Whether the numbers for Mt. St. Helens are accurate or not is moot. We're talking about a supervolcano here which will be 1,000 times larger than Mt. St. Helens. The last one on Earth occurred 74,000 years ago.
I didn't say that MW3 was going to decline. I just said it will be available in the App Store maybe even before the next generation of consoles comes out. And it will still cost about $50.
I think I'm going to patent this: A device that allows a controller to be connected for playing games yet also can take phone calls. No prior art, really obvious concept, so the licensing will be a goldmine. You can send me money now!
Apple sold four million iPhone 4Ss in a weekend. It took Microsoft over a month to ship the first 1.5 million XBoxes. My claim is that phone sales, whether from Apple, Samsung or Nokia, are going to exceed console sales by so much that the price/performance of a new console is going to be terrible. Gaming companies will start to understand these economics and develop serious games to be run on phones with additional controllers, monitors, speakers and possibly some GPU horsepower. Not enough game consoles can be sold in the future to keep up with the phones.
What if Apple comes out with the next game console?
Oh, I'm not asking you to give up your 60" screen with surround sound home theater speakers, I'm just saying the phone will replace the XBox 360 or other game console.
XBox 360 is just a box. You use the game controller to actually play the games. The same could be true with the "phones": Set them down and plug in or bluetooth a wireless controller to them. You could also use an external video monitor if the screen is too small.
The next generation of game consoles is in your hand. It's running either iOS 5, Ice Cream Sandwich or Mango, depending on why your interest lies (sorry, Android is the closest you're going to get to Linux).
The phones are selling such high volumes and adding capabilities so fast that any new hardware console, ostensibly designed for games only, will have a problem getting to critical mass. Not only are we in a post-PC world, we're in a post-game-console world as well.
You need to have a plan before the laptop is stolen, not after. I use a commercial solution that works directly with police departments to recover laptops. They don't just use IP addresses; they get a picture of the perp as well.
As soon as the new phone is activated, the old phone is deactivated. I don't want my old phone deactivated when my new phone is sitting in a box in Texas.
Ironically, Good Samaritan laws in Ohio don't apply to health care professionals because they're supposed to know what to do.
Translating to e-space, a security consultant could be liable to malpractice. However, this consultant still did the right thing, so there are no grounds for causing him trouble.
Try it again. I typed in "S&P 500 July 1 to Oct. 14" and it gave me a nice graph.
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Since you only get one or two updates with the typical Android phone, it's kind of moot, isn't it? My wife's HTC Eris not only only got two updates since purchase, her applications are now crashing one by one. First Lexulous, then Yahoo!, then Twitter...
How many Android phones are shipping today with an out-of-date version of Android?
Her Eris isn't even two years old. That's why she's getting an iPhone 4S this Friday.
If you think Detroit is going to commit a production run to an engine that has maybe 10 prototype copies, you've got to be kidding. Think of the cost of recalls. Get a few thousand built, demonstrate the efficiency, get some patents to protect the IP and Detroit as well as Japan, Korea, Germany, etc. will have a look.
Apparently, to get the live CNN video feed, I have to install the Octoshape Grid Delivery Enhancement to Flash. No thanks. If I don't install it, I get the stream starting at the beginning.
I am required by federal law to buy seat belts and air bags for my car whether I want them or not. I agree that I'm not required to buy a car, but once I get to that point, I am required to buy parts of the car that I may not want or need.
There's a lot of paranoia in these posts with little common sense. You, though, have come up with a simple solution that allows you to be sensible without having to be paranoid. I don't understand why the paranoids can't come up with simple solutions like yours.
For what it's worth, I don't care that Facebook sees what sites I go to. It's all part of being a member of the Facebook society. If people want to be hermits, they should skip Facebook and Linkedin (screw getting a new job!). But they should also skip posting on/. as well as their posts can be tracked back to (should I say it?) them. I stay signed on to/. and it could do the same thing Facebook does!
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Whether the numbers for Mt. St. Helens are accurate or not is moot. We're talking about a supervolcano here which will be 1,000 times larger than Mt. St. Helens. The last one on Earth occurred 74,000 years ago.
I didn't say that MW3 was going to decline. I just said it will be available in the App Store maybe even before the next generation of consoles comes out. And it will still cost about $50.
Five years from now, when you're playing Halo 5 on your Windows Phone 9, you'll thank me.
I think I'm going to patent this: A device that allows a controller to be connected for playing games yet also can take phone calls. No prior art, really obvious concept, so the licensing will be a goldmine. You can send me money now!
Apple sold four million iPhone 4Ss in a weekend. It took Microsoft over a month to ship the first 1.5 million XBoxes. My claim is that phone sales, whether from Apple, Samsung or Nokia, are going to exceed console sales by so much that the price/performance of a new console is going to be terrible. Gaming companies will start to understand these economics and develop serious games to be run on phones with additional controllers, monitors, speakers and possibly some GPU horsepower. Not enough game consoles can be sold in the future to keep up with the phones.
What if Apple comes out with the next game console?
Yes. The point-n-shoot camera is obsolete (he ignored the sarcasm).
Good comment, though.
Oh, I'm not asking you to give up your 60" screen with surround sound home theater speakers, I'm just saying the phone will replace the XBox 360 or other game console.
XBox 360 is just a box. You use the game controller to actually play the games. The same could be true with the "phones": Set them down and plug in or bluetooth a wireless controller to them. You could also use an external video monitor if the screen is too small.
Wow! What a business opportunity for someone.
The next generation of game consoles is in your hand. It's running either iOS 5, Ice Cream Sandwich or Mango, depending on why your interest lies (sorry, Android is the closest you're going to get to Linux).
The phones are selling such high volumes and adding capabilities so fast that any new hardware console, ostensibly designed for games only, will have a problem getting to critical mass. Not only are we in a post-PC world, we're in a post-game-console world as well.
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Include my favorite: Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the first person to figure out how to make AC motors work.
You need to have a plan before the laptop is stolen, not after. I use a commercial solution that works directly with police departments to recover laptops. They don't just use IP addresses; they get a picture of the perp as well.
Ah, yes it did unless you don't consider Hong Kong, Japan and London worldwide.
As soon as the new phone is activated, the old phone is deactivated. I don't want my old phone deactivated when my new phone is sitting in a box in Texas.
Dup. Mod down.
Ironically, Good Samaritan laws in Ohio don't apply to health care professionals because they're supposed to know what to do.
Translating to e-space, a security consultant could be liable to malpractice. However, this consultant still did the right thing, so there are no grounds for causing him trouble.
Try it again. I typed in "S&P 500 July 1 to Oct. 14" and it gave me a nice graph.
Since you only get one or two updates with the typical Android phone, it's kind of moot, isn't it? My wife's HTC Eris not only only got two updates since purchase, her applications are now crashing one by one. First Lexulous, then Yahoo!, then Twitter...
How many Android phones are shipping today with an out-of-date version of Android?
Her Eris isn't even two years old. That's why she's getting an iPhone 4S this Friday.
If you think Detroit is going to commit a production run to an engine that has maybe 10 prototype copies, you've got to be kidding. Think of the cost of recalls. Get a few thousand built, demonstrate the efficiency, get some patents to protect the IP and Detroit as well as Japan, Korea, Germany, etc. will have a look.
Apparently, to get the live CNN video feed, I have to install the Octoshape Grid Delivery Enhancement to Flash. No thanks. If I don't install it, I get the stream starting at the beginning.
I am required by federal law to buy seat belts and air bags for my car whether I want them or not. I agree that I'm not required to buy a car, but once I get to that point, I am required to buy parts of the car that I may not want or need.
There's a lot of paranoia in these posts with little common sense. You, though, have come up with a simple solution that allows you to be sensible without having to be paranoid. I don't understand why the paranoids can't come up with simple solutions like yours.
/. as well as their posts can be tracked back to (should I say it?) them. I stay signed on to /. and it could do the same thing Facebook does!
For what it's worth, I don't care that Facebook sees what sites I go to. It's all part of being a member of the Facebook society. If people want to be hermits, they should skip Facebook and Linkedin (screw getting a new job!). But they should also skip posting on
I thought we decided that The Register was not a good source of news. Can we stop referring to it already?
In other news, a stolen credit card was used to buy a new car today. The car dealer is under investigation for allowing it to happen...
Three transformers are the norm: one for each phase. You can lose one phase and, in theory, two-thirds of the store can continue to operate.