To get an Xbox 360 that is feature competitive (elite or not), you're going to be paying within $50 of the price of the current PS3.
True -- but that only matters if you actually WANT all of the features that the PS3 has. It's not a cogent comparison for those of us that don't care a whit about running Linux or downloading PSP content.
And you'll need to spend extra money for a [Xbox 360] HD-DVD box (if that's your thing).
And it it's not your thing, you don't have to pay for it! I can't argue that the PS3's integrated solution doesn't have its benefits, but the same is true of the Xbox's modular solution.
go for the Wii first unless you have a big PS2 game selection, in which case the PS3 will probably be a better value.
If you have a big PS2 game selection, you probably own a PS2 console already. And if you don't, you can buy one for 1/4 the price of a PS3. It's not a very persuasive selling point for the PS3.
other pathologies (such as women who MUST leave at office closing time rather than being able to work overtime like the rest of high tech).
I put it to you that the real pathology here is the men that are unwilling to leave the workplace at the end of working time, and that it's not unique to India.
The result is that you end up with a much faster Mainframe than IBM can build.
Not only much faster, but also much less failure-proof!
I'm almost tempted to let the companies that think running emulated mainframe apps on commodity PC hardware is a good idea go ahead and shoot their toes off; but ultimately, it's the integrity of MY motor vehicle registrations, airline reservations and bank accounts that hang in the balance.
You still use tmobiles network. The call doesn't magically travel across the country and terminate at another phone.
Depends on what you mean by "tmobiles network".
Surely the new service will require some involvement of T-Mobile servers and network infrastructure on the public internet: to authenticate your handset, to send call data through an IP-to-POTS gateway when the person you're calling is not also a HotSpot@Home customer, etc.
But use of T-Mobile's GSM cell towers and satellites--their network, if you will--would be much decreased.
Maybe it was better components, or simply nostalgia, but I thought it had a better sound quality that most CD players these days.
Not unreasonable. Those early CD decks had to sound great and work flawlessly, or nobody would adopt the format. And with the players retailing for hundreds and hundreds of dollars, they damn better well sound good!
CD players today are thrown together from $10 worth of commodity parts. If the hardware breaks or just sucks, you toss it and buy a new one. How else are you going to listen to the 500 discs you already own?
Hell the job I left 2 years ago is STILL open because they refuse to pay for what the position demands and only get under qualified people because of the pay offered.
If the company can get by for 2 years without anybody doing that job, the job can't be all that important.
(In the eyes of the management, at least. Who knows if they actually understand the company's needs in the first place, though.)
whether some exec in the Vice-President's office lied about an investigation in which a crime may or may not have actually been committed (no one was ever charged)
No one was ever charged BECAUSE SCOOTER LIBBY LIED AND OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE.
If he and the rest of the men and women involved had been open and honest about what had happened--as should be expected of any decent human being, not just of those we allow to serve in our government--there may very well have been proof of a crime.
Either that, or they're just using their pool of hundreds of millions of users with tens of millions different hardware/software configurations in order to collect bug data. That's really the most obvious and the most likely answer.
I don't participate in beta testing programs without being compensated for my time and resources.
If Microsoft wants to collect data about MY hardware and files, they need to ask me first, and they need to pay for the privilege.
What a strange world he must live in if he thinks we actually _WANT_ everyone to know everything we do and to search all information that's available.
Oh, he's under no pretense that YOU want any of that. He thinks that there are businesses that would pay his company a basket full of dollar signs because THEY want to search all information that's available about who you are and what you do, regardless of what you want. And he's right.
Seriously this not 3G crap is getting old. Its not 3G because in the US 3G is NOT READY YET.
I live in a major US city -- large enough to be home to TWO Apple Stores -- and you damn well better believe I'M 3G ready.
Which is why I got myself a Helio Ocean instead of an iPhone. I get a 3G EV-DO signal almost everywhere that cellular service is available, and fallback to 1x regular data seamlessly in the few places where EV-DO isn't.
My area is ready for 3G NOW. It would be cruel of a cellular carrier to deny me the ability to use that service until the towers out in soybean country that serve 3 simultaneous users have been upgraded to match
It hasn't been that long since Paris Hilton's cell got hacked and everyone got to see what she kept on her phone
Paris' phone was a Sidekick; all the PIM/PDA data on those devices is actually stored on internet-networked servers, and synchronized with the handset as necessary. There is also a web interface to the same data; someone simply learned her password and accessed the data through the web interface.
No actual cellular system hacking took place; it was just basic social engineering.
There have been reports that Daniel Benoit, the 7-year-old boy murdered by his pro-wrestler father Chris Benoit over the weekend, suffered from fragile X syndrome.
While it would be irresponsible to speculate whether the boy's (unconfirmed) condition had any relation to the horrible acts... I'll do it anyway, because I'll be damned if the media's speculation that Chris had "roid rage" was any less irresponsible or harmful.
If Chris Benoit took his son's life because he felt it was more merciful than allowing to live with this condition, it is an awful, awful irony that news of hope of a cure has come so immediately after the tragedy.
it seems as though those people who have actually *used* it seem to *like* it.
This is true, but reviewers who received demo units also did not have to pay $600 to obtain the device, nor sign a contract obligating them to pay $1400+ to AT&T Wireless.
I always expected the iPhone to be a great device, but had reservations about whether it is a good enough value at the prices it is being offered at. This round of pre-release reviews does nothing to sway my opinion.
All these idiots yapping on their cellphones while they're driving make driving a lot more hazardous for the few of us left who actually know what we're doing.
Those idiots would be idiots whether or not they had a cellphone.
Surely listening to the radio or talking to a passenger must be nearly as deleterious to driver concentration as mobile phone usage is. How come there's no push to outlaw those things?
video games cost ten to twenty dollars more than they did just one generation ago.
After having stagnant pricing for 10-15 years. In 1990, a premier console title might cost you $50, and a budget title $25. In 2005, same thing. A price hike was overdue.
It's worth considering also that the cost of producing a video game has increased. It's cheaper to make a character out of 32x32 pixel art than it is to build a 3D model and textures that look good at every possible size onscreen.
while they have gone up in resolution, they haven't gone up in fun.
That's debatable. A modern RPG or adventure game is expected to take up to 100 hours to complete. Remember the Legend of Zelda? Speed-runners can blast through the whole game in about half an hour.
Can this bring to an end the theory the phones are, in fact subsidized?
I don't see why it should. The iPhone service pricing seems pretty much on par with similar offerings for other handsets and carriers (except Verizon, who deigns to charge two arms, a leg, and several teeth).
The carriers' goal is to get as much money from each service contract as they can. Maybe in cases where the handset cost is subsidized, the carrier doesn't have much of a profit margin; but that should not be taken to mean that a non-subsidized handset would mean the carrier would charge less for service. They'd continue to charge what everyone else is charging, and just keep as profit whatever doesn't go towards handset subsidies.
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$rant = "Stop using SKU in everyday conversation."
What term would you have us use instead? "Model"? "Version"? "Edition"? None of those terms have as clear and unambiguous a meaning as SKU does.
It's hard to justify this sort of expenditure for a twelve-year-old...
A twelve-year-old boy is probably old enough to mow lawns, run errands, etc. to earn his own income.
It shouldn't take him much of that to understand how much money $500 actually is.
Columbia doesn't get it until the 20th of July, for example.
That's bullshit. There's no reason that it should take THAT long for the movie to make it from the theaters of downtown Manhattan up to 110th Street!
have the crybabies complaining ever priced a new laptop battery? $100+++, and that's just a simple pop-in replacement.
I can't believe that a new battery for my Chevy is going to cost me sixty bucks! I can get off-brand AAAs at the discount store for 4/$1!
To get an Xbox 360 that is feature competitive (elite or not), you're going to be paying within $50 of the price of the current PS3.
True -- but that only matters if you actually WANT all of the features that the PS3 has. It's not a cogent comparison for those of us that don't care a whit about running Linux or downloading PSP content.
And you'll need to spend extra money for a [Xbox 360] HD-DVD box (if that's your thing).
And it it's not your thing, you don't have to pay for it! I can't argue that the PS3's integrated solution doesn't have its benefits, but the same is true of the Xbox's modular solution.
go for the Wii first unless you have a big PS2 game selection, in which case the PS3 will probably be a better value.
If you have a big PS2 game selection, you probably own a PS2 console already. And if you don't, you can buy one for 1/4 the price of a PS3. It's not a very persuasive selling point for the PS3.
While it still may be more than the 360, it's hardly what I would call a "bare bone" console.
How many games come with it? Controllers? Accessories? HDMI cables?
translation: We don't want to pay American employees what they're worth, so we're going somewhere else.
Translation of your translation: DEY TUK ER JERBS!
other pathologies (such as women who MUST leave at office closing time rather than being able to work overtime like the rest of high tech).
I put it to you that the real pathology here is the men that are unwilling to leave the workplace at the end of working time, and that it's not unique to India.
The result is that you end up with a much faster Mainframe than IBM can build.
Not only much faster, but also much less failure-proof!
I'm almost tempted to let the companies that think running emulated mainframe apps on commodity PC hardware is a good idea go ahead and shoot their toes off; but ultimately, it's the integrity of MY motor vehicle registrations, airline reservations and bank accounts that hang in the balance.
You still use tmobiles network. The call doesn't magically travel across the country and terminate at another phone.
Depends on what you mean by "tmobiles network".
Surely the new service will require some involvement of T-Mobile servers and network infrastructure on the public internet: to authenticate your handset, to send call data through an IP-to-POTS gateway when the person you're calling is not also a HotSpot@Home customer, etc.
But use of T-Mobile's GSM cell towers and satellites--their network, if you will--would be much decreased.
Maybe it was better components, or simply nostalgia, but I thought it had a better sound quality that most CD players these days.
Not unreasonable. Those early CD decks had to sound great and work flawlessly, or nobody would adopt the format. And with the players retailing for hundreds and hundreds of dollars, they damn better well sound good!
CD players today are thrown together from $10 worth of commodity parts. If the hardware breaks or just sucks, you toss it and buy a new one. How else are you going to listen to the 500 discs you already own?
NOP medicines.
Could be a good investment. With the number of clinical studies that go on, there's always going to be a market for placebo pills.
Hell the job I left 2 years ago is STILL open because they refuse to pay for what the position demands and only get under qualified people because of the pay offered.
If the company can get by for 2 years without anybody doing that job, the job can't be all that important.
(In the eyes of the management, at least. Who knows if they actually understand the company's needs in the first place, though.)
whether some exec in the Vice-President's office lied about an investigation in which a crime may or may not have actually been committed (no one was ever charged)
No one was ever charged BECAUSE SCOOTER LIBBY LIED AND OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE.
If he and the rest of the men and women involved had been open and honest about what had happened--as should be expected of any decent human being, not just of those we allow to serve in our government--there may very well have been proof of a crime.
Either that, or they're just using their pool of hundreds of millions of users with tens of millions different hardware/software configurations in order to collect bug data.
That's really the most obvious and the most likely answer.
I don't participate in beta testing programs without being compensated for my time and resources.
If Microsoft wants to collect data about MY hardware and files, they need to ask me first, and they need to pay for the privilege.
What a strange world he must live in if he thinks we actually _WANT_ everyone to know everything we do and to search all information that's available.
Oh, he's under no pretense that YOU want any of that. He thinks that there are businesses that would pay his company a basket full of dollar signs because THEY want to search all information that's available about who you are and what you do, regardless of what you want. And he's right.
I was afraid we wouldn't see a single iPhone advertisement...I mean article today...
What better advertising for the iPhone could there be than Apple's CEO complaining that the data rate is too slow?
my fears have been relived...
I'm sorry you even had to live them once, much less twice.
Seriously this not 3G crap is getting old. Its not 3G because in the US 3G is NOT READY YET.
I live in a major US city -- large enough to be home to TWO Apple Stores -- and you damn well better believe I'M 3G ready.
Which is why I got myself a Helio Ocean instead of an iPhone. I get a 3G EV-DO signal almost everywhere that cellular service is available, and fallback to 1x regular data seamlessly in the few places where EV-DO isn't.
My area is ready for 3G NOW. It would be cruel of a cellular carrier to deny me the ability to use that service until the towers out in soybean country that serve 3 simultaneous users have been upgraded to match
It hasn't been that long since Paris Hilton's cell got hacked and everyone got to see what she kept on her phone
Paris' phone was a Sidekick; all the PIM/PDA data on those devices is actually stored on internet-networked servers, and synchronized with the handset as necessary. There is also a web interface to the same data; someone simply learned her password and accessed the data through the web interface.
No actual cellular system hacking took place; it was just basic social engineering.
Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
There have been reports that Daniel Benoit, the 7-year-old boy murdered by his pro-wrestler father Chris Benoit over the weekend, suffered from fragile X syndrome.
While it would be irresponsible to speculate whether the boy's (unconfirmed) condition had any relation to the horrible acts... I'll do it anyway, because I'll be damned if the media's speculation that Chris had "roid rage" was any less irresponsible or harmful.
If Chris Benoit took his son's life because he felt it was more merciful than allowing to live with this condition, it is an awful, awful irony that news of hope of a cure has come so immediately after the tragedy.
it seems as though those people who have actually *used* it seem to *like* it.
This is true, but reviewers who received demo units also did not have to pay $600 to obtain the device, nor sign a contract obligating them to pay $1400+ to AT&T Wireless.
I always expected the iPhone to be a great device, but had reservations about whether it is a good enough value at the prices it is being offered at. This round of pre-release reviews does nothing to sway my opinion.
All these idiots yapping on their cellphones while they're driving make driving a lot more hazardous for the few of us left who actually know what we're doing.
Those idiots would be idiots whether or not they had a cellphone.
Surely listening to the radio or talking to a passenger must be nearly as deleterious to driver concentration as mobile phone usage is. How come there's no push to outlaw those things?
video games cost ten to twenty dollars more than they did just one generation ago.
After having stagnant pricing for 10-15 years. In 1990, a premier console title might cost you $50, and a budget title $25. In 2005, same thing. A price hike was overdue.
It's worth considering also that the cost of producing a video game has increased. It's cheaper to make a character out of 32x32 pixel art than it is to build a 3D model and textures that look good at every possible size onscreen.
while they have gone up in resolution, they haven't gone up in fun.
That's debatable. A modern RPG or adventure game is expected to take up to 100 hours to complete. Remember the Legend of Zelda? Speed-runners can blast through the whole game in about half an hour.
Can this bring to an end the theory the phones are, in fact subsidized?
I don't see why it should. The iPhone service pricing seems pretty much on par with similar offerings for other handsets and carriers (except Verizon, who deigns to charge two arms, a leg, and several teeth).
The carriers' goal is to get as much money from each service contract as they can. Maybe in cases where the handset cost is subsidized, the carrier doesn't have much of a profit margin; but that should not be taken to mean that a non-subsidized handset would mean the carrier would charge less for service. They'd continue to charge what everyone else is charging, and just keep as profit whatever doesn't go towards handset subsidies.