I for one want more of a "youtube" experience so far as the tech goes- I want to be able to see the services on my archos and ps3 and whatever other media device supports flash and streaming media rather than having to install a PC application in order to view it- I want to sit on my couch or in a hotspot watching not in front of the computer since there are already a ton of options if I wanted to sit in front of the computer
While it is a small change, it is fairly radical to tinker with an area of hardware which has been largely unchanged since the 19th century.
can someone tell me where the esc and del keys were on the 19th century typewriters? I seem to have missed them- how did they use the esc and del functions back then?
isn't anything, I mean ANYTHING that is on the internet copyright of someone whether it be judged by TOS of the host (in the case of some social networking sites and such)or your own? In other words, wouldn't you not be able to link to anything on the internet at all from anywhere except your own site and your own content?
it isn't bad movies that are the problem, taste in bad movies can still be uniform
also there are people like my wife and I who share the netflix since we watch most of the movies together and have different tastes in movies: for one I HATE '30s and '40s dramas and she loves them so she will get them sometimes and I love B grade sci fi and horror movies and she isn't the biggest fan of them
here are people who mistake their beliefs for who they are.
I have top admit though that I know some people who I know (the in-laws are a good example) who truly are their beliefs though they wouldn't tell you so- they literally make every decision (where they work, where they live, what they wear, etc) based on their religious beliefs alone.
make it compatible on platforms other than a pc (mobile browsers, ps3, psp, wii, etc) and it might be worth it- it isn't worth it if I have to be tethered to the pc-
well bluetooth prolly means some sort of ps3 integration beyond the virtual desktop thing you can get with it right now- I do have to say though that I agree with the fact that dedicated controls on a psp or ds are far better than on a phone, though what both nintendo and sony are missing out on are MID functions. Nokia has pretty well proven that a game driven phone is not enough to get people to buy it, but an internet driven mobile gaming platform would be a step up since there are still few games on either psp or DS that allow internet PVP and the PSP is much better than the DS as a browser but still has a number of flaws- it seems that if the pandora ever comes out it is moving in the direction that people want in a gaming machine- 2 analogs, open GL support for higher end graphics, dual storage slots, keyboard, full MID functioning, emulators, etc.- if sony were to come out with something like this that also played high end, protected, licensed games like the psp they would have a big winner
For most customers, the price of Windows *is* "very low or zero". It comes with their computer.
the price isn't zero, most consumers just don't see the price because it is bundled in with the cost of the machine when you buy a machine from someone like dell, gateway, toshiba, ibm, etc. The only people that ever see the cost are those of us that build our own machines and for that we get gauged since the OEM copies will go for about a third of the commercial version- it is the same product but costs about half the price of buying a whole computer, it is kind of like buying a lexmark printer where the ink costs the same as buying a new printer so no matter what you do after buying it you feel ripped off, same goes for windows with a lot of us. I think that the thing that MS doesn't get is that the cheaper that they sell windows for, the more people will use it and buy it. I would prolly throw down $89 or $99 for a legal copy of windows if I was building a new machine- if it was $59 I would get it w/o building a new machine just to try it on one of my spare machines but @ $299 I am not going to get it until there are major things that XP won't do me anymore and then I may or may not do it legally
Doesn't have to be an OS. Pick any large and complex piece of commercial software and it should be at least in the same ballpark.
that is a terrible argument since the main purpose of apps like photoshop, maya, oracle, etc are commercial- that is I would invest in X licenses in order to gain Y returns as a business- if you were to take something that an average person uses like, say turbotax or quicken or windows and jack the price to $1000 like a lot of those licenses #1 no one would buy it and #2 the only ppl that wouldn't pirate it would be businesses just like you see with the above mentioned apps. The prices built into the above mentioned apps have to take into account the business need and the fact that the WILL be pirated by the common user since the price is waay out of the average user's price range.
personally the way that I see it is that your OS should be about 1/10 of the price of a new machine- that is that what you normally expect to pay- $1000 has always been the midpoint standard for a new machine, the OS sits right @ $100
there is a difference between permanent debt and operating credit, permanent debt means that a company is permanently in the red wheras the amount of operating credit is dependent on the financial assessment of the company- if the company operates conservatively within it's credit it won't be in the red- it can pay off it's creditors but it does need to have the operating credit in order to function as I am sure that the places you have worked did.
companies actually are seen differently by their cash value and credit- cash on hand for a company is not normally seen as a positive since it is showing that the company is not expanding, in order for a company to be considered a growth company it should be slightly extended beyond it's value and show exponentially growing profits- it is kind of stupid from a person 's point of view but from the POV of investors and CFO's the extended company is seen as an investment brand since VC is attracted due to it upward mobility
you totally missed the point- the only companies that don't balance themselves on credit are mom and pop shops that don't do much business- retail, service, supply etc. all balance themselves on credit because in order to pay salaries, purchase equipment, buy stock to sell- all requires an investment of credit and not a cash investment- that is not how business is done since debt vs. holdings are counted differently to the value of the company. A company that operates in cash is less valuable hence less likely to be able to grow since growth has to be leveraged on credit as well.
The traditional supply/demand model does not need to account for credit. When the price of existing data center space goes up, the companies running those data centers will make more profit, and thus be able to build more data centers without credit.
It doesn't work that way, most companies balance themselves on credit- so if it turns out that they make more money it is owed somewhere or invested somewhere in an I scratch your back you scratch mine credit swap, if the main lender dries up the line then you get a ripple that goes all of the way around- realize that when you lease a data center they send you a bill that has to be paid, there isn't some big bucket in the office of the data center that you walk into on the 1st and drop cash into and that money isn't immediately on hand so that in and of itself needs to be accounted for as accounts are the same "virtual" money as a line of bank credit.
that's not a good argument though, it not only ignores fairness in the law but discourages people from development- what is the point of trying to become a successful developer if all it means is that you will be whittled back down by a million patent trolls?
I would rather see them make a stable client that runs on the standard opera based browsers that are used by nintendo archos etc- and the ps3.... it is lame that you can watch every streaming video site out there on them except hulu because they screw up their code to "protect" their content- I would be browsing hulu all of the time if it worked on other devices and that is what they want, right? viewership in order to increase advertising revenue?
I think the thing that is more aggravating than the terminology on this is just how many people still don't understand the difference and flip out about it- I can't tell you how many times I have heard people say that they need more RAM because they are out of drive space or think that because their hard drive is full that it is using up memory- or that deleting pictures from the hard disc will free up RAM or any number of things because they don't get the distinction between hard disk and RAM
I was going to put this one up too- drives me nuts especially downloading to a dvd (which I hear most often) or "downloading a program" when they mean installing it- but what bugs me the most is when they don't understand upload and download and copy like: "I just downloaded it from the usb drive to the computer and then downloaded it to the sever, then I downloaded it back to the computer and now I can't find it"
'Publishers aren't stupid. They know that DRM doesn't work against piracy,' Carmel explains. 'What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets. If DRM permits only a few installs, that minimizes the number of times a game can be resold.'
It makes sense to the devs because they aren't thinking like a consumer. Since DRM has become a big thing in the PC gaming world I have pretty much stopped pirating games... and buying them- I have just been playing console games. Wheras I used to buy PC games all of the time I seriously can't remember the last one I bought- I think it was about 2.5 to 3 years ago or so- right before DRM started getting big in the industry.
if they fire you for not signing it you are free to say or do whatever you like in regards to the company so long as it isn't defaming or libelous, that is to make things up and as long as you don't violate any NDS, so if you wanted to you could start a website or blog based on it if you so desire, as well it might just be a good idea to start a site for ppl to post about shitty experiences that they have had working with companies. So long as there is an EULA that you sign when signing up to post (that states that you are not responsible for anything said) you could not be held for anything that others post. Personally I would love to see a comprehensive database of companies and worker experience/ratings/comments that you could search before working at a job.
Does anyone play an "adult" videogame to explore the human condition. Heck no. It's all about juvenille self-indulgence. Real adults are far past that stage and have no real desire to subject themselves to unsavory sights and sounds.
I have to say though, that it really depends on the context, if you play a game that is exploring a psychological condition it usually isn't real life based, you can take something like resistance or bioshock or call of duty world at war and see a lot of real writing and deep psychological impact and thought when playing them just as you would a good science fiction horror or thriller novel and to shake that off because you are shooting people or such would just be ignorant and non-informed. On the other hand as well when you are playing games like saints row, postal or bad day LA it really is satire (Whether or not you liked the game play in bad day LA I laughed all of the way through it) which is also valid- the only real complaint comes in the form of games like GTA that fit somewhere between the 2 too serious to be satire and too watered down of a story to be psychological (though GTA IV did appear to be more "cinematic" than the earliers). The developers do still have to be given credit for what they are doing and it really isn't fair to pigeonhole all games as being "juvenille self-indulgence" any more than to say that because there are some movies that try and fail to do this that all movies are "juvenille self-indulgence"
what constitutes an "application"- I do audio and have a ton of plugins running that have their own executables (mainly vsti's) does this mean I can only run the host and 2 of them? what about when I am doing graphics and run bridged adobe apps? what if I am running 2 apps and suddenly need to view a help file do I need to close the app just to run a chm?
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I for one want more of a "youtube" experience so far as the tech goes- I want to be able to see the services on my archos and ps3 and whatever other media device supports flash and streaming media rather than having to install a PC application in order to view it- I want to sit on my couch or in a hotspot watching not in front of the computer since there are already a ton of options if I wanted to sit in front of the computer
While it is a small change, it is fairly radical to tinker with an area of hardware which has been largely unchanged since the 19th century.
can someone tell me where the esc and del keys were on the 19th century typewriters? I seem to have missed them- how did they use the esc and del functions back then?
isn't anything, I mean ANYTHING that is on the internet copyright of someone whether it be judged by TOS of the host (in the case of some social networking sites and such)or your own? In other words, wouldn't you not be able to link to anything on the internet at all from anywhere except your own site and your own content?
it isn't bad movies that are the problem, taste in bad movies can still be uniform
also there are people like my wife and I who share the netflix since we watch most of the movies together and have different tastes in movies: for one I HATE '30s and '40s dramas and she loves them so she will get them sometimes and I love B grade sci fi and horror movies and she isn't the biggest fan of them
actually, a true 2 dimensional laptop wouldn't be able to be put in an envelope since it has no mass- only shape
I have a 1 dimensional laptop at home, but I keep losing it
here are people who mistake their beliefs for who they are.
I have top admit though that I know some people who I know (the in-laws are a good example) who truly are their beliefs though they wouldn't tell you so- they literally make every decision (where they work, where they live, what they wear, etc) based on their religious beliefs alone.
make it compatible on platforms other than a pc (mobile browsers, ps3, psp, wii, etc) and it might be worth it- it isn't worth it if I have to be tethered to the pc-
no, just iMprobabale
well bluetooth prolly means some sort of ps3 integration beyond the virtual desktop thing you can get with it right now- I do have to say though that I agree with the fact that dedicated controls on a psp or ds are far better than on a phone, though what both nintendo and sony are missing out on are MID functions. Nokia has pretty well proven that a game driven phone is not enough to get people to buy it, but an internet driven mobile gaming platform would be a step up since there are still few games on either psp or DS that allow internet PVP and the PSP is much better than the DS as a browser but still has a number of flaws- it seems that if the pandora ever comes out it is moving in the direction that people want in a gaming machine- 2 analogs, open GL support for higher end graphics, dual storage slots, keyboard, full MID functioning, emulators, etc.- if sony were to come out with something like this that also played high end, protected, licensed games like the psp they would have a big winner
sorry, during that time anyone in the know was on IRC not in AOL chat- that was for grandmas and pedophiles
For most customers, the price of Windows *is* "very low or zero". It comes with their computer.
the price isn't zero, most consumers just don't see the price because it is bundled in with the cost of the machine when you buy a machine from someone like dell, gateway, toshiba, ibm, etc. The only people that ever see the cost are those of us that build our own machines and for that we get gauged since the OEM copies will go for about a third of the commercial version- it is the same product but costs about half the price of buying a whole computer, it is kind of like buying a lexmark printer where the ink costs the same as buying a new printer so no matter what you do after buying it you feel ripped off, same goes for windows with a lot of us. I think that the thing that MS doesn't get is that the cheaper that they sell windows for, the more people will use it and buy it. I would prolly throw down $89 or $99 for a legal copy of windows if I was building a new machine- if it was $59 I would get it w/o building a new machine just to try it on one of my spare machines but @ $299 I am not going to get it until there are major things that XP won't do me anymore and then I may or may not do it legally
Doesn't have to be an OS. Pick any large and complex piece of commercial software and it should be at least in the same ballpark.
that is a terrible argument since the main purpose of apps like photoshop, maya, oracle, etc are commercial- that is I would invest in X licenses in order to gain Y returns as a business- if you were to take something that an average person uses like, say turbotax or quicken or windows and jack the price to $1000 like a lot of those licenses #1 no one would buy it and #2 the only ppl that wouldn't pirate it would be businesses just like you see with the above mentioned apps. The prices built into the above mentioned apps have to take into account the business need and the fact that the WILL be pirated by the common user since the price is waay out of the average user's price range.
personally the way that I see it is that your OS should be about 1/10 of the price of a new machine- that is that what you normally expect to pay- $1000 has always been the midpoint standard for a new machine, the OS sits right @ $100
I like oranges better.... that wasn't too difficult.
there is a difference between permanent debt and operating credit, permanent debt means that a company is permanently in the red wheras the amount of operating credit is dependent on the financial assessment of the company- if the company operates conservatively within it's credit it won't be in the red- it can pay off it's creditors but it does need to have the operating credit in order to function as I am sure that the places you have worked did.
companies actually are seen differently by their cash value and credit- cash on hand for a company is not normally seen as a positive since it is showing that the company is not expanding, in order for a company to be considered a growth company it should be slightly extended beyond it's value and show exponentially growing profits- it is kind of stupid from a person 's point of view but from the POV of investors and CFO's the extended company is seen as an investment brand since VC is attracted due to it upward mobility
What I said applies to responsible companies.
you totally missed the point- the only companies that don't balance themselves on credit are mom and pop shops that don't do much business- retail, service, supply etc. all balance themselves on credit because in order to pay salaries, purchase equipment, buy stock to sell- all requires an investment of credit and not a cash investment- that is not how business is done since debt vs. holdings are counted differently to the value of the company. A company that operates in cash is less valuable hence less likely to be able to grow since growth has to be leveraged on credit as well.
The traditional supply/demand model does not need to account for credit. When the price of existing data center space goes up, the companies running those data centers will make more profit, and thus be able to build more data centers without credit.
It doesn't work that way, most companies balance themselves on credit- so if it turns out that they make more money it is owed somewhere or invested somewhere in an I scratch your back you scratch mine credit swap, if the main lender dries up the line then you get a ripple that goes all of the way around-
realize that when you lease a data center they send you a bill that has to be paid, there isn't some big bucket in the office of the data center that you walk into on the 1st and drop cash into and that money isn't immediately on hand so that in and of itself needs to be accounted for as accounts are the same "virtual" money as a line of bank credit.
that's not a good argument though, it not only ignores fairness in the law but discourages people from development- what is the point of trying to become a successful developer if all it means is that you will be whittled back down by a million patent trolls?
I would rather see them make a stable client that runs on the standard opera based browsers that are used by nintendo archos etc- and the ps3.... it is lame that you can watch every streaming video site out there on them except hulu because they screw up their code to "protect" their content- I would be browsing hulu all of the time if it worked on other devices and that is what they want, right? viewership in order to increase advertising revenue?
I think the thing that is more aggravating than the terminology on this is just how many people still don't understand the difference and flip out about it- I can't tell you how many times I have heard people say that they need more RAM because they are out of drive space or think that because their hard drive is full that it is using up memory- or that deleting pictures from the hard disc will free up RAM or any number of things because they don't get the distinction between hard disk and RAM
I was going to put this one up too- drives me nuts especially downloading to a dvd (which I hear most often) or "downloading a program" when they mean installing it- but what bugs me the most is when they don't understand upload and download and copy like: "I just downloaded it from the usb drive to the computer and then downloaded it to the sever, then I downloaded it back to the computer and now I can't find it"
'Publishers aren't stupid. They know that DRM doesn't work against piracy,' Carmel explains. 'What they're trying to do is stop people from going to GameStop to buy $50 games for $35, none of which goes into the publishers' pockets. If DRM permits only a few installs, that minimizes the number of times a game can be resold.'
It makes sense to the devs because they aren't thinking like a consumer. Since DRM has become a big thing in the PC gaming world I have pretty much stopped pirating games... and buying them- I have just been playing console games. Wheras I used to buy PC games all of the time I seriously can't remember the last one I bought- I think it was about 2.5 to 3 years ago or so- right before DRM started getting big in the industry.
if they fire you for not signing it you are free to say or do whatever you like in regards to the company so long as it isn't defaming or libelous, that is to make things up and as long as you don't violate any NDS, so if you wanted to you could start a website or blog based on it if you so desire, as well it might just be a good idea to start a site for ppl to post about shitty experiences that they have had working with companies. So long as there is an EULA that you sign when signing up to post (that states that you are not responsible for anything said) you could not be held for anything that others post. Personally I would love to see a comprehensive database of companies and worker experience/ratings/comments that you could search before working at a job.
Does anyone play an "adult" videogame to explore the human condition. Heck no. It's all about juvenille self-indulgence. Real adults are far past that stage and have no real desire to subject themselves to unsavory sights and sounds.
I have to say though, that it really depends on the context, if you play a game that is exploring a psychological condition it usually isn't real life based, you can take something like resistance or bioshock or call of duty world at war and see a lot of real writing and deep psychological impact and thought when playing them just as you would a good science fiction horror or thriller novel and to shake that off because you are shooting people or such would just be ignorant and non-informed.
On the other hand as well when you are playing games like saints row, postal or bad day LA it really is satire (Whether or not you liked the game play in bad day LA I laughed all of the way through it) which is also valid- the only real complaint comes in the form of games like GTA that fit somewhere between the 2 too serious to be satire and too watered down of a story to be psychological (though GTA IV did appear to be more "cinematic" than the earliers). The developers do still have to be given credit for what they are doing and it really isn't fair to pigeonhole all games as being "juvenille self-indulgence" any more than to say that because there are some movies that try and fail to do this that all movies are "juvenille self-indulgence"
what constitutes an "application"- I do audio and have a ton of plugins running that have their own executables (mainly vsti's) does this mean I can only run the host and 2 of them? what about when I am doing graphics and run bridged adobe apps? what if I am running 2 apps and suddenly need to view a help file do I need to close the app just to run a chm?
A move would be pointless
south america is still a very ripe land for up and coming sites to explore, especially with socialist leanings in so many countries