Your last point is exactly the kind of market that I see for the November launch of the PS3.
"It *could* have an impact if all HD-DVD players and Blue Ray players on market are still around 500 dollars or more, or if the library of both were negligible. In essence, entering a market without reasonable competition before any market penetration has occured, since PS3 would be cheaper than buying a console *and* a movie player."
I think you pretty much sumed up my original point here. $500 is the current asking price for a next gen player.
and I'm guessing that price won't be coming down too significantly in the next 6 months. How long did it take DVD players to break the $100 barrier?
So, keeping all that in mind, I think the PS3 could have a large impact because it could have a huge marketing campaign behind it, and it could be the first next gen media player to get big hype. Now that doesn't mean I think Blu-ray movie capability will be the major selling point of the PS3, I just think that it could sell far more units than any of the other stand alone next gen movie players will, and that user base will have a huge impact on the outcome of this "war".
The format war will be won or lost based on the fortunes of Sonys next console, which will incorporate their Blu-ray tech. If the PS3 has anything like the market penetration that the PS2 has, then Blu-ray will be the winner.
You've got it exactly right, I have helped design what are essentially the all electric "gear box" for train systems almost exactly like this in the USA. It's really just a variable freq. drive that controls the electric motors.
Actually I stick it to exposed skin all the time, I'm using it as a heavy duty Band Aid right now! The key is to only use it in areas of the body with little body hair, as hair "removal" is the origin of most of the pain. Cuts/blisters on either finger tips or feet are great places to use it in place of a traditional bandage because of the superior adhesive and durability. Also it's been shown that duct tape can cure warts! http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/hmo/index.h tml.
Seriously, I came to this post thinking I could get some answers on this slightly annoying issue and all I get is one, big, fat, question?!? Tell something I don't already know!
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I also resisted making the switch. I had both for a while and prefered the gmail interface but couldn't find any good way to transfer my existing emails from hotmail to gmail, along with the general pain it is to try and get everyone I know switched over to my new email address.
But I recently solved both problems with a great little program I found. http://www.e-eeasy.com/GetMail.aspx/ Getmail forwarded all of my existing emails to my gmail account automagically, it would have taken me days of work to do it through hotmail as there is no option to mass forward messages. And it continues to forward any messages that come to my old hotmail address. I log in maybe once a week to check my junk folder and thats it.
I can't tell you how happy I am having finally made the full switch. The ads and interface of hotmail were just driving me crazy, and the search and storage features of gmail are great. Getmail eased the process and I highly recomend this slick little free program.
I know that this sounds pretty good for a device like this but I see a couple problems:
1. Like the rest of the specs on this device, this battery life figure is probably pure vapor.
2. Mobile power technology (battery's/fuel cells, and lower power consumption by the device) is going to have to advance by a couple orders of magnitude before "ubuiquitous computing" can really come into its own.
The idea is interesting, but I have a hard enough time keeping my cell phone and MP3 player charged as it is. When we can have "full function" use times in days or weeks, instead of hours, then I'll get excited.
Every day as I fumble for my keys to get in the house, but just turn around and, *Beep*, my car is locked/unlocked I wish I could get keyless entry for my home.
Are there existing systems out there? How hard are they to retro fit to existing doors? How do they supply reliable power to the locking mechanism? Or is someone going to go out and get rich off of this post?
I had an ex-girlfriend once, who I still kept in contact with for some reason, who broke up with her then fiance because he charged $500 of Pr0n onto her debit card. Not credit card, debit card! Besides the obvious "What a Tool!" At the time I remeber thinking "Wow, that is a lot of real money to spend on something I can find just laying around on the web". This was in the early days of P2P and bittorrent wasn't even on the scene yet and still you could bairly do a search on the web without some offer for free porn poping up.
Still amazes me, to this day, how people can be so stupid/lazy that they spend enough money to keep an entire industry racking up the profits when free, legal alternatives abound.
In my opinion this article doesn't need any sexing up. It really is a fascinating read. The general thrust of the article is that this large virus bears a striking resemblance to a primitive cell nucleus. The theory goes that back in the dawn of time a large complex virus, similar to the one discovered, infected a nucleas-free ameba (I had no idea there where single "celled" organisms that didn't have a nucleas!) and instead of using that environment to replicate, and destroy the host in the process, it stayed on and integrated itself into the host organism, evolving into the nucleas.
This makes perfect sense to me and so does the other premise the article puts forth. That because the virus inhabits a very strange middle ground between life and non-life, it is thereby a perfect candidate for the very precursor to life; the missing link if you will. I am having some trouble thinking of ways a virus could replicate without any kind of cells or bacteria around, but that doesn't mean there wasn't/isn't one.
Parent is exactly right. Unless the internet changes in a very fundamental way, (multi-level pricing, increased restirctions from tel-coms) then whenever they cut off one head, two more will pop up to replace it. But don't underestimate the *AA's and the tel-coms. We will have to pry there business model from their cold dead fingers.
Similarly interesting is the fact that his birthday is not selected as one of wikipedias daily "Selected Anniversaries". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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You had me up to "weight ratios" but when you didn't follow up with the obligatory coconuts and swallows... you just lost me.
Dear god, are "your mom" jokes still funny?! When will it end!!
do the sheep explode or what.
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Your last point is exactly the kind of market that I see for the November launch of the PS3.
"It *could* have an impact if all HD-DVD players and Blue Ray players on market are still around 500 dollars or more, or if the library of both were negligible. In essence, entering a market without reasonable competition before any market penetration has occured, since PS3 would be cheaper than buying a console *and* a movie player."
I think you pretty much sumed up my original point here. $500 is the current asking price for a next gen player. and I'm guessing that price won't be coming down too significantly in the next 6 months. How long did it take DVD players to break the $100 barrier?
So, keeping all that in mind, I think the PS3 could have a large impact because it could have a huge marketing campaign behind it, and it could be the first next gen media player to get big hype. Now that doesn't mean I think Blu-ray movie capability will be the major selling point of the PS3, I just think that it could sell far more units than any of the other stand alone next gen movie players will, and that user base will have a huge impact on the outcome of this "war".
The format war will be won or lost based on the fortunes of Sonys next console, which will incorporate their Blu-ray tech. If the PS3 has anything like the market penetration that the PS2 has, then Blu-ray will be the winner.
You've got it exactly right, I have helped design what are essentially the all electric "gear box" for train systems almost exactly like this in the USA. It's really just a variable freq. drive that controls the electric motors.
Actually I stick it to exposed skin all the time, I'm using it as a heavy duty Band Aid right now! The key is to only use it in areas of the body with little body hair, as hair "removal" is the origin of most of the pain. Cuts/blisters on either finger tips or feet are great places to use it in place of a traditional bandage because of the superior adhesive and durability. Also it's been shown that duct tape can cure warts! http://www.octanecreative.com/ducttape/hmo/index.h tml.
All hail the healing powers of duct tape!
"Pay no attention to the sys admin behind the curtain!"
Seriously, I came to this post thinking I could get some answers on this slightly annoying issue and all I get is one, big, fat, question?!? Tell something I don't already know!
I also resisted making the switch. I had both for a while and prefered the gmail interface but couldn't find any good way to transfer my existing emails from hotmail to gmail, along with the general pain it is to try and get everyone I know switched over to my new email address.
But I recently solved both problems with a great little program I found. http://www.e-eeasy.com/GetMail.aspx/ Getmail forwarded all of my existing emails to my gmail account automagically, it would have taken me days of work to do it through hotmail as there is no option to mass forward messages. And it continues to forward any messages that come to my old hotmail address. I log in maybe once a week to check my junk folder and thats it.
I can't tell you how happy I am having finally made the full switch. The ads and interface of hotmail were just driving me crazy, and the search and storage features of gmail are great. Getmail eased the process and I highly recomend this slick little free program.
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I know that this sounds pretty good for a device like this but I see a couple problems:
1. Like the rest of the specs on this device, this battery life figure is probably pure vapor.
2. Mobile power technology (battery's/fuel cells, and lower power consumption by the device) is going to have to advance by a couple orders of magnitude before "ubuiquitous computing" can really come into its own.
The idea is interesting, but I have a hard enough time keeping my cell phone and MP3 player charged as it is. When we can have "full function" use times in days or weeks, instead of hours, then I'll get excited.
Every day as I fumble for my keys to get in the house, but just turn around and, *Beep*, my car is locked/unlocked I wish I could get keyless entry for my home.
Are there existing systems out there? How hard are they to retro fit to existing doors? How do they supply reliable power to the locking mechanism? Or is someone going to go out and get rich off of this post?
I had an ex-girlfriend once, who I still kept in contact with for some reason, who broke up with her then fiance because he charged $500 of Pr0n onto her debit card. Not credit card, debit card! Besides the obvious "What a Tool!" At the time I remeber thinking "Wow, that is a lot of real money to spend on something I can find just laying around on the web". This was in the early days of P2P and bittorrent wasn't even on the scene yet and still you could bairly do a search on the web without some offer for free porn poping up.
Still amazes me, to this day, how people can be so stupid/lazy that they spend enough money to keep an entire industry racking up the profits when free, legal alternatives abound.
they cut them down instead.
I'm pretty sure you have gain access to second level mage spells to use knock. Maybe the door is enchanted?
In my opinion this article doesn't need any sexing up. It really is a fascinating read. The general thrust of the article is that this large virus bears a striking resemblance to a primitive cell nucleus. The theory goes that back in the dawn of time a large complex virus, similar to the one discovered, infected a nucleas-free ameba (I had no idea there where single "celled" organisms that didn't have a nucleas!) and instead of using that environment to replicate, and destroy the host in the process, it stayed on and integrated itself into the host organism, evolving into the nucleas.
This makes perfect sense to me and so does the other premise the article puts forth. That because the virus inhabits a very strange middle ground between life and non-life, it is thereby a perfect candidate for the very precursor to life; the missing link if you will. I am having some trouble thinking of ways a virus could replicate without any kind of cells or bacteria around, but that doesn't mean there wasn't/isn't one.
I say, onward great march of discovery!
Wish I had mod points.
Parent is exactly right. Unless the internet changes in a very fundamental way, (multi-level pricing, increased restirctions from tel-coms) then whenever they cut off one head, two more will pop up to replace it. But don't underestimate the *AA's and the tel-coms. We will have to pry there business model from their cold dead fingers.
If pigeons post on slashdot then you must acquit!
Another axiom proved true.
"No matter what your interested in, no matter how esoteric you might think it is, there is a magazine about it."
Similarly interesting is the fact that his birthday is not selected as one of wikipedias daily "Selected Anniversaries". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I was also unaware that wikipedia had a special slashdot traffic warning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin
I was actually contemplating buying one of these. Thanks for the post, I might have wasted $4 other wise.