Don't forget the ability to play games from all their previous consoles. While the whole pricing part of that is up in the air, it appears at least some games will be free, or should be reasonably priced. And of course the new controller has the "a" and "b" buttons so you can hold it sideways and it's like a classic NES controller. That's an additional source of interest to gamers and revenue to Nintendo. And of course Nintendo has been the only one of the big 3 to post a profit in the previous round. I don't know how that's failure.
I often wonder why SourceForge doesn't take that approach, in favour of small donations to each project on a case-by-case level.
I'm guessing because it would involve a lot of additional time and resources. In a pay-per-project scenario, you ideally get a distribution based on user interest anyways. It just seems like a lot more work to change the distribution of donations by a little bit.
Yeah, I guess it shouldn't be a big surprise that more Alexa toolbar users are Yahoo and MSN users than Google users:)
Seriously though, I would guess most Google users would either use the Google toolbar over the Alexa one, or no toolbar at all. And the Alexa traffic counts are based only on their toolbar users who allow data to be sent back. While it may cover a lot of people, it also misses a lot of people.
MSN is not used by more than a handful of people as Google and Yahoo have been doing it better and cover both the cluttered and non-cluttered interfaces (whichever you prefer).
That's when I just type in a minus sign followed by some word that is common to that press release, but won't limit my search. Suddenly, all of those entries are gone! Yes, it's an extra step, but how long does that really take?
The article alludes several times to the higher possible speeds:
According to Ehrenfeld, the BPL service will be capable of providing an Internet connection for homes and businesses that is "vastly quicker" than the 24Mbps maximum possible with ADSL2+ technology, which uses analogue telephone lines. Such speeds are so far only being offered by only a couple of ISPs, with several more offering speeds up to 12Mbps.
But what really caught my eye:
"engin and Mitsubishi Electric engineers have worked closely together in both Australia and Japan to incorporate engin's VoIP technology in the 200Mbps BPL product developed by Mitsubishi," said a statement from the VoIP vendor on the trial.
Tell you what: if you buy an itty-bitty iPod nano and still think it's too bulky after adding a sleeve around it, I will personally come to your house and sew bigger pockets onto all your clothes.
I added the sleeve and it's still too bulky. I'll be expecting you at my house at 8am sharp tomorrow.
As the only 500GB hard drive currently available on the market, the Deskstar 7K500 is really without peers. Its closest competition is 100GB behind, and some manufacturers are stuck with drives in the 300GB range. Exclusivity carries a price, though. With a $320 street price, the 7K500 has a higher cost per GB than lower capacity drives. However, the 7K500's higher density can be worth the premium for systems where storage capacity is limited by available internal drive bays, Serial ATA ports, or both. Those seeking quieter systems should also prefer higher density drives, since the additive properties of noise levels make packing a system with multiple drives less desirable.
And remember, the Deskstar 7K500 is more than just 500GB of storage capacity. It also has everything one should expect from a high-end drive, including support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates and Native Command Queuing, a hefty 16MB cache, and a three-year warranty. None of those features go above and beyond the call of duty, but they don't disappoint, either. Neither does the 7K500's performance, for the most part. The Deskstar scores well in desktop application benchmarks and file copy tests, but slow boot times and a poor showing in three of four IOMeter test patterns make it difficult to recommend the drive across the board.
Poor performance with IOMeter's file server, workstation, and database access patterns suggests that the Deskstar is inappropriate for multi-user environments with heavy read and write demands. However, the drive's surprisingly strong showing in the read-dominated web server test pattern shows that the 7K500 can most certainly keep up in select server environments. And there's no doubt that the 7K500 can keep up on the desktop, at least once you get the system booted. That makes it easy to recommend the Deskstar to storage-hungry desktop and home theater PC users looking to add capacity one half-terabyte at a time.
From the article: "Cerf will remain chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the oversight agency for Internet domain names."
So how long before we get a.google TLD? or maybe.goo:)
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Don't forget the ability to play games from all their previous consoles. While the whole pricing part of that is up in the air, it appears at least some games will be free, or should be reasonably priced. And of course the new controller has the "a" and "b" buttons so you can hold it sideways and it's like a classic NES controller. That's an additional source of interest to gamers and revenue to Nintendo. And of course Nintendo has been the only one of the big 3 to post a profit in the previous round. I don't know how that's failure.
in order of popularity?
FTA: "For people out there who are looking to get a Photoshop-like experience without pirating or purchasing Photoshop..."
I often wonder why SourceForge doesn't take that approach, in favour of small donations to each project on a case-by-case level.
I'm guessing because it would involve a lot of additional time and resources. In a pay-per-project scenario, you ideally get a distribution based on user interest anyways. It just seems like a lot more work to change the distribution of donations by a little bit.
Referrer-free Link: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1590595009/ 104-8120704-9951931
Even $17 seems like a lot for something you can find for free on the internet.
Yeah, I guess it shouldn't be a big surprise that more Alexa toolbar users are Yahoo and MSN users than Google users :)
Seriously though, I would guess most Google users would either use the Google toolbar over the Alexa one, or no toolbar at all. And the Alexa traffic counts are based only on their toolbar users who allow data to be sent back. While it may cover a lot of people, it also misses a lot of people.
You'll find out in 2038.
MSN is not used by more than a handful of people as Google and Yahoo have been doing it better and cover both the cluttered and non-cluttered interfaces (whichever you prefer).
And AOL has been steadily losing members.
Sounds like a match made in heaven.
That's when I just type in a minus sign followed by some word that is common to that press release, but won't limit my search. Suddenly, all of those entries are gone! Yes, it's an extra step, but how long does that really take?
Yeah, 400Mbps would have been amazing, but that 200Mbps is peanuts compared to the speeds available now...
:)
At least I didn't accidentally include an extra zero
Oops, obviously I meant for the title to be 200Mbps and not 400.
The article alludes several times to the higher possible speeds:
According to Ehrenfeld, the BPL service will be capable of providing an Internet connection for homes and businesses that is "vastly quicker" than the 24Mbps maximum possible with ADSL2+ technology, which uses analogue telephone lines. Such speeds are so far only being offered by only a couple of ISPs, with several more offering speeds up to 12Mbps.
But what really caught my eye:
"engin and Mitsubishi Electric engineers have worked closely together in both Australia and Japan to incorporate engin's VoIP technology in the 200Mbps BPL product developed by Mitsubishi," said a statement from the VoIP vendor on the trial.
While it's nice that his memory looks attractive in photographs, it'd probably be more useful if it were photographic :)
I was going to laugh at people that aren't in the click that they don't know that single piece terminology and look far superior in one mighty stroke.
...or looked equally inferior :)
It appears (from Google's cache) that his article was just summarizing this Toronto Star article.
They did kill it first. Then they autopsied it.
Tell you what: if you buy an itty-bitty iPod nano and still think it's too bulky after adding a sleeve around it, I will personally come to your house and sew bigger pockets onto all your clothes.
I added the sleeve and it's still too bulky. I'll be expecting you at my house at 8am sharp tomorrow.
Give somehting new and unknown to a bunch of apes and the first thing they do is smash it or rip it apart inquisitively.
:)
Guess we ain't so superior after all.
But now we can also run things over with cars...so clearly we've evolved. No more pounding on it with large rocks.
Cue the "is that a 32GB pr0n flash card in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me" jokes.
Either that's one big flash card, or that's one tiny.....nevermind.
"It's funny. Laugh" should have been at the top of the totem pole.
But then the base of the totem pole wouldn't have had the proper footing.
Ba-dum-ching!
Headline from fark.com:
eBay reportedly in talks to buy Skype. Talks fail when at the last second some jerk bids $3,000,000,000.50
To make a long article short (sort of):
Conclusions
As the only 500GB hard drive currently available on the market, the Deskstar 7K500 is really without peers. Its closest competition is 100GB behind, and some manufacturers are stuck with drives in the 300GB range. Exclusivity carries a price, though. With a $320 street price, the 7K500 has a higher cost per GB than lower capacity drives. However, the 7K500's higher density can be worth the premium for systems where storage capacity is limited by available internal drive bays, Serial ATA ports, or both. Those seeking quieter systems should also prefer higher density drives, since the additive properties of noise levels make packing a system with multiple drives less desirable.
And remember, the Deskstar 7K500 is more than just 500GB of storage capacity. It also has everything one should expect from a high-end drive, including support for 300MB/s Serial ATA transfer rates and Native Command Queuing, a hefty 16MB cache, and a three-year warranty. None of those features go above and beyond the call of duty, but they don't disappoint, either. Neither does the 7K500's performance, for the most part. The Deskstar scores well in desktop application benchmarks and file copy tests, but slow boot times and a poor showing in three of four IOMeter test patterns make it difficult to recommend the drive across the board.
Poor performance with IOMeter's file server, workstation, and database access patterns suggests that the Deskstar is inappropriate for multi-user environments with heavy read and write demands. However, the drive's surprisingly strong showing in the read-dominated web server test pattern shows that the 7K500 can most certainly keep up in select server environments. And there's no doubt that the 7K500 can keep up on the desktop, at least once you get the system booted. That makes it easy to recommend the Deskstar to storage-hungry desktop and home theater PC users looking to add capacity one half-terabyte at a time.
From the article: "Cerf will remain chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the oversight agency for Internet domain names."
.google TLD? or maybe .goo :)
So how long before we get a
Yeah, I can't imagine anyone has thought of that joke before...
_ up/
http://global.mci.com/us/enterprise/insight/cerfs
The Slashdot summary seems to be deceptive.
I, for one, am appalled at this strange lapse in what is usually pristine summarizing and editing. Unacceptable!
But considering the phone only holds 100 songs...
If by 100 you mean 1,000, then yes.