Imagine a guy raping a girl on the street. If no one interferes, a human will be born (with a certain probability, as is the case when a woman gets pregnant). Should we stop the guy from raping the girl according to the same argument you just used?
GDP is meaningless... Tell me about industrial output and then we can talk.
Not that I doubt China's industrial environmental standards are very lenient, but considering that much of their industrial output is willfully imported by the US and Europe, it's hard to criticize them without getting quite hypocritical.
We're sorry about the bugs you've been observing lately. The latest anomalies are due to bug #14310, a hardware glitch much like those present in your own Pentium processors.
We're trying as hard as we can to mitigate this issue, primarily by avoiding the use of floating point calculations in our physics engine. In the meantime, we're manually changing your physics books so that you'll be able to calculate the ship's movement correctly. In one day, you'll have no memory that this incident ever happened, so do not worry.
I'm glad some people think that Assembly programming is obsolete. That way, it's much easier for me to get one of the many jobs which requires assembly programming.
People in China don't go to the Cinema a lot, and they don't buy many legal DVDs either. So this won't change anything, since pirated movies of all genres will still be available.
You made an interesting observation there, but let's wait until the merge actually happens (if it does happen), and then we'll see how the calculation looks like at that time.
They had shipped 5.9 million in total by march Not sure if they are aiming for a cumulative 11 mil or 11 mil in a single year. but cumulative it's not a hard target.
That was before they changed their method of counting "shipped units". Before, they counted any manufactured unit as a shipped unit (as in shipped to their warehouses). After they changed the counting method, they reported that the shipped amount until March was 3.6 million. It's all in their financial reports.
Regarding whether the 11 million is cumulative or fiscal-year only, it's the latter for sure. Fiscal targets are always for the fiscal year, and you can easily find articles which confirm this:
Sony's target is to ship 11 million PS3s during this fiscal year (April 2007 - March 2008). In the first half of the year (April - September) they shipped 2 million PS3s. Even with increased holiday sales, 9 million in the remaining 6 months is absolutely crazy - it's actually similar to Wii sales.
Let's look at it another way:
In the previous fiscal year, Sony shipped 3.6 million PS3s. 11 + 3.6 = 14.6. 14.6 million PS3s shipped by the 31st of March 2008, which means around 14 million sold to consumers. According to vgchartz (which may be a little off but for the purposes of this discussion is more than accurate enough), the PS3 is at 6.36 million sold (to consumers) as of the 25th of November. 14 - 6.36 = 7.64 PS3s that they need to sell in 4 months... That's 1.91 million PS3s per month, which is more than current Wii levels of production (1.8 million according to Nintendo themselves).
EA is delusional, and Sony won't hit their target. In fact, they'll probably reduce their forecast in the next quarterly report (out in January). Otherwise, massive egg will be on their faces when they do their fiscal year report in April.
It may not be possible to do so without changing the behavior of the cognitive part. Investigating if that was the case or not would already be an extremely important milestone!
Except there is a rational (if heuristic) argument which may prove that it's very likely we're living in a simulation. Imagine that we reach the point where we build our own simulations of sentient beings. They then end up creating their own simulations, and so recursively on. Consider the set of sentient communities (which includes us), and you can then see that it's more likely that we, ourselves, are in a simulation.
There are some assumptions there, which is why I said "may prove". We may never create any simulations of sentient beings, of course.
I hear that the best way to pick up a Wii is to look at stores' weekly leaflets and check if the Wii is shown there. If it is, show up on Sunday morning before the store opens. You can also call in advance to find out whether they'll have stock or not.
Another problem is manufacturer support. HD-DVD(tm) (heh) has, from what I can figure out, only two major hardware manufacturers supporting it, and LG, one of the two, swings both ways.
That might actually be an advantage for HD-DVD in this holiday season. It means that Toshiba can decide to do massive price cuts on their players (as they're doing). Sony can't do the same to their players, since it would piss off their partners who are in it for the money.
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Imagine a guy raping a girl on the street. If no one interferes, a human will be born (with a certain probability, as is the case when a woman gets pregnant). Should we stop the guy from raping the girl according to the same argument you just used?
The Chinese government didn't force anyone to move their factories to China. It was the market's choice to prefer cheap products made in China.
Regarding those intellectual property considerations, that may be true but it has nothing to do with this discussion.
Guy comes out of bar holding a girl's hand while walking home. Suddenly, a targeted ad for condoms is projected on the ground in front of them.
GDP is meaningless... Tell me about industrial output and then we can talk.
Not that I doubt China's industrial environmental standards are very lenient, but considering that much of their industrial output is willfully imported by the US and Europe, it's hard to criticize them without getting quite hypocritical.
You can have one, but the US-manufactured saddle for it will cost you three times as much as the Chinese one.
... the solution is simple. Just forbid imports from polluting Chinese factories.
That would be a bit creepy, at least for some people.
We're sorry about the bugs you've been observing lately. The latest anomalies are due to bug #14310, a hardware glitch much like those present in your own Pentium processors.
We're trying as hard as we can to mitigate this issue, primarily by avoiding the use of floating point calculations in our physics engine. In the meantime, we're manually changing your physics books so that you'll be able to calculate the ship's movement correctly. In one day, you'll have no memory that this incident ever happened, so do not worry.
I'm glad some people think that Assembly programming is obsolete. That way, it's much easier for me to get one of the many jobs which requires assembly programming.
People in China don't go to the Cinema a lot, and they don't buy many legal DVDs either. So this won't change anything, since pirated movies of all genres will still be available.
Do you really think those two things have anything to do with each other? You're mixing up two different divisions in Microsoft.
Also, do you really think that throwing more programmers at a software project will make it be finished faster?
You made an interesting observation there, but let's wait until the merge actually happens (if it does happen), and then we'll see how the calculation looks like at that time.
No it's not.
Is that true? :O That sounds quite stupid. Link please?
That was before they changed their method of counting "shipped units". Before, they counted any manufactured unit as a shipped unit (as in shipped to their warehouses). After they changed the counting method, they reported that the shipped amount until March was 3.6 million. It's all in their financial reports.
Regarding whether the 11 million is cumulative or fiscal-year only, it's the latter for sure. Fiscal targets are always for the fiscal year, and you can easily find articles which confirm this:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/25/business/sony.php
Bear with me for a little while here.
Sony's target is to ship 11 million PS3s during this fiscal year (April 2007 - March 2008). In the first half of the year (April - September) they shipped 2 million PS3s. Even with increased holiday sales, 9 million in the remaining 6 months is absolutely crazy - it's actually similar to Wii sales.
Let's look at it another way:
In the previous fiscal year, Sony shipped 3.6 million PS3s. 11 + 3.6 = 14.6. 14.6 million PS3s shipped by the 31st of March 2008, which means around 14 million sold to consumers. According to vgchartz (which may be a little off but for the purposes of this discussion is more than accurate enough), the PS3 is at 6.36 million sold (to consumers) as of the 25th of November. 14 - 6.36 = 7.64 PS3s that they need to sell in 4 months... That's 1.91 million PS3s per month, which is more than current Wii levels of production (1.8 million according to Nintendo themselves).
EA is delusional, and Sony won't hit their target. In fact, they'll probably reduce their forecast in the next quarterly report (out in January). Otherwise, massive egg will be on their faces when they do their fiscal year report in April.
It may not be possible to do so without changing the behavior of the cognitive part. Investigating if that was the case or not would already be an extremely important milestone!
I believe he's talking about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLR_Profiler
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Except there is a rational (if heuristic) argument which may prove that it's very likely we're living in a simulation. Imagine that we reach the point where we build our own simulations of sentient beings. They then end up creating their own simulations, and so recursively on. Consider the set of sentient communities (which includes us), and you can then see that it's more likely that we, ourselves, are in a simulation.
There are some assumptions there, which is why I said "may prove". We may never create any simulations of sentient beings, of course.
I hear that the best way to pick up a Wii is to look at stores' weekly leaflets and check if the Wii is shown there. If it is, show up on Sunday morning before the store opens. You can also call in advance to find out whether they'll have stock or not.
Nintendo has said more than twice that supply will be about twice as big during the holiday season.
That might actually be an advantage for HD-DVD in this holiday season. It means that Toshiba can decide to do massive price cuts on their players (as they're doing). Sony can't do the same to their players, since it would piss off their partners who are in it for the money.
Investors might not put up with it if the game division continues to massively bleed money (as they've been doing).