If the statement is "9% of people feel their ACTIONS are wrong" then it implies that they only asked people who are doing the downloading. So how does that compare to the general population (taking into the people who aren't doing any downloading of mp3s). I would guess that the people who feel their actions are wrong aren't doing any downloading at all
We all know that benchmarks can be fixed and benchmarks don't even tell half the story about real world ownership of a particular card.
But frankly, I'm sure that most people buy card primarily on the benchmark scores. Even if a review slags the quality of a driver, many people will buy the card anyway telling themselves that the drivers are gonna get fixed, a firmware upgrade will make it faster, and for the 20% of the time that the card works right, we've have 5 extra frames per second.
If benchmark scores didn't mean so much (both in sales and consumer opinion) then we might get back to meaningful metrics for measuring performance, but I suspect that we'll be looking at benchmark skullduggery for some time to come.
so the code had to be writing directly to the screen output as fast as the action required. I don't know if any systems at that time did have a buffer, but I thought I read something about why it was worthwhile in the book "High Score".
It allowed the system to extend its usable life of the platform after developers got familiar with how to work with it.
My 600e's battery quit working after about 8 months. The tech support recommendation was to update to the latest BIOS.
I'm not sure if I remember this right, but I seemed to recall that I COULDN'T update the BIOS because the BIOS flash dependency checks to see if you have a fully charged battery (so in case of power failure, it could use the battery power to finish the flash).
I never did resolve that issue, I ended up letting someone else use the laptop as an always-plugged in desktop.
In Star Trek Nemesis, the villian Shinzon is a clone of Picard. Unlike Picard, however, Shinzon was tortured and placed in a slave labor camp. As a result, the two of them look nothing alike, because he says that while the genes are the same, the social environment plays just an important part in the development of a man (sort of like Eddie Murphy's Trading Places)
[sarcasm]And all this time, I thought they looked different because they used different actors. In reality, it's Star Trek pointing out social themes in a sci fi setting again.[/sarcasm]
Once linux users have MPEG encoder/decoder support, then it will be very realistic to start using the mini itx boards for real pvr functionality, because let's face it, nobody really wants a full tower or even a desktop-sized box in their entertainment center.
The Win TV 250 PVR has an encoder that some users are having success with the encoding, but it is still very young. Serious discussion is going on on this discussion group. However, the pci card forces users to choose a larger form factor box that can accommodate a pci card instead of the cool small boxes.
The MPEG decoder portion has been gloriously included in the new via epia board using the new chipset. I haven't tested how well it works (or if it is supported in linux yet).
In essence, using off the shelf components takes a lot of hardware that would normally be on the motherboard of a true home theater component. Thus, to achieve this we are getting closer but not quite there yet.
All the other operations (mp3/games/networking) etc are already available and very usable on a 933 mhz Via C3.
but is the reason for doing these deals is that it gives Microsoft a tax break? Can't microsoft write off product/licenses given away (as compared to withdrawing the equivalent cash out of the revenue stream)?
I'm just trying to get a grasp on what the real financial impact is here (and whether if it is really a penalty)
Seems like there are so many restrictions in so many religions in what foods that can be eaten on a given day, then using something like this makes it easy for the army to focus on the task at hand without having to worry about keeping pork/milk/dairy/penuts, etc out of a batch of rations.
This is army food that even the Atkins diet could love!
Gigabyte offers mobos that support two bios copies. It's there to provide BIOS failover (not that I've ever, ever had a problem with BIOS failing), but perhaps it could be adapted to allow dual-boot bios between Palladium and non-Palladium OSs.
Tom's hardware explains Gigabyte Dual Bios
Pick up this month's Computer Power User (January 2003). There is a lot of info on PC-based PVR's, including
a) Ananad Shimpai talks high level about Microsoft Media Center Edition, the HP unit, and the hardware requirements issues (i.e. need for an MPEG encoder, high CPU power requirements so that it will keep running)
b) PC Challenge is for a PC-based unit for Home Theater. The challenger built a butt ugly slime green unit, but the editor used a shuttle
c) The Linux TV-out issue with Macrovision. This covered issues that I didn't know about, namely card manufacturers and home brew Gatos project are faced with either licensing Macrovision and going closed source, or don't built it at all if there is a chance it will play material which should be macrovision encoded.
d) Alex St John talks about HP's 873n and Media Center
and most importantly e) Malda talking about typing his column on his girlfriend's macintosh
I think the pc-based PVR market is enormously interesting, because it serves both DIY and pre-built units in distinct markets. It brings new easy to use software to the TV, where entertainment is. And it creates a new market for selling pc's (both in lieu and in addition to a home pc)
Like any big company with very few major products making most of the revenues, and lots of opinions on where it should go, there is always an internal power battle
Some of the more public ones that I've heard about include
Battle between the VMS guys and the rest of management and the Windows squad (covered in the book Fumbling the Future)
Battle between the Windows manager and the standalone IE manager during Win98's browser integration. Forgot which book that was in
I'm sure that Microsoft Research creating new technologies largely independently of the product teams also creates PARC-style battles as well.
that engineering is the only profession where your value to the company goes down the older you get.
Fresh kids out of college know current technology, have the lowest starting salaries (so you can get more of them), and willing to work ungodly hours without extra pay. With the competition for engineering jobs ramping up in India and other lower cost countries, I realized early that I may like technology, but without having the desire to go into management or get a doctorate (to get access to career engineering jobs), then I needed to get into another profession.
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I just got back from Europe, and noticed that hotels "high-speed access" usually means ISDN. Wi-Fi would be a tremendous boost both in terms of speed and broad usability for hotel vistors (since at least in the US, most people don't own ISDN modems or carry them with their laptop)
For non-marketing types, positioning means that you set up why you're diffeerent from the competition by pigeonholing your competition. For Seamus, based on his background and his direct competitive place in the industry, it's clearly to position x-box outside of gamecube. He wrapped up the statement as part of a grander theme "Game Industry" to make the journalist bite on it.
I think that there's a lot of eltism too as the average gamer age continues to go up. Hardcore gamers continue to derride Myst, but the facts stand that it remains one of the best selling games ever. Hardcore gamers make fun of games that don't meet their standard (i.e. not hard enough, not long enough, not innovative), and they make it extremely difficult for new players to belong (i.e. noob killing in coutnerstrike, the ultima online debacle, etc). This elitism is what's bad for the industry too, because you don't grow an industry by excluding people. You grow it by expanding the number of people who love to play games, and that means some of them like easy to access games, which is what Miyamoto does extremely well. So to say Miyamoto is bad for the industry, is just plain dumb.
This is what Market segmentation is alla bout. i.e. separating different types of games to define who they compete against, and try to make their segment grow. I think he used a poor choice of words and an unfortunately poor article to make his point.
One more point - at what point is video game design an art? Miyamoto does what he does, and he does it well. He stays focused on family (not kids) games. He's earned his spot in the industry, and he can do whatever he wants. I'm sure if he wanted to do a niche hardcore game, then he would. He probably won't do it because Seamus told him so.
the stalker in this case was also physically stalking her, and was also going to all the local book stores to deamnd that they not carry the book. Len Tillum said that there are measures to have police place a restraining order against the stalker, but in the online world, there's not really much that can be done.
1) You DON'T have to even have bought the product from Amazon to review it. There's no proof the owner's even seen the product, or just reguritating something that their' freind's friend said about it.
2) There's some prestige attached to getting people who say that your review helped their purchase, because your ranking goes up. Yeah it's only a ranking among other reviewers, but I do know people who review constantly so that they can say their amazon ranking is higher than yours.
The same could be said about/. as some have to post for a while to get moderator status, but those that make it must at least demonstrate writing something worthy of posting among peers before being given rights to moderate.
On KGO Radio in the Bay Area, an author called Len Tillum's law advice program last weekend. The author asked for legal advice on what to do about a stalker who (in addition to stalking her personally) is also stalking her online, making negative statements about the book.
The point I'm making is that the reviewers aren't always participating in a community, but also acting out a personal agenda as well, which other customers may take in as fact.
Common Criteria, in layman's terms, is a group of security requirements that state a given security product has a given set of features. It is not an easy process to get Common Criteria certified (and it isn't cheap for the vendor).
In essence, like the author stated, many people are substituting education about security issues with Common Criteria certification. However, if the customer doesn't know what they want, or if they don't understand what Common Criteria does and DOES NOT check, then the customer still has no idea what they are getting. And like the author, I sometimes wonder if Common Criteria certification short cuts the basic security background required to write an RFP and replaces it with a check box for an EAL.
In particular, if you work on or sell a security product and want to sell to government or the European Union, it must be Common Criteria certified. What the certification proves, however, is up to the interpretation of the person implementing the product.
I use Linux full time (red hat 7.3 on pc, debian for the sparc machine) for business use - StarOffice (x86) for applications and KDE desktop for everything else. Win4Lin or Wine will get me by if I need one or two windows apps.
But for home use, two areas still keep me using Windows. One, digital camera software seems to advance very quickly on Windows. While I know the functionality exists on gphoto and gimp, I find the autodownload, automount, filename tagging/sorting, automatic resizing depending on destination (for printer, web, or e-mail), and the ability to select specific paper profiles in Kodak Easyphoto fairly compelling for the everyday photo stuff. I like Gimp for heavy duty stuff but still find PhotoDeluexe to be more intuitive due to longtime Photoshop use. You can get part of the way with Win4Lin or Wine, but the paper profile stuff isn't so easy to do.
The second area - I still prefer Nero over all the Linux-based burning solutions, especially with its ability to handle so many disc formats. I hear Wine will now support Nero with DLLs, but I haven't got it to work myself.
Microsoft already said they were spending $500M in marketing ALONE for xbox in the first year. Losing $177M in 3 months isn't all that bad, because it means that out of all the exhorbinant money they spent, they still only lost $177M which isn't an insane number given the insanity of spending $500M in marketing (a sunk money used for demand generation).
I expect that they will scale back their marketing a LOT as soon as they proliferate a base number of boxes, which was their entire objective anyways.
When I signed up, nights and weekend was MF 8:00 pm to 7:00 am. After taking another look at the plan, I now see nights & weekend is now 9:00 pm to 7:00 am
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If the statement is "9% of people feel their ACTIONS are wrong" then it implies that they only asked people who are doing the downloading. So how does that compare to the general population (taking into the people who aren't doing any downloading of mp3s). I would guess that the people who feel their actions are wrong aren't doing any downloading at all
But frankly, I'm sure that most people buy card primarily on the benchmark scores. Even if a review slags the quality of a driver, many people will buy the card anyway telling themselves that the drivers are gonna get fixed, a firmware upgrade will make it faster, and for the 20% of the time that the card works right, we've have 5 extra frames per second.
If benchmark scores didn't mean so much (both in sales and consumer opinion) then we might get back to meaningful metrics for measuring performance, but I suspect that we'll be looking at benchmark skullduggery for some time to come.
It allowed the system to extend its usable life of the platform after developers got familiar with how to work with it.
I'm not sure if I remember this right, but I seemed to recall that I COULDN'T update the BIOS because the BIOS flash dependency checks to see if you have a fully charged battery (so in case of power failure, it could use the battery power to finish the flash).
I never did resolve that issue, I ended up letting someone else use the laptop as an always-plugged in desktop.
In Star Trek Nemesis, the villian Shinzon is a clone of Picard. Unlike Picard, however, Shinzon was tortured and placed in a slave labor camp. As a result, the two of them look nothing alike, because he says that while the genes are the same, the social environment plays just an important part in the development of a man (sort of like Eddie Murphy's Trading Places)
[sarcasm]And all this time, I thought they looked different because they used different actors. In reality, it's Star Trek pointing out social themes in a sci fi setting again.[/sarcasm]
The Win TV 250 PVR has an encoder that some users are having success with the encoding, but it is still very young. Serious discussion is going on on this discussion group. However, the pci card forces users to choose a larger form factor box that can accommodate a pci card instead of the cool small boxes. The MPEG decoder portion has been gloriously included in the new via epia board using the new chipset. I haven't tested how well it works (or if it is supported in linux yet).
In essence, using off the shelf components takes a lot of hardware that would normally be on the motherboard of a true home theater component. Thus, to achieve this we are getting closer but not quite there yet.
All the other operations (mp3/games/networking) etc are already available and very usable on a 933 mhz Via C3.
I'm just trying to get a grasp on what the real financial impact is here (and whether if it is really a penalty)
This is army food that even the Atkins diet could love!
Gigabyte offers mobos that support two bios copies. It's there to provide BIOS failover (not that I've ever, ever had a problem with BIOS failing), but perhaps it could be adapted to allow dual-boot bios between Palladium and non-Palladium OSs. Tom's hardware explains Gigabyte Dual Bios
a) Ananad Shimpai talks high level about Microsoft Media Center Edition, the HP unit, and the hardware requirements issues (i.e. need for an MPEG encoder, high CPU power requirements so that it will keep running)
b) PC Challenge is for a PC-based unit for Home Theater. The challenger built a butt ugly slime green unit, but the editor used a shuttle
c) The Linux TV-out issue with Macrovision. This covered issues that I didn't know about, namely card manufacturers and home brew Gatos project are faced with either licensing Macrovision and going closed source, or don't built it at all if there is a chance it will play material which should be macrovision encoded.
d) Alex St John talks about HP's 873n and Media Center
and most importantly e) Malda talking about typing his column on his girlfriend's macintosh
I think the pc-based PVR market is enormously interesting, because it serves both DIY and pre-built units in distinct markets. It brings new easy to use software to the TV, where entertainment is. And it creates a new market for selling pc's (both in lieu and in addition to a home pc)
Computer Power User this month. Covered the HP with the emuzed card in particular
Some of the more public ones that I've heard about include
Battle between the VMS guys and the rest of management and the Windows squad (covered in the book Fumbling the Future)
Battle between the Windows manager and the standalone IE manager during Win98's browser integration. Forgot which book that was in
I'm sure that Microsoft Research creating new technologies largely independently of the product teams also creates PARC-style battles as well.
Fresh kids out of college know current technology, have the lowest starting salaries (so you can get more of them), and willing to work ungodly hours without extra pay. With the competition for engineering jobs ramping up in India and other lower cost countries, I realized early that I may like technology, but without having the desire to go into management or get a doctorate (to get access to career engineering jobs), then I needed to get into another profession.
No-click purchasing :>)
I just got back from Europe, and noticed that hotels "high-speed access" usually means ISDN. Wi-Fi would be a tremendous boost both in terms of speed and broad usability for hotel vistors (since at least in the US, most people don't own ISDN modems or carry them with their laptop)
I think that there's a lot of eltism too as the average gamer age continues to go up. Hardcore gamers continue to derride Myst, but the facts stand that it remains one of the best selling games ever. Hardcore gamers make fun of games that don't meet their standard (i.e. not hard enough, not long enough, not innovative), and they make it extremely difficult for new players to belong (i.e. noob killing in coutnerstrike, the ultima online debacle, etc). This elitism is what's bad for the industry too, because you don't grow an industry by excluding people. You grow it by expanding the number of people who love to play games, and that means some of them like easy to access games, which is what Miyamoto does extremely well. So to say Miyamoto is bad for the industry, is just plain dumb.
This is what Market segmentation is alla bout. i.e. separating different types of games to define who they compete against, and try to make their segment grow. I think he used a poor choice of words and an unfortunately poor article to make his point.
One more point - at what point is video game design an art? Miyamoto does what he does, and he does it well. He stays focused on family (not kids) games. He's earned his spot in the industry, and he can do whatever he wants. I'm sure if he wanted to do a niche hardcore game, then he would. He probably won't do it because Seamus told him so.
2) There's some prestige attached to getting people who say that your review helped their purchase, because your ranking goes up. Yeah it's only a ranking among other reviewers, but I do know people who review constantly so that they can say their amazon ranking is higher than yours.
The same could be said about /. as some have to post for a while to get moderator status, but those that make it must at least demonstrate writing something worthy of posting among peers before being given rights to moderate.
The point I'm making is that the reviewers aren't always participating in a community, but also acting out a personal agenda as well, which other customers may take in as fact.
oh wait, that was the supertrain.
In essence, like the author stated, many people are substituting education about security issues with Common Criteria certification. However, if the customer doesn't know what they want, or if they don't understand what Common Criteria does and DOES NOT check, then the customer still has no idea what they are getting. And like the author, I sometimes wonder if Common Criteria certification short cuts the basic security background required to write an RFP and replaces it with a check box for an EAL.
In particular, if you work on or sell a security product and want to sell to government or the European Union, it must be Common Criteria certified. What the certification proves, however, is up to the interpretation of the person implementing the product.
But for home use, two areas still keep me using Windows. One, digital camera software seems to advance very quickly on Windows. While I know the functionality exists on gphoto and gimp, I find the autodownload, automount, filename tagging/sorting, automatic resizing depending on destination (for printer, web, or e-mail), and the ability to select specific paper profiles in Kodak Easyphoto fairly compelling for the everyday photo stuff. I like Gimp for heavy duty stuff but still find PhotoDeluexe to be more intuitive due to longtime Photoshop use. You can get part of the way with Win4Lin or Wine, but the paper profile stuff isn't so easy to do.
The second area - I still prefer Nero over all the Linux-based burning solutions, especially with its ability to handle so many disc formats. I hear Wine will now support Nero with DLLs, but I haven't got it to work myself.
I expect that they will scale back their marketing a LOT as soon as they proliferate a base number of boxes, which was their entire objective anyways.
Besides, Microsoft was already planning for first year loses so it isn't like that this wasn't forseen.
Then the world will finally see the 4000 Playstation 2's that Saddam used to build a supercomputer
When I signed up, nights and weekend was MF 8:00 pm to 7:00 am. After taking another look at the plan, I now see nights & weekend is now 9:00 pm to 7:00 am