Trust me, you fucking idiot, anyone capable of designing the PC board necessary for clustering 10-20 of any MCU together in a meaningful way is already fully aware of the bulk pricing structure for said MCU's.
Nobody at Atmel, or anywhere else in the real electronics industry (hint: running linux does not qualify you you fucking idiot slashdot hippie) is at all concerned that your dumb ass was mislead.
YOu, sir, are a fucking idiot. Just because the most complex thing you've ever designed is a door bell controller doesn't mean the rest of us don't have serious needs.
You suggest one of Xilinx's 1000-pin FPGA's would do well in a legged package? 250 pins per side?
In summary, you are a fucking idiot. Go run linux on some hardware someone else designed you fucking hippie.
I'm pissed at the mods because I have made *4* legitimate fucking comments lately, and only one was modded up. Another was modded down just because I suggested that the almighty fucking TiVo might be in trouble.
I don't know about your area, but in mine the "video on demand" service is a joke,
Agreed about VOD, but in my area TWC has just introduced actual DVR boxes. Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000HD.
I haven't used it yet, but mine's on its way. I stream mp3's with digital audio cable directly from my computer, so extra features like that, though cool, aren't necessary for me. I'm also afraid they're meaningless to the general populace.
Actually, I agree with you to some extent. I was going to mention this, but I was in a hurry to get FP (and I failed anyway goddammit).
However, I don't see how TiVo is going to continue to compete with actual content providers. The Time Warner box in question (Scientific Atlanta 8000HD) can handle HDTV, something the cheap-ass $100 TiVo cannot. So now we're talking about a relatively expensive initial investment for the TiVo hardware.
I'm a hardware nerd, and totally happy to hack a TiVo to 320GB, but most people aren't. Remember that.
As for the $300 package, $300 would buy me five years worth of TWC DVR service. I find it highly unlikely anyone will *really* be using that 5 year old modded TiVo at that point. Maybe some people would, but I'm usually much faster on the electronics upgrade cycle than that.
As far as I can tell, the TiVo's widely-celebrated interface is the only advantage it has, and I'm afraid people aren't going to want to pay what is suddenly a VERY large price difference just for that. Especially people who have never USED both interfaces.
I would MUCH rather see a company like TiVo succeed, instead of Time Warner. But I have to admit TWC is getting my $5/mo, and Tivo isn't getting a dime.:(
This is a desperate move from a desperate company. Who cares about TiVo anymore? My Time Warner box gives me DVR functions for $5/mo and i don't have to buy any hardware. Remind me why I should buy a $300 box and THEN pay $12.95 per month?
PS2 + TiVo + DVD-R + Fits the elegant design of my half million dollar game room >= PSX
Have you ever seen a half million dollar game room? When you spend that kind of money, you have serious system designers, serious installers, and serious hardware. You have a $2500 Arcam FMJ DVD player, or an $8000 Carousel. You don't use your Playstation for a DVD player. Have you ever compared PS2-as-DVD player to even a $200 DVD player? I know the live-in-mom's-basement slashdot crowd thinks their PS2 connected to the RF input of their VCR displayed in fluctuating brightness Macrovision glory on their 27" Apex TV is the be-all-end-all of consumer electronics, but trust me-- it gets better than that. And the guy designing and installing a half-million dollar game room/entertainment space knows this, and will collect for himself the high margins associated with $2500 DVD players and all the necessary extra cabling. With that budget, everything can be hidden away effectively too, if that is what is desired.
I'd say that the PSX will be installed for shits and giggles in half-million-dollar-entertainment-room guy's bedroom, maybe.
This is the way it works. Every new handset generation comes with a compelling new set of features. Each is subsidized by service providers to get it on the market. But each feature set quickly triggers a market share war among service providers, causing them to offer the handset for bubble-pack pricing or to simply bundle it with a service contract and give it away. The only money for the service provider is in services -- not in hardware. This exerts incredible pricing pressure on handset makers, both to innovate and to ruthlessly eliminate their own margins.
This is just the way things go in electronics manufacturing, and it makes sense. Electronics technology moves much faster than manufacturing technology, so there is just inherent pressure in the market that eventually drives out profits. The nice thing about this is that it forces innovative new ideas to come along to a) Make improvements in manufacturing efficiency, b) Stay on the bleeding edge of technology with new products that can generate high margins for a good while (see Dell's foray into high-end "gaming" systems) and c) Build highly innovative products with killer features and high consumer appeal (see the iPod).
As for the commodity manufacturers, the market corrects itself. There is a glut in worldwide DVD-player manufacturing capacity. Some of these companies will continue to eek out meager profits building DVD-players, while others will retool and remain successful manufacturing the next generation of commodity electronics, and still others will die. But this is merely a sympton of progress. Those companies that survive will be the reason we can get LCD TV's for $200 by Christmas 2006, and the whole cycle will repeat itself.
Oh yea, I bought some pot over the phone the other day, better shut down the phones.
Oh yeah? Could you hook a niggah up? I'm jonesin' hardcore.
As I was saying...
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In a previous post, I mentioned that we should throw all christians to the lions.
I apologize for this, as I now realize that is wrong and insensitive.
Now I say we put them and the muslims in a big "arena of death" and let them all kill each other. Then, when only one man remains standing, throw HIM to the lions!
Fuck that! Censor the gay niggers if you absolutely must (though I find that racist and homophobic. I support you GNAA!)
But feed the christians to the goddamn lions! Stat!
Kingsley Chidubem
First Bank of Nigeria PLC
Fairfield Towers
270 Mbaise Road, Owerri
Nigeria
Telephone: 234 80 33484307
Alt. E-mail: kingsley_chidubem@latinmail.com
Dear Sir,
I am Kingsley Chidubem, an Auditor with First Bank of Nigeria PLC and Accounts Manager of the Late Mr. James Winthrop,who died in a ghastly motor accident on 17 November 2001 together with his wife and only daughter.
Before his death, James was owed Eleven Million and Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$11,700,000:00) by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for contracts executed for them and for which payment is now due.
As his Banker during his lifetime, all my efforts to locate a Next of Kin to claim this money has proved abortive including genealogy searches.
I therefore want to present you as his Next of Kin.This will facilitate the payment of his contract proceed into your nominated Bank Account.
For your assistance, I propose to give you 35% of the money. 60% shall be for my humbleself, while the remainder 5% will be set aside to defray all our expenses.
I have all the relevant documents to facilitate the payment of this money to your Bankers. This transaction is 100% guaranteed and will be concluded in ten(10) Bank working days on receipt of your cooperation.
Please urgently contact me on receipt of this message.
Sincerely yours,
Kingsley Chidubem
P.S. FIRST POST YOU FUCKING BITCHES!!!
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Just so yous guys know, FM as a medium is every bit as good as CD, if not better, in a theoretical sense.
Most radio stations are playing a CD over the air. How the fuck, Mr. Moron, are you proposing that modulating, broadcasting, receiving, and demodulating that signal is going to *improve* it. Theoretically, it could be as good. In practice, that is FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE YOU FUCKING MORON.
Jesus fucking christ. Everyone on slashdot is a goddamn idiot.
You should all be thankful that SCO is looking out for your precious "linux" OS. They are making sure it is free of proprietary IP so that it can continue to be a free OS. In the meantime, I suggest you all cough up the license fee.
As a 48 yo grandmother, I am offended that technical incompetance is equated with being a grandparent. I don't think anyone would have said "so simple even my grandfather could implement."
That's because men are better programmers than women.
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This is a joke, right? Who the fuck has fun with prime numbers? Fucking dorks.
Slashdot moderators are all fucking cock suckers!
FP BITCHES!!!! SO FUCK IT ALL TO HELL!!!
If there's grass in the infield, play ball!!!
FIRST POST BITCHES!!!
FP BITCHES.
OH man, oh man!
WHAT BITCHES!
See subject, and be sure to eat a fucking cock you cocksmokers!
TiVo is dead.
FP BITCHES
Nobody at Atmel, or anywhere else in the real electronics industry (hint: running linux does not qualify you you fucking idiot slashdot hippie) is at all concerned that your dumb ass was mislead.
You suggest one of Xilinx's 1000-pin FPGA's would do well in a legged package? 250 pins per side?
In summary, you are a fucking idiot. Go run linux on some hardware someone else designed you fucking hippie.
probably because you're a bunch of cheese eating surrender monkies.
FIRST POST BITCHES
So fuck you.
This better be first post.
Agreed about VOD, but in my area TWC has just introduced actual DVR boxes. Scientific Atlanta Explorer 8000HD.
I haven't used it yet, but mine's on its way. I stream mp3's with digital audio cable directly from my computer, so extra features like that, though cool, aren't necessary for me. I'm also afraid they're meaningless to the general populace.
However, I don't see how TiVo is going to continue to compete with actual content providers. The Time Warner box in question (Scientific Atlanta 8000HD) can handle HDTV, something the cheap-ass $100 TiVo cannot. So now we're talking about a relatively expensive initial investment for the TiVo hardware.
I'm a hardware nerd, and totally happy to hack a TiVo to 320GB, but most people aren't. Remember that.
As for the $300 package, $300 would buy me five years worth of TWC DVR service. I find it highly unlikely anyone will *really* be using that 5 year old modded TiVo at that point. Maybe some people would, but I'm usually much faster on the electronics upgrade cycle than that.
As far as I can tell, the TiVo's widely-celebrated interface is the only advantage it has, and I'm afraid people aren't going to want to pay what is suddenly a VERY large price difference just for that. Especially people who have never USED both interfaces.
I would MUCH rather see a company like TiVo succeed, instead of Time Warner. But I have to admit TWC is getting my $5/mo, and Tivo isn't getting a dime. :(
FP BITCHES.
Have you ever seen a half million dollar game room? When you spend that kind of money, you have serious system designers, serious installers, and serious hardware. You have a $2500 Arcam FMJ DVD player, or an $8000 Carousel. You don't use your Playstation for a DVD player. Have you ever compared PS2-as-DVD player to even a $200 DVD player? I know the live-in-mom's-basement slashdot crowd thinks their PS2 connected to the RF input of their VCR displayed in fluctuating brightness Macrovision glory on their 27" Apex TV is the be-all-end-all of consumer electronics, but trust me-- it gets better than that. And the guy designing and installing a half-million dollar game room/entertainment space knows this, and will collect for himself the high margins associated with $2500 DVD players and all the necessary extra cabling. With that budget, everything can be hidden away effectively too, if that is what is desired.
I'd say that the PSX will be installed for shits and giggles in half-million-dollar-entertainment-room guy's bedroom, maybe.
EETimes covered this last month. http://www.eet.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=256 00132
This is the way it works. Every new handset generation comes with a compelling new set of features. Each is subsidized by service providers to get it on the market. But each feature set quickly triggers a market share war among service providers, causing them to offer the handset for bubble-pack pricing or to simply bundle it with a service contract and give it away. The only money for the service provider is in services -- not in hardware. This exerts incredible pricing pressure on handset makers, both to innovate and to ruthlessly eliminate their own margins.
This is just the way things go in electronics manufacturing, and it makes sense. Electronics technology moves much faster than manufacturing technology, so there is just inherent pressure in the market that eventually drives out profits. The nice thing about this is that it forces innovative new ideas to come along to a) Make improvements in manufacturing efficiency, b) Stay on the bleeding edge of technology with new products that can generate high margins for a good while (see Dell's foray into high-end "gaming" systems) and c) Build highly innovative products with killer features and high consumer appeal (see the iPod).
As for the commodity manufacturers, the market corrects itself. There is a glut in worldwide DVD-player manufacturing capacity. Some of these companies will continue to eek out meager profits building DVD-players, while others will retool and remain successful manufacturing the next generation of commodity electronics, and still others will die. But this is merely a sympton of progress. Those companies that survive will be the reason we can get LCD TV's for $200 by Christmas 2006, and the whole cycle will repeat itself.
An MS story and I let it sit there for like 15 seconds... is this seriously a first post? If so, you all suck nutz.
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
BILL LOCKYER
Attorney General of Californi
"Californi?" Isn't that the place where Jed's family said "you oughtta be?" right before he loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly (Hills, that is).
Oh yeah? Could you hook a niggah up? I'm jonesin' hardcore.
I apologize for this, as I now realize that is wrong and insensitive.
Now I say we put them and the muslims in a big "arena of death" and let them all kill each other. Then, when only one man remains standing, throw HIM to the lions!
Save the whales!!!
Fuck that! Censor the gay niggers if you absolutely must (though I find that racist and homophobic. I support you GNAA!) But feed the christians to the goddamn lions! Stat!
Kingsley Chidubem First Bank of Nigeria PLC Fairfield Towers 270 Mbaise Road, Owerri Nigeria Telephone: 234 80 33484307 Alt. E-mail: kingsley_chidubem@latinmail.com Dear Sir, I am Kingsley Chidubem, an Auditor with First Bank of Nigeria PLC and Accounts Manager of the Late Mr. James Winthrop ,who died in a ghastly motor accident on 17 November 2001 together with his wife and only daughter.
Before his death, James was owed Eleven Million and Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$11,700,000:00) by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for contracts executed for them and for which payment is now due.
As his Banker during his lifetime, all my efforts to locate a Next of Kin to claim this money has proved abortive including genealogy searches.
I therefore want to present you as his Next of Kin .This will facilitate the payment of his contract proceed into your nominated Bank Account.
For your assistance, I propose to give you 35% of the money. 60% shall be for my humbleself, while the remainder 5% will be set aside to defray all our expenses.
I have all the relevant documents to facilitate the payment of this money to your Bankers. This transaction is 100% guaranteed and will be concluded in ten(10) Bank working days on receipt of your cooperation.
Please urgently contact me on receipt of this message.
Sincerely yours,
Kingsley Chidubem
P.S. FIRST POST YOU FUCKING BITCHES!!!
ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself
Most radio stations are playing a CD over the air. How the fuck, Mr. Moron, are you proposing that modulating, broadcasting, receiving, and demodulating that signal is going to *improve* it. Theoretically, it could be as good. In practice, that is FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE YOU FUCKING MORON.
Jesus fucking christ. Everyone on slashdot is a goddamn idiot.
FP BITCHES!
Thank you for your time.
You should all be thankful that SCO is looking out for your precious "linux" OS. They are making sure it is free of proprietary IP so that it can continue to be a free OS. In the meantime, I suggest you all cough up the license fee.
That's because men are better programmers than women.
I am incidentally, a C programmer of 20+ years.
yeah fucking right.