However, on the flip side, how many people will buy them?
This always works the same way:
clearing old inventory quickly: Some people will take advantage of the fact that the old PS2s will be discounted to clear inventory. So that's boon #1 for Sony.
updating to the latest version: Others will replace their existing ones with the new ones becauase of the coolness factor (also looks like it would take up a lot less place in the back seat of an SUV), another boon for Sony
reduction in manufacturing costs: The amount materials required to make a PStwo will less than for the PS2, meaning that Sony saves money in manufacturing, and can reduce the price further at its discretion, helping increase more sales.
This is hardly a new technique...everyone has done it, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Atari Lynx, Gameboy, PS1...the list goes on.
Theocracy: A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
This statement is simply not true.
I'll bite. First the parent's sig says that America is...fast becoming a...theocracy, it ain't yet, but it's fast becoming one. Lets start with a few choice quotes from GWB, and we'll let the audience decide:
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did..." - GWB to Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
"Our nation has been chosen by God and commissioned by history, to be a model of justice before the world."
"I believe God has called us into action. Our country has got a responsibility, we are a great nation, we are a wealthy nation, we have a responsibility to help a neighbour in need, a brother and sister in crisis." -GWB in July 2003 in Uganda
Now, I'm not saying that what GWB is saying is bad (I'm certainly won't say it is good though), but if the USA is such a secular state, why is God's name brought up when it comes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid decisions? And don't give me that all encompassing "one God" crap, because although some religions believe in that, not all do, and some of us don't believe in a God at all. So if the USA is truly secular, why mention God?
Oh, and I don't know where you get off thinking that the religion that gets given the hardest time is Christianity. The religion that lost all of its unfairly earned priviledges is Christianity (e.g. loss of prayer in school, loss of slavery (yes, slavery is something advocated by the bible), loss of homosexual persecution), but it is just recent propaganda to say it has had the hardest time when compared to all the other religions that are practiced in the USA.
I'll agree with you that the USA is about the freedom of religion, but you are blind and ignorant if you deny that the current US government does not lean a certain amount of favour towards Christianity above and beyond what is acceptable in a secular state.
While I agree that in the future you'd expect nightvision or at least some sort of lighting system on they shoulders/helmet to be standard fare, I think it would have taken some of the fun/fear away. Remember those pitch black rooms where the aliens were being shipped about in those eerily glowing glass containers...that was pretty damn cool and would have not been the same using NVGs.
Wrong again. There's plenty of stuff that hasn't adapted much in millions of years but has survived just fine, it boils down to reproduction and more specifically the speed and ease which something can reproduce.
Avoiding predators and other dangers may not require intelligence, but it requires instincts.
Nope. Tape-worm doesn't require instinct, neither do a lot of creatures that have managed to scrape by without any predators. Another technique is to reproduce so quickly and prolificaly that it doesn't matter if ya get killed 'cause the first thing ya did after you hatched (or whatever) was have a sh*tload of kids yourself.
P4 2.8ghz Northwood overclocked to 3.0ghz with a gig of ram and a 9800pro...it runs perfectly at 1024x786 with quality at HIGH, while it runs almost perfectly at 1280x1024 with quality still at HIGH, although it chops in some of the more intense moments, so i'll probably go back to 1024
Well said. If those countries took proper action on these frauds/theft then it wouldn't be such a problem.
Anecdotaly, I am an irc operator on the undernet's #javascript channel, and whenever we get any requests for code of a dubious nature, I'm willing to put money down that it is a Romanian asking the question, and am usually correct when I do the/whois on the user.
They are also fond of some of the most tacky websites I've ever seen. One person on #html once asked what was required in order to display animated gifs, to which someone replied "you need a.ro domain". Got lots of laughs.
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Never post your email address on slashdot. I got 900 emails!
I remember sending him an email. I also remember mentioning that the methodology (him mailing you the file) as opposed to downloading it or using Java Webstart was not the smarted way to go about doing this.
Finally, I also remember he never sent me an invite even though I asked. Oh well, glad it worked out for him in the long run.
So you're suggesting we dump html and move to flash? Ignore the open standard and move to something proprietary? I really don't think that's a good idea.
The parent comment never said that, nor do I think they implied it. He made only three points:
that this new standard could be used for more than just web plugins further down the road (a la activeX)
Macromedia has a vested interest in this since MS is about to come out with a competing product and and any ease of use issues with installing a plugin could affect Macromedia's ability to compete.
Flash has caught on and done what applets were supposed to do in the first place and if you tie this with point 1 then maybe you'll see it outside of the browser, and in a cross platform manner.
Although your concerns are valid, I don't think they had any bearing on points the original comment made.
If it looks black to the naked eye, isn't it then... black?
Behold the power of the prism....by simply intercepting a path of aparently white light, I present to you all the colours that light is composed of.
Just because it looks black doesn't mean it is black.
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I'm not too worried about it. I have a second gmail account that i'm gonna use more seriously. This one's more to see how good all the features are, and for ease of use issues. So far so good:-)
For the record, 4 hours after posting my msg I got aprox 230 requests for a gmail invite...I gave out the first four of my five invites in order or request, and am now about to randomly choose the fifth one...As the days go by I'll diligently work my way through the list, but in response to your question, this is what shows up at the bottom of my screen after 230 requests:
You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB.
So it appears that Slashdot is no match for the mighty Google.
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As a side note, I will give precedence to Hotmail users:-)
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However, on the flip side, how many people will buy them?
This always works the same way:
- clearing old inventory quickly: Some people will take advantage of the fact that the old PS2s will be discounted to clear inventory. So that's boon #1 for Sony.
- updating to the latest version: Others will replace their existing ones with the new ones becauase of the coolness factor (also looks like it would take up a lot less place in the back seat of an SUV), another boon for Sony
- reduction in manufacturing costs: The amount materials required to make a PStwo will less than for the PS2, meaning that Sony saves money in manufacturing, and can reduce the price further at its discretion, helping increase more sales.
This is hardly a new technique...everyone has done it, Commodore 64, Sega Master System, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Atari Lynx, Gameboy, PS1...the list goes on.Theocracy: A government ruled by or subject to religious authority.
This statement is simply not true.
I'll bite. First the parent's sig says that America is ...fast becoming a...theocracy, it ain't yet, but it's fast becoming one. Lets start with a few choice quotes from GWB, and we'll let the audience decide:
"God told me to strike at al Qaida and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did..." - GWB to Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
"Our nation has been chosen by God and commissioned by history, to be a model of justice before the world."
"I believe God has called us into action. Our country has got a responsibility, we are a great nation, we are a wealthy nation, we have a responsibility to help a neighbour in need, a brother and sister in crisis." -GWB in July 2003 in Uganda
Now, I'm not saying that what GWB is saying is bad (I'm certainly won't say it is good though), but if the USA is such a secular state, why is God's name brought up when it comes to Foreign Policy and Foreign Aid decisions? And don't give me that all encompassing "one God" crap, because although some religions believe in that, not all do, and some of us don't believe in a God at all. So if the USA is truly secular, why mention God?
Oh, and I don't know where you get off thinking that the religion that gets given the hardest time is Christianity. The religion that lost all of its unfairly earned priviledges is Christianity (e.g. loss of prayer in school, loss of slavery (yes, slavery is something advocated by the bible), loss of homosexual persecution), but it is just recent propaganda to say it has had the hardest time when compared to all the other religions that are practiced in the USA.
I'll agree with you that the USA is about the freedom of religion, but you are blind and ignorant if you deny that the current US government does not lean a certain amount of favour towards Christianity above and beyond what is acceptable in a secular state.
ECMAScript is up to version 3, with a version 4 in draft. JavaScript 1.5 is supposed to conform to ECMAScript 3 and JScript 5 as well.
While I agree that in the future you'd expect nightvision or at least some sort of lighting system on they shoulders/helmet to be standard fare, I think it would have taken some of the fun/fear away. Remember those pitch black rooms where the aliens were being shipped about in those eerily glowing glass containers...that was pretty damn cool and would have not been the same using NVGs.
Wrong again. There's plenty of stuff that hasn't adapted much in millions of years but has survived just fine, it boils down to reproduction and more specifically the speed and ease which something can reproduce.
Avoiding predators and other dangers may not require intelligence, but it requires instincts.
Nope. Tape-worm doesn't require instinct, neither do a lot of creatures that have managed to scrape by without any predators. Another technique is to reproduce so quickly and prolificaly that it doesn't matter if ya get killed 'cause the first thing ya did after you hatched (or whatever) was have a sh*tload of kids yourself.
I've been using Synergy for almost two weeks...it allowed me to give a new lease on life to an old Dell 166mx notebook. Highly recommended!
And bathroom solitaire.
oh, wait a minute....
/me wonders how much data can be stored on a punch card, and how much a blank card cost back in the day.
Hehe, and that's how I got my first subscription to the Economist at age 17.
I just wonder what Margaret Thatcher would think about purportedly living in Beverly Hills...
So I'm not the only non-beverly hills type who enters 90210 as a zip code? Heck I don't even live in the USA.
P4 2.8ghz Northwood overclocked to 3.0ghz with a gig of ram and a 9800pro ...it runs perfectly at 1024x786 with quality at HIGH, while it runs almost perfectly at 1280x1024 with quality still at HIGH, although it chops in some of the more intense moments, so i'll probably go back to 1024
Me (looking into the mirror) : "I can't tell if its a pimple or a pixel."
Girlfriend: "POKE it anyways."
If that doesn't say how geeky I am, nothing will.
Anecdotaly, I am an irc operator on the undernet's #javascript channel, and whenever we get any requests for code of a dubious nature, I'm willing to put money down that it is a Romanian asking the question, and am usually correct when I do the /whois on the user.
They are also fond of some of the most tacky websites I've ever seen. One person on #html once asked what was required in order to display animated gifs, to which someone replied "you need a .ro domain". Got lots of laughs.
Never post your email address on slashdot. I got 900 emails!
I remember sending him an email. I also remember mentioning that the methodology (him mailing you the file) as opposed to downloading it or using Java Webstart was not the smarted way to go about doing this.
Finally, I also remember he never sent me an invite even though I asked. Oh well, glad it worked out for him in the long run.
if Santa really is a lifeguard, then how can he be unemployed??
I'm a computer programmer. I'm unemployed. Chew on THAT!
I'm smarter than the average bear. I'm not a bear.
Thanks for the memory!
A great little eclectic Canadian 'zine Maisonneuve
My sentimonies exactly!
So you're suggesting we dump html and move to flash? Ignore the open standard and move to something proprietary? I really don't think that's a good idea.
The parent comment never said that, nor do I think they implied it. He made only three points:
- that this new standard could be used for more than just web plugins further down the road (a la activeX)
- Macromedia has a vested interest in this since MS is about to come out with a competing product and and any ease of use issues with installing a plugin could affect Macromedia's ability to compete.
- Flash has caught on and done what applets were supposed to do in the first place and if you tie this with point 1 then maybe you'll see it outside of the browser, and in a cross platform manner.
Although your concerns are valid, I don't think they had any bearing on points the original comment made.If it looks black to the naked eye, isn't it then... black?
Behold the power of the prism....by simply intercepting a path of aparently white light, I present to you all the colours that light is composed of.
Just because it looks black doesn't mean it is black.
I'm not too worried about it. I have a second gmail account that i'm gonna use more seriously. This one's more to see how good all the features are, and for ease of use issues. So far so good :-)
You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 1000 MB.
So it appears that Slashdot is no match for the mighty Google.
As a side note, I will give precedence to Hotmail users :-)