A few known good motherboards mounted on plywood for component testing along with several varoious PSUs,
a USB external HD of a decent size for making backups of customer data,
a selection of known good internal wiring such as IDE cables, SATA cables, etc.,
a selection of known good ram for testing,
a burn in application that tests all low level components over an evening,
a wide selection of spyware and virus removal tools,
and most important of all; someone to act as the interface between the customers and the technitions - should be technically savy and infinitely patient, and be able to translate 'customer' to 'tech' and back again.
But even the pirated edition will have too many variations:
The 'includes service pack 12' edition.
The 'stripped down and includes doom 3' edition.
Oh, and let us not forget the ever popular 'all in one' DVD edition.
Take a look at Intel's "AMT"... By year's end little 12 year old Bobby in Idaho will be able to turn your HDs on and off, format them, and change whatever he wants via "AMT" and a program written by "sk1pt k1dd13" he downloaded on the Intarweb.
You can tell that the MPAA folks really don't know what they're talking about and are just seeking to create their own "Darth Vader" out of Bittorrent.
A few quick examples of this would be:
Some of the folks I know saw the film at midnight, after standing in line for two hours.
Everyone else I know, including me, took off work to see the film Thursday.
Half of these people saw it twice as the other half were at E3 and everyone wanted to make a 'thing' out of seeing "Sith" as a group.
All of the above mentioned people, some 25 of the best and brightest on the intarweb, have the ability to download any of the numerous versions of "Sith" in about 30 minutes.
These same people will, undoubtedly, purchase the DVD of "Sith" to complete their collections as they have the first two and the last three on DVD already.
And, to the best of my knowledge, all of these people have downloaded at least one of the versions of "Sith" available in the newsgroups as Bittorrent is a bit slow with all the 'kidz' running diode-like versions of the protocol these days.
So, a record opening day, record numbers of geeks taking Thursday off, and what will undoubtedly be record numbers of DVD sales and they're still bitching...
Well, the SUV is there because the.gov will litterally pay you to own it if it's for 'business' and weighs over 6600 pounds.
Around the studio here we have everything from *Hard Core* SGI/Sun guys (the types who think using an OS should be like freeclimbing El Capitan) to Mac using artists who seem to think a keyboard is only for Photoshop shortcuts, all the way to the Dell-using financial folks who pinch pennies till they scream.
It's all about what you want to do with the hardware.
I keep seeing all of these posts where someone mentions they can get a PC with 'X' ram, 'X' HD, 'X' CPU for 'X' cheaper than a Mac...
You can also go buy a $1000 Honda and add all sorts of ground effects, spoilers, lights, and other 'performance' mods and have a pretty quick little car that will beat a BMW 740il soundly... But it's still a Honda.
And unless you're stupid, you'll wind up going down the road at the exact same speed as that Beemer.
The only difference is that you added all of that stuff to your car, you know every rattle and squeak, tolerate the lousy ride because you can corner like no ones business, have bass that can make your neighbors evaporate, and you can fix any of it easily or upgrade it...
Meanwhile the guy with the Beemer has a 10-year warrantee that covers tears in the upholstery and doesn't have to think about the car, he just drives it. He gets to spend his weekends out playing with his kids rather than tweaking a new intake manifold, can drive the car from Denver to L.A. without worrying about the radiator being two sizes too small for the type-R motor that has been shoehorned into the car, and his stock sound system is pretty nice because he doesn't need 3000 watts to overcome the #10 coffee can exhaust system.
Of course the average/.'er drives a VW Thing that was hand built by everyone he/she knows, only runs on methanol that he/she makes in the back yard, has the steering wheel on the wrong side, and requires three keys to start.;)
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Yep. The lead screamer is none other than Samwise, the guy who prettymuch dictates what Warcraft looks like. www.sonsofthestorm.com
So everyone is pushing back delivery dates now.
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Here's the news on "The Register": http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/30/hd-dvd_us
A few known good motherboards mounted on plywood for component testing along with several varoious PSUs,
a USB external HD of a decent size for making backups of customer data,
a selection of known good internal wiring such as IDE cables, SATA cables, etc.,
a selection of known good ram for testing,
a burn in application that tests all low level components over an evening,
a wide selection of spyware and virus removal tools,
and most important of all; someone to act as the interface between the customers and the technitions - should be technically savy and infinitely patient, and be able to translate 'customer' to 'tech' and back again.
But even the pirated edition will have too many variations: The 'includes service pack 12' edition. The 'stripped down and includes doom 3' edition. Oh, and let us not forget the ever popular 'all in one' DVD edition.
I doubt this is actually 'soft'ware, it's probably ladder logic running on PGAs or some other mechanical control system.
Let me be the first to welcome our Bovine Overlords. There, it has been said in this thread too.
Take a look at Intel's "AMT"... By year's end little 12 year old Bobby in Idaho will be able to turn your HDs on and off, format them, and change whatever he wants via "AMT" and a program written by "sk1pt k1dd13" he downloaded on the Intarweb.
Thank you Intel.
A few quick examples of this would be:
Some of the folks I know saw the film at midnight, after standing in line for two hours.
Everyone else I know, including me, took off work to see the film Thursday.
Half of these people saw it twice as the other half were at E3 and everyone wanted to make a 'thing' out of seeing "Sith" as a group.
All of the above mentioned people, some 25 of the best and brightest on the intarweb, have the ability to download any of the numerous versions of "Sith" in about 30 minutes.
These same people will, undoubtedly, purchase the DVD of "Sith" to complete their collections as they have the first two and the last three on DVD already.
And, to the best of my knowledge, all of these people have downloaded at least one of the versions of "Sith" available in the newsgroups as Bittorrent is a bit slow with all the 'kidz' running diode-like versions of the protocol these days.
So, a record opening day, record numbers of geeks taking Thursday off, and what will undoubtedly be record numbers of DVD sales and they're still bitching...
Nice.
Ah, thank you. Analogy is a lost art these days.
Well, the SUV is there because the .gov will litterally pay you to own it if it's for 'business' and weighs over 6600 pounds.
Around the studio here we have everything from *Hard Core* SGI/Sun guys (the types who think using an OS should be like freeclimbing El Capitan) to Mac using artists who seem to think a keyboard is only for Photoshop shortcuts, all the way to the Dell-using financial folks who pinch pennies till they scream.
It's all about what you want to do with the hardware.
I keep seeing all of these posts where someone mentions they can get a PC with 'X' ram, 'X' HD, 'X' CPU for 'X' cheaper than a Mac... You can also go buy a $1000 Honda and add all sorts of ground effects, spoilers, lights, and other 'performance' mods and have a pretty quick little car that will beat a BMW 740il soundly... But it's still a Honda. And unless you're stupid, you'll wind up going down the road at the exact same speed as that Beemer. The only difference is that you added all of that stuff to your car, you know every rattle and squeak, tolerate the lousy ride because you can corner like no ones business, have bass that can make your neighbors evaporate, and you can fix any of it easily or upgrade it... Meanwhile the guy with the Beemer has a 10-year warrantee that covers tears in the upholstery and doesn't have to think about the car, he just drives it. He gets to spend his weekends out playing with his kids rather than tweaking a new intake manifold, can drive the car from Denver to L.A. without worrying about the radiator being two sizes too small for the type-R motor that has been shoehorned into the car, and his stock sound system is pretty nice because he doesn't need 3000 watts to overcome the #10 coffee can exhaust system. Of course the average /.'er drives a VW Thing that was hand built by everyone he/she knows, only runs on methanol that he/she makes in the back yard, has the steering wheel on the wrong side, and requires three keys to start. ;)