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Is broadcasting a movie over unsecured wireless from your phone to a TV an "infringing" use? I'm sure some lawyer will try to say that it is, and you're not allowed to do it.

As a lay person, I would think if the signal was restricted to a single TV at a time from your smartphone, I'd say that would be legal even if the content was copyrighted. The MPAA/RIAA might complain all they want but if they can't block Slingbox (which transmits content over the Internet), they would have a hard time arguing against a short range (30ft), local broadcast. The FCC said in 2008 that the MPAA may not selectively block video inputs.

Are you a shill, or some sort of moron? I live in Canada. I am directly affected by this. In France for the price I pay monthly, I could get a line which is 10 times faster than mine is along with unlimited phone calls to a bunch of places and HDTV. The speed of my internet line, 3 Mbps, has not increased in the past 7 years I have lived in downtown Montreal, which is about as urban as it gets in Canada. The price I pay for that same service, though, has increased quite significantly (at least 20%). Why was Bell able to offer unlimited access plans 5 years ago, and now they can't? Should they not have upgraded their lines since then? Everyone I know that uses the services of Bell hates their guts because they are complete scumbags.

Usage based billing means more people can afford internet service,

Have you bothered checking the pricing schemes Bell offers? Check their lowest offering. It says it's 20$/month in Quebec, but it's 25 if you don't have a phone or satellite service deal with them already. Oh, and the speed is 500 kbps with a 1G data cap. They were able to offer unlimited at 3 Mbps 6 or 7 years ago for 30$ a month. I guess poor people don't do much but change their status on Facebook.

Please go back under the rock you came from. For same money that I pay, people in Europe and Asia are getting unlimited data plans with speeds that approach the speed of my LAN.

You know how to use the web, right?

http://slashdot.org/tag/rage
http://www.google.com/#q=iD+RAGE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(video_game)
http://www.moddb.com/games/rage
http://ragegame.net/
http://twitter.com/RAGEgame
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=iD+RAGE
http://gamasutra.com/search/index.php?search_text=Carmack+RAGE&submit=Search&from_news=Y&from_features=Y&from_blogs=Y&from_press=Y
http://arstechnica.com/search/#iD+RAGE

Apple said in February 2007 that they would offer DRM free music if allowed. EMI allowed them in May 2007.

Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg said in February 2006 (at the Music 2.0 conference) that the music companies should sell DRM-free music: "Rights management restrictions have created a barrier for consumers, he said, making it a hurdle to transfer music to portable devices, and creating incompatibility between music services and MP3 players."

Bill Gates also expressed his problems with the state of music DRM in December 2006 in an informal Q&A discussing the Mix Conference: "People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then."

Actions speak louder than words I guess. Amazon didn't offer it until January 2008. So technically Apple was the first to offer DRM-free music.

"Technically," eMusic and Amie Street offered DRM-free music way before Apple, but I understand why we aren't counting them in this thread.

However, Yahoo Music acted ("experimented," actually) by offering Jessica Simpson's "A Public Affair" as a DRM-free MP3 file in July 2006, offred an entire Jesse McCartney album in September 2006, and a Norah Jones single in December 2006.

All this before Steve Jobs made his "bold" statement in Febraury 2007.

That dispels your theory that Amazon was the leader.

Interestigly, Amazon was rumored to be considering an MP3-only music download store in January 2007 (at the latest), before Steve Jobs made his statement.

Yeah, it's got a serial port, with TTL levels, at its external connector. Big deal.

It's also possible to attach USB devices, which is somewhat more useful today. For example, you can plug a real keyboard into an iPad.

All any company need do, when threatened by this typical deceitful bullshite from Microsoft, is site the case THEY ALREADY LOST in court, then slam the door in their face and ignore them to death.

The END of SCO (aka Microsoft) case:

SCO loses another round in Unix fight, must pay $2.55M to Novell
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9110258/SCO_loses_another_round_in_Unix_fight_must_pay_2.55M_to_Novell_

SCO loses again: jury says Novell owns UNIX SVRX copyrights
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/03/sco-loses-again-jury-says-novell-owns-unix-svrx-copyrights.ars

SCO/Novell suit is over, SCO loses
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/06/11/sconovell-suit-is-over-sco-loses/

And so forth...

When you can't compete: Litigate.

News like this is okay: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/10/new-java-trojan-attacks-mac-os-x-via-social-networking-sites.ars

The optimal term is actually around 14 years. See http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/research-optimal-copyright-term-is-14-years.ars . And yes - of course it should be done ex post facto. You don't get to continue having free rides when the sign at the door says no more free rides.

profits from extremely punitive lawsuits.

Would you believe that they actually lose money on that shit? Lawyers aren't cheap, especially evil lawyers (even though they make up most of the supply).

Oh, no no, I don't have a good view of human nature at all. People are inherently selfish and it is not despite this, but *because* of this that the biggest file sharers are the biggest customers (a statement which, btw, is supported with data.

People who really love a certain band, are the most likely to go out and download the bands entire discography for free. But they are also the group who would be most affected if that band went out of business. So they make a self-interested decision to buy the new album and keep the band working.

On the other hand, people who just want something for free, just want something for free. If that band went away, they'd just download someone elses albums instead. This group is irrelevant since they cannot be converted into purchases, there are no losses from this group.

Nope. More that they're trying to create their own path and they disagree with the way Gnome is going. Ars has a better article than the one in the summary.

I'm glad to hear that Nokia "gets it", if only now rather than sooner.

I'm rooting for Nokia because I see it as one of the "good guys":
-Nokia historically doesn't tie you in to a particular carrier, a kind of network neutrality. Tie-ins are anathema to the geek ethos.
-Nokia bought Qt, the framework behind KDE, and is a KDE Patron.
-They don't try to lock you out of your own phone like Apple does. They usually have SD ports for exandability, and easily changeable batteries (even the N8 only requires opening 2 screws).
-You can develop on Windows, Mac, Linux for Windows, Mac, Linux, and phones.

What I'd like to see is:
-Good marketing, not the geeky ads for the N8
-Eye-catching UI/graphics. The icons for Meego don't seem to be gradient-filled, drop-shadowed, anti-aliased.
-Besting the iPhone in all aspects. Don't make consumers think about it, even if that means price parity. You can have cheaper phones with 80% of the features, too.
-Stable, catchy names for flagship products. Not "N8", "C7", etc. Have a name that consumers and non-Nokia fans can remember. Everybody knows about the iPhone, even people who can't afford it.

Perhaps they should include the penchant for desperate extremism as part of the testing procedure?

Symbian isn't going anywhere - it has greater share of sales than the next two players combined; when taking number 2 player out of the equation, greater share than all what's rest combined. Might very well be the first smartphone platform to break the barrier of 100 million devices shipped annually, this year.

The thing about Symbian is it really doesn't seem to be going anywhere; in the other sense. The other smartphone OSs; Android and iOS, and even Maemo/Meego, are designed to establish platforms. New Symbian versions consistently fail to run software from old versions. Symbian phones always seem very locked in; for example it used to be difficult to just connect the phone and directly access the whole of it's file system (at best you got a few specific directories). I think that's improved now, but similar stories apply all around. etc.

What this means is, that the number of symbian devices is irrelevant. Even if Gartner's numbers are a bit exaggerated, it's clear most of those devices are not selling software; are not being used as smart phones and just don't count. Your addressable market for smart phone applications (the main meaningful thing about a "smart phone") is not the number of phones, but the number of phones that are actually being used in a smart way. This determines the amount that other people are investing in the platform and so it's long term future value.

Nokia could fix this by making sure that it delivered software updates for it's old phones and ensuring backwards application compatibility. This would mean that it would only support one software version over all it's phones and would mean that Symbian apps would become much more valuable. I'd assume, though, that there's something in Symbian or in the way Nokia uses symbian. which makes this impractical.

Huh? When did you try to run a Symbian SDK on Linux last? I am running QT Creator 1.3.83 on a 3 year old, 300 euro Compaq Presario C700 w/ 2Gb RAM, using 32bit Ubuntu 10.10; and it runs great.

-> If they could finally get a Symbian SDK working on linux I would jump on it immediately.

Well now is your chance. Here's some more information for you:
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/09/nokias-cross-platform-development-strategy-evolves-with-qt-47.ars

All of your content gets loaded onto Blizzard's infrastructure. There is no local storage. If they don't like your map/gametype -- for any reason -- they can wipe it from existence. Why do they do this? Because they can .

Because we can. Literally. We have a support department now of size and ability to enforce these types of things. --Bashiok, Blizzard Community Manager

Java recently eclipsed Flash, http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/10/microsoft-sees-unprecedented-wave-of-java-malware-exploits.ars. If I were an OS vendor, I would consider eliminating these unmanageable platforms that do more to commoditize the platform than add value to my product. Let'em move to Linux. This isn't the second millennium anymore.

challenging? hardly, pick "wpa2 personal AES/TKIP" and type in the password.

WPA2 requires minimum passkey lengths of 8+ depending on implementation. Anyone who's ever helped people satisfying the site requirements for new hotmail/banks knows that PC owners spend a good deal of effort getting around pw complexity. The difference is that at home, no IT admin is going to lock people out of the device and personally assist till they comply with a safe choice, when they can all pick "open."

Using proper names, pets, 4 char birthdates fails on WPA routers, and IT environments. Better yet, all AP's I've seen in 5 years enforce 10+. By then, they're are miffed from failing to satisfy the validator. Many nongeeks cut their teeth on WEP routers when broadband bundles with wifi routers first were given out some 5 years ago. Some definitely swore to never again work their way through WEP's potential for 4-passphrases. WPA2 got rid of that later, but how would those people know that WEP is not WPA2 or WPA?

They use "1111111111" and the like to just wave away their "must-use" router wizards that are strongly advertised these days. That doesn't make WPA any easier per se.

I'm more concerned with a recent bug on a dlink and a netgear. Besides locking up; the AP can factory-reset without warning other than connection problems. Good luck if their home has only one PC and it's wired. If they even care or understand how to to rerun their setup CD, recreating a MAC address blacklist, and changing the name of the router again, is more than just taking the defaults. I'm surprised we aren't seeing more than 5% open routers among the 30 I can catch in this building.

I use VMWare Workstation for much of each day to run MS Office Apps, and it's very useful - but no VM performs well graphically.

I beg to differ. Modern VMs have full hardware acceleration. In many cases they aren't much slower then native. If VMWare can manage 77fps in Half Life 2, then I don't see why it couldn't scroll around a large image smoothly in Photoshop.

Some examples:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2010/09/parallels-desktop-6-the-ars-review.ars/5

I know VirtualBox also has these features in recent versions.

OS X uses FSevents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSEvents

There's even a cool GUI fseventer so you can track what gets written and where.

I think Apple _ships_ Java based software (WebObjects and stuff based on WebObjects), so it's not like they can fully deprecate Java.

Coincidentally, WebObjects was cut from 10.6 Server...

Actually, Ars answered that.

What it boils down to is that Intel is trying to take over the entire integrated graphics market and we're suffering the consequences.

In other words, most people don't care if their public activities are recorded (as evidenced by the hunderds of millions of Facebook users). Credit card numbers, social security numbers, weight...that's what people want kept private.

What about sexual preference?

In case you're interested, Ars has a good piece on why Apple chose the Core 2 instead of an i-series chip. Basically it boils down to

a) Graphics performance. The integrated graphics on the i-series can't touch Nvidia's 320M, and Nvidia hasn't come out an equivalent for Arrandale yet.

b) Arrandale needs a separate memory controller, and there's no room for it on the MBA's tiny motherboard.

Good points, though I still want to see head-to-head performance numbers to see if the choice was a good one.

I doubt that a fabrication machine will ever be able to create parts w/ the precision which Lego demands in their molds (tolerances are just 2 micro-meters, molds are discarded when they wear out, they use _tons_ of pressure to force the ABS plastic into every bit of the molds).

That said, so long as the bricks don't infringe on any Lego trademarks (this varies by one's legal locality, see the article on the recent EU case http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/11/lego-loses-eu-trademark-on-bricks-prepares-for-clone-wars.ars ), one would be able to make them (w/in the tolerances of one's fabrication machine).

For an example of what it's like trying to use bricks which are _not_ manufactured to Lego tolerances, just pick up a Mega Bloks set (they're cheap) --- they sort of fit, but not w/ the precision of Lego bricks and they don't stay together as well.

People seem to have this weird idea that there's some sort of China, Inc. that just sits over there on the other side of the Pacific building plastic widgets to cram down our throats via Walmart.

It's not a weird idea. It's the truth.
"China can best be understood as a large, well-run business" - Google CEO, Eric Schmidt.

Which isn't to contradict the rest of the points in your post. But it's important to realise that you're not doing business within individual Chinese companies or even industrial sectors. You're doing business with the single largest mega-conglomerate in the history of the world, and quite possibly most science-fiction. What is needed is not so much a change in foreign policy, as a change in economic thought to deal with or at least understand this entirely new socio-economic entity.

Ahhh, childlike ignorance.

The developers on our panel unanimously agreed that Mac OS X will eventually be subsumed by iOS, but that the Mac has plenty of life left. "Mac is the awesome old grandma, whose kids (iPhone & iPad) have left home," Atebits' Loren Brichter said. "Not dead; not really dying. But it's our job to keep her comfortable until she's gone."

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/developers-expect-ios-and-mac-os-to-merge-over-time.ars

Windows 8 App Store

And then there's Windows 2008 R2... While I applaud the decision to go 64-bit only as a way to try and push developers into finally writing for 64-bit systems (after all, the capabilities have been around for what, a decade or so?), I think it may backfire on Microsoft the same way that UAC did in Vista. Users will be most unhappy that their legacy application that they've been running their entire business on for the last eight or twelve years and that can't be updated or is no longer available won't work on the new server they just bought. Of course, Server 2003 & 32-bit Server 2008 will reach their end-of-life eventually as well, and that's the point when things will really change.

You are aware that Server 2008 R2 ships with the 32-bit compatibility layer disabled by default, not totally removed?

Ars has a backgrounder on it that Slashdot posted in their 40th anniversary of the Carterfone decision article.

Here's one example:

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars

The article is a little stale (they are running over 7000 Ubuntu desktops today) but in terms of OOo, they migrated across the board from MS Office in 2005. We're talking well over 50,000 users, iirc.

the new Gateway 2000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway,_Inc.

when you ruin your name, everything else goes down the toilet. electronics is such a cutthroat competitive environment, you can't ever play the game of ruining what people associate your brand name with

because there's also this:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/06/suit-alleges-that-dell-shipped-12-million-faulty-computers.ars

bye bye dell

Resolution independence has been 'coming soon' in OS X for years now. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be one of the features of Leopard, which was quietly dropped and still hasn't made it into Snow Leopard.

Apple are previewing the next version of OS X next week, and I won't be at all surprised if resolution independence is mentioned. I'll be very surprised, however, if it makes it into the final product.

I read this yesterday on nu.nl and I think it's completely ridiculous.

Me too.

The hotels (and my hospital I found out yesterday, and McDonalds and many many other places) can offer WiFi because they have a deal with a provider. Isn't that enough?

(tongue-in-cheeck.. or only half-of? Not quite sure yetmyself, but I reckon that's the position of govs in the near future)
No, it is definitely NOT enough: if you provide transport-service you are an ISP (you do provide some Internet service; nobody says somebody is an ISP if and only if only if it provides email or Web hosting on top of transport services).
This means every person (organisation or not) that can act as a point-of-control-and-prevention will be, sonner or later, forced to assume all the obligations of an ISP (responsible how their property/service is used - or abused). As the time passes, for govs and such it is more the control and less about taking care of their citizens.
If one sees as common-sensical that consumers (in the Joe Average category) which let their WiFi router opened are responsible for any nastinies carried over their connection (.e.g. downloaded/uploaded copyrighed music or KP, even if potentially only by piggybacking/wardriving), I don't see why HotSpot providers should not.

I read this yesterday on nu.nl and I think it's completely ridiculous.

Me too.

The hotels (and my hospital I found out yesterday, and McDonalds and many many other places) can offer WiFi because they have a deal with a provider. Isn't that enough?

(tongue-in-cheeck.. or only half-of? Not quite sure yetmyself, but I reckon that's the position of govs in the near future)
No, it is definitely NOT enough: if you provide transport-service you are an ISP (you do provide some Internet service; nobody says somebody is an ISP if and only if only if it provides email or Web hosting on top of transport services).
This means every person (organisation or not) that can act as a point-of-control-and-prevention will be, sonner or later, forced to assume all the obligations of an ISP (responsible how their property/service is used - or abused). As the time passes, for govs and such it is more the control and less about taking care of their citizens.
If one sees as common-sensical that consumers (in the Joe Average category) which let their WiFi router opened are responsible for any nastinies carried over their connection (.e.g. downloaded/uploaded copyrighed music or KP, even if potentially only by piggybacking/wardriving), I don't see why HotSpot providers should not.

I found this article interesting. They write about Valves approach to multi-core CPU's and game engines.

The programmers at Valve considered three different models to solve their problem. The first was called "coarse threading" and was the easiest to implement. Many companies are already using coarse threading to improve their games for multiple core systems. The idea is to put whole subsystems on separate cores; for example, graphics rendering on one, AI on another, sound on a third, and so on. The problem with this approach is that some subsystems are less demanding on CPU time than others. Giving sound, for example, a whole core to itself would often leave up to 80 percent of that core sitting unused.

The second approach was fine-grained threading, which separates tasks into many discrete elements and then distributes them among as many cores as are available. For example, a loop that updates the position of 1,000 objects based on their velocity can be divided among, say, four cores, with each core handling 250 objects apiece. The drawback with this approach is that not all tasks divide neatly into discrete components that can operate independently. Also, if some entries in the list take longer to update than others, it becomes harder to scale the tasks evenly across multiple cores. Finally, the issue of memory bandwidth quickly becomes a limitation with this method. For certain specialized tasks, such as compiling, fine-grained threading works really well. Valve has already implemented a system whereby every computer in their offices automatically acts as a compiler node. When the programmers were getting ready to demonstrate their results on the conference room computer with the big screen, they had to quickly deactivate this feature first!

The approach that Valve finally chose was a combination of the coarse and fine-grained, with some extra enhancements thrown in. Some systems were split on multiple cores using coarse threading. Other tasks, such as VVIS (the calculations of what objects are visible to the player from their point of view) were split up using fine-grained threading. Lastly, whenever part of a core is idle, work that can be precalculated without lagging or adversely affecting the game experience (such as AI calculations or pathfinding) was queued up to be delivered to the game engine later.

Valve's approach was the most difficult of all possible methods for utilizing multiple cores, but if they could pull it off, it would deliver the maximum possible benefits on systems like Intel's new quad-core Kentsfield chips.

To deliver this hybrid threading platform, Valve made use of expert programmers like Tom Leonard, who was writing multithreaded code as early as 1991 when he worked on C++ development tools for companies like Zortech and Symantec. Tom walked us through the thought process behind Valve's new threading model.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/11/valve-multicore.ars

I remember reading somewhere that one of the goals in PS2 programming was keeping that DMAC running full tilt streaming data. Ah, found it, Ars Technica:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2000/04/ps2vspc.ars/4

The SPE's aren't full CPU's, they're essentially enhanced versions of the PS2's VU's.

Given that model, it has to be programmed like a DSP - very little state, processing works on data streams.

Yep, stream data, just like on the PS2.

For games, this sucks. No CPU has enough memory for a full frame, or for the geometry, or a level map.

You're not supposed to keep a full frame or map in there, you're supposed to stream it in and out on the fly, as the Kami intended, just like on the PS2.
"Fat Pipes (bandwidth), small pans (VU/SPE RAM)" http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2000/04/ps2vspc.ars/1

In many PS3 games, the main MIPS machine is doing most of the work, with the Cell CPUs handling audio, networking, and I/O

The Cell isn't MIPS, it's PPC, the PS2 (and PS1) were the MIPS machines. The SPE's are supposed to handle things like audio and networking, that's their job. Apparently you can also do things like assign a SPE to do things like very fast bzip decompression.

You forgot Windows Mobile 6/6.5. Windows phone 7, like Windows 7/Vista, is facing huge competition from the fact that there are already millions of handsets out there with an operating system that many users are perfectly happy with. People don't necessarily have a need for the newest gadget. Just as many people are fine with Windows XP, because it runs on older, cheaper computers, there will be many of us who aren't running out to buy phones with 1 GHz processors in them, because we couldn't be bothered to spend hundreds of dollars on a phone, or get locked it into contracts where you have to sign away your first born. It will take years for Windows phone 7 to grab the market share that Windows Mobile has. Looking at the smartphone article from wikipedia shows that most sales are still going to symbian phones, which nobody even talks about. At least not in North America. Apple, which everybody probably thinks is the biggest, is still actually behind RIM in new sales. Even looking at total handsets shows that Windows mobile isn't doing that badly (although obviously dropping), especially considering it gets no publicity.

You mean like this:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/09/telco-to-town-were-suing-you-because-we-care.ars

or this:

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=2400

or this:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/time-warner-and-embarq-cant-compete-with-city-owned-isp-trying/

I think you want a Nokia E7. They say you can create powerpoints on it. Not sure about comfortably, but you can plug it into a TV via HDMI and bluetooth keyboard, so I guess that counts.

The final device that was introduced during the keynote was the E7, a smartphone with a four-inch touchscreen and a slide-out qwerty keyboard. Vanjoki describes it as a spiritual successor of the original Nokia communicator and the best business smartphone that the company has ever produced. The E7 looks a lot like a keyboard-enhanced version of the N8, but there are some key software differences that also differentiate it from its media-centric cousin. For example, the E7 will ship with full support for reading, creating, and editing Microsoft Office documents. Vanjoki says that it's even possible to create PowerPoint presentations on the phone itself

... when you can buy as many "buckets" as you want server-side and store virtually unlimited data about them?

Because it costs money? My fear is considering what spammers may or may not do with this local storage. I'm not opposed to local storage but I think it needs more user notification when and what is accessing it. Not requiring user intervention but knowledge about who and what is storing that data. I would prefer a browser to let me know if some no name advertiser were storing data there than, say, Slashdot or New York Times doing something to better my reading experience. I welcome it. It needs to happen. The W3C branched this to a totally separate group from the regular HTML 5 group I believe because there's a lot to iron out yet. I hope they change the way things are allowed to access it in the browser implementation yet. I hope.

People get upset when you further facilitate and make it easier for bad people to do bad things. That's how it's been for quite sometime whether the social enemy is a serial rapist or Facebook.

I suspect, as has already been noted that this will simply facilitate more advertisers to do this because now they don't need servers or bandwidth to support your "unlimited data" buckets.

So, does this mean that Microvision finally solved the green laser issue?

Well, last year-ish was when researchers finally made a true green laser diode; hopefully by now that means they've increased the efficiency so that it's actually practical.

How about a little known guy named "Steve Jobs"? He can do math too.
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Even better, check the endgadget coverage of the 2006 WWDC. IT'S RIGHT ON THE BIG SCREEN. Article
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If you think Adobe was the only large company to get screwed by Apple's change, read a Nokia technician's perspective on this: link

French investigative judges can learn from
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/10/us-anti-p2p-law-firms-sue-more-in-2010-than-riaa-ever-did.ars
You will have to turn up and prove you did not download the media in question.
It has quality entrepreneurship too "All aspects of our anti-piracy solution are paid out of the damages that are collected for you" :)

I am not sure if Slashdot had an article similar:
Super Loud TV Commercials One Step Closer to Extinction
It is referred to as the CALM Act and still is pending House approval having already passed the Senate. Convenient as elections are soon, eh?

FYI :)

Ok, but what about the billions and billions of dollars they don't lose to piracy? Doesn't that factor into the pricing somehow?

It's generally a bad idea to try to factor imaginary money into your pricing scheme.

The model 9 was reviewed by ARSTechnica way back in January. It looks virtually the same to me.

Consider this possibility: the last time people were accusing a government of being behind an attack, it was someone with a grudge but no government connection. Considering how hard it is (or even impossible) to tell the difference between a talented amateur and a professional when it comes to computers, why is everyone jumping on the government bandwagon? Maybe it's some college buddies in Tel Aviv who decided that they wanted to target Iran, or maybe Stuxnet was just a worm of the week from blackhats (many of which are getting ridiculously complex) that just happened to get into the Iranian facilities.

Not only that, I was just reading a story at Ars about how Jon Landau believes everything should be 3D. He calls out studios on hasty 3D conversions. I'd say the pot is calling the kettle black. His film had plenty of problems.

"Converting a movie from 2D to 3D is not a technical process. It is a creative process,"

You know what? After watching your flick at IMAX in 3D and halfway through wanting to leave with my headache, you're doing it wrong. As has been brought up before in previous Slashdot discussions, you can't get a proper 3D effect that will fool the brain with current technology. Stop trying to convert 2D films to 3D, especially for the point of being "OMG 3D" like parent mentioned.

The 3D effect worked decently well for me, better than I expected. There was one part of it that screwed with me though.

If I was looking more or less at the center of the screen, to the periphery it would appear (fairly convincingly) that certain objects were jutting out, past the boundary of the screen. Then I would sometimes attempt to follow those objects with my eyes and the illusion would continue ... until my eyes reached the actual boundary of the screen. Then the entire image would suddenly collapse back into a 2D picture until I again was looking more directly at the screen.

The 3D was far better than I was expecting, which wasn't much. It's still nothing like a true hologram where you could walk all the way around it and see it from many different angles. I couldn't even remain in my seat and move my eyes very far around it without dispelling the illusion. The headaches are something I did not experience but have heard often. I think that could be remedied by becoming conscious of whether you are straining your eyes in order to force a certain perception, as a setup like that might tempt you to do.

Why keep kicking ourselves ,Enjoy !