exactly what i was thinking. when the market is saturated with big fast cheap drives, why bother? go into the mini drive market where the real action is and where there is money to be made.
i would imagine that much of the real technology isn't being developed for the desktop market as it is and has been commoditized for several years now, but instead for the mini drives like hitachi's and toshiba's. they are hot right now as everyone is trying to find ways to stuff them into mp3 players, phones, pda's etc...
actually this is more useful to copyright owners wanting to find infringers. i've heard playboy already uses digicmarc watermarking. this might be the next logical extension, finding pictures that look similar to find images that people have modified to attempt watermark removal...
on the flipside, it would be helpful to regular folks who have a picture kicking around that they want to find out what it is or where they got it from. i do a lot of photoshop work and have an enormous collection of images that i've collected over the years that i couldn't attempt to figure out where i got them. an image search would be very useful...
the reason why these types of things don't happen is that the people who would do it are too worried that there aren't enough people who would 'get it' and it wouldn't sell... when you have hordes of folks who are quick to judge but aren't interested in using their imagination to explore the possibilities of an idea or innovation it makes growing a product that much harder.
on top of that people like a fight and with the psp going to be priced so close to the ds, people want to see blood. stupid, yes.
if nintendo proves nintendo wrong then they can release an updated ds with multimedia capabilities added on. due to the design of the ds, i don't think it would be very difficult for nintendo to do it elegantly either...
i think sony will do well with the psp, but i don't think they will see the numbers like nintendo has with the gameboy or are seeing with the ds (but who knows?).
i agree with you mostly. however i think there might be a little bit of truth to what he said. i can see it being good for a reviewer to try to find an audience for a game. there are some games that are fun but it would be hard to figure out who the game would be fun to.
for example "Katamari Damacy" is one of those games that is fun but it's hard to describe why. there's nothing really quite like it. if you saw a really cool game that may not be marketed well or at all and you fear that the game may not be discovered it would be a service to the readers to tell them that they should ignore the box and buy the game.
of course the opposite can be true too for bad games. if you see a game that is truly bad or is really not going to please the audience it seems to be marketed at, you might want to tell the reader that. for example, "Steven Seagal Is the Final Option". it is a game that is aimed at god only knows who. however a good reviewer would tell the reader that they should play this game if and only if they have received a blunt trauma to the head or have the iq of a turnip. fortunately seanbaby did just that.
i did this, thanks! it works much better now. saves me from having to read a bunch of thick o'reilly books. do you charge a consulting fee or was this considered "free advice"?
somewhere around 2000 iterated folded and became a storage management company... you can still see some of their pages on their stuff here (look at 1999 and earlier).
they had some interesting software. i liked the fractal compression program but didn't use it for anything more than something it wasn't really intended for: enlarging low resolution pictures. i would convert them into fif files and then zoom them in a bit. the fractal engine did a pretty decent job of enlarging 72dpi pictures a few steps w/o them being too terribly blurry. they also had an activex control for people who wanted to use fif images on their websites...
which is a good point to make... if you are trying to get to something that is under heavy load and don't feel the need to look at pictures just turn them off (assuming your browser of choice can do so).
hey! this isn't offtopic! who modded it offtopic? the dude that made the comment above mine was talking about consequences of a cure. a cure is what the article is about. what i said may be contraversial to some, but it is NOT offtopic.
or if you have a buffalo wap, you are good to go with an official firmware update. version 2.2 for my (recently discontinued but still readily available around the net) wbr-g54 has signal strength settings and allows you to crank the channels up to 11. are there other brands that offer official firmwares with these capabilities?
i understand what you mean but think about what you just said, because many of those unintended consequences will be rightwing religious groups (many of whom now have a lot of money and a loud voice in the media) telling us about how "science is removing god's will of punishing people who sin against him"...
think i'm kidding? a quick google and take a look here and more here... scary huh?
yeah and maybe gmrs, frs, cb, ham, weather channel, tv audio, radar, gps, james bond tracking system and whatever else they can throw on it. i mean i have to have every type of communication on my 21st century walkman!
oh and it needs a 10 foot tall whip antenna. i'd be pissed if i couldn't get good reception. also i love the 70's jeep look about them...
i have an nec 3500 drive, does dual layer, +r-r,16x, you name it. however most of the media i use is 4x. why? because it is the most prevalent and is cheap.
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exactly what i was thinking. when the market is saturated with big fast cheap drives, why bother? go into the mini drive market where the real action is and where there is money to be made.
i would imagine that much of the real technology isn't being developed for the desktop market as it is and has been commoditized for several years now, but instead for the mini drives like hitachi's and toshiba's. they are hot right now as everyone is trying to find ways to stuff them into mp3 players, phones, pda's etc...
that and the pictures of a million cats...
i bet they'll find those wmd's.
actually this is more useful to copyright owners wanting to find infringers. i've heard playboy already uses digicmarc watermarking. this might be the next logical extension, finding pictures that look similar to find images that people have modified to attempt watermark removal...
on the flipside, it would be helpful to regular folks who have a picture kicking around that they want to find out what it is or where they got it from. i do a lot of photoshop work and have an enormous collection of images that i've collected over the years that i couldn't attempt to figure out where i got them. an image search would be very useful...
the reason why these types of things don't happen is that the people who would do it are too worried that there aren't enough people who would 'get it' and it wouldn't sell... when you have hordes of folks who are quick to judge but aren't interested in using their imagination to explore the possibilities of an idea or innovation it makes growing a product that much harder.
on top of that people like a fight and with the psp going to be priced so close to the ds, people want to see blood. stupid, yes.
didn't you know people are too busy bitching about semantics and irrelevence to be insightful... contrarian is the new cool. ;p
if nintendo proves nintendo wrong then they can release an updated ds with multimedia capabilities added on. due to the design of the ds, i don't think it would be very difficult for nintendo to do it elegantly either...
i think sony will do well with the psp, but i don't think they will see the numbers like nintendo has with the gameboy or are seeing with the ds (but who knows?).
i agree with you mostly. however i think there might be a little bit of truth to what he said. i can see it being good for a reviewer to try to find an audience for a game. there are some games that are fun but it would be hard to figure out who the game would be fun to.
for example "Katamari Damacy" is one of those games that is fun but it's hard to describe why. there's nothing really quite like it. if you saw a really cool game that may not be marketed well or at all and you fear that the game may not be discovered it would be a service to the readers to tell them that they should ignore the box and buy the game.
of course the opposite can be true too for bad games. if you see a game that is truly bad or is really not going to please the audience it seems to be marketed at, you might want to tell the reader that. for example, "Steven Seagal Is the Final Option". it is a game that is aimed at god only knows who. however a good reviewer would tell the reader that they should play this game if and only if they have received a blunt trauma to the head or have the iq of a turnip. fortunately seanbaby did just that.
*BOOOM* oops, there goes the neighborhood...
i did this, thanks! it works much better now. saves me from having to read a bunch of thick o'reilly books. do you charge a consulting fee or was this considered "free advice"?
the article's webserver sure doesn't...
somewhere around 2000 iterated folded and became a storage management company... you can still see some of their pages on their stuff here (look at 1999 and earlier).
they had some interesting software. i liked the fractal compression program but didn't use it for anything more than something it wasn't really intended for: enlarging low resolution pictures. i would convert them into fif files and then zoom them in a bit. the fractal engine did a pretty decent job of enlarging 72dpi pictures a few steps w/o them being too terribly blurry. they also had an activex control for people who wanted to use fif images on their websites...
perhaps he got distracted while decorating his secret hideaway in the base of a volcano?
ever hear of this marvelous invention: the telephone? i hear they now even have them in pocket sized models! ;p
which is a good point to make... if you are trying to get to something that is under heavy load and don't feel the need to look at pictures just turn them off (assuming your browser of choice can do so).
hey! this isn't offtopic! who modded it offtopic? the dude that made the comment above mine was talking about consequences of a cure. a cure is what the article is about. what i said may be contraversial to some, but it is NOT offtopic.
or if you have a buffalo wap, you are good to go with an official firmware update. version 2.2 for my (recently discontinued but still readily available around the net) wbr-g54 has signal strength settings and allows you to crank the channels up to 11. are there other brands that offer official firmwares with these capabilities?
i understand what you mean but think about what you just said, because many of those unintended consequences will be rightwing religious groups (many of whom now have a lot of money and a loud voice in the media) telling us about how "science is removing god's will of punishing people who sin against him"...
think i'm kidding? a quick google and take a look here and more here... scary huh?
yeah and maybe gmrs, frs, cb, ham, weather channel, tv audio, radar, gps, james bond tracking system and whatever else they can throw on it. i mean i have to have every type of communication on my 21st century walkman!
;p
oh and it needs a 10 foot tall whip antenna. i'd be pissed if i couldn't get good reception. also i love the 70's jeep look about them...
i kid, i kid!
i have an nec 3500 drive, does dual layer, +r-r,16x, you name it. however most of the media i use is 4x. why? because it is the most prevalent and is cheap.
yeah, taiwan is watching... the knockoffs are coming soon...
or just buy the bluetooth adapter and go cordless without an ugly dongle hanging around on your desk (boy that almost sounds dirty)...
for those that want lots of details through play-by-plays:
http://appleinsider.com/
http://schwarztech.us/keynote.shtml
http://www.macmerc.com/
http://mwsf.macnn.com/
AI's got a nifty pic with jobs holding up the (very small) box...
more irc channels here:
http://chat.macnn.com/
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