What makes you think that just because a hard drive crahes you can't get the information off it. The information is still there (mostly) even if the mechanism/electronics of the drive are bust. You can still read the data, you just need to take out the platters and scan them some other way.
But since the X-Box uses DirectX any games developed for it should run on any DirectX equipped PC. The difference in hardware should be no obsticle to games developers.
I don't know if this is the same thing but a couple of universities in the UK are working on 'gravity wave' telescopes at the moment. This page contains some information on the group at Birmingham University and gravity waves but does not mention the telescope. However when I was there last autum they showed me the preliminary ideas for one.
This is true. I think they may have also tested the time dialation effects with two atomic clocks in two planes (although it is possible that my physics lecturer made that up).
I know they are lossy but if you could work out what makes ATRAC discard data then you could either; - Make an algorithm that adjusted your data so that it was all seen as important to the compression. (not possible if ATRAC has a minimum compression ratio) Or - Mix your data with an appropriate amount of 'unimportant' stuff for the MD to discard and be happy. This would give you a quite decent 60MB (ish) system from a standard 80min MD, a recorder and a little TTL->optical circuit on the parallel port.
This may sound a bit wierd but if you could control an optical audio line from a PC and did some research on the compression maybe you could use a portable minidisc recorder to store data? (Just a thought)
MDs aren't that good for data storage because their data capacity is actually quite small. The reason that you can fit the same amount of audio on an MD as a CD is that the compression system is very efficient. In fact non-recordable MDs are in actual fact very small CDs; they have the same data density and about an 8th the capacity. This is also why you could not have an MP3 MD system as you cannot compress the data twice.
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What makes you think that just because a hard drive crahes you can't get the information off it. The information is still there (mostly) even if the mechanism/electronics of the drive are bust. You can still read the data, you just need to take out the platters and scan them some other way.
"The fact that you CAN do something doesn't mean it should be done!"
True, but it almost always means that it will be done eventually by someone.
let me say that I'd far rather that some Serbian civilians were killed accidentally than any of our soldiers
If in a virtual war machines are fighting machines and no people get hurt then isnt it just an expensive game.
But since the X-Box uses DirectX any games developed for it should run on any DirectX equipped PC. The difference in hardware should be no obsticle to games developers.
I don't know if this is the same thing but a couple of universities in the UK are working on 'gravity wave' telescopes at the moment. This page contains some information on the group at Birmingham University and gravity waves but does not mention the telescope. However when I was there last autum they showed me the preliminary ideas for one.
This is true. I think they may have also tested the time dialation effects with two atomic clocks in two planes (although it is possible that my physics lecturer made that up).
I know they are lossy but if you could work out what makes ATRAC discard data then you could either; - Make an algorithm that adjusted your data so that it was all seen as important to the compression. (not possible if ATRAC has a minimum compression ratio) Or - Mix your data with an appropriate amount of 'unimportant' stuff for the MD to discard and be happy. This would give you a quite decent 60MB (ish) system from a standard 80min MD, a recorder and a little TTL->optical circuit on the parallel port.
This may sound a bit wierd but if you could control an optical audio line from a PC and did some research on the compression maybe you could use a portable minidisc recorder to store data? (Just a thought)
MDs aren't that good for data storage because their data capacity is actually quite small. The reason that you can fit the same amount of audio on an MD as a CD is that the compression system is very efficient. In fact non-recordable MDs are in actual fact very small CDs; they have the same data density and about an 8th the capacity. This is also why you could not have an MP3 MD system as you cannot compress the data twice.