I'd rather see some important research on WIFI than this kind of invention...
ME TOO
Instead of a cable that runs between two pieces of electronic equipment that will never move relative to each other, requires little power to propagate a signal, has nearly unlimited bandwidth potential, and is relatively difficult to snoop, let's all switch over to wireless! I mean, it only takes more power, is more susceptible to snooping, and resides in a finite frequency spectrum which is getting more crowded by the day...
coming from America where you have Hershey's or the highway
That phrase... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Anyway, there's plenty of REALLY GREAT chocolate being made, sold, and consumed in the United States, it's just generally not available next to the checkout counter at the Gas-N-Go.
Because no abuses are being found. That is a danger sign.
Exactly.
This is like the FBI's report last week that it had no evidence of al Qaeda sleeper cells operating in the United States currently. Only a fool would believe that this means we have defeated terrorism on our own soil. Much more likely is the possibility that terrorists continue to plot against us in our midst, but the FBI is clueless about who and where they are.
I wouldn't say "100% additional", myself. I'd imagine that a sizeable portion of the 1.4 million readers of the New York Times online are also people who read the print edition, and enjoy the flexibility of being able to access the content in whichever medium is more convenient. An editorial, for example, might work better on the printed page, but searching classified ads will be much easier in a dynamic web context.
even if the companies start charging for news, others will be able to duplicate the same content on their blog sites
I dunno. I'm about as avid a fan of Citizens' Media--er, blogs--as they come, but the truth is that there's not all that much original reporting coming out of them right now.
Five out of ten newsblog posts consist of a link to a story hosted by a mainstream media site, and then the blogger's commentary on it. (Of the remaining five, three are links to other blogs that link to MSM stories.) If the MSM sites all conspired to switch to a pay model and shut out nonsubscribers, blogs would find themselves either cut-and-pasting stories from the MSM (in violation of copyright), or paraphrasing stories reported elsewhere (leading to all kinds of telephone-game-style misinterpretations and misrepresentations).
But as I mentioned, to do this would required all mainstream media outlets to conspire together, and I don't think that's likely to happen (at least not until Rupert Murdoch and ClearChannel are finished buying everything else).
Considering that the actual wattage usage of a cell phone is more than 2 and a half times as great as the same connection via landline
Define "same connection".
I may have a land line at my desk at work, and I may have a land line in my home, but can people reach me via land line at the restaurant where I'm having dinner? When I'm walking down the street, do I spool out miles of POTS wire behind me so that I can be contacted via land line?
Cell phones allow connections between PEOPLE, not between LOCATIONS, which I feel is entirely appropriate. When was the last time you wanted to talk to a location?
Everyone in the copyright cartel would obviously claim the lowest possible income rate for their holdings, since it would give them the longest copyright term.
Most would be lying, of course, and would be making a lot more money off their holdings than claimed. The only way that kind of fraud could be prevented is to have a government agency responsible for auditing the copyright holders' financial records, to make sure the profits claimed and the profits made on a work match up. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of works copyrighted each year, and you've got a lot of civil servant jobs to fill.
Do you REALLY want to create another government bureaucracy on the scale of the Internal Revenue Service?
IMHO it sounds like somebody thought that the developers of the software was generic interchangable pork that could be used to buy votes locally & got burned when company A refused to play along...
Concur. This whole fracas happened because some moron project planner(s) assumed "softwares is softwares" and segmented the project in a way that was neither feasible nor logical, but was worth a few political brownie points.
If phases 1 and 2 both relied on a single product, the same company should have been contracted for both (best case), or the contract language should had explicit language guaranteeing the openness and transferability of all resources pertaining to the project (less desirable, based on the time it'd take for Company B to get up to speed on Company A's product).
when you're cooking for one or two people, it's easier and cheaper to eat out, particularly when you factor in time of preparation.
I notice you didn't mention healthier. As well you shouldn't have -- the cooks at restaurants don't love you. They don't care whether you maintain a healthy diet. The main objective of restaurants is to get your money.
Most of the people who cook do it more as a fun activity or hobby than a superior way of eating.
1. The parent was talking about a universal boot disk, not something to use in place of a standard fixed boot HD.
I will admit, I'm not an expert on Mac hardware nor OS design, but can a Mac really boot from one device and then transfer the system volumne designation to another device once booted?
Modern OSes are too big to be loaded into memory all at once. I would expect that if you booted a Mac from an iPod drive, the system would have to go back to the iPod occasionally to load device drivers, access swap space, etc. And that could easily be more strenuous on the delicate microscopic mechanisms of the iPod drive than playing back audio files would be.
2. iPods have been out long enough for failure rates to be known. There has been lots of discussion about batteries dying early but not much about failed hard drives.
Sure there has, you just haven't been paying attention.
Read the iPodHacks forums, or check eBay for listings of used iPods, or go to the Apple store and find a Genius Bar employee candid enough to tell you why people have been returning iPods for RMA. The MTBF of a hard drive will drop significantly if you use it outside of its design parameters. That's not FUD, it's FACT.
3. If your iPod drive dies, replacements are easy to find.
Oh? You think so?
The 20GB G3/G4 iPod drive is Toshiba model number MK2004GAL (actually, the iPod may use an Apple-specific version of this model with custom firmware, but let's ignore that for now). How many retailers can you find that have this component in stock? It only took me 3 months to find one, maybe you'll beat my time. Good luck.
The 60GB iPod photo drive is model MK6006GAH. Find me a single company that even lists a price for this component. Go on, I dare you.
As far as I understand, Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will emit light from each pixel much like an LED does. This will not require a battery sucking back-light
Where's the energy to illuminate each OLED pixel going to come from, though? Still from the battery.
My understanding is that most modern LCD displays already use high-intensity LED banks for their backlighting. Unless OLEDs have significantly lower watts-per-lumen requirements, I don't think that OLEDs will have much effect on battery life.
It would be fantastic if they could make a way to play NES, SNES, or n64 games on the new system.
The Revolution's CPU will surely be powerful enough to emulate any Nintendo system prior the the GCN, so horsepower shouldn't be a problem. Designing a way to plug your old catridges into will be, though. If Nintendo's previous home consoles are any indicator, the revolution will have an expansion port on the bottom that will never get used for anything (the Gameboy Playet for GameCube being the exception that proves the rule). In theory they could build an add-on for the Revolution to allow you to read old cartridge-based games. But why would they? If you want to play the 8-bit NES library, you probably already have an emulator and collection of ROMs, or you own a genuine NES.
When the iPod first came out, I thought that the coolest thing was that I could have my entire system on it and any Mac I encountered could boot my system
Cool, yes. Practical?
The tiny Toshiba drives in the iPods aren't designed for sustained use as a computer's system volume.
You could easily thrash the poor little thing to death doing anything more demanding than playing back MP3's in shuffle mode, and then good luck finding a replacement. There are virtually no 1.8" hard drives available in the end-user market right now, as the demand for new iPods means Toshiba is selling pretty much their entire production runs directly to Apple.
And we haven't yet seen him in episodes 4-6, have we? In fact there's not a single representative of his race to be found anywhere.
That must by why Episode 3 is going to get a PG-13 rating -- due to the scenes of the entire Gungan civilization getting demolished, disemboweled, and defenestrated in graphic detail.
If this were the case, Paris Hilton could sue for every province that her video was accessible from the internet.
How so? Despite any press releases from the Hilton family, the infamous night-vision video is not libelous. Yes, it is damaging to Paris's reputation (for very small or negative values of "damaging") but is not false or misleading -- the events of the videotape actually did happen. It wasn't a Paris Hilton lookalike, it was really her.
Statements which are false, but believed to be true by the publisher after excercising due diligence to try to confirm their veracity, do not constitute libel.
To satisfy the requirements of libel, the publisher had to KNOW (or should have known, within reason) that the statements are false, yet published them anyway. There must have been malicious intent.
Our country's medical companies and educational institutions are free to do their own research.
Unless those educational institutions rely on federal funding for any of the OTHER research they are doing.
A research university is a big place. Given the choice between proceeding with stem cell research and losing funding for two dozen other ongoing projects, they would be fools not to favor the two dozen other projects.
The result is that the field of stem cell research is being neglected. I'm sure there are private organizations that would be more than happy to fund the research, if only there were any lab facilities willing to risk financial devestatation in order to conduct it.
Internet services and new computers -- two industries that many argue have profited enormously from rampant file-sharing...
Many IDIOTS argue that, perhaps.
Ask any ISP whether they would be happy if their heaviest file sharing customers just went away. You've got maybe 5% of their user base taking up maybe 30% of their bandwidth--if they vanished, revenue would decrease by very little, but bandwidth bills would fall by a third. File sharers are an expense and a liability to Internet service providers.
New computers will sell on the basis of email, web surfing, games, word processing, and all the other home activities, anyway. I'd be surprised if there were ANY significant number of people who bought new computers for the primary purpose of downloading music.
Perhaps he's trying to get everyone using HIS client, so there's more control over the populus [sic] of BT users?
Perhaps he's seen the traffic to his donation-begging page dropping off, and is worried that people will stop remembering what his ugly phiz looks like?
If I were Bram Cohen, I would be doing everything I could to cede "control" over BitTorrent users to someone else. "Control" also means "liability" in this legal climate.
"Criticized" is one thing; "slandered" is another.
Naturally. Criticism is protected speech; slander is not.
Do you believe that the information being distributed about Linux by its competitors rises to the level of slander? If so, when do you think there will be a lawsuit filed regarding it?
Those are insane battery life spans for something like this will be a real selling point.
Yes, "insane" is a good word to describe it. Remember the touted battery life of Sony's PSP, vs. the real-world performance?
Unless Sony has discovered a radical new MP3 decoding chip or audio amplification circuit that no one else knows about, I'm likely to disbelieve that their products actually do have ten times the battery life of similar devices.
More likely what's going on here is that Sony's still transcoding all your music to ATRAC3 -- it's a power-friendly format to decode and you'll never notice the difference through $10 earbuds anyway.
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I'd rather see some important research on WIFI than this kind of invention...
ME TOO
Instead of a cable that runs between two pieces of electronic equipment that will never move relative to each other, requires little power to propagate a signal, has nearly unlimited bandwidth potential, and is relatively difficult to snoop, let's all switch over to wireless! I mean, it only takes more power, is more susceptible to snooping, and resides in a finite frequency spectrum which is getting more crowded by the day...
coming from America where you have Hershey's or the highway
That phrase... I do not think it means what you think it means.
Anyway, there's plenty of REALLY GREAT chocolate being made, sold, and consumed in the United States, it's just generally not available next to the checkout counter at the Gas-N-Go.
Because no abuses are being found. That is a danger sign.
Exactly.
This is like the FBI's report last week that it had no evidence of al Qaeda sleeper cells operating in the United States currently. Only a fool would believe that this means we have defeated terrorism on our own soil. Much more likely is the possibility that terrorists continue to plot against us in our midst, but the FBI is clueless about who and where they are.
If something sounds to good to be true...
These assholes covered up the murder of a Federal inmate at the Oklahoma City Transit Center, among numerous other situations.
They must not have done a very good job of it, if YOU know about it.
PPOR: it's the Official Acronym of the Internet.
this is 100% additional exposure for NYT
I wouldn't say "100% additional", myself. I'd imagine that a sizeable portion of the 1.4 million readers of the New York Times online are also people who read the print edition, and enjoy the flexibility of being able to access the content in whichever medium is more convenient. An editorial, for example, might work better on the printed page, but searching classified ads will be much easier in a dynamic web context.
even if the companies start charging for news, others will be able to duplicate the same content on their blog sites
I dunno. I'm about as avid a fan of Citizens' Media--er, blogs--as they come, but the truth is that there's not all that much original reporting coming out of them right now.
Five out of ten newsblog posts consist of a link to a story hosted by a mainstream media site, and then the blogger's commentary on it. (Of the remaining five, three are links to other blogs that link to MSM stories.) If the MSM sites all conspired to switch to a pay model and shut out nonsubscribers, blogs would find themselves either cut-and-pasting stories from the MSM (in violation of copyright), or paraphrasing stories reported elsewhere (leading to all kinds of telephone-game-style misinterpretations and misrepresentations).
But as I mentioned, to do this would required all mainstream media outlets to conspire together, and I don't think that's likely to happen (at least not until Rupert Murdoch and ClearChannel are finished buying everything else).
the ones who charge will loose readership
AAAAARGH! NO!!! WRONG WRONG WRONG
Considering that the actual wattage usage of a cell phone is more than 2 and a half times as great as the same connection via landline
Define "same connection".
I may have a land line at my desk at work, and I may have a land line in my home, but can people reach me via land line at the restaurant where I'm having dinner? When I'm walking down the street, do I spool out miles of POTS wire behind me so that I can be contacted via land line?
Cell phones allow connections between PEOPLE, not between LOCATIONS, which I feel is entirely appropriate. When was the last time you wanted to talk to a location?
I don't think you really want to go there.
Everyone in the copyright cartel would obviously claim the lowest possible income rate for their holdings, since it would give them the longest copyright term.
Most would be lying, of course, and would be making a lot more money off their holdings than claimed. The only way that kind of fraud could be prevented is to have a government agency responsible for auditing the copyright holders' financial records, to make sure the profits claimed and the profits made on a work match up. Multiply that by hundreds of thousands of works copyrighted each year, and you've got a lot of civil servant jobs to fill.
Do you REALLY want to create another government bureaucracy on the scale of the Internal Revenue Service?
"Get your 100% royalty free cotton-gin blueprints right here! For an unlimited time only!!!!"
Surely schematics for a device such as a cotton gin would be protected by patent, not copyright?
IMHO it sounds like somebody thought that the developers of the software was generic interchangable pork that could be used to buy votes locally & got burned when company A refused to play along...
Concur. This whole fracas happened because some moron project planner(s) assumed "softwares is softwares" and segmented the project in a way that was neither feasible nor logical, but was worth a few political brownie points.
If phases 1 and 2 both relied on a single product, the same company should have been contracted for both (best case), or the contract language should had explicit language guaranteeing the openness and transferability of all resources pertaining to the project (less desirable, based on the time it'd take for Company B to get up to speed on Company A's product).
when you're cooking for one or two people, it's easier and cheaper to eat out, particularly when you factor in time of preparation.
I notice you didn't mention healthier. As well you shouldn't have -- the cooks at restaurants don't love you. They don't care whether you maintain a healthy diet. The main objective of restaurants is to get your money.
Most of the people who cook do it more as a fun activity or hobby than a superior way of eating.
Oh? According to which studies?
I think your cultural bias is showing.
1. The parent was talking about a universal boot disk, not something to use in place of a standard fixed boot HD.
I will admit, I'm not an expert on Mac hardware nor OS design, but can a Mac really boot from one device and then transfer the system volumne designation to another device once booted?
Modern OSes are too big to be loaded into memory all at once. I would expect that if you booted a Mac from an iPod drive, the system would have to go back to the iPod occasionally to load device drivers, access swap space, etc. And that could easily be more strenuous on the delicate microscopic mechanisms of the iPod drive than playing back audio files would be.
2. iPods have been out long enough for failure rates to be known. There has been lots of discussion about batteries dying early but not much about failed hard drives.
Sure there has, you just haven't been paying attention.
Read the iPodHacks forums, or check eBay for listings of used iPods, or go to the Apple store and find a Genius Bar employee candid enough to tell you why people have been returning iPods for RMA. The MTBF of a hard drive will drop significantly if you use it outside of its design parameters. That's not FUD, it's FACT.
3. If your iPod drive dies, replacements are easy to find.
Oh? You think so?
The 20GB G3/G4 iPod drive is Toshiba model number MK2004GAL (actually, the iPod may use an Apple-specific version of this model with custom firmware, but let's ignore that for now). How many retailers can you find that have this component in stock? It only took me 3 months to find one, maybe you'll beat my time. Good luck.
The 60GB iPod photo drive is model MK6006GAH. Find me a single company that even lists a price for this component. Go on, I dare you.
As far as I understand, Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) will emit light from each pixel much like an LED does. This will not require a battery sucking back-light
Where's the energy to illuminate each OLED pixel going to come from, though? Still from the battery.
My understanding is that most modern LCD displays already use high-intensity LED banks for their backlighting. Unless OLEDs have significantly lower watts-per-lumen requirements, I don't think that OLEDs will have much effect on battery life.
It would be fantastic if they could make a way to play NES, SNES, or n64 games on the new system.
The Revolution's CPU will surely be powerful enough to emulate any Nintendo system prior the the GCN, so horsepower shouldn't be a problem. Designing a way to plug your old catridges into will be, though. If Nintendo's previous home consoles are any indicator, the revolution will have an expansion port on the bottom that will never get used for anything (the Gameboy Playet for GameCube being the exception that proves the rule). In theory they could build an add-on for the Revolution to allow you to read old cartridge-based games. But why would they? If you want to play the 8-bit NES library, you probably already have an emulator and collection of ROMs, or you own a genuine NES.
When the iPod first came out, I thought that the coolest thing was that I could have my entire system on it and any Mac I encountered could boot my system
Cool, yes. Practical?
The tiny Toshiba drives in the iPods aren't designed for sustained use as a computer's system volume.
You could easily thrash the poor little thing to death doing anything more demanding than playing back MP3's in shuffle mode, and then good luck finding a replacement. There are virtually no 1.8" hard drives available in the end-user market right now, as the demand for new iPods means Toshiba is selling pretty much their entire production runs directly to Apple.
New name for the USA could/should be: People's
Democratic Republic of the United States of
North America and the Middle East.
What's with the short short line wrapping? Are you typing your comments on a 40-column VIC-20 display?
Sure, there were a few mistakes (Jar Jar)
And we haven't yet seen him in episodes 4-6, have we? In fact there's not a single representative of his race to be found anywhere.
That must by why Episode 3 is going to get a PG-13 rating -- due to the scenes of the entire Gungan civilization getting demolished, disemboweled, and defenestrated in graphic detail.
BEST. STARWARS. MOVIE. EVER.
May mean good things for Microsoft as a whole.
You must never have had to use Lotus Notes...
If this were the case, Paris Hilton could sue for every province that her video was accessible from the internet.
How so? Despite any press releases from the Hilton family, the infamous night-vision video is not libelous. Yes, it is damaging to Paris's reputation (for very small or negative values of "damaging") but is not false or misleading -- the events of the videotape actually did happen. It wasn't a Paris Hilton lookalike, it was really her.
The only protection against libel is the truth.
That's incorrect.
Statements which are false, but believed to be true by the publisher after excercising due diligence to try to confirm their veracity, do not constitute libel.
To satisfy the requirements of libel, the publisher had to KNOW (or should have known, within reason) that the statements are false, yet published them anyway. There must have been malicious intent.
Our country's medical companies and educational institutions are free to do their own research.
Unless those educational institutions rely on federal funding for any of the OTHER research they are doing.
A research university is a big place. Given the choice between proceeding with stem cell research and losing funding for two dozen other ongoing projects, they would be fools not to favor the two dozen other projects.
The result is that the field of stem cell research is being neglected. I'm sure there are private organizations that would be more than happy to fund the research, if only there were any lab facilities willing to risk financial devestatation in order to conduct it.
Internet services and new computers -- two industries that many argue have profited enormously from rampant file-sharing...
Many IDIOTS argue that, perhaps.
Ask any ISP whether they would be happy if their heaviest file sharing customers just went away. You've got maybe 5% of their user base taking up maybe 30% of their bandwidth--if they vanished, revenue would decrease by very little, but bandwidth bills would fall by a third. File sharers are an expense and a liability to Internet service providers.
New computers will sell on the basis of email, web surfing, games, word processing, and all the other home activities, anyway. I'd be surprised if there were ANY significant number of people who bought new computers for the primary purpose of downloading music.
Perhaps he's trying to get everyone using HIS client, so there's more control over the populus [sic] of BT users?
Perhaps he's seen the traffic to his donation-begging page dropping off, and is worried that people will stop remembering what his ugly phiz looks like?
If I were Bram Cohen, I would be doing everything I could to cede "control" over BitTorrent users to someone else. "Control" also means "liability" in this legal climate.
"Criticized" is one thing; "slandered" is another.
Naturally. Criticism is protected speech; slander is not.
Do you believe that the information being distributed about Linux by its competitors rises to the level of slander? If so, when do you think there will be a lawsuit filed regarding it?
Those are insane battery life spans for something like this will be a real selling point.
Yes, "insane" is a good word to describe it. Remember the touted battery life of Sony's PSP, vs. the real-world performance?
Unless Sony has discovered a radical new MP3 decoding chip or audio amplification circuit that no one else knows about, I'm likely to disbelieve that their products actually do have ten times the battery life of similar devices.
More likely what's going on here is that Sony's still transcoding all your music to ATRAC3 -- it's a power-friendly format to decode and you'll never notice the difference through $10 earbuds anyway.