How often do people think "cool" when they buy a toaster or a washer/dryer? Electronics are becoming commodities as they become efficient and cost-effective a few basic tasks that people find entertaining and useful.
As it is so often mentioned on Slashdot, the average American just wants to word process, check email, and surf the web on their computer. Their cellphone can customize rings, play some games, and give them free long distance--fine.
If I can get the former for $700 with a monitor and printer and the latter for $40 a month, I'm pretty satisfied.
These aren't the killer apps you're looking for...move along.
By switching to a pirateable media format like CD or DVD Nintendo will lose some money to decreased software sales to suburban kids and college students. But they will make that money back by selling hardware to low income households who will pirate all their software.
Actually, the hardware is sold at a loss to lock people into buying the proprietary software (games). Losing software sales to increased hardware sales will NOT improve the profit margin, because they will decrease sales of high margin items and increase sales of negative margin items.
Game piracy is a big deal, which is why Nintendo goes to great lengths to prevent it.
However, I have to wonder about this. Software piracy is rampant for PCs, for games and popular applications. Yet Blizzard continues to make Warcraft games, Microsoft continues selling Office. Is it a different business model selling games and apps for a PC than selling games for consoles?
A German researcher is claiming 40 winks in the office can give more of a boost to the working day than a dozen cups of coffee.
His study found even a 20-minute doze could increase concentration and stamina enormously.
Professor Peter Wippermann says bosses should allow employees to take 'power naps' and also provide comfortable office furniture for a quick snooze.
Professor Wippermann, from the office research consultancy Trendburo, which is based in Hamburg, said a quick snooze in the office regenerates worn out body cells and improves the ability to think flexibly.
Story filed: 15:23 Friday 25th May 2001
When I finally made myself go to bed after marathon sessions of SimCity (any version), I had street-grid screen burn on my retina. I would lay there and count off the 8x8 grid for my dense commercial zone...
or better yet, let you make your own mix while at the store
Keep your eyes peeled. Best Buy will be rolling out CD mixing stations soon in a test market near you (U.S. only). I don't have a story link, but I do work at the corporate headquarters.
If your standard audio CD holds 15-20 tracks, how can this be worth $18/month? I think I'll stick with AOL's current burnable CD offering: I get 1080 hours free and I can set fire to it.
Would you care to clarify? It seems to me that Google has supremacy because of its innovative search function, fast returns, relevant results, and commitment to making the web navigable. It's not like they're bundled with the internet or something.
Although our meter holiday did increase overall congestion, the interesting part of the study was that short commutes were fast because people didn't have to waste time on the onramp whereas people driving from exurbs and suburbs of suburbs to the city had longer commutes. In other words, meters increase highway capacity overall, but they also subsidize the commute time of urban sprawlers, because when you enter the freeway next to a farm, there's no ramp meter but the urban residents get screwed at the ramp.
Like warm apple pie...
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Hmm, so what would warm Apple Powerbook feel like?
From the article:
"The external fuel tank, for instance, is full of oxygen and hydrogen cooled to -400F. to make the gases flow as liquids. Ice will form on the tank. When Columbia's tiles started popping off in a stiff breeze, it occurred to engineers that ice chunks from the tank would crash into the tiles during the sonic chaos of launch: Goodbye, Columbia. "
I don't believe that professors in any particular area of study are more apt to inflate grades than others. Additionally, the social pressure to grade inflation among professors is equally spread across all the discplines.
I think that math and science merely offer profs an opportunity to structure tests in a way that inflation is more difficult. i.e. there can be right answers.
There can also be right answers in english (i.e. is there supposed to be a comma here?), history (on what date was the Constitution ratified?), or other humanities, but I've noticed that professors are much more likely to offer essay tests where there are few grading guidelines.
Overall, grade inflation means that a great GPA isn't worth as much and that a student has to find other ways to demonstrate their academic and intellectual merit. And good luck finding a meaningful job after gradution...
With the computer close to ultimate victory over humankind, Johnson reaches for the black cord and with the gently sound of fans spinning down, humanity is saved.
1. set display to 1024x768 2. open the page with the lead-in and comments 3. open 5-6 other program windows so the taskbar shrinks each one down a bit 4. laugh at the appearance of "Slashdot | Pee..." on your taskbar
If they pass internet sales taxes, it will be under a 100% Republican federal administration. In addition, my state is considering internet sales tax under a "no taxes" Republican governor and State House.
When you buy someone, the cost of disposal or recycling should be factored into it, so that "your personal property" doesn't fsck up everyone else's environment when you are done with it. This law is necessary to remedy the disgusting amount of waste generated at every level of our economy--it just needs to ensure that the person who buys it pays the price.
Don't like socialism? Then pay for your own damn messes by paying what the product actually costs to make (and dispose of).
You know, I'm fscking sick of having some self-righteous former nerd making some off-the-cuff comment about giving up Linux/casemods/tweaking/overclocking and "getting a real life" so I can get a girlfriend. My GF will appreciate who I am, tweaking and all--and I won't have to do "macho" things like post "give up tweaking" comments to News for Nerds sites.
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As it is so often mentioned on Slashdot, the average American just wants to word process, check email, and surf the web on their computer. Their cellphone can customize rings, play some games, and give them free long distance--fine.
If I can get the former for $700 with a monitor and printer and the latter for $40 a month, I'm pretty satisfied.
These aren't the killer apps you're looking for...move along.
Damn!
Actually, the hardware is sold at a loss to lock people into buying the proprietary software (games). Losing software sales to increased hardware sales will NOT improve the profit margin, because they will decrease sales of high margin items and increase sales of negative margin items.
Game piracy is a big deal, which is why Nintendo goes to great lengths to prevent it.
However, I have to wonder about this. Software piracy is rampant for PCs, for games and popular applications. Yet Blizzard continues to make Warcraft games, Microsoft continues selling Office. Is it a different business model selling games and apps for a PC than selling games for consoles?
His study found even a 20-minute doze could increase concentration and stamina enormously.
Professor Peter Wippermann says bosses should allow employees to take 'power naps' and also provide comfortable office furniture for a quick snooze.
Professor Wippermann, from the office research consultancy Trendburo, which is based in Hamburg, said a quick snooze in the office regenerates worn out body cells and improves the ability to think flexibly.
Story filed: 15:23 Friday 25th May 2001
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Keep your eyes peeled. Best Buy will be rolling out CD mixing stations soon in a test market near you (U.S. only). I don't have a story link, but I do work at the corporate headquarters.
*thunk*
Cause of death: TBD
holy acronyms, Batman!
(Yes, I know the old one didn't have tray loader, but I'm trying to be funny)
In addition to lacking basic properties of sentence structure.
Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger :-)
Jesus, don't let this man do my fortune!
Or what about my nerd-style sexual innuendo? I suppose we still have hard disks
I think that math and science merely offer profs an opportunity to structure tests in a way that inflation is more difficult. i.e. there can be right answers.
There can also be right answers in english (i.e. is there supposed to be a comma here?), history (on what date was the Constitution ratified?), or other humanities, but I've noticed that professors are much more likely to offer essay tests where there are few grading guidelines.
Overall, grade inflation means that a great GPA isn't worth as much and that a student has to find other ways to demonstrate their academic and intellectual merit. And good luck finding a meaningful job after gradution...
With the computer close to ultimate victory over humankind, Johnson reaches for the black cord and with the gently sound of fans spinning down, humanity is saved.
1. set display to 1024x768
2. open the page with the lead-in and comments
3. open 5-6 other program windows so the taskbar shrinks each one down a bit
4. laugh at the appearance of "Slashdot | Pee..." on your taskbar
Fun for endless seconds...er, yeah
Suck it, Trebek
Don't like socialism? Then pay for your own damn messes by paying what the product actually costs to make (and dispose of).
Offtopic? I didn't bring it up.