Well it's partially true but not in the condesending way Nintendo trolls would make you think.
One thing people always seem to forget is Sony, Xbox, and Nintendo do not share the same 100% demographic. Sony and Xbox target an older crowd. There typical sales demographic is 16-35. Where as Nintendo's demographic has historically been 8-21 range. Nintendo will make games for younger kids but also bring out games young teens and some young adults will like. Where as PS2 and Xbox may only release a young teen style Ratchet and Crank style game but really cater to an older crowd. It's been one of Nintendos saving graces since many parents may not want their 8 yr old playing Halo 2 for instance. For the pre teen and young ones Nintendo is still the best choice and Nintendo still gives Xbox a running for the older crowd.
"Firefox has a lot more "word-of-mouth" - this time last year almost no one at my school had even heard of Firefox, this year Firefox is on every computer on the school; how many non-geeks have heard of Opera?"
Sure people have heard of Firefox. If google buys Opera I am sure at this time next year, people will all of heard of Google's Gbrowser too. I am guessing the purchase of Opera will be merely the code for the engine of the future Google web browser.
if you think $20,000 is a lot of money then you are not in the target demographic. The current people who can afford and are interested in being the first on their block to travel on a suborbital flight are people who consider $200,000 a drop in the bucket for a vacation or trip like that.
they didn't say they didn't understand what a single board computer was. They said they didn't know what the requirenment was that would make a single board computer the best solution.
No native games,but it runs several emulators which means it has the advantage of being able to play games from other portables and consoles, plus memory is a non issue on it since it is swappable and cheap to buy now a days for the unit.
They didn't do anything to YOUR computer or software. They added new group onto the buddy list stored on THEIR server. All your software does it read information from THEIR server and display it. They did nothing to YOUR property.
"Depends how big you define an inch to be, I suppose. It isn't a proper measuring unit, it's a slang term; and it can mean as much or as little as you want it to mean. Which is why TV sets have to have the size quoted in real measuring units {mm. or cm., rarely m.} somewhere in the advertising literature."
Inch is a slang term? Wait so the side of my ruler with cm and mm on it is the "real" and the side with inches is not real? Funny, everytime I have bough a 12" ruler is has always been the same size. Though to claim an inch can be any size someone wants.
Sounds to me like a story you tell your girlfriend to convince her that your penis "really is 8 inches".
Easy, AMD can't keep up with the demand. Dell has looked at the option of using AMD before,but at the time (a year or 2 ago) AMD could be making chips 100% of the time only for Dell and still not fill demand. Dell goes with Intell because of the volume Intel can produce.
Probably much like hitting your mid life crisis and dumping your wife (trading in a 40 for 2 20's);) Though I imagine that isn't really quite the same, just moving from 1 server to a "distributed model" instead:)
these companies will only be in business for s hort time to address a short lived problem. By the time the company closes up shop there should be no need for their services anyway.
Actually by using the plug in you get the advantages of using FF (tabbed browsing, security,etc) but the benifits (yes there are actually benifits) of IE (sites that do not work properly or render proerly in anything but IE.
this is really a non-issue now a days. The current generation of [high end] finger print scanners usually include a thermal detection or similiar mechanism in addition to scanning the print itself which makes the "gummy" attack and even removing someones actual finger pointless as it will fail authentication.
This is not illegal 1> it does not supply any of the ROMS. 2> Downloaded ROMs are not illegal if you own the original game. Technically the ROM falls under the backup and fair usage policy for game ownership. Downloading and using a ROM of a cart you do not own *IS* illegal.
I thought Final Cut HD or some similar product would allow real time recording via firewire? I'd imagine you should be able to just hook up your DV camcorder and record to the HD on your laptop or computer?
"ack then all the BBS lists had hours of operations listed."
Luckily my paper route allowed me to have multiple lines of my own, but I remembered it was always funny to dial up a BBS and here someone parents picking up either being like "hello? hello? stop calling!" and could hear it over the modem speaker, or have a Sysop pickup and be like "call back later!". I miss those days,lol. I learned to program C from doing WWiV modding.
Word usage. In that usage, it could be deemed correct. They are saying they are being proactive because they are resetting your user password before you do. They ARE being proactive to the USER's actions, not the hackers. Just clever PR wording but still technically correct, but they just spun it to focus on the "we are helping out are users before anything further happens" as opposed to "we messed up, so we are trying to fill the holes before the ship sinks".
It's the age old rent vs buy. The business models have not changed just the mediums.
In this I am assuming legit customers and not people stealing from Napster. For the monthly plan you can download X amount of songs but do not keep them. The DRM is set up as such to limit that. So you are merely renting the songs.
Itunes, you buy the track and it is now yours.
Assuming you own no CDs then yes, it would cost $10,000 to fill an IPOD. The difference is, if I spent $10,000 at Napster, I would still end up not owning a single song.
If you just want lots of variety and the ability to listen to many songs then Napster is the way to go. If you want buy music and keep it, Itunes is a clear winner.
I had just written an article not only on this topic but about the fact they keep putting too much emphasis on "terrorism" and not on the other 75% of people who would just as easily get in.
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Well it's partially true but not in the condesending way Nintendo trolls would make you think.
One thing people always seem to forget is Sony, Xbox, and Nintendo do not share the same 100% demographic. Sony and Xbox target an older crowd. There typical sales demographic is 16-35. Where as Nintendo's demographic has historically been 8-21 range. Nintendo will make games for younger kids but also bring out games young teens and some young adults will like. Where as PS2 and Xbox may only release a young teen style Ratchet and Crank style game but really cater to an older crowd. It's been one of Nintendos saving graces since many parents may not want their 8 yr old playing Halo 2 for instance. For the pre teen and young ones Nintendo is still the best choice and Nintendo still gives Xbox a running for the older crowd.
"Then months later, a pair of your sperm is on Science journal!"
It's ok to love science..it's just not okay to looooove science.
"Firefox has a lot more "word-of-mouth" - this time last year almost no one at my school had even heard of Firefox, this year Firefox is on every computer on the school; how many non-geeks have heard of Opera?"
Sure people have heard of Firefox. If google buys Opera I am sure at this time next year, people will all of heard of Google's Gbrowser too. I am guessing the purchase of Opera will be merely the code for the engine of the future Google web browser.
if you think $20,000 is a lot of money then you are not in the target demographic. The current people who can afford and are interested in being the first on their block to travel on a suborbital flight are people who consider $200,000 a drop in the bucket for a vacation or trip like that.
If we go to war with China I think it becomes a moot point.
they didn't say they didn't understand what a single board computer was. They said they didn't know what the requirenment was that would make a single board computer the best solution.
Man I get junk from them all the time I own less then 10 domains. I can only imagine what it is like for poeple who run more.
Does your finger get tired every time you have to make a phone call on your "not old-fashioned" rotary phone?
Anyway why you pen away at your paper spreadsheet, I'll be looking for the carrier pigeon in the next few days with your reply to this message.
No native games,but it runs several emulators which means it has the advantage of being able to play games from other portables and consoles, plus memory is a non issue on it since it is swappable and cheap to buy now a days for the unit.
They didn't do anything to YOUR computer or software. They added new group onto the buddy list stored on THEIR server. All your software does it read information from THEIR server and display it. They did nothing to YOUR property.
easy. It was added server side.
"Depends how big you define an inch to be, I suppose. It isn't a proper measuring unit, it's a slang term; and it can mean as much or as little as you want it to mean. Which is why TV sets have to have the size quoted in real measuring units {mm. or cm., rarely m.} somewhere in the advertising literature."
Inch is a slang term? Wait so the side of my ruler with cm and mm on it is the "real" and the side with inches is not real? Funny, everytime I have bough a 12" ruler is has always been the same size. Though to claim an inch can be any size someone wants.
Sounds to me like a story you tell your girlfriend to convince her that your penis "really is 8 inches".
this is why I was firmly against implementing the io.add libraries into the APIs of robot code :)
* add = attention deficit disorder
and so begins the clone wars
Easy, AMD can't keep up with the demand. Dell has looked at the option of using AMD before,but at the time (a year or 2 ago) AMD could be making chips 100% of the time only for Dell and still not fill demand. Dell goes with Intell because of the volume Intel can produce.
Probably much like hitting your mid life crisis and dumping your wife (trading in a 40 for 2 20's) ;) Though I imagine that isn't really quite the same, just moving from 1 server to a "distributed model" instead :)
these companies will only be in business for s hort time to address a short lived problem. By the time the company closes up shop there should be no need for their services anyway.
Actually by using the plug in you get the advantages of using FF (tabbed browsing, security,etc) but the benifits (yes there are actually benifits) of IE (sites that do not work properly or render proerly in anything but IE.
this is really a non-issue now a days. The current generation of [high end] finger print scanners usually include a thermal detection or similiar mechanism in addition to scanning the print itself which makes the "gummy" attack and even removing someones actual finger pointless as it will fail authentication.
This is not illegal 1> it does not supply any of the ROMS. 2> Downloaded ROMs are not illegal if you own the original game. Technically the ROM falls under the backup and fair usage policy for game ownership. Downloading and using a ROM of a cart you do not own *IS* illegal.
I thought Final Cut HD or some similar product would allow real time recording via firewire? I'd imagine you should be able to just hook up your DV camcorder and record to the HD on your laptop or computer?
"ack then all the BBS lists had hours of operations listed."
Luckily my paper route allowed me to have multiple lines of my own, but I remembered it was always funny to dial up a BBS and here someone parents picking up either being like "hello? hello? stop calling!" and could hear it over the modem speaker, or have a Sysop pickup and be like "call back later!". I miss those days,lol. I learned to program C from doing WWiV modding.
Word usage. In that usage, it could be deemed correct. They are saying they are being proactive because they are resetting your user password before you do. They ARE being proactive to the USER's actions, not the hackers. Just clever PR wording but still technically correct, but they just spun it to focus on the "we are helping out are users before anything further happens" as opposed to "we messed up, so we are trying to fill the holes before the ship sinks".
It's the age old rent vs buy. The business models have not changed just the mediums.
In this I am assuming legit customers and not people stealing from Napster. For the monthly plan you can download X amount of songs but do not keep them. The DRM is set up as such to limit that. So you are merely renting the songs.
Itunes, you buy the track and it is now yours.
Assuming you own no CDs then yes, it would cost $10,000 to fill an IPOD. The difference is, if I spent $10,000 at Napster, I would still end up not owning a single song.
If you just want lots of variety and the ability to listen to many songs then Napster is the way to go. If you want buy music and keep it, Itunes is a clear winner.
Rent vs Own , same idea, new medium.
I had just written an article not only on this topic but about the fact they keep putting too much emphasis on "terrorism" and not on the other 75% of people who would just as easily get in.