While we're on the subject of Whedon (and I realize this is not the same as a movie sequence, but...) Just the other day I noticed that Neil Patrick Harris' first scene in Dr. Horrible is actually a really long take. And his delivery of every bit of it is fantastic.
I wonder if Google Instant will soon compound this problem. Once you're apt to see a tidbit of a result and quickly click through, that would be quite the prime target for this type of attack.
You do realize that the entire face of every single model of iPhone is one plate of glass, right? Its not like a flip phone or candybar where the screen is embedded and behind a bezel that is 25% of the width/height of the phone on all sides.
Well, in my defense, the submission did mention Mac OS X. Sorry, I would have replied sooner, but Steve is telling me about all the new iPods I need to go buy.
What is ironic is that Microsoft patents this, but my Mac running OS X 10.6 shuts down and off in literally 2 or 3 seconds, whereas Windows 7 on the same machine (and without virtualization) takes 15-20 seconds to shut down and off.
Its probably iPhone specific because the distribution system isn't open and so it is very difficult to trick someone into installing a hacked app onto their phone.
I used to think I was unique in what rare movies and music I liked until I met someone who had almost an identical collection to me. On top of that, we both had some of the same clothes. The reason netflix researches these data mining techniques is because our tastes really do cluster into groups. For some it might be because they like DeNiro films and Spaghetti Westerns. For others it might be that they like two screen writers - though they never know it. The payoff for getting this right if you are Netflix is that if a customer gets recommendations and he/she use those to fill your queue, then they are much less likely to cancel netflix anytime soon.
Things are happening too fast and there are too many components out there for this. Imagine you did develop this technology. The next day or week or quarter Intel or AMD ships a new processor and the hardware you developed can't use it. So all the time and money you spent developing this *FINAL* boot code is now obsolete. If you did have customers, they will move on to some other platform that can use the 'latest and greatest' because that is what the end user eventually demands. And this isn't just in the high end. Just about everything Intel sells now - even on this low end - is from 45nm process and requires a relatively new chipset to run it. Its why you can probably only find one new socket 478 motherboard on the market...
Yeah, but a new movie price is $8-$10 for a single person to view it once. A movie is new in the theater, not in the DVD case. If a game came out for $59 the same day as Star Trek did in the theater, its probably going to be $29 to $39 by the time the Star Trek DVD comes out.
Where I live, they have more PS2 games than any other system. There are just so many PS2 games its ridiculous. The PS2 (system) outsold the PS3 recently when the price dropped. I imagine that new system sales means many more game sales, too. Meanwhile, they won't take original XBox games/systems for trade anymore.
And they take a risk that they will unload it before the price drops to $30 for the game new. Seriously, I vividly remember buying Rallisport Challenge 2 and Project Gotham Racing 2 for the XBox for $50 each. Within a few weeks the price was $29.99. A month later and it was $19.99 on both of them!
Some people are already finding all they need to access everything they want is already available in a single window - Firefox connected to all the web apps they need. If a starter edition of Windows were widely adopted, it would push more and more developers to derive solutions that don't consume one of those running applications - the result will be more web applications. I don't think this is what Microsoft really wants. Sure they have all those Live apps, but they are apps. They don't run in the browser... Once you can live with just 3 applications, how is Windows relevant anymore?
Not highly publicized, but the old one is still for sale. And this isn't the clearance section - its a small link on the new shuffle's store page to another page in the main store.
Back in June of 2008 Netflix was going to shutdown the feature for managing separate queues. They sent an email and I canceled my account that day. Not sure how many of us there were, but they reversed course quickly. If you're pissed about the silverlight player. Close your account and email them a note to say why you did it. Maybe this will be a non-issue in the morning...
Here is a link to the original plan on Ars Technica: Netflix killing extra queues
Or why does the consumer have to know the difference? Put both builds on every disc and let the install choose based on the hardware's capabilities. Make it so an advanced user can put 32-bit on a 64-bit capable machine if that is what they want. Nobody hurts.
What do you mean by most MP3/AAC music players? The biggest player out there is Apple and the shuffle is cheaper than OLPC by a long shot. Also, OLPC gets all kinds of free press and does not pay millions in advertising. Sure OLPC includes a screen, but its not going to be the brightness or resolution you are thinking of when you think of a high end music player or cell phone. Also, I doubt Zunes will ever make much of a profit. Microsoft is great at making hardware that sheds money for the company when they are sold at Retail. I don't even think the XBox 360 is sold at a profit yet and the original XBox never was. That is why they just disappeared from the shelves rather than dropping to $99.
I think you learn more from failure than success. That is if you care to analyze the situation you were in and decide to take something positive away from it.
Not sure I agree with your logic. You are assuming quality is constant. A deluge of titles probably means that 10% figure be weakened reduced even more than since you have developers scrambling (i.e. shovelware.) What is really going to happen in the next 15 months is that you will have to wade through more crap to get to the stuff you want. That said, I wouldn't mind a bigger Nintendo section to wade through 2 years from now. I do hope you are right that the developers 'get it' while they produce games for the wii.
Microsoft really DID go far out of their way to list multiple levels of requirements for Vista that would tell you precisely what features you can use with what level of supported hardware.
Well, MSFT didn't go quite far enough when it came to the Intel GMA900 which does DirectX 9 and has Pixel Shader 2 and can siphon off 128MB of system RAM - meeting all the Aero requirements, but still unable to do Aero because Intel won't or can't produce a driver. Know how many GMA 900s there are out there? Just about 75% of the budget laptops sold by Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba in late 2005 and 2006 is probably the ballpark.
There is no direct automotive metaphor here
I think there is. I think its like showing a lowered Honda Civic Si with 17" Alloys and quoting its near 200 horsepower egine along with all its other appointments and then stating that the price starts at the DX's MSRP of $15,100.
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Speed is one thing, but how about normalizing the list by how well its owners are utilizing those transistors?
While we're on the subject of Whedon (and I realize this is not the same as a movie sequence, but...) Just the other day I noticed that Neil Patrick Harris' first scene in Dr. Horrible is actually a really long take. And his delivery of every bit of it is fantastic.
I wonder if Google Instant will soon compound this problem. Once you're apt to see a tidbit of a result and quickly click through, that would be quite the prime target for this type of attack.
You do realize that the entire face of every single model of iPhone is one plate of glass, right? Its not like a flip phone or candybar where the screen is embedded and behind a bezel that is 25% of the width/height of the phone on all sides.
Well, in my defense, the submission did mention Mac OS X. Sorry, I would have replied sooner, but Steve is telling me about all the new iPods I need to go buy.
What is ironic is that Microsoft patents this, but my Mac running OS X 10.6 shuts down and off in literally 2 or 3 seconds, whereas Windows 7 on the same machine (and without virtualization) takes 15-20 seconds to shut down and off.
So you know how to put those 128-Bit wide Altivec registers to use, I take it?
Won't this ruin my collection of photographs of creased paper?
Its probably iPhone specific because the distribution system isn't open and so it is very difficult to trick someone into installing a hacked app onto their phone.
I used to think I was unique in what rare movies and music I liked until I met someone who had almost an identical collection to me. On top of that, we both had some of the same clothes. The reason netflix researches these data mining techniques is because our tastes really do cluster into groups. For some it might be because they like DeNiro films and Spaghetti Westerns. For others it might be that they like two screen writers - though they never know it. The payoff for getting this right if you are Netflix is that if a customer gets recommendations and he/she use those to fill your queue, then they are much less likely to cancel netflix anytime soon.
Things are happening too fast and there are too many components out there for this. Imagine you did develop this technology. The next day or week or quarter Intel or AMD ships a new processor and the hardware you developed can't use it. So all the time and money you spent developing this *FINAL* boot code is now obsolete. If you did have customers, they will move on to some other platform that can use the 'latest and greatest' because that is what the end user eventually demands. And this isn't just in the high end. Just about everything Intel sells now - even on this low end - is from 45nm process and requires a relatively new chipset to run it. Its why you can probably only find one new socket 478 motherboard on the market...
Yeah, but a new movie price is $8-$10 for a single person to view it once. A movie is new in the theater, not in the DVD case. If a game came out for $59 the same day as Star Trek did in the theater, its probably going to be $29 to $39 by the time the Star Trek DVD comes out.
Where I live, they have more PS2 games than any other system. There are just so many PS2 games its ridiculous. The PS2 (system) outsold the PS3 recently when the price dropped. I imagine that new system sales means many more game sales, too. Meanwhile, they won't take original XBox games/systems for trade anymore.
And they take a risk that they will unload it before the price drops to $30 for the game new. Seriously, I vividly remember buying Rallisport Challenge 2 and Project Gotham Racing 2 for the XBox for $50 each. Within a few weeks the price was $29.99. A month later and it was $19.99 on both of them!
Some people are already finding all they need to access everything they want is already available in a single window - Firefox connected to all the web apps they need. If a starter edition of Windows were widely adopted, it would push more and more developers to derive solutions that don't consume one of those running applications - the result will be more web applications. I don't think this is what Microsoft really wants. Sure they have all those Live apps, but they are apps. They don't run in the browser... Once you can live with just 3 applications, how is Windows relevant anymore?
Not highly publicized, but the old one is still for sale. And this isn't the clearance section - its a small link on the new shuffle's store page to another page in the main store.
Back in June of 2008 Netflix was going to shutdown the feature for managing separate queues. They sent an email and I canceled my account that day. Not sure how many of us there were, but they reversed course quickly. If you're pissed about the silverlight player. Close your account and email them a note to say why you did it. Maybe this will be a non-issue in the morning... Here is a link to the original plan on Ars Technica: Netflix killing extra queues
Or why does the consumer have to know the difference? Put both builds on every disc and let the install choose based on the hardware's capabilities. Make it so an advanced user can put 32-bit on a 64-bit capable machine if that is what they want. Nobody hurts.
...then they should make their main page a search box ala Google.
Would you have accepted 20 more gigs of space?
I vote this stupidest comparison of the day. Make that most stupidest.
What do you mean by most MP3/AAC music players? The biggest player out there is Apple and the shuffle is cheaper than OLPC by a long shot. Also, OLPC gets all kinds of free press and does not pay millions in advertising. Sure OLPC includes a screen, but its not going to be the brightness or resolution you are thinking of when you think of a high end music player or cell phone. Also, I doubt Zunes will ever make much of a profit. Microsoft is great at making hardware that sheds money for the company when they are sold at Retail. I don't even think the XBox 360 is sold at a profit yet and the original XBox never was. That is why they just disappeared from the shelves rather than dropping to $99.
I think you learn more from failure than success. That is if you care to analyze the situation you were in and decide to take something positive away from it.
Not sure I agree with your logic. You are assuming quality is constant. A deluge of titles probably means that 10% figure be weakened reduced even more than since you have developers scrambling (i.e. shovelware.) What is really going to happen in the next 15 months is that you will have to wade through more crap to get to the stuff you want. That said, I wouldn't mind a bigger Nintendo section to wade through 2 years from now. I do hope you are right that the developers 'get it' while they produce games for the wii.
Well, MSFT didn't go quite far enough when it came to the Intel GMA900 which does DirectX 9 and has Pixel Shader 2 and can siphon off 128MB of system RAM - meeting all the Aero requirements, but still unable to do Aero because Intel won't or can't produce a driver. Know how many GMA 900s there are out there? Just about 75% of the budget laptops sold by Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba in late 2005 and 2006 is probably the ballpark.
I think there is. I think its like showing a lowered Honda Civic Si with 17" Alloys and quoting its near 200 horsepower egine along with all its other appointments and then stating that the price starts at the DX's MSRP of $15,100.