If you drink to much water you can die. You throw off your balance of potassium and sodium (or don't have enough of either) and your muscles can't contract/expand properly. So your heart starts going tachy and you're on the floor grabbing at your chest.
Supporting a C++ critical app that had no documentation and whose creator was long gone. It was filled with, seriously, arrays of pointers to arrays of pointers to arrays of pointers to arrays.
At a major PC manufacturer, the project being setting up data connectivity between US and the new manufacturing facility in Malaysia. Weekends, late nights, a couple 24 hour nights even--I bled for that project.
The fruit of my efforts? A severance package once the outsourced facility came on-line.
The only people who would buy a non-MS PC are relatively technically competent ("enough to be dangerous"), and the majority of these folks should be smart enough to know what a bad deal this is--you can piece together a much better system for the same $$$. Hello, eBay? So the target audience is...?
Similar to driving next to someone transmitting on same freqency on their iPod iTrip FM Transmitter. Which especially sucks driving out of Chicago during rush hour.
I too tried to make a collection via P2P, but of course I can't find certain episodes.
I recently I got DVR, and I've set up my DVR to record *all* ATHFs, whenever it's on (Sun and Mon I believe.) The DVR seeks out all ATHF. They pile up quick, and I get to them when I can. Hope to get ext. DVD burner for permanent collection soon.
I can totally see this working. Start a company from scratch, instead of using the contracting behemoths. Contracting costs are largely sheer bloat and bureaucracy (hmm...70-80% of the total cost?) A new company (SpaceX) could be lean mean rocket-making machine.
Me, I have to take the PS2 out of the media cabinet and hook it up to play. With the PC I can take a break from work and crank up UT2004, or even get my gaming fix from a quick game of Columns. Since I'll always have a PC, I'll just keep that hardware current, piece at a time, to support the latest games, rather than saving up for PS3. The PC is functional *and* fun.
Now only if Apple would start to spread around their newfound iPod/iTunes marketing genius to products that really contribute to the bottom line: Macs. Yes, their brand is out there and going strong. But the number of Mac purchases, and their profits, remains relatively flat.
Please, Apple, cut the G5 price just a couple hundred bucks...$2G+ price is still keeping a lot of us on the fence. You've found a magic pricing formula...now spread around the memo!
Just studied this subject in school. If you are satisfied with your job, you are content, and have no incentive to improve your situation or environment. Content==lazy (see any government place of employment.) In those companies where employees are less-satisfied, it may well be due to the employees never choosing to be content--they always strive to make things better, more efficient, etc.
Just like statistics, you often have to dig deeper to root cause survey results.
Last weekend actually was the weekend I took off from the internet. No email, news,/. (sorry)...just a little music programming schtuff. And it was damn relaxing!
Why the break? Because my job has been driving me nuts lately, driving me to the point of (gasp!) hating programming. So before I was going to let that happen, I kept the router off. A nice holiday, I recommend it to everyone.
This sounds alot like how Apple Cp. dismissed the agreement the company made with Apple Music, in which Apple Computer agreed never to enter the music business when they started. Despite being unable to talk Apple Music into backing down, Apple Co. went forward with iTunes, the iPod, etc.
Before this Apple Co. fray it was "Apple Music who? " Apple Music gained much more than they lost IMO. I think 8 Mile it just trying to capitalize on something that has already helped more than hurt them.
That's what technology is, isn't it? The constant search for something better than what's available? And the approach of many companies (insert any NASDAQ 100 company here) is wait-and-see. See how the poineer does it, do the same, but throw some more bells and whistles in, or just market it better.
Google has a brilliant algorithm, thanks their 60 PhD's. But there's plenty of other PhD's out there, some of whom I'm sure are just finishing up their newest, succeeding algorithm. It's a constant game of king of the hill.
Don't know about you, but my cable modem service has been *much* more reliable than landline phone. And when the landline phone dies it takes *days* for a repair. Plus I'm playing over $70/month for it. It's a relic technology. Moving to Vonage this week...
Yikes! I've eaten there a few times...so have my kids! I wish I could say it's another reason to avoid McDonald's. Ah hell, why not? Of course you're talking *Chicago* and McDonald's. Illicit practices in Chicago? Gasp!
Yes, XBox has no character. Gamecube is for kids, Playstation is for teens and adults and Xbox is for what...? People who like Halo, or maybe the color green.
The games surrounding a platform form a community. Microsoft, in their ad nauseum attempts to be all things to all people, to control the universe, has no personality. Ironic it's accents are the same color as money;-)
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If you drink to much water you can die. You throw off your balance of potassium and sodium (or don't have enough of either) and your muscles can't contract/expand properly. So your heart starts going tachy and you're on the floor grabbing at your chest.
Supporting a C++ critical app that had no documentation and whose creator was long gone. It was filled with, seriously, arrays of pointers to arrays of pointers to arrays of pointers to arrays.
My therapy is going well...
At a major PC manufacturer, the project being setting up data connectivity between US and the new manufacturing facility in Malaysia. Weekends, late nights, a couple 24 hour nights even--I bled for that project.
The fruit of my efforts? A severance package once the outsourced facility came on-line.
I sincerely hope you're right.
The only people who would buy a non-MS PC are relatively technically competent ("enough to be dangerous"), and the majority of these folks should be smart enough to know what a bad deal this is--you can piece together a much better system for the same $$$. Hello, eBay? So the target audience is...?
Similar to driving next to someone transmitting on same freqency on their iPod iTrip FM Transmitter. Which especially sucks driving out of Chicago during rush hour.
I too tried to make a collection via P2P, but of course I can't find certain episodes.
I recently I got DVR, and I've set up my DVR to record *all* ATHFs, whenever it's on (Sun and Mon I believe.) The DVR seeks out all ATHF. They pile up quick, and I get to them when I can. Hope to get ext. DVD burner for permanent collection soon.
Taking bait...the topic of story was XBox cost cut to $149. The focus was about the pricing of XBox, as well as all comments I saw. Hence my post.
/. really values. Stop the presses.
Nice to see sarcasm gets modded so much higher than honest observation. I'm understanding what
I can totally see this working. Start a company from scratch, instead of using the contracting behemoths. Contracting costs are largely sheer bloat and bureaucracy (hmm...70-80% of the total cost?) A new company (SpaceX) could be lean mean rocket-making machine.
Sounds like the printer ink scam/strategy. Get 'em hooked on a platform and live off the game sale revenues.
CNN: "Bush wants cheap high-speed Internet access for all by 2007"
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/26/bush.
Wish I had a bottomless checkbook...
Me, I have to take the PS2 out of the media cabinet and hook it up to play. With the PC I can take a break from work and crank up UT2004, or even get my gaming fix from a quick game of Columns. Since I'll always have a PC, I'll just keep that hardware current, piece at a time, to support the latest games, rather than saving up for PS3. The PC is functional *and* fun.
Now only if Apple would start to spread around their newfound iPod/iTunes marketing genius to products that really contribute to the bottom line: Macs. Yes, their brand is out there and going strong. But the number of Mac purchases, and their profits, remains relatively flat.
Please, Apple, cut the G5 price just a couple hundred bucks...$2G+ price is still keeping a lot of us on the fence. You've found a magic pricing formula...now spread around the memo!
...whoever has the best marketing.
Just studied this subject in school. If you are satisfied with your job, you are content, and have no incentive to improve your situation or environment. Content==lazy (see any government place of employment.) In those companies where employees are less-satisfied, it may well be due to the employees never choosing to be content--they always strive to make things better, more efficient, etc.
Just like statistics, you often have to dig deeper to root cause survey results.
Last weekend actually was the weekend I took off from the internet. No email, news, /. (sorry)...just a little music programming schtuff. And it was damn relaxing!
Why the break? Because my job has been driving me nuts lately, driving me to the point of (gasp!) hating programming. So before I was going to let that happen, I kept the router off. A nice holiday, I recommend it to everyone.
Just being honest.
This sounds alot like how Apple Cp. dismissed the agreement the company made with Apple Music, in which Apple Computer agreed never to enter the music business when they started. Despite being unable to talk Apple Music into backing down, Apple Co. went forward with iTunes, the iPod, etc.
Before this Apple Co. fray it was "Apple Music who? " Apple Music gained much more than they lost IMO. I think 8 Mile it just trying to capitalize on something that has already helped more than hurt them.
That's what technology is, isn't it? The constant search for something better than what's available? And the approach of many companies (insert any NASDAQ 100 company here) is wait-and-see. See how the poineer does it, do the same, but throw some more bells and whistles in, or just market it better.
Google has a brilliant algorithm, thanks their 60 PhD's. But there's plenty of other PhD's out there, some of whom I'm sure are just finishing up their newest, succeeding algorithm. It's a constant game of king of the hill.
Don't know about you, but my cable modem service has been *much* more reliable than landline phone. And when the landline phone dies it takes *days* for a repair. Plus I'm playing over $70/month for it. It's a relic technology. Moving to Vonage this week...
Yikes! I've eaten there a few times...so have my kids! I wish I could say it's another reason to avoid McDonald's. Ah hell, why not? Of course you're talking *Chicago* and McDonald's. Illicit practices in Chicago? Gasp!
I agree. I just think Nintendo's *marketing* towards kids, and Playstation towards the older crowd. I'm a GameCube fan too...just got Ikaruga. Rocks!
Try contracting for the gov't w/ a PO Box as your mailing address...
Yes, XBox has no character. Gamecube is for kids, Playstation is for teens and adults and Xbox is for what...? People who like Halo, or maybe the color green.
;-)
The games surrounding a platform form a community. Microsoft, in their ad nauseum attempts to be all things to all people, to control the universe, has no personality. Ironic it's accents are the same color as money
Agreed! So what are we bashing here? Microsoft IE, or people who use IE? It's just a crappy product, big deal, use Mozilla or Safari. Next.