Unoffically you could very well be far from the truth.
Hardware is a commodity, you don't make much money off selling hardware. Look at Apple's history, look at their profit margains, their "PC" division is one of their worst earning divisions.
Alot of people predict the obvious, that Apple is porting to x86 not because of CPU prices or performance, but simply as a stepping stone onto the x86 world of existing hardware.
Apple is rapidly becomming a service company, much like Microsoft has been for decades and for decades killing Apple.
If Apple feels they finally have a technical hold over Windows, they can now make their move into PC territory and steal it.
The problem is, they have to take it somewhat slow and watch their steps. They don't wanna get into something too fast especially if it more or less opens a doorway thats difficult to close.
Instead, they make Mac x86 PC's, then at some point allow OSX to run on existing PC's legally.
Why you ask? Well, first off, Apple knows people will still buy real Mac hardware because they kick ass. But Apple doesn't really care all that much, it doesn't make much money anyways.
What would Apple rather have, the world running OSX on every PC, using iTunes and living on Apple's Desktop, or Apple remaining at 4% (or whatever) desktop share.
Apple wants everyone in the world to be using OSX so they can service the world with applications like iTunes which makes them millions.
Of course, in my whole rant, I say what Apple wants when really know one knows what Apple wants except for Jobs, who of which probably has told no one what he really wants except under his breath while laying in bed right before he goes to sleep.... "OSX on every PC in the world.... <snore>..<dream>"
To correct the analogy with your phone booths along the highway:
1. You have to be able to go to the phone booth and pick from a phone-provider before you put in your quarter. You can pick SBC which having the most marketing will have the biggest and brightest selection button, but I instead pick Sonic.net, because when I pick up the phone, hear that dial tone and then punch in 411 for information, their information (e.g. Support) is much better, I can understand the person because he is speaking perfect english, not someone who studied english for 2 years reading from a script in India that can't tell me what I need to know. (e.g. How to fix a problem with my service). No thanks, I'll punch in Sonic.net and give them my 25 cents instead of SBC.
2. Secondly, SBC service and Comcast service (DSL vs Cable in California) deserve their own analogy:
The little DSL ISP's with their supperior support are the track stars in the 100m dash.
Comcast always comes in dead last and SBC comes in 2nd to dead last out of 8 competing providers.
So, now you remove all the good players, and leave the two handicapped lame track runners competing against each other, they are handicapped from their size and will never be fast.
Will they get better? No, history has shown this with any large company, good service doesn't scale. Really, look it up.
Yeah, 5 platters instead of 4... BUT, they also say that each platter is much thicker than before since the bits are standing up (and dancing disco style according to the flash video)... So with the thicker platters I was guessing 4 instead of 5... but who knows, maybe only 3...
Or.. maybe 5 still if its like "microns" thicker and that damn Flash Video wasn't accurate enough;)
It doesn't do 3.0gbs, SORRY. I don't even have to RTFA to know that.
*Most* super fast 7.5k RPM disks can do about 50 megabytes or 420 megabit per second max.
I have two 75gb 10,000 Raptor SATA drives that together raid-0 get about 110megabytes/s.. but those are 10k RPM disks (spare me the lecture about drive density = higher speed, I know this). Thats about 1 gb/s.. but no where near 3gb per second and this is using 2 raid-0 disks.
Incorrect: Yo, don't buy that PC, if you do you can't watch these movies cuz you won't have the right monitor.
Correct: Yo, this sucks, I can't watch ANY MOVIES anymore on my old PC because the content providers REQUIRE the new Longhorn OS with DRM, much like alot of websites REQUIRE internet explorer. Wha? How the heck, you are watching that movie!!! How????? - "I got Longhorn baby... and this slick new monitor".
All I am saying, is if Google split the stock 2 times, it would be $75 a share instead of $300 a share, and you would of never made that comment that the stock was priced "too high".
Even though, you own the same amoutn of the company, and the volatility is the same, volume is the same (after scaled) etc etc etc...
That statement isn't entirely true though, because like your statement you made about stock being too high, many people see the same thing and are emotional about stock not logical.
The problem is there are a ton of emotional people, and that problem can be bad or good...
The other issue is if you have $500, you can only buy 1 google share... if google was priced at $100 a share, you could buy 5 and overall give google "more money"... The granularity is too high... They are hurting themselves and not getting as much money as they could if they would split their stock a couple times.
They say they are making an example and claim that they will not split because they want the serious investors and not the small time day traders. I heard through a very solid source that they want to have $5000.00/share stock, this $300 a share is only the begining.
If google did a massive number of stock splits so your $2,000 bought 10,000,000 shares, would that make you more happy? Then the stock price would be $0.0001 a share (Im not doing the math here) and you could buy buy buy...
Then again, you would be buying 0.000000000000001% (not doing the math here) of the company and the price would only move 1 cent every year.
NUMBER OF SHARES MEANS NOTHING, its all about percentage of the company.
Saying you can only buy 10 shares means nothing,... What if there was only 30 outstanding shares in a company, you would own 1/3rd.
I share my home with two cockatoos, Spot a Sulfur Crested Cockatoo and Bianca, a Ducorp's Cockatoo.
They are both VERY SMART, relatively speaking of course.
Bianca has learned tricks in less than 2 minutes that after that amount of training she can still do today 2 years later.
I've watched her solve "puzzles" to get a treat that I hadn't taught her at all!! I would stick a piece of bread in the bottom of a plastic chain tied to a perch. Instead of flying down to get it, she stood on top, pulled the chain up as soon as I put the bread in (within 5 seconds), pulled about 30 links of the chain up (taking 20 seconds or so), then holding the chain in one foot and pulling the bread out with her beak...
Simple you might say, but she is applying reasoning logic to how to get something she wants without using alot of energy (flying down).
This is a basic example. Alex the grey parrot is pretty famous, I fully beleive he knows that if you ask if something exists, he will say "None" if it doesn't exist.
You can show you two different objects he has never seen, if they are a different color, you can say to him "Whats different", and he will say "Color", or two objects that he has never seen that are different, but the same color, and say "Whats different", and he will say "Matter" (for physical matter).
Alex is smart, most other Parrot species are smart, but like Alex, African Grey parrots take the cake with intelligence, they are one bright creature.
They blow your cat or dog out of the water, so to speak... and I'm not talking about "talking ability".
Wrong... If a police officer has a clear path and can speed without disrupting traffic, then he may do so. Lights cause traffic congestion and sometimes even accidents as people panic to get out of the way. Lights are only to be used when a life or death emergency or when trying to pull someone over to signal to them to do so.
This is straight from Police Training 101. Check it out...
Police officers can speed to get to an emergency and NOT use lights if its deemed safe by the police officer to speed without the requirement of people pulling over to the side of the road.
Lights = EVERYONE PULL OVER Speeding with no lights = I'm hopefully legally trying to get to a legitament call, but not a life or death situation where I need my lights or siren.
The new 3-Series 325i has the same 3.0L engine as the 330i car.
The only so far-noticed mechanical difference is a larger air intake for the 330i vs the 325i. Otherwise mechanically they are the same vehicle engine/transmission wise.
The real difference is the software, which restricts the 255hp engine down to 215hp for the 325i model.
As soon as someone plugs in a 330i ECM into the 325 ECM and puts on a cheap larger air-intake, you should have a nice 330Ci thats badged as a 325i...
They don't get a check. Read the damn article. The money vests over 4 years... They gotta keep workin and now they gotta really perform, otherwise they get fired and dont get all the millions.
Google doesn't want you working there for much longer than that anyways. They want to keep the company average age at 25.5 years old.
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I was waiting for someone to nit-pick it. ... Congradulations, you win the prize.
Besides, someone else already pointed out it was ported to the 1.xMhz SNES cpu (with help of the mode-7 hardware).
- Voxel
http://store.videogametrader.com/010086845068.html
Your system often peaks out wattage within the first few seconds of power-on.
The HD's spin up is a real killer, often taking magnitudes more power to spin up from 0rpm than when they are crusing along at 7400rpm.
If your HD's spin up power + Video + CPU = > PSU can put out some bad things can happen.
Sometimes your system won't boot, because the CPU was starved for power while it was trying to "come up", same goes for the video card, etc.
HD spin up really sucks.
Add in all the Fan's in your case trying to spin up from 0RPM too...
Yes, my oh my you can use up a PSU.
Puny HD-DVD/BluRay?! Are you mad, all you need is 640k!
Offically you are correct.
Unoffically you could very well be far from the truth.
Hardware is a commodity, you don't make much money off selling hardware. Look at Apple's history, look at their profit margains, their "PC" division is one of their worst earning divisions.
Alot of people predict the obvious, that Apple is porting to x86 not because of CPU prices or performance, but simply as a stepping stone onto the x86 world of existing hardware.
Apple is rapidly becomming a service company, much like Microsoft has been for decades and for decades killing Apple.
If Apple feels they finally have a technical hold over Windows, they can now make their move into PC territory and steal it.
The problem is, they have to take it somewhat slow and watch their steps. They don't wanna get into something too fast especially if it more or less opens a doorway thats difficult to close.
Instead, they make Mac x86 PC's, then at some point allow OSX to run on existing PC's legally.
Why you ask? Well, first off, Apple knows people will still buy real Mac hardware because they kick ass. But Apple doesn't really care all that much, it doesn't make much money anyways.
What would Apple rather have, the world running OSX on every PC, using iTunes and living on Apple's Desktop, or Apple remaining at 4% (or whatever) desktop share.
Apple wants everyone in the world to be using OSX so they can service the world with applications like iTunes which makes them millions.
Of course, in my whole rant, I say what Apple wants when really know one knows what Apple wants except for Jobs, who of which probably has told no one what he really wants except under his breath while laying in bed right before he goes to sleep.... "OSX on every PC in the world.... <snore>..<dream>"
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I pay USD$49.95 per month to Sonic.net (http://sonic.net/ for 6.0mb/s down, 608kbp/s up. No cap, no limitations.
I'm in California though, I think this is probably one of the cheapest places to get 6.0mb down DSL for only $49.95 a month.
You can get 1.5mb down, 384k up for $14.95 a month from SBC Yahoo, but you have shitty service and PPPoE instead of straight Ethernet.
To correct the analogy with your phone booths along the highway:
1. You have to be able to go to the phone booth and pick from a phone-provider before you put in your quarter. You can pick SBC which having the most marketing will have the biggest and brightest selection button, but I instead pick Sonic.net, because when I pick up the phone, hear that dial tone and then punch in 411 for information, their information (e.g. Support) is much better, I can understand the person because he is speaking perfect english, not someone who studied english for 2 years reading from a script in India that can't tell me what I need to know. (e.g. How to fix a problem with my service). No thanks, I'll punch in Sonic.net and give them my 25 cents instead of SBC.
2. Secondly, SBC service and Comcast service (DSL vs Cable in California) deserve their own analogy:
The little DSL ISP's with their supperior support are the track stars in the 100m dash.
Comcast always comes in dead last and SBC comes in 2nd to dead last out of 8 competing providers.
So, now you remove all the good players, and leave the two handicapped lame track runners competing against each other, they are handicapped from their size and will never be fast.
Will they get better? No, history has shown this with any large company, good service doesn't scale. Really, look it up.
A one button mouse, and a 101 button keyboard.
Why is the mouse that much different than a keyboard...
Write the word "Action" on the left button, right the word "Info" on the right button.
Its a two button keyboard that you can slide around... if you can't figure that out....
Yeah, 5 platters instead of 4... BUT, they also say that each platter is much thicker than before since the bits are standing up (and dancing disco style according to the flash video)... So with the thicker platters I was guessing 4 instead of 5... but who knows, maybe only 3...
;)
Or.. maybe 5 still if its like "microns" thicker and that damn Flash Video wasn't accurate enough
They claim up to 10x density... Is it theoretical or real? I don't know, but its what they claim.
So, instead of 100 gB / platter, thats 1,000 gB/ platter. With 4 platters (they use 4 in 3.5" 400gb maxtor drives), that would be...
4 Terrabytes in a single 3.5" Drive. (mb/mib/Mb/mB blah blah blah conversion loss)...
Tada.
Yes, we have hit a limit. The magnetic bits are too small now to continue without a change in technology.
h ead/pr/PerpendicularAnimation.html
100 gigabytes per 3.5" platter is about the max we seem to be able to do.
The answer? Get perpendicular!!!
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_
It doesn't do 3.0gbs, SORRY. I don't even have to RTFA to know that.
*Most* super fast 7.5k RPM disks can do about 50 megabytes or 420 megabit per second max.
I have two 75gb 10,000 Raptor SATA drives that together raid-0 get about 110megabytes/s.. but those are 10k RPM disks (spare me the lecture about drive density = higher speed, I know this). Thats about 1 gb/s.. but no where near 3gb per second and this is using 2 raid-0 disks.
Slashdot editors need get a clue.
Incorrect: Yo, don't buy that PC, if you do you can't watch these movies cuz you won't have the right monitor.
Correct: Yo, this sucks, I can't watch ANY MOVIES anymore on my old PC because the content providers REQUIRE the new Longhorn OS with DRM, much like alot of websites REQUIRE internet explorer. Wha? How the heck, you are watching that movie!!! How????? - "I got Longhorn baby... and this slick new monitor".
All I am saying, is if Google split the stock 2 times, it would be $75 a share instead of $300 a share, and you would of never made that comment that the stock was priced "too high".
Even though, you own the same amoutn of the company, and the volatility is the same, volume is the same (after scaled) etc etc etc...
That statement isn't entirely true though, because like your statement you made about stock being too high, many people see the same thing and are emotional about stock not logical.
The problem is there are a ton of emotional people, and that problem can be bad or good...
The other issue is if you have $500, you can only buy 1 google share... if google was priced at $100 a share, you could buy 5 and overall give google "more money"... The granularity is too high... They are hurting themselves and not getting as much money as they could if they would split their stock a couple times.
They say they are making an example and claim that they will not split because they want the serious investors and not the small time day traders. I heard through a very solid source that they want to have $5000.00/share stock, this $300 a share is only the begining.
If google did a massive number of stock splits so your $2,000 bought 10,000,000 shares, would that make you more happy? Then the stock price would be $0.0001 a share (Im not doing the math here) and you could buy buy buy...
... What if there was only 30 outstanding shares in a company, you would own 1/3rd.
Then again, you would be buying 0.000000000000001% (not doing the math here) of the company and the price would only move 1 cent every year.
NUMBER OF SHARES MEANS NOTHING, its all about percentage of the company.
Saying you can only buy 10 shares means nothing,
I share my home with two cockatoos, Spot a Sulfur Crested Cockatoo and Bianca, a Ducorp's Cockatoo.
They are both VERY SMART, relatively speaking of course.
Bianca has learned tricks in less than 2 minutes that after that amount of training she can still do today 2 years later.
I've watched her solve "puzzles" to get a treat that I hadn't taught her at all!! I would stick a piece of bread in the bottom of a plastic chain tied to a perch. Instead of flying down to get it, she stood on top, pulled the chain up as soon as I put the bread in (within 5 seconds), pulled about 30 links of the chain up (taking 20 seconds or so), then holding the chain in one foot and pulling the bread out with her beak...
Simple you might say, but she is applying reasoning logic to how to get something she wants without using alot of energy (flying down).
This is a basic example. Alex the grey parrot is pretty famous, I fully beleive he knows that if you ask if something exists, he will say "None" if it doesn't exist.
You can show you two different objects he has never seen, if they are a different color, you can say to him "Whats different", and he will say "Color", or two objects that he has never seen that are different, but the same color, and say "Whats different", and he will say "Matter" (for physical matter).
Alex is smart, most other Parrot species are smart, but like Alex, African Grey parrots take the cake with intelligence, they are one bright creature.
They blow your cat or dog out of the water, so to speak... and I'm not talking about "talking ability".
Yeah... who needs Firefox when you have IE... Firefox is SOOO REDUNDANT.
Wrong... If a police officer has a clear path and can speed without disrupting traffic, then he may do so. Lights cause traffic congestion and sometimes even accidents as people panic to get out of the way. Lights are only to be used when a life or death emergency or when trying to pull someone over to signal to them to do so.
This is straight from Police Training 101. Check it out...
Notice to you:
Police officers can speed to get to an emergency and NOT use lights if its deemed safe by the police officer to speed without the requirement of people pulling over to the side of the road.
Lights = EVERYONE PULL OVER
Speeding with no lights = I'm hopefully legally trying to get to a legitament call, but not a life or death situation where I need my lights or siren.
Slashdot is for the 0.001% of the world that cares about geek stuff like this.
Slashdot is Planet Geek Virgin.
Note alot of Geeks get rich and then convert to being cool, not a bad path to take.
You are on the wrong forum budd, try http://www.freedomforum.org/ perhaps...
Except it hasn't been "unlocked" yet.
The new 3-Series 325i has the same 3.0L engine as the 330i car.
The only so far-noticed mechanical difference is a larger air intake for the 330i vs the 325i. Otherwise mechanically they are the same vehicle engine/transmission wise.
The real difference is the software, which restricts the 255hp engine down to 215hp for the 325i model.
As soon as someone plugs in a 330i ECM into the 325 ECM and puts on a cheap larger air-intake, you should have a nice 330Ci thats badged as a 325i...
DOH!!!
AOL IS GOING DOWN
They don't get a check. Read the damn article. The money vests over 4 years... They gotta keep workin and now they gotta really perform, otherwise they get fired and dont get all the millions.
Google doesn't want you working there for much longer than that anyways. They want to keep the company average age at 25.5 years old.
Linux now officially has more distributions than it does users!