The main problem with Sony is twofold.
a) Quality, they centralized their support structures with desastrous results. In the past a vendor network was making the support, and they got high ratings in quality (just like apple still does)
The centralized support saved them money but they now have a lousy support reputation which kills off their sales. The vendors are not very eager to push their stuff as well, due to low margins, while sony still has high prices so no incentive to buy their stuff over the price point either.
b) Sony media slowly kills sony electronics while small companies take over. Most of the idiocy hitting sony electronics came from sony media (DRM, strongly enforced region codes while chines play all under the sky players were sold for 50 bucks next), rootkits etc...
This is all stuff coming from the movie division and is hitting the electronics division hard, really hard. The current event showint this is that their UMD disk now is partially declared dead as movie format, the UMD never could take over due to strongly enforced DRM and the price hike coming with it (Speaking of endless greed) which made it significantly more expensive than DVDs.
The reason for this is that the three major source incomes of the us industry is weapons, ip and patents (well patents is a wannabe cash in)
to sum it up if patents and ip would be ignored on a major scale the US industry would go down the drain to a big degree, hence the more and more draconian laws fostering a pyramid scheme in this area.
The whole issue revolves around that the draconian schemes the US are building are either bound to fail or will backfire on a huge scale.
The research and production is outsourced and hence the ips will be built outside and the us will be deprived of its incomes and will have to pay huge sums at a time when it wont be in any position anymore to change those things.
Another scenario is collapse of the entire system due to becoming too draconian which could happen as well even before the above mentioned szenario kicks in.
The main problems home computers had, were that from day zero nobody bought the games, but copied them. So games like Impossible Mission from Epyx probably had a higher number of players than the average Atari 2600 title, but no one paid for that stuff except for a few thousand people.
The industry was not dead, it just was declared dead by the press because the atari2600 went down under, in 85 home computers were thriving (most of them bought as gaming console which you could do more than gaming with) while the consoles were on a hiatus.
Probably the biggest "console" in 85 was the C64 with, it never was considered to be a console, but face it it just had a keyboard and a disk drive, but 99% of the time was used for games only.
Google even has employees sitting in the Apache Board of Directors...
Overall the climate in the Apache projects regarding the mixture of people contributing privately and from companies is quite good.
Moving out of the computer business is a bad idea, the iPod is a fashion and fashions usually stop once the next kid on the block appears.
Which in hardware business happens every 5-10 years. Ask Sony, they were able to ride the walkman fashion for a certain period of time but after that, no one would go for the walkman brand nowadays.
I have encountered only one project with hundreds of devs, in fact most j2ee apps I have seen were coded by a handful of people. It is not as hard as people always says. Rails biggest benefit is that it has a good set of tools on top of the framework (mainly scaffolding and codegens)) in the j2ee world there are similar tools, you just do not get it in j2ee. I once generated 40% of an app via xdoclet.
Actually lets sum the situation up:
I have done one insurance project, one project for an international corporation, I have been involved in one project for a poltical party and currently working on another big project for a public institution.
I have yet to encounter a.net project there.
Most banks over here and insurances use Java due to the connectivity into their RS6000 and AS4000 environments.
Also banks usually are very IBM centric and most people working in banks I have met in the last year were very java centric. What I could gather in the last year however, was a certain shift away from J2EE EJBs towards Spring and servlet runner only installations.
Depends on where you live, I have yet to see a.Net deployment while I came across 10 java projects and several rails projects the last year. PHP on the other hand is slowly dying over here, only one PHP installation or so.
Everyone from the Smalltalk and Javaworld could have told them, that placing an entire OS infrastructure upon a vm means serious performance hit, if you have a little bit more than basic scheduling, file IO and Windowing.
Java does exactly that but it has gone through 10 years of optimizations
now, and there still are areas where the user experience is too problematic.
The whole.net issue was as typical marketing over technical sense, to push away people from Java (which did not work anyway)
Time for VM based operating systems may come, but it is not there yet, even java has to rely on basic os infrastructure to be able to run.
In the end Microsoft burned its fingers onto the idea of having major parts of an OS based upon a vm based language like everyone else has done so far.
Microsoft office 97 was an unusable desaster, the word processor freaked out on bigger documents (still does not that often) bugs which were showstoppers never got fixed (the red X bug in OLE streams)
etc...
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Well lets say it that way, as you said modern dvd players almost any device which does not rely on pure analog signal processing is capable or rendering the signal away in pal or ntsc, given the fact that the internal processing does not rely on a fixed display frequency. (thinks like using the blank period of a tv set for screen updating in software has died out a long time ago)
The question is more along the lines as you said will the PS3 be able to output the signal in both formats, which is very likely because it has to in several formats due to hdtv anyway, so adding a pal/ntsc combined output is a non issue.
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this is a non issue on modern tvs...
and has been for years.
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The funny thing is, because you mention married with children, this was the most british like sitcom ever being aired in the USA.
If you watch the uk sitcoms you can find a lot of similar themed or similar humored sitcoms.
Father Ted and (not the dreadful US version but the original) Coupling being probably some of the most recent examples of anarcho humored sitcoms.
The main difference is, that those have a humor married with children only touched occasionally going on through, but not being worn out by endless episodes only a handful.
Coupling in the US version was bound to fail, but the UK version is simply excellent.
I was a young geek back then, and nowadays I still think the movie is lame.
Back then however I liked it.
Tron did not age well, it shows its deficiencies in story and character development nowadays.
You are not allowed to give computing to the poor without paying me money.
mouth starts to foam...
money money money money money...
arr
developers developers developers....
autocommit being on per default and the optimizer cache being trimmed down could contribute to the problem;-)
if you need speed from postgres you have to read the performance documents floating the web.
IMHO the biggest problem postgres nowadays has that the devs do not distributed a default performance optimized binary but one which is optimized for being ultimately resource consumption nice.
The crusades did nothing to the islamic civilization, it was minor compared to other things.
The crusades are highly exaggerated nowadays in their impact, back then they were even considered
so minor that a german/roman emperor could lease the holy land for a lifetime (and having a clash with the pope over this back then)
The main problem for the downfall of the arabic civilization might be the in islamic wars, which mainly was triggered by the turkish people slowly but surely taking over the islamic empire and in islamic wars between various countries.
The impact on the eastern roman empire was severe however, they sped up its downfall which was more or less unavoidable anyway.
In the end the islamic civilisation basically was fruitful due to knowledge inheritance of the occupied eastern roman empire parts, and being hilghly tolerant to christians and jews in the occupied areas. Culture could only thrive in this tolerant area.
The Gothic series nowadays comes closest to the games U9 should have been, especially Gothic2 is outside of Europe a highly overlooked excellent successor to the Ultima series (and to some degree to Fallout as well given the twisted humor)
Most reviewers rated it down because they did not bother to learn the very well working control scheme, and basically just gave it mediocre scores while most if not all die hard RPG fanatics and ex Ultima players simply love the series as being one of the best RPG series ever made.
If you want to get Ultima hardcore as hardcore as it can get go for the Gothic series, learn the controls and enjoy the excellent games.
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The main problem with Sony is twofold.
a) Quality, they centralized their support structures with desastrous results. In the past a vendor network was making the support, and they got high ratings in quality (just like apple still does) The centralized support saved them money but they now have a lousy support reputation which kills off their sales. The vendors are not very eager to push their stuff as well, due to low margins, while sony still has high prices so no incentive to buy their stuff over the price point either.
b) Sony media slowly kills sony electronics while small companies take over. Most of the idiocy hitting sony electronics came from sony media (DRM, strongly enforced region codes while chines play all under the sky players were sold for 50 bucks next), rootkits etc... This is all stuff coming from the movie division and is hitting the electronics division hard, really hard. The current event showint this is that their UMD disk now is partially declared dead as movie format, the UMD never could take over due to strongly enforced DRM and the price hike coming with it (Speaking of endless greed) which made it significantly more expensive than DVDs.
The reason for this is that the three major source incomes of the us industry is weapons, ip and patents (well patents is a wannabe cash in)
to sum it up if patents and ip would be ignored on a major scale the US industry would go down the drain to a big degree, hence the more and more draconian laws fostering a pyramid scheme in this area. The whole issue revolves around that the draconian schemes the US are building are either bound to fail or will backfire on a huge scale. The research and production is outsourced and hence the ips will be built outside and the us will be deprived of its incomes and will have to pay huge sums at a time when it wont be in any position anymore to change those things.
Another scenario is collapse of the entire system due to becoming too draconian which could happen as well even before the above mentioned szenario kicks in.
Does not work, check history, Hint, Austria/Germany 1848, Hint France 1789. People are no frogs.
The main problems home computers had, were that from day zero nobody bought the games, but copied them. So games like Impossible Mission from Epyx probably had a higher number of players than the average Atari 2600 title, but no one paid for that stuff except for a few thousand people.
The industry was not dead, it just was declared dead by the press because the atari2600 went down under, in 85 home computers were thriving (most of them bought as gaming console which you could do more than gaming with) while the consoles were on a hiatus. Probably the biggest "console" in 85 was the C64 with, it never was considered to be a console, but face it it just had a keyboard and a disk drive, but 99% of the time was used for games only.
Actually it is less BSD, the bsd license works for Apache (well Apache is not BSD but close enough) really well as does for PostgreSQL.
Google even has employees sitting in the Apache Board of Directors... Overall the climate in the Apache projects regarding the mixture of people contributing privately and from companies is quite good.
Moving out of the computer business is a bad idea, the iPod is a fashion and fashions usually stop once the next kid on the block appears. Which in hardware business happens every 5-10 years. Ask Sony, they were able to ride the walkman fashion for a certain period of time but after that, no one would go for the walkman brand nowadays.
I have encountered only one project with hundreds of devs, in fact most j2ee apps I have seen were coded by a handful of people. It is not as hard as people always says. Rails biggest benefit is that it has a good set of tools on top of the framework (mainly scaffolding and codegens)) in the j2ee world there are similar tools, you just do not get it in j2ee. I once generated 40% of an app via xdoclet.
Actually lets sum the situation up: I have done one insurance project, one project for an international corporation, I have been involved in one project for a poltical party and currently working on another big project for a public institution. I have yet to encounter a .net project there.
Most banks over here and insurances use Java due to the connectivity into their RS6000 and AS4000 environments.
Also banks usually are very IBM centric and most people working in banks I have met in the last year were very java centric. What I could gather in the last year however, was a certain shift away from J2EE EJBs towards Spring and servlet runner only installations.
Depends on which part of J2EE, Servlets are fine, JSPs are fine, EJB2 sucks big time, no discussion about that. While JSF and EJB3 is very good.
Depends on where you live, I have yet to see a .Net deployment while I came across 10 java projects and several rails projects the last year. PHP on the other hand is slowly dying over here, only one PHP installation or so.
Everyone from the Smalltalk and Javaworld could have told them, that placing an entire OS infrastructure upon a vm means serious performance hit, if you have a little bit more than basic scheduling, file IO and Windowing. Java does exactly that but it has gone through 10 years of optimizations now, and there still are areas where the user experience is too problematic. The whole .net issue was as typical marketing over technical sense, to push away people from Java (which did not work anyway)
Time for VM based operating systems may come, but it is not there yet, even java has to rely on basic os infrastructure to be able to run.
In the end Microsoft burned its fingers onto the idea of having major parts of an OS based upon a vm based language like everyone else has done so far.
Microsoft office 97 was an unusable desaster, the word processor freaked out on bigger documents (still does not that often) bugs which were showstoppers never got fixed (the red X bug in OLE streams) etc...
Well lets say it that way, as you said modern dvd players almost any device which does not rely on pure analog signal processing is capable or rendering the signal away in pal or ntsc, given the fact that the internal processing does not rely on a fixed display frequency. (thinks like using the blank period of a tv set for screen updating in software has died out a long time ago)
The question is more along the lines as you said will the PS3 be able to output the signal in both formats, which is very likely because it has to in several formats due to hdtv anyway, so adding a pal/ntsc combined output is a non issue.
this is a non issue on modern tvs... and has been for years.
The funny thing is, because you mention married with children, this was the most british like sitcom ever being aired in the USA. If you watch the uk sitcoms you can find a lot of similar themed or similar humored sitcoms. Father Ted and (not the dreadful US version but the original) Coupling being probably some of the most recent examples of anarcho humored sitcoms. The main difference is, that those have a humor married with children only touched occasionally going on through, but not being worn out by endless episodes only a handful. Coupling in the US version was bound to fail, but the UK version is simply excellent.
Now has the official numbers 666?
I was a young geek back then, and nowadays I still think the movie is lame. Back then however I liked it. Tron did not age well, it shows its deficiencies in story and character development nowadays.
Because the script and the dialogs were dreadful.
You are not allowed to give computing to the poor without paying me money. mouth starts to foam... money money money money money... arr developers developers developers....
autocommit being on per default and the optimizer cache being trimmed down could contribute to the problem ;-)
if you need speed from postgres you have to read the performance documents floating the web.
IMHO the biggest problem postgres nowadays has that the devs do not distributed a default performance optimized binary but one which is optimized for being ultimately resource consumption nice.
Have you read the article, DB manipulation can be done via various tools, the best one probably being pgAdmin3... you should feel right at home.
The crusades did nothing to the islamic civilization, it was minor compared to other things. The crusades are highly exaggerated nowadays in their impact, back then they were even considered
so minor that a german/roman emperor could lease the holy land for a lifetime (and having a clash with the pope over this back then)
The main problem for the downfall of the arabic civilization might be the in islamic wars, which mainly was triggered by the turkish people slowly but surely taking over the islamic empire and in islamic wars between various countries.
The impact on the eastern roman empire was severe however, they sped up its downfall which was more or less unavoidable anyway.
In the end the islamic civilisation basically was fruitful due to knowledge inheritance of the occupied eastern roman empire parts, and being hilghly tolerant to christians and jews in the occupied areas. Culture could only thrive in this tolerant area.
The Gothic series nowadays comes closest to the games U9 should have been, especially Gothic2 is outside of Europe a highly overlooked excellent successor to the Ultima series (and to some degree to Fallout as well given the twisted humor) Most reviewers rated it down because they did not bother to learn the very well working control scheme, and basically just gave it mediocre scores while most if not all die hard RPG fanatics and ex Ultima players simply love the series as being one of the best RPG series ever made. If you want to get Ultima hardcore as hardcore as it can get go for the Gothic series, learn the controls and enjoy the excellent games.