I remember when discs were selling for more like $5.
I worked for a multimedia company '93-'95. They paid ~$15 per CD, ended up with a lot of skeet (CDs make *lousy* coasters), and burned them on an $8,000 machine. Life these days is good (and soon we'll have widespread burnable DVDs, and it'll get even better...)
And they just noticed that companies are using these types of magnets 20 fscking years later?!
These folks do manufacture magnets as well as research them. So it's quite possible people were buying magnets from them for a while, then undercut them with another supplier who is violating their patents. Among their patents are ones regarding manufacturing methods. So under standard patent law, they look to have a reasonable basis for the suit.
According to their website, several of the patents run out in the next few years, so they wouldn't be able to use them in legal actions for much longer.
Maybe it's the paranoia in me, but in my opinion what in reality is going on is that IBM sees a definite threat to LCD products in the form of emerging or emergant technologies and has decided to shed some of the massive profits it makes on LCD screens.
As a business person, lowering my costs does not mean I have to lower my prices; it just means I can make more per item sold. (That's the whole incentive for doing this sort of research, after all.) Now, if I lower my costs, I might lower my prices so I can sell more units (profits being profits/unit * units sold), but unless it was for marketing reasons, I would never intentionally make my costs high.
The fundamental problem with biomass is the sheer amount of land needed to grow the vegetable matter to produce it. Plants are at best perhaps 5% efficient at turning the sunlight that hits them into energy. And then you have to turn the plant energy into fuel, which is likewise lossy. Now, if the biomass is pre-existing and would be landfilled or burned (sawmill sawdust and so on), these aren't big problems, the only issue is the cost per unit of energy. But growing crops specifically for energy may not be as efficient as other forms of energy manufacture, such as wind, solar, tidal, salinity gradient, etc.
What is really needed is a realistic appraisal of the costs and benefits of various forms of energy, and taxation/subsidies so the price reflects the true cost of each form. But this is a massively political thing, and if we didn't get it with eight years of Clinton, there's no hope with Bush in the Oval Office.
Well, Thomas Edison was rather a sharp fellow, in particular as far as money was involved. However, he would probably have developed the light bulb nevertheless.
Joseph Swan invented the carbon filament light bulb,and published an article in Scientific American, before Edison did any patenting. (And then Edison's patent was ruled invalid due to William Sawyer's prior art.) Edison's efforts did result in 10x improvements in the lifespan of the bulb, however.
Not everything you know is wrong, but a disturbingly high amount is.
The only dissappointment to me is that she won't play Grand Turisimo with me.
Have kids. I play FIFA 2001 with my six year old. No doubt we'll be playing Need For Speed 7 over our home wireless network in a couple of years, once he learns that occasionally you have to lay off the accelerator and brake...
I keep hearing about deaf people who think cochlear implants are evil
My wife has a cochlear implant and thinks it's a godsend. Remember that a few nutcases with outrageous opinions often get far more coverage than the sane majority.
Why? You were just given $100 a share of profit, as far as I can tell.
If my stocks go up in value, I don't pay taxes until I sell them. If my house goes up in value, I don't pay taxes until I sell it (ignore the one-time exemption here). Rare stamps? Beanie babies? The same rule applies. So why should options be different?
It's supposed to. Your code (ignoring the HTML gobbling of <) is not legal under the ANSI/ISO C++ standard. Under it, variables declared in a for statement got out of scope at the end of the compound statement.
I don't use VC++ much, but I think I read (C/C++ UJ) that this is a preference that can be changed to put 'i' in the correct scope.
You can do (hope I get this right)
#define for if (0); else for
in some core header file, and then your for statement variables will have the proper scope.
Seems like it shouldn't have taken that much effort to fix the Windows headers to match the standard, though.
If someone sells a gun they should ensure it's constructed in such away that someone can't injur (shoot) themself with it or ensure that the bullet is moving at a slow enough speed in order to reduce the risk of injury.
If you sell me a gun, I expect it not to have a hair trigger and not to be loaded unless you have clearly told me that it is.
I fail to see how requiring reasonably secure containers or cup caddies makes coffee no longer coffee. The ideal brewing temperature of coffee may be close to boiling, but ideal serving temperature is rather cooler.
HA! Yeah! This is just another typical american law-suit of the type: "I'm too stupid to realize that McDonald's coffee is hot and I have burned my tounge, so I'll just sue them for my blatant ignorance.")
If you're going to sell coffee through a drive-through window, you need to ensure that the containers you put the coffee in aren't flimsy enough to make spilling easy, or you need to serve it at a low enough temperature to reduce the risk of injury.
Sharky recommends the AMD chips in their CPU price comparisons.
And if you followed the link, you would see Sharky had the 256 MB 2100s listed at $103 each, not $206. I think the original poster just did the 2x multiply twice.
They'll also have to weaken the house robots, because otherwise the American entries would just get wasted and the obstacle-course-type rounds will have to be made easier, of course.
Given that (at least) Big/ger Brother and Suicidal Tendencies have been on both shows (and were competent but not outstanding on each), no wonder we call you guys snobs. (And I say this as someone who could play for the English national team and could get a UK passport if I wished.)
The UK has its boffins, the U.S. their "Good ol' Yankee ingenuity." It took the combination to make the P-51 Mustang.
Is the censorship getting that bad that they can only show "Violence against objects" by showing some sort of well-integrated family unit as well?
Doubtful. I was taping Battlebots for my six year old, and noticed there was a condom commercial. I don't really want to explain what those are to him yet... Then there's ads for Conker's BFD and the like. It's on at 10, so it's not really intended for the younger set (although my son wants us to build a bot so he can be like the kid on the Big Brother/Bigger Brother team that has been on both Robot Wars and Battlebots.)
Actually, OS 9 just gives you an out of memory error.
Yes, but Mac apps that run out of memory often crash, and can take the OS with it. (Windows apps aren't written any better, it's just that VM trashing often slows things down enough to discourage people from hitting the VM limit.)
Remember the point here was to build a game console.
*Indrema's* business model is this. As I said in my second message, *I'm* talking about a general purpose Linux PC. My claim is that such a sales approach could work well enough to sell enough machines that it would create a market for Linux games (and the standardized platform would make writing the games easier.)
No OS cost, no app cost. The cheapest machines at Best Buy don't ship with MS Office, but a Linux starter system could come with StarOffice, which is a tolerable alternative. So you're starting with lower prices. The machine is cheaper and more reliable. With a standardized hardware platform, maintenance is simple. You can figure out Wine settings needed to get a decent set of Windows games working.
With Microsoft getting more aggressive about license checking, companies are getting nervous. It may be an opportunity for Linux-based systems.
I said "like Indrema", although actually doing it almost exactly *unlike* Indrema is probably the key.
Indrema's plan required establishing their game SDK, signing on developers, etc. A much better method, I think, is simply to make the commodity hardware machine with Linux on it. DVD, P-III 700 equivalent processor, decent 3-D graphics (GeForce 2MX or similar), optional video capture, all USB input devices. Then come up with a decent distro and software combos, be prepared to distribute CD/DVD updates, and you've got a simple, decent business.
Indrema is going way too long without revenue, and they require too much external support (game developers). Combine this with the tech collapse, and you've got trouble.
The Linux game market is never going to be big nor profitable, no matter how many Linux machines are out there.
There's one thing that could change that: a good-selling machine like the Indrema. Provide all the stuff a new user reasonably needs, including e-mail, news, browser, money management, games, etc. and a simple auto-updater, and perhaps it would be a machine a non-techie would be happy with. Give it TIVO-like functionality, a remote, simple controllers, and TV out (perhaps wireless.) And then you've got a market.
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I remember when discs were selling for more like $5.
I worked for a multimedia company '93-'95. They paid ~$15 per CD, ended up with a lot of skeet (CDs make *lousy* coasters), and burned them on an $8,000 machine. Life these days is good (and soon we'll have widespread burnable DVDs, and it'll get even better...)
And they just noticed that companies are using these types of magnets 20 fscking years later?!
These folks do manufacture magnets as well as research them. So it's quite possible people were buying magnets from them for a while, then undercut them with another supplier who is violating their patents. Among their patents are ones regarding manufacturing methods. So under standard patent law, they look to have a reasonable basis for the suit.
According to their website, several of the patents run out in the next few years, so they wouldn't be able to use them in legal actions for much longer.
Maybe it's the paranoia in me, but in my opinion what in reality is going on is that IBM sees a definite threat to LCD products in the form of emerging or emergant technologies and has decided to shed some of the massive profits it makes on LCD screens.
As a business person, lowering my costs does not mean I have to lower my prices; it just means I can make more per item sold. (That's the whole incentive for doing this sort of research, after all.) Now, if I lower my costs, I might lower my prices so I can sell more units (profits being profits/unit * units sold), but unless it was for marketing reasons, I would never intentionally make my costs high.
The fundamental problem with biomass is the sheer amount of land needed to grow the vegetable matter to produce it. Plants are at best perhaps 5% efficient at turning the sunlight that hits them into energy. And then you have to turn the plant energy into fuel, which is likewise lossy. Now, if the biomass is pre-existing and would be landfilled or burned (sawmill sawdust and so on), these aren't big problems, the only issue is the cost per unit of energy. But growing crops specifically for energy may not be as efficient as other forms of energy manufacture, such as wind, solar, tidal, salinity gradient, etc.
What is really needed is a realistic appraisal of the costs and benefits of various forms of energy, and taxation/subsidies so the price reflects the true cost of each form. But this is a massively political thing, and if we didn't get it with eight years of Clinton, there's no hope with Bush in the Oval Office.
Well, Thomas Edison was rather a sharp fellow, in particular as far as money was involved. However, he would probably have developed the light bulb nevertheless.
Joseph Swan invented the carbon filament light bulb,and published an article in Scientific American, before Edison did any patenting. (And then Edison's patent was ruled invalid due to William Sawyer's prior art.) Edison's efforts did result in 10x improvements in the lifespan of the bulb, however.
Not everything you know is wrong, but a disturbingly high amount is.
The only dissappointment to me is that she won't play Grand Turisimo with me.
Have kids. I play FIFA 2001 with my six year old. No doubt we'll be playing Need For Speed 7 over our home wireless network in a couple of years, once he learns that occasionally you have to lay off the accelerator and brake...
I keep hearing about deaf people who think cochlear implants are evil
My wife has a cochlear implant and thinks it's a godsend. Remember that a few nutcases with outrageous opinions often get far more coverage than the sane majority.
Why? You were just given $100 a share of profit, as far as I can tell.
If my stocks go up in value, I don't pay taxes until I sell them. If my house goes up in value, I don't pay taxes until I sell it (ignore the one-time exemption here). Rare stamps? Beanie babies? The same rule applies. So why should options be different?
Your method will break anything like this one.
It's supposed to. Your code (ignoring the HTML gobbling of <) is not legal under the ANSI/ISO C++ standard. Under it, variables declared in a for statement got out of scope at the end of the compound statement.
I don't use VC++ much, but I think I read (C/C++ UJ) that this is a preference that can be changed to put 'i' in the correct scope.
You can do (hope I get this right)
#define for if (0); else for
in some core header file, and then your for statement variables will have the proper scope.
Seems like it shouldn't have taken that much effort to fix the Windows headers to match the standard, though.
If someone sells a gun they should ensure it's constructed in such away that someone can't injur (shoot) themself with it or ensure that the bullet is moving at a slow enough speed in order to reduce the risk of injury.
If you sell me a gun, I expect it not to have a hair trigger and not to be loaded unless you have clearly told me that it is.
I fail to see how requiring reasonably secure containers or cup caddies makes coffee no longer coffee. The ideal brewing temperature of coffee may be close to boiling, but ideal serving temperature is rather cooler.
i mean, since when did it become okay to rewrite what was said, giving it an entirely different meaning
You know Murphy's Law? It's not what most people think.
Oh, and Sturgeon said crud, not crap, although the meaning is pretty much captured.
If you are stupid enough to want 'donalds coffe you deserve whatever happens to you.
So the smart people are the ones who pay $3.50 a cup at Starbucks?
We're all bozos on this bus.
HA! Yeah! This is just another typical american law-suit of the type: "I'm too stupid to realize that McDonald's coffee is hot and I have burned my tounge, so I'll just sue them for my blatant ignorance.")
If you're going to sell coffee through a drive-through window, you need to ensure that the containers you put the coffee in aren't flimsy enough to make spilling easy, or you need to serve it at a low enough temperature to reduce the risk of injury.
Sharky is an Intel whore.
Sharky recommends the AMD chips in their CPU price comparisons.
And if you followed the link, you would see Sharky had the 256 MB 2100s listed at $103 each, not $206. I think the original poster just did the 2x multiply twice.
For a shift lever you just need a sympathetic girl who has her hand in the right spot, and let me move it to the next "gear" from time to time.
You know, you really shouldn't have her hand there while you're driving, it's rather distracting...
Hofstadters law: "Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadters law."
So does that mean you shouldn't take into account Hofstadters Law? Apparently it makes things take longer.
Or is it not recursive, so taking it into account twice is sufficient?
They'll also have to weaken the house robots, because otherwise the American entries would just get wasted and the obstacle-course-type rounds will have to be made easier, of course.
Given that (at least) Big/ger Brother and Suicidal Tendencies have been on both shows (and were competent but not outstanding on each), no wonder we call you guys snobs. (And I say this as someone who could play for the English national team and could get a UK passport if I wished.)
The UK has its boffins, the U.S. their "Good ol' Yankee ingenuity." It took the combination to make the P-51 Mustang.
Is the censorship getting that bad that they can only show "Violence against objects" by showing some sort of well-integrated family unit as well?
Doubtful. I was taping Battlebots for my six year old, and noticed there was a condom commercial. I don't really want to explain what those are to him yet... Then there's ads for Conker's BFD and the like. It's on at 10, so it's not really intended for the younger set (although my son wants us to build a bot so he can be like the kid on the Big Brother/Bigger Brother team that has been on both Robot Wars and Battlebots.)
Actually, OS 9 just gives you an out of memory error.
Yes, but Mac apps that run out of memory often crash, and can take the OS with it. (Windows apps aren't written any better, it's just that VM trashing often slows things down enough to discourage people from hitting the VM limit.)
Remember the point here was to build a game console.
*Indrema's* business model is this. As I said in my second message, *I'm* talking about a general purpose Linux PC. My claim is that such a sales approach could work well enough to sell enough machines that it would create a market for Linux games (and the standardized platform would make writing the games easier.)
How is this different from a PC?
No OS cost, no app cost. The cheapest machines at Best Buy don't ship with MS Office, but a Linux starter system could come with StarOffice, which is a tolerable alternative. So you're starting with lower prices. The machine is cheaper and more reliable. With a standardized hardware platform, maintenance is simple. You can figure out Wine settings needed to get a decent set of Windows games working.
With Microsoft getting more aggressive about license checking, companies are getting nervous. It may be an opportunity for Linux-based systems.
are you insane? Indrema?
I said "like Indrema", although actually doing it almost exactly *unlike* Indrema is probably the key.
Indrema's plan required establishing their game SDK, signing on developers, etc. A much better method, I think, is simply to make the commodity hardware machine with Linux on it. DVD, P-III 700 equivalent processor, decent 3-D graphics (GeForce 2MX or similar), optional video capture, all USB input devices. Then come up with a decent distro and software combos, be prepared to distribute CD/DVD updates, and you've got a simple, decent business.
Indrema is going way too long without revenue, and they require too much external support (game developers). Combine this with the tech collapse, and you've got trouble.
There's one thing that could change that: a good-selling machine like the Indrema. Provide all the stuff a new user reasonably needs, including e-mail, news, browser, money management, games, etc. and a simple auto-updater, and perhaps it would be a machine a non-techie would be happy with. Give it TIVO-like functionality, a remote, simple controllers, and TV out (perhaps wireless.) And then you've got a market.
Given that the work was done for a course that students *paid* to attend, is he allowed to simply take our work and walk away with it?
Have you talked to your parents (assuming they're footing the bill?) If I was such a parent and heard about this, I'd be going to talk to a lawyer.