This is a USB version of their already existing ethernet based products.
However this product works with all types of connection on the computer - modem, wireless, ethernet, GPRS, and so on, anything that TCP/IP runs over.
It's also dead useful when you have a laptop user that you really don't want to get compromised on their travels. Stick this in their machine, and you'll be doing a lot more to secure the traffic into and out of their system. So whilst you think it is hyped up, I'm thinking it is small enough and powerful enough to be of serious real world use for mobile users.
Why can't the OS, when it sees that it is running out of memory, send a signal/message/henchman to applications and tell them that if they have the ability to give up some memory (i.e., caches, etc), then do so, to keep the system happy. There could be several levels of urgency in the request as well, like "yeah, dude, just thinking here, yeah, could you ease up a little on the memory, cheers!" through to "Sieg Heil! Deine Memory, SCHNELL!!".
The PowerPC Processing Elements in the XBox360 and PS3 are very similar, and are not developments of IBM's PPC4xx or 6xx series. They're SMT in-order cores that run at 3.2GHz and support two threads.
Cell: "It's a PPC4xx controller keeping 8 single-pipeline cores (6 integer, 2 FP/Integer) full of properly-scheduled instructions. "
Your Cell information is so incorrect that I feel sorry for anyone that has read it and now believes it is true.
The Cell is a PowerPC Processing Element (i.e., 1/3rd of an XBox360 CPU) coupled to 8 (7 active in the PS3) SPEs on a very fast and wide ring bus. Each SPE has two pipelines, and each pipeline operates on 128-bit vectors, i.e., each SPE is a dual-issue in-order SIMD processor with 256KB of local memory.
"It has FP, which is more than can be said for the PPC400-series (and all but two of the specialized cores in the PS3)"
Cell's PPE has a standard PowerPC FPU unit, and a VMX128 unit capable of 25.6GFLOPS (single precision). All 8 SPEs of course can also do 25.6GFLOPS (single precision) each. These are at the Cell's 3.2GHz clock rate in the PS3.
I was wondering if you got your information from Wikipedia, but you didn't. Wikipedia's article is also massively incorrect though (indeed it is now less correct than it was a few months ago, weird).
The 750CX derivative processor in the Wii is about as powerful as a 1.5GHz PPE, i.e., the Wii has about half the standard CPU processing power as a PS3 (although the PPE will get better use due to being able to run two threads, and the SPEs are icing on the top for physics and similar). The Gecko CPU in the Gamecube had special media instructions that may have been SIMD-like, and as the Wii is backwardly compatible, I assume the Wii's CPU has these in it as well.
Given limited execution resources: A Lot. More than the number of tentacles the creature in Deep Rising had.
Maybe Safari JITs the Javascript so it isn't so bad though (for web apps and HTML widgets). And some widgets use native code anyway, so that's cool.
Personally I'm hoping that Apple will release an iPhone SDK, but require applications to be signed and made available via the iTMS for the obvious security reasons. I do worry they won't release an iPhone SDK, and limit iPhone applications to in-house and special-partners only, like it is with iPod games.
They'd merely alter their route so they could meerkat the carnage as they drove past. Heavens Forbid that they miss the chance to see such a disaster with their very own eyes, driving past at 10mph looking to the side rather than straight ahead. Wow, is that a dead body? That's something to tell the kids tonight!
If Apple had their own office suite, they could take that code and trim it down to run on the iPhone. It might exist as a document viewer only but that's what people mostly use mobile Office apps for anyway.
Sadly I guess that's not an option. Even if it was they'd need to have some form of distribution mechanism whereby people could just buy the product online and have it synced to their iPhone with no hassle.
Anyway, back to writing this document in Pages... gotta do that presentation in Keynote too. I wonder if iTunes has any new podcasts available for me?
AMD's new core architecture is out this year, and so far looks like it will be a good match for Core 2 Duo.
The two companies aren't releasing new products in lockstep you know. It took Intel years to come up with a decent response to the Athlon 64, and the Athlon X2. AMD will have their response in a mere year after Intel's release. But Intel have really made the most of their new architecture and AMD have had to reduce prices to be price-performance competitive which accounts for the pain this quarter.
Which is why I could buy a 65nm 65W 4800+ X2 for £75 shipped this week. Released under 2 years ago at 110W and £700 [ Link ] and still a beast.
Unfortunately the WIRED headline "underwire" doesn't obey those rules.
I'm generally unhappy with kerning on websites, unless they use certain fonts (sorry, I've never cared enough to look them up, although oddly enough they were serif fonts whereas I like sans-serif on websites).
The biggest issue for readability was:
- not too small - decent line spacing - NOT black on white. Dark grey on white, or black on pale grey - Nice margins to other content
(aside, remember when people used to call them founts back in the 80s?)
I've actually found the Wii Opera browser quite readable even on a 576i PAL TV (once zoomed in on the content anyway), and I attribute that to decent fonts and colours.
"Maybe the graphics card used in apple TV is not that good. I use a cheapo Geforce6200 with nvidia purevideo codecs and OTA HD broadcast and apple's HD movie trailers look great."
The AppleTV uses a GeForce 7300, running at a clockspeed that gives low power consumption.
Given that it only has a 1GHz Dothan-equivalent inside, I guess that all of the work is done on the graphics card, presumably using something similar to PureVideo, or indeed PureVideo itself.
It can decode 5mbps H.264. That equal to what? 10mbps MPEG2? Certainly nothing like the 20+ mbps that HD DVD/BluRay provide. And if you're used to that, AppleTV will look crap in comparison. As a $300 device, it's priced for the consumer. Stick it on a consumer HDTV and most people will be happy. Everybody else wait until Apple get something a bit more refined hardware wise out of the door.
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Nice, select the one negative article about this news. Well done. Lame.
Given that 80 million iPods have been sold in the last two years - wait, Apple said they had sold 10m in early 2005 - so 90 million iPods in the last two years, I'd guess that the vast majority of them are in use (i.e., they work and aren't under the sofa missing) still (even if they were stolen!).
My iPod nano is 20 months old and I use it all the time still.
I bet that over time less than 10 million iPods sold were due to a previous iPod breaking and being out of warranty. Probably less than 5 million. Likely less than 2 million. Apple will sell than many in a couple of weeks, so it's a rather pointless argument anyway.
Anyway, why doesn't this thinking apply to other manufacturers? Sony - 120m or so PS2s for example. Sold == Sold in anybody's book.
I swear I'd kill the person receiving a phone call on an overnight flight when I'm trying to sleep. Their stupid ringtone with the theme music from some chavvy television programme echoing through the plane, their frantic rustles to find the phone (if they wake up), their phone would have volume increase enabled for the ring tone, so after 5 seconds it sounds like a klaxon. Yes. Murder.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would think this way.
In light of this, banning mobile phones is a sensible option, and it is easier to make it a blanket ban rather than having a 'turn mobiles off' sign next to the 'fasten seatbelt' sign.
Anyway, it's nice to not have to deal with the outside world for some time. Nice to be separated, read a book, listen to some music, chat, etc. Not being on call like some kind of modern day slave to the system.
You must have bought the one widescreen TV in the world that didn't support 4:3 zoom, which specifically exists to deal with this situation... (i've seen widescreen TVs in 1998 that had 14:9 and 16:9 zoom options for 4:3 pictures).
Sure, you lose a bit of vertical resolution, but it ain't that bad. Well, not that bad on PAL at least, I don't know about NTSC.
As for Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition, I'm getting it. I missed out on it on the GC, and didn't want the PS2 version because it was substandard compared to the GC version. This will be ideal. Hopefully they'll tart up the graphics a bit and use the extra RAM in the Wii, and the faster CPU and GPU.
I doubt they have many employees now. I certainly know that if I was a developer at that company I would have left by now given the past month or two's shenanigans. It's probably just a few admin staff and people working out their notice period now...
If people are going to be paying that much for unlimited wireless data, with no option for 'some wireless data', then they'll be cancelling their home phone lines in order to scrape some money back. Low broadband users might scrap that too and use their phone for internet!
Which is a big wet dream for the mobile service providers.
Consumers, on the other hand, don't have a limitless supply of money, especially these days where everything is getting more expensive across the board. It will be hard for them to justify >>$100 a month, even with a free fancy phone.
The fact is the Intel platform exhibited rendering errors, and didn't even run some games. This is despite being on their recent G965 chipset. It also had poor image quality (although the nVidia chipset didn't do that much better, AMD do have the ATI chipsets which get very good scores in HQV) and Intel really should be chastised for selling a media brand with such abysmal performance. It was also $100 cheaper - you can get a fairly decent graphics card for that money, or a CPU upgrade to make up for the slightly faster C2D.
Both systems were using dual core chips.
It is a shame that they didn't use a noise meter at any time, or discuss power consumption, or mention the fact that their requirements for LIVE! had "Vista" whilst the HP system ran XP MCE.
I don't think anyone would want that computer near their home cinema system either.
Oh, wait, it's £425. That's $835, sure that includes 17.5% VAT, but it's still ridiculous.
Fuck you Sony. Fuck you for ripping us off, and doubly fuck you for selling us substandard hardware compared to other countries. Fuck you for being Sony to boot.
this is a good thing, just because I buy something online doesn't mean I should have lees consumer protection than if I buy it physically.
I agree about this for things like software you've bought and downloaded online - you need more than a 'listen' to see if you like it.
But music? You have "Preview" functionality for tracks, so you can hear them before you buy. This is the consumer protection thing in the digital domain - try before you buy.
My local superstore, Tesco, will not accept returns on CDs and DVDs unless they damaged, in which case they're exchanged like-for-like. Are they somehow not abiding by some 'physical sales' law, whilst digital downloads would have to be returnable? Maybe you can return your digital download for the same digital download, lol.
If you're having a party, buy and download loads of music, then return it the next day. It'll be a digital version of returning your dress the next day!
It's moved a lot of crime to areas without street cameras.
Now I can see the use of street cameras in public places as a means to detect crime and/or review a crime that happened in that place. Indeed I have benefited from this: I was attacked in the street at night, and CCTV recorded it, and it helped convict the attackers and prove that I did not 'start it' or 'encourage it'.
The real issue is when they attach the cameras to face recognition software and a database that keeps records of everybody's movements (and even worse, starts automatically flagging 'suspicious' movements so people will get quizzed by the police without any basis apart from what some software flags). That is a clear breach of privacy. It will happen within a few years too, in Britain first, then whereever we can sell the systems too or who thinks it is a great idea.
It's a massive markup over the US price even when you take VAT into account:
425 / 1.175 = 361.70 361.70 GBP = 712.444 USD
Now some of that might be because the laws in the UK (and Europe as a whole) are more consumer friendly, so they have to tack on a bit more money to cover that. However most of that is simply yet again Rip Off Britain. Considering the amount of tax the government is extracting from us, and the stupid rises in the cost of living, I doubt that many people will have the money to spent £425 on a mere games console - before games, extra controllers, etc...
£179 Wii vs. £425? 2.37x the price. That's the same ratio as in the US - $250:$600...
If you are an average non-techy person, especially one prone to getting spyware and so on, you simply cannot afford to use Windows. Hell, if it's still too much money, and 2 years of your life, the rumours, the 'no smoke without fire' retardo simpleminded shit, the stress and the upset is still too much to bear then at least do yourself a favour and install Firefox... if you are going to visit the type of website that gets you overloaded with this type of spyware then you need to give yourself some sort of protection!
Conversely, if you are a fan of kiddy fiddling pictures, you surely must use a Windows machine without any anti-spyware applications. And IE6.
Let's not forget the now 200,000 Wii sales a week in Japan compared to 50k PS3s (or 15k XBox360s), or the fact that it is available in Europe (some half a million sales there in December) whilst the PS3 isn't. They've sold over 1m Wiis in Japan now, nearly 2m in the US and a million in Europe. Sony has made 1m sales. Or should I say 'shipments'?
So in December worldwide the Wii probably outsold the PS3 by a clear million. Not 100,000.
You've got to +5 Informative by giving incorrect information.
HD-DVD is 15GB per layer, in the current shipping product.
1 layer = 15GB 2 layers = 30GB
In this product the capacity per layer has been increased to 17GB.
3 layers = 51GB
Theoretically that will also make 17GB and 34GB HD-DVDs a possibility. However there is a wee slight issue. Current HD-DVD players may not be able to read these new 17GB layers, and quite possibly may not manage 3 layers either. The first may be fixable in the firmware, but the laser is very much hardware - although the laser power might be firmware controllable, and hence make it possible to read with firmware tweaks.
BluRay is 25GB per layer. However in a similar vein 33GB/layer BluRay discs have been done (200GB capacity in 6 layers), but some current players may read them, AFAIK. However if a firmware update would work then 66GB dual-layer BluRay discs are a possibility.
OTOH Hitachi apparently showcased a 25GB x 4 layer BluRay disc recently however: "Hitachi demonstrated reading from a 100 GB Blu Ray disc, comprising four layers of data. It is probably in reaction to the upcoming adoption of triple layer HD-DVD. The good news is that this technology seems close at hand: the device used to read is very close to the LG GBW-H10N that we tested. A firmware modification was all it took to allow all four layers to be read."
During the contest, a nurse called in to the station warn of the dangers of drinking too much water quickly. Her worries were dismissed by the disc jockey
That fact makes the station (and the DJ) criminally negligible for the death. Well, In My Opinion as IANAL and I'm also not American, so I don't know what corporation-friendly laws you will have to counteract this.
They were warned. They still went ahead. That's worse than manslaughter, it's not just being ignorant when you are told by a fucking nurse that it is dangerous.
In the short term the DJ and show planning team will get the sack (and good luck getting a new job with 'killed a contestant' on your resumé), hopefully in the long term the contestants and the family of the deceased will get some kind of fair compensation for this incident.
I must admit that the people saying she was in the wrong really should get a balanced perspective on life too...
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This is a USB version of their already existing ethernet based products.
However this product works with all types of connection on the computer - modem, wireless, ethernet, GPRS, and so on, anything that TCP/IP runs over.
It's also dead useful when you have a laptop user that you really don't want to get compromised on their travels. Stick this in their machine, and you'll be doing a lot more to secure the traffic into and out of their system. So whilst you think it is hyped up, I'm thinking it is small enough and powerful enough to be of serious real world use for mobile users.
Why can't the OS, when it sees that it is running out of memory, send a signal/message/henchman to applications and tell them that if they have the ability to give up some memory (i.e., caches, etc), then do so, to keep the system happy. There could be several levels of urgency in the request as well, like "yeah, dude, just thinking here, yeah, could you ease up a little on the memory, cheers!" through to "Sieg Heil! Deine Memory, SCHNELL!!".
The PowerPC Processing Elements in the XBox360 and PS3 are very similar, and are not developments of IBM's PPC4xx or 6xx series. They're SMT in-order cores that run at 3.2GHz and support two threads.
Cell: "It's a PPC4xx controller keeping 8 single-pipeline cores (6 integer, 2 FP/Integer) full of properly-scheduled instructions. "
Your Cell information is so incorrect that I feel sorry for anyone that has read it and now believes it is true.
The Cell is a PowerPC Processing Element (i.e., 1/3rd of an XBox360 CPU) coupled to 8 (7 active in the PS3) SPEs on a very fast and wide ring bus. Each SPE has two pipelines, and each pipeline operates on 128-bit vectors, i.e., each SPE is a dual-issue in-order SIMD processor with 256KB of local memory.
"It has FP, which is more than can be said for the PPC400-series (and all but two of the specialized cores in the PS3)"
Cell's PPE has a standard PowerPC FPU unit, and a VMX128 unit capable of 25.6GFLOPS (single precision). All 8 SPEs of course can also do 25.6GFLOPS (single precision) each. These are at the Cell's 3.2GHz clock rate in the PS3.
I was wondering if you got your information from Wikipedia, but you didn't. Wikipedia's article is also massively incorrect though (indeed it is now less correct than it was a few months ago, weird).
The 750CX derivative processor in the Wii is about as powerful as a 1.5GHz PPE, i.e., the Wii has about half the standard CPU processing power as a PS3 (although the PPE will get better use due to being able to run two threads, and the SPEs are icing on the top for physics and similar). The Gecko CPU in the Gamecube had special media instructions that may have been SIMD-like, and as the Wii is backwardly compatible, I assume the Wii's CPU has these in it as well.
Given adequate execution resources: Nothing.
Given limited execution resources: A Lot. More than the number of tentacles the creature in Deep Rising had.
Maybe Safari JITs the Javascript so it isn't so bad though (for web apps and HTML widgets). And some widgets use native code anyway, so that's cool.
Personally I'm hoping that Apple will release an iPhone SDK, but require applications to be signed and made available via the iTMS for the obvious security reasons. I do worry they won't release an iPhone SDK, and limit iPhone applications to in-house and special-partners only, like it is with iPod games.
I don't think they'd panic.
They'd merely alter their route so they could meerkat the carnage as they drove past. Heavens Forbid that they miss the chance to see such a disaster with their very own eyes, driving past at 10mph looking to the side rather than straight ahead. Wow, is that a dead body? That's something to tell the kids tonight!
If Apple had their own office suite, they could take that code and trim it down to run on the iPhone. It might exist as a document viewer only but that's what people mostly use mobile Office apps for anyway.
... gotta do that presentation in Keynote too. I wonder if iTunes has any new podcasts available for me?
Sadly I guess that's not an option. Even if it was they'd need to have some form of distribution mechanism whereby people could just buy the product online and have it synced to their iPhone with no hassle.
Anyway, back to writing this document in Pages
Dude, go to anger management counselling.
AMD's new core architecture is out this year, and so far looks like it will be a good match for Core 2 Duo.
The two companies aren't releasing new products in lockstep you know. It took Intel years to come up with a decent response to the Athlon 64, and the Athlon X2. AMD will have their response in a mere year after Intel's release. But Intel have really made the most of their new architecture and AMD have had to reduce prices to be price-performance competitive which accounts for the pain this quarter.
Which is why I could buy a 65nm 65W 4800+ X2 for £75 shipped this week. Released under 2 years ago at 110W and £700 [ Link ] and still a beast.
Unfortunately the WIRED headline "underwire" doesn't obey those rules.
I'm generally unhappy with kerning on websites, unless they use certain fonts (sorry, I've never cared enough to look them up, although oddly enough they were serif fonts whereas I like sans-serif on websites).
The biggest issue for readability was:
- not too small
- decent line spacing
- NOT black on white. Dark grey on white, or black on pale grey
- Nice margins to other content
(aside, remember when people used to call them founts back in the 80s?)
I've actually found the Wii Opera browser quite readable even on a 576i PAL TV (once zoomed in on the content anyway), and I attribute that to decent fonts and colours.
"Maybe the graphics card used in apple TV is not that good. I use a cheapo Geforce6200 with nvidia purevideo codecs and OTA HD broadcast and apple's HD movie trailers look great."
The AppleTV uses a GeForce 7300, running at a clockspeed that gives low power consumption.
Given that it only has a 1GHz Dothan-equivalent inside, I guess that all of the work is done on the graphics card, presumably using something similar to PureVideo, or indeed PureVideo itself.
It can decode 5mbps H.264. That equal to what? 10mbps MPEG2? Certainly nothing like the 20+ mbps that HD DVD/BluRay provide. And if you're used to that, AppleTV will look crap in comparison. As a $300 device, it's priced for the consumer. Stick it on a consumer HDTV and most people will be happy. Everybody else wait until Apple get something a bit more refined hardware wise out of the door.
Nice, select the one negative article about this news. Well done. Lame.
Given that 80 million iPods have been sold in the last two years - wait, Apple said they had sold 10m in early 2005 - so 90 million iPods in the last two years, I'd guess that the vast majority of them are in use (i.e., they work and aren't under the sofa missing) still (even if they were stolen!).
My iPod nano is 20 months old and I use it all the time still.
I bet that over time less than 10 million iPods sold were due to a previous iPod breaking and being out of warranty. Probably less than 5 million. Likely less than 2 million. Apple will sell than many in a couple of weeks, so it's a rather pointless argument anyway.
Anyway, why doesn't this thinking apply to other manufacturers? Sony - 120m or so PS2s for example. Sold == Sold in anybody's book.
I swear I'd kill the person receiving a phone call on an overnight flight when I'm trying to sleep. Their stupid ringtone with the theme music from some chavvy television programme echoing through the plane, their frantic rustles to find the phone (if they wake up), their phone would have volume increase enabled for the ring tone, so after 5 seconds it sounds like a klaxon. Yes. Murder.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who would think this way.
In light of this, banning mobile phones is a sensible option, and it is easier to make it a blanket ban rather than having a 'turn mobiles off' sign next to the 'fasten seatbelt' sign.
Anyway, it's nice to not have to deal with the outside world for some time. Nice to be separated, read a book, listen to some music, chat, etc. Not being on call like some kind of modern day slave to the system.
You must have bought the one widescreen TV in the world that didn't support 4:3 zoom, which specifically exists to deal with this situation... (i've seen widescreen TVs in 1998 that had 14:9 and 16:9 zoom options for 4:3 pictures).
Sure, you lose a bit of vertical resolution, but it ain't that bad. Well, not that bad on PAL at least, I don't know about NTSC.
As for Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition, I'm getting it. I missed out on it on the GC, and didn't want the PS2 version because it was substandard compared to the GC version. This will be ideal. Hopefully they'll tart up the graphics a bit and use the extra RAM in the Wii, and the faster CPU and GPU.
I doubt they have many employees now. I certainly know that if I was a developer at that company I would have left by now given the past month or two's shenanigans. It's probably just a few admin staff and people working out their notice period now...
If people are going to be paying that much for unlimited wireless data, with no option for 'some wireless data', then they'll be cancelling their home phone lines in order to scrape some money back. Low broadband users might scrap that too and use their phone for internet!
Which is a big wet dream for the mobile service providers.
Consumers, on the other hand, don't have a limitless supply of money, especially these days where everything is getting more expensive across the board. It will be hard for them to justify >>$100 a month, even with a free fancy phone.
The fact is the Intel platform exhibited rendering errors, and didn't even run some games. This is despite being on their recent G965 chipset. It also had poor image quality (although the nVidia chipset didn't do that much better, AMD do have the ATI chipsets which get very good scores in HQV) and Intel really should be chastised for selling a media brand with such abysmal performance. It was also $100 cheaper - you can get a fairly decent graphics card for that money, or a CPU upgrade to make up for the slightly faster C2D.
Both systems were using dual core chips.
It is a shame that they didn't use a noise meter at any time, or discuss power consumption, or mention the fact that their requirements for LIVE! had "Vista" whilst the HP system ran XP MCE.
I don't think anyone would want that computer near their home cinema system either.
Yeah, less hardware means it will be cheaper!!!
Oh, wait, it's £425. That's $835, sure that includes 17.5% VAT, but it's still ridiculous.
Fuck you Sony. Fuck you for ripping us off, and doubly fuck you for selling us substandard hardware compared to other countries. Fuck you for being Sony to boot.
this is a good thing, just because I buy something online doesn't mean I should have lees consumer protection than if I buy it physically.
I agree about this for things like software you've bought and downloaded online - you need more than a 'listen' to see if you like it.
But music? You have "Preview" functionality for tracks, so you can hear them before you buy. This is the consumer protection thing in the digital domain - try before you buy.
My local superstore, Tesco, will not accept returns on CDs and DVDs unless they damaged, in which case they're exchanged like-for-like. Are they somehow not abiding by some 'physical sales' law, whilst digital downloads would have to be returnable? Maybe you can return your digital download for the same digital download, lol.
If you're having a party, buy and download loads of music, then return it the next day. It'll be a digital version of returning your dress the next day!
It's moved a lot of crime to areas without street cameras.
Now I can see the use of street cameras in public places as a means to detect crime and/or review a crime that happened in that place. Indeed I have benefited from this: I was attacked in the street at night, and CCTV recorded it, and it helped convict the attackers and prove that I did not 'start it' or 'encourage it'.
The real issue is when they attach the cameras to face recognition software and a database that keeps records of everybody's movements (and even worse, starts automatically flagging 'suspicious' movements so people will get quizzed by the police without any basis apart from what some software flags). That is a clear breach of privacy. It will happen within a few years too, in Britain first, then whereever we can sell the systems too or who thinks it is a great idea.
It's a massive markup over the US price even when you take VAT into account:
...
425 / 1.175 = 361.70
361.70 GBP = 712.444 USD
Now some of that might be because the laws in the UK (and Europe as a whole) are more consumer friendly, so they have to tack on a bit more money to cover that. However most of that is simply yet again Rip Off Britain. Considering the amount of tax the government is extracting from us, and the stupid rises in the cost of living, I doubt that many people will have the money to spent £425 on a mere games console - before games, extra controllers, etc...
£179 Wii vs. £425? 2.37x the price. That's the same ratio as in the US - $250:$600
Well you didn't, so bad luck. You can apply my reasoning to Linux too, if that would make you happier.
If you are an average non-techy person, especially one prone to getting spyware and so on, you simply cannot afford to use Windows. Hell, if it's still too much money, and 2 years of your life, the rumours, the 'no smoke without fire' retardo simpleminded shit, the stress and the upset is still too much to bear then at least do yourself a favour and install Firefox ... if you are going to visit the type of website that gets you overloaded with this type of spyware then you need to give yourself some sort of protection!
Conversely, if you are a fan of kiddy fiddling pictures, you surely must use a Windows machine without any anti-spyware applications. And IE6.
They can use this thing called the Internet to see if what the nurse said is true.
Then they can act on it.
To blatantly ignore the call, and not even do a minor bit of research on it, is negligence of the highest order.
Let's not forget the now 200,000 Wii sales a week in Japan compared to 50k PS3s (or 15k XBox360s), or the fact that it is available in Europe (some half a million sales there in December) whilst the PS3 isn't. They've sold over 1m Wiis in Japan now, nearly 2m in the US and a million in Europe. Sony has made 1m sales. Or should I say 'shipments'?
So in December worldwide the Wii probably outsold the PS3 by a clear million. Not 100,000.
You've got to +5 Informative by giving incorrect information.
HD-DVD is 15GB per layer, in the current shipping product.
1 layer = 15GB
2 layers = 30GB
In this product the capacity per layer has been increased to 17GB.
3 layers = 51GB
Theoretically that will also make 17GB and 34GB HD-DVDs a possibility. However there is a wee slight issue. Current HD-DVD players may not be able to read these new 17GB layers, and quite possibly may not manage 3 layers either. The first may be fixable in the firmware, but the laser is very much hardware - although the laser power might be firmware controllable, and hence make it possible to read with firmware tweaks.
BluRay is 25GB per layer. However in a similar vein 33GB/layer BluRay discs have been done (200GB capacity in 6 layers), but some current players may read them, AFAIK. However if a firmware update would work then 66GB dual-layer BluRay discs are a possibility.
OTOH Hitachi apparently showcased a 25GB x 4 layer BluRay disc recently however: "Hitachi demonstrated reading from a 100 GB Blu Ray disc, comprising four layers of data. It is probably in reaction to the upcoming adoption of triple layer HD-DVD. The good news is that this technology seems close at hand: the device used to read is very close to the LG GBW-H10N that we tested. A firmware modification was all it took to allow all four layers to be read."
During the contest, a nurse called in to the station warn of the dangers of drinking too much water quickly. Her worries were dismissed by the disc jockey
...
That fact makes the station (and the DJ) criminally negligible for the death. Well, In My Opinion as IANAL and I'm also not American, so I don't know what corporation-friendly laws you will have to counteract this.
They were warned. They still went ahead. That's worse than manslaughter, it's not just being ignorant when you are told by a fucking nurse that it is dangerous.
In the short term the DJ and show planning team will get the sack (and good luck getting a new job with 'killed a contestant' on your resumé), hopefully in the long term the contestants and the family of the deceased will get some kind of fair compensation for this incident.
I must admit that the people saying she was in the wrong really should get a balanced perspective on life too