If this really retails for more than $500, Sony stands to lose more than the game market. HD-DVD is getting ready to debut, with a Toshiba player having an opening street price of around $400 (or less). Blu-ray is opening with a price target of $1000, probably a little less. If the PS3 does not succeed, Blu-ray is, in my opinion, likely lost. An expensive PS3, will limit adoption of Blu-ray and of the PS3. Sony will be ready to take a huge loss on its initial release, and take a huge gamble. But with a cost of $900, there may be no hope.
IBM PC jr got it for christmas about two weeks before they discontinued it. Still enjoyed it, though. Fortunately, I got the one without the chicklet keyboards....
Yes, but the organizations causing this are private companies and the countries involved are sovereign nations. The US and Middle Eastern countries did not do this. I respect the right of Denmark to take care of it themselves. Where is the rioting when the middle east instigates violence against anyone in the name of Islam?
We have both SCSI raid (2 1TB arrays with 10k RPM SCSI drives on a dell powervault) and a several arrays with 3ware cards (an 8 way and a 12 way both with 200 or 250GB drives). We run Red Hat WS. We find that the 3ware cards are excellent for large data storage but have latency issues compared to the SCSI raid array. We are happy with both systems, but the price break on the 3ware shows, and I wouldn't recommend for really heavy use.
Donald Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the Army you have." What is your philosophy on how you work with a large organization such as Microsoft to balance security with the need to meet deadlines and to keep costs low? You know there are going to be exploitable holes (there always are) in an operating system, when do you and how do you know when to say, "OK, we are good to ship this." Does security of future Microsoft applications and operating systems correlate to costs spent on your team?
While this is pretty gross, it isn't really surpising, and it may not represent a public health issue (I don't know). However, it might be worthwhile to point out that there are normally as many as 1000 bacteria per square centimeter on your skin. Furthermore, not all bacteria are created equal. For an introduction to the normal flora of humans see this reference. Now if keyboards are enriched in pathogenic bacteria...
Of course it isn't really convergence. It is more of a 'marketing bundle.' Gamers are a pretty small subset of movie goers. Books, movies, games and, for that matter, toys will always be bundled together to make oodles of money.
"Sony BMG did nothing wrong. We love Sony BMG. They clean our pool."
Am I the only one who was reminded of, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Be careful what you say when trying to support a lost cause, it might come back to haunt you.
I'm a little confused by this article. (IANAL) First off, I'm pretty sure patents can be used without license for research activities anywhere. I am sure this is true in academics where patents mean very little. Good luck suing a university. I'm wondering if these dropped 'research projects' were either cases of researchers being scooped (another group publishing first) or not really research at all, but product development. If you want to do research with patented material, go to a university. You can do all the research you like and no one will care. You can't sell products based on patented material, but that doesn't constitute research.
Research projects get dropped all the time. Scientific research in biotechnology and pharma is very, very expensive. If patents didn't exist, many companies would work on the same problems, science would become completely based on trade secrets (the alternative to patents) and innovation would probably be stifled.
This is exactly correct, and suggests at a flaw in the GPL. Web service companies can edit GPL'd code all they want and they do not have to redistribute those changes. This clearly favors web service models over traditional ones.
That is exactly the reasoning that caused the dot bubble in the first place. I think Google's high price is a good wake up call to investors that they are likely over valued. Google may succeed, but investors are betting that they will succeed above where they are like a homerun.
Walmart has 5.50 and 3.99 DVD's that are actually pretty good. We got animorphic Poltergeist and the Hunt for Red October (and several others) for $5.50. When DVD prices rival rental prices, it becomes worth it. Why didn't music ever do this?
Frankly, I am happily a zealot on this issue. I did not mean my post as a troll, but I do enjoy taking potshots at M$. That said, my post holds true, redmond commonly uses future products to prevent competition they have used it brilliantly to pitch products that don't exist yet. (I'm aware that this product exists in another form)
I'm aware that Monad exists. It is not bundled with a M$ operating system, however. That said, redmond *has* been using future products to scare away competition for years. Oh, yeah, and fuck off, I think name calling shows your true colors.
I've always found it annoying that M$ is constantly pitching new products that are some time off. This FUD speak causes PC people to encourage you to get excited about vaporware. How many companies use future products to compete with competitors existing ones? (look at windows 95 and OS/2 and now OS-X and some future windows product)
Look at Google (and many others). They announce products when they are ready to ship (or test). Ignore the M$ FUD -- believe it when you see it.
That was effective emotionally, the problem I had with it was that it was unbelievable how he got there. They should not have let anakin turn to a murderer in a single scene, it just didn't make sense.
No Jar Jar, No dumb C3PO comments, No alien animal farts, No alien lounge singers == big improvement. I thought that while the scenes between anakin and padme were laughable, the scenes between anakin and palpatine (sp?) where excellent. Obi wan was right on as well, as was yoda. Anakin had some moments of good acting. The story is compelling and the in my opinion, all in all, the bad scenes are forgiven.
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If this really retails for more than $500, Sony stands to lose more than the game market. HD-DVD is getting ready to debut, with a Toshiba player having an opening street price of around $400 (or less). Blu-ray is opening with a price target of $1000, probably a little less. If the PS3 does not succeed, Blu-ray is, in my opinion, likely lost. An expensive PS3, will limit adoption of Blu-ray and of the PS3. Sony will be ready to take a huge loss on its initial release, and take a huge gamble. But with a cost of $900, there may be no hope.
IBM PC jr got it for christmas about two weeks before they discontinued it. Still enjoyed it, though. Fortunately, I got the one without the chicklet keyboards....
Yes, but the organizations causing this are private companies and the countries involved are sovereign nations. The US and Middle Eastern countries did not do this. I respect the right of Denmark to take care of it themselves. Where is the rioting when the middle east instigates violence against anyone in the name of Islam?
We have both SCSI raid (2 1TB arrays with 10k RPM SCSI drives on a dell powervault) and a several arrays with 3ware cards (an 8 way and a 12 way both with 200 or 250GB drives). We run Red Hat WS. We find that the 3ware cards are excellent for large data storage but have latency issues compared to the SCSI raid array. We are happy with both systems, but the price break on the 3ware shows, and I wouldn't recommend for really heavy use.
Donald Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the Army you have." What is your philosophy on how you work with a large organization such as Microsoft to balance security with the need to meet deadlines and to keep costs low? You know there are going to be exploitable holes (there always are) in an operating system, when do you and how do you know when to say, "OK, we are good to ship this." Does security of future Microsoft applications and operating systems correlate to costs spent on your team?
While this is pretty gross, it isn't really surpising, and it may not represent a public health issue (I don't know). However, it might be worthwhile to point out that there are normally as many as 1000 bacteria per square centimeter on your skin. Furthermore, not all bacteria are created equal. For an introduction to the normal flora of humans see this reference. Now if keyboards are enriched in pathogenic bacteria...
Of course it isn't really convergence. It is more of a 'marketing bundle.' Gamers are a pretty small subset of movie goers. Books, movies, games and, for that matter, toys will always be bundled together to make oodles of money.
Additionally, you can find pictures of the lava and a description of the hike to the spot that collapsed on the OutdoorDB wiki.
"Sony BMG did nothing wrong. We love Sony BMG. They clean our pool."
Am I the only one who was reminded of, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." Be careful what you say when trying to support a lost cause, it might come back to haunt you.
-Sean
I'm a little confused by this article. (IANAL) First off, I'm pretty sure patents can be used without license for research activities anywhere. I am sure this is true in academics where patents mean very little. Good luck suing a university. I'm wondering if these dropped 'research projects' were either cases of researchers being scooped (another group publishing first) or not really research at all, but product development. If you want to do research with patented material, go to a university. You can do all the research you like and no one will care. You can't sell products based on patented material, but that doesn't constitute research.
Research projects get dropped all the time. Scientific research in biotechnology and pharma is very, very expensive. If patents didn't exist, many companies would work on the same problems, science would become completely based on trade secrets (the alternative to patents) and innovation would probably be stifled.
This is exactly correct, and suggests at a flaw in the GPL. Web service companies can edit GPL'd code all they want and they do not have to redistribute those changes. This clearly favors web service models over traditional ones.
true. but all of you who complain should realize that sales go way up on higher jackpots, making the jacjpot far more likely to be split...
I read the headline as "New Tool Track to Kernel Testing Time." I like Tool.
Why the press release? Why not just quietly ask Google to remove? If it was a security risk before, it certainly is now with everyone looking.
Four legs good (humans),
two legs better (citizens)!
congratulations. This is great to see a successful launch.
That is exactly the reasoning that caused the dot bubble in the first place. I think Google's high price is a good wake up call to investors that they are likely over valued. Google may succeed, but investors are betting that they will succeed above where they are like a homerun.
heh, clever...
Walmart has 5.50 and 3.99 DVD's that are actually pretty good. We got animorphic Poltergeist and the Hunt for Red October (and several others) for $5.50. When DVD prices rival rental prices, it becomes worth it. Why didn't music ever do this?
Frankly, I am happily a zealot on this issue. I did not mean my post as a troll, but I do enjoy taking potshots at M$. That said, my post holds true, redmond commonly uses future products to prevent competition they have used it brilliantly to pitch products that don't exist yet. (I'm aware that this product exists in another form)
I'm aware that Monad exists. It is not bundled with a M$ operating system, however. That said, redmond *has* been using future products to scare away competition for years. Oh, yeah, and fuck off, I think name calling shows your true colors.
I've always found it annoying that M$ is constantly pitching new products that are some time off. This FUD speak causes PC people to encourage you to get excited about vaporware. How many companies use future products to compete with competitors existing ones? (look at windows 95 and OS/2 and now OS-X and some future windows product)
Look at Google (and many others). They announce products when they are ready to ship (or test). Ignore the M$ FUD -- believe it when you see it.
And I'm sure that editorial comments on this article will be informative.
That was effective emotionally, the problem I had with it was that it was unbelievable how he got there. They should not have let anakin turn to a murderer in a single scene, it just didn't make sense.
No Jar Jar, No dumb C3PO comments, No alien animal farts, No alien lounge singers == big improvement. I thought that while the scenes between anakin and padme were laughable, the scenes between anakin and palpatine (sp?) where excellent. Obi wan was right on as well, as was yoda. Anakin had some moments of good acting. The story is compelling and the in my opinion, all in all, the bad scenes are forgiven.