The reason is how you perceive value. I never buy movies as I would probably only watch them once or twice. I might buy the soundtrack and listen to it 50-100 times. Now if you divide the price per usage you would get to $10-20 per movie view and $0.18-0.36 per listening instance. But that's just me...
If you look at the "World of Warcraft: What is it?" page in the Vivendi presentation there is a graphic with the WOW customers - they seem to have had over 6 billion customers in Q1-2006 (6000 milions).
Nice market share, WOW!
There is computer support - it's called DVI. HDMI is backwards compatible with DVI .
Second - there are $100 players that have HDMI output so that's not the issue with PS3. It sure adds to the cost of it though and maybe Sony is trying to keep the costs as low as possible
It's not only money, it's the focus. The article mentioned this and I have to agree (being a product of Eastern European education)
There are too many things that you can do with your life here in North America, some more interesting, some better paid. It's not the same in some other countries, where being an excellent technical person is the only way to get to some decent income.
To return to the meat of the article: solving the type of problems that are usually handed out in these contests is really, really hard. It's not relevant for 95% of CS jobs in the real world so people don't bother. Yes, if you can solve those problems you'll be better off in your job, but you don't have to. Those guys will land in some jobs closer to cutting edge research, but that's not true for the rest of the CS jobs...
I will take your post as a troll. You've never lived in a socialist country where private property is limited. I did for 21 years and can tell you this: It totally kills initiative and it breeds laziness. Yes, there are some people that are doing things out of passion and good will, but every one of them you have 10 that are just abusing the system, drinking on the job, slacking off and stealing. It's the human nature. People are more willing to work for a tangible (material) goal
Phleease!
How can I trust MS to accurately search the internet if the local disk search is faulty?
Am I the only one that has problems searching the HD in WinXP? The new and "improved" search is very annoying (almost regret switching from W2000) and also not able to search in (some) files. There is even a KB article about this
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB; EN-US;309173
Not that I don't believe MS is able to successfully compete in any domain they want...
I have a GF2MX as well. Paired with a Athlon XP1800+, is good enough for ALL the games I tried in the last year. I admit I don't play that much, but still check out a few games a year. I had problems with Call of Duty (DX9 game)- it was slow, slow on anything else than 640x480. Then I updated my nvidia drivers and the difference was amazing - smooth sailing!
The point is - I need a computer anyway in my household so the expense is minimal to make it game-worthy. There's no $900 every 2 years, at least not for games. I upgrade my machine because I want ALL my programs to run faster, I want to burn CDs/DVDs faster etc. Game performance is a nice side effect.
I am too a Starcraft fanatic.
But if you're talking about VERY good games I can point you to 2 of them. And I don't play very much, work and family eats most my time. The 2 games that I played recently are: Call of Duty (FPS) - excellent and Rise of Nations (RTS) - pretty good, I only started playing it about 2 weeks ago. I know Call Of duty is available on consoles, but I don't care. I don't have to own 2-3 consoles to get the games I want. I'll just get whatever is released for PC and the selection is good enough for me.
You haven't worked too much with C++ on Windows, did you? MS VC++ was full of non-standard libraries, functions etc. Some of them later were incorporated in the Standard Spec, but most of them not. Now I haven't worked for the last couple of years in C, but before that I spent 5-6 years in various C++ project with a few companies. In only one of them there was a huge push (and controls) to keep the code as platform agnostic as possible. And even there it did not run on anything else than Windows withoug quite some tweaking.
Yes it is open and the RFCs (1939, updated by 1952 etc.) say nothing about forcing a user to use a particular mail client. From my point of that mail server is not POP3. For all that I know I may talk some proprietary protocol to the MS client. As long as I cannot open a telnet session from wherever I am (work, hotel, airport) and login using standard POP3 commands that mail server doesn't support POP3
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Oh well, as a result of having a 3 year old AND a PVR (windows box for now) I do get it
The reason is how you perceive value.
I never buy movies as I would probably only watch them once or twice. I might buy the soundtrack and listen to it 50-100 times. Now if you divide the price per usage you would get to $10-20 per movie view and $0.18-0.36 per listening instance.
But that's just me...
If you look at the "World of Warcraft: What is it?" page in the Vivendi presentation there is a graphic with the WOW customers - they seem to have had over 6 billion customers in Q1-2006 (6000 milions). Nice market share, WOW!
There is computer support - it's called DVI. HDMI is backwards compatible with DVI . Second - there are $100 players that have HDMI output so that's not the issue with PS3. It sure adds to the cost of it though and maybe Sony is trying to keep the costs as low as possible
It's not only money, it's the focus. The article mentioned this and I have to agree (being a product of Eastern European education) There are too many things that you can do with your life here in North America, some more interesting, some better paid. It's not the same in some other countries, where being an excellent technical person is the only way to get to some decent income. To return to the meat of the article: solving the type of problems that are usually handed out in these contests is really, really hard. It's not relevant for 95% of CS jobs in the real world so people don't bother. Yes, if you can solve those problems you'll be better off in your job, but you don't have to. Those guys will land in some jobs closer to cutting edge research, but that's not true for the rest of the CS jobs...
I will take your post as a troll.
You've never lived in a socialist country where private property is limited. I did for 21 years and can tell you this: It totally kills initiative and it breeds laziness. Yes, there are some people that are doing things out of passion and good will, but every one of them you have 10 that are just abusing the system, drinking on the job, slacking off and stealing.
It's the human nature. People are more willing to work for a tangible (material) goal
Phleease! How can I trust MS to accurately search the internet if the local disk search is faulty? Am I the only one that has problems searching the HD in WinXP? The new and "improved" search is very annoying (almost regret switching from W2000) and also not able to search in (some) files. There is even a KB article about this http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB; EN-US;309173
Not that I don't believe MS is able to successfully compete in any domain they want...
I have a GF2MX as well. Paired with a Athlon XP1800+, is good enough for ALL the games I tried in the last year. I admit I don't play that much, but still check out a few games a year. I had problems with Call of Duty (DX9 game)- it was slow, slow on anything else than 640x480. Then I updated my nvidia drivers and the difference was amazing - smooth sailing! The point is - I need a computer anyway in my household so the expense is minimal to make it game-worthy. There's no $900 every 2 years, at least not for games. I upgrade my machine because I want ALL my programs to run faster, I want to burn CDs/DVDs faster etc. Game performance is a nice side effect.
I am too a Starcraft fanatic. But if you're talking about VERY good games I can point you to 2 of them. And I don't play very much, work and family eats most my time. The 2 games that I played recently are: Call of Duty (FPS) - excellent and Rise of Nations (RTS) - pretty good, I only started playing it about 2 weeks ago. I know Call Of duty is available on consoles, but I don't care. I don't have to own 2-3 consoles to get the games I want. I'll just get whatever is released for PC and the selection is good enough for me.
You haven't worked too much with C++ on Windows, did you? MS VC++ was full of non-standard libraries, functions etc. Some of them later were incorporated in the Standard Spec, but most of them not. Now I haven't worked for the last couple of years in C, but before that I spent 5-6 years in various C++ project with a few companies. In only one of them there was a huge push (and controls) to keep the code as platform agnostic as possible. And even there it did not run on anything else than Windows withoug quite some tweaking.
Yes it is open and the RFCs (1939, updated by 1952 etc.) say nothing about forcing a user to use a particular mail client. From my point of that mail server is not POP3. For all that I know I may talk some proprietary protocol to the MS client. As long as I cannot open a telnet session from wherever I am (work, hotel, airport) and login using standard POP3 commands that mail server doesn't support POP3