Nintendo will never sell outright I would bet, and I doubt that the Japanese business community would allow for a "hostile takeover" of a Japanese company. I was reading an article today that said in post-war Japan there has never been a successful hostile takeover. And with the whole Livedoor fiasco, I wouldn't bet on there being one any time soon.
The PSP's anti-piracy measures force the user to choose between either homebrew or retail games, a distinction which may (in a very small way) be part of the reason why the PSP doesn't sell very many games.
And let me guess, the DS games are just flying off the shelves soley because Nintendo lets people run homebrew off their machines...OR you could come back to the real world and realise that probably the main reason the PSP doesn't sell very many games is that:
a)first and foremost the number of great games on the machine is quite limited
b)The machine and the games are quite expensive. You have to plop down $250 for the console, and $50 per game(though that can vary depending on the game publisher). For the cost of a PSP and 2 games, I can get a DS and roughly 7 games, 4 at $35 and 3 at $30.
But yeah, you are probably right, the whole "anti-piracy" thing is really killing off the psp, because you know every other console ever created lets you run emulators....
From the article:"It shows a certain intelligence in its design but what's the motive?" he asked, "Pure vandalism does not ring true these days."
Maybe economic chaos? The virus goes after MS Office files and pdfs, the files that are 9/10 the most economically valuable on a PC. I wonder what the impact of getting rid of massive amounts of these files would be?
On the plus side, lazy grad students can now say, "The virus ate my thesis":P
It seems as if they are trying to automate what companies pay experts a lot of money to do already: attack software from every concievable angle. The experts hired to do that can get quite creative, so of course the software is going to have to be quite good to get companies to consider replacing their experts, and I personally doubt they can do it. If it's worth anything, it will probably just end up becoming another tool of the trade. Though, as always, time will tell.
I think you mean "don't have the time" to evaluate all these candidates. Of course it isn't perfectly fair to throw out everyone who didn't get a college education, but how else can you quickly sort through the hundreds of resumes you receive for each job opening? You honestly expect a human who does have other duties to read through each one carefully and think, "Hmmm...does this person really know what they are talking about?" I know if I had that job I would go crazy. So unless you have some genious plan to stop unqualified people from applying to a job(and if you do, you should go get some VC and kick monster's ass) companies are going to have to use some type of filtering
Not saying a college degree is perfect, but I for instance paid my own way through college. That tells an employer not only do I know data structures and algorithms but when push comes to shove, I can get the job done.
Um, the person here links to a: http://www.xmilk.com/coreduo.gif gif file, how much you want to bet that isn't at all related to the article?
Personally, I'm not going to beta test this one...
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What does the education system expose your kids to today?
STDs mostly. I'm not kidding, 25% of Americans age 15-39 have genital herpes. An uncurable, lifelong disease. And they can't add.
I am seriously fretting for my homeland's future at this point, but what can be done?
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They're not idiots like some asperger syndrome candidates in discussion threads.
Like yourself?
It's esp. sad in places like Europe where the sales tax is included in the price, at least in America the dumbasses can claim they are figuring out the sales tax:P
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High bandwidth DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN LOW LAG!!!!
Even in ethernet the time to send the first byte dwarfs the per byte cost. The connection could still have a bit of latency even if the bandwidth is high...
Heh, they recently added a writing component to the SAT, and the GRE has had a required writing component for a couple of years now(not like many people actually look at, but it's there. However it isn't very challenging, I got a 5.5/6 and I suck at writing)
The truth is that these kids were probably "coached" through the SATs. You can get high scores on them if you know the ins and outs of how to take them even if you don't really understand the material. The classes can be costly though...
Damn, the more and more I prattle on about this stuff the more I am reminded of how much the SATs really do resemble the business world...
The tech sector was especially hard hit. Intel, Apple, and Yahoo, who according to slashdot did comply with the investigations, all took a beating. This story is nothing but FUD, pretty standard stuff here on slashdot.
Well, assuming they aren't doing the factorial recursively(which would result in tons and tons of stack frames) that really doesn't test how fast/big your cache and main memory is, which is as big a factor as mathematical calculation speed on a large number of scientific applications. Most useful programs stress the cache/memory a lot more than the ALU(s)
Um, no. Up until about 98 or 99 most Japanese didn't even own their own cell phone, IIRC they were not allowed to. It wasn't till after government deregulation that the cell phone market really took off. Of course this is slashdot and the Japanese are always the kings of everything. I've been there and yeah it is impressive, but the difference between the West and Japan isn't nearly as large as most people make it out to be.
I was bored at work today and was poking around Wikipedia when I found this article on HIV vaccines and people are doing some pretty interesting and imaginative stuff. However the article also notes that worldwide HIV research gets about $650 million annually. IE about 1/200th of what the US spends each year on the war in Iraq....
The PSP video function is the ONLY thing that keeps on making me come back to the games section to drool over the gigapac. If they even had 2 games I was remotely interested in I would buy it, but I just keep on getting more games for my DS(both DS games and GBA games)
I keep on finding myself having to resist the temptation of that damn sexy screen though....
It helped me beat the 2nd quest of Zelda because it contained a full walkthrough for it. At that time I probably could not have done it without their help(no gamefaqs.com back then:P)
Ah memories.
From the site: on a Windows XP platform. Sometime before the end of 2005, we anticipate being able to expand our services to include Mandrake Linux and Mac OS9.
OS 9! In 2005! Cutting edge!
Actually if you consider Apple's overall "profit margin" for the last quarter, they grossed 5.65 billion and netted 565 million, so if you go just by last quarter, their overall profit margin is 10%, IIRC still much greater than Dells, but nowhere near what the article makes it out to be.
That would imply:
a: Having cable(not free!)
b: living in the US(I don't right now, and the Daily Show is one of the things I miss most)
I could probably try tracking it down on bittorrent, but it's just too much of a pain.
I have yet to buy an iPod video yet, and I won't till they get the Daily Show on iTunes. However, I won't pay $1.99 per episode to get it, but I would LOVE for some type of subscription service, ie for somewhere less than $100 per year I could get that show delivered to me automatically on my iPod. It would be awesome for commuters if they could get up in the morning, grab their iPod from it's dock and take the train/bus/whatever and watch the previous nights Daily Show.
Pipedreams I guess....
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Nintendo will never sell outright I would bet, and I doubt that the Japanese business community would allow for a "hostile takeover" of a Japanese company. I was reading an article today that said in post-war Japan there has never been a successful hostile takeover. And with the whole Livedoor fiasco, I wouldn't bet on there being one any time soon.
The PSP's anti-piracy measures force the user to choose between either homebrew or retail games, a distinction which may (in a very small way) be part of the reason why the PSP doesn't sell very many games.
And let me guess, the DS games are just flying off the shelves soley because Nintendo lets people run homebrew off their machines...OR you could come back to the real world and realise that probably the main reason the PSP doesn't sell very many games is that:
a)first and foremost the number of great games on the machine is quite limited
b)The machine and the games are quite expensive. You have to plop down $250 for the console, and $50 per game(though that can vary depending on the game publisher). For the cost of a PSP and 2 games, I can get a DS and roughly 7 games, 4 at $35 and 3 at $30.
But yeah, you are probably right, the whole "anti-piracy" thing is really killing off the psp, because you know every other console ever created lets you run emulators....
From the article:"It shows a certain intelligence in its design but what's the motive?" he asked, "Pure vandalism does not ring true these days."
:P
Maybe economic chaos? The virus goes after MS Office files and pdfs, the files that are 9/10 the most economically valuable on a PC. I wonder what the impact of getting rid of massive amounts of these files would be?
On the plus side, lazy grad students can now say, "The virus ate my thesis"
It seems as if they are trying to automate what companies pay experts a lot of money to do already: attack software from every concievable angle. The experts hired to do that can get quite creative, so of course the software is going to have to be quite good to get companies to consider replacing their experts, and I personally doubt they can do it. If it's worth anything, it will probably just end up becoming another tool of the trade. Though, as always, time will tell.
The fish featured in this slashdot article was 7 mm, this one says their fish is 7.9 mm....
I think you mean "don't have the time" to evaluate all these candidates. Of course it isn't perfectly fair to throw out everyone who didn't get a college education, but how else can you quickly sort through the hundreds of resumes you receive for each job opening? You honestly expect a human who does have other duties to read through each one carefully and think, "Hmmm...does this person really know what they are talking about?" I know if I had that job I would go crazy. So unless you have some genious plan to stop unqualified people from applying to a job(and if you do, you should go get some VC and kick monster's ass) companies are going to have to use some type of filtering
Not saying a college degree is perfect, but I for instance paid my own way through college. That tells an employer not only do I know data structures and algorithms but when push comes to shove, I can get the job done.
Um, the person here links to a: http://www.xmilk.com/coreduo.gif gif file, how much you want to bet that isn't at all related to the article?
Personally, I'm not going to beta test this one...
What does the education system expose your kids to today?
STDs mostly. I'm not kidding, 25% of Americans age 15-39 have genital herpes. An uncurable, lifelong disease. And they can't add.
I am seriously fretting for my homeland's future at this point, but what can be done?
They're not idiots like some asperger syndrome candidates in discussion threads.
Like yourself?
It's esp. sad in places like Europe where the sales tax is included in the price, at least in America the dumbasses can claim they are figuring out the sales tax :P
High bandwidth DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN LOW LAG!!!!
Even in ethernet the time to send the first byte dwarfs the per byte cost. The connection could still have a bit of latency even if the bandwidth is high...
Heh, they recently added a writing component to the SAT, and the GRE has had a required writing component for a couple of years now(not like many people actually look at, but it's there. However it isn't very challenging, I got a 5.5/6 and I suck at writing)
The truth is that these kids were probably "coached" through the SATs. You can get high scores on them if you know the ins and outs of how to take them even if you don't really understand the material. The classes can be costly though...
Damn, the more and more I prattle on about this stuff the more I am reminded of how much the SATs really do resemble the business world...
The tech sector was especially hard hit. Intel, Apple, and Yahoo, who according to slashdot did comply with the investigations, all took a beating. This story is nothing but FUD, pretty standard stuff here on slashdot.
I bet he didn't even go to Castleton.
Well, assuming they aren't doing the factorial recursively(which would result in tons and tons of stack frames) that really doesn't test how fast/big your cache and main memory is, which is as big a factor as mathematical calculation speed on a large number of scientific applications. Most useful programs stress the cache/memory a lot more than the ALU(s)
Um, no. Up until about 98 or 99 most Japanese didn't even own their own cell phone, IIRC they were not allowed to. It wasn't till after government deregulation that the cell phone market really took off. Of course this is slashdot and the Japanese are always the kings of everything. I've been there and yeah it is impressive, but the difference between the West and Japan isn't nearly as large as most people make it out to be.
I was bored at work today and was poking around Wikipedia when I found this article on HIV vaccines and people are doing some pretty interesting and imaginative stuff. However the article also notes that worldwide HIV research gets about $650 million annually. IE about 1/200th of what the US spends each year on the war in Iraq....
The PSP video function is the ONLY thing that keeps on making me come back to the games section to drool over the gigapac. If they even had 2 games I was remotely interested in I would buy it, but I just keep on getting more games for my DS(both DS games and GBA games)
I keep on finding myself having to resist the temptation of that damn sexy screen though....
It helped me beat the 2nd quest of Zelda because it contained a full walkthrough for it. At that time I probably could not have done it without their help(no gamefaqs.com back then :P)
Ah memories.
I thought an Interrobang was where you had sex while speaking in nothing but questions.
It's just like the real game, the challenge screws the steelers over!
From the site:
on a Windows XP platform. Sometime before the end of 2005, we anticipate being able to expand our services to include Mandrake Linux and Mac OS9.
OS 9! In 2005! Cutting edge!
Actually if you consider Apple's overall "profit margin" for the last quarter, they grossed 5.65 billion and netted 565 million, so if you go just by last quarter, their overall profit margin is 10%, IIRC still much greater than Dells, but nowhere near what the article makes it out to be.
That would imply:
a: Having cable(not free!)
b: living in the US(I don't right now, and the Daily Show is one of the things I miss most)
I could probably try tracking it down on bittorrent, but it's just too much of a pain.
I have yet to buy an iPod video yet, and I won't till they get the Daily Show on iTunes. However, I won't pay $1.99 per episode to get it, but I would LOVE for some type of subscription service, ie for somewhere less than $100 per year I could get that show delivered to me automatically on my iPod. It would be awesome for commuters if they could get up in the morning, grab their iPod from it's dock and take the train/bus/whatever and watch the previous nights Daily Show.
Pipedreams I guess....