offer a few different builds with pre-installed extensions so that Mom & Pop can just download a version with the features they want?
That can be done. It just doesn't need to be part of the browser. At www.getfirefox.com you could get the browser and then "related downloads" "other people are downloading this...". Just add a big ZIP file with a bunch of plugins and there you go. No need to fix something that's working just for the sake of competing with IE7. It's not like the growing number of Linux users will suddenly start using IE7 like crazy.
Rumors are there's a q4 version on the way.
yes, bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.
It only takes 1 realy angry 12 year old to make a copy of a piece of media (un DRMed through various means including cracking and the analog hole)
Don't tell anyone, but instead of a 12 year-old making low quality copies, you can have a fully licensed and DRM enabled Windows virtual box playing music inside VMware. Then the host OS can capture whatever is coming out of the host soundcard, regardless of the protection that the guest OS thinks it has enabled. digital holes sound better than analog ones.
"Sorry, I don't know where things are on MS Office, I use Openoffice.org, it's better"
"Sorry, can't help you with that, I use a different kind of software, I wouldn't know how to work that one there."
Easy, huh? PC->Mac switchers offer this as a tip for many other situations.
I wonder what would the court do if they had found a relatively clean install of any OS and a bunch of MP3s ripped from CDs owned by the defendant.
Clearly it was a slow news weekend. This report got a ton of coverage
and have you noticed the number of moderation points used / posts on this story? now *that's* that I call a slow start for this week.