Ditto. I've been using a $15/mo VPS (Virtuozzo powered) for a couple years now. Very few problems. FAR better than the shared hosting that I've used before.
Nintendo has a long history with being extremely careful to not oversupply the SOFTWARE side of the business. It looks far better to have just enough, or slightly too few, copies of a game at the retail level than to have old games piling up on the shelves. Old games sold at a discount compete directly with new releases, and it just makes a console feel unwanted.
But that logic does NOT work with the consoles themselves.
Let me see, six months ago, exactly how many people figured the Wii would be the #1 console in demand at this point in time? Yeah, about zero. So, exactly how was Nintendo supposed to prudently build a manufacturing chain that could supply all the Wii's that turned out to be demanded? It couldn't. So, yeah, give it some time and the units will arrive. April 1st? Sure, why not. That'll have been 6 months since we've discovered the demand for Wii's.
Forgive me for being an NFL apologist (heck, I watched all of two games last season), but this hardly qualifies as front-page Slashdot news with a title of "NFL Caught Abusing the DMCA". I thought this was going to be about the NFL sending out thousands of inaccurate DMCA take down notices or something comparable.
So after this lady wins her case in court, exactly what will we be able to do differently? Post clips of NFL games to YouTube with impunity? I doubt it.
I'm looking to get a new PDA "soon", though, honestly, I've been saying that for a couple years.
The NDS is cheap, has WiFi, has way more power than my old Visor, and because of the calmshell design, it doesn't need a separate hard case to protect the screen (er... screenS)*.
If Nintendo would release a PDA "game", I would get one in an instant. Plus, I could legitimately write off a game console come biz income tax time.:)
* one of my big beefs with PDA's, they double in size and become half as fun to use if you need to carry them around in a separate case! I originally thought the integrated flip over hardcover that my Visor has was dumb, but compared to an external case, it's bloody brilliant.
IMHO, there will be a way to pirate Vista soon enough. Heck, if the pirates can't find a way in 6 months, Microsoft will probably push an auto-update through that leaves an obvious and trivial hole for pirates to do so.
The last thing Microsoft wants is for end users to switch to Linux or OSX. MS makes 10x more per user on corporate users than home users anyway. Home users eventually influence business users...
In fact, I'll bet that deep in Apple strategy rooms, they're plotting a timeline for releasing Mac OSX on generic x86 machines (with only reasonable *wink* anti-piracy measures).
I realized I was looking at the 2004 values, just after posting.:(
(I'm not used to seeing year over year comparisons in an IR release in that order... probably different in Japan... but that's another matter)
2006 is a bit of an aberration for the gaming group. They're spending a LOT on PS3 development by that time. But in 2004 and 2005, PS profits are very large relative to movies and electronics.
Glancing at the operating profits, the gaming division is far more profitable than any of the other divisions -- plus, I'm not entirely sure what the other high profit division, "financial", means in this context, I suspect that it's the equivalent of their investment account rather than a operating business.
If you were a Sony shareholder, you'd want them to drop Blu-Ray ASAP if it had any chance of damaging the PlayStation franchise. That didn't happen, obviously.
The PS3 launch more or less coincides with the annual Christmas bump.
My question is, in which markets were the DC and PS3 launched in the first 6 months?
I would _assume_ that both were launched in Japan first. Did the DC make it to NA in the first few months? How about Europe?
Hey, my 14.4Kbps modem loved MP3
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Sure, 30% savings over mp2 doesn't seem like much today when the difference is what? 5 seconds of downloading time. But way back when I downloaded my first mp3, I would have been using my trusty 14.4K USR Sportster.
Just this week I've been looking at a potential use of a hacked Asus WL-500G plus OpenWRT. This Asus router has 2 USB ports. The OpenWRT package has some web servers available... and a lot of other stuff.
People here seem to think that ISPs are evil for not having trunks that are 1:1 for what they sell. But that's the way it is for most things!
What do you think would happen if everyone in my neighbourhood was to turn on everything electric and max out all of our 100 amp services at once? I'm going to bet that we'd blow a BIG fuse somewhere. Ditto cell phones, water, sewer (maybe), bridges, transit, long distance phone service, etc.
My ISP advertises a 6Mbit line, and I get it most of the time. Do I really expect to be able to download at that rate 24/7 to grab 1.9 terrabytes a month? (Did I blow a decimal place?) Nope.
I would expect the people in charge of water service to get pissed at me if I left all the taps running 24/7 (we're still unmetered for water) -- expect of course, it's quite inconvenient for them to track that sort of abuse.
It's one thing to rely on a third party to handle, host, and process data for you. But at some point, is it really smart to let a person or company have that sort of leverage over you. What happens when Google ratchets up the price of getting to YOUR data?
Sure, Google is a relatively "reasonable" company today, but are you willing to bet your data on it staying that way forever? Not I. Especially when the stakes are high.
Mind you, if Google offered some way to make a local backup that was is something approaching an open standard, e.g. a pile of XML files, then I'd probably be OK with it.
I've wondered why most A/C units for buildings seem to rely on radiating heat via waste air. There must be a decent use for that heat nearby (at least in densely populated areas). Find a pool that needs heating, or help run the hot water tanks, or create a public hot shower or something!
Water is a much better conductor of heat than air anyway.
People are talking as if allowing advertising would ruin the Wikipedia forever. That's not necessarily the case. It's relatively easy to add advertising, and it would be relatively easy to remove them if the funding situation changes.
Google could generate an explosion in small software shops writing cute little games to get "page" views. Google AdSense has probably done more to encourage the growth in small web sites than anything else the last few years.
It's not like we plug in computers to sit around idling all day. They're doing stuff. I can send an email to anywhere on the planet instead of stuffing and envelope to have it carried by truck, boat, or plane. Cars have better power plants than ever before... they didn't get that way with back of the envelope calculations! A lot of forms that I used to submit by fax or snail mail? All gone electronic.
So, computers are using more power than 5 years ago? Who cares? If it bothers you, then get off the grid and fun in your cave.
I suppose that pskill (a tool from Systernals that kills processes, like PS in *nix) can be used by malware authors, so it might deserve a warning flag. However, the stupid whitelist doesn't work properly, so AVG bugs me about it daily. Annoying. Fortunately, it's pretty rare that I use that tool these days.
It's just like the video games... future satellites will require laser based point defence. Zap stuff that's heading their way! Or, if you're of the Star Trek type, then we need to invent energy shields.
What happens when someone publishes a game for the Wii that is specifically designed to burn up calories? How? Just make the required motion of the Wiimote "big"... big arcs, rapid, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Wii-Gyms open up in a year or two. Or Wii Weight Loss Boot Camps...
Who gets the licensing money for TLD's anyway? ICANN?
Anyway, the company (presumably the one in the article summary) stands to make millions auctioning off the prized.xxx domains. Don't assume for a second that sex.xxx or xxx.xxx is going to sell for $10/year or whatever the going rate for a.com is today. They will go to the highest bidder, probably for 7 or maybe even 8 figures.
IMHO, I'd leave it as it is. You'll never get ALL the porn sites to move to.xxx's, and everyone will end up getting the.xxx's just to protect their brand image anyway. The biggest winner will be the company running that TLD, and maybe whoever gives out TLDs.
Wasn't the point of the 2nd factor to have a single device "key" that only you would carry? Using a file on a USB key means that anyone could copy the file or even post it on the web. That's hardly comparable to a RSA SecurID.
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Ditto. I've been using a $15/mo VPS (Virtuozzo powered) for a couple years now. Very few problems. FAR better than the shared hosting that I've used before.
Nintendo has a long history with being extremely careful to not oversupply the SOFTWARE side of the business. It looks far better to have just enough, or slightly too few, copies of a game at the retail level than to have old games piling up on the shelves. Old games sold at a discount compete directly with new releases, and it just makes a console feel unwanted.
But that logic does NOT work with the consoles themselves.
Let me see, six months ago, exactly how many people figured the Wii would be the #1 console in demand at this point in time? Yeah, about zero. So, exactly how was Nintendo supposed to prudently build a manufacturing chain that could supply all the Wii's that turned out to be demanded? It couldn't. So, yeah, give it some time and the units will arrive. April 1st? Sure, why not. That'll have been 6 months since we've discovered the demand for Wii's.
Just close your eyes, count to ten, then start shouting "Serenity now" over and over again until the problem passes you by. :)
Err... sure.
Forgive me for being an NFL apologist (heck, I watched all of two games last season), but this hardly qualifies as front-page Slashdot news with a title of "NFL Caught Abusing the DMCA". I thought this was going to be about the NFL sending out thousands of inaccurate DMCA take down notices or something comparable.
So after this lady wins her case in court, exactly what will we be able to do differently? Post clips of NFL games to YouTube with impunity? I doubt it.
I'm looking to get a new PDA "soon", though, honestly, I've been saying that for a couple years.
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The NDS is cheap, has WiFi, has way more power than my old Visor, and because of the calmshell design, it doesn't need a separate hard case to protect the screen (er... screenS)*.
If Nintendo would release a PDA "game", I would get one in an instant. Plus, I could legitimately write off a game console come biz income tax time.
* one of my big beefs with PDA's, they double in size and become half as fun to use if you need to carry them around in a separate case! I originally thought the integrated flip over hardcover that my Visor has was dumb, but compared to an external case, it's bloody brilliant.
IMHO, there will be a way to pirate Vista soon enough. Heck, if the pirates can't find a way in 6 months, Microsoft will probably push an auto-update through that leaves an obvious and trivial hole for pirates to do so.
The last thing Microsoft wants is for end users to switch to Linux or OSX. MS makes 10x more per user on corporate users than home users anyway. Home users eventually influence business users...
In fact, I'll bet that deep in Apple strategy rooms, they're plotting a timeline for releasing Mac OSX on generic x86 machines (with only reasonable *wink* anti-piracy measures).
I realized I was looking at the 2004 values, just after posting. :(
(I'm not used to seeing year over year comparisons in an IR release in that order... probably different in Japan... but that's another matter)
2006 is a bit of an aberration for the gaming group. They're spending a LOT on PS3 development by that time. But in 2004 and 2005, PS profits are very large relative to movies and electronics.
IIRC, the gaming division at Sony is by FAR the most profitable part of Sony.
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OK, I decided to check my facts, here is a summary that Sony put out for the year ending March 2006:
http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/financial/ar/2006
Glancing at the operating profits, the gaming division is far more profitable than any of the other divisions -- plus, I'm not entirely sure what the other high profit division, "financial", means in this context, I suspect that it's the equivalent of their investment account rather than a operating business.
If you were a Sony shareholder, you'd want them to drop Blu-Ray ASAP if it had any chance of damaging the PlayStation franchise. That didn't happen, obviously.
The PS3 launch more or less coincides with the annual Christmas bump.
My question is, in which markets were the DC and PS3 launched in the first 6 months?
I would _assume_ that both were launched in Japan first. Did the DC make it to NA in the first few months? How about Europe?
Sure, 30% savings over mp2 doesn't seem like much today when the difference is what? 5 seconds of downloading time. But way back when I downloaded my first mp3, I would have been using my trusty 14.4K USR Sportster.
Anyway, at modem speeds, 30% is like 5 minutes!
Just this week I've been looking at a potential use of a hacked Asus WL-500G plus OpenWRT. This Asus router has 2 USB ports. The OpenWRT package has some web servers available... and a lot of other stuff.
People here seem to think that ISPs are evil for not having trunks that are 1:1 for what they sell. But that's the way it is for most things!
What do you think would happen if everyone in my neighbourhood was to turn on everything electric and max out all of our 100 amp services at once? I'm going to bet that we'd blow a BIG fuse somewhere. Ditto cell phones, water, sewer (maybe), bridges, transit, long distance phone service, etc.
My ISP advertises a 6Mbit line, and I get it most of the time. Do I really expect to be able to download at that rate 24/7 to grab 1.9 terrabytes a month? (Did I blow a decimal place?) Nope.
I would expect the people in charge of water service to get pissed at me if I left all the taps running 24/7 (we're still unmetered for water) -- expect of course, it's quite inconvenient for them to track that sort of abuse.
Yeah, I totally agree.
It's one thing to rely on a third party to handle, host, and process data for you. But at some point, is it really smart to let a person or company have that sort of leverage over you. What happens when Google ratchets up the price of getting to YOUR data?
Sure, Google is a relatively "reasonable" company today, but are you willing to bet your data on it staying that way forever? Not I. Especially when the stakes are high.
Mind you, if Google offered some way to make a local backup that was is something approaching an open standard, e.g. a pile of XML files, then I'd probably be OK with it.
Yeah, it's weird. I suspect that they will attempt to appease the FCC somehow. Maybe by renting out space on their network?
I've wondered why most A/C units for buildings seem to rely on radiating heat via waste air. There must be a decent use for that heat nearby (at least in densely populated areas). Find a pool that needs heating, or help run the hot water tanks, or create a public hot shower or something!
Water is a much better conductor of heat than air anyway.
People are talking as if allowing advertising would ruin the Wikipedia forever. That's not necessarily the case. It's relatively easy to add advertising, and it would be relatively easy to remove them if the funding situation changes.
Google could generate an explosion in small software shops writing cute little games to get "page" views. Google AdSense has probably done more to encourage the growth in small web sites than anything else the last few years.
I'll call it Freeware 2.0.
It's not like we plug in computers to sit around idling all day. They're doing stuff. I can send an email to anywhere on the planet instead of stuffing and envelope to have it carried by truck, boat, or plane. Cars have better power plants than ever before... they didn't get that way with back of the envelope calculations! A lot of forms that I used to submit by fax or snail mail? All gone electronic.
So, computers are using more power than 5 years ago? Who cares? If it bothers you, then get off the grid and fun in your cave.
I've never heard of column based databases prior to this article. Would I be correct in assuming that you still can work with these using regular SQL?
I suppose that pskill (a tool from Systernals that kills processes, like PS in *nix) can be used by malware authors, so it might deserve a warning flag. However, the stupid whitelist doesn't work properly, so AVG bugs me about it daily. Annoying. Fortunately, it's pretty rare that I use that tool these days.
I don't understand why there's a single vault. There should be a bunch, rather like the root domain name servers (how's that for a geeky analogy?).
IMHO, while we're at it, shove a few in orbit or on the moon. Fortunately, cooling the vaults won't be a problem in space.
It's just like the video games... future satellites will require laser based point defence. Zap stuff that's heading their way! Or, if you're of the Star Trek type, then we need to invent energy shields.
What happens when someone publishes a game for the Wii that is specifically designed to burn up calories? How? Just make the required motion of the Wiimote "big"... big arcs, rapid, etc.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Wii-Gyms open up in a year or two. Or Wii Weight Loss Boot Camps...
Who gets the licensing money for TLD's anyway? ICANN?
.xxx domains. Don't assume for a second that sex.xxx or xxx.xxx is going to sell for $10/year or whatever the going rate for a .com is today. They will go to the highest bidder, probably for 7 or maybe even 8 figures.
.xxx's, and everyone will end up getting the .xxx's just to protect their brand image anyway. The biggest winner will be the company running that TLD, and maybe whoever gives out TLDs.
Anyway, the company (presumably the one in the article summary) stands to make millions auctioning off the prized
IMHO, I'd leave it as it is. You'll never get ALL the porn sites to move to
Wasn't the point of the 2nd factor to have a single device "key" that only you would carry? Using a file on a USB key means that anyone could copy the file or even post it on the web. That's hardly comparable to a RSA SecurID.