Doh you're right about Chicago:) Maybe Westerns? Point is somebody always whines that their genre is always underrepresented at these award ceremonies, although I think Empire Earth and Rise of Nations are recent Game of the Year nominees from the RTS realm.
Unless it leads to a gateway to sell other products/services, just like their iTunes store doesn't make much profit, but is there to sell iPods. Same thing goes for console hardware, they sell at a loss for an installed base to support software sales
Same thing goes for other awards shows, when was the last time a musical was nominated for best picture at the oscars, or some big band song being nominated for best song at the grammies. Awards shows are there for an industry to give themselves a pat on the back and rehype things. Take them as big parties for artists to stroke their own egos and say "look how talented we are", don't read any deeper than that.
Because there is a difference between thoeretical (measures 360deg) and real world where your total would vary depending on measurement accuracy (360 +/- 5).
I think some people reported that one of the missions took like 7 hrs to accomplish or something ridiculous 7 hours ridiculous? Try a 63+ hour ragefire camp in EQ, with every 6 hours or so requiring you to get a little group together kill off some firegiants. Its amazing what people will put up with to get that uber-leet piece of lewt.
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Inject the protein into the mice first, then shake them until they become twisted. Hmm anybody want to fund my experiment, just need $80 for some mice, a paint can, and a paint mixer.
Bah, they should just completely ghetto his car and slap big "Type R" and "Honda Motorsports" stickers, with the "Grass, Ass, or Cash" license plate frame, give it a 5 foot spoiler, and some green neon underneath.
Cell phones are one of the few pieces of technology that is truly global. There are 1.5 billion cell cell phone subscriptions in the world and only 140 million are in the US. While many people in the US can purchase better cameras, music players, & PDAs than what's on the cell phone, people in most of the world cannot. The cellphone has become their electronics center and they otherwise could not afford those accessories if they were not on the cellphone. Text messaging is annoying to do, I'd rather take my laptop to a hotspot, or just connect via modem through my cellphone, but in some countries it is the primary form of electronic communication (cellphone air times are too expensive, and many places do not have traditional internet access). The 1Mpixel camera phones take poor quality pictures, but for people in 3rd world countries, its the only digital camera they have. I know many americans complain that cellphones are getting to annoyingly complicated with 2nd rate gadgets, the reason is the cellphones are not being designed for the US market, they are being designed for what much of the rest of the world wants.
Here's a simple solution. Build a camera with a cellphone in it. Build a music player with a cellphone in it. Build a PDA with a cellphone in it. Build a GPS with a cellphone in it. And quit your kvetching. So instead of building a camera into a cellphone, build a cellphone into a camera. Reminds me of the 80s transforming robot craze. Some of the toys were robots that transformed into cars, and others were cars that transformed into robots. For some odd reason the public preferred the robot transforming into something than the other way around, crazy kids. Seriously though, most people prefer crappy camera into a decent cellphone than a crappy cellphone in a nice camera. The mp3/camera/gadget company would most likely have to recruit and hire new people (ie antenna experts), and reinvent themselves to compete at the same level as established players. And with the non-existant margins it doesn't make much sense. Seriously though, all of these cellphone toys are such crap. This is what I want. A cellphone that makes phone calls One of the things to remember is that cellphones are one of the few technology markets that is not highly dependent on the US. In fact the US is behind on advanced cellphone adoption, in part because we have enough money to buy digital cameras, PDAs, MP3 players seperately. If you go to some 3rd world countries, the cellphone has become THE electronic gadget to have. All the added pieces of technologies are a big draw to people who couldn't otherwise have email (text messaging), digital cameras, or MP3 players.
Of course if we keep outsourcing labor to other countries, then we will eventually outsource the CEO position as well, because other countries will own our businesses.
You say it like this is something new, like the start of outsourcing is a march to the dark unknown. America outsources jobs(Microsoft), it also insources jobs(GKN aerospace[UK]), foreign companies buy american companies (daimler-chrysler), and american companies buy foreign companies (Southern Pacific Petrolium[aust]). The only reason its "scary" to people on/. is because its happening in the IT sector. Its all part of normal business, nothing to see... move along
There is a misconception that manufacturing jobs are low wage low skill jobs. When entire manufacturing plants are moved to another country, it takes all the associated jobs with it. For the electronics industry (most of which is made in Asia) you have the following: operators - run the assembly machines - low skilled, typically high school educated [what most people think is a manufacturing job]
equipment repair personel - fix broken assembly machines - higher skilled (usually associates deg or certification) typically have electronics/machine background facilities staff - ensure chemicals, water, air, electrical systems are all working correctly - college educated chemical, environmental, electrical engineers process engineering staff - develop/troubleshoot/improve assembly processes - college educated, chemical, materials, mechanical, industrial, electrical engineers business/purchasing staff - college educated business people sometimes MBA - manage purchases of materials, inventories, etc.
various levels of management - college educated, MBA, Masters, PhDs - supervise, make decisions In my experience there are many more college educated people involved in running a manufacturing plant than non-college educated. Outsourcing in the electronics industry has allowed much more competition, typically better quality, and much cheaper prices for consumers. Maybe it will do the same for IT/software.
happen to a slave-based economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless? It will be orders of magnitude worse than outsourcing. Then it will be time for the great robot war!
My job
21 hours with no breaks: CHECK
Copier that almost ripped my arm off: CHECK
Paid in stock options: CHECK Just kidding, yeah "The Jungle" is a great book to understand why we have things like OSHA requiments in the first place. Also good reading is late 19th early 20th century american history regarding labor struggles. If you think corporate control of goverment is new, just read up on history. Companies convinced judges that unions were illegal under anti-trust laws, police shooting striking workers, etc. Balancing goverment control and controlling goverment has always been a struggle throughout history.
Why should a company's profit be at the expense of an individuals welfare? I find it amusing how people feel companies are some nebulous single entity. Stockholders are the ones who own the company, and I would bet most people on/. are probably stockholders in some form (mutual funds, 401k, individual stock investments, etc). Most of them would also prefer to invest so their money gets a 10% rate of return than 1%. If your stock is underperfoming then you sell it and get one that gives you a better rate. As consumers you look to maximize your money when you spend. You would prefer to spend $50 on a new cell phone from company A than to spend $100 on the same cell phone from company B. So basically we are telling companies, make more money for us, but we want to spend less on the stuff you sell. How can companies respond? Reducing costs, like materials and LABOR. Outsourcing isn't something new, its been done for decades in other industries like manufacturing. People in IT have been benifiting from reduced costs on items and increases in stocks they own because of outsourcing in other industries, now that it's their job in jeapordy they complain. If you want to know what drives corporate greed, just look in the mirror.
The question is would the margins they get justify all the new cost associated with having different systems. These processors are low margin to begin with, and to add them to the product line up means hiring alot of new people, since now they have to handle managing purchasing and inventories of new motherboards and new CPUs. They also probably have to invest in alot of new testing equipment, training, and assembly lines, and tech support staff. For do-it-yourself people its no problem switching back and forth. For a big OEM it can get quite expensive.
Would SLI of (2)256MB GPUs be sufficient to meet the 512MB requirement? I don't know alot about how the memory is handled in an SLI setup. Can the cards access each others memory? Just curious since I'm sure there will be the uber d00dz who would be willing to spend 1k to run at maximum c00lness
The important thing is profit, and the owner cans the worker and sends the job overseas at a lower wage, so he can extract more profit from the wealth the foreign worker will create If you look at what owners of corporations (stockholders) want its all about growth. Just look at Microsoft, they are making tons of cash, but were criticized for not growing their company. Same thing with Intel, company made profits, but they projected they weren't growing as fast so they got hammered. The.COMs, rarely turning profit, but they were growing so their stock price rose. For better or worse, jobs being offshored is part of capitalism. Computers & electronics used to be built in the US, now most of them are built in foreign countries. There was outcry of electronics dumping in the 80s and manufacturing jobs moving. Did it destroy the economy? No, the cost of computers has continued to drop to the point where they are becoming commodities. The general public has computers so economically speaking overall we are better off in the US for having outsourced the manufacturing jobs, although those who were in that specific industry were left in the cold. The price of progress. Just because YOUR job is being outsourced, doesn't mean its bad for society as a whole.
At the end of the 19th century people were also endured far worse working conditions. You think your cubicle is bad? Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, it tells what unregulated companies can do. Goverment regulation does have its place, but it's the responsibility of the people to keep goverment in check. You have to write your congressperson to give them your input, if they don't listen vote them out.
Most large corporations accept huge losses to break into a new market segment. Shareholders don't mind as long as the stock goes up, and revenue growth makes the stock go up, not necessarily profits. Investors prefer a company losing millions of dollars to grow their business than just see it stagnating on huge cash reserves (MS has been criticized for not using its reserves on strategic investments) Microsoft knows it can't grow in its traditional space, so one logical step is to try its hand at getting into the living room. They have paid the price and now have an established presence including name recognition. I think the next gen they will start looking at moving to profitability, look at the cost cutting design decisions they are making on their next console.
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Doh you're right about Chicago :) Maybe Westerns?
Point is somebody always whines that their genre is always underrepresented at these award ceremonies, although I think Empire Earth and Rise of Nations are recent Game of the Year nominees from the RTS realm.
Unless it leads to a gateway to sell other products/services, just like their iTunes store doesn't make much profit, but is there to sell iPods. Same thing goes for console hardware, they sell at a loss for an installed base to support software sales
this is /. we don't care about copyright
Same thing goes for other awards shows, when was the last time a musical was nominated for best picture at the oscars, or some big band song being nominated for best song at the grammies.
Awards shows are there for an industry to give themselves a pat on the back and rehype things. Take them as big parties for artists to stroke their own egos and say "look how talented we are", don't read any deeper than that.
Because there is a difference between thoeretical (measures 360deg) and real world where your total would vary depending on measurement accuracy (360 +/- 5).
I think some people reported that one of the missions took like 7 hrs to accomplish or something ridiculous
7 hours ridiculous? Try a 63+ hour ragefire camp in EQ, with every 6 hours or so requiring you to get a little group together kill off some firegiants. Its amazing what people will put up with to get that uber-leet piece of lewt.
/. response efficiency warning!
To conserve server resources in the future please update your response "Did you even attempt to click the underlined word 'sloccount'? If not, do it now and read the first line of the first paragraph." with the more efficient "RTFA" or "RTFA you stupid noob" if you are not into the whole brevity thing.
Inject the protein into the mice first, then shake them until they become twisted.
Hmm anybody want to fund my experiment, just need $80 for some mice, a paint can, and a paint mixer.
MICE, it's what's for dinner
Bah, they should just completely ghetto his car and slap big "Type R" and "Honda Motorsports" stickers, with the "Grass, Ass, or Cash" license plate frame, give it a 5 foot spoiler, and some green neon underneath.
Cell phones are one of the few pieces of technology that is truly global. There are 1.5 billion cell cell phone subscriptions in the world and only 140 million are in the US.
While many people in the US can purchase better cameras, music players, & PDAs than what's on the cell phone, people in most of the world cannot. The cellphone has become their electronics center and they otherwise could not afford those accessories if they were not on the cellphone.
Text messaging is annoying to do, I'd rather take my laptop to a hotspot, or just connect via modem through my cellphone, but in some countries it is the primary form of electronic communication (cellphone air times are too expensive, and many places do not have traditional internet access). The 1Mpixel camera phones take poor quality pictures, but for people in 3rd world countries, its the only digital camera they have.
I know many americans complain that cellphones are getting to annoyingly complicated with 2nd rate gadgets, the reason is the cellphones are not being designed for the US market, they are being designed for what much of the rest of the world wants.
Here's a simple solution. Build a camera with a cellphone in it. Build a music player with a cellphone in it. Build a PDA with a cellphone in it. Build a GPS with a cellphone in it. And quit your kvetching.
So instead of building a camera into a cellphone, build a cellphone into a camera. Reminds me of the 80s transforming robot craze. Some of the toys were robots that transformed into cars, and others were cars that transformed into robots. For some odd reason the public preferred the robot transforming into something than the other way around, crazy kids.
Seriously though, most people prefer crappy camera into a decent cellphone than a crappy cellphone in a nice camera. The mp3/camera/gadget company would most likely have to recruit and hire new people (ie antenna experts), and reinvent themselves to compete at the same level as established players. And with the non-existant margins it doesn't make much sense.
Seriously though, all of these cellphone toys are such crap. This is what I want. A cellphone that makes phone calls
One of the things to remember is that cellphones are one of the few technology markets that is not highly dependent on the US. In fact the US is behind on advanced cellphone adoption, in part because we have enough money to buy digital cameras, PDAs, MP3 players seperately.
If you go to some 3rd world countries, the cellphone has become THE electronic gadget to have. All the added pieces of technologies are a big draw to people who couldn't otherwise have email (text messaging), digital cameras, or MP3 players.
Also no state income tax so you can take more trips away from Texas.
Of course if we keep outsourcing labor to other countries, then we will eventually outsource the CEO position as well, because other countries will own our businesses. /. is because its happening in the IT sector.
You say it like this is something new, like the start of outsourcing is a march to the dark unknown. America outsources jobs(Microsoft), it also insources jobs(GKN aerospace[UK]), foreign companies buy american companies (daimler-chrysler), and american companies buy foreign companies (Southern Pacific Petrolium[aust]).
The only reason its "scary" to people on
Its all part of normal business, nothing to see... move along
There is a misconception that manufacturing jobs are low wage low skill jobs. When entire manufacturing plants are moved to another country, it takes all the associated jobs with it. For the electronics industry (most of which is made in Asia) you have the following:
operators - run the assembly machines - low skilled, typically high school educated [what most people think is a manufacturing job]
equipment repair personel - fix broken assembly machines - higher skilled (usually associates deg or certification) typically have electronics/machine background
facilities staff - ensure chemicals, water, air, electrical systems are all working correctly - college educated chemical, environmental, electrical engineers
process engineering staff - develop/troubleshoot/improve assembly processes - college educated, chemical, materials, mechanical, industrial, electrical engineers
business/purchasing staff - college educated business people sometimes MBA - manage purchases of materials, inventories, etc.
various levels of management - college educated, MBA, Masters, PhDs - supervise, make decisions
In my experience there are many more college educated people involved in running a manufacturing plant than non-college educated.
Outsourcing in the electronics industry has allowed much more competition, typically better quality, and much cheaper prices for consumers. Maybe it will do the same for IT/software.
happen to a slave-based economy when robots and advanced artificial intelligences replace everybody, i. e., when human labor, knowledge and expertise become worthless? It will be orders of magnitude worse than outsourcing.
Then it will be time for the great robot war!
My job
21 hours with no breaks: CHECK
Copier that almost ripped my arm off: CHECK
Paid in stock options: CHECK
Just kidding, yeah "The Jungle" is a great book to understand why we have things like OSHA requiments in the first place.
Also good reading is late 19th early 20th century american history regarding labor struggles. If you think corporate control of goverment is new, just read up on history. Companies convinced judges that unions were illegal under anti-trust laws, police shooting striking workers, etc. Balancing goverment control and controlling goverment has always been a struggle throughout history.
Why should a company's profit be at the expense of an individuals welfare? /. are probably stockholders in some form (mutual funds, 401k, individual stock investments, etc). Most of them would also prefer to invest so their money gets a 10% rate of return than 1%. If your stock is underperfoming then you sell it and get one that gives you a better rate.
I find it amusing how people feel companies are some nebulous single entity.
Stockholders are the ones who own the company, and I would bet most people on
As consumers you look to maximize your money when you spend. You would prefer to spend $50 on a new cell phone from company A than to spend $100 on the same cell phone from company B.
So basically we are telling companies, make more money for us, but we want to spend less on the stuff you sell. How can companies respond? Reducing costs, like materials and LABOR. Outsourcing isn't something new, its been done for decades in other industries like manufacturing. People in IT have been benifiting from reduced costs on items and increases in stocks they own because of outsourcing in other industries, now that it's their job in jeapordy they complain.
If you want to know what drives corporate greed, just look in the mirror.
The question is would the margins they get justify all the new cost associated with having different systems.
These processors are low margin to begin with, and to add them to the product line up means hiring alot of new people, since now they have to handle managing purchasing and inventories of new motherboards and new CPUs. They also probably have to invest in alot of new testing equipment, training, and assembly lines, and tech support staff.
For do-it-yourself people its no problem switching back and forth. For a big OEM it can get quite expensive.
Would SLI of (2)256MB GPUs be sufficient to meet the 512MB requirement?
I don't know alot about how the memory is handled in an SLI setup. Can the cards access each others memory?
Just curious since I'm sure there will be the uber d00dz who would be willing to spend 1k to run at maximum c00lness
The important thing is profit, and the owner cans the worker and sends the job overseas at a lower wage, so he can extract more profit from the wealth the foreign worker will create .COMs, rarely turning profit, but they were growing so their stock price rose.
If you look at what owners of corporations (stockholders) want its all about growth. Just look at Microsoft, they are making tons of cash, but were criticized for not growing their company. Same thing with Intel, company made profits, but they projected they weren't growing as fast so they got hammered. The
For better or worse, jobs being offshored is part of capitalism. Computers & electronics used to be built in the US, now most of them are built in foreign countries. There was outcry of electronics dumping in the 80s and manufacturing jobs moving. Did it destroy the economy? No, the cost of computers has continued to drop to the point where they are becoming commodities. The general public has computers so economically speaking overall we are better off in the US for having outsourced the manufacturing jobs, although those who were in that specific industry were left in the cold. The price of progress.
Just because YOUR job is being outsourced, doesn't mean its bad for society as a whole.
At the end of the 19th century people were also endured far worse working conditions. You think your cubicle is bad? Read "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair, it tells what unregulated companies can do.
Goverment regulation does have its place, but it's the responsibility of the people to keep goverment in check. You have to write your congressperson to give them your input, if they don't listen vote them out.
Pretty soon they will go to superliminal advertising.
Bill Gates will be running around with a bullhorn yelling "HEY YOU! BUY HALO 2"
Most large corporations accept huge losses to break into a new market segment. Shareholders don't mind as long as the stock goes up, and revenue growth makes the stock go up, not necessarily profits. Investors prefer a company losing millions of dollars to grow their business than just see it stagnating on huge cash reserves (MS has been criticized for not using its reserves on strategic investments)
Microsoft knows it can't grow in its traditional space, so one logical step is to try its hand at getting into the living room. They have paid the price and now have an established presence including name recognition. I think the next gen they will start looking at moving to profitability, look at the cost cutting design decisions they are making on their next console.
For all Radeon X800-Pro owners when I say.... "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" :)
Well at least we have HL2 to look forward to