6 months on a sailboat should get you through 1 month of this data. Though, make sure you remember to stockup on your Marine supplies at http://www.westmarine.com/ They sell the coolest saftey gear that you will most definatly need after being distracted by so much data sifting.
I liked the effect in Halo 1 where you would wake up talking to a guy and start following him. Perhaps a mission where you need to keep a guy alive is in order while he talks to you. This effect is much of what made me enjoy playing games like halo, Half life, etc.
I was thinking along the lines of a second Generation PS3; A Bigger hard drive, more connections, more accessories, more games, and fully refined and developed technology to take advantage of what is incorporated into the system. Not to mention manufacturing of scale to bring down the total costs of the ps3. Keeping the old cash cow profitable ps2 around was genius of them. Something that can't be said for xbox v1 which had costs that didn't come down due to the fact that nvidia and intel didn't want to lose any profits in that area and kept the costs associated with those market items quite high. I think that Microsoft could have continued thier success with the V1 had they continued its manufacture. It was fairly difficult to get last holiday and still is.
Nintendo: If the wii continues to dominate through the end of 2007 then with the infusion of cash on hand they will(hopefully) use to bring in new ideas and talent to keep making consoles and bringing in games dedicated to thier target market.
I agree with your thinking. However, the wii has been and will continue to pretty much dominate group situations. That is until xbox and playstation get thier act together and make something similar. Though I totally see Sony fixing up the playstation by late 2008 to sell well and make money. In fact its benefitial for them to sell less now. Sure they won't get the developers right away. Mostly people will continue buying the hotly sold ps2 and games for that. Then slowly as the ps3 gains traction along with cost reductions in manufacturing and increasing tech availible for the ps3 you'll see the ps3 come back in 2008 as a dominating system. In fact, I think it makes long term sense for it to work out that way. Sony loses less money, and ends up with a 2 generation system that sells faster at a profit. I'd like to see Sega pull up the virtual reality tech that they were working on 10 years ago. Add periphial vision to it and sell it as an accessory to one of the next gen systems.
I tried playing Sega GT only to have it run exceptionally slow. But overall I know the reason behind the backwards compatability issues. They are not only emulating the old game but they are also instilling full time AA. Personally I'd like to see and option to turn off the AA for those wonderful games like Sega GT which overload the GPU on the 360 and cause a slowdown in the game. I'd also love to be able to play my Rally games on the 360. Rallisport, Colin Mcrae, etc. There was a number of great driving games out on the xbox that I loved and would love to see brought to the 360 which would fufill my reason enough to buy one.
Thats just what the store wants you to think along with the idea that usb cables bought 2 years ago won't work on new printers because they aren't 2.0. I used to work for a printer company in sales. The only manufacture that puts in less ink on thier printers is HP and its not nearly as much as you claim. Its usually only 1/2 sized. Not 1/3 or 1/4th like you claim.
Look on Ebay for that Duplex unit add on. There are still plenty of them out there. You just have to look a little. Ebay, Froogle, craigslist, wierdstuff, ect.
I am in the same boat as well, Because I've bought printers in the past and not only did they last a long time. The ink was more effecient as well. I'm currently happy with the older HP printers which do not have counters on thier toner cartridges and drums that limit the number of pages the printer can print rather than the actual supplies and life being the limiting factor.
WOW, has literally changed our society. I see so many people addicted to the game and investing hundereds and hundereds of dollars into it. I wouldn't be suprised if it dropped the national IQ by 15 points and medical expenses for people with butt blisters from playing it so much. I think its time for people to realize the extent of what WOW is doing to thier lives. I've seen it breakup relationships and even prevent them from starting. People just don't leave the damn computer.
Save the people, End the WOW.
I've sat next to people with thier cell phones hooked up to EVDO networks while cruising 500mph downloading and uploading emails and work and have been doing so on these networks for years while they travel. The technology is already ready to handle the load. Its probably a little tougher for the feds to track your cell usage though The idea of a tracking software tracking your packets from 24 different towers sounds pretty difficult.(Tin hats needed) I can see the idea of crowd control though. But you'd only need to train your flight attendents to better handle emergency situations.
Depends where you live. There are tier rates for power. The first 250kwhrs or so is at the rate described but most go up to the above 500kwhr per month rate of.27 cents per kwhr. A ps3 would be nearly 600 a year to run in that environment.
But there is an unofficial 20-25 percent of new laptop buyers that end up buying a copy of Windows XP Pro; Having that installed over Vista on thier new laptops.
Even with full coverage, Printing with that laser printer is still significantly cheaper than a standard inkjet. Trust me on this one. I used to sell printers for a living. unfortunatly you couldn't get refills though because of your printer using a chip on the toners. But still its definatly cheaper than the next inkjet which for 50 bucks would be lucky to chirp out more than 150 of what you describe. Even with refills nowdays fetching less. high quality refill ink is only cheap if you are using it in a continuous ink system. The only ones that get those are epson printers. Beyond that eh. Stick to the laser you got. If you ever go ink for anything but photos you'll regret it.
I have to call this out for inaccurate information.
Get a calculator and check HP cartridge yields again which is 12000 pages per cartridge at a price of 315 a piece if bought seperately and from CDW they sell it bundle deal for 250 a piece which would drp your total costs by at least 2 cents a sheet. Printers that high in price are far cheaper to print with. An inkjet generally runs around 26-40 cents a sheet for color printing even using refills. That HP 5550 costs around 2.6 to 9 cents a sheet at full retail pricing. There is a reason to spend more money for the high end color laser printers. Its because they are just simply cheaper to print with.
Seriously, if this is the training that they give the salespeople then Microsoft is seriously doomed. Real sales people know thier product damn well and can talk tech talk about it as well as convince damn near any customer to buy it. This is so general in its use as a salesperson I think I'd just work there for a while till I got a new job elsewhere in the company or otherwise. Because this is the worst crap I've ever seen. Its only bulletpoints of a complicated strategy. Who do you think is the one making the decisions to switch to linux within a shop or otherwise? I'll bet you 2 to 1 odds that its someone with a lot of technical knowledge thats the primary key decision maker in this.
If I were to give this as a brochure to an IT guy. I'd get one of two responses. Laughter, or sympathy and a long detailed explaination of all the little real reasons that he's choosing linux over Microsoft and hopefully a job offer as I'd be out of a job real quick with resources like this crap.
Seriously, if Microsoft wants to write a training brochure of fighting against the linux takeover. They need to find someone who has very detailed experiences with both platforms and thier vulnerabilities and who can explain the differences siding with windows on paper in a detail thats easily understandable by IT guys. Not, Ma and pop shops.
Its actually very sad how little Microsoft people know the products thier company sells nowdays. I'll bet 5 10 of them can't do a pivot table in excel. I'll bet it's even worse among the Mosaic Microsoft field representative idiots they hire nowdays. I remember when those guys were damn good and could easily sell me a product that fit my needs exactly and tell me how to use a new feature that wasn't in the previous version. I only kind of get that from the people who actually work on or with the product nowdays.
I see what they are doing at the retail levels. Its interesting to see them moving into this direction as more of a cost cutting manuver. I could see it teaming up with MSn and providing the last mile service if it were absorbed under that group. I just think MSFT is spread way too thin these days. It would make sense to add a little staff to create more focus among the divisions.
I didn't think a company like Microsoft would be so deeply entrenched in something like this. Its a bit of a stretch from thier core business model. I'm just curious how they plan to market this.
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Hmmm. I wonder if I can get spare parts for it at http://www.westmarine.com/ :)
6 months on a sailboat should get you through 1 month of this data. Though, make sure you remember to stockup on your Marine supplies at http://www.westmarine.com/ They sell the coolest saftey gear that you will most definatly need after being distracted by so much data sifting.
I liked the effect in Halo 1 where you would wake up talking to a guy and start following him. Perhaps a mission where you need to keep a guy alive is in order while he talks to you. This effect is much of what made me enjoy playing games like halo, Half life, etc.
I was thinking along the lines of a second Generation PS3; A Bigger hard drive, more connections, more accessories, more games, and fully refined and developed technology to take advantage of what is incorporated into the system. Not to mention manufacturing of scale to bring down the total costs of the ps3. Keeping the old cash cow profitable ps2 around was genius of them. Something that can't be said for xbox v1 which had costs that didn't come down due to the fact that nvidia and intel didn't want to lose any profits in that area and kept the costs associated with those market items quite high. I think that Microsoft could have continued thier success with the V1 had they continued its manufacture. It was fairly difficult to get last holiday and still is. Nintendo: If the wii continues to dominate through the end of 2007 then with the infusion of cash on hand they will(hopefully) use to bring in new ideas and talent to keep making consoles and bringing in games dedicated to thier target market.
I agree with your thinking. However, the wii has been and will continue to pretty much dominate group situations. That is until xbox and playstation get thier act together and make something similar. Though I totally see Sony fixing up the playstation by late 2008 to sell well and make money. In fact its benefitial for them to sell less now. Sure they won't get the developers right away. Mostly people will continue buying the hotly sold ps2 and games for that. Then slowly as the ps3 gains traction along with cost reductions in manufacturing and increasing tech availible for the ps3 you'll see the ps3 come back in 2008 as a dominating system. In fact, I think it makes long term sense for it to work out that way. Sony loses less money, and ends up with a 2 generation system that sells faster at a profit. I'd like to see Sega pull up the virtual reality tech that they were working on 10 years ago. Add periphial vision to it and sell it as an accessory to one of the next gen systems.
A very slippery situation. :)
I tried playing Sega GT only to have it run exceptionally slow. But overall I know the reason behind the backwards compatability issues. They are not only emulating the old game but they are also instilling full time AA. Personally I'd like to see and option to turn off the AA for those wonderful games like Sega GT which overload the GPU on the 360 and cause a slowdown in the game. I'd also love to be able to play my Rally games on the 360. Rallisport, Colin Mcrae, etc. There was a number of great driving games out on the xbox that I loved and would love to see brought to the 360 which would fufill my reason enough to buy one.
Thats just what the store wants you to think along with the idea that usb cables bought 2 years ago won't work on new printers because they aren't 2.0. I used to work for a printer company in sales. The only manufacture that puts in less ink on thier printers is HP and its not nearly as much as you claim. Its usually only 1/2 sized. Not 1/3 or 1/4th like you claim.
I was thinking people who worked for them had to pay the old ducking from flying chairs tax.
What about the people who work for Microsoft. What kind of patent tax do they pay? :-)
Bring me Carmagedon 1 for the xbox live arcade on the 360 and I'll buy a 360.
Look on Ebay for that Duplex unit add on. There are still plenty of them out there. You just have to look a little. Ebay, Froogle, craigslist, wierdstuff, ect. I am in the same boat as well, Because I've bought printers in the past and not only did they last a long time. The ink was more effecient as well. I'm currently happy with the older HP printers which do not have counters on thier toner cartridges and drums that limit the number of pages the printer can print rather than the actual supplies and life being the limiting factor.
I quote this from someone who works for Microsoft "The WOW needs to end!!!" The greatest windows quote evar.
WOW, has literally changed our society. I see so many people addicted to the game and investing hundereds and hundereds of dollars into it. I wouldn't be suprised if it dropped the national IQ by 15 points and medical expenses for people with butt blisters from playing it so much. I think its time for people to realize the extent of what WOW is doing to thier lives. I've seen it breakup relationships and even prevent them from starting. People just don't leave the damn computer. Save the people, End the WOW.
I've sat next to people with thier cell phones hooked up to EVDO networks while cruising 500mph downloading and uploading emails and work and have been doing so on these networks for years while they travel. The technology is already ready to handle the load. Its probably a little tougher for the feds to track your cell usage though The idea of a tracking software tracking your packets from 24 different towers sounds pretty difficult.(Tin hats needed) I can see the idea of crowd control though. But you'd only need to train your flight attendents to better handle emergency situations.
Depends where you live. There are tier rates for power. The first 250kwhrs or so is at the rate described but most go up to the above 500kwhr per month rate of .27 cents per kwhr. A ps3 would be nearly 600 a year to run in that environment.
But there is an unofficial 20-25 percent of new laptop buyers that end up buying a copy of Windows XP Pro; Having that installed over Vista on thier new laptops.
Even with full coverage, Printing with that laser printer is still significantly cheaper than a standard inkjet. Trust me on this one. I used to sell printers for a living. unfortunatly you couldn't get refills though because of your printer using a chip on the toners. But still its definatly cheaper than the next inkjet which for 50 bucks would be lucky to chirp out more than 150 of what you describe. Even with refills nowdays fetching less. high quality refill ink is only cheap if you are using it in a continuous ink system. The only ones that get those are epson printers. Beyond that eh. Stick to the laser you got. If you ever go ink for anything but photos you'll regret it.
Is there a way to emulate IE in a linux environment. My work login requies IE as well as my State university.
I have to call this out for inaccurate information.
Get a calculator and check HP cartridge yields again which is 12000 pages per cartridge at a price of 315 a piece if bought seperately and from CDW they sell it bundle deal for 250 a piece which would drp your total costs by at least 2 cents a sheet. Printers that high in price are far cheaper to print with. An inkjet generally runs around 26-40 cents a sheet for color printing even using refills. That HP 5550 costs around 2.6 to 9 cents a sheet at full retail pricing. There is a reason to spend more money for the high end color laser printers. Its because they are just simply cheaper to print with.
Seriously, if this is the training that they give the salespeople then Microsoft is seriously doomed. Real sales people know thier product damn well and can talk tech talk about it as well as convince damn near any customer to buy it. This is so general in its use as a salesperson I think I'd just work there for a while till I got a new job elsewhere in the company or otherwise. Because this is the worst crap I've ever seen. Its only bulletpoints of a complicated strategy. Who do you think is the one making the decisions to switch to linux within a shop or otherwise? I'll bet you 2 to 1 odds that its someone with a lot of technical knowledge thats the primary key decision maker in this. If I were to give this as a brochure to an IT guy. I'd get one of two responses. Laughter, or sympathy and a long detailed explaination of all the little real reasons that he's choosing linux over Microsoft and hopefully a job offer as I'd be out of a job real quick with resources like this crap. Seriously, if Microsoft wants to write a training brochure of fighting against the linux takeover. They need to find someone who has very detailed experiences with both platforms and thier vulnerabilities and who can explain the differences siding with windows on paper in a detail thats easily understandable by IT guys. Not, Ma and pop shops. Its actually very sad how little Microsoft people know the products thier company sells nowdays. I'll bet 5 10 of them can't do a pivot table in excel. I'll bet it's even worse among the Mosaic Microsoft field representative idiots they hire nowdays. I remember when those guys were damn good and could easily sell me a product that fit my needs exactly and tell me how to use a new feature that wasn't in the previous version. I only kind of get that from the people who actually work on or with the product nowdays.
Ketosis is fine. However Ketoacidosis which effects diabetics who go on the atkins diet can kill people.
One warning. Ketoacidosis. Diabetics should not try the atkins diet.
I see what they are doing at the retail levels. Its interesting to see them moving into this direction as more of a cost cutting manuver. I could see it teaming up with MSn and providing the last mile service if it were absorbed under that group. I just think MSFT is spread way too thin these days. It would make sense to add a little staff to create more focus among the divisions.
I didn't think a company like Microsoft would be so deeply entrenched in something like this. Its a bit of a stretch from thier core business model. I'm just curious how they plan to market this.