Everyone? Shut down firefox if I am not going to use it for 5 minutes? Why not power off your PC if you aren't going to use it in the 30 minutes too?
My Media PC is on 24/7 and I often have firefox open on it. For days, weeks. Skpye also runs for days, weeks, months. Itunes. X1. Virus scanner. I also leave *gasp* outlook running on my work laptop for days. All these apps can run, literally, forever, except FireFox...
I've seen some estimates that the new federal mileage standards will increase costs per vehicle by $3k plus.
And the auto industry said the same thingabout *every* new technology 'forced' on them for the last 30 years. Seatbelts GM spent 30_million - in 1970 dollars no less - fighting that. Safety cages, airbags would add 'thousands' to vehicles. The last CAFE fuel economy requirements would add 'thousands' to the cost of a vehicle. (side note: has GM said that in order to meet california requirements the car will have to be lighter and then it would be unsafe and MORE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR CHILDREN yet? They love to trot that shit out to justify 5000Lb SUV's as 'safe')
If we added up all the "thousands" of whining done by detroit cars should cost millions by now. Yet, strangely the average price inflation adjusted, has stayed about the same for 25+ years.
Who says 3k? Toyota can do it for $500. And they will squeeze another $500 in savings on the assembly line.
The only way to get the auto companies to do anything is to force them.
he best way to improve efficiency is market forces. Once gas is expensive enough to be a real consideration when buying a vehicle, people might actually see past the marketing hype and realize they don't need that huge StupidUglyVehicle after all.
Yes, gas got expensive enough to get people to complain. But for most families it's still less than their cable bill. Clearly not something that would change habits.
The rest of the world already knows this, hence higher gas prices and more efficient cars. It would not surprise me if Europe is already at the 35mpg mark proposed for 2020 in the US!
You would be wrong about the electronics - the vast majority of domestic electronics come from America - Delphi, Magna, AC/Delco etc supply those to the big three. Taiwan might supply something like speakers, but that is about it. They know nothing about cars since there is no local manufacturing base for them to work with.
Instead of guessing, head down to your local dealership and look at the window stickers. The source for the engine, transmission, final assembly and any country that provides more than 10% of the content is right there on the sticker (along with EPA mileage estimates, manufacturers suggested price, dealer installed options, etc...),
Uhm, the 'hybrid' part means there is also a gas engine.
You can go 480 miles on one tank of gas while towing something too big for a hybrid to tow? Your passengers are willing to go well over *7* hours without stopping for food, water, washroom?
I doubt what you have described is what "many other people need to do" - or even *can* do. And I am somewhat curious what the wonder vehicle is that can do all this?
A Ford Fiesta with a porta potty in the back towing a Radio flyer wagon?
It is $550CDN in Canada now, down from $700. So we got a $150CDN price drop.
The price aren't inflated outside the US. The US dollars is worth 33% less than it was just4 years ago. Can we please get off the US dollars as a benchmark? Their time is over on the worldstage, OK? Use the Euro. or the Yen. Heck since the PS3 was release, the US has lost 0.06 against Canada. So the "canadian" price of $699 kept going 'up'.
Likewise, if a cell phone carrier couldn't get it right after the second month of 25 calls, I'd go buy one from another company and require the first to cancel without penalty.
So you would just call up Sprint and tell them you are canceling 'without penatly' and you want your number transfered? Uh huh. Let us know how that goes....
The RIAA was founded in 1952. It was started to ensure that all records would be compatible with all players.
We all know that before 1952 there was NO MUSIC, NO BOOKS, and NO MOVIES!! Because they could not exist without the RIAA and the financial incentives the RIAA gives to artists to produce music!
My grandparents talk about music they listened to in the 30's and 40's. Obviously they are lying because back then we didn't have 100+ years of copyright, and there was no RIAA, so obviously there was never any music created. Duh! Liars!
Income twenty years from now is discounted to nearly nothing. This is especially the case if you are signing over rights to your work. If there were a rule that reverted copyright to the creator after fifteen years, you might have a point.
You assume the reprinted 40yr old books will sell at the *original* price. The $1000/yr would automatically be inflation adjusted as the price of books go up. A 40yr old book that is still selling would produce useful income every year.
Seriously, if Microsoft wants a particular expertise, then find someone with that expertise and offer them enough money.. they'll suddenly BECOME available. Otherwise, quit your whining and do without.
And then where does the company that lost the employee to Microsoft get the replacement? Do you believe there is an infinite supply of 'particular expertise' in every category?
It is widely known that there aren't enough comp sci/engineer grads in America, the number of new grads drop every year, so where does Microsoft conjure up these experts? And if MSFT suddenly pays these guys $$$ would you deny their competition the ability to bring in people cheaper? What if their competition is a small startup with a great idea? It's OK for MSFT to drive up wages, and potentially stifle innovation everywhere else as a result?
Your basic premise is: if you can't find the expertise you need in America, just stop your business in America. Nice.
You probably knew this, but for the benefit of the rest of the/. crowd:
Last weeks Japan sales were a record HIGH for Xbox360 this year and a record LOW for the PS3 this year. There are already 3x as many PS3 in Japan as X360 and the gap is widening every week. In Europe, the console that has been out for 18months, has over a hundred games for it and a loyal fan base is being outsold by a far more expensive system with no games. That is not good for X360. This should be X360's prime selling season, it is mature but not outdated yet. Instead it gets killed in Japan, can't even keep up in Europe. Only in NA is the X360 consistently outselling the PS3. It should be outselling it everywhere, by huge margins...
So to answer your question: X360 is absolutely dead in Japan, always has been, and is dying in Europe.
"Pick one" works only if you have no other applications to support. Think bigger.
If I standardize on one desktop, or roll my own, I don't get support from any vendor that does not support my desktop. Further, some of the distros are server or desktop only. If the CIO uses Oracle Linux for his Oracle servers, great. But Novell does not support Oracle Linus, only Suse. So I have some oracle and some suse. And some desktop tools use Gnome, which means they work best on Redhat. Gee, we are up to three already...?
As a CIO I can't just pick one, I have to use whatever my vendors support. And since there are dozens of version of everything it's impossible/extremely hard to build a fully functional network with running applications on ONE build of linux. You are constantly jumping through hoops to get you stuff working because app A has an exception if you are running Distro B with Kernel C and GUI D. Unless you also have LIB E then you need to install GTK F and edit the following files....
If you build your own PC's and put up screenshots on your desktop on your website, then it's 'fun' to have dozens of versions of everything. If you are a CIO, it's a pain in the ass and a huge, huge, problem with Linux adoption.
You gave no reason for you assertion that multiple versions is not a problem, but allow me give you some for reasons for why it is: # You can't even use "linux" because there really is no such thing. # And you can't hire Linux people because there is no Linux people, there are Fedora, RHEL, Suse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, BSD, FreeBSd,Openbsd people, etc, etc. And the "linux" crowd tends to rush off on whatever the latest trend is, remember when Caldera Open Linux was trendy? Now it's Ubuntu, whoops, Kubuntu, whoops, linspire, whoops now back to Fedora. Like little kids running after the shiniest candy. # And no they are not all 'the same'. They have wildly different directory structures, gui, lib version, kernel version support options, kernel versions, etc. # Oh but any *good* linux admin can use any system, right? How many is that? If a CIO hires 100 Windows admins, thee will be 10 good ones, ten useless ones and 80 somewhere in between. If he hires 100 linux there will be 2 good RHEL, 2 good SUSE, 2 good Ubuntu, 2 good Fedora and 2 good 'weird brand', 10 useless and 80 somewhere in between. That is spreading the talent pool pretty thin... It's no wonder Oracle on Windows is so popular, at least you can hire someone to install the thing!
Sorry, but multiple versions is holding Linux back at the enterprise level and will keep doing so until there is a clear winner aka 'standard' that can be relied on for stability, industry support, and support personnel. RH and Suse as a 1 - 2 combo were looking very good, but now ubuntu has wandered in and taken most of the community's time...until the next shiny candy shows up...
Are generally referred to as 'the big four' consulting firms. They are not technology or management specific. They will happily sell you absolutely anything you ask for....
Uhm, no. Thank you for not getting the point. The Smart car is safe for cars of ANY size. Watch the video. The Smart car completely trashed a Mercedes E-Class sedan in a offset head on collision. The E-Class is no small car, and it crumpled like paper against the Smart Cage....
FTA the top five are all Nintendo games. I bet the top ten are as well. So all those 3rd party companies, all 20 or so of them listed in GP, are fighting for spots 11 and higher. aka Scraps. When 3rd party titles dominate the top 5, THEN we can say they have good 3rd party support.
Me? I like my 12" Powerbook just fine. Sleep works great. It's not that heavy. It's far far FAR more capable than Foleo.
1) Sleep is not instant. A palm is instant. 2) You push ONE button on your powerbook, and up pops the email client from your treo right there on the powerbook screen? And you can edit all your email and any attachments right there? And the email stays on the treo? 3) When you send email from your powerbook, it sends it from the treo using the cellular network so you don't have to be logged in a local wi-fi network (if any) for it to work?
I have dozens of wi-fi setups on my laptop as I travel all over the world. The ability to do my email wherever there is cell phone coverage, on a big screen with a real keyboard and zero hassle is *very* compelling...throw in some presentations on a CF card and I can leave the laptop behind...
Sounds like the Foleo is FAR more capable than your powerbook for business travelers, you know people who already have treo's, blackberry's etc.
If you're really seeing UAC that often, you're doing something wrong (or you're using software from developers who did something wrong). As developers get their act together and stop requiring admin privileges for trivial things (hint: using %userprofile% and HKCU rather than %programfiles% and HKLM will solve 90% of your admin-privilege requirements when developing), UAC prompts should appear less and less often, and th
Uhmmm, yeah. On a blank, brand new Vista install, no 3rd party apps the $!#%ing UAC thing drives me up the wall. You can't do ANYTHING without a UAC prompt. Change desktop background? Open cmd prompt? add run command to start men? fix wacky resolution problem on desktop? move mouse?
I killed UAC solely from MSFT UAC warnings before I even got to any 3rd party developers applications. So MSFT basic message is, as usual, do as I say not as I do...
Or you could have a business plan that does not rely solely on free advertising. Just a thought.
I find the concept that your business somehow deserves to be on Google's first page for 'diamonds' pretty bizarre. Google is about finding information on the web. If you don't provide it you move off the front page. Seems sensible to me. What will happen when twenty diamond sellers all want to be on the front page?
Wow, that looks *worse* than a GameCube/PS2 port game! ugh!
The 360 trailer right beneath it shows how nice the true next gen systems look...without all the wonky arm flailing. (imagine a couple of hours of that at a time?!?!)
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Please change to "Motorola Razr under patent infringement probe". There are millions of Razrs in America and not that many BD players....
I removed flash from my PC and laptop *after* getting an iPhone. I didn't realzie how annoying flash is until I got a taste of life without it...
Everyone? Shut down firefox if I am not going to use it for 5 minutes? Why not power off your PC if you aren't going to use it in the 30 minutes too?
My Media PC is on 24/7 and I often have firefox open on it. For days, weeks. Skpye also runs for days, weeks, months. Itunes. X1. Virus scanner. I also leave *gasp* outlook running on my work laptop for days. All these apps can run, literally, forever, except FireFox...
And the auto industry said the same thingabout *every* new technology 'forced' on them for the last 30 years. Seatbelts GM spent 30_million - in 1970 dollars no less - fighting that. Safety cages, airbags would add 'thousands' to vehicles. The last CAFE fuel economy requirements would add 'thousands' to the cost of a vehicle. (side note: has GM said that in order to meet california requirements the car will have to be lighter and then it would be unsafe and MORE DANGEROUS FOR YOUR CHILDREN yet? They love to trot that shit out to justify 5000Lb SUV's as 'safe')
If we added up all the "thousands" of whining done by detroit cars should cost millions by now. Yet, strangely the average price inflation adjusted, has stayed about the same for 25+ years.
Who says 3k? Toyota can do it for $500. And they will squeeze another $500 in savings on the assembly line.
The only way to get the auto companies to do anything is to force them.
Yes, gas got expensive enough to get people to complain. But for most families it's still less than their cable bill. Clearly not something that would change habits.
The rest of the world already knows this, hence higher gas prices and more efficient cars. It would not surprise me if Europe is already at the 35mpg mark proposed for 2020 in the US!
You would be wrong about the electronics - the vast majority of domestic electronics come from America - Delphi, Magna, AC/Delco etc supply those to the big three. Taiwan might supply something like speakers, but that is about it. They know nothing about cars since there is no local manufacturing base for them to work with.
Instead of guessing, head down to your local dealership and look at the window stickers. The source for the engine, transmission, final assembly and any country that provides more than 10% of the content is right there on the sticker (along with EPA mileage estimates, manufacturers suggested price, dealer installed options, etc...),
JON
correction: they are on the same street, but miles apart...
Uhm, the 'hybrid' part means there is also a gas engine.
You can go 480 miles on one tank of gas while towing something too big for a hybrid to tow? Your passengers are willing to go well over *7* hours without stopping for food, water, washroom?
I doubt what you have described is what "many other people need to do" - or even *can* do. And I am somewhat curious what the wonder vehicle is that can do all this?
A Ford Fiesta with a porta potty in the back towing a Radio flyer wagon?
JON
It is $550CDN in Canada now, down from $700. So we got a $150CDN price drop.
The price aren't inflated outside the US. The US dollars is worth 33% less than it was just4 years ago. Can we please get off the US dollars as a benchmark? Their time is over on the worldstage, OK? Use the Euro. or the Yen. Heck since the PS3 was release, the US has lost 0.06 against Canada. So the "canadian" price of $699 kept going 'up'.
So you would just call up Sprint and tell them you are canceling 'without penatly' and you want your number transfered? Uh huh. Let us know how that goes....
The RIAA was founded in 1952. It was started to ensure that all records would be compatible with all players.
We all know that before 1952 there was NO MUSIC, NO BOOKS, and NO MOVIES!! Because they could not exist without the RIAA and the financial incentives the RIAA gives to artists to produce music!
My grandparents talk about music they listened to in the 30's and 40's. Obviously they are lying because back then we didn't have 100+ years of copyright, and there was no RIAA, so obviously there was never any music created. Duh! Liars!
Income twenty years from now is discounted to nearly nothing. This is especially the case if you are signing over rights to your work. If there were a rule that reverted copyright to the creator after fifteen years, you might have a point.
You assume the reprinted 40yr old books will sell at the *original* price. The $1000/yr would automatically be inflation adjusted as the price of books go up. A 40yr old book that is still selling would produce useful income every year.
And then where does the company that lost the employee to Microsoft get the replacement? Do you believe there is an infinite supply of 'particular expertise' in every category?
It is widely known that there aren't enough comp sci/engineer grads in America, the number of new grads drop every year, so where does Microsoft conjure up these experts? And if MSFT suddenly pays these guys $$$ would you deny their competition the ability to bring in people cheaper? What if their competition is a small startup with a great idea? It's OK for MSFT to drive up wages, and potentially stifle innovation everywhere else as a result?
Your basic premise is: if you can't find the expertise you need in America, just stop your business in America. Nice.
You probably knew this, but for the benefit of the rest of the /. crowd:
Last weeks Japan sales were a record HIGH for Xbox360 this year and a record LOW for the PS3 this year. There are already 3x as many PS3 in Japan as X360 and the gap is widening every week. In Europe, the console that has been out for 18months, has over a hundred games for it and a loyal fan base is being outsold by a far more expensive system with no games. That is not good for X360. This should be X360's prime selling season, it is mature but not outdated yet. Instead it gets killed in Japan, can't even keep up in Europe. Only in NA is the X360 consistently outselling the PS3. It should be outselling it everywhere, by huge margins...
So to answer your question: X360 is absolutely dead in Japan, always has been, and is dying in Europe.
JON
"Pick one" works only if you have no other applications to support. Think bigger.
If I standardize on one desktop, or roll my own, I don't get support from any vendor that does not support my desktop. Further, some of the distros are server or desktop only. If the CIO uses Oracle Linux for his Oracle servers, great. But Novell does not support Oracle Linus, only Suse. So I have some oracle and some suse. And some desktop tools use Gnome, which means they work best on Redhat. Gee, we are up to three already...?
As a CIO I can't just pick one, I have to use whatever my vendors support. And since there are dozens of version of everything it's impossible/extremely hard to build a fully functional network with running applications on ONE build of linux. You are constantly jumping through hoops to get you stuff working because app A has an exception if you are running Distro B with Kernel C and GUI D. Unless you also have LIB E then you need to install GTK F and edit the following files....
It's ridiculous really!
JON
If you build your own PC's and put up screenshots on your desktop on your website, then it's 'fun' to have dozens of versions of everything. If you are a CIO, it's a pain in the ass and a huge, huge, problem with Linux adoption.
You gave no reason for you assertion that multiple versions is not a problem, but allow me give you some for reasons for why it is:
# You can't even use "linux" because there really is no such thing.
# And you can't hire Linux people because there is no Linux people, there are Fedora, RHEL, Suse, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, BSD, FreeBSd,Openbsd people, etc, etc. And the "linux" crowd tends to rush off on whatever the latest trend is, remember when Caldera Open Linux was trendy? Now it's Ubuntu, whoops, Kubuntu, whoops, linspire, whoops now back to Fedora. Like little kids running after the shiniest candy.
# And no they are not all 'the same'. They have wildly different directory structures, gui, lib version, kernel version support options, kernel versions, etc.
# Oh but any *good* linux admin can use any system, right? How many is that? If a CIO hires 100 Windows admins, thee will be 10 good ones, ten useless ones and 80 somewhere in between. If he hires 100 linux
there will be 2 good RHEL, 2 good SUSE, 2 good Ubuntu, 2 good Fedora and 2 good 'weird brand', 10 useless and 80 somewhere in between. That is spreading the talent pool pretty thin... It's no wonder Oracle on Windows is so popular, at least you can hire someone to install the thing!
Sorry, but multiple versions is holding Linux back at the enterprise level and will keep doing so until there is a clear winner aka 'standard' that can be relied on for stability, industry support, and support personnel. RH and Suse as a 1 - 2 combo were looking very good, but now ubuntu has wandered in and taken most of the community's time...until the next shiny candy shows up...
JON
Deloitte&Touche Ernst&Young KPMG PricewaterhouseCoopers
Are generally referred to as 'the big four' consulting firms. They are not technology or management specific. They will happily sell you absolutely anything you ask for....
In two words "matching principle"
What you have described is an accrual, and T2 still would not be able to recognize the revenue right away.
Uhm, no. Thank you for not getting the point. The Smart car is safe for cars of ANY size. Watch the video. The Smart car completely trashed a Mercedes E-Class sedan in a offset head on collision. The E-Class is no small car, and it crumpled like paper against the Smart Cage....
???? Taurus was best the selling car in North America for 5 or 6 years straight. What was your point again? Blu-ray will win? Huh? WTF?!
JON
FTA the top five are all Nintendo games. I bet the top ten are as well. So all those 3rd party companies, all 20 or so of them listed in GP, are fighting for spots 11 and higher. aka Scraps. When 3rd party titles dominate the top 5, THEN we can say they have good 3rd party support.
JON
1) Sleep is not instant. A palm is instant.
2) You push ONE button on your powerbook, and up pops the email client from your treo right there on the powerbook screen? And you can edit all your email and any attachments right there? And the email stays on the treo?
3) When you send email from your powerbook, it sends it from the treo using the cellular network so you don't have to be logged in a local wi-fi network (if any) for it to work?
I have dozens of wi-fi setups on my laptop as I travel all over the world. The ability to do my email wherever there is cell phone coverage, on a big screen with a real keyboard and zero hassle is *very* compelling...throw in some presentations on a CF card and I can leave the laptop behind...
Sounds like the Foleo is FAR more capable than your powerbook for business travelers, you know people who already have treo's, blackberry's etc.
JON
Uhmmm, yeah. On a blank, brand new Vista install, no 3rd party apps the $!#%ing UAC thing drives me up the wall. You can't do ANYTHING without a UAC prompt. Change desktop background? Open cmd prompt? add run command to start men? fix wacky resolution problem on desktop? move mouse?
I killed UAC solely from MSFT UAC warnings before I even got to any 3rd party developers applications. So MSFT basic message is, as usual, do as I say not as I do...
JON
Or you could have a business plan that does not rely solely on free advertising. Just a thought.
I find the concept that your business somehow deserves to be on Google's first page for 'diamonds' pretty bizarre. Google is about finding information on the web. If you don't provide it you move off the front page. Seems sensible to me. What will happen when twenty diamond sellers all want to be on the front page?
JON
Wow, that looks *worse* than a GameCube/PS2 port game! ugh!
The 360 trailer right beneath it shows how nice the true next gen systems look...without all the wonky arm flailing. (imagine a couple of hours of that at a time?!?!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki8DfkdHa74&NR=1
JON