Can anyone tell me why you can't just use a zillion little trackballs? That's what was used in the "Angel" program in the awful movie (but OK book) Disclosure. I'd imagine that would be a bit easier...?
In a related incident, The Alliance for Feline-Americans was dismayed at the loss of the FallWell.com domain, with their spokesman Richard Manx stating, "In this day and age it is imperative that young FAs [kittens] across this world learn how to land on their feet, literally. With this news he lose our hopes for establishing a website to teach youngsters how to learn this skill." AFA has been unable to secure LandWell.com, AFA.com, AFA.org, CatLand.com, 9lives.info or any other number of domains. When advised by Dr. E. Thomas Lanzburg of the Feline Health Center at Cornell that the ability to land on four feet seems to be in fact, genetic, the eminent biologist was clawed in the face by three onlookers.
The first generation of games, when gamers won't know what to expect, is the best time for such innovation.
Yes and no. The first generation of games will have to use the new features but I think it's easy to argue that most features aren't used successfuly until the console is about a year old, at which point the developers are more at ease with the kits and know how to get "more" out of a console. Compare Mario 64 vs. Zelda: Ocarina of Time to get an idea of the difference. Remember, at launch there's usually 1 or 2 good titles, and a lot of filler (Luigi's Mansion for the GC, Fantavision for the PS2, Fuzion Frenzy for the Xbox).
My guess is that what "gamers won't expect" is not going to appear until 6-18 months into the life of the DS. Whether by then it would have gone the route of the Virtua Boy is beyond me.
And for what it's worth, the Bomberman title was a highlight to me.
Funny how an individual who changes professions every few years is viewed badly upon by creditors, yet companies who go through disposable business plans the same way are "innovative".
If you pay your bills on time and have reserves (money in the bank), changes in profession aren't viewed badly upon. It's when you're changing your profession and you've had late car payments and you've got $3000 to live on...
On the good side though, I think this will be their last name change before Chapter 11(, Inc.). Seriously, what part of focus on the money-losing online digital music service, selling its profitable CD and DVD software division doesn't sound like the bubble all over again.
Let's say Napster needed $50m in cash in the next three months to be able to put together a plan to become a major contender in online music distribution networks. Maybe they need to pay $5m to each major label, get a huge server farm, whatever. They know what they need, but they don't have any capital. Selling the profitable division is a good business idea if through this change, Napster can become wildly profitable.
Whether that is going to happen or not, I don't know. Napster has name recognition on one side, but then again you don't think "legal downloads" when you think Napster.
If, however, Napster spends most of the $70m in cash that it's going to get on Super Bowl ads, then yes, they learned nothing from the.com bubble.
Considering Vonage's "secure" service is down again, meaning I can't check my Voice Mail, I wouldn't worry too much about this. They can't even figure out how to let faxes go through properly.
I already voted for The Apocalypse in this poll... Once I read some Newton maybe he can tell me for sure if the Apocalypse comes; maybe I can even decipher a HL2 release date.
It's brilliant, really. The guts of a PC are about as much of a commodity market as you can imagine. Just add some flourishes to the OS (which I'm sure MS would be happy to oblige to) -- and here we're talking some new icons, backgrounds, etc. Something I could accomplish in a weekend. Add some kid-friendly interweb-nanny software, some prebundled crappy games, and TADA! you've got a Disney computer which you can now mark up. And since Toby and Caitlin don't need to run Photoshop or FoxPro, it doesn't need 1GB of RAM. Then make each case a different color, sell them as limited editions for one year (Tan and brown Lion King PC available only through fall! Get yours now!), pull in profit.
Just as an example, we've got 3 PS2s in this house, and all 3 of them are used as DVD players as well, with one of them being used ONLY as a DVD player.
Sys Admins. Bunch of overweight, bespectacled idiots. All they do is waste time and money. A monkey could do their job. Honestly, everyday, talking about new distro-this, Farscape-that, get a damn life. No, get a treadmill. You've got no power over me. What a-+|... NO CARRIER
I wonder what kind of effect this has on the body. Think about it, it's a pretty constant stream of blood flowing, as opposed to a stop/start of a pulse. Sure, there's several (I'd say at least... 5 or 6)* pulses per minute, but if I remember seeing video of a cellular level for vessels, it looked more like a semi-congested LA highway rather than a smooth flow. My guess is you'd probably need some sort of batteryless implant that would measure blood pressure as well.
They "outsourced" cars too... Or would you rather be driving a Pinto? The company's profits go to the owners of the company, shareholders. You know, the people getting $75B in dividends from Microsoft (Bill Gates once famously said $640K should be enough dividends for any company). Now, I disagree with the DMCA because it is anti-capitalist. But capitalism in itself isn't cruel. It sucks for some people, but it's better than socialism, where it sucks for everybody.
Hey, this is not bad news at all... Unix System Laboratories is just an anagram for Tux Sorority Amiableness. So now it's both Linux friendly, but more importantly, friendly to friendly Linux co-eds!
Comparing Firefox 0.91 vs. Internet Explorer 6.0, rendering this page. Settings are nested.
Right off the bat, IE is placing the Dell ad located under the story over some of the topic icons. This is only because I've got the browser resized to 1/3rd of the screen for side by side viewing. Firefox is displaying everything fine... I'm running all this in Windows XP.
I do see problems with rendering for Firefox, mainly with the Universal Table Editor by Tom Wellige. Some Flash pages don't work as advertised, Quicktime doesn't auto-play, but that's about it.
Now, seriously, what are some of the benefits of having 10+ mbps in every home? "Real" benefits that politicians can get. Because I don't really see where the big benefit comes in, other than making all bandwidth cheaper.
But that's just me. I would love for someone to list the reasons -- not to refute them, just to get an idea of what they are. I just think "more bandwidth" and see more open relays, quicker flash recipes for grandma, better video of the Mets game on ESPN.com, but I don't see any "real" benefit other than quality of life.
This is certainly the next step down in the slippery slope. Can you imagine the FBI then subpoenaing PayPal and getting the names and addresses of everyone that contributed?
Additionally, Google reported second-quarter earnings of $79.1 million on revenue of $700.2 million, up from earnings of $64 million on revenue of $651.6 million in the 2004 first quarter, according to the prospectus.
So their 2004 earnings are estimated to be somewhere in the $250-350m range.
From the Economist:
PRICE/EARNINGS RATIO. A crude method of judging whether SHARES are cheap or expensive; the ratio of the market PRICE of a share to the company's earnings (PROFIT) per share. The higher the price/earnings (P/E) ratio, the more investors are buying a company's shares in the expectation that it will make larger profits in future than now. In other words, the higher the P/E ratio, the more optimistic investors are being.
So we've got about 24.6m shares. Profit per share is in the $11-15 range. The price per share is about $108-135. This puts the P/E ratio at about 7-12, which is extremely low. P/E Ratios are usually in the teens, and for.com IPOs have been in the 20+ range.
My guess? Google stock will end up being in the $150-175 range, if not more.
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Can anyone tell me why you can't just use a zillion little trackballs? That's what was used in the "Angel" program in the awful movie (but OK book) Disclosure. I'd imagine that would be a bit easier...?
In a related incident, The Alliance for Feline-Americans was dismayed at the loss of the FallWell.com domain, with their spokesman Richard Manx stating, "In this day and age it is imperative that young FAs [kittens] across this world learn how to land on their feet, literally. With this news he lose our hopes for establishing a website to teach youngsters how to learn this skill." AFA has been unable to secure LandWell.com, AFA.com, AFA.org, CatLand.com, 9lives.info or any other number of domains. When advised by Dr. E. Thomas Lanzburg of the Feline Health Center at Cornell that the ability to land on four feet seems to be in fact, genetic, the eminent biologist was clawed in the face by three onlookers.
I like how Google is approximately 200 times better than even the President.
(Sorry I have to do this, but it's a joke!)
I mean, Google found 1,330,000 links to WMD and Bush found like 10, but they were all 404s.
Yes and no. The first generation of games will have to use the new features but I think it's easy to argue that most features aren't used successfuly until the console is about a year old, at which point the developers are more at ease with the kits and know how to get "more" out of a console. Compare Mario 64 vs. Zelda: Ocarina of Time to get an idea of the difference. Remember, at launch there's usually 1 or 2 good titles, and a lot of filler (Luigi's Mansion for the GC, Fantavision for the PS2, Fuzion Frenzy for the Xbox).
My guess is that what "gamers won't expect" is not going to appear until 6-18 months into the life of the DS. Whether by then it would have gone the route of the Virtua Boy is beyond me.
And for what it's worth, the Bomberman title was a highlight to me.
If you pay your bills on time and have reserves (money in the bank), changes in profession aren't viewed badly upon. It's when you're changing your profession and you've had late car payments and you've got $3000 to live on...
Let's say Napster needed $50m in cash in the next three months to be able to put together a plan to become a major contender in online music distribution networks. Maybe they need to pay $5m to each major label, get a huge server farm, whatever. They know what they need, but they don't have any capital. Selling the profitable division is a good business idea if through this change, Napster can become wildly profitable.
Whether that is going to happen or not, I don't know. Napster has name recognition on one side, but then again you don't think "legal downloads" when you think Napster.
If, however, Napster spends most of the $70m in cash that it's going to get on Super Bowl ads, then yes, they learned nothing from the
Considering Vonage's "secure" service is down again, meaning I can't check my Voice Mail, I wouldn't worry too much about this. They can't even figure out how to let faxes go through properly.
I already voted for The Apocalypse in this poll... Once I read some Newton maybe he can tell me for sure if the Apocalypse comes; maybe I can even decipher a HL2 release date.
I've got extreme mega-tech 100% experience with voxels!
Edheads already has Virtual Knee Surgery!
It's brilliant, really. The guts of a PC are about as much of a commodity market as you can imagine. Just add some flourishes to the OS (which I'm sure MS would be happy to oblige to) -- and here we're talking some new icons, backgrounds, etc. Something I could accomplish in a weekend. Add some kid-friendly interweb-nanny software, some prebundled crappy games, and TADA! you've got a Disney computer which you can now mark up. And since Toby and Caitlin don't need to run Photoshop or FoxPro, it doesn't need 1GB of RAM. Then make each case a different color, sell them as limited editions for one year (Tan and brown Lion King PC available only through fall! Get yours now!), pull in profit.
Genius.
Just as an example, we've got 3 PS2s in this house, and all 3 of them are used as DVD players as well, with one of them being used ONLY as a DVD player.
6)???
7) Profit!
The ex-pres might be the majority shareholder, and therefore the owner of Nintendo. Nintendo doesn't have that many employees, after all.
No, not at all. I love Halo and wish its first player mode wasn't based on 3 maps that were endlessly repeated.
Look. It's got a friendly Technicolor wizard, so it must be true.
Sys Admins. Bunch of overweight, bespectacled idiots. All they do is waste time and money. A monkey could do their job. Honestly, everyday, talking about new distro-this, Farscape-that, get a damn life. No, get a treadmill. You've got no power over me. What a-+|... NO CARRIER
I wonder what kind of effect this has on the body. Think about it, it's a pretty constant stream of blood flowing, as opposed to a stop/start of a pulse. Sure, there's several (I'd say at least... 5 or 6)* pulses per minute, but if I remember seeing video of a cellular level for vessels, it looked more like a semi-congested LA highway rather than a smooth flow. My guess is you'd probably need some sort of batteryless implant that would measure blood pressure as well.
* Very technical here.
They "outsourced" cars too... Or would you rather be driving a Pinto? The company's profits go to the owners of the company, shareholders. You know, the people getting $75B in dividends from Microsoft (Bill Gates once famously said $640K should be enough dividends for any company). Now, I disagree with the DMCA because it is anti-capitalist. But capitalism in itself isn't cruel. It sucks for some people, but it's better than socialism, where it sucks for everybody.
(This is gonna get me modded down for sure).
Hey, this is not bad news at all... Unix System Laboratories is just an anagram for Tux Sorority Amiableness. So now it's both Linux friendly, but more importantly, friendly to friendly Linux co-eds!
Well, that and Examinable? It's Sorry! Oust!
Comparing Firefox 0.91 vs. Internet Explorer 6.0, rendering this page. Settings are nested.
Right off the bat, IE is placing the Dell ad located under the story over some of the topic icons. This is only because I've got the browser resized to 1/3rd of the screen for side by side viewing. Firefox is displaying everything fine... I'm running all this in Windows XP.
I do see problems with rendering for Firefox, mainly with the Universal Table Editor by Tom Wellige. Some Flash pages don't work as advertised, Quicktime doesn't auto-play, but that's about it.
Now, seriously, what are some of the benefits of having 10+ mbps in every home? "Real" benefits that politicians can get. Because I don't really see where the big benefit comes in, other than making all bandwidth cheaper.
But that's just me. I would love for someone to list the reasons -- not to refute them, just to get an idea of what they are. I just think "more bandwidth" and see more open relays, quicker flash recipes for grandma, better video of the Mets game on ESPN.com, but I don't see any "real" benefit other than quality of life.
This is certainly the next step down in the slippery slope. Can you imagine the FBI then subpoenaing PayPal and getting the names and addresses of everyone that contributed?
I was referring to the very high number of 503s that /. was giving out last week, which seemed to have gone unexplained.
Pst! Slashdot editors always posting duplicate stories. This already happenned last week... on this website!
Didn't it?
So their 2004 earnings are estimated to be somewhere in the $250-350m range.
So we've got about 24.6m shares. Profit per share is in the $11-15 range. The price per share is about $108-135. This puts the P/E ratio at about 7-12, which is extremely low. P/E Ratios are usually in the teens, and for
My guess? Google stock will end up being in the $150-175 range, if not more.