Verizon can pretend to be open, when in truth their network uses a proprietary version of CDMA which is not even compatible with any of the GSM hardware out there.
That's like saying they use a Philip head screwdriver which is not even compatible with any of the Robertson head screws out there (GSM uses TDMA signalling, not CDMA). And Verizon's network is CDMA2000, a TIA standard.
At least in this area there are plenty of people dumping their SUVs, vans, trucks and full-sized sedans at a pretty steep discount, presumably due to gas prices. New vehicles sales have also tapered off. Five years ago the top ten passenger vehicles included the Ford Explorer, Dodge Caravan and Chevy Trailblazer. Today, there's not a single SUV or van in the top ten. The pickups are still going strong, but I suspect a lot of those sales are bolstered by smaller number of competing vehicles, ranking done by families instead of individual models (i.e. F-series, Silverado, Ram), and mixed or commercial use.
There's also the obvious flood of hybrids into the market, new subcompacts (Nissan Versa, Honda Fit, Chevy Beat, etc), smaller MPVs (Mazda 5, Honda Stream) and so forth.
Not bad? I watched AotC because I thought there wasn't any way it could out-suck TPM. I didn't take into account a wholly unbelievable and poorly acted love story.
Then I watch RotS because so many people said it redeemed the new triology. I could go on about how ridiculous it is that Annakin, being a ludicrously powerful jedi, could miss that his wife was pregnant with twins. Or how insulting it is that a powerful statewoman has been reduced to a wilting flower who gives up living because her man turns out to be evil (effectively abandoning her unborn children). But I think I'll just sum it up with "Power! Unlimited power!"
The base price on the best selling vehicles, in order of popularity, is $17345, $18100, $18570, $22055, $20360, $14810, $21995, $14405, $20080 and $14330. A $24000 car is not that unobtainable. And it would hardly take twenty-five years for those to trickle into the used market. Try more like one for program cars, two for fleet vehicles and short term leases, three for leases and early trade-ins.
In what world is 0.67" twice as thick as 0.46"? It's 45.7% thicker.
HTC can do some things an iPhone can't do
You missed:
You can expand the storage. You can use it as a modem. You can use stereo headsets. You can record video. You can install applications. It has a keyboard. It has voice dialing. It has a voice recorder.
Seriously, different devices make sense for different people. (I personally have no interest in either of them.)
Eh? Fairly typical paperback is going to be about 6" x 4" compared to 3" x 2" for the iPhone. A quarter of the area qualifies as "much smaller" in my book.
Actually yes. I can only assume your Asperger's makes you unable to understand what is written unless it's expressed in pure logical statements.
I'm just waiting for you to actually back up your assertions.
Regarding "lacking mathematical skills" - you might want to check up on what significant digits mean. What's the varians in a "2:1" statement in written text?
So in your world 1.5 and 2.4 would be the same number? Fascinating. Some of us prefer more than one significant digit, though.
1:78 (or do you have more decimals to go with that?) - with the anomaly of Transformers and looking at the trend - is very much a proof of the "2:1" this discussion started with.
Yeah, the anomoly of Transformers explains why Blu-ray's lead was dropping two months before it was released.
That person never mentioned anything about which time span he meant, and the reply to his post (which I responded to) put forward the unsubstantiated idea that the sales might be "even" (1:1) instead
Going by your standards (one significant digit) were even eight weeks out of the last thirty - the weeks ending 04-22, 05-20, 05-27, 08-19, 09-02, 09-30, 10-21, and 10-28. And only two of those can be explained by Transformers, since you seem so hung up on that.
Now crawl back to wherever you sit when you're obviously not interested in the actual subject at hand (not owning and HDTV, and I assume not a Blu-ray or HD DVD player either).
And yet I can still back up my arguments. Funny that.
The months where you claim BD's lead has been narrowing are the months where practically nothing was released on Blu-ray.
Or alternately, the couple times Blu-ray has temporarily widened it's lead have been when they had blockbuster releases. Either way the fact that single releases can skew figures that much just shows that the market is still immature.
Maybe Sony's price reduction on the PS3 and renewed focus on highlighting movie playback will end up cementing a victory for Blu-ray. On the other hand maybe Toshiba's aggressive hardware pricing and push to get five million HD drives into laptops next year will swing things back in their favour (or at least even out the playing field). Hard to say at this point.
The point was rather that the "since inception" figure (which is not 2:1) is not interesting since it includes a few month where HD DVD was released and Blu-ray wasn't - thus skewing it.
Apparently it's not just your math skills that are lacking; you need to brush up on your reading comprehension. I said "64/36 is not 2:1", which is referencing the year to date numbers. Since both formats were released last year there's no skew in starting dates. The year to date figures are about 1.78:1, not 2:1.
The 2:1 figure applies if you remove that anomaly - and for many months (where both formats have had big releases) Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD with more than 2:1.
Actually, no. Again looking at actual data, Blu-ray has only broken 2:1 nine weeks out of the last thirty-one. By month it breaks down to 1.69:1 in April, 1.68:1 in May, 1.90:1 in June, 2.05 in July, 2.03 in August, 1.44 in September, 1.71 in October.
Now go back to debating something you know about instead. This is futile, pointless, and says more about your inability to deal with facts (thus acting like a simple fanboy).
I find it ironic that I present data to counter your conjecture and I'm the one who has an "inability to deal with facts".
And for the record, I don't even own an HDTV at this point. Not much vested interested in the subect. I just take offense to bullshit.
You want to talk trends using actual data? Here - a graph of the weekly market share data from April through this week. Note how BD's lead has been narrowing for months. So yes, the trend is clear.
You seem to be mistaking a one week swing due to a major release for a trend. You also seem to suck at math, since 64/36 is not 2:1. You also should have taken another two seconds to find the archived data, which showed HD-DVD coming into October with a YTD market share of 34%, lower than the current YTD figures.
Actually, it's 1.8:1 year to date and 1.5:1 since inception. Weekly numbers are all over the place since both formats are new enough that individual releases have a drastic effect on the ratio; this week Spiderman 3 yeilded a 2.5:1 advantage for Blu-ray, last week it had narrowed to 1.2:1, week before it was 1.6:1, before that 2.5:1, before that 2.1:1, before that 1.2:1.
I wouldn't really make any predictions on momentum just yet. The effect of the flood of HD player sales last week haven't been seen yet; Walmart was simultaneously discounting discs heavily, so there likely were additional sales there. On the other side, the PS3 price drop will likely yeild additional sales, and Sony has been advertising movie playback more heavily as of late. Then we have the "black friday" sales happening later this month. Since those are driven by bargain seekers, I suspect it will be a bigger win for the HD DVD camp. Holiday shopping could go either way, really. I could see the newly discounted Playstation 3 finally gaining some traction. On the other hand, low cost HD DVD players could end up being a hot gift item.
Eh? Where are you getting your numbers? Toshiba is nearing the half million mark with players and the most recent numbers of the Xbox add-on peg sales at 200k through September. And that doesn't include notebook drives. I haven't seen any numbers on how many of those have been shipped, but Toshiba has been talking about a target of 5 million by the end of next year.
As for Blu-ray, I haven't seen a figure on the total number of units, but year to date sales reported through September by NPD break 53% hd-dvd, 44% blu-ray, 3% dual format. This was before the 90k unit sales surge last weekend. And that doesn't take into account the headstart that Toshiba had or the slow initial sales of Blu-ray.
The Playstation does give a larger installed base, but nowhere near the figure you gave. To date sales in the United States are a mere 2.26M. And estimates are that the majority of owners (as many as 80%) don't use them to watch movies at all. It certainly would explain why the sales figures have remained about 1.8:1 instead of the 3.5:1 that the Blu-ray camp was projecting by the end of the 1Q07.
Erm, no. The/var directory is for variable files, not executables of any flavor. Depending on platform either/opt or/usr/local is the appropriate location for locally installed software (or increasingly software not managed by the native packaging system).
Heh. I gave up on Ubuntu after the upgrade to Edgy Eft managed to break GDM (startx worked, gdm claimed it couldn't start X11), PAM (no longer recognized the console user), sound (simply gone), suspend and hibernate (discovered when a wave of heat wafted out my bag after getting to work) and several other smaller things that escape me at the moment. Decided it wasn't even worth diagnosing.
I must have imagined the time a Debian upgrade broke every PHP application I was running (due them knowingly moving to a release with a busted serializer in 3.0).
ok, so COM was an 'answer' to the OMG's object broker (I'm not sure about that, back in those days, the number of Windows people who even knew Corba existed could be counted on one hand).
The number of Windows people who knew that DCE existed was likely pretty small as well, but that didn't stop them from branching MSRPC and DCOM from it.:)
Really, though, I wouldn't say either was an answer to the other, per se.
Fortunately, the differences between them are as wide as the differences between sun rpc and dce-rpc. They're just not the same thing, which is what the OP was implying - that COM was a MS 'extended+embrace version' of CORBA.
Actually, the original poster had it the other way around - he called CORBA a "DCOM copycat", which is demonstratably absurd considering CORBA predated it by more than half a decade.
COM was introduced in 1993, DCOM in 1996. The first CORBA spec was finalized 1991. Even DCE, which MSRPC and COM are based on, wasn't released until 1992. You might want to rethink which technology was an answer to the other.
Oh yeah, no pretending that the Wii is anywhere near as powerful as the rest of the consoles. I probably would have tried to find a hybrid for the analogy (first thought was a Civic, but the power output has remained fairly flat).:)
In the end, it's a matter of preference. Some people want the exhilaration of driving the most powerful car they can find, regardless of the cost; other people want something small, efficient, affordable, but still fun to drive.
The idea that any one console (and by reflection, design philosphy) needs to 'win' is just silly.
Those "People" who support the republican candidates usually can't afford to feed their own family.
Why do you feel the need to single out republicans in that statement? You even mentioned Hillary "thousands of chinese immigrants working for minimum wage spontaneously donated the maximum to me" Clinton.
Even if it's not a drastic departure, saying it's just a GameCube "enhanced to require less power" is disingenous. The processor has the same ISA, but that's hardly difficult considering it's PowerPC (which is also shared, as BenoitRen stated). In addition to a mild power saving (about 20%, but the Gekko only drew 4W to begin with) the speed was bumped about 50%, bus speed was bumped about 45%, process was shrunk from 180nm to 90nm and, assuming the speculation about it being a 750CL derived chip are correct, the floating point execution and memory prefetch units are significantly enhanced.
Likewise with the video hardware - about a 50% clock rate increase on the GPU produced on a 90nm process instead of 180nm. They added 64MB of GDDR3 to augment the 24MB of 1T-SRAM of main system memory in the Gamecube (on the previous generation there was a 16MB bank of DRAM but it dedicated solely to disc and sound buffering).
Is the power increase as drastic as Microsoft and Sony opted for? Not by a long shot, but it's a significant upgrade in terms of performance, a massive upgrade in terms of ancillary features (e.g. integrated wi-fi and storage). They also avoided a drastic change in programming model and kept costs down.
By the way, both of those citations refer to the same exact interview.:)
New processor, new graphics chip, state of the art MEMS motion sensor is "fairly old tech"? Just because something is built to optimize something other than speed doesn't mean it isn't new technology. Would you call a Prius "old tech" because it doesn't have the same power output as a V8?
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Verizon can pretend to be open, when in truth their network uses a proprietary version of CDMA which is not even compatible with any of the GSM hardware out there.
That's like saying they use a Philip head screwdriver which is not even compatible with any of the Robertson head screws out there (GSM uses TDMA signalling, not CDMA). And Verizon's network is CDMA2000, a TIA standard.
At least in this area there are plenty of people dumping their SUVs, vans, trucks and full-sized sedans at a pretty steep discount, presumably due to gas prices. New vehicles sales have also tapered off. Five years ago the top ten passenger vehicles included the Ford Explorer, Dodge Caravan and Chevy Trailblazer. Today, there's not a single SUV or van in the top ten. The pickups are still going strong, but I suspect a lot of those sales are bolstered by smaller number of competing vehicles, ranking done by families instead of individual models (i.e. F-series, Silverado, Ram), and mixed or commercial use.
There's also the obvious flood of hybrids into the market, new subcompacts (Nissan Versa, Honda Fit, Chevy Beat, etc), smaller MPVs (Mazda 5, Honda Stream) and so forth.
Not bad? I watched AotC because I thought there wasn't any way it could out-suck TPM. I didn't take into account a wholly unbelievable and poorly acted love story.
Then I watch RotS because so many people said it redeemed the new triology. I could go on about how ridiculous it is that Annakin, being a ludicrously powerful jedi, could miss that his wife was pregnant with twins. Or how insulting it is that a powerful statewoman has been reduced to a wilting flower who gives up living because her man turns out to be evil (effectively abandoning her unborn children). But I think I'll just sum it up with "Power! Unlimited power!"
The base price on the best selling vehicles, in order of popularity, is $17345, $18100, $18570, $22055, $20360, $14810, $21995, $14405, $20080 and $14330. A $24000 car is not that unobtainable. And it would hardly take twenty-five years for those to trickle into the used market. Try more like one for program cars, two for fleet vehicles and short term leases, three for leases and early trade-ins.
it's twice as thick as the iPhone
In what world is 0.67" twice as thick as 0.46"? It's 45.7% thicker.
HTC can do some things an iPhone can't do
You missed:
You can expand the storage.
You can use it as a modem.
You can use stereo headsets.
You can record video.
You can install applications.
It has a keyboard.
It has voice dialing.
It has a voice recorder.
Seriously, different devices make sense for different people. (I personally have no interest in either of them.)
Eh? Fairly typical paperback is going to be about 6" x 4" compared to 3" x 2" for the iPhone. A quarter of the area qualifies as "much smaller" in my book.
1. Clone monkeys.
2. Give them wings.
3. Fly my pretties, fly!!! Fly! Fly! Fly!
Nice of you to ignore everything that makes you sound foolish. At least you're consistent, though.
Actually yes. I can only assume your Asperger's makes you unable to understand what is written unless it's expressed in pure logical statements.
I'm just waiting for you to actually back up your assertions.
Regarding "lacking mathematical skills" - you might want to check up on what significant digits mean. What's the varians in a "2:1" statement in written text?
So in your world 1.5 and 2.4 would be the same number? Fascinating. Some of us prefer more than one significant digit, though.
1:78 (or do you have more decimals to go with that?) - with the anomaly of Transformers and looking at the trend - is very much a proof of the "2:1" this discussion started with.
Yeah, the anomoly of Transformers explains why Blu-ray's lead was dropping two months before it was released.
That person never mentioned anything about which time span he meant, and the reply to his post (which I responded to) put forward the unsubstantiated idea that the sales might be "even" (1:1) instead
Going by your standards (one significant digit) were even eight weeks out of the last thirty - the weeks ending 04-22, 05-20, 05-27, 08-19, 09-02, 09-30, 10-21, and 10-28. And only two of those can be explained by Transformers, since you seem so hung up on that.
Now crawl back to wherever you sit when you're obviously not interested in the actual subject at hand (not owning and HDTV, and I assume not a Blu-ray or HD DVD player either).
And yet I can still back up my arguments. Funny that.
The months where you claim BD's lead has been narrowing are the months where practically nothing was released on Blu-ray.
Or alternately, the couple times Blu-ray has temporarily widened it's lead have been when they had blockbuster releases. Either way the fact that single releases can skew figures that much just shows that the market is still immature.
Maybe Sony's price reduction on the PS3 and renewed focus on highlighting movie playback will end up cementing a victory for Blu-ray. On the other hand maybe Toshiba's aggressive hardware pricing and push to get five million HD drives into laptops next year will swing things back in their favour (or at least even out the playing field). Hard to say at this point.
The point was rather that the "since inception" figure (which is not 2:1) is not interesting since it includes a few month where HD DVD was released and Blu-ray wasn't - thus skewing it.
Apparently it's not just your math skills that are lacking; you need to brush up on your reading comprehension. I said "64/36 is not 2:1", which is referencing the year to date numbers. Since both formats were released last year there's no skew in starting dates. The year to date figures are about 1.78:1, not 2:1.
The 2:1 figure applies if you remove that anomaly - and for many months (where both formats have had big releases) Blu-ray has been outselling HD DVD with more than 2:1.
Actually, no. Again looking at actual data, Blu-ray has only broken 2:1 nine weeks out of the last thirty-one. By month it breaks down to 1.69:1 in April, 1.68:1 in May, 1.90:1 in June, 2.05 in July, 2.03 in August, 1.44 in September, 1.71 in October.
Now go back to debating something you know about instead. This is futile, pointless, and says more about your inability to deal with facts (thus acting like a simple fanboy).
I find it ironic that I present data to counter your conjecture and I'm the one who has an "inability to deal with facts".
And for the record, I don't even own an HDTV at this point. Not much vested interested in the subect. I just take offense to bullshit.
You want to talk trends using actual data? Here - a graph of the weekly market share data from April through this week. Note how BD's lead has been narrowing for months. So yes, the trend is clear.
(Also - starting dates of what, exactly?)
You seem to be mistaking a one week swing due to a major release for a trend. You also seem to suck at math, since 64/36 is not 2:1. You also should have taken another two seconds to find the archived data, which showed HD-DVD coming into October with a YTD market share of 34%, lower than the current YTD figures.
Actually, it's 1.8:1 year to date and 1.5:1 since inception. Weekly numbers are all over the place since both formats are new enough that individual releases have a drastic effect on the ratio; this week Spiderman 3 yeilded a 2.5:1 advantage for Blu-ray, last week it had narrowed to 1.2:1, week before it was 1.6:1, before that 2.5:1, before that 2.1:1, before that 1.2:1.
I wouldn't really make any predictions on momentum just yet. The effect of the flood of HD player sales last week haven't been seen yet; Walmart was simultaneously discounting discs heavily, so there likely were additional sales there. On the other side, the PS3 price drop will likely yeild additional sales, and Sony has been advertising movie playback more heavily as of late. Then we have the "black friday" sales happening later this month. Since those are driven by bargain seekers, I suspect it will be a bigger win for the HD DVD camp. Holiday shopping could go either way, really. I could see the newly discounted Playstation 3 finally gaining some traction. On the other hand, low cost HD DVD players could end up being a hot gift item.
Eh? Where are you getting your numbers? Toshiba is nearing the half million mark with players and the most recent numbers of the Xbox add-on peg sales at 200k through September. And that doesn't include notebook drives. I haven't seen any numbers on how many of those have been shipped, but Toshiba has been talking about a target of 5 million by the end of next year.
As for Blu-ray, I haven't seen a figure on the total number of units, but year to date sales reported through September by NPD break 53% hd-dvd, 44% blu-ray, 3% dual format. This was before the 90k unit sales surge last weekend. And that doesn't take into account the headstart that Toshiba had or the slow initial sales of Blu-ray.
The Playstation does give a larger installed base, but nowhere near the figure you gave. To date sales in the United States are a mere 2.26M. And estimates are that the majority of owners (as many as 80%) don't use them to watch movies at all. It certainly would explain why the sales figures have remained about 1.8:1 instead of the 3.5:1 that the Blu-ray camp was projecting by the end of the 1Q07.
Erm, no. The /var directory is for variable files, not executables of any flavor. Depending on platform either /opt or /usr/local is the appropriate location for locally installed software (or increasingly software not managed by the native packaging system).
Putting executables under /var is "wrong". Relocatable installation is a feature.
Heh. I gave up on Ubuntu after the upgrade to Edgy Eft managed to break GDM (startx worked, gdm claimed it couldn't start X11), PAM (no longer recognized the console user), sound (simply gone), suspend and hibernate (discovered when a wave of heat wafted out my bag after getting to work) and several other smaller things that escape me at the moment. Decided it wasn't even worth diagnosing.
I must have imagined the time a Debian upgrade broke every PHP application I was running (due them knowingly moving to a release with a busted serializer in 3.0).
Closer to five years. Windows XP was first released 2001-10-25, Vista was first released 2006-11-08.
ok, so COM was an 'answer' to the OMG's object broker (I'm not sure about that, back in those days, the number of Windows people who even knew Corba existed could be counted on one hand).
:)
The number of Windows people who knew that DCE existed was likely pretty small as well, but that didn't stop them from branching MSRPC and DCOM from it.
Really, though, I wouldn't say either was an answer to the other, per se.
Fortunately, the differences between them are as wide as the differences between sun rpc and dce-rpc. They're just not the same thing, which is what the OP was implying - that COM was a MS 'extended+embrace version' of CORBA.
Actually, the original poster had it the other way around - he called CORBA a "DCOM copycat", which is demonstratably absurd considering CORBA predated it by more than half a decade.
COM was introduced in 1993, DCOM in 1996. The first CORBA spec was finalized 1991. Even DCE, which MSRPC and COM are based on, wasn't released until 1992. You might want to rethink which technology was an answer to the other.
Oh yeah, no pretending that the Wii is anywhere near as powerful as the rest of the consoles. I probably would have tried to find a hybrid for the analogy (first thought was a Civic, but the power output has remained fairly flat). :)
In the end, it's a matter of preference. Some people want the exhilaration of driving the most powerful car they can find, regardless of the cost; other people want something small, efficient, affordable, but still fun to drive.
The idea that any one console (and by reflection, design philosphy) needs to 'win' is just silly.
Those "People" who support the republican candidates usually can't afford to feed their own family.
Why do you feel the need to single out republicans in that statement? You even mentioned Hillary "thousands of chinese immigrants working for minimum wage spontaneously donated the maximum to me" Clinton.
Even if it's not a drastic departure, saying it's just a GameCube "enhanced to require less power" is disingenous. The processor has the same ISA, but that's hardly difficult considering it's PowerPC (which is also shared, as BenoitRen stated). In addition to a mild power saving (about 20%, but the Gekko only drew 4W to begin with) the speed was bumped about 50%, bus speed was bumped about 45%, process was shrunk from 180nm to 90nm and, assuming the speculation about it being a 750CL derived chip are correct, the floating point execution and memory prefetch units are significantly enhanced.
:)
Likewise with the video hardware - about a 50% clock rate increase on the GPU produced on a 90nm process instead of 180nm. They added 64MB of GDDR3 to augment the 24MB of 1T-SRAM of main system memory in the Gamecube (on the previous generation there was a 16MB bank of DRAM but it dedicated solely to disc and sound buffering).
Is the power increase as drastic as Microsoft and Sony opted for? Not by a long shot, but it's a significant upgrade in terms of performance, a massive upgrade in terms of ancillary features (e.g. integrated wi-fi and storage). They also avoided a drastic change in programming model and kept costs down.
By the way, both of those citations refer to the same exact interview.
New processor, new graphics chip, state of the art MEMS motion sensor is "fairly old tech"? Just because something is built to optimize something other than speed doesn't mean it isn't new technology. Would you call a Prius "old tech" because it doesn't have the same power output as a V8?