You're blind if you can't see that people from different regions of this huge country have different needs, wants, and ideals. Most of us have both a national identity and a local identity.
That's comical, and in fact exactly the opposite of reality.
Microsoft operates with enormous margins, greater than practically any other company. If they eliminated the waste in their process their margins would be significantly higher. Why? Despite public perception, operating systems aren't any harder to write than other complex applications. Given the huge number of operating systems available, some widely considered superior, and given the margins of other software companies it can't possibly be because no competitors are capable of offering a comparable product for a lower price. It's because Windows is entrenched in many ways, one of which (and you could argue in the home market the only way) is the OEM process. OEM bundling insulates the consumer from the knowledge of the real price of Windows. Without the OEM process, most home computer users probably would not choose Windows over some less expensive operating system, and Microsoft would be forced to lower its price to maintain market share.
The rest of your points are solid, but that one is just about as far off as it gets.
...is this group led by ethernet equipment vendors? Perhaps vendors who are unhappy with the recent decline in equipment upgrades since people aren't upgrading from gigabit or even to gigabit from 100mbit in a way that helps their stock price sufficiently?
It seems to me that, considering the number of ports active out there, they're talking about a tiny amount of savings per port for a total investment that could have a much larger effect if spent elsewhere.
Hell, I bet more power is wasted by the power supplies, overly conservative fan controls, uncleaned air filters, shorted out UPS batteries that should have been replaced decades ago, overpowered CPUs, and crappily written firmware of the currently deployed switches than is consumed by transmission losses.
They're so keen on applying terminology for criminal theft of physical objects to copyright violation that we should do it back to them.
Let me give this a try:
This is like selling somebody a car, giving them a fake key in exchange for the money, and then selling the car to somebody else! They're kind enough to offer your money back, but they took your old car on trade, and they already melted it down for scrap.
There is a difference between being able to display 1080i and having a 1080i native resolution. LCDs have a physical number of rows of pixels, and aren't scanned like CRTs are. 760p and 1080p LCDs can display 1080i, but they're either 780 lines or 1080 lines. They're not interlaced.
Did you do any research before you bought that thing?
You do realize that those "bundles" you seem to suggest somehow make it less available are assembled by the resellers, right?
Selling the machine in a bundle is the same as charging a premium for the console. Every console ever has always been "readily available" from day one if you were willing to pay a premium.
Clearly you didn't look at the graphs from the parent if you actually think the 360 is outselling the PS3 week over week. It did for 2 weeks before Christmas, and that's it.
Your link show it sold out everywhere except for bundles.
Nice definition of "readily available".
Also, change "Wii" to "Xbox 360" on those charts and notice the difference in slope both in the US and in Japan.
I don't even have or want a PS3, but I'm tired of all this fanboy nonsense on Slashdot. You're not accomplishing anything other than providing a textbook example of "Flamebait".
From the perspective of the average consumer with no knowledge of DRM, or even which company owns which format you've got to ask... If that person has a 1080p HD television (and that will shortly be the majority of people with HD televisions since LCD TVs are getting cheap, 1080 is the buzz, and there is no such thing as a 1080i LCD), why would they buy a format that doesn't support the full resolution of your television?
HD-DVD needs to cut over to 1080p (both the players *and* the movies. ASAP, or the format is doomed.
Holy crap. How many morons are going to post a kneejerk response to my comment in this thread when it has already been discussed that trademarks are part of US criminal code and not merely constructs of a civil contract.
Next you'll be saying that copyrights and trademarks are the same thing.
Personally, I find the spectrum of good MH lighting less offensive than CF. You can get them in a wide variety of color temperatures these days, so they don't have to be as blue as they were traditionally... Of course if you buy some cheap high wattage bulb, you are likely to get something in the 20,000k color temperature range, which is way too blue.
I was going to write a snarky comment agreeing with the ban provided that it applies to Hollywood studio lighting, but I bet those guys don't use incadescent lights in high output applications.
I'd bet that given color and dimming requirements that they still do use incandescent in many if not most indoor situations.
That's funny...
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Billed as the 'first complete guide to writing for games', Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames [...]
That's funny.. The copy of "Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 Games" that I bought in 1993 claims right on the cover to be a "Complete guide to writing video games [...]".
There was no constitutional issue raised here. If forcing the blogger to talk was the only possible way to find out who leaked the trade secret, the judge probably would have sided with Apple. This wasn't a constitutional decision, it was a procedural decision.
Of course you're probably one of the people who holds the misconception that journalists have ever had the right to protect a source who broke the law. They never have.
Actually, journalists have been subpoenaed for sources and some have gone to jail for refusing for hundreds of years. See my other posts in this thread for a reference.
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did 9/11 happen to americans? or new yorkers?
Both.
You're blind if you can't see that people from different regions of this huge country have different needs, wants, and ideals. Most of us have both a national identity and a local identity.
That's real.
OEM bundling is what makes Windows affordable.
That's comical, and in fact exactly the opposite of reality.
Microsoft operates with enormous margins, greater than practically any other company. If they eliminated the waste in their process their margins would be significantly higher. Why? Despite public perception, operating systems aren't any harder to write than other complex applications. Given the huge number of operating systems available, some widely considered superior, and given the margins of other software companies it can't possibly be because no competitors are capable of offering a comparable product for a lower price. It's because Windows is entrenched in many ways, one of which (and you could argue in the home market the only way) is the OEM process. OEM bundling insulates the consumer from the knowledge of the real price of Windows. Without the OEM process, most home computer users probably would not choose Windows over some less expensive operating system, and Microsoft would be forced to lower its price to maintain market share.
The rest of your points are solid, but that one is just about as far off as it gets.
They could have aired Futurama after the game, or in a timeslot that didn't get preempted.
Why would you pay to produce a show you don't air? It's not like they have more new content than time in the day.
Somebody needs some lessons in boolean arithmetic.
...is this group led by ethernet equipment vendors? Perhaps vendors who are unhappy with the recent decline in equipment upgrades since people aren't upgrading from gigabit or even to gigabit from 100mbit in a way that helps their stock price sufficiently?
It seems to me that, considering the number of ports active out there, they're talking about a tiny amount of savings per port for a total investment that could have a much larger effect if spent elsewhere.
Hell, I bet more power is wasted by the power supplies, overly conservative fan controls, uncleaned air filters, shorted out UPS batteries that should have been replaced decades ago, overpowered CPUs, and crappily written firmware of the currently deployed switches than is consumed by transmission losses.
We can do better than that analogy.
They're so keen on applying terminology for criminal theft of physical objects to copyright violation that we should do it back to them.
Let me give this a try:
This is like selling somebody a car, giving them a fake key in exchange for the money, and then selling the car to somebody else! They're kind enough to offer your money back, but they took your old car on trade, and they already melted it down for scrap.
There. That's seems about comparable.
Based on your post it sounds like these people will have a Vista machine for three days and then they'll be hosed.
There is a difference between being able to display 1080i and having a 1080i native resolution. LCDs have a physical number of rows of pixels, and aren't scanned like CRTs are. 760p and 1080p LCDs can display 1080i, but they're either 780 lines or 1080 lines. They're not interlaced.
Did you do any research before you bought that thing?
You do realize that those "bundles" you seem to suggest somehow make it less available are assembled by the resellers, right?
Selling the machine in a bundle is the same as charging a premium for the console. Every console ever has always been "readily available" from day one if you were willing to pay a premium.
Clearly you didn't look at the graphs from the parent if you actually think the 360 is outselling the PS3 week over week. It did for 2 weeks before Christmas, and that's it.
Your link show it sold out everywhere except for bundles.
Nice definition of "readily available".
Also, change "Wii" to "Xbox 360" on those charts and notice the difference in slope both in the US and in Japan.
I don't even have or want a PS3, but I'm tired of all this fanboy nonsense on Slashdot. You're not accomplishing anything other than providing a textbook example of "Flamebait".
So, The players can't do 1080p yet... In other words, you've said that I'm completely correct, but used bold to imply that I'm not.
Thanks.
From the perspective of the average consumer with no knowledge of DRM, or even which company owns which format you've got to ask... If that person has a 1080p HD television (and that will shortly be the majority of people with HD televisions since LCD TVs are getting cheap, 1080 is the buzz, and there is no such thing as a 1080i LCD), why would they buy a format that doesn't support the full resolution of your television?
HD-DVD needs to cut over to 1080p (both the players *and* the movies. ASAP, or the format is doomed.
Let's word your statistic a little differently without making it any less true:
Sony changes PS3 sales target to 3 times the number of Xbox 360s sold over the same period.
Holy crap. How many morons are going to post a kneejerk response to my comment in this thread when it has already been discussed that trademarks are part of US criminal code and not merely constructs of a civil contract.
Next you'll be saying that copyrights and trademarks are the same thing.
Please, just go away.
Personally, I find the spectrum of good MH lighting less offensive than CF. You can get them in a wide variety of color temperatures these days, so they don't have to be as blue as they were traditionally... Of course if you buy some cheap high wattage bulb, you are likely to get something in the 20,000k color temperature range, which is way too blue.
It was December 23rd 2006.
Do you still have to hit F6 to install drivers, or can you load drivers from the screen that tells you it didn't find any storage devices?
I thought I was making a joke. I guess it wasn't that funny.
They're great if you don't mind the fact that they aren't even close to "instant on".
I was going to write a snarky comment agreeing with the ban provided that it applies to Hollywood studio lighting, but I bet those guys don't use incadescent lights in high output applications.
I'd bet that given color and dimming requirements that they still do use incandescent in many if not most indoor situations.
Billed as the 'first complete guide to writing for games', Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames [...]
That's funny.. The copy of "Borland Turbo C++ 3.0 Games" that I bought in 1993 claims right on the cover to be a "Complete guide to writing video games [...]".
There was no constitutional issue raised here. If forcing the blogger to talk was the only possible way to find out who leaked the trade secret, the judge probably would have sided with Apple. This wasn't a constitutional decision, it was a procedural decision.
Of course you're probably one of the people who holds the misconception that journalists have ever had the right to protect a source who broke the law. They never have.
Actually, journalists have been subpoenaed for sources and some have gone to jail for refusing for hundreds of years. See my other posts in this thread for a reference.
You're just plain wrong.
Not really. It's just that we don't actually have good federal whistleblower laws.
We should.
That just plain isn't true, and I don't know what made people start thinking that all of a sudden.