Yeah, I think any sane person would have to agree with that. I have Comcast's 8Mb service out in Lynnwood, WA north of Seattle, and I think the 1000KBps (+/- 150KBps) I'm pulling off of Usenet (all Linux distros, I swear!) would harshly disagree with AT&T's comparison.
34 months have elapsed for the period these financials are from.
That equals to approximately $103,000 a month in development costs, $376,000 a month in consultation fees, $350,000 a month in salaries, and 174,000 a month in administrative fees. Overall losses are 1.84 million dollars per month, December 2002 through September 2005 . ..
Two questions: First, How many people do they employee and contract services from? Second, if you're an investor, how does your ass feel right now?
I'm refering to updates post-MacBook announcement. Apple originally announced the MacBook Pros with Core Duo processors running at 1.83 Ghz ($2499) and 1.67 Gmz ($1999). Four days ago (valentine's day) they announced upgraded Core Duo's at the same price points (2 Ghz and 1.83 Ghz respectively) as well as a new 2.16 Ghz option at a higher price.
Yeah, I agree, a Powerbook-to-Intel comparison would be stupid. Apple dropped the ball sticking with IBM for as long as they did.
I'm not an insider by any means, nor a PS "fan boy," but isn't it likely that this is just very intelligent marketing by Sony? It's generally accepted that a game console launching at $900 (hell, $600), isn't going to happen in this day and age of mass market acceptance being an essential requirement of the development of any piece of electronics. This falls right in line with the Blueray machine costs . . . make it seem like astronomically expensive hardware fit for a king, and then release them at a fraction of the price, and sooner. I don't care when they release it, but I'm betting it will be this year, and at a $500 price point or lower.
Apple just did it with the Intel switch. First they've started releasing the stuff 6 months earlier than they said they would, and now their upgrading the processor clock speeds for free. Who wants to bet that wasn't in the writing already for the entire gestation of their Intel plans. If there were two companies I would compare hype-capabilities apple-to-apple (sorry), it would be Apple and Sony.
Ever price out a Vespa? Sure, the $3,000 price tag on a Segway is way more than it needs to cost for it to be wildly popular (anything under $1000 would make it sell, I think), but it's not a ridiculous price.
And as with a Vespa, people are likely to look stupid riding it. The thought behind the Segway is brilliant, but I think social problem is that you have to be fairly arrogant person to drive around in something guaranteed to catch everyone's stare.
Well, okay, a sweet old car is one thing . . . but when you go too future-esque in appearance, it's just tacky.
Hi, my name is Inflation. Me and my buddy Bleeding Edge Technology are keeping DVDs and BDs (seperated by eight -- nay, nine -- years of economic and technological advance) at the same price when introduced. Our other kinda-friend (he's cool, but not much fun) the Inflation Calculator says:
What cost $23.45 in 1997 would cost $27.64 in 2005.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2005 and 1997,
they would cost you $23.45 and $19.90 respectively.
Yes, I know it's 2006, but what do I look like? An inflation psychic?
Hi, remember me? I'm the first DVD you ever bought. Back in 1997, I cost you $25 and had no extra features. I eventually went down in price.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980, had no features, and was a linear format that degraded over each use. Maybe being from the past makes me naive (sorry no dots for you), but, it seems that the point of this article -- although factual -- is totally irrelavent.
Maybe I'm out of the advances-in-power-steering loop, but the last time I let my leaky rack and pinion run dry, my car not only sounded terrible when turning the wheel, is smelled like holy burning rubber hell. Exactly what style of racing are these pros participating in?
You must not work in an industry (telecommunications for example) that uses a bunch of shitty-written IE only web "applications" that benefit from tabs. I'm all about the Fox, but this is a FSM-send.
I put down an 8-cup pot and a 16 oz. cup from JitB every morning . . . I was wondering why the guy stabbing me repeatedly yesterday didn't do much to phase me.
I should go to war!
I agree, the talent is as good as you'll find anywhere . . . and I really should have said the "popular" music groups aren't any good . . . the Jazz, brass and string ensembles are as good as you'll hear anywhere. My beef was the complete lack of anything unique . . . in other words, you could here anything on there, in innumberable different places from innumerable different people/groups. I spent a couple hours picking through everything in the music section, giving each song a least a minute or two (clicking through to a few different points -- that may be considered a faux paux, but I'm not exactly new to musicology and structure analysis). Don't mind me, I'm just a picky asshole =).
Indeed, they are 100% free. Some things of interest . . . the complete video of Steve Job's Stanford Commencement speech from a few years back, and several hours of lectures by His Holiness, the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet.
WARNING: The music coming out of Stanford sucks. Most of the musicianship technically-speaking is talented, but there isn't an ounce of creativity coming out the place IMIO. I like GOOD music though, so who am I to say.
Eisner's gone, replaced by Robert Iger. And, not to blatently cheer but, if there was one guy who could take over a company like Disney, it would be the coup-experienced Jobs. Sure, he was certainly an "insider" already when he regained control of Apple, but while not "inside" Disney comparitively, Jobs' Pixar has creative and financial seniority that will be sitting at the very top of the Disney chain. Disney has closed almost all of their (all?) traditional animation studios, and are banking completely on CG to carry them forward. Pixar is undisputibly the champion of mainstream CG animation. Jobs taking over Disney all hinges on whether Disney is stupid enough to let him direct their visual entertainment business.
Just for fun, think about what it would be like if Jobs had control of ABC.
Assuming Disney wants to plop the Pixar group behind a pane of Plexi at Disney Studios (it's sans-MGM now, right?) in Orlando.
They probably won't be going anywhere. Most companies know better than to mess with a good thing when they absorb other corporations. You ditch the financial, legal, and human resource departments of the smaller of the two, and let the minds be.
You got a problem with lesbians and pot heads buddy? Yeah, I didn't think so. And for christ's sake, if that's a Microsoft joke, they're totally in Redmond, not Seattle. There's a whole lake between them. A bridge even!
Dual-boot will have some performance benefits. But before the end of 2006, Microsoft will release Virtual PC to run Windows near flawlessly, on it's native x86 base, within OSX. Just buy a copy of Vista, or maybe even XP, if MS isn't greedy -- nah, they won't support XP -- but now you can run either GUI at the same time (dual-screen monitor. yeah), or run Windows apps integrated directly on top of OS X. It will rule. It has been forseen. Microsoft has years of experience (all considered with the purchase of Connectix) emulating Windows on the PowerPC. They know OS X quite well, they'll be damned if they don't know Intel inside and out. I'm telling you, OS X on one screen and Vista on the other will be the fantastic fuckin future (FFF).
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What crazy area do you live in? Hell, I've probably pulled in good 40 gigs this month.
Yeah, I think any sane person would have to agree with that. I have Comcast's 8Mb service out in Lynnwood, WA north of Seattle, and I think the 1000KBps (+/- 150KBps) I'm pulling off of Usenet (all Linux distros, I swear!) would harshly disagree with AT&T's comparison.
34 months have elapsed for the period these financials are from.
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That equals to approximately $103,000 a month in development costs, $376,000 a month in consultation fees, $350,000 a month in salaries, and 174,000 a month in administrative fees. Overall losses are 1.84 million dollars per month, December 2002 through September 2005 . .
Two questions: First, How many people do they employee and contract services from? Second, if you're an investor, how does your ass feel right now?
I'm refering to updates post-MacBook announcement. Apple originally announced the MacBook Pros with Core Duo processors running at 1.83 Ghz ($2499) and 1.67 Gmz ($1999). Four days ago (valentine's day) they announced upgraded Core Duo's at the same price points (2 Ghz and 1.83 Ghz respectively) as well as a new 2.16 Ghz option at a higher price.
Yeah, I agree, a Powerbook-to-Intel comparison would be stupid. Apple dropped the ball sticking with IBM for as long as they did.
To clarify: by "intelligent marketing by Sony," I mean, "paying money to the analysist that wrote this piece."
I'm not an insider by any means, nor a PS "fan boy," but isn't it likely that this is just very intelligent marketing by Sony? It's generally accepted that a game console launching at $900 (hell, $600), isn't going to happen in this day and age of mass market acceptance being an essential requirement of the development of any piece of electronics. This falls right in line with the Blueray machine costs . . . make it seem like astronomically expensive hardware fit for a king, and then release them at a fraction of the price, and sooner. I don't care when they release it, but I'm betting it will be this year, and at a $500 price point or lower.
Apple just did it with the Intel switch. First they've started releasing the stuff 6 months earlier than they said they would, and now their upgrading the processor clock speeds for free. Who wants to bet that wasn't in the writing already for the entire gestation of their Intel plans. If there were two companies I would compare hype-capabilities apple-to-apple (sorry), it would be Apple and Sony.
Ever price out a Vespa? Sure, the $3,000 price tag on a Segway is way more than it needs to cost for it to be wildly popular (anything under $1000 would make it sell, I think), but it's not a ridiculous price.
And as with a Vespa, people are likely to look stupid riding it. The thought behind the Segway is brilliant, but I think social problem is that you have to be fairly arrogant person to drive around in something guaranteed to catch everyone's stare.
Well, okay, a sweet old car is one thing . . . but when you go too future-esque in appearance, it's just tacky.
For everyone's pleasure, here is a related story from Yahoo! News published yesterday rrrrrright heeeerrrre.
Hi, remember me? I'm the first DVD you ever bought. Back in 1997, I cost you $25 and had no extra features. I eventually went down in price.
Would you like to meet my friend, VHS? He cost $25 a pop back in 1980, had no features, and was a linear format that degraded over each use. Maybe being from the past makes me naive (sorry no dots for you), but, it seems that the point of this article -- although factual -- is totally irrelavent.
Yeah, no kidding. Even RealJukebox (pre-realone) was better than what Winamp has turned into. Christ, that's a statement and a half right there alone.
Sorry, this was a reply to Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05, @08:49AM (#14646109). Sorry for the confusion.
Maybe I'm out of the advances-in-power-steering loop, but the last time I let my leaky rack and pinion run dry, my car not only sounded terrible when turning the wheel, is smelled like holy burning rubber hell. Exactly what style of racing are these pros participating in?
You must not work in an industry (telecommunications for example) that uses a bunch of shitty-written IE only web "applications" that benefit from tabs. I'm all about the Fox, but this is a FSM-send.
I put down an 8-cup pot and a 16 oz. cup from JitB every morning . . . I was wondering why the guy stabbing me repeatedly yesterday didn't do much to phase me. I should go to war!
Intended meaning does not compute.
I take offense at your slandering of His Noodleyness with your implied comparisons to ID.
Heathen.
I agree, the talent is as good as you'll find anywhere . . . and I really should have said the "popular" music groups aren't any good . . . the Jazz, brass and string ensembles are as good as you'll hear anywhere. My beef was the complete lack of anything unique . . . in other words, you could here anything on there, in innumberable different places from innumerable different people/groups. I spent a couple hours picking through everything in the music section, giving each song a least a minute or two (clicking through to a few different points -- that may be considered a faux paux, but I'm not exactly new to musicology and structure analysis). Don't mind me, I'm just a picky asshole =).
Indeed, they are 100% free. Some things of interest . . . the complete video of Steve Job's Stanford Commencement speech from a few years back, and several hours of lectures by His Holiness, the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet.
WARNING: The music coming out of Stanford sucks. Most of the musicianship technically-speaking is talented, but there isn't an ounce of creativity coming out the place IMIO. I like GOOD music though, so who am I to say.
Doh, never mind. The Sensitive Clod is who wrote Linux. As a whole. By themself. I thought it was Tux.
I couldn't find anything using Google. It must not exist.
Eisner's gone, replaced by Robert Iger. And, not to blatently cheer but, if there was one guy who could take over a company like Disney, it would be the coup-experienced Jobs. Sure, he was certainly an "insider" already when he regained control of Apple, but while not "inside" Disney comparitively, Jobs' Pixar has creative and financial seniority that will be sitting at the very top of the Disney chain. Disney has closed almost all of their (all?) traditional animation studios, and are banking completely on CG to carry them forward. Pixar is undisputibly the champion of mainstream CG animation. Jobs taking over Disney all hinges on whether Disney is stupid enough to let him direct their visual entertainment business.
Just for fun, think about what it would be like if Jobs had control of ABC.
Assuming Disney wants to plop the Pixar group behind a pane of Plexi at Disney Studios (it's sans-MGM now, right?) in Orlando.
They probably won't be going anywhere. Most companies know better than to mess with a good thing when they absorb other corporations. You ditch the financial, legal, and human resource departments of the smaller of the two, and let the minds be.
You got a problem with lesbians and pot heads buddy? Yeah, I didn't think so. And for christ's sake, if that's a Microsoft joke, they're totally in Redmond, not Seattle. There's a whole lake between them. A bridge even!
Dual-boot will have some performance benefits. But before the end of 2006, Microsoft will release Virtual PC to run Windows near flawlessly, on it's native x86 base, within OSX. Just buy a copy of Vista, or maybe even XP, if MS isn't greedy -- nah, they won't support XP -- but now you can run either GUI at the same time (dual-screen monitor. yeah), or run Windows apps integrated directly on top of OS X. It will rule. It has been forseen. Microsoft has years of experience (all considered with the purchase of Connectix) emulating Windows on the PowerPC. They know OS X quite well, they'll be damned if they don't know Intel inside and out. I'm telling you, OS X on one screen and Vista on the other will be the fantastic fuckin future (FFF).