To continue the Star Wars motife, here's what Moore and Microsoft are probably thinking about each other right now:
Lando: "Yes I said closer! Get as close as you can, and engage those Star Destroyers at point-blank range!!" Ackbar: "At that close range we won't last long against those Star Destroyers." Lando: "We'll last longer than we will against that Death Star, and we might just take a few of them with us!"
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Thanks for the info. I was unaware of a K8L core type. I was mostly confused due to the fact I've seen people use this to describe motherboards before. Sorry for the mix up.
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Here's the correct URL: (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8 2E16813131059)
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You're the one living the cave for the past few months. I've reasearching the K8L since it came out in June THIS YEAR and it is currently avaliable on newegg, here's the link: (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=2 010200302+1071518098&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=302)
And if that's newegg posting crap, then I'll eat my hat!!!
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I recently Googled "AMD Quad Core" and clicked on the first or second result and read the article. If this article holds true, AMD could very well blow Intel off the map and into orbit. The article said that the recent buyout of chip maker ATI is part of a grander strategy by AMD to take a bite out of Intel. The article said that the current CPU dye made by any manufactuer contains 18 individual components, minus the cores, to create the CPU dye. AMD's 4x4 quad core slated to launch in early '07 is being rebuilt from the ground up. AMD is going to attempt to modularize a CPU dye to allow for quicker, cheaper, and easier manufactuering. By that they mean that each individual component will be interchangeable and have an on dye socket to be plugged into. A good visual image of this is building blocks. Identically shaped and sized units rearranged to create a new structure. The article said that the only difference hardware wise between an Opteron and an 64 X2 is 3 components. If AMD is successful in modularizing the CPU dye, this article estimates that AMD will have "entry level" 4x4 CPU's in 8000-9000+ range avaliable to CONSUMERS for around $400-$600 and industry quality models at around $1000 on the low end. Only time will tell if this is true, but for me, I hope it comes true as I'm being asked at school by the teachers as to who will have the better CPU in the future and my answer is "AMD of course.".
There's a bit of dialouge in Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaires that fits what happened to Colbert here. This dialouge takes places during the Davion invasion of Tharkad at the end of the game and it goes something like this:
Spectre: "Castle, defenders at Alpha neutralized and were moving on Beta." Castle: "Patching you through to Central Command, Sir." Peter Davion: "Were moving to crash there flank at Beta." Spectre: "Defenders at Nav Alpha destroyed and were moving on Nav Beta." Davion: "Roger. Take out those turrets. You're the anvil and I'm the hammer." Spectre: "Roger, engaging Beta."
This is what happens when Colbert tries to attack a target and gets bit by his own plan. The defense is so swift and quick he don't know what to do.
You make an excellent point about tuning microwaves to the frequency of the venom to cook cancer cells, but there are just to many variables here for it to even be considered, not now anyway. First of all, the way a microwave oven works is to induce heat by adding electrons to fatty cells, that's why meat gets warmer faster than bread. Doctors wouldn't go for this due to the fact they could scramble brains even with only a few seconds exposure. Second of all, microwaves experience the same problems as laser beams do in atmosphere's. Nitrogen is a great scatterer of IR and EM waves thus the Northern Lights due to solar wind, also one has to take into account the varying layers of material to be penetrated and not to be fried by microwaves to reach the venom tagged cells. A design team would have to use the very lattest in computer processing power, both hardware and software, to produce a system that could calculate, tune, and react within naon seconds of a very long series of commands, 100-200 million calcs/nanosec, to even begin to be capable of developing a safe and controllable enviroment in which to treat people. Lastly, life evolves. To quote Dr. Malcom from Jurassic Park "Life will find a way.". Every few years, or even every few months, the systen would requier massive updates and overhauls to adapt to the new biological structures being used in it. These last 2 items aren't cost effective and as has been shown with the ABL, are very frustrating and time consuming. Your idea isn't flawed, its briliant. However, our current understanding of Quantum Mechanics is such that laser's and microwaves are about as far as we can develope hardware successfully. To activate the venom and not scramble the patient, you would need something akin to a remote for a TV to activate the venom. A single burst of commands to the venom instead of seconds of agitant microwaves would be far safer and much easier to use than tuning a microwave to each individuals own "frequency" so as to not kill your patient. This could lead to the Star Trek breed of nanoprobes used by the Borg, but to save life instead of take it.
The use of chemo still is that its the most effective way to treat cancer. However with treatments like this on the horizon, we could see a revoultion in the field of medicare within a few decades and definitly my lifetime. The world needs creative minds to continue to florish, so keep at it!
I can understand the priciples behind this kind of treatment. Scorpion poison is a heom-nureo toxin (means that it attacks blood and nerve cells) that targets both braches of cancer cells, blood supplies and nerve connections for continued growth. An added benefit is that scorpion venom is relativly safe to humans. In all but the rarest cases that involved serious allergic reactions and death, scorpion sting victims expericed a large welp and severe pain, something like a VERY LARGE bee sting. The part that kinda doesn't make sense here is the radiological material, but I've and heard of an experimental treatment for cancer tumors that involves 10 times the level of normal radiation treatment coures and is done in a single 2 hrs process. The tumor is radiologically tagged and insulated, then a high dose of the elements Mb 117, Molybdenum, U 235, Uranium, and moderator of sorts Boron (check me on this I may be wrong on the elements but I know its a radiological dose none the less) and the tumor disappears in 24-48 hrs and has a success rate of 100%. The only thing I could see the radiological material doing is tagging the cells for destruction and giving guidance to the radioactive scorpion venom to reduce harm to healthy tissue. If this works they may have invented a cancer proof cure for cancer.
This guy is right. The American populus in general needs to quit moaning about someone they elected and start to use their power in government to get what they want done, done. As far as countries go, the citizens of the U.S. have more power over their gov't than people in any other nation. All we need to do is quit with the "I'm to poor, weak, ect." bullshit excuses and go back to the "Well I don't have much but I'll try anyway" or the "Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead!" attitudes that founded and formed this nation and lead us through a civil war and 2 world wars successfully. Case and point, I'm currently building a PC. My friends have all told me that it can't be done because I don't have money. But I've researched, saved, and planned and now am ready to build. By taking the time and having faith I've readied myself for the task at hand. One could also say that the current state of affairs in the U.S. is due its secular movement and liberalism spreading and taking over and ruling out the good Christian values once held so dear in this nation.
I'm a Kansas City native and have been in the very building that houses a plaque to those who died in the greatest U.S. engineering disaster of all time, the collapse of the skywalk in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. I'm also a student at the local community college and am studying architechtural design, so I've gotta a bit of an idea as to what goes on in the engineer's office on a day to day basis. This project, the "Big Dig" has all the characteristics of the 1982 Hyatt Skywalk failure: impossible deadlines, poor management, and overworked and stubborn engineers getting moved aside so newer more willing guys will sign off on the plan's. The problem with the Big Dig is that people who don't know a thing about structural engineering are dictating design, budget, and deadline's. And when their certified engineers run up Red Flags, they bring in the younger guys to solve the problem. And as others have stated, if the deadline isn't meet by the engineers, managment steps in and BS's it's way through the plan "shotguning" blank values to fill them. The only difference in the Big Dig and Hyatt failures is that they got caught because the structure failed and people were killed. And you know who gets blamed and takes the fallout for this kind of thing, engineers and public safety. In the Hyatt disaster, the cheif architect lost his liscense and job because his signature wasn't on the revisions that an ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER a.k.a. UNLISCENSED PROFESSIONAL, made to his design and he paid $12 million in fines because of it while the project managers were allowed a new contract to clean up the mess and rebuild a new skywalk. So the problem with big projects like the Big Dig and the Hyatt Regency Hotel isn't a lack of trained and certified engineers and architects, its a lack of control on the managements part to stay out of the engineers hair and leave them be so they can design a safe structure.
I read on the Fox News website that Nvidia and AMD will continue their CPU GPU cooperation even after the news of the AMD buyout of ATI. Nvidia and AMD are going to use the incorperation of ATI into AMD as leverage to unseat the leading chip manufacturer Intel. This could produce even better graphics performance than previous cooperations. AMD's buyout was to produce cheap, reliable, integrated chipset solutions for entry level users and to gain a better foothold in the market. These two juggernaut chip makers could very well put Intel out of business overnight, imagine that no more cheap crappy Intel chips and nothing but high quality chips at decent prices.
In my opinion, the only way encryption would catch on is if it did three things:
1. Securly encrypt file data to prevent hacking at least 60% of the time.
2. Didn't consume so many resources and reduce system performance and speed to a crawl (this has been a recuring theme when stuff is encryted on my PC).
3. Could mask what is going on and make it appear as background traffic i.e. break up the data stream into several bits to speed up transfer and reduce chance of someone of figuring out what is beinging moved (large file should = more bandwidith and encryption, thus greater chance of it being targeted by hackers).
Maybe software agencies looking to provide reliable encryption tech should take a look at the bit torrent community they've got some pretty good stuff.
To add to this guy's list, here's what I do. Most apps are found on download.com.
1. Use the Portable Version of Firefox. It dosen't cache off to disk and cleans up user history when you close the app.
2. Use a reputable firewall. I have the latest version off ZoneAlarm and the default controls allow the user to specify what gets in or out.
3. Use a reputable AV. I have the latest version of AVG and its pretty good at staying upto date and scans quite often.
4. Use a reputable Anti-Spyware program. I have the latest version of Ad-Aware SE and it picks up stuff that ZA and AVG miss as well as spyware.
5. Get iolo's System Mechanic. It can prevent hackers from hacking and finding stuff on your drive by encrypting the free space, deleted file name, and data by overwriting those area's per U.S. DOD encrypting standards. It also cleans out your digital history of where you've been and what you've opened.
6. Use common sense. If you close pop-ups by closeing them on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen instead of clicking close on the window you'll save yourself headaches (quite a few pop-ups use PINP format so that it opens when you try click the X to close it).
I agree that this is ground-breaking news indeed that Microsoft would allow users to tweak the basic setting of Windows and/or remove Windows components such as IE. But seeing as how Microsoft is cracking down of modded versions of Windows already, wouldn't be safe to assume that if you remove IE or other non-useful to user components that Microsoft would display that annoying WGA icon at boot, or worse, say you remove IE then need to reinstall it for a drivers update and Windows says "Changed Program, Access Denied". This, in my opinion, fits better with Microsoft's current stance towards people changing their OS to better fit their uses. I would think that Microsoft is going to allow users to change the OS to better fit their use, but impose a set of incintives so that users are less encouraged to tweak the Windows OS, least they be bombarded with e-mail and pop-ups about their use of a tweaked Windows OS.
The PS 3 is currently being sold in Japan. Wow, I thought I'd been living under a rock. The PS 3 was part of Sony's Blu-Ray launch in June after E3. As to the quality of the product overall, Sony's issued something akin to a Blu-Ray wide voluntary recall of all produts with the Blu-Ray drive until the problems with the drive are solved. As I stated, the drive has been causing disk errors and even been reported to have burned a few disks due to laser instability. It's the same hardware and software, yet its not region free yet, thus the massive production step-up for the coming U.S. launch.
I've noticed that there are several problems with the PS3's currently being sold in Japan. The problems are centered around the Blu-Ray DVD-ROM which have had serious problems with damaging or destroying the inserted disk. One of my friends even read that there have been reports of the Blu-Ray laser burning the DVD's. If the PS3 is going to have a chance in the U.S., then Sony needs to fix the problems with Blu-Ray ASAP. They aren't going to have a problem with supply, but Sony is the king of launch shortages and started this trend with the launch of the PS2, and its been magnified by the launch of the X-Box and X-Box 360. Sony's plan to have plenty of units for the 2006 November U.S. launch seems a little far-fetched but it would boost their U.S. sales with the flop that the 360 experiened during its first six months of avaliability or lack there of. Now stores can't even give them away. The Wal-Mart I work at currently has 52 of the Premium X-Box 360's on shelf and we only sell 2 a week and recieve 10 every week to prevent shortages. If Sony manages to have plenty of units at launch, fixes the issues with Blu-Ray, and sets the price under $500 for their "Premium" units, then I could see it have success in the U.S., but only time will tell.
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To continue the Star Wars motife, here's what Moore and Microsoft are probably thinking about each other right now:
Lando: "Yes I said closer! Get as close as you can, and engage those Star Destroyers at point-blank range!!"
Ackbar: "At that close range we won't last long against those Star Destroyers."
Lando: "We'll last longer than we will against that Death Star, and we might just take a few of them with us!"
Thanks for the info. I was unaware of a K8L core type. I was mostly confused due to the fact I've seen people use this to describe motherboards before. Sorry for the mix up.
Here's the correct URL: (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N8 2E16813131059)
You're the one living the cave for the past few months. I've reasearching the K8L since it came out in June THIS YEAR and it is currently avaliable on newegg, here's the link:2 010200302+1071518098&Submit=ENE&SubCategory=302)
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=
And if that's newegg posting crap, then I'll eat my hat!!!
I recently Googled "AMD Quad Core" and clicked on the first or second result and read the article. If this article holds true, AMD could very well blow Intel off the map and into orbit. The article said that the recent buyout of chip maker ATI is part of a grander strategy by AMD to take a bite out of Intel. The article said that the current CPU dye made by any manufactuer contains 18 individual components, minus the cores, to create the CPU dye. AMD's 4x4 quad core slated to launch in early '07 is being rebuilt from the ground up. AMD is going to attempt to modularize a CPU dye to allow for quicker, cheaper, and easier manufactuering. By that they mean that each individual component will be interchangeable and have an on dye socket to be plugged into. A good visual image of this is building blocks. Identically shaped and sized units rearranged to create a new structure. The article said that the only difference hardware wise between an Opteron and an 64 X2 is 3 components. If AMD is successful in modularizing the CPU dye, this article estimates that AMD will have "entry level" 4x4 CPU's in 8000-9000+ range avaliable to CONSUMERS for around $400-$600 and industry quality models at around $1000 on the low end. Only time will tell if this is true, but for me, I hope it comes true as I'm being asked at school by the teachers as to who will have the better CPU in the future and my answer is "AMD of course.".
There's a bit of dialouge in Mechwarrior 4 Mercenaires that fits what happened to Colbert here. This dialouge takes places during the Davion invasion of Tharkad at the end of the game and it goes something like this:
Spectre: "Castle, defenders at Alpha neutralized and were moving on Beta."
Castle: "Patching you through to Central Command, Sir."
Peter Davion: "Were moving to crash there flank at Beta."
Spectre: "Defenders at Nav Alpha destroyed and were moving on Nav Beta."
Davion: "Roger. Take out those turrets. You're the anvil and I'm the hammer."
Spectre: "Roger, engaging Beta."
This is what happens when Colbert tries to attack a target and gets bit by his own plan. The defense is so swift and quick he don't know what to do.
You make an excellent point about tuning microwaves to the frequency of the venom to cook cancer cells, but there are just to many variables here for it to even be considered, not now anyway. First of all, the way a microwave oven works is to induce heat by adding electrons to fatty cells, that's why meat gets warmer faster than bread. Doctors wouldn't go for this due to the fact they could scramble brains even with only a few seconds exposure. Second of all, microwaves experience the same problems as laser beams do in atmosphere's. Nitrogen is a great scatterer of IR and EM waves thus the Northern Lights due to solar wind, also one has to take into account the varying layers of material to be penetrated and not to be fried by microwaves to reach the venom tagged cells. A design team would have to use the very lattest in computer processing power, both hardware and software, to produce a system that could calculate, tune, and react within naon seconds of a very long series of commands, 100-200 million calcs/nanosec, to even begin to be capable of developing a safe and controllable enviroment in which to treat people. Lastly, life evolves. To quote Dr. Malcom from Jurassic Park "Life will find a way.". Every few years, or even every few months, the systen would requier massive updates and overhauls to adapt to the new biological structures being used in it. These last 2 items aren't cost effective and as has been shown with the ABL, are very frustrating and time consuming. Your idea isn't flawed, its briliant. However, our current understanding of Quantum Mechanics is such that laser's and microwaves are about as far as we can develope hardware successfully. To activate the venom and not scramble the patient, you would need something akin to a remote for a TV to activate the venom. A single burst of commands to the venom instead of seconds of agitant microwaves would be far safer and much easier to use than tuning a microwave to each individuals own "frequency" so as to not kill your patient. This could lead to the Star Trek breed of nanoprobes used by the Borg, but to save life instead of take it.
The use of chemo still is that its the most effective way to treat cancer. However with treatments like this on the horizon, we could see a revoultion in the field of medicare within a few decades and definitly my lifetime. The world needs creative minds to continue to florish, so keep at it!
I can understand the priciples behind this kind of treatment. Scorpion poison is a heom-nureo toxin (means that it attacks blood and nerve cells) that targets both braches of cancer cells, blood supplies and nerve connections for continued growth. An added benefit is that scorpion venom is relativly safe to humans. In all but the rarest cases that involved serious allergic reactions and death, scorpion sting victims expericed a large welp and severe pain, something like a VERY LARGE bee sting. The part that kinda doesn't make sense here is the radiological material, but I've and heard of an experimental treatment for cancer tumors that involves 10 times the level of normal radiation treatment coures and is done in a single 2 hrs process. The tumor is radiologically tagged and insulated, then a high dose of the elements Mb 117, Molybdenum, U 235, Uranium, and moderator of sorts Boron (check me on this I may be wrong on the elements but I know its a radiological dose none the less) and the tumor disappears in 24-48 hrs and has a success rate of 100%. The only thing I could see the radiological material doing is tagging the cells for destruction and giving guidance to the radioactive scorpion venom to reduce harm to healthy tissue. If this works they may have invented a cancer proof cure for cancer.
This guy is right. The American populus in general needs to quit moaning about someone they elected and start to use their power in government to get what they want done, done. As far as countries go, the citizens of the U.S. have more power over their gov't than people in any other nation. All we need to do is quit with the "I'm to poor, weak, ect." bullshit excuses and go back to the "Well I don't have much but I'll try anyway" or the "Damn the torpedos, full steam ahead!" attitudes that founded and formed this nation and lead us through a civil war and 2 world wars successfully. Case and point, I'm currently building a PC. My friends have all told me that it can't be done because I don't have money. But I've researched, saved, and planned and now am ready to build. By taking the time and having faith I've readied myself for the task at hand. One could also say that the current state of affairs in the U.S. is due its secular movement and liberalism spreading and taking over and ruling out the good Christian values once held so dear in this nation.
I'm a Kansas City native and have been in the very building that houses a plaque to those who died in the greatest U.S. engineering disaster of all time, the collapse of the skywalk in the Hyatt Regency Hotel. I'm also a student at the local community college and am studying architechtural design, so I've gotta a bit of an idea as to what goes on in the engineer's office on a day to day basis. This project, the "Big Dig" has all the characteristics of the 1982 Hyatt Skywalk failure: impossible deadlines, poor management, and overworked and stubborn engineers getting moved aside so newer more willing guys will sign off on the plan's. The problem with the Big Dig is that people who don't know a thing about structural engineering are dictating design, budget, and deadline's. And when their certified engineers run up Red Flags, they bring in the younger guys to solve the problem. And as others have stated, if the deadline isn't meet by the engineers, managment steps in and BS's it's way through the plan "shotguning" blank values to fill them. The only difference in the Big Dig and Hyatt failures is that they got caught because the structure failed and people were killed. And you know who gets blamed and takes the fallout for this kind of thing, engineers and public safety. In the Hyatt disaster, the cheif architect lost his liscense and job because his signature wasn't on the revisions that an ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER a.k.a. UNLISCENSED PROFESSIONAL, made to his design and he paid $12 million in fines because of it while the project managers were allowed a new contract to clean up the mess and rebuild a new skywalk. So the problem with big projects like the Big Dig and the Hyatt Regency Hotel isn't a lack of trained and certified engineers and architects, its a lack of control on the managements part to stay out of the engineers hair and leave them be so they can design a safe structure.
I read on the Fox News website that Nvidia and AMD will continue their CPU GPU cooperation even after the news of the AMD buyout of ATI. Nvidia and AMD are going to use the incorperation of ATI into AMD as leverage to unseat the leading chip manufacturer Intel. This could produce even better graphics performance than previous cooperations. AMD's buyout was to produce cheap, reliable, integrated chipset solutions for entry level users and to gain a better foothold in the market. These two juggernaut chip makers could very well put Intel out of business overnight, imagine that no more cheap crappy Intel chips and nothing but high quality chips at decent prices.
In my opinion, the only way encryption would catch on is if it did three things:
1. Securly encrypt file data to prevent hacking at least 60% of the time.
2. Didn't consume so many resources and reduce system performance and speed to a crawl (this has been a recuring theme when stuff is encryted on my PC).
3. Could mask what is going on and make it appear as background traffic i.e. break up the data stream into several bits to speed up transfer and reduce chance of someone of figuring out what is beinging moved (large file should = more bandwidith and encryption, thus greater chance of it being targeted by hackers).
Maybe software agencies looking to provide reliable encryption tech should take a look at the bit torrent community they've got some pretty good stuff.
To add to this guy's list, here's what I do. Most apps are found on download.com.
1. Use the Portable Version of Firefox. It dosen't cache off to disk and cleans up user history when you close the app.
2. Use a reputable firewall. I have the latest version off ZoneAlarm and the default controls allow the user to specify what gets in or out.
3. Use a reputable AV. I have the latest version of AVG and its pretty good at staying upto date and scans quite often.
4. Use a reputable Anti-Spyware program. I have the latest version of Ad-Aware SE and it picks up stuff that ZA and AVG miss as well as spyware.
5. Get iolo's System Mechanic. It can prevent hackers from hacking and finding stuff on your drive by encrypting the free space, deleted file name, and data by overwriting those area's per U.S. DOD encrypting standards. It also cleans out your digital history of where you've been and what you've opened.
6. Use common sense. If you close pop-ups by closeing them on the toolbar at the bottom of the screen instead of clicking close on the window you'll save yourself headaches (quite a few pop-ups use PINP format so that it opens when you try click the X to close it).
I agree that this is ground-breaking news indeed that Microsoft would allow users to tweak the basic setting of Windows and/or remove Windows components such as IE. But seeing as how Microsoft is cracking down of modded versions of Windows already, wouldn't be safe to assume that if you remove IE or other non-useful to user components that Microsoft would display that annoying WGA icon at boot, or worse, say you remove IE then need to reinstall it for a drivers update and Windows says "Changed Program, Access Denied". This, in my opinion, fits better with Microsoft's current stance towards people changing their OS to better fit their uses. I would think that Microsoft is going to allow users to change the OS to better fit their use, but impose a set of incintives so that users are less encouraged to tweak the Windows OS, least they be bombarded with e-mail and pop-ups about their use of a tweaked Windows OS.
The PS 3 is currently being sold in Japan. Wow, I thought I'd been living under a rock. The PS 3 was part of Sony's Blu-Ray launch in June after E3. As to the quality of the product overall, Sony's issued something akin to a Blu-Ray wide voluntary recall of all produts with the Blu-Ray drive until the problems with the drive are solved. As I stated, the drive has been causing disk errors and even been reported to have burned a few disks due to laser instability. It's the same hardware and software, yet its not region free yet, thus the massive production step-up for the coming U.S. launch.
I've noticed that there are several problems with the PS3's currently being sold in Japan. The problems are centered around the Blu-Ray DVD-ROM which have had serious problems with damaging or destroying the inserted disk. One of my friends even read that there have been reports of the Blu-Ray laser burning the DVD's. If the PS3 is going to have a chance in the U.S., then Sony needs to fix the problems with Blu-Ray ASAP. They aren't going to have a problem with supply, but Sony is the king of launch shortages and started this trend with the launch of the PS2, and its been magnified by the launch of the X-Box and X-Box 360. Sony's plan to have plenty of units for the 2006 November U.S. launch seems a little far-fetched but it would boost their U.S. sales with the flop that the 360 experiened during its first six months of avaliability or lack there of. Now stores can't even give them away. The Wal-Mart I work at currently has 52 of the Premium X-Box 360's on shelf and we only sell 2 a week and recieve 10 every week to prevent shortages. If Sony manages to have plenty of units at launch, fixes the issues with Blu-Ray, and sets the price under $500 for their "Premium" units, then I could see it have success in the U.S., but only time will tell.