Hmmm... I guess it all comes down to what you forsee the role of this machine to be.
Subsidized cell phone with limited game playing ability for $99 (N-gage)
or
Palm pilot clone... with limited game playing for $300 (Tapwave)
or
Dedicated game machine for $99 with over 1000 games for it. (GBA SP)
It's gonna be even harder when the PSP and the Nintendo DS come out... but I don't think that the tapwave is a viable platform for most people for games... because it's too expensive.
Cost of equipment has to be factored in... when a box of reagents cost $1000 for one experiment, and you have to do 100+ experiments to prove your thesis, then there has to be funding provided... we can either count on the government to provide it, or on indusrty. There doesn't have to be a monopoly per say, but some return on the investment is imparitive. In software, there isn't the quite so large hurdle to join in. Education may be similar, but equipment costs are much different.
I was referring to Oneonta... I've been to San Diego on vacation... acutally went to the (in)famous Rosanne Barr singing the National Antham at the Padres game...
ClearChannel already has a stake in XM Satellite Radio, so they're hedging their bets on the new technology.
But their stake is diminishing... they once held over 5% of the company, and programmed a few of the channels... KIIS XM being one of them. Now, they are down to 2%, and have vacated their seat on XM's board of directors. KIIS XM ditched all the ClearChannel crap, and is now programmed in house by XM (still semi-crapy top 40's music.. but it's better than it was).
Had a Win98 box at work that would automatically reset itself to "Password" if it's network password ever got reset. It didn't have full network access... but seems to be a security hole nonetheless...
God.... please don't remind me of them damn things.... everything I know about Developmental Genetics was learned by studing them damn things...
Only good thing that came of it, was that I realized that biologists are more cracked than IT people... I mean, really, who names genes Spetzle, or Sonic Hedgehog?
What is the incentive for the free market to test the things that OSHA tests? Who would pay for that service? The employees? Yeah, right... Their needs to be a third party that is disinterested in the proceedings of the company.
A blatent payoff to another corperation is much less of a problem that a payoff to a government agency that has as it's mandate, the protection of the taxpaying public.
Goody... now their lawyers can really concentrate on that peskey SCO thing...
(yes, I realize that IBM has a bout a gazillion lawyers, and that the ones involved in a cancer lawsuit are not the ones who'd best handle an ip lawsuit... but still....)
I have two jobs... both of them have this "everything you create... belongs to us" clause. If they want to fight about it... let them both have fun, I don't think I'm going to create anything that they'll both find worthwhile, but if they want to try...
caveat -- two different types of industry , one is electronics retail, and the other is biomedical
Hehe... I had a friend who worked at Radioshack when they were selling these things, and I got a gross (over 100) of them as they were chucking them out... Now... I HAVE THE POWER!... or not..
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What type of satellite tuner card did you get? I have DirecTV, and would love to get one for it... thanks!
Hmmm... I guess it all comes down to what you forsee the role of this machine to be.
Subsidized cell phone with limited game playing ability for $99 (N-gage)
or
Palm pilot clone... with limited game playing for $300 (Tapwave)
or
Dedicated game machine for $99 with over 1000 games for it. (GBA SP)
It's gonna be even harder when the PSP and the Nintendo DS come out... but I don't think that the tapwave is a viable platform for most people for games... because it's too expensive.
Cost of equipment has to be factored in... when a box of reagents cost $1000 for one experiment, and you have to do 100+ experiments to prove your thesis, then there has to be funding provided... we can either count on the government to provide it, or on indusrty. There doesn't have to be a monopoly per say, but some return on the investment is imparitive. In software, there isn't the quite so large hurdle to join in. Education may be similar, but equipment costs are much different.
J
She's a perfectly good artist... especially when she's MUTED and still gyrating wildly. :)
First somebody gives away the 12345, now secret.
Sheesh.. What's this world coming too?
-J-
Who knew that there was a national YoYo museum... I guess you do learn something new every day...
Too bad you didn't patent the idea then.... you could be just like SCO.
I was referring to Oneonta... I've been to San Diego on vacation... acutally went to the (in)famous Rosanne Barr singing the National Antham at the Padres game...
Can you tell that I lived in Oneonta for a while?
J
But their stake is diminishing... they once held over 5% of the company, and programmed a few of the channels... KIIS XM being one of them. Now, they are down to 2%, and have vacated their seat on XM's board of directors. KIIS XM ditched all the ClearChannel crap, and is now programmed in house by XM (still semi-crapy top 40's music.. but it's better than it was).
Peace
Best quote there...
When no documents match your query, the system will return 20000 random web pages
or... google
google
for id's
Peace
Whatever you say Michael Jackson.....
Puce...
Ya know... the current owner of TechTV is Vulcan Ventures... which is owned by Paul Allen the Microsoft cofounder... Hmm....
Had a Win98 box at work that would automatically reset itself to "Password" if it's network password ever got reset. It didn't have full network access... but seems to be a security hole nonetheless...
Who's IMB? The International Monitary Bank? The Institute of Molecular Bioltechnology? Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Insured Muni Bond Trust?
God.... please don't remind me of them damn things.... everything I know about Developmental Genetics was learned by studing them damn things...
Only good thing that came of it, was that I realized that biologists are more cracked than IT people... I mean, really, who names genes Spetzle, or Sonic Hedgehog?
Looks like a neat concept...
... j/k, actually I like my job at a pharma...
Are you hiring?
Peace!
What is the incentive for the free market to test the things that OSHA tests? Who would pay for that service? The employees? Yeah, right... Their needs to be a third party that is disinterested in the proceedings of the company.
A blatent payoff to another corperation is much less of a problem that a payoff to a government agency that has as it's mandate, the protection of the taxpaying public.
Goody... now their lawyers can really concentrate on that peskey SCO thing...
(yes, I realize that IBM has a bout a gazillion lawyers, and that the ones involved in a cancer lawsuit are not the ones who'd best handle an ip lawsuit... but still....)
I have two jobs... both of them have this "everything you create... belongs to us" clause. If they want to fight about it... let them both have fun, I don't think I'm going to create anything that they'll both find worthwhile, but if they want to try...
caveat -- two different types of industry , one is electronics retail, and the other is biomedical
Hehe... I had a friend who worked at Radioshack when they were selling these things, and I got a gross (over 100) of them as they were chucking them out... Now... I HAVE THE POWER!... or not..
That'd be a rather old Pizza Hut salad ba....Wait, I see your point.... Truely
Hello... Amazon? I found a scab in my book...