The challenge was not to prove the guy committed the murders within that time, it was to prove he could make it from airport terminal to hotel security camera within that time.
Heck, many times I've made it from the same terminal to 10x the distance in just 2x the time.
Selling the hardware is not the end of the marketing story. Sure, Sony may have sold 50,000,000 PSPs, but how many are actually being used? how many games are sold on average? standard deviation?
I have a PSP. Great gizmo. Thing is... I don't use it. I want to, but I don't. I keep looking at what games are for sale with the intent to buy some but... they're boring, clearly second-tier products. I bought it as a credit card "reward", and played thru Daxter which came with it. But when it comes to shelling out real money for available games, well, maybe not. At least port the hot legacy games to it, names like Grand Theft Auto (the original), Max Payne, and others. Get some modern games on there that don't really require heavy-duty processing like Portal. Give me a choice of games that aren't "off-PS2". Doesn't help that the battery discharges/dies with disuse, that it doesn't charge thru USB (at least without fiddling with menus), and text entry is just downright stupid. Even with those quirks I really do like it - I just can't find anything I want to run on it.
So yeah, 50M PSPs have been sold. Thing is, console manufacturers expect to offset the hardware costs with big software sales, and I'm not sure enough of those PSPs aren't just sitting around discharging & collecting dust.
Apple is very good at figuring out what users actually DO with the products - and that includes figuring it out BEFORE the product is released. This in contrast with giving people what they _say_ they want, which rarely satisfies them.
Those of us on Coumadin aka Warfarin (that's a lot of us, it's daily and permanent) can't take ibuprofin because it significantly disrupts blood clotting rates ("thins the blood" too much, prone to hemorrhaging), and only acetaminophen can be taken to manage pain without prescription.
Good thing my headaches can be cured with a shot of whiskey, now that the FDA is worried I'm stupid enough to OD on Tylenol.
There was a recent news item (can't recall if it was/. or FreeRepublic) noting that one of Ron Paul's people was detained by TSA for carrying $4700 cash (sales of T-shirts, stickers, etc. from a convention) and managed to record the whole incident. Sounds like Comic Book Guy needs to contact him and work on filing a joint suit.
Pay attention to your own news site, CmdrTaco! Though this is a site for nerds, that doesn't mean that everyone has abandoned IE, or is at least running the latest incarnation thereof. Some of us, for various reasons, are pretty much stuck with using IE6 for browsing/. and are faced with a pile of mis-rendered & incompatible pages (I'm thinking the user account page in particular). We appreciate having/. optimized for FireFox, but would also like such consideration for the more-used IE6 browser.
The ongoing problem with FOSS is that hard, un-cool, gritty, vital work ultimately takes money to do right. Cool gets projects only so far; money is needed for viable completion.
They'll have an HD radio receiver. That's something that iPod doesn't do.
Don't bet on it. Word is there is a lot more hardware capability built into current iPods than is being utilized. Usage thereof may be delayed pending marketing & engineering concerns, but push come to shove methinks Apple can easily release an update that will turn on the radio receiver (among other abilities) and undercut any serious competition in short order.
Part of "insanely great" is "don't go cool too early". Short of any real competition, Apple doesn't want to release functionality until they've got usability nailed. Many companies indeed are "already there" with assorted technologies, yet it fails to catch on precisely because the market isn't ready and engineering hasn't figured out how to do it right yet; Apple lets them make the mistakes first and stir up the market before jumping in with their "insanely great" version.
At a glance, the relevant laws regarding inspection seem to apply only to licensees and licensed (and presumably non-illegal) equipment. Thing is, routers etc. are unlicensed - ergo there is no legal basis for an inspection thereof (unless the equipment is operating in an illegal manner). Even if a law is being violated, a warrant is required.
Oh, BTW: anyone here notice that ammo sales are WAY up? probably not a good time to do an unannounced inspection of a lawfully unlicensed radio transmitter.
Here we have twoadjacent/. stories: one about ISPs being responsible for users' behavior, the other about ISPs not being responsible for users' behavior.
What is needed is a clarification, likely from SCOTUS, on whether ISPs are "common carriers" or not. If they are, then ISPs have to monitor postings and downloads (punishing people according to... uh... well they're not police or courts so it's really unclear how they're supposed to detect & respond re: users' behavior). If they are not, then ISPs can finally tell everyone else to take it up with the actual legally-identifiable offender.
Yeah there's a solution, it's cheap, and it's even explicitly in the Constitution: get Congress to issue Letters of Marque. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would take care of the problem for free, if only they got suitable permission.
Those magazines publish those articles because those magazines are about those subjects. If you want a magazine on calorie counting, cooking tips, recipies, and shopping you buy one of those magazines. When I want articles on those subjects, I buy one of those magazines ("Real Simple" in particular). When I want articles on large-caliber full-auto firepower, I buy an appropriately-oriented magazine ("Small Arms Review" in particular). And when I want to buy a notebook computer, I want Dell's website to show me an affordable ultraportable notebook - and not "cooking with garlic" tips or an in-depth review of.408 CheyTac.
Companies fail when they stop focusing on what the customer comes to them for.
the iPhone does not suck. Linux on the desktop however? Good luck with that.
Even when a user figures out that there's lots of free software just a few menu selections away, way too many of those gloriously free programs don't install properly, require some chain of obtuse non-automatic dependencies, or just disappear into the filesystem somewhere. So what if it's free if you can't find the app when installed? I'm a long-time professional geek that can figure this stuff out, but frankly if I have to figure it out then apparently the authors didn't make the user (me) the priority and I'll go elsewhere for apps that obviously work when installed.
The iPhone, however, puts an icon for your just-installed app right there on the screen. Easy.
So I return to the ongoing issue with free software: it takes money, usually a lot of it, to finish that last 5% of a program that is so vital to making it useful to the masses, and so boring to do that only money can motivate someone to do it.
For all the "bah humbug" blathering on this thread, methinks there's something to it.
Surely most of us geeks have noticed the difference in mental state & perception caused by 24FPS, 30FPS, 60FPS, 3:2 pulldown, and other differences in visual medium. Each causes a different psychological state, with some causing more of a stupor and others more a sense of real. 3D, done right, will lead to other mental effects. I don't think a major director experimenting with new technology would be BSing us about what it does to the viewer's mind.
Personally, I've seen one 3D IMAX film (something about Egypt) which unlike other "hey wow it's 3D!" movies really did give a deep sense of "being there". Move that effect to a full-blown bleeding-edge movie by a director known for pushing visual limits, and we may very well experience something new.
Now that Bolivia's water supply is safe from Dominic Greene, and 007 knows the political and geographic landscape there, we just need to know which thugs will now be out for the lithium supply.
How about we let individuals and businesses decide where they're going to put their R&D money, not some ivory-tower bureaucrats who are firmly removed from reality?
Really: when it comes to deciding what to do with 3% of your income, don't you want YOU making that decision, instead of total strangers you don't know and who know you less and who are operating on non-sequitor ulterior motives?
The "Watchmen Motion Comic" DVD literally is frame-by-frame, word-for-word animation of the actual graphic novel. Nothing is missing. It runs about 5 hours.
Best? Coding in my cubicle, from 4-11PM, trance/techno playing at moderate volume, and absolutely no interruptions. Productivity is amazing.
Unfortunately, for no articulable reason I'm required to work 8AM-5PM, interruptions are constant (walk-in/stand-up meetings happening constantly, PA system calling people, factory running across the hall, doors never stay closed. Productivity is... well... go figure.
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It's posts like yours that inspired my sig.
The challenge was not to prove the guy committed the murders within that time, it was to prove he could make it from airport terminal to hotel security camera within that time.
Heck, many times I've made it from the same terminal to 10x the distance in just 2x the time.
Selling the hardware is not the end of the marketing story. Sure, Sony may have sold 50,000,000 PSPs, but how many are actually being used? how many games are sold on average? standard deviation?
I have a PSP. Great gizmo. Thing is ... I don't use it. I want to, but I don't. I keep looking at what games are for sale with the intent to buy some but ... they're boring, clearly second-tier products. I bought it as a credit card "reward", and played thru Daxter which came with it. But when it comes to shelling out real money for available games, well, maybe not. At least port the hot legacy games to it, names like Grand Theft Auto (the original), Max Payne, and others. Get some modern games on there that don't really require heavy-duty processing like Portal. Give me a choice of games that aren't "off-PS2". Doesn't help that the battery discharges/dies with disuse, that it doesn't charge thru USB (at least without fiddling with menus), and text entry is just downright stupid. Even with those quirks I really do like it - I just can't find anything I want to run on it.
So yeah, 50M PSPs have been sold. Thing is, console manufacturers expect to offset the hardware costs with big software sales, and I'm not sure enough of those PSPs aren't just sitting around discharging & collecting dust.
Apple is very good at figuring out what users actually DO with the products - and that includes figuring it out BEFORE the product is released. This in contrast with giving people what they _say_ they want, which rarely satisfies them.
Strange how much human accomplishment and progress comes from contemplation of the irrelevant. - Scott Kim.
Thanks FDA. Now I look forward to unmanaged pain.
Those of us on Coumadin aka Warfarin (that's a lot of us, it's daily and permanent) can't take ibuprofin because it significantly disrupts blood clotting rates ("thins the blood" too much, prone to hemorrhaging), and only acetaminophen can be taken to manage pain without prescription.
Good thing my headaches can be cured with a shot of whiskey, now that the FDA is worried I'm stupid enough to OD on Tylenol.
There was a recent news item (can't recall if it was /. or FreeRepublic) noting that one of Ron Paul's people was detained by TSA for carrying $4700 cash (sales of T-shirts, stickers, etc. from a convention) and managed to record the whole incident. Sounds like Comic Book Guy needs to contact him and work on filing a joint suit.
Actually, what you describe is indeed what happened in Iraq (with only marginally quibbling differences).
Pay attention to your own news site, CmdrTaco! /. and are faced with a pile of mis-rendered & incompatible pages (I'm thinking the user account page in particular). We appreciate having /. optimized for FireFox, but would also like such consideration for the more-used IE6 browser.
Though this is a site for nerds, that doesn't mean that everyone has abandoned IE, or is at least running the latest incarnation thereof. Some of us, for various reasons, are pretty much stuck with using IE6 for browsing
The ongoing problem with FOSS is that hard, un-cool, gritty, vital work ultimately takes money to do right. Cool gets projects only so far; money is needed for viable completion.
They'll have an HD radio receiver. That's something that iPod doesn't do.
Don't bet on it. Word is there is a lot more hardware capability built into current iPods than is being utilized. Usage thereof may be delayed pending marketing & engineering concerns, but push come to shove methinks Apple can easily release an update that will turn on the radio receiver (among other abilities) and undercut any serious competition in short order.
Part of "insanely great" is "don't go cool too early". Short of any real competition, Apple doesn't want to release functionality until they've got usability nailed. Many companies indeed are "already there" with assorted technologies, yet it fails to catch on precisely because the market isn't ready and engineering hasn't figured out how to do it right yet; Apple lets them make the mistakes first and stir up the market before jumping in with their "insanely great" version.
You can't spell evil without vi.
They say, fine, we'll turn it off for you, and enter and do so.
We can follow the Fourth Amendment, or the Second Amendment. Pick one.
At a glance, the relevant laws regarding inspection seem to apply only to licensees and licensed (and presumably non-illegal) equipment. Thing is, routers etc. are unlicensed - ergo there is no legal basis for an inspection thereof (unless the equipment is operating in an illegal manner). Even if a law is being violated, a warrant is required.
Oh, BTW: anyone here notice that ammo sales are WAY up? probably not a good time to do an unannounced inspection of a lawfully unlicensed radio transmitter.
Fail safe systems fail by failing to fail safely.
Got me there.
if ( ISP == common_carrier ) user.ignoreBehavior();
else user.monitorBehavior();
Point got across despite the logic error.
Here we have two adjacent /. stories: one about ISPs being responsible for users' behavior, the other about ISPs not being responsible for users' behavior.
What is needed is a clarification, likely from SCOTUS, on whether ISPs are "common carriers" or not. If they are, then ISPs have to monitor postings and downloads (punishing people according to ... uh ... well they're not police or courts so it's really unclear how they're supposed to detect & respond re: users' behavior). If they are not, then ISPs can finally tell everyone else to take it up with the actual legally-identifiable offender.
Yeah there's a solution, it's cheap, and it's even explicitly in the Constitution: get Congress to issue Letters of Marque.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who would take care of the problem for free, if only they got suitable permission.
Those magazines publish those articles because those magazines are about those subjects. If you want a magazine on calorie counting, cooking tips, recipies, and shopping you buy one of those magazines. When I want articles on those subjects, I buy one of those magazines ("Real Simple" in particular). When I want articles on large-caliber full-auto firepower, I buy an appropriately-oriented magazine ("Small Arms Review" in particular). And when I want to buy a notebook computer, I want Dell's website to show me an affordable ultraportable notebook - and not "cooking with garlic" tips or an in-depth review of .408 CheyTac.
Companies fail when they stop focusing on what the customer comes to them for.
The app update was rejected because "The objectionable content referenced ... is 'The Downward Spiral'.".
According to Reznor's app developer "we removed the song 'The Downward Spiral' from the server, hoping to appease apple and get this bug fix through."
the iPhone does not suck. Linux on the desktop however? Good luck with that.
Even when a user figures out that there's lots of free software just a few menu selections away, way too many of those gloriously free programs don't install properly, require some chain of obtuse non-automatic dependencies, or just disappear into the filesystem somewhere. So what if it's free if you can't find the app when installed? I'm a long-time professional geek that can figure this stuff out, but frankly if I have to figure it out then apparently the authors didn't make the user (me) the priority and I'll go elsewhere for apps that obviously work when installed.
The iPhone, however, puts an icon for your just-installed app right there on the screen. Easy.
So I return to the ongoing issue with free software: it takes money, usually a lot of it, to finish that last 5% of a program that is so vital to making it useful to the masses, and so boring to do that only money can motivate someone to do it.
For all the "bah humbug" blathering on this thread, methinks there's something to it.
Surely most of us geeks have noticed the difference in mental state & perception caused by 24FPS, 30FPS, 60FPS, 3:2 pulldown, and other differences in visual medium. Each causes a different psychological state, with some causing more of a stupor and others more a sense of real. 3D, done right, will lead to other mental effects. I don't think a major director experimenting with new technology would be BSing us about what it does to the viewer's mind.
Personally, I've seen one 3D IMAX film (something about Egypt) which unlike other "hey wow it's 3D!" movies really did give a deep sense of "being there". Move that effect to a full-blown bleeding-edge movie by a director known for pushing visual limits, and we may very well experience something new.
Now that Bolivia's water supply is safe from Dominic Greene, and 007 knows the political and geographic landscape there, we just need to know which thugs will now be out for the lithium supply.
"Quantum of Ford" next?
How about we let individuals and businesses decide where they're going to put their R&D money, not some ivory-tower bureaucrats who are firmly removed from reality?
Really: when it comes to deciding what to do with 3% of your income, don't you want YOU making that decision, instead of total strangers you don't know and who know you less and who are operating on non-sequitor ulterior motives?
The "Watchmen Motion Comic" DVD literally is frame-by-frame, word-for-word animation of the actual graphic novel. Nothing is missing.
It runs about 5 hours.
Best? Coding in my cubicle, from 4-11PM, trance/techno playing at moderate volume, and absolutely no interruptions. Productivity is amazing.
Unfortunately, for no articulable reason I'm required to work 8AM-5PM, interruptions are constant (walk-in/stand-up meetings happening constantly, PA system calling people, factory running across the hall, doors never stay closed. Productivity is ... well ... go figure.