to anonymous people a hefty reward for information....or they will NEVER pay out as they managed to find him without the public's help... I see this more as a self serving promotion by someone about to go belly up and needing the publicity to score someones funding.

Is what is the number of cycles before a given bit can no longer be changed. Will this outlast the current SSD write cycle limitations that are getting smaller not longer with the ever shrinking die size thus resulting in having to have 2x or 4x the actual advertised RAM installed to meet ever increasing MTBF rates..

.... Amazon's One click....

'It is gratifying to not only see MILLIONS OF people throughout the world enjoying OnLive technology in the wake of so many doubters, but also receive recognition for such a key invention.'" until that bold word makes in that statement this is fail in a can

only that between the itouch(if that counts as a mobile client kinda hard to access internet without wifi) and iphone only since those are the only itunes enable mobile clients im aware of of a smart phone market of what? 700MM to 1BB? and total cell phone market of what 3BB+? yeah the no mobile client statement holds...so wake me when the BB, android and symbian all have Ping client....and the other 90% of the market can play along...

c:\>ping www.apple.com

Pinging www.apple.com [96.16.93.15] with 32 bytes
Request timed out. No Linux client
Request timed out. No mobile client
Request timed out. No universal browser access
Request timed out. Forced use of 80MB client software

Ping statistics for 96.16.93.15:
        Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% fail)

yeah thats what i thought...

and without money flowing in or out...other corporations aren't going to be so willing to allow some random unsecured third governmental party access. My money is that they continue doing what they are currently doing until someone actually notices or attempts access.

Police did find an IBM Blade on the floor, corroborating his account that the server came at him first. There ...fixed that for your

Imagine Microsoft 20 years ago.......that is Google today.....

Except both of you are incorrect. There wasn't this massive mainframe competition. IBM was THE company. The others attempted to gain entry into their already owned MF market and at every corner because IBM had already a leg up on virtually all comers they used predatory practices and price pressure and refusal to cross license and highly restrictive software licenses to drive out any competition. They further forced any existing customer down a lengthy road of renewal negotiations if any outside big iron suddenly showed up. IBM is the master at that when it comes to their MF products. If had a nickle for every time I had to sit at the table with the MF reps as they squeezed out anyone who attempted to break into our shop id be a much wealthier person.

If you think there was lots of competition in the 90s you are highly mistaken. The few that were left held little niche market share and did so only due to the remaining anti-trust rules in place at the time. That market share then evaporated when clustered computing and personal computing took hold and not just marketing. The remaining companies could not compete against with IBM with that drop in sales and Microsft. UNIX systems too played a key role in eroding what was already slim sales of these firms compared to IBM. Even IBM suffered dearly in its MF division but was buoyed by its software and PC sales.

Having lived through this before and seen these claims before one would think IBM was all saintly and made all these massive improvements....mmmmmm no. The MF of today is relatively unchanged from the MF of 20 years ago. There have been upgrades and improvements for sure but no massive leaps. Newer silicon and face lift of the OS.

These claims that MS does not have a monopoly must come from those who apparently doent work with MF. They most certainly have a LOCK on the MAINFRAME market place and in the high TPS world, mainframe is still king.F ind a large bank of trading floor that doesn't have one locked away churning away. You might want to re-read that article you posted as well....IBMs z accounted for 9% of server revenue but what percent of MAINFRAME revenue where they certainly enjoy a monopoly position. When its comes to certain transaction based systems, GA systems etc. its mainframe or go out of business.

For the record IBM does indeed make some very good MF products that can in some cases be absolutely the king of reliability but it comes at a very very steep cost, kept artificially high due to their dominant and in many cases predatory position in that market.

IBM is a monopoly. There are no other competitors in the mainframe business. IBM just doesnt make the OS they make the hardware as well. They essentially broke every other competitors back by either pricing them out or buying them up. They became the defacto big iron supplier in the world and abused said position every time anyone came out with better faster or cheaper hardware than them, history has repeated itself. This position allows them to dictate the market place and pretty much kill off invention and improvement. The pc market place is full of competitors duking it out to make a buck and gain your business as a hardware supplier. The mainframe you have a choice for both the OS and hardware it is IBM or ...

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oldbar 1.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

old location bar 1.8 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Location Bar Limit - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7674

Using AO and Oldbar I can get nearly 95% or better ff2 behavior of my old ff2 location bar

so while i hate it at least i can minimize my pain

"Blu-Ray is supposedly better only if the original source was better than DVD. A lot of small studios don't have 1080p camera's," Say what? Did i miss the boat? When did film suddenly require a "1080p" camera? By default all analog cameras are high definition. It's the subsequent post processing and scanning that converts them to high definition digital format.

That Bill Gates was finally paying out on his email promises...