It is really surprising to me that this device is still on the market. I'm used to seeing a current system phased out rather quickly once the new one hits the shelves. Doesn't Nintendo worry about this gameboy cannibalizing the sales of the Nintendo DS? With higher volume, Nintendo could lower the price of the DS but for most of the SP sales they're getting, they're missing that DS sale. It just seems a little odd to me to have various gameboys (albeit different features) on the market at the same time. When the next PSP comes out, I doubt Sony will be modifying the first PSP and keeping it on the shelves.
Apple being a perpetual innovator, I doubt we will ever see built in terrestrial radio. I know Jobs has already turned down Sirius in the past, but I would expect a satellite radio iPod at some point in the future. I just couldn't imagine if they had to choose one over the other that they'd choose FM. The other thing is, how are they going to fit it in the new iPods? They're getting smaller and smaller and to sacrifice size for the sake of radio seems like it goes against what Apple is intending. Just my $0.02.
I was always under the impression that Apple originally went with Titanium because it was lighter. So of course in my infinity stupidity, I drew the conclusion that it was solid titanium. Was it just brushed? Is the IBM titanium purely for aesthetics or does it serve some sort of purpose?
I for one would like to see more ethnic names added to the list. I'm getting pretty bored with all of these bland names that we have. Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis, Emily? Can I get a Hurricane Xang, or how about a Tropical Storm Tyrell? The names should be more inclusive of the people in our country if you ask me. The full list of names is located here if someone wants to look:
This is really a pretty good idea for a site and I'd be especially interested to see what ads pop up down the road when they're getting a lot of visitors. I know my nieces and nephews will sit down at a computer and play some bizarre games that I've never seen or heard of before. I'd imagine once they get wind of this site, they'll be on there quite a bit. So who's the target market? Will they market to a younger teen crowd or will they market to adults (with purchasing power)? Either way, it semes like a pretty good way to get a site up with a lot of traffic.
No harm done. I was just joking around. Yeah, there is a big difference though between financial analysts and business analysts. We at least have numbers that we can attempt to backup. Business Analysts are usually just commenting on ideas or practices with intangible evidence backing them up. It really is more speculation than anything.
Did anybody else notice that Jobs in his keynote addressed why they're switching to Intel, and now however many weeks later the analysts put pen to paper and write down what he said as the reason they think they're switching?
I wonder if Microsoft sees new products as a fresh start and a chance to completely redeem themselves from prior flaws. I would expect them to have a series of meetings to say, "Where did we go wrong last time" and vow to eliminate those issues. Let's hope they use this opportunity to release something solid and stable from the beginning. We can't expect perfection, but they can definitely do better than they have in the past.
Congratulations! You just earned yourself a high paying security job with the United States government. We are all very impressed with your unusual interview. See you in two years.
If it senses movement, my girlfriend won't be able to play anything at all. Every time she plays my old school NES, and hits the button to make Mario jump, her arms go up and down about a foot. It's really a ridiculous sight. That would have to affect her gameplay with a gyroscope based controller.
For the past 11 months, we have been telling you to change your oil. This is why you're riding your bike to work--not because our car is a piece of shit as we heard you say while calling the mechanic from your OnStar device.
From the article, "If they want to sell different kinds of tweaks, this can be better done as one grand distribution, with tweaks within the code that can be turned on and off during installation (or whenever)."
Just imagine how fast that would be hacked. Lots of the most inexpensive version would be sold and a crack would unlock everything (assuming they don't just get a pirated version anyway).
I'm not at all familiar with video editing in linux but now that I've seen this, it has sparked my interest. I want to add video tutorials to my site but once I buy the camera, the cost of Final Cut or similar software would be pretty rough. My question to those of you in the know is, do you need drivers for video cameras in order to import into linux? If so, are they generally available? I'd definitely consider using linux as my production environment for the videos if it wouldn't be a headache getting a camera to work.
I use Excel for 8 hours a day at my office and what I love most about it is that it is amazingly simple. You click the icon and it opens instantly, and from there the UI is great in my opinion. Looking at these toolbars, I can't imagine I'll like that new version. With a program like Excel, I just want the bare essentials on the screen and a ton of space for big spreadsheets. I'm sure the toolbar will be customizable, but will I be able to get back the tiny buttons that Excel uses now? If not, I hope the IT department doesn't upgrade my machine when this new version comes around.
No computer tech bench would be complete without a ridiculously sized bucket of screws, completely unsorted, and filled up so high that they routinely spill over. At least that was the case with the three different stores where I've worked in the past.
The ROKR phones, or the Nokia phone mentioned later in the article still do not hold a lot of songs. For that reason, they're not competing directly with the iPod line but instead the iPod Shuffle and the iPod nano. If you look at the price of the phone vs. the price of the shuffle, I would guess that Apple is making roughly the same margins. That way, they should be indifferent to whether people buy the phone or the shuffle. For that reason alone, I don't understand why they wouldn't make the phone the best product they could, preserving their brand image, and still entering a new market of iTunes on a mobile phone. It would be different if the phones sold for the same price but featured 20GB of storage or so, then directly competing with the iPod photo line. If that were the case, I'd think the article's author would have a valid point. Anybody agree with me or am I way out in left field again?
Exactly, now read the sentence from the summary. "if you survived the hurricane and are a Mac, Linux or Firefox user you cannot file a claim online." That is blatantly incorrect, as you pointed out from the article. Just a poorly worded article and and an even worse summary in my opinion.
There's no doubt we're going to see private industry enter into the space market, but to bring up the shuttle program and private industry in the same sentence just doesn't seem right to me. The fact is, it will require so much capital right from the beginning that it seems impossible to raise it. If a company decides to issue bonds, they're going to be such high risk bonds that the cost of debt will be through the roof. If they issue stock, it would seem really tough to raise the amount of capital the company would need because earnings would be so far off in the future. Investors are going to demand to be compensated for taking on such high risk, but I don't know that the company could come up with any model that provides them the compensation they'd require. That being said, sure launching satellites is feasible, but to have anything comparable to NASA seems unrealistic from a business point of view.
I don't know about the rest of you but I always like seeing these sketchy marketing ploys by companies. The fact is, the folks making the Grand Theft Auto games aren't out to be the good guys with a squeaky clean brand so what do they have to lose? They know their games shake up the market and get negative press and that's exactly what they want. So they add in this discoverable scene and keep that press wheel turning. I'm impressed, and I don't think this is the last time we're going to see something like this from their company.
True, but the liklihood of there being good games increases with the total available in the library I would think. If a system had 2 games, what are the chances one would be good? If another system has 1,000 games, the chance of one being good seems much higher.
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It is really surprising to me that this device is still on the market. I'm used to seeing a current system phased out rather quickly once the new one hits the shelves. Doesn't Nintendo worry about this gameboy cannibalizing the sales of the Nintendo DS? With higher volume, Nintendo could lower the price of the DS but for most of the SP sales they're getting, they're missing that DS sale. It just seems a little odd to me to have various gameboys (albeit different features) on the market at the same time. When the next PSP comes out, I doubt Sony will be modifying the first PSP and keeping it on the shelves.
I see, thank you for the clarification. Any chance you know how much more titanium is than aluminum for example?
Apple being a perpetual innovator, I doubt we will ever see built in terrestrial radio. I know Jobs has already turned down Sirius in the past, but I would expect a satellite radio iPod at some point in the future. I just couldn't imagine if they had to choose one over the other that they'd choose FM. The other thing is, how are they going to fit it in the new iPods? They're getting smaller and smaller and to sacrifice size for the sake of radio seems like it goes against what Apple is intending. Just my $0.02.
I was always under the impression that Apple originally went with Titanium because it was lighter. So of course in my infinity stupidity, I drew the conclusion that it was solid titanium. Was it just brushed? Is the IBM titanium purely for aesthetics or does it serve some sort of purpose?
I for one would like to see more ethnic names added to the list. I'm getting pretty bored with all of these bland names that we have. Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis, Emily? Can I get a Hurricane Xang, or how about a Tropical Storm Tyrell? The names should be more inclusive of the people in our country if you ask me. The full list of names is located here if someone wants to look:
/ 2005names.htm
http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a
The best part is, he did it to himself, no?
This is really a pretty good idea for a site and I'd be especially interested to see what ads pop up down the road when they're getting a lot of visitors. I know my nieces and nephews will sit down at a computer and play some bizarre games that I've never seen or heard of before. I'd imagine once they get wind of this site, they'll be on there quite a bit. So who's the target market? Will they market to a younger teen crowd or will they market to adults (with purchasing power)? Either way, it semes like a pretty good way to get a site up with a lot of traffic.
No harm done. I was just joking around. Yeah, there is a big difference though between financial analysts and business analysts. We at least have numbers that we can attempt to backup. Business Analysts are usually just commenting on ideas or practices with intangible evidence backing them up. It really is more speculation than anything.
Take a look at this lineup. Think these folks went to prom?
http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/design/bios.asp
I'm a financial analyst.
Did anybody else notice that Jobs in his keynote addressed why they're switching to Intel, and now however many weeks later the analysts put pen to paper and write down what he said as the reason they think they're switching?
I wonder if Microsoft sees new products as a fresh start and a chance to completely redeem themselves from prior flaws. I would expect them to have a series of meetings to say, "Where did we go wrong last time" and vow to eliminate those issues. Let's hope they use this opportunity to release something solid and stable from the beginning. We can't expect perfection, but they can definitely do better than they have in the past.
Congratulations! You just earned yourself a high paying security job with the United States government. We are all very impressed with your unusual interview. See you in two years.
If it senses movement, my girlfriend won't be able to play anything at all. Every time she plays my old school NES, and hits the button to make Mario jump, her arms go up and down about a foot. It's really a ridiculous sight. That would have to affect her gameplay with a gyroscope based controller.
I can't wait to get my letter from GM saying:
Dear Customer,
For the past 11 months, we have been telling you to change your oil. This is why you're riding your bike to work--not because our car is a piece of shit as we heard you say while calling the mechanic from your OnStar device.
Regards,
GM Customer Service
From the article, "If they want to sell different kinds of tweaks, this can be better done as one grand distribution, with tweaks within the code that can be turned on and off during installation (or whenever)."
Just imagine how fast that would be hacked. Lots of the most inexpensive version would be sold and a crack would unlock everything (assuming they don't just get a pirated version anyway).
I'm not at all familiar with video editing in linux but now that I've seen this, it has sparked my interest. I want to add video tutorials to my site but once I buy the camera, the cost of Final Cut or similar software would be pretty rough. My question to those of you in the know is, do you need drivers for video cameras in order to import into linux? If so, are they generally available? I'd definitely consider using linux as my production environment for the videos if it wouldn't be a headache getting a camera to work.
I use Excel for 8 hours a day at my office and what I love most about it is that it is amazingly simple. You click the icon and it opens instantly, and from there the UI is great in my opinion. Looking at these toolbars, I can't imagine I'll like that new version. With a program like Excel, I just want the bare essentials on the screen and a ton of space for big spreadsheets. I'm sure the toolbar will be customizable, but will I be able to get back the tiny buttons that Excel uses now? If not, I hope the IT department doesn't upgrade my machine when this new version comes around.
No computer tech bench would be complete without a ridiculously sized bucket of screws, completely unsorted, and filled up so high that they routinely spill over. At least that was the case with the three different stores where I've worked in the past.
The ROKR phones, or the Nokia phone mentioned later in the article still do not hold a lot of songs. For that reason, they're not competing directly with the iPod line but instead the iPod Shuffle and the iPod nano. If you look at the price of the phone vs. the price of the shuffle, I would guess that Apple is making roughly the same margins. That way, they should be indifferent to whether people buy the phone or the shuffle. For that reason alone, I don't understand why they wouldn't make the phone the best product they could, preserving their brand image, and still entering a new market of iTunes on a mobile phone. It would be different if the phones sold for the same price but featured 20GB of storage or so, then directly competing with the iPod photo line. If that were the case, I'd think the article's author would have a valid point. Anybody agree with me or am I way out in left field again?
Exactly, now read the sentence from the summary. "if you survived the hurricane and are a Mac, Linux or Firefox user you cannot file a claim online." That is blatantly incorrect, as you pointed out from the article. Just a poorly worded article and and an even worse summary in my opinion.
What if you're running virtual PC on a mac? Still no luck?
There's no doubt we're going to see private industry enter into the space market, but to bring up the shuttle program and private industry in the same sentence just doesn't seem right to me. The fact is, it will require so much capital right from the beginning that it seems impossible to raise it. If a company decides to issue bonds, they're going to be such high risk bonds that the cost of debt will be through the roof. If they issue stock, it would seem really tough to raise the amount of capital the company would need because earnings would be so far off in the future. Investors are going to demand to be compensated for taking on such high risk, but I don't know that the company could come up with any model that provides them the compensation they'd require. That being said, sure launching satellites is feasible, but to have anything comparable to NASA seems unrealistic from a business point of view.
Just my $0.02.
I don't know about the rest of you but I always like seeing these sketchy marketing ploys by companies. The fact is, the folks making the Grand Theft Auto games aren't out to be the good guys with a squeaky clean brand so what do they have to lose? They know their games shake up the market and get negative press and that's exactly what they want. So they add in this discoverable scene and keep that press wheel turning. I'm impressed, and I don't think this is the last time we're going to see something like this from their company.
True, but the liklihood of there being good games increases with the total available in the library I would think. If a system had 2 games, what are the chances one would be good? If another system has 1,000 games, the chance of one being good seems much higher.