Yeah, and just imagine if this is how your cable company charged for your home internet access. Just because it's wireless on the go doesn't mean suddnely it should be billed by the minute or byte.
You've just made a huge generalization about what "IT" is. The IT industry has a lot of technical skills involved and is almost impossible to be a master of it all since it evolves so quickly.
To make a metaphore, it's the same thing as asking people how you could become great at sports. Your goal is to be great at all sports such as baseball to hockey to golf, but you don't know where to start. The most obvious answer is you should start where you are most naturally talented. The other side of the response is that people will tell you if you want to do it for a living, you can't start out trying to master everything. In fact, it's probably a disadvantageous to start off so broad.
To address another part of your question, while the technologies may seem interrelated, there is definitely NOT a full circle in terms of requirements. For example, a programming language rarely requires a deep understanding of another technology to pick up. And if you want to be safe, start at the basics. Don't start off trying to program in AJAX, which is a mashup of various programming languages and methodologies. First you start with HTML, then you work on learning server-side programming such as perl, python, or php. Then you learn client-side programming (Javascript). Then you learn XML. Finally, you put it together and you are ready to play with AJAX.
So to sum it up, I'd say you need to really investigate where you want to focus your efforts. A very clear path will emerge if you actually stop to read up on each technology and if it is built upon others (which you would then have to learn first).
$500 for the *basic* machine, and then the ability to individually upgrade it, presumably at a total higher cost than getting the $600 model is just not attractive to me as a consumer. A ton of reasons to get the PS3 are in the premium machine, and by gutting them out to save a $100 makes the lower end one look like crap.
Sony made a fatal error here. Allow me to illustrate using cars as the analogy.
Wii is the Honda. Xbox 360 is the Lexus. PS3 is the BMW.
Each targets a different audience, which is most clearly defined as you go lower (Wii) or higher (PS3). The type of consumer that can afford a PS3 is much less common that the type that can afford the Wii, just like with cars. Sony, in an attempt to compensate for their lower end model (a 3 series BMW), offers upgrades that will make it functioanlly the same as its higher model (a 7 series BMW). Unfortunately, the people that CARE about money aren't the type to want to buy the BMW in the first place, let alone dump MORE money on it to upgrade it. When's the last time you saw some guy driving around a tricked out BMW?
As it stands, the high end Xbox 360 is BETTER than the crap version PS3 since it includes a hard drive, has wireless controller support, has a large and established Xbox Live community, etc. So why is it a consumer is going to choose PS3? Brand loyalty? Banking on that alone is a tough sell, Sony execs. If you're coming late to the market and using HARDWARE as your most intesely marketed difference, you either give us better hardware for the same or lower price, or you start changing your pitch.
I'd rather spend the $600 on a $400 Dell machine and install Linux on it for free. And then when I'm finished, I'd go out to the store and buy a Wii. Then I'd have a great gaming machine AND a fast computer to run Linux on.
I'm sorry, but just because it uses a certain OS doesn't justify the ridiculous price. Especially when you break it down into opportunity costs.
I just want to add that "blu-ray" doesn't mean crap when their competitor offers "HD DVD" for $200 less. Both are the "next" big media format. The average consumer will have a hard time understanding why Sony's machine has to cost 20-30% more.
But just because there's a demand on launch day doesn't mean it's gonna succeed. I had a friend pay several hundred for the Dreamcast when that came out...
What a crappy investment that turned out to be, huh?
Do you know that they have a warrant? Are you somehow privy to classified investigations?
Like I said. Have you not been reading the news lately? First there was the WARRANTLESS wiretapping. You think its is a COINCIDENCE that this news surfaces not even a week since the phone-record-dragnet news came out? Did you not read about 10 BILLION dollar lawsuit against the phone companies for violating customer privacy laws **without proper warrants**?
It is standard police procedure in a criminal investigation to subpoena or to get a search warrant for telephone records. Nothing new or sensational to see here, move along.
Subpeona? Search warrant? Crime or no crime, this article makes no mention of those. Have you been reading the news lately?
I would just like to point out that the validity of "already know how to create a document in Word" is in question seeing as the next Word has a completely re-done UI.
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This is a gaming machine and Sony accidentally confused it with a media center. Let's not forget that it reads media nobody even has, so it costs even more $$$ to use as Sony intends.
As my friend said: "Why does it cost sooooooo much???? I don't need all that extra stuff. I don't care about blue ray. I just wanna play games..."
She's about as hardcore as you can get when it comes to being a fan of PS2 games. She'd been saving up for a year to buy the new PS3 so she could play the next MGS. Now she's considering getting a surf board instead. I actually convinced her to wait on the surf board and see if she changes her mind about the PS3.
I watched sony kill a loyal fan.
Good game, price point.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna get a Wii. Why? Because I hate having games nobody can figure out how to play without hours of practice. I just wanted quick, fun games that my friends and I could pick up. Then I heard the Wii will only cost $150-$200? I'm sold.
**I wasn't even in the market for a new system.** I will not be surprised if Nintendo grabs a significant marketshare of people who are in the same boat as me. And then there's the Sony defectors. And the people who want Xbox and Wii. And then the Nintendo fanboys.
Nintendo is going to make a KILLING this Christmas.
To summarize that in plain English, an experiment was run (control group and all) that lets the researchers conclude that the results are extremely unlikely to have resulted from pure chance.
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Yeah, and just imagine if this is how your cable company charged for your home internet access. Just because it's wireless on the go doesn't mean suddnely it should be billed by the minute or byte.
Dude, this rumor can't possibly be true because I was already planning on buying Nintendo.
You've just made a huge generalization about what "IT" is. The IT industry has a lot of technical skills involved and is almost impossible to be a master of it all since it evolves so quickly.
To make a metaphore, it's the same thing as asking people how you could become great at sports. Your goal is to be great at all sports such as baseball to hockey to golf, but you don't know where to start. The most obvious answer is you should start where you are most naturally talented. The other side of the response is that people will tell you if you want to do it for a living, you can't start out trying to master everything. In fact, it's probably a disadvantageous to start off so broad.
To address another part of your question, while the technologies may seem interrelated, there is definitely NOT a full circle in terms of requirements. For example, a programming language rarely requires a deep understanding of another technology to pick up. And if you want to be safe, start at the basics. Don't start off trying to program in AJAX, which is a mashup of various programming languages and methodologies. First you start with HTML, then you work on learning server-side programming such as perl, python, or php. Then you learn client-side programming (Javascript). Then you learn XML. Finally, you put it together and you are ready to play with AJAX.
So to sum it up, I'd say you need to really investigate where you want to focus your efforts. A very clear path will emerge if you actually stop to read up on each technology and if it is built upon others (which you would then have to learn first).
I'm pretty sure that smug mentality is what let google steal the majority of internet searches from them in the first place.
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Note that UNLIKE the prior ruling with the supreme court, MS's product is *not* already in the market place.
You don't see France suing over this!
$500 for the *basic* machine, and then the ability to individually upgrade it, presumably at a total higher cost than getting the $600 model is just not attractive to me as a consumer. A ton of reasons to get the PS3 are in the premium machine, and by gutting them out to save a $100 makes the lower end one look like crap.
Sony made a fatal error here. Allow me to illustrate using cars as the analogy.
Wii is the Honda.
Xbox 360 is the Lexus.
PS3 is the BMW.
Each targets a different audience, which is most clearly defined as you go lower (Wii) or higher (PS3). The type of consumer that can afford a PS3 is much less common that the type that can afford the Wii, just like with cars. Sony, in an attempt to compensate for their lower end model (a 3 series BMW), offers upgrades that will make it functioanlly the same as its higher model (a 7 series BMW). Unfortunately, the people that CARE about money aren't the type to want to buy the BMW in the first place, let alone dump MORE money on it to upgrade it. When's the last time you saw some guy driving around a tricked out BMW?
As it stands, the high end Xbox 360 is BETTER than the crap version PS3 since it includes a hard drive, has wireless controller support, has a large and established Xbox Live community, etc. So why is it a consumer is going to choose PS3? Brand loyalty? Banking on that alone is a tough sell, Sony execs. If you're coming late to the market and using HARDWARE as your most intesely marketed difference, you either give us better hardware for the same or lower price, or you start changing your pitch.
What about PC radio tuner makers? Aren't they making it easy for people to listen to the radio and the save the contents into another format?
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Every dollar they price this below $250 increases the likelihood of me buying it by roughly 1%. =)
Better this than him trying to get it by going to school and shooting a bunch of kids.
I'd rather spend the $600 on a $400 Dell machine and install Linux on it for free. And then when I'm finished, I'd go out to the store and buy a Wii. Then I'd have a great gaming machine AND a fast computer to run Linux on.
I'm sorry, but just because it uses a certain OS doesn't justify the ridiculous price. Especially when you break it down into opportunity costs.
I just want to add that "blu-ray" doesn't mean crap when their competitor offers "HD DVD" for $200 less. Both are the "next" big media format. The average consumer will have a hard time understanding why Sony's machine has to cost 20-30% more.
But just because there's a demand on launch day doesn't mean it's gonna succeed. I had a friend pay several hundred for the Dreamcast when that came out... What a crappy investment that turned out to be, huh?
We better start monitoring phone calls to figure out who's leaking these products!!
Do you know that they have a warrant? Are you somehow privy to classified investigations?
Like I said. Have you not been reading the news lately? First there was the WARRANTLESS wiretapping. You think its is a COINCIDENCE that this news surfaces not even a week since the phone-record-dragnet news came out? Did you not read about 10 BILLION dollar lawsuit against the phone companies for violating customer privacy laws **without proper warrants**?
It is standard police procedure in a criminal investigation to subpoena or to get a search warrant for telephone records. Nothing new or sensational to see here, move along.
Subpeona? Search warrant? Crime or no crime, this article makes no mention of those. Have you been reading the news lately?
Last I checked, we didn't need leakers to know how incompetent our leader is. ;D
For those of you who can't be bothered to read TFA...
Unless their server can pick up its own pieces and reboot, that would be all of us.
I would just like to point out that the validity of "already know how to create a document in Word" is in question seeing as the next Word has a completely re-done UI.
I become a milli0naire in just one wEek! You too can jo1n my elite circle off close personel frieNds by folowign my "Guranteeed for Success" pamplet. Clik h3re for more detai1s.
This is a gaming machine and Sony accidentally confused it with a media center. Let's not forget that it reads media nobody even has, so it costs even more $$$ to use as Sony intends.
As my friend said: "Why does it cost sooooooo much???? I don't need all that extra stuff. I don't care about blue ray. I just wanna play games..."
She's about as hardcore as you can get when it comes to being a fan of PS2 games. She'd been saving up for a year to buy the new PS3 so she could play the next MGS. Now she's considering getting a surf board instead. I actually convinced her to wait on the surf board and see if she changes her mind about the PS3.
I watched sony kill a loyal fan.
Good game, price point.
Meanwhile, I'm gonna get a Wii. Why? Because I hate having games nobody can figure out how to play without hours of practice. I just wanted quick, fun games that my friends and I could pick up. Then I heard the Wii will only cost $150-$200? I'm sold.
**I wasn't even in the market for a new system.** I will not be surprised if Nintendo grabs a significant marketshare of people who are in the same boat as me. And then there's the Sony defectors. And the people who want Xbox and Wii. And then the Nintendo fanboys.
Nintendo is going to make a KILLING this Christmas.
To summarize that in plain English, an experiment was run (control group and all) that lets the researchers conclude that the results are extremely unlikely to have resulted from pure chance.