1) New type of processor = sony innovation (every console has a new type of processor, Sony deviates from the old one enough to be an innovative thought) I advise you to read about the Cell processor. It is not an ordinary processor like the multi cores we have now. I think it is a major problem for Sony to have developers take advantage of the cell. Maybe Sony have fallen for IBM's hype on this.
2) New type of disc drive = push Bluray == HD-DVD (including it in the base an inovation compared to an add on is a niceity not an innovation) Let's agree that it's a novelty at least (innovation does not mean it's useful!). Having, in a console, a new disc drive that is not out yet (or barely available), is a big big risk. And according to Sony the main reason for the delay.
If Sony had done like MS and Nintendo and used proven technologies (excepted for the Wii controlers), they would not be in such trouble. That's all I meant in my previous post.
Maybe, just maybe, Sony has tried to innovate a bit too much? New type of processor, new type of disc drive, HD. I am pretty annoyed at Sony but compared to the Xbox360, the PS3 is much more innovative. Can't we expect delays then? Anyway, like about everyone I know, I'll buy a Wii when it comes out and not a PS3, so this delay is not that relevant to me.
And as far as innocent until proven guilty, I thought French law didn't have that concept? tout homme étant présumé innocent jusqu'à ce qu'il ait été déclaré coupable (26th august 1789). You might not know it, but the French, by law, must also eat their first child!
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Stingers usually range from 4cm to 6 inches. You working for the NASA ?
What have the tax or unemployment rates got to do with the price of broadband? France (if you live in a large town) has some of the lowest prices and highest speeds for broadband in the world. Like it or not, it's just a fact.
If you want to browse the protoweb, go to archive.org and check pages from 1996. I remember doing my first web pages in 94 and winning the "Magellan 3 stars" award! How weird that sounds now!
That's rich coming for a dutch person (if you are dutch!)! Dutch and Germans use this weird way for numbers. To say 86 (and thus stay on topic) you say in Dutch 6 and eighty. So for 286, you say two hundred six and eighty. If that's not confusing, what is? Oh yes, I know, the way Dutch and Germans say the time! for 5h30, you say "half six"! Every culture has their idiosyncrasies.
France Telecom/Orange better improve their current offers. They are eaten alive by other ADSL providers. FT/Orange gives you 18Mb/s ADSL for 40 euros a month (includes TV channels AND NO telephone) when other providers gives you 24Mb/s for 25 to 30 euros which includes TV AND free phone calls to Europe, USA, and other countries. They lose thousands of customers per month. Let's hope that they'll compete by innovating, but I doubt it.
Since I work in this domain, let me tell you that this is total rubbish. It takes years and millions of dollars to properly analyze one "dirt" sample. This is just a publicity stunt to get some cash, or funding.
...and prevents the 'promotion of a dispirited or negative view of life'. Well that excludes about all the music from the late 70's (Punk) to the current popular rubbish. And also most of the last 100 years of Blues and others.
Until you learn how they actually make that (warning: you may never eat foie gras again).
Bullshit! Force feeding ducks and geese is done without harming the animals. At least when it's done properly like in the south west of France. It's done in small farms to animals that are free range. Compare this with the way chicken or pigs are usually "farmed" and tell me which one is more disgusting.
Let me quote this from the BBC article: Rates of smoking are similar in the US and England but alcohol consumption is higher in the UK. There you have it, folks, DRINK!
Do these guys realise that abolishing patents means the death of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries? These are 2 industries that I have worked for and I cannot see them surviving without patents. Maybe they should go and talk to some people in these domains.
I guess the PS3 HDD with Linux was true... Not necessarily. AFAIK, IBM and friends have had Linux running on a cell for some time. And they plan on selling cell-based machines outside of the PS3. A quick google leads to this page : http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/librar y/pa-expert4/
Which highly successful companies are you talking about? With the exception of Apple using its own system and a few small companies selling straight mp3 files, all the big online music distributors use MS DRM. Do you real need me to mention names? Napster, EMI, Vivendi Universal, Virgin and many others. Are they succesful? I don't know and I never implied that they were!
And why should Apple use WMA? And MS DRM? I never say Apple should use WMA!
The online music market is divided in 3: Apple and its FairPlay DRM All the other big distributors and their MS DRM Some small distributors use MP3 or OGG
but to drive Apple and iTMS and its foreign cultural influences out of France Total BS. itunes sells exactly the same music in France as all the other online providers (in France). There is no "foreign cultural influence" there. Secondly, Vivendi is French and is the largest music publisher in the world. Thirdly it would be the first time the French government is interested in the consumers and not doing wathever the music lobbies want it to do.
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1) New type of processor = sony innovation (every console has a new type of processor, Sony deviates from the old one enough to be an innovative thought)
I advise you to read about the Cell processor. It is not an ordinary processor like the multi cores we have now. I think it is a major problem for Sony to have developers take advantage of the cell. Maybe Sony have fallen for IBM's hype on this.
2) New type of disc drive = push Bluray == HD-DVD (including it in the base an inovation compared to an add on is a niceity not an innovation)
Let's agree that it's a novelty at least (innovation does not mean it's useful!). Having, in a console, a new disc drive that is not out yet (or barely available), is a big big risk. And according to Sony the main reason for the delay.
If Sony had done like MS and Nintendo and used proven technologies (excepted for the Wii controlers), they would not be in such trouble. That's all I meant in my previous post.
Maybe, just maybe, Sony has tried to innovate a bit too much? New type of processor, new type of disc drive, HD. I am pretty annoyed at Sony but compared to the Xbox360, the PS3 is much more innovative. Can't we expect delays then?
Anyway, like about everyone I know, I'll buy a Wii when it comes out and not a PS3, so this delay is not that relevant to me.
And as far as innocent until proven guilty, I thought French law didn't have that concept?
tout homme étant présumé innocent jusqu'à ce qu'il ait été déclaré coupable (26th august 1789).
You might not know it, but the French, by law, must also eat their first child!
Stingers usually range from 4cm to 6 inches.
You working for the NASA ?
Argh! For my lab, we just bought a dozen opteron-based computers. I feel guilty.
Mmmm, key escrow. F!@# France, how about Japan:
This is old. AFAIK, it's not valid anymore.
Japan - Bullet Train
Everywhere else - Choo - Choo's
Now, I know you are a troll!
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What have the tax or unemployment rates got to do with the price of broadband? France (if you live in a large town) has some of the lowest prices and highest speeds for broadband in the world. Like it or not, it's just a fact.
If you want to browse the protoweb, go to archive.org and check pages from 1996. I remember doing my first web pages in 94 and winning the "Magellan 3 stars" award! How weird that sounds now!
That's rich coming for a dutch person (if you are dutch!)! Dutch and Germans use this weird way for numbers. To say 86 (and thus stay on topic) you say in Dutch 6 and eighty. So for 286, you say two hundred six and eighty. If that's not confusing, what is? Oh yes, I know, the way Dutch and Germans say the time! for 5h30, you say "half six"!
Every culture has their idiosyncrasies.
France Telecom/Orange better improve their current offers. They are eaten alive by other ADSL providers. FT/Orange gives you 18Mb/s ADSL for 40 euros a month (includes TV channels AND NO telephone) when other providers gives you 24Mb/s for 25 to 30 euros which includes TV AND free phone calls to Europe, USA, and other countries. They lose thousands of customers per month.
Let's hope that they'll compete by innovating, but I doubt it.
Since I work in this domain, let me tell you that this is total rubbish. It takes years and millions of dollars to properly analyze one "dirt" sample.
This is just a publicity stunt to get some cash, or funding.
where are we headed?
Above the neck?
...and prevents the 'promotion of a dispirited or negative view of life'.
Well that excludes about all the music from the late 70's (Punk) to the current popular rubbish. And also most of the last 100 years of Blues and others.
Pretty typical of /. editors to mispell the title of a book!
It's not the size that counts, it's what you do with it.
Until you learn how they actually make that (warning: you may never eat foie gras again).
Bullshit! Force feeding ducks and geese is done without harming the animals. At least when it's done properly like in the south west of France. It's done in small farms to animals that are free range. Compare this with the way chicken or pigs are usually "farmed" and tell me which one is more disgusting.
Let me quote this from the BBC article:
Rates of smoking are similar in the US and England but alcohol consumption is higher in the UK.
There you have it, folks, DRINK!
(I am only half joking)
Very familiar, especially the charisma part.
Do these guys realise that abolishing patents means the death of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries? These are 2 industries that I have worked for and I cannot see them surviving without patents. Maybe they should go and talk to some people in these domains.
Sure a lot of killing going on
Chairs can be lethal!
I guess the PS3 HDD with Linux was true...r y/pa-expert4/
Not necessarily. AFAIK, IBM and friends have had Linux running on a cell for some time. And they plan on selling cell-based machines outside of the PS3. A quick google leads to this page : http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/libra
Which highly successful companies are you talking about?
With the exception of Apple using its own system and a few small companies selling straight mp3 files, all the big online music distributors use MS DRM. Do you real need me to mention names? Napster, EMI, Vivendi Universal, Virgin and many others. Are they succesful? I don't know and I never implied that they were!
And why should Apple use WMA? And MS DRM?
I never say Apple should use WMA!
The online music market is divided in 3:
Apple and its FairPlay DRM
All the other big distributors and their MS DRM
Some small distributors use MP3 or OGG
but to drive Apple and iTMS and its foreign cultural influences out of France
Total BS. itunes sells exactly the same music in France as all the other online providers (in France). There is no "foreign cultural influence" there. Secondly, Vivendi is French and is the largest music publisher in the world. Thirdly it would be the first time the French government is interested in the consumers and not doing wathever the music lobbies want it to do.
Fnac is a quite powerfull culture oriented retail group that has setup their own music file format.
They don't use their own format, they use Windows Media Audio with MS DRM. Like everyone except Apple.
Does anyone believe that da Vinci was straight? Or any greek mathematician/philosopher?