Realistic, perhaps; it's still $200 pricier than an HD-DVD player or a basic XBox 360.
OK, maybe it's not aggressive, but it sounds like it's a more expensive machine.
You also get both in one unit. I don't get your later argument about someone not wanting an HD movie player. Frankly, I think using an HD console (360 or PS3) on a standard definition TV is silly, basically so much power and detail is thrown away that way. If you have an HD set, then I think you're likely to want to have an HD movie player.
I didn't buy the $300 HD-DVD player because it was limited to 1080i. The HD-DVD player with 1080p is $400. I think the 360 + external drive is a little awkward and still not capable of 1080p with movies, and didn't have available digital video output when I bought my PS3.
I don't know of you understand, because my assumptions do scale the free space because you hack out half the existing features in an existing computer and conceivably make a computer at half the volume, and I think that leaves plenty enough open volume for air flow - half the components with half the heat generation in half the space should contain equivalent to half the air flow of the big unit, and half the PSU size. I think it's pretty close to a perfect scaling. The Mac Pro has four 12cm fans, and with half the power requirements and a somewhat more holistic design, two 12cm fans shouldn't be a problem.
I don't think it's that difficult. For my intents and purposes, my Mac Pro is effectively "silent". If, hypothetically you cut out the useless feet and spoilers handles, and cut the case height in half, lost a CPU socket, lost half the memory sockets, half the slots and half the drive bays, you should be able to have a pretty quiet system have something that would be about the volume of a Shuttle case, I think.
The problem is that it seems as if Shuttle cheaps out on components, doesn't properly secure the heat pipe and uses rattling fans that don't adjust to thermal needs.
I don't think so. There are no extra-terrestrial rovers that have lasted 90 days that I remember. One Soviet lander lasted 20 seconds on the surface. Sojourner lasted 83 days. If you know of any counterexamples, please let me know. Otherwise, your explanation is implausible because one year or three years is far, far longer than anyone has managed and is unrealistic.
The problem is that they expected the solar panels to fail due to excessive dust collection, blocking the light, and they had found no economical means to clean the panels. They got lucky when an occasional wind storm cleaned off the current rovers.
The difference being that almost no light for too long of a period of time, not allowing the rovers to keep warm. They've always used batteries & solar power to keep the circuitry just warm enough to keep them from being damaged. Without that warmth, circuits can crack.
It is included in the "runner up" list. While Ankor Wat deserves to be in the 7 a lot more than the Brazilian statue, I think it's a bit much to say the list of seven is is totally worthless because your favorite isn't in the list. There are only seven entries, making it an extremely limiting factor.
"Seriously, ICs are is no more than a smaller transistor. We've got the same technology for over 60 years and they're still trying to "improve" it?"
Anyways, then don't buy the product. There are notebooks that do not include a built-in optical drive. If you truly believed in a non-motor computer, you can probably get a SSD -based Toshiba ultraportable right now. The problem is that with demanding no motors, you can't expect a fast CPU or graphics processor because that would require a fan to cool them, which is another motor. So that leaves you with a 1.3GHz notebook with 32GB of "hard drive", for over $2000. At least it would look pretty cool and be very light. I think there are Panasonics without motors too.
Research-wise, it's probably not your money to spend. No one can predict what technology will prevail, and the good idea is for different groups to invest in what they are good at, and the market decides what is most desirable for what task. The optical drive will still be mainstream for a while yet, and after that, possibly remain a viable niche for much longer.
I don't see solid state meeting or beating mechanical drives in price/performance for quite some time. For many circumstances, flash speed and capacity is good enough, but it's still way too expensive for most people. The latest flash drives didn't really beat the speed or capacity of 2.5" drives, though they beat the 1.8" drives. Still, $500 for a 32GB SSD isn't something I'm interested in.
Data on minidisc was available, it just didn't take off. I've seen a Sony computer with a minidisc drive. It certainly would have been better than allowing Zip drives to take off, and I think it predated Zip.
I don't know what to call that kind of statement. Structure exists outside the field of mathematics, mathematics is merely one means of expressing it. Better stated, I don't think high level math courses is the only way to teach algorithms.
I don't really like it either, but that's one serving size for most sodas that I've seen, I wish the summary said mg/serving. If it helps, it's equal to 355ml.
That doesn't help. I don't think it's something to be happy about, given that long term caffeine use seems to have potentially disturbing consequences. I've been cutting down on my caffeine intake over time, I just don't think the risks are worth it.
If you only do one function call per line, then 80 columns would still seem to do fine. Let's say you have a function and two variables, you can have 18 columns for tabs, 18 characters for a function name, and two variables with 18 characters each, with a little room left for punctuation.
80 is actually a pretty good standard because that's a little wider than what has been found to be most easily and quickly readable for text, which I think is 60 to 70 character columns. If you allow for tab structure and comments on the end, then 132 would probably do pretty well.
I'm a Sprint subscriber, and I think my average is under once every two years. My last call was to get information that I didn't realize was in the manual.
It sounds like your phone had a bug in it, my phone never switched to Roaming or Strongest Signal.
Are the $10-15 prices for a _new_ DVD release? That's what I mean, which is often about $20. $25-$30 is about what DVDs costed in the early days, and the HD movies I've seen are far better at the same price.
The anime DVDs are a little expensive the first time around, I really haven't been buying them until they get collected into a set. I don't blame them for their pricing, the average anime DVD probably doesn't get 1% the sales of a DVD of a US theatrical movie.
I think your assumed price of $35 for a loaner is a bit much. Any old GSM phone, assuming it's either unlocked or tied to Cingular should work if you drop the SIM card into it. If you're only going to use it for a week, then some old clunker should do well enough.
Well... unless you really care about Blu-Ray movies (which IMO are way overpriced)
Not really, unless you mean to say that any money more than the DVD is "overpriced". For most of the new movies I looked at, the Blu-Ray version is $5 more than the DVD version. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs aren't any more expensive than in the first few years of DVD, so I really don't think the pricing is unfair.
Besides, you can get Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies from Netflix for no extra cost.
#1 is available on x86 workstation systems in the form of Chipkill, which isn't too far from being commodity hardware, it's relatively easily obtainable. I'm sure Intel and AMD could easily bring it down to consumer systems if there was any call for it, but there really isn't.
In any case, the news won't make me trade my 3800+ dual core Athlon 64 for an intel Core 2 duo of the same speed and have to pay twice the price.
You shouldn't replace something you already have with something that isn't any better. Who is suggesting you do that? That would be a pretty stupid thing to do. Someone that has the Core 2 Duo would also be stupid to replace the system for an Athlon 64 of the same speed, both ways, it's spending money to get no improvement.
Given that the other alternative is Sony (as Nintendo isn't fighting to be cutting edge)
I think Nintendo's point is that cutting edge for it's own sake is beside the point of gaming. And I respect them for that, they do seem to have some pretty fun games, the other two platforms seem to be be cutting edge for its own sake. I suppose one might also legitimately say that Nintendo is cutting edge marching to the beat of its own drummer.
I suspect that they are in reality simply resenting that the iPhone buried almost all awareness of the GPL3 release, and are now desperate for attention.
If that's true, then tough cookies for them. All indications I've seen says that they set the GPLv3 release date well after Apple finalized the release date for their product. I'd say that there is a good chance they were trying to ride Apple's coat tails on this, though I don't know how they could have done that to their advantage.
They could have changed the date, but it would not have mattered. Few people really care that much about a software license.
Some of the problems arise from the owner living outside the area code of the original line.
I really don't think that it helps that maybe several hundred thousand transfers and activations are happening at the same time, basically 6pm ET to 7pm PT. I don't think it happens very often.
Having it done in iTunes on the whole, probably improved the experience for 95%+ of the buyers, otherwise the lines would have taken maybe two or three times longer to finish.
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Realistic, perhaps; it's still $200 pricier than an HD-DVD player or a basic XBox 360.
OK, maybe it's not aggressive, but it sounds like it's a more expensive machine.
You also get both in one unit. I don't get your later argument about someone not wanting an HD movie player. Frankly, I think using an HD console (360 or PS3) on a standard definition TV is silly, basically so much power and detail is thrown away that way. If you have an HD set, then I think you're likely to want to have an HD movie player.
I didn't buy the $300 HD-DVD player because it was limited to 1080i. The HD-DVD player with 1080p is $400. I think the 360 + external drive is a little awkward and still not capable of 1080p with movies, and didn't have available digital video output when I bought my PS3.
I don't know of you understand, because my assumptions do scale the free space because you hack out half the existing features in an existing computer and conceivably make a computer at half the volume, and I think that leaves plenty enough open volume for air flow - half the components with half the heat generation in half the space should contain equivalent to half the air flow of the big unit, and half the PSU size. I think it's pretty close to a perfect scaling. The Mac Pro has four 12cm fans, and with half the power requirements and a somewhat more holistic design, two 12cm fans shouldn't be a problem.
I don't think it's that difficult. For my intents and purposes, my Mac Pro is effectively "silent". If, hypothetically you cut out the useless feet and spoilers handles, and cut the case height in half, lost a CPU socket, lost half the memory sockets, half the slots and half the drive bays, you should be able to have a pretty quiet system have something that would be about the volume of a Shuttle case, I think.
The problem is that it seems as if Shuttle cheaps out on components, doesn't properly secure the heat pipe and uses rattling fans that don't adjust to thermal needs.
I don't think so. There are no extra-terrestrial rovers that have lasted 90 days that I remember. One Soviet lander lasted 20 seconds on the surface. Sojourner lasted 83 days. If you know of any counterexamples, please let me know. Otherwise, your explanation is implausible because one year or three years is far, far longer than anyone has managed and is unrealistic.
The problem is that they expected the solar panels to fail due to excessive dust collection, blocking the light, and they had found no economical means to clean the panels. They got lucky when an occasional wind storm cleaned off the current rovers.
The difference being that almost no light for too long of a period of time, not allowing the rovers to keep warm. They've always used batteries & solar power to keep the circuitry just warm enough to keep them from being damaged. Without that warmth, circuits can crack.
It is included in the "runner up" list. While Ankor Wat deserves to be in the 7 a lot more than the Brazilian statue, I think it's a bit much to say the list of seven is is totally worthless because your favorite isn't in the list. There are only seven entries, making it an extremely limiting factor.
"Seriously, ICs are is no more than a smaller transistor. We've got the same technology for over 60 years and they're still trying to "improve" it?"
Anyways, then don't buy the product. There are notebooks that do not include a built-in optical drive. If you truly believed in a non-motor computer, you can probably get a SSD -based Toshiba ultraportable right now. The problem is that with demanding no motors, you can't expect a fast CPU or graphics processor because that would require a fan to cool them, which is another motor. So that leaves you with a 1.3GHz notebook with 32GB of "hard drive", for over $2000. At least it would look pretty cool and be very light. I think there are Panasonics without motors too.
Research-wise, it's probably not your money to spend. No one can predict what technology will prevail, and the good idea is for different groups to invest in what they are good at, and the market decides what is most desirable for what task. The optical drive will still be mainstream for a while yet, and after that, possibly remain a viable niche for much longer.
I don't see solid state meeting or beating mechanical drives in price/performance for quite some time. For many circumstances, flash speed and capacity is good enough, but it's still way too expensive for most people. The latest flash drives didn't really beat the speed or capacity of 2.5" drives, though they beat the 1.8" drives. Still, $500 for a 32GB SSD isn't something I'm interested in.
Data on minidisc was available, it just didn't take off. I've seen a Sony computer with a minidisc drive. It certainly would have been better than allowing Zip drives to take off, and I think it predated Zip.
I don't know what to call that kind of statement. Structure exists outside the field of mathematics, mathematics is merely one means of expressing it. Better stated, I don't think high level math courses is the only way to teach algorithms.
I don't really like it either, but that's one serving size for most sodas that I've seen, I wish the summary said mg/serving. If it helps, it's equal to 355ml.
That doesn't help. I don't think it's something to be happy about, given that long term caffeine use seems to have potentially disturbing consequences. I've been cutting down on my caffeine intake over time, I just don't think the risks are worth it.
I didn't notice that, but the Pepsi cans that I have handy have it below the standard Nutrition Facts label.
If you only do one function call per line, then 80 columns would still seem to do fine. Let's say you have a function and two variables, you can have 18 columns for tabs, 18 characters for a function name, and two variables with 18 characters each, with a little room left for punctuation.
80 is actually a pretty good standard because that's a little wider than what has been found to be most easily and quickly readable for text, which I think is 60 to 70 character columns. If you allow for tab structure and comments on the end, then 132 would probably do pretty well.
I'm a Sprint subscriber, and I think my average is under once every two years. My last call was to get information that I didn't realize was in the manual.
It sounds like your phone had a bug in it, my phone never switched to Roaming or Strongest Signal.
Are the $10-15 prices for a _new_ DVD release? That's what I mean, which is often about $20. $25-$30 is about what DVDs costed in the early days, and the HD movies I've seen are far better at the same price.
The anime DVDs are a little expensive the first time around, I really haven't been buying them until they get collected into a set. I don't blame them for their pricing, the average anime DVD probably doesn't get 1% the sales of a DVD of a US theatrical movie.
I think your assumed price of $35 for a loaner is a bit much. Any old GSM phone, assuming it's either unlocked or tied to Cingular should work if you drop the SIM card into it. If you're only going to use it for a week, then some old clunker should do well enough.
Well... unless you really care about Blu-Ray movies (which IMO are way overpriced)
Not really, unless you mean to say that any money more than the DVD is "overpriced". For most of the new movies I looked at, the Blu-Ray version is $5 more than the DVD version. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs aren't any more expensive than in the first few years of DVD, so I really don't think the pricing is unfair.
Besides, you can get Blu-Ray and HD-DVD movies from Netflix for no extra cost.
I don't regret the purchase at all.
#1 is available on x86 workstation systems in the form of Chipkill, which isn't too far from being commodity hardware, it's relatively easily obtainable. I'm sure Intel and AMD could easily bring it down to consumer systems if there was any call for it, but there really isn't.
In any case, the news won't make me trade my 3800+ dual core Athlon 64 for an intel Core 2 duo of the same speed and have to pay twice the price.
You shouldn't replace something you already have with something that isn't any better. Who is suggesting you do that? That would be a pretty stupid thing to do. Someone that has the Core 2 Duo would also be stupid to replace the system for an Athlon 64 of the same speed, both ways, it's spending money to get no improvement.
The labels don't get $14 a CD. That just shows an absurd ignorance of how the system works.
Given that the other alternative is Sony (as Nintendo isn't fighting to be cutting edge)
I think Nintendo's point is that cutting edge for it's own sake is beside the point of gaming. And I respect them for that, they do seem to have some pretty fun games, the other two platforms seem to be be cutting edge for its own sake. I suppose one might also legitimately say that Nintendo is cutting edge marching to the beat of its own drummer.
I suspect that they are in reality simply resenting that the iPhone buried almost all awareness of the GPL3 release, and are now desperate for attention.
If that's true, then tough cookies for them. All indications I've seen says that they set the GPLv3 release date well after Apple finalized the release date for their product. I'd say that there is a good chance they were trying to ride Apple's coat tails on this, though I don't know how they could have done that to their advantage.
They could have changed the date, but it would not have mattered. Few people really care that much about a software license.
Some of the problems arise from the owner living outside the area code of the original line.
I really don't think that it helps that maybe several hundred thousand transfers and activations are happening at the same time, basically 6pm ET to 7pm PT. I don't think it happens very often.
Having it done in iTunes on the whole, probably improved the experience for 95%+ of the buyers, otherwise the lines would have taken maybe two or three times longer to finish.