That's the catch. According to the patents they have filed, it'd most likely be able to run ANY OS, and hence, any software. There chips would morph x86, etc, calls, to it's own internal architecure, hence, 'emulating' nearly any chip on the market currently..
I'm guessing that it's going to price around 800$. This is based on this quote:
Remote Solution's PJB-100 stores over 80 playback hours (1200 songs) or 100 CD's, and incorporates an IBM 4.86 GB, 2.5 inch hard drive selected for its rugged reliability. The PJB-100 offers exceptional music capacity vs cost less than $10 per playback hour vs $200 per playback hour for flash-media storage units.
If they store 80 hours, and it's price/length ratio is 10$ pe rhour, about 800$.
This price is also supported by the fact that they compare the price to flash-media devices at 200$ an hour. The 200$ MP3 players store about an hours worth of music.
Err, perhaps I'm wrong, but Cygwin is certainly NOT a commercial package. It does have a commercial release with support, but the package itself is free for the download.
The funny part is, what they did is not technically illegal. I remeber several years agi a very prominent 'warez' site run out of MIT that had GIGS of things to download. When they pressed it in court, it was thrown out. Pirating is illegal, but happening to leave your cassette tapes out where people can copy them ISN'T..;-P
They musta read your post, becouse soon after, it read this:
"The document will be available for download from this page in three formats: WordPerfect 6, Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF), and HyperText Markup Language (HTML)."
So essentially, only 128 UNIQUE entities can make software or hardware decoders. That's a shame. I'm guessing it also costs a whole lotta money to actually GET one of these keys.
Talk about stifling development. For all they know, someone out there could be able to make a player that is somehow optimized, and can decode the data on a 286, but they'll never know, becouse they don;t have the money to buy a key..
I'm confused by something in regards to DVD decryption. How does ANY software do DVD decryption? Do they ALL need to request to have a key? How are 'new' keys added? As they are all burnt on the disk itself, it doesn;t seem like it would be 'easy' to simply add more keys to the stack. Isn;t this a long term problem, as more companies want to USE DVD?
Are they basically locking in a limited number of companies from producing decoder boards, based on the FINITE number of keys available, even if ther already is 'space' keys for such a purpose such as future expantion?
The pointer to the response it hardly official. I WOULD like to see more information regarding who is claiming trademark infringement. Sounds like a slashdot email effect should be launched. Linux needs DVD, unfortionatly, it appears that the DVD guys don't think they need Linux..:-(
I actually think this is WHY the judge is handling it the way he is. He really, really, REALLY wants a compromise to be reached, becouse he KNOWS this will end up in appeal for years to come.
And as far as the OS, I'd take it one step further and say they can't bargain 'deals' with the price, aka, selling it at a loss to some, while extremely high to others, simply to push mindshare and get usagage of their products locked in.
We'll all know if it's today by 4:00PM EST. They agreement is that both sides will be informed with two hours notice before the release, at which point they can alert the general public to their liking..
An 'Invaluable Tool' is NOT a 'handy feature', as you now call it..;-P
MSDN IS a hog for what it is. It's simply a library of Microsoft documentation, that's it. Visual Studio shouldn't 'require' it for operation, as it does.
And the reason I rank on Visual Studio is becouse Microsoft takes the opertunity to customize it for every little Microsoft component, and tries to basically shove MFC down your gullet. Granted, it's a damned nice IDE, but that's the ONLY nice thing about it. That was my original point. It's nice to use for pretty much RAD design, but getting down and dirty with it can get bad, 'spec when you start messing with things it's 'automagically' generated for you..
If you consider autocompletion and MSDN 'invaluable' tools, you're programming style needs work..;-P
A) Autocompletion is a new addition to 6.0. It also happens to slow down actual work you're trying to do.
B) Integrated docs is really, REALLY nothing to brag about. It's nothing more then a bloated addition to something that already has a HUGE footprint.
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No, it'd simply take Microsoft to add a few hardware specific catches in there, and not publish them. Offer an SDK, and do the same thing 3dfx does with Glide.. FORCE them to use it. If another company truies to write something compatible, sue their pants off.
And this has NOTHING TO DO with OSS. Personally, I see more promise in OpenGL then DirectX. I see better hardware support for OpenGL, and I see better performance out of OpenGL.
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DirectX has been beat to death my many of todays leading game developers as being one of the worst systems to work with. I'll have to dig thru some pages to find exact stories, but I can, and most certainly will. Carmack himself slaughters it regulary when people ask him about it.
And Quake is most CERTAINLY not written in Visual Studio. Some of the Windows specific code is, but not the primary codebase. And the IDE is very, VERY nice, but the actual environment is ill suited for game development. I use Visual C++ 6.0 regularly, and I simply LOVE it, but it is not a very good system for game development. As proof, notice the lack of developers swarming to writing games for Sega Drewamcast. It supports CE, whose primary development platform would be, you guessed it, Visual Studio.
I think they really need to do the story the right way, or they will completely kill the storyline. If they simply become "superhero's killing the badguys", the movie will suck beyond belief.
I'd like to see the 'puters start to find ways to fight him beside's trying to fry his brian. How's about throw those millions of people in absolute torment, instead of their 'nice little world'. If they try to continue the movie using the exact same storyline, it will REALLY suck, but I'm expecting ythem to throw some loops in there, with the first movie being so damned good..
Yes, but at the same time, it'd most likely run Windows CE, which anyone can develope for, as long as they (*TADA!*) buy Visual Studio. Not to mention the likelyhood that they sell Microsoft Office, etc, to run on the beast. It's a system that they can NEVER WORRY ABOUT THE MANUFACTURES with, as they are them, and they can PUT that roadblock up that says they will ALL run Windows..
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I disagree that this will ever be as 'open' as you say, and certainly no more open then Sony using Linux as it's primary development platform for the PS 2.
You automagically locked in to, more then likely, Visual Studio for development, and Direct X as the primary graphics library, neither of which are noted for being superb for game development.
I do find it interesting that they are supposedly looking at an AMD chip, much to the chagrin most likely of their long time buddy Intel.
But I must say, WinAMD isn't nearly as catchy as Wintel..;-P
You also have to wonder what they want to use for graphics on this machine. Even with a 500Mhz processor, they really would also need a dedicated graphics processor to stand ANY chance of beating something like the PS 2. zthis machine may be able to compete with current game consoles out there, but they will all soon be in a whole new playing field then the one they are in now..
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Err, the second half of your post was asking about specs..;-P That's what I gave you..
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HeHe.. I submitted it as a story nearly 3 weeks ago, got rejected soon after... ;-P
That's the catch. According to the patents they have filed, it'd most likely be able to run ANY OS, and hence, any software. There chips would morph x86, etc, calls, to it's own internal architecure, hence, 'emulating' nearly any chip on the market currently..
In that price range, it'd be worth it, but if that IS the case, I'd LOVE to know what the heck 10$ per hour is based on..
I'm guessing that it's going to price around 800$. This is based on this quote:
Remote Solution's PJB-100 stores over 80 playback hours (1200 songs) or 100 CD's, and incorporates an IBM 4.86 GB, 2.5 inch hard drive selected for its rugged reliability. The PJB-100 offers exceptional music capacity vs cost less than $10 per playback hour vs $200 per playback hour for flash-media storage units.
If they store 80 hours, and it's price/length ratio is 10$ pe rhour, about 800$.
This price is also supported by the fact that they compare the price to flash-media devices at 200$ an hour. The 200$ MP3 players store about an hours worth of music.
Err, perhaps I'm wrong, but Cygwin is certainly NOT a commercial package. It does have a commercial release with support, but the package itself is free for the download.
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
The funny part is, what they did is not technically illegal. I remeber several years agi a very prominent 'warez' site run out of MIT that had GIGS of things to download. When they pressed it in court, it was thrown out. Pirating is illegal, but happening to leave your cassette tapes out where people can copy them ISN'T.. ;-P
Your right, it doesn't. I think people just 'assumed' wireless = cell, which is really not the case at all, but it could be.. ;-P
They musta read your post, becouse soon after, it read this:
"The document will be available for download from this page in three formats: WordPerfect 6, Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF), and HyperText Markup Language (HTML)."
So essentially, only 128 UNIQUE entities can make software or hardware decoders. That's a shame. I'm guessing it also costs a whole lotta money to actually GET one of these keys.
Talk about stifling development. For all they know, someone out there could be able to make a player that is somehow optimized, and can decode the data on a 286, but they'll never know, becouse they don;t have the money to buy a key..
Did Divx also have this limitation?
I'm confused by something in regards to DVD decryption. How does ANY software do DVD decryption? Do they ALL need to request to have a key? How are 'new' keys added? As they are all burnt on the disk itself, it doesn;t seem like it would be 'easy' to simply add more keys to the stack. Isn;t this a long term problem, as more companies want to USE DVD?
Are they basically locking in a limited number of companies from producing decoder boards, based on the FINITE number of keys available, even if ther already is 'space' keys for such a purpose such as future expantion?
The pointer to the response it hardly official. I WOULD like to see more information regarding who is claiming trademark infringement. Sounds like a slashdot email effect should be launched. Linux needs DVD, unfortionatly, it appears that the DVD guys don't think they need Linux.. :-(
I actually think this is WHY the judge is handling it the way he is. He really, really, REALLY wants a compromise to be reached, becouse he KNOWS this will end up in appeal for years to come.
And as far as the OS, I'd take it one step further and say they can't bargain 'deals' with the price, aka, selling it at a loss to some, while extremely high to others, simply to push mindshare and get usagage of their products locked in.
We'll all know if it's today by 4:00PM EST. They agreement is that both sides will be informed with two hours notice before the release, at which point they can alert the general public to their liking..
Looks like it's taking RedHat up with it. I'm betting a simular thing will happen when LinuxCare IPO's.
If only I had enough money set aside to actually ride the wave.
An 'Invaluable Tool' is NOT a 'handy feature', as you now call it.. ;-P
MSDN IS a hog for what it is. It's simply a library of Microsoft documentation, that's it. Visual Studio shouldn't 'require' it for operation, as it does.
And the reason I rank on Visual Studio is becouse Microsoft takes the opertunity to customize it for every little Microsoft component, and tries to basically shove MFC down your gullet. Granted, it's a damned nice IDE, but that's the ONLY nice thing about it. That was my original point. It's nice to use for pretty much RAD design, but getting down and dirty with it can get bad, 'spec when you start messing with things it's 'automagically' generated for you..
If you consider autocompletion and MSDN 'invaluable' tools, you're programming style needs work.. ;-P
A) Autocompletion is a new addition to 6.0. It also happens to slow down actual work you're trying to do.
B) Integrated docs is really, REALLY nothing to brag about. It's nothing more then a bloated addition to something that already has a HUGE footprint.
No, it'd simply take Microsoft to add a few hardware specific catches in there, and not publish them. Offer an SDK, and do the same thing 3dfx does with Glide.. FORCE them to use it. If another company truies to write something compatible, sue their pants off.
And this has NOTHING TO DO with OSS. Personally, I see more promise in OpenGL then DirectX. I see better hardware support for OpenGL, and I see better performance out of OpenGL.
DirectX has been beat to death my many of todays leading game developers as being one of the worst systems to work with. I'll have to dig thru some pages to find exact stories, but I can, and most certainly will. Carmack himself slaughters it regulary when people ask him about it.
And Quake is most CERTAINLY not written in Visual Studio. Some of the Windows specific code is, but not the primary codebase. And the IDE is very, VERY nice, but the actual environment is ill suited for game development. I use Visual C++ 6.0 regularly, and I simply LOVE it, but it is not a very good system for game development. As proof, notice the lack of developers swarming to writing games for Sega Drewamcast. It supports CE, whose primary development platform would be, you guessed it, Visual Studio.
I think they really need to do the story the right way, or they will completely kill the storyline. If they simply become "superhero's killing the badguys", the movie will suck beyond belief.
I'd like to see the 'puters start to find ways to fight him beside's trying to fry his brian. How's about throw those millions of people in absolute torment, instead of their 'nice little world'. If they try to continue the movie using the exact same storyline, it will REALLY suck, but I'm expecting ythem to throw some loops in there, with the first movie being so damned good..
Yes, but at the same time, it'd most likely run Windows CE, which anyone can develope for, as long as they (*TADA!*) buy Visual Studio. Not to mention the likelyhood that they sell Microsoft Office, etc, to run on the beast. It's a system that they can NEVER WORRY ABOUT THE MANUFACTURES with, as they are them, and they can PUT that roadblock up that says they will ALL run Windows..
I disagree that this will ever be as 'open' as you say, and certainly no more open then Sony using Linux as it's primary development platform for the PS 2.
You automagically locked in to, more then likely, Visual Studio for development, and Direct X as the primary graphics library, neither of which are noted for being superb for game development.
I do find it interesting that they are supposedly looking at an AMD chip, much to the chagrin most likely of their long time buddy Intel.
;-P
But I must say, WinAMD isn't nearly as catchy as Wintel..
You also have to wonder what they want to use for graphics on this machine. Even with a 500Mhz processor, they really would also need a dedicated graphics processor to stand ANY chance of beating something like the PS 2. zthis machine may be able to compete with current game consoles out there, but they will all soon be in a whole new playing field then the one they are in now..
Err, the second half of your post was asking about specs.. ;-P That's what I gave you..
Take up a large portion of the viewable area, and follow the POV, so, it'd be like 'Locking' it in front of you, no matter where you turned..
ONLY on the x86 platform.. ;-P