EULAs are not legal and binding. Agreements can contain all sorts of drivel so clicking that agree button does not entitle EA to your soul, even if they write it in the document. Sorry.
I guess if you want impractical, you could make a plane out of a non-newtonian fluid. I can imagine making a plane out of custard. It'd stay together if you flew it fast enough. All you need is a mach-1 capable plane-shaped custard mould and one of those refueling planes full of the stuff.
On the thought of making planes out of something strong and non-metal, I wonder what the feasibility of carbon fiber (and carbon nano-tubes?) is. I admit I know nothing about these materials besides their press-release descriptions.
I'm not entirely convinced this is aimed at upgraders, apart from bleeding edge users but seems to be more for drawing in the second round of buyers. Those that wanted the camera feature, those that have seen what competitors have produced and are now making their purchase decision. There seems to be a minor price reduction on the existing IP1 too, £329 for the 16Gig is showing at time of writing on the UK store, though the IP2 is not listed there yet. No doubt there's so much stock of the IP1 that a price drop will cause more fence sitters to buy in at the older model if they decide they don't want the newest.
It's a nice tactic and these guys really are the pro marketeers. They could sell water to fish.
This follows (loosely) Intel's tick - tock model and doesn't overwhelm the consumer too much allowing production methods to be refined to lower cost for the next tick product whilst still staying in a good market position with the tock item.
No, it doesn't. It's at ~0K and once it hits that point the atoms become essentially still, aligning and allowing it to pass through the solid container. As Pratchett says: "Because of Quantum". Whilst that video is a short clip, if you watch the recent BBC Horizon episode - "What is one degree?" (I believe it was that episode). Unfortunately I don't know the quantum theory of superfluids to explain this any further but that is my understanding of it. Atomic alignment allowing one thing to pass another.
[trollface] Just do it yourself. Buy the paper-book, find the ebook. Problem publishing industry? [/trollface]
It's not like they're missing out on money, I quite like paper copies of books, but I'll be damned if I want to carry a library of reference books from my shelf to my OH's so I'll just cope with reading them in whateverformat in Preview. Also, I'd be quite happy to buy an ebook off my favorite authors website for $reasonable_price, and I can almost bet that $reasonable_price >> $revenue_from_publisher. Drop publishers, keep editers. Sorted.
Make good of your last breath Nokia, because if you screw this up, you'll be thrown to the sharks. Innovate or die. Lots of competition around to step in now, this ain't 1990.
Gamers, generally don't want to be able to tweak their hardware. I'm a PC gamer, always have been, but given the market share of console gamers, what's this tweaking we're talking about. Last I heard, 360s bant you if you tweaked them, and PS3s sue you if you look at them funny. Most consumers want plug and play hardware. PC gamers generally also fall into this category, those few of us that actually fiddle are a very very small minority of consumers.
If I was to say who was Apple's direct competitor in the gaming market as a newcomer, it's not Sony, it's not Microsoft, it's king of the casuals, Nintendo. The realms that Nintendo exists in in the eastern market, and the legacy that is Sega is nothing like what the Westerners see. The DS is criminally popular in the east. This is what the phone market of the West is entering into in a way that portable handhelds over here never quite made. It's the same region the Wii is sitting in, and where something like the (for want of a better word) iPlay would go.
If there was a company who had the capital, investors and technology backing to produce a low cost high impact technology, it's going to be someone like Apple. Most tech companies are followers, not innovators. They generally follow the herd and play it safe with product creation. Development for the big boys is expensive. Last I heard, it costs a small fortune to dev for the 360/ps3. Bedroom games makers can't hope to enter markets like this. It's just not worth the competition.
I don't know much about Nintendo's development accesibility, but seeing as they've always had alot simpler, lower cost products in their range, I'd think it was cheaper and easier to get into. What's the going rate for a Wii these days, $150? You've got an AppleTV at $99. I know it's weaker, a more specific product would no doubt have a few hardware tweaks to fit it's placement. But given the number of iDevices kicking around, you've got a potential controller in the users hands already. Who knows where something like this could go, but marketing money can make lead into gold. A little accidental developer support and coders will run wild. A $99 dev kit (aTV) is not really a big cost for most coders.
Nah most consumers will be completely oblivious, and as stated, will not affect that many people. OEMs will just not use/block off the faulty ports and carry on as normal. The faulty boards for consumer space (system builders) will probably only count for a microscopic number of boards made at the start of production and will just get recalled and thrown at OEMs for closed-box systems. System builders really don't count for that many sales, and they're really the few that care. As long as the OEMs can cope with it, which they can, all will be fine.
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Small claims is a great place for protecting the consumer over here. I'm very glad we have it.
EULAs are not legal and binding. Agreements can contain all sorts of drivel so clicking that agree button does not entitle EA to your soul, even if they write it in the document. Sorry.
I guess if you want impractical, you could make a plane out of a non-newtonian fluid. I can imagine making a plane out of custard. It'd stay together if you flew it fast enough. All you need is a mach-1 capable plane-shaped custard mould and one of those refueling planes full of the stuff.
On the thought of making planes out of something strong and non-metal, I wonder what the feasibility of carbon fiber (and carbon nano-tubes?) is. I admit I know nothing about these materials besides their press-release descriptions.
Well when the engines turn off, they effectively fly like they're made out of either.
Just patent troll them instead. It's like inventing, but uses more lawyer and less moral in the money recipe.
[/jokes]
I can imagine this now:
[Man tries to take FBI tracker onto plane]
[X-Ray machine detects unusual item]
[Airport FBI Agent 1 attending x-ray machines draws gun at passenger with tracker]
"FBI: Get down on the ground! That's a bomb"
[FBI Agent 2 following the tracker]
"FBI Get down on the ground! That's not a bomb. It's..err.."
[FBI Agent 1 spins to see man pointing gun at him]
[Both FBI Agents startle and shoot the other]
...
[America Implodes]
That good then?
I dunno, most cars in England have a manual gearbox and are the preferred way to drive over here...
That's no moon...
Time to find them, and then for the crowds to scream "shopped". Shotgun not looking.
I'm not entirely convinced this is aimed at upgraders, apart from bleeding edge users but seems to be more for drawing in the second round of buyers. Those that wanted the camera feature, those that have seen what competitors have produced and are now making their purchase decision. There seems to be a minor price reduction on the existing IP1 too, £329 for the 16Gig is showing at time of writing on the UK store, though the IP2 is not listed there yet. No doubt there's so much stock of the IP1 that a price drop will cause more fence sitters to buy in at the older model if they decide they don't want the newest.
It's a nice tactic and these guys really are the pro marketeers. They could sell water to fish.
This follows (loosely) Intel's tick - tock model and doesn't overwhelm the consumer too much allowing production methods to be refined to lower cost for the next tick product whilst still staying in a good market position with the tock item.
No, it doesn't. It's at ~0K and once it hits that point the atoms become essentially still, aligning and allowing it to pass through the solid container. As Pratchett says: "Because of Quantum". Whilst that video is a short clip, if you watch the recent BBC Horizon episode - "What is one degree?" (I believe it was that episode). Unfortunately I don't know the quantum theory of superfluids to explain this any further but that is my understanding of it. Atomic alignment allowing one thing to pass another.
[trollface] Just do it yourself. Buy the paper-book, find the ebook. Problem publishing industry? [/trollface]
It's not like they're missing out on money, I quite like paper copies of books, but I'll be damned if I want to carry a library of reference books from my shelf to my OH's so I'll just cope with reading them in whateverformat in Preview. Also, I'd be quite happy to buy an ebook off my favorite authors website for $reasonable_price, and I can almost bet that $reasonable_price >> $revenue_from_publisher. Drop publishers, keep editers. Sorted.
You don't have any rights, you're a consumer. You stopped having rights when you became one of them.
Make good of your last breath Nokia, because if you screw this up, you'll be thrown to the sharks. Innovate or die. Lots of competition around to step in now, this ain't 1990.
Disagree.
Gamers, generally don't want to be able to tweak their hardware. I'm a PC gamer, always have been, but given the market share of console gamers, what's this tweaking we're talking about. Last I heard, 360s bant you if you tweaked them, and PS3s sue you if you look at them funny. Most consumers want plug and play hardware. PC gamers generally also fall into this category, those few of us that actually fiddle are a very very small minority of consumers.
If I was to say who was Apple's direct competitor in the gaming market as a newcomer, it's not Sony, it's not Microsoft, it's king of the casuals, Nintendo. The realms that Nintendo exists in in the eastern market, and the legacy that is Sega is nothing like what the Westerners see. The DS is criminally popular in the east. This is what the phone market of the West is entering into in a way that portable handhelds over here never quite made. It's the same region the Wii is sitting in, and where something like the (for want of a better word) iPlay would go.
If there was a company who had the capital, investors and technology backing to produce a low cost high impact technology, it's going to be someone like Apple. Most tech companies are followers, not innovators. They generally follow the herd and play it safe with product creation. Development for the big boys is expensive. Last I heard, it costs a small fortune to dev for the 360/ps3. Bedroom games makers can't hope to enter markets like this. It's just not worth the competition.
I don't know much about Nintendo's development accesibility, but seeing as they've always had alot simpler, lower cost products in their range, I'd think it was cheaper and easier to get into. What's the going rate for a Wii these days, $150? You've got an AppleTV at $99. I know it's weaker, a more specific product would no doubt have a few hardware tweaks to fit it's placement. But given the number of iDevices kicking around, you've got a potential controller in the users hands already. Who knows where something like this could go, but marketing money can make lead into gold. A little accidental developer support and coders will run wild. A $99 dev kit (aTV) is not really a big cost for most coders.
Don't count your chickens
It was the note left behind by the Koreans who got there first.
...and all that was found were the words: "You must construct additional pylons".
Victim kills assassin...
MPAA threatens to disconnect the human race from the internet, citing nothing whatsoever. In other news, the sun continues to rise in the morning.
Phenom Quads: Core 1, Core 2, Core 3, Core 4. [Choose 3]
Nah most consumers will be completely oblivious, and as stated, will not affect that many people. OEMs will just not use/block off the faulty ports and carry on as normal. The faulty boards for consumer space (system builders) will probably only count for a microscopic number of boards made at the start of production and will just get recalled and thrown at OEMs for closed-box systems. System builders really don't count for that many sales, and they're really the few that care. As long as the OEMs can cope with it, which they can, all will be fine.
That the sun is quite hot, and there are no aliens hiding behind it. Of course, they forgot to put cameras watching the cameras.
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