The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated had a power of 50 to 57 MT, and the light from the explosion, despite a cloudy sky, was visible from over 1,200 miles away, and I think scientists measured its shockwave circumnavigate the earth three times.
450MT and 1.6GT is a LOT more than even that. If it hits, it won't wipe out humanity, but I think it might have a very strong effect on the weather and water if it hits water, and it might collapse or destroy a few nation-states if it hits land.
I really don't think HD players will be outrageously expensive. LD media was expensive because they costed 10x more to make than a CD or VHS.
I should expand on this. Pressed Blu-Ray and HDDVD discs are already being made at $1 a piece in volume, marginally more than that of a pressed dual layer DVD. LDs costed about $10 a piece to make in volume because of their large size.
IIRC, some cable systems already have video on demand. People seem to be slow in accepting it.
I really don't think HD players will be outrageously expensive. LD media was expensive because they costed 10x more to make than a CD or VHS.
No one has to replace their entire collection, I'm pretty amazed by that idea. I just want a better format moving forward, the stuff I already own will remain in their respective formats except for a very few favorite movies.
Even when video is delivered over internet, there will need to be a way to store it and back it up., like backing up iTunes tracks. While I haven't had a hard drive failure in a long time, hard drives are said to be in two categories: those that are dying and those that are dead.
Consumers themselves have to stop buying the multiple revisions. They can't blame other people for their own impulses to own the latest version of everything. Those that behave like sheep, deserve to be treated like sheep and be sheared.
I don't think I've bought multiple revisions of a movie yet. There are times I have waited a remastered version because the first release was crap, but that means I have only bought one version.
I really don't care for the series, but I consider the LotR situation to be different, they announced both the theatrical and extended versions at the same time.
I believe there is a dual layer blu-ray standard that allows for nearly 50GB, which is apples-to-apples comparison with the dual layer DVD at 9GB.
This hybrid version allows for multi-format compatibility with the same disc (like SACD/CD hybrid discs), I don't think it is meant to expand capacity because it falls short of the dual layer version's capacity.
I don't think a PC can be the jack of all trades and the master of everything. For example, I expect that someone will try VoIP over a wireless laptop, but for most, a mobile phone simply suits the task better.
Game consoles are easier for game developers to support than PCs because of the fact they are inflexible. Rather than having millions of permutations, you have just a handful. On the consumer side, with a game console, it is rare that it needs a patch, whereas PC game developers seem to generally expect to have to patch a game several times for number of bugs.
Semiconductor production is also highly wasteful, IIRC, one small plant takes as much power as a mid-sized city. I forget, but someone made a report on how much water and other chemicals to make a single DRAM chip, which was quite an eye-opener.
It does matter, to me. I can see that detail without a problem, without sitting "too close". Likewise, aside from DRM, until printed characters on the screen is as smooth and crisp as a laser print from 1995, I don't think ebooks will matter. Text shouldn't be visibly jaggy. Antialiasing techniques, even Cleartype, is only a poor supstitute to increasint the points per inch to 200 or 300.
Laptop hard drives don't consume much, but I think you can save some power by booting from a flash chip in a PCMCIA adaptor. Good laptops have clock reduction modes to save power. The 125dpi screens are only a couple years old, so that's still spending money. The nicer 150ppi resolution laptop screans have only been available for maybe six months.
Desktop flat panels seem to consume quite a lot more power, maybe more than an entire laptop.
I thought DEC's Galaxy system could do dynamic system repartitioning, like five years ago. Multiple instances of the same OS, or instances of UNIX, VMS and NT could have processors added or taken away as needed.
Each CPU has its own dedicated link to the chipset., so that part isn't a problem. I'm not sure if they support SCSI anymore. It looks like Firewire, USB, Fibrechannel and SATA, but I don't see SCSI anywhere. I don't see a problem with drives, a second SATA disc would help a lot, or of course, I imagine both virtualizations could access a RAID without a major penalty.
Apple is trying to get into the supposed high margin enterprise market with XServe, XServe cluster and the RAID system. I don't know if it cuts into any of IBM's market though, I wonder what they think of it.
IIRC, games for the next XBox will be able to run on PCs too. I don't know the details, but I think there is an intermediate code being used such that you can target that code and it will run on XBox and PCs equally.
It may be possible, but I've simply never had the Windows 2k (or NT) system crash on me because of user software. The one thing that I know can crash the NT line is a bad driver, particularly a bug in the video driver or dying hardware.
Because the owner and the designer agree that that's not what they want to do.
You aren't explaining why they decided not to fly it more. I think it is surprising that they don't test this craft more to make sure all the bugs they had to fix really are worked out rather than just patches over the symptoms without fixing the actual problem.
I don't dispute any specific event that Anubis stated (I remember most of them), but the claim that Apple's only selling point is only "pretty" products, then I'd have to ask what that is based on. According to a PC World survey article a few months ago, Apple's products in general require about half the support and half the frustration as other products. The construction generally feels (to me) more solid and tidy too, compared to that of competitors. And OS X is a pretty secure with fewer vulnerabilities and a much faster patch turnaround, stable yet easy to use.
Yeah, Jobs has an unjustifiable ego but he's not a megalomaniac.
A subpoena is not a lawsuit. You sue one person, you may need to subpoena many other people that that person might have dealt with regarding that one person's activities.
The GNU GPL is an oddity, although I don't see it as unjustifiable. GPL basically needs copyright laws to be able to enforce it.
The GPL is about openly modifiable software, not openly modifiable legal documents. If people were allowed to modify the GPL document, it wouldn't be unlike allowing people to modify a contract after it is signed.
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I thought there was already an iPod external battery pack for sale by someone. A google search shows one for sale by Bilk'n, er, Belkin.
The article seemed short, I only counted three gadgets, with it being page 1 of 1.
The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated had a power of 50 to 57 MT, and the light from the explosion, despite a cloudy sky, was visible from over 1,200 miles away, and I think scientists measured its shockwave circumnavigate the earth three times.
450MT and 1.6GT is a LOT more than even that. If it hits, it won't wipe out humanity, but I think it might have a very strong effect on the weather and water if it hits water, and it might collapse or destroy a few nation-states if it hits land.
I really don't think HD players will be outrageously expensive. LD media was expensive because they costed 10x more to make than a CD or VHS.
I should expand on this. Pressed Blu-Ray and HDDVD discs are already being made at $1 a piece in volume, marginally more than that of a pressed dual layer DVD. LDs costed about $10 a piece to make in volume because of their large size.
IIRC, some cable systems already have video on demand. People seem to be slow in accepting it.
I really don't think HD players will be outrageously expensive. LD media was expensive because they costed 10x more to make than a CD or VHS.
No one has to replace their entire collection, I'm pretty amazed by that idea. I just want a better format moving forward, the stuff I already own will remain in their respective formats except for a very few favorite movies.
Even when video is delivered over internet, there will need to be a way to store it and back it up., like backing up iTunes tracks. While I haven't had a hard drive failure in a long time, hard drives are said to be in two categories: those that are dying and those that are dead.
Consumers themselves have to stop buying the multiple revisions. They can't blame other people for their own impulses to own the latest version of everything. Those that behave like sheep, deserve to be treated like sheep and be sheared.
I don't think I've bought multiple revisions of a movie yet. There are times I have waited a remastered version because the first release was crap, but that means I have only bought one version.
I really don't care for the series, but I consider the LotR situation to be different, they announced both the theatrical and extended versions at the same time.
I believe there is a dual layer blu-ray standard that allows for nearly 50GB, which is apples-to-apples comparison with the dual layer DVD at 9GB.
This hybrid version allows for multi-format compatibility with the same disc (like SACD/CD hybrid discs), I don't think it is meant to expand capacity because it falls short of the dual layer version's capacity.
Good joke.
I thought "it's" is a contraction of "it is". That is what dictionary.com says too.
I don't think a PC can be the jack of all trades and the master of everything. For example, I expect that someone will try VoIP over a wireless laptop, but for most, a mobile phone simply suits the task better.
Game consoles are easier for game developers to support than PCs because of the fact they are inflexible. Rather than having millions of permutations, you have just a handful. On the consumer side, with a game console, it is rare that it needs a patch, whereas PC game developers seem to generally expect to have to patch a game several times for number of bugs.
Semiconductor production is also highly wasteful, IIRC, one small plant takes as much power as a mid-sized city. I forget, but someone made a report on how much water and other chemicals to make a single DRAM chip, which was quite an eye-opener.
It does matter, to me. I can see that detail without a problem, without sitting "too close". Likewise, aside from DRM, until printed characters on the screen is as smooth and crisp as a laser print from 1995, I don't think ebooks will matter. Text shouldn't be visibly jaggy. Antialiasing techniques, even Cleartype, is only a poor supstitute to increasint the points per inch to 200 or 300.
Laptop hard drives don't consume much, but I think you can save some power by booting from a flash chip in a PCMCIA adaptor. Good laptops have clock reduction modes to save power. The 125dpi screens are only a couple years old, so that's still spending money. The nicer 150ppi resolution laptop screans have only been available for maybe six months.
Desktop flat panels seem to consume quite a lot more power, maybe more than an entire laptop.
I thought DEC's Galaxy system could do dynamic system repartitioning, like five years ago. Multiple instances of the same OS, or instances of UNIX, VMS and NT could have processors added or taken away as needed.
Each CPU has its own dedicated link to the chipset., so that part isn't a problem. I'm not sure if they support SCSI anymore. It looks like Firewire, USB, Fibrechannel and SATA, but I don't see SCSI anywhere. I don't see a problem with drives, a second SATA disc would help a lot, or of course, I imagine both virtualizations could access a RAID without a major penalty.
Apple is trying to get into the supposed high margin enterprise market with XServe, XServe cluster and the RAID system. I don't know if it cuts into any of IBM's market though, I wonder what they think of it.
IIRC, games for the next XBox will be able to run on PCs too. I don't know the details, but I think there is an intermediate code being used such that you can target that code and it will run on XBox and PCs equally.
Instead of getting a card / box with built-in MPEG encoding, why not budget that extra money on a faster CPU instead?
It may be possible, but I've simply never had the Windows 2k (or NT) system crash on me because of user software. The one thing that I know can crash the NT line is a bad driver, particularly a bug in the video driver or dying hardware.
Because the owner and the designer agree that that's not what they want to do.
You aren't explaining why they decided not to fly it more. I think it is surprising that they don't test this craft more to make sure all the bugs they had to fix really are worked out rather than just patches over the symptoms without fixing the actual problem.
IMO, a handful of flights doesn't make the design necessarily proven, mostly just a successfully working proof of concept.
I don't dispute any specific event that Anubis stated (I remember most of them), but the claim that Apple's only selling point is only "pretty" products, then I'd have to ask what that is based on. According to a PC World survey article a few months ago, Apple's products in general require about half the support and half the frustration as other products. The construction generally feels (to me) more solid and tidy too, compared to that of competitors. And OS X is a pretty secure with fewer vulnerabilities and a much faster patch turnaround, stable yet easy to use.
Yeah, Jobs has an unjustifiable ego but he's not a megalomaniac.
I think everyone that works for just about any design or technology firm signs an NDA.
A subpoena is not a lawsuit. You sue one person, you may need to subpoena many other people that that person might have dealt with regarding that one person's activities.
The GNU GPL is an oddity, although I don't see it as unjustifiable. GPL basically needs copyright laws to be able to enforce it.
The GPL is about openly modifiable software, not openly modifiable legal documents. If people were allowed to modify the GPL document, it wouldn't be unlike allowing people to modify a contract after it is signed.
The T2 extreme edition WM9 disc isn't a DVD-Video.
This is also old news, I think as of last year? Man, Slashdot editors really is getting stale and behind the times.
Hard drives aren't necessarily as reliable though for the cost of the drives, keeping two sets of backup drives might be better for some poeple.
With tape, you can put it into any compatible drive, or have multiple tapes. At any rate, both do have to be removed.