In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, rejuvination therapy and worm hole travel are perfected around the same time, without worm hole travel to habitable planets I don't think that the people living forever thing would go very smoothly.
Even the most right-wing idealogues concede that sometimes the market fails and government should intervene. The failure of the price of petrol to reflect it's true cost (ie the damage burning it causes to the environment) is an example of one these failures. Most developed countries' governments recognised this and taxed petrol accordingly; the US didn't and as a result gas guzzlers have been much more popular in the US than elsewhere. Now that US fuel prices are approaching the levels seen elsewhere before the recent price increases these cars are becoming less popular. Fuel taxes would have been a simple mechanism to reduce demand for SUVs years ago.
I have a long winded opinion that I'm about to start writing about so if I loose interest half way through and this stops abrubtly you know what happened.
At a time of very quickly increasing oil prices (largley due to increased demand from China and India) inflation in developing countries has been kept under control. Very cheap labour....
Ah fuck it.
Blah blah blah
Slave labour prices blah blah celebraty whores make lots of money blah blah fast track development runining the environment blah blah look how fucked South Korea's environment is blah blah enough Chinese to keep making our shoes and ps3s untill the planet is fucked and if Chinese labour prices get too high there is always Africa blah blah blah
Oh come to think of it that joke is almost as old as that term.
There I bet you all to it.
The joke is still more relevant than the term. I think employers who may have in the past looked for computer literate on a CV take it for granted. The fact that if you wrote the CV you are literate, if you sent your CV in Word format though email then you are computer literate.
There are so many things you can do on a computer that if you need someone with certain skills you have to be more specific than "computer literate".
Not having the flag enabled now is going to make it much harder to start using it later. After 4 years, when millions people get used to watching high resolution movies on their crippled PS3s, having a DRM flag on a movie will no longer be some technical rubbish about how they can copy it, rather it will mean they wont be able to play it at the resolution they have become accustomed to. If people are still willing to pay for a movie with this ICT flag enabled when they can't watch it in HD then the whole HD format change has been a waste of time, and pirated low resolution copys will also be good enough to pay for.
Studios are going to have to decide between selling blurays to people without HDMI hardware and losing sales through piracy. Perhaps they'll stop bitching about piracy and give up on DRM.
Sony should can Blu-ray move playback completely in the crippled PS3 and knock another hundred bucks off the price and I'll be in there like a big dog.
Having a version without HDMI allows Sony to drop the price of this version without even more grossly undercutting other hardware manufactures who are try to sell $800 (a number pulled out of my ass) Blu-ray players. I wont be surprised if we see the crippled version price drop much faster than HDMI one.
This suits me just fine as I'm more interesed in PS3 the game machine than PS3 the movie player.
I remember n64 games in New Zealand getting more and more expensive. Conkers Quest retailed for $180 while PSX games reatailed for $80 and the platinum ones were $40. Now most ps2 and xbox games are about $100 and EA ones typically sell for $80. First party Gamecube games are normally about $120 and others are around $90 to $100. EA stopped selling Gamecube games and now you have to import them from Australia.
This might be to do with Nintedo products being sold by the local distrubutor (Monarco) while XBox and Playstation AFAIK are sold by MS and Sony here.
I wouldn't be surprised if you get two controlers with the Wii. Hence the spelling, the i is supposed to look like a controler and there is two of them. Also this would allow developers to assume that everyone had two wiimotes and could design games with this in mind.
Also in 4 years time new PS3 games will still run perfectly on a PS3 while, without upgrades, new PC games will run like a dog on a 4 year old PC no matter how good it was.
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Even with electric guitars weight and density are considered a good thing.
Damn, my infinite volume, zero mass electric guitar will not have either - back to the drawing board.
In Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, rejuvination therapy and worm hole travel are perfected around the same time, without worm hole travel to habitable planets I don't think that the people living forever thing would go very smoothly.
Then how much would you pay for Ubuntu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as GNU/Linux supports your hardware?
You mean, how much would you pay for Ubantu, which causes even fewer headaches than Windows XP as long as it doesn't cause any headaches?
Don't bullets travel faster than sound? Isn't that why you need sub-sonic bullets to work with a silencer?
That fabric better be seriously waterproof - a moist 'gina could adversely affect handling.
Even the most right-wing idealogues concede that sometimes the market fails and government should intervene. The failure of the price of petrol to reflect it's true cost (ie the damage burning it causes to the environment) is an example of one these failures. Most developed countries' governments recognised this and taxed petrol accordingly; the US didn't and as a result gas guzzlers have been much more popular in the US than elsewhere. Now that US fuel prices are approaching the levels seen elsewhere before the recent price increases these cars are becoming less popular. Fuel taxes would have been a simple mechanism to reduce demand for SUVs years ago.
If only the US had responsible taxes on fuel to begin with this wouldn't have been a problem in the first place.
It could be a force field designed to keep hostile aliens in. Perhaps we are best not to investigate to hurriedly.
It's interesting that Geographic pages are often used to link diverse topics
I have a long winded opinion that I'm about to start writing about so if I loose interest half way through and this stops abrubtly you know what happened.
At a time of very quickly increasing oil prices (largley due to increased demand from China and India) inflation in developing countries has been kept under control. Very cheap labour....
Ah fuck it.
Blah blah blah
Slave labour prices blah blah celebraty whores make lots of money blah blah fast track development runining the environment blah blah look how fucked South Korea's environment is blah blah enough Chinese to keep making our shoes and ps3s untill the planet is fucked and if Chinese labour prices get too high there is always Africa blah blah blah
Oh come to think of it that joke is almost as old as that term.
There I bet you all to it.
The joke is still more relevant than the term. I think employers who may have in the past looked for computer literate on a CV take it for granted. The fact that if you wrote the CV you are literate, if you sent your CV in Word format though email then you are computer literate.
There are so many things you can do on a computer that if you need someone with certain skills you have to be more specific than "computer literate".
The early 90's called, they want their term back.
Not having the flag enabled now is going to make it much harder to start using it later. After 4 years, when millions people get used to watching high resolution movies on their crippled PS3s, having a DRM flag on a movie will no longer be some technical rubbish about how they can copy it, rather it will mean they wont be able to play it at the resolution they have become accustomed to. If people are still willing to pay for a movie with this ICT flag enabled when they can't watch it in HD then the whole HD format change has been a waste of time, and pirated low resolution copys will also be good enough to pay for.
Studios are going to have to decide between selling blurays to people without HDMI hardware and losing sales through piracy. Perhaps they'll stop bitching about piracy and give up on DRM.
Sony should can Blu-ray move playback completely in the crippled PS3 and knock another hundred bucks off the price and I'll be in there like a big dog.
Having a version without HDMI allows Sony to drop the price of this version without even more grossly undercutting other hardware manufactures who are try to sell $800 (a number pulled out of my ass) Blu-ray players. I wont be surprised if we see the crippled version price drop much faster than HDMI one.
This suits me just fine as I'm more interesed in PS3 the game machine than PS3 the movie player.
I remember n64 games in New Zealand getting more and more expensive. Conkers Quest retailed for $180 while PSX games reatailed for $80 and the platinum ones were $40. Now most ps2 and xbox games are about $100 and EA ones typically sell for $80. First party Gamecube games are normally about $120 and others are around $90 to $100. EA stopped selling Gamecube games and now you have to import them from Australia.
This might be to do with Nintedo products being sold by the local distrubutor (Monarco) while XBox and Playstation AFAIK are sold by MS and Sony here.
I wouldn't be surprised if you get two controlers with the Wii. Hence the spelling, the i is supposed to look like a controler and there is two of them. Also this would allow developers to assume that everyone had two wiimotes and could design games with this in mind.
The boomer generation is the largest growing market
I was under the impression that the boomer market had been declining since 1964
Perhaps if the Wii was HD, but try browsing the web at 640*480. I don't think it would catch on.
Also in 4 years time new PS3 games will still run perfectly on a PS3 while, without upgrades, new PC games will run like a dog on a 4 year old PC no matter how good it was.