"I could be wrong, but it seems like including Blu-Ray may be the biggest mistake that Sony made on the PS3; it will increase the cost of the PS3, reduce the supply, and has so little content for it that it probably will not increase sales."
I doubt Sony is hoping that the content available for on Blu-Ray will increase PS3 sales. It's more likely they're hoping that a few million Blu-Ray-capable PS3's will increase content sales, and allow them to win this format war.
"If it's seven keypresses or less (including the "send" press), it's more efficient to go through the menu because you can just memorize the (known) sequence."
It's only more efficient if you can actually do it faster. Without a doubt I can dial the numbers as fast or faster than I can navigate to the stored one. And if you're going to memorize a series of keypresses, why not memorize the ones that mean you can still call that person when your phone is sitting on the desk at home, and you're at a payphone?
"You've either got a great memory for all those 10 digit numbers you have to remember, or you don't have many numbers to remember."
For at least my top twenty most dialed numbers, I never use a search. Unless your memory is completely buggered, or you call people very infrequently, you should be able to remember your most used numbers.
On my phone I have to press three or four buttons to get to the name in question, then select between office/home, and then press a button to dial. It's easier to just dial the number directly - I don't even have to look at the phone to do ir.
"Remember - total number of downloads and total number of users are not the same thing..."
Absolutely correct. I've downloaded Firefox at least six times on several different machines. I do not use it at all, and haven't for a while. I'm almost certainly still counted as a user.
"Pulling Zend off my Apache box now. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish isn't going to get me this time."
The fact that you can pull it off of your apache box at the drop of a hat when righteous indignation strikes means you aren't using it for a single thing that is important. Am I supposed to be impressed that you're taking a stand by removing a product you're not really using?
"We Invented It, We Get To Do What We Want... It's too bad others might have a problem with it, but the US invented the Internet, and successfully guided its development without any problems for years. There's no rational reason for continuing to do business as usual, since nobody has a better alternative. I, for one, do not want the UN taking over. It's already an asylum being run by the inmates. Bottom line, the only argument for taking away control from the US because they don't like that we have the ball, and nothing else."
Sun Microsystems fully appreciates and supports your amazingly perfect logic.
"There's no telling how many OTHER bugs are still there, waiting to totally crash your system and force you to reinstall. We can make guesses (200? 500? 1000?) but nobody really knows."
"There's one bug, so there could be more bugs." Oooo... let me jot down that one alongside the writings of Confucius.
People are modding on autopilot now. Casting Microsoft in a negative light? MUST be insightful!
"Perhaps that is because Microsoft is a convicted predatory monopolist with a vested interest in anti-interoperability. When the anti-Microsoft conspiracy theories always end up being right on the money, maybe there really is a conspiracy going on."
We have a choice. We can either ask questions that are antagonistic, and hope some of our fellow slashdotters will pat us on the back for MS-bashing, or we can ask questions that have a hope of receiving an enlightening response from the representative of Microsoft.
"Why are you so gay? And why do you allow IE to destroy the fucking internet?"
This is an important question. We don't want people to view the average slashdotter as able to participate in a calm, reasonable discussion. We need to be viewed as zealots, collectively frothing at the mouth.
I'd even like to see this question include just for humour.
"Why did you go half way implementing CSS instead of fully supporting standards all other browsers have for some time now."
I believe that NO browser fully supports CSS. Am I wrong in this assumption? Even if you're asking them to support the standards to the same level as all other browsers the implementation would still be incomplete.
There's a built-in derogatory slant to your question. I believe that IE supports more than 50% of CSS standards, which would mean they went further than half-way. Your choice of words is subtly antagonistic.
It's not a "Have you quit beating your wife" question, but neither is it a suitable one for a serious discussion.
"So if I have 12 tabs open, then Ctrl+8 will bring me to the 8th tab, but Ctrl+9 will bring me to the 12th? This is a serious question. I can't believe even the MS UI-designers can be this stupid."
Somebody would use this particular design decision - one that really isn't a bad one at all - as the metric used in determining the intelligence of MS UI-designers?
Lets say the drink contains 50 calories, increases your metabolism to burn 20 extra calories per hour through caffeine, green tea or something else."
I'm assuming that you threw 20 calories per hour out there without really thinking through the implication. That would be 480 calories per day, or the equivalent of 45 minutes of cardio for many people... all by drinking a can of pop.
Even heart-hammering, ephedrine-based monsters used by bodybuilders can't claim that kind of result. All you'd do is sit around, twitch, and sweat all day.
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Hardware vendors, be they printers, video cards, or what-not, should work to 2 sets of specs:
If you want them to go through all of this effort, there has to be a real financial benefit to them. I fail to see where it is in this case.
Will they realize some new business as a result of this extra work? Will they lose any significant number of sales if they choose not to do it? Doubtful.
If you mean "should" in the altruistic "do it because we'd really like you to" sense, well... remember, nVidia is a closed-source, for-profit company. Show them the money and it'll happen.
I'm not so conceited as to think that tons of people actually read my blog, but my article on Oct. 12 says:
The Power Is Too Much For Me
Last night I was standing in my living room looking at my stereo amplifier. The front end showed no signs of life, as it was off. I began to consider exactly what that meant.
The thing is, it wasn't really "off". I could pick up the remote control and turn it "on" without touching the unit itself. Clearly there is an active circuit that waits for transmissions from the remote control. If it were truly "off" the unit wouldn't hear my command. So even when it is off, it consumes electricity in small amounts.
The same goes for my television. In fact, any device that can be turned on remotely never really turns off unless the power is physically disconnected. My microwave looks like it's off (it has no clock on it), but when I press the keypad it becomes clear that the keypad circuit is hardwired to be "on" all the time. My video recorder runs continuously as well.
Now it may seem like a very tiny amount of energy is involved here, but there are literally billions of consumer electronics devices all over the world that perpetually use tiny amounts of electricity when not in use. Other devices have LED's that run when the device is on to tell you it is, in fact, on. My computer has a "power" light on it, for instance, and so do millions of others.
Imagine how much electricity is completely, utterly wasted by pointless excesses of luxury like these. Do I really need a light on the front of my computer? That energy has to come from somewhere, and if it comes from fossil fuels like coal, or from nuclear plants, it is non-renewable. My stereo wastes energy 24 hours a day so that I don't have to walk ten feet to turn it on, a procedure which might take 5 seconds.
Really there's no reason for such waste to occur. I'm going to put my stereo on a power bar, and turn the whole thing off by force.
"When 2K Games lost the NFL license, why didn't it court the Canadian Football League?"
I live in the home city of the Edmonton Eskimos, who won the Grey Cup last year (we won't talk about this year). But there are only eight teams in the whole league, and the lack of money shows. More Canadians watch the NFL than the CFL.
Gee. Let me just go pop ESPN NFL 2K7 from Sega into my XBox. Oh... wait a sec... I don't seem to have it.
What do you mean it's never coming out? Oh, I see. Somebody leveraged their massive size to lock out the competition (and my favorite football game) by buying out the exclusive rights from the NFL.
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I should clarify. Are you actually saying that the melting of the ice cap wouldn't change the levels of the ocean?
"What happens when ice melts in a glass of water? The level stays the same."
Are you being +1 funny, or -1 retarded?
"I could be wrong, but it seems like including Blu-Ray may be the biggest mistake that Sony made on the PS3; it will increase the cost of the PS3, reduce the supply, and has so little content for it that it probably will not increase sales."
I doubt Sony is hoping that the content available for on Blu-Ray will increase PS3 sales. It's more likely they're hoping that a few million Blu-Ray-capable PS3's will increase content sales, and allow them to win this format war.
"If it's seven keypresses or less (including the "send" press), it's more efficient to go through the menu because you can just memorize the (known) sequence."
It's only more efficient if you can actually do it faster. Without a doubt I can dial the numbers as fast or faster than I can navigate to the stored one. And if you're going to memorize a series of keypresses, why not memorize the ones that mean you can still call that person when your phone is sitting on the desk at home, and you're at a payphone?
"I wouldn't say I switched because Vista is a pile of crap, I just like an OS that is updated more than once every 5 years "
I'm genuinely curious about what you consider an "update". Surely you aren't suggesting that XP hasn't been updated in five years.
If we made a list of updates that XP has received, it would be a pretty long list, even if you didn't include security updates in it.
Is your criteria for determining whether or not something has been updated solely based on name change?
"You've either got a great memory for all those 10 digit numbers you have to remember, or you don't have many numbers to remember."
For at least my top twenty most dialed numbers, I never use a search. Unless your memory is completely buggered, or you call people very infrequently, you should be able to remember your most used numbers.
On my phone I have to press three or four buttons to get to the name in question, then select between office/home, and then press a button to dial. It's easier to just dial the number directly - I don't even have to look at the phone to do ir.
"Remember - total number of downloads and total number of users are not the same thing..."
Absolutely correct. I've downloaded Firefox at least six times on several different machines. I do not use it at all, and haven't for a while. I'm almost certainly still counted as a user.
"Pulling Zend off my Apache box now. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish isn't going to get me this time."
The fact that you can pull it off of your apache box at the drop of a hat when righteous indignation strikes means you aren't using it for a single thing that is important. Am I supposed to be impressed that you're taking a stand by removing a product you're not really using?
"We Invented It, We Get To Do What We Want... It's too bad others might have a problem with it, but the US invented the Internet, and successfully guided its development without any problems for years. There's no rational reason for continuing to do business as usual, since nobody has a better alternative. I, for one, do not want the UN taking over. It's already an asylum being run by the inmates. Bottom line, the only argument for taking away control from the US because they don't like that we have the ball, and nothing else."
Sun Microsystems fully appreciates and supports your amazingly perfect logic.
Cleaning up Stephen Hawking after "Chili Tuesday" has had time to work its magic!
"There's no telling how many OTHER bugs are still there, waiting to totally crash your system and force you to reinstall. We can make guesses (200? 500? 1000?) but nobody really knows."
"There's one bug, so there could be more bugs." Oooo... let me jot down that one alongside the writings of Confucius.
People are modding on autopilot now. Casting Microsoft in a negative light? MUST be insightful!
"Perhaps that is because Microsoft is a convicted predatory monopolist with a vested interest in anti-interoperability. When the anti-Microsoft conspiracy theories always end up being right on the money, maybe there really is a conspiracy going on."
We have a choice. We can either ask questions that are antagonistic, and hope some of our fellow slashdotters will pat us on the back for MS-bashing, or we can ask questions that have a hope of receiving an enlightening response from the representative of Microsoft.
"Why are you so gay? And why do you allow IE to destroy the fucking internet?"
This is an important question. We don't want people to view the average slashdotter as able to participate in a calm, reasonable discussion. We need to be viewed as zealots, collectively frothing at the mouth.
I'd even like to see this question include just for humour.
"Why did you go half way implementing CSS instead of fully supporting standards all other browsers have for some time now."
I believe that NO browser fully supports CSS. Am I wrong in this assumption? Even if you're asking them to support the standards to the same level as all other browsers the implementation would still be incomplete.
There's a built-in derogatory slant to your question. I believe that IE supports more than 50% of CSS standards, which would mean they went further than half-way. Your choice of words is subtly antagonistic.
It's not a "Have you quit beating your wife" question, but neither is it a suitable one for a serious discussion.
"So if I have 12 tabs open, then Ctrl+8 will bring me to the 8th tab, but Ctrl+9 will bring me to the 12th? This is a serious question. I can't believe even the MS UI-designers can be this stupid."
Somebody would use this particular design decision - one that really isn't a bad one at all - as the metric used in determining the intelligence of MS UI-designers?
Nobody would be that stupid.
"There has to be some calories lost with its caffeine and diuretic qualities"
Diuretics do not lead to increased calorie use. Diuretics lead to weight loss through water loss. Caffeine happens to do both.
Lets say the drink contains 50 calories, increases your metabolism to burn 20 extra calories per hour through caffeine, green tea or something else."
I'm assuming that you threw 20 calories per hour out there without really thinking through the implication. That would be 480 calories per day, or the equivalent of 45 minutes of cardio for many people... all by drinking a can of pop.
Even heart-hammering, ephedrine-based monsters used by bodybuilders can't claim that kind of result. All you'd do is sit around, twitch, and sweat all day.
...raising them in a goddamned bubble.
Hardware vendors, be they printers, video cards, or what-not, should work to 2 sets of specs:
If you want them to go through all of this effort, there has to be a real financial benefit to them. I fail to see where it is in this case.
Will they realize some new business as a result of this extra work? Will they lose any significant number of sales if they choose not to do it? Doubtful.
If you mean "should" in the altruistic "do it because we'd really like you to" sense, well... remember, nVidia is a closed-source, for-profit company. Show them the money and it'll happen.
Lest anybody thinks I actually believe I've been short-changed an authors credit, I know it's a coincidence.
I'm not so conceited as to think that tons of people actually read my blog, but my article on Oct. 12 says:
The Power Is Too Much For Me
Last night I was standing in my living room looking at my stereo amplifier. The front end showed no signs of life, as it was off. I began to consider exactly what that meant.
The thing is, it wasn't really "off". I could pick up the remote control and turn it "on" without touching the unit itself. Clearly there is an active circuit that waits for transmissions from the remote control. If it were truly "off" the unit wouldn't hear my command. So even when it is off, it consumes electricity in small amounts.
The same goes for my television. In fact, any device that can be turned on remotely never really turns off unless the power is physically disconnected. My microwave looks like it's off (it has no clock on it), but when I press the keypad it becomes clear that the keypad circuit is hardwired to be "on" all the time. My video recorder runs continuously as well.
Now it may seem like a very tiny amount of energy is involved here, but there are literally billions of consumer electronics devices all over the world that perpetually use tiny amounts of electricity when not in use. Other devices have LED's that run when the device is on to tell you it is, in fact, on. My computer has a "power" light on it, for instance, and so do millions of others.
Imagine how much electricity is completely, utterly wasted by pointless excesses of luxury like these. Do I really need a light on the front of my computer? That energy has to come from somewhere, and if it comes from fossil fuels like coal, or from nuclear plants, it is non-renewable. My stereo wastes energy 24 hours a day so that I don't have to walk ten feet to turn it on, a procedure which might take 5 seconds.
Really there's no reason for such waste to occur. I'm going to put my stereo on a power bar, and turn the whole thing off by force.
Ever since the release of this news, the McAfee antivirus product we are required to use at work has periodically jumped to 99% CPU utilzation.
Of course it did that before the news too...
" am only accepting PAYPAL for this auction and payment MUST be made within 3 days of auction end.
What kind of brain-dead idiot would agree to terms like that for a product that:
1. Might not ship from the factory when estimated
2. Might not be shipped to EB Games in the estimated numbers
3. Might not be provided to the client who prepaid ("Oops! We got a defective! Sorry buddy, you get the first one next time!")
I can see asking for a deposit. Say, oh, $100. But whoever bought this out deserves to be screwed. Call it an "idiot tax".
"When 2K Games lost the NFL license, why didn't it court the Canadian Football League?"
I live in the home city of the Edmonton Eskimos, who won the Grey Cup last year (we won't talk about this year). But there are only eight teams in the whole league, and the lack of money shows. More Canadians watch the NFL than the CFL.
"Hurts the industry? How do you figure?"
Gee. Let me just go pop ESPN NFL 2K7 from Sega into my XBox. Oh... wait a sec... I don't seem to have it.
What do you mean it's never coming out? Oh, I see. Somebody leveraged their massive size to lock out the competition (and my favorite football game) by buying out the exclusive rights from the NFL.