What do you think is going on. Myspace is a huge network channel it's being out affects a significant population of consumers/people that generate revenue. It doesn't matter what you think of the site specifically. Do you think that if NBC or CBS shut down for a whole day because of a single power outage it would be news worthy? It would be.
I think this points to a huge weakness in the network infrastructure. When entire channels disappear for a day because of bad hardware it makes for a news worthy story.
Xbox games, PC games, and Gamecube games don't work on a Playstation. They all operate in closed systems. It is clear when you purchase a game that it is for the Playstation, not your PC or the Xbox. The iPod is not a closed system.
The iPod plays music from a variety of sources. If it could only play music that was purchased for the iPod then it would be clear to the consumer that they are purchasing iPod music. It's not clear to most people that they are purchasing iPod music. They are purchasing songs. Songs obviously play on a variety of hardware. I think there is a reasonable expectation that music files are device independant.
If the iPod was restricted to only playing music that was downloaded from iTunes I think they would stand a better chance in the court of world opinion. But since they are playing the whole field they need to play by a whole set of rules.
You are absolutly wrong. GM has been forced to license their diagnostic format. The diagnostic code has to be availble to prevent a hardware lock in for repair centers. That's why you can take your GM car to a local shop and have it repaired without having to goto just the GM repair center.
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Uh... you do realize they are going to be marketed as 'i' controllers. i agianst i.
Two controllers making the name Wii. People are going to know the name and that the controllers are different.
That's not so weird. He has you to pick, purchase, assemble the system and provide support. You should account for your billable hours and when the system is done and your friend is happy with his new computer only then can you calculate the cost to "him".
I think you will find that by the time he's playing games you probably sucked up the difference in price, and then some, with your labor.
I don't think this as anything to do with Nintendo being sure of itself. It's just market economics. I also think it makes for happy consumers.
At first you have to work with the parts that are availible and have been produced. The screens are only so good at the price range your looking for. You can design a $800 dollar handheld but you can't sell it, so you go with what the market will accept.
Then you sell a million of the units and the producer of the screens uses that capital to improve their production and the design of the screens. The price comes down on current production. You can afford to put better screens in while keeping the same price range or you can keep the same screens and increase your margins.
I think it's to their credit that they don't keep producing units with the lesser quality screens. The just swap in their $800 dollar design when the manufacturing costs come down enough to fit their price range.
Right now, today, I expect there is a smaller thinner version on some engineers desk that costs $800 to produce.
New and original? What are you talking about? "King Kong" is a remake of a remake. Halo2 isn't new or original.
He's proven to be good at visualizing other people's source material so why doesn't he get on with completing the Hobbit before the principal actors die off. Nothing wrong with him working on a complete series.
My son's eight and we still call StarCraft "Playing Teams" which is what he called it back when he was five. My wife and I play with him agianst one or two computer opponents.
Are you saying that you can burn an album of music and have be recognizable by an IMBD and you can then rip it with song title etc... I don't think you are.
How do you know that every CD you burn doesn't have a hash that can be used to identify the account that made it?
Well this is exactly why I like Newegg and not "Some Companies". Newegg _always_ sends you emails and comfirmations about every step of the process. Order entry, Billing Acceptance, Material movement, Material shipping plus tracking number. I don't know any other site that is this compleate. If I don't get a response from Newegg, I _know_ my order didn't go through and I can take action accordingly. They don't have any mystery in their process and are very verbose about status.
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This answer is too simple. People want to have a resonable expectation of privacy and security. Anyone can invade my house at any time. The answer is not to try and live in a seperate fortress some of the time. The answer is to live in a place where it is unreasonable for someone to invade your house.
Unless you want to live in an internet ghetto people need to speak for and require a basic level of security over their information. People should expect it and they should get it. Industries that can't provide that should be barred from performing. I have a right to an expectation of privacy and my rights trump their business risk.
That said I trust Google far more than I trust Microsoft, Yahoo or any other independant search engines.
Slashdot will dutifully report that suits are back in at the office every fall. And every one will post about the submarine and PR industries creating this buzz.
What more people need to realize is these attacks on Google are important because they are in entertainment magazines and sections. Google is getting all kinds of negative gossip stories printed about them. You ignore it because you know... but most people don't.
What I'm curious to know is if this is being driven by the same firms that try to sell suits to us every season.
Also as the hammer maker your not entitled to a profit from the use to which the hammer is put. You don't get a percentage of every house built by your hammer. Car manufactures are not compensated for adds and they don't get a percentage of taxi cabs profits.
But, what about product placement in movies? Do you have to pay Ford to use their cars in movies? What about cars in comercials? Do movies use generic soda cans because they can't use Pepsi or do they use generic soda because it creates a market for Pepsi to buy placement.
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What do you think is going on. Myspace is a huge network channel it's being out affects a significant population of consumers/people that generate revenue. It doesn't matter what you think of the site specifically. Do you think that if NBC or CBS shut down for a whole day because of a single power outage it would be news worthy? It would be.
I think this points to a huge weakness in the network infrastructure. When entire channels disappear for a day because of bad hardware it makes for a news worthy story.
Xbox games, PC games, and Gamecube games don't work on a Playstation. They all operate in closed systems. It is clear when you purchase a game that it is for the Playstation, not your PC or the Xbox. The iPod is not a closed system.
The iPod plays music from a variety of sources. If it could only play music that was purchased for the iPod then it would be clear to the consumer that they are purchasing iPod music. It's not clear to most people that they are purchasing iPod music. They are purchasing songs. Songs obviously play on a variety of hardware. I think there is a reasonable expectation that music files are device independant.
If the iPod was restricted to only playing music that was downloaded from iTunes I think they would stand a better chance in the court of world opinion. But since they are playing the whole field they need to play by a whole set of rules.
You are absolutly wrong. GM has been forced to license their diagnostic format. The diagnostic code has to be availble to prevent a hardware lock in for repair centers. That's why you can take your GM car to a local shop and have it repaired without having to goto just the GM repair center.
Uh... you do realize they are going to be marketed as 'i' controllers. i agianst i.
Two controllers making the name Wii. People are going to know the name and that the controllers are different.
That's not so weird. He has you to pick, purchase, assemble the system and provide support. You should account for your billable hours and when the system is done and your friend is happy with his new computer only then can you calculate the cost to "him".
I think you will find that by the time he's playing games you probably sucked up the difference in price, and then some, with your labor.
Tag line:
Old people just don't get the revolution.
Clip of old 'Irish Guy' holding the controller sideways and trying to figure out where to plug it in.
Wii, if you have to ask, you don't know.
Etc...
"WHeeeeeeeee!! I'm dancing like a monkey." to quote Grr from invader Zim. People should focus on the fun more.
If you have to include a pronuciation guide then that should indicate that the name is going to have problems.
Why can't they make a .christ TLD that maps only the holy parts of the .com TLD? Then for the .org TLD they could use .mas.
Systems should not crash due to 3rd party applications.
If an application crashes, the system should tell me what application crashed and why the system had to kill it.
If you put a cron job on your Linux box doing an init 0 every 5 minutes you should get a request to login in as root every 5 minutes.
Don't forget Final Fantasy.
I don't think this as anything to do with Nintendo being sure of itself. It's just market economics. I also think it makes for happy consumers.
At first you have to work with the parts that are availible and have been produced. The screens are only so good at the price range your looking for. You can design a $800 dollar handheld but you can't sell it, so you go with what the market will accept.
Then you sell a million of the units and the producer of the screens uses that capital to improve their production and the design of the screens. The price comes down on current production. You can afford to put better screens in while keeping the same price range or you can keep the same screens and increase your margins.
I think it's to their credit that they don't keep producing units with the lesser quality screens. The just swap in their $800 dollar design when the manufacturing costs come down enough to fit their price range.
Right now, today, I expect there is a smaller thinner version on some engineers desk that costs $800 to produce.
New and original? What are you talking about? "King Kong" is a remake of a remake. Halo2 isn't new or original.
He's proven to be good at visualizing other people's source material so why doesn't he get on with completing the Hobbit before the principal actors die off. Nothing wrong with him working on a complete series.
My son's eight and we still call StarCraft "Playing Teams" which is what he called it back when he was five. My wife and I play with him agianst one or two computer opponents.
Are you saying that you can burn an album of music and have be recognizable by an IMBD and you can then rip it with song title etc... I don't think you are.
How do you know that every CD you burn doesn't have a hash that can be used to identify the account that made it?
Well this is exactly why I like Newegg and not "Some Companies". Newegg _always_ sends you emails and comfirmations about every step of the process. Order entry, Billing Acceptance, Material movement, Material shipping plus tracking number. I don't know any other site that is this compleate. If I don't get a response from Newegg, I _know_ my order didn't go through and I can take action accordingly. They don't have any mystery in their process and are very verbose about status.
Could someone please post a torrent to the Matremix when he's finished it?
Not if you're a distiller, dealer or game publisher.
That's GNU/Linux you mother ($#%$#@(%*!
This answer is too simple. People want to have a resonable expectation of privacy and security. Anyone can invade my house at any time. The answer is not to try and live in a seperate fortress some of the time. The answer is to live in a place where it is unreasonable for someone to invade your house.
Unless you want to live in an internet ghetto people need to speak for and require a basic level of security over their information. People should expect it and they should get it. Industries that can't provide that should be barred from performing. I have a right to an expectation of privacy and my rights trump their business risk.
That said I trust Google far more than I trust Microsoft, Yahoo or any other independant search engines.
Slashdot will dutifully report that suits are back in at the office every fall. And every one will post about the submarine and PR industries creating this buzz.
What more people need to realize is these attacks on Google are important because they are in entertainment magazines and sections. Google is getting all kinds of negative gossip stories printed about them. You ignore it because you know... but most people don't.
What I'm curious to know is if this is being driven by the same firms that try to sell suits to us every season.
You should think about it everytime you see a limbless veteran.
Shouldn't there be a goatse.cx link right here?
Not exactly, with Gentoo you have to install and compile the system before you can read the html manual.
Also as the hammer maker your not entitled to a profit from the use to which the hammer is put. You don't get a percentage of every house built by your hammer. Car manufactures are not compensated for adds and they don't get a percentage of taxi cabs profits.
But, what about product placement in movies? Do you have to pay Ford to use their cars in movies? What about cars in comercials? Do movies use generic soda cans because they can't use Pepsi or do they use generic soda because it creates a market for Pepsi to buy placement.