The difference is that suspending a laptop is done using hardware, but the suspend mode in WindowsXP is done in software, so desktop PCs can do it without additional functionality.
Nintendo has already sold several million gamecubes both in the USA and Asia, the launch sales alone have ensures that Nintendo will do well from the cube.
Why on earth would nintendo redo the cube from the start to include DVD playback (everything from a new box up), bringing with it the rampant piracy problems the ps1 did suffer from the and ps2 is starting to have.
Nintendo need only one thing to carry on doing well for years to come - games, and they make great ones at nice profit margins for them.
Microsoft are spending $500Million at marketing the X-Box? Sony are still out-selling them today with the 18month old PS2 selling at the same pricepoint as X-box, and the Gamecube is outselling it worldwide too im sure since Nintendo successfully carried out a launch in both Asia and the USA when Microsoft obviously hasn't heard of other continents yet.
People forget the largest computer games market in the world is Japan, and there the X-box hasn't made a scratch yet. It will be 2 years or more before anyone knows the real winners in this round of the console wars, but right now the winner is Sony - profitable with PS2, everything from this point onwards is just extra cash for them. Whether Microsoft managed to scrape back the initial outlay they have done is probable, but not a certainty.
Apple are not are big advertiser, AOL/TimeWarner is one of the biggest media companies in the world.
Apple needs the media that AOL owns much more than AOL need Apple - AOL in the UK no longer even provide an up to date AOL client for Macs, thats how much they care about them.
Generally Japanese controllers are smaller than the US/Euro versions, if you ever want a smaller N64/PS2/etc controller, check your local games import store for them.
lik-sang.com sells converted Q's (and gamecubes) at a fixed price already, have done for a while now.
However, the Gamecube doesn't read standard cd-r's or DVD-R's, so it will need serious outlay to make Gamecube copies - unlike playstation1,2 and dreamcast games.
Nintendo have almost guaranteed that there is no mass-market casual copying and passing around of games between friends on the gamecube for the forseeable future, so Nintendo's copy protection is a success, with or without a few thousand Q's floating around.
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It very much depends on how you count it, but China and India are generally further down the list because their currencies are worth very little - GDP is normally counted in US dollars, not the local currency.
Even under your list, that would put Britain at 6th, hardly "not even very close" from 4th is it?
The British economy and the currency are actually in better shape now than they have been in decades - low unemployment, stabilty, sustainable levels of growth.
Britain is the worlds 4th largest economy, and has more foreign investment entering it each year than any other European country. While being in the Euro would certainly help it gain more investment, that existing money will not change direction overnight.
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Tony Blair is definitely pro-Euro.
Remember that the UK is still the worlds 4th largest economy (USA Japan and Germany are bigger), this won't change overnight (if you want, replace Germany with "Germany and France and Italy" as one economy).
The attitude here is changing, but quite slowly - most people in Britain are not anti-Europe in a general sense, but quite a lot are anti-Federal Europe, where we give up our parliment for one held in Belgium.
I can't see Britain joining before 2005 or 2006, but since it's meant to last forever anyway, what's the rush?
If you know anything, you'll know that all Italian farmers that are unemployed are actually claiming money from the EU for growing olives which dont exist (A european joke for those who don't get it...).
Seriously though, why would an Italian farmer move to Ireland to work for a computer company? Rather larger than the cultural gap is the skills gap - how many out of work Detroit car manufacturers have been working in Silicon Valley for a.com or in New York for a bank recently?
Irelands boom was based on high technology and low interest rates, and I know plenty of people who moved from the UK to Ireland to take advantage of it - they all needed the skills to get the new job in the first place though.
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Europe (or rather the European Union, which is 15 countries, including those now using the Euro) already has free movement of labour between the nations, and has done for several years now.
As a British citizen, I can up sticks today, and move to Germany and start work immediately without any need for visas, paperwork, or anything at all (except learning better German maybe!).
Nokia is already the largest PDA manufacturer in europe by sales (with the Nokia Communicators). I somehow don't think Nokia and the other Symbian owners will roll over and die without a serious fight, these are much larger companies than Palm.
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IMDB is now a part of amazon.com, and is getting quite integrated into the site for providing reviews, film information and so on about DVD's amazon sells.
If you reads the vulnerability page at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/569272 you'll see it has taken 7 weeks from the first vendor response to the vulnerability, to the last one (the last being Sun, yesterday).
You will also see the comment: "An exploit exists and may be circulating.". This means that CERT and Sun have sat on this vulnerability for well over a month without telling anyone about the problem, despite an exploit being in use.
The story 2 days ago about Microsoft security was about a problem Microsoft had known about for 4 weeks (reported to them on Nov 19th).
Finally, the patch is available for IBM's AIX 4.3.3 and 5.2, but not as far as I can tell for Solaris 8.
However much you blindly hate Microsoft, they are not as bad as Sun in this particular situation.
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A usa gamecube does require modifications to play games japanese games and vice-versa.
The last time I looked, killing someone in Asherons Call, Ultima Online, etc, was trivial if you were a higher level than them.
How does a level 40 archer shooting 1 arrow and killing a level 10 mage become "...a fight to survive, a hunt to kill people off..."?
Ewan
I did wonder, i also got an overrated and an underrated :)
The difference is that suspending a laptop is done using hardware, but the suspend mode in WindowsXP is done in software, so desktop PCs can do it without additional functionality.
Ewan
The average dorm room computer does not have the 10Gb/s ethernet card required to download 500MB/s :)
Perhaps you should rewrite it as 500KB/s...
The other minor downside would be if the rocket blew up you would just have annihilated the entire planet...
Surely the mode is the most common result?
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e.g "1 2 2 2 3 4 5 6", the modal value would be 2?
The mean is the sum of the values divided by the number of values?
e.g "1 2 2 2 3 4 5 6", the mean would be 25/8=3.125
Do you not want the median, which is the value halfway along the values?
e.g "1 2 2 2 3 4 5 6", 2.5?
I could be wrong, been a while since I bothered to do anything like this
It's not unfair in that the previous post stated that Nintendo had no chance and we're about to lose everything.
For that to happen, Microsoft will have to break Nintendos hold on the Japanese market, something they haven't even dared enter yet.
Nintendo has already sold several million gamecubes both in the USA and Asia, the launch sales alone have ensures that Nintendo will do well from the cube.
Why on earth would nintendo redo the cube from the start to include DVD playback (everything from a new box up), bringing with it the rampant piracy problems the ps1 did suffer from the and ps2 is starting to have.
Nintendo need only one thing to carry on doing well for years to come - games, and they make great ones at nice profit margins for them.
Microsoft are spending $500Million at marketing the X-Box? Sony are still out-selling them today with the 18month old PS2 selling at the same pricepoint as X-box, and the Gamecube is outselling it worldwide too im sure since Nintendo successfully carried out a launch in both Asia and the USA when Microsoft obviously hasn't heard of other continents yet.
People forget the largest computer games market in the world is Japan, and there the X-box hasn't made a scratch yet. It will be 2 years or more before anyone knows the real winners in this round of the console wars, but right now the winner is Sony - profitable with PS2, everything from this point onwards is just extra cash for them. Whether Microsoft managed to scrape back the initial outlay they have done is probable, but not a certainty.
Apple and all of its units?
Apple are not are big advertiser, AOL/TimeWarner is one of the biggest media companies in the world.
Apple needs the media that AOL owns much more than AOL need Apple - AOL in the UK no longer even provide an up to date AOL client for Macs, thats how much they care about them.
Generally Japanese controllers are smaller than the US/Euro versions, if you ever want a smaller N64/PS2/etc controller, check your local games import store for them.
CIFS is not SMB, it is the replacement for SMB which runs on different ports on Windows 2K and WindowsXP.
Win2K uses SMB to talk to older systems, and CIFS to talk to other new systems.
lik-sang.com sells converted Q's (and gamecubes) at a fixed price already, have done for a while now.
However, the Gamecube doesn't read standard cd-r's or DVD-R's, so it will need serious outlay to make Gamecube copies - unlike playstation1,2 and dreamcast games.
Nintendo have almost guaranteed that there is no mass-market casual copying and passing around of games between friends on the gamecube for the forseeable future, so Nintendo's copy protection is a success, with or without a few thousand Q's floating around.
It very much depends on how you count it, but China and India are generally further down the list because their currencies are worth very little - GDP is normally counted in US dollars, not the local currency.
Even under your list, that would put Britain at 6th, hardly "not even very close" from 4th is it?
The British economy and the currency are actually in better shape now than they have been in decades - low unemployment, stabilty, sustainable levels of growth.
Britain is the worlds 4th largest economy, and has more foreign investment entering it each year than any other European country. While being in the Euro would certainly help it gain more investment, that existing money will not change direction overnight.
Tony Blair is definitely pro-Euro.
Remember that the UK is still the worlds 4th largest economy (USA Japan and Germany are bigger), this won't change overnight (if you want, replace Germany with "Germany and France and Italy" as one economy).
The attitude here is changing, but quite slowly - most people in Britain are not anti-Europe in a general sense, but quite a lot are anti-Federal Europe, where we give up our parliment for one held in Belgium.
I can't see Britain joining before 2005 or 2006, but since it's meant to last forever anyway, what's the rush?
If you know anything, you'll know that all Italian farmers that are unemployed are actually claiming money from the EU for growing olives which dont exist (A european joke for those who don't get it...).
.com or in New York for a bank recently?
Seriously though, why would an Italian farmer move to Ireland to work for a computer company? Rather larger than the cultural gap is the skills gap - how many out of work Detroit car manufacturers have been working in Silicon Valley for a
Irelands boom was based on high technology and low interest rates, and I know plenty of people who moved from the UK to Ireland to take advantage of it - they all needed the skills to get the new job in the first place though.
Europe (or rather the European Union, which is 15 countries, including those now using the Euro) already has free movement of labour between the nations, and has done for several years now.
As a British citizen, I can up sticks today, and move to Germany and start work immediately without any need for visas, paperwork, or anything at all (except learning better German maybe!).
I've seen the linux box a bank in Spain gives away with accounts that runs an AOL client to allow people to do Internet banking.
Whether it will ever be released as a seperate client is highly doubtful in my mind, think of the support retraining costs AOL would have to justify.
Nokia is already the largest PDA manufacturer in europe by sales (with the Nokia Communicators). I somehow don't think Nokia and the other Symbian owners will roll over and die without a serious fight, these are much larger companies than Palm.
m l for the details on the sales figures.
See http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22606.ht
IMDB is now a part of amazon.com, and is getting quite integrated into the site for providing reviews, film information and so on about DVD's amazon sells.
This should secure IMDB for now.
We all wish for metered bandwidth?
I think not.
I have a feeling what we all wish for (except you obviously) is unmetered unrestricted bandwidth for a reasonable cost per month.
If you reads the vulnerability page at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/569272 you'll see it has taken 7 weeks from the first vendor response to the vulnerability, to the last one (the last being Sun, yesterday).
You will also see the comment: "An exploit exists and may be circulating.". This means that CERT and Sun have sat on this vulnerability for well over a month without telling anyone about the problem, despite an exploit being in use.
The story 2 days ago about Microsoft security was about a problem Microsoft had known about for 4 weeks (reported to them on Nov 19th).
Finally, the patch is available for IBM's AIX 4.3.3 and 5.2, but not as far as I can tell for Solaris 8.
However much you blindly hate Microsoft, they are not as bad as Sun in this particular situation.
Absolutely, though I've just realised the one flaw in the whole argument - CmdrTaco is probably number 1 :)
Ewan
SuSE does this now, and at a presentation I saw on it recently by a SuSE guy he specifically mentioned it and demonstrated it.
I imagine the other distros won't be far behind.
Ewan