The studios are leaning away from HD-DVD because they basically utilize the same technology as existing DVDs, but BluRay didn't have the must have CSS (Consumer Screwed Severely) version 2.0.
I really don't understand what you are saying here. Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are using the same AACS scheme as a base.
Funny, I didn't spot a single iPod in that gallery.
Other than the that hippie-fied a Mercedes, I didn't see a hole lot that really screamed moneybags. Even the prop airplanes looked pretty old, and old airplanes really aren't as expensive as people seem to assume.
Truth be told.. i want to live in one of these towers before i'm middle aged, so get moving with the restriction removal!
Mile-high towers would seem to be trouble in the brewing. It would seem to be such an easy target to aim for. For such a tall structure, I'd hope they'll make it withstand any concievable sort of natural disaster of a magnitude they don't expect to see for 10k years, typhoon and earthquakes and such, because if a mile high tower goes down, I think it would be a human catastrophe of a magnitude unseen previously.
In the US, it's probably much cheaper to just sprawl. One thing that shoots down tall towers in many places is the immense shadow they cast, esp. in the mornings and evenings, imagine a 12 mile long shadow. I wonder if asian cities will really even consider that when they approve the megatowers.
Don't get me wrong, I've had some issues with Windows, but I have other issues with Linux, and yet other issues with OS X. I am keeping all three OSs around because I think each one has a niche. While all three can more or less perform the same general types of tasks, each one has strong points making it better for particular tasks that the otherss won't do as well.
Only when ebooks are priced such that it reflects the fact that the costs are a lot lower to make them. That and there is an affordable large transflective display so I don't have to read on an emissive screen.
As it is, it costs more to buy 50 ebooks + some sort of reader than it does to just buy the 50 books. And those books are re-sellable. The ebook reader is too risky from a damage perspective, I can drop a book on concrete 2m up (or higher) and still read it, do you know anyone that is willing to drop their PDA from that height? So the low cost and durability of the e-book reader is important.
If an ebook costed 10% that of a paper book to reflect the significantly lowered costs, then I wouldn't be worried about resellability. I won't pay 90% of the cost of a paper book, in reality, that's a lot more expensive than the paper book because of the inability to resell it, and the requirement to own a reader. Searchability is nice but not worth the expense, the way things are currently priced.
The above is mostly for entertainment. For reference information, I currently just use the internet whenever possible.
Trees easily grown and renewable, and books are recyclable. Electronics required to tote e-books require electricity, toxic batteries, wasteful semiconductor fabs, hard to recycle display panels and such.
Yep, RAID-0 is the configuration you want to use if you want to risk losing data. You want RAID-1. I'm not saying that it's an excuse to have a proper back-up though, RAID merely keeps you going should a drive die.
It may depend on locale, but in my state, it costs more than a "couple hundred dollars" to start an LLC. It was closer to $600 once everything was done.
I had noticed a few bugs in the code in a PHP book that I owned and discovered that there was no way to report them. The published errata list didn't list those flaws.
One problem I have with ebooks is that publishers want to take all the benefits and push all the negatives on the user, pretty much by cost-shifting to the user.
eBooks require proprietary programs or proprietary hardware, which the user is required to use.
Publishers get away from the costs having to print, package, store and distribute paper, they cut out the middle man of distributors and book sellers and yet, they still often charged 90% the cost of the paper book, and the cost of reading the ebook in a portable fashion is high, one has to own and use a laptop. Laptops still have run time issues, books don't.
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Jettas are pretty bad cars.
I want a TDI but the Beetle and the Jettas aren't that great of a car. No one else seems to be making affordable diesel car, some report 50MPG with a TDI Beetle. You can get more efficient cars in Europe and Asia but they are a lot smaller and entail a lot more sacrifices for IMO marginal increases.
I don't think we can get away from petrol autos for a good while, but we can get more efficient ones, diesel is most often petroleum based but it has a more efficient combustion cycle and puts out less CO2. The biggest downside is particulates, but that form of pollution washes out the air with rain.
Now sometimes while slogging through my day, paying bills, shopping, working and things like that I sometimes say "Man I really should calculate the cosine of this electric bill", but as of yet I haven't been harmed by not actually doing that.
Education isn't necessarily about "being useful". For example, knowing history doesn't seem obviously useful, but those that don't know history will repeat it.
Trigonometry and calculus are useful tools to understand the world around us. In high school, I was trying to learn how to program 3D perspectives and rotations, and I found a need for trigonometry before it was taught, and applying linear algebra or matrices would have made it even simpler. I use it from time to time to solve mechanical problems.
If to you, all life is is performing tasks that a monkey could do, then you don't need any sort of education and humans probably should just live in the hills.
Education is first, proving that you can learn things that are hard to do, and proving that you can take what you learned and solve problems. Problem solving and ability to learn complex things are the #1 practical abilities that humans need. It's not about specific skills. Any person that just says "I never learned how to do that, therefore can't do that" proved they failed their education.
I think this unwillingness to learn on the part of Westerners is going to eventually be the downfall of current Western Civilization if uncorrected, Asian societies, particularly India and China are catching up, and quickly, and each country is already putting out more educated people than most of the West, and they are starting to become innovators without having to move to the West.
Once you go public, the company is burdened with a need to focus on short term advantages at the cost of long term development. Quarterly or monthly balances take precedence over longer term plans unfortunately, even if the longer term plans would net more profit.
I agree. What happens is that you get stuck between two groups of people: customers and shareholders. Things that shareholders think are in their best interest aren't always in their best interest.
A good sized R&D budget is absolutely critical to the survival of a technology company, larger than any other industry.
In the 60's, there was this posturing between superpowers, competition, as it were.
I'd love to see manned missions, but the plain fact is that it is extremely expensive. NASA + JPL get much more science done per dollar using automated devices than they do with astronauts.
Don't compare this to the PSX -> PS2 step, sure it just added more power, but the difference is that the PSX were too weak for a lot of gameplay possibilities. There does not seem to be much new gameplay possibilities on the PS3 as of yet (though I'd love to be proven wrong), just a bit more polish and glitz.
HD game play. While it could be written off as "glitz", being stuck with NTSC (or PAL) is IMO horrendous. I can't imagine a serious gamer saying they want VGA level resolution when they can get so much better, up to 6x more pixels. I tried playing the demos of the current console on a standard TV at a store, and it just looks awful. It's a pain shooting down a blob when it could actually have some detail.
The actual manufacturing of most electronics products is very cheap. The costs stated don't cover R&D or advertising.
They said "average chip cost", I imagine P4s cost a lot more to make than flash memory or the chipsets that Intel makes, as well as the miriad other chips, such as microcontrollers.
Have you considered what happens when incremental cost goes to zero? Therein lies the magic of Free Software, my friend.
You still have to convince someone to make that first copy, or find a way to finance that work. Even if it's just a person's free time, there is a cost, that person could be doing other things instead. Free software is nice, but I'd rather spend my time working on paying projects than help make it.
For how much real 3D software can cost, I'm truely surprised someone is bitching about emailing two friends about it...
I agree. 3D design is very complicated, making it work and work well is expensive, especially work well enough and doesn't waste a professional designer's time with bad user interface practices.
Also, the number of people that benefit from being able to do 3D design is much smaller than the number of people that can benefit from an operating system or office software.
I really haven't paid attention, but I really haven't noticed any OSS 3D design software. I'm not sure if it's because there aren't any, there aren't any good ones or what. I've tried to make the core of a good CAD program then I wised up when I realized how much work it would be to make one that's as good as ten year old commercial software, even if it was 2D-only.
It would still take several hours. The problem I'm currently having is the system suddenly can't operate my tuner, particularly, channel control.
The problem I had before was that a program to test the tuner before going to the final Myth setup, xawtv, was hard to find, I did find packages for it though. Make sure you install Synaptic, that made finding the packages I wanted a lot easier.
If marketing didn't matter, then DEC would probably still be around as DEC. They were very good with engineering, but bad at marketing and mad at management too.
I think the point is that you can hide a device somewhere around the computer without having to actually tamper with the computer.
I'm not surprised with the tech, I thought there was a tech journalist that had it demonstrated to him by government security researchers a few months ago.
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Speakeasy probably charges a premium over standard DSL because it is a premium service. Who would have thought?
Speakeasy proably has long running contracts from before the FCC ruling in question, and as such, probably aren't affected, for now.
The studios are leaning away from HD-DVD because they basically utilize the same technology as existing DVDs, but BluRay didn't have the must have CSS (Consumer Screwed Severely) version 2.0.
I really don't understand what you are saying here.
Both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are using the same AACS scheme as a base.
Funny, I didn't spot a single iPod in that gallery.
Other than the that hippie-fied a Mercedes, I didn't see a hole lot that really screamed moneybags. Even the prop airplanes looked pretty old, and old airplanes really aren't as expensive as people seem to assume.
Truth be told.. i want to live in one of these towers before i'm middle aged, so get moving with the restriction removal!
Mile-high towers would seem to be trouble in the brewing. It would seem to be such an easy target to aim for. For such a tall structure, I'd hope they'll make it withstand any concievable sort of natural disaster of a magnitude they don't expect to see for 10k years, typhoon and earthquakes and such, because if a mile high tower goes down, I think it would be a human catastrophe of a magnitude unseen previously.
In the US, it's probably much cheaper to just sprawl. One thing that shoots down tall towers in many places is the immense shadow they cast, esp. in the mornings and evenings, imagine a 12 mile long shadow. I wonder if asian cities will really even consider that when they approve the megatowers.
I think you've somehow missed the chatter about the miniITX boards?
Windows sucks for other reasons. :)
Don't get me wrong, I've had some issues with Windows, but I have other issues with Linux, and yet other issues with OS X. I am keeping all three OSs around because I think each one has a niche. While all three can more or less perform the same general types of tasks, each one has strong points making it better for particular tasks that the otherss won't do as well.
It's funny, but frankly, I have never had stability problems (or BSODs) with Windows NT/2000/XP unless I had the wrong driver or bad hardware.
How about taking ADVANTAGE of the digital form
The biggest is the cost shift issue.
Only when ebooks are priced such that it reflects the fact that the costs are a lot lower to make them. That and there is an affordable large transflective display so I don't have to read on an emissive screen.
As it is, it costs more to buy 50 ebooks + some sort of reader than it does to just buy the 50 books. And those books are re-sellable. The ebook reader is too risky from a damage perspective, I can drop a book on concrete 2m up (or higher) and still read it, do you know anyone that is willing to drop their PDA from that height? So the low cost and durability of the e-book reader is important.
If an ebook costed 10% that of a paper book to reflect the significantly lowered costs, then I wouldn't be worried about resellability. I won't pay 90% of the cost of a paper book, in reality, that's a lot more expensive than the paper book because of the inability to resell it, and the requirement to own a reader. Searchability is nice but not worth the expense, the way things are currently priced.
The above is mostly for entertainment. For reference information, I currently just use the internet whenever possible.
Trees easily grown and renewable, and books are recyclable. Electronics required to tote e-books require electricity, toxic batteries, wasteful semiconductor fabs, hard to recycle display panels and such.
Yep, RAID-0 is the configuration you want to use if you want to risk losing data. You want RAID-1. I'm not saying that it's an excuse to have a proper back-up though, RAID merely keeps you going should a drive die.
It may depend on locale, but in my state, it costs more than a "couple hundred dollars" to start an LLC. It was closer to $600 once everything was done.
I had noticed a few bugs in the code in a PHP book that I owned and discovered that there was no way to report them. The published errata list didn't list those flaws.
One problem I have with ebooks is that publishers want to take all the benefits and push all the negatives on the user, pretty much by cost-shifting to the user.
eBooks require proprietary programs or proprietary hardware, which the user is required to use.
Publishers get away from the costs having to print, package, store and distribute paper, they cut out the middle man of distributors and book sellers and yet, they still often charged 90% the cost of the paper book, and the cost of reading the ebook in a portable fashion is high, one has to own and use a laptop. Laptops still have run time issues, books don't.
Jettas are pretty bad cars.
I want a TDI but the Beetle and the Jettas aren't that great of a car. No one else seems to be making affordable diesel car, some report 50MPG with a TDI Beetle. You can get more efficient cars in Europe and Asia but they are a lot smaller and entail a lot more sacrifices for IMO marginal increases.
I don't think we can get away from petrol autos for a good while, but we can get more efficient ones, diesel is most often petroleum based but it has a more efficient combustion cycle and puts out less CO2. The biggest downside is particulates, but that form of pollution washes out the air with rain.
Now sometimes while slogging through my day, paying bills, shopping, working and things like that I sometimes say "Man I really should calculate the cosine of this electric bill", but as of yet I haven't been harmed by not actually doing that.
Education isn't necessarily about "being useful". For example, knowing history doesn't seem obviously useful, but those that don't know history will repeat it.
Trigonometry and calculus are useful tools to understand the world around us. In high school, I was trying to learn how to program 3D perspectives and rotations, and I found a need for trigonometry before it was taught, and applying linear algebra or matrices would have made it even simpler. I use it from time to time to solve mechanical problems.
If to you, all life is is performing tasks that a monkey could do, then you don't need any sort of education and humans probably should just live in the hills.
Education is first, proving that you can learn things that are hard to do, and proving that you can take what you learned and solve problems. Problem solving and ability to learn complex things are the #1 practical abilities that humans need. It's not about specific skills. Any person that just says "I never learned how to do that, therefore can't do that" proved they failed their education.
I think this unwillingness to learn on the part of Westerners is going to eventually be the downfall of current Western Civilization if uncorrected, Asian societies, particularly India and China are catching up, and quickly, and each country is already putting out more educated people than most of the West, and they are starting to become innovators without having to move to the West.
Once you go public, the company is burdened with a need to focus on short term advantages at the cost of long term development. Quarterly or monthly balances take precedence over longer term plans unfortunately, even if the longer term plans would net more profit.
I agree. What happens is that you get stuck between two groups of people: customers and shareholders. Things that shareholders think are in their best interest aren't always in their best interest.
A good sized R&D budget is absolutely critical to the survival of a technology company, larger than any other industry.
In the 60's, there was this posturing between superpowers, competition, as it were.
I'd love to see manned missions, but the plain fact is that it is extremely expensive. NASA + JPL get much more science done per dollar using automated devices than they do with astronauts.
Don't compare this to the PSX -> PS2 step, sure it just added more power, but the difference is that the PSX were too weak for a lot of gameplay possibilities. There does not seem to be much new gameplay possibilities on the PS3 as of yet (though I'd love to be proven wrong), just a bit more polish and glitz.
HD game play. While it could be written off as "glitz", being stuck with NTSC (or PAL) is IMO horrendous. I can't imagine a serious gamer saying they want VGA level resolution when they can get so much better, up to 6x more pixels. I tried playing the demos of the current console on a standard TV at a store, and it just looks awful. It's a pain shooting down a blob when it could actually have some detail.
The actual manufacturing of most electronics products is very cheap. The costs stated don't cover R&D or advertising.
They said "average chip cost", I imagine P4s cost a lot more to make than flash memory or the chipsets that Intel makes, as well as the miriad other chips, such as microcontrollers.
Have you considered what happens when incremental cost goes to zero? Therein lies the magic of Free Software, my friend.
You still have to convince someone to make that first copy, or find a way to finance that work. Even if it's just a person's free time, there is a cost, that person could be doing other things instead. Free software is nice, but I'd rather spend my time working on paying projects than help make it.
Then there's maintainance and updates too.
For how much real 3D software can cost, I'm truely surprised someone is bitching about emailing two friends about it...
I agree. 3D design is very complicated, making it work and work well is expensive, especially work well enough and doesn't waste a professional designer's time with bad user interface practices.
Also, the number of people that benefit from being able to do 3D design is much smaller than the number of people that can benefit from an operating system or office software.
I really haven't paid attention, but I really haven't noticed any OSS 3D design software. I'm not sure if it's because there aren't any, there aren't any good ones or what. I've tried to make the core of a good CAD program then I wised up when I realized how much work it would be to make one that's as good as ten year old commercial software, even if it was 2D-only.
I haven't heard of one, and without a lot of work put into refinement, I wouldn't want to be in that business.
These instructions are pretty decent though:
http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php
It would still take several hours. The problem I'm currently having is the system suddenly can't operate my tuner, particularly, channel control.
The problem I had before was that a program to test the tuner before going to the final Myth setup, xawtv, was hard to find, I did find packages for it though. Make sure you install Synaptic, that made finding the packages I wanted a lot easier.
If marketing didn't matter, then DEC would probably still be around as DEC. They were very good with engineering, but bad at marketing and mad at management too.
I spec and purchase all my servers. well, me or the other sysadmin do.
Wouldn't work at a place where the PHB made technology purchasing decisions.
Fortunately for you, you are lucky for now, but unfortunately, it does not seem to be the norm.
But don't most server admins know the benefits, and won't they have already done the research on what they want to buy?
You think server admins usually get to choose what to buy?
I don't think so.
It looks to me the ads are probably targeted at getting the mindshare of PHB types.
I think the point is that you can hide a device somewhere around the computer without having to actually tamper with the computer.
I'm not surprised with the tech, I thought there was a tech journalist that had it demonstrated to him by government security researchers a few months ago.