We're not talking about the cost of the fridge, its the energy costs to manufacture the fridge, including parts, coolant, lubrication, transportation, packaging, etc.
The environmental costs of having a new fridge built for you in the first place is much much higher than those you save by upgrading your fridge.
Some people bothered complaining back when Windows NT 4.0 Server and Workstation were only a few bytes different from each other, but it didn't do them any good.
I buy most of my console games used from the local rental place. Most of my PS3 games cost me between $15 and $25. That may not be $5, but its not like everyone pays full bang.
I type, I hit ":make" and it builds the project, and returns me to the first line that caused an error if any, showing the error in the bottom of the screen.
How is that not integrated for you? As someone else said, most people critical of such an environment don't know how to use it.
... presuming one already knows how to play golf, that is.
This isn't a problem for golf, tennis and bowling where people do in fact (by and large) know how the real object is to be held and used.
That said, what percentage of the games you remember growing up on that excited you were based on bowling, tennis or golf?
For the old-schoolers, where are today's versions of Jumpman Jr., Pacman, QBert, etc. which command hours upon hours of play time to perfect and feel rewarding to succeed at?
I digress though, innovative games will rarely depend on predictable motions by users imho. As with the Wii Fit, will Nintendo simply invent a new controller for each new type of body movement they need to observe?
In North America, you may be right, mostly due to a lot of media bias toward the 360 due to everyone forgetting how few games it had when it came out too.
In the rest of the world, your stats are way off and you might want to look them up.
My Sony digital camera tracks faces in the frame for me, and will even wait till it detects that everyone is smiling before taking the photo. I'm quite certain the Cell processor can out-do that.
This is the reason we don't recommend to our clients that they do their own purchasing. If we purchase the hardware and configure it for them, we can take the responsibility for doing it wrong, and we also get to deal with the OEM on their behalf.
I still use Amarok 1.4 with MySQL. It works beautifully and each time I go to upgrade my OS, I make sure Amarok 1.4 is available or will compile and play music (had that problem a couple times).
In fact, if I could have a perfect music system, it would be a touch panel running Amarok 1.4 with a slightly modified skin.
I'm not the least bit skeptical of last.fm after this. First off, I don't care if they reveal my listening habits, that's already on my profile. If I didn't want my music habits known, I'd not scrobble them.
Also, I use last.fm for its ability to introduce me to artists listened to by people with similar taste to mine in music, which is very handy for finding interesting new artists, and sometimes to use their radio functionality.
It wouldn't take a genius of a lawyer to point out that anyone can scrobble their radio listening with any of a dozen command-line tools, or their online music streaming habits and that their having scrobbled a song has nothing to do with having that song at all.
Ignoring all the people who missed my use of "almost" and pointed out how they had accidents while stopped, I'll reply to this instead: There's a sign on the highway near where I live that says "Can't see? Don't pass!" My wife and I often wonder somewhat sarcastically why the blind people are driving at all.
The worst speeding ticket I've ever received was for passing five cars at once who were tailgating each other behind a large slow truck. I had no option but to pass them simultaneously. Of course I did this as quickly as possible within the safe limits of my own skill to avoid being in the lane of opposing traffic for too long.
Of course, the officer tucked in with the other vehicles didn't see it that way, and ticketed me for speeding excessively, which I fought and eventually had reduced slightly in court.
I still want to know why he didn't ticket the vehicles around him for following too close, since that's a higher offence than speeding in most cases.
With time we've developed a cultural bias in the West toward cheaper products that look pretty and are stylish rather than functional investments.
We replace cars every couple years, we want furniture that matches, and TVs that have the latest features and don't plan to keep them a hundred years down the road.
I also have a few items from last century that still work, and regularly outlast the mass produced products that are supposed to replace them.
Were you honestly hoping to impress someone on Slashdot with your project? Some of us have worked on real browser code.
Code is not like hardware at all, it doesn't degrade in the same sense or get damaged in the same way with age.
The general concept of reusing something you have available instead of building something new is a good one, but it isn't always the right thing to do from an engineering perspective.
A lot of us do in fact give a good portion of our money to charity. People who make a lot of money often give a very large amount to charity. Sure they also live well, but its not like they all penny pinch every dollar for themselves.
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My brother in law plays Guitar Hero on expert difficulty and gets extremely high scores while duelling simultaneously with a light saber at points.
My wife could carry on a conversation while acing the hardest difficulty of Amplitude (precursor to GH) which was much harder in some ways.
We're not talking about the cost of the fridge, its the energy costs to manufacture the fridge, including parts, coolant, lubrication, transportation, packaging, etc.
The environmental costs of having a new fridge built for you in the first place is much much higher than those you save by upgrading your fridge.
Amarok 1.4 works with every other MP3 player I've tried it with ... so I don't see why not.
I'd much rather use Amarok than iTunes.
People ignore the facts about the PS3 around here, get used to it :-)
The built-in browser with full Flash support lets me watch Youtube videos on my TV and stereo system as well, but that hardly ever gets mention.
PS we don't pay fees for online service.
There's a reason we Playstation users have always said the PS3 is cheaper in the long term.
Most of these features already exist on the PS3 as well, although admittedly not Netflix.
Some people bothered complaining back when Windows NT 4.0 Server and Workstation were only a few bytes different from each other, but it didn't do them any good.
I buy most of my console games used from the local rental place. Most of my PS3 games cost me between $15 and $25. That may not be $5, but its not like everyone pays full bang.
I type, I hit ":make" and it builds the project, and returns me to the first line that caused an error if any, showing the error in the bottom of the screen.
How is that not integrated for you? As someone else said, most people critical of such an environment don't know how to use it.
... presuming one already knows how to play golf, that is.
This isn't a problem for golf, tennis and bowling where people do in fact (by and large) know how the real object is to be held and used.
That said, what percentage of the games you remember growing up on that excited you were based on bowling, tennis or golf?
For the old-schoolers, where are today's versions of Jumpman Jr., Pacman, QBert, etc. which command hours upon hours of play time to perfect and feel rewarding to succeed at?
I digress though, innovative games will rarely depend on predictable motions by users imho. As with the Wii Fit, will Nintendo simply invent a new controller for each new type of body movement they need to observe?
In North America, you may be right, mostly due to a lot of media bias toward the 360 due to everyone forgetting how few games it had when it came out too.
In the rest of the world, your stats are way off and you might want to look them up.
My Sony digital camera tracks faces in the frame for me, and will even wait till it detects that everyone is smiling before taking the photo. I'm quite certain the Cell processor can out-do that.
This is the reason we don't recommend to our clients that they do their own purchasing. If we purchase the hardware and configure it for them, we can take the responsibility for doing it wrong, and we also get to deal with the OEM on their behalf.
You don't understand a guy with standards?
I still use Amarok 1.4 with MySQL. It works beautifully and each time I go to upgrade my OS, I make sure Amarok 1.4 is available or will compile and play music (had that problem a couple times).
In fact, if I could have a perfect music system, it would be a touch panel running Amarok 1.4 with a slightly modified skin.
... and do like everyone else with the ability to use version numbers and call it 1.9 until its stable.
I'm not the least bit skeptical of last.fm after this. First off, I don't care if they reveal my listening habits, that's already on my profile. If I didn't want my music habits known, I'd not scrobble them.
Also, I use last.fm for its ability to introduce me to artists listened to by people with similar taste to mine in music, which is very handy for finding interesting new artists, and sometimes to use their radio functionality.
It wouldn't take a genius of a lawyer to point out that anyone can scrobble their radio listening with any of a dozen command-line tools, or their online music streaming habits and that their having scrobbled a song has nothing to do with having that song at all.
Ignoring all the people who missed my use of "almost" and pointed out how they had accidents while stopped, I'll reply to this instead: There's a sign on the highway near where I live that says "Can't see? Don't pass!" My wife and I often wonder somewhat sarcastically why the blind people are driving at all.
The worst speeding ticket I've ever received was for passing five cars at once who were tailgating each other behind a large slow truck. I had no option but to pass them simultaneously. Of course I did this as quickly as possible within the safe limits of my own skill to avoid being in the lane of opposing traffic for too long.
Of course, the officer tucked in with the other vehicles didn't see it that way, and ticketed me for speeding excessively, which I fought and eventually had reduced slightly in court.
I still want to know why he didn't ticket the vehicles around him for following too close, since that's a higher offence than speeding in most cases.
With time we've developed a cultural bias in the West toward cheaper products that look pretty and are stylish rather than functional investments.
We replace cars every couple years, we want furniture that matches, and TVs that have the latest features and don't plan to keep them a hundred years down the road.
I also have a few items from last century that still work, and regularly outlast the mass produced products that are supposed to replace them.
Were you honestly hoping to impress someone on Slashdot with your project? Some of us have worked on real browser code.
Code is not like hardware at all, it doesn't degrade in the same sense or get damaged in the same way with age.
The general concept of reusing something you have available instead of building something new is a good one, but it isn't always the right thing to do from an engineering perspective.
You live in Canada too?
A lot of us do in fact give a good portion of our money to charity. People who make a lot of money often give a very large amount to charity. Sure they also live well, but its not like they all penny pinch every dollar for themselves.
On that basis, just go play Metal Gear Solid, it was inspired by Escape From New York and has just as poor dialogue writers.
... or that the vast majority of relationships (including marriages) end poorly, so maybe going by your needs is a poor way to get a good one?