Why is dvd playback such a selling point? Does anyone NOT have a dvd player that will buy a wii? A dvd player is 30 dollars!
As of the end of 2006, over 80% of households have dvd players http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=12220 . Do you think the other 20 percent are choosing between a console or dvd player? 3.5 percent of households are below the poverty line http://www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.as p . So now we're around 85 percent; factor in old people and I'm sure we're just left with luddites and the margin of error.
From wikipedia article on Paul Allen:
Much of Paul Allen's philanthropy has been dedicated to health and human services and toward the advancement of science and technology. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation was established in 1986 to administer much of the giving. Through the Foundation, Allen awards nearly $30 million in grants annually. Approximately 75 percent of the Foundation's money goes to non-profit organizations in Seattle and the state of Washington. The remaining 25 percent is distributed to Portland, Oregon and other cities within the Pacific Northwest. Allen also contributes through other charitable projects known as venture philanthropy. The most famous of those projects are the Experience Music Project, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and SETI. Paul Allen's total philanthropy as of 2005 is estimated to be over US$815 million.
The University of Washington has been a major recipient of Paul Allen's giving. In the late 1980's, Allen donated US$18 million to build a new library named after his father, Kenneth S. Allen. In 2003 US$5 million was donated to establish the Faye G. Allen (his mother) Center for Visual Arts. Paul Allen also was the top private contributor (US$14 million) and namesake of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (completed in 2004). Throughout the years, Allen has contributed millions of US dollars to the University of Washington Medical School, most recently US$3.2 million for prostatitis research.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Philanthro py
But yes Gates has given away more of his money and is therefore a better person... I guess?
Look into the claims that sony and microsoft have made about their systems being capable of multiple teraflops. Then go to the top 100 super computers and how much they cost and how many teraflops they can do. I trust none of these specs. I trust gameplay.
I dont know if you guys have heard of this, but they've invented a device that allows a person to see through walls. Pretty soon everyone's going to have one, and it will be the end of privacy. Can you imagine what it's going to be like when anyone can look in your house whenever they want? It let's you see through walls...They're calling it a "window"
They thought they were going to pull a fast one on all of us Visto customers by calling their new product Vista. Microsoft must have figured if you cant beat the bootlegers, join them.
I'm in the humanities so sometimes having my computer with me is well...distracting. I definitely don't rely on wikipedia as a primary source (more of a quick reference or a jumping off point), but often you get lost in wikipedia. What I'd like is an encyclopedia akin to an electronic dictionary. I dont know if this is possible or maybe I should just block every site except wikipedia.
It took 40 years for fission so I dont see why we should expect immediate progress. The government has continually embarassed itself when it comes to nuclear energy and I can see why they would be hesitant to do so again. Most of their experiences with cold fusion have been debacles.
Call me crazy, but maybe because this stuff is fairly new and far from mainstream?
The government has given money to the Fermi Accelerators for years: http://www.fnal.gov/
Try not to troll your blood for oil BS, it'll just cause a flame war and has nothing to do with science or this article.
This just goes how much we underestimate animals and overvalue ourselves. We'd like to believe that the evolution gap between us and every other species is too broad to be even fathomed, but it's simply not true. I know some people will reply and say that we all know that we came from apes, but I'm not talking about what we know, but how we act. We treat animals like they don't have emotions and that they aren't capable of the same types of understanding as us. In the future I imagine we are going to see that animals can do a lot of things we never though and are even better than us in some areas of intellect.
Actually you only need about 40-50!! They do about 2.7 terraflops each. Factoring in processing time lost due to node limitations that should be about right. IBM clearly overpayed. Kinda dumb when im sure they dont pay retail for cell processors.
The main flaw here is that they assume that every pirated copy in a third/second world country is equivalent to its price in the US et al. Let's do some analogies.
Let's look at the Ukraine and how much they make per month: http://www.ukraine-gateway.org.ua/gateway/gateway. nsf/basicv/0401020002?OpenDocument&Click= Its roughly $30 a month or 360 a month.
The median US income is around 43000 dollars.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/income03/statemh i.html
Let's assume that Win xp pro is THE item to pirate. It costs retail in the US 300 dollars.
In the Ukraine that would be roughly 90 percent of their income before taxes. If MS thinks that they are really losing money on these people then they are mistaken because these people could not buy it anyway so those numbers are rocky at best.
In the US on the other hand its more like 1 percent of family income after taxes so it's not quite as major a purchase and they could make an argument that they are losing money here, but as said the piracy rate is lower here.
I wonder what major news service will be the first to call vaporware? I'm sure nintendo has something, but the conference was a total cock tease, and im left feeling blue balled. Oh nintendo, what happened to us? I thought we had something special. I'd tell you my secrets and you'd tell me yours. I never even bought anything that wasn't nintendo approved. Love does not alter when alteration finds, but you must show me the alterations my love!
Nintendo 64 was a whopping failure. The dev kits were a mess. Nintendo is just very good at hyping things that while innovative dont end up being successful for some reason or another. I'm not trying to put them down, I just worry about them.
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Why is dvd playback such a selling point? Does anyone NOT have a dvd player that will buy a wii? A dvd player is 30 dollars!
s p . So now we're around 85 percent; factor in old people and I'm sure we're just left with luddites and the margin of error.
As of the end of 2006, over 80% of households have dvd players http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=12220 . Do you think the other 20 percent are choosing between a console or dvd player? 3.5 percent of households are below the poverty line http://www.soundvision.com/Info/poor/statistics.a
What are they going on about?
I thought whenever The Doctor dies he gets to regenerate.
It was almost done so they decided to throw more programmers at it to speed it up. So we can expect to see this never...
I feel as though I should give the 25 dollars and have the computers run folding@home for a day.
From wikipedia article on Paul Allen: Much of Paul Allen's philanthropy has been dedicated to health and human services and toward the advancement of science and technology. The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation was established in 1986 to administer much of the giving. Through the Foundation, Allen awards nearly $30 million in grants annually. Approximately 75 percent of the Foundation's money goes to non-profit organizations in Seattle and the state of Washington. The remaining 25 percent is distributed to Portland, Oregon and other cities within the Pacific Northwest. Allen also contributes through other charitable projects known as venture philanthropy. The most famous of those projects are the Experience Music Project, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and SETI. Paul Allen's total philanthropy as of 2005 is estimated to be over US$815 million. The University of Washington has been a major recipient of Paul Allen's giving. In the late 1980's, Allen donated US$18 million to build a new library named after his father, Kenneth S. Allen. In 2003 US$5 million was donated to establish the Faye G. Allen (his mother) Center for Visual Arts. Paul Allen also was the top private contributor (US$14 million) and namesake of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering (completed in 2004). Throughout the years, Allen has contributed millions of US dollars to the University of Washington Medical School, most recently US$3.2 million for prostatitis research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen#Philanthro py
But yes Gates has given away more of his money and is therefore a better person... I guess?
Look into the claims that sony and microsoft have made about their systems being capable of multiple teraflops. Then go to the top 100 super computers and how much they cost and how many teraflops they can do. I trust none of these specs. I trust gameplay.
My secret word was contempt.
Maybe they should release it now with even more bugs and security problems so you will have more stories to troll.
I dont know if you guys have heard of this, but they've invented a device that allows a person to see through walls. Pretty soon everyone's going to have one, and it will be the end of privacy. Can you imagine what it's going to be like when anyone can look in your house whenever they want? It let's you see through walls...They're calling it a "window"
They thought they were going to pull a fast one on all of us Visto customers by calling their new product Vista. Microsoft must have figured if you cant beat the bootlegers, join them.
Danger Will Robbinson! DANGER!
I'm in the humanities so sometimes having my computer with me is well...distracting. I definitely don't rely on wikipedia as a primary source (more of a quick reference or a jumping off point), but often you get lost in wikipedia. What I'd like is an encyclopedia akin to an electronic dictionary. I dont know if this is possible or maybe I should just block every site except wikipedia.
Product != Service. A lot of these things are services and not products unless they meant i.e. google.
Balmer: I know kai fu.
Schmidt: [eyeing him, hand on chin] Show me
He's going to set his beautiful hair on fire, I just know it. Don't do it john!
It took 40 years for fission so I dont see why we should expect immediate progress. The government has continually embarassed itself when it comes to nuclear energy and I can see why they would be hesitant to do so again. Most of their experiences with cold fusion have been debacles.
Im an idiot and used the bold tag instead of break.
Call me crazy, but maybe because this stuff is fairly new and far from mainstream? The government has given money to the Fermi Accelerators for years: http://www.fnal.gov/ Try not to troll your blood for oil BS, it'll just cause a flame war and has nothing to do with science or this article.
This just goes how much we underestimate animals and overvalue ourselves. We'd like to believe that the evolution gap between us and every other species is too broad to be even fathomed, but it's simply not true. I know some people will reply and say that we all know that we came from apes, but I'm not talking about what we know, but how we act. We treat animals like they don't have emotions and that they aren't capable of the same types of understanding as us. In the future I imagine we are going to see that animals can do a lot of things we never though and are even better than us in some areas of intellect.
checkout www.bookfinder.com and www.abebooks.com Great for new and used alike
sarcasm surrenders
man, they are going to go back to the site on monday. Dont they know it's july 4th? Gosh, don't they get off for holidays?
Actually you only need about 40-50!! They do about 2.7 terraflops each. Factoring in processing time lost due to node limitations that should be about right. IBM clearly overpayed. Kinda dumb when im sure they dont pay retail for cell processors.
The main flaw here is that they assume that every pirated copy in a third/second world country is equivalent to its price in the US et al. Let's do some analogies. Let's look at the Ukraine and how much they make per month: http://www.ukraine-gateway.org.ua/gateway/gateway. nsf/basicv/0401020002?OpenDocument&Click= Its roughly $30 a month or 360 a month.
The median US income is around 43000 dollars.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/income03/statemh i.html
Let's assume that Win xp pro is THE item to pirate. It costs retail in the US 300 dollars.
In the Ukraine that would be roughly 90 percent of their income before taxes. If MS thinks that they are really losing money on these people then they are mistaken because these people could not buy it anyway so those numbers are rocky at best.
In the US on the other hand its more like 1 percent of family income after taxes so it's not quite as major a purchase and they could make an argument that they are losing money here, but as said the piracy rate is lower here.
I wonder what major news service will be the first to call vaporware? I'm sure nintendo has something, but the conference was a total cock tease, and im left feeling blue balled. Oh nintendo, what happened to us? I thought we had something special. I'd tell you my secrets and you'd tell me yours. I never even bought anything that wasn't nintendo approved. Love does not alter when alteration finds, but you must show me the alterations my love!
Nintendo 64 was a whopping failure. The dev kits were a mess. Nintendo is just very good at hyping things that while innovative dont end up being successful for some reason or another. I'm not trying to put them down, I just worry about them.