Personally I would have to think that the issue is that there aren't enough insiders that actually use webcams to complain about the issue before it is released. I am an insider, I HAVE a webcam, but I haven't used it in about 2 years. Our business just tends to use voice much more than video.
Free,.. Unless half your domain is still on Xp and vista.. Sigh..
Still on those os's due to lack of funding. At least with Windows 10's new development scheme we SHOULD finally have the whole domain on the same os in about 8-10 years.
Not all. There are plenty of businesses out there that are still using windows xp either due to compatibility with older special in house programs or they just don't have the money to upgrade their systems. Unfortunately I fall in to the later. Upgrading 68 systems to windows 7 or above is a huge cost for us and the general consensus from upper management is if it isn't broken don't fix it. so, on average we replace 4-6 systems a year. Figure by 2025 we should finally be off of xp.
You can't. Been this way for years in relationship to entertainment media. What you are purchasing is a license to listen or watch the media and that is all. Just be thankful that they aren't as sue happy as they could be. That new cd/mp3 your playing in your car or porch? If other people can hear it besides you then it is considered an infraction and they could fine or sue you for it.
Heh, most of the business systems I support have maybe 1 gig of ram, 60 gig hard drives, run windows xp and standard Rez is 1024x768. We replace 1 computer a month which gives us a 10 year turn around currently.
AND that is the BIGGEST traffic law that people break now days. Every where I go people are running at 70 mph with bumper to bumper traffic. I believe the distance is supposed to be 1 car length for ever ten miles per hour. If people followed this 90 percent of the accidents that happen probably wouldn't unfortunately it seems that most people behind the wheel anymore are inconsiderate and care about nothing but themselves and shaving 20 seconds off of their time to wherever they are going.
Actually, you DON'T own the game you bought. The only thing you get with your money is a license granting you the right to play it. Been this way for a while now.
Yes, people have a vote, but they only have a vote between the presented candidates which are usually backed by corporate interests. Running for office is very expensive here and unless you are rich to begin with or have sponsorship generally you don't go very far.
"Fluorescent lighting from hell, vending machines for lunch, 19" square monitors from the 1980's, computers running Windows XP, no service pack. "
Sounds like a majority of corporate America.:)
This describes 75% of the systems in my company.
Yes, this was something that made me ponder as well. They make a big deal about personalizing your installation of office 2013 and the only thing that any of the options does is add some sort of squiggle in the upper right of the window bar. I found it perplexing and almost why bother.
A lot of business will not be able to use 2013 in the first place. If they are like us and 90% of our user base is still using windows xp office 2010 is the highest we can go. 2013 will only install on systems that are windows 7 or above which rules quite a few people out. We are a small shop with 17 servers and 162 workstations in house and it just isn't economical to upgrade everything. Especially with only 2 it personnel, me being one of them, and a very small budget. Currently we replace computers at one a month which would bring all of our systems to windows 7 or above within about 8 years.
Hmm, think I need to go kickstart that old kaypro 2...
The odd thing is that around here a merchant is more likely to process a transaction as credit over debit. They say the fees for debit are higher. Shrug.
This would be interesting in the realm of communications though. If you were to isolate say 2-16 "bits" and have the equipment compact enough to read the state of these particles in a carryable device you would be looking at near real time communications no matter the distance. 2 bits you are looking at classic morse code one for a * and one for a -. 16 would be basic machine language. This would be great for spacecraft.
Looks to me, as short as the second half is, like it was a typo and should have been a coma instead of a period. I would give the person some slack. Depending on how small the screen was that the entered the comment in you may not be able to tell the difference between a comma and a period.
I stopped buying music, and have pretty much stopped even listening to it any more. I am beginning to wonder if i shouldn't stop buying books as well now.
Currently in Suse 10.1 there are 2 different update paths. Yast2, and an autoupdate feature new to suse not unlike windows update. This new update feature appears to have its own rights management and security profiles. On initial install of suse 10.1, the new kernel updates as well as some driver related material were no longer displaying on yast. These updates were only viewable thru the new update service. If I had to take a guess at how these new drivers would be distributed, I would say that this new update service would be the delivery agent.
I have seen an increase of vender supplied linux drivers over the past 5 years or so. Just a year ago, the drivers supplied thru ati were a joke, They have improved by leaps and bounds, tho, a little more integration with sax2 and not having to manualy script installation suffixs on the aticonfig would be nice. Nvidia's support has been fairly consistent, as well as support from linksys and a number of other component manufacturers. Even my latest drivers disk that i received from gigabyte for my dual core, nvidia sli mainboard came with linux drivers.
Short of microsoft making directX open source the biggest thing I see helping the linux community Would be added support for the wineX / Cedega developers. I don't know how many people I have talked to that would be using Linux specifically if it weren't for the fact that they can't play most of their games on it. The big one I play right now is everquest 2, due to the fact that it depends heavily on the 9c api's, I don't see it being supported all that well. It IS sort of a vicious circle. Software manufacturers won't really support *nix unless there is a major user base that will use their software, and there won't be a major userbase, unless there is support from the software market.
Pretty much the same here. What kills tv for me, are all of the commercials. Currently for digital cable, and the max cable internet service from atlantic broadband here on the eastern shore of maryland, I am paying 190$ a month. We have 3 Tivo's, and I find myself watching less and less tv. The whole premise behind paying for cable was, You did not have commercials. Atleast that was the marketing ploy when cable was in its infancy. Now, between the networks commercials, the local station commercials, and the cable providers, you spend 20 minutes out of a 30 minute show watching commercials.
I for one see the eventuality of the PC fading away as well. There will still be computers in the homes, but what I see will be a token ring type format. Everything interconnected. household servers, connected to neighborhood servers, connected to city, state, then national. These servers would basically be access points, from the personal information system with direct neural feed to the brain, down to the coffee maker. I would see a person THINKING of sending a message to someone, and the other person recieving it in real time. The possibilities are endless, and short of having a time machine, no one can predict what will be 20 years from now.
The main thing that keeps me from buying a mac, laptop, or anything smaller at this time, is the upgrade path of the item. If the Main Board goes out, I would like to be able to replace it, even upgrade it, the same with any other component. Until the day that data devices are sub 100$ I will keep with what I have.
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Personally I would have to think that the issue is that there aren't enough insiders that actually use webcams to complain about the issue before it is released. I am an insider, I HAVE a webcam, but I haven't used it in about 2 years. Our business just tends to use voice much more than video.
Free,.. Unless half your domain is still on Xp and vista.. Sigh.. Still on those os's due to lack of funding. At least with Windows 10's new development scheme we SHOULD finally have the whole domain on the same os in about 8-10 years.
Not all. There are plenty of businesses out there that are still using windows xp either due to compatibility with older special in house programs or they just don't have the money to upgrade their systems. Unfortunately I fall in to the later. Upgrading 68 systems to windows 7 or above is a huge cost for us and the general consensus from upper management is if it isn't broken don't fix it. so, on average we replace 4-6 systems a year. Figure by 2025 we should finally be off of xp.
Personally I think the whole argument is meaningless. The reason why the 16gb was the largest seller was because it was the cheapest.
Keeping thier investors happy. Consumer be damned the investor is all that matters.
You can't. Been this way for years in relationship to entertainment media. What you are purchasing is a license to listen or watch the media and that is all. Just be thankful that they aren't as sue happy as they could be. That new cd/mp3 your playing in your car or porch? If other people can hear it besides you then it is considered an infraction and they could fine or sue you for it.
Heh, most of the business systems I support have maybe 1 gig of ram, 60 gig hard drives, run windows xp and standard Rez is 1024x768. We replace 1 computer a month which gives us a 10 year turn around currently.
Also, we have quite a few less trees then we did in 1902..
AND that is the BIGGEST traffic law that people break now days. Every where I go people are running at 70 mph with bumper to bumper traffic. I believe the distance is supposed to be 1 car length for ever ten miles per hour. If people followed this 90 percent of the accidents that happen probably wouldn't unfortunately it seems that most people behind the wheel anymore are inconsiderate and care about nothing but themselves and shaving 20 seconds off of their time to wherever they are going.
Actually, you DON'T own the game you bought. The only thing you get with your money is a license granting you the right to play it. Been this way for a while now.
The cake is a lie. ..sorry, couldn't resist.
Yes, people have a vote, but they only have a vote between the presented candidates which are usually backed by corporate interests. Running for office is very expensive here and unless you are rich to begin with or have sponsorship generally you don't go very far.
Heh. If your work requires it then they should be paying for it. Unless of course you are self employed.
"Fluorescent lighting from hell, vending machines for lunch, 19" square monitors from the 1980's, computers running Windows XP, no service pack. " Sounds like a majority of corporate America. :)
This describes 75% of the systems in my company.
Yes, this was something that made me ponder as well. They make a big deal about personalizing your installation of office 2013 and the only thing that any of the options does is add some sort of squiggle in the upper right of the window bar. I found it perplexing and almost why bother.
A lot of business will not be able to use 2013 in the first place. If they are like us and 90% of our user base is still using windows xp office 2010 is the highest we can go. 2013 will only install on systems that are windows 7 or above which rules quite a few people out. We are a small shop with 17 servers and 162 workstations in house and it just isn't economical to upgrade everything. Especially with only 2 it personnel, me being one of them, and a very small budget. Currently we replace computers at one a month which would bring all of our systems to windows 7 or above within about 8 years. Hmm, think I need to go kickstart that old kaypro 2...
The odd thing is that around here a merchant is more likely to process a transaction as credit over debit. They say the fees for debit are higher. Shrug.
On average people break at least 10 laws a day, just watch people drive, what's another one to the list.
This would be interesting in the realm of communications though. If you were to isolate say 2-16 "bits" and have the equipment compact enough to read the state of these particles in a carryable device you would be looking at near real time communications no matter the distance. 2 bits you are looking at classic morse code one for a * and one for a -. 16 would be basic machine language. This would be great for spacecraft.
Looks to me, as short as the second half is, like it was a typo and should have been a coma instead of a period. I would give the person some slack. Depending on how small the screen was that the entered the comment in you may not be able to tell the difference between a comma and a period.
I stopped buying music, and have pretty much stopped even listening to it any more. I am beginning to wonder if i shouldn't stop buying books as well now.
Currently in Suse 10.1 there are 2 different update paths. Yast2, and an autoupdate feature new to suse not unlike windows update. This new update feature appears to have its own rights management and security profiles. On initial install of suse 10.1, the new kernel updates as well as some driver related material were no longer displaying on yast. These updates were only viewable thru the new update service. If I had to take a guess at how these new drivers would be distributed, I would say that this new update service would be the delivery agent. I have seen an increase of vender supplied linux drivers over the past 5 years or so. Just a year ago, the drivers supplied thru ati were a joke, They have improved by leaps and bounds, tho, a little more integration with sax2 and not having to manualy script installation suffixs on the aticonfig would be nice. Nvidia's support has been fairly consistent, as well as support from linksys and a number of other component manufacturers. Even my latest drivers disk that i received from gigabyte for my dual core, nvidia sli mainboard came with linux drivers. Short of microsoft making directX open source the biggest thing I see helping the linux community Would be added support for the wineX / Cedega developers. I don't know how many people I have talked to that would be using Linux specifically if it weren't for the fact that they can't play most of their games on it. The big one I play right now is everquest 2, due to the fact that it depends heavily on the 9c api's, I don't see it being supported all that well. It IS sort of a vicious circle. Software manufacturers won't really support *nix unless there is a major user base that will use their software, and there won't be a major userbase, unless there is support from the software market.
Pretty much the same here. What kills tv for me, are all of the commercials. Currently for digital cable, and the max cable internet service from atlantic broadband here on the eastern shore of maryland, I am paying 190$ a month. We have 3 Tivo's, and I find myself watching less and less tv. The whole premise behind paying for cable was, You did not have commercials. Atleast that was the marketing ploy when cable was in its infancy. Now, between the networks commercials, the local station commercials, and the cable providers, you spend 20 minutes out of a 30 minute show watching commercials. I for one see the eventuality of the PC fading away as well. There will still be computers in the homes, but what I see will be a token ring type format. Everything interconnected. household servers, connected to neighborhood servers, connected to city, state, then national. These servers would basically be access points, from the personal information system with direct neural feed to the brain, down to the coffee maker. I would see a person THINKING of sending a message to someone, and the other person recieving it in real time. The possibilities are endless, and short of having a time machine, no one can predict what will be 20 years from now. The main thing that keeps me from buying a mac, laptop, or anything smaller at this time, is the upgrade path of the item. If the Main Board goes out, I would like to be able to replace it, even upgrade it, the same with any other component. Until the day that data devices are sub 100$ I will keep with what I have.