The ethernet cable is to turn the string vibrations from analog to digital. This is to make the sound clearer with less degradation of sound quality when trying to plug an analog jack into a computer.
Downsides are: Current Effects pedals don't work with it. Current Amplifiers don't work with it.
So i guess, particularly if you're a live musician, it's of no real.
I suspect that the major reason for this is that Sony, after the bad PR recently is trying to be consumer friendly, but in a calculated way.
They have realised that games purchase over the internet is also profitable. So why not make the PS3 region free and tap into the online purchase market. People will buy games that arent released in other countries just cause they have heard great things baout them. Games are notoriously released in Japan without seeing the light of day in other countries, even if there is a demand for them. They effectively create a world wide purchasing market without restricting it to zoning.
This is also great for the consumer, because you will be able to take your PS3 to a different country, buy a plug converter and use it without having to worry about those pesky restrictions. Considering they will be losing money on the sale of a PS3, i think this is a wise a decision as it will minimise them having to produce a whole lot more just because people move countries.
They wouldnt do something like this if they couldn't see the profit in it.
Sales of less consoles + sales of more games = profit
Format Wars
Xbox 360 popularity
Rootkitting CD's
PS3 delays
Ipod (yes this is bad for Sony)
Lawsuits from vendors
All this bad publicity surely can't be doing the company any good. At this point in time, the CEO would be sacked at most companies i am aware of, but it's not happening here. you have to wonder if the morale within the company is any good also.
I hope their lawyers get paid well.
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Do users get a different type of buzz??
Bet Robert Downey Jr will try to quash this technology ASAP.
He's just saying that i'm going to take over profitable web based companies in a nice way. He has done this since he started out in business. Bought companies and turned them into his own agenda pushing propaganda machines.
Myspace's featured profile would always come up as The O'Reilly Factor, any dissention about George Bush on a blog would lead to accounts being suspended etc etc.
He's done it throughout his media mogul life.
Considering the average age of a gamer hovers between the 25 - 30 year old age, and i suspect, most people around that age arent very politically active, this could be a good way to get them politically active.
I doubt we'll see fatal1ty as the next president, but you never know how much influence this sort of organisation may actually have.
Are Cisco intent on stopping all social interaction of any kind? If i want to watch the football and ogle the cheerleaders with some friends, i generally invite them over to the house, light up a barbecue and get beer out of the fridge. Cisco possibly suspect that we are all germophobes who hate leaving the confines of our house or interacting with humanity of any kind.
Humanity may be evolving, but there is still that caveman/woman in us that needs to have our own social groups and interact with them. Half of the human language is based on physical presence, and this just takes all of that away.
John Chambers must be living in some deluded Lawnmower Man fantasy land.
Is this an attempt for Google to compete with Microsoft in word processing? Because as cool as this may be, it's going to be mighty difficult to topple Microsoft in that department. The Office Suite is so embedded in the corporate world and homes that garnering support for this product will be difficult at best. People know how to use Word. The majority won't want to go to something else that is new and shiny. CIO's won't take the risk of switching over to a new system when they already have a tried and tested system in place.
Microsoft already whipped most opposition to it. Also, after development is this going to be free or is the consumer going to end up paying for the privelege?
It appears more and more apparent that Google is basing their business model on Microsoft (acquire and re-badge).
I'd love to see Google actually take the fight to Microsoft on something that Microsoft has not traditionally been strong at and show them how it should be done. Show them that they are innovaters and not just tagging along on already established software. Trying and compete with them on this front is almost a lost cause.
Is it possible to dispose of potential nuclear waste down a volcano?
Would the magma burn the radioactive waste into non existance or we all perish as a result?
you'll find that most new lifts being installed these days have their motors sitting on top of the actual lift
As components become smaller and more powerful, lift motor rooms are fast becoming redundant.
This excludes taller office towers as they obviously need massive winches etc for the amount of cable that needs to be recoiled.
I agree. And considering in most countries there are standards that companies have to adhere to when installing elevators, i find it highly unlikely that when the power fails, we will all plummet to our bloody doom.
In Australia a lift is required to have a certain amount of brakes in case of emergency as standard.
I suspect that if these are to be commissioned in other countries, the install will have to adhere to each countries individual building code standards.
The French Army officially only has 136,00 soldiers, this does not include the French Foreign Legion, which is maybe about 25% - 35% French, and the rest are foreigners who have joined. They can be called up at any time, and are usually the first sent into battle.
Why you ask?
Because i find end users in particular believe their capabilities are such that they could re-write the whole OS, even though they have trouble typing things in a word processor.
That, and i dont trust them, people are inquisitive, they like to search around, and inevitably, manage to find a way to screw things up.
Giving that sort of access is a bad idea, let alone putting it into practice. That just opens up a Pandora's box of late nights trying to fix the fsck'd system.
Mambo is the name of a clothing brand as well. The company is run by Reg Mombassa who was in an Australian band called Mental As Anything.
In retrospect it sounds apt. The whole six degrees of separation thing works! You'd have to be "mental as anything" to think that cell is going to make x86 obsolete so easily.
Did anyone even consider the sort of discount MS would get for bulk purchases of the components of the 360? They would have had a forecast for projected sales, gone to the manufacturer and said, this is what we expect the sales figures to be, make us the console. I bet manufacturers and suppliers would have been falling over themselves trying to give MS the best possible price on components so they could get in on this cash cow.
MS are hardly buying retail prices to make the 360's.
Will Homer be wearing his Ayatolla Assaholla T-Shirt at all? Wonder how they'd react to that
Marge and Homer go through old things in the attic in preparation for the big sale.
Marge: Can we get rid of this Ayatollah T-shirt [it says: "Ayatolla Assaholla"]? Khomeini died years ago.
Homer: But, Marge! It works on any Ayatollah: Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmada and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
from The Simpsons, "Two Bad Neighbors" (3F09) airdate: 14-Jan-96
As a structural engineer i have been to too many countries where the education of their engineers leaves a lot to be desired. This shows in the quality of the end product.
Engineering is not meant to be a glamorous job. The money is good, but the reason its good is because lives depend on it. If you fail to engineer something correctly and leave design flaws, then there can be disastrous consequences. If you need to make it difficult at the college or university level, then so be it. If you cant handle the pressure in university, then there will be no way you will be able to handle the pressure when working in the field. I would rather not use the structure some hack from Bovine University created because the course had become easier.
It is not the type of field where you can allow complacency to sift through, because if you do, major disasters can occur.
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The ethernet cable is to turn the string vibrations from analog to digital. This is to make the sound clearer with less degradation of sound quality when trying to plug an analog jack into a computer.
Downsides are:
Current Effects pedals don't work with it.
Current Amplifiers don't work with it.
So i guess, particularly if you're a live musician, it's of no real.
Start queueing up the "In Soviet Russia" one liners...
I suspect that the major reason for this is that Sony, after the bad PR recently is trying to be consumer friendly, but in a calculated way.
They have realised that games purchase over the internet is also profitable. So why not make the PS3 region free and tap into the online purchase market. People will buy games that arent released in other countries just cause they have heard great things baout them. Games are notoriously released in Japan without seeing the light of day in other countries, even if there is a demand for them. They effectively create a world wide purchasing market without restricting it to zoning.
This is also great for the consumer, because you will be able to take your PS3 to a different country, buy a plug converter and use it without having to worry about those pesky restrictions. Considering they will be losing money on the sale of a PS3, i think this is a wise a decision as it will minimise them having to produce a whole lot more just because people move countries.
They wouldnt do something like this if they couldn't see the profit in it.
Sales of less consoles + sales of more games = profit
This is a real bad time for Sony.
Format Wars
Xbox 360 popularity
Rootkitting CD's
PS3 delays
Ipod (yes this is bad for Sony)
Lawsuits from vendors
All this bad publicity surely can't be doing the company any good. At this point in time, the CEO would be sacked at most companies i am aware of, but it's not happening here. you have to wonder if the morale within the company is any good also. I hope their lawyers get paid well.
Do users get a different type of buzz?? Bet Robert Downey Jr will try to quash this technology ASAP.
He's just saying that i'm going to take over profitable web based companies in a nice way. He has done this since he started out in business. Bought companies and turned them into his own agenda pushing propaganda machines. Myspace's featured profile would always come up as The O'Reilly Factor, any dissention about George Bush on a blog would lead to accounts being suspended etc etc. He's done it throughout his media mogul life.
Considering the average age of a gamer hovers between the 25 - 30 year old age, and i suspect, most people around that age arent very politically active, this could be a good way to get them politically active. I doubt we'll see fatal1ty as the next president, but you never know how much influence this sort of organisation may actually have.
Are Cisco intent on stopping all social interaction of any kind? If i want to watch the football and ogle the cheerleaders with some friends, i generally invite them over to the house, light up a barbecue and get beer out of the fridge. Cisco possibly suspect that we are all germophobes who hate leaving the confines of our house or interacting with humanity of any kind. Humanity may be evolving, but there is still that caveman/woman in us that needs to have our own social groups and interact with them. Half of the human language is based on physical presence, and this just takes all of that away. John Chambers must be living in some deluded Lawnmower Man fantasy land.
Is this an attempt for Google to compete with Microsoft in word processing? Because as cool as this may be, it's going to be mighty difficult to topple Microsoft in that department. The Office Suite is so embedded in the corporate world and homes that garnering support for this product will be difficult at best. People know how to use Word. The majority won't want to go to something else that is new and shiny. CIO's won't take the risk of switching over to a new system when they already have a tried and tested system in place.
Microsoft already whipped most opposition to it. Also, after development is this going to be free or is the consumer going to end up paying for the privelege?
It appears more and more apparent that Google is basing their business model on Microsoft (acquire and re-badge).
I'd love to see Google actually take the fight to Microsoft on something that Microsoft has not traditionally been strong at and show them how it should be done. Show them that they are innovaters and not just tagging along on already established software. Trying and compete with them on this front is almost a lost cause.
Is it possible to dispose of potential nuclear waste down a volcano? Would the magma burn the radioactive waste into non existance or we all perish as a result?
Here in the land of the kangaroo, we do all the hard work for the thieves and just let bank and credit statements fall off the back of a truck.
FYI: China is a communist country. Not a fascist one.
you'll find that most new lifts being installed these days have their motors sitting on top of the actual lift As components become smaller and more powerful, lift motor rooms are fast becoming redundant. This excludes taller office towers as they obviously need massive winches etc for the amount of cable that needs to be recoiled.
I agree.
And considering in most countries there are standards that companies have to adhere to when installing elevators, i find it highly unlikely that when the power fails, we will all plummet to our bloody doom.
In Australia a lift is required to have a certain amount of brakes in case of emergency as standard.
I suspect that if these are to be commissioned in other countries, the install will have to adhere to each countries individual building code standards.
Homer Simpson
He's the greatest guy you'll ever see,
From the, town of Springfield,
He's about to hit a chestnut tree...
*crash* Doh!
We wouldnt have timeless classics like that with all this assisted driving!
The French Army officially only has 136,00 soldiers, this does not include the French Foreign Legion, which is maybe about 25% - 35% French, and the rest are foreigners who have joined. They can be called up at any time, and are usually the first sent into battle.
Why you ask? Because i find end users in particular believe their capabilities are such that they could re-write the whole OS, even though they have trouble typing things in a word processor. That, and i dont trust them, people are inquisitive, they like to search around, and inevitably, manage to find a way to screw things up. Giving that sort of access is a bad idea, let alone putting it into practice. That just opens up a Pandora's box of late nights trying to fix the fsck'd system.
Thats a whole new meaning for Intel Inside right there...
This isnt news, John Travolta has been flying planes for years...
So the people that picked there nose, rubbed it in the dirt and ate it for dessert were actually onto something. Who would've thought
Mambo is the name of a clothing brand as well. The company is run by Reg Mombassa who was in an Australian band called Mental As Anything. In retrospect it sounds apt. The whole six degrees of separation thing works! You'd have to be "mental as anything" to think that cell is going to make x86 obsolete so easily.
This guy is definately scared. I'd be scared if i had a cookie lingering around my hard drive with an expiry date of 2038.
Did anyone even consider the sort of discount MS would get for bulk purchases of the components of the 360? They would have had a forecast for projected sales, gone to the manufacturer and said, this is what we expect the sales figures to be, make us the console. I bet manufacturers and suppliers would have been falling over themselves trying to give MS the best possible price on components so they could get in on this cash cow.
MS are hardly buying retail prices to make the 360's.
Will Homer be wearing his Ayatolla Assaholla T-Shirt at all? Wonder how they'd react to that
Marge and Homer go through old things in the attic in preparation for the big sale.
Marge: Can we get rid of this Ayatollah T-shirt [it says: "Ayatolla Assaholla"]? Khomeini died years ago.
Homer: But, Marge! It works on any Ayatollah: Ayatollah Nakhbadeh, Ayatollah Zahedi... even as we speak, Ayatollah Razmada and his cadre of fanatics are consolidating their power.
from The Simpsons, "Two Bad Neighbors" (3F09)
airdate: 14-Jan-96
I totally agree.
As a structural engineer i have been to too many countries where the education of their engineers leaves a lot to be desired. This shows in the quality of the end product.
Engineering is not meant to be a glamorous job. The money is good, but the reason its good is because lives depend on it. If you fail to engineer something correctly and leave design flaws, then there can be disastrous consequences. If you need to make it difficult at the college or university level, then so be it. If you cant handle the pressure in university, then there will be no way you will be able to handle the pressure when working in the field. I would rather not use the structure some hack from Bovine University created because the course had become easier.
It is not the type of field where you can allow complacency to sift through, because if you do, major disasters can occur.