It doesn't matter if there are two or two dozen registrars; Verisign controls all.com domains and has set the "wholesale" price at something like $7 and they plan to increase it every year. No registrar can sell domains below their cost (ignoring marketing tricks). BTW, the supply of domains is essentially infinite.
The cost of the discs has little to do with the cost of a box set. If they put a whole season on one disc and charged $2 less for it, people would complain that the cost per disc is too high. And releasing SD content on an HD disc creates another SKU for little benefit.
You're confusing CGMS/A and the broadcast flag. But besides that your message is correct and it points out some problems that Tivo owners need to be aware of.
Virtually no one is using the rather large 5GHz U-NII band that the FCC already gave us, while 2.4GHz gets more and more crowded. I suppose there would be more demand for 1.7GHz or 2.1GHz unlicensed since it is "better" spectrum than 5GHz, but the precedent still isn't good.
A Blu-ray player or PC that is driving a digital display doesn't need to include any "porch time". So now I'm wishing that they had defined two 1080p timings; one with legacy analog crap in it and one without.
Hamachi's security looks pretty good, but I just couldn't resist using the quote. If Hamachi is as secure (and thus as complex) as IPSec, why isn't it IPSec? And even so, Hamachi's protocols and code haven't gotten as much peer review as IPSec. Rather than reinventing the wheel, why not put your talents into (for example) designing a usable opportunistic mode for IPSec?
"Whenever someone thinks that they can replace [IPSec] with something much better that they designed this morning over coffee, their computer speakers should generate some sort of penis-shaped sound wave and plunge it repeatedly into their skulls until they achieve enlightenment." -- Peter Gutmann
Yeah, I just love my 50-inch computer monitor... oh wait, those don't exist. I also love downloading HD movies to my computer over the Net... oh wait, nobody has even announced such a thing.
The Raptor is much more expensive than other ATA drives because it's 10,000 RPM. Of course a more expensive drive is faster, but that doesn't necessarily make it better for many customers.
My impression is that chipsets just need to have multiple PCIe slots to support SLI and CrossFire; the rest of the "support" is a certification scam where the driver locks out "unsupported" chipsets (i.e. who haven't paid the fee).
I read an article just the other day saying that a lot of people think they are watching HD today, but they aren't. But these people like their "HD". So I suspect these people will buy Blu-ray players, attach them to their HDTVs (or even better, EDTVs) with analog component cables, and marvel at the wonderful quality. Never underestimate the placebo effect.
AFAIK the processor isn't owned by IBM (IIRC in the photos you can see "Microsoft" on the chip) and not all processors are created equal. I suspect a 970MP would be faster for almost all applications.
The right of first sale allows lending of copyrighted works without permission of the copyright holder (at least in the USA). Maybe EULAs can take this away, but books, CDs, and DVDs don't have EULAs.
You may laugh, but I've read that teenagers are the movie market now. R movies make much less money than PG-13 movies, to the extent that studios are not willing to make a lot of R movies. (The rating for a studio movie is decided before it gets made.) NC-17 movies would presumably make even less money because teens wouldn't be able to get in at all.
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It doesn't matter if there are two or two dozen registrars; Verisign controls all .com domains and has set the "wholesale" price at something like $7 and they plan to increase it every year. No registrar can sell domains below their cost (ignoring marketing tricks). BTW, the supply of domains is essentially infinite.
IIRC, Intel used people in bunny suits in their ads back in the Pentium days.
The mini and iBook will probaby use Core Solo processors that are not available yet.
The cost of the discs has little to do with the cost of a box set. If they put a whole season on one disc and charged $2 less for it, people would complain that the cost per disc is too high. And releasing SD content on an HD disc creates another SKU for little benefit.
You're confusing CGMS/A and the broadcast flag. But besides that your message is correct and it points out some problems that Tivo owners need to be aware of.
There is no broadcast flag (yet).
Everyone is forgetting the option that Apple could sell both x86 and PowerPC PowerBooks at the same time, like what they've done in the past.
Virtually no one is using the rather large 5GHz U-NII band that the FCC already gave us, while 2.4GHz gets more and more crowded. I suppose there would be more demand for 1.7GHz or 2.1GHz unlicensed since it is "better" spectrum than 5GHz, but the precedent still isn't good.
A Blu-ray player or PC that is driving a digital display doesn't need to include any "porch time". So now I'm wishing that they had defined two 1080p timings; one with legacy analog crap in it and one without.
Hamachi's security looks pretty good, but I just couldn't resist using the quote. If Hamachi is as secure (and thus as complex) as IPSec, why isn't it IPSec? And even so, Hamachi's protocols and code haven't gotten as much peer review as IPSec. Rather than reinventing the wheel, why not put your talents into (for example) designing a usable opportunistic mode for IPSec?
"Whenever someone thinks that they can replace [IPSec] with something much better that they designed this morning over coffee, their computer speakers should generate some sort of penis-shaped sound wave and plunge it repeatedly into their skulls until they achieve enlightenment." -- Peter Gutmann
You don't need a new monitor to access current content (DVDs). You only need a new monitor to play HD-DVD and Blu-ray, which are not out yet.
Yeah, I just love my 50-inch computer monitor... oh wait, those don't exist. I also love downloading HD movies to my computer over the Net... oh wait, nobody has even announced such a thing.
The Raptor is much more expensive than other ATA drives because it's 10,000 RPM. Of course a more expensive drive is faster, but that doesn't necessarily make it better for many customers.
My impression is that chipsets just need to have multiple PCIe slots to support SLI and CrossFire; the rest of the "support" is a certification scam where the driver locks out "unsupported" chipsets (i.e. who haven't paid the fee).
I read an article just the other day saying that a lot of people think they are watching HD today, but they aren't. But these people like their "HD". So I suspect these people will buy Blu-ray players, attach them to their HDTVs (or even better, EDTVs) with analog component cables, and marvel at the wonderful quality. Never underestimate the placebo effect.
In the new new version, Jar-Jar shoots first.
You fell for the megahurtz myth. A 3.2 GHz PPE is slower than a 3 GHz 970, which is what Jobs promised.
AFAIK the processor isn't owned by IBM (IIRC in the photos you can see "Microsoft" on the chip) and not all processors are created equal. I suspect a 970MP would be faster for almost all applications.
Unfortunately, many PowerPCs can be run in heretical little-endian mode. NT ran little-endian back in the day.
I know; I actually read the article.
No, the bus (of which there is only one, not 3) really runs at 5.4 GHz (point-to-point for about 6 inches).
The right of first sale allows lending of copyrighted works without permission of the copyright holder (at least in the USA). Maybe EULAs can take this away, but books, CDs, and DVDs don't have EULAs.
You may laugh, but I've read that teenagers are the movie market now. R movies make much less money than PG-13 movies, to the extent that studios are not willing to make a lot of R movies. (The rating for a studio movie is decided before it gets made.) NC-17 movies would presumably make even less money because teens wouldn't be able to get in at all.
The whole point of ratings (for anything, not just movies) is to free people from having to make case-by-case decisions.