Ah, OK, so the GameCube revision is in the same class as this PS3 revision then. I don't agree with your characterization of the NES 2 and the SNES 2. They have the same capabilities, sure, but their launches were accompanied by significant fanfare as opposed to nothing. There were quite a few different NES mainboards that were never mentioned in marketing material. These are new product revisions, but the NES was presented as an upgrade or similar. Unless I am mistaken, there's nothing from Sony saying "This is a new PS3" the way they launched the PSone or the PS2 slim either.
Three of those are new products (NES 2, SNES 2, and DSi) and the fourth is a discontinued accessory. Is this new cheaper PS3 a whole new product launch or a revision (albeit big) of an existing product?
I once worked for a company that made ID card printers. These printers had an optional security dongle that prevented the printer from printing if it was not present. Once I was asked to visit an important customer using our printers in a print farm with a history of weird problems. Their printers were all of a sudden mysteriously not printing! Their print jobs would just disappear from the queue! I went to their lab and found that some of the printers were covered in a sticky residue. They had used a Pepsi can as a replacement for a missing printer accessory. It fell out and down to the floor (4 feet) and exploded, coating all the printers and getting in the receptacle for the security dongle. We gave them cleaning instructions and heard no further complaints.
They don't even need that. The Apple SDK comes bundled as a free, optional install with every Mac or OS X upgrade disk.
Do those include the iPhone SDK nowadays? I haven't seen any OS X discs since the SDK was released. You do need permission from Apple to SELL iPhone Apps, and you must purchase a license. I don't think that at any point in history you have required Apple's permission to sell Macintosh software, provided you had the correct tools at the time (MPW, CodeWarrior, Borland THINK series, XCode, Project Builder, FutureBASIC, whatever).
The Mac clones gave people pretty much the identical experience to using a Mac. In fact, most clones used very slightly modified Apple motherboards, and required a strenuous testing process to be legally sold. The problem is that they undercut Apple's prices without making the market for Macs any bigger. Also, this was in the days of Mac OS 7.6, before Steve Jobs' return, before the iMac, before Apple really figured out the whole lifestyle thing despite numerous attempts.
Did people ever need a license to sell Macintosh software beyond paying for a copy of MPW or what-have-you? I don't think so. This is going to be a new and excitingly different lesson that Apple learns.
How are people judging him on his skill as a director, when he's only ever directed one other film which was co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino?
All the references I can find and all the conversations I have ever had consider the waterfall model and RASDIT to be one and the same.
It is possible to write software this way and you will have a very high probability of producing robust, reliable, efficient code. It probably won't be maintainable, but it will very likely work and work damn well.
Sure, but by that time the requirements will have changed and your software will have no users.
Honestly, it's most important to learn how to learn new languages than to learn any specific one. The specific language will change far more often than the concepts they represent.
It's not just that. Trying to coordinate the numerous navies involved can't be easy. I have been reading the occasional bit of Informattion Dissemination's coverage of the events out there. It's way too much for me to swallow on a regular basis, but it has commentary from professionals, not just journalists or cheerleaders.
Well, it's a good thing I'm not talking about that system then. Free software doesn't have to be begware. I'm talking about corporate sponsorship or freeing of a private corporate project, or something similar.
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I was about to tell you to shut up and turn off sigs but I see that the dude actually pastes that into the body of each comment. Laaaame.
I think a lot more people would have voted for him in that case, as long as he was manufactured in the USA
Indeed.
Yes, it can.
Yeah right, the only time I ever saw an Apple II with more than one disk drive was a DuoDisk :)
At least some of the Apple IIs could do this too, with disks at least.
Ah, OK, so the GameCube revision is in the same class as this PS3 revision then. I don't agree with your characterization of the NES 2 and the SNES 2. They have the same capabilities, sure, but their launches were accompanied by significant fanfare as opposed to nothing. There were quite a few different NES mainboards that were never mentioned in marketing material. These are new product revisions, but the NES was presented as an upgrade or similar. Unless I am mistaken, there's nothing from Sony saying "This is a new PS3" the way they launched the PSone or the PS2 slim either.
The required attribute was weight in this case, not rigidity, so the empty can would not have worked.
Three of those are new products (NES 2, SNES 2, and DSi) and the fourth is a discontinued accessory. Is this new cheaper PS3 a whole new product launch or a revision (albeit big) of an existing product?
I once worked for a company that made ID card printers. These printers had an optional security dongle that prevented the printer from printing if it was not present. Once I was asked to visit an important customer using our printers in a print farm with a history of weird problems. Their printers were all of a sudden mysteriously not printing! Their print jobs would just disappear from the queue! I went to their lab and found that some of the printers were covered in a sticky residue. They had used a Pepsi can as a replacement for a missing printer accessory. It fell out and down to the floor (4 feet) and exploded, coating all the printers and getting in the receptacle for the security dongle. We gave them cleaning instructions and heard no further complaints.
They don't even need that. The Apple SDK comes bundled as a free, optional install with every Mac or OS X upgrade disk.
Do those include the iPhone SDK nowadays? I haven't seen any OS X discs since the SDK was released. You do need permission from Apple to SELL iPhone Apps, and you must purchase a license. I don't think that at any point in history you have required Apple's permission to sell Macintosh software, provided you had the correct tools at the time (MPW, CodeWarrior, Borland THINK series, XCode, Project Builder, FutureBASIC, whatever).
The Mac clones gave people pretty much the identical experience to using a Mac. In fact, most clones used very slightly modified Apple motherboards, and required a strenuous testing process to be legally sold. The problem is that they undercut Apple's prices without making the market for Macs any bigger. Also, this was in the days of Mac OS 7.6, before Steve Jobs' return, before the iMac, before Apple really figured out the whole lifestyle thing despite numerous attempts.
Did people ever need a license to sell Macintosh software beyond paying for a copy of MPW or what-have-you? I don't think so. This is going to be a new and excitingly different lesson that Apple learns.
How are people judging him on his skill as a director, when he's only ever directed one other film which was co-directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino?
The purest algorithms never touch a keyboard; only pencil, paper, and thought.
If they're not spending money, they're not part of the market. You're thinking of "installed base."
All the references I can find and all the conversations I have ever had consider the waterfall model and RASDIT to be one and the same.
It is possible to write software this way and you will have a very high probability of producing robust, reliable, efficient code. It probably won't be maintainable, but it will very likely work and work damn well.
Sure, but by that time the requirements will have changed and your software will have no users.
Honestly, it's most important to learn how to learn new languages than to learn any specific one. The specific language will change far more often than the concepts they represent.
That's NOT the waterfall model.
The Russians have been doing just that
It's not just that. Trying to coordinate the numerous navies involved can't be easy. I have been reading the occasional bit of Informattion Dissemination's coverage of the events out there. It's way too much for me to swallow on a regular basis, but it has commentary from professionals, not just journalists or cheerleaders.
You're misunderstanding Moore's Law. The number that doubles every two years is the number of transistors that can be placed on an IC inexpensively.
Many non-profits have one of these.
Do you really think you'd just leave that stuff at the door when you left the hospital?
They do, and they crack jokes about it in the break room and on the internet. Ever check out an anonymous ER doc forum? Kind of disturbing.
Well, it's a good thing I'm not talking about that system then. Free software doesn't have to be begware. I'm talking about corporate sponsorship or freeing of a private corporate project, or something similar.