Bingo. There's no way on the Invisible Sky Giant's green earth that they will be able to persuade any studio or retailer to support this format in addition to DVD and Blu Ray, after the bath they all just took on HD-DVD. It's just another upscaling DVD player, which is admittedly a pretty good thing for consumers, and a horrid thing for Blu Ray purveyors, who would like DVD to just go away now, thanks very much.
But with OSS, you'll have to hire someone on a hourly basis.
No, you don't "have to" do that. What you "have to" do is to contact them and make an interesting offer. It might be hourly, it might be a salary, it might be an annual or one off stipend, it might be hardware, or it might just be to buy them a few toys from their Amazon wish list.
You can get support from the same charlatans who would have sold you a useless QoS guarantee in the first place, or outsource it to a third party, or even (gasp!) insource it.
I agree that is "different" from having some fuck-knuckle in a knock-off suit take you to lunch in his BMW and explain why you absolutely need whichever product gives him the most commission. Companies will have to adjust, but the notion that it's in any way difficult to make the offer, direct to the guy who wrote the software rather than Mr Fuck-Knuckle? No, sorry, EPIC FAIL by Mr FUD up there.
because perpetrators wouldn't ever be calm or completely resigned to their fate/choice.
And people with a fear of flying wouldn't ever be nervous or agitated.
Wow, those long wait on the runway are going to get interesting. Will Wesley Snipes' stunt double cut his way in through the roof to take out the guy in 27B/B? I say "on the runway" because presumably that's the only useful time to identify and confront Mr Twitchy, unless the intention is to sound a little chime and ask the passengers to form a lynch mob in flight.
[abandoware] would often be prevented by making it easy for companies to pay the developers directly
Have Microsoft still not discovered the intartubes yet? OmniHyperMegaCorp can't email dev@eloper.com and ask if he'd like some money in return for continuing development? Because most FOSS devs that I know (not all, but most) of would spit out their cheetos with joy at being offered bankable appreciation for their time and effort. We're not all smelly hippies who hate money and wear hand knitted nettle underpants.
I imagine that the DoE's political remit doesn't go beyond using up fossil resources a tiny bit slower. We'll switch to promoting new sources when the ruling dynasties have switched enough of their portfolios away from oil.
Try again. The point is that the Atom can undercut the Nano, effortlessly, if it has. So at best the Nano will briefly push the price of the Atom down. It can never win though, which is why it will have to find its own market segment. Intel will not allow it to compete directly.
Not to mention that the Atom is fabbed at 45nm, so is going to have lower per-unit manufacturing costs. Oh, and since the Atom will also have higher volume, it'll spread its fixed-cost development overheads better. It's hard to see in which market segment the Nano hopes to compete. Rich and dumb, perhaps. Nobody make a Mac joke.
Since presumably my Firefox 2 will bug me to update to 3 as soon as it's released?
Not to disparage Mozilla, but lately it seems like they've been a mite too concerned with press releases. They should release when it's ready, and we'll get it when we think it's ready. What's the big rush?
That's "young George". Well, because he's doing it just now. And don't feel bad about not answering the question that I actually asked. After all, we all know how much of a stickler for following the actual letter of the law young George is.
You're using the argument that every software sequence is equivalent to a mathematical algorithm and thus should be disqualified. Taking this argument to the extreme...
Would be a really stupid thing to do, so I stopped reading there.
I would have thought you could shave at least $50 off the price if you built it in a really boring, plain case, without silly stands or LED buttons...
Why would you think that? Silly stands and LEDs cost pennies, not $50 per unit. It costs money for someone to produce the design, but that's a fixed cost, not per unit, and since they just cloned a Wii (and their previous design cloned the Acer Veriton, which was itself a bloated Mac Mini), that's not such a huge expense either.
And even if they could shave $50 off the price, why would they want to? You only have to undercut the competition by 5% or 10% to corner the market. You don't reduce your price by one cent more than you're forced to, although plenty of "free == profit" intartubes charlatans may disagree.
Interesting that you focus on graphics, when that's such a small part of the overall codebase for a typical game. Nobody ever gives props to the guys who do the UI, sound, input, network, logic, script engine and serialisation. I'm pouring out some 40 for my forgotten homies in the West Side Collision Detection Krew.
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Bingo. There's no way on the Invisible Sky Giant's green earth that they will be able to persuade any studio or retailer to support this format in addition to DVD and Blu Ray, after the bath they all just took on HD-DVD. It's just another upscaling DVD player, which is admittedly a pretty good thing for consumers, and a horrid thing for Blu Ray purveyors, who would like DVD to just go away now, thanks very much.
I hear that in the new version, you can actually see the pores on Milla's nipples.
EPIC FAIL on your Turing Test.
Bullshit Snopes article; bananas aren't a "fruit", they're properly a form of soft gravel.
Is this satire? I honestly can't tell. I hope so.
Show some Goddamn respect; Chuck died for your sins.
You make a good point; people who lack awareness are pathetic.
No, you don't "have to" do that. What you "have to" do is to contact them and make an interesting offer. It might be hourly, it might be a salary, it might be an annual or one off stipend, it might be hardware, or it might just be to buy them a few toys from their Amazon wish list.
You can get support from the same charlatans who would have sold you a useless QoS guarantee in the first place, or outsource it to a third party, or even (gasp!) insource it.
I agree that is "different" from having some fuck-knuckle in a knock-off suit take you to lunch in his BMW and explain why you absolutely need whichever product gives him the most commission. Companies will have to adjust, but the notion that it's in any way difficult to make the offer, direct to the guy who wrote the software rather than Mr Fuck-Knuckle? No, sorry, EPIC FAIL by Mr FUD up there.
Those crumbling platforms? They're made of people.
And people with a fear of flying wouldn't ever be nervous or agitated.
Wow, those long wait on the runway are going to get interesting. Will Wesley Snipes' stunt double cut his way in through the roof to take out the guy in 27B/B? I say "on the runway" because presumably that's the only useful time to identify and confront Mr Twitchy, unless the intention is to sound a little chime and ask the passengers to form a lynch mob in flight.
Have Microsoft still not discovered the intartubes yet? OmniHyperMegaCorp can't email dev@eloper.com and ask if he'd like some money in return for continuing development? Because most FOSS devs that I know (not all, but most) of would spit out their cheetos with joy at being offered bankable appreciation for their time and effort. We're not all smelly hippies who hate money and wear hand knitted nettle underpants.
I imagine that the DoE's political remit doesn't go beyond using up fossil resources a tiny bit slower. We'll switch to promoting new sources when the ruling dynasties have switched enough of their portfolios away from oil.
The Wikipedia article on Rogerborg says that I regularly enjoy hot monkey sex with Alyson Hannigan. What's your point?
Try again. The point is that the Atom can undercut the Nano, effortlessly, if it has. So at best the Nano will briefly push the price of the Atom down. It can never win though, which is why it will have to find its own market segment. Intel will not allow it to compete directly.
Appparently, he agrees.
Uh oh.
Not to mention that the Atom is fabbed at 45nm, so is going to have lower per-unit manufacturing costs. Oh, and since the Atom will also have higher volume, it'll spread its fixed-cost development overheads better. It's hard to see in which market segment the Nano hopes to compete. Rich and dumb, perhaps. Nobody make a Mac joke.
Since presumably my Firefox 2 will bug me to update to 3 as soon as it's released?
Not to disparage Mozilla, but lately it seems like they've been a mite too concerned with press releases. They should release when it's ready, and we'll get it when we think it's ready. What's the big rush?
That's "young George". Well, because he's doing it just now. And don't feel bad about not answering the question that I actually asked. After all, we all know how much of a stickler for following the actual letter of the law young George is.
Remind me, while Bush is campaigning and fundraising for McCain, who is paying him to do that?
Would be a really stupid thing to do, so I stopped reading there.
So, I should pay more now for "bleeding edge" in order to help someone else pay less tomorrow?
This is Linux we're talking about here, not Apple.
Why would you think that? Silly stands and LEDs cost pennies, not $50 per unit. It costs money for someone to produce the design, but that's a fixed cost, not per unit, and since they just cloned a Wii (and their previous design cloned the Acer Veriton, which was itself a bloated Mac Mini), that's not such a huge expense either.
And even if they could shave $50 off the price, why would they want to? You only have to undercut the competition by 5% or 10% to corner the market. You don't reduce your price by one cent more than you're forced to, although plenty of "free == profit" intartubes charlatans may disagree.
That's because they forgot to multiply by honey.
d00d i totly pwned a DEC Ultrix by 1337 h4XX0rZ1ng it by pu5h1ng t3h "boot as SU" button on teh back === UNIX ==== UNSECUAR!!
Interesting that you focus on graphics, when that's such a small part of the overall codebase for a typical game. Nobody ever gives props to the guys who do the UI, sound, input, network, logic, script engine and serialisation. I'm pouring out some 40 for my forgotten homies in the West Side Collision Detection Krew.