Actually I have to say it does have some measurable effect. Outright failure commercially? Not really...lower profits than possible? Yes in some ways, but it's very specific. The decrease in profits or failure has more to do with agreements, and backroom circle-jerking imo like the following:
1. Overhyped movie sucks, and gets leaked to torrent sites. Which is well deserved.
2. Foreign film or TV show that takes longer than a month to reach other markets. A good example is Doctor Who. I know I am too impatient for them to air on the local stations.
Psh! Manufacturers can't even standardize their own system's connectors. Only one who has managed to standardize their plugs is Apple. Which is funny since their adapters & connectors are by leaps and bounds FAR better than everyone else's. Everyone really just needs to cough up the licensing dough, and give Apple money. They got a great freaking design, works wonderfully, quick disconnects without ripping your system off the desk, and the jack itself is indestructible outside of something being jammed into it.
Really? Where are you getting ripped off for your parts? $300-$500 will get you a nice gaming rig. Mobo $50, CPU $120ish (quad AMD), case & PSU ($100), 4GB RAM, ($100), 500GB HD ($50), videocard ($130). Quite a bit of that can even be made a bit cheaper too without sacking performance/stability. Oh, and depending on who you are...add a legitimate licence for 7 for an extra $100, or find one on Craigslist for $30-$50. Using my rough calculations it's just $600, and certainly NOT double an HTPC. Yes you can spend way more, but the extra cash spent past $500 in hardware gets you really diminishing gains compared to what spending that money in 2-3 years will get you. So much of that gets amortized as well since $600 gets you a system for work, play, home server, etc. A gaming system is suited for pretty much any use, and it's got life long after a console's expires (I'm running a new 360 every 2 years!).
Wait...how many devices do you have? The most expensive rig you should have in cables is like $100...MAYBE $150 TOPS unless your buying into junk like Monster Cables...then $600 is EASY to hit.
Which I find hilarious. The people making HARDWARE give a crap about people making content that may or may not be viewed over their hardware. The level of collusion there is insane. The people making the junk with HDCP owe the content guys jack.
Which is totally ok. Thing is, people have to treat a cellphone like anything else their employer allows them to use outside of work. If you want to talk dirty to the girl down the hallway, your gona have to find another way to do it. Otherwise you can take the risk.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. Last thing they really need is China becoming more powerful. The moment they do something on purpose to help China push forward, I will be amazed. How China allows stuff like this it is quite amazing to me. It's like the small skinny kid kicking dirt in the bullie's face that's 10x their size over and over. Goes to show ya I guess how far bribing politicians really helps.
Yeah, and I'm still trying to figure out how they mucked all that up. I like China (just came back from another trip 6 months ago), but it's not about who was ahead, it's about who's ahead right now, and will be. China as it stands can't sustain it's development. Something has to give with the haves vs. the have nots. Plus how they are going to survive when clean water costs more than oil will be an interesting one.
Actually that's part of it as well. Instead of paying for licenses, and support, people who work with open source software often make a good chunk more than their proprietary cousin's, and still have money left over for a support contract probably. People who can admin a Windows server are a dime a dozen (part of what I do sadly atm). People who can run an open source alternative are notably more scarce. You will pay about the same in either case, but in one, the money is going to someone you can hold accountable that can't say "it's not my fault, wait for patch Tuesday".
Because it's easier than one set like Chinese. Hiragana to help you learn how to sound it out, Katakana for foreign words, and Kanji for big boys, and girls. I still am sad I can only read roughly 400;_;
Actually manga do it because the people who write these things usually use awkward, or rare words. Title's of books, and people's names are especially guilty about this. They tend to write furigana above other Kanji because they write these things in the hopes that kids get into them. Not because they are shitastically hard (which they totally are). If they didn't do that, 4th graders working on 6-kyu level Kanji wouldn't have a chance with a book using 5-kyu Kanji. Plus it's an asset to kids since they end up learning how the Kanji looks while doing something they LIKE!
Word of advice, spend less time watching Anime, and more time studying Japanese. You'll never have time to deal with that tripe again. Hiragana you can write any Japanese word with, and or modify verbs, adjectives, etc. with. Katakana you'll write foreign words or their version of ALL CAPS for native words. Kanji however is for the majority of words of Japanese words. Kanji get dropped here and there because either no one remembers, or does remember, and doesn't want to write the f'ed up Kanji, and use Hiragana usually. It's actually much easier, and faster to read a sentence full of Kanji vs a sentence populated with just Hiragana. Plus there are so many nouns, and verbs that are so similar in sound, it's easier when reading to use the characters, and more representational objects. Even if it's a words you may not know, a few Kanji in it can make a WORLD of difference. Plus it's just faster really. Really it's quite simple!
Man there's a new one that I'm seeing on the bench recently that does all that, and disables anything including explorer, and task manager from running. Offline drive scans don't catch it, and I've yet to figure out where the hell it's stored (not in the usual random user's folder). I can find a whole ton of it's copies, but never the original file. I've had to wipe so many damn machines because of that one. At least with explorer running you can force a few things to happen that'll help with it's location if it's in odd spots.
I'm all for punishing for being an uploader, but if your going to do that, you have to PROVE that they even uploaded enough data to equal ONE copy of the file. Unless you can prove they are the source of the initial upload, they are just a extra-numiary down/uploader. Most of these people barely stick around long enough on BT to even download the one copy for themselves. Hell I have a hard enough time leaving an Ubuntu ISO running long enough to get to 1.5 ratio. I'm just too damn impatient, and want the data freed up. When we bust some group for having 1000 Windows CDs, we can't charge them with selling a million, and the damages from others who may have made copies (oh noes!) unless there's proof, like a log of who they sold to, and how many. The whole argument these people make is insane. I'm surprised this defense hasn't been put forward, but probably because it makes SENSE.
Forced to compensate? These companies are puppets of bigger groups of people with money,and usually lawyers working purely on percentage of winnings only. These businesses have by nature NO money. They are just a shell game so when things go badly for them the owners just setup another company, transfer a few patents into it, and begin the process again. Hell, I can't understand for the life of me, but.\ won't even post anything up about my submission about a troll pulling the same thing against almost every GOOD CPU cooler on the market atm when they didn't develop a damn thing. This kind of BS has got to stop.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/04/09/us_based_companies_sued_for_heat_pipe_cpu_coolers/
Then if you wanna nit-pick, lets say that 80yr old woman never bothered to put up curtains in her house before the streetview car drove by. The out of context frames of data, and the possible out of context frames of photos the car captured of her possibly naked were both just as useful, we'd all want to look at both equally (ew!) and just as much her fault. I was purely responding to the GP's post.
And anyone who moans that companies should have shipped the routers in a locked config, I agree with this. Which is then the company who MADE the hardware people paid for that should be gone after legally, not Google or some kid wardriving. However an industry with more companies making hardware I can easily put a number to than one singular company trying to provide others with a good service. Which also brings a funny idea given my more in tune example. Should home builder's be sued because they don't cover your window's before you move in? Who knows what people may see! Of course not, we all admit it's your own fault if you don't make your home private. Wireless networks are part of your home. Cover you windows, and lock your doors, or face the consequences.
Uh yeah, boooo corporate America for saying they made a mistake they had NO reason to tell anyone other than they actually do care. Which is why they pulled the project from going forward till this useless data was expunged (never used for anything). This whole thing is big non-issue to people who understand what happened. At worst their system captured a network name, and a couple useless frames of data that mean jack shit. And really, I don't give a crap if your some 80yr old lady who bought a Linksys router that didn't know how to configure it. It's each person's duty to lock their home, and make sure they didn't leave any windows open. A wireless network is to be treated the same. If the same 80yr old lady had a break in with the locks bolted on vs unlocked, her insurance company sure an't gona pay shit (and I sure wouldn't feel bad for her) because she DIDN'T SECURE HER DAMN HOME!!! Her data is to be handled the same damn way.
And as an aside, if Google's streetview captured you passed out & naked on your front lawn, that's really your problem, and your own damn fault. You were in public. I'm sure if you asked them nicely, they would blur your ugly duff out. It's what they are doing with the data at this time. Go fist-waving at a subject that matters PLEASE. Like the BP oil spill. Oh wait, that's not something you could possibly financially have some gain from.
This whole thing is just stupidly sensationalistic. Does anyone seriously read what they are reporting on? Especially the person who wrote the article, or by god even the poster. The DNA swab is VOLUNTARY!!! Seriously, this isn't even news worth talking about other than the fact that it's a good chance to compile a varied database of DNA. Plus the DNA is labeled by a BARCODE that only the student has a copy of with no identifying details otherwise tied to it. Even me having to type this out is more energy than should ever been expended talking about this. It's a non-issue.
And I wish Zynga the best at trying to transition their players over. Most people who use Facebook often don't bother going to other sites outside of checking Facebook, and email. It's Facebook's ball. Zynga would lose a whole lot more than 30% on building hardware & bandwith out, not to mention much more than 30% of their paying userbase.
And guaranteed the AMD systems you have crap out were probably using junk boards & PSUs. Unless the chip fizzled, the CPU choice had nothing to do with it. Plus really? Your going to talk about prototypes vs whats on the market? Both have stuff that's way ahead of whats on the market. That's why the call it's a (spell it with me now) P-R-O-T-O-T-Y-P-E. AMD has it's strengths. It's why Intel's x64 architecture is the same as AMD's. They got their shit together first, and made it work.
Yes actually...I've worked with so many boards that were made for AM2 that were made long before Phenom came out that work phenomenally with Phenom chips after a quick bios update. Now if your talking a prebuilt HP special POS, well that's your own fault.
Ummm...you do know that your BOARD dieing doesn't have jack to do with your CPU right? Unless of course you bought another board to find out somehow the CPU died which I never see happen outside of some dumbass not having good enough thermal control on the system. Buy a better board & PSU. I'll bet anything the board you used was a POS vs what you've used for your Intel rigs.
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Actually I have to say it does have some measurable effect. Outright failure commercially? Not really...lower profits than possible? Yes in some ways, but it's very specific. The decrease in profits or failure has more to do with agreements, and backroom circle-jerking imo like the following:
1. Overhyped movie sucks, and gets leaked to torrent sites. Which is well deserved.
2. Foreign film or TV show that takes longer than a month to reach other markets. A good example is Doctor Who. I know I am too impatient for them to air on the local stations.
Psh! Manufacturers can't even standardize their own system's connectors. Only one who has managed to standardize their plugs is Apple. Which is funny since their adapters & connectors are by leaps and bounds FAR better than everyone else's. Everyone really just needs to cough up the licensing dough, and give Apple money. They got a great freaking design, works wonderfully, quick disconnects without ripping your system off the desk, and the jack itself is indestructible outside of something being jammed into it.
Really? Where are you getting ripped off for your parts? $300-$500 will get you a nice gaming rig. Mobo $50, CPU $120ish (quad AMD), case & PSU ($100), 4GB RAM, ($100), 500GB HD ($50), videocard ($130). Quite a bit of that can even be made a bit cheaper too without sacking performance/stability. Oh, and depending on who you are...add a legitimate licence for 7 for an extra $100, or find one on Craigslist for $30-$50. Using my rough calculations it's just $600, and certainly NOT double an HTPC. Yes you can spend way more, but the extra cash spent past $500 in hardware gets you really diminishing gains compared to what spending that money in 2-3 years will get you. So much of that gets amortized as well since $600 gets you a system for work, play, home server, etc. A gaming system is suited for pretty much any use, and it's got life long after a console's expires (I'm running a new 360 every 2 years!).
Wait...how many devices do you have? The most expensive rig you should have in cables is like $100...MAYBE $150 TOPS unless your buying into junk like Monster Cables...then $600 is EASY to hit.
Which I find hilarious. The people making HARDWARE give a crap about people making content that may or may not be viewed over their hardware. The level of collusion there is insane. The people making the junk with HDCP owe the content guys jack.
Which is totally ok. Thing is, people have to treat a cellphone like anything else their employer allows them to use outside of work. If you want to talk dirty to the girl down the hallway, your gona have to find another way to do it. Otherwise you can take the risk.
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. Last thing they really need is China becoming more powerful. The moment they do something on purpose to help China push forward, I will be amazed. How China allows stuff like this it is quite amazing to me. It's like the small skinny kid kicking dirt in the bullie's face that's 10x their size over and over. Goes to show ya I guess how far bribing politicians really helps.
Yeah, and I'm still trying to figure out how they mucked all that up. I like China (just came back from another trip 6 months ago), but it's not about who was ahead, it's about who's ahead right now, and will be. China as it stands can't sustain it's development. Something has to give with the haves vs. the have nots. Plus how they are going to survive when clean water costs more than oil will be an interesting one.
Actually that's part of it as well. Instead of paying for licenses, and support, people who work with open source software often make a good chunk more than their proprietary cousin's, and still have money left over for a support contract probably. People who can admin a Windows server are a dime a dozen (part of what I do sadly atm). People who can run an open source alternative are notably more scarce. You will pay about the same in either case, but in one, the money is going to someone you can hold accountable that can't say "it's not my fault, wait for patch Tuesday".
Because it's easier than one set like Chinese. Hiragana to help you learn how to sound it out, Katakana for foreign words, and Kanji for big boys, and girls. I still am sad I can only read roughly 400 ;_;
Actually manga do it because the people who write these things usually use awkward, or rare words. Title's of books, and people's names are especially guilty about this. They tend to write furigana above other Kanji because they write these things in the hopes that kids get into them. Not because they are shitastically hard (which they totally are). If they didn't do that, 4th graders working on 6-kyu level Kanji wouldn't have a chance with a book using 5-kyu Kanji. Plus it's an asset to kids since they end up learning how the Kanji looks while doing something they LIKE!
Word of advice, spend less time watching Anime, and more time studying Japanese. You'll never have time to deal with that tripe again. Hiragana you can write any Japanese word with, and or modify verbs, adjectives, etc. with. Katakana you'll write foreign words or their version of ALL CAPS for native words. Kanji however is for the majority of words of Japanese words. Kanji get dropped here and there because either no one remembers, or does remember, and doesn't want to write the f'ed up Kanji, and use Hiragana usually. It's actually much easier, and faster to read a sentence full of Kanji vs a sentence populated with just Hiragana. Plus there are so many nouns, and verbs that are so similar in sound, it's easier when reading to use the characters, and more representational objects. Even if it's a words you may not know, a few Kanji in it can make a WORLD of difference. Plus it's just faster really. Really it's quite simple!
Man there's a new one that I'm seeing on the bench recently that does all that, and disables anything including explorer, and task manager from running. Offline drive scans don't catch it, and I've yet to figure out where the hell it's stored (not in the usual random user's folder). I can find a whole ton of it's copies, but never the original file. I've had to wipe so many damn machines because of that one. At least with explorer running you can force a few things to happen that'll help with it's location if it's in odd spots.
I'm all for punishing for being an uploader, but if your going to do that, you have to PROVE that they even uploaded enough data to equal ONE copy of the file. Unless you can prove they are the source of the initial upload, they are just a extra-numiary down/uploader. Most of these people barely stick around long enough on BT to even download the one copy for themselves. Hell I have a hard enough time leaving an Ubuntu ISO running long enough to get to 1.5 ratio. I'm just too damn impatient, and want the data freed up. When we bust some group for having 1000 Windows CDs, we can't charge them with selling a million, and the damages from others who may have made copies (oh noes!) unless there's proof, like a log of who they sold to, and how many. The whole argument these people make is insane. I'm surprised this defense hasn't been put forward, but probably because it makes SENSE.
Forced to compensate? These companies are puppets of bigger groups of people with money,and usually lawyers working purely on percentage of winnings only. These businesses have by nature NO money. They are just a shell game so when things go badly for them the owners just setup another company, transfer a few patents into it, and begin the process again. Hell, I can't understand for the life of me, but .\ won't even post anything up about my submission about a troll pulling the same thing against almost every GOOD CPU cooler on the market atm when they didn't develop a damn thing. This kind of BS has got to stop.
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/04/09/us_based_companies_sued_for_heat_pipe_cpu_coolers/
Hahaha, that's funny...Startup company that adds nothing to a community (just noise) gets screwed.
Then if you wanna nit-pick, lets say that 80yr old woman never bothered to put up curtains in her house before the streetview car drove by. The out of context frames of data, and the possible out of context frames of photos the car captured of her possibly naked were both just as useful, we'd all want to look at both equally (ew!) and just as much her fault. I was purely responding to the GP's post.
And anyone who moans that companies should have shipped the routers in a locked config, I agree with this. Which is then the company who MADE the hardware people paid for that should be gone after legally, not Google or some kid wardriving. However an industry with more companies making hardware I can easily put a number to than one singular company trying to provide others with a good service. Which also brings a funny idea given my more in tune example. Should home builder's be sued because they don't cover your window's before you move in? Who knows what people may see! Of course not, we all admit it's your own fault if you don't make your home private. Wireless networks are part of your home. Cover you windows, and lock your doors, or face the consequences.
Uh yeah, boooo corporate America for saying they made a mistake they had NO reason to tell anyone other than they actually do care. Which is why they pulled the project from going forward till this useless data was expunged (never used for anything). This whole thing is big non-issue to people who understand what happened. At worst their system captured a network name, and a couple useless frames of data that mean jack shit. And really, I don't give a crap if your some 80yr old lady who bought a Linksys router that didn't know how to configure it. It's each person's duty to lock their home, and make sure they didn't leave any windows open. A wireless network is to be treated the same. If the same 80yr old lady had a break in with the locks bolted on vs unlocked, her insurance company sure an't gona pay shit (and I sure wouldn't feel bad for her) because she DIDN'T SECURE HER DAMN HOME!!! Her data is to be handled the same damn way.
And as an aside, if Google's streetview captured you passed out & naked on your front lawn, that's really your problem, and your own damn fault. You were in public. I'm sure if you asked them nicely, they would blur your ugly duff out. It's what they are doing with the data at this time. Go fist-waving at a subject that matters PLEASE. Like the BP oil spill. Oh wait, that's not something you could possibly financially have some gain from.
This whole thing is just stupidly sensationalistic. Does anyone seriously read what they are reporting on? Especially the person who wrote the article, or by god even the poster. The DNA swab is VOLUNTARY!!! Seriously, this isn't even news worth talking about other than the fact that it's a good chance to compile a varied database of DNA. Plus the DNA is labeled by a BARCODE that only the student has a copy of with no identifying details otherwise tied to it. Even me having to type this out is more energy than should ever been expended talking about this. It's a non-issue.
And I wish Zynga the best at trying to transition their players over. Most people who use Facebook often don't bother going to other sites outside of checking Facebook, and email. It's Facebook's ball. Zynga would lose a whole lot more than 30% on building hardware & bandwith out, not to mention much more than 30% of their paying userbase.
lol that's fine you went over to the dark side. My system cost half the price of yours for what amounts to a 10%-15% gain.
If you drop a SAS 15,000RPM & SATA 7,200RPM drive one on top of the other you'll see some wacky issues. Space em out and it gets WAY better.
And guaranteed the AMD systems you have crap out were probably using junk boards & PSUs. Unless the chip fizzled, the CPU choice had nothing to do with it. Plus really? Your going to talk about prototypes vs whats on the market? Both have stuff that's way ahead of whats on the market. That's why the call it's a (spell it with me now) P-R-O-T-O-T-Y-P-E. AMD has it's strengths. It's why Intel's x64 architecture is the same as AMD's. They got their shit together first, and made it work.
Yes actually...I've worked with so many boards that were made for AM2 that were made long before Phenom came out that work phenomenally with Phenom chips after a quick bios update. Now if your talking a prebuilt HP special POS, well that's your own fault.
Ummm...you do know that your BOARD dieing doesn't have jack to do with your CPU right? Unless of course you bought another board to find out somehow the CPU died which I never see happen outside of some dumbass not having good enough thermal control on the system. Buy a better board & PSU. I'll bet anything the board you used was a POS vs what you've used for your Intel rigs.