Youre right, games arent disposable but the profit margins are bigger. And the reference to the razor model wasn't to suggest that games are disposable, just they're something you need to keep buying in order to keep the product "usable" (from a consumer sense... have you EVER owned a system and only bought ONE game and have yet to play anything OTHER than that game? I doubt it.)
And I've never heard Nintendo claim they make money on consoles. I would imagine they seem to be a bit better in the pricing area of things... only because they seem to be better at "cutting off the fat" and have a very basic structure. (and they got burned when they tried to use expensive stuff and try and make back money on said expensive components... just look at the N64. They've learned. I just got a Nintendo DS and quite frankly it doesn't "feel" more than $150. When I picked up the XBox and knowing what was in it, I knew there was no way in hell it was $200.) I'm fairly sure it was stated in some article back when the XBox console selling for a loss story was hot, that all consoles were sold at a loss (initially) but as the internals could be delivered cheaply and in higher yields it evened out. Hell, look at the PS2. The parts to make that could be slimmed down and redesigned and could still be so cheap. When somethings been out for ~3 years, comodization kicks in.
Says the business model of every single video game console ever.
When MS first sold the XBox they estimated that at the time the cost to produce was so much higher than the price it was selling for (I believe some people quoted this gap as high as $200) that MS stated on average everyone would have to buy 6 games for them to cut even.
This is why companies are so anti-modchips. Because if you cut out the money they get from people buying games, the "Gillette Razor Model" doesn't quite work, now does it?
not quite. the "mac experience" is all the fine details out of the box and how everything works together so well. When you cludge someone onto that, it ruins the experience. "Shit, we're losing money on that" would be the whole iTunes/sharing over the internet thing... that was ugly.
I meant being totally open source. By the looks of that site they sell a sort of black box email solution. Closed source. Ok, they have an open source "entity" but no one has found a way to give away all the source code at once, while charging for it, and really made any headway in terms of corperate growth. Most companies either give up on making money or they're on the verge of getting their utilities cut off every month by the skin of their teeth.
Hmm, Apple DID hand code back to them, this I know. They mentioned it at the Worldwide Developers Conference... had a guy from the Konq people too. They didn't implement it? *shrug* oh well. The homeless that turn down a free meal starve and have no right to bitch about hunger.
Safari, their own web browser... I seem to recall they took code from Konqueror, made it better in terms of rendering things better and more compatible... released Safari (closed-source), then gave their changes back to the Konqueror people
Rendezvous. You may know this as ZeroConf. Yes, it existed before they did Rendezvous, but no one did it well. and they released their code back to the ZeroConf people to make the implementation and API better. They also made SDKs so people from every OS can use Rendezvous technology and work with Macs. Did MS help the Samba people?
No company that shoots to make a profit is going to be 100% open source. No one has found a reliable business model on how to do it and stay alive more than a year. Apple does make closed software (and protects it, rightfully so, thats where their INCOME comes from. thats what keeps you on THEIR Unix, instead of taking their stuff and running off to any Linux distro that runs on PowerPC.) and ok, so you can't see the code, but the APIs are so well written, that just about anything Apple makes, I can plug into with my OWN software. How does MS let you plug into shit? With VB? Feh. They make things as easy as possible for developers, and give back to those they borrow from (the Watson thing was a load of crap, there was nothing "unique" about that, and the guy from Konfabulator is a whiny bitch cause someone else made widgets for OS X and did it in a way that doesn't eat up 95% of my CPU at idle.)
While Apple IS a for-profit company, and they HAVE at times used legal threats to keep their products "safe" its mostly out of the purity of the mac "experience", not "shit, we're losing money on that".
I don't see Apple getting too pissed off about this one though... If they aren't against people running Linux on their macs, why would they care about the iPods? Remember, the majority of the cash Apple sees is from hardware sales. The times when Apple gets pissy is when you meddle with their SOFTWARE. This keeps their software on the iPod intact (sort-of) so I don't see them getting their panties in a bind.
But if you want to demonize Apple for trying to make a buck even though they've done more to try and help open source software than most of the other major players in the industry... go right ahead. it just make YOU look like the rabbid zealot for anything anti-Mac.
I've found that Window's file and print sharing can sometimes overstep its bounds as just being bound to an adaptor, mostly with XP Home. Pro doesn't seem to have this problem, nor does 2000 or 2003.
Lets say youre running a network in your home and you're using a Windows box as the firewall for a home network. (not the best setup, I know, but hey, I know some people who do it. Home users where the "IT guy" is Dad with a Computers for Dummies book) You're sharing a printer and files from this firewall box so that everyone in the house can get to them... NOW. Any firewall would keep such a service local, so that no one on the internet side of things can even SEE it, or ANYTHING for that matter... but people can just connect to these shared resources... this is where the MS firewall fails.
I dont know if this has the capacity you would want, but a modded X-Box with the DVD remote and a 400GB HD could do this... plus it can read off of network shares and etc.
Because the current wave of games that support multiplayer only support Nintendo's own wireless standard. Nintendo's wireless layers 1 and 2 are standard 802.11, everything else is up to the cartridge. Thus they don't use TCP/IP or UDP yet. So it's a matter of having to capture the frames, turning them into TCP/IP or UDP and passing them on. It's similar to trying to put the network card into promiscuous mode for wardriving. However, these apparently are amateur programmers, thus, they're running into problems.
user abuse? are you mad? the battery does not launch out of my nokia when I put pressure on it to text one handed. my ipod does not shoot it's hard drive out if I give it a little twist. my nintendo ds doesn't shoot out a cartridge when I do this... so how the hell can you say the PSP doesnt have any flaws you say? When nothing else on the market has something like this, its not a flaw? Plus there have been lots of reported flaws in Japan including a screwed up square button, and dead pixels on the screen.
If I buy some electronic device and it costs more then... eh, lets say, $50. When I give it a little oomph, it should not be doing something like spitting out the game disc. (and they're not pointed straight down, from the angle in the lighting, and the path of the disc, I'd say this is closer to a horizonal position, more natural to what a person sitting down would be holding this device. So for instance, I'm sitting there, playing Ridge Racer, I get into the game and maybe wrench the unit as I lean with a turn. BAM! Disc lands between my feet. Screw that.
actually, I must say, after using that new Razor phone they have (the uber-thin one) I'm impressed. I used to have to hawk the Startacs and Timeports they used to make (they were such shit) but its a huge step up in quality. If I wasn't jonesin' for a Sidekick 2 right now, I'd consider it.
There's a wonderful little extension for Firefox called "Configuration Mania" and it works with 1.0. It has the ability to choose the option for the SSL disk cache mode as well as clear the disk cache every time you close the program, as well as other nifty little things. Give it a whirl.
well, see thats the thing. There's direct scientific proof that heroin and murder. I've played doom since I was 10, and at the ripe age of 21, I lack any sign of violent tendencies. The kids that are warped by this crap are screwed up to begin with, or are simply the products of ineffective parenting.
because majority of people here at Rutgers ARENT spoiled by mommy and daddy. Sure there are the rich lil sorority girls and the guys that drive mercedes and jaguars and crap, but majority aren't. And I take offense to assuming I'm some spoiled little college brat. I'm defensive over it after all the work I've put into it.
the walls here are 4-6" concrete. About six inches between rooms, and four inches betwen my room and the hallway. My campus was designed by an archetect that usually designed jails. We call our campus "The Rock" as a little joke. And land lines here in the dorms are included for free, you just need to pay if you want long distance. And shit does work, you just have a little bit of a range issue, but I have a massive window that faces the interior of the quad, so one antenna of my access point sends the signal out of my room so I have better range when I'm in that area.
And mommy and daddy don't pay for shit for me, so stop being bitter for whatever reason. I'm a network technician and programmer for Rutgers and I'm perfectly fine paying for: cell phone, car insurance, gas, food, and anything else I want. Next year you can throw rent for my own fucking HOUSE and I'd still be comfortable. College kids aren't spoiled, we can just getter better jobs than MOST people.
the walls here are 4-6" concrete. About six inches between rooms, and four inches betwen my room and the hallway. My campus was designed by an archetect that usually designed jails. We call our campus "The Rock" as a little joke. And land lines here in the dorms are included for free, you just need to pay if you want long distance. And shit does work, you just have a little bit of a range issue, but I have a massive window that faces the interior of the quad, so one antenna of my access point sends the signal out of my room so I have better range when I'm in that area.
And mommy and daddy don't pay for shit for me, so stop being bitter for whatever reason. I'm a network technician and programmer for Rutgers and I'm perfectly fine paying for: cell phone, car insurance, gas, food, and anything else I want. Next year you can throw rent for my own fucking HOUSE and I'd still be comfortable. College kids aren't spoiled, we can just getter better jobs than MOST people.
As someone who lives in a dorm at Rutgers University...
Ok, The huge stereos? Ok. You've got a point there. I don't need to share my music preference with people down the hall. I *do* have a THX rated surround sound system on my computer though. Why? Games. Movies. I want them to sound good. I live in a box. When I watch a movie, I don't want to feel like I'm watching a movie... in a BOX.
The wireless? My dorm is broken up into 10 smaller "houses" attatched by tunnels and such, and each house has it's own lounge. Sometimes, either if my roommate needs the room to.. uh... "work out", or if I want to study in peace and my roommate is playing a game or music or such. With my wireless I can bring my powerbook to the lounge and still have ethernet. Yes there are wired ports in the lounge but the infastructure is a bit of a pain in the ass if you don't own JUST a laptop.
And cordless phones? Yeah. They're useful. Say I order food from one of the local delivery places, and I need to run out to a friend's room real quick or I'm in said house lounge. I can still get that call. And I really don't get the whole "interference" thing. In my room I can see at least 5 access points besides mine, 3 locked down, (fairly well I might add, but I managed to get in, just for shits and giggles), 2 wide open, and there are 2 with SSID off (airsnort rules). Mines locked down to rediculous extremes (uses RADIUS server for auth), but the point is, with all these points around, and 2.4Ghz cordless phones... I don't have any interference. There is no degredation in speed, and in theory the fact that every room has a microwave should bring all the wireless here to a crawl whenever someone wants a hot pocket.
Perhaps their school just has shitty shielding in the walls? 6 inches of concrete in each wall does nicely here.
Microwave? No. Not sure about TDMA and CDMA, but GSM here in America operates on any combination of 850Mhz/900Mhz/1.8Ghz/1.9Ghz.
800 Mhz range = police analog radios. These have been around long enough.
900 Mhz range = cordless phones.
1.8 and 1.9. Both higher, but not the 2.4 Ghz to constitute "microwave"
You're exposed to these frequencies majority of the time anyways.
Unfortunately not. 1MB of GPRS is $3 a month with t-mobile. If I'm gonna get GPRS. I want to be on AIM with it and to surf stuff while I can. I think i'd go over that fairly easy. Unlimited data is more than I'm willing to pay, and there's no real "Pay as you go" option, I'm afraid...
well, a lot of phone companies allow you to buy blocks of text messages. Right now I buy 300 msgs a month for $2.99. T-Mobile now has a deal of $9.99 a month for unlimited texts, and I'm thinking of upgrading. Also consider that I know a lot of cell companies do this, I dont know the exact prices..., but 411 with T-Mobile costs $.75 a shot. Thats a lot and those people always shoot me to the wrong number. Here I can pay 5 cents if I have to and get a list to pick from. Thats spiffy in my book.
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Holy christ all mighty, after reading your example... I can only assume one thing... you work for the RIAA or the MPAA don't you!?
if you want to go for the less SENSATIONALIST example...
"Hey, DiscoOnTheSide... know where I can get a hooker?"
"The red light district."
Am I arrested as a pimp? Fuck no.
Youre right, games arent disposable but the profit margins are bigger. And the reference to the razor model wasn't to suggest that games are disposable, just they're something you need to keep buying in order to keep the product "usable" (from a consumer sense... have you EVER owned a system and only bought ONE game and have yet to play anything OTHER than that game? I doubt it.)
And I've never heard Nintendo claim they make money on consoles. I would imagine they seem to be a bit better in the pricing area of things... only because they seem to be better at "cutting off the fat" and have a very basic structure. (and they got burned when they tried to use expensive stuff and try and make back money on said expensive components... just look at the N64. They've learned. I just got a Nintendo DS and quite frankly it doesn't "feel" more than $150. When I picked up the XBox and knowing what was in it, I knew there was no way in hell it was $200.) I'm fairly sure it was stated in some article back when the XBox console selling for a loss story was hot, that all consoles were sold at a loss (initially) but as the internals could be delivered cheaply and in higher yields it evened out. Hell, look at the PS2. The parts to make that could be slimmed down and redesigned and could still be so cheap. When somethings been out for ~3 years, comodization kicks in.
Says the business model of every single video game console ever.
When MS first sold the XBox they estimated that at the time the cost to produce was so much higher than the price it was selling for (I believe some people quoted this gap as high as $200) that MS stated on average everyone would have to buy 6 games for them to cut even.
This is why companies are so anti-modchips. Because if you cut out the money they get from people buying games, the "Gillette Razor Model" doesn't quite work, now does it?
There are plenty of games, IM clients (Trillian? Adium? Proteus?), and even TEXT EDITORS that use Rendezous. Oh, and Apache does too now.
not quite. the "mac experience" is all the fine details out of the box and how everything works together so well. When you cludge someone onto that, it ruins the experience. "Shit, we're losing money on that" would be the whole iTunes/sharing over the internet thing... that was ugly.
I meant being totally open source. By the looks of that site they sell a sort of black box email solution. Closed source. Ok, they have an open source "entity" but no one has found a way to give away all the source code at once, while charging for it, and really made any headway in terms of corperate growth. Most companies either give up on making money or they're on the verge of getting their utilities cut off every month by the skin of their teeth.
Hmm, Apple DID hand code back to them, this I know. They mentioned it at the Worldwide Developers Conference... had a guy from the Konq people too. They didn't implement it? *shrug* oh well. The homeless that turn down a free meal starve and have no right to bitch about hunger.
Hmmm... Let's see...
Safari, their own web browser... I seem to recall they took code from Konqueror, made it better in terms of rendering things better and more compatible... released Safari (closed-source), then gave their changes back to the Konqueror people
Rendezvous. You may know this as ZeroConf. Yes, it existed before they did Rendezvous, but no one did it well. and they released their code back to the ZeroConf people to make the implementation and API better. They also made SDKs so people from every OS can use Rendezvous technology and work with Macs. Did MS help the Samba people?
No company that shoots to make a profit is going to be 100% open source. No one has found a reliable business model on how to do it and stay alive more than a year. Apple does make closed software (and protects it, rightfully so, thats where their INCOME comes from. thats what keeps you on THEIR Unix, instead of taking their stuff and running off to any Linux distro that runs on PowerPC.) and ok, so you can't see the code, but the APIs are so well written, that just about anything Apple makes, I can plug into with my OWN software. How does MS let you plug into shit? With VB? Feh. They make things as easy as possible for developers, and give back to those they borrow from (the Watson thing was a load of crap, there was nothing "unique" about that, and the guy from Konfabulator is a whiny bitch cause someone else made widgets for OS X and did it in a way that doesn't eat up 95% of my CPU at idle.)
While Apple IS a for-profit company, and they HAVE at times used legal threats to keep their products "safe" its mostly out of the purity of the mac "experience", not "shit, we're losing money on that".
I don't see Apple getting too pissed off about this one though... If they aren't against people running Linux on their macs, why would they care about the iPods? Remember, the majority of the cash Apple sees is from hardware sales. The times when Apple gets pissy is when you meddle with their SOFTWARE. This keeps their software on the iPod intact (sort-of) so I don't see them getting their panties in a bind.
But if you want to demonize Apple for trying to make a buck even though they've done more to try and help open source software than most of the other major players in the industry... go right ahead. it just make YOU look like the rabbid zealot for anything anti-Mac.
I've found that Window's file and print sharing can sometimes overstep its bounds as just being bound to an adaptor, mostly with XP Home. Pro doesn't seem to have this problem, nor does 2000 or 2003.
Lets say youre running a network in your home and you're using a Windows box as the firewall for a home network. (not the best setup, I know, but hey, I know some people who do it. Home users where the "IT guy" is Dad with a Computers for Dummies book) You're sharing a printer and files from this firewall box so that everyone in the house can get to them... NOW. Any firewall would keep such a service local, so that no one on the internet side of things can even SEE it, or ANYTHING for that matter... but people can just connect to these shared resources... this is where the MS firewall fails.
I dont know if this has the capacity you would want, but a modded X-Box with the DVD remote and a 400GB HD could do this... plus it can read off of network shares and etc.
Because the current wave of games that support multiplayer only support Nintendo's own wireless standard. Nintendo's wireless layers 1 and 2 are standard 802.11, everything else is up to the cartridge. Thus they don't use TCP/IP or UDP yet. So it's a matter of having to capture the frames, turning them into TCP/IP or UDP and passing them on. It's similar to trying to put the network card into promiscuous mode for wardriving. However, these apparently are amateur programmers, thus, they're running into problems.
glad to see someone jumping on the opening I left em. :P
user abuse? are you mad? the battery does not launch out of my nokia when I put pressure on it to text one handed. my ipod does not shoot it's hard drive out if I give it a little twist. my nintendo ds doesn't shoot out a cartridge when I do this... so how the hell can you say the PSP doesnt have any flaws you say? When nothing else on the market has something like this, its not a flaw? Plus there have been lots of reported flaws in Japan including a screwed up square button, and dead pixels on the screen.
If I buy some electronic device and it costs more then... eh, lets say, $50. When I give it a little oomph, it should not be doing something like spitting out the game disc. (and they're not pointed straight down, from the angle in the lighting, and the path of the disc, I'd say this is closer to a horizonal position, more natural to what a person sitting down would be holding this device. So for instance, I'm sitting there, playing Ridge Racer, I get into the game and maybe wrench the unit as I lean with a turn. BAM! Disc lands between my feet. Screw that.
actually, I must say, after using that new Razor phone they have (the uber-thin one) I'm impressed. I used to have to hawk the Startacs and Timeports they used to make (they were such shit) but its a huge step up in quality. If I wasn't jonesin' for a Sidekick 2 right now, I'd consider it.
There's a wonderful little extension for Firefox called "Configuration Mania" and it works with 1.0. It has the ability to choose the option for the SSL disk cache mode as well as clear the disk cache every time you close the program, as well as other nifty little things. Give it a whirl.
well, see thats the thing. There's direct scientific proof that heroin and murder. I've played doom since I was 10, and at the ripe age of 21, I lack any sign of violent tendencies. The kids that are warped by this crap are screwed up to begin with, or are simply the products of ineffective parenting.
because majority of people here at Rutgers ARENT spoiled by mommy and daddy. Sure there are the rich lil sorority girls and the guys that drive mercedes and jaguars and crap, but majority aren't. And I take offense to assuming I'm some spoiled little college brat. I'm defensive over it after all the work I've put into it.
the walls here are 4-6" concrete. About six inches between rooms, and four inches betwen my room and the hallway. My campus was designed by an archetect that usually designed jails. We call our campus "The Rock" as a little joke. And land lines here in the dorms are included for free, you just need to pay if you want long distance. And shit does work, you just have a little bit of a range issue, but I have a massive window that faces the interior of the quad, so one antenna of my access point sends the signal out of my room so I have better range when I'm in that area.
And mommy and daddy don't pay for shit for me, so stop being bitter for whatever reason. I'm a network technician and programmer for Rutgers and I'm perfectly fine paying for: cell phone, car insurance, gas, food, and anything else I want. Next year you can throw rent for my own fucking HOUSE and I'd still be comfortable. College kids aren't spoiled, we can just getter better jobs than MOST people.
the walls here are 4-6" concrete. About six inches between rooms, and four inches betwen my room and the hallway. My campus was designed by an archetect that usually designed jails. We call our campus "The Rock" as a little joke. And land lines here in the dorms are included for free, you just need to pay if you want long distance. And shit does work, you just have a little bit of a range issue, but I have a massive window that faces the interior of the quad, so one antenna of my access point sends the signal out of my room so I have better range when I'm in that area. And mommy and daddy don't pay for shit for me, so stop being bitter for whatever reason. I'm a network technician and programmer for Rutgers and I'm perfectly fine paying for: cell phone, car insurance, gas, food, and anything else I want. Next year you can throw rent for my own fucking HOUSE and I'd still be comfortable. College kids aren't spoiled, we can just getter better jobs than MOST people.
As someone who lives in a dorm at Rutgers University...
Ok, The huge stereos? Ok. You've got a point there. I don't need to share my music preference with people down the hall. I *do* have a THX rated surround sound system on my computer though. Why? Games. Movies. I want them to sound good. I live in a box. When I watch a movie, I don't want to feel like I'm watching a movie... in a BOX.
The wireless? My dorm is broken up into 10 smaller "houses" attatched by tunnels and such, and each house has it's own lounge. Sometimes, either if my roommate needs the room to.. uh... "work out", or if I want to study in peace and my roommate is playing a game or music or such. With my wireless I can bring my powerbook to the lounge and still have ethernet. Yes there are wired ports in the lounge but the infastructure is a bit of a pain in the ass if you don't own JUST a laptop.
And cordless phones? Yeah. They're useful. Say I order food from one of the local delivery places, and I need to run out to a friend's room real quick or I'm in said house lounge. I can still get that call. And I really don't get the whole "interference" thing. In my room I can see at least 5 access points besides mine, 3 locked down, (fairly well I might add, but I managed to get in, just for shits and giggles), 2 wide open, and there are 2 with SSID off (airsnort rules). Mines locked down to rediculous extremes (uses RADIUS server for auth), but the point is, with all these points around, and 2.4Ghz cordless phones... I don't have any interference. There is no degredation in speed, and in theory the fact that every room has a microwave should bring all the wireless here to a crawl whenever someone wants a hot pocket.
Perhaps their school just has shitty shielding in the walls? 6 inches of concrete in each wall does nicely here.
Microwave? No. Not sure about TDMA and CDMA, but GSM here in America operates on any combination of 850Mhz/900Mhz/1.8Ghz/1.9Ghz. 800 Mhz range = police analog radios. These have been around long enough. 900 Mhz range = cordless phones. 1.8 and 1.9. Both higher, but not the 2.4 Ghz to constitute "microwave" You're exposed to these frequencies majority of the time anyways.
Unfortunately not. 1MB of GPRS is $3 a month with t-mobile. If I'm gonna get GPRS. I want to be on AIM with it and to surf stuff while I can. I think i'd go over that fairly easy. Unlimited data is more than I'm willing to pay, and there's no real "Pay as you go" option, I'm afraid...
well, a lot of phone companies allow you to buy blocks of text messages. Right now I buy 300 msgs a month for $2.99. T-Mobile now has a deal of $9.99 a month for unlimited texts, and I'm thinking of upgrading. Also consider that I know a lot of cell companies do this, I dont know the exact prices..., but 411 with T-Mobile costs $.75 a shot. Thats a lot and those people always shoot me to the wrong number. Here I can pay 5 cents if I have to and get a list to pick from. Thats spiffy in my book.
Terminator 2. Batman Returns. Bad Boys 2. Ghostbusters 2. eh, thats all I got off the top of my head.