Perhaps the problem is that unless you're in a pennant run, baseball is not really that exciting regardless of screen size.
If your not at home on the sofa or at a bar,baseball works really well on radio.
I wonder how many were stolen in before everyone had them?
As laptops get cheaper, there are more people with them...ergo greater likelyhood for theft.
Look at the licencing fees that must be paid to M$ for every product you use which is generally sent out of your community to retail and M$ head offices.
With linux,OpenOffice,Gimp and other FOSS the money otherwise sent out of town is kept in your community and can be spent on things that build local companies.
Seems like there is still an element of chance and speculation in their service offering...Granted, if they're paid based on their performance,it is the end result that counts.
I understand how they can get employer and address information from a credit report...feed that to a telephone directory search...check out the location with Google Maps but...Where did the list of employees come from in the first place... Karl Rove?
Anyone see the Location Free TV from Sony?
Saw it in the store twice...first time the dude could not get it to work.
Second time it was deep discounted and listed as discontinued...too much hype around mobility when a laptop will suffice.
Ok lets say you're 24 years old. Forget the $5 per month and then invested the resulting monthly savings in an investment that earned 7.5% per year, between now and age 65, you would then be able to withdraw $153 from your investment each month...until you croak at 80!Then there is the service fee calculation that I did about a month ago.
"it's not that ridiculous to be suspicious of someone suddenly paying off a large amount of their bills, especially if there's nothing in their history to suggest that they'd be able to"
So why would I loan you anything if there was no hope of paying it off?
Forget targeting people trying to get out of their credit card mess...Homeland Security should to be looking for the large cash deposits and not legitimate transactions where there is an obvious paper trail.
I think the Rule up here in Canada is any cash over $10,000.00 is reportable.
Downloads are just a rough approximation of support.
The fact that some users may Download multiple times while others will re-use the same copy over and over or bundle it on a CD for distribution.
That said, there is nothing wrong with letting people know that Firefox is a viable alternative to IE, and using the download number is the only tool at hand to guage the size of the user community.
The days of the Large desktop are numbered... It's the small machines that will take over the home.
Your wife will love them as you can build it into the decor.
The overwhelming amount of information being recirculated, only serves to reinforce the law of diminishing marginal utility.
This means that only those top ranked sites will be of any value.
Ok...The average Joe can't program a VCR perhaps thats why we now have DVD's.
As development gets dumbed down, it lets guys like me kludge together stuff but, for the average person, they have no interest in programming anything.
"Podcasting is one that is struggling"
Seriously though...what makes a Podcast different from an mp3 recording stored on a server that can be downloaded to your player?
Really...who is actually listening or reading to the majority of these things (including mine).
For the majority, they are simply a place to vent or pontificate. Mainstream media like The Globe&Mail are using the principles of blogging to enhance their online offering. Once all the other mainstream venues open up then there will no longer be a need for a private soap box with limited audience.
We just heard M$ tell us that Cell phones were too expensive and that they were going to save us with WiFi+Voip.
Now we have a service that will cost a fortune in many markets.
Which is it?...too expensive or attractively priced?
Does this mean that M$ will provide guaranteed connections through out their coverage area? (smirk)
What the carriers offer is a reliable connection and that is something that Voip+WiFi can't. Building out network coverage for this type of system will present reliability and coverage problems that are overcome by expensive carrier class equipment.
When ever you're in need of a streaming solution look and see what the Pr0n industry is up to.
Awhile back Wired ran an article on an adult site who claim to offer P2P streaming Pr0n...great way to save on bandwidth if it works.
There are still some carriers that don't let you outside their "Walled Garden" so this just limits the potential market further and increases barriers to adoption.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps the problem is that unless you're in a pennant run, baseball is not really that exciting regardless of screen size. If your not at home on the sofa or at a bar,baseball works really well on radio.
There is no escaping this one...http://www.google.com/trends?q=porn&ctab=0&g eo=all&date=all
The apple never falls far from the tree...I wonder if W picked up the wiretap strategy from deeds that Sr. did while in Office?
You need to floss to get at that nasty plaque.
I wonder how many were stolen in before everyone had them?
As laptops get cheaper, there are more people with them...ergo greater likelyhood for theft.
Opps...I mean Vista.
Look at the licencing fees that must be paid to M$ for every product you use which is generally sent out of your community to retail and M$ head offices.
With linux,OpenOffice,Gimp and other FOSS the money otherwise sent out of town is kept in your community and can be spent on things that build local companies.
If there is no reason for storing pin data according to the credit card company specs, then why have these vendors built in a switch to do just that?
Real Data?
from the Back channel site: Using a unique mixture of technology, economics and game theory, Polyus will reduce customer churn, increase profitability, and precipitate accelerated market consolidation in the IP Telecommunications industry.
Seems like there is still an element of chance and speculation in their service offering...Granted, if they're paid based on their performance,it is the end result that counts.
I understand how they can get employer and address information from a credit report...feed that to a telephone directory search...check out the location with Google Maps but...Where did the list of employees come from in the first place... Karl Rove?
Anyone see the Location Free TV from Sony?
Saw it in the store twice...first time the dude could not get it to work.
Second time it was deep discounted and listed as discontinued...too much hype around mobility when a laptop will suffice.
Ok lets say you're 24 years old. Forget the $5 per month and then invested the resulting monthly savings in an investment that earned 7.5% per year, between now and age 65, you would then be able to withdraw $153 from your investment each month...until you croak at 80!Then there is the service fee calculation that I did about a month ago.
"it's not that ridiculous to be suspicious of someone suddenly paying off a large amount of their bills, especially if there's nothing in their history to suggest that they'd be able to"
So why would I loan you anything if there was no hope of paying it off?
Forget targeting people trying to get out of their credit card mess...Homeland Security should to be looking for the large cash deposits and not legitimate transactions where there is an obvious paper trail.
I think the Rule up here in Canada is any cash over $10,000.00 is reportable.
Downloads are just a rough approximation of support.
The fact that some users may Download multiple times while others will re-use the same copy over and over or bundle it on a CD for distribution.
That said, there is nothing wrong with letting people know that Firefox is a viable alternative to IE, and using the download number is the only tool at hand to guage the size of the user community.
The days of the Large desktop are numbered... It's the small machines that will take over the home.
Your wife will love them as you can build it into the decor.
Drop...and Roll when the thing catches fire! Refilling the thing will be like topping up a fondue pot...don't do it around an open flame
The overwhelming amount of information being recirculated, only serves to reinforce the law of diminishing marginal utility.
This means that only those top ranked sites will be of any value.
Ok...The average Joe can't program a VCR perhaps thats why we now have DVD's.
As development gets dumbed down, it lets guys like me kludge together stuff but, for the average person, they have no interest in programming anything.
"Podcasting is one that is struggling"
Seriously though...what makes a Podcast different from an mp3 recording stored on a server that can be downloaded to your player?
Really...who is actually listening or reading to the majority of these things (including mine). For the majority, they are simply a place to vent or pontificate. Mainstream media like The Globe&Mail are using the principles of blogging to enhance their online offering. Once all the other mainstream venues open up then there will no longer be a need for a private soap box with limited audience.
We just heard M$ tell us that Cell phones were too expensive and that they were going to save us with WiFi+Voip.
Now we have a service that will cost a fortune in many markets.
Which is it?...too expensive or attractively priced?
Does this mean that M$ will provide guaranteed connections through out their coverage area? (smirk)
What the carriers offer is a reliable connection and that is something that Voip+WiFi can't. Building out network coverage for this type of system will present reliability and coverage problems that are overcome by expensive carrier class equipment.
When ever you're in need of a streaming solution look and see what the Pr0n industry is up to. Awhile back Wired ran an article on an adult site who claim to offer P2P streaming Pr0n...great way to save on bandwidth if it works.
There are still some carriers that don't let you outside their "Walled Garden" so this just limits the potential market further and increases barriers to adoption.