"The music industry has been playing around with USB flash drives for a few years now, but it hasn't been a massive success yet; will USB movies fare any better?"
I don't see any reason it shouldn't Cost aside people put a form of "dongle" in their DVD player all the time. Plus if all the anecdotal slashposts are to be believed? USB drives are more durable than plastic disks. And one has the same advantage in that one can loan it out to others. Now those who believe in "information wants to be free" might have a problem? But then that's an impossible bunch to please.
Point noted but collection packs are nice ways of legally getting all the old games and having a complete collection that doesn't take up a lot of space. Some even update the game to run on newer operating systems.
"Unfortunately the math there is harry, and one of the upcoming technologies making use of beamforming, namely WiFi has failed to deliver thus far."
Well I think I see your problem right there. Harry is have "performance under pressure" issues.
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"Realism isn't always the best way to convey the most emotion and impact"
Emoticons work much better.
Do I really need to say it? Uncanny Valley.
If memory serves, movies are MPEG2? Encoding them MPEG4 (DivX) might make it possible to fit it onto a stick.
"The music industry has been playing around with USB flash drives for a few years now, but it hasn't been a massive success yet; will USB movies fare any better?"
I don't see any reason it shouldn't Cost aside people put a form of "dongle" in their DVD player all the time. Plus if all the anecdotal slashposts are to be believed? USB drives are more durable than plastic disks. And one has the same advantage in that one can loan it out to others. Now those who believe in "information wants to be free" might have a problem? But then that's an impossible bunch to please.
Point noted but collection packs are nice ways of legally getting all the old games and having a complete collection that doesn't take up a lot of space. Some even update the game to run on newer operating systems.
X:\Program Files\2K Games\BioShock\Builds\Release
[Default.ini]
HighDetailShaders=
Should be set to False. It will not look as good but that's a small price to pay.
You will also need two XP dlls to make it work. I got mine off the internet.
xinput1_3.dll
dbghelp.dll
Placed in the path above.
COD4 was even easier to get running.
It is a nice game but I had to alter a line in the config file to get it running on W2K. Otherwise it causes a hard reset.
"Another question is; does Google really needs such a deal to provide the best webmapping and virtual globes-related tools?"
I've used Google Earth for my area and lets just say that the state provides better maps and imagery.
"The web already has four "major" browsers firefox, IE, safari and opera"
I'm waiting for a GIS browser. Or a browser that supports X3D.
"Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... "
After discovering a flaw in one of Texas Instruments' RFID tags, researchers from RSA Labs and Johns Hopkins University say they plan to continue their testing with exploits against other RFID equipment.
Doesn't look like the secret everyone thinks it is. Note the date. And this just from a few seconds with Google.
"Unfortunately the math there is harry, and one of the upcoming technologies making use of beamforming, namely WiFi has failed to deliver thus far." Well I think I see your problem right there. Harry is have "performance under pressure" issues.