Only way to get around that with what we have today would be if MS started selling PCs that are welded shut.
Damn, dude, don't go giving them ideas like that.
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If you look at the article, the poster isn't comparing witches to Al-Quaeda at all. Just because he uses them in the same group doesn't mean he's saying witches are like Al-Quaeda. He's merely listing them as a subculture, which they (you) are. I don't have a negative connotation of the word subculture. I am part of many subcultures. Doesn't automatically mean I fly planes into buildings or bathe in fish blood or eat only vegetables.
Sorry, I mean, I know this guy clearly didn't read the summary, but in his defense, the *headline* does say "World's Fastest Internet Cafe." Clearly, the people who write the./ headlines need to read the article summaries.
The original onsale.com used to have a similar feature, only is was one minute, rather than 10 minutes. I think this shorter time limit would help to keep auctions from going on into the wee hours of the morning, but it would keep sniping from happening.
Example: Auction is set to end at 9:00. If I put in a winning bid at 8:59:40, then the auction is extended to 9:00:40. If someone else "snipes" me and puts in a winning bid at 9:00:33, then the auction is extended until 9:01:33. This continues until the time runs out. In general, it should only extend auctions by a few minutes. It would benefit sellers, because items would go for their true worth. (i.e. the maximum amount someone is willing to pay for the item.) There has been more than one occasion where I put in a bid, then reconsidered and put in a higher bid only to find that time has expired and the item sold for less than I would have paid for it.
Sorry, this is an old article and nobody will see this, but:
largely job for life in Japan
Japan is largely non-union. Only about 20% of laborers are union members. Also, the culture of unions there is vastly different than the US/European unions. In general, workers and employers have more of a sense of loyalty to each other. Workers generally value their empoyers, and employers generally employ people for lifetimes, rather than treating them as commodities. It's a cultural difference, having little or nothing to do with unions.
all powerful unions in Germany, 35 hours/week in France
Again, you're not helping your case.
2005 unemployment rates
Germany.........9.5%
France..........9.5%
Italy (2004)....8.0%
United States...5.1%
The two countries you cited (really, Old Europe in general) have about double the unemployment rate as the US. While working over there is definitely cushier than working in the US, a lot more people aren't working. I do think that this dispairity is directly related to unions and govenment regulations.
wtf, did they think that they could continue to make perpetually increasing profits?
Apparently, you don't follow Wall Street much.:)
They actually look at "profit growth" when they are researching companies. If I ran a public company makes $100,000 profit, then my investors expect me to make $110,000 profit next quarter, and $120,000 the next quarter, and so on. When I worked at a large mega-company a while back, we made a profit of $37 million one quarter, and our stock tanked. Why? Becuase we had made $36 million the same quarter the year before, so people were expecting a higher profit. It's called "not meeting expectations."
It's really stupid, but it's how the world works. Companies can't afford to sit making a comfortable profit. They must keep increasing their profit to be viewed as successful. It's actually what caused some of the spectacular crashes of the early 21st century. (WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, etc.) Their investors wanted to see profit growth, but they had figuratively (and, in the case of Enron, literally) burned up all of their fuel. The CEO's had to create the illusion of profit growth to keep investors happy, (and earn their $300 million bonuses) which eventually caught up with them and brought down the house of cards they had constructed.
You're all wrong. The "sun" is that round yellow circle that can be seen at certain times in certain parts of "Oblivion." I read that if you play as a vampire character, it can actually cause damage if you go out while it's up.
I don't get the legalities of this all. Was he tresspassing? Was he stealing coffee? Did he sign a contract saying that he would buy x amount of coffee for y amount of bandwidth? If the coffee house wants to secure their network, the technology is available. I get that the guy was a creepy sex offender, making him easy to demonize, but in theory he's paid his pennance and isn't committing more crimes. (aside from dubious wi-fi stealing laws) I am playing music loud on my outdoor speakers, I can't sue my neighbors for listening to it. In the same way, if I'm broadcasting a wi-fi signal, it's my responsibility to secure this signal
This is a rather old concept. I bought a first-generation GyroMouse about 10-12 years ago. I've always been a disciple, as long as the application suits it. I think Nintendo is probably using nearly identical (if not, in fact, licensed from Gyration) technology for the wii-mote.
Without seeing it, the technology seems like it's going to be flaky or difficult to use, but you'd be suprised upon picking one up how very intuitive they are to use. My wife (not a geek) picked it up for the first time, waved it around a couple times, and instantly "got it." It's such a natural feeling to use one. There's really no substitute for trying it out yourself.
That old GyroMouse is long since gone, but I have a more recent generation one that I still use for my home theater. We also have one at my place of employment that I use constantly for teaching classes and sales presentations. It's not a mouse replacement, but if it's done right (and I have no reason to believe Nintendo won't do it right) I think it could totally rock for gaming.
OK, I slightly misread TFA. I realize in this case that it's the victim who is suing for protection from herself, but at some point, we parents really need to do a better job of watching our kids. The Internet is like a big city. There are great opportunities for education and enlightenment, but that doesn't mean you should let them walk around alone.
Great idea. Require credit card verification to prove one's age. I mean, it's always worked for online porn. There are certainly NO minors getting their hands onto that stuff.
Also, it's a good thing it's impossible to use a stolen credit card. I mean, this guy's willing to forcibly sexually assault an underage girl, but he certainly wouldn't have enough guts to steal a credit card...
There are some people that still don't have power and running water. I don't think those people are much consideration by the marketing folks at Apple...
Yes, I did learn that one as well, but not in high school. In my defense, the amount of energy "lost" due to relativity in infinitessimally small, and the theory of relativity is several orders of magnitude more complicated than the first law of thermodynamics. In addition, it, too has been disproved, at least in part.
Maybe it's all too obvious, but nobody seems to be pointing out that energy is not wasted by any of these consoles. It's not possible to waste energy. Didn't you all learn about the First Law of Thermodynamics in high school? What are they teaching kids these days?
In reality, the XBox 360 isn't wasting more energy, it's just converting more energy into heat. If you live in a climate where the outside temperature is less than the inside temperature, then you aren't wasting any energy at all. You're just contributing to the heating of your home using your game console. Now, if you live in a tropical climate, or it's summer, then you are unnecessarily heating the outside, but the energy isn't being wasted. (For those of you who don't know how an air conditioner works, it doesn't "create" cool air, it just transports heat from the inside of your house to the outide of your house. If you have a heater and an A/C unit running against each other, you are, in actuality, just releasing the stored energy in fuel, then transporting it outside.)
Just a small point, but we tend to let these things slip in our educational system. Energy cannot be "wasted," only converted into a less desirable form.
Boy, the maths in this post seem to be getting screwed up pretty bad, but I'll put in my 2 cents to see if that sheds any more light on things.
Let's use hours. There are 8760 hours in a typical year. (365 x 24)
Let's say your windows server is down for 30 hours in a particular year. That means it has an uptime of 8730/8760 or 99.66%. Your Linux server has 20% more downtime. That's 36 hours per year. (30 x 1.2) and therefore 99.59% uptime. Is anyone really going to notice a 6 hour per year or 0.07% difference in uptime? (remember, we're not talking specific outages here, just a mathematical statistic - not like "Yeah, if that 6 hours was during our peak time")
Maybe I got that all wrong, but that's how I read the statistic.
For the last 5-10 years, (Really since the Athlon was released) AMD was indisputably the price/performance king. Hands down, no competition. During most of that time, they had the fastest chip on the market, and they were consistently cheaper than Intel at every price point. Intel only kept its market share high using artificial means, by exclusivity contracts (*cough* Dell *cough*) and by spreading inaccurate FUD about AMD's potential compatibility issues. I personally NEVER had a SINGLE compatibility during that time, and I used AMD's on dozens, if not hundreds, of computers. Finally, after 10 years, Intel's complacency has finally caught up with them. AMD has always had a strong connection with the geek community, but after all this time, the word has finally gotten out to the mainstream, and Intel is losing market share FAST. If the largest PC manufacturer didn't have an exclusive contract with them, they would be a distant second (or third) in the chip race right now.
Ironically, if their roadmap is to be believed, Intel may have just begun a genuine turnaround. They already have 65mn fabs running at higher capacity than AMD, and they are near to bringing 45nm fabs online, which AMD has not done. Also, for the first time in a number of years, Intel actually has a production chip that looks to be genuinely faster than AMD's best offering. (Although it costs an arm and a leg.)
The question really is, is it too little, too late? One thing's for sure, the competition is great for the consumers.:)
OK, what you're saying sounds good on paper, but let me draw out 2 scenarios here between me and my video game hating wife:
Scenario #1:
Me: Honey, I'm going to go out and get that new Wii I've been telling you about.
Wife: How much was it again?
Me: $200
Wife: (hesitates) Well, I guess. You'll have to pack your lunch for a couple weeks because you can't afford to spend extra money eating out.
Me: Okay.
END SCENE
Scenario #2:
Me: Honey, I'm going to go out and get that new PS3 I've been telling you about.
Wife: You mean the $600 one?
Me: Yeah.
Wife: You want to spend $600 on a video game? How old are you again? Do you really need to be playing video games? You're 30 years old! Someone has to pay for [daughter]'s college, and what about out retirement?! Do you want me to make the car payment this month?! What are you thinking!?!
END SCENE
I'm part of the founding generation of video gamers. I had an Atari 2600 growing up. I bought a NES, SNES, Genesis, TG16, N64, PS1, etc... The Wii is the perfect video game system for me. There's NO WAY I could ever get a $600 video game system. While you point out that with 20 games, the price isn't really that different, but it's an issue of perception. $200 is (for me) disposable income. $600 is not. It's that simple. Sure, kids will still ask for PS3's for Christmas and get them, but there's a whole market of people out there who want a PS3, but that aren't even considering it.
I must plead ignorance to this question. I would think that it could possibly be set up to look for triggers, maybe some sort of handshake, but not being a chip designer nor an encryption expert myself, I can only guess.
While I agree that it would be pretty tough for the Chinese to design a laptop that phones home without being detected. With the quality of firewalls in even the lowest levels of government, I would think that such a spying device would be picked up immediately.
However, just to play devil's advocate, I think that they could much more easily integrate logic into one of the other support chips in the laptop (there are thousands) that could, for instance, look for and store an encryption key. Nothing major. It doesn't generate IP traffic by phoning home, just stores a small, 256-bit key. It's not a seperate chip, so hobbyists would have no way to detect it. Just some logic that's built into one of the already existing chips on, say, the northbridge. I don't think it would be too difficult to design something like this. Then, should one of these laptops fall into the wrong hands, through theft or negligence, the US Government would say "Well, it's no big deal, everything on that laptop was encrypted, so we don't have to worry." Meanwhile, the laptop ends up in the hands of the Chinese government, and they can easily decrypt the hard drive because their "magic chip" is storing the encryption key.
Now, we have a very dangerous situation. The US thinks that it is safe, and the Chinese have 100% access to all the data on that laptop. It's not at all an unlikely scenario, and I don't think that it would be difficult at all for someone to pull it off.
Really? 2GB? I run a LOT of applications simultaneously on my PC, and my memory usage is currently at 850MB. I don't use any serious hogs like Photoshop, but I don't think I've ever crossed the 1GB barrier unless I'm running virtual machines.
Not saying you're wrong here, but I rarely recommend more than 1GB to my customers unless I know they are going to be using a serious application, or if they're running a server. (4GB on a machine running SQL Server is perfectly justified.)
Man, don't be such a camera snob. I have a layman interest in photography, and I appreciate the quality difference between SLR and P&S. Sure, if I'm taking pictures for a magazine or professional pictures, I would definitely want to use SLR. On the other hand, if I'm going out with friends, or taking a quick weekend trip somewhere, I don't want to lug around a big SLR camera. A Canon Elph will easily fit in my shirt pocket, and while it doesn't produce the rich color, crisp detail and depth of field of SLR, that doesn't mean it's crap. Plus, I can hand the camera to a passerby and ask them to take my and my wife's picture in front of a beautiful fountain without having to give them a 20 minute lesson on how to take the picture. They are different tools for different purposes.
And I'm not just picking on you. There are tons of posts on this thread with people dissing P&S cameras. It's just silly to think that one type of camera can meet all needs.
I might be jaded, but I worked in digital imaging about 6 years ago, and I remember a big splash hitting when Kodak (I think) announced a 6 megapixel CMOS sensor for digital cameras. At the time, they were touting that the chip was so cheap, we'd be seeing disposable 6MP digital cameras within a year or so. It was hailed as a huge breakthrough. It captured images faster than CCD (meaning faster file times) more accurate colors and it cost pennies to produce. Now, in 2006, I see an announcement that touts a new breakthrough CMOS sensor. It's fast, cheap, better quality...
I wish I saw some fruits of these grandiose announcements. Seems like PR magic to me.
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If you look at the article, the poster isn't comparing witches to Al-Quaeda at all. Just because he uses them in the same group doesn't mean he's saying witches are like Al-Quaeda. He's merely listing them as a subculture, which they (you) are. I don't have a negative connotation of the word subculture. I am part of many subcultures. Doesn't automatically mean I fly planes into buildings or bathe in fish blood or eat only vegetables.
RTFAH (Read the f****** article headline)
./ headlines need to read the article summaries.
Sorry, I mean, I know this guy clearly didn't read the summary, but in his defense, the *headline* does say "World's Fastest Internet Cafe." Clearly, the people who write the
The original onsale.com used to have a similar feature, only is was one minute, rather than 10 minutes. I think this shorter time limit would help to keep auctions from going on into the wee hours of the morning, but it would keep sniping from happening.
Example: Auction is set to end at 9:00. If I put in a winning bid at 8:59:40, then the auction is extended to 9:00:40. If someone else "snipes" me and puts in a winning bid at 9:00:33, then the auction is extended until 9:01:33. This continues until the time runs out. In general, it should only extend auctions by a few minutes. It would benefit sellers, because items would go for their true worth. (i.e. the maximum amount someone is willing to pay for the item.) There has been more than one occasion where I put in a bid, then reconsidered and put in a higher bid only to find that time has expired and the item sold for less than I would have paid for it.
Japan is largely non-union. Only about 20% of laborers are union members. Also, the culture of unions there is vastly different than the US/European unions. In general, workers and employers have more of a sense of loyalty to each other. Workers generally value their empoyers, and employers generally employ people for lifetimes, rather than treating them as commodities. It's a cultural difference, having little or nothing to do with unions.
Again, you're not helping your case.
2005 unemployment rates
Germany.........9.5%
France..........9.5%
Italy (2004)....8.0%
United States...5.1%
The two countries you cited (really, Old Europe in general) have about double the unemployment rate as the US. While working over there is definitely cushier than working in the US, a lot more people aren't working. I do think that this dispairity is directly related to unions and govenment regulations.
Apparently, you don't follow Wall Street much.
They actually look at "profit growth" when they are researching companies. If I ran a public company makes $100,000 profit, then my investors expect me to make $110,000 profit next quarter, and $120,000 the next quarter, and so on. When I worked at a large mega-company a while back, we made a profit of $37 million one quarter, and our stock tanked. Why? Becuase we had made $36 million the same quarter the year before, so people were expecting a higher profit. It's called "not meeting expectations."
It's really stupid, but it's how the world works. Companies can't afford to sit making a comfortable profit. They must keep increasing their profit to be viewed as successful. It's actually what caused some of the spectacular crashes of the early 21st century. (WorldCom, Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, etc.) Their investors wanted to see profit growth, but they had figuratively (and, in the case of Enron, literally) burned up all of their fuel. The CEO's had to create the illusion of profit growth to keep investors happy, (and earn their $300 million bonuses) which eventually caught up with them and brought down the house of cards they had constructed.
You're all wrong. The "sun" is that round yellow circle that can be seen at certain times in certain parts of "Oblivion." I read that if you play as a vampire character, it can actually cause damage if you go out while it's up.
I don't get the legalities of this all. Was he tresspassing? Was he stealing coffee? Did he sign a contract saying that he would buy x amount of coffee for y amount of bandwidth? If the coffee house wants to secure their network, the technology is available. I get that the guy was a creepy sex offender, making him easy to demonize, but in theory he's paid his pennance and isn't committing more crimes. (aside from dubious wi-fi stealing laws) I am playing music loud on my outdoor speakers, I can't sue my neighbors for listening to it. In the same way, if I'm broadcasting a wi-fi signal, it's my responsibility to secure this signal
This is a rather old concept. I bought a first-generation GyroMouse about 10-12 years ago. I've always been a disciple, as long as the application suits it. I think Nintendo is probably using nearly identical (if not, in fact, licensed from Gyration) technology for the wii-mote.
Without seeing it, the technology seems like it's going to be flaky or difficult to use, but you'd be suprised upon picking one up how very intuitive they are to use. My wife (not a geek) picked it up for the first time, waved it around a couple times, and instantly "got it." It's such a natural feeling to use one. There's really no substitute for trying it out yourself.
That old GyroMouse is long since gone, but I have a more recent generation one that I still use for my home theater. We also have one at my place of employment that I use constantly for teaching classes and sales presentations. It's not a mouse replacement, but if it's done right (and I have no reason to believe Nintendo won't do it right) I think it could totally rock for gaming.
OK, I slightly misread TFA. I realize in this case that it's the victim who is suing for protection from herself, but at some point, we parents really need to do a better job of watching our kids. The Internet is like a big city. There are great opportunities for education and enlightenment, but that doesn't mean you should let them walk around alone.
Great idea. Require credit card verification to prove one's age. I mean, it's always worked for online porn. There are certainly NO minors getting their hands onto that stuff.
Also, it's a good thing it's impossible to use a stolen credit card. I mean, this guy's willing to forcibly sexually assault an underage girl, but he certainly wouldn't have enough guts to steal a credit card...
The mere fact that you have to put a yet in that statement scares the hell out of me...
There are some people that still don't have power and running water. I don't think those people are much consideration by the marketing folks at Apple...
Yes, I did learn that one as well, but not in high school. In my defense, the amount of energy "lost" due to relativity in infinitessimally small, and the theory of relativity is several orders of magnitude more complicated than the first law of thermodynamics. In addition, it, too has been disproved, at least in part.
Still, your point is well taken.
Where the hell are you downloading from? Most torrents can be had in under an hour...
Maybe it's all too obvious, but nobody seems to be pointing out that energy is not wasted by any of these consoles. It's not possible to waste energy. Didn't you all learn about the First Law of Thermodynamics in high school? What are they teaching kids these days?
In reality, the XBox 360 isn't wasting more energy, it's just converting more energy into heat. If you live in a climate where the outside temperature is less than the inside temperature, then you aren't wasting any energy at all. You're just contributing to the heating of your home using your game console. Now, if you live in a tropical climate, or it's summer, then you are unnecessarily heating the outside, but the energy isn't being wasted. (For those of you who don't know how an air conditioner works, it doesn't "create" cool air, it just transports heat from the inside of your house to the outide of your house. If you have a heater and an A/C unit running against each other, you are, in actuality, just releasing the stored energy in fuel, then transporting it outside.)
Just a small point, but we tend to let these things slip in our educational system. Energy cannot be "wasted," only converted into a less desirable form.
Boy, the maths in this post seem to be getting screwed up pretty bad, but I'll put in my 2 cents to see if that sheds any more light on things.
Let's use hours. There are 8760 hours in a typical year. (365 x 24)
Let's say your windows server is down for 30 hours in a particular year. That means it has an uptime of 8730/8760 or 99.66%. Your Linux server has 20% more downtime. That's 36 hours per year. (30 x 1.2) and therefore 99.59% uptime. Is anyone really going to notice a 6 hour per year or 0.07% difference in uptime? (remember, we're not talking specific outages here, just a mathematical statistic - not like "Yeah, if that 6 hours was during our peak time")
Maybe I got that all wrong, but that's how I read the statistic.
For the last 5-10 years, (Really since the Athlon was released) AMD was indisputably the price/performance king. Hands down, no competition. During most of that time, they had the fastest chip on the market, and they were consistently cheaper than Intel at every price point. Intel only kept its market share high using artificial means, by exclusivity contracts (*cough* Dell *cough*) and by spreading inaccurate FUD about AMD's potential compatibility issues. I personally NEVER had a SINGLE compatibility during that time, and I used AMD's on dozens, if not hundreds, of computers. Finally, after 10 years, Intel's complacency has finally caught up with them. AMD has always had a strong connection with the geek community, but after all this time, the word has finally gotten out to the mainstream, and Intel is losing market share FAST. If the largest PC manufacturer didn't have an exclusive contract with them, they would be a distant second (or third) in the chip race right now.
:)
Ironically, if their roadmap is to be believed, Intel may have just begun a genuine turnaround. They already have 65mn fabs running at higher capacity than AMD, and they are near to bringing 45nm fabs online, which AMD has not done. Also, for the first time in a number of years, Intel actually has a production chip that looks to be genuinely faster than AMD's best offering. (Although it costs an arm and a leg.)
The question really is, is it too little, too late? One thing's for sure, the competition is great for the consumers.
...do it yourself.
OK, what you're saying sounds good on paper, but let me draw out 2 scenarios here between me and my video game hating wife:
Scenario #1:
Me: Honey, I'm going to go out and get that new Wii I've been telling you about.
Wife: How much was it again?
Me: $200
Wife: (hesitates) Well, I guess. You'll have to pack your lunch for a couple weeks because you can't afford to spend extra money eating out.
Me: Okay.
END SCENE
Scenario #2:
Me: Honey, I'm going to go out and get that new PS3 I've been telling you about.
Wife: You mean the $600 one?
Me: Yeah.
Wife: You want to spend $600 on a video game? How old are you again? Do you really need to be playing video games? You're 30 years old! Someone has to pay for [daughter]'s college, and what about out retirement?! Do you want me to make the car payment this month?! What are you thinking!?!
END SCENE
I'm part of the founding generation of video gamers. I had an Atari 2600 growing up. I bought a NES, SNES, Genesis, TG16, N64, PS1, etc... The Wii is the perfect video game system for me. There's NO WAY I could ever get a $600 video game system. While you point out that with 20 games, the price isn't really that different, but it's an issue of perception. $200 is (for me) disposable income. $600 is not. It's that simple. Sure, kids will still ask for PS3's for Christmas and get them, but there's a whole market of people out there who want a PS3, but that aren't even considering it.
I must plead ignorance to this question. I would think that it could possibly be set up to look for triggers, maybe some sort of handshake, but not being a chip designer nor an encryption expert myself, I can only guess.
While I agree that it would be pretty tough for the Chinese to design a laptop that phones home without being detected. With the quality of firewalls in even the lowest levels of government, I would think that such a spying device would be picked up immediately.
However, just to play devil's advocate, I think that they could much more easily integrate logic into one of the other support chips in the laptop (there are thousands) that could, for instance, look for and store an encryption key. Nothing major. It doesn't generate IP traffic by phoning home, just stores a small, 256-bit key. It's not a seperate chip, so hobbyists would have no way to detect it. Just some logic that's built into one of the already existing chips on, say, the northbridge. I don't think it would be too difficult to design something like this. Then, should one of these laptops fall into the wrong hands, through theft or negligence, the US Government would say "Well, it's no big deal, everything on that laptop was encrypted, so we don't have to worry." Meanwhile, the laptop ends up in the hands of the Chinese government, and they can easily decrypt the hard drive because their "magic chip" is storing the encryption key.
Now, we have a very dangerous situation. The US thinks that it is safe, and the Chinese have 100% access to all the data on that laptop. It's not at all an unlikely scenario, and I don't think that it would be difficult at all for someone to pull it off.
Really? 2GB? I run a LOT of applications simultaneously on my PC, and my memory usage is currently at 850MB. I don't use any serious hogs like Photoshop, but I don't think I've ever crossed the 1GB barrier unless I'm running virtual machines.
Not saying you're wrong here, but I rarely recommend more than 1GB to my customers unless I know they are going to be using a serious application, or if they're running a server. (4GB on a machine running SQL Server is perfectly justified.)
Man, don't be such a camera snob. I have a layman interest in photography, and I appreciate the quality difference between SLR and P&S. Sure, if I'm taking pictures for a magazine or professional pictures, I would definitely want to use SLR. On the other hand, if I'm going out with friends, or taking a quick weekend trip somewhere, I don't want to lug around a big SLR camera. A Canon Elph will easily fit in my shirt pocket, and while it doesn't produce the rich color, crisp detail and depth of field of SLR, that doesn't mean it's crap. Plus, I can hand the camera to a passerby and ask them to take my and my wife's picture in front of a beautiful fountain without having to give them a 20 minute lesson on how to take the picture. They are different tools for different purposes.
And I'm not just picking on you. There are tons of posts on this thread with people dissing P&S cameras. It's just silly to think that one type of camera can meet all needs.
I might be jaded, but I worked in digital imaging about 6 years ago, and I remember a big splash hitting when Kodak (I think) announced a 6 megapixel CMOS sensor for digital cameras. At the time, they were touting that the chip was so cheap, we'd be seeing disposable 6MP digital cameras within a year or so. It was hailed as a huge breakthrough. It captured images faster than CCD (meaning faster file times) more accurate colors and it cost pennies to produce. Now, in 2006, I see an announcement that touts a new breakthrough CMOS sensor. It's fast, cheap, better quality...
I wish I saw some fruits of these grandiose announcements. Seems like PR magic to me.