True, but the performance was better. And in those days, most people connected to the Internet with dial up connections. Keeping the drivers/apps separate was cheapest for both media and transmission time.
They could re-introduce support for other platforms now, and it wouldn't be as expensive to just bundle the different versions for ease of install.
On top of that, if they were to re-introduce other platforms (using the HAL approach of course), then add CLR, as Smitty was suggesting, that would take care of performance-insensitive applications -- similar to JAVA.
They used MIPS, Alpha, and PPC as a way to steal from the UNIX workstation and mid-range server market. When Intel caught up some more, and they already had their foot in the door, they dropped NT HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) support for the non-Intel platforms.
The recompile approach was also similar to the way the transitional MacOS versions where when Apple started migrating from 68K series chips to PPC.
The interaction of the Hydrogen and Oxygen that creates the power of the fuel cell would be irrellevant if not for a source of pure hydrogen.
Until you find yourself a free source of pure hydrogen (good luck, I doubt one exists on this planet), you are going to be stuck splitting Hydrogen from water. More or less the converse of the same reaction that creates power in the fuel cell. Which, those that understand elementary physics would know, even if the process were super-efficient, you would need as much energy as is produced from the fuel cell, to split out the hydrogen in the first place. In reality, you would need more.
How the hell long is it going to take for people to grow some spine and not buy a single CD from any artist from any RIAA member?
Well, you may wish to preach that message to the teeny-boppers that buy CDs in volume and feed the monster that is RIAA. If you can't communicate your message to that crowd, your approach is doomed to fail.
On a side note, how many of you remember the copy protection computer software used to attempt to use in the late 80s, early 90s? The more I see of this new scheme by RIAA members, the more I am reminded of that failed attempt by software vendors. In the end it was the laziness of the end consumer that seemed to break that cycle. They didn't want to have to do the secret dance and jump through hurdles to use their software - they just wanted it to work. People hacked ways around those protections, and eventually the vendors just gave up as it wasn't cost effective to alienate their market segment to keep the few from copying their product.
I particularily like the statement from this that says:
Field trials of this technology have already begun, with 250,000 CDs incorporating the technology already in circulation. Consumer group, Music for People, condemned the trials as unfair because all of the distributed CDs contained Country music which no one listens to.
The Charles Babbage Institute of course...
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The Charles Babbage Institute (CBI) is an archives and research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated to promoting the study and preservation of the history of computing and information processing through historical research and archival activity.
A good question would be -- With Hotmail's dependance on qmail, and qmail's dependance on UNIX and variants -- What will Microsoft use for a MTA on Windows 2000?
Or will they just handle the web (display) load on Win2K, and use BSD/qmail for deliveries?
Exactly - people buy CDs now because for most of us, if you want to listen to music away from your computer -- it needs to be in a traditional audio medium (CD/Tape/Record/Etc.). As prices for MP3 appliances/media come down, CD sales may decline. If I had a CD/RW filled with hours of MP3s that I could get for free, and I could play it at home, in the car, while running, etc. For Cheap... would I be motivated to buy CDs?
One of the local chains as well as one of the independant record stores in my area provide listening stations for all of their music. Listen to the disc before you buy... if you like it you can purchase it. The chain has individual stations for music you ask to hear, as well as a dozen plus kiosks, with many genre's of music in each. For the average non-tech-savvy person, this is a great, alternative way to preview before you buy.
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So would should that be part of the Winter X-games? Or should I say XP-games?
True, but the performance was better. And in those days, most people connected to the Internet with dial up connections. Keeping the drivers/apps separate was cheapest for both media and transmission time.
They could re-introduce support for other platforms now, and it wouldn't be as expensive to just bundle the different versions for ease of install.
On top of that, if they were to re-introduce other platforms (using the HAL approach of course), then add CLR, as Smitty was suggesting, that would take care of performance-insensitive applications -- similar to JAVA.
They used MIPS, Alpha, and PPC as a way to steal from the UNIX workstation and mid-range server market. When Intel caught up some more, and they already had their foot in the door, they dropped NT HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) support for the non-Intel platforms.
The recompile approach was also similar to the way the transitional MacOS versions where when Apple started migrating from 68K series chips to PPC.
Exactly....
The interaction of the Hydrogen and Oxygen that creates the power of the fuel cell would be irrellevant if not for a source of pure hydrogen.
Until you find yourself a free source of pure hydrogen (good luck, I doubt one exists on this planet), you are going to be stuck splitting Hydrogen from water. More or less the converse of the same reaction that creates power in the fuel cell. Which, those that understand elementary physics would know, even if the process were super-efficient, you would need as much energy as is produced from the fuel cell, to split out the hydrogen in the first place. In reality, you would need more.
Well, you may wish to preach that message to the teeny-boppers that buy CDs in volume and feed the monster that is RIAA. If you can't communicate your message to that crowd, your approach is doomed to fail.
On a side note, how many of you remember the copy protection computer software used to attempt to use in the late 80s, early 90s? The more I see of this new scheme by RIAA members, the more I am reminded of that failed attempt by software vendors. In the end it was the laziness of the end consumer that seemed to break that cycle. They didn't want to have to do the secret dance and jump through hurdles to use their software - they just wanted it to work. People hacked ways around those protections, and eventually the vendors just gave up as it wasn't cost effective to alienate their market segment to keep the few from copying their product.
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A good question would be -- With Hotmail's dependance on qmail, and qmail's dependance on UNIX and variants -- What will Microsoft use for a MTA on Windows 2000?
Or will they just handle the web (display) load on Win2K, and use BSD/qmail for deliveries?
Exactly - people buy CDs now because for most of us, if you want to listen to music away from your computer -- it needs to be in a traditional audio medium (CD/Tape/Record/Etc.). As prices for MP3 appliances/media come down, CD sales may decline. If I had a CD/RW filled with hours of MP3s that I could get for free, and I could play it at home, in the car, while running, etc. For Cheap... would I be motivated to buy CDs?
One of the local chains as well as one of the independant record stores in my area provide listening stations for all of their music. Listen to the disc before you buy... if you like it you can purchase it. The chain has individual stations for music you ask to hear, as well as a dozen plus kiosks, with many genre's of music in each. For the average non-tech-savvy person, this is a great, alternative way to preview before you buy.