On a price performance basis AMDs Phenom IIs have consistenly been a better buy for some time now. To the point it's hard to suggest anyone buying intel at all, unless money is no object.
As a long time AMD fan, I beg to differ.
At roughly 190$ Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) is an absolute "value" beast from Intel. It costs on par with Phenom II 965BE (3.4Ghz), consumes considerably less power idle/full load, is on par performance wise on stock clock, yet easily overclocks to 3.8-4Ghz with stock cooler/voltage and becomes simply unstoppable.
Well, I recall Blizzard management stating that they spend about 300 million on WoW infrastructure & development. (citation needed) On the other hand, they have about 11 million customers paying about 120-160$ per year, not counting expansions/initial purchase/money payed for various "services". So we are talking about a billion of income every year here.
On the other hand, 11 million copies of Starcraft (the most successful non-mmo game from Blizzard that I know) were sold as of Feb 2009. If Blizzard would make about 30$ on each (let's be very very generous), that makes uhm, roughly one third of what WoW brings in one year. And that when we overestimate Starcraft's sales and underestimate Wow's.
But actually they sell 300k. Then it appears device has WiFi connectivity problems (bad routers are causing it, not apple, "obviously"). Then, after selling about 500k total they suddenly "run out of devices" and that's the reason of the "delay" in Europe launch...
If the book isn't illustrated, it's hard to understand what is there to edit specifically for ebooks.
distribution cost-- smaller, but still there (oh wait, servers run on teh magic of the Internets! I forgot!)
Not "smaller", but "gone". You can't seriously compare price of sending tons of books to stores to sending a file to amazon and the likes.
storage-- mostly gone (no returns anymore), but still no magic Internet dust to run your data center
You don't create any additional data centers for ebooks, do you? You already store all books in digital format, don't you?
And, I know Slashdotters hate to hear this, but, if people are sharing our books via Bittorrent, that can have a huge negative effect on our bottom line.
Then, logically, you should stop selling ebooks altogether.
heck, I suspect even my browser is caching dns names
So why, on planet Earth, do I need some "performance improvements" from google? Maybe because they aren't happy with how "popular" the http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns is?
Somehow they do it at Canada, don't they?
US spends on health care more than any other country (per citizen), yet the system is on 37th place, when it comes to effectiveness.
What's "the halting problem", could you elaborate? I don't see any problem in classical physics (and "two Laplace's demons cannot completely predict each other" is irrelevant imo, since it only affects the case, when observed universe is reacting to observers actions)?
Being java developer, I think MS.NET has forced Sun to improve Java and J2EE quite a bit. So Java/J2EE would be worse, if not MS.NET. Competition is a good thing
And regarding HD-DVD/BlueRa, I'd wish they both have died so that nobody would have to pay money just for "using the standard" (every blue ray drive/player/disk manufacturar has to pay a fee to the "founders" of the standard). It doesn't really cost that much to develop one. Too bad that cash cows like this are still legal.
Well, and what are Apple's motives then, if your arguable statements are true? (as a software developer I find them laughable to be honest, embedded programming is much more complicated than desktop software development (dev tools are not as sophisticated, much tighter memory/performance constrains etc) and desktop program's functionality in this case is trivial; "anti-virus protection" is a very new thing in this case and anyway has to be built-in into device). Why bother and change code so that it disables Palm's toy?
"Opera's turbo" - lets me browse sites otherwise blocked by company's firewall. Does kind of tunneling for it's own, to speed things up. Also degrading quality of pictures. (it was ment to be used on slow connections)
Now beat that!
P.S.
Pardon my ignorance, does FF have "fit to width" feature?
So, other companies do this shit "because they are evil", but google is different, it does it "to protect itself from evil". Brilliant.
I wonder where does all this luv4google come from? A lot of google employees posting here?
Opera wasn't free some time ago, but is free for quite some time.
And I doubt http://gs.statcounter.com/ -s results are correct for republic of Georgia.
Lunacy?
Do Russians have anything remotelly comparable to ARES please?
USSR have created something comparable to von Braun's Saturn V (which did run like clockwork, unlike what Soviet project has produced) only in mid 80-th.
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On a price performance basis AMDs Phenom IIs have consistenly been a better buy for some time now. To the point it's hard to suggest anyone buying intel at all, unless money is no object.
As a long time AMD fan, I beg to differ.
At roughly 190$ Core i5 750 (2.66Ghz) is an absolute "value" beast from Intel. It costs on par with Phenom II 965BE (3.4Ghz), consumes considerably less power idle/full load, is on par performance wise on stock clock, yet easily overclocks to 3.8-4Ghz with stock cooler/voltage and becomes simply unstoppable.
Well, I recall Blizzard management stating that they spend about 300 million on WoW infrastructure & development. (citation needed) On the other hand, they have about 11 million customers paying about 120-160$ per year, not counting expansions/initial purchase/money payed for various "services". So we are talking about a billion of income every year here.
On the other hand, 11 million copies of Starcraft (the most successful non-mmo game from Blizzard that I know) were sold as of Feb 2009. If Blizzard would make about 30$ on each (let's be very very generous), that makes uhm, roughly one third of what WoW brings in one year. And that when we overestimate Starcraft's sales and underestimate Wow's.
There are torrents of news about Apple, for free. This is also "marketing" isn't it?
"We ran out of devices" could happen because:
1) "Demand is higher than expected"
2) "We have some problems to fix" ("evil" WiFi routers anyone?)
Who, honestly, thinks that 1) is the case?
If most info about apple's product weren't "leaks", you would have a valid point.
"Bad routers", now "bad analysts"...
Apple expects to sell 10 million tablet computers in the product's first year, according to a former Google executive.
http://mashable.com/2010/01/01/apple-tablet-10-million/
So, first they expect to sell 700k on the first day:
http://business-news.thestreet.com/technology-news/2010/04/04/a/606016821-analyst-apple-sold-600-700-thousand/
But actually they sell 300k. Then it appears device has WiFi connectivity problems (bad routers are causing it, not apple, "obviously"). Then, after selling about 500k total they suddenly "run out of devices" and that's the reason of the "delay" in Europe launch...
To create a good boook, you need: 1) A good writer 2) ok editor That's how it worked for centuries. And neither 1) nor 2) is expensive.
editing cost-- still there
If the book isn't illustrated, it's hard to understand what is there to edit specifically for ebooks.
distribution cost-- smaller, but still there (oh wait, servers run on teh magic of the Internets! I forgot!)
Not "smaller", but "gone". You can't seriously compare price of sending tons of books to stores to sending a file to amazon and the likes.
storage-- mostly gone (no returns anymore), but still no magic Internet dust to run your data center
You don't create any additional data centers for ebooks, do you? You already store all books in digital format, don't you?
And, I know Slashdotters hate to hear this, but, if people are sharing our books via Bittorrent, that can have a huge negative effect on our bottom line.
Then, logically, you should stop selling ebooks altogether.
So why, on planet Earth, do I need some "performance improvements" from google? Maybe because they aren't happy with how "popular" the http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns is?
Russia is not even remotely in a position to race. RF is no USSR. They are far behind in all areas, but nuclear arms. What are you talking about?
Somehow they do it at Canada, don't they? US spends on health care more than any other country (per citizen), yet the system is on 37th place, when it comes to effectiveness.
Incidentally, nobody is behind mentioned applications that do not infringe "the patent", to pay for infringement.
Hm, word "apple" comes to my mind... I wonder, why...
What's "the halting problem", could you elaborate? I don't see any problem in classical physics (and "two Laplace's demons cannot completely predict each other" is irrelevant imo, since it only affects the case, when observed universe is reacting to observers actions)?
Being java developer, I think MS .NET has forced Sun to improve Java and J2EE quite a bit. So Java/J2EE would be worse, if not MS .NET. Competition is a good thing
And regarding HD-DVD/BlueRa, I'd wish they both have died so that nobody would have to pay money just for "using the standard" (every blue ray drive/player/disk manufacturar has to pay a fee to the "founders" of the standard). It doesn't really cost that much to develop one. Too bad that cash cows like this are still legal.
Don't you realize that shutter glasses technology is actually superior? Advantages:
What advantages does polarization bring? No need to power the glasses and that's it?
Well, and what are Apple's motives then, if your arguable statements are true? (as a software developer I find them laughable to be honest, embedded programming is much more complicated than desktop software development (dev tools are not as sophisticated, much tighter memory/performance constrains etc) and desktop program's functionality in this case is trivial; "anti-virus protection" is a very new thing in this case and anyway has to be built-in into device). Why bother and change code so that it disables Palm's toy?
"Opera's turbo" - lets me browse sites otherwise blocked by company's firewall. Does kind of tunneling for it's own, to speed things up. Also degrading quality of pictures. (it was ment to be used on slow connections)
Now beat that!
P.S. Pardon my ignorance, does FF have "fit to width" feature?
So, other companies do this shit "because they are evil", but google is different, it does it "to protect itself from evil". Brilliant. I wonder where does all this luv4google come from? A lot of google employees posting here?
Microsoft's evil anti Google PR at work!
So, how do I know, that this topic is not a result of Google's evil anti-microsoft meeting?
There are things I dislike, though:
Opera wasn't free some time ago, but is free for quite some time. And I doubt http://gs.statcounter.com/ -s results are correct for republic of Georgia.
Lunacy? Do Russians have anything remotelly comparable to ARES please? USSR have created something comparable to von Braun's Saturn V (which did run like clockwork, unlike what Soviet project has produced) only in mid 80-th.