More specifically, one company has a history of announcing product to prevent their enterprise customers from buying the latest technology from upcoming competitors, and then never delivering it... Or delivering something substandard just as the up-and-coming competition runs out of funding.
That said, there's no reason to believe Windows Mobile 7 won't actually come out. It's just a version bump of an existing product. Also, Apple isn't in danger of running out of funding any time soon.
I have. I'd trade the e-ink for the ability to read web content on a quickly scrolling full color display though.
Of course, I'll fully admit I'm not the target audience. I'm not going to buy either device. I'd be mildly tempted if there wasn't an insistence that the hardware be bundled with a service infrastructure.
I'm struggling to see why the iPad has any potential to be a popular product if its going to be so limited.
Go look at the Kindle DX. It's been flying off the "shelves" at Amazon.
It's bigger, the same thickness, the same price, the same weight, has less storage, is similarly non-expandable, and can't play video. Sure... it has e-Ink for a display... But really, why would you buy a Kindle DX when you can have an iPad for the same price? (The "free" wireless isn't a good reason. It's not really free when you dig in. Free wireless only if you're accessing paid content, essentially. I'd rather have the WiFi, personally.)
Now, I'm not sure why anybody would want a Kindle... But people have been buying them. And those type of people will be buying the iPad instead.
Since this CAD program doesn't have modern features that commercial CAD programs just started adding in the last 15 years, it's never going to work to design something that was already done over four decades ago.
I simply wouldn't buy such a car. Holes? Really? You know what's going to rust out first.
Anyway, every dealership around here puts the crap on when the cars arrive on the lot. And I don't trust anybody to do a damage free job of removing stuff.
Every car I've ever bought new has needed an immediate ad-ware removal (bumper sticker & license plate frame).
Almost all of them, in my opinion, also needed an immediate brake pad replacement as well. Most people are satisfied with the crap that comes on there from the factory, though, even though they spend the first 20k miles scraping gunk off their wheels from the crappy pads, without even getting very good performance in exchange.
Many people buy a new car, and promptly shell out for "dealer options", such as rust proofing, scotch guard, that newish transparent film stuff that is the new version of a car bra, extended warranties, etc...
Really... Buying a new car isn't much different from buying a computer.
Slashdot is pro Linux and Apple, and very anti Microsoft for example.
It really gets me that people only identify bias that they don't agree with
You've never been to the games section, have you? It's *very* pro-microsoft. Or maybe you really get yourself for not identifying the biases that that you agree with?
The main tool out there to do that is from Black Duck, and it's an unmitigated piece of trash that is designed for the sole purpose of scamming stupid CTOs and CEOs.
Their piece of crap database isn't even audited, so it attributes tons of code to people who stole it themselves and lists it under the wrong license. Then, if that wasn't enough, it produces so many false positives that anybody tasked with running it sets it up just enough to appease their incompetent boss while routing the results directly to/dev/null.
If ever a story deserved the "itsatrap" tag, it's this one.
All Microsoft had to do was remove the offending code. Instead they built themselves a 1st party case study in how the GPL is a virus that forces companies to give up their intellectual property.
Have you ever considered that they're doing you a favor? People who get family domain names based on their own name are usually the worst combination of dorky and egotistical. Do yourself a favor and register something creative instead.
I'll give you a hint. The company is referred to with a two letter acronym that starts with an "H". They've spun off all but one of their best divisions over the last decade, and they're about to fold their printer division (The last that makes anything innovative or of any quality) into the division that makes their worst-in-class PCs. They also just bought 3Com.
That only works with low turn-out or outright election fraud. We don't have the latter, so the answer is "The electorate is dumb". If they were smart they'd go vote.
In the recent debate he claimed there was no evidence he was corrupt. I guess this show's it's 'cause he deletes most of it...
When confronted with the fact that he sold city property to two of his friends for really cheap, he said that it was "only two out of hundreds of deals". I guess it's OK to break the law if you only do it a couple percent of the time?
Best part? He's going to win again.
Seems to me that the bigger the city, the more stupid the voters are...
Developers to Management: "Wait, we've heard that marketing says the game has 5 different skill levels and 150 game levels, and the real numbers are 3 and 100 respectively. Also contrary to what they've been saying, we only have a Playstation version, not an XBOX 360 version" Management: "Who cares? We'll have sold 3 million copies before the first one gets unwrapped on Christmas, and we don't accept returns! We can say the rest is coming in a patch. And when we finish it we'll call it an expansion!" Developers: "We're all going to hell".
Incidentally, EA bought the rights in response to 2K gaining significant market share on Madden. Additionally, 2K had started to sell their annual edition for $20 (Half of what Madden cost at the time). Rather than enter into a price-war, EA decided they could screw everybody out of their money by making a deal.
Sports games are the ones with the lowest overall development costs for EA. They get to re-use 90%+ of the assets and code from the previous year and get to charge full price. All they need to pay is marketing and licensing. It's a perfect market for a price war, and you can only sustain high prices by changing the rules.
I'm not offended by ads. I'm offended by hypocrisy.
You say you did it so that you wouldn't have to repeat yourself, but you're still repeating yourself. Your goal seems to be driving traffic to your blog, and not reducing the need to repeat yourself as you state.
And why? Who are you? You're not an authority. You, like me, are some random idiot on the internet.
I got tired of repeating myself on Slashdot without cashing in, so I made a blog full of ads and posted there. Now I can repeat myself multiple times in the same article, but at least I'll be shamelessly self promoting at the same time.
Fixed that for you.
Oh, and that version of the Vostok ice core graph you included is horrendously misleading. If you don't overlay the two graphs on top of each other you can easily be fooled into thinking the data suggests that increased atmospheric CO2 lead to higher temperatures. When you do overlay the charts, it becomes clear that the increase in temperature slightly preceded the increase in CO2 in each cycle, including this one.
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Who's going to be the early adopter of that? You want to be the person stuck with the low-res neural implant when the new ones come out in 6-months?
More specifically, one company has a history of announcing product to prevent their enterprise customers from buying the latest technology from upcoming competitors, and then never delivering it... Or delivering something substandard just as the up-and-coming competition runs out of funding.
That said, there's no reason to believe Windows Mobile 7 won't actually come out. It's just a version bump of an existing product. Also, Apple isn't in danger of running out of funding any time soon.
I have. I'd trade the e-ink for the ability to read web content on a quickly scrolling full color display though.
Of course, I'll fully admit I'm not the target audience. I'm not going to buy either device. I'd be mildly tempted if there wasn't an insistence that the hardware be bundled with a service infrastructure.
I'm struggling to see why the iPad has any potential to be a popular product if its going to be so limited.
Go look at the Kindle DX. It's been flying off the "shelves" at Amazon.
It's bigger, the same thickness, the same price, the same weight, has less storage, is similarly non-expandable, and can't play video. Sure... it has e-Ink for a display... But really, why would you buy a Kindle DX when you can have an iPad for the same price? (The "free" wireless isn't a good reason. It's not really free when you dig in. Free wireless only if you're accessing paid content, essentially. I'd rather have the WiFi, personally.)
Now, I'm not sure why anybody would want a Kindle... But people have been buying them. And those type of people will be buying the iPad instead.
tftp said:
Wait, what?
99.9%? Given that Nintendo has the current market-leading gaming platform, I find it difficult to believe that it's anywhere near that high.
I've never come across a new car where the dealer ad was affixed using non-factory-drilled holes.
I simply wouldn't buy such a car. Holes? Really? You know what's going to rust out first.
Anyway, every dealership around here puts the crap on when the cars arrive on the lot. And I don't trust anybody to do a damage free job of removing stuff.
Every car I've ever bought new has needed an immediate ad-ware removal (bumper sticker & license plate frame).
Almost all of them, in my opinion, also needed an immediate brake pad replacement as well. Most people are satisfied with the crap that comes on there from the factory, though, even though they spend the first 20k miles scraping gunk off their wheels from the crappy pads, without even getting very good performance in exchange.
Many people buy a new car, and promptly shell out for "dealer options", such as rust proofing, scotch guard, that newish transparent film stuff that is the new version of a car bra, extended warranties, etc...
Really... Buying a new car isn't much different from buying a computer.
Slashdot is pro Linux and Apple, and very anti Microsoft for example.
It really gets me that people only identify bias that they don't agree with
You've never been to the games section, have you? It's *very* pro-microsoft. Or maybe you really get yourself for not identifying the biases that that you agree with?
The main tool out there to do that is from Black Duck, and it's an unmitigated piece of trash that is designed for the sole purpose of scamming stupid CTOs and CEOs.
Their piece of crap database isn't even audited, so it attributes tons of code to people who stole it themselves and lists it under the wrong license. Then, if that wasn't enough, it produces so many false positives that anybody tasked with running it sets it up just enough to appease their incompetent boss while routing the results directly to /dev/null.
Far, far from awesome.
If ever a story deserved the "itsatrap" tag, it's this one.
All Microsoft had to do was remove the offending code. Instead they built themselves a 1st party case study in how the GPL is a virus that forces companies to give up their intellectual property.
I think one is justified in also blaming marketing directors
Removed the redundancy from that for you...
Have you ever considered that they're doing you a favor? People who get family domain names based on their own name are usually the worst combination of dorky and egotistical. Do yourself a favor and register something creative instead.
I'll give you a hint. The company is referred to with a two letter acronym that starts with an "H". They've spun off all but one of their best divisions over the last decade, and they're about to fold their printer division (The last that makes anything innovative or of any quality) into the division that makes their worst-in-class PCs. They also just bought 3Com.
Only on the slim PS3s.
From the linked PDF:
Highlights of the study:
Excluding âoeRed Ring of Deathâ failures
We do vote, and we vote for the mayor.
According to NPR, the turnout for the last mayoral election was 17%. His previous run the turnout was 26%. What was that again about voting?
That only works with low turn-out or outright election fraud. We don't have the latter, so the answer is "The electorate is dumb". If they were smart they'd go vote.
In the recent debate he claimed there was no evidence he was corrupt. I guess this show's it's 'cause he deletes most of it...
When confronted with the fact that he sold city property to two of his friends for really cheap, he said that it was "only two out of hundreds of deals". I guess it's OK to break the law if you only do it a couple percent of the time?
Best part? He's going to win again.
Seems to me that the bigger the city, the more stupid the voters are...
You screwed up that last part:
Incidentally, EA bought the rights in response to 2K gaining significant market share on Madden. Additionally, 2K had started to sell their annual edition for $20 (Half of what Madden cost at the time). Rather than enter into a price-war, EA decided they could screw everybody out of their money by making a deal.
Sports games are the ones with the lowest overall development costs for EA. They get to re-use 90%+ of the assets and code from the previous year and get to charge full price. All they need to pay is marketing and licensing. It's a perfect market for a price war, and you can only sustain high prices by changing the rules.
They use to have an NFL title. They probably dropped it because Madden is just that much better
They dropped it because EA secured exclusive rights in 2004, giving them an actual monopoly on NFL video games, and forcing 2K to abandon theirs.
Blitz: The League is *not* an NFL game.
And I'm sorry if you're offended by ads.
I'm not offended by ads. I'm offended by hypocrisy.
You say you did it so that you wouldn't have to repeat yourself, but you're still repeating yourself. Your goal seems to be driving traffic to your blog, and not reducing the need to repeat yourself as you state.
And why? Who are you? You're not an authority. You, like me, are some random idiot on the internet.
I got tired of repeating myself on Slashdot without cashing in, so I made a blog full of ads and posted there. Now I can repeat myself multiple times in the same article, but at least I'll be shamelessly self promoting at the same time.
Fixed that for you.
Oh, and that version of the Vostok ice core graph you included is horrendously misleading. If you don't overlay the two graphs on top of each other you can easily be fooled into thinking the data suggests that increased atmospheric CO2 lead to higher temperatures. When you do overlay the charts, it becomes clear that the increase in temperature slightly preceded the increase in CO2 in each cycle, including this one.