IIRC, Nintendo has only had 1 quarter in it's entire history(which goes back quite a bit to when they were a Japanese card manufacturer) which was unprofitable. And even the reason behind losting money wasn't lackluster sales so much as Nintendo didn't play the currency game correctly and ended up getting burned on a weak dollar.
Well, you have to keep in mind in WWI Hitler was temporarily blinded by a British chlorine bomb, and spent the final days of the war in a hospital bed. Maybe he felt that he couldn't actually win a chemical battle and kept the chemicals just in case they were used against the Germans. Maybe he was afraid chemical weapons could actually hurt him.
Heh, also keep in mind that a successful virus really doesn't even have to modify the OS. A virus that sends all the documents in my home directory to a remote server then wipes them is much more destructive than something that modifies my OS. I can easily replace the OS, not neccasarily true about my personal files.
Ok, is THIS enough? Still no. You still lack information on sensory input. You need to know what the range is on different nerves, because the brain is going to adjust to what the nerves deliver. If you don't know what the nerves deliver, then you don't know what sort of data the brain is expecting.
So wait, you are telling me if I put myself into Mandy Moore's body, I wouldn't know what it was like to sit around and play with my newfound breasts all day? That my brain wouldn't know how to process the information?
Damn, there go my dreams.
All it says is that "Apple will use intel chips", it doesn't state what kind of chips, but it does repeat itself over and over again. Maybe Apple will use Intel chips in an embedded device, maybe they are considering bringing back the mac/pc hybrid. There is really no "meat" to this story, but we can all speculate anyway.
Heh, though really Apple should send you a battery if you call them and then have you send the defective one back when you receive the replacement. That is what they did when my AC adaptor broke(a week before the warranty ran out). Apple rushed me a new AC adaptor and had me send my defective one back(they paid the shipping). I think the only reason they had me send mine back was to ensure that I wasn't just getting a free power supply. I see no reason they shouldn't do the same for the batteries.
It's been around in the PC world for a long while, it's nice that some console game makers are finally getting on board. To a certain extent it's a bit frustrating to think about how a compnay went through all the work to create a nice game engine, but then (quite artificially) limits you to the content that they provide. I hope this takes off in other games as well. Imagine if you could design your own courses in Mario kart
(Hell, the DS is made for this, edit the course on one screen, and see the results on the other in real time)
And interestingly enough their currency fixing is actually hurting some of the poorest countries in the world who actually play fair with their currency. For example a lot of garment manufacturers in Africa are getting soaked with the weak dollar, they cannot compete with the Chinese and their fixed currency in the US market. They are the ones that really should force China to open up it's exchange rate.
Heh, this is more than just your average buffer overflow exploit. This fix would have to modify how the OS handles the cache. It's going to probably take more than a quick fix to get rid of the exploit, and the patch could have far reaching reprecussions. All that to fix a security hole that may not even be exploitable in practice....
Heh, you are a Friedman hater too?
It's amazing how sleazy that man is, he is just a mouthpiece of Infosys and the Chinese government. He just takes what they say to be sacred fact, sprinkles in a little chicken little, uses the word "innovate" as much as he can, and boom there is a column. Repeat as long as the paychecks keep coming in.
Amazing he chastizes Americans for not taking enough math and science, and yet all his columns show a disturbing abuse of statistics. Let me lay it out for you Tom, "anecdotal evidence is not really indicitive of large scale trends" and coorelation does not imply causation. Jeez, no wonder we have the reputation of being horrible at math, when the man who is critical of the mathematical capabilities of Americans sucks so bad at math.
I recommend that the NYT outsource Friedman, anyone from anywhere can do his job, heck I'm sure we could replace him with a computer.
does this mean my choice of M&M's does NOT determine my fate? That it was a cheap marketing ploy?
I thought I was a badass Sith because I chose the peanut M&Ms...but it's a lie....DAMN YOU LUCAS! DAMN YOUUUUUUUUU!!!
Though you have to hand it to Hormel, they were really cool on the whole "spam" thing, all they asked is that when talking about the canned meat you write it in capital letters.
Honestly the reasons the Iraqis are doing OK is because the US doesn't just blast everything it sees. If the government felt it's very existence being threatened, there are ways to get compliance. For instance, for every soldier that dies you kill 10 civillians. You also reward stool pigeons. Pretty soon support for the fighting force is going to fall apart.
Well, not bothering could really be interpreted as "I'm ok with the way things are going right now, but if something changes, I don't forsee it affecting me too much"
In the US they say low turnout always favors the incumbent because it indicates that the challenger really hasn't motivated very many people to vote for her/him.
Heh, though with modern military technology, even guns cannot overthrow governments. I don't think Vegas would be giving the odds to a group of people with shotguns versus a tank, a fighter jet, and some Tomahawk cruise missiles.....
Heh, but on the same token Nokia also tried to combine a portable game machine and failed miserably...twice. They just couldn't get the cell phone to be as good as the relatively primitive gameboy advance, and they had trouble cramming all that functionality into a still usable interface. Cell phones did cannibalize the PDA market, but I think that can be attributed to the fact that there was so much overlap. You are naturally going to want your contact info on your phone for when you call people. However is listening to music a function of your phone?
It's all really going to come down to interface and battery life. If cell phone makers can cram all this functionality into phones without creating an unusable interface or sacraficing battery life then they may very well win the war. But it's really time to wait and see.
Heh, thats kind of the point. If you typed the paper then the original author only wrote it once. When I actually write a rough draft on paper, I usually end up waiting at least a day before I go to type it up. When I do type it up I usually end up editing large sections of the paper because they sounded good at the time, but upon re-reading, they sound terrible. If you type the paper, there is no such re-writing process.
You have to wonder if computers aren't partly to blame for this problem. People used to have to sit down in front of a piece of paper and write out their report. Then they would either have to enter it on a typewriter/early computer or at least copy it again neatly. They were forced to write at least 1 draft of the paper and then would have the chance to correct it while creating the final version. Now all you need to do is fire up Word and just type whatever comes to you. Then you look for the little red and green lines(because Word never makes mistakes! It's the computer, it's perfect!) and save it, print it, and you are done!
It seems that very few people actually create drafts anymore...
A lot of Sun workstations already have 8 mb of L2 cache, for instance SunBlade 1000s. However, they like pretty much every other commercial chip in wide use(P4, Athlon, G4, G5 etc) all have 64k l1(32k data 32k instruction).
But more to the point, did you RTFA? This is anti-fuse technology, ie it cannot be re-written. I guess you could have certain chunks of data that you need to reference again and again that won't change, but for that limited use why would you ever muck up your architecture?
Well, they lose money at first, then eventually they break even and finally they make money on every one sold. Thats how the PS2 went, I don't really see much to make the PSP different. Obviously as time goes on, components get cheaper and the economies of scale really start to become a factor. Still, the majority of Sony's profit will still come from games and not the hardware.
There is simply more to take into account than just money. For example, the creators of MST3K are somewhat ashamed of their first season when they were on a UHF station in Minneapolis. Naturally the quality wasn't anywhere near what it was in the later seasons. If they could they would have trashed it. In the "Amazing Colosal Episode Guide" they mention the season and say that they wish people wouldn't watch it because it was like if someone dug up a report you wrote in 5th grade about your dog and published it. It's not representative of your true work. Fans have du g up all but the first 3 episodes and put them online. They haven't done anything about it, but some of the people involved probably aren't thrilled.
So the question becomes, should people be able to destroy something they are not proud of? How much control does the creator have over his/her own works once they are released?
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IIRC, Nintendo has only had 1 quarter in it's entire history(which goes back quite a bit to when they were a Japanese card manufacturer) which was unprofitable. And even the reason behind losting money wasn't lackluster sales so much as Nintendo didn't play the currency game correctly and ended up getting burned on a weak dollar.
You mean to tell me that everyone doing business on the internet is not Honest?
Interesting coming from someone with a free iPod ponzi scheme ad in their sig....
Well, you have to keep in mind in WWI Hitler was temporarily blinded by a British chlorine bomb, and spent the final days of the war in a hospital bed. Maybe he felt that he couldn't actually win a chemical battle and kept the chemicals just in case they were used against the Germans. Maybe he was afraid chemical weapons could actually hurt him.
Heh, also keep in mind that a successful virus really doesn't even have to modify the OS. A virus that sends all the documents in my home directory to a remote server then wipes them is much more destructive than something that modifies my OS. I can easily replace the OS, not neccasarily true about my personal files.
Ok, is THIS enough? Still no. You still lack information on sensory input. You need to know what the range is on different nerves, because the brain is going to adjust to what the nerves deliver. If you don't know what the nerves deliver, then you don't know what sort of data the brain is expecting.
So wait, you are telling me if I put myself into Mandy Moore's body, I wouldn't know what it was like to sit around and play with my newfound breasts all day? That my brain wouldn't know how to process the information?
Damn, there go my dreams.
All it says is that "Apple will use intel chips", it doesn't state what kind of chips, but it does repeat itself over and over again. Maybe Apple will use Intel chips in an embedded device, maybe they are considering bringing back the mac/pc hybrid. There is really no "meat" to this story, but we can all speculate anyway.
Actually my Chinese roommates love it, they eat it about 2 times a week.
Heh, though really Apple should send you a battery if you call them and then have you send the defective one back when you receive the replacement. That is what they did when my AC adaptor broke(a week before the warranty ran out). Apple rushed me a new AC adaptor and had me send my defective one back(they paid the shipping). I think the only reason they had me send mine back was to ensure that I wasn't just getting a free power supply. I see no reason they shouldn't do the same for the batteries.
Is public transportation that bad in Atlanta? I prefer to take it when I can because I can read and whatnot and not have to deal with traffic etc.
It's been around in the PC world for a long while, it's nice that some console game makers are finally getting on board. To a certain extent it's a bit frustrating to think about how a compnay went through all the work to create a nice game engine, but then (quite artificially) limits you to the content that they provide. I hope this takes off in other games as well. Imagine if you could design your own courses in Mario kart
(Hell, the DS is made for this, edit the course on one screen, and see the results on the other in real time)
And interestingly enough their currency fixing is actually hurting some of the poorest countries in the world who actually play fair with their currency. For example a lot of garment manufacturers in Africa are getting soaked with the weak dollar, they cannot compete with the Chinese and their fixed currency in the US market. They are the ones that really should force China to open up it's exchange rate.
Heh, this is more than just your average buffer overflow exploit. This fix would have to modify how the OS handles the cache. It's going to probably take more than a quick fix to get rid of the exploit, and the patch could have far reaching reprecussions. All that to fix a security hole that may not even be exploitable in practice....
Heh, you are a Friedman hater too?
It's amazing how sleazy that man is, he is just a mouthpiece of Infosys and the Chinese government. He just takes what they say to be sacred fact, sprinkles in a little chicken little, uses the word "innovate" as much as he can, and boom there is a column. Repeat as long as the paychecks keep coming in.
Amazing he chastizes Americans for not taking enough math and science, and yet all his columns show a disturbing abuse of statistics. Let me lay it out for you Tom, "anecdotal evidence is not really indicitive of large scale trends" and coorelation does not imply causation. Jeez, no wonder we have the reputation of being horrible at math, when the man who is critical of the mathematical capabilities of Americans sucks so bad at math.
I recommend that the NYT outsource Friedman, anyone from anywhere can do his job, heck I'm sure we could replace him with a computer.
does this mean my choice of M&M's does NOT determine my fate? That it was a cheap marketing ploy?
I thought I was a badass Sith because I chose the peanut M&Ms...but it's a lie....DAMN YOU LUCAS! DAMN YOUUUUUUUUU!!!
Though you have to hand it to Hormel, they were really cool on the whole "spam" thing, all they asked is that when talking about the canned meat you write it in capital letters.
Honestly the reasons the Iraqis are doing OK is because the US doesn't just blast everything it sees. If the government felt it's very existence being threatened, there are ways to get compliance. For instance, for every soldier that dies you kill 10 civillians. You also reward stool pigeons. Pretty soon support for the fighting force is going to fall apart.
Well, not bothering could really be interpreted as "I'm ok with the way things are going right now, but if something changes, I don't forsee it affecting me too much"
In the US they say low turnout always favors the incumbent because it indicates that the challenger really hasn't motivated very many people to vote for her/him.
Decrease in growth RATE != decrease in growth.....
Heh, though with modern military technology, even guns cannot overthrow governments. I don't think Vegas would be giving the odds to a group of people with shotguns versus a tank, a fighter jet, and some Tomahawk cruise missiles.....
Heh, but on the same token Nokia also tried to combine a portable game machine and failed miserably...twice. They just couldn't get the cell phone to be as good as the relatively primitive gameboy advance, and they had trouble cramming all that functionality into a still usable interface. Cell phones did cannibalize the PDA market, but I think that can be attributed to the fact that there was so much overlap. You are naturally going to want your contact info on your phone for when you call people. However is listening to music a function of your phone?
It's all really going to come down to interface and battery life. If cell phone makers can cram all this functionality into phones without creating an unusable interface or sacraficing battery life then they may very well win the war. But it's really time to wait and see.
Heh, thats kind of the point. If you typed the paper then the original author only wrote it once. When I actually write a rough draft on paper, I usually end up waiting at least a day before I go to type it up. When I do type it up I usually end up editing large sections of the paper because they sounded good at the time, but upon re-reading, they sound terrible. If you type the paper, there is no such re-writing process.
You have to wonder if computers aren't partly to blame for this problem. People used to have to sit down in front of a piece of paper and write out their report. Then they would either have to enter it on a typewriter/early computer or at least copy it again neatly. They were forced to write at least 1 draft of the paper and then would have the chance to correct it while creating the final version. Now all you need to do is fire up Word and just type whatever comes to you. Then you look for the little red and green lines(because Word never makes mistakes! It's the computer, it's perfect!) and save it, print it, and you are done!
It seems that very few people actually create drafts anymore...
A lot of Sun workstations already have 8 mb of L2 cache, for instance SunBlade 1000s. However, they like pretty much every other commercial chip in wide use(P4, Athlon, G4, G5 etc) all have 64k l1(32k data 32k instruction).
But more to the point, did you RTFA? This is anti-fuse technology, ie it cannot be re-written. I guess you could have certain chunks of data that you need to reference again and again that won't change, but for that limited use why would you ever muck up your architecture?
Well, they lose money at first, then eventually they break even and finally they make money on every one sold. Thats how the PS2 went, I don't really see much to make the PSP different. Obviously as time goes on, components get cheaper and the economies of scale really start to become a factor. Still, the majority of Sony's profit will still come from games and not the hardware.
There is simply more to take into account than just money. For example, the creators of MST3K are somewhat ashamed of their first season when they were on a UHF station in Minneapolis. Naturally the quality wasn't anywhere near what it was in the later seasons. If they could they would have trashed it. In the "Amazing Colosal Episode Guide" they mention the season and say that they wish people wouldn't watch it because it was like if someone dug up a report you wrote in 5th grade about your dog and published it. It's not representative of your true work. Fans have du g up all but the first 3 episodes and put them online. They haven't done anything about it, but some of the people involved probably aren't thrilled.
So the question becomes, should people be able to destroy something they are not proud of? How much control does the creator have over his/her own works once they are released?