There's something to be said for bringing stuff to the market. Which is one thing (aside from great design) that Apple does better than anyone else in the industry. After all, where would we be if Apple hadn't brought the GUI and mouse to the market?
We might be playing Wolfenstein on MS-DOS XP with just a keyboard.
If you go to IDEO's site they have some goods pages with animation describing some of the features. It's a pop-up so I can't link to it directly. I looked there before reading the CNN article, so I actually liked the CNN article. YMMV.
Yeah... this is what I thought at first for about a split second. Then I realized this: what self-respecting Japanese gamer is going to want an Xbox anyway?
Do we even know that Palm will be keeping on the Be employees? All the articles really talk about is Palm buying Be's IP. They gave brief lip service to the fact that Gassee (sp?) will help in the transition of technology.
He owns the book, he can do anything he wants to with the book. He can rip pages out of it and post them on the bulletin board at work. He can loan the book to a friend. He can scratch out words in the book. Hell, he can even use OCR to read all of the pages of a book into a computer if he wants. I don't think you can do any of that with eBooks (maybe some of them let you print out a hardcopy of a few pages).
I'm sure your wife would have said the same thing had you taken her to a re-showing of Star Wars: A New Hope. The acting was always horrible and hokey, and so was the plot. Get over it!
"I suspect that the vast majority of Slashdot readers would be damned if they thought of either AOL or MS for online access, for reasons that often include reliability, principles, and pride."
Unfortunately, I did think of AOL for online access when you 'asked'. AOL Time Warner provides my Road Runner cable modem Internet access.
There are certain tactics that a monopoly cannot use, but that a non-monopoly can. Check out this Google search. Note that the word "Microsoft" is not part of the search, when you start getting back results.:)
They don't call it Windows. They call it a computer. It'd be different if they were getting Windows from Microsoft, changing it around -- putting the AOL logo on the desktop, and then selling it as a retail box of Windows.
The private financial gain is easy for them to forge. If you use your decryption method for your fair use of the content on say another ebook, it's for your private financial gain because you no longer had to purchase two copies of the book.
I really just bought my widescreen HDTV with the intent to play anamorphic widescreen DVDs on it. That fact that I got four HDTV channels after hooking up my $20 antenna was totally a bonus. But, now that I have HDTV, I love it. I'll probably get cable or DirecTV once they start offering enough HDTV channels.
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DVDs can carry progressive video from film sources and it can carry interlaced video from interlaced video sources (if the video is progressively encoded the authors can flag it as progressive). The current problem is that the hardware decoders aren't able to pull down the progressive video. So, the fix is to either de-interlace the interlaced progressive signal (heh) in the digital realm (which provides very, very good results) or to de-interlace it in the analog realm, which still should provide better results than either an inexpensive external line-doubler or standard interlaced video.
Did that clear anything up? I know Home Theater magazine recently did a good article on this using two Pioneer DVD players as an example (one high-end and one low-end).
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The input that my RCA tube HDTV requires is simply a coaxial cable jack, just like standard cable; or a component video cable. What you need to worry about is formatting the signal into 480P or 1080i DTV modes before sending it out over one of those mediums. I unfortunately can't help there, but maybe Apple can (since they make Final Cut Pro).
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No, it isn't. Laserdisc's color bandwidth is seriously compressed which is why (particularly Technicolor) films look much brighter and more colorful than laserdisc. Roger Ebert also uses DVD as his main video source now.
You're in the best city in the country for HDTV. WRAL recently started broadcasting their nightly news in HDTV. They are the first station to do that -- they were also the first station to broadcast anything in HDTV. You should be getting at least four stations in HDTV in Raleigh just as we Charlotteans. Heck, maybe even UNC-TV (PBS) has started HDTV broadcasts in the Raleigh area, they aren't doing it yet here, but plan to soon.
I got a 38" widescreen HDTV television with built-in HDTV and DirectTV receiver for less than $3000. I can pick up four HDTV stations (not including their substations) with my horrible $20 antenna in Charlotte. And, since I don't have cable, this allows me to get The Simpsons in pristine quality for free, as well as watching various shows in HDTV including The X-Files, and almost every show on CBS. PBS will be the fifth channel to broadcast in HDTV and they will be going live shortly.
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There's something to be said for bringing stuff to the market. Which is one thing (aside from great design) that Apple does better than anyone else in the industry. After all, where would we be if Apple hadn't brought the GUI and mouse to the market?
We might be playing Wolfenstein on MS-DOS XP with just a keyboard.
Why don't you just get a Mac so you can use an even better GUI?
Go ahead and do it. Nobody is stopping you.
Apple supporting USB is what made USB what it is today. So, yes they can do the same with USB 2.0. Like it matters, FireWire is where it's at!
What is #2 for?
If you go to IDEO's site they have some goods pages with animation describing some of the features. It's a pop-up so I can't link to it directly. I looked there before reading the CNN article, so I actually liked the CNN article. YMMV.
Yeah... this is what I thought at first for about a split second. Then I realized this: what self-respecting Japanese gamer is going to want an Xbox anyway?
Do we even know that Palm will be keeping on the Be employees? All the articles really talk about is Palm buying Be's IP. They gave brief lip service to the fact that Gassee (sp?) will help in the transition of technology.
He owns the book, he can do anything he wants to with the book. He can rip pages out of it and post them on the bulletin board at work. He can loan the book to a friend. He can scratch out words in the book. Hell, he can even use OCR to read all of the pages of a book into a computer if he wants. I don't think you can do any of that with eBooks (maybe some of them let you print out a hardcopy of a few pages).
They might not be ignoring design, but they aren't doing a particularly good job of it, either.
FireWire drives, which already exist, would be much better than IDE anyday.
I'm sure your wife would have said the same thing had you taken her to a re-showing of Star Wars: A New Hope. The acting was always horrible and hokey, and so was the plot. Get over it!
Unfortunately, I did think of AOL for online access when you 'asked'. AOL Time Warner provides my Road Runner cable modem Internet access.
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There are certain tactics that a monopoly cannot use, but that a non-monopoly can. Check out this Google search. Note that the word "Microsoft" is not part of the search, when you start getting back results. :)
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Ciener Woods Ford in North Carolina readily sells Ciener Edition Fords that have various extensive modifications done to them before they hit the lot.
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They don't call it Windows. They call it a computer. It'd be different if they were getting Windows from Microsoft, changing it around -- putting the AOL logo on the desktop, and then selling it as a retail box of Windows.
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The private financial gain is easy for them to forge. If you use your decryption method for your fair use of the content on say another ebook, it's for your private financial gain because you no longer had to purchase two copies of the book.
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I really just bought my widescreen HDTV with the intent to play anamorphic widescreen DVDs on it. That fact that I got four HDTV channels after hooking up my $20 antenna was totally a bonus. But, now that I have HDTV, I love it. I'll probably get cable or DirecTV once they start offering enough HDTV channels.
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Did that clear anything up? I know Home Theater magazine recently did a good article on this using two Pioneer DVD players as an example (one high-end and one low-end).
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The input that my RCA tube HDTV requires is simply a coaxial cable jack, just like standard cable; or a component video cable. What you need to worry about is formatting the signal into 480P or 1080i DTV modes before sending it out over one of those mediums. I unfortunately can't help there, but maybe Apple can (since they make Final Cut Pro).
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No, it isn't. Laserdisc's color bandwidth is seriously compressed which is why (particularly Technicolor) films look much brighter and more colorful than laserdisc. Roger Ebert also uses DVD as his main video source now.
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You're in the best city in the country for HDTV. WRAL recently started broadcasting their nightly news in HDTV. They are the first station to do that -- they were also the first station to broadcast anything in HDTV. You should be getting at least four stations in HDTV in Raleigh just as we Charlotteans. Heck, maybe even UNC-TV (PBS) has started HDTV broadcasts in the Raleigh area, they aren't doing it yet here, but plan to soon.
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"Only RCA has a TV with a built-in HTDV Tuner, and that's $3500 (34", Direct View, 16:9 aspect ratio)."
Paid less than $3000 for mine.
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I got a 38" widescreen HDTV television with built-in HDTV and DirectTV receiver for less than $3000. I can pick up four HDTV stations (not including their substations) with my horrible $20 antenna in Charlotte. And, since I don't have cable, this allows me to get The Simpsons in pristine quality for free, as well as watching various shows in HDTV including The X-Files, and almost every show on CBS. PBS will be the fifth channel to broadcast in HDTV and they will be going live shortly.
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Well, how is it now?
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