Basically they turned a $200+ device* into a $29 USB key.
You don't want to boot from a USB key, that would be incredibly slow. You also don't want to swap to it as flash memory has a much lower ceiling of re-writes. Not that you'd necessarily want to boot from an iPod, as those drives are slow, just not as slow as a flash key.
Given that a $200 iPod is 4GB, I don't know of any $29 USB keys that can store 4GB.
There really isn't a standard for booting from a USB key either. First, there is the issue of whether a particular computer can do it, it varies by machine, one set up for one type of bootloader might not work with a bootloader of another brand.
One possible characteristic not mentioned in TFA was: People who role-play might be more inclined to game the system - definitely not a desirable personality trait to have in personnel deployed in sensitive positions.
I see some issues here. How many politicians "game the system", yet have never played D&D? Ted Kennedy probably never played, but he's one of the masters, you have to be if you can drive drunk, drown a girl and not lose your licence and face a few year's hard time like he should have. The same goes for car salespeople. Lawyers.
Also, IDF has a big name attached to them, but that doesn't make their claims necessarily true.
I can't say much as I've never played a collector card game or RPG.
For some reason, no US anime distributor really tries hard in the theatrical market. I'm talking maybe 15 screens across the US, with 10 of them being California.
The problem with saying they didn't try to market it is, well, you are right, they didn't, but I think the reason they didn't is valid. People complained that Disney (through Miramax) didn't promote Mononoke, as if promoting it "better" would have meant selling enough more tickets to pay for the ads, but their test market showed that it wouldn't happen. They tried the standard blitz tactic in a standard test market, Minneapolis-St. Paul, where every theater had a screen running Mononoke with lots of ads on TV, radio, newspapers, yet it still tanked. Heck, there were magazine ads and articles in Time and Newsweek.
I really don't blame them for not trying harder, it's hard to convince a person to invest in a scheme if they think that they'll only get back $5 for every $10 spent. The point of marketing is to help make money by creating product awareness, not just to blow it on ads that won't show a return.
By my estimate, it is still about 25 dpi. It would beat my projector hands down, I think I have about 4 dpi on the final screen, though I am projecting XGA onto about a 180" diagonal.
I wouldn't use it as a personal screen unless I were five meters back, but that's part of the idea for some people, a convergence display.
Actually, it applies very much to guns and gun control because there are numerous unenforced or unenforcible gun laws as it is. Adding another to the pile isn't going to change things.
Criminal behavior doesn't necessarily change because a law is made. You can't outright ban things without consequences, the Prohibition, the drug war and current gun control laws have shown this time and again.
The anti-iTunes site I've seen says that "artists" get about twelve to fifteen cents a track from each sale on iTunes. That's actually pretty good if you compare it with how much of the final sale price a build-to-order manufacturer gets for electronics and auto parts.
I'm surprised fans are going this far. There are plenty of other sci-fi shows, it's not that hard to be better than Enterprise. I think there is a bit of a glut of sci-fi on TV, and Star Trek has been overdone. Even if they don't like what is on now, there are so many of these TV shows on DVD too, and the company that finances the show gets its due and without the obnoxious ads every six minutes.
The claim that the users are open and freethinkers has nothing to do with whether the platform is closed.
While the platform is somewhat closed and he hardware very closed, the release of Darwin and the use of numerous open standards doesn't fit your theory. Their software complies more with open standards than Microsoft's has any year, and I don't think they've tried to make their own proprietary revision of those open standards.
I think you've missed a few points on the lawsuits There are laws saying that information knowingly retrieved from NDA'd sources are not protected under journalistic priviledges. Apple isn't trying to protect thoughts, they are trying to protect their platform. There is a significant difference between the two.
I don't think your point means that there is no substance to Apple products, because for the most part, it isn't true.
Now that's an unreasonable statement that oversimplifies reality. I am willing to accept that there may be a correlation, but proving causality is going to be tougher. I think games could be a bad influence, but humans are a far greater influence.
Personally, I want to see these studies that show there is or isn't a link between game violence and real violence. I've never heard of such a study either way.
Desktop and mobile chips mean a lot in difference, it's not just about having more idle modes. The thermal design power of the fastest Pentium M chip is 25 watts. The slower and ultra low volt P-Ms are in the mid-single digits. I am certain that the leakage power at idle of even a slow desktop Athlon 64 is higher than the fastest Pentium M running at 100%.
I think the IMAX upconversion process does something similar to this if their promotional literature is to be believed. Whatever the process really is, the results are absolutely beautiful. I've seen Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and The Matrix II and III on an IMAX screen. The last two looked so nice that ignoring the movies are bad was pretty easy. There's no way that Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will retain that level of detail.
You could say just project the 35MM reels, but it doesn't work that way if you are projecting to 120ft+ wide screens vs. just 30ft.
Look, spam is bad, but is it that hard to see a fine of $7500 for each piece of email is an unreasonable penalty? Would you also think that a $100,000 fine be appropriate for a person that stole $1?
Just like many other advancements in CPU, yes, people will be able to afford them, if not right away, pretty quickly.
I think the initial pricing for a dual core 2.8 GHz chip is about $250. 3.0 & 3.2GHz will be available at higher prices, I think an extra $100 per step.
Shared Library actually works better than AirTunes in this regard
About the only "work" I got out of Shared Library was... nothing.
It would be nice if I could get it to work, but it just doesn't. Apple's instructions and trouble shooting guides are worthless, and nothing seems to show on Google. Even if I turn off the firewalls on both computers, I have yet to see iTunes sharing to work. This is one reason I won't buy the Airport Express. I'd love to get one, really, but I have no confidence that it will work.
I have a Mac mini and several Windows 2000 PCs on the same switch and subnet, and nothing I do seems to work between any of them.
Actually, it is important. I don't think it has been done with props. The point was to get the pilot back as quickly as possible. Voyager wasn't a solo flight, there were two people that could trade shifts.
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Since mp3's got popular, I barely buy any physical CDs anymore.
Hmm, this seems to go against the Slashdot dogma that MP3 downloads increase CD sales.
Basically they turned a $200+ device* into a $29 USB key.
You don't want to boot from a USB key, that would be incredibly slow. You also don't want to swap to it as flash memory has a much lower ceiling of re-writes. Not that you'd necessarily want to boot from an iPod, as those drives are slow, just not as slow as a flash key.
Given that a $200 iPod is 4GB, I don't know of any $29 USB keys that can store 4GB.
There really isn't a standard for booting from a USB key either. First, there is the issue of whether a particular computer can do it, it varies by machine, one set up for one type of bootloader might not work with a bootloader of another brand.
It's a pretty nice machine but would a low-cost version really compete well against an Opteron-based workstation?
One possible characteristic not mentioned in TFA was: People who role-play might be more inclined to game the system - definitely not a desirable personality trait to have in personnel deployed in sensitive positions.
I see some issues here. How many politicians "game the system", yet have never played D&D? Ted Kennedy probably never played, but he's one of the masters, you have to be if you can drive drunk, drown a girl and not lose your licence and face a few year's hard time like he should have. The same goes for car salespeople. Lawyers.
Also, IDF has a big name attached to them, but that doesn't make their claims necessarily true.
I can't say much as I've never played a collector card game or RPG.
For some reason, no US anime distributor really tries hard in the theatrical market. I'm talking maybe 15 screens across the US, with 10 of them being California.
The problem with saying they didn't try to market it is, well, you are right, they didn't, but I think the reason they didn't is valid. People complained that Disney (through Miramax) didn't promote Mononoke, as if promoting it "better" would have meant selling enough more tickets to pay for the ads, but their test market showed that it wouldn't happen. They tried the standard blitz tactic in a standard test market, Minneapolis-St. Paul, where every theater had a screen running Mononoke with lots of ads on TV, radio, newspapers, yet it still tanked. Heck, there were magazine ads and articles in Time and Newsweek.
I really don't blame them for not trying harder, it's hard to convince a person to invest in a scheme if they think that they'll only get back $5 for every $10 spent. The point of marketing is to help make money by creating product awareness, not just to blow it on ads that won't show a return.
It was bad enough that the shuffle looks like a pregnancy tester, why does Sony's product look like some sort of eyeliner package?
I think the backlight is the biggest factor. Backlights are often just flourescent tubes.
I think it might be an interesting exercise, take the known power consumptions of other known sizes of LCD TVs and scaling up by area.
By my estimate, it is still about 25 dpi. It would beat my projector hands down, I think I have about 4 dpi on the final screen, though I am projecting XGA onto about a 180" diagonal.
I wouldn't use it as a personal screen unless I were five meters back, but that's part of the idea for some people, a convergence display.
Actually, it applies very much to guns and gun control because there are numerous unenforced or unenforcible gun laws as it is. Adding another to the pile isn't going to change things.
Criminal behavior doesn't necessarily change because a law is made. You can't outright ban things without consequences, the Prohibition, the drug war and current gun control laws have shown this time and again.
I'm pretty impressed that much thought went into the "dept" subhead. I don't know how many people read it, I rarely pay attention to it. Bravo!
e and the era of private spacecraft is in ascent.
Uh, first, we have to have private spacecraft. Burt Rutan's project is about at the level of the second Mercury flight, which was suborbital.
The anti-iTunes site I've seen says that "artists" get about twelve to fifteen cents a track from each sale on iTunes. That's actually pretty good if you compare it with how much of the final sale price a build-to-order manufacturer gets for electronics and auto parts.
I'm surprised fans are going this far. There are plenty of other sci-fi shows, it's not that hard to be better than Enterprise. I think there is a bit of a glut of sci-fi on TV, and Star Trek has been overdone. Even if they don't like what is on now, there are so many of these TV shows on DVD too, and the company that finances the show gets its due and without the obnoxious ads every six minutes.
Uh, wow. WiFi doesn't work anything like that.
The claim that the users are open and freethinkers has nothing to do with whether the platform is closed.
While the platform is somewhat closed and he hardware very closed, the release of Darwin and the use of numerous open standards doesn't fit your theory. Their software complies more with open standards than Microsoft's has any year, and I don't think they've tried to make their own proprietary revision of those open standards.
I think you've missed a few points on the lawsuits There are laws saying that information knowingly retrieved from NDA'd sources are not protected under journalistic priviledges. Apple isn't trying to protect thoughts, they are trying to protect their platform. There is a significant difference between the two.
I don't think your point means that there is no substance to Apple products, because for the most part, it isn't true.
Now that's an unreasonable statement that oversimplifies reality. I am willing to accept that there may be a correlation, but proving causality is going to be tougher. I think games could be a bad influence, but humans are a far greater influence.
Personally, I want to see these studies that show there is or isn't a link between game violence and real violence. I've never heard of such a study either way.
Desktop and mobile chips mean a lot in difference, it's not just about having more idle modes. The thermal design power of the fastest Pentium M chip is 25 watts. The slower and ultra low volt P-Ms are in the mid-single digits. I am certain that the leakage power at idle of even a slow desktop Athlon 64 is higher than the fastest Pentium M running at 100%.
I think the IMAX upconversion process does something similar to this if their promotional literature is to be believed. Whatever the process really is, the results are absolutely beautiful. I've seen Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and The Matrix II and III on an IMAX screen. The last two looked so nice that ignoring the movies are bad was pretty easy. There's no way that Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will retain that level of detail.
You could say just project the 35MM reels, but it doesn't work that way if you are projecting to 120ft+ wide screens vs. just 30ft.
Look, spam is bad, but is it that hard to see a fine of $7500 for each piece of email is an unreasonable penalty? Would you also think that a $100,000 fine be appropriate for a person that stole $1?
No, it just has to be faster than the last aircraft to circle the globe nonstop and unrefuelled with only a single pilot!
Other than by an air balloon by the same person, was there ever an aircraft to circle the globe nonstop and unrefuelled with only a single pilot?
Just like many other advancements in CPU, yes, people will be able to afford them, if not right away, pretty quickly.
I think the initial pricing for a dual core 2.8 GHz chip is about $250. 3.0 & 3.2GHz will be available at higher prices, I think an extra $100 per step.
Shared Library actually works better than AirTunes in this regard
About the only "work" I got out of Shared Library was... nothing.
It would be nice if I could get it to work, but it just doesn't. Apple's instructions and trouble shooting guides are worthless, and nothing seems to show on Google. Even if I turn off the firewalls on both computers, I have yet to see iTunes sharing to work. This is one reason I won't buy the Airport Express. I'd love to get one, really, but I have no confidence that it will work.
I have a Mac mini and several Windows 2000 PCs on the same switch and subnet, and nothing I do seems to work between any of them.
Supposedly, he's on his way toward donating a significant fraction of his wealth, not a few percent but more like a high double digits.
Actually, it is important. I don't think it has been done with props. The point was to get the pilot back as quickly as possible. Voyager wasn't a solo flight, there were two people that could trade shifts.
Nice. Has anyone caught the fact that the video was made in 2003?