the links in this post are very interesting. They help focus the fact that nobody denies the ability of the PS3. The problem is that it does not offer a feature set that much further beyond the XBox 360, nor does it innovate much compared to the Wii. Most importantly, its price is far, far above either console. As a result, consumers do not agree with Sony's assertion that their product is a no-brainer success waiting to happen.
As I always point out to my friends, perception is an impotant part of the gaming industry. If everybody THINKS a console is too expensive, publishers get less interested in doing exclusives with it, thus making it harder to lower its price, thus causing the price to stay high for even longer. If everybody THINKS it is only a marginal amount better than XBox for 50% more money, that's enough for those same people to not want to spend their money on it -- regardless of how much greater the PS3 is in reality. Lastly, if people THINK the Wii is more innovative, that alone generates tons of buzz, attracts publishers who want to capitalize on that buzz, and with increased game sales, ultimately helps further lower the price of the console.
Again, nobody is disputing the PS3 isn't the most powerful system on the market. Nobody was disputing the Dreamcast's power when it came out either.
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As Creative kindly reminded Apple, having defensive patents to make sure your competitors think twice about suing you for patent infringment is a smart move.
I'm more curious if Apple manages to make this feature a new defacto standard in the MP3 player market. I'm also wondering if this feature will come into play when and if they enter the cell phone market. It seems like a patent that applies readily to that market.
Well, at least the project is open source so other developers can take it and run with it. This version is not what the PR people would like you to believe. Check out this doozy of a quote from the sourceforge forum:
"With the first release (0.1 - prototype), you can only convert documents from ODF to OpenXML. This can be done either with the Word Add-in (which requires both.NET Framewok 2.0 and Word 2007) or through the command line tool, which only requires.NET framework 2.0. "
let's not jump to conclusions about how successful MS will be here. There seems to be enough political steam for this fine to actually happen. I'd say it's too early to say the EU will cave like the US did. MS is an American company, and as such, an American monopoly. The EU has a lot to gain by sending a clear message to MS and all future US monopolies who try to take economic advantage of the EU.
it just seems to me like you guys are being stubborn about going the route you should be going. If you've out grow the shared environment,it's time to contract a sys admin. there are plenty out there that are willing to work on a contract basis.
That said, i've encountered data centers that have system administration services for an additional cost. I would suggest you start by talking to your data center and see if they offer this service or if they know of contacts you can talk to. If they don't do it, then they've only got to gain by referring a friend that wouldn't mind administrating if it means you might pick up your server and leave.
The forecast predicts 10.6 million consoles in homes for Xbox 360, 6.8 million for PlayStation 3, and a modest 3.5 million for Wii in 2007. In 2008, Anderson suggests 15.5 million units in homes for the 360, 13.5 million for PS3, and 6.8 million for Wii. He does mention that his group expects the PS3 to win out in the installed based race in the end, perhaps in 2009.
Frankly, with all of the positive publicity and feedback from the gaming community, I am *shocked* that he predicts the wii will have *HALF* the install base of the PS3. It's probably hard not to use gamecube sales as a metric, but it just seems like asking anybody in the street you'd get AT LEAST 50/50 between the PS3 and the wii. I simply have a hard time believing the wii is going to flop like he predicts.
At least based on what we've seen and heard about the wii so far. Sure, Nintendo could blunder the wii and release a bunch of crappy games at $60 a pop and have a bunch of manufacturing defects in their launch shipment, but seriously... based on what we know TODAY, can you really make such a conclusion without looking like a fanboi?
a) competitors compete with bundled software b) reduce prices of operating systems (Windows)
The software market is not the same as other markets. It is a winner take all system, especially due to businesses. Because of this, natural market dominance occures. Microsoft is a dangerous monopoly because it bundles products and has 40 BILLION in cash. Abolishing copyright would only dent them.
Read, the article, saw the hype. I hope he succeeds, but he's got a very big uphill battle ahead of him -- the author of that article didnt even visit that issue...
Well, how would you feel as an employee or investor if the VP of your company left months before its first major (and highly financially critical) product release in half a decade?
Great news! Google tends to suppress code for unsupported browsers on specific features. For example, the chat feature is disabled for Opera 9 on GMail.
HOWEVER. If you mask yourself as Mozilla, the feature works flawlessly. Of course Google maps works just fine. Hopefully, this will mean that very soon, Opera will be 100% supported by Google.
Actually... I ran tests with multiple tabs open using Firefox and Opera 9, both on the same pages. Opera and Firefox were neck and neck as the tab count started to grow. And IE? Well... we all know how that comparison came up.
But of course, my metric didn't take into consideration Opera, out of the box, has way more functionality ready to go than does Firefox. Let's see, adblock, rss reader, tab-closing undo, mouse gestures, tab thumbnails, built bittorent client, and right click context menu for search, dictionary, translate... all things that most of my friends install extensions to get. When you a Firefox installation with these extensions installed, you'll quickly find Opera will destroy it under the table in memory usage.
I didn't like Opera in its past iterations, but this version impressed the socks off of me.
And I was expecting the reviewer to be a one-sided promotionfest for blu-ray. My was I wrong! All three of his reviews sound pretty much like this:
"The movie isn't that great, but I guess it's not terrible. The sound isn't bad. The video isn't terrible either."
Ignoring the crappy titles, what strikes me is how little enthusiasm he has for the video and audio quality. As a consumer, I have a hard time understanding why I want blu-ray over, say... HD DVD, which he mentions has very similar quality numerous times in all three reviews.
Aside from the obvious PS3 jokes, this really doesn't excite me worth a damn about Blu-ray. In fact, these three reviews pretty much killed my interest in the technology.
UNLIKE other well known monopolies, the web is waters down the potential dangers. If microsoft squeezes out a competing technology, we as consumers never see it until they release their own broken version. If MS abuses your rights, it's hard to switch your desktop at home and all 300 of your corporate installs and all your partners and the office suites you use and file formats to an alternative. But on the web, things work differently. If Google omits results, I start using Yahoo. If google starts abusing my data, I stop giving it to them. If google's solutions don't give me a way to export, I never started using it in the first place.
After all, it's only 1 click to switch from "google" to "yahoo." Unlike, say, an operating system vendor, Google has to play nice if they want to keep their dominant market position.
To demonstrate just how arbitrary the patent system seems sometimes... let's replace a few words in your statement:
Good. Good. Good.
This is how the patent system should work. [Creative] came up with an idea and tried to make [their] buck. [Apple] stole the idea, which for all intents and purposes ruined [their] chances of making [their] money back. So, [they] sued [Apple]...
Of course, [4] years must be a hell of a long time to wait for your money...
You could do the same thing with Amazon's One-click patent and achieve similar results. Yeah... I am not saying the dude did or didn't deserve the money. I am just saying it all seems very arbitrary sometimes.
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the links in this post are very interesting. They help focus the fact that nobody denies the ability of the PS3. The problem is that it does not offer a feature set that much further beyond the XBox 360, nor does it innovate much compared to the Wii. Most importantly, its price is far, far above either console. As a result, consumers do not agree with Sony's assertion that their product is a no-brainer success waiting to happen.
As I always point out to my friends, perception is an impotant part of the gaming industry. If everybody THINKS a console is too expensive, publishers get less interested in doing exclusives with it, thus making it harder to lower its price, thus causing the price to stay high for even longer. If everybody THINKS it is only a marginal amount better than XBox for 50% more money, that's enough for those same people to not want to spend their money on it -- regardless of how much greater the PS3 is in reality. Lastly, if people THINK the Wii is more innovative, that alone generates tons of buzz, attracts publishers who want to capitalize on that buzz, and with increased game sales, ultimately helps further lower the price of the console.
Again, nobody is disputing the PS3 isn't the most powerful system on the market. Nobody was disputing the Dreamcast's power when it came out either.
As Creative kindly reminded Apple, having defensive patents to make sure your competitors think twice about suing you for patent infringment is a smart move.
I'm more curious if Apple manages to make this feature a new defacto standard in the MP3 player market. I'm also wondering if this feature will come into play when and if they enter the cell phone market. It seems like a patent that applies readily to that market.
Well, at least the project is open source so other developers can take it and run with it. This version is not what the PR people would like you to believe. Check out this doozy of a quote from the sourceforge forum:
.NET Framewok 2.0 and Word 2007) or through the command line tool, which only requires .NET framework 2.0. "
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"With the first release (0.1 - prototype), you can only convert documents from ODF to OpenXML. This can be done either with the Word Add-in (which requires both
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let's not jump to conclusions about how successful MS will be here. There seems to be enough political steam for this fine to actually happen. I'd say it's too early to say the EU will cave like the US did. MS is an American company, and as such, an American monopoly. The EU has a lot to gain by sending a clear message to MS and all future US monopolies who try to take economic advantage of the EU.
google being liked has nothing to do with whether or not a judge rules against them.
it just seems to me like you guys are being stubborn about going the route you should be going. If you've out grow the shared environment,it's time to contract a sys admin. there are plenty out there that are willing to work on a contract basis.
That said, i've encountered data centers that have system administration services for an additional cost. I would suggest you start by talking to your data center and see if they offer this service or if they know of contacts you can talk to. If they don't do it, then they've only got to gain by referring a friend that wouldn't mind administrating if it means you might pick up your server and leave.
The forecast predicts 10.6 million consoles in homes for Xbox 360, 6.8 million for PlayStation 3, and a modest 3.5 million for Wii in 2007. In 2008, Anderson suggests 15.5 million units in homes for the 360, 13.5 million for PS3, and 6.8 million for Wii. He does mention that his group expects the PS3 to win out in the installed based race in the end, perhaps in 2009.
Frankly, with all of the positive publicity and feedback from the gaming community, I am *shocked* that he predicts the wii will have *HALF* the install base of the PS3. It's probably hard not to use gamecube sales as a metric, but it just seems like asking anybody in the street you'd get AT LEAST 50/50 between the PS3 and the wii. I simply have a hard time believing the wii is going to flop like he predicts.
At least based on what we've seen and heard about the wii so far. Sure, Nintendo could blunder the wii and release a bunch of crappy games at $60 a pop and have a bunch of manufacturing defects in their launch shipment, but seriously... based on what we know TODAY, can you really make such a conclusion without looking like a fanboi?
But... think of the terrorists' children... =(
Sometimes.
Othertimes your computer might explode, your hard drive might vaporize, or your program might erase itself.
Please explain how abolishing copyrights helps
a) competitors compete with bundled software
b) reduce prices of operating systems (Windows)
The software market is not the same as other markets. It is a winner take all system, especially due to businesses. Because of this, natural market dominance occures. Microsoft is a dangerous monopoly because it bundles products and has 40 BILLION in cash. Abolishing copyright would only dent them.
FYI, winzip might not be so small.
. 5.331272.21
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz
Revenues of WinZip Computing (WinZip)
2003 - $25,259,000
2004 - $24,928,000
2005 - $22,700,000
Read, the article, saw the hype. I hope he succeeds, but he's got a very big uphill battle ahead of him -- the author of that article didnt even visit that issue...
Well, how would you feel as an employee or investor if the VP of your company left months before its first major (and highly financially critical) product release in half a decade?
Don't worry, when an SUV hits you, it'll run you over before you knew what happened.
Yeah, with that mentality, I'm sure my post will show up in a day or two, eh buddy? =)
Great news! Google tends to suppress code for unsupported browsers on specific features. For example, the chat feature is disabled for Opera 9 on GMail.
HOWEVER. If you mask yourself as Mozilla, the feature works flawlessly. Of course Google maps works just fine. Hopefully, this will mean that very soon, Opera will be 100% supported by Google.
How about a BROWSER topic on Slashdot? We sure see a lot of those...
Actually... I ran tests with multiple tabs open using Firefox and Opera 9, both on the same pages. Opera and Firefox were neck and neck as the tab count started to grow. And IE? Well... we all know how that comparison came up.
But of course, my metric didn't take into consideration Opera, out of the box, has way more functionality ready to go than does Firefox. Let's see, adblock, rss reader, tab-closing undo, mouse gestures, tab thumbnails, built bittorent client, and right click context menu for search, dictionary, translate... all things that most of my friends install extensions to get. When you a Firefox installation with these extensions installed, you'll quickly find Opera will destroy it under the table in memory usage.
I didn't like Opera in its past iterations, but this version impressed the socks off of me.
And I was expecting the reviewer to be a one-sided promotionfest for blu-ray. My was I wrong! All three of his reviews sound pretty much like this:
"The movie isn't that great, but I guess it's not terrible. The sound isn't bad. The video isn't terrible either."
Ignoring the crappy titles, what strikes me is how little enthusiasm he has for the video and audio quality. As a consumer, I have a hard time understanding why I want blu-ray over, say... HD DVD, which he mentions has very similar quality numerous times in all three reviews.
1. Crappy launch titles
2. Only marginally better quality product
3. Huge financial markup
Aside from the obvious PS3 jokes, this really doesn't excite me worth a damn about Blu-ray. In fact, these three reviews pretty much killed my interest in the technology.
Your post is a good indication that they worried about quality first, which subsequently got them where they are.
UNLIKE other well known monopolies, the web is waters down the potential dangers. If microsoft squeezes out a competing technology, we as consumers never see it until they release their own broken version. If MS abuses your rights, it's hard to switch your desktop at home and all 300 of your corporate installs and all your partners and the office suites you use and file formats to an alternative. But on the web, things work differently. If Google omits results, I start using Yahoo. If google starts abusing my data, I stop giving it to them. If google's solutions don't give me a way to export, I never started using it in the first place.
After all, it's only 1 click to switch from "google" to "yahoo." Unlike, say, an operating system vendor, Google has to play nice if they want to keep their dominant market position.
To demonstrate just how arbitrary the patent system seems sometimes... let's replace a few words in your statement:
Good. Good. Good.
This is how the patent system should work. [Creative] came up with an idea and tried to make [their] buck. [Apple] stole the idea, which for all intents and purposes ruined [their] chances of making [their] money back. So, [they] sued [Apple]...
Of course, [4] years must be a hell of a long time to wait for your money...
You could do the same thing with Amazon's One-click patent and achieve similar results. Yeah... I am not saying the dude did or didn't deserve the money. I am just saying it all seems very arbitrary sometimes.
i dunno about you, but stopping between words to type sure does slow you down!
No, because in Windows, that would be further optimized down to:
allowlogin = True
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