The difference is, in the butterfly world these marks signify some non-visible genetic advantage. Aside from needing more or less sunblock, I don't see how skin color has any inherent genetic advantage.
Simply put, not every single person that knows how to build a website is getting money thrown at them anymore. While many of these dot-bombs were hair-brained ideas, some came up with some really great stuff.
With less people getting the chance to try out their wacky ideas, you're getting less "innovation".
Your P/E is high because the invesetors don't believe they will get $10 today, $10 next year, etc.. as you wrote. They believe they will get $10 today, $20 next year, $25 the year after, etc.
P/E is not as relevant in a high-growth company, which some people believe Google still is. And you state that there are no barriers to entry, but the mindshare google has and the fact that people will choose google products (maps, gmail, etc) over what they currently have whether or not it is a better service tells me that unless google makes some major mistakes, their only major threat is MS due to its OS integration advantage.
I think most believe that Google has much more growth potential than either ebay or yahoo, thus the higher P/E. Further, you could make the argument google is much better positioned to take a bite out of yahoo or ebay than the other way around, making them very appealing.
For all/. makes fun of him, he still is one bright guy. I think the negative publicity and consequences of hard-wired implants for outweighs the benefit from the few who would want such things. The obvious exception being those who already have a major disability.
The point is that most people don't need 200GB drives and are willing to give up storage space for battery life concerns. While you're right the prices are dropping, the one area we haven't seen much improvement in wireless devices is battery life. They've become better at conserving power on the computer/device side, but not at making longer-lasting batteries.
I would gladly give up many GB's on my laptop and pay a little extra for extended battery life if solid state drives can deliver. That's much preferrable to dimming the screen to painful levels or getting a sub-notebook with a tiny screen.
By not enforcing the DMCA on the people who they help crack this copy protection, do they now forfeit their right to sue others who crack their products? Would it now be legal to DeCSS Sony movies?
I would bet it's the same reason why they kept OSX running on intel hardware all these years...
In case they need it. If 5 years from now, they decide to ditch hardware and go all software, they'd need a viable office suite because MS would pull mac office pretty damn fast. And you don't get a professional quality software suite in 1 or 2 years of work, it takes 5 or so. Thus, start pages/ical/mail/numbers now, and by the time they MIGHT need it, it'd be ready.
I've used Openoffice. On Mac OSX, openoffice/neooffice is like running a java app. As in, "not fun".
If they used the Marathon storyline as opposed to the Halo storyline. For those who don't know, Marathon, Marathon: Durandal, and the final Marathon were all for mac before MS bought Bungie. The first two had the best storylines ever, and were written by a different company than the 3rd and the Halo series. I really hope the first two are used for the storyline, as they are far superior in enough ambiguity to make it interesting (think: Bladerunner) and the best AI character development I've ever seen.
I went through that. I love my PS2 and am really happy with it, but if Sony doesn't include a HD by default in the PS3, I'm gonna get myself an Xbox360. Screw paying them $100 for a crappy 40gig HD and then having it be completely useless.
It'd be stupid not to include the HD for the reasons you mentioned, and also because every PS3 they don't sell is possibly one less supporter of Blue-ray. They have multiple divisions riding on the PS3 success. Don't screw it up!
Lots of games use realistic settings. I'm thinking of The Getaway which has a very very realistic setting in London.
Wouldn't this make a great starting point for game developers that want realistic settings in cities? Seems like this would be about 75% of the work if there's a way to easily import it.
I would bet this is due to the significant number of LCD's being produced for both desktops and laptops (making prices similar and overall laptop prices cheaper).
Isn't that what used to keep laptop prices sky-high?
"At present, providing enough battery life is a problem. But battery technology is improving all the time, and Mr Bryant does not see it as a major obstacle."
Didn't we just have an article yesterday on how battery life technology was at a near standstill?
Car dealers it's great. I've had that happen to me because I make sure I drive my worst car possible and show up in a t-shirt.
If someone does come up to you, say: "Well, I was looking to buy this silver m5, but since none of you were interested in helping me or selling this car, I'm just going to go to the mercedes dealership. Also, I'm going to send a complain to BMW about your terrible service and how it's made me realize that BMW is not a company that values its customers."
Salesperson: "I'm sorry blah blah bl--"
You: "Forget it. It's too late now."
Of course, this only works if you actually follow through and write the letter to their manufacturer. Surprisingly, many companies want to make sure you are very satisfied to create repeat customers. I'm yet to hear the auto industry refer to anyone as a "bottom-feeder". Remember, complaining to GM, BMW, Mercedes, or Ford will do you more good than complaining to the BBB.
"7. Loading... As soon as you come up with a mechanism to physically get 16 megs of data off a DVD rom faster than 1 second, I'll be all over improving load times. It's truly staggering how much data has to be loaded from disk and how frequently it has to be done. On the PC, fire up ye old task manager sometime and turn on the I/O stats for the process. Then be shocked as your game loads multiple gigs of data from disk over the run of the game. All in the name of that "immersion" you're looking for."
Actually, several games have done this and have made gameplay experience 10x better. I think the Jak series has no loading times. I think the bigger complaint is load-times mid-level. I don't mind if I start the game and have a load time, but when I'm just walking into a new room with the same textures and creatures (see: Champions), there's no reason those load times couldn't be streamlined better.
"they, and their alumni, don't want to be associated with the type of people that will create another Enron."
I'm sorry, but did you just equate figuring out your own admission status from a URL to embezzling, lying to the public, and squandering countless people's pensions and lifelong investments?
1) A dedicated server to manage access permissions. 2) A database of customer MACs 3) A unique identifier for each customer (even if this is just a magnetic swipe card, you've got to buy the machine and eat the cost of each card per customer) 4) A POS device that is networked with the server 5) Someone who can actually set all this up 6) Someone on-site who can fix it (with an open access point, fixing it is as easy as unplugging the WAP).
Way too much trouble for a system where there is high transaction volume and low transaction dollar value.
Buying all new computers Making sure each component (RAM, Hard Drive, motherboard, cables, Processor, power center, graphics card, sound card, USB cards, Firewire cards, ethernet cards) is high quality Making sure each component is comatible with one another Making sure each component is compatible with windows XP Making sure all the comps have the same BIOS Securing Windows XP so it isn't a security mess Buying and installing replacement applications to the ones he doesn't like Transferring all data to to the new network and setting up your network...
is less drastic than:
Buying new macs Getting the software that "just works" (which, like safari, many come pre-installed) Transferring over the data and setting up your network.
you make switching to macs sound like he decided to lop his ear off.
"VMX -... It is what offers Apple serious performance benefits in certain applications, and makes possible many of the near/realtime capbilities in programs like iPhoto, iMovie, and even Final Cut Pro."
Eh, all VMX does in my opinion is make macs comparable to PC's in those specific applications. With a faster processor, you wouldn't need it. The G5 is no longer the small efficient processor the G3's were. Hell, we still don't have G5's in laptops.
Unless you're also eliminating the ID check, this isn't going to save any time. Plus, I don't see the benefit of not having to swipe outweighing the problems with something that compromises security this much.
Further, this will make it a nightmare for law enforcement. Most credit card rings go through a retail location (i.e., a waiter jacks everyone's info, and someone else does the fraud). However, if you could just steal credit card info from people who you just brush up against, there'd be very little for authorities to go on.
With the recent PS3 announcement of Blu-Ray, and no HD-DVD from the Xbox or Nintendo Revolution, I seriously think Blu-Ray has won this. Besides having better capacity, they're going to guarantee themselves 25-50 million players in households by Spring 2006? Plus an additional 20+ million each year thereafter, that's a large footprint. Even if HD-DVD is more cost efficient and beats them to market (say a decent amount of players available by xmas 2005), I can't see the same amount of people jumping on the HD-DVD bandwagon in its first 6 months to outweigh the PS3 release.
I hope HD-DVD hits a stumbling block, no one wants format wars.
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Problem: When you say "technologically superior" that usually means higher hardware requirements... which until now we knew was true.
However, with HD-DVD's shunning of component HDTV owners, it is no longer the cheaper solution that plays on everything.
Big win for Blu-ray, and with the PS3 and more storage, could be the nail in the coffin for HDDVD.
Not sure about that. There's lots of product placement ads in movies, and I've never seen a warning on any movie I've bought.
But I agree that crappy ads will make me not buy a game. However, if the ad is subtle (APC on your rice rocket, for example).. I think it can flow.
The difference is, in the butterfly world these marks signify some non-visible genetic advantage. Aside from needing more or less sunblock, I don't see how skin color has any inherent genetic advantage.
So no, I don't think it's like racism.
Simply put, not every single person that knows how to build a website is getting money thrown at them anymore. While many of these dot-bombs were hair-brained ideas, some came up with some really great stuff.
With less people getting the chance to try out their wacky ideas, you're getting less "innovation".
Your P/E is high because the invesetors don't believe they will get $10 today, $10 next year, etc.. as you wrote. They believe they will get $10 today, $20 next year, $25 the year after, etc.
P/E is not as relevant in a high-growth company, which some people believe Google still is. And you state that there are no barriers to entry, but the mindshare google has and the fact that people will choose google products (maps, gmail, etc) over what they currently have whether or not it is a better service tells me that unless google makes some major mistakes, their only major threat is MS due to its OS integration advantage.
I think most believe that Google has much more growth potential than either ebay or yahoo, thus the higher P/E. Further, you could make the argument google is much better positioned to take a bite out of yahoo or ebay than the other way around, making them very appealing.
For all /. makes fun of him, he still is one bright guy. I think the negative publicity and consequences of hard-wired implants for outweighs the benefit from the few who would want such things. The obvious exception being those who already have a major disability.
The point is that most people don't need 200GB drives and are willing to give up storage space for battery life concerns. While you're right the prices are dropping, the one area we haven't seen much improvement in wireless devices is battery life. They've become better at conserving power on the computer/device side, but not at making longer-lasting batteries.
I would gladly give up many GB's on my laptop and pay a little extra for extended battery life if solid state drives can deliver. That's much preferrable to dimming the screen to painful levels or getting a sub-notebook with a tiny screen.
Can they not sue now?
By not enforcing the DMCA on the people who they help crack this copy protection, do they now forfeit their right to sue others who crack their products? Would it now be legal to DeCSS Sony movies?
I would bet it's the same reason why they kept OSX running on intel hardware all these years...
In case they need it. If 5 years from now, they decide to ditch hardware and go all software, they'd need a viable office suite because MS would pull mac office pretty damn fast. And you don't get a professional quality software suite in 1 or 2 years of work, it takes 5 or so. Thus, start pages/ical/mail/numbers now, and by the time they MIGHT need it, it'd be ready.
I've used Openoffice. On Mac OSX, openoffice/neooffice is like running a java app. As in, "not fun".
If they used the Marathon storyline as opposed to the Halo storyline. For those who don't know, Marathon, Marathon: Durandal, and the final Marathon were all for mac before MS bought Bungie. The first two had the best storylines ever, and were written by a different company than the 3rd and the Halo series. I really hope the first two are used for the storyline, as they are far superior in enough ambiguity to make it interesting (think: Bladerunner) and the best AI character development I've ever seen.
http://marathon.bungie.org/story/
I went through that. I love my PS2 and am really happy with it, but if Sony doesn't include a HD by default in the PS3, I'm gonna get myself an Xbox360. Screw paying them $100 for a crappy 40gig HD and then having it be completely useless.
It'd be stupid not to include the HD for the reasons you mentioned, and also because every PS3 they don't sell is possibly one less supporter of Blue-ray. They have multiple divisions riding on the PS3 success. Don't screw it up!
Lots of games use realistic settings. I'm thinking of The Getaway which has a very very realistic setting in London.
Wouldn't this make a great starting point for game developers that want realistic settings in cities? Seems like this would be about 75% of the work if there's a way to easily import it.
I would bet this is due to the significant number of LCD's being produced for both desktops and laptops (making prices similar and overall laptop prices cheaper).
Isn't that what used to keep laptop prices sky-high?
in 2003, laptops outsold desktops in terms of revenue. these new figures are in terms of units.
"At present, providing enough battery life is a problem. But battery technology is improving all the time, and Mr Bryant does not see it as a major obstacle."
Didn't we just have an article yesterday on how battery life technology was at a near standstill?
Car dealers it's great. I've had that happen to me because I make sure I drive my worst car possible and show up in a t-shirt.
If someone does come up to you, say: "Well, I was looking to buy this silver m5, but since none of you were interested in helping me or selling this car, I'm just going to go to the mercedes dealership. Also, I'm going to send a complain to BMW about your terrible service and how it's made me realize that BMW is not a company that values its customers."
Salesperson: "I'm sorry blah blah bl--"
You: "Forget it. It's too late now."
Of course, this only works if you actually follow through and write the letter to their manufacturer. Surprisingly, many companies want to make sure you are very satisfied to create repeat customers. I'm yet to hear the auto industry refer to anyone as a "bottom-feeder". Remember, complaining to GM, BMW, Mercedes, or Ford will do you more good than complaining to the BBB.
"7. Loading...
As soon as you come up with a mechanism to physically get 16 megs of data off a DVD rom faster than 1 second, I'll be all over improving load times. It's truly staggering how much data has to be loaded from disk and how frequently it has to be done. On the PC, fire up ye old task manager sometime and turn on the I/O stats for the process. Then be shocked as your game loads multiple gigs of data from disk over the run of the game. All in the name of that "immersion" you're looking for."
Actually, several games have done this and have made gameplay experience 10x better. I think the Jak series has no loading times. I think the bigger complaint is load-times mid-level. I don't mind if I start the game and have a load time, but when I'm just walking into a new room with the same textures and creatures (see: Champions), there's no reason those load times couldn't be streamlined better.
"they, and their alumni, don't want to be associated with the type of people that will create another Enron."
I'm sorry, but did you just equate figuring out your own admission status from a URL to embezzling, lying to the public, and squandering countless people's pensions and lifelong investments?
Not very. Let's see what you need:
1) A dedicated server to manage access permissions.
2) A database of customer MACs
3) A unique identifier for each customer (even if this is just a magnetic swipe card, you've got to buy the machine and eat the cost of each card per customer)
4) A POS device that is networked with the server
5) Someone who can actually set all this up
6) Someone on-site who can fix it (with an open access point, fixing it is as easy as unplugging the WAP).
Way too much trouble for a system where there is high transaction volume and low transaction dollar value.
Ok, explain to me how:
Buying all new computers
Making sure each component (RAM, Hard Drive, motherboard, cables, Processor, power center, graphics card, sound card, USB cards, Firewire cards, ethernet cards) is high quality
Making sure each component is comatible with one another
Making sure each component is compatible with windows XP
Making sure all the comps have the same BIOS
Securing Windows XP so it isn't a security mess
Buying and installing replacement applications to the ones he doesn't like
Transferring all data to to the new network and setting up your network...
is less drastic than:
Buying new macs
Getting the software that "just works" (which, like safari, many come pre-installed)
Transferring over the data and setting up your network.
you make switching to macs sound like he decided to lop his ear off.
the title of the blog entry is "Netscape 8 Is Unsafe". Sounds pretty FUDish to me.
"VMX - ... It is what offers Apple serious performance benefits in certain applications, and makes possible many of the near/realtime capbilities in programs like iPhoto, iMovie, and even Final Cut Pro."
Eh, all VMX does in my opinion is make macs comparable to PC's in those specific applications. With a faster processor, you wouldn't need it. The G5 is no longer the small efficient processor the G3's were. Hell, we still don't have G5's in laptops.
I wonder how much more coke I'd consume if a website reminded me how caffeine addicted I am. I don't think I've ever seen a soft drink ad online.
Unless you're also eliminating the ID check, this isn't going to save any time. Plus, I don't see the benefit of not having to swipe outweighing the problems with something that compromises security this much.
Further, this will make it a nightmare for law enforcement. Most credit card rings go through a retail location (i.e., a waiter jacks everyone's info, and someone else does the fraud). However, if you could just steal credit card info from people who you just brush up against, there'd be very little for authorities to go on.
With the recent PS3 announcement of Blu-Ray, and no HD-DVD from the Xbox or Nintendo Revolution, I seriously think Blu-Ray has won this. Besides having better capacity, they're going to guarantee themselves 25-50 million players in households by Spring 2006? Plus an additional 20+ million each year thereafter, that's a large footprint. Even if HD-DVD is more cost efficient and beats them to market (say a decent amount of players available by xmas 2005), I can't see the same amount of people jumping on the HD-DVD bandwagon in its first 6 months to outweigh the PS3 release.
I hope HD-DVD hits a stumbling block, no one wants format wars.