Not quite right. Remember a lot of scientists' careers ride on the precision of processing here, whereas these amateur guys aren't going to lose face. There's a lot more here than pretty picture, and in science speed can lead to errors.
The Christian god is a theory too, and if you're saying this god is telling you and others to "take him serious" I know of a few good men in white coats who can help you.
This article reads like it was written by a 14-year-old on a sugar high. It works as a piece for a High School rag. Is that what GamePro is, a High School rag?
While it is true that Wal-Mart calls all employees "associates" who are not of the Management class, the title is not legally binding and holds no power.
Except there is no legal representative of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. at the time of sale. The cashier is a customer service representative that is aiding you at the time of sale with the computer transaction. The offer of sale is made at the shelf and by completing the transaction at the point-of-sale you are accepting the offer of sale and completing the terms of the contract. At no time can you negotiate the sale unless you approach a Customer Service Manager, in which case you lose any sort of advantage since they are actually semi-knowledgable.
The actual number is used by employees to relocate goods to their proper place as well as stocking empty shelves. Most stores lock up inventory scanners because only department managers should have direct access to inventory systems.
Anyone got ideas on how much some of that video editing equipment retails for? (I can tell you the racks and computers are probably in six digits at least.)
Just curious, but wouldn't this open up the possibility of anti-trust actions against Verizon if the company gouges for wi-fi access and uses this new law to block city-based wi-fi?
There is no better delusion than idealists who do not read history books and hence miss the point that all their dreams were once reality and the people suffered for it. There is only the assumption that we are better than our ancestors in caves, when we are our ancestors with better caves. The human animal is constrained and kept logical by the society and the laws of society... not because we are better than those before us. Alas, I doubt any dreaming child reading this will do more than expouse their foolish beliefs. Confirmation bias is such a lovely thing...
Time to retake your maths. A yearly and a monthly sales number in year-to-year comparisons doesn't yield similar numbers unless the increase/decrease is flat across the year. Of course, there is no such thing as flat growth across a year, or even a quarter.
The quoted numbers show that GameCube sales were strong overall, which lead to 53% overall yearly growth, while specific December sales (a peak holiday period) were up 41%. This could be explained as pay-off for the $99 price slash combined with small sales spikes caused by the release of anticipated games. The larger overall does not make December *less*, because holiday growth is typically high already. This is very very good for Nintendo, as it shows they can sell in a sluggish market without the boon of a holiday push.
-tg, But that's just my opinion, I'm no sales analyst...
You used to throw "Electronic Playground" into that mix before the show got bought by G4. All I have to say about G4 is they really need to stop being too frightened (or too cheap) to air the actual audio of games they are reviewing. I don't know how many times I've heard the exact same cheap techno-dance beats being played over the gameplay of Game X. It's called "fair use" folks.
Extended Play/X-Play has its own charm... namely Adam and the staffers that back him up. These folks really do know what they're talking about, and one can get bored with Electronic Playground (or its original G4 clone, Judgement Day). There's only so many times Tommy can piss on a game before I begin to get the feeling the man just isn't happy about life.
Admittedly, video games on TV are about as interesting as watching your friends play... which is either lots of fun or boring as hell. YMMV.
The PROBLEM here is that project managers like you are not going to survive situations like that (ie. failed/late projects). Once upper management has decided on a course that might save millions, it's now going to COST them millions to not do it. Suddenly they're not thinking "crap, there goes the savings of moving overseas"... they're thinking "holy shit, it'll cost us HOW MUCH to develop in the US?". That savings is no longer "savings"... it's now profits. Capital expenditures like "moving development to the US" are not feasible without stockholder backlash.
Malls are not public property, they are owned by private land developers, corporations, or very wealth individuals. They are required by law to protect the goods of retailers and public safety of shoppers. Think of malls as department stores large enough to house other retailers: law enforcement must be allowed entrance to the property to investigate a crime, and likewise need a warrant to perform any search of any person or place on the property.
The woman should be looking at legal action against the mall, too. Afterall, the mall made a bit of money off allowing these thieves access to their patrons.
You are thinking of Keith David, who is variously known as Goliath (Disney's Gargoyles animated series in the early '90s) to Spawn (HBO's animated series) to hundreds of advertisements, bumpers, trailers, etc.
As for this being the longer generation, that's a hard claim to pin down. You can't really say "X generation lasted Y years" because consoles are not released all at once. The 8-bit generation either lasted until the introduction of the Sega Genesis in 1988, or it ended when Nintendo began selling the Super Famicom in 1990? (Or you could even say it never really ended, since Nintendo was still producing Famicoms long after 1990.)
I suppose you could say the Sega Dreamcast marks the start of this generation in 1998, and then if the first next-generation console comes out in 2006 it would make this the longest run without new blood. But wait, couldn't you say the Microsoft Xbox is "next-generation" along with the GameCube, having almost double the power of the Dreamcast and PS2?
Or you could ignore all of this, realize that we're all just waiting for "the next big thing" and start saving your pennies now. ; )
1) Big Content has never tried to go after the individuals, even though they have said they would do so if left with no other recourse. Doesn't their refusal to go after people who are actually doing the pirating (vs. attacking businesses whose otherwise legitimate tools enable it) constitute some sort of admission that the works are public domain? Like the rules that stipulate that if you don't defend your trademark, you lose it. Same for copyright, or is it different? If it's the same for copyright, then anything that's ever been traded P2P is now public domain and Big Content will just have to suck it up.
This is not true. Only Trademarks and Patents must be applied for and defended. Copyright is automatic and permanent (heh, this may be a literal truth soon). There is no way short of an act of Congress or the written, sworn statement of the rights-holder, for copyright to terminate prematurely.
-TG, IANAL, HTH, HAND... (dies of acronym-overload)
I would just like to point out that this is why regional monopolies are BAD and why artificial price fixing for leasing of lines to Telecom startups is GOOD. While Telecoms may try to play hardball by halting upgrades, it only hurts them because customer dissatisfaction swings more business to the startup. This should (in theory, at least) give those Telecoms the resources to build up the infrastructure on their own and cut the middleman of Good Ol' Boy Telecom out.
The problem was that startups got greedy. Instead of consolidating, perhaps merging with a few other startups, and building upon their current base... they tried to rapidly expand the base. Customers became dissatisfied, migration away from Big Telecoms slowed, costs ballooned and the bubble popped.
It would be helpful to point out that the real reason businesses have always paid more for "the same services" as residental has nothing to do with unfair pricing. It has to do with reliability and support costs. Businesses make use of their Telecom systems far more and place much higher demands on reliability and uptime than residental customers. This, in turn, adds necessary expenses towards servicing a business account, as opposed to a residential account.
The problem is that all data services are, by their very nature, just like businesses: heavy use, demanding excellent reliability and uptime. When you shell out the $3k-$8k to have a T1 built to your location, and $500-$1000/mo for service... you expect a pretty high return, no? Hybrid services, on the other hand, benefit from a lack of expectation stemming from low initial investiment by the enduser.
That is what makes hybrid networks so appealing. Telecoms get to totally avoid the hassles of last mile build-outs, they can provide their customers with the impression of "broadband" availibility, and costs associated with building digital lines for businesses go down.
Ah, United Kingdom... makes sense, what with gov't regulation and such there. Also, in regards Cost... that, again, depends on the economics at play. As mentioned further down in this topic, costs have remained high because equipment prices, prices of installation, and personnel are pricey. Alot of building got co-financed by equipment manufacturers, apparantly... and with the Telecom collapse it's probably making those companies think again about future plans of aiding expansion.
I've never heard good news about BT. They seem to be very into cutting as many corners as possible.
The last mile issue can be argued to be a city-level planning issue. Afterall, cities are the ones to most benefit from such increases in services. I think, ultimately, that is how future rollouts are going to be partly financed. Perhaps the Telecom failure was partly the failure of people to willingly contribute to the costs of building into their neighborhoods? I would definitely be interested in someone writing a story on that... "Why Telecoms Need Community Support Most."
-TG, any savvy writers out there willing to submit that?
And that's just for Bill's salary accounting...
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And what Operating System will DOE be running on this state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge, faster-than-God-intended computer?
Windows NT 2k2 (laugh thee not, M$ doth speak of such a beast)...
Oh, and don't forget that wonderful.Net accessability, where 16-y/o girl geeks can write C# virii to prove women really do hate M$ as much as their fellow male geeks.
-TG, more power = faster virii production, woohoo!
PS: In all seriousness (ack, there goes my Funny)... It would be cool if we could put this bad boy to work on some nasty stuff, like Superstring Theory, Proteins, and other Monstrously Huge Data Crunching Projects. But somehow I get the feeling this is going to be a toy for atom-smashers... never something practical or real-world.
You are quite wrong. I expect highspeed to be affordable, as do 200 million others in the US. 1.5Mb access for $40-$50/mo is actually TOO MUCH to ask; in fact, regular citizens think it should be closer to normal services: $15-$30/mo. Personally, I think $40-$50/mo should get me 5-10Mb. The fact that I'm stuck with asynchronous cable (300Kb~2.4Mb depending on usage and provider), a hybrid system, is a sad testiment to the truth of the original story.
Hybrid systems suck. They're not even meant to be a permanent solution. You get hybrid on the way to digital. But with the Telecom drop-out, nobody wants to finish the badly-needed transition. Nobody wants to swallow their medicine, because it might be poisonous.
The flip side is that Telecoms like this two tier system of digital and hybrid. They get to charge for data services out the nose to digital users and they get to dangle the carrot of highspeed "broadband" to the rest of the customer base. Who would want to upgrade in a situation like that? Face it, T1s cost $800-$1600/mo not out of some legitimacy, but out of insane costs. Because Telecoms got caught with their pants down, they've taken a "good enough" stance with regards to highspeed data services. The Telecom shakeout only shown a light in on the failures of Telecoms to maintain potential in their infrastructures or plan behind the next quarter.
This is only going to get worse. The bill to deregulate price fixing on the lines leased by Telecoms and the court ruling that cable is not a part of the Telecoms opens wide the floodgates of mediocrity and stagnation. People want T1 speeds for sub-$50/mo and it's NOT an unrealistic desire.
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I think it's called Red Hat, IBM, Novell...
Not quite right. Remember a lot of scientists' careers ride on the precision of processing here, whereas these amateur guys aren't going to lose face. There's a lot more here than pretty picture, and in science speed can lead to errors.
Is there nothing that can't be open-sourced? Talk about the power of hobbyists...
That's just like Bones, going all out against the crazy-dazy world and get some common sense in there.
Actually the Jewish-Christian bible was (and still is by many) used as a textbook.
The Christian god is a theory too, and if you're saying this god is telling you and others to "take him serious" I know of a few good men in white coats who can help you.
This article reads like it was written by a 14-year-old on a sugar high. It works as a piece for a High School rag. Is that what GamePro is, a High School rag?
While it is true that Wal-Mart calls all employees "associates" who are not of the Management class, the title is not legally binding and holds no power.
Except there is no legal representative of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. at the time of sale. The cashier is a customer service representative that is aiding you at the time of sale with the computer transaction. The offer of sale is made at the shelf and by completing the transaction at the point-of-sale you are accepting the offer of sale and completing the terms of the contract. At no time can you negotiate the sale unless you approach a Customer Service Manager, in which case you lose any sort of advantage since they are actually semi-knowledgable.
The actual number is used by employees to relocate goods to their proper place as well as stocking empty shelves. Most stores lock up inventory scanners because only department managers should have direct access to inventory systems.
Nitpick: England is a descendent of the word "Angland".
So many toys, so little money to buy. : (
Anyone got ideas on how much some of that video editing equipment retails for? (I can tell you the racks and computers are probably in six digits at least.)
Just curious, but wouldn't this open up the possibility of anti-trust actions against Verizon if the company gouges for wi-fi access and uses this new law to block city-based wi-fi?
There is no better delusion than idealists who do not read history books and hence miss the point that all their dreams were once reality and the people suffered for it. There is only the assumption that we are better than our ancestors in caves, when we are our ancestors with better caves. The human animal is constrained and kept logical by the society and the laws of society... not because we are better than those before us. Alas, I doubt any dreaming child reading this will do more than expouse their foolish beliefs. Confirmation bias is such a lovely thing...
Time to retake your maths. A yearly and a monthly sales number in year-to-year comparisons doesn't yield similar numbers unless the increase/decrease is flat across the year. Of course, there is no such thing as flat growth across a year, or even a quarter.
The quoted numbers show that GameCube sales were strong overall, which lead to 53% overall yearly growth, while specific December sales (a peak holiday period) were up 41%. This could be explained as pay-off for the $99 price slash combined with small sales spikes caused by the release of anticipated games. The larger overall does not make December *less*, because holiday growth is typically high already. This is very very good for Nintendo, as it shows they can sell in a sluggish market without the boon of a holiday push.
-tg, But that's just my opinion, I'm no sales analyst...
You used to throw "Electronic Playground" into that mix before the show got bought by G4. All I have to say about G4 is they really need to stop being too frightened (or too cheap) to air the actual audio of games they are reviewing. I don't know how many times I've heard the exact same cheap techno-dance beats being played over the gameplay of Game X. It's called "fair use" folks.
Extended Play/X-Play has its own charm... namely Adam and the staffers that back him up. These folks really do know what they're talking about, and one can get bored with Electronic Playground (or its original G4 clone, Judgement Day). There's only so many times Tommy can piss on a game before I begin to get the feeling the man just isn't happy about life.
Admittedly, video games on TV are about as interesting as watching your friends play... which is either lots of fun or boring as hell. YMMV.
The PROBLEM here is that project managers like you are not going to survive situations like that (ie. failed/late projects). Once upper management has decided on a course that might save millions, it's now going to COST them millions to not do it. Suddenly they're not thinking "crap, there goes the savings of moving overseas"... they're thinking "holy shit, it'll cost us HOW MUCH to develop in the US?". That savings is no longer "savings"... it's now profits. Capital expenditures like "moving development to the US" are not feasible without stockholder backlash.
Malls are not public property, they are owned by private land developers, corporations, or very wealth individuals. They are required by law to protect the goods of retailers and public safety of shoppers. Think of malls as department stores large enough to house other retailers: law enforcement must be allowed entrance to the property to investigate a crime, and likewise need a warrant to perform any search of any person or place on the property.
The woman should be looking at legal action against the mall, too. Afterall, the mall made a bit of money off allowing these thieves access to their patrons.
You are thinking of Keith David, who is variously known as Goliath (Disney's Gargoyles animated series in the early '90s) to Spawn (HBO's animated series) to hundreds of advertisements, bumpers, trailers, etc.
Atari 2600: 1977 to ~1984 (~7 yrs)
Nintendo Famicom: 1983 to 1990 (7 yrs)
Sega SG-x000 (later Sega Master System): 1983 to ~1988 (5 yrs)
Sega MegaDrive/Genesis: 1988 to 1994 (6 yrs)
Nintendo Super Famicom: 1990 to 1996 (6 yrs)
Sony Playstation: 1994 to (1999, but now rereleased as PSOne today)
Sega Saturn 1994 to 1998 (4 yrs)
Nintendo 64: 1996 to 2001 (5 yrs)
Sega Dreamcast 1998 to 2003 (5 yrs)
Sony Playstation 2: 1999 to ?
Nintendo GameCube: 2001 to ?
Microsoft Xbox: 2001 to ?
The video game industry is well over 30 years old, with the Magnavox Odyssey released in January 1972. It is just plain wrong to say the video game industry is young.
As for this being the longer generation, that's a hard claim to pin down. You can't really say "X generation lasted Y years" because consoles are not released all at once. The 8-bit generation either lasted until the introduction of the Sega Genesis in 1988, or it ended when Nintendo began selling the Super Famicom in 1990? (Or you could even say it never really ended, since Nintendo was still producing Famicoms long after 1990.)
I suppose you could say the Sega Dreamcast marks the start of this generation in 1998, and then if the first next-generation console comes out in 2006 it would make this the longest run without new blood. But wait, couldn't you say the Microsoft Xbox is "next-generation" along with the GameCube, having almost double the power of the Dreamcast and PS2?
Or you could ignore all of this, realize that we're all just waiting for "the next big thing" and start saving your pennies now. ; )
This site and Google are your friends.
This is not true. Only Trademarks and Patents must be applied for and defended. Copyright is automatic and permanent (heh, this may be a literal truth soon). There is no way short of an act of Congress or the written, sworn statement of the rights-holder, for copyright to terminate prematurely.
-TG, IANAL, HTH, HAND... (dies of acronym-overload)
I would just like to point out that this is why regional monopolies are BAD and why artificial price fixing for leasing of lines to Telecom startups is GOOD. While Telecoms may try to play hardball by halting upgrades, it only hurts them because customer dissatisfaction swings more business to the startup. This should (in theory, at least) give those Telecoms the resources to build up the infrastructure on their own and cut the middleman of Good Ol' Boy Telecom out.
The problem was that startups got greedy. Instead of consolidating, perhaps merging with a few other startups, and building upon their current base... they tried to rapidly expand the base. Customers became dissatisfied, migration away from Big Telecoms slowed, costs ballooned and the bubble popped.
It would be helpful to point out that the real reason businesses have always paid more for "the same services" as residental has nothing to do with unfair pricing. It has to do with reliability and support costs. Businesses make use of their Telecom systems far more and place much higher demands on reliability and uptime than residental customers. This, in turn, adds necessary expenses towards servicing a business account, as opposed to a residential account.
The problem is that all data services are, by their very nature, just like businesses: heavy use, demanding excellent reliability and uptime. When you shell out the $3k-$8k to have a T1 built to your location, and $500-$1000/mo for service... you expect a pretty high return, no? Hybrid services, on the other hand, benefit from a lack of expectation stemming from low initial investiment by the enduser.
That is what makes hybrid networks so appealing. Telecoms get to totally avoid the hassles of last mile build-outs, they can provide their customers with the impression of "broadband" availibility, and costs associated with building digital lines for businesses go down.
-TG, those are my opinions... I could be wrong...
Ah, United Kingdom... makes sense, what with gov't regulation and such there. Also, in regards Cost... that, again, depends on the economics at play. As mentioned further down in this topic, costs have remained high because equipment prices, prices of installation, and personnel are pricey. Alot of building got co-financed by equipment manufacturers, apparantly... and with the Telecom collapse it's probably making those companies think again about future plans of aiding expansion.
I've never heard good news about BT. They seem to be very into cutting as many corners as possible.
The last mile issue can be argued to be a city-level planning issue. Afterall, cities are the ones to most benefit from such increases in services. I think, ultimately, that is how future rollouts are going to be partly financed. Perhaps the Telecom failure was partly the failure of people to willingly contribute to the costs of building into their neighborhoods? I would definitely be interested in someone writing a story on that... "Why Telecoms Need Community Support Most."
-TG, any savvy writers out there willing to submit that?
And what Operating System will DOE be running on this state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge, faster-than-God-intended computer?
.Net accessability, where 16-y/o girl geeks can write C# virii to prove women really do hate M$ as much as their fellow male geeks.
Windows NT 2k2 (laugh thee not, M$ doth speak of such a beast)...
Oh, and don't forget that wonderful
-TG, more power = faster virii production, woohoo!
PS: In all seriousness (ack, there goes my Funny)... It would be cool if we could put this bad boy to work on some nasty stuff, like Superstring Theory, Proteins, and other Monstrously Huge Data Crunching Projects. But somehow I get the feeling this is going to be a toy for atom-smashers... never something practical or real-world.
The parent was modded as Insightful?
You are quite wrong. I expect highspeed to be affordable, as do 200 million others in the US. 1.5Mb access for $40-$50/mo is actually TOO MUCH to ask; in fact, regular citizens think it should be closer to normal services: $15-$30/mo. Personally, I think $40-$50/mo should get me 5-10Mb. The fact that I'm stuck with asynchronous cable (300Kb~2.4Mb depending on usage and provider), a hybrid system, is a sad testiment to the truth of the original story.
Hybrid systems suck. They're not even meant to be a permanent solution. You get hybrid on the way to digital. But with the Telecom drop-out, nobody wants to finish the badly-needed transition. Nobody wants to swallow their medicine, because it might be poisonous.
The flip side is that Telecoms like this two tier system of digital and hybrid. They get to charge for data services out the nose to digital users and they get to dangle the carrot of highspeed "broadband" to the rest of the customer base. Who would want to upgrade in a situation like that? Face it, T1s cost $800-$1600/mo not out of some legitimacy, but out of insane costs. Because Telecoms got caught with their pants down, they've taken a "good enough" stance with regards to highspeed data services. The Telecom shakeout only shown a light in on the failures of Telecoms to maintain potential in their infrastructures or plan behind the next quarter.
This is only going to get worse. The bill to deregulate price fixing on the lines leased by Telecoms and the court ruling that cable is not a part of the Telecoms opens wide the floodgates of mediocrity and stagnation. People want T1 speeds for sub-$50/mo and it's NOT an unrealistic desire.