I would like to however, make a comment to add to post.
"IF" E-Machines early adopters of this 64 bit offering are given a good impression, this may be the product they needed to rebuild their still tarnished reputation.
I don't want to discredit them totally, after all this may end up being one hell of a laptop. I look forward to seeing the reviews from actual buyers as they come in.
There's part of my point: YOU would never buy a Dell again. The same way I would never buy an E-Machine again.
The original article on here was implying that E-Machines releasing this 64 bit laptop would aid in keeping prices down as other companies put out their 64 bit offerings. I simply don't think this will be the case.
No matter what E-Machines has done to fix their reputation, they are still the "bastard child".
True E-Machines have tried in the past few years to change. They have restructured their business model, but the stigma of 3+ years ago still sticks with them. I just was pointing out my opinion that the other leading OEM's will use this to their advantage to keep prices up as long as they can. The same way they use anything else to keep prices up.
How many people on here would really fork over the cash to give E-Machines another chance? I know would not, no matter what they do.
(yes this is an opinion, but if 1 person thinks this way, how many others do.)
Quote: "Hopefully this will have the dual effect of pushing the new chip into the market, and keeping it afforable of laptop junkies like me."
This is the only part I can see as a plus to this. However I would take a guess that it will do little to the latter, in that most companies know E-Machines general reputation with the people who would be first in line to buy a 64 bit laptop, so I don't forsee that they will try to compete with E-Machines in the price category for some time.
I think I'm gonna go put up an article on my Linux server called:
Setting permissions and running a webserver 4 BSD users who preach to Linux Users.
Honestly though, whats the point here? You chose your OS, I chose mine. Do I really need an entire website dedicated to why you chose yours over mine?
I read enough of this stuff here
The article fails to mention what iIconsider to be a major selling point, if in fact this device even takes off. Will it be supported by all games? They only mention Grand Turismo, being a racing game.
Though honestly I can't see the average gamer having even a remote interest in this device as even the average gamers play games for extended periods of time. Who would want to be working out that whole time?
I smell another "interesting idea not going anywhere" device. Reminds me of the Power Glove.
But wouldn't that just allow for a more diversified and fair system of competition? I mean if I typed in the word ford mustang and i got a pop-up for a Mitsubishi car, but in the search results themselves got results back for Ford Motor Company, wouldn't that be fair?
An earlier poster got close to the nail when he talked about going to a store asking to see an iPod MP3 player and along the way the salesman showed me another competing brand of MP3 player. I asked netscape to give me results about ford mustang and they gave me that in my search results, but popped up a competing advertiser.
On the other hand if I got search results on the Mitsubishi instead of Ford, then I could see a case.
I think I'm gonna have to side with Excite and Netscape on this one. These are common English words, even if they are associated with Playboy.
And as a company they have a right to "pop-up" whatever they want on their site. Do I think its deceptive? Well yes, because it is. But should it be illegal? Sorry I don't think so.
So yes I think the original judge in this case made a very valid point. The two companies did not use the words with specific references that would lead one to believe they would get Playboy the company.
Personally I don't believe this case will end the second time any different then the first time. Unless Netscape or Excite decide to just settle this with an out of court settlement, which is unlikely.
While this has been going on for a while (game companies striking deals with record labels for music - i.e. Tony Hawk, BMX XXX, etc), this does mark the first time I've seen it as an exclusive deal.
I see the Propaghanda Machine hard at work.
And in the end I think it will only help EA, not Sony. Someone buying a CD might actually play the demo and decide to buy the game later. What I can not realistically see is someone buying a game, hearing a song in the game then going out to buy the CD of that artist.
First MP3 i ever downloaded was Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection.
I remember searching every website I could find trying to find a single SOM song for download. It took a while to download and was on my Pentium 133 running M$ Windows 95. Think it was in 1998 or so.
I never really paid much attention to the whole MP3 thing for a while though. It was a year after Napster came out before I even knew what it was.
as far as I see XP was NOT in any way a code rewrite. i'm not sure how the author determined that.
right down to bugs that have carried over such as the right click bug that pushes CPU usage up to 100% for a moment. this affects 2K, XP, 2003 and has even been reported in the leaked copies of "Longhorn".
Microsoft is not a company I would cite when discussing code rewrites.
With that said, I feel the author is right on with alot of other points, but from a programmers point of view, sometimes a "newer version" of a piece software just isnt possible with the old codebase. Time and development have turned the code to spaghetti and adding new features to the code just isn't doable anymore (or rather it would be simpler to rewrite the code from the ground up).
Like it or not, users want new features. Otherwise i go to another product later that has the new features. You see this in all apsects of our consumer lives, not just software.
The real question most MMORPG gamers would ask is "When is a MMORPG not in beta?"
Most games of this genre continue to add new features to the game as it progresses, thus keeping the playerbase. Everquest and its many expansions being a good example, not too many the countless things Sony has added between expansions.
When are these games ever truly out of "beta".
Though I do agree most beta tests dont accomplish as much as they would if they were for other types of software. Gamers tend to be gamers. They want to play the "next big game" before anyone else. That is why they sign up for betas.
I guess I better get to filing a patent on my brain now. I wouldnt want SCO to say they own the rights to my thought process years later, or M$ sueing me because by telling someone what I thought I violated the EULA.
alternative.nu is kinda like an online MTV in some respects.
but I dont have cable either;)
i also watch alot of news stations online.
the winamp example was just that an example. most of those are just loops with the exception of maybe the NTV J-Pop station. I actually watch that one quite a bit. But once again, kinda like a MTV only its Japanese music.
the thing about the Internet TV stations is when good ones go up with good programming, they typically go broke fast.
sign me up as well!
i have wondered though when they seriously would start implementing computer based implants in our brains. it actually seems quite logical as a "next step" sorta thing.
i remember when me and friends used to joke that one day we'd be able to add extra memory (RAM) to our brains.
watch this have DRM on it! (lol)
alternative.nu is one i watch regularly.
actually if you install winamp it actually will give you a list of stations running that work with winamp (alternative.nu not being one)
hmmm how do they figure in all the time I spend watching Internet TV stations while on the web?
I may only watch 1 hour (or less) of regular TV every few days, but i easily log 25+ hours of Internet based TV a week.
does that count as TV time or Internet time?
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Yes but can I warm up my pizza on the top of this laptop? That might up the value for me a little ;)
:)
I like dual-functional
I would like to however, make a comment to add to post.
"IF" E-Machines early adopters of this 64 bit offering are given a good impression, this may be the product they needed to rebuild their still tarnished reputation.
I don't want to discredit them totally, after all this may end up being one hell of a laptop. I look forward to seeing the reviews from actual buyers as they come in.
This would alter my original assessment.
There's part of my point: YOU would never buy a Dell again. The same way I would never buy an E-Machine again.
The original article on here was implying that E-Machines releasing this 64 bit laptop would aid in keeping prices down as other companies put out their 64 bit offerings. I simply don't think this will be the case.
No matter what E-Machines has done to fix their reputation, they are still the "bastard child".
True E-Machines have tried in the past few years to change. They have restructured their business model, but the stigma of 3+ years ago still sticks with them. I just was pointing out my opinion that the other leading OEM's will use this to their advantage to keep prices up as long as they can. The same way they use anything else to keep prices up.
How many people on here would really fork over the cash to give E-Machines another chance? I know would not, no matter what they do.
(yes this is an opinion, but if 1 person thinks this way, how many others do.)
Quote:
"Hopefully this will have the dual effect of pushing the new chip into the market, and keeping it afforable of laptop junkies like me."
This is the only part I can see as a plus to this. However I would take a guess that it will do little to the latter, in that most companies know E-Machines general reputation with the people who would be first in line to buy a 64 bit laptop, so I don't forsee that they will try to compete with E-Machines in the price category for some time.
I think I'm gonna go put up an article on my Linux server called: Setting permissions and running a webserver 4 BSD users who preach to Linux Users.
Honestly though, whats the point here? You chose your OS, I chose mine. Do I really need an entire website dedicated to why you chose yours over mine?
I read enough of this stuff here
The article fails to mention what iIconsider to be a major selling point, if in fact this device even takes off. Will it be supported by all games?
They only mention Grand Turismo, being a racing game.
Though honestly I can't see the average gamer having even a remote interest in this device as even the average gamers play games for extended periods of time. Who would want to be working out that whole time?
I smell another "interesting idea not going anywhere" device. Reminds me of the Power Glove.
But wouldn't that just allow for a more diversified and fair system of competition? I mean if I typed in the word ford mustang and i got a pop-up for a Mitsubishi car, but in the search results themselves got results back for Ford Motor Company, wouldn't that be fair?
An earlier poster got close to the nail when he talked about going to a store asking to see an iPod MP3 player and along the way the salesman showed me another competing brand of MP3 player.
I asked netscape to give me results about ford mustang and they gave me that in my search results, but popped up a competing advertiser.
On the other hand if I got search results on the Mitsubishi instead of Ford, then I could see a case.
I think I'm gonna have to side with Excite and Netscape on this one. These are common English words, even if they are associated with Playboy.
And as a company they have a right to "pop-up" whatever they want on their site. Do I think its deceptive? Well yes, because it is. But should it be illegal? Sorry I don't think so.
So yes I think the original judge in this case made a very valid point. The two companies did not use the words with specific references that would lead one to believe they would get Playboy the company.
Personally I don't believe this case will end the second time any different then the first time. Unless Netscape or Excite decide to just settle this with an out of court settlement, which is unlikely.
While this has been going on for a while (game companies striking deals with record labels for music - i.e. Tony Hawk, BMX XXX, etc), this does mark the first time I've seen it as an exclusive deal.
I see the Propaghanda Machine hard at work.
And in the end I think it will only help EA, not Sony. Someone buying a CD might actually play the demo and decide to buy the game later. What I can not realistically see is someone buying a game, hearing a song in the game then going out to buy the CD of that artist.
First MP3 i ever downloaded was Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia My Reflection.
I remember searching every website I could find trying to find a single SOM song for download. It took a while to download and was on my Pentium 133 running M$ Windows 95. Think it was in 1998 or so.
I never really paid much attention to the whole MP3 thing for a while though. It was a year after Napster came out before I even knew what it was.
as far as I see XP was NOT in any way a code rewrite. i'm not sure how the author determined that.
right down to bugs that have carried over such as the right click bug that pushes CPU usage up to 100% for a moment. this affects 2K, XP, 2003 and has even been reported in the leaked copies of "Longhorn".
Microsoft is not a company I would cite when discussing code rewrites.
With that said, I feel the author is right on with alot of other points, but from a programmers point of view, sometimes a "newer version" of a piece software just isnt possible with the old codebase. Time and development have turned the code to spaghetti and adding new features to the code just isn't doable anymore (or rather it would be simpler to rewrite the code from the ground up).
Like it or not, users want new features. Otherwise i go to another product later that has the new features. You see this in all apsects of our consumer lives, not just software.
The real question most MMORPG gamers would ask is "When is a MMORPG not in beta?" Most games of this genre continue to add new features to the game as it progresses, thus keeping the playerbase. Everquest and its many expansions being a good example, not too many the countless things Sony has added between expansions. When are these games ever truly out of "beta". Though I do agree most beta tests dont accomplish as much as they would if they were for other types of software. Gamers tend to be gamers. They want to play the "next big game" before anyone else. That is why they sign up for betas.
I guess I better get to filing a patent on my brain now. I wouldnt want SCO to say they own the rights to my thought process years later, or M$ sueing me because by telling someone what I thought I violated the EULA.
those without cable cant be too picky ;)
alternative.nu is kinda like an online MTV in some respects. but I dont have cable either ;)
i also watch alot of news stations online.
the winamp example was just that an example. most of those are just loops with the exception of maybe the NTV J-Pop station. I actually watch that one quite a bit. But once again, kinda like a MTV only its Japanese music.
the thing about the Internet TV stations is when good ones go up with good programming, they typically go broke fast.
sign me up as well! i have wondered though when they seriously would start implementing computer based implants in our brains. it actually seems quite logical as a "next step" sorta thing. i remember when me and friends used to joke that one day we'd be able to add extra memory (RAM) to our brains. watch this have DRM on it! (lol)
alternative.nu is one i watch regularly. actually if you install winamp it actually will give you a list of stations running that work with winamp (alternative.nu not being one)
hmmm how do they figure in all the time I spend watching Internet TV stations while on the web? I may only watch 1 hour (or less) of regular TV every few days, but i easily log 25+ hours of Internet based TV a week. does that count as TV time or Internet time?
just as the debian tool's link from earlier, it seems these links have went down already too? /sigh oh well guess i'll wait till later to take a peek.