So, this is the same industry that charges me the same ticket price to see a movie whether it cost $280 million or $40 thousand to produce?
This is the same industry that has entire "direct to video" market. Several studios only do direct to video. Troma, Full Moon.. all the independent horror publishers.
I just bought a Pendulum Pictures boxset.. 42 movies for $50.
iTMS is like Amazon, people just use it for basic music reference at this point.
Dear God! Why would anyone do that? allmusic.com is a much better reference. iTMS has a horrible interface for looking up simple things like discographies.
No company goes from 100% of the market down to around 30% without a good helping of incompetence.
Are you saying Apple isn't incompetent? They went from nearly 100% of the educational market down to 5%.
I think the handheld market is a great example. People chose Palm over pocketpc because the palm was "simple" and "did one thing well". Much the same reasons people claim to pick the ipod.
It soon turned out that people didn't really want something that "did one thing well".
In America, where I'm pretty sure he signed it, the responsibility is on you, not anyone else, to make sure you understand your contract.
And here on slashdot, where I'm pretty sure you're posting, the responsibility is on you, not anyone else, to make sure you understand the article.
Weird Al doesn't have any problems at all understanding his contract. He didn't understand his label's reasoning behind some of the terms in the contract, but he sure understood the contract itself.
Currently the SanDisk line required Window XP and WMA 10+
No it doesn't. I have a sandisk player, it mounts on my ibook as a regular drive.. I drag mp3s over to it, and when I unplug, the player itself automatically indexes the new files.
That interface is waaay better than iPod which requires special software.
What sane teenager or adult is going to publicly announce that they have to go home to play with their Wii?
Why do the name detracters keep wording it so strangely?
If someone came up to me and said "I'm going to go home to play with my playstation" I'd look at them funny... because "play with my ___" will always sound dirty.
Most people would just say "I'm going to go home to play video games"... actually, most people just say "I'm going home.. see you tomorrow".
Actually, Christine (the Goombette in Paper Mario 2) was seen writing letters.. they have powers of levitation aparently.. since the pencil would just float there.
Sont sold 103 million PS2s compared to 22 mil xbox and 20 mil GC, anyone who thinks Sony is magically going to lose this gigantic market lead is fooling themselves.
70% of those 103 million PS2s were sold *after* Sony dropped the price to $199.
70 million people spoke with their wallets and said that $299 was too expensive.
Nintendo lost its gigantic market lead to a newcomer with no experience in videogames whatsoever. You're fooling yourself it you think that Sony is invulnerable.
Clear what stack? The only meaningful difference between PPC and x86 regarding buffer overflows is that PPC has more registers (including a link register which won't be saved by leaf procedures), and that the x86 CALL instruction pushes its value on the stack.
Wrong. The PPC stack grows the opposite way.. you overflow a buffer on PPC and you're writing into unused stack space, you overflow a buffer on x86 and you're overwriting the return address of the function.
I don't have any idea what the GP means with the "clear the stack" thing though.
I don't buy it. The information I've read indicates roll/pitch/yaw/x/y/z sensing, which implies an IMU.
The Warhawk demo only had Pitch and Roll.. no Yaw, and no lateral movement. Sure that could've been due to gameplay limitations.. but I doubt it since they made a point of talking about using the analog sticks at the same time as tilting the controller.
starting in 2007, all TV channels will be broadcasting only in HDTV.
NO they will not. They will be dropping analog over the air broadcasting it has nothing to do with HDTV, and it won't affect most people (do you have rabbit ears on your TV?)
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The Icelandic morning newspaper, Morgunblaðið started their online edition in 1995 i think.
The Arizona Daily Star launched May 5th 1995.
So, this is the same industry that charges me the same ticket price to see a movie whether it cost $280 million or $40 thousand to produce?
This is the same industry that has entire "direct to video" market. Several studios only do direct to video. Troma, Full Moon.. all the independent horror publishers.
I just bought a Pendulum Pictures boxset.. 42 movies for $50.
I'm pretty sure he used the slimline PS2 for testing since he mentioned the lack of harddrive slot.
the words spoken at most major discoveries were not "Eureka! I've found it!"
They say that in the Department of Redundancy Department.
Dear God! Why would anyone do that? allmusic.com is a much better reference. iTMS has a horrible interface for looking up simple things like discographies.
No company goes from 100% of the market down to around 30% without a good helping of incompetence.
Are you saying Apple isn't incompetent? They went from nearly 100% of the educational market down to 5%.
I think the handheld market is a great example. People chose Palm over pocketpc because the palm was "simple" and "did one thing well". Much the same reasons people claim to pick the ipod.
It soon turned out that people didn't really want something that "did one thing well".
And here on slashdot, where I'm pretty sure you're posting, the responsibility is on you, not anyone else, to make sure you understand the article.
Weird Al doesn't have any problems at all understanding his contract. He didn't understand his label's reasoning behind some of the terms in the contract, but he sure understood the contract itself.
I use flock mainly for all of the bookmark improvements. I haven't seen any firefox extensions that will:
Tightly integrate bookmarks with shadows.com
Adding tagging to your bookmarks
Search your bookmarks with the standard search box
Yet WoW has passed 6 million users
Considering that WoW has only sold 6.5 million copies, I have a hard time believing that number.
If you want to put that in perspective, Super Mario Brothers 1 has sold over 40 million copies.
Is he a real captain? Can Captain Copyright conduct my wedding if I were on his boat?
Currently the SanDisk line required Window XP and WMA 10+
No it doesn't. I have a sandisk player, it mounts on my ibook as a regular drive.. I drag mp3s over to it, and when I unplug, the player itself automatically indexes the new files.
That interface is waaay better than iPod which requires special software.
It's a music player. Nothing more.
And a photo viewer, and a movie player, and a game player.
The ipod is no longer simplicity itself.. neither is the bloatware that is iTunes.
When Star Wars Trilogy comes out on blu-ray exclusively at 1080p, we're going to be shelling out $600 plus buying a new 1080p HDTV
The Star Wars Trilogy came out for laserdisc... the buying power of geeks isn't enough to save bluray just like it wasn't enough to save laserdisc.
What sane teenager or adult is going to publicly announce that they have to go home to play with their Wii?
Why do the name detracters keep wording it so strangely?
If someone came up to me and said "I'm going to go home to play with my playstation" I'd look at them funny... because "play with my ___" will always sound dirty.
Most people would just say "I'm going to go home to play video games"... actually, most people just say "I'm going home.. see you tomorrow".
Actually, Christine (the Goombette in Paper Mario 2) was seen writing letters.. they have powers of levitation aparently.. since the pencil would just float there.
Sont sold 103 million PS2s compared to 22 mil xbox and 20 mil GC, anyone who thinks Sony is magically going to lose this gigantic market lead is fooling themselves.
70% of those 103 million PS2s were sold *after* Sony dropped the price to $199.
70 million people spoke with their wallets and said that $299 was too expensive.
Nintendo lost its gigantic market lead to a newcomer with no experience in videogames whatsoever. You're fooling yourself it you think that Sony is invulnerable.
3. Sexual desire for one's own body.
Well then Sony can go fuck themselves.
This doesn't include all the great software that OS X comes with like iLife, iWork, and more.
OSX doesn't come with iWork. It comes with a demo version.
Send a letter to your congressman and ask them why they don't support our troops.
Clear what stack? The only meaningful difference between PPC and x86 regarding buffer overflows is that PPC has more registers (including a link register which won't be saved by leaf procedures), and that the x86 CALL instruction pushes its value on the stack.
Wrong. The PPC stack grows the opposite way.. you overflow a buffer on PPC and you're writing into unused stack space, you overflow a buffer on x86 and you're overwriting the return address of the function.
I don't have any idea what the GP means with the "clear the stack" thing though.
Many hack the OS as a whole, but not the kernal. Is there a single example of someone hacking the kernal in a "production" system?
The much lauded Viginia Tech supercomputer uses a hacked kernel... the memory management was completely replaced.
One word: inflation. The price of each and every component used in producing the Wii has increased significantly
No it hasn't. Consumer electronics aren't affected by inflation.
From capacitors and resistors to DVD lasers, they're all cheaper today than ever before.
I don't buy it. The information I've read indicates roll/pitch/yaw/x/y/z sensing, which implies an IMU.
The Warhawk demo only had Pitch and Roll.. no Yaw, and no lateral movement. Sure that could've been due to gameplay limitations.. but I doubt it since they made a point of talking about using the analog sticks at the same time as tilting the controller.
Oh, yeah. The plural of axis is axes.
Thanks, that was annoying me.
starting in 2007, all TV channels will be broadcasting only in HDTV.
NO they will not. They will be dropping analog over the air broadcasting it has nothing to do with HDTV, and it won't affect most people (do you have rabbit ears on your TV?)
you can even get a 1080p version right now for $500
That's nothing! You can get a 15" computer monitor that has no problem displaying 1080p for $60... that doesn't mean anything.
I'm not going to replace my 35" TV for a 15" computer monitor.