Intel never sold anything to Sun or Apple anyway, at least not since the Sun 386 boxes, so there's no lost sales there. The XBox was an invisible number of units shipped by Intel's standards, and they used the bargain-basement low-margin chips as well. Why would they need to counter moves which have no effect on them?
If Sun only puts Opterons in their low-end servers and sticks with UltraSparc III in their high-end machines, they'll be in the odd position of having their low-end boxes blow away the high-end ones CPU-wise. That would be some strange market segmentation to say the least.
Yeah, but this is the web. Having to drive around to multiple stores for the different labels would be a pain, but I can easily surf to five or six different websites without even getting off the couch. You may be right that the labels just don't want to bother getting into retail and would rather leave it somebody else to move their product, but the web makes it a lot easier for them to get into direct marketing if they want.
BTW, it was just a simple question, there's no need to accuse me of living in fantasy-land.
If online music retailing really takes off, why wouldn't the labels just cut out the middlemen and set up their own online stores? By then they will know what works and what doesn't, and they'll be a perfect position to take over the whole field for themselves.
Besides that, it seems like just about every story on a new product here devolves into a discussion on how to get it or an equivalent for much cheaper or free. Not only will Slashdotters advise you to make a product hardly anyone wants, they won't even buy it themselves!
Microsoft has been advertising on Slashdot for many months at least. I guess it shows you how effective banner ads are if you're just now noticing it.:-)
Well, it's true that I was being a little facetious and giving a little dig at Apple. Since I can see how strongly it has affected you I take it back, since I can't stand to see a grown man cry like that. Happy?
I use MusicMatch for ripping and encoding, its MP3 encoder does a good job at low bitrates (VBR ~128kb/s). Back when I used iTunes on my Mac the MP3 encoder it came with was terrible, when using VBR you had to jack the base bitrate way up or it was artifacts galore. Maybe it's better now, but I'll stick with MM thanks anyway.
As a player I don't like MM at all, BTW. I use Winamp for that, which is much niftier than iTunes in just about every possible way.
I criticized Mac OS X? Where? I just said that Mac laptops should have higher-res screens. Besides, I used OS X for over a year on my iBook before it died and I switched to a Windows laptop since you get so much more for your money there compared to the Powerbooks.
Once again a Mac user who just can't stand the idea that there is anything imperfect about the computer he overpaid for.
That expose looks pretty nifty. Of course, if you bought a PC laptop then you could get one with a 1400x1050 or 1600x1200 screen and have your windows tiled all of the time. This functionality is only necessary because Apple refuses to ship high-resolution LCDs for some perverse reason.
Maybe for flavor-of-the-month pop that's true, but I own tons of CDs and I like to listen to just about all them all the way through. Really, it's not hard to find talented musicians that can make entire CDs worth of good music, just buy those instead.
OK, just for you I took a look, even though you were too lazy to make a link for me. The press release doesn't say what exactly they mean by "supports", i.e. what was the actual question asked? Since the same poll also showed that 85% of Palestinians supported "mutual cessation of violence" I would have to say that no real conclusions can be drawn from this, no matter how much you may want to. Just picking out one thing is intellectually dishonest.
Also, it looks like this PSR has a little history. The brother of the assassinated head of Islamic Jihad? I prefer my pollsters to have a little more emotional distance than that, thank you very much.
Why don't you post a link to this supposed poll that proves all Palestinians are evil and deserve to die? How are we supposed to make fun of you and the way you have misunderstood or distorted it if we don't have the source material? Throw us a bone!
Presumably a motherboard that didn't have PS/2 ports would have a USB-aware BIOS? It's not like people are installing aftermarket BIOSes (sp?), they pretty much stick with what came on the board.
I don't think you'd have to cut too many (if any) corners to undercut Apple's prices. Paying extra for quality makes sense, paying extra for status is stupid, but it's often difficult to figure out where that line is.
If your MP3's average more than about 128 kb/s then you will get choppiness, I'm still not sure whether the bottleneck is the decoder or just transferring the data off the SD card. I make my MP3's using MusicMatch, VBR 50% "High-Quality" (heh) setting, which average 128 kb/s and they work pretty well.
Right, that's what I'm using. I don't like Winamp3 either, for some reason if you tell it to play an entire album it doesn't sort the tracks by track number, at least I couldn't get it to do it. WTF?
Those things have been in Winamp since forever. I'm sitting here right now staring at the library manager, it has a three-pane view of artist-album-track, and a search field. I use it all of the time, in fact I don't have a single playlist file anywhere. I used iTunes a lot when my Mac was working, and I still think Winamp is a lot handier, it can be collapsed to take up very little screen space yet still expanded and/or controlled with just a few keystrokes.
Mine has a Mobile Radeon 9000 with 64MB in it, but I admit I don't really know how good it is because my game-playing is pretty much limited to my Gamecube. You're right that high-end 3D gamers are probably not into the whole laptop-everywhere thing, but a lot of other people are doing it because it's so nice to always have the same environment and all of your files with you whether you're at home, in the office, on the road, etc.
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Intel never sold anything to Sun or Apple anyway, at least not since the Sun 386 boxes, so there's no lost sales there. The XBox was an invisible number of units shipped by Intel's standards, and they used the bargain-basement low-margin chips as well. Why would they need to counter moves which have no effect on them?
If Sun only puts Opterons in their low-end servers and sticks with UltraSparc III in their high-end machines, they'll be in the odd position of having their low-end boxes blow away the high-end ones CPU-wise. That would be some strange market segmentation to say the least.
Yeah, but this is the web. Having to drive around to multiple stores for the different labels would be a pain, but I can easily surf to five or six different websites without even getting off the couch. You may be right that the labels just don't want to bother getting into retail and would rather leave it somebody else to move their product, but the web makes it a lot easier for them to get into direct marketing if they want.
BTW, it was just a simple question, there's no need to accuse me of living in fantasy-land.
Whatever. The truth is that at the end Neo wakes up next to Suzanne Pleschette and realizes it was all just a dream.
They should just sell DVDs of the vicious beating he took from Todd Bridges in celebrity boxing instead. I know I'd pay to watch that again.
If online music retailing really takes off, why wouldn't the labels just cut out the middlemen and set up their own online stores? By then they will know what works and what doesn't, and they'll be a perfect position to take over the whole field for themselves.
Besides that, it seems like just about every story on a new product here devolves into a discussion on how to get it or an equivalent for much cheaper or free. Not only will Slashdotters advise you to make a product hardly anyone wants, they won't even buy it themselves!
So, you're saying I should pay out the ass for Monster Cable for my speakers, then? Wow, the guy at Best Buy was right after all! ;-)
Microsoft has been advertising on Slashdot for many months at least. I guess it shows you how effective banner ads are if you're just now noticing it. :-)
Well, it's true that I was being a little facetious and giving a little dig at Apple. Since I can see how strongly it has affected you I take it back, since I can't stand to see a grown man cry like that. Happy?
I use MusicMatch for ripping and encoding, its MP3 encoder does a good job at low bitrates (VBR ~128kb/s). Back when I used iTunes on my Mac the MP3 encoder it came with was terrible, when using VBR you had to jack the base bitrate way up or it was artifacts galore. Maybe it's better now, but I'll stick with MM thanks anyway.
As a player I don't like MM at all, BTW. I use Winamp for that, which is much niftier than iTunes in just about every possible way.
I criticized Mac OS X? Where? I just said that Mac laptops should have higher-res screens. Besides, I used OS X for over a year on my iBook before it died and I switched to a Windows laptop since you get so much more for your money there compared to the Powerbooks.
Once again a Mac user who just can't stand the idea that there is anything imperfect about the computer he overpaid for.
That expose looks pretty nifty. Of course, if you bought a PC laptop then you could get one with a 1400x1050 or 1600x1200 screen and have your windows tiled all of the time. This functionality is only necessary because Apple refuses to ship high-resolution LCDs for some perverse reason.
Maybe for flavor-of-the-month pop that's true, but I own tons of CDs and I like to listen to just about all them all the way through. Really, it's not hard to find talented musicians that can make entire CDs worth of good music, just buy those instead.
Better throw in some renter's insurance, that way you can get a new one after I break into your place and steal it. :-)
OK, just for you I took a look, even though you were too lazy to make a link for me. The press release doesn't say what exactly they mean by "supports", i.e. what was the actual question asked? Since the same poll also showed that 85% of Palestinians supported "mutual cessation of violence" I would have to say that no real conclusions can be drawn from this, no matter how much you may want to. Just picking out one thing is intellectually dishonest.
Also, it looks like this PSR has a little history. The brother of the assassinated head of Islamic Jihad? I prefer my pollsters to have a little more emotional distance than that, thank you very much.
Why don't you post a link to this supposed poll that proves all Palestinians are evil and deserve to die? How are we supposed to make fun of you and the way you have misunderstood or distorted it if we don't have the source material? Throw us a bone!
Presumably a motherboard that didn't have PS/2 ports would have a USB-aware BIOS? It's not like people are installing aftermarket BIOSes (sp?), they pretty much stick with what came on the board.
I don't think you'd have to cut too many (if any) corners to undercut Apple's prices. Paying extra for quality makes sense, paying extra for status is stupid, but it's often difficult to figure out where that line is.
Very interesting ... but stupid!
If your MP3's average more than about 128 kb/s then you will get choppiness, I'm still not sure whether the bottleneck is the decoder or just transferring the data off the SD card. I make my MP3's using MusicMatch, VBR 50% "High-Quality" (heh) setting, which average 128 kb/s and they work pretty well.
Right, that's what I'm using. I don't like Winamp3 either, for some reason if you tell it to play an entire album it doesn't sort the tracks by track number, at least I couldn't get it to do it. WTF?
Those things have been in Winamp since forever. I'm sitting here right now staring at the library manager, it has a three-pane view of artist-album-track, and a search field. I use it all of the time, in fact I don't have a single playlist file anywhere. I used iTunes a lot when my Mac was working, and I still think Winamp is a lot handier, it can be collapsed to take up very little screen space yet still expanded and/or controlled with just a few keystrokes.
Mine has a Mobile Radeon 9000 with 64MB in it, but I admit I don't really know how good it is because my game-playing is pretty much limited to my Gamecube. You're right that high-end 3D gamers are probably not into the whole laptop-everywhere thing, but a lot of other people are doing it because it's so nice to always have the same environment and all of your files with you whether you're at home, in the office, on the road, etc.