Now, what's the difference between those and their phone OS?
Oh yeah, the phone OS will be subject to actual competition.
MS has a long history of using FUD to overpromise "oh, our next OS will be absolutely perfect, so don't waste your time on these alternatives", and then delivering a steaming pile of shit that consumers get locked into. It's worked in the desktop OS market because of lock-in and lack of real competition. The phone market is healthy, and this time "just wait for our next release" will fall flat on its face.
Or actual competition forces them to innovate and improve their software.
Sanyo Beta decks worked like VHS decks, they threaded the tape back into the cassette every time you pressed stop. They also used a similar "M" style loading system to cut down on costs as opposed to the "C" loading system Sony adopted from U-Matic. Ironically, many newer (S)VHS VCRs don't thread the tape back into the machine when rewinding or fast forwarding. My JVC certainly doesn't because its counter relays on the sync track being present and its needed to use the indexing function. Chroma bandwidth of Betamax was 688khz vs. 629khz on VHS. (source: http://www.videointerchange.com/video-history.htm#BetaMax )
Finally, I come from a dual format household, there was no VHS vs. Betamax war. Heck, our Beta machine got a lot of use dubbing Macrovision protected VHS tapes;).
But my Super VHS? Still use it. It creates perfect DVD-quality copies from my DTV converter box, which I can store indefinitely on my bookshelves.
More like until the VCR dies. Tape doesn't last forever either, particularly if it isn't stored correctly. You might want to check out computer based DVRs, its a lot easier to work with... plus its random access.
Not a fan of hip hop or breakbeat then, huh?
Mmm, scratching!
This right here is how vinyl survived and reminded popular. DJing with anything else wasn't practical until CD based mixers became available. That and the jukebox infrastructure in countless diners. Yes, there are STILL 45rpm jukeboxes in operation. Most popular singles are available on 45rpm if you look hard enough.
Tape lasted a lot longer then it should have because of car stereos. CD players were an expensive OEM option until the mid-90s. Even then, OEM car stereos came with a tape deck standard until just a few years ago. Most of them are used for those line-in adapters now, a much nicer solution then FM modulation if you don't have a dedicated line in.
Sony always seemed to put a heavy emphasis on miniaturizing home camcorders. One could never figure out why though, since the market didn't really care in the 1980s. The BetaMovie was a technical masterpiece or a hack depending on who you talk to. It used a tiny 1 head high speed recording drum. The rest of the camcorder was pretty primitive though, the view finder was optical and employed a system similar to a SLR camera. This made it tough to judge lighting in a room, a problem when using a camcorder rated for minimum 25 lux.
Sony abandoned the format for Video8 and later Hi-8. Its only downside was that you had to use the camcorder to play back the footage. JVC's VHS-C had the portability and playback advantage, but the tapes were short and tended to to have threading and jamming issues when played back in standard VHS VCRs with that adapter thingie (oddly enough JVC VCRs were the worst for jamming VHS-C tapes).
T-120 (2/4/6 hour) and 160 (2:40/5:20/8 hour) tapes were common in the US. Betamax reached tape length parity when Beta II/III speed decks came out along with L750 length (1.5/3/4.5 hour) tapes.
The primary quality advantage prior to the SuperBeta format extension was how it stored chroma information. Betamax had slightly higher chroma bandwidth then VHS and stored a reference color burst on the tape. The latter helps as the tapes age. I just digitized a nearly 30 year old Betamax home movie last night, and the color was definitely in better shape then the VHS tapes from the same era were. Chroma bleeding is a chronic problem with old VHS tapes.
Regarding 3rd party licenses, there were a few early ones. My family has never owned a Sony built Betamax. Oddly all our machines were built by Sanyo (Sanyo or Sears branded). My grandfather and later uncle did own an original Sony BetaMovie camcorder (tube, with manual focus and white balance!).
A decade ago, when I was in Quebec, the 900 MHz phones sucked not even a room away from the base station.
Whats ironic is that the original selling point of 9800Mhz cordless phones was less interference compared to the 47Mhz phones. Then an arms race started with 2.4Ghz and later 5.7Ghz phones.
Remember "DLL Hell"? Most apps needed so called "shared" DLLs in their own directory because they would only work with certain versions. The security concerns, ugh. I still run across machines with the insecure 1.4.2 JVM, because some apps "require" it.
Apple used to support Cocoa apps written in Java. Regarding the JVM, Apple did go out of their way and used Aqua widgets for Swing applications. I bet an Oracle JVM won't do that.
There were actually quite a few vendor specific versions of MW2 out there. I have a copy of the GLide version and the ATI 3DRage II version, don't know if the latter is actually Direct3D. Don't recall ATI having their own 3D graphics API.
All but the Voodoo card are sitting in fully functioning AMD K6-2 machines from 1999ish. If needed, I can set them up for classic gaming. What I really need is a 486 for all these VL-Bus cards I got...
Still have my Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo graphics card sitting on a shelf. Heck I still have the ATI All-In-Wonder (Rage3D II+DVD) and AWE64 Gold that I paired it with.
There are CVS builds of DOSBox that supports using a GLide wrapper on the host machine. Calls to the emulated Voodoo card's I/O ports are forwarded to the wrapper and gives decent VooDoo 2 emulation. Most of the limitations with this setup come from the beta GLide wrapper not implementing all of the GLide API.
Granted this solution seems Windows only at the moment, I don't see why they need to emulate a 3D chipset when the host machine's 3D graphics card can handle the rendering. They could write a GLide to OpenGL wrapper for OS X and Linux host support.
I remember partitioning my 3.1GB HD because of FAT16's 2.1GB limitation. The BIOS was just new enough to see it without any of that disk overlay software. Landed up dual booting Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95.
The department PCs better not have USB ports configured to accept storage devices. Otherwise its a waste of time if users can effectively bypass the firewalls by plugging in their potentially compromised USB drives. Locking out PCs is hard... you have to lock out ALL I/O to be secure, not just the network. Of course, not to many places will do that due to inconvenience, so there are compromises to consider in the security plan.
Back when the 1992 Cable Act was going to pass, the local cable company (Suburban Cablevision, its now Comcast) was going to give everyone A-B switches free of cost (this was before diplexers were cheap) to watch their OTA channels with an antenna instead of carrying them at extra cost. The CATV industry wasn't too happy with the "Retransmission Consent" part of the bill in regards to OTAs. Prior to that bill OTAs were "must carry" and spats like Cablevision has been having weren't legally possible. The threat obviously worked for the cable company back then as every NYC area OTA came to an agreement to carry before the Cable Act came into effect.
Sliders was good the first season and most of the second until Fox decided to meddle with it to "improve ratings". Watch the first season (it was on Hulu), there were quite a few plot lines that were started that went nowhere since the producers had their hands tied. I just hope they don't mess with Fringe. The time slot already changed, I'm hoping the execs don't meddle with it to "improve ratings".
Hopefully you can get DTV reception. For the most part, it sucks without an attic or rooftop antenna. One perk, better quality, it isn't re-compressed like the CATV feeds.
This guy is simply a new version of a ticket scalper. He's a parasite and will hopefully get banned from every bookstore. Every single penny he makes comes from someone else's pocket; he simply monopolizes a resource and profiteers from it, contributing absolutely nothing to the economy. He's scum.
I have a friend who does this with not only books, but records and DVDs. Records he knows from decades in the industry, no scanner required. Books he generally buys in bulk, he simply scans the ISBN, gets a market price and re-sells. DVDs are interesting. He becomes friends with the managers of various dollar stores and buy them in bulk for a slightly lower cost. Some titles can bring in upwards of $20 a piece if its rare/sought after, otherwise most go for $5.
Why don't people just go to the store and buy them for $1/piece? Because availability is limited in many parts of the country. Coastal port cities with high population tend to have a lot of surplus inventory hanging around in warehouses and a ton of retail outlets to liquidate it at. For used stuff, the higher population density and higher income levels (rich people buy a lot of stuff and throw it out) comes into play. Most of his customers are in the middle of the country, where this stuff is hard to come by.
The vast majority of this info is coming from the credit reporting agencies to begin with. Don't want to be in these databases? Don't get a credit history.. your entire life. Its not just the private sector thats selling you out, cash strapped governments do too (particularly motor vehicle departments).
The original MSN was for the most part, an AOL style service with its own interface. They did try "exclusive" websites later on though, like the original startrek.com
Nitpick: Its obvious whoever captured this video didn't use a time-base corrector on the VCR output.
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Now, what's the difference between those and their phone OS?
Oh yeah, the phone OS will be subject to actual competition.
MS has a long history of using FUD to overpromise "oh, our next OS will be absolutely perfect, so don't waste your time on these alternatives", and then delivering a steaming pile of shit that consumers get locked into. It's worked in the desktop OS market because of lock-in and lack of real competition. The phone market is healthy, and this time "just wait for our next release" will fall flat on its face.
Or actual competition forces them to innovate and improve their software.
Sanyo Beta decks worked like VHS decks, they threaded the tape back into the cassette every time you pressed stop. They also used a similar "M" style loading system to cut down on costs as opposed to the "C" loading system Sony adopted from U-Matic. Ironically, many newer (S)VHS VCRs don't thread the tape back into the machine when rewinding or fast forwarding. My JVC certainly doesn't because its counter relays on the sync track being present and its needed to use the indexing function. Chroma bandwidth of Betamax was 688khz vs. 629khz on VHS. (source: http://www.videointerchange.com/video-history.htm#BetaMax )
Finally, I come from a dual format household, there was no VHS vs. Betamax war. Heck, our Beta machine got a lot of use dubbing Macrovision protected VHS tapes ;).
The trade-off is size. AA batteries are pretty big compared to an iPod nano.
But my Super VHS? Still use it. It creates perfect DVD-quality copies from my DTV converter box, which I can store indefinitely on my bookshelves.
More like until the VCR dies. Tape doesn't last forever either, particularly if it isn't stored correctly. You might want to check out computer based DVRs, its a lot easier to work with... plus its random access.
Not a fan of hip hop or breakbeat then, huh? Mmm, scratching!
This right here is how vinyl survived and reminded popular. DJing with anything else wasn't practical until CD based mixers became available. That and the jukebox infrastructure in countless diners. Yes, there are STILL 45rpm jukeboxes in operation. Most popular singles are available on 45rpm if you look hard enough.
Tape lasted a lot longer then it should have because of car stereos. CD players were an expensive OEM option until the mid-90s. Even then, OEM car stereos came with a tape deck standard until just a few years ago. Most of them are used for those line-in adapters now, a much nicer solution then FM modulation if you don't have a dedicated line in.
Sony always seemed to put a heavy emphasis on miniaturizing home camcorders. One could never figure out why though, since the market didn't really care in the 1980s. The BetaMovie was a technical masterpiece or a hack depending on who you talk to. It used a tiny 1 head high speed recording drum. The rest of the camcorder was pretty primitive though, the view finder was optical and employed a system similar to a SLR camera. This made it tough to judge lighting in a room, a problem when using a camcorder rated for minimum 25 lux.
Sony abandoned the format for Video8 and later Hi-8. Its only downside was that you had to use the camcorder to play back the footage. JVC's VHS-C had the portability and playback advantage, but the tapes were short and tended to to have threading and jamming issues when played back in standard VHS VCRs with that adapter thingie (oddly enough JVC VCRs were the worst for jamming VHS-C tapes).
T-120 (2/4/6 hour) and 160 (2:40/5:20/8 hour) tapes were common in the US. Betamax reached tape length parity when Beta II/III speed decks came out along with L750 length (1.5/3/4.5 hour) tapes.
The primary quality advantage prior to the SuperBeta format extension was how it stored chroma information. Betamax had slightly higher chroma bandwidth then VHS and stored a reference color burst on the tape. The latter helps as the tapes age. I just digitized a nearly 30 year old Betamax home movie last night, and the color was definitely in better shape then the VHS tapes from the same era were. Chroma bleeding is a chronic problem with old VHS tapes.
Regarding 3rd party licenses, there were a few early ones. My family has never owned a Sony built Betamax. Oddly all our machines were built by Sanyo (Sanyo or Sears branded). My grandfather and later uncle did own an original Sony BetaMovie camcorder (tube, with manual focus and white balance!).
A decade ago, when I was in Quebec, the 900 MHz phones sucked not even a room away from the base station.
Whats ironic is that the original selling point of 9800Mhz cordless phones was less interference compared to the 47Mhz phones. Then an arms race started with 2.4Ghz and later 5.7Ghz phones.
Remember "DLL Hell"? Most apps needed so called "shared" DLLs in their own directory because they would only work with certain versions. The security concerns, ugh. I still run across machines with the insecure 1.4.2 JVM, because some apps "require" it.
Apple used to support Cocoa apps written in Java. Regarding the JVM, Apple did go out of their way and used Aqua widgets for Swing applications. I bet an Oracle JVM won't do that.
There were actually quite a few vendor specific versions of MW2 out there. I have a copy of the GLide version and the ATI 3DRage II version, don't know if the latter is actually Direct3D. Don't recall ATI having their own 3D graphics API.
All but the Voodoo card are sitting in fully functioning AMD K6-2 machines from 1999ish. If needed, I can set them up for classic gaming. What I really need is a 486 for all these VL-Bus cards I got...
Still have my Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo graphics card sitting on a shelf. Heck I still have the ATI All-In-Wonder (Rage3D II+DVD) and AWE64 Gold that I paired it with.
There are CVS builds of DOSBox that supports using a GLide wrapper on the host machine. Calls to the emulated Voodoo card's I/O ports are forwarded to the wrapper and gives decent VooDoo 2 emulation. Most of the limitations with this setup come from the beta GLide wrapper not implementing all of the GLide API.
Granted this solution seems Windows only at the moment, I don't see why they need to emulate a 3D chipset when the host machine's 3D graphics card can handle the rendering. They could write a GLide to OpenGL wrapper for OS X and Linux host support.
I remember partitioning my 3.1GB HD because of FAT16's 2.1GB limitation. The BIOS was just new enough to see it without any of that disk overlay software. Landed up dual booting Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 95.
The department PCs better not have USB ports configured to accept storage devices. Otherwise its a waste of time if users can effectively bypass the firewalls by plugging in their potentially compromised USB drives. Locking out PCs is hard... you have to lock out ALL I/O to be secure, not just the network. Of course, not to many places will do that due to inconvenience, so there are compromises to consider in the security plan.
Back when the 1992 Cable Act was going to pass, the local cable company (Suburban Cablevision, its now Comcast) was going to give everyone A-B switches free of cost (this was before diplexers were cheap) to watch their OTA channels with an antenna instead of carrying them at extra cost. The CATV industry wasn't too happy with the "Retransmission Consent" part of the bill in regards to OTAs. Prior to that bill OTAs were "must carry" and spats like Cablevision has been having weren't legally possible. The threat obviously worked for the cable company back then as every NYC area OTA came to an agreement to carry before the Cable Act came into effect.
Sliders was good the first season and most of the second until Fox decided to meddle with it to "improve ratings". Watch the first season (it was on Hulu), there were quite a few plot lines that were started that went nowhere since the producers had their hands tied. I just hope they don't mess with Fringe. The time slot already changed, I'm hoping the execs don't meddle with it to "improve ratings".
Hopefully you can get DTV reception. For the most part, it sucks without an attic or rooftop antenna. One perk, better quality, it isn't re-compressed like the CATV feeds.
This guy is simply a new version of a ticket scalper. He's a parasite and will hopefully get banned from every bookstore. Every single penny he makes comes from someone else's pocket; he simply monopolizes a resource and profiteers from it, contributing absolutely nothing to the economy. He's scum.
We call that Capitalism where I'm from.
I have a friend who does this with not only books, but records and DVDs. Records he knows from decades in the industry, no scanner required. Books he generally buys in bulk, he simply scans the ISBN, gets a market price and re-sells. DVDs are interesting. He becomes friends with the managers of various dollar stores and buy them in bulk for a slightly lower cost. Some titles can bring in upwards of $20 a piece if its rare/sought after, otherwise most go for $5.
Why don't people just go to the store and buy them for $1/piece? Because availability is limited in many parts of the country. Coastal port cities with high population tend to have a lot of surplus inventory hanging around in warehouses and a ton of retail outlets to liquidate it at. For used stuff, the higher population density and higher income levels (rich people buy a lot of stuff and throw it out) comes into play. Most of his customers are in the middle of the country, where this stuff is hard to come by.
The vast majority of this info is coming from the credit reporting agencies to begin with. Don't want to be in these databases? Don't get a credit history.. your entire life. Its not just the private sector thats selling you out, cash strapped governments do too (particularly motor vehicle departments).
The original MSN was for the most part, an AOL style service with its own interface. They did try "exclusive" websites later on though, like the original startrek.com
Nitpick: Its obvious whoever captured this video didn't use a time-base corrector on the VCR output.
Contiki has ipv6 support http://www.sics.se/contiki/current-events/uipv6-contiki-is-ipv6-ready.html