they already have caught up here in Japan. There are about 10 differnt 2megapixel camera phones out here. Some with auto-focus. The bottom of the digital camera market is currently 2megapixels. By Christmas here those phones will be the free phones you get for signing up for service and 3megapixel phones will be out.
ATRAC3, well, assuming that's also the standard for MD players then Sony has shared that standard. That's why Sharp, Panasonic, etc all have MD players.
Sony has also shared the memorystick standard. Both Sandisk and Lexar and several other companies make memorysticks and several non-sony digital cameras use them as well.
I don't know what makes the ATRAC3 standard so good but you might have noticed, ATRAC3 supporting MD and CD players run for 150hrs on one battery charge. MP3 supporting devices run for 1/10 of that if you are lucky.
Wake up! He's talking about all the choices you have BECAUSE WINDOWS IS A STANDARD. Just like VHS is a standard. If there were 100s of types of video standards your choices on any one of them would be far more limited.
Maybe because chopsticks are better than forks in many cases. For example it's much easier to eat salad with chopsticks since you can actually grab things than try to spear lettuce or cabbage with a fork.
Someone talented with chopsticks can also pick up a large piece of food and bite off pieces. You can try to do this with a fork but often you'll pull the entire thing off the fork.
With chopsticks you can pick up tiny things like individual grains of rice or small pickle slices, something you can't do with a fork.
I wouldn't try to eat an uncut stake with chopsticks but I also wouldn't try to cook korean BBQ with forks.
I wrote something for the Amiga Workbench that gave you an image behind your desktop making all your windows that used the default background color to show the image through them so it basically it looks like translucent windows.
The list is going to be bigger than 10 because I'm not sure what you want to consider. Is a patch the first install? A driver? An Upgrade? So, Until I get 10 apps, here's the order
0) Win XP Pro
0a) Motherboard Drivers (Raid, USB, Snd, etc.)
0b) Network Driver
0c) Win XP Updates (inclds IE6)
0d) Video Driver
0e) DirectX
0f) WMP 9 (up from 7 in XP)
0g) DivX, Xvid (gotta have my pr0n)
0h) IIS (an XP Pro option)
0i) Messenger 6.1 (up from 4.7) 1) Google Bar (gotta stop popups) 2) Dave's Quick Search Bar (can't live without) 3) Visual Slickedit 4) Perl 5) PHP 6) MySQL 7) WS-FTP Pro 8) WinRAR 9) mIRC (needed xbox updates) 10) Raphsody ------- 11) MS Office (I like Outlook, get over it) 12) Motino 13) Photoshop 14) Thumbsplus 15) Acrobat 16) Quicktime 17) RealPlayer (never had any problems)
All that is used almost daily. At some point I will also have to install all of the following
*) VC++ 6.0 *) VC++.NET *) Sound Forge *) Acid *) Vegas Video *) Maya *) 3D Studio Max *) Thumbs *) DirectX SDK *) Cygwin *) JWPCE *) Cool 360
you make the assumption that broadband will always be more expensive than dialup.
Here in Japan it's less expensive than dialup
Even in the states, if you make long distance phone calls and you can convince your friends or family to go broadband to you could save quite a bit of money by switching to broadband.
They'll know every mail order item you bought, every person you talk to about it, all your interests so they can dish up ads for you. Who your contacts are. Every registration email you've received ala "The password to your account is:XXXXXXX"
Even better is the day someone hacks their machine.
Eventually I turned to playing Wipeout for my PS2, as it had music I actually liked, and would listen to normally
While I'm not going to say that MarioKart has the best music, Wipeout really pushes a button for me. Using your logic I should not like any movies that don't use popular music I like to listen to as their soundtracks. I guess Lord of the Rings would be better if it featured music I normal listen too?
I believe most games should be scored. In other words they should use music that fits them. As in movies that is rarely if ever music I would normally listen too.
I know I'm in the minority here but Wipeout, while having great music, has mostly inappropriate music. The game is about racing and so the music, if scored correctly, should fit racing. More than 1/2 the songs on Wipeout would never have been used in a racing sequence in a movie unless that sequence was a dream sequence. The music is great but it does not make me want to race, it makes me want to daydream and is therefore a poor match for a racing game.
As for the thoughts that these cameras will not replace digital cameras, they will for all those people that only need snap shots. The Casio Exlim series has lenses small enough they could fit just fine in a cellphone and they take pictures that 80% of the population would be happy with. Integrate the 2, will happen by next year in Japan, and there will be no reason for 80% of the digital cameras out there. Only the Pro-sumer stuff will have a point.
KDDI in Japan does indeed offer 2.4megabit wireless unlimted use for $40 a month but that use is limited to on cellphone features (browsing the web on the cell phone and video on demand to the cell phone). Plug in into your computer and it's metered!:-(
Other wireless services in Japan are $45 a month unlimited but for only 64k connections.
One of the big supposedly pluses to GPLed code is that many people can contibute. So, if I GPL the code AND try to release it under another license then the non-GPLed version can not have any of the benefits of contributions, bug fixes, etc from the GPLed version since those contributions are GPLed and not available under the other license. Those contributions belong to the individual contributors, not the person or team that made the original code.
I can't believe the slashdot crowd thinks this is a good idea. If they can knock you off the net at all they can knock you off for any reason they choose. Running BitTorrent to download the latest ditro ISOs? "Your connection has been terminated as we have decided you are a pirate!"
As I child/teen I loved Star Wars episodes 4-6. My Mom let me skip school to see Jedi.
But then Lucas ruined all my memories by changing the story with episode 1.
In 4-6 we are told that if you'll just believe in yourself and use the force you can do anything. What a great ideal.
In episode 1 we are told, first you must have midchlorians or there's no point. WTF! Now I can no longer watch episodes 4-6 with that new information because they no longer mean the same thing.
Before it was "believe in yourself" where as it's been changed to "must be born great or forget it"
1) I can log in to any Windows computer, install the software, login and up come all my playlists
2) I'm in front of the computer 6-10 hours a day at work and my computer at home is connected to my stereo, most hours of may day were I could listen to music are covered
3) Wireless net will eventually make it to my car giving me access from my car
4) http://www.listen.com/wireless.jsp?sect=main
I've had Rhapsody for about 8 months now. I've listened to close to 2000 songs. Either I would have had to pirate all of those which would ahve taken lots of time searching for them and most of which are not available in the sharing networks OR I would have had to buy them from something like iTunes Music which would have cost me $2000.
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they already have caught up here in Japan. There are about 10 differnt 2megapixel camera phones out here. Some with auto-focus. The bottom of the digital camera market is currently 2megapixels. By Christmas here those phones will be the free phones you get for signing up for service and 3megapixel phones will be out.
ATRAC3, well, assuming that's also the standard for MD players then Sony has shared that standard. That's why Sharp, Panasonic, etc all have MD players.
Sony has also shared the memorystick standard. Both Sandisk and Lexar and several other companies make memorysticks and several non-sony digital cameras use them as well.
I don't know what makes the ATRAC3 standard so good but you might have noticed, ATRAC3 supporting MD and CD players run for 150hrs on one battery charge. MP3 supporting devices run for 1/10 of that if you are lucky.
Japan is exactly the same and they are an economic powerhouse.
Wake up! He's talking about all the choices you have BECAUSE WINDOWS IS A STANDARD. Just like VHS is a standard. If there were 100s of types of video standards your choices on any one of them would be far more limited.
Maybe because chopsticks are better than forks in many cases. For example it's much easier to eat salad with chopsticks since you can actually grab things than try to spear lettuce or cabbage with a fork.
Someone talented with chopsticks can also pick up a large piece of food and bite off pieces. You can try to do this with a fork but often you'll pull the entire thing off the fork.
With chopsticks you can pick up tiny things like individual grains of rice or small pickle slices, something you can't do with a fork.
I wouldn't try to eat an uncut stake with chopsticks but I also wouldn't try to cook korean BBQ with forks.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q= simgen+amiga
I wrote something for the Amiga Workbench that gave you an image behind your desktop making all your windows that used the default background color to show the image through them so it basically it looks like translucent windows.
The list is going to be bigger than 10 because I'm not sure what you want to consider. Is a patch the first install? A driver? An Upgrade? So, Until I get 10 apps, here's the order
0) Win XP Pro
0a) Motherboard Drivers (Raid, USB, Snd, etc.)
0b) Network Driver
0c) Win XP Updates (inclds IE6)
0d) Video Driver
0e) DirectX
0f) WMP 9 (up from 7 in XP)
0g) DivX, Xvid (gotta have my pr0n)
0h) IIS (an XP Pro option)
0i) Messenger 6.1 (up from 4.7)
1) Google Bar (gotta stop popups)
2) Dave's Quick Search Bar (can't live without)
3) Visual Slickedit
4) Perl
5) PHP
6) MySQL
7) WS-FTP Pro
8) WinRAR
9) mIRC (needed xbox updates)
10) Raphsody
-------
11) MS Office (I like Outlook, get over it)
12) Motino
13) Photoshop
14) Thumbsplus
15) Acrobat
16) Quicktime
17) RealPlayer (never had any problems)
All that is used almost daily. At some point I will also have to install all of the following
*) VC++ 6.0
*) VC++.NET
*) Sound Forge
*) Acid
*) Vegas Video
*) Maya
*) 3D Studio Max
*) Thumbs
*) DirectX SDK
*) Cygwin
*) JWPCE
*) Cool 360
Since your boss paid for 100% of your labor he's free to do what he wants with the results.
When pay $10 for a song or $20 for a DVD or $40 to $4000 for Software YOU are not paying even %0.0001% of the labor.
What do you call it when you go to a doctor and don't pay him?
What you would call it if you worked for a week for your employer and he decided not to pay you?
Are those theft? In either case nothing material was taken.
you make the assumption that broadband will always be more expensive than dialup.
Here in Japan it's less expensive than dialup
Even in the states, if you make long distance phone calls and you can convince your friends or family to go broadband to you could save quite a bit of money by switching to broadband.
I guess you are behind the times.
Even the designer of the orignal Mac OS says one button mice are crap and should be discarded.
Listen.com/Raphsody kicks all kinds of ass over iTMS. If they could sell iPod compatible songs it would be the best system ever.
Human impulse is also to steal, kill, make war, cheat, lie, and many other things. That does not make them things we should support.
If you are only going to listen to them on your computer then sing up for listen.com. It rules.
They'll know every mail order item you bought, every person you talk to about it, all your interests so they can dish up ads for you. Who your contacts are. Every registration email you've received ala "The password to your account is :XXXXXXX"
:-(
Even better is the day someone hacks their machine.
Horray for Google!!!
Eventually I turned to playing Wipeout for my PS2, as it had music I actually liked, and would listen to normally
While I'm not going to say that MarioKart has the best music, Wipeout really pushes a button for me. Using your logic I should not like any movies that don't use popular music I like to listen to as their soundtracks. I guess Lord of the Rings would be better if it featured music I normal listen too?
I believe most games should be scored. In other words they should use music that fits them. As in movies that is rarely if ever music I would normally listen too.
I know I'm in the minority here but Wipeout, while having great music, has mostly inappropriate music. The game is about racing and so the music, if scored correctly, should fit racing. More than 1/2 the songs on Wipeout would never have been used in a racing sequence in a movie unless that sequence was a dream sequence. The music is great but it does not make me want to race, it makes me want to daydream and is therefore a poor match for a racing game.
I'd say it's > 40megabits per second. I have a feeling US companies believe it's > 0.7megabits per second.
Yes, Apple is going to come out with the iPippin!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin
In Japan we have several 2 megapixel phones.
As for the thoughts that these cameras will not replace digital cameras, they will for all those people that only need snap shots. The Casio Exlim series has lenses small enough they could fit just fine in a cellphone and they take pictures that 80% of the population would be happy with. Integrate the 2, will happen by next year in Japan, and there will be no reason for 80% of the digital cameras out there. Only the Pro-sumer stuff will have a point.
KDDI in Japan does indeed offer 2.4megabit wireless unlimted use for $40 a month but that use is limited to on cellphone features (browsing the web on the cell phone and video on demand to the cell phone). Plug in into your computer and it's metered! :-(
Other wireless services in Japan are $45 a month unlimited but for only 64k connections.
Someone explain to me how this all works.
One of the big supposedly pluses to GPLed code is that many people can contibute. So, if I GPL the code AND try to release it under another license then the non-GPLed version can not have any of the benefits of contributions, bug fixes, etc from the GPLed version since those contributions are GPLed and not available under the other license. Those contributions belong to the individual contributors, not the person or team that made the original code.
I can't believe the slashdot crowd thinks this is a good idea. If they can knock you off the net at all they can knock you off for any reason they choose. Running BitTorrent to download the latest ditro ISOs? "Your connection has been terminated as we have decided you are a pirate!"
gees!
excuses won't help you stay ahead. It does matter why they are ahead it only matters that they are.
As I child/teen I loved Star Wars episodes 4-6. My Mom let me skip school to see Jedi.
But then Lucas ruined all my memories by changing the story with episode 1.
In 4-6 we are told that if you'll just believe in yourself and use the force you can do anything. What a great ideal.
In episode 1 we are told, first you must have midchlorians or there's no point. WTF! Now I can no longer watch episodes 4-6 with that new information because they no longer mean the same thing.
Before it was "believe in yourself" where as it's been changed to "must be born great or forget it"
My music is portable.
1) I can log in to any Windows computer, install the software, login and up come all my playlists
2) I'm in front of the computer 6-10 hours a day at work and my computer at home is connected to my stereo, most hours of may day were I could listen to music are covered
3) Wireless net will eventually make it to my car giving me access from my car
4) http://www.listen.com/wireless.jsp?sect=main
I've had Rhapsody for about 8 months now. I've listened to close to 2000 songs. Either I would have had to pirate all of those which would ahve taken lots of time searching for them and most of which are not available in the sharing networks OR I would have had to buy them from something like iTunes Music which would have cost me $2000.