"Under the agreement, Sun will include the Google Toolbar as an option in its consumer downloads of the Java Runtime Environment on http://java.com./ In addition, the companies have agreed to explore opportunities to promote and enhance Sun technologies, like the Java Runtime Environment and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite available at http://www.openoffice.org./"
* DVD Player. Wow, I can avoid spending $30 on a dedicated DVD player, AND get more wear and tear on the DVD drive motor. Plus, with the Wii fan running, dust accumulation on the heat sinks will be accelerated. The risk of bricking is just a bonus.
Stop with this myth about the DVD drive in the Wii getting overused if you use it as one - it is a Myth and only a myth. The DVD drive used would be exactly the same as any other DVD drive in anyother DVD player or computer. There is no reason that Nintendo would use a special drive that would fail earlier - they would just use off-the shelf drives (more or less).
Erm that more or less describes Be*'s broadband service.
Static IPs (with no port blocking andonly Port 25 is blocked if you have dynamic IP), No limits, No shaping, No web caches, No phorm or ad-serving and a rolling 1 month contract.
Granted there is a FUP (but its so lenient you can pretty much ignore it).
You need to get some facts straight, the 360 has sold more, but no where near twice as much. In fact it's now only 33% more than the PS3 which for the most part is still gaining on it. It's only the US where the 360 still has a larger total number of sales, elsewhere such as Europe the PS3 has caught up and overtaken it).
Actually the difference in price between OEM and Retail/upgrade is the fact that the OEM versions can ONLY be installed on ONE computer, and that's it. It's then tied to that hardware (mostly-apart from a few part changes), so you can't simply move your copy to another PC if you were to upgrade (which you easily can do with the retail/upgrade copies).
I'd heard that Be* (who are my ISP too, and with whom I'm happy) have been bought by Orange - does anyone know about this?
Nope that's rubbish. BE are owned by O2 (who themselves are owned by Telefonica (the Spanish Telco). Seeing as O2's BB network runs off BE's somehow I doubt it will have been sold to Orange.
Except Opera Mini isn't designed for Smart phones, its designed for phones with small screens and non-iphone/windows mobile/symbian devices - i.e the majority of mobile phones.
Economics is an extremely limited niche field? Have you heard of wall street? All those big investment banks and trading firms look first to economics grads when they go hiring. Wall Street grabs just as many economics grads as Silicon Valley does CS majors.
The difference of course is you don't NEED an economics or business degree to go into an investment bank. A friend that graduated from Uni last year did Bio Sciences and now works at Lehman Brothers as a Grad Analyst. Ok he did well and went to a good uni, and I suppose being sciencey/maths related helps, but still, just shows that having an economics degree is more limiting that a lot of others.
Be Un Limited is the best ISP in the UK. Its fast, cheap and unlimited, and you cannot go wrong with them, the router they supply is a bit temperamental at times (but firmware updates have seemed to have helped).
Spam doesn't mean anything, so why should the term for the VOIP stuff have to be an acronym? We should just pick another nasty, maligned meat product. I vote scrapple. No, SPAM means "Stupid Pointless Annoying Message", so yes it does mean something.
Well, here in the UK I get around 16Mbps Down / 1.3Mbps up ADSL from Be. I haven't found anything to be throttled, shaped or 'managed.'
There is no bandwidth cap. They have set up their service precisely for 'heavy users' - they were one of the first ISPs to use ADSL2+ over here. Be it torrents, usenet, ftp or http, it just works - at around 2MB/sec. Even better, latency is minuscule when it comes to gaming - something else they consider important. You even get the choice of increasing your latency and dropping a little download speed in return for another megabit of upload.
Cost? £22 a month. Best ISP ever, even if they are now owned by O2. I think that works out a bit cheaper than Time Warner's offering, anyway. Just a correction but the normal price for "upto" 24Mb (of course depends on your distance from exchange) is actually £18/mth, its the pro version which gives you a 2.4Mb upload and for only £22/mth.
Either way still very good prices, I have them and can't complain and I "only" get about 12Mb as i'm further from the exchange. The only thing is the router they supply is pretty dodgy sometime.
Those are out of date now though. The PS3 for one has had its energy consumption cut by 1/3 with the newer smaller process CPU/GPU.
No idea what the 360 is now, and they will both still be much more than the wii, but a 1/3 reduction in energy usage is nothing to be laughed at.
Apple is selling exactly the same hardware for twice as much.
Really. Can you please spec me out a Dell or HP 13" notebook similar to the $1200 MacBook. Ah, that's right, the 13" Dell XPS (the only 13" they sell) is actually more like $1400. Whoopsie.
I'd probably agree if you're talking about the 15" models (MacBook Pro) though. Although it's even then obviously not "the same hardware". Try to compare that to prices of the high-quality (formerly known as) Thinkpad line by Lenovo. You'll find it is not much cheaper, if at all. I disagree there, perhaps in the US maybe but to spec an equivalent XPS and MB in the UK, (using the middle priced MB (£829) doesn't compare well to the the £849 XPS (which has the same processor, but 1GB extra RAM and TWICE the hard drive space. (320GB vs 160GB).
Oh AND it comes with a fingerprint reader AND it comes with a discrete GPU (something which NONE of the MBs have).
The problem has been that everybody with any brains has been waiting for the format war to end before plunking down their hard-earned cash. When consumers don't buy, sales are low, and when sales are low, there are no economies of scale. No economies of scale means high manufacturing costs, and thus high retail costs -- unless the product is being sold at a loss.
Erm your getting confused, prices will be high because of supply and demand, NOT because of economies of scale. If something is heavily in demand, prices will go higher because consumers WILL pay extra, when demand is low, prices WILL drop to encourage consumers to keep buying.
Economies of scales only applies to manufacturing (and whatnot), NOT the actual sales themselves.
£37/mth for a 20Mb connection that barely reaches 10Mb and throttled after ridiculously low limits.
No thanks!
I'll stick with BE, granted its ADSL and so speed is affected by distance from exchange, but even being 1km away, I still get 13-14Mb (with the max theoretical being 22Mb) and all for only £18/mth with NO throttling and NO limits, and its been far more consistent than VM who I have also experienced.
No, Its 20% of HOMES, not 20% of entire power usage - I'm not sure if thats how it was intended but I certainly read it as not including industry and the like (which is still gonna be a huge amount).
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You actually get 1 static IP free with Be* on the 18/mth tariff now. (You just need to ask for it).
Or you could get Be* which is less than a third of that price and just as good.
To add to that, if you are a 'student or work in Education' you can also download it from free here: http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/solutions/staroffice.html#StarOffice
It's because they also included Java in the Google Pack.
See here: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/sun_toolbar.html
"Under the agreement, Sun will include the Google Toolbar as an option in its consumer downloads of the Java Runtime Environment on http://java.com./ In addition, the companies have agreed to explore opportunities to promote and enhance Sun technologies, like the Java Runtime Environment and the OpenOffice.org productivity suite available at http://www.openoffice.org./"
Well yes they do, but it's still better than most other providers, which are normally 12months.
3 months isn't ideal, but its not really that bad.
That can't be true anymore cos Sony just updated the Flash version on the PS3 to Flash 9.
* DVD Player. Wow, I can avoid spending $30 on a dedicated DVD player, AND get more wear and tear on the DVD drive motor. Plus, with the Wii fan running, dust accumulation on the heat sinks will be accelerated. The risk of bricking is just a bonus.
Stop with this myth about the DVD drive in the Wii getting overused if you use it as one - it is a Myth and only a myth. The DVD drive used would be exactly the same as any other DVD drive in anyother DVD player or computer. There is no reason that Nintendo would use a special drive that would fail earlier - they would just use off-the shelf drives (more or less).
Erm that more or less describes Be*'s broadband service.
Static IPs (with no port blocking andonly Port 25 is blocked if you have dynamic IP), No limits, No shaping, No web caches, No phorm or ad-serving and a rolling 1 month contract.
Granted there is a FUP (but its so lenient you can pretty much ignore it).
No, that's 3 months notice if you don't want to pay a cancellation fee, which is better than most BB contracts as they are usually 12 months.
"Here" would be the UK, T-mobile do a 1GB tariff for £7.50/mth or 3GB for £12.50. Three do something similar along with O2 I think.
You need to get some facts straight, the 360 has sold more, but no where near twice as much. In fact it's now only 33% more than the PS3 which for the most part is still gaining on it. It's only the US where the 360 still has a larger total number of sales, elsewhere such as Europe the PS3 has caught up and overtaken it).
Actually the difference in price between OEM and Retail/upgrade is the fact that the OEM versions can ONLY be installed on ONE computer, and that's it. It's then tied to that hardware (mostly-apart from a few part changes), so you can't simply move your copy to another PC if you were to upgrade (which you easily can do with the retail/upgrade copies).
I'd heard that Be* (who are my ISP too, and with whom I'm happy) have been bought by Orange - does anyone know about this?
Nope that's rubbish. BE are owned by O2 (who themselves are owned by Telefonica (the Spanish Telco). Seeing as O2's BB network runs off BE's somehow I doubt it will have been sold to Orange.
Except Opera Mini isn't designed for Smart phones, its designed for phones with small screens and non-iphone/windows mobile/symbian devices - i.e the majority of mobile phones.
Economics is an extremely limited niche field? Have you heard of wall street? All those big investment banks and trading firms look first to economics grads when they go hiring. Wall Street grabs just as many economics grads as Silicon Valley does CS majors.
The difference of course is you don't NEED an economics or business degree to go into an investment bank. A friend that graduated from Uni last year did Bio Sciences and now works at Lehman Brothers as a Grad Analyst. Ok he did well and went to a good uni, and I suppose being sciencey/maths related helps, but still, just shows that having an economics degree is more limiting that a lot of others.Be Un Limited is the best ISP in the UK. Its fast, cheap and unlimited, and you cannot go wrong with them, the router they supply is a bit temperamental at times (but firmware updates have seemed to have helped).
Oops I meant the mess.be (or stuff plug - I think)addon, Msg Live Plus doesn't have that option.
This is easily fixed with Msg Live Plus however, and I think a few other addons do the same, so its not really an issue as I use Msg Plus anyway.
Those are out of date now though. The PS3 for one has had its energy consumption cut by 1/3 with the newer smaller process CPU/GPU. No idea what the 360 is now, and they will both still be much more than the wii, but a 1/3 reduction in energy usage is nothing to be laughed at.
The problem has been that everybody with any brains has been waiting for the format war to end before plunking down their hard-earned cash. When consumers don't buy, sales are low, and when sales are low, there are no economies of scale. No economies of scale means high manufacturing costs, and thus high retail costs -- unless the product is being sold at a loss.
Erm your getting confused, prices will be high because of supply and demand, NOT because of economies of scale. If something is heavily in demand, prices will go higher because consumers WILL pay extra, when demand is low, prices WILL drop to encourage consumers to keep buying.
Economies of scales only applies to manufacturing (and whatnot), NOT the actual sales themselves.
I can only assume it is Virgin Media as well.
£37/mth for a 20Mb connection that barely reaches 10Mb and throttled after ridiculously low limits.
No thanks!
I'll stick with BE, granted its ADSL and so speed is affected by distance from exchange, but even being 1km away, I still get 13-14Mb (with the max theoretical being 22Mb) and all for only £18/mth with NO throttling and NO limits, and its been far more consistent than VM who I have also experienced.
No, Its 20% of HOMES, not 20% of entire power usage - I'm not sure if thats how it was intended but I certainly read it as not including industry and the like (which is still gonna be a huge amount).