It's been getting interesting these past couple of years to see chip manufacturers not only content with observing the results of Moore's Law, but working hard to actually meet it as a self-imposed deadline. Would Intel have come as far as it did recently if Moore had never put his famous observation onto paper?
Teenagers will make monitoring this Big Brother-like network a nightmare when they inevitably all decide to collectively ditch the tracker watches before going out to party on a friday night.
It is unclear how large a threat this is to the end user. However the fact that XP is being loaded on netbooks suggests that Microsoft has a revenue stream that it should protect by writing a patch if it is serious.
The Coca-Cola Corporation also had a steady worldwide revenue stream with its nearly 80 years old original Coke formula, and everything went smoothly when it upgraded it to the improved and more delicious New Coke- Oh wait.
If you are disconnected for being malware infected, exactly what WILL be the process for being reconnected, assuming you aren't just black listed for life as an internet persona non grata? Will it be some byzantine bureaucratic DMV-like red tape nightmare with hundreds, even thousands of people showing up every day as botnets simply infect more and more systems to make up for those it lost during the morning disconnect purge?
When a comment on slashdot contains the words top100 licks balls and gets a 5 - insightful rating, you know that the RIAA painted itself into a corner that may never dry off again.
This is certainly a (remarkable article/slow news day). I will be looking (forward to this experiment/for something better to read) and the result will (more than likely/fat chance) collapse this waveform so I better know whether I (cheer for science/give a rat's ass).
At first there won't be too much 3D programming, but as the technology catches on, it will become more widespread. The same thing happened for HD shows in the early 2000s. And before that, stereo sound in the 80s. And before that, color in the 70s. And before that, actual television shows in the 50s.
Enhancing a soldier's physical strenght multiple times at the cost of speed and agility could eventually be the solution once all wars are fought with fistfights. Until that day arrives and the common soldier still uses machine guns, lightweight bulletproof armor is still the way to go.
As long as the music industry thinks that they should be entitled to charge us money for hearing music anywhere (even elevator music at the mall), Greed will always overwhelm logic and common sense.
Jesus Christ, at least know what you're talking about. They're not trying to lower DSL speeds, they're trying to lower the definition of broadband so that they can market shitty DSL to compete with cable without breaking the laws surrounding advertising.
If an industry starts to massively lobby for their regulatory laws to allow them to offer inferior quality products, you can bet your ass they have no intention of maintaining their currently offered level of service, especially if it's already scraping the legal bottom limit. Lobbying is an investment whose returns are seen in that lobby's success in passing to law.
The only thing you missed is that Comcast will gain the privilege of charging you for bandwidth whenever you try to use any of the applications that used to be stored on your hard drive. Other than that, you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
What really raises a red flag for me is that they want to test your computer for hardware compatibility. Wasn't the whole point of Onlive that any system could connect to their network regardless of hardware because all the actual processing is done server side? By their own words you'd think that a 300$ netbook should be able to play Crysis as long as it's connected to a solid, low-ping cable modem.
Just in time for the american ISPs clamoring to lower the DSL speed requirements, potentially giving this new technology its death sentence before it even starts.
"In the future, I predict computers will be twice as powerful, ten times larger and be so expensive only the five richest monarchs of Europe will be able to afford them." - Professor Frink
Yet another free service gets snapped up for billions, in the hopes that it will somehow generate more than the expended value in ad revenue. Either that or some other magical source of cash influx that will not be spent by its users who are used to getting it free and will jump ship if subscription models become mandatory.
It seems a lot of people still believe that when the internet is involved, tried and true business rules and plain old common sense do not apply. Is the black magic of the interwebs not dead yet?
With enough marketing, you can almost bury bad reviews and lack of plot/gameplay/entertainment under a mountain of bullshit & biased reviews.
With too much marketing, you end up with a situation where the hype generated overwhelms the game and the public expects it to cure at least two forms of cancer. The game is no longer evaluated on its own merit, and there is no way in heaven or hell that it can ever live up to the expectations, ensuring it will live down in infamy - if it ever gets released at all.
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It's been getting interesting these past couple of years to see chip manufacturers not only content with observing the results of Moore's Law, but working hard to actually meet it as a self-imposed deadline. Would Intel have come as far as it did recently if Moore had never put his famous observation onto paper?
Teenagers are also probably smart enough to know that a little bit of copper screening could render it completely useless too.
Or better yet - hang it up on their cat's collar before letting it outside for its daily walk around the neighbourhood!
Teenagers will make monitoring this Big Brother-like network a nightmare when they inevitably all decide to collectively ditch the tracker watches before going out to party on a friday night.
... you can see Bigfoot in the background!
It is unclear how large a threat this is to the end user. However the fact that XP is being loaded on netbooks suggests that Microsoft has a revenue stream that it should protect by writing a patch if it is serious.
The Coca-Cola Corporation also had a steady worldwide revenue stream with its nearly 80 years old original Coke formula, and everything went smoothly when it upgraded it to the improved and more delicious New Coke- Oh wait.
If you are disconnected for being malware infected, exactly what WILL be the process for being reconnected, assuming you aren't just black listed for life as an internet persona non grata? Will it be some byzantine bureaucratic DMV-like red tape nightmare with hundreds, even thousands of people showing up every day as botnets simply infect more and more systems to make up for those it lost during the morning disconnect purge?
When a comment on slashdot contains the words top100 licks balls and gets a 5 - insightful rating, you know that the RIAA painted itself into a corner that may never dry off again.
This is certainly a (remarkable article/slow news day). I will be looking (forward to this experiment/for something better to read) and the result will (more than likely/fat chance) collapse this waveform so I better know whether I (cheer for science/give a rat's ass).
At first there won't be too much 3D programming, but as the technology catches on, it will become more widespread. The same thing happened for HD shows in the early 2000s. And before that, stereo sound in the 80s. And before that, color in the 70s. And before that, actual television shows in the 50s.
Bite my shiny metal ass!
Enhancing a soldier's physical strenght multiple times at the cost of speed and agility could eventually be the solution once all wars are fought with fistfights. Until that day arrives and the common soldier still uses machine guns, lightweight bulletproof armor is still the way to go.
And if you don't understand that, or tend to disagree, please do us all a favor and leave the gene pool. :)
Isn't there a "Darwin Award" achievement for doing precisely that?
As long as the music industry thinks that they should be entitled to charge us money for hearing music anywhere (even elevator music at the mall), Greed will always overwhelm logic and common sense.
Jesus Christ, at least know what you're talking about. They're not trying to lower DSL speeds, they're trying to lower the definition of broadband so that they can market shitty DSL to compete with cable without breaking the laws surrounding advertising.
If an industry starts to massively lobby for their regulatory laws to allow them to offer inferior quality products, you can bet your ass they have no intention of maintaining their currently offered level of service, especially if it's already scraping the legal bottom limit. Lobbying is an investment whose returns are seen in that lobby's success in passing to law.
The only thing you missed is that Comcast will gain the privilege of charging you for bandwidth whenever you try to use any of the applications that used to be stored on your hard drive. Other than that, you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
And don't forget that the final sales price of my precious Orbo pre-order is going to skyrocket.
That wasn't part of the deal, Blackheart! That wasn't part of the deal!!!
Uncle Pennybags purchases Acme's Magnet making division to create magnetic monopoly.
It's a trap!!!
What really raises a red flag for me is that they want to test your computer for hardware compatibility. Wasn't the whole point of Onlive that any system could connect to their network regardless of hardware because all the actual processing is done server side? By their own words you'd think that a 300$ netbook should be able to play Crysis as long as it's connected to a solid, low-ping cable modem.
Just in time for the american ISPs clamoring to lower the DSL speed requirements, potentially giving this new technology its death sentence before it even starts.
"In the future, I predict computers will be twice as powerful, ten times larger and be so expensive only the five richest monarchs of Europe will be able to afford them." - Professor Frink
Anybody else notice that the slashdot reply function is a box in the middle of the page, buttons underneath and a bunch of links around it?
I'm impatiently waiting for Construx quantum physics and Lincoln Log genetics.
Yet another free service gets snapped up for billions, in the hopes that it will somehow generate more than the expended value in ad revenue. Either that or some other magical source of cash influx that will not be spent by its users who are used to getting it free and will jump ship if subscription models become mandatory.
It seems a lot of people still believe that when the internet is involved, tried and true business rules and plain old common sense do not apply. Is the black magic of the interwebs not dead yet?
With enough marketing, you can almost bury bad reviews and lack of plot/gameplay/entertainment under a mountain of bullshit & biased reviews.
With too much marketing, you end up with a situation where the hype generated overwhelms the game and the public expects it to cure at least two forms of cancer. The game is no longer evaluated on its own merit, and there is no way in heaven or hell that it can ever live up to the expectations, ensuring it will live down in infamy - if it ever gets released at all.