Wow.. I think this is the first post from someone who gets it (the big picture). Yeah, there are implications for Tivo, DVR, timeshifting, P2P, etc etc etc in this bill, but it's mainly aimed at independent content creators.
I run my own production house. It's a small business but it's very successful. My first impression (after RTFA) is that wow - if this passes I'm going to have to take out my first business loan ever when it's time to replace my existing gear. My second impression - I wonder if I'll be granted a license to continue working.
They are scared. The industry is realizing that it's not how much money you throw at something (though that isn't always a liability) that determines [potential] quality, it's how much talent and desire/passion is put into all aspects of it. The technology to make a feature film is available for $700 at Best Buy (take my word for it - it is). Everyone has access to it. Not everyone can do it though - make the feature film - that's where the talent and desire/passion part comes in. But the technical hurdles have been eliminated. Everything I use professionally in my business comes from Best Buy or a similar store (mass availability) or I build it myself. It's not because I'm cheap (oh I loove spending the paycheck), but because I'm smart in what I buy. I know my gear inside and out: I know the flaws and compensate for, I know the strengths and take advantage of, I instantaneously adjust and react to circumstances, I'm dedicated/talented/passionate. If it wasn't for my abilities, yeah, I'd have to go out and spend the big $$$ to buy more expensive gear to compensate (or more likely, I probably wouldn't have had the desire to run my own show).
That is what is scary to those who've invested $$$ into the existing system. It's no longer guaranteed that having a $50-100k Varicam or Cinealta setup will produce 'quality' or draw a crowd. Conversely, it's no longer guaranteed that a $3k MiniDV setup will be schlock and unwatchable. Hell, the darling posterchild of indy/Holly cinema everywhere: film (and its outrageous cost) VS. digital doesn't even really matter anymore - think of all the crap movies out there that *should* be good simply because they were shot on film or had huge insane budgets. The most important component in any production is the talent 1) behind the camera and 2) infront of the camera. The hardware simply doesn't matter like it used to. The money, while more helpful and important than the gear, is less important. Where there's a will, there's a way.
This is just one more attempt by some greedy narrow-viewed 'only in the present' entity to yet again subject America (the land of potential, the land of chance and opportunity and fortune, etc) to the great averaging and Lowest-Common-Denominator compressing. They want to forcibly make the price of entry significantly higher - legalize away the chance of undiscovered greatness. Further seperate the haves from the havenots. More control where they otherwise wouldn't have it.
It's the poor carpenter who blames his tools. What happens when the carpenter can't have any tools?
And its not theft, by me downloading it they have lost nothing.....
(it doesn't matter if you were going to buy it anyway or not, just fyi)
I see this argument all the time - get it through your dumbass heads. Copyright infringment is theft plain and simple. No, you did not take a physical object - when you argue this you just come off as dumb and missing the point. The theft part comes in from you stealing the money they (copyright owner or reseller, whatever) would be compensated with for the transaction for you to otherwise gain the copyrighted material. WAKE UP and stop making excuses for breaking the law. If you don't think it's worth the price, DON'T BUY IT.
And quality of the copyrighted material sucking is no recourse. If it sucks, DON'T BUY IT. Noone is forcing you in the first place - unless it's you personally. That also means that since you haven't bought it, you can't then steal the sale for you ending up having it.
I remember it - we waited. My family didn't have a VCR until roughly christmas of 1991. Meh..
This isn't directed at you.. just commentary in general - it's kind of sad how people *need* all of these things. DVD, VCR, Xbox, PS3.. how empty life is w/o them. Sends a bad message to our kids and future generations.
I've got CD-Rs burned in late 1995 that still work reliably today. No problems with the data. Yamaha media (yellow/golden discs - very funky compared to a normal CDR) simply labeled as 'CD Recordable'. A college roommate went crazy and splurged ~ $1k on a SCSI Burner (I think it was also a Yamaha - I know he had a Plextor at one point later). Ahhh those were the days - 2x CD drives were almost the norm but still highly regarded, 4x were luxury beyond measure.
That being said, I've also got CDs after that point that no longer even mount. Those 1995ish Yamaha discs (around $20 each iirc) must have been special.
I like how you offer a ludicrous example as a retort to defend your point to the previous poster.
Buying/selling a 'slightly used' (whatever that means) laptop for $300 isn't uncommon - even if it is a rather decent laptop. Buying/selling a 'slightly used' corvette for $10 resides solely in the land of fancy.
Hell, I sold a perfect Powerbook 17 (purchased by me at the local Apple store) for roughly half the price I could have gotten for it if I really cared half enough to get the extra cash (keep in mind - Apple has very high resell value). But I was done with it - having served it's use completely and though I really didn't need the money right away, I knew it would only lose value by the time I got around to actually selling it properly.
Basic Capitalism: buy low, sell higher. That's it. Anything you else you have in your personal business strategy is your unique perogative. What you call greedy business practice (and yes, no doubt it is) is shrewd business.
Very long time now? Didn't you get on another poster about intentionally implying grand vagueries? I too run my own business. Fortunately I don't sell goods, rather services. But you can bet I'm not going to undervalue myself because I don't want people to think I charge to much. If they find my services worth the money, then they hire me. If they don't, I don't get their business. Period.
And give it a rest already. Clearly you think everyone else is wrong, we get it. Move on. Your 3 dozen+ indignant replies just make you look more and more like you have very little insight into the real world and someone that should end up on just about everyone's ignore/foe list.
I think you should have put 'It take effort and cunning to successfully be different.'
Quite honestly, I think Apple realized they hit the end of the road w/ their current CPU partner. When they deadended (or predicted the end) with Motorola they switched to IBM. If anything, Apple is showing just how different they really are. Apple knows they are limited - they moved somewhere else. How many other companies/product lines would be willing to make that kind of risk? And Apple's done it three times (that I know of)..
I used to work for a public school system just south of DC public schools (not going to specify which - but if you look at a map, it's pretty close;-) both as the webmaster and the tv production lead. This type of $hit went on all the time. Suits making decisions (not that bad a thing) but without getting ANYONE to research the decsion before it was made (bad thing) - so they ended up in a bigger hole of broken software, incompatibilites, more users (teachers) frustration, more outages and downtime.. The tech head who was just brought it was all gung ho about bringing in IBM Blade servers and a SAN. While the SAN would be useful, the Blade servers would not be. But none of it really would matter, nothing would be mananged properly anyway!! (see example)
I mean, c'mon!! They switched EVERYTHING to VOIP. If done right, that's not that bad a thing. But they didn't do it right. Piss poor network admins (not all of them of course - some were quite good and the only reason the school system worked half as well as it did - CMyA in case you guys are reading;-), network problems, bad design everywhere... I still remember a tornado warning during my last few months there were a number of schools were in the predicted path of the tornado, but VOIP phones were down (a common occurence) - they had no landline phones for backup AT ALL - and they only way they could get in touch was by celphone and later walkie talkie.
They run a hideously old web server on a hideously on platform mainly because it's (not a money issue) easier to keep it going than it is to get something proper, new, far more capabilities, etc.
This $hit happens all the time. Management strikes a rare gem now and then (I like to think i was one of them when I was there - I had my act together - I devoted my life to that place while I was there), but ultimately they don't have the money to attract competent hires. Because Public School for so long has felt like a black sheep fighting a losing war, they have no problem hiring (at menial pay) people who barely know what they are doing. It's par for the course.
Haha.. this turned into a bit of a rant.. but really, this type of obvious to us nerds proper thinking is totally absent in public schools (I've traveled to numerous school systems during my employ - it's the same everywhere).
I know I made a difference while I was there, but I'm so glad I quit.
Probably the same time that people make a mass revolt against perverse religious control (i don't mean protestant v. catholic). Seeing as that particular information spoof has been going on for 2k+ years, prospects don't look good.
You are right btw.. I'm not disagreeing with you..
Additionally.. why is that some peoples first instinct in a major crisis is to turn into snipers? Why do people think it's better to go anarchy rather than help out?
Maybe it's just me and the sheltered life I've lived (sic, sort of).. but my first instinct was to go help in some way. Not just donate money (which is noble, better than doing nothing, but easier than doing a quality something IMO), but actually try to get there and lend a hand in any way possible.
It's beyond my ability to comprehend the need to go snipe at rescue copters who are doing nothing but to aid those in need. This $hit didn't happen after 9/11.. this $hit didn't happen after any of the dozen+ times Florida has been demolished and rebuilt.. etc.
Part of me still wants to go help (not that I could - the only real help Red Cross is asking for are $$), but part of me think that if this is how lower class poor people (it's not a race thing - it's a quality of life thing) react to adversity WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO HELP [as best to their ability] then they should be given one big collective finger.
i'm not trying to be a troll.. I really do care about the people and their welfare there. I'm just so sick and frustrated at what looks like a highly publicized chicken w/ its head cut off. People are doing their best to DO SOMETHING to help.. other people are doing their best to f*ck up their efforts (god knows for what reason).. other people are just useless and have no clue what to do and can't think of what else to do but breakdown and panic.. and through all of this just about everyone is becoming more and more helpless.
You don't surf the net much do you. More and more sites are going for the whole flash-wankery look (shows off the artists skills more than sells the content IMO - bad idea) rather than useful design.
I've got no proof to backup the previous poster (taken at face value I'd disagree with it), but if I could modify the argument to say that there are far more risc based (which PowerPC is - a lot of people think the two are interchangable) chips out there than traditional cisc chips (which x86 is - well, vanilla x86 is) then I'd say w/o a doubt that is true.
There are a metric ass-load of risc chips out there - in cars, buses, airplanes, fancy refrigerators, satellites, CNC routers/mills, PDAs, etc etc etc.
By auction, they would have sold them in either 1 big lot or maybe a few smaller. I doubt there are too many orgs out there that would spend $$$ on a large collection of old old hardware. The best option to make any money was to 1-off them as they did.
Henrico is tyte. They were the model for the system I used to work for - developing and operating an in-house and public-access cable/sat broadcast department.
Having worked in a public school system that has collaborated on tech projects with Henrico Co Schools...
Making ANY money off of reselling these laptops is a good thing. Most of the time end of life gear is destroyed (along the systems legal definition).
There are VERY strict rules about reselling 'expired' goods. These are set by both county/district mandate as well as Board of Ed policy. The few things that are allowed to be sold / non-damaged generally have to go through a review (to determine why they are being destroyed - or why they no longer serve as intended) have to go to public auction and there are very few goods that get to this point. The fact that they were able to recoup any cash whatsoever is a major policy shift.
I doubt it. For the corporate user, Apple works pretty well with standard MS stuff (exchange calendars, servers, etc). For the home user, iWork is SIGNIFICANTLY better (easier to use while producing higher quality results - also considering workflow in this comparison) than Office for text publishing, design and layout, etc.
People have been saying for a couple decads that Apple has nowhere to go except bankruptcy court but it seems more like wishful thinking than grounded fact.
I have no clue what the bruhaha is all about, but the CNet response isn't an apology at all. In fact, it's the most tongue-in-cheek mildly insulting purposely crafted response I've ever seen at saying Google needs to grow up (or something), or suck it up, or just cope (one of those). It looks like CNet is trolling Google.
Unless the topic title 'begs for forgiveness' is meant also in some tongue-in-cheek and not so subtle ironic way as well, the reply is actually quite spiteful.
You are wrong. If you know YOUR username and YOUR password for the iTunes Store that YOU used to purchase YOUR music, there's no problem whatsoever trying to transfer YOUR files off an ipod onto another computer.
Emphasis on YOUR stuff - not other peoples stuff you wish you had.
this will be the patent nonsense outrage that will break the poor man's back.
But probably not. It's cheaper and easier to throw money around the problem then to actually do the real work fix the problem. Hell, the US Govt doesn't even seem to think that any patent reform legislation is necessary AFAIK.
Uhm, you don't seem to understand OpenGL. Microsoft's implementation of OpenGl is great. It's just not hardware acceleratted - which is partly how OpenGl is supposed to be (runs on everything from software only to hardware based 3d).
Man.. I'm getting way too old and cynical *and* there's a fresh crop of technogeeks (compliment btw) who just aren't solidly grounded in how things are. 'The only reason Doom3 run's... lordy no wonder Comp Sci is now application writing and no longer considerd a real science.
FWIW, I do video / film production for a living.. this just doesn't make sense. Consumer DV camcorders switch off automatically after a few minutes for a reason - not to save battery life *tho that's a benefit* but because of the exact 'gumming' thing mentioned. The drum spins and creates a magnetic effect which pulls tiny metallic particles off of the tape. Too much of this and your drum/heads/tape gets messed up.
It seems like the person posting the topic doesn't really understand what they are doing - or rather, they don't have a good foundation on which to improve their problems. So instead they are looking for a product (that's not prohibitively expensive) that caters to the way they think things 'should be done'.
Learn to work how the gear is designed to work. Then start experimenting.
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Wow.. I think this is the first post from someone who gets it (the big picture). Yeah, there are implications for Tivo, DVR, timeshifting, P2P, etc etc etc in this bill, but it's mainly aimed at independent content creators.
I run my own production house. It's a small business but it's very successful. My first impression (after RTFA) is that wow - if this passes I'm going to have to take out my first business loan ever when it's time to replace my existing gear. My second impression - I wonder if I'll be granted a license to continue working.
They are scared. The industry is realizing that it's not how much money you throw at something (though that isn't always a liability) that determines [potential] quality, it's how much talent and desire/passion is put into all aspects of it. The technology to make a feature film is available for $700 at Best Buy (take my word for it - it is). Everyone has access to it. Not everyone can do it though - make the feature film - that's where the talent and desire/passion part comes in. But the technical hurdles have been eliminated. Everything I use professionally in my business comes from Best Buy or a similar store (mass availability) or I build it myself. It's not because I'm cheap (oh I loove spending the paycheck), but because I'm smart in what I buy. I know my gear inside and out: I know the flaws and compensate for, I know the strengths and take advantage of, I instantaneously adjust and react to circumstances, I'm dedicated/talented/passionate. If it wasn't for my abilities, yeah, I'd have to go out and spend the big $$$ to buy more expensive gear to compensate (or more likely, I probably wouldn't have had the desire to run my own show).
That is what is scary to those who've invested $$$ into the existing system. It's no longer guaranteed that having a $50-100k Varicam or Cinealta setup will produce 'quality' or draw a crowd. Conversely, it's no longer guaranteed that a $3k MiniDV setup will be schlock and unwatchable. Hell, the darling posterchild of indy/Holly cinema everywhere: film (and its outrageous cost) VS. digital doesn't even really matter anymore - think of all the crap movies out there that *should* be good simply because they were shot on film or had huge insane budgets. The most important component in any production is the talent 1) behind the camera and 2) infront of the camera. The hardware simply doesn't matter like it used to. The money, while more helpful and important than the gear, is less important. Where there's a will, there's a way.
This is just one more attempt by some greedy narrow-viewed 'only in the present' entity to yet again subject America (the land of potential, the land of chance and opportunity and fortune, etc) to the great averaging and Lowest-Common-Denominator compressing. They want to forcibly make the price of entry significantly higher - legalize away the chance of undiscovered greatness. Further seperate the haves from the havenots. More control where they otherwise wouldn't have it.
It's the poor carpenter who blames his tools. What happens when the carpenter can't have any tools?
And its not theft, by me downloading it they have lost nothing.....
(it doesn't matter if you were going to buy it anyway or not, just fyi)
I see this argument all the time - get it through your dumbass heads. Copyright infringment is theft plain and simple. No, you did not take a physical object - when you argue this you just come off as dumb and missing the point. The theft part comes in from you stealing the money they (copyright owner or reseller, whatever) would be compensated with for the transaction for you to otherwise gain the copyrighted material. WAKE UP and stop making excuses for breaking the law. If you don't think it's worth the price, DON'T BUY IT.
And quality of the copyrighted material sucking is no recourse. If it sucks, DON'T BUY IT. Noone is forcing you in the first place - unless it's you personally. That also means that since you haven't bought it, you can't then steal the sale for you ending up having it.
STOP STEALING.
I remember it - we waited. My family didn't have a VCR until roughly christmas of 1991. Meh..
This isn't directed at you.. just commentary in general - it's kind of sad how people *need* all of these things. DVD, VCR, Xbox, PS3.. how empty life is w/o them. Sends a bad message to our kids and future generations.
I've got CD-Rs burned in late 1995 that still work reliably today. No problems with the data. Yamaha media (yellow/golden discs - very funky compared to a normal CDR) simply labeled as 'CD Recordable'. A college roommate went crazy and splurged ~ $1k on a SCSI Burner (I think it was also a Yamaha - I know he had a Plextor at one point later). Ahhh those were the days - 2x CD drives were almost the norm but still highly regarded, 4x were luxury beyond measure.
That being said, I've also got CDs after that point that no longer even mount. Those 1995ish Yamaha discs (around $20 each iirc) must have been special.
I like how you offer a ludicrous example as a retort to defend your point to the previous poster.
Buying/selling a 'slightly used' (whatever that means) laptop for $300 isn't uncommon - even if it is a rather decent laptop. Buying/selling a 'slightly used' corvette for $10 resides solely in the land of fancy.
Hell, I sold a perfect Powerbook 17 (purchased by me at the local Apple store) for roughly half the price I could have gotten for it if I really cared half enough to get the extra cash (keep in mind - Apple has very high resell value). But I was done with it - having served it's use completely and though I really didn't need the money right away, I knew it would only lose value by the time I got around to actually selling it properly.
Basic Capitalism: buy low, sell higher. That's it. Anything you else you have in your personal business strategy is your unique perogative. What you call greedy business practice (and yes, no doubt it is) is shrewd business.
Very long time now? Didn't you get on another poster about intentionally implying grand vagueries? I too run my own business. Fortunately I don't sell goods, rather services. But you can bet I'm not going to undervalue myself because I don't want people to think I charge to much. If they find my services worth the money, then they hire me. If they don't, I don't get their business. Period.
And give it a rest already. Clearly you think everyone else is wrong, we get it. Move on. Your 3 dozen+ indignant replies just make you look more and more like you have very little insight into the real world and someone that should end up on just about everyone's ignore/foe list.
Regarding languages, It's free with OSX as well.
Grog was the drink of choice in the much-beloved Escape From Monkey Island LucasArts adventure. Definitely very nerdy.
Clearly before your time.
I think you should have put 'It take effort and cunning to successfully be different.'
Quite honestly, I think Apple realized they hit the end of the road w/ their current CPU partner. When they deadended (or predicted the end) with Motorola they switched to IBM. If anything, Apple is showing just how different they really are. Apple knows they are limited - they moved somewhere else. How many other companies/product lines would be willing to make that kind of risk? And Apple's done it three times (that I know of)..
I used to work for a public school system just south of DC public schools (not going to specify which - but if you look at a map, it's pretty close ;-) both as the webmaster and the tv production lead. This type of $hit went on all the time. Suits making decisions (not that bad a thing) but without getting ANYONE to research the decsion before it was made (bad thing) - so they ended up in a bigger hole of broken software, incompatibilites, more users (teachers) frustration, more outages and downtime.. The tech head who was just brought it was all gung ho about bringing in IBM Blade servers and a SAN. While the SAN would be useful, the Blade servers would not be. But none of it really would matter, nothing would be mananged properly anyway!! (see example)
;-), network problems, bad design everywhere... I still remember a tornado warning during my last few months there were a number of schools were in the predicted path of the tornado, but VOIP phones were down (a common occurence) - they had no landline phones for backup AT ALL - and they only way they could get in touch was by celphone and later walkie talkie.
I mean, c'mon!! They switched EVERYTHING to VOIP. If done right, that's not that bad a thing. But they didn't do it right. Piss poor network admins (not all of them of course - some were quite good and the only reason the school system worked half as well as it did - CMyA in case you guys are reading
They run a hideously old web server on a hideously on platform mainly because it's (not a money issue) easier to keep it going than it is to get something proper, new, far more capabilities, etc.
This $hit happens all the time. Management strikes a rare gem now and then (I like to think i was one of them when I was there - I had my act together - I devoted my life to that place while I was there), but ultimately they don't have the money to attract competent hires. Because Public School for so long has felt like a black sheep fighting a losing war, they have no problem hiring (at menial pay) people who barely know what they are doing. It's par for the course.
Haha.. this turned into a bit of a rant.. but really, this type of obvious to us nerds proper thinking is totally absent in public schools (I've traveled to numerous school systems during my employ - it's the same everywhere).
I know I made a difference while I was there, but I'm so glad I quit.
Probably the same time that people make a mass revolt against perverse religious control (i don't mean protestant v. catholic). Seeing as that particular information spoof has been going on for 2k+ years, prospects don't look good.
You are right btw.. I'm not disagreeing with you..
Additionally.. why is that some peoples first instinct in a major crisis is to turn into snipers? Why do people think it's better to go anarchy rather than help out?
Maybe it's just me and the sheltered life I've lived (sic, sort of).. but my first instinct was to go help in some way. Not just donate money (which is noble, better than doing nothing, but easier than doing a quality something IMO), but actually try to get there and lend a hand in any way possible.
It's beyond my ability to comprehend the need to go snipe at rescue copters who are doing nothing but to aid those in need. This $hit didn't happen after 9/11.. this $hit didn't happen after any of the dozen+ times Florida has been demolished and rebuilt.. etc.
Part of me still wants to go help (not that I could - the only real help Red Cross is asking for are $$), but part of me think that if this is how lower class poor people (it's not a race thing - it's a quality of life thing) react to adversity WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO HELP [as best to their ability] then they should be given one big collective finger.
i'm not trying to be a troll.. I really do care about the people and their welfare there. I'm just so sick and frustrated at what looks like a highly publicized chicken w/ its head cut off. People are doing their best to DO SOMETHING to help.. other people are doing their best to f*ck up their efforts (god knows for what reason).. other people are just useless and have no clue what to do and can't think of what else to do but breakdown and panic.. and through all of this just about everyone is becoming more and more helpless.
Since the change is going to be ~ 2007, I'd expect the OpenDocument format (XML based) is what they are choosing - and why they are choosing it.
Yep. It's easier to be lazy and look slightly useful than to actually effect change. Office Space said it best.
Just like most things in life. Play the part just enough to have people think you're doing something while really only barely skating by.
You don't surf the net much do you. More and more sites are going for the whole flash-wankery look (shows off the artists skills more than sells the content IMO - bad idea) rather than useful design.
OT, but how/when did Google Maps get abused?
I've got no proof to backup the previous poster (taken at face value I'd disagree with it), but if I could modify the argument to say that there are far more risc based (which PowerPC is - a lot of people think the two are interchangable) chips out there than traditional cisc chips (which x86 is - well, vanilla x86 is) then I'd say w/o a doubt that is true.
There are a metric ass-load of risc chips out there - in cars, buses, airplanes, fancy refrigerators, satellites, CNC routers/mills, PDAs, etc etc etc.
By auction, they would have sold them in either 1 big lot or maybe a few smaller. I doubt there are too many orgs out there that would spend $$$ on a large collection of old old hardware. The best option to make any money was to 1-off them as they did.
Henrico is tyte. They were the model for the system I used to work for - developing and operating an in-house and public-access cable/sat broadcast department.
Having worked in a public school system that has collaborated on tech projects with Henrico Co Schools...
Making ANY money off of reselling these laptops is a good thing. Most of the time end of life gear is destroyed (along the systems legal definition).
There are VERY strict rules about reselling 'expired' goods. These are set by both county/district mandate as well as Board of Ed policy. The few things that are allowed to be sold / non-damaged generally have to go through a review (to determine why they are being destroyed - or why they no longer serve as intended) have to go to public auction and there are very few goods that get to this point. The fact that they were able to recoup any cash whatsoever is a major policy shift.
I doubt it. For the corporate user, Apple works pretty well with standard MS stuff (exchange calendars, servers, etc). For the home user, iWork is SIGNIFICANTLY better (easier to use while producing higher quality results - also considering workflow in this comparison) than Office for text publishing, design and layout, etc.
People have been saying for a couple decads that Apple has nowhere to go except bankruptcy court but it seems more like wishful thinking than grounded fact.
I have no clue what the bruhaha is all about, but the CNet response isn't an apology at all. In fact, it's the most tongue-in-cheek mildly insulting purposely crafted response I've ever seen at saying Google needs to grow up (or something), or suck it up, or just cope (one of those). It looks like CNet is trolling Google.
Unless the topic title 'begs for forgiveness' is meant also in some tongue-in-cheek and not so subtle ironic way as well, the reply is actually quite spiteful.
You are wrong. If you know YOUR username and YOUR password for the iTunes Store that YOU used to purchase YOUR music, there's no problem whatsoever trying to transfer YOUR files off an ipod onto another computer.
Emphasis on YOUR stuff - not other peoples stuff you wish you had.
Is there a PPC version of the LiveCD available (or on it's way)? I scanned the article quickly, but didn't see anything pop out at me about it.
this will be the patent nonsense outrage that will break the poor man's back.
But probably not. It's cheaper and easier to throw money around the problem then to actually do the real work fix the problem. Hell, the US Govt doesn't even seem to think that any patent reform legislation is necessary AFAIK.
*sigh*
Uhm, you don't seem to understand OpenGL. Microsoft's implementation of OpenGl is great. It's just not hardware acceleratted - which is partly how OpenGl is supposed to be (runs on everything from software only to hardware based 3d).
Man.. I'm getting way too old and cynical *and* there's a fresh crop of technogeeks (compliment btw) who just aren't solidly grounded in how things are. 'The only reason Doom3 run's... lordy no wonder Comp Sci is now application writing and no longer considerd a real science.
Why not stop recording?
FWIW, I do video / film production for a living.. this just doesn't make sense. Consumer DV camcorders switch off automatically after a few minutes for a reason - not to save battery life *tho that's a benefit* but because of the exact 'gumming' thing mentioned. The drum spins and creates a magnetic effect which pulls tiny metallic particles off of the tape. Too much of this and your drum/heads/tape gets messed up.
It seems like the person posting the topic doesn't really understand what they are doing - or rather, they don't have a good foundation on which to improve their problems. So instead they are looking for a product (that's not prohibitively expensive) that caters to the way they think things 'should be done'.
Learn to work how the gear is designed to work. Then start experimenting.