i think sony struggles because they design by a committee with sometimes counteractive goals rather than than by a small team with clear and concise goals...
there was one other thing that was certainly true of the ps1 vs. n64 and that is that the ps1 was damned easy to program for and was very easy to convert pc titles over to it. this and the low royalties demanded by sony helped them immensely with developing lots of titles (and LOTS of shovelware junk)...
"Finnish UN observer feared killed in Israeli airstrike"...
from Freenode: "_sniper_" is Jani Taskinen.
[_sniper_] hehehehe.. [_sniper_] all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it....Israel says the resolution was fair. [_sniper_] hell yeah.. [_sniper_] NUKE ISRAEL! [_sniper_] I'm so full of that fucking country.. [Shai-Tan] indeed [_sniper_] Eye for an eye..I'll kill one Israel officer for one of ours, is that fair? [_sniper_] I bet I'll be hanged for that. [_sniper_] They kill one of my brother-in-arms-for-peace..I think I'm entitled to kill one of their nazis. [_sniper_] Hezbollah, where can I enlist? [_sniper_] FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you jews. [_sniper_] I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it. [_sniper_] Good bye. [-- _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl
"Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360"
wait a second. who says sony's getting second place? by all accounts i've read the winning combo is likely to be the 360 and wii. sounds more like sony's getting a third place.
hd-dvd was designed as a more economical approach to high density discs. a MAJOR factor is that you can retrofit existing dvd presses to hd-dvd for relatively little cost. in comparison, sony's blu-ray requires dvd production houses to buy all new equipment, at a VERY high cost to them (which in turn hits your wallet).
another thing is that it is trivial right now to make doubledsided standard dvd-9/hd-dvd discs. they cost about the same as an existing doublesided dvd to press. warner brothers already committed to producing these dual format discs as a means to entice buyers into the format. it gives folks an easy, worry free feeling about their movie purchasing investment. sony claims they can do this too but from what i've heard it is a long way off and they have yet to produce a prototype publicly of this type of media.
part of the problem for both formats is that folks with a regular tv won't see much benefit at all. thing is, most of america still is using a standard def small screen crt. until folks start upgrading to hd (fcc's digital television rules will certainly help this along if they can ever stick to a dead end date) it will be a struggle here in the usa.
i think once the birthing pains (big, slow, quirky and slightly expensive machines) of hd-dvd are over (give it a year or so) it will likely be the dominate next-gen format with blu-ray hanging on for a while like minidisc but eventually going the way of the dodo...
laserdiscs have analog video and at first only uncompressed pcm audio. however dolby digital and dts became available on laserdisc later on. there is evidence that a properly mastered laserdisc played on a high quality laserdisc player will have superior sound to a properly mastered dvd played on a high quality dvd player (dvd dts audio being close to but still not as good as the pcm, laserdisc dd or dts).
the picture quality though suffers greatly on laserdisc due to limited resolution and the analog video among other factors.
btw, laserdisc doesn't support anamorphic video, the best it can do is fullscreen or letterbox which limits the overall video quality as it lacks the resolution of a true anamorphic source.
i wish abrams would get busy killing 'alias' (which has been meandering for far too long) and get back to 'lost' (which could use a little guidance to move it along a little)...
but this movie seems interesting. just as long as they don't cast sean william scott as kirk and Wilmer Valderrama as spock.;p
i'm not too concerned if they don't support alternate platforms as long as they don't require you to use a specific one.
ie, i don't care if they won't come and help me do something on a linux or mac as long as they don't require me to use features that are specific to one (obviously usually windows) platform.
as to whether or not you are going to learn more or whatever because you have a computer is highly doubtful. however some things will be easier to do and you won't have to bum computer time off the libraries systems or a friends for important papers and whatnot...
yeah, we are still using itunes. songbird, while nice in theory is as you stated betaware. early beta too. you'd know this is you tried it instead of read their webpage and jumped on the opensource troll bandwagon...
note: just because something is opensource doesn't make it a better solution. songbird may eventually become that, but at the moment it has a lot of work to do.
Slashdot Mirror
Not that the game knew about it but man those NES controllers could take an NFL football player level beating. Those were the days...
apparently you didn't watch the video. a little different than a simple file transfer function in most chat apps...
http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ichat.html
when will this be implemented in azureus and utorrent? i appreciate bram's work immensely but i'm not too keen on his app...
or how about ballot stuffing 2000? or the new and improved 2004 version?
wow, two people really can play at this game! i guess this is an mmorpg?
or:
"You can't put a shine on shit."
i think sony struggles because they design by a committee with sometimes counteractive goals rather than than by a small team with clear and concise goals...
there was one other thing that was certainly true of the ps1 vs. n64 and that is that the ps1 was damned easy to program for and was very easy to convert pc titles over to it. this and the low royalties demanded by sony helped them immensely with developing lots of titles (and LOTS of shovelware junk)...
here's the digg link i'm referring to: http://digg.com/programming/Lead_PHP_programmer_qu its
i'm not so sure it's a hack or prank. YMMV...
N WSAID=13246&group=General
...
posted on http://digg.com/ (by sickaltima and achiIIe):
Jani Taskinen
http://www.zend.com/person.php?handle=sniper
Something to note:
http://virtual.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?int
"Finnish UN observer feared killed in Israeli airstrike"
from Freenode:
"_sniper_" is Jani Taskinen.
[_sniper_] hehehehe..
[_sniper_] all other members of the UN security council wanted to condemn Israel for attacking the UN post but USA (freedom and democracy) vetoed it....Israel says the resolution was fair.
[_sniper_] hell yeah..
[_sniper_] NUKE ISRAEL!
[_sniper_] I'm so full of that fucking country..
[Shai-Tan] indeed
[_sniper_] Eye for an eye..I'll kill one Israel officer for one of ours, is that fair?
[_sniper_] I bet I'll be hanged for that.
[_sniper_] They kill one of my brother-in-arms-for-peace..I think I'm entitled to kill one of their nazis.
[_sniper_] Hezbollah, where can I enlist?
[_sniper_] FYI: I don't care at all what anybody thinks about me. I'm going to be openly anti-Israel from now on. This was the last straw for me. Fuck you jews.
[_sniper_] I will also quit this project. As long as it's backed by some Israel company, I don't want to have anything to do with it.
[_sniper_] Good bye.
[-- _sniper_ (~jani@a88-112-115-63.elisa-laajakaista.fi) has left #php.pecl
Jani is also Finnish BTW
compared to DOS 4 anything is better. thus the reason why nobody remembers DOS 4 as it died a horrible and ugly death.
as for 6.22 i seem to remember it also had slightly better memory management but i could be wrong on that one.
this reminds me of the classic star trek episode:t _Battlefield
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Las
"Someone screwed up so badly it looks like it will relegate the console to second place behind the 360"
wait a second. who says sony's getting second place? by all accounts i've read the winning combo is likely to be the 360 and wii. sounds more like sony's getting a third place.
Microsoft's New Credo:
"We'll fix that bug but you've got to slip us another $20..."
damn it! did he not hear my prayers yesterday?
a few other points to consider...
hd-dvd was designed as a more economical approach to high density discs. a MAJOR factor is that you can retrofit existing dvd presses to hd-dvd for relatively little cost. in comparison, sony's blu-ray requires dvd production houses to buy all new equipment, at a VERY high cost to them (which in turn hits your wallet).
another thing is that it is trivial right now to make doubledsided standard dvd-9/hd-dvd discs. they cost about the same as an existing doublesided dvd to press. warner brothers already committed to producing these dual format discs as a means to entice buyers into the format. it gives folks an easy, worry free feeling about their movie purchasing investment. sony claims they can do this too but from what i've heard it is a long way off and they have yet to produce a prototype publicly of this type of media.
part of the problem for both formats is that folks with a regular tv won't see much benefit at all. thing is, most of america still is using a standard def small screen crt. until folks start upgrading to hd (fcc's digital television rules will certainly help this along if they can ever stick to a dead end date) it will be a struggle here in the usa.
i think once the birthing pains (big, slow, quirky and slightly expensive machines) of hd-dvd are over (give it a year or so) it will likely be the dominate next-gen format with blu-ray hanging on for a while like minidisc but eventually going the way of the dodo...
microsoft innovation: throw money at the problem until it goes away.
laserdiscs have analog video and at first only uncompressed pcm audio. however dolby digital and dts became available on laserdisc later on. there is evidence that a properly mastered laserdisc played on a high quality laserdisc player will have superior sound to a properly mastered dvd played on a high quality dvd player (dvd dts audio being close to but still not as good as the pcm, laserdisc dd or dts).
the picture quality though suffers greatly on laserdisc due to limited resolution and the analog video among other factors.
btw, laserdisc doesn't support anamorphic video, the best it can do is fullscreen or letterbox which limits the overall video quality as it lacks the resolution of a true anamorphic source.
here's some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laserdisc
what you should be asking is whether or not it will decrypt properly... i remember a time when microsoft and encryption were a joke.
see "doublespace"
I think the name you are looking for is Werner Brandes... ;)
ha! great minds think alike: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183722&cid=151 74053
i wish abrams would get busy killing 'alias' (which has been meandering for far too long) and get back to 'lost' (which could use a little guidance to move it along a little)...
;p
but this movie seems interesting. just as long as they don't cast sean william scott as kirk and Wilmer Valderrama as spock.
i'm not too concerned if they don't support alternate platforms as long as they don't require you to use a specific one.
ie, i don't care if they won't come and help me do something on a linux or mac as long as they don't require me to use features that are specific to one (obviously usually windows) platform.
as to whether or not you are going to learn more or whatever because you have a computer is highly doubtful. however some things will be easier to do and you won't have to bum computer time off the libraries systems or a friends for important papers and whatnot...
yeah, we are still using itunes. songbird, while nice in theory is as you stated betaware. early beta too. you'd know this is you tried it instead of read their webpage and jumped on the opensource troll bandwagon...
note: just because something is opensource doesn't make it a better solution. songbird may eventually become that, but at the moment it has a lot of work to do.
so sell a 'homebrew kit' that comes with a dongle required for running any homebrew app...
'features' some might argue should have been in place from the start...