I have been a big fan of Samsungs Rugby/Actives for years. I didn't care for Consumer Reports of a simulated pressure of five feet, which is an instant pressure on the phone, and have dropped my S7 Active in a pool and it works fine.
I have nerve and balance issues so my phones go through hell. If IPhones can't handle that pressure how will they handle ASOC?
On the possibility we haven't discovered enough to understand a potentially infinite space-time, God might exist and we don't have the knowledge or ability to discover him. u_u
Game Economics are nothing like Real Economics. In games you can quit (in life that would be suicide) but outside of that necessities are not existent in a game. You do not have to buy the best gear or grind raids/pvp to achieve goals or to exist in the game. Those are things you impose on yourself by yourself or from pressure of others. In real life you have to have food, shelter and consumable water to survive, no matter what you or others think. You can believe you don't but in the end you will die or end up in the hands of people who know better. TVs, Computers, Cars, Laptops, Wagons, Knowledge are ultimately all societal ideals that are perceived to be necessary but are not for a human's survival.
Money, virtual or backed by necessities is nothing but a representation of bartering which in the end is nothing but value equivalent trade. No new money has to enter a market. Money can dry up, it's called deflation which something has the US Fed needs to do before the Dollar becomes useless (ie by over-inflation which would be countered by reduction or stop of printing of new additional currency and raising of interest rates so the Fed can absorb money out of the market.) As long as people are fed and sheltered, success beyond that is highly a subjective ideal.
Austerity isn't the issue, it's the fact you have different style economies, societies, and governments (private, public, gov) trying to share the identical virtual ticket to represent their economies.
It's why the initial Confederacy that became the Federal Government of the US had to exist, to regulate the entities that reside within it's bounds to escape the exact same problems the EU is facing today, different taxes, economies and peoples in different recognized states. Ultimately there will be war before the EU is able to even impose federalization of the nations of Europe under it's thumb.
The big issue people aren't seeing is that that our infrastructure is much like Toll Roads. Private companies can charge as much as needed for a truck delivering a table as they see fit due to it being three axles. The biggest problem is most consumers don't have much choice into what services they have so they have to have their delivery truck go over that said toll road and that cost is either 1) factored into initial cost or 2) Required upon delivery.
The issue itself isn't that the ISP's shouldn't throttle internet etc (which they need to be clear on with their customers which they are not and do secretly) it is most areas have Oligopolies where two to three ISPs are allowed to deploy in a specific area. Here in Montgomery the two companies discuss and split neighborhoods and all apartment complexes with a third option of ATT DSL (which is horrible in this area unless you have an office within 2500 feet of the ATT building.) Maybe if we could find better wireless solution, such as repeaters on the side of houses for phone, tv and internet and make it a requirement of the provider to keep the hardware up to date (one reason I rent my cable modem, it's been replaced three times with newer models over 2 1/2 years.)
The only other solution would be like highways and the interstate, which are govt. controlled. With a congress that can't reform basic systems like Social Security and Taxes to today's standards and Judges who make insane decisions on technology they have no understanding of, I would hate to see the government step into an area like this at this point in time.
So we're screwed.
It not only adds manufacturing cost, but every button and the slide add points of failure. Plus with slide kb's, it cuts into the placement of hardware which limits the phone in power and up time which are major factors unless they increase the size and weight.
Back when I worked, when we finally broke and gave end-users qwerty keyboard phones and some slideout phones, the failure rate on phones sky-rocketed, from alphabetical key failing to the sliders failing as well. We could never pin point an issue on 80% of the phones but 20% was easily noted as end-user abuse.
Companies know this and it's difficult to prove failure on behalf of the user or manufacturer. AT&T and Verizon like phones being replaced due to being outpaced by factors such as OS, Software and Connectivity vs. having to deal with customer service of a three month old phone's physical keyboard being jammed, which could be from poor QA to the end-user letting their child play on it while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (which, was one of our cases.)
So if they do produce a slider, and want to make sure it's thin, light and has a long lasting battery it will drive the cost up which in the end will kill sales. The few that want them will get them but a majority of people won't pay for the extra feature to have the same power and functionality as say a Samsung Galaxy S4.
A large issue Nintendo has with the Wii U (which MS is suffering) is naming. Why is a Wii U better than a Wii, or an Xbox ONE better than an Xbox 360? This doesn't include the inconsistent naming after the SNES/SFamicom.
If they did a simple normal name such as Wii 2, Super Wii or hell NES6 where it was something people know it's better they probably wouldn't have such an issue. There are enough first party titles out there to support the machine but their gimmick system makes them have a separate ecosystem than the other two major platforms causing cross-platform a pain.
As for the 3DS, firstly there is the 2DS, 3DS and 3DSXL. When you add the amount of colors and game packs available you cut into profits by causing less popular skus to collect dusk and increase in cost of production.
Microsoft learned this in the early days of the 360.
This isn't even mentioning power or capabilities of the system.
I am more concerned about their concept of Kinect 2 will be always listening. Wonder what privacy concerns we're now going to have to have with this. Might make the PSN getting hacked look like Christmas.
Yeah, unwanted is a very harsh and unrealistic idea. With the price point and lack of solid titles at launch it's going to be slow. Sony predicted this, and if you notice they are still supporting the ps2 quite well during this slow start.
The three main problems are:
Price Point is to high
Lack of Killer Games
Lack of HD TV's in general public to take full advantage of the hardware's visual capabilities.
I might be buying one soon so I can make sure I have the extra hardware for the ps2 bc...::shrug::
Well, SuSE is still running all my Oracle instances quite well, and until I see some dynamic shift I am not going to do anything drastic because a potential deal. You have two scenarios to look at, Apple, and Sybase. I remember the Apple fanatics (which I might fit in, but I will never tell) screamed about how it was the end of Apple when they invested into an failing Apple. Everything turned out fine.
Now Sybase is a different story, which I think is everyones fears. I think this was a move by Novell to get some needed funding, especially at a time when Red Hat is being made out to be a bad guy by Oracle. This also might be the bridge to getting Microsoft to run their apps on Linux. Who knows, We might see Microsoft do a similar move to Apple, and stack their proprietary API's on top of a linux foundation (Apple on top of Darwin/BSD anyone?)
For a group that screams that Microsoft stifles innovation, actions like this prove that zealots and those who are afraid of change are to blame as well.
Well Put, I have to agree. The PS2 had some major issues, especially at launch and everyone thought that the superior graphics of the XBox and Gamecube would win, and it came down to the games and branding really.
Also the PS3 and Wii's features of backwards compatibility, since the X360 dropped that, will probably add some more flare to their line up. Like you said, the ability to expand your library emensely for $20, and the ability to clear up shelf space to and still play your favorite games is a big bonus to many Average Joe Gamers.
Maybe it's because (I might be wrong) but due to the PS2 being a realtime environment and allowing developers to customize or build their own middleware, and XBox was strictly limited to the capabilities of DirectX...
The main thing that is bothering me is EBGAMES/GAMESTOP is already advertising ps3 games for $59.99, which was something that drove me away from the X360. I know it might be due to inflation but I am already having a hard time to slap down $50 for a new game when I can rent it from Gamefly or buy it 6 months later for 2/5's that price. Then again, Gamestop and EBGames have a history of jumping the gun and assuming.
Well, who cares. The SNES had a slower processor than the Genesis, but better graphics capablities, and you know who won that war. The graphics look amazing and the new games look interesting, so a small detail in spec's isn't going to ward me off. Sounds like another N64 vs PSX fight.
IBM is simply waiting it out. SCO can't take away their right to the "code in question" due to:
A) SCO has to prove that IBM gave the code to linux. For all we know linux STOLE the code.
B) IBM has held their ground on that the license can't be refuted, which means it probably can't. If it could I think IBM would be doing other tactics right now.
C) IBM is merely making press releases, will send a few lawyers to court, and then cause more damage to SCO by refuting their claims.
D) They will probably counter sue for breaching their contract, and possibly aim for free use of the code etc.
SCO is really looking for a buy out, or renegotiation for their CODE. They think they're MS or something and can pull licenses when they want to.
Is it me or are they begging for a buy out? A billion dollar lawsuit or a billion dollars for an out of steam company?
United Linux: SuSE, Conectiva, Turbolinux and.... IBM?
I mean, with that math, a person is a total idiot for buying a BMW with 200 horsepower for 35000 over a Camero with 400 Horsepower for 25000.
Some people don't understand quality:)
I have been fighting this since the early late 90's, and it all goes back to adobe's (and other companies) poor code. That's one reason companies are able to push lareger processors on users so quickly, and that's because they constantly bloat their code and do half the job. That's one reason the high end unix community doesn't need super fast raw powered processors, their code is clean.
*sighs*
People never look at the real problems, they just look at what seems more easily fixed / explainable.
Well, how complicated is the database anyway? I mean, Postgre is not that bad of a system, just a little akward at times in programming.
But you can't just say how many hits the database takes as a whole, or just say it is or not mission critial. You have to look at how many tables get hit or completely walked for each query, how large the data that must be indexed/scanned during each hit, how complex the data is, the complexity of the relations... etc. etc.
Oracle is just probably not worth the cost for the application needed and is just to much horsepower for what is needed now or in the forseeable future. Especially when they can hire a few solid programmers cheap to make sure the systsem is well maintained.
I just think it's nice to see PostgreSQL getting used more and more, especially since the open source database community has been a little biased for a while towards MySQL... or in my opinion anyway;)
Maybe they are going to do the old "Basic App" for free and "Advanced App" for a price set up. If they do charge I hope they do this type of deal. If you remember iMovie 2 wasn't adopted as fast as iMovie 1 because of it being a pay for app.
I think this will be detremental to their "switch" efforts and possible upset some diehard apple fans if they make you pay for an upgrade.
-GPT
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Many factors limit the performance of systems. One thing if I remember correctly that makes SGi machines so fast is that components talk to each other directly and at full speed. They have a fancy name for it, like interweave connect or something like that.
So who cares how fast your processor is when you are using legacy designs for components that can't keep up with your processors cycles.
Also the IA64 is solid, but there are a lot of better choices out there. Mainly becausse MS and Intel are pushing hard to move into that high tech market. I personally feel that AMD is going to corner the market early with their x86-64 processors and linux as their prefered OS.
Plus SGi still alive because of the high tech industry, which is a small portion of the market, but a great deal of the money, ie people paying millions for a 500+ processor super computer, or $60,000+ high end servers.
They are dead in the graphics industry, 1st because of no Photoshop 4 for IRIX (due to adobes poor coding and MS) and finally linux taking away the 3D market.
They are probably going to get bought out by one of the larger High Tech CORPs like IBM, NEC or Terracomputing...
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Read history. First 13 years of the US was a confederacy. Look how that turned out.
I have been a big fan of Samsungs Rugby/Actives for years. I didn't care for Consumer Reports of a simulated pressure of five feet, which is an instant pressure on the phone, and have dropped my S7 Active in a pool and it works fine. I have nerve and balance issues so my phones go through hell. If IPhones can't handle that pressure how will they handle ASOC?
On the possibility we haven't discovered enough to understand a potentially infinite space-time, God might exist and we don't have the knowledge or ability to discover him. u_u
Zuckerberg: "All your face belong to us"
Game Economics are nothing like Real Economics. In games you can quit (in life that would be suicide) but outside of that necessities are not existent in a game. You do not have to buy the best gear or grind raids/pvp to achieve goals or to exist in the game. Those are things you impose on yourself by yourself or from pressure of others. In real life you have to have food, shelter and consumable water to survive, no matter what you or others think. You can believe you don't but in the end you will die or end up in the hands of people who know better. TVs, Computers, Cars, Laptops, Wagons, Knowledge are ultimately all societal ideals that are perceived to be necessary but are not for a human's survival. Money, virtual or backed by necessities is nothing but a representation of bartering which in the end is nothing but value equivalent trade. No new money has to enter a market. Money can dry up, it's called deflation which something has the US Fed needs to do before the Dollar becomes useless (ie by over-inflation which would be countered by reduction or stop of printing of new additional currency and raising of interest rates so the Fed can absorb money out of the market.) As long as people are fed and sheltered, success beyond that is highly a subjective ideal. Austerity isn't the issue, it's the fact you have different style economies, societies, and governments (private, public, gov) trying to share the identical virtual ticket to represent their economies. It's why the initial Confederacy that became the Federal Government of the US had to exist, to regulate the entities that reside within it's bounds to escape the exact same problems the EU is facing today, different taxes, economies and peoples in different recognized states. Ultimately there will be war before the EU is able to even impose federalization of the nations of Europe under it's thumb.
The big issue people aren't seeing is that that our infrastructure is much like Toll Roads. Private companies can charge as much as needed for a truck delivering a table as they see fit due to it being three axles. The biggest problem is most consumers don't have much choice into what services they have so they have to have their delivery truck go over that said toll road and that cost is either 1) factored into initial cost or 2) Required upon delivery. The issue itself isn't that the ISP's shouldn't throttle internet etc (which they need to be clear on with their customers which they are not and do secretly) it is most areas have Oligopolies where two to three ISPs are allowed to deploy in a specific area. Here in Montgomery the two companies discuss and split neighborhoods and all apartment complexes with a third option of ATT DSL (which is horrible in this area unless you have an office within 2500 feet of the ATT building.) Maybe if we could find better wireless solution, such as repeaters on the side of houses for phone, tv and internet and make it a requirement of the provider to keep the hardware up to date (one reason I rent my cable modem, it's been replaced three times with newer models over 2 1/2 years.) The only other solution would be like highways and the interstate, which are govt. controlled. With a congress that can't reform basic systems like Social Security and Taxes to today's standards and Judges who make insane decisions on technology they have no understanding of, I would hate to see the government step into an area like this at this point in time. So we're screwed.
It not only adds manufacturing cost, but every button and the slide add points of failure. Plus with slide kb's, it cuts into the placement of hardware which limits the phone in power and up time which are major factors unless they increase the size and weight. Back when I worked, when we finally broke and gave end-users qwerty keyboard phones and some slideout phones, the failure rate on phones sky-rocketed, from alphabetical key failing to the sliders failing as well. We could never pin point an issue on 80% of the phones but 20% was easily noted as end-user abuse. Companies know this and it's difficult to prove failure on behalf of the user or manufacturer. AT&T and Verizon like phones being replaced due to being outpaced by factors such as OS, Software and Connectivity vs. having to deal with customer service of a three month old phone's physical keyboard being jammed, which could be from poor QA to the end-user letting their child play on it while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (which, was one of our cases.) So if they do produce a slider, and want to make sure it's thin, light and has a long lasting battery it will drive the cost up which in the end will kill sales. The few that want them will get them but a majority of people won't pay for the extra feature to have the same power and functionality as say a Samsung Galaxy S4.
Not to mention how great their non-US based construction has been as of late. (whistles while thinking of Styrofoam bridges.)
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A large issue Nintendo has with the Wii U (which MS is suffering) is naming. Why is a Wii U better than a Wii, or an Xbox ONE better than an Xbox 360? This doesn't include the inconsistent naming after the SNES/SFamicom. If they did a simple normal name such as Wii 2, Super Wii or hell NES6 where it was something people know it's better they probably wouldn't have such an issue. There are enough first party titles out there to support the machine but their gimmick system makes them have a separate ecosystem than the other two major platforms causing cross-platform a pain. As for the 3DS, firstly there is the 2DS, 3DS and 3DSXL. When you add the amount of colors and game packs available you cut into profits by causing less popular skus to collect dusk and increase in cost of production. Microsoft learned this in the early days of the 360. This isn't even mentioning power or capabilities of the system.
A Manifesto of Truth, written in Russia, am I the only one that finds the Irony in this?
I am more concerned about their concept of Kinect 2 will be always listening. Wonder what privacy concerns we're now going to have to have with this. Might make the PSN getting hacked look like Christmas.
Yeah, unwanted is a very harsh and unrealistic idea. With the price point and lack of solid titles at launch it's going to be slow. Sony predicted this, and if you notice they are still supporting the ps2 quite well during this slow start. The three main problems are: Price Point is to high Lack of Killer Games Lack of HD TV's in general public to take full advantage of the hardware's visual capabilities. I might be buying one soon so I can make sure I have the extra hardware for the ps2 bc... ::shrug::
Well, SuSE is still running all my Oracle instances quite well, and until I see some dynamic shift I am not going to do anything drastic because a potential deal. You have two scenarios to look at, Apple, and Sybase. I remember the Apple fanatics (which I might fit in, but I will never tell) screamed about how it was the end of Apple when they invested into an failing Apple. Everything turned out fine. Now Sybase is a different story, which I think is everyones fears. I think this was a move by Novell to get some needed funding, especially at a time when Red Hat is being made out to be a bad guy by Oracle. This also might be the bridge to getting Microsoft to run their apps on Linux. Who knows, We might see Microsoft do a similar move to Apple, and stack their proprietary API's on top of a linux foundation (Apple on top of Darwin/BSD anyone?) For a group that screams that Microsoft stifles innovation, actions like this prove that zealots and those who are afraid of change are to blame as well.
Well Put, I have to agree. The PS2 had some major issues, especially at launch and everyone thought that the superior graphics of the XBox and Gamecube would win, and it came down to the games and branding really. Also the PS3 and Wii's features of backwards compatibility, since the X360 dropped that, will probably add some more flare to their line up. Like you said, the ability to expand your library emensely for $20, and the ability to clear up shelf space to and still play your favorite games is a big bonus to many Average Joe Gamers. Maybe it's because (I might be wrong) but due to the PS2 being a realtime environment and allowing developers to customize or build their own middleware, and XBox was strictly limited to the capabilities of DirectX... The main thing that is bothering me is EBGAMES/GAMESTOP is already advertising ps3 games for $59.99, which was something that drove me away from the X360. I know it might be due to inflation but I am already having a hard time to slap down $50 for a new game when I can rent it from Gamefly or buy it 6 months later for 2/5's that price. Then again, Gamestop and EBGames have a history of jumping the gun and assuming.
Well, who cares. The SNES had a slower processor than the Genesis, but better graphics capablities, and you know who won that war. The graphics look amazing and the new games look interesting, so a small detail in spec's isn't going to ward me off. Sounds like another N64 vs PSX fight.
IBM is simply waiting it out. SCO can't take away their right to the "code in question" due to: A) SCO has to prove that IBM gave the code to linux. For all we know linux STOLE the code. B) IBM has held their ground on that the license can't be refuted, which means it probably can't. If it could I think IBM would be doing other tactics right now. C) IBM is merely making press releases, will send a few lawyers to court, and then cause more damage to SCO by refuting their claims. D) They will probably counter sue for breaching their contract, and possibly aim for free use of the code etc. SCO is really looking for a buy out, or renegotiation for their CODE. They think they're MS or something and can pull licenses when they want to.
Is it me or are they begging for a buy out? A billion dollar lawsuit or a billion dollars for an out of steam company? United Linux: SuSE, Conectiva, Turbolinux and.... IBM?
I mean, with that math, a person is a total idiot for buying a BMW with 200 horsepower for 35000 over a Camero with 400 Horsepower for 25000. Some people don't understand quality :)
I have been fighting this since the early late 90's, and it all goes back to adobe's (and other companies) poor code. That's one reason companies are able to push lareger processors on users so quickly, and that's because they constantly bloat their code and do half the job. That's one reason the high end unix community doesn't need super fast raw powered processors, their code is clean. *sighs* People never look at the real problems, they just look at what seems more easily fixed / explainable.
Well, how complicated is the database anyway? I mean, Postgre is not that bad of a system, just a little akward at times in programming. But you can't just say how many hits the database takes as a whole, or just say it is or not mission critial. You have to look at how many tables get hit or completely walked for each query, how large the data that must be indexed/scanned during each hit, how complex the data is, the complexity of the relations... etc. etc. Oracle is just probably not worth the cost for the application needed and is just to much horsepower for what is needed now or in the forseeable future. Especially when they can hire a few solid programmers cheap to make sure the systsem is well maintained. I just think it's nice to see PostgreSQL getting used more and more, especially since the open source database community has been a little biased for a while towards MySQL... or in my opinion anyway ;)
Maybe they are going to do the old "Basic App" for free and "Advanced App" for a price set up. If they do charge I hope they do this type of deal. If you remember iMovie 2 wasn't adopted as fast as iMovie 1 because of it being a pay for app. I think this will be detremental to their "switch" efforts and possible upset some diehard apple fans if they make you pay for an upgrade. -GPT
Many factors limit the performance of systems. One thing if I remember correctly that makes SGi machines so fast is that components talk to each other directly and at full speed. They have a fancy name for it, like interweave connect or something like that. So who cares how fast your processor is when you are using legacy designs for components that can't keep up with your processors cycles. Also the IA64 is solid, but there are a lot of better choices out there. Mainly becausse MS and Intel are pushing hard to move into that high tech market. I personally feel that AMD is going to corner the market early with their x86-64 processors and linux as their prefered OS. Plus SGi still alive because of the high tech industry, which is a small portion of the market, but a great deal of the money, ie people paying millions for a 500+ processor super computer, or $60,000+ high end servers. They are dead in the graphics industry, 1st because of no Photoshop 4 for IRIX (due to adobes poor coding and MS) and finally linux taking away the 3D market. They are probably going to get bought out by one of the larger High Tech CORPs like IBM, NEC or Terracomputing...