90% profits is true of almost every software product. After you cover your development costs, the only thing left is covering the cds, packaging, and manuals. It's the same for all software.
And I fail to see how Windows is more expensive than anything else. A quick search on Amazon.com shows Mac OS X 10.1 going for about 120$, WinXP home going for 200$ (100$ if you buy the upgrade, which is what most people will buy anyway). Retail packaged linux goes for about 60-70$.
So I don't think their software is unreasonably priced. Sure, if you have a fat pipe and a cdburner, you can download linux for free, but you get what you pay for.
I don't think it should be an issue how much profit a company makes off their software if it's reasonably priced compared to what else is out there.
Smaller chips use less power, and less voltage, and tend to put out less heat. The only reason they get hotter in current chips is because they are pumped up to insane speeds.
But with these nano-chips, we are talking about many orders of magnitude smaller, so they were use many magnitudes less power, and therefor will output much less heat.
If the bug doesn't appear on intel chips, then how are we supposed to believe that it's not an AMD bug? Sure, we could blame the motherboard... but wouldn't that mean via/intel solutions would carry the same issue?
Anyone have any knowledge as to how intel treats this 4mb pages different?
I mean, if the bug is caused by AMD's precaching of AGP Gart mapped memory, and intel just doesn't precache that memory, then now is it NOT an AMD processor bug?
When two processors aren't equal, there has to be a reason for the difference in running software.
(Note that I prefer AMD, so I'm just looking for answers, not trolling).
I feel that Microsoft has been unjustly targetted on this case to begin with, so I fully accept the proposed settlement as it now stands.
Microsoft is being held responsible for the common joe's inability to think for themselves, and to learn, and to expand. There has always been a choice. Especially when it comes to browsers. People scream foul that IE was integrated in to windows. I think it was a good idea. It's been helpful to me on many occasions, even despite the original preference I held for Netscape.
Nowadays, I use internet explorer. Why? Because it has a wider feature range than any other browser. Now, people will scream that this is because of Microsoft's own anti-competitive actions. I disagree. I have not seen a browser in ages that render advanced webpages correctly nowadays. Now perhaps that is because people use IE only features, or features that are more widely supported by IE. But is that Microsoft's fault? I know a webmaster (http://www.opentechsupport.net) that strives to make his pages display perfectly in every browser, yet at every turn he always ran in to areas in which Netscape was unable to decipher and render correct HTML properly. He chose IE. Intelligently, and with reason. Not because Microsoft forced him, not because he didn't have a choice.
I seriously doubt this is an isolated incident, since I myself have seen issues arise in netscape when using correct HTML.
If a company creates a superior product, and people slowly flow to that product because it is superior, I fail to see how that is anti-competitive. If a product offers a superior feature set, and greater compatability, how is this wrong?
As for integrating the browser in to the OS, I find it more helpful than a hindrance. If I want to use another browser (which I do on occasion), I can freely install it, and use it, without any problems caused by IE's presence. But I always go back to using Internet Explorer nowadays, because other browsers are rarely able to correctly render the pages I view most. Most notably, I have recently tried both Opera 6, and Mozilla 6.03. They are inferior to internet explorer in their ability to browse the internet.
But if someone chooses to any other browser, is it really such an issue that Internet Explorer cannot be uninstalled? I've always been under the impression that if you don't like something, just don't use it. Ignore it.
What is the difference between removing it from your system, and never using it? 10 megs of harddrive space? I fail to see the issue.
This is all a case of a regular company using standard business practices, only on a much larger scale.
Should a company be forced to quit attempting to make itself bigger and better, just because it's bigger and better?
What's the point of cable and TV if you can't record programs? I'm sorry, but I tend to work upwards of 12 hours a day, and I tend to miss pretty much everything on TV. The only way to see anything is to tape it, either on a VCR, or to my harddrive.
If I can't do that, then I just won't pay for cable anymore.
If philips goes ahead with this, that will mean that any 'copy protected' disc will not be technically a Compact Disc, since they aren't allowed to use the logo.
This should mean that you will be able to enter a store, and ask if the CD is actually a CD, or a non-CD copy protected disc. This will allow you to choose, and avoid, copy protected discs.
The whole catch with the copy protected discs is that the idea only works if people DON'T know that they are copy protected.
If people DO know, then they just won't buy them, and the record companies will lose money.
Of all my unsuccessful forays in to the world of linux, I've learned something: To truly do it properly, you need two computers. Your linux machine, and something else that you are familiar with so that you can grab info from the net when you are stuck in linux.
I'm going to finally conquer the beast that is linux (diving in with slackware probably), but I'm not doing it until I have a second linux box, with fully compatible hardware.
Another thing is that your cutting edge PC is as likely to have hardware that doesn't work properly under linux as it is to have hardware that will. If you are just trying to learn linux, you sure as hell don't need hardware problems on top of it. Which is another reason for getting a second box.
Actually, as a game developer, I can tell you that during crunch time, when the stress is at it's highest, we are way more likely to kill other people, rather then ourselves.
I do a lot of 3d game programming and development, so I've been holding off for a decent laptop that can match our development systems.
Basically, I want to get an Athlon 4 based system, with a geforce 2 go, and 256 megs of ram. As soon as I can get something like that, there will be a point to buying a laptop. Until then, I guess I'm just chained to my home and work machines.
High price? What are these people talking about?
My 1.4 ghz athlon 266bus cost me about 190$ USD. Compare that to same time last year, when the top end AMD processor was 400$, and the top end Intel processor was 600$.
Processors expensive? Maybe if you live in a trailer park.
Great... a wrist watch that requires 128 megs of ram and a 400 mhz processor.
And how are you supposed to tell the time when it locks up?
Really though... what the hell would you use one of those for... I mean, you wouldn't even use a palm when you are wandering around.
I wouldn't anyway... probably trip over something and it'd end up in the middle of traffic.
More awesome pics from space...
If anyone doesn't know about astronomy pic of the day over at nasa... I highly recommend you go looking through the archives. Some of the pics from hubble and others are so aweing.
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Heh... what do I know. I'm a technowh0re... I should have said tapes or something. But I don't touch old tech if I can help it, and leap to new tech as fast as possible.
What will they think of next? Going back to good ol' vinyl because there isn't a direct way of ripping them to mp3? I mean, if we are sacrificing quality to stop a few mp3s, then why stop there?
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90% profits is true of almost every software product. After you cover your development costs, the only thing left is covering the cds, packaging, and manuals. It's the same for all software.
And I fail to see how Windows is more expensive than anything else. A quick search on Amazon.com shows Mac OS X 10.1 going for about 120$, WinXP home going for 200$ (100$ if you buy the upgrade, which is what most people will buy anyway). Retail packaged linux goes for about 60-70$.
So I don't think their software is unreasonably priced. Sure, if you have a fat pipe and a cdburner, you can download linux for free, but you get what you pay for.
I don't think it should be an issue how much profit a company makes off their software if it's reasonably priced compared to what else is out there.
Not so.
Smaller chips use less power, and less voltage, and tend to put out less heat. The only reason they get hotter in current chips is because they are pumped up to insane speeds.
But with these nano-chips, we are talking about many orders of magnitude smaller, so they were use many magnitudes less power, and therefor will output much less heat.
If the bug doesn't appear on intel chips, then how are we supposed to believe that it's not an AMD bug? Sure, we could blame the motherboard... but wouldn't that mean via/intel solutions would carry the same issue?
Anyone have any knowledge as to how intel treats this 4mb pages different?
I mean, if the bug is caused by AMD's precaching of AGP Gart mapped memory, and intel just doesn't precache that memory, then now is it NOT an AMD processor bug?
When two processors aren't equal, there has to be a reason for the difference in running software.
(Note that I prefer AMD, so I'm just looking for answers, not trolling).
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I feel that Microsoft has been unjustly targetted on this case to begin with, so I fully accept the proposed settlement as it now stands.
Microsoft is being held responsible for the common joe's inability to think for themselves, and to learn, and to expand. There has always been a choice. Especially when it comes to browsers. People scream foul that IE was integrated in to windows. I think it was a good idea. It's been helpful to me on many occasions, even despite the original preference I held for Netscape.
Nowadays, I use internet explorer. Why? Because it has a wider feature range than any other browser. Now, people will scream that this is because of Microsoft's own anti-competitive actions. I disagree. I have not seen a browser in ages that render advanced webpages correctly nowadays. Now perhaps that is because people use IE only features, or features that are more widely supported by IE. But is that Microsoft's fault? I know a webmaster (http://www.opentechsupport.net) that strives to make his pages display perfectly in every browser, yet at every turn he always ran in to areas in which Netscape was unable to decipher and render correct HTML properly. He chose IE. Intelligently, and with reason. Not because Microsoft forced him, not because he didn't have a choice.
I seriously doubt this is an isolated incident, since I myself have seen issues arise in netscape when using correct HTML.
If a company creates a superior product, and people slowly flow to that product because it is superior, I fail to see how that is anti-competitive. If a product offers a superior feature set, and greater compatability, how is this wrong?
As for integrating the browser in to the OS, I find it more helpful than a hindrance. If I want to use another browser (which I do on occasion), I can freely install it, and use it, without any problems caused by IE's presence. But I always go back to using Internet Explorer nowadays, because other browsers are rarely able to correctly render the pages I view most. Most notably, I have recently tried both Opera 6, and Mozilla 6.03. They are inferior to internet explorer in their ability to browse the internet.
But if someone chooses to any other browser, is it really such an issue that Internet Explorer cannot be uninstalled? I've always been under the impression that if you don't like something, just don't use it. Ignore it.
What is the difference between removing it from your system, and never using it? 10 megs of harddrive space? I fail to see the issue.
This is all a case of a regular company using standard business practices, only on a much larger scale.
Should a company be forced to quit attempting to make itself bigger and better, just because it's bigger and better?
This doesn't sound like capitalism to me.
Charles Randall
What's the point of cable and TV if you can't record programs? I'm sorry, but I tend to work upwards of 12 hours a day, and I tend to miss pretty much everything on TV. The only way to see anything is to tape it, either on a VCR, or to my harddrive.
If I can't do that, then I just won't pay for cable anymore.
If philips goes ahead with this, that will mean that any 'copy protected' disc will not be technically a Compact Disc, since they aren't allowed to use the logo.
This should mean that you will be able to enter a store, and ask if the CD is actually a CD, or a non-CD copy protected disc. This will allow you to choose, and avoid, copy protected discs.
The whole catch with the copy protected discs is that the idea only works if people DON'T know that they are copy protected.
If people DO know, then they just won't buy them, and the record companies will lose money.
Props to philips.
I'm working in the office space in Toronto that used to belong to Doubleclick's canadian offices.
We've had it since the end of november.
I'm guessing doubleclick hasn't been working on much since...
Of all my unsuccessful forays in to the world of linux, I've learned something: To truly do it properly, you need two computers. Your linux machine, and something else that you are familiar with so that you can grab info from the net when you are stuck in linux.
I'm going to finally conquer the beast that is linux (diving in with slackware probably), but I'm not doing it until I have a second linux box, with fully compatible hardware.
Another thing is that your cutting edge PC is as likely to have hardware that doesn't work properly under linux as it is to have hardware that will. If you are just trying to learn linux, you sure as hell don't need hardware problems on top of it. Which is another reason for getting a second box.
"appeals to readers' interest in the marketing and cash-flow side of online business"
Doesn't that mean "learning how to prepare for chapter 11"?
Actually, as a game developer, I can tell you that during crunch time, when the stress is at it's highest, we are way more likely to kill other people, rather then ourselves.
I do a lot of 3d game programming and development, so I've been holding off for a decent laptop that can match our development systems. Basically, I want to get an Athlon 4 based system, with a geforce 2 go, and 256 megs of ram. As soon as I can get something like that, there will be a point to buying a laptop. Until then, I guess I'm just chained to my home and work machines.
High price? What are these people talking about? My 1.4 ghz athlon 266bus cost me about 190$ USD. Compare that to same time last year, when the top end AMD processor was 400$, and the top end Intel processor was 600$. Processors expensive? Maybe if you live in a trailer park.
Great... a wrist watch that requires 128 megs of ram and a 400 mhz processor. And how are you supposed to tell the time when it locks up? Really though... what the hell would you use one of those for... I mean, you wouldn't even use a palm when you are wandering around. I wouldn't anyway... probably trip over something and it'd end up in the middle of traffic.
More awesome pics from space... If anyone doesn't know about astronomy pic of the day over at nasa... I highly recommend you go looking through the archives. Some of the pics from hubble and others are so aweing. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
Heh... what do I know. I'm a technowh0re... I should have said tapes or something. But I don't touch old tech if I can help it, and leap to new tech as fast as possible.
What will they think of next? Going back to good ol' vinyl because there isn't a direct way of ripping them to mp3? I mean, if we are sacrificing quality to stop a few mp3s, then why stop there?