Yup, just a little foggy in my mind, and after a bad experience with a Toshiba VCR-DVDR combo, I guess I just couldn't bring myself to give them credit for being innovative.
Well, the Xbox 360 has HD-DVD, and Guitar Hero will be released for it... and there is a new version of the 360 coming out with an HDMI port and bigger hard drive (120GB).
You'll probably wait until those come out, but it sounds like you are already on the verge.
They represent the major backers in the formats, each gathering a coalition of other suckers, erm, companies to release products. Don't let the paper tiger fool you - just as the CD format is "owned" by Philips, even though it is ostensibly a multi-company effort on PAPER.
Sony's non-electronics side is leveraging it's bleeding electronics division to push the format, at a huge lead-loss, into the public. It's about Intellectual Property, not about gamers.
What baffles me is why anybody would remain in a consortium where the biggest player, and in effect, the primary driver of the technology is "dumping" cheap Blu-Ray players on the market while their own $1000 players collect dust in the showrooms.
Oblivion, Gears of War, Viva Pinata, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Crackdown, Halo 3...
All exclusives. There are easily a half dozen other great games that aren't exclusives, but combined with the above?
The Playstation 3 needs a lot more than a "couple of titles" - those might grab a few hardcore gamers, but the Wii with it's unique control (assuming it doesn't get old, as in novelty) and Xbox 360 with Live both offer strong features that aim for a wider audience. I've heard some pretty disparaging things about Sony's networking, and absolutly nobody has called Sixaxis "fun" - indeed, most think the controller feels cheap without the weight of feedback motors in the grips.
The playing field just isn't as level as it used to be. Sony spent more time on Blu-Ray than on the gaming side, and it shows. The console was even delayed to deliver BD, and yet with all that extra time, many games came out of the gate as flat as the proverbial dead horse they beat telling us how revolutionary this console (erm, excuse me, I meant to say "super computer") was going to be.
Yes, the game shipped 2 million units, but nobody bought them.
For Sony it's debatable what is worse... losing $300 million dollars by selling these units, or losing more money having them sit on the shelves. I guess sitting on the shelves is worse.
It would also be interesting to find out how badly the actual sales numbers really are, when returns and resells on returned units is taken into account. I suspect they aren't terribly great.
Fanboys can defend Sony all they want, but they will absolutely lie to the public to achieve whatever ends they desire. "David Manning" reviewer for the fictional "Ridgefield Press" proved it, Rootkits re-affirmed it, dodging repeated calls to fix the exploding laptop batteries proved it, and even with the PS3, their desire to sell gamers snake oil continues to prove it.
The fact that they are crowing about "Units Shipped" is very telling indeed. They are damned by the absence of meaningful numbers.
Die in a fire, Sony.
Why all the complaints about the price? This is about more than security, too... it's about power consumption and speed, too.
My thoughts?
Price:
$10/GB is not out of scale with current flash pricing, but nonetheless, the pricing will continue to fall. Initial release of "new" technologies like this inevitably start off pricey, usually dipping 50% after a year. I see this type of product falling even faster.
Advantages:
Forget security. The name of the game is power consumption. Hard drives (and DVD-ROM drives, too) suck a LOT of power on a laptop. Flash-based HDDs should offer a considerable improvement in battery life, and for many people, this is the "killer app" that will move this product from bleeding edge to consumer-level.
True, but you could also use a better compression algorithm and knock the size down... say, use a new version of RatDVD, call it "RatHD" and preserve all of the menuing and features, but compress it down to 8 or 9 GB and save to DL. Even better, if you don't have 1080p, compress it down to 720p and save more space, but still get higher def than DVD as a backup of your movie discs. Store your retail HD discs away some place safe and use your backups for playback (or keep on the HTPC HD for easy retrieval)
Really just a stab here, but maybe given lackluster sales of hardware, the consortium hired a ringer to play "DVD Jon" for a day and "leak" the crack to the public, thus encouraging some support from a DRM-weary public?
The industry knows piracy is not really a big problem - they still make mountains of cash, and society needs a little underlying "lawlessness" (like speeding, for example) to ease pressure. Perhaps some industry insiders sick of kowtowing to the IP Lawyers decided to leak the crack to the public in a round-about manner?
If true, it's brilliant.... if not, then they missed the boat.
The metric is asinine to the nth degree. Who buys 10 minutes of video at a store? Basically, they are talking about people watching YouTube videos and calling them "illegal" because they might be clips of SNL or the latest South Park.
A real metric would be measuring how many people downloaded FULL PROGRAMS and BURNED THEM TO DISCS for permanent storage.
They might as well claim everybody who uses NetFlix and BlockBuster is a pirate, too, since they rent movies, as well.
Am I missing something here? The idea has been proposed for space travel, simply generate a strong electro-magnetic field around the elevator as it passes through the radiation belt. Presumably, power isn't an issue for a space elevator.
Didn't Thomas Gold postulate that we'd find lots of methane on Mars? He had many intriguing theories on "deep life" - and recent evidence of "replenishment" of petroleum reserves, IIRC, while puzzling to geologists following the standard theories, would not have been a mystery to him.
I agree here... but as somebody who DESIGNS these systems, you have undoubtably encountered the occasional problem of being able to meet requirements with the available certified components. In some cases, those components that are not spec'd for the temp/humidity range may be able to handle it, but they haven't been certified... because they weren't intended for such use originally. Even you know that extreme temp spec parts are often (not always) the same parts, priced more expensively, possibly binned through a testing process.
In that case, the device must be tested in an environmental box, COUNTLESS TIMES. His claim was that this system was only tested once, but I find that bit hard to believe.
Like I said, I've worked in the automotive industry, and from the engineering side, we often don't see all the testing. I might have missed his role, but my impression was he was one engineer on a big team. If he was the system engineer, none of these compromises would have happened, right?
As one guy on a big team, he's not going to see a lot of testing.... but my main point was that temperature ranges for "Automotive spec" cover down to -40, and often, we are faced with being unable to get the part rated at the spec; this isn't because the part not rated for the spec won't work, and work reliably, it's because automotive temp ratings require a LOT of certification, and costs a LOT of money. You can build a motherboard with every chip and part, except ONE CAPACITOR, rated for automotive temp, and the motherboard technically FAILS the rating, even if it can pass the temperature extremes in an environmental testing box and under duration. So here, I sympathize with Lockheed Martin's team based on my own experience, and also know that none of the systems I've been a part of for automotive (same temperature extremes he quotes) have EVER failed because of temperature extremes - and that's hundreds of thousands in vehicles world wide (Canada to Saudi Arabia).
Humidity is another problem, and again, certification is very long, expensive, and many suppliers forego this. Sometimes, it's impossible to build a system with rated components simply because of avialability - the parts you need just have never been certified. That is a big difference from components that CANNOT operate at those ranges.
I don't think it was the contention of the Coast Guard to keep the flaw, but advertising it with a diagram is a bit careless.
Every day, we see a new virus "concept" but the person who discovers a flaw generally doesn't give away enough details (hopefully) for script kiddies to start immediately taking advantage of the discovery.
My point was by announcing the problem, and giving away more than enough detail, he's essentially given anybody with access to Coast Guard docks the road map to enter their 100ft cutters and steal boats, right this very minute. He didn't need to do this....
All in all, I agree Lockheed Martin did a poor job, but this was the wrong way to deal with it. I suspect the guy was difficult to work with and it was probably the pending layoff that caused him to make the video - but I'm sure some here will see it just the opposite.
OK, let me summarize what he covers (I didn't finish the last bit of the video, though).
1. Blind spot in watch cameras.
OK, thanks for pointing those out. Now we can board the boats and steal them. Yes, this is an issue, and one that should be fixable, but extra cameras will also affect the systems that digitize and monitor them, as well. Still, this system should be fixed, but it's not a major thing, and now you've just told anybody who's interested (in a bad way) how to take advantage of the flaw. Thanks.
2. FLIR Equipment not rated for -40 deg
My problem with this is, working in automotive systems, we regularly see this requirement, and it's more of a "spec" thing. Most electronics are fine in cold weather... short of devices with moving parts (hard drive, for example). Just because the FLIR is not "rated" at -40 doesn't mean it can't handle such temperatures, only that one or more components (chips, capacitors, resistors, etc...) in the system are not CERTIFIED to operate at the wide range of temperatures. Certification for this requirement is often an expensive process and often, certified and uncertified parts are identical in everything but price (or availability, more often). I think he's a little bit out there on this one.
3. Use of non-shielded cable in "secure" communications systems.
This one is a bit ridiculous, and shows his paranoia. The cables failed "visual" - of course, because they are not shielded. He concludes that because they are not shielded, they MUST have failed the electronic test, and because they officially passed, somebody must have cheated. While Tempest-class (back in my days as a Marine) cables were shielded out the ying-yang, and there was, even back in the 80's some amazing intel gathering stuff out there (pull phone conversations from a telephone wire, 30 feet from the pole, wirelessly, for example)... we are talking about CUTTERS. ON THE SEA. Effectiveness of devices that can isolate and monitor any given cable line over more than 100 feet falls off dramatically, particularly in a signal-rich (i.e. "noisy") environment. I'm guessing the electronic test DID pass, which is why it was allowed to be built with the unshielded cable. Still, why couldn't they have provided proper shielded cable? It's not like a huge price difference, and if availability was an issue here, what about simple external mesh around the cable runs?
Like I said, I see he has concerns, but this is really the wrong way to deal with it, and puts our Coast Guards at much greater jeopardy than the things he's addressing!
Well, I've been on plenty of flights, and I've never seen somebody looking for something that's "walked off" but I understand that sentiment. Still, as I said, given the cramped conditions in an aircraft lavatory, a person should be absolutely sure of their belongings when moving around in there.
One more thing.... aircraft lavatories do havbe a "trap door" which should prevent anything dropped in there from falling through before flushing... I have to assume this guy dropped it in and wasn't paying attention until he flushed.
I do know people that dumb, unfortunately; one guy I worked with managed to lose his ID badge in the narrow "slot" of an elevator doorway. I guess some people are just naturally clumsy and bound to make the unlikely happen, no matter how unfortunate.
Why bring an iPod into the lavatory?!??!??
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That's the dumbest thing about this. The kid is going to hog one of the few lavatories on the airplane so he can sit and jam out on his iPod? He couldn't just leave it for a few minutes, if his visit was intended for a shorter duration?
My MP3 player gets left behind when I need to get up during a flight.
All this is ignoring the fact that he managed to lose his iPod down the toilet, which is not the most attentitive behavior... it could have been money from his pocket, or jewelry of some sort. He's not the brightest person in the world, is he?
Yes, when they came for MTV, I stood by and said nothing. Instead of music videos, MTV started airing game shows, reality shows, and many other things seemingly unrelated to music.
When they came for TechTV, assuring the public that they would keep all the great programming that made the station unique. Soon they had fired many of the people that made TechTV so great, and began showing Man Show repeats, evolving into "Bling Bling" TV.
So now they come for the Sci Fi Channel, bringing fake PG-13 rated wrestling with the ECW and cancelling the most beloved original programming on TV to reach for a more "Extreme" audience.
Yes, we should exploit deep space as soon as possible for any number of reasons, but the most compelling is economic... Isn't nickel (required for stainless steel) getting rather rare these days? Yet it's plentiful in the asteroid belt. While the harsh environment of deep space forces some new processes to extract minerals, it also provides more efficiencies in other areas.
The simplest approach to mining would be to fabricate simple ablative heat shields and automated re-entry mechanisms for loads of metals and drop them into the desert (every continent has desert areas to use for recovery of these materials), where they could be easily recovered.
The unstated part of the problem, of course, lies in the fact that as the process becomes more routine, the price of rare metals goes down drastically, since the supply becomes far more plentiful.
Still, the bounty of mining our belt for raw materials that are being depleted (or where mining of such material is restricted for environmental concerns) could provide us incentive to enter a true "space age".
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I would concur with this.
I have a Toshiba DVD Recorder/VCR (Techincal term for standalones is "Recorder" not "Burner" which refers to the Drive) and it works well enough, but doesn't work to archive my commercial tapes (my intention is to convert them to DVD for archival purposes and into a format that lets my 6 year old play them on his PC without messing with the tapes) - this is due to Macrovision.
HOWEVER - some products, like KWorld's capture cards, ignore Macrovision, so you can perform the conversion to MPEG2 and then quickly author a DVD from that.
What is next to keep the social-phobic nerd trapped a bit longer in his mother's basement?
Maybe he can give all of the ale bottles unique, detailed bap designs?
How about going over all of the etchings and inlays on swords and shields in the game to make them more accurate?
Perhaps he will next go in and create new patterns and quilting for all of the bedding in the game.:::yikes::: Glad I'm not stuck next to him during a long flight.
I did not read the article, but I would imagine the usage would be limited by temperature ranges, for that matter, even simple exposure of the components.
Imagine a device with this technology submitted to freezing temperatures?
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Yup, just a little foggy in my mind, and after a bad experience with a Toshiba VCR-DVDR combo, I guess I just couldn't bring myself to give them credit for being innovative.
Well, the Xbox 360 has HD-DVD, and Guitar Hero will be released for it... and there is a new version of the 360 coming out with an HDMI port and bigger hard drive (120GB).
You'll probably wait until those come out, but it sounds like you are already on the verge.
Blu-Ray = Sony
HD-DVD = Hitachi
They represent the major backers in the formats, each gathering a coalition of other suckers, erm, companies to release products. Don't let the paper tiger fool you - just as the CD format is "owned" by Philips, even though it is ostensibly a multi-company effort on PAPER.
Sony's non-electronics side is leveraging it's bleeding electronics division to push the format, at a huge lead-loss, into the public. It's about Intellectual Property, not about gamers.
What baffles me is why anybody would remain in a consortium where the biggest player, and in effect, the primary driver of the technology is "dumping" cheap Blu-Ray players on the market while their own $1000 players collect dust in the showrooms.
Oblivion, Gears of War, Viva Pinata, Dead Rising, Lost Planet, Crackdown, Halo 3...
All exclusives. There are easily a half dozen other great games that aren't exclusives, but combined with the above?
The Playstation 3 needs a lot more than a "couple of titles" - those might grab a few hardcore gamers, but the Wii with it's unique control (assuming it doesn't get old, as in novelty) and Xbox 360 with Live both offer strong features that aim for a wider audience. I've heard some pretty disparaging things about Sony's networking, and absolutly nobody has called Sixaxis "fun" - indeed, most think the controller feels cheap without the weight of feedback motors in the grips.
The playing field just isn't as level as it used to be. Sony spent more time on Blu-Ray than on the gaming side, and it shows. The console was even delayed to deliver BD, and yet with all that extra time, many games came out of the gate as flat as the proverbial dead horse they beat telling us how revolutionary this console (erm, excuse me, I meant to say "super computer") was going to be.
Yes, the game shipped 2 million units, but nobody bought them.
For Sony it's debatable what is worse... losing $300 million dollars by selling these units, or losing more money having them sit on the shelves. I guess sitting on the shelves is worse.
It would also be interesting to find out how badly the actual sales numbers really are, when returns and resells on returned units is taken into account. I suspect they aren't terribly great.
Fanboys can defend Sony all they want, but they will absolutely lie to the public to achieve whatever ends they desire. "David Manning" reviewer for the fictional "Ridgefield Press" proved it, Rootkits re-affirmed it, dodging repeated calls to fix the exploding laptop batteries proved it, and even with the PS3, their desire to sell gamers snake oil continues to prove it.
The fact that they are crowing about "Units Shipped" is very telling indeed. They are damned by the absence of meaningful numbers. Die in a fire, Sony.
Why all the complaints about the price? This is about more than security, too... it's about power consumption and speed, too.
My thoughts?
Price:
$10/GB is not out of scale with current flash pricing, but nonetheless, the pricing will continue to fall. Initial release of "new" technologies like this inevitably start off pricey, usually dipping 50% after a year. I see this type of product falling even faster.
Advantages:
Forget security. The name of the game is power consumption. Hard drives (and DVD-ROM drives, too) suck a LOT of power on a laptop. Flash-based HDDs should offer a considerable improvement in battery life, and for many people, this is the "killer app" that will move this product from bleeding edge to consumer-level.
True, but you could also use a better compression algorithm and knock the size down... say, use a new version of RatDVD, call it "RatHD" and preserve all of the menuing and features, but compress it down to 8 or 9 GB and save to DL. Even better, if you don't have 1080p, compress it down to 720p and save more space, but still get higher def than DVD as a backup of your movie discs. Store your retail HD discs away some place safe and use your backups for playback (or keep on the HTPC HD for easy retrieval)
Really just a stab here, but maybe given lackluster sales of hardware, the consortium hired a ringer to play "DVD Jon" for a day and "leak" the crack to the public, thus encouraging some support from a DRM-weary public?
The industry knows piracy is not really a big problem - they still make mountains of cash, and society needs a little underlying "lawlessness" (like speeding, for example) to ease pressure. Perhaps some industry insiders sick of kowtowing to the IP Lawyers decided to leak the crack to the public in a round-about manner?
If true, it's brilliant.... if not, then they missed the boat.
The metric is asinine to the nth degree. Who buys 10 minutes of video at a store? Basically, they are talking about people watching YouTube videos and calling them "illegal" because they might be clips of SNL or the latest South Park.
A real metric would be measuring how many people downloaded FULL PROGRAMS and BURNED THEM TO DISCS for permanent storage.
They might as well claim everybody who uses NetFlix and BlockBuster is a pirate, too, since they rent movies, as well.
Sometimes a little too political, but still a great group. Nice to see them give the nod to Hawking!
"Yellow" was pretty good, too.
Am I missing something here? The idea has been proposed for space travel, simply generate a strong electro-magnetic field around the elevator as it passes through the radiation belt. Presumably, power isn't an issue for a space elevator.
Didn't Thomas Gold postulate that we'd find lots of methane on Mars? He had many intriguing theories on "deep life" - and recent evidence of "replenishment" of petroleum reserves, IIRC, while puzzling to geologists following the standard theories, would not have been a mystery to him.
I agree here... but as somebody who DESIGNS these systems, you have undoubtably encountered the occasional problem of being able to meet requirements with the available certified components. In some cases, those components that are not spec'd for the temp/humidity range may be able to handle it, but they haven't been certified... because they weren't intended for such use originally. Even you know that extreme temp spec parts are often (not always) the same parts, priced more expensively, possibly binned through a testing process.
In that case, the device must be tested in an environmental box, COUNTLESS TIMES. His claim was that this system was only tested once, but I find that bit hard to believe.
Like I said, I've worked in the automotive industry, and from the engineering side, we often don't see all the testing. I might have missed his role, but my impression was he was one engineer on a big team. If he was the system engineer, none of these compromises would have happened, right?
As one guy on a big team, he's not going to see a lot of testing.... but my main point was that temperature ranges for "Automotive spec" cover down to -40, and often, we are faced with being unable to get the part rated at the spec; this isn't because the part not rated for the spec won't work, and work reliably, it's because automotive temp ratings require a LOT of certification, and costs a LOT of money. You can build a motherboard with every chip and part, except ONE CAPACITOR, rated for automotive temp, and the motherboard technically FAILS the rating, even if it can pass the temperature extremes in an environmental testing box and under duration. So here, I sympathize with Lockheed Martin's team based on my own experience, and also know that none of the systems I've been a part of for automotive (same temperature extremes he quotes) have EVER failed because of temperature extremes - and that's hundreds of thousands in vehicles world wide (Canada to Saudi Arabia).
Humidity is another problem, and again, certification is very long, expensive, and many suppliers forego this. Sometimes, it's impossible to build a system with rated components simply because of avialability - the parts you need just have never been certified. That is a big difference from components that CANNOT operate at those ranges.
I don't think it was the contention of the Coast Guard to keep the flaw, but advertising it with a diagram is a bit careless.
Every day, we see a new virus "concept" but the person who discovers a flaw generally doesn't give away enough details (hopefully) for script kiddies to start immediately taking advantage of the discovery.
My point was by announcing the problem, and giving away more than enough detail, he's essentially given anybody with access to Coast Guard docks the road map to enter their 100ft cutters and steal boats, right this very minute. He didn't need to do this....
All in all, I agree Lockheed Martin did a poor job, but this was the wrong way to deal with it. I suspect the guy was difficult to work with and it was probably the pending layoff that caused him to make the video - but I'm sure some here will see it just the opposite.
OK, let me summarize what he covers (I didn't finish the last bit of the video, though).
1. Blind spot in watch cameras.
OK, thanks for pointing those out. Now we can board the boats and steal them. Yes, this is an issue, and one that should be fixable, but extra cameras will also affect the systems that digitize and monitor them, as well. Still, this system should be fixed, but it's not a major thing, and now you've just told anybody who's interested (in a bad way) how to take advantage of the flaw. Thanks.
2. FLIR Equipment not rated for -40 deg
My problem with this is, working in automotive systems, we regularly see this requirement, and it's more of a "spec" thing. Most electronics are fine in cold weather... short of devices with moving parts (hard drive, for example). Just because the FLIR is not "rated" at -40 doesn't mean it can't handle such temperatures, only that one or more components (chips, capacitors, resistors, etc...) in the system are not CERTIFIED to operate at the wide range of temperatures. Certification for this requirement is often an expensive process and often, certified and uncertified parts are identical in everything but price (or availability, more often). I think he's a little bit out there on this one.
3. Use of non-shielded cable in "secure" communications systems.
This one is a bit ridiculous, and shows his paranoia. The cables failed "visual" - of course, because they are not shielded. He concludes that because they are not shielded, they MUST have failed the electronic test, and because they officially passed, somebody must have cheated. While Tempest-class (back in my days as a Marine) cables were shielded out the ying-yang, and there was, even back in the 80's some amazing intel gathering stuff out there (pull phone conversations from a telephone wire, 30 feet from the pole, wirelessly, for example)... we are talking about CUTTERS. ON THE SEA. Effectiveness of devices that can isolate and monitor any given cable line over more than 100 feet falls off dramatically, particularly in a signal-rich (i.e. "noisy") environment. I'm guessing the electronic test DID pass, which is why it was allowed to be built with the unshielded cable. Still, why couldn't they have provided proper shielded cable? It's not like a huge price difference, and if availability was an issue here, what about simple external mesh around the cable runs?
Like I said, I see he has concerns, but this is really the wrong way to deal with it, and puts our Coast Guards at much greater jeopardy than the things he's addressing!
Well, I've been on plenty of flights, and I've never seen somebody looking for something that's "walked off" but I understand that sentiment. Still, as I said, given the cramped conditions in an aircraft lavatory, a person should be absolutely sure of their belongings when moving around in there.
One more thing.... aircraft lavatories do havbe a "trap door" which should prevent anything dropped in there from falling through before flushing... I have to assume this guy dropped it in and wasn't paying attention until he flushed.
I do know people that dumb, unfortunately; one guy I worked with managed to lose his ID badge in the narrow "slot" of an elevator doorway. I guess some people are just naturally clumsy and bound to make the unlikely happen, no matter how unfortunate.
That's the dumbest thing about this. The kid is going to hog one of the few lavatories on the airplane so he can sit and jam out on his iPod? He couldn't just leave it for a few minutes, if his visit was intended for a shorter duration?
My MP3 player gets left behind when I need to get up during a flight.
All this is ignoring the fact that he managed to lose his iPod down the toilet, which is not the most attentitive behavior... it could have been money from his pocket, or jewelry of some sort. He's not the brightest person in the world, is he?
Yes, when they came for MTV, I stood by and said nothing. Instead of music videos, MTV started airing game shows, reality shows, and many other things seemingly unrelated to music.
When they came for TechTV, assuring the public that they would keep all the great programming that made the station unique. Soon they had fired many of the people that made TechTV so great, and began showing Man Show repeats, evolving into "Bling Bling" TV.
So now they come for the Sci Fi Channel, bringing fake PG-13 rated wrestling with the ECW and cancelling the most beloved original programming on TV to reach for a more "Extreme" audience.
Bonnie Hammer should rot in hell.
NASA should get a hold of him - his ship even made it to the moon, and was built using an old cement mixer!
Yes, we should exploit deep space as soon as possible for any number of reasons, but the most compelling is economic... Isn't nickel (required for stainless steel) getting rather rare these days? Yet it's plentiful in the asteroid belt. While the harsh environment of deep space forces some new processes to extract minerals, it also provides more efficiencies in other areas.
The simplest approach to mining would be to fabricate simple ablative heat shields and automated re-entry mechanisms for loads of metals and drop them into the desert (every continent has desert areas to use for recovery of these materials), where they could be easily recovered.
The unstated part of the problem, of course, lies in the fact that as the process becomes more routine, the price of rare metals goes down drastically, since the supply becomes far more plentiful.
Still, the bounty of mining our belt for raw materials that are being depleted (or where mining of such material is restricted for environmental concerns) could provide us incentive to enter a true "space age".
I would concur with this.
I have a Toshiba DVD Recorder/VCR (Techincal term for standalones is "Recorder" not "Burner" which refers to the Drive) and it works well enough, but doesn't work to archive my commercial tapes (my intention is to convert them to DVD for archival purposes and into a format that lets my 6 year old play them on his PC without messing with the tapes) - this is due to Macrovision.
HOWEVER - some products, like KWorld's capture cards, ignore Macrovision, so you can perform the conversion to MPEG2 and then quickly author a DVD from that.
What is next to keep the social-phobic nerd trapped a bit longer in his mother's basement?
:::yikes::: Glad I'm not stuck next to him during a long flight.
Maybe he can give all of the ale bottles unique, detailed bap designs?
How about going over all of the etchings and inlays on swords and shields in the game to make them more accurate?
Perhaps he will next go in and create new patterns and quilting for all of the bedding in the game.
Khilafah.com Seems like a double standard to me. If a blog or opinion site is unsuitable, why are Islamist sites allowed to spue and call it "news"?
I did not read the article, but I would imagine the usage would be limited by temperature ranges, for that matter, even simple exposure of the components.
Imagine a device with this technology submitted to freezing temperatures?