I really don't think it makes sense to suggest that somehow there are possibly several hundred thousand of these (or millions of PSPs) just collecting dust on store shelves. I don't think any retail store would accept it if they didn't think they could sell them in a reasonable period of time, it's too much money tied up and too much to lose if it's still sitting on the shelf when the model gets updated.
I agree. For him, it's just a minor nuisance because he can get the problem handled or another key. What about the customer which WGA falsely accuses? How much time must be spent to handle that? What advantage is it to be "genuine" when the software gets that wrong?
I think it's interesting with all of the power of the web that some news sites, generally seems to be the sites of more traditional media, neglect to furnish a basic image of the device or subject in question. I'm interested in a photo just because I've never heard of or seen this thing.
Does anyone remember the Dual Independent Bus on the Pentium Pro? I think the second was for a look-aside cache but it appears to be a re-use of terminology.
I'm not too surprised. I would not be surprised if DeWalt gets charged with murder if a customer used the weapons they sold, previously called a circular saw, to dismember people while they bleed to death. I mean, if we're too pansy to prosecute the people that performed the action, then someone is going to look elsewhere for the blame.
I don't even like About.com. They seem to be at best sophisticated search engine spammers, though at least better than web logs that are just ad links. Whenever I accidentally stumble onto their site, they do have a tiny bit of information relating to the topic, but not enough to make it worth opening their page.
You do realize that a power plant is much more efficient than a car's combustion engine, right?
Exactly. Even with transmission losses, and losses due to charging and discharging, I bet this thing is considerably more efficient than a gasoline engine. What gasolene has as an advantage is that it's not so heavy with respect to the amount of power it has. And that batteries are expensive, have a very limited life span and possibly an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. There was a guy on Science Friday that suggested that we could convert to methanol use, it's easy to make from oil, it's easy to make from biomass, easy to haul and so on.
I assume you can at least get a good selection at the site. Also many newer hot titles are nearly $39 at most regular outlets.
In Canadian dollars? I've never paid anywhere that much unless it's like a premium edition with other stuff, which includes physical goodies that one can't just "burn" or print. Even then, I think Office Space with the stapler and mug was $25, I don't remember, I didn't buy that.
Either that or you are shopping at stores that charge list price. Stay away from them. You can save 40% off list buy buying the DVD online.
It's great for the owners that got bought out, but bad for the rest of us, as it is one less independent resource about Windows.
I wish there was a utility to help repair Windows Update. I get this arcane error which the MSKB has no less than eight different solutions to try, something that would appear to be automated to check the. For many things, I actually prefer Windows over the alternatives (I use Windows, OS X and Linux), but this sort of thing is aggravating to say the list. Maybe I should write that program but my time is better spent elsewhere.
I think the point was that computing performance is scaling up so much that the time laboring over human obtimization isn't well-spent if one can upgrade to a faster server/desktop/workstation for less money than the developer's time is worth. This is particularly true for small projects, where maintainability is important. Next year, we will see two four core CPUs on a workstation, the following year or two, it may be a single eight core chip. How do you take good advantage of that in C? I don't know, and I've done a fair share of C programming. I know it can be done, but I think there are better ways to spend a developer's time.
Is there a particular reason why it needs to be 16kHz? It's just vocals, what are the upper limit of typical vocals? 8kHz would seem to be plenty unless you are trying to play a violin or something.
I'd have to wonder whether one can exert a copyright to data you found as part of other people's products. If anyone can own the rights to that information, wouldn't it be the owners of those products?
I don't know, I'd call the CD spyware thing arrogant. Selling portable audio players that required users to convert their entire libraries to ATRAC in order to play them is pretty arrogant. Sony thinking they could sell movie UMDs at nearly the price of the DVD counterparts was pretty arrogant, in my opinion. The DVD "+" writable standard was pretty arrogant, IMO, they didn't get accepted so they joined HP in making it anyway. I don't think the Blu-Ray standard counts as it's not a Sony format, but a format co-developed by at least a half-dozen major companies like Pioneer, Matsushita (Panasonic, JVC), and all the other hardware makers on the DVD consortium save two.
This way you are actually helping them by creating a gold rush which will clear their stock inventory in the next 90 days and they can even write it off as a loss as well.
You do understand that the write-off doesn't go directly against the tax bill, right? Assuming the tax rate is 20%, "writing off" a $100 loss only reduces the tax bill by $20, they still have that other $80 that is lost.
I have to deal with a credit card merchant account and I was trying to convince the salesman that the CCV2 code can be stolen. He said you had to have the card in your posession in order to know what it was. Grrrrr. I really didn't have the patience to explain that some web sites are poorly designed in how they handle database security.
It can be very easy to change the MAC. The Intel gigabit NICs seem to offer that feature in the PROSET software in Windows, and the OS X driver for same NIC offers it too.
I wonder how easy it is to find a MAC that is valid for a network? It sounds like you'd already have to have access to the network or a computer that is authorized for the network to get the MAC.
It's not that big of a problem. A 7200RPM drive might take 15W max. 48 drives brings the total up to 675W. Not that bad in the server world, especially given the capacity.
I really haven't had any stability problems. In Windows, the memory problems aren't very large, 42MB. However, in OS X, I do currently see 460+MB with pretty much the same extensions running.
Just in case someone wants to call me on the memory use on OS X: http://demaagd.com/gr/grabff.jpg - see the "Real Memory" column on the Firefox row.
I think the point is that every other portable gadget of every kind will be able to play music, many companies seem resigned to having to make some other device to "beat" iPod. It may well be that even the iPods would be an insignificant part of the market if you included phones that play MP3 files, I think there maybe more than a billion cell phones in use, and Apple only sold maybe 50M of their music players. I think the flaw in that reasoning is that it assumes that there is a full market dichotomy, that no one would want a simple, dedicated product over their "converged" product. There is always room for dedicated products, sometimes they are relegated to a tiny niche.
I really don't understand that part about "wire bound". It still needs to be charged, and even with USB1.1 (yes, I've done this), file synching with a portable device is plenty fast for a quick charge. Wireless networking takes a certain amount of power that's better used for longer play life because the networking adds little to the usefulness. On the other hand, I would accept wireless headphones, those standards reduce the entanglement of headphone cables, and current wireless headphones aren't so power hungry as a wireless network adapter.
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I really don't think it makes sense to suggest that somehow there are possibly several hundred thousand of these (or millions of PSPs) just collecting dust on store shelves. I don't think any retail store would accept it if they didn't think they could sell them in a reasonable period of time, it's too much money tied up and too much to lose if it's still sitting on the shelf when the model gets updated.
I agree. For him, it's just a minor nuisance because he can get the problem handled or another key. What about the customer which WGA falsely accuses? How much time must be spent to handle that? What advantage is it to be "genuine" when the software gets that wrong?
I think it's interesting with all of the power of the web that some news sites, generally seems to be the sites of more traditional media, neglect to furnish a basic image of the device or subject in question. I'm interested in a photo just because I've never heard of or seen this thing.
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Does anyone remember the Dual Independent Bus on the Pentium Pro? I think the second was for a look-aside cache but it appears to be a re-use of terminology.
I'm not too surprised. I would not be surprised if DeWalt gets charged with murder if a customer used the weapons they sold, previously called a circular saw, to dismember people while they bleed to death. I mean, if we're too pansy to prosecute the people that performed the action, then someone is going to look elsewhere for the blame.
I don't even like About.com. They seem to be at best sophisticated search engine spammers, though at least better than web logs that are just ad links. Whenever I accidentally stumble onto their site, they do have a tiny bit of information relating to the topic, but not enough to make it worth opening their page.
You do realize that a power plant is much more efficient than a car's combustion engine, right?
Exactly. Even with transmission losses, and losses due to charging and discharging, I bet this thing is considerably more efficient than a gasoline engine. What gasolene has as an advantage is that it's not so heavy with respect to the amount of power it has. And that batteries are expensive, have a very limited life span and possibly an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen. There was a guy on Science Friday that suggested that we could convert to methanol use, it's easy to make from oil, it's easy to make from biomass, easy to haul and so on.
I assume you can at least get a good selection at the site. Also many newer hot titles are nearly $39 at most regular outlets.
In Canadian dollars? I've never paid anywhere that much unless it's like a premium edition with other stuff, which includes physical goodies that one can't just "burn" or print. Even then, I think Office Space with the stapler and mug was $25, I don't remember, I didn't buy that.
Either that or you are shopping at stores that charge list price. Stay away from them. You can save 40% off list buy buying the DVD online.
New release DVDs for $7 at walmart? how much more for a unicorn?
None of the titles listed in the article are new releases. The Walmart price wasn't for new releases either.
The $9 price for the downloadable DVD in the article is the starting price. They don't say what they'll charge for bona-fide new releases.
It's great for the owners that got bought out, but bad for the rest of us, as it is one less independent resource about Windows.
I wish there was a utility to help repair Windows Update. I get this arcane error which the MSKB has no less than eight different solutions to try, something that would appear to be automated to check the. For many things, I actually prefer Windows over the alternatives (I use Windows, OS X and Linux), but this sort of thing is aggravating to say the list. Maybe I should write that program but my time is better spent elsewhere.
I think the point was that computing performance is scaling up so much that the time laboring over human obtimization isn't well-spent if one can upgrade to a faster server/desktop/workstation for less money than the developer's time is worth. This is particularly true for small projects, where maintainability is important. Next year, we will see two four core CPUs on a workstation, the following year or two, it may be a single eight core chip. How do you take good advantage of that in C? I don't know, and I've done a fair share of C programming. I know it can be done, but I think there are better ways to spend a developer's time.
Is there a particular reason why it needs to be 16kHz? It's just vocals, what are the upper limit of typical vocals? 8kHz would seem to be plenty unless you are trying to play a violin or something.
Why would an iPod be in the footwell? I just put it in the change holder area and it's always at arm's length and has never fallen loose.
Huh? Can't a standard minivan comfortably seat six adults? And provide more cargo space?
Bad luck, you visited Slashdot the day it was vandalised.
You are right. The grammar is better than usual, so we should assume the vandals improved it.
I'd have to wonder whether one can exert a copyright to data you found as part of other people's products. If anyone can own the rights to that information, wouldn't it be the owners of those products?
I don't know, I'd call the CD spyware thing arrogant. Selling portable audio players that required users to convert their entire libraries to ATRAC in order to play them is pretty arrogant. Sony thinking they could sell movie UMDs at nearly the price of the DVD counterparts was pretty arrogant, in my opinion. The DVD "+" writable standard was pretty arrogant, IMO, they didn't get accepted so they joined HP in making it anyway. I don't think the Blu-Ray standard counts as it's not a Sony format, but a format co-developed by at least a half-dozen major companies like Pioneer, Matsushita (Panasonic, JVC), and all the other hardware makers on the DVD consortium save two.
This way you are actually helping them by creating a gold rush which will clear their stock inventory in the next 90 days and they can even write it off as a loss as well.
You do understand that the write-off doesn't go directly against the tax bill, right? Assuming the tax rate is 20%, "writing off" a $100 loss only reduces the tax bill by $20, they still have that other $80 that is lost.
I have to deal with a credit card merchant account and I was trying to convince the salesman that the CCV2 code can be stolen. He said you had to have the card in your posession in order to know what it was. Grrrrr. I really didn't have the patience to explain that some web sites are poorly designed in how they handle database security.
It can be very easy to change the MAC. The Intel gigabit NICs seem to offer that feature in the PROSET software in Windows, and the OS X driver for same NIC offers it too.
I wonder how easy it is to find a MAC that is valid for a network? It sounds like you'd already have to have access to the network or a computer that is authorized for the network to get the MAC.
I thought I read somewhere that NASA does use some special tapes, that it's not generic duct tape.
It's not that big of a problem. A 7200RPM drive might take 15W max. 48 drives brings the total up to 675W. Not that bad in the server world, especially given the capacity.
I really haven't had any stability problems. In Windows, the memory problems aren't very large, 42MB. However, in OS X, I do currently see 460+MB with pretty much the same extensions running.
Just in case someone wants to call me on the memory use on OS X:
http://demaagd.com/gr/grabff.jpg - see the "Real Memory" column on the Firefox row.
I think the point is that every other portable gadget of every kind will be able to play music, many companies seem resigned to having to make some other device to "beat" iPod. It may well be that even the iPods would be an insignificant part of the market if you included phones that play MP3 files, I think there maybe more than a billion cell phones in use, and Apple only sold maybe 50M of their music players. I think the flaw in that reasoning is that it assumes that there is a full market dichotomy, that no one would want a simple, dedicated product over their "converged" product. There is always room for dedicated products, sometimes they are relegated to a tiny niche.
I really don't understand that part about "wire bound". It still needs to be charged, and even with USB1.1 (yes, I've done this), file synching with a portable device is plenty fast for a quick charge. Wireless networking takes a certain amount of power that's better used for longer play life because the networking adds little to the usefulness. On the other hand, I would accept wireless headphones, those standards reduce the entanglement of headphone cables, and current wireless headphones aren't so power hungry as a wireless network adapter.