You know what the best way to accelerate Vista is? 9.8 meters per second per second.
Throwing things on the floor go much faster than 9.8 m/s^2. PHYSICS ALERT!!!!!!
Once it leaves your hand (or whatever device you are throwing it with), the computer will only accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 (neglecting air resistance). Unless you happen to live on a different planet.
Disregarding your incorrect assertion that Darwin's theory says "meaningful information emerges from randomness", have you stopped to think about the timescales involved? We are talkng about BILLIONS of years vs 50 years of computer programming. Invent a computer that can last for a billion years, switch it on and let cosmic rays change its memory state occaisionally, build in some "selection" mechanism that retains viable bit patterns and sit back... I'm interested in how you're going to select "viable bit patterns".
It seems to me that without knowing beforehand what the program is going to be (in which case this becomes an extremely slow method of writing programs), the only way to select is to keep attempting to run the "program"
FYI, Powerpoint has an option to save as a self-contained slide show. (ie, it doesn't require Powerpoint on the destination computer.) IIRC, the extension is.pps.
Yeah, but is that real money or is that subdivision expensing. In other words, does it lose $240 because Sony must use $800 of resources to produce a $600 product, or because sony-chipfab charges sony-board-assembly $60 for a part that cost $5 to produce? I found the original analysis of the PS3 cost here.
At least 50% of the components are made by other manufacturers.
Bullshit. Sony is a hardware manufacturer. They make the whole thing from end to end. They create the price and take all the profit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3#Sales_and_pricing
Summary of relevant parts of article:
Sony was losing at least $240 per console at launch.
With new manufacturing techniques, etc, they're losing somewhere under $100 dollars.
I think that the article imples that PS3s aren't flying off the shelves as fast as Sony might like and thus are sitting in a warehouse somewhere, otherwise going unused. Even the article claims that this was done mostly because of the open platform presented by Sony and the fact that this researcher was able to get the consoles free from Sony. This is great for Sony because a sold console is money in Sony's pocket regardless of who buys it and what they do with it. If they can convince researchers to buy PS3s then it's probably a better deal than selling them to gamers. Few gamers would buy the equivalent of 7 PS3s (about $2800) worth of games and accessories. Some will, but most won't; even when they do, it's spread over the life of the console. A researcher goes and gets 8 consoles, cash up front and there's $3200 for Sony (less taxes, mfg. costs, etc).
Maybe it's jsut me, but that sounds like a pretty good deal from Sony IIRC, Sony sells consoles at a loss, and then gets that money back over the life of the console with license fees from games.
So selling 8 consoles which will not generate money from game license fees, but still having to take the loss is not a good deal for Sony.
Can I buy a partition of zombie PC's and use their processing power to crack the 40 bit key? Unfortunately, it's a 40-byte key. You might look into getting several partitions.
While Microsoft may end up with the money, the school districts end up with newer, hopefully better equipment, without having to pay from their regular budgets. Microsoft is still being forced to give up something of value.
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Throwing things on the floor go much faster than 9.8 m/s^2.
PHYSICS ALERT!!!!!! Once it leaves your hand (or whatever device you are throwing it with), the computer will only accelerate at 9.8 m/s^2 (neglecting air resistance). Unless you happen to live on a different planet.
While that may be true in some places, it's not true everywhere. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html4ever/2005/051014.Reactor.ABC.html
It seems to me that without knowing beforehand what the program is going to be (in which case this becomes an extremely slow method of writing programs), the only way to select is to keep attempting to run the "program"
FYI, Powerpoint has an option to save as a self-contained slide show. (ie, it doesn't require Powerpoint on the destination computer.) IIRC, the extension is .pps.
Summary of relevant parts of article:
Sony was losing at least $240 per console at launch.
With new manufacturing techniques, etc, they're losing somewhere under $100 dollars.
Either way, they're losing money.
Maybe it's jsut me, but that sounds like a pretty good deal from Sony IIRC, Sony sells consoles at a loss, and then gets that money back over the life of the console with license fees from games. So selling 8 consoles which will not generate money from game license fees, but still having to take the loss is not a good deal for Sony.
I would, but it's firmly esconced in my abdomen. So I don't have to run after it.
While Microsoft may end up with the money, the school districts end up with newer, hopefully better equipment, without having to pay from their regular budgets. Microsoft is still being forced to give up something of value.
Did anyone else notice that all the screenshots in the article are from AoEIII?