You can still charge for the compiling, organizing and printing of it essentially, along with manuals and support. And of course, you can download redhat/mandrake/debian etc. for free along with the entire source code as an option.
Wow, what a truely cliche and boring highschool you must have had. I wouldn't have played football or boned a cheerleader on principle. Despite that I still had a great time, much of it spent laughing at stereotypes like you.
Are you just assuming this is the case? It is well known that console makers DO sell their boxes at below cost... at least in the beginning. Here is why:
Take the original playstation. It released at $300 and cost sony an estimated $450 per unit to manufacture. at the end of its 4 year cycle it cost approximately $100 to buy and probably $80 or so to manufacture. There numbers do NOT include development costs. They do this so that early on, the console can attain a market quickly enough that software developers aren't scared off. Now since consoles are a closed system, each game sold, even by 3rd parties, puts roughly $20 in the pocket of sony/MS/nintendo. So ONLY FOR CLOSED/CONTROLLED platforms (ie not PCs) it makes better financial sense to loose early on, estimating that 10 games per console will eventually sell, and keep the software developers happy.
As a counterpoint, the 3D0 system was supposed to be manufactured by multiple companies. Only 3D0 made money off licenses though, so the hardware guys had to make money off the hardware only. As a result the first 3D0 launched at $700, no one bought it, 3rd parties ran away, and everyone (3D0 included) lost money.
It had the same 2 processors borrowed from saturn development, but they ran at a slower clockspeed and were limited by the slow interface to the genesis' system ram and limited color palatte. With the full saturn coming soon, no one wanted to develop for or for that matter save their allowance for what seemed like a money grab.
I know, i agree, I tried to make that clear in my post. Lossless is cool, I just had the #s there in front of me for MP3 as well so figured "why not post them"?
I just tried with a real song... 'Where is my mind?' by the Pixies:
41.184 MB wave source file. 36.780 MB using gzip with -9 (11% compression). 32.937 MB using bzip2 with -9 (20% compression). 25.713 MB using FLAC (38% compression).
5.221 MB using LAME with -V3 (87% compression).
Yeh i know the mp3 is lossy, but this one is essentially indistinguishable by the human ear so I thought I would at least add it to the above list.
thats why sports games were so much better on genesis IIRC. The graphics engine was lovely for the time but at 3.136 or whatever megahertz the CPU couldn't do good AI so they had to dumb-down the SNES ports.
My only issue really is that it runs SLOOOWLY in winex, rendering my high-end machine essentially midrange at best. Still have XP installed just for games as a result, *sigh*.
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I'll consider paying $20 a disc for groin-grabbingly good albums that rip to MP3 without hassle. Hell thats usually what I end up paying right now for old, relatively hard to find artists.
I include 2 php files on every page of my site actually without issue. I think this bug applies to older versions (guy in the bug says he tried 4.2.1 and 4.0.3).
i recently made the switch when php 4.3.0 was released. no problems as far as i've seen running 2.0.43 with php as long as its built using the default unthreaded model (ie same as 1.3)
Well if gravity can't escape the event horizon it can still affect things inside the black hole. Much like it is not necessarily dark inside just because light can't escape. So essentially if i am right (which i am not, btw) black holes would basically just pop out of existence on formation since they would be impossible to detect at all.
If photons had mass they could not reach the speed of light. In fact they have momentum, but 0 mass. Actually if a photon drops to sub-light speeds it ceases to exist at all AFAIK.
If they have confirmed that gravity travels at the speed of light, how does gravity escape a black hole? obviously it does because the only energy that escapes a black hole is in the form of gravitational waves, but if the escape velocity is higher than than the speed of light, how can it get out?
Why all the name calling? The towers were designed to withstand an airplane strike but a) planes are bigger now, and b) they failed to account for hot fuel melting certain critical structural features. These ARE now considered structural deficiencies and if they were to rebuild the towers as they were, they could fix these couple of mistakes and in theory they wouldn't have colapsed.
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You can still charge for the compiling, organizing and printing of it essentially, along with manuals and support.
And of course, you can download redhat/mandrake/debian etc. for free along with the entire source code as an option.
Wow, what a truely cliche and boring highschool you must have had. I wouldn't have played football or boned a cheerleader on principle. Despite that I still had a great time, much of it spent laughing at stereotypes like you.
No, I got this information from Next Generation Magazine at the time, a fairly reliable source.
Are you just assuming this is the case? It is well known that console makers DO sell their boxes at below cost... at least in the beginning. Here is why:
Take the original playstation. It released at $300 and cost sony an estimated $450 per unit to manufacture. at the end of its 4 year cycle it cost approximately $100 to buy and probably $80 or so to manufacture. There numbers do NOT include development costs. They do this so that early on, the console can attain a market quickly enough that software developers aren't scared off. Now since consoles are a closed system, each game sold, even by 3rd parties, puts roughly $20 in the pocket of sony/MS/nintendo. So ONLY FOR CLOSED/CONTROLLED platforms (ie not PCs) it makes better financial sense to loose early on, estimating that 10 games per console will eventually sell, and keep the software developers happy.
As a counterpoint, the 3D0 system was supposed to be manufactured by multiple companies. Only 3D0 made money off licenses though, so the hardware guys had to make money off the hardware only. As a result the first 3D0 launched at $700, no one bought it, 3rd parties ran away, and everyone (3D0 included) lost money.
It had the same 2 processors borrowed from saturn development, but they ran at a slower clockspeed and were limited by the slow interface to the genesis' system ram and limited color palatte. With the full saturn coming soon, no one wanted to develop for or for that matter save their allowance for what seemed like a money grab.
I know, i agree, I tried to make that clear in my post. Lossless is cool, I just had the #s there in front of me for MP3 as well so figured "why not post them"?
I just tried with a real song... 'Where is my mind?' by the Pixies:
41.184 MB wave source file.
36.780 MB using gzip with -9 (11% compression).
32.937 MB using bzip2 with -9 (20% compression).
25.713 MB using FLAC (38% compression).
5.221 MB using LAME with -V3 (87% compression).
Yeh i know the mp3 is lossy, but this one is essentially indistinguishable by the human ear so I thought I would at least add it to the above list.
Point 3 is why I don't (On the desktop at least).
thats why sports games were so much better on genesis IIRC. The graphics engine was lovely for the time but at 3.136 or whatever megahertz the CPU couldn't do good AI so they had to dumb-down the SNES ports.
My only issue really is that it runs SLOOOWLY in winex, rendering my high-end machine essentially midrange at best. Still have XP installed just for games as a result, *sigh*.
I for one welcome our new ant overlords.
What starcraft/diablo players exactly? They said Korea was down for chrissake!
I'll consider paying $20 a disc for groin-grabbingly good albums that rip to MP3 without hassle. Hell thats usually what I end up paying right now for old, relatively hard to find artists.
Anger and agression - the dark side are they.
I include 2 php files on every page of my site actually without issue. I think this bug applies to older versions (guy in the bug says he tried 4.2.1 and 4.0.3).
php 4.3.0 is running slick on my 2.0.43 apache install.
i recently made the switch when php 4.3.0 was released. no problems as far as i've seen running 2.0.43 with php as long as its built using the default unthreaded model (ie same as 1.3)
Uncomprehensible-post-of-the-week award nominee.
Well if gravity can't escape the event horizon it can still affect things inside the black hole. Much like it is not necessarily dark inside just because light can't escape. So essentially if i am right (which i am not, btw) black holes would basically just pop out of existence on formation since they would be impossible to detect at all.
If photons had mass they could not reach the speed of light. In fact they have momentum, but 0 mass. Actually if a photon drops to sub-light speeds it ceases to exist at all AFAIK.
Really? where did you hear that? I'm actually rather excited about it - sorry everyone. My other box is running linux from scratch, serious!
ah. thanks that cool. I actually asked my Physics 213 professor that and he was dumbfounded.
If that was a stab at GTA - Vice City, I don't appreciate it. Its a wonderful, wonderful game. Easily as good as Metroid Prime.
Oh, and I'm Canadian.
I have a question:
If they have confirmed that gravity travels at the speed of light, how does gravity escape a black hole? obviously it does because the only energy that escapes a black hole is in the form of gravitational waves, but if the escape velocity is higher than than the speed of light, how can it get out?
Why all the name calling? The towers were designed to withstand an airplane strike but a) planes are bigger now, and b) they failed to account for hot fuel melting certain critical structural features. These ARE now considered structural deficiencies and if they were to rebuild the towers as they were, they could fix these couple of mistakes and in theory they wouldn't have colapsed.