Quite the opposite. If history is any indicator, Sony will win.
First you had Nintendo and Sega, as well as a few bit players, and Nintendo was clearly the strongest. Then Sony came along, offering a unit with an optical drive, allowing for massive storage and higher margins (cds are lots cheaper than solid-state memory), and nearly obliterated Nintendo. Now sony has nearly 80% of the market.
Fast forward a decade, and now the portable market is owned by Nintendo. Sony is about to offer a unit with an optical drive, allowing for massive storage and higher margins (UM discs are lots cheaper than solid-state memory).
One idea that came to mind was emailing answering machine recordings.
That's a standard service with KPN (royal dutch telecom) already. If I don't answer the phone, they take a message and mail it to me automatically, and for free. I have found this to be an extremely useful service.
Nintendo and Sega dominated the console market when the PS1 came out. Then Sony put a huge optical drive in their new console and vaporized the competition.
Nou Nintendo dominates the handheld market. And Sony is about to release a handheld with a huge optical drive. Sounds like history repeating to me.
I imagine that if the defendants win, the claimant would have to pay all court costs, since they unjustly started the whole thing. If the claimant wins, thay can still pay for their part themselves. Should discourage frivolous lawsuits.
Dpi and physical size are related, but pixels and points aren't. A 10 pt. letter should always be the same physical size. So if you increase your resolution, your 10 point letter will take up more pixels.
Doesn't work that way on most computers, but it most definitely should.
Excuse me? You couldn't even leave the disks on a table for an hour and assume they'd still work. Whereas a CD in a full-size jewel box will survive almost anything.
Zip drives where utterly unreliable pieces of crud. The only reason they sold well is because they were cheap, and were the only practical way to move large loads of data (CR-RW wasn't there yet, and CD-R was expensive). The disks and drives used to die all over the place (remember the click of death?). I'm glad CD-RW got cheap pretty fast.
It's slower. Once you're done jogging you'll still have to plug the disk into something to use it. And if the network is faster than your disk, your jogging will have been futile.
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Ten years since Second Reality, and it still sets the benchmark for what could be accomplished on a 486.
Actually, second reality ran on a 386SX/25. Pretty amazing stuff. It was pretty much the breaktrough into the demoscene for the PC.
I've got an Asus board with an on-board C-media chip. The sound that comes from it is decent enough from me, and I suppose for most people.
For the true audiophiles, it provides s/pdif out. As a true audiophile will never use a DAC that's inside a metal case full of fans and power noise, however good it is, I see little use for higher quality DACs on soundcards. You either use the decent onboard DAC, or route the digital output through a bad-ass external DAC. In either case, there is no need for a soundcard.
Yeah, just too bad you won't be able to watch Chaplin at all in a hundred years or so, because all the copying (necessary because of degrading material) will have marred the film beyond recognision.
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Quite the opposite. If history is any indicator, Sony will win.
First you had Nintendo and Sega, as well as a few bit players, and Nintendo was clearly the strongest. Then Sony came along, offering a unit with an optical drive, allowing for massive storage and higher margins (cds are lots cheaper than solid-state memory), and nearly obliterated Nintendo. Now sony has nearly 80% of the market.
Fast forward a decade, and now the portable market is owned by Nintendo. Sony is about to offer a unit with an optical drive, allowing for massive storage and higher margins (UM discs are lots cheaper than solid-state memory).
I'd say it's history repeating.
One idea that came to mind was emailing answering machine recordings.
That's a standard service with KPN (royal dutch telecom) already. If I don't answer the phone, they take a message and mail it to me automatically, and for free. I have found this to be an extremely useful service.
Nintendo and Sega dominated the console market when the PS1 came out. Then Sony put a huge optical drive in their new console and vaporized the competition.
Nou Nintendo dominates the handheld market. And Sony is about to release a handheld with a huge optical drive. Sounds like history repeating to me.
I imagine that if the defendants win, the claimant would have to pay all court costs, since they unjustly started the whole thing. If the claimant wins, thay can still pay for their part themselves. Should discourage frivolous lawsuits.
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Now how can sub-256mb players be useless, and yet be a kick-ass feature in a 24mb Treo?
Dpi and physical size are related, but pixels and points aren't. A 10 pt. letter should always be the same physical size. So if you increase your resolution, your 10 point letter will take up more pixels.
Doesn't work that way on most computers, but it most definitely should.
Excuse me? You couldn't even leave the disks on a table for an hour and assume they'd still work. Whereas a CD in a full-size jewel box will survive almost anything.
Zip drives where utterly unreliable pieces of crud. The only reason they sold well is because they were cheap, and were the only practical way to move large loads of data (CR-RW wasn't there yet, and CD-R was expensive). The disks and drives used to die all over the place (remember the click of death?). I'm glad CD-RW got cheap pretty fast.
I'd say it runs at a pretty high rate. Assuming that that 3.5 TB is uncompressed video material, you get a rate of about 45 full frames per second.
3 500 000 000 000 / 18*60 sec / 6000*4000 pixels / 3 bytes per pixel = 45
It's slower. Once you're done jogging you'll still have to plug the disk into something to use it. And if the network is faster than your disk, your jogging will have been futile.
Actually, second reality ran on a 386SX/25. Pretty amazing stuff. It was pretty much the breaktrough into the demoscene for the PC.
I've got an Asus board with an on-board C-media chip. The sound that comes from it is decent enough from me, and I suppose for most people.
For the true audiophiles, it provides s/pdif out. As a true audiophile will never use a DAC that's inside a metal case full of fans and power noise, however good it is, I see little use for higher quality DACs on soundcards. You either use the decent onboard DAC, or route the digital output through a bad-ass external DAC. In either case, there is no need for a soundcard.
The guy is a United States senator, not some drunk in a bar spouting out shit.
The two are mutually exclusive?
Buy a Handspring Deluxe. =) www.handspring.com
Yeah, just too bad you won't be able to watch Chaplin at all in a hundred years or so, because all the copying (necessary because of degrading material) will have marred the film beyond recognision.