Their next gaming console will have to have some kind of optical drive in it. And DVD isn't big enough anymore an the 12X spin rate needed to get good transfer rates also is one of the things that makes their console annoyingly loud.
They'll have to use a new optical format for the next Xbox, and with HD-DVD dead it seems to mean they have to use BluRay.
And for those who want to say you'll get your games over the next, I really can't see that in the next 2-3 years. By the end of the next console's lifetime (6+ years) it seems pretty natural though.
I know everyone hates sodium vapor lamps, but this does show that this lamp isn't a revolution.
And additionally, the mercury stuff about CFs is horseshit. A CF, even if broken releases less mercury into the environment that the mercury released by burning coal to run an incandescent lamp for its lifetime.
The price was even set before the format war even started in earnest. It did change about 10% since then, but if you think that represented a payoff to Toshiba, it was less then $60M. If all the conspiracy nutters believe Warner got $500M to stop supporting HD-DVD, would they think Toshiba needs only $60M to drop out of the race completely?
Now, I know lying isn't impossible for CEOs. But they don't have any financial incentive to lie about this, and in general a company will just give no comment instead of lying because it's safer, you can't get sued for saying no comment while you can for lying.
It's a very sad state of journalism that a story like this can be printed with unsubstantiated allegations weeks after it was already cleared up.
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Maybe other people didn't want to vote for Ron Paul.
Presupposing that the reason he didn't win is to flatly state that if everyone were informed and voted their hearts, Ron Paul would have won.
Did you ever just stop to think that maybe a majority of people don't agree with you? That if the world was well informed, they wouldn't necessarily come to the same conclusions as you?
Only an egotist would put forth their choice of candidate as the only valid one.
Agreed. It appears the laptops are defective, in that the shell came in contact with a portion of the circuit and that isn't supposed to happen (well, not easily).
Yes, the neutral is also tied to ground at the breaker panel, like the ground.
But the thing is the neutral is designed to ALWAYS carry current, it's part of the circuit. The ground is there for safety and usually carries no current.
Why is this important? Well, if ground is at 0V, but the wire between the outlet and ground is 1 ohm and carrying 15 Amps, then the neutral at the outlet will be at 15A * 1 ohm, or 15V (AC in this case). So now there is a voltage difference between neutral and "true" ground (which can be either the ground prong on the outlet or the puddle you're standing in) and that means that you'll have a current flow (shock) between something tied to that neutral and ground.
i.e. you'll get shocked.
The ground usually carries no current, so even with a resistance to true ground, there should be zero current, 1 Ohm * 0A = 0V and you don't feel a shock.
Since this depends on current flow through the neutral at your electrical outlet you'll find this thing will either give you a shock or not depending on which outlet you plug it into and what else is plugged in and turned on.
Computers run at 160F plus, a room getting to 120F won't faze them. You'll be unhappy about other things before your computer gets sad, well, unless you built it wrong. Any computer you buy has been tested in a 140F hot room before sale, of course one you built yourself may be different.
As to your baby, rashes and sores like that are due to friction from humidity, not from heat. Computers don't care about humidity much either.
I live in California without A/C. No problems. I grew up in Michigan (similar to Minnesota, very humid and at times very hot) without A/C. I know humans aren't the best adapted to harsh environments, but Minnesota was populated by families with babies for decades before A/C.
Delaying 360 to wait for HD-DVD to be cost-viable would have been a mistake. 360 debuted about 6 months before the first HD-DVD players were available at any cost.
Instead of making HD-DVD a winner, it easily could have made 360 a loser.
5 BluRay discs for $28. So I don't think media cost is much of an issue.
Besides, a dual-layer BD costs less than $2 to make, and a single-layer BD is always an option, storing 25GB, which is almost as much as a dual-layer HD-DVD and cheaper to make too.
"Widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg".
First, saying "Ogg" means Ogg Vorbis to most people. This is about Ogg Theora. Second, whether something is patent free is not determined by the implementation. You're thinking of copyright!
Ogg Theora uses patented technology. We don't want to enter into a Rambus-type situation where once something becomes popular a company can come back and start dinging people for money.
And the icon doesn't make sense. This isn't about trying to patent existing or trivial things, it's about whether a standard should make mandatory a patented codec that isn't even widely used.
The neutrons coming out are too fast to react inside the core (they escape before they do so). So you have to insert moderators to slow the neutrons and then the core becomes critical. Remove the moderators and it drops to subcriticality. But it's still quite radioactive and warm, just not likely to blow up.
Joz reversed that statement within 24 hours. And Jobs said
"[P]eople are going to try and break in and it's our job to try and stop them."
Yes, he also says Apple is looking at 3rd party apps, but he never says the phone will be opened. Maybe he'll just buy your app off you. It is a buyers' market too, since if you don't make a deal your app will keep breaking with every new firmware update.
Niagra is a poorly performing processor that just takes advantage of the fact that on a server, most threads are stuck in disk or net access all the time.
You're being snowed by SUN.
Even SUN realizes their days of hardware are nearing an end. They changed their stock symbol from SUNW (SUN Workstations) to JAVA (a software project).
The A380 has 175 orders. Many are from low-quality operators who may never come up with the money. Another problem is half the orders are from one operator, and no one is sure how this operator will be able to use that many planes. Neither of these means the A380 is a failure, but they're serious issues.
The A380 is NOT the biggest plane ever manufactured by the human race.
It's really uncool to make such basic mistakes when your trying to portray yourself as the voice of reason.
The 747 did almost bankrupt Boeing, and I would say that the financial issues the A380 has presented to Airbus are VERY serious, making your comment that these situations aren't similar rather hollow.
Boeing was a much smaller company at the time they were making the 747 than Airbus is now. Airbus has over 5,000 orders for A320s and has delivered 3,000 of them. When Boeing was making the 747, they had sold/booked a lot fewer planes than this.
Now, leaving the realm of fact and going into opinion, I like Airbus, but the A380 is a bad deal. I can't see how it'll ever make a true profit now. I don't know if it'll be an outright failure either, because I think the demand for a plane of this size is large (as Airbus thinks) and I think they will sell more than 175 over the life of it. But the problem is they've sunk in so much money now, I can't see how they'll ever poke their head above water by any cost-accounting system that takes into opportunity costs and such.
I think in the end they'll sell 300 or so, and they'll be in the air, doing well. A company could do a lot worse than that.
What they need to do now is get this project to bed and get back on the A350 and the narrow body market, where the real money is.
Concorde was only ever profitable in the first place because they were sold at a loss to the initial operators. The SST had a huge line-up of orders before production, but mass outcry over sonic booms in the first flights led to many countries banning overflights and making the plane a lot less useful than it first seemed.
I'm not crapping on the Europeans over Concorde, because the US wanted to make an SST too. It seemed to make sense at the time. But in reality, the demand for such an expensive flight was rather low.
The US was fortunate in that we weren't nearly as far along on our SST when the shit hit the fan. Luck was the big difference between US and European efforts here, neither side was acting stupid.
Thus pointing out that this is just the miniroot image.
A UNIX machine can't boot without a root file system, and so when in recovery mode, you usually mount a RAM disk as the root image.
That's what this unencrypted image with these passwords is.
I don't think it's knows that the passwords when the unit is fully booted are the same as those in the miniroot. So it's not really valid to say "iPhone root password hacked in three days", at least as long as you can't verify that the passwords are reused when booted fully from a true mass storage volume (the internal NAND?).
Actually, there was not a different in diameter. It's just that one of the cylinders hadn't been supported properly for a couple days and became oblate. It was still the right size, just not the right shape. So they jacked it back into shape and connected it. It wasn't difficult.
Your comments about holes in planes ("ramp rash") are also off base. Boeing has two patch kits, one which can be applied in a very short time, the other which takes something like 36 hours to cure. Boeing has shown to the airlines that fixing small holes from collisions with trucks won't be a problem.
San Francisco isn't in Silicon Valley either, for the record.
Honestly, people should come up with another name for the high tech area because Palo Alto isn't in Silicon Valley either. As high tech as Palo Alto is, it was never really involved in silicon, just software.
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Their next gaming console will have to have some kind of optical drive in it. And DVD isn't big enough anymore an the 12X spin rate needed to get good transfer rates also is one of the things that makes their console annoyingly loud.
They'll have to use a new optical format for the next Xbox, and with HD-DVD dead it seems to mean they have to use BluRay.
And for those who want to say you'll get your games over the next, I really can't see that in the next 2-3 years. By the end of the next console's lifetime (6+ years) it seems pretty natural though.
This thing is only 2/3rds that efficient.
I know everyone hates sodium vapor lamps, but this does show that this lamp isn't a revolution.
And additionally, the mercury stuff about CFs is horseshit. A CF, even if broken releases less mercury into the environment that the mercury released by burning coal to run an incandescent lamp for its lifetime.
Article says BluRay manufacturers have raised prices. This is not true. The link tracks average sale price, no manufacturer's recommended price.
Yes, average sale price has gone up after Christmas sales ended.
Also, if BluRay's catalog is skimpy, what does that make the HD-DVD catalog, which is smaller?
It'd be great if the HD-DVD fans took a clue from Toshiba and stopped trying to push a dead format. They're not doing anyone any favors.
The price was even set before the format war even started in earnest. It did change about 10% since then, but if you think that represented a payoff to Toshiba, it was less then $60M. If all the conspiracy nutters believe Warner got $500M to stop supporting HD-DVD, would they think Toshiba needs only $60M to drop out of the race completely?
They denied it over 6 weeks ago.
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show//1327
Now, I know lying isn't impossible for CEOs. But they don't have any financial incentive to lie about this, and in general a company will just give no comment instead of lying because it's safer, you can't get sued for saying no comment while you can for lying.
It's a very sad state of journalism that a story like this can be printed with unsubstantiated allegations weeks after it was already cleared up.
Maybe other people didn't want to vote for Ron Paul.
Presupposing that the reason he didn't win is to flatly state that if everyone were informed and voted their hearts, Ron Paul would have won.
Did you ever just stop to think that maybe a majority of people don't agree with you? That if the world was well informed, they wouldn't necessarily come to the same conclusions as you?
Only an egotist would put forth their choice of candidate as the only valid one.
Agreed. It appears the laptops are defective, in that the shell came in contact with a portion of the circuit and that isn't supposed to happen (well, not easily).
Yes, the neutral is also tied to ground at the breaker panel, like the ground.
But the thing is the neutral is designed to ALWAYS carry current, it's part of the circuit. The ground is there for safety and usually carries no current.
Why is this important? Well, if ground is at 0V, but the wire between the outlet and ground is 1 ohm and carrying 15 Amps, then the neutral at the outlet will be at 15A * 1 ohm, or 15V (AC in this case). So now there is a voltage difference between neutral and "true" ground (which can be either the ground prong on the outlet or the puddle you're standing in) and that means that you'll have a current flow (shock) between something tied to that neutral and ground.
i.e. you'll get shocked.
The ground usually carries no current, so even with a resistance to true ground, there should be zero current, 1 Ohm * 0A = 0V and you don't feel a shock.
Since this depends on current flow through the neutral at your electrical outlet you'll find this thing will either give you a shock or not depending on which outlet you plug it into and what else is plugged in and turned on.
This is why all two-prong devices are supposed to be "double insulated" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_insulated#Class_II) from both line power and neutral.
Computers run at 160F plus, a room getting to 120F won't faze them. You'll be unhappy about other things before your computer gets sad, well, unless you built it wrong. Any computer you buy has been tested in a 140F hot room before sale, of course one you built yourself may be different.
As to your baby, rashes and sores like that are due to friction from humidity, not from heat. Computers don't care about humidity much either.
I live in California without A/C. No problems. I grew up in Michigan (similar to Minnesota, very humid and at times very hot) without A/C. I know humans aren't the best adapted to harsh environments, but Minnesota was populated by families with babies for decades before A/C.
Delaying 360 to wait for HD-DVD to be cost-viable would have been a mistake. 360 debuted about 6 months before the first HD-DVD players were available at any cost.
Instead of making HD-DVD a winner, it easily could have made 360 a loser.
5 BluRay discs for $28. So I don't think media cost is much of an issue.
Besides, a dual-layer BD costs less than $2 to make, and a single-layer BD is always an option, storing 25GB, which is almost as much as a dual-layer HD-DVD and cheaper to make too.
Wrong icon and everything!
"Widely available patent-free implementations of Ogg".
First, saying "Ogg" means Ogg Vorbis to most people. This is about Ogg Theora.
Second, whether something is patent free is not determined by the implementation. You're thinking of copyright!
Ogg Theora uses patented technology. We don't want to enter into a Rambus-type situation where once something becomes popular a company can come back and start dinging people for money.
And the icon doesn't make sense. This isn't about trying to patent existing or trivial things, it's about whether a standard should make mandatory a patented codec that isn't even widely used.
The neutrons coming out are too fast to react inside the core (they escape before they do so). So you have to insert moderators to slow the neutrons and then the core becomes critical. Remove the moderators and it drops to subcriticality. But it's still quite radioactive and warm, just not likely to blow up.
Because Americans are going into Business School or Law School, because they want to be rich. They want to be Gordon Gekko.
Americans don't want to make anything concrete anymore, they only want to make money.
Joz reversed that statement within 24 hours. And Jobs said
"[P]eople are going to try and break in and it's our job to try and stop them."
Yes, he also says Apple is looking at 3rd party apps, but he never says the phone will be opened. Maybe he'll just buy your app off you. It is a buyers' market too, since if you don't make a deal your app will keep breaking with every new firmware update.
Niagra is a poorly performing processor that just takes advantage of the fact that on a server, most threads are stuck in disk or net access all the time.
You're being snowed by SUN.
Even SUN realizes their days of hardware are nearing an end. They changed their stock symbol from SUNW (SUN Workstations) to JAVA (a software project).
The contracts Apple signed in Europe give Apple 10% of the revenue the wireless provider gets from activating the phone.
If you unlock your iPhone and don't use it on the contracted provider, then Apple loses that money.
So yeah, the unlocking has likely hurt Apple's business model.
Apple will fork. Count on it.
Apple makes a lot of money off DRM and keeping their systems under their own control. And the GPLv3 works against that.
So there's at least one major company right there.
The A380 has 175 orders. Many are from low-quality operators who may never come up with the money. Another problem is half the orders are from one operator, and no one is sure how this operator will be able to use that many planes. Neither of these means the A380 is a failure, but they're serious issues.
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The A380 is NOT the biggest plane ever manufactured by the human race.
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It's really uncool to make such basic mistakes when your trying to portray yourself as the voice of reason.
The 747 did almost bankrupt Boeing, and I would say that the financial issues the A380 has presented to Airbus are VERY serious, making your comment that these situations aren't similar rather hollow.
Boeing was a much smaller company at the time they were making the 747 than Airbus is now. Airbus has over 5,000 orders for A320s and has delivered 3,000 of them. When Boeing was making the 747, they had sold/booked a lot fewer planes than this.
Now, leaving the realm of fact and going into opinion, I like Airbus, but the A380 is a bad deal. I can't see how it'll ever make a true profit now. I don't know if it'll be an outright failure either, because I think the demand for a plane of this size is large (as Airbus thinks) and I think they will sell more than 175 over the life of it. But the problem is they've sunk in so much money now, I can't see how they'll ever poke their head above water by any cost-accounting system that takes into opportunity costs and such.
I think in the end they'll sell 300 or so, and they'll be in the air, doing well. A company could do a lot worse than that.
What they need to do now is get this project to bed and get back on the A350 and the narrow body market, where the real money is.
Concorde was only ever profitable in the first place because they were sold at a loss to the initial operators. The SST had a huge line-up of orders before production, but mass outcry over sonic booms in the first flights led to many countries banning overflights and making the plane a lot less useful than it first seemed.
I'm not crapping on the Europeans over Concorde, because the US wanted to make an SST too. It seemed to make sense at the time. But in reality, the demand for such an expensive flight was rather low.
The US was fortunate in that we weren't nearly as far along on our SST when the shit hit the fan. Luck was the big difference between US and European efforts here, neither side was acting stupid.
http://www.macintouch.com/iphone/faq.html
And there's no hack (well, at least not yet) to turn it on.
Thus pointing out that this is just the miniroot image.
A UNIX machine can't boot without a root file system, and so when in recovery mode, you usually mount a RAM disk as the root image.
That's what this unencrypted image with these passwords is.
I don't think it's knows that the passwords when the unit is fully booted are the same as those in the miniroot. So it's not really valid to say "iPhone root password hacked in three days", at least as long as you can't verify that the passwords are reused when booted fully from a true mass storage volume (the internal NAND?).
Actually, there was not a different in diameter. It's just that one of the cylinders hadn't been supported properly for a couple days and became oblate. It was still the right size, just not the right shape. So they jacked it back into shape and connected it. It wasn't difficult.
Your comments about holes in planes ("ramp rash") are also off base. Boeing has two patch kits, one which can be applied in a very short time, the other which takes something like 36 hours to cure. Boeing has shown to the airlines that fixing small holes from collisions with trucks won't be a problem.
It's not in any valley.
San Francisco isn't in Silicon Valley either, for the record.
Honestly, people should come up with another name for the high tech area because Palo Alto isn't in Silicon Valley either. As high tech as Palo Alto is, it was never really involved in silicon, just software.
That's the problem with it in my book.
It's SIM locked to Cingular and no one knows how to unlock it right now.
You can save a ton of money overseas by using a local prepaid SIM, and if this locks it out, I have no use for the device.
It's too bad Apple didn't stand up to Cingular on this.