We saw it with DivX. People aren't going to spend good money on hardware that comes with artificial limitations.
When this technology starts appearing on store shelves and people find out that you may or may not be able to watch and or record certain shows, hopefully they will stick with their current status quo NTSC arrangement and wait until they can get what they want without the unfeatures.
Let the marketplace decide. And let's hope the marketplace makes the right decision.
It's supply and demand economics. And I don't see a great demand for crippled hardware.
I just remember being at a mall in Saskatoon Saskatchewan seeing the Doom shareware running in demo mode in a little computer store and my jaw hitting the floor.
I went on the BBS I was subscribed to and started looking for the shareware as soon as I got home.
This would have been spring '94. I had played Wolfenstein but hated it because I could never tell where I was in the maps. Doom had stairs and levels and lot's of different textures on the walls and floors so you could really learn a map easier than you could in Wolfenstein.
Quake was really just a logical step up from Doom with it's more realistic 3D environment.
Doom was the real groundbreaking game that really started to impress people with what computers could do with graphics. And gave great fuel to the imagination of what we might have in the future.
The first DooM shareware was released December 10 1993. There's a more complete history here..
http://myweb.worldnet.net/~bdevaux/Doomoscope/SP ag es/DoomHistory.html
If things are reasonably priced and quality is guaranteed.
I hope they're not going to charge me to download a file just because it has 'Metallica' in the filename, even though it was recorded by some kid off of his AM radio over a microphone plugged into his sound card.
Send ten people to a car dealership (not saturn) and they'll end up paying ten different prices for the same car.
If Amazon is going to charge me a higher price because I don't shop there enough or whatever they're playing a dangerous game because chances are I'll find a lower price somewhere else.
But now that Amazon has been 'busted', they need to do something. And that is apologize, and hope that they don't lose too many customers over this. Even though there's nothing wrong with 'this' in the first place.
It's all bottom line and public perception. Next time they'll take it to a focus group first.
It looks like scoop is now being attacked. I hope they find the punk and give hime Kevin Mitnick's old cell. And I hope (s)he gets sued for lost time, lost advertising revenue, etc.
I really like the idea of this. Running a patch cord to the stereo is not a good option for me. As someone explained, my sound card sitting inside my PC is not the best for driving my Rotel. Especially if I'm playing Quake3 or Unreal Tournament.
What I really want is video out, so I can play.asf,.mpg, etc. Then, for me, it starts to get real interesting.
When Doom first came out, it was pure shareware. You could not buy it in stores, you could only order it through the mail. It didn't do too bad. And I don't remember Id Software having a big marketing budget at the time either.
The only difference between then and now is that now, more people are 'online' and are more likely to be exposed to something like this through word of mouth.
If it really is good, and if they release a good demo, in a timely fashion, it will do well.
Slightly off topic under this topic I guess. But here is another story from Ottawa. Part of the now familiar pattern... www.canoe.ca/Canoe/canoecnews.html
The reason windows in old, old, buildings are thicker at the bottom is because of primitive glass making techniques that would result in glass of inconsistent thickness. If you were puting a pane of glass in a window, would you put the thick edge at the top or the bottom?
If it were flowing, it wouldn't just be thicker at the bottom, it would also seperate from the top, was there a space along the top edge of this window pane?
They didn't mention speed as compared to a transistor. But, if they can make memory fast enough for an MP3 player, that might be the killer app for this technology.
Let me dream, 5GB mp3 player that runs off a single AA battery for 2 or 3 months.
New meaning to the term...
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...shotgun wedding.
Everyone including the priest is armed with one of a rocket launcher, rail gun, etc, etc.
Here in Calgary, the local independant station takes over ABC and spews their own commercials over the broadcast. So I get to see commercials for the local burger joint with a budget of about $200.
It pisses me off because they often screw up and come back to the announcers in mid-sentence and stuff like that.
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The MPzip 3-inch MP3/CD Player has been available for a while now.
Personally, I think the relatively small capacity and dubious availability of 3" CDRs make these players a poor choice.
You're better off with a full size MP3 CD player or a big memory unit like an Intel Pocket Concert Audio Player if you need the smaller size.
We saw it with DivX. People aren't going to spend good money on hardware that comes with artificial limitations.
When this technology starts appearing on store shelves and people find out that you may or may not be able to watch and or record certain shows, hopefully they will stick with their current status quo NTSC arrangement and wait until they can get what they want without the unfeatures.
Let the marketplace decide. And let's hope the marketplace makes the right decision.
It's supply and demand economics. And I don't see a great demand for crippled hardware.
And maybe we could get MAME on Linux on playstation going for them too.
Wouldn't that be cool?
The lawyers can send their bill to whoever it was that hired them.
Sorry, but that's the cost of doing business.
As a corporation the size of Adobe, you're going to have tax bills, you're going to have phone bills, and you're going to have legal bills.
Pay them.
And if they get firm about "Give us two thousand dollars or we're going to ruin your life." Well, isn't that extortion?
I just remember being at a mall in Saskatoon Saskatchewan seeing the Doom shareware running in demo mode in a little computer store and my jaw hitting the floor.
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I went on the BBS I was subscribed to and started looking for the shareware as soon as I got home.
This would have been spring '94. I had played Wolfenstein but hated it because I could never tell where I was in the maps. Doom had stairs and levels and lot's of different textures on the walls and floors so you could really learn a map easier than you could in Wolfenstein.
Quake was really just a logical step up from Doom with it's more realistic 3D environment.
Doom was the real groundbreaking game that really started to impress people with what computers could do with graphics. And gave great fuel to the imagination of what we might have in the future.
The first DooM shareware was released December 10 1993. There's a more complete history here..
http://myweb.worldnet.net/~bdevaux/Doomoscope/S
and here...
http://doomworld.com/pageofdoom/thegame/doomhis
If things are reasonably priced and quality is guaranteed.
I hope they're not going to charge me to download a file just because it has 'Metallica' in the filename, even though it was recorded by some kid off of his AM radio over a microphone plugged into his sound card.
To Microsoft, Linux is a cancer. It continues to grow, there's nothing they can do to stop it. And, it may eventually destroy them.
So I guess that you people who write code for a living won't mind my WAREZter software.
You'll be able to opt out.
Sorry, but if something is copyrighted, you can't distribute it without consent.
I would say that slashdot is pretty much a nested table monstrosity
So now you can buy an Aibo, and then you can buy one of these to take it out for a walk.
All I need now is a robotic fish for my aquarium.
When setting up the software it asks you to change proxy settings.
Most people are going to get nervous at this point and not go any farther. Why risk breaking my connectivity when I can just run Napster or Gnutella?
I played with it for a few minutes but I could only get as far as the "ooops" screen. At which point I hit the end of my attention span.
It's not worth the hassle.
Send ten people to a car dealership (not saturn) and they'll end up paying ten different prices for the same car.
If Amazon is going to charge me a higher price because I don't shop there enough or whatever they're playing a dangerous game because chances are I'll find a lower price somewhere else.
But now that Amazon has been 'busted', they need to do something. And that is apologize, and hope that they don't lose too many customers over this. Even though there's nothing wrong with 'this' in the first place.
It's all bottom line and public perception. Next time they'll take it to a focus group first.
It looks like scoop is now being attacked. I hope they find the punk and give hime Kevin Mitnick's old cell. And I hope (s)he gets sued for lost time, lost advertising revenue, etc.
So this person suggests a solution and then explains how his solution won't and can't work.
And then people moderate it up as insightful.
I don't get it.
I really like the idea of this. Running a patch cord to the stereo is not a good option for me. As someone explained, my sound card sitting inside my PC is not the best for driving my Rotel. Especially if I'm playing Quake3 or Unreal Tournament.
.asf, .mpg, etc. Then, for me, it starts to get real interesting.
What I really want is video out, so I can play
When Doom first came out, it was pure shareware. You could not buy it in stores, you could only order it through the mail. It didn't do too bad. And I don't remember Id Software having a big marketing budget at the time either.
The only difference between then and now is that now, more people are 'online' and are more likely to be exposed to something like this through word of mouth.
If it really is good, and if they release a good demo, in a timely fashion, it will do well.
Slightly off topic under this topic I guess. But here is another story from Ottawa. Part of the now familiar pattern... www.canoe.ca/Canoe/canoecnews.html
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And the "only available on Amazon" just makes you shake your head.
The crew at Slashdot is really dropping the ball on this one.
If you can't do it right, don't do it. "But it will make money" even if it's for charity, doesn't make it right.
Meet on a chat channel somewhere with all of your classmates.
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The reason windows in old, old, buildings are thicker at the bottom is because of primitive glass making techniques that would result in glass of inconsistent thickness. If you were puting a pane of glass in a window, would you put the thick edge at the top or the bottom?
If it were flowing, it wouldn't just be thicker at the bottom, it would also seperate from the top, was there a space along the top edge of this window pane?
They didn't mention speed as compared to a transistor. But, if they can make memory fast enough for an MP3 player, that might be the killer app for this technology.
Let me dream, 5GB mp3 player that runs off a single AA battery for 2 or 3 months.
...shotgun wedding.
Everyone including the priest is armed with one of a rocket launcher, rail gun, etc, etc.
Didn't they just let Kevin Mitnick out of prison?
uh-oh.
Here in Calgary, the local independant station takes over ABC and spews their own commercials over the broadcast. So I get to see commercials for the local burger joint with a budget of about $200.
It pisses me off because they often screw up and come back to the announcers in mid-sentence and stuff like that.
I had to work this year anyway.