itunes will die. Paying by the song is a bad model. It has only been successful because that is the only way to get music on an ipod. Now that other players are as good or better (try the Creative Zen Vision M), people are catching on that paying $15 a month for unlimited downloads is easily the best way to go.
That's funny. I take it you've never used iTunes or even have an iPod? Only way to get music on an iPod? My CD collection disagrees with you. You do realize the iPod existed before there was an iTunes store, right? You do realize you can load MP3s and a variety of other non encrypted file formats on to it, right? And that others have written programs that can load songs onto the iPod, without even having to have iTunes (the program).
The single song paying model is brilliant and is exactly what people want. It's the record companies that doesn't want that. They'd rather you buy the whole album, even if you just want one song. They want you to spend $13-$20 even if you just want one song.
And, since you've apparently have no clue how it works, you can buy albums off the iTunes music store (single albums run usually $9.99).
It's never been a major technical hurdle to create a player that can handle both formats. Being that they use the same wavelength laser (405nm), it was clear that there could be hybrid players, without major scientific breakthroughs. No, the issue is much more difficult to overcome; it's about licensing (i.e. money). So, at this point, it seems these developments only reduce the cost of the components (as the manufacturers just neeed to make one product; thus increasing the volume and leveraging economies of scale).
Hybrid players next year may be a bit optimistic. I hope I'm wrong about that, though.
I thought this was going to be a controller to survive gamer rage, which would be far more marketable.
I know you're getting modded funny...but that was the first thing I thought of. Not that I've, uh, ever thrown a controller in rage, or anything...
Then again, I probably thought the rage factor, because I actually enjoy throwing a real football around and throwing a controller around my living room wouldn't be the same (seeing as outside is a bit bigger than my living room...)
Miyamoto's left-handed. I assume he's the reason for lefty Link and lefty controllers.
That doesn't explain why most arcade games have joystick on the left and the button pressing on the right. Go ahead, take a look...if the machine doesn't have buttons on both sides of the joystick, you'll notice that you move with the left, and shoot with the right. Hell, with Robotron, you have 2 joysticks, yet you move with the left and shoot with the right.
I'm positive I've seen the option on by default on some systems. I'm not sure if it was a global default, but I know for a fact that some systems just had it on (perhaps updating it would keep the settings, but if it was some sort of new install, it might have been on). I can't remember which version I saw that with (the later versions defaulted to off and I was glad...as it was a support headache).
Well, not all turntables are like that. I've seen a few that are able to connect to a standard line in (there's a Sony turntable in the office here that has a switch for Phono or Line in). I don't think it was that rare, at least with the later turntables.
HDTV->1920x1080 (it's where you get the 1080i and the 1080p numbers from)
Most 23"/24" monitors->1920x1200 (16:10 ratio), so slightly taller than the HDTV spec.
Honestly, a 17" screen with 1920x1200 is a bit too small for my eyes (I might be getting old or something), so I'm glad that isn't the norm (given the way Apple sets the models, I'm glad it's not [b]the[/b] option for the MBP).
It's not that shoving them all down the same wire makes the quality reduced. Really the main thing is this: the main two components of a video signal is luminence (Y or the brightness) and the chrominance (C or the color information). On a composite cable, both signals are mixed together; there's an overlap between the signals and it's not possible to separate the two signals perfectly (there will be some interference). Most video signals aren't stored/created natively composite (laser discs are an exception), so when the signals are combined and then separated (by the TV/monitor), you end up with something that is of lower quality. S-Video has the Y/C components going along different wires (so there's no combine->separate) and is usually higher quality.
In summary, it's the imperfect ability to separate the signals that leads to the reduction in quality, not that there are different signals coming down the same wire.
(the exception can be with something stored as composite video; laser discs for example. If the TV is better at separating the signal than the LD player is, then it actually is better to use a composite video cable; most LD players tend to be pretty decent at separating the signals, so it's usually a moot point).
HDMI is a signal that it does support HDCP. If you have a DVI input (like I do), that may or may not support HDCP (my TV does, my monitor/TV doesn't). HDMI pretty much ensures HDCP (I haven't seen any HDMI ports that don't, but I suppose there could be a rogue one out there).
Actually, by her definition, chess would only be something like 20% violent (what percentage of chess moves typically result in a capture?)
Depends on who you're playing. I know I'm not that good and I tend to give away pieces...to compensate, I charge head in and make sure I get something for the pieces I was going to lose anyways.
First off...Microsoft bought some piddly shares (with no voting rights). Second off, they haven't had those shares for years; those were sold many moons ago.
Microsoft has had no real stake in Apple. It never did.
No, Microsoft has the upper hand, by sheer numbers. Forget the VPC cancellation; the ripping out VBA support out of Office Mac is the bigger problem.
So, nobody thinks that this might be used for developmental purposes or beta testing? Perhaps for developmental systems (and software for a dev machine) or for beta testing? That's always been my first guess on what the purpose of this was.
I saw your comment and read it correctly. You had two points, one was that it failed because it was emulating/not running natively and you mentioned that you were interested in CoV/CoH and DDO. I was correcting your mistake on the first part. I even commented on the second part, which you conveniently didn't quote.
You do, of course, realize that WoW and Starcraft are native Mac applications and if you buy either game, the disc just happens to be a hybrid Mac/PC disc (usable on either system)? It's not using "Wine", it's using the native APIs in the OS.
Now, playing CoV/CoH and DDO is a different story, but, two of the most popular games ever are Mac native and have been for quite a while.
Case 1: Man calls up, angry that his CD burner isn't working (it's an external drive USB). After going through the normal troubleshooting steps (including asking him if it was connected to the computer), we're finally about to throw in the towel and chalk it up to bad hardware. We try one last thing; have him disconnect everything, turn off the drive, turn it back on and reconnect everything. We then here a box opening, plastic crinkling, etc...turns out the guy hadn't take the drive out of the box yet. How he thought that the drive was connected, when the box was still sealed, I don't know.
Case 2: Woman calls up, with a external CD burner (it's a firewire drive). I hear the words "doesn't show up", "cable didn't fit" and "pliers" and I cringed. Of course, she didn't have any firewire ports on her computer, but she did have USB ports...well, at least she used to have USB ports, before Mr. Pliers got involved. The cable "fit", but I wonder why the drive didn't work?
Case 3: Man calls up, irate that his computer reboots everytime he goes to burn some files. After calming him down a bit, we attempt to troubleshoot it. Sure enough, every time we instruct him to click on the "Record" button (in the software, there's a button that says "Record", his computer immediately reboots. We try everything. We even turn off the auto-reboot feature in XP (so that it would, hopefully, blue screen), but that doesn't change a thing. Lucky for us, the man's brother was nearby, as my colleague heard him in the background. What was heard was, "[customer's name], what are you doing, you stupid [some expletive]? Why are you pressing the reset button on the computer?" Why he thought that was the "record" button, I'll never know...maybe I don't want to.
Adults can also choose to enter into contracts. Since these are students recieving athletic scholarships, my guess is that it's legal to say "if you want this free money, you can't use facebook". It's the same way that NFL teams can write contracts that forbid things like skydiving or riding motorcycles.
Yeah, but can you retroactively add to the contract? That is, when they signed on (for their scholarships), was that restriction there, or anything remotely resembling it (for example, an NFL contract stating that you can't do dangerous activities, which could be applied to trying to do stupid things on a motorcycle, ala Kellan Winslow Jr.).
Plus, looking at the article, it's a move to "protect" the student-athletes. From the article:
Kennedy said some Kent students who list phone numbers and addresses have been contacted inappropriately, either by strangers or sports agents.
Although Kennedy said he regrets limiting the students' ability to communicate, he sees it as a necessary step.
"It would be irresponsible on our part if this led to something serious," he said.
The move to ban the site came from students and coaches expressing concern over safety and privacy issues. Kennedy said he hasn't seen the site.
Why must the adminstration do something about this? Putting your own information on a public site is not a great way to maintain your privacy, one would think; i.e. if one is worried about privacy, then how about not putting things like your address, phone and class schedule up for all to see?
Uh....that fraction would imply that the Genesis had over 70% of the market. I think you mean 5/12 (35 mil/(35 mil + 49 mil)). Still a good percentage and one that Microsoft would kill for.
You mean like the GameBoy Player for the GameCube? Plays GBA games through the GameCube (it's an attachment that goes on the bottom of the GameCube and you put your GB games into it).
I wonder if there will be a DS player for the Rev...Wii .
If you mean Good Friday, that date, just like President's Day, Thanksgiving and a host of other holidays have no set date, as they are set by the month and the day of the week. That would make it impossible for a plain date to be on a sign.
Yeah, it's called magnetic tape ^_^ . IBM sells tape libraries/drives and tapes (they're pushing LTO, which is fairly decent for tape media, from my experience).
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That's funny. I take it you've never used iTunes or even have an iPod? Only way to get music on an iPod? My CD collection disagrees with you. You do realize the iPod existed before there was an iTunes store, right? You do realize you can load MP3s and a variety of other non encrypted file formats on to it, right? And that others have written programs that can load songs onto the iPod, without even having to have iTunes (the program).
The single song paying model is brilliant and is exactly what people want. It's the record companies that doesn't want that. They'd rather you buy the whole album, even if you just want one song. They want you to spend $13-$20 even if you just want one song.
And, since you've apparently have no clue how it works, you can buy albums off the iTunes music store (single albums run usually $9.99).
Pssst...you have the Internet. Pr0n flows freely here. You're back to 0 reasons again. ^_^
It's never been a major technical hurdle to create a player that can handle both formats. Being that they use the same wavelength laser (405nm), it was clear that there could be hybrid players, without major scientific breakthroughs. No, the issue is much more difficult to overcome; it's about licensing (i.e. money). So, at this point, it seems these developments only reduce the cost of the components (as the manufacturers just neeed to make one product; thus increasing the volume and leveraging economies of scale).
Hybrid players next year may be a bit optimistic. I hope I'm wrong about that, though.
I thought this was going to be a controller to survive gamer rage, which would be far more marketable.
I know you're getting modded funny...but that was the first thing I thought of. Not that I've, uh, ever thrown a controller in rage, or anything...
Then again, I probably thought the rage factor, because I actually enjoy throwing a real football around and throwing a controller around my living room wouldn't be the same (seeing as outside is a bit bigger than my living room...)
Miyamoto's left-handed. I assume he's the reason for lefty Link and lefty controllers.
That doesn't explain why most arcade games have joystick on the left and the button pressing on the right. Go ahead, take a look...if the machine doesn't have buttons on both sides of the joystick, you'll notice that you move with the left, and shoot with the right. Hell, with Robotron, you have 2 joysticks, yet you move with the left and shoot with the right.
What's a PIII ?
Something you do with your Wii
I'm positive I've seen the option on by default on some systems. I'm not sure if it was a global default, but I know for a fact that some systems just had it on (perhaps updating it would keep the settings, but if it was some sort of new install, it might have been on). I can't remember which version I saw that with (the later versions defaulted to off and I was glad...as it was a support headache).
I'm covered. All my J-pop is tagged in Japanese. ^_^
(I acutally don't really like Morning Musume or any of the Hello Project stuff...but I'm sure I enjoy equally wacky things).
Well, not all turntables are like that. I've seen a few that are able to connect to a standard line in (there's a Sony turntable in the office here that has a switch for Phono or Line in). I don't think it was that rare, at least with the later turntables.
Any time you need to qualify a statement with a disclaimer up front, just keep your mouth shut.
"No disrespect intended, but" means someone is about to get disrespected.
"No offense, but" means something offensive is about to follow.
"I'm not a racist, but" means something racist is about to be said.
"we respect civil liberties, but" means some civil liberties are about to be disrespected.
HDTV->1920x1080 (it's where you get the 1080i and the 1080p numbers from)
Most 23"/24" monitors->1920x1200 (16:10 ratio), so slightly taller than the HDTV spec.
Honestly, a 17" screen with 1920x1200 is a bit too small for my eyes (I might be getting old or something), so I'm glad that isn't the norm (given the way Apple sets the models, I'm glad it's not [b]the[/b] option for the MBP).
It's not that shoving them all down the same wire makes the quality reduced. Really the main thing is this: the main two components of a video signal is luminence (Y or the brightness) and the chrominance (C or the color information). On a composite cable, both signals are mixed together; there's an overlap between the signals and it's not possible to separate the two signals perfectly (there will be some interference). Most video signals aren't stored/created natively composite (laser discs are an exception), so when the signals are combined and then separated (by the TV/monitor), you end up with something that is of lower quality. S-Video has the Y/C components going along different wires (so there's no combine->separate) and is usually higher quality.
In summary, it's the imperfect ability to separate the signals that leads to the reduction in quality, not that there are different signals coming down the same wire.
(the exception can be with something stored as composite video; laser discs for example. If the TV is better at separating the signal than the LD player is, then it actually is better to use a composite video cable; most LD players tend to be pretty decent at separating the signals, so it's usually a moot point).
HDMI is a signal that it does support HDCP. If you have a DVI input (like I do), that may or may not support HDCP (my TV does, my monitor/TV doesn't). HDMI pretty much ensures HDCP (I haven't seen any HDMI ports that don't, but I suppose there could be a rogue one out there).
Depends on who you're playing. I know I'm not that good and I tend to give away pieces...to compensate, I charge head in and make sure I get something for the pieces I was going to lose anyways.
First off...Microsoft bought some piddly shares (with no voting rights). Second off, they haven't had those shares for years; those were sold many moons ago.
Microsoft has had no real stake in Apple. It never did.
No, Microsoft has the upper hand, by sheer numbers. Forget the VPC cancellation; the ripping out VBA support out of Office Mac is the bigger problem.
I put my chickens in baskets too.
Sincerely,
Biff Tannen
P.S. Why don't make like a tree and get out of here?
(It's eggs in one basket. Eggs ^_^ )
So, nobody thinks that this might be used for developmental purposes or beta testing? Perhaps for developmental systems (and software for a dev machine) or for beta testing? That's always been my first guess on what the purpose of this was.
I saw your comment and read it correctly. You had two points, one was that it failed because it was emulating/not running natively and you mentioned that you were interested in CoV/CoH and DDO. I was correcting your mistake on the first part. I even commented on the second part, which you conveniently didn't quote.
You do, of course, realize that WoW and Starcraft are native Mac applications and if you buy either game, the disc just happens to be a hybrid Mac/PC disc (usable on either system)? It's not using "Wine", it's using the native APIs in the OS.
Now, playing CoV/CoH and DDO is a different story, but, two of the most popular games ever are Mac native and have been for quite a while.
Case 1: Man calls up, angry that his CD burner isn't working (it's an external drive USB). After going through the normal troubleshooting steps (including asking him if it was connected to the computer), we're finally about to throw in the towel and chalk it up to bad hardware. We try one last thing; have him disconnect everything, turn off the drive, turn it back on and reconnect everything. We then here a box opening, plastic crinkling, etc...turns out the guy hadn't take the drive out of the box yet. How he thought that the drive was connected, when the box was still sealed, I don't know.
Case 2: Woman calls up, with a external CD burner (it's a firewire drive). I hear the words "doesn't show up", "cable didn't fit" and "pliers" and I cringed. Of course, she didn't have any firewire ports on her computer, but she did have USB ports...well, at least she used to have USB ports, before Mr. Pliers got involved. The cable "fit", but I wonder why the drive didn't work?
Case 3: Man calls up, irate that his computer reboots everytime he goes to burn some files. After calming him down a bit, we attempt to troubleshoot it. Sure enough, every time we instruct him to click on the "Record" button (in the software, there's a button that says "Record", his computer immediately reboots. We try everything. We even turn off the auto-reboot feature in XP (so that it would, hopefully, blue screen), but that doesn't change a thing. Lucky for us, the man's brother was nearby, as my colleague heard him in the background. What was heard was, "[customer's name], what are you doing, you stupid [some expletive]? Why are you pressing the reset button on the computer?" Why he thought that was the "record" button, I'll never know...maybe I don't want to.
Yeah, but can you retroactively add to the contract? That is, when they signed on (for their scholarships), was that restriction there, or anything remotely resembling it (for example, an NFL contract stating that you can't do dangerous activities, which could be applied to trying to do stupid things on a motorcycle, ala Kellan Winslow Jr.).
Plus, looking at the article, it's a move to "protect" the student-athletes. From the article:
Why must the adminstration do something about this? Putting your own information on a public site is not a great way to maintain your privacy, one would think; i.e. if one is worried about privacy, then how about not putting things like your address, phone and class schedule up for all to see?
35 million to 49 million = 5/7
Uh....that fraction would imply that the Genesis had over 70% of the market. I think you mean 5/12 (35 mil/(35 mil + 49 mil)). Still a good percentage and one that Microsoft would kill for.
You mean like the GameBoy Player for the GameCube? Plays GBA games through the GameCube (it's an attachment that goes on the bottom of the GameCube and you put your GB games into it).
I wonder if there will be a DS player for the Rev...Wii .
If you mean Good Friday, that date, just like President's Day, Thanksgiving and a host of other holidays have no set date, as they are set by the month and the day of the week. That would make it impossible for a plain date to be on a sign.
IBM are obviously trying to sell something.
Yeah, it's called magnetic tape ^_^ . IBM sells tape libraries/drives and tapes (they're pushing LTO, which is fairly decent for tape media, from my experience).