Why is it that every time you almost convince me to buy a PS3 do you have to do something like this? Well, I suppose thanks are in order, since even a $500 upfront cost is still kinda steep and I didn't quite have the disposable income to blow on that just yet.
All that said, I *will* likely buy a PS3... but not a nanosecond before there is a compelling game for it that will not be out for the Xbox 360. ( Yes, I'm looking at you, Square-Enix.) Hopefully, by then, the freakin thing will be at the $399 price point that I wanted in the first place.
True... it would be interesting, if somewhat complicated, to see the price fluctuations over a couple month period to see how the prices really stack up.
...when the name "ljrllkjlfjdals lkjaldsji3oj" at email address uolikjalj@lkjdfljks.com shows up on their use logs... (or some other random confluence of characters at account creation)
A person's sole purpose, if you boiled everything down, is to reproduce. So I take it you support rape? What about prostitution? Hell, why are you even on Slashdot? Go breed!
Give me a break. We are talking about a CORPORATION--let's not deviate from the argument at hand or turn it into personal attacks, m'kay?
Whether or not Google lives up to it, stating "Don't be evil" as a company motto is a good idea.
And ultimately, I'd hope that evil companies lose in the long run anyway. Don't you? Don't you hope that a combination of regulation, customer dissatisfaction, employee moral crisis, and honest competition will one day unseat the Microsofts and Sonys of the world?
Agreed. Unfortunately, being a jackass is way more profitable, with Google being a very notable acception. And as much as I would love to say that Google broke the trend, who is to say that eventually, when the one's that have that philosophy get the boot for people that are a little more... "profit-oriented." It does happen--I got to see that kinda secondhand.
It is possible to be a profit-driven company and not seek or maintain absolute power.
Given time and a change of personnel at the top and it is equally likely that the opposite happens, as much as I actually hate to admit it.
Oh, and by the way, are you religious? Are you aware that this statement applies to God? Just thought I'd mention that. If you believe in a God with any shred of compassion, then you must reject the "absolute power" statement.
Apple! = God?
Wow, you apple fanboys are too much to deal with. You win this round, i guess... (YES, i'm joking!)
Joking aside, I'm not religious, but I do consider myself spiritual and believe in God. I would like to think some of these hard observations that I've made don't apply to things larger than me. Somehow, I doubt that a profit oriented company will for eternity.
...NOT a freakin non-profit agency. (although a few of those suck too)
Apple's sole purpose, if you boiled everything down, is to make money. Never forget that. And to address the question at hand, sure, apple can be the next M$. Google can be the next M$. M$ can be deregulated, broken-up, then reformed into the NEW M$ and be the "next M$."
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's only a matter of time (and regulation).
You're an idiot if you think 'I have a cold' requires 8 years of any kind of experience to troubleshoot. In fact the doctor will just prescribe you [insert whatever antibiotic company has come by with free pens lately]
That right there tells me you indeed are an idiot. Colds are caused by viruses. An antibiotic will do absolutely NOTHING against a viral infection and 99% of people (you included apparently) do NOT understand this. And heaven forbid we get into the finer poitns of what a macrolide antibiotic does versus cephalosporin. Do you HONESTLY think that the public at large knows these details?
Thanks for proving my point. This EXACT mentality is why there are these checks to keep people from taking these types of medications without a doctor's prescription. (a little bit of disjointed knowledge in the hands of an idiot is a dangerous thing)
Whew... I still wouldn't necessarily want to be the guys directly behind the aforementioned "meatshields" either.;-) (and i use the term meatshield as a term of endearment)
our unit was expected to survive for about three weeks in the event of a NATO / Warsaw Pact conflict (other units were as low as a few hours).
Wow... what a thing to be told. "your unit is to be a meatshield while we reorganize troops and equipment for a counterattack." What was the "nice" way they told you guys as a unit that was your expected role?? I'm having a hard time trying to figure that one out.
In any case, cynicism aside and with all due sincerity, thank you for your service.
Riiiight... self-diagnosis, self-treatment and self-prescription of dangerous and pharmacologically complicated medications = !MONOPOLY!
If every idiot out there got a Z-pack every time they *think* they "felt a sinus infection coming on" we would have even MORE resistant strains of all kinds of fun diseases. Or heaven forbid--having an seemingly benign adverse drug reaction and not knowing enough (i.e. not having the 8 years of training) to realize the sigificance. Something as simple as a cough can be indicative of a severe reaction and REQUIRES drug therapy modification. Are you telling me that most laymen know when and where to look? Having someone that knows what they're talking about (i.e. a doctor, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, physician's assistant whatever) monitor your situation is important. I hope that you never have to personally find that out for yourself.
This is not to say that the health care situation doesn't need a severe overhaul, but to call "needing a prescription from a medical professional" as a "monopoly" is pure idiocy.
I know, I know--just giving you a hard time.;-) M$ *seems* to be trying a little harder to catch the Japanese market this time. Something of a good start--now if they can keep hammering it in, they can break the single digit marketshare in Japan... MAYBE.
And yeah--Sony is completely arsing it up pretty good somehow. Somehow, in all the rush to crank out a rather nice 10 yr console, they forgot to, I don't know, GET A FEW GAMES TO GO WITH IT THAT DIDN'T SUCK. I personally won't buy a PS3 unless it a) drops about $200, b) get the probable disc or power supply problems out of the way, c) Final Fantasy XIII, Gran Turismo, or some other "killer app".... 0 in 3 so far...
That is certainly a good point. But, my personal bent on things is that I have yet to ever see a credit card company ask for ALL that extremely important and extremely sensitive information. I argue that if someone ever did, then there is an extremely high chance of something extremely 'phishy' happening. [-1 Mod Bad Pun];-)
In the end, it boils down to common sense: why in the world would my credit card company really want to know what my credit card #, security code, and all that crap? shouldn't they already know all that? Why don't I ask the company to see if this is legit... or just assume it's a scam.
That being said, I tend to have fun with the phishing sites... put in inflammatory and somewhat infantile remarks in the fields (i.e. email: *$&%_you_russian_phisher@bite_my_#*$&.com... well, you know--if the originator IP is from russia):-)
When the suspect site, for arguement's sake let us say it was a credit card scam (since i had one of those a couple of days ago) asks for EVERYTHING--card #, PIN, security code, mother's maiden name, login name, and LOGIN PASSWORD, alarm bells should go off in your head. Also, it is highly unlikely that someone is going to give you a carrot on the end of a stick(in this case, $20 for a simple 3 question blurb about how the site was running or some bs like that) without a big catch involved. The obvious catch being that IT'S A SCAM.
Geez, i would feel sorry for these duped people, but it's getting harder and harder to.
Dell is the worst when it comes to pricing differentials! I helped out a collegue with some of her computing purchases and they had to go through Dell due to a supposed state 'deal.' Personally, I could have easily put together the computers we made through the Dell Home site for well under $1K for personal purchases. No coupons, no fatwallet tricks--just what deals they had that day. Imagine my surprise when the same configuration was ~$1450 on the Dell contract site!
Some deal! I won't go so far as to say it's "illegal," but I would say that perhaps large institutions should look into these phantom 'deals' from large manufacturers like Dell. Is whatever ease of buerocracy of having a state contract really worth a 40% price differential?
It's a damn shame about Temple of Elemental Evil too... it had probably one of the most true to form adaptations of 3.5e DnD rules. It really did have the chance of being on par with the Baldur's Gate PC series, if they fleshed things out a bit.
Sigh... another nail in the CRPG coffin. Very sad.
Hmm... good point, good point. It'd be interesting to see the comparisons between IBM's capabilities to crank out chips at their Fabs compared to AMD or Intel.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInfor ma tion/0,,30_118_10220_10221^11030,00.html
Summary: the small/low power version of the AMD64 has a heat dissipation of 35W... not too bad, actually!
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInfor ma tion/0,,30_118_10220_10221^10269,00.html
(i.e. the proc I have)
Summary: heat dissipation of 65W. Still doable, since my laptop hasn't burned my lap yet... (though it DOES get hot at times.)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/power pc -g5.html
Summary: PowerPC970 processor at 1.8Ghz = 42W. (apparently, the JUST the processor itself)
I might be mistaken, so please someone pipe up if they see something wrong with my comparisons here. Seems like IBM/Apple would have themselves a winner for a laptop proc.
I wonder what the actual hold up on the G5 laptop is? IIRC, the G5 proc has approximately the same sort of heat issues like an AMD64 chip, yet we have had AMD64 notebooks for over a year now. Now, admittedly, my laptop is big, bulky and basically the antithesis of what I would imagine a Powerbook laptop would look like, but it WORKS, and it is FAST. I would figure that Apple, given a year or so since it was shown as economically and technically feasible to cram something that hot and powerful into a laptop chassis (albeit a desktop replacement at ~7.5 lbs), would have been able to come up with SOMETHING chic and cool like they always do. Seems to me that they are going to delay it by another 3-4 months minimum, which is a shame.
Personally, I can't wait to see what the G5 laptop will look like!;-)
G4's don't SUCK--they just use a older, less sophisticated processor, relatively speaking. How old are the G4's, hmm? And how old are the Pentium M's?
EXXACTLY. It's an unfair comparison. We wouldn't compare a P4-1.5 Ghz to a AMD64-3000+ processor and truly expect something meaningful out of that, would we? The clock speeds are relatively similar(ish), but a VASTLY different ballpark in performance terms.
Now if they jimmied in a G5 into a mini... THAT would be impressive...;-)
I'm just gonna buy my "CD-RW, DVD+/-R/RW, HD-DVD, Blu-ray" drive in 2 years for $70, while reading and complaining about the impending SuperHD-DVD vs ReallyBlu-Ray format war on/.
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"yes"
Long answer:
"We're the biggest f-in ISP in the US! Why change now?"
Why is it that every time you almost convince me to buy a PS3 do you have to do something like this? Well, I suppose thanks are in order, since even a $500 upfront cost is still kinda steep and I didn't quite have the disposable income to blow on that just yet.
All that said, I *will* likely buy a PS3... but not a nanosecond before there is a compelling game for it that will not be out for the Xbox 360. ( Yes, I'm looking at you, Square-Enix.) Hopefully, by then, the freakin thing will be at the $399 price point that I wanted in the first place.
True... it would be interesting, if somewhat complicated, to see the price fluctuations over a couple month period to see how the prices really stack up.
Or Dell really DOES make a lot of money off of the crap-o bloatware (6 month's free AOL etc) and this is their way of compensating.
...when the name "ljrllkjlfjdals lkjaldsji3oj" at email address uolikjalj@lkjdfljks.com shows up on their use logs... (or some other random confluence of characters at account creation)
A person's sole purpose, if you boiled everything down, is to reproduce. So I take it you support rape? What about prostitution? Hell, why are you even on Slashdot? Go breed!
Give me a break. We are talking about a CORPORATION--let's not deviate from the argument at hand or turn it into personal attacks, m'kay?
Whether or not Google lives up to it, stating "Don't be evil" as a company motto is a good idea.
And ultimately, I'd hope that evil companies lose in the long run anyway. Don't you? Don't you hope that a combination of regulation, customer dissatisfaction, employee moral crisis, and honest competition will one day unseat the Microsofts and Sonys of the world?
Agreed. Unfortunately, being a jackass is way more profitable, with Google being a very notable acception. And as much as I would love to say that Google broke the trend, who is to say that eventually, when the one's that have that philosophy get the boot for people that are a little more... "profit-oriented." It does happen--I got to see that kinda secondhand.
It is possible to be a profit-driven company and not seek or maintain absolute power.
Given time and a change of personnel at the top and it is equally likely that the opposite happens, as much as I actually hate to admit it.
Oh, and by the way, are you religious? Are you aware that this statement applies to God? Just thought I'd mention that. If you believe in a God with any shred of compassion, then you must reject the "absolute power" statement.
Apple! = God?
Wow, you apple fanboys are too much to deal with. You win this round, i guess... (YES, i'm joking!)
Joking aside, I'm not religious, but I do consider myself spiritual and believe in God. I would like to think some of these hard observations that I've made don't apply to things larger than me. Somehow, I doubt that a profit oriented company will for eternity.
...NOT a freakin non-profit agency. (although a few of those suck too)
;-)
Apple's sole purpose, if you boiled everything down, is to make money. Never forget that. And to address the question at hand, sure, apple can be the next M$. Google can be the next M$. M$ can be deregulated, broken-up, then reformed into the NEW M$ and be the "next M$."
Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's only a matter of time (and regulation).
(although apple's stuff is purdy, i suppose
Now keep it at around normal "premium" ipod prices ($300) and we have a deal!
:-D
OH, and make sure i can rip that sweet solid state drive out and stick it in my laptop.
You're an idiot if you think 'I have a cold' requires 8 years of any kind of experience to troubleshoot. In fact the doctor will just prescribe you [insert whatever antibiotic company has come by with free pens lately]
That right there tells me you indeed are an idiot. Colds are caused by viruses. An antibiotic will do absolutely NOTHING against a viral infection and 99% of people (you included apparently) do NOT understand this. And heaven forbid we get into the finer poitns of what a macrolide antibiotic does versus cephalosporin. Do you HONESTLY think that the public at large knows these details?
Thanks for proving my point. This EXACT mentality is why there are these checks to keep people from taking these types of medications without a doctor's prescription. (a little bit of disjointed knowledge in the hands of an idiot is a dangerous thing)
Whew... I still wouldn't necessarily want to be the guys directly behind the aforementioned "meatshields" either. ;-) (and i use the term meatshield as a term of endearment)
;-)
Tell us? There's a story behind that.
Come on, don't leave us in suspense.
our unit was expected to survive for about three weeks in the event of a NATO / Warsaw Pact conflict (other units were as low as a few hours).
Wow... what a thing to be told. "your unit is to be a meatshield while we reorganize troops and equipment for a counterattack." What was the "nice" way they told you guys as a unit that was your expected role?? I'm having a hard time trying to figure that one out.
In any case, cynicism aside and with all due sincerity, thank you for your service.
Riiiight... self-diagnosis, self-treatment and self-prescription of dangerous and pharmacologically complicated medications = !MONOPOLY!
If every idiot out there got a Z-pack every time they *think* they "felt a sinus infection coming on" we would have even MORE resistant strains of all kinds of fun diseases. Or heaven forbid--having an seemingly benign adverse drug reaction and not knowing enough (i.e. not having the 8 years of training) to realize the sigificance. Something as simple as a cough can be indicative of a severe reaction and REQUIRES drug therapy modification. Are you telling me that most laymen know when and where to look? Having someone that knows what they're talking about (i.e. a doctor, nurse practitioner, pharmacist, physician's assistant whatever) monitor your situation is important. I hope that you never have to personally find that out for yourself.
This is not to say that the health care situation doesn't need a severe overhaul, but to call "needing a prescription from a medical professional" as a "monopoly" is pure idiocy.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Banned_from_the_Inter net
:-P
he's not from detroit is he?
I know, I know--just giving you a hard time. ;-) M$ *seems* to be trying a little harder to catch the Japanese market this time. Something of a good start--now if they can keep hammering it in, they can break the single digit marketshare in Japan... MAYBE.
... 0 in 3 so far...
And yeah--Sony is completely arsing it up pretty good somehow. Somehow, in all the rush to crank out a rather nice 10 yr console, they forgot to, I don't know, GET A FEW GAMES TO GO WITH IT THAT DIDN'T SUCK. I personally won't buy a PS3 unless it a) drops about $200, b) get the probable disc or power supply problems out of the way, c) Final Fantasy XIII, Gran Turismo, or some other "killer app".
Well, the PS1 and PS2 did pretty good, so that means that the PS3 should be doing fantastic now.
OKOK, bad example. the jury's still out on the PS3....
The Sega Master System and Genesis did pretty good,so that means that the Sega CD and Dreamcast should.... oh right....
That is certainly a good point. But, my personal bent on things is that I have yet to ever see a credit card company ask for ALL that extremely important and extremely sensitive information. I argue that if someone ever did, then there is an extremely high chance of something extremely 'phishy' happening. [-1 Mod Bad Pun] ;-)
... well, you know--if the originator IP is from russia) :-)
In the end, it boils down to common sense: why in the world would my credit card company really want to know what my credit card #, security code, and all that crap? shouldn't they already know all that? Why don't I ask the company to see if this is legit... or just assume it's a scam.
That being said, I tend to have fun with the phishing sites... put in inflammatory and somewhat infantile remarks in the fields (i.e. email: *$&%_you_russian_phisher@bite_my_#*$&.com
When the suspect site, for arguement's sake let us say it was a credit card scam (since i had one of those a couple of days ago) asks for EVERYTHING--card #, PIN, security code, mother's maiden name, login name, and LOGIN PASSWORD, alarm bells should go off in your head. Also, it is highly unlikely that someone is going to give you a carrot on the end of a stick(in this case, $20 for a simple 3 question blurb about how the site was running or some bs like that) without a big catch involved. The obvious catch being that IT'S A SCAM.
Geez, i would feel sorry for these duped people, but it's getting harder and harder to.
Dell is the worst when it comes to pricing differentials! I helped out a collegue with some of her computing purchases and they had to go through Dell due to a supposed state 'deal.' Personally, I could have easily put together the computers we made through the Dell Home site for well under $1K for personal purchases. No coupons, no fatwallet tricks--just what deals they had that day. Imagine my surprise when the same configuration was ~$1450 on the Dell contract site!
Some deal! I won't go so far as to say it's "illegal," but I would say that perhaps large institutions should look into these phantom 'deals' from large manufacturers like Dell. Is whatever ease of buerocracy of having a state contract really worth a 40% price differential?
It's a damn shame about Temple of Elemental Evil too... it had probably one of the most true to form adaptations of 3.5e DnD rules. It really did have the chance of being on par with the Baldur's Gate PC series, if they fleshed things out a bit.
Sigh... another nail in the CRPG coffin. Very sad.
'nuff said.
(there's a simpsons quote somewhere there, but too lazy to look it up.)
Hmm... good point, good point. It'd be interesting to see the comparisons between IBM's capabilities to crank out chips at their Fabs compared to AMD or Intel.
sorry for my lack of html skillz, but note:
r ma tion/0,,30_118_10220_10221^11030,00.html
r ma tion/0,,30_118_10220_10221^10269,00.html
r pc -g5.html
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInfo
Summary: the small/low power version of the AMD64 has a heat dissipation of 35W... not too bad, actually!
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInfo
(i.e. the proc I have)
Summary: heat dissipation of 65W. Still doable, since my laptop hasn't burned my lap yet... (though it DOES get hot at times.)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/powe
Summary: PowerPC970 processor at 1.8Ghz = 42W. (apparently, the JUST the processor itself)
I might be mistaken, so please someone pipe up if they see something wrong with my comparisons here. Seems like IBM/Apple would have themselves a winner for a laptop proc.
I wonder what the actual hold up on the G5 laptop is? IIRC, the G5 proc has approximately the same sort of heat issues like an AMD64 chip, yet we have had AMD64 notebooks for over a year now. Now, admittedly, my laptop is big, bulky and basically the antithesis of what I would imagine a Powerbook laptop would look like, but it WORKS, and it is FAST. I would figure that Apple, given a year or so since it was shown as economically and technically feasible to cram something that hot and powerful into a laptop chassis (albeit a desktop replacement at ~7.5 lbs), would have been able to come up with SOMETHING chic and cool like they always do. Seems to me that they are going to delay it by another 3-4 months minimum, which is a shame.
;-)
Personally, I can't wait to see what the G5 laptop will look like!
G4's don't SUCK--they just use a older, less sophisticated processor, relatively speaking. How old are the G4's, hmm? And how old are the Pentium M's?
;-)
EXXACTLY. It's an unfair comparison. We wouldn't compare a P4-1.5 Ghz to a AMD64-3000+ processor and truly expect something meaningful out of that, would we? The clock speeds are relatively similar(ish), but a VASTLY different ballpark in performance terms.
Now if they jimmied in a G5 into a mini... THAT would be impressive...
I'm just gonna buy my "CD-RW, DVD+/-R/RW, HD-DVD, Blu-ray" drive in 2 years for $70, while reading and complaining about the impending SuperHD-DVD vs ReallyBlu-Ray format war on /.
:-P
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