Actually there are a litany of problems with the big bang, not the least of which is relativistic time. That said, I haven't seen a good reworking of the Big Bang theory taking relativity properly into account yet.
*I'm not saying there isn't one, I'm saying I haven't read one.
I was only stating this as part of the assumption B&N has that you'd buy their books.
Presumably as others have pointed out, the Nook is not sold as a loss leader. And if there's profit on the hardware and a low return rate for warranty work, they'll probably do fine even selling them for Amazon readers to use:)
I don't care about click speed, I care about movement accuracy. When my hand twitches a little, does the mouse accurately send that information in a timely manner? If I wanted faster clicking, I'd use software with an auto-repeat feature.
I use a decent Logitech laser mouse and it has very good performance and fairly good responsiveness for a wireless mouse. On the other hand, I've used office mice that I have to shake around to get a response out of.
This reminds me a lot of Samsung's proprietary smartphone OS whose name I can't be bothered to look up at the moment. It sucks, and they sell Android too. In fact, they sell a lot more Android devices than it, but they might keep it at the very low price range.
This wasn't an exclusive rights deal at all. Nothing in this deal prevents Microsoft from buying the same right from the Guild. Why you claim this to be the case is beyond me.
I always enjoy the view that OpenGL is dead or dying when its the only usable 3D API for industrial and mobile applications. PC Games aren't exactly the entire world of 3D.
This is also one of the reasons the games aren't very high quality graphically IMHO. Once a PC game developer looks at the limitations of a console, they just start tearing down quality until it works it would seem. Bear in mind that even Call of Duty still renders at well under 720p with upscaling.
Sure it means there's more games to play, but the vast majority of them are better to play on a PC. I prefer a platform with games that are better to play on that platform, personally. Both Sony and Nintendo's offerings fit that bill.
"When I look at the PS3 controller in my hands on a PS3 playing Borderlands on my bigscreen HDTV in my living room, enjoying uncompressed 7.1 audio, web browsing, Netflix and Blu-ray movies at the touch of a button, I kind of think Sony has achieved convergence."
Unlike Microsoft, Sony continues marketing and shipping previous products after releasing new ones. They see multiple distinct consumer groups. That's why the PS2 was still sold (very profitably) well into the life of the PS3. The PSONE was still on the shelves for a long time too.
Sony may have only recently made the PS3 profitable, but their plans for the PS4 have surfaced from time to time already in the last year or two. I would expect it to release sometime in late 2012 keeping with their previous timing and continue marketing the PS3 right through to 2016 as previously expected.
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Actually there are a litany of problems with the big bang, not the least of which is relativistic time. That said, I haven't seen a good reworking of the Big Bang theory taking relativity properly into account yet.
*I'm not saying there isn't one, I'm saying I haven't read one.
There are still people trying to prove him wrong too. Quite funny personally.
I was only stating this as part of the assumption B&N has that you'd buy their books.
Presumably as others have pointed out, the Nook is not sold as a loss leader. And if there's profit on the hardware and a low return rate for warranty work, they'll probably do fine even selling them for Amazon readers to use :)
None of what you quoted is in any way authoritative on a matter of law.
Opinions are just that.
The problem is, if they allow any old Android software, I can buy a Nook and install Amazon's Kindle software on it, then not buy B&N books for it :)
I don't care about click speed, I care about movement accuracy. When my hand twitches a little, does the mouse accurately send that information in a timely manner? If I wanted faster clicking, I'd use software with an auto-repeat feature.
I use a decent Logitech laser mouse and it has very good performance and fairly good responsiveness for a wireless mouse. On the other hand, I've used office mice that I have to shake around to get a response out of.
This reminds me a lot of Samsung's proprietary smartphone OS whose name I can't be bothered to look up at the moment. It sucks, and they sell Android too. In fact, they sell a lot more Android devices than it, but they might keep it at the very low price range.
And your opinion of what makes for enjoyable music is valid why?
Art is art. Lots of people don't like lots of it. None of that changes its nature.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Based on sales for each of the above, you're not the majority voice.
The Nexus One would work fine for these purposes as well.
This wasn't an exclusive rights deal at all.
Nothing in this deal prevents Microsoft from buying the same right from the Guild.
Why you claim this to be the case is beyond me.
My Dell Streak 5" is reasonably slim, powerful and fast and gives me over 8 hours a day of functional usage. No, that's not idle time.
And it still won't have paid off the debts incurred by creating it.
QFT.
He's also a genius in a few other fields I suspect.
Mmm, zombies.
My apologies for the one-line reply.
Oh crap, now it isn't.
Heretic and Hexen were much better games anyway.
I always enjoy the view that OpenGL is dead or dying when its the only usable 3D API for industrial and mobile applications. PC Games aren't exactly the entire world of 3D.
Did them just fine now that they're part of NVidia.
What a fantastic fallacy.
Chrome and Firefox exist BECAUSE of open source. Were the open source not involved, the products would not exist.
Android would not exist either, and is out-selling that other proprietary OS.
As someone else posted, the G1 (Dream) is fully supported by CyanogenMod. There are versions for both radio subsets as well (EBI0 and EBI1).
What's the problem exactly?
The warranty's not doing you any good when they don't update the phone now is it?
By using CyanogenMod I get to run Android 2.2.1 on my very old HTC Dream (G1).
But six months in cell phone years is like three years in car years.
The Newton Soup concept is actually very similar in data structure to what you describe for Microsoft's OS.
This is also one of the reasons the games aren't very high quality graphically IMHO. Once a PC game developer looks at the limitations of a console, they just start tearing down quality until it works it would seem. Bear in mind that even Call of Duty still renders at well under 720p with upscaling.
Sure it means there's more games to play, but the vast majority of them are better to play on a PC. I prefer a platform with games that are better to play on that platform, personally. Both Sony and Nintendo's offerings fit that bill.
"When I look at the PS3 controller in my hands on a PS3 playing Borderlands on my bigscreen HDTV in my living room, enjoying uncompressed 7.1 audio, web browsing, Netflix and Blu-ray movies at the touch of a button, I kind of think Sony has achieved convergence."
Sorry, the PC's behind on this one.
Unlike Microsoft, Sony continues marketing and shipping previous products after releasing new ones. They see multiple distinct consumer groups. That's why the PS2 was still sold (very profitably) well into the life of the PS3. The PSONE was still on the shelves for a long time too.
Sony may have only recently made the PS3 profitable, but their plans for the PS4 have surfaced from time to time already in the last year or two. I would expect it to release sometime in late 2012 keeping with their previous timing and continue marketing the PS3 right through to 2016 as previously expected.