"Now that Gamefly has won they can close up shop because everyone directly downloads their games directly from the Nintendo, Sony, or Steam stores now......"
I wish that were true! You still can't download most of the top games on any of the modern consoles. Mario Kart (any modern Mario game actually), Gran Turismo, Gears of War, etc, none of those games can be downloaded through their respective systems. In fact the Wii doesn't even have a hard drive to store games, instead offering to store games on optional SD cards, so it's impossible to download several large games like you claim.
Even if you could download every game through the systems that would still be $60 each for a game stored on the system meaning you might potentially lose that game when you sell the system versus ~$20/month to rent games. Gamefly would still be the better option.
Nope, but it will be magical and have a 500GB USB thumb drive...
Forgive me if I don't trust ANYTHING Chinese anymore, but after that magical chinese hard drive and reading manymanycomments from other people getting burned I have a hard time trusting anything chinese.
I will believe the rocket exists when I can see it myself
Ebooks do not save the environment. While you might think so because we are not cutting down trees for books you have to remember that books are usually kept forever, people do not usually throw away books, they end up getting donated and eventually land in a library somewhere. The exception is textbooks, because when a new version comes out every school requires that new version so the old versions are recycled. Very few books end up in landfills because they can be easily recycled unlike consumer electronics where after many years the items eventually end up in the trash like a parallel port 100mb Zip drive.
The only way ebooks would be better for the environment is if they were being read on existing devices like laptops or cellphones since you already had that device for other reasons. Purpose built devices like the Nook and Kindle are bad for the environment.
I would at least help the people that got me to where I was. Remember that saying "Karma's a bitch?" Yes it is, I've watched plenty of people who thought they could cheat their way through life fall, sometimes very hard.
Just keep your nose clean and treat people how you'd like to be treated and life isn't that bad. Try screwing the world and the world will screw back.
Zuckerberg could have fixed all of this if he would have just contacted the twins and ceglia back in '06 or '07 and said "hey guys, I have a few million and I want to give you a few million for helping me out, what do you say?" Guarantee they would have all said "HELL YES!" but no, zuckerberg decided to be a coward and keeps ending up in court with movies about how big an ass he is. Billions can't change public opinion of someone and right now he's not well liked, I'd rather be a well-loved millionaire than a much hated billionaire IMHO.
Ebay? Google? Yahoo? Unix? Craigslist? All greedy bastards?
Ok maybe the people that started them aren't all 50 billionaires, but they all have more money than they know what to do with and I don't think they're all greedy bastards... or am I wrong?
The $1,000 check that Zuckerberg cashed, hard to fake that.
Zuckerberg has got to be one of the biggest con-artists of the 21st century, why doesn't he just admit it and give these people 10 billion and move on? What's 10 billion when you already have 50 billion? Still more money than he could spend in his lifetime.
wow the Microsoft fanboys are really in force today on/., they even have the moderators. I use to work for Microsoft in tech support, when Microsoft customers had problems and they dialed the 800 number they'd reach me, and I'm telling you Windows 7 is not as stable as XP.
Agreed. Even with a fresh install Windows 7 crashes far more than Windows XP did, I have to tip-toe around what programs I open and how many I open. It's Windows 98 all over again.
Does this guy sell stealth fighters too?
I bought a solar-powered cellphone charger on eBay from China. Let it sit in sunlight for a day and it charged up an iPhone maybe 2% when it's suppose to do 100%. Took it apart and found a battery tinyer than a AAA. Left negative feedback and was done.
really? Tried to look it up but the problem is articles from just 2009 are already whoa-fully out of date, however for the most part you're right, they're making somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion a year off app sales but that's nothing compared to the $40+ billion from iPhones because they profit from hardware and a kick-back from carrier fees. iPad helps some but far less carrier fees since not every iPad is sold with 3G.
exactly my point: Barnes & Noble makes $$$ from book sales on the Nook so they can sell the Nook at a steep discount. Apple makes money from Apps so they could sell the iPad at a steep discount. Apple could announce $100 iPads tomorrow if they felt any pressure from RIM, HP or Android devices, but right now they're having their cake and eating it too, profiting from device sales and app sales.
Apple doesn't need stores, they make enough money from the 30% they get from App Store sales that they could probably give iPads away and still come out on top.
It's like game consoles, sell them at a loss and make up for it in licensing fees. Motorola can't do that because they make nothing from Android app sales. RIM and HP could do that since they own their app stores but Apple's store has millions of sales a month already, RIM and HP would have to hemorrhage money for years to catch up.
Unless someone comes out with a ~$200 Android tablet (Nook, I'm looking at you) I really don't see anyone offering any competition to Apple.
He knows that they want $4 million to keep one website operating for a year, right?
""We need at least another $4 million just to keep USASpending.gov operating this year," the official said. "We are looking at a pass-the-hat approach, but it could be challenging to get that done in time."
I think Top Gear is actually helping Tesla by suggesting people buy two tesla's, one to drive and one to charge.
P.S. Tesla: suing the media... not a great idea. They have viewers, lots of them, and can bash Tesla every episode if they wished for FREE. OH and suing makes Tesla look guilty as hell, and every news outlet will now cover the tesla-looks-guilty lawsuit. Better idea: play nice. Make an excuse and let them test again with a car that does get 200+ miles per charge. Everyone's happy.
P.S.S. Tesla: lots of luck with the lawsuit. Unless you were standing there with video cameras (like top gear was) to prove the car lasted more than 55 miles or the brakes didn't fail, I'd say Top Gear probably has this one in the bag.
"Further cause for skepticism is given by a non- scientific event: The World Memory Championships. Held since 1991, this is an annual competition in different memory disciplines and is nearly totally based on visual tasks (9 out of 10 events are displayed visually, the tenth event is presented by audio). Since the champions can win interesting prizes (the total prize money for the World Memory Championships 2010 is $90,000), it should attract people who can beat those tests easily by reproducing visual images of the presented material during the recall. But indeed not a single memory champion ever reported to have an eidetic memory. Instead without a single exception all winners consider themselves mnemonists (see below) and rely on using mnemonic strategies, mostly the method of loci."
I would take that with a grain of salt. He obviously has something akin to a photographic memory. FTA:
Photographic memory doesn't really exist the way most people think of it, as in being able to look at a photograph of a forest and later being able to answer how many trees were in the forest or being able to recall the fourth word in the sixth paragraph after staring at a page in a book.
Being able to memorize a deck of playing cards or a book of mathematical formulas is NOT photographic memory. No scientific study has ever found anyone with a true photographic memory... well, except one, but the scientist went and married the girl and she refused to repeat the experiments to other scientists so that's questionable.
So next time you hear someone say "I have a photographic memory" you can chuckle to yourself;)
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"Now that Gamefly has won they can close up shop because everyone directly downloads their games directly from the Nintendo, Sony, or Steam stores now......"
I wish that were true! You still can't download most of the top games on any of the modern consoles. Mario Kart (any modern Mario game actually), Gran Turismo, Gears of War, etc, none of those games can be downloaded through their respective systems. In fact the Wii doesn't even have a hard drive to store games, instead offering to store games on optional SD cards, so it's impossible to download several large games like you claim.
Even if you could download every game through the systems that would still be $60 each for a game stored on the system meaning you might potentially lose that game when you sell the system versus ~$20/month to rent games. Gamefly would still be the better option.
"bullets cost money" -- The Magnificent Seven
Yes, I will, unless I can shine lasers at the moon at have them reflect back to me
Nope, but it will be magical and have a 500GB USB thumb drive...
Forgive me if I don't trust ANYTHING Chinese anymore, but after that magical chinese hard drive and reading many many comments from other people getting burned I have a hard time trusting anything chinese.
I will believe the rocket exists when I can see it myself
Ebooks do not save the environment. While you might think so because we are not cutting down trees for books you have to remember that books are usually kept forever, people do not usually throw away books, they end up getting donated and eventually land in a library somewhere. The exception is textbooks, because when a new version comes out every school requires that new version so the old versions are recycled. Very few books end up in landfills because they can be easily recycled unlike consumer electronics where after many years the items eventually end up in the trash like a parallel port 100mb Zip drive.
The only way ebooks would be better for the environment is if they were being read on existing devices like laptops or cellphones since you already had that device for other reasons. Purpose built devices like the Nook and Kindle are bad for the environment.
they have small dicks, so karma's still a bitch ;)
I would at least help the people that got me to where I was. Remember that saying "Karma's a bitch?" Yes it is, I've watched plenty of people who thought they could cheat their way through life fall, sometimes very hard.
Just keep your nose clean and treat people how you'd like to be treated and life isn't that bad. Try screwing the world and the world will screw back.
Zuckerberg could have fixed all of this if he would have just contacted the twins and ceglia back in '06 or '07 and said "hey guys, I have a few million and I want to give you a few million for helping me out, what do you say?" Guarantee they would have all said "HELL YES!" but no, zuckerberg decided to be a coward and keeps ending up in court with movies about how big an ass he is. Billions can't change public opinion of someone and right now he's not well liked, I'd rather be a well-loved millionaire than a much hated billionaire IMHO.
Really?
Ebay? Google? Yahoo? Unix? Craigslist? All greedy bastards?
Ok maybe the people that started them aren't all 50 billionaires, but they all have more money than they know what to do with and I don't think they're all greedy bastards... or am I wrong?
The $1,000 check that Zuckerberg cashed, hard to fake that.
Zuckerberg has got to be one of the biggest con-artists of the 21st century, why doesn't he just admit it and give these people 10 billion and move on? What's 10 billion when you already have 50 billion? Still more money than he could spend in his lifetime.
wow the Microsoft fanboys are really in force today on /., they even have the moderators. I use to work for Microsoft in tech support, when Microsoft customers had problems and they dialed the 800 number they'd reach me, and I'm telling you Windows 7 is not as stable as XP.
Agreed. Even with a fresh install Windows 7 crashes far more than Windows XP did, I have to tip-toe around what programs I open and how many I open. It's Windows 98 all over again.
Does this guy sell stealth fighters too? I bought a solar-powered cellphone charger on eBay from China. Let it sit in sunlight for a day and it charged up an iPhone maybe 2% when it's suppose to do 100%. Took it apart and found a battery tinyer than a AAA. Left negative feedback and was done.
really? Tried to look it up but the problem is articles from just 2009 are already whoa-fully out of date, however for the most part you're right, they're making somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion a year off app sales but that's nothing compared to the $40+ billion from iPhones because they profit from hardware and a kick-back from carrier fees. iPad helps some but far less carrier fees since not every iPad is sold with 3G.
exactly my point: Barnes & Noble makes $$$ from book sales on the Nook so they can sell the Nook at a steep discount. Apple makes money from Apps so they could sell the iPad at a steep discount. Apple could announce $100 iPads tomorrow if they felt any pressure from RIM, HP or Android devices, but right now they're having their cake and eating it too, profiting from device sales and app sales.
Apple doesn't need stores, they make enough money from the 30% they get from App Store sales that they could probably give iPads away and still come out on top.
It's like game consoles, sell them at a loss and make up for it in licensing fees. Motorola can't do that because they make nothing from Android app sales. RIM and HP could do that since they own their app stores but Apple's store has millions of sales a month already, RIM and HP would have to hemorrhage money for years to catch up.
Unless someone comes out with a ~$200 Android tablet (Nook, I'm looking at you) I really don't see anyone offering any competition to Apple.
He knows that they want $4 million to keep one website operating for a year, right?
""We need at least another $4 million just to keep USASpending.gov operating this year," the official said. "We are looking at a pass-the-hat approach, but it could be challenging to get that done in time."
$4 million to keep a website running? I think I see the problem, that's at least double or even triple what average hosting fees are.
Maybe he needs to watch the Top Gear video again
I think Top Gear is actually helping Tesla by suggesting people buy two tesla's, one to drive and one to charge.
P.S. Tesla: suing the media... not a great idea. They have viewers, lots of them, and can bash Tesla every episode if they wished for FREE. OH and suing makes Tesla look guilty as hell, and every news outlet will now cover the tesla-looks-guilty lawsuit. Better idea: play nice. Make an excuse and let them test again with a car that does get 200+ miles per charge. Everyone's happy.
P.S.S. Tesla: lots of luck with the lawsuit. Unless you were standing there with video cameras (like top gear was) to prove the car lasted more than 55 miles or the brakes didn't fail, I'd say Top Gear probably has this one in the bag.
8 megapixels is nothing special....
And it looks like there still won't be an optical zoom since the Xperia-Pro only has digital zoom
And don't tell me they can't put an optical zoom in an iPhone: the Sony DSC-T7 was only 14.8mm and had a 3x optical zoom way back in 2005 while the iPhone 4 is 9.3mm. I'll gladly sacrifice 5.5mm for a 3x optical zoom (assuming technology hasn't advanced since 2005)
Digital zoom is a joke, I'd don't care if they sell a 50 megapixel iPhone I'd trade it all for a good 3 megapixel with a 3x optical zoom.
what do you call that? I dunno about you, but I'd sure as hell call that a photographic memory.
Mnemonists
"Photographic memory" is what people call it that don't know any better. Even World Memory Champhionship winners call themselves mnemonists using method of loci
"Further cause for skepticism is given by a non- scientific event: The World Memory Championships. Held since 1991, this is an annual competition in different memory disciplines and is nearly totally based on visual tasks (9 out of 10 events are displayed visually, the tenth event is presented by audio). Since the champions can win interesting prizes (the total prize money for the World Memory Championships 2010 is $90,000), it should attract people who can beat those tests easily by reproducing visual images of the presented material during the recall. But indeed not a single memory champion ever reported to have an eidetic memory. Instead without a single exception all winners consider themselves mnemonists (see below) and rely on using mnemonic strategies, mostly the method of loci."
Don't worry about it, we have this kid
But China does have cooler model trains than we do
Means "my life sacrificed for the Leader". Only Khamenei goons otter that. I smell something fishy. Can't be a lone hacker...
Maybe he took the blue pill...
Dude? I thought this was a PR move by Iran?
I would take that with a grain of salt. He obviously has something akin to a photographic memory. FTA:
Photographic memory doesn't really exist the way most people think of it, as in being able to look at a photograph of a forest and later being able to answer how many trees were in the forest or being able to recall the fourth word in the sixth paragraph after staring at a page in a book.
;)
Being able to memorize a deck of playing cards or a book of mathematical formulas is NOT photographic memory. No scientific study has ever found anyone with a true photographic memory... well, except one, but the scientist went and married the girl and she refused to repeat the experiments to other scientists so that's questionable.
So next time you hear someone say "I have a photographic memory" you can chuckle to yourself
"Why on earth would you give your MacBook Pro to your dead wife?"
I'm not a grammer nazi but this guy isn't helping Apple fans look good.
" How would Slashdotters go about picking a solid, basic laptop for Web surfing and document editing that won't be obsolete in two years?""
Is this guy for real? He just described every laptop since 2006.
is this an early April Fools? "Uh... I'm a Mac Guy... uh, I can't form sentences... uh, can u halp me find laptop? duh...."
I thought the same thing, "late adopter's guide to USB 3.0". Really? Late adopter? USB 3.0 couldn't get more green, it's not even a sort option on Newegg yet and Newegg is usually as fresh as it gets... hence "new". When I searched by keyword, only 64 out of ~300 motherboards popped up. USB 3.0 "Late adopter"? Really?