If they can provide as good a security model for protecting identity and financial information as Apple, they've probably got a shot. With the record of other brick and mortar stores lately though, they've got an image that needs a little polish though.
I probably sound quite bitter, but I hope they don't do it. I _want_ them to get thoroughly boned for their rampant anti-consumer bahavior. Yes, I'm still pissed about rookits, yes, I'm still pissed about fake advertisements. Peoples memories are too damn short, and companies have been getting exploiting that fact for too long. Nothing beats a good financial thrashing for keeping corporations honest.
If things go poorly enough, the stranglehold could be lost. As for myself, the only thing typing me to a Windows platform on one machine at the moment is games, but MS has done such a good job (relatively) on te xbox 360 that I could see that requirement going away, allowing me to run *nix across the board.
It doesn't sound like people want to watch football. If they company is having a shortage of HD PVRs, it's because the people with HD sets want to record their shows in HD, or skip commercials. If you just want to watch HD source material, just get an HD cable box. It sounds like they have those available.
is how EBay should be known. Police in Canada are aware of this happening as well. A guy I work with found most of the stuff that was stolen when his house was broken into on EBay. He actually purchased a couple of items to get the sellers details, and advised the police. The police didn't actually even arrest the guy right away, but rather watched him for a few days and caught him red-handed breaking into another place.
So basically, in addition to checking pawn shops yourself after a break-in, check EBay (assuming your only computer wasn't stolen).
It shuold be possible to guessimate the cost of a machine that has the equivalent processing power of the grid that was implemented, although it most most likely need to be done by someone directly involved with the project, I suppose. I wasn't actually trolling in the GP, I would actually like to see some sort of a cost comparison.
Perhaps the parent here can help me out with a question I've always wondered about as well. The 2084 machine mentioned is described as having about 1700 MIPS. A rough estimate of one of the new P4 processors is about 7000 MIPS. It's CISC as well, but in reality, I'm assuming the 2084 would have better overall computational throughput. Is this because of i/o bandwidth, or is MIPS just a very inaccurate measurement?
It would be intresting to see exactly what the cost to implement a new lameframe system with equivalent performance would cost. ANybody got some rough numbers?
The sidebar on the article says that interest in some products has gone up, including their ZAAP processor. From what I've seen, the reason for this is to get around the outrageous licencing costs on some of the software that base cost on the number of processors. These processors only run java, and don't get counted as 'processors' apparently.
As the title says, for not the media providers benefit, as they can provide disks in whichever format has the lower licencing fees (HD-DVD, I would assume). Consumers will need to wait for a price drop to see any benefit, but this is a start.
If I can hurt their business though simply telling people what happened, I will. I actually had a call from them with 'more information' about the order, but the customer service people I was referred to had no idea what the information was. I'm hoping their going to attempt to make things right, although they'd have to go a long way to do it at this point.
Here in Canada, PS3's have been spotted on the shelves at Walmart, and Best Buy... no line-ups to be seen. Still can't get a Wii though. I had a on-line order confirmed at Toys'R'Us, but it was cancelled, and the the units are being sold in-store. The Better Business Bureua and some local newspapers, and Nintendo will be advised accordingly. That's the sort of behaviour I'd expect to see with a Sony product, not Nintendo.
Not on;y that, but they don't even need a defense. With many of the nastier things they've done lately they haven't even offered one. I think you'd need to be quite naive to trust Sony at this point.
It also sounds like they're saying that they'll let you sign up for a username (fir a fee I would imagine) to give them a little more hold over you if they're late with their release. Maybe I'm just paranoid...
About5 hours video, and 15 music is what's advertised. A couple of reviews say it's roughly accurate, but I can't fully vouch for thatyet. I've done abut 4 hours video with no problem. Apparently the WiFi functionality eats battery, but that hasn't seemed too bad so far.
Oh yeah, the Archos has PVR functionality, an optional helmet camera (for the serious nerd), and a screen the size of my frikkin' home TV. I'm not sure if the screen size is good or bad... it's quite nice to watch video on, but makes it a bit large for a portable device. Supposedly it runs Limux as well, but I haven't seen any available apps.
I (and others) looking for proper use of wifi, have already bought an Archos (604Wifi). Opera browser, network share browsing, etc. Squirting? Please. It's more expensive, but a far superior product at this point.
I've also heard that she was the one who said something like "The worst thing a business can say is... because that's the way we've always done it.". This especially funny from her if it's true, as COBOL shops are notorious for exactly that kind of mindset. I'm fairly sure she wouldn't be impressed.
Bugs per line of code is no more useful than plain old number of bugs... which is basically what Oracle is saying. Number of bugs does not take severity, risk, etc into account. The article also only refers to the number of bugs _fixed_, not remaining.
Yes, it does happen with PC's now, but the selection is quite limited, and you'll pay a premium. I'd like to call up Dell (as an example) and get a basic low-end home PC rack mountable. Same with my xbox and Wii. All 3 of the current crop of game consoles hame unusual shapes that make it difficult to toss them into an equipment shelf (even if you can cool it properly).
I did see at one point a 'faceplate' for the gamecobe, and I think the original xbox, that made them look like rack mount equipment.
Personally, I'll finally be happy with the designs when my computer, game consoles, and audio/vido equipment are rack mountable, or at least a standard width. I'd love to be able to hang my PC under my desk in a rack with my audio amp. Some of the current designs that have plenty of curves look nice for a while, but are not practical in reqal estate usage. Most alo look dated after a while.
Beige I could live with (if I had to), but would prefer black.
I didn't say I didn't understand his point, or even disagree with it. I only stated that this is why people hate lawyers. Personally, I dislike that we have people who think we need one law making it illegal to proposition a 13 year old via email, and another for IM. I think one law covering the act in general would suffice, but perhaps I'm over simplifying.
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I think this feature already exists for Halo2, but it's not easily available in-game. Check to be sure, but I'm fairly certain it already exists.
If they can provide as good a security model for protecting identity and financial information as Apple, they've probably got a shot. With the record of other brick and mortar stores lately though, they've got an image that needs a little polish though.
I probably sound quite bitter, but I hope they don't do it. I _want_ them to get thoroughly boned for their rampant anti-consumer bahavior. Yes, I'm still pissed about rookits, yes, I'm still pissed about fake advertisements. Peoples memories are too damn short, and companies have been getting exploiting that fact for too long. Nothing beats a good financial thrashing for keeping corporations honest.
If things go poorly enough, the stranglehold could be lost. As for myself, the only thing typing me to a Windows platform on one machine at the moment is games, but MS has done such a good job (relatively) on te xbox 360 that I could see that requirement going away, allowing me to run *nix across the board.
It doesn't sound like people want to watch football. If they company is having a shortage of HD PVRs, it's because the people with HD sets want to record their shows in HD, or skip commercials. If you just want to watch HD source material, just get an HD cable box. It sounds like they have those available.
is how EBay should be known. Police in Canada are aware of this happening as well. A guy I work with found most of the stuff that was stolen when his house was broken into on EBay. He actually purchased a couple of items to get the sellers details, and advised the police. The police didn't actually even arrest the guy right away, but rather watched him for a few days and caught him red-handed breaking into another place.
So basically, in addition to checking pawn shops yourself after a break-in, check EBay (assuming your only computer wasn't stolen).
It shuold be possible to guessimate the cost of a machine that has the equivalent processing power of the grid that was implemented, although it most most likely need to be done by someone directly involved with the project, I suppose. I wasn't actually trolling in the GP, I would actually like to see some sort of a cost comparison.
Perhaps the parent here can help me out with a question I've always wondered about as well. The 2084 machine mentioned is described as having about 1700 MIPS. A rough estimate of one of the new P4 processors is about 7000 MIPS. It's CISC as well, but in reality, I'm assuming the 2084 would have better overall computational throughput. Is this because of i/o bandwidth, or is MIPS just a very inaccurate measurement?
Also, what is the rough cist of a 2084?
It would be intresting to see exactly what the cost to implement a new lameframe system with equivalent performance would cost. ANybody got some rough numbers?
The sidebar on the article says that interest in some products has gone up, including their ZAAP processor. From what I've seen, the reason for this is to get around the outrageous licencing costs on some of the software that base cost on the number of processors. These processors only run java, and don't get counted as 'processors' apparently.
As the title says, for not the media providers benefit, as they can provide disks in whichever format has the lower licencing fees (HD-DVD, I would assume). Consumers will need to wait for a price drop to see any benefit, but this is a start.
It sucks.
If I can hurt their business though simply telling people what happened, I will. I actually had a call from them with 'more information' about the order, but the customer service people I was referred to had no idea what the information was. I'm hoping their going to attempt to make things right, although they'd have to go a long way to do it at this point.
Here in Canada, PS3's have been spotted on the shelves at Walmart, and Best Buy ... no line-ups to be seen. Still can't get a Wii though. I had a on-line order confirmed at Toys'R'Us, but it was cancelled, and the the units are being sold in-store. The Better Business Bureua and some local newspapers, and Nintendo will be advised accordingly. That's the sort of behaviour I'd expect to see with a Sony product, not Nintendo.
Not on;y that, but they don't even need a defense. With many of the nastier things they've done lately they haven't even offered one. I think you'd need to be quite naive to trust Sony at this point.
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It also sounds like they're saying that they'll let you sign up for a username (fir a fee I would imagine) to give them a little more hold over you if they're late with their release. Maybe I'm just paranoid
About5 hours video, and 15 music is what's advertised. A couple of reviews say it's roughly accurate, but I can't fully vouch for thatyet. I've done abut 4 hours video with no problem. Apparently the WiFi functionality eats battery, but that hasn't seemed too bad so far.
Oh yeah, the Archos has PVR functionality, an optional helmet camera (for the serious nerd), and a screen the size of my frikkin' home TV. I'm not sure if the screen size is good or bad ... it's quite nice to watch video on, but makes it a bit large for a portable device. Supposedly it runs Limux as well, but I haven't seen any available apps.
I (and others) looking for proper use of wifi, have already bought an Archos (604Wifi). Opera browser, network share browsing, etc. Squirting? Please. It's more expensive, but a far superior product at this point.
I've also heard that she was the one who said something like "The worst thing a business can say is ... because that's the way we've always done it.". This especially funny from her if it's true, as COBOL shops are notorious for exactly that kind of mindset. I'm fairly sure she wouldn't be impressed.
Try working for a large company or the government. In these cases, the original post is quite correct.
Bugs per line of code is no more useful than plain old number of bugs ... which is basically what Oracle is saying. Number of bugs does not take severity, risk, etc into account. The article also only refers to the number of bugs _fixed_, not remaining.
The xbox 360 now has a spke TV show (reality show relating to video games) available for doenload ...not quite the internet, but close.
Yes, it does happen with PC's now, but the selection is quite limited, and you'll pay a premium. I'd like to call up Dell (as an example) and get a basic low-end home PC rack mountable. Same with my xbox and Wii. All 3 of the current crop of game consoles hame unusual shapes that make it difficult to toss them into an equipment shelf (even if you can cool it properly).
I did see at one point a 'faceplate' for the gamecobe, and I think the original xbox, that made them look like rack mount equipment.
Personally, I'll finally be happy with the designs when my computer, game consoles, and audio/vido equipment are rack mountable, or at least a standard width. I'd love to be able to hang my PC under my desk in a rack with my audio amp. Some of the current designs that have plenty of curves look nice for a while, but are not practical in reqal estate usage. Most alo look dated after a while.
Beige I could live with (if I had to), but would prefer black.
I didn't say I didn't understand his point, or even disagree with it. I only stated that this is why people hate lawyers. Personally, I dislike that we have people who think we need one law making it illegal to proposition a 13 year old via email, and another for IM. I think one law covering the act in general would suffice, but perhaps I'm over simplifying.
This is exactly the reason that people hate lawyers.
This is due to the recent Sony tradition of copying MicroSoft features. 32 characters ought to be enough for anybody.