as long as that task isn't joining a Windows domain
So basically anything as long as you're only using it at home for personal stuff...
What windows business network doesn't have a domain controller these days? What percentage of windows users build their own PCs, but don't work from home ever? Plus this article touts these boxes for the typical corporate office.
XP home has such crippled networking functionality that it is absoultely unsuitable for even the most basic tasks involving a windows network.
For home use it's barely passable, but if you are going to use this machine in an office, or to work from home over a Windows VPN, save yourself the headache and don't even consider Home. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for even offering such crippleware.
Mine centered automatically... For about a month, but then the joystick wouldn't even move down and right, much less re-center.
That's about how long the buttons lasted too. Not to mention that the recessed reset, select, and start buttons were hard to push. Other than that It was a good controller though.:)
I don't see how being untrusting of black box voting machines is political in any way.
It's not. I'm untrusting of them too. Assuming fraud, and assuming the candidate you didn't vote for was a victim of fraud because of irregularities more easily associated with human error (as the story does) is political. They should take the machines and burn them as far as I'm concerned. There is nothing wrong with putting a big old X in the box next to your favorite candidate's name.
The only entity with access to enough voting machines to make any difference is either the state election commission
Unless BD-ROM starts getting picked up by a lot of PC and Consumer Electronics OEMs, and soon, the price is going to be high for a while.
I think that's BS. A lot of what makes BluRay player expensive is already included in the infrastructure of an HD console.
The format isn't even locked down,
Neither is the DVD format (!). It's locked down enough.
the "winner" of the HD-DVD/BD war *still* isn't clear cut!
That doesn't matter. Besides, the hardware components for the two will be cross compatable. The difference will be firmware-only.
MS and Nintendo are looking good to grab a lot of market share back from Sony this generation.
They'll grab some, sure. It's the developers who decide who gets the market share though. Customers buy the systems with the games they want. As long as the games are on PlayStation, the gamers are on PlayStation. It's why Sony won the last two generations. None of this hardware cost crap actually matters in terms of who "wins".
The price tag reported, though, is still probably accurate.
Oh, please. The article itself says why it's not accurate. It lists the memory price as the same for the 360, and the PS3, and then goes on to describe how the PS3 is the first to use the new, expensive XDR memory, while the 360 uses GDDR3 which was designed speciffically to be cheaper than DDR2.
Not only that, but they have component prices listed as if they were being sold with a profit margin. You can bet Sony isn't going to markup chips it sells to itself, and for third party chips, you can bet they're paying a lot less. Even the launch quantities of these boxes far surpass what normally qualifies as economies of scale.
I'd say they have the costs far too high for both machines in that article. Both machines will have sub-$100 manufacturing costs on the CPU very early on in the production life, for example. Also, the BD-ROM drive is probably going to end up being more like $70. The DVD drive in the 360 is even cheaper than the $20 quoted, etc...
The PS3 will be expensive... More expensive to build than the 360, but neither machine is as expensive as this over-rated Merryl-Lynch report that's been being passed around.
In one instance, the date discrepancy appeared when someone accessed the machine two minutes after the L&A test was completed
That seems fishy to me. Without accurate date records, how do they know it was two minutes later?
If the machine has a bad clock battery, the clock could have gotten reset when the machine was rebooted between the test and the record. (They do run windows, after all).
A skilled hacker would have altered the dates too. If this was malicious, it was still a moron.
professional
adj 1: engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or
means of livelihood;
A professional is somebody who gets paid to do something. That doesn't mean that they're qualified or competent. Also, ATMs are permanant, networked installations that are set up once, and tested before being put into service. Voting machines are set up and torn down at a moment's notice. Not only is there no massive financial incentive to get it right like there is with an ATM, but there are *way* more opportunities to make a mistake.
You're willing to blame the user for fraud, but not stupidity or mistakes?
It never ceases to amaze me how politics clouds judgement.
Or you could just file for a lein on some of their assets. Surprisingly, even disturbingly easy to get... Especially when you have a judicial ruling in your favor to wave around.
Not only will you have a check, but you'll have their lawyers on the phone begging you to cash it. You just have to be willing to do some paperwork, and maybe flying to some distant city hall...
If it's the game that everyone is expecting then, yes. For us it's about making a proper impact on the platform. It has to be something with huge significance, so we won't be rushed.'" If you know what that means, I would like to offer you a cookie, because I sure as heck don't.
It means they don't have a clue if they can finish it on time, but probably not because both of the previous games had historic delays... But please, please, please buy a 360, and don't wait for the PS3.
We already know from statements from Ballmer last year that Microsoft was looking at best case scenarios where the 360 would move out of the red in late 2007.
I bet they are counting marketing costs in that.
Think about what is in these things and compare it to what's in a $200 PC. Then keep in mind that they don't have to put all sorts of expensive things in there like a CPU socket, card mounted crap, etc... Plus they used GDDR3 which is cheaper than normal PC memory (and they didn't have to DIMM mount it, pay for the slot connectors, etc), and that they're making way more of these than the average budget PC maker does. The graphics hardware costs a little more in the 360, but everything else in the box is cheaper than a low cost PC with a mid-range CPU.
When you say "evidence" I think you mean "speculation", and I think it's wrong.
(For example, off pricewatch: AMD Athlon XP 2400; 256MB DDR; CD-RW DRIVE; 20GB HARD DRIVE; 64MB SVGA Adapter; 3D SOUND; 10-100 LAN; ATX MID TOWER 400Watt; $213.98 including shipping)
And then they sent an email to the bidders telling them that I was a software pirate.
Sounds like grounds for a libel suit. File it in small claims court. Say there was $3500 in damages. They won't even show up, and you'll win by default.
The 360 is being sold at a loss as well, and a fairly large loss.
Microsoft announced the BOM costs for the 360? When did they do that?
You're merely speculating. I'd be willing to bet (if I ever thought I could get real numbers) that they're losing way less on each unit than everybody thinks. I'd even bet they break even on the high end model.
People eat uranium every day. More uranium is probably ingested oraly by people living around coal burning plants than is released into the atmosphere by the plant itself.
Again a red herring. Only the material you breath in causes any signifigant level of harm. Any uranium you eat passes before if can cause much damage. Particles you breath in get lodged in there emitting alpha particles for years.
As you can see from studies on uranium toxicity, 0.63mg is the maximum amount of uranium considered "safe" to inhale in a year, while it's "safe" to ingest 31.5mg of uranium per year. I doubt people living near coal plants are eating 50 times as much uranium as they are inhaling.
People sell burnt copies of stuff all the time on Ebay. They explain it in the body what it is and how it is a backup and should only be used as such.
Yeah, now... Back then they were worried about getting sued out of their small business existance. Now they're worried about collecting as many listing, upgrade, and closing fees on every stupid-assed fraudulent, mis-categorized, or questionable item listing they can get people to pay for. They only pull auctions of burned things if it's from a company that can afford more lawyers than them now.... Essentially, they only pull pirated Microsoft stuff.
He knows that both are operating systems, and therefore they should cost way more than 10 dollars. Therefore, in his mind, both people are pirating software
Also, because rather than treat copyright infringement as a violent crime subject to immediate arrest, a proper investigation should be undertaken to make sure a law is being broken before an arrest is made. These aren't violent crimes, so there is no urgent need to get a guy selling CDs off the street. Take a few minutes/hours/days to do some research and make sure a law is actually being broken before you arrest somebody.
If they don't do this, then everybody who is falsely arrested should file suit against said enforcement agency until they get the point and start doing their job properly and in the best interests of the citizens.
Best you stay away from quarries then; and fields, and roads, and construction sites, and the seaside.. and deserts. Then you should be OK.
There's lots of reasons to stay away from quarries... As for the rest of that stuff, the type of dust that usually gets stirred up isn't usually from the types of soil that contain uranium. The uranium is usually contained in pebbles broken off of granite ledges.
It's been pointed out in these comments already, but 99.5% of the radioactive material burned from coal is caught by modern, manadtory, filters.
Leaving.5% of it in the air? Wonderful. Go read the air quality reports from the day of the east coast blackout a few years back. It could be like that *every day* if we used nukes instead.
The argument that burning coal produces more radioactivity than nuclear plants is pure FUD.
Good thing nobody makes that argument then. The argument is that it releases more radioactivity into the air, and it's pure fact.
Coal pollutes because its kinematic and chemical properties, which are very significant, far more so than any trace amounts of naturally occuring radioactivity.
I completely agree with that statement.
It's radioative properties are absolutely minimal, a mere punctuation mark on the long, long list of its other ill effects....but I think you're underplaying this. The effects of trace radioactive particulate in the air are well understood, and it's quite likely that the recent increase of lung cancer in non-smokers is due in part to coal. It doesn't take much airborne material to put the incidence at around 2% over 70 years. Admittedly, the uranium will settle out of the air much sooner than the rest of the particulate will, and only those within a few miles of a plant are probably affected, but *nobody* would be breathing in uranium if we weren't burning so much coal.
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Wouldn't that business network be supplying their own images of XP Pro? So why are you even talking about XP Home?
Did you read the article?
as long as that task isn't joining a Windows domain
So basically anything as long as you're only using it at home for personal stuff...
What windows business network doesn't have a domain controller these days? What percentage of windows users build their own PCs, but don't work from home ever? Plus this article touts these boxes for the typical corporate office.
XP home has such crippled networking functionality that it is absoultely unsuitable for even the most basic tasks involving a windows network.
For home use it's barely passable, but if you are going to use this machine in an office, or to work from home over a Windows VPN, save yourself the headache and don't even consider Home. Microsoft should be ashamed of themselves for even offering such crippleware.
Damn you!
Take the FF9 engine and pump some new plots into it, and we'll be all set.
I'm tired of playing a whole new "game" every time a buy a new game. It's like learning to read every time you pick up a book.
Hire some good writers and stop adding "features".
Mine centered automatically... For about a month, but then the joystick wouldn't even move down and right, much less re-center.
:)
That's about how long the buttons lasted too. Not to mention that the recessed reset, select, and start buttons were hard to push. Other than that It was a good controller though.
I don't see how being untrusting of black box voting machines is political in any way.
It's not. I'm untrusting of them too. Assuming fraud, and assuming the candidate you didn't vote for was a victim of fraud because of irregularities more easily associated with human error (as the story does) is political. They should take the machines and burn them as far as I'm concerned. There is nothing wrong with putting a big old X in the box next to your favorite candidate's name.
The only entity with access to enough voting machines to make any difference is either the state election commission
That's who I meant when I said "user".
Unless BD-ROM starts getting picked up by a lot of PC and Consumer Electronics OEMs, and soon, the price is going to be high for a while.
I think that's BS. A lot of what makes BluRay player expensive is already included in the infrastructure of an HD console.
The format isn't even locked down,
Neither is the DVD format (!). It's locked down enough.
the "winner" of the HD-DVD/BD war *still* isn't clear cut!
That doesn't matter. Besides, the hardware components for the two will be cross compatable. The difference will be firmware-only.
MS and Nintendo are looking good to grab a lot of market share back from Sony this generation.
They'll grab some, sure. It's the developers who decide who gets the market share though. Customers buy the systems with the games they want. As long as the games are on PlayStation, the gamers are on PlayStation. It's why Sony won the last two generations. None of this hardware cost crap actually matters in terms of who "wins".
while Sony as a rule does not
Where is that rule from?
The price tag reported, though, is still probably accurate.
Oh, please. The article itself says why it's not accurate. It lists the memory price as the same for the 360, and the PS3, and then goes on to describe how the PS3 is the first to use the new, expensive XDR memory, while the 360 uses GDDR3 which was designed speciffically to be cheaper than DDR2.
Not only that, but they have component prices listed as if they were being sold with a profit margin. You can bet Sony isn't going to markup chips it sells to itself, and for third party chips, you can bet they're paying a lot less. Even the launch quantities of these boxes far surpass what normally qualifies as economies of scale.
I'd say they have the costs far too high for both machines in that article. Both machines will have sub-$100 manufacturing costs on the CPU very early on in the production life, for example. Also, the BD-ROM drive is probably going to end up being more like $70. The DVD drive in the 360 is even cheaper than the $20 quoted, etc...
The PS3 will be expensive... More expensive to build than the 360, but neither machine is as expensive as this over-rated Merryl-Lynch report that's been being passed around.
In one instance, the date discrepancy appeared when someone accessed the machine two minutes after the L&A test was completed
That seems fishy to me. Without accurate date records, how do they know it was two minutes later?
If the machine has a bad clock battery, the clock could have gotten reset when the machine was rebooted between the test and the record. (They do run windows, after all).
A skilled hacker would have altered the dates too. If this was malicious, it was still a moron.
They're set up by professionals
professional
adj 1: engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or
means of livelihood;
A professional is somebody who gets paid to do something. That doesn't mean that they're qualified or competent. Also, ATMs are permanant, networked installations that are set up once, and tested before being put into service. Voting machines are set up and torn down at a moment's notice. Not only is there no massive financial incentive to get it right like there is with an ATM, but there are *way* more opportunities to make a mistake.
You're willing to blame the user for fraud, but not stupidity or mistakes?
It never ceases to amaze me how politics clouds judgement.
Well, if a moron can alter the date stamp on his votes
You assume much. I'd guess said moron just didn't set the clock right.
Not all HDMI inputs are HDCP compliant either.
Or is digg lagging the rest of the world by like 7 or 8 months now?
Seriously, all my friends with HDTVs and DVI monitors have been bitching about this for months.
Were the machines with wierd date stamps having hardware clock issues?
Probably more likely that they were having "moron operating the machine" issues.
Or you could just file for a lein on some of their assets. Surprisingly, even disturbingly easy to get... Especially when you have a judicial ruling in your favor to wave around.
Not only will you have a check, but you'll have their lawyers on the phone begging you to cash it. You just have to be willing to do some paperwork, and maybe flying to some distant city hall...
If it's the game that everyone is expecting then, yes. For us it's about making a proper impact on the platform. It has to be something with huge significance, so we won't be rushed.'" If you know what that means, I would like to offer you a cookie, because I sure as heck don't.
It means they don't have a clue if they can finish it on time, but probably not because both of the previous games had historic delays... But please, please, please buy a 360, and don't wait for the PS3.
They have to keep pimping PS3 so all the obnoxious 360 fanboys will keep their ad views up by posting poorly punctuated comments.
We already know from statements from Ballmer last year that Microsoft was looking at best case scenarios where the 360 would move out of the red in late 2007.
I bet they are counting marketing costs in that.
Think about what is in these things and compare it to what's in a $200 PC. Then keep in mind that they don't have to put all sorts of expensive things in there like a CPU socket, card mounted crap, etc... Plus they used GDDR3 which is cheaper than normal PC memory (and they didn't have to DIMM mount it, pay for the slot connectors, etc), and that they're making way more of these than the average budget PC maker does. The graphics hardware costs a little more in the 360, but everything else in the box is cheaper than a low cost PC with a mid-range CPU.
When you say "evidence" I think you mean "speculation", and I think it's wrong.
(For example, off pricewatch: AMD Athlon XP 2400; 256MB DDR; CD-RW DRIVE; 20GB HARD DRIVE; 64MB SVGA Adapter; 3D SOUND; 10-100 LAN; ATX MID TOWER 400Watt; $213.98 including shipping)
And then they sent an email to the bidders telling them that I was a software pirate.
Sounds like grounds for a libel suit. File it in small claims court. Say there was $3500 in damages. They won't even show up, and you'll win by default.
The 360 is being sold at a loss as well, and a fairly large loss.
Microsoft announced the BOM costs for the 360? When did they do that?
You're merely speculating. I'd be willing to bet (if I ever thought I could get real numbers) that they're losing way less on each unit than everybody thinks. I'd even bet they break even on the high end model.
People eat uranium every day. More uranium is probably ingested oraly by people living around coal burning plants than is released into the atmosphere by the plant itself.
Again a red herring. Only the material you breath in causes any signifigant level of harm. Any uranium you eat passes before if can cause much damage. Particles you breath in get lodged in there emitting alpha particles for years.
As you can see from studies on uranium toxicity, 0.63mg is the maximum amount of uranium considered "safe" to inhale in a year, while it's "safe" to ingest 31.5mg of uranium per year. I doubt people living near coal plants are eating 50 times as much uranium as they are inhaling.
People sell burnt copies of stuff all the time on Ebay. They explain it in the body what it is and how it is a backup and should only be used as such.
Yeah, now... Back then they were worried about getting sued out of their small business existance. Now they're worried about collecting as many listing, upgrade, and closing fees on every stupid-assed fraudulent, mis-categorized, or questionable item listing they can get people to pay for. They only pull auctions of burned things if it's from a company that can afford more lawyers than them now.... Essentially, they only pull pirated Microsoft stuff.
Can you blame him?
Yes. Why? Because this assumption is wrong:
He knows that both are operating systems, and therefore they should cost way more than 10 dollars. Therefore, in his mind, both people are pirating software
Also, because rather than treat copyright infringement as a violent crime subject to immediate arrest, a proper investigation should be undertaken to make sure a law is being broken before an arrest is made. These aren't violent crimes, so there is no urgent need to get a guy selling CDs off the street. Take a few minutes/hours/days to do some research and make sure a law is actually being broken before you arrest somebody.
If they don't do this, then everybody who is falsely arrested should file suit against said enforcement agency until they get the point and start doing their job properly and in the best interests of the citizens.
Best you stay away from quarries then; and fields, and roads, and construction sites, and the seaside.. and deserts. Then you should be OK.
.5% of it in the air? Wonderful. Go read the air quality reports from the day of the east coast blackout a few years back. It could be like that *every day* if we used nukes instead.
...but I think you're underplaying this. The effects of trace radioactive particulate in the air are well understood, and it's quite likely that the recent increase of lung cancer in non-smokers is due in part to coal. It doesn't take much airborne material to put the incidence at around 2% over 70 years. Admittedly, the uranium will settle out of the air much sooner than the rest of the particulate will, and only those within a few miles of a plant are probably affected, but *nobody* would be breathing in uranium if we weren't burning so much coal.
There's lots of reasons to stay away from quarries... As for the rest of that stuff, the type of dust that usually gets stirred up isn't usually from the types of soil that contain uranium. The uranium is usually contained in pebbles broken off of granite ledges.
It's been pointed out in these comments already, but 99.5% of the radioactive material burned from coal is caught by modern, manadtory, filters.
Leaving
The argument that burning coal produces more radioactivity than nuclear plants is pure FUD.
Good thing nobody makes that argument then. The argument is that it releases more radioactivity into the air, and it's pure fact.
Coal pollutes because its kinematic and chemical properties, which are very significant, far more so than any trace amounts of naturally occuring radioactivity.
I completely agree with that statement.
It's radioative properties are absolutely minimal, a mere punctuation mark on the long, long list of its other ill effects.