whatever flamebait, having a higher price is a marketing decision that increases capitolization. I believe their market share is higher in terms of dollars than stated, users sure, but dollars are what companies are after.
aparently people with mod points don't understand that dollars ARE more important than number of users, therefore having 1/6 of the users at 3x the price is a shrewd business move.
just want to add: remember that solar is basically a 1 time cost, so by the hour has no meaning.
now if you were to amortize the up front cost with the expected life span and include batteries/capacitors and their life span, you could get a much more accurate idea of the actual cost, but most people don't really care about that. The truth is the math/price point is not quite there yet for an off grid solar solution (power stored on sight with batteries or capacitors). But those who use a "run the meter backwards" grid-tied solar solution are already enjoying real cost savings. Batteries are (and will probably always be) the big cost offset because batteries still suck, A LOT. Run on the grid, and share power during the peak and we vastly augment our thirst for oil, but we can never truely become independant unless we figure out a way to vastly improve power storage. The solar panel cost is rapidly becomming trivial, which is a great step, but not the hardest or most important one, IMO.
I am not in the minority when I say I gladly upgraded to 95 for WC2 and I would "downgrade" err upgrade to Fista for SC2. I am that much of a sad little fanboy.
Second: The "discrimination" white males feel is bullshit. And it annoys me when male middle class white people try to act like a disenfranchised group. It is unbecoming and makes "us" all look bad.
No sony device will run on anything else, sure it is less efficient and probably won't work for very long, but sony brand SugarRay is now the only power you are allowed to use in your house. Old standards and new technology aren't important.
This just in HighDefinitionBatteries have been adopted by the biggest battery studios SugarRay is now dead.
If you post a newspaper article on your door, and I walk by and read it, did I steal your newspaper? If you stand in your yard naked and I see you, am I a peeping tom? If your music is too loud and I listen to you play your CDs am I stealing music?
Leaching is not stealing, since nothing is LOST. If you don't want people leaching, then stop them from doing so.. involving the government just makes things mroe rediculious for everyone.
Share your networks and secure your PCs that is my philosophy. I could care less if my neighbors use my connection, I would prefer it because then they will not be asking me to come over and fix theirs every day;)
It must have been hard living in a pre-fab environment never seeing the sun and wearing the same clothes for days. Now they can go back to their mom's basement where the conditions will be at least slightly different from a mars mission.
I am long out of school. I got great grades, I learned how to manipulate teachers who only want to feel like they are making a difference in the world, no matter how untrue it is, if you make them believe it you will succeed in school. Please do not dismiss my dislike for all things acedemic for some sort of bitterness because of failure. I was highly successful at manipulating that marvelous machine. I can tell you that AP classes in high school and advanced courses in college are significantly easier than lower level ones. Now that I have had a few years to detox from being forced to "learn" I can finally understand what it is to actually learn and to like doing it.
I understand that they have grand dreams of discovering/moulding the next shakespeare or Einstein, but the truth is useful genius is not acedemic. Shakespeare didn't write plays because his teacher asked/told him to. Einstein didn't study physics because he needed the credit hours. They did those important things because they NEEDED to. No lack of school funding, or increased funding or even a zealous or uncaring teacher would have changed their lives in any way.
You can't MAKE anyone do anything, and that is why the fundamental concept of "education" is flawed. A system designed to 'teach' will always be less effective than one that allows people to learn. Learning is acquiring knowledge and the ability to apply it, sure if there is always some "teach" on tap then you will occasionally take some in and do some learning. But teaching is a side-effect of learning, not the other way around.
If you are trying to drink out of a bucket of water with a straw, and somebody takes the bucket and dumps it on your head, sure you will probably get some water in your mouth, but allowing the student to drink at their own pace would me much more effective, no matter how thirsty the person was or how big their straw is.
Untill you are at a point in your life where you are free to learn, without being actively taught; you aren't learning to your fullest ability, you are at best learning to the fullest ability of your teacher, or they are a distraction to your actual learning.
Aparently last time we raised a generation that mistakenly thinks school is important. School is only important to the mediocre.
The truely notable, exceptional people will be bored no matter what you put in front of them. School is a waste of time for everyone but those who would be left behind without this program. Nothing worthwile (acedemically) happens before college anyway, and even then real learning doesn't really start untill you break free of "those who can't do" and start getting some real world experience. And by then those that would be left behind are long gone.
Don't forget that historically many people who went on to be geniuses were considered retarded or in modern terms developmentally disabled... like Einstein, for example. Many extremly technically gifted people are categorized as being Autistic, which often comes with high intellegence, with low social skills... And autism is one of the biggest cost initiatives in the no child left behind campaign.
Special needs != Stupid
High performing student != gifted/genius
No child left behind just makes it more painfully obvious that the school system is only a very expensive, very useless state mandated babysitting service. Real learning happens when people are left to persue subjects they are passionate about.
I can't believe people still think that a genius will be somehow less valuable and less effective with less school resources. In fact, I would be willing to say that the less the "education" process gets in the way of learning, the better.
The average user cannot use Linux. End of story, end of game.
Losing their OS will not make people adopt Linux, only an accessable, brain dead easy, free version of Linux will make them adopt it, and even then it will be an uphill battle.
They don't care about how many megaflop pixelations per hertz, all they care about is "Can I see pictures of my grand kids without taking a college course?" They don't even really care about who gets their money.
I can get on the 'web with a new Mac, I can get on all of the internets with a new Windows PC, I can't get on the interweb without my Geek grandson's help with linux... The PC is cheaper. That is a pretty good "average user" summary of why the home user market has been like this for years.
We were Texting it up all night, first I googled her codec, then I showed her my biosteel... just be sure to uninstall before you pixelate otherwise you will have a little nanobot to worry about. This method is sooo much better than mere self-storage. Just give her the ole chip and PIN that's what I always say. I look forward to our next mash-up
I think I just accidentally cybered slashdot. crap. it all happened so fast. I just hope whatever I got is screenable
Redneck is a race?
Redneck is a stereotype that only applies to white people... It even mentions skin color. Sure it does not have the same power as some of the Brown-Skinned racial hate phraises, but it is still a hate phraise.
When you hear "Redneck" do you think of Paul McCartny? Will Smith? Antonio Banderes? The Mexican guy down the street with 4 broken cars? The African American guy wearing a Bandana and a shirt that says "Tupac 4 Ever"? Or the White guy down the street with 4 broken cars?
When you hear "Spic" do you think of Paul McCartny? Will Smith? Antonio Banderes? The Mexican guy down the street with 4 broken cars? The African American guy wearing a Bandana and a shirt that says "Tupac 4 Ever"? Or the White guy down the street with 4 broken cars?
What about other racial stereo types?
Just because it does not apply to all members of a race, doesn;t mean it isn't a racist phraise.
Look, I have a 5.1 Surround sound, butt shaker enabled, pop-corn machine, Blacked out windows, 7 foot projection display, stadium seating, 300 square foot movie theater in my house. This is just not a "Media Room."
I don't think there is anyone who cares LESS about HDDVD/Blueray.
I can't tell much of a difference between Progressive Scan and HDDVD as demonstrated in the store (except the usual here is a CRT bubble with a DVD playing, and a $9,000 HD Plasma with a HD-DVD playing, see how much better?)...
I have a 2000 lumen 1024x576/1024x768 projector (yeah I know it is not 1080p, but it is still higher quality than I need) and HD HBO/Starz/Network channels with an HD-DVR (which is the only DVR my cable company offers otherwise I would have a much better Standard Resolution Tivo), so I have seen a lot of movies that way and I just could care less about the barely perceptable differences between these and DVDs, and I am definatly not an average consumer.
Hell I have a decent VCR (most VCRs are crap) and it is connected in with SVideo, and I can tell you that some of the old VHS tapes don't look that different from DVDs.
I guess I am just not "in" to quality that can only be measured by reading the specs on the box.
and then nobody wants to take their chances on a game that is less likely to sell (i.e. isn't really mainstream) so they release pretty much ONLY first person shooters.
I agree. Also Please invest in my startup: EggsByMail.com
Oh wait, it is not 1998 anymore. From where I am sitting games nowadays are sports games, MMOs (or other similar, open-ended games like GTA, Tony Hawk), and 1st person shooters is probably last on the lather rinse repeat cycle nowadays (but not absent from the list).
I agree that there is a lot of monotany, but you haven't looked at games lately if you think everybody is releasing 1st person shooters.
Each generation has a right to define what the terms "Grown-up" and "Mature" mean. Just because we do not fit the definition of "grown-up" in a 17th century sense of the term, doesn't mean I don't make my contribution to the world and take care of my peeps.
I play video games, I read comics, I still shop the toy isle at target.
I also have a house, 4 cars, 2 children, a decent investment portfolio, and an early retirement plan.
Every generation has the right to define how they should act... It just seems like my generation is the first one to actually exercise that right in a long time (maybe since the first Renaissance). Comic book target audience was 8-12 years old from the early 1900s untill 1990 when it steadily grew up with my generation. Video games were for kids when they went mainstream... their target audience is now my age group.
I just think the definition of "Mature" or "Grown-up" which says that you are no longer allowed to have fun is an antiquated one, and one that will eventually die out.
Also Coffee tastes like shit. Viva La Mountain Dew.
They print out an excel document with 3 cells so they can "read" it. No joke one time the 1st VP printed out an email I sent him that had a 6 digit order count, and no other text... he read it out loud, then threw it in the recycling. They keep giant boxes of paper docs that are printed off from our document management system, and are easily retrievable. We have a 100% paperless system, and at any given time the users have 10-20 sheets of paper on their desks, all of them digitally accessable.
I don't have any paper on my desk, haven't since the early 1990s, but this advancement is not intended for me. It is for "Joe Paper-Lover"
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whatever flamebait, having a higher price is a marketing decision that increases capitolization. I believe their market share is higher in terms of dollars than stated, users sure, but dollars are what companies are after.
aparently people with mod points don't understand that dollars ARE more important than number of users, therefore having 1/6 of the users at 3x the price is a shrewd business move.
As I see it the average Mactop is about 3x the price of the average Laptop... that means their share is closer to 38% of the market
just want to add: remember that solar is basically a 1 time cost, so by the hour has no meaning.
now if you were to amortize the up front cost with the expected life span and include batteries/capacitors and their life span, you could get a much more accurate idea of the actual cost, but most people don't really care about that. The truth is the math/price point is not quite there yet for an off grid solar solution (power stored on sight with batteries or capacitors). But those who use a "run the meter backwards" grid-tied solar solution are already enjoying real cost savings. Batteries are (and will probably always be) the big cost offset because batteries still suck, A LOT. Run on the grid, and share power during the peak and we vastly augment our thirst for oil, but we can never truely become independant unless we figure out a way to vastly improve power storage. The solar panel cost is rapidly becomming trivial, which is a great step, but not the hardest or most important one, IMO.
I am not in the minority when I say I gladly upgraded to 95 for WC2 and I would "downgrade" err upgrade to Fista for SC2. I am that much of a sad little fanboy.
First: I am a white male
Second: The "discrimination" white males feel is bullshit. And it annoys me when male middle class white people try to act like a disenfranchised group. It is unbecoming and makes "us" all look bad.
No sony device will run on anything else, sure it is less efficient and probably won't work for very long, but sony brand SugarRay is now the only power you are allowed to use in your house. Old standards and new technology aren't important.
This just in HighDefinitionBatteries have been adopted by the biggest battery studios SugarRay is now dead.
The ACLU defends Klansmen's rights to march protesting the "black vote" just as adamantly as it does African American people's right to vote.
Other than that, keep rocking the suburbs, the white american male is soooo discriminated against... boo hoo.
wow, I forgot about metered lines and bandwidth caps... yet another reason not to live in a 3rd world country like the UK.
If you post a newspaper article on your door, and I walk by and read it, did I steal your newspaper? If you stand in your yard naked and I see you, am I a peeping tom? If your music is too loud and I listen to you play your CDs am I stealing music?
Leaching is not stealing, since nothing is LOST. If you don't want people leaching, then stop them from doing so.. involving the government just makes things mroe rediculious for everyone.
Share your networks and secure your PCs that is my philosophy. I could care less if my neighbors use my connection, I would prefer it because then they will not be asking me to come over and fix theirs every day ;)
It must have been hard living in a pre-fab environment never seeing the sun and wearing the same clothes for days. Now they can go back to their mom's basement where the conditions will be at least slightly different from a mars mission.
I am long out of school. I got great grades, I learned how to manipulate teachers who only want to feel like they are making a difference in the world, no matter how untrue it is, if you make them believe it you will succeed in school. Please do not dismiss my dislike for all things acedemic for some sort of bitterness because of failure. I was highly successful at manipulating that marvelous machine. I can tell you that AP classes in high school and advanced courses in college are significantly easier than lower level ones. Now that I have had a few years to detox from being forced to "learn" I can finally understand what it is to actually learn and to like doing it.
I understand that they have grand dreams of discovering/moulding the next shakespeare or Einstein, but the truth is useful genius is not acedemic. Shakespeare didn't write plays because his teacher asked/told him to. Einstein didn't study physics because he needed the credit hours. They did those important things because they NEEDED to. No lack of school funding, or increased funding or even a zealous or uncaring teacher would have changed their lives in any way.
You can't MAKE anyone do anything, and that is why the fundamental concept of "education" is flawed. A system designed to 'teach' will always be less effective than one that allows people to learn. Learning is acquiring knowledge and the ability to apply it, sure if there is always some "teach" on tap then you will occasionally take some in and do some learning. But teaching is a side-effect of learning, not the other way around.
If you are trying to drink out of a bucket of water with a straw, and somebody takes the bucket and dumps it on your head, sure you will probably get some water in your mouth, but allowing the student to drink at their own pace would me much more effective, no matter how thirsty the person was or how big their straw is.
Untill you are at a point in your life where you are free to learn, without being actively taught; you aren't learning to your fullest ability, you are at best learning to the fullest ability of your teacher, or they are a distraction to your actual learning.
Aparently last time we raised a generation that mistakenly thinks school is important.
School is only important to the mediocre.
The truely notable, exceptional people will be bored no matter what you put in front of them. School is a waste of time for everyone but those who would be left behind without this program. Nothing worthwile (acedemically) happens before college anyway, and even then real learning doesn't really start untill you break free of "those who can't do" and start getting some real world experience. And by then those that would be left behind are long gone.
Don't forget that historically many people who went on to be geniuses were considered retarded or in modern terms developmentally disabled... like Einstein, for example. Many extremly technically gifted people are categorized as being Autistic, which often comes with high intellegence, with low social skills... And autism is one of the biggest cost initiatives in the no child left behind campaign. Special needs != Stupid High performing student != gifted/genius No child left behind just makes it more painfully obvious that the school system is only a very expensive, very useless state mandated babysitting service. Real learning happens when people are left to persue subjects they are passionate about. I can't believe people still think that a genius will be somehow less valuable and less effective with less school resources. In fact, I would be willing to say that the less the "education" process gets in the way of learning, the better.
just look at the demand curve of the inset of the cosign of value. I mean it is really simple, buzz words sell posts.
Seriously, Sony, no matter how much you gurella market this thing you will not win over Slashdot. Also stop copy/pasting your own posts.
My parent's windows system came with a disc they could just put in the drive, turn it on, then wait for about 1 hour, then they were back in business.
but your point is valid the problem comes with the need to install.
The average user cannot use Linux. End of story, end of game.
Losing their OS will not make people adopt Linux, only an accessable, brain dead easy, free version of Linux will make them adopt it, and even then it will be an uphill battle.
They don't care about how many megaflop pixelations per hertz, all they care about is "Can I see pictures of my grand kids without taking a college course?" They don't even really care about who gets their money.
I can get on the 'web with a new Mac, I can get on all of the internets with a new Windows PC, I can't get on the interweb without my Geek grandson's help with linux... The PC is cheaper. That is a pretty good "average user" summary of why the home user market has been like this for years.
I have been looking for a way to crash Linux.
We were Texting it up all night, first I googled her codec, then I showed her my biosteel... just be sure to uninstall before you pixelate otherwise you will have a little nanobot to worry about. This method is sooo much better than mere self-storage. Just give her the ole chip and PIN that's what I always say. I look forward to our next mash-up
I think I just accidentally cybered slashdot. crap. it all happened so fast. I just hope whatever I got is screenable
Redneck is a race?
Redneck is a stereotype that only applies to white people... It even mentions skin color. Sure it does not have the same power as some of the Brown-Skinned racial hate phraises, but it is still a hate phraise.
When you hear "Redneck" do you think of Paul McCartny? Will Smith? Antonio Banderes? The Mexican guy down the street with 4 broken cars? The African American guy wearing a Bandana and a shirt that says "Tupac 4 Ever"? Or the White guy down the street with 4 broken cars?
When you hear "Spic" do you think of Paul McCartny? Will Smith? Antonio Banderes? The Mexican guy down the street with 4 broken cars? The African American guy wearing a Bandana and a shirt that says "Tupac 4 Ever"? Or the White guy down the street with 4 broken cars?
What about other racial stereo types?
Just because it does not apply to all members of a race, doesn;t mean it isn't a racist phraise.
Look, I have a 5.1 Surround sound, butt shaker enabled, pop-corn machine, Blacked out windows, 7 foot projection display, stadium seating, 300 square foot movie theater in my house. This is just not a "Media Room."
I don't think there is anyone who cares LESS about HDDVD/Blueray.
I can't tell much of a difference between Progressive Scan and HDDVD as demonstrated in the store (except the usual here is a CRT bubble with a DVD playing, and a $9,000 HD Plasma with a HD-DVD playing, see how much better?)...
I have a 2000 lumen 1024x576/1024x768 projector (yeah I know it is not 1080p, but it is still higher quality than I need) and HD HBO/Starz/Network channels with an HD-DVR (which is the only DVR my cable company offers otherwise I would have a much better Standard Resolution Tivo), so I have seen a lot of movies that way and I just could care less about the barely perceptable differences between these and DVDs, and I am definatly not an average consumer.
Hell I have a decent VCR (most VCRs are crap) and it is connected in with SVideo, and I can tell you that some of the old VHS tapes don't look that different from DVDs.
I guess I am just not "in" to quality that can only be measured by reading the specs on the box.
and then nobody wants to take their chances on a game that is less likely to sell (i.e. isn't really mainstream) so they release pretty much ONLY first person shooters.
I agree. Also Please invest in my startup: EggsByMail.com
Oh wait, it is not 1998 anymore. From where I am sitting games nowadays are sports games, MMOs (or other similar, open-ended games like GTA, Tony Hawk), and 1st person shooters is probably last on the lather rinse repeat cycle nowadays (but not absent from the list).
I agree that there is a lot of monotany, but you haven't looked at games lately if you think everybody is releasing 1st person shooters.
Each generation has a right to define what the terms "Grown-up" and "Mature" mean. Just because we do not fit the definition of "grown-up" in a 17th century sense of the term, doesn't mean I don't make my contribution to the world and take care of my peeps.
I play video games, I read comics, I still shop the toy isle at target.
I also have a house, 4 cars, 2 children, a decent investment portfolio, and an early retirement plan.
Every generation has the right to define how they should act... It just seems like my generation is the first one to actually exercise that right in a long time (maybe since the first Renaissance). Comic book target audience was 8-12 years old from the early 1900s untill 1990 when it steadily grew up with my generation. Video games were for kids when they went mainstream... their target audience is now my age group.
I just think the definition of "Mature" or "Grown-up" which says that you are no longer allowed to have fun is an antiquated one, and one that will eventually die out.
Also Coffee tastes like shit. Viva La Mountain Dew.
I guess you have never met my users.
They print out an excel document with 3 cells so they can "read" it. No joke one time the 1st VP printed out an email I sent him that had a 6 digit order count, and no other text... he read it out loud, then threw it in the recycling. They keep giant boxes of paper docs that are printed off from our document management system, and are easily retrievable. We have a 100% paperless system, and at any given time the users have 10-20 sheets of paper on their desks, all of them digitally accessable.
I don't have any paper on my desk, haven't since the early 1990s, but this advancement is not intended for me. It is for "Joe Paper-Lover"