It sounds like there's a visionary somewhere in Sun who has seen the inevitable death of proprietary software with anti-consumer stigamtisms, pricing schemes and trojans attatched.
You're doing one of those "I can say tougher things than you" things right now aren't you? Well I can take care of that. +Foe, -1 = I don't respond to many more of your posts.
Sorry, didn't mean to get your panties in a bunch. I was just saying that it was kind of ironic that you were using kos as a verifiable source. Little Green Footballs cites and sources every story as well you know.
This helps businesses more than it does consumers. Think of all the businesses who RELY on delivery of their content for a large portion of their business, (and how they could be held hostage by the ISPs).
I agree though, he's one Democrat I'll be happy to reelect. I've met him a few times here in Portland, (like at the airport), and he's always been interested in hearing what's going on around Oregon and what I think about it. how things affect me.
You make it sound like there was some decision in a board room somewhere to screw the Chinese over, and that there was no gradual adoption of rules during a time in which China was not only grossly underdeveloped, but also much less open to foreign business.
You make it sound like we really hurt them. The reality is that the technology was developed and put in place at a time that concerns like this were not realistic concerns, and that the technological and procedural hurdles that ICANN would have had to force on ISPs and such were a small undertaking.
And BTW, although there were various reasons for assigning most IPv4 addresses to the US, its not as if this is any signifigant hurdle to internet useage. 1 IP address can serve thousands and thousands of computers through correctly managed subnets.
The PS2 and the PSP both sold at a loss. (Note: The PS2 eventually became profitable. That is a big difference between the PS2 and the XBOX.)
Sounds like youa re repeating something you heard somewhere. The big difference between the XB and the PS2 is that the per-unit net profit on the PS2 was always positive. The only way it didn't start out turning a profit is if you include R&D costs as part of production costs... in which case the first PS2 cost $4.2 billion, and every one after turned a profit. This guy explains it in an easy to understand way.
If an analyst, who has been studying these things, and who doubtlessly is well aware of what IP rights Sony owns and what the costs are for the parts, says the PS3 is likely to cost $900+ to manufactor, then there's a good chance that - gasp! - it really will cost $900+ to manufactor.
These people are paid to analyse the situation. They know what they're doing. They're professionals. I'm sure that they've already thought of any reason why the cost might be lower than some random guy on Slashdot has and are well aware of the true costs.
So what you're saying is that I should trust the opinion of someone for whom there are no consequences for being wrong, but plenty on consequences for saying nothing?
No "analyst" working for Merryl-Lynch knows enougha bout the hardware to grasp costs.
That does not figure into cost per chip or component cost however. As long as you turn a profit on component cost, you will overcome the R&D through scale.
C|Net claims $150-200 for the proc and $200-300 for the drive. That's way off the money.
IBM has reported fab costs of the Cell below $50 and much of the cost on the BR drive is due to the unique processing and decoding hardware attatched to the drive, not the drive itself. This hardware is already present in the PS3 in the form on the Cell.
I have to listen to the stupid ITD guy almost every day walking around on our floor talking about how they can't put spam filters on the district's servers because the spam isn't coming from the district's servers, and how there's no such thing as a user account under Windows with a permission level somehwere between restricted user and admin.
Well, as we do have spam filters and we use customly created user levels across the board... I somehow doubt it. Although, I might volunteer that often the problem with different user levels is that a lot of software has hardcoded checks for hardcoded userlevels, not the actual permissions, and a lot of this software, (like AutoCAD or Photoshop), has a signifigant need for use in an educational setting.
Distros of Linux are, in many ways, packaging the same OS with a different face for people. Much like Dell computers come with different preloaded software than HP computers, different distros of Linux have different software packages.
What you are doing is essentially berrating Linux because it allows the vendor more prepackaging options than Windows, not less, and obfuscating a point that is moot: that no core functionality is ever lost between distros, and that only the ways in which it deals with software, not which software it can use, is changed.
Forget replicating the look of the TV show... focus on building a decent game. It's not like if they get the lighting in the game world 'just so', they'll have a smash hit that people want to play... or these days, maybe they will.
So under your software model its a moral imperative that you get all of the game mechanics coded before you start to consider the UI?
Why that's brilliant! I mean its not as the users interface with the user inter... oh, wait.
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It sounds like there's a visionary somewhere in Sun who has seen the inevitable death of proprietary software with anti-consumer stigamtisms, pricing schemes and trojans attatched.
I ficed your sentence for you.
Let me clarify: an additional 10%.
About the only thing you shouldn't like about her is her stand on healthcare
Call me crazy, but any stand that's gonna cost me 10% of the GDP is enough to make me say "no".
Proponents of universal healthcare make it sound like the life expectancy in the US right now is 27.
*sigh*
You're doing one of those "I can say tougher things than you" things right now aren't you? Well I can take care of that. +Foe, -1 = I don't respond to many more of your posts.
lol
Sorry, didn't mean to get your panties in a bunch. I was just saying that it was kind of ironic that you were using kos as a verifiable source. Little Green Footballs cites and sources every story as well you know.
Ah, kos. There's a reliable unbiased source for political news. :P
Blocking my port 6000-7000 BT access is censorship!!one1!rawr
Religion? Well, "thou shalt not kill" isn't exactly a respected commandment...
;-)
Just thought I'd interject here. The Hebrew is "thou shalt not murder", not kill.
Take that however you want.
I rm -rf * my own email dir, but there's shell logs on servers... that's a pretty trackable method.
This helps businesses more than it does consumers. Think of all the businesses who RELY on delivery of their content for a large portion of their business, (and how they could be held hostage by the ISPs).
I agree though, he's one Democrat I'll be happy to reelect. I've met him a few times here in Portland, (like at the airport), and he's always been interested in hearing what's going on around Oregon and what I think about it. how things affect me.
You make it sound like there was some decision in a board room somewhere to screw the Chinese over, and that there was no gradual adoption of rules during a time in which China was not only grossly underdeveloped, but also much less open to foreign business.
You make it sound like we really hurt them. The reality is that the technology was developed and put in place at a time that concerns like this were not realistic concerns, and that the technological and procedural hurdles that ICANN would have had to force on ISPs and such were a small undertaking.
And BTW, although there were various reasons for assigning most IPv4 addresses to the US, its not as if this is any signifigant hurdle to internet useage. 1 IP address can serve thousands and thousands of computers through correctly managed subnets.
It's curious that you titled that post "Imperialism".
What wouldn't ahve been imperialistic, the DoD creating ARPANET in Spanish?
Since when is being incompetent illegal?
The PS2 and the PSP both sold at a loss. (Note: The PS2 eventually became profitable. That is a big difference between the PS2 and the XBOX.)
Sounds like youa re repeating something you heard somewhere. The big difference between the XB and the PS2 is that the per-unit net profit on the PS2 was always positive. The only way it didn't start out turning a profit is if you include R&D costs as part of production costs... in which case the first PS2 cost $4.2 billion, and every one after turned a profit. This guy explains it in an easy to understand way.
If an analyst, who has been studying these things, and who doubtlessly is well aware of what IP rights Sony owns and what the costs are for the parts, says the PS3 is likely to cost $900+ to manufactor, then there's a good chance that - gasp! - it really will cost $900+ to manufactor.
These people are paid to analyse the situation. They know what they're doing. They're professionals. I'm sure that they've already thought of any reason why the cost might be lower than some random guy on Slashdot has and are well aware of the true costs.
So what you're saying is that I should trust the opinion of someone for whom there are no consequences for being wrong, but plenty on consequences for saying nothing?
No "analyst" working for Merryl-Lynch knows enougha bout the hardware to grasp costs.
That does not figure into cost per chip or component cost however. As long as you turn a profit on component cost, you will overcome the R&D through scale.
Nope, Sony is going to fab their own, (as they also own the IP and the patents). It will cost them about what it costs IBM, and no more.
C|Net claims $150-200 for the proc and $200-300 for the drive. That's way off the money.
IBM has reported fab costs of the Cell below $50 and much of the cost on the BR drive is due to the unique processing and decoding hardware attatched to the drive, not the drive itself. This hardware is already present in the PS3 in the form on the Cell.
albeit in a Slashback. :) Anyways, good news I suppose.
Actually, it probably means that they're waiting to push it out the door when the PS3 launches...
Wow... I was just making a joke at wording... damn you WoWers are sensetive.
I have to listen to the stupid ITD guy almost every day walking around on our floor talking about how they can't put spam filters on the district's servers because the spam isn't coming from the district's servers, and how there's no such thing as a user account under Windows with a permission level somehwere between restricted user and admin.
Well, as we do have spam filters and we use customly created user levels across the board... I somehow doubt it. Although, I might volunteer that often the problem with different user levels is that a lot of software has hardcoded checks for hardcoded userlevels, not the actual permissions, and a lot of this software, (like AutoCAD or Photoshop), has a signifigant need for use in an educational setting.
But a victory could hamstring image search, along with video and audio search services.
Took a break from WoW to bring us this interesting news?
Distros of Linux are, in many ways, packaging the same OS with a different face for people. Much like Dell computers come with different preloaded software than HP computers, different distros of Linux have different software packages.
What you are doing is essentially berrating Linux because it allows the vendor more prepackaging options than Windows, not less, and obfuscating a point that is moot: that no core functionality is ever lost between distros, and that only the ways in which it deals with software, not which software it can use, is changed.
Forget replicating the look of the TV show... focus on building a decent game. It's not like if they get the lighting in the game world 'just so', they'll have a smash hit that people want to play... or these days, maybe they will.
So under your software model its a moral imperative that you get all of the game mechanics coded before you start to consider the UI?
Why that's brilliant! I mean its not as the users interface with the user inter... oh, wait.