The only problem is that the chart is US only and the market is world wide. Add the April figures for the US and Japan and the PS2 goes back into the lead. Outside the US the 360 seems to have slipped under the radar. Also the claims for foreign markets seem patently false as far as the 360 go.
True. But with Lotus doing the handling this car would probably be better point to point than the Z06. Reading the Euro car magazines take on the Corvette it really doesn't handle well when pushing on, especially on roads that are anything other than smooth. The opposite can be said of Lotus' efforts, the harder you go the better they get.
The pictures with the article show it as being rear drive with the batteries taking the position usually held by a mid-engine design. The quoted figure of 0-60-0 in 9 seconds seems slow on the braking side of the equation. I'm more used to seeing figures for sports bikes though, where it's usually sub 7 seconds.
Except that Agriculture is less than 4% of GNP. The idea that farmers matter to the Australian economy is such a ridiculous furphy. We could ditch the whole rural sector, import our food and concentrate on mining and services and be well ahead financially. Farming is a net drain on the Australian economy but the major media owners (especially the Packer family) make money from government subsidies so it's never reported as such.
As a user interface designer I'll put in my 2c. For me the runner up is significantly less polished and a much clumsier design. It is 'heavy' in parts and looks quite dated. The winner is much more subtle, makes more use of light and shade and will not age as rapidly.
The runner up is more initially striking it would become tiring quickly. I feel the right choice has been made and looking at the code behind it, appears an elegant solution.
I totally agree that for you it's not an option to spend that sort of money on what is a luxury item. I respectfully submit that therefore you are not the target market that Sony is seeking with the initial release. No company can try and go after the whole of the market, it's not a winning strategy. All Sony hae to do is get enough market penetration to ensure the developers keep the support at the highest level and keep the product in the public eye. As the unit becomes cheaper to manufacture over time they can drop the price to a point where you will be able to afford one. The illogical anger being shown towards Sony because they've priced the PS3 outside of some peoples reach is amusing, they don't have an obligation to provide them to all for whatever they can afford.
Actually it's a little more complicated. 1080p 25fps will work fine through component. The possibility is that the PS3 will also support 1080p 50fps which will require more bandwidth than component can provide. DVI would be fine for this but support is often partial or limited. As it stands no TV stations or HD movie content will be higher than 1080p 25fps and there's not a lot of need for it there except on fast panning shots. 1080i which is normally 50fps and therefore the same bandwidth requirement as 1080p 25fps is generally better in this instance.
Everyone keeps mentioning kids as if they're the determinant in this. The console market has matured now to the point where the average age of gamers is now 24, which I'm guessing from the posts is somewhat above the Slashdot average. The market of parents buying for their children is only vital for one player, Nintendo who will probably have a lock on this niche, but it is only a niche.
Frankly as it's under $1000 it's in impulse buy territory for me. $600 is not a lot of money, I spent $300 on a pair of shoes this weekend because I thought they looked good.
It's not circular logic as neither of those conditions are required to be finished for them to add to each others success. After a certain threshhold both BD and the PS3 reinforce each other.
Outsourcing construction is becoming increasingly common.
Here in Australia we've started using labour from China and former Soviet block nations brought in under the idea we have a skills shortage. What we actually have is an industry that is making record profits that refuses to pay market rates for labour and a government with a similar mindset to the US administration that is determined to destroy what little union power that is left. My prediction is it wil lead to greater social instability in the years to come.
The governments actions are demonstrably ideologically driven and they have never produced any economic data that supports their actions. Similar was that FTA with the US which has been great for the US but a negative for Australia, amazing in what has been a boom time for our economy.
Under British law you wouldn't be breaking in (breaking and entering) if they had left the door open in many cases, you'd be trespassing and that's the most you could be convicted of. So it flies just fine. And a lack of fence does imply that you can run around in the yard, maybe not dig up the flowers though.
Once again it's not Asustek making the MBPs. This sort of occurence could explain how they've won the contract for the new iBook replacement. Or it could simply be economics.
That's an interesting but mostly irrelevant point. Australia is the most urbanised nation in the world with nearly 90% of the population living in the major cities, so population densities are actually quite high where there are actually people but extremely low in the rest of the country. Many feel that regional centres actually already have too much power due to distribution of seats but politicians and th media like to play up the importance of our rural background. Interestingly my little home city of Perth would be the US's 5th largest city by population at 1.8 million people.
I'd suggest you take a look at Venus then for a what happens when greenhouse systems runaway. The cloud cover and lack of an ozone layer there does an excellent job of keeping the surface temperature at a balmy 740K.
Sorry, please stop posting on slashdot if you're going to be logical and well informed. It's taken years to get the tone of the place lowered to the current level.
Seriously everything you say is true and one more point I would have to add is that Apples market share and brand awareness outside the US is far lower. Especially as it seems that Apple have a policy of charging non-US users a premium.
Well from the size of it it won't be stereo from a distance of more than about 2 feet. I tend to think stereo sound reproduction is a necessary element for an item described as hi-fi. And that includes Boses excerable wave radio.
Pray tell, how many languages besides English do you dare to speak, or even test your literacy in?
Three; French, German and Japanese. Soon to be followed by Italian and Spanish. I have a love of language and wish I had time to learn more. I'm also impressed by the general levels of English literacy shown by the non-native speakers on Slashdot. To me it appears that they have a far stronger grasp of grammar than many of the native speakers. BTW the commas in your sixth and seventh sentences are unnecessary, otherwise your post is perfect.;)
P.S. I hope the tone of this does not come across as derogatory or harsh, you obviously possess excellent skills in several languages
I've read many of his plays and also understand their historical context. Shakespeare was creating the language as he wrote though and did so beautifully. It has become codified to a far greater extent nowadays.
To whit, can you say any Slashdot posting has ever matched this piece of prose for drama or insight?
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.
Nobody's grammar is perfect but that is no reason to be lazy and not try harder to improve.
Please, please, please tell me that the myriad spelling errors in your post are intentional. The lack of tone make it non-obvious, which rather diminishes your point if it was an intentional effect.
For those with a lesser grasp of english it could be rewritten:
True, however usually when we write we try to create something that a small subset of people can understand. The one thing you forgot to add to this sentence is that the choice of audience is getting smaller and smaller.
Historians write differently, (choice of words, style of argument, tense etc.) than businessmen. Which is different from scientists. It is just a basic fact of life. This thing annoys the hell out of me especially in science.
Imaginary number?[It just gets too horribly informal from here and I gave up] Well use an i... wait no I am an EE major lets use a j... but I am communicating with a math major.... damn wtf do I use? Or my all time favorite hey P is for power... actually p is for power if I am in EE... wait no Q with a dot over it is power if I am a thermo engineer... the uglyness of it all
I feel perhaps your potential ironic effect was lost.
Yep, he's a modern day Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich (the people and corporations of the rich western world) and giving to the poor (Africa, India, etc). Because this money has the blood of the rich (yes, that includes you, me and pretty much most of slashdot, we're all enourmously rich by world standards) you resent him.
Damn it's fun to sound like a Microsoft astroturfer:)
Of course it's not what I truly believe but I wanted to see the world in black and white like you appear to. Now I return to my regularly scheduled colour and shade...
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The only problem is that the chart is US only and the market is world wide. Add the April figures for the US and Japan and the PS2 goes back into the lead.
Outside the US the 360 seems to have slipped under the radar.
Also the claims for foreign markets seem patently false as far as the 360 go.
Why not use 2 counter-rotating flywheels then? That would seem like an obvious solution to gyroscopic issues.
True. But with Lotus doing the handling this car would probably be better point to point than the Z06. Reading the Euro car magazines take on the Corvette it really doesn't handle well when pushing on, especially on roads that are anything other than smooth. The opposite can be said of Lotus' efforts, the harder you go the better they get.
The pictures with the article show it as being rear drive with the batteries taking the position usually held by a mid-engine design. The quoted figure of 0-60-0 in 9 seconds seems slow on the braking side of the equation. I'm more used to seeing figures for sports bikes though, where it's usually sub 7 seconds.
LUCAS!
There, you happy now?
Still it could be worse, it could be using Italian wiring from the 60s.
Except that Agriculture is less than 4% of GNP. The idea that farmers matter to the Australian economy is such a ridiculous furphy. We could ditch the whole rural sector, import our food and concentrate on mining and services and be well ahead financially.
Farming is a net drain on the Australian economy but the major media owners (especially the Packer family) make money from government subsidies so it's never reported as such.
As a user interface designer I'll put in my 2c. For me the runner up is significantly less polished and a much clumsier design. It is 'heavy' in parts and looks quite dated.
The winner is much more subtle, makes more use of light and shade and will not age as rapidly.
The runner up is more initially striking it would become tiring quickly. I feel the right choice has been made and looking at the code behind it, appears an elegant solution.
I totally agree that for you it's not an option to spend that sort of money on what is a luxury item. I respectfully submit that therefore you are not the target market that Sony is seeking with the initial release.
No company can try and go after the whole of the market, it's not a winning strategy. All Sony hae to do is get enough market penetration to ensure the developers keep the support at the highest level and keep the product in the public eye. As the unit becomes cheaper to manufacture over time they can drop the price to a point where you will be able to afford one.
The illogical anger being shown towards Sony because they've priced the PS3 outside of some peoples reach is amusing, they don't have an obligation to provide them to all for whatever they can afford.
Actually it's a little more complicated.
1080p 25fps will work fine through component. The possibility is that the PS3 will also support 1080p 50fps which will require more bandwidth than component can provide. DVI would be fine for this but support is often partial or limited.
As it stands no TV stations or HD movie content will be higher than 1080p 25fps and there's not a lot of need for it there except on fast panning shots. 1080i which is normally 50fps and therefore the same bandwidth requirement as 1080p 25fps is generally better in this instance.
Everyone keeps mentioning kids as if they're the determinant in this. The console market has matured now to the point where the average age of gamers is now 24, which I'm guessing from the posts is somewhat above the Slashdot average. The market of parents buying for their children is only vital for one player, Nintendo who will probably have a lock on this niche, but it is only a niche.
Frankly as it's under $1000 it's in impulse buy territory for me.
$600 is not a lot of money, I spent $300 on a pair of shoes this weekend because I thought they looked good.
It's not circular logic as neither of those conditions are required to be finished for them to add to each others success. After a certain threshhold both BD and the PS3 reinforce each other.
Here in Australia we've started using labour from China and former Soviet block nations brought in under the idea we have a skills shortage. What we actually have is an industry that is making record profits that refuses to pay market rates for labour and a government with a similar mindset to the US administration that is determined to destroy what little union power that is left. My prediction is it wil lead to greater social instability in the years to come.
The governments actions are demonstrably ideologically driven and they have never produced any economic data that supports their actions. Similar was that FTA with the US which has been great for the US but a negative for Australia, amazing in what has been a boom time for our economy.
Under British law you wouldn't be breaking in (breaking and entering) if they had left the door open in many cases, you'd be trespassing and that's the most you could be convicted of. So it flies just fine. And a lack of fence does imply that you can run around in the yard, maybe not dig up the flowers though.
Once again it's not Asustek making the MBPs. This sort of occurence could explain how they've won the contract for the new iBook replacement. Or it could simply be economics.
Kendo is a sport, kenjutsu is (alright, can be) an art. Everyone here is trying to argue what must ultimately come down to semantics. Including me.
That's an interesting but mostly irrelevant point. Australia is the most urbanised nation in the world with nearly 90% of the population living in the major cities, so population densities are actually quite high where there are actually people but extremely low in the rest of the country. Many feel that regional centres actually already have too much power due to distribution of seats but politicians and th media like to play up the importance of our rural background. Interestingly my little home city of Perth would be the US's 5th largest city by population at 1.8 million people.
I'd suggest you take a look at Venus then for a what happens when greenhouse systems runaway. The cloud cover and lack of an ozone layer there does an excellent job of keeping the surface temperature at a balmy 740K.
Seriously everything you say is true and one more point I would have to add is that Apples market share and brand awareness outside the US is far lower. Especially as it seems that Apple have a policy of charging non-US users a premium.
Well from the size of it it won't be stereo from a distance of more than about 2 feet. I tend to think stereo sound reproduction is a necessary element for an item described as hi-fi. And that includes Boses excerable wave radio.
Three; French, German and Japanese. Soon to be followed by Italian and Spanish. I have a love of language and wish I had time to learn more. I'm also impressed by the general levels of English literacy shown by the non-native speakers on Slashdot. To me it appears that they have a far stronger grasp of grammar than many of the native speakers. BTW the commas in your sixth and seventh sentences are unnecessary, otherwise your post is perfect. ;)
P.S. I hope the tone of this does not come across as derogatory or harsh, you obviously possess excellent skills in several languages
To whit, can you say any Slashdot posting has ever matched this piece of prose for drama or insight?
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me,
what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not
me: no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling
you seem to say so.
Nobody's grammar is perfect but that is no reason to be lazy and not try harder to improve.
This thread is providing far too many examples of declining literacy.
Please, please, please tell me that the myriad spelling errors in your post are intentional. The lack of tone make it non-obvious, which rather diminishes your point if it was an intentional effect.
For those with a lesser grasp of english it could be rewritten:
True, however usually when we write we try to create something that a small subset of people can understand. The one thing you forgot to add to this sentence is that the choice of audience is getting smaller and smaller.
Historians write differently, (choice of words, style of argument, tense etc.) than businessmen. Which is different from scientists. It is just a basic fact of life. This thing annoys the hell out of me especially in science.
Imaginary number? [It just gets too horribly informal from here and I gave up] Well use an i... wait no I am an EE major lets use a j... but I am communicating with a math major.... damn wtf do I use? Or my all time favorite hey P is for power... actually p is for power if I am in EE... wait no Q with a dot over it is power if I am a thermo engineer... the uglyness of it all
I feel perhaps your potential ironic effect was lost.
Yep, he's a modern day Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich (the people and corporations of the rich western world) and giving to the poor (Africa, India, etc). Because this money has the blood of the rich (yes, that includes you, me and pretty much most of slashdot, we're all enourmously rich by world standards) you resent him. Damn it's fun to sound like a Microsoft astroturfer :)
Of course it's not what I truly believe but I wanted to see the world in black and white like you appear to. Now I return to my regularly scheduled colour and shade...
Not 1080p, the 360 only does 1080i or 720p. You want 1080p and it'll be a PS3 for you. Are you sure you've actually got one? ;)