Interesting, as I ran across about 30 wii's in the past 2 weeks in various stores, each with 3 or more in stock. (Including used cd/record stores and Half-Price Books even).
Maybe your local Best Buy or Fry's is sold out, but there are plenty out and about.
Heck, so you're the one other guy that has an original XP install disk? (Last time I checked, you cannot slipstream anything onto anything but rev 0 XP).
Let me rephrase my previous post. While you can pass two beams of light through each other, and you can pass two radio spectrum waves through each other, this is totally irrelevant to radio interference.... To say that interference is a big lie is an outrageously simple and wrong conclusion.
2 distinct radio sources cannot permanently interfere with each other across a plane when using a phased array antenna. (Other than one completely overpowering the other.)
I've seen 8 separate radio signals pulled out of a single frequency in RT with clarity you'd find hard to believe. You can switch between the sources or mix and match as you'd like. IIRC, that was with a 4 antenna phased array.
Not all of us want a game system as a BD player for a variety of reasons, but we can use your $400 number - that still doesn't compare very well with $0 (for existing) or <$50 for buying a new DVD player.
Apprently I've not been keeping up with low-end HDTV prices as they appear to have dropped some. Although not yet to the point where Joe 6pack can comfortably go down to the store and pick one up to replace his perfectly fine current unit (from his perspective). So the implication of my statement stands.
As for movies - those are all overstocks of older movies for under $20. I mean, come on, Predator and Commando still sell for over $20 each. (Predator's MSRP btw, is a measely $39.95) But, yes, you can get BD movies for $20+, with occasional movies hitting less. That still doesn't invalidate my price range. Not everyone is going to go to Amazon. Actually, I wonder if the "low" pricing has more to do with a sudden inexplicable drop in BD sales more than anything else?
Let's see - $20-40 for a BD movie, $500+ for a BD player, or $4-14 for a DVD movie and $30-50 for a DVD Player with a much larger selection (and those would be new movies, btw, not used.)
There's also the issue that for a BD movie to actually be better, you also need a $2K+ TV, which the vast majority does not own. BTW, if you happen to own an older HDTV (prior to HDMI/DVI) odds are that the electronics in it are going to give you a nice upconverted picture without having to buy an upconverting DVD player.
As for copying a DVD - it has nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with those damn UOPs. I rip my own so I can actually get to the movie instead of watching 4-10m of BS crap you can't forward through. I only do that for the incredibly small set of disks I buy that I will watch more than once in 5 years - namely - disks my kids watch. Also prevents destruction of original disks. A nice bonus.
Same as why REXX was so much more successful on the Amiga than it will be on any other OS. So REXX wasn't the premier scripting language of OS/2? (which had a much larger user base than Amiga, btw)
Its just strange to hear of such a thing when you work with computers, and there are computer systems that "never go down". Mind boggling. Only true for those who've never been outside the MS world. Quite common for the rest of us. Well, ok, maybe "the rest of us" are a small lot who work on 5 9s systems, but again, it's about time this quit being a shock and started to be expected. Hell, my desktop system was only rebooted once every 6 to 9 months for a kernel patch that couldn't be done live between 91 and 95.
Last time I checked, real mission critical meant having redundant systems. It also meant having live failover tests. (Yep, we ran 1 test a month, during a specified maintenance window)
After all, how do you know if your HA system really is HA unless you test it? And how do you know your folks actually know how to follow the emergency procedures unless you exercise them? Anything less is like betting the farm on a back up system and procedure that you never test. (And yes, been there too, but left asap)
that is probably the only reasonable use of overrated.... and probably shouldn't be available until it's +3 for Interesting, Informative, and Insightful mods.
Underrated is a very useful mod, though, but should only apply to funny, troll, and flamebait mods.
That way, fanboi's can't get away with downgrading real posts, and you can only upgrade posts that you might not otherwise upgrade due to controversial content.
What's interesting is that an MS exploit seems to propogate through 1/2 a million servers in a few days. When's the last time you heard of 1/2 million PHP servers compromised? Or java servers (there can't be too many of them around after all;)
Or any other? Could it be that MS software is just fundamentally inferior?
But seriously, it seems that whenever there's a windows exploit, all windows servers are vulnerable. That doesn't seem to be the case in *nix land. Only people running a specific set of configurations appear vulnerable.
Except that Sql injections can happen on any web server with a poorly coded application.... To be fair, it's been a long time since there was any huge number of exploits on IIS. It doesn't take a huge number, it only takes one.
The RTF only references 1 exploit - 500K servers isn't a bad haul.
I doubt it. PS3 was an evolutionary step in the entire video console sequence.
The entire attraction of things like the Coleco/Intellivision/Atari 2600 were that they were the first, and each provided uniqueness in how they approached the video console concept.
The thing they may lament is that they don't remember the Wii, the one console that actually broke new ground this round.
If we could get rid of the school hamstringing that "No Child Left Behind" created here in the US, perhaps we'd have half a chance at getting at least the upper levels of students a decent education.
THe nVidia/Via partnership may result in what you project, but I guarantee that AMD/ATI will get there far far ahead of them, and will have a more powerful combination in both graphics and CPU for a given power consumption/thermal footprint.
Laptops are one area that this solution is great for, but so are any sub $500 PC. And don't forget, you can still always plug in a separate graphics adapter for XFire with AMD (at least that's the current speculation). nVidia's SLI solution doesn't even come close to XFire.
I foresee AMD's phenom, when it goes to 45nm and gets 6-8MB L3 cache easily beating the current crop of Core 2 Quads from Intel. Problem is, Nehalem should be out by then putting Intel and AMD on a level playing field. It should be interesting what happens in the performance battle at that point.
I own Core 2 Duo (laptops), Core 2 Quad (desktop), and an AMD X2 (desktop) as the recent CPUs. The 2 year old X2 easily keeps up with any Core 2 Duo in the sub $200 price range, until you hit the higher reaches of OC'ing. The Quad, however, just rocks. I couldn't get a B3 Phenom system for the $260 I paid for the C2 Quad and MB together that would run nearly as fast (3GHz - it's a good MB).
Getting back to the ATI buy, it could truly work out to a stroke of genius. ATI has some excellent hardware, and removing the layers of bureaucracy between the two companies should certainly allow for AMD to come out with an excellent CPU/Chipset/GPU support. I wouldn't be surprised to see a base GPU/FPU come out on the 45nm die about the time Nehalem comes out for a truly integrated CPU/GPU all in one system.
The point of university is to totally immerse yourself in your chosen subject. That should be one of the functions, yes. Usually this happens in the last 2 years (of a 4 year program) and continues in post-graduate education.
Some narrow technical skill is EXACTLY what will get you the big money in software, and what will get you hired over and over. Having a general understanding of computers and an intimate knowledge of how they work (plus language theory and a wide exposure to different languages) is also a good thing. Only if that narrow skill happens to still be in demand in your particular area or areas you're willing to move to (I'm thinking SAP, Oracle, or Documentum as good examples with high earning potential). More often having a deep skill set with several specialized areas will get you far far more traction, and will usually let you work even in the above mentioned FUBAR codebases. (I've been in two of the three deep enough to know I don't want to do them ever again)
But studying arts/humanities alongside? Waste of time. You had high school for that. Well, how do you think you become eloquent? It's certainly not going to happen in high school, although you may get a decent start there. Remember, there's that "No Child Left Behind" (read that as "No Child May Advance") bullshit going on here in the US.
But even so, college encourages:
broader exposure to things the public school system can't teach
exposure to critical aspects of the initial exposure you got in high school and generally can't be done there because most high school students are still incapable of critical thought
the almost certainty that students really don't know what they want to do full time at age 18 or 19 yet without further exposure
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Interesting, as I ran across about 30 wii's in the past 2 weeks in various stores, each with 3 or more in stock. (Including used cd/record stores and Half-Price Books even).
Maybe your local Best Buy or Fry's is sold out, but there are plenty out and about.
And they'd care why exactly? Have you checked the pension plans for generals? It's pretty generous.
Can the same line be used to defend Microsoft the next time they screw up a bug-fix or "service pack"?
So we'll be using it tomorrow?
Heck, so you're the one other guy that has an original XP install disk? (Last time I checked, you cannot slipstream anything onto anything but rev 0 XP).
Let me rephrase my previous post. While you can pass two beams of light through each other, and you can pass two radio spectrum waves through each other, this is totally irrelevant to radio interference. ... To say that interference is a big lie is an outrageously simple and wrong conclusion.
2 distinct radio sources cannot permanently interfere with each other across a plane when using a phased array antenna. (Other than one completely overpowering the other.)
I've seen 8 separate radio signals pulled out of a single frequency in RT with clarity you'd find hard to believe. You can switch between the sources or mix and match as you'd like. IIRC, that was with a 4 antenna phased array.
Ask Stardock. They sold lots of extra copies because they advertised no copy protection. I have a copy myself. :)
Actually, I believe DeCSS is not illegal, being in existence before the DMCA.
However, distributing copyrighted works is illegal, and has been for long before the DMCA.
Not all of us want a game system as a BD player for a variety of reasons, but we can use your $400 number - that still doesn't compare very well with $0 (for existing) or <$50 for buying a new DVD player.
Apprently I've not been keeping up with low-end HDTV prices as they appear to have dropped some. Although not yet to the point where Joe 6pack can comfortably go down to the store and pick one up to replace his perfectly fine current unit (from his perspective). So the implication of my statement stands.
As for movies - those are all overstocks of older movies for under $20. I mean, come on, Predator and Commando still sell for over $20 each. (Predator's MSRP btw, is a measely $39.95) But, yes, you can get BD movies for $20+, with occasional movies hitting less. That still doesn't invalidate my price range. Not everyone is going to go to Amazon. Actually, I wonder if the "low" pricing has more to do with a sudden inexplicable drop in BD sales more than anything else?
Reasons for low sales?
Let's see - $20-40 for a BD movie, $500+ for a BD player, or $4-14 for a DVD movie and $30-50 for a DVD Player with a much larger selection (and those would be new movies, btw, not used.)
There's also the issue that for a BD movie to actually be better, you also need a $2K+ TV, which the vast majority does not own. BTW, if you happen to own an older HDTV (prior to HDMI/DVI) odds are that the electronics in it are going to give you a nice upconverted picture without having to buy an upconverting DVD player.
As for copying a DVD - it has nothing to do with piracy, and everything to do with those damn UOPs. I rip my own so I can actually get to the movie instead of watching 4-10m of BS crap you can't forward through. I only do that for the incredibly small set of disks I buy that I will watch more than once in 5 years - namely - disks my kids watch. Also prevents destruction of original disks. A nice bonus.
Last time I checked, real mission critical meant having redundant systems. It also meant having live failover tests. (Yep, we ran 1 test a month, during a specified maintenance window)
After all, how do you know if your HA system really is HA unless you test it? And how do you know your folks actually know how to follow the emergency procedures unless you exercise them? Anything less is like betting the farm on a back up system and procedure that you never test. (And yes, been there too, but left asap)
Just like a bunch of Solaris systems. Fire and forget.
Wait, wrong metaphor....
that is probably the only reasonable use of overrated.... and probably shouldn't be available until it's +3 for Interesting, Informative, and Insightful mods.
Underrated is a very useful mod, though, but should only apply to funny, troll, and flamebait mods.
That way, fanboi's can't get away with downgrading real posts, and you can only upgrade posts that you might not otherwise upgrade due to controversial content.
What's interesting is that an MS exploit seems to propogate through 1/2 a million servers in a few days. When's the last time you heard of 1/2 million PHP servers compromised? Or java servers (there can't be too many of them around after all;)
Or any other? Could it be that MS software is just fundamentally inferior?
But seriously, it seems that whenever there's a windows exploit, all windows servers are vulnerable. That doesn't seem to be the case in *nix land. Only people running a specific set of configurations appear vulnerable.
The RTF only references 1 exploit - 500K servers isn't a bad haul.
but, they can build the source into binaries and load them onto the hardware. Now if the hardware has backdoors....
I doubt it. PS3 was an evolutionary step in the entire video console sequence.
The entire attraction of things like the Coleco/Intellivision/Atari 2600 were that they were the first, and each provided uniqueness in how they approached the video console concept.
The thing they may lament is that they don't remember the Wii, the one console that actually broke new ground this round.
And let's not forget the easy expandability of external drives. FW800 is nice.
That'd be the UK.
If we could get rid of the school hamstringing that "No Child Left Behind" created here in the US, perhaps we'd have half a chance at getting at least the upper levels of students a decent education.
Currently, the only hope is private schooling.
but with Firefox's noscript and flashblock plugins, how likely is it that this is a problem? Not very.
THe nVidia/Via partnership may result in what you project, but I guarantee that AMD/ATI will get there far far ahead of them, and will have a more powerful combination in both graphics and CPU for a given power consumption/thermal footprint.
Laptops are one area that this solution is great for, but so are any sub $500 PC. And don't forget, you can still always plug in a separate graphics adapter for XFire with AMD (at least that's the current speculation). nVidia's SLI solution doesn't even come close to XFire.
I foresee AMD's phenom, when it goes to 45nm and gets 6-8MB L3 cache easily beating the current crop of Core 2 Quads from Intel. Problem is, Nehalem should be out by then putting Intel and AMD on a level playing field. It should be interesting what happens in the performance battle at that point.
I own Core 2 Duo (laptops), Core 2 Quad (desktop), and an AMD X2 (desktop) as the recent CPUs. The 2 year old X2 easily keeps up with any Core 2 Duo in the sub $200 price range, until you hit the higher reaches of OC'ing. The Quad, however, just rocks. I couldn't get a B3 Phenom system for the $260 I paid for the C2 Quad and MB together that would run nearly as fast (3GHz - it's a good MB).
Getting back to the ATI buy, it could truly work out to a stroke of genius. ATI has some excellent hardware, and removing the layers of bureaucracy between the two companies should certainly allow for AMD to come out with an excellent CPU/Chipset/GPU support. I wouldn't be surprised to see a base GPU/FPU come out on the 45nm die about the time Nehalem comes out for a truly integrated CPU/GPU all in one system.