I got an Airport Express for this sort of thing and it also doubles as a wireless router. You will need a Hi-Fi or some set of powered speakers, but it works well enough. Depending on your set up you may experience a bit of lag.
Having sent in a feature request, I am informed by someone at Microsoft that there will indeed be better iCalendar support in Office 12 ( aka Office 2007 ). This is great, since I will be better able to exchange or publish calendars.
Looking at the picture in the referenced article it looks like Nintendo changed the controller a bit and it looks like that it may either be an analogue or a digital joystick. It also has two underside buttons, vs the one in the initial version. Compare:
Well, I am not sure that everything with the word 'game' is considered childish. People 'watch games', whether it be football (aka Soccer in USA), Americain Football, baseball and cricket for example.
Then then there are people play 'card games', such as Black Jack or Bridge, but then again maybe that is also known as gambling;)
And of course there are computer games and board games.
In the end people play a certain type of game because it suits their sort of challenge. The truth is the issue with many computer games is that they are seen as 'anti-social'. Unless you can find your self a SO other who is also into computer games, then you will be left feeling that it is probably anti-social. Then again do we really have to convert everyone into believing they playing computer games are cool. Let them play what they want and play what you want.
Apple first added DRM to the AAC files provided by the iTunes store, because of requirments set about but the RIAA. Without their DRM, Apple would not have been allowed to distribute music. On the other hand if DRM was never mandated by the music industry then we would not be in this mess.
Apple could have used WMA, but this is a closed specification, to which Microsoft holds the keys. It is also not a format that provides people with a very good quality of audio. AAC is still a lossy format too, but it is still better than WMA, IMHO. At the same time it should be noted that the DRM that Apple is using, known as FairPlay, is actually one of the more liberal DRMs out there.
Apple also has the iPod which whose only supported DRMed file format is the AAC+FairPlay, which is sourced from the iTunes music store. The iPod because of its simplicity of design and usage, has grown to be an extremly popular media player and its popularity doesn't seem to stop. Whether it is the iPod itself or the iPod+iTunes combination, is another discussion. It should also be noted that the iTunes+iPod combination has trounced every other solution, even the 'huge MP3 player selection'+'many WMA based stores' solution. Heck, even Sony tried this with their 'media player'+'sony connect store' solution, which flaked because of a badly designed UI, poor media format and average media players. Something else that should be noted is how few of them actually support the Mac platform and require IE!?
So that is the background of the current situation. In many ways Apple is in the situation it is in now because of what has happened around it. Apple had taken advantage of that situation to be where it its today. Apple could license WMA on the iPod, hence helping other stores sell their music, but why would Apple want to pay money to lose money? On the other hand Apple could license out FairPlay, which is the one I would go with, and would encourage. But then again is anyone else, other than Apple, actually supporting the MP4 audio format, known as AAC?
Something else that should be mentioned is: that any time the DRM in FairPlay gets circumvented Apple can easily make changes without upsetting other media player manufacturers or file publishers.
Just as an added note, Real did provide a hack to allow the iPod to play their format, but Apple was having none of this. Here there is clearly reason to feel that Apple was not being open in allowing Real onboard, since it doesn't sound like Real was going to charge Apple for that privilage.
The truth is, however much I feel Apple should probably open up FairPlay and even let other parties put their codecs on the iPod, I feel that a few other things should also happen:
- companies should make better media Players, in terms of looks and useability (only Creative comes close)
- music distributors should stop mandating the Windows+IE combination
- The RIAA should come up with its own DRM that offers the same advantages as FairPlay, since in the end they are mostly responsible for the situation we are in. Forcing people to use WMA is not an answer.
thank god the DMCA is just a weird rule in some backwater country...
Unfortunately this backwater country is bullying other countries into accepting their ways, even if you don't agree with them. If it didn't have so much influence I wouldn't mind.
Well, I just asked mine and they deny their existence. That suits me, it wasn't as if my boss was going to believe it was their fault I was late for work.
Just should add that there are two levels of encryption:
- Connection based encryption, which I believe Jabber already provides.
- Content encryption, requiring users to provide a public and private key, which I don't believe has been standardised. GPG would be my favourite solution, but I don't see many clients using it, and when they do it seems inconsistent.
BTW Can someone tell me whether the connection between the two people chatting with Jabber is P2P or whether it is routed via the server?
Does Jabber specify any encryption methods that could be implemented by clients? At the moment different clients are adding encryption but they all seem to be incompatible with the other clients.
Well it all depends on what size company you are talking about. If you are big enough to pay for a full-time tech guy, then you probably don't need Google's service in this case. On the other hand if you are small outfit, whose speciality is not technology, then Google's solution would allow you to have useful service and have your domain associated with your e-mail addresses.
BTW I had suspected that the @gmail.com, login accounts was designed to allow something of the sort. Just one thing that would be interesting is whether they will do the same for Jabber, h Google Talk?
While I don't agree with using the term "unlimited" in this case, I can understand why they are doing this and that zip.ca seems to have got right. The problem is if you have 10% of the customers holding on to 50% of the popular titles, then that leaves 90% of the customers complaining of bad service. They would rather try to please the 90% than the 10% who are holding to too many DVDs at once and also costing more in postage.
The reason I mention zip.ca is because they have pricing brackets and also start charginging you for postage after a certain number of DVDs per month. You choose the package that suits you the best.
I would rather call it manipulation of lead developers. Apple spents very little money and uses top developers as a advertisement plattform.
It is certainly one way of looking at things. At the same time, at least these are things that the developers can actually make use of and sell for money if they want to. It certainly beats a T-Shirt saying 'I code for the pleasure of it'. Heck it was Microsoft it would be a copy of MS-Visual Studio or something. In the end, it is better than nothing. If you would prefer nothing in their position, then just say 'no-thank you'.
Even if that was what he meant he would still be wrong. English evolved from the German language of the time, yet English was also influenced by Greek and Latin.
Either its the article or AT&T, but all I could glimmer from the article is that AT&T hold the patent on some underlying technology of MPEG-4? What is this mysterious 'underlying technology'? It would be nice if there were more specifcs, but until I see it just sounds like FUD.
Yup, I was wondering what the European Space Agency was doing solving software piracy? I don't really think most people have much need for a pirated rocket flight control system.
Fanboy or not, I don't care how many games there are, as long as there is one I want to play. The console I end up buying, will depend on which games tempt me the most.
Sources report Google is starting it's own religion that will effectively replace all of the other religions in the world. Thus saving the world from itself.
Yup, I think its called the Church of Googleology.
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I got an Airport Express for this sort of thing and it also doubles as a wireless router. You will need a Hi-Fi or some set of powered speakers, but it works well enough. Depending on your set up you may experience a bit of lag.
Having sent in a feature request, I am informed by someone at Microsoft that there will indeed be better iCalendar support in Office 12 ( aka Office 2007 ). This is great, since I will be better able to exchange or publish calendars.
Looking at the picture in the referenced article it looks like Nintendo changed the controller a bit and it looks like that it may either be an analogue or a digital joystick. It also has two underside buttons, vs the one in the initial version. Compare:
- controller-at-a-glance-20050915061358181-000.jpgn trol.jpg
- original: http://things.wordherders.net/archives/revolution
- article: http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20060215/rev-co
This leads me to believe that Nintendo is still tweaking the controller and that we may see some more changes in the final version.
It wont be the person with the better memory that wins, but the one with the most controllers duct taped to various appendages.
:p
Please don't tell me what appenges you are thinking about, I just don't want to know
Quake 3 has also been release as a universal binary.
I am just waiting for Libjingle to be finished up and find its way into all the popular Jabber clients, and servers. Once done we won't need Skype!
Well, I am not sure that everything with the word 'game' is considered childish. People 'watch games', whether it be football (aka Soccer in USA), Americain Football, baseball and cricket for example.
;)
Then then there are people play 'card games', such as Black Jack or Bridge, but then again maybe that is also known as gambling
And of course there are computer games and board games.
In the end people play a certain type of game because it suits their sort of challenge. The truth is the issue with many computer games is that they are seen as 'anti-social'. Unless you can find your self a SO other who is also into computer games, then you will be left feeling that it is probably anti-social. Then again do we really have to convert everyone into believing they playing computer games are cool. Let them play what they want and play what you want.
Apple first added DRM to the AAC files provided by the iTunes store, because of requirments set about but the RIAA. Without their DRM, Apple would not have been allowed to distribute music. On the other hand if DRM was never mandated by the music industry then we would not be in this mess.
Apple could have used WMA, but this is a closed specification, to which Microsoft holds the keys. It is also not a format that provides people with a very good quality of audio. AAC is still a lossy format too, but it is still better than WMA, IMHO. At the same time it should be noted that the DRM that Apple is using, known as FairPlay, is actually one of the more liberal DRMs out there.
Apple also has the iPod which whose only supported DRMed file format is the AAC+FairPlay, which is sourced from the iTunes music store. The iPod because of its simplicity of design and usage, has grown to be an extremly popular media player and its popularity doesn't seem to stop. Whether it is the iPod itself or the iPod+iTunes combination, is another discussion. It should also be noted that the iTunes+iPod combination has trounced every other solution, even the 'huge MP3 player selection'+'many WMA based stores' solution. Heck, even Sony tried this with their 'media player'+'sony connect store' solution, which flaked because of a badly designed UI, poor media format and average media players. Something else that should be noted is how few of them actually support the Mac platform and require IE!?
So that is the background of the current situation. In many ways Apple is in the situation it is in now because of what has happened around it. Apple had taken advantage of that situation to be where it its today. Apple could license WMA on the iPod, hence helping other stores sell their music, but why would Apple want to pay money to lose money? On the other hand Apple could license out FairPlay, which is the one I would go with, and would encourage. But then again is anyone else, other than Apple, actually supporting the MP4 audio format, known as AAC?
Something else that should be mentioned is: that any time the DRM in FairPlay gets circumvented Apple can easily make changes without upsetting other media player manufacturers or file publishers.
Just as an added note, Real did provide a hack to allow the iPod to play their format, but Apple was having none of this. Here there is clearly reason to feel that Apple was not being open in allowing Real onboard, since it doesn't sound like Real was going to charge Apple for that privilage.
The truth is, however much I feel Apple should probably open up FairPlay and even let other parties put their codecs on the iPod, I feel that a few other things should also happen:
- companies should make better media Players, in terms of looks and useability (only Creative comes close)
- music distributors should stop mandating the Windows+IE combination
- The RIAA should come up with its own DRM that offers the same advantages as FairPlay, since in the end they are mostly responsible for the situation we are in. Forcing people to use WMA is not an answer.
thank god the DMCA is just a weird rule in some backwater country...
Unfortunately this backwater country is bullying other countries into accepting their ways, even if you don't agree with them. If it didn't have so much influence I wouldn't mind.
Well, I just asked mine and they deny their existence. That suits me, it wasn't as if my boss was going to believe it was their fault I was late for work.
Just should add that there are two levels of encryption:
- Connection based encryption, which I believe Jabber already provides.
- Content encryption, requiring users to provide a public and private key, which I don't believe has been standardised. GPG would be my favourite solution, but I don't see many clients using it, and when they do it seems inconsistent.
BTW Can someone tell me whether the connection between the two people chatting with Jabber is P2P or whether it is routed via the server?
Does Jabber specify any encryption methods that could be implemented by clients? At the moment different clients are adding encryption but they all seem to be incompatible with the other clients.
Well it all depends on what size company you are talking about. If you are big enough to pay for a full-time tech guy, then you probably don't need Google's service in this case. On the other hand if you are small outfit, whose speciality is not technology, then Google's solution would allow you to have useful service and have your domain associated with your e-mail addresses.
BTW I had suspected that the @gmail.com, login accounts was designed to allow something of the sort. Just one thing that would be interesting is whether they will do the same for Jabber, h Google Talk?
...talkative weapon Jar-Jar the Crowbar. His friendly jabbering promises to make busting up crabheads and boxes more popular then ever.
On the condition the wielder hasn't had a mental break-down first.
While I don't agree with using the term "unlimited" in this case, I can understand why they are doing this and that zip.ca seems to have got right. The problem is if you have 10% of the customers holding on to 50% of the popular titles, then that leaves 90% of the customers complaining of bad service. They would rather try to please the 90% than the 10% who are holding to too many DVDs at once and also costing more in postage.
The reason I mention zip.ca is because they have pricing brackets and also start charginging you for postage after a certain number of DVDs per month. You choose the package that suits you the best.
You need to read the article. The house was mis-valued at $400 million, and the tax on that was calculated at $8 million.
AT&T has patents on technology it claims are essential to MPEG-4, Part 2 and MPEG-4, Part 10 (H.264), as well as ISO/IEC 14496-2 and 14496-10.
Fair enough, but I would feel better if the specific patents (patent number for example) that are being infringed were revealed.
I would rather call it manipulation of lead developers. Apple spents very little money and uses top developers as a advertisement plattform.
It is certainly one way of looking at things. At the same time, at least these are things that the developers can actually make use of and sell for money if they want to. It certainly beats a T-Shirt saying 'I code for the pleasure of it'. Heck it was Microsoft it would be a copy of MS-Visual Studio or something. In the end, it is better than nothing. If you would prefer nothing in their position, then just say 'no-thank you'.
He meant the language English, not the people.
Even if that was what he meant he would still be wrong. English evolved from the German language of the time, yet English was also influenced by Greek and Latin.
Either its the article or AT&T, but all I could glimmer from the article is that AT&T hold the patent on some underlying technology of MPEG-4? What is this mysterious 'underlying technology'? It would be nice if there were more specifcs, but until I see it just sounds like FUD.
I don't know, but 'SongBadger' makes me think of this madness: Badger Badger Badger.
Yup, I was wondering what the European Space Agency was doing solving software piracy? I don't really think most people have much need for a pirated rocket flight control system.
Fanboy or not, I don't care how many games there are, as long as there is one I want to play. The console I end up buying, will depend on which games tempt me the most.
All this means is that behind Google's accessible IP addresses lurks a mammoth network of its own.
And maybe this one actually used IPv6 and NAT? That would be an even bigger network the IPv6 byitself.
Sources report Google is starting it's own religion that will effectively replace all of the other religions in the world. Thus saving the world from itself.
Yup, I think its called the Church of Googleology.