i'm impressed... 25 dvds for 1 terabit. but i think were all holding out until we hit 150 zip disks on a square centimeter or 172 ls-120's on the size of a heineken bottle cap.
Think of possible upgrades. "Buy a computer AND a DVR" at a switch of a button you can browse the 'net on your hdtv, click a button and you're back to watching the shows you missed while browsing on the 'net. Hell, it wouldn't be so out of the ordinary that the DVR and OS can mingle together in some capacity (but not too much as they would want to keep the setup as simple as possible).
When people buy a second home computer, they're going to buy the type of computer that's already found controlling their TV.
Microsoft gained dominance by attacking the business market back in the 80s. Gaining dominance now means that a company needs to attack the home entertainment market.
And someone will bring up how the game systems are trying to do DVR work. They won't succeed nearly as well because their is no line of succession past those systems. An Apple branded Tivo could lead to an Apple/Tivo hybrid (separate hardware in the same enclosure, don't make the mistake of windows mce) that leads to people using an Apple as their primary computer. Apple can do this because they do a great job of homogenizing their brand. An XBox has no consumer friendly interoperatiblity (sp?) with a Windows box.
Thanks stupidfoo... I did have it wrong. I double checked it and want to post the correct version (please don't mod this up, i'm thankful enough for my previous entry)
"Now to enter all the popups. Oooo. A talking moose wants my credit card number. That's only fair"
I think we should define a planet as a celsestial body that can support multi-organism life.
otherwise it's an asteroid, comet, celestial body, whatever.
would that mean that this solar system doesn't have 9 planets? yes it would. it doesn't change the fact that we still have 9 celestial bodies in the vicinity.
Why are we trying to hang on to old definitions that don't make sense? Because our ancestors used them? Advance, make progress people.
Critical components are not controlled through the OS. They are controlled by a dual cpu ecu module. The OS only runs things like the climate control, radio, and navigation.
No car manufacturer is dumb enough to have critical components controlled via an OS. Even BMW with their "intuitive" I-Drive (which is much much more pervasive in OS-Car dynamics) doesn't do this.
the authorities didn't arrest him for just the act of uploading movies. it was because he uploaded those movies. he was dragging down the rep of all the pirates in China.
imagine what they think of the people that actually made those films...
this shouldn't be a shock but we are animals. i'm sick of people that are surprised by this, i mean, should we all shave our heads and look as androgynous as we can so that we get rid of our differences?
i'm wondering where this whole idea that if we become as androgynous as possible is being civilized or advanced? sexuality is a part of humanity, like it or not.
humanoid mechs can't navigate terrain, recognize threats, and move as fast as human soldiers *yet*. the best most cost efficient mech that can be made with todays technology would be something similar to those 1st generation terminators in T3. not too wide, can take lots of shots before failure, can carry bigass guns to inflict crazy damage. those things, if made right, would be nearly perfect for urban warfare. send it in, have a human controller view what it's seeing, if an enemy shows up, rotate and angle the miniguns to clear out an area.
Q: Why do automotive companies outsource to China? A: To save on labor costs.
Q: Why don't they move all their labor to China? A: China allows rogue manufacturers to disregard the parent companies patents to create a nearly identical version of the parent companies product.
Q: Why is this bad? A: The rogue manufactures keep all profit and if the parent company doesn't see any profit, they will not be able to incorporate new technologies and safety measures to their next generation of vehicles.
By avoiding China as much as possible it would avoid the theft of Toyota technologies. Why invest in a country that is going to allow the theft of your advancements?
Do you think that i'm joking about China copying cars like they do with playstations? They already have copied Honda's SUV and a GM car which they are selling for 1/3 the sticker price. China's official answer? The government closes their eyes to this and therefore the problem doesn't exist.
In addition to the Honda you've stated, Lexus (aka Toyota) will also be releasing the RX400h (275hp hybrid) and then their is the rumored LS500 hybrid in typical toyota fashion all we know is that it will be a hybrid with more hp than the LS430.
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If I had mod points, I would mod you up.
Of all the processors they picked, they picked the worst one. My opinion.
What stopped them from using a Pentium M or an XP-M chip? I believe there was an earlier slashdot story on using the Pentium-M chip in desktops and it's performance was very good at encoding and even better in games than the P4 alternative.
There are people who have volted down their XP chips to 1.1 volts and are running a very respectable 2200+ rating.
It's a shame that they wasted 5cm of aluminum to waste it on a P4 2.8.
"I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume" great, so instead of making something that represents an ipod, you strapped a facsimile of an ipod as a necklace. big whoop
President Bush announced that extreme efforts are underway to find these missing genes. These scientists are incapable of dealing with the task at hand and as such, drastic measure need to be taken.
Maybe someone else has the exact quote, but didn't Bill Gates say that he sees the future of computers as when people will pay for the OS (subscription of course) and the hardware will be free?
IBM is pushing the opposite. The OS is free and people have to pay for the hardware.
The last time I used Real Player I had to go through extra work to remove the spyware like tactics that Real Player had installed. It's been a while since I have used Real Player and have opted to use Real Alternative in cases where I couldn't avoid the site using Real Technologies.
In fact, what is Real's stance on Real Alternative?
lol... i just can't get ahead. i had it attributed to Emiliana Zapata then I had someone yell at me that I was wrong and it was Catch-22. I'm switching it back to Emiliano Zapata, damn what anyone else says, that's why I picked it in the first place. =)
It's 500 for the limited edition Rio Carbon. The only difference between the limited edition and the regular version is a "collectors box", laser engraving, and a 3 month - 20 song pass on napster. http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/email/r io/LE/
"PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease."
That's interesting because I've quit buying computer games because of the tactics that "StarForce" type add-ons inflict. So I guess that the number and quality of games will certainly decrease because people won't want to deal with all these burdens you force on people.
It's gotten to the point that I don't play many games on my PC anymore because of these companies. I really have no future need for an x86 system because all I use my computer anymore is for schoolwork, aim, running a few websites, and email. Their's only 1 program stopping me from moving to Linux but it's available for OS X.
Oh, and as for the market shrinking due to increased piracy... that's why I guess the PS and PS2 haven't had much success... oh wait... (I'm not saying that piracy was the reason of their success, but that it didn't lead to their downfall of being the most popular console).
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Have you ever tasted any of the food in England?
They're not only scared of salt shakers but of all spices.
I downloaded and burned this. It is not a valid iso file. it's trash.
i'm impressed... 25 dvds for 1 terabit. but i think were all holding out until we hit 150 zip disks on a square centimeter or 172 ls-120's on the size of a heineken bottle cap.
An Apple product in every home.
Think of possible upgrades. "Buy a computer AND a DVR" at a switch of a button you can browse the 'net on your hdtv, click a button and you're back to watching the shows you missed while browsing on the 'net. Hell, it wouldn't be so out of the ordinary that the DVR and OS can mingle together in some capacity (but not too much as they would want to keep the setup as simple as possible).
When people buy a second home computer, they're going to buy the type of computer that's already found controlling their TV.
Microsoft gained dominance by attacking the business market back in the 80s. Gaining dominance now means that a company needs to attack the home entertainment market.
And someone will bring up how the game systems are trying to do DVR work. They won't succeed nearly as well because their is no line of succession past those systems. An Apple branded Tivo could lead to an Apple/Tivo hybrid (separate hardware in the same enclosure, don't make the mistake of windows mce) that leads to people using an Apple as their primary computer. Apple can do this because they do a great job of homogenizing their brand. An XBox has no consumer friendly interoperatiblity (sp?) with a Windows box.
Thanks stupidfoo... I did have it wrong. I double checked it and want to post the correct version (please don't mod this up, i'm thankful enough for my previous entry)
"Now to enter all the popups. Oooo. A talking moose wants my credit card number. That's only fair"
"A Moose wants my social security number? Sounds fair to me." -Simpsons 2005.02.20 (finally a good one)
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I think we should define a planet as a celsestial body that can support multi-organism life.
otherwise it's an asteroid, comet, celestial body, whatever.
would that mean that this solar system doesn't have 9 planets? yes it would. it doesn't change the fact that we still have 9 celestial bodies in the vicinity.
Why are we trying to hang on to old definitions that don't make sense? Because our ancestors used them? Advance, make progress people.
or maybe that the increased radiation leads to an increase in mutations that speed up evolution?
Critical components are not controlled through the OS. They are controlled by a dual cpu ecu module. The OS only runs things like the climate control, radio, and navigation.
No car manufacturer is dumb enough to have critical components controlled via an OS. Even BMW with their "intuitive" I-Drive (which is much much more pervasive in OS-Car dynamics) doesn't do this.
and at one time it was required that video cards were capable of displaying color yet we all managed... sheesh
the authorities didn't arrest him for just the act of uploading movies. it was because he uploaded those movies. he was dragging down the rep of all the pirates in China.
imagine what they think of the people that actually made those films...
this shouldn't be a shock but we are animals. i'm sick of people that are surprised by this, i mean, should we all shave our heads and look as androgynous as we can so that we get rid of our differences?
i'm wondering where this whole idea that if we become as androgynous as possible is being civilized or advanced? sexuality is a part of humanity, like it or not.
humanoid mechs can't navigate terrain, recognize threats, and move as fast as human soldiers *yet*. the best most cost efficient mech that can be made with todays technology would be something similar to those 1st generation terminators in T3. not too wide, can take lots of shots before failure, can carry bigass guns to inflict crazy damage. those things, if made right, would be nearly perfect for urban warfare. send it in, have a human controller view what it's seeing, if an enemy shows up, rotate and angle the miniguns to clear out an area.
Q: Why do automotive companies outsource to China?
A: To save on labor costs.
Q: Why don't they move all their labor to China?
A: China allows rogue manufacturers to disregard the parent companies patents to create a nearly identical version of the parent companies product.
Q: Why is this bad?
A: The rogue manufactures keep all profit and if the parent company doesn't see any profit, they will not be able to incorporate new technologies and safety measures to their next generation of vehicles.
By avoiding China as much as possible it would avoid the theft of Toyota technologies. Why invest in a country that is going to allow the theft of your advancements?
Do you think that i'm joking about China copying cars like they do with playstations? They already have copied Honda's SUV and a GM car which they are selling for 1/3 the sticker price. China's official answer? The government closes their eyes to this and therefore the problem doesn't exist.
Definitely.
In addition to the Honda you've stated, Lexus (aka Toyota) will also be releasing the RX400h (275hp hybrid) and then their is the rumored LS500 hybrid in typical toyota fashion all we know is that it will be a hybrid with more hp than the LS430.
If I had mod points, I would mod you up.
Of all the processors they picked, they picked the worst one. My opinion.
What stopped them from using a Pentium M or an XP-M chip? I believe there was an earlier slashdot story on using the Pentium-M chip in desktops and it's performance was very good at encoding and even better in games than the P4 alternative.
There are people who have volted down their XP chips to 1.1 volts and are running a very respectable 2200+ rating.
It's a shame that they wasted 5cm of aluminum to waste it on a P4 2.8.
how does this get on slashdot?
"I didn't just want to be walking around in a box, so I made it a fully functional costume"
great, so instead of making something that represents an ipod, you strapped a facsimile of an ipod as a necklace. big whoop
President Bush announced that extreme efforts are underway to find these missing genes. These scientists are incapable of dealing with the task at hand and as such, drastic measure need to be taken.
Maybe someone else has the exact quote, but didn't Bill Gates say that he sees the future of computers as when people will pay for the OS (subscription of course) and the hardware will be free?
IBM is pushing the opposite. The OS is free and people have to pay for the hardware.
What will Real do to win back users?
The last time I used Real Player I had to go through extra work to remove the spyware like tactics that Real Player had installed. It's been a while since I have used Real Player and have opted to use Real Alternative in cases where I couldn't avoid the site using Real Technologies.
In fact, what is Real's stance on Real Alternative?
lol... i just can't get ahead.
i had it attributed to Emiliana Zapata then I had someone yell at me that I was wrong and it was Catch-22. I'm switching it back to Emiliano Zapata, damn what anyone else says, that's why I picked it in the first place. =)
It's 500 for the limited edition Rio Carbon. The only difference between the limited edition and the regular version is a "collectors box", laser engraving, and a 3 month - 20 song pass on napster.r io/LE/
http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/email/
"PC games will never go away, but if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease."
That's interesting because I've quit buying computer games because of the tactics that "StarForce" type add-ons inflict. So I guess that the number and quality of games will certainly decrease because people won't want to deal with all these burdens you force on people.
It's gotten to the point that I don't play many games on my PC anymore because of these companies. I really have no future need for an x86 system because all I use my computer anymore is for schoolwork, aim, running a few websites, and email. Their's only 1 program stopping me from moving to Linux but it's available for OS X.
Oh, and as for the market shrinking due to increased piracy... that's why I guess the PS and PS2 haven't had much success... oh wait...
(I'm not saying that piracy was the reason of their success, but that it didn't lead to their downfall of being the most popular console).