Will people wave hello to the flying pigs as they fly south for the winter?
Re:VCR theory reduces to 'cannot change the past'!
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What I had meant was that we're copying over the new section of the tape in effect, with something that's already on the old one. There do not need to be multiple distinct realities, the one will be enough, this god is resetting the entire universe to a state that it was previously at (minus the time-traveler).
Time itself isn't reset, but since there isn't some universal background time that we can tap into, we'll never know that things have been reset either. We don't have to worry about causality phenomena either, Marty can change things all he wants, and the universe might evolve in new directions without destroying or changing him.
Infinite Energy magazine runs out. Sure, I'm all for the occassional "Crystal Chakras Power Generates Excess Neutrons" story, but after awhile, it gets ridiculous.
And I'm supposed to have a more polite response for someone that pulls the most minimalistic *software* exception out of their ass, and has the gall to be sarcastic about it? What do you think that GPU is doing there, sitting on that *graphics card* ?
It's even more grating, considering that you didn't even bother to read the original question, which is asking about it in a way that tends to make one thing he is asking about *hardware*. So don't go crying to mommy, go crying to your remedial english teacher, and beg her to give you a lesson in reading comprehension, dimwit.
Have fun then. The timings on the AGP port are more masochistic than even those on PCI, and you have zero proposed applications for it other than video. I can think of some ugly uses for busses in the past (just about anything involving storage and/or video on USB), but AGP for something else would take first prize.
It was designed to only ever be used for graphics, and it cannot be used for anything else. True, VLB may have been only for graphics, and yet I've seen the occassionaly scsi card or ethernet nic for it, but it was still more general-purpose. Read up on the AGP docs, and they make it clear... there can be no other uses.
Of course the hardcore gamer will buy one as soon as he can. The thing is, will Sony have already decided it wasn't worth it by then? It's not as if game companies haven't decided to just get out of the console business before, and that was *before* Microsoft joined the fray.
1. Eat cows. 2. Eat pigs. 3. Eat chickens. 4. Eat turkeys. 5. Eat alaskan white cod at LJS's, but not at Captain D's. 6. Do not eat crab, lobster, shrimp or anything else that has its eyeballs on stalks. 7. Do not eat snails, oysters, clams, or anything else that looks like slime and has a shell. 8. Do not eat vegetables. Or at least not the green ones.
Let's use small numbers to make things clearer. You are Soby, maker of this crappy little video game machine. It will be a big hit, but it costs $100 to make. Only, no one is willing to pay more than $50. No big deal. If you can get it to be a big enough hit, you can ramp up production, and sometime next year you can be making the things for $50, or maybe even less. The thing is, will it be a big enough hit?
If you go forward now, you might make up a little of the $50 difference through games licensing. But even that isn't expected to pay it up completely (don't get me wrong, once you get the cost down, games licenses will make up the bulk of the profit).
So you see, they don't have to make up the difference. They have to hold out until that difference no longer exists, and it has to continue selling past that point long enough to actually make a profit. That profit will be what makes up for the initial cost/retail price difference (and hopefully then some).
Will it work? Fuck if I know, that's a hell of a price to make up for. The good news is the Cell processor, it's possible they'll make enough in royalties for that thing to make the whole thing worthwhile no matter what.
You can argue with the $900 price with the author of the article. Sounds a little ridiculous to me, but he actually is arguing that that's what the cost will be, when it does go to market.
This is counter-intuitive, so you don't lose points. But they lose more if he does buy it. Why? Because in the initial frenzy for the machine, there won't be enough. If someone buys one like he suggested, that's a machine no one else can buy. He's keeping it off the market, in effect. Depending on how demand goes for games, Sony may not be able to justify making any more of them.
Where as if he lets a hardcore gamer buy it, sales might be so brisk of games, that Sony decides they will eventually make a profit, keeps going.
So during the debut of the thing, it's entirely possible that him buying the machine could hurt them worse than not buying it (since he has no control to keep everyone from buying his unit). What you say only becomes true if he can convince others not to buy it either, an unlikely proposition.
The article states that $900 is the cost to Sony. It won't cost that retail, they always take a hit. The original Xbox cost more to make, than it sold for. It's called a loss leader, look it up.
1. What's good for Microsoft is good for the US economy. 2. Because they have a million tricks up their sleeve to obselete your old software. 3. You're too stupid to use linux. 4. Your new hardware has been sabotaged for any "pirated" software like linux. 5. Because we get kickbacks from Ballmer if you do. 6. As an american, you are culturally programmed to want new toys and to believe what marketing firms tell you. 7. Because it will be secure. *snicker*cough**snort*LOL... damn, I can't keep a straight face. 8. Because we at Microsoft have been busy trying to convince you that cool tricks are only possible on Vista, and considering our other OSs are steaming shitpiles, you just might believe it. 9. Because WE SAY SO. 10. If you haven't bought Vista yet, then the terrorists have already won...
I agree with the sentiment, but unless you are willing to start shooting up the pigs when they mount a camera outside your home on the streetcorner, it's pointless.
That's what he's referring to. Of course, they can just aim it in the bedroom window. They can put them everywhere, so that you can't even go out in your backyard and still retain privacy. And on and on. Hell, they might even be able to put one on the electric/phone pole out back.
Willing to start the revolution over that? You have no property rights, in the strictest sense. They can tweak the rules just enough that technically they aren't breaking the law, even if they are demolishing the spirit of it. It's a strange world we live in.
Strictly speaking, jewish religious law only applies to jews. Non-jews are only sinning if they break the 7 noahidic laws which are:
1. Idols are forbidden. 2. Adultery is forbidden (strangely, I've never seen this interpreted as fornication). 3. Murder is forbidden. 4. Cursing the name of God is forbidden. 5. Theft is forbidden. 6. Eating a still-living animal is forbidden. 7. We must be fair and just.
Well, if freenet were a real network, and not some half-assed cryptographer's thought exercise, he could choose to host only the things that he likes, and someone else would get to choose to host equal rights web pages. Pseudonymity is possible in an IPv4/v6 network, no one has really tried though. You'd only have to route packets, not host their encrypted disgusting pedofiles.
They aren't websites, for fuck's sake. Can you put up a slashdot on freenet, or anything else that requires two way communication? It's not HTTP, it's pretty much file-trading for html files. BIG DIFFERENCE.
Oh, and they have this little usenet-like thing. Nice.
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Will people wave hello to the flying pigs as they fly south for the winter?
What I had meant was that we're copying over the new section of the tape in effect, with something that's already on the old one. There do not need to be multiple distinct realities, the one will be enough, this god is resetting the entire universe to a state that it was previously at (minus the time-traveler).
Time itself isn't reset, but since there isn't some universal background time that we can tap into, we'll never know that things have been reset either. We don't have to worry about causality phenomena either, Marty can change things all he wants, and the universe might evolve in new directions without destroying or changing him.
Infinite Energy magazine runs out. Sure, I'm all for the occassional "Crystal Chakras Power Generates Excess Neutrons" story, but after awhile, it gets ridiculous.
As someone that has most of these documents on my laptop, I say that yes, I have an interest in hardware hacking. Just not stupid hardware hacking.
That is actually interesting. Would be curious to know just how the firewire port interfaced to the rest of the system.
And I'm supposed to have a more polite response for someone that pulls the most minimalistic *software* exception out of their ass, and has the gall to be sarcastic about it? What do you think that GPU is doing there, sitting on that *graphics card* ?
It's even more grating, considering that you didn't even bother to read the original question, which is asking about it in a way that tends to make one thing he is asking about *hardware*. So don't go crying to mommy, go crying to your remedial english teacher, and beg her to give you a lesson in reading comprehension, dimwit.
Better explain to them that they're using graphics cards for it. Dumbass.
Have fun then. The timings on the AGP port are more masochistic than even those on PCI, and you have zero proposed applications for it other than video. I can think of some ugly uses for busses in the past (just about anything involving storage and/or video on USB), but AGP for something else would take first prize.
It was designed to only ever be used for graphics, and it cannot be used for anything else. True, VLB may have been only for graphics, and yet I've seen the occassionaly scsi card or ethernet nic for it, but it was still more general-purpose. Read up on the AGP docs, and they make it clear... there can be no other uses.
Of course the hardcore gamer will buy one as soon as he can. The thing is, will Sony have already decided it wasn't worth it by then? It's not as if game companies haven't decided to just get out of the console business before, and that was *before* Microsoft joined the fray.
The dietary code of NoMoreNicksLeft:
1. Eat cows.
2. Eat pigs.
3. Eat chickens.
4. Eat turkeys.
5. Eat alaskan white cod at LJS's, but not at Captain D's.
6. Do not eat crab, lobster, shrimp or anything else that has its eyeballs on stalks.
7. Do not eat snails, oysters, clams, or anything else that looks like slime and has a shell.
8. Do not eat vegetables. Or at least not the green ones.
Heh. I expect that there will be linux support for the Cell. Bluray too, inevitably. It's the Nvidia that might never be worth much...
Bear with me, I am no economist... but:
Let's use small numbers to make things clearer. You are Soby, maker of this crappy little video game machine. It will be a big hit, but it costs $100 to make. Only, no one is willing to pay more than $50. No big deal. If you can get it to be a big enough hit, you can ramp up production, and sometime next year you can be making the things for $50, or maybe even less. The thing is, will it be a big enough hit?
If you go forward now, you might make up a little of the $50 difference through games licensing. But even that isn't expected to pay it up completely (don't get me wrong, once you get the cost down, games licenses will make up the bulk of the profit).
So you see, they don't have to make up the difference. They have to hold out until that difference no longer exists, and it has to continue selling past that point long enough to actually make a profit. That profit will be what makes up for the initial cost/retail price difference (and hopefully then some).
Will it work? Fuck if I know, that's a hell of a price to make up for. The good news is the Cell processor, it's possible they'll make enough in royalties for that thing to make the whole thing worthwhile no matter what.
You can argue with the $900 price with the author of the article. Sounds a little ridiculous to me, but he actually is arguing that that's what the cost will be, when it does go to market.
This is counter-intuitive, so you don't lose points. But they lose more if he does buy it. Why? Because in the initial frenzy for the machine, there won't be enough. If someone buys one like he suggested, that's a machine no one else can buy. He's keeping it off the market, in effect. Depending on how demand goes for games, Sony may not be able to justify making any more of them.
Where as if he lets a hardcore gamer buy it, sales might be so brisk of games, that Sony decides they will eventually make a profit, keeps going.
So during the debut of the thing, it's entirely possible that him buying the machine could hurt them worse than not buying it (since he has no control to keep everyone from buying his unit). What you say only becomes true if he can convince others not to buy it either, an unlikely proposition.
If you weren't a man, I'd marry you.
The article states that $900 is the cost to Sony. It won't cost that retail, they always take a hit. The original Xbox cost more to make, than it sold for. It's called a loss leader, look it up.
Me too, but since they were going to go to waste anyway, I gave them to you.
1. What's good for Microsoft is good for the US economy.
2. Because they have a million tricks up their sleeve to obselete your old software.
3. You're too stupid to use linux.
4. Your new hardware has been sabotaged for any "pirated" software like linux.
5. Because we get kickbacks from Ballmer if you do.
6. As an american, you are culturally programmed to want new toys and to believe what marketing firms tell you.
7. Because it will be secure. *snicker*cough**snort*LOL... damn, I can't keep a straight face.
8. Because we at Microsoft have been busy trying to convince you that cool tricks are only possible on Vista, and considering our other OSs are steaming shitpiles, you just might believe it.
9. Because WE SAY SO.
10. If you haven't bought Vista yet, then the terrorists have already won...
I agree with the sentiment, but unless you are willing to start shooting up the pigs when they mount a camera outside your home on the streetcorner, it's pointless.
That's what he's referring to. Of course, they can just aim it in the bedroom window. They can put them everywhere, so that you can't even go out in your backyard and still retain privacy. And on and on. Hell, they might even be able to put one on the electric/phone pole out back.
Willing to start the revolution over that? You have no property rights, in the strictest sense. They can tweak the rules just enough that technically they aren't breaking the law, even if they are demolishing the spirit of it. It's a strange world we live in.
The Mormon you mentioned. Jews are gentiles to them.
Strictly speaking, jewish religious law only applies to jews. Non-jews are only sinning if they break the 7 noahidic laws which are:
1. Idols are forbidden.
2. Adultery is forbidden (strangely, I've never seen this interpreted as fornication).
3. Murder is forbidden.
4. Cursing the name of God is forbidden.
5. Theft is forbidden.
6. Eating a still-living animal is forbidden.
7. We must be fair and just.
So, pork chops are on me.
Of course cameras help! For instance, we have pretty pictures of Mohammed Atta just before he boards the plane.
Well, if freenet were a real network, and not some half-assed cryptographer's thought exercise, he could choose to host only the things that he likes, and someone else would get to choose to host equal rights web pages. Pseudonymity is possible in an IPv4/v6 network, no one has really tried though. You'd only have to route packets, not host their encrypted disgusting pedofiles.
They aren't websites, for fuck's sake. Can you put up a slashdot on freenet, or anything else that requires two way communication? It's not HTTP, it's pretty much file-trading for html files. BIG DIFFERENCE.
Oh, and they have this little usenet-like thing. Nice.