I know linux is a different story, since it's an OS replacement, but I don't see any reason why the Mozilla Foundation for example couldn't make a 360 port of Firefox and sell it for the points equivalent of $0.25 over Xbox Live.
Where are they going to get the 360 dev kit and development license? That kind of thing tends to be really expensive. Not to mention the signing issue brought up by another poster.
Flash RAM has a very low number of read/write cycles compared to a hard drive. Really, I have trouble imagining a non-volatile solid state system that doesn't.
What if aliens are listning us and preparing for something big!
Then there's absolutely nothing we can do.
The chances of a nearby extraterrestrial race inventing radio at or near the same time as us are so small that we can discount them entirely for purposes of a thought experiment. They would be thousands or millions of years more advanced - or more primitive. If they're more primitive, we'll probably never know about them. If they're that much more advanced, then they could wipe us out without any significant effort.
Better hope there aren't any Berserkers, Staircase Gods, or Inhibitors out there, eh?
Exactly. We live in an immature, wasteful society. i don't see how that makes my point seem "ridiculous."
The part that makes it ridiculous is that you're berating people for not living up to an unrealistically extreme ideal which you hold, but they may not.
I would be very wary about putting too much faith in a service-based economy. A service provider is a lot easier to replace than a manufacturing provider. This is a good thing if you are the one buying the service, but not so much if you are the one providing the service. Which, of course, everyone would be in one form or another in an entirely service-based economy, like the US seems hell-bent on moving towards.
There was a small monochrome flip up/down monitor available for the IIc that made it look a *lot* like the Mac Portable in TFA. The IIc in the film version of 2010 that the GP refers to has one attached.
I remember the battery packs too.
Back in junior high I really wanted to swipe my granddad's IIc (we had a IIe) and set it up as a portable Apple.
Unfortunately, those who know SSH and port 25 are demanding salaries of at least $60K/year. I have managed to find 3 good employees so far who understand that my company will not be able to pay outrageous salaries until we are consistently profitable (next year), but the 4th is proving tricky.
I've got to agree with some of the other posters here. $60k for a job in a major metropolitan area is a lot closer to "minimum" than "outrageous" for an experienced administrator.
Also, try and look at it from the perspective of potential employees. While it looks like you've got a solid business plan, we've all heard "...when we're profitable in a year" before, and it's rarely true. If I were looking for a job and heard that, I wouldn't have time to do the research and see if I thought you were right.
Plus since it's by definition unobservable it's also unprovable - so the whole experiment relies on philosophy rather than science.
The cat is a thought experiment that's useful for getting across the general idea. As far as I know, it's never been argued as something that would actually be performed, because cats are macroscopic.
You can use the concept on the quantum scale to predict lab-testable results like the two-slit experiment. If you put detectors (e.g. observers) in the slits, the effect disappears. Eerie, eh?
The original Jet Moto was a great example of this. A racing game which has billboards along the track and teams with real sponsors.
I won't play a game that's tracking which ads I look at and for how long. I don't play games that require online connectivity.
I also won't play a game where the advertising is in my face. I don't mind billboards, or other film-style product placement like a character drinking a Coke. Don't put banner ads on the menus or make me sit through a video before I play, though.
The PS2 is five years old and still going. The original Xbox is 3, and will still be getting new games at least a few months into 2006. The PS1 was in the mainstream market from 1994-2000.
I could go on, but every console I'm researching (SNES, etc) is in the 3-4 year range at least. The only ones I would put in the = 2 years category would be failures like the Jaguar and 5200.
It is if you want the exact same shot with different depths in-focus.
TFA has some good examples of this in the form of splashing water, but imagine how much more information you could extract from e.g. the Zapruder film if it had been captured this way. It's not like you can ask Kennedy to go back for another take.
The point is not that you need an engineer to get a "decent" sound out of a band. They're there to make the musicians sound as good as possible, because you're planning on making a recording that will be heard for many years.
Having a crappy engineer for a band is like hiring an orchestra to score your film, and then having them perform in a parking garage. It's a careless waste that makes the end result less than it could be for no good reason.
For a modern band that uses electronics, the engineer or producer can even end up being a de facto part of the band for the recording - writing percussion and musical lines, expanding on what the band performed, and so forth.
I have AD(H)D, and I take Concerta (time-release Ritalin) because it lets me focus on things long enough to actually get them done. It hasn't made me less creative, or less odd, just less flakey.
I'm an adult, and I never tried it when I was a kid. But I wish I'd had the opportunity to, because I know I would have done a lot better in school. It's what let me focus enough to work with math, finally =).
I still don't see how the GUI has anything to do with anything.
This is why people who don't care about GUIs should be kept as far away from GUI design as possible.
Great games are obviously the most important feature of a console. But a poor interface *really* turns the average user off to a product. A tiny minority of computer geeks are so in tune with their system that the interface really doesn't matter to them, as long as the software behind it is powerful. That's awesome, but most people aren't like that.
The great thing is that if a UI is well-designed (like most people seem to think the 360's is), then the mass market is happy, and so are the hardcore geeks, because they can get it out of the way and start playing games.
Myself, I'm in the "don't care" category this time, because I'm not interested in most of the features of the 360 OS - I don't play online games, I won't be buying UI themes or whatever on Live, etc. I'll probably only use it to set the system time, and MAYBE set up custom soundtracks. Assuming I buy one at all. But it won't actively impede me from playing the games, and it's a great business move by MS for the people who *will* use the features.
Probably because The Basketball Diaries has a scene that's much closer to the reality (including the trenchcoat and heavy boots), and came out in 1995.
One of the main advantages of RAID (and I'm not including "RAID" 0) is that you can replace just the failed drive, and the controller rebuilds it automatically.
If you put everything in a single drive, you have to buy a complete replacement when any of the internal parts fail.
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I know linux is a different story, since it's an OS replacement, but I don't see any reason why the Mozilla Foundation for example couldn't make a 360 port of Firefox and sell it for the points equivalent of $0.25 over Xbox Live.
Where are they going to get the 360 dev kit and development license? That kind of thing tends to be really expensive. Not to mention the signing issue brought up by another poster.
Flash RAM has a very low number of read/write cycles compared to a hard drive. Really, I have trouble imagining a non-volatile solid state system that doesn't.
What if aliens are listning us and preparing for something big!
Then there's absolutely nothing we can do.
The chances of a nearby extraterrestrial race inventing radio at or near the same time as us are so small that we can discount them entirely for purposes of a thought experiment. They would be thousands or millions of years more advanced - or more primitive. If they're more primitive, we'll probably never know about them. If they're that much more advanced, then they could wipe us out without any significant effort.
Better hope there aren't any Berserkers, Staircase Gods, or Inhibitors out there, eh?
Exactly. We live in an immature, wasteful society. i don't see how that makes my point seem "ridiculous."
The part that makes it ridiculous is that you're berating people for not living up to an unrealistically extreme ideal which you hold, but they may not.
You do not have to spend every waking moment with the person you are dating. If they like to play Halo and you don't, go do something else.
where software income is based on services
I would be very wary about putting too much faith in a service-based economy. A service provider is a lot easier to replace than a manufacturing provider. This is a good thing if you are the one buying the service, but not so much if you are the one providing the service. Which, of course, everyone would be in one form or another in an entirely service-based economy, like the US seems hell-bent on moving towards.
There was a small monochrome flip up/down monitor available for the IIc that made it look a *lot* like the Mac Portable in TFA. The IIc in the film version of 2010 that the GP refers to has one attached.
I remember the battery packs too.
Back in junior high I really wanted to swipe my granddad's IIc (we had a IIe) and set it up as a portable Apple.
Unfortunately, those who know SSH and port 25 are demanding salaries of at least $60K/year. I have managed to find 3 good employees so far who understand that my company will not be able to pay outrageous salaries until we are consistently profitable (next year), but the 4th is proving tricky.
I've got to agree with some of the other posters here. $60k for a job in a major metropolitan area is a lot closer to "minimum" than "outrageous" for an experienced administrator.
Also, try and look at it from the perspective of potential employees. While it looks like you've got a solid business plan, we've all heard "...when we're profitable in a year" before, and it's rarely true. If I were looking for a job and heard that, I wouldn't have time to do the research and see if I thought you were right.
Plus since it's by definition unobservable it's also unprovable - so the whole experiment relies on philosophy rather than science.
The cat is a thought experiment that's useful for getting across the general idea. As far as I know, it's never been argued as something that would actually be performed, because cats are macroscopic.
You can use the concept on the quantum scale to predict lab-testable results like the two-slit experiment. If you put detectors (e.g. observers) in the slits, the effect disappears. Eerie, eh?
...or intrusive.
The original Jet Moto was a great example of this. A racing game which has billboards along the track and teams with real sponsors.
I won't play a game that's tracking which ads I look at and for how long. I don't play games that require online connectivity.
I also won't play a game where the advertising is in my face. I don't mind billboards, or other film-style product placement like a character drinking a Coke. Don't put banner ads on the menus or make me sit through a video before I play, though.
I congratulate you, sir. You have exceeded even my capacity for zealously defending a debate point that is clearly wrong.
2 years?
The PS2 is five years old and still going. The original Xbox is 3, and will still be getting new games at least a few months into 2006. The PS1 was in the mainstream market from 1994-2000.
I could go on, but every console I'm researching (SNES, etc) is in the 3-4 year range at least. The only ones I would put in the = 2 years category would be failures like the Jaguar and 5200.
PS: I had a 2600 in the 80s too.
They should do a time-lapse video of it, and set it to Apotheosis' remix of Orff's "O Fortuna." That would be *sweet*.
Is focusing really that hard?
It is if you want the exact same shot with different depths in-focus.
TFA has some good examples of this in the form of splashing water, but imagine how much more information you could extract from e.g. the Zapruder film if it had been captured this way. It's not like you can ask Kennedy to go back for another take.
The point is not that you need an engineer to get a "decent" sound out of a band. They're there to make the musicians sound as good as possible, because you're planning on making a recording that will be heard for many years.
Having a crappy engineer for a band is like hiring an orchestra to score your film, and then having them perform in a parking garage. It's a careless waste that makes the end result less than it could be for no good reason.
For a modern band that uses electronics, the engineer or producer can even end up being a de facto part of the band for the recording - writing percussion and musical lines, expanding on what the band performed, and so forth.
The digital revolution has made it possible to make professional recordings for less than the price of a decent used car.
The tools are cheap, but the people who know how to use them properly aren't.
Being a proper recording engineer or producer is not a software package you can install on your PC.
It is a good thing we have ritalin to fix them.
I have AD(H)D, and I take Concerta (time-release Ritalin) because it lets me focus on things long enough to actually get them done. It hasn't made me less creative, or less odd, just less flakey.
I'm an adult, and I never tried it when I was a kid. But I wish I'd had the opportunity to, because I know I would have done a lot better in school. It's what let me focus enough to work with math, finally =).
I still don't see how the GUI has anything to do with anything.
This is why people who don't care about GUIs should be kept as far away from GUI design as possible.
Great games are obviously the most important feature of a console. But a poor interface *really* turns the average user off to a product. A tiny minority of computer geeks are so in tune with their system that the interface really doesn't matter to them, as long as the software behind it is powerful. That's awesome, but most people aren't like that.
The great thing is that if a UI is well-designed (like most people seem to think the 360's is), then the mass market is happy, and so are the hardcore geeks, because they can get it out of the way and start playing games.
Myself, I'm in the "don't care" category this time, because I'm not interested in most of the features of the 360 OS - I don't play online games, I won't be buying UI themes or whatever on Live, etc. I'll probably only use it to set the system time, and MAYBE set up custom soundtracks. Assuming I buy one at all. But it won't actively impede me from playing the games, and it's a great business move by MS for the people who *will* use the features.
I have an Apple sticker on my SUV.
It's the combination of VW Beetle and Apple sticker. GP is correct.
Didn't get that movie off the shelves.
Probably because The Basketball Diaries has a scene that's much closer to the reality (including the trenchcoat and heavy boots), and came out in 1995.
That was a bit of a stretch, but a lot of people interpreted it the way you did.
You can actually buy Blu-Ray writer/players in Japan, and at least one person is selling them and the blank discs on eBay.
Be careful, this song can be difficult to get out of your head.
One of the main advantages of RAID (and I'm not including "RAID" 0) is that you can replace just the failed drive, and the controller rebuilds it automatically.
If you put everything in a single drive, you have to buy a complete replacement when any of the internal parts fail.
Pretty please? I keep expecting to see 2d10 in their photos.
Dear moderators,
Learn about the subject of the post before you mod it down.
Dumbasses.
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