Where are the 3.5" optical disks? The last time sony was successful was way back when they introduced 3.5" floppies. Since then they've had one flop after another. You'd think people would actually learn from experience. 3.5" disks would put some physical incentive behind a format. As it is I suspect most people, like myself, are yawning over these new formats. Am I supposed to be excited about having to buy a $2000 tv and a $500 hd/bd player for a few extra pixels of movies I already have? Please. Adoption rates are going to be dismal.
Good grief. When's the last time anyone saw a past olympic event that was more than a 3 second blip on a prepackaged news blip. And they're worried about DRM here? Let's be clear. They are going to show the event for a day. Some people will watch it, most won't and almost everyone will NEVER SEE IT AGAIN. Wow, there's a lot of repeat business in that brilliant model!
They don't have a clue about today's internet culture. You think they would have caught on last time, but obviously they are still clueless.
I agree. Ironically the manufacturers are bit afraid of OSS. On one hand, it's sort of an unknown factor to them and on the other, major format pushers like Microsoft and Apple discourage it. So as long as the consumer demand isn't there, ogg support will only come from underdog vendors.
Unfortuantely, consumers are fools. They'll use a defacto format just b/c it is defacto format, even if it makes their life more the miserable for doing so. And indeed MP3 does, in the form of lower quality, higher prices and eventual DRM.
But here's the real issue. Vendors use these formats to vye for market. More popular brands can afford to only support a limited set of formats. Worse, Microsoft pressures vendors not to use OSS formats if they want WM support. Less popular brands are put at a disadvantage even though they support more formats to capture a nitche or to broaden their market. The result is the we consumers end up with a confusing mess which makes it increasingly difficult to buy compatible equipment.
What happend to standards groups! And there's the thing. If ogg and OSS in general want to thrive, the differnt OSS vendors really need to come together and form a strong standards body.
But all of this may be a mute point. In decade or two 4G cell phones with large built in hard drives will deliver all the music one could possibly want. It will be cheap enough that the common listener won't even worry about "having" the music, so formats and DRM become mute points.
But survey show that people would rther give up cable than the internet. So it's not so clear cut. The problem is still cost. If broadband were $10/month everyone would have it.
First, good-bye Norton. Nice knowing you (I guess), but soon you will go the way of the Netscape.
Second, once M$ is well underway, expect them to switch the whole OS cost model to an annual subscription fee --for updates and security at about $100 per year.
Cyric, you are terribly off base! These guys are professionals who have a huge amount of hands on experience in material science. And these guys are doing a great job of introducing the basics of expiremental method to a wide audience. Is it perfect? Of course not. But you are comparing apples and oranges. While I would certainly appreciate some in depth programs on paricular aspects of science, just becuase Mythbusters is not this, does not make it worthless. I usually watch TV to relax. If I wanted a textbook education in physics I'd take a college course, not watch Mythbusters. While the information gained from the show may often be trivial, there are nontheless a great many useful tidbits to be gained from watching. Anf these guys are funny too!
I think the industry made a terrible mistake. In the day of 5 1/4" floppies 3.5" floppies gave a nice incentive for continuing the upgrade path. Smaller dics were much nicer to handle for their dimunitive size. They had an opportunity to repeat this again with the higher capacity blue laser discs but they have squandering it. They're only selling point is 5 times capacity, but at 5 times the cost who cares? 3 times capacity for 3 times the cost would be much more palatable and I for one would have been happier justfor the reduced size.
This will be VERY BAD for small internet businesses and thus the internet as a whole b/c it will greatly increase overhead costs. Not only will the customer have to pay the tax but also the additional cost of handling all the accounting invloved. In most cases, this will push online prices beyond local brick & morters, which will pound online resellers and in turn plumet the shipping companies that are currently expanding thanks to online sales.
If such a tax is really necessary, then it should be put it in the lap of the shipping companies. They are large companies which already manage forms of interstate taxation, so they can more easily absorb the overhead and thus hold the costs down for the consumer.
Will these environmental stresses fork the polar bears evolution toward becoming a water creature? Are there any indications that some them could manage not to drown and actually survive spending most of their time in the water?
I too once thought an *enforced*.xxx domain was a good idea, just to allow those who wished it to easily block adult content. But now I've come to think that's too much of a hack. If the government wants to regulate it all they'd have to do is mandate offical META-TAGS to be used in pages. They could do a number of differnt content meta-tags realated to sex, language and violence. Browsers could then be configured to not display certain pages. That's a much better way to go about it.
As for the global domains. Since they are in no way enforced, let's just get rid of them altogether. Then the ICANN cats will have one less thing to waste our money on. Word!
Forget domains, they are practially meaningless anyway (Delic.io.us).
And this other language crup. I'm sorry, people want to learn English. Not becuase they don't like their one native language --far from it, no dount they love their own culture. But simply because people also want to participate in a global community --that requires a global lanaguage. By happen stance of history tht langauge has become English. If you start promoting dividing the web into smaller and smaller ethnic spheres you will hamper the greatest achivement of the Internet, connecting us to each other.
The real problem is Patents for $. Essentially corporations can buy almost any patent they wish for the right amount of green. The USPTO now operates at a *PROFIT* and are REQUIRED TO DO SO. Thus they cha-ching the lawmakers kitty. This practice is downright theft not to mention UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Get rid of this kind of CORPORATE COMMUNSIM and we could yet have fair but firm IP protections beneficial to inovation and the people.
There's more they can do to increase to cost ratio. First, You're out in the middle of the ocean, plenty of sunlight out there, so cover the thing in Solar Cells. Secondly, you're out in the middle of the ocean, plenty of waves out there, why not pick up the wave energy. Third, you're out in the middle of the ocean, thers's a significant surface to deep ocean temperture differnential out there, pick that up with a sterling engine. And number four, if you produce the hydrogen/oxygen under water rather then on the surface you can allow it too rise to the surface and harvest bubble energy!;)
Aside, I'm not so sure about the battery thing, unless they've improved battery technology there is low return on high cost. Hydrogen seems the better storage mechanism. And, uhm, how are they getting the electrcity to the grid if it's out in the middle of the ocean? Do they sail in and out to unload?
A Planet is an object that orbits a Star NOT belonging to any other well-defined category according to region, size and composition besides gaseous-giant or terrestial-tectonic. Conversely, and for clarity, any object that orbits a Star, either independently or in conjuction, readily belonging to an additional well-defined category is called a Planetoid. In so far as a particular usage may be considered irregular, not of a well-defined cataegory, or referring to the superset of all Star-orbiting objects, the term Planetary Object is used in conjunction with the specified capacity, although colloqually the term Planet may be used in it's place.
So...
Pluto is a not a Plant, but rather a Planetoid, b/c it can be readily categorized along with the other Kepler Bodies (as a matter of region, size and composition). And Jupiter is a Planet b/c it cannot be readily categoized with anything else besides the other gaseous giants. Likewise for the Earth, being terrestial and tectonically active. But not the Earth's Moon b/c it's not tectonic. Nonetheless, Pluto can be referred to as a Planet casually, as may the Moon, as a corse synonym for Planetary Object.
So the terms take on a percise meaning, but one that is also somewhat flexible according to usage.
This is a great idea --terribly implemented. I, and certainly many others, thought of the "wnad" idea years ago, but to put it into a TV remote control fromat? That takes some truly revolutionary backwateredness. I just pray they have no silly patents. Imitators can move in and correct. Expect Sony to get it right. And MS to copy with a minor swapping of two parts.
Would you like the DIY home kit? No mystery, it has been around for some time.
1) Dig a big hole 2) Obtain stock pile of Hydrogen Bombs 3) Drop a bomb into hole and detonate 4) Drop another bomb into hole in time to be detonated by the reaction of the first. 5) Repeat 4.
Viola! A Nuclear Combustion Engine.
BTW, that Big Giant fusion reactor they're building in France to go on line in 2016? 2016! Don't hold your breath. First its Pork. Second it'll likley be dropped for cost overruns, ir. more Pork. And third, even if they managed to finish it, it is only Big Giant so ordinary folk will still lack the means to there own energy production.
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Where are the 3.5" optical disks? The last time sony was successful was way back when they introduced 3.5" floppies. Since then they've had one flop after another. You'd think people would actually learn from experience. 3.5" disks would put some physical incentive behind a format. As it is I suspect most people, like myself, are yawning over these new formats. Am I supposed to be excited about having to buy a $2000 tv and a $500 hd/bd player for a few extra pixels of movies I already have? Please. Adoption rates are going to be dismal.
Good grief. When's the last time anyone saw a past olympic event that was more than a 3 second blip on a prepackaged news blip. And they're worried about DRM here? Let's be clear. They are going to show the event for a day. Some people will watch it, most won't and almost everyone will NEVER SEE IT AGAIN. Wow, there's a lot of repeat business in that brilliant model!
They don't have a clue about today's internet culture. You think they would have caught on last time, but obviously they are still clueless.
I agree. Ironically the manufacturers are bit afraid of OSS. On one hand, it's sort of an unknown factor to them and on the other, major format pushers like Microsoft and Apple discourage it. So as long as the consumer demand isn't there, ogg support will only come from underdog vendors.
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Unfortuantely, consumers are fools. They'll use a defacto format just b/c it is defacto format, even if it makes their life more the miserable for doing so. And indeed MP3 does, in the form of lower quality, higher prices and eventual DRM.
But here's the real issue. Vendors use these formats to vye for market. More popular brands can afford to only support a limited set of formats. Worse, Microsoft pressures vendors not to use OSS formats if they want WM support. Less popular brands are put at a disadvantage even though they support more formats to capture a nitche or to broaden their market. The result is the we consumers end up with a confusing mess which makes it increasingly difficult to buy compatible equipment.
What happend to standards groups! And there's the thing. If ogg and OSS in general want to thrive, the differnt OSS vendors really need to come together and form a strong standards body.
But all of this may be a mute point. In decade or two 4G cell phones with large built in hard drives will deliver all the music one could possibly want. It will be cheap enough that the common listener won't even worry about "having" the music, so formats and DRM become mute points.
In the mean time a recommendation:
http://reviews.cnet.com/Cowon_iAudio_U2_1GB/4505-
But survey show that people would rther give up cable than the internet. So it's not so clear cut. The problem is still cost. If broadband were $10/month everyone would have it.
First, good-bye Norton. Nice knowing you (I guess), but soon you will go the way of the Netscape.
Second, once M$ is well underway, expect them to switch the whole OS cost model to an annual subscription fee --for updates and security at about $100 per year.
Want to jack prices up and stiffle innovation? Reduce the window of profitability. Who are these numbskulls?
But organizations like the ADA make sure they don't get very far.
'Nuff said.
Cyric, you are terribly off base! These guys are professionals who have a huge amount of hands on experience in material science. And these guys are doing a great job of introducing the basics of expiremental method to a wide audience. Is it perfect? Of course not. But you are comparing apples and oranges. While I would certainly appreciate some in depth programs on paricular aspects of science, just becuase Mythbusters is not this, does not make it worthless. I usually watch TV to relax. If I wanted a textbook education in physics I'd take a college course, not watch Mythbusters. While the information gained from the show may often be trivial, there are nontheless a great many useful tidbits to be gained from watching. Anf these guys are funny too!
Er...it would be nice to know where and when this is being aired.
I think the industry made a terrible mistake. In the day of 5 1/4" floppies 3.5" floppies gave a nice incentive for continuing the upgrade path. Smaller dics were much nicer to handle for their dimunitive size. They had an opportunity to repeat this again with the higher capacity blue laser discs but they have squandering it. They're only selling point is 5 times capacity, but at 5 times the cost who cares? 3 times capacity for 3 times the cost would be much more palatable and I for one would have been happier justfor the reduced size.
This will be VERY BAD for small internet businesses and thus the internet as a whole b/c it will greatly increase overhead costs. Not only will the customer have to pay the tax but also the additional cost of handling all the accounting invloved. In most cases, this will push online prices beyond local brick & morters, which will pound online resellers and in turn plumet the shipping companies that are currently expanding thanks to online sales.
If such a tax is really necessary, then it should be put it in the lap of the shipping companies. They are large companies which already manage forms of interstate taxation, so they can more easily absorb the overhead and thus hold the costs down for the consumer.
Will these environmental stresses fork the polar bears evolution toward becoming a water creature? Are there any indications that some them could manage not to drown and actually survive spending most of their time in the water?
I too once thought an *enforced* .xxx domain was a good idea, just to allow those who wished it to easily block adult content. But now I've come to think that's too much of a hack. If the government wants to regulate it all they'd have to do is mandate offical META-TAGS to be used in pages. They could do a number of differnt content meta-tags realated to sex, language and violence. Browsers could then be configured to not display certain pages. That's a much better way to go about it.
As for the global domains. Since they are in no way enforced, let's just get rid of them altogether. Then the ICANN cats will have one less thing to waste our money on. Word!
Good lord, what are we doing? Nuclear batteries would be safer than all this.
Forget domains, they are practially meaningless anyway (Delic.io.us).
And this other language crup. I'm sorry, people want to learn English. Not becuase they don't like their one native language --far from it, no dount they love their own culture. But simply because people also want to participate in a global community --that requires a global lanaguage. By happen stance of history tht langauge has become English. If you start promoting dividing the web into smaller and smaller ethnic spheres you will hamper the greatest achivement of the Internet, connecting us to each other.
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Funny!!!
Might we expect Hologrpahic Hard Drives in a few years? Lets see... a 5 layer drive, 1.6TB x 5 = 8TB = 8000GB! Eight Thousand Gigabytes!
Then again given the nature of Holograhics, why mess with disk layers? Just use a holobrick. I can't even imagine how much more data that would hold.
The real problem is Patents for $. Essentially corporations can buy almost any patent they wish for the right amount of green. The USPTO now operates at a *PROFIT* and are REQUIRED TO DO SO. Thus they cha-ching the lawmakers kitty. This practice is downright theft not to mention UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Get rid of this kind of CORPORATE COMMUNSIM and we could yet have fair but firm IP protections beneficial to inovation and the people.
There's more they can do to increase to cost ratio. First, You're out in the middle of the ocean, plenty of sunlight out there, so cover the thing in Solar Cells. Secondly, you're out in the middle of the ocean, plenty of waves out there, why not pick up the wave energy. Third, you're out in the middle of the ocean, thers's a significant surface to deep ocean temperture differnential out there, pick that up with a sterling engine. And number four, if you produce the hydrogen/oxygen under water rather then on the surface you can allow it too rise to the surface and harvest bubble energy! ;)
Aside, I'm not so sure about the battery thing, unless they've improved battery technology there is low return on high cost. Hydrogen seems the better storage mechanism. And, uhm, how are they getting the electrcity to the grid if it's out in the middle of the ocean? Do they sail in and out to unload?
A Planet is an object that orbits a Star NOT belonging to any other well-defined category according to region, size and composition besides gaseous-giant or terrestial-tectonic. Conversely, and for clarity, any object that orbits a Star, either independently or in conjuction, readily belonging to an additional well-defined category is called a Planetoid. In so far as a particular usage may be considered irregular, not of a well-defined cataegory, or referring to the superset of all Star-orbiting objects, the term Planetary Object is used in conjunction with the specified capacity, although colloqually the term Planet may be used in it's place.
So...
Pluto is a not a Plant, but rather a Planetoid, b/c it can be readily categorized along with the other Kepler Bodies (as a matter of region, size and composition). And Jupiter is a Planet b/c it cannot be readily categoized with anything else besides the other gaseous giants. Likewise for the Earth, being terrestial and tectonically active. But not the Earth's Moon b/c it's not tectonic. Nonetheless, Pluto can be referred to as a Planet casually, as may the Moon, as a corse synonym for Planetary Object.
So the terms take on a percise meaning, but one that is also somewhat flexible according to usage.
Anyhow, that's my 2 pennies.
This is a great idea --terribly implemented. I, and certainly many others, thought of the "wnad" idea years ago, but to put it into a TV remote control fromat? That takes some truly revolutionary backwateredness. I just pray they have no silly patents. Imitators can move in and correct. Expect Sony to get it right. And MS to copy with a minor swapping of two parts.
Would you like the DIY home kit? No mystery, it has been around for some time.
1) Dig a big hole
2) Obtain stock pile of Hydrogen Bombs
3) Drop a bomb into hole and detonate
4) Drop another bomb into hole in time to be detonated by the reaction of the first.
5) Repeat 4.
Viola! A Nuclear Combustion Engine.
BTW, that Big Giant fusion reactor they're building in France to go on line in 2016? 2016! Don't hold your breath. First its Pork. Second it'll likley be dropped for cost overruns, ir. more Pork. And third, even if they managed to finish it, it is only Big Giant so ordinary folk will still lack the means to there own energy production.
http://www.inphase-technologies.com/news/terabyte_ benchmark.html
Nuff said.