The verification mechanism must have an error rate of less than 1 in 10 to the 38th power
10^38?
Because requiring an error rate of less than 1 in 10^39 is simply unreasonable to ask....and 1 in 10^37???? Well, jeez, might as well just build it out of matchsticks and glue if you're going to be THAT lax.
Think of what you personally could do for your own child for $10,000 a year. I'm certain you could find a way to give him or her a quality education for that much money.
Really? What about the cost of you sitting at home and not working. Now you're looking at (lets say) $50k/year+10k/year. Now it is $60k. Hmmm. Suddenly it isn't too cheap.
Well, of course, that's just for one kid, right? So lets say, you get one guy in the neighborhood to teach 6 kids, and you each pay him the $10k, and call him the teacher.
Except now, he can't really teach him in his house. So now you have to rent somewhere. Hmmm, and kids are pretty active so it needs to have a place to run around. Damn, and how are you going to feed them? Oh, and it turns out one of the kid's parents doesn't have a way to get the kid to the place, so now you have to worry about transporting them there.
Lets not forget that kids are... kids. They don't know how to clean up after themselves, they break things, etc. Have you ever seen a house after a children's birthday party? That's everyday at school.
Oh yeah, it also turns out that one of the kids has a learning disability, and now we need ANOTHER teacher.
Oops, and it turns out that since we picked the teacher nearly at random, he turned out to be a child molester. Also, he doesn't know anything about math, so now your kids don't either. Damn, now we have to set up a system to make sure the teachers are qualified.
> Hello, I am Eliza. * Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream > Come, come, elucidate your thoughts. * Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream > Say, do you have any psychological problems?
Yes, we get it, its not the most expensive console ever because Atari in 1979 was actually blah blah blah.
Except....
Electronics have been reducing in price for the past 30 years. A top-of-the-line Mac in 1984 sold for $10,000. What's the inflation-adjusted price of $10,000 in 1984?
If Apple released a mac today that cost $12,000 and aimed it at the general market, they'd be the laughingstock of the industry, and nobody would be making goddamn graphs saying that "Well, in 1984, computers were actually more expensive than Apple's offering."
It is an outrageously priced console. Now. In 2006. With a possible, unproven, undemonstrated advantage over existing hardware.
There's far too much emphasis places on whether a company recorded a profit or a loss in any one year by the media. By itself a profit or a loss is largely meaningless.
Apple's entire value of "Goodwill" as of Sept '05 (last number I could easily find and yes they actually have to value these things though it certainly isn't easy to come to a precise number): 69,000,000
Your description of Goodwill is incorrect.
Goodwill is a very specific number used to define an intangable asset that was aquired.
So, lets say I buy a company for 5 million dollars. On the books, the company has materials and property worth 1.5 million dollars.
For accounting, I say that I spent 5 million dollars on 1.5 million of assets, and 3.5 million of "Goodwill" Every year (at least) I evaluate the 3.5 million dollars worth of Goodwill and make sure it is worth as much as I think it is.
The accountants don't get together and say: "People really, really like us. Lets call it 69 million dollars worth of "like"!"
Larry Yang-all dictated what Microsoft needed this time around.
They couldn't be late. They had to make hardware that could become much cheaper over time and had to pack as much performance into a game console as they could without overheating the box.
"Unfortunately, Larry Yang did not explicitly forbid overheating the power supply"
Take for example, what I know of Shigeru Miyamoto. He gets his best games ideas from life - Nintendogs from the purchase of a new pet, Pikmin from gardening, Zelda from his childhood adventures in Japan's natural places.
And his idea for Donkey Kong came from the nightmarish incident when he was trapped in the Tokyo zoo for 2 days and nights. The Japanese Self-Defense Force eventually defeated the simian revolutionaries, but a young Shigeru was scarred for life.
Does the dell have a x1600 video card with 256m of dedicated memory or does it use shared ram? That is a pretty big difference in terms of price. You can play World of Warcraft and edit video on your MacBook. I wouldn't try that with the Dell.
Our guild doesn't care if you're gay, straight, black, white, democrat, or republican. It just has no place it the game.
However, all the jews are losing 50 DKP tomorrow for killing our Lord and savior. Sorry, but if you nail the son of God to a 2x4, you're not going to get that epic chest piece.
Wow, finally a place on the Internet where someone can go and find technical information. Almost makes you want to slap yourself for not thinking of it first eh?
When I was trying to sell a used Mac, I was competing with many, many auctions with descriptions like:
"Selling used iMac G4. Comes installed with, Adobe, Maya, Final Cut Pro, etc. Includes "backup" disk with "backup" copies of this software."
It included EVERY major OSX software product imaginable, and I knew it was in no way legitimate. It had to be $5000+ worth of software, total.
The retail value of the iMac G4 was maybe $1000, but the auctions were going for $1600-$2000. Clearly, people were willing to pay the extra money to get a copy of the software. I would be willing to bet that some of those people thought they were getting used legitimate copies.
This isn't fun+happy software piracy, where the 19 year old college kid wants to play with the $3000 professional video editing tools, this is a criminal selling someone else's software for profit, and I hope the hammer comes down on them...
Aside from the fact that modern hard discs are supposedly faster than USB 2.0, isn't paging out part of the VM to a hot swappable device just dope-assed? Shurley shome mishtake
In fact, I stopped RTFAing when I hit that part, because I was hoping someone here could explain just that.
I mean, a USB keychain is slow as shit. Couldn't you allocate the first (or middle) 256M-512M of a harddrive for the same thing?
It sounds like a marketing thing, "We need to find out how Vista can synergize with existing products."
"Hey, I have a USB keychain. You say Vista will use it to make my computer run faster???? Wow!"
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The verification mechanism must have an error rate of less than 1 in 10 to the 38th power
...and 1 in 10^37???? Well, jeez, might as well just build it out of matchsticks and glue if you're going to be THAT lax.
10^38?
Because requiring an error rate of less than 1 in 10^39 is simply unreasonable to ask.
Think of what you personally could do for your own child for $10,000 a year. I'm certain you could find a way to give him or her a quality education for that much money.
Really? What about the cost of you sitting at home and not working. Now you're looking at (lets say) $50k/year+10k/year. Now it is $60k. Hmmm. Suddenly it isn't too cheap.
Well, of course, that's just for one kid, right? So lets say, you get one guy in the neighborhood to teach 6 kids, and you each pay him the $10k, and call him the teacher.
Except now, he can't really teach him in his house. So now you have to rent somewhere. Hmmm, and kids are pretty active so it needs to have a place to run around. Damn, and how are you going to feed them? Oh, and it turns out one of the kid's parents doesn't have a way to get the kid to the place, so now you have to worry about transporting them there.
Lets not forget that kids are... kids. They don't know how to clean up after themselves, they break things, etc. Have you ever seen a house after a children's birthday party? That's everyday at school.
Oh yeah, it also turns out that one of the kids has a learning disability, and now we need ANOTHER teacher.
Oops, and it turns out that since we picked the teacher nearly at random, he turned out to be a child molester. Also, he doesn't know anything about math, so now your kids don't either. Damn, now we have to set up a system to make sure the teachers are qualified.
You can kind of see where this leads.
> Hello, I am Eliza.
* Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream
> Come, come, elucidate your thoughts.
* Web Release of the Open Movie Elephants Dream
> Say, do you have any psychological problems?
Ventria's rice produces two human proteins found in mother's milk, saliva and tears
So its made from German porn?
Yes, we get it, its not the most expensive console ever because Atari in 1979 was actually blah blah blah.
Except....
Electronics have been reducing in price for the past 30 years. A top-of-the-line Mac in 1984 sold for $10,000. What's the inflation-adjusted price of $10,000 in 1984?
If Apple released a mac today that cost $12,000 and aimed it at the general market, they'd be the laughingstock of the industry, and nobody would be making goddamn graphs saying that "Well, in 1984, computers were actually more expensive than Apple's offering."
It is an outrageously priced console. Now. In 2006. With a possible, unproven, undemonstrated advantage over existing hardware.
I need horrific violence _and_ exposed nipples to really jerk off properly.
Help me?
There's far too much emphasis places on whether a company recorded a profit or a loss in any one year by the media. By itself a profit or a loss is largely meaningless.
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Someone grew up during the
I have nothing really insightful to say. I just hate EA.
Seriously. How many pages was this article for how much text?
Agreed. I stopped reading after three slides. Was the content on MAYBE 1/8th of the page? Screw ZDNet.
That's like saying George Mason had a successful run in this year's NCAA basketball tournament.
Hi. Welcome to slashdot.
Nobody is going to understand that analogy.
Apple's entire value of "Goodwill" as of Sept '05 (last number I could easily find and yes they actually have to value these things though it certainly isn't easy to come to a precise number): 69,000,000
Your description of Goodwill is incorrect.
Goodwill is a very specific number used to define an intangable asset that was aquired.
So, lets say I buy a company for 5 million dollars. On the books, the company has materials and property worth 1.5 million dollars.
For accounting, I say that I spent 5 million dollars on 1.5 million of assets, and 3.5 million of "Goodwill" Every year (at least) I evaluate the 3.5 million dollars worth of Goodwill and make sure it is worth as much as I think it is.
The accountants don't get together and say: "People really, really like us. Lets call it 69 million dollars worth of "like"!"
Larry Yang-all dictated what Microsoft needed this time around.
They couldn't be late. They had to make hardware that could become much cheaper over time and had to pack as much performance into a game console as they could without overheating the box.
"Unfortunately, Larry Yang did not explicitly forbid overheating the power supply"
Google seems to have been oddly quiet on that front for the many years prior to IE7 that Firefox has made this feature available."
Except Firefox isn't owned by Google, making this an entirely different situation. Hence, the whole "antitrust" arguement.
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My iMac has a freaking camera in it too, and i'm not stocking up on canned goods in fear of the inevitable war with Eurasia.
I mean, it contains similarities to a fictional device...and you're acting like the only use is in the same sci-fi scenario.
Did
Take for example, what I know of Shigeru Miyamoto. He gets his best games ideas from life - Nintendogs from the purchase of a new pet, Pikmin from gardening, Zelda from his childhood adventures in Japan's natural places.
And his idea for Donkey Kong came from the nightmarish incident when he was trapped in the Tokyo zoo for 2 days and nights. The Japanese Self-Defense Force eventually defeated the simian revolutionaries, but a young Shigeru was scarred for life.
Does the dell have a x1600 video card with 256m of dedicated memory or does it use shared ram? That is a pretty big difference in terms of price. You can play World of Warcraft and edit video on your MacBook. I wouldn't try that with the Dell.
Our guild doesn't care if you're gay, straight, black, white, democrat, or republican. It just has no place it the game.
However, all the jews are losing 50 DKP tomorrow for killing our Lord and savior. Sorry, but if you nail the son of God to a 2x4, you're not going to get that epic chest piece.
Wow, finally a place on the Internet where someone can go and find technical information. Almost makes you want to slap yourself for not thinking of it first eh?
When I was trying to sell a used Mac, I was competing with many, many auctions with descriptions like:
"Selling used iMac G4. Comes installed with, Adobe, Maya, Final Cut Pro, etc. Includes "backup" disk with "backup" copies of this software."
It included EVERY major OSX software product imaginable, and I knew it was in no way legitimate. It had to be $5000+ worth of software, total.
The retail value of the iMac G4 was maybe $1000, but the auctions were going for $1600-$2000. Clearly, people were willing to pay the extra money to get a copy of the software. I would be willing to bet that some of those people thought they were getting used legitimate copies.
This isn't fun+happy software piracy, where the 19 year old college kid wants to play with the $3000 professional video editing tools, this is a criminal selling someone else's software for profit, and I hope the hammer comes down on them...
Aside from the fact that modern hard discs are supposedly faster than USB 2.0, isn't paging out part of the VM to a hot swappable device just dope-assed? Shurley shome mishtake
In fact, I stopped RTFAing when I hit that part, because I was hoping someone here could explain just that.
I mean, a USB keychain is slow as shit. Couldn't you allocate the first (or middle) 256M-512M of a harddrive for the same thing?
It sounds like a marketing thing, "We need to find out how Vista can synergize with existing products."
"Hey, I have a USB keychain. You say Vista will use it to make my computer run faster???? Wow!"
She said "If there are laws I believe are wrong, I will break them."
She works for a law firm.
A law firm can't employ someone who is publicly advocating breaking the law.
A law firm shouldn't employ someone who, for all intents and purposes, wrote "I hate our clients." in a public forum.
A very pretty, but not extremely beautiful girl. I guarantee it.
Hot, but attainable, about 20 years old.