I imagine that a Company like Dell can dominate and get a really sweet deal from AMD for their processors without being exclusive - something that offsets the exclusive contract they had with Intel. The performance crown does not really matter because it will probably change hands several times in the next few years, but AMD is still better for the Server Space - once Dell switched to that and got their Intel exclusivity contract voided, they might as well have AMD options down the line.
I also wonder how Intel is handing out C2D processors - are they giving Apple or Dell first dibs or do they have enough all around?
As an informed citizen, I am appalled. From a business and PR perspective, I can sympathize.
Fixed that for you, though I don't agree with your sentiment. People high up in companies like ATT and Verizon should have the education and have access to enough lawyers to know what they can and can not do, and what they are obliged to do for the government and for its customers. I wonder what they got (and are getting) out of it.
I owned one game for the PS1. I owned a couple more for the PS2 because it came with 5. I play three (GT1 -- originaly for the PS1, Katamari and We Love Katamari) on the PS2. I don't see what your point is that you will be buying more games for the Wii...
I had so little games for the PS1 because I didn't play it all that much nor care for the games available. The last game I actually played and liked was Metal Gear Solid. I didn't drop out of gaming because of anything other than boredom with what gaming was offering me, so my point was that after 8+ of total gaming abstinence, the Wii is bringing me back:) And I see lots of other people coming back too.
Also of note, the group believes fewer total consoles will be sold this next go-around due to higher console prices than were sold during the PS2, Xbox, and GameCube era. I thought the industry was suppose to grow? Either way, the Yankee Group also predicted constant Microsoft price undercutting. Next-Gen writes: "Microsoft is 'well-positioned' to cut the price of the Xbox 360 in spring 2007, potentially undercutting the $500-$600 PS3 by a wider margin. This pricing pressure from Microsoft is likely to continue throughout the course of the PS3's lifecycle, according to Yankee."
Um, high prices, yet PS3 will dominate? MS will undercut PS3? What about Wii?
Honestly, these numbers are suspect just due to lack of any real data points. The Wii is not the gamecube. The PS3 is not the PS2. And the Xbox360 does not equate to Xbox. The variable are different this time around.
Personally, the Wii is the first console I'm planning on buying since the Playstation 1, and it's the 1st one I am hoping to spend a decent amount playing since SNES (I only ended up owning 3-4 PS 1 games, got it more out of habit than actual want and dropped out of gaming since).
I think the Wii will wipe the floor with either. Graphics, at the level they are at, have ceased to be the most important factor to me, unlike 10 years back. Now it's all about fun.
This post probably will be only echoing a point a million others have already and will make, but isn't that evidence in itself?
This is especially good news following on the heels of that terrorist scare recently. I was expecting another knee-jerk pro-administration kick after they paraded that conspiracy around.
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Give me a break! You're saying you could be like Mozart if you really worked at it (even from a young age)? That is absurd.
"If you think you can, you might, if you think you can't, you never will."
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious." --Albert Einstein
I think what sets these men apart from normal people is the extraordinary focus, concentration, and obsession they had in their fields. In this society with increasing emphasis on "multitasking" and the large amount of diversions, I believe that characteristic will be harder to come by, thus that genius rarer.
I believe these men were extraordinary in that regard but not mystically out of reach. In the end, they were people like you and me. Let's not deify them and have them imbued with some mysticism.
The idea that they just worked harder, or rather, better than you is uncomfortable. It means that you're just lazy,
I find the opposite true, that almost anyone, with enough work and effort, can achieve these mental/skill levels - it's an egalitarian thought and somehow liberating (now, I don't know if this is true or not, but I ascribe to it to some extent).
If I'll ever see someone like Mozart, I'd marvel at his/her skill, not jealous of their ability - maybe because I am good at other things and can't do everything.
I think only lazy people will be truely be comforted by the thought of natural innate ability. Or those that would like to be good at everything (jack of all trades).
Now the only direct grievance I have with them is them illegimately trying to claim to represnet all musicians, lying through their teeth when claiming to care about said musicians (as is evidenced by their contracts), and the money they make off first stated claim (like a % of blank CD sales in some countries, etc)
The depressing thing with your strategy is that, even if it works, it will set us a generation behind. This is also the sort of thing that will have the US/Europe fall behind Asia in these areas.
The other obvious thing to point out is that patents were made to advance civilization and promote progress - largely w/o protection of patents, look how far the computer software industry has advanced. I could make a good case this would not be so if patent were around raising the bar of entry (actually, look at Universities - they are the forebearers of progress and are, er, were mostly open in research). It becomes obvious then that the reason for software patents is not to promote progress, but to protect corporations (corporate protectionism). Any politicians considering this should just be thrown out immediately by their electorate. There is absolutely no excuse to promote them. They literally want to suppress the little guy without an extensive patent portfolio to "cross-license" with the big boys.
Socialism at it's best. History is repeating itself, types of government have ceased to matter (democracy, socialist, communist), corporations/money run the place.
Apple already competes on price, for similiar configurations.
They just don't compete on the bottom, because it's not worth it to them. I can understand.
I never got why 50 people to a thread constantly bitching about the price - if it's too much, buy a dell or whatever. No one is holding a gun to your head:/
I wonder how long it'll be till Bush passes a law so that non-US companies can no longer advertise to US customers. It'll stop money leaving the US economy after all, and reduce the gaping trade deficit.
You probably know this, but for those that don't -- this is only true if the money goes toward a good or service made in the US. Even if you buy from a US company, that good could be made elsewhere, you are contributing to that economy's GDP. On the flip side, you may be contributing to the US GDP if you buy a Toyota and that car is made here (Toyota does have factories here).
Because of all the outsourcing, buying "American" (i.e. from an American company) has very little meaning anymore. If we all started buying "American" from tomorrow on, it would probably have minimal effect on our trade deficits unless actual manufacturing moves back here.
2 in my area went under this year. Can't say I have any insights to say why, but honestly, with wifi spots all over tha place and PCs as cheap as they are, I can't say there is any reason to go to a gaming cafe.
This was the same situation with arcades 7-10 years ago - by that timeo, most consoles were pushing almost as good graphics as the arcade - so either the arcade had to buy newer games at X,000 a pop to keep customeors or go under. Several dedicated arcades in my area went under (including 2 in malls) and since then, there just aren't any, anymore. The last one in my area died just 2 months ago (and it was the only game in town for years now). All the arcade games are at a bar, bowling alley, etcetea and they tend to be older than me.
I think you are trying to enter a business that is well served at home. One word of advice, food and drink always sells. Be it fresh or packaged, coffee, soda, etcetera. Whatever you are allowed to sell. Many of the gaming places I have seen are barren of any food/drink and let people slip to next door to get there fix. That's a mistake. My local billard place smartend up and after years of nothing but billiards, have a bunch of candy/drinks near the central counter.
I believe that Thurrot advanced that Apple copies MS too (and not just the other way around), which implies that MS invented those features originally - otherwise Apple would be copying Unix as there is no way to know if they were copying a feature just because it was on Windows.
For instance, he said that MS had something like "Spaces" originally in some obscure version of NT which was never officially released, however anybody with any familiarity with Unix will have recognized that Apple probably got the idea for multiple desktops there rather than from MS. It's an insincere point.
But this week at Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), he announced ten new features for Leopard, the next version of OS X, most of which will seem more than vaguely familiar to Windows users.
Most Windows users are not familiar with the Vista features yet, unless of course they are beta testers.
As I look over the article and list, I wonder if Paul is just trolling for hits. Most of these can;t be calles MS innovation as most existed previously (1. 64bit support? An unforseeable "innovation". Should it get a patent too? Give me a break 4. Spaces, multiple desktops where he cites some archaic never released NT4.0 reference when this is obviously a widely known feature on Unix for year, may have existed elsewhere)
1. 64-bit application support 2. Time Machine 3. The Complete Package 4. Spaces 5. Spotlight 6. Core Animation 7. Accessibility improvements 8. Mail 9. Dashcode and Dashboard improvements 10. iChat
What you are describing are autonyms versus ethnonyms (I guess) for places.
As you point out the differences can be vast, even in history - the names we know some peoples or places varies greatly - in the Western world a lot of the names for ancient peoples come from the Greek/Latin names for them -- not necessarily from the name the peoples' called themselves.
Today, I still puzzle how some names were given -- for instance Japan is really Nihon.
Of sourse, every language/country has some different names for others.
Agreed. I mean the overdone charge is meaningless when compared to Leno/David Letterman and their numerous ilk (how many copycat shows of the Late Show are on the air now @ around midnight? Conawn, Kimmel, etc) who basically have been doing the same (bland, inoffensive)schtick since Carson.
I like Colbert's humor a bit better than Jon's, but Stewart really gives some fascinating interviews (best in the business) when it isn't some actor or hollywood person. OTOH, Leno/Letterman's interviews never have much insightful or intelligent - all bland, shallow crap I heard a thousand times as they try to relate to their mostly uninteresting guests.
I hope this issue brings more awareness to people about internet anonymity in general and that the government wants all your logs and that companies like Verizon roll over and let them have it.
AOL has went one step further and given their customer's information to the world. I googled the news to see if this story is being reported in the mainstream media, and it is minimally (minimal b/c of TimeWarner?) but I have to laugh as it is characterized as a "goof" and a "gaffe". Laughably understated and nice words for something that at best can be described as sheer bumbling negligence and at worst as a breach of privacy of the worst sort.
Even more ironic, the first news story to pop up on google has nothing to do with this but is:
But it's not. The what ifs always change the situation.
I need not bring up watergate, where deepthroat was breaking laws as well (on his part) and the reporters sucessfully protected his identity - a man that I'm sure the government would have loved to prosecute for leaking state secrets or some such.
I'm afraid a buck isn't enough anymore. Not if you value your liberties.
Give $10 bucks instead each month to the EFF or ACLU or whatever of your choice. Do it at the cost of watching 1 less crappy movie per month, and on the plus side it will give the MPAA just a little less funding to attack our liberties at the same time.
I know it's asking for more, but for people who actually go through the effort of giving and if their time is worth anything, the difference between a dollar and $10 should be negligible. OTOH, a convenient and fast micro-payment system of the web would help in this regard as well.
From TFA:
The feds say they have jurisdiction over the case because the police car is partly U.S. government property since the S.F.P.D. receives federal anti-terrorism money.
I'm wonder if I am a federal employee now if I ever got a government grant to help me through college?
"Specifically, it would shift to a 'first to file' method of awarding patents, which is already used in most foreign countries, instead of the existing 'first to invent' standard, which has been criticized as complicated to prove.
I'm the first to say if another country does something better than the US, but just because other countries do it differently doesn't mean it is better. I consider "first to file" just promoting patent trolls even further, as they just keep an eye out for what everyone else is doing and patent what the other guy didn't really consider worth patenting. This provision is useless - yes, first to invent is hard to prove, but that is why keeping some type of traceable records is a good thing and you can't be locked out of the market just because patent troll X decided to file paperwork before you did.
I don't feel like reading that massive article, aside from the GPS, can someone tell me how they ensure that these things get across America safely? I imagine these things will make fun targets to get run over, stolen, or shot at by some numbskulls. Though I am willing to do all three if it was Mr. Ballmer.
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I imagine that a Company like Dell can dominate and get a really sweet deal from AMD for their processors without being exclusive - something that offsets the exclusive contract they had with Intel. The performance crown does not really matter because it will probably change hands several times in the next few years, but AMD is still better for the Server Space - once Dell switched to that and got their Intel exclusivity contract voided, they might as well have AMD options down the line.
I also wonder how Intel is handing out C2D processors - are they giving Apple or Dell first dibs or do they have enough all around?
Fixed that for you, though I don't agree with your sentiment. People high up in companies like ATT and Verizon should have the education and have access to enough lawyers to know what they can and can not do, and what they are obliged to do for the government and for its customers. I wonder what they got (and are getting) out of it.
Aye, and Windows is almost ready for the desktop as well:
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I had so little games for the PS1 because I didn't play it all that much nor care for the games available. The last game I actually played and liked was Metal Gear Solid. I didn't drop out of gaming because of anything other than boredom with what gaming was offering me, so my point was that after 8+ of total gaming abstinence, the Wii is bringing me back:) And I see lots of other people coming back too.
Um, high prices, yet PS3 will dominate? MS will undercut PS3? What about Wii?
Honestly, these numbers are suspect just due to lack of any real data points. The Wii is not the gamecube. The PS3 is not the PS2. And the Xbox360 does not equate to Xbox. The variable are different this time around.
Personally, the Wii is the first console I'm planning on buying since the Playstation 1, and it's the 1st one I am hoping to spend a decent amount playing since SNES (I only ended up owning 3-4 PS 1 games, got it more out of habit than actual want and dropped out of gaming since).
I think the Wii will wipe the floor with either. Graphics, at the level they are at, have ceased to be the most important factor to me, unlike 10 years back. Now it's all about fun.
This post probably will be only echoing a point a million others have already and will make, but isn't that evidence in itself?
This is especially good news following on the heels of that terrorist scare recently. I was expecting another knee-jerk pro-administration kick after they paraded that conspiracy around.
"If you think you can, you might, if you think you can't, you never will."
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious." --Albert Einstein
I think what sets these men apart from normal people is the extraordinary focus, concentration, and obsession they had in their fields. In this society with increasing emphasis on "multitasking" and the large amount of diversions, I believe that characteristic will be harder to come by, thus that genius rarer.
I believe these men were extraordinary in that regard but not mystically out of reach. In the end, they were people like you and me. Let's not deify them and have them imbued with some mysticism.
I find the opposite true, that almost anyone, with enough work and effort, can achieve these mental/skill levels - it's an egalitarian thought and somehow liberating (now, I don't know if this is true or not, but I ascribe to it to some extent).
If I'll ever see someone like Mozart, I'd marvel at his/her skill, not jealous of their ability - maybe because I am good at other things and can't do everything.
I think only lazy people will be truely be comforted by the thought of natural innate ability. Or those that would like to be good at everything (jack of all trades).
I already avoid them with the help of http://www.riaaradar.com/
Now the only direct grievance I have with them is them illegimately trying to claim to represnet all musicians, lying through their teeth when claiming to care about said musicians (as is evidenced by their contracts), and the money they make off first stated claim (like a % of blank CD sales in some countries, etc)
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
-- Thomas Jefferson
The depressing thing with your strategy is that, even if it works, it will set us a generation behind. This is also the sort of thing that will have the US/Europe fall behind Asia in these areas.
The other obvious thing to point out is that patents were made to advance civilization and promote progress - largely w/o protection of patents, look how far the computer software industry has advanced. I could make a good case this would not be so if patent were around raising the bar of entry (actually, look at Universities - they are the forebearers of progress and are, er, were mostly open in research). It becomes obvious then that the reason for software patents is not to promote progress, but to protect corporations (corporate protectionism). Any politicians considering this should just be thrown out immediately by their electorate. There is absolutely no excuse to promote them. They literally want to suppress the little guy without an extensive patent portfolio to "cross-license" with the big boys.
Socialism at it's best. History is repeating itself, types of government have ceased to matter (democracy, socialist, communist), corporations/money run the place.
Not to mention the difference between a "role-acting" terrorist and a real terrorist.
Apple already competes on price, for similiar configurations.
They just don't compete on the bottom, because it's not worth it to them. I can understand.
I never got why 50 people to a thread constantly bitching about the price - if it's too much, buy a dell or whatever. No one is holding a gun to your head:/
You probably know this, but for those that don't -- this is only true if the money goes toward a good or service made in the US. Even if you buy from a US company, that good could be made elsewhere, you are contributing to that economy's GDP. On the flip side, you may be contributing to the US GDP if you buy a Toyota and that car is made here (Toyota does have factories here).
Because of all the outsourcing, buying "American" (i.e. from an American company) has very little meaning anymore. If we all started buying "American" from tomorrow on, it would probably have minimal effect on our trade deficits unless actual manufacturing moves back here.
2 in my area went under this year. Can't say I have any insights to say why, but honestly, with wifi spots all over tha place and PCs as cheap as they are, I can't say there is any reason to go to a gaming cafe.
This was the same situation with arcades 7-10 years ago - by that timeo, most consoles were pushing almost as good graphics as the arcade - so either the arcade had to buy newer games at X,000 a pop to keep customeors or go under. Several dedicated arcades in my area went under (including 2 in malls) and since then, there just aren't any, anymore. The last one in my area died just 2 months ago (and it was the only game in town for years now). All the arcade games are at a bar, bowling alley, etcetea and they tend to be older than me.
I think you are trying to enter a business that is well served at home. One word of advice, food and drink always sells. Be it fresh or packaged, coffee, soda, etcetera. Whatever you are allowed to sell. Many of the gaming places I have seen are barren of any food/drink and let people slip to next door to get there fix. That's a mistake. My local billard place smartend up and after years of nothing but billiards, have a bunch of candy/drinks near the central counter.
I believe that Thurrot advanced that Apple copies MS too (and not just the other way around), which implies that MS invented those features originally - otherwise Apple would be copying Unix as there is no way to know if they were copying a feature just because it was on Windows.
For instance, he said that MS had something like "Spaces" originally in some obscure version of NT which was never officially released, however anybody with any familiarity with Unix will have recognized that Apple probably got the idea for multiple desktops there rather than from MS. It's an insincere point.
Most Windows users are not familiar with the Vista features yet, unless of course they are beta testers.
As I look over the article and list, I wonder if Paul is just trolling for hits. Most of these can;t be calles MS innovation as most existed previously (1. 64bit support? An unforseeable "innovation". Should it get a patent too? Give me a break 4. Spaces, multiple desktops where he cites some archaic never released NT4.0 reference when this is obviously a widely known feature on Unix for year, may have existed elsewhere)
1. 64-bit application support
2. Time Machine
3. The Complete Package
4. Spaces
5. Spotlight
6. Core Animation
7. Accessibility improvements
8. Mail
9. Dashcode and Dashboard improvements
10. iChat
What you are describing are autonyms versus ethnonyms (I guess) for places.
As you point out the differences can be vast, even in history - the names we know some peoples or places varies greatly - in the Western world a lot of the names for ancient peoples come from the Greek/Latin names for them -- not necessarily from the name the peoples' called themselves.
Today, I still puzzle how some names were given -- for instance Japan is really Nihon.
Of sourse, every language/country has some different names for others.
Agreed. I mean the overdone charge is meaningless when compared to Leno/David Letterman and their numerous ilk (how many copycat shows of the Late Show are on the air now @ around midnight? Conawn, Kimmel, etc) who basically have been doing the same (bland, inoffensive)schtick since Carson.
I like Colbert's humor a bit better than Jon's, but Stewart really gives some fascinating interviews (best in the business) when it isn't some actor or hollywood person. OTOH, Leno/Letterman's interviews never have much insightful or intelligent - all bland, shallow crap I heard a thousand times as they try to relate to their mostly uninteresting guests.
The fear here is whether a government ever forces them to open up. Yes, I mean A government, not just the government.
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I hope this issue brings more awareness to people about internet anonymity in general and that the government wants all your logs and that companies like Verizon roll over and let them have it.
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AOL has went one step further and given their customer's information to the world. I googled the news to see if this story is being reported in the mainstream media, and it is minimally (minimal b/c of TimeWarner?) but I have to laugh as it is characterized as a "goof" and a "gaffe". Laughably understated and nice words for something that at best can be described as sheer bumbling negligence and at worst as a breach of privacy of the worst sort.
Even more ironic, the first news story to pop up on google has nothing to do with this but is:
"AOL offers free security software"
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2161980/aol-off
What if?
What if?
But it's not. The what ifs always change the situation.
I need not bring up watergate, where deepthroat was breaking laws as well (on his part) and the reporters sucessfully protected his identity - a man that I'm sure the government would have loved to prosecute for leaking state secrets or some such.
Give $10 bucks instead each month to the EFF or ACLU or whatever of your choice. Do it at the cost of watching 1 less crappy movie per month, and on the plus side it will give the MPAA just a little less funding to attack our liberties at the same time.
I know it's asking for more, but for people who actually go through the effort of giving and if their time is worth anything, the difference between a dollar and $10 should be negligible. OTOH, a convenient and fast micro-payment system of the web would help in this regard as well.
From TFA:
I'm wonder if I am a federal employee now if I ever got a government grant to help me through college?
I'm the first to say if another country does something better than the US, but just because other countries do it differently doesn't mean it is better. I consider "first to file" just promoting patent trolls even further, as they just keep an eye out for what everyone else is doing and patent what the other guy didn't really consider worth patenting. This provision is useless - yes, first to invent is hard to prove, but that is why keeping some type of traceable records is a good thing and you can't be locked out of the market just because patent troll X decided to file paperwork before you did.
I don't feel like reading that massive article, aside from the GPS, can someone tell me how they ensure that these things get across America safely? I imagine these things will make fun targets to get run over, stolen, or shot at by some numbskulls. Though I am willing to do all three if it was Mr. Ballmer.