>>>if it works for majority of the people, then the problem is in you......or just that one theater (not adjusted properly). And I've never had problems with 3D before, having watched tons of movies with red/blue glasses.
Not to me it isn't. As long as the tools are free is all I care about. Like VLC or Opera which are not open-source but don't cost me anything, so I use them. Anyway to answer your question: I'm not aware of any "open source" development tools but all the companies like Xilinx, Actel, and Altera provide the tools for free. It's the classic Remington Shaver model - You get the tool for free, but you have to pay for the parts.
And yes the FPGAs are patented but it isn't a big deal. If one manufacturer starts acting like Microsoft or Apple you can just jump ship to another FPGA. Or abandon FPGAs completely and burn your own chip (ASIC).
Time to teach them a lesson. Hack into this "Will Page, chief economist at PRS for Music"'s account and steal an amount equal to what Jamie Thomas was forced to pay for downloading ten shitty songs (~$70,000). Then move it over to Mr. Thomas' account.
>>>If you see it as "play time" (you pay $50 to enjoy yourself for 40+ hours), then it's excellent value for money.
I severely disagree. Unless there's a strong compelling story (like Final Fantasy), I think most 40 hour games are boring. For excample I thought Zelda the Wind Waker was dull. Like sitting and watching a 40 hour version of the Matrix. Zzzz.
For me the best games are usually the 10-20 hour ones, like Metroid Prime or Eternal Darkness. Short, to the point, but edge of your seat fun. And in terms of "what developers wants" if I was designing a game I'd rather do Pitfall or Populous or Metroid-type games. Easy to learn but hard to master.
And given how computer technology progresses, all that stuff will either be obsolete, or inside a Windows PC in 2011 for 1/3 as much. But anyway I can't provide the link because that Toshiba was in last week's HHgregg ad, which is no longer online. Unfortunately I didn't write down the Toshiba model number either, so it's gone into the ether. Suffice it to say, it had 2 gigabytes of RAM and 2.2 GHz speed. For just a little bit more (~$450) you could get the version with 3 GB and 3 GHz... better than the MacBook.
Other trivia - the kid's a nursing student. It's not as if she needs a powerful machine like an engineer or programmer would need - she doesn't need Gigaabit ethernet (especially since schools usually only have 1 Mbit or 10 Mbit in the dorms), or a crotch rocket CPU.
Second you make a good point about the student discount which brings down the MacBook's overall price, but still leaves it twice the Toshiba model. Her mom was not thrilled about how much money she ended-up spending ($1200 minus the discount). .
>>>bargain-bin PC
My bargain bin has lasted since 2002. Only thing I replaced was the power supply. $300+$100 == $400 total. Oh I did up the RAM so make that $450 total. BOTTOM LINE: I think people who buy luxury cars or luxury computers spend unwisely. Maybe that is "presumptuous", but I am allowed to hold that opinion.
>>>that little 28% can have a huge effect on price considering they are probably 99% of the shareholders by headcount.
In that case the long-term investors should probably wait until 2011, because the APPL stock will bottom out around that time. Why? The US Dollar will be abandoned as universal currency, and that will drive the whole market down.
As for Apple they made a mistake - it happens. What matters next is how they handle the mistake so as to keep customers happy, and so far they've done a lousy job. No doubt many customers are now thinking their next "iPhone" will be an Android or Nokia model instead.
+1 informative. Plus they could design their hardware using VHDL or Verilog, as happened with the Commodore Amiga FPGA project. It allowed people to work with common code and each contribute a little piece.
Which reminds me: Is there a site to join Open Source VHDL projects (as exists with OSS linux design)?
And like US regulators I suspect it's as easy as just writing a rule. Lots of regulatory agencies create rules that are not laws, but have the same force as law, such as the "Know Your Customer" regulation (requires banks report cash transaction greater than $10,000).
If you say so. When my friend bought an Acura I couldn't help noticing it had Honda parts all over the place. "Honda" on the windows; "Honda" printed inside the trunk; "Honda" on many of the engine parts. When I mentioned this to my friend, he seemed surprised. (He didn't know Acura was a Honda division.)
>>>The MacBook has a lot more function than the low-end Toshiba and Compaq you mentioned.
I doubt that. Windows 7 and OS 10.6 have very few real differences, other than in people's imaginations. While Windows used to be shit, they are now on par with the Mac OS. *Plus* Windows is well supported. For example I can download the 2xAV plugin for Media Player that will play songs/movies at double speed without making everybody sound like chipmunks. Apple Macintosh has no such function - nobody ever bothered to develop it.
That was just one random thing that popped into my head. There are many other functions Windows can do that Mac can't. Of course if you think I'm wrong, feel free to list some things MacOS can do that Win7 cannot. I enjoy learning new things.:-) .
>>>Apple stuff is not, in general, overpriced, at least not very much.
$370 Toshiba laptop versus $1000 MacBook. Sounds way overpriced to me. The Toshiba had the same memory, same speed, same functionality (laptop).
>>>2" thick, have a whopping 2 hour battery life, and will inexplicably stop booting due to some mystery hardware flaw
So get it fixed under warranty (1 year). And if the warranty expires, then buy a new one. With the Toshiba I saw, at $370 pricetag, the combined ~740 spent would still be much less than the $1000 MacBook. .
>>>This was a couple years ago
Well no wonder it was 2" thick and only had 2 hours battery life. Macs made in 2004-5 had the same specs.
Well I hope you're right, and I am wrong. I've gone almost two years without a job (except for a brief 3 month contract) and am looking forward to a better economy in 2011, not a worse one.
Yeah. We'll see if you're still saying that a year from now when the DOW has dropped back down to 7000 levels. I can hear it now, "Oh. That C64 dude was right. Well he's still an ass.";-)
>>>>>Apple's stock will plummet in 0011 along with the rest of the US economy. Investors should buy then, not now. >> >>C64Love is not the right person to answer economics questions...
Perhaps not, but I still follow the news. The world will not be switching to the Euro or Yuan or any other currency. The UN is planning to switch to a basket of currencies called an SDR, and that will act as the universal denomination to which world products (like oil) will be pegged. So prices will read: "SDR150 per barrel" or something similar.
Interestingly this proposed basket will exclude the dollar. So it will have nothing backing its value except the US Government. Unfortunately the US Government is deep in debt (over 13 trillion) so its backing is almost as worthless as Greece's backing. The dollar will devalue fast, the stock market will crash, and the year 2011 will be worse than 1935 was.
And Apple stock will plummet. Unless of course they pick-up and move to India, as Microsoft has threatened a couple times to do.
A lot of the moderators are too young to recall anything prior to 2000. They might not have noticed the "invasion in early 90s" because they didn't even recall that a war had happened, and just assumed "Iraq invasion" referred to Bsuh, Cheney, and so on.
>>>There are plenty of regulations in force which do plenty of good -
Like the regulation that will FINE me $950 because I exercised my Pro-choice right to not purchase hospital insurance (I prefer to pay cash). I'm sorry but I don't see any good in that regulation, especially since it will hurt those (poor, middle class) least able to afford the fine.
Good point. My former teacher asked me (and others) for advice on a laptop for her college-bound kid. She said she liked Apples but also didn't want to spend too much money, so I looked around and supplied her with this:
MacBook - $1000 Toshibi - $370 (equivalent memory and speed to macbook) Compaq - $450 (twice the memory)
I recommended she go with the two cheaper models, but her kid insisted she HAD to have an apple, so they ended-up buying a a $1200 MacBook. Now I'm not saying Macs are bad - just expensive. I see no point paying 2-3 times as much for equal function but as you said, "People buy and continue to buy Apple products despite the objections..." I would also never pay $10,000 more to get a Honda with an "acura" badge on it, but I know a lot of people do.
>>>C64Love is not the right person to answer economics questions...
Perhaps not ("I'm a doctor damnit, not a number cruncher!"), but I still am better informed than you are. They will not be switching to the Euro or Yuan or any other currency. The UN is planning to switch to a basket of currencies called an SDR, and that will act as the universal denomination to which world products (like oil) will be pegged. So prices will read: SDR150 per barrel or something similar.
Interestingly this proposed basket will exclude the dollar. So it will have nothing backing its value except the US Government. Unfortunately the US Government is deep in debt (over 13 trillion) so its backing is almost as worthless as Greece's backing. The dollar will devalue fast, the stock market will crash, and the year 2011 will be worse than 1935 was.
>>>US' present housing bubble state was caused by a lack of regulation
Um. No. The bubble was Created by a 1997 regulation that required banks to make bad loans. It wasn't a "lack" of regulation but "over" regulation. In this video the politician even admits that the new regulation would cause loan defaults, but he goes ahead anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64#t=2m10s
(Please ignore the captions - just focus on the actual video segment.)
And Ford didn't design Pintos that blew up. And BP's not at fault for the oil spill. And Apple didn't design a bad antenna - it's "driver error" - they aren't holding the phones correctly.
People like me need to top blaming corporations. They love us.
>>>The PS3 is the third fastest selling console in history. Only the PS2 and Wii have sold at a faster rate.
Well except the PS1 sold faster. The Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis sold faster. The Xbox 360 sold faster (more units over an equal amount of time). So yeah other than these 6 consoles (PS1,SNES,GEN,PS1,PS2,WII,X360,WII), you are correct: the PS3 is the fastest-selling console. Bravo.
>>>Congrats dimwit. Time to get some help with your math skills dumbfuck.
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>>>if it works for majority of the people, then the problem is in you. .....or just that one theater (not adjusted properly). And I've never had problems with 3D before, having watched tons of movies with red/blue glasses.
xilinx.com
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altera.com
>>>That's all important, too.
Not to me it isn't. As long as the tools are free is all I care about. Like VLC or Opera which are not open-source but don't cost me anything, so I use them. Anyway to answer your question: I'm not aware of any "open source" development tools but all the companies like Xilinx, Actel, and Altera provide the tools for free. It's the classic Remington Shaver model - You get the tool for free, but you have to pay for the parts.
And yes the FPGAs are patented but it isn't a big deal. If one manufacturer starts acting like Microsoft or Apple you can just jump ship to another FPGA. Or abandon FPGAs completely and burn your own chip (ASIC).
>>>They obviously are not thinking clearly.
Time to teach them a lesson. Hack into this "Will Page, chief economist at PRS for Music"'s account and steal an amount equal to what Jamie Thomas was forced to pay for downloading ten shitty songs (~$70,000). Then move it over to Mr. Thomas' account.
>>>If you see it as "play time" (you pay $50 to enjoy yourself for 40+ hours), then it's excellent value for money.
I severely disagree. Unless there's a strong compelling story (like Final Fantasy), I think most 40 hour games are boring. For excample I thought Zelda the Wind Waker was dull. Like sitting and watching a 40 hour version of the Matrix. Zzzz.
For me the best games are usually the 10-20 hour ones, like Metroid Prime or Eternal Darkness. Short, to the point, but edge of your seat fun. And in terms of "what developers wants" if I was designing a game I'd rather do Pitfall or Populous or Metroid-type games. Easy to learn but hard to master.
And given how computer technology progresses, all that stuff will either be obsolete, or inside a Windows PC in 2011 for 1/3 as much. But anyway I can't provide the link because that Toshiba was in last week's HHgregg ad, which is no longer online. Unfortunately I didn't write down the Toshiba model number either, so it's gone into the ether. Suffice it to say, it had 2 gigabytes of RAM and 2.2 GHz speed. For just a little bit more (~$450) you could get the version with 3 GB and 3 GHz... better than the MacBook.
Other trivia - the kid's a nursing student. It's not as if she needs a powerful machine like an engineer or programmer would need - she doesn't need Gigaabit ethernet (especially since schools usually only have 1 Mbit or 10 Mbit in the dorms), or a crotch rocket CPU.
Second you make a good point about the student discount which brings down the MacBook's overall price, but still leaves it twice the Toshiba model. Her mom was not thrilled about how much money she ended-up spending ($1200 minus the discount).
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>>>bargain-bin PC
My bargain bin has lasted since 2002. Only thing I replaced was the power supply. $300+$100 == $400 total. Oh I did up the RAM so make that $450 total. BOTTOM LINE: I think people who buy luxury cars or luxury computers spend unwisely. Maybe that is "presumptuous", but I am allowed to hold that opinion.
>>>that little 28% can have a huge effect on price considering they are probably 99% of the shareholders by headcount.
In that case the long-term investors should probably wait until 2011, because the APPL stock will bottom out around that time. Why? The US Dollar will be abandoned as universal currency, and that will drive the whole market down.
As for Apple they made a mistake - it happens. What matters next is how they handle the mistake so as to keep customers happy, and so far they've done a lousy job. No doubt many customers are now thinking their next "iPhone" will be an Android or Nokia model instead.
+1 informative. Plus they could design their hardware using VHDL or Verilog, as happened with the Commodore Amiga FPGA project. It allowed people to work with common code and each contribute a little piece.
Which reminds me: Is there a site to join Open Source VHDL projects (as exists with OSS linux design)?
And like US regulators I suspect it's as easy as just writing a rule. Lots of regulatory agencies create rules that are not laws, but have the same force as law, such as the "Know Your Customer" regulation (requires banks report cash transaction greater than $10,000).
>>>giving the police permission to tap the line to wait for you to ID yourself.
More information please. I've never heard of this.
>>>Bugatti. Nothing more than a tarted up VW
That's interesting. I always though "Audi" was the luxury version of a Volkswagen.
If you say so. When my friend bought an Acura I couldn't help noticing it had Honda parts all over the place. "Honda" on the windows; "Honda" printed inside the trunk; "Honda" on many of the engine parts. When I mentioned this to my friend, he seemed surprised. (He didn't know Acura was a Honda division.)
>>>The MacBook has a lot more function than the low-end Toshiba and Compaq you mentioned.
I doubt that. Windows 7 and OS 10.6 have very few real differences, other than in people's imaginations. While Windows used to be shit, they are now on par with the Mac OS. *Plus* Windows is well supported. For example I can download the 2xAV plugin for Media Player that will play songs/movies at double speed without making everybody sound like chipmunks. Apple Macintosh has no such function - nobody ever bothered to develop it.
That was just one random thing that popped into my head. There are many other functions Windows can do that Mac can't. Of course if you think I'm wrong, feel free to list some things MacOS can do that Win7 cannot. I enjoy learning new things. :-)
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>>>Apple stuff is not, in general, overpriced, at least not very much.
$370 Toshiba laptop versus $1000 MacBook. Sounds way overpriced to me. The Toshiba had the same memory, same speed, same functionality (laptop).
>>>2" thick, have a whopping 2 hour battery life, and will inexplicably stop booting due to some mystery hardware flaw
So get it fixed under warranty (1 year). And if the warranty expires, then buy a new one. With the Toshiba I saw, at $370 pricetag, the combined ~740 spent would still be much less than the $1000 MacBook.
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>>>This was a couple years ago
Well no wonder it was 2" thick and only had 2 hours battery life. Macs made in 2004-5 had the same specs.
Well I hope you're right, and I am wrong. I've gone almost two years without a job (except for a brief 3 month contract) and am looking forward to a better economy in 2011, not a worse one.
>>>No surprise it was bunk.
Yeah. We'll see if you're still saying that a year from now when the DOW has dropped back down to 7000 levels. I can hear it now, "Oh. That C64 dude was right. Well he's still an ass." ;-)
>>>>>Apple's stock will plummet in 0011 along with the rest of the US economy. Investors should buy then, not now.
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>>C64Love is not the right person to answer economics questions...
Perhaps not, but I still follow the news. The world will not be switching to the Euro or Yuan or any other currency. The UN is planning to switch to a basket of currencies called an SDR, and that will act as the universal denomination to which world products (like oil) will be pegged. So prices will read: "SDR150 per barrel" or something similar.
Interestingly this proposed basket will exclude the dollar. So it will have nothing backing its value except the US Government. Unfortunately the US Government is deep in debt (over 13 trillion) so its backing is almost as worthless as Greece's backing. The dollar will devalue fast, the stock market will crash, and the year 2011 will be worse than 1935 was.
And Apple stock will plummet. Unless of course they pick-up and move to India, as Microsoft has threatened a couple times to do.
A lot of the moderators are too young to recall anything prior to 2000. They might not have noticed the "invasion in early 90s" because they didn't even recall that a war had happened, and just assumed "Iraq invasion" referred to Bsuh, Cheney, and so on.
>>>There are plenty of regulations in force which do plenty of good -
Like the regulation that will FINE me $950 because I exercised my Pro-choice right to not purchase hospital insurance (I prefer to pay cash). I'm sorry but I don't see any good in that regulation, especially since it will hurt those (poor, middle class) least able to afford the fine.
Good point. My former teacher asked me (and others) for advice on a laptop for her college-bound kid. She said she liked Apples but also didn't want to spend too much money, so I looked around and supplied her with this:
MacBook - $1000
Toshibi - $370 (equivalent memory and speed to macbook)
Compaq - $450 (twice the memory)
I recommended she go with the two cheaper models, but her kid insisted she HAD to have an apple, so they ended-up buying a a $1200 MacBook. Now I'm not saying Macs are bad - just expensive. I see no point paying 2-3 times as much for equal function but as you said, "People buy and continue to buy Apple products despite the objections..." I would also never pay $10,000 more to get a Honda with an "acura" badge on it, but I know a lot of people do.
>>>C64Love is not the right person to answer economics questions...
Perhaps not ("I'm a doctor damnit, not a number cruncher!"), but I still am better informed than you are. They will not be switching to the Euro or Yuan or any other currency. The UN is planning to switch to a basket of currencies called an SDR, and that will act as the universal denomination to which world products (like oil) will be pegged. So prices will read: SDR150 per barrel or something similar.
Interestingly this proposed basket will exclude the dollar. So it will have nothing backing its value except the US Government. Unfortunately the US Government is deep in debt (over 13 trillion) so its backing is almost as worthless as Greece's backing. The dollar will devalue fast, the stock market will crash, and the year 2011 will be worse than 1935 was.
>>>US' present housing bubble state was caused by a lack of regulation
Um. No. The bubble was Created by a 1997 regulation that required banks to make bad loans. It wasn't a "lack" of regulation but "over" regulation. In this video the politician even admits that the new regulation would cause loan defaults, but he goes ahead anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64#t=2m10s
(Please ignore the captions - just focus on the actual video segment.)
Yeah I'm wrong. Toyota is completely innocent of making a programming error that ignored inputs from the brake or gear shift, despite this admission right here: http://www.google.com/search?q=toyota+programming+error
And Ford didn't design Pintos that blew up.
And BP's not at fault for the oil spill.
And Apple didn't design a bad antenna - it's "driver error" - they aren't holding the phones correctly.
People like me need to top blaming corporations.
They love us.
>>>The PS3 is the third fastest selling console in history. Only the PS2 and Wii have sold at a faster rate.
Well except the PS1 sold faster. The Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis sold faster. The Xbox 360 sold faster (more units over an equal amount of time). So yeah other than these 6 consoles (PS1,SNES,GEN,PS1,PS2,WII,X360,WII), you are correct: the PS3 is the fastest-selling console. Bravo.
>>>Congrats dimwit. Time to get some help with your math skills dumbfuck.
Right back at ya, Mr. Anonymous Coward.