You should get a decent screen (preferrably FullHD, but 1680x1050 will do, and at least something around 30", but 24" is already really fine), and download some 720p or 1080p HDTV recordings or HDDVD/BluRay-rips of your favorite movies (I recommend 2001, Memento, Kill Bill Vols. 1&2, Transformers: the hi-def versions of each are really stunning), and then say again that there's reallly nothing, absolutely nothing worth it.
I agree that it's not as much worth as a Blu-Ray player being priced at about 10x the price of a cheap DVD player, and a DVD movie costing about 3x the price to around 10% more than a DVD movie, but it is worth the better quality.
Yes this is full-on. Of course new technology will always be initially more expensive, but everyone in the Blu-Ray production chain who is serious about BD replacing DVDs should realize that in the end, because DVD is such a successful format, people will not be willing to pay *more* for it than for DVDs. It should simply be seen as a technological improvement over DVD, a next step, and prices should slowly be adapted to DVD price levels.
I'd hate it to become a "second CD", introduced as a format successor with a high price and the prices never coming down over *decades* (and in fact, actually even going up).
It's all just a big simulation. Now that we're on antimatter/matter's-ratio's toes, the simulation is being adapted to show signs as if "it's always been there." Yeah right. We know who you.. err.. well, we know what you're doi.. erm. Something like that!
Good point, brings back also memories of Memento, where it's pointed out by Leonard that memories are much more an interpretation than facts (and is wonderfully depicted in the movie).
If this would take a bad road then in another 10 years we'll be remote-scanned when we walk around outside (or even at home) and convicted when we have only intentions of committing a crime (which is already true in some countries just sans the remote-brain-scan part). Sounds like Precrime to me.
It's imaginable that the reason they reject another media player is that they simply don't want people to get confused; my work consists of usability-related stuff and trust me, this is exactly the kind of thinking Apple would be having there.
With their paranoid usability perfectionism, it's odd enough that they allow any third party apps under OS X or the iPhone at all.
Yeah so their evil marketing attempt is to still make it seem like a bonus; they will eventually have reached their goal when we assume that we have no granted rights to begin with, from there on, any right will seem as a bonus. Maybe that's their idea of how this should continue.
It's about it being a marketing platform, not an acquisition platform; you may not find every tune on Last.fm but you can advertise any kind of music on it. If artists would collaborate with Last.fm, it would be certainly possible to promote basically any kind of music, given Last.fm's model: streaming music, their website, and being able to derive a user's taste.
It is in fact the promotion platform per se, completely targeted, not annoying people with stuff they don't want to know. It's the Google of music, really.
Any business is based on the creation of goods. In the case of music, there use to be twofold goods: the music itself (created by artists), and the media on which it was being distributed (created by the record companies). The second good is not needed anymore since access to the music itself is theoretically ubiquitous, hence yes, it is dead on a dying business, and the sooner these companies realize that, the better they will be off (see disaster of e.g. AGFA who missed the digital camera boom).
They say it's going to be simple, but how is adding devices to your domain going to work other than having to register them to some software you have installed on your domain "hub" (your PC)? Will new devices need activation online? (Most likely they will.) It sounds pretty painful to me, and even if the hassle would be relatively minor (which it won't be), it's still hassle that is just superfluous compared to no hassle at all without DRM.
This sounds like the most stupid idea i've heard in a long time from that area, and at the same time sounds just like the same thing with different paint (someone's already said it).
Great, i was the first to post the error in the summary and get a redundant because other people posted upward comments after that, probably someone mentioning the same thing.. ah the wonders of/. moderation
"[...] It's crazy that this isn't already in the wild, but turns out plans for a PC version of heavily-physicsed Star Wars Sith 'em up The Force Unleashed were quietly revealed at NVIDIA's recent NVISION 08 conference. [...]"
Oh and yes i forgot, neither Windows nor OS X have really multiple toolkits; yes there are different libraries to choose from but they've been carefully designed so by Apple or Microsoft so the usage semantics are inherited from their predecessor.
It's very true that what will kill Linux Desktop adoption is undecisiveness, but i prognosticate it will not be because KDE vs. GNOME, but because Qt vs. Gtk+ (that and, Gtk+ should get their ass moving so the toolkit doesn't look like one from 2000).
This is very true, and sad, because a lot of efforts are just wasted energy in the style of "ok then, since we can't get our heads out of our butts [sorry i'm being too sarcastic here] and getting unified semantics for both of our toolkits, then let's at least try to make them LOOK the same just so people get confused why same-looking apps behave differently"....
Freedesktop should spec an abstract widget set, defining mostly semantics, and looks only where it really matters, and both Gtk+ and Qt should try to adhere to this standard within their own.
We really REALLY need coherent usage semantics of UIs under Linux; while this situation is never perfect, certainly not under Windows, but also not always on OS X, it is to a big degree better than on Linux because there are many, many standard components available under Windows and under OS X, in any case many more than available through Gtk+, maybe also Qt, even though Qt has a pretty big library.
We Linux zealots are simply used to all the apps and quirks of apps so we don't notice, but real people will feel well only if everything behaves consistently;)
It's just like with people, it's about trust; people need to trust the UI, and you can only gain trust if you stop being inconsistent. (Yes i know, awesome roundup, but in essence it's true.;)
In what way exactly will they neccessarily "win" if we retain our freedom? Surely the win through taking away our rights would be at any time greater than the win by letting us choose? (Not right in an, uh, moral sense, though)
If they really start selling it for $98 I expect a *lot* of geeks to adopt it, and in that case I think we can be sure someone will start a distro(-fork) for MIPS for this device.
I think from past experience (Linux 64-bit) that we'll be waiting a long time for Flash on this one... other than that it seems like a great idea to do what they did!
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You should get a decent screen (preferrably FullHD, but 1680x1050 will do, and at least something around 30", but 24" is already really fine), and download some 720p or 1080p HDTV recordings or HDDVD/BluRay-rips of your favorite movies (I recommend 2001, Memento, Kill Bill Vols. 1&2, Transformers: the hi-def versions of each are really stunning), and then say again that there's reallly nothing, absolutely nothing worth it.
I agree that it's not as much worth as a Blu-Ray player being priced at about 10x the price of a cheap DVD player, and a DVD movie costing about 3x the price to around 10% more than a DVD movie, but it is worth the better quality.
There are, however, a lot of good shows coming out on Blu-Ray, for example LOST.
Yes this is full-on. Of course new technology will always be initially more expensive, but everyone in the Blu-Ray production chain who is serious about BD replacing DVDs should realize that in the end, because DVD is such a successful format, people will not be willing to pay *more* for it than for DVDs. It should simply be seen as a technological improvement over DVD, a next step, and prices should slowly be adapted to DVD price levels.
I'd hate it to become a "second CD", introduced as a format successor with a high price and the prices never coming down over *decades* (and in fact, actually even going up).
But what if an article should ever be deleted from Deletionpedia?
I sense the LHC is becoming redundant here!
Does the result really say that Tracemonkey is slower than V8? Not sure, but just a thought.
It's all just a big simulation. Now that we're on antimatter/matter's-ratio's toes, the simulation is being adapted to show signs as if "it's always been there." Yeah right. We know who you.. err.. well, we know what you're doi.. erm. Something like that!
Good point, brings back also memories of Memento, where it's pointed out by Leonard that memories are much more an interpretation than facts (and is wonderfully depicted in the movie).
If this would take a bad road then in another 10 years we'll be remote-scanned when we walk around outside (or even at home) and convicted when we have only intentions of committing a crime (which is already true in some countries just sans the remote-brain-scan part). Sounds like Precrime to me.
Lol. Modding THIS statement troll makes absolutely no sense; i meant every word I said.
It's imaginable that the reason they reject another media player is that they simply don't want people to get confused; my work consists of usability-related stuff and trust me, this is exactly the kind of thinking Apple would be having there.
With their paranoid usability perfectionism, it's odd enough that they allow any third party apps under OS X or the iPhone at all.
Yeah so their evil marketing attempt is to still make it seem like a bonus; they will eventually have reached their goal when we assume that we have no granted rights to begin with, from there on, any right will seem as a bonus. Maybe that's their idea of how this should continue.
It's about it being a marketing platform, not an acquisition platform; you may not find every tune on Last.fm but you can advertise any kind of music on it. If artists would collaborate with Last.fm, it would be certainly possible to promote basically any kind of music, given Last.fm's model: streaming music, their website, and being able to derive a user's taste.
It is in fact the promotion platform per se, completely targeted, not annoying people with stuff they don't want to know. It's the Google of music, really.
The record companies offer another service, marketing.
I think platforms like Last.fm can do that just as fine as well.
Yes, as flexible as a cd
So, i guess we'll just crack it by bending it a little!
Any business is based on the creation of goods. In the case of music, there use to be twofold goods: the music itself (created by artists), and the media on which it was being distributed (created by the record companies). The second good is not needed anymore since access to the music itself is theoretically ubiquitous, hence yes, it is dead on a dying business, and the sooner these companies realize that, the better they will be off (see disaster of e.g. AGFA who missed the digital camera boom).
It's also called science
They say it's going to be simple, but how is adding devices to your domain going to work other than having to register them to some software you have installed on your domain "hub" (your PC)? Will new devices need activation online? (Most likely they will.) It sounds pretty painful to me, and even if the hassle would be relatively minor (which it won't be), it's still hassle that is just superfluous compared to no hassle at all without DRM.
This sounds like the most stupid idea i've heard in a long time from that area, and at the same time sounds just like the same thing with different paint (someone's already said it).
Great, i was the first to post the error in the summary and get a redundant because other people posted upward comments after that, probably someone mentioning the same thing.. ah the wonders of /. moderation
Actually, there will be a PC version:
"[...] It's crazy that this isn't already in the wild, but turns out plans for a PC version of heavily-physicsed Star Wars Sith 'em up The Force Unleashed were quietly revealed at NVIDIA's recent NVISION 08 conference. [...]"
(From this linked article.)
Oh and yes i forgot, neither Windows nor OS X have really multiple toolkits; yes there are different libraries to choose from but they've been carefully designed so by Apple or Microsoft so the usage semantics are inherited from their predecessor. It's very true that what will kill Linux Desktop adoption is undecisiveness, but i prognosticate it will not be because KDE vs. GNOME, but because Qt vs. Gtk+ (that and, Gtk+ should get their ass moving so the toolkit doesn't look like one from 2000).
This is very true, and sad, because a lot of efforts are just wasted energy in the style of "ok then, since we can't get our heads out of our butts [sorry i'm being too sarcastic here] and getting unified semantics for both of our toolkits, then let's at least try to make them LOOK the same just so people get confused why same-looking apps behave differently"....
;)
;)
Freedesktop should spec an abstract widget set, defining mostly semantics, and looks only where it really matters, and both Gtk+ and Qt should try to adhere to this standard within their own.
We really REALLY need coherent usage semantics of UIs under Linux; while this situation is never perfect, certainly not under Windows, but also not always on OS X, it is to a big degree better than on Linux because there are many, many standard components available under Windows and under OS X, in any case many more than available through Gtk+, maybe also Qt, even though Qt has a pretty big library.
We Linux zealots are simply used to all the apps and quirks of apps so we don't notice, but real people will feel well only if everything behaves consistently
It's just like with people, it's about trust; people need to trust the UI, and you can only gain trust if you stop being inconsistent. (Yes i know, awesome roundup, but in essence it's true.
In what way exactly will they neccessarily "win" if we retain our freedom? Surely the win through taking away our rights would be at any time greater than the win by letting us choose? (Not right in an, uh, moral sense, though)
If they really start selling it for $98 I expect a *lot* of geeks to adopt it, and in that case I think we can be sure someone will start a distro(-fork) for MIPS for this device.
OK after watching the video i can only say: totally want!!
I think from past experience (Linux 64-bit) that we'll be waiting a long time for Flash on this one... other than that it seems like a great idea to do what they did!