Future Shop. Walmart has them for under a hundred, too. All prices Canadian, of course.
futureshop.ca has them for 69.99 which is, of course, less than your average game for a current system.
And don't forget Jet Grind Radio and Space Channel 5.
No, it's like not paying for functionality you're not planning on using. Isn't that what a whole lot of the whining about Microsoft and 'bundling' is about?
True. It makes perfect business sense; the 'CTO' will see 'secure out of the box!' and ignore the 'unless you plug it in' line and plunk down their money.
And lets face it, appearences count. How many times have you heard, said about budgets, 'spend it or lose it?' Or can you imagine the consternation on your sixty year old VP's face when you tell him, bald faced, that you didn't pay one red cent for your 'highly secure UNIX environment.'
To further clarify the situation, the Xbox doesn't ship with DVD capability in order to also not ship with the 30 dollar licensing fee from the DVD Consortium. The Playstation 2, however, does mean you're paying 30 dollars, even if you'll never put a DVD-Video disc into it.
Matters to some people.
I haven't trusted Tom in years. I fully expect to see something like this:
As you can see, the Xbox overheated 100 percent of the time, while the Playstation 2 didn't overheat once.*
*Test conditions: The Microsoft Xbox was wrapped in tinfoil and place into an oven heated to 400 degress farenheit for all tests. The Playstation 2 was placed in a refridgerator and cooled to 50 degrees farenheit for all tests.
You should see drops around March/April, if history holds.
I'll point out, as well, that a brand new Dreamcast is now 80 dollars Canadian, while a brand new Playstation 1 is over 100 dollars.
The next milestone was the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
Excel was originally written for the 512K Apple Macintosh in 1984-1985. Excel was one of the first spreadsheets to use a graphical interface with pull down menus and a point and click capability using a mouse pointing device. The Excel spreadsheet with a graphical user interface was easier for most people to use than the command line interface of PC-DOS spreadsheet products. Many people bought Apple Macintoshes so that they could use Bill Gates' Excel spreadsheet program. There is some controversy about whether a graphical version of Microsoft Excel was released in a DOS version. Microsoft documents show the launch of Excel 2.0 for MS-DOS version 3.0 on 10/31/87.
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Not installing X doesn't cause the kernal to take note, and alter how it treats the system calls in question.
Comon people, every semi decent sysadmin knows this. Maybe I'm expecting too much from people (the number of people that complain to me about not being able to use telnet is disgusting)
Yep. But Joe, who installs 'that line-yucks thing' on his cable modem, live to the Internet, probably doesn't.
Windows 2000, Linux, it's all the same; the lowest common denominator is going to be the user.
I might have expressed myself poorly, and it's been a while since I've looked into it all, but I mainly mean Gnome vs KDE; font servers, drag/drop, cut&paste, all that stuff.
Microsoft started out, in a large way, by selling Apple software. Excel, for example, started as a Mac program.
This is a port of their old Office for Mac stuff, it's not a ground up re-write for UNIX. It just runs in what is really a MacOS emulator for UNIX; aka Carbon.
Which makes me wonder if Apple should try porting the Carbon environment to other UNIXES...
Boy, you want to see a monopoly in action? Look at Apple. They don't make any money, though, so the DOJ doesn't bother with them. How would you like it if Microsoft told you that you could only run Windows 2002 on a Microsoft M5 Series Computer? You'd hate it, right? But if Apple does it, it's ok, because then you get better hardware compatibility! And colours! Ooooh!
Nope. Did you know, for example, that you've been able to get IE for Solaris for quite a while now?
The first thing they'd need to do is move over the COM system, and implement a registry-alike. This would already have the Linux zealots screaming.
Then, they'd need to start making choices. What window managers to they support? What widget sets? Do they make their own?
They don't do it because they know that they'd be unable to do it in any successful way with the user base. No matter how they did it, 70 percent of the users would be crying and screaming.
Would you do it? If you have taken Theory of Computation you'd know that this is equivalent to the halting problem for Turing machines and thus is *impossible*. It seems bizzare, but there are actually a lot of things that we can't write programs to do, and furthermore, we can actually prove this fact.
Like the kid who went in for classes late, saw some problems on the blackboard, and did them for homework, not realizing they were examples of unsolvable problems?:-)
I ran into a buddy of mine, a few years back, we went through HS together. Anywho, he was telling me about all the neat stuff he was doing in his Masters of Computer Science at Ryerson. AI, for example. And all I could think was 'Neat. Can you build a database?'
I'm a Sys Admin, and I firmly believe that what I do shouldn't be taught in college and university (and it isn't) but should be taught as an apprenticeship. Which it is, really, when you get down to it; the young geek gets hired as an IT monkey, and learns from the crusty old master. But NA doesn't really have a FORMAL apprenticeship system, which it should, I think. Then, a few standard accredations, which are NOT company specific, to grease the wheels. I'd love, for example, to get a 'TCP/IP Networking Engineer' cert, from a standards body made up of all the various industry vendors, which states that yes, I understand TCP/IP networking, routing, and so on. THEN I go get certified to program a Cisco router, a DSLAM, or whatever.
The problem with this is that exams don't test what you know; exams test what your Professor has told you. And THAT is why you need the classes.
Case in point. I took a C course, where the prof said 'you don't need to be here if you don't want; the only marks are from the assignments and the exam, and here's all the assignments.'
Well, I believed her. And because I wound up doing my assignments using techniques she didn't teach in class, I got poor marks.
I've never been a good academic learner; I think there's too much bullshit. "Given these two equasions, solve for X." "X is 12." "Show your work." "What work? Look at the question. It's 12." "Very well; 2 marks out of 10." And yet the person who goes through the steps, fucks up, and gets X equals 7, gets, say, 5 out of 10 marks. Now, yes, that's a good requirement when you're trying to learn the material. But once you've learned it, leave it be.
Looks like somebody needs to go back to school. You're taking exponents, not halves.
4 + 50% = 6
6 + 50% = 9
9 + 50% = 13.5
13.5 + 50% = 19.25
Still fairly respectible, but not quite exponential.
and that will get you a priority service contract better than what you could get from a proprietary software vendor (with us the code authors are the ones who answer your emails.)
Will you guarentee to have somebody onsite, within four hours of my call, who will sit there until *I* say I'm satisfied, any time, any day? Will you put, in writing, a guarentee that your fix will fix the problems I describe?
I'm not trying to denigrate the service you do offer, I'm just trying to figure out how it's 'better' than what I can get from a 'propriatry software vendor.'
Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future. Great series, and I wish it hadn't cut off when it did; the series was NOT afraid to seriously stick it to the heroes; alot of their victories were bitter/sweet, if not downright Phyrric. They wern't afraid to pull punches with the badguys, too; using humans to carry engineered plagues, for example.
Some of the best episodes were penned by J. Michael Stracynzci, which I've probably spelled incorrectly, who is most famous for creating Babylon 5.
Better yet, use a trigger that, on read, checks the date of the last payment, and if it's not a month later (i.e. if the card number isn't being read at the right time for it to be a subscription) scream bloody murder.
Pull a Kobyashi Maru, and change the parameters.
Don't charge monthly, charge yearly. Store the date of subscription, and send an email out, once a week, starting two months before a subscription will expire, telling the user to come re-subscribe. That removes the entire requirement to store things.
Or where ALL requests come from the same IP. Or they forget to set their damn proxy to NOT cache anything that happens to have the telltale 'dynamic content' characters in the URL, like '?' and '&' and get cached, and the request never actually gets to your server.
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Future Shop. Walmart has them for under a hundred, too. All prices Canadian, of course. futureshop.ca has them for 69.99 which is, of course, less than your average game for a current system. And don't forget Jet Grind Radio and Space Channel 5.
There be a difference between DVD-ROM and DVD-Video.
No, it's like not paying for functionality you're not planning on using. Isn't that what a whole lot of the whining about Microsoft and 'bundling' is about?
True. It makes perfect business sense; the 'CTO' will see 'secure out of the box!' and ignore the 'unless you plug it in' line and plunk down their money. And lets face it, appearences count. How many times have you heard, said about budgets, 'spend it or lose it?' Or can you imagine the consternation on your sixty year old VP's face when you tell him, bald faced, that you didn't pay one red cent for your 'highly secure UNIX environment.'
To further clarify the situation, the Xbox doesn't ship with DVD capability in order to also not ship with the 30 dollar licensing fee from the DVD Consortium. The Playstation 2, however, does mean you're paying 30 dollars, even if you'll never put a DVD-Video disc into it. Matters to some people.
Remember the problems the Dreamcast went through at launch? And the Playstation 1? Possibly the Playstation 2; I wasn't paying much attention.
You should see drops around March/April, if history holds. I'll point out, as well, that a brand new Dreamcast is now 80 dollars Canadian, while a brand new Playstation 1 is over 100 dollars.
Not installing X doesn't cause the kernal to take note, and alter how it treats the system calls in question.
I might have expressed myself poorly, and it's been a while since I've looked into it all, but I mainly mean Gnome vs KDE; font servers, drag/drop, cut&paste, all that stuff.
Microsoft started out, in a large way, by selling Apple software. Excel, for example, started as a Mac program. This is a port of their old Office for Mac stuff, it's not a ground up re-write for UNIX. It just runs in what is really a MacOS emulator for UNIX; aka Carbon. Which makes me wonder if Apple should try porting the Carbon environment to other UNIXES... Boy, you want to see a monopoly in action? Look at Apple. They don't make any money, though, so the DOJ doesn't bother with them. How would you like it if Microsoft told you that you could only run Windows 2002 on a Microsoft M5 Series Computer? You'd hate it, right? But if Apple does it, it's ok, because then you get better hardware compatibility! And colours! Ooooh!
Nope. Did you know, for example, that you've been able to get IE for Solaris for quite a while now? The first thing they'd need to do is move over the COM system, and implement a registry-alike. This would already have the Linux zealots screaming. Then, they'd need to start making choices. What window managers to they support? What widget sets? Do they make their own? They don't do it because they know that they'd be unable to do it in any successful way with the user base. No matter how they did it, 70 percent of the users would be crying and screaming.
You know, 'show your work;' show all the steps you'd go through, in this case, to take two separate equasions and turn them into a solution.
The problem with this is that exams don't test what you know; exams test what your Professor has told you. And THAT is why you need the classes. Case in point. I took a C course, where the prof said 'you don't need to be here if you don't want; the only marks are from the assignments and the exam, and here's all the assignments.' Well, I believed her. And because I wound up doing my assignments using techniques she didn't teach in class, I got poor marks. I've never been a good academic learner; I think there's too much bullshit. "Given these two equasions, solve for X." "X is 12." "Show your work." "What work? Look at the question. It's 12." "Very well; 2 marks out of 10." And yet the person who goes through the steps, fucks up, and gets X equals 7, gets, say, 5 out of 10 marks. Now, yes, that's a good requirement when you're trying to learn the material. But once you've learned it, leave it be.
Doh! Semantics on the exponent point, and very true on the math point. I abase myself before you. :-)
Looks like somebody needs to go back to school. You're taking exponents, not halves. 4 + 50% = 6
6 + 50% = 9
9 + 50% = 13.5
13.5 + 50% = 19.25
Still fairly respectible, but not quite exponential.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again; most computer work is a trade, and should be dealt with in a master/apprentice function, with a guild.
Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future. Great series, and I wish it hadn't cut off when it did; the series was NOT afraid to seriously stick it to the heroes; alot of their victories were bitter/sweet, if not downright Phyrric. They wern't afraid to pull punches with the badguys, too; using humans to carry engineered plagues, for example. Some of the best episodes were penned by J. Michael Stracynzci, which I've probably spelled incorrectly, who is most famous for creating Babylon 5.
Pull a Kobyashi Maru, and change the parameters. Don't charge monthly, charge yearly. Store the date of subscription, and send an email out, once a week, starting two months before a subscription will expire, telling the user to come re-subscribe. That removes the entire requirement to store things.
Or where ALL requests come from the same IP. Or they forget to set their damn proxy to NOT cache anything that happens to have the telltale 'dynamic content' characters in the URL, like '?' and '&' and get cached, and the request never actually gets to your server.