And how about ATI/NVidia?
One of their CEOs (don't remember which) openly admited that the high-end graphic cards were priced according to what people would pay for them and not at all related to the price of making the card itself.
Anyway, comparing software and hardware profits is a bad idea. On of then needs to produce a physical product. The other spends the money to desing and build a software product, then for each sales it costs him the price of a CD+packaging.
Well for starters the best damn non-console gaming platform. Man where the MSDOS years a headache for gamers. Plug-and-play and DirectX are a blessing. Sure it took time for them to work properly but look at the state of PC Gaming today. Buy game, put CD/DVD in, click on install, run game.
Also,.Net rocks as a developpment API. And it'll get better and better with time.
So basically when MacMarketing says its "touch sensitive technology", they meen that springs make contact when you push the mouse down. Quite like every other mouse ever made. I guess they make it sound all fancy and new to justify the 50$ price tag.
Who to blame? But that's easy. Companies have hierarchy the implies responsability. Investigate and find out who's responsable, who greelighted the use of this practices. Or who went against the law and behind his superious back used these practices.
Take the 10 million from him. That'll hurt good were it should.
Yeah but Japan or South Korea are not a pseudo-communist dictatorships like China is. I doubt that salaries will go up taking education with it, making China loose it's price edge forcing it to make better quality stuff instead. It's just exploiting cheap labour and nothing short of a revolution will make things change for them.
I gave up on the upgrade this and that on my PC. Now I just sell my PC and get a new one every 2.5 years. I tend to keep the sound card, network card and DVD-Writter but recently I'm not even bothering with that.
During the 2.5 years I'll never buy extra RAM, change CPU and anything else that I won't keep when I'll sell it. So now it tend to just add hard-disks and external peripherals but nothing else. I save the cash for the next purchase.
I can't believe such a silly solution is been suggested. 3 questions? What's this? Jeopardy?
It's already hard to believe that someone had the lack of intelligence to have a login/passord access to a banking website. But why come up with such silliness? Haven't this people ever heard of scratch-lists?
ID thiefs will just adapt their social engineering to get the answer to thos questions and are free to continue their way. It's basically just like asking 4 passwords that never change to login: 1 is the normal password and the 3 others in form of question/answer.
Well, in the West direct to video has always been a sign of lesser quality productions.
But in Japan direct to video animations (Original Video Animation) is a big thing. It fits well something too long for a movie and too short for a complete series. They often come out in 4-7 episodes on DVD. Some great stuff has come out in that format. Lets hope the West can emulate that success bringing us great content on DVD free from the TV distribution medium where the biggest of masses of viewers is required for a show to succeed.
Actually, it's quite ironic that I purchased a brand new top of the line computer and I had to dig hard to find a floppy so that I could put the SATA drivers on them in order to install Windows XP x64. Before that it was a very long time I haven't used a floppy (and I was damn happy about it too).
I hope that OS'es start supporting USB drives and CDs (if the CD-ROM is not on the SATA bus like my case) to read the SATA drivers on install. It seems stupid to link such very recently built OS (Windows XP x86 = 2005) to such an old device.
You should see a doctor to check those "boredom induced headaches". I'm lucky I don't get any physical manifestation from boredom otherwise my job would be even harder to bare.
I don't see how a greenhouse-gas depletes the ozone layer. I seriously doubt that H2O breaks down ozone like FCF does. I think you meant to say that it contributes to global warming.
That's what Divx (no, not the codec) tried to do and (thankfully) failed. It used the phone line to charge for and authorize the viewing a movie. Can't expect people to fall for such a crumy deal. I guess replacing video renting by selling a cheap disk with limitations will never work. If I own it, I want to fully use it.
You are so right. No mather how hard it is, I refuse to do work for customers I consider unetical.
For now I say "no" when my employer asks me to work for a tabacco company. I would do the same with even more pride if it was weapons/military or a project that goes against what I beleive is right.
What kind of a person would I be if I gave up on my beliefs just for money?
.NET being scrapped as native to the OS
That's plain wrong. The 1/4 of longhorn's code will be in.Net. But it will be available on other OS as it's alread the case now (2000/XP/2003...).
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And how about ATI/NVidia? One of their CEOs (don't remember which) openly admited that the high-end graphic cards were priced according to what people would pay for them and not at all related to the price of making the card itself. Anyway, comparing software and hardware profits is a bad idea. On of then needs to produce a physical product. The other spends the money to desing and build a software product, then for each sales it costs him the price of a CD+packaging.
Satellites have been sent to space long before the shuttle. Heck, we even went to the moon and back many times. All without the space shuttle.
Well for starters the best damn non-console gaming platform. Man where the MSDOS years a headache for gamers. Plug-and-play and DirectX are a blessing. Sure it took time for them to work properly but look at the state of PC Gaming today. Buy game, put CD/DVD in, click on install, run game. Also, .Net rocks as a developpment API. And it'll get better and better with time.
Yes I did but I guess I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out. I understood from the article that the "touch sensor" thing was just marketing-speak.
Mozilla Corp: new, now with 100% real corporate greed!
So basically when MacMarketing says its "touch sensitive technology", they meen that springs make contact when you push the mouse down. Quite like every other mouse ever made. I guess they make it sound all fancy and new to justify the 50$ price tag.
Specially if you count the controllers: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php?date=2002-03- 25&res=l/
That would be folk music. Or sort of... in a rock-electro-rap-noise-bossanova-beckish sort of way.
Who to blame? But that's easy. Companies have hierarchy the implies responsability. Investigate and find out who's responsable, who greelighted the use of this practices. Or who went against the law and behind his superious back used these practices. Take the 10 million from him. That'll hurt good were it should.
Yeah but Japan or South Korea are not a pseudo-communist dictatorships like China is. I doubt that salaries will go up taking education with it, making China loose it's price edge forcing it to make better quality stuff instead. It's just exploiting cheap labour and nothing short of a revolution will make things change for them.
I gave up on the upgrade this and that on my PC. Now I just sell my PC and get a new one every 2.5 years. I tend to keep the sound card, network card and DVD-Writter but recently I'm not even bothering with that. During the 2.5 years I'll never buy extra RAM, change CPU and anything else that I won't keep when I'll sell it. So now it tend to just add hard-disks and external peripherals but nothing else. I save the cash for the next purchase.
I can't believe such a silly solution is been suggested. 3 questions? What's this? Jeopardy? It's already hard to believe that someone had the lack of intelligence to have a login/passord access to a banking website. But why come up with such silliness? Haven't this people ever heard of scratch-lists? ID thiefs will just adapt their social engineering to get the answer to thos questions and are free to continue their way. It's basically just like asking 4 passwords that never change to login: 1 is the normal password and the 3 others in form of question/answer.
Well, in the West direct to video has always been a sign of lesser quality productions. But in Japan direct to video animations (Original Video Animation) is a big thing. It fits well something too long for a movie and too short for a complete series. They often come out in 4-7 episodes on DVD. Some great stuff has come out in that format. Lets hope the West can emulate that success bringing us great content on DVD free from the TV distribution medium where the biggest of masses of viewers is required for a show to succeed.
Actually, it's quite ironic that I purchased a brand new top of the line computer and I had to dig hard to find a floppy so that I could put the SATA drivers on them in order to install Windows XP x64. Before that it was a very long time I haven't used a floppy (and I was damn happy about it too). I hope that OS'es start supporting USB drives and CDs (if the CD-ROM is not on the SATA bus like my case) to read the SATA drivers on install. It seems stupid to link such very recently built OS (Windows XP x86 = 2005) to such an old device.
You should see a doctor to check those "boredom induced headaches". I'm lucky I don't get any physical manifestation from boredom otherwise my job would be even harder to bare.
The reviewer tried that. He says "I guess they arent swingers" :-).
I don't see how a greenhouse-gas depletes the ozone layer. I seriously doubt that H2O breaks down ozone like FCF does. I think you meant to say that it contributes to global warming.
Switzerland actually. Big lake stuck in a valley next to where I live. It's very nice in summer but winter is permacloud season
That's what Divx (no, not the codec) tried to do and (thankfully) failed. It used the phone line to charge for and authorize the viewing a movie.
Can't expect people to fall for such a crumy deal. I guess replacing video renting by selling a cheap disk with limitations will never work. If I own it, I want to fully use it.
Thank you very much but we alread get enought diming during winter with the sun setting at 4 in the afternoon and the "nice" cloud cover.
Man, with the temperature rising in my office, I'll stick to trying to keep myself cool.
You are so right. No mather how hard it is, I refuse to do work for customers I consider unetical. For now I say "no" when my employer asks me to work for a tabacco company. I would do the same with even more pride if it was weapons/military or a project that goes against what I beleive is right. What kind of a person would I be if I gave up on my beliefs just for money?
Wow that sure was Insightful. Maybe wait untill it comes out, then we'll see.
.NET being scrapped as native to the OS That's plain wrong. The 1/4 of longhorn's code will be in .Net. But it will be available on other OS as it's alread the case now (2000/XP/2003...).
I still think most people don't care about this. As long as IE has those features, there is no reason for people to try the app that had them first.