My understanding is that Samsung did score the contract for the chip in the 2nd Gen Nano. Wikipedia says so, for whatever that's worth.
Additionally, I think people are getting crazy reactionary, assuming that the gaffe by SUN was responsible for ZFS not making Leopard.
There's no way to know if it was even in there before anyway.
And besides, Leopard was delayed by 6 months back in March. When you delay a product, you don't go adding new features to it, it'll just make the schedule longer. You might in fact defer features you were thinking of adding, like ZFS. It reduces the work to be done and helps shorten the schedule, keeping you closer to the original date.
As to the version numbers, Apple is in love with the "10" because of the "X" moniker. But you can ignore it. If you look at the release schedules an features, 10.1 is really like 11. 10.2 is really like 12.
That's why you get 3 numbers (10.3.1), because the 10 doesn't mean anything. You're really looking at OS X 3.1.
And then as to Apple charging for bug fix upgrades, well, it's true. But you state Apple charged for 10.1, and they didn't. 10.2,10.3,10.4 and presumably 10.5 are all pay upgrades though and I agree they contain significant bug fixes that really should have been free.
The main UI is okay, although very slow. The settings are completely incomprehensible. Sometimes you go to an item and it says "this setting is set in prefs > blah > blah > blah", instead of taking you there. Worse yet, the specified path doesn't even exist, it's incorrect.
Oh, and the battery lasts me two days, even if I don't use WiFi or UMTS. My W810i went 7. And the phone crashed on me in the middle of my last call. And it takes like 40 seconds to boot back up.
They're terrible. Every time I use a new Series 60 Nokia, I hope it's okay, and it's not.
It's about watching TV when it's right for you, not when the broadcasters want you to.
Even if I couldn't skip ads I still wouldn't be without a TiVo.
Because it catches all my shows I want to watch and then I can watch them when I get home.
I don't even have kids, but I don't see how families could get by without a PVR. What happens when you're watching a show live and your baby starts crying?
There are many shows I watch that I barely know when they're on. They're on when I get home and feel like watching them. Maybe that's 9P, maybe it's the next morning at 8:30A.
IBM/Moto would make a new chip, Apple would announce it and IBM/Motorola wouldn't be able to make enough. Once they begin catching up, the product would be near end-of-lifed already.
With Intel, Apple's sales are a drop in the bucket. No more first-day shortages for Apple.
How does only one tuner prevent simultaneous viewing/recording? My first TiVo had only one tuner and yet I could simultaneously view and record on it.
And 4AAs in the keyboard doesn't mean high power usage. My Apple Bluetooth keyboard uses 4AAs and yet the batteries lasted two years.
You can adapt HDMI to DVI-I with a simple cable that you can get for $5 at monoprice.com. No SCART is an interesting point. Although I know SCART is popular in Europe, if you want to watch a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc you're gonna want HDMI or DVI in case the content you want to watch has the Image Constraint Token.
PS1 had Net Yaroze. PS2 had PS2 Linux PS3 has PS3 Linux
All are somewhat crippled, but provide some level of homebrew development for the platform. This isn't a 180 on home console homebrew, it's just the latest phase.
If you want to compare apples to oranges, why not include Intel's more affordable chips? For $84 you can get one with 64Bit support even. For $89 you can get it with an 800MHz FSB and HT.
If you just want to surf the web and run a word processor, these will do it, and the 90nm ones aren't too bad on heat. If you want one that runs as cool as an AMD, you'll need the 65nm one, and it's a lot more.
But then again, all you want to do is run a word processor and surf the web, how much will that tax your chip anyway?
I have to say, $180 for a dual-core Conroe is a pretty good deal, very probably a smart $90 upgrade whether you were considering the AMD or P4.
The wave power project you refer to was a wind power project, and Kennedy killed it, not Kennedy and Kerry.
Solar doesn't require your entire backyard. Well, if you have a house. If you have a house, it'll take a portion of your roof. If you are in an apartment, stacked up 30 floors high, well, it won't cut it.
As others have stated, the Xbox Live does have a free service as well, and I saw nothing in the article describing free online multiplayer gaming (which is mostly what you pay for on Live).
Playing online is free on Sony's PS3 network, just like it is on PS2. PS3 online gameing: free. Playing on Live costs money.
You are correct that the Xbox 360 doesn't have an HDMI connector, but I believe it's $600 for a PS3 with one.
$500 in US. $430 in Japan. All PS3s have HDMI connectors, not just the expensive one (was announced a month ago).
The article doesn't say the hard drive is upgradeable. Are you making it up? I remember not putting my PS2 online because I had to pay $50 for a special 10/100 network adapter that fit the PS3, when a generic one cost $10. I'm not convinced there will be an easy way to upgrade the hard drive without buying proprietary hardware. This is Sony after all. (BetaMax, MiniDisc, MemoryStick, BluRay) etc. And are you sure opening the box won't void your warranty?
Over half the games on PS2 that played online would support a cheap 10/100 network adapater, in addition to Sony's which was $50 (but fell to $35 very quickly and is included in the Slim PS2).
The hard drive is upgradeable on the PS3 (do a search). You don't have to open the box either, it goes in the end. Sony never said it was upgradable with just any hard drive though, it's quite possible you have to buy Sony's HD (like on PS2) to upgrade it.
The higher-end PS3 has CF and SD memory slots next to the memory stick one. My Sony digital camera has a CF slot! And don't use BluRay as an example of Sony going it alone, HD-DVD has only one company backing it (Toshiba), BluRay has the entire rest of the industry. On the other hand, UMD (as used in PSP) is a great example of Sony going it alone, to their detriment. Dumbos.
Are you claiming that the PS3's peripherals will be dirt cheap? (See comment above about $50 PS2 network adapter.) PS3 uses a standard HDMI cable. It uses a standard power cable. It uses standard USB cables. The only proprietary cable it uses is the analog video out, and that's the same connector they have used since PS1, so many cheap 3rd party versions are available.
Additional wireless, rechargeable SIXAXIS PS3 controller: $43 (only priced in Japan so far). Charges with a standard USB A->mini B cable. Additional wireless, rechargeable 360 controller: $62 ($50 controller + $12 rechargeable battery pack, and you still don't get a charging cable).
So, at least so far, the cost of peripherals for the PS3 looks pretty reasonable.
And it doesn't matter how much it would cost to buy a pound of copper, if you already own it and already have installed it, it's cheaper to use it than to install fiber.
There's always money in making already installed cables work better to avoid installing new ones.
Why don't you take a cue from one of your princes...
"I'm surprised how thin everyone is." - Prince Charles on his most recent visit to the US.
Just because you came to believe it based upon what you saw on TV doesn't make it true. It only makes it relevant to how you act upon your assumptions.
As to racist speech, I think we have two different climates here. In the US I think it is okay that racist speech is protected. However, we don't have problems with racist chants ringing out at sporting events. I'm not a fan of ritual ridicule of someone based upon their race. So I think that in the EU regulation of racist speech to some degree is necessary. This could change some day if people decide to start acting more mature and not abusing their rights and forgetting their responsibilities. It could also change the other way in terms of the US.
And yes, I am aware the UK is getting much more than they are giving in terms of racist chants at soccer matches. That's why I said EU above. Even if no Brit engages in these chants, you still need laws to stop them by away team fans at games on British soil.
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My understanding is that Samsung did score the contract for the chip in the 2nd Gen Nano. Wikipedia says so, for whatever that's worth.
Additionally, I think people are getting crazy reactionary, assuming that the gaffe by SUN was responsible for ZFS not making Leopard.
There's no way to know if it was even in there before anyway.
And besides, Leopard was delayed by 6 months back in March. When you delay a product, you don't go adding new features to it, it'll just make the schedule longer. You might in fact defer features you were thinking of adding, like ZFS. It reduces the work to be done and helps shorten the schedule, keeping you closer to the original date.
Link to "the GoonFleet Corporation" is a goatse now.
As to the version numbers, Apple is in love with the "10" because of the "X" moniker. But you can ignore it. If you look at the release schedules an features, 10.1 is really like 11. 10.2 is really like 12.
That's why you get 3 numbers (10.3.1), because the 10 doesn't mean anything. You're really looking at OS X 3.1.
And then as to Apple charging for bug fix upgrades, well, it's true. But you state Apple charged for 10.1, and they didn't. 10.2,10.3,10.4 and presumably 10.5 are all pay upgrades though and I agree they contain significant bug fixes that really should have been free.
Like flag burning ammendements?
How about making making it illegal to inform about contraception on the government dime?
And Bush didn't follow the standards in the Constution, nor the FISA requirements. He warrantlessly searched everyone through datamining.
I have a N80 right now.
The main UI is okay, although very slow. The settings are completely incomprehensible. Sometimes you go to an item and it says "this setting is set in prefs > blah > blah > blah", instead of taking you there. Worse yet, the specified path doesn't even exist, it's incorrect.
Oh, and the battery lasts me two days, even if I don't use WiFi or UMTS. My W810i went 7. And the phone crashed on me in the middle of my last call. And it takes like 40 seconds to boot back up.
They're terrible. Every time I use a new Series 60 Nokia, I hope it's okay, and it's not.
I hope you go far making decisions for your company based upon personal goals of spite.
You're a straight shooter with upper level management written all over you.
If you want a SIM that lets you call outside China (even to Hong Kong), you have to sign an agreement that is a long way from anonymous.
I have seen several of these contracts my coworkers signed and brought back.
It's about watching TV when it's right for you, not when the broadcasters want you to.
Even if I couldn't skip ads I still wouldn't be without a TiVo.
Because it catches all my shows I want to watch and then I can watch them when I get home.
I don't even have kids, but I don't see how families could get by without a PVR. What happens when you're watching a show live and your baby starts crying?
There are many shows I watch that I barely know when they're on. They're on when I get home and feel like watching them. Maybe that's 9P, maybe it's the next morning at 8:30A.
Think of apple with IBM/Motorola for PowerPC.
IBM/Moto would make a new chip, Apple would announce it and IBM/Motorola wouldn't be able to make enough. Once they begin catching up, the product would be near end-of-lifed already.
With Intel, Apple's sales are a drop in the bucket. No more first-day shortages for Apple.
Anyone find it funny that one could talk about double entendres and not mention the phrase "talk with Taco"?
In TJ, Mexicali, Windsor, Vancouver, Niagra Falls.
This fair tax is only fair if you think rich people would give up and not try to find ways around it.
There wouldn't be a single car sold in Detroit, Port Huron, Seattle, Buffalo, San Diego (probably LA), or any city near Canada or Mexico.
And that'd just be the start. Rich people would find ways to lease stuff so they never actually buy stuff (it IS a sales tax).
We have an income tax, which made rich people find ways to never realize income, thus we had to modify our tax code to fix that.
There's no reason to think the rich wouldn't find a way to avoid a sales tax just like they avoid income tax.
My XP SP2 machine is up to date, and I installed IE 7 today. The test at that link reports that it is vulnerable.
How does only one tuner prevent simultaneous viewing/recording? My first TiVo had only one tuner and yet I could simultaneously view and record on it.
And 4AAs in the keyboard doesn't mean high power usage. My Apple Bluetooth keyboard uses 4AAs and yet the batteries lasted two years.
You can adapt HDMI to DVI-I with a simple cable that you can get for $5 at monoprice.com. No SCART is an interesting point. Although I know SCART is popular in Europe, if you want to watch a HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc you're gonna want HDMI or DVI in case the content you want to watch has the Image Constraint Token.
"As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it."
They blame Windows, but they blame themselves more.
How is this passing the buck?
Not $599.
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For $499 you get everything the $599 has except the larger HD, built-in WiFi and a CF and SD card reader.
You can upgrade the HD, and add WiFi and SD/CF card reading via USB.
The PS2 Linux kit was overexpensive because Sony wanted it that way. There was a network/HD adapter for the PS2 later that cost a lot less than $700.
HDMI can be converted to DVI-D with a simple physical adapter or cable. They use the same signalling for video. How about for $5?
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And they will tighten security holes.
What does this have to do with the PS3 linux?
PS1 had Net Yaroze.
PS2 had PS2 Linux
PS3 has PS3 Linux
All are somewhat crippled, but provide some level of homebrew development for the platform. This isn't a 180 on home console homebrew, it's just the latest phase.
You say you don't need the latest?
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Fine then, Get a Pentium 4.
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If you want to compare apples to oranges, why not include Intel's more affordable chips? For $84 you can get one with 64Bit support even. For $89 you can get it with an 800MHz FSB and HT.
If you just want to surf the web and run a word processor, these will do it, and the 90nm ones aren't too bad on heat. If you want one that runs as cool as an AMD, you'll need the 65nm one, and it's a lot more.
But then again, all you want to do is run a word processor and surf the web, how much will that tax your chip anyway?
I have to say, $180 for a dual-core Conroe is a pretty good deal, very probably a smart $90 upgrade whether you were considering the AMD or P4.
60% of these are non-nuclear, and some didn't even occur on ships.
You might save yourself some trouble if you only looked up relevant info.
The wave power project you refer to was a wind power project, and Kennedy killed it, not Kennedy and Kerry.
Solar doesn't require your entire backyard. Well, if you have a house. If you have a house, it'll take a portion of your roof. If you are in an apartment, stacked up 30 floors high, well, it won't cut it.
Always at the wrong time.
As others have stated, the Xbox Live does have a free service as well, and I saw nothing in the article describing free online multiplayer gaming (which is mostly what you pay for on Live).
Playing online is free on Sony's PS3 network, just like it is on PS2. PS3 online gameing: free. Playing on Live costs money.
You are correct that the Xbox 360 doesn't have an HDMI connector, but I believe it's $600 for a PS3 with one.
$500 in US. $430 in Japan. All PS3s have HDMI connectors, not just the expensive one (was announced a month ago).
The article doesn't say the hard drive is upgradeable. Are you making it up? I remember not putting my PS2 online because I had to pay $50 for a special 10/100 network adapter that fit the PS3, when a generic one cost $10. I'm not convinced there will be an easy way to upgrade the hard drive without buying proprietary hardware. This is Sony after all. (BetaMax, MiniDisc, MemoryStick, BluRay) etc. And are you sure opening the box won't void your warranty?
Over half the games on PS2 that played online would support a cheap 10/100 network adapater, in addition to Sony's which was $50 (but fell to $35 very quickly and is included in the Slim PS2).
The hard drive is upgradeable on the PS3 (do a search). You don't have to open the box either, it goes in the end. Sony never said it was upgradable with just any hard drive though, it's quite possible you have to buy Sony's HD (like on PS2) to upgrade it.
The higher-end PS3 has CF and SD memory slots next to the memory stick one. My Sony digital camera has a CF slot! And don't use BluRay as an example of Sony going it alone, HD-DVD has only one company backing it (Toshiba), BluRay has the entire rest of the industry. On the other hand, UMD (as used in PSP) is a great example of Sony going it alone, to their detriment. Dumbos.
Are you claiming that the PS3's peripherals will be dirt cheap? (See comment above about $50 PS2 network adapter.)
PS3 uses a standard HDMI cable. It uses a standard power cable. It uses standard USB cables. The only proprietary cable it uses is the analog video out, and that's the same connector they have used since PS1, so many cheap 3rd party versions are available.
Additional wireless, rechargeable SIXAXIS PS3 controller: $43 (only priced in Japan so far). Charges with a standard USB A->mini B cable.
Additional wireless, rechargeable 360 controller: $62 ($50 controller + $12 rechargeable battery pack, and you still don't get a charging cable).
So, at least so far, the cost of peripherals for the PS3 looks pretty reasonable.
There's a lot of wire in the ground already.
And it doesn't matter how much it would cost to buy a pound of copper, if you already own it and already have installed it, it's cheaper to use it than to install fiber.
There's always money in making already installed cables work better to avoid installing new ones.
Even the OJ trial doesn't represent what really happens in courtrooms.
Go sit in on a real trial sometime.
The PNAC statement drawn up before Bush even took office says the US must dominate not only the surface of the Earth, but space and cyberspace too.
He's just following the script that Scooter Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, William Kristol and others wrote up for him.
Why don't you take a cue from one of your princes...
"I'm surprised how thin everyone is." - Prince Charles on his most recent visit to the US.
Just because you came to believe it based upon what you saw on TV doesn't make it true. It only makes it relevant to how you act upon your assumptions.
As to racist speech, I think we have two different climates here. In the US I think it is okay that racist speech is protected. However, we don't have problems with racist chants ringing out at sporting events. I'm not a fan of ritual ridicule of someone based upon their race. So I think that in the EU regulation of racist speech to some degree is necessary. This could change some day if people decide to start acting more mature and not abusing their rights and forgetting their responsibilities. It could also change the other way in terms of the US.
And yes, I am aware the UK is getting much more than they are giving in terms of racist chants at soccer matches. That's why I said EU above. Even if no Brit engages in these chants, you still need laws to stop them by away team fans at games on British soil.