you haven't lived till you've played a real NES on 62" screen tv or a >100" projected screen:-D
On a 62" screen, the NES resolution density would be about 8 pixels per inch. (The same screen showing a native 1080p image would have about 40 pixels per inch.)
With HD DVD content sporting DD+/TrueHD, and DTS HD audio that currently can't be handled over optical, HDMI provides us with a way of supporting that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the audio wiring within an HDMI cable electrically identical to an S/PDIF coaxial link?
If the toxic business politics seen with game companies such as Atari, Activision, TakeTwo, id, Ion Storm, EA, Ambrosia, Sierra On-Line, Rare, Capcom, Sega, Ubisoft, et al, et al, et al are any indicator, I would STRONGLY recommend having a secondary skillset to fall back on when you inevitably get fed up with the game industry.
How long before they begin to offer new movies ONLY on the new discs thus forcing us old timers to "upgrade or die"?
Eight to ten years, at least. It's been nearly a decade since DVD's first came to market, and we've only recently reached the point where the major media companies no longer release their offerings on VHS.
I suspect by 2015 or so the idea that we need physical access to a round shiny disk in order to watch a movie will seem as dated as the audiocassette or the typewriter.
they raised the prices when they brought out CDs with the promise that once the technology get efficient the price would come down.
I see this information repeated as fact in every Slashdot comment thread regarding the music industry, but have never seen a primary source for the info cited. Do you have one?
My standard response to this factoid is that due to inflation, an $8 LP bought in 1985 is about equal in adjusted cost to a $16 CD bought in 2005. But the LP was probably 30-50 minutes, and the CD is likely closer to 60-70...
You could argue that Sony is overreaching, but the dominance of BluRay over HD-DVD doesn't really bear that out.
If outselling your competition by n-to-1 bears anything out, the fact that about 8 Wii's are being sold for every PS3 must prove that Sony IS overreaching.
There's a good chance that this will be a better plan than what Microsoft has done, making the HD-DVD drive an add-on that can't play games.
Agreed. The Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on's sales performance has been underwhelming, proving that gamers don't want to spend an extra $200 to watch movies in hi-def. That's a lesson Sony is learning right now, too.
What if they [Sony and Microsoft] both win?
We may need to re-evaluate what we mean by "winning". I don't doubt that all three manufacturers will survive to offer a next-next-gen console four or five years from now. But I think if we look at the marketshare as a whole, Nintendo will have much larger share, Microsoft a slightly larger share, and Sony a much smaller share of the market than they had before this generation began. Does it make Sony the sole loser? Microsoft will still have the best online service in the business in Xbox Live -- can they count that as a win?
You'll never get good citizen oversight of elected officials and the election process (at the national level) when the average Senator represents 6 million people.
Senators aren't supposed to represent the interests of the people. They're meant to represent the interests of the states. That's why they there's an equal number of them for every state regardless of population, and why they weren't originally directly elected.
The average member of the House of Representatives -- the Congressional body which WAS intended to represent the people -- represents only about 700,000 citizens. Still a huge, but a more practical, number.
But you do not ask for games! You want MP3/MP4/Opera/etc!! WTF. No games?
The question is "What would you change about the DS to make it an even better device?". I don't think you'll find many people who would respond with "It should be able to play games".
It already plays games. We know that. But what else could it potentially do as well?
I just wish we could figure who is forcing people to have kids.
My flippant answer is that it's the prudes who are insisting on teaching people that abstinence is the only reliable method of preventing pregnancy.
My less-flippant answer is that there's a biological drive to mate and produce offspring, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to me if a person can not or does not overrule that instinct because of their financial status.
However for both these issues there exist solutions, namely Erlang, using user-level threads there is no upper limits and you really can have each chicken have its own thread without a problem and the language is also build from the base up to work nicely with threads.
I wish you had multithreaded this sentence. It took too long for me to extract all the information from it as a single linear process.
it requires quicktime pro. open the divx file in quicktime. then in the save dialog box you can click the "save as reference movie" box. take the reference movie file and drop it into itunes.
That's dumb, and antithetical to the mantra of user-friendliness that Apple has always sought to employ.
If Quicktime is capable of opening a DivX movie, then opening a DivX movie in a product that uses Quicktime such as iTunes or AppleTV should Just Work. I will not jump through hoops for every DivX video file I acquire just because Apple doesn't want to automate the process for me.
The Neo Geo might have failed as a home console, but it was possibly the most successful arcade board ever!
Really? I would have given that honor to a board that had more than three memorable games to its name (Metal Slug, Bust-A-Move, and Generic Street Fighter Clone #45)
we hold bars accountable if they serve alcohol to patrons who appear to already be intoxicated
And what we DON'T do is require bartenders to administer a breathalyzer test to every person who places a drink order, which is what Viacom is saying YouTube should have been doing.
It is wrong to pretend that something (creative output) is property
And yet, this "wrong" has been part of the law for hundreds of years. How do you justify your stance when confronted with centuries of common and civil law precedent?
If you remember back to the 1980s, the thing that allowed them to gain a foothold was their inclusion of FM synthesis at a reasonable price.
True, the original Sound Blaster did undercut the Adlib FM synth card they competed with on price a bit, but that was not why they owned the market. That feature was the DAC channel which provided for the first time a standard interface for recording and playing back digital audio on IBM-based PC's (PCjr excepted).
-Why did next-gen titles five years ago cost $50? -Now, take that answer and apply inflation for five years.
It's not that simple, or else Atari 2600 games would have retailed for under $10.
Come to think of it, they DID, after the industry collapsed. I know MY cartridge collection, for one, grew substantially circa 1984 as retailers attempted to liquidate their remaining stock.
Show some respect instead of making lame FORTRAN jokes...
They're showing respect BY making lame FORTRAN jokes, you insensitive clod.
The very fact that the commenters are familiar with FORTRAN code syntax and convention shows how much of an impact JWB had on our lives as geeks and programmers. I'd love for my life's work to be so important that people even remember it after my death, much less joke about it.
Sorry, "Commodore", the only 'revolutionary painting process' I want to hear from out of you is the Amiga's Hold-And-Modify screen mode. 4,096-color graphics from a bit depth of only 6 bits per pixel? Now that's revolutionary.
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you haven't lived till you've played a real NES on 62" screen tv or a >100" projected screen :-D
On a 62" screen, the NES resolution density would be about 8 pixels per inch. (The same screen showing a native 1080p image would have about 40 pixels per inch.)
With HD DVD content sporting DD+/TrueHD, and DTS HD audio that currently can't be handled over optical, HDMI provides us with a way of supporting that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the audio wiring within an HDMI cable electrically identical to an S/PDIF coaxial link?
If the toxic business politics seen with game companies such as Atari, Activision, TakeTwo, id, Ion Storm, EA, Ambrosia, Sierra On-Line, Rare, Capcom, Sega, Ubisoft, et al, et al, et al are any indicator, I would STRONGLY recommend having a secondary skillset to fall back on when you inevitably get fed up with the game industry.
How long before they begin to offer new movies ONLY on the new discs thus forcing us old timers to "upgrade or die"?
Eight to ten years, at least. It's been nearly a decade since DVD's first came to market, and we've only recently reached the point where the major media companies no longer release their offerings on VHS.
I suspect by 2015 or so the idea that we need physical access to a round shiny disk in order to watch a movie will seem as dated as the audiocassette or the typewriter.
they raised the prices when they brought out CDs with the promise that once the technology get efficient the price would come down.
I see this information repeated as fact in every Slashdot comment thread regarding the music industry, but have never seen a primary source for the info cited. Do you have one?
My standard response to this factoid is that due to inflation, an $8 LP bought in 1985 is about equal in adjusted cost to a $16 CD bought in 2005. But the LP was probably 30-50 minutes, and the CD is likely closer to 60-70...
People still write hour-long symphonies for classical orchestras -- and that's an area of the music industry that is booming at the moment.
For very, very small values of "booming". Classical music is less popular now than it's been at any time in the past 200 years or so.
Considering how much they lose per console, does record sales equal record loss?
They lose more money on consoles which are built and shipped but NOT sold.
You could argue that Sony is overreaching, but the dominance of BluRay over HD-DVD doesn't really bear that out.
If outselling your competition by n-to-1 bears anything out, the fact that about 8 Wii's are being sold for every PS3 must prove that Sony IS overreaching.
There's a good chance that this will be a better plan than what Microsoft has done, making the HD-DVD drive an add-on that can't play games.
Agreed. The Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on's sales performance has been underwhelming, proving that gamers don't want to spend an extra $200 to watch movies in hi-def. That's a lesson Sony is learning right now, too.
What if they [Sony and Microsoft] both win?
We may need to re-evaluate what we mean by "winning". I don't doubt that all three manufacturers will survive to offer a next-next-gen console four or five years from now. But I think if we look at the marketshare as a whole, Nintendo will have much larger share, Microsoft a slightly larger share, and Sony a much smaller share of the market than they had before this generation began. Does it make Sony the sole loser? Microsoft will still have the best online service in the business in Xbox Live -- can they count that as a win?
They know all about how our government is for sale to the RIAA, though, having been bar owners before.
You even mentioned earlier in this same comment that they had had to deal with the ASCAP licensing racket when they owned a bar.
So why do you confuse the issue by mentioning RIAA at the end, implying that ASCAP and RIAA are somehow interrelated?
You'll never get good citizen oversight of elected officials and the election process (at the national level) when the average Senator represents 6 million people.
Senators aren't supposed to represent the interests of the people. They're meant to represent the interests of the states. That's why they there's an equal number of them for every state regardless of population, and why they weren't originally directly elected.
The average member of the House of Representatives -- the Congressional body which WAS intended to represent the people -- represents only about 700,000 citizens. Still a huge, but a more practical, number.
But you do not ask for games! You want MP3/MP4/Opera/etc!! WTF. No games?
The question is "What would you change about the DS to make it an even better device?". I don't think you'll find many people who would respond with "It should be able to play games".
It already plays games. We know that. But what else could it potentially do as well?
I just wish we could figure who is forcing people to have kids.
My flippant answer is that it's the prudes who are insisting on teaching people that abstinence is the only reliable method of preventing pregnancy.
My less-flippant answer is that there's a biological drive to mate and produce offspring, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to me if a person can not or does not overrule that instinct because of their financial status.
However for both these issues there exist solutions, namely Erlang, using user-level threads there is no upper limits and you really can have each chicken have its own thread without a problem and the language is also build from the base up to work nicely with threads.
I wish you had multithreaded this sentence. It took too long for me to extract all the information from it as a single linear process.
it requires quicktime pro. open the divx file in quicktime. then in the save dialog box you can click the "save as reference movie" box. take the reference movie file and drop it into itunes.
That's dumb, and antithetical to the mantra of user-friendliness that Apple has always sought to employ.
If Quicktime is capable of opening a DivX movie, then opening a DivX movie in a product that uses Quicktime such as iTunes or AppleTV should Just Work. I will not jump through hoops for every DivX video file I acquire just because Apple doesn't want to automate the process for me.
Stringer also manages to point out Blu-Ray's 3-to-1 sell over HD-DVD, calling HD-DVD a "transition tech."
I bet he doesn't mention Wii's almost 3-to-1 sell over PS3 in the same breath, though. Does that make the Playstation 3 a "transition tech", too?
The Neo Geo might have failed as a home console, but it was possibly the most successful arcade board ever!
Really? I would have given that honor to a board that had more than three memorable games to its name (Metal Slug, Bust-A-Move, and Generic Street Fighter Clone #45)
Why do I think a lot of the posts on this thread are astroturfers for the NFL?
Because you're browsing at 0 or +1, probably.
Up here in +3 Land, I see nothing but "LOL NFL = PWND" comments across the board.
The report indicates that by their measurements the most environmentally friendly vehicles available today is a small Toyota car.
And what is a Prius, if not a small Toyota car?
we hold bars accountable if they serve alcohol to patrons who appear to already be intoxicated
And what we DON'T do is require bartenders to administer a breathalyzer test to every person who places a drink order, which is what Viacom is saying YouTube should have been doing.
It is wrong to pretend that something (creative output) is property
And yet, this "wrong" has been part of the law for hundreds of years. How do you justify your stance when confronted with centuries of common and civil law precedent?
If you remember back to the 1980s, the thing that allowed them to gain a foothold was their inclusion of FM synthesis at a reasonable price.
True, the original Sound Blaster did undercut the Adlib FM synth card they competed with on price a bit, but that was not why they owned the market. That feature was the DAC channel which provided for the first time a standard interface for recording and playing back digital audio on IBM-based PC's (PCjr excepted).
-Why did next-gen titles five years ago cost $50?
-Now, take that answer and apply inflation for five years.
It's not that simple, or else Atari 2600 games would have retailed for under $10.
Come to think of it, they DID, after the industry collapsed. I know MY cartridge collection, for one, grew substantially circa 1984 as retailers attempted to liquidate their remaining stock.
Show some respect instead of making lame FORTRAN jokes...
They're showing respect BY making lame FORTRAN jokes, you insensitive clod.
The very fact that the commenters are familiar with FORTRAN code syntax and convention shows how much of an impact JWB had on our lives as geeks and programmers. I'd love for my life's work to be so important that people even remember it after my death, much less joke about it.
If I hadn't already had the muscle memory to recover from spins
Yes, your instinct to push the right analog thumbstick in the opposite direction and ride the B button surely came in handy in that moment.
Sorry, "Commodore", the only 'revolutionary painting process' I want to hear from out of you is the Amiga's Hold-And-Modify screen mode. 4,096-color graphics from a bit depth of only 6 bits per pixel? Now that's revolutionary.