Yeah, I'd agree that there wouldn't be an advance unless they were an established player with previous blockbuster books. I notice you put Halliday/et al, yet both in HS (non-calc) and college (calc from intro through modern) we used Serway et. al.
Think about how small a market college textbooks compose. For instance, my undergrad CS program used 5 different books for 5 concurrent semesters of OS. (mostly because they switched from Java to C++ to C). Now, I realize most people would cry "The bastards! I can't use a book from last year!" but what I'm trying to point out is just the volume of textbooks available for an intro to OS class. So, even if 40 of your classmates buy a book for a semester, (and that's a fairly large class), times that by perhaps 100 different unversities that may use this textbook at $100 a pop, that's only $400,000. While that may seem a lot of money, after recuperating printing fees, editor fees, etc etc and the advance, there's not much left. And 100 different universities using this book is a stretch if there are plenty of books available. On the flipside, I'm sure Deitel and Deitel have made mad cash on Intro to C++/Java/C# etc...etc.
Or even better, what about my African Storyteller professor who wrote the book we studied? how small a market is that? I'd bet pretty small.
Here's a link to The Log Cabin Democrat about backpacks, which is an AP news report. Also, the American Chiropractice Association has this link with tips on backpacks. You should note its not necessarily the weight of the pack, rather how its worn. Wearing both shoulder straps and carrying it at the proper level (above the waist) is encouraged.
At least you have the option of running WineX for unported games. I'm sure there are currently more Mac desktop machines out there than Linux desktop machines, and look how few ports there are to the Mac. And with a few exceptions, most games that are ported take at least a year (or even longer). If the Linux gamer's market is smaller, how do you expect companies to make a business case for porting to Linux? They're not until Linux becomes more prevalent on the desktop side.
"Colin McRae Rally 3" contains one of the most realistic reproductions of a Ford Focus, above, in a game. While the first-person view of driving the Focus, below, isnOt identical to the real car, it does give a realistic feel of speed and handling."
If you look at the photo in the article,
Umm...that's not a Ford Focus, that's a Ford Puma. I can't even BUY a Puma here (here being the US). Regardless, a lot of people speculate that Subaru brought the WRX/STi to the US two years ago because of Gran Turismo. Likewise for the Evo.
In the end though, many of the vehicles we love to drive in video games (personally, I like the Citroen Xsara from RalliSport Challenge) are cars we can't attain (Jaguar XJ220, Ferrari Enzo, etc...etc) not some Joe Shmoe Chevy Impala (unless its from the 60s) or a Ford Taurus.
If I remember my Animation class correctly, all the Pixar movies were done in house: three years for plot/character development, then three years to render (or something like that).
John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar, is credited as the writer of Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, Tin Toy, Knick Knick, Toy Story, a Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2 according to imdb If anyone should receive credit for Pixar's success, it should be Mr. Lasseter.
$15 for the subscription plus the $30~$60 for a cable modem (for those of us in the US). Plus you actually have to buy the game ($40-$60). In the end that's a lot of moolah to play what, F-Zero with 3 of your friends (or enemies)?
The author points out: "The ideal mobile task is stateless (needs no database or database access), has a tiny network input and output, and has huge computational demand."
"And of course, SETI@Home is a good example: it computes for 12 hours on half a megabyte of input."
So, for projects that fit this model, then they should save money over supercomputers. But few projects fit this model, with the author mentioning web and data processing, data loading, CFD, ie anything that "generates a continuous and voluminous output stream" as economically unfeasible. So, car companies really do need those supercomputers to virtually crash their cars. =)
If a non-US market is more competitive than an American producer, the American government slaps a huge tariff.
This isn't really the case though with Hynix. Hynix (the non-US producer) isn't more competitive, rather its actually non-competitive and is being propped up by the S. Korean government. If Hynix truly was competitive then there wouldn't be a problem.
On a side note, the S. Korean government is very protective of large Korean corporations because they are the backbone of Korean industry. Hyundai, Daewoo, LG, Samsung: they're all familiar names, but they're actually rather diverse companies (Hyundai's one of the largest cargo ship manufacturers in the world). So, it doesn't really surprise me that the S. Korean government subsidized Hynix, its just how things are done.
It appears they have to pay for the "Premier" help and perhaps make a phone call (I doubt that though)
"'I consult Microsoft online help,' he replies. 'We have Premier help,' he adds, referring to the live operators available to subscribers only."
On a side note, you can have another computer that's not hooked up to SIPR that's hooked up the Internet to search MS help. This soldier is not in the field, he's the "help desk." His/her job is to help fix computers: soldiers in battle communicate over GCCS which runs over SIPR. RTFA
I'm reading the lawsuit filed and it spends a couple pages explaining DVDs and a couple pages explaining the PS2 (!!!???)
"26. A DVD is the same size and thickness as a CD, approximately 4.72 inches in diameter and about as thick as a penny."
"28. Compared to a VHS (which plays on a VCR), the DVD (which plays on a DVD Player) offers consumers significant advantages as a format for playing studio released movies at home."
"29. The video and audio quality of DVD is significantly better than VHS."
"35. PlayStation 2 is a successor to PlayStation (PlayStation 1), an advanced computer game console. PlayStation 1 was a breakthrough in computer technology due in part to its capability to play computer games on CDs."
etc...etc. Any lawyers in the house? Is this type of "explanation" normal in a lawsuit? Or even necessary?
Check out this Anandtech article about the Opteron. Since none of the current Opteron MBs have AGP, Anandtech used a PCI GeForce4 and left resolution at 640x480. Further, "If you remember, up until the release of the GeForce4 Ti 4600 and the Radeon 9700 Pro, almost all of our gaming tests for CPU reviews were conducted at 640x480." So, there are people out there are doing CPU Reviews and doing what you requested.
"If you need six passes per light with four lights at a time, or if you need 30 million triangles a second, or if you have multiple layers of alpha everywhere on the screen - in short, if you need anything like the power of the latest GeForce or Radeon - then Pixomatic is not for you."
Gee...and here I was thinking that I could get my PIII to run DoomIII like a champ... *sigh*
Sarcasm aside, I think this is pretty cool: "In fact, Pixomatic would have worked well for at least 17 and possibly as many as 19 of the top 20 PC games of 2001." For stuff that doesn't need the latest and greatest, this is nice.
I think what you meant to write was "Chinese character devices." And even that might not be entirely appropriate given the number of dialects. Regardless, let's not lump all Asian languages together. For instance, Korean has 24 characters (14 consonants and 10 vowels) which is a far cry from 4000 characters.
I'll agree that SCCI, USB, Firewire, dropping the floppy, Newton etc.. were all advances, but if my understanding is correct, by including the iMac, specifically stating its a flat panel, implies that Apple was the first to do this, which is not the case. Gateway was the first to market (albeit, it was a pretty poor attempt) with a flat panel display built into a computer. Unless I too am mistaken (either in the company, or my assumption about your statement)
There are a few things to note I guess. Well here at my school there is Linux lab with 866 PIII/256 RAM while we also have a variety of Sun Ultra 10s running from 300-440 mhz. its not exactly an apples to apples comparison, but the Sun workstations (I think I ran it on the 300 MHz workstations) whomped all over the PIIIs for my Artificial Intelligence project. It was a heuristic search algorithm, and the Suns would finish in under 2 minute while the PIIIs would take more than 10 minutes to spit out the same answer. Again, not an apples to apples comparison.
On the flip side, running applications like Mozilla or KDE is exceptionally slow compared to the PIIIs.
So, for computationally hard things like heurstic search algorithms, the 64 bits sure do help, but for running KDE 3.0, Mhz seems to be the order of the day.
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Yeah, I'd agree that there wouldn't be an advance unless they were an established player with previous blockbuster books. I notice you put Halliday/et al, yet both in HS (non-calc) and college (calc from intro through modern) we used Serway et. al.
Think about how small a market college textbooks compose. For instance, my undergrad CS program used 5 different books for 5 concurrent semesters of OS. (mostly because they switched from Java to C++ to C). Now, I realize most people would cry "The bastards! I can't use a book from last year!" but what I'm trying to point out is just the volume of textbooks available for an intro to OS class. So, even if 40 of your classmates buy a book for a semester, (and that's a fairly large class), times that by perhaps 100 different unversities that may use this textbook at $100 a pop, that's only $400,000. While that may seem a lot of money, after recuperating printing fees, editor fees, etc etc and the advance, there's not much left. And 100 different universities using this book is a stretch if there are plenty of books available. On the flipside, I'm sure Deitel and Deitel have made mad cash on Intro to C++/Java/C# etc...etc. Or even better, what about my African Storyteller professor who wrote the book we studied? how small a market is that? I'd bet pretty small.
Here's a link to The Log Cabin Democrat about backpacks, which is an AP news report. Also, the American Chiropractice Association has this link with tips on backpacks. You should note its not necessarily the weight of the pack, rather how its worn. Wearing both shoulder straps and carrying it at the proper level (above the waist) is encouraged.
At least you have the option of running WineX for unported games. I'm sure there are currently more Mac desktop machines out there than Linux desktop machines, and look how few ports there are to the Mac. And with a few exceptions, most games that are ported take at least a year (or even longer). If the Linux gamer's market is smaller, how do you expect companies to make a business case for porting to Linux? They're not until Linux becomes more prevalent on the desktop side.
And now, for fun's sake, take a look at RVB Apple Switch
This is the caption from the pic in the article:
"Colin McRae Rally 3" contains one of the most realistic reproductions of a Ford Focus, above, in a game. While the first-person view of driving the Focus, below, isnOt identical to the real car, it does give a realistic feel of speed and handling."
If you look at the photo in the article, Umm...that's not a Ford Focus, that's a Ford Puma. I can't even BUY a Puma here (here being the US). Regardless, a lot of people speculate that Subaru brought the WRX/STi to the US two years ago because of Gran Turismo. Likewise for the Evo.
In the end though, many of the vehicles we love to drive in video games (personally, I like the Citroen Xsara from RalliSport Challenge) are cars we can't attain (Jaguar XJ220, Ferrari Enzo, etc...etc) not some Joe Shmoe Chevy Impala (unless its from the 60s) or a Ford Taurus.
If I remember my Animation class correctly, all the Pixar movies were done in house: three years for plot/character development, then three years to render (or something like that).
John Lasseter, the founder of Pixar, is credited as the writer of Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, Tin Toy, Knick Knick, Toy Story, a Bug's Life, and Toy Story 2 according to imdb If anyone should receive credit for Pixar's success, it should be Mr. Lasseter.
$15 for the subscription plus the $30~$60 for a cable modem (for those of us in the US). Plus you actually have to buy the game ($40-$60). In the end that's a lot of moolah to play what, F-Zero with 3 of your friends (or enemies)?
The author points out: "The ideal mobile task is stateless (needs no database or database access), has a tiny network input and output, and has huge computational demand."
"And of course, SETI@Home is a good example: it computes for 12 hours on half a megabyte of input."
So, for projects that fit this model, then they should save money over supercomputers. But few projects fit this model, with the author mentioning web and data processing, data loading, CFD, ie anything that "generates a continuous and voluminous output stream" as economically unfeasible. So, car companies really do need those supercomputers to virtually crash their cars. =)
I didn't know StarOffice was available for the Mac OSX platform. I doubt it would run on in OSX.
Perhaps its also time to change the /. picture representing Mac/Apple news?
If a non-US market is more competitive than an American producer, the American government slaps a huge tariff.
This isn't really the case though with Hynix. Hynix (the non-US producer) isn't more competitive, rather its actually non-competitive and is being propped up by the S. Korean government. If Hynix truly was competitive then there wouldn't be a problem.
On a side note, the S. Korean government is very protective of large Korean corporations because they are the backbone of Korean industry. Hyundai, Daewoo, LG, Samsung: they're all familiar names, but they're actually rather diverse companies (Hyundai's one of the largest cargo ship manufacturers in the world). So, it doesn't really surprise me that the S. Korean government subsidized Hynix, its just how things are done.
It appears they have to pay for the "Premier" help and perhaps make a phone call (I doubt that though)
"'I consult Microsoft online help,' he replies. 'We have Premier help,' he adds, referring to the live operators available to subscribers only."
On a side note, you can have another computer that's not hooked up to SIPR that's hooked up the Internet to search MS help. This soldier is not in the field, he's the "help desk." His/her job is to help fix computers: soldiers in battle communicate over GCCS which runs over SIPR. RTFA
I'm reading the lawsuit filed and it spends a couple pages explaining DVDs and a couple pages explaining the PS2 (!!!???)
"26. A DVD is the same size and thickness as a CD, approximately 4.72 inches in diameter and about as thick as a penny."
"28. Compared to a VHS (which plays on a VCR), the DVD (which plays on a DVD Player) offers consumers significant advantages as a format for playing studio released movies at home."
"29. The video and audio quality of DVD is significantly better than VHS."
"35. PlayStation 2 is a successor to PlayStation (PlayStation 1), an advanced computer game console. PlayStation 1 was a breakthrough in computer technology due in part to its capability to play computer games on CDs."
etc...etc. Any lawyers in the house? Is this type of "explanation" normal in a lawsuit? Or even necessary?
Check out this Anandtech article about the Opteron. Since none of the current Opteron MBs have AGP, Anandtech used a PCI GeForce4 and left resolution at 640x480. Further, "If you remember, up until the release of the GeForce4 Ti 4600 and the Radeon 9700 Pro, almost all of our gaming tests for CPU reviews were conducted at 640x480." So, there are people out there are doing CPU Reviews and doing what you requested.
"If you need six passes per light with four lights at a time, or if you need 30 million triangles a second, or if you have multiple layers of alpha everywhere on the screen - in short, if you need anything like the power of the latest GeForce or Radeon - then Pixomatic is not for you."
Gee...and here I was thinking that I could get my PIII to run DoomIII like a champ... *sigh*
Sarcasm aside, I think this is pretty cool: "In fact, Pixomatic would have worked well for at least 17 and possibly as many as 19 of the top 20 PC games of 2001." For stuff that doesn't need the latest and greatest, this is nice.
Closing the wind tunnel is a physical impossibility: it sucks and blows at the same time.
*Rim shot*
sorry...
I think what you meant to write was "Chinese character devices." And even that might not be entirely appropriate given the number of dialects. Regardless, let's not lump all Asian languages together. For instance, Korean has 24 characters (14 consonants and 10 vowels) which is a far cry from 4000 characters.
You wouldn't happen to be Canadian would you? Blank Media Prices Could Soar In Canada Perhaps NOT $5 but progressing along those lines...
"The people who willfully pirate music and movies need to be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law"
I think you meant "prosecute" not "persecute." Unless you really meant that we should oppress these people because they pirate music.
I'll agree that SCCI, USB, Firewire, dropping the floppy, Newton etc.. were all advances, but if my understanding is correct, by including the iMac, specifically stating its a flat panel, implies that Apple was the first to do this, which is not the case. Gateway was the first to market (albeit, it was a pretty poor attempt) with a flat panel display built into a computer. Unless I too am mistaken (either in the company, or my assumption about your statement)
There are a few things to note I guess.
Well here at my school there is Linux lab with 866 PIII/256 RAM while we also have a variety of Sun Ultra 10s running from 300-440 mhz. its not exactly an apples to apples comparison, but the Sun workstations (I think I ran it on the 300 MHz workstations) whomped all over the PIIIs for my Artificial Intelligence project. It was a heuristic search algorithm, and the Suns would finish in under 2 minute while the PIIIs would take more than 10 minutes to spit out the same answer.
Again, not an apples to apples comparison.
On the flip side, running applications like Mozilla or KDE is exceptionally slow compared to the PIIIs.
So, for computationally hard things like heurstic search algorithms, the 64 bits sure do help, but for running KDE 3.0, Mhz seems to be the order of the day.