If a highly educated person, person A, is viewed to be such by someone with a lesser education than person A, person B, while someone with more education, person C, than person A is present, then isn't person C more highly educated than person A?
Reported illness is a way to get out of work and have more days off in the US. Europeans get many more holidays and days off and therefore don't need to take sick days as vacation days as often as Americans have to.
Well, I'm sorry you got modded down. I didn't do it. But thanks for the misdirected blame. Maybe you shouldn't be so short with people and jump to bad conclusions in the future.
Now most of them are changing their tunes. They were saying before that Apple couldn't/wouldn't stand up to the labels over their pricing plan. Now they're all saying that $0.99 is just too much. Well, good luck finding the singles of the sam quality for less. Why not just admit that Apple has a good thing with the iTunes Music Store?
The old program costs you eight bucks, while the new one is free. The old program was still very reasonable.
Starting in June, Apple will offer a free computer take-back program for U.S. customers who buy a new Mac through the Apple Store or an Apple retail store. Check back soon for more details.
Enterprise users should know how to configure and setup their firewalls. While average joe consumer most likely doesn't have a clue. So why would Microsoft disable things for the knowledgeable users which in turn will most likely cause problems for the general populace? What are they thinking?
America's dismal showing in a contest of college programmers highlights how China, India, and Eastern Europe are closing the tech talent gap.
I am inclined to say that this is a money problem. With American companies willing to dump their brightest and most talented for outsourcing to India, etc. where they can pay pennies on the dollar why would people here want to waste their time in school for four years to get a degree that has a steadily declining pay scale? It seems that the CS degree holders in the US are already scrambling to regain footage that the big companies aren't willing to pay for here. The hiring market has increased this year, but they're becoming less and less lucrative to the developers.
This kind of specialty degree in the US, where nobody is willing to learn math anymore should be one of the highest paying positions today, but the new world economy is killing it in the US. Why work that hard when you can get a better paying job without the difficulty of the education?
The huge difference that the XBox360 and the PS3 have over any other console, past or present, is that they aren't really intended to be JUST gaming consoles. Both have aspirations of becoming the major entertainment hub of the living room. This isn't about gaming consoles anymore. The original XBox delved into this area, but no more than a standard PC would have at that time.
People are going to be willing to pay $500 for a PS3 if it has the BluRay DVD player that will play BluRay movies. While Microsoft needs a price edge over Sony from the initial launch of the PS3 in order to survive.
Microsoft has talked about an HD-DVD add-on or redo of the system sometime this summer.
The only company that is interested in making a console just for playing games is Nintendo. They don't want an all-in-one computer like device to run the living room. They just want to make great games.
NeoGeo was around $500 when it was launched. It was relegated to the arcades. Very few people actually ever owned it as a home system. This might have been different today, but we're supposed to learn from history, right?
1) That's exactly why they are as good at what they do as they are. Microsoft doesn't have to support anything. They don't develop the drivers for the third parties they make the third parties do it themselves. MS isn't providing the video card drivers, the video card manufacturers are doing that. Most of that hardware that Windows runs on has been built so that Windows can run on it anyhow. I understand what you are trying to say, but, it's a very circular argument and doesn't really stand up to closer scrutiny.
2) Microsoft has made the wrong decision. Apple has made 99% of their legacy software work with their current technology by emulating their older operating systems. Microsoft on the other hand, has built layers on top of layers for backwards compatibility. The NTFS is still there in Vista even though there was supposed to be an entirely new file system in there, in other words, they failed at what they set out to do. While they have provided new "leaner and meaner" they certainly haven't "jettisoned the old", they've emulated it and they've done it very well in a very short timeframe. I can still run OS 9 stuff through emulation under OS X, if I want or need to do so. Apple users are chomping at the bit to get the latest OS from them regardless of what they leave behind, because they know that the new stuff continually blows the old stuff away and they have confidence in the company that continues to innovate and push the envelope. Microsoft continues to make promises and fall far short and their customers are afraid to upgrade because of what has happened repeatedly in the past. Microsoft would do themselves a favor by letting go of the past. Vista/Longhorn has taken nearly four years to get it to a stripped down half-ass beta built on top of their old technology while Apple has produced four versions of OS X, each one with more than 100 improvements and each one vastly superior to the previous one.
Read the article. Most of the groundbreaking revolutionary promises were left out to give the consumer the same old same old. On top of that, they did it worse than the last revision which was their lame attempt at eye candy, because that's what they think Apple does.
Apple produces higher quality in much shorter timeframes doing both the hardware and the software than Microsoft can do with it's billions of dollars. They've become a dinosaur whose extinction has been a long time coming.
As for the playback time, Apple has been bitten by a class action for claiming that the iPods played longer than expected. Once bitten, twice shy. Also, don't forget the end sentence on the Sony site:
Up to 50 hours continuous playback with built-in lithium-ion rechargeable battery (fully charged) when playing in ATRAC3 @ 105kbps and normal power save mode. Actual battery life may vary based on usage patterns.
My iPod plays for much more than 18 hours. It seems more likely that Apple has taken to reporting an average while Sony and others like to claim the absolute maximum they can get. Apple does also list the 60GB model playing up to 20 hours.
How Microsoft, a software company, can develop such crappy software while Apple, arguably a hardware company, can develop such good software.
Even more interesting is that half of the features missing from the stripped down version of Vista are already in Apple's OS X and have been for about a year now. And Leopard is right around the corner.
ReplayTV leads the DVR industry in groundbreaking innovations aimed at providing consumers with unmatched power and control in maximizing their TV viewing experience with the best performance and best value.
First to put consumers in total control with QuickSkip® 30-second advance and other features
First with built-in networking allowing consumers to watch any show from any networked ReplayTV DVR in the home
First to allow consumers to program their DVR via the web from anywhere in the world
First with genre-based recording allowing consumers to track their favorite team or find their favorite actor
First and only to offer network recording which directs requests to available networked ReplayTV DVRs with sufficient capacity
First and only standalone DVR with Progressive Scan and Digital Audio Output for state of the art performance
If they were first to something as important as watch one while recording another, you can bet that they'd mention it. Probably a TiVo innovation.
The 7200 introduced the pause feature, that was in 2000 and it was more a feature of WebTV than the DVR that allowed FF/RW/Timeshift. Those features were added to the 7200 later. These things are why it wasn't really a DVR until after 2000 when ReplayTV and TiVo had been on the market for almost a year.
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If a highly educated person, person A, is viewed to be such by someone with a lesser education than person A, person B, while someone with more education, person C, than person A is present, then isn't person C more highly educated than person A?
True, you can hope. I just have the feeling that Dell will make Alienware just another "Wal-Mart" computer mail-order company in time.
Sorry to jump on you like that.
Here's the story about Dell and Alienware, since you seem to have missed that they're now the same company.
FYI, Dell now owns Alienware. Where's your knowledge?
As for affluence, it's been reported that Mac users are more affluent than PC users. The same study reported that most Mac users are more highly educated than PC users too, which goes hand in hand with the higher level of affluence. You must bear in mind that the study is from 2002. So, his statements were backed up. Sorry you didn't know about it.
Just a minor point. LucasArts is the videogame arm of the company and LucasFilm is the movie arm.
Reported illness is a way to get out of work and have more days off in the US. Europeans get many more holidays and days off and therefore don't need to take sick days as vacation days as often as Americans have to.
Well, I'm sorry you got modded down. I didn't do it. But thanks for the misdirected blame. Maybe you shouldn't be so short with people and jump to bad conclusions in the future.
It's part of the title of the article.
Learning from failure - The inside story on "how IBM out-foxed Intel with the Xbox 360"
You didn't even read the second line of the title!?!?! Wow, you really didn't get very far into the article.
Patience grasshopper. When November comes history very well might repeat itself. ;)
We are talking about the "legal" downloads...
:D
But thanks for the suggestions.
Now most of them are changing their tunes. They were saying before that Apple couldn't/wouldn't stand up to the labels over their pricing plan. Now they're all saying that $0.99 is just too much. Well, good luck finding the singles of the sam quality for less. Why not just admit that Apple has a good thing with the iTunes Music Store?
The old program costs you eight bucks, while the new one is free. The old program was still very reasonable.
Enterprise users should know how to configure and setup their firewalls. While average joe consumer most likely doesn't have a clue. So why would Microsoft disable things for the knowledgeable users which in turn will most likely cause problems for the general populace? What are they thinking?
Because they suxor at what they do.
This kind of specialty degree in the US, where nobody is willing to learn math anymore should be one of the highest paying positions today, but the new world economy is killing it in the US. Why work that hard when you can get a better paying job without the difficulty of the education?
The huge difference that the XBox360 and the PS3 have over any other console, past or present, is that they aren't really intended to be JUST gaming consoles. Both have aspirations of becoming the major entertainment hub of the living room. This isn't about gaming consoles anymore. The original XBox delved into this area, but no more than a standard PC would have at that time.
People are going to be willing to pay $500 for a PS3 if it has the BluRay DVD player that will play BluRay movies. While Microsoft needs a price edge over Sony from the initial launch of the PS3 in order to survive.
Microsoft has talked about an HD-DVD add-on or redo of the system sometime this summer.
The only company that is interested in making a console just for playing games is Nintendo. They don't want an all-in-one computer like device to run the living room. They just want to make great games.
NeoGeo was around $500 when it was launched. It was relegated to the arcades. Very few people actually ever owned it as a home system. This might have been different today, but we're supposed to learn from history, right?
1) That's exactly why they are as good at what they do as they are. Microsoft doesn't have to support anything. They don't develop the drivers for the third parties they make the third parties do it themselves. MS isn't providing the video card drivers, the video card manufacturers are doing that. Most of that hardware that Windows runs on has been built so that Windows can run on it anyhow. I understand what you are trying to say, but, it's a very circular argument and doesn't really stand up to closer scrutiny.
2) Microsoft has made the wrong decision. Apple has made 99% of their legacy software work with their current technology by emulating their older operating systems. Microsoft on the other hand, has built layers on top of layers for backwards compatibility. The NTFS is still there in Vista even though there was supposed to be an entirely new file system in there, in other words, they failed at what they set out to do. While they have provided new "leaner and meaner" they certainly haven't "jettisoned the old", they've emulated it and they've done it very well in a very short timeframe. I can still run OS 9 stuff through emulation under OS X, if I want or need to do so. Apple users are chomping at the bit to get the latest OS from them regardless of what they leave behind, because they know that the new stuff continually blows the old stuff away and they have confidence in the company that continues to innovate and push the envelope. Microsoft continues to make promises and fall far short and their customers are afraid to upgrade because of what has happened repeatedly in the past. Microsoft would do themselves a favor by letting go of the past. Vista/Longhorn has taken nearly four years to get it to a stripped down half-ass beta built on top of their old technology while Apple has produced four versions of OS X, each one with more than 100 improvements and each one vastly superior to the previous one.
Read the article. Most of the groundbreaking revolutionary promises were left out to give the consumer the same old same old. On top of that, they did it worse than the last revision which was their lame attempt at eye candy, because that's what they think Apple does.
Apple produces higher quality in much shorter timeframes doing both the hardware and the software than Microsoft can do with it's billions of dollars. They've become a dinosaur whose extinction has been a long time coming.
So, your profit allegations are baseless.
As for the playback time, Apple has been bitten by a class action for claiming that the iPods played longer than expected. Once bitten, twice shy. Also, don't forget the end sentence on the Sony site:My iPod plays for much more than 18 hours. It seems more likely that Apple has taken to reporting an average while Sony and others like to claim the absolute maximum they can get. Apple does also list the 60GB model playing up to 20 hours.
Slashdot ran this the other day already!
What's up? Were you sleeping, Neal?
How Microsoft, a software company, can develop such crappy software while Apple, arguably a hardware company, can develop such good software.
Even more interesting is that half of the features missing from the stripped down version of Vista are already in Apple's OS X and have been for about a year now. And Leopard is right around the corner.
Keep up the good work Bill & company.
The 7200 introduced the pause feature, that was in 2000 and it was more a feature of WebTV than the DVR that allowed FF/RW/Timeshift. Those features were added to the 7200 later. These things are why it wasn't really a DVR until after 2000 when ReplayTV and TiVo had been on the market for almost a year.
"The two earliest consumer DVRs, ReplayTV and TiVo, were..." BOTH "...launched at the 1999 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas."
They were both introduced the same year.
Sorry you feel that way. Four years and counting means vaporware to me.