Divers going below about 90 feet (30 metres) breathing air suffer nitrogen narcosis as dissolved nitrogen in the nerves cause an effect akin to drunkenness...
I'd like to be a seeder! I'd keep feeding profits back in, but I'd never lose my overall sum of money. Everyone would be trying to get as much money as me, but nobody could get more than me:)
Well, there's also the question of how expensive it is to manufacture equipment to read the different formats, which could certainly speed adoption of one format over another due to companies wanting to cut costs on DVD players\recorders, game consoles, etc. The cheaper-to-manufacture format is a big advantage.
It may not be down for the count, but Blue-Ray seems to be taking a lot of hits (From TFA and this Yahoo article:
Cost: They [Intel and Microsoft] also said that HD DVDs would be cheaper to produce, resulting in lower prices for consumers.
Manufacturing: Westlake also said the HD DVD camp has made inroads with manufacturers in China, where most of the world's DVD players are currently built. Without that support, it would be difficult to quickly deploy the technology at a low price. "(Blu-ray) does not have that relationship and we're concerned about whether that offering of Chinese players will be there. We know HD DVD will be," Westlake said.
Speed to market: "Blu-ray is very robust, but it's also not here," said Richard Doherty, research director for the Envisioneering Group. "The PC industry has clearly backed the system that is weeks away from commercialization."
That's just my impression from these two articles...feel free to add a counterpoint. The article did mention Blue-Ray disputes the cost and time-to-production arguments, and some major Hollywood studios back it.
I agree, and this will finally force Microsoft to stop sitting on their past features and force them to start innovating. It would take a large company to create this pressure, and Google has filled that role well. With both companies being so competitive, the consumers will benefit greatly.
I wouldn't worry about it. Normally this (talking about dupes getting pulled) would subject you to offtopic hell. But a quick glance through the comments here shows the simple fact that the words "windows" and "broken" are together are actually getting people modded up:)
Hmm... The Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the OC. Yep, sounds like old and obscure stuff to me that you can't find at the theater/DVD aisle at Wal-Mart.
No, but depending on where you live it could fall in the "so expensive that I wouldn't ever consider paying that much money for it" category:)
Also Wedding Crashers is probably between the theater and DVD cycle, so you won't find it in either form currently.
Yes, but if you look at further details such as variety of colors, the fact that both are audio devices, and the height to width ratio being quite similar (ignoring the depth difference), the similarities are worth noting. Nevertheless, I think it's interesting and nothing more.
Damn, I found the tip on enough sites that I believed it. I did think that I noticed a speedup, though perhaps that was coincidence since I installed Firefox, noticed it loading slowly a few times, tried this tip, and noticed a speedup. It could be possible that Windows standard prefetching started only after I did the change (since before the change I hand only opened Firefox a handful of times), and thus appeared as though the change made it load faster. I'll have to take the prefetch out and see if I notice any slowdown in load time. At any rate, it shouldn't hurt anything.
One possible speed increase (on Windows) can be acheived by adding "/Prefetch:1" after the target portion in the properties of the icon(s) you use to open Firefox. Then subsequent launches of Firefox should happen quicker.
FTA: "The Commerce Department has recently taken other actions intended to combat international intellectual-property infringement. In July, President Bush created within the department a senior-level position -- the coordinator for international intellectual-property enforcement."
So I guess that would make this guy the Wankfest Coordinator. That has a much better ring to it than CIIPE.
Since when is linking some text in a direct quote enough to cite a source? Would it be that hard to add on "According to an article on The Guardian" or something to that effect? Or has this practice become acceptable/mainstream through blogs?
That way I can't stop them when they "call home" and report back things...
Is it really "calling home" if they already are "home"?:)
It seems that this would be the tradeoff for getting to use the application for free, as it is now with Gmail and Yahoo's new email app. Of course this is only just taking off and there could well be pay-for-use apps down the road.
It's only a nightmare because there are free alternatives that do exactly what their software already does
Yahoo's new beta email app is very similar in functionality to Outlook, and it's free. (Obviously it doesn't replicate Outlook features like Calendar and others, but it's a step towards that).
Here's the part of the article that actually pertains to the headline:
Market research firm iSuppli set out to satisfy the curiosity by buying the $199 2-gigabyte version of the Nano and tearing it apart. The verdict? It costs Apple $90.18 in materials to build the unit and $8 to assemble it, leaving a profit margin before marketing and distribution costs of about 50%. That's consistent with the margins on earlier iPod versions and serves as a reminder of what a profit machine the iPod family of products has become for Apple since it was introduced in 2001.
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Those are some fantastic screenshots in the review. (Look for breaks in the text) Maybe they should have turned down the brightness.
Divers going below about 90 feet (30 metres) breathing air suffer nitrogen narcosis as dissolved nitrogen in the nerves cause an effect akin to drunkenness...
Sign me up!
I'd like to be a seeder! I'd keep feeding profits back in, but I'd never lose my overall sum of money. Everyone would be trying to get as much money as me, but nobody could get more than me :)
Well, there's also the question of how expensive it is to manufacture equipment to read the different formats, which could certainly speed adoption of one format over another due to companies wanting to cut costs on DVD players\recorders, game consoles, etc. The cheaper-to-manufacture format is a big advantage.
That's just my impression from these two articles...feel free to add a counterpoint. The article did mention Blue-Ray disputes the cost and time-to-production arguments, and some major Hollywood studios back it.
I agree, and this will finally force Microsoft to stop sitting on their past features and force them to start innovating. It would take a large company to create this pressure, and Google has filled that role well. With both companies being so competitive, the consumers will benefit greatly.
...a BSOD!
In a somewhat similar use of chrome spheres, this was how the lighting model was (re)constructed in The Matrix Reloaded.
He let me off with a warning.
When someone asks/ridicules you, just say, "It's European!"
The Murse
Carry a proximity transponder in your pocket, so if your bag is nicked it screams "help me, I'm being blagged!"
Great, so then people will steal your bag and your pants.
You know what everyone here is wondering....when will this tech translate over to our wallets? :)
It's a man bag....it's European!
I know I'm spiraling way off topic, but...
:)
I wouldn't worry about it. Normally this (talking about dupes getting pulled) would subject you to offtopic hell. But a quick glance through the comments here shows the simple fact that the words "windows" and "broken" are together are actually getting people modded up
It was a dupe of this. Wait a minute...a dupe has been pulled on Slashdot! And there was much rejoicing....yay.
Hmm... The Wedding Crashers, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the OC. Yep, sounds like old and obscure stuff to me that you can't find at the theater/DVD aisle at Wal-Mart.
:)
No, but depending on where you live it could fall in the "so expensive that I wouldn't ever consider paying that much money for it" category
Also Wedding Crashers is probably between the theater and DVD cycle, so you won't find it in either form currently.
Yes, but if you look at further details such as variety of colors, the fact that both are audio devices, and the height to width ratio being quite similar (ignoring the depth difference), the similarities are worth noting. Nevertheless, I think it's interesting and nothing more.
Damn, I found the tip on enough sites that I believed it. I did think that I noticed a speedup, though perhaps that was coincidence since I installed Firefox, noticed it loading slowly a few times, tried this tip, and noticed a speedup. It could be possible that Windows standard prefetching started only after I did the change (since before the change I hand only opened Firefox a handful of times), and thus appeared as though the change made it load faster. I'll have to take the prefetch out and see if I notice any slowdown in load time. At any rate, it shouldn't hurt anything.
One possible speed increase (on Windows) can be acheived by adding " /Prefetch:1" after the target portion in the properties of the icon(s) you use to open Firefox. Then subsequent launches of Firefox should happen quicker.
FTA: "The Commerce Department has recently taken other actions intended to combat international intellectual-property infringement. In July, President Bush created within the department a senior-level position -- the coordinator for international intellectual-property enforcement."
So I guess that would make this guy the Wankfest Coordinator. That has a much better ring to it than CIIPE.
I still don't know what TPS stands for.
Didn't you get that memo?
Since when is linking some text in a direct quote enough to cite a source? Would it be that hard to add on "According to an article on The Guardian" or something to that effect? Or has this practice become acceptable/mainstream through blogs?
That way I can't stop them when they "call home" and report back things...
:)
Is it really "calling home" if they already are "home"?
It seems that this would be the tradeoff for getting to use the application for free, as it is now with Gmail and Yahoo's new email app. Of course this is only just taking off and there could well be pay-for-use apps down the road.
It's only a nightmare because there are free alternatives that do exactly what their software already does
Yahoo's new beta email app is very similar in functionality to Outlook, and it's free. (Obviously it doesn't replicate Outlook features like Calendar and others, but it's a step towards that).
Here's the part of the article that actually pertains to the headline:
Market research firm iSuppli set out to satisfy the curiosity by buying the $199 2-gigabyte version of the Nano and tearing it apart. The verdict? It costs Apple $90.18 in materials to build the unit and $8 to assemble it, leaving a profit margin before marketing and distribution costs of about 50%. That's consistent with the margins on earlier iPod versions and serves as a reminder of what a profit machine the iPod family of products has become for Apple since it was introduced in 2001.
should be the exploit (and only the exploit). The browser feud is really becoming a pointless exercise in arguing. See here.