I was going to mod you Insightful but decided to reply instead... It would be fantastic if these solid state laptops could have a secondary drive, which is sync'd to at shutdown - it's almost a certainty that this would not fail before the normal drive, so hey presto - instant, permanently available no-effort backup for the user.
For an extra $100 on the costs, it'd be worth it as a USP too...
Of course, they'd have to hide it from the OS and make it a hardware/firmware function, which would be harder work but have the big advantage of making it filesystem-agnostic.
Actually, it's not over $800 at today's rate, but still...
US prices: $499 ; $599
Eurozone prices: $637 (€499) ; $765 (€599)
UK prices: Not available(!) ; $798 (£425)
F and off, Sony. It won't sell to me and (i) I have plenty of cash and (ii) I love my PS2 and would have paid £350 without a moment's thought. No-one I've talked to on this is prepared to pay, and we're all late 20s and early 30s gamers with good jobs and no kids. They're not going to sell these at that price...
Regional monopolies like the US government? Come on! It's not the regulations that are the problem here, and we're not going to get "free markets and capitalism" in this area (ISPs) until/unless the whole world is a single market run on pure capitalist rules, with no trade barriers or tariffs. Until then, we need regulation in domestic markets and treaties to control international pipes.
For now, in the US, what's needed is for the ISPs to work out deals for interfacing with each other, so the packets at the interfaces between their networks are treated fairly: Google pays their ISP, I pay mine, we're both paying customers here.
The situation is analogous to the postal services, both local competitors and those in different countries. If my friends' football team send me postcards from Belgium and pay for their stamps there, I shouldn't then get a call from the Belgian postal service demanding payment because I seem to be getting a lot of mail this week and they really wouldn't want to lose or delay any of it...
These ISPs can't make the market work for them, so are threatening the consumers - though mostly their competitors' customers because they're not total SCO^H^H^Hmorons. Unfortunately, this is exactly the area we need regulators to step in, because the refusal to reach an agreement brings competitive advantage for the big carriers - smaller carriers can't so easily afford the extra traffic, will do less well financially and in terms of service, and can be easily bought up. And any agreement for charging will stuff the little guys too, as they can't afford to pay for their customers' access to the big guys networks and stay price-competitive.
That's why net neutrality is such a big issue - without it, the smaller ISPs are toast and we're back to the days of 1 carrier per country, charging what they like and providing an awful service to boot.../rant
Uh, the Xbox came out in Nov 2001, and the 22 million figure is the latest official one, but it's up to the end of FY 2005. That's not 2.4 million a quarter.
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I guess I thunk a little too different ? Maybe things have changed since they advertised with these words:
Here's to the crazy ones.
The misfits.
The rebels.
The troublemakers.
[...]
While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
How many kids will ask Santa if they can have a Wii this Christmas?
How awkward would you feel going up to the counter in your local game shop and saying you'd like a Wii, please?
Dumb, very dumb. Revolution was such a cool name too, but I've stopped drooling over the new Nintendo and now I don't want one. Most of my (hardcore gaming) friends said the same when they heard too.
parts of Hollywood are owned and controlled by the corporations with stakes in these technologies
Hollywood cares about adoption rates - this is why UMD movies are being taken off the shelves
Both of these seems to swing the probability towards BluRay (the 2nd assuming the PS3 is a hit), and then there's the inertia in the studios - Sony, Fox, MGM and Disney were initially in the BluRay camp, which is a large slice of Hollywood right there...
Actually, the Sun Fire T1000 only supports 16GB - but the T2000 does support 32GB. If you're looking at these, the alternative Opteron solution would be another rack-mounted system rather than a workstation, and the obvious candidate is the Sun Fire V40z with 32GB and 4 dual-core Opterons. Which, btw, are very nice systems.
And don't forget that over their lifetimes both the Xbox and GameCube have been pushed for sales by the PS1, which has averaged 80-85% of their shipments despite being a generation back and sitting next to the (obviously superior, even to an idiot) PS2 on many retailer's shelves. It will be very interesting if Sony can pull off that quiet trick again...
Dominance it is. In FY 2003 alone, the PS2 shipped more units worldwide (22.52 million) than either Xbox or GameCube have done in total, according to the latest available official figures from all 3 companies, which are 22 million Xboxes between 11/01 and 3/05, and 20.61 million GameCubes between 9/01 and 1/06).
The breakdown of PlayStation shipments shows this, with over 20,000,000 PS1s being shipped in the first 5 years since the launch of PS2. PS1 sales over the lifetime of the GameCube and Xbox are in the region of 80-85% of those newer machines!
PS1 lasted almost 6 years in production after PS2 came out: if PS2 can do the same, expect to see them on the shelves until Christmas 2012.
Wow. If this is really an interview with the CEO of the biggest ATI add-in board maker, there's a real opportunity for someone to land a role as his PR minder...
He admits to Sapphire being weak in Asia and Turkey, talks openly about ATI's problems and his reliance on them being a weakness, suggests he's going to move into Nvidia parts too and then says he want to shift the firm from being an AIB maker to a "multimedia company".
Sell, sell, sell would be a sensible shareholder reaction.
But maybe it's his first interview in 4 years because he has good marketing people and they've successfully managed to keep him away from the journalists for that long?
The GeForce 4 MX 440-8x runs WoW pretty well, actually. I had to take the GeForce 6200 out of my quiet media box and I put a spare 440 in there, and it was fine at 1024x768, 24bpp with no antialiasing and only the distance sliders turned up to max...
What about those of us in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Malta, Canada or any of the other places where an awful lot of people speak English?
Want to bet on how many of us have to do a mental translation (along the lines of "OK, s/he means couldn't care less... hang on, I missed that next bit") while wincing at the sheer stupidity of saying the exact opposite of what you mean? Against how many don't understand what you mean, and how many do understand naturally, first time?
No, they have much better than this (in the UK at least).
The standard deal is a 1 year warranty with global repair or replace (except for iMac and PowerMac which have only onsite repair or replace), 90 days phone tech support and 14 days return and refund for any reason at all. AppleCare plans extend the warranty and phone support to 3 years, for about £100.
Likewise, and it always bothers me too, but it seems to be epidemic in American usage nowadays.
There is hope, though: I've yet to meet anyone who uses the "n't"-less form who had actually thought about the meaning of the words they were using - and when they do (usually after a little ribbing from me;-) they tend to realise how silly it sounds to English (or Aussie, or probably most non-USian) ears.
Actually, it was 7,743 PS1 and 5,277 PS2 games at the end of March 2005, and Sony will publish this year's figures soonish. To be really pedantic, only 4,907 of those PS1 games were Asian (not just Japanese) releases.
To round out the numbers seeing as how we're on that track, there were 3,181 PS2 Asian releases by this time last year, versus 1,121 (and 1,501 PS1 titles) in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region; and 975* and 1,335 in North America.
These should help... I'm still astounded at the laziness of/.ers who'll gabble on and on w/o googling something like "linux blind" and seeing what turns up
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I was going to mod you Insightful but decided to reply instead... It would be fantastic if these solid state laptops could have a secondary drive, which is sync'd to at shutdown - it's almost a certainty that this would not fail before the normal drive, so hey presto - instant, permanently available no-effort backup for the user. For an extra $100 on the costs, it'd be worth it as a USP too... Of course, they'd have to hide it from the OS and make it a hardware/firmware function, which would be harder work but have the big advantage of making it filesystem-agnostic.
¥25,000 = $223.30 = €174.79 = £119.36
¥25,000 ~= $225 /= €225 /= £150 !!!
I mean, wtf? Ok, so we all know they'll charge more in Europe than in the States or Japan, but at least do the currency conversion right.
And btw, Slashdot doesn't work right with ≅ or ≠ ...
Actually, it's not over $800 at today's rate, but still...
F and off, Sony. It won't sell to me and (i) I have plenty of cash and (ii) I love my PS2 and would have paid £350 without a moment's thought. No-one I've talked to on this is prepared to pay, and we're all late 20s and early 30s gamers with good jobs and no kids. They're not going to sell these at that price...
Regional monopolies like the US government? Come on! It's not the regulations that are the problem here, and we're not going to get "free markets and capitalism" in this area (ISPs) until/unless the whole world is a single market run on pure capitalist rules, with no trade barriers or tariffs. Until then, we need regulation in domestic markets and treaties to control international pipes. For now, in the US, what's needed is for the ISPs to work out deals for interfacing with each other, so the packets at the interfaces between their networks are treated fairly: Google pays their ISP, I pay mine, we're both paying customers here. The situation is analogous to the postal services, both local competitors and those in different countries. If my friends' football team send me postcards from Belgium and pay for their stamps there, I shouldn't then get a call from the Belgian postal service demanding payment because I seem to be getting a lot of mail this week and they really wouldn't want to lose or delay any of it... These ISPs can't make the market work for them, so are threatening the consumers - though mostly their competitors' customers because they're not total SCO^H^H^Hmorons. Unfortunately, this is exactly the area we need regulators to step in, because the refusal to reach an agreement brings competitive advantage for the big carriers - smaller carriers can't so easily afford the extra traffic, will do less well financially and in terms of service, and can be easily bought up. And any agreement for charging will stuff the little guys too, as they can't afford to pay for their customers' access to the big guys networks and stay price-competitive. That's why net neutrality is such a big issue - without it, the smaller ISPs are toast and we're back to the days of 1 carrier per country, charging what they like and providing an awful service to boot... /rant
Uh, the Xbox came out in Nov 2001, and the 22 million figure is the latest official one, but it's up to the end of FY 2005. That's not 2.4 million a quarter.
Uh, dude, thanks for predicting that the 360 will do well - I now know that I should wait and choose the PS3 or the Wii for this round.
Seems that it's me too ... from the Apple site:
I guess I thunk a little too different ? Maybe things have changed since they advertised with these words:
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Do you want to have a Wii under your television?
How many kids will ask Santa if they can have a Wii this Christmas?
How awkward would you feel going up to the counter in your local game shop and saying you'd like a Wii, please?
Dumb, very dumb. Revolution was such a cool name too, but I've stopped drooling over the new Nintendo and now I don't want one. Most of my (hardcore gaming) friends said the same when they heard too.
[BLAM] [shriek] [hop] [hop] [collapse]
Very dumb move.
doh.
t -files/baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdft -files/baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf
FFS, Her Majesty's Courts Service is slashdotted!
[0@42 downloads]$ wget http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/images/judgmen
--14:30:51-- http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/images/judgmen
=> `baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf'
Resolving www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
FFS, Her Majesty's Courts Service is slashdotted! [0@42 downloads]$ wget http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/images/judgment -files/baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf
--14:30:51-- http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/images/judgment -files/baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf
=> `baigent_v_rhg_0406.pdf'
Resolving www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
Modulo 2 factors:
Both of these seems to swing the probability towards BluRay (the 2nd assuming the PS3 is a hit), and then there's the inertia in the studios - Sony, Fox, MGM and Disney were initially in the BluRay camp, which is a large slice of Hollywood right there...
Actually, the Sun Fire T1000 only supports 16GB - but the T2000 does support 32GB. If you're looking at these, the alternative Opteron solution would be another rack-mounted system rather than a workstation, and the obvious candidate is the Sun Fire V40z with 32GB and 4 dual-core Opterons. Which, btw, are very nice systems.
And don't forget that over their lifetimes both the Xbox and GameCube have been pushed for sales by the PS1, which has averaged 80-85% of their shipments despite being a generation back and sitting next to the (obviously superior, even to an idiot) PS2 on many retailer's shelves. It will be very interesting if Sony can pull off that quiet trick again...
Dominance it is. In FY 2003 alone, the PS2 shipped more units worldwide (22.52 million) than either Xbox or GameCube have done in total, according to the latest available official figures from all 3 companies, which are 22 million Xboxes between 11/01 and 3/05, and 20.61 million GameCubes between 9/01 and 1/06).
The breakdown of PlayStation shipments shows this, with over 20,000,000 PS1s being shipped in the first 5 years since the launch of PS2. PS1 sales over the lifetime of the GameCube and Xbox are in the region of 80-85% of those newer machines!
PS1 lasted almost 6 years in production after PS2 came out: if PS2 can do the same, expect to see them on the shelves until Christmas 2012.
Wow. If this is really an interview with the CEO of the biggest ATI add-in board maker, there's a real opportunity for someone to land a role as his PR minder...
He admits to Sapphire being weak in Asia and Turkey, talks openly about ATI's problems and his reliance on them being a weakness, suggests he's going to move into Nvidia parts too and then says he want to shift the firm from being an AIB maker to a "multimedia company".
Sell, sell, sell would be a sensible shareholder reaction.
But maybe it's his first interview in 4 years because he has good marketing people and they've successfully managed to keep him away from the journalists for that long?
Nintendo's 3rd quarter earnings report has more details.
The GeForce 4 MX 440-8x runs WoW pretty well, actually. I had to take the GeForce 6200 out of my quiet media box and I put a spare 440 in there, and it was fine at 1024x768, 24bpp with no antialiasing and only the distance sliders turned up to max ...
99 out of 100? In the USA, maybe, just maybe.
What about those of us in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Barbados, Bermuda, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Singapore, Malta, Canada or any of the other places where an awful lot of people speak English?
Want to bet on how many of us have to do a mental translation (along the lines of "OK, s/he means couldn't care less... hang on, I missed that next bit") while wincing at the sheer stupidity of saying the exact opposite of what you mean? Against how many don't understand what you mean, and how many do understand naturally, first time?
My guess would be 25%, 70% and 5%
No, they have much better than this (in the UK at least).
The standard deal is a 1 year warranty with global repair or replace (except for iMac and PowerMac which have only onsite repair or replace), 90 days phone tech support and 14 days return and refund for any reason at all. AppleCare plans extend the warranty and phone support to 3 years, for about £100.
Well, there's at least 1 more on Wikipedia
Likewise, and it always bothers me too, but it seems to be epidemic in American usage nowadays.
;-) they tend to realise how silly it sounds to English (or Aussie, or probably most non-USian) ears.
There is hope, though: I've yet to meet anyone who uses the "n't"-less form who had actually thought about the meaning of the words they were using - and when they do (usually after a little ribbing from me
Only another 280 million to go, then.
Actually, it was 7,743 PS1 and 5,277 PS2 games at the end of March 2005, and Sony will publish this year's figures soonish. To be really pedantic, only 4,907 of those PS1 games were Asian (not just Japanese) releases.
To round out the numbers seeing as how we're on that track, there were 3,181 PS2 Asian releases by this time last year, versus 1,121 (and 1,501 PS1 titles) in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region; and 975* and 1,335 in North America.
*Irritatingly, one of those is Katamari Damarcy
Exactly. As another example, there is a little known computer based on a 700 MHz PowerPC chip, the PowerPC 440, which seems to perform quite well ...
These should help... I'm still astounded at the laziness of /.ers who'll gabble on and on w/o googling something like "linux blind" and seeing what turns up
The Command Line Interface - Ideal For Blind UsersGuide to Emacspeak
Wow, Sony-bashing in the OP and the FP - is this MS-fanboy day?