The article he sites doesn't make a statement even remotely close to that.
Well, the article cited does say "Estimates have been $900 per console, according to Merrill Lynch analysts..." Let's see, $499 retail, minus $900 production cost equals...a good bit more than $400 per machine lost when you consider that Sony only gets about half of the retail price.
But we never told them to stop treating other people (or their computers) with suspicion. Now all we have to do is teach them how to tell the difference. ("It's simple, Dad. A real modal dialog box won't let you do anything until in the current application until you answer its question. This popup doesn't intercept your inputs to the rest of the browser like a dialog box would, see? And notice how the cursor turns into the pointing finger that signifies a link?") [cue hysterical laughter/weeping].
I hope you're right, but according to this article, ISPs have so far successfully fought against common carrier status. They have used other legislation, like the Communications Decency Act and DMCA to shield them from liability for third party actions, and I guess they assume they will be able to continue to do so. Naturally, most of us at/. would strongly encourage our "representatives" to deny the cables/telcos their liability protection if they can't play nicely, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that we could win.
Come on, if finals have your brain this wiped, then quit posting for a few days. I do troll now and then, but this wasn't one of those times (and I don't think I could make a living at it). Your post was pretty weird, what with the gender mix-up and the OT rant, and your follow-up was a glorious victory over a straw man. vcr=Boston Strangler? law=morality? "hunted like animals?" Over the top.
When you say you were talking about "the quote" I can only assume you mean the one in the original Slashdot post. It's pretty clear that that's all you read before you posted, which just wastes everybody's time. It's easy to see (from your sig as well as your posts here) that DRM is a Big Deal to you. Fine, but it was not the subject of TFA, and it's not something that Radia Perlman spends a lot of time on (here is a (short) list of her recently-published work at Sun). In the interview, she basically calls DRM a waste of time. For what it's worth, I agree with that. But, you can't expect everyone to climb on a soapbox every time the subject is mentioned in passing.
Yes, forget pirating music. Concentrate on pirating movies instead.
Only on slashdot could a rambling, confused, semi-understandable post like this one ("corporates" are bad, unless they're created for the purpose selling DVD-cracking software, in which case they contribute to the economy) get modded insightful. Apparently, OP thinks the "Mother of the Internet" is a man and that Radia Perlman is an obscure person (I'm forced to guess a bit here at the meaning). But he's "insightful" because he knows that DRM is evil, and that's good enough for us.
Actually, you probably meant to say "semi-annually," but that too ignores the point that Oracle should be allocating enough resources to patch vulnerabilities at the rate they are discovered. "Correct patches, delivered fast enough to keep up with the bugs," should be the standard, not "correct patches as fast as we can get around to them with what we've got handy."
I don't quite get what you're saying. I am browsing in Mozilla right now. When I created a new tab and pasted "http://internal/dontgoogle/this.php" into the box and hit Enter, it took me to a nothing "site" parked at GoDaddy. It would do this no matter how many times I ran the procedure. I have to hit the down arrow, then Enter to get a search.
Firefox is even more fool-proof (less convenient IMO): there's a completely separate box to enter search text.
I'm afraid that will always have to be good enough for human beings. Just be glad there is something that will alleviate the problem while we work on better solutions.
Well I'll be damned, you're right. When I read "discovered last year" in the article, I naturally assumed that Slashdot had posted another 2 year old story as "news," but according to the story's date it's current. Good catch.
Quit wasting your time and making yourself a target. Overwhelming majorities believe in God, ghosts, and ESP. How the hell are you going to have a meaningful discussion about something as hard to understand as the causes of global warming?
Learn to talk about football. Men will like you better, and women will willing receive your sperm.
You can regain the time you pissed away on getting the e-book by not reading the novel. I tried to when I was fourteen (like many/.ers, I read sf voraciously as a kid--there's not much chance it was over my head) and I couldn't even finish it. I recall one of the characters trying to cover up the bruises her boyfriend had left on her breasts with makeup--hot stuff to a teenager, and I STILL couldn't drag my way through the rest of the thing.
Yeah, I thought that too. And this was insightful:
Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved, which is providing the machine with an extra jolt of energy just as the plasma ions are beginning to slow down.
Translation: For some reason, it got really, really hot.
Well, ugh, I wouldn't pay for gold, but have it your way. I quit playing completely, so what do I know about how to enjoy the thing? However, it IS possible to average 50g per day in 3 - 4 hours per evening. I played on Nathrezim until December, and there was never a time when you couldn't farm the elementals (both earth and wind--I forget exactly what they're called) in NW Silithis for over ten gold per hour. I think the Essence(s) of Air/Earth were the big scores, but virtually everything they drop has some value, and it adds up pretty fast. One night I got a ring of fire resist from one of the tornado thingies; I sold that on the AH for 200g.
when I say, "yeah, that's why I quit, too." It's one thing to be stuck in the slow lane because you "only" play 25 - 30 hours per week; it's another to know that many of the in-game rewards are completely out of reach, forever and ever, no matter how smart you play or how skilled you become. After about 10 months, I just gave it up.
Honest question: why, then, is it called Guild Wars? I like to solo; I don't want to be in a 40-man raid; I would like skill to matter even though I don't have much of it (gamewise). But I would never have thought something called "Guild Wars" would be what I was looking for.
Why do people with a lot to add to the discussion post AC? It reduces the size of your audience and makes replies seem pointless (like this one). As glorious as it is to see your work modded -1 (troll), most people actually get and use their Slashdot id's to facilitate the discussion. (Being down-modded by 14 year-old Mac fanboys is just a perc).
You got modded up. Use the karma in good health. But that fact that this simple observation merits +1 insightful should tell you all you need to know about the level of discussion here.
Of course, dates aren't the only way to measure the passage of time, Mr. 2054. You've been here long enough to know we's not too smart 'round these parts.
... an e-mail thread between Steve Jobs and himself...
I've never been a big fan of Jobs, but I had no idea he was so hard up for friends that he had to exchange email with himself. I almost feel sorry for the prick.
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Well, the article cited does say "Estimates have been $900 per console, according to Merrill Lynch analysts..." Let's see, $499 retail, minus $900 production cost equals...a good bit more than $400 per machine lost when you consider that Sony only gets about half of the retail price.
What article were you reading?
But we never told them to stop treating other people (or their computers) with suspicion. Now all we have to do is teach them how to tell the difference. ("It's simple, Dad. A real modal dialog box won't let you do anything until in the current application until you answer its question. This popup doesn't intercept your inputs to the rest of the browser like a dialog box would, see? And notice how the cursor turns into the pointing finger that signifies a link?") [cue hysterical laughter/weeping].
I hope you're right, but according to this article, ISPs have so far successfully fought against common carrier status. They have used other legislation, like the Communications Decency Act and DMCA to shield them from liability for third party actions, and I guess they assume they will be able to continue to do so. Naturally, most of us at /. would strongly encourage our "representatives" to deny the cables/telcos their liability protection if they can't play nicely, but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that we could win.
When you say you were talking about "the quote" I can only assume you mean the one in the original Slashdot post. It's pretty clear that that's all you read before you posted, which just wastes everybody's time. It's easy to see (from your sig as well as your posts here) that DRM is a Big Deal to you. Fine, but it was not the subject of TFA, and it's not something that Radia Perlman spends a lot of time on (here is a (short) list of her recently-published work at Sun). In the interview, she basically calls DRM a waste of time. For what it's worth, I agree with that. But, you can't expect everyone to climb on a soapbox every time the subject is mentioned in passing.
Only on slashdot could a rambling, confused, semi-understandable post like this one ("corporates" are bad, unless they're created for the purpose selling DVD-cracking software, in which case they contribute to the economy) get modded insightful. Apparently, OP thinks the "Mother of the Internet" is a man and that Radia Perlman is an obscure person (I'm forced to guess a bit here at the meaning). But he's "insightful" because he knows that DRM is evil, and that's good enough for us.
Actually, you probably meant to say "semi-annually," but that too ignores the point that Oracle should be allocating enough resources to patch vulnerabilities at the rate they are discovered. "Correct patches, delivered fast enough to keep up with the bugs," should be the standard, not "correct patches as fast as we can get around to them with what we've got handy."
1. The following sentence is false.
2. The previous sentence is true.
The /. version goes like this:
1. John Dvorak never gets anything right.
2. John Dvorak says Microsoft is dead in the water.
Firefox is even more fool-proof (less convenient IMO): there's a completely separate box to enter search text.
How does your browser work?
I'm afraid that will always have to be good enough for human beings. Just be glad there is something that will alleviate the problem while we work on better solutions.
Well I'll be damned, you're right. When I read "discovered last year" in the article, I naturally assumed that Slashdot had posted another 2 year old story as "news," but according to the story's date it's current. Good catch.
Learn to talk about football. Men will like you better, and women will willing receive your sperm.
It sounds like you do get it. These machines are pointless.
YMMV
Sandia consultant Malcolm Haines theorizes that some unknown energy source is involved, which is providing the machine with an extra jolt of energy just as the plasma ions are beginning to slow down.
Translation: For some reason, it got really, really hot.
Journalism at its finest.
Happy hunting.
Do you play on a PVE server? On a PVP server, "second best" is "first dead," so yes, I had a problem with that.
when I say, "yeah, that's why I quit, too." It's one thing to be stuck in the slow lane because you "only" play 25 - 30 hours per week; it's another to know that many of the in-game rewards are completely out of reach, forever and ever, no matter how smart you play or how skilled you become. After about 10 months, I just gave it up.
Honest question: why, then, is it called Guild Wars? I like to solo; I don't want to be in a 40-man raid; I would like skill to matter even though I don't have much of it (gamewise). But I would never have thought something called "Guild Wars" would be what I was looking for.
...to write around the phrase "do do". Otherwise, sophomoric jerks like me will make fun of you.
Newspaper publishing is a very low-margin business. Fact-checking is beyond their means. You should know this.
Why do people with a lot to add to the discussion post AC? It reduces the size of your audience and makes replies seem pointless (like this one). As glorious as it is to see your work modded -1 (troll), most people actually get and use their Slashdot id's to facilitate the discussion. (Being down-modded by 14 year-old Mac fanboys is just a perc).
This was a work of art until the last paragraph. Try not to diminish your impact by overexplaining. Thanks for a great post, anyway.
Of course, dates aren't the only way to measure the passage of time, Mr. 2054. You've been here long enough to know we's not too smart 'round these parts.
I've never been a big fan of Jobs, but I had no idea he was so hard up for friends that he had to exchange email with himself. I almost feel sorry for the prick.
Well, duh! Every version of emacs comes complete with this handy antinews. Simply follow these steps to get back where you came from. Should be a piece of cake.