>>It's already well-known that the VIDEO GAME >>INDUSTRY grosses more money than the film >>industry (and hey, probably nets more too -- >>put that in your "2 out of 10" pipe and smoke >>it, Mr. Valenti!).
Um, no it doesn't. World wide video game sales may gross more than DOMESTIC film box office sales, but that's hardly the extent of the film industry.
What if I need to translate a document to Italian? I can buy a software package for 1 document and hope that down the line I need to do some conversions, Or I could rent the software for cheaper, one-time use.
Say I want to play a video game. Some games, like Counterstrike and Q3, I could play online for years. Some games I finish in a week or two and then un-install. Those games I would rent.
What if I'm doing a VHDL design and I want to try doing some custom synthesis on it? If this is my only design with that particular type of FPGA then it doesn't make sense to buy an 50,000$ design package. But to rent for a week? That I could take to the bean counters.
ASP and renting could be huge. It could make a market for a lot of software that today is either very very expensive or all custom jobs. It could also cut down on piracy, just because it might be easier and cheap-enough for people to rent software that they could use but would never buy.
I don't do photo manipulations everyday. Why should I spend $600 on photoshop? But $5 a day? Yeah, I could use that.
Driver problems? Kernel problems with hardware? What are you running? Windows 95 Unix version?
Run a stable kernel; there are no "driver" problems, there are no kernel problems. You don't need to run 2.5.3 for clustering. You don't even need to run 2.4
And if you want you can buy PC's with a warrenty. Having said that, I build my own computer 4 years ago from different parts from different stores and the only thing thats failed in that time is my mouse.
Why would you do this? I can see making the game for Linux first and then porting, but why on Gods green earth if you a had game so earth-shattering great would you NOT try to sell it to a market about 10000% bigger then Linux users?
Games take money to develop, and most people want to make that back.
This isnt a problem looking for a solution, this is a bunch of Philips marketing drones trying to come up with a new revenue model. This is all about selling new Philips IC's and "solutions" to content providers, STB manufactures, etc.
Are you a real live person or some IRC bot that got away? Nothing you've said has any relation to his post.
Multicasting is a open specification. The source code exists, and yet has NOTHING to do with the format being streamed. He never mentioned source code, licensing, pirating, microsoft, windows, linux or anything. Yet somehow you found enough hints or broken fragments to start frothing at the mouth about Freedom.
So from here, yes it does look like you're a dick.
You can improve the code, as long as your improved codec's datastream can still be decoded by a cvs co unmodified decoder.
This is smart, and contrary to what you believe you can improve the encoder without breaking compatibility with the decoder. The datastream format is what cannot change.
Two main problems;
1) The thing is a battery hog. I dont know what they claim but you wont get more than a couple hours per pair of AA's.
2) The anti-skip sucks. Really, really sucks. I can make it skip by putting it in my leg pocket (cargo pants) and walking. So dont plan to do any jogging with it or anything.
Other than that, the sound quality is good. The controls are simple but effective. You upgrade the firmware by burning the upgrade software onto a blank CD and then play that CD - so it's pretty easy to upgrade and Linux friendly.
RE: Unfortunately, the security measures imposed were sort of stupid: the ethernet cables of the classified net had to be at least so many feet from a phone line (they were worried that induced voltages from ethernet would allow someone on the phone to "tap" the classified net)
This is actually true. You could and do get enough crosstalk that a good sniffer in van could pull packets off your ethernet.
RE: keyboards attached to computers attached to the classified net couldn't be traded out to unclassified areas
Maybe they're worried about trojan hardware? A keyboard gets borrowed out, a small modification is made so that it logs every key pressed and then a week or two later gets "loaned" out again to extract the data.
remember these are people who get payed to be paranoid.
Sympatico has gotten so slow lately that the Globe and Mail actually had an article about it. In the evenings the speed rately goes higher than 80kbps. It caries from CO to CO, but overall everyone's complaining
Worst part is that some people are getting refunds and others are being refused. Guess it depends of how much of an asshole you are on the phone to billing.
Do you also run a green magic marker on the edges of your CD's to make them sound better?
It's a cable. Okay, buying a cheap-ish balanced shielded audio cable for 70 cents a foot will sound EXACTLY the same.
I work for a company that manufactures broadcast studio equipment. We put out gear that supports 24 bit, 152khZ sampling rates. We fail any that get under -110 dB of signal to noise. We calibrate for a CMRR of over -100 dB. Guess what we use? Standard AES/EBU audio cable. I don't use gold terminals, I often strip them with my teeth when I'm in a rush.
If you want I can bundle some up for you and charge you $100.
And if you honestly think that you can hear the difference between regular audio cables and your "interconnects" then you're not an audiophile. And everything you've said previously about the quality of your audio rig is delusional nonesense (can you say placebo effect?).
Our audio design engineers (as in electrical engineers, not "studio engineers") laugh at people like you. They really do.
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10 hours? Do people really put up with 10 hours of operating battery life? My palm pilot used to last over a month of regular use (before it met an unfortunate end with Mr. Pavement.)
I've even read one review where the guy was gushing about the GPS receiver with the colour screen and how he could use it to on hikes and trial rides. With 10 hours?
Are none of the new handheld companies doing anything about this? Do consumers not care?
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Or even before that the gargoyles in Snowcrash.
Of course they were rightly considered the biggest nerds around. The analogy was the same as people who had slide-rule belt holsters.
>>It's already well-known that the VIDEO GAME >>INDUSTRY grosses more money than the film >>industry (and hey, probably nets more too -- >>put that in your "2 out of 10" pipe and smoke >>it, Mr. Valenti!).
Um, no it doesn't. World wide video game sales may gross more than DOMESTIC film box office sales, but that's hardly the extent of the film industry.
I think your tin-foil hat is out of alignment there buddy...
There's a big difference between Work For Hire (what you do, what script writers for sit-coms do, etc) and what an independant author does.
The laws reflect this. Of course, the entertainment industry has tried to push through bills making everything Work for Hire....
for more details see here.
Or just use google. Like normal people do.
Renting makes a lot of sense.
What if I need to translate a document to Italian? I can buy a software package for 1 document and hope that down the line I need to do some conversions, Or I could rent the software for cheaper, one-time use.
Say I want to play a video game. Some games, like Counterstrike and Q3, I could play online for years. Some games I finish in a week or two and then un-install. Those games I would rent.
What if I'm doing a VHDL design and I want to try doing some custom synthesis on it? If this is my only design with that particular type of FPGA then it doesn't make sense to buy an 50,000$ design package. But to rent for a week? That I could take to the bean counters.
ASP and renting could be huge. It could make a market for a lot of software that today is either very very expensive or all custom jobs. It could also cut down on piracy, just because it might be easier and cheap-enough for people to rent software that they could use but would never buy.
I don't do photo manipulations everyday. Why should I spend $600 on photoshop? But $5 a day? Yeah, I could use that.
Just my take on things.
Driver problems? Kernel problems with hardware? What are you running? Windows 95 Unix version?
Run a stable kernel; there are no "driver" problems, there are no kernel problems. You don't need to run 2.5.3 for clustering. You don't even need to run 2.4
And if you want you can buy PC's with a warrenty. Having said that, I build my own computer 4 years ago from different parts from different stores and the only thing thats failed in that time is my mouse.
Why?
Why would you do this? I can see making the game for Linux first and then porting, but why on Gods green earth if you a had game so earth-shattering great would you NOT try to sell it to a market about 10000% bigger then Linux users?
Games take money to develop, and most people want to make that back.
This isnt a problem looking for a solution, this is a bunch of Philips marketing drones trying to come up with a new revenue model. This is all about selling new Philips IC's and "solutions" to content providers, STB manufactures, etc.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Medium Format.
Are you a real live person or some IRC bot that got away? Nothing you've said has any relation to his post.
Multicasting is a open specification. The source code exists, and yet has NOTHING to do with the format being streamed. He never mentioned source code, licensing, pirating, microsoft, windows, linux or anything. Yet somehow you found enough hints or broken fragments to start frothing at the mouth about Freedom.
So from here, yes it does look like you're a dick.
You can improve the code, as long as your improved codec's datastream can still be decoded by a cvs co unmodified decoder.
This is smart, and contrary to what you believe you can improve the encoder without breaking compatibility with the decoder. The datastream format is what cannot change.
I have the Rio Volt and am semi-happy with it.
Two main problems;
1) The thing is a battery hog. I dont know what they claim but you wont get more than a couple hours per pair of AA's.
2) The anti-skip sucks. Really, really sucks. I can make it skip by putting it in my leg pocket (cargo pants) and walking. So dont plan to do any jogging with it or anything.
Other than that, the sound quality is good. The controls are simple but effective. You upgrade the firmware by burning the upgrade software onto a blank CD and then play that CD - so it's pretty easy to upgrade and Linux friendly.
It means the Database is down.
RE: Unfortunately, the security measures imposed were sort of stupid: the ethernet cables of the classified net had to be at least so many feet from a phone line (they were worried that induced voltages from ethernet would allow someone on the phone to "tap" the classified net)
This is actually true. You could and do get enough crosstalk that a good sniffer in van could pull packets off your ethernet.
RE: keyboards attached to computers attached to the classified net couldn't be traded out to unclassified areas
Maybe they're worried about trojan hardware? A keyboard gets borrowed out, a small modification is made so that it logs every key pressed and then a week or two later gets "loaned" out again to extract the data.
remember these are people who get payed to be paranoid.
Excuse me, but back-bacon kicks ass.
uum...
No, Alan Cox is not pro non-disclosure
wtf? want to include some more double negatives in there?
Sympatico has gotten so slow lately that the Globe and Mail actually had an article about it. In the evenings the speed rately goes higher than 80kbps. It caries from CO to CO, but overall everyone's complaining
Worst part is that some people are getting refunds and others are being refused. Guess it depends of how much of an asshole you are on the phone to billing.
RE:So there's no risk that they sue us...
Man, you really don't know Americans do you?
Fibre Channel != Fibre optics.
At least, not necessarily.
Do you also run a green magic marker on the edges of your CD's to make them sound better?
It's a cable. Okay, buying a cheap-ish balanced shielded audio cable for 70 cents a foot will sound EXACTLY the same.
I work for a company that manufactures broadcast studio equipment. We put out gear that supports 24 bit, 152khZ sampling rates. We fail any that get under -110 dB of signal to noise. We calibrate for a CMRR of over -100 dB. Guess what we use? Standard AES/EBU audio cable. I don't use gold terminals, I often strip them with my teeth when I'm in a rush.
If you want I can bundle some up for you and charge you $100.
And if you honestly think that you can hear the difference between regular audio cables and your "interconnects" then you're not an audiophile. And everything you've said previously about the quality of your audio rig is delusional nonesense (can you say placebo effect?).
Our audio design engineers (as in electrical engineers, not "studio engineers") laugh at people like you. They really do.
Please tell me you're not paying $100 for audio cables?
One word:
AOL CD's.
10 hours? Do people really put up with 10 hours of operating battery life? My palm pilot used to last over a month of regular use (before it met an unfortunate end with Mr. Pavement.)
I've even read one review where the guy was gushing about the GPS receiver with the colour screen and how he could use it to on hikes and trial rides. With 10 hours?
Are none of the new handheld companies doing anything about this? Do consumers not care?
You have no idea of the irony in using a "frame sync" as an arguement in a patent discussion.
Many lawyers made lots of money over that one.