Hey, I can also download high-def movies from the playstation network. On demand. Or stream over the network. Oh, it also has wireless. So, sounds like whether its on BluRay, a solid-state storage device, on the net, or flying through the air, my PS3 will read it.
This is a very insightful response. I was about to say Hell yes, until I read your post. Now, I am thinking that unionization may be bad, but something should be done. I am actually in a company where we rotate the on-call, so I am oncall about one week every two months, I get paid for my overtime, and the position is one that it is cheaper to hire someone on instead of outsource. The only time we outsource is if we have a project that needs to be done, and we bring someone in for a few weeks.
However, this is just in our group. I look at the other groups in our IT department, see people having to work 12-18 hour days, no overtime, no comptime. One of our poor people finally went to the head of HR after her boss told her that not only was she not allowed comp time, but she was not allowed vacation. HR told her that they were going to go ahead and give her two weeks of comp time and then she still had her vacation which she could take at any time, and they had a talk with her manager. I applied for several jobs that I lost, because I said I want the On-call to be the exception, not the norm. I have worked at companies where they expect me to work weekends and work until 2 and 3 in the morning, not pay overtime, and still expect you to be at your desk at 8 the next morning. The conditions for IT workers are similar to those of factory workers at the turn of the 19th century. Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but there are times I had to crawl through ceilings and floors in cramped, filthy areas to run cables, then be expected to run into the board meeting a few mintues later to fix a projector, and get stared down upon because I look like I just crawled out of the dumpster. Then they decide they want to outsource the think to some other company who hires the crazy war-vets and the high-school kids, want you to come in once every few months as a consultant, and wonder why most workers hate their IT department.
No, something needs to be done, but I agree, unionization is probably not the answer. Shoot, when I was in college, my COBOL professor was in his 80s, and had never used a PC. We had to put Linux on it and have it boot up in terminal mode before he was halfway comfortable in front of it. If we were unionized and he was still in the IT field, he would have seniority, despite the fact that he has never seen a mac or windows in his life, and does not know the difference between a USB thumbdrive and a printer driver.
Its sad that this is beta 2. I uninstalled it after 5 minutes. The Vista 32 bit version had serious rendering issues. On Myspace alone (yes, I know, Myspace is the greatest test for a browser), half of my stuff on my home page was missing. When I went in to tag pictures, huge black boxes appeared. It crashed three times in the five minutes I was using it. I would hate to have seen their alpha release. I have never remember Firefox being this buggy in a beta release. Shoot, even Office 2007 and Vista was not this buggy in beta.
I will give them the high CPU usage and thread count to it being in beta, but a web browser that cannot properly render simple HTML, XML and CSS is unacceptable.
This was actually a very good exhibit, and something I made the point of seeing every time I went to Vegas. In fact, it is the only thing I saw every single time, and even non-trekkie people I took with me enjoyed this. There was the Star Trek musuem, which showcased props and costumes from the shows and movies. Kirk's reading glasses, Photon Torpedos, the flute that Picard played in his alternative life in TNG, the list just goes on and on. I really enjoyed just seeing how much detail was there. Granted, some of the props were actually recreations for the musuem.
After walking through the musuem, you were treated to roughly a 15 minute interactive-ride, where you are beamed out of the musuem (some really cool trickery, feels awsome) and onto the Enterprise. You then walk down the hall to the shuttle craft, where you go for a flight around the Vegas Strip. You then end up in Quark's bar on DS9, where your serving staff are all in Star Trek costumes, and they have a very unique menu. I actually took people just to eat there as it is a dining experience unlike any other.
Since my last visit, they opened up the Borg 4-D.
I am really sad to hear this is closing. It was one of the best permanate exhibit in Vegas. I will now have absolutely no reason to visit the Vegas Hilton - I can play slots in any of the other hotels in the area.
So I did not rtfa either, but I am going to comment.
Microsoft claiming that they invented the PgUp / PgDown Feature may be true, and possibly even the scroll up / scroll down. What bothers me is them waiting some 20 or so years to file the patent. Besides, isn't a patent only good for 18 years? So if they are trying to claim this from 1981, and if they backdated the patent, then it would have expired in 1999. If they try to file from this date, then it would be hard for Microsoft to make a claim as it has become industry standard. I am not sure if this is true in patents or not, but I think in copyrights, your copyright is made invalid if you do not enforce it or apply for it before it becomes public domain / industry standard, whatknot. Can someone clarify?
Point is, if Microsoft wants to claim they invented this, fine with me, there is a good chance they did, I don't know. But don't wait until 27 years later and then still expect people to pay you royalties or licensing fees.
Once again, I did not RTFA, just stating an opinion.
Okay, I know that the article is refering to database, but the comments seem to have gone into the way of disc storage, so I will take the bait and go off topic.
Petabyte drives would not really be that unpractical of an application for people who like to archive stuff. I just filled up a 300 gig drive and a 750 gig drive with just stuff off of the DVR in under a year. While National Geographic HD may be compressed so badly that it barely looks better than HD, and a one hour show is under 2 gig, try archiving something with a higher bandwidth. For example, I recorded the Olympics, and saved the opening and closing ceremonies and all gymnastic events. A single 4 hour day saved is around 40 gig.
So, lets think media server for HD material. Let's just stick with HDTV for a while. Let's say that I want to archive on a media server a Blu-Ray disc. Let's for the matter of talking say that the movie takes up all 50 gig of the disc. Ten movies, 500 gig. 100 movies, 5 Terrabyte, 1000 movies, 50 Terrabyte.
Now let's say that we are an IMAX theater, and upgrading to the new Imax Digital standard. I read not too long ago that an Imax film is equilivant to 18k (most digital theaters project 2K, although some are now installing 4K systems). So, to keep from having these big massive films around of the 20 year old science documentaries that we keep in rotation, we get the digital versions of these. Does anyone want to do the math?
I am waiting for the day when neural implants can actually read the human brain, and as such, you can archive experiences to some type of storage medium. I am sure wikipedia has somewhere how much information the human brain processes a second. Now, I am sure we will find a way of compressing stuff, we can already do audio and video, so I am sure one day we will have the ability to compress smell, taste and touch, granting that we actually have a way of capturing these. Still, the amount of data would be massive, and will probably be a whole new avenue for the Porn industry.
Granted, these are extremes, but who would have thought 15 years ago when we first started hitting the 1 gig barrier, that in 2008 we would have discs used for storing movies that have a capacity of 50 gig, and we would even consider saving stuff at a resolution of 1920x1080 and have PCM sound at a bitrate of 4.6Mbps?
Give us the storage space, and we will find a use for it.
I think this should be tagged "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense". Truthfully, though, I already do this. Its called Napster. I pay $15 a month, download as much as I want. From what I understand, royalties are based on the amount of downloads a song gets. I may be completely wrong about that, but that makes sense.
Its a $40 one time fee. You can use any harddrive as long as it is at least 250 gig, but no more than 750. As most of the satelite HD channels are compressed, a movie is usually under 10 gig, so a 750 gig drive holds many movies for me. You can also use as many drives as you want, and you can hotswap drives, although, since its a Linux OS, you may want to actually power off your DVR before swapping HDs.
www.tversity.com does allow for the viewing of many streaming video sites to the PS3. I am not sure about other flash sites, but it does pretty well on YouTube (then again, that is built into the program). Check it out, I mean, its free, what have you to loose?
I am not sure what this DB8 antenna is, but I know Wal-Mart has several different model of rabbit ear "HD antennas". Truthfully, any antenna should work, so just go out and buy the antenna with the highest gain, and see if that helps. The boxes are clearly labled at my Wal-Mart to how good the gain is. If that does not work, you may be SOOL, because you have to do with physical barriers in your line of sight, such as another appartment building. Back in the analog days, I used to have ghosting with my local PBS station because the signals was being reflected off of a water tower. Anyways, if that antenna does not work, just go spend the $15 a month for basic cable.
Its a $40 one time activation fee to activate the USB ports.
However, the HDs are formatted in ext3, and then they encode DRM into the TS streams, so it can only be used with that one box.
BTW, with Windows Media Extender devices and software (such as Nero and TVersity), you can watch all your downloaded shows on your XBox or PS3. I have the remote for the PS3, so its way more convienant than simply hooking up the TV to the comptuer and trying to mess with a wireless keyboard / mouse from across the room while laying on the sofa.
Dish Network lets me hook up an External USB drive. In fact, I can use multiple drives on this, just not at the same time, but I can hotswap (just not while the drive is in use, that would be stupid).
I have a 300 gig that I am keeping most of the Olympics on (from OTA, I got an outside Antenna that I pull my local HDs with), then a 750 gig that I store all my movies off of HBO on, then I use the internal drive to record Anthony Bordain (sp) and Robot Chicken.
So in other words, this works as a Windows Media Extender app, just with a different name because we all hate Windows. XBox and PS3 could care less what is actually serving the media. I use TVersity myself. The concept of reencoding your videos using FlashVideo or some other video format to allow viewing from a webbrowser (on the iPhone, Wii, etc), is also nothing new.
However, I have no clue who was first, TVersity, MythTV, Nero, or Microsoft, but they all do pretty much the same thing. I just had a bit better luck with TVersity than the others on streaming media that is not supported natively by my PS3 or Xbox
Not all point-and-shoot cameras have this issue. CCDs are constantly getting better and smaller, and lenses are constantly improvivng. Point-and-shoot cameras will never be as good as SLRs, but don't dismiss them. You may be surprised with just how good some of these are. Let me show you a picture I took with my Nikon Coolpix 7 megapixel camera that is a year old versus a 7 megapixel SLR that is 5 years old in direct sunlight, and I am willing to bet that you will not be able to tell the difference.
Paid $300 up front for my DVR, then the setup fee, then the activation fee, then I still have to pay a fee each month for the rental of the box (their excuse is that its a $700 box and I got it at a discount), then I have to pay for the DVR service. Then I paid the $40 one time fee to activate the USB port so that I could use MY external HD, which they cut access to if I am just one day late on my bill.
I just carry a simple point-and-shoot camera with a great lense and high mega-pixel count. I can photograph pretty much whatever I want. I have a feeling that most terrorists won't be stupid enough to be running around with a $20,000 camera with a $2,500 lense on it - and if they are, they will be photographing from a distance - not right up next to the building or inside of it. People are so stupid. But I guess its that whole "false sense of security" - we will create the illusion that we know what we are doing. Shoot, if I were spying on something, I would probably be using a camera phone or some hidden camera.
True, but DX10 is Vista only, and only with certain video cards. I must say, the DX10 games I play in Vista looks MUCH better than they do when I install the same game in XP and play on DX9.
I jumped ship on Linux a long time ago. Even if a game had OpenGL options on it, chances were that Linux binaries were never released, and Mac binaries were just as rare. As much as I loved Linux, as a gammer and a person who does video editing and multimedia on my PC, it was just much less of a headache to go Vista (well, after the $1000 worth of upgrades, but I wanted to do that anyways, so it worked out).
As far as I am concerned, cross platform compatability this day in age means Windows, Xbox and PS3. I gave up on Linux a long time ago.
The phone did not look that great either. Did you notice how the guy had to punch several of the icons over and over again to get them to respond? And I could not really tell because the video was so lousy, but it looks like it had an issue when he tried to flip it. I could not tell for sure, but it looks like the orientation did not actually flip until he poped out the keyboard.
Oh, and for those of you who were too lazy to click through the article, here is the video
Who the heck is going to make chipsets for AMD motherboards now? I used via for years, now they are gone, then I used AMD, which they no longer make chipsets, and my current motherboard has an nVidia chipset? Is this the death of AMD, cause it seems as if the only people still making chipsets now is Intel
I actually thought it was required. My bank recently sent me a new card. I went to order some pictures off of the WalMart website the other day, and went to change my card over to the new card. Got all the way through the transaction, told it to process, and suddenly it took me to the Verify by Visa page. I could find no way to opt out of this. I was also very frustrated that it would not take my passwords as it had something other than letters and numbers in it. So, I am required to use this "voluntary" program which is supposed to curb fraud, and I cannot even use a strong password on it? Kinda BS.
The worst part of it is, that was just 5 days ago, and I can't for the life of me remember the password, as I had to break my password scheme for this thing. Grrr
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You mean like I can do already with my PS3?
Hey, I can also download high-def movies from the playstation network. On demand. Or stream over the network. Oh, it also has wireless. So, sounds like whether its on BluRay, a solid-state storage device, on the net, or flying through the air, my PS3 will read it.
This is a very insightful response. I was about to say Hell yes, until I read your post. Now, I am thinking that unionization may be bad, but something should be done. I am actually in a company where we rotate the on-call, so I am oncall about one week every two months, I get paid for my overtime, and the position is one that it is cheaper to hire someone on instead of outsource. The only time we outsource is if we have a project that needs to be done, and we bring someone in for a few weeks.
However, this is just in our group. I look at the other groups in our IT department, see people having to work 12-18 hour days, no overtime, no comptime. One of our poor people finally went to the head of HR after her boss told her that not only was she not allowed comp time, but she was not allowed vacation. HR told her that they were going to go ahead and give her two weeks of comp time and then she still had her vacation which she could take at any time, and they had a talk with her manager. I applied for several jobs that I lost, because I said I want the On-call to be the exception, not the norm. I have worked at companies where they expect me to work weekends and work until 2 and 3 in the morning, not pay overtime, and still expect you to be at your desk at 8 the next morning. The conditions for IT workers are similar to those of factory workers at the turn of the 19th century. Okay, maybe not quite that bad, but there are times I had to crawl through ceilings and floors in cramped, filthy areas to run cables, then be expected to run into the board meeting a few mintues later to fix a projector, and get stared down upon because I look like I just crawled out of the dumpster. Then they decide they want to outsource the think to some other company who hires the crazy war-vets and the high-school kids, want you to come in once every few months as a consultant, and wonder why most workers hate their IT department.
No, something needs to be done, but I agree, unionization is probably not the answer. Shoot, when I was in college, my COBOL professor was in his 80s, and had never used a PC. We had to put Linux on it and have it boot up in terminal mode before he was halfway comfortable in front of it. If we were unionized and he was still in the IT field, he would have seniority, despite the fact that he has never seen a mac or windows in his life, and does not know the difference between a USB thumbdrive and a printer driver.
Its sad that this is beta 2. I uninstalled it after 5 minutes. The Vista 32 bit version had serious rendering issues. On Myspace alone (yes, I know, Myspace is the greatest test for a browser), half of my stuff on my home page was missing. When I went in to tag pictures, huge black boxes appeared. It crashed three times in the five minutes I was using it. I would hate to have seen their alpha release. I have never remember Firefox being this buggy in a beta release. Shoot, even Office 2007 and Vista was not this buggy in beta.
I will give them the high CPU usage and thread count to it being in beta, but a web browser that cannot properly render simple HTML, XML and CSS is unacceptable.
This was actually a very good exhibit, and something I made the point of seeing every time I went to Vegas. In fact, it is the only thing I saw every single time, and even non-trekkie people I took with me enjoyed this. There was the Star Trek musuem, which showcased props and costumes from the shows and movies. Kirk's reading glasses, Photon Torpedos, the flute that Picard played in his alternative life in TNG, the list just goes on and on. I really enjoyed just seeing how much detail was there. Granted, some of the props were actually recreations for the musuem.
After walking through the musuem, you were treated to roughly a 15 minute interactive-ride, where you are beamed out of the musuem (some really cool trickery, feels awsome) and onto the Enterprise. You then walk down the hall to the shuttle craft, where you go for a flight around the Vegas Strip. You then end up in Quark's bar on DS9, where your serving staff are all in Star Trek costumes, and they have a very unique menu. I actually took people just to eat there as it is a dining experience unlike any other.
Since my last visit, they opened up the Borg 4-D.
I am really sad to hear this is closing. It was one of the best permanate exhibit in Vegas. I will now have absolutely no reason to visit the Vegas Hilton - I can play slots in any of the other hotels in the area.
So I did not rtfa either, but I am going to comment.
Microsoft claiming that they invented the PgUp / PgDown Feature may be true, and possibly even the scroll up / scroll down. What bothers me is them waiting some 20 or so years to file the patent. Besides, isn't a patent only good for 18 years? So if they are trying to claim this from 1981, and if they backdated the patent, then it would have expired in 1999. If they try to file from this date, then it would be hard for Microsoft to make a claim as it has become industry standard. I am not sure if this is true in patents or not, but I think in copyrights, your copyright is made invalid if you do not enforce it or apply for it before it becomes public domain / industry standard, whatknot. Can someone clarify?
Point is, if Microsoft wants to claim they invented this, fine with me, there is a good chance they did, I don't know. But don't wait until 27 years later and then still expect people to pay you royalties or licensing fees.
Once again, I did not RTFA, just stating an opinion.
Okay, I know that the article is refering to database, but the comments seem to have gone into the way of disc storage, so I will take the bait and go off topic.
Petabyte drives would not really be that unpractical of an application for people who like to archive stuff. I just filled up a 300 gig drive and a 750 gig drive with just stuff off of the DVR in under a year. While National Geographic HD may be compressed so badly that it barely looks better than HD, and a one hour show is under 2 gig, try archiving something with a higher bandwidth. For example, I recorded the Olympics, and saved the opening and closing ceremonies and all gymnastic events. A single 4 hour day saved is around 40 gig.
So, lets think media server for HD material. Let's just stick with HDTV for a while. Let's say that I want to archive on a media server a Blu-Ray disc. Let's for the matter of talking say that the movie takes up all 50 gig of the disc. Ten movies, 500 gig. 100 movies, 5 Terrabyte, 1000 movies, 50 Terrabyte.
Now let's say that we are an IMAX theater, and upgrading to the new Imax Digital standard. I read not too long ago that an Imax film is equilivant to 18k (most digital theaters project 2K, although some are now installing 4K systems). So, to keep from having these big massive films around of the 20 year old science documentaries that we keep in rotation, we get the digital versions of these. Does anyone want to do the math?
I am waiting for the day when neural implants can actually read the human brain, and as such, you can archive experiences to some type of storage medium. I am sure wikipedia has somewhere how much information the human brain processes a second. Now, I am sure we will find a way of compressing stuff, we can already do audio and video, so I am sure one day we will have the ability to compress smell, taste and touch, granting that we actually have a way of capturing these. Still, the amount of data would be massive, and will probably be a whole new avenue for the Porn industry.
Granted, these are extremes, but who would have thought 15 years ago when we first started hitting the 1 gig barrier, that in 2008 we would have discs used for storing movies that have a capacity of 50 gig, and we would even consider saving stuff at a resolution of 1920x1080 and have PCM sound at a bitrate of 4.6Mbps?
Give us the storage space, and we will find a use for it.
Depends. Does she also dress in that for school?
I think this should be tagged "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense". Truthfully, though, I already do this. Its called Napster. I pay $15 a month, download as much as I want. From what I understand, royalties are based on the amount of downloads a song gets. I may be completely wrong about that, but that makes sense.
Its a $40 one time fee. You can use any harddrive as long as it is at least 250 gig, but no more than 750. As most of the satelite HD channels are compressed, a movie is usually under 10 gig, so a 750 gig drive holds many movies for me. You can also use as many drives as you want, and you can hotswap drives, although, since its a Linux OS, you may want to actually power off your DVR before swapping HDs.
PS. I think TVersity also allows for RSS feeds. As far as bittorrent, just add your download directory to TVersity
www.tversity.com does allow for the viewing of many streaming video sites to the PS3. I am not sure about other flash sites, but it does pretty well on YouTube (then again, that is built into the program). Check it out, I mean, its free, what have you to loose?
I am not sure what this DB8 antenna is, but I know Wal-Mart has several different model of rabbit ear "HD antennas". Truthfully, any antenna should work, so just go out and buy the antenna with the highest gain, and see if that helps. The boxes are clearly labled at my Wal-Mart to how good the gain is. If that does not work, you may be SOOL, because you have to do with physical barriers in your line of sight, such as another appartment building. Back in the analog days, I used to have ghosting with my local PBS station because the signals was being reflected off of a water tower. Anyways, if that antenna does not work, just go spend the $15 a month for basic cable.
VIP 622.
Its a $40 one time activation fee to activate the USB ports.
However, the HDs are formatted in ext3, and then they encode DRM into the TS streams, so it can only be used with that one box.
BTW, with Windows Media Extender devices and software (such as Nero and TVersity), you can watch all your downloaded shows on your XBox or PS3. I have the remote for the PS3, so its way more convienant than simply hooking up the TV to the comptuer and trying to mess with a wireless keyboard / mouse from across the room while laying on the sofa.
Dish Network lets me hook up an External USB drive. In fact, I can use multiple drives on this, just not at the same time, but I can hotswap (just not while the drive is in use, that would be stupid).
I have a 300 gig that I am keeping most of the Olympics on (from OTA, I got an outside Antenna that I pull my local HDs with), then a 750 gig that I store all my movies off of HBO on, then I use the internal drive to record Anthony Bordain (sp) and Robot Chicken.
BTW, I know that Myth is a DVR program - I was refering to the ability to watch the material from another device
So in other words, this works as a Windows Media Extender app, just with a different name because we all hate Windows. XBox and PS3 could care less what is actually serving the media. I use TVersity myself. The concept of reencoding your videos using FlashVideo or some other video format to allow viewing from a webbrowser (on the iPhone, Wii, etc), is also nothing new.
However, I have no clue who was first, TVersity, MythTV, Nero, or Microsoft, but they all do pretty much the same thing. I just had a bit better luck with TVersity than the others on streaming media that is not supported natively by my PS3 or Xbox
Thanks, this was exactly the point I was trying to make, I just started chasing rabbits instead.
Not all point-and-shoot cameras have this issue. CCDs are constantly getting better and smaller, and lenses are constantly improvivng. Point-and-shoot cameras will never be as good as SLRs, but don't dismiss them. You may be surprised with just how good some of these are. Let me show you a picture I took with my Nikon Coolpix 7 megapixel camera that is a year old versus a 7 megapixel SLR that is 5 years old in direct sunlight, and I am willing to bet that you will not be able to tell the difference.
Paid $300 up front for my DVR, then the setup fee, then the activation fee, then I still have to pay a fee each month for the rental of the box (their excuse is that its a $700 box and I got it at a discount), then I have to pay for the DVR service. Then I paid the $40 one time fee to activate the USB port so that I could use MY external HD, which they cut access to if I am just one day late on my bill.
I just carry a simple point-and-shoot camera with a great lense and high mega-pixel count. I can photograph pretty much whatever I want. I have a feeling that most terrorists won't be stupid enough to be running around with a $20,000 camera with a $2,500 lense on it - and if they are, they will be photographing from a distance - not right up next to the building or inside of it. People are so stupid. But I guess its that whole "false sense of security" - we will create the illusion that we know what we are doing. Shoot, if I were spying on something, I would probably be using a camera phone or some hidden camera.
Well, if we go to war with Russia, we might just be able to get two of the three.
True, but DX10 is Vista only, and only with certain video cards. I must say, the DX10 games I play in Vista looks MUCH better than they do when I install the same game in XP and play on DX9.
I jumped ship on Linux a long time ago. Even if a game had OpenGL options on it, chances were that Linux binaries were never released, and Mac binaries were just as rare. As much as I loved Linux, as a gammer and a person who does video editing and multimedia on my PC, it was just much less of a headache to go Vista (well, after the $1000 worth of upgrades, but I wanted to do that anyways, so it worked out).
As far as I am concerned, cross platform compatability this day in age means Windows, Xbox and PS3. I gave up on Linux a long time ago.
The phone did not look that great either. Did you notice how the guy had to punch several of the icons over and over again to get them to respond? And I could not really tell because the video was so lousy, but it looks like it had an issue when he tried to flip it. I could not tell for sure, but it looks like the orientation did not actually flip until he poped out the keyboard.
Oh, and for those of you who were too lazy to click through the article, here is the video
Who the heck is going to make chipsets for AMD motherboards now? I used via for years, now they are gone, then I used AMD, which they no longer make chipsets, and my current motherboard has an nVidia chipset? Is this the death of AMD, cause it seems as if the only people still making chipsets now is Intel
I actually thought it was required. My bank recently sent me a new card. I went to order some pictures off of the WalMart website the other day, and went to change my card over to the new card. Got all the way through the transaction, told it to process, and suddenly it took me to the Verify by Visa page. I could find no way to opt out of this. I was also very frustrated that it would not take my passwords as it had something other than letters and numbers in it. So, I am required to use this "voluntary" program which is supposed to curb fraud, and I cannot even use a strong password on it? Kinda BS.
The worst part of it is, that was just 5 days ago, and I can't for the life of me remember the password, as I had to break my password scheme for this thing. Grrr