What are you talking about? You obviously haven't been to an arcade recently. San Francisco Rush and San Francisco Rush 2049 are a couple of the best and most popular racing games around - both compliments of Atari. Ever play Primal Rage - that was pretty innovative when it came out back in 94... Gauntlet Legends... Mace was pretty cool... need I say more? They were very capable. The audience is what changed. Arcades just aren't what they used to. Atari won't be the last to get the axe.
By the way, defender just got an update from Midway not too long ago... your prediction, though amusing, was a bit off. It was on a console though!:)
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Now introducing gnome 2.2.1... fixes the thanks message on the about gnome banner... http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2
South Africa's government is not just choosing this as a "disadvantaged" nation - they actually have some major industry down there and the government is quite well funded (diamonds, gold mining, etc.) Having lived there for a couple years, I found it is far less third world than you would think - there are definitely impoverished areas, but there are also a lot of very educated well off people backing this decision.
That said, this does not surprise me that they would do this. The So. Africans viewed the American computer industry quite negatively - all of our companies (IBM, et al) pulled out due to the apartheid situation (which is ironic as they were the companies hiring diversity - a topic for another day) and left them in the lurch. Some have probably returned now, but those negative feelings toward "Western" companies remain. So it does not surprise me at all they would go open source.
They are going to face what has just about put iomega out of business. I can already buy 4.7GB dvd+r media for $3-4... By the time this comes out we'll be starting to be close to the Blu-Ray discs that hold 27GB and will probably be just as cheap as these $15 drives. I just don't see it happening - especially when you need a dedicated reader. So as far as removable media it is doomed.
Then as far as a one time standalone? The fact that you need a special reader kills it. Notebook harddrives are already very small and higher density (even have 20GB in an iPod!) and the IBM Microdrive is already out in 4GB and will fit in a standard compact flash slot. Just don't see this happening.
I don't know that I would call it capitalism, more like government subsidized powerhouses. See, So. Korea has this nasty little problem of giving subsidies and government backed loans to all their companies to get them going. Some work out (such as Samsung), some do not (LG Semiconductor, Hynix). In fact just this week the government sponsored banks gave a $4 billion bailout to Hynix. I don't know that I would call that capitalism!
Also, the system really doesn't even work as a few years ago all the banks got in way over their head and the IMF (funded by your tax dollars) bailed them out with trillions of dollars.
This is the shining example for Western Democracy? Without the other governments stepping in they would have gone into chaos. Not to mention the fact that if it wasn't for us North Korea would run right over them.
I don't think I would call that being built through capitalism and foreign trade - at least not in the pure sense of capitalism. What ever happened to the governments practicing laissez faire?
He's a mean one... Mr. Gates. You really are a heel, You're as cuddly as a cactus, you're as charming as an eel, Mr. Gates, You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Gates, Your heart's an empty hole, Your brain is full of spiders, you have garlic in your soul, Mr. Gates, I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
You're a foul one, Mr. Gates, You have termites in your smile, You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Gates, Given a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Gates, You're the king of sinful sots, Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Gates, You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Gates, With a nauseous super "naus"!, You're a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Gates, Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Gates, You're a nasty wasty skunk, Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Gates, The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote, "Stink, stank, stunk"!
-- Are we sure Dr. Seuss was not thinking of Mr. Gates when he wrote this?
You know, I don't mind paying a couple additional fees if it means I can get program updates, etc. trhough the web rather than a phone line. That is the only reason I still pay the local baby bell to keep my house wired. That will save me $30 a month so if I pay an additional $10 a month for a few fees I still save $20!
I don't think comparing a dvd player (moving parts, friggin lasers) to a speaker (no moving parts, no complicated electronics) is a fair comparison. I bought some speakers two years ago that I am sure will work fine in 12 years (though I'll probably have to buy 20 more for my 25.1 surround sound setup). My dvd player is going on 5 years now - though I bought a nice expensive sony one... have never had a glitch, and the only movie I had problems playing was You've got mail.
As to the turntables - I want smaller! I don't want stuff that weighs 26lbs... I want a portable mp3 player that holds 50GB and weighs 4 ounces. Maybe that is part of the problem these days - we want tiny stuff... smaller components... thinner screens. The biggest problem for me is not the quality, but the fact that new ones come out that make my stuff look lame featurewise.
Speaking of mp3 players... I would say the IPod kind of proves they can make quality stuff if they want to... but you might have to pay a little more. I was shocked by how good my headphones sound.
I think it is the need to drive 15 minutes to see it - just to get out of the house! It actually feels like you did something when you drive across town, stand in line for a while and then fight for a seat rather than sit half-asleep on your couch with the remote.
PS: Don't call me George! (You know, the Seinfeld episode where he went to watch Home Alone at Jerry's house just so it felt like he was doing something!)
So, if I buy the Mona Lisa, take it home and piss on it, I could be thrown in jail? Even though it is my painting? What if I run out of firewood? These movies are not destroying an "original" piece of art anyhow, it is merely one of millions of copies. So if I go to the poster shop and buy a copy of the mona lisa, what about then?
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And don't forget to nfs mount a box named after your co-workers wife to a box named after you! (True story - when I was a tech support lackey at IBM actually had a lady call in wanting to change the hostnames of her systems because she was tired of the jokes that her system named "adam" was mounting her system named "eve")
Seems a major electronic genre is being left out - synthpop. You know, like the old 80's stuff... Depeche Mode, Electronic, Pet Shop Boys, several around and still kicking. And there are a lot of new bands too that are great - Echoing Green, Cosmicity, etc. A good site for this is A Different Drum. You can find a lot of good stuff there - links, info, etc.
Also, tons of the electronic bands (synthpop and otherwise) seem to have a lot of good stuff on mp3.com. Check out Bassic, 303 Infitity, Cosmicity, Red Flag there as well.
If you are looking for the more trance type like Paul Oakenfield you mentioned, look at the names of the groups on his albums because he is a classic dj and remixes songs from a lot of other great electronic bands (paul van dyk, etc.)
SRAM costs more because it uses a multi-transistor architecture where DRAM requires only one transistor and a capacitor (you can build a capacitor on silicon with much less real-estate/layers). That is why they cost more. If it was as cheap to build, nobody would use DRAM because SRAM is way faster. But it isn't.
As to you thinking that DRAMs are unprofitable and SRAMs are profitable... that is bogus as well. The price we (Yup, work at a memory company) get for these is in the toilet as well. Part of the big problem is all the communications companies (like you claim to work for) had huge amounts of inventory and so they quit buying (just look at the writedowns of Cisco, Nortel, etc. if you don't believe that bit). Of course, 128kb srams prices probably haven't budged because nobody makes such small devices anymore. Go price 2GB SCSI drives vs. 16GB for a similar scenario...
DDR demand will take off though, so get your memory cheap while you can!
Well, I was able to kill my Windows XP quite well by installing Roxio CD Creator... afterwords wouldn't boot. So I boot into safe mode and guess what - though you can have safe mode with networking even, "The Install/Uninstall Utility is not available in Safe Mode". So what is the #!(@*#@ point???? (I was eventually able to recover but it took me two hours of searching and then unplugging devices instead of the 10 minutes it should have!) I guess this isn't uSoft's fault that the Roxio bit kills it, but you'd think you should be able to uninstall in safe mode no?
I had a physics class from Dr. Jones (BYU) when Pons and Fleischmann announced this thing. Shortly thereafter someone asked him about it and he basically said he told them they shouldn't have announced because the data was not yet ready (ie, conclusive). Looks like he turned out to be right.
And Radio Piracy - when a radio station plays a song the RIAA members are not trying to promote
by putting it on the hourly playlist - how is this
different from streaming?
You're looking at this wrong... advertising as we know it will change, but new improved methods will be added. With the power of this box the possibilities are endless. Say you are watching Friends and you just love the shirt Jennifer Aniston is wearing - you could pause the tivo, drop down a menu, find out who made it and possibly buy it.
They are also doing tests where you are seeing a commercial for something and their is an info icon there - you can click that and it will show you more detailed information on the product or show that is being advertised.
Another cool thing I really dig is the deal they signed with Blockbuster - if I want to watch a movie, it can record it overnight and have it ready for me to watch the next day or the next weekend. Tres cool! That will be neat when that is setup and running...
One word of advice - the Sony box is coming, it is a 30 hour box and MUCH cheaper (strange as Sony is usually pricier). That is the one I am waiting for!
Looks like Amazon doesn't realize they are out of cash as they just spent 50 million to invest in Kozmo. I guess it is now 18 months instead of 21 months they have to exist!
I really think this report is a load of garbage - several of the companies on this list are not in danger at all - just look at CIBC and Merril Lynch coming out and defending several of the companies. It is one thing to look at the cash, but another to understand the true resources. Any bozo could have made this Barron's report just using Yahoo finance and looking at how much cash the companies have and what their losses have been.
The net truly is the biggest change our society has ever seen and you CAN create barriers to entry there, that is why the bleeding is going on. (If you don't believe you can create barriers, just look at Amazon, Ebay, and Yahoo - though others continually try, they fall way short of the masters).
--Sunbane
"I asked for a car, I got a computer... How's that for being born under a bad sign?" - Ferris Buehler
How is it that the government can make stamps featuring ET and Cabbage Patch Kids without having to pay royalties to the likes of Spielberg? You can bet if I made a set of ET trading cards I'd get a summons to court within a week...
(And no crap about people just use them to send letters either, loads of the "commemorative" stamps are purchased by collectors!)
Now you are just assuming the guy was mentally challenged, myself, I thought they just looked like a couple of rednecks. Ever been down south? Anyhow, this was my favourite commercial, made me laugh the most.
Speaking of commercials, there is a business idea for someone - how about commercials.com where you can go see streaming video of all the commercials that are out. Users can vote for their favourites and you can even give rewards. This ought to even further inspire creativity w/ advertising as the more popular ones will have users willingly lining up to view them. I'm sure there are most of us that may have missed one of the funnier ones or two due to a bathroom break or running to the icebox. Probably won't have any problems getting companies to allow you to show their commercials for free! (They might even pay you to promote them on the site!)
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What are you talking about? You obviously haven't been to an arcade recently. San Francisco Rush and San Francisco Rush 2049 are a couple of the best and most popular racing games around - both compliments of Atari. Ever play Primal Rage - that was pretty innovative when it came out back in 94... Gauntlet Legends... Mace was pretty cool... need I say more? They were very capable. The audience is what changed. Arcades just aren't what they used to. Atari won't be the last to get the axe.
:)
By the way, defender just got an update from Midway not too long ago... your prediction, though amusing, was a bit off. It was on a console though!
Now introducing gnome 2.2.1... fixes the thanks message on the about gnome banner... http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2
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"Thanks to our all users and contributors"
South Africa's government is not just choosing this as a "disadvantaged" nation - they actually have some major industry down there and the government is quite well funded (diamonds, gold mining, etc.) Having lived there for a couple years, I found it is far less third world than you would think - there are definitely impoverished areas, but there are also a lot of very educated well off people backing this decision.
That said, this does not surprise me that they would do this. The So. Africans viewed the American computer industry quite negatively - all of our companies (IBM, et al) pulled out due to the apartheid situation (which is ironic as they were the companies hiring diversity - a topic for another day) and left them in the lurch. Some have probably returned now, but those negative feelings toward "Western" companies remain. So it does not surprise me at all they would go open source.
They are going to face what has just about put iomega out of business. I can already buy 4.7GB dvd+r media for $3-4... By the time this comes out we'll be starting to be close to the Blu-Ray discs that hold 27GB and will probably be just as cheap as these $15 drives. I just don't see it happening - especially when you need a dedicated reader. So as far as removable media it is doomed.
Then as far as a one time standalone? The fact that you need a special reader kills it. Notebook harddrives are already very small and higher density (even have 20GB in an iPod!) and the IBM Microdrive is already out in 4GB and will fit in a standard compact flash slot. Just don't see this happening.
I don't know that I would call it capitalism, more like government subsidized powerhouses. See, So. Korea has this nasty little problem of giving subsidies and government backed loans to all their companies to get them going. Some work out (such as Samsung), some do not (LG Semiconductor, Hynix). In fact just this week the government sponsored banks gave a $4 billion bailout to Hynix. I don't know that I would call that capitalism!
Also, the system really doesn't even work as a few years ago all the banks got in way over their head and the IMF (funded by your tax dollars) bailed them out with trillions of dollars.
This is the shining example for Western Democracy? Without the other governments stepping in they would have gone into chaos. Not to mention the fact that if it wasn't for us North Korea would run right over them.
I don't think I would call that being built through capitalism and foreign trade - at least not in the pure sense of capitalism. What ever happened to the governments practicing laissez faire?
OK...
He's a mean one...
Mr. Gates.
You really are a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
you're as charming as an eel,
Mr. Gates,
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!
You're a monster, Mr. Gates,
Your heart's an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders,
you have garlic in your soul,
Mr. Gates,
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!
You're a foul one, Mr. Gates,
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Gates,
Given a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You're a rotter, Mr. Gates,
You're the king of sinful sots,
Your heart's a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Gates,
You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!
You nauseate me, Mr. Gates,
With a nauseous super "naus"!,
You're a crooked dirty jockey and you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Gates,
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful
assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!
You're a foul one, Mr. Gates,
You're a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks, your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Gates,
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote,
"Stink, stank, stunk"!
-- Are we sure Dr. Seuss was not thinking of Mr. Gates when he wrote this?
You know, I don't mind paying a couple additional fees if it means I can get program updates, etc. trhough the web rather than a phone line. That is the only reason I still pay the local baby bell to keep my house wired. That will save me $30 a month so if I pay an additional $10 a month for a few fees I still save $20!
I don't think comparing a dvd player (moving parts, friggin lasers) to a speaker (no moving parts, no complicated electronics) is a fair comparison. I bought some speakers two years ago that I am sure will work fine in 12 years (though I'll probably have to buy 20 more for my 25.1 surround sound setup). My dvd player is going on 5 years now - though I bought a nice expensive sony one... have never had a glitch, and the only movie I had problems playing was You've got mail.
As to the turntables - I want smaller! I don't want stuff that weighs 26lbs... I want a portable mp3 player that holds 50GB and weighs 4 ounces. Maybe that is part of the problem these days - we want tiny stuff... smaller components... thinner screens. The biggest problem for me is not the quality, but the fact that new ones come out that make my stuff look lame featurewise.
Speaking of mp3 players... I would say the IPod kind of proves they can make quality stuff if they want to... but you might have to pay a little more. I was shocked by how good my headphones sound.
Hooray! Think how much smaller our cubes can be with a flat panel monitor!
(Now if we can just eliminate the people!)
I think it is the need to drive 15 minutes to see it - just to get out of the house! It actually feels like you did something when you drive across town, stand in line for a while and then fight for a seat rather than sit half-asleep on your couch with the remote.
PS: Don't call me George! (You know, the Seinfeld episode where he went to watch Home Alone at Jerry's house just so it felt like he was doing something!)
So, if I buy the Mona Lisa, take it home and piss on it, I could be thrown in jail? Even though it is my painting? What if I run out of firewood? These movies are not destroying an "original" piece of art anyhow, it is merely one of millions of copies. So if I go to the poster shop and buy a copy of the mona lisa, what about then?
And don't forget to nfs mount a box named after your co-workers wife to a box named after you! (True story - when I was a tech support lackey at IBM actually had a lady call in wanting to change the hostnames of her systems because she was tired of the jokes that her system named "adam" was mounting her system named "eve")
--Mark
Seems a major electronic genre is being left out - synthpop. You know, like the old 80's stuff... Depeche Mode, Electronic, Pet Shop Boys, several around and still kicking. And there are a lot of new bands too that are great - Echoing Green, Cosmicity, etc. A good site for this is A Different Drum. You can find a lot of good stuff there - links, info, etc.
Also, tons of the electronic bands (synthpop and otherwise) seem to have a lot of good stuff on mp3.com. Check out Bassic, 303 Infitity, Cosmicity, Red Flag there as well.
If you are looking for the more trance type like Paul Oakenfield you mentioned, look at the names of the groups on his albums because he is a classic dj and remixes songs from a lot of other great electronic bands (paul van dyk, etc.)
SRAM costs more because it uses a multi-transistor architecture where DRAM requires only one transistor and a capacitor (you can build a capacitor on silicon with much less real-estate/layers). That is why they cost more. If it was as cheap to build, nobody would use DRAM because SRAM is way faster. But it isn't.
As to you thinking that DRAMs are unprofitable and SRAMs are profitable... that is bogus as well. The price we (Yup, work at a memory company) get for these is in the toilet as well. Part of the big problem is all the communications companies (like you claim to work for) had huge amounts of inventory and so they quit buying (just look at the writedowns of Cisco, Nortel, etc. if you don't believe that bit). Of course, 128kb srams prices probably haven't budged because nobody makes such small devices anymore. Go price 2GB SCSI drives vs. 16GB for a similar scenario...
DDR demand will take off though, so get your memory cheap while you can!
Well, I was able to kill my Windows XP quite well by installing Roxio CD Creator... afterwords wouldn't boot. So I boot into safe mode and guess what - though you can have safe mode with networking even, "The Install/Uninstall Utility is not available in Safe Mode". So what is the #!(@*#@ point???? (I was eventually able to recover but it took me two hours of searching and then unplugging devices instead of the 10 minutes it should have!) I guess this isn't uSoft's fault that the Roxio bit kills it, but you'd think you should be able to uninstall in safe mode no?
I had a physics class from Dr. Jones (BYU) when Pons and Fleischmann announced this thing. Shortly thereafter someone asked him about it and he basically said he told them they shouldn't have announced because the data was not yet ready (ie, conclusive). Looks like he turned out to be right.
And Radio Piracy - when a radio station plays a song the RIAA members are not trying to promote by putting it on the hourly playlist - how is this different from streaming?
Already exists, if you run format on your
flash it will map out bad blocks - I did it
on my smartmedia card I got and it mapped out
quite a few.
You're looking at this wrong... advertising as we know it will change, but new improved methods will be added. With the power of this box the possibilities are endless. Say you are watching Friends and you just love the shirt Jennifer Aniston is wearing - you could pause the tivo, drop down a menu, find out who made it and possibly buy it.
They are also doing tests where you are seeing a commercial for something and their is an info icon there - you can click that and it will show you more detailed information on the product or show that is being advertised.
Another cool thing I really dig is the deal they signed with Blockbuster - if I want to watch a movie, it can record it overnight and have it ready for me to watch the next day or the next weekend. Tres cool! That will be neat when that is setup and running...
One word of advice - the Sony box is coming, it is a 30 hour box and MUCH cheaper (strange as Sony is usually pricier). That is the one I am waiting for!
Speaking of the Kozmo investment...
Looks like Amazon doesn't realize they are out of cash as they just spent 50 million to invest in Kozmo. I guess it is now 18 months instead of 21 months they have to exist!
I really think this report is a load of garbage - several of the companies on this list are not in danger at all - just look at CIBC and Merril Lynch coming out and defending several of the companies. It is one thing to look at the cash, but another to understand the true resources. Any bozo could have made this Barron's report just using Yahoo finance and looking at how much cash the companies have and what their losses have been.
The net truly is the biggest change our society has ever seen and you CAN create barriers to entry there, that is why the bleeding is going on. (If you don't believe you can create barriers, just look at Amazon, Ebay, and Yahoo - though others continually try, they fall way short of the masters).
--Sunbane
"I asked for a car, I got a computer... How's that for being born under a bad sign?"
- Ferris Buehler
How is it that the government can make stamps
featuring ET and Cabbage Patch Kids without
having to pay royalties to the likes of Spielberg?
You can bet if I made a set of ET trading cards
I'd get a summons to court within a week...
(And no crap about people just use them to send
letters either, loads of the "commemorative"
stamps are purchased by collectors!)
Now you are just assuming the guy was mentally challenged, myself, I thought they just looked like a couple of rednecks. Ever been down south? Anyhow, this was my favourite commercial, made me laugh the most.
Speaking of commercials, there is a business idea for someone - how about commercials.com where you can go see streaming video of all the commercials that are out. Users can vote for their favourites and you can even give rewards. This ought to even further inspire creativity w/ advertising as the more popular ones will have users willingly lining up to view them. I'm sure there are most of us that may have missed one of the funnier ones or two due to a bathroom break or running to the icebox. Probably won't have any problems getting companies to allow you to show their commercials for free! (They might even pay you to promote them on the site!)
Anything w/ a monkey gets my vote! Out.